without producing real goods, the US economy is not making money. Cory Doctorow does a good job in a portion of this video (starting at about the 9:40 mark) of outlining the last of the.com businesses.. the current US economic policy. Just like the majority of.com businesses, it is destined to fail unless it's changed. Politicians don't like admitting they're wrong, though, and thus we are suffering from the job hemorrhage and cash drain that's been going on since the late 90's.
intellectual property is not real, and is flagrantly disregarded by more than half the world's nations. IP is also not going to employ the several hundred million people of this nation.
Apparently, a six year delay negates patent protection (the patentee has "unreasonably and inexcusably" delayed prosecution) under the same laches idea as made above.
Enforcement Laches does not require detrimental reliance. However, the patentee must be shown to have "unreasonably and inexcusably" delayed bringing suit and that the alleged infringer subsequently suffered material prejudice. A six year delay creates a presumption of laches.
By the way, unix, which incorporated the archetypal permission system, was developed in 1969. This is a clear case of prior art which even a "patent troll judge" cannot ignore. It's neither obscure nor contestable as its history is very well documented. Any judge who doesn't throw it out of court after unix is brought forward as an example of prior art should be immediately scheduled for competency hearings.
GPA is affected by more than discipline or ability.
I think it would be better practice to establish a "floor", and ignore any GPA above that floor.
I spent a lot of my time in school in sick to grave condition. I consider my gpa more of an accomplishment then those of people around me. I also know the material better than they do despite not testing as well.
The biggest problem in the US job market, and something YOU have never experienced, is that companies no longer want to train their labor.
In your time, they actually hired entry level out of college and respected people who buckled down and focused on their primary purpose (school) rather than internships and partying (now called "networking").
Now, they demand 2-3 years of experience for jobs they deceptively label "college entry level", and whenever there aren't enough "canned" workers they hire in the third world rather than train able bodied and willing grads.
As for your dingbat political screed, listen up and listen good:
obama plans to CUT taxes on business, and if you got your head out of rush limbaugh's ass you would know this.
he plasn to raise taxes on the incomes of the wealthy. Since their companies are part of their net worth and will be taxed less (and given more breaks based on the number of employees they hire), they will claim less in salary, adding yet more capital into firms and prompting yet more hiring.
Soviet? I think not. If this were star trek, the current US system would be the ferenghi to Europe's humans, and Europe seems to have done just as well as the US through the ups and downs while actually taking care of their citizens. (btw, anyone opposed to universal healthcare should be sentenced to the hellish pain and blood loss I experience every day because i can't buy insurance at ANY price, and universal does not have to mean government run)
i've been through two rounds of college career fairs. Neither have produced encouraging results, and the fact they're widely publicized and easily accessible means you're actually facing more intense competition, and for every one hired there are 5-10 who are not.
My trip through undergrad was very rocky. I had family and medical issues which stretched out my time there and ended up with nearly 100k in student debts and a transcript which is all over the place.
How am I supposed to go back to school when loan companies are scaling back and even harvard law students are having trouble obtaining loans? I mean, consolidation loans are completely cut off for the private loans I already have, and it's questionable whether taking on yet more debt is worth the risk.
And the trouble is, if there's the slightest non conforming aspect of someone's work history, they're marked for life. And yet, American business wants folks who "think outside the box". No they don't. Because folks who really do are rejected out of hand because "they're irresponsible" or some other asinine label.
I'd like to point out "behavioral interviewing" and "personality tests" in this category too.
There are federal laws banning the use of polygraphs in interviews, but this type of thing is VERY similar.
I'm a pessimist and an introvert. This does NOT interfere with my ability to put on a professional face and be friendly to clients, but it does cause a great deal of stress when a potential job is at stake. Further, being a pessimist, while many people frown on it, has many positive qualities in a work environment, such as a propensity to properly assess and prepare for likely hurdles on a project.
This doesn't matter though, as the slightest sign of discomfort is construed as some kind of black mark.
The academic equivalent would be someone being passed up who knows their stuff but doesn't test well, while an incompetent who's good at telling people what they want to hear gets top marks.
What really irks me though is when people give you tests or as questions on internal company policy. These are things you should be told in your training or in your interview by the HR staff; you should not be chucked out of the hire process because you are being forced to guess and you guessed wrong.
can't begin to tell you how many people I've interviewed who are 5-6 months out of college but aren't working anywhere, even Starbucks. The lack of showing responsibility by not doing something is a turn-off.
and a history which includes a degree and then menial jobs is also a turn-off.
It gets HR guys wondering "why the heck doesn't he have something better, he must suck. *delete* NEXT"
They make more than other graduates because they put in more work, because they have to pass a rigorous certification process, and because they have to pay back considerable education costs.
If you lower doctor salaries to the 35 some-odd thousand a year per capita income of the US nobody would ever become a doctor.
I might add, though, that IT workers have to know as much as doctors (on different subjects) and in most cases work on more sensitive timescales and have lower job security.
They should make as much as doctors, and not be subjected to 80 hour/week abuse.
People need to be paid based on the value they provide to society. Doctors are currently paid commensurate with this (with the exception of cosmetic surgeons), while IT professionals and childcare providers are not.
Additionally, raising the bar beyond basic competence restricts the market, allowing labor to dictate their own terms (think medical and law licenses).
And makes things many times more expensive than they would be in a normal market (think medical and law expenses).
No, it doesn't. If you want to know where the expenses for medicine come from, check the catalogues of pharma and medical supply companies and the premiums for malpractice insurance, all of which are inflated so far beyond reason as to be incomprehensible.
IT workers are often abused to the point of 80 hour work weeks, and can't even claim overtime thanks to huge corporate lobbyists. These same companies demand certs out the wazoo, all of which cost money and tons of time off the clock, and they should offer reasonable pay for them considering how critical IT is to their infrastructure.
The recent story of their cessation to "compile" the history of the case seems a bit premature now.
That said, I'm beginning to wonder if Darl is playing "weekend at bernies" with the board of directors, because no sane board would authorize the liquidation of the bulk of a company's assets so an obsessed executive can go tilting at windmills.
But won't this weed out the non-English speaking, book-memorizing, cheap-working brown people that Corporate America loves so dearly?
exactly. Additionally, raising the bar beyond basic competence restricts the market, allowing labor to dictate their own terms (think medical and law licenses).
If the corps have their say, it won't happen, but if it does the corps will fund anyone who does not speak english and wants to file a lawsuit demanding proctors interview them in their own language.
and Shirow covers this entire area better as well if you examine the bulk of his work.
So you claim while showing apparently no knowledge of any other work in the field or anything that doesn't have pictures in it. Yeah, I'll consider the value of your opinion to be worth about zero.
No, I claim shirow covers the subject better if you examine the bulk of his work. Leave the ad hominems at home please.
Likewise anyone who claims an author can cover such an area "entirely" in a single work is an idiot who doesn't understand that certain treatments necessarily contradict other treatments plot wise.
You demonstrate a profound misunderstanding of shirow's work. He uses the same universe for most of his work. Particularly gits is an extension of appleseed, and the new real drive is an extension of gits.
The fact you don't understand the breadth and depth of his work, and that you defend this hack, points to your shortcomings, not mine.
I'm not kidding when I say that it almost felt like a 7th grader who just watched Outer Limits sat down and wrote a book for his end-of-the-week project.
That concept is older than old. Heck, computers randomly gaining sentience was done by Heinlein in 1966 and I doubt he was the first. Going from a single computer gaining sentience to a network of computers does not make it brilliant.
I beg to differ. The difference between Shirow's version and everyone else is the entity was not created by humans. A data trojan inadvertantly interacted with random data on the web in the same way a molecule interacted with others to form DNA. This is very different from "AI's gone wild" a-la heinlein or t-1000.
The real mark of brilliance in such areas is how you actually treat the subject and what interesting sub-questions you bring to light. There are a hundred different ways to cover some basic ideas and every single one of them can be utterly unique.
and Shirow covers this entire area better as well if you examine the bulk of his work.
His interest in consciousness studies is also apparent in his WWW trilogy, beginning with Wake, which deals with the spontaneous emergence of consciousness in the infrastructure of the World Wide Web.
in the event of a full scale war in which these nations break off diplomatic ties (japan in particular is very pacifist) and/or impose embargoes, we would end up positively screwed in our capacity to make war because we have no domestic production facilities for these chips.
This differs from, say, our "dependence" on foreign oil because we deliberately keep untapped strategic reserves in case of such an eventuality.
Most of the computer components in our freaking nuclear missiles come from japan and other east asian nations because nobody in the US has the facilities to produce them.
When you consider the national security implications should these nations decide to sever trade in a time of war, it makes air force one look petty.
A virus that instead plays "Downloading is right" and redirects the homepages of big software, music and movie companies to piratebay, mininova, etc...
Its much easier to modify the existing virus with a disassembler.
Shame they took it down. Anyone care to put it up on google code? : )
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What the hell are you babling about?
without producing real goods, the US economy is not making money. Cory Doctorow does a good job in a portion of this video (starting at about the 9:40 mark) of outlining the last of the .com businesses.. the current US economic policy. Just like the majority of .com businesses, it is destined to fail unless it's changed. Politicians don't like admitting they're wrong, though, and thus we are suffering from the job hemorrhage and cash drain that's been going on since the late 90's.
intellectual property is not real, and is flagrantly disregarded by more than half the world's nations. IP is also not going to employ the several hundred million people of this nation.
where are you working and who is interviewing you? (this is not a troll, i'm looking for internships or entry level)
Note that there are abstraction layers which already implement cross platform memory protection and IPC.
Google chose not to use them, and the potential reasons for this are not pleasant to consider.
Apparently, a six year delay negates patent protection (the patentee has "unreasonably and inexcusably" delayed prosecution) under the same laches idea as made above.
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O): Laches and Equitable Estoppel.
This is a very informative post.
By the way, unix, which incorporated the archetypal permission system, was developed in 1969.
This is a clear case of prior art which even a "patent troll judge" cannot ignore. It's neither obscure nor contestable as its history is very well documented.
Any judge who doesn't throw it out of court after unix is brought forward as an example of prior art should be immediately scheduled for competency hearings.
GPA is affected by more than discipline or ability.
I think it would be better practice to establish a "floor", and ignore any GPA above that floor.
I spent a lot of my time in school in sick to grave condition. I consider my gpa more of an accomplishment then those of people around me. I also know the material better than they do despite not testing as well.
points 1-3 require you to have connections which can easily net you a sinecure, let alone a job.
May I humbly request realistic steps, or at least a more detailed rationale on why you consider 1-3 realistic?
The biggest problem in the US job market, and something YOU have never experienced, is that companies no longer want to train their labor.
In your time, they actually hired entry level out of college and respected people who buckled down and focused on their primary purpose (school) rather than internships and partying (now called "networking").
Now, they demand 2-3 years of experience for jobs they deceptively label "college entry level", and whenever there aren't enough "canned" workers they hire in the third world rather than train able bodied and willing grads.
As for your dingbat political screed, listen up and listen good:
obama plans to CUT taxes on business, and if you got your head out of rush limbaugh's ass you would know this.
he plasn to raise taxes on the incomes of the wealthy. Since their companies are part of their net worth and will be taxed less (and given more breaks based on the number of employees they hire), they will claim less in salary, adding yet more capital into firms and prompting yet more hiring.
Soviet? I think not. If this were star trek, the current US system would be the ferenghi to Europe's humans, and Europe seems to have done just as well as the US through the ups and downs while actually taking care of their citizens. (btw, anyone opposed to universal healthcare should be sentenced to the hellish pain and blood loss I experience every day because i can't buy insurance at ANY price, and universal does not have to mean government run)
i've been through two rounds of college career fairs. Neither have produced encouraging results, and the fact they're widely publicized and easily accessible means you're actually facing more intense competition, and for every one hired there are 5-10 who are not.
Interesting. I'd need to do more research as to true cost of living.
So are you guys hiring?
My trip through undergrad was very rocky. I had family and medical issues which stretched out my time there and ended up with nearly 100k in student debts and a transcript which is all over the place.
How am I supposed to go back to school when loan companies are scaling back and even harvard law students are having trouble obtaining loans?
I mean, consolidation loans are completely cut off for the private loans I already have, and it's questionable whether taking on yet more debt is worth the risk.
I'm quite interested in your answers on this.
And the trouble is, if there's the slightest non conforming aspect of someone's work history, they're marked for life. And yet, American business wants folks who "think outside the box". No they don't. Because folks who really do are rejected out of hand because "they're irresponsible" or some other asinine label.
I'd like to point out "behavioral interviewing" and "personality tests" in this category too.
There are federal laws banning the use of polygraphs in interviews, but this type of thing is VERY similar.
I'm a pessimist and an introvert. This does NOT interfere with my ability to put on a professional face and be friendly to clients, but it does cause a great deal of stress when a potential job is at stake. Further, being a pessimist, while many people frown on it, has many positive qualities in a work environment, such as a propensity to properly assess and prepare for likely hurdles on a project.
This doesn't matter though, as the slightest sign of discomfort is construed as some kind of black mark.
The academic equivalent would be someone being passed up who knows their stuff but doesn't test well, while an incompetent who's good at telling people what they want to hear gets top marks.
What really irks me though is when people give you tests or as questions on internal company policy. These are things you should be told in your training or in your interview by the HR staff; you should not be chucked out of the hire process because you are being forced to guess and you guessed wrong.
can't begin to tell you how many people I've interviewed who are 5-6 months out of college but aren't working anywhere, even Starbucks. The lack of showing responsibility by not doing something is a turn-off.
and a history which includes a degree and then menial jobs is also a turn-off.
It gets HR guys wondering "why the heck doesn't he have something better, he must suck. *delete* NEXT"
They make more than other graduates because they put in more work, because they have to pass a rigorous certification process, and because they have to pay back considerable education costs.
If you lower doctor salaries to the 35 some-odd thousand a year per capita income of the US nobody would ever become a doctor.
I might add, though, that IT workers have to know as much as doctors (on different subjects) and in most cases work on more sensitive timescales and have lower job security.
They should make as much as doctors, and not be subjected to 80 hour/week abuse.
People need to be paid based on the value they provide to society. Doctors are currently paid commensurate with this (with the exception of cosmetic surgeons), while IT professionals and childcare providers are not.
Additionally, raising the bar beyond basic competence restricts the market, allowing labor to dictate their own terms (think medical and law licenses).
And makes things many times more expensive than they would be in a normal market (think medical and law expenses).
No, it doesn't. If you want to know where the expenses for medicine come from, check the catalogues of pharma and medical supply companies and the premiums for malpractice insurance, all of which are inflated so far beyond reason as to be incomprehensible.
IT workers are often abused to the point of 80 hour work weeks, and can't even claim overtime thanks to huge corporate lobbyists. These same companies demand certs out the wazoo, all of which cost money and tons of time off the clock, and they should offer reasonable pay for them considering how critical IT is to their infrastructure.
The recent story of their cessation to "compile" the history of the case seems a bit premature now.
That said, I'm beginning to wonder if Darl is playing "weekend at bernies" with the board of directors, because no sane board would authorize the liquidation of the bulk of a company's assets so an obsessed executive can go tilting at windmills.
But won't this weed out the non-English speaking, book-memorizing, cheap-working brown people that Corporate America loves so dearly?
exactly. Additionally, raising the bar beyond basic competence restricts the market, allowing labor to dictate their own terms (think medical and law licenses).
If the corps have their say, it won't happen, but if it does the corps will fund anyone who does not speak english and wants to file a lawsuit demanding proctors interview them in their own language.
So you claim while showing apparently no knowledge of any other work in the field or anything that doesn't have pictures in it. Yeah, I'll consider the value of your opinion to be worth about zero.
No, I claim shirow covers the subject better if you examine the bulk of his work. Leave the ad hominems at home please.
Likewise anyone who claims an author can cover such an area "entirely" in a single work is an idiot who doesn't understand that certain treatments necessarily contradict other treatments plot wise.
You demonstrate a profound misunderstanding of shirow's work. He uses the same universe for most of his work. Particularly gits is an extension of appleseed, and the new real drive is an extension of gits.
The fact you don't understand the breadth and depth of his work, and that you defend this hack, points to your shortcomings, not mine.
I'm not kidding when I say that it almost felt like a 7th grader who just watched Outer Limits sat down and wrote a book for his end-of-the-week project.
I nominate this for the slap-down of the week.
That concept is older than old. Heck, computers randomly gaining sentience was done by Heinlein in 1966 and I doubt he was the first. Going from a single computer gaining sentience to a network of computers does not make it brilliant.
I beg to differ. The difference between Shirow's version and everyone else is the entity was not created by humans. A data trojan inadvertantly interacted with random data on the web in the same way a molecule interacted with others to form DNA.
This is very different from "AI's gone wild" a-la heinlein or t-1000.
The real mark of brilliance in such areas is how you actually treat the subject and what interesting sub-questions you bring to light. There are a hundred different ways to cover some basic ideas and every single one of them can be utterly unique.
and Shirow covers this entire area better as well if you examine the bulk of his work.
from that linked wikipedia entry.
His interest in consciousness studies is also apparent in his WWW trilogy, beginning with Wake, which deals with the spontaneous emergence of consciousness in the infrastructure of the World Wide Web.
Why does this sound familiar
So whois the brilliant scifi writer again?
that's not the issue.
our smart weapons use these components.
in the event of a full scale war in which these nations break off diplomatic ties (japan in particular is very pacifist) and/or impose embargoes, we would end up positively screwed in our capacity to make war because we have no domestic production facilities for these chips.
This differs from, say, our "dependence" on foreign oil because we deliberately keep untapped strategic reserves in case of such an eventuality.
Why wouldn't they look outside the US?
Most of the computer components in our freaking nuclear missiles come from japan and other east asian nations because nobody in the US has the facilities to produce them.
When you consider the national security implications should these nations decide to sever trade in a time of war, it makes air force one look petty.
There is no reason to run a keygen on your system, period.
There are sites out there which will run a keygen server side and carry lists of serialz.
A virus that instead plays "Downloading is right" and redirects the homepages of big software, music and movie companies to piratebay, mininova, etc...
Its much easier to modify the existing virus with a disassembler.
Shame they took it down. Anyone care to put it up on google code? : )