I do not want to be in the trenches doing this when I am 50.
Is your salary worth today, what it will take to switch careers later? You had better plan carefully because anemic jobs growth appears to be the norm going forward.
already noticing it harder to keep up on new things sometimes either becuase I dont have the time or don't really care sometimes.
What would be the point of the new thing? Enough of us have been through the HR's flavor-of-the-year job requirements to know the point is to tailor your CV to those requirements. Meanwhile, HR people are churning out more impossible experience requirements.
It's up to you to remain a flexible programmer unless you are being paid *tons* of money to specialize. Your employer wants you to specialize on their platform when in fact that typically works against getting your next job. Keep your eyes on the jobs horizon at your current employer.
Not only is there no money for an experienced programmer, the management typically does not have the wisdom to hire well. The programmer has to buy into the cult mentality at most startups with management that aren't particularly good managers.
How do you get the inexperienced management intentionally working at rock-bottom prices with rock-bottom-minded, inexperienced management to connect with an experienced programmer? I don't see those interviews going well.
this story causes me to wonder how much corruption is rampant at Apple if we scratch the surface and find shoe boxes with cash
Apple is just one of countless business branding products manufactured in other parts of the world. This kind of kickback is very common. Apple's on the manufacturing side, with some retail exposure. The manufacturing side is just one area. Big-business retail has the same kind of corruption.
The smart ones keep everything well within the boundaries of the law. Looking at the corruption from an observer's perspective, it's comparable to making sausage. Not pretty. Sorry, no car analogy.
More so, this is kind of a big deal in the geek and tech industry.
No, not really. He's far and away not the only one. -Every American brand that buys from an OEM has multiple people with this kind of opportunity. -Every retailer has category managers with this kind of opportunity.
Take the scope out more, -Every C-level exec who signs for the purchase of high-dollar goods/services (like a Microsoft, IBM, or Oracle contract) gets the same opportunity.
It's influence peddling. It's happening everywhere and the smartest ones know how to do it well within legal boundaries. This guy? Not so smart.
There is no way you are going to tell that story wrong and let it pass.
The costs of search and rescue are shared by nations with large coasts. American Coast Guard rescues any and all in our waters for the same treatment most places in the world. Now, how much do you and I pay? My estimation is you spend way, way more on Starbucks and/or Soda in the course of a year than you do on funding marine search and rescue.
Woefully unprepared? "day with winds up to 60 knots and seas 20-25 feet." I don't care who you are, no one is "prepared" to deal with that situation.
Woefully unprepared? She survived 60 knot winds and 20-25 foot swells on her own, BOAT MOSTLY INTACT. I'd say that's prepared.
Woefully unprepared? "Abby has all of the equipment on board to survive a crisis situation like this. She has a dry suit, survival suit, life raft, and ditch bag with emergency supplies. If she can keep warm and hang on, help will be there as soon as possible. Wild Eyes is designed for travel in the Southern Ocean and is equipped with 5 air-tight bulkheads to keep her buoyant in the event of major hull damage. It is built to Category 0 standards and is designed to self-right in the event of capsize."
Woefully unprepared? No way. As much as slashdotters complain about the kids on their lawn and "lost generations" here's TWO (her brother too) that are out learning, doing and dealing with the outcome.
Your heckling from the cheap (uninformed) seats is not welcome.
I've wondered for a long time if the exposure to mass media entertainment has the same effect.
Anecdote: I took a break from watching most TV. When I did watch, I restricted my viewing to a very low-fi 10" tv, far away from me. When we got a much bigger screen, I found I developed a different awareness of what the TV was doing to me. Briefly, I did not feel entertained. I felt tired kind of like the let-down after a roller-coaster ride, but not entertained. News programmes were totally irrelevant too. My interactions with people changed for the worse too.
Any new parents reading this, I/we did it when our kid was tiny. We kept the 10" in a cabinet, out of site and watched after the kid was asleep. The TV as a baby sitter was too tempting. Is she 'better off' as a result? I don't know. I think it makes for much better family bonds.
What you describe are called Externalities in Economics. Monsanto is waving away the externalities because they don't want to see them or ever have the externalities discovered.
The classic Free Markets ideology as practiced by Americans is to privatize the profit and socialize the costs and externalities. It's a form of welfare for the ruling class and their wealthy sponsors.
GM crops are also a poison pill of sorts for farmers who are not Monsanto customers. Monsanto 'discovers' their GM crop on an unlicensed customer's fields next door to their customer then sues the farmer next door for intellectual property violations. GM in this case is being used as a trojan horse for all kinds of other nefarious (albeit legal) economic activity.
What Microsoft and Apple do is their version of a growing market niche. Devs who have been around for awhile can rehash the thousands of broken "The Next Version of Windows will have..." promises and probably dust off a couple of mp3 players that were years earlier than the iPod. They advertise their "new" product pretending they invented the niche. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Apple's innovators/developers are crushed.
Today's lesson: Microsoft and Apple will gladly steal their developers lunch money (that's your livelihood) AND lock you out of the market segment should the young developer's market niche grow large enough. Most young devs haven't learned this lesson yet, but they get a sense of it when working with Microsoft and Apple tools.
ACTA highlights the fundamental problem with politics (in the U.S.) today.
You've got intellectual property interests driving a legislative bonanza for Intellectual Property holders that, on its face is totally offensive to commerce. These vested interests are the lever driving their interests forward. In response, you get a compromise, (from the librarian group) which acts like a pawl, restraining the ACTA juggernaut, but still the ACTA juggernaut scores a a major win. This process is simply repeated. After ACTA will be another more restrictive set of legislation and the moderate political forces will restrain it, but there will be another big win. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Every time you think, "It can't get worse than this." Think again. Because that's how the Ratchet Effect works. They have to drive the most extreme legislation forward so they get a compromise that resembles exactly what they wanted. If the issue dies, just try again.
And few look around and ask, "how did we get here?" Instead, another economic bonanza is in the legislation queue like so many airplanes waiting for Congress' moderation and approval to further constrain economic activity. The proper response is, "ACTA is harmful to the economy. Here is legislation that eliminates restraints on intellectual property/copyright." The fundamental political failure is the lack of an Anti-ACTA, or Anti-DMCA. This is where the voter has gone wrong. Demand an Anti-Acta and Anti-DMCA is just one way to get the process more balanced.
I didn't make up the term "The Ratchet Effect." This story is an excellent example.
Computers aren't necessarily the answer to every problem. I heard this story on NPR and part of the uproar is some people aren't buried where they should be. No computer will fix that. Quite disrespectful, but I'm hardly surprised.
In my younger days I wore many hats at a start-up and one of those hats was logistics. We had parts inventory at a local freight company for free because they did lots of business with our assembler.
I go in to do a cycle count one day and the guy pulls out a notebook and gives it to me before my count, telling me it's all in there. You know what? It was. He had dozens of notebooks. One for each assembler customer. This guys niche was basically to segregate the shipping paperwork from inventory accounting. It wasn't a one-man shop either. He made it work and work well. Most of the LDL shippers use grand-unified logistics applications with double and triple entry labor that would make his kind of service an expensive proposition.
The story is a PR plant by one of Apple's minions. They are taking a big negative with the iPhone, (no access to some phone functions) and turning it into a win for Apple.
To be fair, Apple's minion doesn't hire the story out and then attempt to sell it to the media. A few weeks ago Jobs claimed the Droid was a porn magnet or something like that... This is just more of the same ideological offensive.
The way this works is Apple's PR people go around making the case for their product, in those discussions are carefully constructed factoids like "their apps *can* do Bad Things (TM) with your private data!" Then some enterprising writer fills in the rest of the FUD perfectly willing to blow-up the half-truth in exchange for a closer seat in the Jobs Reality Distortion Field.
We subscribed to Time Warner's 'community' service which gives us OTA channels plus cspan and some extra local PBS stations. In our area, the cable provider is required to have this service. Unless you know about it by accident, TWC would never tell you. Several things happened in the switch to digital.
Our service went from $10 to $20/month. No digital anything. You must lease an HD black box service, plus pay for premium channels in order to get HD anything.
Meanwhile, on an Over The Air tuner, we have the traditional area channels in various forms of HD plus a few of the extra PBS channels. There are new-to-me channels serving immigrant communities in HD that we'll never watch, but that's it.
That applies to Windows partitions too. It's faster and more reliable *restore* than Volume Shadow Copy on identical hardware. You can also move the Old Dog onto somewhat newer hardware.
You will need to check the disk (fsck) before booting the restored partition.
If you have a say in your priorities, it's time to migrate the services off the Old Dinosaur onto another server with an LVM disk and vaguely modern distro.
except in California where they're so concerned about saving the poor underbrush that they'd rather burn down the entire forest
There's no truth in your summary.
Where was the money to fund planned burns? How did the plants get there? The forest agencies ask for the funds and remind the purse holders of the consequences of putting off the burns and actively manage open space. The purse holders say "No." and then every 10 years there's an epic burn that the media turns into a media spectacle and we pay top dollar for another fire fighting crises. This little drama plays out everywhere in the West.
So sorry, communism may sound nice on paper but it has never worked in the real world on a large scale.
Maybe you should check in on REI? Bunch of communists and their outdoor equipment. How about Employee Owned Companies? Dirty communist organizations fail all the time. (SAIC anyone?) How about **many** organized religions. Many Budhists, Christian organizations practice communist living. How about Farm Cooperatives? Those crazy farmers have ruined us all with their shared processing/sales facilities...
US people can move up and down depending on what they do in their life. Maybe after WW2, but not anymore. How would they do this?
Access to higher education has been cut off by shifting the cost of tuition onto the students. Public education is universally derided in the U.S. and therefore resource starved.
Innovation has been constrained by intellectual property law.
Real wages have only gone down for the bottom 50% over the last generation.
Another difference is that there is not a "rich/poor" divide. Distribution of wages and assets is fundamental to a stable economy and social system. Pretending it doesn't exist harms the political and social fabric of a country.
Wait, I know, these are damned lies and statistics designed to steal your Tax dollars right?
You have no awareness of the consequences of your views. None. Please, just accept you are horribly misguided and go volunteer at a homeless shelter or a children's hospital.
Especially given that "poor" is pretty cushy these days in the developed world.
Tin shacks are the new McMansion? Starvation the new cleansing regime? Chronic illness the new cool way to get that heroin chic look?
I think you and the idiot(s) who modded you insightful don't have a clue what it's like to have to choose between eating and keeping a roof over your head. One or the other. Not a little of both. Not pay the rent late when you get paid next week. No free money from the Bank of Mom and Dad to hold you over. One or the other.
I think that kind of decision would change your ridiculous opinion.
A heavily customized Qt - as in, forget source compatibility with desktop apps
Where did you get the idea that a phone app should work on a general purpose computer? Nokia's phone OS doesn't, Java doesn't, Google's Linux-kerneled device doesn't make that promise either. Maybe you are confusing Nokia's tablet device with their phones?
The article glosses over the fact that *millions* of accounts are discovered.
That suggests the data is captured in massive quantities at one time. Specifically, 210,000 WoW accounts are hard to come by one-by-one. The computing effort might not be great, but the time to trawl compromised PC's would seem to be. Am I completely off-base with this assumption?
My point being, the bigger problem seems to be blocks of data that must come from the inside of these organizations pretends not to exist. Instead we have 'fun with large data sets' infotainment.
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I do not want to be in the trenches doing this when I am 50.
Is your salary worth today, what it will take to switch careers later? You had better plan carefully because anemic jobs growth appears to be the norm going forward.
already noticing it harder to keep up on new things sometimes either becuase I dont have the time or don't really care sometimes.
What would be the point of the new thing? Enough of us have been through the HR's flavor-of-the-year job requirements to know the point is to tailor your CV to those requirements. Meanwhile, HR people are churning out more impossible experience requirements.
It's up to you to remain a flexible programmer unless you are being paid *tons* of money to specialize. Your employer wants you to specialize on their platform when in fact that typically works against getting your next job. Keep your eyes on the jobs horizon at your current employer.
Not only is there no money for an experienced programmer, the management typically does not have the wisdom to hire well. The programmer has to buy into the cult mentality at most startups with management that aren't particularly good managers.
How do you get the inexperienced management intentionally working at rock-bottom prices with rock-bottom-minded, inexperienced management to connect with an experienced programmer? I don't see those interviews going well.
this story causes me to wonder how much corruption is rampant at Apple if we scratch the surface and find shoe boxes with cash
Apple is just one of countless business branding products manufactured in other parts of the world. This kind of kickback is very common. Apple's on the manufacturing side, with some retail exposure. The manufacturing side is just one area. Big-business retail has the same kind of corruption.
The smart ones keep everything well within the boundaries of the law. Looking at the corruption from an observer's perspective, it's comparable to making sausage. Not pretty. Sorry, no car analogy.
This guy was not very smart.
More so, this is kind of a big deal in the geek and tech industry.
No, not really. He's far and away not the only one.
-Every American brand that buys from an OEM has multiple people with this kind of opportunity.
-Every retailer has category managers with this kind of opportunity.
Take the scope out more,
-Every C-level exec who signs for the purchase of high-dollar goods/services (like a Microsoft, IBM, or Oracle contract) gets the same opportunity.
It's influence peddling. It's happening everywhere and the smartest ones know how to do it well within legal boundaries. This guy? Not so smart.
There is no way you are going to tell that story wrong and let it pass.
The costs of search and rescue are shared by nations with large coasts. American Coast Guard rescues any and all in our waters for the same treatment most places in the world. Now, how much do you and I pay? My estimation is you spend way, way more on Starbucks and/or Soda in the course of a year than you do on funding marine search and rescue.
Woefully unprepared? "day with winds up to 60 knots and seas 20-25 feet." I don't care who you are, no one is "prepared" to deal with that situation.
Woefully unprepared? She survived 60 knot winds and 20-25 foot swells on her own, BOAT MOSTLY INTACT. I'd say that's prepared.
Woefully unprepared? "Abby has all of the equipment on board to survive a crisis situation like this. She has a dry suit, survival suit, life raft, and ditch bag with emergency supplies. If she can keep warm and hang on, help will be there as soon as possible. Wild Eyes is designed for travel in the Southern Ocean and is equipped with 5 air-tight bulkheads to keep her buoyant in the event of major hull damage. It is built to Category 0 standards and is designed to self-right in the event of capsize."
Woefully unprepared? No way. As much as slashdotters complain about the kids on their lawn and "lost generations" here's TWO (her brother too) that are out learning, doing and dealing with the outcome.
Your heckling from the cheap (uninformed) seats is not welcome.
The bible doesn't mention sea sponges so it didn't happen. Maybe they washed pet dinosaurs with the sponges? That would be biblically correct science.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
I've wondered for a long time if the exposure to mass media entertainment has the same effect.
Anecdote: I took a break from watching most TV. When I did watch, I restricted my viewing to a very low-fi 10" tv, far away from me. When we got a much bigger screen, I found I developed a different awareness of what the TV was doing to me. Briefly, I did not feel entertained. I felt tired kind of like the let-down after a roller-coaster ride, but not entertained. News programmes were totally irrelevant too. My interactions with people changed for the worse too.
Any new parents reading this, I/we did it when our kid was tiny. We kept the 10" in a cabinet, out of site and watched after the kid was asleep. The TV as a baby sitter was too tempting. Is she 'better off' as a result? I don't know. I think it makes for much better family bonds.
What you describe are called Externalities in Economics. Monsanto is waving away the externalities because they don't want to see them or ever have the externalities discovered.
The classic Free Markets ideology as practiced by Americans is to privatize the profit and socialize the costs and externalities. It's a form of welfare for the ruling class and their wealthy sponsors.
GM crops are also a poison pill of sorts for farmers who are not Monsanto customers. Monsanto 'discovers' their GM crop on an unlicensed customer's fields next door to their customer then sues the farmer next door for intellectual property violations. GM in this case is being used as a trojan horse for all kinds of other nefarious (albeit legal) economic activity.
Never.
What Microsoft and Apple do is their version of a growing market niche. Devs who have been around for awhile can rehash the thousands of broken "The Next Version of Windows will have..." promises and probably dust off a couple of mp3 players that were years earlier than the iPod. They advertise their "new" product pretending they invented the niche. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Apple's innovators/developers are crushed.
Today's lesson: Microsoft and Apple will gladly steal their developers lunch money (that's your livelihood) AND lock you out of the market segment should the young developer's market niche grow large enough. Most young devs haven't learned this lesson yet, but they get a sense of it when working with Microsoft and Apple tools.
Their cars come in at about the cost of a Ferrari. How is that *not* overpriced for a car that cannot go as far as a Ferrari?
How is that business model ever, possibly, going to work?
ACTA highlights the fundamental problem with politics (in the U.S.) today.
You've got intellectual property interests driving a legislative bonanza for Intellectual Property holders that, on its face is totally offensive to commerce. These vested interests are the lever driving their interests forward. In response, you get a compromise, (from the librarian group) which acts like a pawl, restraining the ACTA juggernaut, but still the ACTA juggernaut scores a a major win. This process is simply repeated. After ACTA will be another more restrictive set of legislation and the moderate political forces will restrain it, but there will be another big win. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Every time you think, "It can't get worse than this." Think again. Because that's how the Ratchet Effect works. They have to drive the most extreme legislation forward so they get a compromise that resembles exactly what they wanted. If the issue dies, just try again.
And few look around and ask, "how did we get here?" Instead, another economic bonanza is in the legislation queue like so many airplanes waiting for Congress' moderation and approval to further constrain economic activity. The proper response is, "ACTA is harmful to the economy. Here is legislation that eliminates restraints on intellectual property/copyright." The fundamental political failure is the lack of an Anti-ACTA, or Anti-DMCA. This is where the voter has gone wrong. Demand an Anti-Acta and Anti-DMCA is just one way to get the process more balanced.
I didn't make up the term "The Ratchet Effect." This story is an excellent example.
Computers aren't necessarily the answer to every problem. I heard this story on NPR and part of the uproar is some people aren't buried where they should be. No computer will fix that. Quite disrespectful, but I'm hardly surprised.
In my younger days I wore many hats at a start-up and one of those hats was logistics. We had parts inventory at a local freight company for free because they did lots of business with our assembler.
I go in to do a cycle count one day and the guy pulls out a notebook and gives it to me before my count, telling me it's all in there. You know what? It was. He had dozens of notebooks. One for each assembler customer. This guys niche was basically to segregate the shipping paperwork from inventory accounting. It wasn't a one-man shop either. He made it work and work well. Most of the LDL shippers use grand-unified logistics applications with double and triple entry labor that would make his kind of service an expensive proposition.
Thanks for the link.
The story is a PR plant by one of Apple's minions. They are taking a big negative with the iPhone, (no access to some phone functions) and turning it into a win for Apple.
To be fair, Apple's minion doesn't hire the story out and then attempt to sell it to the media. A few weeks ago Jobs claimed the Droid was a porn magnet or something like that... This is just more of the same ideological offensive.
The way this works is Apple's PR people go around making the case for their product, in those discussions are carefully constructed factoids like "their apps *can* do Bad Things (TM) with your private data!" Then some enterprising writer fills in the rest of the FUD perfectly willing to blow-up the half-truth in exchange for a closer seat in the Jobs Reality Distortion Field.
We subscribed to Time Warner's 'community' service which gives us OTA channels plus cspan and some extra local PBS stations. In our area, the cable provider is required to have this service. Unless you know about it by accident, TWC would never tell you. Several things happened in the switch to digital.
Our service went from $10 to $20/month.
No digital anything. You must lease an HD black box service, plus pay for premium channels in order to get HD anything.
Meanwhile, on an Over The Air tuner, we have the traditional area channels in various forms of HD plus a few of the extra PBS channels. There are new-to-me channels serving immigrant communities in HD that we'll never watch, but that's it.
Foxconn employs almost 1 million people? Really? 1 million out of 1.3 billion?
There's no way they are going back to Taiwan. Labor costs are 5x higher. The logistics are higher cost too.
Maybe Foxconn's days are numbered as an Apple OEM and this is just the blame shifting.
The bottom line is that Western consumers are perfectly happy supporting distopian labor conditions.
Volume shadow copy might not be doing what you think it is. I know it makes a big file, but restoring a snapshot has never worked as expected.
It sounds like you are just trying to keep an old dinosaur alive. Reboot with a live cd and make a snapshot of the old dog.
dd if=/dev/hda conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c > /mnt/sda1/hda.img.gz
That applies to Windows partitions too. It's faster and more reliable *restore* than Volume Shadow Copy on identical hardware. You can also move the Old Dog onto somewhat newer hardware.
gunzip -c /mnt/sda1/hda.img.gz | dd of=/dev/hda conv=sync,noerror bs=64K
You will need to check the disk (fsck) before booting the restored partition.
If you have a say in your priorities, it's time to migrate the services off the Old Dinosaur onto another server with an LVM disk and vaguely modern distro.
except in California where they're so concerned about saving the poor underbrush that they'd rather burn down the entire forest
There's no truth in your summary.
Where was the money to fund planned burns? How did the plants get there? The forest agencies ask for the funds and remind the purse holders of the consequences of putting off the burns and actively manage open space. The purse holders say "No." and then every 10 years there's an epic burn that the media turns into a media spectacle and we pay top dollar for another fire fighting crises. This little drama plays out everywhere in the West.
So sorry, communism may sound nice on paper but it has never worked in the real world on a large scale.
Maybe you should check in on REI? Bunch of communists and their outdoor equipment. How about Employee Owned Companies? Dirty communist organizations fail all the time. (SAIC anyone?)
How about **many** organized religions. Many Budhists, Christian organizations practice communist living.
How about Farm Cooperatives? Those crazy farmers have ruined us all with their shared processing/sales facilities...
US people can move up and down depending on what they do in their life.
Maybe after WW2, but not anymore. How would they do this?
Access to higher education has been cut off by shifting the cost of tuition onto the students. Public education is universally derided in the U.S. and therefore resource starved.
Innovation has been constrained by intellectual property law.
Real wages have only gone down for the bottom 50% over the last generation.
Another difference is that there is not a "rich/poor" divide.
Distribution of wages and assets is fundamental to a stable economy and social system. Pretending it doesn't exist harms the political and social fabric of a country.
Our poor are not, by the standards of much of the world and history.
Lack of basic medical care? check.
Lack of food? check http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/FoodSecurity/food_frequency.htm
Lack of housing? check http://www.misd.net/homeless/statistics.htm http://www.hcd.ca.gov/hpd/homeless0508.pdf I won't bore you with other states, but all 50 have the same issues.
Wait, I know, these are damned lies and statistics designed to steal your Tax dollars right?
You have no awareness of the consequences of your views. None. Please, just accept you are horribly misguided and go volunteer at a homeless shelter or a children's hospital.
Especially given that "poor" is pretty cushy these days in the developed world.
Tin shacks are the new McMansion?
Starvation the new cleansing regime?
Chronic illness the new cool way to get that heroin chic look?
I think you and the idiot(s) who modded you insightful don't have a clue what it's like to have to choose between eating and keeping a roof over your head. One or the other. Not a little of both. Not pay the rent late when you get paid next week. No free money from the Bank of Mom and Dad to hold you over. One or the other.
I think that kind of decision would change your ridiculous opinion.
It's basically right..
Plus nokia pissed off their developer base. requiring everything to be signed basically flipped a big "F YOU" to all the devs.
This is simply untrue. I have unsigned apps on my phone right now.
A heavily customized Qt - as in, forget source compatibility with desktop apps
Where did you get the idea that a phone app should work on a general purpose computer? Nokia's phone OS doesn't, Java doesn't, Google's Linux-kerneled device doesn't make that promise either. Maybe you are confusing Nokia's tablet device with their phones?
Why is this modded informative when it's wrong?
Terrorists, drug kingpins, gang members, and the like will just use fake or stolen ID's or middlemen to purchase their phones
I am none of those things and see no immediate reason why I would need to circumvent this law. Instead of circumventing it, I'd go to Craigslist.
The article glosses over the fact that *millions* of accounts are discovered.
That suggests the data is captured in massive quantities at one time. Specifically, 210,000 WoW accounts are hard to come by one-by-one. The computing effort might not be great, but the time to trawl compromised PC's would seem to be. Am I completely off-base with this assumption?
My point being, the bigger problem seems to be blocks of data that must come from the inside of these organizations pretends not to exist. Instead we have 'fun with large data sets' infotainment.