The company acknowledges that some developers may not be pleased with the news
Darth Vader: Calrissian. Take the princess and the Wookie to my ship. Lando: You said they'd be left at the city under my supervision! Darth Vader: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
Oracle basically bought OpenOffice so now that line is in jeopardy of abandonment, monetization, etc. The community detected the risk and is routing around it.
I am still on Openoffice but I'll check Libreoffice out.
I liked the follow on about the "melting arctic, open rock" article that turned out to be from 1922 too.
I dislike the use of red and blue colors to sell a story- when the difference is really quite small.
I think it's a little warmer in houston than when I was a kid in the early 70's. And that does show up as a peak of cold. But, apparently also really not that much colder on average. Could have been natural variation.
Government agencies testing 10 cars with a real 10% Ethanol mix showed a 3.5% decrease in mileage (so I guess by that measure, using pure gasoline should only be improving my mileage from 265 to about 276 miles per 12.5 gallons).
I'm recording everything about my new car (same model as the last two) this time (date, time, gas, brand, location of station, gallons, miles) and when I hit 3,000 miles, I'm going to go get 15 gallons of real gas, bring it back to town. When I get close to my next fillup, I'll try it with my normal mixture of driving and record it. Along the way, I'm comparing regular and premium. Based on 2 tanks regular and 2 tanks premium, it looks like premium, 10% ethanol gets 4% better gas mileage than regular (about 275 miles per ~10.5 gallons), 10% ethanol (which it *should not do*. regular is the recommended grade for my car). Perhaps they scam less with ethanol?
My new car (same model) gets better gas mileage than my last car (2008). I get about the same miles per 10.5 gallons as I used to get on 12.5 gallons. It may be more compatible with 10% ethanol gasoline. Or... it could just run better and I'll be well over when I try the real gas.
In my last two cars, when I ran gasoline (google "pure gas" to find the stations still selling gasoline in your state), my mileage improved from 265 miles per 12.5 gallons to 300 miles per 12.5 gallons. Yup.. that's over 10% (about 12%). So I burned more gasoline when using 10% ethanol gasoline.
Saudi Arabia can still pump for under $20 per barrel.
Alternative technologies require a $90 price to get going. Every time they get started, oil prices drop long enough to kill them.
Could be intentional-- could just be the way the cycles work. But they need oil to be $90 a barrel for a dozen years, then the new stuff will have taken hold and start dropping in price. Then when oil drops, it won't be a no-brainer to just return to oil.
I expect to pay the same for a microsoft product that they do. (my cost anywhere from 10x to 50x what they pay)
I expect to pay the same for my blood pressure medicine as they do. (my cost 50x- legally.)
I expect to pay the same for a new movie as they do. (My cost 6x- legally)
It is VERY hard to compete as a carpenter when you pay $1 per nail and they get them free.
It's unsustainable. The jobs are going, the pay has been going for over a decade. People spent on debt but now the debt is gone. At some point our costs have to drop- most of the citizens won't be able to compete at the wages our cost of living requires. Our cost of living is artificially 10x to 50x for over half of what we buy. Probably about the same for products which sell by real capitalism instead of by crony/yield management capitalism.
In real capitalism, if a product is being sold for 50x difference, then you will buy it in one area and resell it for 25x (then 10x, and finally "plus the cost of transporting it from one area to the other").
This is a very artificial situation we should not allow to continue. We should allow legal reimportation of products. That would force a fair even market price. Our costs would be lower so our wages could be lower so we could compete.
We compete with people who pay lower costs (legally) for everything from software to medicine.
Then on top of that, 90% pirate.
Good lord, no wonder the jobs are going over there. We should fine the hell out of any company selling products in the U.S. which were made by people using pirated software. But we keep those fines for U.S. countries and citizens while giving China a free ride.
This ends one way.. but it will probably take a few more years to play out.
I have been using Comcast for internet for 10 years (well Time Warner and then Comcast).
However, I don't use Warner/Comcast cable TV and haven't for ages because their signal quality is bad. It's digital so they must just be pumping in crap or overcompressing. So I went to Dish and they kept inching up my rates. I finally cut them when I cut a $10 service to get the price down and next month they raised my rates by $10.
I'm willing to pay about $40 for cable TV( and the loss leader ads are always 29.95). But it rapidly hits $70 bucks without premium stations now.
And a lot of it is crap and has a lot of commercials.
Well that's not so different then. I'll have 35 days off next year-- but it took 12 years to get it.
Do yours start high and escalate or start high and not escalate?
Typical here is 1 week first year, 2 weeks years 2-5, 3 weeks years 6-10, 4 weeks years 11-20, 5 weeks 21-25, and 6 weeks at 30 which you really never get since you retire or you don't have time to take them and do your job.
Linux distros and other filesharing will disappear by comparison.
This is the service that pays for the next internet upgrade.
I know I've gone from 28kbps up / 380kpbs down to 120kpbs (sometimes 180kpbs) up / 800kpbs down on comcast in houston.
The capacity is there.
I regret not getting Netflix sooner but they seem to have exploded recently-- at least 20 new series and a hundred new movies seem to be added weekly. I'm now 450 hours behind on viewing and I haven't even added Lost yet.
This is the "cable TV" killer. Cable TV will have to lower rates from $10 a month.
And Columbo from the 1980's is just as entertaining. Watched a great Danny Kaye film last night.
There is a huge oversupply of entertainment-- it's time for the prices to start coming down!
And microsoft may just kill your main programming language with no exit program except to rewrite in their new language. Which requires expensive new programmers.
Or they may completely abandon you with no solution after having killed the open source efforts in that area.
Or they may jack prices through the roof once they have a monopoly.
Some closed source is good and it "just works".
However, for office suites, closed source is more expensive.
"Something wonderful is happening" . . . "Your Amiga has come alive"
Unfortunately the DOS was flaky enough as it was. The virus unintentionally ruined disks. No one believed me at first- the message didn't come up again for a couple more weeks so they thought i was crazy.
My total time off is typically... 20 vacation days (5 without pay) + 5 more with pay next year. 2 floating holidays (so basically 22 vacation days.. 27 next year) 8 set holidays and... uh... 3-4 "mental health" days now that my sick time is maxed out. plus the occasional, "I'll be in 2 hours late" or "I need to leave 2 hours early" or long lunch.
In normal times, it's an 8 hour day for folks who don't want to move up with 4 random weeks a year of emergency overtime (which you get unofficial comp time for).
Right now, they are really taking advantage of us badly. Huge project- not an emergency- just under staffed. No comp time. Pathetic "on time delivery" bonus (5.5%- about 3% after taxes).
I'd love that. Assume you get sick time on top of that.
Things are really miserable here. Unions overplayed their hands in the 60's and 70's and the wealthy have successfully brainwashed the masses so they get 40% of the income and own over 70% of the country's wealth and yet the nimrods keep voting for them.
However, I can't see how your level of benefits are sustainable either. Sweden may just be the next Greece. Britain pulled it off for over 30 years before everything fell apart.
Of course, here we are going into debt on top of being miserable. At least there, you are sharing in the fun before the tap runs dry.
One benefit of your labor laws is an artificial constraint on labor which lowers the unemployment rate. I also hear that as a people, you are happier. The wealthy do not get quite as wealthy but are still happy.
Of course, your income tax rate is 57% this year... our top rate is 39% but almost no one pays that.
And the cool news is that as of 2011, you no longer have the world's highest tax burden! http://www.thelocal.se/10402/20080311/ Based on figures taken from the tax authorities in both countries, Danes now have a tax burden of 48.4 percent, compared to 47.8 percent for Swedes.
I'd prefer to pay 5% higher taxes and to have better benefits- but we tried that back in the 60's and 70's and a bunch of boomers basically set up communes and took a decade long vacation at the states expense. Different cultures I guess.
I finally got to take SOMA for the first time in my life after a recent car accident.
It was nice and my back didn't go into spasm.
I went straight for muscle relaxers this time since last time (back in the 80's) my back was fine for a week and then went into spasm which lead to about 8 weeks of pain.
I've also used ephedrine for skiing and it makes a huge difference.
And I've used 4 hour nose spray for when I have a cold. The effect is real and nearly instantaneous.
I may get time for the video- not sure. working 12 hour days right now.
The fact that some people react a certain way to a certain drugs does not mean drugs in general are placebos.
It's been shown over and over and over and over that people who change jobs every 2-3 years are making 25% more after 10 years.
Companies will never give you what you are worth (and won't pay to train you) but they MUST pay what the market demands for new talent.
Stuck with only younger developers, despite the new technology, the company will be stuck with software full of classic bugs, mistakes, and ill-structured, hard to maintain code and suffer for it accordingly. Huge expensive projects will fail because enthusiastic younger coders will agree to unreasonable demands, overestimate their ability, over commit, under test, and generally screw things up (and gain experience from doing so).
Your correct path is to move into design (so you basically design a good system while the younger code monkeys code it), management (so you lead the younger code monkeys and keep them happy), or continuous training. Seriously continuous training. Our 62 year old who constantly trains was put in charge of just about everything. Unusually for a 62 year old, he also worked the younger code monkeys into the dirt, often sending out emails at 3am after working an 8am to 8pm day.
Your best correct path is to learn the new technology and then leave.
But accept that age discrimination is rampant (starting at 40). If your job has a pension and you have good vacation benefits then you stick.
My company doesn't use anyone with less than 8 years experience. 15 years is common. We have repeatedly pulled off very challenging projects other businesses fail at. Experience matters.
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The company acknowledges that some developers may not be pleased with the news
Darth Vader: Calrissian. Take the princess and the Wookie to my ship.
Lando: You said they'd be left at the city under my supervision!
Darth Vader: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
Oracle basically bought OpenOffice so now that line is in jeopardy of abandonment, monetization, etc.
The community detected the risk and is routing around it.
I am still on Openoffice but I'll check Libreoffice out.
I clearly have been involved with the wrong political movements in my life. None of them have consisted of members who were "highly promiscuous".
Damn, it sounds like an orgy fest to hear the policeman.
I liked the follow on about the "melting arctic, open rock" article that turned out to be from 1922 too.
I dislike the use of red and blue colors to sell a story- when the difference is really quite small.
I think it's a little warmer in houston than when I was a kid in the early 70's. And that does show up as a peak of cold.
But, apparently also really not that much colder on average. Could have been natural variation.
Government agencies testing 10 cars with a real 10% Ethanol mix showed a 3.5% decrease in mileage (so I guess by that measure, using pure gasoline should only be improving my mileage from 265 to about 276 miles per 12.5 gallons).
I'm recording everything about my new car (same model as the last two) this time (date, time, gas, brand, location of station, gallons, miles) and when I hit 3,000 miles, I'm going to go get 15 gallons of real gas, bring it back to town. When I get close to my next fillup, I'll try it with my normal mixture of driving and record it. Along the way, I'm comparing regular and premium. Based on 2 tanks regular and 2 tanks premium, it looks like premium, 10% ethanol gets 4% better gas mileage than regular (about 275 miles per ~10.5 gallons), 10% ethanol (which it *should not do*. regular is the recommended grade for my car). Perhaps they scam less with ethanol?
My new car (same model) gets better gas mileage than my last car (2008). I get about the same miles per 10.5 gallons as I used to get on 12.5 gallons. It may be more compatible with 10% ethanol gasoline. Or... it could just run better and I'll be well over when I try the real gas.
In my last two cars, when I ran gasoline (google "pure gas" to find the stations still selling gasoline in your state), my mileage improved from 265 miles per 12.5 gallons to 300 miles per 12.5 gallons. Yup.. that's over 10% (about 12%). So I burned more gasoline when using 10% ethanol gasoline.
Yes, this is the biggest problem in this area.
Saudi Arabia can still pump for under $20 per barrel.
Alternative technologies require a $90 price to get going.
Every time they get started, oil prices drop long enough to kill them.
Could be intentional-- could just be the way the cycles work.
But they need oil to be $90 a barrel for a dozen years, then the new stuff will have taken hold and start dropping in price. Then when oil drops, it won't be a no-brainer to just return to oil.
I expect to pay the same for a microsoft product that they do. (my cost anywhere from 10x to 50x what they pay)
I expect to pay the same for my blood pressure medicine as they do. (my cost 50x- legally.)
I expect to pay the same for a new movie as they do. (My cost 6x- legally)
It is VERY hard to compete as a carpenter when you pay $1 per nail and they get them free.
It's unsustainable. The jobs are going, the pay has been going for over a decade. People spent on debt but now the debt is gone.
At some point our costs have to drop- most of the citizens won't be able to compete at the wages our cost of living requires. Our cost of living is artificially 10x to 50x for over half of what we buy. Probably about the same for products which sell by real capitalism instead of by crony/yield management capitalism.
In real capitalism, if a product is being sold for 50x difference, then you will buy it in one area and resell it for 25x (then 10x, and finally "plus the cost of transporting it from one area to the other").
This is a very artificial situation we should not allow to continue. We should allow legal reimportation of products. That would force a fair even market price. Our costs would be lower so our wages could be lower so we could compete.
We compete with people who pay lower costs (legally) for everything from software to medicine.
Then on top of that, 90% pirate.
Good lord, no wonder the jobs are going over there. We should fine the hell out of any company selling products in the U.S. which were made by people using pirated software. But we keep those fines for U.S. countries and citizens while giving China a free ride.
This ends one way.. but it will probably take a few more years to play out.
Okay... because i can never hit the print screen key or take a picture of whats on the screen with my camera and repost it.
Sarcasm... an under appreciated talent.
Big corporation.
Consultant firms that serve us.
Guess it's boring.
We have all the microsoft products we want but don't use most of the advanced features.
I have been using Comcast for internet for 10 years (well Time Warner and then Comcast).
However, I don't use Warner/Comcast cable TV and haven't for ages because their signal quality is bad. It's digital so they must just be pumping in crap or overcompressing. So I went to Dish and they kept inching up my rates. I finally cut them when I cut a $10 service to get the price down and next month they raised my rates by $10.
I'm willing to pay about $40 for cable TV( and the loss leader ads are always 29.95). But it rapidly hits $70 bucks without premium stations now.
And a lot of it is crap and has a lot of commercials.
Well that's not so different then. I'll have 35 days off next year-- but it took 12 years to get it.
Do yours start high and escalate or start high and not escalate?
Typical here is 1 week first year, 2 weeks years 2-5, 3 weeks years 6-10, 4 weeks years 11-20, 5 weeks 21-25, and 6 weeks at 30 which you really never get since you retire or you don't have time to take them and do your job.
pay for improvements to the backbone.
Linux distros and other filesharing will disappear by comparison.
This is the service that pays for the next internet upgrade.
I know I've gone from 28kbps up / 380kpbs down to 120kpbs (sometimes 180kpbs) up / 800kpbs down on comcast in houston.
The capacity is there.
I regret not getting Netflix sooner but they seem to have exploded recently-- at least 20 new series and a hundred new movies seem to be added weekly. I'm now 450 hours behind on viewing and I haven't even added Lost yet.
This is the "cable TV" killer. Cable TV will have to lower rates from $10 a month.
And Columbo from the 1980's is just as entertaining. Watched a great Danny Kaye film last night.
There is a huge oversupply of entertainment-- it's time for the prices to start coming down!
Word documents yes.
Embedded visio or excel are slow and rare.
Much more common paste dead cells or a dead bitmap into word.
And microsoft may just kill your main programming language with no exit program except to rewrite in their new language. Which requires expensive new programmers.
Or they may completely abandon you with no solution after having killed the open source efforts in that area.
Or they may jack prices through the roof once they have a monopoly.
Some closed source is good and it "just works".
However, for office suites, closed source is more expensive.
I remember my screen said,
"Something wonderful is happening"
.
.
.
"Your Amiga has come alive"
Unfortunately the DOS was flaky enough as it was. The virus unintentionally ruined disks.
No one believed me at first- the message didn't come up again for a couple more weeks so they thought i was crazy.
My total time off is typically...
20 vacation days (5 without pay) + 5 more with pay next year.
2 floating holidays (so basically 22 vacation days.. 27 next year)
8 set holidays
and... uh...
3-4 "mental health" days now that my sick time is maxed out.
plus the occasional, "I'll be in 2 hours late" or "I need to leave 2 hours early" or long lunch.
In normal times, it's an 8 hour day for folks who don't want to move up with 4 random weeks a year of emergency overtime (which you get unofficial comp time for).
Right now, they are really taking advantage of us badly. Huge project- not an emergency- just under staffed. No comp time. Pathetic "on time delivery" bonus (5.5%- about 3% after taxes).
I'd love that. Assume you get sick time on top of that.
Things are really miserable here. Unions overplayed their hands in the 60's and 70's and the wealthy have successfully brainwashed the masses so they get 40% of the income and own over 70% of the country's wealth and yet the nimrods keep voting for them.
However, I can't see how your level of benefits are sustainable either. Sweden may just be the next Greece. Britain pulled it off for over 30 years before everything fell apart.
Of course, here we are going into debt on top of being miserable. At least there, you are sharing in the fun before the tap runs dry.
One benefit of your labor laws is an artificial constraint on labor which lowers the unemployment rate. I also hear that as a people, you are happier. The wealthy do not get quite as wealthy but are still happy.
Of course, your income tax rate is 57% this year... our top rate is 39% but almost no one pays that.
And the cool news is that as of 2011, you no longer have the world's highest tax burden!
http://www.thelocal.se/10402/20080311/
Based on figures taken from the tax authorities in both countries, Danes now have a tax burden of 48.4 percent, compared to 47.8 percent for Swedes.
I'd prefer to pay 5% higher taxes and to have better benefits- but we tried that back in the 60's and 70's and a bunch of boomers basically set up communes and took a decade long vacation at the states expense. Different cultures I guess.
I finally got to take SOMA for the first time in my life after a recent car accident.
It was nice and my back didn't go into spasm.
I went straight for muscle relaxers this time since last time (back in the 80's) my back was fine for a week and then went into spasm which lead to about 8 weeks of pain.
I've also used ephedrine for skiing and it makes a huge difference.
And I've used 4 hour nose spray for when I have a cold. The effect is real and nearly instantaneous.
I may get time for the video- not sure. working 12 hour days right now.
The fact that some people react a certain way to a certain drugs does not mean drugs in general are placebos.
Senior people can often negotiate for benefits. I started with 3 weeks-- 5 years earlier than I would get them normally.
It's been shown over and over and over and over that people who change jobs every 2-3 years are making 25% more after 10 years.
Companies will never give you what you are worth (and won't pay to train you) but they MUST pay what the market demands for new talent.
Stuck with only younger developers, despite the new technology, the company will be stuck with software full of classic bugs, mistakes, and ill-structured, hard to maintain code and suffer for it accordingly. Huge expensive projects will fail because enthusiastic younger coders will agree to unreasonable demands, overestimate their ability, over commit, under test, and generally screw things up (and gain experience from doing so).
Your correct path is to move into design (so you basically design a good system while the younger code monkeys code it), management (so you lead the younger code monkeys and keep them happy), or continuous training. Seriously continuous training. Our 62 year old who constantly trains was put in charge of just about everything. Unusually for a 62 year old, he also worked the younger code monkeys into the dirt, often sending out emails at 3am after working an 8am to 8pm day.
Your best correct path is to learn the new technology and then leave.
But accept that age discrimination is rampant (starting at 40). If your job has a pension and you have good vacation benefits then you stick.
My company doesn't use anyone with less than 8 years experience. 15 years is common. We have repeatedly pulled off very challenging projects other businesses fail at. Experience matters.
It's the internet. He's just being a little fast and lose with his spelling.
It's blocked at work and was just responding to the poster.
Placebos DO have an effect.
And after you've taken some real pills for a while, then placebos can even cause some effect similar to the medication.