I didn't say it was a conspiracy. All I said is that workaholic single men (or women with no kids) are the ones who are able to work longer for less money and are therefore more attractive to employers.
When will people realize that it's not just Microsoft, but *every* corporation that follows profit. That's kind of the reason they exist.
The idea that they'll somehow do something nice just because it's nice is naive. Sure, they'll donate money to things, but they'll make sure to position it so that they see increased revenue because of it.
The whole IT industry is rigged for workaholic single men. I don't want to work more than 40 hours a week unless I get overtime, but I look at the timesheets at work and I'm the only one who only works what he's required.
But it's not just the IT sector: Capitalism is rigged so that single workaholics with no children are the ones rewarded the most because they have no life outside of work and don't mind putting in 50 or 80 hours a week and dedicating their lives to a company.
This is a half truth. While it's true that half of all federal spending is Medicare and Social Security, money that goes into these programs is earmarked for these programs, and therefore can't be spent on anything else. And administrative costs for social security were only 6% of the total amount of money that went through the system in 2003. (Source)
If you really wanted to cut government discretionary spending, cut defense spending. By eliminating the non-functional boondoggle that is Star Wars and cutting funding for other Cold War weaponry (about $50 billion off of the current $400 billion defense budget), we can free up enough to more than pay for the Voyager program AND a whole bunch of other things.(Source)
In order for "broadband" (which is legally defined as slow as 512kbps) to kill DVDs we'll have to upgrade our networks to support at least a sustained 4Mbps.
Of course, that's in the US. In Korea only old people buy DVDs.
What's even more sad is that if it's in any way worse than public offerings all the pro-corporation dumbasses will point to this network and say "See! We told you that corporations can do better!"
But free municipal wireless is an inducement for people to travel or move to an area, which increases the tax base, which spreads the tax burden further while maintaining services. Same goes for a municipal fiber optic network.
I think the point is that: Mac users don't have to be blamed for doing or not doing things. Plugging a Mini into the Internet doesn't jeopardize anything. Apple fixed things *before* the consumer got ahold of it.
iCal syncs just fine, if you have a.Mac subscription. Of course, you can also share calendars using WebDAV, which isn't hard to set up on OS X. iSync keeps everything synchronized between my Mac, iPod and cell phone.
Thus far, the concept PC is just a piece of plastic, literally, although its design showed a clock display and optical drive in front, with ports such as USB, optical audio and FireWire in the back.
Way to go there, Intel. Suprisingly, it's about as functional as any XP machine once it's been let onto the Internet(s).
Well, if you live in your mom's basement, have an "internet girlfriend" and your only human contact is what you see on TV, I can see the allure of the OC.
I emailed Panic software with a product idea a couple weeks ago.
The only reason I use Dreamweaver is the "Sites" feature. This lets me save locally and to the FTP server with one keystroke. It's slow and buggy, but it kinda works the way I need it to.
If we could make "meta-folders" that are automatically synced with an FTP site, that would be awesome.
President's Day is a national holiday, right? Cause my boss didn't let me have off for President's day. What makes you think private-sector employees will have off?
In just about every creative work, evil is archetypical.
Take vampires. They have an insatiable thirst for blood. They can never get enough. Same with werewolves. Same with demons. Same with The Flood from Halo. Same with the Aliens(TM). Same with the Cylons and the Goauld. Same with the Necromongers and Voldemort. They take what they want, by any means necessary, and won't stop until they have it all.
So what does this mean, culturally? Do we find things that consume without end to be evil? There's one thing that knows no limits to consumption; that doesn't know the meaning of the word 'enough' and doesn't have any qualms about using whatever means necessary: A corporation.
By now you're probably thinking "but corporations are run by people, and normal people aren't asshats." Well, corporations are designed to shield individuals from prosecution, and are motivated to maximize profit. Individuals in a corporation who make profits go up are rewarded, and ones that make profits go down are not. And, for the most part, they use a short-term view.
So what you have is a race to the bottom. People who are willing to work the hardest for the least amount of money get the jobs. People who are willing to sacrifice their morals for increasing profits get rewarded. People who are willing to exploit others and make messes and not clean them up and even break the law (if the fines are less than the returns) are rewarded. In this environment, it's hard not to become "evil." This is particularly true in large organizations, where red tape and bureaucracy and sheer size make it impossible to monitor everyone's behavior.
So, if you use the literary archetype of evil as your definition, corporations and the capitalists who run them are, in general, evil.
RFID is great when it's a can of tomato sauce. It isn't great when it's my account number, password information, or medical history, has have been proposed in past/. stories.
Blogs are like books. Most are crap. Some don't share your taste. But a few are really good. Just because he can't give something a dewey decimal number doesn't make in any less valid.
Blog are important because there's no barrier to entry. People get to cut their teeth on them and get feedback. And they get to go around the conventional publishing houses, who need to make a profit and therefore won't publish unpopular ideas. And since they're available to everyone from just about everywhere, you get behind-the-scenes reporting on daily life, like the stuff from Riverbend
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I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm saying the laissez-faire crowd forgets this a lot and thinks that government regulation is somehow unnecessary.
I didn't say it was a conspiracy. All I said is that workaholic single men (or women with no kids) are the ones who are able to work longer for less money and are therefore more attractive to employers.
The idea that they'll somehow do something nice just because it's nice is naive. Sure, they'll donate money to things, but they'll make sure to position it so that they see increased revenue because of it.
But it's not just the IT sector: Capitalism is rigged so that single workaholics with no children are the ones rewarded the most because they have no life outside of work and don't mind putting in 50 or 80 hours a week and dedicating their lives to a company.
If you really wanted to cut government discretionary spending, cut defense spending. By eliminating the non-functional boondoggle that is Star Wars and cutting funding for other Cold War weaponry (about $50 billion off of the current $400 billion defense budget), we can free up enough to more than pay for the Voyager program AND a whole bunch of other things.(Source)
Of course, that's in the US. In Korea only old people buy DVDs.
What's even more sad is that if it's in any way worse than public offerings all the pro-corporation dumbasses will point to this network and say "See! We told you that corporations can do better!"
And this right here is how we know he's lying. ;)
Unless, of course, you live somewhere with chronically crappy cell phone reception.
But free municipal wireless is an inducement for people to travel or move to an area, which increases the tax base, which spreads the tax burden further while maintaining services. Same goes for a municipal fiber optic network.
That's airspeed. Using the jet streams I'm sure he went much faster.
I think the point is that: Mac users don't have to be blamed for doing or not doing things. Plugging a Mini into the Internet doesn't jeopardize anything. Apple fixed things *before* the consumer got ahold of it.
iCal syncs just fine, if you have a .Mac subscription. Of course, you can also share calendars using WebDAV, which isn't hard to set up on OS X. iSync keeps everything synchronized between my Mac, iPod and cell phone.
Way to go there, Intel. Suprisingly, it's about as functional as any XP machine once it's been let onto the Internet(s).
Well, if you live in your mom's basement, have an "internet girlfriend" and your only human contact is what you see on TV, I can see the allure of the OC.
Yes, but the pimply faced kid at the Gap can't do this with hundreds or thousands of cards at a time from halfway around the world.
The only reason I use Dreamweaver is the "Sites" feature. This lets me save locally and to the FTP server with one keystroke. It's slow and buggy, but it kinda works the way I need it to.
If we could make "meta-folders" that are automatically synced with an FTP site, that would be awesome.
Dreamweaver, I'm looking in your direction.
President's Day is a national holiday, right? Cause my boss didn't let me have off for President's day. What makes you think private-sector employees will have off?
The world would be so much better if it weren't for clients. And users.
In just about every creative work, evil is archetypical. Take vampires. They have an insatiable thirst for blood. They can never get enough. Same with werewolves. Same with demons. Same with The Flood from Halo. Same with the Aliens(TM). Same with the Cylons and the Goauld. Same with the Necromongers and Voldemort. They take what they want, by any means necessary, and won't stop until they have it all.
So what does this mean, culturally? Do we find things that consume without end to be evil? There's one thing that knows no limits to consumption; that doesn't know the meaning of the word 'enough' and doesn't have any qualms about using whatever means necessary: A corporation.
By now you're probably thinking "but corporations are run by people, and normal people aren't asshats." Well, corporations are designed to shield individuals from prosecution, and are motivated to maximize profit. Individuals in a corporation who make profits go up are rewarded, and ones that make profits go down are not. And, for the most part, they use a short-term view.
So what you have is a race to the bottom. People who are willing to work the hardest for the least amount of money get the jobs. People who are willing to sacrifice their morals for increasing profits get rewarded. People who are willing to exploit others and make messes and not clean them up and even break the law (if the fines are less than the returns) are rewarded. In this environment, it's hard not to become "evil." This is particularly true in large organizations, where red tape and bureaucracy and sheer size make it impossible to monitor everyone's behavior.
So, if you use the literary archetype of evil as your definition, corporations and the capitalists who run them are, in general, evil.
I'm just sayin.
RFID is great when it's a can of tomato sauce. It isn't great when it's my account number, password information, or medical history, has have been proposed in past /. stories.
I hate floaters. You flush and flush and they never go down.
I haven't had to reinstall OS X since... well, never. I can't imagine using an OS that needed to be reinstalled once or twice a year.
Blog are important because there's no barrier to entry. People get to cut their teeth on them and get feedback. And they get to go around the conventional publishing houses, who need to make a profit and therefore won't publish unpopular ideas. And since they're available to everyone from just about everywhere, you get behind-the-scenes reporting on daily life, like the stuff from Riverbend