Good question, but I prefer questions I know the answers to. Corporate short-term thinking is ruining, well, everything, and I have no idea what to do with that (not being the king).
Now, my question is: what happened to that money they saved? Even a small portion of the money saved over the years could be used to upgrade ancient systems to modern standards.
Yeah, or you could use it to hire a second pool-boy, no?
Now my question: What does upgrading IE have to do with enhancing shareholder value this quarter?
Raspberry Pi? Sounds like a plan for a rather cheap, capable repeater bridge to me, even if I don't feel like replacing my dinosaur 54GL. And if temperature is any indication (hint: it is), it's a heck of a lot more power efficient too.
I think your outrage is appropriate, but your conclusion is I think a little off (if I'm understanding it).
The problem, as I see it, is that we take people in for jobs who cannot reasonably quit -- cheap STEM labor. This drives down the price for labor in these fields both for the H1B holders and for US citizens in these fields as well. It is a system that is manifestly advantageous for the companies involved; but disadvantageous for their workers.
I do think the missing piece here is a path to citizenship (yes, there already exists a narrow, winding, trap-laden path). I don't think the problem would be so vexing if the workers involved could leave their posts at the end of three to six years without leaving (and draining that talent from) this country.
So, not "H1B's for all", so much as "green cards for all (or at least most) successful H1B holders as a brass ring.
This is pretty much how it went down all over western Europe (Italy, I'm lookin' at you) when cell phones did an end-run against heavily regulated landlines. Sure, you could wait 6 months for phone service... or you can have this!
Now it's euros, not time, but the song's more-or-less the same.
Not addressing the rape here, but the tech... It's striking, I think, that we still frame the conversations "The People", with cameras (social media), and "Big Brother", with cameras. But it's all just data, isn't it? And every side gets a chance to try to obtain and to frame that data. I wonder if London didn't waste a bunch of cash installing their panopticon when crowd-sourcing seems to be getting the job done so nicely.
Q: How many slashdotters does it take to change a light-bulb?
A: One hundred. One to actually change the light-bulb, and ninety-nine to stand around saying "I could have done that."
... That's what I absolutely love about my phone camera... Go ahead and smash it; the photo's already auto-uploaded.
Of course, later, when I'm running for president and those *other* pix show up, it's gonna be mighty awkward.
Surprised that in so many pages of comments this isn't coming up more often. You can buy a whole lot of kit for 300 bucks, and it's got blinkenlights.
Or, for that matter, any of a zillion SoC demo kits. Think outside the (beige) box...
Winston thought he'd found a gap in Big Brother's surveillance net too; turns out it was just what they wanted him to think.
Tin foil still works, though.
It's not exactly something wonderful unless you are looking forward to what they are creating... bloating, weight gain... damage to the body, even risk of death, loss of work... Waking up every morning "fatter" than the day before
Are we talking about pregnancy or a career in programming?
Ward Moore: Bring the Jubilee, or Greener than you Think. In the latter, the world is brought to an end by a feckless fool, in the former, one man's world is ended when he fouls up a critical historical event and winds up creating an alternate.
Tucker's Year of the Quiet Sun, a very lonely ending.
Greg Bear's Forge of God gave me actual nightmares over a period of weeks. The utter inevitability of the ending of the world (the Neutronium/Anti-neutronium timer) gave me the notion of what it'd be like to have untreatable cancer.
If you get your music from your local ClearChannel station, or via American Idol / the Musical Industrial Complex, sure, you get homogenized pap. But there is good music out there. It's just not presented to you any more... you've got to dig a bit. Go listen to a few local acts, or tune in when you watch a good indy flic (how I discovered Tom Waits). It's out there and it's worth finding -- as much or more variety as there's ever been, but better hidden.
Launched in '82, it was the worlds best stab at a large system that woud (according to Wikipedia)
From its early days, users could make online purchases, make train reservations, check stock prices, search the telephone directory, have a mail box, and chat in a similar way to that now made possible by the Internet
And Minitel (a French system), is still around. Again, from Wikipedia
In February 2009, France Telecom indicates the Minitel network still has 10 million monthly connections
... and what do we do when the traditional gatekeepers fail us? Same damned thing. Read critically. Read multiple points of view, including those who disagree with you, and draw your own conclusions. Nobody can do that for you, and no system will do that for you.
Physicians will be able to input a patient's symptoms and Watson will use data from a patient's electronic health record, insurance claims data, and worldwide clinical research to come up with both a diagnosis and treatment based on evidence-based medicine
Then, the system cancel the patient's policy millions of times faster and more accurately than humans doing the same job might.
Several substances were used, as documented in Led Zeppelins famous work "Led Zeppelin Traveling Riverside Blues":
Squeeze my lemon 'til the juice runs down my leg
Squeeze it so hard, I'll fall right out of bed
Squeeze my lemon, 'til the juice runs down my leg
Spoken: I wonder if you know what I'm talkin' about
Oh, but the way that you squeeze it girl
I swear I'm gonna fall right out of bed
She's a good rider
She's my kindhearted lady
I'm gonna take my rider by my side
I said her front teeth are lined with gold
She's gotta mortgage on my body, got a lien on my soul
She's my brownskin sugar plum...
Net: scitechdaily.com
Mag: scientific american (dumbed down these days, but still a good read), the magazine "science", the magazine "nature" (both hard reads, but if you bull through, you'll be rewarded)
podcast: Science Friday, RadioLab (sometimes science-y, always fun).
I like working my way through the web of associations on amazon between books I've enjoyed (say "parasite rex") and books I might like ("Fever" (about the history of malaria)).
Ask a friend what his/her cool ref's are... start a salon where people bring in cool stuff they've read about.
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Good question, but I prefer questions I know the answers to. Corporate short-term thinking is ruining, well, everything, and I have no idea what to do with that (not being the king).
Now, my question is: what happened to that money they saved? Even a small portion of the money saved over the years could be used to upgrade ancient systems to modern standards.
Yeah, or you could use it to hire a second pool-boy, no?
Now my question: What does upgrading IE have to do with enhancing shareholder value this quarter?
Raspberry Pi? Sounds like a plan for a rather cheap, capable repeater bridge to me, even if I don't feel like replacing my dinosaur 54GL. And if temperature is any indication (hint: it is), it's a heck of a lot more power efficient too.
I think your outrage is appropriate, but your conclusion is I think a little off (if I'm understanding it). The problem, as I see it, is that we take people in for jobs who cannot reasonably quit -- cheap STEM labor. This drives down the price for labor in these fields both for the H1B holders and for US citizens in these fields as well. It is a system that is manifestly advantageous for the companies involved; but disadvantageous for their workers. I do think the missing piece here is a path to citizenship (yes, there already exists a narrow, winding, trap-laden path). I don't think the problem would be so vexing if the workers involved could leave their posts at the end of three to six years without leaving (and draining that talent from) this country. So, not "H1B's for all", so much as "green cards for all (or at least most) successful H1B holders as a brass ring.
This is pretty much how it went down all over western Europe (Italy, I'm lookin' at you) when cell phones did an end-run against heavily regulated landlines. Sure, you could wait 6 months for phone service ... or you can have this!
Now it's euros, not time, but the song's more-or-less the same.
Not addressing the rape here, but the tech ... It's striking, I think, that we still frame the conversations "The People", with cameras (social media), and "Big Brother", with cameras. But it's all just data, isn't it? And every side gets a chance to try to obtain and to frame that data. I wonder if London didn't waste a bunch of cash installing their panopticon when crowd-sourcing seems to be getting the job done so nicely.
Q: How many slashdotters does it take to change a light-bulb? A: One hundred. One to actually change the light-bulb, and ninety-nine to stand around saying "I could have done that."
... That's what I absolutely love about my phone camera ... Go ahead and smash it; the photo's already auto-uploaded.
Of course, later, when I'm running for president and those *other* pix show up, it's gonna be mighty awkward.
Surprised that in so many pages of comments this isn't coming up more often. You can buy a whole lot of kit for 300 bucks, and it's got blinkenlights. Or, for that matter, any of a zillion SoC demo kits. Think outside the (beige) box ...
Winston thought he'd found a gap in Big Brother's surveillance net too; turns out it was just what they wanted him to think. Tin foil still works, though.
And I have to agree with Dishevel, auto-rape is just too funny a concept to not laugh at.
Just cries out for an auto analogy, doesn't it?
It's not exactly something wonderful unless you are looking forward to what they are creating ... bloating, weight gain ... damage to the body, even risk of death, loss of work ... Waking up every morning "fatter" than the day before
Are we talking about pregnancy or a career in programming?
Sorry, can't treat your Ebola ... the drug sometimes causes stomach aches ...
Ward Moore: Bring the Jubilee, or Greener than you Think. In the latter, the world is brought to an end by a feckless fool, in the former, one man's world is ended when he fouls up a critical historical event and winds up creating an alternate. Tucker's Year of the Quiet Sun, a very lonely ending. Greg Bear's Forge of God gave me actual nightmares over a period of weeks. The utter inevitability of the ending of the world (the Neutronium/Anti-neutronium timer) gave me the notion of what it'd be like to have untreatable cancer.
If you get your music from your local ClearChannel station, or via American Idol / the Musical Industrial Complex, sure, you get homogenized pap. But there is good music out there. It's just not presented to you any more ... you've got to dig a bit. Go listen to a few local acts, or tune in when you watch a good indy flic (how I discovered Tom Waits).
It's out there and it's worth finding -- as much or more variety as there's ever been, but better hidden.
They're nerd rustling. Hence the (now trademarked) "Yahoo!"
And Minitel (a French system), is still around. Again, from Wikipedia
Caution: Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
... and what do we do when the traditional gatekeepers fail us? Same damned thing. Read critically. Read multiple points of view, including those who disagree with you, and draw your own conclusions. Nobody can do that for you, and no system will do that for you.
Physicians will be able to input a patient's symptoms and Watson will use data from a patient's electronic health record, insurance claims data, and worldwide clinical research to come up with both a diagnosis and treatment based on evidence-based medicine
Then, the system cancel the patient's policy millions of times faster and more accurately than humans doing the same job might.
Fax machine. Plug it in. It just works. Something computers still just dream of.
Net: scitechdaily.com Mag: scientific american (dumbed down these days, but still a good read), the magazine "science", the magazine "nature" (both hard reads, but if you bull through, you'll be rewarded) podcast: Science Friday, RadioLab (sometimes science-y, always fun). I like working my way through the web of associations on amazon between books I've enjoyed (say "parasite rex") and books I might like ("Fever" (about the history of malaria)). Ask a friend what his/her cool ref's are ... start a salon where people bring in cool stuff they've read about.
It's not "despite" controversy, it's "regardless". They're not struggling against public opinion, they just don't care.