I'm afraid you are simply incorrect about labor laws not applying at all. Among other conditions for a computer related job to be declared exempt, here's a quote from the US Department of Labor website's computer related ocupations page:
The employee must be compensated either on a salary or fee basis at a rate not less than $455 per week or, if compensated on an hourly basis, at a rate not less than $27.63 an hour
I'm thinking you missed something in school if you don't realize that you're protected by some labor laws even as a software engineer - or you're still in school.
And what if European contries did the same thing? I have no problem with a European country refusing to import goods manufactured at less than their minimum wage, that would certainly result in lower unemployment in Europe - as Europe is suffering from the same offshoring problems we're having in the US. Of course, you're incorrect about German unemployment anyway - according to the German Federal Foreign Office website, unemployment is currently at 9.8%, and at 7.6% if you only look at the former West Germany. High, but not double digit. France is barely in double digits at 10.1%, according to the CIA World Factbook.
And Silicon Valley having import restrictions is a rediculous arguement - There's this little thing known as the "interstate commerce clause" in the US constitution prohibiting states from imposing import tarrifs and production regulations on goods manufactured in other states. Silicon Valley employees also have the right to relocate to the Southeast without needing government permission, and would likely be able to maintain a higher standard of living if they did so, even at the somewhat lower wages in the Southeast.
In the real world, offshoring has destroyed American jobs, not saved them. It has a snowball effect that is currently accellerating, and can only be stopped by government action making it less cost effective to relocate jobs out of the US. Trying to wait on the Indian and Chinese economies to grow while allowing unrestricted offshoring will only result in massive American unemployment in the next 50 - 100 years.
The few markets opened are tiny compared to the number and value of jobs lost - which I've seen estimated at between 200,000 and 1 million.
But you CAN'T compete with someone in India or China, if you're competing on price. Never mind that you'd be homeless and starve to death on the wages, it would be illegal for you to accept them.
Now, if you really want to level the playing field, fine. But to do that, America should require that any goods imported into the US from anywhere in the world must not be touched by anyone paid less than the current US minimum wage.
I'm sorry, I must have misunderstood. Finder is by far the best file manipulation utility on any major operating system.
Now, it might need some cleanup these days, with some of the questionable eye candy (and maybe a rewrite in Cocoa) but it's still the best there is right now.
I've never played with PathFinder, but I have tested several "Finder replacement" programs over the years, and found them to be universally crap. I suppose I should take a look at this one, too.
I'd probably use my Linux desktop more often if somebody would write a Finder clone.
No, Phoenix has 4 seasons - spring, summer, oven, and summer.
Sometimes you actually get to turn off the AC in spring. Swamp coolers work pretty well in summer. During oven, you'd better be sure the AC is in good shape. Mid-spring, you might even need heat for a week or two.
And "but it's a dry heat" doesn't matter much when it's 115+.
wouldn't it be more cost-effective to use a bank of 10 33ppm printers?
You get your output just as fast, initial cost is lower, maintenance cost is likely to be lower, and if you get a failure on one unit, you're only down 10% of your printing capacity, instead of 100% of your printing capacity.
You really think that? What a sad world you want us to live in.
The reason there are so many criminals is because we have so many laws that everyone is a criminal. I can say with almost absolute certainty that you are a criminal - because there is probably some obscure law you've violated.
But even when people aren't breaking a law, they are often treated as criminals. Maybe you are ok with that, but most humans don't react well to it - because it's abuse.
And base ethics is that beating a child teaches a child that violence is a normal and good way to solve your problems. That seems to be what you've been taught, and I feel sorry for you.
You know, I think what that really means is that if somebody with the funds wants to fix this problem, NOW is the time to do it.
After all, the word linux has existed with no charges for its use for quite a few years now. It would be quite possible to argue in court that the term is now generic, and it's too late for Linus to do anything about it.
Well, I was in junior high a bit after the CoCo - we had Apple IIes.
The difference was that while the teachers were fairly clueless, they readily acknowledged that a few students knew the computers much better than they did, and the teachers were very willing to learn from us, and hopefully be able to teach the students who didn't know anything. I tutored the teachers on the state computer curriculum a few days ahead of where they were in class.
And while that teacher probably didn't have the authority to suspend, it should never have gotten to that level - there was no reason for it to have gotten past a "hey, I wasn't ready for you to turn the brightness up yet - don't do that." The office involvement was the teacher trying to eliminate competition for smartest in the room.
And I think the average geek could be ready to teach cooking or sewing at average high school levels within a few weeks. I know I would feel pretty confident with that level of prep, but then I was a substitute teacher when I took a semester off in college - and I had NO training for that, I cook for fun, and while I don't like to sew, I did ace a college-level theatre costuming class.
The thing I can't comprehend is why you think you needed some sort of punishment for taking some sort of initiative and fixing a VERY simple and obvious problem. If nothing else, the teacher needed some more education, not you - something on sensitivity and abuse of authority.
Don't talk to the police. If they want to "ask you a few questions" just say "no, thanks". If they want to talk to you, they probably consider you a suspect, and they can and will use everything you say against you if they possibly can.
No, it's just this "libertarian" silliness taken to its logical conclusion - the result is worse, as the effect is private censorship without any constitutional protections.
I do. It's not the responsibility of the library to censor.
Now, it would be polite of library patrons to use a terminal that wouldn't be visible to other patrons when viewing things that might offend others.
But I think librarians should be fired for interfering with the rights of patrons to read or view anything they want on the net. If a public library provides a resource, as a government entity it shouldn't be allowed to censor that resource under any circumstance.
172K is divisible by 4, and the Apple II used 4K chips back then. It's not a 16 bit bus, it's 8 bit, and you couldn't access all the RAM at once, it had to be bank-switched.
By "slot RAM" he meant that the motherboard couldn't hold that much RAM, and it was added in a card in one of the slots.
I've never done a floppy adjustment with an oscilloscope, but I would imagine it would be a bit more precise than the standard method of using the hash marks in a room with fluorescent lights and watching the patterns while you turned the speed control pot. The spindle flywheel was printed with two patterns, one at 50Hz and one at 60Hz, so you could align it in the US or Europe.
Sounds like a good idea to me. Everybody would be polite, and there would be ZERO risk of being hijacked.
I might join the NRA - if it weren't so Republican dominated. I'm not interested in giving up free speech rights any more than I'm interested in giving up my right to arm myself.
Actually, we don't all put up with it for air travel. I won't even consider flying if it's less than a 10 hour drive, because I don't like having my privacy invaded, I don't like being told I can't carry a knife, and I won't put up with it if it's even remotely avoidable.
I haven't flown since 2001. Now, I wasn't a weekly flyer before, but the increased security HAS cost the airlines money from me, and I won't fly again unless I have to until they reduce security. I would rather take the risk than put up with the hassle and lack of privacy.
Exactly - this is another set of stupid patents that shouldn't have been awarded. The "innovation" is putting the water in a breakable container that is broken by pushing a button.
It's laughable in its obviousness. My reaction when I saw it in a store was "I was wondering how long it would be before somebody started shipping that" followed by "SEVEN DOLLARS!!! Are they NUTS!!!?"
So don't pay it. And send them a letter explaining exactly why you're not going to pay it, including the fact that they aren't providing advertised services.
If they charge it to your credit card, do a chargeback - the credit card company will take it back from them.
I think I would have carefully documented why I was buying a used fan, and gotten a signed memo from the guy who wanted the used one, and then bought the used one.
And then when it failed, you'd have less complaining next time you wanted better equipment.
You've got something wrong. Maybe you need RAM, maybe you've done something really bad to your system, but the dashboard is useable on the machine I'm typing on right now - slot loading iMac G3 500, 384MB RAM.
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I'm afraid you are simply incorrect about labor laws not applying at all. Among other conditions for a computer related job to be declared exempt, here's a quote from the US Department of Labor website's computer related ocupations page:
The employee must be compensated either on a salary or fee basis at a rate not less than $455 per week or, if compensated on an hourly basis, at a rate not less than $27.63 an hour
I'm thinking you missed something in school if you don't realize that you're protected by some labor laws even as a software engineer - or you're still in school.
And what if European contries did the same thing? I have no problem with a European country refusing to import goods manufactured at less than their minimum wage, that would certainly result in lower unemployment in Europe - as Europe is suffering from the same offshoring problems we're having in the US. Of course, you're incorrect about German unemployment anyway - according to the German Federal Foreign Office website, unemployment is currently at 9.8%, and at 7.6% if you only look at the former West Germany. High, but not double digit. France is barely in double digits at 10.1%, according to the CIA World Factbook.
And Silicon Valley having import restrictions is a rediculous arguement - There's this little thing known as the "interstate commerce clause" in the US constitution prohibiting states from imposing import tarrifs and production regulations on goods manufactured in other states. Silicon Valley employees also have the right to relocate to the Southeast without needing government permission, and would likely be able to maintain a higher standard of living if they did so, even at the somewhat lower wages in the Southeast.
In the real world, offshoring has destroyed American jobs, not saved them. It has a snowball effect that is currently accellerating, and can only be stopped by government action making it less cost effective to relocate jobs out of the US. Trying to wait on the Indian and Chinese economies to grow while allowing unrestricted offshoring will only result in massive American unemployment in the next 50 - 100 years.
The few markets opened are tiny compared to the number and value of jobs lost - which I've seen estimated at between 200,000 and 1 million.
But you CAN'T compete with someone in India or China, if you're competing on price. Never mind that you'd be homeless and starve to death on the wages, it would be illegal for you to accept them.
Now, if you really want to level the playing field, fine. But to do that, America should require that any goods imported into the US from anywhere in the world must not be touched by anyone paid less than the current US minimum wage.
Um, what?
I'm sorry, I must have misunderstood. Finder is by far the best file manipulation utility on any major operating system.
Now, it might need some cleanup these days, with some of the questionable eye candy (and maybe a rewrite in Cocoa) but it's still the best there is right now.
I've never played with PathFinder, but I have tested several "Finder replacement" programs over the years, and found them to be universally crap. I suppose I should take a look at this one, too.
I'd probably use my Linux desktop more often if somebody would write a Finder clone.
It's not broken on GSM Motorola phones.
Check http://www.taniwha.org.uk/ for the scripts.
No, Phoenix has 4 seasons - spring, summer, oven, and summer.
Sometimes you actually get to turn off the AC in spring. Swamp coolers work pretty well in summer. During oven, you'd better be sure the AC is in good shape. Mid-spring, you might even need heat for a week or two.
And "but it's a dry heat" doesn't matter much when it's 115+.
They're selling the phone through Cingular.
Cingular charges $20/month for unlimited bandwidth on your phone.
I'm using a Motorola v551 w/bluetooth to my iBook right now to post this.
wouldn't it be more cost-effective to use a bank of 10 33ppm printers?
You get your output just as fast, initial cost is lower, maintenance cost is likely to be lower, and if you get a failure on one unit, you're only down 10% of your printing capacity, instead of 100% of your printing capacity.
You really think that? What a sad world you want us to live in.
The reason there are so many criminals is because we have so many laws that everyone is a criminal. I can say with almost absolute certainty that you are a criminal - because there is probably some obscure law you've violated.
But even when people aren't breaking a law, they are often treated as criminals. Maybe you are ok with that, but most humans don't react well to it - because it's abuse.
And base ethics is that beating a child teaches a child that violence is a normal and good way to solve your problems. That seems to be what you've been taught, and I feel sorry for you.
You know, I think what that really means is that if somebody with the funds wants to fix this problem, NOW is the time to do it.
After all, the word linux has existed with no charges for its use for quite a few years now. It would be quite possible to argue in court that the term is now generic, and it's too late for Linus to do anything about it.
Red Hat - you listening?
Well, I was in junior high a bit after the CoCo - we had Apple IIes.
The difference was that while the teachers were fairly clueless, they readily acknowledged that a few students knew the computers much better than they did, and the teachers were very willing to learn from us, and hopefully be able to teach the students who didn't know anything. I tutored the teachers on the state computer curriculum a few days ahead of where they were in class.
And while that teacher probably didn't have the authority to suspend, it should never have gotten to that level - there was no reason for it to have gotten past a "hey, I wasn't ready for you to turn the brightness up yet - don't do that." The office involvement was the teacher trying to eliminate competition for smartest in the room.
And I think the average geek could be ready to teach cooking or sewing at average high school levels within a few weeks. I know I would feel pretty confident with that level of prep, but then I was a substitute teacher when I took a semester off in college - and I had NO training for that, I cook for fun, and while I don't like to sew, I did ace a college-level theatre costuming class.
The thing I can't comprehend is why you think you needed some sort of punishment for taking some sort of initiative and fixing a VERY simple and obvious problem. If nothing else, the teacher needed some more education, not you - something on sensitivity and abuse of authority.
She obviously had some sort of control issue.
I wish people would mind their own business.
You know, when car radios first came out, the same type of busybodys wanted to ban them, because they were supposedly a distraction to the driver.
A cell phone is no more distracting than a conversation with a passenger - would you like to shoot people for having passengers in the car, too?
And the lesson for EVERYONE from this is:
Don't talk to the police. If they want to "ask you a few questions" just say "no, thanks". If they want to talk to you, they probably consider you a suspect, and they can and will use everything you say against you if they possibly can.
Refuse to answer any questions but your name.
No, it's just this "libertarian" silliness taken to its logical conclusion - the result is worse, as the effect is private censorship without any constitutional protections.
I do. It's not the responsibility of the library to censor.
Now, it would be polite of library patrons to use a terminal that wouldn't be visible to other patrons when viewing things that might offend others.
But I think librarians should be fired for interfering with the rights of patrons to read or view anything they want on the net. If a public library provides a resource, as a government entity it shouldn't be allowed to censor that resource under any circumstance.
It's not MAC. It's Mac or Macintosh.
It's a proper name, not an acronym.
Also, you can run Linux natively on a Macintosh today - Red Hat even ships a distribution as of Fedora Core 4.
You mean Icon size 16x16, Label position Right?
It's in there.
I thought QT pro was a stupid idea when they did it the first time, and I gave one of the QT developers no end of shit about it.
I still think it's a stupid idea.
I think he's likely telling the truth.
172K is divisible by 4, and the Apple II used 4K chips back then. It's not a 16 bit bus, it's 8 bit, and you couldn't access all the RAM at once, it had to be bank-switched.
By "slot RAM" he meant that the motherboard couldn't hold that much RAM, and it was added in a card in one of the slots.
I've never done a floppy adjustment with an oscilloscope, but I would imagine it would be a bit more precise than the standard method of using the hash marks in a room with fluorescent lights and watching the patterns while you turned the speed control pot. The spindle flywheel was printed with two patterns, one at 50Hz and one at 60Hz, so you could align it in the US or Europe.
Parent is not a troll, please mod up.
Sounds like a good idea to me. Everybody would be polite, and there would be ZERO risk of being hijacked.
I might join the NRA - if it weren't so Republican dominated. I'm not interested in giving up free speech rights any more than I'm interested in giving up my right to arm myself.
Actually, we don't all put up with it for air travel. I won't even consider flying if it's less than a 10 hour drive, because I don't like having my privacy invaded, I don't like being told I can't carry a knife, and I won't put up with it if it's even remotely avoidable.
I haven't flown since 2001. Now, I wasn't a weekly flyer before, but the increased security HAS cost the airlines money from me, and I won't fly again unless I have to until they reduce security. I would rather take the risk than put up with the hassle and lack of privacy.
Exactly - this is another set of stupid patents that shouldn't have been awarded. The "innovation" is putting the water in a breakable container that is broken by pushing a button.
It's laughable in its obviousness. My reaction when I saw it in a store was "I was wondering how long it would be before somebody started shipping that" followed by "SEVEN DOLLARS!!! Are they NUTS!!!?"
So don't pay it. And send them a letter explaining exactly why you're not going to pay it, including the fact that they aren't providing advertised services.
If they charge it to your credit card, do a chargeback - the credit card company will take it back from them.
I think I would have carefully documented why I was buying a used fan, and gotten a signed memo from the guy who wanted the used one, and then bought the used one.
And then when it failed, you'd have less complaining next time you wanted better equipment.
You've got something wrong. Maybe you need RAM, maybe you've done something really bad to your system, but the dashboard is useable on the machine I'm typing on right now - slot loading iMac G3 500, 384MB RAM.