Over the last 10 years, the global economy has moved apx. 1 *billion* people out of poverty. Think of the equivalent of USA + geographic Europe undergoing the industrial revolution and following 100 years in 10.
So Americans are losing their jobs - cry me a river.
Maybe if your corporations wern't tying up huge parts of your economy in cash reserves (about USD $1 trillion worth atm, effectively stuck in mattresses), while at the same time reducing wages (and thereby consumption), your economy would be more healthy. Yeah - US corporations clearly need more tax cuts.
And don't even get me started on the economic logic of having a military spending equivalent to the sum of the *17 other biggest military spenders* in the world. (2009 numbers)
Yeah, that's right. You're spending about as much as China, UK, France, Russia, Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Italy, India, South Korea, Brazil, Canada, Australia, Spain, Turkey, Israel and Greece do *combined*
I'd look to other things than globalization and outsourcing jobs as the cause of your economic worries.
Yeah, I had to look it up. Never heard of the term "dogfooding" before.
It seems a silly word choice, since in context it carries no more meaning than the rather more conventional word "using".
Well, it could be worse...
"In 2009, the new CIO of Microsoft, Tony Scott, argued that the phrase "dogfooding" was unappealing and should be replaced by "icecreaming", with the aim of developing products as "ice cream that our customers want to consume"
Because then someone has to define what this 'part' is and you can bet your sweet ass it's going to be defined by people who aren't inconvenienced by what they define.
Yeah. It's a real shame serial killers get inconvenienced by laws against murder, right?
I mean, just because we're complicit in the future deaths of millions(at the very least) due to starvation and extreme weather, heavens forbid we should have to "buckle down and do our part"...
I do see your point, though. If 'environmentalism' is to be voluntary, it needs to be made VERY easy - we're creatures of habit and change is hard.
9 out of 10? Wow, is that a real statistic?
Here in Norway it's apparently about 25%... Maybe there's something to this thing about treating employees decently?
Not to mention when Thera (San Torini) exploded (volcano), sending a tsunami over Crete and salting the earth, thus eradicating the Minoan civilization.
On a side note, I'd suggest we start organizing "Wikileaks fundraiser parties". Seeing as (nearly) all other ways of funding them has been blocked by the oh-so-press-friendly US govt. & friends, we'll simply need to collect the money the old-fashioned way and have organizers do the actual fund transfers. (Using Western Union or similar, I guess).
Oh, and 'till these things get up and running, I just signed up for Flattr. Limited to $2 a month, but hey, every little helps.
So now, nations like China and Russia have an advantage over the US in the conduct of their international affairs, intelligence, and defense. I can only imagine China's delight with each new release from WikiLeaks.
We're talking about information accessible to ~2.4 million people - do you *really* think that Russia, China and every other country with an intelligence service didn't already know these things? Wikileaks is doing the U.S. a favor in exposing how utterly weak their purported information security is.
Oh, and the "Top Secret" classification has ~854000 clearances, so chances are they know far, far more.
Foobar 2000 is what I use. A lil bit of moseying about to set it up, but it's worth it. Recommend this plugin if you're on Vista+. It helpfully kills all other sounds while your music is playing - oh, and it apparently gives bit-exact output as well, although I'm fairly sure nobody can really hear the difference.
Well. I'll agree that 'tubes' may be too simplified an explanation of the internet, even for children... But you have to remember, this man was used to talking to Senators
You know, of course, that the AIG bailout alone would pay for 10 years of running NASA at current budget levels?
That the Iraq war would pay for 41 years, and the Afghanistan one for an additional 17?
The 17.6 billion NASA got this year wouldn't pay for much, much less the 9 billion you want to take. Removing NASA (as a halving of the budget effectively would do, as written by posters above) would reduce US prestige quite a bit, though.
I used to think it was possible to scramble hard enough
Well. Here's the thing. See how the recession's ending? That's because of the new budding tech bubble. This one does have rather a lot more substance than the.com bubble did, though.
Retrain yourself in the newest, most fashionable technologies out there, and be adaptable enough to pick up new tech in a week or two. Focus hard on your specific business area, then get a couple of employees - someone to boss around and a pro sales person. Then expand as rapidly as possible (better get started soon, good techs are gonna be much harder to hire in half a year).
Or even better, start a business doing something you really believe in and work 12/365 for a few years. I'm pretty sure you'll get there if you scramble:-)
I see. That how you feel? I wonder if others felt the same about IT SysAdmins? I mean, hell, most of the time a good SysAdmin will spend very little time actually working on their environment once it's stable. Should that job be treated as "part-time"? Ready to take a huge pay cut?
Ah, yes. That's what's happening, haven't you noticed? It's "the Cloud". One of the major cost reductions in the cloud is the amount of SysAdmin hours you pay after it's set up and developed. The savings on hardware are small compared to the savings on people...
Wow. If correct, (a quick Google of 'cosmic radiation nitrogen fixation' returns this article as the first result...) this is probably the most informative on-topic comment I've ever seen on a Slashdot post. Kudos.
A Mom from [your geographic location using an easy JS API] just made [sum of product price multiplied to over $2k] every week for the last five months! At this rate she'll have that [some object the odds are you'll want based on your referrer/tracking etc], and she's available for chat right [a href="chat_window.php" target="_new"]here[a/]
Hmm. That'd be a tech somebody would be likely to pay for - a keyword dropping tool based on estimated user preferences for online sales pitches... Isn't the future nice and scary? Fraud certainly is getting a very large play field on the internet, these days... Too many people not educated with the dangers, too many kids, too many people hoping for that call and playing the lottery every week... And these days some of the 419s and phishing attempts are scarily convincing.
Oh, and iTunes devs looking for new challenges should feel free to talk to me, there's certainly plenty of call for them in corporate dev...
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Over the last 10 years, the global economy has moved apx. 1 *billion* people out of poverty. Think of the equivalent of USA + geographic Europe undergoing the industrial revolution and following 100 years in 10.
So Americans are losing their jobs - cry me a river.
Maybe if your corporations wern't tying up huge parts of your economy in cash reserves (about USD $1 trillion worth atm, effectively stuck in mattresses), while at the same time reducing wages (and thereby consumption), your economy would be more healthy. Yeah - US corporations clearly need more tax cuts.
And don't even get me started on the economic logic of having a military spending equivalent to the sum of the *17 other biggest military spenders* in the world. (2009 numbers)
Yeah, that's right. You're spending about as much as China, UK, France, Russia, Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Italy, India, South Korea, Brazil, Canada, Australia, Spain, Turkey, Israel and Greece do *combined*
I'd look to other things than globalization and outsourcing jobs as the cause of your economic worries.
Not to mention that this "Russian" company is ~40% owned by Telenor, the former Norwegian telephony monopoly. (Used to be owned by the state)
Looks to me like this is correct, and this would be a major and unnannounced change to slashdot
Yeah, I had to look it up. Never heard of the term "dogfooding" before.
It seems a silly word choice, since in context it carries no more meaning than the rather more conventional word "using".
Well, it could be worse...
"In 2009, the new CIO of Microsoft, Tony Scott, argued that the phrase "dogfooding" was unappealing and should be replaced by "icecreaming", with the aim of developing products as "ice cream that our customers want to consume"
Icecreaming, you screaming...
Because then someone has to define what this 'part' is and you can bet your sweet ass it's going to be defined by people who aren't inconvenienced by what they define.
Yeah. It's a real shame serial killers get inconvenienced by laws against murder, right?
I mean, just because we're complicit in the future deaths of millions(at the very least) due to starvation and extreme weather, heavens forbid we should have to "buckle down and do our part"...
I do see your point, though. If 'environmentalism' is to be voluntary, it needs to be made VERY easy - we're creatures of habit and change is hard.
"Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent" - A. Garry Shilling
9 out of 10? Wow, is that a real statistic?
Here in Norway it's apparently about 25%... Maybe there's something to this thing about treating employees decently?
Mod parent up
The study you are referencing was made by Dr. Jerry Bromenshenk, who has economical ties to Bayer (The producer of the pesticide cited). Ref: NYT via http://www.ktradionetwork.com/tag/dr-jerry-bromenshenk/
Not to mention when Thera (San Torini) exploded (volcano), sending a tsunami over Crete and salting the earth, thus eradicating the Minoan civilization.
On a side note, I'd suggest we start organizing "Wikileaks fundraiser parties". Seeing as (nearly) all other ways of funding them has been blocked by the oh-so-press-friendly US govt. & friends, we'll simply need to collect the money the old-fashioned way and have organizers do the actual fund transfers. (Using Western Union or similar, I guess). Oh, and 'till these things get up and running, I just signed up for Flattr. Limited to $2 a month, but hey, every little helps.
So now, nations like China and Russia have an advantage over the US in the conduct of their international affairs, intelligence, and defense. I can only imagine China's delight with each new release from WikiLeaks.
We're talking about information accessible to ~2.4 million people - do you *really* think that Russia, China and every other country with an intelligence service didn't already know these things? Wikileaks is doing the U.S. a favor in exposing how utterly weak their purported information security is.
Oh, and the "Top Secret" classification has ~854000 clearances, so chances are they know far, far more.
Foobar 2000 is what I use. A lil bit of moseying about to set it up, but it's worth it. Recommend this plugin if you're on Vista+. It helpfully kills all other sounds while your music is playing - oh, and it apparently gives bit-exact output as well, although I'm fairly sure nobody can really hear the difference.
Puritans eat a lot of fruit and procreate by mitosis, fully in keeping with their literal interpretation of the Bible.
Well. I'll agree that 'tubes' may be too simplified an explanation of the internet, even for children...
But you have to remember, this man was used to talking to Senators
I much prefer the Cigarette Lighter and Cup Holder Bay Insert, guaranteed to break up fellow geeks, and it holds cups, too!
If your doctor prescribes a homeopathic, you may be coming across as slightly hypochondric ;-)
You know, of course, that the AIG bailout alone would pay for 10 years of running NASA at current budget levels?
That the Iraq war would pay for 41 years, and the Afghanistan one for an additional 17?
The 17.6 billion NASA got this year wouldn't pay for much, much less the 9 billion you want to take.
Removing NASA (as a halving of the budget effectively would do, as written by posters above) would reduce US prestige quite a bit, though.
Google on the other hand however won't hire you unless you have a Masters or PhD.
Open Source work seems to be another way, I know Google engineers who don't have any formal education beyond high-school.
Yummiest thing you can have only* in Norway
(* = So probably not in your country, except if you're japanese or from iceland/greenland )
I used to think it was possible to scramble hard enough
Well. Here's the thing. See how the recession's ending? That's because of the new budding tech bubble. This one does have rather a lot more substance than the .com bubble did, though. :-)
Retrain yourself in the newest, most fashionable technologies out there, and be adaptable enough to pick up new tech in a week or two. Focus hard on your specific business area, then get a couple of employees - someone to boss around and a pro sales person. Then expand as rapidly as possible (better get started soon, good techs are gonna be much harder to hire in half a year).
Or even better, start a business doing something you really believe in and work 12/365 for a few years. I'm pretty sure you'll get there if you scramble
I see. That how you feel? I wonder if others felt the same about IT SysAdmins? I mean, hell, most of the time a good SysAdmin will spend very little time actually working on their environment once it's stable. Should that job be treated as "part-time"? Ready to take a huge pay cut?
Ah, yes. That's what's happening, haven't you noticed? It's "the Cloud". One of the major cost reductions in the cloud is the amount of SysAdmin hours you pay after it's set up and developed. The savings on hardware are small compared to the savings on people...
Wow. If correct, (a quick Google of 'cosmic radiation nitrogen fixation' returns this article as the first result...) this is probably the most informative on-topic comment I've ever seen on a Slashdot post.
Kudos.
s/iTunes/iPhone/
A Mom from [your geographic location using an easy JS API] just made [sum of product price multiplied to over $2k] every week for the last five months! At this rate she'll have that [some object the odds are you'll want based on your referrer/tracking etc], and she's available for chat right [a href="chat_window.php" target="_new"]here[a/] Hmm. That'd be a tech somebody would be likely to pay for - a keyword dropping tool based on estimated user preferences for online sales pitches...
Isn't the future nice and scary? Fraud certainly is getting a very large play field on the internet, these days...
Too many people not educated with the dangers, too many kids, too many people hoping for that call and playing the lottery every week... And these days some of the 419s and phishing attempts are scarily convincing.
Oh, and iTunes devs looking for new challenges should feel free to talk to me, there's certainly plenty of call for them in corporate dev...