Well actually Muslims *do* have a history where sanity prevailed. The problem is precisely that it is now only history...
Because, during the dark Christian Middle Age, Muslim Al Andaluz was an oasis of tolerance, reason and learning compared to the barbaric Christian nations of the rest of Europe. Then dogma and religious bickering took precedence and began a downfall that has not stopped yet. And they did not had an Enlightnment to begin the age of reason and put an end to the age of religion as we had.
Some believe that the H1B flooding is actually designed to get rid of older IT workers
I think that's just to keep wages down in general. Our universities are pumping out plenty of CS and MIS grads as well as math and engineering graduates to keep up with demand. The companies that say there are shortages are just saying that to justify going overseas or to bring in H-1bs.
My father in law in quite an accomplished design engineer but as he got older, he has been gradually moved into testing positions.
It starts off with a lay-off and he gets it, finds another job that's not quite what he did before, lay-off, then another job not quite like what he did, and so on until now where he's writing Perl scripts to take data from testing equipment and putting that into Excel spreadsheets. Pretty beneath him, but he's grateful to have some sort of technical job at 70. All his contemporaries went into management (if they could) a long time ago, changed careers or they're now retired.
In my programming experience, I've known very few folks who stayed in programming after 40. One was well into his 50s but he grabbed onto a product and stuck with it for years. When I left, he was still programming C on Dos. But folks came and went because they didn't want to work on old shit and he was very lucky to have gotten a product with a very long market life - cash register software.
You're completely right and the problem are precisely the managers and the people, that is, the suits, who do the hiring who believe that only youngsters know how to code and that programming is the only area where experience is not worth a shit.
That's a problem for older people who program well but do not know a shit about management and so on. For my part, I still program because, coming from control systems programming in general, I specialized later in home automation which is an area where there are very few programmers and very few that know the proprietary crap from a bunch of brands like Lutron, Crestron, AMX, Alcorn McBride and so on.
As always it's the dummies in the suits that fuck everything up...
But that surprises me of Google. I thought its suits were smarter than what's usual...
It's no use to try to promote the Kindle when its main problem lies with the publishers.
First e-books more expensive than their dead-tree version: stupid, unecological and greedy. Then the @#$%& "region" problem: depending on where you live, especially outside the Empire, lots of books may not be available to buy so the only option is, as usual, "piracy".
It seems that the books publisher want to make all the mistakes that the music and film publishers made before them.
I wanted to buy it but they did not want to sell it to me because I don't reside inside the frontiers of the Empire.
I understand that dummies like the content mafias bosses, music, books and film publishers, and other ignoramuses want and try to put doors and frontiers to the Internet. But I never thought Google would do the same dumb thing.
That's what I found more convenient after more than 40 years of biker/geek life:
No key chain. I only have 2 chains, one chain for my wallet and one for my watch. Chains hinder keys and Swiss Army knife use (but not wallet or watch use).
Each key bundle (bike, house, work) is on its own key ring. All keys ring go on a carabiner. The carabiner is attached to my belt, on the opposed side of the chains. That way the keys are bundled but can be separated by function and the carabiner is easy to get on and off.
My Victorinox Swiss Army knife (Cybertool) goes either in a special Swiss Army knife pocket of my Dainese jacket or in the lighter pocket of my Perfecto jacket. Or in my Levis jean small pockett when it gets too hot to wear leather.
I'm sure lots of countries will accept with gusto Google relocation from the US to their own and guarantee that Google competitors and fleas could not use their laws the way this so-called "Consumer Watchdog" is doing with USAmerican laws.
I'm nearing 60 and have a vast experience programming all kinds of stuff, especially control systems, including satellite and other very critical ones, and the only reason I can keep programming is because I know obscure proprietary systems like AMX, Crestron, Alcorn McBride and so on. I often get offered system administration and similar jobs but programming in C, Java and so on never, ever. And it's not money as I'm ready to program for 1000 euros a month, even less than younger people.
As someone else has already pointed out, the problem is top management that, at least here in Spain, are completely ignorant of technological issues and believe everything they see in crappy movies. They are not even capable of using Internet: they have a secretary to do this for them.
Because sometimes, other kids are dicks. Next question?
Exactly.
As a matter of fact part of the problem is that the bullying of a kid by another is often considered "kid's business" in which adults don't have anything to do. And if they do something, often both kids, the bully and the bullied are punished equally.
Blaming the victims is not going to help...
It's not the victims who have to correct their social behaviour, it's the bullies.
So you educate yourself watching mainstream news of sports, gossip, "faits divers" and political squabbling. Maybe good enough for you but not for me.
I prefer other things like reading books. Or even reading Slashdot as lots of posters are not anonymous cowards only interested in trolling like you. It's often funny too despite troll droppings like yours.
And, remember, "La baba del sapo no alcanza la blanca paloma". Insults only qualify those who utter them. So thanks for describing yourself so well kido. Keep up the good work:-)
How can we get the bright publishing industry captains to understand that an ebook *must* cost less than books made of dead trees if they want to get to mass public? When they're going to learn that nobody pays more for less (except the filthy rich like themselves maybe)?
The reason why ebooks are not popular is that they are more expensive than paperbacks. Until ebooks get less expensive than paperback, if will stay a thing for early adopters and geeks like me. And I only buy e-books that are cheaper than their paperback because I'm not dumb and don't want to pay for the next luxuries of fat executives.
Seem that all publishers are the same: music, film, books, whatever... Do they learn to think?
I don't like sports, I don't like gossip, I don't like "faits divers", I don't like political squabbling. I don't care for most mainstream media "news".
Thus I'm ignorant because I don't care about this crap? So be it.
I need the time for the stuff I like and care about. For instance science, technology, entertainment, computing, bikes, etc. And all the stuff mainstream media usually don't report due to their political allegiance and political correctness. I'll leave to the "gurus" like the one who pontified about this the job to know all the mainstream media junk if that's so important for them.
We all know that the anti-RPG hysterical craze was based on fundamentalist religious craziness. And now they call it "rational"? Yeah, right, just as creationism, geocentrism, flat-earthism, homophobia,etc.
Why don't they try to know what's the game about and its mechanisms instead of listening to the ill-advised advice of other dummies like themselves?
If they had did that they would have realized that the DM has absolutely *nothing* to do with a gang leader, being more like the god of the imaginary world where the game takes place. Thinking about it, it could be that their god is like a gang leader and thus... Oh well...
Just fixed some glitches in his (crappy) home cinema room when I was free-lancing.
It was decorated just like a gypsy drug-dealer home except that the stuff was authentic. But the taste was awful, the worse I've seen in decades. Priceless (in many senses...) the Greek Bible in the hall...
As I'm into house automation and such, I mostly work for filthy rich people. And those people really buy lots of incredibly expensive unuseful crap like hand-made custom choppers to display in their living room (I'm a biker and that pains me), castles as country house, Juan Miró paintings for the crapper and such.
If I was that rich, I'll *ride* the chops and I'll certainly never miss the opportunity of having my own space shuttle on my back yard. Don't you too?
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Experience is not valued for coders and analysts. Moreover age is a handicap in the eyes of those who hire.
So he was actually lucky that he did not get fired.
I just got out of there and I'm now a writer as age is not a handicap for writing.
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I can almost hear the cretinists and similar science-haters rubbing their hand in glee...
Read PZ's take on it in Pharyngula to clear up the FUD.
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And English is surely the most extended second language no matter how numerous native Chinese-speaking people are.
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Also known as the United States of America...
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Because I do and I definitively prefer this.
And if you don't, stop whining about the Big Bad Wolf and offer something new.
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Well actually Muslims *do* have a history where sanity prevailed. The problem is precisely that it is now only history...
Because, during the dark Christian Middle Age, Muslim Al Andaluz was an oasis of tolerance, reason and learning compared to the barbaric Christian nations of the rest of Europe. Then dogma and religious bickering took precedence and began a downfall that has not stopped yet. And they did not had an Enlightnment to begin the age of reason and put an end to the age of religion as we had.
Some believe that the H1B flooding is actually designed to get rid of older IT workers
I think that's just to keep wages down in general. Our universities are pumping out plenty of CS and MIS grads as well as math and engineering graduates to keep up with demand. The companies that say there are shortages are just saying that to justify going overseas or to bring in H-1bs.
My father in law in quite an accomplished design engineer but as he got older, he has been gradually moved into testing positions.
It starts off with a lay-off and he gets it, finds another job that's not quite what he did before, lay-off, then another job not quite like what he did, and so on until now where he's writing Perl scripts to take data from testing equipment and putting that into Excel spreadsheets. Pretty beneath him, but he's grateful to have some sort of technical job at 70. All his contemporaries went into management (if they could) a long time ago, changed careers or they're now retired.
In my programming experience, I've known very few folks who stayed in programming after 40. One was well into his 50s but he grabbed onto a product and stuck with it for years. When I left, he was still programming C on Dos. But folks came and went because they didn't want to work on old shit and he was very lucky to have gotten a product with a very long market life - cash register software.
You're completely right and the problem are precisely the managers and the people, that is, the suits, who do the hiring who believe that only youngsters know how to code and that programming is the only area where experience is not worth a shit.
That's a problem for older people who program well but do not know a shit about management and so on. For my part, I still program because, coming from control systems programming in general, I specialized later in home automation which is an area where there are very few programmers and very few that know the proprietary crap from a bunch of brands like Lutron, Crestron, AMX, Alcorn McBride and so on.
As always it's the dummies in the suits that fuck everything up...
But that surprises me of Google. I thought its suits were smarter than what's usual...
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It's no use to try to promote the Kindle when its main problem lies with the publishers.
First e-books more expensive than their dead-tree version: stupid, unecological and greedy. Then the @#$%& "region" problem: depending on where you live, especially outside the Empire, lots of books may not be available to buy so the only option is, as usual, "piracy".
It seems that the books publisher want to make all the mistakes that the music and film publishers made before them.
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I wanted to buy it but they did not want to sell it to me because I don't reside inside the frontiers of the Empire.
I understand that dummies like the content mafias bosses, music, books and film publishers, and other ignoramuses want and try to put doors and frontiers to the Internet. But I never thought Google would do the same dumb thing.
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That's what I found more convenient after more than 40 years of biker/geek life:
No key chain. I only have 2 chains, one chain for my wallet and one for my watch. Chains hinder keys and Swiss Army knife use (but not wallet or watch use).
Each key bundle (bike, house, work) is on its own key ring. All keys ring go on a carabiner. The carabiner is attached to my belt, on the opposed side of the chains. That way the keys are bundled but can be separated by function and the carabiner is easy to get on and off.
My Victorinox Swiss Army knife (Cybertool) goes either in a special Swiss Army knife pocket of my Dainese jacket or in the lighter pocket of my Perfecto jacket. Or in my Levis jean small pockett when it gets too hot to wear leather.
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And the only thing I miss from a LCD is the aspect ratio. I hope it lasts...
But for movies, I have my Kuro downstairs... Discontinued too... A trend maybe? ;-)
I'm sure lots of countries will accept with gusto Google relocation from the US to their own and guarantee that Google competitors and fleas could not use their laws the way this so-called "Consumer Watchdog" is doing with USAmerican laws.
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a) Don't buy the game.
b) Pirate it.
Yet another boost to "piracy" from clueless top-executives...
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I'm nearing 60 and have a vast experience programming all kinds of stuff, especially control systems, including satellite and other very critical ones, and the only reason I can keep programming is because I know obscure proprietary systems like AMX, Crestron, Alcorn McBride and so on. I often get offered system administration and similar jobs but programming in C, Java and so on never, ever. And it's not money as I'm ready to program for 1000 euros a month, even less than younger people.
As someone else has already pointed out, the problem is top management that, at least here in Spain, are completely ignorant of technological issues and believe everything they see in crappy movies. They are not even capable of using Internet: they have a secretary to do this for them.
Why are kids bullied and rejected?
Because sometimes, other kids are dicks. Next question?
Exactly.
As a matter of fact part of the problem is that the bullying of a kid by another is often considered "kid's business" in which adults don't have anything to do. And if they do something, often both kids, the bully and the bullied are punished equally.
Blaming the victims is not going to help...
It's not the victims who have to correct their social behaviour, it's the bullies.
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The solution is easy: don't buy ebooks from extremely greedy publisher like this one. Even if you can afford it. Just say no. I don't.
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So you educate yourself watching mainstream news of sports, gossip, "faits divers" and political squabbling. Maybe good enough for you but not for me.
I prefer other things like reading books. Or even reading Slashdot as lots of posters are not anonymous cowards only interested in trolling like you. It's often funny too despite troll droppings like yours.
And, remember, "La baba del sapo no alcanza la blanca paloma". Insults only qualify those who utter them. So thanks for describing yourself so well kido. Keep up the good work :-)
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How can we get the bright publishing industry captains to understand that an ebook *must* cost less than books made of dead trees if they want to get to mass public? When they're going to learn that nobody pays more for less (except the filthy rich like themselves maybe)?
The reason why ebooks are not popular is that they are more expensive than paperbacks. Until ebooks get less expensive than paperback, if will stay a thing for early adopters and geeks like me. And I only buy e-books that are cheaper than their paperback because I'm not dumb and don't want to pay for the next luxuries of fat executives.
Seem that all publishers are the same: music, film, books, whatever... Do they learn to think?
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I don't like sports, I don't like gossip, I don't like "faits divers", I don't like political squabbling. I don't care for most mainstream media "news".
Thus I'm ignorant because I don't care about this crap? So be it.
I need the time for the stuff I like and care about. For instance science, technology, entertainment, computing, bikes, etc. And all the stuff mainstream media usually don't report due to their political allegiance and political correctness. I'll leave to the "gurus" like the one who pontified about this the job to know all the mainstream media junk if that's so important for them.
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Well, just that.
We all know that the anti-RPG hysterical craze was based on fundamentalist religious craziness. And now they call it "rational"? Yeah, right, just as creationism, geocentrism, flat-earthism, homophobia,etc.
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Yet another one these dummies...
Why don't they try to know what's the game about and its mechanisms instead of listening to the ill-advised advice of other dummies like themselves?
If they had did that they would have realized that the DM has absolutely *nothing* to do with a gang leader, being more like the god of the imaginary world where the game takes place. Thinking about it, it could be that their god is like a gang leader and thus... Oh well...
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There are two kinds of fools: One says, "This is old therefore it is good." The other one says, "This is new therefore it is better."
You've just described conservative and progressive (liberal for US) types.
That's why equilibrium is in the middle. Or a bit of both.
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...as examples of what to avoid...
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> I guess you did Juan Antonio Roca's house then.
Just fixed some glitches in his (crappy) home cinema room when I was free-lancing.
It was decorated just like a gypsy drug-dealer home except that the stuff was authentic. But the taste was awful, the worse I've seen in decades. Priceless (in many senses...) the Greek Bible in the hall...
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As I'm into house automation and such, I mostly work for filthy rich people. And those people really buy lots of incredibly expensive unuseful crap like hand-made custom choppers to display in their living room (I'm a biker and that pains me), castles as country house, Juan Miró paintings for the crapper and such.
If I was that rich, I'll *ride* the chops and I'll certainly never miss the opportunity of having my own space shuttle on my back yard. Don't you too?
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