These pundits get paid to talk about technology in terms of way it would've been done in the past and how ridiculous it looks now to do that, relating to the past.
Its new technology, its here, just use it or loose it.
As with telephone, way in back times, you didn't have to see the person you're talking to. That must've been pretty weird experience, when to talk to someone you really had to go over and see them.
Revolutionary technology is always weird, you don't have to walk then miles and think ten days to figure it out. It even more pathetic, trying to bend yourself out of shape, trying to imagine weirdness of said technology. Its been said too, that people never really accept new ideas, rather they die and newborn get to understand that the world way it is, is just normal.
it is known that rich people are better protected and more litigious then average joes selling misc. widgets on e-store. it is much easier to hit up unsuspecting joe for couple of hundred grand, then wealthy one for a mil or ten, in hidden revenues. Also it creates notion that they are somehow doing something, somehow justifying their large salaries. Last time I saw people at work browsing ebay, they got fired. 2c.
..."world-wide are projected to stagnate or possibly fall due to the large pool of qualified applicants in the market today"...
There is problem in paying too much heed to this. for reasons: 1. If you requalify yourself into solutions builder, you can most of the time compete with foreign workforce due to communications quality. 2. In general it is bad business to be an employee, as your fixed wage is seen as cost to the business and not an investment, and is something to be reduced and an opportune moment. 3. Staying flexible, with an eye open to doing things your own way is always better.
Smart and flexible people and thats coders always made more money. Larger corporations typically pay well, but first ones to ditch the expensive workforce, because of size of percieved savings. So don't be loyal to IBM, Oracle or Intel. Smaller companies may be better about it, but still business is a business. You must give business something in return for money. ie. be useful to the bottom line.
Unfortunately companies don't practice profit sharing, so it is tough to asess the importance of your work, to the company in terms of your results and output from them in terms of cash. And there is no better way to motivate people then condition them that they will get paid more if they work harder.
How do you put metrics on janitors? Sysadmins are just that, for computer software and such. There are no strict parallels. But how do you measure productivity of a person that is responsible for upkeep, vs production. You can't so you'll have to let them bring overall system evaluators, on monthly basis to see if everything is cool. I can't any other way to measure it. How can you measure productivity of prison guard that works on top of the guard tower.You can't really. Thats why there are managers, good ones can keep beancounters at bay and have you work on interesting things. 2c
after gold standard was lifted, the whole world economics became unhinged and perverted. There are no base rules, but some ideas why it works like it does. It seems cheaper currency makes for good investment into a country... but if currency is cheap and there is a default coming onto a country's bank, then it will be cheaper even. So it is investing into a country when things are about to be 10x cheaper then 10-20% cheaper. Money doesn't like to stand around, so fact of deficit doesn't mean end to all things, perhaps a reshuffle of the old ones. Bad ideas get sifted out, new ones take hold for the benefit of most people. That given,there might be short term poverty... As in Russia when there was a bank default, investments just flooded the country, and now there are jobs and prosperity, relative to what it was. And people are far better off then they were before.
It seems like flushing old money out of the system rejuvenates the country... iMO
Yes that would be the best way, but testing should be rigorous and wide. Such as testing in the field, references and existing knowledge or english. As well, requirement to have proficent knowledge of the language before getting the immigration. There shouldn't be useless rules, but rather flexible on industry side, to accept "doers" and on the language side, citizens that can be proficient in political life of the country.
From what I have read burning ethanol produces nearly as much CO2 as of regular gas. Given we do take carbon source from the plant, which reabsorb it, picture often is quite a bit more complex then a loop of carbon described in our grade school geography class (at there where we were taught that). Anyhow, I thought the idea would be to go completely electric and have control over CO2 emissions at places of control, and degrade necessity on cabon fuels over time in favour of non-carbon energy sources, wind, solar and nearterm nuclear.(however it is hard to build quality nuclear stations fast, though I might be wrong).
I am not against going to ethanol, at least it will alleviate some pollution in the downtown core of my home city. We are still suffering from soot pollution of many coal powered stations that still give much of electricity to our region.
So to round it up, isn't there a deception going on war against greenhouse gasses vs pollution. Mass media as usual seems to be confusing the public, rolling with what the white house has preached.
Just a quote from a poster to the orignial article's forum:
"> Wasn't that crash in Brooklyn a few months after 9/11 due to a carbon composite tailfin ripping off?
That was an Airbus plane... American products are genetically such superior that they need no testing at all! BTW, Boeing's reason for not testing is that fine carbon powder released by a tension breakage would contaminate and destroy expensive equipment and require hazmat cleaning procedures afterwards. Imagine if a B787 crashes real-life, what pollution would be there! Carbon fibre shards and powder are known dangerous to lungs, carbon brake discs are about to be banned from Formula-1 car races because many drivers are already ill. I think Boeing is doing an ugly thing purely for profit and fate will punih them."
American government have much to worry about, since its total trade deficit and very weak currency, that is artificially propped up. Seeing this from perspective of economy, it may well be that government is preparing for a big one. Once the economy collapses and all the crooks of the white house and other hight governmental circles are exposed, with economy dead - people will take revenge.
Oil will get only more expensive, with weak currency, US might not afford the oil anymore. Just a thought, It may well be all false.
I think IBM shouldn't simply forgive the debt and at least pester someone else, such way that schools funding will not be jeopardized. Given the school's bookkeeping practices should be given a hard look and thorough evaluation, so such thing doesn't happen again.
Schooling is one of the foundations of the society. Of course this is only one school, IBM shouldn't make precedent, that it is ok to bankrupt schools if they lead shoddy accounting practices. The school was a bad customer, but there is more to the school then a purchaser of electronic hardware bits. It is responsible for the future of the nation.
IBM should champion the change, forcing a retrofit to such shoddy accounting practices, not try collect money any way possible. imo, p
America doesn't care for any particular country's distruction. Often the money and interests drive political contributions and in general how money changes hands. America doesn't give two shits about Israel, besides the fact that is one of the largest purchasers of American military equipment. At present war is going to end in Iraq sooner or later, It is time for white house to find some other area they can expend money they don't have, on stock piling weapons militarization programs etc.
Follow the trail of the money, usually will yield meaningful answer as to why these things happen. Besides the fact that Russians are scared to be subdued into a thirdworld country status, fact that it is mandated in the american law that russia/ussr to dissolved any means possible/impossible.
*shrug* People get upset when you cut them off from their prodigious money flows. You know making lots of money is like drugs, its very addictive and rehabilitation can take a while. There was alot of fraudulent money flowing out of Russia, and now this has stopped. Rightly so people are looking to fix this situation with strong russian government and reliable economy. Resources are becoming scarcer every day and Russia looks like big meaty pie for a resource hungry first world. And its back to the money. 2c
Somehow Cuban crisis has been forgotten, except this is in reverse play now. Do remember, that there is an official law in United States that mandates destruction of entity that is Russia using any means. If there is such intent, how can one country's government feel safe in face of such powerful nation.
Wonder if there will be a third term of Bush & Co, under real invocation of war powers acts and suspension of human rights.
You make valid points, however don't forget have two faces, while implementing this for ordinary citizen, mostly it will be used and abused to target people that aren't "in-line" with political views of the state. In soviet union, back in the day I remember parents had to be member of political party to be validated for certain kinds of work. You would be reviewed by communist review board, not related to your work whether you are politically clean and fit to work, say as in print media or a TV station. Thing to no-work database as a tool. They say they will use it for only designated list of things. How can you be sure that they will not use to enlist people in there - those who participated in peace protests?
I think the whole immigrant issue is a mess, and USA will pay for it years to come.
Moralizing on way people get about their life? I think its presumptuous on behalf of google to be judge of such things, and perhaps let not google but customer decide what is moral and what is not. It seems that internet is being "sanitized" to suit the average joe for profits and control of the customer base. Google isn't for liberty, they are for profit. It seems they go smart way about it, without being asinine.
But then again, in the age when politicians are bought by a dozen, to defend and give unfair treatment to tobacco, alcohol, media and other questionably ethical conglomerates, perhaps google will have the power to wring world back to sanity?
I can sort of understand how it works, sort of like a deeper net. Because russia is composed of so many peoples, people who don't have documents, might be up to no good. As often they may be. In moscow, there is passport regime, you have to have passport on you at all times. Kind of odd.
In japan it is even stricter, you have to have your Id and document where you live to get, bus pass, an internet account, a phone number, really to do anything worthwhile. And the police there always stop gaijin to verify documents, and question you and if you don't have documents they arrest you. And thats one of the least violent countries in the world.
Clearly you don't know russia, and system of polical and power counterweight. Russian economy has been modernised and ivestments are pouring in. Contrary to the "free" countries where Bush & Co sponsored revolutions. Their economies in the state of disarray. And and the moment them becoming free, the had military bases placed there, guess whose are those? And the west turns their back on them. They aren't part of EU and they have broken all ties off from Russia and nighbours. The whole freedom stuff, bandaid form purported singlehandedly by USA and funded to the tune of 40 - 80 US dollars each. They aren't free people uprising.
Really russians can reinstate, its control over Estonia.
As well you have failed to notice that most revolutions / major shifts in economic processes within contries, lead by USA, have lead to dismal failures. Thats why China tells them to stay the fuck out. And thats why they are doing relatively well. Look to the countries in South america and guided former states of soviet union.
before putin system was so corrupt, nothing could be done from regular citizens. thats all. i have my reservations about putin, but he isn't as bad as you think. See how much damage his counterpart in US did to liberties of its citizens, thereby damaging the models countries can strive towards.
He can be search out for treason by spies and shot before he makes his move. Putin is popular in russia, he'd have to pull operation with help of CIA. And I bet CIA has its hands full in Iraq & regions now. Maybe he can call mossad or something.
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This kind of surgery smells of butchery. Can't wait for upgrade patches.
http://xkcd.org/644/
Tinyurl it. It works!(tm)
"(Seriously: We have the porn companies to thank for pioneering all sorts of technologies, from VHS to secure credit-card transactions online.)"
I didn't know porn companies invented VHS. From this fact, I will treat the article suspect, esp. after seriously part.
P.
These pundits get paid to talk about technology in terms of way it would've been done in the past and how ridiculous it looks now to do that, relating to the past.
Its new technology, its here, just use it or loose it.
As with telephone, way in back times, you didn't have to see the person you're talking to. That must've been pretty weird experience, when to talk to someone you really had to go over and see them.
Revolutionary technology is always weird, you don't have to walk then miles and think ten days to figure it out. It even more pathetic, trying to bend yourself out of shape, trying to imagine weirdness of said technology. Its been said too, that people never really accept new ideas, rather they die and newborn get to understand that the world way it is, is just normal.
it is known that rich people are better protected and more litigious then average joes selling misc. widgets on e-store. it is much easier to hit up unsuspecting joe for couple of hundred grand, then wealthy one for a mil or ten, in hidden revenues. Also it creates notion that they are somehow doing something, somehow justifying their large salaries. Last time I saw people at work browsing ebay, they got fired.
2c.
..."world-wide are projected to stagnate or possibly fall due to the large pool of qualified applicants in the market today"...
There is problem in paying too much heed to this. for reasons:
1. If you requalify yourself into solutions builder, you can most of the time compete with foreign workforce due to communications quality.
2. In general it is bad business to be an employee, as your fixed wage is seen as cost to the business and not an investment, and is something to be reduced and an opportune moment.
3. Staying flexible, with an eye open to doing things your own way is always better.
Smart and flexible people and thats coders always made more money. Larger corporations typically pay well, but first ones to ditch the expensive workforce, because of size of percieved savings. So don't be loyal to IBM, Oracle or Intel. Smaller companies may be better about it, but still business is a business. You must give business something in return for money. ie. be useful to the bottom line.
Unfortunately companies don't practice profit sharing, so it is tough to asess the importance of your work, to the company in terms of your results and output from them in terms of cash. And there is no better way to motivate people then condition them that they will get paid more if they work harder.
2c
How do you put metrics on janitors? Sysadmins are just that, for computer software and such. There are no strict parallels. But how do you measure productivity of a person that is responsible for upkeep, vs production. You can't so you'll have to let them bring overall system evaluators, on monthly basis to see if everything is cool.
I can't any other way to measure it. How can you measure productivity of prison guard that works on top of the guard tower.You can't really. Thats why there are managers, good ones can keep beancounters at bay and have you work on interesting things.
2c
after gold standard was lifted, the whole world economics became unhinged and perverted. There are no base rules, but some ideas why it works like it does. It seems cheaper currency makes for good investment into a country ... but if currency is cheap and there is a default coming onto a country's bank, then it will be cheaper even. So it is investing into a country when things are about to be 10x cheaper then 10-20% cheaper.
Money doesn't like to stand around, so fact of deficit doesn't mean end to all things, perhaps a reshuffle of the old ones. Bad ideas get sifted out, new ones take hold for the benefit of most people. That given,there might be short term poverty...
As in Russia when there was a bank default, investments just flooded the country, and now there are jobs and prosperity, relative to what it was. And people are far better off then they were before.
It seems like flushing old money out of the system rejuvenates the country... iMO
Yes that would be the best way, but testing should be rigorous and wide. Such as testing in the field, references and existing knowledge or english. As well, requirement to have proficent knowledge of the language before getting the immigration. There shouldn't be useless rules, but rather flexible on industry side, to accept "doers" and on the language side, citizens that can be proficient in political life of the country.
From what I have read burning ethanol produces nearly as much CO2 as of regular gas. Given we do take carbon source from the plant, which reabsorb it, picture often is quite a bit more complex then a loop of carbon described in our grade school geography class (at there where we were taught that). Anyhow, I thought the idea would be to go completely electric and have control over CO2 emissions at places of control, and degrade necessity on cabon fuels over time in favour of non-carbon energy sources, wind, solar and nearterm nuclear.(however it is hard to build quality nuclear stations fast, though I might be wrong).
I am not against going to ethanol, at least it will alleviate some pollution in the downtown core of my home city. We are still suffering from soot pollution of many coal powered stations that still give much of electricity to our region.
So to round it up, isn't there a deception going on war against greenhouse gasses vs pollution. Mass media as usual seems to be confusing the public, rolling with what the white house has preached.
Hey, thanks for pointing out the reason for why they can be health hazard.
Just a quote from a poster to the orignial article's forum:
"> Wasn't that crash in Brooklyn a few months after 9/11 due to a carbon composite tailfin ripping off?
That was an Airbus plane... American products are genetically such superior that they need no testing at all! BTW, Boeing's reason for not testing is that fine carbon powder released by a tension breakage would contaminate and destroy expensive equipment and require hazmat cleaning procedures afterwards. Imagine if a B787 crashes real-life, what pollution would be there! Carbon fibre shards and powder are known dangerous to lungs, carbon brake discs are about to be banned from Formula-1 car races because many drivers are already ill. I think Boeing is doing an ugly thing purely for profit and fate will punih them."
American government have much to worry about, since its total trade deficit and very weak currency, that is artificially propped up. Seeing this from perspective of economy, it may well be that government is preparing for a big one. Once the economy collapses and all the crooks of the white house and other hight governmental circles are exposed, with economy dead - people will take revenge.
Oil will get only more expensive, with weak currency, US might not afford the oil anymore.
Just a thought, It may well be all false.
I think IBM shouldn't simply forgive the debt and at least pester someone else, such way that schools funding will not be jeopardized. Given the school's bookkeeping practices should be given a hard look and thorough evaluation, so such thing doesn't happen again.
Schooling is one of the foundations of the society. Of course this is only one school, IBM shouldn't make precedent, that it is ok to bankrupt schools if they lead shoddy accounting practices. The school was a bad customer, but there is more to the school then a purchaser of electronic hardware bits. It is responsible for the future of the nation.
IBM should champion the change, forcing a retrofit to such shoddy accounting practices, not try collect money any way possible.
imo,
p
No, Fork it.
America doesn't care for any particular country's distruction. Often the money and interests drive political contributions and in general how money changes hands. America doesn't give two shits about Israel, besides the fact that is one of the largest purchasers of American military equipment. At present war is going to end in Iraq sooner or later, It is time for white house to find some other area they can expend money they don't have, on stock piling weapons militarization programs etc.
Follow the trail of the money, usually will yield meaningful answer as to why these things happen. Besides the fact that Russians are scared to be subdued into a thirdworld country status, fact that it is mandated in the american law that russia/ussr to dissolved any means possible/impossible.
*shrug*
People get upset when you cut them off from their prodigious money flows. You know making lots of money is like drugs, its very addictive and rehabilitation can take a while. There was alot of fraudulent money flowing out of Russia, and now this has stopped. Rightly so people are looking to fix this situation with strong russian government and reliable economy. Resources are becoming scarcer every day and Russia looks like big meaty pie for a resource hungry first world. And its back to the money.
2c
Somehow Cuban crisis has been forgotten, except this is in reverse play now. Do remember, that there is an official law in United States that mandates destruction of entity that is Russia using any means. If there is such intent, how can one country's government feel safe in face of such powerful nation.
Wonder if there will be a third term of Bush & Co, under real invocation of war powers acts and suspension of human rights.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2007/20070525.j pg
You make valid points, however don't forget have two faces, while implementing this for ordinary citizen, mostly it will be used and abused to target people that aren't "in-line" with political views of the state. In soviet union, back in the day I remember parents had to be member of political party to be validated for certain kinds of work. You would be reviewed by communist review board, not related to your work whether you are politically clean and fit to work, say as in print media or a TV station.
Thing to no-work database as a tool. They say they will use it for only designated list of things. How can you be sure that they will not use to enlist people in there - those who participated in peace protests?
I think the whole immigrant issue is a mess, and USA will pay for it years to come.
Moralizing on way people get about their life? I think its presumptuous on behalf of google to be judge of such things, and perhaps let not google but customer decide what is moral and what is not. It seems that internet is being "sanitized" to suit the average joe for profits and control of the customer base.
Google isn't for liberty, they are for profit. It seems they go smart way about it, without being asinine.
But then again, in the age when politicians are bought by a dozen, to defend and give unfair treatment to tobacco, alcohol, media and other questionably ethical conglomerates, perhaps google will have the power to wring world back to sanity?
only time will tell.
I can sort of understand how it works, sort of like a deeper net. Because russia is composed of so many peoples, people who don't have documents, might be up to no good. As often they may be. In moscow, there is passport regime, you have to have passport on you at all times. Kind of odd.
In japan it is even stricter, you have to have your Id and document where you live to get, bus pass, an internet account, a phone number, really to do anything worthwhile. And the police there always stop gaijin to verify documents, and question you and if you don't have documents they arrest you.
And thats one of the least violent countries in the world.
Clearly you don't know russia, and system of polical and power counterweight. Russian economy has been modernised and ivestments are pouring in. Contrary to the "free" countries where Bush & Co sponsored revolutions. Their economies in the state of disarray. And and the moment them becoming free, the had military bases placed there, guess whose are those? And the west turns their back on them. They aren't part of EU and they have broken all ties off from Russia and nighbours. The whole freedom stuff, bandaid form purported singlehandedly by USA and funded to the tune of 40 - 80 US dollars each. They aren't free people uprising.
Really russians can reinstate, its control over Estonia.
As well you have failed to notice that most revolutions / major shifts in economic processes within contries, lead by USA, have lead to dismal failures. Thats why China tells them to stay the fuck out. And thats why they are doing relatively well. Look to the countries in South america and guided former states of soviet union.
before putin system was so corrupt, nothing could be done from regular citizens. thats all. i have my reservations about putin, but he isn't as bad as you think. See how much damage his counterpart in US did to liberties of its citizens, thereby damaging the models countries can strive towards.
He can be search out for treason by spies and shot before he makes his move. Putin is popular in russia, he'd have to pull operation with help of CIA. And I bet CIA has its hands full in Iraq & regions now. Maybe he can call mossad or something.
You can start doing business with russia, having dual citizaship is wild card in some sorts of jobs.