Well in an ideal world it would be me, though the merits of me being supreme world dictator is a separate discussion altogether.
I'm not claiming to have the best answer on how to accomplish this goal, I'm just saying that it SHOULD be the goal. Actual implementation is just a (social) engineering problem/
Let's face it -- if we're going to require a college degree for every job that doesn't involve a spatula, hat, and stack of assorted meat patties, we need to consider that to be part of a public education system, paid for by the public. Instead we have ridiculous tuition rates that don't correspond at all to how much it costs to teach a class. And maybe we should consider that not all professors need to have PhDs, either.. A PhD implies that you are performing new and *valuable* research. This should be a title reserved for an elite few, not a prerequisite to teach a class.
That's a bit of a straw man.. I made no suggestions about how resources should be allocated, only that they shouldn't be hoarded. Direct resource allocation rarely works out well.. But I bet a maximum wage, even with a really high cap, could do a lot to prevent the kind of sociopathic crap we see in the business world. Another measure more specific to the topic at hand would be to only open the stock market once every quarter, before the sales reports, forcing people to actually invest in business rather than just trying to game the system. We have the kind of resources today that we could essentially have a world where the average person could live a comfortable life style and only work 10 hours a week to support it. But instead we have decided as a society to have a few ridiculously wealthy people at the top and a bunch of peons fighting over whatever coin the corporatocracy chooses to toss our way.
Money may be theoretically infinite, but the resources that it represents are not. It's not about the size of your slice of the pie, but of the proportion of that slice. And most of us have tiny little slivers because some greedy assholes came and took more than their share.
But here's the thing.. The money is circulating for no particular reason. There are not goods and services being exchanged in the frequent trading financial sector. It's a casino with the house skimming off the top. Banks could exist and function perfectly well without Wall Street. They would just have to back to traditional usury rather than bald-faced fraud.
This is a bit off topic, but all you/.ers need to see this movie, if for no other reason than that it is an allegory for memory management, stack frames, orphaned pointers, etc.
The problem is that real security work doesn't pay the bills. Oh sure, you can make tons of money as a pen tester. But how many people make more than a pittance looking for new security vulnerabilities in the legitimate market? Not enough to justify specializing in it. I could have gone into security -- I enjoyed writing the occasional buffer overflow attack in high school -- but the only people willing to pay you to do this for a living are also the people that are willing to kill you and your family if you screw up.
As someone who majored in CS and minored in Philosophy, I can tell you this is a horrible idea. Philosophy, like CS or (to to some degree) math, can be learned though self-teaching in your spare time. Also, employers actually see it as a deterrent, to the point that I quit listing my minor on my resume.
Fully automated systems are discouraged.. But what if a big law firm wantted to analyze all previous decisions on a subjuct, then apply a statistical liklihood that a given judge will decide in your favor, based on the judge's previous judicial bias?
It's not much different than trying to predict the stock market, really. Though it does add a few more variables.
Not necessarily... I bet writing an expert system for legal questions would be fascinating. Or hell, even just a legalese to English translator would be a non-trivial problem.
I used that tactic too.. I actually was in HS when the Columbine thing happened, so I did get called in for questioning a few times because I would discuss things like explosives with my friends. The other nerds got bullied, but nobody even tried anything with me. It might also have something to do with the fact that I carried a hammer in my backpack, just in case.
what do you mean 'what happened'? Nothing happened, it was never designed with that concept.
If that is what you are looking for, maybe you shouldn't buy games that don't have them?
It's simple amazing that a LAN game has no douchebags compared to a MMORPG. Did you figure that out all by yourself?
Did you miss the whole "Baldur's Gate spiritual successor" angle they touted so often in the years it was in production? BG had (rudimentary) multiplayer and a sandbox feel, while still having a great story.
maybe more sandbox this time? multiplayer?
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Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed DA, but what happened to the ability to do whatever the hell you want (i.e. kill guards, rob houses, etc.) from BG? And what about the awesome multi-player support from NWN? It was the perfect multi-player RPG experience -- you could play with friends, but you didn't have to deal with a bunch of MMO douchebags.
Your goal is admirable, however every attempt at direct redistribution of wealth seems to fail. There are just too many who are willing to live on nothing rather than work. More success has been had with programs to ensure other basic needs, such as medical care, child care, etc. that allow people to improve their lives without being burdened by illnesses or family obligations.
Well, if you look carefully, I never claimed to be smart, only that I have a high IQ score. But yes, I understand that success (at least in school) often correlates with a high IQ. I've not seen many studies on how well it correlates with success in the business world, however. I suppose I could look it up, but then I get back to the original problem I described -- I'm lazy.
IQ has very little to do with success.. Take me, for instance. I tested at 156 at age 16, scored in the top 1% for all the standardized tests, and my peers basically assumed I'd be a billionaire today. Turns out though that I'm lazy and have a bad attitude, which prevents me from getting ahead.
I really oppose IQ tests. They gives kids with high scores unrealistic expectations and a sense of entitlement. I would have probably been a lot better off if I had grown up thinking I have to work hard just like everybody else.
I my not be hip, but I'm 27, and I enjoy.net programming immensely. C#, unlike Java, favors practicality over ideology. Partial classes, lambda functions, anonymous delegates, and extension methods are an anethema to OOP, but they're practical and, dare I say it, kind of fun. Java is a lumbering retarded beast, python has scalability issues, and perl is illegible. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of FOSS software, but MS has done a good job with its dev tools.
You know why it lacks polish? Because developers work on FOSS projects mainly as a means to prove their skills, and nobody who cares about open source contributions gives a crap about UI. There's also a few devs who do it for fun, and UI development is probably the least fun part of development.
Well, the problem is a circular dependency.. Unfortunately, the maintainers of this project don't seem to care, and I don't have the time or resources to fork it.
Seeing how much the government wastes, i would not consider that a glowing endorsement. And hiring feds is significantly cheaper than hiring contractors. Pay them more and you might even get good ones.
There are 2 types of people who would accept this kind of condition: those who suck and those who are desperate. The desperate will leave as soon as their crises are over with, leaving only those who suck and can't find decent employment elsewhere.
I thought the problem itself was that they were wardriving, not that they were stealing personal info. Kinda like people don't like teir pictures being on Street View...
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So does that mean the kid in China making 50 cents an hour is paid fairly, just because they can't get better elsewhere?
Well in an ideal world it would be me, though the merits of me being supreme world dictator is a separate discussion altogether.
I'm not claiming to have the best answer on how to accomplish this goal, I'm just saying that it SHOULD be the goal. Actual implementation is just a (social) engineering problem/
Let's face it -- if we're going to require a college degree for every job that doesn't involve a spatula, hat, and stack of assorted meat patties, we need to consider that to be part of a public education system, paid for by the public. Instead we have ridiculous tuition rates that don't correspond at all to how much it costs to teach a class. And maybe we should consider that not all professors need to have PhDs, either.. A PhD implies that you are performing new and *valuable* research. This should be a title reserved for an elite few, not a prerequisite to teach a class.
That's a bit of a straw man.. I made no suggestions about how resources should be allocated, only that they shouldn't be hoarded. Direct resource allocation rarely works out well.. But I bet a maximum wage, even with a really high cap, could do a lot to prevent the kind of sociopathic crap we see in the business world. Another measure more specific to the topic at hand would be to only open the stock market once every quarter, before the sales reports, forcing people to actually invest in business rather than just trying to game the system. We have the kind of resources today that we could essentially have a world where the average person could live a comfortable life style and only work 10 hours a week to support it. But instead we have decided as a society to have a few ridiculously wealthy people at the top and a bunch of peons fighting over whatever coin the corporatocracy chooses to toss our way.
Money may be theoretically infinite, but the resources that it represents are not. It's not about the size of your slice of the pie, but of the proportion of that slice. And most of us have tiny little slivers because some greedy assholes came and took more than their share.
But here's the thing.. The money is circulating for no particular reason. There are not goods and services being exchanged in the frequent trading financial sector. It's a casino with the house skimming off the top. Banks could exist and function perfectly well without Wall Street. They would just have to back to traditional usury rather than bald-faced fraud.
This is a bit off topic, but all you /.ers need to see this movie, if for no other reason than that it is an allegory for memory management, stack frames, orphaned pointers, etc.
Not true. I'm quite fond of Christ's teachings.. I just don't think he has super powers. In fact I'm pretty sure he never directly claimed to.
1999 I think it was.. That was the last time I went to Defcon, and there were tons of Feds giving speeches about how much they needed good hackers.
The problem is that real security work doesn't pay the bills. Oh sure, you can make tons of money as a pen tester. But how many people make more than a pittance looking for new security vulnerabilities in the legitimate market? Not enough to justify specializing in it. I could have gone into security -- I enjoyed writing the occasional buffer overflow attack in high school -- but the only people willing to pay you to do this for a living are also the people that are willing to kill you and your family if you screw up.
As someone who majored in CS and minored in Philosophy, I can tell you this is a horrible idea. Philosophy, like CS or (to to some degree) math, can be learned though self-teaching in your spare time. Also, employers actually see it as a deterrent, to the point that I quit listing my minor on my resume.
Fully automated systems are discouraged.. But what if a big law firm wantted to analyze all previous decisions on a subjuct, then apply a statistical liklihood that a given judge will decide in your favor, based on the judge's previous judicial bias? It's not much different than trying to predict the stock market, really. Though it does add a few more variables.
Not necessarily... I bet writing an expert system for legal questions would be fascinating. Or hell, even just a legalese to English translator would be a non-trivial problem.
I used that tactic too.. I actually was in HS when the Columbine thing happened, so I did get called in for questioning a few times because I would discuss things like explosives with my friends. The other nerds got bullied, but nobody even tried anything with me. It might also have something to do with the fact that I carried a hammer in my backpack, just in case.
what do you mean 'what happened'? Nothing happened, it was never designed with that concept.
If that is what you are looking for, maybe you shouldn't buy games that don't have them?
It's simple amazing that a LAN game has no douchebags compared to a MMORPG. Did you figure that out all by yourself?
Did you miss the whole "Baldur's Gate spiritual successor" angle they touted so often in the years it was in production? BG had (rudimentary) multiplayer and a sandbox feel, while still having a great story.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed DA, but what happened to the ability to do whatever the hell you want (i.e. kill guards, rob houses, etc.) from BG? And what about the awesome multi-player support from NWN? It was the perfect multi-player RPG experience -- you could play with friends, but you didn't have to deal with a bunch of MMO douchebags.
Your goal is admirable, however every attempt at direct redistribution of wealth seems to fail. There are just too many who are willing to live on nothing rather than work. More success has been had with programs to ensure other basic needs, such as medical care, child care, etc. that allow people to improve their lives without being burdened by illnesses or family obligations.
Well, if you look carefully, I never claimed to be smart, only that I have a high IQ score. But yes, I understand that success (at least in school) often correlates with a high IQ. I've not seen many studies on how well it correlates with success in the business world, however. I suppose I could look it up, but then I get back to the original problem I described -- I'm lazy.
IQ has very little to do with success.. Take me, for instance. I tested at 156 at age 16, scored in the top 1% for all the standardized tests, and my peers basically assumed I'd be a billionaire today. Turns out though that I'm lazy and have a bad attitude, which prevents me from getting ahead.
I really oppose IQ tests. They gives kids with high scores unrealistic expectations and a sense of entitlement. I would have probably been a lot better off if I had grown up thinking I have to work hard just like everybody else.
I my not be hip, but I'm 27, and I enjoy .net programming immensely. C#, unlike Java, favors practicality over ideology. Partial classes, lambda functions, anonymous delegates, and extension methods are an anethema to OOP, but they're practical and, dare I say it, kind of fun. Java is a lumbering retarded beast, python has scalability issues, and perl is illegible. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of FOSS software, but MS has done a good job with its dev tools.
You know why it lacks polish? Because developers work on FOSS projects mainly as a means to prove their skills, and nobody who cares about open source contributions gives a crap about UI. There's also a few devs who do it for fun, and UI development is probably the least fun part of development.
Well, the problem is a circular dependency.. Unfortunately, the maintainers of this project don't seem to care, and I don't have the time or resources to fork it.
Seeing how much the government wastes, i would not consider that a glowing endorsement. And hiring feds is significantly cheaper than hiring contractors. Pay them more and you might even get good ones.
There are 2 types of people who would accept this kind of condition: those who suck and those who are desperate. The desperate will leave as soon as their crises are over with, leaving only those who suck and can't find decent employment elsewhere.
I thought the problem itself was that they were wardriving, not that they were stealing personal info. Kinda like people don't like teir pictures being on Street View...