Right. Standardize on it as a team. Use hard tabs. Then, if someone likes 3-space tabs, and another likes 4-space tabs, they both get what they want while *still* conforming to the standard. If you collaborate with another company and get code from them, it's still perfectly legible, whether they have standardized on 2-space tabs, 3-space tabs or 23-space tabs.
Where is the contract here? Is there a contract between the employee and HP? Or between HP and the contracting company? It seems to me that these people are employees of the contractor, and that there is no contract between them and HP. Is this not the case?
It's been my experince (both myself and my father) that you make more as a contract worker than as a direct-hire. The increase doesn't offset the monetary value of benefits that direct hires have, but if you are covered by health insurance, etc. under another plan you can come out ahead. So I don't believe that it should always be the case that contracting should be a temporary thing.
The html tag is still unchanged. This is what people are referring to. The content of this tag is displayed in the browser's title bar. So the page looks the same as the google cached page, but looking at the page source or the browser title bar reveals the difference.
Or, you have a random bit change in your opcode and suddenly you're doing a muliply instead of an add. Or your opcode is an invalid one and your processor halts. Yeah, I don't think this makes sense given our current way of doing microprocessors. We'd have to do it some other way.
"Mozilla" (Netscape) wasn't killed because of the rewrite. They were killed because version 4.7x sucked, and they couldn't compete with free as in beer.
The article isn't saying that they could only just now boot HURD, it is saying that they moved from the Mach microkernel to the L4 microkernel, and since the move they have just been able to run programs.
OK, so the majority of people are retarded. Cynical, but maybe true.
About the changes in a brain. Well, I would consider the brain changes to be part of "aging". And if it is our goal to stop aging, then stopping the changes in our brains would be a part of that. And I don't think that is an unreasonable goal, either. Already we have drugs that affect the brain. Though mostly in bad ways. Is it harder to alter the brain such that it doesn't change as it gets older, or to alter a heart muscle cell so it doesn't give out at a certain age. Or to perform similar anti-aging wonders on the eye.
The brain is just another aspect of anti-aging that we need to work on. Maybe it's harder, maybe it's easier. But it is something to fix just as we fix other aging symptoms.
Why would it be mostly retarded people who choose this treatment? Considering the type of people we hear from, who have searched for the fountain of youth, who have written about it, very intelligent people also want immortality.
What kind of moral/ethical/practical problems exist for individuals? (Not saying there are none, just wondering what your take is.)
It's not just you. Chewbacca is groping her too. But dude, I'd back off. Wookies pull people's arms out of their sockets when someone messes with their girls.
There are a limited number of civil service jobs. There aren't a whole bunch just waiting for all of those IT guys who have had their jobs outsourced. And how are these jobs paid for? Taxes.
A job with a SMALL PRIVATE COMPANY
Small, private companies are also more likely to fail than the larger companies. Less likely to have retirement plans, good medical/dental benefits, etc.
If modern Americans weren't constantly deluged with so much brainwashing designed to make them spend their money on useless garbage, they wouldn't need anywhere NEAR as much money as they think they do.
I agree with this. Of course, if everybody chooses this path, those of us who go to work and make something will then have a smaller market. Economic growth comes from producing more stuff, and producing more stuff only works if people are buying more stuff.
Play video games. Watch commercial-free movies, rented on DVD. Anything, as long as you aren't being fed commercial propaganda.
I don't remember where I was reading about this, it was just this week, but these are not the activities to engage in if you don't want commercial propaganda. More and more movies and video games will be used as advertisements. Maybe not as blatantly as a commercial on TV, but they will advertise, nonetheless.
Cut up all your credit cards.
I have two credit cards. They both get paid off every month. I have never paid interest on them. I view it as an interest-free revolving loan. (Don't tell my card company, please.) And you need to establish credit to buy a house, so it's a good idea to get credit cards early. But don't ever treat it as "credit". If you think of it as using money that you already have, just delaying the actual payment, you'll come out ok.
You are making the assumption that people who do the work of outsourcing are incapable of doing anything above the mundane work that you do. And that they cannot "[do] things to help the company be more efficient and reduce costs with innovative solutions" I don't believe that is true. I think that a smart Indian would be just as good at a job as you are. Which isn't to say you are stupid, just that we don't have a corner on the smarts market.
Windows NT was not designed as a single user system. The only problem here was Microsoft's Backward Compatibility (TM) demand. That meant that applications written for 9x had to run on Windows NT, which meant working around all of the security and user facilities in NT. All in all the security model presented by Windows NT and up is quite powerful, much more so than Linux. The only problems are, as I mentioned, backward compatibility, and, I think, most programmers are too lazy and/or stupid to correctly utilize windows security. (I'm part of the last group -- stupid.)
I think this is completely true. Take a look at Code Access Security.
My only concern is that rwx is so simple and therefore used widely, while windows security, while powerful, is too complex for developers to want to use effectively.
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So Windows should be at about version 3.8.84563342, eh?
Right. Standardize on it as a team. Use hard tabs. Then, if someone likes 3-space tabs, and another likes 4-space tabs, they both get what they want while *still* conforming to the standard. If you collaborate with another company and get code from them, it's still perfectly legible, whether they have standardized on 2-space tabs, 3-space tabs or 23-space tabs.
Where is the contract here? Is there a contract between the employee and HP? Or between HP and the contracting company? It seems to me that these people are employees of the contractor, and that there is no contract between them and HP. Is this not the case?
It's been my experince (both myself and my father) that you make more as a contract worker than as a direct-hire. The increase doesn't offset the monetary value of benefits that direct hires have, but if you are covered by health insurance, etc. under another plan you can come out ahead. So I don't believe that it should always be the case that contracting should be a temporary thing.
The html tag is still unchanged. This is what people are referring to. The content of this tag is displayed in the browser's title bar. So the page looks the same as the google cached page, but looking at the page source or the browser title bar reveals the difference.
The title in this case is not the heading on the page, but the tag, whose content is displayed in the browser's title bar.
And it's not a linear relationship, either. A 10-ton truck tears up the road a lot more than 10 1-ton cars.
Or, you have a random bit change in your opcode and suddenly you're doing a muliply instead of an add. Or your opcode is an invalid one and your processor halts. Yeah, I don't think this makes sense given our current way of doing microprocessors. We'd have to do it some other way.
"Mozilla" (Netscape) wasn't killed because of the rewrite. They were killed because version 4.7x sucked, and they couldn't compete with free as in beer.
The article isn't saying that they could only just now boot HURD, it is saying that they moved from the Mach microkernel to the L4 microkernel, and since the move they have just been able to run programs.
You know, I felt the same about Captian Kirk in Generations. Everyone clapped. But you know, the movie still would have been better without him.
Then it's cool when the Slashdot crowd tells you to use Adblock.
OK, so the majority of people are retarded. Cynical, but maybe true. About the changes in a brain. Well, I would consider the brain changes to be part of "aging". And if it is our goal to stop aging, then stopping the changes in our brains would be a part of that. And I don't think that is an unreasonable goal, either. Already we have drugs that affect the brain. Though mostly in bad ways. Is it harder to alter the brain such that it doesn't change as it gets older, or to alter a heart muscle cell so it doesn't give out at a certain age. Or to perform similar anti-aging wonders on the eye. The brain is just another aspect of anti-aging that we need to work on. Maybe it's harder, maybe it's easier. But it is something to fix just as we fix other aging symptoms.
Why would it be mostly retarded people who choose this treatment? Considering the type of people we hear from, who have searched for the fountain of youth, who have written about it, very intelligent people also want immortality.
What kind of moral/ethical/practical problems exist for individuals? (Not saying there are none, just wondering what your take is.)
It's not just you. Chewbacca is groping her too. But dude, I'd back off. Wookies pull people's arms out of their sockets when someone messes with their girls.
No worries. My mind is the same way. I'd like to think it's a sign of intelligence. (But, sometimes I doubt it.)
Regarding some of your points in part 2:
Best: Civil Service.
There are a limited number of civil service jobs. There aren't a whole bunch just waiting for all of those IT guys who have had their jobs outsourced. And how are these jobs paid for? Taxes.
A job with a SMALL PRIVATE COMPANY
Small, private companies are also more likely to fail than the larger companies. Less likely to have retirement plans, good medical/dental benefits, etc.
If modern Americans weren't constantly deluged with so much brainwashing designed to make them spend their money on useless garbage, they wouldn't need anywhere NEAR as much money as they think they do.
I agree with this. Of course, if everybody chooses this path, those of us who go to work and make something will then have a smaller market. Economic growth comes from producing more stuff, and producing more stuff only works if people are buying more stuff.
Play video games. Watch commercial-free movies, rented on DVD. Anything, as long as you aren't being fed commercial propaganda.
I don't remember where I was reading about this, it was just this week, but these are not the activities to engage in if you don't want commercial propaganda. More and more movies and video games will be used as advertisements. Maybe not as blatantly as a commercial on TV, but they will advertise, nonetheless.
Cut up all your credit cards.
I have two credit cards. They both get paid off every month. I have never paid interest on them. I view it as an interest-free revolving loan. (Don't tell my card company, please.) And you need to establish credit to buy a house, so it's a good idea to get credit cards early. But don't ever treat it as "credit". If you think of it as using money that you already have, just delaying the actual payment, you'll come out ok.
YMMV
You are making the assumption that people who do the work of outsourcing are incapable of doing anything above the mundane work that you do. And that they cannot "[do] things to help the company be more efficient and reduce costs with innovative solutions" I don't believe that is true. I think that a smart Indian would be just as good at a job as you are. Which isn't to say you are stupid, just that we don't have a corner on the smarts market.
Windows NT was not designed as a single user system. The only problem here was Microsoft's Backward Compatibility (TM) demand. That meant that applications written for 9x had to run on Windows NT, which meant working around all of the security and user facilities in NT. All in all the security model presented by Windows NT and up is quite powerful, much more so than Linux. The only problems are, as I mentioned, backward compatibility, and, I think, most programmers are too lazy and/or stupid to correctly utilize windows security. (I'm part of the last group -- stupid.)
I think this is completely true. Take a look at Code Access Security.
My only concern is that rwx is so simple and therefore used widely, while windows security, while powerful, is too complex for developers to want to use effectively.