I have a very diversified staff, and I think it works better than a very homogeneous collection of white middle-aged men. Women and people from other cultures have a different paradigm, and that helps my company to be creative and effective. Not only gender- and culture-diversification is important to me, but also people with very distinct ways of thinking. I select one half of my higher management to be PHD's and the other half to be autodidactic. This strategy has worked out very good for my company.
The average income doesn't matter to the discussion because comparing the income of someone who flips burgers at McDonalds an a associate producer for Nintendo of America is pointless. Comparing his salary with his peers makes more sense to me, and compared to his peers he doesn't earn allot.
I think it was clear that I was not actually calling him poor. I was saying that he didn't make allot of money for the kind of job that he had.
I didn't say he was poor, I said "he's almost poor";
My point was that the article pitched him as a bigshot at NOA, but with that kind of salery in the US, he can't be.
I live in the Netherlands, and I earned 25 euro per hour 5 years ago with a simple part-time PHP/MySQL QA job. And now that I have my own company, I earn his annual salary per month.
And the average income in the US doesn't say anything, all those McDonalds and WallMart jobs pay less than hobo's get with begging on the street.
He only makes something like $18.75 per hour... that's not the kind of money I expected.
He earned 7 something (I'll translate that into 7.5) per hour when he started and at the end he earned 150% more. So 7.5 * 2.5 = 18.75. Let's say he works 160 hours per month: 160 * 18.75 = 3000. Let's be kind and give him 13 payschecks per year: 3000 * 13 = 39 000.
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
"Why do *you* think this system is *not* overkill?"
1. Security. I don't want my girlfriend to be able to change my preferences. I don't want visitors (kids and/or family) to be able to select my "super ultra hardcore porn channel".
2. Speed. When I grab the remote with RFID-scanner my tv instantly knows who I am. I don't have to go through a list of users.
Disclamer: I actually don't think RFID is the best solution for this 'problem'. I think face-recognition is way better.
We've survived thousands of years without tv, tv-remotes, radio, computers, the internet, (mobile) phones, electricity, soap, toilets, toiletpaper, shoes, penicillin and the list goes on and on and on..... so that stuff is all "Massive technological overkill" (if we'd follow your line of thought) because we can survive without it.
My point is: Your kind of argument is soooo lame, it is even lamer than TiVo's patent.
I don't think your graphicscard is the problem. My testmachine has an ATI Rage Pro 4MB PCI graphicscard and it runs perfectly with the latest X. So I doubt that an ATI Rage 128 isn't good enough.
Your CPU or the amount of RAM is the most probable cause of the slow performance.
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I guess they think porn is not important enough to make a category about. Not even the soft stuff like 'erotica'...
Very stange considering that porn is largely responible for the growth of the web.
"This strategy has worked out very good for my company."
Ouch! I whish slashdot would let me edit my comments...
But let the record show: This strategy has worked out very well for my company.
I don't get it...
What does that have to do with the discussion?
But to answer your 'question':
I have a very diversified staff, and I think it works better than a very homogeneous collection of white middle-aged men. Women and people from other cultures have a different paradigm, and that helps my company to be creative and effective. Not only gender- and culture-diversification is important to me, but also people with very distinct ways of thinking. I select one half of my higher management to be PHD's and the other half to be autodidactic. This strategy has worked out very good for my company.
The average income doesn't matter to the discussion because comparing the income of someone who flips burgers at McDonalds an a associate producer for Nintendo of America is pointless. Comparing his salary with his peers makes more sense to me, and compared to his peers he doesn't earn allot.
I think it was clear that I was not actually calling him poor. I was saying that he didn't make allot of money for the kind of job that he had.
I didn't say he was poor, I said "he's almost poor";
My point was that the article pitched him as a bigshot at NOA, but with that kind of salery in the US, he can't be.
I live in the Netherlands, and I earned 25 euro per hour 5 years ago with a simple part-time PHP/MySQL QA job. And now that I have my own company, I earn his annual salary per month.
And the average income in the US doesn't say anything, all those McDonalds and WallMart jobs pay less than hobo's get with begging on the street.
He only makes something like $18.75 per hour... that's not the kind of money I expected.
He earned 7 something (I'll translate that into 7.5) per hour when he started and at the end he earned 150% more. So 7.5 * 2.5 = 18.75. Let's say he works 160 hours per month: 160 * 18.75 = 3000. Let's be kind and give him 13 payschecks per year: 3000 * 13 = 39 000.
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
even if it did, you could rip it out...
That's the beauty of open source, it's very resistent against unwanted stuff.
When I watched The X-Files 10 years ago I thought: "this is bullshit, the government is way to incompetent for that kind of stuff".
These kind of screwups are very effective conspiracykillers...
They don't even support ogg-vorbis, PNG or OASIS openDocuments.
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http://www.glidedigital.com/supported_formats.asp
Sure, but there were humans thousands of years before 2800 BC.
"Why do *you* think this system is *not* overkill?"
1. Security. I don't want my girlfriend to be able to change my preferences. I don't want visitors (kids and/or family) to be able to select my "super ultra hardcore porn channel".
2. Speed. When I grab the remote with RFID-scanner my tv instantly knows who I am. I don't have to go through a list of users.
Disclamer: I actually don't think RFID is the best solution for this 'problem'. I think face-recognition is way better.
We've survived thousands of years without tv, tv-remotes, radio, computers, the internet, (mobile) phones, electricity, soap, toilets, toiletpaper, shoes, penicillin and the list goes on and on and on..... so that stuff is all "Massive technological overkill" (if we'd follow your line of thought) because we can survive without it.
My point is: Your kind of argument is soooo lame, it is even lamer than TiVo's patent.
I don't think your graphicscard is the problem. My testmachine has an ATI Rage Pro 4MB PCI graphicscard and it runs perfectly with the latest X. So I doubt that an ATI Rage 128 isn't good enough.
Your CPU or the amount of RAM is the most probable cause of the slow performance.