Everyone wants to be as cool as Apple. Linux and WIndows both want to be OS X. Sony wants an iPod. HP BOUGHT the iPod. Gateway wants a G5. Dell wants a Powerbook. CompUSA wants to be the Apple Store. Everybody wants iTunes.
The amount of new and innovative that has been manufactured by Apple recently is absolutely staggering.
Masters Degree in Literature is useless to most company's.
And that is precisely why the job market is pointless. We, as a society, CLAIM to value education, right up to the point where it's time for our college-educated wage slaves to get paid, THEN all of a sudden, education doesn't matter, the company pockets the profits and the advanced degree disqualifies the wage slave from the floor-sweeping jobs too.
Either we, as a society, fix this, or we're going to wish only half the population of L.A. were illiterate. Anyone with the intelligence, work ethic and insight to earn a Master's Degree, especially in a field such as Literature, should never be out of work.
if he is selling books and has a college degree then I fear he is going to get a better job and quit
Oh, so now bookstores expect people to start a $10/hour career?
No you just have to provide value in excess of your cost.
So the employer gets something for nothing and I get underpaid? Not likely. The employer gets value equal to the cost, and not one cent more. That's exactly what they would expect for their customers.
In fact, I would expect a little higher cost since I'm doing all the work.
but is becomign easier to measure for other positions as well.
Yeah, they make it up. "Hey, Bob isn't providing sufficient value. Fire him." It's easy to destroy people's careers when they have already been dehumanized in their job. All the powerless employees will soon be nothing but lines on a spreadsheet.
If you are qualified, if you know what you are doing, you are willing to learn, and you are humble enough to realize that "skilled" doesn't mean "can type and read slashdot" you will have little trouble getting work.
I know a guy with a Masters Degree in Literature who was told he was "unqualified" to work in a bookstore ($10 an hour) because he didn't have enough "retail bookselling experience."
So he lost his car. Fortunately he found a job before he lost his apartment too. He graduated Magna Cum Laude and wrote a 140-page Master's Thesis (which is fucking brilliant, by the way). He rides the bus to a $9 an hour job where he filled out the application with a pencil.
Here's the problem: we are wasting the educations of an entire generation of people because business is obsessed with short-term profits over long-term value.
Everyone asked him, what are you going to do with an english degree.
Yeah. There has to be something better than studying the cultural basis for medicine, law, science, entertainment, literature, engineering, philosophy and art.
ppl need to realize that the IT gravy train is over, it's time to put up or shutup.
Oh? So, what, 75 hour weeks instead of 70? I'm always glad to see "paying job" described as "gravy train."
certificates and degrees no longer hold the water they once did.
Best way to lower labor costs: raise qualifications to "unreachable" and ignore educational achievements. Now that's the way to build progress! Half of L.A. is illiterate (study released last week), and the other half is saying "so you graduated from college? Big fucking deal. Who gives a shit?"
find a skill, hone it, and hunker down, cause it's going to get windy before there's another round of jobs with the 'wow' factor.
I'd be impressed if there's another round of jobs at all. Skills are meaningless. Nothing is valuable to employers except the money grab.
the number of employed Software Engineers fell by 15% from April to July of 2004 (from 856,000 to 725,000)."
Yet nearly every business uses computers. The entire economy is practically based on computers, yet there are fewer than 800,000 software engineers? Glad to see all that time (and overtime, and weekends, and vacations) spent learning as much as possible about technology was completely wasted.
I see this admittedly shocking figure thrown around a lot,
Yeah. Study was published last week.
but I think if you actually take the time to look closely at the study you'll find that the literacy rate in LA among English speaking (meaning English as a first language) residents is higher than 53 percent.
Ok. Doesn't change anything. Half the people in L.A. can't read.
Huh? On what planet? The free market doesn't have to accomodate anyone.
It has to accomodate demand. When wage growth is at zero, price growth MUST BE at zero or the economy will eventually be unsustainable. That's first week Economics class.
If the cheapest suplier isn't willing to sell for a price the highest bidder is willing to pay, guess what? No money changes hands and there's no deal.
Lather, rinse, repeat. Company goes out of business.
The "seller" isn't obligated to sell anything he doesn't want to, and the "buyer" isn't required to buy anything if they think the price is too high.
That works for television sets. Housing and food are necessities. The average wage-earner cannot afford housing. Why not? Why is housing beyond the reach of the average employed person? Simple. It ain't a free market.
No. Nobody gives a fuck. Half the people are too tired from working double shifts at Wal-Mart and the other half are busy being apologists for rat lying fuck cheat thief bastard middle management.
Half (that's right, HALF) of the people in L.A., for example, are illiterate.
HALF THE PEOPLE ARE ILLITERATE.
Yet, people with college degrees can't find jobs. Guy with a PhD could walk into whatever company he wants in this fucked up economy, and every single one of them would come up with some horseshit excuse why they can't hire him. Meanwhile, they're firing everyone as fast as they can and shipping all the jobs to elsewhere.
But people still stand up and say "hey, it's cool! It's the free market!"
But outsourcing and offshoring are a natural result of a free market,
Nope. Nothing free about it. We are stuck with artificially high prices and artificially low wages. In a truly free market, prices would have to drop to accomodate the spending ability of the median wage. Housing (just one example) is increasing at a 15% annual rate, while inflation is steady at 3%, and wage growth is at zero.
GREAT way to start an interview. "Hi, is your career worthless?"
"Uh, no. There are over 400 animation studios in Japan. That's why we own your animation market too."
"You don't need to learn how to draw to become a 3D creator, that's the biggest reason."
Genius. Spectacular insight, and it neatly wraps up the 3D vs 2D hype comparison.
Anime is doing to the animation market here exactly what import cars did to the automobile market in the 70s. Japanese studios are making enormous amounts of money in a market which has been abandoned by Disney, et al., because U.S. companies only believe "you get what you pay for" if they are setting the price. Disney just got through taking a giant shit on their own animation studios which had been drawing on some EIGHTY YEARS of expertise. These people had devoted their entire careers to their craft, but Disney just couldn't stop whining that they weren't getting a 40000% return on the sequel of the week.
Anime is probably just about to pass the $5 billion mark annually, and manga is now at $100 million, and we're early in the third inning. The competition is over. Anime is the animation market.
You're right. But, consider our modern "service" society. What if everyone "self-actualized" their free-thinking, intellectually-curious, self-motivated selves? Who'd work the cubicles?
Nobody. Society would leap forward by centuries. It would make the Renaissance look like a supply chain management seminar.
Who'd work the phone support? Who'd flip the burgers? Drones are what we get because, in the end, drones are what we need.
Drones are what middle management wants. People who are easily fired. Who's working the cubicles now? Sure as fuck ain't no "drones" I know. If everyone were "self-actualized" (whatever that means), perhaps society wouldn't be a cubicle-grey money grab.
did you consider the fact that the reason schools are always asking for money might be because they are already starving for funds?
No. Because a torrential flood of money is budgeted for education every year. At least five times the amount required to pay teacher salaries at current levels. The teachers are underpaid, the schools have no equipment or supplies and the buildings are falling apart. So, where's the rest of the money?
This would be a great fact to toss out when trying to convince someone that schooling is unnecessary.
Sounds somewhat flippant.
But where does this statistic come from?
This is a time-honored and illogical method of asking someone to provide their own straw man. The "statistic" comes from the book being reviewed.
Citing a source is one thing. Requiring every statement to be accompanied by a corresponding statistical justification or published study is invalid, illogical and unsound argument.
Because people no longer talk to each other about politics much, the only political thoughts that cross their minds are the ones they hear in the car listening to talk radio and the ones they hear on teevee.
Which never mention underemployment, the total incompetence of most businesses' management of employees, or the fact that nobody actually does anything or produces anything at work any more except going to meetings and checking their e-mail.
What's going to be real fun is when finance companies finally realize (after the meeting, of course) that jobs, because they are all temporary, are no longer sufficient collateral for mortgages and car loans. Hooray for the obsolete career!!
irritability, impatience, sleeplessness, an overly extended workweek, and is largely unproductive
In other words, the modern workplace.
It probably wouldn't be a problem if it weren't expected. Well, expected up to the point where everyone is laid off, the company is loaded into trucks and the office building is bulldozed.
A lot of it also has to do with attention span. People, for the most part, simply cannot focus on one idea for more than about the interval between commercials in a sitcom. The whole "eyes glaze over" metaphor is nothing but a built-in excuse for everyone to be intellectually lazy. In the commercial culture, people who take the time to say anything remotely well-thought-out are ALWAYS looked at with some combination of alarm and revulsion by people around them.
Basically, as far as advertisers are concerned, life is a theme park. Commercials want people to just start running through the park and not stop to look at all the distractions. Oh, and spend money. LOTS of money.
Technology isn't the only factor driving the need to do more things at once. The workplace is demanding it.
Well, the workplace is full of shit.
Employers don't want to hire anyone who doesn't want to multitask, says Deborah Keary of the Society for Human Resource Management.
Well boo-fuckin-hoo.
They want people who can juggle multiple jobs, prioritize and handle multiple media, she says.
Yeah? I want a convertible. So what?
"That's how business is conducted these days, and there's no going back."
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Everyone wants to be as cool as Apple. Linux and WIndows both want to be OS X. Sony wants an iPod. HP BOUGHT the iPod. Gateway wants a G5. Dell wants a Powerbook. CompUSA wants to be the Apple Store. Everybody wants iTunes.
The amount of new and innovative that has been manufactured by Apple recently is absolutely staggering.
Masters Degree in Literature is useless to most company's.
And that is precisely why the job market is pointless. We, as a society, CLAIM to value education, right up to the point where it's time for our college-educated wage slaves to get paid, THEN all of a sudden, education doesn't matter, the company pockets the profits and the advanced degree disqualifies the wage slave from the floor-sweeping jobs too.
Either we, as a society, fix this, or we're going to wish only half the population of L.A. were illiterate. Anyone with the intelligence, work ethic and insight to earn a Master's Degree, especially in a field such as Literature, should never be out of work.
if he is selling books and has a college degree then I fear he is going to get a better job and quit
Oh, so now bookstores expect people to start a $10/hour career?
No you just have to provide value in excess of your cost.
So the employer gets something for nothing and I get underpaid? Not likely. The employer gets value equal to the cost, and not one cent more. That's exactly what they would expect for their customers.
In fact, I would expect a little higher cost since I'm doing all the work.
but is becomign easier to measure for other positions as well.
Yeah, they make it up. "Hey, Bob isn't providing sufficient value. Fire him." It's easy to destroy people's careers when they have already been dehumanized in their job. All the powerless employees will soon be nothing but lines on a spreadsheet.
If you are qualified, if you know what you are doing, you are willing to learn, and you are humble enough to realize that "skilled" doesn't mean "can type and read slashdot" you will have little trouble getting work.
I know a guy with a Masters Degree in Literature who was told he was "unqualified" to work in a bookstore ($10 an hour) because he didn't have enough "retail bookselling experience."
So he lost his car. Fortunately he found a job before he lost his apartment too. He graduated Magna Cum Laude and wrote a 140-page Master's Thesis (which is fucking brilliant, by the way). He rides the bus to a $9 an hour job where he filled out the application with a pencil.
Here's the problem: we are wasting the educations of an entire generation of people because business is obsessed with short-term profits over long-term value.
Everyone asked him, what are you going to do with an english degree.
Yeah. There has to be something better than studying the cultural basis for medicine, law, science, entertainment, literature, engineering, philosophy and art.
ppl need to realize that the IT gravy train is over, it's time to put up or shutup.
Oh? So, what, 75 hour weeks instead of 70? I'm always glad to see "paying job" described as "gravy train."
certificates and degrees no longer hold the water they once did.
Best way to lower labor costs: raise qualifications to "unreachable" and ignore educational achievements. Now that's the way to build progress! Half of L.A. is illiterate (study released last week), and the other half is saying "so you graduated from college? Big fucking deal. Who gives a shit?"
find a skill, hone it, and hunker down, cause it's going to get windy before there's another round of jobs with the 'wow' factor.
I'd be impressed if there's another round of jobs at all. Skills are meaningless. Nothing is valuable to employers except the money grab.
the number of employed Software Engineers fell by 15% from April to July of 2004 (from 856,000 to 725,000)."
Yet nearly every business uses computers. The entire economy is practically based on computers, yet there are fewer than 800,000 software engineers? Glad to see all that time (and overtime, and weekends, and vacations) spent learning as much as possible about technology was completely wasted.
Nope, no free market here either.
I see this admittedly shocking figure thrown around a lot,
Yeah. Study was published last week.
but I think if you actually take the time to look closely at the study you'll find that the literacy rate in LA among English speaking (meaning English as a first language) residents is higher than 53 percent.
Ok. Doesn't change anything. Half the people in L.A. can't read.
Huh? On what planet? The free market doesn't have to accomodate anyone.
It has to accomodate demand. When wage growth is at zero, price growth MUST BE at zero or the economy will eventually be unsustainable. That's first week Economics class.
If the cheapest suplier isn't willing to sell for a price the highest bidder is willing to pay, guess what? No money changes hands and there's no deal.
Lather, rinse, repeat. Company goes out of business.
The "seller" isn't obligated to sell anything he doesn't want to, and the "buyer" isn't required to buy anything if they think the price is too high.
That works for television sets. Housing and food are necessities. The average wage-earner cannot afford housing. Why not? Why is housing beyond the reach of the average employed person? Simple. It ain't a free market.
Doesn't anyone see the problem here?
No. Nobody gives a fuck. Half the people are too tired from working double shifts at Wal-Mart and the other half are busy being apologists for rat lying fuck cheat thief bastard middle management.
Half (that's right, HALF) of the people in L.A., for example, are illiterate.
HALF THE PEOPLE ARE ILLITERATE.
Yet, people with college degrees can't find jobs. Guy with a PhD could walk into whatever company he wants in this fucked up economy, and every single one of them would come up with some horseshit excuse why they can't hire him. Meanwhile, they're firing everyone as fast as they can and shipping all the jobs to elsewhere.
But people still stand up and say "hey, it's cool! It's the free market!"
But outsourcing and offshoring are a natural result of a free market,
Nope. Nothing free about it. We are stuck with artificially high prices and artificially low wages. In a truly free market, prices would have to drop to accomodate the spending ability of the median wage. Housing (just one example) is increasing at a 15% annual rate, while inflation is steady at 3%, and wage growth is at zero.
Not a free market. Sorry.
Either a crack that hard-patches the programs binary or a loader than runs the program then patches it in memory.
Why not just write an HTML editor instead?
Independent Developers Fight Piracy & Lose
Yeah? What was the score?
we'll all realize that it is in humanities and softwares best interest to be free.
And the birds will chirp in the green meadows while the sun smiles down from the sky.
When food and houses are free, then we can afford to give away labor. Until then, people NEED to EAT.
Incredible the effort people will expend to save $20.
they are used to spending big $$$ for utter crap that only barely does what is promised.
$20 is hardly big $$$.
Funny, isn't it? People have no problem dropping $20 for a medium pizza, the actual value of which is about $1.19, and 85% of that is cheese.
Television sucks.
Is 2D animation dead?
GREAT way to start an interview. "Hi, is your career worthless?"
"Uh, no. There are over 400 animation studios in Japan. That's why we own your animation market too."
"You don't need to learn how to draw to become a 3D creator, that's the biggest reason."
Genius. Spectacular insight, and it neatly wraps up the 3D vs 2D hype comparison.
Anime is doing to the animation market here exactly what import cars did to the automobile market in the 70s. Japanese studios are making enormous amounts of money in a market which has been abandoned by Disney, et al., because U.S. companies only believe "you get what you pay for" if they are setting the price. Disney just got through taking a giant shit on their own animation studios which had been drawing on some EIGHTY YEARS of expertise. These people had devoted their entire careers to their craft, but Disney just couldn't stop whining that they weren't getting a 40000% return on the sequel of the week.
Anime is probably just about to pass the $5 billion mark annually, and manga is now at $100 million, and we're early in the third inning. The competition is over. Anime is the animation market.
You're right. But, consider our modern "service" society. What if everyone "self-actualized" their free-thinking, intellectually-curious, self-motivated selves? Who'd work the cubicles?
Nobody. Society would leap forward by centuries. It would make the Renaissance look like a supply chain management seminar.
Who'd work the phone support? Who'd flip the burgers? Drones are what we get because, in the end, drones are what we need.
Drones are what middle management wants. People who are easily fired. Who's working the cubicles now? Sure as fuck ain't no "drones" I know. If everyone were "self-actualized" (whatever that means), perhaps society wouldn't be a cubicle-grey money grab.
School should make kids able to read, write, and do math at a 12th grade level thats about it..
Now that's ambitious! Let's start making plans for the next Renaissance!
did you consider the fact that the reason schools are always asking for money might be because they are already starving for funds?
No. Because a torrential flood of money is budgeted for education every year. At least five times the amount required to pay teacher salaries at current levels. The teachers are underpaid, the schools have no equipment or supplies and the buildings are falling apart. So, where's the rest of the money?
The topic doesn't matter too much, though, because the budget for books is a very minor part of a school's cost anyway.
Which explains why so many classes have no books, pencils, desks, a roof or even a real building.
This would be a great fact to toss out when trying to convince someone that schooling is unnecessary.
Sounds somewhat flippant.
But where does this statistic come from?
This is a time-honored and illogical method of asking someone to provide their own straw man. The "statistic" comes from the book being reviewed.
Citing a source is one thing. Requiring every statement to be accompanied by a corresponding statistical justification or published study is invalid, illogical and unsound argument.
Aint the New Economy wonderful!?
Sure is!
Because people no longer talk to each other about politics much, the only political thoughts that cross their minds are the ones they hear in the car listening to talk radio and the ones they hear on teevee.
Which never mention underemployment, the total incompetence of most businesses' management of employees, or the fact that nobody actually does anything or produces anything at work any more except going to meetings and checking their e-mail.
What's going to be real fun is when finance companies finally realize (after the meeting, of course) that jobs, because they are all temporary, are no longer sufficient collateral for mortgages and car loans. Hooray for the obsolete career!!
irritability, impatience, sleeplessness, an overly extended workweek, and is largely unproductive
In other words, the modern workplace.
It probably wouldn't be a problem if it weren't expected. Well, expected up to the point where everyone is laid off, the company is loaded into trucks and the office building is bulldozed.
A lot of it also has to do with attention span. People, for the most part, simply cannot focus on one idea for more than about the interval between commercials in a sitcom. The whole "eyes glaze over" metaphor is nothing but a built-in excuse for everyone to be intellectually lazy. In the commercial culture, people who take the time to say anything remotely well-thought-out are ALWAYS looked at with some combination of alarm and revulsion by people around them.
Basically, as far as advertisers are concerned, life is a theme park. Commercials want people to just start running through the park and not stop to look at all the distractions. Oh, and spend money. LOTS of money.
Technology isn't the only factor driving the need to do more things at once. The workplace is demanding it.
Well, the workplace is full of shit.
Employers don't want to hire anyone who doesn't want to multitask, says Deborah Keary of the Society for Human Resource Management.
Well boo-fuckin-hoo.
They want people who can juggle multiple jobs, prioritize and handle multiple media, she says.
Yeah? I want a convertible. So what?
"That's how business is conducted these days, and there's no going back."
Well, maybe business is full of shit too.
"Society is kind of in meltdown," she says.
And management moves on to the bread course.
Programmers arent such an exclusive job anymore, nor is a lot of things that used to be rare/lucrative skills only 5 - 8 years ago.
Can't learn a "lucrative skill" in five years. Sorry.