You are entirely full of shit. What makes you think $50k isn't realistic? Is the job dangerous?
No, you're _used_ to $100k salaries and therefore you think that's the "right" salary, when there's no such thing as a Right Salary.
The only reason computer jobs are high paying is supply and demand, there's nothing intrinsic about the job that would require it to be high paying. Don't whine like a little bitch and use ridiculous words like "slave" because the supply/demand curve changes on you.
First world problems, you have them. Also, see: Entitlement Mentality.
First sign someone doesn't know what they're talking about: They blather about how sick.NET makes them and how much they hate it, before proceeding back to their Emacs/vim session to edit some Perl, Bash, or Python script.
Yeah, mechanical hard drives are dead anyway, they just don't know it. Eventually SSDs will reach near-parity in price per GB and it will be game over.
If you're making record profits, you don't change your prices. Neither do your competitors. Both could very well _independently_ come to this conclusion regardless of the actions of the other.
Plus the ripples from Thailand will still be felt for a long time, I wouldn't expect prices to have reached equilibrium yet.
Both sides are assholes on this one. They seriously need to overhaul the US patent system, the balance has been tipped (for a long time) to where it stifles innovation way, way more than it fosters it.
About the only things that deserve patents are fundamental discoveries and drugs that are unique and cost hundreds of millions to develop and test. And even then, just provide some kind of "formula patent" that only lasts 5-6 years.
Most patents are fundamentally flawed because they rely on a small leap from someone else's existing work. Sure, if you just step outside the box and totally invent zero point energy in your mad scientist lab you should get a patent and make $5 trillion from it. But most "inventions" are just trifling little bullshit extensions of something that exists already.
You're not. I don't give a flying shit about bigger disks _at home_. I've got about 5TB of redundant disk space spread about, and I don't use half of it.
I'll be the not first to say it - this is pointless and the HD vendors are pissing in the wind. I don't and will never need a 30TB mechanical drive.
Now, come up with a 30TB SSD drive and then maybe you're talking, I'm sure business/corporations would love those in data centers.
Call me Bill Gates Jr. all you want, 5TB drives ought to be enough for anyone with regards to mechanical drives. They're a dead end.
Here's a clue...sorry "protip": Not everyone is your Libertarian Boogieman, and governments come and go while Civilizations are (generally) pretty perpetual. Where did I say we don't need government? Civilization, however, is a lot more than government.
Well, that's just asinine so I assumed that wasn't what you meant. He's going to pay taxes on money he may or may not make at a later date? That doesn't even make sense.
Bullshit. He's paying everything he legally owes, and has paid plenty of taxes already. He doesn't "owe" us shit. No citizen "owes" his government besides what's legally required.
Exactly! Finally someone who gets it. Even if you're Charlie Do-Gooder, you can spend your money on helping more people by giving it to charity than by paying taxes you don't absolutely have to.
I like the good old days when the Government existed to protect my rights, and I didn't exist solely as a money bag for the government to raid.
This place was a Libertarian kind of place 10+ years ago, it's now become a Liberal Haven.
The people exist to pay the state money, and any deviation from that makes you a Randian kook who thinks we should have private roads and prisons. That's the New Slashdot.
Paying taxes that you are not legally required to is fucking immoral. Instead, give the money to a good charity or start one yourself, it will help many more people.
It doesn't work like that. Him paying more money doesn't save me money. The government is a voracious monster and will never get smaller, only expand. So good for him, no skin off my back.
"Greedy Rich People" - isn't that just something bitter poor people call anyone richer than they?
Paying taxes above and beyond what you must is immoral. This is because if you instead took the money you'd volunteer to the inefficient government to spend on high speed trains to nowhere or posh $300m courthouses and gave that money to a good charity or started a good charity you would help more people.
Randians.. It's fun to paint, I like to paint too. Like you, I enjoy a broad brush because it's easier.
The best and brightest will get into college. How do you think humanity has managed to educate people to the level required to advance throughout history? The government can help fund scholarships of various sorts for outstanding students who can't afford it, and there can be private loans for other students but the lenders will need to look long and hard and the prospects of payback.
High school should no longer be a "get students ready for college" level, it should be focused on a mix of trade schooling for the average workers in society and pre-college schooling for the people who are most likely to do well in college.
I didn't say it could be solved necessarily with those two steps, but it's a giant first step. Allow people to declare bankruptcy on student loans. Simple as that. Good luck getting a loan when that happens, but that's a good thing.
How the fuck do you think scholarships are handed out now, a roll of a 100 sided die? Grades, scholastic accomplishments, standardized testing, etc...
And the idea that someone "owes you" an "American Dream" is what's wrong with America. What kind of fucktard worldview is that, anyway? Are you 6 years old and from 1950?
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You are entirely full of shit. What makes you think $50k isn't realistic? Is the job dangerous?
No, you're _used_ to $100k salaries and therefore you think that's the "right" salary, when there's no such thing as a Right Salary.
The only reason computer jobs are high paying is supply and demand, there's nothing intrinsic about the job that would require it to be high paying. Don't whine like a little bitch and use ridiculous words like "slave" because the supply/demand curve changes on you.
First world problems, you have them. Also, see: Entitlement Mentality.
First sign someone doesn't know what they're talking about: They blather about how sick .NET makes them and how much they hate it, before proceeding back to their Emacs/vim session to edit some Perl, Bash, or Python script.
You are full of shit. WP8 is just WP7++, it's not a reboot.
Only, well, step 4 hasn't happened. Kind of invalidates your "Insightful" comment.
Barnes and noble nook was prior to 2010. Apple is lying vermin.
Yeah, mechanical hard drives are dead anyway, they just don't know it. Eventually SSDs will reach near-parity in price per GB and it will be game over.
If you're making record profits, you don't change your prices. Neither do your competitors. Both could very well _independently_ come to this conclusion regardless of the actions of the other.
Plus the ripples from Thailand will still be felt for a long time, I wouldn't expect prices to have reached equilibrium yet.
Both sides are assholes on this one. They seriously need to overhaul the US patent system, the balance has been tipped (for a long time) to where it stifles innovation way, way more than it fosters it.
About the only things that deserve patents are fundamental discoveries and drugs that are unique and cost hundreds of millions to develop and test. And even then, just provide some kind of "formula patent" that only lasts 5-6 years.
Most patents are fundamentally flawed because they rely on a small leap from someone else's existing work. Sure, if you just step outside the box and totally invent zero point energy in your mad scientist lab you should get a patent and make $5 trillion from it. But most "inventions" are just trifling little bullshit extensions of something that exists already.
Forever. a 60TB drive is a stupid idea unless it's an SSD.
You're not. I don't give a flying shit about bigger disks _at home_. I've got about 5TB of redundant disk space spread about, and I don't use half of it.
I'll be the not first to say it - this is pointless and the HD vendors are pissing in the wind. I don't and will never need a 30TB mechanical drive.
Now, come up with a 30TB SSD drive and then maybe you're talking, I'm sure business/corporations would love those in data centers.
Call me Bill Gates Jr. all you want, 5TB drives ought to be enough for anyone with regards to mechanical drives. They're a dead end.
Yeah, if you're not interested in money you don't go public. He's clearly interested in making money.
Here's a clue...sorry "protip": Not everyone is your Libertarian Boogieman, and governments come and go while Civilizations are (generally) pretty perpetual. Where did I say we don't need government? Civilization, however, is a lot more than government.
Awww, how cute! You think a government is "civilization"! That's downright quaint.
Well, that's just asinine so I assumed that wasn't what you meant. He's going to pay taxes on money he may or may not make at a later date? That doesn't even make sense.
What example? All he has to do is tell us to fuck off, this is just grandstanding and Unconstitutional grandstanding at that.
Bullshit. He's paying everything he legally owes, and has paid plenty of taxes already. He doesn't "owe" us shit. No citizen "owes" his government besides what's legally required.
Exactly! Finally someone who gets it. Even if you're Charlie Do-Gooder, you can spend your money on helping more people by giving it to charity than by paying taxes you don't absolutely have to.
I like the good old days when the Government existed to protect my rights, and I didn't exist solely as a money bag for the government to raid.
This place was a Libertarian kind of place 10+ years ago, it's now become a Liberal Haven.
The people exist to pay the state money, and any deviation from that makes you a Randian kook who thinks we should have private roads and prisons. That's the New Slashdot.
Paying taxes that you are not legally required to is fucking immoral. Instead, give the money to a good charity or start one yourself, it will help many more people.
He views the world just fine. Only a stupid asshole pays more taxes than he legally must.
It already has no effect on tax liability. He must pay what he owes when he leaves.
Oh please. And he's paid taxes on all that income already.
It doesn't work like that. Him paying more money doesn't save me money. The government is a voracious monster and will never get smaller, only expand. So good for him, no skin off my back.
"Greedy Rich People" - isn't that just something bitter poor people call anyone richer than they?
Paying taxes above and beyond what you must is immoral. This is because if you instead took the money you'd volunteer to the inefficient government to spend on high speed trains to nowhere or posh $300m courthouses and gave that money to a good charity or started a good charity you would help more people.
Randians.. It's fun to paint, I like to paint too. Like you, I enjoy a broad brush because it's easier.
The best and brightest will get into college. How do you think humanity has managed to educate people to the level required to advance throughout history? The government can help fund scholarships of various sorts for outstanding students who can't afford it, and there can be private loans for other students but the lenders will need to look long and hard and the prospects of payback.
High school should no longer be a "get students ready for college" level, it should be focused on a mix of trade schooling for the average workers in society and pre-college schooling for the people who are most likely to do well in college.
I didn't say it could be solved necessarily with those two steps, but it's a giant first step. Allow people to declare bankruptcy on student loans. Simple as that. Good luck getting a loan when that happens, but that's a good thing.
How the fuck do you think scholarships are handed out now, a roll of a 100 sided die? Grades, scholastic accomplishments, standardized testing, etc...
And the idea that someone "owes you" an "American Dream" is what's wrong with America. What kind of fucktard worldview is that, anyway? Are you 6 years old and from 1950?