So you're willing to degrade my working conditions for that purpose also? You want to bring the U.S. down to India's level? Turn it into a third world sweatshop? Well, good show. That's exactly what our corporate overlords want you to do. It would be better that you demand the right to follow the job to India yourself.
I'm sorry to say this but this is exactly why unions are needed.
Right now i'm trying to get a job as a new workforce entrant and it's horrific.
instead of the cookie-cutter internships I chose to work myself into the ground on two majors, and I can't get arrested.. anywhere.. from forecasting and risk management to bank teller.
I too would gladly take an 80 hour work week if it meant my extended family no longer whispered about me as if I were some kind of convict.
Nobody hires unless you're an order of magnitude overqualified for the position, and you're lucky if they want to pay a living wage.
Everyone wants 3+ years experience (even if they don't say so), and nobody wants to offer it.
I also would be against IT Unions--on the mere basis that (like SatanicPuppy said) my connections would outweigh my skills.
Most times, union or non-union, connections outweigh skills anyhow. I can't count the number of people I've dealt with professionally who talk a good game, know all the right people, and fuck up 90% of the things they touch.
But where's the fun in actually searching for real talent, and looking beyond a pretty face and smooth talk?
in this specific case, the OS in question is vista, an OS which has been shown as bloated enough to cut video rendering performance (games, multimedia) by 10 to 15%.
When a web browser is more bloated than the picture webster includes in the definition of bloated.. well you have to ask yourself if it's necessary.
There is one good thing to this though. As their little comic points out, I will benefit from this new architecture of theirs once the mac version comes out, because when amortized over long periods (I usually keep my browsers open for weeks) the fact that it cuts down on memory leakage will mean it will outperform supposedly "leaner" browsers.
: ) i'm on mac right now, but have been using primarily OSS on the thing for years and am looking to go "pure" so to speak.
The biggest issues i've come up against are opengl performance, a proper imovie replacement (the good imovie, not the dumbed down version), screen calibration, and an efficient, non-windows-like manager which incorporates enough of the things apple did right with finder.
I actually dislike "web apps in windows without an address bar or toolbar"
it's been used as a kind of poor-man's drm for a decade now.
I distinctly remember back when i was on windows and having to jump through hoops and fish through source code on newgrounds to get local copies of the flash files.
care to elaborate on that, or are you just going to assert i'm lazy in some long-winded slight with no basis whatsoever.
if you're talking about reading, the risk spread is much much higher than other media. you have to go through a thousand pages before you find out if a story is unique or "generic genre example number 120". More often than not that is the case.
If it's designed to be actually informative literature, we all know fact checking departments have been excised from publishing firms.
our publishers don't fact check, so reading books is marginally less dependable than reading wikipedia.
they have systematically eradicated any television which attracted intelligent audiences because intelligent people aren't good "consumers".
I've been importing my music for quite some time because US tunes have become a white-wash. Needless to say finding good music now is a research project in itself.
I was referring more to the fact that shop taught them to do things themselves rather than depend on others.
You know.. self-initiative, not be a mindless consumer drone, that kind of thing.
I've seen shorts on shop from that era on mst3k, and for all the riffing, those qualities shown out the most from those courses.
In that case it's not the physical nature of the labor, but the fact that it has practical application to everyday life, and at the same time denies many of today's industries "profits".
you could conceivably have 3 pallets switchable with one of the "trigger" keys (similar to what was used in pso gc, but fitted to more modern controllers)
these could be swapped around in 1.5 seconds to access primary, seocndary, and tertiary priority abilities, and would offer the equivalent of 1-2 action bars.
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so what do you have, 8 years experience and 5 degrees, or 5 years experience and 8 degrees?
I have 2 degrees, am a new entrant, and can't get anything above fast food!
hurray for the "booming" american economy!
So you're willing to degrade my working conditions for that purpose also? You want to bring the U.S. down to India's level? Turn it into a third world sweatshop? Well, good show. That's exactly what our corporate overlords want you to do. It would be better that you demand the right to follow the job to India yourself.
I'm sorry to say this but this is exactly why unions are needed.
Right now i'm trying to get a job as a new workforce entrant and it's horrific.
instead of the cookie-cutter internships I chose to work myself into the ground on two majors, and I can't get arrested.. anywhere.. from forecasting and risk management to bank teller.
I too would gladly take an 80 hour work week if it meant my extended family no longer whispered about me as if I were some kind of convict.
Nobody hires unless you're an order of magnitude overqualified for the position, and you're lucky if they want to pay a living wage.
Everyone wants 3+ years experience (even if they don't say so), and nobody wants to offer it.
I also would be against IT Unions--on the mere basis that (like SatanicPuppy said) my connections would outweigh my skills.
Most times, union or non-union, connections outweigh skills anyhow. I can't count the number of people I've dealt with professionally who talk a good game, know all the right people, and fuck up 90% of the things they touch.
But where's the fun in actually searching for real talent, and looking beyond a pretty face and smooth talk?
I mean, it's "too hard".
Are non-skilled positions artificially kept to a level because of minimum wage laws?
I don't know, are rent levels artificially kept up by land speculators, or just greedy landlords.
seriously, people should be able to make a living, and i'm sorry but teenagers aren't the ones running the mcdonalds before 3 pm.
There are plenty of opportunities if you are severely overqualified
fixed that for you.
it's been my experience as a job hunter that you will not be considered unless you are at least an order of magnitude overqualified for the position.
i live in the midwest and grew up here in union manufacturing towns.
all of those jobs are gone due to overpayment for jobs anyone can do.
forcing higher wages and forcing arbitrary qualifications will do the EXACT same thing to IT jobs.
replace wages with prices.
replace jobs with sales.
now realize that's what happens whenever rabidly anti-union supply side economics are implemented.
and people will make cracking software with an incrementing variable in one section.
it'll never be uncrackable.
you mean an mmo with stakes too much like the real world?
where's the fantasy and escapism when a month of real time progress gets blown to bits by a gate camper?
both, as evidenced by our 70%+ obesity rate.
Considering you need a college level education to get a job stacking boxes in warehouses in this age, I don't see this as a problem.
The few people i've seen without such educations usually don't make enough to afford internet.
in this specific case, the OS in question is vista, an OS which has been shown as bloated enough to cut video rendering performance (games, multimedia) by 10 to 15%.
When a web browser is more bloated than the picture webster includes in the definition of bloated.. well you have to ask yourself if it's necessary.
There is one good thing to this though. As their little comic points out, I will benefit from this new architecture of theirs once the mac version comes out, because when amortized over long periods (I usually keep my browsers open for weeks) the fact that it cuts down on memory leakage will mean it will outperform supposedly "leaner" browsers.
it's beta for god sake..
that's like playing the WoW beta and saying "i fell through the map! what a crappy game!"
This title looks to me more like a bad movie than a story.
You can have the work, but no pay.
if it's in my field i don't mind really.
every job which represents a career path demands 2-5 years experience, none actually provide it.
I'd work with no pay, and i know 100% that my extended family will assist with the whole "food and shelter" thing until that experience was gained.
: ) i'm on mac right now, but have been using primarily OSS on the thing for years and am looking to go "pure" so to speak.
The biggest issues i've come up against are opengl performance, a proper imovie replacement (the good imovie, not the dumbed down version), screen calibration, and an efficient, non-windows-like manager which incorporates enough of the things apple did right with finder.
read their little comic, their browser is specifically purposed to fix those complaints you have about response times.
Still, the lack of equal treatment to mac and linux (at least) is quite annoying
Mac version isn't out yet, not seeing linux or SRC either.
I actually dislike "web apps in windows without an address bar or toolbar"
it's been used as a kind of poor-man's drm for a decade now.
I distinctly remember back when i was on windows and having to jump through hoops and fish through source code on newgrounds to get local copies of the flash files.
what window manager do you use?
overspecialization leads inevitably to destruction of a species.
One of the reasons we've been so successful across the globe is we ourselves are generalists, and we specialize only in our tools.
if we start to breed out the "jocks", "nerds", "heretics", or "conformists", we will start to have problems.
Diversity is important, even if it leads to disagreement.
ah, "really enriching activities" eh?
care to elaborate on that, or are you just going to assert i'm lazy in some long-winded slight with no basis whatsoever.
if you're talking about reading, the risk spread is much much higher than other media. you have to go through a thousand pages before you find out if a story is unique or "generic genre example number 120". More often than not that is the case.
If it's designed to be actually informative literature, we all know fact checking departments have been excised from publishing firms.
This is merely one example.
it's true though.
our publishers don't fact check, so reading books is marginally less dependable than reading wikipedia.
they have systematically eradicated any television which attracted intelligent audiences because intelligent people aren't good "consumers".
I've been importing my music for quite some time because US tunes have become a white-wash. Needless to say finding good music now is a research project in itself.
I was referring more to the fact that shop taught them to do things themselves rather than depend on others.
You know.. self-initiative, not be a mindless consumer drone, that kind of thing.
I've seen shorts on shop from that era on mst3k, and for all the riffing, those qualities shown out the most from those courses.
In that case it's not the physical nature of the labor, but the fact that it has practical application to everyday life, and at the same time denies many of today's industries "profits".
global cooldown in wow is 1.5 seconds.
you could conceivably have 3 pallets switchable with one of the "trigger" keys (similar to what was used in pso gc, but fitted to more modern controllers)
these could be swapped around in 1.5 seconds to access primary, seocndary, and tertiary priority abilities, and would offer the equivalent of 1-2 action bars.
wow, you attacked my lack of caps on an internet forum. does it make you feel good?