You don't expect the democratic fanboys at/. to understand or believe that do you? If someone says anything remotely anti liberal or pro conservative they're labled a nazi around here.
* The average salary for teachers in 2004-05 was $47,750, about 2 percent higher than in 1994-95, after adjustment for inflation.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2006). Digest of Education Statistics, 2005 (NCES 2006-030) http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=28
Teachers and teachers unions have been spouting this "we're so poor" crap for so long people believe it but it's simply not true.
We can hope that more CEO level people start seeing things that way soon. If "rural outsourcing" can get a better foothold and take off maybe other industries will catch on to the idea as well. We need more entrepreneur's and/or VC's to have faith in 'if you build it they will come' to setup shop in rural areas, like Gateway did.
meanwhile the sofware industry and now biotechnology and engineering services industry is doing pretty well and providing services to not only their countrymen but to rest of the world too.
The managers justifying moving jobs offshore certainly think so. Everyone on the front lines who actually deals with those offshore services can't stand it though. From people trying to get customer service from someone who barely speaks English to people who have to work with the substandard code or testing from those offshore companies. More companies all the time are waking up to the fact that in the long run it's not worth offshoring. They get lower quality goods and services and their customers are letting them know it. The lower costs look good on the managers spreadsheet for the next quarter but it doesn't work long term.
Go ahead and check out the rest of the world, gun bans have preceded every holocaust and governmental massacre world wide. Check out Australia which has had a major increase in violent crime since banning handguns. Check out England which has a rising violent crime rate.
You'll forgive me if I don't take driving advice from someone with 3 accidents, presumably your fault based on your post. After well over 600,000 accident free miles I'll just have to rely on my experience that speeding does NOT cause accidents. Poor drivers cause, and get into, accidents.
It sounds like you need to move to another area. You could easily make over 40k / year as a software tester in the Seattle area even without any test experience. Experienced, lead level, testers easily pull in $85k or more around here and the job market is really hot.
and the "new blood" Democrats who got elected last night who are anti-abortion, pro-gun, and in some cases, pro-Iraq War (Lieberman).
If there were enough of those kind of Democrats and they truely believed that and acted on it AND didn't vote the party line the Republicans would probably never get control of the Congress again.
Sadly there's little hope that this batch of Democrats as a whole will not only stop the booming economy but will probably send us into another Clintonesque recession.
Granted, the correct answer is to cut government spending, but that's something that will take a lot more political muscle to pull off.
There's also no chance in hell that the Democrats will do anythingto cut government spending and everyone knows it. The Republicans have been as bad as the Democrats at that in the last several years but the Dems will never do it. You can bet they're already working on which taxes to increase and by how much and what gun control laws they can try to push through.
Cameras like that and the Panasonic FZ30/50 have many manual features similar to a DSLR but still aren't in the same league as far as photo quality goes. They're still hamstrung by fairly tiny sensor that is prone to noise anytime you have to go above ISO 100.
A P&S with you is better than the DSLR but if your pictures from a P&S look the same as those from a DSLR then you're better off with a P&S. People who are good with a camera will get a lot more out of a DSLR than can be done with any P&S.
If you just want snapshots get the point and shoot, if you want photographs get the DSLR.
It would do a damn thing in the long run if everyone switched to *nix or OSX, and if OSX 10.5 has support for Windows binaries, that might encourage more people to "stick it to Microsoft."
WINE / etc and virtualization are also options. Maybe less so in the Enterprise field, but for personal use, those are viable options.
Windows compatability sure worked well for OS/22 didn't it? Maybe you don't remember those OS/2 ads claiming "a better Windows, than Windows" more stability, better performance and so on. Where did it get them? General consumers aren't going to buy something else to run Windows apps when they can just run Windows.
A better way is to build cross platform apps like Mozilla, Thunderbird and Open Office so people get used to using them and can continue to use them on Linux plus get whatever other advantages there are with Linux that matter to them.
Since Gollum was CGI do you really think it will be hard to show them as younger looking? And how much "younger" do you think someone hundreds of years old is going to look when you've only gone back 30 or 40 years? Same for Gandalf, no reason for him to look any different in The Hobbit than LotR.
Anecdotal evidence is an informal account of evidence in the form of an anecdote, or hearsay. The term is often used in contrast to scientific evidence, especially evidence-based medicine, which are types of formal accounts. Anecdotal evidence is often unscientific because it cannot be investigated using the scientific method.
Or just run Firefox off a thumbdrive so you don't have to worry about encrypting the contents to keep the BOFH snooping. Or even better just remote to your home machine so no traces are downloaded to the company network at all. If all those avenues are blocked, get another job.
What liberal arts university have you been locked away in for years? No one who lives in the real world and actually works for a living would have that mentality.
Seriously, how much would it cost just to get the Russians to fork over some of their old-school-but-reliable technology.
We may have "won" the cold war, but they definitely won the "spacecraft that aren't overly-engineered death traps" war.
And how many times exactly did the Russians put people on the moon or orbit the moon? Why should we listen to them instead of former NASA engineers who did send men to the moon?
In other words it sounds like they aren't trying to cater to the teenage/kid market, they want middle/upper middle class adults as their clients. That probably reduces a lot of the problems other gaming cafes deal with and lets them charge more for similar services, and offer other more expensive services. Kind of a modern replacment for the old local bar people used to go to after work.
Maybe, but we don't know his side of the story either. From the summary "For a while now my neighborhood has had to deal with an elderly neighbor who has displayed a slightly paranoid attitude towards myself and the fellow younger-adults of the neighborhood, believing us to be attempting to harass him in our day-to-day activities.", that's just the kids point of view, maybe their idea of harmless day-to-day activities involves cruising up and down the block blasting (c)rap music and the old man and the rest of the neighborhood has had enough and that's the reason no one has asked him to stop.
They probably don't have to much trouble hiring new developers from outside of Redmond, but there are a lot of very talented people in the Seattle area who have absolutely no desire to work for MS or to go back to work for MS. I suspect the further you get from Redmond the more glamerous working at Microsoft must look to many people.
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Thanks for the tip. Holding down the space bar to drag the image around works in Paint.NET too.
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You don't expect the democratic fanboys at /. to understand or believe that do you? If someone says anything remotely anti liberal or pro conservative they're labled a nazi around here.
What a load of crap. You honestly think it's difficult to live on $40k+ working 9 months out of the year???
http://www.osba.org/lrelatns/salary/rankings.htm
Teachers and teachers unions have been spouting this "we're so poor" crap for so long people believe it but it's simply not true.Probably right after the Democrats get enough votes to ban personal ownership of firearms.
We can hope that more CEO level people start seeing things that way soon. If "rural outsourcing" can get a better foothold and take off maybe other industries will catch on to the idea as well. We need more entrepreneur's and/or VC's to have faith in 'if you build it they will come' to setup shop in rural areas, like Gateway did.
The managers justifying moving jobs offshore certainly think so. Everyone on the front lines who actually deals with those offshore services can't stand it though. From people trying to get customer service from someone who barely speaks English to people who have to work with the substandard code or testing from those offshore companies. More companies all the time are waking up to the fact that in the long run it's not worth offshoring. They get lower quality goods and services and their customers are letting them know it. The lower costs look good on the managers spreadsheet for the next quarter but it doesn't work long term.
Go ahead and check out the rest of the world, gun bans have preceded every holocaust and governmental massacre world wide. Check out Australia which has had a major increase in violent crime since banning handguns. Check out England which has a rising violent crime rate.
You'll forgive me if I don't take driving advice from someone with 3 accidents, presumably your fault based on your post. After well over 600,000 accident free miles I'll just have to rely on my experience that speeding does NOT cause accidents. Poor drivers cause, and get into, accidents.
Maybe they're hinting at doing the Silmarillion...but probably not.
It sounds like you need to move to another area. You could easily make over 40k / year as a software tester in the Seattle area even without any test experience. Experienced, lead level, testers easily pull in $85k or more around here and the job market is really hot.
If there were enough of those kind of Democrats and they truely believed that and acted on it AND didn't vote the party line the Republicans would probably never get control of the Congress again.
Sadly there's little hope that this batch of Democrats as a whole will not only stop the booming economy but will probably send us into another Clintonesque recession.
There's also no chance in hell that the Democrats will do anythingto cut government spending and everyone knows it. The Republicans have been as bad as the Democrats at that in the last several years but the Dems will never do it. You can bet they're already working on which taxes to increase and by how much and what gun control laws they can try to push through.
Cameras like that and the Panasonic FZ30/50 have many manual features similar to a DSLR but still aren't in the same league as far as photo quality goes. They're still hamstrung by fairly tiny sensor that is prone to noise anytime you have to go above ISO 100.
If you just want snapshots get the point and shoot, if you want photographs get the DSLR.
Windows compatability sure worked well for OS/22 didn't it? Maybe you don't remember those OS/2 ads claiming "a better Windows, than Windows" more stability, better performance and so on. Where did it get them? General consumers aren't going to buy something else to run Windows apps when they can just run Windows.
A better way is to build cross platform apps like Mozilla, Thunderbird and Open Office so people get used to using them and can continue to use them on Linux plus get whatever other advantages there are with Linux that matter to them.
There aren't Open Source marketing people? Developers give away their time and skill, why not marketers?
Since Gollum was CGI do you really think it will be hard to show them as younger looking? And how much "younger" do you think someone hundreds of years old is going to look when you've only gone back 30 or 40 years? Same for Gandalf, no reason for him to look any different in The Hobbit than LotR.
Yes, it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
Or just run Firefox off a thumbdrive so you don't have to worry about encrypting the contents to keep the BOFH snooping. Or even better just remote to your home machine so no traces are downloaded to the company network at all. If all those avenues are blocked, get another job.
What liberal arts university have you been locked away in for years? No one who lives in the real world and actually works for a living would have that mentality.
We may have "won" the cold war, but they definitely won the "spacecraft that aren't overly-engineered death traps" war.
And how many times exactly did the Russians put people on the moon or orbit the moon? Why should we listen to them instead of former NASA engineers who did send men to the moon?
In other words it sounds like they aren't trying to cater to the teenage/kid market, they want middle/upper middle class adults as their clients. That probably reduces a lot of the problems other gaming cafes deal with and lets them charge more for similar services, and offer other more expensive services. Kind of a modern replacment for the old local bar people used to go to after work.
Maybe, but we don't know his side of the story either. From the summary "For a while now my neighborhood has had to deal with an elderly neighbor who has displayed a slightly paranoid attitude towards myself and the fellow younger-adults of the neighborhood, believing us to be attempting to harass him in our day-to-day activities.", that's just the kids point of view, maybe their idea of harmless day-to-day activities involves cruising up and down the block blasting (c)rap music and the old man and the rest of the neighborhood has had enough and that's the reason no one has asked him to stop.
Sure looks like it's Microsofts fault. Damn them for not fixing hardware problems.
They probably don't have to much trouble hiring new developers from outside of Redmond, but there are a lot of very talented people in the Seattle area who have absolutely no desire to work for MS or to go back to work for MS. I suspect the further you get from Redmond the more glamerous working at Microsoft must look to many people.
Thanks for the tip. Holding down the space bar to drag the image around works in Paint.NET too.