Me too. We shouldn't forget the several extrememly successful private certification programs out there that have helped save many lives. For example, Underwriter's Laboratories, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, etc., which create marketable and achieveable certifications. They can create an "arms race" among private corporations without any government intervention, benefiting people's safety while not taking away freedom with rigid government quotas and specifications. I think most people take for granted that nearly all product improvements over the decades have not been due to Congress "coming to the rescue."
A small company can simply opt out of participation in the certifications but cannot opt out of government intervention. New competitors can gain market share through reputation until they can affort certification. With government intervention, new competitors wouldn't even get past the "what if" stage.
A good case study would be JBoss (in non-safety circles), where a product can be well regarded even without being certified. If Sun and JBoss work out some deal, that only strengthen's JBoss' claims. One reason why JBoss is successful is probably that it met a market niche, where a different balance of cost and guaranteed functionality was achieved (i.e., compare to WebLogic at thousands of dollars).
How do media reports skew the public and instill fear by simply leaving out the true numbers and lumping everything under the single term "radioactive"?
Just wait until the investigative report on glow-in-the-dark watch faces! It will be global chaos!
Reminds me of when people were buying parachutes in case they had to jump out of office towers.
In America, if a man want's to hang himself, there will be someone right behind him willing to sell him the noose. However, this is actually a good thing. Are you suprised by this? It is an example of recognizing opportunity in real time to meet someone's needs. It doesn't require the Governor or the President to call an executive order or Congress to make a vote--it just happens. Money merely makes it impersonal (no need to hold a grudge or expect favors later on).
HMOs are an abberation of regulated privatization. The fact that HMOs can take their patients and bend them over and lube-em-up is that there is no affordable alternative allowed to exist by crippling regulation and out-of-control costs of prescriptions and medical devices. There is no "market" in the medical industry. If there were, we'd probably be seeing $45 physical exams and $10 (full price) refills on prescriptions. The fact is that routine medical check-ups and treatments really are routine (predictable, common, good reason why everyone could afford them). Beyond routine things, catastrophic medical insurance should also be affordable. There is no way to make insurance work, if people expect their insurance to pay for everything. In that scenario, the people end up paying for it, anyway, just indirectly through higher product prices, higher insurance premiums, higher taxes, etc.
As far as malpractice suits go, there are equal opportunities for cover-ups and legal snafus in both government and the private sector. The reason is that in both places, there is only a reaction to a situation when people die. However, in government it literally requires an act of Congress to change something, when Congress is already overworked with trivial interests that can be dealt with by others (states, companies, counties, cities).
Even further, the WWW is an excellent facilitator for a highly distributed population to find each other and figure out how to form a "class" if they need to attack wide-spread corruption or negligence. These binding arbitration contracts can probably get thrown out, especially when most people sign contracts like EULAs (sign-on-through).
My employer pays the $60/month premium charged by my provincial government...
Do you really think $60/month is sufficient to cover your health care, especially as you age?
The very very likely fact is that your other taxes are subsidizing, invisibly to you, your nation's health care system. Not only that, your health care system is now encoded into a rigid government bureaucracy, who I can guarantee deliver 50 cents on the dollar of service....our government controls perscription drug prices by listing the price they will pay for drugs.
By fixing the market for prescriptions, your government can single-handedly destroy some drug companies while favoring others. They don't even need to do so with an agenda...a typographical error in the lists will suffice.
My question is why do these things make me sub-human animalistic scum?
What makes some people trash is the lack of respect for other humans nearby. Loud music that intrudes into other peoples lives forcefully is an assult on their privacy and their right to conduct their lives as they see fit. Loud music is not protected by the First Amendment, IMO, because it arbitrarily denies others their own rights. Loud music, most often, is not making any particular political or literary statement, rather it is a mating call--no different than that of a bull frog. Interesting how bull frogs are not human...and they do, in fact, live in scum.
Always coming over and complaining, yelling at my friends because they parked on the public street in front of his house. Calling the cops because we are being too loud. Trying to convince the city that my house is a public saftey hazard.
And you haven't gotten the message, yet, that you are a scourge on your community? Your unmitigated arrogance is simply amazing. Perhaps you would find rural Wyoming more accomodating for your lifestyle.
I have a 7.1 setup in my living room...my front yard looks horrible
You can't spend $110 on a lawn mower and $20/year on fertilizer? Lawn maintenance is not expensive. Here's a tip: get a $110 lawn mower from Wal-Mart and buy those $5 bags of fertilizer from Lowes/Home Depot (a hand-held spreader is about $10). Mowing takes one hour a week. Fertilizing takes about one hour per year. You don't even need to weed your lawn. Just keep it mowed, and the weeds and grass will achieve an equilibrium that looks okay.
The lesson here (other than the obvious and silly "Don't use Windows") is to run MS update.
Windows Update is a mixed blessing where each time it is run the user is gambling that it won't break his system. The safest route with Windows is: install the OS and applications and then leave it alone for maximum stability. Then, put the damn thing behind a non-Windows firewall or leave it disconnected from the Internet entirely.
How many of the following do you suppose exist in any large code base?
How many of these words appear in any English sentence:
- the - and - not - their - fish - copyright - SCO are a bunch of stupid crack whores
No one can claim copyright over "int i;" or even something as complex as "memset(data, 0, sizeof(data));".
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I wonder if SCO intends all this publicity and open source community reply to do their work for them.
I don't think so. There is absolutely nothing that SCO can do to harm Linux. Even if one version of Linux is found to be truly infringing, you will witness Linux mutate almost overnight into something non-infringing. It will become widely known, eventually, exactly what SCO's beef is, and, whatever it is, the OSS communitiy will evolve and make SCO look like a foolish loser for even trying. Even if it is a fork of the 2.2 kernels, there will always be a way out.
It leaves far too many people without adequete healthcare.
As a reminder to many people, this problem doesn't imply that nationalized health care is the solution. The main problem with modern health care is the lack of proper checks and balances to keep prices in line with what people can really afford.
Many corporations in the US give 12 to 18 months severence pay.
Who? I think I would get five weeks, at best.
Transportation in major US cities is surprisingly good.
In the large cities this is very true. Chicago is another place where it works pretty well. However, medium-sized cities have atrocious traffic infrastructures, where no one will foot the bill for mass transit and the population densities are low and spread out making car traffic infuriating. In the US, it is generally best to live in a big city or very rural. Medium-sized cities really are the best of no worlds.
The idea of four weeks' vacation would never fly here, because greedy CEOs and stockholders don't want to see their all-precious profits possibly drop.
One thing you must not forget is that every problem you cite is an opportunitiy for employees to say "fuck this" and go out on their own. If they are willing to take the risk, perhaps they can create a company that treats its employees better while still being profitable. If you look around in the US, there are actually lots of companies that voluntarily provide really nice benefits, such as on-site day care, to competitively attract and retain employees.
While people formulate highly pessimistic notions of sweat shops and CEO overlords, these situtations are necessarily short-lived in a growing economy. Even in Asia, for example, as those countries slowly aquire wealth, the tolerance of sweat shop conditions will decline.
We are told that you NEED a BS/BA in order to make money in this world. You get out there and you see that its all bullshit.
This is definitely true. Children are effectively lied to by naive and idealistic parents and teachers, who have forgotten that formal credentials are secondary to being earnest and hard working. What amazes me more is that teachers themselves are people that went to college and got shit on for their whole careers, yet they can't remember this in time to keep some kids from making the same mistake.
It's a sad world we live in. We don't value education. We value money.
It isn't sad at all. Money is what puts food on the table, money is what puts a roof over our heads. It's called an economy. Compare people's lives in the 16th century to those today. A thriving economy will allow those who can do and those who want get. Formal education is not necessary, unless a person has specific and directed enthousiasm towards a particular job or discipline.
Further, if our public school system weren't so shamefully broken, kids woulnd't need to go to college to finally learn to be fluent in language and math. If only our kids could get out of high school with an ability to formulate complete and descriptive sentences, I would actually be able to communicate with co-workers! Imagine the boost in productivity when people stop using "stuff" and "things" to describe what they are thinking, instead of giving up and stagnating in their mindless bureaucratic filth!
I recall seeing figures that showed productivity in American companies wasn't marekedly higher than their European equivalents, despite their longer hours.
What I read is that Americans are more productive than Europeans but due only to the longer hours. The work per hour numbers weren't dramatically different.
they quote percentages to four significant figures, yet they only had 10000 respondents
Don't let the fact that they are incompetent scare you off. It's a survey! Read it and use it to guide your organizational decisions, use it to create long-term strategies that will drive your company into the ground. After all, data can't lie, can it?
This just reminded me of a survey that guided a state to shut down several university programs recently. They cited that the survey shows plenty of people in that field, when anyone really working in that field knows that the shortage of skilled people is so severe that people's lives are at risk. Yippee!
The fact that those in the 2 year range see a 5k drop in average salaries really makes me wonder if they had enough of a random sample, and a large enough sample altogether.
It could also be due to the rediculous number of people graduating from CS programs two to three years ago. Supply and demand.
Also, the other reply to your post (yes, the penis one) is actually hitting on an important fact: there's no way to verify the integrity of the data, and the people filling out the survey know this.
Slashdotters use the token ring based technology known as the circle jerk.
That must be why Slashdot goes off-line every so often. Someone passes the token and, then, realizes they don't want it back, so the token gets taken away, cleaned, and the circle is rebooted.
Worse yet, some of the surveys are bankrolled by the job sites, in the hopes that your inferior feelings will translate to trying to find a new job.
I wonder how many people write down $75,000 on a job application, because that's what SAGE said the average is. Then, they wonder why they never get called back, even though the interview went very well.
I think the people who earn the high tens and low hundreds for salaries are the real engineers out there, not the I.T. hacks that are more numerous and annoying than the toads in my backyard this summer.
No. This API has not been shown to scale well into a team environment making it unsuitable for "enterprise" deployments. It also has problems where projects that use it tend to be exhausted before fully satisfying the requirements. Even further diminishing this API's future is its tendancy to get very little real work done in spite of its network bandwidth consumption.
JAX-OFF is slated to be replaced, soon, by a better ground-up implementation of the Java API for Occidental Rectilinear Groupware Interfacing. This new API promises much better scaling potential, where any number of people and businesses can join into the web services phenomenon. It also has a very low learning curve, where practically anyone is capable of making money with it.
Are those net salaries or salaries + medical + bonuses + etc.?
I don't think people getting new jobs, today, are often seeing $70K+ as just the wage, unless they are contractors and also have to incur self-employment taxes and business expenses.
This is why I hate salary surveys. They never really sort out what the readers need to know, and many readers are just left feeling inferior.
It may be frightening, but the recipe above is just what many many people need to reinvigorate their routine miserable lives of crushing idealism. What are you living for, really?
Don't forget that the median income in the USA is on the order of $40K/year. People raise families on this money! You don't need a Lexus, nor three cell phones, nor a computer in every room, nor a new PDA every year, nor premium cable, nor a $600 lawnmower. The most important thing is simply to find a modest house that doesn't have human trash for neighbors (I find sub-human animalistic scum with 600 watt stereos, shitty cars, trash in the lawn, etc. are the biggest stress risers in my life).
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I prefer certification to licensure.
Me too. We shouldn't forget the several extrememly successful private certification programs out there that have helped save many lives. For example, Underwriter's Laboratories, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, etc., which create marketable and achieveable certifications. They can create an "arms race" among private corporations without any government intervention, benefiting people's safety while not taking away freedom with rigid government quotas and specifications. I think most people take for granted that nearly all product improvements over the decades have not been due to Congress "coming to the rescue."
A small company can simply opt out of participation in the certifications but cannot opt out of government intervention. New competitors can gain market share through reputation until they can affort certification. With government intervention, new competitors wouldn't even get past the "what if" stage.
A good case study would be JBoss (in non-safety circles), where a product can be well regarded even without being certified. If Sun and JBoss work out some deal, that only strengthen's JBoss' claims. One reason why JBoss is successful is probably that it met a market niche, where a different balance of cost and guaranteed functionality was achieved (i.e., compare to WebLogic at thousands of dollars).
How do media reports skew the public and instill fear by simply leaving out the true numbers and lumping everything under the single term "radioactive"?
Just wait until the investigative report on glow-in-the-dark watch faces! It will be global chaos!
Confidence comes from rational preparation. ...people who are least competent are most unaware of their own incompetence...
Was this really about preparedness or is it merely a psychologist's way of describing middle-management?
Reminds me of when people were buying parachutes in case they had to jump out of office towers.
In America, if a man want's to hang himself, there will be someone right behind him willing to sell him the noose. However, this is actually a good thing. Are you suprised by this? It is an example of recognizing opportunity in real time to meet someone's needs. It doesn't require the Governor or the President to call an executive order or Congress to make a vote--it just happens. Money merely makes it impersonal (no need to hold a grudge or expect favors later on).
HMOs
HMOs are an abberation of regulated privatization. The fact that HMOs can take their patients and bend them over and lube-em-up is that there is no affordable alternative allowed to exist by crippling regulation and out-of-control costs of prescriptions and medical devices. There is no "market" in the medical industry. If there were, we'd probably be seeing $45 physical exams and $10 (full price) refills on prescriptions. The fact is that routine medical check-ups and treatments really are routine (predictable, common, good reason why everyone could afford them). Beyond routine things, catastrophic medical insurance should also be affordable. There is no way to make insurance work, if people expect their insurance to pay for everything. In that scenario, the people end up paying for it, anyway, just indirectly through higher product prices, higher insurance premiums, higher taxes, etc.
As far as malpractice suits go, there are equal opportunities for cover-ups and legal snafus in both government and the private sector. The reason is that in both places, there is only a reaction to a situation when people die. However, in government it literally requires an act of Congress to change something, when Congress is already overworked with trivial interests that can be dealt with by others (states, companies, counties, cities).
Even further, the WWW is an excellent facilitator for a highly distributed population to find each other and figure out how to form a "class" if they need to attack wide-spread corruption or negligence. These binding arbitration contracts can probably get thrown out, especially when most people sign contracts like EULAs (sign-on-through).
I pay NOTHING for health care.
...our government controls perscription drug prices by listing the price they will pay for drugs.
Holy shit. I hope your really don't believe this.
My employer pays the $60/month premium charged by my provincial government...
Do you really think $60/month is sufficient to cover your health care, especially as you age?
The very very likely fact is that your other taxes are subsidizing, invisibly to you, your nation's health care system. Not only that, your health care system is now encoded into a rigid government bureaucracy, who I can guarantee deliver 50 cents on the dollar of service.
By fixing the market for prescriptions, your government can single-handedly destroy some drug companies while favoring others. They don't even need to do so with an agenda...a typographical error in the lists will suffice.
My question is why do these things make me sub-human animalistic scum?
What makes some people trash is the lack of respect for other humans nearby. Loud music that intrudes into other peoples lives forcefully is an assult on their privacy and their right to conduct their lives as they see fit. Loud music is not protected by the First Amendment, IMO, because it arbitrarily denies others their own rights. Loud music, most often, is not making any particular political or literary statement, rather it is a mating call--no different than that of a bull frog. Interesting how bull frogs are not human...and they do, in fact, live in scum.
Always coming over and complaining, yelling at my friends because they parked on the public street in front of his house. Calling the cops because we are being too loud. Trying to convince the city that my house is a public saftey hazard.
And you haven't gotten the message, yet, that you are a scourge on your community? Your unmitigated arrogance is simply amazing. Perhaps you would find rural Wyoming more accomodating for your lifestyle.
I have a 7.1 setup in my living room...my front yard looks horrible
You can't spend $110 on a lawn mower and $20/year on fertilizer? Lawn maintenance is not expensive. Here's a tip: get a $110 lawn mower from Wal-Mart and buy those $5 bags of fertilizer from Lowes/Home Depot (a hand-held spreader is about $10). Mowing takes one hour a week. Fertilizing takes about one hour per year. You don't even need to weed your lawn. Just keep it mowed, and the weeds and grass will achieve an equilibrium that looks okay.
Outlook and Exchange use TCP/135 to communicate.
Why?!?
The lesson here (other than the obvious and silly "Don't use Windows") is to run MS update.
Windows Update is a mixed blessing where each time it is run the user is gambling that it won't break his system. The safest route with Windows is: install the OS and applications and then leave it alone for maximum stability. Then, put the damn thing behind a non-Windows firewall or leave it disconnected from the Internet entirely.
How many of the following do you suppose exist in any large code base?
How many of these words appear in any English sentence:
- the
- and
- not
- their
- fish
- copyright
- SCO are a bunch of stupid crack whores
No one can claim copyright over "int i;" or even something as complex as "memset(data, 0, sizeof(data));".
I wonder if SCO intends all this publicity and open source community reply to do their work for them.
I don't think so. There is absolutely nothing that SCO can do to harm Linux. Even if one version of Linux is found to be truly infringing, you will witness Linux mutate almost overnight into something non-infringing. It will become widely known, eventually, exactly what SCO's beef is, and, whatever it is, the OSS communitiy will evolve and make SCO look like a foolish loser for even trying. Even if it is a fork of the 2.2 kernels, there will always be a way out.
Gnomes don't hunt, they eat forest berries and mushrooms and shit. ...are you implying that Gnomes aren't fictional?
I want to own a monkey. Or a Congressman. Not much difference.
Well, I don't think a monkey would eat his own shit for a campaign contribution.
It leaves far too many people without adequete healthcare.
As a reminder to many people, this problem doesn't imply that nationalized health care is the solution. The main problem with modern health care is the lack of proper checks and balances to keep prices in line with what people can really afford.
Many corporations in the US give 12 to 18 months severence pay.
Who? I think I would get five weeks, at best.
Transportation in major US cities is surprisingly good.
In the large cities this is very true. Chicago is another place where it works pretty well. However, medium-sized cities have atrocious traffic infrastructures, where no one will foot the bill for mass transit and the population densities are low and spread out making car traffic infuriating. In the US, it is generally best to live in a big city or very rural. Medium-sized cities really are the best of no worlds.
The idea of four weeks' vacation would never fly here, because greedy CEOs and stockholders don't want to see their all-precious profits possibly drop.
One thing you must not forget is that every problem you cite is an opportunitiy for employees to say "fuck this" and go out on their own. If they are willing to take the risk, perhaps they can create a company that treats its employees better while still being profitable. If you look around in the US, there are actually lots of companies that voluntarily provide really nice benefits, such as on-site day care, to competitively attract and retain employees.
While people formulate highly pessimistic notions of sweat shops and CEO overlords, these situtations are necessarily short-lived in a growing economy. Even in Asia, for example, as those countries slowly aquire wealth, the tolerance of sweat shop conditions will decline.
We are told that you NEED a BS/BA in order to make money in this world. You get out there and you see that its all bullshit.
This is definitely true. Children are effectively lied to by naive and idealistic parents and teachers, who have forgotten that formal credentials are secondary to being earnest and hard working. What amazes me more is that teachers themselves are people that went to college and got shit on for their whole careers, yet they can't remember this in time to keep some kids from making the same mistake.
It's a sad world we live in. We don't value education. We value money.
It isn't sad at all. Money is what puts food on the table, money is what puts a roof over our heads. It's called an economy. Compare people's lives in the 16th century to those today. A thriving economy will allow those who can do and those who want get. Formal education is not necessary, unless a person has specific and directed enthousiasm towards a particular job or discipline.
Further, if our public school system weren't so shamefully broken, kids woulnd't need to go to college to finally learn to be fluent in language and math. If only our kids could get out of high school with an ability to formulate complete and descriptive sentences, I would actually be able to communicate with co-workers! Imagine the boost in productivity when people stop using "stuff" and "things" to describe what they are thinking, instead of giving up and stagnating in their mindless bureaucratic filth!
I recall seeing figures that showed productivity in American companies wasn't marekedly higher than their European equivalents, despite their longer hours.
What I read is that Americans are more productive than Europeans but due only to the longer hours. The work per hour numbers weren't dramatically different.
they quote percentages to four significant figures, yet they only had 10000 respondents
Don't let the fact that they are incompetent scare you off. It's a survey! Read it and use it to guide your organizational decisions, use it to create long-term strategies that will drive your company into the ground. After all, data can't lie, can it?
This just reminded me of a survey that guided a state to shut down several university programs recently. They cited that the survey shows plenty of people in that field, when anyone really working in that field knows that the shortage of skilled people is so severe that people's lives are at risk. Yippee!
The fact that those in the 2 year range see a 5k drop in average salaries really makes me wonder if they had enough of a random sample, and a large enough sample altogether.
It could also be due to the rediculous number of people graduating from CS programs two to three years ago. Supply and demand.
Also, the other reply to your post (yes, the penis one) is actually hitting on an important fact: there's no way to verify the integrity of the data, and the people filling out the survey know this.
Slashdotters use the token ring based technology known as the circle jerk.
That must be why Slashdot goes off-line every so often. Someone passes the token and, then, realizes they don't want it back, so the token gets taken away, cleaned, and the circle is rebooted.
Worse yet, some of the surveys are bankrolled by the job sites, in the hopes that your inferior feelings will translate to trying to find a new job.
I wonder how many people write down $75,000 on a job application, because that's what SAGE said the average is. Then, they wonder why they never get called back, even though the interview went very well.
I think the people who earn the high tens and low hundreds for salaries are the real engineers out there, not the I.T. hacks that are more numerous and annoying than the toads in my backyard this summer.
Does anyone know if they cover JAX-OFF?
No. This API has not been shown to scale well into a team environment making it unsuitable for "enterprise" deployments. It also has problems where projects that use it tend to be exhausted before fully satisfying the requirements. Even further diminishing this API's future is its tendancy to get very little real work done in spite of its network bandwidth consumption.
JAX-OFF is slated to be replaced, soon, by a better ground-up implementation of the Java API for Occidental Rectilinear Groupware Interfacing. This new API promises much better scaling potential, where any number of people and businesses can join into the web services phenomenon. It also has a very low learning curve, where practically anyone is capable of making money with it.
Are those net salaries or salaries + medical + bonuses + etc.?
I don't think people getting new jobs, today, are often seeing $70K+ as just the wage, unless they are contractors and also have to incur self-employment taxes and business expenses.
This is why I hate salary surveys. They never really sort out what the readers need to know, and many readers are just left feeling inferior.
+6, Insightful.
It may be frightening, but the recipe above is just what many many people need to reinvigorate their routine miserable lives of crushing idealism. What are you living for, really?
Don't forget that the median income in the USA is on the order of $40K/year. People raise families on this money! You don't need a Lexus, nor three cell phones, nor a computer in every room, nor a new PDA every year, nor premium cable, nor a $600 lawnmower. The most important thing is simply to find a modest house that doesn't have human trash for neighbors (I find sub-human animalistic scum with 600 watt stereos, shitty cars, trash in the lawn, etc. are the biggest stress risers in my life).
Tri-weekly.
Try weekly.
Try weakly.