Re:Not Economics, Accounting...
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Michelle,
companies need permanent employees too. They don't need to employ ALL people who build some system, but the main architect, project manager and a couple of techies who are going to maintain it. Another thing is that each company (but the most stupid) has some coding standards; it's the job of the employees to make sure that contractors follow them. Otherwise, the whole application will be an unsupportable mess.
I think the companies might compensate these people pretty well; they might not afford them leaving.
Re:Not only in the real world...
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Do you know why ???
Fscking colleges save tons of money on that. My father works in the community college as a temp instructor. He has compared the temp and permanent conditions of work, and it is a real rip-off.
Permanent instructors cost a college about 4 times more than temps. This is because in academia teaching classes is the only minor part of the time; so, hourly paid instructors are paid for just 10 to 14 hours a week, even though they need to spend much more to prepare to the lessons and score the students' work.
Also, colleges "owe" sabbaticals to the permanent professors, and this is on top of all other benefits including long vacations and so on.
This makes the decision of screwing staff a no-brainer:-(
Blame Wall Street and Lawyers
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There is an expression to describe the reason for behaving like that: "Efficiency Wars".
If a company does not "perform" in a way some "influential Wall Street analysts" expect, stock tumbles, shareholders' lawyers start preying on the company, and the upper management group is replaced with others (and the company announces layoffs to appease the Wall Street).
And here comes the cynical part: employees LOOK LIKE a HIGHEST COST. No one cares that the contractors-built system might fall apart or be a total mess that no one has knowledge of (even though it is not true most of the time). What is important, you can always tell a contractor that you don't need him as of Monday. And you don't owe him anything. He costs you not so much more while you need him, but IT COST YOU NOTHING TO GET RID OF HIM! This is why they are "allowed" to get more money at the expense of job security.
My 4.5-year old MAG Innovision 17" monitor serves 3 computers connected through the KVM-switch. The original computer is long gone, but this monitor still satisfies me.
You are right and wrong simultaneously, even if it sounds strange.
The point is that:
1) No one guarantees that white racists or black racists will change their ways after fighting in an online forum;
2) Even worse, they will call their moderate friends and tell something like "Look at this URL how these (black, white) suckers are insulting and slamming us!". I'd say that there is much more chances for a moderate to join extremists after seeing a slur.
3) There was an old Russian joke about a writer who was asked how many books he has read. He answered: "Zero, since I'm a writer, not a reader";-) The same thing is happening here: most of the racists are not interested in listening, only in talking/yelling.
This is IMHO happening because we have only 2 types of racists: "Idealistic" ones, who made it their career, or the idiotic ones, who are angry at the entire world and stupid enough to think for themselves.
It has nothing to do with communism, and it's West who is continuing to militarize (300 bln vs less than 10 bln of $ as yearly defence budget for this year).
The problem is that the government at any level IS mafia or its part...
If you send it usual mail, you have a 50:50 chance it gets there. I was lucky because I was sending inexpensive things, but a hard drive will probably be lost:-(
FedEx and DHL are not worth the price. I remember how one friend of mine sent me a hard drive from Russia using DHL - it was not only late (2 weeks), but also damaged.
The best ways to do it:
1) Send money and let him buy what he needs;
2) You've already got the stuff. So, you need somehow find friends in Seattle (www.russianseattle.com); there is an Aeroflot (www.aeroflot.org) flight between Seattle and Khabarovsk, so you can just give it to one of the passengers.
When trying to compare English and Russian languages, I find the origin of such a difference in approaches.
English grammar is much stricter, and both the grammar and lexics are much less tolerant to distortions, i.e. you can distort the words and/or word order much more and still be understood correctly in Russian. With English you need to be more accurate and pay attention to all details; slight distortion, such as using one time instead of another, might change the whole meaning of the phrase.
This is IMHO where Russian sloppiness/ingenuinity and American anal-retentivness/atention to details originate;-)
p.p.s. stalin wasn't russian, he was georgian, and spoke russian with a georgian accent. russia has a history of being controlled by foreign powers. i'm thinking China hits 1.5 billion people, goes 'wtf' and charges across siberia, storms moscow, and subsequently controls 1/4 of the world landmass.
Don't even hope!;-)
No such thing happens while the world has nuclear rockets.
As for the government, IT IS mafia, or at least the significant part of mafia.
American lawyers/companies do not have any morals; they do what they need to protect their money. It's enough to sue the shit out of you if you live in the US, but if you live in Russia, they send some money to mafia (or cops, that are basically another mafia branch anyway), and the mafia breaks your neck and/or "confiscates" your server, so that other people think twice before doing anything like that.
Re:Well, if you count WWII a "USian" thing...
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And another one;-)
I've heard about lend-lease; I've also heard about PQ-17.
Speaking of the second front, it was opened after the fate of the war was decided. In 1942 it would be a significant event, but not in 1944.
You've never been talking to the Soviet veterans of this war if you think it was for the fear of Stalin. If you say "At War" in Russia, no one will question you which one you mean (Russian language does not have articles; this is why I haven't used "At the War"). It became the trouble that united the whole country, all nations. Soviet people won this war even despite of Stalin and his blunders.
Who told you I'm bragging ??? I just don't like when someone tries to rewrite history.
And the history includes facts about your beloved USA (and especially Brits). First of all, Brits and French have pretty much started that war by pressuring Chekhs to cede Sudet Mountains to Hitler. If they would not do that, his ambitions might well have come to an end since Chekhs had about the same army as Germans (45 vs 47 divisions). someone tells they were trying to appese Hitler, but the reality was that they wanted him to go East, not thinking about him going West first.
Another example - both Brits and Americans knew about Holocost. But when Hitler offered them to exchange 100,000 Jews for 100,000 trucks in 1944 (IIRC), they asked "Why do we need 100,000 Jews?".
And even before the war they virtually closed the immigration stream - both to the US and to what was Palestine then. Do I need to tell more ???
Hopefully, you won't summon Jon Katz. It will be too much;-)
This is why you have the government.
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China will do anything to get the trade status besides ceding the power of the current ruling elite; Pakistan and Sri Lanka will choke if the US decides to impose some sanctions.
Only a country that has no goods to sell to the Western world and no goods to import from them can try to host it. Still, it has a very good chance to get a visit from US Marines or CIA-engineered revolt in this case.
Re:Well, if you count WWII a "USian" thing...
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Another ignorant idiot. The victory in Europe was not won by the Americans; it was won by the bravery and sacrifices of the Soviet people. Normandy happened after the fate of the war was already decided on the Eastern front.
Without the US they would not be speaking German, they'd be speaking Russian and building communism;-)
Excuse me, Mr. Buchannan's voter, but:
1) Everyone in the US wants to get rich, but not so many are ready to do what is necessary to educate themselves and find a good job. Most just dream about winning money in a lottery or casino or suing some company for millions.
Remember, that going to study is everyone's personal choice (they choose what to study too).
2) All of us are citizens of the world; don't forget that Asia has became the manufacturing facility for the USA market some time ago, and you have such an inexpensive food in supermarket because of the Mexican workers who toil on America's fields for miserable pay.
3) The market needs skilled workers NOW, not in 20 years;
So, closing the borders will just inhibit progress here and raise prices for everything.
How many Americans are going to India, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and China for their graduate Computer Science education?
This is because not many Americans speak Japanese, Chinese, Hindi and Russian.
Another thing, it makes sense to study in the country you're going to work later, and salaries are the highest here. You judge some country's education system by people who came to the US, but you can't possibly think of the ones who didn't.
I can bet that the new computers will be much more powerful then the old ones.
Depending on when the old ones were bought, they will most likely be dual-proc. Even replacing 2 such computers with one 8-proc will multiply the processing power significantly, especially since the new processors will be clocked significantly higher.
What about the cheerleading "usual people", who are happy when the same courts base their outrageously stupid verdicts on the internal documents of the corporations ???
I think, it would be just fair if the same privacy laws are applied to everybody.
AFAIK, it might have included Marshal Nedelin case.
Marshal Nedelin was the high ranking Army official responsible for the space program. At some point (I don't remember the exact date) he and a group of other officials and engineers were killed when watching the botched space launch.
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Michelle,
companies need permanent employees too. They don't need to employ ALL people who build some system, but the main architect, project manager and a couple of techies who are going to maintain it. Another thing is that each company (but the most stupid) has some coding standards; it's the job of the employees to make sure that contractors follow them. Otherwise, the whole application will be an unsupportable mess.
I think the companies might compensate these people pretty well; they might not afford them leaving.
Do you know why ???
:-(
Fscking colleges save tons of money on that. My father works in the community college as a temp instructor. He has compared the temp and permanent conditions of work, and it is a real rip-off.
Permanent instructors cost a college about 4 times more than temps. This is because in academia teaching classes is the only minor part of the time; so, hourly paid instructors are paid for just 10 to 14 hours a week, even though they need to spend much more to prepare to the lessons and score the students' work.
Also, colleges "owe" sabbaticals to the permanent professors, and this is on top of all other benefits including long vacations and so on.
This makes the decision of screwing staff a no-brainer
There is an expression to describe the reason for behaving like that: "Efficiency Wars".
If a company does not "perform" in a way some "influential Wall Street analysts" expect, stock tumbles, shareholders' lawyers start preying on the company, and the upper management group is replaced with others (and the company announces layoffs to appease the Wall Street).
And here comes the cynical part: employees LOOK LIKE a HIGHEST COST. No one cares that the contractors-built system might fall apart or be a total mess that no one has knowledge of (even though it is not true most of the time). What is important, you can always tell a contractor that you don't need him as of Monday. And you don't owe him anything. He costs you not so much more while you need him, but IT COST YOU NOTHING TO GET RID OF HIM! This is why they are "allowed" to get more money at the expense of job security.
My 4.5-year old MAG Innovision 17" monitor serves 3 computers connected through the KVM-switch. The original computer is long gone, but this monitor still satisfies me.
You are right and wrong simultaneously, even if it sounds strange.
;-) The same thing is happening here: most of the racists are not interested in listening, only in talking/yelling.
The point is that:
1) No one guarantees that white racists or black racists will change their ways after fighting in an online forum;
2) Even worse, they will call their moderate friends and tell something like "Look at this URL how these (black, white) suckers are insulting and slamming us!". I'd say that there is much more chances for a moderate to join extremists after seeing a slur.
3) There was an old Russian joke about a writer who was asked how many books he has read. He answered: "Zero, since I'm a writer, not a reader"
This is IMHO happening because we have only 2 types of racists: "Idealistic" ones, who made it their career, or the idiotic ones, who are angry at the entire world and stupid enough to think for themselves.
It has nothing to do with communism, and it's West who is continuing to militarize (300 bln vs less than 10 bln of $ as yearly defence budget for this year).
...
The problem is that the government at any level IS mafia or its part
If you send it usual mail, you have a 50:50 chance it gets there. I was lucky because I was sending inexpensive things, but a hard drive will probably be lost :-(
FedEx and DHL are not worth the price. I remember how one friend of mine sent me a hard drive from Russia using DHL - it was not only late (2 weeks), but also damaged.
The best ways to do it:
1) Send money and let him buy what he needs;
2) You've already got the stuff. So, you need somehow find friends in Seattle (www.russianseattle.com); there is an Aeroflot (www.aeroflot.org) flight between Seattle and Khabarovsk, so you can just give it to one of the passengers.
When trying to compare English and Russian languages, I find the origin of such a difference in approaches.
;-)
English grammar is much stricter, and both the grammar and lexics are much less tolerant to distortions, i.e. you can distort the words and/or word order much more and still be understood correctly in Russian. With English you need to be more accurate and pay attention to all details; slight distortion, such as using one time instead of another, might change the whole meaning of the phrase.
This is IMHO where Russian sloppiness/ingenuinity and American anal-retentivness/atention to details originate
p.p.s. stalin wasn't russian, he was georgian, and spoke russian with a georgian accent. russia has a history of being controlled by foreign powers. i'm thinking China hits 1.5 billion people, goes 'wtf' and charges across siberia, storms moscow, and subsequently controls 1/4 of the world landmass.
;-)
Don't even hope!
No such thing happens while the world has nuclear rockets.
As for the government, IT IS mafia, or at least the significant part of mafia.
Do you know that the phone company has a log of all phone calls going through its system ???
:bbs_number;
This way a small BBS will be "decrypted" immediately; FBI just needs to run a query like:
SELECT DISTINCT originating_number
FROM all_phone_calls
WHERE target_phone_number =
against the phone company's data warehouse.
Come on, it's a BIG MONEY involved!
American lawyers/companies do not have any morals; they do what they need to protect their money. It's enough to sue the shit out of you if you live in the US, but if you live in Russia, they send some money to mafia (or cops, that are basically another mafia branch anyway), and the mafia breaks your neck and/or "confiscates" your server, so that other people think twice before doing anything like that.
Actually, 613 for Judaists and 27 for non-Jews.
And another one ;-)
I've heard about lend-lease; I've also heard about PQ-17.
Speaking of the second front, it was opened after the fate of the war was decided. In 1942 it would be a significant event, but not in 1944.
You've never been talking to the Soviet veterans of this war if you think it was for the fear of Stalin. If you say "At War" in Russia, no one will question you which one you mean (Russian language does not have articles; this is why I haven't used "At the War"). It became the trouble that united the whole country, all nations. Soviet people won this war even despite of Stalin and his blunders.
Who told you I'm bragging ??? I just don't like when someone tries to rewrite history.
And the history includes facts about your beloved USA (and especially Brits). First of all, Brits and French have pretty much started that war by pressuring Chekhs to cede Sudet Mountains to Hitler. If they would not do that, his ambitions might well have come to an end since Chekhs had about the same army as Germans (45 vs 47 divisions). someone tells they were trying to appese Hitler, but the reality was that they wanted him to go East, not thinking about him going West first.
Another example - both Brits and Americans knew about Holocost. But when Hitler offered them to exchange 100,000 Jews for 100,000 trucks in 1944 (IIRC), they asked "Why do we need 100,000 Jews?".
And even before the war they virtually closed the immigration stream - both to the US and to what was Palestine then. Do I need to tell more ???
Hopefully, you won't summon Jon Katz. It will be too much ;-)
China will do anything to get the trade status besides ceding the power of the current ruling elite; Pakistan and Sri Lanka will choke if the US decides to impose some sanctions.
Only a country that has no goods to sell to the Western world and no goods to import from them can try to host it. Still, it has a very good chance to get a visit from US Marines or CIA-engineered revolt in this case.
Another ignorant idiot. The victory in Europe was not won by the Americans; it was won by the bravery and sacrifices of the Soviet people. Normandy happened after the fate of the war was already decided on the Eastern front.
;-)
Without the US they would not be speaking German, they'd be speaking Russian and building communism
Excuse me, Mr. Buchannan's voter, but:
1) Everyone in the US wants to get rich, but not so many are ready to do what is necessary to educate themselves and find a good job. Most just dream about winning money in a lottery or casino or suing some company for millions.
Remember, that going to study is everyone's personal choice (they choose what to study too).
2) All of us are citizens of the world; don't forget that Asia has became the manufacturing facility for the USA market some time ago, and you have such an inexpensive food in supermarket because of the Mexican workers who toil on America's fields for miserable pay.
3) The market needs skilled workers NOW, not in 20 years;
So, closing the borders will just inhibit progress here and raise prices for everything.
How many Americans are going to India, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and China for their graduate Computer Science education?
This is because not many Americans speak Japanese, Chinese, Hindi and Russian.
Another thing, it makes sense to study in the country you're going to work later, and salaries are the highest here. You judge some country's education system by people who came to the US, but you can't possibly think of the ones who didn't.
Isn't it interesting that personal philosophy of Rob is pretty much BSD (use, but give a credit) ???
;-))
BTW, even his name (Rob) encourages thugs-to-be to steal his work
Does the name Larry Ellison ring a bell to you ???
Did you know that most of the servers are built by Intel and later rebadged by the OEMs ???
;-)
So, MS can buy them directly from the Intel factories and save some money
I can bet that the new computers will be much more powerful then the old ones.
Depending on when the old ones were bought, they will most likely be dual-proc. Even replacing 2 such computers with one 8-proc will multiply the processing power significantly, especially since the new processors will be clocked significantly higher.
What about the cheerleading "usual people", who are happy when the same courts base their outrageously stupid verdicts on the internal documents of the corporations ???
I think, it would be just fair if the same privacy laws are applied to everybody.
AFAIK, it might have included Marshal Nedelin case.
Marshal Nedelin was the high ranking Army official responsible for the space program. At some point (I don't remember the exact date) he and a group of other officials and engineers were killed when watching the botched space launch.
Have you heard about Russia, lemming ?