Many of the things Quebec disagrees on work out really well. Lots of universities with low tuition, better leave for kids, $7/day day care (I was paying $55/day in Toronto), no fault insurance (way, way, cheaper, and the additional accidents are due to the badly designed highways and more aggressive drivers not to the cheaper insurance)...
Videotron is just making a case for having its cable monopoly broken up.
It was a small company and I know everyone involved. The "correlation != causation" is great for statistics, it does not help for small sample sizes where things are known.
There were other factors, but bad documentation really helped his career, while good documentation hindered mine. I've worked for saner companies since, and it's not the boom any more.
I know a guy who became a VP (at what is now a fairly big company, few hundred employees) for doing this while I got a lower bonus because I documented and was replaceable (I left two weeks after that review). If you work for a crappy company obfuscation (or just rewriting critical code in a language your co-workers have not used) may help your career.
Greed motivates people to do stuff they would be too lazy to do otherwise. In most other circumstances it is bad. Problem is that most corps have enough money and don't care, which is why most industries lobby government too avoid regulation for stuff like pollution. Companies can make more money being green, but it takes work and change and stuff. Greed is better than lazines.
Pharm corps buy other companies instead of researching.
Hmm, my low-end core 2 duo and crappy graphics card with 3 GB of varied (running at 667 ops not MHz) DDR 2 boots in a minute or two, and it is not that slow. I've disabled a lot of stuff, and it is (in almost every way) worse than XP, but it's not that slow.
Bill Gates bought qdos from the employer of the author who had a contract that said his employer owned everything he produced. qdos was a CP/M knockoff, quick and dirty operating system. Bill Gates removed everything that made it quick, changed some characters (reversed the slashes?) and ran with it.
The US is toast technologically because no one, not government, not shareholders, wants to pay for pure R&D. The US is toast economically because shareholders and directors feud and compromise on the worst decisions while grabbing money on both sides (and the shareholders lose out anyway because directors get first grab).
Get pissed at companies for stealing money. Get pissed at how M$ does stock options (from a shareholder perspective). Get pissed that M$ has $40 billion that they use just to threaten competitors that they could give out in dividends. Let them do whatever they want in terms of R&D, XBOX or no XBOX (betting against Bill Gates obtaining a monopoly position is pretty dumb, unfortunately).
Pretty much. It works as a propaganda cover for nasty dictators but just does not work as a system of government. You have to keep in mind that pretty much all philosophy, especially political philosophy, in the early 20th century was quotable but crappy. Lenin, Hitler, Freud, Marx, Mussolini, Nietzsche, Shayer... All quotable, and pretty good writers of fiction (OK, Hitler's prose was crap as well), but not great thinkers. Good at convincing people of stuff that is wrong, not at producing useful philosophies.
Pharmaceutical corporations have no interest in cures, e.g. no one wants to make antibiotics for anything other than livestock (though humans are running short of effective ones) because, financially, it is better to make things people take long term than to make cures that they take for a short period (and livestock only take them to kill intestinal bacteria leading to slightly increased growth and to try to get by on ridiculous food choices). Treating HIV symptoms is hugely profitable, I doubt any pharmaceutical company wants a cure.
The $10 billion big pharma spends on HIV research is spent on cocktails of drugs that people are going to take every day for life for many thousands of dollars per year. And the cocktails have to be changed every few years due to HIV developing resistance. No ???, just profit.
American hippies are about as close as anyone has come so far. "Communist" countries are dictatorships. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and friends did not care much about isms, more about taking complete power. Lots of executions, lots of control, not much communism.
The only thing worse than unions is no unions. People always bitch about things they cannot do without, unions, taxes, governments... Unions are a pain if you are in one, but it is way better than working where there are none (any "communist" country, say). Non-union workers tend to end up with similar benefits to the ones union workers get as well, that is a union fights and gets a dental plan and other companies, even non-union ones, start offering dental plans. Wages go up relatively widely as unions become prevalent and drop when unions get weak (thus the decline in real wages since Reagan started killing them off).
To actually make the banks more profitable: regulate them and insist on a higher asset ratio RAISE taxes on both the bank profits and the executives
I think the difference between top schools, average schools, and poor schools in India is way more pronounced than in the US, and the US is already fairly unbalanced compared to say, the system here in Canada (OK, here Waterloo is way above the others for CS/eng, but the worst places are not too bad; in the US top tier vs State is often pretty ridiculous). I have an Indian friend who keeps going on about how great Indian schools are, but his tech knowledge is pretty feeble. From his anecdotes his classes were all memorize, regurgitate, forget, repeat. All rote, no real learning. I know some really good Indian/Pakistani/ guys, but they generally finished up their schooling in Singapore/Europe/US/Canada.
In contrast most of the Russian people I know who were educated in Russia seriously know their stuff in various fields. It is a bit biased as in many cases there was competition to leave, so you don't see the underachievers, (sort of like how foreign exchange students tend to be likable extroverts because likeable extroverts tend to become foreign exchange students), but even so.
1 billion Indians, 300 million Americans, 650 million literate Indians, 297 million literate Americans, and the numbers get closer as you go toward higher education. Offshoring companies tend to claim lots of stuff, but if you read the company interviews as opposed to the marketing you see "we had all these Ph.ds trying to replace part-time aspiring actors for English/writing jobs at 25% of salary and yet we failed to deliver on all our contracts; not one successful project."
I'm not trying to knock Indians but infrastructure counts for something. And offshore companies have really had the marketing going *sigh*.
Coincidentally oil prices went way up shortly after Bush jr was elected, and went way down after he left. In the interim Iran, Russia, and a number of other countries made out really, really well. The economic gains were very much due to oil prices and very little due to anything Putin did. Still better than Bush's economic plan that involved claiming deficit spending as a GDP increase, giving money to rich people is NOT Keynesian, making them work for it is.
Putin has basically done a Lenin so far. He has taken power completely so he can help his friends and persecute his enemies. He has said a lot, especially about Russians being a great people and Russia being a superpower. He has not done a whole lot.
Note: Reagan gets credit for a lot, but he was sort of all over the place as pres. Lower taxes, raise taxes, lower spending, raise spending, whatever. As for ending "communism," or, more accurately the Stalinist dictatorship (Lenin ENDED any semblance of communism in Russia, and started a totalitarian dictatorship, Stalin took over after a few years and continued for decades), it ended when Gorbachev told the East German leadership they could not shoot protesters, and if they did he would not send out the army to support them; the tyrants started picking up their gold and planning their luxurious retirements instantly.
Oh well, at least Putin has less secret police and executions than Lenin did...
My short-term memory has been erased. This, I ascribe to the proximity of the magnetic coils from Starbug's rear engine. Secondly, due to the proximity of the magnetic coils, my short term memory appears to have been erased. This, combined with the erasure of my short-term memory, has left me a little disoriented, disoriented, disoriented.
The Gestalt entity Grant Naylor fissioned, both Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, came out with crappy books, and, in spite of (or because of) the contributions of Robert Llewellyn the series went from amazing to crap.
Agreed, but convection is used extensively for most other electronics. It leads to unusual problems (and different fan selection) when gravity is not available. Not necessarily a huge problem, but one that is easy to overlook until equipment is in place.
He should only outsource at reasonable rates. Ford at least got one thing right when he said he paid his employees more so they could buy his cars. Note that Ford had to keep his company going to make money. With taxes and regulations as they are CEOs don't care if the company tanks as long as they get one good quarter: offshore, claim savings, excercise options, leave dying company.
Offshoring is fine if you pay a desirable wage (say 50% of American salaries, not 15%). You save money and you build a market. At a feeble wage you save money and lose a market. The people you are sending work to will never be able to but your stuff (look at Microsoft and others pricing way down in India and China).
H1B laws make sense in theory, they mandate that people can only come to the US if comparable workers are unavailable, and the H1B workers have to earn at least median salary for the industry. The problem is that there is no shortage of workers, there is a shortage of very qualified workers willing to work very, very cheap. When companies hire an H1B they very often tell the worker, once s/he is onsite "we signed you at X$/year, but you will take X/2 or X/3 or we cancel your visa," and some/many will take it instead of going home. I have Canadian friends who got this, but, as they don't mind going home, the companies backed down. People from India, China, Eastern Europe and so on who want to send money home tend to be a little less eager to get back on the boat/plane. Employers are using H1Bs to artificially lower salaries, not to obtain specialized workers.
You pretty much need to compensate the guys who were evicted by the Israeli military (and/or their descendants) if the Israelis want any hope of getting the moral high ground. Most of the chaos was caused by Europeans (Balfour promised Palestine to the Jews in 1916 or 1917 at a time when the allies promised more land to more people in exchange for help against the Germans and Austro-Hungarians than there is on Earth (all gifts rescinded in 1919), the British and Turks messed up Palestine, the US has since messed up the middle east (and the Americas), loads of countries refused Jewish refugees in the '30s, loads of occupied countries (pretty much all non-scandinavian countries) behaved badly during the occupation...) but the Israelis, considering their history, should know better than to oppress other people; sure the Palestinians are where they are because other Arab countries want to shame Israel by keeping them there, but Israeli behavior has been shameful (funny, the Zionists, who bought land, are vilified, the Israelis who took land and displaced people by force tend to get a pass).
One item that also gets overlooked is that Israel pretty much knows how to reduce violence, and it is not by building a fence. When the borders are open, and the poor, infrastructure-lacking, Palestinians can work and trade in Israel terrorism drops as average Palestinians can feed their families and don't want militants making things worse. Every time the borders get closed you get loads of recruits who have nothing to do, no money, and no food. Ariel Sharon closed the borders over and over and pretty much incited an intifada. Threatening to close the borders is very effective, closing them incites violence. Putting up a fence with 3-4 hour waits to travel either way for the few allowed in just escalates the conflict.
Just like in the US, fighting terrorism can really, really help terrorists.
Population growth is dropping in industrialized countries. It is not dropping in the countries that are not able to feed themselves.
Governments, unions, laws, regulations, taxes... Everyone complains about essentials. Is it coincidence that the richest countries all have similar (far from identical) structures (about the only exception is Singapore, and Singapore is tiny with a very particular dictatorship)? Or that the country that spends the most effort destroying all these things is in collapse (look at Canadian banks that whined about how regulation cost them money now that they are among the strongest in the world and can watch less regulated US banks fail).
Tearing down the government also involves ignoring successes. Is acid rain still a problem? Lead in the atmosphere? The ozone hole? All of these problems are going away. Why? Regulation. The oil industry said they would go under without lead in gasoline, but it was just laziness and they profited repeatedly by taking it out. Other industries survived the necessary changes as well. No big deal. Dealing with global warming may be more difficult due to crazy politics (demonization of regulation), and the rise of China and India, but, with a will it can be done. The key is to realize that it is nowhere near as hard as the vested interests make it out (there is nothing to be done so we won't innovate, poor capitalists, we have to sit back and watch our profits increase, it would be impossible to do otherwise, we would all die).
Bush has done more for the comfort of America's enemies than anyone else in the world since his election. He recruited very effectively for terrorist groups, diminished American freedoms, espoused torture, and impoverished Americans. Treason does not have to be intentional or openly espoused.
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Many of the things Quebec disagrees on work out really well. Lots of universities with low tuition, better leave for kids, $7/day day care (I was paying $55/day in Toronto), no fault insurance (way, way, cheaper, and the additional accidents are due to the badly designed highways and more aggressive drivers not to the cheaper insurance)...
Videotron is just making a case for having its cable monopoly broken up.
It was a small company and I know everyone involved. The "correlation != causation" is great for statistics, it does not help for small sample sizes where things are known.
There were other factors, but bad documentation really helped his career, while good documentation hindered mine. I've worked for saner companies since, and it's not the boom any more.
I know a guy who became a VP (at what is now a fairly big company, few hundred employees) for doing this while I got a lower bonus because I documented and was replaceable (I left two weeks after that review). If you work for a crappy company obfuscation (or just rewriting critical code in a language your co-workers have not used) may help your career.
Greed motivates people to do stuff they would be too lazy to do otherwise. In most other circumstances it is bad. Problem is that most corps have enough money and don't care, which is why most industries lobby government too avoid regulation for stuff like pollution. Companies can make more money being green, but it takes work and change and stuff. Greed is better than lazines.
Pharm corps buy other companies instead of researching.
Hmm, my low-end core 2 duo and crappy graphics card with 3 GB of varied (running at 667 ops not MHz) DDR 2 boots in a minute or two, and it is not that slow. I've disabled a lot of stuff, and it is (in almost every way) worse than XP, but it's not that slow.
Bill Gates bought qdos from the employer of the author who had a contract that said his employer owned everything he produced. qdos was a CP/M knockoff, quick and dirty operating system. Bill Gates removed everything that made it quick, changed some characters (reversed the slashes?) and ran with it.
The US is toast technologically because no one, not government, not shareholders, wants to pay for pure R&D. The US is toast economically because shareholders and directors feud and compromise on the worst decisions while grabbing money on both sides (and the shareholders lose out anyway because directors get first grab).
Get pissed at companies for stealing money. Get pissed at how M$ does stock options (from a shareholder perspective). Get pissed that M$ has $40 billion that they use just to threaten competitors that they could give out in dividends. Let them do whatever they want in terms of R&D, XBOX or no XBOX (betting against Bill Gates obtaining a monopoly position is pretty dumb, unfortunately).
Pretty much. It works as a propaganda cover for nasty dictators but just does not work as a system of government. You have to keep in mind that pretty much all philosophy, especially political philosophy, in the early 20th century was quotable but crappy. Lenin, Hitler, Freud, Marx, Mussolini, Nietzsche, Shayer... All quotable, and pretty good writers of fiction (OK, Hitler's prose was crap as well), but not great thinkers. Good at convincing people of stuff that is wrong, not at producing useful philosophies.
Pharmaceutical corporations have no interest in cures, e.g. no one wants to make antibiotics for anything other than livestock (though humans are running short of effective ones) because, financially, it is better to make things people take long term than to make cures that they take for a short period (and livestock only take them to kill intestinal bacteria leading to slightly increased growth and to try to get by on ridiculous food choices). Treating HIV symptoms is hugely profitable, I doubt any pharmaceutical company wants a cure.
The $10 billion big pharma spends on HIV research is spent on cocktails of drugs that people are going to take every day for life for many thousands of dollars per year. And the cocktails have to be changed every few years due to HIV developing resistance. No ???, just profit.
American hippies are about as close as anyone has come so far. "Communist" countries are dictatorships. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and friends did not care much about isms, more about taking complete power. Lots of executions, lots of control, not much communism.
With IPv4 in a known subnet (especially with crappy numeric names) it can be easier to remember the IP (3 digits to remember).
If IPv6 ever comes in proper naming will be key.
The only thing worse than unions is no unions. People always bitch about things they cannot do without, unions, taxes, governments... Unions are a pain if you are in one, but it is way better than working where there are none (any "communist" country, say). Non-union workers tend to end up with similar benefits to the ones union workers get as well, that is a union fights and gets a dental plan and other companies, even non-union ones, start offering dental plans. Wages go up relatively widely as unions become prevalent and drop when unions get weak (thus the decline in real wages since Reagan started killing them off).
To actually make the banks more profitable:
regulate them and insist on a higher asset ratio
RAISE taxes on both the bank profits and the executives
He looks like Lenin, having power trumps doing meaningful stuff with power.
I think the difference between top schools, average schools, and poor schools in India is way more pronounced than in the US, and the US is already fairly unbalanced compared to say, the system here in Canada (OK, here Waterloo is way above the others for CS/eng, but the worst places are not too bad; in the US top tier vs State is often pretty ridiculous). I have an Indian friend who keeps going on about how great Indian schools are, but his tech knowledge is pretty feeble. From his anecdotes his classes were all memorize, regurgitate, forget, repeat. All rote, no real learning. I know some really good Indian/Pakistani/ guys, but they generally finished up their schooling in Singapore/Europe/US/Canada.
In contrast most of the Russian people I know who were educated in Russia seriously know their stuff in various fields. It is a bit biased as in many cases there was competition to leave, so you don't see the underachievers, (sort of like how foreign exchange students tend to be likable extroverts because likeable extroverts tend to become foreign exchange students), but even so.
1 billion Indians, 300 million Americans, 650 million literate Indians, 297 million literate Americans, and the numbers get closer as you go toward higher education. Offshoring companies tend to claim lots of stuff, but if you read the company interviews as opposed to the marketing you see "we had all these Ph.ds trying to replace part-time aspiring actors for English/writing jobs at 25% of salary and yet we failed to deliver on all our contracts; not one successful project."
I'm not trying to knock Indians but infrastructure counts for something. And offshore companies have really had the marketing going *sigh*.
Coincidentally oil prices went way up shortly after Bush jr was elected, and went way down after he left. In the interim Iran, Russia, and a number of other countries made out really, really well. The economic gains were very much due to oil prices and very little due to anything Putin did. Still better than Bush's economic plan that involved claiming deficit spending as a GDP increase, giving money to rich people is NOT Keynesian, making them work for it is.
Putin has basically done a Lenin so far. He has taken power completely so he can help his friends and persecute his enemies. He has said a lot, especially about Russians being a great people and Russia being a superpower. He has not done a whole lot.
Note: Reagan gets credit for a lot, but he was sort of all over the place as pres. Lower taxes, raise taxes, lower spending, raise spending, whatever. As for ending "communism," or, more accurately the Stalinist dictatorship (Lenin ENDED any semblance of communism in Russia, and started a totalitarian dictatorship, Stalin took over after a few years and continued for decades), it ended when Gorbachev told the East German leadership they could not shoot protesters, and if they did he would not send out the army to support them; the tyrants started picking up their gold and planning their luxurious retirements instantly.
Oh well, at least Putin has less secret police and executions than Lenin did...
To continue Kryten's quote:
My short-term memory has been erased. This, I ascribe to the proximity of the magnetic coils from Starbug's rear engine. Secondly, due to the proximity of the magnetic coils, my short term memory appears to have been erased. This, combined with the erasure of my short-term memory, has left me a little disoriented, disoriented, disoriented.
The Gestalt entity Grant Naylor fissioned, both Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, came out with crappy books, and, in spite of (or because of) the contributions of Robert Llewellyn the series went from amazing to crap.
Agreed, but convection is used extensively for most other electronics. It leads to unusual problems (and different fan selection) when gravity is not available. Not necessarily a huge problem, but one that is easy to overlook until equipment is in place.
He should only outsource at reasonable rates. Ford at least got one thing right when he said he paid his employees more so they could buy his cars. Note that Ford had to keep his company going to make money. With taxes and regulations as they are CEOs don't care if the company tanks as long as they get one good quarter: offshore, claim savings, excercise options, leave dying company.
Offshoring is fine if you pay a desirable wage (say 50% of American salaries, not 15%). You save money and you build a market. At a feeble wage you save money and lose a market. The people you are sending work to will never be able to but your stuff (look at Microsoft and others pricing way down in India and China).
H1B laws make sense in theory, they mandate that people can only come to the US if comparable workers are unavailable, and the H1B workers have to earn at least median salary for the industry. The problem is that there is no shortage of workers, there is a shortage of very qualified workers willing to work very, very cheap. When companies hire an H1B they very often tell the worker, once s/he is onsite "we signed you at X$/year, but you will take X/2 or X/3 or we cancel your visa," and some/many will take it instead of going home. I have Canadian friends who got this, but, as they don't mind going home, the companies backed down. People from India, China, Eastern Europe and so on who want to send money home tend to be a little less eager to get back on the boat/plane. Employers are using H1Bs to artificially lower salaries, not to obtain specialized workers.
You pretty much need to compensate the guys who were evicted by the Israeli military (and/or their descendants) if the Israelis want any hope of getting the moral high ground. Most of the chaos was caused by Europeans (Balfour promised Palestine to the Jews in 1916 or 1917 at a time when the allies promised more land to more people in exchange for help against the Germans and Austro-Hungarians than there is on Earth (all gifts rescinded in 1919), the British and Turks messed up Palestine, the US has since messed up the middle east (and the Americas), loads of countries refused Jewish refugees in the '30s, loads of occupied countries (pretty much all non-scandinavian countries) behaved badly during the occupation...) but the Israelis, considering their history, should know better than to oppress other people; sure the Palestinians are where they are because other Arab countries want to shame Israel by keeping them there, but Israeli behavior has been shameful (funny, the Zionists, who bought land, are vilified, the Israelis who took land and displaced people by force tend to get a pass).
One item that also gets overlooked is that Israel pretty much knows how to reduce violence, and it is not by building a fence. When the borders are open, and the poor, infrastructure-lacking, Palestinians can work and trade in Israel terrorism drops as average Palestinians can feed their families and don't want militants making things worse. Every time the borders get closed you get loads of recruits who have nothing to do, no money, and no food. Ariel Sharon closed the borders over and over and pretty much incited an intifada. Threatening to close the borders is very effective, closing them incites violence. Putting up a fence with 3-4 hour waits to travel either way for the few allowed in just escalates the conflict.
Just like in the US, fighting terrorism can really, really help terrorists.
Population growth is dropping in industrialized countries. It is not dropping in the countries that are not able to feed themselves. Governments, unions, laws, regulations, taxes... Everyone complains about essentials. Is it coincidence that the richest countries all have similar (far from identical) structures (about the only exception is Singapore, and Singapore is tiny with a very particular dictatorship)? Or that the country that spends the most effort destroying all these things is in collapse (look at Canadian banks that whined about how regulation cost them money now that they are among the strongest in the world and can watch less regulated US banks fail). Tearing down the government also involves ignoring successes. Is acid rain still a problem? Lead in the atmosphere? The ozone hole? All of these problems are going away. Why? Regulation. The oil industry said they would go under without lead in gasoline, but it was just laziness and they profited repeatedly by taking it out. Other industries survived the necessary changes as well. No big deal. Dealing with global warming may be more difficult due to crazy politics (demonization of regulation), and the rise of China and India, but, with a will it can be done. The key is to realize that it is nowhere near as hard as the vested interests make it out (there is nothing to be done so we won't innovate, poor capitalists, we have to sit back and watch our profits increase, it would be impossible to do otherwise, we would all die).
Outside the atmosphere you start to really need fans if you have air. Otherwise you get hot spots that just get hotter.
Bush has done more for the comfort of America's enemies than anyone else in the world since his election. He recruited very effectively for terrorist groups, diminished American freedoms, espoused torture, and impoverished Americans. Treason does not have to be intentional or openly espoused.
Well it's not going to be the boss's lunch buddies. Probably one of those annoying asocial guys who claims to do work.
Unmonitored RAID of any level is minimally useful. You need to know if you have to swap a drive. And monitored RAID does not replace backups.