Personally, I find Vi to be a fast and efficient text editor. The ones built in to an IDE are inevitably inefficient for me.
Some languages have so much boiler plate that it makes sense to start in an IDE (I'm looking at YOU Java), but I generally prefer languages that don't need that. Vim handles syntax highlighting just fine. It doesn't help that so many IDEs seemingly want 12 terabytes of ram.
The risk would be that the little airplane icon and the ETA on the passenger monitors might be wrong. That seems like a small risk to be assured that the critical systems are safe from hacking.
As far as the public service goes, it's not fair to compare w/ Amazon, compare with the actual players. AT&T is known for long hold times and lackluster service. Google is known for avoiding human contact at all costs. The last time I went to DMV, I had my renewed license (not a temporary, actual laminated license) in hand within 5 minutes, so YMMV.
Venzon says MI-Connection is not far from the point where it can cover all of its debt and begin paying back the towns. It’s at that point, he adds, that Davidson and Mooresville will have to decide what to do with an asset, rather than how to deal with a liability.
Sorry, but that doesn't sound like a disaster at all to me. It sounds a lot like the way business actually works. It also sounds like a valuable asset in the making. If you add in the positive effects of having the best internet connectivity in the country in terms of ability to attract businesses, it's not a bad deal at all.
Note that Davidson went in on this with Mooresville, population 32,000 so claiming the debt is held by just 10,000 people is way off the mark. It's not chump change, but it's not exactly a horror. There are many government and private ventures in a lot more debt with a lot less to show for it and unlike the broadband play, little hope to break even one day.
Given the speed of their network, they will beat the pants off of AT&T and will likely be on-par with Google. Now let's talk customer service. We have AT&(your call is important to us, please hold forever)T and Google(Talk to the hand).
It's also worth considering, if not for the threat of efforts like these, do you really think any of the telcos would actually be trying to up their game?
On the other hand, with a green card they need not do anything special to change jobs and don't have to deal with any red tape.
The rest is trickery with numbers that assumes that as long as flatscreen TVs get cheaper it's harmless that food, clothing, shelter, and medical care skyrocketed.
But surely at a major demarcation like critical network and barely secured passenger entertainment, that measure is still warranted. There is simply no reason the engine controller will ever be interested in how many people are reading buzzfeed or what the in-flight movie is.
The best way to do that is using an opto-isolator connecting an RS-232 Tx from the avionics to an Rx on the entertainment system and push data across with no return path.
The FBI got an actual warrant. mere capability isn't enough to get one of those. They have to allege that an actual crime has actually happened or is in planning. That crime (naturally) has to be possible. Further, they must show good reason to believe that the subject of the search is involved.
Pie in the sky hypotheticals don't cut it.
That doesn't mean it is actually possible, but it means either the FBI sincerely believes it is or that they are knowingly abusing their authority harassing an innocent citizen for their own amusement.
LUS Fiber (Lafayette), S&P upgraded their bonds from A to A+ based on strong performance this year. They went cash positive in 2012.
Your second link indicates that MI-Connection is likewise cash positive and beginning to pay down debt.
3rd link is paywalled, had to get it via Google search. That one has real problems, but it appears to be a matter of political sabotage rather than being an intrinsically bad idea.
So what your links really say is that (SURPRISE), big projects sometimes take longer to pay off than expected and may not pay off if they are sabotaged by people who would rather see their city take a financial bath than have their sacred cow slaughtered.
Most of the municipal broadband out there now used a bond and are set up to operate and pay off the bonds from revenue. They still work out to be a much better deal for customers than the telcos offer and often provide broadband where the telcos had no intention of offering anything in the foreseeable future.
H1-B is NOT immigration. I don't oppose immigration, I oppose H1-B. The dynamic of abusing the employee's tenuous status is part of the problem. I'm guessing they will seem a lot less valuable to employers here if they have a green card such that they can change jobs without risk of being deported.
But beyond just IT, I'm pretty sure most Americans would find increase in income to match the last 30 years of inflation would be a real help. It would also stimulate the economy and boost profits of a lot of companies.
Your understanding of economics seems to consist mostly of talking points.
Well, gee, it seems there is a severe shortage of electricity, food, housing, pretty much everything. By God it's like Soviet Russia around here. Not one cheap food item on the shelves!
Shortage isn't binary, but it does show signs and symptoms. Those include rising prices (in this case salaries) broadening standards (that would mean more willingness to accept telecommute, more willingness to hire older workers, etc), more concessions to work/life balance, and other measures. In other words, there is an existing under-utilized pool of IT labor in the U.S.
It is the Government's job to protect the economy of the U.S. and that includes making sure the general population is able to maintain their standard of living.
I don't mind helping the farmers, but the bankers were the architects of their own problems got bailed out anyway and left everyone else holding the bag. Then in gratitude they began a crazy and often illegal campaign of mass foreclosures.
If we had an actual shortage as you claim, they couldn't have afforded to let those rare and needed U.S. workers go. If there was an actual shortage, they wouldn't have to post the job openings strategically to make sure they don't accidentally get a qualified U.S. applicant.
We've seen right here on/. about various IT people being displaced by H1-Bs, mot supplemented with.
If there was an actual shortage, we'd see ageism go away kinda like in the run-up to y2k where there was an actual shortage of skilled COBOL programmers and they were enticing people back out of management.
We would also see the requires X years experience in X-3 year old technology requirements go away. We wouldn't see lawyers offering employers advice on how to taylor job postings to make sure they get an H1-B.
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Reality often is, but it's what we have.
No, I am the one who thinks we should insist that Walmart pay them enough to not qualify for government money.
I read that article too, and the one that debunked it.
They didn't GIVE me the computer, I paid for it. If they want worker units, let them pay for them.
But as long as you're in the mood to pay other people's bills for them, I have this power bill coming up...
So what's your answer, pay people to hire them like we apparently do now or get them up against the wall?
So what businesses in Seattle would you be talking about? Last I heard, businesses were expanding there.
So what you're saying is that those jobs just don't need to be done at all? I wonder why the corporate cheapskates keep hiring people to do them?!?
So you like paying taxes to subsidize corporate payroll?
If you really believe paying slave wages will make us all wealthy, you go first, ask for that pay cut now!
Personally, I find Vi to be a fast and efficient text editor. The ones built in to an IDE are inevitably inefficient for me.
Some languages have so much boiler plate that it makes sense to start in an IDE (I'm looking at YOU Java), but I generally prefer languages that don't need that. Vim handles syntax highlighting just fine. It doesn't help that so many IDEs seemingly want 12 terabytes of ram.
The risk would be that the little airplane icon and the ETA on the passenger monitors might be wrong. That seems like a small risk to be assured that the critical systems are safe from hacking.
As far as the public service goes, it's not fair to compare w/ Amazon, compare with the actual players. AT&T is known for long hold times and lackluster service. Google is known for avoiding human contact at all costs. The last time I went to DMV, I had my renewed license (not a temporary, actual laminated license) in hand within 5 minutes, so YMMV.
From the link you posted:
Venzon says MI-Connection is not far from the point where it can cover all of its debt and begin paying back the towns. It’s at that point, he adds, that Davidson and Mooresville will have to decide what to do with an asset, rather than how to deal with a liability.
Sorry, but that doesn't sound like a disaster at all to me. It sounds a lot like the way business actually works. It also sounds like a valuable asset in the making. If you add in the positive effects of having the best internet connectivity in the country in terms of ability to attract businesses, it's not a bad deal at all.
Note that Davidson went in on this with Mooresville, population 32,000 so claiming the debt is held by just 10,000 people is way off the mark. It's not chump change, but it's not exactly a horror. There are many government and private ventures in a lot more debt with a lot less to show for it and unlike the broadband play, little hope to break even one day.
Given the speed of their network, they will beat the pants off of AT&T and will likely be on-par with Google. Now let's talk customer service. We have AT&(your call is important to us, please hold forever)T and Google(Talk to the hand).
It's also worth considering, if not for the threat of efforts like these, do you really think any of the telcos would actually be trying to up their game?
Actually it was. What wasn't obvious was the technology to make it work reliably, but Apple didn't invent that, they waited for it.
On the other hand, with a green card they need not do anything special to change jobs and don't have to deal with any red tape.
The rest is trickery with numbers that assumes that as long as flatscreen TVs get cheaper it's harmless that food, clothing, shelter, and medical care skyrocketed.
But surely at a major demarcation like critical network and barely secured passenger entertainment, that measure is still warranted. There is simply no reason the engine controller will ever be interested in how many people are reading buzzfeed or what the in-flight movie is.
The best way to do that is using an opto-isolator connecting an RS-232 Tx from the avionics to an Rx on the entertainment system and push data across with no return path.
The FBI got an actual warrant. mere capability isn't enough to get one of those. They have to allege that an actual crime has actually happened or is in planning. That crime (naturally) has to be possible. Further, they must show good reason to believe that the subject of the search is involved.
Pie in the sky hypotheticals don't cut it.
That doesn't mean it is actually possible, but it means either the FBI sincerely believes it is or that they are knowingly abusing their authority harassing an innocent citizen for their own amusement.
LUS Fiber (Lafayette), S&P upgraded their bonds from A to A+ based on strong performance this year. They went cash positive in 2012.
Your second link indicates that MI-Connection is likewise cash positive and beginning to pay down debt.
3rd link is paywalled, had to get it via Google search. That one has real problems, but it appears to be a matter of political sabotage rather than being an intrinsically bad idea.
So what your links really say is that (SURPRISE), big projects sometimes take longer to pay off than expected and may not pay off if they are sabotaged by people who would rather see their city take a financial bath than have their sacred cow slaughtered.
Most of the municipal broadband out there now used a bond and are set up to operate and pay off the bonds from revenue. They still work out to be a much better deal for customers than the telcos offer and often provide broadband where the telcos had no intention of offering anything in the foreseeable future.
H1-B is NOT immigration. I don't oppose immigration, I oppose H1-B. The dynamic of abusing the employee's tenuous status is part of the problem. I'm guessing they will seem a lot less valuable to employers here if they have a green card such that they can change jobs without risk of being deported.
But beyond just IT, I'm pretty sure most Americans would find increase in income to match the last 30 years of inflation would be a real help. It would also stimulate the economy and boost profits of a lot of companies.
Your understanding of economics seems to consist mostly of talking points.
Well, gee, it seems there is a severe shortage of electricity, food, housing, pretty much everything. By God it's like Soviet Russia around here. Not one cheap food item on the shelves!
Shortage isn't binary, but it does show signs and symptoms. Those include rising prices (in this case salaries) broadening standards (that would mean more willingness to accept telecommute, more willingness to hire older workers, etc), more concessions to work/life balance, and other measures. In other words, there is an existing under-utilized pool of IT labor in the U.S.
It is the Government's job to protect the economy of the U.S. and that includes making sure the general population is able to maintain their standard of living.
I don't mind helping the farmers, but the bankers were the architects of their own problems got bailed out anyway and left everyone else holding the bag. Then in gratitude they began a crazy and often illegal campaign of mass foreclosures.
Sure, but the question is will such procedures be used?
If we had an actual shortage as you claim, they couldn't have afforded to let those rare and needed U.S. workers go. If there was an actual shortage, they wouldn't have to post the job openings strategically to make sure they don't accidentally get a qualified U.S. applicant.
We've seen right here on /. about various IT people being displaced by H1-Bs, mot supplemented with.
If there was an actual shortage, we'd see ageism go away kinda like in the run-up to y2k where there was an actual shortage of skilled COBOL programmers and they were enticing people back out of management.
We would also see the requires X years experience in X-3 year old technology requirements go away. We wouldn't see lawyers offering employers advice on how to taylor job postings to make sure they get an H1-B.