- Providing training programmes
- Entry level jobs
The biggest thing preventing the creation of entry-level jobs is wage. Either though a minimum wage, or a union forcing a higher wage and long term commitments.
Learning a skill on the job is very expensive. The employer has to incur tons of hidden costs associated to showing a kid the ropes. (Time from other employees, fixing the green horns screw-ups, any formal training or certification adds to this cost.) There is just no way an employer is going to spend this expense on new employees and in addition to that give them a high wage and job security. Considering of course that the employee might turn out to be no good, or more likely decide the work isn't form them.
Want more entry-level positions? Then get rid of the laws and rules that force these positions to be too expensive.
The blackout mess is a direct result of a central power grid. Back when en electricity was getting started there where many, many small generating stations all over. These provided enough power for a small number of customers. (A couple of plants or a small neighborhood) Since each one was operating independently large area blackout where basically impossible. But the power from these small plants was not terribly reliable and local blackouts where common. So the idea of building super power plants that could easily supply an entire city, county or even state was popularized. These giant plants needed to be hocked up to a giant grid in order to get power to where it is needed.
It has worked great for a long time now, but for whatever reason; (Ageing infrastructure due to regulations, unions, environmental groups, politics, price caps or whatever) the grid is not as reliable as it once was. Its still pretty good, but not the best. I expect to see a lot of people start to generate there own hydro. Factories, high-rise buildings, even neighborhoods will start to build there own Gas or Diesel plants (And I'm sure in time hydrogen, solar, geo-thermal, wind and happy thoughts will eventually supply power too).
There are many examples of large companies that are already doing this.
Quick and dirty never really hurt me. Lazy and Sloppy has. You can write quick code well. For example:
public void doIt(MainData data) {
Data bubba = data.getBubba();
Data bubba2 = data.getBubba2();
temp_3 = bubba.correct(bubba2);
if(temp_3 = -32)
System.out.println("Error not compatible"); }
could be written as
public void checkClientCompatibility(Client client, Company company) {
if(!company.isCompatible(client))
System.out.println("Error not compatible"); }
My point is that it doesn't take more time to write well written code, then sloppy code. If you can read it and it makes sense it is easier to fix later. If its just sloppy then you wont be able to do much with it.
The thing I donâ(TM)t get is how close MMOG are to reality. How you get ahead in a MMOG is very similar to how you get ahead in life.
Jump in! Give it a shot.
Every MMOG Iâ(TM)ve played (EQ, AO, SB, AC) starts of with frustration. Your lost, you donâ(TM)t know anyone. You donâ(TM)t understand you characters capabilities. No one want to talk to you. And you generally end up dying within the first few minutes.
Every time Iâ(TM)ve tried something new, (Move to a new town, new Job, school, new volunteer somewhere.) I experience this. Itâ(TM)s very frustrating and makes me feel like giving up.
But in both cases itâ(TM)s just a matter of sticking to it, and learning you way. Feel the place out, and discover it for yourself.
Learning new skills takes time. Study hard! Pay attention!
In a little while you have the basics of the game down. You know where things are and you are getting comfortable with your environment. But now you want to progress, you want to level up. So you search the web, try stuff out, watch other people play. Slowly you begin to learn just how this thing is played. And you get better at it.
Speak up!
Youâ(TM)ll never make any friends unless you talk to people! Say Something! Give it a shot!
Dedication Pays off.
After many hours your skills will be honed to the point that they become reflex. What was once impossible is now childâ(TM)s play. But this only happens after many, many hours.
Take risks!
You have to always keep pushing yourself to new limits. When you take risks you grow. You gain abilities you never thought you had. Once youâ(TM)ve had a taste of this you never turn back.
In short if you apply yourself the same way to RL as some do in MMOGâ(TM)s you will greatly exceed your potential. And at the end of that day have something far more valuable then a level 200 character. It could be a great job, the ability to play a new sport, a hot girlfriend. Really whatever you want if you put in the time.
In 98 I graduated and got a job using System/36 environment on an AS/400. I was working with an accounting system that was over 20 years old. Documentation for System/36 was never around, it was hell. RPG/36 code is horrible! RRG 400 isn't that much better.
So I moved on to Java. Built incredible and beautiful applications. I was in heaven.
Then the company went bankrupt. So now I'm back in the System/36 environment running on an AS/400.
What would your future self (10 years from now) want to tell you? I'd wager that it boils down to what you would tell your 12 year-old self.
Have more fun be Happy! Be positive! Be proactive and make things happen. Make lots of Friends. Go on adventures so you can tell cool stories. Do what you love! It's not worth it to do anything else. Take care of your body.
People expect to much of a year and not enough from a decade. - Neil Armstrong
Re:What is an example that can't run in parallel?
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Electronic Trading is a good example. Since each transaction needs to be processed in the sequence it arrives in. While you can divide the process over a number of stock symbols you still have a single thread doing a lot.
May transaction based systems have a single thread bottleneck at some point. A faster processor is the only way to speed this up.
I was under the impression that T3 was going to tell the story of Skynet coming on-line and the war
As far as I can see that is exactly what it is. Notice the shots of the small flying robot and this one. I'll bet that what's going on is that Skynet is online and building an army to wipe out humanity. For some reason it couldn't launch a nuke strike so its going about domination some other way. The T-X is sent buy the future skynet to protect its younger self.
Unions are best suited for workplaces where employees are simply parts in a machine. They don't have very much knowledge that needs to be communicated to a replacement and new people can be brought up to speed in a very short period of time. A factory worker is a good example.
For people working under these conditions they need some form of group representation, because they have nothing else to bargain with. They can be easily be replaced. Your value as an employee dose not increase the longer you hold the job.
I.T. (and most other jobs) your value to your employer does increase over time. Also your able to become a specialist in an area. (We can't let Johnny go, he's the only one who knows the AS/400). Having a union in this area is a bad idea for both the Company and the Employee.
While you would have easier working conditions and possibly more pay you would lose your ability to specialize. Unions don't want people to become more useful (I.E. learn how to do multiple jobs), they want to hire more people. (Which adds to the union's income) But your job would be secure as long as the company exists. Just keep in mind unions have been known to destroy companies. And forget about having a job you enjoy. Dose anyone really want a government job?
The company loses as well because they are no longer as flexible, and profitable.
As for your boss making too much money form you. Just keep in mind that you wouldn't have your job without him.
With moves costing $12+ why not try a real theater. (The kind with people performing on stage). If your in Calgary, Canada there's an improv show every Friday and Saturday. It only cost $8 bucks, and it's never the same show! I'd wager the average show is much better then the crud Hollywood puts out.
Hollywood is only interested in safe lowest common detonator movies. Check out your local theater scene for the good stuff.
This is a result of the myth of higher education
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· Score: 2, Interesting
University exists to create experts in targeted fields. It's for people who wish to specialize in a specific area (Doctors, Scientists, or really anything else). So that when you are done University you are valuable in your target field. So when a company needs to do something in a specialized target field they use these experts.
Back before the Baby boomers went to University, a Degree just about guaranteed you a good job. Experts where few and Business needed them.
But then more and more people started to go to university, and the number of experts increased and increased, but businesses didn't need more experts.
At first governments, and other public institutions took the extra in. (Including the Universities themselves) but the number of Graduates continued to increases.
This is all fueled by the myth that higher education is the only or best way to get ahead in life. And that is simply not the case.
The educational path to success is very appealing to some, it is a relatively straightforward and clear path. Grade school, High School, University, Great career. As opposed to the alternative. Grade school, High School, Bust your ass working hard, continue to try new things, fail, learn from failure, (repeat), great career (eventually).
It doesn't help that all though grade school and high school, your told that the only way to succeed is to graduate with great grades for am good University. (And also being told that the people that make it without all the education are just lucky, and or that it just doesn't work that way any more.)
The fact is that with so many going to University there are not enough expert positions, and that only the Top students in the Top schools are getting the good jobs. The rest end up and an equal playing field with the people who didn't go (But worked hard and smart).
This whole thing will turn around once people start to realize that there is no guaranteed path to success and that you need to make your own way in life.
Right now I'm in an IBM lab doing performance measurements of a webapp I've written, hosted by tomcat 3.3.1. Tomcat is running on 2 p660 6way systems with about 8 gigs of ram. Run AIX. This has been my experience so far.
Basic JSP responses are quite good. (Simple JSP page response times are about 4 - 15ms, with the more complex servlets taking about 100ms.)
The tomcat threading is very, very nice. All of the processors have even load.
Also Tomcat is so easy to install! On any platform. (I've installed on Windows, Linux and AIX. All are a easy.) Set JAVA_HOME and TOMCAT_HOME and your done.
In short tomcat is production quality. I wouldn't hesitate to use it.
If it was open source we would already have multiple versions of Java and they would all be incompatible with one another. You would have the neat freaks going with a version of java that has the articles fixes, and would completely ignore backward compatibility (Because after all were going to do RIGHT this time!), you would also have the hacker crowd who would make Java++# that would include pointers and remove garbage collection and also make it incompatible with existing code. (Because they are making it RIGHT as well).
In a few years the language would be forked just as bad as C.
As a Java developer there is one big thing missing CVS. Code refactoring support.
For example:
Lets say you are working on a large project 20 or so developers. And you create a little utility class for the area you are working in. You check in the code to your module (or package ) and use it. A few of you buddies are running into some problems that your utility can solve so the end up using the class. Now a few months later a large amount of code now uses your little utility, and the leads want to move your class to the global utility package. Tools exist that can quickly move the class and change all of the references that use that class. But to check in this change is a nightmare.
The thing is in Java this type of operation is common, and is good for the project (keeps the code clean). But until a version control system has proper code refactoring support it will always be hard to do.
No game company shall set a release date and or promote a product that is over 6 months away from actual release or not in an open beta. This includes but is not limited to concepts, screenshots, reviews, previews, dev chats, and any other form of hype designed to have people waiting to buy the product YEARS before it will ever be released.
AHH! You said the AS word! No, I'm done with that machine. hehe. See im a real programmer. I don't use the PDM andymore. hehehe. im ok. really. Ackkk! WRKACTJOB No!! No! STRPDM NO GOD NO! I don't write RPG anymore! My new lanuguage is free format! HAHA I have more the 6 characters for varible names and I can use CASE!! Haha! PWRDWNSYS (*IMMED)
Let me admit a lack of knowledge on this issue. I have a few questions.
1. What is an Ice Shelf? Is it the same thing as a glacier that starts over land and then over water as it expands? 2. Why is this event significant? Did this event raise the global sea level or something? 3. I know that massive chucks of ice fall into the water all of the time, how is this different?
The real question is whether the citizen will have any direct say in deciding how the pool of media tax revenue will be distributed among various professional content creators
Its distributed something like this.
%50 - Creation and running of a new government agency. Creating more 'government jobs'. And buying votes. %50 - To the Labels. (Which 25% is kicked back to the Feds (Liberal Party) in political donations.)
Slashdot Mirror
They are not:
- Providing training programmes
- Entry level jobs
The biggest thing preventing the creation of entry-level jobs is wage. Either though a minimum wage, or a union forcing a higher wage and long term commitments.
Learning a skill on the job is very expensive. The employer has to incur tons of hidden costs associated to showing a kid the ropes. (Time from other employees, fixing the green horns screw-ups, any formal training or certification adds to this cost.) There is just no way an employer is going to spend this expense on new employees and in addition to that give them a high wage and job security. Considering of course that the employee might turn out to be no good, or more likely decide the work isn't form them.
Want more entry-level positions? Then get rid of the laws and rules that force these positions to be too expensive.
The blackout mess is a direct result of a central power grid. Back when en electricity was getting started there where many, many small generating stations all over. These provided enough power for a small number of customers. (A couple of plants or a small neighborhood) Since each one was operating independently large area blackout where basically impossible. But the power from these small plants was not terribly reliable and local blackouts where common. So the idea of building super power plants that could easily supply an entire city, county or even state was popularized. These giant plants needed to be hocked up to a giant grid in order to get power to where it is needed.
It has worked great for a long time now, but for whatever reason; (Ageing infrastructure due to regulations, unions, environmental groups, politics, price caps or whatever) the grid is not as reliable as it once was. Its still pretty good, but not the best. I expect to see a lot of people start to generate there own hydro. Factories, high-rise buildings, even neighborhoods will start to build there own Gas or Diesel plants (And I'm sure in time hydrogen, solar, geo-thermal, wind and happy thoughts will eventually supply power too).
There are many examples of large companies that are already doing this.
Whatever you do don't bomb any classes.
The thing I donâ(TM)t get is how close MMOG are to reality. How you get ahead in a MMOG is very similar to how you get ahead in life.
Jump in! Give it a shot.
Every MMOG Iâ(TM)ve played (EQ, AO, SB, AC) starts of with frustration. Your lost, you donâ(TM)t know anyone. You donâ(TM)t understand you characters capabilities. No one want to talk to you. And you generally end up dying within the first few minutes.
Every time Iâ(TM)ve tried something new, (Move to a new town, new Job, school, new volunteer somewhere.) I experience this. Itâ(TM)s very frustrating and makes me feel like giving up.
But in both cases itâ(TM)s just a matter of sticking to it, and learning you way. Feel the place out, and discover it for yourself.
Learning new skills takes time. Study hard! Pay attention!
In a little while you have the basics of the game down. You know where things are and you are getting comfortable with your environment. But now you want to progress, you want to level up. So you search the web, try stuff out, watch other people play. Slowly you begin to learn just how this thing is played. And you get better at it.
Speak up!
Youâ(TM)ll never make any friends unless you talk to people! Say Something! Give it a shot!
Dedication Pays off.
After many hours your skills will be honed to the point that they become reflex. What was once impossible is now childâ(TM)s play. But this only happens after many, many hours.
Take risks!
You have to always keep pushing yourself to new limits. When you take risks you grow. You gain abilities you never thought you had. Once youâ(TM)ve had a taste of this you never turn back.
In short if you apply yourself the same way to RL as some do in MMOGâ(TM)s you will greatly exceed your potential. And at the end of that day have something far more valuable then a level 200 character. It could be a great job, the ability to play a new sport, a hot girlfriend. Really whatever you want if you put in the time.
You have gotten better at posting!!! (52)
MOD UP PARENT.
There should be a +11 for a post like this.
In 98 I graduated and got a job using System/36 environment on an AS/400. I was working with an accounting system that was over 20 years old. Documentation for System/36 was never around, it was hell. RPG/36 code is horrible! RRG 400 isn't that much better.
So I moved on to Java. Built incredible and beautiful applications. I was in heaven.
Then the company went bankrupt. So now I'm back in the System/36 environment running on an AS/400.
Kill me now?
What would your future self (10 years from now) want to tell you? I'd wager that it boils down to what you would tell your 12 year-old self.
Have more fun be Happy! Be positive!
Be proactive and make things happen.
Make lots of Friends.
Go on adventures so you can tell cool stories.
Do what you love! It's not worth it to do anything else.
Take care of your body.
People expect to much of a year and not enough from a decade. - Neil Armstrong
Electronic Trading is a good example. Since each transaction needs to be processed in the sequence it arrives in. While you can divide the process over a number of stock symbols you still have a single thread doing a lot.
May transaction based systems have a single thread bottleneck at some point. A faster processor is the only way to speed this up.
White Star Line has just announced an unsinkable ship!
again.
I was under the impression that T3 was going to tell the story of Skynet coming on-line and the war
As far as I can see that is exactly what it is. Notice the shots of the small flying robot and this one. I'll bet that what's going on is that Skynet is online and building an army to wipe out humanity. For some reason it couldn't launch a nuke strike so its going about domination some other way. The T-X is sent buy the future skynet to protect its younger self.
Unions are best suited for workplaces where employees are simply parts in a machine. They don't have very much knowledge that needs to be communicated to a replacement and new people can be brought up to speed in a very short period of time. A factory worker is a good example.
For people working under these conditions they need some form of group representation, because they have nothing else to bargain with. They can be easily be replaced. Your value as an employee dose not increase the longer you hold the job.
I.T. (and most other jobs) your value to your employer does increase over time. Also your able to become a specialist in an area. (We can't let Johnny go, he's the only one who knows the AS/400). Having a union in this area is a bad idea for both the Company and the Employee.
While you would have easier working conditions and possibly more pay you would lose your ability to specialize. Unions don't want people to become more useful (I.E. learn how to do multiple jobs), they want to hire more people. (Which adds to the union's income) But your job would be secure as long as the company exists. Just keep in mind unions have been known to destroy companies. And forget about having a job you enjoy. Dose anyone really want a government job?
The company loses as well because they are no longer as flexible, and profitable.
As for your boss making too much money form you. Just keep in mind that you wouldn't have your job without him.
Just as spam wont kill e-mail. I never read spam. I just delete it. It's a minor annoyance.
With moves costing $12+ why not try a real theater. (The kind with people performing on stage). If your in Calgary, Canada there's an improv show every Friday and Saturday. It only cost $8 bucks, and it's never the same show! I'd wager the average show is much better then the crud Hollywood puts out.
Hollywood is only interested in safe lowest common detonator movies. Check out your local theater scene for the good stuff.
University exists to create experts in targeted fields. It's for people who wish to specialize in a specific area (Doctors, Scientists, or really anything else). So that when you are done University you are valuable in your target field. So when a company needs to do something in a specialized target field they use these experts.
Back before the Baby boomers went to University, a Degree just about guaranteed you a good job. Experts where few and Business needed them.
But then more and more people started to go to university, and the number of experts increased and increased, but businesses didn't need more experts.
At first governments, and other public institutions took the extra in. (Including the Universities themselves) but the number of Graduates continued to increases.
This is all fueled by the myth that higher education is the only or best way to get ahead in life. And that is simply not the case.
The educational path to success is very appealing to some, it is a relatively straightforward and clear path. Grade school, High School, University, Great career. As opposed to the alternative. Grade school, High School, Bust your ass working hard, continue to try new things, fail, learn from failure, (repeat), great career (eventually).
It doesn't help that all though grade school and high school, your told that the only way to succeed is to graduate with great grades for am good University. (And also being told that the people that make it without all the education are just lucky, and or that it just doesn't work that way any more.)
The fact is that with so many going to University there are not enough expert positions, and that only the Top students in the Top schools are getting the good jobs. The rest end up and an equal playing field with the people who didn't go (But worked hard and smart).
This whole thing will turn around once people start to realize that there is no guaranteed path to success and that you need to make your own way in life.
Wow talk about timing,
Right now I'm in an IBM lab doing performance measurements of a webapp I've written, hosted by tomcat 3.3.1. Tomcat is running on 2 p660 6way systems with about 8 gigs of ram. Run AIX. This has been my experience so far.
Basic JSP responses are quite good. (Simple JSP page response times are about 4 - 15ms, with the more complex servlets taking about 100ms.)
The tomcat threading is very, very nice. All of the processors have even load.
Also Tomcat is so easy to install! On any platform. (I've installed on Windows, Linux and AIX. All are a easy.) Set JAVA_HOME and TOMCAT_HOME and your done.
In short tomcat is production quality. I wouldn't hesitate to use it.
If it was open source we would already have multiple versions of Java and they would all be incompatible with one another. You would have the neat freaks going with a version of java that has the articles fixes, and would completely ignore backward compatibility (Because after all were going to do RIGHT this time!), you would also have the hacker crowd who would make Java++# that would include pointers and remove garbage collection and also make it incompatible with existing code. (Because they are making it RIGHT as well).
In a few years the language would be forked just as bad as C.
Thank God Sun hasn't Open Sourced it.
As a Java developer there is one big thing missing CVS. Code refactoring support.
For example:
Lets say you are working on a large project 20 or so developers. And you create a little utility class for the area you are working in. You check in the code to your module (or package ) and use it. A few of you buddies are running into some problems that your utility can solve so the end up using the class. Now a few months later a large amount of code now uses your little utility, and the leads want to move your class to the global utility package. Tools exist that can quickly move the class and change all of the references that use that class. But to check in this change is a nightmare.
The thing is in Java this type of operation is common, and is good for the project (keeps the code clean). But until a version control system has proper code refactoring support it will always be hard to do.
The biggest advantage with Text config files is that you can make and leave notes in the file. Like.
## I had to set the buffers to 20 to keep the app running. Crashes when set lower.
Or in some cases. When you need to grab someone attention.
# FOR THE LOVE OF GOD READ THIS!!
# SETTING THE SERVER TO PORT 80 WILL CRASH THE NETWORK
# PORT 80 MUST BE LEFT OPEN FOR THE MAX APPP
#
You can't do this with a gui.
The GRDPA (Game Release Date Protection Act)
No game company shall set a release date and or promote a product that is over 6 months away from actual release or not in an open beta. This includes but is not limited to concepts, screenshots, reviews, previews, dev chats, and any other form of hype designed to have people waiting to buy the product YEARS before it will ever be released.
AHH! You said the AS word! No, I'm done with that machine. hehe. See im a real programmer. I don't use the PDM andymore. hehehe. im ok. really.
Ackkk!
WRKACTJOB
No!! No!
STRPDM
NO GOD NO! I don't write RPG anymore! My new lanuguage is free format! HAHA I have more the 6 characters for varible names and I can use CASE!! Haha!
PWRDWNSYS (*IMMED)
Let me admit a lack of knowledge on this issue. I have a few questions.
1. What is an Ice Shelf? Is it the same thing as a glacier that starts over land and then over water as it expands?
2. Why is this event significant? Did this event raise the global sea level or something?
3. I know that massive chucks of ice fall into the water all of the time, how is this different?
Thanks.
The real question is whether the citizen will have any direct say in deciding how the pool of media tax revenue will be distributed among various professional content creators
Its distributed something like this.
%50 - Creation and running of a new government agency. Creating more 'government jobs'. And buying votes.
%50 - To the Labels. (Which 25% is kicked back to the Feds (Liberal Party) in political donations.)
Remember that you are not google.com's customer. You are its product. Google's customers are the sites you get directed to.
Google is walking a tightrope because they want to offer the 'best' search results, but they also need to make money off of the sites they list.