I can tell you which jobs are "safe". Those jobs that actually require a personal presence. I think you're incorrect in saying that businesses are outsourcing the "service" jobs. Coding is not a service, but rather a type of manufacturing. I would probably compare it more to a craftsman (like a smith from the days of yore). Service provider jobs by definition cannot be sent overseas, because the provider must be in a position to serve when service is needed. There will always be desktop support jobs because there are some problems that just cannot be solved by someone over the phone lines or network.
You'll notice that when the auto manufacturing jobs went overseas, north, and south, there was one huge multimillion (probably multibillion) industry that stayed put. The auto service industry. Any time something is being produced, there will be a danger of the producing jobs being at risk for going somewhere else. You just can't say the same thing for a service provider job, be it auto, computer, or pool cleaning.
Dude, your link starts the puzzles at 3. Here is a link that starts them at 1.
I saw the solutions for the first 2 and I thought I was looking at an entirely new set of puzzles! Cheers, though, of the 11 I took, I got 5 right (3, 5, 9, 10, and 13), which isn't bad, I guess...:-). What were they talking about when they said "Find the alien", though? I don't understand that at all.
What about the collection of "The Incredible Machine" games? In many of those games my solution rarely if ever matched the solutions that the level designers came up with. Not caring how the puzzle was solved allowed virtually unlimited creativity in those games.
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I feel sorry for the poor chap who screws up the cover sheet on his TPS reports!
I've walked out of movies where the acting was so horrible that it totally invalidated what pleasure I may have gained from the rest of the movie. Additionally, what about camera work? I almost got motion sickness from movies like "Behind Enemy Lines" and "The Blair Witch Project". I think that they are putting the cart before the horse in a lot of ways here by just analyzing the statistical makeup of the movie. They're forgetting to take into account that most of those huge movies have the acting required to let you forget that you're not watching a movie, but experiencing a story.
Actually, what will happen is artists will probably become service providers. Nothing can replace the feel and tone of live music in a restraunt or on the street. One of my greatest memories of a past vacation is of a guy wailing on a sax in the middle of the night. That type of thing couldn't have been duplicated by a couple of kids playing some music on a boom box. Even though all I have left of the experience is a memory (and a log in my travel diary), I gave the guy 2GBP. It was not a lot, but it was the least I could do to tell him how much I appreciated his talent. So I can see how the gift of music will be returned to live performances, and become more of a service industry than a product-driven industry. There will always be a market for means by which people can take music with them. I'm just hoping that the music will return to being primary reason to buy it, rather than the CD being the primary reason to make music.
That will get us to the section, but what about seeing the details of the stories themselves? They are still referenced on those pages by the foo.slashdot.org, not www.slashdot.org/foo. Please help if you can, as for some reason my firewall blocks developers.slashdot.org and books.slashdot.org. Both are sections I sorely miss...:-)
The thing is, it's the repeat customers that make the most money for most companies. A happy customer who returns to a business for their needs does not need to be enticed or advertised to. There are some reports that I faintly remember from school that showed how many businesses get like 60-80% of their income from repeat customers.
New customers are more expensive than return customers, especially from a processing standpoint, as well.
Everyone knows that to piss off a librarian is to call down unimaginable wrath, the consequences of which are often unpredictable.
I'm glad they're on our side, as they are very tenacious, and having a dedicated, intelligent, and socially-friendly ally will do more for the cause than a hundred thousand emails to congressmen.
That would totally negate them having the code to begin with. It sounds like they want the code so that they can make changes to their business software when and how they want it. If you intentionally make it difficult or impossible to do what they're entitled to do (it sounds like they're wanting to basically buy a copy of the code, like a book or something), then you're in violation of the spirit, if not the terms, of the contract. Plus, if you're not nice to the people who are paying you lots of money, you're less likely to get repeat business from them.
Maybe people are feeling the squeeze on their wallets from all the market problems we've been having, and are unwilling to commit to something that seems to be almost 100% luxury. I know that if I were concerned about my retirement fund, I'd be cutting back where I could to put more money there. When this thing came out, many people didn't say "can't" or "shouldn't" when it came to luxury purchases. Now, though, people are keeping their wallets in their pockets a bit more.
I did, but from what I've learned of the launching and landing of space vehicles, you need a lot of room to get up and down. I'm sure this could be just a case of "Head's up!" as much as a "By your leave" kind of thing.
What about US airspace? We do own a lot of landscape, and I don't know about you, but if I were hurling a huge metal spike filled with highly explosive materials through the air, I'd want to make sure it was OK with the people I'd be hurling the spike over. It wouldn't surprise me if they got the permission of a bunch of nations in addition to the US.
All you would need to do is have a rotating mirror put on the axis of the spindle, and bounce the laser off the mirror. Only problem would be proper laser focus at the edges of the CDs.
You can probably spin a mirror much faster than a CD disc or the laser itself...:-)
I just got an Olympus C-3020Z, and so far it's real nice. Cost me around $390, and it can take additional lenses and filters, isn't too massively huge, can store images in TIFF format (any resolution, but defaults to a hefty 2048x1536 (which is a 9MB file)). It's ~3 megapixels, and has enough features to allow you to "grow" into it, without being too complex to actually make it frustrating to take pictures with it...:-) if you want to see some awesome reviews, I'll second the www.dpreview.com recommendation, as well as their forums. A lot of really knowledgeable people hang out in there. And as someone who just got finished with his digicam quest, I wish you good luck, and I hope you are as pleased with your choice as I am with mine...:-)
I always thought this was the kind of stuff that CG effects were supposed to replace. Personally, I like it, as I (and I'm sure many of not most people) can tell the difference between CG and real stuff. Plus, the adrenaline factor should be fairly high, because you KNOW that it was done in the "real world" (tm), and not on come computer screen somewhere. I can't wait to see it!
That's why I usually only listen to NPR or CDs while I'm in my car. I can't stand the horribly limited playlists of the radio stations any more. Not to mention the 20+ minutes of ads (not including the DJ's yapping away) in every hour of music. And from what I've heard, Clear Channel can be a rough company to work for. The corp HQ selects the playlists and the DJ doesn't get to choose very many songs to play, unless they're working after 9:30 or 10:00 pm (and who's listening then anyways?) When I'm at work, I listen to Wolf FM. They've got some ads, but the ratio of music to ads is very high.
They ad people probably won't lose much money. It's the networks that are at risk... The ad agency will someday (sooner or later) say, "I know that 50,000,000 people have PVRs. I also know that 90% of them skip ads. I am not going to pay you this year what I paid you last year, because I know less people are seeing my ads." So instead of $1,000,000 (or whatever) per 30 seconds at the Super Bowl, ad agencies will only be willing to pay $950,000, when the TV network was planning on charging $1,200,000. So no, the ad agency will be fine. They're just the middle men, really. They'll drive their own TV slot costs down, because they'll know they're not worth as much.
The television industry has known about DVR's for years, of course. The music industry knew people were recording their music, and did nothing. The advertising industry knew people were recording shows, and skipping ads when they recorded. Both of them did nothing to stop it when they first knew about it, because the technology wasn't there to make it a threat. So they ignored the 20 pound weiner dog, and it became a 100 pount rottweiler. I just know they're going to try to punish everyone by either looking for legislation against the PVR industry. Heaven forbid they recognise a potential threat and move against it (more effective in-show advertising, better targetted ads, etc), rather than wait until it becomes an almost unstoppable consumer movement that threatens their entire profit plan.
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I can tell you which jobs are "safe".
Those jobs that actually require a personal presence.
I think you're incorrect in saying that businesses are outsourcing the "service" jobs. Coding is not a service, but rather a type of manufacturing. I would probably compare it more to a craftsman (like a smith from the days of yore).
Service provider jobs by definition cannot be sent overseas, because the provider must be in a position to serve when service is needed.
There will always be desktop support jobs because there are some problems that just cannot be solved by someone over the phone lines or network.
You'll notice that when the auto manufacturing jobs went overseas, north, and south, there was one huge multimillion (probably multibillion) industry that stayed put. The auto service industry.
Any time something is being produced, there will be a danger of the producing jobs being at risk for going somewhere else. You just can't say the same thing for a service provider job, be it auto, computer, or pool cleaning.
Dude, your link starts the puzzles at 3. Here is a link that starts them at 1. .
I saw the solutions for the first 2 and I thought I was looking at an entirely new set of puzzles!
Cheers, though, of the 11 I took, I got 5 right (3, 5, 9, 10, and 13), which isn't bad, I guess...:-)
What were they talking about when they said "Find the alien", though? I don't understand that at all.
What about the collection of "The Incredible Machine" games?
In many of those games my solution rarely if ever matched the solutions that the level designers came up with.
Not caring how the puzzle was solved allowed virtually unlimited creativity in those games.
I feel sorry for the poor chap who screws up the cover sheet on his TPS reports!
I've walked out of movies where the acting was so horrible that it totally invalidated what pleasure I may have gained from the rest of the movie.
Additionally, what about camera work? I almost got motion sickness from movies like "Behind Enemy Lines" and "The Blair Witch Project".
I think that they are putting the cart before the horse in a lot of ways here by just analyzing the statistical makeup of the movie.
They're forgetting to take into account that most of those huge movies have the acting required to let you forget that you're not watching a movie, but experiencing a story.
Actually, what will happen is artists will probably become service providers. Nothing can replace the feel and tone of live music in a restraunt or on the street. One of my greatest memories of a past vacation is of a guy wailing on a sax in the middle of the night.
That type of thing couldn't have been duplicated by a couple of kids playing some music on a boom box.
Even though all I have left of the experience is a memory (and a log in my travel diary), I gave the guy 2GBP. It was not a lot, but it was the least I could do to tell him how much I appreciated his talent.
So I can see how the gift of music will be returned to live performances, and become more of a service industry than a product-driven industry.
There will always be a market for means by which people can take music with them. I'm just hoping that the music will return to being primary reason to buy it, rather than the CD being the primary reason to make music.
That will get us to the section, but what about seeing the details of the stories themselves? They are still referenced on those pages by the foo.slashdot.org, not www.slashdot.org/foo.
Please help if you can, as for some reason my firewall blocks developers.slashdot.org and books.slashdot.org. Both are sections I sorely miss...:-)
Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!
That's it, I'm going to go play Trogdor!
The thing is, it's the repeat customers that make the most money for most companies. A happy customer who returns to a business for their needs does not need to be enticed or advertised to.
There are some reports that I faintly remember from school that showed how many businesses get like 60-80% of their income from repeat customers.
New customers are more expensive than return customers, especially from a processing standpoint, as well.
Everyone knows that to piss off a librarian is to call down unimaginable wrath, the consequences of which are often unpredictable.
I'm glad they're on our side, as they are very tenacious, and having a dedicated, intelligent, and socially-friendly ally will do more for the cause than a hundred thousand emails to congressmen.
That would totally negate them having the code to begin with.
It sounds like they want the code so that they can make changes to their business software when and how they want it.
If you intentionally make it difficult or impossible to do what they're entitled to do (it sounds like they're wanting to basically buy a copy of the code, like a book or something), then you're in violation of the spirit, if not the terms, of the contract.
Plus, if you're not nice to the people who are paying you lots of money, you're less likely to get repeat business from them.
Actually, that stuff is the light refracting plastic stuff you see under flourescent lights.
Maybe people are feeling the squeeze on their wallets from all the market problems we've been having, and are unwilling to commit to something that seems to be almost 100% luxury.
I know that if I were concerned about my retirement fund, I'd be cutting back where I could to put more money there.
When this thing came out, many people didn't say "can't" or "shouldn't" when it came to luxury purchases. Now, though, people are keeping their wallets in their pockets a bit more.
I did, but from what I've learned of the launching and landing of space vehicles, you need a lot of room to get up and down.
I'm sure this could be just a case of "Head's up!"
as much as a "By your leave" kind of thing.
But either way, it's good news...:-)
What about US airspace? We do own a lot of landscape, and I don't know about you, but if I were hurling a huge metal spike filled with highly explosive materials through the air, I'd want to make sure it was OK with the people I'd be hurling the spike over.
It wouldn't surprise me if they got the permission of a bunch of nations in addition to the US.
check here.
second paragraph from the bottom.
It talks about some problems installing Win XP and it corrupting a MS Word document.
All you would need to do is have a rotating mirror put on the axis of the spindle, and bounce the laser off the mirror. Only problem would be proper laser focus at the edges of the CDs.
You can probably spin a mirror much faster than a CD disc or the laser itself...:-)
I just got an Olympus C-3020Z, and so far it's real nice. Cost me around $390, and it can take additional lenses and filters, isn't too massively huge, can store images in TIFF format (any resolution, but defaults to a hefty 2048x1536 (which is a 9MB file)). It's ~3 megapixels, and has enough features to allow you to "grow" into it, without being too complex to actually make it frustrating to take pictures with it...:-)
if you want to see some awesome reviews, I'll second the www.dpreview.com recommendation, as well as their forums. A lot of really knowledgeable people hang out in there.
And as someone who just got finished with his digicam quest, I wish you good luck, and I hope you are as pleased with your choice as I am with mine...:-)
I always thought this was the kind of stuff that CG effects were supposed to replace.
Personally, I like it, as I (and I'm sure many of not most people) can tell the difference between CG and real stuff.
Plus, the adrenaline factor should be fairly high, because you KNOW that it was done in the "real world" (tm), and not on come computer screen somewhere.
I can't wait to see it!
That's why I usually only listen to NPR or CDs while I'm in my car. I can't stand the horribly limited playlists of the radio stations any more.
Not to mention the 20+ minutes of ads (not including the DJ's yapping away) in every hour of music.
And from what I've heard, Clear Channel can be a rough company to work for. The corp HQ selects the playlists and the DJ doesn't get to choose very many songs to play, unless they're working after 9:30 or 10:00 pm (and who's listening then anyways?)
When I'm at work, I listen to Wolf FM. They've got some ads, but the ratio of music to ads is very high.
The $1.26 is the "shipping" part.
The rest is "handling"
This part includes the recording, burning, packing, and getting it in the mail.
Not a bad deal if you like the music you buy...:-)
They ad people probably won't lose much money.
It's the networks that are at risk...
The ad agency will someday (sooner or later) say, "I know that 50,000,000 people have PVRs. I also know that 90% of them skip ads. I am not going to pay you this year what I paid you last year, because I know less people are seeing my ads."
So instead of $1,000,000 (or whatever) per 30 seconds at the Super Bowl, ad agencies will only be willing to pay $950,000, when the TV network was planning on charging $1,200,000.
So no, the ad agency will be fine. They're just the middle men, really. They'll drive their own TV slot costs down, because they'll know they're not worth as much.
The television industry has known about DVR's for years, of course.
The music industry knew people were recording their music, and did nothing.
The advertising industry knew people were recording shows, and skipping ads when they recorded.
Both of them did nothing to stop it when they first knew about it, because the technology wasn't there to make it a threat. So they ignored the 20 pound weiner dog, and it became a 100 pount rottweiler. I just know they're going to try to punish everyone by either looking for legislation against the PVR industry.
Heaven forbid they recognise a potential threat and move against it (more effective in-show advertising, better targetted ads, etc), rather than wait until it becomes an almost unstoppable consumer movement that threatens their entire profit plan.
I think that was Monty Burns from the Simpsons, not Scrooge McDuck...:-)
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