Dude, we live in in a capitalist society. By the definition of capitalism, we live off someone else's money. They pay us to do something.
If that someone decides to save money by firing you and hiring someone overseas who is equally skilled and is cheaper, you've lost
your source of income, but not "your" job. The job was something you were hired or contracted to do. You occupied that the position, but never had ownership of it. It did not belong to you. It never did. That's a worker-generated illusion everyone shares.
The truth is, no one in any particular position matters. Everyone is replaceable. Everyone is expendable. If there are cheaper programmers in India, then a company will get rid of their Americans, and hire overseas, because the company does not owe you anything, save for within the bounds of whatever contract you signed. It has no moral obligation to keep you employed. If anything, the only moral obligation a company has is solvency. Profit is the end goal. If solvency in the pursuit of profit can be preserved by means of cheaper workers, then you, that guy and gal over there and I are all S.O.L.
This is true. Electronic/IT stuff must be accessible to people with disabilities, especially computers. Check out this page for an overview.
One huge advantage of a fully accessible KDE (or GNOME), is cost. Screenreading software like JAWS costs about $700 a seat. An open source one solution would save the government a bundle. And it could be a huge benefit for blind/visually private citizens, 75% or so of whom are severely underemployed, and can't easily afford $700 software.
SafariShane needs to get onboard with a company that does this kind of work. A buddy of mine ran a one-guy development/network admin company for several years, and got into security as well, picking up a cert or two.
Due to the economic downturn (and his bread and butter client not falling under the Prompt Payment Act), he had to get a job with The Man.
He got a job with these people, as the tech half of a two-guy sales team, by leveraging his knowledge of Windows and *nix networking and security.
He's working like a sled dog, can't say anything about what clients he's seeing, or much about the product. But he's a very, very well paid sled dog in terms of base salary, benefits and commission; he went out and got a 32" TV and laser-corrected his eyes.
Is it me, or does Konqueror blow up at any opportunity? I really like KDE, but I prefer Nautilus for GUI-style file management.
When I'm looking at a CD or DVD with Konqueror (say, my install disc), Konqueror chokes and won't die, or be killed. If there are a lot of things in that directory, it hangs, won't fully read the disc, it won't redraw itself, and despite multiple kill commands from the TaskGuard, just sits there for about 5 minutes before dying. Heck, even looking at a directory with 10 files in it can do it.
On the Web, asking Konq to do two things at once - download a file while browsing with another window - and it craters hard.
I'm surprised the networks were up long enough to be tested:( In my agency (USDA is comprised of about 20 agencies) we generally have a good 5 - 10 hours a month of network outtages. I mean everything: LAN share drives, our Exchange servers, all Internet...it's very frustrating.
This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it-talking trade balances here-once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here-once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel-once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity-y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/superv ol canoes_script.shtml
for the transcript of the BBC's program. The truly scary part is the correlation of the Toba supervolcano 74K ago, and a human genetic bottleneck which happened around the same time - a bottleneck caused by not enough of a gene pool. That one nearly took us out, and the next one, who knows?
That's right, folks. Need some memory for your machine? Got a few people around you don't like? Don't want their water? Well, come on by my shop! I'll take those spare water rings off your hands, and with the addition of just a few chemicals, produce for you lots and lots of desktop-runnin', gcc-compilin' RAM! No more annoying neighbors, roomies or anything!
We can see that there are general differences between male and female brains. Producing high levels of testosterone *generally* gives males an advantage in this way of thinking. Female brains are *generally* geared more towards activities and skills we call "social". It's that simple.
But, I think human brains are generally patterned at birth, but not fixed-patterned. In terms of data (language(s) spoken, cultural contextualization, self-care, literacy, IT skills), I think we're blank slates. Absolutely no input there. But the potentials for these skills are there, undeveloped. Appropriate conditioning (teaching and socialization) will bring these potentials into fruition.
Take, for example, Afghan women engineers. Something like 30% of engineers in pre-Taliban Afghanistan were women. That's a hell of a lot more than the U.S. - check out
for figures. Not bad for a country that's been at war ex- and internally longer than many Slashdotters have been alive, has a culture generally more gender-conservative than ours, and maybe 0.01%, at its best, as much economic resources as the U.S., eh?
I think the U.S. could get a lot more girls into CS, if we really want to do it.
I'm pretty newbie-ish about Linux, and wanted to learn Vi, knowing it's the default editor on a lot of systems.
I installed Vim on my machine, which comes with a nice little tutorial, vimtutor. I learned the very basics of Vim using vimtutor in an hour, because I was taking it slow - vimtutor says it should take half and hour.
I've found it's motivated me to master Vim. It's really elegant. I told a friend of mine this and he looked at me like I'd gone crazy, and he hacks kernel stuff...
A friend of mine was done with his copy, gave it to me. I read the directions, and it said, "Take a break every hour so." I thought this was total hookum and mile-high hyperbole.
Then I found out The Truth:0
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Examine the problem from a logical point of view.
Dude, we live in in a capitalist society. By the definition of capitalism, we live off someone else's money. They pay us to do something.
If that someone decides to save money by firing you and hiring someone overseas who is equally skilled and is cheaper, you've lost your source of income, but not "your" job. The job was something you were hired or contracted to do. You occupied that the position, but never had ownership of it. It did not belong to you. It never did. That's a worker-generated illusion everyone shares.
The truth is, no one in any particular position matters. Everyone is replaceable. Everyone is expendable. If there are cheaper programmers in India, then a company will get rid of their Americans, and hire overseas, because the company does not owe you anything, save for within the bounds of whatever contract you signed. It has no moral obligation to keep you employed. If anything, the only moral obligation a company has is solvency. Profit is the end goal. If solvency in the pursuit of profit can be preserved by means of cheaper workers, then you, that guy and gal over there and I are all S.O.L.
Such is life.
This is true. Electronic/IT stuff must be accessible to people with disabilities, especially computers. Check out this page for an overview.
One huge advantage of a fully accessible KDE (or GNOME), is cost. Screenreading software like JAWS costs about $700 a seat. An open source one solution would save the government a bundle. And it could be a huge benefit for blind/visually private citizens, 75% or so of whom are severely underemployed, and can't easily afford $700 software.
SafariShane needs to get onboard with a company that does this kind of work. A buddy of mine ran a one-guy development/network admin company for several years, and got into security as well, picking up a cert or two.
Due to the economic downturn (and his bread and butter client not falling under the Prompt Payment Act), he had to get a job with The Man.
He got a job with these people, as the tech half of a two-guy sales team, by leveraging his knowledge of Windows and *nix networking and security.
He's working like a sled dog, can't say anything about what clients he's seeing, or much about the product. But he's a very, very well paid sled dog in terms of base salary, benefits and commission; he went out and got a 32" TV and laser-corrected his eyes.
This is not a troll.
Is it me, or does Konqueror blow up at any opportunity? I really like KDE, but I prefer Nautilus for GUI-style file management.
When I'm looking at a CD or DVD with Konqueror (say, my install disc), Konqueror chokes and won't die, or be killed. If there are a lot of things in that directory, it hangs, won't fully read the disc, it won't redraw itself, and despite multiple kill commands from the TaskGuard, just sits there for about 5 minutes before dying. Heck, even looking at a directory with 10 files in it can do it.
On the Web, asking Konq to do two things at once - download a file while browsing with another window - and it craters hard.
Does anyone else have these problems with it?
I'm surprised the networks were up long enough to be tested :( In my agency (USDA is comprised of about 20 agencies) we generally have a good 5 - 10 hours a month of network outtages. I mean everything: LAN share drives, our Exchange servers, all Internet...it's very frustrating.
I'd rather watch _Freddy vs. Jason_ again, than see that mess again...
Just in case you want to find out just how nasty DU can be, see this story on ABC's website
I was thinking the same thing ... if they find anyone with their head pancaked, it's time to go ;-)
Nah. /mobbed.
At least some (many?) of us Feds don't have either on our machines...it's LAN storage, local drives and floppies for us. The pain is awful :(
Maybe. They might even have more Force in them than any George will have onscreen...
See this neat opinion piece in the NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/opinion/08KIND.h tml (FRR).
...so I guess a Beowolf cluster of this would look a lot like a laundromat ;-)
This http://catb.org/esr/jargon/jargon.html#hack%20mode seems to be a pretty good description of the programming reality.
It pretty much could happen anytime.
v ol canoes_script.shtml
http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm
for maps and other graphics and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/super
for the transcript of the BBC's program. The truly scary part is the correlation of the Toba supervolcano 74K ago, and a human genetic bottleneck which happened around the same time -
a bottleneck caused by not enough of a gene pool. That one nearly took us out, and the next one, who knows?
...in Soviet Russian Beowolf clusters. I'll shut up now.
That's right, folks. Need some memory for your machine? Got a few people around you don't like? Don't want their water? Well, come on by my shop! I'll take those spare water rings off your hands, and with the addition of just a few chemicals, produce for you lots and lots of desktop-runnin', gcc-compilin' RAM! No more annoying neighbors, roomies or anything!
Barbara Walters: So, Mr. Jobs, why do you want to be President?
Steve Jobs: I don't want to sell sugared computers for the rest of my life. I want to change the world!
...Because it'd be a damn shame if they forget to convert between miles and kilometers
http://www.space.com/news/orbiter_error_990930.h tml
$125 million for a botched probe is bad enough. Lives are priceless.
http://more.abcnews.go.com/onair/dailynews/brainga me020731.html
We can see that there are general differences between male and female brains. Producing high levels of testosterone *generally* gives males an advantage in this way of thinking. Female brains are *generally* geared more towards activities and skills we call "social". It's that simple.
But, I think human brains are generally patterned at birth, but not fixed-patterned. In terms of data (language(s) spoken, cultural contextualization, self-care, literacy, IT skills), I think we're blank slates. Absolutely no input there. But the potentials for these skills are there, undeveloped. Appropriate conditioning (teaching and socialization) will bring these potentials into fruition.
Take, for example, Afghan women engineers. Something like 30% of engineers in pre-Taliban Afghanistan were women. That's a hell of a lot more than the U.S. - check out
t able.html
http://www.swe.org/SWE/ProgDev/stat/discipline_
for figures. Not bad for a country that's been at war ex- and internally longer than many Slashdotters have been alive, has a culture generally more gender-conservative than ours, and maybe 0.01%, at its best, as much economic resources as the U.S., eh?
I think the U.S. could get a lot more girls into CS, if we really want to do it.
I'm pretty newbie-ish about Linux, and wanted to learn Vi, knowing it's the default editor on a lot of systems.
I installed Vim on my machine, which comes with a nice little tutorial, vimtutor. I learned the very basics of Vim using vimtutor in an hour, because I was taking it slow - vimtutor says it should take half and hour.
I've found it's motivated me to master Vim. It's really elegant. I told a friend of mine this and he looked at me like I'd gone crazy, and he hacks kernel stuff...
A friend of mine was done with his copy, gave it to me. I read the directions, and it said, "Take a break every hour so." I thought this was total hookum and mile-high hyperbole. Then I found out The Truth :0
I always liked Miami spaceport ...