The first version of Linux I ever played around with was from a book with CDs about Slackware in 1997. Must have been an old version as it never worked with my Socket 7 motherboard with an AMD K5 processor. Back then it was compile and pray to get anything working. I later ran SuSE 5 through 10. Switched to Ubuntu for a while. Fedora and Mint are my favorite distros for work. These days I use Red Hat at home in case I ever get a job that required Red Hat experience.
So how can there be a shortage of both workers and jobs?
Look at the construction trades. Older workers are retiring and foreign workers are going home. Young people are sent directly to college without ever considering the vocational trades. There's not enough young people to replace those who are leaving in construction. Plenty of construction jobs, just not enough workers. The same thing will happen to IT when young people go into healthcare because that will be the leading industry for making money after the baby boomers retire.
That's why they keep referring to things like your weight.
Let's not forget references to my full legal name, email addresses, my parents' names, where I live (someone posted the wrong floor plan yesterday), and parts of my credit report. I've never seen this on Slashdot before and I've been reading since 1999. My trolls have a serious hard on for me.
In 11 years you won't be capable of walking about and getting into a bus. How many 375 pounds men in their late 50s do you see walking about on the streets? You already pass out every night, and surely you're aware that the health of morbidly obese men in their 40s and 50s goes downhill rapidly.
Except that Social Security and Medicare will consume 2/3 of the federal budget in 2030. All those IOUs in the trust fund are due when people start to retire in large numbers.
If you want exercise try walking, swimming, moving around, playing a sport, something substantial.
The fat finger reference was a joke. A bone toss to the trolls to chew on since they're so fascinated with my physiology.
Yes that's cute how it annoys some of the ACs and everything, but it also makes you come across as a spammy douche.
I used to enjoy reading and posting on Slashdot. But the trolls have made it a living hell over the last six months. So I turned Slashdot into a business model to make coffee money. It's not personal, it's just business.;)
I'm not worried. When a study first came out after the dot com bust predicting an IT shortage of 1M+ skilled workers in 2030, I went back to school to learn computer programming and switched from video game testing to IT Support. I'm looking forward to making big bucks in my peak earning years.
I thought technology makes us all so productive that we don't need so many people working?
Productivity can only go so far when you need people to do the work on the ground. I'm expecting young people to follow the money by going into healthcare. Some my friends did that after the dot com bust. They make more money than I do but they change bedpans and wipe asses all day. Meanwhile, some of my best paying IT contracts are for hospitals.
The real problem is that we are using prehistoric brains wired for scarcity, but now live in plenty.
Plenty of baby boomers want to live better than their parents in retirement, screwing over everyone else who has to pay taxes to support them.
When Social Security was created in the 1930's, there was 19 workers for every retiree. In 2030, there will be two workers per every retiree. It's going to get really hard to find enough under 30 people to support an aging society. The IT industry alone will have a 1.5M+ shortage of skilled workers as older workers retire and foreign workers go home.
Imagine the scene, the reactor's cooling system is failing, and your malfunctioning miracle-working brain decides it's time to clean the storage closet instead!
Chain Reaction was one of my favorite Keanu Reeves movie.
I'm working, asshat. One of the joys of having a side business in addition to a regular job that pays the bills.
Wow, 30 anthologies later and you still can't writer bettererest than a kid with brain problems.
That's because I don't have an editorial process for Slashdot. It's like complaining about Trump's tweets when he doesn't have a policy process for making informed announcements.
When I took Intro Chemistry at San Jose State University (before they kicked me out for playing too much Magic: The Gathering into the wee hours), we had a tour of the research reactor in the basement of the science building. We were reassured that the reactor was completely safe. If it ever did go kablooey (extremely unlikely), it would only blow up the building. Rest assured that I went into computers instead of nuclear science.
So short of reclaiming areas via eminent domain and re-purposing them (wasteful since you're demolishing established structures), you're left with an either/or choice.
Sometimes opportunities present themselves. When the Southern Pacific (now Union Pacific) built a new yard in Roseville, railroad traffic through Silicon Valley was significantly reduced from hundreds of trains to several per day. Caltrain took over the San Jose yard to better support expanded service between San Francisco and Gilroy. The county expanded the light rail line along the right of way from San Jose to Campbell to form the Winchester line. Several right of ways are being re-purposed as landscaped corridors for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Slashdot exists to keep me amused at work while a script is running. Thank you for your participation.
Your mind isn't clear.
The pet policy currently applies to cats and dogs. Note that it's called a "pet policy" and not a "cats and dogs" policy. When I discusses having an aquarium with the leasing office, they indicated that the $1,500 pet deposit would apply. They recently that sent out a notice that ALL PETS (not just cats and dogs) must be registered with the leasing office. The three or four corporate owners that this 50-year-old apartment complex had in the last five years keep finding new ways to nickel and dime residents.
I guess you're not a fan of Japanese kaiju
movies, where suspense is built up by not revealing the monster until the very last possible moment. The most famous example, of course, was Gojira (Godzilla). For the American Godzilla (2014), the bad monsters were shown early but Godzilla wasn't fully revealed until last one-third of the movie. Cloverfield was an epic disappointment when they revealed the monster. The early Dunkirk trailers had the promise of being an epic monster movie.
The problem I had with Dunkirk, especially with buildup in the earlier trailers, I was expecting an English monster movie. I lost interest when it became clear that it was just another war movie.
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The first version of Linux I ever played around with was from a book with CDs about Slackware in 1997. Must have been an old version as it never worked with my Socket 7 motherboard with an AMD K5 processor. Back then it was compile and pray to get anything working. I later ran SuSE 5 through 10. Switched to Ubuntu for a while. Fedora and Mint are my favorite distros for work. These days I use Red Hat at home in case I ever get a job that required Red Hat experience.
ALL THAT INFORMATION IS ALREADY PUBLIC.
This is why your attempt at INTIMIDATION by posting my personal information on Slashdot failed.
So how can there be a shortage of both workers and jobs?
Look at the construction trades. Older workers are retiring and foreign workers are going home. Young people are sent directly to college without ever considering the vocational trades. There's not enough young people to replace those who are leaving in construction. Plenty of construction jobs, just not enough workers. The same thing will happen to IT when young people go into healthcare because that will be the leading industry for making money after the baby boomers retire.
That's why they keep referring to things like your weight.
Let's not forget references to my full legal name, email addresses, my parents' names, where I live (someone posted the wrong floor plan yesterday), and parts of my credit report. I've never seen this on Slashdot before and I've been reading since 1999. My trolls have a serious hard on for me.
In 11 years you won't be capable of walking about and getting into a bus. How many 375 pounds men in their late 50s do you see walking about on the streets? You already pass out every night, and surely you're aware that the health of morbidly obese men in their 40s and 50s goes downhill rapidly.
Don't let the facts that I'm losing weight and taking naps get in the way of your narrative.
But my rolls have made it a living hell.
I don't eat rolls. Too much bread is a bad thing.
That's not supposed to be a problem.
Except that Social Security and Medicare will consume 2/3 of the federal budget in 2030. All those IOUs in the trust fund are due when people start to retire in large numbers.
If you want exercise try walking, swimming, moving around, playing a sport, something substantial.
The fat finger reference was a joke. A bone toss to the trolls to chew on since they're so fascinated with my physiology.
Yes that's cute how it annoys some of the ACs and everything, but it also makes you come across as a spammy douche.
I used to enjoy reading and posting on Slashdot. But the trolls have made it a living hell over the last six months. So I turned Slashdot into a business model to make coffee money. It's not personal, it's just business. ;)
Why worry?
I'm not worried. When a study first came out after the dot com bust predicting an IT shortage of 1M+ skilled workers in 2030, I went back to school to learn computer programming and switched from video game testing to IT Support. I'm looking forward to making big bucks in my peak earning years.
I thought technology makes us all so productive that we don't need so many people working?
Productivity can only go so far when you need people to do the work on the ground. I'm expecting young people to follow the money by going into healthcare. Some my friends did that after the dot com bust. They make more money than I do but they change bedpans and wipe asses all day. Meanwhile, some of my best paying IT contracts are for hospitals.
The real problem is that we are using prehistoric brains wired for scarcity, but now live in plenty.
Plenty of baby boomers want to live better than their parents in retirement, screwing over everyone else who has to pay taxes to support them.
Other than that, adapt to what? Retard. The ever change office, desk, and keyboard?
I traded in the mouse for a Logitech Trackman at work and at home. Less wrist movement, more exercise for my fat fingers.
When Social Security was created in the 1930's, there was 19 workers for every retiree. In 2030, there will be two workers per every retiree. It's going to get really hard to find enough under 30 people to support an aging society. The IT industry alone will have a 1.5M+ shortage of skilled workers as older workers retire and foreign workers go home.
Imagine the scene, the reactor's cooling system is failing, and your malfunctioning miracle-working brain decides it's time to clean the storage closet instead!
Chain Reaction was one of my favorite Keanu Reeves movie.
It's Saturday [...]
I'm working, asshat. One of the joys of having a side business in addition to a regular job that pays the bills.
Wow, 30 anthologies later and you still can't writer bettererest than a kid with brain problems.
That's because I don't have an editorial process for Slashdot. It's like complaining about Trump's tweets when he doesn't have a policy process for making informed announcements.
When I took Intro Chemistry at San Jose State University (before they kicked me out for playing too much Magic: The Gathering into the wee hours), we had a tour of the research reactor in the basement of the science building. We were reassured that the reactor was completely safe. If it ever did go kablooey (extremely unlikely), it would only blow up the building. Rest assured that I went into computers instead of nuclear science.
So short of reclaiming areas via eminent domain and re-purposing them (wasteful since you're demolishing established structures), you're left with an either/or choice.
Sometimes opportunities present themselves. When the Southern Pacific (now Union Pacific) built a new yard in Roseville, railroad traffic through Silicon Valley was significantly reduced from hundreds of trains to several per day. Caltrain took over the San Jose yard to better support expanded service between San Francisco and Gilroy. The county expanded the light rail line along the right of way from San Jose to Campbell to form the Winchester line. Several right of ways are being re-purposed as landscaped corridors for pedestrians and bicyclists.
[...] push out a malicious update that overlaid ads on top of web pages users were navigating.
That would explain why the ads on Slashdot are overlaying the content.
Do you see why you need us?
Slashdot exists to keep me amused at work while a script is running. Thank you for your participation.
Your mind isn't clear.
The pet policy currently applies to cats and dogs. Note that it's called a "pet policy" and not a "cats and dogs" policy. When I discusses having an aquarium with the leasing office, they indicated that the $1,500 pet deposit would apply. They recently that sent out a notice that ALL PETS (not just cats and dogs) must be registered with the leasing office. The three or four corporate owners that this 50-year-old apartment complex had in the last five years keep finding new ways to nickel and dime residents.
Do they ban waterbeds?
Yes.
What do you think they'll say to a giant tank of water?
The corporate owners would probably insist on the $1,500 pet deposit.
You mean Trump before he ran for president?
They don't but judges can rule laws unconstitutional. A law to restrict beach access by homeowners probably got struck down as being unconstitutional.
Hey Jerry Reed is still very good.
I'll take the 1970's with Smokey and the Bandit (40th Anniversary Edition). My favorite movie with Sally "Gidget" Fields. ;)
It's the only good one and it came out 30 years ago.
When everyone else was watching Transformers in the 1980's, I was watching Captain Harlock, Robotech and Starblazers,
...are you fucking stupid?
I guess you're not a fan of Japanese kaiju movies, where suspense is built up by not revealing the monster until the very last possible moment. The most famous example, of course, was Gojira (Godzilla). For the American Godzilla (2014), the bad monsters were shown early but Godzilla wasn't fully revealed until last one-third of the movie. Cloverfield was an epic disappointment when they revealed the monster. The early Dunkirk trailers had the promise of being an epic monster movie.
The problem I had with Dunkirk, especially with buildup in the earlier trailers, I was expecting an English monster movie. I lost interest when it became clear that it was just another war movie.
No one said you had to watch all the Transformer movies.