What? The private sector is saying first, "We want cheap labor from overseas, so there won't be a market for your skills here." Then second they say, "No one is going into technical fields anymore, this is a really big problem."
This is hypocracy at its finest. In the second case they are thinking ahead far enough to realize that trouble is on the way, but in the first case they aren't willing to do what it takes to get there (ie. employ people here).
The big problem is that once the skills leave this country for another, will the programmers there really be clamoring to be managed by American companies, or will they just outsource the last bit (the management) and do it all themselves? I believe that there are a lot of software companies out there that are outsorcing themselves right out of business. Outsourcing the magement at the end of all this is going to be way eaiser than outsourcing the technical work.
Great reply. The only thing I can add is that for being of the class of IDEAS, its really sad how much so many of their ideas suck.
Why should anyone in business care?
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I just love seeing stories where business leaders "fret" over the lack of education in science and technology in this country today.
Of course, then they go and layoff large numbers of technical workers and send their jobs to another country. The message is getting through loud and clear to the younger generations in this country. All the while the business leaders are lamenting the education available here they are shouting at the top of their lungs by their businsess practices - "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU GOING INTO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, WE DON'T HIRE THOSE KIND OF PEOPLE HERE!!!!"
The kids get it. As the one article states programming isn't glamorous like football. But, even more the kids going to college now look at business and see no need for technical people, because they're sending it all away.
Kids are smarter than people think, they see the writing on the wall. Why go to school for 4-5 years only to find a job market with no room for you. So all the best and brightest kids end up going to law school, which is in and of itself a terrifying thought.
If you make the decision about what to take literally (i.e., not Genesis 1), you might as well throw out the whole Bible as open to whatever interpretation you see fit (i.e., evolution)
Technically over the ages that decision has been made over and over again. From the interpretation of oral traditions being passed down until they were written down to copying the text by hand to translation to other languages that sometimes did not have the right words to convey the actual thoughts of the original text, to discussions in the church as to which books are official and which are not.
Yes, you can very well conclude that the Bible is open to interpretation and has been ever since it was first written (or even spoken).
Thank you. It never fails to amaze me how many Christians believe that the Bible must be taken literally while Christ taught many of his lessons by telling symbolic stories.
Don't make China out to be the hero anywhere in this. China respects NO ONES IP law. Not American, not Canadian, not European. They will copy anything and everything and sell it back to us for less.
What will really bite foreign businesses working in China in the ass is when the government marches in and takes all of their IP and tells them to just deal with it.
China is the far side of the issue. If American bussinesses thing that their CUSTOMERS pose big IP problems for them, the Chinese will really teach them a lesson eventually.
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It also recently got firewire support for use with cable boxes that have firewire output
Also, my myth box has never been tainted by having ever had that other operating system touch its disks;-), unlike the machines you buy from Dell or whoever.
The "rights" granted allow for editing of moives, not just filtering content on movies. This could be important for more than just clearplay. We have yet to know what this feature means for fair use recorded content in PVR's. It could mean that the commercial skip code in myth is covered as fair (woohoo). It could mean that you should be allowed to remove the mandatory unskippable previews on DVD, hey they're content too right, what if you don't want to view that content.
There are silver linings here. By saying you can edit the movie, there are a lot of good things that can come of it. So what if it was fueled by people who want to remove sex scenes from movies, this time those people actually expaned YOUR rights as well.
Ahhhh, but 95% of the adobe documents that you download are not setup to be typed on directly, and you must print the darn thing to write by hand. SO, at that point you should have just used HTML to build your page.
And sometimes that is exactly why you want PDF. Sometimes you don't want to send documents that are modifyable by the receiver.
He also created the best special effects company in the movie business.
Started the outfit that later spun off from his empire to create Pixar.
Owns the company that does sound work for most movies.
Say what you will about George and the Star Wars movies, He's actually made more of a contribution to filmmaking outside of the Star Wars franchise than within it.
No, what I mean is that NASA wants more money. Thats perfectly acceptable of them and like I said intially this is probably their best angle at getting more money, by talking about elimiating a popular program.
The people in NASA are concerned about their own budgets, so even though its Bush's administration, NASA will (and should, in my opinion) try to get all the money they can.
A move like this opens up the possiblity that some congressman (probably from JPL's district) will possibly try to attach a rider to a bill that will fund the voyager program.
That's why part of this is a ploy. Its like the School Disctrict in your tow saying they need to raise property taxes to fund everything, because if you don't then something will be cut. Then they always say, well I guess well have to cut the travel budget for sports, or well have to eliminate all band programs.
Its an attempt to pull at people's emotions to try to get the extra money. And don't get me wrong its not misleading or untrue that cuts would need to be made, but the programs used to illistrate the debate are always the most popular ones. Just like right here.
STFU. So, you don't think we should go back to the Moon eh? Or to Mars?
It is so damn typical of modern liberals nowdays to just define their beliefs as not(Bush). It the easy way out. We don't have to stand for anything just against everything Bush is for. I don't agree with scrapping Hubble, but we also can't afford to do everything either.
And before you argue that the moon is pointless to go to, imagine and Earth ground based sized telescope on the Moon. This would be something far beyond the capabilities of any space based telescope we could build due to its size.
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What? The private sector is saying first, "We want cheap labor from overseas, so there won't be a market for your skills here." Then second they say, "No one is going into technical fields anymore, this is a really big problem."
This is hypocracy at its finest. In the second case they are thinking ahead far enough to realize that trouble is on the way, but in the first case they aren't willing to do what it takes to get there (ie. employ people here).
The big problem is that once the skills leave this country for another, will the programmers there really be clamoring to be managed by American companies, or will they just outsource the last bit (the management) and do it all themselves? I believe that there are a lot of software companies out there that are outsorcing themselves right out of business. Outsourcing the magement at the end of all this is going to be way eaiser than outsourcing the technical work.
Great reply. The only thing I can add is that for being of the class of IDEAS, its really sad how much so many of their ideas suck.
I just love seeing stories where business leaders "fret" over the lack of education in science and technology in this country today.
Of course, then they go and layoff large numbers of technical workers and send their jobs to another country. The message is getting through loud and clear to the younger generations in this country. All the while the business leaders are lamenting the education available here they are shouting at the top of their lungs by their businsess practices - "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU GOING INTO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, WE DON'T HIRE THOSE KIND OF PEOPLE HERE!!!!"
The kids get it. As the one article states programming isn't glamorous like football. But, even more the kids going to college now look at business and see no need for technical people, because they're sending it all away.
Kids are smarter than people think, they see the writing on the wall. Why go to school for 4-5 years only to find a job market with no room for you. So all the best and brightest kids end up going to law school, which is in and of itself a terrifying thought.
Thanks for the link. That has to be one of the most unbelievably unprofessional pieces of journalism I have ever seen.
What an egregious invasion of someone's privacy. That article is absolutely revolting.
Every time one of these comes out, they say that it's better than the previous one.
But thats true. Episode II was way better than Episode I. Even within the movie, the last half of Episode II is a lot better than the first half.
So the movies have been getting better. And after the Clone Wars cartoon, I have my hopes up even more for this movie.
Face it. Lucas should have made just ONE prequel, he really didn't have story material for 3.
In last weeks episode where they did the voicover for some parts, you couldn't help but get a real "Twilight Zone" vibe from the show.
Dude, lego's not even an american company!!
Also my son does just fine building "custom" constructions out of the pre-fabricated sets.
If you make the decision about what to take literally (i.e., not Genesis 1), you might as well throw out the whole Bible as open to whatever interpretation you see fit (i.e., evolution)
Technically over the ages that decision has been made over and over again. From the interpretation of oral traditions being passed down until they were written down to copying the text by hand to translation to other languages that sometimes did not have the right words to convey the actual thoughts of the original text, to discussions in the church as to which books are official and which are not.
Yes, you can very well conclude that the Bible is open to interpretation and has been ever since it was first written (or even spoken).
Jesus taught in parables!
Thank you. It never fails to amaze me how many Christians believe that the Bible must be taken literally while Christ taught many of his lessons by telling symbolic stories.
Don't make China out to be the hero anywhere in this. China respects NO ONES IP law. Not American, not Canadian, not European. They will copy anything and everything and sell it back to us for less.
What will really bite foreign businesses working in China in the ass is when the government marches in and takes all of their IP and tells them to just deal with it.
China is the far side of the issue. If American bussinesses thing that their CUSTOMERS pose big IP problems for them, the Chinese will really teach them a lesson eventually.
It also recently got firewire support for use with cable boxes that have firewire output
A lot of MythTV users build their own machines.
;-), unlike the machines you buy from Dell or whoever.
Buying the "Other" OS for that box is expensive.
Also, my myth box has never been tainted by having ever had that other operating system touch its disks
Paper is not an audio storage medium.
Ever heard of sheet music?
It's like more black than black its so dark.
Sorry....
Yeah, its not coming out tommorow, so Don't Panic.
The "rights" granted allow for editing of moives, not just filtering content on movies. This could be important for more than just clearplay. We have yet to know what this feature means for fair use recorded content in PVR's. It could mean that the commercial skip code in myth is covered as fair (woohoo). It could mean that you should be allowed to remove the mandatory unskippable previews on DVD, hey they're content too right, what if you don't want to view that content.
There are silver linings here. By saying you can edit the movie, there are a lot of good things that can come of it. So what if it was fueled by people who want to remove sex scenes from movies, this time those people actually expaned YOUR rights as well.
Ahhhh, but 95% of the adobe documents that you download are not setup to be typed on directly, and you must print the darn thing to write by hand. SO, at that point you should have just used HTML to build your page.
And sometimes that is exactly why you want PDF. Sometimes you don't want to send documents that are modifyable by the receiver.
He also created the best special effects company in the movie business.
Started the outfit that later spun off from his empire to create Pixar.
Owns the company that does sound work for most movies.
Say what you will about George and the Star Wars movies, He's actually made more of a contribution to filmmaking outside of the Star Wars franchise than within it.
Wow! You make it sound like the National Weather Service promtes the general welfare or something.
Where does it say that the government should do that??!
Oh - wait. Maybe someone should send Santorum a copy of the #%!#@!!? Constitution!!
Better yet, wait until some big movie executive (or their kid) get busted for releasing some movie early.
Remember there was a story some time back that stated that most high profile leaks of movies came from insiders at the studio.
Erm...
C'mon, Just finish your post. Unless he makes more.
Search your feelings, you know it to be true....
No, what I mean is that NASA wants more money. Thats perfectly acceptable of them and like I said intially this is probably their best angle at getting more money, by talking about elimiating a popular program.
The people in NASA are concerned about their own budgets, so even though its Bush's administration, NASA will (and should, in my opinion) try to get all the money they can.
A move like this opens up the possiblity that some congressman (probably from JPL's district) will possibly try to attach a rider to a bill that will fund the voyager program.
You know, I had witten a differnt post, but reareading your post I see you tried to be a little reasonable, right up until the end.
So I'll pretend you were reasonable with your no ill will comment, and just forget the rest.
That's why part of this is a ploy. Its like the School Disctrict in your tow saying they need to raise property taxes to fund everything, because if you don't then something will be cut. Then they always say, well I guess well have to cut the travel budget for sports, or well have to eliminate all band programs.
Its an attempt to pull at people's emotions to try to get the extra money. And don't get me wrong its not misleading or untrue that cuts would need to be made, but the programs used to illistrate the debate are always the most popular ones. Just like right here.
STFU. So, you don't think we should go back to the Moon eh? Or to Mars?
It is so damn typical of modern liberals nowdays to just define their beliefs as not(Bush). It the easy way out. We don't have to stand for anything just against everything Bush is for. I don't agree with scrapping Hubble, but we also can't afford to do everything either.
And before you argue that the moon is pointless to go to, imagine and Earth ground based sized telescope on the Moon. This would be something far beyond the capabilities of any space based telescope we could build due to its size.