When in doubt, why not just do what richer countries typically do to poorer countries. Turn them onto the tourist trade! The amount of training (& costs for training) necessary to make a good living in their country is much less. All of their wives will end up working on their backs. They will soon have no desire to go into any highly skilled trades since they can make a quick buck working at a hotel, bar, tourist trap etc.
Once the area shows some promise for tourists, them major outside companies will purchase up the land, hotels etc & suck out all of the major profits.
You will notice that countries that really do rely on the tourist trade really don't do that much job sucking.
Yeah, I know this is sucky idea; but the sad part is it is probably true.
With the vast number of post made on Slashdot as it is maybe stuff like this isn't a bad idea after all. Think of it as a honey pot for poor ideas and people who just like to post something. They waste their time posting silly comments on stuff like this, leaving the better articles for everyone else to enjoy.
And yes, I am aware that I was sucked in by this too. But I do think it might have value weather it was originally intended or not. Maybe they should start a stupid stuff section.
Whatever you do don't give her a hub or switch. She won't be anywhere near as excited about it as you. Trust me. I know.
Stick to Non-practicly silly frilly stuff that has no god given purpose other than to prevent you from being able to find a place to put down a magazine or your cup of coffee.
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We all will...eventually. You'll be dead anyway, so why does it matter if you get toasted in the months following your death rather than a few hundred million?
Not if they shoot your corpse out of our solar system.
Discovery Channel has a series "More Than Human" and in one episode they examined a girl who was frieghteningly good at climbing darn near everything. Turns out her best friend while growing up happened to be chimp... or something... anyway she of course played with it and, kids being naturally fearless, thought nothing of the heights or falling. As a result her fingers and arms adapted. Quite interesting to find out how maleable the human body can be during its development.
Interesting, do you have any article links for this. I did a search and came up dry.
Re:Every bit of business sense
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See, the people traveling are a captive audience, if they want to fly, they have to show up, and unless you live in an area with multiple large airports you're stuck with that airport maybe possible back east, but where I live the nearest large airport outside of town is 4+ hrs away).
OK. You already have pointed out the multi-airport part of it. The other part is the layover part. Almost every flight most people take today includes a layover. The costs are much better if you accept one, & longer international flights pretty much require at least one.
I am a smoker. And before, I didn't care where my layover was. Now that they are making some airports completely non-smoking (i.e. no smokers closet), I definitly go out of my way to make sure I don't get stuck at a non-smoking airport for my layover. The more people travel and understand that some airports have these types of creature comforts, they will tend to select the terminals that have wireless available.
Every bit of business sense
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While this is great for us Road Warriors, how can this make financial sense?
Simple, Airports get more business (& more fees), Food courts get more people grabbing a danish & a little wi-fi access (most of these road warriors just want to check e-mail anyway, not exactly high bandwidth stuff). Hotels get more business & higher paying business. The business traveler is not paying the bills himself & will tend to select the places with better amenities. Full hotel with free Wi-Fi vs. Empty hotel with no or $20/night Wi-Fi.
But at least these people understand what sorts of things, good and bad, students will say anonymously.
I think you greatly underestimate the ability of people to estimate the creditability of any given set of anonymous comments. The more people read these type of reviews (be they professors or products) they more they can assess the value of any given comment (or set of comments).
Loosing this type of information is far more detrimental that the potential concern that some idiot won't be able to interpret the given comments for what they are. If you and your peers can understand what these comments mean then surely most other people can. In the end, it is only the fool that can't comprehend these comments that will loose out since they will pick a weaker professor or product.
Thanks for speaking up. Remember, the problem isn't with you. It's a situation that several us programmers (& other professions) now realize they are in. And until we find a solution on how to keep our own jobs & protect our income you will hear a lot of knee jerk reactions. Lots of people are going for the direct cause & effect (e.g. I lost my job to people over seas & any other jobs out there aren't paying anywhere near what they were paying before therefore the "solution" is to stop outsourcing). OK. We all know that really isn't going to work. I think the turning point will come once the people loosing out in this situation stop seeing outsourcing as a threat and start to find opportunities based on it (I know, not an easy task).
Part of the problem for US citizens is that a big part of the "American Dream" has turned into, I'll grow up; get a decent education; work for a big corporation for a high paying salary. The truth of the matter is that solution has never really worked for the majority of our population. The only ones who really earn the big bucks for our talents, efforts & skills are the corporate executives. The best we can hope for is a check mark next too "exceeded expectations as expected" on our annual review and get an increase that might match inflation.
The question we need to ask ourselves is, what can I do with a ton of programmers that will work for 1/10 of our salary. We can do a lot of things would not have been economically feasible before. We need to stop waiting for our allowance from Corporate Daddy Worbucks and return to the entrepreneurial spirit.
I wish for ONCE someone would show concern for the INDIANS who will become impoverished again if protectionist policies are instituted, all out of blatant ignorance.
- Hey, you just did!;-) That counts as once.
- The reason why you don't see much concern for the Indians in this instance is that they are not the ones who currently have a problem. In fact I am sure they are more than excited about the prospects. I can't say I blame them; I would be excited too. Realistically protectionist policies will not be instituted.
- The other reason you don't see many posts is that these forums are primarily filled with North American & European techs who are the ones directly getting the short end of the stick on this problem.
- With that said, I think it would be great to hear more of the India perspective on these issues. I suspect that there are at least a few out there lurking. But I do understand that it is usually tough for someone to say something constructive to a group of people who's jobs they now have.
Again there have been attempts to prove the existance of these particles, mainly involving mine shafts and a lot of water, and again there have been no conclusive results.
If a private industry/monopoly ever started busting down doors here in the US, you can garuntee a lot more people would start arming their homes. Shot gun sales would sky rocket. Memberships to the NRA would balloon.
OK, I'll consider this fair...
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I'll conisder this fair when we can obtain a court order to bust into the offices and homes of the major labels and the ARIA (Austrailian RIAA) offices to randomly collect information on anti trust violations.
It is times like these I wish I didn't hate pay-for-click banner ads and had a few myself.
I found the above statement from his web site interesting.
Here is an idea. How about developing some code that only kicks in banner ads when hits go above a certain rate. This could help mitigate the costs of above average traffic, while keeping your site banner free for normal situations.
USA right now is still suffering from a financial downfall. The last thing we should be thinking about doing is sending our money up in a rocket.
While I appreciate the concerns of spending tax payer money on space missions when their is poverty and a multitude of social ills here on earth, this is a project I like.
I say if my tax money is going for welfare to support people (ok not all of them but some people) who don't even want to get a job and earn their own living and cry for public assistance for everything to solve their problems when they don't want to put forth the effort to help themselves, then I say I want some of my tax money to go towards advancing humanity as a whole.
I kind of think of this like problems at work. You see people spinning their wheels on day to day problems, when their is a solution readily available that really help them out, it just takes some time to set it up. So what do you do? Many people choose to keep in running in the same circles b1tching and whining. It's true you can't drop all the constant problems that crop up. I say thithe your work. Spend a percentage of you time working on the long term solution. It's the only way out.
P.S. Don't go off on some Troll/Flame war over racial issues. This is truly a poverty vs. great advancement issue.
An eye for an eye is not sound policy. We've got various laws against using your computer to create a nuisance for others, and they apply to us all, not just to spammers. I don't think I'd cry if any or all of the top ten spammers happened to be hit by a truck, but that doesn't mean I condone intentionally running them down.
Not so fast. We aren't asking people to necessarily spam him back. We can all just ask him to stop spamming us, our family & friends. I am sure he has sent you an e-mail recently.
It sounds like the intelligence community is attempting to discredit the New York Times BEFORE they start reporting stories on their "intelligence failure".
...and in other news today, the CIA & FBI narrowed down the intelligence failure to the commander in chief.
With new potential dates I usually check:
- Search Engines
- County Clerk of Courts database
- State Prisoner database
- Sexual Offender database
- Usenet
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When in doubt, why not just do what richer countries typically do to poorer countries. Turn them onto the tourist trade! The amount of training (& costs for training) necessary to make a good living in their country is much less. All of their wives will end up working on their backs. They will soon have no desire to go into any highly skilled trades since they can make a quick buck working at a hotel, bar, tourist trap etc.
Once the area shows some promise for tourists, them major outside companies will purchase up the land, hotels etc & suck out all of the major profits.
You will notice that countries that really do rely on the tourist trade really don't do that much job sucking.
Yeah, I know this is sucky idea; but the sad part is it is probably true.
...that kept us from going nuts in the office with a Super Soaker or water guns was that fact that we knew we would kill our computer equipment.
I think that problem is now gone.
With the vast number of post made on Slashdot as it is maybe stuff like this isn't a bad idea after all. Think of it as a honey pot for poor ideas and people who just like to post something. They waste their time posting silly comments on stuff like this, leaving the better articles for everyone else to enjoy.
And yes, I am aware that I was sucked in by this too. But I do think it might have value weather it was originally intended or not. Maybe they should start a stupid stuff section.
Whatever you do don't give her a hub or switch. She won't be anywhere near as excited about it as you. Trust me. I know.
Stick to Non-practicly silly frilly stuff that has no god given purpose other than to prevent you from being able to find a place to put down a magazine or your cup of coffee.
All your codebase are belong to us.
We all will...eventually. You'll be dead anyway, so why does it matter if you get toasted in the months following your death rather than a few hundred million?
Not if they shoot your corpse out of our solar system.
Discovery Channel has a series "More Than Human" and in one episode they examined a girl who was frieghteningly good at climbing darn near everything. Turns out her best friend while growing up happened to be chimp... or something... anyway she of course played with it and, kids being naturally fearless, thought nothing of the heights or falling. As a result her fingers and arms adapted. Quite interesting to find out how maleable the human body can be during its development.
Interesting, do you have any article links for this. I did a search and came up dry.
See, the people traveling are a captive audience, if they want to fly, they have to show up, and unless you live in an area with multiple large airports you're stuck with that airport maybe possible back east, but where I live the nearest large airport outside of town is 4+ hrs away).
OK. You already have pointed out the multi-airport part of it. The other part is the layover part. Almost every flight most people take today includes a layover. The costs are much better if you accept one, & longer international flights pretty much require at least one.
I am a smoker. And before, I didn't care where my layover was. Now that they are making some airports completely non-smoking (i.e. no smokers closet), I definitly go out of my way to make sure I don't get stuck at a non-smoking airport for my layover. The more people travel and understand that some airports have these types of creature comforts, they will tend to select the terminals that have wireless available.
While this is great for us Road Warriors, how can this make financial sense?
Simple, Airports get more business (& more fees), Food courts get more people grabbing a danish & a little wi-fi access (most of these road warriors just want to check e-mail anyway, not exactly high bandwidth stuff). Hotels get more business & higher paying business. The business traveler is not paying the bills himself & will tend to select the places with better amenities. Full hotel with free Wi-Fi vs. Empty hotel with no or $20/night Wi-Fi.
...but if you are good at what you do, you don't need to worry about the effect of random anonymous comments.
But at least these people understand what sorts of things, good and bad, students will say anonymously.
I think you greatly underestimate the ability of people to estimate the creditability of any given set of anonymous comments. The more people read these type of reviews (be they professors or products) they more they can assess the value of any given comment (or set of comments).
Loosing this type of information is far more detrimental that the potential concern that some idiot won't be able to interpret the given comments for what they are. If you and your peers can understand what these comments mean then surely most other people can. In the end, it is only the fool that can't comprehend these comments that will loose out since they will pick a weaker professor or product.
Thanks for speaking up. Remember, the problem isn't with you. It's a situation that several us programmers (& other professions) now realize they are in. And until we find a solution on how to keep our own jobs & protect our income you will hear a lot of knee jerk reactions. Lots of people are going for the direct cause & effect (e.g. I lost my job to people over seas & any other jobs out there aren't paying anywhere near what they were paying before therefore the "solution" is to stop outsourcing). OK. We all know that really isn't going to work. I think the turning point will come once the people loosing out in this situation stop seeing outsourcing as a threat and start to find opportunities based on it (I know, not an easy task).
Part of the problem for US citizens is that a big part of the "American Dream" has turned into, I'll grow up; get a decent education; work for a big corporation for a high paying salary. The truth of the matter is that solution has never really worked for the majority of our population. The only ones who really earn the big bucks for our talents, efforts & skills are the corporate executives. The best we can hope for is a check mark next too "exceeded expectations as expected" on our annual review and get an increase that might match inflation.
The question we need to ask ourselves is, what can I do with a ton of programmers that will work for 1/10 of our salary. We can do a lot of things would not have been economically feasible before. We need to stop waiting for our allowance from Corporate Daddy Worbucks and return to the entrepreneurial spirit.
I wish for ONCE someone would show concern for the INDIANS who will become impoverished again if protectionist policies are instituted, all out of blatant ignorance.
;-) That counts as once.
- Hey, you just did!
- The reason why you don't see much concern for the Indians in this instance is that they are not the ones who currently have a problem. In fact I am sure they are more than excited about the prospects. I can't say I blame them; I would be excited too. Realistically protectionist policies will not be instituted.
- The other reason you don't see many posts is that these forums are primarily filled with North American & European techs who are the ones directly getting the short end of the stick on this problem.
- With that said, I think it would be great to hear more of the India perspective on these issues. I suspect that there are at least a few out there lurking. But I do understand that it is usually tough for someone to say something constructive to a group of people who's jobs they now have.
Again there have been attempts to prove the existance of these particles, mainly involving mine shafts and a lot of water, and again there have been no conclusive results.
This sounded too interesting to not look up:
Mine Shafts and a lot of water
Organization running experiment
I don't have the tonal accents but the above sentence means "New wood doesn't burn, does it?
Yes, it is. Here's what you do: buy an iPod, use iTunes, and try to keep remembering that you should have just done that in the first place.
Step 3. Travel outside the US with your music collection. Step 4. Loose your music collection. Step 5. Profit for iTunes
Great idea. Now you only have to worry about your media AND music format going out of date, without any recourse outside of violating the DMA.
If a private industry/monopoly ever started busting down doors here in the US, you can garuntee a lot more people would start arming their homes. Shot gun sales would sky rocket. Memberships to the NRA would balloon.
I'll conisder this fair when we can obtain a court order to bust into the offices and homes of the major labels and the ARIA (Austrailian RIAA) offices to randomly collect information on anti trust violations.
It is times like these I wish I didn't hate pay-for-click banner ads and had a few myself.
I found the above statement from his web site interesting.
Here is an idea. How about developing some code that only kicks in banner ads when hits go above a certain rate. This could help mitigate the costs of above average traffic, while keeping your site banner free for normal situations.
USA right now is still suffering from a financial downfall. The last thing we should be thinking about doing is sending our money up in a rocket.
While I appreciate the concerns of spending tax payer money on space missions when their is poverty and a multitude of social ills here on earth, this is a project I like.
I say if my tax money is going for welfare to support people (ok not all of them but some people) who don't even want to get a job and earn their own living and cry for public assistance for everything to solve their problems when they don't want to put forth the effort to help themselves, then I say I want some of my tax money to go towards advancing humanity as a whole.
I kind of think of this like problems at work. You see people spinning their wheels on day to day problems, when their is a solution readily available that really help them out, it just takes some time to set it up. So what do you do? Many people choose to keep in running in the same circles b1tching and whining. It's true you can't drop all the constant problems that crop up. I say thithe your work. Spend a percentage of you time working on the long term solution. It's the only way out.
P.S. Don't go off on some Troll/Flame war over racial issues. This is truly a poverty vs. great advancement issue.
An eye for an eye is not sound policy. We've got various laws against using your computer to create a nuisance for others, and they apply to us all, not just to spammers. I don't think I'd cry if any or all of the top ten spammers happened to be hit by a truck, but that doesn't mean I condone intentionally running them down.
Not so fast. We aren't asking people to necessarily spam him back. We can all just ask him to stop spamming us, our family & friends. I am sure he has sent you an e-mail recently.
It sounds like the intelligence community is attempting to discredit the New York Times BEFORE they start reporting stories on their "intelligence failure".
...and in other news today, the CIA & FBI narrowed down the intelligence failure to the commander in chief.
India has a parliamentary system of government so the President is not the head of the government.
I guess that kinda makes him like the Queen of England.
With new potential dates I usually check:
- Search Engines
- County Clerk of Courts database
- State Prisoner database
- Sexual Offender database
- Usenet
If so, I am calling dibs on naming SCO.