That's Windows 10 for the home user. Corporate I.T. department are still using Windows 7 and patches aren't released until two weeks after Patch Tuesday. Hosing the system whenever is not an acceptable solution.
Yet another set of.NET patches that probably won't install automatically and require manual installation. Something to look forward to next Patch Tuesday. Meh...
Coke screwed the pooch when it switched over to New Coke and immediately switched back to Coke Classic in the 1980's. I switched over to Pepsi and never looked back. No debate here.
On the same Thursday that Slashdot experienced data storage corruption, the 1TB hard drive on my Windows gaming PC crashed, reporting 4GB of free space available and unresponsive to IO block commands. (I've seen that behavior on USB sticks, but never on a hard drive.) Except for several years of email, all my data was on the file server. Oh, well. I got a good excuse to rebuild my eight-year-old PC, especially with Windows 10 around the corner. Meanwhile, I'm using a $250 Dell laptop for everything except gaming.
The recently announced layoffs for the few tech workers in New York and California got cancelled (for now). All 100+ tech workers in Florida got laid off earlier this year. If Disney really wants to do the right thing, they would hired back their laid off workers in Florida and send the Indian workers packing.
I went back to community college to learn computer programming after the dot com bust in 2001, taking two classes per semester for five years while working 80 hours per week as a video game tester. Uncle Sam picked up the tab for all my courses with a tax credit to learn new job skills. I make more money — and pay more in taxes — today than I did 15 years ago.
No I think there is something funny with their claim.
Not necessarily. After the Great Recession came and went, a lot of the old farts are still hanging on to their jobs, refusing to retire and make room for young whipper-snappers like myself to make big bucks. The shortage of skilled tech workers TODAY is the reason why I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com bust. Too many old farts can't afford to retire.
You had to have at least 3 years of experience to even read a script at the helpdesk. And with that 3 years of experience, the pay sucked.
That's more of a recruiter and/or HR manager problem. I once applied for a tech position at a legal firm. The HR manager rejected the resumes for "lacking tenure" (i.e., at least three years each in the last three positions). The recruiter had a difficult time explaining to this person that short-term contracting was perfect normal after the Great Recession and anyone who had three years in the last three positions already had a new job. A year later the position was still vacant.
Actually, the blotched work was local. The person on the server team responsible for the printer migration waited until the deadline to run the migration script. After the script blew up and he sent an email out, he went on vacation. Waiting until he gets back in two weeks wasn't an option.
My boss threw me under the bus by assigning me to a special project to manually create 1,000 printer queues because the server team blotched the printer migration from WS2003 to WS2012. What a PITA!
I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com crash. The Perl class got cancelled due to an overwhelming lack of students. I didn't learn that Perl was still around until several months ago.
I was working with my father in San Francisco and Oakland, driving across the Bay Bridge twice before the 1989 earthquake. After we got home in San Jose and the earthquake hit, we turned on the TV. A bit scary watching the news as we passed through all the damaged areas prior to the earthquake.
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That's Windows 10 for the home user. Corporate I.T. department are still using Windows 7 and patches aren't released until two weeks after Patch Tuesday. Hosing the system whenever is not an acceptable solution.
My roommate works for a Sprint store. They have exactly one model of Windows phone, which they keep in back and no one ever asks for. Go figure.
Yet another set of .NET patches that probably won't install automatically and require manual installation. Something to look forward to next Patch Tuesday. Meh...
Coke screwed the pooch when it switched over to New Coke and immediately switched back to Coke Classic in the 1980's. I switched over to Pepsi and never looked back. No debate here.
The Apple Watch is a relationship thing.
On the same Thursday that Slashdot experienced data storage corruption, the 1TB hard drive on my Windows gaming PC crashed, reporting 4GB of free space available and unresponsive to IO block commands. (I've seen that behavior on USB sticks, but never on a hard drive.) Except for several years of email, all my data was on the file server. Oh, well. I got a good excuse to rebuild my eight-year-old PC, especially with Windows 10 around the corner. Meanwhile, I'm using a $250 Dell laptop for everything except gaming.
The recently announced layoffs for the few tech workers in New York and California got cancelled (for now). All 100+ tech workers in Florida got laid off earlier this year. If Disney really wants to do the right thing, they would hired back their laid off workers in Florida and send the Indian workers packing.
The down side. No one complains about the up side unless it's too slow. ;)
I went back to community college to learn computer programming after the dot com bust in 2001, taking two classes per semester for five years while working 80 hours per week as a video game tester. Uncle Sam picked up the tab for all my courses with a tax credit to learn new job skills. I make more money — and pay more in taxes — today than I did 15 years ago.
No I think there is something funny with their claim.
Not necessarily. After the Great Recession came and went, a lot of the old farts are still hanging on to their jobs, refusing to retire and make room for young whipper-snappers like myself to make big bucks. The shortage of skilled tech workers TODAY is the reason why I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com bust. Too many old farts can't afford to retire.
You had to have at least 3 years of experience to even read a script at the helpdesk. And with that 3 years of experience, the pay sucked.
That's more of a recruiter and/or HR manager problem. I once applied for a tech position at a legal firm. The HR manager rejected the resumes for "lacking tenure" (i.e., at least three years each in the last three positions). The recruiter had a difficult time explaining to this person that short-term contracting was perfect normal after the Great Recession and anyone who had three years in the last three positions already had a new job. A year later the position was still vacant.
Much more accessible if your Internet connection goes down for an extended period of time when you really need to get work done.
Probably from an Outsourced IT outfit from India.
Actually, the blotched work was local. The person on the server team responsible for the printer migration waited until the deadline to run the migration script. After the script blew up and he sent an email out, he went on vacation. Waiting until he gets back in two weeks wasn't an option.
how do you "move away" from the "cloud"?
I stopped using DropBox (cloud) and started using a file server (local). More storage space and less risk of being compromised by hackers.
My boss threw me under the bus by assigning me to a special project to manually create 1,000 printer queues because the server team blotched the printer migration from WS2003 to WS2012. What a PITA!
I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com crash. The Perl class got cancelled due to an overwhelming lack of students. I didn't learn that Perl was still around until several months ago.
The Internet of the 90s and early 00s was largely built on Apache, PHP, and Linux.
FTFY
you can really print all the money you want with no downside
Never mind that the annual deficit is at a seven-year low.
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/us-annual-budget-deficit-remains-near-7year-low-in-june-20150713-00726
Yes. Be afraid, very afraid.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/03/commodore-usa-goes-extreme-stuffs-a-2-2ghz-quad-core-i7-into-it/
*cough* Atari *cough*
The 80's called and want their mobile phones back.
Cold fusion still have another five years to prove itself as being economical. ;)
I was working with my father in San Francisco and Oakland, driving across the Bay Bridge twice before the 1989 earthquake. After we got home in San Jose and the earthquake hit, we turned on the TV. A bit scary watching the news as we passed through all the damaged areas prior to the earthquake.
The American people — especially on the far right fringe — won't allow facts to interfere with a popular misconception.