In New Jersey and Oregon it's illegal (with some exceptions) to pump your own gas, an attendant does it for you.
I have never seen the point of creating jobs like this, and I suspect that despite the local job creation, it is probably bad for the economy. but it is truly hard to create 100s of millions of high-end jobs.
If we are successful in continuing to promote the USA as a global leader, worthy of "management class" wages compared to other nationalities; WTF are the rest of the population going to do that lack these high-end skills ?
I think that Irish citizens could move to Poland if they wanted to.
Besides, what you say is to be applauded, eventually the corporations will move around to even the poorest contries. Then the only way they will be able to make themselves poor again is by waging war or grossly mismanaging their governments (per the US model).
So perhaps in addition to the low pay, the Polish government bought the business.
Perhaps they thought that a few thousand jobs created was a good return on dropping their tax rate instead of other forms of government handout like those being enacted right now in the USA.
I guess one of the criticisms leveled at geeks is that they think they know everything...
So in that spirit, here's my "expert" analysis of world economic matters !
Isn't manufacturing computers just a service ? If you were Martha Stuart, you'd just get up early and grind-up the sand from the beach yourself to make your own CPU.
To my mind there's scant economic difference between a janatorial service and a manufacturing "service".
Furthermore; a janitor's job has to remain local and the janitor must be retained to keep the place sparkly, as opposed to a one-time manufacturing process for a durable item.
Janitors are an extremely high-value service, that's why so many of us have a personal computer built for us but don't have our houses cleaned for us.
Perhaps Eire should have factored in that companies agile and willing enough to relocate once to Ireland would likely be sufficiently agile and willing to move to follow the sun again.
It's pretty cool. My son loves it but it's slow and there are a few other problems, no need to relive them.
The annoying thing is that it was pretty difficult to get one. I was only able to get one if I bought another for someone else, I don;t mind, but really - if you want to drive volume...
And even then I was only able to get one for a limited special offer period.
I can't help but think that so many things would have been different if they had spent an extra $2 on a faster ARM processor and sold them more openly. More XOs in more hands would have yielded more involvement.
Presumably the people that would buy stuff just because it was made by Google are not a major demographic. So Google will need to do something to
1) raise the barrier to entry, no point issuing a device that anyone could make with Linux and a '386. Also, many cisco routers (eg. the 1800 series) genuinely represent value for money.
2) Provide good quality support.
So to raise the barrier to entry, it has to be a pretty special product, maybe doing the most useful 80% of what a cisco does flawlessly and improving upon cisco in come other areas (ones I can think off of the top of my head are ease of deployment and virtualization (vrf)).
The other reason people insist on Cisco, even when there are other cheaper options, is that they believe Cisco support their product well with training and technical support. This in my experience is an illusion. By and large the Cisco TAC is awful and maintaining certification is expensive and time consuming and the training materials are riddled with misprints, bugs and corporate "best practices" that are self-serving to Cisco.
So Google have a huge hill to climb, but I'm sure that it can be done in the space of a couple of years.
I'm sure I read somewhere that they had issued a bunch of coupons that were almost certain to never be redeemed and that if they could just factor that into their calcualtions, that they woudl be free to over-issue coupons knowing that they are very unlikely to bust their budget.
It does not seem like too much of a stretch to me to leave their budget as it is, to over-issue coupons and to accept a small risk that more coupons than expected are redeemed.
recently operation icebreaker brought down some local meth dealers. I bet the same name had been used for similar stings hundreds of times.
Now operation DarkMarket turns out to be a Fed-run honeypot.
How hard could it be to make a dictionary of likely FBI operation names, or even an application to rank the probability of a domain name being based on operation names that have been used on TV in the past ?
You say that right now Britain does not need guns, long may it last, but if the time comes when they are needed how long would it take to get them ?
After all, the Balkans seemed to be awash with AK47s when the people wanted to import them and it's not as if most Montenegrans were as wealthy as most Brits at the time.
Seems to me that if an when the general populace of the UK wanted suddenly to be armed, it would not have to wait long to get what it wants. A short timescale compared with the time it would take to get to that point.
I've never understood why it cost so much to manage 401k funds if the whole stock market had really been reduced to a simple risk figure. Where's the quality of jugement I was paying my 401k fund manager for ?
When stocks were rising, then I suppose retirement investors looked the other way as some of their profits were taken as management fees. But now they are going down and we're still paying managers to manage them downward
I hope that there will be more focus on simpler 401k options that don't need so much management overhead, maybe even some federally managed funds with no management fees.
There are many bad things about SOX, PCI-DSS, HIPAA etc.
But let's not throw out jr. with the soapy water...
To some degree, writing and re-writing systems to meet the various strictures brings jobs to me and the slashdot groupies.
And in some cases, the regulations embody things that should have been common sense proper practice. By and large, the corporations that were doing things in a ludicrous, lazy and irresponsible way are the ones that forced the government to act and are complaining the loudest now. You don't believe the government likes to actually do anything do you ?
Nothing is all good or all bad in this world (outside of christian radio stations) and these regulations have good and bad in them.
And a good reason why the top Linux distros should get together and publish a "recommended hardware build" for a few key market segments each year.
eg.
the linux association recommends that a desktop PC for an office would look like this...
the linux association recomends that a laptop PC for a student would look like this...
Actually name components that are supported well. That way, manufacturers might have some motivation to get their hardware running smoothly under LInux.
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To avoid bias against people who don't speak English as their mother tongue.
I use the Voldemort (er, outlook) client, and it also shows the original email and the recall request.
Oddly enough, people only try to recall email once when they see how stupid it makes them look.
I have direct experience that whenever a popup is presented reading something like.
Are you sure you want to do this stupid thing ?
pops up, people universally click "OK" without a second thought.
People have just been blasted by too many of these warnings to take any proper note any more.
In New Jersey and Oregon it's illegal (with some exceptions) to pump your own gas, an attendant does it for you.
I have never seen the point of creating jobs like this, and I suspect that despite the local job creation, it is probably bad for the economy. but it is truly hard to create 100s of millions of high-end jobs.
If we are successful in continuing to promote the USA as a global leader, worthy of "management class" wages compared to other nationalities; WTF are the rest of the population going to do that lack these high-end skills ?
Wasn't the EU constitution the size of a telephone directory ?
Hardly the few elegant pages of the original US constitution. How anyone could approve it is beyond me.
I think that Irish citizens could move to Poland if they wanted to.
Besides, what you say is to be applauded, eventually the corporations will move around to even the poorest contries. Then the only way they will be able to make themselves poor again is by waging war or grossly mismanaging their governments (per the US model).
So perhaps in addition to the low pay, the Polish government bought the business.
Perhaps they thought that a few thousand jobs created was a good return on dropping their tax rate instead of other forms of government handout like those being enacted right now in the USA.
I guess one of the criticisms leveled at geeks is that they think they know everything...
So in that spirit, here's my "expert" analysis of world economic matters !
Isn't manufacturing computers just a service ? If you were Martha Stuart, you'd just get up early and grind-up the sand from the beach yourself to make your own CPU.
To my mind there's scant economic difference between a janatorial service and a manufacturing "service".
Furthermore; a janitor's job has to remain local and the janitor must be retained to keep the place sparkly, as opposed to a one-time manufacturing process for a durable item.
Janitors are an extremely high-value service, that's why so many of us have a personal computer built for us but don't have our houses cleaned for us.
Perhaps Eire should have factored in that companies agile and willing enough to relocate once to Ireland would likely be sufficiently agile and willing to move to follow the sun again.
It's pretty cool. My son loves it but it's slow and there are a few other problems, no need to relive them.
The annoying thing is that it was pretty difficult to get one. I was only able to get one if I bought another for someone else, I don;t mind, but really - if you want to drive volume...
And even then I was only able to get one for a limited special offer period.
I can't help but think that so many things would have been different if they had spent an extra $2 on a faster ARM processor and sold them more openly. More XOs in more hands would have yielded more involvement.
Presumably the people that would buy stuff just because it was made by Google are not a major demographic. So Google will need to do something to
1) raise the barrier to entry, no point issuing a device that anyone could make with Linux and a '386. Also, many cisco routers (eg. the 1800 series) genuinely represent value for money.
2) Provide good quality support.
So to raise the barrier to entry, it has to be a pretty special product, maybe doing the most useful 80% of what a cisco does flawlessly and improving upon cisco in come other areas (ones I can think off of the top of my head are ease of deployment and virtualization (vrf)).
The other reason people insist on Cisco, even when there are other cheaper options, is that they believe Cisco support their product well with training and technical support. This in my experience is an illusion. By and large the Cisco TAC is awful and maintaining certification is expensive and time consuming and the training materials are riddled with misprints, bugs and corporate "best practices" that are self-serving to Cisco.
So Google have a huge hill to climb, but I'm sure that it can be done in the space of a couple of years.
I wish they would also track credit card spending in the same file.
Perhaps I could then just forward the DHS records for my travel expense reports.
I'm sure I read somewhere that they had issued a bunch of coupons that were almost certain to never be redeemed and that if they could just factor that into their calcualtions, that they woudl be free to over-issue coupons knowing that they are very unlikely to bust their budget.
It does not seem like too much of a stretch to me to leave their budget as it is, to over-issue coupons and to accept a small risk that more coupons than expected are redeemed.
recently operation icebreaker brought down some local meth dealers. I bet the same name had been used for similar stings hundreds of times.
Now operation DarkMarket turns out to be a Fed-run honeypot.
How hard could it be to make a dictionary of likely FBI operation names, or even an application to rank the probability of a domain name being based on operation names that have been used on TV in the past ?
You say that right now Britain does not need guns, long may it last, but if the time comes when they are needed how long would it take to get them ?
After all, the Balkans seemed to be awash with AK47s when the people wanted to import them and it's not as if most Montenegrans were as wealthy as most Brits at the time.
Seems to me that if an when the general populace of the UK wanted suddenly to be armed, it would not have to wait long to get what it wants. A short timescale compared with the time it would take to get to that point.
So has this resulted in large percentages of the British population being thrown into jail ?
I mean in the same percentages as the number of US citizens that have done some jail time, especially if they less fair skinned than average ?
Is there not some form of error-correction in the sequence itself that could be exploited ?
Something like the error correction on an audio compact disk ?
I've never understood why it cost so much to manage 401k funds if the whole stock market had really been reduced to a simple risk figure. Where's the quality of jugement I was paying my 401k fund manager for ?
When stocks were rising, then I suppose retirement investors looked the other way as some of their profits were taken as management fees. But now they are going down and we're still paying managers to manage them downward
I hope that there will be more focus on simpler 401k options that don't need so much management overhead, maybe even some federally managed funds with no management fees.
It also creates an environment where those that make the cut give a little more to avoid being next in line.
It's part of the general march toward companies owning everyone's soul.
do you get the videos into the TV in the first place to allow it to then stream them.
I hope he goes on to enjoy a long and happy old age.
There are many bad things about SOX, PCI-DSS, HIPAA etc.
But let's not throw out jr. with the soapy water...
To some degree, writing and re-writing systems to meet the various strictures brings jobs to me and the slashdot groupies.
And in some cases, the regulations embody things that should have been common sense proper practice. By and large, the corporations that were doing things in a ludicrous, lazy and irresponsible way are the ones that forced the government to act and are complaining the loudest now. You don't believe the government likes to actually do anything do you ?
Nothing is all good or all bad in this world (outside of christian radio stations) and these regulations have good and bad in them.
That's an outstanding point you make.
And a good reason why the top Linux distros should get together and publish a "recommended hardware build" for a few key market segments each year.
eg.
the linux association recommends that a desktop PC for an office would look like this...
the linux association recomends that a laptop PC for a student would look like this...
Actually name components that are supported well. That way, manufacturers might have some motivation to get their hardware running smoothly under LInux.
So if their losses are negative - ie. they sell OSX at a profit, then they owe PyStar money ?
David Mertz