No matter what you think in college, when you graduate in computer science you're going to have to pay $50,000 a year in taxes. You're going to be the overpaid, undertaxed rich that Jim Carey opposes. For every 1% Jim Carey raises social security tax, medicare tax, and income tax, you're going to pay $1000 more. As for being a member of the $200,000 plus bracket, if you're unmarried and you make over $100,000 which you will when you graduate, you'll have to pay about $4000 more every year.
You're going to be among the 90% of whom Jim Carey says would not switch to public healthcare but instead would continue to pay your high premiums. At the same time you would pay an additional $2000 a year in medicare tax due to your income level and the cost of his medicare expansion. In the end Bill Clinton's medicare tax hike didn't fix the problem and neither will Jim Carey's.
Everything else, lacking any clear opinions from Jim Carey, is equivalent. Just as many people would be dead in Iraq if Jim Carey was elected because he did defeat Howard Dean as the pro war ticket and he did say he would do exactly what George Bush did in the debates, only he would send "more soldiers".
Jim Carey wants to solve Iraq the LBJ way, escalating the conflict with massive troop deployments, raising taxes, and instituting a draft. Oh and yes, the latest draft bill was a democratic proposal.
Guess no-one minds hauling giant blu ray cartridges on airplanes. Guess hauling around bulky cartridges is worth having the latest thing, even if you can fit 5 DVD's in the space occupied by one blu ray cartridge.
Well my current employer started out with about 5 engineers and one manager. Today we have about 20 managers and 2 engineers. The managers all coordinate projects in other states or other countries. The elimination of the last two of us engineers is mathematically certain.
When I get laid off, 1/3 of the job applications are going to be for low-end management, 1/3 for architect, and 1/3 for low-end programmer.
Despite what college students and business leaders say about the titles getting pushed up by outsourcing, I don't expect to ever do management. It looks like the low end programming jobs are growing faster than the management jobs and the requirements for managers have gone from mildly insane to off the charts.
Unless you went to MIT, founded a dozen startups, or worked for free in someone's garage for a couple years, forget about even technical lead. That's with 800,000 programming jobs outsourced, supposedly increasing the management jobs.
Radio interferometry has been around forever. It would be really be nihilistic if they could do optical interferometry using telescopes on different sides of the planet. It seems because you can't sample an optical waveform like you can with a radio waveform, the optical telescopes need to be next to each other. Couldn't they bounce two optical beams to a satellite where the images are combined?
Sort of sad they abandonned their custum CPUs for these commodity CPUs. Their liquid cooling was pretty nihilistic. You'd think there would be a lot to be gained from the old techniques of restricting everything to 64 bit operations, liquid evaporation cooling, and quad core parts.
Since you, computer science undergrads, are going to be earning more than 95% of the country and are going to be the most burdened by democratic tax hikes, you need to be a little fairer to George Bush. When an article says "inherent ambiguity of intelligence" you can't go off and say "White House lied!" When a conservative house of representatives decreases NASA's budget and a conservative senate increases NASA's budget, you can't say "NASA budget reduced!"
You can't make up your own news just because you like disagreeing with the establishment. There has to be a sensible reason. For computer science students, there is no sensible reason to be fighting George Bush. Why only report the news that opposes the president? Why don't you also pay next year's taxes in full? Why stop half way?
No-one wants to be managed on what they do
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Amateur Revolution?
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As corporations shift from development to symbolic representation of other work, more developers find they're required to hand over their work to 20 layers of management much earlier in the development cycle. Not only are they discovering they can achieve more without the 20 layers of management but most of them want to do more substantial work than what they're allowed in a symbolic corporation.
It's amazing the engine could actually be shut off ahead of schedule like that. Engines powerful enough to hurl a spaceship, cheap enough to build, yet capable of being shut off have been long sought after. This was the first time a solid fueled engine was ever shut off in an emergency.
The chronic losses of control are probably going to stop this from leading to anything in the future. They'll probably get a second flight with that 62 year old test subject, but space tourism involving people who still have life to live will probably end up next to Voyager in a museum.
So if us can resolve 1.5m, that means the European orbiter can resolve single cells. When are we going to see the European orbiter use roll/pitch compensation to image single cells?
Uh, bonuses and raises for engineers are usually reduced over time and engineers are encouraged to leave if they accomplish something. The theory is, if you can do all these great things but are still programming you must be an idiot.
Considering no-one's changing jobs anymore, people are living with those starting salaries many more years than they used to. It seems to have freed up more cash so companies are giving more up front to the college graduates. On the other hand you're going to be stuck with that level because there's nowhere else to go.
Between 2001 and 2003 the Rupee was around 49/dollar. Today it's around 46/dollar. That small difference accounts for 6% inflation in the price of software. In addition the voracious demand for the world's best engineers in India drove up prices even further. Finally the election of more socialist leaders in 2004 shifted the emphasis from building technological dominance to supporting rural communities. India could no longer starve its people to sustain technological superiority.
Unfortunately this is a very small change from 2003. We're talking about 1% changes in salaries.
Seems most people including programmers are liking the short term benefits of outsourcing. They like having specs for products. They like having standards for coding to. Specs and standards are "products" which didn't exist until the implementation of software became a dirt cheap commodity available from India.
If it wasn't for outsourcing the front page news wouldn't be "OpenGL 2 Released" it would be "proprietary shading language for NVidia implemented".
It wouldn't be "bluetooth spec ratified" it would be "proprietary interconnect implementated for Samsung".
So yes, for all the complaining about declining wages, most programmers like the short term benefit of outsourcing. In the long term, as this economist states, buying software implementations from overseas is going to lower the standard of living.
Maybe he wants us to keep the long term in mind as we wait for the first OpenGL 2 implementations to come out of India. It's really hard to keep the long term reality in mind when you're being bombarded with so many great specs, though.
Now it's time to wait for India's code monkeys to implement OpenGL 2. This is a true example of outsourcing producing higher level offerings. If it wasn't for the Indian code monkey, we wouldn't have a spec called OpenGL 2. All the spec writers would be programming, leading to a bunch of different implementations of software to perform shading. Now all we do is write a spec, wait a few months, and automatically have full implementations for every different microchip coming out of Taiwan.
I have some hesitation on doing everything in NVidia's programmable logic devices. NVidia is today exactly where 3Dfx was in the 90's. In the 90's, 3Dfx was the keystone platform and then they disappeared instantaneously, making Linux completely nonfunctional in 3D until many years.
Now, with Chinese startups having such a technological advantage over NVidia, it's only a matter of time before NVidia follows 3Dfx and takes all this work we've done supporting NVidia PLD's with it.
Still don't understand the bitterness regarding humans not being allowed to service Hubble. NASA already agreed to defer its Mars plan to send a robot to Hubble. Most of the world's population thinks human life is more valuable than a telescope. For all the bitching and whining the software engineering community did about astronauts dying on space shuttles, turning around and now saying humans should go out to Hubble shows absolutely no spine at all.
Does anyone in our industry still have an opinion or is it just about disagreeing with everyone else, no matter what their opinion is.
Based on real estate prices being through the roof, it seems fewer people can afford enough room to use a decent sound system. As people move into smaller and smaller apartments and have less and less privacy, graphics have gotten improved while sound has gotten neglected.
People are really disenchanted with the startup circuit. You can't climb the ladder without job changes, but for every thousand engineers who hop jobs, only one ever climbs the ladder. Also people figured out... again... that stock options are worthless. The 16 hour days enforced by these startups and lack of raises caught up with the supposed stock options.
If turnover ever increases again like everyone says it will, it's not going to be because of economic improvement. Companies are slashing benefits like nothing else. Health care is gone. Vacations are gone. Raises are going away. As companies start to feel that they're being populated by freeloaders they're going to put pressure on employees to get out of the nest.
Obviously they're not going to say in a weblog, but does the card record the original transport stream or downsample it to a DVD resolution and record a program stream? With all the legal problems, you probably won't see any retail card recording HDTV transport streams.
It would be good for hobbyists in that the shift to tighter pins and ball grid arrays is making it extremely expensive to fabricate single circuit boards. Imagine buying a bunch of ASICs from digikey, stacking them together with duct tape, and instantly having a custom circuit board. The sides of the chips would only need transmit, recieve, and clock plates.
In manufacturing, the trend is still to integrate more and more on a single die. The cache will still be on the CPU but in addition, so will the system memory, graphics chip, and power supply. One day the 120V AC power cord will plug directly into the CPU.
Russians and finishing what they start
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So is this like the flying saucer the Russians were going to build in 2003 but never finished? Is this like the Russian nuclear power station on Mars that was never done? Is this another Russian post office abort the space station that never happened? If it's anything like the Russian suborbital space shuttle planned in 2002, it could be a long wait.
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No matter what you think in college, when you graduate in computer science you're going to have to pay $50,000 a year in taxes. You're going to be the overpaid, undertaxed rich that Jim Carey opposes. For every 1% Jim Carey raises social security tax, medicare tax, and income tax, you're going to pay $1000 more. As for being a member of the $200,000 plus bracket, if you're unmarried and you make over $100,000 which you will when you graduate, you'll have to pay about $4000 more every year.
You're going to be among the 90% of whom Jim Carey says would not switch to public healthcare but instead would continue to pay your high premiums. At the same time you would pay an additional $2000 a year in medicare tax due to your income level and the cost of his medicare expansion. In the end Bill Clinton's medicare tax hike didn't fix the problem and neither will Jim Carey's.
Everything else, lacking any clear opinions from Jim Carey, is equivalent. Just as many people would be dead in Iraq if Jim Carey was elected because he did defeat Howard Dean as the pro war ticket and he did say he would do exactly what George Bush did in the debates, only he would send "more soldiers".
Jim Carey wants to solve Iraq the LBJ way, escalating the conflict with massive troop deployments, raising taxes, and instituting a draft. Oh and yes, the latest draft bill was a democratic proposal.
Guess no-one minds hauling giant blu ray cartridges on airplanes. Guess hauling around bulky cartridges is worth having the latest thing, even if you can fit 5 DVD's in the space occupied by one blu ray cartridge.
Well my current employer started out with about 5 engineers and one manager. Today we have about 20 managers and 2 engineers. The managers all coordinate projects in other states or other countries. The elimination of the last two of us engineers is mathematically certain.
When I get laid off, 1/3 of the job applications are going to be for low-end management, 1/3 for architect, and 1/3 for low-end programmer.
Despite what college students and business leaders say about the titles getting pushed up by outsourcing, I don't expect to ever do management. It looks like the low end programming jobs are growing faster than the management jobs and the requirements for managers have gone from mildly insane to off the charts.
Unless you went to MIT, founded a dozen startups, or worked for free in someone's garage for a couple years, forget about even technical lead. That's with 800,000 programming jobs outsourced, supposedly increasing the management jobs.
Radio interferometry has been around forever. It would be really be nihilistic if they could do optical interferometry using telescopes on different sides of the planet. It seems because you can't sample an optical waveform like you can with a radio waveform, the optical telescopes need to be next to each other. Couldn't they bounce two optical beams to a satellite where the images are combined?
Sort of sad they abandonned their custum CPUs for these commodity CPUs. Their liquid cooling was pretty nihilistic. You'd think there would be a lot to be gained from the old techniques of restricting everything to 64 bit operations, liquid evaporation cooling, and quad core parts.
Except instead of going 120 on the freeway, it's always going 20 mph above the speed limit, no matter what the speed limit is.
Since you, computer science undergrads, are going to be earning more than 95% of the country and are going to be the most burdened by democratic tax hikes, you need to be a little fairer to George Bush. When an article says "inherent ambiguity of intelligence" you can't go off and say "White House lied!" When a conservative house of representatives decreases NASA's budget and a conservative senate increases NASA's budget, you can't say "NASA budget reduced!"
You can't make up your own news just because you like disagreeing with the establishment. There has to be a sensible reason. For computer science students, there is no sensible reason to be fighting George Bush. Why only report the news that opposes the president? Why don't you also pay next year's taxes in full? Why stop half way?
As corporations shift from development to symbolic representation of other work, more developers find they're required to hand over their work to 20 layers of management much earlier in the development cycle. Not only are they discovering they can achieve more without the 20 layers of management but most of them want to do more substantial work than what they're allowed in a symbolic corporation.
It's amazing the engine could actually be shut off ahead of schedule like that. Engines powerful enough to hurl a spaceship, cheap enough to build, yet capable of being shut off have been long sought after. This was the first time a solid fueled engine was ever shut off in an emergency.
The chronic losses of control are probably going to stop this from leading to anything in the future. They'll probably get a second flight with that 62 year old test subject, but space tourism involving people who still have life to live will probably end up next to Voyager in a museum.
So if us can resolve 1.5m, that means the European orbiter can resolve single cells. When are we going to see the European orbiter use roll/pitch compensation to image single cells?
Uh, bonuses and raises for engineers are usually reduced over time and engineers are encouraged to leave if they accomplish something. The theory is, if you can do all these great things but are still programming you must be an idiot.
Considering no-one's changing jobs anymore, people are living with those starting salaries many more years than they used to. It seems to have freed up more cash so companies are giving more up front to the college graduates. On the other hand you're going to be stuck with that level because there's nowhere else to go.
Between 2001 and 2003 the Rupee was around 49/dollar. Today it's around 46/dollar. That small difference accounts for 6% inflation in the price of software. In addition the voracious demand for the world's best engineers in India drove up prices even further. Finally the election of more socialist leaders in 2004 shifted the emphasis from building technological dominance to supporting rural communities. India could no longer starve its people to sustain technological superiority.
Unfortunately this is a very small change from 2003. We're talking about 1% changes in salaries.
Seems most people including programmers are liking the short term benefits of outsourcing. They like having specs for products. They like having standards for coding to. Specs and standards are "products" which didn't exist until the implementation of software became a dirt cheap commodity available from India.
If it wasn't for outsourcing the front page news wouldn't be "OpenGL 2 Released" it would be "proprietary shading language for NVidia implemented".
It wouldn't be "bluetooth spec ratified" it would be "proprietary interconnect implementated for Samsung".
So yes, for all the complaining about declining wages, most programmers like the short term benefit of outsourcing. In the long term, as this economist states, buying software implementations from overseas is going to lower the standard of living.
Maybe he wants us to keep the long term in mind as we wait for the first OpenGL 2 implementations to come out of India. It's really hard to keep the long term reality in mind when you're being bombarded with so many great specs, though.
Now it's time to wait for India's code monkeys to implement OpenGL 2. This is a true example of outsourcing producing higher level offerings. If it wasn't for the Indian code monkey, we wouldn't have a spec called OpenGL 2. All the spec writers would be programming, leading to a bunch of different implementations of software to perform shading. Now all we do is write a spec, wait a few months, and automatically have full implementations for every different microchip coming out of Taiwan.
As they say in US, why waste time deploying parachutes which can just as easily be deployed in China when you can study marketing trends instead?
I have some hesitation on doing everything in NVidia's programmable logic devices. NVidia is today exactly where 3Dfx was in the 90's. In the 90's, 3Dfx was the keystone platform and then they disappeared instantaneously, making Linux completely nonfunctional in 3D until many years.
Now, with Chinese startups having such a technological advantage over NVidia, it's only a matter of time before NVidia follows 3Dfx and takes all this work we've done supporting NVidia PLD's with it.
Still don't understand the bitterness regarding humans not being allowed to service Hubble. NASA already agreed to defer its Mars plan to send a robot to Hubble. Most of the world's population thinks human life is more valuable than a telescope. For all the bitching and whining the software engineering community did about astronauts dying on space shuttles, turning around and now saying humans should go out to Hubble shows absolutely no spine at all.
Does anyone in our industry still have an opinion or is it just about disagreeing with everyone else, no matter what their opinion is.
It's good if workers can also follow the jobs overseas. Currently the work can go overseas but the workers have to stay in this one country.
Based on real estate prices being through the roof, it seems fewer people can afford enough room to use a decent sound system. As people move into smaller and smaller apartments and have less and less privacy, graphics have gotten improved while sound has gotten neglected.
People are really disenchanted with the startup circuit. You can't climb the ladder without job changes, but for every thousand engineers who hop jobs, only one ever climbs the ladder. Also people figured out ... again ... that stock options are worthless. The 16 hour days enforced by these startups and lack of raises caught up with the supposed stock options.
If turnover ever increases again like everyone says it will, it's not going to be because of economic improvement. Companies are slashing benefits like nothing else. Health care is gone. Vacations are gone. Raises are going away. As companies start to feel that they're being populated by freeloaders they're going to put pressure on employees to get out of the nest.
Obviously they're not going to say in a weblog, but does the card record the original transport stream or downsample it to a DVD resolution and record a program stream? With all the legal problems, you probably won't see any retail card recording HDTV transport streams.
Because corporations are based in India, home of the latest and greatest software. No-one wants to see what those other countries are doing.
It would be good for hobbyists in that the shift to tighter pins and ball grid arrays is making it extremely expensive to fabricate single circuit boards. Imagine buying a bunch of ASICs from digikey, stacking them together with duct tape, and instantly having a custom circuit board. The sides of the chips would only need transmit, recieve, and clock plates.
In manufacturing, the trend is still to integrate more and more on a single die. The cache will still be on the CPU but in addition, so will the system memory, graphics chip, and power supply. One day the 120V AC power cord will plug directly into the CPU.
So is this like the flying saucer the Russians were going to build in 2003 but never finished? Is this like the Russian nuclear power station on Mars that was never done? Is this another Russian post office abort the space station that never happened? If it's anything like the Russian suborbital space shuttle planned in 2002, it could be a long wait.