All these new features added to phones have yet to duplicate the ability of the old "Muriels" who ran the switchboard in small towns across the US. She knew where every one was and would redirect the call (call forwarding) , knew who was calling (caller id), would call back on her own time to let you know who called (voice mail) and knew if you were calling from a bar pretending to be some where else (caller tattle tale). She would also inform the sheriff of illegal activities (Caller wiretap) And we call this new stuff progess????
Despite the alleged "split" in the country....
1) There were no riots in the street.
2) All candidates who started the election process are still alive today.
3) No cities are on fire and there is no looting
4) We all witnessed a historical election which will set the tone for the next generation and we all traveled to work as if it was a normal day.
This is the process that the founding fathers envisioned. In an election where more people voted than ever before we should stop and think what we have accomplished .
It is great to be an American
" Stomping on the brakes proved pointless"
When the Audi rapid acceleration "issue" came out quite a few years ago the local newspaper Auto writer, (well respected) pointed out the the braking system is designed to overcome the acceleration/ drivetrain system. Is this still true?
What exactly does "pointless" mean?...stopped and read the article......
"Erst nach rund einer Stunde und 200 Kilometern konnte er schließlich den Wagen zum Halten bringen"
ok now I understand
OK i'll bite an obvious troll post...
After I picked myself up off the floor from laughing so hard I just have one question......
What is at the root of all your lovely digital toys??? cough cough.. sputter sputter.. transistors.... FETs or bipolar.... cough cough...
Slow news day on Slashdot.....
I have been electronically submitting my PCB designs , designed on a computer ( gasp) , to my exact specifications for 15 years (double gasp!!!)!!!!!
I can get quotes within 10 seconds of telling the board house the dimensions and # of layers....(Fantastic!!!!!!)
NOw that it hits PC World we are to sit up and take notice????
What happens now is someone will spend the $250 for a PC layout when they could have easily or cheaply used good old fashione perf board......
But the best comment is this.....
"
A lot of actual machine shops that use CNC machinery are run by 40+ y/o gentlemen who are sort of "stuck in the past" (no offence to anyone) with regards to their equipment.
So when you have websites such as eMachineShop you're providing competition to these guys who have no web presence and no facility to even take such orders
""
Duhhhhhh you don't have to be over 40 to have your head stuck up your @#$%@.
Coming out of the worst HI TEch depression in anyones memory any machine shop of PC house that doesn't react instantly to request is no longer in business.....
1) If you are in the machine shop business and
2) you don't use CNC equipment
3) Line number one is no longer operational.....
FYI
Most real companies use 3D design tools (Pro E).
Our mechanical gurus design the part, send the file to the local shop and they use PRO-Model to create the tooling and mold for the part..and this is OLD technology. Just new , reported on Slashdot . (hint read Machine design)
It is amazing what the 40+ crowd can do with PC's Just ask Steve JObs......
Please stick with good articles...
The quality is dropping......
Even JonKatz was better than this....
Mod me up this isn't flamebait it's reality...
In other news..
Researchers report that glazed doughnuts have move sugar than unglazed doughnuts....We have dispatched a TV1 satellite truck and will get a live report from the scene..
And in an amazing confession McDonalds admits that Super Large fried have more fries than a small size......
1) HVAC work
2) Carpenter, Electrician, Plumber. The rise of HGTV, This old house, etc has created a demand( artificial?) to do $10,000 remodeling jobs. People spend more money redecorating than our parents did.
3) Painter
4) Ceramic tile/ carpet
Hmm do I see a trend?? We, in the "High Tech" are in a big trough. The "next big wave" hasn't started yet.
Lets face it . The transistor is 50 years old.We are a silicon based industry. Silicon has become a commodity. We are all in a commodity business. , not unlike the Iron, Steel, Steam , Plastic and Coal industry before us. Once the general public (circa 1989) knew who Intel was, the handwriting was on the wall.
To all you whiners suffering from such a stress filled life........
Do a few things to cure your stress.......
1) Go visit Gettysburg, Valley Forge or any Revolutionary War or Civil War battlefield.
Look and listen.. These young farmers gave up a hell of a lot more than you ever did to make this country what its is. Hey "cliche advice hater" . Here's on for you. USA love it or LEAVE IT.
2) If your job does not have the real possibilty of someone trying to kill you then your stress is in your head and not in your job. Public safety workers, police , fire, EMT's put their life on the line every time they put on their uniform. Not quite the same as responding to a hard disk crash or a server breakdown.
Not a cliche... just a fact
3) Read the Gettysburg address.
4) Read the Constitution of the United States.
5) Volunteer your time on something different than you work on. It's a big world out there. You are better off than you think.
6) Volunteerng to serve in the US Armed Forces is an honorable and noble calling. Not all can do it. Those who serve and later return to civilian life make this a better country in which to live...
And if you base your career by what is in today's slanted newspapers you deserve to sit here and whine on \.
We are talking about an industry that did NOT exist 25 years ago. With all the negative comments I have heard so far..
You just got to ask yourself one question....
If you saw Bill G. and Steve B. at the Harvard Square magazine stand in early 1975, as they picked up the January issue of Popular Electronics would you say " He kid don't bother IBM and DEC have the computer business all wrapped up" ?
Well... would you ???
Three (outsourcing proof) jobs that will give you skills to last a lifetime.... 1. Electricians helper.
Find a local guy in the neighborhood who has a sign plastered on his truck, work cheap, watch and learn...return on investement 3,000% 2. Plumbers helper;It may be stinky but they make good $$$$ 3. Carpenters helper...See # 1 above Why no Computer ideas? easy 1) you are no Bill Gates or Michael Dell. They never asked a bunch of timewasting web browsers for job advice, they just did it. Same with Steve Jobs 2) Those three jobs will teach you the meaning of the word work... a very important thing to know.
The Ancient Horse and Buggy carriage company will now offer CD players on all their open buck board wagons. " We ain't a had no orders since ah ddubwa dubwa 2 but iffen anyone wants one o dem ceadee players will put it in for em" said O.B.Celete, the near death president of the company.....
Please Morse is dead, Ham radio has two feet in the grave....Slow news day on slashdot????
You want an explanation?... I'll give you an explanation.....( apologies to Col Jessup)
1) Software and computers are commodities. Think real carefully the response you got 20 - 30 years ago if you said you programmed computers.. Guess what? the Industry grew up.... I f you just started 10 years ago then you came in during middle age.....It is no longer a hidden industry
2) Why shouldn't We get our software from the lowest cost producer?... Look at your shoes and your clothes... They certainly don't make the Shoes in Haverhill Mass, the former shoe capital of the world.
3) Every article I've read, every slashdot post I've seen reminds me of the newspaper interviews with the steelworkers in the late 70's . Those guys busted their butts to work. (spare me the union feather bed stuff.. How many software engineers get killed in furnace explosions on the job every year,,,,suddnely we are faced with similar challenges and we whine about it.
The upper management of the Steel company wouldn't upgrade their plants so they went under. Smaller plants like Nucor grew and survived.
Sun, Nortel and HP are the dinosaurs of our age. Smaller software companies will survive.
4) life is tough,, you are in the real world now. Life isn't always fair...Suck it up and get over it...
Amesbury Ma was known as the best manufacturer of carriages at the end of the 1800's . Their skilled craftsmen were second to none. Then the Automobile arrived. The factories changed to building car bodies and then shipped them by rail to Detroit and points west. Soon Detroit tired of paying shipping and started building the car bodies in Detroit. One Amesbury worker picked up a job in the local hat shop. (previous to his carriage work he worked at a local farm). Soon the handwriting was on the wall and he retrained as a machinist at the local Western Electric.
Today both he and the Western Electric plant are gone. He adapted and survived.
5) Look real close at your self in the mirror. You have no problems. You have time to post and bitch on \.
6) there are NO, NADA, ZIPPO guarantees in life
you could be dead tomorrow so don't talk about planning to have a career for 20 years....
7) if its August 1945, and if your in Hiroshima then the above 6 points don't apply to you, you really have a problem
First problem...
The people you are asking know only two things...
Keyboard and video screen.....
Computer science and programmers aren't fixers.
Call A EE.
Oh I'm a EE and I'm OK
I fix circuit boards and I desolder pins.
I snip and jump
I heat my wick
I work in a laboratry.
I wish I was ME just like my dear mama
Every ASK Slashdot post that started with
" I want to (Build/buy/find) a (house/ network/car/telescope/ girlfriend/ new computer ) but can't find any (info/ plans/ breathing/ price) can the slashdot community help? "
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All these new features added to phones have yet to duplicate the ability of the old "Muriels" who ran the switchboard in small towns across the US. She knew where every one was and would redirect the call (call forwarding) , knew who was calling (caller id), would call back on her own time to let you know who called (voice mail) and knew if you were calling from a bar pretending to be some where else (caller tattle tale). She would also inform the sheriff of illegal activities (Caller wiretap)
And we call this new stuff progess????
The "white" king and queen do not match the "black" king and queen....This is hardly "news for nerds" and it is not "stuff that metters"
Despite the alleged "split" in the country.... 1) There were no riots in the street. 2) All candidates who started the election process are still alive today. 3) No cities are on fire and there is no looting 4) We all witnessed a historical election which will set the tone for the next generation and we all traveled to work as if it was a normal day. This is the process that the founding fathers envisioned. In an election where more people voted than ever before we should stop and think what we have accomplished . It is great to be an American
" Stomping on the brakes proved pointless" When the Audi rapid acceleration "issue" came out quite a few years ago the local newspaper Auto writer, (well respected) pointed out the the braking system is designed to overcome the acceleration/ drivetrain system. Is this still true? What exactly does "pointless" mean? ...stopped and read the article.... ..
"Erst nach rund einer Stunde und 200 Kilometern konnte er schließlich den Wagen zum Halten bringen"
ok now I understand
It always amazes me how little I know when I look at what these folks do. http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/faculty /frank_wilczek.html/
Interesting reading.
OK i'll bite an obvious troll post... After I picked myself up off the floor from laughing so hard I just have one question...... What is at the root of all your lovely digital toys??? cough cough.. sputter sputter .. transistors.... FETs or bipolar.... cough cough...
Its not a'matter if it can grip it, Its a matter o' weight ratio...
If only slashdot were around then.........
... for 30 years..
Wang Laboratories announced today the 1200 series word processor which will make paper obsolete.......
COMMENT:: Quick, Taco post this again,... monthly
Slow news day on Slashdot..... I have been electronically submitting my PCB designs , designed on a computer ( gasp) , to my exact specifications for 15 years (double gasp!!!)!!!!! I can get quotes within 10 seconds of telling the board house the dimensions and # of layers....(Fantastic!!!!!!) NOw that it hits PC World we are to sit up and take notice???? What happens now is someone will spend the $250 for a PC layout when they could have easily or cheaply used good old fashione perf board...... But the best comment is this..... " A lot of actual machine shops that use CNC machinery are run by 40+ y/o gentlemen who are sort of "stuck in the past" (no offence to anyone) with regards to their equipment. So when you have websites such as eMachineShop you're providing competition to these guys who have no web presence and no facility to even take such orders "" Duhhhhhh you don't have to be over 40 to have your head stuck up your @#$%@. Coming out of the worst HI TEch depression in anyones memory any machine shop of PC house that doesn't react instantly to request is no longer in business..... 1) If you are in the machine shop business and 2) you don't use CNC equipment 3) Line number one is no longer operational..... FYI Most real companies use 3D design tools (Pro E). Our mechanical gurus design the part, send the file to the local shop and they use PRO-Model to create the tooling and mold for the part..and this is OLD technology. Just new , reported on Slashdot . (hint read Machine design) It is amazing what the 40+ crowd can do with PC's Just ask Steve JObs...... Please stick with good articles... The quality is dropping...... Even JonKatz was better than this.... Mod me up this isn't flamebait it's reality...
aHH.... The Banzai ending...... always works......
In other news.. Researchers report that glazed doughnuts have move sugar than unglazed doughnuts....We have dispatched a TV1 satellite truck and will get a live report from the scene.. And in an amazing confession McDonalds admits that Super Large fried have more fries than a small size......
1) HVAC work 2) Carpenter, Electrician, Plumber. The rise of HGTV, This old house, etc has created a demand( artificial?) to do $10,000 remodeling jobs. People spend more money redecorating than our parents did. 3) Painter 4) Ceramic tile/ carpet Hmm do I see a trend?? We, in the "High Tech" are in a big trough. The "next big wave" hasn't started yet. Lets face it . The transistor is 50 years old.We are a silicon based industry. Silicon has become a commodity. We are all in a commodity business. , not unlike the Iron, Steel, Steam , Plastic and Coal industry before us. Once the general public (circa 1989) knew who Intel was, the handwriting was on the wall.
To all you whiners suffering from such a stress filled life........ Do a few things to cure your stress....... 1) Go visit Gettysburg, Valley Forge or any Revolutionary War or Civil War battlefield. Look and listen.. These young farmers gave up a hell of a lot more than you ever did to make this country what its is. Hey "cliche advice hater" . Here's on for you. USA love it or LEAVE IT. 2) If your job does not have the real possibilty of someone trying to kill you then your stress is in your head and not in your job. Public safety workers, police , fire, EMT's put their life on the line every time they put on their uniform. Not quite the same as responding to a hard disk crash or a server breakdown. Not a cliche... just a fact 3) Read the Gettysburg address. 4) Read the Constitution of the United States. 5) Volunteer your time on something different than you work on. It's a big world out there. You are better off than you think. 6) Volunteerng to serve in the US Armed Forces is an honorable and noble calling. Not all can do it. Those who serve and later return to civilian life make this a better country in which to live...
And if you base your career by what is in today's slanted newspapers you deserve to sit here and whine on \. We are talking about an industry that did NOT exist 25 years ago. With all the negative comments I have heard so far ..
You just got to ask yourself one question....
If you saw Bill G. and Steve B. at the Harvard Square magazine stand in early 1975, as they picked up the January issue of Popular Electronics would you say " He kid don't bother IBM and DEC have the computer business all wrapped up" ?
Well... would you ???
I'm sorry, but I thought we won that war.....
Three (outsourcing proof) jobs that will give you skills to last a lifetime....
1. Electricians helper.
Find a local guy in the neighborhood who has a sign plastered on his truck, work cheap, watch and learn...return on investement 3,000%
2. Plumbers helper;It may be stinky but they make good $$$$
3. Carpenters helper...See # 1 above
Why no Computer ideas?
easy
1) you are no Bill Gates or Michael Dell. They never asked a bunch of timewasting web browsers for job advice, they just did it. Same with Steve Jobs
2) Those three jobs will teach you the meaning of the word work... a very important thing to know.
3) you may develop a life long part time career
The Ancient Horse and Buggy carriage company will now offer CD players on all their open buck board wagons. " We ain't a had no orders since ah ddubwa dubwa 2 but iffen anyone wants one o dem ceadee players will put it in for em" said O.B.Celete, the near death president of the company..... Please Morse is dead, Ham radio has two feet in the grave....Slow news day on slashdot????
Its not the heat.......Its the humidity....
You want an explanation?... I'll give you an explanation.....( apologies to Col Jessup) 1) Software and computers are commodities. Think real carefully the response you got 20 - 30 years ago if you said you programmed computers.. Guess what? the Industry grew up.... I f you just started 10 years ago then you came in during middle age.....It is no longer a hidden industry 2) Why shouldn't We get our software from the lowest cost producer?... Look at your shoes and your clothes... They certainly don't make the Shoes in Haverhill Mass, the former shoe capital of the world. 3) Every article I've read, every slashdot post I've seen reminds me of the newspaper interviews with the steelworkers in the late 70's . Those guys busted their butts to work. (spare me the union feather bed stuff.. How many software engineers get killed in furnace explosions on the job every year,,,,suddnely we are faced with similar challenges and we whine about it. The upper management of the Steel company wouldn't upgrade their plants so they went under. Smaller plants like Nucor grew and survived. Sun, Nortel and HP are the dinosaurs of our age. Smaller software companies will survive. 4) life is tough,, you are in the real world now. Life isn't always fair...Suck it up and get over it... Amesbury Ma was known as the best manufacturer of carriages at the end of the 1800's . Their skilled craftsmen were second to none. Then the Automobile arrived. The factories changed to building car bodies and then shipped them by rail to Detroit and points west. Soon Detroit tired of paying shipping and started building the car bodies in Detroit. One Amesbury worker picked up a job in the local hat shop. (previous to his carriage work he worked at a local farm). Soon the handwriting was on the wall and he retrained as a machinist at the local Western Electric. Today both he and the Western Electric plant are gone. He adapted and survived. 5) Look real close at your self in the mirror. You have no problems. You have time to post and bitch on \. 6) there are NO, NADA, ZIPPO guarantees in life you could be dead tomorrow so don't talk about planning to have a career for 20 years.... 7) if its August 1945, and if your in Hiroshima then the above 6 points don't apply to you, you really have a problem
First problem... The people you are asking know only two things... Keyboard and video screen..... Computer science and programmers aren't fixers. Call A EE. Oh I'm a EE and I'm OK I fix circuit boards and I desolder pins. I snip and jump I heat my wick I work in a laboratry. I wish I was ME just like my dear mama
Every ASK Slashdot post that started with " I want to (Build/buy/find) a (house/ network/car/telescope/ girlfriend/ new computer ) but can't find any (info/ plans/ breathing/ price) can the slashdot community help? "