If you're making 50% less than you were three years ago, the odds are you were making twice what you should've been three years ago. People aren't being underpaid now, they were being overpaid during the.com boom.
Pleanty of us are making more now than three years ago. Not a lot more, but enough to be just at the edge of insulting.
If you can barely make your house payments, thinking about what your real opportuntity to double your salary again really is might be in order. Because barely making house payments at the top of the real estate market is better than at the bottom.
I doubt this change in the hiring market will affect anyone but the fairly senior people. Thats what I've been seeing lately -- an explosion in the number of available jobs for senior people, to the point where probably 75% of the senior or principal level engineers I know are actively looking for new options, and most are turning down offers on the path to finding one they really want.
The only way it'll impact lower level positions is if the software industry really takes off and companies need a lot more grunt labor, but I'd bet thats a year off, even if things stay improving, or if enough of a shortage of senior people happen that companies get agressive promoting from within -- but you run the risk of ending up with an underqualified development team just as most companies experienced in the late 90's.
No, and the point is, neither Apple nor Be did it first, either. Because the technologies are similar only in concept, not in implementation or capability.
There are a lot of people in the world who have worked on this problem, and Microsoft isn't a company that has problems hiring people they want. But assuming the technology Microsoft is throwing its substantial weight behind is the same as technology developed ten years ago by the same developers Microsoft has hired today is a very poor attempt at technical hubris.
From what I've read, the Apple solution is much closer technically to the Be solution... and is generationally behind what Microsoft has been developing. Thats the trade-off they choose to get it out faster. MS choose to wait. Both decisions are probably right for the associated company, and its likely in ten years both platforms will have comparable capablilities... but ten years from now claiming Apple did it first or Be did it first is just silly. Or claiming Microsoft did it first.
Of course Apple didn't do it first... What Apple is doing is similar to but a lot less sophisticated than what MS has been talking about, and MS announced the feature well before Apple started talking about adding it. Its also an idea that has been around for two decades, without any good research into how to actually do it effectively.
Saying Apple did it first is just as lopsided and biased as saying MS did. I'd hazard a guess you are not on the development team at either place (like most people on here, although I know people at both places who read/. with regularity), and like almost everyone else on here, you don't have enough information to decide who ripped what off whom. The one thing you can be sure of is they've got a lot of people there (as does Apple) a lot smarter about this problem than anyone participating in this discussion on/.
What BeOS has is far less than what Apple or MS are talking about doing. Its like saying CERN developed the first webserver, so they clearly had the first clustered, fault tolerate distributed multi-tier networked enterprise application framework. Having a similar idea, and actually having similar features is not the same thing.
You are falling for the assumption that transarent alumina compounds are, in fact, transparent aluminum metal. Lots of gemstones are transparent alumina compounds, too. Rubies, emeralds, etc. They do not bend.
I am not a chemist, but I believe the condition of the material to allow shifting of bonds that allows metals to bend without breaking is nearly the opposite of the condition present in glass. Ie, alumina glass may be stronger, but it will not bend.
You got lucky if you did zero research and ended up with a box thats fast enough and has the right video hardware to work. Very lucky. Far more hardware doesn't work with MythTV than does.
I also assume in that 30 minute time you included the time to build the computer? Install all the hardware? No, of course not.
And my home media option didn't change the cost effectiveness at all, since it doesn't cost a dime...
I'm not being dismissive, I'm just pointing out that in a market where PVR options are available, MythTV is not a viable alternative for 99.99% of the people who may want a PVR. Its an interesting project, its good software, but its not a real option for replacing Tivo until I can order a MythTV box for the same price that fits in with my stereo equipment in terms of sound, size and looks. Believe me, I'd own one if someone was doing that... but no one is.
If I was in college and had lots of free time to screw with things, I'd be all over it, too.
tivo story, but its still as true now as a week ago.
MythTV is a nightmare to set up, and there's no company out there that I can buy a pre-configured one from. KnoppMyth may work if you have a certain set of hardware, but my time is far too valuable to spend a week researching the right hardware, buying $500 or $1000 worth of computing equipment and a case suitable for going in my living room, and blowing a day setting it all up.
If I could buy a decent looking unit that I plugged in and works, then I'd buy one. Until then, I've outgrown the need to blow days at a time playing with that sort of stuff. I enjoy it sometimes, but I'm just plain too busy.
At $100 for a Tivo, thats maybe an hour or two worth of my time. Hard to compete with that.
The problem with myth tv is simple... unless my time is valued less than an illegal migrant worker's, a mythtv box costs an order of magnitude more than either of the options he mentions.
Until someone has a MythTV distribution I can boot off a CD, answer a few questions and have up and working on a specific set of non-hacked-together hardware, its a toy for college students and people who haven't found things other than hacking their computers to entertain them. Thats a pretty big majority.
Linux would never take over the desktop if all we had was Slackware 1.0. And MythTV in its current incarnation will never even amount to a blip on the radar of the consumer PVR market.
I know a lot of former coworkers who have lost their job in the last year or two, and almost half of them are no longer doing tech work. Is it because the market is that bad? No, its because they were hired into technology even though they were underqualified during the tech boom, and now that its over and there isn't insane market pressure to hire anyone who can string lines of code together they've moved on.
I'd suspect thats the biggest group of people no longer in IT. I have most visibility in design and software development these days, but I'm sure the same is true for network/system administration.
There's not necessarily anything wrong with it, either. Most of the people I've known who did the major career shift after being layed off are much happier now. In a market where the people getting the jobs are reasonably qualified, its got to be hard to go to work knowing you can't really do what you need to well.
You missed an important point in your tirade about personal rights.
You have the absolute right to drive a vehicle any time you want, any way you want without registration or license in the US... as long as its on your private property.
The government isn't granting you the privelidge to operate a motor vehicle, they're granting you the privelidge to operate that vehicle on property owned by the state. The state owns the roads. The state owns the highways. They can (and will) grant you license to use them, and can (and will) revoke that license.
If the government wishes to require that vehicles operated on their roads must track your speed, be able to limit that speed electronically, be disabled by officers or any other option, if the lawmakers representing the people pass those laws, thats just the way it is. Pull that crap out and drive around in circles inside your private compound if you don't like it. You have that right.
I disagree with this as well, but it does nothing to help prevent these laws from being passed when you use silly, irrational arguments spouting about personal rights like one of those "IRS is illegal" whackos.
I can see into the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology out my cube window... we joke about the damn gnats in the office being nano-soldier transports.
When they opened the ISN, they had a big shindig in the courtyard, and they were showing off some of this stuff. Its not a matter of "I'm assuming they'll actually figure that one out at about the same time we get our flying cars." its a matter of "I'm assuming they'll actually figure out how to manufacture these at a reasonable cost by 2020."
These are plans for technologies they're already fairly along with, not pie-in-the-sky stuff.
Yes, it is. Amateur data is legal. There's a gray area around the use of channel encryption under those rules, but there's a pretty active community among amateur radio operators using 802.11x equipment over higher power radios for long distance communication.
I believe there are even people running the equipment on other channels all together.
Channel 1 is in a band that falls in spectrum assigned to amateur radio operators. That means, of course, we can legally transmit up to 2500 watts vs 50 milliwatts if that happens to be the lowest power we need to get the signal through.
It also means we're licensed users of the spectrum, which trumps Part B and means a license holder could, technically, tell a neighbor to move off of channel 1.
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If you're making 50% less than you were three years ago, the odds are you were making twice what you should've been three years ago. People aren't being underpaid now, they were being overpaid during the .com boom.
Pleanty of us are making more now than three years ago. Not a lot more, but enough to be just at the edge of insulting.
If you can barely make your house payments, thinking about what your real opportuntity to double your salary again really is might be in order. Because barely making house payments at the top of the real estate market is better than at the bottom.
I doubt this change in the hiring market will affect anyone but the fairly senior people. Thats what I've been seeing lately -- an explosion in the number of available jobs for senior people, to the point where probably 75% of the senior or principal level engineers I know are actively looking for new options, and most are turning down offers on the path to finding one they really want.
The only way it'll impact lower level positions is if the software industry really takes off and companies need a lot more grunt labor, but I'd bet thats a year off, even if things stay improving, or if enough of a shortage of senior people happen that companies get agressive promoting from within -- but you run the risk of ending up with an underqualified development team just as most companies experienced in the late 90's.
I thought he said they would never play Jay and Silent Bob again, not that they'd never visit that world.
But I haven't had any coffee today, so I may be remembering wrong.
Its not a free service, its 25 cents to initiate the call and 7-14 cents per minute.
No, and the point is, neither Apple nor Be did it first, either. Because the technologies are similar only in concept, not in implementation or capability.
There are a lot of people in the world who have worked on this problem, and Microsoft isn't a company that has problems hiring people they want. But assuming the technology Microsoft is throwing its substantial weight behind is the same as technology developed ten years ago by the same developers Microsoft has hired today is a very poor attempt at technical hubris.
From what I've read, the Apple solution is much closer technically to the Be solution... and is generationally behind what Microsoft has been developing. Thats the trade-off they choose to get it out faster. MS choose to wait. Both decisions are probably right for the associated company, and its likely in ten years both platforms will have comparable capablilities... but ten years from now claiming Apple did it first or Be did it first is just silly. Or claiming Microsoft did it first.
As well as a half dozen offers for low interest rate credit cards.
Per week.
Of course Apple didn't do it first... What Apple is doing is similar to but a lot less sophisticated than what MS has been talking about, and MS announced the feature well before Apple started talking about adding it. Its also an idea that has been around for two decades, without any good research into how to actually do it effectively.
/. with regularity), and like almost everyone else on here, you don't have enough information to decide who ripped what off whom. The one thing you can be sure of is they've got a lot of people there (as does Apple) a lot smarter about this problem than anyone participating in this discussion on /.
Saying Apple did it first is just as lopsided and biased as saying MS did. I'd hazard a guess you are not on the development team at either place (like most people on here, although I know people at both places who read
What BeOS has is far less than what Apple or MS are talking about doing. Its like saying CERN developed the first webserver, so they clearly had the first clustered, fault tolerate distributed multi-tier networked enterprise application framework. Having a similar idea, and actually having similar features is not the same thing.
If you have applications you're writing to new frameworks, those frameworks have to be available before you can sell those applications.
They're not going to hold back 80% of the company for 20% of it.
* FarCry Demo fails to install
So? How is that their problem?
* Unreal2 won't run
So? How is that their problem?
* Norton Antivirus status is not detected by Security Center
Neither is the state of my house's alarm system. Guess I should blame Microsoft instead of ADT. Or no one...
* AVG Antivirus is not detected by Security Center
It didn't detect me leaving my garage door open, either. Wonder how it was that Microsoft didn't know I had a garage door?
* Windows crashes on startup if any non-MS OS is doing a SMB network scan while it is starting up
Okay, this I'll give you.
* Security Center considers having Automatic Updates set to "Ask Before Installing" a security risk
What percentage of XP home users out there install critical updates as soon as they're available?
Do you really think this is a problem?
You are falling for the assumption that transarent alumina compounds are, in fact, transparent aluminum metal. Lots of gemstones are transparent alumina compounds, too. Rubies, emeralds, etc. They do not bend.
I am not a chemist, but I believe the condition of the material to allow shifting of bonds that allows metals to bend without breaking is nearly the opposite of the condition present in glass. Ie, alumina glass may be stronger, but it will not bend.
You got lucky if you did zero research and ended up with a box thats fast enough and has the right video hardware to work. Very lucky. Far more hardware doesn't work with MythTV than does.
I also assume in that 30 minute time you included the time to build the computer? Install all the hardware? No, of course not.
And my home media option didn't change the cost effectiveness at all, since it doesn't cost a dime...
I'm not being dismissive, I'm just pointing out that in a market where PVR options are available, MythTV is not a viable alternative for 99.99% of the people who may want a PVR. Its an interesting project, its good software, but its not a real option for replacing Tivo until I can order a MythTV box for the same price that fits in with my stereo equipment in terms of sound, size and looks. Believe me, I'd own one if someone was doing that... but no one is.
If I was in college and had lots of free time to screw with things, I'd be all over it, too.
tivo story, but its still as true now as a week ago.
MythTV is a nightmare to set up, and there's no company out there that I can buy a pre-configured one from. KnoppMyth may work if you have a certain set of hardware, but my time is far too valuable to spend a week researching the right hardware, buying $500 or $1000 worth of computing equipment and a case suitable for going in my living room, and blowing a day setting it all up.
If I could buy a decent looking unit that I plugged in and works, then I'd buy one. Until then, I've outgrown the need to blow days at a time playing with that sort of stuff. I enjoy it sometimes, but I'm just plain too busy.
At $100 for a Tivo, thats maybe an hour or two worth of my time. Hard to compete with that.
The problem with myth tv is simple... unless my time is valued less than an illegal migrant worker's, a mythtv box costs an order of magnitude more than either of the options he mentions.
Until someone has a MythTV distribution I can boot off a CD, answer a few questions and have up and working on a specific set of non-hacked-together hardware, its a toy for college students and people who haven't found things other than hacking their computers to entertain them. Thats a pretty big majority.
Linux would never take over the desktop if all we had was Slackware 1.0. And MythTV in its current incarnation will never even amount to a blip on the radar of the consumer PVR market.
Now you can see his belly jiggle in its full high definition glory!
I know a lot of former coworkers who have lost their job in the last year or two, and almost half of them are no longer doing tech work. Is it because the market is that bad? No, its because they were hired into technology even though they were underqualified during the tech boom, and now that its over and there isn't insane market pressure to hire anyone who can string lines of code together they've moved on.
I'd suspect thats the biggest group of people no longer in IT. I have most visibility in design and software development these days, but I'm sure the same is true for network/system administration.
There's not necessarily anything wrong with it, either. Most of the people I've known who did the major career shift after being layed off are much happier now. In a market where the people getting the jobs are reasonably qualified, its got to be hard to go to work knowing you can't really do what you need to well.
Got a link to support that?
Name two cities you can only travel between on the interstates, where there isn't a road, path or other right of way you can walk on.
You missed an important point in your tirade about personal rights.
You have the absolute right to drive a vehicle any time you want, any way you want without registration or license in the US... as long as its on your private property.
The government isn't granting you the privelidge to operate a motor vehicle, they're granting you the privelidge to operate that vehicle on property owned by the state. The state owns the roads. The state owns the highways. They can (and will) grant you license to use them, and can (and will) revoke that license.
If the government wishes to require that vehicles operated on their roads must track your speed, be able to limit that speed electronically, be disabled by officers or any other option, if the lawmakers representing the people pass those laws, thats just the way it is. Pull that crap out and drive around in circles inside your private compound if you don't like it. You have that right.
I disagree with this as well, but it does nothing to help prevent these laws from being passed when you use silly, irrational arguments spouting about personal rights like one of those "IRS is illegal" whackos.
I can see into the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology out my cube window... we joke about the damn gnats in the office being nano-soldier transports.
When they opened the ISN, they had a big shindig in the courtyard, and they were showing off some of this stuff. Its not a matter of "I'm assuming they'll actually figure that one out at about the same time we get our flying cars." its a matter of "I'm assuming they'll actually figure out how to manufacture these at a reasonable cost by 2020."
These are plans for technologies they're already fairly along with, not pie-in-the-sky stuff.
Huh, good to know. I'd read it was just channel one but never bothered to check.
;-)
Might need to have a chat with my neighbors this weekend
Yes, it is. Amateur data is legal. There's a gray area around the use of channel encryption under those rules, but there's a pretty active community among amateur radio operators using 802.11x equipment over higher power radios for long distance communication.
I believe there are even people running the equipment on other channels all together.
From addres. The originating address on the socket. Thats it.
Channel 1 is in a band that falls in spectrum assigned to amateur radio operators. That means, of course, we can legally transmit up to 2500 watts vs 50 milliwatts if that happens to be the lowest power we need to get the signal through.
It also means we're licensed users of the spectrum, which trumps Part B and means a license holder could, technically, tell a neighbor to move off of channel 1.
If the IP of the host the connection originated from is one that is allowed for the domain used in the from address, then its valid.
It won't break.
Um, have you looked at the standard? Its DNS based, the IP it comes from is all that matters.