Depends on the state. Except for that you can't be fired for medical reasons. The ADA law is a national law. I won the case against the company that fired me for "developing" cancer. And no, I didn't create it in the lab.
But one attraction I visited was the Mark Twain House in Hartford. They stopped allowing tourists to photograph after some yahoo was backing up to get a shot and knocked over a valuable antique lamp, destroying it.
So, not just the flash can cause problems.
I was in Mexico years ago, and some security guard comes running up and yells no flash at me. I said ok, and he watched me do the rest of my shooting with natural light. The difference was that I was careful not to back over anything.
25+ years of COBOL, multiple dialects. Pay me what I'm worth, I'll take a vacation from here to do the job. What's the database, if their is one? IDMS, IDS-II? VSAM files? ISAM files? I've done them all, no problem.
Doesn't name WHICH RDBMS, and then you throw SQL at it? So what? For DB2 we have a thing called "Visual Explain" which NOT ONLY does this, but is free, provided by IBM, but also shows you other things like whch index is being used for each step, etc.
This is news? This isn't even worth a second look!
1. Like others have said, get your resume in shape. Always have your resume in shape. Look for things involved in the transition that might improve your resume.
2. Look at things carefully in the new company. The salary might be the same, but they can stick you on benefits. It is your total salary that might not stay the same. They wrote special into our contracts because some people would lose some vacation time if they didn't. Plus we had to sell back our banked vacation. That is a plus/minus deal - I mean 4 weeks pay was great, but I never got to take the 4 weeks vacation as an option. And where I got stuck was in the prescription drug benefit. They think they have a good plan, but it sucks compared to what we used to have.
3. Assume that you are going to be let go, until it is proved otherwise. Especially if they write in that you are garunteed of employment for x months. That's a big sign that says we are going to lay people off starting then.
4. If you are a consultant at the original company, RUN - you are gone first.
5. With HP as the new parent, really, get your resume ready. Look, look hard.
I know that. I went to the trouble of buying the prize winning song ("Song of Peace") written by my namesake in the UK (I found him there along with a session bassoonist, and an author of model train articles in the US.) And that doesn't even count the guy I met at work years ago. Same name, different middle initial, and not related as far as we knew. Even found out that there is a town of the same name in Arizona (Of course, further research revealed that this town WAS named after elements of my familiy)
Sorry, I went to the trouble to reduce most of my web presence. Most of my current presence is thru Linkedin, or behind psuedonyms. Especally after an area code split caused creditors from a guy who used to be in my area code to come looking for me! You know how hard it is to get taken out of some of the online directories that think they are doing you a service by putting you there?
Minimum wage is not SUPPOSED to be a living wage. And every time you raise minimum wage, you actually CUT the pay of everyone else in the country. Why? Because inflation is keyed to minimum wage. And not everyone gets a raise when minimum wage goes up. And when mimnimum wage goes up, many new jobs are eliminated fromt eh private secotr, because small business can't afford them, so they do without and businesses fail or not.
We can't build Chernobyl style nuke plants here, because quite simply, ours are required to have containment buildings.
Chernobyl didn't, and is part of the standard of Russian design - design for average loading, then have shortages during peak load. American design is to design for the peak load, then things go along well at average loads.
I'm all for more nuke plants, and have been forever. And for anyone that thinks the government can do it better then private enterprise - get over yourselves. I walked the decks of "1/4 mile island", shortly after she melted one down. (USS Nimitz melted down a reactor in the same time frame as Three Mile Island).
And using a cell phone while driving is already illegal in all 50 states! Just never enforced. At a light yesterday, the car in front of me and the car behind me were both on the cell phone the whole time from before I first saw them, until after I got out of the lane they were in later.
I want the design of a cell phone jammer I can run from my car with a radius of about 2 car lengths. Don't make it automatic either. I want to be able to switch it on and off manually. That size radius should be under the legal limits for broadcast power without a license, but should allow me to make sure that people driving close to me obey the law.
Truely, this guy has nothing to bring to the presidency. The only good thing he has done for us is to beat Hillary.
Hillary is open to the VP slot? Suuureee, giv eit to Hillary and watch how fast Obama has an "accident" after winning.
Great going Dem party, nominate an empty suit to the race. Reminds me of Geraldine Ferraro and all the hype when she became the first woman VP candidate. That race was one of the most lopsided in history. Glad to see the Dems trying to raise the bar and lose in a bigger lopsided race!
None of what you referenced are full function CASE tools. For example - none of what you referenced can re-engineer any DBMS, not to mention the DBMSes I have to deal with, so I rest my "CASE". Further, none of them generate DDL for any DBMS. They are, at best, prototypes of future functioning CASE tools.
And in the blood meter area, the problem is communication witht he timing of an external device for 1 and data format for the other. All formats are proprietary (though I have cracked mine) and no one has bothered to try to add more to them.
Mind naming a few? And I am talking full function CASE tools, like ERStudio by Embarcadero.
And you haven't made a case for blood meters yet either. Not that I expect you too.
My big point was that re-loading an OS every 6 months is a function of not wanting to do the maintanence to keep things running properly - which isn't even that hard.
Typing this on a Win XP box. I have installed the OS exactly once after it came pre-installed. That was after a hardware failure took the disk down. (and the motherboard was replaced to fix the hardware error.) This machine has past it's third birthday.
As for it only being needed for running counterstrike - well never heard of counterstrike, but I do need it to run the following:
1. My CASE tool. Whoops, won't run on any Linux or Mac, nor will any other CASE tool I know of. But I live in that tool. 2. My blood meter software. Whoops, all such have to be approved by the FDA, and only Win boxes have been currently approved. 3. I used to say my dive computer, but a Linux version does now exist, though it's functionality is not what I have in Win (same for Mac). 4. VPN software used to communicate with my company's mainframe. Whoops, no Linux or Mac versions there either.
Oh, and I do have software for doing photos and video. Photoshop for stills and Roxio for video. E-mail and web surfing - check, games -check. Automated backup software - check, podcast grabbing software - check, scheduling software - check. So far I have not found a piece of software that I want that is not available for windows, the same is not true of Linux or Mac.
And finally, I do have 2 compilers on this machine, and between them, I have quite an ability to add my own software, as needed, to do my job. And some of my software has been put out for the world to use because I was the only one able to integrate it to the CASE tool.
So, quit spreading the reload every 6 months FUD, it isn't true, and you only make yourself look as foolish as those you attempt to critisize.
They can not take mine from me as I use it with the one module as a blood meter - i.e. a medical device. And once you make an exception for one item...
Also, is a Blackberry a "Smartphone"? Cause my Employer requires me to carry that, so again, I call bullshit on these people.
No, the point was that Wikipedia is *NOT* editable by anyone. Some entries require chapter and verse to correct even stupid mistakes that should have never occurred.
1. John Kerry's final Naval rank (They had LT, not Lt jg. While he was temporarily promoted to full LT, that was rescinded when he went back to the reserves. I was able to find the order transferring him to the reserves on his website).
2. John Kerry's discharge. His documents were originally on his website, but careful study showed that he could not have been discharged in 1978, because of the Navy's "up or out" policy with respect to officers. He would have been kicked out in 1975 by that policy, rather than 1978 when he says he left. Further, the "discharge" he got in 1978 was the wrong discharging agency, consistant only with a pardon, which was given out by Carter.
I decided not to get into the lies on Bush's record because there was so much bias there it was hard to believe.
I beleive military records on John Kerry's own website, about John Kerry (images of the actual pages themselves) would consitute unbiased documentation?
The point I was making that John Kerry's final rank is well known, but was wrong. The other was documentatble by records that were later removed from the web. The editors are so John Kerry that they could not even consider erros without chapter and verse to prove they were wrong. And I was making the point that Wikipedia is *NOT* editable by anyone.
The final point - John Kerry was not discharged in 1978 like he says he was. We don't know the exact date, but it was not later than 1975. Either by the up or out policy, or by a dishonarable discharge (more likely)
Sorry, but by it's own admission, Wiki is not edittable by everyone. And the includes some GLARING errors. Sometimes it is good, sometimes bad. Let's look at an example:
John Kerry is a whole article. There are good sections of it, but more biased towards John than against. I dropped in to check it out and found 2 errors in the article. These were errors of fact, not opinions. The article is locked from edits, except by certain editors, so I went to the discussion page and entered the 2 errors there.
I was "told" by the editors that I was wrong, and that I had no place entering that data. I persisted, and then found and gave them a cite for one of the facts - John Kerry's own website and some of the few military documents he posted there. The second error was so damming to his campaign that he removed the documents from his site, and posted a restriction so that the documents in question were also purged from the wayback machine! (The misssing documents prove that he lied about his discharge status, but only if you know how to read them.)
It was after citing the website that the editors corrected one of the factual errors. The other is still wrong to this day, but there is no way to cite it to correct it until the day when John Kerry releases his full military records. (Don't hold your breath).
I am talking things like re-orging over 1 billion rows of data in only a handful of hours. When I can run a mainframe at 100% BY MYSELF for a couple of hours, I really can;t be bothered by your HP servers. I have seen HP servers. Get real.
What matters is what goes on in the trenches. When major corporations still prohibit the installation of Vista on any machine that connects to their network, Microsoft will continue to sell XP. My Corporation is Fortune 10 and we still prohibit Vista installs!
COBOL code runs in some shops where the source code is even gone! I know one system I wrot ein the early 80's is still running. I left that company in the mid 80s. Other palces you find stuff all the time written by peopl that have moved within the company, left the company, retired or even died.
Heck, I was writing a new COBOL program the week before last. Why? Because it gets the job done, with a minimum of fuss. And the code was based upon a similar COBOL program of about 3 years ago, which works, so I was able to crank out a WORKING program with only an hour or so of work. Convert to Java? Try 3 weeks work, which I just don't have time for.
Why are the mainframes still here? What machines are you going to use to put terabyte sized databases on that require access 24 x 7 for hundreds of users?
If I can line up enough jobs to run a mainframe for 8 hours standalone (yes, take the whole machine and peg it to 100% for 8 hours), just to do maintenance on my databases on Thanksgiving day, when am I ever going to get enough time to do it in a server environment?
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Depends on the state. Except for that you can't be fired for medical reasons. The ADA law is a national law. I won the case against the company that fired me for "developing" cancer. And no, I didn't create it in the lab.
But one attraction I visited was the Mark Twain House in Hartford. They stopped allowing tourists to photograph after some yahoo was backing up to get a shot and knocked over a valuable antique lamp, destroying it.
So, not just the flash can cause problems.
I was in Mexico years ago, and some security guard comes running up and yells no flash at me. I said ok, and he watched me do the rest of my shooting with natural light. The difference was that I was careful not to back over anything.
I can do CICS as well. Also ADS/O and Tp for GCOs. Hell, I am currently in a CICS/DB2 shop.
25+ years of COBOL, multiple dialects. Pay me what I'm worth, I'll take a vacation from here to do the job. What's the database, if their is one? IDMS, IDS-II? VSAM files? ISAM files? I've done them all, no problem.
Actually looking "to" is correct within the original context. But you go ahead and think what you think.
I have karma to burn, and I don't take kindly to anyone (even the powerrs that be) modding down when what I say is based upon fact!
Look to my credentials, only been a DBA for 20+ years!
Doesn't name WHICH RDBMS, and then you throw SQL at it? So what? For DB2 we have a thing called "Visual Explain" which NOT ONLY does this, but is free, provided by IBM, but also shows you other things like whch index is being used for each step, etc.
This is news? This isn't even worth a second look!
1. Like others have said, get your resume in shape. Always have your resume in shape. Look for things involved in the transition that might improve your resume.
2. Look at things carefully in the new company. The salary might be the same, but they can stick you on benefits. It is your total salary that might not stay the same. They wrote special into our contracts because some people would lose some vacation time if they didn't. Plus we had to sell back our banked vacation. That is a plus/minus deal - I mean 4 weeks pay was great, but I never got to take the 4 weeks vacation as an option. And where I got stuck was in the prescription drug benefit. They think they have a good plan, but it sucks compared to what we used to have.
3. Assume that you are going to be let go, until it is proved otherwise. Especially if they write in that you are garunteed of employment for x months. That's a big sign that says we are going to lay people off starting then.
4. If you are a consultant at the original company, RUN - you are gone first.
5. With HP as the new parent, really, get your resume ready. Look, look hard.
I know that. I went to the trouble of buying the prize winning song ("Song of Peace") written by my namesake in the UK (I found him there along with a session bassoonist, and an author of model train articles in the US.) And that doesn't even count the guy I met at work years ago. Same name, different middle initial, and not related as far as we knew. Even found out that there is a town of the same name in Arizona (Of course, further research revealed that this town WAS named after elements of my familiy)
Sorry, I went to the trouble to reduce most of my web presence. Most of my current presence is thru Linkedin, or behind psuedonyms. Especally after an area code split caused creditors from a guy who used to be in my area code to come looking for me! You know how hard it is to get taken out of some of the online directories that think they are doing you a service by putting you there?
Then I would leave e-bay, after being there since 1996
Minimum wage is not SUPPOSED to be a living wage. And every time you raise minimum wage, you actually CUT the pay of everyone else in the country. Why? Because inflation is keyed to minimum wage. And not everyone gets a raise when minimum wage goes up. And when mimnimum wage goes up, many new jobs are eliminated fromt eh private secotr, because small business can't afford them, so they do without and businesses fail or not.
We can't build Chernobyl style nuke plants here, because quite simply, ours are required to have containment buildings.
Chernobyl didn't, and is part of the standard of Russian design - design for average loading, then have shortages during peak load. American design is to design for the peak load, then things go along well at average loads.
I'm all for more nuke plants, and have been forever. And for anyone that thinks the government can do it better then private enterprise - get over yourselves. I walked the decks of "1/4 mile island", shortly after she melted one down. (USS Nimitz melted down a reactor in the same time frame as Three Mile Island).
And using a cell phone while driving is already illegal in all 50 states! Just never enforced. At a light yesterday, the car in front of me and the car behind me were both on the cell phone the whole time from before I first saw them, until after I got out of the lane they were in later.
I want the design of a cell phone jammer I can run from my car with a radius of about 2 car lengths. Don't make it automatic either. I want to be able to switch it on and off manually. That size radius should be under the legal limits for broadcast power without a license, but should allow me to make sure that people driving close to me obey the law.
Truely, this guy has nothing to bring to the presidency. The only good thing he has done for us is to beat Hillary.
Hillary is open to the VP slot? Suuureee, giv eit to Hillary and watch how fast Obama has an "accident" after winning.
Great going Dem party, nominate an empty suit to the race. Reminds me of Geraldine Ferraro and all the hype when she became the first woman VP candidate. That race was one of the most lopsided in history. Glad to see the Dems trying to raise the bar and lose in a bigger lopsided race!
None of what you referenced are full function CASE tools. For example - none of what you referenced can re-engineer any DBMS, not to mention the DBMSes I have to deal with, so I rest my "CASE". Further, none of them generate DDL for any DBMS. They are, at best, prototypes of future functioning CASE tools.
And in the blood meter area, the problem is communication witht he timing of an external device for 1 and data format for the other. All formats are proprietary (though I have cracked mine) and no one has bothered to try to add more to them.
Mind naming a few? And I am talking full function CASE tools, like ERStudio by Embarcadero.
And you haven't made a case for blood meters yet either. Not that I expect you too.
My big point was that re-loading an OS every 6 months is a function of not wanting to do the maintanence to keep things running properly - which isn't even that hard.
Typing this on a Win XP box. I have installed the OS exactly once after it came pre-installed. That was after a hardware failure took the disk down. (and the motherboard was replaced to fix the hardware error.) This machine has past it's third birthday.
As for it only being needed for running counterstrike - well never heard of counterstrike, but I do need it to run the following:
1. My CASE tool. Whoops, won't run on any Linux or Mac, nor will any other CASE tool I know of. But I live in that tool.
2. My blood meter software. Whoops, all such have to be approved by the FDA, and only Win boxes have been currently approved.
3. I used to say my dive computer, but a Linux version does now exist, though it's functionality is not what I have in Win (same for Mac).
4. VPN software used to communicate with my company's mainframe. Whoops, no Linux or Mac versions there either.
Oh, and I do have software for doing photos and video. Photoshop for stills and Roxio for video. E-mail and web surfing - check, games -check. Automated backup software - check, podcast grabbing software - check, scheduling software - check. So far I have not found a piece of software that I want that is not available for windows, the same is not true of Linux or Mac.
And finally, I do have 2 compilers on this machine, and between them, I have quite an ability to add my own software, as needed, to do my job. And some of my software has been put out for the world to use because I was the only one able to integrate it to the CASE tool.
So, quit spreading the reload every 6 months FUD, it isn't true, and you only make yourself look as foolish as those you attempt to critisize.
They can not take mine from me as I use it with the one module as a blood meter - i.e. a medical device. And once you make an exception for one item...
Also, is a Blackberry a "Smartphone"? Cause my Employer requires me to carry that, so again, I call bullshit on these people.
No, the point was that Wikipedia is *NOT* editable by anyone. Some entries require chapter and verse to correct even stupid mistakes that should have never occurred.
The two factual errors were:
1. John Kerry's final Naval rank (They had LT, not Lt jg. While he was temporarily promoted to full LT, that was rescinded when he went back to the reserves. I was able to find the order transferring him to the reserves on his website).
2. John Kerry's discharge. His documents were originally on his website, but careful study showed that he could not have been discharged in 1978, because of the Navy's "up or out" policy with respect to officers. He would have been kicked out in 1975 by that policy, rather than 1978 when he says he left. Further, the "discharge" he got in 1978 was the wrong discharging agency, consistant only with a pardon, which was given out by Carter.
I decided not to get into the lies on Bush's record because there was so much bias there it was hard to believe.
I beleive military records on John Kerry's own website, about John Kerry (images of the actual pages themselves) would consitute unbiased documentation?
The point I was making that John Kerry's final rank is well known, but was wrong. The other was documentatble by records that were later removed from the web. The editors are so John Kerry that they could not even consider erros without chapter and verse to prove they were wrong. And I was making the point that Wikipedia is *NOT* editable by anyone.
The final point - John Kerry was not discharged in 1978 like he says he was. We don't know the exact date, but it was not later than 1975. Either by the up or out policy, or by a dishonarable discharge (more likely)
Sorry, but by it's own admission, Wiki is not edittable by everyone. And the includes some GLARING errors. Sometimes it is good, sometimes bad. Let's look at an example:
John Kerry is a whole article. There are good sections of it, but more biased towards John than against. I dropped in to check it out and found 2 errors in the article. These were errors of fact, not opinions. The article is locked from edits, except by certain editors, so I went to the discussion page and entered the 2 errors there.
I was "told" by the editors that I was wrong, and that I had no place entering that data. I persisted, and then found and gave them a cite for one of the facts - John Kerry's own website and some of the few military documents he posted there. The second error was so damming to his campaign that he removed the documents from his site, and posted a restriction so that the documents in question were also purged from the wayback machine! (The misssing documents prove that he lied about his discharge status, but only if you know how to read them.)
It was after citing the website that the editors corrected one of the factual errors. The other is still wrong to this day, but there is no way to cite it to correct it until the day when John Kerry releases his full military records. (Don't hold your breath).
I am talking things like re-orging over 1 billion rows of data in only a handful of hours. When I can run a mainframe at 100% BY MYSELF for a couple of hours, I really can;t be bothered by your HP servers. I have seen HP servers. Get real.
What matters is what goes on in the trenches. When major corporations still prohibit the installation of Vista on any machine that connects to their network, Microsoft will continue to sell XP. My Corporation is Fortune 10 and we still prohibit Vista installs!
SURE it can. I have seen such machines. You have no concept of the size of processes I am talking about.
COBOL code runs in some shops where the source code is even gone! I know one system I wrot ein the early 80's is still running. I left that company in the mid 80s. Other palces you find stuff all the time written by peopl that have moved within the company, left the company, retired or even died.
Heck, I was writing a new COBOL program the week before last. Why? Because it gets the job done, with a minimum of fuss. And the code was based upon a similar COBOL program of about 3 years ago, which works, so I was able to crank out a WORKING program with only an hour or so of work. Convert to Java? Try 3 weeks work, which I just don't have time for.
Why are the mainframes still here? What machines are you going to use to put terabyte sized databases on that require access 24 x 7 for hundreds of users?
If I can line up enough jobs to run a mainframe for 8 hours standalone (yes, take the whole machine and peg it to 100% for 8 hours), just to do maintenance on my databases on Thanksgiving day, when am I ever going to get enough time to do it in a server environment?