Big Businesses (not just american) basically rip off ignorant people and take advantage of them to make outsized profits.
We are under a transition where a lot of third world countries are becoming aware of the way they have been abused and want to charge a fair price based on the fact that they must pay for the vaccine, or pay for the "tires" made from their oil, or pay for the computer made from their copper, etc.
Socialists would say some magical government entity would balance this out but the problem is that 1) the government is not going to correctly allocate the multiple billions of dollars to set up the factories that make the vaccines, make the computer chips (what are these like a hundred billion now?), etc. 2) politics are going to warp the processes horribly. 3) bureaucrats are going to slow the process horribly.
Capitalism is harsh but relatively more efficient than socialist/government run production. It has enormous waste and the executive class is currently looting from us but that will probably be fixed in the next 8 to 12 years.
We do need to realize that the cost for every vaccine will go up because of this- but it's fair as long as we are selling vaccines to people providing the samples.
"almost always IT workers who are disgruntled, paranoid, generally show up late, argue with colleagues, and generally perform poorly."
Disgruntled = Management listens to outside consultants and does random IT stuff instead of listening to our advice? Check. Paranoid = Teaching outside consultants every detail about my job. Check. Late = Stay up late playing computer games. Check. Argumentative = Learned about this one years ago. No Check. WHEW! Poor Performer = Sarbanes Oxley procedures in place lowering performance by 75%. Massive audits for 1 line changes. Check.
reasonable people disagree whether the best browser is IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc.
There is no difference in quality in a 192 bitrate encoding from itunes vs another source.
Some people will go cheaper to save a single penny (even on gas- going across the street to save 19 cents at a cost of 3 minutes of their time). Some people will pay.99 at itunes even if it was available for.25 elsewhere.
My belief is that *most* people will go to a cheaper legal service if is 10% less. And that 10% iterates over time. Brand loyalty is low.
You have an excellent point about the artwork tho. That would keep some people. It would be cool if your player has a graphic display.
There is a 70% drop out rate from classes designed to force that drop out rate in both those degrees. Then on the "non weed out" courses my friends over in the teaching programs were doing maybe 10 hours a week per class (at most) while those in the COSC program were doing 35 hours a week for the database class alone. It was not uncommon at all to spend 30 hours a week studying for advanced physics and math courses either.
I agree that money would attract quality- but how do you determine what is quality? You often do not see the real results of good teaching for over a decade. While a good teacher has an enormous impact, there is almost no way to measure that a teacher is instilling a desire to learn into students vs simply ramming material into them for the tests. It's a very difficult to find a reasonable and reliable metric for what a "good teacher" is. Esp when you get the teaching organizations involved.
We recently gave out bonuses up to $7000 for teachers in Texas. The results? Teachers with poor results but big improvement got big bonuses. Teachers with great results but little improvement got no bonuses. Some of the good teachers had even won awards for excellence but got no bonus.
But again- is excellence students who test well (measurable) or students who learn well (not measurable til years later)?
Personally- I think we should at least start to try. Measure drop out rates- measure college attendance (and graduation rates)- and feed that back into the teacher's salary. But it will warp the system-- people do what you incent- not what you want them to do. If you don't incent a desirable behavior, most will stop doing it and do what you are incenting.
While you have a valid point, there was this little issue of hundreds of rockets, kidnapped soldiers, a history of the lebanese civilians tolerating and likely supporting the bad guys who were killing isreali's from lebanon.
Are the jews in isreal good guys? Well, not really- they bombed the shit out of one of our intelligence boats and killed americans too. Do the jewish people in general all go out on the streets celebrating when they kill lebanese? No. When random strangers are killed elsewhere in the world do they celebrate? No. Do they generally intentionally kill teenagers in clubs? No.
Finally, do we have a problem with jewish terrorists world wide? Do we get jewish terrorism every place that we see the jewish faith? You know.. asia, russia, america, europe, the middle east. Every single place islam sets root, they seem to feel it's okay to kill non-islamics once they reach a certain critical mass.
Islam- worldwide in many countries is a sick religion. Are there some good islamics? Yes-- but there is that tricky bit that's it is ok for a follower of islam to lie to anyone that isn't. (The jews have it to in the torah apparently-- but the christians do not- so you can kinda trust christians since they are taught not to lie even tho in their anti-abortion efforts they get a bit overwrought).
However, unless i'm an abortion doctor, I'd live in a christian or jewish neighborhood any day over an islamic one. They tend to be a lot more tolerant than islam is right now.
And in case you didn't pick it up, I don't believe in any of those faiths.
Managers manage until things fail. They will work you to death if you let them. They can't tell the difference between normal grousing and and genuine problems. When things break down, they know they've pushed to hard and they finally back off.
As long as the teachers are putting their own money in, there is no failure.
Still waiting to see pictures of 7 year old jewish children dancing in the streets that 3000+ random strangers of almost all nationalities and religions were killed. Or reports of jews killing people because we said judaism were violent.
I could easily load your car (or your computer) with enough kiddy porn in about 30 seconds to have you put away for the rest of your life. A trivial search would load your cache- a few right click/saves and you are toast.
Yet folks are being convicted regularly on this kind of evidence these days because of a fundamental ignorance of the way computers work that would be obvious for unlocked cars.
You take the person into custody and waterboard them until they confess to whatever crime you decide.
And the public agrees they must be guilty since you wouldn't have arrested them unless they were guilty.
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Don't get too cocky over there tho- as it gets easier to track things, we grow fearful of smaller and smaller problems and justify larger and larger efforts to prevent them. Your governments are just a hair behind the US. All it will take is a couple bombs and your rights are down the tubes too.
Ironic thing... we lose more to automobiles and cigarettes each year (each month really) than we do to terrorism. In terms of making us give up the american dream, the terrorists have already won. America is subtly fascist in ways that would have made us revolt only 20 years before.
When I searched to post that, I find that yup- you are correct, they make about 8% more than the average worker. However, they have been losing ground ever since 1996.
However, their benefits are apparently stellar (and include a couple months vacation vs 2-3 weeks, excellent retirement benefits, excellent health care benefits).
On the flip side, my friends who were high school teachers have to put in a lot of unpaid overtime (working basically 8am to 10pm a few days a week) before they quit the field.
State For every $1 to Uncle Sam, the state got back:
New Jersey 55 cents
Connecticut 66 cents
New Hampshire 67 cents
Minnesota 69 cents
Illinois and Nevada 73 cents
MOST BANG FOR FEDERAL BUCK
State For every $1 to Uncle Sam, the state got back:
New Mexico $2.00
Alaska $1.87
West Virginia $1.83
Mississippi $1.77
North Dakota $1.73
My first was in 1988- Logan's run in a secret back room at "Spectrum Con" in Houston at a hotel that no longer exists. It was VHS, it was noisy- and it was very cool for the 20 to 30 of us that shared the experience.
It's not considered interfering to limit people to only one spouse when their religion permits them to marry multiple spouses. Or to say a newer relgion that promotes drug use is illegal (while allowing an older religion to use a limited set of drugs).
There's a basic problem that we papered over in the past. Some things society really just won't allow because a religion says it- and the reason is that a particular religions moral principles are ingrained in the law so deeply that it's no longer recognized as religious oppression.
Overhead can be huge at a large company because the stakes are very high.
If your product does 15 million dollars in business a day, you can't afford any downtime.
So... 20 days of testing for a one line change. 10 days of committee overhead to make sure all teams throughout the business are aware of your intended change. Coordinating with Outsourced (2-3 week lead time if changing an outsourced product so they can schedule the resources on their side- unless regular installations are in your contract) and offshored resources to make sure there is no impact there.
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On the other thing (2 programmers).
Personally, I find in the vast majority of cases for *normal* programmers, that 2 programmers are much more effective than one. Two geniuses do not stack (they irritate each other). Two novices don't stack. IBM pushed the "Expert plus a couple novices" modality with good effect. The issue is ego vs expertise.
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I wish I had "tenure" at my day to day job.
Maybe someone said it the other way after microsoft specifically coded windows 3.11 to check for drdos and fail.
The lotus way was the original version I used to hear and use.
This seems completely fair.
Big Businesses (not just american) basically rip off ignorant people and take advantage of them to make outsized profits.
We are under a transition where a lot of third world countries are becoming aware of the way they have been abused and want to charge a fair price based on the fact that they must pay for the vaccine, or pay for the "tires" made from their oil, or pay for the computer made from their copper, etc.
Socialists would say some magical government entity would balance this out but the problem is that
1) the government is not going to correctly allocate the multiple billions of dollars to set up the factories that make the vaccines, make the computer chips (what are these like a hundred billion now?), etc.
2) politics are going to warp the processes horribly.
3) bureaucrats are going to slow the process horribly.
Capitalism is harsh but relatively more efficient than socialist/government run production. It has enormous waste and the executive class is currently looting from us but that will probably be fixed in the next 8 to 12 years.
We do need to realize that the cost for every vaccine will go up because of this- but it's fair as long as we are selling vaccines to people providing the samples.
"almost always IT workers who are disgruntled, paranoid, generally show up late, argue with colleagues, and generally perform poorly."
Disgruntled = Management listens to outside consultants and does random IT stuff instead of listening to our advice? Check.
Paranoid = Teaching outside consultants every detail about my job. Check.
Late = Stay up late playing computer games. Check.
Argumentative = Learned about this one years ago. No Check. WHEW!
Poor Performer = Sarbanes Oxley procedures in place lowering performance by 75%. Massive audits for 1 line changes. Check.
Unfortunately, in the real world they do.
But that's a nit- it's a fundamental problem of ANY reference (be it the news, university research, or even good old Britannica).
Well your argument works up to this point:
.99 at itunes even if it was available for .25 elsewhere.
both browsers are free.
reasonable people disagree whether the best browser is IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc.
There is no difference in quality in a 192 bitrate encoding from itunes vs another source.
Some people will go cheaper to save a single penny (even on gas- going across the street to save 19 cents at a cost of 3 minutes of their time). Some people will pay
My belief is that *most* people will go to a cheaper legal service if is 10% less. And that 10% iterates over time. Brand loyalty is low.
You have an excellent point about the artwork tho. That would keep some people. It would be cool if your player has a graphic display.
Actually, I'm not sure that's true. There is some famous triangular building in New York that has it's appearance copyrighted or trademarked.
Not sure I agree.
Music is a commodity that has a cost very near zero per user.
Once it is unlocked, folks will find the lowest price source very quickly.
Er.
But Microsoft did break compatibility.
Well let's see.
There is a 70% drop out rate from classes designed to force that drop out rate in both those degrees.
Then on the "non weed out" courses my friends over in the teaching programs were doing maybe 10 hours a week per class (at most) while those in the COSC program were doing 35 hours a week for the database class alone. It was not uncommon at all to spend 30 hours a week studying for advanced physics and math courses either.
I agree that money would attract quality- but how do you determine what is quality? You often do not see the real results of good teaching for over a decade. While a good teacher has an enormous impact, there is almost no way to measure that a teacher is instilling a desire to learn into students vs simply ramming material into them for the tests. It's a very difficult to find a reasonable and reliable metric for what a "good teacher" is. Esp when you get the teaching organizations involved.
We recently gave out bonuses up to $7000 for teachers in Texas. The results? Teachers with poor results but big improvement got big bonuses. Teachers with great results but little improvement got no bonuses. Some of the good teachers had even won awards for excellence but got no bonus.
But again- is excellence students who test well (measurable) or students who learn well (not measurable til years later)?
Personally- I think we should at least start to try. Measure drop out rates- measure college attendance (and graduation rates)- and feed that back into the teacher's salary. But it will warp the system-- people do what you incent- not what you want them to do. If you don't incent a desirable behavior, most will stop doing it and do what you are incenting.
Thanks!
Greatly appreciated.
If you had the level of training a doctor has- you would probably be an officer and make more.
However, your pay sucks compared to policemen who don't have a big education and who also die in the line of duty.
OTH, unless we are in an active war, probably more policemen die per year than soldiers.
While you have a valid point, there was this little issue of hundreds of rockets, kidnapped soldiers, a history of the lebanese civilians tolerating and likely supporting the bad guys who were killing isreali's from lebanon.
Are the jews in isreal good guys? Well, not really- they bombed the shit out of one of our intelligence boats and killed americans too. Do the jewish people in general all go out on the streets celebrating when they kill lebanese? No. When random strangers are killed elsewhere in the world do they celebrate? No. Do they generally intentionally kill teenagers in clubs? No.
Finally, do we have a problem with jewish terrorists world wide? Do we get jewish terrorism every place that we see the jewish faith? You know.. asia, russia, america, europe, the middle east. Every single place islam sets root, they seem to feel it's okay to kill non-islamics once they reach a certain critical mass.
Islam- worldwide in many countries is a sick religion. Are there some good islamics? Yes-- but there is that tricky bit that's it is ok for a follower of islam to lie to anyone that isn't. (The jews have it to in the torah apparently-- but the christians do not- so you can kinda trust christians since they are taught not to lie even tho in their anti-abortion efforts they get a bit overwrought).
However, unless i'm an abortion doctor, I'd live in a christian or jewish neighborhood any day over an islamic one. They tend to be a lot more tolerant than islam is right now.
And in case you didn't pick it up, I don't believe in any of those faiths.
Managers manage until things fail. They will work you to death if you let them. They can't tell the difference between normal grousing and and genuine problems. When things break down, they know they've pushed to hard and they finally back off.
As long as the teachers are putting their own money in, there is no failure.
Not all countries are dominated by lawyers.
Still waiting to see pictures of 7 year old jewish children dancing in the streets that 3000+ random strangers of almost all nationalities and religions were killed.
Or reports of jews killing people because we said judaism were violent.
Yes but a teacher's degree is considerably easier to get than an electrical engineering or hard science computer science degree.
It's rather ironic that multiple replys to my offtopic parent post were modded up.
But it is slashdot moderation at it's finest.
For example, in the US you can pretend the holacaust didn't happen. It's goofy, but you can say it.
In Germany ( and i think France), it's a crime.
Odd guess.
I would have guessed Switzerland myself.
Exactly.
I could easily load your car (or your computer) with enough kiddy porn in about 30 seconds to have you put away for the rest of your life. A trivial search would load your cache- a few right click/saves and you are toast.
Yet folks are being convicted regularly on this kind of evidence these days because of a fundamental ignorance of the way computers work that would be obvious for unlocked cars.
Sheesh, you don't get it at all.
You take the person into custody and waterboard them until they confess to whatever crime you decide.
And the public agrees they must be guilty since you wouldn't have arrested them unless they were guilty.
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Don't get too cocky over there tho- as it gets easier to track things, we grow fearful of smaller and smaller problems and justify larger and larger efforts to prevent them. Your governments are just a hair behind the US. All it will take is a couple bombs and your rights are down the tubes too.
Ironic thing... we lose more to automobiles and cigarettes each year (each month really) than we do to terrorism. In terms of making us give up the american dream, the terrorists have already won. America is subtly fascist in ways that would have made us revolt only 20 years before.
I thought I knew that to be false since i thought teachers were poorly paid.
l arySurvey.pdf
http://www.aft.org/salary/2004/download/2004AFTSa
When I searched to post that, I find that yup- you are correct, they make about 8% more than the average worker.
However, they have been losing ground ever since 1996.
However, their benefits are apparently stellar (and include a couple months vacation vs 2-3 weeks, excellent retirement benefits, excellent health care benefits).
On the flip side, my friends who were high school teachers have to put in a lot of unpaid overtime (working basically 8am to 10pm a few days a week) before they quit the field.
Not sure where Texas sits- I think we get less than a dollar back.e dspending/index.htm?postversion=2006042716
Why some states get less from Uncle Sam
http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/27/pf/taxes/states_f
LEAST BANG FOR FEDERAL BUCK
State For every $1 to Uncle Sam, the state got back:
New Jersey 55 cents
Connecticut 66 cents
New Hampshire 67 cents
Minnesota 69 cents
Illinois and Nevada 73 cents
MOST BANG FOR FEDERAL BUCK
State For every $1 to Uncle Sam, the state got back:
New Mexico $2.00
Alaska $1.87
West Virginia $1.83
Mississippi $1.77
North Dakota $1.73
My first was in 1988- Logan's run in a secret back room at "Spectrum Con" in Houston at a hotel that no longer exists. It was VHS, it was noisy- and it was very cool for the 20 to 30 of us that shared the experience.
It's not considered interfering to limit people to only one spouse when their religion permits them to marry multiple spouses. Or to say a newer relgion that promotes drug use is illegal (while allowing an older religion to use a limited set of drugs).
There's a basic problem that we papered over in the past. Some things society really just won't allow because a religion says it- and the reason is that a particular religions moral principles are ingrained in the law so deeply that it's no longer recognized as religious oppression.
Overhead can be huge at a large company because the stakes are very high.
If your product does 15 million dollars in business a day, you can't afford any downtime.
So... 20 days of testing for a one line change. 10 days of committee overhead to make sure all teams throughout the business are aware of your intended change. Coordinating with Outsourced (2-3 week lead time if changing an outsourced product so they can schedule the resources on their side- unless regular installations are in your contract) and offshored resources to make sure there is no impact there.
---
On the other thing (2 programmers).
Personally, I find in the vast majority of cases for *normal* programmers, that 2 programmers are much more effective than one. Two geniuses do not stack (they irritate each other). Two novices don't stack. IBM pushed the "Expert plus a couple novices" modality with good effect. The issue is ego vs expertise.