untalented programmers in India willing to work for peanuts: they pay for a good broadband link a lot more in "India/other outsourcing destinations" than you do in US, gasoline is more expensive AFAIK, office space is at about the same price or more expensive, computer gear is more expensive there (in some places much more expensive due to taxation, unless you bring it from US of A hidden in your luggage -- and let me see how are you going to bring a SAN in your luggage), shuttling management from mainland USA to "generic outsourcing destination" on a regular basis offsets a lot of the gains you make by hiring less expensive techs etc. When you compute in the extra costs added by outsourcing, you might get to a greater number than what you would pay for a local tech.
Outsourcing did not begin after 2001: it began in 1998, when the pool of H*** visas could not cover the deficit of local techs. Outsourcing happens not because the prices are smaller some place else: outsourcing happens because, while there might be a few unemployed techs in each of the US towns (making the total sum reach tens of thousands or more), they are not willing to relocate there where the jobs are available. As an antrepreneur, you cannot move just one job there where you can hire people: you either the team for an entire project, or you kill the project and fire the extra techs anyway.
You lose jobs not because the companies are greedy, but because of HR issues. You want to stop losing jobs ? Remove the limits on immigration.
I thought pulp was already written by lousy artificial intelligence... and we already have ludite terrorists and techno-refuseniks: all those animal liberation armies, friends of the earth guerrillas etc.
Language (as speech, not as set of grammar rules) has more levels of redundancy than the space shuttle. This is one reason why data mining is do damn hard, and learning the grammar of a foreign language does not mean you are able to speak it.
Example: I suppose you used "rocket surgeons" with the purpose of making a joke, but I cannot be sure. If you want to be as certain as possible that nobody will think you really believe there really are "rocket surgeons", you'll have to give more clues and introduce some redundant stuff, like a ":) ".
why update for the sake of updates, especially if you run such a mission critical setup ?
You don't have to rebuild kernels and reboot all the time.
Real companies... yes... like those that don't test or don't care if they have relevant SATA drivers on their install disks ?
Watch this video of my RoboCup team and tell me that AI still completely sucks.
nice game... Could you modify them to play on grass? You'll sell them 2,000,000USD a piece in Europe: cannot be bought, don't loose morale when 2 goals in advance, don't do drugs and probably can't get killed by drunk driving with 200 miles per hour on the highway a week after you signed them in the team for an astronomical fee.
poor AI in video games? it's a feature, not a bug: it's much more interesting to plan your game when having idiotic bots in your team than getting your ass kicked by intelligent agents on the other end of the wire.
my fault: you never said it was 0 investment, so you're off the hook:) ; still, lots of "open source advocates" tell that by releasing some half baked piece of software as "open source" a company (incorporated or privately owned) can get a lot of help for the cost of keeping the CVS port open to the internet and paying for the traffic.
about huge investments that are not required: if you think about the tremendous pool of resources that the Debian project alone mustered (skilled developers and QA, more or less skilled PR people, the sofisticated release and HR procedures, mirrors, bandwidth, hardware) and how much it would cost to own that, I think you will have a hard time to find many sofware companies that are worth more.
Part of the "huge investment" that "corporations" need goes on networked video cameras to prevent their employees from taking the company's IP home on floppies, on hiring well connected executives and lawyers, and on putting inspiring statues in front of the headquarters.
On the other hand, most of the cash some free software projects spend gets wasted on bandwidth by users that don't even give feedback like: "man, I hate your piece of *&^&*^(*; why don't you go into catering instead?".
If you meant that a free software project/company gets more value on the dollar spent, then you are right.
I think he is sick of hearing the proprietary software shops of the world tell him, and any tech trade rag that will listen, that it's impoosible to create software unless you spend a ton of money. The GNU project, Linus's kernel, the BSD's and numerous other examples have proven that to be completely false.
GNU, Linux et caetera have burnt truck loads of money, but it was not "venture capitalist" money: it was time, bandwidth, equipment, brainpower donated by the contributors and their sponsors. The free software movement proved that:
there is no need for corporate ownership to get things moving
If I read once more that free software was done with 0 investment I'll trak that bloke down and make him pay my electricity, broadband and ACM/Safari etc. subscription bills
We can fight against DRM by not buying DRM loaded products. It might not be very convenient, but it will encourage "content distributors" that are not enough brain-damaged to regard DRM as their only hope.
It could well be a place where the current flow of pirated content is reduced to a comparative trickle of low-quality cams, said trickle of pirated content is much easier for law enforcement to monitor and use to catch infringers, media companies can dictate to you what devices you browse their content on after sale, "fair use rights" are a quaint memory and trying to exercise your fair use rights makes you a criminal. We're already half-way there now.
Or it could be a world where cheap computing power, good enough and not very expensive recording devices and lotsa free online documentation on using them will let lots of people put their good enough content online asking for "two cents if you enjoyed it" from the "consumers"...... I just looked at my booksmarks list and my expenses list, and I see this world already came into being: you already can legally buy music, that's at least good enough and it's not DRM loaded, from lots of places, and even watch for free movies that are funnyier/better done/more spectacular special effects/etc. than what you can buy on copy protected DVDs.
They usually don't? How do you know? How long has GE food been around, and to what extent has it been produced? We don't have enough empirical data as of yet to come to the conclusion that they are "never harmful to humans".
... and we have lots of fake or flawed data that "proves" that GM plants are dangerous to your health, give you cancer and make your grandmother senile. Does anybody remember the GM scandal from 2000 ? Some "researcher" made his rats ill by feeding them only GM potatoes, then the media took over and soon you saw.eu farmers burning GM plots and waving flags with skull-and-bones and the "radiation hazard" sign.
This is about which seed producer has access to the market, not about safe food. No food is safe: meat has cholesterol, most plants are at least slightly poisonous... at the most you get to choose what will kill you.
Well, I'm wondering if uprooting depression completely is a good idea.
I agfree it's not a good idea. It's like only taking painkillers when you have a broken bone. Antidepressants give you time to find what the problem is and fix it. Depression is only a symptom, and eliminating it would eliminate the posibility of realizing there is a problem.
I wonder how long are the depressed mice able to survive in a water tank, and how soon do the happy mice get tired and drown. I think the happy mice go down first.
There are even debate, dating from classical Greece, arguing that there is too much violence, rape and adultery in the theatre (sorry, lost the references).
Yes. The Theatre, that place were parent will be happy to see they children go to, instead of playing video games the whole day, was once touted to pervet the moral of the young.
talk about shifting moral values: at that time Socrates was deemed suspect for not being a pedophile... because he slept in the same room as Alcibiade and did nothing to the boy.
do not forget ballet, that, some 2000 years later, was only streep-tease for the nobs, until the bloody bourgeois came and because they understood nothing about it, turned a form of entertainment into a devious form of weekend torture.
... well, with that corruption it will never get to 30,000USD median income, and if by miracle it will get there, it's won't stay there long.
bigwigs children getting all the advantages
corruption is not about bigwig children getting all the advantages... it's about denying the non-bigwig children any chance to compete with the bigwig children
hey, I know you in US of A enjoy self-flagelation, but get a grip of yourself... or embark on a "third world" tour and check thing out.
maybe s/he means the "happy dog that makes... faces... when you need to find something" is missing from Linux... fortunately it is pattented, as I heard, so we won't have it any time soon.
Maybe the cops were scared shitless seeing, on their watch, three children at the height of 20 feet (that's 6 meters, enough to fracture something if you manage to avoid sharp branches on your way down) in a cherry tree: cherry tree branches break very easily. You don't climb cherry trees unless you want to risk getting killed, or at least to acquire impressive scars. Want to pick cherries ? Use a ladder. Want to climb trees? Chose some other tempting ligneuous vegetables... pear trees are nice: hard resilient wood.
I would have sued the parents, and had "child protection" organizations involved in this, since it's clear that those responsible for the children either have no clue as far as trees are concerned, or did not care about the wellbeing of their children
About children... from the picture they look more like teenagers, and the girl from the right side of the picture looks at least 14.
the cherry tree seemed an inviting source of material
if you ever planted a tree and had it survive the operation you would have called this mindless vandalism. Breaking windows is punishable and a window can be replaced in 30 minutes. Why should damaging a tree that took some 10 to 15 years to grow to 20 feet go unpunished?
People to develop software for it is exactly what they want and need from us - go ahead, jump in!
... the OLPC device will run Linux... except for 3D intensive games, there are more than enough software packages for any task you care to name, unless you need that special nifty feature that [insert your favorite comercial software here] provides.
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yes, the touch of the "invisible hand": tired workers are inefficient workers.
end of child labour
that was indeed gained by the labour unions, as well as restricting access to employment for the workers not belonging to a union, minimal wage and other means of limiting competition for jobs and giving advantages to those that already have a job.
Companies will push and push until pushed back, otherwise they'd be happy working you to death and using the remains for dogfood if it went unpunished.
This is true if the manager is a complete idiot... I still have to see somebody doing quality work while putting in more than 10 hours a day every day. Most of the people just stop thinking straight and start making bad choices when pushed too hard.
"draft" was the reason universal male vote was granted after WW I in most of Europe. The end of citizen armies made by universal conscription is the end of democracy.
I have seen a platoon of unrully university graduates, some with postgraduate degrees, being so broken in only 40 days of army training that they would have jumped, lemming style, of a cliff, if ordered: imagine what orders would a professional soldier submit to after a few years of service. The only way of preventing the army from taking over a government is having everybody serve in the army for a short term (to keep the army small).
Read your Adam Smith again... and some Thomas Babington Macaulay if you can spare the time.
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you make an untenable assumptions:
untalented programmers in India willing to work for peanuts: they pay for a good broadband link a lot more in "India/other outsourcing destinations" than you do in US, gasoline is more expensive AFAIK, office space is at about the same price or more expensive, computer gear is more expensive there (in some places much more expensive due to taxation, unless you bring it from US of A hidden in your luggage -- and let me see how are you going to bring a SAN in your luggage), shuttling management from mainland USA to "generic outsourcing destination" on a regular basis offsets a lot of the gains you make by hiring less expensive techs etc. When you compute in the extra costs added by outsourcing, you might get to a greater number than what you would pay for a local tech.
Outsourcing did not begin after 2001: it began in 1998, when the pool of H*** visas could not cover the deficit of local techs. Outsourcing happens not because the prices are smaller some place else: outsourcing happens because, while there might be a few unemployed techs in each of the US towns (making the total sum reach tens of thousands or more), they are not willing to relocate there where the jobs are available. As an antrepreneur, you cannot move just one job there where you can hire people: you either the team for an entire project, or you kill the project and fire the extra techs anyway.
You lose jobs not because the companies are greedy, but because of HR issues. You want to stop losing jobs ? Remove the limits on immigration.
I thought pulp was already written by lousy artificial intelligence ... and we already have ludite terrorists and techno-refuseniks: all those animal liberation armies, friends of the earth guerrillas etc.
this is nothing new: it started before the WWI and now there are dozens of companies, universities or hobbyist doing it. It is called: "content analysis", "data mining", "discourse analysis" etc. There is a legend that sais that British intelligence managed to predict quite acurately airstrikes on England based on content analysis of Goebels' radio speeches. Take a look at this links if you are interested. Bibliography of Content Analysis Listings from Communication Abstracts, 1990-1997 Content Analysis Resources web site Text Analysis Info Page - all on text analysis and related topics The discourse analysis page of AI Topics Centre d'analyse des politiques publiques (CAPP) Département de science politique, Université Laval The Center for Social Research Methods: not necesarily content analysis, but it's good to take a look at Research Methods Knowledge Base The Annenberg School for Communication Web Concordances at the English Department of the University of Dundee Companion Website for the book Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus Journal: Language Awareness; has some free issues/articles. The General Inquirer Home Page Journal of Second Language Writing Writing Guides: Conducting Content Analysis at Colorado State University; with a nice adnotated bibliography The Content Analysis Guidebook Online, An Accompaniament to The Content Analysis Guidebook by Kimberley A. Neuendorf. The Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Literary and Linguistic Computing eximancer - Practical Text Mining and Concept Mapping Journal Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation: some online articles Content Analysis News and Discussion mailing list archives some Resources related to content analysis and text analysis; updated quite recently: June 30, 2005;
Language (as speech, not as set of grammar rules) has more levels of redundancy than the space shuttle. This is one reason why data mining is do damn hard, and learning the grammar of a foreign language does not mean you are able to speak it.
:) ".
Example: I suppose you used "rocket surgeons" with the purpose of making a joke, but I cannot be sure. If you want to be as certain as possible that nobody will think you really believe there really are "rocket surgeons", you'll have to give more clues and introduce some redundant stuff, like a "
why update for the sake of updates, especially if you run such a mission critical setup ? You don't have to rebuild kernels and reboot all the time. Real companies ... yes ... like those that don't test or don't care if they have relevant SATA drivers on their install disks ?
nice game ... Could you modify them to play on grass? You'll sell them 2,000,000USD a piece in Europe: cannot be bought, don't loose morale when 2 goals in advance, don't do drugs and probably can't get killed by drunk driving with 200 miles per hour on the highway a week after you signed them in the team for an astronomical fee.
poor AI in video games? it's a feature, not a bug: it's much more interesting to plan your game when having idiotic bots in your team than getting your ass kicked by intelligent agents on the other end of the wire.
my fault: you never said it was 0 investment, so you're off the hook :) ; still, lots of "open source advocates" tell that by releasing some half baked piece of software as "open source" a company (incorporated or privately owned) can get a lot of help for the cost of keeping the CVS port open to the internet and paying for the traffic.
about huge investments that are not required: if you think about the tremendous pool of resources that the Debian project alone mustered (skilled developers and QA, more or less skilled PR people, the sofisticated release and HR procedures, mirrors, bandwidth, hardware) and how much it would cost to own that, I think you will have a hard time to find many sofware companies that are worth more.
Part of the "huge investment" that "corporations" need goes on networked video cameras to prevent their employees from taking the company's IP home on floppies, on hiring well connected executives and lawyers, and on putting inspiring statues in front of the headquarters.
On the other hand, most of the cash some free software projects spend gets wasted on bandwidth by users that don't even give feedback like: "man, I hate your piece of *&^&*^(*; why don't you go into catering instead?".
If you meant that a free software project/company gets more value on the dollar spent, then you are right.
GNU, Linux et caetera have burnt truck loads of money, but it was not "venture capitalist" money: it was time, bandwidth, equipment, brainpower donated by the contributors and their sponsors. The free software movement proved that:
If I read once more that free software was done with 0 investment I'll trak that bloke down and make him pay my electricity, broadband and ACM/Safari etc. subscription bills
quite right ...
and use CVS so no bloke will be able to put the blame on the cute-head for a screwed release.
that future is already here
We can fight against DRM by not buying DRM loaded products. It might not be very convenient, but it will encourage "content distributors" that are not enough brain-damaged to regard DRM as their only hope.
I sometimes pray to Bilious ...
Or it could be a world where cheap computing power, good enough and not very expensive recording devices and lotsa free online documentation on using them will let lots of people put their good enough content online asking for "two cents if you enjoyed it" from the "consumers" ... ... I just looked at my booksmarks list and my expenses list, and I see this world already came into being: you already can legally buy music, that's at least good enough and it's not DRM loaded, from lots of places, and even watch for free movies that are funnyier/better done/more spectacular special effects/etc. than what you can buy on copy protected DVDs.
... and we have lots of fake or flawed data that "proves" that GM plants are dangerous to your health, give you cancer and make your grandmother senile. Does anybody remember the GM scandal from 2000 ? Some "researcher" made his rats ill by feeding them only GM potatoes, then the media took over and soon you saw .eu farmers burning GM plots and waving flags with skull-and-bones and the "radiation hazard" sign.
This is about which seed producer has access to the market, not about safe food. No food is safe: meat has cholesterol, most plants are at least slightly poisonous ... at the most you get to choose what will kill you.
I agfree it's not a good idea. It's like only taking painkillers when you have a broken bone. Antidepressants give you time to find what the problem is and fix it. Depression is only a symptom, and eliminating it would eliminate the posibility of realizing there is a problem.
I wonder how long are the depressed mice able to survive in a water tank, and how soon do the happy mice get tired and drown. I think the happy mice go down first.
were not those projects sponsored/financed by the federal government ? Musk is still spending his own money.
talk about shifting moral values: at that time Socrates was deemed suspect for not being a pedophile ... because he slept in the same room as Alcibiade and did nothing to the boy.
do not forget ballet, that, some 2000 years later, was only streep-tease for the nobs, until the bloody bourgeois came and because they understood nothing about it, turned a form of entertainment into a devious form of weekend torture.
... well, with that corruption it will never get to 30,000USD median income, and if by miracle it will get there, it's won't stay there long.
corruption is not about bigwig children getting all the advantages ... it's about denying the non-bigwig children any chance to compete with the bigwig children
hey, I know you in US of A enjoy self-flagelation, but get a grip of yourself ... or embark on a "third world" tour and check thing out.
maybe s/he means the "happy dog that makes ... faces ... when you need to find something" is missing from Linux ... fortunately it is pattented, as I heard, so we won't have it any time soon.
so that's why buying the IBM xSeries did not help on long term :-(
... why was she not impressed ?
...
still, just think of those SCSI drives, the sleek case, the two perky processors
oh, well, back to work
Maybe the cops were scared shitless seeing, on their watch, three children at the height of 20 feet (that's 6 meters, enough to fracture something if you manage to avoid sharp branches on your way down) in a cherry tree: cherry tree branches break very easily. You don't climb cherry trees unless you want to risk getting killed, or at least to acquire impressive scars. Want to pick cherries ? Use a ladder. Want to climb trees? Chose some other tempting ligneuous vegetables ... pear trees are nice: hard resilient wood.
I would have sued the parents, and had "child protection" organizations involved in this, since it's clear that those responsible for the children either have no clue as far as trees are concerned, or did not care about the wellbeing of their children
About children ... from the picture they look more like teenagers, and the girl from the right side of the picture looks at least 14.
if you ever planted a tree and had it survive the operation you would have called this mindless vandalism. Breaking windows is punishable and a window can be replaced in 30 minutes. Why should damaging a tree that took some 10 to 15 years to grow to 20 feet go unpunished?First I thought it's sarcasm, but reading some of the replies I am not sure anymore
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... and some Thomas Babington Macaulay if you can spare the time.
"draft" was the reason universal male vote was granted after WW I in most of Europe. The end of citizen armies made by universal conscription is the end of democracy.
I have seen a platoon of unrully university graduates, some with postgraduate degrees, being so broken in only 40 days of army training that they would have jumped, lemming style, of a cliff, if ordered: imagine what orders would a professional soldier submit to after a few years of service. The only way of preventing the army from taking over a government is having everybody serve in the army for a short term (to keep the army small).
Read your Adam Smith again