And instead of being pissed about the fact that teachers and cops and firemen get pensions, why not get pissed about why you're not getting a pension from the company you work for.
I guess I'm not pissed because I understand that they can't fund my pension by holding up my neighbors at gunpoint. The way that state pension funds have been able to pay out at the rate they do is by investing in risky investments like mortgage backed securities. And they knew that if their risks didn't pay off, the taxpayers were legally obligated to make up the shortfall. The private sector can't hope to compete against that level of corruption. And while I would love a more secure retirement, I love being able to look at myself in the mirror more.
...until a few more suckers bought their product first? Consider it a loss leader. Are they so optimistic that they're gonna win against android and apple, that they can already afford to alienate their user base?
...then there's no reason to treat them as anything other than animals. The only practical reason for recognizing any groups' rights is so you don't have to look over your shoulder all the time for keeping them down. If they were truly intelligent and really had a problem with their legal status, then they'd be taking out Caribbean tourists left and right.
The 132k figure is not for mid-level engineers (although maybe it is in a big city). The actual quote from the article is "Most earn a typical mid-level income of about $87,000 and top out at $132,000". Makes me feel a little better and it's maybe the first time I RTFA in over a decade of visiting here.
Everyone I know uses Facebook less. I won't even touch an app anymore. I hardly update my status. And everyone is so angry at the never-ending privacy changes that it won't be hard to get them to switch once there's a viable alternative. I just don't see a rosy future for them when their only asset is a ticked off user base.
Actually, thanks to android, I'm giving up most of my privacy to google these days. I know a number of people, who won't touch FB with a ten foot pole, give in to owning a smartphone once they see how much easier it can make their lives (privacy be damned). I predict a much rosier future for them.
Not really. I don't want Comcast screwing with my Netflix, but once the government gets its foot in the door, their influence will only grow until they've stifled the last good thing America has going for it. I know you don't believe that, but you will see it happen. Because it always does. The internet is the most unregulated portion of our infrastructure and not coincidentally, the most important part of the economy (because everything else was regulated to death and offshored).
In the end, Comcast can't force me to do anything. I can always choose to contract with someone else. When the government decides to change how the internet works, you don't get a choice. Think about some of the ridiculous statements on technology that come out of the congress. Half of these people don't even know how to use a computer. Putting them in charge of things will not end well. Except for maybe the RIAA and MPAA (cause they'll be writing the regs).
How do you defend the current internet by changing it? We haven't needed you number 1 yet. And number 2 clearly lies in the realm of fiction. Everyone begging for net neutrality is going to get far more than they bargained for, cause it ain't gonna be about your right to torrent.
Hmmm, interesting. I wonder if that's why my Samsung youtube app is so crappy. Google doesn't want to compete with themselves. It's too bad I was forced into getting a new TV this year. I would have loved the ability to develop my own TV apps. In another 5 years, I may not even need my HTPC.
Netflix aside, those new TVs have support for apps in general. Why not just add a Microsoft/Google TV app? These new set top boxes seem dated before they're even out. Google should apply the android model to TVs.
Since a smartphone is really a gateway to your personal data, in much the same way that my keys give the police access to my house, do they need a warrant to access remote data in the same way that they'd still need a warrant to enter my house?
Given that we right wingers had to put up with that big government liberal Bush, who outspent every previous president combined, I'd say I'm loving the payback. In fact, I'm gonna bring up the Obama socialist/ultra lib angle even more now so that real liberals will get a taste of what we've been going through when we we're told that unregulated free market capitalism (the polar opposite of what we had during the Bush administration) has destroyed the economy.
The truth is, we have a blend of fascism and socialism in this country that confuses both side. Libs hate big corporations, but they only get that big because of regulation, not in spite of it. So love them both or hate them both, it's senseless to side with one over the other.
A corporation is a government sponsored limited liability entity. In exchange for that advantage over ordinary people, they should be bound by reasonable restrictions. That's the price you pay for dancing with the government devil. I do however agree with you when it comes to proprietorships and partnerships. They clearly should be as free as any individual since they maintain the same level of responsibility.
Citizens aren't "governed" by the constitution. Their rights (whether citizens or not) are innate. This constitution is a set of limitations on the government, not a granting of freedoms to the people. The latter is assumed.
I'm surprised you got modded up. I can't even argue this way with my liberal friends without being branded a monster. If you've taken an oath to defend the constitution, and go off and fight unconstitutional wars, then your are a hypocrite with no honor. If you're killing far more civilians than terrorists, then you have no sense of morality or justice. If the killing of those civilians leads to more desperate terrorists, then you're a direct threat to my life and should be put in prison.
I'm told time and time again, that even if I disagree with the war, that I should continue to support the troops. I have been told this by people who think Bush should hang for war crimes. But we don't have a draft and adults are responsible for their own actions. Claiming they are just following orders is an excuse that doesn't fly post-Nuremberg. These wars have lasted long enough that any soldier who wanted out, could have easily gotten out. I have no sympathy for any soldier who has remained (although I don't think the OP has any particular sympathy either, just quoting a movie).
I'm still not sure where I stand on net neutrality, but if it's scheduled right before Christmas, then I know America is screwed. Scheduling legislation for then is the political analog of pulling out a tube of lube with an evil grin on one's face. In fact, I'll probably know which way I should have stood on the issue after the vote. This is the kind of crap that gave us the federal reserve.
I agree that they don't back stuff up. But I don't think backing up a drive leads to its failure. In my experience, after a break in period, drives never fail on me before I have to upgrade to something bigger. And my drives are on 24/7.
There are no reliable drives. Every new drive I get goes through a conditioning stage as a redundant backup drive before I'll trust it with real data. And even then, it's data that's backed up to multiple drives. A certain percentage of any brand will fail and that percentage has been climbing for me in recent years. It's taught me to be more rigorous in my backups. I'm not sure how non-techies manage it though.
I never understood the desire to push Linux into the mainstream. It would just make it a greater target for the virus writers. As long as it's not so fringe that it loses community support, I'm fine with it. IMO, the linux desktop has never been stronger than it is now. I can play most of the games I care about under wine and anything else under vmplayer. The nagware that dominates windows applications makes that desktop dead for me.
Odd. I'm 37 and I've always found it remarkable that I've always been the youngest programmer on any job I've ever had (still am). I've always wondered where the kids are, I guess there's a whole nuther set of companies out there that work in reverse.
This industry already has enough deadweight, corporate welfare queens as it is. It blows my mind that anyone can still suggest this in this day and age. Unions have destroyed every industry they've touched and state union pensions are on the verge of bankrupting every state in the union.
Starting sometime during the Carter administration, they changed the way they calculate inflation in order to understate it. They introduced techniques like hedonic adjustments say and that they can say meat's cheaper this year because this year's hamburger prices are cheaper than last year's steak. If this year's computer is twice as fast as last year's, then the "price" fell by 50%, and so on. They also leave out the bubble assets like housing to tweak it further.
Everything in our economy, including GDP and your salary adjustments are based on that now phony figure and that's why pay no longer syncs up with real inflation. It also means most people are actually losing wealth on most of their market investments. Shadow stats has continued to calculate the CPI using the old techniques:
I've begged every manager I've had not to hire based on acronyms. All it does is narrow down your talent pool to a couple of people (if that). In a field where most programmers create more problems then they solve, you want the widest pool possible to draw from. I'd rather hire a good programmer with no experience in what we're doing, than a half-ass programmer who has every acronym.
Hell, on my last job, our manager hired a former PM to be a senior software engineer simply because she listed 300 acronyms on her resume. We kept on trying to point out that she had zero programming experience and was not in fact a programmer, but our manager just couldn't get over all those letters so she overruled us. I left within several months of that.
I've been after my bosses forever for a computer fast enough to keep up with my typing. Half of my day is spent watching the screen paint. Eventually, my bosses started complaining about not being able to see my tiny screen during code reviews. Then they got on a kick with their management to rectify the problem that had been driving them crazy. Well, I went from a 1280x1024 17" to a 1680x1050 22" and now my 90s computer can't even handle the native resolution. Guess I'm gonna have to sneak in an nVidia card tomorrow.
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And instead of being pissed about the fact that teachers and cops and firemen get pensions, why not get pissed about why you're not getting a pension from the company you work for.
I guess I'm not pissed because I understand that they can't fund my pension by holding up my neighbors at gunpoint. The way that state pension funds have been able to pay out at the rate they do is by investing in risky investments like mortgage backed securities. And they knew that if their risks didn't pay off, the taxpayers were legally obligated to make up the shortfall. The private sector can't hope to compete against that level of corruption. And while I would love a more secure retirement, I love being able to look at myself in the mirror more.
...until a few more suckers bought their product first? Consider it a loss leader. Are they so optimistic that they're gonna win against android and apple, that they can already afford to alienate their user base?
...then there's no reason to treat them as anything other than animals. The only practical reason for recognizing any groups' rights is so you don't have to look over your shoulder all the time for keeping them down. If they were truly intelligent and really had a problem with their legal status, then they'd be taking out Caribbean tourists left and right.
The 132k figure is not for mid-level engineers (although maybe it is in a big city). The actual quote from the article is "Most earn a typical mid-level income of about $87,000 and top out at $132,000". Makes me feel a little better and it's maybe the first time I RTFA in over a decade of visiting here.
Everyone I know uses Facebook less. I won't even touch an app anymore. I hardly update my status. And everyone is so angry at the never-ending privacy changes that it won't be hard to get them to switch once there's a viable alternative. I just don't see a rosy future for them when their only asset is a ticked off user base.
Actually, thanks to android, I'm giving up most of my privacy to google these days. I know a number of people, who won't touch FB with a ten foot pole, give in to owning a smartphone once they see how much easier it can make their lives (privacy be damned). I predict a much rosier future for them.
Not really. I don't want Comcast screwing with my Netflix, but once the government gets its foot in the door, their influence will only grow until they've stifled the last good thing America has going for it. I know you don't believe that, but you will see it happen. Because it always does. The internet is the most unregulated portion of our infrastructure and not coincidentally, the most important part of the economy (because everything else was regulated to death and offshored).
In the end, Comcast can't force me to do anything. I can always choose to contract with someone else. When the government decides to change how the internet works, you don't get a choice. Think about some of the ridiculous statements on technology that come out of the congress. Half of these people don't even know how to use a computer. Putting them in charge of things will not end well. Except for maybe the RIAA and MPAA (cause they'll be writing the regs).
How do you defend the current internet by changing it? We haven't needed you number 1 yet. And number 2 clearly lies in the realm of fiction. Everyone begging for net neutrality is going to get far more than they bargained for, cause it ain't gonna be about your right to torrent.
Hmmm, interesting. I wonder if that's why my Samsung youtube app is so crappy. Google doesn't want to compete with themselves. It's too bad I was forced into getting a new TV this year. I would have loved the ability to develop my own TV apps. In another 5 years, I may not even need my HTPC.
Netflix aside, those new TVs have support for apps in general. Why not just add a Microsoft/Google TV app? These new set top boxes seem dated before they're even out. Google should apply the android model to TVs.
Since a smartphone is really a gateway to your personal data, in much the same way that my keys give the police access to my house, do they need a warrant to access remote data in the same way that they'd still need a warrant to enter my house?
My TV gets app updates (netflix, youtube, etc) pushed to it all the time. I'm not worried about obsolescence. They are software, not hardware apps.
Given that we right wingers had to put up with that big government liberal Bush, who outspent every previous president combined, I'd say I'm loving the payback. In fact, I'm gonna bring up the Obama socialist/ultra lib angle even more now so that real liberals will get a taste of what we've been going through when we we're told that unregulated free market capitalism (the polar opposite of what we had during the Bush administration) has destroyed the economy.
The truth is, we have a blend of fascism and socialism in this country that confuses both side. Libs hate big corporations, but they only get that big because of regulation, not in spite of it. So love them both or hate them both, it's senseless to side with one over the other.
A corporation is a government sponsored limited liability entity. In exchange for that advantage over ordinary people, they should be bound by reasonable restrictions. That's the price you pay for dancing with the government devil. I do however agree with you when it comes to proprietorships and partnerships. They clearly should be as free as any individual since they maintain the same level of responsibility.
So, what part of the constitution requires the press to register themselves?
Citizens aren't "governed" by the constitution. Their rights (whether citizens or not) are innate. This constitution is a set of limitations on the government, not a granting of freedoms to the people. The latter is assumed.
I'm surprised you got modded up. I can't even argue this way with my liberal friends without being branded a monster. If you've taken an oath to defend the constitution, and go off and fight unconstitutional wars, then your are a hypocrite with no honor. If you're killing far more civilians than terrorists, then you have no sense of morality or justice. If the killing of those civilians leads to more desperate terrorists, then you're a direct threat to my life and should be put in prison.
I'm told time and time again, that even if I disagree with the war, that I should continue to support the troops. I have been told this by people who think Bush should hang for war crimes. But we don't have a draft and adults are responsible for their own actions. Claiming they are just following orders is an excuse that doesn't fly post-Nuremberg. These wars have lasted long enough that any soldier who wanted out, could have easily gotten out. I have no sympathy for any soldier who has remained (although I don't think the OP has any particular sympathy either, just quoting a movie).
I'm still not sure where I stand on net neutrality, but if it's scheduled right before Christmas, then I know America is screwed. Scheduling legislation for then is the political analog of pulling out a tube of lube with an evil grin on one's face. In fact, I'll probably know which way I should have stood on the issue after the vote. This is the kind of crap that gave us the federal reserve.
I agree that they don't back stuff up. But I don't think backing up a drive leads to its failure. In my experience, after a break in period, drives never fail on me before I have to upgrade to something bigger. And my drives are on 24/7.
There are no reliable drives. Every new drive I get goes through a conditioning stage as a redundant backup drive before I'll trust it with real data. And even then, it's data that's backed up to multiple drives. A certain percentage of any brand will fail and that percentage has been climbing for me in recent years. It's taught me to be more rigorous in my backups. I'm not sure how non-techies manage it though.
I never understood the desire to push Linux into the mainstream. It would just make it a greater target for the virus writers. As long as it's not so fringe that it loses community support, I'm fine with it. IMO, the linux desktop has never been stronger than it is now. I can play most of the games I care about under wine and anything else under vmplayer. The nagware that dominates windows applications makes that desktop dead for me.
Odd. I'm 37 and I've always found it remarkable that I've always been the youngest programmer on any job I've ever had (still am). I've always wondered where the kids are, I guess there's a whole nuther set of companies out there that work in reverse.
This industry already has enough deadweight, corporate welfare queens as it is. It blows my mind that anyone can still suggest this in this day and age. Unions have destroyed every industry they've touched and state union pensions are on the verge of bankrupting every state in the union.
Starting sometime during the Carter administration, they changed the way they calculate inflation in order to understate it. They introduced techniques like hedonic adjustments say and that they can say meat's cheaper this year because this year's hamburger prices are cheaper than last year's steak. If this year's computer is twice as fast as last year's, then the "price" fell by 50%, and so on. They also leave out the bubble assets like housing to tweak it further.
Everything in our economy, including GDP and your salary adjustments are based on that now phony figure and that's why pay no longer syncs up with real inflation. It also means most people are actually losing wealth on most of their market investments. Shadow stats has continued to calculate the CPI using the old techniques:
http://www.shadowstats.com/
I've begged every manager I've had not to hire based on acronyms. All it does is narrow down your talent pool to a couple of people (if that). In a field where most programmers create more problems then they solve, you want the widest pool possible to draw from. I'd rather hire a good programmer with no experience in what we're doing, than a half-ass programmer who has every acronym.
Hell, on my last job, our manager hired a former PM to be a senior software engineer simply because she listed 300 acronyms on her resume. We kept on trying to point out that she had zero programming experience and was not in fact a programmer, but our manager just couldn't get over all those letters so she overruled us. I left within several months of that.
I've been after my bosses forever for a computer fast enough to keep up with my typing. Half of my day is spent watching the screen paint. Eventually, my bosses started complaining about not being able to see my tiny screen during code reviews. Then they got on a kick with their management to rectify the problem that had been driving them crazy. Well, I went from a 1280x1024 17" to a 1680x1050 22" and now my 90s computer can't even handle the native resolution. Guess I'm gonna have to sneak in an nVidia card tomorrow.