Yeah, and if you want to say those things on the lawn of the university they need to be stopped too.
This can't say x on public this or that is just bullshit. Limiting speech in public areas is limiting speech. We shouldn't be required to buy our own private areas to exercise free speech. Universities should understand and be ardent supporters of this.
So, this guy says that the entire career of a Software Engineer will be 15 years.
And the politicians and business leaders are saying we have and extreme need for more people in science and technology fields......Ummmm.
Why the FUCK should students going to college today sign up to go into a career where they know they'll be out of work in 15 years?
Outside of that, this guy is spouting total bullshit. I understand that there are some great young innovators out there. But that's not all we need out there. We need people with experience building large complex IT systems. People who've done it before and know what might happen. People who know where the gotcha's will be. Not everyone is just going to be writing iPhone apps.
At my first job, when I was young and I guess still valuable, the company I worked for was staffed completely by young people. It was staggering the bad shit and unforeseen consequences we ran into. Having just one staff member with some experience and proven capability in the field would have been invaluable.
At least this report is out there. Its now up to us to contact Republican congresspeople and let them know that we want them to pursue this.
When your writing your representative, don't forget to remind them that nearly everyone involved in the music and movie industries hates their guts and believes they're evil and says so openly. Let them know that what the industry says it wants and what the people want and need from copyright are chasms apart.
It's time for someone to stand up for the people's rights in this copyright fight, and the Republicans can do that. They really dont have much to lose and have a lot to gain.
Innundate them with letters supporting this proposal. Show overwhelming support for it. Let them know that "we the people" think it's time for them to tell the copyright maximalists to go straight to hell.
Microsoft supposedly gets x% cut of all android phones.
Turnabout is fair play.
The patent wars are a horrendus, hideous thing. My only hope is that they bring all the big tech companies so much pain that they eventually clamor to have the ridiculousness that is software patents eliminated.
No, they are not an example of good, forward looking policy. They are a horrible example.
They are replacing established, 0 carbon emission, nuclear power plants with other sources that have either higher emissions because of their construction (wind, solar) or with sources that just plain have carbon emissions from their operation (natural gas). I know natural gas is way better than coal, but they're replacing nuclear with gas which increases carbon emissions.
If we want to impact global warming we have to use nuclear power. Wind and solar don't have the capacity and it will take a loooooong road of building for them to even come close to replacing other forms of electricity generation.
I absolutely loathe how the same "green" advocates who harp about the need to solve global warming now INSIST that the best no CO2 power generation options we have right now be abandoned.
Sure there are arguments on whether building NEW nuclear plants will be good or economical at reducing carbon emissions, but we're talking about shuttering working power plants here.
If you believe global warming is a problem, then the worlds turning its back on its functioning nuclear power plants has to stop!
Still interested in starting a small business in the US?
Didn't think so....
Starting a small business in the US today is less like reaching for your dreams and more like Running Man where you get a 30 minute head start before the death lawyers start chasing you...
My old iPod touch, after about two years of use, lost responsiveness to touches on the right side of the screen. So yeah, touch screens do lose responsiveness.
So rather than face unemployment, foreclosure and poverty, I accepted the union job and immediately took a $1,800/month pay cut. Now, the union takes $86 out of every paycheck for my dues and I enjoy NONE of the benefits I expected to get
This, this is why we don't have IT unions. Anyone making over the average income for their position will be facing a pay cut. Anyone new to the shop will face years of waiting behind those with seniority, as promotions will no longer be based on ability. Everyone will have a good chunk of their monthly wage taken to feed the union bosses.
Senior staff would face large pay cuts, junior staff would face a future of waiting for those in front of them to retire before being promoted/advances. Who exactly would be left to vote FOR having a union?
When you said archive for survivors, this concept for a post-apocalyptic movie just popped into my head.
In 2275 on a wasteland Earth, survivors seek the fabled temple of Google, rumored to contain all the knowledge of mankind before the great cataclysm....
But its more than likely Microsoft is planning on bragging up this patent at the Movie and Cable companies in exchange for exclusive deals to play their movies.
This patent is fucking obscene.
If protecting the sale (sorry "licensing") of your product needs police state tools, no one should respect your right to do business at all....
I'm assuming they want to sandbox access to lower level hardware, which can be done with a modified OS.
Except SCADA's a strange bird in that respect. While low level access to network hardware might not be needed by the control interface, low level access to the controllers and monitoring systems is needed.
They're onto something when they're talking about a custom OS. But that problem had largely been solved in the past, until all the engineers and operators wanted SCADA interfaces that ran on Windows. After that security was always an afterthought and you reap what you sow.
And I say this as someone who a long time ago purchased a handful of Microsoft's tablets for a business.
The people in business who are asking for a tablet are not asking for an MS tablet. There's virtually no difference between them and the kid talked about in the first post...
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Yeah, and if you want to say those things on the lawn of the university they need to be stopped too.
This can't say x on public this or that is just bullshit. Limiting speech in public areas is limiting speech. We shouldn't be required to buy our own private areas to exercise free speech. Universities should understand and be ardent supporters of this.
So, this guy says that the entire career of a Software Engineer will be 15 years.
And the politicians and business leaders are saying we have and extreme need for more people in science and technology fields. .....Ummmm.
Why the FUCK should students going to college today sign up to go into a career where they know they'll be out of work in 15 years?
Outside of that, this guy is spouting total bullshit. I understand that there are some great young innovators out there. But that's not all we need out there. We need people with experience building large complex IT systems. People who've done it before and know what might happen. People who know where the gotcha's will be. Not everyone is just going to be writing iPhone apps.
At my first job, when I was young and I guess still valuable, the company I worked for was staffed completely by young people. It was staggering the bad shit and unforeseen consequences we ran into. Having just one staff member with some experience and proven capability in the field would have been invaluable.
At least this report is out there. Its now up to us to contact Republican congresspeople and let them know that we want them to pursue this.
When your writing your representative, don't forget to remind them that nearly everyone involved in the music and movie industries hates their guts and believes they're evil and says so openly. Let them know that what the industry says it wants and what the people want and need from copyright are chasms apart.
It's time for someone to stand up for the people's rights in this copyright fight, and the Republicans can do that. They really dont have much to lose and have a lot to gain.
Innundate them with letters supporting this proposal. Show overwhelming support for it. Let them know that "we the people" think it's time for them to tell the copyright maximalists to go straight to hell.
Microsoft supposedly gets x% cut of all android phones.
Turnabout is fair play.
The patent wars are a horrendus, hideous thing. My only hope is that they bring all the big tech companies so much pain that they eventually clamor to have the ridiculousness that is software patents eliminated.
No, they are not an example of good, forward looking policy. They are a horrible example.
They are replacing established, 0 carbon emission, nuclear power plants with other sources that have either higher emissions because of their construction (wind, solar) or with sources that just plain have carbon emissions from their operation (natural gas). I know natural gas is way better than coal, but they're replacing nuclear with gas which increases carbon emissions.
If we want to impact global warming we have to use nuclear power. Wind and solar don't have the capacity and it will take a loooooong road of building for them to even come close to replacing other forms of electricity generation.
I absolutely loathe how the same "green" advocates who harp about the need to solve global warming now INSIST that the best no CO2 power generation options we have right now be abandoned.
Sure there are arguments on whether building NEW nuclear plants will be good or economical at reducing carbon emissions, but we're talking about shuttering working power plants here.
If you believe global warming is a problem, then the worlds turning its back on its functioning nuclear power plants has to stop!
Still interested in starting a small business in the US?
Didn't think so....
Starting a small business in the US today is less like reaching for your dreams and more like Running Man where you get a 30 minute head start before the death lawyers start chasing you...
I only need three letters to prove you concept wrong. LBJ
Unix can run on ARM. Who's to say they won't run OS X on a very multi-core ARM laptop?
My old iPod touch, after about two years of use, lost responsiveness to touches on the right side of the screen. So yeah, touch screens do lose responsiveness.
So rather than face unemployment, foreclosure and poverty, I accepted the union job and immediately took a $1,800/month pay cut. Now, the union takes $86 out of every paycheck for my dues and I enjoy NONE of the benefits I expected to get
This, this is why we don't have IT unions. Anyone making over the average income for their position will be facing a pay cut. Anyone new to the shop will face years of waiting behind those with seniority, as promotions will no longer be based on ability. Everyone will have a good chunk of their monthly wage taken to feed the union bosses.
Senior staff would face large pay cuts, junior staff would face a future of waiting for those in front of them to retire before being promoted/advances. Who exactly would be left to vote FOR having a union?
When you said archive for survivors, this concept for a post-apocalyptic movie just popped into my head.
In 2275 on a wasteland Earth, survivors seek the fabled temple of Google, rumored to contain all the knowledge of mankind before the great cataclysm....
You could consider it that.
But its more than likely Microsoft is planning on bragging up this patent at the Movie and Cable companies in exchange for exclusive deals to play their movies.
This patent is fucking obscene.
If protecting the sale (sorry "licensing") of your product needs police state tools, no one should respect your right to do business at all....
When independent leaders ask the people to treat their fellow members of the human race better, they are advocating for social justice.
When an enormously powerful government takes things from one class to earn the political support of another class, that is NOT social justice.
If ever there were a post that should be allowed to be +10 insightful, this is it.
If using Foxconn makes a company "not American" then there aren't very many American tech companies.
Obama's budget is a fairy tale with magical creatures called "taxes on the rich" which make everything better.
Politicians are going to need even more backround.
Nope, sorry, there are no indicators whatsoever that having a balanced background in many subjects is of any value to lawmakers.
Being egomaniacal narcissists seems to be of a help to them, however.
Damn, I wish I had mod points.
Ummm, I don't count the time I work on my DVR at home as "work" even though its technically in the same field I work in.
Pardon me, but what the hell in Astrophysics is so important that you have to work holidays!!!
Its not like the stars are going to disappear, or the laws of physics are going to change overnight if you don't get it done now.
Won't anyone think about the stars??!!
I'm assuming they want to sandbox access to lower level hardware, which can be done with a modified OS.
Except SCADA's a strange bird in that respect. While low level access to network hardware might not be needed by the control interface, low level access to the controllers and monitoring systems is needed.
They're onto something when they're talking about a custom OS. But that problem had largely been solved in the past, until all the engineers and operators wanted SCADA interfaces that ran on Windows. After that security was always an afterthought and you reap what you sow.
Wrong!
And I say this as someone who a long time ago purchased a handful of Microsoft's tablets for a business.
The people in business who are asking for a tablet are not asking for an MS tablet. There's virtually no difference between them and the kid talked about in the first post...
If my cable company starts encrypting my signal, I'm going to throw my HDHomerun tuner box through their fucking window!!!
Bloomberg is a conservative in the same sense as the Popes a Protestant.