I don't know where you got the idea that GDP = productivity. Can you provide any source where a noted economist says PCGDP and productivity are the same?
How about here, for one: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1094/is _2_34/ai_54405330 National productivity statistics - The Statistics Corner - excerpts from an article with the same title published in the Federal Reserve Bank of richmond Economic Quarterly, Winter 1998
Here's the quote: "For national productivity statistics, an obvious starting point is to take an estimate of aggregate output such as real gross domestic product (GDP) from the national income and product accounts (NIPAs). On the input side, the first requirement is to measure labor input, such as the number of workers or the number of hours worked."
Weren't paying attention in Economics 101, were ya?
When a particular job or skill _does_ move offshore, all other things being equal, it merely frees Americans -- the most productive workers in the world -- to develop the NEXT job or skill or to come up with a more efficient, profitable way of providing the old one.
The myth that American workers are the most productive (Per Capita GDP) persists...
Actually Luxembourg has the highest PCGDP, nearly 1.5 times the US PCGDP... The US is nearly identical to Norway, a Social Democracy with universal heatlhcare...
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ran ko rder/2004rank.html
Cool graph at this one: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_gdp_ cap&in t=-1
This one's good too, Most Educated: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/edu _sch_lif_ex p_tot US comes in at 14...We should be ashamed...
If it's not too much hard work, then take them apart and wash them, hot soapy water should do, perhaps with a mild bleach. As long as all the parts are *throughly* dry before reassemble, the water is no danger.
I've done this dozens of times with keyboards and mice and twice with my pager (don't ask)... A nice soak in the bathtub...
As long as you let dry out, everything will be fine.
About 15 years ago I told an anonymous person in a chatroom on GEnie that I thought he was a poo-head for not considering the hazzards of debris in orbit, turned out the anonymous was his wife.
I agree with you about JP. I sat next to his wife at the '92 WorldCon, in Orlando, during his talk about reusable space vehicles. She is very nice and I think she realizes he is a bit of a prat...:)
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So to you Niven fans out there, if I want to read more Niven what (if anything) is actually worth reading?
Try "The Smoke Ring" and "The Integral Trees". He manages to paint a totally believable world in a very unlikely situation.
Also, "The Mote in God's Eye" and "The Gripping Hand" are two of my all time favorites...
The "Tales of Known Space" series (of which Ringworld is only a part) are great stories, IMHO...
I don't much care for his "Gil of the ARM" stories, but that's just me...
Our education system is in shambles, our young people are complete morons, and we as a culture pretty much revile the educated and glorify the average.
OTOH, has it occurred to YOU that maybe our kids aren't applying themselves because they don't see a future for themselves?
BTW, if you REALLY think all our young people are complete morons, you obviously haven't spoken to one lately.
Lessons to be learned from email systems...
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A large part of proprietary email systems (GroupWise and Exchange in particular) is the quick search and retrieval of messages (files).
Email systems do this by storing pointers to messages (files), along with pertinent data (subject, received/sent date, etc.) in the DB. GroupWise also stores small (2kb) messages inside the DB, but IMHO, storing the files themselves in the DB is probably a bad idea. The messages (files) are still accessable in the event of DB corruption and the DB can be rebuilt by scanning the files.
I don't see any reason the whole FS couldn't work this way...
Ah, but you have to account for vacation and sick time, pointless meetings and special projects. So, in a sense, we ARE doing it with only 3 to 4 at a time...
Like IT, if one person can manage 5 machines is there a way to make one person manage 10? Off the bat I would usually say "Yes, make them work twice as much".
If you have the right tools and know how to use them you can be exponentially more efficient.
At my employer, 6 of us manage over 700 servers, 2/3 Netware 6 the other 1/3 a mix of NT4/2000/2003...
None us seems to be too stressed out, even considering we're going through a total IP address range conversion in all of our remote offices as well as major upgrades of our Directory Services...
Second, most outsourcing (in my experience, anyway; as for life in your dorm, YMMV) has nothing to do with losing jobs -- it's companies contracting out work instead of hiring new people.
Spoken as a true college student.
When (if) you get a job in the Real World, think about what you've written today...
I'm surprised this guy is actually working with ClearType.
Just a comment about ClearType...
I've been using it for the last 2 months or so, since I got a new LCD monitor and I must say that I've noticed that I'm suffering a lot less eye-strain since I switched...
It was a little weird for the first couple of days, but now I don't even notice the difference...
Gold has value because there is a standing market for it, in which people trade, and supply and demand have set a price.
That's what I said. Gold has a value because we've agreed that gold has a value. As soon as we don't agree that it has a value, it is as worthless as the paper that fiat money is printed on...
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I don't know where you got the idea that GDP = productivity. Can you provide any source where a noted economist says PCGDP and productivity are the same?
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How about here, for one:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1094/i
National productivity statistics - The Statistics Corner - excerpts from an article with the same title published in the Federal Reserve Bank of richmond Economic Quarterly, Winter 1998
Here's the quote:
"For national productivity statistics, an obvious starting point is to take an estimate of aggregate output such as real gross domestic product (GDP) from the national income and product accounts (NIPAs). On the input side, the first requirement is to measure labor input, such as the number of workers or the number of hours worked."
Weren't paying attention in Economics 101, were ya?
When a particular job or skill _does_ move offshore, all other things being equal, it merely frees Americans -- the most productive workers in the world -- to develop the NEXT job or skill or to come up with a more efficient, profitable way of providing the old one.
n ko rder/2004rank.html
_ cap&in t=-1
u _sch_lif_ex p_tot
The myth that American workers are the most productive (Per Capita GDP) persists...
Actually Luxembourg has the highest PCGDP, nearly 1.5 times the US PCGDP...
The US is nearly identical to Norway, a Social Democracy with universal heatlhcare...
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ra
Cool graph at this one:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_gdp
This one's good too, Most Educated:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/ed
US comes in at 14...We should be ashamed...
No, Novell had their lunch eaten by open-systems Unix vendors, Microsoft and Linux, in succession. QED.
Not exactly QED.
Novell OWNS Unix, in spite of what SCO may claim...
And Novell also owns a major Linux distro (SuSE)...
So, by your reckoning, Novell ate its own lunch?
Companies that don't make (or don't continue to make) good stuff will get their lunch eaten by those who do.
So, Novell is eating Microsoft's lunch?
Maybe Novell decided it didn't like the sardine and limburger sandwich it found in Bill's bag...
Palmyra Atoll is uninhabited, and doesn't have a currency.
o s/ lq.html
Actually, there are a small number of temporary inhabitants, the caretakers. The island is a nature preserve....
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ge
Will some little green Martian, post on a Martian sci/tech Blog...
I for one, welcome our new alien overlords!
I'm ahead of the curve...
I always knew beer was health food....
Mmmm, beer....
(No, really, lots of Vitamin B!)
That's three times in less than a week!
Is there nothing NEW happening in the World?
Umm, not far off...
Getting off the can, post dump.
Loose belt.
Sploosh.
Aw, crap!
If it's not too much hard work, then take them apart and wash them, hot soapy water should do, perhaps with a mild bleach.
As long as all the parts are *throughly* dry before reassemble, the water is no danger.
I've done this dozens of times with keyboards and mice and twice with my pager (don't ask)...
A nice soak in the bathtub...
As long as you let dry out, everything will be fine.
About 15 years ago I told an anonymous person in a chatroom on GEnie that I thought he was a poo-head for not considering the hazzards of debris in orbit, turned out the anonymous was his wife.
:)
I agree with you about JP.
I sat next to his wife at the '92 WorldCon, in Orlando, during his talk about reusable space vehicles.
She is very nice and I think she realizes he is a bit of a prat...
So to you Niven fans out there, if I want to read more Niven what (if anything) is actually worth reading?
Try "The Smoke Ring" and "The Integral Trees".
He manages to paint a totally believable world in a very unlikely situation.
Also, "The Mote in God's Eye" and "The Gripping Hand" are two of my all time favorites...
The "Tales of Known Space" series (of which Ringworld is only a part) are great stories, IMHO...
I don't much care for his "Gil of the ARM" stories, but that's just me...
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
You should read your own sig...
Our education system is in shambles, our young people are complete morons, and we as a culture pretty much revile the educated and glorify the average.
OTOH, has it occurred to YOU that maybe our kids aren't applying themselves because they don't see a future for themselves?
BTW, if you REALLY think all our young people are complete morons, you obviously haven't spoken to one lately.
Well, somebody's got to say it...
Welcome, to our new Alien Masters!
A large part of proprietary email systems (GroupWise and Exchange in particular) is the quick search and retrieval of messages (files).
Email systems do this by storing pointers to messages (files), along with pertinent data (subject, received/sent date, etc.) in the DB. GroupWise also stores small (2kb) messages inside the DB, but IMHO, storing the files themselves in the DB is probably a bad idea.
The messages (files) are still accessable in the event of DB corruption and the DB can be rebuilt by scanning the files.
I don't see any reason the whole FS couldn't work this way...
We hired you because you said you can multitask. Can you or can't you? :-)
No, sorry.
You hired ME because the MCSEs you hired before me were too busy playing EverCrack at work to actually do anything.
And the one time they DID they lost the CEO's email...
YOU hired ME because YOU want to keep YOUR job...
Doh!
Ah, but you have to account for vacation and sick time, pointless meetings and special projects.
So, in a sense, we ARE doing it with only 3 to 4 at a time...
Management weenie...
Like IT, if one person can manage 5 machines is there a way to make one person manage 10? Off the bat I would usually say "Yes, make them work twice as much".
If you have the right tools and know how to use them you can be exponentially more efficient.
At my employer, 6 of us manage over 700 servers, 2/3 Netware 6 the other 1/3 a mix of NT4/2000/2003...
None us seems to be too stressed out, even considering we're going through a total IP address range conversion in all of our remote offices as well as major upgrades of our Directory Services...
Remote management is a wonderful thing!
Second, most outsourcing (in my experience, anyway; as for life in your dorm, YMMV) has nothing to do with losing jobs -- it's companies contracting out work instead of hiring new people.
Spoken as a true college student.
When (if) you get a job in the Real World, think about what you've written today...
I'm surprised this guy is actually working with ClearType.
Just a comment about ClearType...
I've been using it for the last 2 months or so, since I got a new LCD monitor and I must say that I've noticed that I'm suffering a lot less eye-strain since I switched...
It was a little weird for the first couple of days, but now I don't even notice the difference...
Sex.
How in the World did I miss that?
Gold has value because there is a standing market for it, in which people trade, and supply and demand have set a price.
That's what I said.
Gold has a value because we've agreed that gold has a value.
As soon as we don't agree that it has a value, it is as worthless as the paper that fiat money is printed on...
Contrast that with gold coins, which have an intrinsic value outside of the currency (its value in gold).
Ah, but Gold suffers the same problem as fiat money.
It only has a value because we agree that it does.
When you get right down to it the only things that have REAL value are the things required to support life.
Air. Food. Water. The land required to create food. Sunlight.
Other than that, everything else is negotiable.
California: High Taxes, Mudslides, Wildfires and Earthquakes.
Florida: Alligators, Very Large Insects, Humidity, and Hurricanes.
Just give up and move to Iowa.
Iowa: Corn, corn, corn and corn.
Give me the earthquakes and alligators.