Not at current prices. Paying $500 for a 40% performance increase isn't that great of a deal. Especially since I updated my components last year because Ryzen didn't come out soon enough.
Yes, I'm guilty of saving up for a planned vacation instead maxing out my credit cards like everyone else. Shoot me.
The personal details of your life that you for some reason keep volunteering to random strangers on the internet [...]
I don't have a Facebook account.
[...] screams ex white trash, mediocre, bland life.
My family is from Idaho. We're rednecks, no white trailer trash.
I wonder why you are paid less than half of what the rest of us get paid. Care to tell us a story?
I work for a nation-wide project where the senior system admins are paid $50K+ per year and computer engineers are paid $80K+ per year (regardless of where you live). We're half-way through a five year contract. Last I heard we had 1,000+ people on the contract.
Could it be because you have no applicable experience on real servers, you were kicked out of college, and you have that autism thing going on, so no one in their right mind would want you on their team?
I've been working in Silicon Valley for 20+ years. Half that time in team lead positions.
What you are called is "PC Support" - usually a branch of level 2 helpdesk.
Help desk is down the hallway from my office. Users don't bang down my door.
That would align with your experience as well as your salary.
The prime contractor low-balled the techs. But five years of guaranteed work and the usual benefit pack with 20 PTO days was too good to past up. Plus my contracting agency gave me extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus.
I was on the express bus in Palo Alto when we drove past an auto accident on 280 North yesterday morning. The front end of a Ferrari got smashed in, parked on the side of the freeway. A second vehicle was nowhere in sight. The driver was walking in the slow lane while talking on the cellphone, ignoring traffic and everything else. May have been drunk.
you realize when you make more you can afford more?
Conversely, the more you make the more your expenses go up to match. I've seen that a lot.
you spending your 400 is breaking bank way more than 3k being spent by a 3 people who collectively make 20x your salary.
I saved up and took a planned vacation that lasted seven days. I didn't spend $400 per night pissing it away on wine. If you understood anything about finances, you spend your money on experiences and not piss.
a trophy wife is no 40, she's 20.
His trophy wife was 16 when they started dating. His first wifewas 16 when she got pregnant. If he ever gets a third wife, I'm sure she'll be 16 as well.
sounds like a guy living beyond his means. Like you, with your 428/night.
So I'm living beyond my means for taking a planned vacation four years ago?
My night, adjusted for your salary, cost me 150.
You squandering that much money on booze? You need help.
My jeans are probably a hundred or two. Which in your terms is like 40 bucks.
I pay $20 for my jeans and my last pair was five years ago. Walmart used to have them for $10 years ago.
you're bragging about accomplishing what to an average person is a step down.
Slashdot exists to keep me amused while I'm waiting for a script to finish.
Supervisor got escorted off the premises by the police. The establishment therefore can prove that they took the necessary steps to protect their liquor license. AFAIK, the supervisor never faced any legal action. The underage employee did get fired, which many of testers thought was wrong. Hence, the supervisor got promoted out of the department..
There seems to be an abundance of college grads and useless developers who refuse to keep up-skilled yet feel they deserve massive paychecks just for being American and knowing what a.exe file does.
Most Americans stop learning after leaving school because think learning is only required for school. They don't become lifelong learners. I had two friends who went from computer engineers to drug store clerks after the dot com bust because they refused to learn outside of the classroom.
Finally a president who cares about the america people! This is exactly why I voted for Trump
The same president who supported a health care bill that would take insurance away from 24M+ Americans over ten years and give the rich a $200K tax break?
You are both autistic, and are wasting your time. Just get a micro-ruler, and see which one got a bigger penis, and honestly, please do it off slashdot.
Slashdot exists to keep me amuse while I wait for a script to finish at work.
[...] how long it takes you to drive from those to work [...]
My daily commute on public transit was 90-minutes each way.
I would then shift your hours of work to be up to 30 minutes immediately after your religious ceremonies and that's that.
No. You will be sitting in the HR office explaining why you're exposing the company to a civil rights lawsuit. That's a far more serious violation than the routine labor law violations that the supervisor was racking up.
[...] either quit or fall asleep at work so I can fire you.
The supervisor threatened to fire anyone caught sleeping during the overnight shifts. My assistant lead tester caught him napping at his desk, wrote on a Post-It note that the supervisor should fire himself, and stick the note to the supervisor's head. When the supervisor woke up and found the note, he went screaming around the department trying to find out who wrote the note. He never did find it out who it was.
If you can abuse the system, so can I.
My actions were lawful. Any retaliation against would be illegal.
Business as usual. If breaking the law is good for the company, then promotion awaits the criminals.
Not quite. Being promoted to producer is regarded by most video game testers as being a failure. The supervisor failed big time with this promotion. Unfortunately, video game testing is dead end job with limited opportunities for promotion. When I became a lead tester, I started my exit strategy by getting my IT certifications and going by to school.
Man, with stories like that, I bet you're a fucking HOOT at parties.
I once took a date to the company Christmas party at Dave & Buster's when I was a lead video game tester. We left at the exact same time as the police were coming in to escort my supervisor out for letting an under-age employee take a slip of kamikaze drink. My supervisor got promoted to producer.
Go figure...
you quote things as if you were responding with a counterpoint, then you respond with just extra random information, and lots of weird irrelevant details.
That's because I don't take you seriously. I'm too busy laughing my ass off.
have you ever spent 150 on a night out?
I spent ~$428 per night in Las Vegas. Otherwise, I live a modest lifestyle. Which means I'm not going to piss away $3,000 on wine and brag about mismanaging my finances.
my dick is much much bigger, and I enjoy slapping your autistic head with it loser.
You sound like my older brother. He owns a landscaping design business, a big house, two cars and two trucks, and buys $180 designer jeans. Yeah, he's a rich fuck. Unfortunately, he 60-years-old, can't retire and have to keep on working. The mortgage on his house is underwater (he bought at the height of real estate market), he spends every dime that his business makes, his credit cards are maxed out, and the banks won't loan him any money. His 40-year-old trophy wife will inherit the house and screw over his adult children.
I've been on this site since late 97 or maybe early 98. it was winter, and I just graduated highschool.
I've been on Slashdot since 1999. I skipped high school but I know how to write proper English.
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40% faster.
Not at current prices. Paying $500 for a 40% performance increase isn't that great of a deal. Especially since I updated my components last year because Ryzen didn't come out soon enough.
Really?
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/c...
And the date on that is... today! The Ryzen 1700 has better performance but the FX-8300 still has a better price/performance ratio.
Youtube.. so many tech tubers have benchmarked this.
For AMD vs. Intel. I've yet to see one for AMD vs. AMD.
They never really had it to begin with, as they were on the dole.
The Medicare expansion was only one-half of ObamaCare. Since this wasn't a single-payer option, not everyone got covered via Medicare.
Does the new Ryzen processors outperform the FX-8300 processor? If so, how much of a big boost are we talking about here?
You are the one mismanaging you finances.
Yes, I'm guilty of saving up for a planned vacation instead maxing out my credit cards like everyone else. Shoot me.
The personal details of your life that you for some reason keep volunteering to random strangers on the internet [...]
I don't have a Facebook account.
[...] screams ex white trash, mediocre, bland life.
My family is from Idaho. We're rednecks, no white trailer trash.
I wonder why you are paid less than half of what the rest of us get paid. Care to tell us a story?
I work for a nation-wide project where the senior system admins are paid $50K+ per year and computer engineers are paid $80K+ per year (regardless of where you live). We're half-way through a five year contract. Last I heard we had 1,000+ people on the contract.
Could it be because you have no applicable experience on real servers, you were kicked out of college, and you have that autism thing going on, so no one in their right mind would want you on their team?
I've been working in Silicon Valley for 20+ years. Half that time in team lead positions.
What you are called is "PC Support" - usually a branch of level 2 helpdesk.
Help desk is down the hallway from my office. Users don't bang down my door.
That would align with your experience as well as your salary.
The prime contractor low-balled the techs. But five years of guaranteed work and the usual benefit pack with 20 PTO days was too good to past up. Plus my contracting agency gave me extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus.
The executive order is based on a law passed in 2015 and signed by Obama - and the seven countries are listed there.
And conveniently ignoring the countries that Trump has business interests in. You do realize that most of the 9/11 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia?
I was on the express bus in Palo Alto when we drove past an auto accident on 280 North yesterday morning. The front end of a Ferrari got smashed in, parked on the side of the freeway. A second vehicle was nowhere in sight. The driver was walking in the slow lane while talking on the cellphone, ignoring traffic and everything else. May have been drunk.
that was someone else dipshit.
All asshats are equal in my eyes.
you realize when you make more you can afford more?
Conversely, the more you make the more your expenses go up to match. I've seen that a lot.
you spending your 400 is breaking bank way more than 3k being spent by a 3 people who collectively make 20x your salary.
I saved up and took a planned vacation that lasted seven days. I didn't spend $400 per night pissing it away on wine. If you understood anything about finances, you spend your money on experiences and not piss.
a trophy wife is no 40, she's 20.
His trophy wife was 16 when they started dating. His first wifewas 16 when she got pregnant. If he ever gets a third wife, I'm sure she'll be 16 as well.
sounds like a guy living beyond his means. Like you, with your 428/night.
So I'm living beyond my means for taking a planned vacation four years ago?
My night, adjusted for your salary, cost me 150.
You squandering that much money on booze? You need help.
My jeans are probably a hundred or two. Which in your terms is like 40 bucks.
I pay $20 for my jeans and my last pair was five years ago. Walmart used to have them for $10 years ago.
you're bragging about accomplishing what to an average person is a step down.
Slashdot exists to keep me amused while I'm waiting for a script to finish.
Arrested for letting them have a sip of alcohol?
Supervisor got escorted off the premises by the police. The establishment therefore can prove that they took the necessary steps to protect their liquor license. AFAIK, the supervisor never faced any legal action. The underage employee did get fired, which many of testers thought was wrong. Hence, the supervisor got promoted out of the department..
That quote has a very interesting history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil
This project reeks of self-righteousness. I wonder what Ballmer's political affiliations are...
Although an equal opportunity giver to both parties, he did work for George W.'s 2004 reelection campaign.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/political-leanings-of-silicon-valley.html
There seems to be an abundance of college grads and useless developers who refuse to keep up-skilled yet feel they deserve massive paychecks just for being American and knowing what a .exe file does.
Most Americans stop learning after leaving school because think learning is only required for school. They don't become lifelong learners. I had two friends who went from computer engineers to drug store clerks after the dot com bust because they refused to learn outside of the classroom.
Apparently you don't know what the fuck you're talking about since that's not remotely close to being true.
Please educate yourself. You're embarrassing all the other asshats on Slashdot.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/muslim-majority-countries-donald-trump-travel-ban-immigration-entry-visa-three-main-countries-exempt-a7552526.html
Finally a president who cares about the america people! This is exactly why I voted for Trump
The same president who supported a health care bill that would take insurance away from 24M+ Americans over ten years and give the rich a $200K tax break?
Even the most mediocre IT support jobs I ever worked gave out 2% raises to keep up with inflation.
You are both autistic, and are wasting your time. Just get a micro-ruler, and see which one got a bigger penis, and honestly, please do it off slashdot.
Slashdot exists to keep me amuse while I wait for a script to finish at work.
[...] how long it takes you to drive from those to work [...]
My daily commute on public transit was 90-minutes each way.
I would then shift your hours of work to be up to 30 minutes immediately after your religious ceremonies and that's that.
No. You will be sitting in the HR office explaining why you're exposing the company to a civil rights lawsuit. That's a far more serious violation than the routine labor law violations that the supervisor was racking up.
[...] either quit or fall asleep at work so I can fire you.
The supervisor threatened to fire anyone caught sleeping during the overnight shifts. My assistant lead tester caught him napping at his desk, wrote on a Post-It note that the supervisor should fire himself, and stick the note to the supervisor's head. When the supervisor woke up and found the note, he went screaming around the department trying to find out who wrote the note. He never did find it out who it was.
If you can abuse the system, so can I.
My actions were lawful. Any retaliation against would be illegal.
Business as usual. If breaking the law is good for the company, then promotion awaits the criminals.
Not quite. Being promoted to producer is regarded by most video game testers as being a failure. The supervisor failed big time with this promotion. Unfortunately, video game testing is dead end job with limited opportunities for promotion. When I became a lead tester, I started my exit strategy by getting my IT certifications and going by to school.
And that will be the great bot movie in which the bots come out as the winners.
Transformers... Meh... ;)
Welcome to Creimer, Slashdot's resident compulsive liar.
This is the asshat who never comment directly to my comments. If you got a bone to pick with me, comment on my comments and not everyone else's.
I think Ballmer wants to prove that he's still a baller in the tech field and not some retired dude that everyone forgotten about.
"Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women." - Conan the Barbarian
Man, with stories like that, I bet you're a fucking HOOT at parties.
I once took a date to the company Christmas party at Dave & Buster's when I was a lead video game tester. We left at the exact same time as the police were coming in to escort my supervisor out for letting an under-age employee take a slip of kamikaze drink. My supervisor got promoted to producer. Go figure...
you quote things as if you were responding with a counterpoint, then you respond with just extra random information, and lots of weird irrelevant details.
That's because I don't take you seriously. I'm too busy laughing my ass off.
have you ever spent 150 on a night out?
I spent ~$428 per night in Las Vegas. Otherwise, I live a modest lifestyle. Which means I'm not going to piss away $3,000 on wine and brag about mismanaging my finances.
my dick is much much bigger, and I enjoy slapping your autistic head with it loser.
You sound like my older brother. He owns a landscaping design business, a big house, two cars and two trucks, and buys $180 designer jeans. Yeah, he's a rich fuck. Unfortunately, he 60-years-old, can't retire and have to keep on working. The mortgage on his house is underwater (he bought at the height of real estate market), he spends every dime that his business makes, his credit cards are maxed out, and the banks won't loan him any money. His 40-year-old trophy wife will inherit the house and screw over his adult children.
I've been on this site since late 97 or maybe early 98. it was winter, and I just graduated highschool.
I've been on Slashdot since 1999. I skipped high school but I know how to write proper English.