Nope. Here are the fastest growing ocupations in the US over the past 10 years:
Health aides 138%
Human service workers 136%
Personal and home care aids 130%
in other words, jobs that pay either minimum wage or just above minimum wage... about what burger flipping does. (if you have more current info on what burger flipping pays based on personal experience, feel free to respond)
Enjoy your fantasy world while it lasts, the slow-motion trainwreck America is headed for will last you for the rest of your life. Hint: that fantasy world is based on cheap oil... I take it you belong to the Intelligent Design, oops, I mean the "abiotic" school of "thought" on the origin of oil as well.
Looks like the engineering-driven company is coming back.
Google decided to try invention instead and to maximize value by paying top dollar for inventors rather than treat R&D as a commodity and engineers as something real businessmen buy like cans of beans and that isn't important enough to keep in-house.
Makes sense in retrospect, if one is in the business of selling technology ideas embodied in the form of tech goods and services, if one wants to maximize the number of ideas under one's control that one can make money from, buy as many as possible of the very rare people who can make these ideas and turn them into real products.
The companies that hit home runs do this not by following everyone else's "tried and true" strategies, but by doing something different and executing that "different" correctly. As google has done.
I can understand why the author of the BW piece is offended by the very idea and the ideological committment to the idea that MBAs and marketdroids and buying politicians to protect one's market are the only real source of value at high-tech companies.
But "google is ineptly managed" and google's market cap suggests that either the author is full of shit or google is. I don't see anyone trying to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the author of the BW article.
Problem is, even if we could produce all the BioD we wanted to for nothing, we will STILL rely on foreign oil. Here's why:
Perochemical products like plastics and lubricants still have not been figured out with alternative sources. Things like plastics (the keyboard you are typing on) can not be made without dino oil.
Where do the lube oil basestocks come from that we use in cars and trucks? Natural gas and dino oil. Even synthetic oils start out as some form of foriegn energy source.
What about the chemicals required to make the tires that all these diesels will drive on? Petro based.
The estimate for US transportation fuel requirements is 400,000,000 gallons a day (from Mike Briggs's algae biomass > oil page)... how many gallons/day are used for petrochemicals?
I think it much more likely that absent a domestic market for domestic petroleum oil, that we can take care of all of the above requirements with either oil produced in the USA, or cheaply from the foriegn market, as without significant demand for petroleum as fuel, the OPEC nations are going to be desperately anxious to sell at any price the market will bear.
As far as benefits towards the US farmer: its meaningless.
Personally, I think the farmer will benefit substantially from a product that will fuel his tractors at a stable price. A secondary benefit will be that with petrochemicals out of the energy market, the price of petrochemical fertilizers and insecticides may even drop, or more likely, rise much more slowly.
On th otherhand, cohnsider that Venezuala, or maybe Columbia just shipped over the first tanker full of BioD derived from Palm oil to Miami. That tanker got bought and the BioD went into the pipeline. No import controls whatsoever. BioD is a product like any other comodoty. The national Soy council was PI$$ED because the Bush administration did not listen to its recomendations to protect BioD years ago. Now we are cought with our pants around our ankles.
Given that subsidies are tilted towards soy oil, just what do those soy farmers want from the Feds? RIAA-style protection? If the Columbians can sell us palm oil for biodiesel that can make sense at current market prices, more power to them.
However, the primary use of biodiesel at this point is for blending, the economics (and very probably, the ASTM biodiesel spread) will have to change to make this stuff practical at the gas pump. Algae will be an important part of making this happen.
BTW, your writing style looks sort of familiar, you on any of the biofuels mailing lists?
The question of what the effect of P2P and increasing the sales of lower-ranked niche artists should be on profits at a rationally managed record company. (let's say Apple had bought Universal and dumped the in-place management over the side) I say rationally managed because the amount of parasitic overhead to be found in the record industry would be unsustainable anywhere else... hint - why is CD-audio more expensive than DVD-video despite the fact that the material cost is slightly higher for DVD?
I ask the question because increasing the sales of relatively low-ranked artists, particularly the ones that the record labels are nominally losing money on should have a direct and positive impact on label bottom lines.
Plus, there is the physical overhead. Why are CDs for musicians who are expected to be relatively low in sales physically pressed and shipped and most of them get returned unsold instead of being burned on demand at record stores? A jukebox setup simply duping CDs and printing the labels and jewel box sleeves could handle it now, a better solution would be the upcoming terabyte CD-form factor media. It's a hell of a lot cheaper to ship information than physical anything.
One weakness in the studies is that they depend on information voluntarily released by the record labels, which automatically reduce the credibility of the data and the studies.
Another question is the effect of radio airplay (which can be turned into mp3 with the right tuner card) vs P2P in getting the word about artists.
But even with the questions unanswered, there may well be a new and more profitable distribution model implicit within these studies.
someone who is going to discover that his license to practice in his home state is in danger Real Soon Now. Lawyers are supposed to know better than to piss off judges, especially when it appears that this lawyer is trying to profit from the grief of 3 families by filing a meritless lawsuit on their behalf.
true, but irrelevant. RF shielding is a black art to most slashdotters, since understanding it isn't required to use Open Source software or write it. Stallman got it right. Google on "Faraday cage" for further explanations. Simply put, it keeps RF out... of in this case, the RFID chip. This will work on ID cards and passports, etc.
A "tinfoil hat" is not a Faraday cage given the large unshielded portion occupied by the user's head... though a properly designed tinfol suit (add a helmet with a transparent conductive coating if the user cares about seeing out) providing continous shielding should be.
these days at the college level, knowing that the business community does not value her services and will seek to offshore any job she might get ASAP... knowing that people like Bill Gates who whine about "the lack of kids taking science and technology degrees" actually mean that they want to cherry-pick the top 1% of CS, etc. graduates and leave the other 99% flipping burgers at McDonald's with tens of thousands of dollars of college debt burden their fellow workers don't have, knowing that the Hollywood content cartel is doing its well-funded best to make sure that any new consumer technology she comes up with in the US is either suppressed or crippled, is going to:
say "fuck it", go for an MBA, and maybe write Open Source code in her spare time
go country shopping... very possibly, start by looking for foriegn institutions of higher learning
The "mainstreaming of geeks" is basically pop culture adjusting to the idea of "geeks" making serious money... just in time to catch the tail end of the trend. "Geek chic" is bullshit, at the end of the day, it's about making a living.
"Britney Spears saying Open Source is cool." is fairly repulsive and does make me sort of want to wash my brain out with bleach, we need support wherever we can get it at this point.
Plus, younger slashdotters might find a certain amount of social advantage from a public statement like that, as their female classmates find out where Open Source comes from and who around school campuses actually do things with it.
Point taken. Though the way to handle gmail is the same way as one handles any other third-party e-mail service. Use PGP/GPG for confidential content. (if traffic analysis is a problem, the mail should go to/from webmail addresses only and use anonymous proxies every time one logs in) Any US e-mail provider will roll over for a search warrant, and some will roll over given a friendly suggestion from someone representing himself as a law enforcement employee.
And as you've said, we know what to do with cookies.
While i'm sure you're right about google logging IP addresses with search requests, this can only be useful if the user's got a static IP address... so use an anonymous proxy if you're searching for anything controversial and you've got a broadband connection. If one is using the Google search toolbar... they probably *do* have everything. The answer for that is sort of obvious.
to handle peak loads. If your e-commerce server is dumping over 80% of the customers when everybody shows up to buy, that means one is losing 80% of potential sales. A IT manager who gives the excuse "But we were trying to save on power and capital investment" is going to have his ass fired when this happens.
That's a major rationale behing "grid computing", i.e. rent one's CPU cycles when one really needs them.
While... MS isn't smart about anything other marketing garbage products and buying political influence, I was very surprised to find a real technology company Google wanting to buy AOL, which on the face of it, seems like paying a premium price for a seat on the Titanic after the iceberg hit.
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/1 1/calif_ny_lawsui.html#comments
I think it's the 2 class action suits. . . so far. To be joined soon by 48 other class action suits. There's blood in the water and it's Sony's.
The first step to getting their worthless asses out of this mess is to stop making it bigger, and every sale of a DRM-broken CD makes it bigger. The Feds simply gave Sony an excuse that didn't involve surrendering to their customers. Though given the dismal performance of Homeland Security, even this is a worthy contribution to computer security.
Look for legislation in future designed to give *AA companies immunity from the consequences of future machine-frying DRM.
OCEANPORT, N.J. (AP) A New Jersey school district will pay $117,500 to a student who was punished for creating a website that included critical statements about his middle school.
The settlement of the lawsuit brought nearly two years ago follows a decision by a federal judge ruling that Oceanport school administrators violated Ryan Dwyer's free speech rights.
MS to be around to support anything past a few years from now is taking the wrong end of a sucker bet. MS's anti-OO FUD campaign is just an attempt to put the deathspiral off for a year or two.
who makes technology decisions for a business based on Forbes simply isn't competent to make technology decisions, even if his job title is CEO.
One judges the content of a magazine based on what it looks like in areas you know something about, i.e. if you know it to be crap within your field of expertise, it's probably crap outside it, too. Judging from their pro-MS / anti-Open Source articles and advising its readers to file frivolous lawsuits against bloggers, the only good things one can use Forbes for are opposition research, and a gift subscription to a competitor's CTO.
a stable, reliable, secure Windows 98SE that takes full advantage of expanded memory (found this out when I bumped this box from 352 to 768M)... and chews through things like PaintShopPro image filtering on 1350x2700 images like a chainsaw on steroids. And permits actually using other applications at the same time when the thing is processing a huge image file.
That's W98SE+Win4lin 9.x running over Fedora Core 2. (you can probably get the same results with VMware)
No, fixing Windoze problems isn't why I switched to Linux, that's simply a fortuitous side effect. I did this mainly because I was sick of dealing with MS malware crap and wanted a future operating system, not something belonging to a crumbling empire that saw its best days several years ago and is kept alive on life support.
Anybody who'd make any technology decision of any sort for a business based on a Forbes article has no business making technology decisions for a living, even if his job title is CIO or CTO. The most one should derive from such an article is a decision either to check into the product further or find some experts and see what they think.
If you have the misfortune to work for such a person, (other than updating your resume and sending it to your favorite headhunters) do a fast google on SCO's track record with respect to:
screwing its former business partners (the basis of the IBM lawsuit)
suing end business users (Daimler-Chysler, AutoZone) of software based on alleged use of their products based on an imaginary relationship with SCO,
a major piece of the mySQL software (the innoDB storage engine) is owned by a major competitor of mySQL AB...
The "noisy Linux zealots" in the article are also by and large, the people contributing Open Source code to the project, or more accurately, those who used to contribute their labor to the project.
Ask if your company really needs the kind of legal exposure use of any product from a company that voluntarily associates with SCO will provide given the above problems.
There are alternative database products like postgres or for that matter, Oracle, that are technically superior and don't have those kinds of problem.
Offhand, if one is using mySQL. . . time to check into anything else.
producing more people with degrees in science and technology, just who in the USA will be hiring them? And for science careers, just what are they going to get paid? Rates of pay are good pointers towards what a society really values, and it's clear that science and technology aren't valued. The "anti-geek" attitudes in high school are more likely to be effect, not cause.
The average person who doesn't have a serious interest in a subject looks for a degree in something that will get him a career. So... we graduate lots of MBAs and lawyers.
People who are truly interested in science and technology will find a way to get educated in it, and the ones with a sense of self-preservation will be learning Chinese, Indian, and EU languages.
Make the jobs available and the expanding demand for the appropriate classes will cause more faculty to be hired... problem solved.
But I don't really consider this a problem, since the people who are in a position to DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS aren't interested in putting their own bucks on the table. Just ours.
Send your comment to the Magistrate Court at Horseferry and ask that it be forwarded to Judge Q. Purdy. (probably in the form of printed paper, since I doubt this guy is trusted with by Her Majesty's government with a computer)
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Nope. Here are the fastest growing ocupations in the US over the past 10 years:
Health aides 138%
Human service workers 136%
Personal and home care aids 130%
in other words, jobs that pay either minimum wage or just above minimum wage... about what burger flipping does. (if you have more current info on what burger flipping pays based on personal experience, feel free to respond)
Enjoy your fantasy world while it lasts, the slow-motion trainwreck America is headed for will last you for the rest of your life. Hint: that fantasy world is based on cheap oil... I take it you belong to the Intelligent Design, oops, I mean the "abiotic" school of "thought" on the origin of oil as well.
Google decided to try invention instead and to maximize value by paying top dollar for inventors rather than treat R&D as a commodity and engineers as something real businessmen buy like cans of beans and that isn't important enough to keep in-house.
Makes sense in retrospect, if one is in the business of selling technology ideas embodied in the form of tech goods and services, if one wants to maximize the number of ideas under one's control that one can make money from, buy as many as possible of the very rare people who can make these ideas and turn them into real products.
The companies that hit home runs do this not by following everyone else's "tried and true" strategies, but by doing something different and executing that "different" correctly. As google has done.
I can understand why the author of the BW piece is offended by the very idea and the ideological committment to the idea that MBAs and marketdroids and buying politicians to protect one's market are the only real source of value at high-tech companies.
But "google is ineptly managed" and google's market cap suggests that either the author is full of shit or google is. I don't see anyone trying to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the author of the BW article.
The estimate for US transportation fuel requirements is 400,000,000 gallons a day (from Mike Briggs's algae biomass > oil page)... how many gallons/day are used for petrochemicals?
I think it much more likely that absent a domestic market for domestic petroleum oil, that we can take care of all of the above requirements with either oil produced in the USA, or cheaply from the foriegn market, as without significant demand for petroleum as fuel, the OPEC nations are going to be desperately anxious to sell at any price the market will bear.
Personally, I think the farmer will benefit substantially from a product that will fuel his tractors at a stable price. A secondary benefit will be that with petrochemicals out of the energy market, the price of petrochemical fertilizers and insecticides may even drop, or more likely, rise much more slowly. Given that subsidies are tilted towards soy oil, just what do those soy farmers want from the Feds? RIAA-style protection? If the Columbians can sell us palm oil for biodiesel that can make sense at current market prices, more power to them. However, the primary use of biodiesel at this point is for blending, the economics (and very probably, the ASTM biodiesel spread) will have to change to make this stuff practical at the gas pump. Algae will be an important part of making this happen. BTW, your writing style looks sort of familiar, you on any of the biofuels mailing lists?I ask the question because increasing the sales of relatively low-ranked artists, particularly the ones that the record labels are nominally losing money on should have a direct and positive impact on label bottom lines.
Plus, there is the physical overhead. Why are CDs for musicians who are expected to be relatively low in sales physically pressed and shipped and most of them get returned unsold instead of being burned on demand at record stores? A jukebox setup simply duping CDs and printing the labels and jewel box sleeves could handle it now, a better solution would be the upcoming terabyte CD-form factor media. It's a hell of a lot cheaper to ship information than physical anything.
One weakness in the studies is that they depend on information voluntarily released by the record labels, which automatically reduce the credibility of the data and the studies.
Another question is the effect of radio airplay (which can be turned into mp3 with the right tuner card) vs P2P in getting the word about artists.
But even with the questions unanswered, there may well be a new and more profitable distribution model implicit within these studies.
someone who is going to discover that his license to practice in his home state is in danger Real Soon Now. Lawyers are supposed to know better than to piss off judges, especially when it appears that this lawyer is trying to profit from the grief of 3 families by filing a meritless lawsuit on their behalf.
A "tinfoil hat" is not a Faraday cage given the large unshielded portion occupied by the user's head... though a properly designed tinfol suit (add a helmet with a transparent conductive coating if the user cares about seeing out) providing continous shielding should be.
- say "fuck it", go for an MBA, and maybe write Open Source code in her spare time
- go country shopping... very possibly, start by looking for foriegn institutions of higher learning
The "mainstreaming of geeks" is basically pop culture adjusting to the idea of "geeks" making serious money... just in time to catch the tail end of the trend. "Geek chic" is bullshit, at the end of the day, it's about making a living.Plus, younger slashdotters might find a certain amount of social advantage from a public statement like that, as their female classmates find out where Open Source comes from and who around school campuses actually do things with it.
it. . . has. . . escaped!
And as you've said, we know what to do with cookies.
While i'm sure you're right about google logging IP addresses with search requests, this can only be useful if the user's got a static IP address... so use an anonymous proxy if you're searching for anything controversial and you've got a broadband connection. If one is using the Google search toolbar... they probably *do* have everything. The answer for that is sort of obvious.
to handle peak loads. If your e-commerce server is dumping over 80% of the customers when everybody shows up to buy, that means one is losing 80% of potential sales. A IT manager who gives the excuse "But we were trying to save on power and capital investment" is going to have his ass fired when this happens. That's a major rationale behing "grid computing", i.e. rent one's CPU cycles when one really needs them.
While... MS isn't smart about anything other marketing garbage products and buying political influence, I was very surprised to find a real technology company Google wanting to buy AOL, which on the face of it, seems like paying a premium price for a seat on the Titanic after the iceberg hit.
Look for legislation in future designed to give *AA companies immunity from the consequences of future machine-frying DRM.
Sony chopped its own hand off and dropped it in the water.
MS to be around to support anything past a few years from now is taking the wrong end of a sucker bet. MS's anti-OO FUD campaign is just an attempt to put the deathspiral off for a year or two.
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Since when do they make Microshit fantards moderate around here?
One judges the content of a magazine based on what it looks like in areas you know something about, i.e. if you know it to be crap within your field of expertise, it's probably crap outside it, too. Judging from their pro-MS / anti-Open Source articles and advising its readers to file frivolous lawsuits against bloggers, the only good things one can use Forbes for are opposition research, and a gift subscription to a competitor's CTO.
That's W98SE+Win4lin 9.x running over Fedora Core 2. (you can probably get the same results with VMware)
No, fixing Windoze problems isn't why I switched to Linux, that's simply a fortuitous side effect. I did this mainly because I was sick of dealing with MS malware crap and wanted a future operating system, not something belonging to a crumbling empire that saw its best days several years ago and is kept alive on life support.
the nice people who wrote the SELinux component found in most current Linux distros?
If you have the misfortune to work for such a person, (other than updating your resume and sending it to your favorite headhunters) do a fast google on SCO's track record with respect to:
Ask if your company really needs the kind of legal exposure use of any product from a company that voluntarily associates with SCO will provide given the above problems.
There are alternative database products like postgres or for that matter, Oracle, that are technically superior and don't have those kinds of problem.
Offhand, if one is using mySQL. . . time to check into anything else.
The average person who doesn't have a serious interest in a subject looks for a degree in something that will get him a career. So... we graduate lots of MBAs and lawyers.
People who are truly interested in science and technology will find a way to get educated in it, and the ones with a sense of self-preservation will be learning Chinese, Indian, and EU languages.
Make the jobs available and the expanding demand for the appropriate classes will cause more faculty to be hired... problem solved.
But I don't really consider this a problem, since the people who are in a position to DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS aren't interested in putting their own bucks on the table. Just ours.
Send your comment to the Magistrate Court at Horseferry and ask that it be forwarded to Judge Q. Purdy. (probably in the form of printed paper, since I doubt this guy is trusted with by Her Majesty's government with a computer)