I know a couple of people who were one their way to careers in medicine (got accepted to med school etc.) who thought better of it. One became an engineer and the other a techie. Both are probably a lot happier than they would have been as doctors, even if they are also a lot poorer. Remember, some people do this because they like it.
And by the time he switches careers he might be at the point where taking a cut in salary won't be the end of the world. One day when the kids are gone and my 401k is in better shape I would like to spend some time exploring new fields as well.
Beverly Sweeney, a computer teacher and campus computer liaison with the district, entered Carl's computer class and quickly figured out where the message originated and who sent it.
According to Carl, Sweeney asked him, "Did you do this?"
"Yes," he replied.
"Do you know that this is serious?" she asked him, according to Carl.
Something I have always wondered about the Google's OS listings is what make up the 4% listed under "Other"?
I can come up with the usual suspects like BSD and all those Sun boxes people bought of Ebay after the dotcom crash, but most of the these are servers and not things people use to browse the web with.
So what is "Other" then...?
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What percentage of your wages do you spend on food? Now compare that to what your grandfather spent. If he didn't have to grow it himself.
You complain about the cost of medical care. Hell, at least you can GET medical care. Remember, in your grandfathers time medicine wasn't much more than guesswork. Things are improving.
We shouldn't have to spend half the year working just to pay taxes.
Oh, sorry. 50% tax rate? So you live in Europe then? Taxes in the US are allready lower than most countries. I agree, it could be a lot lower if Dubya didn't spend so much money blowing up other countries. Then again, you helped vote him in to power. (You did vote, didn't you?)
I'm not asking for a gaurunteed job that's easy and fun that pays an exorbant amount. I'm just saying us common man should have a fighting chance at a good job and shouldn't have to eat Macaroni 6 nights a week because so some executive can eat more steak with his savings from foreign labor.
So what exactly is wrong with foreign labour? They don't deserve a fighting chance at a good job but you do? And if some executive gets rich of the whole deal, more power to him. If you don't like it, then why not offer the same service at a lower price. It's called capitalism. Maybe you should try it sometime.
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Too bad I'm not American. I might work in the US at the moment, but then again I've probably lived in more countries than you have visited. And no, not all of them were first world countries either.
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I wish that were the problem. The jobs didn't go away, they just got moved to people I can't compete with because it costs less to live in their country than it does mine.
Like it happened to the garment industry. Like it happened to the auto industry. Like it happened to most manufacturing industries.
And what happened after that? Well, now you can buy a t-shirt for less that the price of a Bic Mac and cars cost a fraction of the average salary. Sure, people lost their jobs and whined about it, but eventually they found other jobs and benefited from the improved living conditions made possible by exporting a lot of jobs to cheaper countries.
At the same time there are a lot of countries with booming economies fueled by exports to the west. Living conditions are improving as salaries increase. Hell, if it wasn't good for them do you think India and China would be so busy promoting foreign trade?
Damn, I am impressed. An MBA who actually used the works "my humble opinion" and did not seem to be joking at the same time. Now before anybody thinks I am just going after some quick karma by insulting MBAs, I actually have a point to make here.
A lot of the MBA types I know really have a problem with listening to other people's ideas. Sometimes I think it has been trained out of them and replaced by the "I have an MBA so I'm always right" mentality to make them better prepared to deal with other hyper-assertive management types.
This is fine, and probably a requirement to get anything done at higher levels of managment, but becomes a real problem when the time comes for the MBAs and the Geeks to work together. I have seen quite a few projects embarked upon only to fail due to obvious technical impossibilities, when asking a techie's opinion would have stopped the whole thing before the company blew a couple of million on a dead end project. Unfortunately, it is the technical team that gets fired while the MBA heads for the next "ooh, shiny" project.
Nope. That is absolutely the worst thing you could do to a market. The day traders actually REMOVE risk from the market. If it wasn't for them liquidity would drop and the market would become less efficient.
Have you noticed that spreads keep on getting smaller? Think for a minute about why that happens...
Those damn Scandinavians have everything. I mean I have just finished reading the story about the Swedish chick who managed to solve (part of) Hilbert's 16th problem. And amazingly for a female math geek she is actually not bad looking. If she was from any other part of the world she would have looked like my grandfather, only uglier.
And now the Norwegians get CAFFEINATED SEAWATER! Is is just me or is there something wrong with this picture?
OK, so at least they are sharing Linus with the rest of us, but still...
What stops people now from rummaging through your garbage, finding your bank statements, and draining your bank accounts?
In my case the answer is: Paranoia. I shred anything I throw away, and keep bank and credit card statements pretty much indefinately. They don't take up much room when you come right down to it and I feel a lot safer knowing where they are.
HANDY TIP #1: If you do throw away stuff that is confidential then buy a shredder and shred it first.
HANDY TIP #2: After you have finished shredding put it all in a plastic bag and add some water. Let soak for a while before chucking it in the dumpster. Wet paper make terrible jigsaw puzzles! (It is also more socially acceptable than a burning your confidential papers if you live in an aparement).
HANDY TIP #3: Use the thickest tin foil you can find for your hat. They cheaper stuff tends to be too thin to keep its shape properly.
You know, I never imagined anybody could find a use for that picture (one that that I could picture without losing my lunch anyway), but I think you are on to something there...:)
Lynch was an invading soldier, wasn't she? The people locked up in Guantanamo Bay, many of whom are children, were defending their country from invasion. Now they are locked up without even the rights accorded to them in the Geneva convention, and if Bush gets his way they will die there as well.
What is worse: getting raped after invading somebody's country or being put in front of a firing squad because you defended your own country? Personally I think getting raped is pretty bad, but at least she lived to tell the tale. If Bush has his way there are going to be a bunch of unmarked graves in Cuba soon.
Maybe your idea of a shining example is different than mine... and the US had much better reasons for that little atrocity than they had for invading Iraq.
As an aside: Why do people think what happened to Jessica Lynch was terrible but have no problem with Guantanamo bay?
I think we need something similiar to Godwin's Law for threads that mention terrorists. Something along the lines of: Any poster without anything usefull to say about a subject will immediatly mention terrorists.
BTW, how fucking paranoid are you? Dude, get out from under the tinfoil and think about it for second. What the hell are the evil terrorists going to do with a sattelite? Take pictures Dubya taking Cheney skinny dipping at his Texas ranch?
But a more dramatic example of the slowness of cultural change is the fact that I am typing this on a QWERTY keyboard. Dvorak [mwbrooks.com] has been around for years but still we type on devices that show their Victorian age heritage. Even when there is no need at all for the random shuffling of the alphabet across the current keyboard in the way we use it!
You know that this is all a myth, don't you? It is one of those "geek myths" people keep on repeating to each other without really bothering to check the facts.
I know, I used to do tell this story as well. Then I read a bit more about it and realized that there was a bit more to the story than I thought.
Straightdope summarizes it well: "(1) the research demonstrating the superiority of the Dvorak keyboard is sparse and methodologically suspect; (2) a sizable body of work suggests that in fact the Dvorak offers little practical advantage over the QWERTY; (3) at least one study indicates that placing commonly used keys far apart, as with the QWERTY, actually speeds typing, since you frequently alternate hands; and (4) the QWERTY keyboard did not become a standard overnight but beat out several competing keyboards over a period of years. Thus it may be fairly said to represent the considered choice of the marketplace."
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Ah... you have a real degree. When I read that the first time I thought you were simply an MS flunky who couldn't spell. :)
Maybe he isn't interested in the money?
I know a couple of people who were one their way to careers in medicine (got accepted to med school etc.) who thought better of it. One became an engineer and the other a techie. Both are probably a lot happier than they would have been as doctors, even if they are also a lot poorer. Remember, some people do this because they like it.
And by the time he switches careers he might be at the point where taking a cut in salary won't be the end of the world. One day when the kids are gone and my 401k is in better shape I would like to spend some time exploring new fields as well.
You can have my firewall when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!
:)
Oops, ignore that. Wrong political debate.
As it says in the first article, if he didn't know the movies were being copied, he's criminally innocent.
While not a term usually employed by the legal community, I think "criminally stupid" might be a better description.
Beverly Sweeney, a computer teacher and campus computer liaison with the district, entered Carl's computer class and quickly figured out where the message originated and who sent it.
According to Carl, Sweeney asked him, "Did you do this?"
"Yes," he replied.
"Do you know that this is serious?" she asked him, according to Carl.
"No," he replied.
Then she asked how he did it, and he showed her.
Something I have always wondered about the Google's OS listings is what make up the 4% listed under "Other"?
I can come up with the usual suspects like BSD and all those Sun boxes people bought of Ebay after the dotcom crash, but most of the these are servers and not things people use to browse the web with.
So what is "Other" then...?
What percentage of your wages do you spend on food? Now compare that to what your grandfather spent. If he didn't have to grow it himself.
You complain about the cost of medical care. Hell, at least you can GET medical care. Remember, in your grandfathers time medicine wasn't much more than guesswork. Things are improving.
We shouldn't have to spend half the year working just to pay taxes.
Oh, sorry. 50% tax rate? So you live in Europe then? Taxes in the US are allready lower than most countries. I agree, it could be a lot lower if Dubya didn't spend so much money blowing up other countries. Then again, you helped vote him in to power. (You did vote, didn't you?)
I'm not asking for a gaurunteed job that's easy and fun that pays an exorbant amount. I'm just saying us common man should have a fighting chance at a good job and shouldn't have to eat Macaroni 6 nights a week because so some executive can eat more steak with his savings from foreign labor.
So what exactly is wrong with foreign labour? They don't deserve a fighting chance at a good job but you do? And if some executive gets rich of the whole deal, more power to him. If you don't like it, then why not offer the same service at a lower price. It's called capitalism. Maybe you should try it sometime.
Too bad I'm not American. I might work in the US at the moment, but then again I've probably lived in more countries than you have visited. And no, not all of them were first world countries either.
I wish that were the problem. The jobs didn't go away, they just got moved to people I can't compete with because it costs less to live in their country than it does mine.
Like it happened to the garment industry. Like it happened to the auto industry. Like it happened to most manufacturing industries.
And what happened after that? Well, now you can buy a t-shirt for less that the price of a Bic Mac and cars cost a fraction of the average salary. Sure, people lost their jobs and whined about it, but eventually they found other jobs and benefited from the improved living conditions made possible by exporting a lot of jobs to cheaper countries.
At the same time there are a lot of countries with booming economies fueled by exports to the west. Living conditions are improving as salaries increase. Hell, if it wasn't good for them do you think India and China would be so busy promoting foreign trade?
I think we finally have proof that BSD is dead. I mean, this is the clearest attempt at daemonic possession I have ever seen.
Damn, I am impressed. An MBA who actually used the works "my humble opinion" and did not seem to be joking at the same time. Now before anybody thinks I am just going after some quick karma by insulting MBAs, I actually have a point to make here.
A lot of the MBA types I know really have a problem with listening to other people's ideas. Sometimes I think it has been trained out of them and replaced by the "I have an MBA so I'm always right" mentality to make them better prepared to deal with other hyper-assertive management types.
This is fine, and probably a requirement to get anything done at higher levels of managment, but becomes a real problem when the time comes for the MBAs and the Geeks to work together. I have seen quite a few projects embarked upon only to fail due to obvious technical impossibilities, when asking a techie's opinion would have stopped the whole thing before the company blew a couple of million on a dead end project. Unfortunately, it is the technical team that gets fired while the MBA heads for the next "ooh, shiny" project.
Why someone would opt-in to a system that allows the recipient of a gift to trade it for something else without even recieving it is beyond me.
If only we could convince the mother-in-laws of the world to accept this. A lot of guys would be a LOT happier come the holidays.
(Damn, I should have posted this as an AC...)
Nope. That is absolutely the worst thing you could do to a market. The day traders actually REMOVE risk from the market. If it wasn't for them liquidity would drop and the market would become less efficient.
Have you noticed that spreads keep on getting smaller? Think for a minute about why that happens...
Nah, my bet is on pr0n to make it there first... you kow how things go when working late into the night. :)
An unhealthy attachment to the status quo will hinder scientific progress as much as following any crackpot idea that comes along...
And what about an unhealthy attachment to the status quo as it prevailed in the middle ages?
Those damn Scandinavians have everything. I mean I have just finished reading the story about the Swedish chick who managed to solve (part of) Hilbert's 16th problem. And amazingly for a female math geek she is actually not bad looking. If she was from any other part of the world she would have looked like my grandfather, only uglier.
And now the Norwegians get CAFFEINATED SEAWATER! Is is just me or is there something wrong with this picture?
OK, so at least they are sharing Linus with the rest of us, but still...
What stops people now from rummaging through your garbage, finding your bank statements, and draining your bank accounts?
In my case the answer is: Paranoia. I shred anything I throw away, and keep bank and credit card statements pretty much indefinately. They don't take up much room when you come right down to it and I feel a lot safer knowing where they are.
HANDY TIP #1: If you do throw away stuff that is confidential then buy a shredder and shred it first.
HANDY TIP #2: After you have finished shredding put it all in a plastic bag and add some water. Let soak for a while before chucking it in the dumpster. Wet paper make terrible jigsaw puzzles! (It is also more socially acceptable than a burning your confidential papers if you live in an aparement).
HANDY TIP #3: Use the thickest tin foil you can find for your hat. They cheaper stuff tends to be too thin to keep its shape properly.
You know, I never imagined anybody could find a use for that picture (one that that I could picture without losing my lunch anyway), but I think you are on to something there... :)
Yeah. And the icon can be somebody bending over and grabbing their ankles.
Lynch was an invading soldier, wasn't she? The people locked up in Guantanamo Bay, many of whom are children, were defending their country from invasion. Now they are locked up without even the rights accorded to them in the Geneva convention, and if Bush gets his way they will die there as well.
What is worse: getting raped after invading somebody's country or being put in front of a firing squad because you defended your own country? Personally I think getting raped is pretty bad, but at least she lived to tell the tale. If Bush has his way there are going to be a bunch of unmarked graves in Cuba soon.
Maybe your idea of a shining example is different than mine... and the US had much better reasons for that little atrocity than they had for invading Iraq.
As an aside: Why do people think what happened to Jessica Lynch was terrible but have no problem with Guantanamo bay?
So it's not going to be much use over here in McUSA then... :)
I think we need something similiar to Godwin's Law for threads that mention terrorists. Something along the lines of: Any poster without anything usefull to say about a subject will immediatly mention terrorists.
BTW, how fucking paranoid are you? Dude, get out from under the tinfoil and think about it for second. What the hell are the evil terrorists going to do with a sattelite? Take pictures Dubya taking Cheney skinny dipping at his Texas ranch?
Hey, thanks for the link. I might have to change my tune again... :)
But a more dramatic example of the slowness of cultural change is the fact that I am typing this on a QWERTY keyboard. Dvorak [mwbrooks.com] has been around for years but still we type on devices that show their Victorian age heritage. Even when there is no need at all for the random shuffling of the alphabet across the current keyboard in the way we use it!
You know that this is all a myth, don't you? It is one of those "geek myths" people keep on repeating to each other without really bothering to check the facts.
I know, I used to do tell this story as well. Then I read a bit more about it and realized that there was a bit more to the story than I thought.
Straightdope summarizes it well: "(1) the research demonstrating the superiority of the Dvorak keyboard is sparse and methodologically suspect; (2) a sizable body of work suggests that in fact the Dvorak offers little practical advantage over the QWERTY; (3) at least one study indicates that placing commonly used keys far apart, as with the QWERTY, actually speeds typing, since you frequently alternate hands; and (4) the QWERTY keyboard did not become a standard overnight but beat out several competing keyboards over a period of years. Thus it may be fairly said to represent the considered choice of the marketplace."