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How Much Money do Programmers Really Make?
bigman2003 asks: "ADTmag.com recently released a list of average salaries for IT workers. Usually when I see these lists, I find out that I am grossly below the average salary. But this time I was very surprised to see that I am actually above the average! This is partly because of a recent raise, but it is also because the numbers quoted in this survey are lower than what I've seen the past from other surveys. This report quotes about $56,000 for the average application developer. I am a web developer (sure, laugh all you want) and I wanted to know specifically: How much are other web developers were making? And- How many hours a week does it take you to make it?"
Hrm... seems this disparity isn't only in the music industry. More and more, the IP makers aren't earning as much as the IP owners. What should be done to correct this disparity? Personally, I'd like to see a forced reduction in the life and value of IP. This includes patents and copyrights. Patents last too long in today's fast-moving technology world. Two, three and more generations of the same basic product are developed before a patent runs out. And in the case of the GIF compression method, the patent practically outlasted the usefulness of the 'device' in question.
Copyright reductions should go without saying. These copyright vampires are robbing the public of measureless amounts of art. I wonder what politicians we can bribe into supporting this directive?
Off topic? Crap... I was just thinking about how IP owners routinely rape their resources and I went off on this rant... sorry.
Microsoft Sucks, F/OSS Rocks. I get mod points now right?
.sig line. Either, you don't support open source (Slashdot, part of the OSDN...) or, you feel that most posters here are twits who know only those few phrases.
It's a real sign of the times when someone comes to Slashdot with that as their
See, back in my day, when Democrats went to Democratic conventions, nobody sat there and bitched about how far to the left everyone was.
And how would I characterize the job market in the area (S CA)? Actually, I would say that it is pretty healthy. Healthiest that I've seen since 2001.
Hopefully Allen Greenspan won't go and screw it all up again. I really hope he takes this New Orleans thing seriously and actually cuts rates at the next meeting. If he raises them, we're going into a major recession. If he keeps them the same, we still might, and considering that there hasn't been an emergency meeting to lower rates, that's probably what's going to happen in the best case.
Unless your skills involve laying bricks or picking up dead bodies, you can probably expect demand for your profession to go down a bit.
"So how do those young earthers explain fossils?"
The record of destruction of the flood. The regularized sequence is explained by three causes: ecological zonation, hydrodynamic sorting, and differential escape. The mechanism for producing the flood is catastrophic plate techtonics.
For a good overview of the young-earth view, two good books are Origins: Linking Science and Scripture and Understanding the Pattern of Life (links are using my Amazon referral link because I'm a selfish, greedy bastard). A description of the current theory of the flood is contained at globalflood.org. All of these are by practicing scientists, although the author of "Origins" has not been publishing in the secular world for a while. Todd Wood, coauthor of "Understanding the Pattern of Life" is well-published secularly (you can search for "Wood TC" on medline). Likewise, the author of the global flood website is well-published (the first few publications listed are creationist, the rest are secular), and is a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
More detail about the fossil sorting of the flood is available in the book Flood Geology, though I think some of the articles there are a bit dated, and I have not personally read through it all.
If you're interested in a good young-earth website, see Northwest Creation Network's Wiki, or the more comprehensive but not always as good Answers in Genesis website.
As Ken Ham would say -- "what would you expect from a global flood? Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth."
Personally, I lean young-earth but have not done enough study both biblically and scientifically to make a decisive stand on the topic.
Engineering and the Ultimate
"The fossils that we dig-up are not bone. They are stone."
Fossilization can occur quickly. There's actually been a fossilized ham found. Likewise there has been a fossilized baby found in a 3,000-year-old grave. Mt. Saint Helens has fossilized trees.
It doesn't take a lot of time, just the right conditions. See Dinosaur bones--just how old are they really?. And this was written before the discoveries of soft tissue within dinosaur bones.
One of the quotes from the article:
"The amount of time that it takes for a bone to become completely permineralized is highly variable. If the groundwater is heavily laden with minerals in solution, the process can happen rapidly. Modern bones that fall into mineral springs can become permineralized within a matter of weeks."
Engineering and the Ultimate
great references! i've been looking for some good sites and books like these lately.
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