...work fine (ever had a non-Dell laptop pull a Dell while you were flying?). The problem could arise from the difference in pressures. Perhaps the lessened pressure allows for odd expansion within the batteries causing strain on the lithium (I don't remember how stable lithium is as an element) resulting in excess heat?
...as it has a fairly shallow learning curve, the variables' syntax is simple beyond belief, and it was designed from C specifically for web applications. If you want to do desktop, you could do that with php, but as a browser-based app with lots of backticks and system() calls.
Ah. An AC. You would be part of the 69th percentile or lower, I assume, because you seem to be stepping on some toes without knowing whose they are.
I have in fact received perfectly good help from an Indian-based helpdesk, and equally horrible service from an American helpdesk. You pointed out the occasional exception to the rule. Had you paid attention to the context of the article, you would have seen why I mentioned that the 'corporate overlords' were being irrational. When overseas support is suggested for specific hardware failures, it gets difficult to fix without being present at the machine in question.
Furthermore, if we are a dime a dozen, then our experience and training certainly isn't. As I said, we know the systems and we know just how to hold our jaws to get it to work. If you can train a new guy to do that before the failed part causes the rest of the machine to fail, resulting in replacing the whole thing, you go right ahead. I'll even pack my stuff. However, since my knowledge is as indispensible as I am easily replaceable, you kind of require me to stay if you want to keep my knowledge around.
Job security for hardware engineers is high, if only because they've done the wiring and know how the beast breathes. Coders and user support are far more easily outsourced (they are the ones that are "a dime a dozen", if any of us are...) because they require little first-hand experience with the product. Their training is minimal.
We who built the machines and networks and custom appliances for your company know those same systems from the inside out. The monkeys do not. The people who would service it from a jillion miles away don't.
Thanks, the People Keeping Your Business Afloat
P.S.: If even 30% of the world's population could do this, that would leave the other 70% to do the remainder of the jobs. There is most definitely not a 3:7 ratio of IT to other jobs, even if you only count white-collar jobs in developed countries with an established IT sector. Broaden that query (if you will) any further, and that number drops exponentially. Blue-collar jobs rarely -if ever- use IT personnel, and developing nations are lucky to have a handful of computers for an entire government. Even then, those countries have to call for help; they don't have the time to be trained in the use of the systems. So. When you straighten out your bullshit stats, call me. When you consider that at least a third of the world's population is under the age of 18, your 30% estimate guess is crap. Consider for a moment that the worldwide Internet userbase is 1,018,057,389 as of 2005 (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos /xx.html#Comm) That's nearly half of your estimate of people capable of doing my job, and that's quite probably the wildest guess I've seen on slashdot to date. More interesting numbers, also from the CIA World Factbook:
Labor force:
3.001 billion (2005)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 42%
industry: 21%
services: 37% (2002 est.)
Check your numbers next time. This is/. after all. We will correct you, and even if our retorts are based on estimates, they at least have some basis of thought behind them. By the way, the final number of IT personnel per capita worldwide is about 100 million, based on the US BLS' data collected on Information employment (http://www.bls.gov/iag/information.htm): 2,390,000 US workers are in some sort of non-supervisory Information job. That's 10% of the US population, so a liberal estimate of the world's IT demographic is 10% of the total working population with Internet access, thus.1*1,000,000,000 = 100,000,000.
Last I checked, 2 billion was way larger than 100 million.
Thanks again, AC. Way to make unfounded retorts and look retarded doing it. You uphold the title of AC proudly!
There is a point at which this outsourcing crap needs to stop, and this is it. Don't leave the management to someone off-site if you know the entire plant is computerized to a high degree. Don't leave the techs with a phone call to India: "Hello, ah, yes, my Complicatron3000 just went down and gave 'Ha. I'm finished working. Tough shit.' for an error message..." "Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?"
It needs to stop now. When the management is no longer physically accessible and able to work personally on the network/machine/computer/whatever, there needs to be a line drawn. Corporate overlords: let the people who understand the systems do their jobs. Cheap, unexperienced labor is usually not nearly as well-done as on-site, skilled labor. Save money in the long run: spend a little extra now to keep from having to rebuild all of your materiél.
So I said to him, I said, "hey! look the plane's doing fine! Flying around, all wireless and such." And so then he was like, "what does '+++NO CARRIER' mean? That can't be good..."
And that, honey, is why we have no income.
Tense disagreement in the form presented, poor construction in another, it all proves the point I was trying to make: the GPP has no right to be correcting grammar.
Now now, let's not be hypocritical; you need to have a lesson in tense agreement:
...didn't proof your own submission. Otherwise, how do you miss catching this line?
Dearest AC, you would do well to remember that the tense must remain constant throughout. We can't have English majors travelling through time, now can we? What would the engineers say?
Perhaps Cliff could take a page from the "good grammar" book and learn that "less failures" is the wrong way to say what was meant. If the item at hand can be enumerated (that is can be counted in a semi-tangible manner and in distinct units), one would use "fewer," as in "fewer failures." The term "less" is used when the item cannot be enumerated, or is a collective noun, such as intelligence: "There seems to be less and less intelligence in Slashdot's posts, as there are significantly fewer editors who proof-read same."
...as they seek to end the rule of IDE master Divisero?
Actually, they are trying to get to the root of a particularly thorny quest posed them by Sam Ba: the Kerberos Knights must hunt down and destroy the Dark Lord of Redmond, Gaa'tes, and his henchman Bal'mar.
If rich, and bad with money, you must be a young kid living on daddy's money. Almost certainly wouldn't be found with the/. crowd. Methinks lying and/or bad with money alone.
Plus or minus frickin' lasers, I suppose, like an option package on a car or somesuch... This is not out of the realm of possibility for the world's largest office building (willing to spend $750.00+ for a fucking coffee maker) with a budget to match.
.NSV = AOL proprietary format (kinda)
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In case anyone cares, Nullsoft is the creator of WinAmp (recently bought out by AOL) and.NSV is theier standard streaming format for video (.PLS is their standard for music).
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I happen to own an MPx200 Smartphone. It has been one of the best purchases I've ever made, with another being the 1GB SD card for it. Evar had a 1GB MP3 player you can use as a phone, too? Or (if your wallet is so inclined) a mobile that will stream music from the Net? These things are hugely underrated.
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...work fine (ever had a non-Dell laptop pull a Dell while you were flying?). The problem could arise from the difference in pressures. Perhaps the lessened pressure allows for odd expansion within the batteries causing strain on the lithium (I don't remember how stable lithium is as an element) resulting in excess heat?
F8 goes straight to the address bar in Opera without the dialog box.
F2 is the equivalent in Opera, but with a dialog box.
Or alt-D
...as it has a fairly shallow learning curve, the variables' syntax is simple beyond belief, and it was designed from C specifically for web applications. If you want to do desktop, you could do that with php, but as a browser-based app with lots of backticks and system() calls.
I have in fact received perfectly good help from an Indian-based helpdesk, and equally horrible service from an American helpdesk. You pointed out the occasional exception to the rule. Had you paid attention to the context of the article, you would have seen why I mentioned that the 'corporate overlords' were being irrational. When overseas support is suggested for specific hardware failures, it gets difficult to fix without being present at the machine in question.
Furthermore, if we are a dime a dozen, then our experience and training certainly isn't. As I said, we know the systems and we know just how to hold our jaws to get it to work. If you can train a new guy to do that before the failed part causes the rest of the machine to fail, resulting in replacing the whole thing, you go right ahead. I'll even pack my stuff. However, since my knowledge is as indispensible as I am easily replaceable, you kind of require me to stay if you want to keep my knowledge around.
Job security for hardware engineers is high, if only because they've done the wiring and know how the beast breathes. Coders and user support are far more easily outsourced (they are the ones that are "a dime a dozen", if any of us are...) because they require little first-hand experience with the product. Their training is minimal.
We who built the machines and networks and custom appliances for your company know those same systems from the inside out. The monkeys do not. The people who would service it from a jillion miles away don't.
Thanks, the People Keeping Your Business Afloat
P.S.: If even 30% of the world's population could do this, that would leave the other 70% to do the remainder of the jobs. There is most definitely not a 3:7 ratio of IT to other jobs, even if you only count white-collar jobs in developed countries with an established IT sector. Broaden that query (if you will) any further, and that number drops exponentially. Blue-collar jobs rarely -if ever- use IT personnel, and developing nations are lucky to have a handful of computers for an entire government. Even then, those countries have to call for help; they don't have the time to be trained in the use of the systems. So. When you straighten out your bullshit stats, call me. When you consider that at least a third of the world's population is under the age of 18, your 30% estimate guess is crap. Consider for a moment that the worldwide Internet userbase is 1,018,057,389 as of 2005 (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geo
- Labor force:
- Labor force - by occupation:
Check your numbers next time. This is3.001 billion (2005)
agriculture: 42%
industry: 21%
services: 37% (2002 est.)
Last I checked, 2 billion was way larger than 100 million.
Thanks again, AC. Way to make unfounded retorts and look retarded doing it. You uphold the title of AC proudly!
We have a winner! Give the man a kewpie doll.
There is a point at which this outsourcing crap needs to stop, and this is it. Don't leave the management to someone off-site if you know the entire plant is computerized to a high degree. Don't leave the techs with a phone call to India: "Hello, ah, yes, my Complicatron3000 just went down and gave 'Ha. I'm finished working. Tough shit.' for an error message..." "Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?"
It needs to stop now. When the management is no longer physically accessible and able to work personally on the network/machine/computer/whatever, there needs to be a line drawn. Corporate overlords: let the people who understand the systems do their jobs. Cheap, unexperienced labor is usually not nearly as well-done as on-site, skilled labor. Save money in the long run: spend a little extra now to keep from having to rebuild all of your materiél.
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So I said to him, I said, "hey! look the plane's doing fine! Flying around, all wireless and such." And so then he was like, "what does '+++NO CARRIER' mean? That can't be good..." And that, honey, is why we have no income.
Tense disagreement in the form presented, poor construction in another, it all proves the point I was trying to make: the GPP has no right to be correcting grammar.
Smoking crack, were we? What the fuck were you trying to say? Mod me troll if you want, but that made zero sense.
Perhaps Cliff could take a page from the "good grammar" book and learn that "less failures" is the wrong way to say what was meant. If the item at hand can be enumerated (that is can be counted in a semi-tangible manner and in distinct units), one would use "fewer," as in "fewer failures." The term "less" is used when the item cannot be enumerated, or is a collective noun, such as intelligence: "There seems to be less and less intelligence in Slashdot's posts, as there are significantly fewer editors who proof-read same."
Actually, they are trying to get to the root of a particularly thorny quest posed them by Sam Ba: the Kerberos Knights must hunt down and destroy the Dark Lord of Redmond, Gaa'tes, and his henchman Bal'mar.
Outside the Debian Plains, by the Gurus of Mount C'drom
If rich, and bad with money, you must be a young kid living on daddy's money. Almost certainly wouldn't be found with the /. crowd. Methinks lying and/or bad with money alone.
Why thank you. Raisins are cliché, so I figured pigs would be original and unique and such.
Plus or minus frickin' lasers, I suppose, like an option package on a car or somesuch... This is not out of the realm of possibility for the world's largest office building (willing to spend $750.00+ for a fucking coffee maker) with a budget to match.
In case anyone cares, Nullsoft is the creator of WinAmp (recently bought out by AOL) and .NSV is theier standard streaming format for video (.PLS is their standard for music).
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I care, you insensitive clod!
I happen to own an MPx200 Smartphone. It has been one of the best purchases I've ever made, with another being the 1GB SD card for it. Evar had a 1GB MP3 player you can use as a phone, too? Or (if your wallet is so inclined) a mobile that will stream music from the Net? These things are hugely underrated.
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Would this not be a prime example of a gerund(-ive [?]), or am I just talking out of my ass again?
With a nice fence!
Other sports such as skate-/snowboarding, as well as a helmet liner for almost anything.
I'm all for more stuff between my skull and the ground.
Living in Houston, I'd actually have to agree with the tagline on the article: "from the it-would-be-funnier-if-it-weren't-true dept."
This is something so creepifying I almost want to say it's a bogus article, but unfortunately (although I agree with you), it isn't a bogus article...