the u.s. is different from every other country. i mean, who doesn't want to live in the u.s. (generally speaking)...
also, its easy to prop up our realestate prices when we can go overseas and destroy everyones houses while keeping ours intact!
so, its hard to predict far in advance. but, today, i would imagine it isn't going to happen before october. economy right now is the weirdest mix of doing really well and being pure unadulterated, fabricated shit.
i said "piss poor example". as in, your island is unique enough that it's a "piss poor example" to use in comparison to the rest of the world. it's like examining 1 person, who happens to be Einstein, and assuming that tells you anything about the math skills of the remaining 8 billion.
sensitive, are we?
and for your sake i won't actually insult your island by bringing up the slave trade, the sugar plantations, the textile industry, the drug trade, the human trafficking... god forbid ya'll would be implicated in any way in all the "stealing" going on in the world.
but it's a fluke. if europe had cut off sugar subsidies after independence, no one would be holding up mauritius as some shining example now. it's like holding up israel without mentioning their entire economy is based on US aid.
at one point i was helping your president (or maybe it was the party president... i forget) run heroin through the country, until he got caught with that suitcase full. that buggard.
anyway yeah, i misspoke. french aristocracy and all. dutch. dab of portuguese. used slaves to work the sugarcane. moved on to textiles with indian and chineese immigrants. at one point part of the french empire, on and off again. at one point part of the british.
you've been independent since 1968 but you'll note that the favorable sugar trade terms continued after independence. out of all of the Sugar Act colonies, Mauritius made out sweeeett while most of the rest got near market prices and subsequently fell to piece. which reminds me that mauritis gets good trade terms in textiles, too. is there much more to your economy, even now? not much. a dab of communications/offshoring/financial services i guess.
so..... the point is using Mauritius as an example of what can be achieved in much larger and more populous countries is absurd. it'd be like saying that since i can run my house well (with help of my relatives), why can't everyone in my city do it? how could there be any poor in my city? you can't draw conclusions from that.
you agree that Mauritius is a "fluke", in this sense?
mauritius's sugar industry was purposefly subsidized by the british empire for 50 years because its a strategic port. that's it. and theres only a few thousand people there.
Mairitius is the most piss-poor example Slashdot could have come up with.
It's a tiny speck in the Indian ocean, northeast of Madagascar, and has mainly been British Empire land... mainly as a strategic port and sugar producer.
Barely anyone lives there.
Their GDP is moderately developed, but keep in mind their sugar industry (basically the only export until recently) was subsidized for 50+ years by Britian so as to keep the island stable. While everyone else got fucked, Mauritis was kept stable. There are a number of resrouces on this---mainly european trade agreements that highlight it. IMF and World Bank reports talk about it in depth, as well. Not too hard to find.
Recently, they've been trying to get financial work outsourced to them, which is why they developed their communications infastructure.
But make no mistake. Claiming Mauritis as a big thing in wireless is like claiming that the Red Sox are a big thing in the bronx. The locals, if they heard you, would probably either laugh or beat your ass.
(incidentally, some major people in academic politics occasionally whip mauritius out as some pinncale of development, along with some other random country... then they use it to justify their political theory of the day. when really anyone could tell you it was the price of sugar that did it. for the whopping few thousand that live there.)
software has come a long way since the dark days. most of the solutions have already been found and coded in some nice library somewhere that is typically cross platform and you can get to from google in a few seconds.
and unless you're programming something serious, for gods sakes, ditch the C/C++/assembly crap already. you're just wasting your time.
the day i slapped together a nice program with WX/Python/other libs in a few hours, having not had any previous experience with either python or WX, i said... "well fuck me. i can't even notice that it's not written in C." hell, it was cross platform too.
not sure that's entirely true. yes, there is a housing bubble, purposefully caused by the fed to prop up spending after the equity bubble collapse, itself caused by the desire to keep gold low (strong dollar policy)... but i'm not sure what you mean by "petrodollars."
if saudi makes more money cause oil goes up, they just end up spending more money on u.s. corporations to build things in saudi. now, if they spent that money on japanese firms, we'd be fuxored. but *shrug* i don't see that happening;)
as long as the money makes its way back, outsourcing has no impact. this is why military control is so important. it's just a rearanging of accounts but the U.S. is still the beneficiary.
now, the divide between rich and poor in this country, that is another topic. and yeah, the poor are fucked, but have been since the 70s (wages relative to inflation have only decreased).
hahahaha. "polluting the industry." that's funny.
i've been coding since age 10 and will take on any of you degree schmucks. provided you take the time to get your head out your ass.
but then again, they're one and the same. i mean, it's just an input string for some turing-complete language. whether it's search or location or command line or...
i'll believe it when i see it.
besides, this is nonsense. computers can't possibly get that much easier to use. it goes against the theoreticall limits. if you want to do complex things, then you have to write long, complex programs that have lots of bugs. otherwise the halting problem would be solvable. contradiction, cause it's not.
no. i got hired 2 years ago to write code at a 'major' (read: 'huge') engineering company. my degree is a BA in Politics.
so... *shrug*. i only have so much sympathy for niche programmers. you can either program anything or you can't. and if you can't, then yeah, you'll have trouble finding a specific job in a generic industry.
and if you're 40 or something and all you've got to show for it is C++, then yeah, you'll have trouble there too.
good programmers will always be in demand. C++ doesn't make a programmer good.
if you examine the federal funds overnight discount rate, you'll notice it for the past few years at the lowest rate in 50 years or something. lots of money floating around these days.
the dollar was purposefully devalued in order to contain the equity bubble, itself cause by the "strong dollar policy" of the 1990s which kept gold prices low. the result is the current real estate bubble that offset the equity bubble.
so the dollar drops but... does everything want their currency to appreciate against the dollar? no. else they couldn't sell anything. so they compensate by buying U.S. treasuries, which offsets the dollar's drop and the trade "imbalances" on a relative scale.
and as far as oil goes: you know what Saudi and Co. do with those dollars? yeah, they turn around and give it to U.S. banks who in turn use it to pay U.S. companies to build things in Saudi. So we get a good share of the money right back into the u.s. economy, thanks the "special arrangement" we have with them which has nothing to do with oil or the deficit.
so imports don't nescerially cost more just cause the dollar "looses" value. everything is relative now that gold doesn't back anything.
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to whatever java fag moded me down, come find me when you grow balls and loose your virginity.
java is a pointless, stupid language. it's no harder than C++, yet far worse in every way.
for gods sakes...
whoever, out of all the languages on earth, chooses java as their prefered one... should be shot. or should go to a titty bar before its too late.
java was never "cool" except for a brief spat during the mid-90s. then people realized it was a crap language to write in.
yeah good question.
the u.s. is different from every other country. i mean, who doesn't want to live in the u.s. (generally speaking)...
also, its easy to prop up our realestate prices when we can go overseas and destroy everyones houses while keeping ours intact!
so, its hard to predict far in advance. but, today, i would imagine it isn't going to happen before october. economy right now is the weirdest mix of doing really well and being pure unadulterated, fabricated shit.
is that anything like the current Halo 2, Baghdad?
chill the fuck out you moron.
did i say "piss poor country"? no.
i said "piss poor example". as in, your island is unique enough that it's a "piss poor example" to use in comparison to the rest of the world. it's like examining 1 person, who happens to be Einstein, and assuming that tells you anything about the math skills of the remaining 8 billion.
sensitive, are we?
and for your sake i won't actually insult your island by bringing up the slave trade, the sugar plantations, the textile industry, the drug trade, the human trafficking... god forbid ya'll would be implicated in any way in all the "stealing" going on in the world.
whoa slow down and chill out. i'm not european.
i'm sure mauritius is a nice place to live.
but it's a fluke. if europe had cut off sugar subsidies after independence, no one would be holding up mauritius as some shining example now. it's like holding up israel without mentioning their entire economy is based on US aid.
and that heroin reference? it was a joke.
Yeah basically. Conversation goes like
.net love ftw!"
"what do you do?"
"computers."
is there really any need to say more? what am i going to do, say "i make the coolest apps on the planet! i am so smart! xml
yeah, THAT'll really get the party going.
? don't hate, looser.
what'd i get wrong anyway?
at one point i was helping your president (or maybe it was the party president... i forget) run heroin through the country, until he got caught with that suitcase full. that buggard.
anyway yeah, i misspoke. french aristocracy and all. dutch. dab of portuguese. used slaves to work the sugarcane. moved on to textiles with indian and chineese immigrants. at one point part of the french empire, on and off again. at one point part of the british.
you've been independent since 1968 but you'll note that the favorable sugar trade terms continued after independence. out of all of the Sugar Act colonies, Mauritius made out sweeeett while most of the rest got near market prices and subsequently fell to piece. which reminds me that mauritis gets good trade terms in textiles, too. is there much more to your economy, even now? not much. a dab of communications/offshoring/financial services i guess.
so..... the point is using Mauritius as an example of what can be achieved in much larger and more populous countries is absurd. it'd be like saying that since i can run my house well (with help of my relatives), why can't everyone in my city do it? how could there be any poor in my city? you can't draw conclusions from that.
you agree that Mauritius is a "fluke", in this sense?
hahahahahha. that was good.
you troll faggot.
mauritius's sugar industry was purposefly subsidized by the british empire for 50 years because its a strategic port. that's it. and theres only a few thousand people there.
take your head out of your ass already.
Mairitius is the most piss-poor example Slashdot could have come up with.
It's a tiny speck in the Indian ocean, northeast of Madagascar, and has mainly been British Empire land... mainly as a strategic port and sugar producer.
Barely anyone lives there.
Their GDP is moderately developed, but keep in mind their sugar industry (basically the only export until recently) was subsidized for 50+ years by Britian so as to keep the island stable. While everyone else got fucked, Mauritis was kept stable. There are a number of resrouces on this---mainly european trade agreements that highlight it. IMF and World Bank reports talk about it in depth, as well. Not too hard to find.
Recently, they've been trying to get financial work outsourced to them, which is why they developed their communications infastructure.
But make no mistake. Claiming Mauritis as a big thing in wireless is like claiming that the Red Sox are a big thing in the bronx. The locals, if they heard you, would probably either laugh or beat your ass.
(incidentally, some major people in academic politics occasionally whip mauritius out as some pinncale of development, along with some other random country... then they use it to justify their political theory of the day. when really anyone could tell you it was the price of sugar that did it. for the whopping few thousand that live there.)
i'm reporting you to the feds. you no better than a terrorist.
why do you hate America?
i'd write my senators, but i can't find my checkbook.
cause otherwise you couldn't do everything?
Isn't that good? Doesn't that mean we've conquered the world and put everyone to work for us? Fucking Utopia!
i'm glad someone's saying it.
software has come a long way since the dark days. most of the solutions have already been found and coded in some nice library somewhere that is typically cross platform and you can get to from google in a few seconds.
and unless you're programming something serious, for gods sakes, ditch the C/C++/assembly crap already. you're just wasting your time.
the day i slapped together a nice program with WX/Python/other libs in a few hours, having not had any previous experience with either python or WX, i said... "well fuck me. i can't even notice that it's not written in C." hell, it was cross platform too.
30k salary in D.C.? ouch. what's that get him, ramen noodles?
not sure that's entirely true. yes, there is a housing bubble, purposefully caused by the fed to prop up spending after the equity bubble collapse, itself caused by the desire to keep gold low (strong dollar policy)... but i'm not sure what you mean by "petrodollars."
;)
if saudi makes more money cause oil goes up, they just end up spending more money on u.s. corporations to build things in saudi. now, if they spent that money on japanese firms, we'd be fuxored. but *shrug* i don't see that happening
as long as the money makes its way back, outsourcing has no impact. this is why military control is so important. it's just a rearanging of accounts but the U.S. is still the beneficiary.
now, the divide between rich and poor in this country, that is another topic. and yeah, the poor are fucked, but have been since the 70s (wages relative to inflation have only decreased).
hahahaha. "polluting the industry." that's funny. i've been coding since age 10 and will take on any of you degree schmucks. provided you take the time to get your head out your ass.
yes, it's true. as is the search field.
but then again, they're one and the same. i mean, it's just an input string for some turing-complete language. whether it's search or location or command line or...
i'll believe it when i see it. besides, this is nonsense. computers can't possibly get that much easier to use. it goes against the theoreticall limits. if you want to do complex things, then you have to write long, complex programs that have lots of bugs. otherwise the halting problem would be solvable. contradiction, cause it's not.
no. i got hired 2 years ago to write code at a 'major' (read: 'huge') engineering company. my degree is a BA in Politics.
so... *shrug*. i only have so much sympathy for niche programmers. you can either program anything or you can't. and if you can't, then yeah, you'll have trouble finding a specific job in a generic industry.
and if you're 40 or something and all you've got to show for it is C++, then yeah, you'll have trouble there too.
good programmers will always be in demand. C++ doesn't make a programmer good.
...
if you examine the federal funds overnight discount rate, you'll notice it for the past few years at the lowest rate in 50 years or something. lots of money floating around these days.
the dollar was purposefully devalued in order to contain the equity bubble, itself cause by the "strong dollar policy" of the 1990s which kept gold prices low. the result is the current real estate bubble that offset the equity bubble.
so the dollar drops but... does everything want their currency to appreciate against the dollar? no. else they couldn't sell anything. so they compensate by buying U.S. treasuries, which offsets the dollar's drop and the trade "imbalances" on a relative scale.
and as far as oil goes: you know what Saudi and Co. do with those dollars? yeah, they turn around and give it to U.S. banks who in turn use it to pay U.S. companies to build things in Saudi. So we get a good share of the money right back into the u.s. economy, thanks the "special arrangement" we have with them which has nothing to do with oil or the deficit.
so imports don't nescerially cost more just cause the dollar "looses" value. everything is relative now that gold doesn't back anything.