I went through a similar experience recently with my Windows XP machine - tore my hair out going step-by-step through every possible cause.
It happened after the out of schedule Windows update. Turns out that Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, turned on my McAfee real-time virus scanner. I't brought my system to a crawl whenever I'd try to play World of Warcraft. I didn't show up anything on Process Explorer and my video worked great, but my latency would slowly spiral out of control until it became uplayable.
I suspect that the real-time scanner was trying to process all inbound trafic before allowing it to pass on the calling process and it just couldn't keep up with the data bandwidth. Even disabling various McAfee security services didn't fix it - only uninstalling McAfee worked. Now my system runs better than ever (after having defragged a dozen times, uninstalled every unnecessary process imaginable, and cleaned the exhast fans).
By choosing not to vote I *am* making my statement: I don't like the candidates or the system
You and your ilk make me sick. And angry - and we're talking "Grand Theft Auto" angry.
Generations of men and women have died for this country and the freedoms the we Americans take for granted every day. By actively choosing to sit out you are dishonoring their sacrifice. Freedom isn't free. Voting is your civic duty. You are a disgrace to yourself and your country.
Don't like the candidates? Fine, vote third party. Don't like the system? Fine, get involved and change it. You 'statement' is heard loud and clear - "I'm ungrateful. I'm apathetic."
IANA(tax)L but that's why you establish your mom & pop as a Subchapter S-Corporation (S-Corp for short)....The business tax filing for these corporations flows through the principle's personal tax filing while still providing the veil of incorporation needed to protect personal assets (such as home, 401k, etc) from liability lawsuits.
As a side note, I am an S-Corp owner who does software consulting and it looks like I'm going to break 250k net this year. I have to tell you that when you're making this kind of money, the additional 1-2k you'll have to pay in taxes looks like chump change...Hell, I've lost more than that in a poker game....Anyone making more than 250k a year that is complaining about tax increases is a self-centered, greedy, baby.
You can ignore the the word "de-facto" if you like, clearly you already have....Oligopoly??? Yeah, it's read hard to enter the sugar water market with a new soft drink - in fact it's so hard, that the consumer's only choice is coke or pepsi. I sure wish there were more options availabe to me, boo hoo....
I agree with the social factors element of your thesis, but the notion that profitable markets are necessarily non-free is just plain juvenile.
Market innovation in non-commodity markets also drives high profit margins. An innovative new product or product enhancement creates a de-facto free-market monopoly which in turns pushes up the price point - until the competition catches up or patent protections expire.
Furthermore, marketing plays a huge role in keeping profit margins high. Coca-cola hasn't (arguably) hasn't changed their formula in decades but the margin on canned sugar-water is just perverse.
FWIW: It is my understanding that the lengthening on the jaw bone is a common practice and is often done together with a nose job. This is especially desirable for people in the entertainment business since it is proported to give them 'more character' and helps them stand out in casting calls.
What I can't remeber is if I heard this on The Discovery Channel or in the movie 'Showgirls'...
Seriously, how on earth could they have picked something that is a homonym for a word that means either diminutive, penis, or urine and thought it was a good idea?
Actually, I think you mean synonym. Homonyms are words that sound the same but are spelled differently
While I agree that the article is largly marketing hype, your analysis of the Oracle and Microsoft is incorrect. While Oracle's #1 revenue chain is database software, they are also the number two market leader in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software behind SAP. Microsft also has about 3% ERP market share.
I've run my IT consulting business now for almost 20 years
I find this surprising given your comments. Sarcasm aside, let me critique your post as an independent consulting professional.
the amount of GOOD talent is dropping
I think you forgot something at the end of this sentence. What you left off was "at the price I'm willing to pay". This is the nonsense that is fueling the outsourcing hype. The talent is out there, just not working for minimum wage.
and I have no desire to train them in exchange for a high 5 figure salary
The companies that "won't be there in 10 years will" are willing to pay a high 5 figure salary AND train. Training is considered a benefit that most serious professionals look for. I'll even go as far to suppose that if you're paying minimum wage, you're not paying health care either. And who cares if the company won't be around in ten years anyway. No one expects to work for the same employer their whole life anymore.
most of my employees work at minimum wage with a large project bonus (up to 80%)
Another reason why you can't find any serious candidates. No serious professional would even entertain this type of arrangement. It's your business and it's your risk. You're asking your potential employee to take a minimum wage job with a bonus that is probably linked to factors he/she can't control. If you hire me, I do an awesome job, but the customer stiffs you, I can be pretty sure that I won't be cashing that extra check. And BTW, even with an 80% bonus, you're still paying less than $10 an hour (based on federal minimum wage of $5.15). You can make more cleaning toilets. No wonder you're relegated to hiring tools.
I have enough people looking to work for us that it isn't the pay structure that isn't helping me find good help.
I deal with a lot of recruiters. Only about 5% are even worth speaking to. Given your pay structure, you must be dealing with the 95% that waste my time.
what colleges have you recent graduates gone to that have taught you real consulting skills, business sense and responsibility?
"representatives of a collective entity act as agents, and the official records of the organization that are held by them in a representative rather than a personal capacity cannot be the subject of their personal privilege against self-incrimination, even though production of the papers might tend to incriminate them personally."
Thats why he lost. He's even quoted as saying before that court that a idea in his head does meet the criteria laid down by, get this, Webster's Dictionary!!!.
This is almost as dumb as asking slashdot for advice on writing a legal contract...
and also, i guess this shows more than russia has some awesome programmers:)
Creating these viruses is easy. It takes a lot more skill to create a complex system than it does to find a crack in the foundation and exploit it. All that this really shows is that Russia has some 'unconscionable' programmers.
When you're churning out professional-grade software for a company making millions, being able to identify places where you can optimize your code to be one step above your competition helps.
I strongly disagree. The key to 'keeping above the competition' is writing maintainable, readable code. Unless you're designing an OS kernel, performace optimization, for the vast majority of software projects, takes a back seat to the ability to write code in a clear manner that can easily passed from developer to developer with little or no a priori knowledge. Hardware performance improvements take care of most inefficiences rendering most performance optimizations superflous.
I totally disagree. Have you stopped to consider that the UK probably wasn't even on the Al-Quada (sp?) radar until the US/UK invaded Iraq and made it a hot bed of terrorist activity where none previously existed???
One could argue that the (badly applied) war on terror (i.e. Sadam is a bad man) was actually the catalyst for this attack. This is a prime example of how the 'War on Terror' has made citizens of civilized countries less safe.
Slashdot Mirror
I, for one, welcome our new ulgy American overlords...
I went through a similar experience recently with my Windows XP machine - tore my hair out going step-by-step through every possible cause.
It happened after the out of schedule Windows update. Turns out that Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, turned on my McAfee real-time virus scanner. I't brought my system to a crawl whenever I'd try to play World of Warcraft. I didn't show up anything on Process Explorer and my video worked great, but my latency would slowly spiral out of control until it became uplayable.
I suspect that the real-time scanner was trying to process all inbound trafic before allowing it to pass on the calling process and it just couldn't keep up with the data bandwidth. Even disabling various McAfee security services didn't fix it - only uninstalling McAfee worked. Now my system runs better than ever (after having defragged a dozen times, uninstalled every unnecessary process imaginable, and cleaned the exhast fans).
Long story short - uninstall your virus software.
Sincerely,
A Chinese Hacker
Pagers don't transmit, so they can be used in high sensitivity areas.
ELE101 - Every receiver is a transmitter...
By choosing not to vote I *am* making my statement: I don't like the candidates or the system
You and your ilk make me sick. And angry - and we're talking "Grand Theft Auto" angry.
Generations of men and women have died for this country and the freedoms the we Americans take for granted every day. By actively choosing to sit out you are dishonoring their sacrifice. Freedom isn't free. Voting is your civic duty. You are a disgrace to yourself and your country.
Don't like the candidates? Fine, vote third party. Don't like the system? Fine, get involved and change it. You 'statement' is heard loud and clear - "I'm ungrateful. I'm apathetic."
IANA(tax)L but that's why you establish your mom & pop as a Subchapter S-Corporation (S-Corp for short)....The business tax filing for these corporations flows through the principle's personal tax filing while still providing the veil of incorporation needed to protect personal assets (such as home, 401k, etc) from liability lawsuits.
As a side note, I am an S-Corp owner who does software consulting and it looks like I'm going to break 250k net this year. I have to tell you that when you're making this kind of money, the additional 1-2k you'll have to pay in taxes looks like chump change...Hell, I've lost more than that in a poker game....Anyone making more than 250k a year that is complaining about tax increases is a self-centered, greedy, baby.
My 2 cents.
You can ignore the the word "de-facto" if you like, clearly you already have....Oligopoly??? Yeah, it's read hard to enter the sugar water market with a new soft drink - in fact it's so hard, that the consumer's only choice is coke or pepsi. I sure wish there were more options availabe to me, boo hoo....
What a silly (albeit thought out) little rant.
I agree with the social factors element of your thesis, but the notion that profitable markets are necessarily non-free is just plain juvenile.
Market innovation in non-commodity markets also drives high profit margins. An innovative new product or product enhancement creates a de-facto free-market monopoly which in turns pushes up the price point - until the competition catches up or patent protections expire.
Furthermore, marketing plays a huge role in keeping profit margins high. Coca-cola hasn't (arguably) hasn't changed their formula in decades but the margin on canned sugar-water is just perverse.
....and it wants it's programming language back....
In the words of 'Judge Judy' Sheindlin: "The truth is an asbsolute defense against any claim of libel"
FWIW: It is my understanding that the lengthening on the jaw bone is a common practice and is often done together with a nose job. This is especially desirable for people in the entertainment business since it is proported to give them 'more character' and helps them stand out in casting calls.
What I can't remeber is if I heard this on The Discovery Channel or in the movie 'Showgirls'...
Does anyone know the name of the song on the Flomax commercial? I dig that tune but have no way of finding out what the namer of the song or artist.
It's the one that goes 'na-na-na-na-na-na-na. na-na-na' with a violin and shit....
but instead "I don't care. You know what meant", which suggests to me that they're just ignorant and not paying attention to the words they use.
No, actually, it indicates that they couldn't care less....
Seriously, how on earth could they have picked something that is a homonym for a word that means either diminutive, penis, or urine and thought it was a good idea?
Actually, I think you mean synonym. Homonyms are words that sound the same but are spelled differently
While I agree that the article is largly marketing hype, your analysis of the Oracle and Microsoft is incorrect. While Oracle's #1 revenue chain is database software, they are also the number two market leader in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software behind SAP. Microsft also has about 3% ERP market share.
I've run my IT consulting business now for almost 20 years
I find this surprising given your comments. Sarcasm aside, let me critique your post as an independent consulting professional.
the amount of GOOD talent is dropping
I think you forgot something at the end of this sentence. What you left off was "at the price I'm willing to pay". This is the nonsense that is fueling the outsourcing hype. The talent is out there, just not working for minimum wage.
and I have no desire to train them in exchange for a high 5 figure salary
The companies that "won't be there in 10 years will" are willing to pay a high 5 figure salary AND train. Training is considered a benefit that most serious professionals look for. I'll even go as far to suppose that if you're paying minimum wage, you're not paying health care either. And who cares if the company won't be around in ten years anyway. No one expects to work for the same employer their whole life anymore.
most of my employees work at minimum wage with a large project bonus (up to 80%)
Another reason why you can't find any serious candidates. No serious professional would even entertain this type of arrangement. It's your business and it's your risk. You're asking your potential employee to take a minimum wage job with a bonus that is probably linked to factors he/she can't control. If you hire me, I do an awesome job, but the customer stiffs you, I can be pretty sure that I won't be cashing that extra check. And BTW, even with an 80% bonus, you're still paying less than $10 an hour (based on federal minimum wage of $5.15). You can make more cleaning toilets. No wonder you're relegated to hiring tools.
I have enough people looking to work for us that it isn't the pay structure that isn't helping me find good help.
I deal with a lot of recruiters. Only about 5% are even worth speaking to. Given your pay structure, you must be dealing with the 95% that waste my time.
what colleges have you recent graduates gone to that have taught you real consulting skills, business sense and responsibility?
These things aren't taught in college.
bingo
From the breif, specifically:
"representatives of a collective entity act as agents, and the official records of the organization that are held by them in a representative rather than a personal capacity cannot be the subject of their personal privilege against self-incrimination, even though production of the papers might tend to incriminate them personally."
Q: What color were Christie McAuliffe's eyes?
ROTFL. I want everyone that reads this post to send an email to jackpeace@comcast.net as follows:
Subject: Jack
Dear Jack,
Please don't sue me, Jack!!!
Sincerely,
Jack
Welcome to 2005.
Um, welcome to 1990...
From the article:
"Brown, representing himself pro se,"
Thats why he lost. He's even quoted as saying before that court that a idea in his head does meet the criteria laid down by, get this, Webster's Dictionary!!!.
This is almost as dumb as asking slashdot for advice on writing a legal contract...
and also, i guess this shows more than russia has some awesome programmers :)
Creating these viruses is easy. It takes a lot more skill to create a complex system than it does to find a crack in the foundation and exploit it. All that this really shows is that Russia has some 'unconscionable' programmers.
When you're churning out professional-grade software for a company making millions, being able to identify places where you can optimize your code to be one step above your competition helps.
I strongly disagree. The key to 'keeping above the competition' is writing maintainable, readable code. Unless you're designing an OS kernel, performace optimization, for the vast majority of software projects, takes a back seat to the ability to write code in a clear manner that can easily passed from developer to developer with little or no a priori knowledge. Hardware performance improvements take care of most inefficiences rendering most performance optimizations superflous.
QED
1983 called and it wants its 'new' standard back...
I agree totally
I totally disagree. Have you stopped to consider that the UK probably wasn't even on the Al-Quada (sp?) radar until the US/UK invaded Iraq and made it a hot bed of terrorist activity where none previously existed???
One could argue that the (badly applied) war on terror (i.e. Sadam is a bad man) was actually the catalyst for this attack. This is a prime example of how the 'War on Terror' has made citizens of civilized countries less safe.