Oklahoma City to Dallas is scheduled at 55 minutes gate-to-gate. It's a 3 hour drive. It is usually faster to drive when you consider the total travel time.
It's usually the thousands of jobs and millions of dollars that are infused into the local economy that really matter to the congressman. The donations are relatively meaningless and tend to come from folks on both sides of any issue. Also, as we are talking almost exclusively about publicly traded corporations the "owners" are thousands of normal americans.
The issue is that the relative value of labor in those professions changes over time as circumstances change. This is not unique to capitalism but capitalism is relatively efficient in balancing the value with the compensation. One of the failures of non-capitalistic systems is that they often fail to respond to these changes.
I help companies structure their technology management and governance for a living. I couldn't agree more with the parent post. In the context of a TV station it makes no sense to separate IT and engineering. Much of the underlying infrastructure is common to all functions and it's imperative that content producing functions not be impacted by non-content producing functions.
They are selling record numbers of Macs and the trend is accelerating. How is that a dead market? You have any proof that Macs are on the way out and that iOS will be all they will sell? Nope...didn't think so. I know if it was me I'd want to get out of a market where I'm making huge margins and selling more units every month....NOT!
There are good teachers and good schools out there and there's no doubt that some situations call for specialized training and experience. But, are you seriously trying to make a case that the outcomes for primary education are better for traditional schooling than home schooling? Many studies have shown the opposite to be true. Most home schooled children are very advanced compared to their peers in traditional schools. They have also been shown to not have issues with access to secondary education and have a higher graduation rate as well. Your argument might hold water if not for the abysmal results of public education.
Unfortunately, government programs to redistribute wealth fail to make any distinction between the willfully lazy and someone who's misfortune is due to some other circumstance. She didn't support exploitation of anyone. She supported the willing and free exchange of value/labor in which each person rationally decided what exchanges were in their best interests, free of outside force and coercion. That hardly sounds like someone advocating exploitation.
Citation please? She did not. However, if you look a little deeper into her writings you will find that she fully supported participating in the system to get back some of what had been taken from you. She considered it stupid to not setback what benefit you could.
What "planned/regulated economy"? Your trying to say the early-mid twentieth century US had a planned economy??? She did benefit from the rule of law which has the proper purpose of preventing one person from abusing the rights and property of another through force. You seem to saying she was an anarchist who thought there should be no law or government. That is not the case.
Government interference has certainly distorted the labor market and the relationship between you and your employer but in the end you DO have a choice. You have the right and responsibility of deciding how you live your life. If you don't like what your doing for a living...change it! I escaped the corporate world and discovered that nothing beats being self-employed but even in a conventional job you have much more power than you might think.
Unless your claiming to be a slave, it's up to you. If a company holds your future in their hands then you have done a poor job of exploiting the opportunities offered by a free society. You have the right and the responsibility to determine how you will live your life. You are not a victim unless you choose to be.
Being on salary, which in most cases also means being "exempt", explicitly means you are NOT on the clock. It explicitly means that they are not required to pay you overtime. It explicitly means that You have agreed to do X for $Y. If X requires more than 40 hours and you aren't willing to give it then go get another job, negotiate a raise, or change to being an hourly employee.
You didn't look very hard. There are quite a few, there are even more that $.99 to $3.99. Two bucks is too much for you to contribute to some developer who did a great job of implementing a useful utility?
Objective-C was developed by Next before they were acquired by Apple. It is the basis of all modern OS X and iOS applications. It is also used by the OpenStep framework for other platforms but I wouldn't classify it as widely used. It is really just an object oriented extension to standard C, much as C++ is. In my opinion it has no equal for building dynamic UI APIs. It really is an advantage for iOS. Any competent C programmer can pick up Objective-C in a couple of days.
The problem is it's not 20 devices. It's 10s of thousands or more. You almost had the idea when you mentioned standards. The idea is to make your systems work in a standards based way and make it easy to define what is your problem and what is the devices problem. You make supporting internal users more like supporting users on your external web sites.
VPN in this case only gets you to the Apps/Citrix. The whole concept of inside vs outside changes. User machines are NEVER inside in the traditional sense.
Yes, there will be cases where you have to help the user anyway but there are many, many issues that go away. Do you provide in-depth hardware support for people accessing your web site? Same concept. Limit the scope of what your responsible for.
This "broken" management is pervasive in the software industry. I've worked for/with all the big name companies and many smaller ones as well. In the current environment of mutually assured destruction via patent, they all operate this way. Hence the proliferation of questionable patents.
I think the argument is that for a number of reasons there are a very large number of software patents and many of them are of questionable quality. I've worked for several large software companies and all of them pay bounties for patent submissions and grants. They actively try to create as many patents as possible, regardless of the merits or strategic importance of the patent. There also appears to be a relatively low threshold for the approval of software patents.
Does this same excess occur with other types of patents? Does the patent office seem to display the same willingness to accept almost any filing in other fields?
The idea is that they don't support it in the same way. They support the interface points like VPN, mail server, Citrix, etc. They DON'T support the device itself. They also no longer need to worry about lifecycle management of the device. The idea is to also reduce CAPEX.
Actually, in some cases they DO mandate what tools he buys. For example, a BMW mechanic I know is required to buy a specific laptop, diagnostic software, and a number of specialized tools.
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Oklahoma City to Dallas is scheduled at 55 minutes gate-to-gate. It's a 3 hour drive. It is usually faster to drive when you consider the total travel time.
It's usually the thousands of jobs and millions of dollars that are infused into the local economy that really matter to the congressman. The donations are relatively meaningless and tend to come from folks on both sides of any issue. Also, as we are talking almost exclusively about publicly traded corporations the "owners" are thousands of normal americans.
The issue is that the relative value of labor in those professions changes over time as circumstances change. This is not unique to capitalism but capitalism is relatively efficient in balancing the value with the compensation. One of the failures of non-capitalistic systems is that they often fail to respond to these changes.
I help companies structure their technology management and governance for a living. I couldn't agree more with the parent post. In the context of a TV station it makes no sense to separate IT and engineering. Much of the underlying infrastructure is common to all functions and it's imperative that content producing functions not be impacted by non-content producing functions.
You do realize that the older display port version of the same monitor works fine with PCs??
I agree, I haven't used the internal tuner in years. If I do need a tuner for broadcast TV, my satellite receiver has one built in.
Most of that you can already do with the current AppleTV and an iPad.
They are selling record numbers of Macs and the trend is accelerating. How is that a dead market? You have any proof that Macs are on the way out and that iOS will be all they will sell? Nope...didn't think so. I know if it was me I'd want to get out of a market where I'm making huge margins and selling more units every month....NOT!
There are multiple alternatives to the public education system we have today. You propose a false dichotomy when you say that the choice is either what we have now or "everyone home-schooling". The best answer is for parents to have options and not be forced into sending their kids to a specific public school as is now the case.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/p465n3166123272m/
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0161956X.2000.9681936
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0161956X.2000.9681933
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED378635&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED378635
http://learninfreedom.org/colleges_4_hmsc.html
http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/homeschooled_applicants
http://www.naturemoms.com/homeschool-and-college-acceptance.html
http://www.homeschool.com/articles/College05/default.asp#
There are good teachers and good schools out there and there's no doubt that some situations call for specialized training and experience. But, are you seriously trying to make a case that the outcomes for primary education are better for traditional schooling than home schooling? Many studies have shown the opposite to be true. Most home schooled children are very advanced compared to their peers in traditional schools. They have also been shown to not have issues with access to secondary education and have a higher graduation rate as well. Your argument might hold water if not for the abysmal results of public education.
Unfortunately, government programs to redistribute wealth fail to make any distinction between the willfully lazy and someone who's misfortune is due to some other circumstance. She didn't support exploitation of anyone. She supported the willing and free exchange of value/labor in which each person rationally decided what exchanges were in their best interests, free of outside force and coercion. That hardly sounds like someone advocating exploitation.
Citation please? She did not. However, if you look a little deeper into her writings you will find that she fully supported participating in the system to get back some of what had been taken from you. She considered it stupid to not setback what benefit you could.
What "planned/regulated economy"? Your trying to say the early-mid twentieth century US had a planned economy??? She did benefit from the rule of law which has the proper purpose of preventing one person from abusing the rights and property of another through force. You seem to saying she was an anarchist who thought there should be no law or government. That is not the case.
Government interference has certainly distorted the labor market and the relationship between you and your employer but in the end you DO have a choice. You have the right and responsibility of deciding how you live your life. If you don't like what your doing for a living...change it! I escaped the corporate world and discovered that nothing beats being self-employed but even in a conventional job you have much more power than you might think.
Unless your claiming to be a slave, it's up to you. If a company holds your future in their hands then you have done a poor job of exploiting the opportunities offered by a free society. You have the right and the responsibility to determine how you will live your life. You are not a victim unless you choose to be.
Being on salary, which in most cases also means being "exempt", explicitly means you are NOT on the clock. It explicitly means that they are not required to pay you overtime. It explicitly means that You have agreed to do X for $Y. If X requires more than 40 hours and you aren't willing to give it then go get another job, negotiate a raise, or change to being an hourly employee.
You didn't look very hard. There are quite a few, there are even more that $.99 to $3.99. Two bucks is too much for you to contribute to some developer who did a great job of implementing a useful utility?
Objective-C was developed by Next before they were acquired by Apple. It is the basis of all modern OS X and iOS applications. It is also used by the OpenStep framework for other platforms but I wouldn't classify it as widely used. It is really just an object oriented extension to standard C, much as C++ is. In my opinion it has no equal for building dynamic UI APIs. It really is an advantage for iOS. Any competent C programmer can pick up Objective-C in a couple of days.
No, you pay somebody to be there to help him. You no longer pay other people to manage the workstations and you don't spend capital on HW.
The problem is it's not 20 devices. It's 10s of thousands or more. You almost had the idea when you mentioned standards. The idea is to make your systems work in a standards based way and make it easy to define what is your problem and what is the devices problem. You make supporting internal users more like supporting users on your external web sites.
VPN in this case only gets you to the Apps/Citrix. The whole concept of inside vs outside changes. User machines are NEVER inside in the traditional sense.
Yes, there will be cases where you have to help the user anyway but there are many, many issues that go away. Do you provide in-depth hardware support for people accessing your web site? Same concept. Limit the scope of what your responsible for.
This "broken" management is pervasive in the software industry. I've worked for/with all the big name companies and many smaller ones as well. In the current environment of mutually assured destruction via patent, they all operate this way. Hence the proliferation of questionable patents.
I think the argument is that for a number of reasons there are a very large number of software patents and many of them are of questionable quality. I've worked for several large software companies and all of them pay bounties for patent submissions and grants. They actively try to create as many patents as possible, regardless of the merits or strategic importance of the patent. There also appears to be a relatively low threshold for the approval of software patents.
Does this same excess occur with other types of patents? Does the patent office seem to display the same willingness to accept almost any filing in other fields?
The idea is that they don't support it in the same way. They support the interface points like VPN, mail server, Citrix, etc. They DON'T support the device itself. They also no longer need to worry about lifecycle management of the device. The idea is to also reduce CAPEX.
Actually, in some cases they DO mandate what tools he buys. For example, a BMW mechanic I know is required to buy a specific laptop, diagnostic software, and a number of specialized tools.