You might earn lots of money and help others do that.
But at the end of the day can you honestly tell yourself that you're doing something worthwhile? Something significant with technology that helps technology progress or humankind?
No. Didn't think so. People like you are why Canary Wharf is a nasty place to be.
In the UK we had a Java exam module that you had to pass to continue to the next stage. Apparently a third failed.
I doubt these people actually practiced programming, after lectures and at home. In many subjects you don't have to practice a skill constantly, you cram facts. Computer science is not one of those subjects, it takes practice. That's why it was quite easy if you have coded as a hobby. I still think it's unfair to undergraduates to be expected to code well in 15 weeks. You go to university to learn, without expecting to know it already...
Man I'm just reading this conversation and this kind of talk is the reason why people are afraid of Linux.
You're aggressive, classroom jeering, calling people 'n00bs' (using the word n00b rather than newbie makes people lose any respect for you, whatever you're saying) you're taking something so minor in the scheme of things and unable to accept that someone can have a different opinion to you.
One day you will need to get over yourself and respect others opinions. I'm a fan of one of your posts and that doesn't excuse how you're acting like an ass.
I think IBM software is generally crappy and rushed, look at Lotus Notes. How can anyone pay for that monstrosity? Hardware, that's a different story.
I think IBM has a ridiculously large sales and marketing department so they can trick IT managers into getting insane contracts and deals. They do produce nice guides on developer works though.
Someone moderated your post (the one I reply to) and it came up in meta-moderation, it's an insightful observation. That probably makes the metamoderation system a bit biased. (I marked it insightful)
The question is, will it continue? Western profits go up, will they pass on the profits in wages to these workers? Hopefully these workers and your relatives can acquire the autonomy to start businesses themselves and wean themselves of westerners. They are like a necessary evil I think!
I understand your first point but surely it's in the interrest of the big business to keep these workers being paid as little as possible as it is cheaper for them? Western companies are probably dependent on cheap labour, they wouldn't want the cost of labour to go up. Of course you could argue that they would just find some other economy where labour is cheap...
Maybe the families could claim some kind of compensation, especially if it was negligence of the company maintaining the wall and not a personal mistake.:-(
Economics in our modern society is zero sum because an exchange of goods does not actual reflect the value of labour added on either side. Its not a proper market, it's a market that has been constrained by vested interests.
Globalisation would be nice if we were on the same side. Right now it's ruining the lives of many peple. I am sure there are plenty of countries that would appreciate no vested US interest that corrupts their governments and makes natural competition an impossibility.
In an idealistic world, economics would always benefit both sides of the exchange. In practice, it doesn't.
The Church of Internet, memorable excerpts from the Surf book:
"In the beginning there was Gore and he shat the internet" "Thou shall not ACK the troll..." "the September spawn shall descend upon the peers of the net..."
Can't people be content with a genuine internet (not a centralized monstrosity) where people are contributing to websites Peer to peer the way it was designed?
Imagine that, everyone writing articles and blogging in their own sphere of their town. Beautiful. It would be like a wiki but at the town-level. That's what the web should be like.
I believe in zero-sum because it's human nature to exploit rather than co-operate in large populations. Co-operation and alturism works in small groups and has a synergistic effect and is better than zero-sum. When you expand the numbers to huge disparate groups like countries and institutions (like business or government) it's back to biological zero-sum survival.
It's like I see these adverts for investment management and types of trading all the time. Don't these people watching these graphs that constantly go up constantly realise it's a zero-sum game?
I'm not saying I like it but it's what happening. I wish we had co-operation and fair trade. Or did you forget your ~?
Do you think it's in the best interests of western society and the large banks and corporations for the poorer nations to ever catch up with us? How can they catch up with us? The kind of contracts and deals made by western countries are usually detrimental to these societies. It's very much in our these big companies interests for them to be poor and begging to work for a dollar a day.
The Silent Takeover is a good book for this kind of thing, globalisation is good for a select group of people. Hint: It's probably not us or these workers.
You are absolutely right and that's why it's a broken society. I am very much in agreement with you. What can we do about it? I find it hard to tell you because I find it hard to take. All around me are familiar faces, worn out places, worn out faces, bright and early for their daily races, going nowhere going nowhere. Their tears are filling up their glasses, no expression, no expression. No tomorrow.
I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I am dying are the best I've ever had. I find it hard to tell you because I find it hard to take.
The question is whether it was an accident committed by human error or was it the factory itself where the plant was not safe to work in. Human error is probably pretty close between different nations.
Working conditions here have steadily improved. If there were not laws to prevent it, managers would happily risk your life, give you lifelong debilitating conditions in the name of profit. My assumption was this was caused by the factory, perhaps negligence from maintaining it. In western countries you would have some kind of recourse due to the regulations and safety standards. There? Not so much.
You are absolutely right. It does annoy me when people charge for using freeware software to remove malicious software. It's just disrespectful to the author, using use freeware for commercial use is something most developers would rather you did not because if you are profiting from freeware, you have a means of earning, you should pay.
This probably wouldn't happen in the western world because we have some expectation of safety and working conditions. In a ideal world, we'd be manufacturing this sort of thing at home. Any form of economic prosperity in one area is balanced by a social or economic cost in another.
Slashdot Mirror
FBI? Puh-leaze.
Hack Section 31 and then I'd be impressed.
You might earn lots of money and help others do that.
But at the end of the day can you honestly tell yourself that you're doing something worthwhile? Something significant with technology that helps technology progress or humankind?
No. Didn't think so. People like you are why Canary Wharf is a nasty place to be.
Strangely I agree with you. Wall Street and the 'market' is not a good thing. That is, human beings should probably doing something worthwhile.
That's the problem with capitalism. Waste production.
Selective growing/pollination is not GMO.
Identifying desirable traits and crossing them is benign and not the same as forcing changes or operating on genes directly.
Shills are trying to represent them as one as the same to amass support for them.
Selective pollenation and crossing is not GMO.
He did not say that, read the comment.
In the UK we had a Java exam module that you had to pass to continue to the next stage. Apparently a third failed.
I doubt these people actually practiced programming, after lectures and at home. In many subjects you don't have to practice a skill constantly, you cram facts. Computer science is not one of those subjects, it takes practice. That's why it was quite easy if you have coded as a hobby. I still think it's unfair to undergraduates to be expected to code well in 15 weeks. You go to university to learn, without expecting to know it already...
Man I'm just reading this conversation and this kind of talk is the reason why people are afraid of Linux.
You're aggressive, classroom jeering, calling people 'n00bs' (using the word n00b rather than newbie makes people lose any respect for you, whatever you're saying) you're taking something so minor in the scheme of things and unable to accept that someone can have a different opinion to you.
One day you will need to get over yourself and respect others opinions. I'm a fan of one of your posts and that doesn't excuse how you're acting like an ass.
I think IBM software is generally crappy and rushed, look at Lotus Notes. How can anyone pay for that monstrosity? Hardware, that's a different story.
I think IBM has a ridiculously large sales and marketing department so they can trick IT managers into getting insane contracts and deals. They do produce nice guides on developer works though.
Someone moderated your post (the one I reply to) and it came up in meta-moderation, it's an insightful observation. That probably makes the metamoderation system a bit biased. (I marked it insightful)
The question is, will it continue? Western profits go up, will they pass on the profits in wages to these workers? Hopefully these workers and your relatives can acquire the autonomy to start businesses themselves and wean themselves of westerners. They are like a necessary evil I think!
I understand your first point but surely it's in the interrest of the big business to keep these workers being paid as little as possible as it is cheaper for them? Western companies are probably dependent on cheap labour, they wouldn't want the cost of labour to go up. Of course you could argue that they would just find some other economy where labour is cheap...
Maybe the families could claim some kind of compensation, especially if it was negligence of the company maintaining the wall and not a personal mistake. :-(
Economics in our modern society is zero sum because an exchange of goods does not actual reflect the value of labour added on either side. Its not a proper market, it's a market that has been constrained by vested interests.
Globalisation would be nice if we were on the same side. Right now it's ruining the lives of many peple. I am sure there are plenty of countries that would appreciate no vested US interest that corrupts their governments and makes natural competition an impossibility.
In an idealistic world, economics would always benefit both sides of the exchange. In practice, it doesn't.
What books on economics would you recommend? What were you trying to explain to ideologues?
You run games on a VM? How fast is that exactly?
The Church of Internet, memorable excerpts from the Surf book:
"In the beginning there was Gore and he shat the internet"
"Thou shall not ACK the troll..."
"the September spawn shall descend upon the peers of the net..."
Preach it brother.
Can't people be content with a genuine internet (not a centralized monstrosity) where people are contributing to websites Peer to peer the way it was designed?
Imagine that, everyone writing articles and blogging in their own sphere of their town. Beautiful. It would be like a wiki but at the town-level. That's what the web should be like.
I believe in zero-sum because it's human nature to exploit rather than co-operate in large populations. Co-operation and alturism works in small groups and has a synergistic effect and is better than zero-sum. When you expand the numbers to huge disparate groups like countries and institutions (like business or government) it's back to biological zero-sum survival.
It's like I see these adverts for investment management and types of trading all the time. Don't these people watching these graphs that constantly go up constantly realise it's a zero-sum game?
I'm not saying I like it but it's what happening. I wish we had co-operation and fair trade. Or did you forget your ~?
Were you replying to me? I like neither option of being disingenuous or being a moron...
Do you think it's in the best interests of western society and the large banks and corporations for the poorer nations to ever catch up with us? How can they catch up with us? The kind of contracts and deals made by western countries are usually detrimental to these societies. It's very much in our these big companies interests for them to be poor and begging to work for a dollar a day.
The Silent Takeover is a good book for this kind of thing, globalisation is good for a select group of people. Hint: It's probably not us or these workers.
You are absolutely right and that's why it's a broken society. I am very much in agreement with you. What can we do about it? I find it hard to tell you because I find it hard to take.
All around me are familiar faces, worn out places, worn out faces, bright and early for their daily races, going nowhere going nowhere. Their tears are filling up their glasses, no expression, no expression.
No tomorrow.
I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I am dying are the best I've ever had. I find it hard to tell you because I find it hard to take.
The question is whether it was an accident committed by human error or was it the factory itself where the plant was not safe to work in. Human error is probably pretty close between different nations.
Working conditions here have steadily improved. If there were not laws to prevent it, managers would happily risk your life, give you lifelong debilitating conditions in the name of profit. My assumption was this was caused by the factory, perhaps negligence from maintaining it. In western countries you would have some kind of recourse due to the regulations and safety standards. There? Not so much.
Why is it cheap there? Should it be? It's exploitation. Lack of safety makes it cheaper. Do you really think Apple cares?
If that's not broken then I'm afraid to tell you what happens in the world because it won't make sense to you because cheaper is better, right?~
You are absolutely right. It does annoy me when people charge for using freeware software to remove malicious software. It's just disrespectful to the author, using use freeware for commercial use is something most developers would rather you did not because if you are profiting from freeware, you have a means of earning, you should pay.
This probably wouldn't happen in the western world because we have some expectation of safety and working conditions. In a ideal world, we'd be manufacturing this sort of thing at home. Any form of economic prosperity in one area is balanced by a social or economic cost in another.