Based on this, working for Foxconn in China is better than living in Canada, at least as far as suicide risk is concerned.
I debunked this statement several times here. Please stop posting these false statements ! I believe that you are a sociopath, since you purposely forget that humans are dying here, but I guess they just represent a few dollars for you ?
Frankly, if life was better in China, why don't you go there ?
Okay, now for something new:
in China, life is treasured.
Firstly, there is no real reason to suicide yourself, since there is plenty of work, compared to our countries with a lot of unemployed people, and not enough work.
Secondly, because couples can only have one child, this child is always the center of the family. People still believe that these children will take care of them when they'll get old, since it's a custom in China. This also explains why the children are treated like royalty, and behave like tyrants (it's even more obvious when they become adults). So, when a child commits a suicide, it's a tragedy for the whole family, since all the investment is lost.
Thirdly, imagine that you have been raised like an emperor during your infancy. When you are an adult, you have a job where you need to work probably 80 hours every week. After a few months, you realize that you can only save a few money, because life is expensive, and even with the minimal amount of expenses, your life is miserable. At this moment, these workers believe that they will have to work all their lives in such situation. Of course, they have to work, since they want to create their own family. Pretty depressive, no ? So, you have several solutions: keeping your work or quitting it. Suppose that Foxconn brags everywhere that they are the most generous company, I mean how they pay. Quitting it is not an option, since you'll get an even worse job. In this case, some fragile people find the solution into suicide.
One reason for the high rate of malware is that the online porn industry makes use of affiliate programs, where one site will drive traffic to another in exchange for links, cash or simply free pornographic material to use.
No, it's totally wrong. It's simply because the most dangerous ads are the ones which pay the most.
Malware authors know that if they want to infect sites, they just have to propose more money than Google's Adsense and similar companies. They'll recover this money after a few infections.
Also, I'm pretty sure that a lot of malware authors create free porn sites, just to avoid paying for ads. I saw that on a lot of cracks collections sites.
The US still has the largest economy and most powerful military on the planet.
1) The largest economy doesn't mean that the US are the richest. All of US' value is based on debts, like most of all western countries.
2) the US military is probably not the most powerful, since it is unable to solve conflicts (and to my knowledge, no war ever solved anything), but it's surely the most expensive army. Given the amount of money poured into the US army, I doubt it is as efficient as it could be.
Apple is more clever than Microsoft, since they use fashion to sell their products. BTW, they are an hardware company, and depends less on software than Microsoft, this is why they try to protect their market. Microsoft always bought the interesting products to include them in their OS (for example IE or Stacker, which is very useful on servers).
The chinese don't commit suicide because they are too busy working overtime.
Seriously, what is this pitiful statistics you are trying to use ?
There have been 13 suicides at the working place, and, to my knowledge, suicides at the working place are very rare in our western countries. Frankly, if you work 18/7 and spend the rest of your time to sleep and eat, your life means pretty nothing after a few months. And only naive people believe that they can get rich by their work.
BTW, in France, there have been 37 suicides in 2 years in the biggest telecom company: France Telecom, mainly because the company is changing (FT is becoming a private company, and I can assure you that it means a lot more work for some people there, who are accustomed to doing nothing !). In France, we count the suicides both at work and at home, as long as you are working for the company.
You are right, but suppose that you want to keep your project available for a long time, like in this case Pychess.
Unless you pay for your hosting all your life, your project will die in a few years. And only big companies (like Google) will be able to keep your content alive for a few years.
A lot of sites with interesting content were lost in the past few years, and of course, you can retrieve their content with archive.org but you cannot recover the zip files, if you need some source code from a particular project.
Google only keeps an instant shot of the Internet, but doesn't keep its history.
Of course, it is impossible to reach with your 64Kb/s connection.
Imagine that there are people with faster connections.
Seriously, this is equivalent to downloading 2 DVDs every day, or 12 Blurays every month. I guess this is possible with torrent seeding, but I doubt any sane guy is able to look at 2 movies every day.
From my personal experience, it's important to view logic as fun.
So I recommend buying a book of recreational mathematics, like any Martin Gardner's book (Martin passed away a few days ago).
If the boy is able to understand the fun of logic, it'll be easy to pass to the second step, which is to enjoy programming.
Another good advice is to increase his interest by frustration. My parents always tried to prevent me to use computers, so I spend all my free time on them.
But frankly, it will be hard to encourage him to code. I started coding because I wanted software that was not available at that time. Nowadays, it's difficult to find something that has not been done.
My bet: the next version of Google Chrome will include the VP8 codec, and Youtube will provide VP8 encoded videos.
Since Chrome is gaining more market share every day, VP8 could become the standard de-facto for Web streaming, especially if Youtube doesn't support H264.
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Based on this, working for Foxconn in China is better than living in Canada, at least as far as suicide risk is concerned.
I debunked this statement several times here.
Please stop posting these false statements !
I believe that you are a sociopath, since you purposely forget that humans are dying here, but I guess they just represent a few dollars for you ?
Frankly, if life was better in China, why don't you go there ?
Okay, now for something new:
in China, life is treasured.
Firstly, there is no real reason to suicide yourself, since there is plenty of work, compared to our countries with a lot of unemployed people, and not enough work.
Secondly, because couples can only have one child, this child is always the center of the family.
People still believe that these children will take care of them when they'll get old, since it's a custom in China.
This also explains why the children are treated like royalty, and behave like tyrants (it's even more obvious when they become adults).
So, when a child commits a suicide, it's a tragedy for the whole family, since all the investment is lost.
Thirdly, imagine that you have been raised like an emperor during your infancy.
When you are an adult, you have a job where you need to work probably 80 hours every week.
After a few months, you realize that you can only save a few money, because life is expensive, and even with the minimal amount of expenses, your life is miserable.
At this moment, these workers believe that they will have to work all their lives in such situation.
Of course, they have to work, since they want to create their own family.
Pretty depressive, no ?
So, you have several solutions: keeping your work or quitting it.
Suppose that Foxconn brags everywhere that they are the most generous company, I mean how they pay.
Quitting it is not an option, since you'll get an even worse job.
In this case, some fragile people find the solution into suicide.
One reason for the high rate of malware is that the online porn industry makes use of affiliate programs, where one site will drive traffic to another in exchange for links, cash or simply free pornographic material to use.
No, it's totally wrong.
It's simply because the most dangerous ads are the ones which pay the most.
Malware authors know that if they want to infect sites, they just have to propose more money than Google's Adsense and similar companies.
They'll recover this money after a few infections.
Also, I'm pretty sure that a lot of malware authors create free porn sites, just to avoid paying for ads.
I saw that on a lot of cracks collections sites.
It got added to Firefox if any of the toolbars were detected on the system, even if it was for IE.
No, I never install toolbars, and it got installed on one of my computers...
I guess I'll have to investigate...
Not really a journal: http://arxiv.org/
Use Google CodeSearch, it's more adapted to developers:
http://google.com/codesearch
The US still has the largest economy and most powerful military on the planet.
1) The largest economy doesn't mean that the US are the richest.
All of US' value is based on debts, like most of all western countries.
2) the US military is probably not the most powerful, since it is unable to solve conflicts (and to my knowledge, no war ever solved anything), but it's surely the most expensive army.
Given the amount of money poured into the US army, I doubt it is as efficient as it could be.
Oily breasts ? Finally, something exciting !
And more importantly: are they waterproof ?
... and Steve Ballmer, with his mantra "Developers, developers, developers"
It doesn't work with IE6 !!!
Since these glasses will be recalled, and probably not a lot were sold, they'll become an interesting deadly item for collectors.
what really upsets me is the total lack of professionalism and common courtesy that they have displayed in this
That's because they don't have an app for that.
It has nothing to do with UI.
Did you forget the story about Google trying to add a product on the iPhone ?
Apple is more clever than Microsoft, since they use fashion to sell their products. BTW, they are an hardware company, and depends less on software than Microsoft, this is why they try to protect their market.
Microsoft always bought the interesting products to include them in their OS (for example IE or Stacker, which is very useful on servers).
and a couple of months later you have the same number of rats but all are immune.
Fixed for you.
People are making totally arbitrary decisions over what can and can't be sold, with no consistency or logic.
No, the logic is quite clear: any product that competes with Apple's ones is automatically removed.
Of course, you cannot guess which app Apple will release in the future, so releasing an app is like playing the lottery.
The chinese don't commit suicide because they are too busy working overtime.
Seriously, what is this pitiful statistics you are trying to use ?
There have been 13 suicides at the working place, and, to my knowledge, suicides at the working place are very rare in our western countries.
Frankly, if you work 18/7 and spend the rest of your time to sleep and eat, your life means pretty nothing after a few months. And only naive people believe that they can get rich by their work.
BTW, in France, there have been 37 suicides in 2 years in the biggest telecom company: France Telecom, mainly because the company is changing (FT is becoming a private company, and I can assure you that it means a lot more work for some people there, who are accustomed to doing nothing !).
In France, we count the suicides both at work and at home, as long as you are working for the company.
A Darwin awards winner will never sue anybody, unless there are undead lawyers.
You are right, but suppose that you want to keep your project available for a long time, like in this case Pychess.
Unless you pay for your hosting all your life, your project will die in a few years.
And only big companies (like Google) will be able to keep your content alive for a few years.
A lot of sites with interesting content were lost in the past few years, and of course, you can retrieve their content with archive.org but you cannot recover the zip files, if you need some source code from a particular project.
Google only keeps an instant shot of the Internet, but doesn't keep its history.
Although I believe in captialism
Why ? Capitalism doesn't believe in you.
Of course, it is impossible to reach with your 64Kb/s connection.
Imagine that there are people with faster connections.
Seriously, this is equivalent to downloading 2 DVDs every day, or 12 Blurays every month.
I guess this is possible with torrent seeding, but I doubt any sane guy is able to look at 2 movies every day.
From my personal experience, it's important to view logic as fun.
So I recommend buying a book of recreational mathematics, like any Martin Gardner's book (Martin passed away a few days ago).
If the boy is able to understand the fun of logic, it'll be easy to pass to the second step, which is to enjoy programming.
Another good advice is to increase his interest by frustration.
My parents always tried to prevent me to use computers, so I spend all my free time on them.
But frankly, it will be hard to encourage him to code.
I started coding because I wanted software that was not available at that time.
Nowadays, it's difficult to find something that has not been done.
Dude, if you don't like it, filter it out. It isn't that hard.
Sorry, but I use the RSS feeds, and I cannot filter the idle stories, and there is no way to differentiate the stories.
My bet: the next version of Google Chrome will include the VP8 codec, and Youtube will provide VP8 encoded videos.
Since Chrome is gaining more market share every day, VP8 could become the standard de-facto for Web streaming, especially if Youtube doesn't support H264.
Google doesn't care about offline products.
As you seem to be a MS fan, I can't believe you didn't consider dotNet languages and Silverlight.
My personal favorite is VB.Net.
Massive executables are the best way to show that your tool is of professional quality.
Silverlight is of course necessary for any kind of interface.
If you want to avoid a Web interface, use XAML.
Hey, we are in 2010 !