Riiight. And all those millenials, drowning in tuition debt, and the 43%? 46%? of Americans with no college are *all* going to rush out and buy a new car?
Everybody didn't even do it in the fifties; the ones who did bought a new car every two years. Any car you see on the road that's more than 3 years old, the owner is *not* going to go out and buy a new car; most of use buy *used* cars.
And, btw, how many people are driving hybrids? Less than half? Less than a quarter? And EVs are going to take all that over in under 10 years?
It's just broken a *lot* of websites. SSL certs have a name... and a SAN, an alternate name. Chrome, instead of doing a fallback, as I understand it used to, and everyone else still does, it says "nope, nothing good here", and won't let you get to the site.
This includes a metric *ton* of US federal government websites, and it's going to take several years for the certs to expire and be replaced... and you won't be able to get to them with chrome.
The last time I was looking at them, between '10 and '12, 100% of the time they *massively* OVERVALUED the properties, and sizes.
Data: my real estate agent Chicago (which, btw, is Cook Co), did her due dilligence in '03. Zillow claimed that, at the time, it was worth 20% more. They lied.
I looked at the house I bought in Montgomery Co, MD, in '11. They claimed it had something like 500^2 *more* than it does (and was worth more than I paid).
They're crooks. Refin, on the other hand, seems to give *reasonable* values, and correct square footage.
Sure there is. He wasn't quashing the investigation into Trump's huuuugggeee monetary links to Russia, and the treasonous coordination between his campaign and Russia.
Tricky Dick tried something like this, too... the Saturday Night Massacre.
However, like most of us, we voted for her. Or did you happen to miss the small detail that SHE WON THE POPULAR VOTE BY ALMOST THREE MILLION?
So shut up. And the rest of you, oh, right, next you're going to tell me that we don't need new laws to protect democracy from modern tech... and you probably believe that Diebold "I'll deliver OH for Bush" all-electronic voting machines didn't lie, and that you don't need recounts other than "tell the spreadsheet to give me the result again".
In other words, you libertidiots don't actually believe in democracy, you want plutocracy, and figure you're going to be a plutocrat any day now, if you just work a little harder.
Clue: you're reading and posting here. No, you won't become a billionaire, you're just a sucker.
And for the fools who think billionaires would have chosed Jeb... why do you think all billionaires agree? And, for that matter, do you think they all have the same resources? Thiel *does* know what he's doing, and he wanted Trump.
Try reading the entire damn article, and tell me psyops doesn't work.
Not until *your* EXPENSIVE insurance pays for a computer-controlled, RADAR-guided anti-aircraft gun to be mounted on my roof, to shoot down the teens, the drunks, the "lost control of my vehicle" seniors, and YOU SLASHDOTTERS who are texting while flying, before you crash into my second floor bedroom.
I took a course in OO in the mid-nineties, and OO design was interesting... but the closer you got to the code, the fuzzier it got.
And COBOL works really well for what it was designed for: huge batch jobs. The only problem I had with it was lack of control structures, so I left behind when I went off to the joy of *Nix, were a lot of PERFORM 1000-dummy-paragraph THROUGH 1000-dummy-paragraph-exit WHILE [all my array processing here].
And if you kids think that no one does huge batch processing, you probably are only interested in video games and eye candy, and don't really understand what computing's about. I suggest that you consider, for example, the US IRS processing tax returns....
There was another story on slashdot, about linkedin trying out 70-style no-CS-degree apprenticeships... perhaps banks should be giving money to community colleges to teach COBOL again.
Which, for a birthday present, a friend voided my warranty, and *doubled* the memory, to 32k.... (Yes, children, I did say "k", not "m" or "g".) My second, six or seven years later, was a really nice, well-build 286.
Upper management changing specs on you, with no change in schedules. And, of course, they created the schedules, while having no idea that programming doesn't mean moving a mouse around for a few minutes and voila, there it is.
Then there's the environment... like the infamy of "open plan offices", so that managers can walk around and see if you're working (which they can tell by seeing you typing).
About 8 or 10 years ago, and this was the *only* time I heard it, not since, the US economy needs to add about 128k jobs per month, for the number of people entering the workforce over those leaving it.
You're a fool. No, he's not the boss because he knows more than me. Second, when I started, they told us not to worry, no pagers. Two months later, pagers. Then it was ONE BIG PUSH... and the pushes kept coming, and coming, for the same reason that we went from 4 teams to 27, because upper management *are* ignorant, but are sure they know Everything.
And they don't. And suckers like you are one reason they keep doing it.
It's 99.999% the fault of management. Most of them know *nothing* about what and how things are being done - in IT, I think some of them believe that you just have to point and click and it's done.
I worked for Ameritech, the former Baby Bell, in the mid-nineties, in what was a startup division. For more than a year and a half, I was working 9, 10, 12 and some 16 hour days. I was getting paged frequently. About a year and three quarters in - I was in just over 2 years, and left as they announced the beginning of the shutdown - a friend who is a degreed clinical psychologist in private practice told me that it was her professional opinion that I was that close to clinical burnout.
And it was ALL upper management. They gave us insane schedules as to when things were supposed to be ready, the entire division from from 4 project teams to 27 in a year, and people were there from seven or eight (I'd get there around 9 am), and whenever I left - 19:00? 20:00? 22:00? I usually wasn't the only one still there.
Management didn't know what they were doing, hadn't called in people who knew the subject and made a real project plan - they just kept adding with "oh, we hadn't thought of that".
Gee... and here I was under the impression unless it contained classified or PII or HIPAA data, research done under public funding already *was* openly available.
...an awful lot of us can't tell you everything we know in 140 characters, the way Benito Trumpolini can. Some of us can even write in complete, grammatical sentences, with more complex thoughts than "how's that sportsball team", and "here, hold my beer".
Next up: typing is dying, it's being replaced by gestures, and the biggest app to interpret that is called charades....
So, first you let big business destroy unions in the US, when folks grandparents fought, in many cases literally, to form, and how you feel helpless.
And a petition's going to get upper management to change their minds. I'm sure the idea of forming a union again never entered your pretty little libertarian-brainwashed heads....
1. From a late friend who was a rocket scientist, she was an engineer at the Cape, and used
to complain mightily that the last years she was there, upper management were time servers,
and didn't want to sign anything. 2. How much of that "overhead" is administering contracts? Here's a working example: I work,
right now, for a federal contractor (civilian sector). I have my fed direct manager... and
another manager who administers our contract. And I *know*, for a fact, that I am paid
right in the GS range I'd be paid if I were a fed. And our taxes are paying me, and they're
paying my corporate manager, and his, and, oh, yes, for my company to make a good profit.
I've been here almost eight years. I work with someone who's been here well over 20... as
a contractor. But the Republicans don't want to *hire*, they want to outsource... so their
corporate buddies can make a profit (that's not pork, no, no....) And before any of you
say more, there are Title 42 reds, who have to reapply for their own jobs every five years.
Maybe NASA's paying so much overhead because they can't *hire* people to do the actual work?
Are you really that ignorant, or just being obnoxious?
I'll leave as an exercise for the student to google up how much revenue is in landlines. And btw, sound quality on almost any landline makes your stupidphone sound like two paper cups and a string between them.
You're a fool. The neighborhood kid isn't working in the gig economy - they're just trying to make a few bucks living at home, with parent(s). So, nice straw man argument there.
The point of the study is that the "gig" economy is "you can work as little or as much as you want" is a way around labor laws, things like 40 hr weeks, paid time off, overtime. The "gig economy" is nothing more than a return to the 19th Century, where you're disposable labor, and if you make any noise other than "yessireeboss", you're out.
This is *exactly* why people created unions. But you don't care... what, you have no life outside work? The rest of us *do* have a life....
It's an old saying that a producer's IQ was equal to his belt size. It's also an old, old aphorism that to get the IQ of a committee, you add up their belts, and divide by the number of them.
Year before last, we went to see Interstellar, in IMAX. TWENTY FREAKING DOLLARS each for the three of us. And popcorn and drinks? Another $15 or more. To go to a bloody movie.
Hell, half the population can't afford that. And it's the refreshments that pay the staff. Back in the day, the studios owned theaters, and paid the staff. Now, they don't. It's all how much more can the CEO and friends get as a "salary" and "bonus".
You want to massively increase attendance? Cut the prices in half.
When I was growing up, before most of you were born, I got that under capitalism, if sales went down, you lowered prices until they came up. Since the eighties, the game is played that if sales go down, raise prices to "keep a steady cash flow".
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Riiight. And all those millenials, drowning in tuition debt, and the 43%? 46%? of Americans with no college are *all* going to rush out and buy a new car?
Everybody didn't even do it in the fifties; the ones who did bought a new car every two years. Any car you see on the road that's more than 3 years old, the owner is *not* going to go out and buy a new car; most of use buy *used* cars.
And, btw, how many people are driving hybrids? Less than half? Less than a quarter? And EVs are going to take all that over in under 10 years?
It's just broken a *lot* of websites. SSL certs have a name... and a SAN, an alternate name. Chrome, instead of doing a fallback, as I understand it used to, and everyone else still does, it says "nope, nothing good here", and won't let you get to the site.
This includes a metric *ton* of US federal government websites, and it's going to take several years for the certs to expire and be replaced... and you won't be able to get to them with chrome.
The last time I was looking at them, between '10 and '12, 100% of the time they *massively* OVERVALUED the properties, and sizes.
Data: my real estate agent Chicago (which, btw, is Cook Co), did her due dilligence in '03. Zillow claimed that, at the time, it was worth 20% more. They lied.
I looked at the house I bought in Montgomery Co, MD, in '11. They claimed it had something like 500^2 *more* than it does (and was worth more than I paid).
They're crooks. Refin, on the other hand, seems to give *reasonable* values, and correct square footage.
Sure there is. He wasn't quashing the investigation into Trump's huuuugggeee monetary links to Russia, and the treasonous coordination between his campaign and Russia.
Tricky Dick tried something like this, too... the Saturday Night Massacre.
I wanted Sanders. I really don't like Clinton.
However, like most of us, we voted for her. Or did you happen to miss the small detail that SHE WON THE POPULAR VOTE BY ALMOST THREE MILLION?
So shut up. And the rest of you, oh, right, next you're going to tell me that we don't need new laws to protect democracy from modern tech... and you probably believe that Diebold "I'll deliver OH for Bush" all-electronic voting machines didn't lie, and that you don't need recounts other than "tell the spreadsheet to give me the result again".
In other words, you libertidiots don't actually believe in democracy, you want plutocracy, and figure you're going to be a plutocrat any day now, if you just work a little harder.
Clue: you're reading and posting here. No, you won't become a billionaire, you're just a sucker.
And for the fools who think billionaires would have chosed Jeb... why do you think all billionaires agree? And, for that matter, do you think they all have the same resources? Thiel *does* know what he's doing, and he wanted Trump.
Try reading the entire damn article, and tell me psyops doesn't work.
I spend more than that on solitaire.....
I am not addicted, I can quit any time I want.
Not until *your* EXPENSIVE insurance pays for a computer-controlled, RADAR-guided anti-aircraft gun to be mounted on my roof, to shoot down the teens, the drunks, the "lost control of my vehicle" seniors, and YOU SLASHDOTTERS who are texting while flying, before you crash into my second floor bedroom.
Just from the quote.... Is that trying to suggest that C doesn't have functions?
You can write good, modular code in almost any language. And I've *seen* spaghetti python, as well as enough other languages.
And making the code clean and readable depends on the programmer, and whether they pay any attention to standards and best practices.
i++
I took a course in OO in the mid-nineties, and OO design was interesting... but the closer you got to the code, the fuzzier it got.
And COBOL works really well for what it was designed for: huge batch jobs. The only problem I had with it was lack of control structures, so I left behind when I went off to the joy of *Nix, were a lot of PERFORM 1000-dummy-paragraph THROUGH 1000-dummy-paragraph-exit WHILE [all my array processing here].
And if you kids think that no one does huge batch processing, you probably are only interested in video games and eye candy, and don't really understand what computing's about. I suggest that you consider, for example, the US IRS processing tax returns....
There was another story on slashdot, about linkedin trying out 70-style no-CS-degree apprenticeships... perhaps banks should be giving money to community colleges to teach COBOL again.
Which, for a birthday present, a friend voided my warranty, and *doubled* the memory, to 32k.... (Yes, children, I did say "k", not "m" or "g".) My second, six or seven years later, was a really nice, well-build 286.
Upper management changing specs on you, with no change in schedules. And, of course, they created the schedules, while having no idea that programming doesn't mean moving a mouse around for a few minutes and voila, there it is.
Then there's the environment... like the infamy of "open plan offices", so that managers can walk around and see if you're working (which they can tell by seeing you typing).
Oh, you mean like Lotus 1-2-3, where I had to unload *everything* else to fit into 640k?
As witness the fact that Trumpolini *lost* by almost 3M votes.
And then there's the group of people who "want to shake things up", without thinking through the results....
About 8 or 10 years ago, and this was the *only* time I heard it, not since, the US economy needs to add about 128k jobs per month, for the number of people entering the workforce over those leaving it.
You're a fool. No, he's not the boss because he knows more than me. Second, when I started, they told us not to worry, no pagers. Two months later, pagers. Then it was ONE BIG PUSH... and the pushes kept coming, and coming, for the same reason that we went from 4 teams to 27, because upper management *are* ignorant, but are sure they know Everything.
And they don't. And suckers like you are one reason they keep doing it.
And I suppose you have no life.
It's 99.999% the fault of management. Most of them know *nothing* about what and how things are being done - in IT, I think some of them believe that you just have to point and click and it's done.
I worked for Ameritech, the former Baby Bell, in the mid-nineties, in what was a startup division. For more than a year and a half, I was working 9, 10, 12 and some 16 hour days. I was getting paged frequently. About a year and three quarters in - I was in just over 2 years, and left as they announced the beginning of the shutdown - a friend who is a degreed clinical psychologist in private practice told me that it was her professional opinion that I was that close to clinical burnout.
And it was ALL upper management. They gave us insane schedules as to when things were supposed to be ready, the entire division from from 4 project teams to 27 in a year, and people were there from seven or eight (I'd get there around 9 am), and whenever I left - 19:00? 20:00? 22:00? I usually wasn't the only one still there.
Management didn't know what they were doing, hadn't called in people who knew the subject and made a real project plan - they just kept adding with "oh, we hadn't thought of that".
And, gratuitously, FUCK YOU, DICK NOTEBART!
Gee... and here I was under the impression unless it contained classified or PII or HIPAA data, research done under public funding already *was* openly available.
...an awful lot of us can't tell you everything we know in 140 characters, the way Benito Trumpolini can. Some of us can even write in complete, grammatical sentences, with more complex thoughts than "how's that sportsball team", and "here, hold my beer".
Next up: typing is dying, it's being replaced by gestures, and the biggest app to interpret that is called charades....
So, first you let big business destroy unions in the US, when folks grandparents fought, in many cases literally, to form, and how you feel helpless.
And a petition's going to get upper management to change their minds. I'm sure the idea of forming a union again never entered your pretty little libertarian-brainwashed heads....
1. From a late friend who was a rocket scientist, she was an engineer at the Cape, and used
to complain mightily that the last years she was there, upper management were time servers,
and didn't want to sign anything.
2. How much of that "overhead" is administering contracts? Here's a working example: I work,
right now, for a federal contractor (civilian sector). I have my fed direct manager... and
another manager who administers our contract. And I *know*, for a fact, that I am paid
right in the GS range I'd be paid if I were a fed. And our taxes are paying me, and they're
paying my corporate manager, and his, and, oh, yes, for my company to make a good profit.
I've been here almost eight years. I work with someone who's been here well over 20... as
a contractor. But the Republicans don't want to *hire*, they want to outsource... so their
corporate buddies can make a profit (that's not pork, no, no....) And before any of you
say more, there are Title 42 reds, who have to reapply for their own jobs every five years.
Maybe NASA's paying so much overhead because they can't *hire* people to do the actual work?
It'd void the warranty.
Are you really that ignorant, or just being obnoxious?
I'll leave as an exercise for the student to google up how much revenue is in landlines. And btw, sound quality on almost any landline makes your stupidphone sound like two paper cups and a string between them.
You're a fool. The neighborhood kid isn't working in the gig economy - they're just trying to make a few bucks living at home, with parent(s). So, nice straw man argument there.
The point of the study is that the "gig" economy is "you can work as little or as much as you want" is a way around labor laws, things like 40 hr weeks, paid time off, overtime. The "gig economy" is nothing more than a return to the 19th Century, where you're disposable labor, and if you make any noise other than "yessireeboss", you're out.
This is *exactly* why people created unions. But you don't care... what, you have no life outside work? The rest of us *do* have a life....
It's an old saying that a producer's IQ was equal to his belt size. It's also an old, old aphorism that to get the IQ of a committee, you add up their belts, and divide by the number of them.
Year before last, we went to see Interstellar, in IMAX. TWENTY FREAKING DOLLARS each for the three of us. And popcorn and drinks? Another $15 or more. To go to a bloody movie.
Hell, half the population can't afford that. And it's the refreshments that pay the staff. Back in the day, the studios owned theaters, and paid the staff. Now, they don't. It's all how much more can the CEO and friends get as a "salary" and "bonus".
You want to massively increase attendance? Cut the prices in half.
When I was growing up, before most of you were born, I got that under capitalism, if sales went down, you lowered prices until they came up. Since the eighties, the game is played that if sales go down, raise prices to "keep a steady cash flow".