Here's the rub though... Money is created from debt... With the current monetary system, a reduction in debt also means a reduction in money. And since debt increases exponentially, there is always more debt than money. Running a balanced budget would cause an exponentially accelerating monetary collapse.
If you start adding stops in between the two end points, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference what the top speed is, the average speed will suck badly.
And here I thought we had this thing called a "nation" which embodied some elements of teamwork and shared pain/shared gain. Certainly when elements of our society decide it is time for a war they emphasize something they call "sacrifice" and "service".
The concept of the nation state is simply a propaganda device to persuade people to expend their lives on your behalf.
Certainly when elements of our society decide it is time for a war they emphasize something they call "sacrifice" and "service".
And if we insisted that our "leaders" lead by example, getting into an arena with the other guy they would be a damned site more circumspect in their decisions.
Surely allocating fixed bandwidth on a first come first served basis would mean eventually you would run out of bandwidth to allocate and people would be denied access?
You mean like running out of... ports... in a hub or a switch?
Unix style directory trees are designed to operate efficiently over a lan. If you have a very limited number of applications and can guarantee that there will be no network hops involved, other structures can be used.
So for Windows Vista, the system's latest incarnation, Microsoft created a game that awarded points for bug-testing and prizes such as wristbands for achieving certain goals. Participation quadrupled.
There's a piece of genius there... Worked like a charm. Keep it up.
From a technology perspective, a Version Control System, Test Driven Development, and Continuous Integration can go a long way towards improving quality.
Pretty much agree...
Y'know, "make world" running in a loop on a dedicated build server (or ten), the whole shebang sucked out of the revision control system and built. Configs, testing, boot on the production hardware and testing on that hardware. Queue a new build with whenever someone updates the code. Fail the build if the automated tests fail.
Then at the end of each build you have a single complete system with a version number, which either works or it doesn't. If not, it will always fail in the same way.
You're doing two things. You're taking people out of the build loop so the software production process is consistent and repeatable, and you're taking people out of the build loop, reducing costs, improving productivity, they can actually do what they are paid to do.
12% is the average inflation in India. You're assuming that everyone's wages are increasing by the average value. Highly sought after people will be able to demand more and their wages will inflate faster.
An indian software engineer can earn about 400,000 rupees ($10k)at the moment. In 10 years that will match the west, but long before then the difference will be too marginal to make it worth offshoring.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe they'll send you their search indexes.
America only pumps pure clean oxygen into the atmosphere.
Here's the rub though... Money is created from debt... With the current monetary system, a reduction in debt also means a reduction in money. And since debt increases exponentially, there is always more debt than money. Running a balanced budget would cause an exponentially accelerating monetary collapse.
Basically, the banks have pwned you!
Non stop between cities.
If you start adding stops in between the two end points, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference what the top speed is, the average speed will suck badly.
You heard about it.
But in the real world there is no such thing as perfection. It is a philosophical construct.
And here I thought we had this thing called a "nation" which embodied some elements of teamwork and shared pain/shared gain. Certainly when elements of our society decide it is time for a war they emphasize something they call "sacrifice" and "service".
The concept of the nation state is simply a propaganda device to persuade people to expend their lives on your behalf.
Certainly when elements of our society decide it is time for a war they emphasize something they call "sacrifice" and "service".
And if we insisted that our "leaders" lead by example, getting into an arena with the other guy they would be a damned site more circumspect in their decisions.
Surely allocating fixed bandwidth on a first come first served basis would mean eventually you would run out of bandwidth to allocate and people would be denied access?
You mean like running out of ... ports ... in a hub or a switch?
Different purposes.
Unix style directory trees are designed to operate efficiently over a lan. If you have a very limited number of applications and can guarantee that there will be no network hops involved, other structures can be used.
We're having the same scalability issues which existed with 10base2 technology and 10/100baseT on a hub. The solution is "the switch".
Bits of wire are dedicated to individuals, wifi spectrum is shared between individuals. Who'd have thought that might create scalability issues...
Perhaps dedicating a little bit of the spectrum to each individual might fix the scalability problems.
Snooping over the network out of curiosity, I'll buy that one.
Snooping over the network is part of an admin's job.
Let me guess...
You don't think both parties aren't already bought and paid for by the same paymasters?
Electricity is expensive, therefore simply turning the electricity into heat and dumping it into the atmosphere is also expensive.
=> Do something else with it.
So for Windows Vista, the system's latest incarnation, Microsoft created a game that awarded points for bug-testing and prizes such as wristbands for achieving certain goals. Participation quadrupled.
There's a piece of genius there... Worked like a charm. Keep it up.
You're being ripped off massively.
And you are more than happy to buy one locking you to a specific manufacturer for $19.99. Same reason the headsets are all different.
The manufacturers are simply giving you what you ask for. YOU are the problem.
From a technology perspective, a Version Control System, Test Driven Development, and Continuous Integration can go a long way towards improving quality.
Pretty much agree...
Y'know, "make world" running in a loop on a dedicated build server (or ten), the whole shebang sucked out of the revision control system and built. Configs, testing, boot on the production hardware and testing on that hardware. Queue a new build with whenever someone updates the code. Fail the build if the automated tests fail.
Then at the end of each build you have a single complete system with a version number, which either works or it doesn't. If not, it will always fail in the same way.
You're doing two things. You're taking people out of the build loop so the software production process is consistent and repeatable, and you're taking people out of the build loop, reducing costs, improving productivity, they can actually do what they are paid to do.
What's required? make, svn, while true.
Carbon and energy neutral food I mean?
It would pretty much make the chinese firewall moot.
Which is why you have
development -> testing -> live
Bureaucracy doesn't create quality, testing does.
12% is the average inflation in India. You're assuming that everyone's wages are increasing by the average value. Highly sought after people will be able to demand more and their wages will inflate faster.
e.g. 30% wage inflation.
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/07/05/29/riya-wage-inflation-sinks_1.html
Does anyone have any more information on this?
Google?
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ggi-3eKTfO0Ql_PmTCiLws1Y689w
12%
An indian software engineer can earn about 400,000 rupees ($10k)at the moment. In 10 years that will match the west, but long before then the difference will be too marginal to make it worth offshoring.