I know quite a few in Silicon Valley. For PC refresh projects to go from Windows XP to Windows 7, these legacy IE6-dependent business apps can be a big hurdle to overcome.
The biggest problem I had with IE6 as a help desk technician was Adobe Flash automatically updating and breaking the business app because the dev team was always two weeks behind on the updates. Downgrading Flash to the previous version was a five-minute fix. Some users insisted on using 15 minutes of my time to explain the problem before letting me remote into their computer system. Oy!
My point has more to do with you getting more comfortable in your own skin and not comparing yourself all the time.
I'm very comfortable in my own skin. I'm just trying to illustrate a point about the perception of wealth. Most people would consider my brother wealthy because he has it all. Most people would consider me poor because I live a modest lifestyle. At the end of the month, only one of us is wealthy.
When my father died a few years ago, 99% of what he owned was tossed out. With that realization, I started tossing out everything that I own but don't need to simplify my life. This is why I reject the American Dream. It's possible to find happiness in having less.
Obviously, Apple doesn't apply their own guidelines to their iOS 8.x apps. My user experience with their apps on an iPad 2 is clunky at best, taking more CPU cycles than necessary to do the same task in iOS 7.
How is he beating me? I don't own house with an underwater mortgage, I don't need a car since I take public transit, I don't waste my money on designer clothes, and I don't worry about retiring. He's stuck in the trappings of wealth, but he's poorer than me since all his options are limited because he's committed to living the American Dream. I'm not.
Universities are often regarded as bastions of liberalism, secularism and all kinds of educational brainwashing that prevents young people from finding the truth in God, handing their money over to the church, and bending over for the ministers.
Who said anything about living like a miser? It's all about setting priorities. My poor brother spends $180 on a pair of designer jeans. I'll spend that much on nine pairs of $20 jeans over the next six years. I took a one-week vacation in Las Vegas last year, attending the Star Trek convention, eating a $100 steak at Craftsteak, touring Hoover Dam, and seeing David Copperfield. Unlike my poor brother, I didn't whip out my credit card to pay for my vacation. I paid in cash and enjoyed myself.
Everyone assumes that whatever A.I. gets loose over the Internet will be a homicidal killer. It could be much worse. The A.I. could have a snarky sense of humor. "Exterminate all humans!" will become "You want fries with your heart attack special, lard ass?"
Depends on your definition of wealth. The definition of wealth that I follow is not how much YOU MAKE but how much YOU KEEP. If I'm keeping $500 at the end of each month, I'm wealthier than people who have NOTHING (like my poor brother) at the end of each month.
As for having a decent car, I would never pay $18,000 (36 months X $500) for a brand new car. Whenever I had a car, I paid $1,600 in CASH for a 15-year-old car, and budgeted $400 for liability insurance, $1,500 for fuel and $1,000 for repairs PER YEAR. Collision and liability insurance for a brand new car would exceed the annual cost of an old car. I'm taking the express bus to work for $140 per month, as I don't have an urgent need for a car.
I didn't mentioned in my comment about how much money I'm putting away into my retirement accounts. The final figure will be much larger than $150,000 plus interest in 25 years. The $500 per month is what I stashed into savings.
If you want to learn about true wealth, read The Millionaire Next Door. It's isn't about having a brand new car.
I wasn't interested in computers at the time. Although I was into the BBS scene, the Internet was a distant whisper that I had no clue about. The funny thing is that people kept telling me to get into computers for years. I accidentally got into an software testing internship, became a video game tester for six years, and later went back to school to learn computer programming to advance my technical career.
I was a video game tester for three years and lead tester for three years. Six years at the same company. I started earning my "not a game player" creds when I went back to school to learn computer programming after I became a lead tester. As a video game tester, you're not suppose to have an exit plan. I went on to make more money in help desk, desktop and security remediation support.
I spent a year at the university before I got kicked out. I blame breaking up with girlfriend, playing Magic the Gathering card game, and starting a dialup BBS before something called the Internet became popular in 1995.
As the lead video game tester, I was told during a code release meeting that I wasn't a "team player" by the PR flack because I couldn't approved the code release and another two weeks of testing was needed. My response was, "If you're so confident about the quality of this video game, let's code release RIGHT NOW and let the video game magazines write their reviews." Absolute silence. We got another two weeks of testing, which didn't save the game from getting horrible reviews. The blame, however, rested on PR for pushing this through and ignoring QA in the process.
I was misdiagnosed as being mentally retarded in the public schools, as everyone thought I was an idiot. I skipped high school and gone to community college to earn an associate degree in general education in four years, where I learned critical thinking skills. The only thing I learned in the public schools was not to pay attention to the idiots treating me like an idiot.
The 2012 presidential election was illuminating. Governor Mitt Romney didn't bother to wait a concession speach for an election that he expected to win. Political genius Karl Rove has a meltdown on Fox News when the election results are announced. President Obama wins a second term with 51% of the vote when everyone expected him to be a one-term president. A serious lack of critical thinking skills that night.
If he can't sell his house, can't cover his monthly expenses, and can't retire in ten years, he's poor. The funny thing is he doesn't know he's poor because he's living the American dream of having it all.
OTOH, I'm weathy. I lived in the same studio apartment for 9+ years, take public transit to work, buy my clothes at D.D. Discount, and put $500+ into savings each month. Unless there's another Great Recession, I should be retire in 25 years. Of course, I'm not living the American dream by living a modest lifestyle.
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I know quite a few in Silicon Valley. For PC refresh projects to go from Windows XP to Windows 7, these legacy IE6-dependent business apps can be a big hurdle to overcome.
If a Fortune 500 company still has Windows XP systems, the probably have intranet business apps that require IE6.
The biggest problem I had with IE6 as a help desk technician was Adobe Flash automatically updating and breaking the business app because the dev team was always two weeks behind on the updates. Downgrading Flash to the previous version was a five-minute fix. Some users insisted on using 15 minutes of my time to explain the problem before letting me remote into their computer system. Oy!
The corporate world can finally move away IE6 for their intranet websites.
My point has more to do with you getting more comfortable in your own skin and not comparing yourself all the time.
I'm very comfortable in my own skin. I'm just trying to illustrate a point about the perception of wealth. Most people would consider my brother wealthy because he has it all. Most people would consider me poor because I live a modest lifestyle. At the end of the month, only one of us is wealthy.
Nah, just a Xerox knockoff.
When your both in the ground, it won't matter.
When my father died a few years ago, 99% of what he owned was tossed out. With that realization, I started tossing out everything that I own but don't need to simplify my life. This is why I reject the American Dream. It's possible to find happiness in having less.
Obviously, Apple doesn't apply their own guidelines to their iOS 8.x apps. My user experience with their apps on an iPad 2 is clunky at best, taking more CPU cycles than necessary to do the same task in iOS 7.
You know the old saying: "Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one is dying to go to heaven."
How is he beating me? I don't own house with an underwater mortgage, I don't need a car since I take public transit, I don't waste my money on designer clothes, and I don't worry about retiring. He's stuck in the trappings of wealth, but he's poorer than me since all his options are limited because he's committed to living the American Dream. I'm not.
Universities are often regarded as bastions of liberalism, secularism and all kinds of educational brainwashing that prevents young people from finding the truth in God, handing their money over to the church, and bending over for the ministers.
Wealth also isn't about living like a miser.
Who said anything about living like a miser? It's all about setting priorities. My poor brother spends $180 on a pair of designer jeans. I'll spend that much on nine pairs of $20 jeans over the next six years. I took a one-week vacation in Las Vegas last year, attending the Star Trek convention, eating a $100 steak at Craftsteak, touring Hoover Dam, and seeing David Copperfield. Unlike my poor brother, I didn't whip out my credit card to pay for my vacation. I paid in cash and enjoyed myself.
No reason to toss your salad over a misspelling.
Then it's a cat. No one can predict how a cat AI will behave.
Tell that to the system deamons.
Everyone assumes that whatever A.I. gets loose over the Internet will be a homicidal killer. It could be much worse. The A.I. could have a snarky sense of humor. "Exterminate all humans!" will become "You want fries with your heart attack special, lard ass?"
Depends on your definition of wealth. The definition of wealth that I follow is not how much YOU MAKE but how much YOU KEEP. If I'm keeping $500 at the end of each month, I'm wealthier than people who have NOTHING (like my poor brother) at the end of each month.
As for having a decent car, I would never pay $18,000 (36 months X $500) for a brand new car. Whenever I had a car, I paid $1,600 in CASH for a 15-year-old car, and budgeted $400 for liability insurance, $1,500 for fuel and $1,000 for repairs PER YEAR. Collision and liability insurance for a brand new car would exceed the annual cost of an old car. I'm taking the express bus to work for $140 per month, as I don't have an urgent need for a car.
I didn't mentioned in my comment about how much money I'm putting away into my retirement accounts. The final figure will be much larger than $150,000 plus interest in 25 years. The $500 per month is what I stashed into savings.
If you want to learn about true wealth, read The Millionaire Next Door. It's isn't about having a brand new car.
I wasn't interested in computers at the time. Although I was into the BBS scene, the Internet was a distant whisper that I had no clue about. The funny thing is that people kept telling me to get into computers for years. I accidentally got into an software testing internship, became a video game tester for six years, and later went back to school to learn computer programming to advance my technical career.
I was a video game tester for three years and lead tester for three years. Six years at the same company. I started earning my "not a game player" creds when I went back to school to learn computer programming after I became a lead tester. As a video game tester, you're not suppose to have an exit plan. I went on to make more money in help desk, desktop and security remediation support.
I spent a year at the university before I got kicked out. I blame breaking up with girlfriend, playing Magic the Gathering card game, and starting a dialup BBS before something called the Internet became popular in 1995.
Submitting somebody's LinkedIn profile as a news story must be either a slow news day or a new low in qualitiy standards.
As the lead video game tester, I was told during a code release meeting that I wasn't a "team player" by the PR flack because I couldn't approved the code release and another two weeks of testing was needed. My response was, "If you're so confident about the quality of this video game, let's code release RIGHT NOW and let the video game magazines write their reviews." Absolute silence. We got another two weeks of testing, which didn't save the game from getting horrible reviews. The blame, however, rested on PR for pushing this through and ignoring QA in the process.
I was misdiagnosed as being mentally retarded in the public schools, as everyone thought I was an idiot. I skipped high school and gone to community college to earn an associate degree in general education in four years, where I learned critical thinking skills. The only thing I learned in the public schools was not to pay attention to the idiots treating me like an idiot.
The 2012 presidential election was illuminating. Governor Mitt Romney didn't bother to wait a concession speach for an election that he expected to win. Political genius Karl Rove has a meltdown on Fox News when the election results are announced. President Obama wins a second term with 51% of the vote when everyone expected him to be a one-term president. A serious lack of critical thinking skills that night.
If he can't sell his house, can't cover his monthly expenses, and can't retire in ten years, he's poor. The funny thing is he doesn't know he's poor because he's living the American dream of having it all.
OTOH, I'm weathy. I lived in the same studio apartment for 9+ years, take public transit to work, buy my clothes at D.D. Discount, and put $500+ into savings each month. Unless there's another Great Recession, I should be retire in 25 years. Of course, I'm not living the American dream by living a modest lifestyle.