I think you've hit on the entire point of the article; educated people don't want to work "labor" jobs like IT because they are boring. Once we start making enough money to cover the basics, it is human nature to look to move up to the next level of need, which in this case is job satisfaction. Every exciting job requires pay, because without pay, the most exciting and rewarding jobs on the planet suddenly lose a lot (cough, all) of luster.
Boring jobs don't exist because people want to have boring jobs. They exist because some people have to take whatever they can get. Faced with collecting trash or resetting passwords all day, I'll gladly reset yours to the default.
Can anyone put up a picture of the U.S. (and world) that highlights areas that find apple pies more interesting that orgies?
No, but I can put up a picture of the US that would show the entire Southeast as claiming to have community standards that frown upon pornography all the while having the most "adult" bookstores and strip clubs per capita of any region in the US. (NO, no citation, just need to live there for a few years yourself to see what I mean.)
Most people sitting in church services don't really believe most of that shit in the Bible and are just there for the social and networking aspects of church activities.
Or they are there to feel better about themselves after an online porn all-nighter.
any project large enough to require use of a project management approach is destined to fail simply because of its size. Try telling that to Boeing and point to the Future Combat Systems contract... 550 contractors, 41 states, contract through 2030, $340 billion dollars (source, wikipedia, and my daily existence...) True, this behemoth may ultimately fail, but I've got some pretty serious job security.
So Rupert is mad because the primary users of his product (12-18 year olds) turns out to be a demographic that has no money? Sounds like somebody skipped some sort of business analysis and jumped on the proverbial band wagon a tad too quickly.
Oops, I guess I should have RTFA, because now my post is wrong. I was responding to the summary, which, in typical slashdot fashion, wasn't very accurate. Oh well, back to TFA for me. Mod me down for Wrong!
In the end, the guy who hacked the Mac had a pre-written script that was known to work before the competition started. It doesn't really matter if the others weren't hacked or not, because he never bothered trying. So what if others failed to hack the Win box...they also failed to hack the Mac. The point is not that any one system is better than the other, only that the contest is hardly a legitimate reference source in determining which system is most secure.
Cognitive theory and the field of Education pretty much prove the premise of this story wrong. Getting things into long term memory from working memory almost requires multi-tasking, as the brain processes things better when it is engaged in multiple ways. There is a limit, however, which is what this article might be getting at...I just don't see it that way. I see it as the old grumpy man yelling for all those kids to get off his lawn.
As I recall, Mac OS X was the first to fall to a remote exploit compared to Windows Vista and Linux. Context my friend, context. It was the first attacked, thus, the first to fall. It's not like there was a race going on, especially since the guy who took it down came with a canned script prepared the night before.
Let me fix that for you: Apple was so far behind Microsoft in the application business in the late 80s and early 90s that they just limped along while Microsoft snagged the desktop. Let me fix that for you. MS Office existed in the first mouse/GUI form we are used to now for Apple Macintosh in the 80s, long before it was even made for Windows. You had to wait until Win95 to get a similar look and feel (unless you count that awful Win3x stuff as "Mac-like"). Also, Apple has never been primarily a software company, so naturally they'd lag behind any full-time software company when it comes to creating applications.
I agree with the competitor CEO... Microsoft has had great financial successes over the years, but basing those successes on the quality of the product is laughable. Well, I suppose you could say their financial success IS based on the mediocre quality of the product, because they made lots of profit by lowering development costs (by making average software instead of great software). They met the 70% solution that most businesses are looking for.
Well he said "programming" a physics engine, so I imagine he wasn't talking about the design phase. I'm not a programmer, nor do I even pretend to understand it (outside of my sloppy ActionScripting abilities), so I'll just give you all the benefit of the doubt on this topic.
The only difference between these sorts of schools and state schools is that the parents have to pay. That's it. As if that's some meaningless difference?
Normal people don't just send their kids to montessori schools because they can. It takes an exceptional parent to even look into alternative education possibilities. I'm just saying that if a kid is in an alternative school, their parent has taken more of an interest in it than the average parent, and any results of a study comparing effectiveness would be flawed by an unbiased sample.
This might suprise you, but both Jaguar and Landrover were in profit last year and will be this year too. How's that Rover industry doing? I hear Mini is doing well now, too, as it is now BMiniW.
Actually that article about Apple and Google salaries is not very indicative of the entire nation, given the +2,000 per cent cost of living adjustment needed to live in the San Francisco/Bay Area. In other strong IT areas (Austin, TX, for example), the averages are more in the $60,000 range, which buys a hell of a lot more house than anything out West.
Programming a physics engine does not take creativity, it takes intellectual brute force. Bah, let the cpu do all that. Gimme a creative guy who can come up with a solid design first, otherwise the brilliant physics engine will never be worth a damn anyway.
I am an American, but I lived in England for three years until very recently. I have another hypothesis. British consumerism is a bit more sophisticated than US, thus their slightly more sophisticated games don't fly so well in the larger market of the US.
How guilty do I feel when my computer/phone/whatever connects to a wide-open wifi signal without even prompting me to do anything? How about, "not at all"?
But if you up the starting pay for a teacher (a person that generally holds a Bachelors degree plus one extra year for education) to a more realistic rate, you'll get more AND better teachers. Starting pay for most States is $25-30k a year, which is horrible considering the little Computer Science dorks that work for me start at $60k without a lick of life-skills. If you doubled teacher pay, you open the door to a much larger pool of interested parties, and are thus more likely to get good teachers, versus college graduates just looking for a job.
I enjoyed your post, other than the jab at WoW. Great that you want to go out and change the world, but do you have to disparage those of us who like to work 8-5, come home, have a beer and play WoW (with my kids none-the-less!)? There's more to life than changing it (for some of us).
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Boring jobs don't exist because people want to have boring jobs. They exist because some people have to take whatever they can get. Faced with collecting trash or resetting passwords all day, I'll gladly reset yours to the default.
Can anyone put up a picture of the U.S. (and world) that highlights areas that find apple pies more interesting that orgies?
No, but I can put up a picture of the US that would show the entire Southeast as claiming to have community standards that frown upon pornography all the while having the most "adult" bookstores and strip clubs per capita of any region in the US. (NO, no citation, just need to live there for a few years yourself to see what I mean.)- Most people sitting in church services don't really believe most of that shit in the Bible and are just there for the social and networking aspects of church activities.
Or they are there to feel better about themselves after an online porn all-nighter.So Rupert is mad because the primary users of his product (12-18 year olds) turns out to be a demographic that has no money? Sounds like somebody skipped some sort of business analysis and jumped on the proverbial band wagon a tad too quickly.
Oops, I guess I should have RTFA, because now my post is wrong. I was responding to the summary, which, in typical slashdot fashion, wasn't very accurate. Oh well, back to TFA for me. Mod me down for Wrong!
In the end, the guy who hacked the Mac had a pre-written script that was known to work before the competition started. It doesn't really matter if the others weren't hacked or not, because he never bothered trying. So what if others failed to hack the Win box...they also failed to hack the Mac. The point is not that any one system is better than the other, only that the contest is hardly a legitimate reference source in determining which system is most secure.
Cognitive theory and the field of Education pretty much prove the premise of this story wrong. Getting things into long term memory from working memory almost requires multi-tasking, as the brain processes things better when it is engaged in multiple ways. There is a limit, however, which is what this article might be getting at...I just don't see it that way. I see it as the old grumpy man yelling for all those kids to get off his lawn.
Their products were a hell of a lot better than Apple's at the time.
So says random geek on slashdot...hardly unbiased commentary there.Interestingly enough, if you replace "Microsoft" with "Bill Clinton" you get the same outcome.
I agree with the competitor CEO... Microsoft has had great financial successes over the years, but basing those successes on the quality of the product is laughable. Well, I suppose you could say their financial success IS based on the mediocre quality of the product, because they made lots of profit by lowering development costs (by making average software instead of great software). They met the 70% solution that most businesses are looking for.
Well he said "programming" a physics engine, so I imagine he wasn't talking about the design phase. I'm not a programmer, nor do I even pretend to understand it (outside of my sloppy ActionScripting abilities), so I'll just give you all the benefit of the doubt on this topic.
Normal people don't just send their kids to montessori schools because they can. It takes an exceptional parent to even look into alternative education possibilities. I'm just saying that if a kid is in an alternative school, their parent has taken more of an interest in it than the average parent, and any results of a study comparing effectiveness would be flawed by an unbiased sample.
Actually that article about Apple and Google salaries is not very indicative of the entire nation, given the +2,000 per cent cost of living adjustment needed to live in the San Francisco/Bay Area. In other strong IT areas (Austin, TX, for example), the averages are more in the $60,000 range, which buys a hell of a lot more house than anything out West.
I am an American, but I lived in England for three years until very recently. I have another hypothesis. British consumerism is a bit more sophisticated than US, thus their slightly more sophisticated games don't fly so well in the larger market of the US.
How guilty do I feel when my computer/phone/whatever connects to a wide-open wifi signal without even prompting me to do anything? How about, "not at all"?
But if you up the starting pay for a teacher (a person that generally holds a Bachelors degree plus one extra year for education) to a more realistic rate, you'll get more AND better teachers. Starting pay for most States is $25-30k a year, which is horrible considering the little Computer Science dorks that work for me start at $60k without a lick of life-skills. If you doubled teacher pay, you open the door to a much larger pool of interested parties, and are thus more likely to get good teachers, versus college graduates just looking for a job.
The plural of "the plural of anecdote is not data" is, "Man, I must be on slashdot today, because their they go using that stupid cliche again."
Great story. I'd just be careful and note that Adult Education is a different beast and not always applicable to the stories you acquired as a youth.
I enjoyed your post, other than the jab at WoW. Great that you want to go out and change the world, but do you have to disparage those of us who like to work 8-5, come home, have a beer and play WoW (with my kids none-the-less!)? There's more to life than changing it (for some of us).