Re:Well, I see the usual anti-union bushwah
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FUD. As a union member you can elect your union leaders, which is a lot more than you can do to pick your CEO.
FUD. As a free citizen you pick your CEO when you pick your job. If your CEO leaves you can leave with him. If your CEO is replaced, you can choose whether to stay or go. When your in a union, your vote in contract negotiation is narrowed down to 1/n, where n is the number of people in the union. Without a union, you can negotiate 100% your contract.
Re:Nothing much has changed
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CEO compensation is tied to stock prices and thus tied to the market performance which as you pointed out skyrocketed disproportionately with reality. As CEO compensation is more risky than average worker salary (which is garuanteed), the two numbers cannot be compared. Average Management Salary during the 90-98 period tracked below 28 percent at around 26 percent. If you look at current executive compensation in high tech you'll see that its a pretty shitty deal.
Re:IT Unions not all bad
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, I work 40 hours a week, I am guaranteed training, I have great benefits, I get paid overtime, and most importantly, I see my family much more than at previous jobs.
All of the things you've mentioned you could bargined for by yourself and have put in your employment contract. You don't need a union for any of these things. The difference is that with a union, everyone gets the same deal. That means if there is something that you want different, tough. You get no say with a Union.
Re:Well, I see the usual anti-union bushwah
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being skilled does not guarantee you proper treatment by the company
Nor does being in a Union. All being in a union guarantees is that you'll have absolutely no say in how your are treated. A percentage of what you normally would earn will be paid to manage the union, whether you like it or not. You will not be able to negotiate with management. You will be compensated as the lowest common denomenator in typical union fashion. Your stock options will be worth less and you'll have more work todo because your company will be afraid to hire the help it needs because it wont have the flexibily to fire them if times get tough.
When I was fired by one employer (because of my political activities)
As you should have been bring politics into the office place
No shit../ should be fucking DOS'd for even posting this lame article. We'll forgive the communists at CNN who wouldn't know journalism from Pro-Wrestling.
The ills of Collective Bargining
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Collective Bargining may have had its place 100 years ago, but lets face it, the parade is over. IT professions are highly skilled workers and are in demand. Unionizing any workforce in today's economy will lead to further market inefficiency and a drag to innovation. Unions are monopolies of the workforce. UAW, Teachers Unions, etc. Give me a break. They are just monopolies./.ers are anti-monopoly and pro-individual. We don't believe in collective bargining. I dont want a fucking Union card when I want to get a job (I would need one to become a teacher or work in an auto factory). The day someone forces me to get a union card is the day I quit and do something else.
How easy would it be to develop a text-mode application that has a UI that is just as capable as any GUI
Actually most command line applications (or interfaces) are more capable than GUIs because they can be scripted. Capable is not the keyword for GUI. I prefer user-friendly. The only thing GUIs can do that you just can't do in a command line is graphics. Hence, WinCVS's cool branch graph that isnt in the commandline version.
Research and development into fusion reactors is extremely exciting. One must imagine a future where fusion is the primary source of mankind's energy needs for all of the reasons you've listed. Clearly, fusion is a best energy solution if it can be done cheaply.
However, the lights are dimming now while fusion is at least 20-40 years from production deployment.
Nuclear(fission) is an available technology that can fill this gap before fusion rolls out. Among the existing technologies, nuclear is the best. The plants can be made safe. Waste storage is a political (not a scientific) problem. I have a hard time believing our nation can safely store thermonuclear warheads and cant store far less dangerous radioactive waste. Nuclear plants are expensive however, but are not subject to fuel the price fluxuations of gas and coal.
Unfortunetly, Al Gore is not alone. The so-called Green movement has been anti-nuclear from day one without a shred of science (which is their standard modus-operandi). The reality of the Al Gore Ralph Nader world is what I call the Baby-Seal perspective. Its an approach driven by emotions and devoid of practical science and engineering. While I am sorry that California and the North East are suffering from energy shortages, nevertheless they have only themselves to blame. They along with the rest of the country need to wake up.
Energy is civillization.
Energy is Progress.
More Energy is better than Less Energy.
Measuring civillization throughout history in terms of energy/person directly coorelates to the standard of living and social/scientific advances.
Fossil Fuels are a limited resource and they are the number one greenhouse gas contributer.
To produce CURRENT world energy requirements using biomass, 2/3rds of the land surface of the Earth would have to be a corn field.
To produce CURRENT world energy requirements using solar energy would require a solar panel with a surface area larger than the moon.
To produce CURRENT world energy requriements with windmills would require roughly 4/5ths of the land surface of the Earth.
"The flexibility of the software-translation approach comes at a price: the processor has to dedicate some of
its cycles to running the Code Morphing software, cycles that a conventional x86 processor could use to
execute application code."--Transmeta Crusoe Whitepaper
VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) technology employeed by the Crusoe is essentially a software emulation layer for the majority of the CPU instruction set. This means that the "Code Morphing" software that translates instruction sets into VLIW words sucks CPU time. In other words, just because is a 633Mhz CPU, doesnt mean it will perform like a PIII 633Mhz CPU. This sounds like a step in the wrong direction.
The stock lost 23% today as insiders were released from their 1 year lockup-IPO deal and sold. This story suggests that Transmeta is not viewed with great enthusiasm by the people on the inside. Of course some of this selling could be attributed to pressures from other losses to raise capital, but you cant read it as good news regardless.
The fact that this guy didn't go to college is irrellevant. What makes him certifiable, is that he is going to launch himselve 36 miles into the outer atmosphere. Of course his celebration plan is to get drunk at Hooters, which makes him some kind of crazy-idiot-genius all at the same time.
The film companies are banking on appliances as maintaining their dominant role as the primary display/storage devices for entertainment. I think the 10 to 15 year outlook will proove that assessment as wrong. Software will become the primary medium (just look at lame things like Tivo). The computer is the future DVD player, not some appliance.
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Look I love Perl, but everytime I focus on the semmantics of the language, I find myslef utterly confused. Mainly, because I am lazy, but also, because I like an artificial world were there is only one way to do something (like C or Java). With perl, there are an infinite number of ways to do the same thing, and they all look syntacticly different. Understanding perl is like pooring over ancient manuscripts in different languages. My guess in the distant future our descendants will see Perl as this cryptic cult of demon worshipers or something. Some archeologist will spend his whole life trying to unearth the complexities, only to one day to yell out, "My God! Its so simple!"
Write a book that covers all web-middle-tier-to-database application arcitectures in detail. Include everything from mod_perl, python, java servlets, EJB, jsp, asp, COM+, C/C++. Tackle ODBC, JDBC, OCI, etc. Give a pro/con on all of the above in detail, and get it out the door in 6 months before it all changes.
You Microsoft Blasphemer!!!! You'll burn in hell with all of your sick Redmond buddies buckaroo! We don't want your corporate evil here pal! We've heard enough of your Microsoft this and Microsoft that, Pal! This site runs on PHP and MySQL on BSD and if you would simply stop playing around with your Microsoft dreamland you would notice that./ is almost always up and running, except for the other day and those days before that. Free unix is gods gift to everyone and is perfect for all applications including desktops and probably for driving you to work in the morning. Just look at how much better unix desktop software is than your lame Microsoft.
So, pissoff Microsoft boy! We're finished with your fancy Windows 2000.
Hey! This is./ buckaroo! Where get's is the appropriate third-person-singular for the verb to get. Also, here ASP can stand for anything you want including:
Intel sucks
Microsoft is evil and they suck
The music industry sucks
The music industry is evil
Microsoft and the music industry are the same thing
Self promoting product by putting on/. front page
Dribbling commentary that is about as on target as the mars polar lander.
Online gaming is stimulation not simulation. Remember the early days of muds. Outside of Muds, where could you have found 30 or so fantasy gamers role playing in an interactive mythos at 2AM in the morning? Then take something like UnReal or Quake. Where outside of the navy seals are you going to find stimulation like that?
Both have sections "anticipating 2.4" which give you an idea of where to look for changes. The real problem is going to be with the next major revision, where jiffies might get tossed, the I/O api gets a new face. However, for someone without a clue on how to write a kernel driver, both books are a good start.
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FUD. As a free citizen you pick your CEO when you pick your job. If your CEO leaves you can leave with him. If your CEO is replaced, you can choose whether to stay or go. When your in a union, your vote in contract negotiation is narrowed down to 1/n, where n is the number of people in the union. Without a union, you can negotiate 100% your contract.
CEO compensation is tied to stock prices and thus tied to the market performance which as you pointed out skyrocketed disproportionately with reality. As CEO compensation is more risky than average worker salary (which is garuanteed), the two numbers cannot be compared. Average Management Salary during the 90-98 period tracked below 28 percent at around 26 percent. If you look at current executive compensation in high tech you'll see that its a pretty shitty deal.
All of the things you've mentioned you could bargined for by yourself and have put in your employment contract. You don't need a union for any of these things. The difference is that with a union, everyone gets the same deal. That means if there is something that you want different, tough. You get no say with a Union.
Nor does being in a Union. All being in a union guarantees is that you'll have absolutely no say in how your are treated. A percentage of what you normally would earn will be paid to manage the union, whether you like it or not. You will not be able to negotiate with management. You will be compensated as the lowest common denomenator in typical union fashion. Your stock options will be worth less and you'll have more work todo because your company will be afraid to hire the help it needs because it wont have the flexibily to fire them if times get tough.
When I was fired by one employer (because of my political activities)
As you should have been bring politics into the office place
Like we want the Union to set up development standards? "Sorry kid, you'll have to ditch xemacs for VisualAge; its Union rules."
No shit. ./ should be fucking DOS'd for even posting this lame article. We'll forgive the communists at CNN who wouldn't know journalism from Pro-Wrestling.
Collective Bargining may have had its place 100 years ago, but lets face it, the parade is over. IT professions are highly skilled workers and are in demand. Unionizing any workforce in today's economy will lead to further market inefficiency and a drag to innovation. Unions are monopolies of the workforce. UAW, Teachers Unions, etc. Give me a break. They are just monopolies. /.ers are anti-monopoly and pro-individual. We don't believe in collective bargining. I dont want a fucking Union card when I want to get a job (I would need one to become a teacher or work in an auto factory). The day someone forces me to get a union card is the day I quit and do something else.
Actually most command line applications (or interfaces) are more capable than GUIs because they can be scripted. Capable is not the keyword for GUI. I prefer user-friendly. The only thing GUIs can do that you just can't do in a command line is graphics. Hence, WinCVS's cool branch graph that isnt in the commandline version.
Research and development into fusion reactors is extremely exciting. One must imagine a future where fusion is the primary source of mankind's energy needs for all of the reasons you've listed. Clearly, fusion is a best energy solution if it can be done cheaply.
However, the lights are dimming now while fusion is at least 20-40 years from production deployment.
Nuclear(fission) is an available technology that can fill this gap before fusion rolls out. Among the existing technologies, nuclear is the best. The plants can be made safe. Waste storage is a political (not a scientific) problem. I have a hard time believing our nation can safely store thermonuclear warheads and cant store far less dangerous radioactive waste. Nuclear plants are expensive however, but are not subject to fuel the price fluxuations of gas and coal.
Unfortunetly, Al Gore is not alone. The so-called Green movement has been anti-nuclear from day one without a shred of science (which is their standard modus-operandi). The reality of the Al Gore Ralph Nader world is what I call the Baby-Seal perspective. Its an approach driven by emotions and devoid of practical science and engineering. While I am sorry that California and the North East are suffering from energy shortages, nevertheless they have only themselves to blame. They along with the rest of the country need to wake up.
Energy is civillization.
Energy is Progress.
More Energy is better than Less Energy.
Measuring civillization throughout history in terms of energy/person directly coorelates to the standard of living and social/scientific advances.
Fossil Fuels are a limited resource and they are the number one greenhouse gas contributer.
To produce CURRENT world energy requirements using biomass, 2/3rds of the land surface of the Earth would have to be a corn field.
To produce CURRENT world energy requirements using solar energy would require a solar panel with a surface area larger than the moon.
To produce CURRENT world energy requriements with windmills would require roughly 4/5ths of the land surface of the Earth.
So what is the answer. Nuclear.
These kinds of patents tend to attract lots of lawsuits. Everyone seems to be a bit too charged up over this issue and are all out of alignment.
correction i must be on crack. Its NOT an emulation for the MAJORITY of the instruction set, but for a good ammount of the pipeline functionality.
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"The flexibility of the software-translation approach comes at a price: the processor has to dedicate some of its cycles to running the Code Morphing software, cycles that a conventional x86 processor could use to execute application code."--Transmeta Crusoe Whitepaper
VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) technology employeed by the Crusoe is essentially a software emulation layer for the majority of the CPU instruction set. This means that the "Code Morphing" software that translates instruction sets into VLIW words sucks CPU time. In other words, just because is a 633Mhz CPU, doesnt mean it will perform like a PIII 633Mhz CPU. This sounds like a step in the wrong direction.
The stock lost 23% today as insiders were released from their 1 year lockup-IPO deal and sold. This story suggests that Transmeta is not viewed with great enthusiasm by the people on the inside. Of course some of this selling could be attributed to pressures from other losses to raise capital, but you cant read it as good news regardless.
The space capsule doesn't have room for his balls which clearly are the biggest on Earth.
The fact that this guy didn't go to college is irrellevant. What makes him certifiable, is that he is going to launch himselve 36 miles into the outer atmosphere. Of course his celebration plan is to get drunk at Hooters, which makes him some kind of crazy-idiot-genius all at the same time.
Wouldn't an AOL subscription be alot cheaper?
Your absolutely right, but there's more:
The film companies are banking on appliances as maintaining their dominant role as the primary display/storage devices for entertainment. I think the 10 to 15 year outlook will proove that assessment as wrong. Software will become the primary medium (just look at lame things like Tivo). The computer is the future DVD player, not some appliance.
Perl. Can't live with it, Can't live without it.
All posting news on /. is good for is mild DOS attacks.
attention brave soul (or fool):
Write a book that covers all web-middle-tier-to-database application arcitectures in detail. Include everything from mod_perl, python, java servlets, EJB, jsp, asp, COM+, C/C++. Tackle ODBC, JDBC, OCI, etc. Give a pro/con on all of the above in detail, and get it out the door in 6 months before it all changes.
So, pissoff Microsoft boy! We're finished with your fancy Windows 2000.
Online gaming is stimulation not simulation. Remember the early days of muds. Outside of Muds, where could you have found 30 or so fantasy gamers role playing in an interactive mythos at 2AM in the morning? Then take something like UnReal or Quake. Where outside of the navy seals are you going to find stimulation like that?
Both have sections "anticipating 2.4" which give you an idea of where to look for changes. The real problem is going to be with the next major revision, where jiffies might get tossed, the I/O api gets a new face. However, for someone without a clue on how to write a kernel driver, both books are a good start.