we know enough of the history of earth to the extent that we can say ice ages do not recur in 10 k year intervals, leave aside an ice age which has ended 10 k years ago again 'ending' just after 10 k years, which is the current case.
let me put your temperature woes into perspective - if the glacier retreat is happening faster than it should with the temperature change in those areas, which is the case, then it means that there is an even greater problem, only magnified by the temperature rise. we are talking about climate change here. not temperature increase. you shouldnt err thinking that 'global warming' will mean the earth will get warm everywhere, for you seem to be talking in that direction.
the thing is, polls and statistics rarely take into account the vastness of small businesses (of the level ma & pa shop) and individual enterpreneurs who are establishing their own business.
just like webpages. blogs of many individuals do not make enough content to be compared to cnn each themselves, but there is a sea of such individuals. i dont think anyone would object if i say that majority of the content on the internet is created by such individuals, ie, us, 'the people'.
in ecommerce its no different. hundreds of businesses that are of level medium and bigger may be using sharepoint and running 1-2 ecommerce sites, but there are millions of individuals and small businesses which are doing greater sales in total through their open source stores, when all combined.
its just the nature of internet. nothing else. however, its often overlooked in corporate level statistics.
no, you should take up advice once and research in the direction you pointed.
the glacier meltdown rate in the last decade is parabolic. there is NO way to compare it to anything in the history of the earth. you cant explain the phenomenon with concepts like 'interglacial' or anything. there isnt any comparable data in history, OR in the article you use as example.
the current meltdown rate surpasses even the meltdown rate at the end of last ice age. this could at most be the abnormal 'second ending' of the ice age which already had ended, even if you maniacally attempted to apply that half assed private interest excuse of a theory.
and again, you use the police example this time, but forget that police uses those equipment against people who have no comparable arms and armor (riot armor) against them.
back 2-3 years ago, greenpeace used shields in their demonstration in italy once. police wasnt able to do shit. later they had to negotiate and make a deal with greenpeace not to use shields in any further protests in future.
just pitt 2 similarly equipped police forces against each other and think the results. tear gas, flash bombs, this that wouldnt do any affect to either party because they are both similarly armed.
when you bring up sarin gas, it still doesnt make any sense. sarin gas wont do any affect against aircraft taking of from airfields, or cruise missiles. modern world warfare examples are irrelevant to subject.
you are setting up a situation in which the machine gun is going to be much more superior. there are hundreds of yards in between the machinegun and its enemies, the enemies dont have weapons to hit him from that range, and they cant naturally close in.
it is little different from placing a rogue with no evasion ability 100 yards from an archer that has rapid shot. if you set it up that way, anything becomes a 'crowd control'. situation is not equal.
in a real life situation the infantry would have bazookas or grenade launchers to use against emplacements.
in ANY case, evne if they didnt, they would STILL be able to at least retreat and try to go around the emplacement, which was the method usually attempted in ww1, in the period where machinegun was dominant.
with crowd control concept in rpgs you cant do anything.
guy, read what you are linking before using it as an argument.
There have been at least four major ice ages in the Earth's past. Outside these periods, the Earth seems to have been ice-free even in high latitudes.[citation needed]
Rocks from the earliest well established ice age, called the Huronian, formed around 2.4 to 2.1 Ga (billion) years ago during the early Proterozoic Eon. Several hundreds of km of the Huronian Supergroup are exposed 10-100 km north the North Shore of Lake Huron extending from near St. Ste. Marie to Sudbury NE of Lake Huron. with giant layers of now-lithified till beds, dropstones, varves, outwash, scoured basement rocks. Correlative Huronian deposits have been found near Marquette, Michigan and correlation has been made with Paleoproterozic glacial deposits from Western Australia.
The next well-documented ice age, and probably the most severe of the last billion years, occurred from 850 to 630 million years ago (the Cryogenian period) and may have produced a Snowball Earth in which glacial ice sheets reached the equator,[26] possibly being ended by the accumulation of greenhouse gases such as CO2 produced by volcanoes. "The presence of ice on the continents and pack ice on the oceans would inhibit both silicate weathering and photosynthesis, which are the two major sinks for CO2 at present."[27] It has been suggested that the end of this ice age was responsible for the subsequent Ediacaran and Cambrian Explosion, though this model is recent and controversial.
A minor ice age, the Andean-Saharan, occurred from 460 to 430 million years ago, during the Late Ordovician and the Silurian period. There were extensive polar ice caps at intervals from 350 to 260 million years ago in South Africa during the Carboniferous and early Permian Periods, associated with the Karoo Ice Age. Correlatives are known from Argentina, also forming in the center of the ancient supercontinent Gondwanaland.
An ice sheet on Antarctica began to grow some 20 million years ago. The current ice age, the Pliocene-Quaternary glaciation, started about 2.58 million years ago. during the late Pliocene when the spread of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere began. Since then, the world has seen cycles of glaciation with ice sheets advancing and retreating on 40,000- and 100,000-year time scales called glacials (glacial advance) and interglacials (glacial retreat). The earth is currently in an interglacial, and the last glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago. All that remains of the continental ice sheets are the Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets and smaller glaciers such as on Baffin Island. Sediment records showing the fluctuating sequences of glacials and interglacials during the last several million years.
Ice ages can be further divided by location and time; for example, the names Riss (180,000–130,000 years bp) and Würm (70,000–10,000 years bp) refer specifically to glaciation in the Alpine region. Note that the maximum extent of the ice is not maintained for the full interval. Unfortunately, the scouring action of each glaciation tends to remove most of the evidence of prior ice sheets almost completely, except in regions where the later sheet does not achieve full coverage.
5 major ice ages are named, and only one minor age named 130 million years ago. since the last ice age ended 10.000 years ago, according to your source, wouldnt it be rather hilarious for an ice age to again be coming just now and stirring up nonsense this way ?
however since our glaciers are melting in paranormal speeds, which cannot be matched with any records provided in any source, including your wikipedia article, icelanders, for the first time in their history, started to raise and eat fresh vegetables, coastlines are being gulped in australia and oceania, any soul would be stupid to come up and say that another ice age was coming.
the current status of glaciers is not a 'retreat'. it is a meltdown. google it.
'recurring ice age that matches the current climate change pattern'. if that bullshit is to be accepted, the world would have to have experienced ice ages every 20-30.000 years, wiping out many species and making the world a rather barren planet due to the fallout from frequent and sudden (in regard to speed of evolution) changes in climate.
why shouldnt i become 'defensive', when there are dozens of zealots assaulting with snubbing, scornful, and even irrelevant, personal attacks ?
give me ANY logic that i shouldnt be 'defensive' and be accepting them lovingly, with open arms, like a jesus on the cross, and ignore all the elitism and ignorance in the posts.
just do this, and i will drop all the arguments.
It is quite amusing to me to watch you continually fail to look convincing with your arguments, simply because of your zealotry and arrogance.
i wonder why the fuck one would feel the need to let the 'amusing party' know that they are being amused. if you are being amused, be amused by yourself in a corner or something. trying to belittle someone you are arguing against with such bullshit instead of any tangible argument is much more 'amusing' in itself.
There are more people who run SharePoint than oscommerce, when they want a web dev, they aren't hiring PHP guys.
no there arent. corporate world is quite unaware of the dynamics of the 'people's web.
i would reply to you earnestly, however i noticed that yours, not my approach has a lot of elitism and fanboyism. from 'better languages' mindset to the mindset that can easily be modified to say that majority of content on the web are created by sources like cnn, facebook etc.
apologies, i cant waste my time arguing with someone who can right out of the bat say that there are more 'people' using shareopoint server than oscommerce. you have no idea what you are talking about. do some research on oscommerce.
yea you indeed forgot. they really hurled grenades and used special equipment, including pipe guns and bazookas that were designed to undo emplacements.
flashbang, smoke grenade, tear gas, mustard gas, water cannons. these are not used in modern warfare, apart from mustard gas. all of the things you mentioned are what is used against unarmed crowds to suppress them by the police. its irrelevant.
mustard gas doesnt debilitate you. it doesnt prevent your abilities to retaliate. your artillery can still shoot, your planes still drop bombs. you shouldnt pick examples from modern warfare, for modern warfare is no longer individual dependant.
And that's a good point. The fundamental entertainment value of any RPG is that the player is a hero, not a peasant pikeman who gets paid by pillaging if his side wins, or will just be executed out of hand if they lose.
no it isnt. the fundamental entertainment value of any RPG is being a ROLE PLAYING game.
it was as such back in 90s. when gaming became increasingly industrialized, big buck corporations increasingly put demands on developers to make games that 'sold'. one of the consequences of this has been the method to exploit psychological factors in individual or social psychology. the 'hero' bait is one of these. notice how many games are there that puts the player in 'hero's shoes. we save the world in every goddamn game. and in the end, every single game starts to resemble each other - do this, do that, hey youre big guy - saved the world.
there goes the roleplay. there goes the uniqueness there goes atmosphere, there goes the feel.
playing a serf pikeman who could be executed if they lost a battle is EXACTLY roleplaying. escaping to city to escape execution, pulling off becoming a citizen in the free city then working your way up to a small office or merchant position is exactly what would be roleplaying, and what would be the format of an extremely engaging and atmospheric game. i will leave you to think about the possibilities.
first, there are a lot high charging companies and individuals which would make the AVERAGE $20, and i assure you the indian houses which charge supposedly $5-10 are coming up close to average with the methods they employ or extra charges in the end.
and one wonders, what would the real hourly rate of a salaried individual who is working for a corporate position would happen to be if all the extra time s/he is required to spend for the corporation counted in.
that was what i said. suppressive fire does not freeze you. you can still respond and destroy the machine gun emplacement. suppressive fire just prevents you from charging to the emplacement headbutt, unless you have an armored vehicle.
all those 'theories' about recurring ice age climate changes have come up RIGHT after the 'theory' about solar flares causing global warming went to wastebin due to the sun going to its most silent period ever known.
if there were such recurring ice ages and climate changes that closely coincided with the situation in our hands, such theories and information should have been already known beforehand and discussed way before the climate change debate started.
yet, it was such that first the solar flare excuse came first, then the ice age excuse. both were generally mainly from the individual 'research' organizations who worked for the high payer anyway. especially from america. not europe. way too much coincidence and discrepancy to make the recurring ice age bullshit which was somehow not 'recurring' just 20 years ago to be taken seriously.
you really have no idea of what world crowd control means then.
suppression, choke points and so on - NONE of these prevent you from retaliating against your enemy. even if hurling a grenade requires concentration, you can STILL hurl a grenade. there were and are assigned and trained individuals in squads of many armies for that task even.
i was going to reply to you, but i noticed that your arguments were way too scattered, and irrelevant. agincourt was not an example for a crowd control setting, it was an example for ranged for example. its too much hassle to reply to your arguments, therefore ill pass.
your arguments make no sense. first you said that medieval soldiers were underfed, then you switched to knights being superior to foot soldiers.
your argument is still wrong historically tho, even in twisted form - lords did not expend their permanent soldiers that willy nilly in battles. the cannon fodders you speak of were generally of serfs, conscripted before the battle and given arms. most of the time, they werent even given proper arms.
Others have correctly pointed out that rentacoder is not "the industry", nor does it represent enterprise-level development. Having said that, they take refuge in the popularity of ASP.NET vs PHP, with many declarations about the superiority of MS in the enterprise. The argument of one vs. the other is sadly lacking in specificity on either side -- perhaps because EITHER can be used to achieve the same result. Upside potential and risk are pretty much the same.
pure ignorance and microsoft elitism. thats what they are in.
looking at their talk one would think that there are innumerable corporate asp.net positions flying around for anyone to have a grab at. the truth is, as one of the idiots himself posted, there are only 74 so positions open on a site like dice. merely 74. 74 good paying corporate positions. as if any individual with asp.net capability can snatch any job like that. there are innumerable crappy positions that are being offered for asp.net in business, just like any other field of expertise.
elance, rentacoder are no different. there are crappy jobs in which someone wants to get juice out of you for $10/hour, there are jobs which are 5-10 k in budget that only highly reputed houses/individuals can get.
NO different from any other position.
To me, the benefit of ASP.NET is the commoditization of developers. I think it is easier to treat people interchangeably in a world where the architectural choices are narrow. Some enterprises live in perpetual "risk management" mode, one of the chief risks being sudden departure of key employees. If there is one place where the MS platform shines, this is it. The next geek can be inserted almost as readily a replacing a USB mouse.
you have as well interchangeability in lamp. moreover, due to the programming processes becoming increasingly standardized in lamp world, a person who is an expert in one well coded software does not have much problems working on another similarly well coded software.
Garbage code is abundant on both platforms. In the world of LAMP, there is the lower echelon of rentacoder where people try to cobble together systems for pocket change. The amazing part is not that it works well, but that it works at all.
it isnt amazing. it is actually quite simple. the bulk of the needs of clients generally fall in similar lines. if you are a house/individual that has done many such implementations, inevitably you end up with code that can be reused. this is what the indian houses are generally doing. when they give a shitty $100 budget for a generic clone job, they are NOT doing programming from scratch. they are jumping in because your specs are almost the same with what custom script they have. they calculate that they can make a profit over the time they do the modifications to their existing script, and they jump in. naturally they win the project and deliver and it even works. because, it has been done before. its not development in a sense - its a software sale.
the 'real money' is in unique, uncommon implementations. these tend to have higher budgets, and these are the ones indian houses (the lowest bidders) cant bid dimes. you would find that many of the indian houses that bid dimes to other 'projects' would bid proper, if lower budgets for such projects. the reason is simple - its a unique implementation, and henceforth a premade code does not exist for it yet. it is real programming.
The real enemy of LAMP and ASP is not Java, it is Flash. Foolish people are easily swayed by cute graphics -- even when eye candy is not helping.
the thing is, any part-time ecommerce store owner or website operator soon learns that flash does not do things in backend. clients do request flash elements to look shiney in some parts, but i have found the majority of them quite informed and knowledgeable in ways of practicality regarding dynamic sites and estores. up to this point i had few uninformed individuals who requested quotes for 'flash estores' or the like.
and tell me whether they deserve any reply, leave aside any grammar.
7 out of 10 seems to be corporate slaves who are working their ass off in microsoft infrastructures, and being elitist about it. their image of free contracting world seems to be comprised of $20 scripts and $100 twitter clones, utterly painting a picture of utmost ignorance and cockiness.
the rest seems to be immersed so much in the corporate world that they think some sizeable corporations running ecommerce outfits with ibm products constitute the bulk of commerce on the web, totally being unaware of the innumerable small businesses that are being run on free lamp software. with their logic one would easily say that the content creation on the net comprises of cnn, nbc, facebook, twitter, totally ignoring maybe 90% of the rest of the content on the web. more or less the same thing.
corporate ignorance, and arrogance i say. they wont know anything before they go out to work on their own - which, i admit, is a very, very scary prospect for many that are used to corporate 'comfort'. no point in replying to them.
and all the projects which are contracted out in those sites are made up of 'give me a twitter clone for $100'.
excuse me, but if you are going to retort about something, go learn about it first. the minimum budget of ANYthing on elance can be $50, leave aside a twitter clone for $100. and most often than not, in such postings like the one you mentioned, the budget in the end comes up being readjusted to become more realistic, if there isnt anyone who already has a premade script that fully or approximately satisfies the client's demands for an acceptable budget.
next time you are going to shit online about something you dont know well, dont. you are making yourself look ridiculous.
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you are aware that it wont take long before some party comes up with a working DECAF after this point, right ?
we know enough of the history of earth to the extent that we can say ice ages do not recur in 10 k year intervals, leave aside an ice age which has ended 10 k years ago again 'ending' just after 10 k years, which is the current case.
let me put your temperature woes into perspective - if the glacier retreat is happening faster than it should with the temperature change in those areas, which is the case, then it means that there is an even greater problem, only magnified by the temperature rise. we are talking about climate change here. not temperature increase. you shouldnt err thinking that 'global warming' will mean the earth will get warm everywhere, for you seem to be talking in that direction.
the thing is, polls and statistics rarely take into account the vastness of small businesses (of the level ma & pa shop) and individual enterpreneurs who are establishing their own business.
just like webpages. blogs of many individuals do not make enough content to be compared to cnn each themselves, but there is a sea of such individuals. i dont think anyone would object if i say that majority of the content on the internet is created by such individuals, ie, us, 'the people'.
in ecommerce its no different. hundreds of businesses that are of level medium and bigger may be using sharepoint and running 1-2 ecommerce sites, but there are millions of individuals and small businesses which are doing greater sales in total through their open source stores, when all combined.
its just the nature of internet. nothing else. however, its often overlooked in corporate level statistics.
and you specialize in what ? pulling statistics out of your ass ?
99% ? not 87.5% or 79.1% ? give me a break.
no, you should take up advice once and research in the direction you pointed.
the glacier meltdown rate in the last decade is parabolic. there is NO way to compare it to anything in the history of the earth. you cant explain the phenomenon with concepts like 'interglacial' or anything. there isnt any comparable data in history, OR in the article you use as example.
the current meltdown rate surpasses even the meltdown rate at the end of last ice age. this could at most be the abnormal 'second ending' of the ice age which already had ended, even if you maniacally attempted to apply that half assed private interest excuse of a theory.
you were the one using army example.
and again, you use the police example this time, but forget that police uses those equipment against people who have no comparable arms and armor (riot armor) against them.
back 2-3 years ago, greenpeace used shields in their demonstration in italy once. police wasnt able to do shit. later they had to negotiate and make a deal with greenpeace not to use shields in any further protests in future.
just pitt 2 similarly equipped police forces against each other and think the results. tear gas, flash bombs, this that wouldnt do any affect to either party because they are both similarly armed.
when you bring up sarin gas, it still doesnt make any sense. sarin gas wont do any affect against aircraft taking of from airfields, or cruise missiles. modern world warfare examples are irrelevant to subject.
you still dont get it.
you are setting up a situation in which the machine gun is going to be much more superior. there are hundreds of yards in between the machinegun and its enemies, the enemies dont have weapons to hit him from that range, and they cant naturally close in.
it is little different from placing a rogue with no evasion ability 100 yards from an archer that has rapid shot. if you set it up that way, anything becomes a 'crowd control'. situation is not equal.
in a real life situation the infantry would have bazookas or grenade launchers to use against emplacements.
in ANY case, evne if they didnt, they would STILL be able to at least retreat and try to go around the emplacement, which was the method usually attempted in ww1, in the period where machinegun was dominant.
with crowd control concept in rpgs you cant do anything.
guy, read what you are linking before using it as an argument.
There have been at least four major ice ages in the Earth's past. Outside these periods, the Earth seems to have been ice-free even in high latitudes.[citation needed]
Rocks from the earliest well established ice age, called the Huronian, formed around 2.4 to 2.1 Ga (billion) years ago during the early Proterozoic Eon. Several hundreds of km of the Huronian Supergroup are exposed 10-100 km north the North Shore of Lake Huron extending from near St. Ste. Marie to Sudbury NE of Lake Huron. with giant layers of now-lithified till beds, dropstones, varves, outwash, scoured basement rocks. Correlative Huronian deposits have been found near Marquette, Michigan and correlation has been made with Paleoproterozic glacial deposits from Western Australia.
The next well-documented ice age, and probably the most severe of the last billion years, occurred from 850 to 630 million years ago (the Cryogenian period) and may have produced a Snowball Earth in which glacial ice sheets reached the equator,[26] possibly being ended by the accumulation of greenhouse gases such as CO2 produced by volcanoes. "The presence of ice on the continents and pack ice on the oceans would inhibit both silicate weathering and photosynthesis, which are the two major sinks for CO2 at present."[27] It has been suggested that the end of this ice age was responsible for the subsequent Ediacaran and Cambrian Explosion, though this model is recent and controversial.
A minor ice age, the Andean-Saharan, occurred from 460 to 430 million years ago, during the Late Ordovician and the Silurian period. There were extensive polar ice caps at intervals from 350 to 260 million years ago in South Africa during the Carboniferous and early Permian Periods, associated with the Karoo Ice Age. Correlatives are known from Argentina, also forming in the center of the ancient supercontinent Gondwanaland.
An ice sheet on Antarctica began to grow some 20 million years ago. The current ice age, the Pliocene-Quaternary glaciation, started about 2.58 million years ago. during the late Pliocene when the spread of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere began. Since then, the world has seen cycles of glaciation with ice sheets advancing and retreating on 40,000- and 100,000-year time scales called glacials (glacial advance) and interglacials (glacial retreat). The earth is currently in an interglacial, and the last glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago. All that remains of the continental ice sheets are the Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets and smaller glaciers such as on Baffin Island.
Sediment records showing the fluctuating sequences of glacials and interglacials during the last several million years.
Ice ages can be further divided by location and time; for example, the names Riss (180,000–130,000 years bp) and Würm (70,000–10,000 years bp) refer specifically to glaciation in the Alpine region. Note that the maximum extent of the ice is not maintained for the full interval. Unfortunately, the scouring action of each glaciation tends to remove most of the evidence of prior ice sheets almost completely, except in regions where the later sheet does not achieve full coverage.
5 major ice ages are named, and only one minor age named 130 million years ago. since the last ice age ended 10.000 years ago, according to your source, wouldnt it be rather hilarious for an ice age to again be coming just now and stirring up nonsense this way ?
however since our glaciers are melting in paranormal speeds, which cannot be matched with any records provided in any source, including your wikipedia article, icelanders, for the first time in their history, started to raise and eat fresh vegetables, coastlines are being gulped in australia and oceania, any soul would be stupid to come up and say that another ice age was coming.
the current status of glaciers is not a 'retreat'. it is a meltdown. google it.
learn to read long phrases.
'recurring ice age that matches the current climate change pattern'. if that bullshit is to be accepted, the world would have to have experienced ice ages every 20-30.000 years, wiping out many species and making the world a rather barren planet due to the fallout from frequent and sudden (in regard to speed of evolution) changes in climate.
why shouldnt i become 'defensive', when there are dozens of zealots assaulting with snubbing, scornful, and even irrelevant, personal attacks ?
give me ANY logic that i shouldnt be 'defensive' and be accepting them lovingly, with open arms, like a jesus on the cross, and ignore all the elitism and ignorance in the posts.
just do this, and i will drop all the arguments.
It is quite amusing to me to watch you continually fail to look convincing with your arguments, simply because of your zealotry and arrogance.
i wonder why the fuck one would feel the need to let the 'amusing party' know that they are being amused. if you are being amused, be amused by yourself in a corner or something. trying to belittle someone you are arguing against with such bullshit instead of any tangible argument is much more 'amusing' in itself.
There are more people who run SharePoint than oscommerce, when they want a web dev, they aren't hiring PHP guys.
no there arent. corporate world is quite unaware of the dynamics of the 'people's web.
i would reply to you earnestly, however i noticed that yours, not my approach has a lot of elitism and fanboyism. from 'better languages' mindset to the mindset that can easily be modified to say that majority of content on the web are created by sources like cnn, facebook etc.
apologies, i cant waste my time arguing with someone who can right out of the bat say that there are more 'people' using shareopoint server than oscommerce. you have no idea what you are talking about. do some research on oscommerce.
yea you indeed forgot. they really hurled grenades and used special equipment, including pipe guns and bazookas that were designed to undo emplacements.
flashbang, smoke grenade, tear gas, mustard gas, water cannons. these are not used in modern warfare, apart from mustard gas. all of the things you mentioned are what is used against unarmed crowds to suppress them by the police. its irrelevant.
mustard gas doesnt debilitate you. it doesnt prevent your abilities to retaliate. your artillery can still shoot, your planes still drop bombs. you shouldnt pick examples from modern warfare, for modern warfare is no longer individual dependant.
And that's a good point. The fundamental entertainment value of any RPG is that the player is a hero, not a peasant pikeman who gets paid by pillaging if his side wins, or will just be executed out of hand if they lose.
no it isnt. the fundamental entertainment value of any RPG is being a ROLE PLAYING game.
it was as such back in 90s. when gaming became increasingly industrialized, big buck corporations increasingly put demands on developers to make games that 'sold'. one of the consequences of this has been the method to exploit psychological factors in individual or social psychology. the 'hero' bait is one of these. notice how many games are there that puts the player in 'hero's shoes. we save the world in every goddamn game. and in the end, every single game starts to resemble each other - do this, do that, hey youre big guy - saved the world.
there goes the roleplay. there goes the uniqueness there goes atmosphere, there goes the feel.
playing a serf pikeman who could be executed if they lost a battle is EXACTLY roleplaying. escaping to city to escape execution, pulling off becoming a citizen in the free city then working your way up to a small office or merchant position is exactly what would be roleplaying, and what would be the format of an extremely engaging and atmospheric game. i will leave you to think about the possibilities.
first, there are a lot high charging companies and individuals which would make the AVERAGE $20, and i assure you the indian houses which charge supposedly $5-10 are coming up close to average with the methods they employ or extra charges in the end.
and one wonders, what would the real hourly rate of a salaried individual who is working for a corporate position would happen to be if all the extra time s/he is required to spend for the corporation counted in.
that was what i said. suppressive fire does not freeze you. you can still respond and destroy the machine gun emplacement. suppressive fire just prevents you from charging to the emplacement headbutt, unless you have an armored vehicle.
all those 'theories' about recurring ice age climate changes have come up RIGHT after the 'theory' about solar flares causing global warming went to wastebin due to the sun going to its most silent period ever known.
if there were such recurring ice ages and climate changes that closely coincided with the situation in our hands, such theories and information should have been already known beforehand and discussed way before the climate change debate started.
yet, it was such that first the solar flare excuse came first, then the ice age excuse. both were generally mainly from the individual 'research' organizations who worked for the high payer anyway. especially from america. not europe. way too much coincidence and discrepancy to make the recurring ice age bullshit which was somehow not 'recurring' just 20 years ago to be taken seriously.
tell that to the innumerable ms zealots who posted replies to the parent with scornful retorts.
'runscript killallhostiles' in the final 25% of the game.
you really have no idea of what world crowd control means then.
suppression, choke points and so on - NONE of these prevent you from retaliating against your enemy. even if hurling a grenade requires concentration, you can STILL hurl a grenade. there were and are assigned and trained individuals in squads of many armies for that task even.
i was going to reply to you, but i noticed that your arguments were way too scattered, and irrelevant. agincourt was not an example for a crowd control setting, it was an example for ranged for example. its too much hassle to reply to your arguments, therefore ill pass.
your arguments make no sense. first you said that medieval soldiers were underfed, then you switched to knights being superior to foot soldiers.
your argument is still wrong historically tho, even in twisted form - lords did not expend their permanent soldiers that willy nilly in battles. the cannon fodders you speak of were generally of serfs, conscripted before the battle and given arms. most of the time, they werent even given proper arms.
Others have correctly pointed out that rentacoder is not "the industry", nor does it represent enterprise-level development. Having said that, they take refuge in the popularity of ASP .NET vs PHP, with many declarations about the superiority of MS in the enterprise. The argument of one vs. the other is sadly lacking in specificity on either side -- perhaps because EITHER can be used to achieve the same result. Upside potential and risk are pretty much the same.
pure ignorance and microsoft elitism. thats what they are in.
looking at their talk one would think that there are innumerable corporate asp.net positions flying around for anyone to have a grab at. the truth is, as one of the idiots himself posted, there are only 74 so positions open on a site like dice. merely 74. 74 good paying corporate positions. as if any individual with asp.net capability can snatch any job like that. there are innumerable crappy positions that are being offered for asp.net in business, just like any other field of expertise.
elance, rentacoder are no different. there are crappy jobs in which someone wants to get juice out of you for $10/hour, there are jobs which are 5-10 k in budget that only highly reputed houses/individuals can get.
NO different from any other position.
To me, the benefit of ASP .NET is the commoditization of developers. I think it is easier to treat people interchangeably in a world where the architectural choices are narrow. Some enterprises live in perpetual "risk management" mode, one of the chief risks being sudden departure of key employees. If there is one place where the MS platform shines, this is it. The next geek can be inserted almost as readily a replacing a USB mouse.
you have as well interchangeability in lamp. moreover, due to the programming processes becoming increasingly standardized in lamp world, a person who is an expert in one well coded software does not have much problems working on another similarly well coded software.
Garbage code is abundant on both platforms. In the world of LAMP, there is the lower echelon of rentacoder where people try to cobble together systems for pocket change. The amazing part is not that it works well, but that it works at all.
it isnt amazing. it is actually quite simple. the bulk of the needs of clients generally fall in similar lines. if you are a house/individual that has done many such implementations, inevitably you end up with code that can be reused. this is what the indian houses are generally doing. when they give a shitty $100 budget for a generic clone job, they are NOT doing programming from scratch. they are jumping in because your specs are almost the same with what custom script they have. they calculate that they can make a profit over the time they do the modifications to their existing script, and they jump in. naturally they win the project and deliver and it even works. because, it has been done before. its not development in a sense - its a software sale.
the 'real money' is in unique, uncommon implementations. these tend to have higher budgets, and these are the ones indian houses (the lowest bidders) cant bid dimes. you would find that many of the indian houses that bid dimes to other 'projects' would bid proper, if lower budgets for such projects. the reason is simple - its a unique implementation, and henceforth a premade code does not exist for it yet. it is real programming.
The real enemy of LAMP and ASP is not Java, it is Flash. Foolish people are easily swayed by cute graphics -- even when eye candy is not helping.
the thing is, any part-time ecommerce store owner or website operator soon learns that flash does not do things in backend. clients do request flash elements to look shiney in some parts, but i have found the majority of them quite informed and knowledgeable in ways of practicality regarding dynamic sites and estores. up to this point i had few uninformed individuals who requested quotes for 'flash estores' or the like.
and tell me whether they deserve any reply, leave aside any grammar.
7 out of 10 seems to be corporate slaves who are working their ass off in microsoft infrastructures, and being elitist about it. their image of free contracting world seems to be comprised of $20 scripts and $100 twitter clones, utterly painting a picture of utmost ignorance and cockiness.
the rest seems to be immersed so much in the corporate world that they think some sizeable corporations running ecommerce outfits with ibm products constitute the bulk of commerce on the web, totally being unaware of the innumerable small businesses that are being run on free lamp software. with their logic one would easily say that the content creation on the net comprises of cnn, nbc, facebook, twitter, totally ignoring maybe 90% of the rest of the content on the web. more or less the same thing.
corporate ignorance, and arrogance i say. they wont know anything before they go out to work on their own - which, i admit, is a very, very scary prospect for many that are used to corporate 'comfort'. no point in replying to them.
and all the projects which are contracted out in those sites are made up of 'give me a twitter clone for $100'.
excuse me, but if you are going to retort about something, go learn about it first. the minimum budget of ANYthing on elance can be $50, leave aside a twitter clone for $100. and most often than not, in such postings like the one you mentioned, the budget in the end comes up being readjusted to become more realistic, if there isnt anyone who already has a premade script that fully or approximately satisfies the client's demands for an acceptable budget.
next time you are going to shit online about something you dont know well, dont. you are making yourself look ridiculous.