I worked for Cisco in 2013. Just so happened that the quarterly renewal of my contract came up during the announced layoff period one year ago this month. My manager wanted to renew my contract but the HR system locked him out from doing that. I was laid off along with 300+ full-time employees from the business unit. My boss lost half of the contractors on his team for that year, forcing more work back on to the full-time employees. A screwy way to run a company.
They get even harder to develop and replace when no one wants to invest in the development of such people.
When I worked at Cisco for nine months on contract, my boss explained to me that he couldn't train me since I'll get certified, leave Cisco and make more money elsewhere. Never mind that a lack of training caused many employees to train themselves, get certified and leave Cisco to make money elsewhere anyway.
From a QA tester perspective: Oh, hell no. Nothing worse than dealing with a new build on Monday morning after the programmers get drunk from the Friday beer bust and work all weekend long in a drunken stupor.
Lightroom 1.0 and Photoshop CS3 run great on my 2006 Black MacBook, which was current hardware when those software packages came out. If I run anything demanding, I set up a script and let it run overnight.
That the summary doesn't mention "Suicide Squad" as a forthcoming movie? Probably because most people still think superhero movies are kids movies and s-u-i-c-i-d-e is an inappropriate subject for kids movies.
Plus I can still get replacement batteries and upgrade it with RAM and SSD at will without paying extortionate prices for the privilege of doing so.
For my 2006 Black MacBook, I maxed out the RAM to 2GB by using cheaper memory modules from Other World Computing (OWC). I popped in a OWC 120GB SSD for less than a $100 last year. Although Apple still charges $129 for replacement batteries, I can get them for $75 through OWC or $35 on eBay from China.
Exactly. A $400 dell is OK for a year, then slow after that.
My father used to get a new $400 Dell box every other year because the old Dell box would slow down from all the naughty bits he downloaded off the Internet. He refused to properly maintain his PC by defragging the hard drive and updating the AV scanner. Meanwhile, his old Dell box became my newest FreeNAS file server.
When I was QA tester for six years at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple identity crisis), I was told repeatedly to be happy with working 80 hours per week or get a job at Taco Bell. Management shut up about Taco Bell when someone left and made better money with benefits while working 40 hours a week at Taco Bell. Granted, cleaning toilets after the lunch hour rush wasn't fun, but that was better than dealing with crap that management threw at us.
I spent $1,200 on my Black MacBook and got eight years of use ($150 per year). Prior to that, I spent $1,200 on a Dell laptop that gave me three years of use ($400 per year). Do the math. This is known as a Return of Investment (ROI).
The current value of my Black MacBook with a busted CPU fan, a 32-bit CPU and unable to run current software is a paperweight in my dead tree inbox.
I spent $1,200 on my Black MacBook and got eight years of use ($150 per year). Prior to that, I spent $1,200 on a Dell laptop that gave me three years of use ($400 per year). Do the math.
Would the Pharaoh have noticed that the Hebrews were leaving Egypt without the Biblical plagues on his people? Anyway, those pyramids built themselves.
I feel like there must be some hidden gems out there that I'm just not seeing.
I have that same feeling with Amazon. After buying 800+ books, DVDs and media for 15+ years, Amazon recommendations should show me something new under the sun. It doesn't. I'll have better luck browsing for something new at a brick-and-mortar store.
School teaching for one. Because women (both mothers and teacher) automatically view every male as potential child molester, thanks to feminist propaganda that every male is a potential rapist.
I once considered becoming a school teacher in the early 1990's until I discovered how much of a sauage making process it was to become a teacher. Male teachers were then and probably still are desperately needed to provide role models for little boys being raised in fatherless households.
Nursing is another. Men feel unwelcome in the profession, both from the nurses AND the customers (who want pretty female nurses).
When I went back to school in the mid-2000's to get a programming degree, health care was the money major that attracted a large number of guys. Several of my male friends became nurses even thought they're not fond of cleaning up someone else's crap. After having done several PC refresh projects for hospitals, I noticed that pretty nurses of either sex were rare.
The nice thing about printed books is that they require a light to read by while in bed. Once I get too tired to read further, I can turn off the light and go to sleep. An ebook reader doesn't make me tire, I can read in the dark, and have trouble going to sleep because I'm still thinking about the book or web article. Many printed books ARE NOT available as ebooks. Printed books -- like vinyl records -- are here to stay.
Slashdot Mirror
I worked for Cisco in 2013. Just so happened that the quarterly renewal of my contract came up during the announced layoff period one year ago this month. My manager wanted to renew my contract but the HR system locked him out from doing that. I was laid off along with 300+ full-time employees from the business unit. My boss lost half of the contractors on his team for that year, forcing more work back on to the full-time employees. A screwy way to run a company.
They get even harder to develop and replace when no one wants to invest in the development of such people.
When I worked at Cisco for nine months on contract, my boss explained to me that he couldn't train me since I'll get certified, leave Cisco and make more money elsewhere. Never mind that a lack of training caused many employees to train themselves, get certified and leave Cisco to make money elsewhere anyway.
Not yet. High frequency traders on Wall Street steal pennies all the time. The practice should be outlawed.
Poll: Program while drunk? Can do, or no way?
From a QA tester perspective: Oh, hell no. Nothing worse than dealing with a new build on Monday morning after the programmers get drunk from the Friday beer bust and work all weekend long in a drunken stupor.
Cracked screen. Out of warranty. I didn't know much about laptops as I do now. Getting a replacement screen on eBay may have been a possibility.
As if Apple building a new headquarters in the shape of flying saucer wasn't a dead giveaway of their technology's extraterrestial origins.
Why would I run Lion when Snow Leopard was the most rock stable version of OS X ever released?
Who knew that you could grow magical mushrooms in Cheerios?
Lightroom 1.0 and Photoshop CS3 run great on my 2006 Black MacBook, which was current hardware when those software packages came out. If I run anything demanding, I set up a script and let it run overnight.
That the summary doesn't mention "Suicide Squad" as a forthcoming movie? Probably because most people still think superhero movies are kids movies and s-u-i-c-i-d-e is an inappropriate subject for kids movies.
Plus I can still get replacement batteries and upgrade it with RAM and SSD at will without paying extortionate prices for the privilege of doing so.
For my 2006 Black MacBook, I maxed out the RAM to 2GB by using cheaper memory modules from Other World Computing (OWC). I popped in a OWC 120GB SSD for less than a $100 last year. Although Apple still charges $129 for replacement batteries, I can get them for $75 through OWC or $35 on eBay from China.
Exactly. A $400 dell is OK for a year, then slow after that.
My father used to get a new $400 Dell box every other year because the old Dell box would slow down from all the naughty bits he downloaded off the Internet. He refused to properly maintain his PC by defragging the hard drive and updating the AV scanner. Meanwhile, his old Dell box became my newest FreeNAS file server.
When I was QA tester for six years at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple identity crisis), I was told repeatedly to be happy with working 80 hours per week or get a job at Taco Bell. Management shut up about Taco Bell when someone left and made better money with benefits while working 40 hours a week at Taco Bell. Granted, cleaning toilets after the lunch hour rush wasn't fun, but that was better than dealing with crap that management threw at us.
If you can't afford brand new Apple prices, check out the used Apple products at OWC.
I spent $1,200 on my Black MacBook and got eight years of use ($150 per year). Prior to that, I spent $1,200 on a Dell laptop that gave me three years of use ($400 per year). Do the math. This is known as a Return of Investment (ROI).
The current value of my Black MacBook with a busted CPU fan, a 32-bit CPU and unable to run current software is a paperweight in my dead tree inbox.
The Texa WTF Fallacy?! Never heard of it. ;)
That kind of thing doesn't instill a lot of confidence.
Never mind that iOS 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3 were in testing after iOS 8 got released. So many new products, so many updates.
I spent $1,200 on my Black MacBook and got eight years of use ($150 per year). Prior to that, I spent $1,200 on a Dell laptop that gave me three years of use ($400 per year). Do the math.
Considering that my Black MacBook (2006) lasted eight years, it was a good investment.
Can someone recommend an inexpensive tablet for beginning Android development?
Would the Pharaoh have noticed that the Hebrews were leaving Egypt without the Biblical plagues on his people? Anyway, those pyramids built themselves.
I feel like there must be some hidden gems out there that I'm just not seeing.
I have that same feeling with Amazon. After buying 800+ books, DVDs and media for 15+ years, Amazon recommendations should show me something new under the sun. It doesn't. I'll have better luck browsing for something new at a brick-and-mortar store.
Or as at the end of Spaceballs, "Oh sh*t, there goes the neighborhood."
Actually, it's "Oh sh*t, there goes the planet."
School teaching for one. Because women (both mothers and teacher) automatically view every male as potential child molester, thanks to feminist propaganda that every male is a potential rapist.
I once considered becoming a school teacher in the early 1990's until I discovered how much of a sauage making process it was to become a teacher. Male teachers were then and probably still are desperately needed to provide role models for little boys being raised in fatherless households.
Nursing is another. Men feel unwelcome in the profession, both from the nurses AND the customers (who want pretty female nurses).
When I went back to school in the mid-2000's to get a programming degree, health care was the money major that attracted a large number of guys. Several of my male friends became nurses even thought they're not fond of cleaning up someone else's crap. After having done several PC refresh projects for hospitals, I noticed that pretty nurses of either sex were rare.
The nice thing about printed books is that they require a light to read by while in bed. Once I get too tired to read further, I can turn off the light and go to sleep. An ebook reader doesn't make me tire, I can read in the dark, and have trouble going to sleep because I'm still thinking about the book or web article. Many printed books ARE NOT available as ebooks. Printed books -- like vinyl records -- are here to stay.