Engineering salaries have risen over the years but they haven't kept pace with inflation. This data covers 1971-2000. It's a safe bet engineering salaries have lost ground during the last 3 years.
As other posters have noted, the few who get offers are getting higher offers than they might have a year ago but that's not saying much. I suspect this article was planted for political purposes.
I've been harping on upper management to let us purge the history after roughly a week (tops), which would give us plenty of debugging time, and at the same time not give the legal system enough time to issue a subpoena before the information is gone.
Unless they were asking questions about this, I wouldn't volunteer any info. I'd just design it to purge after a week and not say anything about it.
Piping RF onto the power transmission lines is a hair-brained idea put forth by the same crowd that brought us power brokering. Oh boy, that sure has been a panacea. Not! The Hams are up in arms for good reason. If this is deployed, we'll have lots of long wire antennas bristling with hash. Why is the FCC even considering such a cockamaimy notion? Michael Powell
... that there will be an organizational change in the Linux community, whatever that means. Cringley even goes on to say that this SCO business is a stock scam. I agree with that part. So if it is exposed as a stock scam, why will any organizational change be needed?
My main point(!) is whether this creates risk. India has a foul history of conflict with its neighbour Pakistan, and fought a war with China in the 50s (though this, thankfully, seems to be a thing of the past).
Good. Let it create risk. Suits me fine if they nuke each other.
I honestly have never been able to understand why someone would choose a career they have no great intrest in simply because they could make fairly good money.
I've heard it put this way. Life is like a shit sandwich. The more bread you have, the less shit you have to taste.
The displacement caused by the "offshoring" is hurting lots of people. I know dozens of un-employed and underemployed developers. Many of them are quite good. Most will never work in IT again. As the article states, this is a "structural change", meaning irreversible. The really bad thing is, there isn't any technical field in sight that will absorb all these people any time soon. They will not make anywhere near what they made as developers in whatever work they end up doing. Meanwhile, the schools keep churning out people. My neighbor's kid graduated in May. He has no prospects so he's detailing cars.
The damage is not limited to just the unemployed and underemployed. The displaced software developers paid more in taxes that some people make. State budgets are in crisis. When their unemployment benefits run out and after they've been out of work a year or two and burned through their savings, they'll become wage slaves. This is double-bad. They ain't going to be happy and they will be displacing the people who used to do those low paying jobs. After a downturn in the Texas oil business many years ago, a joke circulated about an unemployed geologist who was turned down for employment at McDonalds with the explanation that all their geologists have masters degrees.
I honestly have never been able to understand why someone would choose a career they have no great intrest in simply because they could make fairly good money.
They want to have a nice home. They want to provide a comfortable lifestyle for themselves and their family. There are lots of interesting things you can do but there aren't all that many interesting things people will pay you well to do.
No microscopes are involved in DNA testing, despite what you may have seen on CSI:Miami.
Then how's the comparison made?
Somehow they have to magnify the images of 2 DNA samples that are to be compared.
home DNA test kits: bring 'em on
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This is a great way to show kids how DNA tests work. I'm all for anything that would help de-mystify DNA testing in the minds of the public. It's particularly gratifying to see that they'll discover it's ultimately a human being making a judgement call about what he or she sees with a microscope.
Using the new standard, computer users could share small files containing information about music, video or other data, but not the content itself.
What point is there in doing this? to make the masses feel like they are sharing something? People want music. Making information about the music available is fine but that's icing on the cake. The cake is the music.
The music industry just can't let go. They just can't bring themselves to do it.
Back when I was your age, we didn't have color screens.
Well, ol' man, back when I was your age, we didn't have monochrome monitors. We had punch cards, card readers and a line printer. Yessir.
When I was your age, we loaded programs onto our computers using cassette tapes.
We carried shoeboxes full of punched cards over to the card reader. Woe unto those unfortunate souls who dropped theirs.
We had BASIC, and if you were lucky, you had Pascal.
We had Fortran, PL1, Assembler and JCL.
Back when I was your age, a 9800 baud was one thrilling piece of hardware.
Try 300 baud thru an acoustical coupler.
We had computers that weighed over 100 pounds.
The IBM 29 card punch weighed more than that. So did the Harris card reader. Lord knows what the IBM 360 mainframe weighed. The line printers needed paulbearers.
As soon as this issue appears on the radar screens of fire marshalls, it will be dealt with. Restricting air flow in the plenums and having materials which emit toxic fumes during combustion in suspended ceilings would get most firemen wound up.
I wear mine in a "Tunes belt" while jogging, using stairclimbers, riding stationary bikes and lifting weights. I've yet to see any performance problems. I've certainly jarred it. Heck, I've dropped it to the floor at least a half dozen times. I do have one of the neoprene jackets for it but those only absorb so much in a 4-5 ft drop. I disagree with the author's assessment of the iPod's ruggedness. My iPod is one of the first 5G models and is nearly 2 years old.
One runs slackware Linux. The other runs OS/2 Warp 3. Both have 16Megs or RAM, 1G HD, QIC40 tape drives. 3.5 and 5.25" floppy drives and 4x CDROMs. I built these in early 1993 for about $1000 each. For several years, I ran OS/2 and developed applications using Smalltalk V for OS/2. I seldom use these today but last time I checked, about a month ago, the both worked OK.
It seems the rest of the world is also stuck with a third-world electricity grid.
And at the rate we're going, we'll be stuck with a 3rd world electricity grid before long. What we had before "degregulation" worked well enough. But noooooo, they had to fix it. They fixed it alright. Allowing all this speculative trading is what screwed it up.
It's not just the blackouts. As the article points out, the utilities have cut their headcounts, even as their customer base grew. So, whenever we get an ice storm or a hurricane, we're without power 3 times as long as we might have been. We bought a generator. So have lots of other people. They aren't going back to kerosene lanterns. Not only has our power bill increased during "degregulation", we now have to have a generator and keep it operational.
Yeah. Let's pack some more people in prison. Two million ain't enough. Yeah, let's get tough on crime by locking up pimple faced kids who mod blaster variants with 300 lb carjackin' buttpounders. Nevermind those corporate execs who ran Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing, Arthur Anderson and other into the ground.
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Engineering salaries have risen over the years but they haven't kept pace with inflation. This data covers 1971-2000. It's a safe bet engineering salaries have lost ground during the last 3 years.
http://ewh.ieee.org/cmte/pa/Status/salary/Salar
As other posters have noted, the few who get offers are getting higher offers than they might have a year ago but that's not saying much. I suspect this article was planted for political purposes.
I've been harping on upper management to let us purge the history after roughly a week (tops), which would give us plenty of debugging time, and at the same time not give the legal system enough time to issue a subpoena before the information is gone.
Unless they were asking questions about this, I wouldn't volunteer any info. I'd just design it to purge after a week and not say anything about it.
Piping RF onto the power transmission lines is a hair-brained idea put forth by the same crowd that brought us power brokering. Oh boy, that sure has been a panacea. Not! The Hams are up in arms for good reason. If this is deployed, we'll have lots of long wire antennas bristling with hash. Why is the FCC even considering such a cockamaimy notion? Michael Powell
Those who don't learn from the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them.
Things get cheaper because of globalization, but how can you buy anything when you don't have a job?
Yep. The customer gets fired.
My main point(!) is whether this creates risk. India has a foul history of conflict with its neighbour Pakistan, and fought a war with China in the 50s (though this, thankfully, seems to be a thing of the past).
Good. Let it create risk. Suits me fine if they nuke each other.
That being said, I wouldn't be put off by a ex-sysadmin from Enron or even Nortel. But SCO
I honestly have never been able to understand why someone would choose a career they have no great intrest in simply because they could make fairly good money.
I've heard it put this way. Life is like a shit sandwich. The more bread you have, the less shit you have to taste.
The displacement caused by the "offshoring" is hurting lots of people. I know dozens of un-employed and underemployed developers. Many of them are quite good. Most will never work in IT again. As the article states, this is a "structural change", meaning irreversible. The really bad thing is, there isn't any technical field in sight that will absorb all these people any time soon. They will not make anywhere near what they made as developers in whatever work they end up doing. Meanwhile, the schools keep churning out people. My neighbor's kid graduated in May. He has no prospects so he's detailing cars.
The damage is not limited to just the unemployed and underemployed. The displaced software developers paid more in taxes that some people make. State budgets are in crisis. When their unemployment benefits run out and after they've been out of work a year or two and burned through their savings, they'll become wage slaves. This is double-bad. They ain't going to be happy and they will be displacing the people who used to do those low paying jobs. After a downturn in the Texas oil business many years ago, a joke circulated about an unemployed geologist who was turned down for employment at McDonalds with the explanation that all their geologists have masters degrees.
I honestly have never been able to understand why someone would choose a career they have no great intrest in simply because they could make fairly good money.
They want to have a nice home. They want to provide a comfortable lifestyle for themselves and their family. There are lots of interesting things you can do but there aren't all that many interesting things people will pay you well to do.
No microscopes are involved in DNA testing, despite what you may have seen on CSI:Miami.
Then how's the comparison made?
Somehow they have to magnify the images of 2 DNA samples that are to be compared.
This is a great way to show kids how DNA tests work. I'm all for anything that would help de-mystify DNA testing in the minds of the public. It's particularly gratifying to see that they'll discover it's ultimately a human being making a judgement call about what he or she sees with a microscope.
Using the new standard, computer users could share small files containing information about music, video or other data, but not the content itself.
What point is there in doing this? to make the masses feel like they are sharing something? People want music. Making information about the music available is fine but that's icing on the cake. The cake is the music.
The music industry just can't let go. They just can't bring themselves to do it.
They'll soon be marginalized into oblivion.
Back when I was your age, we didn't have color screens.
Well, ol' man, back when I was your age, we didn't have monochrome monitors. We had punch cards, card readers and a line printer. Yessir.
When I was your age, we loaded programs onto our computers using cassette tapes.
We carried shoeboxes full of punched cards over to the card reader. Woe unto those unfortunate souls who dropped theirs.
We had BASIC, and if you were lucky, you had Pascal.
We had Fortran, PL1, Assembler and JCL.
Back when I was your age, a 9800 baud was one thrilling piece of hardware.
Try 300 baud thru an acoustical coupler.
We had computers that weighed over 100 pounds.
The IBM 29 card punch weighed more than that. So did the Harris card reader. Lord knows what the IBM 360 mainframe weighed. The line printers needed paulbearers.
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As soon as this issue appears on the radar screens of fire marshalls, it will be dealt with. Restricting air flow in the plenums and having materials which emit toxic fumes during combustion in suspended ceilings would get most firemen wound up.
I wear mine in a "Tunes belt" while jogging, using stairclimbers, riding stationary bikes and lifting weights. I've yet to see any performance problems. I've certainly jarred it. Heck, I've dropped it to the floor at least a half dozen times. I do have one of the neoprene jackets for it but those only absorb so much in a 4-5 ft drop. I disagree with the author's assessment of the iPod's ruggedness. My iPod is one of the first 5G models and is nearly 2 years old.
But what is the warranty on a printer? Something like 90 days. Why the hell should I care if my nearly expired warranty is voided?
My sentiments exactly and printers have gotten so cheap, I wouldn't bother to get an inkjet printer fixed if it broke. I'd just go get a new one.
One runs slackware Linux. The other runs OS/2 Warp 3. Both have 16Megs or RAM, 1G HD, QIC40 tape drives. 3.5 and 5.25" floppy drives and 4x CDROMs. I built these in early 1993 for about $1000 each. For several years, I ran OS/2 and developed applications using Smalltalk V for OS/2. I seldom use these today but last time I checked, about a month ago, the both worked OK.
Intel has been one of the worst offenders. Have a look at http://www.faceintel.com/
It seems the rest of the world is also stuck with a third-world electricity grid.
And at the rate we're going, we'll be stuck with a 3rd world electricity grid before long. What we had before "degregulation" worked well enough. But noooooo, they had to fix it. They fixed it alright. Allowing all this speculative trading is what screwed it up.
It's not just the blackouts. As the article points out, the utilities have cut their headcounts, even as their customer base grew. So, whenever we get an ice storm or a hurricane, we're without power 3 times as long as we might have been. We bought a generator. So have lots of other people. They aren't going back to kerosene lanterns. Not only has our power bill increased during "degregulation", we now have to have a generator and keep it operational.
There's a gator on my hard drive. He's scannin' my files.
Yeah. Let's pack some more people in prison. Two million ain't enough. Yeah, let's get tough on crime by locking up pimple faced kids who mod blaster variants with 300 lb carjackin' buttpounders. Nevermind those corporate execs who ran Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing, Arthur Anderson and other into the ground.
"The FCC is coming to the aid of the FTC because of the recent lawsuit filed against the FTC over the list."
With a corporate butt smoocher like Michael Powell at the helm of the FCC, the telespammers are probably ecstatic.