So this article should be titled... "Why are kids born in the woods to parents who dont have electricity and can't read becomming CEOs in Silicon Valley ?"
So it's a non-issue, since, no amount of "solution" will cause 400 successful (insert skin color of choice here) entrepreneurs to show up over night, short of a big fat check stolen from tax payers. Maybe thats how the Solyndra people were so successful.;)
Anyone with $50 - $150 and a library card can pretty much obtain a PC and learn how to use it. Craigslist special. Cable companies are offering dirt cheap broadband, as well as various other gimmicks to get cheap net access. An individual so motivated to p0wn da webz only needs to make the time and effort. There has to be 10,000 other occupations with a higher barrier to entry.
Interesting. Mine is a tracfone ( same company as Net10 I believe ). Maybe its their crippleware patches and/or network setup ( I know they don't own their own towers, but they still have software / systems in the loop somewhere ).
I have an el-cheapo motorola flip phone w/ camera, and if I leave it powered on for an extended period of time, it locks up. It locks up in the most annoying fashion however. It appears to be working, the display is still lit, the screen goes on/off when you open/close it, but it doesnt receive messages or phone calls, and then when you finally look to see if you have messages, it locks up. Annoying as hell.
Sound quality is good when it works tho.
Anyone else have stability issues to report ? Any wonderful praises of no problems whatsoever ?
Seems to me that as the software gets more complex, the phone gets less reliable. (try hard to not accuse me of making a broad sweeping generalization)
If you are a true, patriotic, red blooded american, who knows so much about cars, that he/she can determine that US cars are crap, and Japanese cars are great, surely you could purchase one of the higher reliable US made vehicles, after checking domestic content percentage of course, and fix whatever small problem crops up yourself. Then you would be helping to support the domestic economy, and the 95% of the parts suppliers whos parts don't suck. Surely a person as knowledgeable and skilled as yourself could do this, because, you know all about cars right ?
Note how the exponential growth in imports from China correspond nicely will your chart that shows the average domestic wage remains flat. This would suggest the OWS protesters should be occupying China and and that our collective desire for cheap imported goods from China is to blame for the lack of growth in domestic wages. Is wall street to blame for imports from China ? Is the government to blame for allowing people to buy such vast quantities of goods from China ? If we tax businesses and wall street more, will they import more goods from China, and produce less product domestically, in order to remain profitable ? If we tax Chinese imports more, will job and wage growth return domestically ?
As painful as it may be, perhaps we need to just stop buying Chinese manufactured products, as consumers, and demand domestically produced products. It's not likely to happen, as I don't think the vast majority of the public realizes the $12 chinese car part is actually more expensive, in the long term, than the $18 domestically produced part, quality aside, because the $6 saved at point of purchase, will come back in spades in the form of no jobs, no paycheck, and accounting gimmicks concerning the national debt.
Arduino... with some analog to digital converters, and some old fashioned pots ( sliders and knobs ) and buttons, with the arduino sending the events via USB, to the linux kernels input subsystem, would make for a simple real world control panel, so I second your suggestion.
That is an excellent graph of the problem... but contains no insight into a potential solution, other than the date range in which the inequality occoured. The data from that chart, needs to be aligned with various other sources of data, in order to find what exactly the problem is associated with. It's not logical to review the data outlining the problem, then run off screaming "shit is all screwed up damnit fix it fix it fix it tax that f'cker over there more!" because taxing that guy over there more might in fact be the source of the problem.
As for my opinion, the government is simply failing to make economic decisions that allow all of us to thrive, in an economic environment that is more global than ever. The chinese government, for all its moral problems, seems to have no problem making decisions based on data, and the good of its nation, as opposed to, reacting in a knee jerk fashion to the latest special interest group crying about whatever it is they are crying about today.
The only real, effective solutions to economic problems will come from economic data. It is self evident, unless you want to pretend that mathematics isn't logical and data is useless. At that point you would be free to reject all of science and simply do whatever your emotions lead you to do. Given that people consistently screw themselves economically, by making economic decisions based on emotions, I can predict with great confidence that won't make anything better.
Attacking who people are choosing to blame the problem on, due to lack of understanding, incomplete data, or emotional outburst, will not solve the problem.
If I had to make a prediction today, about what will ultimately come from OWS targeting of wall street and business, I predict that government will 1) pass legislation to passify OWS temporarily in order to get re-elected, which also satisfies the leaderships self preservation motivations and 2) the resulting legislation will in fact, continue to make the problem even worse, as barriers and penalties erected that prevent people from obtaining or keeping wealth, will in fact, make it even harder for the little guy to get ahead, while doing little to erode the wealth of those who have already collected it.
It's no secret that business is motivated by profit. It's also no secret, that government is responsible for the environment in which business operates. Another non-secret, is that money flows towards those who treat it well. Businesses, large and small, use money, to obtain more money. This is why the rich get richer. They treat money really well. This is not a crime.
Those who understand money is a tool, and a form of communication, will undoubtedly do better than those who do not understand as well how to use the tool that is money to prosper and thrive.
If the OWS protesters are complaining about not having any money, or opportunity, what exactly is it they expect the business people of Wall Street to do about it ? Should wall street write a big check to them ? If you feed a dog, it will return for more food the next time it is hungry. Do the OWS protesters expect the government to solve the problem ? If so, why are they not called "Occupy Washington D.C.," for that is where the environment in which business operates is determined.
While the outrage being displayed by the OWS protesters may in fact be legitimate, their target is not. Their target, as evidenced by the very title of their protest, is business, and wall street... people who are treating money very well. It is the government, and the politicians and leaders therein, who are destroying the environment which would provide the opportunity the OWS protesters claim they desire. For all of Obamas speeches concerning job creation, his administration just put the pipeline project that would have created 20,000 jobs, and opportunity for the working lower and middle class to earn an income, on the shelf, in the name of his re-election campaign, in order to pacify the environmentalists, who live in denial about the fact that we are going to use the oil, whether or not the pipeline is built, and it is this type of behavior from our elected officials that is to blame for the current poor economic environment.
The message the OWS protesters are choosing to send to the public at large, is, "business is greedy... we want money too".... contemplate the irony here.
FYI... the OWS protest group has supposedly had $750,000 donated to it. How can you continue to cry about no opportunity, when you operate a business that has as low an overhead as camping in a public park, and generates that much in revenue ? If they are not in fact self interested and concerned about the great amount of money they have just obtained, and are more concerned with the greater good, then again, they should be protesting D.C. and the government, not wall street. By targeting "wall street" and "business" they are behaving in a manner that indicates the true nature of their outrage is simple jealousy from coveting thy neighbors property.
Also, lets assume for the moment, that government should raise taxes on the rich in response to the OWS protesters demands. This will 1) increase the motivation of the business community to make even more money, and work that much harder, and treat money with that much more respect and 2) decrease the motivation for the recipients of said "welfare" to value the money they have been given, because they didn't work and sacrifice and earn it themselves. This strategy is certainly no solution.
Before I get totally flamed for all of this, I will say I do support a better economic environment for all. I think everyone would like to see that. It is the target of outrage, and potential solutions, that I feel are misplaced.
I think perhaps your emotions have clouded your logic.
Homeopaths advocate the use of "a little bit more of the problem" to fix the "really large amount of problem."... ie "hair of the dog that bit you."
Which, when constructed into a proper analogy, would be "Your house is drafty ? You need to open more windows and doors."
FYI... I have no corporate masters... I am self employed. As for the TEA party, try to understand how, when your government is ineffective, the logical solution is less government, and more personal responsibility, not a larger, more ineffective government.
No, sadly, the OWS protesters are not spot on. The problem is not wall street. The problem is politicians who, rather than use data driven decisions to do whats best for the entire country, continue to bow to special interests from both the right, and the left, in the name of self preservation. Then, after implementing "the next great solution to a problem that doesnt exist"... fail to monitor the effects of said changes.
Wall street is not the problem, "Roman Council 2.0 -- Bread and Circus" is to blame.
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So this article should be titled ... "Why are kids born in the woods to parents who dont have electricity and can't read becomming CEOs in Silicon Valley ?"
So it's a non-issue, since, no amount of "solution" will cause 400 successful (insert skin color of choice here) entrepreneurs to show up over night, short of a big fat check stolen from tax payers. Maybe thats how the Solyndra people were so successful. ;)
The parent can get the kid a computer. It's not rocket science.
Im fairly confident having a drug addict / alcoholic parent f's up everyones life, regardless of skin color / race / religion.
Anyone with $50 - $150 and a library card can pretty much obtain a PC and learn how to use it. Craigslist special. Cable companies are offering dirt cheap broadband, as well as various other gimmicks to get cheap net access. An individual so motivated to p0wn da webz only needs to make the time and effort. There has to be 10,000 other occupations with a higher barrier to entry.
My 2 cents.
Quality Control ... der
I didn't read the algorithm, but perhaps it compares 1 judges decision, to the 8 other judges decisions, and creates a "thinks like" score.
A Bayes thing-a-ma-judge.
Modded down for being "100% offtopic" ? Do you work for motorola or something ? sheesh.
Yeah. Call me old fashioned and/or crazy, but a phone that doesn't receive calls or messages, is useless as a phone.
... I prefer the former to the later.
Phone smarts versus Smart phones
Interesting. Mine is a tracfone ( same company as Net10 I believe ). Maybe its their crippleware patches and/or network setup ( I know they don't own their own towers, but they still have software / systems in the loop somewhere ).
I have an el-cheapo motorola flip phone w/ camera, and if I leave it powered on for an extended period of time, it locks up. It locks up in the most annoying fashion however. It appears to be working, the display is still lit, the screen goes on/off when you open/close it, but it doesnt receive messages or phone calls, and then when you finally look to see if you have messages, it locks up. Annoying as hell.
Sound quality is good when it works tho.
Anyone else have stability issues to report ? Any wonderful praises of no problems whatsoever ?
Seems to me that as the software gets more complex, the phone gets less reliable. (try hard to not accuse me of making a broad sweeping generalization)
Kudos. I like trucks that can squish zombies, because, I dislike zombies.
;)
If you get a rendering tank setup, you can convert the squished zombies into biodiesel or methanol for when you run out of gas.
Something to think about.
If you are a true, patriotic, red blooded american, who knows so much about cars, that he/she can determine that US cars are crap, and Japanese cars are great, surely you could purchase one of the higher reliable US made vehicles, after checking domestic content percentage of course, and fix whatever small problem crops up yourself. Then you would be helping to support the domestic economy, and the 95% of the parts suppliers whos parts don't suck. Surely a person as knowledgeable and skilled as yourself could do this, because, you know all about cars right ?
An interesting chart for you ... US Imports from China 1985 to 2011
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5aAsxFJOeMw/TD5aK4Qha0I/AAAAAAAADXg/5Qe5ty42gBk/s1600/US-Imports-From-China-Doubling-Rate-Chart-Jan-1985-May-2010.PNG
Note how the exponential growth in imports from China correspond nicely will your chart that shows the average domestic wage remains flat. This would suggest the OWS protesters should be occupying China and and that our collective desire for cheap imported goods from China is to blame for the lack of growth in domestic wages. Is wall street to blame for imports from China ? Is the government to blame for allowing people to buy such vast quantities of goods from China ? If we tax businesses and wall street more, will they import more goods from China, and produce less product domestically, in order to remain profitable ? If we tax Chinese imports more, will job and wage growth return domestically ?
As painful as it may be, perhaps we need to just stop buying Chinese manufactured products, as consumers, and demand domestically produced products. It's not likely to happen, as I don't think the vast majority of the public realizes the $12 chinese car part is actually more expensive, in the long term, than the $18 domestically produced part, quality aside, because the $6 saved at point of purchase, will come back in spades in the form of no jobs, no paycheck, and accounting gimmicks concerning the national debt.
Surely it doesn't have an infinite number of them, hence, the reason Jesus invented multiplexing and data buses.
Arduino ... with some analog to digital converters, and some old fashioned pots ( sliders and knobs ) and buttons, with the arduino sending the events via USB, to the linux kernels input subsystem, would make for a simple real world control panel, so I second your suggestion.
That is an excellent graph of the problem ... but contains no insight into a potential solution, other than the date range in which the inequality occoured. The data from that chart, needs to be aligned with various other sources of data, in order to find what exactly the problem is associated with. It's not logical to review the data outlining the problem, then run off screaming "shit is all screwed up damnit fix it fix it fix it tax that f'cker over there more!" because taxing that guy over there more might in fact be the source of the problem.
As for my opinion, the government is simply failing to make economic decisions that allow all of us to thrive, in an economic environment that is more global than ever. The chinese government, for all its moral problems, seems to have no problem making decisions based on data, and the good of its nation, as opposed to, reacting in a knee jerk fashion to the latest special interest group crying about whatever it is they are crying about today.
The only real, effective solutions to economic problems will come from economic data. It is self evident, unless you want to pretend that mathematics isn't logical and data is useless. At that point you would be free to reject all of science and simply do whatever your emotions lead you to do. Given that people consistently screw themselves economically, by making economic decisions based on emotions, I can predict with great confidence that won't make anything better.
Attacking who people are choosing to blame the problem on, due to lack of understanding, incomplete data, or emotional outburst, will not solve the problem.
If I had to make a prediction today, about what will ultimately come from OWS targeting of wall street and business, I predict that government will 1) pass legislation to passify OWS temporarily in order to get re-elected, which also satisfies the leaderships self preservation motivations and 2) the resulting legislation will in fact, continue to make the problem even worse, as barriers and penalties erected that prevent people from obtaining or keeping wealth, will in fact, make it even harder for the little guy to get ahead, while doing little to erode the wealth of those who have already collected it.
It's no secret that business is motivated by profit. It's also no secret, that government is responsible for the environment in which business operates. Another non-secret, is that money flows towards those who treat it well. Businesses, large and small, use money, to obtain more money. This is why the rich get richer. They treat money really well. This is not a crime.
... people who are treating money very well. It is the government, and the politicians and leaders therein, who are destroying the environment which would provide the opportunity the OWS protesters claim they desire. For all of Obamas speeches concerning job creation, his administration just put the pipeline project that would have created 20,000 jobs, and opportunity for the working lower and middle class to earn an income, on the shelf, in the name of his re-election campaign, in order to pacify the environmentalists, who live in denial about the fact that we are going to use the oil, whether or not the pipeline is built, and it is this type of behavior from our elected officials that is to blame for the current poor economic environment.
... we want money too" .... contemplate the irony here.
... the OWS protest group has supposedly had $750,000 donated to it. How can you continue to cry about no opportunity, when you operate a business that has as low an overhead as camping in a public park, and generates that much in revenue ? If they are not in fact self interested and concerned about the great amount of money they have just obtained, and are more concerned with the greater good, then again, they should be protesting D.C. and the government, not wall street. By targeting "wall street" and "business" they are behaving in a manner that indicates the true nature of their outrage is simple jealousy from coveting thy neighbors property.
Those who understand money is a tool, and a form of communication, will undoubtedly do better than those who do not understand as well how to use the tool that is money to prosper and thrive.
If the OWS protesters are complaining about not having any money, or opportunity, what exactly is it they expect the business people of Wall Street to do about it ? Should wall street write a big check to them ? If you feed a dog, it will return for more food the next time it is hungry. Do the OWS protesters expect the government to solve the problem ? If so, why are they not called "Occupy Washington D.C.," for that is where the environment in which business operates is determined.
While the outrage being displayed by the OWS protesters may in fact be legitimate, their target is not. Their target, as evidenced by the very title of their protest, is business, and wall street
The message the OWS protesters are choosing to send to the public at large, is, "business is greedy
FYI
Also, lets assume for the moment, that government should raise taxes on the rich in response to the OWS protesters demands. This will 1) increase the motivation of the business community to make even more money, and work that much harder, and treat money with that much more respect and 2) decrease the motivation for the recipients of said "welfare" to value the money they have been given, because they didn't work and sacrifice and earn it themselves. This strategy is certainly no solution.
Before I get totally flamed for all of this, I will say I do support a better economic environment for all. I think everyone would like to see that. It is the target of outrage, and potential solutions, that I feel are misplaced.
I think perhaps your emotions have clouded your logic. Homeopaths advocate the use of "a little bit more of the problem" to fix the "really large amount of problem." ... ie "hair of the dog that bit you."
Which, when constructed into a proper analogy, would be "Your house is drafty ? You need to open more windows and doors."
FYI ... I have no corporate masters ... I am self employed. As for the TEA party, try to understand how, when your government is ineffective, the logical solution is less government, and more personal responsibility, not a larger, more ineffective government.
No, sadly, the OWS protesters are not spot on. The problem is not wall street. The problem is politicians who, rather than use data driven decisions to do whats best for the entire country, continue to bow to special interests from both the right, and the left, in the name of self preservation. Then, after implementing "the next great solution to a problem that doesnt exist" ... fail to monitor the effects of said changes.
Wall street is not the problem, "Roman Council 2.0 -- Bread and Circus" is to blame.
It's a strategy called "convince the majority to piss on a minority" and sadly, works all too well on the public.
Commodity priced mobos were available, that didn't have all the lamer gamer gee whizardry on them, but instead, came with pci-interconnect.
ie. A standardized, cheap, blade/cluster platform.
bah .... We don't think we invented *everything* .... but we did invent the idea of not paying all your crazy repressive taxes.
;)
Now we have have our own crazy taxes, so feel free to return the favor.
sucks.