That sounds good on paper but an employee and an employer are rarely equals. If you think a common person with no assets or resources or regulated standards is going to be able to negotiate a fair wage vs. a huge corporation with its army of lawyers, strategists...etc then you are just living in a dream world. Consider that the US is pretty much the most unregulated economy in the Western World (comparisons to Japan and Europe here) and I think the businesses here have enough of a free hand to do what they need/want to do.
A Missle Defense system is a necessary strategic advantage for the United States. Not only will it allow the country to defend itself from nuclear missles, but to prevent any other nuclear power from using them on anyone we don't want them to.
That lame bit of enabling you just spat out is only valid for the first 3 years of game development. A video game should not take half a decade to complete. They need to either release something soon or admit they don't know how to program so much as a hello world.
I got news for you. Thats the way it is for MOST open source websites. It would be interesting to check out the web server logs for www.gnu.org and www.fsf.org
Its not that hard. A sum of money is a sum of money, no matter the size. Put yourself on a budget and you'll be fine. Invest your money in low yield but high safety investments such as real estate, money market funds, fast food franchiszes...etc and it will grow with you.
If the people truly want to watch TV, who are we to arrogantly decide that they should not and prevent them from doing so? There's a lot worse a populace could decide to do.
So get another cell phone. Tell the phone company to block your phone number from caller ID. Never give out your phone number and tell folks your calling from a pay phone. You could also leave it off when you are not using it to make a call.
Keep in mind that not all people who have money are intelligent. And by this I mean more than just a few.
There are 5 ways to come into money/wealth.
1. Earn it by working for it. This includes starting your own business, or inventing something that sells well. Good money management is necessary here. 2. Inherit it. Nuff said. 3. Marry into it. Nuff said. 4. Win it. Either from a lottery or a court settlement. 5. Steal it or gain it via fraud.
If there are any other ways please let me know. In my opinion which is in no way professional I would say that the bulk of rich folks are in categories 1, 3 and 5 with intelligence being a big factor in those categories. Number 2 would come in second but requires no intelligence and number 4 would come in last requiring very little intelligence.
I understand what you are trying to say. The only problem is your one of the last people to hold onto this view. When the recession first started Slashdot was flooded with posts like yours. "Its only the dead weight thats getting fired. Good engineers/techies who know what they are doing either aren't getting fired or can get a new job the next hour/day/week!"
Then as time went one, and the recession dragged on, and more and more techies of all talent levels continued to go unemployed the tune started to change. You saw less and less posts like those and more and more posts complaining about the situation.
IT is no longer looked upon in the way it once was. So many hyped promises that weren't kept were made. Companies are now looking at their IT projects and wondering where the hell the savings or higher earnings that they were supposed to bring have gone. Now there is resentment and a need to make those IT "jerks" reign in their enthusiasm and cut their budgets. This means IT went from being a revenue generating unit to a unit that now costs the company, at least in managements eyes. They're not going to pay top-dollar for talent anymore. Not with thousands of techies out of work flooding each job offer with 500 resumes.
So what I have to ask you is, have you been blind to the situation for the past year? Do you honestly not know whats going on? Perhaps you live in an awesome area which has so far been recession resistant? I'm just trying to figure out why you still cling to this mostly abandoned view of the situation.
With the European Union gaining in strenght and implementing free market reforms this should encourage the growth of business and thus of technology. Very soon the Germany you love so much will be just like the US. On the other side of the globe in China, the government is using greed and materialism to keep the populace distracted from the horrible lack of rights that they suffer. So they too, a nation of 1 billion and a half people will become a TV loving society.
As you can see the world is submitting to US culture like it or not, kicking and screaming. Resistance is futile.
Does any other nation have television as the center of their life? If not, why can't THAT be our culture? Of course our culture really is popular culture. If its popular, its us!
What is your idea of a culture then that you so easily find among Germans and find lacking in Americans? Are you certain you simply do not have a grass is greener outlook concerning America?
Do we all have to hold hands and sing songs for us to have a culture? Should we all be anarchist counter-culture annoyances so that we can have "culture"? What defines it?
This is the single most important thing as a techie that you must understand, and understand now. Software companies are NOT different from other companise. A company either has a product or service to sell or it doesn't. When it doesn't its called a "failed business" a "sham" or a "scam". Nothing more, nothing less.
Even with an MBA people such as yourself cannot get this. Its amazing. The days of a company being designed solely to be taken over are gone and won't be back for a while. The IP has to be pretty special and worht something of ACTUAL value to the purchasing company.
Obviously you need to read the other posts in this thread. Doctors and Lawyers are still in demand. Developers however are not. If they were then this article would not have been written to begin with. When devs are being fired by the thousands and can't find jobs for up to 2 years, then minimum wage becomes better then no wage.
Your apathy has allowed your thinking to become most pathetic. You don't bring meaning to your life by committing genocide against another race. If you are so BORED then go find something to do so that your feeble mind does not have the time to think up any more stupid things like what you just said.
Who's going to pay for the bandwidth usage of hundreds of thousands of users? There would still be a need for a monthly charge even if the softare itself was free.
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That sounds good on paper but an employee and an employer are rarely equals. If you think a common person with no assets or resources or regulated standards is going to be able to negotiate a fair wage vs. a huge corporation with its army of lawyers, strategists...etc then you are just living in a dream world. Consider that the US is pretty much the most unregulated economy in the Western World (comparisons to Japan and Europe here) and I think the businesses here have enough of a free hand to do what they need/want to do.
A Missle Defense system is a necessary strategic advantage for the United States. Not only will it allow the country to defend itself from nuclear missles, but to prevent any other nuclear power from using them on anyone we don't want them to.
This type of self hate I find most disturbing.
That lame bit of enabling you just spat out is only valid for the first 3 years of game development. A video game should not take half a decade to complete. They need to either release something soon or admit they don't know how to program so much as a hello world.
....this article is so long I have no doubt that 99% of the people posting in this thread did not.
Please read the entire article.
I got news for you. Thats the way it is for MOST open source websites. It would be interesting to check out the web server logs for www.gnu.org and www.fsf.org
By your logic then every college student in Europe should have the same spoiled attitude since none of them pay for tuition, at least not directly.
Why on Earth would a dentist care about people going online in his office?
There are pre-paid plans you know
Its not that hard. A sum of money is a sum of money, no matter the size. Put yourself on a budget and you'll be fine. Invest your money in low yield but high safety investments such as real estate, money market funds, fast food franchiszes...etc and it will grow with you.
If the people truly want to watch TV, who are we to arrogantly decide that they should not and prevent them from doing so? There's a lot worse a populace could decide to do.
So get another cell phone. Tell the phone company to block your phone number from caller ID. Never give out your phone number and tell folks your calling from a pay phone. You could also leave it off when you are not using it to make a call.
Bada bing
Bada b00m
Keep in mind that not all people who have money are intelligent. And by this I mean more than just a few.
There are 5 ways to come into money/wealth.
1. Earn it by working for it. This includes starting your own business, or inventing something that sells well. Good money management is necessary here.
2. Inherit it. Nuff said.
3. Marry into it. Nuff said.
4. Win it. Either from a lottery or a court settlement.
5. Steal it or gain it via fraud.
If there are any other ways please let me know. In my opinion which is in no way professional I would say that the bulk of rich folks are in categories 1, 3 and 5 with intelligence being a big factor in those categories. Number 2 would come in second but requires no intelligence and number 4 would come in last requiring very little intelligence.
Why does this class envy exist when cell phones are cheap enough for even homeless people to afford?
I understand what you are trying to say. The only problem is your one of the last people to hold onto this view. When the recession first started Slashdot was flooded with posts like yours. "Its only the dead weight thats getting fired. Good engineers/techies who know what they are doing either aren't getting fired or can get a new job the next hour/day/week!"
Then as time went one, and the recession dragged on, and more and more techies of all talent levels continued to go unemployed the tune started to change. You saw less and less posts like those and more and more posts complaining about the situation.
IT is no longer looked upon in the way it once was. So many hyped promises that weren't kept were made. Companies are now looking at their IT projects and wondering where the hell the savings or higher earnings that they were supposed to bring have gone. Now there is resentment and a need to make those IT "jerks" reign in their enthusiasm and cut their budgets. This means IT went from being a revenue generating unit to a unit that now costs the company, at least in managements eyes. They're not going to pay top-dollar for talent anymore. Not with thousands of techies out of work flooding each job offer with 500 resumes.
So what I have to ask you is, have you been blind to the situation for the past year? Do you honestly not know whats going on? Perhaps you live in an awesome area which has so far been recession resistant? I'm just trying to figure out why you still cling to this mostly abandoned view of the situation.
With the European Union gaining in strenght and implementing free market reforms this should encourage the growth of business and thus of technology. Very soon the Germany you love so much will be just like the US. On the other side of the globe in China, the government is using greed and materialism to keep the populace distracted from the horrible lack of rights that they suffer. So they too, a nation of 1 billion and a half people will become a TV loving society.
As you can see the world is submitting to US culture like it or not, kicking and screaming. Resistance is futile.
Does any other nation have television as the center of their life? If not, why can't THAT be our culture? Of course our culture really is popular culture. If its popular, its us!
What is your idea of a culture then that you so easily find among Germans and find lacking in Americans? Are you certain you simply do not have a grass is greener outlook concerning America?
Do we all have to hold hands and sing songs for us to have a culture? Should we all be anarchist counter-culture annoyances so that we can have "culture"? What defines it?
This is the single most important thing as a techie that you must understand, and understand now. Software companies are NOT different from other companise. A company either has a product or service to sell or it doesn't. When it doesn't its called a "failed business" a "sham" or a "scam". Nothing more, nothing less.
Even with an MBA people such as yourself cannot get this. Its amazing. The days of a company being designed solely to be taken over are gone and won't be back for a while. The IP has to be pretty special and worht something of ACTUAL value to the purchasing company.
Obviously you need to read the other posts in this thread. Doctors and Lawyers are still in demand. Developers however are not. If they were then this article would not have been written to begin with. When devs are being fired by the thousands and can't find jobs for up to 2 years, then minimum wage becomes better then no wage.
You can stop promoting the guild by now. Its not like its ever going to catch on among the ever individualistic techie crowd in this country.
Your apathy has allowed your thinking to become most pathetic. You don't bring meaning to your life by committing genocide against another race. If you are so BORED then go find something to do so that your feeble mind does not have the time to think up any more stupid things like what you just said.
Typical open source groupthink.
Who's going to pay for the bandwidth usage of hundreds of thousands of users? There would still be a need for a monthly charge even if the softare itself was free.
What type of Clie fell apart? I have several friends who just got NX70's for xmas.
I don't dispute that its true. It is not however unsettling. I just don't care. That does not make me a pansy. It is not germaine to the thread topic.