In all seriousness, check out this quote from the article
"The decision was a victory for public-interest groups and consumers who flooded the FCC with more than 2 million letters, e-mails and faxes criticizing the regulations."
I find it more interesting that we had a say in that decision. I wonder how many of those were/.er's?
Generally somewhere between 250-300 km (where air drag starts to become important) and 1000 km (where the inner van allen radiation belt starts to get serious). Low earth orbit usually implies a modest inclination to the equator, (i.e., the lowest achievable from the launch site). The Space Shuttle flies in low Earth orbit.
For more information see this article from ScienceWorld
They have. It's called a dishwasher. Your keyboard does not contain any electical parts, you can wash them in the dishwasher, just make surey you dry them upside down, and dry them completely.
What are the working conditions for the average employee? Is the average employee working an 8 hour day, a 10 hour day, or longer?
What are the common positions available in India? What is the average salary by position? What is the average cost of a one bedroom apartment in a major city? Relative to the cost of living (specifically in the cities), are these jobs considered middle class?
Does the average employee have the freedom to change jobs, or to move? Or is room and board provided as a part of the total compensation package? If it's provided, does this limit people's ability to advocate for themselves on the job?
How much influence do management\ownership have on the average workers life?
I work with some nice folks from over seas, so I have bit of an insider's perspective. A co-worker of mine, who's originally from India and I discussed this very subject just the other day.
In our conversation we discussed the conditions of the average citizen. Specifically how it related to our own temporary employees. The company I work for does business with a rather large, shall remain nameless for the sake of objectivity and professional courtesy type of outsourcing firm. Among other things, we talked about the living conditions in her country.
Narrowing our focus to the cities, where most of these jobs are located, I found out roughly how much it costs to rent an apartment, buy food, and so on. We compared those expenses with how much I am paying for my apartment, what food expenses were, and so on. Althought it's not very scientific, I was a bit shocked to find that the facts of the situation did not match my expectations.
I was surprised to discover that not only did the employees doing work for us in India did not make enough money to be considered middle class, but they had relatively little freedom to change jobs. They recieve rent (four people to one apartment), food, and a salary. It's not that they are living in poverty, but by no means can they be considered middle class, even by India standards.
The problem as I see it, is that people's entire lives are dependent upon their relationship to the outsourcing firm in question.
Someone out there is making huge money off of this, and it's not the people who are actually working these jobs. People more knowledgeable, and wiser than myself have commented on the relationship our executives have with the outsourcing firm. I am not making any accusations, but I would love to see the actual data.
I'm new to making decent posts, so if you got this far, thanks kindly for reading this, feel free to respond however you see fit.
Thanks much,
SHDG
Here's a link to the local paper, picture of the kid. And the standard idiotic comments from his neighbors. Not real interesting, but I can garuntee you he did not write the original code.
Is this perhaps a profile issue? I ran across this the other day. Uninstalled, reinstalled under local admin, copied admin profile to default user. And bang, no more message.
Tactics vs. Strategy.
The beauty of chess is due to the fact that cold calculations are not the sole factor in determining the outcome of a game. There is a certain amount of intuition that a machine can not mimic. I don't claim to understand the sublties of this, but am intruiged by the fact that Mr Kasparov can actually beat this machine. It shows that there is more to the game than raw processing power. It takes an artful mind as well.
First things first, you can not legislate against stupidity, nor carelessness.
Don't like Real Player, don't use it. However, an argument can be made for opting IN to ads vs. having to opt OUT of marketing ploys. I feel that for too long the burden has fallen on the consumer, this RealPlayer article may not be a good example to use in this argument.
Perhaps this argument would be better made against telemarketers and spammers, as a thourough user would never install the software without scrolling down. However, it took me a few installs to figure this out (read my handle, and you'll understand) with RealPlayer, and I was upset about it at the time. But I learned to be more vigilant with regards to what I install on my machine. Although, having limited experience, I can not tell for certain what some software is doing on my machine (see Windows XP) I would like to see better disclosure regarding what software I buy, is doing on my machine. None of this crap about providing a service, it's a product.
With regards to spam, and other so called "marketing" (it's not a market if you send it to 100 million different random addresses, hoping to find someone stupid enough to want to see barnyard animals get it on with hot young comely lasses, not to mention hiding yourself behind fake headers, etc.) ploys, I would like to legislate the difference between the retail environment, and the private sphere.
I should at least be able to sit in my own apartment, and not be bothered to buy something. When I am out looking to make a purchase, it's one thing, but when I am not, it has the opposite effect on me. If I see something tasty and shiny in the grocery store, I may buy it. If someone makes me get up from the couch during the Simpsons, to sell me the same thing, I may yell at them.
I have to run now, someone stupid, has done something stupid, yet again. And I have to go fix it.
Speaking of stupid, anyone need a good help desker? I don't eat much, and I don't know the difference between right and wrong!
Link to a story from the local paper, about the many options available in Downtown Minneapolis. I especially like the comments from the fancy hotel manager. Something to the effect of "this shouldn't be!" At least he is well informed. I am going to get the laptop out and go see what I can find. Sounds like a fun way to kill an afternoon.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/789/3585467.htm l
I think that less people should vote. Look around yourself the next time you are stuck in traffic. You want THOSE people deciding our country's future? The less people vote, the more value my vote has. Of course, evil vs. better dressed evil, is still evil.
Those who vote decide nothing,
Those who count the votes decide everything.
Slashdot Mirror
In all seriousness, check out this quote from the article
/.er's?
"The decision was a victory for public-interest groups and consumers who flooded the FCC with more than 2 million letters, e-mails and faxes criticizing the regulations."
I find it more interesting that we had a say in that decision. I wonder how many of those were
Generally somewhere between 250-300 km (where air drag starts to become important) and 1000 km (where the inner van allen radiation belt starts to get serious). Low earth orbit usually implies a modest inclination to the equator, (i.e., the lowest achievable from the launch site). The Space Shuttle flies in low Earth orbit.
For more information see this article from ScienceWorld
I use one in my office, which is shared with two other people. It definately smells better, and I'm sneezing less. I've never tried the UV lights.
They have. It's called a dishwasher. Your keyboard does not contain any electical parts, you can wash them in the dishwasher, just make surey you dry them upside down, and dry them completely.
If you sold crappy bobbles and trinkets, wouldn't you want your customers to have as little self control as possible?
Just a thought.
What are the working conditions for the average employee? Is the average employee working an 8 hour day, a 10 hour day, or longer?
What are the common positions available in India? What is the average salary by position? What is the average cost of a one bedroom apartment in a major city? Relative to the cost of living (specifically in the cities), are these jobs considered middle class?
Does the average employee have the freedom to change jobs, or to move? Or is room and board provided as a part of the total compensation package? If it's provided, does this limit people's ability to advocate for themselves on the job?
How much influence do management\ownership have on the average workers life?
SHDG-kindly doing the needful since 1998
I call bullshit.
I work with some nice folks from over seas, so I have bit of an insider's perspective. A co-worker of mine, who's originally from India and I discussed this very subject just the other day.
In our conversation we discussed the conditions of the average citizen. Specifically how it related to our own temporary employees. The company I work for does business with a rather large, shall remain nameless for the sake of objectivity and professional courtesy type of outsourcing firm. Among other things, we talked about the living conditions in her country.
Narrowing our focus to the cities, where most of these jobs are located, I found out roughly how much it costs to rent an apartment, buy food, and so on. We compared those expenses with how much I am paying for my apartment, what food expenses were, and so on. Althought it's not very scientific, I was a bit shocked to find that the facts of the situation did not match my expectations.
I was surprised to discover that not only did the employees doing work for us in India did not make enough money to be considered middle class, but they had relatively little freedom to change jobs. They recieve rent (four people to one apartment), food, and a salary. It's not that they are living in poverty, but by no means can they be considered middle class, even by India standards.
The problem as I see it, is that people's entire lives are dependent upon their relationship to the outsourcing firm in question.
Someone out there is making huge money off of this, and it's not the people who are actually working these jobs. People more knowledgeable, and wiser than myself have commented on the relationship our executives have with the outsourcing firm. I am not making any accusations, but I would love to see the actual data.
I'm new to making decent posts, so if you got this far, thanks kindly for reading this, feel free to respond however you see fit. Thanks much,
SHDG
-kindly doing the needful since 1998
Here's a link to the local paper, picture of the kid. And the standard idiotic comments from his neighbors. Not real interesting, but I can garuntee you he did not write the original code.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/6648968.They have the internet on computers now? -Homer
Is this perhaps a profile issue? I ran across this the other day. Uninstalled, reinstalled under local admin, copied admin profile to default user. And bang, no more message.
Correct me if I am wrong here.
Tactics vs. Strategy. The beauty of chess is due to the fact that cold calculations are not the sole factor in determining the outcome of a game. There is a certain amount of intuition that a machine can not mimic. I don't claim to understand the sublties of this, but am intruiged by the fact that Mr Kasparov can actually beat this machine. It shows that there is more to the game than raw processing power. It takes an artful mind as well.
Yea, but how are you going to count your money? ONeeeeeeee,aadsfTWoos,sThree@1.s
First things first, you can not legislate against stupidity, nor carelessness.
Don't like Real Player, don't use it. However, an argument can be made for opting IN to ads vs. having to opt OUT of marketing ploys. I feel that for too long the burden has fallen on the consumer, this RealPlayer article may not be a good example to use in this argument.
Perhaps this argument would be better made against telemarketers and spammers, as a thourough user would never install the software without scrolling down. However, it took me a few installs to figure this out (read my handle, and you'll understand) with RealPlayer, and I was upset about it at the time. But I learned to be more vigilant with regards to what I install on my machine. Although, having limited experience, I can not tell for certain what some software is doing on my machine (see Windows XP) I would like to see better disclosure regarding what software I buy, is doing on my machine. None of this crap about providing a service, it's a product.
With regards to spam, and other so called "marketing" (it's not a market if you send it to 100 million different random addresses, hoping to find someone stupid enough to want to see barnyard animals get it on with hot young comely lasses, not to mention hiding yourself behind fake headers, etc.) ploys, I would like to legislate the difference between the retail environment, and the private sphere.
I should at least be able to sit in my own apartment, and not be bothered to buy something. When I am out looking to make a purchase, it's one thing, but when I am not, it has the opposite effect on me. If I see something tasty and shiny in the grocery store, I may buy it. If someone makes me get up from the couch during the Simpsons, to sell me the same thing, I may yell at them.
I have to run now, someone stupid, has done something stupid, yet again. And I have to go fix it.
Speaking of stupid, anyone need a good help desker? I don't eat much, and I don't know the difference between right and wrong!
What would something like this, even if it worked flawlessly, protect the user from? Freedom.
Link to a story from the local paper, about the many options available in Downtown Minneapolis. I especially like the comments from the fancy hotel manager. Something to the effect of "this shouldn't be!" At least he is well informed. I am going to get the laptop out and go see what I can find. Sounds like a fun way to kill an afternoon. http://www.startribune.com/stories/789/3585467.htm l
Piratical? is that at all related to Strategery?
Those who vote decide nothing, Those who count the votes decide everything.
-Joseph Stalin