That doesn't mean they are underpayed and not soaking up all the resources. Lawyers always will want more money for the same level job. A bit cynical I know but I think a "scarcity" of lawyers is always going to be the case, because they never can actually solve anything.
The problem is probably that after the judges and lawyers salaries are factored in they probably haven't got enough money to do IT properly. These guys will take the lion's share of any amount you throw at them.
Maybe it works for media hosting but what does it really do that a Chromecast doesn't do?
There's a market for seamless video looping that the pis are starting to fill. I use them for exhibition spaces to push videos remotely on a loop with omxplayer. Dispman_vncserver allows for remote viewing of content as well.
It's the small size that makes them attractive and I could see them being mounted to other devices than display screens as well. The new compute module and board would fit fine in home-made drones. I was thinking of trying to make a drone with a servo and 3d printer, but my 3d printer isn't up to the task unfortunately (maybe in a couple of years). You just have to use your imagination.
When you actually have had experiences that you cannot scientifically explain you tend to realize that there is this huge domain called the Universe At Large and then there is this much smaller domain called What Mankind Currently Accepts And Understands.
I think what you are referring to has been known at least since the Egyptian times and is the result of hallucinogenic/intoxicating drugs or head knocking. Nothing wrong with having a good time, but people should at least be honest instead of saying "the god with crocodile head and lion body that only I can see told me to do X."
OTOH, I've had a bit of success with dowsing, (two out of two, when I was seriously trying...not statistically significant) and a bit of success with gambling....
Can you at least explain how one "seriously tr[ies] against a slot machine?" Pull the handle instead of pressing the button? Exert great force while pulling the handle (or pressing the button)? "Be the ball?"
The trick is to wait for the ghost to pull the lever. This is the only way to win at gambling in a statistically significant way and you'll never lose your house.
You are right, I missed that and admittedly did not do a thorough search before posting. Still it is fun to think about how to make a genderless connector that would just click together in any which way.
Seriously, why can't we have cables that fit into each other as well as be symmetrical. Oh wait, that's thanks to the patent system. At least this is progress and maybe we will have one standard for most types of application (not holding my breath).
I'm not at all sure I understand the purpose of tech visas, but if the problem they're supposed to solve is that there aren't enough tech workers to fill the available jobs, then surely the upshot is the same either way? The visas issued to Infosys may be used to displace existing US tech workers, but those displaced workers are then available for Facebook to hire.
Where are the opportunities for recent graduates then?
Wow. I was scrolling down to find a positive comment for the new GNOME release. Well done and hats off to you sir.
For me I'll be keep using GNOME 2 until something usable replaces it, checking GNOME release thread for signs that the devs might go back to producing a high quality and functional DE.
So? Females are the norm, and males the exception.
This is not so. By default each human cell is a male cell. Female cells have to be constantly refreshed into being female through hormone release.
The way it works is that when you are born male you have something called SRY and it increases SOX9 and decreases FOXL2 which is the "opposite" part of a cell that determines which gender it is. For females it is the otherway around. However, if a female does not suppress SOX9 they will develop male characteristics (this is why you can get an XX male). The cells default option is to move back toward "maleness" and this is why after menopause women and men aren't really that different (because at a cellular level they are tending towards the same gender expressions).
Where are all the no experience needed programming jobs then? Everywhere I look 3 years of X 5 years of Y extensive knowledge of Z.
I think they mean unpayed jobs, of which there are some for inexperienced graduates. Some years ago when I graduated, I would have done jobs in either physics or engineering or computer science for free for months to get experience. After dealing with "employers" back and forth for long periods of time and them stipulating the terms, I couldn't get anything because of competition! Now I am fine, because once you have experience you can simply waltz from job to job, but getting the initial job with an advanced degree is hard (I think the degree puts many people off and I don't mention it much in my successful job interviews now).
According to you problems could be solved in the 70s and 80s but not now as "there is a pervasive pessimism among younger IT, a terrible can't do attitude". Then you say that coding is for the young man and older people should go into management where "experience and wisdom play a greater role". Can't have it both ways. If the coders are there for coding and management that sets directions is comprised of people from this older generation, then something is amiss. I think you look through rose-tinted glasses at the past. If you attack a whole generation, you should first acknowledge the problems with your own one (which is sometimes very greedy and currently numerous).
What does that have to do with pessimism? And what couldn't the older generation solve that got foisted on you?
Not me specifically. I am actually in the management ranks. However, I was doing a rant in reverse on you, since you generalized to saying all young people are pessimistic and useless.
Of course in reality you need an experienced person that has seen things before to point out when things might be headed the wrong way. But to blame GNOME3/KDE4/Windows 8 and all the ills of poor interface design on younger generations of programmers is flat out wrong and you only get those extra points because there are a large number of older generation people like yourself that think that way.
Contribute to open source if you have any talent and help fix the mess! Open source cares not about age.
... and there is a pervasive pessimism among younger IT, a terrible can't do attitude... What's terrible is that the new generation wants stagnation.
That is silly. Some old codgers are terrible at programming and only got there because they got in early, then decry that the world is going to hell in a hand basket because of "new generations". From what I've seen, young people are often the most sane (except those from overseas that come because they are cheaper) and have been robbed blind by older generations that pass the buck onto them. Young coders have to deal with all the problems that old people foisted on them because they couldn't solve, as well as management now making all the decisions and lower pay. </end rant>
You realize that at a company like Microsoft, where salaries are managed from the top down... H1Bs not only tend to make the same as natural born American employees.. but can actually cost more as it is usually the sponsoring company who pays for the lawyers & paperwork & fees to get an H1B visa for the eventual employee, right?
You are thinking small scale. It's not about the cost to a small company or department. H1Bs threaten to lower wages across the board due to plentiful competition, less ability to move to another company, and allowing company HR to threaten someone else taking your job. Some of the savings then go to board members of large corporations, to political lobbying, and to shareholder profits.
"The firewall went down, the massive server exploded, and now your information is lost in a black hole. Sorry about that. We might however be able to get a small portion of it back, as it still appears to be transmitting information in high frequency streams on either side. The receiver we placed to get that information fluctuates a bit and might catch on fire, however, so no guarantees."
I followed it up with one of the senior engineers who's worked on this server for years and they told me there was no black hole, just someone forgot to plug in the backup system.
I was being sarcastic, of course, but this sort of news will certainly discourage guys from assisting lesbian couples. The couples will have to go pay full price at a fertility clinic for sperm.
Is that not a logical consequence of this case?
The guys who donate sperm are not all law students or graduates. I would say chances are they will still find plenty of people willing to donate sperm for a "good cause" and to make a couple of hundred quick dollars.
Aiming for a future where we use less energy than we do now is backwards. I'm not advocating that making existing systems more efficient is a bad thing at all, but to power things that will progress society will require more energy per person consumed than we do now regardless.
Wireless power requires 60% more base power. The often dismissed as impossible flying cars require at least 1.5MW per person. One day it is not far fetched to think we will replace the microwave with a device that can assemble atoms and completely replace farming, which will take serious power. This is what I think even the solar/wind/geothermal people who don't want to move back into caves intuitively understand is the kind of changes that will occur sometime in the future.
Solar panels belong in space. They are much less efficient than hydro-electric, which is about as efficient as coal, which is 6 million times less energy dense than nuclear fission, which is less energy dense than nuclear fusion, which is only 2 orders of magnitude less efficient than antimatter-matter reactions. Spread out to consumers, solar panels also produces a lot of waste that future generations will have to deal with.
The parent post is correct, but Greenpeace does not dictate government policy in Australia.
Australia has 31% of the world's uranium reservers (the world's largest) and has in recent years declined production slightly (probably due to Germany's and Japan's 'efforts' that increase greenhouse gas emissions across Europe and Japan). Australia does not use nuclear power for energy generation or for military use or for icebreakers or any use other than ANSTO (small research lab that produces radioisotopes for medical use).
Australia could have gone nuclear ages ago, but didn't. Similarly to how it cut space research and plans to build rocket launch platforms, it is a country of little physics achievements that haven't been done by overseas people. The problem is that is also a county full of coal, and with other countries running out of coal, it might well be the place for coal globally over the next 50 years if policy doesn't change domestically.
Already the highest greehouse gas emitting OECD country in the world in the future if the coal extractions can be seen large from space (like tar pits in Canada) then it might become the biggest contributing country to global warming on a global scale indirectly (due to use of its coal and nonuse of uranium, not to mention thorium).
Then why are women so much less likely to enter CS than men? If there's no disproportionate influence, why is there a disproportionate response?
Maybe a generalization, but from what I've seen it is because clever women usually go to the field where there is actually work for them (such as the medical profession) and not claimed 'shortages'. Young men study computing/advanced maths/particle physics because it is interesting and are left without a job upon graduation.
We seem to have some need to put everything in it's own little box. Atoms, molecules, planets, solar systems...
The definition of "Universe": all existing matter and space considered as a whole; the cosmos.
So, if there is no need for the term "Multiverse" The universe contains it all.
Definitions change with time. Once upon a time the Earth was the universe, until people decided that the stars weren't just stuck up like a sheet in the Earth's sky.
Makes sense to have moons orbiting planets in planetary systems, orbiting stars in solar systems, orbiting galaxy centres in the galactic plane, orbiting super structures (Great Attractor, etc.), and finally you reach a boundary that is the "edge of the universe" with the current laws of physics that we know and love. If this universe is formed by the intersection of 2 or more "hyperplanes" as per string theory, or by other means, then there exists other universes. Hence, the collection of universes is given the term "multiverse" to distinguish it.
Another way to look at it is that it is only $3B dollars per year. For the USA this is pretty meagre spending really and entirely necessary. Many other spending initiatives such as seriously failed wars in the middle east that destabilize the whole region cost way more and don't endear the USA to the rest of the world. The ISS and similar things are necessary, because without them that country would be hated around the world for what it does in other areas and might come to bite it in times of local crisis (i.e. possibility of threats of economic sanctions such as when the Soviet Union collapsed in reverse). Plus you get science promoted in the media and access to space-based research.
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Source? Most US courts are understaffed (even judges) and over-scheduled.
http://www.decodedc.com/home/2...
That doesn't mean they are underpayed and not soaking up all the resources. Lawyers always will want more money for the same level job. A bit cynical I know but I think a "scarcity" of lawyers is always going to be the case, because they never can actually solve anything.
The problem is probably that after the judges and lawyers salaries are factored in they probably haven't got enough money to do IT properly. These guys will take the lion's share of any amount you throw at them.
Maybe it works for media hosting but what does it really do that a Chromecast doesn't do?
There's a market for seamless video looping that the pis are starting to fill. I use them for exhibition spaces to push videos remotely on a loop with omxplayer. Dispman_vncserver allows for remote viewing of content as well.
It's the small size that makes them attractive and I could see them being mounted to other devices than display screens as well. The new compute module and board would fit fine in home-made drones. I was thinking of trying to make a drone with a servo and 3d printer, but my 3d printer isn't up to the task unfortunately (maybe in a couple of years). You just have to use your imagination.
When you actually have had experiences that you cannot scientifically explain you tend to realize that there is this huge domain called the Universe At Large and then there is this much smaller domain called What Mankind Currently Accepts And Understands.
I think what you are referring to has been known at least since the Egyptian times and is the result of hallucinogenic/intoxicating drugs or head knocking. Nothing wrong with having a good time, but people should at least be honest instead of saying "the god with crocodile head and lion body that only I can see told me to do X."
OTOH, I've had a bit of success with dowsing, (two out of two, when I was seriously trying...not statistically significant) and a bit of success with gambling....
Can you at least explain how one "seriously tr[ies] against a slot machine?" Pull the handle instead of pressing the button? Exert great force while pulling the handle (or pressing the button)? "Be the ball?"
The trick is to wait for the ghost to pull the lever. This is the only way to win at gambling in a statistically significant way and you'll never lose your house.
You are right, I missed that and admittedly did not do a thorough search before posting. Still it is fun to think about how to make a genderless connector that would just click together in any which way.
Seriously, why can't we have cables that fit into each other as well as be symmetrical. Oh wait, that's thanks to the patent system. At least this is progress and maybe we will have one standard for most types of application (not holding my breath).
I'm not at all sure I understand the purpose of tech visas, but if the problem they're supposed to solve is that there aren't enough tech workers to fill the available jobs, then surely the upshot is the same either way? The visas issued to Infosys may be used to displace existing US tech workers, but those displaced workers are then available for Facebook to hire.
Where are the opportunities for recent graduates then?
Wow. I was scrolling down to find a positive comment for the new GNOME release. Well done and hats off to you sir.
For me I'll be keep using GNOME 2 until something usable replaces it, checking GNOME release thread for signs that the devs might go back to producing a high quality and functional DE.
I bet you had to travel both ways uphill in the snow barefoot as well.
Today it is much harder for someone "indigenous" and fresh to get a start and to hold it steady to make it into a good stable career.
So? Females are the norm, and males the exception.
This is not so. By default each human cell is a male cell. Female cells have to be constantly refreshed into being female through hormone release.
The way it works is that when you are born male you have something called SRY and it increases SOX9 and decreases FOXL2 which is the "opposite" part of a cell that determines which gender it is. For females it is the otherway around. However, if a female does not suppress SOX9 they will develop male characteristics (this is why you can get an XX male). The cells default option is to move back toward "maleness" and this is why after menopause women and men aren't really that different (because at a cellular level they are tending towards the same gender expressions).
Where are all the no experience needed programming jobs then? Everywhere I look 3 years of X 5 years of Y extensive knowledge of Z.
I think they mean unpayed jobs, of which there are some for inexperienced graduates. Some years ago when I graduated, I would have done jobs in either physics or engineering or computer science for free for months to get experience. After dealing with "employers" back and forth for long periods of time and them stipulating the terms, I couldn't get anything because of competition! Now I am fine, because once you have experience you can simply waltz from job to job, but getting the initial job with an advanced degree is hard (I think the degree puts many people off and I don't mention it much in my successful job interviews now).
According to you problems could be solved in the 70s and 80s but not now as "there is a pervasive pessimism among younger IT, a terrible can't do attitude". Then you say that coding is for the young man and older people should go into management where "experience and wisdom play a greater role". Can't have it both ways. If the coders are there for coding and management that sets directions is comprised of people from this older generation, then something is amiss. I think you look through rose-tinted glasses at the past. If you attack a whole generation, you should first acknowledge the problems with your own one (which is sometimes very greedy and currently numerous).
What does that have to do with pessimism? And what couldn't the older generation solve that got foisted on you?
Not me specifically. I am actually in the management ranks. However, I was doing a rant in reverse on you, since you generalized to saying all young people are pessimistic and useless.
Of course in reality you need an experienced person that has seen things before to point out when things might be headed the wrong way. But to blame GNOME3/KDE4/Windows 8 and all the ills of poor interface design on younger generations of programmers is flat out wrong and you only get those extra points because there are a large number of older generation people like yourself that think that way.
Contribute to open source if you have any talent and help fix the mess! Open source cares not about age.
... and there is a pervasive pessimism among younger IT, a terrible can't do attitude... What's terrible is that the new generation wants stagnation.
That is silly. Some old codgers are terrible at programming and only got there because they got in early, then decry that the world is going to hell in a hand basket because of "new generations". From what I've seen, young people are often the most sane (except those from overseas that come because they are cheaper) and have been robbed blind by older generations that pass the buck onto them. Young coders have to deal with all the problems that old people foisted on them because they couldn't solve, as well as management now making all the decisions and lower pay. </end rant>
You realize that at a company like Microsoft, where salaries are managed from the top down... H1Bs not only tend to make the same as natural born American employees.. but can actually cost more as it is usually the sponsoring company who pays for the lawyers & paperwork & fees to get an H1B visa for the eventual employee, right?
You are thinking small scale. It's not about the cost to a small company or department. H1Bs threaten to lower wages across the board due to plentiful competition, less ability to move to another company, and allowing company HR to threaten someone else taking your job. Some of the savings then go to board members of large corporations, to political lobbying, and to shareholder profits.
...the 1%, well they are using their super-expensive cars to commute...
I'm pretty sure they use helicopters and private jets to get around. You ain't going to see them on congested roads if they don't have to be on them.
"The firewall went down, the massive server exploded, and now your information is lost in a black hole. Sorry about that. We might however be able to get a small portion of it back, as it still appears to be transmitting information in high frequency streams on either side. The receiver we placed to get that information fluctuates a bit and might catch on fire, however, so no guarantees."
I followed it up with one of the senior engineers who's worked on this server for years and they told me there was no black hole, just someone forgot to plug in the backup system.
I was being sarcastic, of course, but this sort of news will certainly discourage guys from assisting lesbian couples.
The couples will have to go pay full price at a fertility clinic for sperm.
Is that not a logical consequence of this case?
The guys who donate sperm are not all law students or graduates. I would say chances are they will still find plenty of people willing to donate sperm for a "good cause" and to make a couple of hundred quick dollars.
Seriously? A "war on women!"? I know this is /. but have you even skimmed the article summary?
Aiming for a future where we use less energy than we do now is backwards. I'm not advocating that making existing systems more efficient is a bad thing at all, but to power things that will progress society will require more energy per person consumed than we do now regardless.
Wireless power requires 60% more base power. The often dismissed as impossible flying cars require at least 1.5MW per person. One day it is not far fetched to think we will replace the microwave with a device that can assemble atoms and completely replace farming, which will take serious power. This is what I think even the solar/wind/geothermal people who don't want to move back into caves intuitively understand is the kind of changes that will occur sometime in the future.
Solar panels belong in space. They are much less efficient than hydro-electric, which is about as efficient as coal, which is 6 million times less energy dense than nuclear fission, which is less energy dense than nuclear fusion, which is only 2 orders of magnitude less efficient than antimatter-matter reactions. Spread out to consumers, solar panels also produces a lot of waste that future generations will have to deal with.
The parent post is correct, but Greenpeace does not dictate government policy in Australia.
Australia has 31% of the world's uranium reservers (the world's largest) and has in recent years declined production slightly (probably due to Germany's and Japan's 'efforts' that increase greenhouse gas emissions across Europe and Japan). Australia does not use nuclear power for energy generation or for military use or for icebreakers or any use other than ANSTO (small research lab that produces radioisotopes for medical use).
Australia could have gone nuclear ages ago, but didn't. Similarly to how it cut space research and plans to build rocket launch platforms, it is a country of little physics achievements that haven't been done by overseas people. The problem is that is also a county full of coal, and with other countries running out of coal, it might well be the place for coal globally over the next 50 years if policy doesn't change domestically.
Already the highest greehouse gas emitting OECD country in the world in the future if the coal extractions can be seen large from space (like tar pits in Canada) then it might become the biggest contributing country to global warming on a global scale indirectly (due to use of its coal and nonuse of uranium, not to mention thorium).
Then why are women so much less likely to enter CS than men? If there's no disproportionate influence, why is there a disproportionate response?
Maybe a generalization, but from what I've seen it is because clever women usually go to the field where there is actually work for them (such as the medical profession) and not claimed 'shortages'. Young men study computing/advanced maths/particle physics because it is interesting and are left without a job upon graduation.
We seem to have some need to put everything in it's own little box. Atoms, molecules, planets, solar systems...
The definition of "Universe":
all existing matter and space considered as a whole; the cosmos.
So, if there is no need for the term "Multiverse" The universe contains it all.
Definitions change with time. Once upon a time the Earth was the universe, until people decided that the stars weren't just stuck up like a sheet in the Earth's sky.
Makes sense to have moons orbiting planets in planetary systems, orbiting stars in solar systems, orbiting galaxy centres in the galactic plane, orbiting super structures (Great Attractor, etc.), and finally you reach a boundary that is the "edge of the universe" with the current laws of physics that we know and love. If this universe is formed by the intersection of 2 or more "hyperplanes" as per string theory, or by other means, then there exists other universes. Hence, the collection of universes is given the term "multiverse" to distinguish it.
Another way to look at it is that it is only $3B dollars per year. For the USA this is pretty meagre spending really and entirely necessary. Many other spending initiatives such as seriously failed wars in the middle east that destabilize the whole region cost way more and don't endear the USA to the rest of the world. The ISS and similar things are necessary, because without them that country would be hated around the world for what it does in other areas and might come to bite it in times of local crisis (i.e. possibility of threats of economic sanctions such as when the Soviet Union collapsed in reverse). Plus you get science promoted in the media and access to space-based research.