Hah yeah, good point. Which is one thing you have going for you, you are still quite a liberal country, even compared to similar countries like Canada, Australia, Britain, and similar.
Another reason why I want to go there!
I'm willing to deal with less employment, less wages, and similar. So I'll keep trying.
Don't come to Australia man, you'll regret it. We're great for a holiday, but not to stay.
The only problem is, you need to be a competitive place to live. America, even though it has vastly changed from what attracted heaps of people, all those years ago, is still extremely competitive on benefits and options than most (if not all) other countries. (I'm not American, have just studied it)
If they stopped restricting immigrants, and let anyone who wanted to be an American, come to America, they would be a far more prosperous nation, and this would do more to bring them out of the recession, than anything else they are doing.
I think this is bad, however they are also stopping them getting in. I've a degree in programming and a masters in business. I've always wanted to go to the US to work, however I've been having trouble finding a viable way to get in.
To enter using a job, I first need to find someone willing to employ a candidate from over here (Australia), or I need to take substantial risk and quit my job, take a holiday over there, apply for positions, and when I get one, then come back, get the visa for it, and then go back to the US.
It becomes increasingly difficult for skilled people to enter. I hang out with a group of people who have good degrees in electronics, petroleum engineering, programming, economics, management and similar, all of which would love to go to the US, however most of which would find it hard.
It's not the lack of jobs, it's the difficulty navigating the system. Also, I've had trouble finding out exactly how to do it. I believe the only way is for me to apply for a job, then get them to sponsor me, then fly to Sydney to get the visa (I'm in Adelaide), then fly to the US to work.
Has anyone had any experience doing this? I'd love to find out the best way to get in, and similar. Any information is much appreciated.
The failure of Government, is that it inevitably serves big businesses. There should be more competition in your area, and there would be more competition, if they'd deregulate the entire industry.
Additionally, any "crime" which doesn't violate the non-aggression axiom, is not a real crime. You can argue it in terms of this, but you can not say it on it's own.
You've got a point. I'm 24, I primarially grew up without many video games, and the ones I had most people would call acceptable due to the shockingly bad graphics.
When I was a child... I grew up without GTA yet I stole. I grew up not watching violent tv/movies/games yet I got in fights... a lot. I crashed bikes, fell in black berries, teased kids, got teased and put myself in all sorts of dangerous situations.
People and children have always done this and always will. There is nothing wrong with it. In fact, I'd hazard a guess that anyone who attempts to insulte their children from these experiences, is actually not helping their child.
Microsoft isn't a monopoly, unless you're trying to argue that Microsoft makes such a good product, that people don't really have a choice to use anything else.
In which case Microsoft is a price maker. So it comes down to, do you believe there are no close substitutes (Not Ubuntu or Mac OSX, or any other OS?) and Microsoft has complete control over the price it can charge?
Microsoft isn't a monopoly. Although the government does grant it monopolies on certain technologies (patents, etc), this does not make it a monopoly, and instead you should be angry at the government.
Additionally, only government sponsored monopolies operate on "different rules" though that's a specious claim a best. Especially since Microsoft is only slightly a government sponsored monopoly.
And lastly... "On April 3, 2000, a judgment was handed down in the case of United States v. Microsoft,[14] calling the company an "abusive monopoly"[43] and forcing the company to split into two separate units. Part of this ruling was later overturned by a federal appeals court, and eventually settled with the U.S. Department of Justice in 2001."
So now that you've wasted my time with your uneducated rhetoric, back to work I go.
They could release windows without IE, but it would either be crippled and many applications wouldn't run, or it would be hidden, so it's there but you just can't run it/see it.
There might be hacks around it, but they would all result in some browser being loaded back in, and that browser would need to completely emulate IE.
The light version won't necessarily be cheaper. It depends on how they want to distribute costs for the media player (perhaps all products bare the cost anyway). Additionally, if people don't want that product, or MS doesn't want to sell as many, then it just doesn't release enough/raises the price.
Pricing and costing are pretty complex subjects.
If the government tried to regulate the pricing as well, that would be another stupid move.
That was a major source of uncertainty for a lot people I know, and even me. When you don't have the money to shell out for Vista Ultimate, and all the other versions seem to have reduced functionality (whatever that may be), you feel less confident in the quality of the purchase. So you either get it and find it inherently doesn't meet your expectations, or you don't get it, because you want a non-restricted version, but you can't afford it.
I think their marketing department might want to look into their segmentation and pricing again, to see how it affects users perceptions.
(Although, I somewhat expect a company Microsft's size to have done that, so perhaps the informal questions I've used to obtain this information, aren't the most accurate source.)
I used the beta, and I ran Vista for quite some time.
However, I don't run reasonably new hardware.
I found Vista to be slow and irresponsive, at work the machines we trialled it on the support calls went through the roof.
Several machines we installed it on, blue screened before getting into it, and required a reasonable amount of work to get around.
I found it wasn't worth the investment. We found this on both a business and personal level, so we didn't.
We were hoping Windows 7 might be different, however it doesn't sound like it is.
But this is just my experiences.
The machines we installed it on were everything from brand new IBM laptops which came pre-installed, to quad cores with various recent gfx cards, to 3ghz 64bit machines.
All at the very least had performance issues, most had driver issues, some had other various problems, and other issues were solved with SP1.
Not worth it for us. Maybe when Vista/7 is old hat, it won't be bad. For now, it is.
Nothing's has changed much, performance is the same, it's just another service pack for Windows Vista, or what's more like it is this is just Windows Mojave (Windows Vista, with a different name).
Great, I was optimistic, however this review makes me not want it.
Wow, I expanded the topic to include other areas of study. Heavens forbid that a topic goes beyond the strict limitations imposed by the headline/topic.
Interesting, how valuable is your skill without the other disciplines creating a need for it? How valuable are you if you can't allow your skills to help the most amount of people possible? How valuable are your skills if it requires only you and not a team/business?
I'd suggest, not very.
But hey, maybe you're the 1 man who could produce Linux by himself? Or perhaps the 1 man who could invent a product which fixes our global warming problems, without ever needing to bring it to market?
You'd be the first.
(There's a good chance you don't understand what I've just said, however you would if you had studied these topics.)
Yeah, definitely. However, it is beginning to do the most traffic, since it's easy, redundant, and scalable.
But the scene is where everything is released, initially.
Though that is starting to change, since the scene imposes rules that most P2P people who are trying to break into the scene, aren't willing to adhere to. Such as KingBen rips.
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Hah yeah, good point. Which is one thing you have going for you, you are still quite a liberal country, even compared to similar countries like Canada, Australia, Britain, and similar.
Another reason why I want to go there!
I'm willing to deal with less employment, less wages, and similar. So I'll keep trying.
Don't come to Australia man, you'll regret it. We're great for a holiday, but not to stay.
You're right.
The only problem is, you need to be a competitive place to live. America, even though it has vastly changed from what attracted heaps of people, all those years ago, is still extremely competitive on benefits and options than most (if not all) other countries. (I'm not American, have just studied it)
If they stopped restricting immigrants, and let anyone who wanted to be an American, come to America, they would be a far more prosperous nation, and this would do more to bring them out of the recession, than anything else they are doing.
I think this is bad, however they are also stopping them getting in. I've a degree in programming and a masters in business. I've always wanted to go to the US to work, however I've been having trouble finding a viable way to get in.
To enter using a job, I first need to find someone willing to employ a candidate from over here (Australia), or I need to take substantial risk and quit my job, take a holiday over there, apply for positions, and when I get one, then come back, get the visa for it, and then go back to the US.
It becomes increasingly difficult for skilled people to enter. I hang out with a group of people who have good degrees in electronics, petroleum engineering, programming, economics, management and similar, all of which would love to go to the US, however most of which would find it hard.
It's not the lack of jobs, it's the difficulty navigating the system. Also, I've had trouble finding out exactly how to do it. I believe the only way is for me to apply for a job, then get them to sponsor me, then fly to Sydney to get the visa (I'm in Adelaide), then fly to the US to work.
Has anyone had any experience doing this? I'd love to find out the best way to get in, and similar. Any information is much appreciated.
Come on, that is such an incorrect title for an article on SlashDot.
Straight away I read it as "Cambridge, Mass. Moves to Linux Security Cameras"
So I thought, what distro? Then read the summary and thought, why would they install Linux, just to remove them.... Oh, I see. "Nix" as in "Remove".
Mod down for bad copy!
Threaten to eat your cat? I didn't read the part of the article where they mentioned the robots were ALF.
THIS IS NO FUCKING JOKE. When you give a tax break to some entity, you're encouraging more competition, and a greater quantity.
WE DO NOT WANT MORE ROBOTS EATING HUMANS.
DO NOT GIVE THEM A TAX BREAK.
IT'S THE LAST FUCKING THING WE NEED.
Ooops, sorry, caps lock was on.
Did you make sure you told their sales department this? Make sure they know, because they will hate this, and will pass that information on.
The failure of Government, is that it inevitably serves big businesses. There should be more competition in your area, and there would be more competition, if they'd deregulate the entire industry.
Ahh, you must have missed the discussion on your logic yesterday.
Here... 45% of Dutch Media-Buying Population Are "Pirates"
Additionally, any "crime" which doesn't violate the non-aggression axiom, is not a real crime. You can argue it in terms of this, but you can not say it on it's own.
And if it has content which is more extreme than the R18? Should it be banned? That's effectively what has happened in Australia.
Government has no place in dictating what ANYONE can and can't expose themselves to.
The laws don't stop them, they just inhibit business, and reduce the freedom of the law abiding citizen.
How's about we try and get equality for everyone, and stop treating people differently.
You've got a point. I'm 24, I primarially grew up without many video games, and the ones I had most people would call acceptable due to the shockingly bad graphics.
When I was a child...
I grew up without GTA yet I stole.
I grew up not watching violent tv/movies/games yet I got in fights... a lot.
I crashed bikes, fell in black berries, teased kids, got teased and put myself in all sorts of dangerous situations.
People and children have always done this and always will. There is nothing wrong with it. In fact, I'd hazard a guess that anyone who attempts to insulte their children from these experiences, is actually not helping their child.
Microsoft isn't a monopoly, unless you're trying to argue that Microsoft makes such a good product, that people don't really have a choice to use anything else.
In which case Microsoft is a price maker. So it comes down to, do you believe there are no close substitutes (Not Ubuntu or Mac OSX, or any other OS?) and Microsoft has complete control over the price it can charge?
Microsoft isn't a monopoly. Although the government does grant it monopolies on certain technologies (patents, etc), this does not make it a monopoly, and instead you should be angry at the government.
Additionally, only government sponsored monopolies operate on "different rules" though that's a specious claim a best. Especially since Microsoft is only slightly a government sponsored monopoly.
And lastly...
"On April 3, 2000, a judgment was handed down in the case of United States v. Microsoft,[14] calling the company an "abusive monopoly"[43] and forcing the company to split into two separate units. Part of this ruling was later overturned by a federal appeals court, and eventually settled with the U.S. Department of Justice in 2001."
So now that you've wasted my time with your uneducated rhetoric, back to work I go.
They could release windows without IE, but it would either be crippled and many applications wouldn't run, or it would be hidden, so it's there but you just can't run it/see it.
There might be hacks around it, but they would all result in some browser being loaded back in, and that browser would need to completely emulate IE.
So this kind of an action is ridiculous.
They can do this at the moment, it's just they don't.
MS is unable to contractually regulate what is and isn't packaged with these systems.
I guess "Smell(TM)" decided it's not worth the extra effort.
The light version won't necessarily be cheaper. It depends on how they want to distribute costs for the media player (perhaps all products bare the cost anyway). Additionally, if people don't want that product, or MS doesn't want to sell as many, then it just doesn't release enough/raises the price.
Pricing and costing are pretty complex subjects.
If the government tried to regulate the pricing as well, that would be another stupid move.
That was a major source of uncertainty for a lot people I know, and even me. When you don't have the money to shell out for Vista Ultimate, and all the other versions seem to have reduced functionality (whatever that may be), you feel less confident in the quality of the purchase. So you either get it and find it inherently doesn't meet your expectations, or you don't get it, because you want a non-restricted version, but you can't afford it.
I think their marketing department might want to look into their segmentation and pricing again, to see how it affects users perceptions.
(Although, I somewhat expect a company Microsft's size to have done that, so perhaps the informal questions I've used to obtain this information, aren't the most accurate source.)
HOLY SHIT... So you're the guy who bought a Zune?
I used the beta, and I ran Vista for quite some time.
However, I don't run reasonably new hardware.
I found Vista to be slow and irresponsive, at work the machines we trialled it on the support calls went through the roof.
Several machines we installed it on, blue screened before getting into it, and required a reasonable amount of work to get around.
I found it wasn't worth the investment. We found this on both a business and personal level, so we didn't.
We were hoping Windows 7 might be different, however it doesn't sound like it is.
But this is just my experiences.
The machines we installed it on were everything from brand new IBM laptops which came pre-installed, to quad cores with various recent gfx cards, to 3ghz 64bit machines.
All at the very least had performance issues, most had driver issues, some had other various problems, and other issues were solved with SP1.
Not worth it for us. Maybe when Vista/7 is old hat, it won't be bad. For now, it is.
That's exactly what I wanted to know.
Nothing's has changed much, performance is the same, it's just another service pack for Windows Vista, or what's more like it is this is just Windows Mojave (Windows Vista, with a different name).
Great, I was optimistic, however this review makes me not want it.
Oh well, guess I'll save some money then!
Wow, I expanded the topic to include other areas of study. Heavens forbid that a topic goes beyond the strict limitations imposed by the headline/topic.
Interesting, how valuable is your skill without the other disciplines creating a need for it? How valuable are you if you can't allow your skills to help the most amount of people possible? How valuable are your skills if it requires only you and not a team/business?
I'd suggest, not very.
But hey, maybe you're the 1 man who could produce Linux by himself? Or perhaps the 1 man who could invent a product which fixes our global warming problems, without ever needing to bring it to market?
You'd be the first.
(There's a good chance you don't understand what I've just said, however you would if you had studied these topics.)
Yes, because the only people who read Slashdot are CS/Eng geeks, and I wasn't trying to get some information about other popular areas of study.
Oh also, your use of the word "marketdroids" shows me that you could really benefit from reading some of these sorts of books.
But hey, thanks for playing.
Hey,
I like the above suggestions. However how about some economics / business / marketing books also? Perhaps there are specific Journal's or Magazines?
Don't just list what you read at Uni, but what books did you find stimulating to read, and really made you think?
What books "basically" covered everything? Or helped you make connections between different ideas?
I'd love to find some of these books, I've found Amazon reviews and similar, aren't that reliable.
Which is another question, how did you find out about these books? How would you find out about more?
Yeah, definitely. However, it is beginning to do the most traffic, since it's easy, redundant, and scalable.
But the scene is where everything is released, initially.
Though that is starting to change, since the scene imposes rules that most P2P people who are trying to break into the scene, aren't willing to adhere to. Such as KingBen rips.
And APRA.
Cool thanks!