I think they do have a bit of a point with this. iPod sales did rise dramatically after the introduction of the iTunes Music
Listen to yourself:) If I own a doughnut store, and sell milk there. Are the dairies entitled to a cut of my doughnut sales? Of course not. Just because this happens online does not excuse anyone from rational thougt.
First, if you like your job, then spending 10-12 hours there should be enjoyable.
What kind of bullshit is that? Now I'm in the wrong business if I don't *ENJOY* 12 hours a day of it?:) I have news for you, theres a lot of work out there that has to get done whether its enjoyable or not:) My company makes devices that are used in the semiconductor manufacturing industry... You like your computer? Because if everyone only did work that was enjoyable nobody would be in the incredibly fucking boring business we are in, and your computer wouldn't exist.
As for the move thing, you are probably right... but heres the problem. I can make good money here and spend a fortune on a house, or I can live in bum-fuck alabama where my skills are USELESS and work at walmart. I'm arguably better off here.
My rant was really an expression of frustration with the death of a thousand cuts currently being inflicted on the middle class.
The US administers the root DNS servers, and countries are allowed to administer their own servers. In addition, ICANN alots (scarce) IP addresses. The original distribution of these IP addresses is now considered to be "unfair" because companies and countries were given HUGE address spaces because at the *TIME*, the ammount of addresses avaliable was thought to be nearly unlimited. I don't remeber how many addresses there are total, but its a lot. The assignment of addresses is complicated by the fact that routing tables have extreme constraints on their size and exact duplicates must be deployed to almost *every* internet router in the world. Yes the IP addresses were assigned "unfairly". In our defense, at the time they WERE alloted, nobody ever imagined the internet being what it is today.
So the UN is basically doing a power grab here. Many Americans fear the UN because it has *NO* accountability to anyone or any principles of free speech...at least in the US we have a constitution that (while not upheld all the time) protects individual rights, whereas the UN has no such restraints. We may find ourselves being regulated by the UN and retaliated against by the UN weilding the power we gave them, trying to restrict our free speech. Remember there are lots of countries where talking about certain things is illegal (france/germany: nazis, china: democracy).
Your problem isn't really what you pay, it's how they squander it away.
Yea... If I could point to *ONE* thing I got for all that money i might feel better about it. But for someone to get something for nothing, someone else has to get nothing for something... and im that guy, and it sucks.
My state+federal is 42%, but you knew that already. That does not count sales, hotel, vehicle, and the millions of other little and not so little taxes you pay everyday. And as far as "my lifestyle"... A SHITTY house here costs 600k... Figure out what you need to make to finance that, and you'll figure out im prolly not living high on the hog, nor is anyone else in my position.
You know what? I pay 42% *OFF THE TOP* (single-no deductions and make fairly decent money), California can go FUCK itself if It thinks i am paying an internet sales tax which it can just redistribute to illegal aliens in counties like San Bernardino where *30%* of the residents are on assistance. Thats right california, I'm telling you and your crooked legislature to fuck off. And yes I live in california. I'm sick of working my ASS off (12 hours days, everyday) so that the government can redistribute my education and my hard work to people. Becuase thats what its doing. I work 10 - 12 hour days everyday, and the first 5 or 6 hours of that the government takes. I want to pay no taxes and work 6 hours a day and have an easy life like all the people my taxes support.
"Your girlfrined seemed very excitied by the 3-5x increase over what she had now when I was with her last night"
Thats pretty clever actually:) And yea I agree... the CDDVD transition was a revolutionary change, increasnig the capacity of a DVD by 3x-5x... just isn't sexy
Personally, i dont think 30 or 50gb is acceptable. thats only a 3-5x increase over what we have now... I can't get excited over anything less than an order of magnitude
More then that, it is now impossible to completely understand a computer. I used to program in assembly, and I understood how every chip on the motherboard worked, and all of their little quirks. That is now impossible, and programms must rely on the makers of the chips to make them accessable through drivers.
You are exactly right. I used to have to clean the floors of the lab I worked at. The janitoral staff WOULDN'T DO IT and the union employees would NOT do it (secretarial, accounting, everyone but the sysadmins basically). I wasn't a union employee, therefore... I did it.
I am a software engineer, and although I do make *FAR* more then the averave software engineer: I am at work at 9:40pm in california, I have been here since 8:30am (I was late, I usually come in at 7:00am), and I expect to be here most of the evening, sleep in my office (I can't afford a house within 60 miles of where I work, average price=600k), and sleep it off tomorrow.
Id like to point ot to those who will critique my grammar and spelling shortly, that I'm running a 20 or 30 hours sleep deficit this month... and am currently in hour 9 of what will be a 15 or 16 hour work day:)
Katrina taught me that us Americans are fucked up, and I dont' care what happens to shitty people. Kobe Earthquake of 1995: No looting, No riots, far larger disaster on every scale then, families shared extremly scarce food with each other.
Katrina: Citizens and local and state officals did little to prepare themselves, and ignored the dire predictions being made. When all hell broke loose, as they were told it would, they stole not food but electronics, street gangs took over portions of the city, and waited for the federal government to come save them? This *IS* darwinian evolution.
Did you hear the story about a group of tourists in LA who were caught in the hurricane? They setup a shelter on an overpass that was flooded, they looted *FOOD* and *WATER*, setup basic sanitation and waste facilities and they were each assigned jobs to keep the ad hoc community functioning. Contrast that with the other stories you've heard.
The problem in this country, is ignorance, top to bottom. And that includes the people who stuff there faces and don't realize we are being slowly robbed of our freedoms, as you say.
Not to mention memory stick, SD card, XD card, Compact Flash... um... mini disk... and being burned haivng bought an HDTV early that doesn't have that encrypted bullshit connector.
The problem is that with production prices so high in comparison, people would rather buy something cheaper.
You must be new here:). Remember when a DVD player cost $900 and the movies were EXPENSIVE? Now there are 30$ DVD players and 1$ DVD's at walmart. Putting something into mass-production is the WAY you reduce the cost.
I know people in their 50's and 60's who can't even plug in a printer, but have all the latest and greatest of file sharing applications up and running just fine,
I was in a game crazy a week or so ago, and saw a man who was at LEAST 70 buying video games and anxiously asking the clerks when this and that would be out... He was clearly buying them for himself as he knew the plots to most of the final fantasy games:) Very weird, very cool.
"John Dvorak has written an article for MarketWatch in which he postulates that the reorganization by Microsoft is actually a prelude to its breakup into three separate entities."
Yea... Well... John Dvorak says something stupid every week and just by coincidence alone some of it comes true.
Truely great post. Al Queda has stretched our resources far beyond capacity with almost no invesment. Too bad what it has NOTHING to do with what we're talking about here:-P
Yes and no. In reality, Yes. but the "standard" gravatational constant at which a Joule is calculated at 10m/s... So technically, no. I didn't have time to write a physics textbook for my original post:)
I think its a universl rule that its impossible to be 100% correct when correcting someone else. I tried REALLY hard to keep it together, but missed that one... thanks:)
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fair enough. nazi's suck, but thats still wrong.
Listen to yourself :) If I own a doughnut store, and sell milk there. Are the dairies entitled to a cut of my doughnut sales? Of course not. Just because this happens online does not excuse anyone from rational thougt.
What kind of bullshit is that? Now I'm in the wrong business if I don't *ENJOY* 12 hours a day of it? :) I have news for you, theres a lot of work out there that has to get done whether its enjoyable or not :) My company makes devices that are used in the semiconductor manufacturing industry ... You like your computer? Because if everyone only did work that was enjoyable nobody would be in the incredibly fucking boring business we are in, and your computer wouldn't exist.
As for the move thing, you are probably right ... but heres the problem. I can make good money here and spend a fortune on a house, or I can live in bum-fuck alabama where my skills are USELESS and work at walmart. I'm arguably better off here.
My rant was really an expression of frustration with the death of a thousand cuts currently being inflicted on the middle class.
The US administers the root DNS servers, and countries are allowed to administer their own servers. In addition, ICANN alots (scarce) IP addresses. The original distribution of these IP addresses is now considered to be "unfair" because companies and countries were given HUGE address spaces because at the *TIME*, the ammount of addresses avaliable was thought to be nearly unlimited. I don't remeber how many addresses there are total, but its a lot. The assignment of addresses is complicated by the fact that routing tables have extreme constraints on their size and exact duplicates must be deployed to almost *every* internet router in the world. Yes the IP addresses were assigned "unfairly". In our defense, at the time they WERE alloted, nobody ever imagined the internet being what it is today.
So the UN is basically doing a power grab here. Many Americans fear the UN because it has *NO* accountability to anyone or any principles of free speech...at least in the US we have a constitution that (while not upheld all the time) protects individual rights, whereas the UN has no such restraints. We may find ourselves being regulated by the UN and retaliated against by the UN weilding the power we gave them, trying to restrict our free speech. Remember there are lots of countries where talking about certain things is illegal (france/germany: nazis, china: democracy).
Yea ... If I could point to *ONE* thing I got for all that money i might feel better about it. But for someone to get something for nothing, someone else has to get nothing for something... and im that guy, and it sucks.
My state+federal is 42%, but you knew that already. That does not count sales, hotel, vehicle, and the millions of other little and not so little taxes you pay everyday. And as far as "my lifestyle" ... A SHITTY house here costs 600k ... Figure out what you need to make to finance that, and you'll figure out im prolly not living high on the hog, nor is anyone else in my position.
You know what? I pay 42% *OFF THE TOP* (single-no deductions and make fairly decent money), California can go FUCK itself if It thinks i am paying an internet sales tax which it can just redistribute to illegal aliens in counties like San Bernardino where *30%* of the residents are on assistance. Thats right california, I'm telling you and your crooked legislature to fuck off. And yes I live in california. I'm sick of working my ASS off (12 hours days, everyday) so that the government can redistribute my education and my hard work to people. Becuase thats what its doing. I work 10 - 12 hour days everyday, and the first 5 or 6 hours of that the government takes. I want to pay no taxes and work 6 hours a day and have an easy life like all the people my taxes support.
Thats pretty clever actually :) And yea I agree ... the CDDVD transition was a revolutionary change, increasnig the capacity of a DVD by 3x-5x ... just isn't sexy
Personally, i dont think 30 or 50gb is acceptable. thats only a 3-5x increase over what we have now... I can't get excited over anything less than an order of magnitude
More then that, it is now impossible to completely understand a computer. I used to program in assembly, and I understood how every chip on the motherboard worked, and all of their little quirks. That is now impossible, and programms must rely on the makers of the chips to make them accessable through drivers.
You are exactly right. I used to have to clean the floors of the lab I worked at. The janitoral staff WOULDN'T DO IT and the union employees would NOT do it (secretarial, accounting, everyone but the sysadmins basically). I wasn't a union employee, therefore ... I did it.
I am a software engineer, and although I do make *FAR* more then the averave software engineer: I am at work at 9:40pm in california, I have been here since 8:30am (I was late, I usually come in at 7:00am), and I expect to be here most of the evening, sleep in my office (I can't afford a house within 60 miles of where I work, average price=600k), and sleep it off tomorrow.
Id like to point ot to those who will critique my grammar and spelling shortly, that I'm running a 20 or 30 hours sleep deficit this month ... and am currently in hour 9 of what will be a 15 or 16 hour work day :)
Katrina taught me that us Americans are fucked up, and I dont' care what happens to shitty people. Kobe Earthquake of 1995: No looting, No riots, far larger disaster on every scale then, families shared extremly scarce food with each other.
Katrina: Citizens and local and state officals did little to prepare themselves, and ignored the dire predictions being made. When all hell broke loose, as they were told it would, they stole not food but electronics, street gangs took over portions of the city, and waited for the federal government to come save them? This *IS* darwinian evolution.
Did you hear the story about a group of tourists in LA who were caught in the hurricane? They setup a shelter on an overpass that was flooded, they looted *FOOD* and *WATER*, setup basic sanitation and waste facilities and they were each assigned jobs to keep the ad hoc community functioning. Contrast that with the other stories you've heard.
The problem in this country, is ignorance, top to bottom. And that includes the people who stuff there faces and don't realize we are being slowly robbed of our freedoms, as you say.
Not to mention memory stick, SD card, XD card, Compact Flash ... um ... mini disk ... and being burned haivng bought an HDTV early that doesn't have that encrypted bullshit connector.
You must be new here :). Remember when a DVD player cost $900 and the movies were EXPENSIVE? Now there are 30$ DVD players and 1$ DVD's at walmart. Putting something into mass-production is the WAY you reduce the cost.
Or maybe I'll just buy neither and let them sort it out. Seriously, consumeres have NO stomach for another format war.
You been reading john titor again? :)
Coming out on DVD nov 8th? Best buy has had it for over a month. Maybe it was a special promo ...
I was in a game crazy a week or so ago, and saw a man who was at LEAST 70 buying video games and anxiously asking the clerks when this and that would be out ... He was clearly buying them for himself as he knew the plots to most of the final fantasy games :) Very weird, very cool.
Yea ... Well ... John Dvorak says something stupid every week and just by coincidence alone some of it comes true.
:-) What he's saying basically ... is ... "We want to redefine the problem so that you're the problem."
Truely great post. Al Queda has stretched our resources far beyond capacity with almost no invesment. Too bad what it has NOTHING to do with what we're talking about here :-P
Yes and no. In reality, Yes. but the "standard" gravatational constant at which a Joule is calculated at 10m/s ... So technically, no. I didn't have time to write a physics textbook for my original post :)
I think its a universl rule that its impossible to be 100% correct when correcting someone else. I tried REALLY hard to keep it together, but missed that one... thanks :)