Depends how you define saving. You can't read a book, use a computer, watch a movie (yay for portable media players) or think deeply about something while driving, at not legally and sanely. In that sense you waste more time driving than taking a bus as those 40 minutes in the car can't be used for anything else.
I would argue that salaries would drop across the board, my point wasn't that a union would prevent any of this, it was to point out that skilled positions are no more secure, nor less prone to abusive practice than any other. Of course they're more secure otherwise every occupation would pay exactly the same. After all why bother doing X when you can almost trivially do Y and make twice as much money?
Skilled positions need long training for and even then there is no substitution for experience, and THAT makes them inherently more secure.
Unions should in practice prevent unfair, abusive and exploitative behaviours whilst providing other benefits, that is useful to most people, as such unions are still relevant. If my employer is abusive I can just quit, there are plenty of other companies that will hire me or I can even start my own company if I wanted to. Intelligent and skilled workers do not go to abusive employers in most cases and so those employers get stuck with inferior workers. The companies who don't abuse their workers then do much better because their workers are of higher quality. Unions on the other hand look out for all it's workers even the idiots and that can only come at the cost of better workers.
That's not true in most sectors now though and frankly even if it where there are still additional benefits to being part of a large group with some political and/or economic power. I prefer not to have half my co-workers be un-firable idiots or to be paid less than them despite doing twice as much work (as a result of being less senior).
If you're actually good at what you do there is often plenty of demand for you not matter what field you're in, as long as you don't act like an utter twit that is. Most people also overestimate their own abilities and then wonder why they can't find a job despite their "amazing" skills.
Most of those would be engineers would lack the training, ability, experience or connections to compete with existing engineers in any real sense. There would be a drop in salaries but that'd be mostly for starting positions. Some existing engineers would exploit the opportunities now made available in other fields (many of which had always wanted to switch fields but were unable till now). The remaining mass of new engineers would rather quickly move onto other better paying fields.
In general the effect would be minimal to those engineers who are skilled or experienced enough to actually be valuable, be it to their present employer or in general. If nothing else intelligent people would have enough savings and backup plans to tough it out till things got better.
My point is that to them personally it doesn't matter and won't really effect them. It's no different from a poor person wanting the rich to be taxed more heavily, they're not effected by it. They could burn half their wealth and still not be able to spend the remainder in their lifetimes (on themselves at least). So instead of giving a couple billion to charity they instead give it to the government.
The point is that they DON'T have to think about their jets, they'll still have those jets no matter how high (within reason) the taxes are.
No they simply have enough money that it doesn't matter if it gets taxed or not. So they only get $4 billion instead of $5 billion to play around with due to taxes. It's generally the middle class that complains about taxes as they get lumped into the upper tax bracket (barely in some cases) but the extra taxes (and thus lack of income) do have a direct effect on their life style. Bill Gates can still afford his own jet no matter how high the taxes are while those middle class people may need to buy a smaller house as result.
I don't see this as greed or laziness at all. First off, this report starts off talking about grade school students. Yeah, our grade schools suck. But, our colleges and universities are ranked higher than any other nation. 18 of the top 20 universities in the world are in the US. That is why, as other people have pointed out, great scientists from other countries just "show up" in the US. They come here for the best education possible and then stay here after graduation. And one day they'll no longer need to come here for education because the schools back home are almost as good and the companies there are better. The ones who are already here will then be able to easily just go back home as well. The remaining people who can't easily leave (not citizens of some other country) will be given generous immigration offers from those countries so they can also leave. It's like the dot com bubble or a slow pyramid scheme, as long as people think it will work it does but when they stop the whole thing collapses spectacularly.
If you don't have loyalty of your workers then those workers have no reason to not go to a better place the second chance they get.
What I see is that there are too few jobs for math and science graduates. That means wages are shit. On top of that, you have business constantly lying about the state of the job market, which encourages more students into math and science, which makes wages decline even further. THAT is what is going on in the market today. The wages are great actually I think and the problem is that intelligent people don't go into math or science. You can make an order of magnitude more money by going into business or management. The stupid morons who then go into math and science of course burn out horridly but the intelligent graduates can make plenty of money. Wall street always pays top dollar, data mining is a massive field, statistics in general pays well and so on. If you want to do pure (or close to pure) research then the monetary prospects are dimmer but that's simply a result of the lower return on investment from pure research. That can probably be offset by patents and consulting so it may not be quite as bad as the base salaries indicate. Even then you can make passable money in academia or research labs, and to be honest if you go into pure research it's unlikely that money is your objective.
If you want to download warez and movies 24/7 then why should I subsidize your connection?
As long as they offer a nice selection of caps that is with maybe even an unlimited one (expensive as that level would be). And of course they have to actually let the customer know of the caps (ie: don't be fuckers like comcast).
The size factor will very quickly be copied by Sony/Dell/et al, so Windows fanbois can rest easy. The size factor has more or less existed for a long time, see for example the Dell X1. Usually it included a dock so that the whole thing wasn't an utter pain in the ass to use. Panasonic had some brilliant designs as well which even included a cd/dvd drive in roughly the same form factor.
The thing is that no one actually wants the form factor, the Dell X1 was smaller and lighter but slightly ticket. If I remember correctly it was phased out because sales weren't good enough.
The president is not god or a dictator or an emperor. He has power but much of his power it seems comes from connections, friends and the job holder's well trained skills at politics. I have no desire to gain such skills (that'd require me to cut out any remaining ethics and morals) and I have no illusions I am even capable of gaining them (much less doing so while in the fire). Hell I suck at dealing with people especially when I'm on the spot so it'd be worse than even for the average person.
More than likely I'd start abusing any power I actually had, due to my lack of having such powers, so things would go downhill even faster. The end result would be that my subordinates would try to bypass me, my advisers would try to hoard power and lei to me, no one would do what I wanted to them (beyond direct orders) and congress would hate me. I'd of course hate the job as well so I'd have almost no desire to dedicate myself to it especially since I'd likely see it as pointless.
I guess my only hope for salvaging something from such a debacle is that I'd have some nice looking interns. Actually that brings up the whole abusing power things so, yeah, things would go badly.
Like a couple others this pretty much kills any desire, low as it is, to buy a ford car. Now the only reason I'd buy one is because the prices are quite nice for them and I don't drive much. Granted the chances of mew having actually bought a ford were low before this but that is still better than zero (for ford that is).
The number of recessions has gone down markedly since the federal reserve came into being, the great depression being the only real blemish and that was before they were actually good at keeping the economy in shape. Likewise before the early 1900s there were tons of recessions and inflation was horribly unstable (it could be 200% over a 5 year period or -50%).
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, eh?
No, we weren't pepped by his speech because it was clear to us that there was no advantage to us other than perhaps some prestige to being number one. All we would be doing is earning him and the stockholders more money. Did you ask? Did you suggest it?
We're told that we have to earn our place in society, but from many of our perspectives, there really isn't anything *worth* earning. No you simply don't see what there it worth earning. Actually compared to what many people endure your "bleak future" is paradise, which is probably why an Indian will fight to their dying breath for it while you will throw it away.
What is the very best that most of us can hope for? A middle class position in an ever poverty-increasing society due to the tremendous shift of wealth towards a small number of businessmen? The shift of wealth isn't that large and it used to be much larger.
A marriage where we both work long hours in order to fatten a tiny number of people's pockets, coming home so exhausted that we're barely able to tend to the children's needs and much less to each other's, so we compensate ourselves by the accumulation of possessions? Some world we've been offered. I'm not sure that it will be worse off if we're a bunch of WOW playing crybaby slackers. If you want to work long hours for some possessions then that's YOUR choice not anyone else's. Plenty of people don't and plenty of people find time for everything else in life.
I'm frustrated that despite all of human innovation and technological advancements, I have to kowtow to an alarm clock that rings at 6:30 AM. Where are the promises that technology was supposed to reduce working hours and make our lives more pleasant? No, we're forced to work harder to compete with other organizations who also suffer the same fate as our own. I think many of us have realized just how much society *has* lied to us, about college, technology, etc. and we've grown apathetic and tired of the empty promises. You need to find a better employer. I make very good money, work ~8 hours a day, can telecommute with almost no notice, can come to work at any time, can surf the web at work and so on. The trick in life is to work smarter not harder.
I'd rather be a relatively poor slacker with time to myself to do what I want and to enjoy my family than a successful developer whose time is consumed with largely meaningless pursuits and whose life is filled with possessions. That you belie the point of money is to buy things shows your own stupidity. Money is security, it is safety and it is a life raft. The foolish waste and spend it on frivolous things then cry when they figure out they can't eat the sofa.
Your problem doesn't seem to be that you went to college but rather what you studied in college. If you study something that has little profit making ability in the real world or demand then it's silly to be surprised at not being able to make money with it.
Asian parents don't push their kids to go to college, they push their kids to go to college and major in electrical engineering, pre-med, etc.
I'll tell you. They are toilet paper. I always assumed this was well known not something you only found out after school. I mean if you go and spend 4 years on something wouldn't it make sense to actually first see what sorts of jobs (and the demand for them) there is after you finish?
If you're really good and a hard worker you can probably get a job with any degree. If you're rich it doesn't matter what degree you have. If you want to make money then you need to get a degree that will make you money.
If all you do is write code for work then by definition you have no time to learn new technology, experiment or improve your abilities in any way (such as learning more about the field).
Rakishi, calling someone an idiot is just an expression of anger, and not a real reply. Of course it's not a real reply, I made a real reply THEN I called you an idiot. Apparently your reading comprehension skills back up my previous statement.
The question is, "Why isn't the money being spent on Firefox development?" Someone must have plans for the money if it is not being spent. What are those plans? As someone else has said there are multiple statements about this and any person with the ability to think logically should be able to figure out why investing money is a good idea. Then again the average American has a negative net income due to debt so I guess I can't fault people for not understanding the concept of saving and investing money (and why it's a good long term strategy).
Of course if they did spend the money you'd be bitching about why they're not saving/investing it in case google stops supporting them.
How could Mozilla Foundation spend so much money and get so little in return? Firefox development has been glacially slow. Firefox is a massive product and it's development has been going on steadily and Mozilla also has a number of products it's developing besides firefox. Just because they're not doing exactly what you want ot listening like slaves to your incoherent ramblings about bugs (with no actual information on which they can base things) doesn't mean there isn't development.
That enormous profit percentage that raises a question: Why did Firefox take in $67 million, but only spend $20 million? What is happening with the rest of the money? Why don't you look at the financial information in the same bloody link that you just posted?
You are either an utter and total troll or one of the largest idiots I have ever seen.
McCusker has historical price indexes till 1913. The fact that you never even looked at such things while arguing about the subject says very sad and ill things about you, your knowledge of the subject and your intelligence.
But if the worst thing that can happen is that your money drops in half, sign me up. No that's not the worst, that's the norm. If you can't understand the difference then you're an utter moron and I'm amazed you can even use a computer. The value of your money periodically went up or down by large margins. Must have played lovely hell on anyone who tried to plan long term spending or investment (without being rich enough to absorb the effects).
Paper money can drop 1000 times and does so when society becomes unstable. So does every kind of money, gold has no intrinsic value except what people are willing to pay for it. If society collapses then gold will be worthless compared to food or other necessities.
Again, how can someone make an argument for a system B based on the fact that system A has some instability but system B is much more unstable than system A? Unlike you we are capable of rational and logical thought as well as reading comprehension. Of course if you;d like to continue randomly pulling statements out of your ass and claiming someoen else said then then please go on, after all there is a reason every town wanted an idiot to be amused by.
BS. While over long periods of time there was little change there were massive jumps over short periods of time. So the value of your money may drop in half in 5 years then go up to 3/4 it's original value within another 5 years of that.
200W of heat from a processor costs the same as 200W of heat from the heater. Most heaters are not electric and gas or oil costs a lot less than electricity.
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Depends how you define saving. You can't read a book, use a computer, watch a movie (yay for portable media players) or think deeply about something while driving, at not legally and sanely. In that sense you waste more time driving than taking a bus as those 40 minutes in the car can't be used for anything else.
Skilled positions need long training for and even then there is no substitution for experience, and THAT makes them inherently more secure. Unions should in practice prevent unfair, abusive and exploitative behaviours whilst providing other benefits, that is useful to most people, as such unions are still relevant. If my employer is abusive I can just quit, there are plenty of other companies that will hire me or I can even start my own company if I wanted to. Intelligent and skilled workers do not go to abusive employers in most cases and so those employers get stuck with inferior workers. The companies who don't abuse their workers then do much better because their workers are of higher quality. Unions on the other hand look out for all it's workers even the idiots and that can only come at the cost of better workers.
If you're actually good at what you do there is often plenty of demand for you not matter what field you're in, as long as you don't act like an utter twit that is. Most people also overestimate their own abilities and then wonder why they can't find a job despite their "amazing" skills.
Most of those would be engineers would lack the training, ability, experience or connections to compete with existing engineers in any real sense. There would be a drop in salaries but that'd be mostly for starting positions. Some existing engineers would exploit the opportunities now made available in other fields (many of which had always wanted to switch fields but were unable till now). The remaining mass of new engineers would rather quickly move onto other better paying fields.
In general the effect would be minimal to those engineers who are skilled or experienced enough to actually be valuable, be it to their present employer or in general. If nothing else intelligent people would have enough savings and backup plans to tough it out till things got better.
Your compiler will parallelize a for loop across 1000 machines AND split the input data across them before you even run the program?
My point is that to them personally it doesn't matter and won't really effect them. It's no different from a poor person wanting the rich to be taxed more heavily, they're not effected by it. They could burn half their wealth and still not be able to spend the remainder in their lifetimes (on themselves at least). So instead of giving a couple billion to charity they instead give it to the government.
The point is that they DON'T have to think about their jets, they'll still have those jets no matter how high (within reason) the taxes are.
No they simply have enough money that it doesn't matter if it gets taxed or not. So they only get $4 billion instead of $5 billion to play around with due to taxes. It's generally the middle class that complains about taxes as they get lumped into the upper tax bracket (barely in some cases) but the extra taxes (and thus lack of income) do have a direct effect on their life style. Bill Gates can still afford his own jet no matter how high the taxes are while those middle class people may need to buy a smaller house as result.
If you don't have loyalty of your workers then those workers have no reason to not go to a better place the second chance they get. What I see is that there are too few jobs for math and science graduates. That means wages are shit. On top of that, you have business constantly lying about the state of the job market, which encourages more students into math and science, which makes wages decline even further. THAT is what is going on in the market today. The wages are great actually I think and the problem is that intelligent people don't go into math or science. You can make an order of magnitude more money by going into business or management. The stupid morons who then go into math and science of course burn out horridly but the intelligent graduates can make plenty of money. Wall street always pays top dollar, data mining is a massive field, statistics in general pays well and so on. If you want to do pure (or close to pure) research then the monetary prospects are dimmer but that's simply a result of the lower return on investment from pure research. That can probably be offset by patents and consulting so it may not be quite as bad as the base salaries indicate. Even then you can make passable money in academia or research labs, and to be honest if you go into pure research it's unlikely that money is your objective.
If you want to download warez and movies 24/7 then why should I subsidize your connection?
As long as they offer a nice selection of caps that is with maybe even an unlimited one (expensive as that level would be). And of course they have to actually let the customer know of the caps (ie: don't be fuckers like comcast).
Since every single creature has tons of random genetic mutations compared to it's parent I take it you don't eat anything living, right?
The thing is that no one actually wants the form factor, the Dell X1 was smaller and lighter but slightly ticket. If I remember correctly it was phased out because sales weren't good enough.
The president is not god or a dictator or an emperor. He has power but much of his power it seems comes from connections, friends and the job holder's well trained skills at politics. I have no desire to gain such skills (that'd require me to cut out any remaining ethics and morals) and I have no illusions I am even capable of gaining them (much less doing so while in the fire). Hell I suck at dealing with people especially when I'm on the spot so it'd be worse than even for the average person.
More than likely I'd start abusing any power I actually had, due to my lack of having such powers, so things would go downhill even faster. The end result would be that my subordinates would try to bypass me, my advisers would try to hoard power and lei to me, no one would do what I wanted to them (beyond direct orders) and congress would hate me. I'd of course hate the job as well so I'd have almost no desire to dedicate myself to it especially since I'd likely see it as pointless.
I guess my only hope for salvaging something from such a debacle is that I'd have some nice looking interns. Actually that brings up the whole abusing power things so, yeah, things would go badly.
Like a couple others this pretty much kills any desire, low as it is, to buy a ford car. Now the only reason I'd buy one is because the prices are quite nice for them and I don't drive much. Granted the chances of mew having actually bought a ford were low before this but that is still better than zero (for ford that is).
The number of recessions has gone down markedly since the federal reserve came into being, the great depression being the only real blemish and that was before they were actually good at keeping the economy in shape. Likewise before the early 1900s there were tons of recessions and inflation was horribly unstable (it could be 200% over a 5 year period or -50%).
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, eh?
The foundation is from what I can tell the LEGAL entity behind gentoo so the domain belongs to the foundation, for example.
Your problem doesn't seem to be that you went to college but rather what you studied in college. If you study something that has little profit making ability in the real world or demand then it's silly to be surprised at not being able to make money with it.
Asian parents don't push their kids to go to college, they push their kids to go to college and major in electrical engineering, pre-med, etc.
If you're really good and a hard worker you can probably get a job with any degree. If you're rich it doesn't matter what degree you have. If you want to make money then you need to get a degree that will make you money.
If all you do is write code for work then by definition you have no time to learn new technology, experiment or improve your abilities in any way (such as learning more about the field).
You used "either" which does not grammatically work with "ten." It does grammatically work with "two" and 10 in binary is "two."
It's a common joke, see for example:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/5aa9/
Of course if they did spend the money you'd be bitching about why they're not saving/investing it in case google stops supporting them. How could Mozilla Foundation spend so much money and get so little in return? Firefox development has been glacially slow. Firefox is a massive product and it's development has been going on steadily and Mozilla also has a number of products it's developing besides firefox. Just because they're not doing exactly what you want ot listening like slaves to your incoherent ramblings about bugs (with no actual information on which they can base things) doesn't mean there isn't development.
You are either an utter and total troll or one of the largest idiots I have ever seen.
BS. While over long periods of time there was little change there were massive jumps over short periods of time. So the value of your money may drop in half in 5 years then go up to 3/4 it's original value within another 5 years of that.