I am curious -> there is usually a market force behind many people attending a college / university; they see a better life by attending college / university.
So what, may I ask, has compelled them to choose a career path that seems to lack any of the qualifiers or metrics for choosing it in the first place?
Indeed. The typical tactic is 'play for time, until the sniper gets into position.'
Remember, the people they are playing against do not believe in any rules: they cheat, and will never stop; there is no reasoning with them, and every ploy is singularly meant to further their own ends. Or do we have some true believes in the crowd, who think that politicians & friends, against every shred of evidence, will not cheat given the opportunity?
Remember, this is a government which was not afraid to set up its own version of concentration camps (the Japanese war camps), and is not afraid at all to experiment on its own people (the Syphilis and radiation experiments). It is also a government which employs the best of orators and spin-doctors to achieve its own ends. In short, if we judge it by its own laws, it's a maverick government; essentially a loose cannon.
And in an effort to prevent others from finding their own way to the top, from time to time the various organs of the Republic would engage in a disinformation campaign. Histories of successful people were reportedly distorted and 'enhanced,' to make their later success easier to understand, while at the same time ensuring that their efforts could not be easily duplicated by simply copying their behaviors & actions. It was trivial to enact: those who had achieved great wealth often enjoyed the ego-feeding exercise of believing that they were predestined to achieve it, that they were special; rather than the reality that at that age, they had run calculation after calculation, and were never sure of their own success.
The effects were plain to see -> a heavily romanced view of reality often lead to others internalizing the various actions of the characters seen on screen and in books; watchers would come away, thinking that if they were simply passionate enough about their chosen road to riches, then they could achieve all things; the prerequisites for achieving this success were sadly glossed over, and almost totally unreplicable. Just as 'Stand and Deliver' gave way to an entire generation of teachers who believed that they could change things by just caring a little more / fighting the system on behalf of their students, the point of these works was to activate the emotional centers of the brain, while deactivating the logical centers. Thus you ended up with what is essentially a headless army -> people willing to do something, but with no idea how to actually achieve it; they bought the kit for an airplane, which they believe will give them wondrous weekend holidays in Canada, but lack the instructions and know how to put it together.
It would be three centuries before anyone realized how damaging these efforts were, and an additional 150 years before they would be disbanded.
How many species, estimated, do you think remain undiscovered? Would you say your field is closer to the end, or the beginning? And what was the most unlikely find you'd like to share?
They're trying to scapegoat technology to cover their own mistakes. I've seen the same shit inside my own family -> "the video games made me do it, dad!" Their response? They throw out the video games.
Your job losses are heavily correlated with your ineffectual leaders, leaders bred to dodge blame at every opportunity, blame which is so toxic that it can end a man's life before he has a chance to learn from his mistakes.
AMD is currently getting out of the game, and will be unable to take advantage of this opportunity, as their intelligentsia had a vision that said "ARM is the future, let's drop everything and go THATAWAY!" several months ago. That such a large market opportunity has suddenly appeared, and will go unfulfilled, is only further proof that AMD's leadership (or perhaps their previous leadership, seems to be a revolving door there somewhere) needs to be taken out back by the investors, and Old Yeller'ed.
AMD / Asus -> Crosshair motherboards. Built to overclock, and do so stably. I tend to use them for all of my builds, as their tolerances are exceptional. If someone needs more power, I just turn on the overclocking. It's like a free built-in upgrade.;-)
This is Sun we're talking about, now Oracle; they were the original planet weird when it came to implementing programming languages. Swing is one of the few things I've seen leave programmers speechless with frustration.
Plus Oracle has been doing so well with their JREs that even DHS has recommended disabling their plugins lately.
Haha, no. They can be somewhat divorced from each other, at times.
Politics is usually a form of power (that is, the power of the palace, the power over small matters of law, a form of power over people), and money is money (an easily exchangeable resource for most other kinds of resources). People typically use politics to get money, or money to enter into politics. It's possible to be extremely wealthy, but not at all powerful; it's also possible to be extremely powerful, but utterly destitute. Rare, mind you, but it happens often enough to prove they are separate.
In both cases, you're dealing with humanity (thus far, other sentient species...we do not know yet), but in different ways. And in both cases, they are a result of humans being such a weak species: they need to band together to accomplish the simplest of tasks, and care far too much about their place in the group's hierarchy for a sentient species. They imagine themselves being like the bonobos, because the reality that they are like the baboons is simply too much for them.
Hmm, I had something similar happen to me at a recent interview. I was tagged as spending too much time doing IT, and trying for a position outside my skill-level: in short, I was pegged as a hardware monkey, who suddenly wanted to jump into programming (never mind my CS degree, and so on). It probably didn't help that I wanted to move into more serious work (framework development), as opposed to continuing to do web development (glass-ceiling effect...once you do web app work, people are loathe to let you develop anything else).
Gone are the days when a programmer was supposed to know some admin skills, some hardware skills, and (of course) programming.
'Tis purposeful. Apparently, a number of companies have found a way to play fast and loose with H1Bs. See, in order to make things legal, they need to post the job publicly, so that the natives have a chance before the foreigners get to apply. Since the companies in question are already using the possibility of a green card as leverage over the foreigner (to decrease their potential salaries / wages), the hiring of the foreigner is much preferred in the company's eyes.
But how do you dissuade, or otherwise disqualify, the natives from applying / getting the job? According to the rules, the salary has to meet certain criteria (somewhere within the average of the industry), so purely low-balling the natives won't work. Instead, these companies realized that they can use the qualifications / criteria for the job itself to get around the requirements: they hand the foreign applicant a disc with proprietary apps (costing, potentially, tends of thousands of dollars to buy, possibly even demo), and tell them to familiarize themselves with the apps. Then when the time comes to apply for the job, they can truthfully say that they have used these special apps before, and thus are more qualified for the job than the native. In other words, it would cost the native tends of thousands of dollars to buy these special apps, ostensibly provided for free to foreigners, in order to gain experience with them, in order to qualify for this job; obviously, a native will not do this, as the job itself is probably not well-paying enough to cover these capital costs.
Let it be known that I have no problems with foreigners competing for native jobs. I do, however, have a problem with uneven playing fields; fighting dirty befouls the entire industry, and lays the foundation for terrible gains. Had I my way, the H1B caps would be abolished, and their wages no different from that of the natives.
To be honest, he has a 3-number ID, and you are posting as an Anonymous Coward...chances are that even if he purchased that account off of eBay, he's still doing pretty well in life.
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So, in other news, legislators applied a 'hotfix' to the law that not only didn't fix the original problem, but also created a new one?
Why aren't there more white-collar jobs, then?
I am curious -> there is usually a market force behind many people attending a college / university; they see a better life by attending college / university.
So what, may I ask, has compelled them to choose a career path that seems to lack any of the qualifiers or metrics for choosing it in the first place?
Laws set in place by people whom they do not apply to, do not, IMHO, hold any validity.
Argue otherwise, and I shall show you the error of your ways.
Indeed. The typical tactic is 'play for time, until the sniper gets into position.'
Remember, the people they are playing against do not believe in any rules: they cheat, and will never stop; there is no reasoning with them, and every ploy is singularly meant to further their own ends. Or do we have some true believes in the crowd, who think that politicians & friends, against every shred of evidence, will not cheat given the opportunity?
Remember, this is a government which was not afraid to set up its own version of concentration camps (the Japanese war camps), and is not afraid at all to experiment on its own people (the Syphilis and radiation experiments). It is also a government which employs the best of orators and spin-doctors to achieve its own ends. In short, if we judge it by its own laws, it's a maverick government; essentially a loose cannon.
Can we get a TV Trope out of this? I feel it should be in their database somewhere...
And in an effort to prevent others from finding their own way to the top, from time to time the various organs of the Republic would engage in a disinformation campaign. Histories of successful people were reportedly distorted and 'enhanced,' to make their later success easier to understand, while at the same time ensuring that their efforts could not be easily duplicated by simply copying their behaviors & actions. It was trivial to enact: those who had achieved great wealth often enjoyed the ego-feeding exercise of believing that they were predestined to achieve it, that they were special; rather than the reality that at that age, they had run calculation after calculation, and were never sure of their own success.
The effects were plain to see -> a heavily romanced view of reality often lead to others internalizing the various actions of the characters seen on screen and in books; watchers would come away, thinking that if they were simply passionate enough about their chosen road to riches, then they could achieve all things; the prerequisites for achieving this success were sadly glossed over, and almost totally unreplicable. Just as 'Stand and Deliver' gave way to an entire generation of teachers who believed that they could change things by just caring a little more / fighting the system on behalf of their students, the point of these works was to activate the emotional centers of the brain, while deactivating the logical centers. Thus you ended up with what is essentially a headless army -> people willing to do something, but with no idea how to actually achieve it; they bought the kit for an airplane, which they believe will give them wondrous weekend holidays in Canada, but lack the instructions and know how to put it together.
It would be three centuries before anyone realized how damaging these efforts were, and an additional 150 years before they would be disbanded.
How many species, estimated, do you think remain undiscovered? Would you say your field is closer to the end, or the beginning? And what was the most unlikely find you'd like to share?
They're trying to scapegoat technology to cover their own mistakes. I've seen the same shit inside my own family -> "the video games made me do it, dad!" Their response? They throw out the video games.
Your job losses are heavily correlated with your ineffectual leaders, leaders bred to dodge blame at every opportunity, blame which is so toxic that it can end a man's life before he has a chance to learn from his mistakes.
*puts down bottle* Unfortunately, I agree with you.
Explains a lot really. Some people can go through 12 years of school, and not learn a thing. Computers never had a chance.
Only 16GB of RAM? Was the paycheck late?
AMD is currently getting out of the game, and will be unable to take advantage of this opportunity, as their intelligentsia had a vision that said "ARM is the future, let's drop everything and go THATAWAY!" several months ago. That such a large market opportunity has suddenly appeared, and will go unfulfilled, is only further proof that AMD's leadership (or perhaps their previous leadership, seems to be a revolving door there somewhere) needs to be taken out back by the investors, and Old Yeller'ed.
AMD / Asus -> Crosshair motherboards. Built to overclock, and do so stably. I tend to use them for all of my builds, as their tolerances are exceptional. If someone needs more power, I just turn on the overclocking. It's like a free built-in upgrade. ;-)
And add in some optical links so we can finally scale motherboards to something awesome.
Being limited to certain designs / lengths because of electrical circuitry...madness.
Yeah, they'd be running Slackware, and compiling all their software from source.
This is Sun we're talking about, now Oracle; they were the original planet weird when it came to implementing programming languages. Swing is one of the few things I've seen leave programmers speechless with frustration.
Plus Oracle has been doing so well with their JREs that even DHS has recommended disabling their plugins lately.
Haha, no. They can be somewhat divorced from each other, at times.
Politics is usually a form of power (that is, the power of the palace, the power over small matters of law, a form of power over people), and money is money (an easily exchangeable resource for most other kinds of resources). People typically use politics to get money, or money to enter into politics. It's possible to be extremely wealthy, but not at all powerful; it's also possible to be extremely powerful, but utterly destitute. Rare, mind you, but it happens often enough to prove they are separate.
In both cases, you're dealing with humanity (thus far, other sentient species...we do not know yet), but in different ways. And in both cases, they are a result of humans being such a weak species: they need to band together to accomplish the simplest of tasks, and care far too much about their place in the group's hierarchy for a sentient species. They imagine themselves being like the bonobos, because the reality that they are like the baboons is simply too much for them.
Nonsense. AMD's GPUs tend to be high performance parts. Anyone looking at their performance can easily see this.
Nvidia, though, does tend to have better drivers; AMD/ATI, better hardware.
Hmm, I had something similar happen to me at a recent interview. I was tagged as spending too much time doing IT, and trying for a position outside my skill-level: in short, I was pegged as a hardware monkey, who suddenly wanted to jump into programming (never mind my CS degree, and so on). It probably didn't help that I wanted to move into more serious work (framework development), as opposed to continuing to do web development (glass-ceiling effect...once you do web app work, people are loathe to let you develop anything else).
Gone are the days when a programmer was supposed to know some admin skills, some hardware skills, and (of course) programming.
There is, supposedly, a shortage / gap of mid-level developers.
'Tis purposeful. Apparently, a number of companies have found a way to play fast and loose with H1Bs. See, in order to make things legal, they need to post the job publicly, so that the natives have a chance before the foreigners get to apply. Since the companies in question are already using the possibility of a green card as leverage over the foreigner (to decrease their potential salaries / wages), the hiring of the foreigner is much preferred in the company's eyes.
But how do you dissuade, or otherwise disqualify, the natives from applying / getting the job? According to the rules, the salary has to meet certain criteria (somewhere within the average of the industry), so purely low-balling the natives won't work. Instead, these companies realized that they can use the qualifications / criteria for the job itself to get around the requirements: they hand the foreign applicant a disc with proprietary apps (costing, potentially, tends of thousands of dollars to buy, possibly even demo), and tell them to familiarize themselves with the apps. Then when the time comes to apply for the job, they can truthfully say that they have used these special apps before, and thus are more qualified for the job than the native. In other words, it would cost the native tends of thousands of dollars to buy these special apps, ostensibly provided for free to foreigners, in order to gain experience with them, in order to qualify for this job; obviously, a native will not do this, as the job itself is probably not well-paying enough to cover these capital costs.
Let it be known that I have no problems with foreigners competing for native jobs. I do, however, have a problem with uneven playing fields; fighting dirty befouls the entire industry, and lays the foundation for terrible gains. Had I my way, the H1B caps would be abolished, and their wages no different from that of the natives.
Ah, that comic finally makes sense.
To be honest, he has a 3-number ID, and you are posting as an Anonymous Coward...chances are that even if he purchased that account off of eBay, he's still doing pretty well in life.
Yeah, a lot of people have noticed that. Which is why they were stripped of their 'small government' titles before the last election.
They are never going to get them back.
Enough. It's open season on both parties. Shoot who you like, and be mindful that there is no bag limit.
Perhaps in his world, they do.