I worked a few months for a company that was stocked mostly with H1-Bs and owned and ran by Indian immigrants. The way that they abused the heck out of their own countrymen like they had imported the caste system to their little office just filled me with disgust.
Because in their home-land they can't seem to figure out how to build their own countries like the United States did with a lot of hard work and time. It's much easier to just come to the United States and reap the benefits of all that hard work and siphon back to their respective home lands. Let's take Iraq for instance. The Sunni, the Shiites and the Kurds have been more concerned about killing each other over religious beliefs than they have been about building up their country's infrastructure to actually provide positive benefits for their citizens. In other words: they can't get their shit together so they come here because we can.
You can make claims about freedom of religion and all this other nonsense but this issue is about economics, pure and simple. What's being proposed is that incentives to hire people outside of the United States who have no interest in the success of the United States to do the same job for half the wages be greatly lessened. Also, I can tell you from direct experience in the software industry, Indian contractors produce lower quality code, break more builds, have poor communication and many other things that lead to worse quality software. I can't tell you how many times I traced build breaks back to Indian contractors. The only benefit to hiring them is that they cost less.
Before you call me a racist, I have high respect for other cultures and enjoy their cuisine a lot. I love Indian food and I think Indian people in general are pretty cool. What I don't like is when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is throwing all the American citizens under a bus by hiring less skilled workers for a much cheaper price at the expense of American citizens so they can turn even bigger profits when the corporations the Chamber is comprised of are already sitting on vast piles of wealth. It's really a slap in the face. They've taken advantage of the Land of Opportunity so much that it is no longer the Land of Opportunity.
The U.S. Chamber brought this on themselves. They gamed the system too hard and caused a lot of hardship to good, hard-working Americans and that's why this backlash has occurred.
Every time I watch a DVD or Bluray something on my PS4, it asks if I want to use the internet to download whatever. I never have, never will, and I want it to stop asking permanently. Do you know if that is feasible?
Here let me quote my original post for you so you can read it again:
The only caveat is at the beginning it asks you "Do you want to fetch ads? Yes/No" and you have one extra step of saying no.
I'd like it to do what you're asking but having one extra click isn't a big deal. It'd also be nice if the DVD/blu-ray gods would not allow disabling buttons on the remote to allow you to skip past other content you don't want to see.
Is there a way to tell it that I will never want it to download stuff from the intertubes?
Can you ask your question clearly? For example what does "it" and "stuff" refer to? I'll be happy to answer your question if I can understand what your question actually is.
Sony is losing money because their studio turns out 98% pure shit. Seriously just go look at their own page.
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/
Not exactly. It probably is a component but the real competitor that's eating into the market is streaming services. When you can watch a lot of good shows/movies with on demand services like Netflix and HBO Now for a much smaller monthly cost (~$30/month) than full blown cable with movie channels, a lot of people are going to opt just to watch movies over the internet. You also watch movies on things like Sling TV and Playstation Vue further compounding the problem. We have a lot of choice now. That particular business unit of Sony completely missed the boat or it could be one of those units they expected to take a loss on to write off on their taxes.
I tried playing a blu-ray and it fucking paused to download an ad from the internet before serving me the movie I bought. That is defective. Never buying one again.
Then you have a not so great blu ray player. I use PS3/PS4 and it has a setting to tell it not to fetch ads from the internet. The only caveat is at the beginning it asks you "Do you want to fetch ads? Yes/No" and you have one extra step of saying no.
My point is that you say libs make no progress, while repubs have negative progress. Last I checked -1 0
That point is USELESS. Two wrongs don't make a right. That's my point. Focusing on points that have no value is not going to make any positive change. How can I express to you in a way that will get through your thick skull? In reality, I'm giving you the golden answer to the question "Why do things suck and why don't ever change?"
The problem can be summarized like this: Liberals say Conservatives do all the wrong things yet Liberals sit on the sidelines and do nothing but complain, theorize and philosophize about how if [insert group here] would behave differently then I/we would be better off. Why don't you get out there and start DOING instead of TALKING. Talk is cheap. Be the change you want to see in the world.
Liberals may be incompetent and misguided, but the republicans are greedy and hateful. I'll take liberals as the lesser of two evils.
Liberals generally want to expand human rights and benefit humanity.
Both Liberals and Conservatives are misguided for different reasons. Liberal idealism and all these other values you describe are meaningless if you're too incompetent to get anything done based on those principles. The principles themselves have ZERO value. It's what you implement based on those principles that has value. Liberals don't want to talk about that because then they would have to admit that their pseudo-intellectualist elitist position is based absolutely nothing of substance. And again, you guys are going to mod me down because I'm telling you precisely what you don't want to hear. You just like to hear yourselves talk and assert that you're that SMARTER than everyone else. Smart people get shit done. They just talk the talk, they walk the walk.
"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"
Why is it if you call the group that is primarily responsible for the "Anti-intellectualism" as it relates to this issue, you get modded into oblivion but if you walk on egg shells like you did, you get modded up? Why can't people just deal with reality and be done with it whatever it happens to be?
See I knew I would get modded down. I'm not sure what the point is in posting factual information and actually starting a conversation that is actually constructive based on the REAL issue when you liberals get your panties in a bunch. Newsflash: nothing is EVER going to get solved by you guys being completely emo about everything. You'll create a lot of drama but nothing will actually solved. About the only thing you'll accomplish is pissing everybody off and calling everybody every name under the sun. I'm glad I'm not like you. Good day.
The debate is over. There is no denying climate change. Climate change occurs all the time and has done so throughout history. There is plenty of scientific evidence to support that. We need to move onto the next topic which is: why is the climate change occurring and should we do anything about it? Let's assume for a moment that we think the majority of the climate change we're observing is due to burning fossil fuels. What do we do? If we suddenly all stopped burning fossil fuels, would the polar ice caps re-freeze into a state that would please the climate change alarmists who conveniently have a modus operandi? Doubtful.
And that right there is the problem I have with the liberal "the sky is falling" crowd. They'll bitch and moan and do it very loudly but never offer anything particularly useful or constructive to address whatever it is that they're complaining about. In true liberal fashion, they believe their work is done in raising the alarm bells and now it's someone else's problem to deal with. That's why I don't take them seriously because they don't take their own issues seriously. If they did, they would get off their posteriors and really do something about it. But in reality, most of them are arm chair alarmists. That's not particularly useful.
I suspect I'll get modded down by the left wingers on here not because there is anything wrong with what I've posted but merely because I've called them out of their closet and they don't like it. Hey, you want to improve your perception, get off your butt and do it then.
We don't build factories and plants to keep people busy...
Oh but we do and it's truly a shame. Maynard Keynes vision of the future where we would only work 15 hours a day and have more leisure time than we know what to do with was inhibited by protestant work ethic. We just basically keep inventing new, pointless labor to keep up our "work quotas" when it really isn't needed. It's almost like Communism in some perverted way.
I find that SPI firewalls, execution prevention, careful permissions for limited users, NoScript and other tools are far superior to an AV.
You're confusing AV with other types of security software. They all have a purpose for computer security but they all do different things to help with that. They are dealing with different attack vectors.
And we should trust the developer of a browser whose development team didn't see the problem with their memory model chewing up resources until Firefox ground to halt and took an ivory tower position of something along the lines of "you shouldn't have your browser open that long." I know quite a few people who switched to Chrome over that nonsense, myself included. Why should we trust your recommendations again?
How does that compare to how we honor football players?
I think it's insane that we pay some sports players millions of dollars a year but police officers and firefighters that keep you and your family safe in a lot of cases make below median household income. We usually don't recognize the true merits of things.
Well said. Btw, you used the word "engineer" when it should have been "programmer". Developing software is not a physics-based discipline like electrical, mechanical or chemical engineering and therefore is nowhere near the rigor required to be "engineering".
Go try to solve Primes in P and let me know how much easier it is than electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering. By the way, you might also get a million dollars if you can because it might help solve P vs NP. But you know, mathematics is easy right especially for you electrical engineers. Easy peasy. Godspeed my friend! p.s.: I find it funny this debate has been raging for decades.:)
It's a two-way street, actually. Extraverts don't just siphon the good stuff away from everyone around them; they also dump their bad stuff on everyone around them.
An introvert makes his own good and deals with his own bad and neither siphons nor dumps on everyone else.
This is usually true but think about what extrovert means. Extrovert means their primary mode of operation is fluidly interacting with the external world both in terms of projecting and receiving input from the external world. This is why usually they need a lot of praise and attention because that is the mode they function in. It is the introverted because of their introspective thinking capabilities can create their own sources of self esteem and work through problems themselves a lot of the time. They are their own best friend in a sense. Their own sounding board. Extroverts need everyone else to be a sounding board for everything. If it weren't for extroverts needing to broadcast every thought on their mind, Facebook probably wouldn't exist.:) Facebook for introverts would have empty news feeds.
The simple definition I've heard is that socializing drains introverts and energizes extroverts.
It also depends on what the topic is. Introverts can be very social if the topic is energizing. For example, look at this discussion. We are socializing aren't we? And we seem very energetic right? It's because we find the topic intellectually stimulating. I think what you mean by "socializing" is what most of us would refer to as "pointless socializing". Did you see what happened on [insert reality TV show here]? Who's in the Super Bowl? How about this weather? We find repetitive, predictable stuff boring usually. Others seem to find it comforting or there is something positive about being able to share in something together even if it's completely stupid. Now, if you want to talk about a cool video game or philosophy or psychology, oh man you'll talk about that for hours won't you and you won't feel exhausted afterwards right?:) Ever notice true extroverts lose interest if the topic changes to something you really have to use your brain to engage in? Yeah... about that...
I'm curious how other software engineers feel about this. I mean, I started on a Commodore 64 as a kid and later went on to architect highly scalable enterprise systems but for some reason I don't feel like we need a museum to honor the people who practice our trade. I feel like we should recognize the amazing feats we accomplished with our passion, ingenuity and persistence and inspire others with them. I'm no hero. I'm just a master of a craft and in performing my craft I try to make the world a better place with it.
Also, I doubt the creators of World of Warcraft would consider themselves heroes. World of Warcraft was just an epic feat in creating a time waster. Don't get me wrong, it was a feat of software engineering but it didn't really add much value to the world. There are far better examples of software systems that did really make a difference in the world. For example, we should be honoring DARPA for creating the very technology that Slashdot broadcasts its information on and we have these discussions on. Disney's Spaceship Earth had a futuristic vision of Earth sponsored by AT&T that we would have a global communication network where we could video conference each other around the world. Guess what? We've arrived at the future vision. That's something to stand in sheer awe of, not World of Warcraft and Photoshop.
Dan Dennett is a populist hack. He writes only to appeal to a particular audience, not to work to advance his field. He's a showman, not an academic.
Really? I guess we better tell all the major universities that since the 90's they've been teaching complete hokum and abolish them altogether. How elitist is that? Where do you get your wisdom from a crusty thousands of years old book, a cracker jack box, fortune cookies...? Where exactly?
You would only say this for one of two reasons: 1) You don't really comprehend the material or 2) You have a religious bias. Trust me, these two and many others know precisely what they're talking about and you can perform tests to validate their logic.
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I worked a few months for a company that was stocked mostly with H1-Bs and owned and ran by Indian immigrants. The way that they abused the heck out of their own countrymen like they had imported the caste system to their little office just filled me with disgust.
I have seen this first-hand and it needs to stop.
Why don't H1Bs simply build companies at home?
Because in their home-land they can't seem to figure out how to build their own countries like the United States did with a lot of hard work and time. It's much easier to just come to the United States and reap the benefits of all that hard work and siphon back to their respective home lands. Let's take Iraq for instance. The Sunni, the Shiites and the Kurds have been more concerned about killing each other over religious beliefs than they have been about building up their country's infrastructure to actually provide positive benefits for their citizens. In other words: they can't get their shit together so they come here because we can.
You can make claims about freedom of religion and all this other nonsense but this issue is about economics, pure and simple. What's being proposed is that incentives to hire people outside of the United States who have no interest in the success of the United States to do the same job for half the wages be greatly lessened. Also, I can tell you from direct experience in the software industry, Indian contractors produce lower quality code, break more builds, have poor communication and many other things that lead to worse quality software. I can't tell you how many times I traced build breaks back to Indian contractors. The only benefit to hiring them is that they cost less.
Before you call me a racist, I have high respect for other cultures and enjoy their cuisine a lot. I love Indian food and I think Indian people in general are pretty cool. What I don't like is when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is throwing all the American citizens under a bus by hiring less skilled workers for a much cheaper price at the expense of American citizens so they can turn even bigger profits when the corporations the Chamber is comprised of are already sitting on vast piles of wealth. It's really a slap in the face. They've taken advantage of the Land of Opportunity so much that it is no longer the Land of Opportunity.
The U.S. Chamber brought this on themselves. They gamed the system too hard and caused a lot of hardship to good, hard-working Americans and that's why this backlash has occurred.
Every time I watch a DVD or Bluray something on my PS4, it asks if I want to use the internet to download whatever. I never have, never will, and I want it to stop asking permanently. Do you know if that is feasible?
Here let me quote my original post for you so you can read it again:
The only caveat is at the beginning it asks you "Do you want to fetch ads? Yes/No" and you have one extra step of saying no.
I'd like it to do what you're asking but having one extra click isn't a big deal. It'd also be nice if the DVD/blu-ray gods would not allow disabling buttons on the remote to allow you to skip past other content you don't want to see.
Is there a way to tell it that I will never want it to download stuff from the intertubes?
Can you ask your question clearly? For example what does "it" and "stuff" refer to? I'll be happy to answer your question if I can understand what your question actually is.
Modded down for facts. Brilliant!
Sony is losing money because their studio turns out 98% pure shit. Seriously just go look at their own page.
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/
Not exactly. It probably is a component but the real competitor that's eating into the market is streaming services. When you can watch a lot of good shows/movies with on demand services like Netflix and HBO Now for a much smaller monthly cost (~$30/month) than full blown cable with movie channels, a lot of people are going to opt just to watch movies over the internet. You also watch movies on things like Sling TV and Playstation Vue further compounding the problem. We have a lot of choice now. That particular business unit of Sony completely missed the boat or it could be one of those units they expected to take a loss on to write off on their taxes.
I tried playing a blu-ray and it fucking paused to download an ad from the internet before serving me the movie I bought. That is defective. Never buying one again.
Then you have a not so great blu ray player. I use PS3/PS4 and it has a setting to tell it not to fetch ads from the internet. The only caveat is at the beginning it asks you "Do you want to fetch ads? Yes/No" and you have one extra step of saying no.
A dwindling second hand market for 8 tracks. It's all the market's fault! *sob* *whine* *sob* *whine*
My point is that you say libs make no progress, while repubs have negative progress. Last I checked -1 0
That point is USELESS. Two wrongs don't make a right. That's my point. Focusing on points that have no value is not going to make any positive change. How can I express to you in a way that will get through your thick skull? In reality, I'm giving you the golden answer to the question "Why do things suck and why don't ever change?"
The problem can be summarized like this: Liberals say Conservatives do all the wrong things yet Liberals sit on the sidelines and do nothing but complain, theorize and philosophize about how if [insert group here] would behave differently then I/we would be better off. Why don't you get out there and start DOING instead of TALKING. Talk is cheap. Be the change you want to see in the world.
Liberals may be incompetent and misguided, but the republicans are greedy and hateful. I'll take liberals as the lesser of two evils. Liberals generally want to expand human rights and benefit humanity.
Both Liberals and Conservatives are misguided for different reasons. Liberal idealism and all these other values you describe are meaningless if you're too incompetent to get anything done based on those principles. The principles themselves have ZERO value. It's what you implement based on those principles that has value. Liberals don't want to talk about that because then they would have to admit that their pseudo-intellectualist elitist position is based absolutely nothing of substance. And again, you guys are going to mod me down because I'm telling you precisely what you don't want to hear. You just like to hear yourselves talk and assert that you're that SMARTER than everyone else. Smart people get shit done. They just talk the talk, they walk the walk.
"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"
Why is it if you call the group that is primarily responsible for the "Anti-intellectualism" as it relates to this issue, you get modded into oblivion but if you walk on egg shells like you did, you get modded up? Why can't people just deal with reality and be done with it whatever it happens to be?
See I knew I would get modded down. I'm not sure what the point is in posting factual information and actually starting a conversation that is actually constructive based on the REAL issue when you liberals get your panties in a bunch. Newsflash: nothing is EVER going to get solved by you guys being completely emo about everything. You'll create a lot of drama but nothing will actually solved. About the only thing you'll accomplish is pissing everybody off and calling everybody every name under the sun. I'm glad I'm not like you. Good day.
The debate is over. There is no denying climate change. Climate change occurs all the time and has done so throughout history. There is plenty of scientific evidence to support that. We need to move onto the next topic which is: why is the climate change occurring and should we do anything about it? Let's assume for a moment that we think the majority of the climate change we're observing is due to burning fossil fuels. What do we do? If we suddenly all stopped burning fossil fuels, would the polar ice caps re-freeze into a state that would please the climate change alarmists who conveniently have a modus operandi? Doubtful.
And that right there is the problem I have with the liberal "the sky is falling" crowd. They'll bitch and moan and do it very loudly but never offer anything particularly useful or constructive to address whatever it is that they're complaining about. In true liberal fashion, they believe their work is done in raising the alarm bells and now it's someone else's problem to deal with. That's why I don't take them seriously because they don't take their own issues seriously. If they did, they would get off their posteriors and really do something about it. But in reality, most of them are arm chair alarmists. That's not particularly useful.
I suspect I'll get modded down by the left wingers on here not because there is anything wrong with what I've posted but merely because I've called them out of their closet and they don't like it. Hey, you want to improve your perception, get off your butt and do it then.
We don't build factories and plants to keep people busy...
Oh but we do and it's truly a shame. Maynard Keynes vision of the future where we would only work 15 hours a day and have more leisure time than we know what to do with was inhibited by protestant work ethic. We just basically keep inventing new, pointless labor to keep up our "work quotas" when it really isn't needed. It's almost like Communism in some perverted way.
I find that SPI firewalls, execution prevention, careful permissions for limited users, NoScript and other tools are far superior to an AV.
You're confusing AV with other types of security software. They all have a purpose for computer security but they all do different things to help with that. They are dealing with different attack vectors.
And we should trust the developer of a browser whose development team didn't see the problem with their memory model chewing up resources until Firefox ground to halt and took an ivory tower position of something along the lines of "you shouldn't have your browser open that long." I know quite a few people who switched to Chrome over that nonsense, myself included. Why should we trust your recommendations again?
How does that compare to how we honor football players?
I think it's insane that we pay some sports players millions of dollars a year but police officers and firefighters that keep you and your family safe in a lot of cases make below median household income. We usually don't recognize the true merits of things.
Well said. Btw, you used the word "engineer" when it should have been "programmer". Developing software is not a physics-based discipline like electrical, mechanical or chemical engineering and therefore is nowhere near the rigor required to be "engineering".
Go try to solve Primes in P and let me know how much easier it is than electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering. By the way, you might also get a million dollars if you can because it might help solve P vs NP. But you know, mathematics is easy right especially for you electrical engineers. Easy peasy. Godspeed my friend! p.s.: I find it funny this debate has been raging for decades. :)
It's a two-way street, actually. Extraverts don't just siphon the good stuff away from everyone around them; they also dump their bad stuff on everyone around them.
An introvert makes his own good and deals with his own bad and neither siphons nor dumps on everyone else.
This is usually true but think about what extrovert means. Extrovert means their primary mode of operation is fluidly interacting with the external world both in terms of projecting and receiving input from the external world. This is why usually they need a lot of praise and attention because that is the mode they function in. It is the introverted because of their introspective thinking capabilities can create their own sources of self esteem and work through problems themselves a lot of the time. They are their own best friend in a sense. Their own sounding board. Extroverts need everyone else to be a sounding board for everything. If it weren't for extroverts needing to broadcast every thought on their mind, Facebook probably wouldn't exist. :) Facebook for introverts would have empty news feeds.
The simple definition I've heard is that socializing drains introverts and energizes extroverts.
It also depends on what the topic is. Introverts can be very social if the topic is energizing. For example, look at this discussion. We are socializing aren't we? And we seem very energetic right? It's because we find the topic intellectually stimulating. I think what you mean by "socializing" is what most of us would refer to as "pointless socializing". Did you see what happened on [insert reality TV show here]? Who's in the Super Bowl? How about this weather? We find repetitive, predictable stuff boring usually. Others seem to find it comforting or there is something positive about being able to share in something together even if it's completely stupid. Now, if you want to talk about a cool video game or philosophy or psychology, oh man you'll talk about that for hours won't you and you won't feel exhausted afterwards right? :) Ever notice true extroverts lose interest if the topic changes to something you really have to use your brain to engage in? Yeah... about that...
I'm curious how other software engineers feel about this. I mean, I started on a Commodore 64 as a kid and later went on to architect highly scalable enterprise systems but for some reason I don't feel like we need a museum to honor the people who practice our trade. I feel like we should recognize the amazing feats we accomplished with our passion, ingenuity and persistence and inspire others with them. I'm no hero. I'm just a master of a craft and in performing my craft I try to make the world a better place with it.
Also, I doubt the creators of World of Warcraft would consider themselves heroes. World of Warcraft was just an epic feat in creating a time waster. Don't get me wrong, it was a feat of software engineering but it didn't really add much value to the world. There are far better examples of software systems that did really make a difference in the world. For example, we should be honoring DARPA for creating the very technology that Slashdot broadcasts its information on and we have these discussions on. Disney's Spaceship Earth had a futuristic vision of Earth sponsored by AT&T that we would have a global communication network where we could video conference each other around the world. Guess what? We've arrived at the future vision. That's something to stand in sheer awe of, not World of Warcraft and Photoshop.
Dan Dennett is a populist hack. He writes only to appeal to a particular audience, not to work to advance his field. He's a showman, not an academic.
Really? I guess we better tell all the major universities that since the 90's they've been teaching complete hokum and abolish them altogether. How elitist is that? Where do you get your wisdom from a crusty thousands of years old book, a cracker jack box, fortune cookies...? Where exactly?
Him and Sam Harris both.
You would only say this for one of two reasons: 1) You don't really comprehend the material or 2) You have a religious bias. Trust me, these two and many others know precisely what they're talking about and you can perform tests to validate their logic.
I too am an introvert and can do well for short periods. But, can you sustain it? A week long vacation with a group of extroverts?
It depends on whether I'm compelled to do so. I can force myself to focus to do that but if there is no particular reason to do that, why bother?