What world do you live in? I certainly get live at all without a paycheck and more and more people are having this exact issue at an accelerating rate. Unless you plan to come up with some scheme to clothe, feed, and house us so we can go about your charity works then we are going to have issues. More so as 'feeding, clothing, and housing' us is payign us for this labor you want done.
You need to combine these costs, food costs are internal to the Chinese ones and external to the the US one. As is housing and transport. Basically the US 'costs' include money for these things and the Chinese numbers don't. & yes, my $290/week was a mistype, I meant $217.5 (30 hours @ 7.25/hour). That has to cover the workers housing, food, and transportation costs. The Chinese numbers are on top of the company providing food, housing, and 'transportation' (if any is needed). The Chinese may work 100 hours/week, but coming up with real comparison numbers will be awfully hard. Either way an american cannot eat, have a roof over their head, or have transport on your $200 figure. Until someone in the US can live on $200/month then telling us we need to accept that is simply suicide and corporate/company greed.
I've found many places these days require your college transcripts before interviewing you. Unless you can fake transcripts, this works pretty well for them to tell if you have that degree or not at no real cost to them.
When you cannot even get an interview there is very little you can do to make yourself stand out... It also depends on where you live and who you've worked for. I've worked for smaller and non-profit businesses. Low pay, average at best benefits, very 'needy'. If I'd worked at a fortune 500 instead that everyone had heard of it is a very different story. However where I live those fortune 500 don't hire without a degree at all. If you don't have your bachelor's or above no point even applying. I cannot even work the helpdesk at a local Fortune 500 without a bachelor's in comp sci or similiar. They are the ones that btw wanted a doctorate for a network admin.
Oh and what should be little surprise... Most of their IT staff (90% of the ones I've seen) are all Indian...
It has nothing to do with the 'american dream' and everything to do with the fact that $200/month is not enough to pay rent on a shoe box even in rural America, let alone own a car (barring other things, insurance costs more the poorer you are making transportation issues dramatic with our poor mass transit systems), or buy food (I spend more than $100 per trip to the store buying basics every couple weeks).
A normal person in the US cannot live on that kind of wage until the prices for certain things drop down. Minimum wage is $290/week (figuring 30 hours per week), so we aren't really that much higher realistically.
I actually had similiar issues... Parents wanted me to go to a private college, they got sick and couldn't help anymore... but in my case at 3.5 years in I ran out of money and had to leave college with nothing to show for it except debt. I couldn't find work at all when I returned home, so I ended up having to go back to get an associates degree (I couldn't afford to go back to a public college even). After that I did get work in my field for several years... Only to loose my job during the recent recession. I kept being told I was either over or under qualified for everything and I should go back to school. So now I'm back in college, but get almost no transfer credit (first college was 10 years ago, associates degree program isn't through a 'college' so they don't have any desire to transfer credits) and in the end I'll owe about $140k...
Was it my fault my parents insisted on where I went to school? That they got sick? That I ran out of money to finish my first degree? That I then needed an associates degree? That I lost my job due to budget cuts? That I know need a Bachelors to do what I had been doing for years?
I don't think those things really fall to me... But maybe some people think those things really are somehow 'my fault'.
Which is even worse if the person is on minimum wage, as it could easily force them to stop working (since they may not be able to survive on the garnished minimum wage amount). The government may find it far more interesting with large numbers of young workers who default, can't pay, are garnished, and then stop working entirely.
I have an associates degree in computer science and a decade in IT. Jobs that say "Bachelors/Masters/Doctorate degree or equivalent experience" mean "Don't bother applying if you don't have what we list". I've rarely if ever even heard back from the places that list such things. You certainly don't need a doctorate in comp sci to be a network admin, but I've actually seen that listed in the last 6 months.
I do, however most people just see ads on tv (I don't since I don't really watch tv). So their take on politics is skewed by the press and by media campaigning. Mine is done on researching candidates record. The danger for most people doing that is so many sources are skewed actually digging out truth and not campaign messages for the average person can be very hard.
Not if enough people actually voted sanely! In my lifetime I've seen a third party get 20% of the total popular vote. Just over twice that was what won. If even another 20% had voted for the third party things would have been vastly different. The two issues are: people don't vote (It's what 40% atm?) and they don't vote for who they want, but who they think can win.
You seem to have forgotten the US concept of 'Voting for a third party is wasting your vote!' crap. Getting people to vote for anyone sane is like pulling teeth and unlikely to happen.
6 months is silly in our modern world. If I found someone phone (& lets keep this with phones not cars) and they took 6 weeks to come pick it up I'd charge them for having stored it! Law or no it's way to long for a important and expensive item.
This is alot different if it's only a week or two. If I found someones wallet I'd make an attempt to get in touch with them and hold on to it a couple weeks. If they really couldn't be bothered to pick it up in that time frame then they seriously don't want an item.
Jaguar actually showed off a concept car version of this idea last year. I loved the design and rather wish they had sold it, even if it was in low volume. I'm hardly alone as many journalists in the car industry shared my view. I think it even got a slashdot mention when it was shown at the Paris auto show.
It would be interesting seeing it scaled to a bike as well, though the biggest problem is keeping the turbine at high speed at all times so it is most efficient.
Having seen a documentary about the construction of the new Antarctic facility, they actually built the entire facility on hydraulic stilts to deal with snow drifts...The entire thing can be lifted over 20 feet in the air...
I'd therefor say snowdrifts there are rather extreme... I'm not sure a glideslope is really practical...
And who keeps these up to date? Maybe if some open source project wants to go about collecting all the relevant information and makes it available for free, then I'd agree with you. Most of the places you can get the data now charge quite alot with yearly (and sometimes monthly) updates.
A small business I worked with has under $1000 a year to provide online sales with, which must include hosting costs and the price to maintain their site. They certainly can't afford any current tax databases and saying 'If you can't make enough to do this your excluded' is a huge barrier to entry. They couldn't even pay someone to compile a database like that for the total the have to spend on it each year. Heck they can't even afford the monthly processing it would take to send all the payments to the right place.
Most theologists will tell you it is our free will that 'creates evil'. Basically we give in all to easily to temptation and so evil is like a virus spreading from person to person.
Personally I think it's all crap and would prefer more animistic roots to religion, but that's just me...
I've won twice online for things (CPU & Mobo from AMD and an HDTV). So my relatives regularly want me to sign up for things thinking I somehow am more lucky then them.
Well FF7 for PC did have a few things the PS1 did not, such as double res textures (Though I doubt anything can use those anymore). It was also for some unknown reason tied to specific hardware or forced to render in software. Both OpenGL and D3D existed, but rather than use the standards of the day (that would still work now) they hand coded the interaction between game and video card.
They then repeated their mistakes come FF8 and wondered why people didn't like it...
I'd actually pay under $10 for a modern playable copy of FF7 on PC that did higher rez and supported either OpenGL or D3D to talk to the hardware (support for things like multiple threads would be nice as well). While $10 doesn't sound like much, that is way better than what I'd be willing to pay for most things from that era...
I don't see the need for a >7 inch tablet. The ideal for them is that they are portable, even 7 inch is pushing it in complete portability. I want something that is easy to take with me anywhere, but not tiny like a cell phone in a tablet device. If I want a mobile computer I have my 17 inch laptop, so the market is for a device that is larger than a 'smart' phone (which I don't own) and yet smaller than a laptop.
As a US beta tester we complained considerably and were of course ignored as 'silly north americans' who didn't know how to play a 'real game'... Of course since part of us could in fact never finish downloading a 4 GB 'patch' during beta (it eventually timed out for quite alot of people), some of us could only complain anyways...
All that said, I love the FF settings (usually), but FF7 & FF8 for PC should have long ago proved they cannot handle a PC game... Which is ironic since I can run both in emulation better than the PC builds Square made...
They only get #1 spots when they talk about the 10,000 year old space aliens that built the pyramids or the coming apocalypse(s)... Which may explain the bulk of their modern programming...
Sarcasm aside... I've found the BBC far more interesting and informative lately.
Here in the US we have something called accreditation that stops just anyone who wants to from issuing college degrees. It's actually quite an involved process to become accredited and it isn't cheap. One cannot just create a 'co-operative college' that means anything in the US because of this. Those reforms came about nearly a century ago because people were declaring themselves higher education facilities and not giving proper educations to their 'students', so we created requirements one must meet before one can actually give out pieces of paper that have meaning educationally and we arrest anyone else for fraud.
From my experience it doesn't even work well for MMO RPG's. I've beta tested two major league 'browser based' MMO RPG's recently and the very very first thing they all lack is the ability to run at a resolution of your choice. I run a very high desktop monitor resolution and the game are near unplayable because you can't see what is on them. "Is that another player or a mob?" Is not a good question to need to ask.
The UI's need a considerable amount of work (another resolution issue in their two as you can barely tell special attacks apart), the games lag heavily (reminds me of the old old Ultima Online days), and because the have size limits to everything the first thing to go is a custom character... So everyone looks alike. Heck everything basically looks alike.
I couldn't even stand to play them for very long as they weren't very fun or interesting, and had way to many issues. Games I play certainly won't be flash or HTML 5 based anytime soon...
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What world do you live in? I certainly get live at all without a paycheck and more and more people are having this exact issue at an accelerating rate. Unless you plan to come up with some scheme to clothe, feed, and house us so we can go about your charity works then we are going to have issues. More so as 'feeding, clothing, and housing' us is payign us for this labor you want done.
You need to combine these costs, food costs are internal to the Chinese ones and external to the the US one. As is housing and transport. Basically the US 'costs' include money for these things and the Chinese numbers don't. & yes, my $290/week was a mistype, I meant $217.5 (30 hours @ 7.25/hour). That has to cover the workers housing, food, and transportation costs. The Chinese numbers are on top of the company providing food, housing, and 'transportation' (if any is needed). The Chinese may work 100 hours/week, but coming up with real comparison numbers will be awfully hard. Either way an american cannot eat, have a roof over their head, or have transport on your $200 figure. Until someone in the US can live on $200/month then telling us we need to accept that is simply suicide and corporate/company greed.
You have to be able to afford wherever you plan on going. If I can't afford to live wherever they are hiring it's all useless to me.
And maybe it takes both the right people and the right guy? That was my point.
I've found many places these days require your college transcripts before interviewing you. Unless you can fake transcripts, this works pretty well for them to tell if you have that degree or not at no real cost to them.
When you cannot even get an interview there is very little you can do to make yourself stand out... It also depends on where you live and who you've worked for. I've worked for smaller and non-profit businesses. Low pay, average at best benefits, very 'needy'. If I'd worked at a fortune 500 instead that everyone had heard of it is a very different story. However where I live those fortune 500 don't hire without a degree at all. If you don't have your bachelor's or above no point even applying. I cannot even work the helpdesk at a local Fortune 500 without a bachelor's in comp sci or similiar. They are the ones that btw wanted a doctorate for a network admin.
Oh and what should be little surprise... Most of their IT staff (90% of the ones I've seen) are all Indian...
It has nothing to do with the 'american dream' and everything to do with the fact that $200/month is not enough to pay rent on a shoe box even in rural America, let alone own a car (barring other things, insurance costs more the poorer you are making transportation issues dramatic with our poor mass transit systems), or buy food (I spend more than $100 per trip to the store buying basics every couple weeks).
A normal person in the US cannot live on that kind of wage until the prices for certain things drop down. Minimum wage is $290/week (figuring 30 hours per week), so we aren't really that much higher realistically.
I actually had similiar issues... Parents wanted me to go to a private college, they got sick and couldn't help anymore... but in my case at 3.5 years in I ran out of money and had to leave college with nothing to show for it except debt. I couldn't find work at all when I returned home, so I ended up having to go back to get an associates degree (I couldn't afford to go back to a public college even). After that I did get work in my field for several years... Only to loose my job during the recent recession. I kept being told I was either over or under qualified for everything and I should go back to school. So now I'm back in college, but get almost no transfer credit (first college was 10 years ago, associates degree program isn't through a 'college' so they don't have any desire to transfer credits) and in the end I'll owe about $140k...
Was it my fault my parents insisted on where I went to school? That they got sick? That I ran out of money to finish my first degree? That I then needed an associates degree? That I lost my job due to budget cuts? That I know need a Bachelors to do what I had been doing for years?
I don't think those things really fall to me... But maybe some people think those things really are somehow 'my fault'.
Which is even worse if the person is on minimum wage, as it could easily force them to stop working (since they may not be able to survive on the garnished minimum wage amount). The government may find it far more interesting with large numbers of young workers who default, can't pay, are garnished, and then stop working entirely.
I have an associates degree in computer science and a decade in IT. Jobs that say "Bachelors/Masters/Doctorate degree or equivalent experience" mean "Don't bother applying if you don't have what we list". I've rarely if ever even heard back from the places that list such things. You certainly don't need a doctorate in comp sci to be a network admin, but I've actually seen that listed in the last 6 months.
I do, however most people just see ads on tv (I don't since I don't really watch tv). So their take on politics is skewed by the press and by media campaigning. Mine is done on researching candidates record. The danger for most people doing that is so many sources are skewed actually digging out truth and not campaign messages for the average person can be very hard.
Not if enough people actually voted sanely! In my lifetime I've seen a third party get 20% of the total popular vote. Just over twice that was what won. If even another 20% had voted for the third party things would have been vastly different. The two issues are: people don't vote (It's what 40% atm?) and they don't vote for who they want, but who they think can win.
You seem to have forgotten the US concept of 'Voting for a third party is wasting your vote!' crap. Getting people to vote for anyone sane is like pulling teeth and unlikely to happen.
6 months is silly in our modern world. If I found someone phone (& lets keep this with phones not cars) and they took 6 weeks to come pick it up I'd charge them for having stored it! Law or no it's way to long for a important and expensive item.
This is alot different if it's only a week or two. If I found someones wallet I'd make an attempt to get in touch with them and hold on to it a couple weeks. If they really couldn't be bothered to pick it up in that time frame then they seriously don't want an item.
Jaguar actually showed off a concept car version of this idea last year. I loved the design and rather wish they had sold it, even if it was in low volume. I'm hardly alone as many journalists in the car industry shared my view. I think it even got a slashdot mention when it was shown at the Paris auto show.
It would be interesting seeing it scaled to a bike as well, though the biggest problem is keeping the turbine at high speed at all times so it is most efficient.
Having seen a documentary about the construction of the new Antarctic facility, they actually built the entire facility on hydraulic stilts to deal with snow drifts...The entire thing can be lifted over 20 feet in the air...
I'd therefor say snowdrifts there are rather extreme... I'm not sure a glideslope is really practical...
And who keeps these up to date? Maybe if some open source project wants to go about collecting all the relevant information and makes it available for free, then I'd agree with you. Most of the places you can get the data now charge quite alot with yearly (and sometimes monthly) updates.
A small business I worked with has under $1000 a year to provide online sales with, which must include hosting costs and the price to maintain their site. They certainly can't afford any current tax databases and saying 'If you can't make enough to do this your excluded' is a huge barrier to entry. They couldn't even pay someone to compile a database like that for the total the have to spend on it each year. Heck they can't even afford the monthly processing it would take to send all the payments to the right place.
Most theologists will tell you it is our free will that 'creates evil'. Basically we give in all to easily to temptation and so evil is like a virus spreading from person to person.
Personally I think it's all crap and would prefer more animistic roots to religion, but that's just me...
I've won twice online for things (CPU & Mobo from AMD and an HDTV). So my relatives regularly want me to sign up for things thinking I somehow am more lucky then them.
Well FF7 for PC did have a few things the PS1 did not, such as double res textures (Though I doubt anything can use those anymore). It was also for some unknown reason tied to specific hardware or forced to render in software. Both OpenGL and D3D existed, but rather than use the standards of the day (that would still work now) they hand coded the interaction between game and video card.
They then repeated their mistakes come FF8 and wondered why people didn't like it...
I'd actually pay under $10 for a modern playable copy of FF7 on PC that did higher rez and supported either OpenGL or D3D to talk to the hardware (support for things like multiple threads would be nice as well). While $10 doesn't sound like much, that is way better than what I'd be willing to pay for most things from that era...
I don't see the need for a >7 inch tablet. The ideal for them is that they are portable, even 7 inch is pushing it in complete portability. I want something that is easy to take with me anywhere, but not tiny like a cell phone in a tablet device. If I want a mobile computer I have my 17 inch laptop, so the market is for a device that is larger than a 'smart' phone (which I don't own) and yet smaller than a laptop.
As a US beta tester we complained considerably and were of course ignored as 'silly north americans' who didn't know how to play a 'real game'... Of course since part of us could in fact never finish downloading a 4 GB 'patch' during beta (it eventually timed out for quite alot of people), some of us could only complain anyways...
All that said, I love the FF settings (usually), but FF7 & FF8 for PC should have long ago proved they cannot handle a PC game... Which is ironic since I can run both in emulation better than the PC builds Square made...
They only get #1 spots when they talk about the 10,000 year old space aliens that built the pyramids or the coming apocalypse(s)... Which may explain the bulk of their modern programming...
Sarcasm aside... I've found the BBC far more interesting and informative lately.
Sometimes sending one peon to a place like India or China is vastly more cost effective for a business than just ranting at them over the internet.
Here in the US we have something called accreditation that stops just anyone who wants to from issuing college degrees. It's actually quite an involved process to become accredited and it isn't cheap. One cannot just create a 'co-operative college' that means anything in the US because of this. Those reforms came about nearly a century ago because people were declaring themselves higher education facilities and not giving proper educations to their 'students', so we created requirements one must meet before one can actually give out pieces of paper that have meaning educationally and we arrest anyone else for fraud.
From my experience it doesn't even work well for MMO RPG's. I've beta tested two major league 'browser based' MMO RPG's recently and the very very first thing they all lack is the ability to run at a resolution of your choice. I run a very high desktop monitor resolution and the game are near unplayable because you can't see what is on them. "Is that another player or a mob?" Is not a good question to need to ask.
The UI's need a considerable amount of work (another resolution issue in their two as you can barely tell special attacks apart), the games lag heavily (reminds me of the old old Ultima Online days), and because the have size limits to everything the first thing to go is a custom character... So everyone looks alike. Heck everything basically looks alike.
I couldn't even stand to play them for very long as they weren't very fun or interesting, and had way to many issues. Games I play certainly won't be flash or HTML 5 based anytime soon...