Resistance to what exactly? I see this is as a token gesture because we all know that in most nations the MSRP really means "you won't sell this for less." The problem for electronics manufacturers is that with global markets you can have a lot of variability that makes it more feasible to buy in one nation for a lower price and sell it in another for a higher price. That's why we have Blu-Ray/DVD Region Codes and Cell phones that have regional lock-in.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Unless Google fully becomes it's own ISP there will always be somebody in the middle of your network access. The big problem for them is that they don't want to be branded as a communication company or a telco and in order to play the game with the various state and local governments. Licensed monopolies like AT&T and Verizon exist because they paid the fees (licenses) up front in order to deliver services to the customers. Google coming in and just wanting to set up shop flies in the face of that and considering how much money rights of way and license fees cost the bread and butter carriers, they're not going to just lie down and let somebody else have their territory for free.
If you dry up the source of information that has allowed Google to dominate Internet search then it would hurt them financially. The biggest fear for them would be tougher privacy laws. Right now the Class Action E-Mail/Wiretapping case doesn't look too good for them so there may be some changes in the future for gmail users. The NSA fiasco with Snowden means that more people are asking pointed questions and Google and all the others who make money off of your personal data have to do a little walk on the tightrope. On one side they've pushed legislators away from enacting tougher privacy laws but now they're information has been hacked by the NSA yet they condemn that. The only reason Google exists is that it can mine information efficiently. Throw a few lawsuits and some new legislation into that mix and it suddenly gets very cloudy for them. Take a look at Google Glass for example, right now the thought of millions of people with always on cameras can become quite disturbing especially since you don't know where those images are going or what they may be used for. Sure there's the augmented reality take on it, but how will society take to it in the long run?
Lawyers going after money rather than the culprit. Some guy spends one minute in a coordinated DDoS attack and he gets jail time. This guy runs around free because the Lawyers thought that hitting his pocket book would matter but what they didn't realize is this guy has no concept of saving any money, he spends it and pisses it away on gambling so when they come to collect, his pockets are empty. In the meantime he cranks up the old routines to get more money to spend.
I do have to say one thing, it's great to see a guy make the Feds go in loops. We all believe that the Criminal Justice system is this fair system that only punishes the truly guilty. Yeah we want to believe it but if you're on the wrong side of that system without representation and money you're just gear lube for the the machine. This guy without a lawyer has the Feds running around trying to get money that doesn't exist, all the while playing the dumb fool. In the end he's nobody's fool.
The Internet is not a Sentient Being. It doesn't live nor breathe, nor is it a set of tubes. It doesn't "remember" anything. The systems that we associate with the Internet, like Search Engines or Storage Services all have Terms of Service (ToS) that have a wide range of rights and responsibilities that are legally binding. Since you had no dealings with the authoring of the ToS for any particular service you use, you're basically agreeing to allow them to do whatever they want with whatever you're willing to use of their services. Think Human Centi-I-Pad here folks.
If you don't want to be "remembered" by the Internet there's really not a way to eliminate your information. Sure there are companies out there who'll clean up your image or try to, for a fee but in the US at least these companies can be as predatory with what you allow them to have because you allow them to do it to you. It's in the ToS you agreed to and they'll sell the information to other companies who will then create new profiles about what kind of cereal you eat or what medications you take. The downstream market on data mining personal preferences and choices is huge and even your state and local governments sell your data to middle-men data brokers all the time. Buy a new car recently? Your information, what you bought, how much you payed is all out there. So now not only is that transaction disclosed to somebody else it's used outside of that transaction to determine your eligibility to buy or possibly buy other things. You bought a VW, that must mean you fit into this box and your address is here so your income level must be this... You're now filed and categorized and your junk mail will now reflect the new influx of great marketing material targeted to that box.
What's been lacking is a complete lack of legislation protecting your privacy and keeping your private information private. The problem with is legislators are constantly glad-handed by the same companies who mine your data constantly and they constantly lobby them prohibiting progress in protecting you. In the US the Supreme Court has even ruled that you have no expectation of privacy when you hand data over to a third party. Until this is rectified, you're screwed.
On the flip side should you choose to deal with a company who provides their service via the Internet, I wouldn't rely on a company that offers something for free because at the root of this is how sustainable is that model? If it's "free" there's usually a hook and whatever you entrust to them will usually be subject to some change in that ToS in the future. If you pay for a service, you should make sure that the business has a sustainable business model and will grow. I mean you wouldn't put your money in a bank that just popped up and is operating out of the trunk of a car would you? No you wouldn't, but there are people who constantly trust their photos, files and other personal data to droves of Internet "startups" who will be gone or have such rotten infrastructure that whatever you give them will either disapper or be stolen. Of course you can hope that they get acquired but usually in that case, it means that whatever you have will be discontinued or substantially changed by a new ToS that again, you have no input on. You either agree or disagree.
I tell my family and friends that it's not the Internet, it's the companies providing these services. If you trust these companies fine but then I say "Would you let them hold your wallet for a week?" "Would you let Larry Ellison watch your small child while you run and do an errand?" If not why would you then entrust your vacation photos or that huge collection of old Jazz MP3s you have to them? Sure, there are services that add value but again what's the business model and are you in control of what they do with the information you give them? In most cases, that's not true and those are the services you should avoid.
Shit that's nothing. I had to walk to school, 10 miles uphill both ways in 10 feet of snow! On my way I had to sell and trade magic beans to noobs which were actually old lima beans. That way I could get cow or some goats. Yeah, I had these noobs going. Magic Beans..
It wasn't until the Planet Of the Apes series that computers had any significence in movies..
Probably true but on TV the Xerox Sigma 7 was in a "Monkees" episode. Curiously that Episode featured Stan Freberg who also featured a computer in his on-stage skit.. In 1966, Freberg released an LP (that's vinyl to you MP3 Ogg Vorbis dudes) called "Freberg Underground" in which he featured a Univac in a skit with Mr. Ned Numero. I remember the voice of June Foray as the Univac on it saying "the card you have given me has been mutilated." You had to use your imagination since it was only sound coming out of a record player with things like a needle and static electricity was a bitch.
Significant? I'd also argue that HAL was the meanest mofo and more significant in character than anything that the POA had to offer.
I used to remember taking the tubes out of our TV and going to the Zenith or U-Testm tester that used to exist in many stores. You could test your tubes and buy replacements. There were even kits you could buy to label the tube and the socket where you removed it from so you could put it back together.
Early in my career I was fortunate to work with a man who had worked at the University of Chicago in the 1940s and early 50s. He had worked with early vacuum tube computers during the Manhattan project. He told me once that they used to tune the computers at the time using little magnets, called "Scottie Dog" magnets and they found that by placing them at strategic points around the tubes they could actually make the system run faster. They magnets didn't actually look like dogs, it was a brand name I guess. The problem was that one time they had to move one of these behemoths to another lab and unfortunately all of the magnets were dislodged. He said it took them months to get the system to work properly again after the move because of this.
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There were three women in Pussy Riot and if you listen to Putin the other day when discussing it his reaction was that what they did was "degrading to women." Yekaterina Samutsevich was just released a few hours ago.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense though. Everyone knows that doctors make a lot of money, yet there isn't a huge surplus of doctors.
That's because they have the Universities and the AMA regulating how many doctors actually get into the profession. Also the Government was afraid that there would be a surplus of doctors a few years ago and asked that fewer go through the program. I won't get into it but Doctor pay is probably tied to what they do, years of education, residency and the overhead associated with it.
If it really is that easy to be a programmer then people probably shouldn't be getting paid as much as they are. If, instead, it is a difficult thing which requires years of training, then introducing more people to it won't drastically change anything besides maybe increasing the levels of underrepresented minorities (a very good thing).
That's what I've saying, it's much more than "hey, learn javascript and you're done." And it's not purely logical thinking, you have to have creativity as well and I think it's more art than science anyway but that's a beer discussion. As for minorities are you saying you favor a quota system? I believe in equal opportunity but I'll point out that a lot of very, very successful high tech companies are run buy people who would be considered to be from minority groups. So that argument falls on deaf ears here. I don't care if the person is white, green, black, brown or tan if they have the skills and the aptitude to learn and stick with it then they should be given a chance. That doesn't mean however that if there's a candidate who's over 80 weeks on his unemployment looking for the same position; that person should be considered as well and abolish this notion of "over qualification" if you did that I think you'd see these two reprobates wouldn't have a leg to stand on. So teach whoever wants to be taught how to code but don't start telling me that after "Hello World" and all the dead bits that gave their existence to writing them makes these neophytes software developers and that Fuckerberg and Billy Bob are doing it out of the goodness of their heart. They want developers, sure they want a system where they make the rules, where they control the market forces meaning more H1Bs which drive down labor costs and screw over resident workers and flood the market with "so-called" talent. When that talent falls flat on its face, they'll go crying to DC to get more H1Bs. If you have an aptitude or a desire to write code, go write code and I suggest strongly that everybody stay the fuck away from these two because you'll just be a pawn in their little game.
It seems like they are just trying to rectify a market imbalance caused by the fact that many people are not aware of what CS is and what programming jobs entail. Eventually we would reach an equilibrium where people are paid a fair value for the work and skills involved.
No, Code.org is a front to allow Fuckerberg and Billy Bob Gates to claim that there's a lack of talent in this country and that H1B Visas should be increased.
Read the two citations in my previous post. This isn't about developing talent it's about pushing their alternate agenda. I've taught programming to students for a time and yes, it can be rewarding but that was in a casual learning environment. I do believe one or two have careers in the profession but that's beside the point. You always have to look for ulterior motives when talking about high tech execs who have lobbied, for years, for an increase in H1B candidates and now all of a sudden there's a mad rush for "We need more software developers here" while there are thousands out of work who already have the skills. Think of it as "Batman Returns" where Max Shreck wants to build a power plant, all the while it's a capacitor to store energy, consume it and not to produce it. At one point Bruce Wayne points out that there's already a surplus of power so why the new plant? We have a surplus of talent in this country, it's just that these two want what WalMart has, a minimum wage labor force yet still build their products and rake in billions. Another analogy is that you want a Ferrari but you have only $10,000 to spend so you state "There are no Ferraris for sale" when in fact if you increased your budget, you'd find that there were a lot for sale you're just looking too get one too cheaply.
I'm going to start eating extra spicy burritos just before we depart. Sorry, If I have to listen to endless "oh my god" and "you knows" or the pugnacious business guy making client calls all during a flight I will release my own anti-chatter device! Besides it's good for you!
This person is why Cell Phones need to be banned on airplanes in this country. If I had to listen to her talk endlessly on a flight I'd probably look for the nearest emergency exit and throw her out! Yeah, there'd be collateral damage but honestly if a person can't be bothered to not use their phone in a theater what makes you think that they'll be polite on a plane?
that's my point. After all of this bullshit about how there aren't enough software developers in this country you now have two huge H1B trolls out there banging the drum to get more people to write code. Most people wouldn't want to write code, they'd rather play XBOX or bet on the stock market or do something else. That's the whole point, not everybody is good at a particular field of study or chooses it as a career. What Fuckerberg and Billy Bob want is to say "Hey look, we tried here and well nobody in this country is good enough or wants to do it. Therefore we need more H1B visas so we can import more workers of course at lower wages." The trouble is a lot of software developers have been let go and are still looking for work out there so what's exactly the problem they're trying to solve? Oh they don't want to pay people who are already here or aren't in their mold, so called "overqualified" candidates.. Well forget that you have 20 years of Software in C, C++, Java, we want this H1B that we can get for half of that who won't challenge our business model and will do everything we tell them. Also college students go into fields where they have a good probability of making a living afterwards, if Software is now a low cost talent game where everybody can do it then you're less likely to find people going into that field. They'll probably go into Healthcare where they have a guaranteed six figure income. There's nothing wrong with teaching CS in schools and trying to promote it, no question about that but it's just these two leading the charge have ulterior motives and that's to force their labor costs down and frankly that's promoting CS for the wrong reason.
Wow, so you hold a seminar to show people what it's like. You give them a few tools, show them a couple of things and that immediately makes them Senior Software Engineers ready to tackle any business problem? No, it's more propaganda from two chodes who want to cheapen the profession. Software Development and Engineering takes years of practice to get right, sure you can teach mechanics in a few months and some would argue you can learn language X in 30 days but it's the application and knowing to use what tool at what time. Here's what's missing in this, did Gates and Fuckerberg hire any of these whiz kids after the class? Not one huh? Well Billy Bob and Fuckerberg put your money where your mouth is! If you think you can teach somebody in a few hours to be a developer, hire them give them a salary, benefits and a cube and give them a chance to prove themselves.
It's a modified 3G CDMA connection with a Qualcomm modified chipset allowing for up to a 2K doppler shift in frequency handling. It's distributed via multiple APs on the aircraft and when you're close to a tower, you get reasonable speed. If there's a lot of people using it or your near the fringe distance away from the tower you'll see higher latency which is natural with 3G CDMA. If you're over the Nevada desert or the Rocky Mountains, you'll get sucky performance. We were the first to work with AirCell (GoGo) and it wasn't smooth sailing. For example, the antenna design wasn't great at first and when the plane banked for example, we'd drop connections. It has gotten better over the years but that was in the 2005/6 time frame.
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Resistance to what exactly? I see this is as a token gesture because we all know that in most nations the MSRP really means "you won't sell this for less." The problem for electronics manufacturers is that with global markets you can have a lot of variability that makes it more feasible to buy in one nation for a lower price and sell it in another for a higher price. That's why we have Blu-Ray/DVD Region Codes and Cell phones that have regional lock-in.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Unless Google fully becomes it's own ISP there will always be somebody in the middle of your network access. The big problem for them is that they don't want to be branded as a communication company or a telco and in order to play the game with the various state and local governments. Licensed monopolies like AT&T and Verizon exist because they paid the fees (licenses) up front in order to deliver services to the customers. Google coming in and just wanting to set up shop flies in the face of that and considering how much money rights of way and license fees cost the bread and butter carriers, they're not going to just lie down and let somebody else have their territory for free.
If you dry up the source of information that has allowed Google to dominate Internet search then it would hurt them financially. The biggest fear for them would be tougher privacy laws. Right now the Class Action E-Mail/Wiretapping case doesn't look too good for them so there may be some changes in the future for gmail users. The NSA fiasco with Snowden means that more people are asking pointed questions and Google and all the others who make money off of your personal data have to do a little walk on the tightrope. On one side they've pushed legislators away from enacting tougher privacy laws but now they're information has been hacked by the NSA yet they condemn that. The only reason Google exists is that it can mine information efficiently. Throw a few lawsuits and some new legislation into that mix and it suddenly gets very cloudy for them. Take a look at Google Glass for example, right now the thought of millions of people with always on cameras can become quite disturbing especially since you don't know where those images are going or what they may be used for. Sure there's the augmented reality take on it, but how will society take to it in the long run?
Lawyers going after money rather than the culprit. Some guy spends one minute in a coordinated DDoS attack and he gets jail time. This guy runs around free because the Lawyers thought that hitting his pocket book would matter but what they didn't realize is this guy has no concept of saving any money, he spends it and pisses it away on gambling so when they come to collect, his pockets are empty. In the meantime he cranks up the old routines to get more money to spend.
I do have to say one thing, it's great to see a guy make the Feds go in loops. We all believe that the Criminal Justice system is this fair system that only punishes the truly guilty. Yeah we want to believe it but if you're on the wrong side of that system without representation and money you're just gear lube for the the machine. This guy without a lawyer has the Feds running around trying to get money that doesn't exist, all the while playing the dumb fool. In the end he's nobody's fool.
The Internet is not a Sentient Being. It doesn't live nor breathe, nor is it a set of tubes. It doesn't "remember" anything. The systems that we associate with the Internet, like Search Engines or Storage Services all have Terms of Service (ToS) that have a wide range of rights and responsibilities that are legally binding. Since you had no dealings with the authoring of the ToS for any particular service you use, you're basically agreeing to allow them to do whatever they want with whatever you're willing to use of their services. Think Human Centi-I-Pad here folks.
If you don't want to be "remembered" by the Internet there's really not a way to eliminate your information. Sure there are companies out there who'll clean up your image or try to, for a fee but in the US at least these companies can be as predatory with what you allow them to have because you allow them to do it to you. It's in the ToS you agreed to and they'll sell the information to other companies who will then create new profiles about what kind of cereal you eat or what medications you take. The downstream market on data mining personal preferences and choices is huge and even your state and local governments sell your data to middle-men data brokers all the time. Buy a new car recently? Your information, what you bought, how much you payed is all out there. So now not only is that transaction disclosed to somebody else it's used outside of that transaction to determine your eligibility to buy or possibly buy other things. You bought a VW, that must mean you fit into this box and your address is here so your income level must be this... You're now filed and categorized and your junk mail will now reflect the new influx of great marketing material targeted to that box.
What's been lacking is a complete lack of legislation protecting your privacy and keeping your private information private. The problem with is legislators are constantly glad-handed by the same companies who mine your data constantly and they constantly lobby them prohibiting progress in protecting you. In the US the Supreme Court has even ruled that you have no expectation of privacy when you hand data over to a third party. Until this is rectified, you're screwed.
On the flip side should you choose to deal with a company who provides their service via the Internet, I wouldn't rely on a company that offers something for free because at the root of this is how sustainable is that model? If it's "free" there's usually a hook and whatever you entrust to them will usually be subject to some change in that ToS in the future. If you pay for a service, you should make sure that the business has a sustainable business model and will grow. I mean you wouldn't put your money in a bank that just popped up and is operating out of the trunk of a car would you? No you wouldn't, but there are people who constantly trust their photos, files and other personal data to droves of Internet "startups" who will be gone or have such rotten infrastructure that whatever you give them will either disapper or be stolen. Of course you can hope that they get acquired but usually in that case, it means that whatever you have will be discontinued or substantially changed by a new ToS that again, you have no input on. You either agree or disagree.
I tell my family and friends that it's not the Internet, it's the companies providing these services. If you trust these companies fine but then I say "Would you let them hold your wallet for a week?" "Would you let Larry Ellison watch your small child while you run and do an errand?" If not why would you then entrust your vacation photos or that huge collection of old Jazz MP3s you have to them? Sure, there are services that add value but again what's the business model and are you in control of what they do with the information you give them? In most cases, that's not true and those are the services you should avoid.
No but I'm sure I could use it to keep my sailboat anchored out in the bay.
Shit that's nothing. I had to walk to school, 10 miles uphill both ways in 10 feet of snow! On my way I had to sell and trade magic beans to noobs which were actually old lima beans. That way I could get cow or some goats. Yeah, I had these noobs going. Magic Beans..
Too new-fangled for me. Now if you excuse me I have a water clock to finish.
It wasn't until the Planet Of the Apes series that computers had any significence in movies. .
Probably true but on TV the Xerox Sigma 7 was in a "Monkees" episode. Curiously that Episode featured Stan Freberg who also featured a computer in his on-stage skit.. In 1966, Freberg released an LP (that's vinyl to you MP3 Ogg Vorbis dudes) called "Freberg Underground" in which he featured a Univac in a skit with Mr. Ned Numero. I remember the voice of June Foray as the Univac on it saying "the card you have given me has been mutilated." You had to use your imagination since it was only sound coming out of a record player with things like a needle and static electricity was a bitch.
Significant? I'd also argue that HAL was the meanest mofo and more significant in character than anything that the POA had to offer.
I used to remember taking the tubes out of our TV and going to the Zenith or U-Testm tester that used to exist in many stores. You could test your tubes and buy replacements.
There were even kits you could buy to label the tube and the socket where you removed it from so you could put it back together.
Early in my career I was fortunate to work with a man who had worked at the University of Chicago in the 1940s and early 50s. He had worked with early vacuum tube computers during the Manhattan project. He told me once that they used to tune the computers at the time using little magnets, called "Scottie Dog" magnets and they found that by placing them at strategic points around the tubes they could actually make the system run faster. They magnets didn't actually look like dogs, it was a brand name I guess. The problem was that one time they had to move one of these behemoths to another lab and unfortunately all of the magnets were dislodged. He said it took them months to get the system to work properly again after the move because of this.
There were three women in Pussy Riot and if you listen to Putin the other day when discussing it his reaction was that what they did was "degrading to women." Yekaterina Samutsevich was just released a few hours ago.
434 miles if you follow along mostly I-25..
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense though. Everyone knows that doctors make a lot of money, yet there isn't a huge surplus of doctors.
That's because they have the Universities and the AMA regulating how many doctors actually get into the profession. Also the Government was afraid that there would be a surplus of doctors a few years ago and asked that fewer go through the program. I won't get into it but Doctor pay is probably tied to what they do, years of education, residency and the overhead associated with it.
If it really is that easy to be a programmer then people probably shouldn't be getting paid as much as they are. If, instead, it is a difficult thing which requires years of training, then introducing more people to it won't drastically change anything besides maybe increasing the levels of underrepresented minorities (a very good thing).
That's what I've saying, it's much more than "hey, learn javascript and you're done." And it's not purely logical thinking, you have to have creativity as well and I think it's more art than science anyway but that's a beer discussion. As for minorities are you saying you favor a quota system? I believe in equal opportunity but I'll point out that a lot of very, very successful high tech companies are run buy people who would be considered to be from minority groups. So that argument falls on deaf ears here. I don't care if the person is white, green, black, brown or tan if they have the skills and the aptitude to learn and stick with it then they should be given a chance. That doesn't mean however that if there's a candidate who's over 80 weeks on his unemployment looking for the same position; that person should be considered as well and abolish this notion of "over qualification" if you did that I think you'd see these two reprobates wouldn't have a leg to stand on. So teach whoever wants to be taught how to code but don't start telling me that after "Hello World" and all the dead bits that gave their existence to writing them makes these neophytes software developers and that Fuckerberg and Billy Bob are doing it out of the goodness of their heart. They want developers, sure they want a system where they make the rules, where they control the market forces meaning more H1Bs which drive down labor costs and screw over resident workers and flood the market with "so-called" talent. When that talent falls flat on its face, they'll go crying to DC to get more H1Bs. If you have an aptitude or a desire to write code, go write code and I suggest strongly that everybody stay the fuck away from these two because you'll just be a pawn in their little game.
It seems like they are just trying to rectify a market imbalance caused by the fact that many people are not aware of what CS is and what programming jobs entail. Eventually we would reach an equilibrium where people are paid a fair value for the work and skills involved.
No, Code.org is a front to allow Fuckerberg and Billy Bob Gates to claim that there's a lack of talent in this country and that H1B Visas should be increased.
Read the two citations in my previous post. This isn't about developing talent it's about pushing their alternate agenda. I've taught programming to students for a time and yes, it can be rewarding but that was in a casual learning environment. I do believe one or two have careers in the profession but that's beside the point. You always have to look for ulterior motives when talking about high tech execs who have lobbied, for years, for an increase in H1B candidates and now all of a sudden there's a mad rush for "We need more software developers here" while there are thousands out of work who already have the skills. Think of it as "Batman Returns" where Max Shreck wants to build a power plant, all the while it's a capacitor to store energy, consume it and not to produce it. At one point Bruce Wayne points out that there's already a surplus of power so why the new plant? We have a surplus of talent in this country, it's just that these two want what WalMart has, a minimum wage labor force yet still build their products and rake in billions. Another analogy is that you want a Ferrari but you have only $10,000 to spend so you state "There are no Ferraris for sale" when in fact if you increased your budget, you'd find that there were a lot for sale you're just looking too get one too cheaply.
SO what you're saying is find the nearest emergency exit and throw her out? I'll keep that in mind.
Hey, if it works for the Administration why not for the Senate?
You're assuming too much.
I'm going to start eating extra spicy burritos just before we depart. Sorry, If I have to listen to endless "oh my god" and "you knows" or the pugnacious business guy making client calls all during a flight I will release my own anti-chatter device! Besides it's good for you!
Yes it's called the Alamo Drafthouse.
This person is why Cell Phones need to be banned on airplanes in this country. If I had to listen to her talk endlessly on a flight I'd probably look for the nearest emergency exit and throw her out! Yeah, there'd be collateral damage but honestly if a person can't be bothered to not use their phone in a theater what makes you think that they'll be polite on a plane?
that's my point. After all of this bullshit about how there aren't enough software developers in this country you now have two huge H1B trolls out there banging the drum to get more people to write code. Most people wouldn't want to write code, they'd rather play XBOX or bet on the stock market or do something else. That's the whole point, not everybody is good at a particular field of study or chooses it as a career. What Fuckerberg and Billy Bob want is to say "Hey look, we tried here and well nobody in this country is good enough or wants to do it. Therefore we need more H1B visas so we can import more workers of course at lower wages." The trouble is a lot of software developers have been let go and are still looking for work out there so what's exactly the problem they're trying to solve? Oh they don't want to pay people who are already here or aren't in their mold, so called "overqualified" candidates.. Well forget that you have 20 years of Software in C, C++, Java, we want this H1B that we can get for half of that who won't challenge our business model and will do everything we tell them. Also college students go into fields where they have a good probability of making a living afterwards, if Software is now a low cost talent game where everybody can do it then you're less likely to find people going into that field. They'll probably go into Healthcare where they have a guaranteed six figure income.
There's nothing wrong with teaching CS in schools and trying to promote it, no question about that but it's just these two leading the charge have ulterior motives and that's to force their labor costs down and frankly that's promoting CS for the wrong reason.
Wow, so you hold a seminar to show people what it's like. You give them a few tools, show them a couple of things and that immediately makes them Senior Software Engineers ready to tackle any business problem? No, it's more propaganda from two chodes who want to cheapen the profession. Software Development and Engineering takes years of practice to get right, sure you can teach mechanics in a few months and some would argue you can learn language X in 30 days but it's the application and knowing to use what tool at what time. Here's what's missing in this, did Gates and Fuckerberg hire any of these whiz kids after the class? Not one huh? Well Billy Bob and Fuckerberg put your money where your mouth is! If you think you can teach somebody in a few hours to be a developer, hire them give them a salary, benefits and a cube and give them a chance to prove themselves.
OMG 12 Million "Hello World" programs written in VB? Oh the Humanity!!!!!
It's a modified 3G CDMA connection with a Qualcomm modified chipset allowing for up to a 2K doppler shift in frequency handling. It's distributed via multiple APs on the aircraft and when you're close to a tower, you get reasonable speed. If there's a lot of people using it or your near the fringe distance away from the tower you'll see higher latency which is natural with 3G CDMA. If you're over the Nevada desert or the Rocky Mountains, you'll get sucky performance. We were the first to work with AirCell (GoGo) and it wasn't smooth sailing. For example, the antenna design wasn't great at first and when the plane banked for example, we'd drop connections. It has gotten better over the years but that was in the 2005/6 time frame.
So you use the Ted Stevens metaphor?