Move whatever operations that require 45MBps to an area where high speed fiber is available.
Paying outrageous fees or investing lots of money into oddball technology is retarded these days. You don't have to look hard to find industrial or commercial areas where high-speed telco access has already been installed by a local government or development authority, or where the state government will give you tax breaks or grants to install such equipment.
Universities operate tech parks as well, here's an example of a successful one as well: http://www.rpitechpark.com/aboutpark.php
The big problem that I see with "Grid Computing" is that 99% of articles about it point out that it is cool and leave it at that. A few articles will point out how GM does rendering for CAD/CAM stuff or how Folding@Home works.
My question is what business problems can be solved with grids? Most people do not work in scientific computing facilities and most engineering departments are overseas anyway.
That actually is a legitimate business. The problem is getting access to the original document. Mueseums typically do not allow you to take a Van Gogh off the wall to scan it.
Ever buy a print at the store? A reproduction of a work is a copyrightable work in of itself.
US Steel now produces steel for 1/3 the cost of what Korean steelmakers do. Korean steelmakers, known as the cheapest on the world market require twenty men for what US Steel does with two.
The US GOVERNMENT hasn't adapted the law to get with the times. A steel company that employes 3,000 people today has to pay 100% of the health insurance costs of 40,000 retirees.
Health insurance is increasing in price, thanks to the the government, at a 10-15% annual rate. Don't blame workers who "cannot adapt".
Tariffs are a tax and are neither good nor bad. Once upon a time, the Federal government was funded by tariffs rather than onerous and invasive income taxes. They also allow domestic industry to flourish in the face of uneven labor and currency markets.
That's different. Someone who hated their old job and decided to explore the computers (and is good) is worth a fortune... because they understand their old business.
Go to a private college (about $25k in the mid 90's) despite the fact that your family has no money in the bank and a high income.
Decide to change your major halfway through from science (too hard) to social welfare or history. So six years college with $32k/year in loans (they borrowed for books & rent) plus the accumulating interest equals $250k in debt!
And student loans cannot be discharged by bankruptcy. Too many law & medical students were defaulting on loans in the 80's and they changed the laws.
I imagine that some things depend on where you teach. I didn't intend to pass off teaching as a country club... but you have to admit that plenty of people in education get away with crap that would never fly in other occupations.
In New York, you get the summer, spring break, winter break, christmas break and jewish holidays in the fall.
That's pretty much 3 months to me.
That time is an awesome thing. My sister is an avid outdoorswoman... the vacations allow her to take trips and do things that would not be possible with a corporate job.
A friend of a friend comes from a poor family, but came under the delusion that a 5 year BS Business/MBA program at a $33,000/yr school would guarantee a $120k job.
Unfortunately, she's stuck with a $32k job and a $500/mo loan payment until she consolidates.
What the chart doesn't show is that teaching is a union job where salaries are based on service.
A teacher's base salary is $30k, but you get a $2-5k differential when you get your masters degree, plus you get guaranteed annual "step" raises until retirement.
My sister started as a teacher five years ago making $29k. With her Master's (paid for by the school) and tenure she now makes around $48k and will retire at 50 with a salary of at least $80k.
Then she gets a 55% pension, guaranteed by the state constitution until she dies.
Teachers work 9 months out of the year and are guaranteed employment for life. They teach a state mandated curiculum and have no performance standards to adhere to once they earn tenure.
Salarys for nurses vary widely. The nurse in a family doctor's office does not make alot of money, but doesn't need alot of skills either. Specialized nurses make signifigantly larger sums of money and need to maintain multiple certifications and take continuing education.
If you want to get rich, take a high stress, high risk job. If you want to take it easy, don't expect a huge check.
Sure, but when your family doesn't have the resources to pay $150,000+ to send you to college, you end up getting straddled with crushing debt.
Even at low interest rates, supporting a debt load that high for an undergraduate degree is lunacy.
And there is no guarantee that not going to college will leave you behind and going to college guarantees success. I know a girl who was a "bad girl" in high school and dropped out in 11th grade... she now owns 2 bars at age 23 and bought a $250k house with cash. I also know plenty of stoner dopes with master's degrees, $250k+ college debt who work at Starbucks or Wal-Mart
Online calendaring is the tool of the incompetent manager.
Meetings with huge groups of people are monumental wastes of time & energy.
I can't even count the number of "show & tell" staff meetings that I wasted my time on over the years. At one meeting, where the attendees were mostly contract staff, we estimated that one droning staff meeting cost about $50/minute with no discernable value.
Taxes are taxes. If you want to argue that FICA and Medicare spending, which consists of something like 35% of the budget, are actual not part of the Federal budget, all the more power too you. Try pulling that with your landlord or cable company.
Here's a link to the citizens guide to the budget:
This is a very high level overview. You'll get more specific data & projections by googling for the "Congressional Budget Office" and the "Office of Management and Budget". If you want to read the actual bills, head to www.thomas.gov.
(You'll notice that the numbers that I quoted off the top of my head were somewhat inprecise.)
By statute, most federal spending is non-discretionary. In the last 60 or so years, the Federal government has expanded its role and taken a good deal of power from the states with things like highways, education and health care.
Are some very valuable discretionary programs being cut right now in favor of paying for the war? Certainly.
The current climate change isn't caused by high levels of pollution generated by the United States -- pollution levels are likely signifigantly lower than they were 50 or 100 years ago in the era of heavy industry and poisoned rivers.
The climate *change* is due to the literal industrial revolution that is taking place right now in East Asia. Increased emissions from automobiles (relatively rare in Asia until recently) and heavy industry are affecting Pacific weather patterns, which has a cascading effect on US weather and the Gulf Stream.
Bush is responsible for global warming, a decade of SUV popularity has devastated the Earth, and destroying the global economy via the Kyoto protocol would have saved us all.
Try to remove politics from your thinking regarding this issue.
Temperature changes in the pacific (remember el nino?) are driving the climatic change and is threatening the gulf stream.
Let's think about what may have screwed up weather patterns in the Pacific... hmmm... maybe the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the 90's... maybe the burgeoning industrialization along the Pacific rim...
The climate has changed alot in the last 200 years. The East River in NYC (salt water) used to freeze solid between Brooklyn & Manhattan. One of the problems that legitimate scientists have is that weather data is spotty or nonexistant if you go back more than fifty years or so.
Trying to pin this stuff on Bush is nothing more than a display of ignorance.
Northern Africa was once a fertile plain that was the breadbasket of Rome. Now it is part of the world's largest desert. (And you cannot blame that on Bush either, greenies)
Climates change. If you own property that turns into a desert, you are screwed financially.
If you had any idea what you are talking about, you'd know that temperature variations in the Pacific are creating alot of the cascading climatic changes that we are witnessing today.
Industrialization in China and the rest of the Pacific Rim is driving these changes, just as industrialization in North America altered weather patterns in the US and Europe in the 19th century.
Oh and btw the US spending breakdown is: 15% military 15% debt service 7% government operations 63% social services
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What was the alternative in 1997?
Unless you had millions for overpriced Sun or HP hardware, Windows was pretty much it.
The behavior of an application that 97% of the market uses is a standard.
The W3C does great work, but if companies dropped everything to adopt everything they put out, we'd still be running Netscape Navigator Gold.
W3C standards are no panacea... there must be at least 50 XML standards alone.
Move whatever operations that require 45MBps to an area where high speed fiber is available.
Paying outrageous fees or investing lots of money into oddball technology is retarded these days. You don't have to look hard to find industrial or commercial areas where high-speed telco access has already been installed by a local government or development authority, or where the state government will give you tax breaks or grants to install such equipment.
Universities operate tech parks as well, here's an example of a successful one as well:
http://www.rpitechpark.com/aboutpark.php
You can sign your name with an "X" if you want to, it still legally binding.
The big problem that I see with "Grid Computing" is that 99% of articles about it point out that it is cool and leave it at that. A few articles will point out how GM does rendering for CAD/CAM stuff or how Folding@Home works.
My question is what business problems can be solved with grids? Most people do not work in scientific computing facilities and most engineering departments are overseas anyway.
That actually is a legitimate business. The problem is getting access to the original document. Mueseums typically do not allow you to take a Van Gogh off the wall to scan it.
Ever buy a print at the store? A reproduction of a work is a copyrightable work in of itself.
FUD Alert!
It has nothing to do with the steel workers.
US Steel now produces steel for 1/3 the cost of what Korean steelmakers do. Korean steelmakers, known as the cheapest on the world market require twenty men for what US Steel does with two.
The US GOVERNMENT hasn't adapted the law to get with the times. A steel company that employes 3,000 people today has to pay 100% of the health insurance costs of 40,000 retirees.
Health insurance is increasing in price, thanks to the the government, at a 10-15% annual rate. Don't blame workers who "cannot adapt".
Tariffs are a tax and are neither good nor bad. Once upon a time, the Federal government was funded by tariffs rather than onerous and invasive income taxes. They also allow domestic industry to flourish in the face of uneven labor and currency markets.
That's different. Someone who hated their old job and decided to explore the computers (and is good) is worth a fortune... because they understand their old business.
Or one moron.
Go to a private college (about $25k in the mid 90's) despite the fact that your family has no money in the bank and a high income.
Decide to change your major halfway through from science (too hard) to social welfare or history. So six years college with $32k/year in loans (they borrowed for books & rent) plus the accumulating interest equals $250k in debt!
And student loans cannot be discharged by bankruptcy. Too many law & medical students were defaulting on loans in the 80's and they changed the laws.
I imagine that some things depend on where you teach. I didn't intend to pass off teaching as a country club... but you have to admit that plenty of people in education get away with crap that would never fly in other occupations.
In New York, you get the summer, spring break, winter break, christmas break and jewish holidays in the fall.
That's pretty much 3 months to me.
That time is an awesome thing. My sister is an avid outdoorswoman... the vacations allow her to take trips and do things that would not be possible with a corporate job.
You'd think people would realize that.
A friend of a friend comes from a poor family, but came under the delusion that a 5 year BS Business/MBA program at a $33,000/yr school would guarantee a $120k job.
Unfortunately, she's stuck with a $32k job and a $500/mo loan payment until she consolidates.
What the chart doesn't show is that teaching is a union job where salaries are based on service.
A teacher's base salary is $30k, but you get a $2-5k differential when you get your masters degree, plus you get guaranteed annual "step" raises until retirement.
My sister started as a teacher five years ago making $29k. With her Master's (paid for by the school) and tenure she now makes around $48k and will retire at 50 with a salary of at least $80k.
Then she gets a 55% pension, guaranteed by the state constitution until she dies.
Please.
Teachers work 9 months out of the year and are guaranteed employment for life. They teach a state mandated curiculum and have no performance standards to adhere to once they earn tenure.
Salarys for nurses vary widely. The nurse in a family doctor's office does not make alot of money, but doesn't need alot of skills either. Specialized nurses make signifigantly larger sums of money and need to maintain multiple certifications and take continuing education.
If you want to get rich, take a high stress, high risk job. If you want to take it easy, don't expect a huge check.
You started college in the middle of the dotcom boom. Salarys were inflated.
No college grad is worth $60k. Period.
We pay grads $35k. Good workers make it up to $50k in two years, mediocre ones go nowhere and shitty ones get fired.
Sure, but when your family doesn't have the resources to pay $150,000+ to send you to college, you end up getting straddled with crushing debt.
Even at low interest rates, supporting a debt load that high for an undergraduate degree is lunacy.
And there is no guarantee that not going to college will leave you behind and going to college guarantees success. I know a girl who was a "bad girl" in high school and dropped out in 11th grade... she now owns 2 bars at age 23 and bought a $250k house with cash. I also know plenty of stoner dopes with master's degrees, $250k+ college debt who work at Starbucks or Wal-Mart
US Steel was able to reorganize itself from a state of near bankruptcy to modest profitability due to the steel tariff.
The guy that the parent poster would like to export stuff to China, which is growing at hyper-speed and has plenty of tool and die customers.
But the Chinese gov't slaps a 30% tariff to encourage local industry.
The US is utterly dependent on the Chinese government and Industrialists buying US Government debt that we accept that situation.
Heck, the "free" market people have even convinced people like you that the destruction of our nation is a good thing!
It's called a secretary.
I bet hiring a few costs less than licensing & support from exchange.
As an added bonus, they are generally intelligent people who can do more complex tasks and are usually attractive.
Isn't Eric Raymond a zen master or nordic god or something?
He'd probaly convince you to just pay him, and to hell with the work.
Online calendaring is the tool of the incompetent manager.
Meetings with huge groups of people are monumental wastes of time & energy.
I can't even count the number of "show & tell" staff meetings that I wasted my time on over the years. At one meeting, where the attendees were mostly contract staff, we estimated that one droning staff meeting cost about $50/minute with no discernable value.
Taxes are taxes. If you want to argue that FICA and Medicare spending, which consists of something like 35% of the budget, are actual not part of the Federal budget, all the more power too you. Try pulling that with your landlord or cable company.
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Here's a link to the citizens guide to the budget:
http://w3.access.gpo.gov/usbudget/fy2001/guide0
This is a very high level overview. You'll get more specific data & projections by googling for the "Congressional Budget Office" and the "Office of Management and Budget". If you want to read the actual bills, head to www.thomas.gov.
(You'll notice that the numbers that I quoted off the top of my head were somewhat inprecise.)
By statute, most federal spending is non-discretionary. In the last 60 or so years, the Federal government has expanded its role and taken a good deal of power from the states with things like highways, education and health care.
Are some very valuable discretionary programs being cut right now in favor of paying for the war? Certainly.
The current climate change isn't caused by high levels of pollution generated by the United States -- pollution levels are likely signifigantly lower than they were 50 or 100 years ago in the era of heavy industry and poisoned rivers.
The climate *change* is due to the literal industrial revolution that is taking place right now in East Asia. Increased emissions from automobiles (relatively rare in Asia until recently) and heavy industry are affecting Pacific weather patterns, which has a cascading effect on US weather and the Gulf Stream.
On second thought, you are absolutely right.
Bush is responsible for global warming, a decade of SUV popularity has devastated the Earth, and destroying the global economy via the Kyoto protocol would have saved us all.
Thank you
Try to remove politics from your thinking regarding this issue.
Temperature changes in the pacific (remember el nino?) are driving the climatic change and is threatening the gulf stream.
Let's think about what may have screwed up weather patterns in the Pacific... hmmm... maybe the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the 90's... maybe the burgeoning industrialization along the Pacific rim...
The climate has changed alot in the last 200 years. The East River in NYC (salt water) used to freeze solid between Brooklyn & Manhattan. One of the problems that legitimate scientists have is that weather data is spotty or nonexistant if you go back more than fifty years or so.
Trying to pin this stuff on Bush is nothing more than a display of ignorance.
Good point.
Science is now mostly government funded, so the more alarmist the predictions of global destruction are, the more funding you'll get in FY2005.
Northern Africa was once a fertile plain that was the breadbasket of Rome. Now it is part of the world's largest desert. (And you cannot blame that on Bush either, greenies)
Climates change. If you own property that turns into a desert, you are screwed financially.
Woah... take a pill dude.
If you had any idea what you are talking about, you'd know that temperature variations in the Pacific are creating alot of the cascading climatic changes that we are witnessing today.
Industrialization in China and the rest of the Pacific Rim is driving these changes, just as industrialization in North America altered weather patterns in the US and Europe in the 19th century.
Oh and btw the US spending breakdown is:
15% military
15% debt service
7% government operations
63% social services