Tens of thousands of immigrants come to the US every year. Many come at their extreme peril, often "illegally".
Why do they do it?
Because they know that if they work hard, they have a much better chance of success here than anywhere -- anywhere! -- else in the world.
I completely agree that there are serious, serious problems with American society and the american economy. However, I have not yet heard a concise, understandable complaint from the "occupy" crew.
I am a self-made 9-percenter. I started from nothing. I ate government cheese as a kid (really!) I worked my ass off to get to have a 6-figure salary, a nice home in the suburbs, two fine Japanese automobiles, and a upper-middle-class lifestyle.
I wish the "occupiers" would learn and understand how we got here. I've got my own ideas, and I'm not going to use this forum to discuss them. However, I suggest a housecleaning in Washington is long overdue. Career politicians and their corporate PACs are (IMHO) a very large part of this problem.
Sure, Silicon Valley and Stanford. They get their props.
But what about 128 ("America's Technology Highway") in Massachusetts, centering around MIT and Harvard?
Digital, Data General, Wang, Prime -- all from that area. Raytheon. Analog Devices. Symbolics. BBN. The list goes on and on.
Multix, Tenex -- foundations from which modern interactive operating systems were derived -- from MIT. Harvard has a *computer architecture* named after it.
Ok. Never mind what I said about Silicon Valley. They were late to the party.
This is not your fathers's AT&T. This is the "new" AT&T, grown like a cancer from SBC, spun out of the original AT&T by divestiture in 1984. SBC is a nasty bunch. I would rather do business with the "old" AT&T than the"new" SBC-AT&T. Hell, I'd rather do "business" with "Old Scratch" than the new AT&T.
I canceled my home phone service and internet data service just to get rid of those pricks. I am a T-Mobile customer now, but I will surely abandon if AT&T takes over. Worst customer service ever. Worst attitude ever. Worst Telco Ever. I'd even go into the arms of the Dread Verizon (another RBOC) to avoid these turds. Yecch!
If you travel through a major airport, and watch the business people go through security, you will see a ton of ThinkPads. Why? The damn things are nearly indestructible. When it came time to buy my kid a laptop for college, we looked at the deals the school had (a major university) and they had Mac, Dell, and Lenovo. My kid now is using a Lenovo T510 with an i5 and Windows 7. Her friends' Dell machines have all had to be serviced in the first semester. That's right, the Dells did not even make it through a semester.
At work they recently bought me a fancy-schmancy Dell notebook. I compared the build quality to my personally-owned T61 Thinkpad, and thought to myself "this Dell is junk". The Dell did not make it three months before it had to be serviced. I've been using my three year old T61 for the duration, and I cannot imagine why the three year old $1000 thinkpad is superior in almost every way to the brand new $1000 Dell laptop.
Here's another thought. Just like cheap tools are not worth the money, unless you plan to use them only once... cheap laptops are not worth the money, either. Buy a commercial strength unit. Don't buy a consumer-class laptop. You can usually tell the difference by looking for a docking connector. The consumer class laptops don't have a dock, the commercial strength ones do. Sure, it is a few more bucks up front, but after a couple years the consumer grade laptops are junk, but the commercial ones are still kicking.
I've read the cables. I've not seen anything in them that could even be misconstrued as American diplomats committing any crime, unless it is the crime of being snarky, or the crime of doing your job, which is to advance the diplomatic agenda of the United States.
The release of the cables has been a black eye for US diplomacy, no doubt, as the cables were written for a specific, very small audience. The cables have done more to embarrass foreign governments and foreign politicians than the ultimate embarrassment caused to the State Department.
Moore is a blowhard sensationalist egotist. His opinion should matter no more to you than Bill O'Reilly (who is another blowhard sensationalist egotist.)
We won't even mention the name of the other sensationalist blowhard egotist here.
DESQview/X was even cooler than DESQview, which was a remarkable piece of software.
This could display MS-DOS character cell and Windows 3.0 apps onto an X-Terminal, could run X apps locally, could display X apps from Unix onto your pc.
It was too late to market. Windows 3.11 came out soon after, with reasonable networking, and that was the end... Sadly, even the X window system is now a niche player...
A friend had one of the original Apple TV boxes. He jailbroke it to run XBMC on it, which he said made it much more useful. He told me he only ran the Apple TV apps when he wanted to access content from the iTunes store. Everything else, he used XBMC.
I jailbroke my XBOX to run XBMC. I had no interested in playing games, but the XBOX makes a decent media player with XBMC.
I subscribe to the theory that thieves are lazy, they will seek out the easiest target.
Technology will only get you so far. Video surveillance will show you the perps after the fact. Alarms might scare off kids and amateur criminals. Shotgun traps will get you thrown in jail.
If you have ground floor windows, plant thorny bushes in front of them. Roses look nice. Invest in motion detecting exterior lighting. Put up a fence. Reinforce your doors. Install better locks. Make sure all points of access are easily seen by your neighbors and the police. Don't leave expensive stuff where it can be viewed from outside.
The goal is to make your place a less attractive target than the neighbors.
Get yourself a nice Tek digital scope, in the lunchbox form factor. Don't waste your time with old fashioned CRTs, they cannot produce output or be controlled by a computer, and they take up a ton of space on your bench.
I've been using a TDS210 in my home lab for over 10 years, it was $1200 new, and I really like it.
Yes, a 4-channel 350 MHz scope might be nice, but the times I could not measure what I wanted with the 2-channel 60 MHz scope have been few and far between, and in those cases, I've visited friends with super expensive LeCroy scopes.
your $2k budget will get you a pretty nice new scope, or (if you are a good shopper) a super nice used scope.
If you buy new, include options! They are hard to get after the line is discontinued...
Leverage your old school skills, and learn mainframe assembler, too.
Many of the people who knew how to do this are retiring, but the systems and software they built is still running, and requires maintenance. There is going to be a huge skill gap when the rest retire.
Somebody who calls them self an "independent.Net developer" is pretty firmly in the Microsoft camp. You are right, of course -- that doesn't mean he's stupid. There are some pretty smart.Net programmers who use Linux (Miguel de Icaza, for instance...)
However, my opinion is that many.Net programmers have drank so much of the Microsoft kool-aid that I'll not take my Linux advice from them -- nor should Google.
The particularly appalling part of this is that this ridiculous piece from some random blog was deemed worthy of posting to Slashdot. It's basically unattributed and unsupported. And again, I say "editor FAIL."
Slashdot Mirror
Tens of thousands of immigrants come to the US every year. Many come at their extreme peril, often "illegally".
Why do they do it?
Because they know that if they work hard, they have a much better chance of success here than anywhere -- anywhere! -- else in the world.
I completely agree that there are serious, serious problems with American society and the american economy. However, I have not yet heard a concise, understandable complaint from the "occupy" crew.
I am a self-made 9-percenter. I started from nothing. I ate government cheese as a kid (really!) I worked my ass off to get to have a 6-figure salary, a nice home in the suburbs, two fine Japanese automobiles, and a upper-middle-class lifestyle.
I wish the "occupiers" would learn and understand how we got here. I've got my own ideas, and I'm not going to use this forum to discuss them. However, I suggest a housecleaning in Washington is long overdue. Career politicians and their corporate PACs are (IMHO) a very large part of this problem.
I love The Black Keys. They are awesome.
But this smells like selling out.
I've been looking forward to their new record.
Now I'm afraid I'll keep seeing that fucking Windows logo in my mind's eye whenever I hear it.
Shit...
Mitnick was a mastermind "social engineer". Not a computer "hacker"/cracker/phreaker. He was/is a con-man with a penchant for computers.
Ha! Sanity on Slashdot! Who would have thought?
You can read google's terms of service here: http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS
If you don't like the terms, don't use their service. Nobody is forcing you to.
As for how much "privacy" you give up when using Google... Get over it. There is no privacy anymore.
I used Gnome 3 for 3 days, and that was 3 days too many.
What were they thinking? Gaaaaaaack.
The PMotW is a great resource for novice Python programmers. I use it quite a bit. I'm sure this book is every bit as good.
Sadly (for authors and publishers) using the Oracle of Google is faster than flipping pages.
Rotating media is heading the way of the CRT. This will just accelerate the switch to SSD and whatever's next.
I think they missed something important...
Sure, Silicon Valley and Stanford. They get their props.
But what about 128 ("America's Technology Highway") in Massachusetts, centering around MIT and Harvard?
Digital, Data General, Wang, Prime -- all from that area. Raytheon. Analog Devices. Symbolics. BBN. The list goes on and on.
Multix, Tenex -- foundations from which modern interactive operating systems were derived -- from MIT. Harvard has a *computer architecture* named after it.
Ok. Never mind what I said about Silicon Valley. They were late to the party.
if you have to ask, you've lost your edge. I'd focus on flipping burgers.
This is not your fathers's AT&T. This is the "new" AT&T, grown like a cancer from SBC, spun out of the original AT&T by divestiture in 1984. SBC is a nasty bunch. I would rather do business with the "old" AT&T than the"new" SBC-AT&T. Hell, I'd rather do "business" with "Old Scratch" than the new AT&T.
I canceled my home phone service and internet data service just to get rid of those pricks. I am a T-Mobile customer now, but I will surely abandon if AT&T takes over. Worst customer service ever. Worst attitude ever. Worst Telco Ever. I'd even go into the arms of the Dread Verizon (another RBOC) to avoid these turds. Yecch!
I will throw out my vote for ThinkPads.
If you travel through a major airport, and watch the business people go through security, you will see a ton of ThinkPads. Why? The damn things are nearly indestructible. When it came time to buy my kid a laptop for college, we looked at the deals the school had (a major university) and they had Mac, Dell, and Lenovo. My kid now is using a Lenovo T510 with an i5 and Windows 7. Her friends' Dell machines have all had to be serviced in the first semester. That's right, the Dells did not even make it through a semester.
At work they recently bought me a fancy-schmancy Dell notebook. I compared the build quality to my personally-owned T61 Thinkpad, and thought to myself "this Dell is junk". The Dell did not make it three months before it had to be serviced. I've been using my three year old T61 for the duration, and I cannot imagine why the three year old $1000 thinkpad is superior in almost every way to the brand new $1000 Dell laptop.
Here's another thought. Just like cheap tools are not worth the money, unless you plan to use them only once... cheap laptops are not worth the money, either. Buy a commercial strength unit. Don't buy a consumer-class laptop. You can usually tell the difference by looking for a docking connector. The consumer class laptops don't have a dock, the commercial strength ones do. Sure, it is a few more bucks up front, but after a couple years the consumer grade laptops are junk, but the commercial ones are still kicking.
Good luck with your purchase.
same as the old boss
I've read the cables. I've not seen anything in them that could even be misconstrued as American diplomats committing any crime, unless it is the crime of being snarky, or the crime of doing your job, which is to advance the diplomatic agenda of the United States.
The release of the cables has been a black eye for US diplomacy, no doubt, as the cables were written for a specific, very small audience. The cables have done more to embarrass foreign governments and foreign politicians than the ultimate embarrassment caused to the State Department.
Moore is a blowhard sensationalist egotist. His opinion should matter no more to you than Bill O'Reilly (who is another blowhard sensationalist egotist.)
We won't even mention the name of the other sensationalist blowhard egotist here.
DESQview/X was even cooler than DESQview, which was a remarkable piece of software.
This could display MS-DOS character cell and Windows 3.0 apps onto an X-Terminal, could run X apps locally, could display X apps from Unix onto your pc.
It was too late to market. Windows 3.11 came out soon after, with reasonable networking, and that was the end... Sadly, even the X window system is now a niche player...
Uhh. No.
A friend had one of the original Apple TV boxes. He jailbroke it to run XBMC on it, which he said made it much more useful. He told me he only ran the Apple TV apps when he wanted to access content from the iTunes store. Everything else, he used XBMC.
I jailbroke my XBOX to run XBMC. I had no interested in playing games, but the XBOX makes a decent media player with XBMC.
I subscribe to the theory that thieves are lazy, they will seek out the easiest target.
Technology will only get you so far. Video surveillance will show you the perps after the fact. Alarms might scare off kids and amateur criminals. Shotgun traps will get you thrown in jail.
If you have ground floor windows, plant thorny bushes in front of them. Roses look nice. Invest in motion detecting exterior lighting. Put up a fence. Reinforce your doors. Install better locks. Make sure all points of access are easily seen by your neighbors and the police. Don't leave expensive stuff where it can be viewed from outside.
The goal is to make your place a less attractive target than the neighbors.
Get yourself a nice Tek digital scope, in the lunchbox form factor. Don't waste your time with old fashioned CRTs, they cannot produce output or be controlled by a computer, and they take up a ton of space on your bench.
I've been using a TDS210 in my home lab for over 10 years, it was $1200 new, and I really like it.
Yes, a 4-channel 350 MHz scope might be nice, but the times I could not measure what I wanted with the 2-channel 60 MHz scope have been few and far between, and in those cases, I've visited friends with super expensive LeCroy scopes.
your $2k budget will get you a pretty nice new scope, or (if you are a good shopper) a super nice used scope.
If you buy new, include options! They are hard to get after the line is discontinued...
have fun!
GnuCash just does not have the snot. no multi-user, etc. Maybe some day!
I've looked at plenty, because I've been wanting to get free of QuickBooks for years...
Thanks, though.
I hate intuit, but I need quickbooks for my small business.
Intuit sucks, quickbooks sucks. Sadly, I have not found an affordable alternative.
Leverage your old school skills, and learn mainframe assembler, too.
Many of the people who knew how to do this are retiring, but the systems and software they built is still running, and requires maintenance. There is going to be a huge skill gap when the rest retire.
This is SOP for Apple.
When Airport Express units started dropping like flies, all reports about the problem were deleted from their forums.
They don't like criticism of their products, true or not.
Maybe the Pakistanis should go all Vader on Facebook.
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
More fairy tales.
Uggh.
I wasn't joking.
Somebody who calls them self an "independent .Net developer" is pretty firmly in the Microsoft camp. You are right, of course -- that doesn't mean he's stupid. There are some pretty smart .Net programmers who use Linux (Miguel de Icaza, for instance...)
However, my opinion is that many .Net programmers have drank so much of the Microsoft kool-aid that I'll not take my Linux advice from them -- nor should Google.
The particularly appalling part of this is that this ridiculous piece from some random blog was deemed worthy of posting to Slashdot. It's basically unattributed and unsupported. And again, I say "editor FAIL."
I think I will take my advice on Linux and Netbooks from an "independent .Net developer".
NOT.
Why was this "news" even posted? Slashdot editor fail.
two years ago, I stated on a Slashdot comment that Apple is more proprietary than Microsoft.
My ass still bears the scars from the whipping the Apple Fan-bois gave me.
Good luck, my friend!