As a former employee of one of the Satellite Broadcasting companies, I know how costly to put one channel onto the airwaves and in no way they can recoup their money from advertising or equipment costs. The only thing they can do is to change the device requirements every couple of years and upcharge you for those cheap Chinese plastic things, which will drive the customers away.
I am not even going to go into opening the doors for legality of stealing signal with the argument "if it is free to receive from the air, I can do anything with it" stupidity.
In Turkish, "Eceli gelen it, cami duvarina iser." which can roughly be translated as, "The dog, whose time to die come, goes and pees on the wall of the mosque (desecrates the holy grounds, punishable by death in sharia law or something like that).
Mullah tayyip is dropping plunkers in the middle of the prayer hall. But, don;t get your hopes too high, He will defect to US when he no longer is able to suppress all the people in Turkiye, as I feel, an uprising is coming very soon. I believe, him and his children, own property somewhere on the Northeastern part of United States.
Your ignorance is blinding my eyes. Americans calling Turkiye as Turkey, doesn't necessarily equate the quality of those people to that of a stupid bird. Not untill too long ago, Beijing, the capitol of China was Peking.
I don't want to hijack the discussion, but I noticed nobody mentioned anything about watching video streams on Linux. My mom, 85 years old and not an anglophone, uses her computer to read newspapers and watch online broadcasting TV channels from the homeland, here in the United States. Her laptop has win 7 on it but due to being 4 years old and only having a Intel core-2 duo processor, the effects of aging started to manifest themselves with a lot of freezing while she is on firefox, watching a tv show (in some sort of shockwave plug-in) and I noticed with the lot of updates pushed by micro$oft, the boot times are getting lengthy or feels liket hat to me. I want to be proactive and nip it in the bud before it blooms into a full fledged problem. I am also considering Linux but due to her extensive use of streaming videos, I can not decide which distro to go with, if any.
I am a type-2 diabetic for the past quarter century and most probably I have used any glucose measuring device ever manufactured in the US. Even the minimal intrusion ones are not fun to deal with and to carry around. This contact lens device, which is always on, would be a god sent.
I wish I were working for google and could participate in the "beta" testing phase of it:)
That is absolutely right. They are not bitching about spying. They are bitching about America has too much power to do spying and them (Finnish people ??) NOT! If the balance was tilted towards their side, do you think they would complain this much ? I think not...
Also, I'd prefer American's do the spying instead of Russians or god forbid Mujaheddin army from the garden variety of middle eastern kingdoms/banana republics. I am not a born American by the way, if you are going to try flaming me with phrases starting with "You, Americans always say it like that....blah-blah". It is common sense. Regardless how bad the freedoms are in this country, I'd rather not be anywhere else at this moment in time.
I don't put a date as the start of anything. It is the number of people having this mindset, getting to a critical mass and changing the landscape. I know one of those people very personally, my significant other's daughter. All she does is consume information but haven't seen her making a slight contribution to anything online and I know (from her words that is) her friends are of the same mindset.
In my time, I mean, when I went online in late 80's, almost everyone online, including myself, were building "The Internet". In the course of so may years, I don't know how many personal websites I have started for a garden variety of reasons, or how many blogs I have had. Today, the youth, whom are supposed to be the next wave of people to take the proverbial torch from our generation, are only interested in what their "facebook friends" are doing, wearing and sharing. In my opinion, again, "OMG, I am having a wonderful day" facebook status update is not a meaningful contribution of information for anyone.
...in my opinion, the decline in contributing members is mainly because of today's "gimme-gimme-gimme and I won't give anything back in return" mentality of the young generation of internet users. I am, what you can call, a veteran of the internet age. I started with using BITnet, while going through my masters dissertation process and contributed to many discussions, documentation projects and a few oddball wikipedia articles, on which I thought I have something to say at the time. Now, people, especially the young ones, use wikipedia is a ready-made source for copying their homework papers from and that's it. No reciprocity what-so-ever. And this makes the contributors mad I assume. I can attribute the old time veteran contributors of wikipedi, going intop silence and indifference, to this fact.
At that point, if Brenda is refusing a salary established as the "going rate" of this position being offered to her, she has no right to open her mouth. But if she is being intentionally low balled, then the "comparable salary of an American worker" clause in the H1B visa requirement comes in effect and employer gets sued not by the candidate but by federal government for illegal hiring practices.
you know what ? Thanks to the greedy US corporations, that ship has sailed long time ago. I dare you to find one but only one tech company in the US, at least 3 or 4 out of every 10 calls you place falls into the line of a CSR without a heavy indian accent. They have rooted themselves very well. I unfortunately came to a peace. My beef is with the people who can memorize the jargon of the day and get hired as senior developers, admins etc, while perfectly better US counterparts were hung out to dry.
Since you are so closely following the state of our country and able to call it a hell hole, I have a feeling that, you have some bitterness ? Should I dare say, you got passed for a one too many job applications here in the hell-hole ?? People in glass houses, should use stones very sparingly.
We all know, unless you have a secret recording from the interview, some stupid employer representative says things that is not so kosher, it is impossible to prove discrimination. But, does it really mean that her lawsuit is baseless ? We, including all the competent and mostly incompetent IT workers from India, know that, infosys, tata and wipro are only functional and operational in USA, because they know how to rig and play the system. And the corrupt US politicians who in the pockets of facebooks and micro$ofts are fanning the fire by providing higher number of H1B quotas.
Do you know the latest game infosys a-holes play ? I have been a victim of this ploy. First off they use third party, pond-scum Indian operated recruiters to make their bids, so nothing sticks to them. I am not sure how this lady got into talks with these people at infosys, directly. But anyway, infosys runs the support shop for Cisco Systems and they were looking for a UNIX heavy guy with some TCP/IP networking knowledge and they found me through some site, where I posted my resume. FIrst off the bat, they low-balled the initial offer for working in San Jose. They offered me something like 10% less money than, what I was making at my last position in Southern Cali. which is another 20-some percent cheaper to live compared to the bay area. But, considering it is better than living on an unemployment check, I agreed to interview. After about 3 or 4 botched calls by them, I had the *pleasure* of talking to an infosys employee, calling me from India, for about 30 minutes, who did the *technical* interview to judge my UNIX expertise level with few easy questions, which, someone who installed linux and played with it for a couple of days can answer. Then I got a call back from the secondary, pond-scum agency, telling me that, I past my tech-screen with flying colors. No-shit-Sherlock... I have been a UNIX sysadmin for more than 20 years and he read a book about it ?? Anyway, they wanted to offer me the position but, the BIG BUT, infosys renegotiated the rate and they have to scale back the already low hourly rate by another 15%. At that point, I told the guy to go pound sand. And I am sure, for the money they were thinking about paying, they hired an indian UNIX sysadmin, who didn't mind sharing an apartment with 5 or more others like himself.
Maybe, just maybe, we the American IT workers should play their game and force these three clown companies from india, by filing lawsuit after lawsuit, even if it is going to be rejected. The problem is, we do not have the deep pockets. Maybe organizations like groklaw and EFF should consider mounting such a campaign. Operating on the outskirts of the law, doesn't necessarily mean that, they have the right to rape the American IT sector.
The question is, once this thing becomes ubiquitous and can be built in to the glasses that one wear day in and day out, how is the "No glasses" policy going to be enforced ? And if the idea is not to build this electronics into our daily lives, what is the point of developing the ugly glasses ? Do they think the main street USA man or woman will wear them ?
If you don't do it, somebody will. If the price is right, why not that somebody be me ? We are living the biggest capitalist economy of the world. And money makes the world go round, despite what some nut-jobs believe...
I have core i7 laptop w/o a gpu capable of mining nbitcoins and still am not able to mine anything for myself. how is this app going to figure out what I am running and mine bitcoins ? On the other hand, if I am capable of mining bitcoins on my own (i.e. just for the cost of electricity and an app developer is asking me 0.01 bitcoins for a mundane app, I wouldn't think as much as I think spending my hard earned $2 real money for that app. Same idea with pay pal. I get incentives for completing some surveys of real value to me (not survey farms) in the order of few dollars a month. And I can spend that money with less worry, knowing it didn't cost me anything other than few minutes of my spare time to get it. So the premise is exciting but mechanics of it is still a bit unclear to me.
We all know that women will still complain about inequality in pay (read as in less pay) than men. But if you ask them, this 16 to 8 week difference for maternity is a sure thing and should never be questioned. At least I personally know women with this mind set. Selective equality anyone ?
You can run a VPN server at your home. Those governments can only block so many IP addresses and they have the big VPN providers in their crosshairs. If you and another few thousand of you can spare few gigabytes per month from your bandwidth cap and somehow find a way to reach out to those people and direct them to use *your* VPN service (free of charge of course), you can safely say that you have done your part.
For me, it is a gaping zero ! I have total of 15 workdays under the name of PTO (Paid Time Off) or MTO (Managed Time Off). Use them when you are sick or when you want to take a day or two off for vacation. Also I have a generous holiday allowance, which amounts to a whopping 6 days per year.
I don't know about you but, I like taking vacations. since 3 weeks is barely enough for taking a vacation and maybe going to somewhere exotic to really break away from the hustle and bustle of the IT shop I'm working at, I have no time left to take off, when I am really sick. You know what ? If I am well enough to drive 30 minutes to the office, you can be sure that I will be "working" that day. At which capacity, is another million dollar question.
So, the employers, who prefer you not to spread your germs to the rest of the healthy population of the company, should re-think about their sick days policy. If you are combining them with the vacations days and forcing employees to take off sick days out of their meager vacation allowance, you are inflicting this onto yourself. I, for one, will not make accommodations for an employer, who make no accommodations for me.
I am rooting for google to fight apple and they are one of the handful companies, who can do that, financially speaking, without going bankrupt. Apple needs to get a dose of their own medicine IMHO. Let them eat back the workds of the iConMan Steve Jobs, going to thermonuclear war against the android.
If you go high enough altitude, there always is sun. If you have traveled as much as I did, you should know this. My vote on why this is not being done. is on the "not enough surface to provide enough electricity to run the engines" side. But in that case, why not a hybrid engine ? Cutting the fuel cost should be beneficial to the airlines' bottom-line, regardless, how little.
Self aggrandizing people like the author of this article makes my blood boil. Yes google and facebook are public companies and yes they need to return some value to their investors and yes they will sell your data to some people to do that. I am sure she is still using her gmail, google maps, facebook and what-not without any reference to this in her article or even if she denies using them, you and I both know she is a closet googler and facebook addict.
There is nothing free in this world. And people in general, want everything for free. So, I think it is better for the capitalist world to go communist and everyone work for the good of community and every service they provide to every other human being (read as slackers) should be free. Isn't this the morality of the article ? Or am I missing something ?
There is nothing wrong with the Silicon Valley or any other tech incubating regions in the world. If one must look for some toxic-to-people things, there is no more effort necessary than checking the workings of financial system of the world. What are they really contributing to the system other than being a conduit to your money ?
No it is not "blame the victim" move. It is putting all relevant facts into the daylight move in my opinion. If you are a proven aggressor against law enforcement or any other thing for that matter and if you were in a conflict with this group, it is the other party's right to present what and who you are with all publicly available information. Otherwise, we are going into the gray area of a homeowner shooting a thief inside his house and getting sued for the thief's injuries.
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As a former employee of one of the Satellite Broadcasting companies, I know how costly to put one channel onto the airwaves and in no way they can recoup their money from advertising or equipment costs. The only thing they can do is to change the device requirements every couple of years and upcharge you for those cheap Chinese plastic things, which will drive the customers away.
I am not even going to go into opening the doors for legality of stealing signal with the argument "if it is free to receive from the air, I can do anything with it" stupidity.
So, it is a no starter...
In Turkish, there is a saying:
In Turkish, "Eceli gelen it, cami duvarina iser." which can roughly be translated as, "The dog, whose time to die come, goes and pees on the wall of the mosque (desecrates the holy grounds, punishable by death in sharia law or something like that).
Mullah tayyip is dropping plunkers in the middle of the prayer hall. But, don;t get your hopes too high, He will defect to US when he no longer is able to suppress all the people in Turkiye, as I feel, an uprising is coming very soon. I believe, him and his children, own property somewhere on the Northeastern part of United States.
Your ignorance is blinding my eyes. Americans calling Turkiye as Turkey, doesn't necessarily equate the quality of those people to that of a stupid bird. Not untill too long ago, Beijing, the capitol of China was Peking.
I don't want to hijack the discussion, but I noticed nobody mentioned anything about watching video streams on Linux. My mom, 85 years old and not an anglophone, uses her computer to read newspapers and watch online broadcasting TV channels from the homeland, here in the United States. Her laptop has win 7 on it but due to being 4 years old and only having a Intel core-2 duo processor, the effects of aging started to manifest themselves with a lot of freezing while she is on firefox, watching a tv show (in some sort of shockwave plug-in) and I noticed with the lot of updates pushed by micro$oft, the boot times are getting lengthy or feels liket hat to me. I want to be proactive and nip it in the bud before it blooms into a full fledged problem. I am also considering Linux but due to her extensive use of streaming videos, I can not decide which distro to go with, if any.
Suggestions ? I'm all ears...
I am a type-2 diabetic for the past quarter century and most probably I have used any glucose measuring device ever manufactured in the US. Even the minimal intrusion ones are not fun to deal with and to carry around. This contact lens device, which is always on, would be a god sent.
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I wish I were working for google and could participate in the "beta" testing phase of it
That is absolutely right. They are not bitching about spying. They are bitching about America has too much power to do spying and them (Finnish people ??) NOT! If the balance was tilted towards their side, do you think they would complain this much ? I think not...
Also, I'd prefer American's do the spying instead of Russians or god forbid Mujaheddin army from the garden variety of middle eastern kingdoms/banana republics. I am not a born American by the way, if you are going to try flaming me with phrases starting with "You, Americans always say it like that....blah-blah". It is common sense. Regardless how bad the freedoms are in this country, I'd rather not be anywhere else at this moment in time.
I don't put a date as the start of anything. It is the number of people having this mindset, getting to a critical mass and changing the landscape. I know one of those people very personally, my significant other's daughter. All she does is consume information but haven't seen her making a slight contribution to anything online and I know (from her words that is) her friends are of the same mindset.
In my time, I mean, when I went online in late 80's, almost everyone online, including myself, were building "The Internet". In the course of so may years, I don't know how many personal websites I have started for a garden variety of reasons, or how many blogs I have had. Today, the youth, whom are supposed to be the next wave of people to take the proverbial torch from our generation, are only interested in what their "facebook friends" are doing, wearing and sharing. In my opinion, again, "OMG, I am having a wonderful day" facebook status update is not a meaningful contribution of information for anyone.
...in my opinion, the decline in contributing members is mainly because of today's "gimme-gimme-gimme and I won't give anything back in return" mentality of the young generation of internet users. I am, what you can call, a veteran of the internet age. I started with using BITnet, while going through my masters dissertation process and contributed to many discussions, documentation projects and a few oddball wikipedia articles, on which I thought I have something to say at the time. Now, people, especially the young ones, use wikipedia is a ready-made source for copying their homework papers from and that's it. No reciprocity what-so-ever. And this makes the contributors mad I assume. I can attribute the old time veteran contributors of wikipedi, going intop silence and indifference, to this fact.
At that point, if Brenda is refusing a salary established as the "going rate" of this position being offered to her, she has no right to open her mouth. But if she is being intentionally low balled, then the "comparable salary of an American worker" clause in the H1B visa requirement comes in effect and employer gets sued not by the candidate but by federal government for illegal hiring practices.
And the reason for hiring someone with Hindu language skills in the US would be ??? What ?
you know what ? Thanks to the greedy US corporations, that ship has sailed long time ago. I dare you to find one but only one tech company in the US, at least 3 or 4 out of every 10 calls you place falls into the line of a CSR without a heavy indian accent. They have rooted themselves very well. I unfortunately came to a peace. My beef is with the people who can memorize the jargon of the day and get hired as senior developers, admins etc, while perfectly better US counterparts were hung out to dry.
Since you are so closely following the state of our country and able to call it a hell hole, I have a feeling that, you have some bitterness ? Should I dare say, you got passed for a one too many job applications here in the hell-hole ??
People in glass houses, should use stones very sparingly.
We all know, unless you have a secret recording from the interview, some stupid employer representative says things that is not so kosher, it is impossible to prove discrimination. But, does it really mean that her lawsuit is baseless ? We, including all the competent and mostly incompetent IT workers from India, know that, infosys, tata and wipro are only functional and operational in USA, because they know how to rig and play the system. And the corrupt US politicians who in the pockets of facebooks and micro$ofts are fanning the fire by providing higher number of H1B quotas.
Do you know the latest game infosys a-holes play ? I have been a victim of this ploy. First off they use third party, pond-scum Indian operated recruiters to make their bids, so nothing sticks to them. I am not sure how this lady got into talks with these people at infosys, directly. But anyway, infosys runs the support shop for Cisco Systems and they were looking for a UNIX heavy guy with some TCP/IP networking knowledge and they found me through some site, where I posted my resume. FIrst off the bat, they low-balled the initial offer for working in San Jose. They offered me something like 10% less money than, what I was making at my last position in Southern Cali. which is another 20-some percent cheaper to live compared to the bay area. But, considering it is better than living on an unemployment check, I agreed to interview. After about 3 or 4 botched calls by them, I had the *pleasure* of talking to an infosys employee, calling me from India, for about 30 minutes, who did the *technical* interview to judge my UNIX expertise level with few easy questions, which, someone who installed linux and played with it for a couple of days can answer. Then I got a call back from the secondary, pond-scum agency, telling me that, I past my tech-screen with flying colors. No-shit-Sherlock... I have been a UNIX sysadmin for more than 20 years and he read a book about it ?? Anyway, they wanted to offer me the position but, the BIG BUT, infosys renegotiated the rate and they have to scale back the already low hourly rate by another 15%. At that point, I told the guy to go pound sand. And I am sure, for the money they were thinking about paying, they hired an indian UNIX sysadmin, who didn't mind sharing an apartment with 5 or more others like himself.
Maybe, just maybe, we the American IT workers should play their game and force these three clown companies from india, by filing lawsuit after lawsuit, even if it is going to be rejected. The problem is, we do not have the deep pockets. Maybe organizations like groklaw and EFF should consider mounting such a campaign. Operating on the outskirts of the law, doesn't necessarily mean that, they have the right to rape the American IT sector.
The question is, once this thing becomes ubiquitous and can be built in to the glasses that one wear day in and day out, how is the "No glasses" policy going to be enforced ? And if the idea is not to build this electronics into our daily lives, what is the point of developing the ugly glasses ? Do they think the main street USA man or woman will wear them ?
If you don't do it, somebody will. If the price is right, why not that somebody be me ? We are living the biggest capitalist economy of the world. And money makes the world go round, despite what some nut-jobs believe...
I have core i7 laptop w/o a gpu capable of mining nbitcoins and still am not able to mine anything for myself. how is this app going to figure out what I am running and mine bitcoins ? On the other hand, if I am capable of mining bitcoins on my own (i.e. just for the cost of electricity and an app developer is asking me 0.01 bitcoins for a mundane app, I wouldn't think as much as I think spending my hard earned $2 real money for that app. Same idea with pay pal. I get incentives for completing some surveys of real value to me (not survey farms) in the order of few dollars a month. And I can spend that money with less worry, knowing it didn't cost me anything other than few minutes of my spare time to get it.
So the premise is exciting but mechanics of it is still a bit unclear to me.
We all know that women will still complain about inequality in pay (read as in less pay) than men. But if you ask them, this 16 to 8 week difference for maternity is a sure thing and should never be questioned. At least I personally know women with this mind set. Selective equality anyone ?
.... why should I sympathize, you, wanting to hire cheaper foreign employers ? Go #[_](|/\ yourselves please...
You can run a VPN server at your home. Those governments can only block so many IP addresses and they have the big VPN providers in their crosshairs. If you and another few thousand of you can spare few gigabytes per month from your bandwidth cap and somehow find a way to reach out to those people and direct them to use *your* VPN service (free of charge of course), you can safely say that you have done your part.
For me, it is a gaping zero ! I have total of 15 workdays under the name of PTO (Paid Time Off) or MTO (Managed Time Off). Use them when you are sick or when you want to take a day or two off for vacation. Also I have a generous holiday allowance, which amounts to a whopping 6 days per year.
I don't know about you but, I like taking vacations. since 3 weeks is barely enough for taking a vacation and maybe going to somewhere exotic to really break away from the hustle and bustle of the IT shop I'm working at, I have no time left to take off, when I am really sick. You know what ? If I am well enough to drive 30 minutes to the office, you can be sure that I will be "working" that day. At which capacity, is another million dollar question.
So, the employers, who prefer you not to spread your germs to the rest of the healthy population of the company, should re-think about their sick days policy. If you are combining them with the vacations days and forcing employees to take off sick days out of their meager vacation allowance, you are inflicting this onto yourself. I, for one, will not make accommodations for an employer, who make no accommodations for me.
I am rooting for google to fight apple and they are one of the handful companies, who can do that, financially speaking, without going bankrupt. Apple needs to get a dose of their own medicine IMHO. Let them eat back the workds of the iConMan Steve Jobs, going to thermonuclear war against the android.
I am so looking forward to this one.
If you go high enough altitude, there always is sun. If you have traveled as much as I did, you should know this.
My vote on why this is not being done. is on the "not enough surface to provide enough electricity to run the engines" side. But in that case, why not a hybrid engine ? Cutting the fuel cost should be beneficial to the airlines' bottom-line, regardless, how little.
Self aggrandizing people like the author of this article makes my blood boil. Yes google and facebook are public companies and yes they need to return some value to their investors and yes they will sell your data to some people to do that. I am sure she is still using her gmail, google maps, facebook and what-not without any reference to this in her article or even if she denies using them, you and I both know she is a closet googler and facebook addict.
There is nothing free in this world. And people in general, want everything for free. So, I think it is better for the capitalist world to go communist and everyone work for the good of community and every service they provide to every other human being (read as slackers) should be free. Isn't this the morality of the article ? Or am I missing something ?
There is nothing wrong with the Silicon Valley or any other tech incubating regions in the world. If one must look for some toxic-to-people things, there is no more effort necessary than checking the workings of financial system of the world. What are they really contributing to the system other than being a conduit to your money ?
I absolutely agree.
cubism crossed paths with far east culture and they beat each other up real bad, ending up this monstrosity.
Fugly...
No it is not "blame the victim" move. It is putting all relevant facts into the daylight move in my opinion. If you are a proven aggressor against law enforcement or any other thing for that matter and if you were in a conflict with this group, it is the other party's right to present what and who you are with all publicly available information. Otherwise, we are going into the gray area of a homeowner shooting a thief inside his house and getting sued for the thief's injuries.