At the very least this will make it possible for some excellent RAD tools to make their way to Linux much faster. Among them Gamemaker, Stencyl, Unity and Construct.
Then there will be the inevitable FOSS equivalents, which will spinoff their own series of games, making development faster and less buggy on both PCs and mobile devices. The Linux to Android migrations in particular are going to be really exciting.
The next chapter is going to be amazing for Linux.
Linux will be the premier gaming platform on the PC and on its own console, and Valve will be the company that made it happen.
This will have nothing but positive effects on the quality of games, the tools required to make those games, the educational possibilities for developers through shared source, and there will be spinoff effects for Android and OS X.
Tremendously exciting time to be a Linux developer. Glad we stuck with it.
1. It will never work. 2. Big fuckin deal. Made one myself over breakfast last week. 3. Biology is a worthless major. 4. At least 68 replies starting with the word "Actually" 5. This is proof there's no God. 6. Shut up teabagger 7. Fuck beta 8. I'm competing to be the world's biggest talking penis 9. Four PhDs? No wonder you're a dumbfuck 10. Someone dropped a bulldozer on your car? The problem is you.
Every science, engineering or technology thread on any site frequented by neckbeards will have at least one top-level "it will never work" reply.
The Cat's Corollary:
Every science, engineering or technology thread on any site frequented by neckbeards will have at least one top-level "this is not news because I built one myself that is three orders of magnitude better at half the cost" reply.
but I think a lot of people think the best person for the job should get the job no matter where they come from.
And then you have a nation where 100 million people can't feed their families. See how that works out for you and your egalitarian utopia.
In IT I think people like to compare current salaries to the dot com bubble which is silly.
I think we should compare salaries to 1973. Because they're the same.
It's certainly true that a lot of the types of work we do has been commoditized so that a less skilled worker can complete tasks that were impossible 15 years ago. How should that impact wages?
Clearly all of those people should be fired and dragged from their homes. Who the fuck do they think they are?
Competition is coming and it's silly to assume that US employees/workers are the "best."
You're awfully cavalier with everyone else's standard of living.
Congress has nothing to do with it. You are going to compete with people from around the globe no matter what Congress does.
Pure bullshit.
Exactly how do you think the US is going to compete with China without encouraging immigration?
We could start by insisting on a fair trade policy. You know, one where China doesn't block our products at their borders and one where they don't subsidize their company's prices by manipulating their currency?
When China has a 5:1 ratio of people then China has a larger the talent pool to draw from.
More people does not equal more talent.
If the law is pointless, unjust and/or hurts the economy then yes it is a good thing that we ignore the law.
You've got all the answers, don't you? I'm going to take a wild guess and say someone does your laundry for you.
If more people are coming than the law permits then it's probably worth wondering why
Because they are getting a free lunch paid for by us.
So what exactly is your problem with welcoming immigrants?
Because the immigrants today:
1. Remain non-English-speakers by choice 2. Have no need to become citizens, therefore they don't 3. Attend college, but only if someone else pays for it 4. Can't obtain higher-paying jobs because of 1-3 5. Rarely join the military and almost never become officers
Further they also:
1. Live 14 people to a three-bedroom apartment, so even if they are all earning minimum wage, they clear $3000 a week and can afford $2000 a month in rent. Guess who ends up with no affordable place to live? That's right: mom, dad and their kids. (The fact that 14 people living in an apartment designed for perhaps four people is against the law doesn't matter, because hey, we don't have to follow the law, right?)
2. Are equipped by the government with a complete roadmap on how to qualify for hundreds of thousands of dollars in ongoing taxpayer-funded benefits which are specifically denied to others by law. (See if you can guess what the earned income tax credit is for 14 people earning minimum wage?)
3. Form communities that exclude other ethnicities to the point where city services like fire and police can't function properly because they can't communicate with anyone, and where the stores are off-limits to visitors because they can't read the packaging or communicate with the sales staff.
4. Send billions of dollars back to their home countries that almost never returns to our economy because their home countries also block our products.
But hey, you've got all the answers, so why don't we just lower the flag, erase the borders, disband Congress (since they don't matter either) and just green light whatever-the-fuck? It will be global economic paradise!
You're right. All technology workers in this country are fully employed at the maximum possible salary, and Apple was forced to cast a worldwide net at a 50% salary premium in order to find someone to fill the job.
Or, all Americans are fat, dumb, unemployable losers, and Apple was forced to cast a worldwide net at a 50% salary premium in order to find someone to fill the job.
As long as Apple can tell the local guy "no" they'll come up with whatever story they have to come up with.
Clearly we must therefore conclude there is not one single solitary candidate anywhere in metropolitan San Francisco or San Jose, or within Apple itself, that qualifies for that job, mustn't we?
Does that sound reasonable in light of the number of unemployed or underemployed technology workers in San Francisco and San Jose in 2014?
So you are claiming fraud? That the Department of Labor is illegally manipulating it's records on this issue? Do you have proof of this rather extraordinary claim?
The unemployment rate only counts people who are currently taking unemployment benefits. Others who are also unemployed but don't qualify or who have exhausted their benefits are not counted. Therefore the "unemployment rate" is fiction.
There's your proof that at least one important statistic is horseshit, wiseass.
Why would Apple go through the expensive and time-consuming process to "hire" an H1-B, when there's a guy within five miles of their HQ who has better skills and will work for less?
Because the H1-B process can be gamed and manipulated, and the local guy can't. The end.
Limit supply and prices for the labor and every product that labor produces has to rise.
Increase supply of labor and it becomes worthless, and you have no customers for those products labor produces.
When labor commands a higher wage, wealth results. When labor cannot command a higher wage, poverty results. The 2014 economy is conclusive proof.
What you are forgetting is that we are in a GLOBAL economy.
We're in an American economy where Congress forces our workers to compete with the Chinese government on wages.
Try to stop it and you will only drive prices higher and hurt the economy in the long run.
We haven't tried to stop it for 20 years and now we have 47 million people on food stamps. Hurt the economy?
You think a police state is somehow a good thing?
You think widespread contempt for the law is a good thing? It is illegal today to hire undocumented workers. Has been for decades.
Oh so it's really about race. I get it.
And you think it's not about race for the immigrants too? Let me guess, you've never lived anywhere near an immigrant neighborhood, have you?
You don't want those brown people who don't speak English immigrating to the US. Never mind that your ancestors were immigrants too and probably came here illegally as well and probably lived in "a large ethnic enclave in an American city".
And within a generation, they were:
1. English speakers 2. Citizens 3. Attending college 4. Award winning journalists 5. Military officers
Landline sound quality in 1975 was better than any mobile phone sound quality in 2014.
"Hi, I'd like to get directions on how to mmmRAWWWWW BOAWWWAAHH URRRBBEE URBEEE BUMPH RAWWWWLLLL at the corner of Park Street. Hello? I said, I want to get dir--fwwwwzzzzEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE URPP *crackle* ffffffFAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ EEEP Park street."
The telecom companies raise prices, pocket the money and let their service rot, and the customers just keep shoveling cash at them.
Slashdot Mirror
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States called it a tax.
Since all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House of Representatives, that means the ACA is unconstitutional under Article I Section 7.
the senate, currently controlled by Obama's party, doesn't originate spending bills either.
Unless they are TARP or the ACA.
This final spending bill must be passed by vote in the House of Reps. This is what is meant by "originates";
The House of Representatives must write and introduce the bill, not simply pass it.
It's not an amendment. It's the Foreign Commerce Clause in Article I Section 8.
Gerrymandering
17th Amendment
At the very least this will make it possible for some excellent RAD tools to make their way to Linux much faster. Among them Gamemaker, Stencyl, Unity and Construct.
Then there will be the inevitable FOSS equivalents, which will spinoff their own series of games, making development faster and less buggy on both PCs and mobile devices. The Linux to Android migrations in particular are going to be really exciting.
The next chapter is going to be amazing for Linux.
Linux will be the premier gaming platform on the PC and on its own console, and Valve will be the company that made it happen.
This will have nothing but positive effects on the quality of games, the tools required to make those games, the educational possibilities for developers through shared source, and there will be spinoff effects for Android and OS X.
Tremendously exciting time to be a Linux developer. Glad we stuck with it.
You're not acting like an adult. I have no responsibility to treat you like one.
You're lecturing someone you don't know, making assumptions that are wrong and drawing conclusions that have no basis in fact.
Arrogance and condescension are often a sign of immaturity, insecurity and an irresponsible attitude.
You really never have had kids... or even been around kids... or even remember being a kid if you honestly think it's that easy.
You don't know jack shit about me.
Yes. Kids are invincible. They will defeat their parents at every turn and will never listen to reason. Attempting to raise them is pointless.
Therefore the clear option is to give up and let them run wild. Your cynicism has defeated all of human history. You are the pinnacle of wisdom, sir.
As opposed to having 100 million people in other nations who can't feed their families.
Not my responsibility. I have no power over what happens in other nations. Here, I'm a voter, so here is where my responsibility lies.
1. It will never work.
2. Big fuckin deal. Made one myself over breakfast last week.
3. Biology is a worthless major.
4. At least 68 replies starting with the word "Actually"
5. This is proof there's no God.
6. Shut up teabagger
7. Fuck beta
8. I'm competing to be the world's biggest talking penis
9. Four PhDs? No wonder you're a dumbfuck
10. Someone dropped a bulldozer on your car? The problem is you.
The Cat's Law:
Every science, engineering or technology thread on any site frequented by neckbeards will have at least one top-level "it will never work" reply.
The Cat's Corollary:
Every science, engineering or technology thread on any site frequented by neckbeards will have at least one top-level "this is not news because I built one myself that is three orders of magnitude better at half the cost" reply.
but I think a lot of people think the best person for the job should get the job no matter where they come from.
And then you have a nation where 100 million people can't feed their families. See how that works out for you and your egalitarian utopia.
In IT I think people like to compare current salaries to the dot com bubble which is silly.
I think we should compare salaries to 1973. Because they're the same.
It's certainly true that a lot of the types of work we do has been commoditized so that a less skilled worker can complete tasks that were impossible 15 years ago. How should that impact wages?
Clearly all of those people should be fired and dragged from their homes. Who the fuck do they think they are?
Competition is coming and it's silly to assume that US employees/workers are the "best."
You're awfully cavalier with everyone else's standard of living.
I see you're calling in your buddies to mod all of my replies down.
Chickenshit.
Congress has nothing to do with it. You are going to compete with people from around the globe no matter what Congress does.
Pure bullshit.
Exactly how do you think the US is going to compete with China without encouraging immigration?
We could start by insisting on a fair trade policy. You know, one where China doesn't block our products at their borders and one where they don't subsidize their company's prices by manipulating their currency?
When China has a 5:1 ratio of people then China has a larger the talent pool to draw from.
More people does not equal more talent.
If the law is pointless, unjust and/or hurts the economy then yes it is a good thing that we ignore the law.
You've got all the answers, don't you? I'm going to take a wild guess and say someone does your laundry for you.
If more people are coming than the law permits then it's probably worth wondering why
Because they are getting a free lunch paid for by us.
So what exactly is your problem with welcoming immigrants?
Because the immigrants today:
1. Remain non-English-speakers by choice
2. Have no need to become citizens, therefore they don't
3. Attend college, but only if someone else pays for it
4. Can't obtain higher-paying jobs because of 1-3
5. Rarely join the military and almost never become officers
Further they also:
1. Live 14 people to a three-bedroom apartment, so even if they are all earning minimum wage, they clear $3000 a week and can afford $2000 a month in rent. Guess who ends up with no affordable place to live? That's right: mom, dad and their kids. (The fact that 14 people living in an apartment designed for perhaps four people is against the law doesn't matter, because hey, we don't have to follow the law, right?)
2. Are equipped by the government with a complete roadmap on how to qualify for hundreds of thousands of dollars in ongoing taxpayer-funded benefits which are specifically denied to others by law. (See if you can guess what the earned income tax credit is for 14 people earning minimum wage?)
3. Form communities that exclude other ethnicities to the point where city services like fire and police can't function properly because they can't communicate with anyone, and where the stores are off-limits to visitors because they can't read the packaging or communicate with the sales staff.
4. Send billions of dollars back to their home countries that almost never returns to our economy because their home countries also block our products.
But hey, you've got all the answers, so why don't we just lower the flag, erase the borders, disband Congress (since they don't matter either) and just green light whatever-the-fuck? It will be global economic paradise!
Why are you so certain?
You're right. All technology workers in this country are fully employed at the maximum possible salary, and Apple was forced to cast a worldwide net at a 50% salary premium in order to find someone to fill the job.
Or, all Americans are fat, dumb, unemployable losers, and Apple was forced to cast a worldwide net at a 50% salary premium in order to find someone to fill the job.
As long as Apple can tell the local guy "no" they'll come up with whatever story they have to come up with.
Clearly we must therefore conclude there is not one single solitary candidate anywhere in metropolitan San Francisco or San Jose, or within Apple itself, that qualifies for that job, mustn't we?
Does that sound reasonable in light of the number of unemployed or underemployed technology workers in San Francisco and San Jose in 2014?
So you are claiming fraud? That the Department of Labor is illegally manipulating it's records on this issue? Do you have proof of this rather extraordinary claim?
The unemployment rate only counts people who are currently taking unemployment benefits. Others who are also unemployed but don't qualify or who have exhausted their benefits are not counted. Therefore the "unemployment rate" is fiction.
There's your proof that at least one important statistic is horseshit, wiseass.
So you're accusing Apple of fraud?
Oh, you're precious, aren't you?
Why would Apple go through the expensive and time-consuming process to "hire" an H1-B, when there's a guy within five miles of their HQ who has better skills and will work for less?
Because the H1-B process can be gamed and manipulated, and the local guy can't. The end.
P.S. All of those numbers are pure horseshit.
Yes. That person is imaginary.
Apple is paying a 50% premium in wages? On what planet does that make sense when they can recruit worldwide?
So instead you bring in someone from overseas for $200k
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT
Thanks for playing.
Do you know how convoluted the legal route is for getting an SBA loan?
By your logic, it should be perfectly acceptable for the loan manager to commit bank fraud to fund SBA loans without the proper paperwork.
How would that work out for us? See 2007 and 2008 for an example.
Limit supply and prices for the labor and every product that labor produces has to rise.
Increase supply of labor and it becomes worthless, and you have no customers for those products labor produces.
When labor commands a higher wage, wealth results. When labor cannot command a higher wage, poverty results. The 2014 economy is conclusive proof.
What you are forgetting is that we are in a GLOBAL economy.
We're in an American economy where Congress forces our workers to compete with the Chinese government on wages.
Try to stop it and you will only drive prices higher and hurt the economy in the long run.
We haven't tried to stop it for 20 years and now we have 47 million people on food stamps. Hurt the economy?
You think a police state is somehow a good thing?
You think widespread contempt for the law is a good thing? It is illegal today to hire undocumented workers. Has been for decades.
Oh so it's really about race. I get it.
And you think it's not about race for the immigrants too? Let me guess, you've never lived anywhere near an immigrant neighborhood, have you?
You don't want those brown people who don't speak English immigrating to the US. Never mind that your ancestors were immigrants too and probably came here illegally as well and probably lived in "a large ethnic enclave in an American city".
And within a generation, they were:
1. English speakers
2. Citizens
3. Attending college
4. Award winning journalists
5. Military officers
Getting someone else to pay to train your employees.
Water is not consumed. There is no such thing as a water shortage. It is impossible to run out of water.
The fact we don't have solar-powered desalination plants all over the coasts (and out to sea) at this point is simple laziness and ineptitude.
Landline sound quality in 1975 was better than any mobile phone sound quality in 2014.
"Hi, I'd like to get directions on how to mmmRAWWWWW BOAWWWAAHH URRRBBEE URBEEE BUMPH RAWWWWLLLL at the corner of Park Street. Hello? I said, I want to get dir--fwwwwzzzzEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE URPP *crackle* ffffffFAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ EEEP Park street."
The telecom companies raise prices, pocket the money and let their service rot, and the customers just keep shoveling cash at them.