Everyone tends to agree that Americans/Westerns have a hard time competing with outsourcing, due to the huge differences in labor costs between the first and third world. Fine.
But what I'm beginning to see is that the real problem is the cost of housing in the West.
Yes, everyone bitches about high gas prices, health costs, etc (which all seem tend to be trumpeted by politicians with alterior motives), but these won't bankrupt you. Housing can destroy you financially if you aren't careful.
If housing was cheaper, I would be okay making a lot less than I do now. However, I'd personally be screwed if I made much less than $100K (rent is over $2000/month in my very plain, old neighborhood in California). I don't really spend much on anything else.
I'm approaching middle-age, and this is the number-one factor that I face trying to safely raise a family. Frankly, health costs pale in comparison as to how much I have to pay even to rent a halfway safe home.
I think the financial industry has pulled a fast one on us, and are milking average folks dry. The environmentalists don't help either, with their 'smart growth' policies (i.e. 'no growth').
Amen, I looked into adding these multiline rows as well via XUL (not possible) and code changes (not trivial). Hell, I had I hard time even building the app, and I'm a bright guy:)
When I was in the military some years back, we were still using some test equipment with these tubes as displays. The subtle beauty of them is when the digits would cycle through a sequence, you'd notice the position/depth change as it changed to a new digit. Coupled with the fadeout of the deactivated digit, it was a fascinating to watch.
Went with AntiVir for now. AVG seemed nice as well, but apparently insists on running a background process/service when I manually scan a file. AntiVir would fully exit (though seems just a tad slower).
Yes, I know I can google this - no shit. However, interested in the opinions here. I'm tired of paying for Norton A/V, so what's the best freeware A/V scanner for Windows? Shell/app integration is not needed, just a standalone app with good and frequent def updates would be nice.
A joke, but they'd be sued by eBay if they did. A Lego sales site with the name "brickbay" was ordered not to use any name with "bay" in it.
Pretty pathetic of eBay in my opinion. And please no horseshit about "if a company doesn't defend their trademark... blah blah blahhhh" which has been repeated to death around here.
I hope everyone realizes that it's shit like this that gives environmentalism a bad name - and why regular guys like me vote against anyone who says they are environmentalists.
It's nice that we have (for the most part) stopped killing whales, but this is ridiculous. People need to get a life, and go protest something more important, like, say, the enslavement of 6 year old girls as prostitutes in Cambodia.
This is why I'm not particularly happy at the thought of world government - the average folks in U.S. would suffer as the third world attempts to fleece them "because they are rich".
And my family comes from a very modest background, so don't start harping on me about how spoiled we are. I'm the the first generation to rise above poverty.
People who make $100k a year do not neccessarily drive Lambo's either. In fact, I bet very FEW people who make $100k a year drive "great" cars - $100k a year in the US isn't ALL that much money. Especially if you're supporting a family.
Amen - in many/most parts of California, making $100K is barely enough to rent a halfway decent 3BR home and support a small family with a middle-class lifestyle. Heaven help you if you want to actually buy a home.
However, we would probably need to use a base 12 or base 60 counting system to take advantage of it. The Intelligent Designer should have given us 6 fingers on each hand
Well actually, I read about this in the Universal History of Numbers. Counting in 12 and 60 is quite easy for people if you use your thumb to count each of the 3 segments of the other 4 fingers. If you use the 5 fingers of your other hand to keep track of each group of 12 - tada, you have 60. They theorize this is why the Babylonians used base 60, and we have 360 degrees in a circle, etc.
If anyone wonders where that came from, it because many telephone marketers used to be located in Nebraska, and hence had different rules for local purchases.
and...
If anyone wonders why Nebraska? It's because is was/is the home to Strategic Air Command, and thus had the best telecommunication infrastructure around for a long time...
Look, I love TBird, been using it for over 2 years, but I tried to fix an issue once, and it was such a PAIN IN THE ASS to even build, let alone actually understand the code...
The real world images above the icons look like the photorealic icons used in OS X (no shit, yes they're real, but i.e. the lighting, camera angle, etc.)
A big problem I have with this deal is that Google is not just building office space on federal land but also housing (up to 2,000 units)
While I understand your position, the fact that California (especially the Bay Area) has ASTRONOMICAL HOUSING COSTS due to the housing bubble, I totally support Google's efforts.
Look folks, if a very successful company is willing to do all this to keep high-paying jobs in America, good for them. (yes I know they have Google India, etc.)
The number one factor facing many 30-something engineers is that they can't get a decent salary to pay for family-friendly housing.
Our state gov't is completely fucked economically as it is, and it's not because of the big, bad corporations...
My new filing technique is unstoppable..
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Or better yet, I won't even listen to music anymore. I'm so pissed off and disenchanted with the whole industry I'll just sit and listen to the birds outside my window...or laugh like a brook as it trips and falls over stones on it's way
The more you create on your own, the broader and better your taste in music/art/etc becomes.
Fuck the music industry, humanity has created great music for thousands of years without their nonsense..
Amen, the computer is being used to justify increased class sizes and less-qualified teachers.
I was at a lecture at a U.C. this year, and the (psychology) researcher demonstrated her findings that tv and computer-based animated/interactive demonstrations we NOT effective for those people who did not already have good spatial and abstract modelling skills. I.e. books and chalkboards were just as effective. The fancy simulations did not compensate for the lack of these skills.
Hence, I wonder how useful this would really be for education.
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Sure, of course, but you're in the minority. Major illness will certainly cause all sorts of financial troubles.
Hope it worked out for you BTW.
Everyone tends to agree that Americans/Westerns have a hard time competing with outsourcing, due to the huge differences in labor costs between the first and third world. Fine.
But what I'm beginning to see is that the real problem is the cost of housing in the West.
Yes, everyone bitches about high gas prices, health costs, etc (which all seem tend to be trumpeted by politicians with alterior motives), but these won't bankrupt you. Housing can destroy you financially if you aren't careful.
If housing was cheaper, I would be okay making a lot less than I do now. However, I'd personally be screwed if I made much less than $100K (rent is over $2000/month in my very plain, old neighborhood in California). I don't really spend much on anything else.
I'm approaching middle-age, and this is the number-one factor that I face trying to safely raise a family. Frankly, health costs pale in comparison as to how much I have to pay even to rent a halfway safe home.
I think the financial industry has pulled a fast one on us, and are milking average folks dry. The environmentalists don't help either, with their 'smart growth' policies (i.e. 'no growth').
Amen, I looked into adding these multiline rows as well via XUL (not possible) and code changes (not trivial). Hell, I had I hard time even building the app, and I'm a bright guy :)
...at the local university I have an inherited
Dude, you're the man - a whole university?
As a Lisp programmer, I chuckle at the artificial distinction between light, lenses, and refraction.
"And the winner is...
a GIF screencap of that dude from Pulp Fiction.
Congratulations, Hamid Franklin on a job well done. *clap-clap-clap*"
When I was in the military some years back, we were still using some test equipment with these tubes as displays. The subtle beauty of them is when the digits would cycle through a sequence, you'd notice the position/depth change as it changed to a new digit. Coupled with the fadeout of the deactivated digit, it was a fascinating to watch.
Went with AntiVir for now. AVG seemed nice as well, but apparently insists on running a background process/service when I manually scan a file. AntiVir would fully exit (though seems just a tad slower).
kthxbye,
boomgopher
Yes, I know I can google this - no shit. However, interested in the opinions here. I'm tired of paying for Norton A/V, so what's the best freeware A/V scanner for Windows? Shell/app integration is not needed, just a standalone app with good and frequent def updates would be nice.
xoxo,
boomgopher
It's just like reading Mary Worth in the comics!
A joke, but they'd be sued by eBay if they did. A Lego sales site with the name "brickbay" was ordered not to use any name with "bay" in it.
Pretty pathetic of eBay in my opinion.
And please no horseshit about "if a company doesn't defend their trademark... blah blah blahhhh" which has been repeated to death around here.
I hope everyone realizes that it's shit like this that gives environmentalism a bad name - and why regular guys like me vote against anyone who says they are environmentalists.
It's nice that we have (for the most part) stopped killing whales, but this is ridiculous. People need to get a life, and go protest something more important, like, say, the enslavement of 6 year old girls as prostitutes in Cambodia.
This is why I'm not particularly happy at the thought of world government - the average folks in U.S. would suffer as the third world attempts to fleece them "because they are rich".
And my family comes from a very modest background, so don't start harping on me about how spoiled we are. I'm the the first generation to rise above poverty.
People who make $100k a year do not neccessarily drive Lambo's either. In fact, I bet very FEW people who make $100k a year drive "great" cars - $100k a year in the US isn't ALL that much money. Especially if you're supporting a family.
Amen - in many/most parts of California, making $100K is barely enough to rent a halfway decent 3BR home and support a small family with a middle-class lifestyle. Heaven help you if you want to actually buy a home.
However, we would probably need to use a base 12 or base 60 counting system to take advantage of it. The Intelligent Designer should have given us 6 fingers on each hand
Well actually, I read about this in the Universal History of Numbers. Counting in 12 and 60 is quite easy for people if you use your thumb to count each of the 3 segments of the other 4 fingers. If you use the 5 fingers of your other hand to keep track of each group of 12 - tada, you have 60. They theorize this is why the Babylonians used base 60, and we have 360 degrees in a circle, etc.
You're the man, thanks bud.
I need to buy one, and I'd like to avoid the ndiswrapper stuff, and googling for chipsets, etc is taking forever.
Anyone know a model that "just works" with Ubuntu?
For those of you who don't get it:
If anyone wonders where that came from, it because many telephone marketers used to be located in Nebraska, and hence had different rules for local purchases.
and...
If anyone wonders why Nebraska? It's because is was/is the home to Strategic Air Command, and thus had the best telecommunication infrastructure around for a long time...
It's too fucking hard to build that behemoth??
Look, I love TBird, been using it for over 2 years, but I tried to fix an issue once, and it was such a PAIN IN THE ASS to even build, let alone actually understand the code...
I think it's kind of cool how in the Lisa ad below:
http://www.jagshouse.com/images/lisa4.jpg
The real world images above the icons look like the photorealic icons used in OS X (no shit, yes they're real, but i.e. the lighting, camera angle, etc.)
Ia! Ia! __cntlzw... oh wait - *ahem* sorry..
A big problem I have with this deal is that Google is not just building office space on federal land but also housing (up to 2,000 units)
While I understand your position, the fact that California (especially the Bay Area) has ASTRONOMICAL HOUSING COSTS due to the housing bubble, I totally support Google's efforts.
Look folks, if a very successful company is willing to do all this to keep high-paying jobs in America, good for them. (yes I know they have Google India, etc.)
The number one factor facing many 30-something engineers is that they can't get a decent salary to pay for family-friendly housing. Our state gov't is completely fucked economically as it is, and it's not because of the big, bad corporations...
It's so stupid it's hilarious:
My new filing technique is unstoppable
Or better yet, I won't even listen to music anymore. I'm so pissed off and disenchanted with the whole industry I'll just sit and listen to the birds outside my window...or laugh like a brook as it trips and falls over stones on it's way
The more you create on your own, the broader and better your taste in music/art/etc becomes.
Fuck the music industry, humanity has created great music for thousands of years without their nonsense..
Amen, the computer is being used to justify increased class sizes and less-qualified teachers.
I was at a lecture at a U.C. this year, and the (psychology) researcher demonstrated her findings that tv and computer-based animated/interactive demonstrations we NOT effective for those people who did not already have good spatial and abstract modelling skills. I.e. books and chalkboards were just as effective. The fancy simulations did not compensate for the lack of these skills.
Hence, I wonder how useful this would really be for education.