How does all this work in the US? How much does the "$50k" translate to in terms of "this is how much I can spend for my bills/groceiries/mortgage/etc, per month"?
I live in New Jersey and commute to work in NYC. Here are some East Coast expenses: ferry pass to NYC $500/month, real estate taxes are anywhere from $500 to $1000 per month depending on value of your home, mortgage is another $500 to $1000 per month. I pay $125/month for cable TV and fast internet access. Utilities have been going up lately - $200 to $300 per month.
$50K/year does not do it at all. Especially if you have a wife and children and if you like to eat...:)
Also, might be worth a moment to go back and look at the "party line" reaction to the early reports of electrical signs of brain activity being picked up on the "first" EEG machines.
So what? Eventually experiments were widely repeated and the new findings were accepted.
If telepathy came into being naturally in humans it would be a tremendous evolutionary advantage, so by now we would all have it. Like we all have language...
Since the movie companies object to copies of DVDs being made, why not have a player that can be scripted, so that when a DVD is played the script will skip past the "naughty bits". Then I can have a business where I sell a service that creates the editing scripts.
The player's owners just download the scripts and can safely watch any movie.
There are a lot terms in the language that come from technology. Some are so ingrained that you don't think about it much. For example, "show him the ropes" from days of sailing ships, "one track mind", "making the grade" from railroading, "fly-by-night" from early aviation, "ring me" from telephony. I'm sure there are tons of others I'm leaving out.
I'm sure there are terms that have died - like tons of horsemanship terms that have fallen out of use, when we switched to cars.
Some brand names become regular words (eg. kleenex). Looks like google is heading that way.
Imagine someone from 200 years ago coming here. That was before(!) railroads...
Think how language changed in past 30 years. I mean today I can say "Well, I saw a video on MTV, so I googled the lyric, then downloaded he track from iTunes to my iPod. Wanna hear it?".
I have had a Fujitsu Lifebook for over 3 years. It dual booted with Linux and Windows XP. I still have Red Hat 8.0 on it. Here is a web page describing my configuration.
The only change I made since I got the machine was to upgrade the memory to 512MB.
And who's going to do that? The 90+ percent of people who are happy to sit back and believe when they're told (by corporations!) that a corporation has the right to make money; that as long as they're not being screwed and the (boss | President | Prime Minister | Great And Glorious Saviour Of The People And Supreme Leader For Life) tells them that their (neverending) short-term pain is for the greater good, that everything is OK?
That's a different question. I was pointing out that it is possible in principle.
Have you seen the movie "The Corporation" (or read the book)? It shows some example of people standing up for the right things. So I remain optimistic.
business has one responsibility: to make profit for their shareholders. if that means firing you, okay. if that means shipping your job overseas, fine. if that means violating any labour law they can get away with (or afford to get caught for), sure.
This is how we define public corporations in today's laws. However, the laws that create and govern coorporations have been made by regular people, and we can change the laws if we want.
There is nothing sacred about the current structure of public corporations.
Maybe because until recently, the other countries did not care much about this contenst. This reminds me of the East German "amatuer" swimmers. They used to sweep up the swimming events in the Olympics.
Why not use Civil Air Patrol for this? There are plenty of private pilots who would be more than happy to fly such missions using their own airplanes. It would cost less, because the goverment would only have pay for the gasoline.
I hope the book is better than the movie adaptation.
Both movies completely miss the point(!!!) of Solaris. The main issue in the book is the question of understandibility of the universe by humans. In the book the ocean convering Solaris has been studied for decades and still the very basic questions are impossible to answer. Is it alive? Is it sentient? Is it trying to communicate with people through the "guests"? The novel asks and explores these questions.
This theme, knowability of the universe and ability understand and communicate with aliens is explored in several others of Lem's books. For an early example read "The Invincible", for a recent one read "Fiasco".
What really blows my mind is that Lem presumably wrote that poem in Polish, and Michael Kandel translated it (and other poems and stories) to English.
He did. In the same story there is a sonet written about a haircut, in which every word starts with the letter "S". It was written in Polish and then translated. It involves Sampson....
To play devil's advocate. Just how flexiable are older workers to new methadologies?
Us older workers know how to spell "methodologies". I have no problems learning new stuff, in fact that's why this field is so cool, always something new to try. Now that Java is getting old time to move on to Ruby.
Some of you young workers should learn some basic computer science first, so you can tell a difference between a linked list, hash table and binary tree.
Most major label releases are produced in a studio that's got $500,000 worth of gear and an equivalent amount of studio build-out: sound proofing, acoustic treatments, isolation booths.
This is no longer true. High quality recording is cheap these days. Digital 24 track recorder, plus ProTools will cost few thousand dollars at most.
I just finished recording a material for a CD with my partner and we spent about 6 hours in the studio to get about 3 hours of music recorded. Cost so far - less than $200. The stuff needs to be mixed and mastered - which will cost another few hundred and most.
I think with current music industry most of the money goes towards promotion (i.e. paying radio stations to play songs, MTV videos etc), but with the Internet this money doesn't seem work as well.
Did anyone notice that the author of the article (John Markoff) refers to Minix as "heart of Linux"? Markoff has been writing on technology for NYT for umpteen years and I'm suprised he'd write something like that!
Hmmm... on the other hand he is the one who first wrote about that dangerous hacker Kevin Mitnick...
Did it ever occur to you that, yes, maybe you did miss a memo? I mean, why would you just assume that because you haven't heard of something it couldn't be true?
If you check actual statistics you will see that violent crime has been steadily declining since about 1993. I can argue that this is due to Internet and the cathartic effect of video games.
Few times I mentioned this topic to my kids, they said "Dad! We can tell the difference between reality and a game. Duh!"
Just once I'd like to see someone in the digital-media-has-no-value-and-should-be-free crowd invest two full years of his life pouring everything he has into creating something digital.
Just because someone wasted a lot of effort doing something does not mean that they should get paid for it. To be paid for something you have to create something people actually want. The effort spent is not a measure of value to the buyer.
For example consider someone who is a violinist in a symphony orchestra with a drummer in a punk band. Who expanded more work? Who is more likely to make tons of money?
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I live in New Jersey and commute to work in NYC. Here are some East Coast expenses: ferry pass to NYC $500/month, real estate taxes are anywhere from $500 to $1000 per month depending on value of your home, mortgage is another $500 to $1000 per month. I pay $125/month for cable TV and fast internet access. Utilities have been going up lately - $200 to $300 per month.
$50K/year does not do it at all. Especially if you have a wife and children and if you like to eat...:)
So what? Eventually experiments were widely repeated and the new findings were accepted.
If telepathy came into being naturally in humans it would be a tremendous evolutionary advantage, so by now we would all have it. Like we all have language...
Who sit at their computers without wearing any pants!
The player's owners just download the scripts and can safely watch any movie.
Don't tell them! Let them declare victory and leave....
I'm sure there are terms that have died - like tons of horsemanship terms that have fallen out of use, when we switched to cars.
Some brand names become regular words (eg. kleenex). Looks like google is heading that way.
Imagine someone from 200 years ago coming here. That was before(!) railroads...
How would someone from 1920 intepret that?
The only change I made since I got the machine was to upgrade the memory to 512MB.
That's a different question. I was pointing out that it is possible in principle.
Have you seen the movie "The Corporation" (or read the book)? It shows some example of people standing up for the right things. So I remain optimistic.
This is how we define public corporations in today's laws. However, the laws that create and govern coorporations have been made by regular people, and we can change the laws if we want.
There is nothing sacred about the current structure of public corporations.
I guess it's been a while since I read the polish version.
Both movies completely miss the point(!!!) of Solaris. The main issue in the book is the question of understandibility of the universe by humans. In the book the ocean convering Solaris has been studied for decades and still the very basic questions are impossible to answer. Is it alive? Is it sentient? Is it trying to communicate with people through the "guests"? The novel asks and explores these questions.
This theme, knowability of the universe and ability understand and communicate with aliens is explored in several others of Lem's books. For an early example read "The Invincible", for a recent one read "Fiasco".
He did. In the same story there is a sonet written about a haircut, in which every word starts with the letter "S". It was written in Polish and then translated. It involves Sampson....
Us older workers know how to spell "methodologies". I have no problems learning new stuff, in fact that's why this field is so cool, always something new to try. Now that Java is getting old time to move on to Ruby.
Some of you young workers should learn some basic computer science first, so you can tell a difference between a linked list, hash table and binary tree.
This is no longer true. High quality recording is cheap these days. Digital 24 track recorder, plus ProTools will cost few thousand dollars at most.
I just finished recording a material for a CD with my partner and we spent about 6 hours in the studio to get about 3 hours of music recorded. Cost so far - less than $200. The stuff needs to be mixed and mastered - which will cost another few hundred and most.
I think with current music industry most of the money goes towards promotion (i.e. paying radio stations to play songs, MTV videos etc), but with the Internet this money doesn't seem work as well.
Author of the New York Times article. John Markoff. Sorry for being unclear.
Hmmm... on the other hand he is the one who first wrote about that dangerous hacker Kevin Mitnick...
If you check actual statistics you will see that violent crime has been steadily declining since about 1993. I can argue that this is due to Internet and the cathartic effect of video games.
Few times I mentioned this topic to my kids, they said "Dad! We can tell the difference between reality and a game. Duh!"
Just because someone wasted a lot of effort doing something does not mean that they should get paid for it. To be paid for something you have to create something people actually want. The effort spent is not a measure of value to the buyer.
For example consider someone who is a violinist in a symphony orchestra with a drummer in a punk band. Who expanded more work? Who is more likely to make tons of money?