This type of stuff happens all the time. A lot of people failed to realize that running a business is harder than it seems when you don't. "If you build it, they will come" is a false statement. "If you build it, and people want it, if they don't you need to market it so they want it, if they do they need to know about it, if they know about it they need to like it better then any alternatives... To do this you need funding"
Students shouldn't feel compelled to go to college to Play Sports. They should be gaining additional education say via Vocational Training. Or colleges should just suck in their pride and just make a Football or Baseball Major, much like Music or Arts major where a good portion of your study is practicing. If the student is so inclined to get a traditional education they can take a double major, or get a minor in a Topic.
Colleges are part of narrative. "If you get a college degree then you will be successful." Is played over and over. While your success is more based on basic economics, Supply and Demand. STEM Graduates right now are actually the few group making a good middle wage living. Why? Their is enough Demand for such work and the supply is limited so not everyone can have their own STEM Graduate. So the salary is reflective of that. back in the early 2000's When the tech bubble popped, the demand for tech workers drops (As the Y2k patches were done, and they got their fancy new websites, and they have New PC's and server, all running nice and smooth), combined with rules that open the border for Foreign IT workers, so the supply went up and the demand went down and a lot of people lost their job. Now as time went on the Demand and supply is more or less in balance now, so it is back to middle class living. Other students may or may not be studying something that reflects the overall market's needs or there are just so many of them that the hirers can have their pick. The issue is too many people now have college degrees today. So jobs that normally shouldn't require one, now does. Just because the pool of people is there.
Now my solution to the problem would be the following. Enhanced vocational training: Colleges are not and shouldn't be job focused. That is what vocational training is for. This should be expanded to help meet the demand of the current set of high demand jobs. If you are happy to be a programmer, you don't need a computer science degree, and the computer science degree shouldn't focus so much to teach students how to program in today's popular language.
Harder college: Colleges have lowered the bar, so they will get students out. Because they know they need the paper saying they graduated to make a career out of themselves. A lot of students who work hard can get a degree... However that doesn't mean they have learned anything from it. Having a College degree should should have more meaning. To do this we need a higher drop out rate, but having the Enhanced vocational training, to catch the students.
Encourage companies to come up with clear career paths: This is one of the big problems today. In order to advance in a career we need to jump from job to job, getting a better title and pay each time. Companies if they want to keep employees need a clear, followable and recordable career path. Back in the old days there was a clear path from working in the Mail Room to CEO. Today we have automation system that fill a lot of spots in working up. Who needs a mail room when everything is emailed? Much of the Data Entry positions are not needed due to system integration, and all digital communication. The math to calculate and do analysis are done by computers too. So there are Gaps in the workforce meaning there is a steeper learning curve for advancement. Companies need to realize this and adjust their policies to encourage advancement inside the company.
What I would like is the phone manufactures to enable the FM receivers in their devices so I can listen to the Radio from my phone, without a data plan, or having to be in Wi-Fi.
Most people are perfectly alright with Windows. It runs the software they want to run. Most people who I have talked too really don't care as much about the political party, but a set of issues they stand for. The media seems to like to bucket all the issues into one spot Right vs Left.
Which makes it difficult when they try to place foreign leaders into such buckets. Like the Current Pope, Is he Liberal or Conservative. He has views that crosses American expectation of such values.
Debian is one of the few Linux distributions, that is trying to be a Linux distribution. Other tend to try to copy Windows or OS X, and be Mr. Happy Friendly Desktop System.
I don't want Desktop Linux. I want a Workstation Linux. A system where I can do work on, not a system that is hiding where my actual stuff is.
If I want a Desktop system like Windows or OS X, I will use Windows or OS X... But I want a system that is uniquely Linux. And Debian is a set of a few Distributions that offer that.
I get the feeling that Harvard does a poor job at covering ethics and human resource management. I got an MBA from a different school (post Enron) and ethics were ingrained as part of every class.
When I hear people saying it is those MBA who do such evil, I remember taking MBA classes warning us about such actions and the long term consequences.
Perhaps my trading was unique, or Harvard is different because it prestigious name cases them to ignore actual changes in business.
HIPAA prevents sharing of any personal heal information but we can use to track trends and get a general population view.
Otherwise how would we know that x condition is a 1 out of a billion or 1 out of 10,000 unless the doctors share the data even without electronic means?
While advanced culture, there is the human worry that they are not tough enough to handle the world. Watching gladiators kill lions and elephants is the same as use watching Zombie movies. Half of the interest is what is going on in your head, you try to figure out what you would do in their place. Then the outcome will normally please you. The gladiator dies, validating that your different approach is better The animal dies when the gladiator does what you would do, validating your idea. The animal died with a different method, then you learned a new survival idea.
The moral issue of human and animal life, can so easily be shoved away with propaganda (still today) that for most of the population it doesn't even occur to them.
The issue with Harvard and the other Ive League schools it the pretension they they as individual are better then everyone else. Granted getting into Harvard takes a lot of work, but there are a slew of smart people who could have gone but chose not to for a huge set of reasons. But what these schools do well isn't their education, but the people you get in contact with will keep you in the network of successful people. Now being around these people has its pluses and minuses. You pick up good skills however sometimes general comparison is loss from being in an environment of competing ambition.
Doctors especially older ones hate Electronic Health Records (EHR), they don't understand why they should use them, it takes longer to enter the data, they don't get any additional detail from the patient, it just seems a waste of time and money.
But the key advantage is when you can do analysts on the data, find matches and trends. Not on one patient but on a population. If I were willing to donate, it shouldn't be because one person needs it at that location it should be a wider search.
I got mugged they stole my cellphone my wallet and a kidney!
The reason why paying for organs is dangerious is it offers a revenue source towards a scares system. There will be a lot of people not willing to sell their kidney at any price. So we will have a market where the price will not match demand and supply. When things are not balanced you will get factors often via black market to try to get it balanced. So taking kidneys from unwilling victims, where the price is high enough to take the risk of doing the crime, and because it isn't your kidney it can be sold at market price.
We have two kidneys for a reason, we can live on one, but as we get older one can fail, so we still have another one to keep us going.
This isn't a get rich quick scheme. You already need to be rich to play at that level. Sure once in a while someone will get lucky and pick the right stocks at the right time and they will make a ton of money. However betting against stocks in general is a bad business decision, as most stocks trend up over the long haul. Normally doing this is a way to reduce risk in your portfolio by smoothing out the varability in risky stocks. So say you bet against Ford and favor Tesla.
Tesla goes up and down very rapidly, while Ford is more steady. So if you average the stocks you get less varability overall.
Now the real issue I would have betting against the market is your money isn't going towards helping the company. Companies sell stock so they can bring in additional money to expand operations, while the shorting of stock just stays in the financial market.
Still, with a modern OS (Targeted towards desktop users like Windows), it should be expected play DVD's, by itself. Removing Floppy support, sure I get that we don't use floppy disk anymore. But we can still buy DVD's. It seems premature to remove DVD support.
As for the Legacy games.... They should have just updated the core to stop backwards compatibility and kept them, as they are for the most part still enjoyed.
The problem is there is a hierarchy structure while for IT projects the Manager, Systems Architect and Project Manager really need to be on the same level, and not try to take over each other's roles.
The Manager: On Time, Manpower, and Budget is a lot more work than it sounds, doing such work means you cannot really focus Technical Details, even if you take a good tech and give him a manager job, he will either make bad tech decisions, xor fail to manage effectively. The same with having the manager trying to be a PM or a SA and vice versa. The PM is track of the state of the project, handling time lines, Insuring dependencies are met. The SA deals with the technical decisions, how things should work, and if there are road blocks they come up with alternate solutions, or work with the PM to figure out new dependencies or adjust time lines. The Manager, looks the the PM Time line and ensures resources are available to work on it, and that they are doing it the way the SA needs it to be done.
In politics, a successful career seems to legitimizes the stance of the political party. Finding evidence that the person was far from perfect and vilify him in the eyes of the people, pinpoints how the political party is more corrupt than the other side.
Not necessarily. If you factor in your bonuses from your current job. How much the company chips in your 401k, how much for Health Care.... It adds up to your actual salary, not just your paid salary. So if you were making 50k you can safely say with bonuses etc you were getting 75k.
Well probably busy weekend where he didn't see it escalate. But I expect for the most part this story doesn't sound that much newsworthy in begin with. I mean who in their right mind still uses sourceforge.
For many of these folks, they don't see themselves as being the bad guy. But Innovative entrepreneurs, or activist for some cause. They don't seem to realize, how much harm they are actually causing.
This notoriety, could be similar to the notoriety a sex offender has. Not of a lone rogue, fighting the good fight while bucking the system. But as that creepy guy who has access all your personal data, and will use it to profit off of it, and causing people like your grandmother to suffer, during their golden years.
Tron, Star Trek, Star Wars... These were from different times, rebooting and adding sequels wile makes money, hurts the brand over time.
The charactors and plots become less relatable to newer generations.
Let's take Star Wars, today we relate more with the empire then with the rebels. With terrorist following extremist versions religions, the idea of a small band of Rebels fighting a winning against an army is more scary from our current point of view. We are no longer worried about the Communists with big nations sucking up other ones. We have a new sets of issues where we need a new set of science fiction universes to explore.
Springs in general only bend a tiny bit on any particular part that is why they are so reliable. If you take a spring and bend it at one point say with two needle nose pliers. It will not spring back, but you will have a bent spring.
Sure some artist can make it. But that is because they have additional business skills other then their art skills. A great artist who cannot operate like a business will not succeed on their art alone, they will need help from some others in order to do such.
The classical artist were commissioned from nobility, or the church. Today you will need an agent or be diverse enough to deal with the bullshit to get your stuff sold.
The issue with music. Some music just cannot tour well (not all musians are attractive, dance, or have an appealing personality), and so they should make their money from selling recordings.
In general human intelligence tries to turn back natural entropy. And we are getting better at it. I expect given time and we don't kill ourselves out of some silly social/political disagreements we cold in time find ways to "repair" the universe.
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This type of stuff happens all the time. A lot of people failed to realize that running a business is harder than it seems when you don't.
"If you build it, they will come" is a false statement. "If you build it, and people want it, if they don't you need to market it so they want it, if they do they need to know about it, if they know about it they need to like it better then any alternatives... To do this you need funding"
Students shouldn't feel compelled to go to college to Play Sports. They should be gaining additional education say via Vocational Training.
Or colleges should just suck in their pride and just make a Football or Baseball Major, much like Music or Arts major where a good portion of your study is practicing. If the student is so inclined to get a traditional education they can take a double major, or get a minor in a Topic.
Colleges are part of narrative.
"If you get a college degree then you will be successful." Is played over and over.
While your success is more based on basic economics, Supply and Demand.
STEM Graduates right now are actually the few group making a good middle wage living. Why? Their is enough Demand for such work and the supply is limited so not everyone can have their own STEM Graduate. So the salary is reflective of that. back in the early 2000's When the tech bubble popped, the demand for tech workers drops (As the Y2k patches were done, and they got their fancy new websites, and they have New PC's and server, all running nice and smooth), combined with rules that open the border for Foreign IT workers, so the supply went up and the demand went down and a lot of people lost their job. Now as time went on the Demand and supply is more or less in balance now, so it is back to middle class living.
Other students may or may not be studying something that reflects the overall market's needs or there are just so many of them that the hirers can have their pick.
The issue is too many people now have college degrees today. So jobs that normally shouldn't require one, now does. Just because the pool of people is there.
Now my solution to the problem would be the following.
Enhanced vocational training: Colleges are not and shouldn't be job focused. That is what vocational training is for. This should be expanded to help meet the demand of the current set of high demand jobs. If you are happy to be a programmer, you don't need a computer science degree, and the computer science degree shouldn't focus so much to teach students how to program in today's popular language.
Harder college: Colleges have lowered the bar, so they will get students out. Because they know they need the paper saying they graduated to make a career out of themselves. A lot of students who work hard can get a degree... However that doesn't mean they have learned anything from it. Having a College degree should should have more meaning. To do this we need a higher drop out rate, but having the Enhanced vocational training, to catch the students.
Encourage companies to come up with clear career paths: This is one of the big problems today. In order to advance in a career we need to jump from job to job, getting a better title and pay each time. Companies if they want to keep employees need a clear, followable and recordable career path. Back in the old days there was a clear path from working in the Mail Room to CEO. Today we have automation system that fill a lot of spots in working up. Who needs a mail room when everything is emailed? Much of the Data Entry positions are not needed due to system integration, and all digital communication. The math to calculate and do analysis are done by computers too. So there are Gaps in the workforce meaning there is a steeper learning curve for advancement. Companies need to realize this and adjust their policies to encourage advancement inside the company.
What I would like is the phone manufactures to enable the FM receivers in their devices so I can listen to the Radio from my phone, without a data plan, or having to be in Wi-Fi.
Most people are perfectly alright with Windows. It runs the software they want to run.
Most people who I have talked too really don't care as much about the political party, but a set of issues they stand for. The media seems to like to bucket all the issues into one spot Right vs Left.
Which makes it difficult when they try to place foreign leaders into such buckets. Like the Current Pope, Is he Liberal or Conservative. He has views that crosses American expectation of such values.
Debian is one of the few Linux distributions, that is trying to be a Linux distribution.
Other tend to try to copy Windows or OS X, and be Mr. Happy Friendly Desktop System.
I don't want Desktop Linux. I want a Workstation Linux. A system where I can do work on, not a system that is hiding where my actual stuff is.
If I want a Desktop system like Windows or OS X, I will use Windows or OS X... But I want a system that is uniquely Linux. And Debian is a set of a few Distributions that offer that.
I get the feeling that Harvard does a poor job at covering ethics and human resource management.
I got an MBA from a different school (post Enron) and ethics were ingrained as part of every class.
When I hear people saying it is those MBA who do such evil, I remember taking MBA classes warning us about such actions and the long term consequences.
Perhaps my trading was unique, or Harvard is different because it prestigious name cases them to ignore actual changes in business.
HIPAA prevents sharing of any personal heal information but we can use to track trends and get a general population view.
Otherwise how would we know that x condition is a 1 out of a billion or 1 out of 10,000 unless the doctors share the data even without electronic means?
While advanced culture, there is the human worry that they are not tough enough to handle the world. Watching gladiators kill lions and elephants is the same as use watching Zombie movies. Half of the interest is what is going on in your head, you try to figure out what you would do in their place.
Then the outcome will normally please you.
The gladiator dies, validating that your different approach is better
The animal dies when the gladiator does what you would do, validating your idea.
The animal died with a different method, then you learned a new survival idea.
The moral issue of human and animal life, can so easily be shoved away with propaganda (still today) that for most of the population it doesn't even occur to them.
The issue with Harvard and the other Ive League schools it the pretension they they as individual are better then everyone else.
Granted getting into Harvard takes a lot of work, but there are a slew of smart people who could have gone but chose not to for a huge set of reasons.
But what these schools do well isn't their education, but the people you get in contact with will keep you in the network of successful people.
Now being around these people has its pluses and minuses. You pick up good skills however sometimes general comparison is loss from being in an environment of competing ambition.
Doctors especially older ones hate Electronic Health Records (EHR), they don't understand why they should use them, it takes longer to enter the data, they don't get any additional detail from the patient, it just seems a waste of time and money.
But the key advantage is when you can do analysts on the data, find matches and trends. Not on one patient but on a population. If I were willing to donate, it shouldn't be because one person needs it at that location it should be a wider search.
I got mugged they stole my cellphone my wallet and a kidney!
The reason why paying for organs is dangerious is it offers a revenue source towards a scares system. There will be a lot of people not willing to sell their kidney at any price. So we will have a market where the price will not match demand and supply. When things are not balanced you will get factors often via black market to try to get it balanced. So taking kidneys from unwilling victims, where the price is high enough to take the risk of doing the crime, and because it isn't your kidney it can be sold at market price.
We have two kidneys for a reason, we can live on one, but as we get older one can fail, so we still have another one to keep us going.
This isn't a get rich quick scheme. You already need to be rich to play at that level.
Sure once in a while someone will get lucky and pick the right stocks at the right time and they will make a ton of money. However betting against stocks in general is a bad business decision, as most stocks trend up over the long haul. Normally doing this is a way to reduce risk in your portfolio by smoothing out the varability in risky stocks.
So say you bet against Ford and favor Tesla.
Tesla goes up and down very rapidly, while Ford is more steady. So if you average the stocks you get less varability overall.
Now the real issue I would have betting against the market is your money isn't going towards helping the company. Companies sell stock so they can bring in additional money to expand operations, while the shorting of stock just stays in the financial market.
The thing is most people don't care about the license. Unless it means that they are prohibited from running the software.
ITWAE (In Technolgy We Acronym Everything)
Still, with a modern OS (Targeted towards desktop users like Windows), it should be expected play DVD's, by itself. Removing Floppy support, sure I get that we don't use floppy disk anymore. But we can still buy DVD's. It seems premature to remove DVD support.
As for the Legacy games.... They should have just updated the core to stop backwards compatibility and kept them, as they are for the most part still enjoyed.
The problem is there is a hierarchy structure while for IT projects the Manager, Systems Architect and Project Manager really need to be on the same level, and not try to take over each other's roles.
The Manager: On Time, Manpower, and Budget is a lot more work than it sounds, doing such work means you cannot really focus Technical Details, even if you take a good tech and give him a manager job, he will either make bad tech decisions, xor fail to manage effectively. The same with having the manager trying to be a PM or a SA and vice versa.
The PM is track of the state of the project, handling time lines, Insuring dependencies are met.
The SA deals with the technical decisions, how things should work, and if there are road blocks they come up with alternate solutions, or work with the PM to figure out new dependencies or adjust time lines.
The Manager, looks the the PM Time line and ensures resources are available to work on it, and that they are doing it the way the SA needs it to be done.
In politics, a successful career seems to legitimizes the stance of the political party. Finding evidence that the person was far from perfect and vilify him in the eyes of the people, pinpoints how the political party is more corrupt than the other side.
Not necessarily. If you factor in your bonuses from your current job.
How much the company chips in your 401k, how much for Health Care.... It adds up to your actual salary, not just your paid salary.
So if you were making 50k you can safely say with bonuses etc you were getting 75k.
Well probably busy weekend where he didn't see it escalate. But I expect for the most part this story doesn't sound that much newsworthy in begin with. I mean who in their right mind still uses sourceforge.
For many of these folks, they don't see themselves as being the bad guy. But Innovative entrepreneurs, or activist for some cause.
They don't seem to realize, how much harm they are actually causing.
This notoriety, could be similar to the notoriety a sex offender has. Not of a lone rogue, fighting the good fight while bucking the system. But as that creepy guy who has access all your personal data, and will use it to profit off of it, and causing people like your grandmother to suffer, during their golden years.
Tron, Star Trek, Star Wars...
These were from different times, rebooting and adding sequels wile makes money, hurts the brand over time.
The charactors and plots become less relatable to newer generations.
Let's take Star Wars, today we relate more with the empire then with the rebels. With terrorist following extremist versions religions, the idea of a small band of Rebels fighting a winning against an army is more scary from our current point of view. We are no longer worried about the Communists with big nations sucking up other ones. We have a new sets of issues where we need a new set of science fiction universes to explore.
Springs in general only bend a tiny bit on any particular part that is why they are so reliable. If you take a spring and bend it at one point say with two needle nose pliers. It will not spring back, but you will have a bent spring.
Sure some artist can make it. But that is because they have additional business skills other then their art skills. A great artist who cannot operate like a business will not succeed on their art alone, they will need help from some others in order to do such.
The classical artist were commissioned from nobility, or the church. Today you will need an agent or be diverse enough to deal with the bullshit to get your stuff sold.
The issue with music. Some music just cannot tour well (not all musians are attractive, dance, or have an appealing personality), and so they should make their money from selling recordings.
In general human intelligence tries to turn back natural entropy. And we are getting better at it.
I expect given time and we don't kill ourselves out of some silly social/political disagreements we cold in time find ways to "repair" the universe.