It's usually the C-level officers, not the shareholders, running the company into the ground. Sure, the board should pick someone better, but if you're not going to go crazy with executive comp, that can be hard to do.
If I'm a student coming out of high school I'm looking to start a career that will be with me through to retirement as much as possible.
Then I'd recommend med school, or becoming a veterinarian (and even then, tons of training over the years). There's no "lifetime industry" any more, because the world changes and jobs move on. Sure, you as an individual can have a career, but the job 20 years from now won't be very related to the job now.
If you want an industry that will still be here in 40 years, pick one where you get your hands dirty: the skilled trades aren't going away. College optional (unless you become a surgeon, dentist, or vet, which is a better-paying way of getting your hands dirty).
What intrinsic value? You buy, say, an EA game, and you're forced to create an Origin account and the disk gets locked to that account, right? At least, I always assumed tha was the point of Origin: to prevent resale. At least with the MS plan there was some sort of half-assed resale idea for downloads.
Then we sit on your couch for four hours downloading 40GB worth of data before we can do anything. Or I can bring the disk over, we can install the version on the disk (which might be out of date, but patches auto-download in the background), and be up and running in a few minutes.
I only boughy a few games on the Xbone, but all of them downloaded the 40GB after installing from disk. I blame EA.
I never understood the furor around the XBox One launch. Who in their right mind still wants to haul physical disks around? Is this some console peasant fetish that we PC Gaming Overlords don't understand? Making everything effectively a download, like Steam or GOG, seemed like an improvement to me.
I've been frustrated with the fact I can't use anti-container (a wonderful extension to downthemall) on Pale Moon. It's the only reason I keep a copy of FF around. Chrome is right out.
So people who love science sexually insist, but it's just not true. The scientific method is centuries old, and there's plenty of interesting progress in philosophy in that time. Some of it has branched off pretty recently - computability theory is now often taught by the CompSci department, but I learned it in a meta-logic class. Epistemology may have exhausted the interesting work to be done, but only in the past century. Ethics moves very slowly indeed, but it moves, and may be the most important field of all. Theory if identity remains interesting, more so if we start thinking about minds rendered in software. Theory of language likely has a lot to tell us.
Each of these fields may only have 1 or 2 breakthroughs in a century, but they're big. That's not that much slower than, say, particle physics.
If anyone has a majority of delegates at the convention, he wins, no pooling allowed. Only of that doesn't happen do we get a "brokered convention" with all the backroom dealing and shenanigans. I can totally believe Cruz/Rubio coming out of a brokered convention, given the way the wind is blowing.
(Rubio is done as a presidential candidate after last Tuesday, BTW, as the establishment is holding their noses and getting behind Cruz to try to stop Trump, but Rubio likely won't actually drop out, so he'll keep getting delegates).
You let me know when the typical job at McDonalds provides a living wage, m'kay?
Many people manage. Not on what they pay in the first year, and not living alone on only that pay, but it works. Sucks having to live with roomates and only being able to afford the basics, but it's not starving in the street.
The primary "useful" thing one learns when getting an engineering degree is the Engineering Mindset. Mastering a bunch of abstract math is a core part of that. Doesn't matter if you use the math itself, the point is to teach abstract problem solving (which is a key component of practical problem solving).
You're going to have to do a lot of convincing to get anyone to believe that people do math because they enjoy it.
You have perhaps confused math for accounting? (Heck, I know people who enjoy that, too)
Math - the abstract solving of problems, not the tedious adding up - is a thing of beauty and wonder. Of course people enjoy it, starting with almost all math professors, everyone who buys math-themed puzzle books, the million-and-a-half people who subscribe to Numberphile on YouTube.
There are plenty of brilliant philosophers, have been in every century. But I fully support a "hard like a math test" hurdle to becoming a philosopher to cull the deadwood in the field.
Sure, if turning off JS in my browser means turning it off in the PDF viewer, that's a helpful mitigation, but why must a document format include a virus scripting language?
The executives and the board are different groups. The stockholders don't get to move before the shit hits the fan, they get screwed too. The stockholders who don't get screwed are the ones who see the trade-off being made, and sell in the short term - but most shares of most companies are held fairly long term by mutual funds and pension funds. I've been at 3 companies now where all or most of the C-level people were fired because of this sort of nonsense screwing the business - the board and the stockholders do care.
The golden parachutes are a different matter. They remove the incentive for the CEO to care whether he gets fired for this BS. Why the Hell boards keep offering that perverse incentive is beyond me - they're not (usually) benefiting from it.
My better idea is "stop bailing-out failures, and let nature take its course". That's the other half of what you have to do to be capitalism. Most of the areas with the worst history of customer service have a matching history of bailouts.
Did PDF recently become Turing complete? I thought it always was, but maybe I'm mis-remembering. Postscript is a full programming language, but fortunately it's quite rare to see it these days. Thank goodness Display PostScript did not become the way web pages get rendered.
We've been having this discussion on Slashdot from the earliest days, since before most the users bothered to get accounts. Something new has happened in those years however:
(5) Patreon/GoFundMe
Usable, practical tip jars for content make a donation-based model a real option. My favorite webcomic is now suppoerted that way (they have 1 ad banner, but it seems to be used only for other webcomics, so it can't pay much).
Also, don't forget,
(6) Content aggregation
There's a bunch of people I watch on YouTube now, instead of individual web sites. I'd pay a subscription for that collection of content (though Google wants a bit too much right now - we'll see how that evolves).
No one reads TFA, but can we at least read TFS? Clearly this isn't solely about Mexicans, unless I missed the part where Disney was outsourcing IT jobs to H1-Bs from Mexico (technically possible, I guess).
People are upset about losing their jobs, in many fields, and about an increase in crime where they live. Mainstream politicians telling the voters that they're just racists is why Trump is winning. Talk about being disconnected from the voter!
The ideas being floated around are ideas like...
Trump understands that you begin a negotiation by staking out the maximal position - you don't start by compromising. Cruz's plan is to use eVerify for both employment (required but not enforced today) and for government benefits. This is "self deportation", where you just remove the incentive to come here illegally, no stormtroopers required.
I would also argue that large immigrations to the US do not deplete available jobs. There isn't a magical fixed number of jobs.
Very true indeed. Immigration is wholly good long term but the rate of immigration matters! I want the US to control it's borders. To set and enforce some allowed rate of immigration, decided through democracy. We can take more people in good times than in bad, for example. But if we have open borders we cease to be a nation.
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It's usually the C-level officers, not the shareholders, running the company into the ground. Sure, the board should pick someone better, but if you're not going to go crazy with executive comp, that can be hard to do.
If I'm a student coming out of high school I'm looking to start a career that will be with me through to retirement as much as possible.
Then I'd recommend med school, or becoming a veterinarian (and even then, tons of training over the years). There's no "lifetime industry" any more, because the world changes and jobs move on. Sure, you as an individual can have a career, but the job 20 years from now won't be very related to the job now.
If you want an industry that will still be here in 40 years, pick one where you get your hands dirty: the skilled trades aren't going away. College optional (unless you become a surgeon, dentist, or vet, which is a better-paying way of getting your hands dirty).
They just have shareholders sucking off of them like leaches.
Wait, what? The owners are the leeches? What communist workers' paradise are you posting from?
What intrinsic value? You buy, say, an EA game, and you're forced to create an Origin account and the disk gets locked to that account, right? At least, I always assumed tha was the point of Origin: to prevent resale. At least with the MS plan there was some sort of half-assed resale idea for downloads.
Then we sit on your couch for four hours downloading 40GB worth of data before we can do anything. Or I can bring the disk over, we can install the version on the disk (which might be out of date, but patches auto-download in the background), and be up and running in a few minutes.
I only boughy a few games on the Xbone, but all of them downloaded the 40GB after installing from disk. I blame EA.
Windows as a walled garden will die, and die quickly. The niche of Windows is the absence of the walls, for better or for worse.
I never understood the furor around the XBox One launch. Who in their right mind still wants to haul physical disks around? Is this some console peasant fetish that we PC Gaming Overlords don't understand? Making everything effectively a download, like Steam or GOG, seemed like an improvement to me.
But can your corporate overreach blocker do everything that hosts files can?
I've been frustrated with the fact I can't use anti-container (a wonderful extension to downthemall) on Pale Moon. It's the only reason I keep a copy of FF around. Chrome is right out.
So people who love science sexually insist, but it's just not true. The scientific method is centuries old, and there's plenty of interesting progress in philosophy in that time. Some of it has branched off pretty recently - computability theory is now often taught by the CompSci department, but I learned it in a meta-logic class. Epistemology may have exhausted the interesting work to be done, but only in the past century. Ethics moves very slowly indeed, but it moves, and may be the most important field of all. Theory if identity remains interesting, more so if we start thinking about minds rendered in software. Theory of language likely has a lot to tell us.
Each of these fields may only have 1 or 2 breakthroughs in a century, but they're big. That's not that much slower than, say, particle physics.
If anyone has a majority of delegates at the convention, he wins, no pooling allowed. Only of that doesn't happen do we get a "brokered convention" with all the backroom dealing and shenanigans. I can totally believe Cruz/Rubio coming out of a brokered convention, given the way the wind is blowing.
(Rubio is done as a presidential candidate after last Tuesday, BTW, as the establishment is holding their noses and getting behind Cruz to try to stop Trump, but Rubio likely won't actually drop out, so he'll keep getting delegates).
Kids also need to learn that they can succeed at hard things, so maybe that's OK.
You let me know when the typical job at McDonalds provides a living wage, m'kay?
Many people manage. Not on what they pay in the first year, and not living alone on only that pay, but it works. Sucks having to live with roomates and only being able to afford the basics, but it's not starving in the street.
The primary "useful" thing one learns when getting an engineering degree is the Engineering Mindset. Mastering a bunch of abstract math is a core part of that. Doesn't matter if you use the math itself, the point is to teach abstract problem solving (which is a key component of practical problem solving).
You're going to have to do a lot of convincing to get anyone to believe that people do math because they enjoy it.
You have perhaps confused math for accounting? (Heck, I know people who enjoy that, too)
Math - the abstract solving of problems, not the tedious adding up - is a thing of beauty and wonder. Of course people enjoy it, starting with almost all math professors, everyone who buys math-themed puzzle books, the million-and-a-half people who subscribe to Numberphile on YouTube.
There are plenty of brilliant philosophers, have been in every century. But I fully support a "hard like a math test" hurdle to becoming a philosopher to cull the deadwood in the field.
JavaScript == vulnerability.
Sure, if turning off JS in my browser means turning it off in the PDF viewer, that's a helpful mitigation, but why must a document format include a virus scripting language?
Something is either lossless or not, it's a binary
Assuming that everything is black or white is a poor start to a discussion about visual fidelity.
PDF != PS
Of course - that's why I'm asking "is PDF Turing-complete like PS is? Was it always?" Do you happen to know?
The executives and the board are different groups. The stockholders don't get to move before the shit hits the fan, they get screwed too. The stockholders who don't get screwed are the ones who see the trade-off being made, and sell in the short term - but most shares of most companies are held fairly long term by mutual funds and pension funds. I've been at 3 companies now where all or most of the C-level people were fired because of this sort of nonsense screwing the business - the board and the stockholders do care.
The golden parachutes are a different matter. They remove the incentive for the CEO to care whether he gets fired for this BS. Why the Hell boards keep offering that perverse incentive is beyond me - they're not (usually) benefiting from it.
My better idea is "stop bailing-out failures, and let nature take its course". That's the other half of what you have to do to be capitalism. Most of the areas with the worst history of customer service have a matching history of bailouts.
Did PDF recently become Turing complete? I thought it always was, but maybe I'm mis-remembering. Postscript is a full programming language, but fortunately it's quite rare to see it these days. Thank goodness Display PostScript did not become the way web pages get rendered.
We've been having this discussion on Slashdot from the earliest days, since before most the users bothered to get accounts. Something new has happened in those years however:
(5) Patreon/GoFundMe
Usable, practical tip jars for content make a donation-based model a real option. My favorite webcomic is now suppoerted that way (they have 1 ad banner, but it seems to be used only for other webcomics, so it can't pay much).
Also, don't forget,
(6) Content aggregation
There's a bunch of people I watch on YouTube now, instead of individual web sites. I'd pay a subscription for that collection of content (though Google wants a bit too much right now - we'll see how that evolves).
And if AdBlocking software is banned, then people will just figure out other ways to keep the web clean.
As much as I hate to say this, and I really hate to say this: ad-blocking through host file changes will be resilient.
Simple: When it became solely about Mexicans.
No one reads TFA, but can we at least read TFS? Clearly this isn't solely about Mexicans, unless I missed the part where Disney was outsourcing IT jobs to H1-Bs from Mexico (technically possible, I guess).
People are upset about losing their jobs, in many fields, and about an increase in crime where they live. Mainstream politicians telling the voters that they're just racists is why Trump is winning. Talk about being disconnected from the voter!
The ideas being floated around are ideas like ...
Trump understands that you begin a negotiation by staking out the maximal position - you don't start by compromising. Cruz's plan is to use eVerify for both employment (required but not enforced today) and for government benefits. This is "self deportation", where you just remove the incentive to come here illegally, no stormtroopers required.
I would also argue that large immigrations to the US do not deplete available jobs. There isn't a magical fixed number of jobs.
Very true indeed. Immigration is wholly good long term but the rate of immigration matters! I want the US to control it's borders. To set and enforce some allowed rate of immigration, decided through democracy. We can take more people in good times than in bad, for example. But if we have open borders we cease to be a nation.