I have to respectfully disagree. People hire people because of market opportunities. Market opportunities exist because you can make a profit. The more capable engineers are of building more useful things in less time, the more demand there will be for your services.
I am seeing market opportunities for something new/better all the time; things I could even build on my own if I wasn't entirely too busy with work. Moreover, most times I've needed to hire someone in a situation where I was the hiring manager or if I was an engineer on a team in need, I can say that it has always been hard to find qualified people. I can only think of one time, ever, where there was a position and we passed on someone because of salary. (And I probably could have swung it to a hire, and I later regretted passing. I'd read too many articles like this and was convinced someone equally/nearly equally qualified would come along. Nope. Open position for 6+ months.)
Quite common for a good programmer to pick up a programming language quick, then apply for a job that asks for 10 years experience in it
This is especially true when the language has only been out for 6. I'm sure everyone who has been around long enough remembers jobs that required 10 years of Java in 2001.
I am on a team with 9 software engineers, not counting QE. 4 of the team members are definitely older than 40 (I believe one is now in his late 50s/early 60s even), and two others are in our mid-30s. No one is under 30.
Then again, all the managers I've had here have been badasses who make huge contributions to getting good stuff out the door, too.
The takedown process of the DMCA is one of the better things to happen to the Internet. It provides genuine safe harbor. Without the DMCA, for example, YouTube would have been stillborn.
The problem is Flickr's handling is just not graceful. They are required to take down the item when a notice is received. The user files a counter claim, Flickr can then restore the image and send the user's info to the complainant, who must then sue the user directly, and Flickr remains protected until it is adjudicated by a court, even if they image stays up.
I have a 2006 Prius and I'm now an ultra-safe driver. I used to have a BMW and I'm that asshole that passed people doing 110mph on a 2-lane bridge. Now I make full stops, am ~always within about 5 mph of the speed limit (but not below it), and I signal. And as you know, my anecdote disproves this study.
This came up back the first time we saw a story about the activation limit... which I think was SPORE, and then people freaked out when they realized it was going to apply to Mass Effect also, and I think the activation limit was removed.
Guru3D subsequently discovered that Ubisoft was less than helpful: 'Sorry to disappoint you — the game is indeed restricted to 3 hardware changes and there simply is no way to bypass that.' I, and many with me, will never buy games with such a draconian DRM scheme, as it's very likely that I'll swap out enough components to run into this issue.
UPDATE: We have been contacted by bluebyte over the weekend, the company that developed the Anno series. Our key has been pretty much unlocked allowing us to properly work on this article. To be continued....
Hilarious. Ubisoft and EA are both on my "verify exactly how the DRM works before spending the money".
It's not particularly that scientists should make all the decisions, but rather, than we need an informed population and a very informed government in order to deal with modern problems.
In congress:
three physicists, one chemist, six engineers including a biomedical engineer, and one microbiologist;
[...]
17 Representatives and four Senators had a doctoral (PhD) degree, and 197 members of the House and 60 Senators had a law degree. Five members of the House and one Senator had a medical degree.
And quite a few are career politicians who moved up from state legislatures/etc.
In short, we're a nation run by lawyers and politicians, and have a tiny representation by engineers and scientists - people who have a demonstrated interest and capacity in how things actually work.
This is problematic because there simply isn't enough knowledge in congress to go around. Quite a few Americans, likewise, are voting from a position of complete ignorance and, instead of selecting a candidate who is very knowledgeable on the assumption that that candidate will make better decisions, quite a few Americans vehemently "vote their ignorance"; that is, they're looking specifically for a candidate who reflects their own biases and uninformed viewpoints.
As Isaac Asimov said:
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
Politics now seems to be almost entirely about money and religion, which is a shame, since while those things are important, they probably have very little impact on how we live our lives in the long run.
As soon as you actually USE the machine, though, bandwidth and IO charges will drive that up to $25+ quite easily, however. I sometimes experiment with Amazon boxes, but I just spin them up using a popular aws perl toolkit, use them, spin them down. It's really easy to create them and interact with them via script, but I wouldn't want to use them regularly.
I'm a fan of Virtacore. They're offering VMs on VMware vCloud Director, which means a full gui console, and pricing is basically cheap. (Cheaper than Amazon when you factor in even modest bandwidth and IO charges.)
Let's have a Slashdot roundtable. Get together Richard Posner, Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw, Tyler Cowen, Lawrence Lessig, and some smart econ/political geeks, and let's talk turkey about economic policy, politics, and how technology interacts with these forces. (I'd really love to get a luminary on education in there, but I'm not sure who the good choices would be.)
One of the nice things about Red Hat (and thus CentOS) is that they do binary-compatible patch updates, meaning in almost all cases, updates will not break interoperability at all. Say there's a bug in PHP-5.3.6 and it was on a RHEL distribution (no idea if it was). The PHP developers release PHP-5.3.7 (and then 5.3.8 because 5.3.7 was broken) to fix it. RHEL doesn't update you to 5.3.8, Red Hat backports the security fixes to 5.3.6 and released a patched 5.3.6.
His point is that the cost of a RHEL license is only a tiny component of the TCO of a server. After that, if anything goes wrong, then the question is: is the price you pay for RHEL support less than the time it would take you to handle it yourself? Also, as someone else pointed out, RHN adds configuration management and faster patches. Time to set up some other system to management system configs; time to repair or replace hacked boxes because a centos patch was too slow... In the grand scheme of things, those may not be worth it. For example, in a fully-loaded 12-core system being used for virtualization hosting with a 4:1 cpu overcommit, RHEL only costs $.0019 per vm-hour.
Also, long term support is a big deal in enterprises. A lot of times large enterprise projects are built over the course of years. Having Red Hat means that when some change to a piece of hardware firmware causes some inexplicable OS crash 5 years after deploying. It may be very specific to your environment and your hardware and software. You can call up Red Hat, and if it hasn't been fixed, they will go in and fix the source code in order to fix it for you. There are cases where the systems and their function is worth hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars; having Red Hat able to "stand behind" Linux is worth paying for, for some people.
And if you happen to have a first-initial-last-name type email address at a popular provider, then you get potentially dozens of other peoples' single-opt-in spam. Over 50% of the email I get is addressed to someone other than me. Painful.
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I have to respectfully disagree. People hire people because of market opportunities. Market opportunities exist because you can make a profit. The more capable engineers are of building more useful things in less time, the more demand there will be for your services.
I am seeing market opportunities for something new/better all the time; things I could even build on my own if I wasn't entirely too busy with work. Moreover, most times I've needed to hire someone in a situation where I was the hiring manager or if I was an engineer on a team in need, I can say that it has always been hard to find qualified people. I can only think of one time, ever, where there was a position and we passed on someone because of salary. (And I probably could have swung it to a hire, and I later regretted passing. I'd read too many articles like this and was convinced someone equally/nearly equally qualified would come along. Nope. Open position for 6+ months.)
This is especially true when the language has only been out for 6. I'm sure everyone who has been around long enough remembers jobs that required 10 years of Java in 2001.
I am on a team with 9 software engineers, not counting QE. 4 of the team members are definitely older than 40 (I believe one is now in his late 50s/early 60s even), and two others are in our mid-30s. No one is under 30.
Then again, all the managers I've had here have been badasses who make huge contributions to getting good stuff out the door, too.
That's probably a load balancer rather than an actual web server you're hitting.
The takedown process of the DMCA is one of the better things to happen to the Internet. It provides genuine safe harbor. Without the DMCA, for example, YouTube would have been stillborn.
The problem is Flickr's handling is just not graceful. They are required to take down the item when a notice is received. The user files a counter claim, Flickr can then restore the image and send the user's info to the complainant, who must then sue the user directly, and Flickr remains protected until it is adjudicated by a court, even if they image stays up.
Having a kid. Now when I'm driving I'm always at least vaguely aware that other drivers are dangerous and I want my daughter to have a father.
I have a 2006 Prius and I'm now an ultra-safe driver. I used to have a BMW and I'm that asshole that passed people doing 110mph on a 2-lane bridge. Now I make full stops, am ~always within about 5 mph of the speed limit (but not below it), and I signal. And as you know, my anecdote disproves this study.
That's the whole ball of wax. EA or Ubi? Next.
So what you're saying is, TSA screenings are unreliable as well as intrusive and carcinogenic?
Steam shows this as well under game details. Anno's says:
"3rd-party DRM: Solidshield Tages SAS, 3 machine activation limit"
This came up back the first time we saw a story about the activation limit... which I think was SPORE, and then people freaked out when they realized it was going to apply to Mass Effect also, and I think the activation limit was removed.
There's a lot about this here: http://steamdrm.flibitijibibo.com/the-big-drm-list/
Hilarious. Ubisoft and EA are both on my "verify exactly how the DRM works before spending the money".
The bill of rights is an acknowledgement, not a permission slip. Rights can't be taken away, then can only be oppressed by force.
It's not particularly that scientists should make all the decisions, but rather, than we need an informed population and a very informed government in order to deal with modern problems.
In congress:
And quite a few are career politicians who moved up from state legislatures/etc.
In short, we're a nation run by lawyers and politicians, and have a tiny representation by engineers and scientists - people who have a demonstrated interest and capacity in how things actually work.
This is problematic because there simply isn't enough knowledge in congress to go around. Quite a few Americans, likewise, are voting from a position of complete ignorance and, instead of selecting a candidate who is very knowledgeable on the assumption that that candidate will make better decisions, quite a few Americans vehemently "vote their ignorance"; that is, they're looking specifically for a candidate who reflects their own biases and uninformed viewpoints.
As Isaac Asimov said:
As soon as you actually USE the machine, though, bandwidth and IO charges will drive that up to $25+ quite easily, however. I sometimes experiment with Amazon boxes, but I just spin them up using a popular aws perl toolkit, use them, spin them down. It's really easy to create them and interact with them via script, but I wouldn't want to use them regularly.
I'm a fan of Virtacore. They're offering VMs on VMware vCloud Director, which means a full gui console, and pricing is basically cheap. (Cheaper than Amazon when you factor in even modest bandwidth and IO charges.)
It's too bad PHP doesn't scale.
Crystal Singer was definitely my favorite of her works. The 2nd one in particular I think was incredible.
Would that it were so. That prediction has been made since Napster was taking off, however, and the RIAA is still here, still sending letters.
Let's have a Slashdot roundtable. Get together Richard Posner, Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw, Tyler Cowen, Lawrence Lessig, and some smart econ/political geeks, and let's talk turkey about economic policy, politics, and how technology interacts with these forces. (I'd really love to get a luminary on education in there, but I'm not sure who the good choices would be.)
yum update = get security fixes
One of the nice things about Red Hat (and thus CentOS) is that they do binary-compatible patch updates, meaning in almost all cases, updates will not break interoperability at all. Say there's a bug in PHP-5.3.6 and it was on a RHEL distribution (no idea if it was). The PHP developers release PHP-5.3.7 (and then 5.3.8 because 5.3.7 was broken) to fix it. RHEL doesn't update you to 5.3.8, Red Hat backports the security fixes to 5.3.6 and released a patched 5.3.6.
His point is that the cost of a RHEL license is only a tiny component of the TCO of a server. After that, if anything goes wrong, then the question is: is the price you pay for RHEL support less than the time it would take you to handle it yourself? Also, as someone else pointed out, RHN adds configuration management and faster patches. Time to set up some other system to management system configs; time to repair or replace hacked boxes because a centos patch was too slow... In the grand scheme of things, those may not be worth it. For example, in a fully-loaded 12-core system being used for virtualization hosting with a 4:1 cpu overcommit, RHEL only costs $.0019 per vm-hour.
Also, long term support is a big deal in enterprises. A lot of times large enterprise projects are built over the course of years. Having Red Hat means that when some change to a piece of hardware firmware causes some inexplicable OS crash 5 years after deploying. It may be very specific to your environment and your hardware and software. You can call up Red Hat, and if it hasn't been fixed, they will go in and fix the source code in order to fix it for you. There are cases where the systems and their function is worth hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars; having Red Hat able to "stand behind" Linux is worth paying for, for some people.
HP Public Cloud? Vaporware right now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear_hear
They do: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html
Get a domain for $10 a year and sign up. You can alias the whole domain and just blacklist/whitelist at will.
And if you happen to have a first-initial-last-name type email address at a popular provider, then you get potentially dozens of other peoples' single-opt-in spam. Over 50% of the email I get is addressed to someone other than me. Painful.