In the eternal battle between the Chaos and the Order I'd say that creativity mostly belongs to chaos camp and rules belong to the order.
For a very long time the bulk of good money were mostly made in the "ordered" fields where conformance to the rules/interface was the most important thing.
Management, military, practicing medicine and law, sales and religion (I don't even mention most of blue collar occupations) are highly organized professions where you mostly do routine work. You mostly just have a set of methods and need to classify the problem and chose the appropriate method from your usually limited set.
Very rarely you get a genius who is able to do something new in here. Thus, creativity is limited to either human interactions (for salespeople) or just-in-time solutions (doctors, lawyers).
At the same time, you need to dress in somewhat standard way and behave accordingly.
As an opposite, computers (as in programming or web/interface design) is a creative venue, rules of conduct to be damned. There are non-creative folks here too, but their percenage is much lower because these jobs REQUIRE creativity (VB increased the amount of monkeys in the field whether real programming skills need to be judged on the ability to make complicated and efficient algorithms). One certainly needs some order to write code not like a cowboy, but the creativity is still the king.
Other creative professions include science, technology development, architecture, and, surprisingly, marketing.
It is not an accident that this field is filled by "intermediately creative" outcasts of the society who are not persistent/talented/charismatic enough to become highly successful writers/artists/actors/inventors, but nevertheless can manifest their creativity in these fields.
That brings us to the rise of the web. This was a moment when this creativity was able to provide people with a very good living, and the need in such people has sharply increased. The balance has somewhat shifted when these people were able to jump into a middle class pretty much after graduation.
BTW, this is why so many English majors ended up in the web/computer industry. Even though English is a pretty restrictive language (I don't want to start a flame war here, but it is very logical and thus less flexible comparing to some others), these folks have been taught how to write creatively.
So, current crackdown and fall of the industry seems to be putting power and money back where it always belonged, in the hands of "suits".
We again are often judged not by what you can do, but by certain formal criterias such as having required crap on your resume. We are again at the mercy of not so human resources and clueless managers. You're again judged not by what you achieve but by how much time you spend on the Net. It is again the employers' market and restrictive rules.
Still, some hope and freedom remains in places that have learned its value.
Your "Market corrected for these problems" can be well said about situation when a rare profession becomes a mainstream, and specialists who demanded six figures need to get real.
Whatever happens here is pretty much a disappearance of a profession. Besides just getting reduced incomes, there is not enough jobs in this field to feed a significant percentage of formerly employed there.
And unlike the situation with manufacturing, these are the knowledge jobs requiring extensive and often expensive training lasting for several years. Thus, a lot of "supply lines" turn to be cut, and a lot of people in a pipeline get burned.
That brings an analogy of a invalid branch prediction in a processor when a lot of parsed instructions need to be disregarded, and the processor itself waits for data to be retrieved from main memory et al.
3. Since dollar is more than just an American currency, they can go to China and buy their goods for dollars.
Then Chinese will invest in the American stock market or bonds the way Japanese did in the eighties and nineties.
It will give some money to the shareholders, but not to workers.
>Case 2 (which never happens), would be wonderful... WE could just keep printing dollar bills and never have to work. Unfortunately, when we import goods or services, the other countries want something in return.
Define "we" for this argument. If "WE are Borg", we don't need any money;-). If "WE are the rich", then yes, we can never have to work.
However, "we" as in "wage-earners" will have some problems because of the lack of jobs to earn a living. This will lead to a structural crisis, and the only solutions will be either trade barriers or enormous taxes and a welfare state.
As for your free trade stuff, this is one way to look at it. I won't disagree that it makes goods cheaper (even though your example with cars is not good since there are no automakers in Massachusets that will be killed by the low-cost Michigan imports).
However, you also need to remember about trade disbalances. Unless Massachusets in your examples can print unlimited amount of money, it won't be able to sustain paying for goods made outside of it.
P.S. The article in Indiatimes seems like a hogwash to me.
Eastern esoteric traditions that are not requiring celibacy (such as Tantric or Daoist) have special techniques for women that teach them how to use their vaginal muscles properly.
One uses little vaginal balls to do the training, and the results are that they have not only more plesure for themselves and their men, but also have less problems during childbirth and better tonus. As the result of this training, these women can become satisfied with smaller dicks among other things.
You can find the techniques in this book: http://www.universal-tao.com/amazon/healing_love.h tml
It was him who used histerya and turned the American legal system into a venue of "protecting the little guy" where the assumed "little guy" is the assumed virtuous victim by just being "little guy" versus "huge evil corporation" ( here is an excellent example: asbestos. Just look at the linked articles ).
"Asbestos: The $200 Billion Miscarriage of Justice," by Roger Parloff. Fortune March 4, 2002 http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles/0,15 114,37 1294,00.html
http://www.triallawyersinc.com/html/part05.html
And "damages" are determined not by the actual damage, but by the defendent's worth. Brainwashed idiots out of the general public do it out of fears to the cheer of Naderistic zealots and greedy lawyers.
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If two of you have enough patience and commitment to practicing the exercises, it will be well worth it.
As for upgrades, this version is not very obtrusive with that. It offers to apgrade only when I start the player, i.e. after reboot. And I don't reboot too often.
My own experience shows that avoidable gridlocks are often created by bad drivers.
Read this essay of mine on the subject: http://sqft87.pisem.net/tiger/road.html
It has example of that (with sun and sunglasses).
But the general problem is not just with cruise control. Americans say tons of words about "Team building" et al, but talk is cheap. One needs to watch people in a natural environment witout an iron fist of a manager or sergeant in order to see natural reactions. And natural reactions in this country are not compatible well with a collaborative environment that any road is.
The problem is that degenerate tends to be a degenerate in pretty much everything.
Use technology to compensate for inability to learn, inability to solve problems, and inability to make decisions, and you get HOMO CONSUMERUS instead of HOMO SAPIENS that is equal to inability to live (versus exist).
Even now I can quote "I see dead people. They are everywhere. They don't know they are dead.".
There would not be a need to "change lanes like crazy" if it wouldn't be for the selfish idiots who block faster lanes.
The reason for safety and ORDUNG on German Autobahns is the lane discipline and cortesy that is drilled into their drivers. The road for them is the way of transportation and not the way of demonstrating their ego.
Further reading: http://www.motorists.org/ericpeters/skillvsspeed.h tml
As someone with MSCS and experience of knowing 4 different Assembly languages, I think students need to be taught Assembly. The key is chosing the best moment to do that.
This moment is defined by the GOAL: teaching the students to write efficient programs.
In my opinion, Assembly should be studied AFTER students study: 1) Algorythms and data structures; 2) Procedural programming; 3) OOP and component models.
These things are good to be taught using C and Java.
At the same time, Assembly should be mastered BEFORE the coding style of a new student will be formed (as well as before different scripting languages).
The thing is that Real does not have a source of income. Thus, they need to squeeze pennies out of every possible opportunities often not playing nicely (I mean charging for crap, ads and SPAM).
At the same time, every format owner is trying to make his one a default. Not supporting Real means that their "commercial" format will die causing all contents providers switch to.WMV that looks like "the default choice" for many.
It is the repetition of the browser wars.
BTW, I avoid most of their crap by using older version (revision 6.0.6) of the RealPlayer.
I live in Oregon, in Portland that is considered a "Rose city". Guess what - 99% percent of roses that are sold in Oregon are shipped by plane from South America.
Chilean wines are flexing muscles and pushing locals out of the market.
>The main issue is that rewards will flow to those who have the discipline to wait for rewards, not those who choose to have them today. It's simply a case of short-term vs. long-term and we're on the wrong side of the equation here. If you think you're getting bit in the ass now, just wait a few years when the chickens finally come home to roost.
Unfortunately, there is a bastard you need to blame for everything: http://www.wfu.edu/users/palmitar/Courses/SecReg-P almiter/Handout/Articles/Elkind-Lerach-King-Dead.h tm
I'd say that it was him who shifted the mentality of the upper management of all companies from the long-term to the "quarter ahead".
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Here is a philosophical take on the problem.
In the eternal battle between the Chaos and the Order I'd say that creativity mostly belongs to chaos camp and rules belong to the order.
For a very long time the bulk of good money were mostly made in the "ordered" fields where conformance to the rules/interface was the most important thing.
Management, military, practicing medicine and law, sales and religion (I don't even mention most of blue collar occupations) are highly organized professions where you mostly do routine work. You mostly just have a set of methods and need to classify the problem and chose the appropriate method from your usually limited set.
Very rarely you get a genius who is able to do something new in here. Thus, creativity is limited to either human interactions (for salespeople) or just-in-time solutions (doctors, lawyers).
At the same time, you need to dress in somewhat standard way and behave accordingly.
As an opposite, computers (as in programming or web/interface design) is a creative venue, rules of conduct to be damned. There are non-creative folks here too, but their percenage is much lower because these jobs REQUIRE creativity (VB increased the amount of monkeys in the field whether real programming skills need to be judged on the ability to make complicated and efficient algorithms). One certainly needs some order to write code not like a cowboy, but the creativity is still the king.
Other creative professions include science, technology development, architecture, and, surprisingly, marketing.
It is not an accident that this field is filled by "intermediately creative" outcasts of the society who are not persistent/talented/charismatic enough to become highly successful writers/artists/actors/inventors, but nevertheless can manifest their creativity in these fields.
That brings us to the rise of the web. This was a moment when this creativity was able to provide people with a very good living, and the need in such people has sharply increased. The balance has somewhat shifted when these people were able to jump into a middle class pretty much after graduation.
BTW, this is why so many English majors ended up in the web/computer industry. Even though English is a pretty restrictive language (I don't want to start a flame war here, but it is very logical and thus less flexible comparing to some others), these folks have been taught how to write creatively.
So, current crackdown and fall of the industry seems to be putting power and money back where it always belonged, in the hands of "suits".
We again are often judged not by what you can do, but by certain formal criterias such as having required crap on your resume. We are again at the mercy of not so human resources and clueless managers. You're again judged not by what you achieve but by how much time you spend on the Net. It is again the employers' market and restrictive rules.
Still, some hope and freedom remains in places that have learned its value.
Your "Market corrected for these problems" can be well said about situation when a rare profession becomes a mainstream, and specialists who demanded six figures need to get real.
Whatever happens here is pretty much a disappearance of a profession. Besides just getting reduced incomes, there is not enough jobs in this field to feed a significant percentage of formerly employed there.
And unlike the situation with manufacturing, these are the knowledge jobs requiring extensive and often expensive training lasting for several years. Thus, a lot of "supply lines" turn to be cut, and a lot of people in a pipeline get burned.
That brings an analogy of a invalid branch prediction in a processor when a lot of parsed instructions need to be disregarded, and the processor itself waits for data to be retrieved from main memory et al.
Being a 1099 subcontractor, I was not even eligible for any unemployments benefits.
3. Since dollar is more than just an American currency, they can go to China and buy their goods for dollars.
;-).
Then Chinese will invest in the American stock market or bonds the way Japanese did in the eighties and nineties.
It will give some money to the shareholders, but not to workers.
>Case 2 (which never happens), would be wonderful... WE could just keep printing dollar bills and never have to work. Unfortunately, when we import goods or services, the other countries want something in return.
Define "we" for this argument.
If "WE are Borg", we don't need any money
If "WE are the rich", then yes, we can never have to work.
However, "we" as in "wage-earners" will have some problems because of the lack of jobs to earn a living. This will lead to a structural crisis, and the only solutions will be either trade barriers or enormous taxes and a welfare state.
As for your free trade stuff, this is one way to look at it. I won't disagree that it makes goods cheaper (even though your example with cars is not good since there are no automakers in Massachusets that will be killed by the low-cost Michigan imports).
However, you also need to remember about trade disbalances. Unless Massachusets in your examples can print unlimited amount of money, it won't be able to sustain paying for goods made outside of it.
P.S. The article in Indiatimes seems like a hogwash to me.
This is why he did not file in his home state ;-).
Eastern esoteric traditions that are not requiring celibacy (such as Tantric or Daoist) have special techniques for women that teach them how to use their vaginal muscles properly.
h tml
One uses little vaginal balls to do the training, and the results are that they have not only more plesure for themselves and their men, but also have less problems during childbirth and better tonus. As the result of this training, these women can become satisfied with smaller dicks among other things.
You can find the techniques in this book: http://www.universal-tao.com/amazon/healing_love.
It was him who used histerya and turned the American legal system into a venue of "protecting the little guy" where the assumed "little guy" is the assumed virtuous victim by just being "little guy" versus "huge evil corporation" ( here is an excellent example: asbestos. Just look at the linked articles ).
5 114,37 1294,00.html
"Asbestos: The $200 Billion Miscarriage of Justice," by Roger Parloff.
Fortune March 4, 2002
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles/0,1
http://www.triallawyersinc.com/html/part05.html
And "damages" are determined not by the actual damage, but by the defendent's worth. Brainwashed idiots out of the general public do it out of fears to the cheer of Naderistic zealots and greedy lawyers.
Thus, anyone is a game in this game of chance.
Get 4 books on Daoist sexual techniques by Mantak Chia.
t _secrets .htmlg _love.h tmli .html
Here are the links:
http://www.universal-tao.com/amazon/taois
http://www.universal-tao.com/amazon/healin
http://www.universal-tao.com/amazon/the_mult
http://www.universal-tao.com/amazon/couple.html
If two of you have enough patience and commitment to practicing the exercises, it will be well worth it.
Have you heard the word "postini"? ;-)
As for upgrades, this version is not very obtrusive with that. It offers to apgrade only when I start the player, i.e. after reboot. And I don't reboot too often.
My own experience shows that avoidable gridlocks are often created by bad drivers.
Read this essay of mine on the subject: http://sqft87.pisem.net/tiger/road.html
It has example of that (with sun and sunglasses).
But the general problem is not just with cruise control.
Americans say tons of words about "Team building" et al, but talk is cheap. One needs to watch people in a natural environment witout an iron fist of a manager or sergeant in order to see natural reactions. And natural reactions in this country are not compatible well with a collaborative environment that any road is.
The problem is that degenerate tends to be a degenerate in pretty much everything.
Use technology to compensate for inability to learn, inability to solve problems, and inability to make decisions, and you get HOMO CONSUMERUS instead of HOMO SAPIENS that is equal to inability to live (versus exist).
Even now I can quote "I see dead people. They are everywhere. They don't know they are dead.".
Don't mix speed with the problem.
h tml
There would not be a need to "change lanes like crazy" if it wouldn't be for the selfish idiots who block faster lanes.
The reason for safety and ORDUNG on German Autobahns is the lane discipline and cortesy that is drilled into their drivers. The road for them is the way of transportation and not the way of demonstrating their ego.
Further reading: http://www.motorists.org/ericpeters/skillvsspeed.
http://www.motorists.org/ericpeters/skillvsspeed.h tml
Agree on 1) and 3);
2) requires reworking alongside the German laws.
This is what nationally syndicated columnist Eric Peters thinks: Link
This is what I think: Link
Safer?
What you and different "safety proponent" are saying is essentially "We can compensate better for the population's lack of skill and attention".
> I will guarentee that you WON'T be churning out useful code in LISP in a short time.
;-).
As well as in Prolog and Forth
... Forth.
As someone with MSCS and experience of knowing 4 different Assembly languages, I think students need to be taught Assembly. The key is chosing the best moment to do that.
This moment is defined by the GOAL: teaching the students to write efficient programs.
In my opinion, Assembly should be studied AFTER students study:
1) Algorythms and data structures;
2) Procedural programming;
3) OOP and component models.
These things are good to be taught using C and Java.
At the same time, Assembly should be mastered BEFORE the coding style of a new student will be formed (as well as before different scripting languages).
... Microsoft Monopoly.
.WMV that looks like "the default choice" for many.
The thing is that Real does not have a source of income. Thus, they need to squeeze pennies out of every possible opportunities often not playing nicely (I mean charging for crap, ads and SPAM).
At the same time, every format owner is trying to make his one a default. Not supporting Real means that their "commercial" format will die causing all contents providers switch to
It is the repetition of the browser wars.
BTW, I avoid most of their crap by using older version (revision 6.0.6) of the RealPlayer.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031218. html - this is his take on SPAM. I think, the same logics also applies to this issue.
But I'd prefer to have them shipped overseas.
;-)
Why not, if we do ship nuclear waste there?
Subj is also in a process of being killed.
I live in Oregon, in Portland that is considered a "Rose city".
Guess what - 99% percent of roses that are sold in Oregon are shipped by plane from South America.
Chilean wines are flexing muscles and pushing locals out of the market.
And this happens with pretty much everything.
>The main issue is that rewards will flow to those who have the discipline to wait for rewards, not those who choose to have them today. It's simply a case of short-term vs. long-term and we're on the wrong side of the equation here. If you think you're getting bit in the ass now, just wait a few years when the chickens finally come home to roost.
P almiter/Handout/Articles/Elkind-Lerach-King-Dead.h tm
Unfortunately, there is a bastard you need to blame for everything: http://www.wfu.edu/users/palmitar/Courses/SecReg-
I'd say that it was him who shifted the mentality of the upper management of all companies from the long-term to the "quarter ahead".
Nope, I'm from Russia, and NOT from Iran.
... what is the primary motivation of different crusaders - from Jerry Falwell till Ralph Nader ;-).