The author did mention looking for someplace with a low cost of living. He didn't say where he is living now, but the Toronto area isn't particularly cheap.
According to Homefair's Salary Calculator, Toronto is a smidgen cheaper than Philadelphia, and a good deal more expensive than Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and Sacramento, for instance.
Toronto is, however, quite a bit cheaper than San Jose or San Diego.
Somebody needs to spend a little more time in Econ class.
Waste is bad for an economy. Efficient use of natural resources is good for an economy.
As a practical example:
Say I conserve gas by driving half as much as before. That leaves more money in my pocket for me to either purchase more useful products, or to invest in my businesses to enable me to more effectively produce goods and services.
Now if hundreds of people do this, that's a serious increase in capital investement, which will produce unparalleled growth.
Or even the
next Superbowl?
Have they finished that already? It wasn't supposed to be completed until after they finish fak^H^H^Hproduc^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
until after the presidential inauguration is completed. That was fast work! Can you send me a copy?
Airbus have onboard Solaris systems running AFS and X, etc. The are not critical for flight. They are used for repair manuals (and other documentation?).
Jason,
Don't you think it's a little bit, um, cheap,
for folks to suddenly get all worked up over some gored ox or other AFTER it suddenly becomes THEIR ox?
Or in other words, why should I take your concern about drunk driving so seriously, just because you got creamed? Surely, if drunk driving is a serious concern, it's not made more serious just because it happened to you?
ISTM that people who suddenly develop compunctions about some personal cause celebre are morally inferior to those whose compunctions are formed independently of their own personal tragedies. That is why I do not consider it to Chris Reeve's credit that he is concerned about quadriplegia (well, duh) or to Milken's credit that is agitated over prostate cancer, but I do consider it to Diana Spencer's credit that she is identified with a campaign against landmines, rather than a campaign against drunk driving.
When I carefully read the cited letter, I found that it said something interesting. Let me quote from it.
We are writing on behalf of the more than 8000 members of the
Authors Guild and the 278 member companies of the
Association of American Publishers...
Perhaps their intentions might have been more honestly stated as "We are writing on behalf of the 278 member companies of the Association of American Publishers."
I dunno, we've put up two comsats already in the last year on behalf of a couple of not-to-be-named entrepeneurial outfits who really want to build an anonymous ecash economy, and both of 'em have gone silent. They're still up there, you can see them with a telescope, but they won't last much longer. We haven't been able to talk to the first one for about six months, and the second just went dead last month.
I thought the first one was a fluke, but twice?
We're trying to harden the third one, and I sure hope it works, because the boss has been dropping nasty hints. I think he's just joking, but you can never tell with these guys.
are publishers of many respected technical reference books. Several of my favorite books are CRC titles. I am quite disappointed in this action.
CRC representatives will be at a number of technical conferences this year, including the Computer Security Conference in Chicago next week. I intend to visit their booth and talk to their representative about this shameful action. You should, too.
Assuming they don't just use an attractive freelancing schoolteacher, which other book companies seem to do...
But I really wanted to ask him, "do you really believe that 75 percent of the people work for the government? How many
people do you know? How many work for the government? Do the math!!!!!"
weeelll, I dunno about you, but I work for the federal government at least 25% of the year -- until May sometime, just like everybody. Add that on to all the people who work for state and local governments, fulltime, the military, the schools, the public universities, etc. Then all the people who work in healthcare whose paychecks come more or less directly from Medicare, and I'll betcha that federal, state, and local government control pretty close to 75% of the economy.
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Yeah, and they had to go through the code and remove all the names and initials of all the past developers. For some reason.
I don't care about cell phones, computers, or even relo. I can buy those if I want them, and I get to choose the color. If my employer buys me a pager, it won't be the cool beepwear wristwatch. If my employer buys me a cell phone, it'll be the cheapest model available, and I'll wind up replacing it out of my own pocket anyway, and then waste the company-provided phone.
I don't want any benefits I can just as easily go out and buy. Give me the cash, so I can choose for myself.
The kind of benefits I want are the things I can't buy for myself. For example, no matter how much I make, I can't just decide to buy a quiet office with a door and a window that opens, full-spectrum lighting, and a recliner for the afternoon nap.
The sad thing is most operating systems don't take advantage of some of the features of SCSI. For example tag queuing is not taken advantage of in most
operating systems. Windows 95 never sends a queued command and NT never really uses much queuing (less than 4
outstanding commands at most that I have seen in a bus trace) and if you think Linux does, think again. I looked at one device
driver that only supported one outstanding command per initiator and some other UN*X's are not much better.
NT supposedly supports at least 128 outstanding SCSI commands, but you have to mung something in the registry. I did some hacking on Solaris a few years back, in the context of the great "elevator scheduling debate" on linux-fsdev, to measure a few of my theories about disk scheduling. I wrote my own block scheduler, and I found that, just as you say, there really weren't ever very many outstanding commands. But it wasn't because of any limitation of the driver --
it was because the OS wasn't presenting enough workload to the driver. The net was that Solaris' solution was quite good enough, even though it looks dumb on the surface.
I wouldn't be so quick to blame the NT device driver for the fact that you only saw four outstanding commands on the bus. You just might not have had enough processes running (or maybe you didn't know about munging the registry, cuz the documentation is well hidden.)
you can buy five (5) Seagate Barracuda 9LP drives for a total of $77.50
Those drives have a reserve price set, and it's at least US$46. I don't know what those drives will go for, but based on past EBay auctions for those drives, I'd guess they'll go for $50 - $100 each.
So -- a total of $300 for 36GB of 4+1 RAID 5, sans controller, case and power.
I don't want to know whether this hot talent I want to hire does a little pot in his spare time.
Well, I sure do! How else am I supposed to figure out whether he's going to hang out in the machine room with me and watch the router lights flash while we burn a blunt? Sheeez.
Wow, while that's funny advice, it's also mind numbingly stupid.
And in fact, it may be a crime - Fraud. "Mate in a suit" as lawyer, you've perpetrated a fraud on the company upon which they have relied, and if something goes wrong, you're screwed.
Wow, was that what it said on the bar exam you just finished? Did you pass, by the way? Or haven't you heard yet?
I understand that you're really defensive about people diminishing the status of lawyers, you've got a lot wrapped up in the notion that lawyers are special people. But please.
Do a bit more studying before you go off and file a complaint against somebody on these grounds. It would be a bad start for a newbie lawyer.
We don't bring someone in for an interview unless we're already pretty sure that he's got what we want. We make offers to about 65% of those.
If you said that you didn't want to sign an NDA yet, we would understand -- you wouldn't be jeopardizing the interview yet.
We would do about half the interview, and then if we were pretty sure that things were going well, would bring up the NDA issue again.
But we are doing something novel. We aren't going to find people who have done *exactly* this sort of thing before, so we're looking for people who can see what we're doing and figure out how to apply their own experience in an unexpected way.
They'll be doing it often:-).
There are three or four large venues in my area which routinely fill up for monster rock concerts.
U2, the Dead, Prince, whoever. One is a professional football stadium. Ticket sales rake in a small fortune.
Go ahead, put *that* on Napster.
Usenet 2 appears to still be going. It appears to have been thoroughly scaled back from the original grand plans.
What ever happened to www.usenet2.org ?
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Did they forget to pay their bill again?
The author did mention looking for someplace with a low cost of living. He didn't say where he is living now, but the Toronto area isn't particularly cheap.
According to Homefair's Salary Calculator, Toronto is a smidgen cheaper than Philadelphia, and a good deal more expensive than Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and Sacramento, for instance.
Toronto is, however, quite a bit cheaper than San Jose or San Diego.
Somebody needs to spend a little more time in Econ class.
Waste is bad for an economy.
Efficient use of natural resources is good for an economy.
As a practical example:
Say I conserve gas by driving half as much as before. That leaves more money in my pocket for me to either purchase more useful products, or to invest in my businesses to enable me to more effectively produce goods and services.
Now if hundreds of people do this, that's a serious increase in capital investement, which will produce unparalleled growth.
Or even the next Superbowl?
Have they finished that already? It wasn't supposed to be completed until after they finish fak^H^H^Hproduc^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
until after the presidential inauguration is completed. That was fast work! Can you send me a copy?
Airbus have onboard Solaris systems running AFS and X, etc. The are not critical for flight. They are used for repair manuals (and other documentation?).
And you bought service from them anyway? ...the mind boggles.
Jason,
Don't you think it's a little bit, um, cheap, for folks to suddenly get all worked up over some gored ox or other AFTER it suddenly becomes THEIR ox?
Or in other words, why should I take your concern about drunk driving so seriously, just because you got creamed? Surely, if drunk driving is a serious concern, it's not made more serious just because it happened to you?
ISTM that people who suddenly develop compunctions about some personal cause celebre are morally inferior to those whose compunctions are formed independently of their own personal tragedies. That is why I do not consider it to Chris Reeve's credit that he is concerned about quadriplegia (well, duh) or to Milken's credit that is agitated over prostate cancer, but I do consider it to Diana Spencer's credit that she is identified with a campaign against landmines, rather than a campaign against drunk driving.
I dunno, we've put up two comsats already in the last year on behalf of a couple of not-to-be-named entrepeneurial outfits who really want to build an anonymous ecash economy, and both of 'em have gone silent. They're still up there, you can see them with a telescope, but they won't last much longer. We haven't been able to talk to the first one for about six months, and the second just went dead last month. I thought the first one was a fluke, but twice? We're trying to harden the third one, and I sure hope it works, because the boss has been dropping nasty hints. I think he's just joking, but you can never tell with these guys.
There should be a rule that if the winner does not have a clear margin - say 5%, that they all candidates go home and we start over with a new bunch.
CRC representatives will be at a number of technical conferences this year, including the Computer Security Conference in Chicago next week. I intend to visit their booth and talk to their representative about this shameful action. You should, too.
Assuming they don't just use an attractive freelancing schoolteacher, which other book companies seem to do...
they're awfully quick to cry "foul". But when it's my ox, who sticks up for me? Not the Republicrats.
weeelll, I dunno about you, but I work for the federal government at least 25% of the year -- until May sometime, just like everybody. Add that on to all the people who work for state and local governments, fulltime, the military, the schools, the public universities, etc. Then all the people who work in healthcare whose paychecks come more or less directly from Medicare, and I'll betcha that federal, state, and local government control pretty close to 75% of the economy.
Yeah, and they had to go through the code and remove all the names and initials of all the past developers. For some reason.
I don't care about cell phones, computers, or even relo.
I can buy those if I want them, and I get to choose the color. If my employer buys me a pager, it won't be the cool beepwear wristwatch. If my employer buys me a cell phone, it'll be the cheapest model available, and I'll wind up replacing it out of my own pocket anyway, and then waste the company-provided phone.
I don't want any benefits I can just as easily go out and buy. Give me the cash, so I can choose for myself.
The kind of benefits I want are the things I can't buy for myself. For example, no matter how much I make, I can't just decide to buy a quiet office with a door and a window that opens, full-spectrum lighting, and a recliner for the afternoon nap.
:-) In fact, AFS uses the MIT DES implementation.
The sad thing is most operating systems don't take advantage of some of the features of SCSI. For example tag queuing is not taken advantage of in most operating systems. Windows 95 never sends a queued command and NT never really uses much queuing (less than 4 outstanding commands at most that I have seen in a bus trace) and if you think Linux does, think again. I looked at one device driver that only supported one outstanding command per initiator and some other UN*X's are not much better.
NT supposedly supports at least 128 outstanding SCSI commands, but you have to mung something in the registry. I did some hacking on Solaris a few years back, in the context of the great "elevator scheduling debate" on linux-fsdev, to measure a few of my theories about disk scheduling. I wrote my own block scheduler, and I found that, just as you say, there really weren't ever very many outstanding commands. But it wasn't because of any limitation of the driver -- it was because the OS wasn't presenting enough workload to the driver. The net was that Solaris' solution was quite good enough, even though it looks dumb on the surface.
I wouldn't be so quick to blame the NT device driver for the fact that you only saw four outstanding commands on the bus. You just might not have had enough processes running (or maybe you didn't know about munging the registry, cuz the documentation is well hidden.)
you can buy five (5) Seagate Barracuda 9LP drives for a total of $77.50
Those drives have a reserve price set, and it's at least US$46. I don't know what those drives will go for, but based on past EBay auctions for those drives, I'd guess they'll go for $50 - $100 each.
So -- a total of $300 for 36GB of 4+1 RAID 5, sans controller, case and power.
I don't want to know whether this hot talent I want to hire does a little pot in his spare time. Well, I sure do! How else am I supposed to figure out whether he's going to hang out in the machine room with me and watch the router lights flash while we burn a blunt? Sheeez.
Wow, while that's funny advice, it's also mind numbingly stupid. And in fact, it may be a crime - Fraud. "Mate in a suit" as lawyer, you've perpetrated a fraud on the company upon which they have relied, and if something goes wrong, you're screwed.
Wow, was that what it said on the bar exam you just finished? Did you pass, by the way? Or haven't you heard yet?
I understand that you're really defensive about people diminishing the status of lawyers, you've got a lot wrapped up in the notion that lawyers are special people. But please.
Do a bit more studying before you go off and file a complaint against somebody on these grounds. It would be a bad start for a newbie lawyer.
We don't bring someone in for an interview unless we're already pretty sure that he's got what we want. We make offers to about 65% of those. If you said that you didn't want to sign an NDA yet, we would understand -- you wouldn't be jeopardizing the interview yet. We would do about half the interview, and then if we were pretty sure that things were going well, would bring up the NDA issue again. But we are doing something novel. We aren't going to find people who have done *exactly* this sort of thing before, so we're looking for people who can see what we're doing and figure out how to apply their own experience in an unexpected way. They'll be doing it often :-).
among other things -- DES. Go figure.
HEY! Damnit! that's MY number!
There are three or four large venues in my area which routinely fill up for monster rock concerts. U2, the Dead, Prince, whoever. One is a professional football stadium. Ticket sales rake in a small fortune. Go ahead, put *that* on Napster.
Usenet 2 appears to still be going. It appears to have been thoroughly scaled back from the original grand plans. What ever happened to www.usenet2.org ?