well, Bush has violated what a lot of Nixonian conservatives believed in(such as Paul O'Neil and John McCain), in that his policies aren't considered what is now considered, "traditional Republican" which is low taxes for everyone, low waste, low spending, but above all at least strive towards instead he has given some people huge tax cuts(while lowering slightly the taxes for everything else), spends like there is no tomorrow, and unabashedly gives his friends whatever they want. It's ineteresting to note that Bush is a perfect neoconservative in everything he does except for his policies towards China. There is a very large faction in the neo-conservative group(called the blue team) who wants to do everything short of war to stop China from gaining power. Bush obviously thinks it's a good idea for China to have leverage over the affairs of this counry. I am a liberal, but I have my own opinions which don't always co-incide with those of the Democratic party(for instance I would vote for John McCain if he were from my state), but I think a lot of people are seeing through the rhetoric and seeing what this administration really is.
It's interesting how the rest of the world sees China. Japan for instance is a bit skittish, but also really likes what China is doing for it buy buying a lot of Japanese manufacturing equipment, cosmetics, cars, etc. However, given the history of those 2, I don't know how long it will last, just look at the recent soccer riots.
The one thing that has to happen though before the US can do anything is that we have to return to a budget surplus or get Americans to buy savings bonds. That way when we finally demand that China plays fair, the economy will be somewhat braced to stand the shock of China selling a huge amount of bonds very quickly.
Heh, the problem isn't with the resolution perse, it's the fact that it is bundled with an LCD that is the problem. For gaming on an LCD(this is in addition to ghosting issues) is that in order for it not to look "blocky" you either have to run it at it's native resolution, or half it's native resolution(so that each pixel translates into a 4 pixel square). I don't know of too many games that support 640x512, though since 1280x1024 seems to be a very popular resolution for LCDs, maybe we will see it in the future(you can always just add a little 32 pixel black bar if need be)
When your company only generates so much money, upper management would rather invest it into marketing and sales, rather than investing into something where there is no perceived problem....
Have you seen CEO salaries? I think upper management wants to invest it in upper management....
I know this will be marked as reduntdant, but this is seriously the most insightful thing I have ever read on/.
Unfettered free trade is not helping this country, mainly because it isn't free trade. China wants to send stuff to the US, but has no interest in buying US products. Besides the obvious under-valued currency, there are also a lot of other barriers to US goods in the Chinese market. There are huge tariffs and quotas on everything imported into China from the US. If the US tried to impose these quotas on China, China would scream bloody murder at the WTO. In order to even sell stuff in the Chinese market, you have to make a large percent of it in China, and transfer a lot of technology to the Chinese government.
Why is the US standing idly by you ask? Because our leaders don't give a shit about you and I. The huge tax cust is funded China is buying a large amount of the US deficit. We are esentially borrowing from China to buy Chinese goods and making a lot of influential people in Washington very rich.
This is a country who's top general said as recently as 1996 that war with the US was inevitable.
The US is losing the war on communism with Wal-Mart leading the charge!
but I'm quite offended by academic elites who feel that they are superior just because they dished out six figures for an education and didn't have to worry about the real world like a lot of us had to
Guess what, my total education costs to go to Penn State for 4 years will be about $50,000, and guess what, I paid for about 90+% of it. I worked the crappy jobs thoughout high school and college, I worked 30 hours a week while going to school full time and about 60-70 during the summer. I also got scholarships to help out, and took out about $30k in loans, which if I join the armed forces after graduation, I can get the Army to pay for it. I'm not what you would call, "an academic elite", middle of 3 children of a single schoolteacher mother.
You may be tired of the academic elites, but I am tired of people like you who think school has, "no real world value", guess what, you are in your 20's, that means that you got a chance to get in while the getting was good. Doubtful that very many people like you can get away with that now. And the chance I had to go to Japan(paid for with my own money) to work for 6 months at an R&D lab is just as valuable as your, "real world experience"
Of course Democratic presidents create more jobs - more government jobs. Thus the size of gov't increases, and so does the tax burden on those of us who don't have gov't jobs. Number 1 employer in the US - gov't. Number 1 employer in most socialist/communist countries - gov't. Can you see the correlation? Just don't try to get a gov't job unless you know someone, that's the only way in now, unless your female, minority, etc.. (Just my white male rant!).
FYI: Government spending under Bush >> Government spending under Clinton(on both defense and non-defense)
To answer the grandparent, correlation does not necessarily imply causation. Economics is a still largely a mystery, we can measure a lot of things, and explain some others, but it's a lot more complicated than most people(such as yourself) make it out to be. I see a lot of people(and I myself have indulged in this on occaision) who really over-simplify economic theory(free trade is always good! All regulation is evil! We need to protect American jobs! etc)
That correlation should not be the reason you are voting for John Kerry. I am supporting Kerry because he will show fiscal responsibility(unlike our current president), put a lot of money into research for alternative fuel sources(though he hasn't mentioned making trains a replacement for domestic flights, but hey, you can't win 'em all), his willingness to volunteer to go to Vietnam(he inspired me to look into joining the Army), and his courage to protest the war after it, his plans to reduce health care costs, and the fact that he is respected in the rest of the world. I have traveled abroad and met a lot of people who like America, but loathe Bush. I do not want that man representing our country, and I think we have found a great replacement for him in John Kerry.
Now that I have stated my beliefs, I will don my flame retardant suit.
four years of sitting in a class room listening to lectures.
You obviously haven't been in college for a while/ever. Nowadays(at least at the good schools) that only describes the first half of your education. The 2nd half, while still involving some lectures, also involves a lot of different hands on problems, and usually doing internships/co-ops/whatever. Before I graduate with my bachelors, I will have had about 2 years experience. However, the base that my education has given me will help me throughout my career....
Well, there are really 3 main reasons that jobs "dissapear":
1. Decreased demand for your product. Check!
2. Increased competetion from overseas. Check!
3. Changes in technology/methologies that make your job redundant(as Vonnegut reffered to it, aculturation). Check!
With modern tools the amount of work that actually has to be done by programmers has been drastically reduced both by new tools and by new methodologies(like agile/extreme programming) call for a smaller number of people to work on a project. IE you spend less of your time speccing out requirements that will change next week anyhow, and more time getting things done. This is why I think that Indian outsourcing is just a fad, throwing bodies at a problem is rarely the correct way to go about doing anything. Like in the Pacifici in WWII, the Japanese would go blindly charge at a few marines, but the highly specialised and mobile marines would wipe them all out with a few casualties.
The work done by Indian/Phillipine/whatever outsourcers has to be the menial boring work because they aren't close enough to the customer to do the highly challenging/creative stuff(for the US market anyway, in India they are closer to the customer). The work that most of them do(there are obvious exceptions such as certain embedded products where you don't really have to be close to a customer) will be done by something cheaper than Indians: computers. Automated software writers are still at least a decade away, but it's kind of naive to think they will never exist.....
So yeah, it does suck now, but I guess this should act as a warning, find something else to do, because you may be able to use politicians to fight outsourcing, but you can't use them to fight machines....
by education levels. Are the programmers who were laid off college educated or did they take, "ITT teaches you how to write a web page and use visual baisc" type programmers? Is there demand for a masters/phd? The numbers probably mean very little of themselves without a breakdown of who is employed/unemployed. Maybe demand for college graduates has increased, but demand for Devry/ITT flunkies has plummetted. Hard to tell.....
Yeah, but it would be better if developers were getting laid for their work. Then I don't think you would hear anyone complaining about the licensing scheme:P
The spammers are starting to use media tactics, filling you with fear and sensationalism, and then using that fear to sell crap. Today I got one claiming I could protect myself and family from the supposedly deadly West Nile virus(neglects to explain that most of the people who do die from the disease had very poor helth to begin with) by buying this wonderful gizmo. Appearently they know more than the health organizations with a lot of scientist working behind them....
And they will not let you put an & without putting in an amp; after it, and they will also not let you put a &# without nuking it(obviously I used the codes here)
Any way to get around this?
Yes lets be fair and remember that the stats only count those requesting unemployment. So all those that has used all of their unemployment is thankfully not included.
That isn't how unemployment is counted, you have to be looking for work in order to be counted as unemployed. That is really regardless of whether or not your benefits run out.
It's actually a bit more complicated, there is the underemployed catagory which rarely gets discussed but is still important. A person is considered underemployed if they are looking for full time but can only get part time, or if they are working at a job which is far below their abilities, ie a programmer working in retail.
You can have somewhat low unemployent(like we have now, actually the unemployment rate is not that far above what most economists consider the nominal 5%) but have large numbers of discouraged workers and underemployed. The effect on the economy and people's lives is still felt, but the politicians can gloat because they "lowered unemployment". This recovery is especially recovering jobs in the underemployed catagory. There are a lot of temps being hired, and whether or not they will ever get to full time is up in the air.
just export our lawyers to other planets, then "try" to find them again.
That way we will always know there is life outside the planet, but we will have no desire to find it.
Yeah, because a company that made almost $635 million in the 2nd quarter of this year and has a share price of $179 is REALLY hurting for money...
If they want to charge whatever they want for the drug, then they don't deserve my money. If they want to offer drugs for a reasonable price(while still making a profit as can be seen), then I will gladly help fund the research.
It's like the businessman who robs a homeless man because he wants a new car. The businessman can afford the car on his own, but why use your own money when you can use someone elses?
No, in fact you are the one that is naive, believing the "poor me" attitude of the drug companies.
they would allow people to get cheap access to drugs such as Norvir whose research was funded with public money. Now the manufacturer(who owns a patent paid for by the US government) just raised the cost from about $1.71 a day to over $8. There are countless other examples of this to.
I wish I had lobbyists to get the government to pay for my education and then allow me to reap the benefits without giving anything back. But alas, I am not a pharmacuitcal.
Maybe the difference between the journals and the pharmacuticals is that the journalists don't have good lobbyists.
so there is no doubt that eventually a kid will be at their computer and a nice little popup will come up saying, "fucking 03wnz0r3d by Goofy" and then of course direct the young tike to some fun sites
2 summer internships working for a startup company working on websphere Java development, 9 months doing computer programming/IT in a steel mill, and 6 months doing computer security research in Japan. The websphere job was the only one where I did not use my math skills.
I am getting a degree in computer engineering(I did 7 semesters, then took 3 off to go work in the mill and Japan), so I haven't yet taken a software architecture course, but I plan to if I can, while getting a minor in math and close to a minor in Japanese. I already have more credits needed for graduation, but I am just so fascinated by all sorts of different interests that I put off doing requirements till later on. I will still graduate in 8 semesters, with a respectable 3.4(maybe higher if I go longer)
So yes, I have had a ot of real world experience, and they made me even more thankful that I had taken all that math.
Well, there is a a few "computer math" courses(whatever that means), but you are right, there is no calc II, calc III, differential equations, no linear algebra. Any of these "graduates" would be totaly lost in any 400 level undergrad course at my university....
That, and the kid on their site just makes me want to punch my monitor.
Slashdot Mirror
investor has a shot? How out of character!
*BOOM* Damnit, there goes my sarcasm detector again.....
well, Bush has violated what a lot of Nixonian conservatives believed in(such as Paul O'Neil and John McCain), in that his policies aren't considered what is now considered, "traditional Republican" which is low taxes for everyone, low waste, low spending, but above all at least strive towards instead he has given some people huge tax cuts(while lowering slightly the taxes for everything else), spends like there is no tomorrow, and unabashedly gives his friends whatever they want. It's ineteresting to note that Bush is a perfect neoconservative in everything he does except for his policies towards China. There is a very large faction in the neo-conservative group(called the blue team) who wants to do everything short of war to stop China from gaining power. Bush obviously thinks it's a good idea for China to have leverage over the affairs of this counry. I am a liberal, but I have my own opinions which don't always co-incide with those of the Democratic party(for instance I would vote for John McCain if he were from my state), but I think a lot of people are seeing through the rhetoric and seeing what this administration really is.
It's interesting how the rest of the world sees China. Japan for instance is a bit skittish, but also really likes what China is doing for it buy buying a lot of Japanese manufacturing equipment, cosmetics, cars, etc. However, given the history of those 2, I don't know how long it will last, just look at the recent soccer riots.
The one thing that has to happen though before the US can do anything is that we have to return to a budget surplus or get Americans to buy savings bonds. That way when we finally demand that China plays fair, the economy will be somewhat braced to stand the shock of China selling a huge amount of bonds very quickly.
Heh, the problem isn't with the resolution perse, it's the fact that it is bundled with an LCD that is the problem. For gaming on an LCD(this is in addition to ghosting issues) is that in order for it not to look "blocky" you either have to run it at it's native resolution, or half it's native resolution(so that each pixel translates into a 4 pixel square). I don't know of too many games that support 640x512, though since 1280x1024 seems to be a very popular resolution for LCDs, maybe we will see it in the future(you can always just add a little 32 pixel black bar if need be)
When your company only generates so much money, upper management would rather invest it into marketing and sales, rather than investing into something where there is no perceived problem....
Have you seen CEO salaries? I think upper management wants to invest it in upper management....
I know this will be marked as reduntdant, but this is seriously the most insightful thing I have ever read on /.
Unfettered free trade is not helping this country, mainly because it isn't free trade. China wants to send stuff to the US, but has no interest in buying US products. Besides the obvious under-valued currency, there are also a lot of other barriers to US goods in the Chinese market. There are huge tariffs and quotas on everything imported into China from the US. If the US tried to impose these quotas on China, China would scream bloody murder at the WTO. In order to even sell stuff in the Chinese market, you have to make a large percent of it in China, and transfer a lot of technology to the Chinese government.
Why is the US standing idly by you ask? Because our leaders don't give a shit about you and I. The huge tax cust is funded China is buying a large amount of the US deficit. We are esentially borrowing from China to buy Chinese goods and making a lot of influential people in Washington very rich.
This is a country who's top general said as recently as 1996 that war with the US was inevitable.
The US is losing the war on communism with Wal-Mart leading the charge!
but I'm quite offended by academic elites who feel that they are superior just because they dished out six figures for an education and didn't have to worry about the real world like a lot of us had to
Guess what, my total education costs to go to Penn State for 4 years will be about $50,000, and guess what, I paid for about 90+% of it. I worked the crappy jobs thoughout high school and college, I worked 30 hours a week while going to school full time and about 60-70 during the summer. I also got scholarships to help out, and took out about $30k in loans, which if I join the armed forces after graduation, I can get the Army to pay for it. I'm not what you would call, "an academic elite", middle of 3 children of a single schoolteacher mother.
You may be tired of the academic elites, but I am tired of people like you who think school has, "no real world value", guess what, you are in your 20's, that means that you got a chance to get in while the getting was good. Doubtful that very many people like you can get away with that now. And the chance I had to go to Japan(paid for with my own money) to work for 6 months at an R&D lab is just as valuable as your, "real world experience"
Of course Democratic presidents create more jobs - more government jobs. Thus the size of gov't increases, and so does the tax burden on those of us who don't have gov't jobs. Number 1 employer in the US - gov't. Number 1 employer in most socialist/communist countries - gov't. Can you see the correlation? Just don't try to get a gov't job unless you know someone, that's the only way in now, unless your female, minority, etc.. (Just my white male rant!).
FYI: Government spending under Bush >> Government spending under Clinton(on both defense and non-defense)
To answer the grandparent, correlation does not necessarily imply causation. Economics is a still largely a mystery, we can measure a lot of things, and explain some others, but it's a lot more complicated than most people(such as yourself) make it out to be. I see a lot of people(and I myself have indulged in this on occaision) who really over-simplify economic theory(free trade is always good! All regulation is evil! We need to protect American jobs! etc)
That correlation should not be the reason you are voting for John Kerry. I am supporting Kerry because he will show fiscal responsibility(unlike our current president), put a lot of money into research for alternative fuel sources(though he hasn't mentioned making trains a replacement for domestic flights, but hey, you can't win 'em all), his willingness to volunteer to go to Vietnam(he inspired me to look into joining the Army), and his courage to protest the war after it, his plans to reduce health care costs, and the fact that he is respected in the rest of the world. I have traveled abroad and met a lot of people who like America, but loathe Bush. I do not want that man representing our country, and I think we have found a great replacement for him in John Kerry.
Now that I have stated my beliefs, I will don my flame retardant suit.
four years of sitting in a class room listening to lectures.
You obviously haven't been in college for a while/ever. Nowadays(at least at the good schools) that only describes the first half of your education. The 2nd half, while still involving some lectures, also involves a lot of different hands on problems, and usually doing internships/co-ops/whatever. Before I graduate with my bachelors, I will have had about 2 years experience. However, the base that my education has given me will help me throughout my career....
Well, there are really 3 main reasons that jobs "dissapear":
1. Decreased demand for your product. Check!
2. Increased competetion from overseas. Check!
3. Changes in technology/methologies that make your job redundant(as Vonnegut reffered to it, aculturation). Check!
With modern tools the amount of work that actually has to be done by programmers has been drastically reduced both by new tools and by new methodologies(like agile/extreme programming) call for a smaller number of people to work on a project. IE you spend less of your time speccing out requirements that will change next week anyhow, and more time getting things done. This is why I think that Indian outsourcing is just a fad, throwing bodies at a problem is rarely the correct way to go about doing anything. Like in the Pacifici in WWII, the Japanese would go blindly charge at a few marines, but the highly specialised and mobile marines would wipe them all out with a few casualties.
The work done by Indian/Phillipine/whatever outsourcers has to be the menial boring work because they aren't close enough to the customer to do the highly challenging/creative stuff(for the US market anyway, in India they are closer to the customer). The work that most of them do(there are obvious exceptions such as certain embedded products where you don't really have to be close to a customer) will be done by something cheaper than Indians: computers. Automated software writers are still at least a decade away, but it's kind of naive to think they will never exist.....
So yeah, it does suck now, but I guess this should act as a warning, find something else to do, because you may be able to use politicians to fight outsourcing, but you can't use them to fight machines....
by education levels. Are the programmers who were laid off college educated or did they take, "ITT teaches you how to write a web page and use visual baisc" type programmers? Is there demand for a masters/phd? The numbers probably mean very little of themselves without a breakdown of who is employed/unemployed. Maybe demand for college graduates has increased, but demand for Devry/ITT flunkies has plummetted. Hard to tell.....
Yeah, but it would be better if developers were getting laid for their work. Then I don't think you would hear anyone complaining about the licensing scheme :P
The spammers are starting to use media tactics, filling you with fear and sensationalism, and then using that fear to sell crap. Today I got one claiming I could protect myself and family from the supposedly deadly West Nile virus(neglects to explain that most of the people who do die from the disease had very poor helth to begin with) by buying this wonderful gizmo. Appearently they know more than the health organizations with a lot of scientist working behind them....
And they will not let you put an & without putting in an amp; after it, and they will also not let you put a &# without nuking it(obviously I used the codes here)
Any way to get around this?
You already have the world's best human helicopter in Inspector Gadget.
Yes lets be fair and remember that the stats only count those requesting unemployment. So all those that has used all of their unemployment is thankfully not included.
That isn't how unemployment is counted, you have to be looking for work in order to be counted as unemployed. That is really regardless of whether or not your benefits run out.
It's actually a bit more complicated, there is the underemployed catagory which rarely gets discussed but is still important. A person is considered underemployed if they are looking for full time but can only get part time, or if they are working at a job which is far below their abilities, ie a programmer working in retail.
You can have somewhat low unemployent(like we have now, actually the unemployment rate is not that far above what most economists consider the nominal 5%) but have large numbers of discouraged workers and underemployed. The effect on the economy and people's lives is still felt, but the politicians can gloat because they "lowered unemployment". This recovery is especially recovering jobs in the underemployed catagory. There are a lot of temps being hired, and whether or not they will ever get to full time is up in the air.
just export our lawyers to other planets, then "try" to find them again.
That way we will always know there is life outside the planet, but we will have no desire to find it.
Yeah, because a company that made almost $635 million in the 2nd quarter of this year and has a share price of $179 is REALLY hurting for money...
If they want to charge whatever they want for the drug, then they don't deserve my money. If they want to offer drugs for a reasonable price(while still making a profit as can be seen), then I will gladly help fund the research.
It's like the businessman who robs a homeless man because he wants a new car. The businessman can afford the car on his own, but why use your own money when you can use someone elses?
No, in fact you are the one that is naive, believing the "poor me" attitude of the drug companies.
they would allow people to get cheap access to drugs such as Norvir whose research was funded with public money. Now the manufacturer(who owns a patent paid for by the US government) just raised the cost from about $1.71 a day to over $8. There are countless other examples of this to.
I wish I had lobbyists to get the government to pay for my education and then allow me to reap the benefits without giving anything back. But alas, I am not a pharmacuitcal.
Maybe the difference between the journals and the pharmacuticals is that the journalists don't have good lobbyists.
You forgot "Giles the lovable Gynecologist"
Where you get bonus points if you can identify the various discharges.
to get an & in a slashdot comment/sig without /. forcing it to be a &?
Testing
so there is no doubt that eventually a kid will be at their computer and a nice little popup will come up saying, "fucking 03wnz0r3d by Goofy" and then of course direct the young tike to some fun sites
Now how will I protect my machine when I am forced to boot into windows to play Duke Nukem Forever?
2 summer internships working for a startup company working on websphere Java development, 9 months doing computer programming/IT in a steel mill, and 6 months doing computer security research in Japan. The websphere job was the only one where I did not use my math skills.
I am getting a degree in computer engineering(I did 7 semesters, then took 3 off to go work in the mill and Japan), so I haven't yet taken a software architecture course, but I plan to if I can, while getting a minor in math and close to a minor in Japanese. I already have more credits needed for graduation, but I am just so fascinated by all sorts of different interests that I put off doing requirements till later on. I will still graduate in 8 semesters, with a respectable 3.4(maybe higher if I go longer)
So yes, I have had a ot of real world experience, and they made me even more thankful that I had taken all that math.
Well, there is a a few "computer math" courses(whatever that means), but you are right, there is no calc II, calc III, differential equations, no linear algebra. Any of these "graduates" would be totaly lost in any 400 level undergrad course at my university....
That, and the kid on their site just makes me want to punch my monitor.