Soooo, you feel it is her duty to shuffle off to the corner and die, leaving room for the next generation?
What about when you are a healthy 68 year old with skills and experience to contribute? Should you chuck all that and go on the Kavorkian diet?
I hope there still room for me when I get there. Half way to the end of the race, I've come to admire most of the 'senior' workers around me. Sometimes they do hilariously odd things--just like the young'uns around me, but they all have something to contribute.
My best wire guy is a septuagenarian that still climbs a ladder daily. He can even program the heck out of the phone PBX. He also has a mean golf game and tells us to get stuffed when the weather is nice. The anecdote is to express that people are living longer healthier lives these days. It is pretty stupid to believe that you should work 25-30 years and be able to finance another 25-30 years of retirement.
A certain return percentage is inevitable. To account for it you have to build the systems your retail customers already have in place. Now you are in the widget selling business, and the widget manufacturing business.
It makes more sense to ask one of my retail partners *cough* Amazon *Cough* to provide me a branded web presence and sell the product within 5% of my retail customers. This way I'm still in only the widget manufacturing business and have another avenue for good will among the populace.
I read the headline this morning. On a lark, I went to look at my about page to see what I was running. Well, that prompted an update check. Sure enough, I now have 64 bit Chrome on that machine. It could be a coincidence....
I have to chime in on this. It comes down to the interviewer's expectations. Many years ago I had a white board interview with one of the 3 letter acronym companies. I wrote my answers to the questions in plain language P-code; I was prepared to defend in C++ and Pascal.
The interviewer said I 'flunked' because the code wouldn't compile. I asked him to show me his white board compiler as that would be really cool tech. I only knew he was truly serious when he didn't laugh.
This was one of the moments that guided me out of full time development.
Back to the point, if the white board is merely a tool to demonstrate knowledge of, and insight into, Foo, then fine; otherwise it is an artificial somewhat nonsensical barrier.
My statement was more about principle, rather than this particular incident. In this case the person admitted to having the password and was seeking to extort payment, that is problematic (the information was not theirs to sell, they did steal the by denying access to it by the proper owners). The hardware, well, the employer has to prove it is theirs and the contractual conditions under which they gave the employee that hardware, before they can try to claim it back. Obviously they did not simply claim it was stolen, hence it ownership is questionable, they can only really sue for it's return. Google is still largely at fault for the problem, they simply did the cheap thing, fobbed it off and failed to deal with it properly.
No, he did not admit to having the password. The contingent offer to help was to work with Google to get the password reset. King Richard move for sure, asking for 200K.
He worked entirely remotely and was the last IT employee remaining when they demanded he move to Indianapolis.
Apparently, there was also a racial discrimination back and forth with lawyers involved, prior to filing suit. The 200k demand was in light of the perceived discrimination.
He returned the laptop when asked for it.
This is not a clear case of holding data for ransom at all.
Ultimately, the primary role of IT is to protect the data. Doing anything else is unethical, and can be illegal (duh, right?). However, a company crying foul after it's own management screw ups does not automatically brand an IT peon as some kind of saboteur.
"Sierra Nevada Corporation Will Launch Its First Space Mission In 2021. UN Will Bicker About it and Do Nothing."
FTFY
I dunno. I envision a balsa wood glider flown in a Peruvian Target parking lot sometime around 2027. A large crowd of UN 'officials' will witness it and call it a success. It will only cost about 2 trillion $US.
Pfft! That's all you got? Broadening the horizons of all mankind through stellar exploration by something lasting years beyond it's life originally measured in days?
Get back to be me when you have something impressive./runonsentence/humor
While true, they could still sell access to their copy in that case. You can still profit off of collecting and distributing public domain materials.
If by 'access' you mean charging people to come to their office and look at the picture, sure you are correct. Making copies of their copy is the very definition of copyright infringement in letter, spirit, moral, and natural law. Forgive the slight hyperbole, the point is the pictures are free to the public, but not public domain.
Modern practice of medicine absolutely does make doctors into data entry clerks. Big data is telling them what works, what doesn't, improving diagnosis and treatment, the volume of data and pace of discovery are such that no human being could possibly keep up with it in the traditional med school + residency + practice & annual CE fashion.
This is handled by increased specialization, not surfing medical google for wth is wrong with you.
The big data of which you speak is not on the diagnostic side of things, it is mostly dealing with billing and metrics of clinicians work.
Evidence based medicine is founded on clinical studies, not SQL queries for sore throats.
Robots are so inherently cool, I WOULD try to challenge the limits of this lethal weeble wobble. A 16 month old healthy boy doesn't stand a chance of willing himself away.
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Maybe not, but XLII _is_ the meaning of life.
Soooo, you feel it is her duty to shuffle off to the corner and die, leaving room for the next generation?
What about when you are a healthy 68 year old with skills and experience to contribute? Should you chuck all that and go on the Kavorkian diet?
I hope there still room for me when I get there. Half way to the end of the race, I've come to admire most of the 'senior' workers around me. Sometimes they do hilariously odd things--just like the young'uns around me, but they all have something to contribute.
My best wire guy is a septuagenarian that still climbs a ladder daily. He can even program the heck out of the phone PBX. He also has a mean golf game and tells us to get stuffed when the weather is nice. The anecdote is to express that people are living longer healthier lives these days. It is pretty stupid to believe that you should work 25-30 years and be able to finance another 25-30 years of retirement.
A certain return percentage is inevitable. To account for it you have to build the systems your retail customers already have in place. Now you are in the widget selling business, and the widget manufacturing business.
It makes more sense to ask one of my retail partners *cough* Amazon *Cough* to provide me a branded web presence and sell the product within 5% of my retail customers. This way I'm still in only the widget manufacturing business and have another avenue for good will among the populace.
Maybe the killer didn't know Jevon?
The fedora made all of that possible.
Kennedy killed the fedora, and the office went to crap.
--had to go with humor because your post is too spot on.
I read the headline this morning. On a lark, I went to look at my about page to see what I was running. Well, that prompted an update check. Sure enough, I now have 64 bit Chrome on that machine. It could be a coincidence....
Not apathy, complicity. Are you so naive as to think 'the world' does not also perform covert intelligence gathering?
Most of the revelations earn official public ire, but a 'well played, USA' nod behind the scenes.
Everyone doing something does not make it right, but it does make it normal.
You should tell your story with more flair. It would really make the atmosphere around here more fun.
I have to chime in on this. It comes down to the interviewer's expectations. Many years ago I had a white board interview with one of the 3 letter acronym companies. I wrote my answers to the questions in plain language P-code; I was prepared to defend in C++ and Pascal.
The interviewer said I 'flunked' because the code wouldn't compile. I asked him to show me his white board compiler as that would be really cool tech. I only knew he was truly serious when he didn't laugh.
This was one of the moments that guided me out of full time development.
Back to the point, if the white board is merely a tool to demonstrate knowledge of, and insight into, Foo, then fine; otherwise it is an artificial somewhat nonsensical barrier.
With that surname he would be more likely to be buddhist from my memories.
Memories? Of which life?
Yea, but the irony in the post extolling the virtue of the author's education deserves _some_ humorous attention. :)
Mod parent up. Guy may have been a jerk after the fact, but the company put their foot in the bear trap willingly.
My statement was more about principle, rather than this particular incident. In this case the person admitted to having the password and was seeking to extort payment, that is problematic (the information was not theirs to sell, they did steal the by denying access to it by the proper owners). The hardware, well, the employer has to prove it is theirs and the contractual conditions under which they gave the employee that hardware, before they can try to claim it back. Obviously they did not simply claim it was stolen, hence it ownership is questionable, they can only really sue for it's return. Google is still largely at fault for the problem, they simply did the cheap thing, fobbed it off and failed to deal with it properly.
No, he did not admit to having the password. The contingent offer to help was to work with Google to get the password reset. King Richard move for sure, asking for 200K.
He worked entirely remotely and was the last IT employee remaining when they demanded he move to Indianapolis.
Apparently, there was also a racial discrimination back and forth with lawyers involved, prior to filing suit. The 200k demand was in light of the perceived discrimination.
He returned the laptop when asked for it.
This is not a clear case of holding data for ransom at all.
Ultimately, the primary role of IT is to protect the data. Doing anything else is unethical, and can be illegal (duh, right?). However, a company crying foul after it's own management screw ups does not automatically brand an IT peon as some kind of saboteur.
Listen, I'm not a meteorologist or anything,...
I thought that field was about clouds and stuff. If only I'd known about the genitalia focus when I was picking a major...
I don't know.
But you _can_ copyright it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cul...
"Sierra Nevada Corporation Will Launch Its First Space Mission In 2021. UN Will Bicker About it and Do Nothing."
FTFY
I dunno. I envision a balsa wood glider flown in a Peruvian Target parking lot sometime around 2027. A large crowd of UN 'officials' will witness it and call it a success. It will only cost about 2 trillion $US.
HEY! You insensitive enfeebled drive train clod.
Pfft! That's all you got? Broadening the horizons of all mankind through stellar exploration by something lasting years beyond it's life originally measured in days?
Get back to be me when you have something impressive. /runonsentence /humor
Bass turd had to wait. I just replaced my roof, half of which faces due south.
Seriously, it would be a great option if the price were comparable to, or within 30% of a regular asphalt shingle new roof.
Sooo This. Wish I had mod points. Union theory == good; union as currently practiced != healthy for all involved.
TFA?
While true, they could still sell access to their copy in that case. You can still profit off of collecting and distributing public domain materials.
If by 'access' you mean charging people to come to their office and look at the picture, sure you are correct. Making copies of their copy is the very definition of copyright infringement in letter, spirit, moral, and natural law. Forgive the slight hyperbole, the point is the pictures are free to the public, but not public domain.
Until it is in my town, it doesn't exist.
Modern practice of medicine absolutely does make doctors into data entry clerks. Big data is telling them what works, what doesn't, improving diagnosis and treatment, the volume of data and pace of discovery are such that no human being could possibly keep up with it in the traditional med school + residency + practice & annual CE fashion.
This is handled by increased specialization, not surfing medical google for wth is wrong with you.
The big data of which you speak is not on the diagnostic side of things, it is mostly dealing with billing and metrics of clinicians work.
Evidence based medicine is founded on clinical studies, not SQL queries for sore throats.
Robots are so inherently cool, I WOULD try to challenge the limits of this lethal weeble wobble. A 16 month old healthy boy doesn't stand a chance of willing himself away.