The problem with the U.S. (rural america or not) is the lack of educated labor.
You see, if you move to a place, you need to hire educated people. In the US, the large educated labor pools are in the city - but it costs a lot of money to operate a business in the city.
If you move to rural areas, the labor pool is much much smaller - so you have to recruit people in (which costs $).
However, areas like India and China have vast educated labor pools. Sure, their English isn't American English. But then again, most skilled labor isn't focused on telephone personalities. And their labor is pennies on the dollar - much lower than even the cheapest rural American labor.
Will some jobs move to rural america? Sure, they have been for years. Will they increase? Not when compared to the overall elmination of American jobs.
That's the part I never quite understood about companies that want to be built in downtown areas. The commute sucks cause everyone has to drive to a subway station first. Then take a subway as the 2nd part of commute.
Um, I walk to the subway, as do 90% of my coworkers. I do own a car, but I only put on about 3000 miles a year.
There are a couple people I work with who drive to the subway, but that's because they live way out in the middle of nowhere (mostly 'cause their spouses work 30 miles in the opposite direction)
Plus, we're in the city, so we can easily go run errands during lunch, or visit the Dr's office, or visit a friend, or the library, or post office, or even have a decent (and cheap) lunch in one of 25 nearby lunch spots. Or lunch in the park. Sooo many option!
So I don't see what's so bad. It's much better than where I used to work - a 25 minute drive each way (assuming no accidents or snow on the road), a cafeteria that had really crappy food, and the only place to eat outside of work was called "Mobil" and had 'dogs for a dollar.
were they a little optimistic that there would be just as many women as men working on computers?
No, they were showing reality.
Most (but not all!) programmers were men - they'd be writing the code.
But most men weren't expected to type... at least not all that well or fast. So they had special purpose "keypunch operators" - mostly women - who would take the hand-written code (written on "coding sheets") and key it onto punchcards. Accuracy and speed in typing were key.
In addition, operators would feed cards into the computers, etc etc.
It wasn't a glamorous or creative job. As "on-line" systems and terminals like the 3270 and VT-100 were deployed, the keypunch operators slowly faded away.
I'd assume that a few exceptionally interested keypunch operators learned to identify programming and machine errors and found their way into programmer ranks.
OK, not a victim. Let me restate: I am the recent victimizer of a scammer looking for a victim.
And I have a new $3000 to prove it. Sent to me directly from an "honest businessman" from Nigeria. Really. It was FedEx'd from Nigeria. From a guy named Walter Nabanu.
OK, I don't have a new $3000. But I have a check that says it is worth $3000. But I'm not going to cash it.
How much does it cost to Fedex an envelope from Nigeria to the US?
Eventually the investors showed up one day and pulled the plug on the company.
Sadly, the investors showed up with $26 million and proceeded to steer the company in a ludicrous direction.
That's why the company failed. Was Chris there? Yes. Was he steering? He wasn't allowed to once the investors came in. Once the investors stepped in, the direction of the company was changed in order to take the company to IPO. Business principles (like "do we have a sellable product?") were made less important, to the point where even a successful IPO was impossible.
Chris and the other founders basically lost what was once a decent idea.
I'm not saying that Chris is a super-genious. But it is very unfair to pin the failure on Chris. His only real failure was to find willing investors that were incapable of running a business.
One thing I know: a physically larger, uglier, or slightly cheaper competitor will NOT be an iPod killer.
A "killer" has to be smaller, ligher, and just as elegant and at a very competitive price point to be an iPod killer. It has to be better than the iPod in -ALL- ways. And whatever the product, it has to be better not just for a month before a new, better Apple release, but for more than six months. A "killer" must up the ante substantially.
Thats how Japanese cars killed the British car industry. They made all-around better, cheaper, and more stylish cars. In the mean time, the British made more expensive, less reliable cars that weren't updated for 7 or 8 years. As the British invested zero in their product lines, the Japanese came in and took over the market.
The question is, will Apple sit on their butts, or will they continue to push the iPod product line? My bet is that the iPod is Apple's big winner, and they're going to fight to keep competitors away.
OK, someone claims to be a law firm claiming to represent Nintendo. Clearly not a violation of the law. Oh, and the law firm is sending, um, Email. That's kind of weak, isn't it? Not even on a letterhead?
This story sounds very much like a way to generate web site traffic of Slashdot proportions.
Note that the engineering term "intrinsically safe" has a substantially different meaning than "inherently safe". Although the terms are used interchangably by some, those who live by the "law of milspecs" never confuse the two.
In any case, it'd be wise for P&W to rename it something other than a nuclear engineer. That's dumb marketing. Hell, they don't call the Army's M1 tank the "nuclear tank", despite its use of depleted uranium.
And anyhow, many jet engine parts use radioactive materials for hardness and during the manufacturing process. This is not news.
Thanks for the nice press release. Notice how the Perfigo website didn't make the posting - Maybe Perfigo was in fear that it'd stuffer from the/. effect?
May I know how a helmet may help? Do you expect falling off the bike? Or do you expect his bike to fall over or something? You should remember that in Holland the terrain is rather flat.
That's a fucked statement.
I often ride a bike on flat terrain. I fall off my bike once in a great while - but it does happen in order to avoid a poorly-driven car or a crazed pedestrian or a piece of trash on the road. Or that low-hanging branch (haha). Even at low speed.
A helmet is useless until you need it. I've fallen squarely on my head, and wearing a helment has saved me from the hospital. The other 99.999% of the time, my helmet is useless.
I wear a helmet for the 0.001% of those times I need it. I'd think a freakish 8-person tricycle would be a reason to wear one.
Just like SCO doesn't own Linux, they don't own the term "Fair" as it applies to the press - and such use is likely a violation of existing patents and/or trademarks.
FoxNews owns the terms "fair" and "balanced" in relation to the press and every day common American English.
Providing alternative DRM on the iPod will let the record industry create an independent music store for the iPod
An industry-controlled store could exclusively offer different music selections to iPod users, like "the next Britney Spears"
An industry-controlled store could sell their product at any price... most notably, a price significantly higher than Apple's cap of USD 0.99
The industry HATES Apple's $0.99 price point. If they could charge more, they would.
Of course, the industry could license Apple's DRM! And the license fees would likely be very very inexpensive. But Apple isn't likely to license their DRM without a stipulation that songs must be less than $1.00.
Yay Apple! I'm no Apple fan, but this is the GOOD THING FOR ALL... even if you're NOT an iPod owner!
The fault was a bit of grit or buildup preventing the throttle from closing properly.
Keep your air filter clean and don't buy junk gas.
Hmmm, I think you have another problem that still hasn't been corrected.
An undamaged air filter doesn't let dirt through - it just doesn't let air through. An undamaged fuel filter doesn't let dirt through - it just doesn't let fuel through.
If these things are clogged, your car has a tough time GOING.
You have ann air leak that is permitting dirty air into the system. Perhaps a dirty air filter made it easier for the system to draw through the leak than through the air filter. Either that, or you had a physically damaged air filter... caused by either a manufacturing defect or incorrect installation.
do not ever attempt to turn the ignition all the way off... In most cases you will lose both your power steering and your power braking.
Of course, power steering and brakes are specifically designed to work if the power component fails.
Losing power steering at a high rate of speed is not a problem - you turn the wheel very little when at speed. Power steering is only important when you're going very slowly and/or stopped.
You can easily lock up the brakes using your own leg power alone. Power brakes are just a vacuum booster, to make it way-easy to lock up the brakes. Without power, you just have to press harder. But it certainly is far from being impossibly difficult. And in any case, the vacuum ramains in the booster for some period of time. Just try it the brakes in your garage with the engine off, and you'll get a feeling for it.
Of course, many cars of the up into the 1970's didn't have power brakes or steering. And do you know what? They were steerable and stopable at all speeds. Basic steering and braking systems have NOT changed at all since then.
The only significant danger is enabling the steering wheel lock while turning off your ignation at speed. Watch out if you turn off your ignition while moving - you don't want to mistakenly LOCK your steering wheel while at speed.
Does this mean that the American people have to trust the pentagon with hundreds of billions of dollars per year for secret research for secret weapons given to secret companies?
Which bike to use is really based on how and where you ride.
Recumbants are great, but they really aren't great for riding up mountains or sprints or riding in a tight pelaton... and that makes up a large portion of the TdF.
Recumbants are great for commuting and long distances, but just watch out if you ride in heavy vehicular traffic - the rider is usually lower and can may be hard to see.
I ride in a city, and with lots of parked cars and narrow streets, certain recumbants can be hard for drivers to see.
They don't call be "safety spice" for nothin', ya know.
If this is true, Microsoft should license its technology so it may never be used with non-DRM'ed content.
Therefore, no Microsoft-based player (such as Windows PCs, portable music players, or the X-BOX) should be able to support non-protected MP3s, OGG, WAV, or other formats.
If Ballmer really thinks he's right, he should stand behind his statements and take action today.
Under Clinton the model was to use competing teams of writers, similar to the model used by TV show Friends I'm told, to come up with the best speech possible.
How does one reconcile the theory of macroevolution (species, over time, have evolved into more ordered organisms - humans - from less ordered organisms - one-celled animals) with the second law of thermodynamics (the natural tendency over time of any closed system is to enter into a *less* ordered state)?
Easy. Just think of all that shit you'll poop out over your lifetime. You eat those highly ordered plants and animals... and you poop out this brownish/black/gray stuff that's highly disordered. Maybe a few pieces of corn in there and who knows what. You are an entropy machine!
Headhunters/recruiters never stop. They don't care who you are or who they might sell you to. They just want a warm body so they look like they're trying to "help" a client.
A former employer of mine was a combination recruiting firm & outsourcer.
They'd find resumes of people and just parade them around to different shops. "Oh, you want a DBA, the going rate is $120,000 a year. Really".
The employer would get a few people in, but they'd be either very under-skilled or very over-priced.
And THEN my employer would say "Oh, well we can get you someone in India, working at our shop, for only $58,000/yr. And with a PhD. Wow!"
I often distribute my own commercial work over the Internet.
Why do I have to distribute my email address? More spam?
Furthermore, what is a "valid email address"? My anonymous email address that's basically just a sinkhole? Sounds pointless. Or my valid email address that returns a "failed" message unless the From address is on my whitelist?
Nice in concept, but poorly executed due to a true lack of expertise and thought. It should have been reviewed by experts before it was signed into law.
If SCO wins in any of its legal claims, I don't want to sit there blaming the stupidy of the US justice system and impugning the motives of the presiding judge. I want to know where such a SCO victory could come from. I can't be the only one who believes that there are at least two sides to every issue, even if they're not equally reasonable.
However, if SCO does win a legal claim, I'm sure it'll be documented and discussed.
However, as of right now, no one seems to have enough information to conclude that any of SCO's claims are on solid ground. That's likely why the public's opinion is about 98 to 2 against SCO. If SCO had produced and released some solid evidence, then I'm sure opinion here would change significantly.
The courts are where cases are decided, not on slashdot. If you want to read the pro-SCO comments, feel free to look at the "0" and "-1" posts, and moderate them up if you think they're fair. I will too. but not here, cause I already posted and am ineligable to moderate here and now.
Hmmm, why is someone trying to protect the identity of this "evil" label in this article? Why was the label's name edited out? This article and claim is very fishy, and therefore I give it zero weight.
In any case, if true, it sounds like someone stupidly agreed to a bad contract. ALWAYS get a lawyer before agreeing to a new contract. They're there to protect YOUR rights. Don't pay attention to people who say that you don't need one, or that they're evil. COVER YOU BUTT.
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The problem with the U.S. (rural america or not) is the lack of educated labor.
You see, if you move to a place, you need to hire educated people. In the US, the large educated labor pools are in the city - but it costs a lot of money to operate a business in the city.
If you move to rural areas, the labor pool is much much smaller - so you have to recruit people in (which costs $).
However, areas like India and China have vast educated labor pools. Sure, their English isn't American English. But then again, most skilled labor isn't focused on telephone personalities. And their labor is pennies on the dollar - much lower than even the cheapest rural American labor.
Will some jobs move to rural america? Sure, they have been for years. Will they increase? Not when compared to the overall elmination of American jobs.
That's the part I never quite understood about companies that want to be built in downtown areas. The commute sucks cause everyone has to drive to a subway station first. Then take a subway as the 2nd part of commute.
Um, I walk to the subway, as do 90% of my coworkers. I do own a car, but I only put on about 3000 miles a year.
There are a couple people I work with who drive to the subway, but that's because they live way out in the middle of nowhere (mostly 'cause their spouses work 30 miles in the opposite direction)
Plus, we're in the city, so we can easily go run errands during lunch, or visit the Dr's office, or visit a friend, or the library, or post office, or even have a decent (and cheap) lunch in one of 25 nearby lunch spots. Or lunch in the park. Sooo many option!
So I don't see what's so bad. It's much better than where I used to work - a 25 minute drive each way (assuming no accidents or snow on the road), a cafeteria that had really crappy food, and the only place to eat outside of work was called "Mobil" and had 'dogs for a dollar.
were they a little optimistic that there would be just as many women as men working on computers?
No, they were showing reality.
Most (but not all!) programmers were men - they'd be writing the code.
But most men weren't expected to type... at least not all that well or fast. So they had special purpose "keypunch operators" - mostly women - who would take the hand-written code (written on "coding sheets") and key it onto punchcards. Accuracy and speed in typing were key.
In addition, operators would feed cards into the computers, etc etc.
It wasn't a glamorous or creative job. As "on-line" systems and terminals like the 3270 and VT-100 were deployed, the keypunch operators slowly faded away.
I'd assume that a few exceptionally interested keypunch operators learned to identify programming and machine errors and found their way into programmer ranks.
I am the recent victim of a scam.
OK, not a victim. Let me restate: I am the recent victimizer of a scammer looking for a victim.
And I have a new $3000 to prove it. Sent to me directly from an "honest businessman" from Nigeria. Really. It was FedEx'd from Nigeria. From a guy named Walter Nabanu.
OK, I don't have a new $3000. But I have a check that says it is worth $3000. But I'm not going to cash it.
How much does it cost to Fedex an envelope from Nigeria to the US?
At least FedEx made out on this deal.
Eventually the investors showed up one day and pulled the plug on the company.
Sadly, the investors showed up with $26 million and proceeded to steer the company in a ludicrous direction.
That's why the company failed. Was Chris there? Yes. Was he steering? He wasn't allowed to once the investors came in. Once the investors stepped in, the direction of the company was changed in order to take the company to IPO. Business principles (like "do we have a sellable product?") were made less important, to the point where even a successful IPO was impossible.
Chris and the other founders basically lost what was once a decent idea.
I'm not saying that Chris is a super-genious. But it is very unfair to pin the failure on Chris. His only real failure was to find willing investors that were incapable of running a business.
One thing I know: a physically larger, uglier, or slightly cheaper competitor will NOT be an iPod killer.
A "killer" has to be smaller, ligher, and just as elegant and at a very competitive price point to be an iPod killer. It has to be better than the iPod in -ALL- ways. And whatever the product, it has to be better not just for a month before a new, better Apple release, but for more than six months. A "killer" must up the ante substantially.
Thats how Japanese cars killed the British car industry. They made all-around better, cheaper, and more stylish cars. In the mean time, the British made more expensive, less reliable cars that weren't updated for 7 or 8 years. As the British invested zero in their product lines, the Japanese came in and took over the market.
The question is, will Apple sit on their butts, or will they continue to push the iPod product line? My bet is that the iPod is Apple's big winner, and they're going to fight to keep competitors away.
Is there any evidence that this is true?
OK, someone claims to be a law firm claiming to represent Nintendo. Clearly not a violation of the law. Oh, and the law firm is sending, um, Email. That's kind of weak, isn't it? Not even on a letterhead?
This story sounds very much like a way to generate web site traffic of Slashdot proportions.
Note that the engineering term "intrinsically safe" has a substantially different meaning than "inherently safe". Although the terms are used interchangably by some, those who live by the "law of milspecs" never confuse the two.
In any case, it'd be wise for P&W to rename it something other than a nuclear engineer. That's dumb marketing. Hell, they don't call the Army's M1 tank the "nuclear tank", despite its use of depleted uranium.
And anyhow, many jet engine parts use radioactive materials for hardness and during the manufacturing process. This is not news.
Then why output the water? Why not save some $ and reuse it in your processes?
Thanks for the nice press release. Notice how the Perfigo website didn't make the posting - Maybe Perfigo was in fear that it'd stuffer from the /. effect?
May I know how a helmet may help? Do you expect falling off the bike? Or do you expect his bike to fall over or something? You should remember that in Holland the terrain is rather flat.
That's a fucked statement.
I often ride a bike on flat terrain. I fall off my bike once in a great while - but it does happen in order to avoid a poorly-driven car or a crazed pedestrian or a piece of trash on the road. Or that low-hanging branch (haha). Even at low speed.
A helmet is useless until you need it. I've fallen squarely on my head, and wearing a helment has saved me from the hospital. The other 99.999% of the time, my helmet is useless.
I wear a helmet for the 0.001% of those times I need it. I'd think a freakish 8-person tricycle would be a reason to wear one.
It seems more likely that they're only allowed on the streets.
It's rather shocking that they're allowed in places reserved for pedestrians.
SCO is definitely busted.
Just like SCO doesn't own Linux, they don't own the term "Fair" as it applies to the press - and such use is likely a violation of existing patents and/or trademarks.
FoxNews owns the terms "fair" and "balanced" in relation to the press and every day common American English.
The industry HATES Apple's $0.99 price point. If they could charge more, they would.
Of course, the industry could license Apple's DRM! And the license fees would likely be very very inexpensive. But Apple isn't likely to license their DRM without a stipulation that songs must be less than $1.00.
Yay Apple! I'm no Apple fan, but this is the GOOD THING FOR ALL... even if you're NOT an iPod owner!
She escaped with only burned out brake calipers.
The fault was a bit of grit or buildup preventing the throttle from closing properly.
Keep your air filter clean and don't buy junk gas.
Hmmm, I think you have another problem that still hasn't been corrected.
An undamaged air filter doesn't let dirt through - it just doesn't let air through. An undamaged fuel filter doesn't let dirt through - it just doesn't let fuel through.
If these things are clogged, your car has a tough time GOING.
You have ann air leak that is permitting dirty air into the system. Perhaps a dirty air filter made it easier for the system to draw through the leak than through the air filter. Either that, or you had a physically damaged air filter... caused by either a manufacturing defect or incorrect installation.
do not ever attempt to turn the ignition all the way off... In most cases you will lose both your power steering and your power braking.
Of course, power steering and brakes are specifically designed to work if the power component fails.
Losing power steering at a high rate of speed is not a problem - you turn the wheel very little when at speed. Power steering is only important when you're going very slowly and/or stopped.
You can easily lock up the brakes using your own leg power alone. Power brakes are just a vacuum booster, to make it way-easy to lock up the brakes. Without power, you just have to press harder. But it certainly is far from being impossibly difficult. And in any case, the vacuum ramains in the booster for some period of time. Just try it the brakes in your garage with the engine off, and you'll get a feeling for it.
Of course, many cars of the up into the 1970's didn't have power brakes or steering. And do you know what? They were steerable and stopable at all speeds. Basic steering and braking systems have NOT changed at all since then.
The only significant danger is enabling the steering wheel lock while turning off your ignation at speed. Watch out if you turn off your ignition while moving - you don't want to mistakenly LOCK your steering wheel while at speed.
Mod down parent.
Does this mean that the American people have to trust the pentagon with hundreds of billions of dollars per year for secret research for secret weapons given to secret companies?
I -want- to be a defense contractor!
Which bike to use is really based on how and where you ride.
Recumbants are great, but they really aren't great for riding up mountains or sprints or riding in a tight pelaton... and that makes up a large portion of the TdF.
Recumbants are great for commuting and long distances, but just watch out if you ride in heavy vehicular traffic - the rider is usually lower and can may be hard to see.
I ride in a city, and with lots of parked cars and narrow streets, certain recumbants can be hard for drivers to see.
They don't call be "safety spice" for nothin', ya know.
If this is true, Microsoft should license its technology so it may never be used with non-DRM'ed content.
Therefore, no Microsoft-based player (such as Windows PCs, portable music players, or the X-BOX) should be able to support non-protected MP3s, OGG, WAV, or other formats.
If Ballmer really thinks he's right, he should stand behind his statements and take action today.
Otherwise, he's just giving us bullshit.
Under Clinton the model was to use competing teams of writers, similar to the model used by TV show Friends I'm told, to come up with the best speech possible.
Funny, "Friends" sucked too.
How does one reconcile the theory of macroevolution (species, over time, have evolved into more ordered organisms - humans - from less ordered organisms - one-celled animals) with the second law of thermodynamics (the natural tendency over time of any closed system is to enter into a *less* ordered state)?
Easy. Just think of all that shit you'll poop out over your lifetime. You eat those highly ordered plants and animals... and you poop out this brownish/black/gray stuff that's highly disordered. Maybe a few pieces of corn in there and who knows what. You are an entropy machine!
Headhunters/recruiters never stop. They don't care who you are or who they might sell you to. They just want a warm body so they look like they're trying to "help" a client.
A former employer of mine was a combination recruiting firm & outsourcer.
They'd find resumes of people and just parade them around to different shops. "Oh, you want a DBA, the going rate is $120,000 a year. Really".
The employer would get a few people in, but they'd be either very under-skilled or very over-priced.
And THEN my employer would say "Oh, well we can get you someone in India, working at our shop, for only $58,000/yr. And with a PhD. Wow!"
And then we'd pay $6 an hour for that guy.
It was quite a scam.
I often distribute my own commercial work over the Internet.
Why do I have to distribute my email address? More spam?
Furthermore, what is a "valid email address"? My anonymous email address that's basically just a sinkhole? Sounds pointless. Or my valid email address that returns a "failed" message unless the From address is on my whitelist?
Nice in concept, but poorly executed due to a true lack of expertise and thought. It should have been reviewed by experts before it was signed into law.
If SCO wins in any of its legal claims, I don't want to sit there blaming the stupidy of the US justice system and impugning the motives of the presiding judge. I want to know where such a SCO victory could come from. I can't be the only one who believes that there are at least two sides to every issue, even if they're not equally reasonable.
However, if SCO does win a legal claim, I'm sure it'll be documented and discussed.
However, as of right now, no one seems to have enough information to conclude that any of SCO's claims are on solid ground. That's likely why the public's opinion is about 98 to 2 against SCO. If SCO had produced and released some solid evidence, then I'm sure opinion here would change significantly.
The courts are where cases are decided, not on slashdot. If you want to read the pro-SCO comments, feel free to look at the "0" and "-1" posts, and moderate them up if you think they're fair. I will too. but not here, cause I already posted and am ineligable to moderate here and now.
Hmmm, why is someone trying to protect the identity of this "evil" label in this article? Why was the label's name edited out? This article and claim is very fishy, and therefore I give it zero weight.
In any case, if true, it sounds like someone stupidly agreed to a bad contract. ALWAYS get a lawyer before agreeing to a new contract. They're there to protect YOUR rights. Don't pay attention to people who say that you don't need one, or that they're evil. COVER YOU BUTT.
IANAL.