I don't have all the details - it was part of an article I read on how Ireland has the lowest unemployment rate for Europe, North America, Australia, etc. It was a conscious decision by the Irish governmeny maybe 15 years ago. I believe all usiversities there (or the major ones) are public, and funded by the government. It is just an extension of government funding of K-12 education, and the government determining what its priorities are.
One thing he seems to have forgotten - the outrageously high cost of university education in the US. Ireland has made university education free for it's citizens - and is now the leader in high tech employment in Europe.
Sorry, I can't see any serious influx of the sort of people who make successful tech companies wanting to live in the Deep South. The stultifying conservative religious culture, the nascent racism, the lack of anything remotely cultural.
The first question you get asked is "What church do you go to?", the second is "Do you want to come to our deer camp (and kill innocent wildlife)?"
The weather is the reason why IBM's Rochester, MN plant was so productive - home of the System/38 and AS/400 - real cutting edge technology when they came out in the 1980's.
Well, the highway system is nationalized. Why not other infrastructure - where the aim is to actually provide service to comsumers, not profits to investors?
The cash cow for telcos is not being an ISP. The cash cow is long distance phone charges. And given that "long distance" can be as close as 10 miles....
But VOIP will kill that cow stone dead. And the telcos want to make sure that won't happen.
When I was living in Australia, I had a cell phone. I didn't pay for incoming calls. I paid a monthly fee, which included so many "minutes" of outgoing calls, and I paid for outgoing calls that exceeded that allowance. I rarely paid more than $15 a month.
In Australia, the rate to call a cell (mobile) phone number is higher than the rate to call a landline number.
That's why I refuse to have a cell phone in the US - the phone companies want to rape me blind - the old BOHICA story.
What makes you think that? I don't want my developers working someplace where they don't have regular, daily contact with the end users of the software and other members of the development team. Outsourcing software development to Podunk, KS is just a stupid as outsourcing it to Bangalore, India.
He's right. Try living in Mississippi - even the "Big City" - Jackson is under 200,000 people. That's a small town. I can't comment about other parts of the country, but in the south, small town = small mind. The only activities are at your local church - one for whites, one for blacks. Culture? Thats in the dairy case in your local Piggy-Wiggly, called yoghurt.
So, where there are lots of ice storms, or tornados, or any other high likely enviromental event that will disrupt aerial lines (power / cable / telecom), the answer is simple. Bury them. Simple. Oh - wait - it costs more up front. Can't cut into corporate profits, can we.
Impractical to count every vote by hand? Tell that to the Australians, who have compulsory voting and all Federal, State and Local Government elections have been counted by hand since voting started. Results are known reasonably quickly, and can be properly verified by independant sources if there are concerns.
I don't know what "obsenity" is; maybe you meant "obscenity"? If you want to start throwing dictionaries around, then you leave yourself open for criticism.
Ever heard of a body called the ITU - the body that sets international standards for telecommunications, spectrum usage, all of that? Been around since the 1850's, based in Geneva.
That is worked pretty well. You can pick up you phone in Bumfuck, Kansas, and call anywhere in the world. Even with the joke that is the US fragmented telecommunications system.
You can take an AM radio receiver from Asia, move to Europe, and listen to AM radio there. Or in the USA. International RF spectrum allocations are made to avoid one country from ruining spectrum use for everyone else.
Give technical control of internet standards to the ITU - they have the track record.
Why bus kids to school? Build smaller neighbourhood schools, that kids can walk to. Get the off their bums, get some exercise, then we won't be raising a generation of obese slugs.
Now, what impact on Apple's market share did their move from the Motorola 68000 cpu to the Power PC have? Two-fifths of bugger all. Did it impact Linux / Windows presence? No.
Frankly, Those people who think the Mac is the best thing since sliced bread will continue to use it and refuse to consider any other computer. Those who believe that using anything other than RMS-endorsed free (as in speach) software will continue to fervently put down any other possible solution as heretical. The majority of home and office uses will keep using virus infected Windows computers.
For an open source developer, the only real impact of this is "can I get a Intel / Mac/OS version running?" Will these people suddenly say "Hey! I don't want to develop Linux stuff any more!" - of course not.
The US education problems are not in computer science, but in the general level of education in history, geography and world affairs ourside of local US issues and what Fox and similar "News" organizations deem rating-worthy.
I think you missed the point. Dreamweaver templates - and library objects - do all of the template "pre-processing" in the design tool, and provide stock standard html code to the web server. No server side processing is required to assemble the complete page.
At the time, there was a report that the federal police were reopening the case regarding the disappearance of the Prime Minister Harold Holt - who in 1968 (?) went swimming alone at Cheviot Beach, south of Melbourne, and was never seen again - "The Swim that Needed No Towel."
It was reported the police were looking for a dingo with scuba equipment.
On a related issue, one of the memorials named after Harold Holt is a public swimming pool in a Melbourne suburb.
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What if there were NO ADVERTISMENTS on broadcast television. And to watch, you pay a monthly subscription? Or an annual subscription. Radical?
Wrong. Police are part of the Government, part of the executive branch. Unless some how NH has privatised there police force.
I don't have all the details - it was part of an article I read on how Ireland has the lowest unemployment rate for Europe, North America, Australia, etc. It was a conscious decision by the Irish governmeny maybe 15 years ago. I believe all usiversities there (or the major ones) are public, and funded by the government. It is just an extension of government funding of K-12 education, and the government determining what its priorities are.
One thing he seems to have forgotten - the outrageously high cost of university education in the US. Ireland has made university education free for it's citizens - and is now the leader in high tech employment in Europe.
Sorry, I can't see any serious influx of the sort of people who make successful tech companies wanting to live in the Deep South. The stultifying conservative religious culture, the nascent racism, the lack of anything remotely cultural.
The first question you get asked is "What church do you go to?", the second is "Do you want to come to our deer camp (and kill innocent wildlife)?"
Yeah, just a great place to live.
The weather is the reason why IBM's Rochester, MN plant was so productive - home of the System/38 and AS/400 - real cutting edge technology when they came out in the 1980's.
Well, the highway system is nationalized. Why not other infrastructure - where the aim is to actually provide service to comsumers, not profits to investors?
The cash cow for telcos is not being an ISP. The cash cow is long distance phone charges. And given that "long distance" can be as close as 10 miles....
But VOIP will kill that cow stone dead. And the telcos want to make sure that won't happen.
When I was living in Australia, I had a cell phone. I didn't pay for incoming calls. I paid a monthly fee, which included so many "minutes" of outgoing calls, and I paid for outgoing calls that exceeded that allowance. I rarely paid more than $15 a month.
In Australia, the rate to call a cell (mobile) phone number is higher than the rate to call a landline number.
That's why I refuse to have a cell phone in the US - the phone companies want to rape me blind - the old BOHICA story.
"software is teh ideal telecommuting job"
What makes you think that? I don't want my developers working someplace where they don't have regular, daily contact with the end users of the software and other members of the development team. Outsourcing software development to Podunk, KS is just a stupid as outsourcing it to Bangalore, India.
He's right. Try living in Mississippi - even the "Big City" - Jackson is under 200,000 people. That's a small town. I can't comment about other parts of the country, but in the south, small town = small mind. The only activities are at your local church - one for whites, one for blacks. Culture? Thats in the dairy case in your local Piggy-Wiggly, called yoghurt.
So, where there are lots of ice storms, or tornados, or any other high likely enviromental event that will disrupt aerial lines (power / cable / telecom), the answer is simple. Bury them. Simple. Oh - wait - it costs more up front. Can't cut into corporate profits, can we.
Impractical to count every vote by hand? Tell that to the Australians, who have compulsory voting and all Federal, State and Local Government elections have been counted by hand since voting started. Results are known reasonably quickly, and can be properly verified by independant sources if there are concerns.
I don't know what "obsenity" is; maybe you meant "obscenity"? If you want to start throwing dictionaries around, then you leave yourself open for criticism.
Any incoming calls to my cell phone should not count against my minutes, or incur any charges to me at all.
Hey - that's how it works in other counties.
Ever heard of a body called the ITU - the body that sets international standards for telecommunications, spectrum usage, all of that? Been around since the 1850's, based in Geneva.
That is worked pretty well. You can pick up you phone in Bumfuck, Kansas, and call anywhere in the world. Even with the joke that is the US fragmented telecommunications system.
You can take an AM radio receiver from Asia, move to Europe, and listen to AM radio there. Or in the USA. International RF spectrum allocations are made to avoid one country from ruining spectrum use for everyone else.
Give technical control of internet standards to the ITU - they have the track record.
Why does everyone refer to a University as "School"?
Why bus kids to school? Build smaller neighbourhood schools, that kids can walk to. Get the off their bums, get some exercise, then we won't be raising a generation of obese slugs.
Now, what impact on Apple's market share did their move from the Motorola 68000 cpu to the Power PC have? Two-fifths of bugger all. Did it impact Linux / Windows presence? No.
Frankly, Those people who think the Mac is the best thing since sliced bread will continue to use it and refuse to consider any other computer. Those who believe that using anything other than RMS-endorsed free (as in speach) software will continue to fervently put down any other possible solution as heretical. The majority of home and office uses will keep using virus infected Windows computers.
For an open source developer, the only real impact of this is "can I get a Intel / Mac/OS version running?" Will these people suddenly say "Hey! I don't want to develop Linux stuff any more!" - of course not.
The US education problems are not in computer science, but in the general level of education in history, geography and world affairs ourside of local US issues and what Fox and similar "News" organizations deem rating-worthy.
Because other countries will expect to see your passport to let you in. They don't care a pair of fetid dingo's kidneys about some US id card.
There is an alternative to advertising for Television. It works in the UK with the BBC, and in Australia with the ABC.
I think you missed the point. Dreamweaver templates - and library objects - do all of the template "pre-processing" in the design tool, and provide stock standard html code to the web server. No server side processing is required to assemble the complete page.
At the time, there was a report that the federal police were reopening the case regarding the disappearance of the Prime Minister Harold Holt - who in 1968 (?) went swimming alone at Cheviot Beach, south of Melbourne, and was never seen again - "The Swim that Needed No Towel."
It was reported the police were looking for a dingo with scuba equipment.
On a related issue, one of the memorials named after Harold Holt is a public swimming pool in a Melbourne suburb.
Oh? You aren't in a union? A pity - that is what they are intended for - to resolve worker / management disputes.