And I expect all employers to do this as a matter of course. That means that if you read your personal E-Mail at work or do online banking there, your employer probably also knows your passwords and the contents of your mail. Keep that in mind before conducting your personal business (or job search) at work.
I also expect them to be very aware of who you call from the phone at your desk.
I've had much more luck with the sub-$20 market on steam than I have with the AAA titles. They tend to be a lot more innovative and creative and it's no big deal if I drop a couple bucks on a game and don't care for it. I've put about 7 times the hours into Rogue Legacy that I played AC3 for before getting bored with it. Minecraft started the whole trend for me, and I've probably played that more than all the AAA titles in my library combined.
Sure. And that works great for them and WoW and all the others:-P All the PLEX did was bump the denominations the isk farmers sell up. Or at least that's how it was back when I was still playing the game. I gave up after a couple guys in our somewhat-succesful corp apparently got high for a month and forgot to refuel our POS. I was kind of on my way out at that point anyway.
Try watching your kid die of a disease that we had mostly wiped out half a century ago. Polio, Measles and Whooping Cough are making a comeback! We just need to find one isolated tribe that never got rid of Smallpox and it'll be as if the last century and a half of scientific achievement never happened!
It's all that Eve online ISK scam crap all over again. You can run a ponzi scheme in Eve, and the suckers will buy into it every time. At the end of the day you can walk away with enough isk that at the current exchange rate you could end up affording a pretty nice Honda. Or some so-so medical care. Really, Eve just needs a bitcoin interface and they'd be positioned to be the number one bitcoin investment firm in the world. At least until the whole thing collapses. I never cease to be amazed how often suckers fall for it, even when you mention the LAST scam in the channel they're advertising in.
Of course, if bitcoin itself goes bust due to a reputation for this sort of thing, all that hacking and all that farming will be for naught.
Just because your superpower is on the decline and no longer has the capability to do a manned space mission, you don't need to piss on the rising ones for taking their first steps. 40 years from now when they're mining asteroids and outsourcing their cheap crap to the USA, they might come back and rub your nose in it.
You're friends with some dude and some dude. Some dude's pretty cool, but some dude keeps posting goats.cx pictures on your news page. You keep trying to unfriend him, but you keep accidentally unfriending some dude instead. Some dude offered to sell you weed but when you tried to take him up on it and asked him where to send your money, he accused you of being a cop and unfriended you. You put up with it because it's still less annoying than Facebook.
I wanted to do something like that on network-attached postscript printers a few years back, but didn't have an easy way to open a network socket in PostScript. My virus would have moved from printer to printer and done nothing else except replace every instance of the word "Strategic" with the word "Satanic" on printed documents.
I use EMACS for all my development. The young'uns at the office are completely lost without a GUI environment and an IDE. Most of 'em probably don't even know what the link phase is. I fix shared library issues for them from time to time. I can use an IDE if I want to, but like to have more control over my build process. You really have to understand, say, maven, to hand-author a maven build file. If I don't understand my tools, how can I resolve problems when they don't work as expected?
Perhaps knowing when and how to use a hammer and nails would make you a better craftsman than completely dismissing the tools in your toolchest. At the end of the day, that's no better than only having a hammer and thinking every problem looks like a nail.
Would you need contextual information about the API calls if the API were consistently designed? I remember thinking something should work in a certain way in Java, trying it and having it work that way, back when I was learning the language. Most languages, you learn a few idioms and are basically set. If your in-house software goes off into the weeds, that's really the fault of your developers and not the language.
Easy way around this would be to form an IT workers' union and have the union hold H1B visas. Of course, if there was a union, you probably wouldn't need to worry about H1B workers being paid a fraction of what citizens make in the first place.
I've had several Indian contractors in my little work area lately who seem to constantly be on the phone about problems with their paychecks or tax forms. One guy didn't get paid for several weeks because "the guy who signs the checks is out of the country on business." A couple other ones had their first few paychecks held (Which seems to be a common practice but illegal at least under this state's law.) I suggested they bring their complaints up with the state labor board, but they don't appear to be willing to do that.
The Google vision of the internet is one in which you don't own your own home, so to speak. If you don't have your own address and run your own servers, you can't take advantage of a lot of what the Internet has to offer. Since in their view everyone is a consumer and since there's really only so much porn you can masturbate to before you want to take a nap, I don't really see there being a digital divide anywhere other than between those who can afford a computer and can masturbate at home and those who can't, and have to masturbate at the library.
I used to have Sprint between me and an online game I was playing at the time. If it ever ground to a halt, I could be pretty sure Sprint was to blame. A quick traceroute would usually show one of their routers crapping packets on the floor. If we had actual competition, you could shop around for an ISP that sucks less. Since Netflix and their customers can pretty much be sure that's not going to happen, their best bet is to just increase their buffers and expect there to be wait times. They could just put all their movies on some sort of... car full of magtapes... and deliver them directly to the customer that way. Sure the latency would be higher, but it's always been difficult to beat the bandwidth of a car full of magtapes!
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I also expect them to be very aware of who you call from the phone at your desk.
I've had much more luck with the sub-$20 market on steam than I have with the AAA titles. They tend to be a lot more innovative and creative and it's no big deal if I drop a couple bucks on a game and don't care for it. I've put about 7 times the hours into Rogue Legacy that I played AC3 for before getting bored with it. Minecraft started the whole trend for me, and I've probably played that more than all the AAA titles in my library combined.
So are eggs good or bad for us this month? I lost track...
Sure. And that works great for them and WoW and all the others :-P All the PLEX did was bump the denominations the isk farmers sell up. Or at least that's how it was back when I was still playing the game. I gave up after a couple guys in our somewhat-succesful corp apparently got high for a month and forgot to refuel our POS. I was kind of on my way out at that point anyway.
Or Am I Bluffing?
Try watching your kid die of a disease that we had mostly wiped out half a century ago. Polio, Measles and Whooping Cough are making a comeback! We just need to find one isolated tribe that never got rid of Smallpox and it'll be as if the last century and a half of scientific achievement never happened!
Of course, if bitcoin itself goes bust due to a reputation for this sort of thing, all that hacking and all that farming will be for naught.
Telling me I can't have my coffee in the morning is more of a fire hazard. I'll let you figure out why.
Just because your superpower is on the decline and no longer has the capability to do a manned space mission, you don't need to piss on the rising ones for taking their first steps. 40 years from now when they're mining asteroids and outsourcing their cheap crap to the USA, they might come back and rub your nose in it.
That's how you know you're getting old. Stand aside, grandpa, we have a future to build!
But why is the Kerbal Space Program theme playing in their mission control?
You're friends with some dude and some dude. Some dude's pretty cool, but some dude keeps posting goats.cx pictures on your news page. You keep trying to unfriend him, but you keep accidentally unfriending some dude instead. Some dude offered to sell you weed but when you tried to take him up on it and asked him where to send your money, he accused you of being a cop and unfriended you. You put up with it because it's still less annoying than Facebook.
Or us, for determining if we're at-risk for dying with any money left in our bank accounts or any wine left in our wine cellars.
Because that's going to work. Perhaps they should ban all foreign currencies while they're at it.
I wanted to do something like that on network-attached postscript printers a few years back, but didn't have an easy way to open a network socket in PostScript. My virus would have moved from printer to printer and done nothing else except replace every instance of the word "Strategic" with the word "Satanic" on printed documents.
If you're a bad programmer, your code with an IDE will be bad. If you're a good programmer, it won't. Stop blaming the tools.
Perhaps knowing when and how to use a hammer and nails would make you a better craftsman than completely dismissing the tools in your toolchest. At the end of the day, that's no better than only having a hammer and thinking every problem looks like a nail.
Would you need contextual information about the API calls if the API were consistently designed? I remember thinking something should work in a certain way in Java, trying it and having it work that way, back when I was learning the language. Most languages, you learn a few idioms and are basically set. If your in-house software goes off into the weeds, that's really the fault of your developers and not the language.
Easy way around this would be to form an IT workers' union and have the union hold H1B visas. Of course, if there was a union, you probably wouldn't need to worry about H1B workers being paid a fraction of what citizens make in the first place.
I've had several Indian contractors in my little work area lately who seem to constantly be on the phone about problems with their paychecks or tax forms. One guy didn't get paid for several weeks because "the guy who signs the checks is out of the country on business." A couple other ones had their first few paychecks held (Which seems to be a common practice but illegal at least under this state's law.) I suggested they bring their complaints up with the state labor board, but they don't appear to be willing to do that.
They had to kill the rock to confirm its age.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my operating system. Prepare to die!
Hopefully it'll screw up our pine beetles out west, too.
The Google vision of the internet is one in which you don't own your own home, so to speak. If you don't have your own address and run your own servers, you can't take advantage of a lot of what the Internet has to offer. Since in their view everyone is a consumer and since there's really only so much porn you can masturbate to before you want to take a nap, I don't really see there being a digital divide anywhere other than between those who can afford a computer and can masturbate at home and those who can't, and have to masturbate at the library.
I used to have Sprint between me and an online game I was playing at the time. If it ever ground to a halt, I could be pretty sure Sprint was to blame. A quick traceroute would usually show one of their routers crapping packets on the floor. If we had actual competition, you could shop around for an ISP that sucks less. Since Netflix and their customers can pretty much be sure that's not going to happen, their best bet is to just increase their buffers and expect there to be wait times. They could just put all their movies on some sort of... car full of magtapes... and deliver them directly to the customer that way. Sure the latency would be higher, but it's always been difficult to beat the bandwidth of a car full of magtapes!