They are angry that there are some people who are excessively rich while a lot of them struggling. The problem is they think these excessively rich people (who probably should be paying a lot more for taxes) are like Scrooge Mc'Duck and have this big vault filled with cash they they are just sitting on. These people wealth is in their net worth, not their Cash on hand. Their worth is in investments and a lot of thing where their money is floating around the economy.
The real problem is we don't have a definite way to define someones wealth. A small farmer's net worth could be Millions of dollars but they are living a middle class or a lower middle class life, because their net worth is spread across a lot of expenses and money that he cannot use for himself. While someone else making 100k a year who net worth isn't Millions of dollars is living a better life then the farmer.
Taxing people more who live in excess is a good thing. But the trick is to figure out who is living in excess and who isn't, because their money is working for them, and they cannot use it for anything they want.
The debate is pointless. that is the problem, It isn't offering a solution to the problem, all it is saying yea we are angry. So what.
One time I was frustrated from debugging some C code and a non coder figured they may try to help... In a brink of what he though was genius he went to me. "I found your problem you spelled Studio wrong!" Granted compiling the code I got less errors but it didn't solve the problem (I didn't quite want to explain that meant standard input output).
Yes... Probably a bit more secure too... I am not trying to be negative but to keep things in perspective. C is an OK language and it is good for high performance apps. But in my opinion it was too over used. There were other languages out there if used to create a lot of these systems there would be less crashes, and security problems. C took performance gain by being very low level of a language, this is all well and good. However Because its fame for speed developers who try to use the "Best" to do their work choose C. Not realizing its low level leads to more development time on the average, and also more often then not shortcuts in development that leads to crashes and security holes.
C doesn't have a native string class. Most of the work we do as developers is string manipulation. Having strings as a char pointer becomes very risky, and pointers them self are risky too. Now these risks are great when you need to do real performance tuning. But for most apps the difference between a C program and program written in a higher level language may be 1 second per million calculations, sure they add up when you get billions of calculation but for most uses doing hundreds or thousands of calculations before stopping and waiting at the prompt, isn't really worth it. Most developers are either not trained well enough, or their work environment doesn't make it ideal for C coding. So they will often use C because it is supposed to be the fastest language. Then do things like Bubble Sorts and linear searches on their data because it is easier to code, which negates the speed of the app. And not being carefull could leave a memory leak, open to a buffer overflow or crash the program (or the computer on older OS's)
Or like any other Major Operating System Update release. Heck I remember Slashodot use to post every freaking Linux Kernel update. At least this is just a major version update.
It is not like the mercedes SUV's entertainment/nav system. Because of the number of people who use these devices. Not just a select few.
Thats what happens when engineers take over running of corporation. Everything is geared towards teaching of maximizing profit minimizing costs in those programs in ultimate end, and even if some programs incorporate business concepts like systems management and so on, the engineers types eventually lack on strategic planning and vision.
The PC business is a tough business to be in. You have a lot of competition. Dell, Lenovo, Apple. The home consumer market is more willing to hold on to their PC for 2 more years and get themselves an iPad or a smart phone. So what is this strategic plan of keeping desktops to the future? There isn't really much. You might as drop it to a smaller firm who will nurture it more, and try to really fit in the niche market segment.
As I am using a Lenovo Think Pad right now, I have to say IBM is happy, Lenovo is happy, and the people who made the transitions from IBM to Lenovo are happy. The problem is sometimes companies get too diverse, and need to sell off units that they are distracting from their core business or perhaps may be hindering it mind share.
AMD had a real good run in the early 2000's AMD actually was selling more PC's with its chips then Intel. Then Intel Core 2 Duo processors came out and AMD had to go back to catch up mode again.
But I have stopped watching the processor market as closely as I did before. Then I wanted to build myself a PC... I was like Dag-Nabit! They seem to name all the chips with a code name and a number... Now I would expect the larger number next to the code name would mean it is a better chip then the previous code name. However when you change code names around then you start over. I miss 80x86
When people ask what you do in your spare time. How do you answer them without their eyes glazing over? Or worse listening to you intently then asking you join their Militia or just reporting you to the FBI?
I only wish if a guy were to make some ground breaking research which will get such media attention, that he would have been dressed a little nicer. I am not saying suite and tie type of thing. But not like a punk kid from the 1990's. I mean he is 30 years old. He should dress like an adult.
Hard work is a component to success. Don't let those lazy pot smoking hippies tell you otherwise. Hard work is one component, an important component but there are others. Just working hard is kinda vague. Is working hard working 9-5 doing back breaking labor. Or is it working from 9-5 with some less back breaking work, then go to school for 2 hours every night? Perhaps it is going to school full time and having a part time job. Perhaps is is going to school full time and really focusing on your studies. Some elements of hard work will not get you far. Other will help you more. No working hard will most likely doom you to failure.
But there are other factors too. There are people who you know. There are the resources that you already have or previously acquired. There is a factor of being in the right spot at the right time... But working hard is one of the factors that you can control. And what you are doing how rare is your skill sets really is?
Well whenever there is something new people try it out and realize it isn't like what they are use to and go back to the old way. Confident that they are not a close minded individual.
Yea, it is pretty much like 2004. We we had to deal the GWB or choose Kerry? Bush won because we disliked Kerry more. Now the Obama vs. Republicans. So far most of the GOP doesn't really have a presidential candidate that really sparks anyone's fancy. If I had to pick who should run for the GOP right now I would say Romney has the best chance. However I feel the Tea Party has Poisson the sole for electing a GEO presidential candidate. Just like the Anti-War activists Poisson the sole for Kerry when he ran.
I think there is the real problem when the child has a genius level talent, people put him on this high horse to succeed at everything. But because he expects everything to be easy in life he doesn't learn about working hard, or even putting in any effort. So when they grow up they will not keep a job because they either expect place of employment to treat him like a god (not realizing once you reach 18 you are no longer a child prodigy), or perhaps due to his intelligence get very board with the job and causes more problems then what he is worth.
A real life Dr. House wouldn't have so many people begging him back to stay after all the crap he deals out. They would fire him, and not let him back, even if he can save those extra 20 people a year. Because the cost of the legal suites against the hospital probably creating a situation where hundreds of people probably died because the correct departments didn't get the full funding they could have gotten.
Being a genius doesn't make you a good person, or a useful person. A person with above average intelligence but a strong work ethic can probably be more useful then a genius who never was taught to work hard, and tough it out threw the boring parts.
There is also the fact if they are marked as stupid then they will work to meet that expectation. I have seen a lot of actually smart and talented kids just barely pass school, just because they were labeled as such. Usually a kid at an early age will find what his place in life is and stick with it.
Oh well I guess I am not smart, but I am good at sports so I will be the perfect jock. Well I am not good at sports but people think I am funny so I will be the class clown.... Kids find their Cliques to belong in.
By having a color system, it makes it harder for the large number of posers. The geek who doesn't get good grades, or the Jock who does.
In school personal success is much different then adult thinking.
Now what they really should do. Is stop listening to all the parents who beg, plead and threaten lawsuits for not to keep there kid back a grade, if they fail the class. If they fail the class then they should have to retake it over again, until they pass it. This shouldn't be something to be ashamed of. A lot of smart kids do fail classes for various reasons.
When I was in college I had to take Calculus I twice. The first time I got a C- in it and I wasn't happy with the fact that I didn't absorb the information I was use to in a Math Class. So I took it again and I did much better the second time, and also I felt like I knew the material and what do do with it. Then my following math courses were much easier. We shouldn't punish the children for not getting the material as well as others, there should be a system in place to catch those who falter and try to get them back and going again.
No that is a bad idea. We need more energy diversity not less. Every energy sources has its advantages and disadvantages more sources will give us choice on what to use for our needs.
It is like choosing how to heat your home. You have Electricity, Natural Gas, Propane, Oil, Wood/Wood Pellets... Depending on your location you can choose an optimal solution.
Because they are scientist not engineers. Scientist discover new stuff. Engineers use the new stuff discovered and makes use of it.
In terms of power. The more energy they can save/collect the more they have to use more.
It is the same when Gas prices are lower people buy larger cars. When prices are higher they buy smaller cars.
When the engineer get to use a new better power source smaller/lighter they will try to make it the same size/weight that it had before and use the extra energy it has to do more stuff with it.
Try to imagine how much battery life we can get with a laptop if it needed to follow the same performance specs of a 386 monochrome display laptop. You can probably get months of Uptime at high CPU usage.
So... If they don't do anything and not having clear information on who to monitor and not. They will take heat for people who commit crimes, and are not on their radar and they are inspecting people who will not commit crimes. Or. They come up with a way to profile people without personal judgement and then they they will take heat for that.
Logically if you are going to take heat for either you might as well choose the one where the crime isn't committed.
The key thing to remember is that you are really not that important. Your job may be important and vital to the company but you personally are not and can be replaced. When you leave there may be some transition problems but nothing impossible.
You need to think of yourself as your own company. and You, Inc. has only the resources to have one customer at a time, if your services include full time hours of service.
So if you found a new customer who is willing to pay more for your services, and you feel the risk of swapping customers is worth it, then change.
If you were that valuable to the company you left then the next valuable employee they get they may put more time to make sure they are being compensated competitively.
The problem is if they match their offer. Then they feel like that you now owe them one. And you will not get your raise or promotion anytime soon. Or they will now expect much greater things from you. Overall it is better to take the new offer and put in your notice. That way you leave on good terms, and don't do anything to disrupt the terms you are in.
Exactly why the market is failing. We are demonizing legal tools designed to help spur invention and protect the inventor and/or creator.
The RMS Concept of Open Source is freedom for the end user at the expense of the creators rights. Creating a popularity in the idea that new ideas should be openly shared with everyone else without having to pay for it.
So we have a lot of creative people in colleges and elsewhere coming with new and great things then except for trying to put effort in marketing it and selling it they will put it on the internet hoping it will become popular and if it is popular enough they will get the name popular enough to get a humdrum job, or perhaps selling consulting services to help implement your product. Leaving the big companies to make more profit to hiring these talented people, and selling their products.
Large companies have gotten very efficient. That means they can make money more easily then a smaller company can. However for an economy a companies inefficiencies helps the economy grow. So smaller companies are better then larger one on the whole. But the popularity of open source makes it more difficult for a small company to make and product software for a wide spread market, because it it gets slightly popular there will be an Open Source knock off.
So we are saving thousands of dollars with free software which is costing everyone trillions of dollars in slumping economies.
Black markets (including piracy) happen when a product or service is priced outside the supply demand curve intersect, the variance of black-market activity is how far the price is from the intersect.
So for movies. People want them and they want them now or at least when they want to watch it. -- demand. We have the Internet that is a good median for distribution and most movies are stored digitally now. -- supply
Now many companies are not distributing their movies over the net, or they are priced too high so we get black-market.
Movie companies should sell their movies to different sourced with a non-exclusive contract, even if it means less margins, as the increased volume makes up for it. Sell it on iTunes sell it on Netflix sell it on hulu... The more the better.
I doubt that you will find a good book on general usability. You probably should follow Apples User Interface guidelines, or Windows user interface guidelines.
And hound on your new developers to get it to look and work right. New developers often stick at usability because of many reasons.
1. They want to reinvent the wheel into something cooler and better. This often creates relearning the same lessons on good UI over the years.
2. They don't know how. College usually offers little in User Interface and UI in training. They will try to implement what is easiest.
3. Diverse set of opinions. If you are the Boss make sure they follow your standard otherwise they will make their own.
4. Have the developers listen to the end users. Bring them in on those call and let them sweat it out as the end user calls them an idiot for making the process so convoluted.
I really doubt that giving them a book will help much.
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Because they don't know what they are protesting.
They are angry that there are some people who are excessively rich while a lot of them struggling.
The problem is they think these excessively rich people (who probably should be paying a lot more for taxes) are like Scrooge Mc'Duck and have this big vault filled with cash they they are just sitting on. These people wealth is in their net worth, not their Cash on hand. Their worth is in investments and a lot of thing where their money is floating around the economy.
The real problem is we don't have a definite way to define someones wealth. A small farmer's net worth could be Millions of dollars but they are living a middle class or a lower middle class life, because their net worth is spread across a lot of expenses and money that he cannot use for himself. While someone else making 100k a year who net worth isn't Millions of dollars is living a better life then the farmer.
Taxing people more who live in excess is a good thing. But the trick is to figure out who is living in excess and who isn't, because their money is working for them, and they cannot use it for anything they want.
The debate is pointless. that is the problem, It isn't offering a solution to the problem, all it is saying yea we are angry. So what.
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One time I was frustrated from debugging some C code and a non coder figured they may try to help... In a brink of what he though was genius he went to me. "I found your problem you spelled Studio wrong!"
Granted compiling the code I got less errors but it didn't solve the problem (I didn't quite want to explain that meant standard input output).
Yes... Probably a bit more secure too...
I am not trying to be negative but to keep things in perspective. C is an OK language and it is good for high performance apps. But in my opinion it was too over used. There were other languages out there if used to create a lot of these systems there would be less crashes, and security problems. C took performance gain by being very low level of a language, this is all well and good. However Because its fame for speed developers who try to use the "Best" to do their work choose C. Not realizing its low level leads to more development time on the average, and also more often then not shortcuts in development that leads to crashes and security holes.
C doesn't have a native string class. Most of the work we do as developers is string manipulation. Having strings as a char pointer becomes very risky, and pointers them self are risky too. Now these risks are great when you need to do real performance tuning. But for most apps the difference between a C program and program written in a higher level language may be 1 second per million calculations, sure they add up when you get billions of calculation but for most uses doing hundreds or thousands of calculations before stopping and waiting at the prompt, isn't really worth it. Most developers are either not trained well enough, or their work environment doesn't make it ideal for C coding. So they will often use C because it is supposed to be the fastest language. Then do things like Bubble Sorts and linear searches on their data because it is easier to code, which negates the speed of the app. And not being carefull could leave a memory leak, open to a buffer overflow or crash the program (or the computer on older OS's)
Or like any other Major Operating System Update release.
Heck I remember Slashodot use to post every freaking Linux Kernel update. At least this is just a major version update.
It is not like the mercedes SUV's entertainment/nav system. Because of the number of people who use these devices. Not just a select few.
Thats what happens when engineers take over running of corporation. Everything is geared towards teaching of maximizing profit minimizing costs in those programs in ultimate end, and even if some programs incorporate business concepts like systems management and so on, the engineers types eventually lack on strategic planning and vision.
The PC business is a tough business to be in. You have a lot of competition. Dell, Lenovo, Apple. The home consumer market is more willing to hold on to their PC for 2 more years and get themselves an iPad or a smart phone. So what is this strategic plan of keeping desktops to the future? There isn't really much. You might as drop it to a smaller firm who will nurture it more, and try to really fit in the niche market segment.
As I am using a Lenovo Think Pad right now, I have to say IBM is happy, Lenovo is happy, and the people who made the transitions from IBM to Lenovo are happy. The problem is sometimes companies get too diverse, and need to sell off units that they are distracting from their core business or perhaps may be hindering it mind share.
AMD had a real good run in the early 2000's AMD actually was selling more PC's with its chips then Intel. Then Intel Core 2 Duo processors came out and AMD had to go back to catch up mode again.
But I have stopped watching the processor market as closely as I did before. Then I wanted to build myself a PC... I was like Dag-Nabit! They seem to name all the chips with a code name and a number... Now I would expect the larger number next to the code name would mean it is a better chip then the previous code name. However when you change code names around then you start over. I miss 80x86
I was thinking about making some snide remark about that being the case.
Except for the fact that the driver is custom written for the OS.
When people ask what you do in your spare time. How do you answer them without their eyes glazing over? Or worse listening to you intently then asking you join their Militia or just reporting you to the FBI?
I feel seasick from the demo. Perhaps they should invest in a steady cam... If that is too expensive how about a tripod!
I only wish if a guy were to make some ground breaking research which will get such media attention, that he would have been dressed a little nicer. I am not saying suite and tie type of thing. But not like a punk kid from the 1990's. I mean he is 30 years old. He should dress like an adult.
Hard work is a component to success. Don't let those lazy pot smoking hippies tell you otherwise.
Hard work is one component, an important component but there are others. Just working hard is kinda vague.
Is working hard working 9-5 doing back breaking labor.
Or is it working from 9-5 with some less back breaking work, then go to school for 2 hours every night?
Perhaps it is going to school full time and having a part time job.
Perhaps is is going to school full time and really focusing on your studies.
Some elements of hard work will not get you far. Other will help you more.
No working hard will most likely doom you to failure.
But there are other factors too. There are people who you know. There are the resources that you already have or previously acquired. There is a factor of being in the right spot at the right time... But working hard is one of the factors that you can control. And what you are doing how rare is your skill sets really is?
Well whenever there is something new people try it out and realize it isn't like what they are use to and go back to the old way. Confident that they are not a close minded individual.
Yea, it is pretty much like 2004. We we had to deal the GWB or choose Kerry?
Bush won because we disliked Kerry more.
Now the Obama vs. Republicans. So far most of the GOP doesn't really have a presidential candidate that really sparks anyone's fancy. If I had to pick who should run for the GOP right now I would say Romney has the best chance. However I feel the Tea Party has Poisson the sole for electing a GEO presidential candidate. Just like the Anti-War activists Poisson the sole for Kerry when he ran.
I think there is the real problem when the child has a genius level talent, people put him on this high horse to succeed at everything. But because he expects everything to be easy in life he doesn't learn about working hard, or even putting in any effort. So when they grow up they will not keep a job because they either expect place of employment to treat him like a god (not realizing once you reach 18 you are no longer a child prodigy), or perhaps due to his intelligence get very board with the job and causes more problems then what he is worth.
A real life Dr. House wouldn't have so many people begging him back to stay after all the crap he deals out. They would fire him, and not let him back, even if he can save those extra 20 people a year. Because the cost of the legal suites against the hospital probably creating a situation where hundreds of people probably died because the correct departments didn't get the full funding they could have gotten.
Being a genius doesn't make you a good person, or a useful person. A person with above average intelligence but a strong work ethic can probably be more useful then a genius who never was taught to work hard, and tough it out threw the boring parts.
There is also the fact if they are marked as stupid then they will work to meet that expectation.
I have seen a lot of actually smart and talented kids just barely pass school, just because they were labeled as such. Usually a kid at an early age will find what his place in life is and stick with it.
Oh well I guess I am not smart, but I am good at sports so I will be the perfect jock. ...
Well I am not good at sports but people think I am funny so I will be the class clown.
Kids find their Cliques to belong in.
By having a color system, it makes it harder for the large number of posers. The geek who doesn't get good grades, or the Jock who does.
In school personal success is much different then adult thinking.
Now what they really should do. Is stop listening to all the parents who beg, plead and threaten lawsuits for not to keep there kid back a grade, if they fail the class. If they fail the class then they should have to retake it over again, until they pass it. This shouldn't be something to be ashamed of. A lot of smart kids do fail classes for various reasons.
When I was in college I had to take Calculus I twice. The first time I got a C- in it and I wasn't happy with the fact that I didn't absorb the information I was use to in a Math Class. So I took it again and I did much better the second time, and also I felt like I knew the material and what do do with it. Then my following math courses were much easier. We shouldn't punish the children for not getting the material as well as others, there should be a system in place to catch those who falter and try to get them back and going again.
You don't put in you notice until you have a firm offer letter.
He died.
Sorry to be a downer.
No that is a bad idea.
We need more energy diversity not less. Every energy sources has its advantages and disadvantages more sources will give us choice on what to use for our needs.
It is like choosing how to heat your home. You have Electricity, Natural Gas, Propane, Oil, Wood/Wood Pellets... Depending on your location you can choose an optimal solution.
Because they are scientist not engineers.
Scientist discover new stuff. Engineers use the new stuff discovered and makes use of it.
In terms of power. The more energy they can save/collect the more they have to use more.
It is the same when Gas prices are lower people buy larger cars. When prices are higher they buy smaller cars.
When the engineer get to use a new better power source smaller/lighter they will try to make it the same size/weight that it had before and use the extra energy it has to do more stuff with it.
Try to imagine how much battery life we can get with a laptop if it needed to follow the same performance specs of a 386 monochrome display laptop. You can probably get months of Uptime at high CPU usage.
So... If they don't do anything and not having clear information on who to monitor and not. They will take heat for people who commit crimes, and are not on their radar and they are inspecting people who will not commit crimes.
Or.
They come up with a way to profile people without personal judgement and then they they will take heat for that.
Logically if you are going to take heat for either you might as well choose the one where the crime isn't committed.
Life sucks doesn't it.
The key thing to remember is that you are really not that important. Your job may be important and vital to the company but you personally are not and can be replaced. When you leave there may be some transition problems but nothing impossible.
You need to think of yourself as your own company. and You, Inc. has only the resources to have one customer at a time, if your services include full time hours of service.
So if you found a new customer who is willing to pay more for your services, and you feel the risk of swapping customers is worth it, then change.
If you were that valuable to the company you left then the next valuable employee they get they may put more time to make sure they are being compensated competitively.
The problem is if they match their offer. Then they feel like that you now owe them one. And you will not get your raise or promotion anytime soon. Or they will now expect much greater things from you. Overall it is better to take the new offer and put in your notice. That way you leave on good terms, and don't do anything to disrupt the terms you are in.
Exactly why the market is failing.
We are demonizing legal tools designed to help spur invention and protect the inventor and/or creator.
The RMS Concept of Open Source is freedom for the end user at the expense of the creators rights. Creating a popularity in the idea that new ideas should be openly shared with everyone else without having to pay for it.
So we have a lot of creative people in colleges and elsewhere coming with new and great things then except for trying to put effort in marketing it and selling it they will put it on the internet hoping it will become popular and if it is popular enough they will get the name popular enough to get a humdrum job, or perhaps selling consulting services to help implement your product. Leaving the big companies to make more profit to hiring these talented people, and selling their products.
Large companies have gotten very efficient. That means they can make money more easily then a smaller company can. However for an economy a companies inefficiencies helps the economy grow. So smaller companies are better then larger one on the whole. But the popularity of open source makes it more difficult for a small company to make and product software for a wide spread market, because it it gets slightly popular there will be an Open Source knock off.
So we are saving thousands of dollars with free software which is costing everyone trillions of dollars in slumping economies.
Black markets (including piracy) happen when a product or service is priced outside the supply demand curve intersect, the variance of black-market activity is how far the price is from the intersect.
So for movies. People want them and they want them now or at least when they want to watch it. -- demand.
We have the Internet that is a good median for distribution and most movies are stored digitally now. -- supply
Now many companies are not distributing their movies over the net, or they are priced too high so we get black-market.
Movie companies should sell their movies to different sourced with a non-exclusive contract, even if it means less margins, as the increased volume makes up for it. Sell it on iTunes sell it on Netflix sell it on hulu... The more the better.
Slashdot the home of the Linux developers.
I doubt that you will find a good book on general usability. You probably should follow Apples User Interface guidelines, or Windows user interface guidelines.
And hound on your new developers to get it to look and work right.
New developers often stick at usability because of many reasons.
1. They want to reinvent the wheel into something cooler and better. This often creates relearning the same lessons on good UI over the years.
2. They don't know how. College usually offers little in User Interface and UI in training. They will try to implement what is easiest.
3. Diverse set of opinions. If you are the Boss make sure they follow your standard otherwise they will make their own.
4. Have the developers listen to the end users. Bring them in on those call and let them sweat it out as the end user calls them an idiot for making the process so convoluted.
I really doubt that giving them a book will help much.