You want to write windows programs? Last I checked you had two compiler options anymore: Microsoft and Microsoft. Even the cost of visual basic is going to be close to $100 US.
If you outsource and are able to pass on the savings (like Walmart), you can actually increase the standard of living for people at the same dollar-valued income.
But let's face it, Indian and Chinese engineers are experiencing massive salary increases right now. They will be contributing right back to the global economy through their increased consumption.
If no solutions are forthcoming, we will continue to see significant employment displacement here, with all the social problems that that implies.
Or the whole world may just grow richer.
Which is what has been happening for the last 200 years. Except in places where there are low levels of economic freedom, like today's Africa or pre-1980 China & India.
The largest wind turbine produces 5MW (non-peak) with blades 126 meters long, so you would need 1.8 million of these to get 9TW peak (world electricity use at US levels, not 9GW). Given wind variability you probably need 3 million tubrines to have 9TW continuous. That is one for every 2000 people on the planet.
Spain has 900 MW wind online today (I imagine that is 500-1000 turbines) and is shooting to get at 15% of electricity (2.1 GW) by 2010.
I can really see wind delivering 10-20% of electric power to most places eventually, maybe 5-10% photovoltaic but the 70-80% base would probably have to be coal or nuclear. I'd prefer the latter.
Technically the GTI LEAPS is a "alpha/betavoltaic" cell, like a solar cell for alpha and beta particles, not a Radioisotope Thermal Generator (RTG) which depends on heat.
F. Duane Ackerman is CEO of BellSouth, holds a B.S. in physics and an M.S. from Rollins College, and earned an MBA from the Sloan Fellows program of the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to becoming CEO in 1997, he spent 3 years as COO of BellSouth (a company with $20 billion in revenue).
How many people in India have been COOs of a tech company with $20 billion in revenue?
The largest company in India by revenue is probably Reliance Industries (petrochemicals), which does about $20 billion. So there are probably one or two people in India who have experience operating companies of the size of BellSouth, but those aren't tech companies.
So let's look at the largest tech company in India, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) with revenues of about $4 billion. The CEO of TCS, Ramadorai has a BS in Physics from Delhi University, a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and MS Computer Science from the University of California. Ramadorai, now gets Rs 2.44 crore, or $561,000. It is unclear to me if this includes all possible non-salary compensation or not. I suspect he may hold a lot of stock.
James Q. Crowe is CEO of Level 3 Communications, which has $3.6 billion in revenue. His salary is $375,000, but his stock option profits are $3,750,000.
The CEO pay for top Indian CEOs is going up rapidly though...S Ramadorai' pay went up 100% from 2005 to 2006.
Last year, PepsiCo ($32 billion revenue) hired Indian-born and -educated Indra Nooyi for CEO. Nooyi was born in Madras and attended business school in Calcutta before completing her studies at Yale. Her salary is $964,413 but total compensation is $9,377,119.
So if US=4038 billion kWh/yr then world @ US standards would be roundly 80,000 billion kWh/yr, or 80 million MWw/yr, or 80,000 GWh/yr, at 8760 hr/yr that means power of 9,000 GWe continuous, or about 6000 nuclear reactors at 1.5 GWe each (a large modern design).
There currently is about 386 GWe of nuclear capacity in the world from 435 nuclear reactors operating in 30 countries supply 16% of world electicity with fairly rock-solid base load. We need to have about 14 times as many as we do now to meet world energy needs living as Americans do.
There has already been an example of successful gene therapy with retroviruses, and no they didn't get caner, they were cured of cancer.
However the blood-brain barrier is a limitation to brain gene therapy. So in 2003 a UCLA research team inserted genes into the brain using liposomes coated in polyethylene glycol.
In college, I made a metal1 layer of my initials "+" my girlfriend's initials in an unused area of a 2um process microchip through MOSIS (the letters were around 100um tall). You could see it in a microscope. She wasn't impressed.
Alternatively, appropriate robots could be developed and no farm workers would be needed.
If you want to know why there are fewer manufacturing jobs in the US, note that US manufacturing productivity has risen rapidly due to automation, so that even though US manufacturing output is INCREASING employment is DECREASING.
If we don't use immigrants, we'll just use robots. Which won't change the job situation much in the US, but will keep immigrants in poverty in their own countries.
When I first downloaded the final FY'06 Committee Report on the HHS Appropriation, it was a PDF scanned in from a combination of printed text with considerable handwritten markup.
The Digital Cinema Package file (reference) sent to cinemas is indeed encrypted (as well as digitally signed). The high speed data link between a playout server at the cinema and the projector is also encrypted.
the need for space (and money to spend on more useful things) continually outweighs the need for speed.
I'd argue that the speed of boot-up and program load are important, while the speed of data access is less so (and data access is dominated by a need for space)
BTW, there is a server with 1TB of Flash RAM in this room right now...
Brazil has had average GDP growth of 2.6 percent during Lula's term, a rate that trailed every country in the hemisphere except for Haiti and El Salvador.
Would this really work? Anyone willing to get straight A's in high school is capable of either getting a scholarship or a loan to go to college. Get straight A's in college, and you can get law school loans. Go into corporate law, and you'll be making well over $100,000 very rapidly. Same with med school, or alternatively go into investment banking.
On the other hand, you could also drop out of high school and be lucky if you have a part-time job making minimum wage (and if they raise the minimum wage, you might have to hang outside 7-11 and pick up a job in the informal sector below minimum wage).
Even without inheritance, it is very easy to see why inequality is growing - if you are willing and capable of picking up enough of the right skills, you can make more money than ever before.
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You want to write windows programs? Last I checked you had two compiler options anymore: Microsoft and Microsoft. Even the cost of visual basic is going to be close to $100 US.
Uh, Free Microsoft Visual Express, Free Python on Windows, Free Ruby on Windows, MinGW...
If you run Windows on OLPC, I'd go for Windows XP Embedded.
There are definately several scenarios where price discrimination enhances total welfare, see:
http://web.mit.edu/14.271/www/hio-pdic.pdf
So I don't get the issue - DVB-T in the UK has 8 MHz channels. They have access to 22 Mbps using COFDM even at the most reliable QAM level.
Here in the U.S. we have 6 MHz channels for our terrestrial 8VSB DTV, we have 19 Mbps, and HD works just fine, thanks.
My understanding is that Freeview was SD only because the set-top-boxes had to be cheap.
Recently I've been listening to the Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Biology podcast during my commute. It is pretty cool!
If you outsource and are able to pass on the savings (like Walmart), you can actually increase the standard of living for people at the same dollar-valued income.
But let's face it, Indian and Chinese engineers are experiencing massive salary increases right now. They will be contributing right back to the global economy through their increased consumption.
If no solutions are forthcoming, we will continue to see significant employment displacement here, with all the social problems that that implies.
Or the whole world may just grow richer.
Which is what has been happening for the last 200 years. Except in places where there are low levels of economic freedom, like today's Africa or pre-1980 China & India.
The US economy added 180,000 jobs in March. US unemployment has dropped to 4.4%.
US hourly wages have risen 4% over the past year.
Toyota is going to open a new plant in Blue Springs, Mississippi this year.
The largest wind turbine produces 5MW (non-peak) with blades 126 meters long, so you would need 1.8 million of these to get 9TW peak (world electricity use at US levels, not 9GW). Given wind variability you probably need 3 million tubrines to have 9TW continuous. That is one for every 2000 people on the planet.
Spain has 900 MW wind online today (I imagine that is 500-1000 turbines) and is shooting to get at 15% of electricity (2.1 GW) by 2010.
I can really see wind delivering 10-20% of electric power to most places eventually, maybe 5-10% photovoltaic but the 70-80% base would probably have to be coal or nuclear. I'd prefer the latter.
Technically the GTI LEAPS is a "alpha/betavoltaic" cell, like a solar cell for alpha and beta particles, not a Radioisotope Thermal Generator (RTG) which depends on heat.
Outsource the CEO.
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OK, let's look at a Fortune 500 CEO:
F. Duane Ackerman is CEO of BellSouth, holds a B.S. in physics and an M.S. from Rollins College, and earned an MBA from the Sloan Fellows program of the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to becoming CEO in 1997, he spent 3 years as COO of BellSouth (a company with $20 billion in revenue).
How many people in India have been COOs of a tech company with $20 billion in revenue?
The largest company in India by revenue is probably Reliance Industries (petrochemicals), which does about $20 billion. So there are probably one or two people in India who have experience operating companies of the size of BellSouth, but those aren't tech companies.
So let's look at the largest tech company in India, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) with revenues of about $4 billion. The CEO of TCS, Ramadorai has a BS in Physics from Delhi University, a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and MS Computer Science from the University of California. Ramadorai, now gets Rs 2.44 crore, or $561,000. It is unclear to me if this includes all possible non-salary compensation or not. I suspect he may hold a lot of stock.
James Q. Crowe is CEO of Level 3 Communications, which has $3.6 billion in revenue. His salary is $375,000, but his stock option profits are $3,750,000.
The CEO pay for top Indian CEOs is going up rapidly though...S Ramadorai' pay went up 100% from 2005 to 2006.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php
Last year, PepsiCo ($32 billion revenue) hired Indian-born and -educated Indra Nooyi for CEO. Nooyi was born in Madras and attended business school in Calcutta before completing her studies at Yale. Her salary is $964,413 but total compensation is $9,377,119.
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives
On the other hand, Indian CEOs may soon need to pay a 35% tax on stock options, so maybe we will see more Indian CEO talent coming to the US:
http://www.fenwick.com/docstore/Publications/Corp
You are free to point to any DNS server you feel like.
"Congress passes law that claims to do something, but not only doesn't do what it sets out to do, it actually makes things worse."
Hmm...War on Drugs, minimum wage, DST change, need I go on?
Power an electric car with a nuclear battery.
So if US=4038 billion kWh/yr then world @ US standards would be roundly 80,000 billion kWh/yr, or 80 million MWw/yr, or 80,000 GWh/yr, at 8760 hr/yr that means power of 9,000 GWe continuous, or about 6000 nuclear reactors at 1.5 GWe each (a large modern design).
There currently is about 386 GWe of nuclear capacity in the world from 435 nuclear reactors operating in 30 countries supply 16% of world electicity with fairly rock-solid base load. We need to have about 14 times as many as we do now to meet world energy needs living as Americans do.
There has already been an example of successful gene therapy with retroviruses, and no they didn't get caner, they were cured of cancer.
However the blood-brain barrier is a limitation to brain gene therapy. So in 2003 a UCLA research team inserted genes into the brain using liposomes coated in polyethylene glycol.
In college, I made a metal1 layer of my initials "+" my girlfriend's initials in an unused area of a 2um process microchip through MOSIS (the letters were around 100um tall). You could see it in a microscope. She wasn't impressed.
New girlfriend was acquired shortly thereafter.
Alternatively, appropriate robots could be developed and no farm workers would be needed.
If you want to know why there are fewer manufacturing jobs in the US, note that US manufacturing productivity has risen rapidly due to automation, so that even though US manufacturing output is INCREASING employment is DECREASING.
If we don't use immigrants, we'll just use robots. Which won't change the job situation much in the US, but will keep immigrants in poverty in their own countries.
When I first downloaded the final FY'06 Committee Report on the HHS Appropriation, it was a PDF scanned in from a combination of printed text with considerable handwritten markup.
The Digital Cinema Package file (reference) sent to cinemas is indeed encrypted (as well as digitally signed). The high speed data link between a playout server at the cinema and the projector is also encrypted.
You can buy an ultralight helicopter for $35,000 built. Who needs a flying car?
the need for space (and money to spend on more useful things) continually outweighs the need for speed.
I'd argue that the speed of boot-up and program load are important, while the speed of data access is less so (and data access is dominated by a need for space)
BTW, there is a server with 1TB of Flash RAM in this room right now...
Two weeks is pretty short, IMHO. AFAIK, in Germany you have to let them know three months before leaving.
In the U.S., two-weeks is the customary length of notice for non-contract employees.
Loose labor regulations is why the US has an unemployment rate of 4.6% versus Germany's 10.2%.
Brazil has had average GDP growth of 2.6 percent during Lula's term, a rate that trailed every country in the hemisphere except for Haiti and El Salvador.
The present situation in which the middle class is losing ground
How do you define "middle class" and "losing ground"?
Eliminate inheritance.
Would this really work? Anyone willing to get straight A's in high school is capable of either getting a scholarship or a loan to go to college. Get straight A's in college, and you can get law school loans. Go into corporate law, and you'll be making well over $100,000 very rapidly. Same with med school, or alternatively go into investment banking.
On the other hand, you could also drop out of high school and be lucky if you have a part-time job making minimum wage (and if they raise the minimum wage, you might have to hang outside 7-11 and pick up a job in the informal sector below minimum wage).
Even without inheritance, it is very easy to see why inequality is growing - if you are willing and capable of picking up enough of the right skills, you can make more money than ever before.