At Sysco they always talked about a technical track but never supported it. In the end they laid off 90% of the employees* and replaced them with Infosys indians working some kinda of scammy "L" visa business where they got paid indian wages while living in the US for 6 months.
* After working them 60 to 72 hours a week for 2 years with implied promises of great jobs after the big push.
I hear the same thing happened at Shell.
If you company starts asking for 60-72 hour weeks and starts using Infosys, I'd leave. Many of those who waited until the end still don't have jobs.
For many, living just becomes increasingly miserable-- especially if you have a chronic condition as she did.
She was very orderly about it, maintained a "death" board, made sure her wishes for cremation- and who would inherit what was clear.
A lot of people are able to go. Perhaps Nimoy feels he still has more to say, he has money to do things with, he's not ready to go yet.
A lot depends on your general health, happiness, and even finances. And, of course, you religious outlook.
I'm not religious- but it brought my mom a lot of piece. And I honored that by having her firebrand of a baptist preacher at her wake.
I suspect I'll be ready. I already had cancer in 93 and I was ready then if it came to it. I was just very lucky- they discovered the cure for my type of cancer in 1991.
Typical advertising budgets are 6 to 8 % of gross sales.
GlaxoSmithKline spent $2.5 billion on gross sales of 28.37B or about 9%. Budgets for other pharma companies were in line with this.
This does not include free samples- that comes from another part of the budget that's not easy to break out.
So it's a bit on the high side.
Interestingly, executive compensation seems low (about 4 million GBP for the ceo and 10 million GBP for the top executives as a group) and is reported to be ~40% lower for the chief executive this year. Perhaps they have a new president.
The research budget appears to be (I can only get 2009 numbers) about 5 billion. There's a relative cut of 500 million in 2012 when they laid off 1800 employees (which they called an "overhang from the 1980s" which sounds to me like they fired a lot of senior staff) but they don't say what amount the 500 million was cut from.
So it looks like they spend about 18% to 20% of their budget on research and half that amount on advertising.
You select the type of moderation on the top of the pain above the comments. They only supported 4 types of moderation when I looked at it (I think they should have all of them with an OR function of selected types).
The moderation level is an obscure icon to the right of the filters. You click it and then you can see a list of levels to select. The current combo box is hidden behind an undocumented, unintuitive icon. Sort of like iphones and androids (where I was still discovering features almost two years of ownership).
The designers think it is intuitive but really, it's just "click every image on the screen to figure otu what it does" then "click and hold on every image on the screen to see what it does" then try various "double click" and "hold" and "drag" combos then "move your mouse to different corners of the screen and leave it there for a few seconds to see if something pops up".
I think the desire is to use images instead of text. And once you learn that little obscure symbol will list the moderation levels, then you are fine.
I'm not sure about actual moderating yet. I moderate a lot but haven't been given an opportunity to moderate in beta mode yet.
In my case (since I have a huge monitor) the new layout is fine. Currently the comments are typically a mile wide and two or three lines high. Under Beta, they are a half mile wide and six or seven lines high.
I personally think people are overreacting and there is a certain mob mentality and groupthink going on. I also think Slashdot did a poor job of championing and explaining the change. Users are DUMPED into the new screen with no tool tips, no documentation, no help. Pretty arrogant and insensitive on their parts. And typical for designers and programmers who were with a project from the start so they do not realize how alien it is and do not see how steep the learning curve is.
Just for a start, they could have changed the existing combo box to the new icon in classic (one little change) for a month before using it in beta (then people would know it from the location on the page in classic -- and then recognize it in the new interface.
Instituting Stack Ranking at a company is a prelude to severe layoffs.
When Stack Ranking is instituted, you should immediately put your resume out and start looking for a new job.
Speaking from experience! MANY of those who didn't notice that at Sysco were shocked by massive layoffs (90% of the staff) and transfer of the work to indian staff.
They have some NEW trick where they pay the indian staff indian wages and the indian staff is only tecnically "visiting" the U.S. They can stay for 6 months in each calendar year and then must return to India.
The result is technical staff for 1/3 the cost of a local. (I prepared project budgets so I know).
I think it involves an "L" visa.
Anyway, they stay four to an apartment within walking distance, have no car, and then return to india to work remotely. Very hard to compete against college educated people able to work under those conditions.
I tested it and I don't find it all that different.
I like the ability to filter on tags tho I wish they were OR, not exclusive (i.e. I could check informative, funny, overrated). Oh yea, and I wish all moderation tags were supported by the filters.
I'm in a very old classic view and on a wide monitor, I'd say 3 to 4 inches of the right side of the screen are wasted for all but the longest posts. So I understand going to a "pane" like message window.
It sounds like some others would like more control over the font sizes. Perhaps you need to consider that the site will be on 14" laptop screens as well as 28" monitors?
Summary: I'd give it a 7/10 on a 28" screen and hope for minor improvements but I do not see why there is such a shitstorm over this change.
Seriously? Downmodding a reasonable comment because you disagree with it?
There is nothing trollish or flamish in
"I tested it and I don't find it all that different.
I like the ability to filter on tags tho I wish they were OR, not exclusive (i.e. I could check informative, funny, overrated). Oh yea, and I wish all moderation tags were supported by the filters.
I'm in a very old classic view and on a wide monitor, I'd say 3 to 4 inches of the right side of the screen are wasted for all but the longest posts.
Summary: I'd give it a 7/10 and hope for minor improvements but I do not see why there is such a shitstorm over this change. Feels like groupthink to me."
Feels even MORE like groupthink to me now. A mob mentality.
I tested it and I don't find it all that different.
I like the ability to filter on tags tho I wish they were OR, not exclusive (i.e. I could check informative, funny, overrated). Oh yea, and I wish all moderation tags were supported by the filters.
I'm in a very old classic view and on a wide monitor, I'd say 3 to 4 inches of the right side of the screen are wasted for all but the longest posts.
Summary: I'd give it a 7/10 and hope for minor improvements but I do not see why there is such a shitstorm over this change. Feels like groupthink to me.
Enough people use traffic assist programs that you sort of get a hint when everyone is driving fast or everyone suddenly slows down to the speed limit at the same time.
In fact, sometimes, you couldn't speed if you want to because everyone has slowed to the speed limit and there is no place to pass until they sort over to the right lane.
I used to use Trapster but it simply stopped working on the Galaxy S2 (crashes 100% of the time). These days I use Waze.
People with insurance were often billed a lot more ($1200 rack rate vs $75 insured negotiated rate) and then couldn't pay- and then tax payers and those with insurance had the $1200 slipped into their bills.
Washington post has a great article with lots of anecdotes about people who've suffered and now have covererage.
The ACA is great if you make about ~$15k to ~$45k. It's a wash above $45k to about $80k- and you need medicaid below $18k.
From $80k up- or if you have a very large family with lots of kids, it appears to be painful until you make so much money that $12,000 a year doesn't matter- I'd say around $350k. It's more a philosophical loss there.
However- everyone benefits from the preexisting condition changes and you never know when you'll be suddenly poor again (None of those with Bernie Madoff thought they'd be poor again).
For me- it's incredible. I'm blessed.
Ever since the supreme court gutted age discrimination protection in 2009, I've known I'd be hosed at some point since I was getting to the age they put programmers out to pasture. I'd saved hard so I was okay there- but getting insurance was going to be difficult or impossible (survived cancer in 1993).
At best- I'd have had to be a slave to some corporation (if it would take me) and the last one worked me 70+ hours a week.
So first he proposes helping to educate engineers- fine tho not the root problem.
Then he proposes to put them into competition with people willing to work for pennies on the dollar.
And it doesn't really help that much since at this point- everyone is competing against people willing to work for pennies on the dollar. We've reached the point that things won't start to get better until world wide salaries even out. Which I think is going to take another 8 years or so. They won't be totally equal at that point- but I think it will be enough.
Still engineering can be done from anywhere most of the time. No transportation costs. Only the overhead of a remote office. But many large corporations work remotely anyway these days.
Just dump them in a storage water pool for five or six years.
Oh- - I recently got an enclosure and am going through my old IDE drives. The oldest so far is 8gig from 1999/2000. All work perfectly. It was ironic that I had trouble tossing it in the trash even i had an 8gig memory stick I bought that day for $4.99 at Fry's. LOL!
The 80GB drive is more interesting. keep or toss.
These things are good forever if you dont' spin them apparently.
Well- if you have an electric car- there is no gasoline. If you have a natural gas truck (and a lot of companies are going that way)- there is no gasoline. Likewise for fuel cell vehicles and whatever else they might come up with. And with some hybrids, there's no fuel usage until you get 20 to 30 miles of driving.
And we have a mixture of cars that get 22mpg and that get (up to) 150mpg now.
The tax rate proposed seems very reasonable.
I don't mind a taxed based on odometer readings. I would mind if they went t
Right now, trucks pay a fuel tax and a weight tax.
I guess I just don't see the point in getting all riled up for a sub $200 tax that has a legitimate and fairly well defined purpose.
I stopped using facebook myself when they went to mandatory unique ID and wanted my mobile number but I think I'm an outlier.
What's more common is friend's who
2) don't post anything "real" on facebook any more. 1) don't post ANYTHING on facebook and merely read other people's entries.
Many people have learned that a single facebook post can end your career. Facebook's practice of aggressively changing privacy settings to constantly "out" your private life has taught a large subgroup that safebook is unsafe. Your "likes" and "unlikes" are used to profile you- your sexual preferences- potentially illegal behavior- and certainly unwise, youthful excess.
It took a while for friends to learn to invite me some other way than facebook but now they use the phone or email again. I might sign up for it again someday but I don't feel any compelling interest. Previously my main interest was Farmville anyway.
My point was that he was looking like one of those crazy anti-government types and he should consider if that is really where he wants to spend his energy since (in my view) that ship has sailed and his energy would be better spent elsewhere.
There are lots of anti-government crazies- and some of them get in big trouble with the government (and pay huge fines- or even go to prison) because they start to drink the Koolaid / believe the bullshit they are peddling.
Wow, did some Texan steal your SO or kick your dog?
Your point about the neighbor is valid- I assumed that everyone in the 22 house neighborhood wanted better cable.
You can "shoot" a trench 2' deep across the entire yard in under 8 hours. And that's clear from my comment. It would require heavy machinery to lay cable across a 500 acre ranch.
My comment comes from personal experience. One of my girlfriends sewer line went out. The repair was estimated at $1600 dollars. So I got my shovel and in about 6 hours had the broken spot located-- and it was a little over 5' down. The cost to repair the break was $19 dollars. It took under an hour to refill the hole afterwards. People underestimate their capabilities and can convince themselves they are helpless or unqualified to take personal action. But in most cases, a little reading and a short youtube video will provide you with what you need to know.
I had no idea that South Carolina had so many streams and the PP didn't mention one. A stream would be a unique challenge.
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At Sysco they always talked about a technical track but never supported it.
In the end they laid off 90% of the employees* and replaced them with Infosys indians working some kinda of scammy "L" visa business where they got paid indian wages while living in the US for 6 months.
* After working them 60 to 72 hours a week for 2 years with implied promises of great jobs after the big push.
I hear the same thing happened at Shell.
If you company starts asking for 60-72 hour weeks and starts using Infosys, I'd leave. Many of those who waited until the end still don't have jobs.
True, in 1970, they were paid about 50x the average salary. That's highly paid!
Of course today, they are paid 350 to 535 times the average salary. That's obscene!
My mom did before 82.
For many, living just becomes increasingly miserable-- especially if you have a chronic condition as she did.
She was very orderly about it, maintained a "death" board, made sure her wishes for cremation- and who would inherit what was clear.
A lot of people are able to go. Perhaps Nimoy feels he still has more to say, he has money to do things with, he's not ready to go yet.
A lot depends on your general health, happiness, and even finances. And, of course, you religious outlook.
I'm not religious- but it brought my mom a lot of piece. And I honored that by having her firebrand of a baptist preacher at her wake.
I suspect I'll be ready. I already had cancer in 93 and I was ready then if it came to it. I was just very lucky- they discovered the cure for my type of cancer in 1991.
If your number is up, then it's time to go.
Typical advertising budgets are 6 to 8 % of gross sales.
GlaxoSmithKline spent $2.5 billion on gross sales of 28.37B or about 9%.
Budgets for other pharma companies were in line with this.
This does not include free samples- that comes from another part of the budget that's not easy to break out.
So it's a bit on the high side.
Interestingly, executive compensation seems low (about 4 million GBP for the ceo and 10 million GBP for the top executives as a group) and is reported to be ~40% lower for the chief executive this year. Perhaps they have a new president.
The research budget appears to be (I can only get 2009 numbers) about 5 billion. There's a relative cut of 500 million in 2012 when they laid off 1800 employees (which they called an "overhang from the 1980s" which sounds to me like they fired a lot of senior staff) but they don't say what amount the 500 million was cut from.
So it looks like they spend about 18% to 20% of their budget on research and half that amount on advertising.
You select the type of moderation on the top of the pain above the comments.
They only supported 4 types of moderation when I looked at it (I think they should have all of them with an OR function of selected types).
The moderation level is an obscure icon to the right of the filters. You click it and then you can see a list of levels to select. The current combo box is hidden behind an undocumented, unintuitive icon. Sort of like iphones and androids (where I was still discovering features almost two years of ownership).
The designers think it is intuitive but really, it's just "click every image on the screen to figure otu what it does" then "click and hold on every image on the screen to see what it does" then try various "double click" and "hold" and "drag" combos then "move your mouse to different corners of the screen and leave it there for a few seconds to see if something pops up".
I think the desire is to use images instead of text. And once you learn that little obscure symbol will list the moderation levels, then you are fine.
I'm not sure about actual moderating yet. I moderate a lot but haven't been given an opportunity to moderate in beta mode yet.
In my case (since I have a huge monitor) the new layout is fine. Currently the comments are typically a mile wide and two or three lines high. Under Beta, they are a half mile wide and six or seven lines high.
I personally think people are overreacting and there is a certain mob mentality and groupthink going on. I also think Slashdot did a poor job of championing and explaining the change. Users are DUMPED into the new screen with no tool tips, no documentation, no help. Pretty arrogant and insensitive on their parts. And typical for designers and programmers who were with a project from the start so they do not realize how alien it is and do not see how steep the learning curve is.
Just for a start, they could have changed the existing combo box to the new icon in classic (one little change) for a month before using it in beta (then people would know it from the location on the page in classic -- and then recognize it in the new interface.
Yup..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
"Pharmaceutical Companies Spent 19 Times More On Self-Promotion Than Basic Research: Report "
Absolutely!
Instituting Stack Ranking at a company is a prelude to severe layoffs.
When Stack Ranking is instituted, you should immediately put your resume out and start looking for a new job.
Speaking from experience! MANY of those who didn't notice that at Sysco were shocked by massive layoffs (90% of the staff) and transfer of the work to indian staff.
They have some NEW trick where they pay the indian staff indian wages and the indian staff is only tecnically "visiting" the U.S. They can stay for 6 months in each calendar year and then must return to India.
The result is technical staff for 1/3 the cost of a local. (I prepared project budgets so I know).
I think it involves an "L" visa.
Anyway, they stay four to an apartment within walking distance, have no car, and then return to india to work remotely. Very hard to compete against college educated people able to work under those conditions.
I tested it and I don't find it all that different.
I like the ability to filter on tags tho I wish they were OR, not exclusive (i.e. I could check informative, funny, overrated). Oh yea, and I wish all moderation tags were supported by the filters.
I'm in a very old classic view and on a wide monitor, I'd say 3 to 4 inches of the right side of the screen are wasted for all but the longest posts. So I understand going to a "pane" like message window.
It sounds like some others would like more control over the font sizes. Perhaps you need to consider that the site will be on 14" laptop screens as well as 28" monitors?
Summary: I'd give it a 7/10 on a 28" screen and hope for minor improvements but I do not see why there is such a shitstorm over this change.
Seriously? Downmodding a reasonable comment because you disagree with it?
There is nothing trollish or flamish in
"I tested it and I don't find it all that different.
I like the ability to filter on tags tho I wish they were OR, not exclusive (i.e. I could check informative, funny, overrated). Oh yea, and I wish all moderation tags were supported by the filters.
I'm in a very old classic view and on a wide monitor, I'd say 3 to 4 inches of the right side of the screen are wasted for all but the longest posts.
Summary: I'd give it a 7/10 and hope for minor improvements but I do not see why there is such a shitstorm over this change. Feels like groupthink to me."
Feels even MORE like groupthink to me now. A mob mentality.
I tested it and I don't find it all that different.
I like the ability to filter on tags tho I wish they were OR, not exclusive (i.e. I could check informative, funny, overrated). Oh yea, and I wish all moderation tags were supported by the filters.
I'm in a very old classic view and on a wide monitor, I'd say 3 to 4 inches of the right side of the screen are wasted for all but the longest posts.
Summary: I'd give it a 7/10 and hope for minor improvements but I do not see why there is such a shitstorm over this change. Feels like groupthink to me.
Enough people use traffic assist programs that you sort of get a hint when everyone is driving fast or everyone suddenly slows down to the speed limit at the same time.
In fact, sometimes, you couldn't speed if you want to because everyone has slowed to the speed limit and there is no place to pass until they sort over to the right lane.
I used to use Trapster but it simply stopped working on the Galaxy S2 (crashes 100% of the time). These days I use Waze.
What other programs do you guys like?
More than that too.
People with insurance were often billed a lot more ($1200 rack rate vs $75 insured negotiated rate) and then couldn't pay- and then tax payers and those with insurance had the $1200 slipped into their bills.
Washington post has a great article with lots of anecdotes about people who've suffered and now have covererage.
The ACA is great if you make about ~$15k to ~$45k.
It's a wash above $45k to about $80k- and you need medicaid below $18k.
From $80k up- or if you have a very large family with lots of kids, it appears to be painful until you make so much money that $12,000 a year doesn't matter- I'd say around $350k. It's more a philosophical loss there.
However- everyone benefits from the preexisting condition changes and you never know when you'll be suddenly poor again (None of those with Bernie Madoff thought they'd be poor again).
For me- it's incredible. I'm blessed.
Ever since the supreme court gutted age discrimination protection in 2009, I've known I'd be hosed at some point since I was getting to the age they put programmers out to pasture. I'd saved hard so I was okay there- but getting insurance was going to be difficult or impossible (survived cancer in 1993).
At best- I'd have had to be a slave to some corporation (if it would take me) and the last one worked me 70+ hours a week.
It's good to be free.
hehehehe.
Laughed out loud. Very fresh and humorous.
For a project this size, you really need multiple layers of architects and then multiple layers of coders.
I'm sure this will be fine in another year or so. I'm amazed they got so much done under the conditions and constraints I've heard they worked under.
Don't overlook automation as well. Robots are only part of the issue.
I think we approach a point when there are only real jobs for a fraction of human beings. We'll need a basic income or we'll have civil unrest.
The reason no one is going into engineering is
a) hard
b) SALARY is low
c) status is low
So first he proposes helping to educate engineers- fine tho not the root problem.
Then he proposes to put them into competition with people willing to work for pennies on the dollar.
And it doesn't really help that much since at this point- everyone is competing against people willing to work for pennies on the dollar. We've reached the point that things won't start to get better until world wide salaries even out. Which I think is going to take another 8 years or so. They won't be totally equal at that point- but I think it will be enough.
Still engineering can be done from anywhere most of the time. No transportation costs.
Only the overhead of a remote office. But many large corporations work remotely anyway these days.
Just dump them in a storage water pool for five or six years.
Oh- - I recently got an enclosure and am going through my old IDE drives.
The oldest so far is 8gig from 1999/2000. All work perfectly.
It was ironic that I had trouble tossing it in the trash even i had an 8gig memory stick I bought that day for $4.99 at Fry's. LOL!
The 80GB drive is more interesting. keep or toss.
These things are good forever if you dont' spin them apparently.
Aye, those 'suits make them look fat.
If I had a choice between a monocolor 3d printer or a color 3d printer- it would be color all the way.
This field is so young, I expect a significant increase in quality over the next couple years too so that makes me want to wait.
Well- if you have an electric car- there is no gasoline. If you have a natural gas truck (and a lot of companies are going that way)- there is no gasoline. Likewise for fuel cell vehicles and whatever else they might come up with. And with some hybrids, there's no fuel usage until you get 20 to 30 miles of driving.
And we have a mixture of cars that get 22mpg and that get (up to) 150mpg now.
The tax rate proposed seems very reasonable.
I don't mind a taxed based on odometer readings. I would mind if they went t
Right now, trucks pay a fuel tax and a weight tax.
I guess I just don't see the point in getting all riled up for a sub $200 tax that has a legitimate and fairly well defined purpose.
Here's what I'm seeing.
I stopped using facebook myself when they went to mandatory unique ID and wanted my mobile number but I think I'm an outlier.
What's more common is friend's who
2) don't post anything "real" on facebook any more.
1) don't post ANYTHING on facebook and merely read other people's entries.
Many people have learned that a single facebook post can end your career. Facebook's practice of aggressively changing privacy settings to constantly "out" your private life has taught a large subgroup that safebook is unsafe. Your "likes" and "unlikes" are used to profile you- your sexual preferences- potentially illegal behavior- and certainly unwise, youthful excess.
It took a while for friends to learn to invite me some other way than facebook but now they use the phone or email again. I might sign up for it again someday but I don't feel any compelling interest. Previously my main interest was Farmville anyway.
And the proposed taxes are trivial ($150 per 20,000 miles driven) and offset by savings on gasoline taxes.
So you'll save a ton of money on your fuel costs.
However, once 10% to 20% are doing this- it should put downward pressure on fuel prices for everyone.
They are leaning towards taxing mileage driven.
Because the tax is used to repair the road system in the U.S.
Seems reasonable to me.
Not really.
My point was about the poster (not the argument).
My point was that he was looking like one of those crazy anti-government types and he should consider if that is really where he wants to spend his energy since (in my view) that ship has sailed and his energy would be better spent elsewhere.
There are lots of anti-government crazies- and some of them get in big trouble with the government (and pay huge fines- or even go to prison) because they start to drink the Koolaid / believe the bullshit they are peddling.
Wow, did some Texan steal your SO or kick your dog?
Your point about the neighbor is valid- I assumed that everyone in the 22 house neighborhood wanted better cable.
You can "shoot" a trench 2' deep across the entire yard in under 8 hours. And that's clear from my comment. It would require heavy machinery to lay cable across a 500 acre ranch.
My comment comes from personal experience. One of my girlfriends sewer line went out. The repair was estimated at $1600 dollars. So I got my shovel and in about 6 hours had the broken spot located-- and it was a little over 5' down. The cost to repair the break was $19 dollars. It took under an hour to refill the hole afterwards. People underestimate their capabilities and can convince themselves they are helpless or unqualified to take personal action. But in most cases, a little reading and a short youtube video will provide you with what you need to know.
I had no idea that South Carolina had so many streams and the PP didn't mention one. A stream would be a unique challenge.
Apologies for however some Texan wronged you.
Later... pardner. :-)