Thank you for that post. I think some of the problem a lot of these posters are having are related to budget management rather than not being paid enough.
You guys replying to my post choose to live where you do.
Living in High risk areas, where you are slumming it if you kids are forced to shop at the Gap. The reason your 2 bedroom townhome costs so much is due to the same problem that gives you 90K a year.
And dont forget most families are 2 income houses so you are looking at 180K a year for middle income.
The problem is you could move in any direction west and cut your cost of living by 75%. Check out Oregon, Colorado, NY, and you will be fine, dont look for pity from me if you live in Atlanta or Southern CA.
I think the greater problem is with American arrogance. I think it is an eye opener for us to see that, no you dont need 90K to survive and have a great life. It is the American dream to look down on the rest of the world or your neighbor so that you can feel better yourself. So what you have to buy last year's model of sports car, or your home only costs half a million dollars. There are worse things to happen.
We think just because we are American that that entitles us to higher pay than the rest of the world. If we werent so arrogant we wouldnt see the outsourcing of jobs we do. Accept the fact that 53K is a good wage and anyone can live quite happily on that amount.
Given that most CPUs are overkill for non hard core gamers or encoders. Anyone can be more than happy with a AMD XP 3000. And right now those are going for pretty cheap, I think Tigerdirect was running a combo sale 3K and mobo for $100. And when you notice that it is slim picking to find a app that needs more than 1.8Ghz, I would say you are doing pretty well there.
Sure you can solve little man's syndrome by buying an "efficient" powerhouse Processor, but what good is it when you wont see any difference 99% of the time and you can save $400.
For what its worth I am a minimalist. Just looking at the future....people dont know what they need but they will buy it anyway, call it little mans syndrome or whatever.
Im am personally waiting for the video ipod. I guess as with most computer technologies they created a great ipod, took away all the features, large hard drive, color screen, durability, and are just adding one feature at a time to each new release in order to maximize profits. The final version will be a video ipod with full 32 bit color, Radio Tuner, TV Tuner, some sort of wireless to swap songs and interact with people nearby. And a nice 100GB drive to boot. Not to mention the new accessories that will come with a new adaptor that is not compatable with any current ipod that will allow you to dock with your car, and TV seamlesly.
But you can take it home, run a scanner over it, copy it (if you have a home copy machine) But then again if you look at the average home user with an inkjet printer, you are far more expensive than even photocopying it even without pictures in the book. Heck even a 200 page book at.4 a copy (with a good laser printer) is 8 dollars. Just slightly cheaper than amazon.com. But then you have to figure in the fanatical J.K. books at 500+ a copy you are looking at $16 just to have a laser copy of a book.
And very few people could read an entire book on-screen.
You are correct, it is not a complete analogy. But if you look at a library, it can have several copies, depending on the size of the library and the demand for the book. Once at a library however you can photocopy as much as you want. This just makes it a heck of a lot easier. Even right now you can go to a library and view many documents on their electronic system. Just not complete books.
Isnt this the whole purpose of libraries anyway? To make knowledge available to the public that would normally only be available to the rich or well connected?
A man should be no more afraid of google's attempt to digitize information than a library's ability to purchase and distribute books for free.
On a side note, I am more likely to buy the paper version of a book than sitting and reading it off of a LCD display. Which I assume the average person would do the same.
No kiddin, I have a wired mouse and a bluetooth, thinking about adding a 3rd and second keyboard. My desk is cluttered as hell, just open the other spot on the desk, not to mention that this way when I am working on something and a developer or another admin comes over to show me something they can grab the free mouse rather than having me move. And I will second you, not a big fan of trackballs.
Graphics: Vista has changed from using the CPU to display bitmaps on the screen to using the GPU to render vectors.
Maybe that is because you are running the old version before the revamp.
I have had about 4 usb keys from Lexmark. Bought them for their durability. They have been dropped, stepped on and all of them been through the dryer a couple times (I didnt say I wasnt clumsy or not forgetful) all still work after a couple years of use.
Why use an OS at all, there are plenty of imagemasters out there logicube has some nice ones that I have used personally. Sure they are pricey but you can do whatever you want to the cloned drive, mount it, run its OS to see what kind of setup the offender had, rip out items, delete, add run hashes, whatever you want and not worry about hurting the original drive sitting across the room from you in an antistatic bag.
To the contrary of a lot of the posts that are to be seen in this discussion I think a lot of admins and companies have learned some lessons these past couple years on patches and security.
Of course these lessons bring up another argument, over the last 10 years a lot of non-computer people or hobbists/tinkerers have been put in admin positions. Therefore many of them do not understand the weaknesses of networks and the Strengths of each OS out there until someone smacks them with a large chunk of data loss, network downtime, or company embarassment. Now that they have learned this lesson, what will be the next one? And could this have been avoided had the companies not used the "buddy system" and hired competent professionals in the first place.
I work for the gov't, have for a while now. I can guarantee you, that the amount of time it takes the government to do anything is insane compared to any privately funded agency. Do some research regarding how well the Gov't handles human services, for every dollar a non-profit spends, it takes us about a buck fifty. Not to mention time and a half.
I will give it to you that making it into space is a little harder than outer atmosphere. However look at how much money goes into government sponored travel, versus the small private projects so far. In fact I believe in 2000 NASA spent over 14 Billion. Where the hell did that go?
Good lord people, when we start letting private companies do this we will see some progress. With the amount of red tape that has to be cut through, gov't lifers slowing things down, and lack of risktaking you wont see anything happening.
prepare yourself for the torrent of proposals due to your post. Me I am married so the wife is more than happy to let me play whatever game it is that I want as long as my intuition scores are high enough to know when I should be in bed:)
no offense but that has got to be one of the geekiest things I have EVER read...thinking about making it my sig:)
seriously one time a friend of mine's fiance went to a magic the gathering tournament with him and she referred to the attendees as "a bunch of little boys who would never have sex" Had to laugh at that one...saying her future husband was one of the refs.
also, you dont have to play a game as soon as it hits the shelves, you just have the option to. Many server admins have been following this practice for years. wait until the general public works all the kinks out then you can buy the software after being thrououghly tested by the public. In the meantime while you are waiting to play the game patiently, the die hards out there can spend their $50 to be a glorified beta tester and get their fix.
being a big blizzard fan myself I was disappointed with their W3 release as by the time it came out the gameplay and graphics were so outdated the game itself was not that interesting. Whereas had it been released on time with one or two bugs it would have been a great game in its time. I have played BF2 since its release and have thouroughly enjoyed playing it despite the bugs it contained, personally didnt even feel them as playing on a public game server is pretty much a waste of time with the smacktards, flamers, and cheat whores out there. The game itself was a pretty good release by any game's standards including Warcraft 3.
BTW I rarely buy games anymore as I am quite picky about what is a good game with great support and gameplay, vs a game that is popular because it is easy and you get to kill a lot so you dont care that there are 1001 bugs to it, aka halo, Unreal, Doom (pick a version). And they stick you with the problem for 6 months or so.
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Thank you for that post. I think some of the problem a lot of these posters are having are related to budget management rather than not being paid enough.
Living in High risk areas, where you are slumming it if you kids are forced to shop at the Gap. The reason your 2 bedroom townhome costs so much is due to the same problem that gives you 90K a year.
And dont forget most families are 2 income houses so you are looking at 180K a year for middle income.
The problem is you could move in any direction west and cut your cost of living by 75%. Check out Oregon, Colorado, NY, and you will be fine, dont look for pity from me if you live in Atlanta or Southern CA.
We think just because we are American that that entitles us to higher pay than the rest of the world. If we werent so arrogant we wouldnt see the outsourcing of jobs we do. Accept the fact that 53K is a good wage and anyone can live quite happily on that amount.
Sure you can solve little man's syndrome by buying an "efficient" powerhouse Processor, but what good is it when you wont see any difference 99% of the time and you can save $400.
Check my post out from the last Ipod statement here. Apple sure moves fast to my requests.
For what its worth I am a minimalist. Just looking at the future....people dont know what they need but they will buy it anyway, call it little mans syndrome or whatever.
Im am personally waiting for the video ipod. I guess as with most computer technologies they created a great ipod, took away all the features, large hard drive, color screen, durability, and are just adding one feature at a time to each new release in order to maximize profits. The final version will be a video ipod with full 32 bit color, Radio Tuner, TV Tuner, some sort of wireless to swap songs and interact with people nearby. And a nice 100GB drive to boot. Not to mention the new accessories that will come with a new adaptor that is not compatable with any current ipod that will allow you to dock with your car, and TV seamlesly.
But you can take it home, run a scanner over it, copy it (if you have a home copy machine) But then again if you look at the average home user with an inkjet printer, you are far more expensive than even photocopying it even without pictures in the book. Heck even a 200 page book at .4 a copy (with a good laser printer) is 8 dollars. Just slightly cheaper than amazon.com. But then you have to figure in the fanatical J.K. books at 500+ a copy you are looking at $16 just to have a laser copy of a book.
And very few people could read an entire book on-screen.
You are correct, it is not a complete analogy. But if you look at a library, it can have several copies, depending on the size of the library and the demand for the book. Once at a library however you can photocopy as much as you want. This just makes it a heck of a lot easier. Even right now you can go to a library and view many documents on their electronic system. Just not complete books.
A man should be no more afraid of google's attempt to digitize information than a library's ability to purchase and distribute books for free.
On a side note, I am more likely to buy the paper version of a book than sitting and reading it off of a LCD display. Which I assume the average person would do the same.
No kiddin, I have a wired mouse and a bluetooth, thinking about adding a 3rd and second keyboard. My desk is cluttered as hell, just open the other spot on the desk, not to mention that this way when I am working on something and a developer or another admin comes over to show me something they can grab the free mouse rather than having me move. And I will second you, not a big fan of trackballs.
good deal, and you dont see much of a performance decrease over XP when you load graphic intensive programs?
Graphics: Vista has changed from using the CPU to display bitmaps on the screen to using the GPU to render vectors. Maybe that is because you are running the old version before the revamp.
I have had about 4 usb keys from Lexmark. Bought them for their durability. They have been dropped, stepped on and all of them been through the dryer a couple times (I didnt say I wasnt clumsy or not forgetful) all still work after a couple years of use.
Why use an OS at all, there are plenty of imagemasters out there logicube has some nice ones that I have used personally. Sure they are pricey but you can do whatever you want to the cloned drive, mount it, run its OS to see what kind of setup the offender had, rip out items, delete, add run hashes, whatever you want and not worry about hurting the original drive sitting across the room from you in an antistatic bag.
Seriously, why not just make it dynamic so you can just add more to your array and achieve more bandwith.
Of course these lessons bring up another argument, over the last 10 years a lot of non-computer people or hobbists/tinkerers have been put in admin positions. Therefore many of them do not understand the weaknesses of networks and the Strengths of each OS out there until someone smacks them with a large chunk of data loss, network downtime, or company embarassment. Now that they have learned this lesson, what will be the next one? And could this have been avoided had the companies not used the "buddy system" and hired competent professionals in the first place.
I will give it to you that making it into space is a little harder than outer atmosphere. However look at how much money goes into government sponored travel, versus the small private projects so far. In fact I believe in 2000 NASA spent over 14 Billion. Where the hell did that go?
might I remind people of the recent success of the private funded experiments? http://www.xprizefoundation.com/about_us/default.a sp
They were able to do in a short time what has taken the Gov'ts of the world well over 40 years to do.
Not that the government is all bad, its just once beaurocrats and sue happy people are done we have a highly ineffecient machine for innovation.
You have a great open source program that everyone raves about.
Said program gets out of the dark corners of the geek world and gains a significant market share.
People jump ship because now that it has been tested by several million people and has suffered the attention of the masses.
Original geek crowd start attacking it because it is no longer an obscure "cool" piece of software.
Not a troll here but I just want to know if this has been the trend of all open source software.
prepare yourself for the torrent of proposals due to your post. Me I am married so the wife is more than happy to let me play whatever game it is that I want as long as my intuition scores are high enough to know when I should be in bed :)
seriously one time a friend of mine's fiance went to a magic the gathering tournament with him and she referred to the attendees as "a bunch of little boys who would never have sex" Had to laugh at that one...saying her future husband was one of the refs.
also so does every reply in this forum decrease one's chances of ever having sex?
also, you dont have to play a game as soon as it hits the shelves, you just have the option to. Many server admins have been following this practice for years. wait until the general public works all the kinks out then you can buy the software after being thrououghly tested by the public. In the meantime while you are waiting to play the game patiently, the die hards out there can spend their $50 to be a glorified beta tester and get their fix.
BTW I rarely buy games anymore as I am quite picky about what is a good game with great support and gameplay, vs a game that is popular because it is easy and you get to kill a lot so you dont care that there are 1001 bugs to it, aka halo, Unreal, Doom (pick a version). And they stick you with the problem for 6 months or so.