so the next cycle begins
as businesses insource ?
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wombats ? Plenty of room for them in national, state and reserves. For the rest of us who have stock to keep in and paddocks to walk, great holes in fences and sudden appearance of trip hazards are serious issues. Along with the massive erosion the things cause with tons of earth sliding into waterways. About time the city dwellers left the working industries that feed them alone
Did anyone trust manglement ? Ever ? One might trust ones direct report, but after that, never. As for metrics, how does one evaluate problem solvers who see fixes for the new or complex new problems hours or days ahead of others ? A bit like parachutes. Mere excess baggage, until you need one. In complex systems, someone who has indepth knowledge of how parts connect can see how changes affect this. As for clever tools, AI, expert systems, knowledge engineering, yeah right. First, as the knowledge engineers discovered, asking someone to tell the engineer how to make them jobless guarantees inadequate information and a useless tool. it also misses metaknowledge, stuff you know but do not realise. So counting keystrokes, bits pushed becomes the norm, devaluing any creative skills. But as for replacing bosses with AI, dont start with bosses, start with CEO and board members. Its clear from the disappearance of many companies of great vintage in last two decades that company boards are wastes of oxygen
Blank Reg: Indeed. What problem does it solve is still a useful assessment tool for any tech. With the Great Job Quitting phenomena is USA, Tree Changing on Oz , Lying Flat and other culturally equivalent behaviours elsewhere I get the impression that technoUtopia visions are losing their allure. More people just want a quiet life unhassled by thieving companies, lying kleptomaniac pollies and thousands of feral rules makers at all levels of government
Wow, processed dead tree carcass with marks on it changes human behavior ? Who knew ? So agencies which admit they dont know what laws control or authorise their activities will be be obedient international citizens ? The same TLAs that spy on their own regulators ? Not that I expect any other other spookeries to be any different. By definition laws dont apply to them. So disappointing that commentards could be so gullible.
Bob, Oz truckers on long haul trips like East coast to Perth, a mere 2500 km or so have decent sleeper cabins for the reason you cite. When their daily hours are coming they can park on the truck pull-off areas along the main highways, joining grey nomads in mobile homes or big SUVs towing stonking caravans, bikers like myself and sane car drivers napping instead of dying. Sometimes there are fueling points with cafes and less often, accommodation. Some of the Nullabour accommodation leaves some preferring to sleep up road in scrub. As for electric trucks, Bwahh hahaha. Load and range. Pulling a B-double or in NT, a semi with 5 trailers road-train is big diesel engine or nothing.
Pollies lying. Colour me unsurprised. Bureaucrats and grifters misrepresenting computer models. colour me irritated. The business as usual mantra being flogged is based on a worst case scenario from years ago that has already been avoided. At most a rise of 1.5 C is possible if CO2 increases at such low concentrations has any effect. Given its very narrow and saturated absorption IR band the use of linear predictions based on concentrations is dubious at best. Perhaps it has become a case of ideas having people, not the other way around.
Documenting quirks and details is also futile. Nobody reads it and it gets lost quickly, especially if some document managing indexing and storage program is used. So the last person clued becomes a Martin. The few self styled indispensables I have run across are usually next to useless and mere sociopaths who only fool manglement.
so much orbital crap that anything smaller than a 5 Km diameter boulder will be broken up on way down. Full orbital asteroid defence which might let remote areas have working phones. One briefly had visions of Earth freezing as the satellite swarms block the sun for a few years. Pity the astronomers with new shiny powerful and obstructed telescopes coming online in a decade
not only that but shirt pockets are too damn small.
Phone on pants pockets !! They get bent or smashed when on tractor, motorcycle, boat or plane and inaccessible at all times. I want safari style shirts with big pockets top and bottom. (You thought I was going to write big breast pockets, didn't you ?) Carrying a phone in top pocket essential for ease of access and security. I use it as a backup navigation device when flying gliders. Easy access needed if I need to fire up XCSoar, but no, android smart phones are getting bigger with crappier daylight invisible screens. And yet the b* stylists are making all pockets smaller. Even my new emergency services shirts and jackets have smaller pockets and we usually carry a fair bit of stuff. Oddly, belly slack increased to merkin proportions. Kevlar motorcycle pants ditto. I digress.
In keeping with tenor of article, practicality is swept aside by clueless designer droids. You want a differentiated product that buyers will want ? Daylight readable screen. Dell did it once, Sony Experia good second. All others are a failure. Minimize Google snoopware, maximise backup and recovery to local storage, either PC or SD card.
Odd. Devuan runs M$Team adequately for me with only release version one before current being stuffed. Froze after loading. Rollback fixed that until revision came out. Not all capabilities like background change available that I can see but it has worked for the volunteer organisation I am in. Using old i7 laptop. However, for same regular meetings I am either participant or guest. How that works I dont know. Took a while to stop it autostarting also. The upgrades are big so I assume usual modern approach of avoiding common standard libraries and creating binary blobs is used.
another target for ransomware gangs because of the need to add comms to any and everything for entertainment, safety, including the ubiquitous surveillance as an unspoken objective. Can you see the lines of vehicles blocking the motorways ? Time to rebuild that 1970s pre-crap on engine vehicle and update valve seats for modern fuels. If IT companies cant do basic security, why do you think any other industry else can ? Even aviation stuffs up occasionally and they have lots of experience, now ignored by certain manufacturers
software from a artery hardening obesity generating firm bought by a shambling corporate arterial scholeric ruin of a firm downsized to a skeleton.
Now if the coffee would improve back to what it was ten years ago there would be something to buy in emergencies. As it is, I'd rather do without. @Flywheel, the maccas icecream machines are apparently a tale in themselves. Manglement at its finest.
Once IBM used to write good software. I still remember from middle 1990s the voice control of a laptop running AIX. Yes, IBM laptop running AIX natively. The voice control handled multiple accents in a very noisy echoing computer fair. To now buy stuff from a burger slinger suggests all the good management, let alone software engineers are long gone.
Had a similar experience 5 years ago in conversation with a senior airline captain. After the AF crash some airlines put their pilots in a Cessna 172 to do a circuit. Half could not manually fly a simple plane anymore. Some companies began to mandate their pilots do regular GA flying to keep basics current. However I note that some of the best acrobatic pilots fly heavies for income or are glider pilots so they have very current skills in manual aircraft maneuvering. Just hearsay.
In the current SMS spam deluge on a near new phone , I sometimes get Google alerts that incoming is spam. How does Google know that if I have not set up SMS scanning , sharing or anything else with them and are logged out ? If the Telco was checking I could understand that they might note unusual volumes coming from random numbers, but a remote entity ? Any suggestions for an Android mail client that is not trying to send everything like address books to Google or otherwise snoop. Even willing to spend money.
Indeed. I note that the controllers of antisocial media block news they disagree with, regardless of its sources. So they have a dilemma. Allow the rabid unrestricted along with the very unfashionable or if they pick and choose, accept that they are publishers. The phone system analogy holds up here.
Depends on OS, hardware and language in use I suppose. COBOL move SPACES to DATAROW sort of thing or rely on hardware or OS to clear memory contents before reallocation. (unlikely IMHO, anyone care to clarify this?)
As for swap over network, so VMWare are doing same as Suns diskless workstations did , oh about early 1990s ? Progress ? Some concepts keep being re-implemented.
To be fair to VMWare, virtualised memory as in swap. paging et al is not what they are claim IMHO. What they are talking about is virtualising physical RAM capacity. In short, doing what IBMs hypervisor has done for years, managing AIX (and now Dead Rat probably) instances hosted on Power hardware where the physical RAM can be pooled into groups such that the virtual servers can "borrow" unused RAM from other servers in the same pool. Maximum and minimum RAM configurations are set to limit hogging. In short, X86/x64 getting what real OS have had for years. In commercial operations, slowing the developers so the bean counter end of season/financial year runs can go faster is useful.. Something the old IBM did well.
I must be old. Dont use M$ stuff much, but still like XP or earlier, and Office 2003 or earlier was about as user friendly as M$ got. I know, export to PDF for which the LibreOffice can do or other software. Its mostly earlier versions of Excel that I like. Much of my documentation still starts off in vi. At least it has a consistent user interface, despite underlying OS. Used it since DOS 6 days and SysV.2
Still amazed how booting in a BSD, Linux is fast. Same PC on Win 10 is like dragging a truck thru a particularly bad swamp. The Free Korean Office package is good also, with the benefit you can choose menus OR a ribbon/aka modern interface
same here. In previous life on arrival over the year I found decades old manual procedures that could be automated with some shell code mostly. Set up code to run over year at appropriate times or on the common admin server, documenting what code did what and reason for it. Needless to say on third year when I left, a common comment when something time expired ( remote passwords, etc) was, Oh you've been xxxxxed" . No suck-cessor (sic) read docu of course.