Another big problem is that in order to advance in the programming sphere, you have to be willing to swap jobs a lot - otherwise, no pay increase. After a while though, you wonder if you shouldn't start shopping for hair coloring agents, to cover that grey/white stuff you worked so hard to earn.
...Seriously, I don't think there can be significant progress in improving the plight of workers until we can find a way to plug the off-shoring loophole. I think this just might happen, just in time for automation generated unemployment to make the whole issue irrelevant.
Thinking ahead from there, I wonder if automation capable of generating unemployment might not race toward a similar state of irrelevance -- I mean, with no customers, you'd have to make things cheaper and cheaper until you end up giving away the fruits of automated labor away for free. It'd be a Star Trek economy, where the concept of money is gone like the buggy whip. You'd need some other way to measure your worth.
I'm not entirely convinced that would be a bad thing.
There's a lot of evidence that people in the middle ages ate far better than the people of the DPRK. We have several bookshelves of medieval recipes and documentation to that effect. (Research-heavy SCA household)
Their Windows Phone platform is good stuff -- the biggest problem with it is that it is late to the game.
There's more to it than that. At least one of the few phone hardware platforms (cough*htc*cough) that ran Windows Mobile were not up to the task. Last company I worked for had about 600 of these in the field, and at any one time over a third were down for hardware faults. They just weren't really all that well-made or reliable. If our experience was similar to that of others', it wouldn't have been long before the platform was effectively abandoned. Word-of-mouth is exceptionally powerful in this connected age.
Steve Ballmer Roams The Halls Of Microsoft Swinging A Baseball Bat
Microsoft's history is filled with stories about its rough culture, from it's "stack-ranking" employee reviews to how Bill Gates used to yell, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." Here's another one: Six-foot-two Steve Ballmer sometimes brings a baseball bat with him into meetings, and that's if he's feeling happy...
At the risk of invoking a sort of inductive-Godwin here, wasn't that a trick Al Capone used to do?
It sounds like fun if you use psychology instead of projectiles -- have a highly visible camera on a gimbal targeting the intruder, with a tiny red laser - accompanied by a playing a recording of a massive capacitor charging up. Text-to-speech voice saying "Target Acquired". Play subsonics with a good subwhoofer, say 10-18Hz sine wave to give them that good old fashioned sense of unease.
Parrot to burglar: "God is watching you". Burglar, bemused: "Who would teach a parrot to say that?" Parrot to burglar: "The same person who would name a Rottweiler "God".
Seriously, raise a good dog and let him sleep in the shop. If he lets his territory be violated by a burglar, then it's someone the dog already knows.
I wonder why on earth, when he finally ran out of gas, did he have to run into a ditch. I tend to agree with Gription. I'm gonna call BS on this story, too.
Ever try to steer a car equipped with power steering, when the engine is off? I have. He's lucky he made it into the ditch.
Well, you can argue all day about this, or simply run the test again with a different reporter. There are a lot of motoring journalists who would jump at the chance, I'd bet.
So not wanting offspring due to the Life Ruination they cause is unreasonable according to you? Perhaps becoming a parent induces a sort of mild mental illness.
Having kids costs you all of your money, all of your time, and most of your sleep. Thing is, I was happy to pay that. My kids are worth it.
I wouldn't say it's a mental illness, just elevated levels of serotonin and oxytocin.
(1) Social Security is paid for. It is not leading to collapse. (2) Social Security was paid for by the old people who paid into it all their working lives. (3) Young people are just starting to pay for their share, it's just being deferred.
Space drive, not atmosphere drive. Space. Vacuum. *gasp* no air. If it uses air, it's not a space drive. Gotta have some reaction mass, somewhere, even if it's coming from the walls of the maser.
Why not fit PCs with an automotive style ignition lock? You could have just another car key on your keyring. Modern ones have embedded codes. You could even go farther and embed an RSA-style code generator in the key. You wouldn't need a display or a button to press, since you're downloading a code to the ignition lock anyway.
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Another big problem is that in order to advance in the programming sphere, you have to be willing to swap jobs a lot - otherwise, no pay increase. After a while though, you wonder if you shouldn't start shopping for hair coloring agents, to cover that grey /white stuff you worked so hard to earn.
"Yes, computers do take away jobs" I said to the farmer. "But you could say that about the Tractor, too."
...Seriously, I don't think there can be significant progress in improving the plight of workers until we can find a way to plug the off-shoring loophole. I think this just might happen, just in time for automation generated unemployment to make the whole issue irrelevant.
Thinking ahead from there, I wonder if automation capable of generating unemployment might not race toward a similar state of irrelevance -- I mean, with no customers, you'd have to make things cheaper and cheaper until you end up giving away the fruits of automated labor away for free. It'd be a Star Trek economy, where the concept of money is gone like the buggy whip. You'd need some other way to measure your worth.
I'm not entirely convinced that would be a bad thing.
being a 50+ year-old IT worker...
Try it at 60+.
Have some sympathy for the rest of us illiterate slobs.
No.
There's a lot of evidence that people in the middle ages ate far better than the people of the DPRK. We have several bookshelves of medieval recipes and documentation to that effect. (Research-heavy SCA household)
In technology, a strategy of "lets play chase" seldom works, unless you have a lot of money to throw away to ...
oh, hang on...
Their Windows Phone platform is good stuff -- the biggest problem with it is that it is late to the game.
There's more to it than that. At least one of the few phone hardware platforms (cough*htc*cough) that ran Windows Mobile were not up to the task. Last company I worked for had about 600 of these in the field, and at any one time over a third were down for hardware faults. They just weren't really all that well-made or reliable. If our experience was similar to that of others', it wouldn't have been long before the platform was effectively abandoned. Word-of-mouth is exceptionally powerful in this connected age.
Steve Ballmer Roams The Halls Of Microsoft Swinging A Baseball Bat
Microsoft's history is filled with stories about its rough culture, from it's "stack-ranking" employee reviews to how Bill Gates used to yell, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." Here's another one: Six-foot-two Steve Ballmer sometimes brings a baseball bat with him into meetings, and that's if he's feeling happy...
At the risk of invoking a sort of inductive-Godwin here, wasn't that a trick Al Capone used to do?
It sounds like fun if you use psychology instead of projectiles -- have a highly visible camera on a gimbal targeting the intruder, with a tiny red laser - accompanied by a playing a recording of a massive capacitor charging up. Text-to-speech voice saying "Target Acquired". Play subsonics with a good subwhoofer, say 10-18Hz sine wave to give them that good old fashioned sense of unease.
Parrot to burglar: "God is watching you".
Burglar, bemused: "Who would teach a parrot to say that?"
Parrot to burglar: "The same person who would name a Rottweiler "God".
Seriously, raise a good dog and let him sleep in the shop. If he lets his territory be violated by a burglar, then it's someone the dog already knows.
...'99 Ford Ranger's emergency brake... is in fact just a separate actuator for the main rear drum brakes ...
99 Ford Rangers used drum brakes? Seriously?
Ok, I just looked it up, they did.
That's so archaic...
I wonder why on earth, when he finally ran out of gas, did he have to run into a ditch. I tend to agree with Gription. I'm gonna call BS on this story, too.
Ever try to steer a car equipped with power steering, when the engine is off? I have. He's lucky he made it into the ditch.
A spreadsheet is something a user uses....
You, sir or madam, have just made my day.
I will repeat that as needed.
(talk about re-usable code...)
http://www.ais.com/Xess/xess5_product_sheet.html
Whirlpool, MIT Journal, Ars Technica in a pinch. The Reg is a favourite.
What greater waste of time do you need?
Well, you can argue all day about this, or simply run the test again with a different reporter. There are a lot of motoring journalists who would jump at the chance, I'd bet.
How do I get rid of all those incriminating posts from all that time I wasted on /. while I was at work?
Log out and sign up with a different nick.
So not wanting offspring due to the Life Ruination they cause is unreasonable according to you? Perhaps becoming a parent induces a sort of mild mental illness.
Having kids costs you all of your money, all of your time, and most of your sleep.
Thing is, I was happy to pay that. My kids are worth it.
I wouldn't say it's a mental illness, just elevated levels of serotonin and oxytocin.
(1) Social Security is paid for. It is not leading to collapse.
(2) Social Security was paid for by the old people who paid into it all their working lives.
(3) Young people are just starting to pay for their share, it's just being deferred.
Discuss.
WWWWW?
(What would Will Wheaton want?)
Bravo, Joe. It's another water carburetor, and your explanation is succinct and to the point. Props.
Space drive, not atmosphere drive. Space. Vacuum. *gasp* no air. If it uses air, it's not a space drive.
Gotta have some reaction mass, somewhere, even if it's coming from the walls of the maser.
Why not fit PCs with an automotive style ignition lock? You could have just another car key on your keyring. Modern ones have embedded codes. You could even go farther and embed an RSA-style code generator in the key. You wouldn't need a display or a button to press, since you're downloading a code to the ignition lock anyway.