Probably not. Just because you made a global stir it doesn't actually mean you are actually smart.
But he should be OK with it. He is against those greedy capitalist making money anyways. He should live in poverty to prove his point. (Granted 500k Pounds, isn't quite poverty)
Hackers are a minority. Liberal Hippies are a huge market that they can make big money off of. They think they are so smart that they can out think capitalism. The capitalist know that and use it to make money off of them.
It isn't funny at all, just smart business. If they fight to get all their money back, they will spend money and chances they will not get it back or only part of it and a bunch of legal battles. So because he is in breach of contract, all bets are off so they will publish the book and make millions of pounds off of it. So they will get their money back and a profit.
Government is good at infrastructure services. They are bad at innovation, and content.
Corporations are bad at infrastructure but good at innovation and content.
A Government Internet Connection will probably reach most Americans and have great up time, and really wouldn't cost us too much more and probably a lot less. However they may not innovate and in 5 - 10 years we will be stuck with a very slow useless connection. Or they will try to force (more) the content we can and cannot get. FCC for the Internet comes to mind...
No the manager isn't constantly viewing you. But he can go around and check in people randomly. You are there to work not goof off. Working from home shouldn't be any different.
Oh NO! Linux has 1% of the desktop market share. And these people buy computers with a Windows License then clear it out and install Linux or Duel boot Linux. At this point Microsoft already has your money. Why do they want to annoy a small group but vocal group of people.
In all seriousness Microsoft Windows for the Desktop can stand against Linux on its own merits alone, it really doesn't suck as bad as the Linux Zealots want you to believe... Also Linux isn't all that great on the desktop too, sure it can do the job well but not really as good as Windows. And that 1% of the people who want to use Linux as a hobby, for work is really that big of a threat to Microsoft? I don't think so. Apple is the threat right now. Linux isn't that big of a deal.
Isn't Ozone good? I mean before the Carbon Global Warming Panic, there was the Hole on the Ozone layer Panic. Does Ozone suppose to block UV rays that causes skin cancer?
A lot of us (Myself Included) prefer to work at the office vs. at home. It gets me out of the house, see and hear different people. Keeps my sleep schedule running smoothly etc...
Home is a place of rest and relaxation, where family matters take priority. Work is a place of energy and work, where family matters are put aside.
It means the company has a poor work at home policy.
For companies to do it right, it means there is a web cam that your manager can turn on and off at different times as well view your screen, your home office should follow particular standards, and you should follow the correct dress code.
When you are working from home, you should expect the same level of oversight that you get when you work in the office.
A country that is the 3rd/4th largest in Land Masses, 3rd in Population, Borders two oceans, friendly relations with its borders. Huge amounts of natural resources....
You called that doomed?
Sure I can see the US loosing its number 1 spot to China, and India (Large populations make big economies), but it far from doomed or reaching its maximum growth. That is mostly due to the success of China and India who for the last century or so, were behind the times so they weren't competitive.
Now the US has its problem. The Debt isn't that big of a deal. Right now bond rates are below average inflation that means other governments are paying us to get a loan. Europe isn't doing so hot now too. And high debts do happen during a depression. Yes we are in a depression... It happens, most of us never been in a depression before so we are thinking that is it is one of those recessions.
But going on perclaiming DOOM, is not going to fix anything, even going on and pointing out the problems in nausea isn't going to help. We need solutions... If you are afraid to start a business, you probably have came up a lot of reasons why you are afraid to do so. Is there any thing the government can do to make it better, then tell your Representative at the correct level (City, State...). If not then what can you do to fix it.
20 years ago, we knew that magnetic media didn't have a long shelf life. You should have known about it back then.
Digital days stays alive better when it is moving. Eg copied from from source to an other, fairly often (every few years). First it allows you to follow a normal migration path from one technology to the next without having archives of out of date storage technology. Secondly most digital storage are based on good old analog method (A magnetic charge of a particular strength, an electrical charge of the correct value, a cut in paper or plastic of a particular depth. Time often damages or corrodes these storage thus ends up causing it to degrade and fail. Copying the data from one source to many other sources remakes those bits anew and those 95% above High charges gets to 99.9999% above 1 charge. Keeping the values correct and current.
I guess they are trying to capatalize on the main reason men join PETA. There is this hot chick he want to lay, but she is in PITA so he pretends he is interested and joins in to get som Sex.
Well if some 150 years ago looks at the USA today. Most major plagues are cured. Poverty now means food clean water and shelter and only 1 tv. A black president of the united states. Things look rosy.
No not entirely. It is a case where different countries have different laws for different procedures. A lot of people come to the US to get procedures that cannot be done in their country or isn't legal. Or Americans go to other countries to get procedures that isn't legal or isn't performed the best here.
If you are rich and a trip to anywhere in the world isn't a big deal you might as well find the best doctor in the world to fix what ails you. This is just one of the PANIC! THE UNITED STATES IS DOOMED... DOOOOOOMMMMEDDD!! I TELL YOU articles. Just to make people more scared that the United States is somehow going to implode all because of those Evil Demrublicratins, who's core ideology when practice to the full extent is quite dangerous.
That explains how Cane and Abel had kids. When Adam and Even only had 2 sons.
So other then evolving from Monkeys we are inter-species hybrid of Monkeys. You know I think that is irreverent enough to get the evangelical christian nuts to support some elements of evolution. Vs accepting that we are descendants of a human monkey hybrid.
Apple migrated from Class Mac OS to OS X (A full rebuild of the OS) and most of the Classic Apps still worked. Apple changed their hardware from PowerPC to Intel. The old PowerPC Apps still run on the Intel system.
Isn't the point of Microsoft.NET platform was to allow for more apps to be cross platform. (No 32bit vs. 64bit) runs on different processors etc... But Microsoft barely made apps using its own stuff. So now they are stuck.
It is quite Microsoft fault. Any idiot knew back 2 decades ago that computing will move to smaller cheaper and less energy systems. Microsoft did nothing towards this idea.
Supply and Demand. Their is either a small supply of people qualified to be such a banker. Or there is such a demand of such a person that they get paid more.
(Most bankers don't make that type of money though)
But the ones who do have to have a Masters Degree, a good deal of work experience and work in a job where if they make a small mistake they are fired and often ousted from the industry, if they decide to leave the bank will need to put in a lot of resources to find a replacement. The guy who does construction can be a school dropout. Small mistakes are accepted, and they can start at any time. If the guy quits the Construction company usually can find a replacement rather quickly.
Now I know what is coming up next. Teacher They are often required to have a Masters Degree, A small mistake will have problems, and sometimes finding a replacement is difficult. Now here is why they get paid less then the banker.
1. a. Their Master Degree is forced. That means the college will water down the Master Degree so most teachers will pass. If the school is known to be too hard on teachers then teachers will not go to the school to get their masters degree. The banker when getting their MBA or Masters in Finance or whatever the school is more concern about giving them a more involved education. If they fail out that is OK. It just shows that they their grads are at a higher standard. And if you do pass it shows you have more guts then the others.
1. b. Education degrees avoids math like the plague. Most Education majors have a sub high school understanding of math (The exception of Math/Science teachers where their pay is collectively joined in with the other teachers pay) There is a strong demand for Math skills.
2. Teachers are actually still easy to replace. Almost everyone has considered being a teacher. Not everyone has considered being a Manager of Taxation and Monetary Regulations. Colleges that have education majors usually always have a large set of students who are majoring in the topic. There is some weeding out and they usually choose a different career path. But the fact there are so many starting points if supply gets low replacements are quick to come in.
3. Protection benefits. Bankers are not Union protected, they don't get tenure. As a teacher you can make some serious mistakes especially after you made Tenure and you will just get yelled at. If you do get fired, it isn't a career ending fire unless you do something horrible, or get on the news. Tenure key is the fact that it protects teachers from nutty politics that goes on. After you get Tenure you can fail out the kid who didn't learn the classes but is the star athlete and son of the mayor.
So there are a lot of features that promote teacher supply.
Sales, and Management tends to get cut too. Most companies don't hire lawyers are part of their payroll.
Yes A lot of R&D projects get cut especially ones that are not part of the core business model. And when R&D gets cut the Engineers and Programmers who are working with the R&D Projects get cut.
Most of the time a Manager should be managing 5-8 People. if there is 2 Groups with managers managing under 5 then one manager will get cut and the other will take both spots (After a bunch of Reorganization) So it is usually 4 employees per 1 manager. then 4 managers per 1 director. 4 directors for 1 vp.
However what happening is companies really don't like killing off units, so they will take out 1 or 2 employee from each department leaving no layoffs in management. So they don't kill off a future profit center, or a cost saving center. It isn't a conspiracy it is just the numbers working out to the end guys disadvantage.
When you have cheap Fuel and no Concerns about global warming. Making Bigger and Faster means transportation is easy. Fuel isn't cheap anymore. So we are trying to keep the same old stuff from the 60s but make them use less fuel a much harder engineering challenge. I want to make my car faster and fuel isn't a concern make the engine with more cylinders and grater gear ratios. But to make my car 10% more fuel efficient while keeping the existing power is much harder to do.
Arpanet, RAM, BASIC... from the 1960's That is just pure nostalgia. Arpanet barely worked. RAM had errors in it all the time. and BASIC a very primitive programming language.
We are paying for the progress of the 1960's right now. (Those Hippies somehow became the Tea Party) Those Cool and Fast Technology is hurting the environment. And still it is 2011 and I am still running into code that has GOTO in it!!!
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Probably not.
Just because you made a global stir it doesn't actually mean you are actually smart.
But he should be OK with it. He is against those greedy capitalist making money anyways. He should live in poverty to prove his point. (Granted 500k Pounds, isn't quite poverty)
Hackers are a minority. Liberal Hippies are a huge market that they can make big money off of. They think they are so smart that they can out think capitalism. The capitalist know that and use it to make money off of them.
It isn't funny at all, just smart business.
If they fight to get all their money back, they will spend money and chances they will not get it back or only part of it and a bunch of legal battles.
So because he is in breach of contract, all bets are off so they will publish the book and make millions of pounds off of it.
So they will get their money back and a profit.
Government is good at infrastructure services. They are bad at innovation, and content.
Corporations are bad at infrastructure but good at innovation and content.
A Government Internet Connection will probably reach most Americans and have great up time, and really wouldn't cost us too much more and probably a lot less. However they may not innovate and in 5 - 10 years we will be stuck with a very slow useless connection. Or they will try to force (more) the content we can and cannot get. FCC for the Internet comes to mind...
No the manager isn't constantly viewing you. But he can go around and check in people randomly. You are there to work not goof off. Working from home shouldn't be any different.
Which wastes more time then just a monitoring.
No we use the word panic, When we are shoved media information with the worst possible outcome being shown as what will most likely to happen.
The Ozone Hole, Acid Rain, Smog examples. Were panics too. But the fact there was change was because they were acceptable replacements.
Oh NO! Linux has 1% of the desktop market share. And these people buy computers with a Windows License then clear it out and install Linux or Duel boot Linux. At this point Microsoft already has your money. Why do they want to annoy a small group but vocal group of people.
In all seriousness Microsoft Windows for the Desktop can stand against Linux on its own merits alone, it really doesn't suck as bad as the Linux Zealots want you to believe... Also Linux isn't all that great on the desktop too, sure it can do the job well but not really as good as Windows. And that 1% of the people who want to use Linux as a hobby, for work is really that big of a threat to Microsoft? I don't think so. Apple is the threat right now. Linux isn't that big of a deal.
Isn't Ozone good? I mean before the Carbon Global Warming Panic, there was the Hole on the Ozone layer Panic. Does Ozone suppose to block UV rays that causes skin cancer?
A lot of us (Myself Included) prefer to work at the office vs. at home.
It gets me out of the house, see and hear different people. Keeps my sleep schedule running smoothly etc...
Home is a place of rest and relaxation, where family matters take priority. Work is a place of energy and work, where family matters are put aside.
It means the company has a poor work at home policy.
For companies to do it right, it means there is a web cam that your manager can turn on and off at different times as well view your screen, your home office should follow particular standards, and you should follow the correct dress code.
When you are working from home, you should expect the same level of oversight that you get when you work in the office.
A country that is the 3rd/4th largest in Land Masses, 3rd in Population, Borders two oceans, friendly relations with its borders. Huge amounts of natural resources....
You called that doomed?
Sure I can see the US loosing its number 1 spot to China, and India (Large populations make big economies), but it far from doomed or reaching its maximum growth. That is mostly due to the success of China and India who for the last century or so, were behind the times so they weren't competitive.
Now the US has its problem. The Debt isn't that big of a deal. Right now bond rates are below average inflation that means other governments are paying us to get a loan. Europe isn't doing so hot now too. And high debts do happen during a depression. Yes we are in a depression... It happens, most of us never been in a depression before so we are thinking that is it is one of those recessions.
But going on perclaiming DOOM, is not going to fix anything, even going on and pointing out the problems in nausea isn't going to help. We need solutions... If you are afraid to start a business, you probably have came up a lot of reasons why you are afraid to do so. Is there any thing the government can do to make it better, then tell your Representative at the correct level (City, State...). If not then what can you do to fix it.
20 years ago, we knew that magnetic media didn't have a long shelf life.
You should have known about it back then.
Digital days stays alive better when it is moving. Eg copied from from source to an other, fairly often (every few years). First it allows you to follow a normal migration path from one technology to the next without having archives of out of date storage technology. Secondly most digital storage are based on good old analog method (A magnetic charge of a particular strength, an electrical charge of the correct value, a cut in paper or plastic of a particular depth. Time often damages or corrodes these storage thus ends up causing it to degrade and fail. Copying the data from one source to many other sources remakes those bits anew and those 95% above High charges gets to 99.9999% above 1 charge. Keeping the values correct and current.
I guess they are trying to capatalize on the main reason men join PETA. There is this hot chick he want to lay, but she is in PITA so he pretends he is interested and joins in to get som Sex.
Well if some 150 years ago looks at the USA today.
Most major plagues are cured. Poverty now means food clean water and shelter and only 1 tv. A black president of the united states. Things look rosy.
That is what actually came to my mind when they said. He will bring balance to the force.
When he came in there were Thousands of Jedi and 2 Siths.
He kill all the Jedi but two and took his roll as the second Sith.
Luke got trained as a replacement. ObiWan got killed.
Yoda dies. So does the Emperor.
Luke wasn't really Jedi enough he had some dark in him. Vader kicks the bucket.
I think it is case that later Treks needed to be a bit darker. Because we have found that technology doesn't solve all of life's problems.
No not entirely.
It is a case where different countries have different laws for different procedures. A lot of people come to the US to get procedures that cannot be done in their country or isn't legal. Or Americans go to other countries to get procedures that isn't legal or isn't performed the best here.
If you are rich and a trip to anywhere in the world isn't a big deal you might as well find the best doctor in the world to fix what ails you. This is just one of the PANIC! THE UNITED STATES IS DOOMED... DOOOOOOMMMMEDDD!! I TELL YOU articles. Just to make people more scared that the United States is somehow going to implode all because of those Evil Demrublicratins, who's core ideology when practice to the full extent is quite dangerous.
That explains how Cane and Abel had kids. When Adam and Even only had 2 sons.
So other then evolving from Monkeys we are inter-species hybrid of Monkeys. You know I think that is irreverent enough to get the evangelical christian nuts to support some elements of evolution. Vs accepting that we are descendants of a human monkey hybrid.
Apple migrated from Class Mac OS to OS X (A full rebuild of the OS) and most of the Classic Apps still worked.
Apple changed their hardware from PowerPC to Intel. The old PowerPC Apps still run on the Intel system.
Isn't the point of Microsoft.NET platform was to allow for more apps to be cross platform. (No 32bit vs. 64bit) runs on different processors etc... But Microsoft barely made apps using its own stuff. So now they are stuck.
It is quite Microsoft fault. Any idiot knew back 2 decades ago that computing will move to smaller cheaper and less energy systems. Microsoft did nothing towards this idea.
The Microsoft slogan.
Strive for mediocrity!
Reach for the bare minimum!
They had a perfect opportunity to do something great and really make Apple sweat... But they screwed up once again.
Supply and Demand.
Their is either a small supply of people qualified to be such a banker. Or there is such a demand of such a person that they get paid more.
(Most bankers don't make that type of money though)
But the ones who do have to have a Masters Degree, a good deal of work experience and work in a job where if they make a small mistake they are fired and often ousted from the industry, if they decide to leave the bank will need to put in a lot of resources to find a replacement. The guy who does construction can be a school dropout. Small mistakes are accepted, and they can start at any time. If the guy quits the Construction company usually can find a replacement rather quickly.
Now I know what is coming up next. Teacher They are often required to have a Masters Degree, A small mistake will have problems, and sometimes finding a replacement is difficult. Now here is why they get paid less then the banker.
1. a. Their Master Degree is forced. That means the college will water down the Master Degree so most teachers will pass. If the school is known to be too hard on teachers then teachers will not go to the school to get their masters degree. The banker when getting their MBA or Masters in Finance or whatever the school is more concern about giving them a more involved education. If they fail out that is OK. It just shows that they their grads are at a higher standard. And if you do pass it shows you have more guts then the others.
1. b. Education degrees avoids math like the plague. Most Education majors have a sub high school understanding of math (The exception of Math/Science teachers where their pay is collectively joined in with the other teachers pay) There is a strong demand for Math skills.
2. Teachers are actually still easy to replace. Almost everyone has considered being a teacher. Not everyone has considered being a Manager of Taxation and Monetary Regulations. Colleges that have education majors usually always have a large set of students who are majoring in the topic. There is some weeding out and they usually choose a different career path. But the fact there are so many starting points if supply gets low replacements are quick to come in.
3. Protection benefits. Bankers are not Union protected, they don't get tenure. As a teacher you can make some serious mistakes especially after you made Tenure and you will just get yelled at. If you do get fired, it isn't a career ending fire unless you do something horrible, or get on the news. Tenure key is the fact that it protects teachers from nutty politics that goes on. After you get Tenure you can fail out the kid who didn't learn the classes but is the star athlete and son of the mayor.
So there are a lot of features that promote teacher supply.
Sales, and Management tends to get cut too. Most companies don't hire lawyers are part of their payroll.
Yes A lot of R&D projects get cut especially ones that are not part of the core business model. And when R&D gets cut the Engineers and Programmers who are working with the R&D Projects get cut.
Most of the time a Manager should be managing 5-8 People. if there is 2 Groups with managers managing under 5 then one manager will get cut and the other will take both spots (After a bunch of Reorganization) So it is usually 4 employees per 1 manager. then 4 managers per 1 director. 4 directors for 1 vp.
However what happening is companies really don't like killing off units, so they will take out 1 or 2 employee from each department leaving no layoffs in management. So they don't kill off a future profit center, or a cost saving center.
It isn't a conspiracy it is just the numbers working out to the end guys disadvantage.
When you have cheap Fuel and no Concerns about global warming. Making Bigger and Faster means transportation is easy. Fuel isn't cheap anymore. So we are trying to keep the same old stuff from the 60s but make them use less fuel a much harder engineering challenge. I want to make my car faster and fuel isn't a concern make the engine with more cylinders and grater gear ratios. But to make my car 10% more fuel efficient while keeping the existing power is much harder to do.
Arpanet, RAM, BASIC... from the 1960's That is just pure nostalgia. Arpanet barely worked. RAM had errors in it all the time. and BASIC a very primitive programming language.
We are paying for the progress of the 1960's right now. (Those Hippies somehow became the Tea Party) Those Cool and Fast Technology is hurting the environment. And still it is 2011 and I am still running into code that has GOTO in it!!!
Hiring more workers is still a good sign. Layoffs means the company is having trouble, but at least they are cutting the fat.