Dude, it's a shortage of people. It's caused by decades of birth control and a philosophy that you should wait till you're 30 before you start a family. It's in every field of endeavor. It has nothing to do with education, or loyalty, or any of that shite. It has to do with demographics, and it's going to keep getting worse, most likely for the rest of your life.
My degrees are Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science.
A few places of Work: NeXT Software Inc. and Apple Inc.
The skills change every 3-6 months when dealing with Web Tools and there are large groups of people who are just as equally skilled as myself, full of credentials and HAVE ABSOLUTELY ZERO DESIRE TO ADD PISSANT SKILLS EVERY 3-6 MONTHS FOR CONSULTING WORK or more.
This is why using the word NOT is counter-productive. When communicating anything you should use the positive form of what ever declaration you are trying to say. Especially with children and young adults. It's also important when thinking to yourself.
Instead of saying "Don't run" you need to say "Stop. Please walk slowly" Since what they hear in the first case may be "Blah't RUN!"
or
instead of "Don't play around with knives"
say: "Playing with knives is dangerous and you will get in trouble"
cause all they'll hear is a suggestion to "Play around with knives"
Because let's face it, young children and young adults are the same, right? Or the simple fact that we treat young adults as children and children as infants we produce drones too afraid to learn a language and its useage for positive, negative and neutral connotations.
We program them to think as inferior, flawed creatures. It's really only until one has been shown it's not the language we need to police in order to predict more "suitable" outcomes, it's a greater exposure to human actions, at the earliest age where we can later become more well-informed of all sides to see for what they are, through their actions and how that matches their words that matters. It's as if the "elders" fear little elders and therefore create barriers to entry by proclaiming to protect one's innocence that creates this duality of Trust and Fear.
If Knowledge is Power, then Truth is Wisdom by the foresight of Action to Word and Word's verification through resulting Actions.
and do your homework [background research] before you confide in people. Giving misleading information that is useless is always safer until you can be shown trust that people are worth entrusting.
The fact I can afford a house on a software engineer's salary in Seattle, but not San Francisco?
1) If we're limiting this to specific cities, then yes.
2) Otherwise, if we're talking areas, then not quite.
3) And you can always rent, which is much cheaper than a 30 year mortgage. If you want, save the difference and invest in CDs (the financial kind!) or another safe investment. In 30 years, just buy the property outright (or pretty close to outright).
They both have crappy weather, so everything else equal, Seattle wins.
1) Are we limiting this to specific cities?
2) Otherwise, absolutely no way. SF weather is uniquely SF. Go across the SF Bay to Oakland on the same day and it'll be nice and sunny. Cold in SF? Drive down to San Jose.
Plus, growing up in Oregon, I have an ingrained hatred towards anything California.
That really says it all.
Here's what I have to say about Oregon: Socialized gasoline pumps.
I drive up there, and when I go for gas (god forbid), I can't get an attendant to come out and pump for my car. But all hell breaks loose when I've waited for 20 minutes (after 2-3 waves of Oregonians are serviced ahead of me) and touch that gas pump. That's right! It's illegal to pump your own gas. For a state of people that are supposedly very constructionally conservative about the Constitution and taxes, you'd think people would be able to pump their own gas. Instead they've legislated into existence an entire labor class. So, whenever I see this hatred expressed toward CA, I just think, "hypocrites."
But yet, I don't hate entire states. I have better things to do.
Are you nuts?
If you can spend $2k/month on a place in Cupertino or Issaquah or Belltown in downtown Seattle then get off your ass and buy a home. When you want to transfer I suggest what I told my best friend from college--a fellow engineer--to rent it out using an agency catering to professional workers.
His mortgage is covered for his first house and he ended up buying a second house in Portland, OR. The other home is in Lake Stevens, WA.
His credit rating went through the roof, his equity line more than doubled and there is no shortage of people wanting to rent his home.
When he gets tired of working for Intel he'll rent the second home out to cover the mortgage and continue to grow his bottomline.
If and when he feels like getting married he can sell one of the homes, invest more and hopefully be appreciated for having one helluva foundation to have before going into marriage.
He's in his mid-30s so I doubt he's lookin' to either support someone else's three kids or have a bunch himself.
Whoever she is will get to travel quite a bit with him.
"Can you believe it? When I go to the local steakhouse, they charge me more than twice what the meat itself actually cost! I can grill porterhouses for the whole family for half of the cost of going to the restaurant, and then there's the cost of gas! WTF! Restaurants suck!"
That's either a blatant strawman, or you didn't read the article- I don't care which.
The article compared getting an upgrade done by Apple to getting one done by Dell- *not* to buying the components yourselves. Score: 5, Insightful? My arse it is...
If you want to use a restaurant analogy, you're actually comparing very similar steaks being prepared in the same manner in different establishments, with one costing much more. But the similarity breaks down here because one could argue (rightly) that you're also paying for the surroundings in a restaurant, hence you pay more in a nicer restaurant. But with the computer, you already paid for the "nice" aspects (more attractive case, better OS) when you originally bought the computer, and there's nothing special about these particular upgrades with generic parts.
Unless of course, one considers having Apple themselves (rather than someone else) perform an otherwise identical upgrade to be worth the extra. Which I'm sure some obsessives^w diehard Apple fans might well do....
If DELL had the mindshare going that Apple systems have they would be selling the product mark ups for the same as Apple. DELL is bleeding badly and they know it. They can't offer these addons for the same price Apple does because they need people to come in and be enticed by these options, in order to then look at their machines.
They don't have the It factor nor the operating system to boot that draws in that It factor.
Back to the original parent's point--Market Demand--is what allows Apple to do this, not to mention the fact that Apple has consistently marked up addon replacement parts for over a DECADE.
People buying a Mac product already know this or their friends have told them this and they go to Newegg, Zipzoomfly or PriceWatch and order it and have them install it.
Not to sound totality clueless to your situation but how can you not afford a house on 100k a year, with 3% interest?
In Perth, Australia the average house price is up around 500k and interest is at 9%+
Thats 45k of interest in your first year, and in Australia we cant negative gear our primary residence (offset the income we pay as interest)
Subtract 35K for taxes.
Good luck finding a 3% mortgage rate.
The average home price in the Bay Area [that isn't a starter home], not to mention in Seattle start around $800k and $500k, respectively.
Houses in Spokane went from averaging $150k for respectable home to $250k for the same home 4 years later. [2002 - 2006].
Here is an old article on the cost of living in Seattle, from the Seattle Times
Here's the minimum household income you needed to buy a median-priced home last year in these areas, assuming a 20 percent down payment and a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 5.87 percent (the national average for 2005).
Queen Anne: $135,309
Central Bellevue: $129,406
Green Lake: $107,838
W. West Seattle: $104,421
Lake Sammamish: $104,206
East Ballard, Bothell, Central Area: $90,811
Lake City, Beacon Hill: $76,281
Source: Seattle Times analysis of King County assessor's data
Justin Mayo
Here in 2007 from the Seattle Times shows the increases:
King County home prices keep rising, bucking national trend
By Elizabeth Rhodes
Seattle Times business reporter
For the fourth month in a row, the price of King County houses has risen, reaching a median $465,000 in April, according to statistics released today by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service.
Median means half sell for more, half for less.
That price strength bucks national home-price stagnation â" and even price drops in numerous cities across the country â" making King and nearby Puget Sound counties anomalies.
The housing market's strength is further confirmed by a Windermere Real Estate analysis that shows the majority of single-family homes sold within Seattle last month went for more than asking price.
That trend was strongest among two-bedroom houses; they brought an average of 100.43 percent of their asking price, Windermere found.
Three bedrooms houses, which accounted for the largest percentage of sales, on average sold for 100.25 percent of asking. Only five-bedroom houses sold for significantly less: 97.6 percent of asking.
Some 64 percent of all Seattle houses sold within 30 days.
Still, both house and condominium inventory is up sharply from year-ago totals. In King County, the number of condos on the market was up 74 percent last month, while the number of houses increased 38 percent.
Last month's strong sales activity is a turnaround from earlier in the year, said Dick Fulton managing broker of Coldwell Banker Bain's Lake Union and Magnolia offices.
"The 2007 market kind of found its stride for the first time in April," Fulton said. "The activity feels like we're at a faster pace than last year in the Seattle and Bellevue market."
According to the multiple listing service report, houses in Snohomish County have appreciated the most, year over year, within the four-county central Puget Sound region.
However Snohomish's price rise has not been as steady as King's. Over the past four months, house prices have fluctuated in Snohomish, settling at $375,000 in April. That figure reflects a 13.7 percent year-over-year increase.
No, I didn't RTFA, but I'd guess the quality of life in Seattle is about, oh, one billion times better than the Bay Area.
Having lived at both places, being a native Washingtonian I would bluntly call BullS*** on the quality of life being better in Seattle than the Bay Area.
They are both over-urbanly developed, they both are full of self-egrandizing, gutless prigs who equally would be lost in the Cascades, regardless of their cozy home in Snoqualmie Falls or North Bend, et.al.
The problem with the IT Industry is that it has discovered that their centers for the Industry haven't changed in over 30 years.
Sure they've expanded into the suburbs of Portland, but on the West Coast you have Silicon Valley, Seattle and the LA region.
The East Coast is fixated with New York, Boston and various universities of reknown to be incubators for more startups stuck in what? Overly priced, pretentious cespools.
Look around. The best places to see growth aren't the sexy urban centers, or mystical retreat forrests in certain zones across the U.S.
They are in areas that offer actual growth and a solid standard of living, a variety of outdoor options and a midscale urban life.
The problem is they aren't saturated with every pindick fixated on the latest gadgets.
The Cost of Living in the Bay Area sucks big hairy donkey balls. It's sucked since the early 90s so that's nothing new.
The Cost of Living in Seattle has sucked big hairy donkey balls since 1996, as well.
Corporations would better serve themselves by providing regional zones where they develop centers for specific products/services and then use Networks to coordinate all this activity.
Dumping everyone onto Redmond's campus or Infinite Loop One's campus [my second favorite to work at next to NeXT], Google's et.al, aren't inherently going to produce think tanks of brilliance.
An example of an area that is burgeoning, but only in the BioMedical Fields is Spokane, WA.
If you're in these fields they've got jobs coming out of every orifice. Growth is strong, the summers are a scorcher [I grew up there] and the 4 seasons are solid. The city would have become a much larger hub if Expo '74 hadn't destroyed the second largest hub of trains west of Chicago but we can't go back in time to fix that mistake.
The bigger problem with the IT Industry is how many damn people do you need to write Web Services Applications? Really, now. How many? Every f'n device gets a rowdy two thumbs up if it has the ubiquitous Web Services, Web Browser, huge data plans and apps to show them where they can find the nearest movie, restaurant and more.
When is the IT Industry going to start seriously working with the traditional industries and streamline them into the 21st century?
I don't need multiple portable devices. I need solutions to improve a crumbling US Infrastructure, but instead we've got people just a year younger than myself whining about career growth differences between Google and Microsoft.
F*** OFF. Instead of being a Development Manager, actually find something that is screwed up that computers could fix and fix it.
Don't be too pissed that when the focus of weaponry and the Atom Bomb arrived that we put the best solution and actually safe one aside for that lovely side-effecting of uranium decaying into plutonium.
Duh. The title: "Murdoch fumes as Facebook overtakes MySpace" Yeah, Facebook gives me gas, too! *rimshot*
(that's right, mod me funny, you know you wanna)
Worthy of every humor mod point allowable.
Besides, any puke who uses their "Socal Web clicking" site to politically drive a candidate amongst the masses of highschool and college age kids as the next JFK really is a tool.
The highschool click part of Facebook strikes me as very Anti-Social. Don't get me wrong, MySpace is littered with people doing the same approach and hanging with people they often do in their real lives.
Social Networking strikes me more useful for businesses than consumers.
Well, your point is that how people react to words depends on how they are said. It's also true that what a word means depends on how you say it. Some ways of using a word don't require assigning any meaning to it.
The German language has words like "doch" or "mal" which play a kind of grammatical function but don't mean anything specific. The word "fuck" is used by many people in English much the same way. Using "fuck" is not, objectively, any morally less worthy than "doch". It's just that using "fuck" as a kind of rhythmic grammatical filler is not an educated style of speech, whereas those peculiar German words are part of the mainstream dialect. Because it is an uneducated style of speech, "fuck" filled language is often found traveling in the company with stupid, mindless, and ignorant speech. Still, it is neither here nor there in itself.
Things get interesting when "fuck" is used as a curse. "Bad" language is called "cursing", but it almost never is cursing. "Fuck you" is the rare example of an actual curse. Its emotionally powerful because the sexual connotations of the word give the curse humiliating overtones. "Suck" is sometimes used in "you suck" the same way.
"Fuck" as a word can only be called automatically offensive if you define "offensiveness" so vaguely it amounts to "anything that bothers me." Some people do think this way. But for me, it's the placing of mindless humiliation on another person that's offensive. Not all uses of the word "fuck" amount to this; not even all uses of the word in a curse do. The use of language to degrade another human being could be the very definition of offensiveness.
Never mind the fact that a notion of a curse has been lost on the masses, including the self-proclaimed elitists who see it as dirty instead of being an actual hex on one's own Self.
Ever try to sell your old textbooks? You are lucky to get 1/3 rd the value the next semester. The kind of O'Reilly books you would sell won't get you much more. If you don't want it anymore, most people don't want it. You are not going to be losing much this way.
If I'm willing to pay for a print book, I'm willing to pay for the electronic copy. I want the information, not the paper. The easiest place to find it will be the publisher.
Give me the paper. I'm not interested reading on the toilet with a laptop sharing space, but I'll spend hours reading with a book in my hands.
"I wonder what your comment would be if you were in the "Adult" Industry"
Or were you talking the pr0n industry, in which case I'd say "where do I sign up?"
It took you twice to get the innuendo with the porn industry?
Pr0n reminds me of guys who've never seen a woman's asshole up-close.
MVC in web apps has about as much to do with Smalltalk's old MVC as unix signals have to do with the physical control lines they used to correspond to (gimme a break I couldn't find a car analogy). MVC is nothing more than three-tier, with the middle tier itself adding some extra separation between processing requests (controller) and generating output (view).
HTTP is stateless. So is UDP. Does that make every online game that uses it stateless? The web is not a protocol. Correct. Let's not forget the complete overhaul to Apache 3.x that will only aide MVC designs.
If Intel is guilty of keeping other processors out of machines by being anti competitive, they are going to see some sanctions and fines. If the senior management were likely to get thrown in prison, could we make jokes about "Intel Inside"?
Sorry...:( Liquid Cooled/Injected?
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Dude, it's a shortage of people. It's caused by decades of birth control and a philosophy that you should wait till you're 30 before you start a family. It's in every field of endeavor. It has nothing to do with education, or loyalty, or any of that shite. It has to do with demographics, and it's going to keep getting worse, most likely for the rest of your life.
My degrees are Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science.
A few places of Work: NeXT Software Inc. and Apple Inc.
The skills change every 3-6 months when dealing with Web Tools and there are large groups of people who are just as equally skilled as myself, full of credentials and HAVE ABSOLUTELY ZERO DESIRE TO ADD PISSANT SKILLS EVERY 3-6 MONTHS FOR CONSULTING WORK or more.
It's not a shortage of web developers, it's a shortage of web developers with skills.
Correction:
It's not a shortage of web developers, it's a shortage of web developers with currently in-demand/what's hot now skills.
This is why using the word NOT is counter-productive. When communicating anything you should use the positive form of what ever declaration you are trying to say. Especially with children and young adults. It's also important when thinking to yourself.
Instead of saying "Don't run" you need to say "Stop. Please walk slowly" Since what they hear in the first case may be "Blah't RUN!"
or
instead of "Don't play around with knives"
say: "Playing with knives is dangerous and you will get in trouble"
cause all they'll hear is a suggestion to "Play around with knives"
Because let's face it, young children and young adults are the same, right? Or the simple fact that we treat young adults as children and children as infants we produce drones too afraid to learn a language and its useage for positive, negative and neutral connotations.
We program them to think as inferior, flawed creatures. It's really only until one has been shown it's not the language we need to police in order to predict more "suitable" outcomes, it's a greater exposure to human actions, at the earliest age where we can later become more well-informed of all sides to see for what they are, through their actions and how that matches their words that matters. It's as if the "elders" fear little elders and therefore create barriers to entry by proclaiming to protect one's innocence that creates this duality of Trust and Fear.
If Knowledge is Power, then Truth is Wisdom by the foresight of Action to Word and Word's verification through resulting Actions.
and do your homework [background research] before you confide in people. Giving misleading information that is useless is always safer until you can be shown trust that people are worth entrusting.
I think he meant "unconceivable" state.
Are you sure you don't want to say, inconceivable or are you worried a certain swordsman will challenge you on the overuse of that word?
...ah the possibilities.
The pet rock made millions, I sure as hell look forward to this dwarfing that "entrepreneurship" or this planet truly is narcississtic.
in Sid, nor Experimental. There are some issues still needin to be resolved.
The fact I can afford a house on a software engineer's salary in Seattle, but not San Francisco?
1) If we're limiting this to specific cities, then yes. 2) Otherwise, if we're talking areas, then not quite. 3) And you can always rent, which is much cheaper than a 30 year mortgage. If you want, save the difference and invest in CDs (the financial kind!) or another safe investment. In 30 years, just buy the property outright (or pretty close to outright).
They both have crappy weather, so everything else equal, Seattle wins.
1) Are we limiting this to specific cities? 2) Otherwise, absolutely no way. SF weather is uniquely SF. Go across the SF Bay to Oakland on the same day and it'll be nice and sunny. Cold in SF? Drive down to San Jose.
Plus, growing up in Oregon, I have an ingrained hatred towards anything California.
That really says it all.
Here's what I have to say about Oregon: Socialized gasoline pumps. I drive up there, and when I go for gas (god forbid), I can't get an attendant to come out and pump for my car. But all hell breaks loose when I've waited for 20 minutes (after 2-3 waves of Oregonians are serviced ahead of me) and touch that gas pump. That's right! It's illegal to pump your own gas. For a state of people that are supposedly very constructionally conservative about the Constitution and taxes, you'd think people would be able to pump their own gas. Instead they've legislated into existence an entire labor class. So, whenever I see this hatred expressed toward CA, I just think, "hypocrites."
But yet, I don't hate entire states. I have better things to do.
Are you nuts?
If you can spend $2k/month on a place in Cupertino or Issaquah or Belltown in downtown Seattle then get off your ass and buy a home. When you want to transfer I suggest what I told my best friend from college--a fellow engineer--to rent it out using an agency catering to professional workers.
His mortgage is covered for his first house and he ended up buying a second house in Portland, OR. The other home is in Lake Stevens, WA.
His credit rating went through the roof, his equity line more than doubled and there is no shortage of people wanting to rent his home.
When he gets tired of working for Intel he'll rent the second home out to cover the mortgage and continue to grow his bottomline.
If and when he feels like getting married he can sell one of the homes, invest more and hopefully be appreciated for having one helluva foundation to have before going into marriage.
He's in his mid-30s so I doubt he's lookin' to either support someone else's three kids or have a bunch himself.
Whoever she is will get to travel quite a bit with him.
"Can you believe it? When I go to the local steakhouse, they charge me more than twice what the meat itself actually cost! I can grill porterhouses for the whole family for half of the cost of going to the restaurant, and then there's the cost of gas! WTF! Restaurants suck!"
That's either a blatant strawman, or you didn't read the article- I don't care which.
The article compared getting an upgrade done by Apple to getting one done by Dell- *not* to buying the components yourselves. Score: 5, Insightful? My arse it is...
If you want to use a restaurant analogy, you're actually comparing very similar steaks being prepared in the same manner in different establishments, with one costing much more. But the similarity breaks down here because one could argue (rightly) that you're also paying for the surroundings in a restaurant, hence you pay more in a nicer restaurant. But with the computer, you already paid for the "nice" aspects (more attractive case, better OS) when you originally bought the computer, and there's nothing special about these particular upgrades with generic parts.
Unless of course, one considers having Apple themselves (rather than someone else) perform an otherwise identical upgrade to be worth the extra. Which I'm sure some obsessives^w diehard Apple fans might well do....
If DELL had the mindshare going that Apple systems have they would be selling the product mark ups for the same as Apple. DELL is bleeding badly and they know it. They can't offer these addons for the same price Apple does because they need people to come in and be enticed by these options, in order to then look at their machines.
They don't have the It factor nor the operating system to boot that draws in that It factor.
Back to the original parent's point--Market Demand--is what allows Apple to do this, not to mention the fact that Apple has consistently marked up addon replacement parts for over a DECADE.
People buying a Mac product already know this or their friends have told them this and they go to Newegg, Zipzoomfly or PriceWatch and order it and have them install it.
Not to sound totality clueless to your situation but how can you not afford a house on 100k a year, with 3% interest? In Perth, Australia the average house price is up around 500k and interest is at 9%+
Thats 45k of interest in your first year, and in Australia we cant negative gear our primary residence (offset the income we pay as interest)
Subtract 35K for taxes.
Good luck finding a 3% mortgage rate.
The average home price in the Bay Area [that isn't a starter home], not to mention in Seattle start around $800k and $500k, respectively.
Houses in Spokane went from averaging $150k for respectable home to $250k for the same home 4 years later. [2002 - 2006].
Here is an old article on the cost of living in Seattle, from the Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/homevalues/mainstory2006.html
How much money do you need?
Here's the minimum household income you needed to buy a median-priced home last year in these areas, assuming a 20 percent down payment and a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 5.87 percent (the national average for 2005).
Queen Anne: $135,309
Central Bellevue: $129,406
Green Lake: $107,838
W. West Seattle: $104,421
Lake Sammamish: $104,206
East Ballard, Bothell, Central Area: $90,811
Lake City, Beacon Hill: $76,281
Source: Seattle Times analysis of King County assessor's data
Justin Mayo
Here in 2007 from the Seattle Times shows the increases:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/realestate/2003696965_webhomesales07.html
King County home prices keep rising, bucking national trend
By Elizabeth Rhodes
Seattle Times business reporter
For the fourth month in a row, the price of King County houses has risen, reaching a median $465,000 in April, according to statistics released today by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service.
Median means half sell for more, half for less.
That price strength bucks national home-price stagnation â" and even price drops in numerous cities across the country â" making King and nearby Puget Sound counties anomalies.
The housing market's strength is further confirmed by a Windermere Real Estate analysis that shows the majority of single-family homes sold within Seattle last month went for more than asking price.
That trend was strongest among two-bedroom houses; they brought an average of 100.43 percent of their asking price, Windermere found.
Three bedrooms houses, which accounted for the largest percentage of sales, on average sold for 100.25 percent of asking. Only five-bedroom houses sold for significantly less: 97.6 percent of asking.
Some 64 percent of all Seattle houses sold within 30 days.
Still, both house and condominium inventory is up sharply from year-ago totals. In King County, the number of condos on the market was up 74 percent last month, while the number of houses increased 38 percent.
Last month's strong sales activity is a turnaround from earlier in the year, said Dick Fulton managing broker of Coldwell Banker Bain's Lake Union and Magnolia offices.
"The 2007 market kind of found its stride for the first time in April," Fulton said. "The activity feels like we're at a faster pace than last year in the Seattle and Bellevue market."
According to the multiple listing service report, houses in Snohomish County have appreciated the most, year over year, within the four-county central Puget Sound region.
However Snohomish's price rise has not been as steady as King's. Over the past four months, house prices have fluctuated in Snohomish, settling at $375,000 in April. That figure reflects a 13.7 percent year-over-year increase.
No, I didn't RTFA, but I'd guess the quality of life in Seattle is about, oh, one billion times better than the Bay Area.
Having lived at both places, being a native Washingtonian I would bluntly call BullS*** on the quality of life being better in Seattle than the Bay Area.
They are both over-urbanly developed, they both are full of self-egrandizing, gutless prigs who equally would be lost in the Cascades, regardless of their cozy home in Snoqualmie Falls or North Bend, et.al.
The problem with the IT Industry is that it has discovered that their centers for the Industry haven't changed in over 30 years.
Sure they've expanded into the suburbs of Portland, but on the West Coast you have Silicon Valley, Seattle and the LA region.
The East Coast is fixated with New York, Boston and various universities of reknown to be incubators for more startups stuck in what? Overly priced, pretentious cespools.
Look around. The best places to see growth aren't the sexy urban centers, or mystical retreat forrests in certain zones across the U.S.
They are in areas that offer actual growth and a solid standard of living, a variety of outdoor options and a midscale urban life.
The problem is they aren't saturated with every pindick fixated on the latest gadgets.
The Cost of Living in the Bay Area sucks big hairy donkey balls. It's sucked since the early 90s so that's nothing new.
The Cost of Living in Seattle has sucked big hairy donkey balls since 1996, as well.
Corporations would better serve themselves by providing regional zones where they develop centers for specific products/services and then use Networks to coordinate all this activity.
Dumping everyone onto Redmond's campus or Infinite Loop One's campus [my second favorite to work at next to NeXT], Google's et.al, aren't inherently going to produce think tanks of brilliance.
An example of an area that is burgeoning, but only in the BioMedical Fields is Spokane, WA.
If you're in these fields they've got jobs coming out of every orifice. Growth is strong, the summers are a scorcher [I grew up there] and the 4 seasons are solid. The city would have become a much larger hub if Expo '74 hadn't destroyed the second largest hub of trains west of Chicago but we can't go back in time to fix that mistake.
The bigger problem with the IT Industry is how many damn people do you need to write Web Services Applications? Really, now. How many? Every f'n device gets a rowdy two thumbs up if it has the ubiquitous Web Services, Web Browser, huge data plans and apps to show them where they can find the nearest movie, restaurant and more.
When is the IT Industry going to start seriously working with the traditional industries and streamline them into the 21st century?
I don't need multiple portable devices. I need solutions to improve a crumbling US Infrastructure, but instead we've got people just a year younger than myself whining about career growth differences between Google and Microsoft.
F*** OFF. Instead of being a Development Manager, actually find something that is screwed up that computers could fix and fix it.
So, in other words, I can download this app and run it locally? For free (and Free)? Wow! That really sounds just ... like ... openoffice?
The funny thing is, OpenOffice takes about the same amount of time to load.
(At first, the above sentence was intended as a joke; then I realized, sadly, that it was actually true -- at least before the site got Slashdotted.)
OpenOffice does a helluvalot more than this project. However, it's still nice to see such happenings, even if it's Javascript.
You have a decade to advance your platform and make it the most compelling, ubiquitous line of handheld/smartphone products around.
You can't garner the talent and mindshare and we're supposed to care?
...but the approach.
As a Mechanical Engineer I encourage folks to read up on Pebble Bed based Nuclear Power.
What is it you ask?
Enjoy:
http://www.memagazine.org/contents/current/features/pebbles/pebbles.html
Don't be too pissed that when the focus of weaponry and the Atom Bomb arrived that we put the best solution and actually safe one aside for that lovely side-effecting of uranium decaying into plutonium.
(that's right, mod me funny, you know you wanna)
Worthy of every humor mod point allowable.
Besides, any puke who uses their "Socal Web clicking" site to politically drive a candidate amongst the masses of highschool and college age kids as the next JFK really is a tool.
The highschool click part of Facebook strikes me as very Anti-Social. Don't get me wrong, MySpace is littered with people doing the same approach and hanging with people they often do in their real lives.
Social Networking strikes me more useful for businesses than consumers.
Well, your point is that how people react to words depends on how they are said. It's also true that what a word means depends on how you say it. Some ways of using a word don't require assigning any meaning to it.
The German language has words like "doch" or "mal" which play a kind of grammatical function but don't mean anything specific. The word "fuck" is used by many people in English much the same way. Using "fuck" is not, objectively, any morally less worthy than "doch". It's just that using "fuck" as a kind of rhythmic grammatical filler is not an educated style of speech, whereas those peculiar German words are part of the mainstream dialect. Because it is an uneducated style of speech, "fuck" filled language is often found traveling in the company with stupid, mindless, and ignorant speech. Still, it is neither here nor there in itself.
Things get interesting when "fuck" is used as a curse. "Bad" language is called "cursing", but it almost never is cursing. "Fuck you" is the rare example of an actual curse. Its emotionally powerful because the sexual connotations of the word give the curse humiliating overtones. "Suck" is sometimes used in "you suck" the same way.
"Fuck" as a word can only be called automatically offensive if you define "offensiveness" so vaguely it amounts to "anything that bothers me." Some people do think this way. But for me, it's the placing of mindless humiliation on another person that's offensive. Not all uses of the word "fuck" amount to this; not even all uses of the word in a curse do. The use of language to degrade another human being could be the very definition of offensiveness.
Never mind the fact that a notion of a curse has been lost on the masses, including the self-proclaimed elitists who see it as dirty instead of being an actual hex on one's own Self.
Ever try to sell your old textbooks? You are lucky to get 1/3 rd the value the next semester. The kind of O'Reilly books you would sell won't get you much more. If you don't want it anymore, most people don't want it. You are not going to be losing much this way.
If I'm willing to pay for a print book, I'm willing to pay for the electronic copy. I want the information, not the paper. The easiest place to find it will be the publisher.
Give me the paper. I'm not interested reading on the toilet with a laptop sharing space, but I'll spend hours reading with a book in my hands.
And hopefully... Oh Hope my ass.
It took you twice to get the innuendo with the porn industry?
Pr0n reminds me of guys who've never seen a woman's asshole up-close.
I wonder what your comment would be if you were in the "Adult" Industry making that salary and your job required you to keep it up for long sessions?
I can see the complaint form for leaving now, ``I just got tired of waiting for that asshole to get out of my face.''
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