And what precisely do you recommend? The IT sector is scarcely 30 years old. The Internet Services sector barely 10. 10 years. That gave someone enough time that, had there been coursework for it, to have gone through school, assuming that they finished in 4 years, had a whopping 6 year career.
Hint for the masses, my school loans are financed for 10 years after I graduated.
So, we can't get Blue Collar jobs because manufacturing fled. We can't get government jobs because of deficit spending. Now we can't even pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, educate ourselves, work hard, and even pay off the debt required to get that far.
I'm sorry, you must have been talking to my deaf ear. I didn't quite understand.
And of course, people will continue to buy crap from you no matter how bad the followup products are, nor how advanced the competetions may be. Think Cisco.
At the risk of sounding fatalistic, our country has the best Government that money can buy.
The Anti-Trust laws are not being enforced, save through third party litigation. What rules do exist are being whiddled away by the Bush administration. For instance, the new FCC rules loosening many restrictions about TV and Radio station ownership. Also don't forget about the EPA gutting the regulations that kept old plants from being upgraded without adding pollution controls. Having and old plant is now a competitive advantage, add flushing sound.
A National Park Ranger is taking a tour guide through an area of massive Trees...
Ranger: And here we have the Microsoft Vine. You can see it wrapping itself around all of the trees, big and small. Believe it or not, the vines strangling this forest are all part of one Vine. It's a big mass, sucking it's nutrients from the topsoil and the rotting wood from the trees it has strangled.
Now we have introduced the Linux penguin to take care of the Microsoft Vine. The penguins somehow introduce organisms that fill in the Vine's niches and prevent its growth...
What's that you say? The guy who takes over the world is going to hold all the keys? That somehow someone by being the richest person in the world is going to rule it.
Ha!
Chapter 29
Whoever wishes to take over the world will not succeed. The world is a sacred vessel and nothing should be done to it. Whoever tries to tamper with it will mar it. Whoever tries to grab it will lose it.
Hence, there is a time to go ahead and a time to stay behind. There is a time to breathe easy and a time to breathe hard. There is a time to be vigorous and a time to be gentle. There is a time to gather and a time to release.
Therefore, the True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.
And finally, people comment that the world gets smaller everyday. What does good old Lao Tsu think about that:
Chapter 80
In a small country with few people; though there are machines that would increase production ten to a hundred times they are not used. The people take death seriously and do not travel about.
Though they have boats and carriages no one uses them. Though they have armor and weapons, there is no occasion to display them.
The people give up writing and return to the knotting of cords. They are satisfied with their food. They are pleased with their clothes. They are content with their homes. They are happy in their simple ways.
Even though they live within sight of another country and can hear dogs barking and cocks crowing in it, still the people grow old and die without ever coming into conflict.
Yup in a perfect world, we would be content with enough without trashing our neighbor's place to grab their stuff. What innovative new-wave thinking that we should all be in global cutthroat competition. Oh no, that's never been done before.
My last post described the folly of consumer culture. Let's get a little more into human nature:
Chapter 77 The way of heaven is like the bending of a bow. The high end is pulled down and the low end is raised up. The excessive is diminished and the deficient is supplemented.
It is the way of heaven to take where there is too much in order to give where there is not enough. The way of people is otherwise. They take where there is not enough in order to increase where there is already too much. Who will take from their own excesses and give to all under heaven? Only those who hold to the Tao.
Therefore, the True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
Yup, the rich have been getting richer since the dawn of time.
You speak with the smugness of one who thinks this is somehow new. Pick up a copy of the Tao Te Ching. It's at least 2000 years old. Can't read Chinese? Not a problem, several folks over the past 100 years have translated the work to English:
Chapter 53
If I have even little sense, I will walk upon the great path of Tao and only fear straying from it. This Great Way is straight and smooth yet people often prefer the side roads.
The courtyard is well kept but the fields are full of weeds, and the granaries stand empty. Still, there are those of us who wear elegant clothes, carry sharp swords, pamper ourselves with food and drink and have more possessions than we can use. These are the actions of robbers.
Judging by how most American cars are mostly made in Canada and Mexico, you can see how affective Labor was in imparting change. Or rather, preventing change.
I for one am planning on starting a new industry: replacing CxO's with software. The smarts don't have to be that sophisticated. At present CEO/CIO/CFO's are random number generators with single register math. Imagine what could be done with a modern processor that can track more than one factor, and some memory to gauge progress and effectiveness.
Of course, computers don't need to be paid. They just run the world for kicks.
Yes, the human cost is terrible. I have lost work, and I empathize. However, what do you propose US businesses do?
What do I suggest? Wake up, smell the coffee, and stop chasing each other to the bottom. Computer companies are like the airlines, they are trying to starve each other out. Look at the air industry, and tell me with a straight face that sort of behavior is healthy.
It must really be nice under Chapter 11 bankrupcy protection. They constantly operate there. I just wish the Gubment would stop bailing them out, let them die, and let a new set of players take their place.
If you lost a job to an Indian IT worker, I suggest you *compete* instead of *whine*.
Compete? Excuse me? I was laid off as an Intern at $12/hour so the company could move to Singapore. I lucked out, I could move back in with my parents. The other engineers have families and mortgages.
Your pop and swap mentality flies completely in the face of reality. People, get this, actually require steady paychecks. You start talking about universal health care, free meals, and housing guarentees, then we can talk about us all being interchangable.
But we aren't talking about that. We are talking about workers having to be self-sufficient with no guarentee of work. And it's not even unskilled workers anymore. You have hard-working college educated people who are now competing for the unskilled shit jobs of the world, bumping the unskilled people even further down the hole.
Ask the French sometime about what happens when the Middle Class goes into a toilet-bowl spiral while the Upper Crust get fabulously wealthy. Better yet, ask the Russians.
If you read between the lines, it's not about the money. It's about business busting the balls of skilled workers. We were scarce, expensive, and worth our weight in gold. We had them over the back of a barrel, and they knew it.
All of this outsourcing is a thinly veiled attempted to commodidize not just IT, but IT services. Look at every stinking product coming down the pipeline. It's all designed for a chimpanzee to use. Sure it can't do half of what the previous version did, but it uses MicroSoft's backend, costs 3 times as much, and we can hire a teenager to feed it.
So what if all these rosy assumptions explode and take our customer service with it. We sure showed those IT people who was boss. Who needs them...
Actually, on all of my domains the address on record is my home address. Spam Assasin is a powerful tool.
I've actually met(?) some rather nice folks who have followed the admin links on my website or my whois entry.
Then again, I'm the kind of guy who doesn't close the blinds when taking a shower and would sunbathe in the nude given half decent weather and less prudish local ordinances.
I view listing my personal information the price to pay for a public website. You can be accosted as a nobody or as a celebrity. Few rise to the defense of a nobody.
Anonymity means that when someone smashed your face in, everyone stands on the sidelines. It's the difference between some woman being mugged on the street in front of your house versus neighbor's daughter being mugged in front of your house. In one case you might call 911. In the other, you might grab a crowbar and beat the mofo within an inch of his life.
Thank you. I can't believe I had to scroll halfway down the page for a sensible post.
A domain name is like a radio license. You are using a public resources, you have certain responsibilities as a custodian of that resource. Yes you paid a fee, but you are really renting time and space on everyone's central corpus of addressing information.
And if you are bothered by people knowing your real phone number and your real address, what on Earth are you doing running your own domain.
Freedom is not anonymity. Freedom is being yourself, in the open, knowing that no one can touch you without repricussions. And by the way, anyone thinking of getting my address and egging my house better hope the Philly police get to you first.
You do it all the time in an elevator. You expererience 0->30 in one second stopping your car at an intersection or pulling up to a tollbooth. Military skydivers hit the ground at 15mph.
And the shuttle does not brake over one minute. More like 20 seconds. And that is a hell of a lot more violent than a hard landing in a capsule.
Do they have any other openings for Americans of mostly Irish decent? I can do the accent pretty well. Heck, when I try to do an Irish accent it ends up coming out Indian.
It has several people wondering how 2.4.x is going to be ported to PS2 because of the radical changes.
Duh, it's a hazing ritual for new Sony engineers. They have to drink beer on a block of Ice and port the latest Linux kernel to either the PS2 or the gameboy advance.
The PS2 has a pair of USB ports, not to mention a firewire port. With all the tools portage can throw at you, it would be no small shakes to compile the drivers and support software needed to adapt a USB or firewire tuner.
Gentoo never goes stale because you can suck down the source for software and compile it natively. So, if BlackRhino (the default distro) didn't include Apache, you would be SOL. Not so with gentoo, you simply emerge apache and it figures out all the software required to run Apache, and what order to download, compile, and install it in.
Emerge also incorporates distcc into the build process, so if you have a bunch of PS2s (or a few desktop PCs for that matter) you could farm the compile process across the network.
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Triangle - R
Circle - M
Square - F
X - Dash
Right - Space
Down - CR
To unlock the whole hard drive use the combo TRIANGLE - CIRCLE - RIGHT - X - TRIANGLE - SQUARE - DOWN
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Hint for the masses, my school loans are financed for 10 years after I graduated.
So, we can't get Blue Collar jobs because manufacturing fled. We can't get government jobs because of deficit spending. Now we can't even pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, educate ourselves, work hard, and even pay off the debt required to get that far.
I'm sorry, you must have been talking to my deaf ear. I didn't quite understand.
And of course, people will continue to buy crap from you no matter how bad the followup products are, nor how advanced the competetions may be. Think Cisco.
The Anti-Trust laws are not being enforced, save through third party litigation. What rules do exist are being whiddled away by the Bush administration. For instance, the new FCC rules loosening many restrictions about TV and Radio station ownership. Also don't forget about the EPA gutting the regulations that kept old plants from being upgraded without adding pollution controls. Having and old plant is now a competitive advantage, add flushing sound.
Ranger: And here we have the Microsoft Vine. You can see it wrapping itself around all of the trees, big and small. Believe it or not, the vines strangling this forest are all part of one Vine. It's a big mass, sucking it's nutrients from the topsoil and the rotting wood from the trees it has strangled.
Now we have introduced the Linux penguin to take care of the Microsoft Vine. The penguins somehow introduce organisms that fill in the Vine's niches and prevent its growth...
Ha!
2000 years later, it's still true.
Yup in a perfect world, we would be content with enough without trashing our neighbor's place to grab their stuff. What innovative new-wave thinking that we should all be in global cutthroat competition. Oh no, that's never been done before.
Yup, the rich have been getting richer since the dawn of time.
You know, because my house is going to get blown away and swept into the chesapeake bay, you insensitive clod.
You will be reducing your overhead almost 100%, when the roof blows off.
I for one am planning on starting a new industry: replacing CxO's with software. The smarts don't have to be that sophisticated. At present CEO/CIO/CFO's are random number generators with single register math. Imagine what could be done with a modern processor that can track more than one factor, and some memory to gauge progress and effectiveness.
Of course, computers don't need to be paid. They just run the world for kicks.
What do I suggest? Wake up, smell the coffee, and stop chasing each other to the bottom. Computer companies are like the airlines, they are trying to starve each other out. Look at the air industry, and tell me with a straight face that sort of behavior is healthy.
It must really be nice under Chapter 11 bankrupcy protection. They constantly operate there. I just wish the Gubment would stop bailing them out, let them die, and let a new set of players take their place.
Compete? Excuse me? I was laid off as an Intern at $12/hour so the company could move to Singapore. I lucked out, I could move back in with my parents. The other engineers have families and mortgages.
Your pop and swap mentality flies completely in the face of reality. People, get this, actually require steady paychecks. You start talking about universal health care, free meals, and housing guarentees, then we can talk about us all being interchangable.
But we aren't talking about that. We are talking about workers having to be self-sufficient with no guarentee of work. And it's not even unskilled workers anymore. You have hard-working college educated people who are now competing for the unskilled shit jobs of the world, bumping the unskilled people even further down the hole.
Ask the French sometime about what happens when the Middle Class goes into a toilet-bowl spiral while the Upper Crust get fabulously wealthy. Better yet, ask the Russians.
I just get random email from folks, that's all. People dropping by my house would be a little scary.
All of this outsourcing is a thinly veiled attempted to commodidize not just IT, but IT services. Look at every stinking product coming down the pipeline. It's all designed for a chimpanzee to use. Sure it can't do half of what the previous version did, but it uses MicroSoft's backend, costs 3 times as much, and we can hire a teenager to feed it.
So what if all these rosy assumptions explode and take our customer service with it. We sure showed those IT people who was boss. Who needs them...
Actually, on all of my domains the address on record is my home address. Spam Assasin is a powerful tool.
I've actually met(?) some rather nice folks who have followed the admin links on my website or my whois entry.
Then again, I'm the kind of guy who doesn't close the blinds when taking a shower and would sunbathe in the nude given half decent weather and less prudish local ordinances.
Anonymity means that when someone smashed your face in, everyone stands on the sidelines. It's the difference between some woman being mugged on the street in front of your house versus neighbor's daughter being mugged in front of your house. In one case you might call 911. In the other, you might grab a crowbar and beat the mofo within an inch of his life.
A domain name is like a radio license. You are using a public resources, you have certain responsibilities as a custodian of that resource. Yes you paid a fee, but you are really renting time and space on everyone's central corpus of addressing information.
And if you are bothered by people knowing your real phone number and your real address, what on Earth are you doing running your own domain.
Freedom is not anonymity. Freedom is being yourself, in the open, knowing that no one can touch you without repricussions. And by the way, anyone thinking of getting my address and egging my house better hope the Philly police get to you first.
And the shuttle does not brake over one minute. More like 20 seconds. And that is a hell of a lot more violent than a hard landing in a capsule.
Do they have any other openings for Americans of mostly Irish decent? I can do the accent pretty well. Heck, when I try to do an Irish accent it ends up coming out Indian.
Duh, it's a hazing ritual for new Sony engineers. They have to drink beer on a block of Ice and port the latest Linux kernel to either the PS2 or the gameboy advance.
The PS2 has a pair of USB ports, not to mention a firewire port. With all the tools portage can throw at you, it would be no small shakes to compile the drivers and support software needed to adapt a USB or firewire tuner.
Emerge also incorporates distcc into the build process, so if you have a bunch of PS2s (or a few desktop PCs for that matter) you could farm the compile process across the network.
To unlock the whole hard drive use the combo TRIANGLE - CIRCLE - RIGHT - X - TRIANGLE - SQUARE - DOWN
When you start running out of space, use the compression command rm -rf
I don't take kindly to being besmirked as "Yippie."