Such as creating a shell company to hire a bunch of H1B's and pimp them them out for the sole purpose of undercutting the existing 'job shops' and/or independent contractors? It's all about supply and demand guys. If you choose to call me a cynic, let me tell you I personally know several people who have done this very thing. It generates some good tax breaks too.
Starting a real company requires real capital, and angels aren't as gullible as they used to be.
Or, you can start your own company--by using contractors, but doing things right that the other companies (now your competitors) do wrong. I live in DC and on Craigslist alone there are usually a bunch of listings for start-ups looking for contract workers.
I have read history books, a major factor in military campaigns was getting fodder for your infantry...no matter what they were riding on or in.
Well, if you read the history books, a major factor in military campaigns was getting fodder for your animals. You either limit your offensives to summer, or you expend huge amounts of energy transporting fodder (by draft animals who run on -- fodder), stockpiling it, and guarding it. More than one campaign was ruined by the staggering complexity of maintaining an army dependent upon animal power.
I can certainly appreciate this position. For the last several years I've traded around $10k in potential income for the ability to come home and spend time with my family instead of playing at being a workaholic.
Unfortunately this is a bad year to be preaching that particular message. My costs went up easily 20% last year, so I'll be looking to convert this potential income into something that spends in the near future.
I'll miss seeing my baby daughter at lunch, but I'll take some consolation in her not having to pole dance to pay for college.
Many families in this country make due with much less financially than we currently make. Would your kids be better off with 10k less per year, if in exchange they got a father that didn't hate his life (and had healthcare)? If you're making 20k per year, probably not. If you're making 60k per year, most people will remember their father's disposition more fondly than the 20% increase in family wealth.
Speaking of revolution and individual rights, three guesses what this 'Active Denial' system we've cooked is up going to be used for...yes, that's right. When your citizens try to revolt or become disobedient, just train the rays on them again. All the crowd clearing ability of rubber bullets but without the tiresome lawsuits and martyrdom. Plus act now and you'll receive a complimentary gift basket of assorted WMD's.
The point of the second amendment is to provide the citizenry with the means to defend itself from the Government, should its power run out of control. Even if we had a revolution, the use of nuclear arms against the citizenry would not be an effective strategy
Yes, and that's why I'd like to advise all prospective CS graduates to major in plumbing. Cause they really can't outsource that kind of shit.
The really hard part about being an engineer is that there are really only a few places in the country where you'll be able to stay employed over the long haul. These are generally high priced metropolitan areas, so that means you will be paying more for housing and in some cases a lot more, vs. say a doctor or a nurse or a plumber who can work basically anywhere.
There are plenty of simpler degrees to get that are a lot more portable and don't require competing with the rest of the civilized world. Science degrees transfer easily, but business and law can be completely different depending on where you live.
I genuinely enjoy programming, I grew up with this stuff, I wasn't in it for the money. I still have my apple2 and my amiga from 'back in the day in my loft. I once owned a pong. I remember the startup fever, and I remember burning several sets of worthless options.
I also remember that in silicon valley a house rents for more than $1800 a month. Boston and New York aren't really much better. You could work in DC and live in DC proper, murder capital of the US, but I wouldn't. That leaves Redmond, Houston and Dallas.
My thoughts exactly. The CS stuff can be outsourced, jobs that can only be done here can not be.
That's great dad, but now let me explain what happens in the real world. eBay has no phone number, Paypal has no phone number. Safeharbor is a joke.
Even if you could 'prove' said feedback was against the rules, good luck getting ebay to do anything about it. They generally do nothing even in cases of broken or misrepresented goods, they know which side their bread is buttered on...or at least they did until recently. Whitman left at the right time, before it was obvious that her near term results came at the expense of sellers calling it quits.
The term "retaliatory negative feedback" says it all - it's actually against Ebay's rules. Sellers shouldn't give negative feedback just cause they failed to get something right and got called on it via feedback.
Well, if you're a brown person and living in the USA, I'd say there are dangers. Or hadn't you noticed that GWB has made your checkouts from the public library 'a matter of national security'.
Perhaps we'll get some group all up in arms about the dangers of reading books now.
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Please name one that is worse than the anti-christ, I mean VIA. In terms of bios stability it's hard to fault people for going Intel. I still recall that to make my last VIA based system KR266(KT133A) stable I had to
1) reflash my motherboard (!)
2) to an unsupported bios revision(!!)
3) and then apply additional unsupported patches at startup(!!!!)
As a processor, AMD is fine, but when they partner with these kinds of scum, why should we bother? The newer bios offerings are much much better but many models aren't really selling at a significant discount.
Not entirely true. There have been some atrocious intel chipsets.
"There is no way an HMO can properly function bound by such a rule," said PhysCare-Plus member-accounts departmental supervisor Toby Francis. "HMOs must be free to disclose patients' medical, personal, and financial information to insurers. How else can we determine what treatments a patient is or isn't eligible to receive? If someone needs a new lung and they don't have the necessary funds to pay for it, how are we supposed to know not to perform the surgery? I can't tell you how many cost overruns have been rung up as a result of doctors providing life-saving operations in accordance with the Hippocratic Oath, only to find out afterwards that the patients weren't covered. In a case like that, the surgery turns out to be for nothing. I get burned up just thinking about it."
Lets see, seat removed, floorboards wet. That sounds exactly like my car. My heater core was going out and leaking, and um, removing the seat and such..thats how you get to it. Clearly IR a murderer.
If I had to sleep in a damn CRX I'd probably pull the seat too. It's not like it's particularly complicated or anything, 4 bolts and you're done.
Think about it. Internet access and in-game ads are already standard fare. Add the headset data and you can (presumably) see which ones people respond favorably to. Which is data that you can then sell.
Of course, once we get this hooked up to CNN we can see who to round up for re-education, but that comes later...
Evil Data Mining Henchman: Look, master! This one smiles for 62% of the time while playing Half-Life 2! And they only have 512MB of RAM!
Evil Data Mining Master: MWAAAHAHAHAHHHAHHAHAHAA!! Excellent work, Patrick! Soon we shall know just how much all of those poor fools are smiling! My intricately pointless and entirely impotent plan for world domination is almost complete!!
Actually the N64 wasn't the first. Set your wayback machine to the year 1982, the Vectex machines had an extremely similar thumbstick.
For my favorite console stick I think I'd have to go with the saturn twin-stick, that thing was great. My least favorite would have to be the carpal-tunnel inducing colecovision stick, I'm surprised there wasn't a class action lawsuit.
Seriously, compare the joystick on an N64 controller with the DualShock sticks, there's just no comparison.
That would be like comparing the drivability of a Ford Model-T to a '99 Honda Accord, don't you think? Keep in mind that the N64 controller had THE ABSOLUTE FIRST analog thumbstick on a console game controller...almost no one gets it right the first time.
You're right. Effectively they had the same release dates. As for the Saturn, I'd say it was a miserable failure because of
A) the rather large price difference and
B) the standout games from Japan never made it outside of the region.
I fail to see how you can say that 2 weeks justifies sayign that it Predated the Playstation. While the Saturn may have been successful in Japan, it was a misrable failure in the US, to my dismay, as I actually bought one (I LOVED the thing).
Good plan, lets implement that right after we let the religious zealots fight each other for world domination. Jews, Muslims, Catholics, Hindi, Buddhists, all in a no hold barred cage match LIVE ON PAY PER VIEW this Saturday at the Baghdad Arena. As soon as we declare a winner can hand them all complimentary jet packs.
We would be doing our species a favor if we let the stupid ones kill themselves off. It is true that they will unfortunately take some of the non-stupid ones with them, but the long term benefits outweigh the short term drawbacks IMO.
Please explain how the Philips CD-I can be considered in any way amazing, other than the phrase "The fact that Philips thought they could sell the CD-I was amazing to me". That piece of junk couldn't even perform up to Genesis/SNES hardware specs.
As a commercial success you may be correct (that the PSX was the first CD based 'winner'), but in terms of having great games = success, there were several successful platforms that predate it.
The TG16 had very good CD based offerings while predating all of these (sega/cd-i/psx). The Saturn also predates the PSX and had amazing 2D titles, including both original titles and near-perfect ports from the neo-geo.
If you want to look at previous CD based systems, the SegaCd, the Phillips CD-I (an amazing game system, but overpriced), and others really all failed.
I think that may have been a misprint, here let me help.
Public money spent on things the public wants is what charity organizations are for. Spending money on things for the good of the corporation, but that is something the average person wouldnt want to pay for himself, is what the government is for.
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"What we have in this country is socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the poor"
-Gore Vidal
I don't know that I would call it leeching. Think of it as a form of protest. And you've reached the heart of the matter, it only works as long as there are working or fixable secondhand hand goods available. As a bonus, this practice puts money directly in the hands of individuals, instead of filtering it through the hands of big business and government. But it's only inherently sustainable if you can find products made before they were engineered to be disposable commodities. That's a tall order these days.
This 'disposable society' a big problem, and it makes a mockery of the so called environmentalism thats so fashionable right now. Once upon a time products were engineered for a lifetime of service. Not 2 years of service, off to the landfill (no repair parts available) or the slow boat to China (to be burned for re-processing, aka 'recycled') and off to Walmart to buy another piece of plastic junk. How environmentally conscious is that?
Those people aren't fighting the system -- they're just leaching off it. Their scrounging is only sustainable as long as the rest of us discard usable products for them to pick up.
A simple majority might not, but corporations have been doing it for years. Or do you think those 8 year olds pumping out Nike shoes should be called something different? I'm personally in favor of the Roe vs Wade decision.
That is a rare case in which our government said they are not going to regulate what you 'the people' do with your bodies. We need more of that sort of thinking. Like, a lot more.
I'd certainly like to think that a simple majority could never vote to re-enact slavery
Parental age is certainly a likely culprit, but I really doubt it's the only one.
If you look at autism statistics in northern california (aka tech central) they're a lot higher than the national average. Now what is fairly unique about this area? Yes, it's full of engineers. People who are good at math and logic and perhaps having some social shortcomings. Given that we didn't start diagnosing autism in milder cases until quite recently a significant fraction of them could be mild autistic cases themselves (asbergers,etc)
Now when you take two people who already have these tendancies and they have kids...well that's just how genetics works children.
A more likely route is look at the age of the fathers, there seems to be evidence pointing to parental age having to be a likely cause of autism rates rising (that and the mass over diagnosis, and more mental illnesses being classified as Autism.)
no wacky Takeshi Kaga voice overs
no wacky Takeshi Kaga outfits
no funny judge commentaries
no Chen Kenichi
no eel battle
no octopus battle
no cod row battle
no <insert creepy japanese delicacy here> battle
no honor based 'team' rematches
Why? I've seen both, and not a huge amount has changed in bringing it across the ocean
Zed can't be much worse than the 911 CYA brigade. The open secrets I'm currently aware of involve at least a quart of vodka and several slingshots.
Zed would have railed against the open secrets that allowed the tiger escape at the San Francisco zoo, and then he'd have been fired or reprimanded for not being politically and socially correct in his approach.
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Starting a real company requires real capital, and angels aren't as gullible as they used to be.
Unfortunately this is a bad year to be preaching that particular message. My costs went up easily 20% last year, so I'll be looking to convert this potential income into something that spends in the near future.
I'll miss seeing my baby daughter at lunch, but I'll take some consolation in her not having to pole dance to pay for college.
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The really hard part about being an engineer is that there are really only a few places in the country where you'll be able to stay employed over the long haul. These are generally high priced metropolitan areas, so that means you will be paying more for housing and in some cases a lot more, vs. say a doctor or a nurse or a plumber who can work basically anywhere.
There are plenty of simpler degrees to get that are a lot more portable and don't require competing with the rest of the civilized world. Science degrees transfer easily, but business and law can be completely different depending on where you live.
I genuinely enjoy programming, I grew up with this stuff, I wasn't in it for the money. I still have my apple2 and my amiga from 'back in the day in my loft. I once owned a pong. I remember the startup fever, and I remember burning several sets of worthless options.
I also remember that in silicon valley a house rents for more than $1800 a month. Boston and New York aren't really much better. You could work in DC and live in DC proper, murder capital of the US, but I wouldn't. That leaves Redmond, Houston and Dallas.
Even if you could 'prove' said feedback was against the rules, good luck getting ebay to do anything about it. They generally do nothing even in cases of broken or misrepresented goods, they know which side their bread is buttered on...or at least they did until recently. Whitman left at the right time, before it was obvious that her near term results came at the expense of sellers calling it quits.
1) reflash my motherboard (!)
2) to an unsupported bios revision(!!)
3) and then apply additional unsupported patches at startup(!!!!)
As a processor, AMD is fine, but when they partner with these kinds of scum, why should we bother? The newer bios offerings are much much better but many models aren't really selling at a significant discount.
"There is no way an HMO can properly function bound by such a rule," said PhysCare-Plus member-accounts departmental supervisor Toby Francis. "HMOs must be free to disclose patients' medical, personal, and financial information to insurers. How else can we determine what treatments a patient is or isn't eligible to receive? If someone needs a new lung and they don't have the necessary funds to pay for it, how are we supposed to know not to perform the surgery? I can't tell you how many cost overruns have been rung up as a result of doctors providing life-saving operations in accordance with the Hippocratic Oath, only to find out afterwards that the patients weren't covered. In a case like that, the surgery turns out to be for nothing. I get burned up just thinking about it."
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Lets see, seat removed, floorboards wet. That sounds exactly like my car. My heater core was going out and leaking, and um, removing the seat and such..thats how you get to it. Clearly IR a murderer.
If I had to sleep in a damn CRX I'd probably pull the seat too. It's not like it's particularly complicated or anything, 4 bolts and you're done.
Think about it. Internet access and in-game ads are already standard fare. Add the headset data and you can (presumably) see which ones people respond favorably to. Which is data that you can then sell.
Of course, once we get this hooked up to CNN we can see who to round up for re-education, but that comes later...
For my favorite console stick I think I'd have to go with the saturn twin-stick, that thing was great. My least favorite would have to be the carpal-tunnel inducing colecovision stick, I'm surprised there wasn't a class action lawsuit.
A) the rather large price difference and
B) the standout games from Japan never made it outside of the region.
As a commercial success you may be correct (that the PSX was the first CD based 'winner'), but in terms of having great games = success, there were several successful platforms that predate it.
The TG16 had very good CD based offerings while predating all of these (sega/cd-i/psx). The Saturn also predates the PSX and had amazing 2D titles, including both original titles and near-perfect ports from the neo-geo.
Another really fun 'independant' series can be found here
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"What we have in this country is socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the poor"
-Gore Vidal
This 'disposable society' a big problem, and it makes a mockery of the so called environmentalism thats so fashionable right now. Once upon a time products were engineered for a lifetime of service. Not 2 years of service, off to the landfill (no repair parts available) or the slow boat to China (to be burned for re-processing, aka 'recycled') and off to Walmart to buy another piece of plastic junk. How environmentally conscious is that?
That is a rare case in which our government said they are not going to regulate what you 'the people' do with your bodies. We need more of that sort of thinking. Like, a lot more.
If you look at autism statistics in northern california (aka tech central) they're a lot higher than the national average. Now what is fairly unique about this area? Yes, it's full of engineers. People who are good at math and logic and perhaps having some social shortcomings. Given that we didn't start diagnosing autism in milder cases until quite recently a significant fraction of them could be mild autistic cases themselves (asbergers,etc)
Now when you take two people who already have these tendancies and they have kids...well that's just how genetics works children.
no wacky Takeshi Kaga voice overs
no wacky Takeshi Kaga outfits
no funny judge commentaries
no Chen Kenichi
no eel battle
no octopus battle
no cod row battle
no <insert creepy japanese delicacy here> battle
no honor based 'team' rematches