So when Mcrowsoft needs to get something done it hires new officers, executives, presidents, and managers. When Infosys needs to get something done it hires engineers, builds cube farms and buys equipment. Not that Mcrowsoft is bad but aren't the bankruptcies, trade deficits, and declining profits telling u.s. companies something about their strategy?
CNN wrote: > Clinton: Bush should raise taxes to pay for Katrina
Bill Clinton is going to dictate fiscal policy for many years. Until Bill Clinton echos George W.'s moon speech, expect welfare programs and disaster relief to be the top priority and forget about any moon program. NASA will phase out the shuttle in 2015 and in 2030 resume human spaceflight in the form of a low Earth orbit capsule. China will be contracted for moon flights much like Russia is for space station flights.
You can predict what the next hot company is going to be based on where the original VA I.O.U. team goes. They just need to get CmdrTaco out of there and into Google.
Amazing that his first trip to Burning Man was long after VA I.O.U. collapsed. It just shows how long ago the days of VA I.O.U., Linus guest appearances, elite programmers, and parking lot parties were. The VA I.O.U. team doesn't seem to be as enthusiastic about Google as they were about VA I.O.U.. Google probably doesn't let them do whatever they want, they probably don't pay as much, or maybe they're more realistic about the future.
About burning man, it's dissapointing that in none of the photos that have ever been taken can you get a feel for how crowded/wide open it is. Every photo is either a close up of something, a wide shot at night, or an aireal view, neither giving you a feel for what it looks like if you were standing there.
First, unless it's a suicide bomber with really lousy wiring skills, you can't maintain 40,000 V for more than a fraction of a second since it would immediately arc. Secondly, this is the latest in a long decline for Reuters.
Mainstream media has been more and more psychotic since 2000. There was a time you never thought you'd see Bill Tucker and Bill Hemmer get dumped from CNN.
All AMD has to do is hire Intel's managers and outsource the manufacturing and they'll produce the lowest power chips with the highest capacity. There's nothing about the word Intel which means anything about their product or their capacity.
Whenever NASA says they'll spend $100 billion on something you wonder where they're going to get the $99 billion they don't have. They should really be thinking in terms of $1 billion over 10 years to lobby foreign space programs to do the work. Their role should not be developing technology but influencing the direction of foreign space programs to achieve their goals.
64 bit is useful when you want to manipulate 8 megapixel movies in floating point RGB. 64 bit addressing allows those to be manipulated entirely in RAM with no tiling. The improvement is huge and the money saved on tiling engines can be spent on image manipulation.
FYI, If you want your open source software to be even remotely relevant, you have to work for someone else. Someone else decides if your program does what it should do. Someone else decides if your architecture is what it should be. Someone else decides how much support you need to provide. If you don't involve so-and-so in your decision making, he'll call you a bad team player on all the blogs.
Instead of getting fired, it disqualifies you from getting hired because your work is out there for everyone to see, including people you never met who come out of the woodwork blaming you for not doing it their way. The only fully creative programming is programming that no-one will ever see.
Maybe for the entry level stuff. Managers are normally hired from outside the company. Executive managers are always hired from outside the company 100%. Don't forget about knowing the right people and patting their backs in the hope of getting your back patted.
Only if the open source project is less substantial than the project your future boss is managing and you drop it after you join. If you outgrow your boss, it's unemployment heaven 4 U.
Unlike them, u.s. employees learn new tricks by looking outside their current employer and hopping jobs. Any single employer just assigns them to one single thing from the time they join until the time they're done. There's a constant need to look outside the company to know what the next big thing is.
U.s. is quick to buy oil from Quatar, semiconductors from India, rocket launches from Russia, coal from south Africa, but still acts suprised by the downside of globalization. U.s. is going to have to start sharing the flooding, humanitarian crisises, terrorism, and poverty that everyone else has been dealing with.
Tax revenue once made by u.s. is now made by India. Public works projects once funded by u.s. are now funded by China. A levi that might be built in Louisiana now has to be built in Mumbai because that's where TI is. Earthquake retrofitting that might be done in Calif* now has to be done in Singapore because HP is there. Healthcare needs to be shared. Energy needs to be shared. Your CIA said by 2015 u.s. would be sharing widespread poverty and humanitarian crisises that have plagued its exporters for a long time.
It's going to take pain to live in a global economy.
It's hard to believe those images came from Messenger. We've never seen a view of Earth by an interplanetary spaceship flying by in such clarity. Normally the cameras are fixed to the exact focus needed by the mission and only record a few colors.
The convergence products that are being designed are very very massive. The future of home entertainment resembles aerospace in its complexity. Instead of 1 company designing and shipping 1 product, there are consortiums of 10 or 20 companies designing 1 product. Dozens more companies are hired to implement modules in these single products.
If every feature on a modern convergence product was documented in the manual, the manual would be thousands of pages long. While previous devices may have had 10 or 20 people in a single company involved in their design, today's convergence projects have at least 200,000 people spread across 20 companies and 10 countries involved in their design.
Each company takes on a segment of the product. One company specializes in 100 acquisition pathways for video. Another company designs 100 acquisition methods for audio. Other companies design the DRM methods, playback methods. Still more companies design the storage and searching methods. It takes up to 5 years and thousands of people to define exactly how each module works and tape it out to India for implementation.
So many different pathways of information retrieval are being designed into these products, so many algorithms for managing the data, they rival human beings in their ability to acquire and display information.
Cyan was one of the early excesses of the 90's. After they made their millions on Myst, the company moved to the Oregon desert where they sat around writing email and hoarding cash with no expenses. There were other stories of companies starting up in exotic locations like Phoenix and Hawaii to do work that normally was done in Silicon Valley.
That all ended and residence in Silicon Valley is once again required.
All these stories where NASA managers promote the discoveries of an unseen group of engineers as the solution to everything sound similar. After the superstar finishes promoting the discovery and by the way, the knowledgable people are never interviewed, we never hear about the discovery again or the discovery ends up failing. By then, the manager has been promoted and the engineers who invented it laid off because it didn't work.
Seems 90% of NASA's work ends up garbage with no impact for anyone except the management payroll. Sometimes the garbage ends up insulating external tanks and killing people or being meant to hold tile gap fillers in and falling out.
In the case of polyethylene a manager holds a brick of the stuff and promotes it. Have a feeling it's as brittle as, well, polyethylene and would shatter on contact without enourmous additional funding. Also there are the issues of decomposition, machine tooling for it, cost of manufacturing it, which will require enourmous amounts of funding and management.
Sooner or later you have to make money. Holding up in the most remote location you can find so you'll get hired for the least money can keep you alive but around the age of 30 you'll realize you can't work forever and you'll need to start accumulating massive amounts of money if you want to partake of modern medicine.
You'll die young because you wanted to stay in software, but whether dying young was necessary or not, a lot of people are going to still be around after you pass away. You'll have achieved nothing but miss out, and no-one's going to care why you missed out.
The other thing you'll realize is that Indians are buying bigger houses. Chinese are buying bigger cars. Your college buddies are moving to more extravagent neighborhoods. But you're in the same situation you were in 10 years ago.
Most humans want to be in a better situation than they were in 5 minutes ago. Whether you feel a poorer situation is mandated by the decline in software jobs or not, the world is going to be richer tomorrow than it is today.
Meanwhile you're degrading your situation and making sacrifices to stay in software. You know, no-one else cares.
Technology is often cited as eliminating middle jobs and adding high and low end functions. By eliminating the need for engineers to design baggage robots, portable devices have made low end baggage haulers more valuable and high end airport managers more valuable.
The same can be said of the lowly automobile. Just when you think airplanes are a better deal, new innovations like GPS and wireless internet make the car more valuable and service plans more valuable.
These proposals sound really dry. It feels like while the rest of the world moved on to robots, spaceflight, and defense, Silicon Valley is still in these really tiny internet experiments from the 90's. Not only are the monetary amounts miniscule, the proposals seem to condense into more networking, more ecommerce, and more tiny parts of something that hang off of something big in Taiwan.
Indian startups normally get $50 million but they seem to be doing more ambitious projects.
People who are expected to provide most of the income, to stay in the workforce the longest, to do the marriage proposing, to provide the last name, to take whatever the economy throws at them like a man, are men.
Heroines on the other hand can do those things but aren't expected to. If a man fails to do those things, he's failed. That's all there is to it. If you're under such an imbalanced expectation for success you're going to get imbalanced levels of education.
The purpose of IT managers in western culture is not to know anything about software but to represent you. They shouldn't be using computers for anything but scheduling and presentations. They're supposed to be politically savvy representatives who show what you've done to the budget writers and the customers and conciel the back room work. You'll never have an IT manager with experience in the actual work unless you move to India or something.
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So when Mcrowsoft needs to get something done it hires new officers, executives, presidents, and managers. When Infosys needs to get something done it hires engineers, builds cube farms and buys equipment. Not that Mcrowsoft is bad but aren't the bankruptcies, trade deficits, and declining profits telling u.s. companies something about their strategy?
CNN wrote:
> Clinton: Bush should raise taxes to pay for Katrina
Bill Clinton is going to dictate fiscal policy for many years. Until Bill Clinton echos George W.'s moon speech, expect welfare programs and disaster relief to be the top priority and forget about any moon program. NASA will phase out the shuttle in 2015 and in 2030 resume human spaceflight in the form of a low Earth orbit capsule. China will be contracted for moon flights much like Russia is for space station flights.
You can predict what the next hot company is going to be based on where the original VA I.O.U. team goes. They just need to get CmdrTaco out of there and into Google.
Amazing that his first trip to Burning Man was long after VA I.O.U. collapsed. It just shows how long ago the days of VA I.O.U., Linus guest appearances, elite programmers, and parking lot parties were. The VA I.O.U. team doesn't seem to be as enthusiastic about Google as they were about VA I.O.U.. Google probably doesn't let them do whatever they want, they probably don't pay as much, or maybe they're more realistic about the future.
About burning man, it's dissapointing that in none of the photos that have ever been taken can you get a feel for how crowded/wide open it is. Every photo is either a close up of something, a wide shot at night, or an aireal view, neither giving you a feel for what it looks like if you were standing there.
First, unless it's a suicide bomber with really lousy wiring skills, you can't maintain 40,000 V for more than a fraction of a second since it would immediately arc. Secondly, this is the latest in a long decline for Reuters.
Mainstream media has been more and more psychotic since 2000. There was a time you never thought you'd see Bill Tucker and Bill Hemmer get dumped from CNN.
All AMD has to do is hire Intel's managers and outsource the manufacturing and they'll produce the lowest power chips with the highest capacity. There's nothing about the word Intel which means anything about their product or their capacity.
Whenever NASA says they'll spend $100 billion on something you wonder where they're going to get the $99 billion they don't have. They should really be thinking in terms of $1 billion over 10 years to lobby foreign space programs to do the work. Their role should not be developing technology but influencing the direction of foreign space programs to achieve their goals.
64 bit is useful when you want to manipulate 8 megapixel movies in floating point RGB. 64 bit addressing allows those to be manipulated entirely in RAM with no tiling. The improvement is huge and the money saved on tiling engines can be spent on image manipulation.
Fitting for an economy based solely on sales, selling, and marketing products that someone else invented to base its military on flying air bags.
FYI, If you want your open source software to be even remotely relevant, you have to work for someone else. Someone else decides if your program does what it should do. Someone else decides if your architecture is what it should be. Someone else decides how much support you need to provide. If you don't involve so-and-so in your decision making, he'll call you a bad team player on all the blogs.
Instead of getting fired, it disqualifies you from getting hired because your work is out there for everyone to see, including people you never met who come out of the woodwork blaming you for not doing it their way. The only fully creative programming is programming that no-one will ever see.
> They tend to higher from with-in.
Maybe for the entry level stuff. Managers are normally hired from outside the company. Executive managers are always hired from outside the company 100%. Don't forget about knowing the right people and patting their backs in the hope of getting your back patted.
> open source projects are applicable experience
Only if the open source project is less substantial than the project your future boss is managing and you drop it after you join. If you outgrow your boss, it's unemployment heaven 4 U.
Counting unemployment which equals employment in this business, you should expect only $40,000.
Unlike them, u.s. employees learn new tricks by looking outside their current employer and hopping jobs. Any single employer just assigns them to one single thing from the time they join until the time they're done. There's a constant need to look outside the company to know what the next big thing is.
U.s. is quick to buy oil from Quatar, semiconductors from India, rocket
launches from Russia, coal from south Africa, but still acts suprised
by the downside of globalization. U.s. is going to have to start
sharing the flooding, humanitarian crisises, terrorism, and poverty
that everyone else has been dealing with.
Tax revenue once made by u.s. is now made by India. Public works
projects once funded by u.s. are now funded by China. A levi that
might be built in Louisiana now has to be built in Mumbai because
that's where TI is. Earthquake retrofitting that might be done in
Calif* now has to be done in Singapore because HP is there. Healthcare
needs to be shared. Energy needs to be shared. Your CIA said by 2015
u.s. would be sharing widespread poverty and humanitarian crisises that
have plagued its exporters for a long time.
It's going to take pain to live in a global economy.
It's hard to believe those images came from Messenger. We've never seen a view of Earth by an interplanetary spaceship flying by in such clarity. Normally the cameras are fixed to the exact focus needed by the mission and only record a few colors.
The convergence products that are being designed are very very massive. The future of home entertainment resembles aerospace in its complexity. Instead of 1 company designing and shipping 1 product, there are consortiums of 10 or 20 companies designing 1 product. Dozens more companies are hired to implement modules in these single products.
If every feature on a modern convergence product was documented in the manual, the manual would be thousands of pages long. While previous devices may have had 10 or 20 people in a single company involved in their design, today's convergence projects have at least 200,000 people spread across 20 companies and 10 countries involved in their design.
Each company takes on a segment of the product. One company specializes in 100 acquisition pathways for video. Another company designs 100 acquisition methods for audio. Other companies design the DRM methods, playback methods. Still more companies design the storage and searching methods. It takes up to 5 years and thousands of people to define exactly how each module works and tape it out to India for implementation.
So many different pathways of information retrieval are being designed into these products, so many algorithms for managing the data, they rival human beings in their ability to acquire and display information.
Cyan was one of the early excesses of the 90's. After they made their millions on Myst, the company moved to the Oregon desert where they sat around writing email and hoarding cash with no expenses. There were other stories of companies starting up in exotic locations like Phoenix and Hawaii to do work that normally was done in Silicon Valley.
That all ended and residence in Silicon Valley is once again required.
Would have preferred to see the view from Chawla hill, but that's just how I'd do it.
All these stories where NASA managers promote the discoveries of an unseen group of engineers as the solution to everything sound similar. After the superstar finishes promoting the discovery and by the way, the knowledgable people are never interviewed, we never hear about the discovery again or the discovery ends up failing. By then, the manager has been promoted and the engineers who invented it laid off because it didn't work.
Seems 90% of NASA's work ends up garbage with no impact for anyone except the management payroll. Sometimes the garbage ends up insulating external tanks and killing people or being meant to hold tile gap fillers in and falling out.
In the case of polyethylene a manager holds a brick of the stuff and promotes it. Have a feeling it's as brittle as, well, polyethylene and would shatter on contact without enourmous additional funding. Also there are the issues of decomposition, machine tooling for it, cost of manufacturing it, which will require enourmous amounts of funding and management.
Where in America can you get 4 walls and a roof for 500k?
Sooner or later you have to make money. Holding up in the most remote location you can find so you'll get hired for the least money can keep you alive but around the age of 30 you'll realize you can't work forever and you'll need to start accumulating massive amounts of money if you want to partake of modern medicine.
You'll die young because you wanted to stay in software, but whether dying young was necessary or not, a lot of people are going to still be around after you pass away. You'll have achieved nothing but miss out, and no-one's going to care why you missed out.
The other thing you'll realize is that Indians are buying bigger houses. Chinese are buying bigger cars. Your college buddies are moving to more extravagent neighborhoods. But you're in the same situation you were in 10 years ago.
Most humans want to be in a better situation than they were in 5 minutes ago. Whether you feel a poorer situation is mandated by the decline in software jobs or not, the world is going to be richer tomorrow than it is today.
Meanwhile you're degrading your situation and making sacrifices to stay in software. You know, no-one else cares.
Technology is often cited as eliminating middle jobs and adding high and low end functions. By eliminating the need for engineers to design baggage robots, portable devices have made low end baggage haulers more valuable and high end airport managers more valuable.
The same can be said of the lowly automobile. Just when you think airplanes are a better deal, new innovations like GPS and wireless internet make the car more valuable and service plans more valuable.
These proposals sound really dry. It feels like while the rest of the world moved on to robots, spaceflight, and defense, Silicon Valley is still in these really tiny internet experiments from the 90's. Not only are the monetary amounts miniscule, the proposals seem to condense into more networking, more ecommerce, and more tiny parts of something that hang off of something big in Taiwan.
Indian startups normally get $50 million but they seem to be doing more ambitious projects.
People who are expected to provide most of the income, to stay in the workforce the longest, to do the marriage proposing, to provide the last name, to take whatever the economy throws at them like a man, are men.
Heroines on the other hand can do those things but aren't expected to. If a man fails to do those things, he's failed. That's all there is to it. If you're under such an imbalanced expectation for success you're going to get imbalanced levels of education.
The purpose of IT managers in western culture is not to know anything about software but to represent you. They shouldn't be using computers for anything but scheduling and presentations. They're supposed to be politically savvy representatives who show what you've done to the budget writers and the customers and conciel the back room work. You'll never have an IT manager with experience in the actual work unless you move to India or something.