every day Slashdot gets more and more like a bunch wanna-bes sitting in a circle watching somebody else do all the work, saying "that sucks" every five minutes.
No wonder employers ignore degrees now. College is puking on the patio during booze parties and watching TV in class. Fucks it up real nice for the people who actually do the work and graduate too.
Hey, that's alright. I'm sure most of the graduates don't mind cramming five figures into a toilet and being perpetually unemployed.
Not a chance. Probably got promoted and given a bayside apartment and six-figure bonus because the next quarter's numbers were up 20%. (Then down 40% the following quarter, after the bonus check was cashed).
Management can't lose. If they cancel it and fire everyone, they take credit for the cost reduction. If they keep it on the air and it doesn't get the ratings, they fire everyone (because it was their fault) and take credit for the cost reduction. If they keep it on the air and it gets good ratings, they take credit for the increased ad revenue and the success of the show (it was their idea, of course), and they wait unti the end of the season to fire everyone, and take credit for the cost reduction. It's the perfect job.
Isn't it? How something has to be canceled before anybody notices it was doing well? Someone needs to figure out what it is about middle management that makes them insist on canceling/firing/destroying as a first alternative for everything.
Profits down? Fire people. Ratings down? Cancel it. Not making seven figures pure pocket-stuffing profit a day? Destroy it. What if these guys worked in agriculture? They'd probably bulldoze the whole fucking farm because they weren't shipping truckloads of wheat bread and salsa by Thursday.
Apple has the image problem of being expensive, proprietary, and incompatible.
eMacs are $799, OS X runs on a UNIX kernel and most Macs can talk to just about anything. OS X is everything that Linux will probably become: it's got the best-looking and easiest to use desktop on the market, it has both Open Source and commercial application support and it runs on fast machines.
There is also the fact that Macs work and they look nice at the same time, something that's unlikely on Linux or Windows (although Linux does work more often than Windows).
Let's be clear, offshoring is not "taking away jobs", but is simply employing people willing to do the job for less than US workers like to be paid.
"Like" to be paid? Try "need" to be paid. Check the rent on a two bedroom apartment recently?
If US workers were willing to be paid the same as what workers in India are willing to work for, this "Offshoring problem" would magically solve itself.
If frogs had wings, they'd be gliders.
To suggest anything else seems to me like greed of the most misanthropic sort.
I like how its "greed" that motivates the employee, but it's the "capitalistic system at work" when employers cut wages by 70%.
you should be 100% behind getting higer-paying, competitive, skilled jobs to people
Yep. And if that's what was actually happening, more people would be in support of it. But that's not what's happening. Companies are destroying careers and educations in order to obtain a short-term economic benefit by underpaying foreign workers. Period. Look up the phrase "eating their own seedcorn."
If "my" job ends up going to someone with the same skills willing to do it for less money, then I wouldn't have it any other way.
Tell that to the wife when you can't make the car payment.
And another group of several thousand highly-qualified people lose their careers! Just what society needs! Another example of how hard work and dedication just don't matter any more.
Oh, and don't forget to "keep your skills current."
"So, what was your last job?"
"I was a microprocessor designer."
"What makes you think you're qualified to work at Lying Rat Bastards Inc.?"
"I have a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cal Tech"
"Well, unless you graduated last year, I'm afraid your skills aren't current. Thanks for stopping by."
Nobody ever really discusses computers? Notice how the media almost never has a story on the real details of Linux, Mac, Windows, Sun, Java,.NET, etc., even though hundreds of millions of people use computers every single day?
Some of the most entertaining television or radio is when a host detects that an interview/conversation is starting to become detailed and interesting (read: technical terms being used), and they raise their voice/interrupt/babble/act like a complete asshole/try to make it an unfunny joke in order to return the conversation to stupidity-land.
Part of the problem is the inability of society to think about something for more than a few moments, and also to "glaze over" (which is a bullshit excuse) whenever technical details are discussed.
Only mentioned Apple twice. Is anyone paying any attention to what Apple is accomplishing? OS X is incredible. The G5 workstations are incredible. iTunes is beyond incredible. iPod, Apple stores, Cinema Displays, iPhoto, Powerbook, GarageBand, Keynote, etc. etc.
How much more does one company have to accomplish? What was the last really cool product Microsoft made?
If you don't like it, move to a state that doesn't have a sales & use tax.
Or, vote to repeal it.
you don't really have a leg to stand on
Except the Constitution.
California, whatever, then deal with it.
Yeah. "Deal with it" was tried recently in California. The voters liked it so much they recalled the Governor and passed two laws changing the entire budget process.
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
Additionally:
No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.
One state cannot tax a purchase made in another state. Taxes are too high as it is.
You must know by now that all you have to do is either apt-get install msttcorefonts or create a.fonts directory in your homedir and dump a bunch of TTF fonts in there. Oh, maybe you didn't know. This doesn't suck anymore.
Yeah. Why doesn't the distribution just do that ahead of time? You're right. It shouldn't suck, but it does. At some point, the machine needs to just work.
Wrong. Stock install of just about any distribution with the 2.4 kernel. Gnome applications can't see all the necessary fonts. Most crash. Only way to fix it: edit the XF86Config file to have the correct font paths, then spend another 2-3 days debugging. With that, you might have 70% working fonts. It's worse if KDE is the default desktop.
You can't even install multiple versions of glibc.
My point exactly.
Which file manager are you talking about?
Nautilus, Konqueror, for starters.
Item 5: Stop making problems the user's fault. Let's just fix them. The reason Windows (and Mac) keeps eating Linux's lunch on the desktop is because these (very simple) problems never seem to get fixed.
They are MONEY-GRUBBING MONOPOLISTS who want to charge us more money to buy an inferior product online. And they wonder why people want to steal from them?
Alright. How's this:
Music publishers put a gross revenue cap of $1 million on the mechanical duplication of each track. Once it makes $1 million, they put it in the public domain.
In addition, they drop CD prices to a retail maximum of $.75 per track.
Would people stop infringing on their copyright until the track earned $1 million?
1. Find its fonts without having to edit the XF86Config file 189 times and install some half-working font server for the other three fonts.
2. Upgrade Gnome and KDE applications without having to install yet ANOTHER version of glibc. That or statically link everything and quit pursuing dynamically-linked utopia. I think there's enough disk space now.
3. Have a file manager that isn't linked to every single library on the system, so that if one library is upgraded/replaced, it doesn't make the file manager useless.
4. Make it so these problems can be fixed without changing distributions.
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every day Slashdot gets more and more like a bunch wanna-bes sitting in a circle watching somebody else do all the work, saying "that sucks" every five minutes.
+5 Brilliant
No wonder employers ignore degrees now. College is puking on the patio during booze parties and watching TV in class. Fucks it up real nice for the people who actually do the work and graduate too.
Hey, that's alright. I'm sure most of the graduates don't mind cramming five figures into a toilet and being perpetually unemployed.
Not a chance. Probably got promoted and given a bayside apartment and six-figure bonus because the next quarter's numbers were up 20%. (Then down 40% the following quarter, after the bonus check was cashed).
Management can't lose. If they cancel it and fire everyone, they take credit for the cost reduction. If they keep it on the air and it doesn't get the ratings, they fire everyone (because it was their fault) and take credit for the cost reduction. If they keep it on the air and it gets good ratings, they take credit for the increased ad revenue and the success of the show (it was their idea, of course), and they wait unti the end of the season to fire everyone, and take credit for the cost reduction. It's the perfect job.
Isn't it? How something has to be canceled before anybody notices it was doing well? Someone needs to figure out what it is about middle management that makes them insist on canceling/firing/destroying as a first alternative for everything.
Profits down? Fire people. Ratings down? Cancel it. Not making seven figures pure pocket-stuffing profit a day? Destroy it. What if these guys worked in agriculture? They'd probably bulldoze the whole fucking farm because they weren't shipping truckloads of wheat bread and salsa by Thursday.
Apple has the image problem of being expensive, proprietary, and incompatible.
eMacs are $799, OS X runs on a UNIX kernel and most Macs can talk to just about anything. OS X is everything that Linux will probably become: it's got the best-looking and easiest to use desktop on the market, it has both Open Source and commercial application support and it runs on fast machines.
There is also the fact that Macs work and they look nice at the same time, something that's unlikely on Linux or Windows (although Linux does work more often than Windows).
f you're going to do a next generation toolkit system, then do it right: start by creating a network protocol for it.
Linux will never make any progress unless programmers stop inventing new "GUI toolkits" and start fixing the bugs in the current system.
If all the high paying jobs go somewhere else, you better set up a marketing department in that "somewhere else".
That's the point. When the jobs go somewhere else, they become LOW-paying jobs. The high paying jobs disappear.
Let's be clear, offshoring is not "taking away jobs", but is simply employing people willing to do the job for less than US workers like to be paid.
"Like" to be paid? Try "need" to be paid. Check the rent on a two bedroom apartment recently?
If US workers were willing to be paid the same as what workers in India are willing to work for, this "Offshoring problem" would magically solve itself.
If frogs had wings, they'd be gliders.
To suggest anything else seems to me like greed of the most misanthropic sort.
I like how its "greed" that motivates the employee, but it's the "capitalistic system at work" when employers cut wages by 70%.
you should be 100% behind getting higer-paying, competitive, skilled jobs to people
Yep. And if that's what was actually happening, more people would be in support of it. But that's not what's happening. Companies are destroying careers and educations in order to obtain a short-term economic benefit by underpaying foreign workers. Period. Look up the phrase "eating their own seedcorn."
If "my" job ends up going to someone with the same skills willing to do it for less money, then I wouldn't have it any other way.
Tell that to the wife when you can't make the car payment.
a huge computer with a custom operating system that everyone on earth can have an account on.
Some people predicts that, after Gmail, Google could start a new instant message service
or even its own electronic currency.
Gee, I don't know. I thought they had a good search engine.
the five major labels think that 99 cents per song is too cheap,
That's nice. Isn't there an agreement in place?
and are discussing a price hike that would increase the tariff to $1.25 up to $2.99 per song
So a price increase of between 35% and 200%? Sounds great. Interesting how this new business model is suddenly so important, isn't it?
And another group of several thousand highly-qualified people lose their careers! Just what society needs! Another example of how hard work and dedication just don't matter any more.
Oh, and don't forget to "keep your skills current."
"So, what was your last job?"
"I was a microprocessor designer."
"What makes you think you're qualified to work at Lying Rat Bastards Inc.?"
"I have a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cal Tech"
"Well, unless you graduated last year, I'm afraid your skills aren't current. Thanks for stopping by."
Time is money, and news as entertainment has a very good return.
It would be nice if every single societal value wasn't measured in dollars.
Nobody ever really discusses computers? Notice how the media almost never has a story on the real details of Linux, Mac, Windows, Sun, Java, .NET, etc., even though hundreds of millions of people use computers every single day?
Some of the most entertaining television or radio is when a host detects that an interview/conversation is starting to become detailed and interesting (read: technical terms being used), and they raise their voice/interrupt/babble/act like a complete asshole/try to make it an unfunny joke in order to return the conversation to stupidity-land.
Part of the problem is the inability of society to think about something for more than a few moments, and also to "glaze over" (which is a bullshit excuse) whenever technical details are discussed.
Only mentioned Apple twice. Is anyone paying any attention to what Apple is accomplishing? OS X is incredible. The G5 workstations are incredible. iTunes is beyond incredible. iPod, Apple stores, Cinema Displays, iPhoto, Powerbook, GarageBand, Keynote, etc. etc.
How much more does one company have to accomplish? What was the last really cool product Microsoft made?
If you don't like it, move to a state that doesn't have a sales & use tax.
Or, vote to repeal it.
you don't really have a leg to stand on
Except the Constitution.
California, whatever, then deal with it.
Yeah. "Deal with it" was tried recently in California. The voters liked it so much they recalled the Governor and passed two laws changing the entire budget process.
you're not importing it
Wrong. If it crosses a border, it is by definition an import.
A use tax -- which is what sales taxes on items purchased in other states are -- is not a tarrif on an import.
No, it's a tax on a transaction that takes place outside the state.
Use taxes on imported items in lieu of sales tax is nothing new, and in fact has technically been on the books for a long time in most states.
Article I Section Nine has been on the books for a while too.
Also, Article I, Section 9 (which the grandparent quoted) is really about the Congress, not the states, so it's entirely irrelevant.
It says "state." That's about the states.
You can't use that justification (see my comment here)
That's a nice job of semantics, but the words "no tax" are clear and decisive. Taxing state-to-state commerce is un. con. stitution. al. Period.
None of these states are taxing imports
They are most certainly taxing imports.
they are taxing all purchases the same
They don't have the authority to "tax all purchases."
out of state taxes are collected via tax form
Unconstitutionally.
My state's schools, roads, and parks need to be paid for too.
Start by reducing the unnecessary paperwork and bureaucracy. That would probably save 50% of every state budget.
Article I, Section Nine:
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
Additionally:
No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.
One state cannot tax a purchase made in another state. Taxes are too high as it is.
Yes, I should have to spend a week installing and configuring a new system so I can get one or two decent looking desktop fonts. Sounds great.
You must know by now that all you have to do is either apt-get install msttcorefonts or create a .fonts directory in your homedir and dump a bunch of TTF fonts in there. Oh, maybe you didn't know. This doesn't suck anymore.
Yeah. Why doesn't the distribution just do that ahead of time? You're right. It shouldn't suck, but it does. At some point, the machine needs to just work.
Stop whining and be more helpful.
Yeah, that's a good way to make people enthusiastic about Linux: call them whiners if they complain about something that's broken out of the box.
Fontconfig. 'Nuff said
Wrong. Stock install of just about any distribution with the 2.4 kernel. Gnome applications can't see all the necessary fonts. Most crash. Only way to fix it: edit the XF86Config file to have the correct font paths, then spend another 2-3 days debugging. With that, you might have 70% working fonts. It's worse if KDE is the default desktop.
You can't even install multiple versions of glibc.
My point exactly.
Which file manager are you talking about?
Nautilus, Konqueror, for starters.
Item 5: Stop making problems the user's fault. Let's just fix them. The reason Windows (and Mac) keeps eating Linux's lunch on the desktop is because these (very simple) problems never seem to get fixed.
They are MONEY-GRUBBING MONOPOLISTS who want to charge us more money to buy an inferior product online. And they wonder why people want to steal from them?
Alright. How's this:
Music publishers put a gross revenue cap of $1 million on the mechanical duplication of each track. Once it makes $1 million, they put it in the public domain.
In addition, they drop CD prices to a retail maximum of $.75 per track.
Would people stop infringing on their copyright until the track earned $1 million?
Let's set up Linux so it can:
1. Find its fonts without having to edit the XF86Config file 189 times and install some half-working font server for the other three fonts.
2. Upgrade Gnome and KDE applications without having to install yet ANOTHER version of glibc. That or statically link everything and quit pursuing dynamically-linked utopia. I think there's enough disk space now.
3. Have a file manager that isn't linked to every single library on the system, so that if one library is upgraded/replaced, it doesn't make the file manager useless.
4. Make it so these problems can be fixed without changing distributions.