Back when I was in tech support I noticed an increase in computer USB ports damaged when yanking the USB out. I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but still...
They need to create a whole alternative ecosystem, that is their own search, their own "facebook", "youtube", mobile OS, etc., with higher ethical standards, and slowly grow it. Get momentum step by step, never losing hope. It might catch up eventually when the masses realize what the alternative is doing and find there is a wholly developed alternative patiently waiting.
Why the Cosmic Silence? That's an easy one: we're not allowed to contact or be contacted by similar or lower level civilisations until we cross a certain social or biological evolution level.
Read "The zero marginal cost society", by Jeremy Rifkin. The evolution of technology is creating an inflection point in our economic system. Society cannot continue to be the same. Eventually, like Switzerland is trying to do, most people will receive a guaranteed minimum income for not working since there won't be enough jobs.
It's a bit like a reality show with big prizes for a few superachievers who overcame other competitors. This is more an advertising stunt for the group of rich individuals sponsoring this. How is this going to promote science and investigation among the not so elite, which is the problem you have right now? Sure a few kids will fall for the flashy get-rich-quick appeal of the show. Until they become aware of the long hours needed to attain even a modest level of competence. Then the shine disappears.
The second wave of software outsourcing will be to Latinamerica, so Spanish. Once youre somewhat fluent you might go to the other big LA language, Brazilian Portuguese, so similar to Spanish you can learn it in a few months. Now, for original technical documentation go for German, Japanese or Russian.
ts the normal evolution of capitalistic economy. The same thing is happening in Mexico, older generations are retiring with magnificent pensions, new generations were duped with the mantra "the current pension and public health care schema is unsustainable, we must cut on YOUR entitlements". Radio, TV, newspapers, all kept repeating it until everybody thought it was true. How can a country with the richest man in the world, Carlos Slim, be running out of money? I see the same ideology is being brainwashed into the new generations in the US too. It's simply that the capitalistic economy is reaching one of its overproduction, stagnation cycles. There is a lot of money, it's just that the rich guys keep it frozen because "the conditions are not right for investing OUR money" Like they found that money while being hermits in the dessert.
The accumulation of all information about everybody and everything is unavoidable, so, society will evolve into one of two paths: either a paranoid dystopia where a secret elite controls everybody through fear, and all production of goods and services are controlled by the corporations, or it evolves into a society of free individuals who empowered by technology and social awareness become economically independent and free of the social pressures caused by obsolete ways of thinking. These new free people will join on a new form of government that peacefully will make the old one irrelevant. If you live in the USA you might think the paranoid dystopia is more likely, but if you see the youth in Europe, Latin America and Asia it'll be obvious that gradually a new free society is being built.
Management positions are not given, they are taken. You're making the mistake of thinking that in order to become a manager all you have to do is silently do your work everyday, and then some day, somebody will notice and reward you with a managerial position. That's not how it works. Managerial positions and their salaries and privileges are highly coveted, and the competition for them is fierce. And once you're a manager you need to fight to have your ideas approved and funded over their competitor's. Caesar's to Caesar, you want to play in the big leagues, you have to pay the price, and in a competitive and explotative system the price is your soul.
Another tidbit of history: one of the several reasons the settlers of Texas fought for their independence was that the Mexican government forbid slavery, and was going to enforce that law in Texas. The settlers stated that without their slaves there was no way they could prosper...
We sometimes do Spanish-Mandarin translations. This is our process: We stopped doing a direct Spanish-Mandarin translation with Google due to awful results, now we first use Google translate to go from Spanish to English. Then we correct English translation manually. Using Google Translate again, go from Engish to Mandarin. Have a Chinese person correct the translation manually.
I can't even imagine this new system working for more than a few simple and straightforward phrases.
Read your Marx again: China is learning to create real value (manufacturing), the USA is learning to depend on circunstantial and artificial movements of money, that is luxury items and oportunistic financial manouvers. Eventually things will balance and reach their real levels.
Don't. A common complaint among IT people is they are marginalized inside of the company. In great measure that happens because IT tends not to be acquainted with the real business of your organization, so they end up as some sort of sophisticated janitorial service. Stay involved with all those messy company affaires, that's what the real world is made of.
If you go to the popular (well, poor) neighborhoods in northern Mexico you'll find thousands of young people, joining the cartels. The young people that don't, are idolizing the narcoculture: headache inducing narcocorrido music, big pickup trucks, cowboy attire, violent and arrogant behavior, etc. This has stopped being some clandestine business run by old families specializing in recreational agriculture export activities and has become an attempted takeover of society by the organized crime, at a level that makes Al Capone look like a beginner. In the controlled states most business and middle class independent professionals have to pay protection money to these guys or else. Bank employees provide all the required information. What about the police, army, government? Everybody knows they are in the payroll. It's more like Mexico during the later phase of 1910's revolution where all the young people joined one General or the other to survive while plundering, killing, raping, etc. Today the situation in the affected areas is controlled by terror. Psychological studies of the people doing terrorist activities have shown they're mostly "normal" people adapting to a new economic environment. In other words, young people are being recruited by the organized crime because the current economy is not providing quality jobs. I'll spare you the usual rant about the US-supported neoliberals elites blocking popular movements, but the fact is those elites want to go back to a semifeudal society controlled by the Church and Old Money, and are stopping any development that could empower the general citizens. If you've tried to do business in Mexico you realized how everything seems to be prohibited, or excessively controlled. What happens when you cannot honestly make a living? You do it unhonestly. And the elites have been doing a good job stunting critical education and lowering the level of popular culture through the TV chains like Televisa, so instead of becoming aware of who the real enemy is, young people unleash their frustration against their own.
Slashdot Mirror
Back when I was in tech support I noticed an increase in computer USB ports damaged when yanking the USB out. I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but still...
Exhibit A. So full of hate...
By Jeremy Rifkin. It's all in there. New big companies seem to be following it step by step. https://www.thezeromarginalcos...
They need to create a whole alternative ecosystem, that is their own search, their own "facebook", "youtube", mobile OS, etc., with higher ethical standards, and slowly grow it. Get momentum step by step, never losing hope. It might catch up eventually when the masses realize what the alternative is doing and find there is a wholly developed alternative patiently waiting.
Why the Cosmic Silence? That's an easy one: we're not allowed to contact or be contacted by similar or lower level civilisations until we cross a certain social or biological evolution level.
By Jiddu Krishnamurti. Really opens your mind about who we are, and "why we are". Closest I've seen to a logic explanation of buddhist teachings.
Read "The zero marginal cost society", by Jeremy Rifkin. The evolution of technology is creating an inflection point in our economic system. Society cannot continue to be the same. Eventually, like Switzerland is trying to do, most people will receive a guaranteed minimum income for not working since there won't be enough jobs.
...better than this: http://www.cracked.com/blog/3-...
It's a bit like a reality show with big prizes for a few superachievers who overcame other competitors. This is more an advertising stunt for the group of rich individuals sponsoring this. How is this going to promote science and investigation among the not so elite, which is the problem you have right now? Sure a few kids will fall for the flashy get-rich-quick appeal of the show. Until they become aware of the long hours needed to attain even a modest level of competence. Then the shine disappears.
The second wave of software outsourcing will be to Latinamerica, so Spanish. Once youre somewhat fluent you might go to the other big LA language, Brazilian Portuguese, so similar to Spanish you can learn it in a few months. Now, for original technical documentation go for German, Japanese or Russian.
Many ladies claim that men can only do one thing at a time...
ts the normal evolution of capitalistic economy. The same thing is happening in Mexico, older generations are retiring with magnificent pensions, new generations were duped with the mantra "the current pension and public health care schema is unsustainable, we must cut on YOUR entitlements". Radio, TV, newspapers, all kept repeating it until everybody thought it was true. How can a country with the richest man in the world, Carlos Slim, be running out of money? I see the same ideology is being brainwashed into the new generations in the US too. It's simply that the capitalistic economy is reaching one of its overproduction, stagnation cycles. There is a lot of money, it's just that the rich guys keep it frozen because "the conditions are not right for investing OUR money" Like they found that money while being hermits in the dessert.
The accumulation of all information about everybody and everything is unavoidable, so, society will evolve into one of two paths: either a paranoid dystopia where a secret elite controls everybody through fear, and all production of goods and services are controlled by the corporations, or it evolves into a society of free individuals who empowered by technology and social awareness become economically independent and free of the social pressures caused by obsolete ways of thinking. These new free people will join on a new form of government that peacefully will make the old one irrelevant. If you live in the USA you might think the paranoid dystopia is more likely, but if you see the youth in Europe, Latin America and Asia it'll be obvious that gradually a new free society is being built.
How Google sees itself: http://i.imgur.com/cnqsX.jpg. Where do I even start? If governments were relly serious on attacking organized crime they would go against money laundering, all the way up to the top. Instead, we have this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18866018/ And this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs/ So, dream on...
Management positions are not given, they are taken. You're making the mistake of thinking that in order to become a manager all you have to do is silently do your work everyday, and then some day, somebody will notice and reward you with a managerial position. That's not how it works. Managerial positions and their salaries and privileges are highly coveted, and the competition for them is fierce. And once you're a manager you need to fight to have your ideas approved and funded over their competitor's. Caesar's to Caesar, you want to play in the big leagues, you have to pay the price, and in a competitive and explotative system the price is your soul.
Among all their crazy articles, Cracked has some deep ones:
http://www.cracked.com/article_18817_5-reasons-future-will-be-ruled-by-b.s..html
Another tidbit of history: one of the several reasons the settlers of Texas fought for their independence was that the Mexican government forbid slavery, and was going to enforce that law in Texas. The settlers stated that without their slaves there was no way they could prosper...
We sometimes do Spanish-Mandarin translations. This is our process: We stopped doing a direct Spanish-Mandarin translation with Google due to awful results, now we first use Google translate to go from Spanish to English. Then we correct English translation manually. Using Google Translate again, go from Engish to Mandarin. Have a Chinese person correct the translation manually.
I can't even imagine this new system working for more than a few simple and straightforward phrases.
If you can't be,
with the one you love,
love the one you're with.
The only way for brick-and-mortars to compete against the internet is to specialize and sell their own brands, manufactured in Asia of course.
knows he's a reptilian humanoid... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofOtDJaCdc
Read your Marx again: China is learning to create real value (manufacturing), the USA is learning to depend on circunstantial and artificial movements of money, that is luxury items and oportunistic financial manouvers. Eventually things will balance and reach their real levels.
Wow! That "Ihre Papieren bitte!" joke has become reality! Way to go USA!
Don't. A common complaint among IT people is they are marginalized inside of the company. In great measure that happens because IT tends not to be acquainted with the real business of your organization, so they end up as some sort of sophisticated janitorial service. Stay involved with all those messy company affaires, that's what the real world is made of.
If you go to the popular (well, poor) neighborhoods in northern Mexico you'll find thousands of young people, joining the cartels. The young people that don't, are idolizing the narcoculture: headache inducing narcocorrido music, big pickup trucks, cowboy attire, violent and arrogant behavior, etc. This has stopped being some clandestine business run by old families specializing in recreational agriculture export activities and has become an attempted takeover of society by the organized crime, at a level that makes Al Capone look like a beginner. In the controlled states most business and middle class independent professionals have to pay protection money to these guys or else. Bank employees provide all the required information. What about the police, army, government? Everybody knows they are in the payroll. It's more like Mexico during the later phase of 1910's revolution where all the young people joined one General or the other to survive while plundering, killing, raping, etc. Today the situation in the affected areas is controlled by terror. Psychological studies of the people doing terrorist activities have shown they're mostly "normal" people adapting to a new economic environment. In other words, young people are being recruited by the organized crime because the current economy is not providing quality jobs. I'll spare you the usual rant about the US-supported neoliberals elites blocking popular movements, but the fact is those elites want to go back to a semifeudal society controlled by the Church and Old Money, and are stopping any development that could empower the general citizens. If you've tried to do business in Mexico you realized how everything seems to be prohibited, or excessively controlled. What happens when you cannot honestly make a living? You do it unhonestly. And the elites have been doing a good job stunting critical education and lowering the level of popular culture through the TV chains like Televisa, so instead of becoming aware of who the real enemy is, young people unleash their frustration against their own.