Cargo ships are the most efficient way to move cargo. They are four times as efficient as rail, and 15x as efficient as trucks. Using oil to power them is pretty sensible, and furthermore the pollution is emitted at sea, where the concentration of such pollution is low. It's hard to imagine that any non-solar/wind way of powering these rechargeable ships would be more efficient than simply using oil.
So this sounds like a stupid idea.
We need to solve the problems of * pollution in built up areas - this doesn't do that * overall emission of greenhouse gases - the effect would be marginal
If you want to improve the efficiency of ship - and we do, but it's not high priority - fly some kites. We know they work, and they can be easily added to the existing fleet. Electric power for ferries might be useful. But offshore bulk carriers - not so much. Way better bang for the buck to work on trucks, buses and delivery vans.
The real problem in situations like this is the classic one of an imbalance of power. Basically, certainly in this case, the employer has nearly all the power. Thatâ(TM)s why there are regulations of various kinds, to even out the balance somewhat. Thatâ(TM)s what unions are for, and sometimes they get too powerful and then they start misusing their power. Itâ(TM)s all about balance.
This could be a problem in certain parts of the Arab world. It would mean women out in public, wearing a face covering, would be unable to unlock their Apple phone.
Bit of a loss of market share there, you'd think.
Of course this also applies to people wearing, say, motorcycle helmets. Definitely a crowd you don't want to annoy.
I have worked for a couple of (pretty major) companies that were quite capable of losing the source code. And did. So I would take home "backups" on CDs. Years later, I was asked if I had a "backup" of said code, and could I update a bit. I charged a fee. This happened several times. Nice way to make some money, I admit. Who knows, maybe it'll happen again!
US GOVERNMENT TO INTRODUCE NEW LAWS REQUIRING GUN-TO-GUN COMUNICATION A SPECIAL COMMITTEE HAS RECOMMENDED THAT ALL GUNS SOLD IN THE USA AFTER AUGUST 2017 WILL HENCEFORTH REQUIRE A GUN-TO-GUN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT WILL ONLY ALLOW THEM TO SHOOT TARGETS SIMILARLY ARMED.
This will have the full support of all red blooded Americans, and require a special "fast lane" for communication.
There. Job done!
(And as a bonus, this might stop your police shooting harmless - indeed, helpful - Australian citizens).
2017 Chevy Corvette 0-60 in 3.6 sec. 1/4 mile in 12.3 sec. 296 mile range. About USD 50,000
2017 Tesla model S (sedan): 0-60 in 2.28 sec. 1/4 mile in 10.5 sec. 310 mile range. About USD 100,000
Heck of a difference, but it looks like we are getting there. (Read this and weep, Jeremy Clarkson)
Cleaner air. Quieter. And what will we do with all those petrol station ("gas" stations)?
Of course the next step, moving away from private vehicle to shared ones will give an interesting opportunity for garage conversions - man cave? Gym? Model railway layout... or maybe a space for yet more junk. Yeah, that.
Lord Of The Rings was written in 1949 - shouldn't it be public domain by now? Why should "the family" benefit from a creators product when said creator is long dead? Wasn't the aim of copyright a temporary right to enrich the creator, so they will create more?
It seems fairly unlikely JRR Tolkien will write anything else. The encouragement isn't going to work.
The last large company I was in (a major bank) was indeed doing, I think, all of the recommended 12 practices - oh, hang on, you mean those are things we should not do? Damn!
Those daily SCRUM meetings, including half a dozen people on speakerphone from what sounded like a busy market square in downtown Mumbai somewhere (complete with cow noises) - yup, they went really well.
Just last week, I was driving home (in suburban Sydney) when an SUV collided with another vehicle (he jumped a red light, but really wasn't going terribly fast, I doubt he was going over 50kph).
Result - it rolled. (And slid along the road upside down towards me, but that's another underwear changing story).
I think everybody should stop driving these huge and dangerous vehicles altogether. Electric or otherwise. Mind you, had it bee a Tesla, with a huge battery set low in the car, it might not have rolled, and instead wiped out the small car it hit.
The underlying problem is in fact, a misunderstanding. Modern culture is obsessed with cooperation, groupthink, all that stuff. This suits extroverts well. But some half of the human race are in fact introverts - who attain results in quiet solitude. Extroverts tend to be noisy and loud in meetings. Extroverts less so. Result - extrovert style offices (and of course the fact they are cheaper sneaks in there well).
Overall result - miserable. The introverts feel horribly oppressed and hate their workplace, and desperately seek a quiet spot to actually work. Extroverts wander about, busily being social. Resultant work - lousy.
It's no wonder business outsource work if they cannot get productivity out of their local staff.
I know it's rash, but have they tried actually listening to their unhappy employees. ALL OF THEM, not just the loud ones?
No I wasn't fired - it was close, though. They put me on a special watch for a while (yet more meetings and [oh joy] counseling), but I survived that, then finally a chap I previously worked for offered me a spot and I jumped at the chance.
I might know my star sign if the people who publish such things could figure it out. I was born right at the end of one of the signs, and it varies, depending who wrote out the fairytales that day. This must apply to 12/365 of people. It sounds like a really stupid question - nearly as bad as What Chinese Year were you born in? Goat, Dragon, which? I think a high proportion of folk would not know.
How tall are you? - sounds like a much better question. I somehow doubt most identity thieves would actually know that... or maybe your shoe size (nah, maybe not, it varies depending on brand).
I worked for a major bank. They built these beautiful new offices. Gorgeous, lovely atrium, glass lifts, great coffee machines, lovely building. And then they populated it with desks. Not even cubicles, just desk dividers. And then they said "pick your desk when you come into the office" - yup, hot desking. Well, I hated it. If you came in late, there were no desks available (so you don't want me to do any work then? Ok, sure). When you did find a desk, you had to spend a while moving everything so it fitted you. Then you had to get the computer going - that mostly worked, but not always. And of course the killer - what if you need to chat with someone - where the hell are they? People wandered the office, seeking - I built a "FindPeople" app but they took years to get it installed. And of course, it's so lovely to work among strangers every day. Great for morale.
It was horrible. I cannot imagine what miserable effect it had on morale overall, but mine certainly plummeted. Eventually my work deteriorated so much I had to leave.
Last time I checked, USA had intriguing rules about matches and lighters on planes. You'd think they would be banned absolutely, but no. You can [or could] take three books of matches and one (or was it two) lighters on a plane.
A while ago I worked in a large bank. The staff there consisted of large numbers of imported Indians, and larger numbers of non-imported Indians. The management staff consisted of South Africans - I was one of the few odd ones out. (I apologize for seemingly racist descriptions, but it was in fact true. Of the developer staff, there were about 5 non-Indians). The results were pretty horrible. The code was made up of collections of frameworks-de-jour, whatever was trendy that month, layered. Maintenance was near impossible, as clashing frameworks made things unbelievably complex. Why was it in such a state? Poor leadership, cost cutting, and terrible communication. If you employ overseas staff, including interviewing them (is it really them?) over the phone, from a large outsourcing company, then no only you have no real idea what sort of staff you are getting, you have lost control over your companies IT intellectual property. You are subsequently beholden to said overseas outsourcing company. The costs savings are in fact relatively small, but the loss of control is catastrophic in the medium to long term. I feel this is what you get if you let the next quarter's bottom line be the only driving factor, forgetting entirely the long term company value. (A previous comment on actually listening to experts applies to much of business [and politics] lately).
BA has reaped what it sowed. For a once great airline, this is very sad.
There's a problem. Newspapers used to be funded by adverts - specifically classified adverts, notably on Saturdays. And now there are better ways, Craigslist, eBay, GumTree, etc. Better, yes, But no money flows to the newspapers.
So they are desperately struggling for income. Subscriptions, anything really. But overall, they are no longer strong enough to be independent.
TV ads are under heavy threat - DVRs, internet, NetFlix, Playstation, many things compete for attention. And money.
So media is struggling financially. It's not surprising it is not quite the heavy hitter it used to be. It's easy to be bold when you have lots of sources of money... when they are fading, it's harder.
So we'd better subscribe to the newspapers and media we want.
Or we won't have them. (Full disclosure, I subscribe to the Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian).
With taxes you buy - civilisation. Somehow, I think you actually want things like a sewage system, a justice system, a police force, roads, an education system. Perhaps you'd prefer to have ones that worked, too. So they have to be paid for. Sharing costs is good way to do things, especially for things that are very costly but quite rare, like earthquakes, or major heart attacks. Why do people hate taxes so much? The results do have considerable value - have you been to, say, Papua New Guinea?
Computers? We actually had hand cranked calculators (reallly, I'm not kidding), and there was an attempt to build a computer out of discrete components. In my later school years, I went to a local technical college, where they had... tada.. an IBM 1130 with 4096 words of memory (yes, words, 16 bit words, none of these new fangled bytes for us), a card reader, and (intake of breath) a 5kb hard disc. We programmed it in Fortran, on punched cards. I eventually got it playing the worlds worst chess, and thence started my long and continuing computer career. Commodore 64... pah! Spoilt, you kids were!
And yes, I still cut code... though not, I admit , in Fortran. Thankfully. (Tried C, Basic, Pascal, Java, C#, COBOL, RPG, BCPL, Algol, Simula, PHP, Forth, assemblers, Javascript, and many, many others. They all look the same after a while - oh boy, the number of times I've used a + in PHP where it needs to be a dot).
Yup, Fortran on an IBM 11/30 - 1970 (think bell bottom jeans and possibly The Beatles). It had a multi pass compiler (said to be 14, but maybe someone was exaggerating) and 4096 words (not bytes) of memory - core memory. Actual core, with little rings and everything. And an IBM Selectric output printer. I made the sucker play chess really, really badly - hey, I was 16.
I'm ashamed to be on the same planet, actually. What the heck is going on with you folks? Whatever happened to "Truth, Justice, and the American Way". (I admit I have no idea what the American Way is, maybe it's "the other thing") So let me see if I have this right... The new incoming administration is trying to reduce the accuracy of evidence checking.
The only reason I can think of is to hurry up and send the kind of people that end up in court to jail. Actual guilt is no longer relevant. Just "round up the usual suspects" and away we go. (Yes, that was a quote from Casablanca [1942] - now that's the sort of thing USA does to be proud of, not this orange nutter).
Hmm, I can think of a few people I'd like to see in jail, possibly including several members of the aforementioned administration. Do we need actual proof?
As the years pass, I become every more glad I picked Australia, instead of America when I changed countries. (Not that we don't have our problems, but still). And come to that, I'm glad I didn't stay in the not so very United these days Kingdom. (I mean, Brexit, really? What the is wrong with you folks too?)
Let's review this list of reasons: * divorce is inversely correlated with wealth - actually I doubt this is even true * probably working only one job - really, why is this? Not true where I live * Healthier diet - indeed, cheap food is not so good * Parents value an education more - actually, the ones that seem to value it most are recent immigrants * Neighborhood with higher property values means better funded schools - stupid way to fund schools, they should be funded according to need (check Finland, etc)
So only two points of 5 seems likely to be true, and the most important one, the funding, is the product of a really bad system.
I think the educations system needs a bit of a review. I'm sure Trump will fix that... cough.
Yes, indeed. When I left university, in 1976 with a UK degree in Computer Science (that's what it was called then), I was the first of a breed. Employment was assured. I worked at Plessey for a few months, on the radar system for SE England (cool), then fled to the continent where I was paid quite astonishing amounts of money. First building a nuclear reactor monitor (even cooler), then a packet switching system for Holland (yup, that's the predecessor to our beloved Internet). I made so much money [new sports car = 1 months disposable income] that after a few short years - ie when I was 25 - I took my money, bought an ocean going yacht and set off for a pretty decent adventure. A couple of years later, I decided to stop (in USA), and ended up in Australia, still with enough money to pay for 1/3 of a house. (Houses were about 2-3 years salary at the time, really should have bought several).
So yup, I was definitely richer than today's poor kids, who get to leave university with huge debts, struggle to get an internship (otherwise known as slavery), then maybe, just maybe get a sensible job after a year of unpaid labour. Then they might try to buy a house, now at 1 million dollars, 10 years salary (if you don't eat). Good luck with that. And have kids - can they afford to breed?
So they might have the internet, mobile phones, and great flat screen TVs, but they sure as heck aren't richer. I was way, way luckier with my timing.
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Cargo ships are the most efficient way to move cargo. They are four times as efficient as rail, and 15x as efficient as trucks.
Using oil to power them is pretty sensible, and furthermore the pollution is emitted at sea, where the concentration of such pollution is low. It's hard to imagine that any non-solar/wind way of powering these rechargeable ships would be more efficient than simply using oil.
So this sounds like a stupid idea.
We need to solve the problems of
* pollution in built up areas - this doesn't do that
* overall emission of greenhouse gases - the effect would be marginal
If you want to improve the efficiency of ship - and we do, but it's not high priority - fly some kites. We know they work, and they can be easily added to the existing fleet.
Electric power for ferries might be useful. But offshore bulk carriers - not so much. Way better bang for the buck to work on trucks, buses and delivery vans.
The real problem in situations like this is the classic one of an imbalance of power. Basically, certainly in this case, the employer has nearly all the power. Thatâ(TM)s why there are regulations of various kinds, to even out the balance somewhat. Thatâ(TM)s what unions are for, and sometimes they get too powerful and then they start misusing their power.
Itâ(TM)s all about balance.
Sadly he seems to be against everyone who isnâ(TM)t Donald Trump.
This could be a problem in certain parts of the Arab world. It would mean women out in public, wearing a face covering, would be unable to unlock their Apple phone.
Bit of a loss of market share there, you'd think.
Of course this also applies to people wearing, say, motorcycle helmets. Definitely a crowd you don't want to annoy.
I have worked for a couple of (pretty major) companies that were quite capable of losing the source code.
And did.
So I would take home "backups" on CDs.
Years later, I was asked if I had a "backup" of said code, and could I update a bit.
I charged a fee.
This happened several times. Nice way to make some money, I admit.
Who knows, maybe it'll happen again!
No backup system? You mean the sun and the stars have gone away?
It worked for me when I crossed the Atlantic.
Not terribly accurate though, Loran or its modern update would be nice.
I can think of a really good excuse.
US GOVERNMENT TO INTRODUCE NEW LAWS REQUIRING GUN-TO-GUN COMUNICATION
A SPECIAL COMMITTEE HAS RECOMMENDED THAT ALL GUNS SOLD IN THE USA AFTER AUGUST 2017 WILL HENCEFORTH REQUIRE A GUN-TO-GUN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT WILL ONLY ALLOW THEM TO SHOOT TARGETS SIMILARLY ARMED.
This will have the full support of all red blooded Americans, and require a special "fast lane" for communication.
There. Job done!
(And as a bonus, this might stop your police shooting harmless - indeed, helpful - Australian citizens).
2017 Chevy Corvette 0-60 in 3.6 sec. 1/4 mile in 12.3 sec. 296 mile range. About USD 50,000
2017 Tesla model S (sedan): 0-60 in 2.28 sec. 1/4 mile in 10.5 sec. 310 mile range. About USD 100,000
Heck of a difference, but it looks like we are getting there. (Read this and weep, Jeremy Clarkson)
Cleaner air. Quieter. And what will we do with all those petrol station ("gas" stations)?
Of course the next step, moving away from private vehicle to shared ones will give an interesting opportunity for garage conversions - man cave? Gym? Model railway layout ... or maybe a space for yet more junk. Yeah, that.
Lord Of The Rings was written in 1949 - shouldn't it be public domain by now?
Why should "the family" benefit from a creators product when said creator is long dead? Wasn't the aim of copyright a temporary right to enrich the creator, so they will create more?
It seems fairly unlikely JRR Tolkien will write anything else. The encouragement isn't going to work.
The last large company I was in (a major bank) was indeed doing, I think, all of the recommended 12 practices - oh, hang on, you mean those are things we should not do? Damn!
Those daily SCRUM meetings, including half a dozen people on speakerphone from what sounded like a busy market square in downtown Mumbai somewhere (complete with cow noises) - yup, they went really well.
Just last week, I was driving home (in suburban Sydney) when an SUV collided with another vehicle (he jumped a red light, but really wasn't going terribly fast, I doubt he was going over 50kph).
Result - it rolled. (And slid along the road upside down towards me, but that's another underwear changing story).
I think everybody should stop driving these huge and dangerous vehicles altogether. Electric or otherwise. Mind you, had it bee a Tesla, with a huge battery set low in the car, it might not have rolled, and instead wiped out the small car it hit.
The underlying problem is in fact, a misunderstanding. Modern culture is obsessed with cooperation, groupthink, all that stuff. This suits extroverts well. But some half of the human race are in fact introverts - who attain results in quiet solitude.
Extroverts tend to be noisy and loud in meetings. Extroverts less so.
Result - extrovert style offices (and of course the fact they are cheaper sneaks in there well).
Overall result - miserable. The introverts feel horribly oppressed and hate their workplace, and desperately seek a quiet spot to actually work. Extroverts wander about, busily being social. Resultant work - lousy.
It's no wonder business outsource work if they cannot get productivity out of their local staff.
I know it's rash, but have they tried actually listening to their unhappy employees. ALL OF THEM, not just the loud ones?
No I wasn't fired - it was close, though. They put me on a special watch for a while (yet more meetings and [oh joy] counseling), but I survived that, then finally a chap I previously worked for offered me a spot and I jumped at the chance.
I might know my star sign if the people who publish such things could figure it out. I was born right at the end of one of the signs, and it varies, depending who wrote out the fairytales that day. This must apply to 12/365 of people. It sounds like a really stupid question - nearly as bad as What Chinese Year were you born in? Goat, Dragon, which? I think a high proportion of folk would not know.
How tall are you? - sounds like a much better question. I somehow doubt most identity thieves would actually know that ... or maybe your shoe size (nah, maybe not, it varies depending on brand).
I worked for a major bank. They built these beautiful new offices. Gorgeous, lovely atrium, glass lifts, great coffee machines, lovely building.
And then they populated it with desks. Not even cubicles, just desk dividers.
And then they said "pick your desk when you come into the office" - yup, hot desking.
Well, I hated it.
If you came in late, there were no desks available (so you don't want me to do any work then? Ok, sure).
When you did find a desk, you had to spend a while moving everything so it fitted you.
Then you had to get the computer going - that mostly worked, but not always.
And of course the killer - what if you need to chat with someone - where the hell are they? People wandered the office, seeking - I built a "FindPeople" app but they took years to get it installed.
And of course, it's so lovely to work among strangers every day. Great for morale.
It was horrible. I cannot imagine what miserable effect it had on morale overall, but mine certainly plummeted. Eventually my work deteriorated so much I had to leave.
Last time I checked, USA had intriguing rules about matches and lighters on planes.
You'd think they would be banned absolutely, but no. You can [or could] take three books of matches and one (or was it two) lighters on a plane.
Like, what?
A while ago I worked in a large bank. The staff there consisted of large numbers of imported Indians, and larger numbers of non-imported Indians. The management staff consisted of South Africans - I was one of the few odd ones out. (I apologize for seemingly racist descriptions, but it was in fact true. Of the developer staff, there were about 5 non-Indians).
The results were pretty horrible. The code was made up of collections of frameworks-de-jour, whatever was trendy that month, layered. Maintenance was near impossible, as clashing frameworks made things unbelievably complex.
Why was it in such a state? Poor leadership, cost cutting, and terrible communication.
If you employ overseas staff, including interviewing them (is it really them?) over the phone, from a large outsourcing company, then no only you have no real idea what sort of staff you are getting, you have lost control over your companies IT intellectual property. You are subsequently beholden to said overseas outsourcing company. The costs savings are in fact relatively small, but the loss of control is catastrophic in the medium to long term.
I feel this is what you get if you let the next quarter's bottom line be the only driving factor, forgetting entirely the long term company value. (A previous comment on actually listening to experts applies to much of business [and politics] lately).
BA has reaped what it sowed. For a once great airline, this is very sad.
There's a problem. Newspapers used to be funded by adverts - specifically classified adverts, notably on Saturdays. And now there are better ways, Craigslist, eBay, GumTree, etc. Better, yes, But no money flows to the newspapers.
So they are desperately struggling for income. Subscriptions, anything really. But overall, they are no longer strong enough to be independent.
TV ads are under heavy threat - DVRs, internet, NetFlix, Playstation, many things compete for attention. And money.
So media is struggling financially. It's not surprising it is not quite the heavy hitter it used to be. It's easy to be bold when you have lots of sources of money ... when they are fading, it's harder.
So we'd better subscribe to the newspapers and media we want.
Or we won't have them. (Full disclosure, I subscribe to the Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian).
With taxes you buy - civilisation. Somehow, I think you actually want things like a sewage system, a justice system, a police force, roads, an education system. Perhaps you'd prefer to have ones that worked, too.
So they have to be paid for.
Sharing costs is good way to do things, especially for things that are very costly but quite rare, like earthquakes, or major heart attacks.
Why do people hate taxes so much? The results do have considerable value - have you been to, say, Papua New Guinea?
Computers? We actually had hand cranked calculators (reallly, I'm not kidding), and there was an attempt to build a computer out of discrete components. ... tada.. an IBM 1130 with 4096 words of memory (yes, words, 16 bit words, none of these new fangled bytes for us), a card reader, and (intake of breath) a 5kb hard disc. We programmed it in Fortran, on punched cards. I eventually got it playing the worlds worst chess, and thence started my long and continuing computer career. ... pah! Spoilt, you kids were!
In my later school years, I went to a local technical college, where they had
Commodore 64
And get off my lawn!
And yes, I still cut code ... though not, I admit , in Fortran. Thankfully. (Tried C, Basic, Pascal, Java, C#, COBOL, RPG, BCPL, Algol, Simula, PHP, Forth, assemblers, Javascript, and many, many others. They all look the same after a while - oh boy, the number of times I've used a + in PHP where it needs to be a dot).
Yup, Fortran on an IBM 11/30 - 1970 (think bell bottom jeans and possibly The Beatles). It had a multi pass compiler (said to be 14, but maybe someone was exaggerating) and 4096 words (not bytes) of memory - core memory. Actual core, with little rings and everything. And an IBM Selectric output printer. I made the sucker play chess really, really badly - hey, I was 16.
I'm ashamed to be on the same planet, actually. What the heck is going on with you folks? Whatever happened to "Truth, Justice, and the American Way". (I admit I have no idea what the American Way is, maybe it's "the other thing") ...
So let me see if I have this right
The new incoming administration is trying to reduce the accuracy of evidence checking.
The only reason I can think of is to hurry up and send the kind of people that end up in court to jail. Actual guilt is no longer relevant. Just "round up the usual suspects" and away we go. (Yes, that was a quote from Casablanca [1942] - now that's the sort of thing USA does to be proud of, not this orange nutter).
Hmm, I can think of a few people I'd like to see in jail, possibly including several members of the aforementioned administration. Do we need actual proof?
As the years pass, I become every more glad I picked Australia, instead of America when I changed countries. (Not that we don't have our problems, but still). And come to that, I'm glad I didn't stay in the not so very United these days Kingdom. (I mean, Brexit, really? What the is wrong with you folks too?)
>> This summary is unreadable, it literally makes no sense.
Sadly, it's a direct quote from the original - completely incomprehensible - article.
See, some people actually RTFA.
Let's review this list of reasons:
* divorce is inversely correlated with wealth - actually I doubt this is even true
* probably working only one job - really, why is this? Not true where I live
* Healthier diet - indeed, cheap food is not so good
* Parents value an education more - actually, the ones that seem to value it most are recent immigrants
* Neighborhood with higher property values means better funded schools - stupid way to fund schools, they should be funded according to need (check Finland, etc)
So only two points of 5 seems likely to be true, and the most important one, the funding, is the product of a really bad system.
I think the educations system needs a bit of a review. I'm sure Trump will fix that ... cough.
Yes, indeed. When I left university, in 1976 with a UK degree in Computer Science (that's what it was called then), I was the first of a breed.
Employment was assured. I worked at Plessey for a few months, on the radar system for SE England (cool), then fled to the continent where I was paid quite astonishing amounts of money. First building a nuclear reactor monitor (even cooler), then a packet switching system for Holland (yup, that's the predecessor to our beloved Internet).
I made so much money [new sports car = 1 months disposable income] that after a few short years - ie when I was 25 - I took my money, bought an ocean going yacht and set off for a pretty decent adventure.
A couple of years later, I decided to stop (in USA), and ended up in Australia, still with enough money to pay for 1/3 of a house. (Houses were about 2-3 years salary at the time, really should have bought several).
So yup, I was definitely richer than today's poor kids, who get to leave university with huge debts, struggle to get an internship (otherwise known as slavery), then maybe, just maybe get a sensible job after a year of unpaid labour.
Then they might try to buy a house, now at 1 million dollars, 10 years salary (if you don't eat). Good luck with that. And have kids - can they afford to breed?
So they might have the internet, mobile phones, and great flat screen TVs, but they sure as heck aren't richer. I was way, way luckier with my timing.