The entire point of technology is to create machines, devices and or processes that reduce the number of people needed to complete any task and or job. So simply by working in this industry you are CONTRIBUTING to your own eventual obselessence.
The reason why health care is cheaper in.au is because its socialized, you pay higher taxes for it.
As for housing, well Austraila is a small nation population wise compared to the US. Their cities aren't as dense as ours are and not as many people wish to live in.au as they want to live in.us.
I thought you said he went to Austraila? Then how did he get this from the internet?
The reason why there's such a silence is because this effects so few people. IT Jobs, real IT Jobs that is, never consisted of a large section of the labor force. Its what 1% at best? There are over 150 million workers and how many hundreds of thousands of programmers, network engineers and system administrators?
For everyone else its a non event at best. I mean what, was ever American going to become a programmer or something?
Go to Europe, specifically France, Germany or Sweeden and start advocating lower taxes and the reduction of social services. In other words the dismantling of the socialist welfare state, which is happening anyways, and see how far your "freedom of speech" will get you. Such talk would be considered VERY controvserial. The thought of ending employment for life in Europe? Making people actually pay for what they get on a more direct basis? Oh teh sh0ck, t3h h0rr0r!
Sometimes I have to wonder if Europeans think us Americans are throwing other Americans in jail for just saying things no one really wants to hear. Guess what, we're not. You can rant and rave all you want about how much Bush sucks. But if he's a popular president and more people like him then don't then what do you expect? Smiles? Encouragement for an encore rant?
Without the marketing people the company can't sell whatever it is the engineers make. Plus engineers are only needed to make the product ONCE. After that its all about marketing. So yeah the marketers are more valuable. But this is hard to get across to the aspergers syndrome plagueged geek world.
You are telling me you can't setup some form of a network imaging backup system? You know a large storage area network that would image the user's HD'd on a regular basis?
So we only get two choices, the space program or funding the war in Iraq, huh? Thats it? Nothing else we could spend the taxpayer money on right? Nothing like health care or education or civil engineering/infrastructure, more community policing....etc.
We yuppies are busy and important people. We most certainly WILL be meeting those contacts in our PDA's!
Whats with all the anti-yuppie sentiment anyways? Previous generations busted their asses to send their kids to college so they could become successful young people and when their kids end up actually succeeding they're instantly hated? What gives?
We need more reasons besides "because its there" to justify spending billions of taxpayer dollars. Its amazing what geeks want to do with OTHER people's money.
Fortunately there ARE other reasons aside from "because its there". Now we just have to inform the public of them.
I'm a Real Estate agent. I can imagine taking clients out on my bicycle. REAL impressive.
Not to mention here in Boston bikes get stolen very quickly. Its just too damn inconvienent. Ever wonder why more people don't ride em?
Plus there's a limited number of girls who will accept a man who does not have a car. Surprisingly these girls aren't shallow they simply don't wish to date a loser and really who does?
Uh how can you be a Slashdot reader and know so little about hybrid cars? I don't know what you read but its wrong. The gas engine runs pretty much all the time and is boosted with the electric engine except when you are traveling below 10mph at which point the gas engine shuts off and you are powered only by the electric. Also the breaks have turbines in them to recapture energy to recharge the battery. This is called "regenerative breaking". 49mpg highway is NOT normal. Its exceptional.
They aren't ENTITLED to a good paying job, they ALREADY HAVE ONE. Now why on Earth should they quit it and get a lower paying job and lower their standard of living?
Uh no. In the future most code will be written by advanced AI's not by humans themselves, so the whole proprietary vs. open source argument is wholly irrelevant.
If your children are anywhere near normal they won't be computer geeks who obsess over a near-defunct computer company who is causing trouble for the open source community.
You make it sound like the person worked for the KGB or the Gestapo. Its SCO, bad but not as bad as you are making it out to be.
Moron. To quit a place you have to be working for it to begin with. I was simply asking if the place is so counter to your morals then why apply for a job there in the first place?
Making the choice of an OS a determining factor in whether or not you take a job you need to sustain yourself and or your family is like deciding not to work for a company because they print their forms in black ink instead of blue ink. Its utterly fuckign retarded and displays a startling lack of maturity in someone in their late 20's early 30's.
If I were your parents I wouldn't let you move back home for something that childish. If you quit your job to protest worker abuse, fraud, discrimination or other criminal instances then yes your action would be noble. But because you couldn't use Linux on your workstation? Boo fucking hoo.
Its FREE SOFTWARE. Do you understand what that means? Do you think the silly GPL license stops EVERY company from stealing open source code and using it in their products without telling anyone about it?
If morons decide to labor and produce code for free and place it on the internet for anyone to use then they can't bitch when someone does just exactly that. No damn license is going to stop some company or some person from doing what they want to do. The best you can do is protect yourself and your own work by NOT releasing it to the world willy nilly but if you don't even respect yourself enough to protect your own code then why should anyone else?
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Its also possible to engineer products without EE or CS degrees, so why should an engineer be worth as much as a marketer again?
The entire point of technology is to create machines, devices and or processes that reduce the number of people needed to complete any task and or job. So simply by working in this industry you are CONTRIBUTING to your own eventual obselessence.
Wake up.
The reason why health care is cheaper in .au is because its socialized, you pay higher taxes for it.
.au as they want to live in .us.
As for housing, well Austraila is a small nation population wise compared to the US. Their cities aren't as dense as ours are and not as many people wish to live in
I thought you said he went to Austraila? Then how did he get this from the internet?
The reason why there's such a silence is because this effects so few people. IT Jobs, real IT Jobs that is, never consisted of a large section of the labor force. Its what 1% at best? There are over 150 million workers and how many hundreds of thousands of programmers, network engineers and system administrators?
For everyone else its a non event at best. I mean what, was ever American going to become a programmer or something?
The Earth is 70% ocean. Desalinzation plants are a current and proven technology.
Don't ask me why those nations don't have the water they need. Perhaps they can't afford to built the plants? Perhaps their leaders suck?
Go to Europe, specifically France, Germany or Sweeden and start advocating lower taxes and the reduction of social services. In other words the dismantling of the socialist welfare state, which is happening anyways, and see how far your "freedom of speech" will get you. Such talk would be considered VERY controvserial. The thought of ending employment for life in Europe? Making people actually pay for what they get on a more direct basis? Oh teh sh0ck, t3h h0rr0r!
Sometimes I have to wonder if Europeans think us Americans are throwing other Americans in jail for just saying things no one really wants to hear. Guess what, we're not. You can rant and rave all you want about how much Bush sucks. But if he's a popular president and more people like him then don't then what do you expect? Smiles? Encouragement for an encore rant?
Without the marketing people the company can't sell whatever it is the engineers make. Plus engineers are only needed to make the product ONCE. After that its all about marketing. So yeah the marketers are more valuable. But this is hard to get across to the aspergers syndrome plagueged geek world.
You are telling me you can't setup some form of a network imaging backup system? You know a large storage area network that would image the user's HD'd on a regular basis?
So we only get two choices, the space program or funding the war in Iraq, huh? Thats it? Nothing else we could spend the taxpayer money on right? Nothing like health care or education or civil engineering/infrastructure, more community policing....etc.
Feh Geeks and their myopia.
We yuppies are busy and important people. We most certainly WILL be meeting those contacts in our PDA's!
Whats with all the anti-yuppie sentiment anyways? Previous generations busted their asses to send their kids to college so they could become successful young people and when their kids end up actually succeeding they're instantly hated? What gives?
We need more reasons besides "because its there" to justify spending billions of taxpayer dollars. Its amazing what geeks want to do with OTHER people's money.
Fortunately there ARE other reasons aside from "because its there". Now we just have to inform the public of them.
If you define FINE as SLOWLY then yeah it does.
I'm a Real Estate agent. I can imagine taking clients out on my bicycle. REAL impressive.
Not to mention here in Boston bikes get stolen very quickly. Its just too damn inconvienent. Ever wonder why more people don't ride em?
Plus there's a limited number of girls who will accept a man who does not have a car. Surprisingly these girls aren't shallow they simply don't wish to date a loser and really who does?
Uh how can you be a Slashdot reader and know so little about hybrid cars? I don't know what you read but its wrong. The gas engine runs pretty much all the time and is boosted with the electric engine except when you are traveling below 10mph at which point the gas engine shuts off and you are powered only by the electric. Also the breaks have turbines in them to recapture energy to recharge the battery. This is called "regenerative breaking". 49mpg highway is NOT normal. Its exceptional.
You can wear a wife beater while driving a Lexus you know.
What about that whole gas tank exploding when hit from the side issue?
How is advertising ruining the country and the world?
They aren't ENTITLED to a good paying job, they ALREADY HAVE ONE. Now why on Earth should they quit it and get a lower paying job and lower their standard of living?
Uh no. In the future most code will be written by advanced AI's not by humans themselves, so the whole proprietary vs. open source argument is wholly irrelevant.
How do children who have died of starvation pity their parents?
If your children are anywhere near normal they won't be computer geeks who obsess over a near-defunct computer company who is causing trouble for the open source community.
You make it sound like the person worked for the KGB or the Gestapo. Its SCO, bad but not as bad as you are making it out to be.
Moron. To quit a place you have to be working for it to begin with. I was simply asking if the place is so counter to your morals then why apply for a job there in the first place?
Making the choice of an OS a determining factor in whether or not you take a job you need to sustain yourself and or your family is like deciding not to work for a company because they print their forms in black ink instead of blue ink. Its utterly fuckign retarded and displays a startling lack of maturity in someone in their late 20's early 30's.
If I were your parents I wouldn't let you move back home for something that childish. If you quit your job to protest worker abuse, fraud, discrimination or other criminal instances then yes your action would be noble. But because you couldn't use Linux on your workstation? Boo fucking hoo.
Its FREE SOFTWARE. Do you understand what that means? Do you think the silly GPL license stops EVERY company from stealing open source code and using it in their products without telling anyone about it?
If morons decide to labor and produce code for free and place it on the internet for anyone to use then they can't bitch when someone does just exactly that. No damn license is going to stop some company or some person from doing what they want to do. The best you can do is protect yourself and your own work by NOT releasing it to the world willy nilly but if you don't even respect yourself enough to protect your own code then why should anyone else?
If someone believes in animal rights so ardently then WTF are they working for a fast food joint in the first place?