Agreed. Status plays a major role too. Oh, and hiding incompetence of course. Happened to me once where I had to tell my boss that his data analysis was not sound and he was drawing wrong inferences from data. The stare I got back was enough to realise it was time to pack my stuff.
As a I-O psychologist and researcher, this is fairly common. A lot of stereotypes are misattributed to the "older worker" and it happens a lot. In this world, organisations almost exclusively focus on attracting "young talent". Yet they fail to understand that older workers are far more experienced. Amongst misunderstandings is the notion that older workers would be (a) untrainable (b) too expensive (c) not creative, and (d) not flexible enough to adapt. This is all ruled out by research, but you know how it works with research. That's just "theory" and management wants "practice".
So in short, you are not alone. As a matter of fact, there is a whole psychological discipline devoted towards this, called the "aging workforce".
The nature of the design employed does not allow for causal inferences. At best, there is a correlation not between longevity, but between the risk of death and consuming coffee. The generalizability is limited to the extent that only one method was applied, making it impossible to establish the true relationship between the two variables, as it most certainly is confounded because the lack any form of control over the variables (e.g., not an experiment). Put in other words, the correlation at best is a rough estimate.
Being a software developer is like serving the army: when you do your job, you are praised. But when you are retiring, you are replaced by younger people with greater stamina and you are not looked after and easily forgotten because you are no longer "part of the project". In addition, when there is a paradigm shift (e.g., from procedural based programming towards OOP), "the company" prefers the new generation as opposed to training the current generation.
BECAUSE it makes me feel special. What else should I do with my overpriced, overdesigned, only 2-USB-ports, MacBook Pro except for showing off? Gonna actually use it? Don't get me started!
Nothing new here. My Mac has been doing this for the past 4 years or so. Ok, it's hibernation actually, but still: I can get to work almost immediately for over years now.
Even if properly maintained, by which properly needs to be interpreted as 'reasonably', the discs would scratch.
Because of the fact that Microsoft produces the XBox, they are juridically responsible for the failure of the product and they should replace defective units.
As stated in the article, Microsoft did produce the units with premeditation: they knew of the problem. You can't hold the end user responsible for defects you put in the machine in the first place, juridically seen that is.
In analogy, it is saying something like 'of course the car would set on fire if you'd actually try to drive it, so please don't'.
...all those series of tubes?
I wonder what they're gonna use instead?
it's all going to be wireless...i just smell it. internet will be one big hotspot. and for porn they will call it the g-spot 2.0...where it all cums together
I couldn't agree more.
I've used Linux as desktop for about 5-6 years till I switched to OS X. I would never go back... UNIX under the hood, awesome graphics and usability on the top.
Ofcoarse I don't know what your relatives want to do with the computer but if it's not gaming and not extensive dvd/media-editing, you might give linux a go. No, don't stop reading, because:
- You can manage the pc from a distance via SSH. - It only took 1h33m on my pc for installing Debian GNU/Linux over a 160KB/s connection with the most common packages like The Gimp, OpenOffice.Org, mediaplayer, Azureus, etc. - Which phone calls? No viruses, no spyware or whatsoever. - Maintenance? Only updates.
It does depend on which distro you want to use but Debian GNU/Linux never failed for me in the last five years.
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That used to be the case, until SSDs came out and I became irrelevant. Damn SSDs took my market!
Agreed. Status plays a major role too. Oh, and hiding incompetence of course. Happened to me once where I had to tell my boss that his data analysis was not sound and he was drawing wrong inferences from data. The stare I got back was enough to realise it was time to pack my stuff.
As a I-O psychologist and researcher, this is fairly common. A lot of stereotypes are misattributed to the "older worker" and it happens a lot. In this world, organisations almost exclusively focus on attracting "young talent". Yet they fail to understand that older workers are far more experienced. Amongst misunderstandings is the notion that older workers would be (a) untrainable (b) too expensive (c) not creative, and (d) not flexible enough to adapt. This is all ruled out by research, but you know how it works with research. That's just "theory" and management wants "practice". So in short, you are not alone. As a matter of fact, there is a whole psychological discipline devoted towards this, called the "aging workforce".
How many lines of code would it take them to implement Nyan Cat??
The nature of the design employed does not allow for causal inferences. At best, there is a correlation not between longevity, but between the risk of death and consuming coffee. The generalizability is limited to the extent that only one method was applied, making it impossible to establish the true relationship between the two variables, as it most certainly is confounded because the lack any form of control over the variables (e.g., not an experiment). Put in other words, the correlation at best is a rough estimate.
Being a software developer is like serving the army: when you do your job, you are praised. But when you are retiring, you are replaced by younger people with greater stamina and you are not looked after and easily forgotten because you are no longer "part of the project". In addition, when there is a paradigm shift (e.g., from procedural based programming towards OOP), "the company" prefers the new generation as opposed to training the current generation.
For which you gotta retrieve a subscription mail in Outlook-format to change client!
Actually, from my POV, I got the same with consoles: how to play FPS without mouse and keyboard?
BECAUSE it makes me feel special. What else should I do with my overpriced, overdesigned, only 2-USB-ports, MacBook Pro except for showing off? Gonna actually use it? Don't get me started!
Nothing new here. My Mac has been doing this for the past 4 years or so. Ok, it's hibernation actually, but still: I can get to work almost immediately for over years now.
Why we need more Jobs? I think one instance is enough.
Even if properly maintained, by which properly needs to be interpreted as 'reasonably', the discs would scratch.
Because of the fact that Microsoft produces the XBox, they are juridically responsible for the failure of the product and they should replace defective units.
As stated in the article, Microsoft did produce the units with premeditation: they knew of the problem. You can't hold the end user responsible for defects you put in the machine in the first place, juridically seen that is.
In analogy, it is saying something like 'of course the car would set on fire if you'd actually try to drive it, so please don't'.
...all those series of tubes? I wonder what they're gonna use instead?
it's all going to be wireless...i just smell it. internet will be one big hotspot. and for porn they will call it the g-spot 2.0...where it all cums together
I couldn't agree more. I've used Linux as desktop for about 5-6 years till I switched to OS X. I would never go back... UNIX under the hood, awesome graphics and usability on the top.
Wow, didn't knew that. That's really cool.
Can you... ...install OSX-apps via ssh? ...update your system via ssh? ...modify user preferences via ssh? ...modify OSX system settings via ssh?
Ofcoarse I don't know what your relatives want to do with the computer but if it's not gaming and not extensive dvd/media-editing, you might give linux a go. No, don't stop reading, because:
- You can manage the pc from a distance via SSH.
- It only took 1h33m on my pc for installing Debian GNU/Linux over a 160KB/s connection with the most common packages like The Gimp, OpenOffice.Org, mediaplayer, Azureus, etc.
- Which phone calls? No viruses, no spyware or whatsoever.
- Maintenance? Only updates.
It does depend on which distro you want to use but Debian GNU/Linux never failed for me in the last five years.
It IS possible! Just hit and a nice input box popups right in your face.
It is a silly thing though...but you can do the exactly the same in nautilus.