... then we move onto China.
Seriously, globalization has seriously flattened US salaries and we do have to work harder to make ourselves more valuable. Finding someone who can keep an Apache configuration current is fairly easy to find around the world. Finding someone who can interpret the business requirements, find appropriate technologies, define overall architectures and lead design, implementation and integration of the project is very hard to find and needs to be closer to home. WIPRO and other know this and are doing anything they can do to get Visa's for their people to do this kind of work. This is an area that needs to be investigated for abuse, not the fact that our Apache admins are paid crap.
Another area that seems to be hard to find, which has been mentioned elsewhere, are those that really understand the software/hardware boundary and have to interact directly with EE and ME designs during product development. I can send a database module design and implementation to India. It is much harder to do that when I need to control a device such as disk drive or a printing press. To outsource you also need to ship them prototypes and the costs and timeliness start to get out of control. Now, if you want to send the whole product design elsewhere, of course, it can be a different story. This is being done by the larger corporations but more on an exception basis and more being driven by the targeted geographical market rather than the cost of engineers.
I get concerned when we fall into the trap that the government owes us something. Oh, if only the government would subsidize my training? There are opportunities out there and we need to continually upgrade our skills by reading that manual or getting involved in some opensource project. Waiting for the gov to do something just puts us in the mindset of helpless victims and from there we mainly remain victims. In technology, by the time the gov puts something together it is usually targeted at the latest fad and by the time its deployed it is no longer relevant. Besides, would you trust your congress person to decide what you need to learn?
I went to school where electrical engineering with power speciality was taught. The program was going strong and there were plenty of jobs for power engineers. It is true, however, that 90% of the jobs were for the power utilities. Bottom line, IT departments might be dying but the IT discipline lives on in other organizations. Google was cited as an example of a utlility. Last time I looked they had several openings for IT related position.
Agreed, there are large areas of our relatively populated county that have 1 or no choices. The 1 choice is a 800kb connection and basically no customer service. Comcast, from our perspective, looks like an upgrade. In most of the geographical US there is no competition and the sole provider can act as a monopoly and be successful. The problem with companies like Comcast is that they can be slow to recognize when the markets are changing and be caught flat footed. They, because of their size, can also be slow to change. AOL is a classic example of this phenomenon.
It is true that other players will eventually enter the market but the very government regulations that are in place to encourage competition reduce the motivation for the current players to make the investments necessary to give us the dependable high bandwidth that we desire.
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The unit comes with a single 500Gb disk and has room for a second one. You can also add disks to the external USB. The big limiter of this box is that it can only support about 1.3Gb total worth of RAID protected capacity. You have the flexibility of partitioning the disks to support all or part of the disks as RAID. My unit has the pair of 500s as RAID disks which I use for high value(my photo and video collection) and a couple of USB drives for backups that don't need the full performance. The unit supports ftp, CIFS and NFS. Because of its small RAM it cannot efficiently support rsync.
Optionally, if you want to tinker it has the linux source available and you can build new firmware images. I played around with the tool chain but did not have any overriding need to modify anything. I have had one in my closet for about a year with no hassles. I previously had a pair of NSLU2's but they were very slow and did not support true RAID capabilities.
From the beginning of the internet there was hope that its chaotic order would lead to a place of free speech that would surpass national boundaries. Unfortunately, these already repressive regimes are discovering ways to spread their national repression to the internet. Before the controls were based on geography. Today the controls are based on technology and this is never a static condition.
Actually the bigger/more resources is more secure argument doesn't necessarily hold water for two reasons:
1) Bigger gets defined by a bigger committee with potential risk tradeoffs.
2) Because it is bigger the rewards for cracking it are higher--thus more resources can be applied to cracking it.
If bigger was more secure Microsoft OS's would have fewer compromises than OS X or Linux.
It is probably a good thing that the USA still uses imperial measurements. Since it is one of the fastest growing and most successful economies not to mention one of the key sources of innovation in the world. It is a good thing the USA is "handicapped" or the country would be assured world domination.
One of my personal issues with converting from imperial to metric is that I would have to go back and totally recalibrate my beer consumption limits. I know how many pints I can handle before I fall over. I have not idea what that point is in liters. Hmm, now that I think about it the calibration process isn't really that bad. OK, bring on those liters!!!
If you read the bill you would notice that it is still under the supervision of the FIS courts. The difference is that now the executive branch gets the bulk rate on approvals. Rather than having to get approval for every single tap it gets a 90 days approval to do surveillance of foreign communications under certain conditions. The FIS courts will continue to supervise to make sure that the surveillance stays within the approved boundaries.
Proof was in the previous comment where he complained about the color of the white and the sound of the fan. I never hear these kinds of complaints on any Windows laptop--people just accept them if they work most of the time.
No, you just enumerated some observations which I don't think anyone is disputing. All of these things(there is some dispute about the ice caps shrinking, but I will leave this aside) are relatively undisuputed. What is being disputed is the root cause of these warmings. Is it green house gasses? Solar changes? Too many people exercising?
What makes you so special that someone who risks all that they have earned against some business that statistically will not succeed. Over 90% of business in this country are founded by someone risking most of what they own, not by the big corps. Then when they do succeed you feel it is their obligation to give it away to those who are too scared or too lazy to make something of the great opportunities in this country. This country was founded on equal opportunity not making everyone equal. Quit the diatribe from Karl Marx which has been shown to NOT work and go for the opportunities instead of sitting on your butt waiting for someone to take care of you.
The learning curve for Xcode was much steeper, but once I got there I found it much easier to use than VS.NET. The thing I miss most(probably the only thing) is the examples that are included in each help reference page on.NET. To find examples for Cocoa I usually have to prowl around the examples directories.
However, if I want to spend the extra $'s to drive my 12 mpg truck instead of spending the money on something else, that should be my choice and not dictated by someone who happens to live next door to the subway with convenient mass transit nearby. We all make choices and value things differently and spend our resources according to those values. Some people like living in high density apartments within walking distance of all their favorite stores while some people like living somewhere where they can get some space and yes they have to spend more to get to the store. The beauty of this country is that it allows us to make these choices -- that is freedom.
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The market should decide. If the person has skills that are useful to the mission the price might be lower as some of the value of his presence comes from these skills. On the other hand, if the person is a pure tourist the price should be higher because all the value comes from the admission ticket.
I have been on the hiring side for many years(I am a software engineer) doing low level over part of my career and doing web services during other parts and the areas of expertise(or even proficiency)that seem to be hard to find are data modeling and databasing.
Inside Mac Radio indicated that sales of singles this year are up and as predicted on this site a long time ago, sales of albums are down. Sales of legal downloads are up dramatically.
Of course, I am now hearing about companies in other time zones like India are outsourcing to European(and maybe Americans). This work would fall out of the 9-5 slot.
Why not create a honey pot that is weak enough for them to compromise it? Then you have evidence of a break in and the grounds to prosecute. Assuming you can identify the offender through the ISP you can make some serious threats with definite consequences.
Pepsi gave me a couple of free songs on iTunes and I am hooked. I have spent over $30 in the last month from groups I never even heard of 2 weeks ago. Between iTunes and Rhapsody I have all the music I need. If there is something I want for the car or on my home server, I buy it(a track at a time). Because of this online model I am going to be buying far more music than I ever did(except maybe in my teen years). Frankly, I don't feel encouraged to by any music at the conventional record stores because it is usually noisy and I can't listen to it in my normal frame of mind while working or relaxing. Sure, P2P probably has an impact, but so does online, quality of releases, and most of all price. I agree that the CD business model is broken now that we have other alternatives for entertainment. I think that for most of us, Kazaa, etc. is too much a hassle when we can get the song we want for less than $1.00. I have better things to do with my time than wade through 2-3 songs to find one that was ripped half decently.
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Its interesting that the three unsatisfactory "free market" examples are heavily distorted by government regulation.
... then we move onto China. Seriously, globalization has seriously flattened US salaries and we do have to work harder to make ourselves more valuable. Finding someone who can keep an Apache configuration current is fairly easy to find around the world. Finding someone who can interpret the business requirements, find appropriate technologies, define overall architectures and lead design, implementation and integration of the project is very hard to find and needs to be closer to home. WIPRO and other know this and are doing anything they can do to get Visa's for their people to do this kind of work. This is an area that needs to be investigated for abuse, not the fact that our Apache admins are paid crap. Another area that seems to be hard to find, which has been mentioned elsewhere, are those that really understand the software/hardware boundary and have to interact directly with EE and ME designs during product development. I can send a database module design and implementation to India. It is much harder to do that when I need to control a device such as disk drive or a printing press. To outsource you also need to ship them prototypes and the costs and timeliness start to get out of control. Now, if you want to send the whole product design elsewhere, of course, it can be a different story. This is being done by the larger corporations but more on an exception basis and more being driven by the targeted geographical market rather than the cost of engineers. I get concerned when we fall into the trap that the government owes us something. Oh, if only the government would subsidize my training? There are opportunities out there and we need to continually upgrade our skills by reading that manual or getting involved in some opensource project. Waiting for the gov to do something just puts us in the mindset of helpless victims and from there we mainly remain victims. In technology, by the time the gov puts something together it is usually targeted at the latest fad and by the time its deployed it is no longer relevant. Besides, would you trust your congress person to decide what you need to learn?
I went to school where electrical engineering with power speciality was taught. The program was going strong and there were plenty of jobs for power engineers. It is true, however, that 90% of the jobs were for the power utilities. Bottom line, IT departments might be dying but the IT discipline lives on in other organizations. Google was cited as an example of a utlility. Last time I looked they had several openings for IT related position.
Agreed, there are large areas of our relatively populated county that have 1 or no choices. The 1 choice is a 800kb connection and basically no customer service. Comcast, from our perspective, looks like an upgrade. In most of the geographical US there is no competition and the sole provider can act as a monopoly and be successful. The problem with companies like Comcast is that they can be slow to recognize when the markets are changing and be caught flat footed. They, because of their size, can also be slow to change. AOL is a classic example of this phenomenon.
It is true that other players will eventually enter the market but the very government regulations that are in place to encourage competition reduce the motivation for the current players to make the investments necessary to give us the dependable high bandwidth that we desire.
The unit comes with a single 500Gb disk and has room for a second one. You can also add disks to the external USB. The big limiter of this box is that it can only support about 1.3Gb total worth of RAID protected capacity. You have the flexibility of partitioning the disks to support all or part of the disks as RAID. My unit has the pair of 500s as RAID disks which I use for high value(my photo and video collection) and a couple of USB drives for backups that don't need the full performance. The unit supports ftp, CIFS and NFS. Because of its small RAM it cannot efficiently support rsync.
Optionally, if you want to tinker it has the linux source available and you can build new firmware images. I played around with the tool chain but did not have any overriding need to modify anything. I have had one in my closet for about a year with no hassles. I previously had a pair of NSLU2's but they were very slow and did not support true RAID capabilities.
The FAQ site is http://www.k0lee.com/hpmediavault/
Taking this 'blame-the-victim' philosophy one step further. I deserve to get mugged if I don't carry a gun.
From the beginning of the internet there was hope that its chaotic order would lead to a place of free speech that would surpass national boundaries. Unfortunately, these already repressive regimes are discovering ways to spread their national repression to the internet. Before the controls were based on geography. Today the controls are based on technology and this is never a static condition.
Actually the bigger/more resources is more secure argument doesn't necessarily hold water for two reasons:
1) Bigger gets defined by a bigger committee with potential risk tradeoffs.
2) Because it is bigger the rewards for cracking it are higher--thus more resources can be applied to cracking it.
If bigger was more secure Microsoft OS's would have fewer compromises than OS X or Linux.
It is probably a good thing that the USA still uses imperial measurements. Since it is one of the fastest growing and most successful economies not to mention one of the key sources of innovation in the world. It is a good thing the USA is "handicapped" or the country would be assured world domination. One of my personal issues with converting from imperial to metric is that I would have to go back and totally recalibrate my beer consumption limits. I know how many pints I can handle before I fall over. I have not idea what that point is in liters. Hmm, now that I think about it the calibration process isn't really that bad. OK, bring on those liters!!!
If you read the bill you would notice that it is still under the supervision of the FIS courts. The difference is that now the executive branch gets the bulk rate on approvals. Rather than having to get approval for every single tap it gets a 90 days approval to do surveillance of foreign communications under certain conditions. The FIS courts will continue to supervise to make sure that the surveillance stays within the approved boundaries.
Proof was in the previous comment where he complained about the color of the white and the sound of the fan. I never hear these kinds of complaints on any Windows laptop--people just accept them if they work most of the time.
No, you just enumerated some observations which I don't think anyone is disputing. All of these things(there is some dispute about the ice caps shrinking, but I will leave this aside) are relatively undisuputed. What is being disputed is the root cause of these warmings. Is it green house gasses? Solar changes? Too many people exercising?
Believe it or not there are still many of us who either can't get it or have to pay through the nose for it (I pay $80/mo).
I will be forced to keep the clutter off of the coffee table.
What makes you so special that someone who risks all that they have earned against some business that statistically will not succeed. Over 90% of business in this country are founded by someone risking most of what they own, not by the big corps. Then when they do succeed you feel it is their obligation to give it away to those who are too scared or too lazy to make something of the great opportunities in this country. This country was founded on equal opportunity not making everyone equal. Quit the diatribe from Karl Marx which has been shown to NOT work and go for the opportunities instead of sitting on your butt waiting for someone to take care of you.
The learning curve for Xcode was much steeper, but once I got there I found it much easier to use than VS .NET. The thing I miss most(probably the only thing) is the examples that are included in each help reference page on .NET. To find examples for Cocoa I usually have to prowl around the examples directories.
However, if I want to spend the extra $'s to drive my 12 mpg truck instead of spending the money on something else, that should be my choice and not dictated by someone who happens to live next door to the subway with convenient mass transit nearby. We all make choices and value things differently and spend our resources according to those values. Some people like living in high density apartments within walking distance of all their favorite stores while some people like living somewhere where they can get some space and yes they have to spend more to get to the store. The beauty of this country is that it allows us to make these choices -- that is freedom.
The market should decide. If the person has skills that are useful to the mission the price might be lower as some of the value of his presence comes from these skills. On the other hand, if the person is a pure tourist the price should be higher because all the value comes from the admission ticket.
I have been on the hiring side for many years(I am a software engineer) doing low level over part of my career and doing web services during other parts and the areas of expertise(or even proficiency)that seem to be hard to find are data modeling and databasing.
Inside Mac Radio indicated that sales of singles this year are up and as predicted on this site a long time ago, sales of albums are down. Sales of legal downloads are up dramatically.
How much are they bundling in that we don't need just because they know they can charge our health insurance?
Of course, I am now hearing about companies in other time zones like India are outsourcing to European(and maybe Americans). This work would fall out of the 9-5 slot.
Why not create a honey pot that is weak enough for them to compromise it? Then you have evidence of a break in and the grounds to prosecute. Assuming you can identify the offender through the ISP you can make some serious threats with definite consequences.
Pepsi gave me a couple of free songs on iTunes and I am hooked. I have spent over $30 in the last month from groups I never even heard of 2 weeks ago. Between iTunes and Rhapsody I have all the music I need. If there is something I want for the car or on my home server, I buy it(a track at a time). Because of this online model I am going to be buying far more music than I ever did(except maybe in my teen years). Frankly, I don't feel encouraged to by any music at the conventional record stores because it is usually noisy and I can't listen to it in my normal frame of mind while working or relaxing. Sure, P2P probably has an impact, but so does online, quality of releases, and most of all price. I agree that the CD business model is broken now that we have other alternatives for entertainment. I think that for most of us, Kazaa, etc. is too much a hassle when we can get the song we want for less than $1.00. I have better things to do with my time than wade through 2-3 songs to find one that was ripped half decently.