Then why not go into a field easier than computer science?
... see that's just it, that's the problem with college. It's become job training. Anyone with any SATs score can attend almost any university and obtain a degree in bullshit. But even the most apathetic student recognizes a degree in communications, business, marketing, multimedia design or basket weaving is worthless... so they'll attempt to get a "respectable" in one of the sciences. Most are going to get weeded out when they hit linear algebra or CS II, but there will always be a few slackers who are basically intelligent enough to pass the tests and sly enough to con their way through the coding. I can't really blame them, anything is better than having to tell your parents you've decided to major in communications.
Why even bother getting the degree in something if you don't want to do the work anyway?
Because Universities have become the 13th grade, a prerequisite for even unskilled labor. A bachelors degree is worth about the same as a a high school diploma was worth 50 years ago.
Fify years ago I'll bet you the percentage of unskilled labor was much higher in the US than it is now.
I have a hard time believing that... especially in a country where the largest private employer is Wal-Mart, a country with a 60 Billion+ per month trade deficit and an economy where 75% of GDP is consumer spending. The US is nothing more than a spoiled heiress spending her inheritance.
Doctors and lawyers both have to do as their clients want.
Doctors and lawyers are not subject to wage deflation because they have little competition globally. Mathematicians, chemists, engineers, computer scientists can perform there jobs anywhere, which means outsourcing and a narrowing of the wage gap between the West and the rest of the world.
I must say, I am not particularly impressed by Windows XP. To be fair, it has made great strides forward in both stability and usability. Security is improving, but still has a long way to go
How would a newbie to Windows realize great strides in both these areas? Answer me that Jack!
I clicked this post thinking there would be something about guns... but much to my disappointment there were none. Thanks for ruining my New Years Eve!
Sometimes I wonder if the government doesn't get ideas for totalitarian projects from books and movies about totalitarian governments.
I really wouldn't worry about it too much, the US government is going to have a hard enough time paying the electric bill in a few years when its currency goes to shit.
Are you honstly suggesting that an attempted internal insurrection in the US of the same scale and using the same techniques as the Iraqi insurrection wouldn't be immediately labelled "terrorists", alienated from the rest of the population, and quickly put down just using FBI, and national guard?
1/3 of the population wanted revolution in 1776, 1/3 favored British rule and 1/3 were neutral.
AFA modern day insurrection, I suppose it would be possible after a SHTF event (ex USD collapse). I mean who knows what NASCAR dads and soccer moms are capable of when they can't heat their McMansions or fill up their SUVs. The government will probably try various unconstitutional measures: confiscations, an armed presence, national curfews...etc. Local governemt will be favored and the fed will be seen as an incompetent overbearing tyrant, anyone seen as a tool of the fed will probably be a target.
It would seem to me that things have moved well past the point where the weapons that can still be legally obtained by private citizens are going to be of real practical significance in any insurrection.
The same way the current Iraqi insurrection is preventing the occupying US military from establishing a real presence.
It isn't going to solve the world's dependence on oil overnight, but it's perhaps a step forward.
No it isn't... biofuels will always have a negative production efficiency ratio because photosynthesis is less than 1% efficient. There is simply no "miracle" solution for replacing the effort that mother nature has put into producing fossil fuels over the last 500 of million years (same for those in the ambiotic camp).
All biofuels are plagued by the same production inefficiencies, since photosynthesis itself is less than 1% efficient (Solar irradiance at a generous max of 1000W/M^2 would leave you needing a few dozen acres per tiny car). The macro implications of efficient conversion of used vegetable oil are irrelevant.
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Then why not go into a field easier than computer science?
... so they'll attempt to get a "respectable" in one of the sciences. Most are going to get weeded out when they hit linear algebra or CS II, but there will always be a few slackers who are basically intelligent enough to pass the tests and sly enough to con their way through the coding. I can't really blame them, anything is better than having to tell your parents you've decided to major in communications.
... see that's just it, that's the problem with college. It's become job training. Anyone with any SATs score can attend almost any university and obtain a degree in bullshit. But even the most apathetic student recognizes a degree in communications, business, marketing, multimedia design or basket weaving is worthless
Why even bother getting the degree in something if you don't want to do the work anyway?
Because Universities have become the 13th grade, a prerequisite for even unskilled labor. A bachelors degree is worth about the same as a a high school diploma was worth 50 years ago.
Why in the old days we had to post the problems on USENET and hope not to get *plonked*! Kids today are sooo spoiled.
We *need* this exposure. I'm worried for children growing up in sterilized environments today.
Pretty good article on the subject. The theory being a clean environment leads to an overactive immune system that can develop into severe allergies.
Sounds like a line of new cologne from Ralph Loren aimed at today's IT workers.
Sold in compressed air duster cans
"For a few years, an interest in computers and technology became inextricable linked with wealth and power -- geek became chic"
I'm pretty sure this is one of the signs of the apocalypse
Cheap energy allows globalization. His version of the future will crumble as the price of crude continues to soar.
Fify years ago I'll bet you the percentage of unskilled labor was much higher in the US than it is now.
... especially in a country where the largest private employer is Wal-Mart, a country with a 60 Billion+ per month trade deficit and an economy where 75% of GDP is consumer spending. The US is nothing more than a spoiled heiress spending her inheritance.
I have a hard time believing that
Doctors and lawyers both have to do as their clients want.
Doctors and lawyers are not subject to wage deflation because they have little competition globally. Mathematicians, chemists, engineers, computer scientists can perform there jobs anywhere, which means outsourcing and a narrowing of the wage gap between the West and the rest of the world.
I must say, I am not particularly impressed by Windows XP. To be fair, it has made great strides forward in both stability and usability. Security is improving, but still has a long way to go
How would a newbie to Windows realize great strides in both these areas? Answer me that Jack!
There were some rare exceptions like the Die Hard gamer and some of the PC gaming magazines, but for the most part they've always been crap.
or is that already being done by the NSA?
Google is going to announce a cure for cancer and a perpetual motion machine at today's CES.
Giant orange lizard seen marching under the Arch de Triumph
I have a soft spot in my heart for Nintendo, who somehow seems less evil than Sony and Microsoft.
... they almost drove Sega into the grave with their 3rd party licensing agreements back in the 80's.
I don't know about that
I clicked this post thinking there would be something about guns ... but much to my disappointment there were none. Thanks for ruining my New Years Eve!
... a non-porn reason to lick my screen!
Sometimes I wonder if the government doesn't get ideas for totalitarian projects from books and movies about totalitarian governments.
I really wouldn't worry about it too much, the US government is going to have a hard enough time paying the electric bill in a few years when its currency goes to shit.
Dear Amazon, Please connect me with Rachael Ray ... Thank You
Today's websites are so most more beefy then past, why?
Because the sales and marketing people now control web.
You may remember me from such instructional videos as "Mothballing Your Battleship" and "Dig Your Own Grave and Save!"
Are you honstly suggesting that an attempted internal insurrection in the US of the same scale and using the same techniques as the Iraqi insurrection wouldn't be immediately labelled "terrorists", alienated from the rest of the population, and quickly put down just using FBI, and national guard?
...etc. Local governemt will be favored and the fed will be seen as an incompetent overbearing tyrant, anyone seen as a tool of the fed will probably be a target.
1/3 of the population wanted revolution in 1776, 1/3 favored British rule and 1/3 were neutral.
AFA modern day insurrection, I suppose it would be possible after a SHTF event (ex USD collapse). I mean who knows what NASCAR dads and soccer moms are capable of when they can't heat their McMansions or fill up their SUVs. The government will probably try various unconstitutional measures: confiscations, an armed presence, national curfews
It would seem to me that things have moved well past the point where the weapons that can still be legally obtained by private citizens are going to be of real practical significance in any insurrection.
The same way the current Iraqi insurrection is preventing the occupying US military from establishing a real presence.
It isn't going to solve the world's dependence on oil overnight, but it's perhaps a step forward.
... biofuels will always have a negative production efficiency ratio because photosynthesis is less than 1% efficient. There is simply no "miracle" solution for replacing the effort that mother nature has put into producing fossil fuels over the last 500 of million years (same for those in the ambiotic camp).
No it isn't
All biofuels are plagued by the same production inefficiencies, since photosynthesis itself is less than 1% efficient (Solar irradiance at a generous max of 1000W/M^2 would leave you needing a few dozen acres per tiny car). The macro implications of efficient conversion of used vegetable oil are irrelevant.