Steve Ballmer is a businessman - he isn't qualified to talk about that, and his rather large interest in the matter makes me doubt anything he says anyway. I don't see him admitting that he's wrong, even if the evidence says so.
What you're missing is that a bunch of bigots can work together to keep all nonwhite people out of their neighborhood. The FHA makes this illegal, and rightly so - you have a right to live where you want (assuming you can pay for it). This doesn't extend to specific addresses, but if you want to live near your job, nobody has the right to refuse you because they don't like your kind.
There is something in this language I find chilling---and all too familiar.
It's different this time (honest). This is not some protest against degenerate culture - this is a protest against corporations who own our culture in a literal sense. When nothing produced in the last 70+ years has entered the public domain unless placed there deliberately, we have a serious problem. I should be able to sing happy birthday and play old bugs bunny cartoons free of charge and also pass copies around if I so desire. They're old - time to enrich the public domain.
He believes that because many people in the US are willing to work crap jobs for no money, that programmers should be willing to work for $35,000 a year(that's not an exaggeration).
I'll do that when someone pays me the money I spent on student loans and Bezos joins me in living in a $35k salary (no, no billions in the bank either). Dear god, we need a better public face.
No. There is no continent called America, and there is no other country with America in its name (if they form one, we were here first). Hence, we are called Americans, people from Peru are Peruvian (or South American if they like), and Canadians are too cool to bother with the whole debate. Odd that I only ever see this usian term on slashdot. Guess it must be the slashtards.
It's worse than that - they exerted effort to axe programs aimed at fighting Al Queda. If they had just left well enough alone, 9/11 may not have happened.
so to increase the number of skilled IT, and quality stop the good workers from being in the US, and increase the desire for companies to outsource, and throw money at those without the intrest to move into the industry. Similar to trade, you can close down trade, and get a short term gain, but screw yourself in the long term.
The good workers are here (and there, too). Companies can't really outsource and expect good results - it's a crapshoot. Anyway, I think that tightening the supply of H1Bs is a great way to increase dev salaries. I'm tired of people whining that they can't get a decent tech that knows everything for the median salary locally. They don't know what they want, aren't willing to pay for it, and neglect it when they have it.
And isn't in the corporation's best interest to get the cheapest labour they can find?
No. If they destroy their consumer base by screwing everyone out of their rightful salary, then who's going to buy their products? Employees create value - pay them accordingly instead of taking that cash for yourself.
I don't think we are. But I do believe that our government is too closely involved with business's desire to get the maximum benefit with the minimum investment. Fuck that.
Got that right. We're where we are because (in addition to having intact industry after WW2) we invest in education. Demanding payment up front just kills the goose. There are a lot of poor people who can benefit from engineering degrees and by doing so repay the investment tenfold.
The results are disposable generations of workers: the skills of each graduating class are relevant for as long as those specific techniques are used.
Speaking as a software developer, those people are disposable anyway. They wouldn't have learned more than necessary 15 years ago, and they aren't different now. The people who learn what they're supposed to are not disposable, but they're tired of being treated that way - who cares if you don't know Java or C# or Javascript or whatever? If you have the base skills, then learning Java is the labor of a week or two. Throw in some interested coworkers and it goes even faster.
If they are able to generalize their knowledge and become more flexible, they can continue to do well (but, of course, they are then competing for positions with the next generation of recent college grads.)
That's no competition. New grads are cheaper, but they take longer to do things if they can manage it at all.
While there are problems with Japan's higher education system, one thing that they do right is to make specialized skill training the responsibility of the employer.
Having no experience with Japan's colleges aside from knowing that Osaka and Todai are high quality I will simply point out that Japanese come here in droves and that the high schools are a joke. Rote memorization is a great way to generata a bunch of proles, but it sucks at making independent thinkers.
Of course, since the kernel part is free, it's OK, right?
well, it complies with the license requirements, if that's what you mean. Just so we're clear, are you mad about the hackneyed design or the fact that it isn't all free?
This has nothing to do with copyright. DRM based solutions are not bound to the terms of copyright so much as whatever the producers decide to allow. That means that if we retroactively set copyright to 5 years for software, DRM is unaffected. Likewise, what motivation does the content provider have to help you when the DRM eats your legal stuff? They'd rather you buy it again.
And when ObiWan lies about Vadar killing Anakin in A New Hope, the audience would naturally assume that he's lying because it would be tought thing to explain, that it was he who killed Anakin.
Wasn't it obvious? Vader did kill Anakin, and Kenobi was simply speaking in the abstract.
Tests are necessary and automated tests are spiffy and should be part of any comprehensive testing effort. Having the developers create them themselves seems to be a waste of time. My other post to the AC whose code is flawless addresses this issue.
Spoken like someone who doesn't have to maintain old code.
IMO, the test team should be made up of people who are capable of programming, so that they are empowered to be test developers (SDETs) themselves.
Who's the most qualified? The original dev. QA guys test overall system behavior. Devs are responsible for unit testing.
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I would have simply removed my billy-club and gently and repeatedly placed it upon his head.
Die in a fire.
And if those white landlords have other businesses, which they often do, then boycott them.
So they only have white clients? They probably think that's just dandy.
Steve Ballmer is a businessman - he isn't qualified to talk about that, and his rather large interest in the matter makes me doubt anything he says anyway. I don't see him admitting that he's wrong, even if the evidence says so.
What you're missing is that a bunch of bigots can work together to keep all nonwhite people out of their neighborhood. The FHA makes this illegal, and rightly so - you have a right to live where you want (assuming you can pay for it). This doesn't extend to specific addresses, but if you want to live near your job, nobody has the right to refuse you because they don't like your kind.
There is something in this language I find chilling---and all too familiar.
It's different this time (honest). This is not some protest against degenerate culture - this is a protest against corporations who own our culture in a literal sense. When nothing produced in the last 70+ years has entered the public domain unless placed there deliberately, we have a serious problem. I should be able to sing happy birthday and play old bugs bunny cartoons free of charge and also pass copies around if I so desire. They're old - time to enrich the public domain.
He believes that because many people in the US are willing to work crap jobs for no money, that programmers should be willing to work for $35,000 a year(that's not an exaggeration).
I'll do that when someone pays me the money I spent on student loans and Bezos joins me in living in a $35k salary (no, no billions in the bank either). Dear god, we need a better public face.
So South Americans can't be called "Americans"?
No. There is no continent called America, and there is no other country with America in its name (if they form one, we were here first). Hence, we are called Americans, people from Peru are Peruvian (or South American if they like), and Canadians are too cool to bother with the whole debate. Odd that I only ever see this usian term on slashdot. Guess it must be the slashtards.
It's worse than that - they exerted effort to axe programs aimed at fighting Al Queda. If they had just left well enough alone, 9/11 may not have happened.
Asian kids can fart twice and long and have it burn twice as hot. I think it's the duck sauce. We lost that one also.
Is that why I never see an asian guy with a hairy ass?
so to increase the number of skilled IT, and quality stop the good workers from being in the US, and increase the desire for companies to outsource, and throw money at those without the intrest to move into the industry. Similar to trade, you can close down trade, and get a short term gain, but screw yourself in the long term.
The good workers are here (and there, too). Companies can't really outsource and expect good results - it's a crapshoot. Anyway, I think that tightening the supply of H1Bs is a great way to increase dev salaries. I'm tired of people whining that they can't get a decent tech that knows everything for the median salary locally. They don't know what they want, aren't willing to pay for it, and neglect it when they have it.
And isn't in the corporation's best interest to get the cheapest labour they can find?
No. If they destroy their consumer base by screwing everyone out of their rightful salary, then who's going to buy their products? Employees create value - pay them accordingly instead of taking that cash for yourself.
I don't think we are. But I do believe that our government is too closely involved with business's desire to get the maximum benefit with the minimum investment. Fuck that.
Got that right. We're where we are because (in addition to having intact industry after WW2) we invest in education. Demanding payment up front just kills the goose. There are a lot of poor people who can benefit from engineering degrees and by doing so repay the investment tenfold.
The results are disposable generations of workers: the skills of each graduating class are relevant for as long as those specific techniques are used.
Speaking as a software developer, those people are disposable anyway. They wouldn't have learned more than necessary 15 years ago, and they aren't different now. The people who learn what they're supposed to are not disposable, but they're tired of being treated that way - who cares if you don't know Java or C# or Javascript or whatever? If you have the base skills, then learning Java is the labor of a week or two. Throw in some interested coworkers and it goes even faster.
If they are able to generalize their knowledge and become more flexible, they can continue to do well (but, of course, they are then competing for positions with the next generation of recent college grads.)
That's no competition. New grads are cheaper, but they take longer to do things if they can manage it at all.
While there are problems with Japan's higher education system, one thing that they do right is to make specialized skill training the responsibility of the employer.
Having no experience with Japan's colleges aside from knowing that Osaka and Todai are high quality I will simply point out that Japanese come here in droves and that the high schools are a joke. Rote memorization is a great way to generata a bunch of proles, but it sucks at making independent thinkers.
Cool - send them a twenty and go download some more stuff.
Nobody in the US wants coal-fired power plants, but they don't want the price of electricity to double.
So we build better solar and nuclear power generation designs and the price of sustainable power drops.
They want energy conservation, but they want their server farms burning enough electricity to power 10 homes.
And AMD builds a 2GHz chip that burns 35W.
Nah, never happen.
Of course, since the kernel part is free, it's OK, right?
well, it complies with the license requirements, if that's what you mean. Just so we're clear, are you mad about the hackneyed design or the fact that it isn't all free?
Incidentally, this is also what caused them to be curved since the different metals cooled at different temps.
That's odd - the processes I've seen put the curve in before the cooling. The way I understand it, the curve is there to aid quick draws.
Ah my poor, benighted child. When was politics ever about anything but money?
Since forever. Politics is about power, which is only incidentally involved in money.
We were allied with Russia in WW2 - we nuked Japan in part so that they'd surrender before stalin got to them and claimed it as he did eastern europe.
No, copyright is a legally granted monopoly. DRM is an attempt to control the use of a work directly.
This has nothing to do with copyright. DRM based solutions are not bound to the terms of copyright so much as whatever the producers decide to allow. That means that if we retroactively set copyright to 5 years for software, DRM is unaffected. Likewise, what motivation does the content provider have to help you when the DRM eats your legal stuff? They'd rather you buy it again.
And when ObiWan lies about Vadar killing Anakin in A New Hope, the audience would naturally assume that he's lying because it would be tought thing to explain, that it was he who killed Anakin.
Wasn't it obvious? Vader did kill Anakin, and Kenobi was simply speaking in the abstract.
Tests are necessary and automated tests are spiffy and should be part of any comprehensive testing effort. Having the developers create them themselves seems to be a waste of time. My other post to the AC whose code is flawless addresses this issue.
Spoken like someone who doesn't have to maintain old code.
IMO, the test team should be made up of people who are capable of programming, so that they are empowered to be test developers (SDETs) themselves.
Who's the most qualified? The original dev. QA guys test overall system behavior. Devs are responsible for unit testing.
Japan surrendered to us unconditionally and we were allies. Does that count as the end of a war?
At first, we'd still buy what we used to, but some people would realize they could now afford steaks for just a little more cash out of pocket.
You're right, I think I can afford to get cancer now that everything's socialised.