The Army is already a 2nd tier service with lower standards. Short of creating an entirely new branch of the service, they aren't going to get away from the fact that they are the Army and get whatever cultural baggage comes along with that.

Watering down bootcamp is really not going to address the real problem.

They spun off the Air Corps and there wasn't nearly as much of a culture gap going on there.

Are you kidding? The whole "brogrammer" narrative that the media wants to shove down our throats is PERFECT for this kind of mindset. A manager with the "brogrammer" mindset won't have any problems with that kind of bluntness. He probably prefers it.

Cut the crap. Get shit done.

With 2 or 3 groups of people trying to outshout each other so they can each hear themselves, a set of headphones just isn't going to cut it. You will have to damage your hearing in order drown them all out.

Some people can't do anything but shout and this quickly escalates. It's like a Chinese restaurant full of chinese patrons versus some American chain.

Past a certain point you just have to take a Slashdot break.

The problem with such drone factory setups is that you are thrown together with all sorts of people who may or may not have any direct relation to your own duties or department. It's not that you have all of your team together in one place. You have this big sausage grinder with no thought put into it.

You have extra noise and distractions people can all see each other's business (which may or may not be appropriate).

Open plan in a Fortune 100 is NOTHING like the same thing with a Valley startup. One is dehumanizing and the other fosters teamwork.

You are rambling on about the apparent trustworthiness of the employees. You're not saying anything about how much management trusts labor. You are completely confusing the issue.

Higher rates of Aspbergers among ethic Germans is not the issue here.

I know a 93 year old that has no problems with a mouse.

It's not the technology. It's the user.

Kids are comfortable with anything and barely acknowledge that there are different computing platforms. While the middle aged and older are inflexible and generally unwilling to deviate from what they are used to, the real problem users are helpless nitwits that won't be saved by fancy new tech meant to save "average people".

Doesn't matter if it's a Mac or a tablet.

Such people actually do exist in IT. They just aren't going to be applying for a job at a law firm.

The people at that law firm are entirely too full of themselves (which is common enough).

Drives that old are pretty irrelevant in a discussion about multi-terrabyte drives. While I do have a single one of those notorious 1.5TB Seagates, all of it's siblings died a long time ago.

Seagate has done quite a bit lately to earn it's bad reputation.

Recreating my machine from install media is really not that gruesome of a prospect. Then again, I don't run the kind of OS that makes a naieve sort of backup of one's user files a problematic nightmare requiring special arcane tools to deal with.

For the small stuff, I would rather use extra SATA ports (if I have any) for load balancing IO.

It's the mountains of multimedia data accumulated over 20+ years that worries me. Now rebuilding that from the original media would take awhile.

Backing up 6TB is no problem. Backing up several times that isn't either. You just have to be willing to spend money on extra hardware. Pretty trivial for companies, not so much for cheapskate end users.

> RAID5 is great and all, but once a hard drive fails and you go non-redundant, waiting for the array to rebuild and hoping no other drive goes bad in the meantime is quite stressful.

Not if you have more than one copy.

RAID is no replacement for backups.

The law isn't the problem. Judges are corrupt and willing to consider inappropriate things like "will this cause the profits of a corporation to suffer" rather than just applying the law. It was a well crafted bit of technical trickery meant to follow the letter of the law.

The court chose to ignore that. Lower courts then chose to ignore the mental gymnastics the higher court came up with.

They changed the rules and refused to allow Aereo to change to accommodate them.

ANY technology is ultimately "loophole" technology. Aereo is not unique in this. People will sell anything to anyone as long as it makes them a buck and doesn't get them arrested. Even an arrest might not slow some people down.

That's capitalism.

Agile rats try to outmanuver lumbering dinosaurs.

> You realistically can't backup 6TB worth of data

Sure you can. Just get another drive. Redundancy and backup strategies haven't changed just because drives are bigger. If anything, you have a bit of an advantage now as overall drive prices are lower (even on the high end).

Thanks to Seagate, I have tested this very procedure several times over the last year.

Not even all American SENATORS believe in that "playbook". Never mind the actual population.