Neither is shitty (or corrupt) project management that creates predictable delays.
The Trump Administration is withholding federal funding to electrify Caltrain because the high-speed rail will use the tracks from San Jose to San Francisco. Never mind that electrification will help Caltrain run more trains than they can with diesel engines, reduce the standing room only conditions during commute hours (60K people per weekday), and reduce the noise impact on surrounding communities.
I like the proverb in your sig, but a slightly more idiomatic translation might be: "The nail that sticks out furthest gets hammered the most". The best sounding translation (to my ears) probably changes the original meaning slightly, but scans better in English: "The nail that sticks out furthest gets hammered hardest".
This is the fourth variation of this proverb I've seen regarding my Slashdot signature. The wording of my signature was how I heard it after I became a Christian in college 25 years ago. I kept getting "hammered" by others in the ministry because I threatened to raise the low bar that the leadership was comfortable at. I've always contended that God worked from the bottom-up (fellowship) and not top-down (leadership). The leadership ultimately won when they kicked me out 13 years later, spreading rumors that I was sleeping with three or four women at the time. But, hey, that's religion for you.
While density creates justification for resource improvement projects, waiting for fucking years for those projects to be completed only adds more fuel to the chaos.
When the freeway system got planned in 1950's, land was set aside for roadway that wouldn't be built for decades. The 85 extension from 280 to 101, and the 87 from the 85/87 interchange to 280 and 101, in Silicon Valley were the tomatoes fields of my youth. Those roadways didn't get built until 1990's.
The year 2030 is when all the baby boomers are supposed to retire, retirees will out number workers, and two-thirds of the federal budget will go to Social Security/Medicare. Taxes will have to go way up to pay for everything else. Someone will need to drive all those seniors all over the place.
Interesting that your examples are some of the largest cities in the entire world.
I've been using public transit (bus, light rail and trains) in Silicon Valley (~2M people) for the last 20+ years. The SV public transit is also integrated with the public transit for the entire San Francisco Bay Area (~6M people).
Did they have Walmart ship it to you direct with their branding intact?
Direct from Walmart with a Walmart return address on it.
If so, that might sound stupid- but then I'm guessing their business plan was only ever intended to be quick-n'-dirty and short term, and took into account people doing what you did over the additional hassle of trying to get the goods shipped anonymously.
Not necessarily. More elaborate operations may have 10,000+ items for sale, but no inventory is ever carried and each item is drop ship from the manufacturer.
I've seen it a few times - sellers asking customers to cancel the orders that the seller can't fulfil.
I had a situation where a third-party seller had granola bars for sale at a very good price. Only to find out that they kept five bucks of the sale and placed an order with Walmart. Since then I've ordered directly from Walmart and saved five bucks.
On a more serious note, the cost to wire versus the cost for switches really depends on the number of drops, the relative port-capacities of switches to those cable counts, and any backbone (ie Fiber) costs needed.
The conversion project was for 500+ workstations at that one branch office. Not sure how many branch offices were involved when the switchover to Ethernet took place at the NYC headquarters. I spent four hours waiting for NYC to turn on the switches from their end, four hours to do 250+ workstations by myself, and four hours to fix 250+ workstations that youngers messed up by not following directions. Finding a cab at 3:30AM was not fun either.
About IBM...well, that's only IF you didn't buy anything from a division that got spun off to China. This question, concerning the Missile Defense Agency supply chain came in late last year:
I was thinking of IBM of yesteryear. That particular division, IIRC, was the PC/laptop division that went to China.
My assumption is that it's a recognized fact that PLA Unit 61398 and others have infiltrated the above companies. This is coming straight from General Dynamics, and imposed by the DoD.
Doesn't surprised me. When I worked at Google in 2008, they found backdoors in the BIOS for the newer Lenovo laptops and were planning to move away from Lenovo. I didn't see any Lenovo laptops when I worked there on contract in 2011.
I call complete, 100% bullshit. The software may be that old. The hardware? No fucking way.
Why is this hard to believe? We got B-52 bombers that are still flying since the 1950's and could fly another 50 years if the Air Force can't develop a new bomber that doesn't get jammed on its own radar jammer (B-1) or can't fly in the rain (B-2). Heck, when the navigational computers reboot on the B-52, the pilot just breaks out the slide ruler and maps.
Tell us exactly which 'government' this is, and what department, so we can expose your idiocy.
The three-letter agency I work for is classified.:P
Not having to sleep would be a huge competitive advantage.
The longest I stayed awake was 168 hours (seven days) when I was a teenager during a summer break. Worse than masturbating 27 times in 24 hours. I literally felt like I was burning both ends of the candle. I sleep for the next three days to recover.
I know my coworkers are lazy and start to drag after about eighty hours.
When I was a lead video game tester at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorder), I worked 40 hours straight to prepare for a code release meeting, took Wednesday through Sunday off to recover, and my boss was pissed that I didn't report to work at 9AM the next day.
Creimer was the only one savvy enough to realize, the question was not meant literally, rather the old Jap was fishing for blowjobs. Later that day, creimer the fat oily youngster met the slender old man in the men's room, where creimer received his reward of a mouthful of lethargic elderly jizz.
Why are you trolling me? Is your life that meaningless?
Be an asshole instead. When I was lead video game tester at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorder), I was humble to the testers on my team and an asshole to management. The testers, especially the older testers, loved me. Management not so much because I was willing to fight for my project and my testers.
I mean, everyone knows that Ethernet uses the second and third pairs on an 8P8C jack, while Token Ring uses the first and second pairs.
The building was five years old and wired for Ethernet. The financial institution had it wired for coaxial because of the coaxial switches in the network closet. I guess it was cheaper to roll out coaxial cabling than buying new switches for twisted pair cabling, as the Token Ring NICs could take either coaxial or twisted pair.
When I worked at Fujitsu in 1997, our virtual world division got a temporary vice president from Japan for three monhts. This VP was in charged of mainframes. He always asked the same question in broken English, "Are you a mainframe programmer?" He was disappointed that no one in our division was a mainframe programmer. For years since then I've always heard that mainframe programmers were in high demand. The catch, of course, is having previously worked on mainframes. Seems like no one wants to hire an inexperienced person as a mainframe programmer.
My very first IT job in 2005 was an Token Ring to Ethernet conversion at a financial institution branch office. I made an extra four hours in OT because the uncertified youngsters couldn't follow direction, plugged the Ethernet cable into the Token Ring NIC, and the project manager let them go without double checking their work.
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Neither is shitty (or corrupt) project management that creates predictable delays.
The Trump Administration is withholding federal funding to electrify Caltrain because the high-speed rail will use the tracks from San Jose to San Francisco. Never mind that electrification will help Caltrain run more trains than they can with diesel engines, reduce the standing room only conditions during commute hours (60K people per weekday), and reduce the noise impact on surrounding communities.
I like the proverb in your sig, but a slightly more idiomatic translation might be: "The nail that sticks out furthest gets hammered the most". The best sounding translation (to my ears) probably changes the original meaning slightly, but scans better in English: "The nail that sticks out furthest gets hammered hardest".
This is the fourth variation of this proverb I've seen regarding my Slashdot signature. The wording of my signature was how I heard it after I became a Christian in college 25 years ago. I kept getting "hammered" by others in the ministry because I threatened to raise the low bar that the leadership was comfortable at. I've always contended that God worked from the bottom-up (fellowship) and not top-down (leadership). The leadership ultimately won when they kicked me out 13 years later, spreading rumors that I was sleeping with three or four women at the time. But, hey, that's religion for you.
While density creates justification for resource improvement projects, waiting for fucking years for those projects to be completed only adds more fuel to the chaos.
When the freeway system got planned in 1950's, land was set aside for roadway that wouldn't be built for decades. The 85 extension from 280 to 101, and the 87 from the 85/87 interchange to 280 and 101, in Silicon Valley were the tomatoes fields of my youth. Those roadways didn't get built until 1990's.
The year 2030 is when all the baby boomers are supposed to retire, retirees will out number workers, and two-thirds of the federal budget will go to Social Security/Medicare. Taxes will have to go way up to pay for everything else. Someone will need to drive all those seniors all over the place.
Interesting that your examples are some of the largest cities in the entire world.
I've been using public transit (bus, light rail and trains) in Silicon Valley (~2M people) for the last 20+ years. The SV public transit is also integrated with the public transit for the entire San Francisco Bay Area (~6M people).
One egg can be turned into two deviled eggs. How the heck did you end up with 17?
Local store had five dozen eggs for $3 each that holiday season. I went through seven of those.
Did they have Walmart ship it to you direct with their branding intact?
Direct from Walmart with a Walmart return address on it.
If so, that might sound stupid- but then I'm guessing their business plan was only ever intended to be quick-n'-dirty and short term, and took into account people doing what you did over the additional hassle of trying to get the goods shipped anonymously.
Not necessarily. More elaborate operations may have 10,000+ items for sale, but no inventory is ever carried and each item is drop ship from the manufacturer.
I've seen it a few times - sellers asking customers to cancel the orders that the seller can't fulfil.
I had a situation where a third-party seller had granola bars for sale at a very good price. Only to find out that they kept five bucks of the sale and placed an order with Walmart. Since then I've ordered directly from Walmart and saved five bucks.
Go as in... go fuck yourself
No, no, no. That's too boring.
Go as in... the game?
Go as in... the programming language?
Go as in... I had to go five minutes ago?
The base airframes, yes. The same engines? Nope. The same electronics? Hell, no, those have been replaced dozens of times.
Correct.
This is like insisting a data center is still using the same hardware because they're still in the same building.
A properly designed data center should be able to reuse the HVAC and the hardware racks for decades at a time.
B52s and IBM mainframes are not even closely related.
The only original part of a B-52 bomber today is the airframe, as everything else got replaced, modernized or removed over the last 50+ years.
If you say your mainframes are over 40 years old, you are talking about 360 or 370 machines.
Or an IBM 370-compatible mainframe that came out.... 40 years ago.
https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_FT2.html
On a more serious note, the cost to wire versus the cost for switches really depends on the number of drops, the relative port-capacities of switches to those cable counts, and any backbone (ie Fiber) costs needed.
The conversion project was for 500+ workstations at that one branch office. Not sure how many branch offices were involved when the switchover to Ethernet took place at the NYC headquarters. I spent four hours waiting for NYC to turn on the switches from their end, four hours to do 250+ workstations by myself, and four hours to fix 250+ workstations that youngers messed up by not following directions. Finding a cab at 3:30AM was not fun either.
About IBM...well, that's only IF you didn't buy anything from a division that got spun off to China. This question, concerning the Missile Defense Agency supply chain came in late last year:
I was thinking of IBM of yesteryear. That particular division, IIRC, was the PC/laptop division that went to China.
My assumption is that it's a recognized fact that PLA Unit 61398 and others have infiltrated the above companies. This is coming straight from General Dynamics, and imposed by the DoD.
Doesn't surprised me. When I worked at Google in 2008, they found backdoors in the BIOS for the newer Lenovo laptops and were planning to move away from Lenovo. I didn't see any Lenovo laptops when I worked there on contract in 2011.
I call complete, 100% bullshit. The software may be that old. The hardware? No fucking way.
Why is this hard to believe? We got B-52 bombers that are still flying since the 1950's and could fly another 50 years if the Air Force can't develop a new bomber that doesn't get jammed on its own radar jammer (B-1) or can't fly in the rain (B-2). Heck, when the navigational computers reboot on the B-52, the pilot just breaks out the slide ruler and maps.
Tell us exactly which 'government' this is, and what department, so we can expose your idiocy.
The three-letter agency I work for is classified. :P
Not having to sleep would be a huge competitive advantage.
The longest I stayed awake was 168 hours (seven days) when I was a teenager during a summer break. Worse than masturbating 27 times in 24 hours. I literally felt like I was burning both ends of the candle. I sleep for the next three days to recover.
I know my coworkers are lazy and start to drag after about eighty hours.
When I was a lead video game tester at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorder), I worked 40 hours straight to prepare for a code release meeting, took Wednesday through Sunday off to recover, and my boss was pissed that I didn't report to work at 9AM the next day.
Far more likely the mainframes are less than 5 years old.
The main application at my government IT job is 40+ years. The mainframes are a bit older than that.
But you can keep being stupid if you want, it suits you.
I'm not the one with an uninformed opinion.
What helped me sleep better at night is a heating pad on low setting underneath my left side.
Creimer was the only one savvy enough to realize, the question was not meant literally, rather the old Jap was fishing for blowjobs. Later that day, creimer the fat oily youngster met the slender old man in the men's room, where creimer received his reward of a mouthful of lethargic elderly jizz.
Why are you trolling me? Is your life that meaningless?
Be an asshole instead. When I was lead video game tester at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorder), I was humble to the testers on my team and an asshole to management. The testers, especially the older testers, loved me. Management not so much because I was willing to fight for my project and my testers.
Why not use a program from the 50s and 60s?
The mainframe are probably from the 50's or 60's.
Don 't you want to make America great again?
Scrape the Old Iron and buy New Iron from IBM! No one ever got fired for buying IBM.
Smells like bullshit. Must be creimer. It is. It is creimer. You forgot to mention COBOL. Troll harder next time. This will get you started:
1) You're trolling me. 2) Did I forget to mention that the backend ran COBOL? No wonder you're hot and bothered. :P
I mean, everyone knows that Ethernet uses the second and third pairs on an 8P8C jack, while Token Ring uses the first and second pairs.
The building was five years old and wired for Ethernet. The financial institution had it wired for coaxial because of the coaxial switches in the network closet. I guess it was cheaper to roll out coaxial cabling than buying new switches for twisted pair cabling, as the Token Ring NICs could take either coaxial or twisted pair.
When I worked at Fujitsu in 1997, our virtual world division got a temporary vice president from Japan for three monhts. This VP was in charged of mainframes. He always asked the same question in broken English, "Are you a mainframe programmer?" He was disappointed that no one in our division was a mainframe programmer. For years since then I've always heard that mainframe programmers were in high demand. The catch, of course, is having previously worked on mainframes. Seems like no one wants to hire an inexperienced person as a mainframe programmer.
My very first IT job in 2005 was an Token Ring to Ethernet conversion at a financial institution branch office. I made an extra four hours in OT because the uncertified youngsters couldn't follow direction, plugged the Ethernet cable into the Token Ring NIC, and the project manager let them go without double checking their work.