Actually, that's not quite the case. There are many situations where you have plain C libraries that are used by Obj-C apps, and you can build those libraries with the Intel compiler. Also, the Intel compiler should work just fine for Carbon apps.
I don't think they want it gone, but they certainly want it to be better than it is now. There's a reason why they coughed up $10M for the NeXTSTEP port back in the early '90s.
most of those jobs won't even pay my current bills
Then clearly, you need to be doing a different kind of job. If I could make the same money as a cabinetmaker or luthier as I make writing code, then I'd be doing that, but the market just isn't there for woodworking at the rate I want to charge. Either that, or I just haven't found the customers who want to pay thirty grand for a custom four-drawer dresser.
My point is, you're not going to make the market fit your needs or desires. Unless you're Archer Daniels Midland and can afford to spend a few million bucks buying congresscritters to legislate for you, you have to offer what the market wants. Find out what customers want, and do that.
If any biologists are reading this, I wonder if any other terrestrial nocturnal animals use echolocation? I know that some birds (owls in particular) are very good in low-light conditions, do any of them navigate with sound as well?
the spec gave the EXACT make and model of computer (and hence hardware spec (that didn't include a network card)) as well as the exact patch level of NT and it specified the applications installed.
It also required that the entire IP stack be deleted. It was quite a joke in the computer security business at the time.
I don't mean to be harsh here, but a job is not property. It's an exchange of your labor for money, and if your customer can get the work done cheaper, he's entitled to do so. Bottom line: it's his money, not yours.
That being said, I took a look at monster.com and found over 1K hits for "tech support". If that's what you want to do, there are lots of places looking for support people. They may not be in your town, they may not be at the wage you used to get, whatever, but nobody *owes* you anything that they haven't committed to in a contract.
I visited Bangalore a couple of years ago, and talked to a bunch of people in the IT industry there. They were already starting to realize that the outsourcing business is, basically, working for wages.
The real money is in developing a property income. Look for a wave of Indian software products, developed from their own designs. A couple of years later, look for the same thing from China.
So if you say "here do this work, otherwise you'll end up poor and starving" isn't enslavement?
That's not the offer. The offer is: "I'll pay this much for this work." If the person to whom you make that offer doesn't want to do it for the price you're paying, then he goes and works for someone else. There is competition for labor, even in India.
This fairy tale idea that capitalism will bring its fruit to everyone and all will be equal.
That's a socialist fantasy, not a capitalist one. The result of free markets isn't that everyone gets the same amount of wealth, it's that there's more wealth overall. That turns out to be a good thing for most people.
Just look at the US and how the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer
Actually, poor countries are improving their economy by embracing capitalism. Look at China and India over the last ten years or so. Once they gave up on trying to impose government planning on their economies and just let people get on with making a living, they had unprecedented economic growth.
In a global economy, there will always be someone able/willing to do it for less money.
Well, up to a point.. Once you get too far down the price curve, you start running into problems of ability to deliver.
I see future software development dividing into several distinct professions, from the people who plug together business accounting apps in VB or the like, to those who specialize in optimizing GPU parallelization.
Hopefully, AOL will clean up its act. I hope that somebody also goes after the long-distance companies that pretend that they didn't hear you when you cancel their service. MCI tried to fleece me for four months of service after I moved last time.
The issue is what is fundamentally wrong with taking money from those that can afford it and giving it to those who are less fortunate is that you are giving a financial incentive to people to be less fortunate.
That's half of the problem. The other half of the problem is that you cause a disincentive to the people who produced the money that is taken.
These companies are no longer Japan's major online music distributors. They are now a pair of rather distant also-rans, like Real and Napster in the US.
It's probably using the same format as twenty years ago, because of the cost of getting any changes to their system approved all over again by the FDA.
What happens when China gives us the finger and outbids us on oil?
They already do, thousands of times a day. So does England, Germany, Brazil, and every other country that uses oil. They go to the commodities markets to buy, and anytime they make a purchase, they outbid someone else.
The price of oil rises and falls all the time, and is affected by many factors, including OPEC's production levels, the amount of refinery capacity available, the weather (warm winters reduce fuel demand), and so on. Your scenario of China "outbidding us on oil" is just silly.
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Dude, I've been using NeXTSTEP since 1989, and Cocoa since they came up with the name. You don't need to explain Obj-C to me.
-jcr
Actually, that's not quite the case. There are many situations where you have plain C libraries that are used by Obj-C apps, and you can build those libraries with the Intel compiler. Also, the Intel compiler should work just fine for Carbon apps.
-jcr
Do you think Intel wants Windows gone? Hardly.
I don't think they want it gone, but they certainly want it to be better than it is now. There's a reason why they coughed up $10M for the NeXTSTEP port back in the early '90s.
-jcr
most of those jobs won't even pay my current bills
Then clearly, you need to be doing a different kind of job. If I could make the same money as a cabinetmaker or luthier as I make writing code, then I'd be doing that, but the market just isn't there for woodworking at the rate I want to charge. Either that, or I just haven't found the customers who want to pay thirty grand for a custom four-drawer dresser.
My point is, you're not going to make the market fit your needs or desires. Unless you're Archer Daniels Midland and can afford to spend a few million bucks buying congresscritters to legislate for you, you have to offer what the market wants. Find out what customers want, and do that.
-jcr
Well, you gotta start somewhere, and you need a sensor before you can synthesize a 3D model.
-jcr
If any biologists are reading this, I wonder if any other terrestrial nocturnal animals use echolocation? I know that some birds (owls in particular) are very good in low-light conditions, do any of them navigate with sound as well?
-jcr
I spend my time composing posts with actual content
No you don't, you just run at the mouth to try to convince yourself of your superiority.
perhaps you should just stop replying.
Sorry, I don't take orders from petty autocrats.
-jcr
the spec gave the EXACT make and model of computer (and hence hardware spec (that didn't include a network card)) as well as the exact patch level of NT and it specified the applications installed.
It also required that the entire IP stack be deleted. It was quite a joke in the computer security business at the time.
-jcr
Dude,
I don't mean to be harsh here, but a job is not property. It's an exchange of your labor for money, and if your customer can get the work done cheaper, he's entitled to do so. Bottom line: it's his money, not yours.
That being said, I took a look at monster.com and found over 1K hits for "tech support". If that's what you want to do, there are lots of places looking for support people. They may not be in your town, they may not be at the wage you used to get, whatever, but nobody *owes* you anything that they haven't committed to in a contract.
-jcr
I visited Bangalore a couple of years ago, and talked to a bunch of people in the IT industry there. They were already starting to realize that the outsourcing business is, basically, working for wages.
The real money is in developing a property income. Look for a wave of Indian software products, developed from their own designs. A couple of years later, look for the same thing from China.
-jcr
So if you say "here do this work, otherwise you'll end up poor and starving" isn't enslavement?
That's not the offer. The offer is: "I'll pay this much for this work." If the person to whom you make that offer doesn't want to do it for the price you're paying, then he goes and works for someone else. There is competition for labor, even in India.
-jcr
It takes a brave and enlightened government to resist the urge to throw up trade barriers. The Bush administration isn't one of them.
I doubt that there's been any honest effort to remove trade barriers since the Eisenhower administration.
-jcr
This fairy tale idea that capitalism will bring its fruit to everyone and all will be equal.
That's a socialist fantasy, not a capitalist one. The result of free markets isn't that everyone gets the same amount of wealth, it's that there's more wealth overall. That turns out to be a good thing for most people.
Just look at the US and how the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer
Actually, poor countries are improving their economy by embracing capitalism. Look at China and India over the last ten years or so. Once they gave up on trying to impose government planning on their economies and just let people get on with making a living, they had unprecedented economic growth.
-jcr
In a global economy, there will always be someone able/willing to do it for less money.
Well, up to a point.. Once you get too far down the price curve, you start running into problems of ability to deliver.
I see future software development dividing into several distinct professions, from the people who plug together business accounting apps in VB or the like, to those who specialize in optimizing GPU parallelization.
-jcr
Hopefully, AOL will clean up its act. I hope that somebody also goes after the long-distance companies that pretend that they didn't hear you when you cancel their service. MCI tried to fleece me for four months of service after I moved last time.
-jcr
I'm a liberal and you don't speak for me.
No need to speak for you.. You go on and on with very little prompting.
I want the poor to have an opportunity to get out of poverty.
Then get the government out of their way, and let them get on with it.
-jcr
Intel sure keeps making a big deal of this Apple deal.
Of course they are. They want people to know that the crappy user experience they get from Windows isn't Intel's fault.
Intel's been trying to get the Mac OS on their processors since 1984.
-jcr
You must really hate poor people.
If I hated poor people, then I'd want them to remain trapped in a cycle of welfare dependency, the way that the liberals do.
-jcr
Let's see: If Apple used the Merom in a future Mac Mini, that should make it possible to shrink it to about 1/4 of its current volume.
Hmm.. Could make a nice little bookshelf build farm there.
-jcr
The issue is what is fundamentally wrong with taking money from those that can afford it and giving it to those who are less fortunate is that you are giving a financial incentive to people to be less fortunate.
That's half of the problem. The other half of the problem is that you cause a disincentive to the people who produced the money that is taken.
-jcr
These companies are no longer Japan's major online music distributors. They are now a pair of rather distant also-rans, like Real and Napster in the US.
-jcr
But on the other hand helping the poor is totaly unamerican (socialism is baaaaaaaad).
Helping the poor is fine. Looting the middle class for the ostensible purpose of helping the poor is not.
-jcr
A floppy disk!!
An FDA-approved floppy disk.
It's probably using the same format as twenty years ago, because of the cost of getting any changes to their system approved all over again by the FDA.
-jcr
Isn't it amazing what you can do when the FDA isn't driving up your costs?
-jcr
What happens when China gives us the finger and outbids us on oil?
They already do, thousands of times a day. So does England, Germany, Brazil, and every other country that uses oil. They go to the commodities markets to buy, and anytime they make a purchase, they outbid someone else.
The price of oil rises and falls all the time, and is affected by many factors, including OPEC's production levels, the amount of refinery capacity available, the weather (warm winters reduce fuel demand), and so on. Your scenario of China "outbidding us on oil" is just silly.
-jcr