I will expand on the ACs comment. You are taking that sentence out of context. If you call the fact that Germany walked all over France et. al. a challenge to German superiority, then you have a weak idea on what a challenge really is. Without America, Europe would be speaking German, and more Jews would have been killed.
You are overlooking one small problem. Germany overtook most of Europe! If America didn't enter the war, Britian would have lost.
The world revolves around America because America is the only super-power in the world right now. In the future, it will be someone else. Now off to watch the superbowl...Pats Rule!
You have a point, but what's next? There is nothing big next! Every article and story keeps talking about jobs shifting to the next big thing, but there is a problem--the is no next big thing. As one person said in the article, "where do you go after knowledge". The last shift was towards knowledge based industries, and now there isn't anything to shift too.
This is nothign new. I used to do this in High School in the 80s. I don't see how this is new and exciting news. This is like scientists saying the sky looks blue.
No it's a BA because the old college didn't offer a full CS degree. It's just one degree with various classes split between Mathematics and Computer Science classes (it that or CS/Business). I was one class away from getting a Mathematic minor. I needed Calculus IV (proving all the stuff from Calculus I - III.
Try saying that without hiding behind anonymous coward. You must be one of those "who sit in their parents' basement because they're too lazy to work, mod the fellow sub-human "Insightful"."
I actually don't get to read slashdot that often--not even once a day.
Actually, most studies have shown that Americans do it better. The only thing companies get by using schmucks in India is they can pay them $5000/year instead of $45000/year for a decent programmer in America.
India will lose the jobs as soon as a cheaper source comes around. India is just being used.
A LOT of companies are getting rid of their best tallent which they are paying a lot of money for and keep the average tallent because it costs less.
This means that people like you are probably just an average programmer.
I will take either of your jobs, and you can have mine--none! Keep in mind I am a Software Engineer with a BA in COmputer Science/Mathematics. I was working in a factory putting printed paper & labels into a cutting machine and catching the folded product, but that contract ended before I was able to find another programming job. The agency I am working for doesn't have any contracts. Whine all you want, but at least you have a job, and you can pay bills!
I think you people need a reality check. You don't have it that bad. Try unemployment for a while, and then working in a factory! If you think this will not happen to you, then be prepared because it will!
Although, in January, you might want to bring a lot of warm cloths. It's cold in New Hampshire right now, and our weather coming from Canada. That's probably why it's so cheap. Somebody up there in the Vancouver city government was thinking:
"How can we bring more people to the frozen north in January?"
A lightbulb appears fully lit. We'll put on an ultra-cheap tech confrence and bring hords of geeks up here
Actually, it's more likely that an AOL user you sent an email to hit their "report spam" button (accidentally or on purpose), and now you are considered a spammer. I don't know if it applies to everyone or just to the person who did it.
I had a CoCo too. I had all three models (1, 2, & 3). On the COCO III we has OS-9 Level II, two double sided drives (that counted as 4 5 1/4" drives), and the Rainbow magazine. If you want to do any cool things with the machine, you needed the Rainbow magazine. I wish Linux had been created in the late 80s so I could have gone from OS-9 level II to linux straight without dealing with the poor quality DOS machines. The didn't have good sound. They didn't have speech synthesis or recognition. Boy, I was disappoint with dos machines.
The truth is even today you can do much playing around with speech reconigtion or synthesis like you could on the COCO. The CoCo really was a geeks computer. You could get just about anything for it inclunding a gun type joystick, and you could play the original Rogue!
Back then shows didn't cost thousands of dollars to get into (including lectures). I still remember the Rainbowfest I went to with my father, brother, and a friend.
Just because you think you are at the top percentage (in your company and maybe everywhere) this does not make you immune to being layed off, and like it, or not, a tech union can protect tech workers by bringing them together. I don't like it myself, but I see it as a necessary evil for a near future.
In fact, the top people can sometimes be the ones layed off and replaced. This is because the top, or best programmers, in a company are usually paid the most. This means a company can get the most bang for their buck when they layoff a couple of high paid experts and top programmers while keeping their mundane/average programmers who can get the job done--whether or not it is done the best possible way.
The money they now have freed up by laying off these people can then be used to artificially inflate profits without needing to pass this along to the customer in twerms of saving. In fact, just before I was layed off, on 7/2002, from my last tech job I was one of the best programmers at the company. I knew more than most of the other programmers. They layed off 4 people when they laid me off. Three of these people were programmers--in fact three of their most knowledgeable programmers.
I happen to be a stock holder in the company, so I still get the annual report. In the year I was laid off, the top four people got bonuses of more than twenty thousand dollars each along with a big raise for the new CEO (who switched positions). This was all in the annual stock holders report. The total amount of the bonuses and salary increase was about the same amount of money saved by laying off thew four people. I should note they now hide the details of these things by note placing monetary amounts in the report regaurding these items.
If any group of people can find a way to make a union that stays only as long as it is needed, techies can do it. We need to do soemthign before it is too late.
How is this insightful? It shows a lack of knowledge on the subject. Foreigners can't work in India. India actually protects the jobs for it's own people! If you move to India, you will not be a tech worker because you are legally not allowed to work there!
We need to start to unionise to protect tech jobs from the greedy, money grubbing, CEO and owners who are using offshore workers to increase/maintain the over paid salaries and special bonuses!!!
If you don't think this will happen to you, then you a living in the dark! It will happen to you! It is only a matter of when it will happen. Even if you are the best at what you do at your company, it doesn't mean you are safe. In fact, you are a big target to get laid off because they might want to use your salary to fund their new car payments. These things actually happen! CEOs, managers, and owners have a completely different salary and bonus scale.
The to do soemthign is now before it is too late. If all the tech workers join together, we can bring this world to it's knees by disabling all the high tech things that the world's society counts on to function. This is the only leverage we have, and this leverage will be gone when we are replaced by overseas workers. Just like when other unions go on strike and they bring things to a halt so can we, but it must be done while we have they power to do so. If we don't then they will replace a few at a time.
Great reply, but you forgot one key point. No other country in history has been as benevalent as thre US has when they were a super power. Did Roman? No, Roman expansion policy makes the US policy of go in break down and rebuild look like a vacation in Hawaii! If you don't believe me look at what we did in Japan compared to what Rome did where ever the went. We set up a democracy. What did Rome do? The subjigated other countries the colonies. Last time I check Japan was not a state in the United States of America.
Did Great Britian? Nope. They colonized the world...including America! The fact is the America has very sparing in it's use of power. No other nation has held back as much, and asked other nations to hold back (as in Isreal who could destory their neighbors at any time if it wasn't for the US).
The fact is that the nations complaining are complaining because they now realise that the mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. After a very long time of being a big influence in world power France, Germany, and Russia mean nothing now!
What mini-series did you watch? The mini-series I watch sucked big time! Mr. Moore apparently ran out of ideas. In the first hour of the mini-series 3 couples get it on. The way too much for a mini-series that's only 4 hours.
Moore simply took a battleship and placed it in space. I liked the original ship better. The worst weapon the cylons could use are nukes? How original! A spacefaring race capable of traveling through the stars with lots of ships only based on one planet? No colonies?
All of humanity is being destroyed and NONE of the people show any emotions. I don't care if they are supposed to be warriors--even warriors will break down cry when there only world is being destroyed be evil robots that they created!
What's with the new president fondling herself? How did these really add to to the story? While we are on it, a president? How original. Moore didn't even try to hide the fact that he stole most of his ideas from our modern society. I liked the idea of a council of twelve (one for each tribe) better.
This mini-series only showed two emotions--over intense sexual drive and no emotion. The original series did a better job of showing what Moore was trying to capture with the plight of normal citizens. You saw a real attack by real base stars on the colonies on multiple planets! You saw people running in terror, and building colapsing on top of people. You saw children crying for there parents. Cylon ships attacking people. You saw the warriors crying when they saw and heard of the destruction caused be the cylons attacking and destroying all the known worlds of humanity! At the same, you saw the fleet being destroyed by a surprise attack on the fleet gathering to sign a peace treaty to end the 1000 years of war between the cylons and humanity. Baltar wasn't a sex crazed supergenius, he was a politician that betrayed al humanity so that he could rule his home world, but he didn't relised that he wouldn't have any cards left in his hand when the fleet and all the worlds were destory. 12 Colonies on one planet? How stupid!
The original series didn't have many holes, if any, and if you watched and payed attention you would pick up on the back history. This series makes Farscape look like the masterpiece of writing that Babylon 5 was back in the 90s. I liked Farscape for a while, but it wasn't as good as Babylon 5. Babylon at least did a better job at hiding the ideas they stole from modern days. This mini-series showed the lack of skills Mr. Moore has shown hear in this mini-series. He should work on a soap opera where he can fit as many sex scenes as he wants into a show. Oh and what's with a drunkin first officer?
THis wasn't sci-fi. This was soft porn without the nudity.
"With the increasing corruption of the Republican party Democrats should seriously consider this even if only as a self-interested move."
What a load of political bunk! The Democrats are far more corrupt than the Republicans. Do you even know that The New Yorker is a liberal propaganda engine?
The New Yorker leaves out a lot. Like a lot of the districts being split up by the so called "evil Republicans" were split up by Democrats to favor them in a previous cycle.
I find it funny when the Democrats complain about this considering they have done it for years. They are no better than their counterparts. I also find it funny that they assume they really represent what the American public wants.
Since you mentioned the KKK stuff, I will mention that all RACIST legislation has come from the Democrat party, and they still haven't changed their tune. The brought us seggragation, and now affirmative action. Both are race based legislation.
What proof do you have that the Republicans are the only one who use redistricting to "rig" votes? None because Democrats have been doing this for years!
You have drive-ins still? Wow. We have one in the whole state. On a more serious note, think of the possible problems with this law.
First, claim of citizenship. How will people know if someone is a citizen of the United States?
If you think accusations of racial preferencing happen now, just wait till a minority is arrested by a citizen. You know their's going to be accusations of racial discrimiation.
The other major issues are what are the rights of the person being arrested? WIll the miranda warning still apply? What other rules wil apply, and what others will not apply? This California, so who really knows the answer to these questions.
Actually, this is news. What hope is there for programmers, developers, and Software Engineers if even MIT outsources projects that could be done for free by students as a thesis! Even worse is the implication that even a "_supposedly_" great school for Engineering and technology will not give the work to its own students, and worse still is how they decided to use the Microsoft technology--they read an article. That's not what we would come to expect from an institution of higher learning that is supposed to contain best of the best in students and faculty.
Combine this with the previous slashdot story about MIT not taking government contracts because of the US Citizen requirement and you get a suprisingly disturbing trend of MIT not supporting Americas future, but MIT supporting the future of foriegners and the markets of foriegn countries!
Maybe you went to the went to the wrong school. My school hired a lot of their graduates. Of course, this college won't keep teachers for too long if they don't get the Doctorate. They were different.
I was talking about more of a seperate target like windows is a sperate target from Linux and Mac. I still need to download GTK version since I just nuked WinXp becuase it refused to work with my external touchpad (my cursor went haywire across the screen), and I replaced it Mandrake 9.1.
I have said it before and I will continue to say it until people realise it is true. Anything visual (including GUIs) should have screenshots available on the website in add to demos. This is especially true for cross platform libraries. Screenshots are important so that people can see who they look visually--especially with cross-platform libraries which may draw various parts when the intended part is not available on the system.
AOL still uses the AT commands, and you can edit them. I think I lost my old Hayes booklet that had the commands. Glad to see there is an online resource. What does ~ mean though?
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I will expand on the ACs comment. You are taking that sentence out of context. If you call the fact that Germany walked all over France et. al. a challenge to German superiority, then you have a weak idea on what a challenge really is. Without America, Europe would be speaking German, and more Jews would have been killed.
You are overlooking one small problem. Germany overtook most of Europe! If America didn't enter the war, Britian would have lost.
The world revolves around America because America is the only super-power in the world right now. In the future, it will be someone else. Now off to watch the superbowl...Pats Rule!
You have a point, but what's next? There is nothing big next! Every article and story keeps talking about jobs shifting to the next big thing, but there is a problem--the is no next big thing. As one person said in the article, "where do you go after knowledge". The last shift was towards knowledge based industries, and now there isn't anything to shift too.
This is nothign new. I used to do this in High School in the 80s. I don't see how this is new and exciting news. This is like scientists saying the sky looks blue.
No it's a BA because the old college didn't offer a full CS degree. It's just one degree with various classes split between Mathematics and Computer Science classes (it that or CS/Business). I was one class away from getting a Mathematic minor. I needed Calculus IV (proving all the stuff from Calculus I - III.
Try saying that without hiding behind anonymous coward. You must be one of those "who sit in their parents' basement because they're too lazy to work, mod the fellow sub-human "Insightful"."
I actually don't get to read slashdot that often--not even once a day.
Actually, most studies have shown that Americans do it better. The only thing companies get by using schmucks in India is they can pay them $5000/year instead of $45000/year for a decent programmer in America.
India will lose the jobs as soon as a cheaper source comes around. India is just being used.
or
D) None of the above.
A LOT of companies are getting rid of their best tallent which they are paying a lot of money for and keep the average tallent because it costs less.
This means that people like you are probably just an average programmer.
I will take either of your jobs, and you can have mine--none! Keep in mind I am a Software Engineer with a BA in COmputer Science/Mathematics. I was working in a factory putting printed paper & labels into a cutting machine and catching the folded product, but that contract ended before I was able to find another programming job. The agency I am working for doesn't have any contracts. Whine all you want, but at least you have a job, and you can pay bills!
I think you people need a reality check. You don't have it that bad. Try unemployment for a while, and then working in a factory! If you think this will not happen to you, then be prepared because it will!
Actually, it's more likely that an AOL user you sent an email to hit their "report spam" button (accidentally or on purpose), and now you are considered a spammer. I don't know if it applies to everyone or just to the person who did it.
I had a CoCo too. I had all three models (1, 2, & 3). On the COCO III we has OS-9 Level II, two double sided drives (that counted as 4 5 1/4" drives), and the Rainbow magazine. If you want to do any cool things with the machine, you needed the Rainbow magazine. I wish Linux had been created in the late 80s so I could have gone from OS-9 level II to linux straight without dealing with the poor quality DOS machines. The didn't have good sound. They didn't have speech synthesis or recognition. Boy, I was disappoint with dos machines.
The truth is even today you can do much playing around with speech reconigtion or synthesis like you could on the COCO. The CoCo really was a geeks computer. You could get just about anything for it inclunding a gun type joystick, and you could play the original Rogue!
Back then shows didn't cost thousands of dollars to get into (including lectures). I still remember the Rainbowfest I went to with my father, brother, and a friend.
Just because you think you are at the top percentage (in your company and maybe everywhere) this does not make you immune to being layed off, and like it, or not, a tech union can protect tech workers by bringing them together. I don't like it myself, but I see it as a necessary evil for a near future.
In fact, the top people can sometimes be the ones layed off and replaced. This is because the top, or best programmers, in a company are usually paid the most. This means a company can get the most bang for their buck when they layoff a couple of high paid experts and top programmers while keeping their mundane/average programmers who can get the job done--whether or not it is done the best possible way.
The money they now have freed up by laying off these people can then be used to artificially inflate profits without needing to pass this along to the customer in twerms of saving. In fact, just before I was layed off, on 7/2002, from my last tech job I was one of the best programmers at the company. I knew more than most of the other programmers. They layed off 4 people when they laid me off. Three of these people were programmers--in fact three of their most knowledgeable programmers.
I happen to be a stock holder in the company, so I still get the annual report. In the year I was laid off, the top four people got bonuses of more than twenty thousand dollars each along with a big raise for the new CEO (who switched positions). This was all in the annual stock holders report. The total amount of the bonuses and salary increase was about the same amount of money saved by laying off thew four people. I should note they now hide the details of these things by note placing monetary amounts in the report regaurding these items.
If any group of people can find a way to make a union that stays only as long as it is needed, techies can do it. We need to do soemthign before it is too late.
How is this insightful? It shows a lack of knowledge on the subject. Foreigners can't work in India. India actually protects the jobs for it's own people! If you move to India, you will not be a tech worker because you are legally not allowed to work there!
We need to start to unionise to protect tech jobs from the greedy, money grubbing, CEO and owners who are using offshore workers to increase/maintain the over paid salaries and special bonuses!!!
If you don't think this will happen to you, then you a living in the dark! It will happen to you! It is only a matter of when it will happen. Even if you are the best at what you do at your company, it doesn't mean you are safe. In fact, you are a big target to get laid off because they might want to use your salary to fund their new car payments. These things actually happen! CEOs, managers, and owners have a completely different salary and bonus scale.
The to do soemthign is now before it is too late. If all the tech workers join together, we can bring this world to it's knees by disabling all the high tech things that the world's society counts on to function. This is the only leverage we have, and this leverage will be gone when we are replaced by overseas workers. Just like when other unions go on strike and they bring things to a halt so can we, but it must be done while we have they power to do so. If we don't then they will replace a few at a time.
Great reply, but you forgot one key point. No other country in history has been as benevalent as thre US has when they were a super power. Did Roman? No, Roman expansion policy makes the US policy of go in break down and rebuild look like a vacation in Hawaii! If you don't believe me look at what we did in Japan compared to what Rome did where ever the went. We set up a democracy. What did Rome do? The subjigated other countries the colonies. Last time I check Japan was not a state in the United States of America.
Did Great Britian? Nope. They colonized the world...including America! The fact is the America has very sparing in it's use of power. No other nation has held back as much, and asked other nations to hold back (as in Isreal who could destory their neighbors at any time if it wasn't for the US).
The fact is that the nations complaining are complaining because they now realise that the mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. After a very long time of being a big influence in world power France, Germany, and Russia mean nothing now!
What mini-series did you watch? The mini-series I watch sucked big time! Mr. Moore apparently ran out of ideas. In the first hour of the mini-series 3 couples get it on. The way too much for a mini-series that's only 4 hours.
Moore simply took a battleship and placed it in space. I liked the original ship better. The worst weapon the cylons could use are nukes? How original! A spacefaring race capable of traveling through the stars with lots of ships only based on one planet? No colonies?
All of humanity is being destroyed and NONE of the people show any emotions. I don't care if they are supposed to be warriors--even warriors will break down cry when there only world is being destroyed be evil robots that they created!
What's with the new president fondling herself? How did these really add to to the story? While we are on it, a president? How original. Moore didn't even try to hide the fact that he stole most of his ideas from our modern society. I liked the idea of a council of twelve (one for each tribe) better.
This mini-series only showed two emotions--over intense sexual drive and no emotion. The original series did a better job of showing what Moore was trying to capture with the plight of normal citizens. You saw a real attack by real base stars on the colonies on multiple planets! You saw people running in terror, and building colapsing on top of people. You saw children crying for there parents. Cylon ships attacking people. You saw the warriors crying when they saw and heard of the destruction caused be the cylons attacking and destroying all the known worlds of humanity! At the same, you saw the fleet being destroyed by a surprise attack on the fleet gathering to sign a peace treaty to end the 1000 years of war between the cylons and humanity. Baltar wasn't a sex crazed supergenius, he was a politician that betrayed al humanity so that he could rule his home world, but he didn't relised that he wouldn't have any cards left in his hand when the fleet and all the worlds were destory. 12 Colonies on one planet? How stupid!
The original series didn't have many holes, if any, and if you watched and payed attention you would pick up on the back history. This series makes Farscape look like the masterpiece of writing that Babylon 5 was back in the 90s. I liked Farscape for a while, but it wasn't as good as Babylon 5. Babylon at least did a better job at hiding the ideas they stole from modern days. This mini-series showed the lack of skills Mr. Moore has shown hear in this mini-series. He should work on a soap opera where he can fit as many sex scenes as he wants into a show. Oh and what's with a drunkin first officer?
THis wasn't sci-fi. This was soft porn without the nudity.
What a load of political bunk! The Democrats are far more corrupt than the Republicans. Do you even know that The New Yorker is a liberal propaganda engine?
The New Yorker leaves out a lot. Like a lot of the districts being split up by the so called "evil Republicans" were split up by Democrats to favor them in a previous cycle.
I find it funny when the Democrats complain about this considering they have done it for years. They are no better than their counterparts. I also find it funny that they assume they really represent what the American public wants.
Since you mentioned the KKK stuff, I will mention that all RACIST legislation has come from the Democrat party, and they still haven't changed their tune. The brought us seggragation, and now affirmative action. Both are race based legislation.
What proof do you have that the Republicans are the only one who use redistricting to "rig" votes? None because Democrats have been doing this for years!
Maybe the submitters didn't know MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America? After all, we don't usually type it out being lazy computer geeks.
You have drive-ins still? Wow. We have one in the whole state. On a more serious note, think of the possible problems with this law.
First, claim of citizenship. How will people know if someone is a citizen of the United States?
If you think accusations of racial preferencing happen now, just wait till a minority is arrested by a citizen. You know their's going to be accusations of racial discrimiation.
The other major issues are what are the rights of the person being arrested? WIll the miranda warning still apply? What other rules wil apply, and what others will not apply? This California, so who really knows the answer to these questions.
Actually, this is news. What hope is there for programmers, developers, and Software Engineers if even MIT outsources projects that could be done for free by students as a thesis! Even worse is the implication that even a "_supposedly_" great school for Engineering and technology will not give the work to its own students, and worse still is how they decided to use the Microsoft technology--they read an article. That's not what we would come to expect from an institution of higher learning that is supposed to contain best of the best in students and faculty.
Combine this with the previous slashdot story about MIT not taking government contracts because of the US Citizen requirement and you get a suprisingly disturbing trend of MIT not supporting Americas future, but MIT supporting the future of foriegners and the markets of foriegn countries!
Maybe you went to the went to the wrong school. My school hired a lot of their graduates. Of course, this college won't keep teachers for too long if they don't get the Doctorate. They were different.
I was talking about more of a seperate target like windows is a sperate target from Linux and Mac. I still need to download GTK version since I just nuked WinXp becuase it refused to work with my external touchpad (my cursor went haywire across the screen), and I replaced it Mandrake 9.1.
I have said it before and I will continue to say it until people realise it is true. Anything visual (including GUIs) should have screenshots available on the website in add to demos. This is especially true for cross platform libraries. Screenshots are important so that people can see who they look visually--especially with cross-platform libraries which may draw various parts when the intended part is not available on the system.
you hinted at one fault in wxWindows. There is no binding yet for KDE and gnome. I hope there will be some day. It would make wxWindows even better.
AOL still uses the AT commands, and you can edit them. I think I lost my old Hayes booklet that had the commands. Glad to see there is an online resource. What does ~ mean though?