And as the population grows faster than the amount of gold grows, the value and cost of gold goes up. So the rich would give less and less gold as wages to the poor born without it.
- oh, god. The value of gold goes up relative to value of all things, that will go down, thus deflation. I explained it in previous paragraph.
And the value of stupid people like you (to those with the gold) will go down as well. I explained it in the very paragraph you are responding to.
The rich would need you less and less, since their gold is more and more valuable each day.
The problem is the regulators changed sides, and the US Gov is no longer even doing a good job pretending to help the "common people".
- where the hell did you get this idea from, that US gov't ever had a mandate to help anybody?
Again you prove that you have difficulty reading. I used the word PRETEND for a reason. Basically with so many stupid voters around, the US leaders no longer even need to do a good job pretending to help the voters in order to stay in power. In the past at least the voters got some interstate highways and infrastructure.
Now more than 9 trillion US dollars have been created out of thin air and what do the voters get? I hear the US people complaining about stuff falling apart, no money to build railways, highways, bridges, broadband. And I think - hey didn't they just print 9 trillion? They could have printed 1 more trillion and used it to buy stuff from China to build all that crap before China wises up. Before you spout about inflation, they've ALREADY created at least 9 trillion, so what's a trillion more before everyone else catches on?
You can't do that trickery with gold. But you can with US dollars. So the US petrodollar is better tool for the US than gold is. It's just not being used for the benefit of the US people.
Shame about Obama really. He seemed so promising. Promising this and that;).
it's not that useful as industrial material, and as the value of fiat plunges, the usage of gold as of industrial material will diminish further, as people will find alternatives.
Alternatives? List which materials are malleable, corrosion resistant, a very good conductor of electricity and cheaper than gold.
Artificial money does not have any other use except as money. Whereas gold has many industrial uses. Making artificial money go up in cost is fine. Making the cost of gold go up artificially is not fine. And that's what you are proposing. And for what? NO REAL BENEFIT![1].
you don't divide gold among all people by equal amounts, that's nonsense,
Did you even read and understand what I wrote?
As I ALREADY said in my previous post - wealth is not and will not be evenly distributed - the top 1-2% own a lot of it. So if gold was money (or currency was gold backed) each person would have less than 1 ounce worth of gold. So the value and cost of gold goes up.
And as the population grows faster than the amount of gold grows, the value and cost of gold goes up. So the rich would give less and less gold as wages to the poor born without it.
value of money needs to go up, it always needs to go up so that the relative costs of everything else will be going down.
Sure the value of money can go up. But your proposal makes the cost of gold go up.
It would be great if people stopped valuing gold so much as jewellery, and people like you moved on from their ignorant and primitive obsession with gold as money. There's no magic in gold as money ok? It is even more stupid than having currency backed by land area on the Moon or Mars.
[1] As long as there is poor regulation people can still issue way too many IOUs than they have gold/USD/seashells to back them up. The recent economic crisis would not have been prevented even if money was gold backed.
The crisis was a result of looser/poor regulation allowing people to borrow what they could not afford; and allowing the smart, amoral and greedy to create ways to bundle up those loans, play pass the parcel/hot potato with them while taking commissions each time they pass it amongst themselves.
One would be ignorant or stupid to think that these smart amoral greedy bunch would be unable to find more ways to take wealth from the stupid/ignorant just because money is gold or gold backed. They are clearly smarter, so guess who will win in the financial games that THEY create?
You need the regulators to be on the side of the "greater good" not the filthy rich.
The problem is the regulators changed sides, and the US Gov is no longer even doing a good job pretending to help the "common people".
Gold is not that suitable to be money either. Gold is too useful to be used as money.
Why? Because it has VERY useful properties as an industrial material. If everyone used gold as money, due to its rarity it would artificially become more expensive as an industrial material.
Supply and demand and all that.
Find out how much gold there is in the whole world (estimates range from 4 to 10 billion troy ounces). Divide it by the number of people. Then keep in mind that the top 1-2% own a lot of it ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2006/dec/06/business.internationalnews ) , so once you've "shifted" the gold around to reflect the current distribution, the average person would have even fewer grams/ounces of gold as their TOTAL cash holdings (includes bank balances) not necessarily net worth - since some people may have cash but have a mortgage.
Estimate how many ounces/grams of gold you'd get paid per month. You are probably richer than the average person in the world. But would you get paid an ounce of gold every month? Think the people paying would now be able to afford that? So the relative cost of gold would go up.
The US benefits from being able to create US dollars practically on demand. Because by doing so it can transfer wealth from other countries who are still using the US dollars for billions of stuff.
The USA's real problem is what its Government does with that transferred wealth...
Anyway, I find if I shift some attention to the dots while looking at the centre dot, even though the whole thing rotates I can still notice that the dots are changing colour.
It is normally more important for the brain to notice that the "whole thing is rotating together" than the dots changing colour. The big picture is more important.
The leaving is usually not the big problem. The staying in Canada bit is the difficult part.
Despite what he says about Canada being friendly, I doubt millions of Chinese would be welcome in Canada. Shanghai and Beijing combined have more than the entire population of Canada. And even if they were welcome, I doubt Canada would accept them as citizens with voting rights;).
If the food you're testing is more radioactive than a pile of brazil nuts then you probably don't want to eat it, especially if it's normally not supposed to be as radioactive as a brazil nut:).
If he really wants the MS approach and is just starting out he really should consider learning about "Windows Azure", and try to skip running his own server(s) for production. Why?
1) He doesn't seem to be the OSS + "roll your own" sort.;)
2) Windows isn't that good when you only have a very few servers. Unlike unix and unixlike OSes, with Windows it's usually not easy to rename a directory/file that is in use. Why is that important? It makes quick upgrades harder. You have to jump through more hoops to do a quick switch from "version 1.0" to "version 2.0". There are ways to do it (go figure them out), but it's a lot more work to do things "right" (and likely to still stink more than the unix way:) ).
BUT if you have many servers, you just put them all behind load balancers, and do the upgrades on a per server or group of servers basis. You can take servers completely off-line for upgrades.
If he doesn't already have the $$$$$$ to pay for all that then getting from "start" to the point where he can afford those load balancers etc could be rather painful... He might still need $$$$ to run a number of VMs or machines with Microsoft's NLB.
By using Windows Azure, you let Microsoft handle all this crap. BUT in turn you must do most things the "Azure style". Be aware that Windows Azure is still quite new so don't be surprised if some stuff still has rough/sharp/hot edges;).
Microsoft desperately wants people like him to move to Azure. He should sign up for the developer goodies and discounts/packages if he hasn't already. BTW their sign up process is a bit too convoluted and complicated for Microsoft's own good - it's definitely not a "1,2,3" sign up process;).
So working for a clown might not be the worst plan ever.
It's definitely better than what the Professor proposes. And many of the skills they learn can be used in reasonable paying jobs in other areas. Whereas what people learn in CS will mainly benefit the elite[1].
There's more than enough crap out there, no need to add more. They'd be wasting money and time (theirs and/or someone else's) on their "education".
I don't live in the USA, but IMO if there are too many crappy US programmers about, they'd make more bosses think that if they are going to get crap they might as well get cheaper crap from India. The bosses who can tell the difference won't be hiring crap, whether US or not.
[1] Much of CS is like trying to teach advanced driving concepts to student drivers. Trouble is only the best drivers will be using all those skills and concepts in their eventual day-jobs (race drivers). The rest would be better off being taught how to drive (code) safely and defensively (how to prevent SQL injection, dealing with UTF-8, catching exceptions, logging, all in X different languages). I know CS isn't about programming, but what job options are there for those who do CS and don't do brilliantly? Yes I know some of you have had to write your own sorting/XYZ algorithm, blahblahblah, but most people are better off using a library/module written, documented and debugged/supported by someone who is a much better programmer than them.
my experience the median Indian programmer is awful by professional US standards, and the good ones tend to be adequate on a good day.
Sure but we're talking about the ones the Professor is trying to salvage... How well do you think those will do? Will they be better/cheaper/faster than the median Indian programmers? Or should they be encouraged to go into other areas? Like the aforementioned Hamburger University?
We've got plenty enough crap out there. No need for more.
Think I'm joking? Maybe, but think also about this: compared to "programming jobs" a McD manager/burger flipper job isn't going to be outsourced to India so easily for the same cost.
Yes, you don't have to be brilliant to be a programmer. Most of those Indian programmers are FAR from brilliant (after all most programmers are far from brilliant). BUT the big difference is if you're not better than them, are you cheaper than them? Are you faster than them?
If you're not better, cheaper or faster than them, where's your job? Should you be spending tuition money on what you'd be better off doing as a hobby?
People in rich expensive countries trying to encourage people that are "not competitive enough" to go into easily offshored jobs are doing them a great disservice.
In the rich countries there is always room for the best. They'll keep getting the big bucks. But for the "dailywtf" bunch? You can get those for quarter the "average" price or less elsewhere.
A good Indian/East European programmer though not "elite" level will be much better than the average US programmer, still cheaper and might even spell better!
Experts like Schneier may point out that bounties don't offer great value for time for professionals, but as a student the money is quite an incentive for me.
Or someone working in a poorer country. Salaries are much lower in poorer countries.
And a lot of people would rather deal with Google than deal with the underworld. They might offer more but what do you do if they don't pay up, or come to take it back just because they claim your exploit didn't work (PEBKAC?), or because they feel like it?
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That may be ridiculous, but the Brits sure have got up to even more ridiculous stuff:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/8524481/Sir-Fred-Goodwin-injunction-MPs-declare-victory-for-freedom-of-speech.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/alasdair-palmer/8440141/Super-injunctions-are-suppressing-the-voters-rights.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8394566/Hyper-injunction-stops-you-talking-to-MP.html
And as the population grows faster than the amount of gold grows, the value and cost of gold goes up. So the rich would give less and less gold as wages to the poor born without it.
- oh, god. The value of gold goes up relative to value of all things, that will go down, thus deflation. I explained it in previous paragraph.
And the value of stupid people like you (to those with the gold) will go down as well. I explained it in the very paragraph you are responding to.
The rich would need you less and less, since their gold is more and more valuable each day.
The problem is the regulators changed sides, and the US Gov is no longer even doing a good job pretending to help the "common people".
- where the hell did you get this idea from, that US gov't ever had a mandate to help anybody?
Again you prove that you have difficulty reading. I used the word PRETEND for a reason. Basically with so many stupid voters around, the US leaders no longer even need to do a good job pretending to help the voters in order to stay in power. In the past at least the voters got some interstate highways and infrastructure.
Now more than 9 trillion US dollars have been created out of thin air and what do the voters get? I hear the US people complaining about stuff falling apart, no money to build railways, highways, bridges, broadband. And I think - hey didn't they just print 9 trillion? They could have printed 1 more trillion and used it to buy stuff from China to build all that crap before China wises up. Before you spout about inflation, they've ALREADY created at least 9 trillion, so what's a trillion more before everyone else catches on?
You can't do that trickery with gold. But you can with US dollars. So the US petrodollar is better tool for the US than gold is. It's just not being used for the benefit of the US people.
Shame about Obama really. He seemed so promising. Promising this and that ;).
it's not that useful as industrial material, and as the value of fiat plunges, the usage of gold as of industrial material will diminish further, as people will find alternatives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Industry
Alternatives? List which materials are malleable, corrosion resistant, a very good conductor of electricity and cheaper than gold.
Artificial money does not have any other use except as money. Whereas gold has many industrial uses. Making artificial money go up in cost is fine. Making the cost of gold go up artificially is not fine. And that's what you are proposing. And for what? NO REAL BENEFIT![1].
you don't divide gold among all people by equal amounts, that's nonsense,
Did you even read and understand what I wrote?
As I ALREADY said in my previous post - wealth is not and will not be evenly distributed - the top 1-2% own a lot of it. So if gold was money (or currency was gold backed) each person would have less than 1 ounce worth of gold. So the value and cost of gold goes up.
And as the population grows faster than the amount of gold grows, the value and cost of gold goes up. So the rich would give less and less gold as wages to the poor born without it.
value of money needs to go up, it always needs to go up so that the relative costs of everything else will be going down.
Sure the value of money can go up. But your proposal makes the cost of gold go up.
It would be great if people stopped valuing gold so much as jewellery, and people like you moved on from their ignorant and primitive obsession with gold as money. There's no magic in gold as money ok? It is even more stupid than having currency backed by land area on the Moon or Mars.
[1] As long as there is poor regulation people can still issue way too many IOUs than they have gold/USD/seashells to back them up. The recent economic crisis would not have been prevented even if money was gold backed.
The crisis was a result of looser/poor regulation allowing people to borrow what they could not afford; and allowing the smart, amoral and greedy to create ways to bundle up those loans, play pass the parcel/hot potato with them while taking commissions each time they pass it amongst themselves.
One would be ignorant or stupid to think that these smart amoral greedy bunch would be unable to find more ways to take wealth from the stupid/ignorant just because money is gold or gold backed. They are clearly smarter, so guess who will win in the financial games that THEY create?
You need the regulators to be on the side of the "greater good" not the filthy rich.
The problem is the regulators changed sides, and the US Gov is no longer even doing a good job pretending to help the "common people".
Gold is not that suitable to be money either. Gold is too useful to be used as money.
Why? Because it has VERY useful properties as an industrial material. If everyone used gold as money, due to its rarity it would artificially become more expensive as an industrial material.
Supply and demand and all that.
Find out how much gold there is in the whole world (estimates range from 4 to 10 billion troy ounces). Divide it by the number of people. Then keep in mind that the top 1-2% own a lot of it ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2006/dec/06/business.internationalnews ) , so once you've "shifted" the gold around to reflect the current distribution, the average person would have even fewer grams/ounces of gold as their TOTAL cash holdings (includes bank balances) not necessarily net worth - since some people may have cash but have a mortgage.
Estimate how many ounces/grams of gold you'd get paid per month. You are probably richer than the average person in the world. But would you get paid an ounce of gold every month? Think the people paying would now be able to afford that? So the relative cost of gold would go up.
The US benefits from being able to create US dollars practically on demand. Because by doing so it can transfer wealth from other countries who are still using the US dollars for billions of stuff.
The USA's real problem is what its Government does with that transferred wealth...
On XP and later versions you can change the behaviour in the power options. On Win2K you need to do some registry stuff that I've forgotten :).
Uh, guess what windows users do to install this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Antivirus_(malware)
So they just have to mod it to show OS X style graphics and messages if they detect the OS is OS X.
Once there's enough news in the media about Macs getting infected, victims might ironically install the malware to protect themselves from it :).
These bunch like camels, but they might not mind taking revenge on the camel for you: http://shw.abakim.fotopages.com/14265650.html
I believe the yellow stuff is rice.
It's this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjMVsTFVX10
I don't think we can slashdot youtube :).
Anyway, I find if I shift some attention to the dots while looking at the centre dot, even though the whole thing rotates I can still notice that the dots are changing colour.
It is normally more important for the brain to notice that the "whole thing is rotating together" than the dots changing colour. The big picture is more important.
That said, I'm not so sure about how the "loch ness aftereffect " one works (3rd place): http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/05/best-illusions-turning-wheel-seems-to-jump-backwards.html
I don't have flash player 9 so I'm linking to the one that works for me :).
Maybe the sudden change that is untrackable causes the brain to guess that the rotation is the other way.
I find this illusion interesting (not a winner for this year): http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/illnews7e.html
Because some older people can't see the illusory motion effect!
now let me actually delete history on a regular basis and all will be good. I don't need 6 months of browser history saved.
Press ctrl-shift-del and select what you want to delete, then click clear browsing data?
I personally prefer mozilla because of:
1) noscript
2) adblock plus
3) treestyle tab
4) certificate patrol
At work I also have a mozilla instance with firebug and firecookie. But at work I also use chrome and IE ;).
The leaving is usually not the big problem. The staying in Canada bit is the difficult part.
;).
Despite what he says about Canada being friendly, I doubt millions of Chinese would be welcome in Canada. Shanghai and Beijing combined have more than the entire population of Canada. And even if they were welcome, I doubt Canada would accept them as citizens with voting rights
Are those TBs documents stored as scans or are just the text stored? Does it include compression?
That confirms the existence of dark grammar.
For the price of a commercial 1st class flight
Smart flyers know how to find these kinds of deals
Smart flyers can also figure out why the rest of us fly budget/economy :(.
If the food you're testing is more radioactive than a pile of brazil nuts then you probably don't want to eat it, especially if it's normally not supposed to be as radioactive as a brazil nut :).
http://www.orau.org/PTP/collection/consumer%20products/brazilnuts.htm
There's also this: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/04/020429072519.htm
Can't you roll up graphene sheets like rolling up a sheet of paper, or multiple sheets of paper? Would you get structural stability that way?
If he really wants the MS approach and is just starting out he really should consider learning about "Windows Azure", and try to skip running his own server(s) for production. Why?
;)
:) ).
;).
;).
1) He doesn't seem to be the OSS + "roll your own" sort.
2) Windows isn't that good when you only have a very few servers. Unlike unix and unixlike OSes, with Windows it's usually not easy to rename a directory/file that is in use. Why is that important? It makes quick upgrades harder. You have to jump through more hoops to do a quick switch from "version 1.0" to "version 2.0". There are ways to do it (go figure them out), but it's a lot more work to do things "right" (and likely to still stink more than the unix way
BUT if you have many servers, you just put them all behind load balancers, and do the upgrades on a per server or group of servers basis. You can take servers completely off-line for upgrades.
If he doesn't already have the $$$$$$ to pay for all that then getting from "start" to the point where he can afford those load balancers etc could be rather painful... He might still need $$$$ to run a number of VMs or machines with Microsoft's NLB.
By using Windows Azure, you let Microsoft handle all this crap. BUT in turn you must do most things the "Azure style". Be aware that Windows Azure is still quite new so don't be surprised if some stuff still has rough/sharp/hot edges
Microsoft desperately wants people like him to move to Azure. He should sign up for the developer goodies and discounts/packages if he hasn't already. BTW their sign up process is a bit too convoluted and complicated for Microsoft's own good - it's definitely not a "1,2,3" sign up process
Their live wires might start to feel neutral too...
So working for a clown might not be the worst plan ever.
It's definitely better than what the Professor proposes. And many of the skills they learn can be used in reasonable paying jobs in other areas. Whereas what people learn in CS will mainly benefit the elite[1].
There's more than enough crap out there, no need to add more. They'd be wasting money and time (theirs and/or someone else's) on their "education".
I don't live in the USA, but IMO if there are too many crappy US programmers about, they'd make more bosses think that if they are going to get crap they might as well get cheaper crap from India. The bosses who can tell the difference won't be hiring crap, whether US or not.
[1] Much of CS is like trying to teach advanced driving concepts to student drivers. Trouble is only the best drivers will be using all those skills and concepts in their eventual day-jobs (race drivers). The rest would be better off being taught how to drive (code) safely and defensively (how to prevent SQL injection, dealing with UTF-8, catching exceptions, logging, all in X different languages). I know CS isn't about programming, but what job options are there for those who do CS and don't do brilliantly? Yes I know some of you have had to write your own sorting/XYZ algorithm, blahblahblah, but most people are better off using a library/module written, documented and debugged/supported by someone who is a much better programmer than them.
my experience the median Indian programmer is awful by professional US standards, and the good ones tend to be adequate on a good day.
Sure but we're talking about the ones the Professor is trying to salvage... How well do you think those will do? Will they be better/cheaper/faster than the median Indian programmers? Or should they be encouraged to go into other areas? Like the aforementioned Hamburger University?
We've got plenty enough crap out there. No need for more.
But, not everyone can be brilliant. Isn't one of the purposes of education to teach people, even so-so ones, a job ?
Sure, here you go for your education: http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/careers/hamburger_university.html
Think I'm joking? Maybe, but think also about this: compared to "programming jobs" a McD manager/burger flipper job isn't going to be outsourced to India so easily for the same cost.
Yes, you don't have to be brilliant to be a programmer. Most of those Indian programmers are FAR from brilliant (after all most programmers are far from brilliant). BUT the big difference is if you're not better than them, are you cheaper than them? Are you faster than them?
If you're not better, cheaper or faster than them, where's your job? Should you be spending tuition money on what you'd be better off doing as a hobby?
People in rich expensive countries trying to encourage people that are "not competitive enough" to go into easily offshored jobs are doing them a great disservice.
In the rich countries there is always room for the best. They'll keep getting the big bucks. But for the "dailywtf" bunch? You can get those for quarter the "average" price or less elsewhere.
A good Indian/East European programmer though not "elite" level will be much better than the average US programmer, still cheaper and might even spell better!
In this world looking nice is more than half the battle.
Most CxOs don't care how it works or whether it really works at all, as long as it seems to work, looks good, and the colours agree with them.
I see more eyes with $$$ signs than panic. The Apple fans will still have "eyes with apple logos".
Fake personality, fake breasts, fake eyelashes, fake hair extensions, fake nails, make up, etc.
:).
All to get a "real man" with "real money"
Experts like Schneier may point out that bounties don't offer great value for time for professionals, but as a student the money is quite an incentive for me.
Or someone working in a poorer country. Salaries are much lower in poorer countries.
And a lot of people would rather deal with Google than deal with the underworld. They might offer more but what do you do if they don't pay up, or come to take it back just because they claim your exploit didn't work (PEBKAC?), or because they feel like it?