Re: Don't hire us....
One of these days, there will be sweet revenge of sorts on these consultants. The consultant will probably be canned for someone younger and cheaper.
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Sir Loin Of Beef says it all.... Manglement forgets about what happens when you put your data on other peoples' servers. Maybe they should forget that also when it comes to profits, bonuses, etc. I'll be glad to hold all their assets for them.
Here in the States, my doctors use the tech. Patient records are in a central repository (mychart, I think). Yet, every office has a fax machine because some doctors don't use the computer and hand over their chart notes to a secretary. When he/she gets around to it, the chart notes get entered. The nice part is that patients and medical staff have access when needed.
A good solution and one of many in the comments. Doctors are not techies. Many can barely use a computer much less anything else tech related. Change for them is hard in this area even if they're keeping abreast of the latest medical publications (which they prefer to be paper based). It's going to take the profession another decade or two before they catch up with the rest of the world.
So, I'm sympathetic to the perspective of those who consider the internet to be a net minus, and have a bit of a hard time coming up with a great counteragument to that view.
It could be the isolation factor mentioned in the article or the being burned by trolls, con artists, etc. While the internet is a good thing in many ways, there is much bad out there and it seems to be getting worse.
I think is part of outsourcing. The app writers (certainly can't call them programmers) attend a few classes, get some paper that says they graduated, and suddenly are not working at outsourced jobs with no clue about what they do. Second thought.... they have a clue. They get to sit around, drink tea, and call home to the family and get paid for it. Any working code is shear luck.
I don't like change. Please, no. I don't like change.
But we're in IT. We're supposed to love change. I guess we should all go install Win10 if we haven't already.
Side note.. I miss the "hours" for post (posted X-hours or X-days ago). GMT Is not my cup of coffee/tea/adult beverage. I note that the articles "time" isn't in GMT... yet.
They could, theoretically, but with all the non-compete agreements, it's not going to happen. Any little guys get pretty much run over. Go look at what happened when Google said they were coming in. Prices dropped where they are but the places they didn't get around to have raised their prices back and in some cases, more.
So 3 billion light-years away... That means the "signals" left there 3 billion years ago. It might help with understanding the beginnings of the universe but coming from "life" seems unlikely. The SETI is still looking for life and I guess that while this research might give us understanding, it won't help them in their goal to find life. It is a fascinating spin-off project though.