No, it stems from the imageboard software used for 4chan (and its predecessors) having anonymous posting as the default state (and sometimes the only accepted state for posting). "Anonymous" as a sort of collective entity took that moniker and ran with it.
Having taken apart both the Rock Band and GH2/80's controllers, he's the skinny.
They both have microswitches. However, the Red Octane ones have them positioned on a circuit board with square switch moldings and a spring mechanism that makes it almost impossible for the switch to misfire.
The RB controller has a similar looking strum bar from the outside, but on the inside there are two switches in poorly constructed/cut posts with some horribly offset screws, inside of which are mounted one microswitch each. Those switches have little arms that extend towards the face of the guitar, and are flicked by arms on the strumbar molding. The "rebound" (such as it is) is provided by two small pieces of light foam opposite each switch on the strum bar (no springs involved at all). (as an aside the "star power" tilt switches are much cheaper looking/sounding and placed more poorly in the RB guitar)
I like RB a lot more than GH3, but the built quality is really poor on the RB guitar (and the Rockband Drum Kit, for that matter), for reasons that go way beyond switches (since they both have the microswitches, just different kinds).
Here's to hoping that some decent 3rd party drum kits and guitars come out damn soon.
How come people seem to take pride in "not having downtime"? Talk about workaholics. Personally, my thought is that the ideal situation for IT is that things are humming along and no one is screaming for my attention. Sure there's stuff I could be doing, but not right this minute, because I'm competent enough to have my bairns and processes operating properly.
Which won't happen because the US supplies a lot more than just dollars to Saudi Arabia (who sets the dollar == petrodollars standard, don't let anyone tell you otherwise). The US supports the House of Saud, and so long as we keep selling them $20B of arms to keep them in power, the USD is safe in that regard.
Hey, fanboy. Stop your drooling for a few seconds and re-read that he said it happens with MacBooks. Not *all* Mac Books. It doesn't happen with *all* individual machines in that Dell (or Toshiba, etc) line, either.
There's nothing magical about the components in an Apple laptop (probably using almost the same damn parts) that makes grounding and electricity work differently.
Just a note, make sure that Google Desktop isn't trying to index your mapped drives. We noticed that performance hit on some people's machine and it can be quite noticeable depending on the system in question (not the mention the systems guys are just *overjoyed* at the idea of dozens of desktop clients indexing their network storage devices).
VBA has been around for quite a bit longer than "a few years", just FYI.
The rest of your bit is one of the reasons as to why there's a lot of crappy programmers/systems engineers and very few good ones. Some people's brains are constructed in a fashion that allows them to rapidly assimilate and store data on a great many things. Most technologies are somewhat related to tech that came before. Being able to make that association between old and new means you don't have to relearn anything from scratch, and so you can keep up better than people who can't make that logical connection.
I sympathize with you on this, though to some extent it's the nature of the beast. Things like AD, LDAP, etc etc. are great to use in a lab, but man when you're using it in a multi-site, global forest for a Fortune 500 company, I don't care what you learned in school, you *have* to relearn it all over again in a realistic setting.
Now, personally, I've long considered that the IT career should be something like this:
Helpdesk/phone support -> desktop support -> systems support -> systems administration -> systems engineering -> network engineering --?--> management
Obviously some will disagree with me, but in my experience these all build on each other (with allowances for what exactly those things mean in different organizations).
Unfortunately, almost every single one of those things is horribly silo'd in an organization of any size, and there's almost never a formal way for people to advance between those disciplines other through sheer determination.
Anyway, I could go on and on, but it's 3:30am here and I should have been asleep hours ago!
Except that apparently IT workers are in such demand that employers are complaining that they can't retain them.
The solution, in true supply-demand style, is that employers need to be adjusting to the desires of the employees they desire. It isn't a matter of "growing up", it's a matter of HR and middle-management actually doing some brainstorming and research to figure out how they can retain employees. I realize that for a lot of people this is a weird way to think, particularly for those that grew up pre-computer revolution and during decades of the cold war when employers *rarely* had to fight for employees' attentions, but it seems like an adjustment that will need to be made.
Keep in mind, too, that real wages are way down when accounting for inflation compared to previous generations of workers, school costs a lot more, and a Bachelor's doesn't get you what it used to in terms of job security. New entry-level workers are getting (in adjusted terms) significantly less for the same amount of effort than their parents did, and I think that's really at the core of the problem here.
Are there new grads with unrealistic expectations? Sure. But if we take the article (and other articles I've seen in business trade mags over the last year) at face value, and the entire industry is rife with this attitude, and the business world needs these workers, then the business world needs to adjust, not the other way around. (And the conspiracist in me somewhat suspects that this rash of articles over the last year or so is one method of trying to manipulate prevailing social attitudes so that businesses don't *have* to do the work of changing).
You both have it wrong, and vastly overestimate how much many doctors make. The average is very top heavy, and many medschool graduates have gigantic loan debt.
Sure, a profitable specialty and/or a private practice may boost their earnings later, but for a good number of years they're not particularly well paid.
That said, if there are, as it seems to be claimed often, tons of cheap labor, why isn't the overnight support of servers outsourced?
The answer is probably a mixture of inexperience, unnecessary adherence to the old in-house-server-room model (in the case of some offices), or just plain cheap-assed-ness (is that even remotely close to being a real word?) on the part of the bean counters.
This is the prevailing American thought process in business.
However, what the first wave of companies that first started outsourcing to other countries for IT in the early 2000's are finding is that certain tasks can be sent out to another culture/country/timezone, and others can't (not effectively, anyway).
As an example, we have an outsourcing project that has documents scanned and sent to the pacific rim for editing and markup. The IT staff on that side maintains the server, but when things change or don't go right, they go to me first. Why? Simple: I'm in their time zone, work the same hours as they do, speak the language fluently, and have the ability not only talk to the technical people on the outsourcing end, but translate for the non-technical people on our end.
Similarly, companies (the smart ones that actually pay attention and analyze their work processes), are realizing that often if you outsource software development to another culture/country/timezone, you lose certain qualities that are essential to business, such as the ability to rapidly adapt and the ability to QC software. I can't tell you how many devs I've talked to over the last 6 years who say they spend as much time fixing/cleaning up outsourced code as they do building new product.
The *really*simple* tasks in IT are getting outsourced, no doubt. But the *smart* businesses are realizing that creative processes don't work so hot when outsourced (and I mean "creative" in the sense of dynamic business product building, not just graphic designers and what not). A 12 hour minimum delay and/or 4am collaboration meetings are not conducive to making money with innovative products.
The diet made a lot more sense when the majority of our population didn't live in city centers and did physical work on farms (or other that required large amounts of physical labor). That huge breakfast with eggs and sausage and pancakes went a long way to keeping you moving.
I'm not as big a fan of the carbofad as you apparently are, but when you work in an office, you just don't need as much caloric intake as you did when you were out fixing fences. Makes sense that the FDAs recommended daily intake would change.
The point being that they've had those chains for decades, along with videogames as a significant social pastime, and don't have the same sort of rapid increase in obesity (there's some, but there's also been a huge increase in nutrition for both countries in the last 40 years).
> Blaming McDonald's is kind of silly. Don't raise your kids on a diet of McDonald's. It is supposed to be a treat and not a diet.
Actually you can blame them for marketing. It is a known fact that marketing affects people and they market a lot. Their marketing is directly connected to the amount of fast food people buy. If it wouldn't be, they wouldn't do the marketing as that wouldn't be worth of it.
Wouldn't it make more sense to educate people about how advertising/marketing works? I know a lot of colleges these days have classes on how advertising works that get put into intro psych classes, maybe it needs to be put into some sort of high-school class regiment, too. Home-ec or something.
It's pretty unAmerican to suggest that people can't advertise their (perfectly legal) products at all.
I'm of the opinion that creepy dudes are also more prevalent today because of access to creepy dude material is much easier to come by.
"creepy dudes" aren't more prevalent, but media coverage of the "creepy dudes" (see: To Catch a Predator, formerly known as "Dateline") is a HUGE revenue generator, so it ends up getting talked about more, worming its way into your subconscious, and then it gradually becomes tacitly accepted that there's a serial child rapist around every street corner
Oh please. In the 60's and 70's cars were larger and more dangerous than any SUV today. No anti-lock brakes, death trap seatbelts, huge blind spots, giant engines, etc.
The solution is to have kids be aware of cars when they're in the streets, not be scared that SUVs have somehow made playing in the street more dangerous.
Astonishing. I can't believe that you actually think that people should be taken seriously when commenting on something they haven't read. This probably explains why its so common for people to believe those who pontificate on politics or religion, without any regard to whether those people have any sort of credible references that would indicate that they know what the hell they're talking about.
tl;dr version: read the article before commenting, you lazy ass
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No, it stems from the imageboard software used for 4chan (and its predecessors) having anonymous posting as the default state (and sometimes the only accepted state for posting). "Anonymous" as a sort of collective entity took that moniker and ran with it.
Having taken apart both the Rock Band and GH2/80's controllers, he's the skinny.
They both have microswitches. However, the Red Octane ones have them positioned on a circuit board with square switch moldings and a spring mechanism that makes it almost impossible for the switch to misfire.
The RB controller has a similar looking strum bar from the outside, but on the inside there are two switches in poorly constructed/cut posts with some horribly offset screws, inside of which are mounted one microswitch each. Those switches have little arms that extend towards the face of the guitar, and are flicked by arms on the strumbar molding. The "rebound" (such as it is) is provided by two small pieces of light foam opposite each switch on the strum bar (no springs involved at all). (as an aside the "star power" tilt switches are much cheaper looking/sounding and placed more poorly in the RB guitar)
I like RB a lot more than GH3, but the built quality is really poor on the RB guitar (and the Rockband Drum Kit, for that matter), for reasons that go way beyond switches (since they both have the microswitches, just different kinds).
Here's to hoping that some decent 3rd party drum kits and guitars come out damn soon.
Saudi Arabia has enough sway over OPEC that it won't happen unless Saudi Arabia says it will.
How come people seem to take pride in "not having downtime"? Talk about workaholics. Personally, my thought is that the ideal situation for IT is that things are humming along and no one is screaming for my attention. Sure there's stuff I could be doing, but not right this minute, because I'm competent enough to have my bairns and processes operating properly.
Which won't happen because the US supplies a lot more than just dollars to Saudi Arabia (who sets the dollar == petrodollars standard, don't let anyone tell you otherwise). The US supports the House of Saud, and so long as we keep selling them $20B of arms to keep them in power, the USD is safe in that regard.
More like Heisenberg's Tech Support.
You have to observe their motion indirectly to get a true sense of their behavior :D
Hey, fanboy. Stop your drooling for a few seconds and re-read that he said it happens with MacBooks. Not *all* Mac Books. It doesn't happen with *all* individual machines in that Dell (or Toshiba, etc) line, either.
There's nothing magical about the components in an Apple laptop (probably using almost the same damn parts) that makes grounding and electricity work differently.
Just a note, make sure that Google Desktop isn't trying to index your mapped drives. We noticed that performance hit on some people's machine and it can be quite noticeable depending on the system in question (not the mention the systems guys are just *overjoyed* at the idea of dozens of desktop clients indexing their network storage devices).
Also, I don't think you can brick the thing via centralized management, which is often a necessity for corporate devices.
VBA has been around for quite a bit longer than "a few years", just FYI.
The rest of your bit is one of the reasons as to why there's a lot of crappy programmers/systems engineers and very few good ones. Some people's brains are constructed in a fashion that allows them to rapidly assimilate and store data on a great many things. Most technologies are somewhat related to tech that came before. Being able to make that association between old and new means you don't have to relearn anything from scratch, and so you can keep up better than people who can't make that logical connection.
I don't mind kids so long as I don't have to raise them :D
"code monkey" applies to any programmer who simply bangs out code and are interchangable parts
it's got nothing to do with the ethnicity of the programmer
Or, just plan ahead and buy booze on Saturday instead of Sunday?
I would argue that your statement is correct. I fully support a person's right to engage in unhealthy behaviors.
I sympathize with you on this, though to some extent it's the nature of the beast. Things like AD, LDAP, etc etc. are great to use in a lab, but man when you're using it in a multi-site, global forest for a Fortune 500 company, I don't care what you learned in school, you *have* to relearn it all over again in a realistic setting.
Now, personally, I've long considered that the IT career should be something like this:
Helpdesk/phone support -> desktop support -> systems support -> systems administration -> systems engineering -> network engineering --?--> management
Obviously some will disagree with me, but in my experience these all build on each other (with allowances for what exactly those things mean in different organizations).
Unfortunately, almost every single one of those things is horribly silo'd in an organization of any size, and there's almost never a formal way for people to advance between those disciplines other through sheer determination.
Anyway, I could go on and on, but it's 3:30am here and I should have been asleep hours ago!
Except that apparently IT workers are in such demand that employers are complaining that they can't retain them.
The solution, in true supply-demand style, is that employers need to be adjusting to the desires of the employees they desire. It isn't a matter of "growing up", it's a matter of HR and middle-management actually doing some brainstorming and research to figure out how they can retain employees. I realize that for a lot of people this is a weird way to think, particularly for those that grew up pre-computer revolution and during decades of the cold war when employers *rarely* had to fight for employees' attentions, but it seems like an adjustment that will need to be made.
Keep in mind, too, that real wages are way down when accounting for inflation compared to previous generations of workers, school costs a lot more, and a Bachelor's doesn't get you what it used to in terms of job security. New entry-level workers are getting (in adjusted terms) significantly less for the same amount of effort than their parents did, and I think that's really at the core of the problem here.
Are there new grads with unrealistic expectations? Sure. But if we take the article (and other articles I've seen in business trade mags over the last year) at face value, and the entire industry is rife with this attitude, and the business world needs these workers, then the business world needs to adjust, not the other way around. (And the conspiracist in me somewhat suspects that this rash of articles over the last year or so is one method of trying to manipulate prevailing social attitudes so that businesses don't *have* to do the work of changing).
You both have it wrong, and vastly overestimate how much many doctors make. The average is very top heavy, and many medschool graduates have gigantic loan debt.
Sure, a profitable specialty and/or a private practice may boost their earnings later, but for a good number of years they're not particularly well paid.
That said, if there are, as it seems to be claimed often, tons of cheap labor, why isn't the overnight support of servers outsourced?
The answer is probably a mixture of inexperience, unnecessary adherence to the old in-house-server-room model (in the case of some offices), or just plain cheap-assed-ness (is that even remotely close to being a real word?) on the part of the bean counters.
This is the prevailing American thought process in business.
However, what the first wave of companies that first started outsourcing to other countries for IT in the early 2000's are finding is that certain tasks can be sent out to another culture/country/timezone, and others can't (not effectively, anyway).
As an example, we have an outsourcing project that has documents scanned and sent to the pacific rim for editing and markup. The IT staff on that side maintains the server, but when things change or don't go right, they go to me first. Why? Simple: I'm in their time zone, work the same hours as they do, speak the language fluently, and have the ability not only talk to the technical people on the outsourcing end, but translate for the non-technical people on our end.
Similarly, companies (the smart ones that actually pay attention and analyze their work processes), are realizing that often if you outsource software development to another culture/country/timezone, you lose certain qualities that are essential to business, such as the ability to rapidly adapt and the ability to QC software. I can't tell you how many devs I've talked to over the last 6 years who say they spend as much time fixing/cleaning up outsourced code as they do building new product.
The *really*simple* tasks in IT are getting outsourced, no doubt. But the *smart* businesses are realizing that creative processes don't work so hot when outsourced (and I mean "creative" in the sense of dynamic business product building, not just graphic designers and what not). A 12 hour minimum delay and/or 4am collaboration meetings are not conducive to making money with innovative products.
The diet made a lot more sense when the majority of our population didn't live in city centers and did physical work on farms (or other that required large amounts of physical labor). That huge breakfast with eggs and sausage and pancakes went a long way to keeping you moving.
I'm not as big a fan of the carbofad as you apparently are, but when you work in an office, you just don't need as much caloric intake as you did when you were out fixing fences. Makes sense that the FDAs recommended daily intake would change.
The point being that they've had those chains for decades, along with videogames as a significant social pastime, and don't have the same sort of rapid increase in obesity (there's some, but there's also been a huge increase in nutrition for both countries in the last 40 years).
Actually you can blame them for marketing. It is a known fact that marketing affects people and they market a lot. Their marketing is directly connected to the amount of fast food people buy. If it wouldn't be, they wouldn't do the marketing as that wouldn't be worth of it.
Wouldn't it make more sense to educate people about how advertising/marketing works? I know a lot of colleges these days have classes on how advertising works that get put into intro psych classes, maybe it needs to be put into some sort of high-school class regiment, too. Home-ec or something.
It's pretty unAmerican to suggest that people can't advertise their (perfectly legal) products at all.
"creepy dudes" aren't more prevalent, but media coverage of the "creepy dudes" (see: To Catch a Predator, formerly known as "Dateline") is a HUGE revenue generator, so it ends up getting talked about more, worming its way into your subconscious, and then it gradually becomes tacitly accepted that there's a serial child rapist around every street corner
Oh please. In the 60's and 70's cars were larger and more dangerous than any SUV today. No anti-lock brakes, death trap seatbelts, huge blind spots, giant engines, etc.
The solution is to have kids be aware of cars when they're in the streets, not be scared that SUVs have somehow made playing in the street more dangerous.
This is a file server, not a streaming media server or gaming machine. FPS are mostly (if not entirely) irrelevant.
Astonishing. I can't believe that you actually think that people should be taken seriously when commenting on something they haven't read. This probably explains why its so common for people to believe those who pontificate on politics or religion, without any regard to whether those people have any sort of credible references that would indicate that they know what the hell they're talking about.
tl;dr version: read the article before commenting, you lazy ass