Sound like a lot of reasons not to become unemployed are being played up to show up his boss for laying him off.
Spousal closeness is not a good thing in most marriages. Personally the one good thing about being unemployed is being able to do what you want to do all the time instead of doing what someone else wants you to do. If it makes enough money to support life it's even better.
"Philips Research laboratory in Eindhoven, the Netherlands" whatever.
This latest release from Phillips' Indian R&D is another example of the kind of technological lead that India has over the west. Considering all the breakthroughs they're not releasing, the west must be at least 5 years behind.
When you borrow $150,000 to write free software and a company starts expecting you to maintain tons of extra code they need to make money on it, you're better off not writing the software in the first place.
You can write free software but you can't devote yourself to maintaining someone else's bottom line for free. Unfortunately, most companies use this against you and you find you can't get a job anywhere.
Had one company do that. They were royally pissed and went out of business because we didn't maintain the code they needed in our system. Forget about getting hired by those guys, but if we never released the free program we'd be just as hirable as someone off the street.
Most historians think the Russian model of aerospace development was more successful than the American model. The Russians built fully functional rockets and did virtually no testing. That led to very fast improvements and now they're the only nation still launching humans into space. The Americans did incremental testing, only building full test flights in the final stages and you know where their human space flight ended up.
Aerospace problems are a lot harder than software problems, but unlike software, you can't share aerospace. You can't make a web page, have your achievements downloaded, and leave a lasting impression on people by building a rocket prototype. It ends up being done for yourself, isolated. Except for one or two blog articles no-one thinks about it.
These benchmarks were done in 32 bit mode. Win XP Professional Edition Service Pack 4 doesn't run in 64 bit mode. There are operating systems which can run in 64 bit mode but they're not official Microsoft software.
The US is out of the space business. Their only remaining fully active launch vehicle, the Atlas 5, is almost entirely built in Russia and shipped overseas by airplane. China and India are already accepted as the next space powers. Space is like railroads. It was fun but not practical.
Sounds like a rant by someone who moved up a corporate ladder only to hit no-man's land and spend the rest of his days stuck doing the same thing, never moving up nor down.
In reality, there are entrepreneurs and there are grunts. If you're not in the mood to bet your shirt, put your balls on the line, cash out your life's savings on a long shot, you're a grunt and can't expect to have any leverage. Your bosses took risks. For every one there were thousands who failed and lost everything. You on the other hand have a reasonably stable income and less stress. Having stable income and a full head of hair in exchange for sometimes abusive leaders is reasonable in a capitalist world.
Projects and teams come and go. You can't get too attached to either. What matters is that you're programming.
More like security implications for the US republic, considering we're going to be using almost exclusively the Chinese chip, not the other way around.
It may never be cheaper to use solar power than old fashioned middle eastern oil.
> all the countries with lots of sunshine provide > power to the rest of the world?
Thought we already got all our power from the countries with lots of sunshine.
Why spend the effort building trans oceanic power lines from Saudi Arabia when you already have liquified natural gas tankers doing it for a lot cheaper? Why build multi billion dollar solar arrays in the desert when oil already bubbles to the surface for free?
Notice how assembly line jobs are gone but assembly line management is still here? Basic programming is going away but programming management is going to be around. All the anecdotes about outsourcing include a business owner saying how it's cheaper to hire Indian programmers. The key is the business owner is still here. You'll always have opportunities in IT around here, but you won't be able to do IT as a programmer.
Personally liked Valkyrie better than Rheingold. As for paying to watch internet video on a cell phone, basic cable costs $42 a month already, the picture is a lot better, and you can keep the footage for posterity.
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Anyone over 30 who isn't in management yet is considered too insecure to take chances, too lazy to try to start their own business, or too interested in a free ride to jump between startups. The hiring managers all took chances, tried to start their own business, jumped between a lot of startups. They've paid the entrance fee and don't seem to like 30 year old programmers who just want a free ride.
India has had wage inflation to the point where Indian engineers may one day cost more than American engineers. Keep your dusty old social security card around.
Notice the only photograph of the monitor displaying something is a blurry 640x480 thumbnail with the viewable area of the monitor taking up a small portion of the center of the picture. The reason is Samsung LCD panels suck. Their picture is real blurry. No consumer shopping network would ever show you what it really looks like.
America's space capability was terminated on 9/11/01. The desire to be a technological giant was already far gone. It just took a final gust of wind to knock it down forever. The strays who still want to go into space all have to butter up India for cash.
It's amazing what all these first world countries can do. Wish my country was still in the space business.
Cube decorations and zero pay
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A Tour of Pixar
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So they got cube decorations, mariachi bands, and scooters. Do they also have billions of stock options and zero pay?
In other news, Steve Jobless says a single bathroom forces employees to communicate with each other but in actuality there are two bathrooms. Only people of the same sex communicate with each other.
Now we know why there's so much.Net coverage on the slashdot shopping network these days. All those Microsoft acronyms which have emerged in the last 3 years make my eyes water. Is that really the big thing people are doing now?
Somehow believe standardization originally helped the industry but over the years standardization has become more of a marketing vehicle. Most of today's standards are just intended to sell one product.
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Sound like a lot of reasons not to become unemployed are being played up to show up his boss for laying him off.
Spousal closeness is not a good thing in most marriages. Personally the one good thing about being unemployed is being able to do what you want to do all the time instead of doing what someone else wants you to do. If it makes enough money to support life it's even better.
"Philips Research laboratory in Eindhoven, the Netherlands" whatever.
This latest release from Phillips' Indian R&D is another example of the kind of technological lead that India has over the west. Considering all the breakthroughs they're not releasing, the west must be at least 5 years behind.
Handheld sales must be down today.
Unfortunately a degree from Cal State Sacramento is virtually worthless.
When you borrow $150,000 to write free software and a company starts expecting you to maintain tons of extra code they need to make money on it, you're better off not writing the software in the first place.
You can write free software but you can't devote yourself to maintaining someone else's bottom line for free. Unfortunately, most companies use this against you and you find you can't get a job anywhere.
Had one company do that. They were royally pissed and went out of business because we didn't maintain the code they needed in our system. Forget about getting hired by those guys, but if we never released the free program we'd be just as hirable as someone off the street.
Most historians think the Russian model of aerospace development was more successful than the American model. The Russians built fully functional rockets and did virtually no testing. That led to very fast improvements and now they're the only nation still launching humans into space. The Americans did incremental testing, only building full test flights in the final stages and you know where their human space flight ended up.
Aerospace problems are a lot harder than software problems, but unlike software, you can't share aerospace. You can't make a web page, have your achievements downloaded, and leave a lasting impression on people by building a rocket prototype. It ends up being done for yourself, isolated. Except for one or two blog articles no-one thinks about it.
These benchmarks were done in 32 bit mode. Win XP Professional Edition Service Pack 4 doesn't run in 64 bit mode. There are operating systems which can run in 64 bit mode but they're not official Microsoft software.
The US is out of the space business. Their only remaining fully active launch vehicle, the Atlas 5, is almost entirely built in Russia and shipped overseas by airplane. China and India are already accepted as the next space powers. Space is like railroads. It was fun but not practical.
You must pay to view the entire article. That's the idea.
Most of my cheap CD-R's burned in 2000 are unreadable now. Probably going to have to transfer them to DVD-R.
10 years ago, we expected things to keep relying on pure software. Today most every speed improvement is coming from hardware.
Sounds like a rant by someone who moved up a corporate ladder only to hit no-man's land and spend the rest of his days stuck doing the same thing, never moving up nor down.
In reality, there are entrepreneurs and there are grunts. If you're not in the mood to bet your shirt, put your balls on the line, cash out your life's savings on a long shot, you're a grunt and can't expect to have any leverage. Your bosses took risks. For every one there were thousands who failed and lost everything. You on the other hand have a reasonably stable income and less stress. Having stable income and a full head of hair in exchange for sometimes abusive leaders is reasonable in a capitalist world.
Projects and teams come and go. You can't get too attached to either. What matters is that you're programming.
More like security implications for the US republic, considering we're going to be using almost exclusively the Chinese chip, not the other way around.
It may never be cheaper to use solar power than old fashioned middle eastern oil.
> all the countries with lots of sunshine provide
> power to the rest of the world?
Thought we already got all our power from the countries with lots of sunshine.
Why spend the effort building trans oceanic power lines from Saudi Arabia when you already have liquified natural gas tankers doing it for a lot cheaper? Why build multi billion dollar solar arrays in the desert when oil already bubbles to the surface for free?
It's fast when it's all 0's. Real data is a bit slower than ext3.
Notice how assembly line jobs are gone but assembly line management is still here? Basic programming is going away but programming management is going to be around. All the anecdotes about outsourcing include a business owner saying how it's cheaper to hire Indian programmers. The key is the business owner is still here. You'll always have opportunities in IT around here, but you won't be able to do IT as a programmer.
Personally liked Valkyrie better than Rheingold. As for paying to watch internet video on a cell phone, basic cable costs $42 a month already, the picture is a lot better, and you can keep the footage for posterity.
Anyone over 30 who isn't in management yet is considered too insecure to take chances, too lazy to try to start their own business, or too interested in a free ride to jump between startups. The hiring managers all took chances, tried to start their own business, jumped between a lot of startups. They've paid the entrance fee and don't seem to like 30 year old programmers who just want a free ride.
India has had wage inflation to the point where Indian engineers may one day cost more than American engineers. Keep your dusty old social security card around.
Notice the only photograph of the monitor displaying something is a blurry 640x480 thumbnail with the viewable area of the monitor taking up a small portion of the center of the picture. The reason is Samsung LCD panels suck. Their picture is real blurry. No consumer shopping network would ever show you what it really looks like.
America's space capability was terminated on 9/11/01. The desire to be a technological giant was already far gone. It just took a final gust of wind to knock it down forever. The strays who still want to go into space all have to butter up India for cash.
It's amazing what all these first world countries can do. Wish my country was still in the space business.
So they got cube decorations, mariachi bands, and scooters. Do they also have billions of stock options and zero pay?
In other news, Steve Jobless says a single bathroom forces employees to communicate with each other but in actuality there are two bathrooms. Only people of the same sex communicate with each other.
Now we know why there's so much .Net coverage on the slashdot shopping network these days. All those Microsoft acronyms which have emerged in the last 3 years make my eyes water. Is that really the big thing people are doing now?
Somehow believe standardization originally helped the industry but over the years standardization has become more of a marketing vehicle. Most of today's standards are just intended to sell one product.