or just a asshat nutcase? He targeted a place he worked. Back in my day we just called this "Going Postal" and acknowledged that whatever flimsy excuse the shooter used was largely irrelevant. I don't know, but I do hate seeing crap like this scaring the hell out of Americans and making them willing to chunk freedom and demands for better living/working conditions out the door if only someone will please protect us from these terrorists...
It's like playing a Lucusarts game before computers existed. The fun was figuring out all the references, in jokes and double entrandes . The trouble is that crap isn't for everyone and most colleges make you spend a few years doing it...
they already have a 93% profit margin. Maybe if they rape us even harder then the rest of us can shout down the "Free market is best!" crowd and turn it into a public service like it should have been day 1. Why the hell we build these huge infrastructures with our tax dollars and then hand them one after another to the 1% for little or nothing I'll never fully understand...
now maybe if they could make a phone I could use with more than 2 of the 4 major carriers here in the US I'd be interested. If you're gonna gobble $700+ from me I at least want to be able to change carriers at the drop of a hat, but every time I tried with my kid's iPhone there was always some little feature of this or frequency of that that prevented me from doing so.
Aren't the fumes from these things still kinda dangerous? I'm just saying in not 100% confident parents can be trusted to use them in a well ventilated place
more Michael Jackson. It's funny how the entire Arab Spring went bust after the public lost interest when M.J. died. Of course, it was obviously not much of a thing if all it took was one (albeit very famous) dead pop star to distract us all.
No, what Iran needs is for our Right Wing politicians to stop meddling in their politics. They were well on their way to modernizing until we decided they were just a little too 'commie' for our tastes and disposed their democratically elected gov't.
What Obama has done is nothing short of a Miracle. When a significant portion of the country was pushing for yet another pointless war so they could line their pockets and use fear to control America he calmed things down and averted a global crisis. Unless you're some kind of whack job then he's unquestionably the single greatest president alive today, and maybe in history. If you ever want to know how great a man is he look up his response to the question "Did you inhale?".
Is how do you keep folks from hacking the firmware to make an old 660 look like a 960 long enough to screw over a few hundred thousand nVidia customers. It's happened before... Sure, you know how to check your firmware. Lots of us do. Lots of us don't though, or don't care to learn.
they're very friendly, helpful and charitable with people who they think of as equals but anyone else it's open season on. It took me a long time to piece this behavior together since it's so nonsensical. One minute they'd be giving you the shirt off their back the next they'd be laying into the poor with all their might.
The mark of a truly good man is that he cares for folks outside his class. Churchill seemed to be. Obama is definitely. Scalia was just another in a long line of borderline psychopaths who seem nice when they're around their own kind...
It's hard to swallow the safety net. You have it banged into your head while you're a kid that you shouldn't need help, and if you do it's because of your poor character and life choices. Over and over again I hear the phrase "There's always a choice". I hate to keep harping on this but tell that to the kids with permanent brain damage from lead in Flint, Mi...
None of this is by accident. This is how the ruling class stay in power. It's part of what keeps the pitch forks at bay. When FDR & Co pushed through Social Security so we wouldn't have legions of homeless starving old people they pretended it was a pension program because those people wouldn't take the help. Ayn Rand nearly died homeless late in life before one of her close friends talked her into taking the help she needed (her books didn't do so well when there weren't billionaire asshats pushing the Austerity agenda).
There are other factors at play. For one thing people measure their quality of life relatively, not objectively. This is why it's important to have an underclass (blacks in the south, the bottom caste in India, etc, etc). It's the whole "Starving kids in China" syndrome. As long as someone has it worse people don't demand better. Part of that's fear of losing what little they have (aka Conservatism) and part of that is just how people measure things when they're not used to Math and Science. Again, there's a reason why the ruling class is fighting against public education these days...
who doesn't think H1-B hurts them? Oh, and doesn't have a sweet gov't job (either directly or because they served in the Military & work for a defense contractor now).
I'm curious. Not too long ago when a story like this hit all the posts chimed in about how they'd just leave and go to another better paying company that doesn't do this stuff. Nobody thought it would even catch up with them and they all thought they were irreplaceable. Me being me I knew sooner or later they'd get around to everybody except a few MIT geniuses (who have better things to do than bitch on/.).
Basically, I think the/. crowd has finally realized their in real trouble here. We're all in the same stop the blue collar guys were in the 80s when manufacturing went overseas. What I'm wondering is if we're gonna do anything about it? Or are we gonna roll over and play dead like the blues did.
it might give us a few years of relief, but it won't work in the long run. You could make the base pay 8x the going rate for a tech and it wouldn't help because sooner or later Sanders will be out of office and the "going rate" will be defined as whatever it takes to get around the rules. It's like Wargames. The only way to win is not to play.
The owner class is hard, hard right. Like Robber baron grade hard right. The workers are left on social issues, but a lot are still hard right on the economy.
That's sort of the problem. There are lots of folks who are left wing socially (pro-gun control, pro-gay rights, pro-choice, etc) but get real right wing real fast when they think they're taxes are going up. Our Media is left wing on social issues but hard right on economics. Free Trade, Trickle Down economics and Austerity are practically gospel in American media.
Part of the problem is folks look at just about every expense that isn't food as taxes. I've caught lots of folks doing it. Insurance? Tax. Phone Bill? Tax. etc, etc. The other problem is that after the Iraqi War Americans aren't seeing good returns on their taxes. Literally Trillions of wealth was just handed to a lucky few in exchange for nothing. We've let large scale corruption slide for so long that folks have lost confidence in the gov't. They've also forgotten what America was like before the Feds stepped in and started preventing super fund sites from happening (Flint Michigan Water Supply anyone?).
The other problem is Bill Clinton. He moved the country hard right so he could forge an alliance to get into the prez office. Again, left on social issues hard right on the economy. Trump brought up Tariffs but made it a point not to use the "T" word. What's funny is watching all the folks out there who know something is wrong but can't figure out what to do about it pushing Trump and Sanders up in the polls. It's gonna be funnier when Rubio or Bush gets the election despite popular vote thanks to hard right stuff like Citizens United.
Oh, and the colleges have been moving hard right too. Where do you think those $10,000/semester tuition bills came from?
It's all sitting in banks doing nothing. World Poverty has fallen not due to investment but due to massive improvements in food growing & distribution tech... most of which was funded the gov't... and by laws and subsidies that keep food prices down.. again gov't. Venezuela was doing just fine thank you until the Saudi's decided to dump oil on the market. They're struggling like every oil nation now. They're struggle is a little more obvious because unlike the Suadis they don't just abondon their lower class at the first sign of trouble.
and their air quality. The nice thing about electrics is they don't really pollute outside of the factories and power plants that make/fuel them. And it's a _lot_ easier to deal with the pollution from 1000 plants & factories than 1 million individual cars.
sooner or later they win, because they have unlimited money and can just wear everybody else down. Here in the states the corps are salivating over Obama exiting the White House so they can bring back all those profits tax free without contributing a cent to the civilization that made it all possible. They win, and we all lose (schools, health care, food banks, etc).
and I don't say that lightly. There's something off with the Cameras in every Unity game I've played. My bro thinks it's because they've written their code to be easy to port to mobile and there are too many limitations with that. Got me. But even Unity games I like (Wasteland II comes to mind) feel a tad clunkier than Unreal based equivalents. Unity space sims tend to feel more like first person shooters. That's more to the physics though but stil...
That said if my bro is right then Lumberyard might have the exact same problems. Unreal has it's share of problems too. I'm a console gamer at heart so I"m interested to see what the Japanese do with Unreal tech. As for Crytech, nice engine but like Idtech5 the dev tools suck for artists and if you're buying an engine then your artists probably have the toughest job on your team.
but imagine a decentralized Youtube where folks like the AVGN, Jontron & ProJared could do all the Nintendo coverage they want without having to pay to criticize games.
I see what you're saying, which is that it's hopeless. They'll just buy everybody. The way I see it, Vote Left. Vote for the most left leaning, pro-worker candidate you can get. The right wing of America spent 40 years shifting us to the right. It didn't happen overnight, and undoing it won't happen overnight either. Vote Left every chance you get and you'll start to see a change. It's not like you've got anything to lose, right?
The article says that so long as they pay the prevailing wage ($60k/yr in Connecticut, which IIRC is a pricey place to live) they can now legally replace you. Not sure when that changed (probably shortly after the pro-Corporate Republicans took the Senate) but assuming the article isn't lying there's no abuse. It's all nice and legal.
This is what we get for pushing 40 years of pro-corporate politics since Reagan. The.com boom and housing bubble hid the worst of it but it's starting to catch up on us. That's also why Trump & Bernie are doing so well in the polls. Too bad polls don't matter...
The article points out that as long as their paying what's been called the "prevailing wage" (just $60k/yr in Connecticut) it's all nice and legal. Not sure when congress snuck that in but assuming the article isn't lying we're all basically up shit creek in the IT world. Last I checked the only thing holding back the flood was a cap of 300k/yr visas, and every Prez candidate except Bernie and _maybe_ Trump wants to lift the cap.
What I want to know is why the hell more/.ers aren't worried. Don't tell you you'll just polish your resume and move on. You can only run so far for so long. If nothing else you'll take a pay cut in your new job when all the other displaced tech workers apply for it...
making all arbitration clauses binding. The US Supreme Court just ruled on it and said it was a perfectly valid because there's nothing in the US Constitution saying you can't sign away your rights. Blame our right wing, pro-corporate congress for all this...
They'll hide it all in a web of contractors, which is exactly what they're doing now. If all else fails they'll fall back on the 'gig' economy and just move the goal post.They'll win, you'll lose. Because you play the game a few yours a day on/. while they do it for a living.
It's like Wargames (if you're old enough to know what that is): The only way to win is not to play. What you really want is tariffs and protectionism, but after 50 years of the right wing (economically speaking) press vilifying them nobody can bring themselves to say it. You will note that China and India both rely heavily on tariffs. They've worked for hundreds of years at their intended purpose of purpose.
Eliminate the H1-B program. For the few real geniuses we want have a lengthy peer review process to prevent the diploma mill graduate loophole. Raise taxes on import goods made with slave labor. Redistribute the wealth in the form of socialized medicine, free education, infrastructure programs and basic income. Lather, rinse repeat. These things work. That's why the 1% is frightened of them; and it's why they want you to be frightened too.
what's normal is what's defined in society. I remember a story about some Africans who migrated to the US to escape persecution. They were used to very little privacy because of their living conditions. When they moved to the US they suddenly had lots of the stuff. So much they had mental problems from the disconnect with people.
A lot of American obsession with privacy is brought on by puritan style shaming. E.g. we do have stuff we want to hide, even if we don't really need to. Yeah, there are really good examples where our privacy can be infringed (the stuff their doing with license plate readers is downright scary) but you can definitely take it too far, and there's a case to be made that America has.
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or just a asshat nutcase? He targeted a place he worked. Back in my day we just called this "Going Postal" and acknowledged that whatever flimsy excuse the shooter used was largely irrelevant. I don't know, but I do hate seeing crap like this scaring the hell out of Americans and making them willing to chunk freedom and demands for better living/working conditions out the door if only someone will please protect us from these terrorists...
It's like playing a Lucusarts game before computers existed. The fun was figuring out all the references, in jokes and double entrandes . The trouble is that crap isn't for everyone and most colleges make you spend a few years doing it...
they already have a 93% profit margin. Maybe if they rape us even harder then the rest of us can shout down the "Free market is best!" crowd and turn it into a public service like it should have been day 1. Why the hell we build these huge infrastructures with our tax dollars and then hand them one after another to the 1% for little or nothing I'll never fully understand...
now maybe if they could make a phone I could use with more than 2 of the 4 major carriers here in the US I'd be interested. If you're gonna gobble $700+ from me I at least want to be able to change carriers at the drop of a hat, but every time I tried with my kid's iPhone there was always some little feature of this or frequency of that that prevented me from doing so.
Aren't the fumes from these things still kinda dangerous? I'm just saying in not 100% confident parents can be trusted to use them in a well ventilated place
more Michael Jackson. It's funny how the entire Arab Spring went bust after the public lost interest when M.J. died. Of course, it was obviously not much of a thing if all it took was one (albeit very famous) dead pop star to distract us all.
No, what Iran needs is for our Right Wing politicians to stop meddling in their politics. They were well on their way to modernizing until we decided they were just a little too 'commie' for our tastes and disposed their democratically elected gov't.
What Obama has done is nothing short of a Miracle. When a significant portion of the country was pushing for yet another pointless war so they could line their pockets and use fear to control America he calmed things down and averted a global crisis. Unless you're some kind of whack job then he's unquestionably the single greatest president alive today, and maybe in history. If you ever want to know how great a man is he look up his response to the question "Did you inhale?".
Is how do you keep folks from hacking the firmware to make an old 660 look like a 960 long enough to screw over a few hundred thousand nVidia customers. It's happened before... Sure, you know how to check your firmware. Lots of us do. Lots of us don't though, or don't care to learn.
they're very friendly, helpful and charitable with people who they think of as equals but anyone else it's open season on. It took me a long time to piece this behavior together since it's so nonsensical. One minute they'd be giving you the shirt off their back the next they'd be laying into the poor with all their might.
The mark of a truly good man is that he cares for folks outside his class. Churchill seemed to be. Obama is definitely. Scalia was just another in a long line of borderline psychopaths who seem nice when they're around their own kind...
It's hard to swallow the safety net. You have it banged into your head while you're a kid that you shouldn't need help, and if you do it's because of your poor character and life choices. Over and over again I hear the phrase "There's always a choice". I hate to keep harping on this but tell that to the kids with permanent brain damage from lead in Flint, Mi...
None of this is by accident. This is how the ruling class stay in power. It's part of what keeps the pitch forks at bay. When FDR & Co pushed through Social Security so we wouldn't have legions of homeless starving old people they pretended it was a pension program because those people wouldn't take the help. Ayn Rand nearly died homeless late in life before one of her close friends talked her into taking the help she needed (her books didn't do so well when there weren't billionaire asshats pushing the Austerity agenda).
There are other factors at play. For one thing people measure their quality of life relatively, not objectively. This is why it's important to have an underclass (blacks in the south, the bottom caste in India, etc, etc). It's the whole "Starving kids in China" syndrome. As long as someone has it worse people don't demand better. Part of that's fear of losing what little they have (aka Conservatism) and part of that is just how people measure things when they're not used to Math and Science. Again, there's a reason why the ruling class is fighting against public education these days...
who doesn't think H1-B hurts them? Oh, and doesn't have a sweet gov't job (either directly or because they served in the Military & work for a defense contractor now).
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/. crowd has finally realized their in real trouble here. We're all in the same stop the blue collar guys were in the 80s when manufacturing went overseas. What I'm wondering is if we're gonna do anything about it? Or are we gonna roll over and play dead like the blues did.
I'm curious. Not too long ago when a story like this hit all the posts chimed in about how they'd just leave and go to another better paying company that doesn't do this stuff. Nobody thought it would even catch up with them and they all thought they were irreplaceable. Me being me I knew sooner or later they'd get around to everybody except a few MIT geniuses (who have better things to do than bitch on
Basically, I think the
it might give us a few years of relief, but it won't work in the long run. You could make the base pay 8x the going rate for a tech and it wouldn't help because sooner or later Sanders will be out of office and the "going rate" will be defined as whatever it takes to get around the rules. It's like Wargames. The only way to win is not to play.
The owner class is hard, hard right. Like Robber baron grade hard right. The workers are left on social issues, but a lot are still hard right on the economy.
That's sort of the problem. There are lots of folks who are left wing socially (pro-gun control, pro-gay rights, pro-choice, etc) but get real right wing real fast when they think they're taxes are going up. Our Media is left wing on social issues but hard right on economics. Free Trade, Trickle Down economics and Austerity are practically gospel in American media.
Part of the problem is folks look at just about every expense that isn't food as taxes. I've caught lots of folks doing it. Insurance? Tax. Phone Bill? Tax. etc, etc. The other problem is that after the Iraqi War Americans aren't seeing good returns on their taxes. Literally Trillions of wealth was just handed to a lucky few in exchange for nothing. We've let large scale corruption slide for so long that folks have lost confidence in the gov't. They've also forgotten what America was like before the Feds stepped in and started preventing super fund sites from happening (Flint Michigan Water Supply anyone?).
The other problem is Bill Clinton. He moved the country hard right so he could forge an alliance to get into the prez office. Again, left on social issues hard right on the economy. Trump brought up Tariffs but made it a point not to use the "T" word. What's funny is watching all the folks out there who know something is wrong but can't figure out what to do about it pushing Trump and Sanders up in the polls. It's gonna be funnier when Rubio or Bush gets the election despite popular vote thanks to hard right stuff like Citizens United.
Oh, and the colleges have been moving hard right too. Where do you think those $10,000/semester tuition bills came from?
It's all sitting in banks doing nothing. World Poverty has fallen not due to investment but due to massive improvements in food growing & distribution tech... most of which was funded the gov't... and by laws and subsidies that keep food prices down.. again gov't. Venezuela was doing just fine thank you until the Saudi's decided to dump oil on the market. They're struggling like every oil nation now. They're struggle is a little more obvious because unlike the Suadis they don't just abondon their lower class at the first sign of trouble.
and their air quality. The nice thing about electrics is they don't really pollute outside of the factories and power plants that make/fuel them. And it's a _lot_ easier to deal with the pollution from 1000 plants & factories than 1 million individual cars.
sooner or later they win, because they have unlimited money and can just wear everybody else down. Here in the states the corps are salivating over Obama exiting the White House so they can bring back all those profits tax free without contributing a cent to the civilization that made it all possible. They win, and we all lose (schools, health care, food banks, etc).
and I don't say that lightly. There's something off with the Cameras in every Unity game I've played. My bro thinks it's because they've written their code to be easy to port to mobile and there are too many limitations with that. Got me. But even Unity games I like (Wasteland II comes to mind) feel a tad clunkier than Unreal based equivalents. Unity space sims tend to feel more like first person shooters. That's more to the physics though but stil...
That said if my bro is right then Lumberyard might have the exact same problems. Unreal has it's share of problems too. I'm a console gamer at heart so I"m interested to see what the Japanese do with Unreal tech. As for Crytech, nice engine but like Idtech5 the dev tools suck for artists and if you're buying an engine then your artists probably have the toughest job on your team.
From what I read in the article so long as they pay his replacement $60k/yr it's legal...
but imagine a decentralized Youtube where folks like the AVGN, Jontron & ProJared could do all the Nintendo coverage they want without having to pay to criticize games.
I see what you're saying, which is that it's hopeless. They'll just buy everybody. The way I see it, Vote Left. Vote for the most left leaning, pro-worker candidate you can get. The right wing of America spent 40 years shifting us to the right. It didn't happen overnight, and undoing it won't happen overnight either. Vote Left every chance you get and you'll start to see a change. It's not like you've got anything to lose, right?
The article says that so long as they pay the prevailing wage ($60k/yr in Connecticut, which IIRC is a pricey place to live) they can now legally replace you. Not sure when that changed (probably shortly after the pro-Corporate Republicans took the Senate) but assuming the article isn't lying there's no abuse. It's all nice and legal.
.com boom and housing bubble hid the worst of it but it's starting to catch up on us. That's also why Trump & Bernie are doing so well in the polls. Too bad polls don't matter...
This is what we get for pushing 40 years of pro-corporate politics since Reagan. The
The article points out that as long as their paying what's been called the "prevailing wage" (just $60k/yr in Connecticut) it's all nice and legal. Not sure when congress snuck that in but assuming the article isn't lying we're all basically up shit creek in the IT world. Last I checked the only thing holding back the flood was a cap of 300k/yr visas, and every Prez candidate except Bernie and _maybe_ Trump wants to lift the cap.
/.ers aren't worried. Don't tell you you'll just polish your resume and move on. You can only run so far for so long. If nothing else you'll take a pay cut in your new job when all the other displaced tech workers apply for it...
What I want to know is why the hell more
making all arbitration clauses binding. The US Supreme Court just ruled on it and said it was a perfectly valid because there's nothing in the US Constitution saying you can't sign away your rights. Blame our right wing, pro-corporate congress for all this...
They'll hide it all in a web of contractors, which is exactly what they're doing now. If all else fails they'll fall back on the 'gig' economy and just move the goal post.They'll win, you'll lose. Because you play the game a few yours a day on /. while they do it for a living.
It's like Wargames (if you're old enough to know what that is): The only way to win is not to play. What you really want is tariffs and protectionism, but after 50 years of the right wing (economically speaking) press vilifying them nobody can bring themselves to say it. You will note that China and India both rely heavily on tariffs. They've worked for hundreds of years at their intended purpose of purpose.
Eliminate the H1-B program. For the few real geniuses we want have a lengthy peer review process to prevent the diploma mill graduate loophole. Raise taxes on import goods made with slave labor. Redistribute the wealth in the form of socialized medicine, free education, infrastructure programs and basic income. Lather, rinse repeat. These things work. That's why the 1% is frightened of them; and it's why they want you to be frightened too.
what's normal is what's defined in society. I remember a story about some Africans who migrated to the US to escape persecution. They were used to very little privacy because of their living conditions. When they moved to the US they suddenly had lots of the stuff. So much they had mental problems from the disconnect with people.
A lot of American obsession with privacy is brought on by puritan style shaming. E.g. we do have stuff we want to hide, even if we don't really need to. Yeah, there are really good examples where our privacy can be infringed (the stuff their doing with license plate readers is downright scary) but you can definitely take it too far, and there's a case to be made that America has.
But can you reread your post? I mean, a 2d interface kinda should run fine on a quad core with 8 gigs of ram.... That's not something to boast about :)