Clerical workers should not have better wages and retirement packages than engineers.
Which is unfortunately what happens when unions are involved. People say "well, then maybe engineers should unionize". I'd hate to see what happened to innovation and responsibility over the long term if it happened to any large degree,
I should state that this really only apples to public sector. If private sector companies have unions but are not forced to, competition will sort things out.
Yes. the people in unions making high wages for menial jobs and driving up the cost of living for others. The problem I have with unions is that they (tend to) break the supply and demand relationship that normally occurs. Normally, wages are determined by the number of people available for a job and the amount of skill or training required to do it. The typical union breaks that and you get things happening like bus drivers being paid more than nurses or police, purely because they've gone on strike and held the public hostage, where others can't. A very large number of people wanting these jobs at these wages should drive down the wage, but of course it doesn't. It breaks basic economics and everyone (except the bus drivers) suffers for it.
How would you suggest these people be punished? They're in government positions and have violated the constitution of the country and acted against the interests of the populace. Serious question.
... and go where? Assuming it's true, all of the big players are there. Anyone who gets big enough will just get added to the list. I block javascript and cookies for the most part and encrypt any data I want kept save if I put it in 'cloud' storage. I'm not even sure if these companies had any way to refuse or warn the public about this, but I'm disappointed that someone didn't pull a 'Snowden'. The real problem here is not the companies, it's the government. People need to go to prison for this, from the FBA/CIA all the way up to the Whitehouse.
... and to the person that said the devices were in ISPs, it's unlikely because of the prevalence of SSL. The equipment would need to be behind the company firewalls.
Maybe they will, but of course, then they'll need to buy a developer licence, and a Mac. The title of this thread is at least half correct; iPads are very much crippled, and most of it is very much by design.
Aren't they releasing stock Android versions of the S4? People do miss 'real' Android. The Samsung skin takes away far more value than it adds, in my opinion, and obviously many others as well.
That puts up a pretty severe barrier to entry for any non-incumbent. Microsoft and Apple will certainly support it (note: that's normally a very bad thing)
The really funny thing about this is that one of Grace Hopper's famous quotes is "The most damaging phrase in the language is: We've always done it this way", the mantra of many COBOL shops.
It may be possible, but you shouldn't have to bend or force the language to make it do the right thing. A language should make doing things the "right" way easy.
COBOL was breated not to be the perfect language for business, but to be a language that was easy enough for an average 'business-person' that was not a programmer, to write programs. The end result unfortunately was that lots of average 'business-people' wrote software. In general, it ended up being a tangled mess that is still (barely) running many years later and few know how to maintain or replace it. Be careful what you wish for,
I will also add that the reason it's so hard to get rid of is that most software written in COBOl tends to be a tangled mess that can't be easily split up and decoubled, replacing parts with more modern, usable languages. It tends to be an all or nothing venture. It has very little, if anything to do with it being the best language for the job.
If you mean solving business-related information technology problems in a concise and maintainable way, I think you're very, very wrong. COBOL is a horrible, wordy language. If you mean wearing out developer's keyboards, you are more correct. COBOL is too verbose to be easily legible. I'm of the opinion that there is an ideal level of information density when it comes to conveying the intent of a piece of software. At one end is assembly, and at the other is COBOL. neither are good. C approaches it from one end and probably something like Python from the other. Both are for more usable, maintable, and flexible languages.
I'm of the opinion that if you enjoy writing code in COBOL you either haven't used anything else or you're a masochist.
I'll assume that since you're not an AC this is a serious complaint and not FUD. You can stop the "auto-backup" of all photos under Settings/Accounts/Google/Google+/Camera & Photos/Auto-Backup... just set it to "Off". Here's hoping this doesn't get modded down as well. I've just about had it with the various FUD and astro-turfing campaigns going on right now.
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Clerical workers should not have better wages and retirement packages than engineers.
Which is unfortunately what happens when unions are involved. People say "well, then maybe engineers should unionize". I'd hate to see what happened to innovation and responsibility over the long term if it happened to any large degree,
I should state that this really only apples to public sector. If private sector companies have unions but are not forced to, competition will sort things out.
Yes. the people in unions making high wages for menial jobs and driving up the cost of living for others. The problem I have with unions is that they (tend to) break the supply and demand relationship that normally occurs. Normally, wages are determined by the number of people available for a job and the amount of skill or training required to do it. The typical union breaks that and you get things happening like bus drivers being paid more than nurses or police, purely because they've gone on strike and held the public hostage, where others can't. A very large number of people wanting these jobs at these wages should drive down the wage, but of course it doesn't. It breaks basic economics and everyone (except the bus drivers) suffers for it.
Having a lot of unions also tends to raise the cost of living for everyone.
How would you suggest these people be punished? They're in government positions and have violated the constitution of the country and acted against the interests of the populace. Serious question.
... and go where? Assuming it's true, all of the big players are there. Anyone who gets big enough will just get added to the list. I block javascript and cookies for the most part and encrypt any data I want kept save if I put it in 'cloud' storage. I'm not even sure if these companies had any way to refuse or warn the public about this, but I'm disappointed that someone didn't pull a 'Snowden'. The real problem here is not the companies, it's the government. People need to go to prison for this, from the FBA/CIA all the way up to the Whitehouse.
... and to the person that said the devices were in ISPs, it's unlikely because of the prevalence of SSL. The equipment would need to be behind the company firewalls.
If they don't do it, they're almost guaranteed to lose.
Free Macs for the staff for buying Apple probably.
Maybe they will, but of course, then they'll need to buy a developer licence, and a Mac. The title of this thread is at least half correct; iPads are very much crippled, and most of it is very much by design.
Aren't they releasing stock Android versions of the S4? People do miss 'real' Android. The Samsung skin takes away far more value than it adds, in my opinion, and obviously many others as well.
That puts up a pretty severe barrier to entry for any non-incumbent. Microsoft and Apple will certainly support it (note: that's normally a very bad thing)
Weasel words. Walling off content is effectively the same thing.
Actually, you'll have a lot of trouble doing that with Oracle.
It's not integer, but characters. A 2 byte int would have let them avoid problems for another 60K years or so.
The really funny thing about this is that one of Grace Hopper's famous quotes is "The most damaging phrase in the language is: We've always done it this way", the mantra of many COBOL shops.
Yes, but like a few other languages, COBOL makes writing bad code easy. A good language should make writing *clean* code easy.
I've worked with everything from machine language and microcode to Ruby. My dislike for COBOL comes from working with COBOL.
Come on, how are they going to create the next Y2K fiasco with that kind of thinking.
It may be possible, but you shouldn't have to bend or force the language to make it do the right thing. A language should make doing things the "right" way easy.
COBOL was breated not to be the perfect language for business, but to be a language that was easy enough for an average 'business-person' that was not a programmer, to write programs. The end result unfortunately was that lots of average 'business-people' wrote software. In general, it ended up being a tangled mess that is still (barely) running many years later and few know how to maintain or replace it. Be careful what you wish for,
I will also add that the reason it's so hard to get rid of is that most software written in COBOl tends to be a tangled mess that can't be easily split up and decoubled, replacing parts with more modern, usable languages. It tends to be an all or nothing venture. It has very little, if anything to do with it being the best language for the job.
If you mean solving business-related information technology problems in a concise and maintainable way, I think you're very, very wrong. COBOL is a horrible, wordy language. If you mean wearing out developer's keyboards, you are more correct. COBOL is too verbose to be easily legible. I'm of the opinion that there is an ideal level of information density when it comes to conveying the intent of a piece of software. At one end is assembly, and at the other is COBOL. neither are good. C approaches it from one end and probably something like Python from the other. Both are for more usable, maintable, and flexible languages.
I'm of the opinion that if you enjoy writing code in COBOL you either haven't used anything else or you're a masochist.
If you're still buying software or services from IBM, you deserve what you get, and vice-versa.
I'll assume that since you're not an AC this is a serious complaint and not FUD. You can stop the "auto-backup" of all photos under Settings/Accounts/Google/Google+/Camera & Photos/Auto-Backup ... just set it to "Off". Here's hoping this doesn't get modded down as well. I've just about had it with the various FUD and astro-turfing campaigns going on right now.