"get rich or try dying" is actually "get rich or die trying"

Avarice has pervaded pretty much every country that has money so I'm not sure I'd agree with your sensationalism regarding "may you get whats coming".

I'm American, I live in Philadelphia. My girlfriend is an Arts student whose career I cherish very highly. I think the government is flawed but I also think people like you and me are to blame. I hate to be cynical but governments are the way they are because of what people have done. Saying it was the government is an amorphous scape-goat.

Not everyone gets to pick their dream job, come back to reality please. Even if you do find something you love doing, chances are you're going to have to sell it at one point or another so it kind of takes away from the innate pleasure of the job. People value cash because cash gives them power. Maybe you should look at America objectively by comparing it to every other contemporary culture. I'm presuming you don't know them that well though because it seems like your education has come primarily from the tv and the news (oh, the irony).

By the way, stop being so rude. It's one thing to buy into these crappy statistics, but it's a whole other thing if you forget what those so called 'worthless' companies do indirectly. On the contrary, I think your opinion is worthless.

expect nothing

I use BTGuard; I might be a noob because I haven't done much research on the company but I always get about 1MB ps dl from their netherland's server (i live in PA, USA).. .they also have servers in the US, France, and Germany I think??

it's 9.95 a month, and it does allow you to just pay once if you'd like so you don't get stuck with bothering about ending the subscription come end of the month.

I can't speak for all US universities but it would seem Information Systems and Technology degrees are suited toward practical programming jobs.. I don't really see IS*T majors doing research for comp sci specific fields but that's not to say they don't exist. In my program, I learned databases, java, c#, vb.net, and the agile development process which will basically get you a job in the US as a front-end or mid-tier developer.

The problem is most people want to come to IST because they don't want to program but find out that they should have just majored in business or MIS. This is only for certain schools however.. I have met some programmers who were better at coding than comp sci people because they have a better sense of scope...

Which brings me back to your point... Comp Sci from my experience gears you toward PHD or masters programs where you will be doing a lot of theoretical work. They don't teach them mandatory database classes or networking which is very important in today's coding world... they also don't teach you anything about how coding fits into the business world. That's not to say you couldn't get any programming job you want.. But honestly, if you live in the US, it doesn't really matter for most companies if you got a comp sci or IST degree so long as you can prove that you know what you are doing in the domain of what they need you for. It's basically just a formality now, they check you off whether or not you got a degree... I think they frown on Votech schools over conventional bachelor's programs, but if you can prove you're proficient, they will give you the chance regardless.

omg, *hire*.

My apologies, I'm going to go sit in a corner and cry over that typo.

I know this is a little off-topic but doesn't anyone feel the same way as I do when I proclaim that one of the biggest pushers for youtube's adoption was its uncanny amount of pirated movies / songs? I know, I know, the interface and streaming quality also made it a big selling point but I think the only reason I went to youtube around 2006 was for streaming, pirated material.

This might be a business model for a lot of companies out there, start illegal, make enough money, higher competent lawyers and pay some people off.

Sounds good to me.

http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/press/2006/pr06029.html

try again.

I like how this got promoted to level 5 even though anyone who has taken a brief course in remedial business knows that the FDIC does NOT guarantee insurance on all funds, and for those funds, it is only insured up to 100,000$.

Have fun getting only 100k or less of your retirement account back :)

GG, better start reading other blogs

Your country as a whole will have a heavier emphasis on foreign policy which can lead to bad situations like China or any other country getting into a war, which inevitably makes their problems ours.

So then we have a bunch of smart people trying to manage something we don't have and our economy tanks until we can find someone who can sustain our demand.

Pros/Cons with either situation, but that's politics

They'll bump up the datacaps when they get enough money from the people that go over the limit and then complain enough to clog up their customer support lines.

Business as usual...

Let me first begin by saying, let's have some foresight here fellow Slashdot readers. If the DVD business has been increasingly difficult for Netflix to maintain, and considering when they did change the price plans, most people dropped the DVD package but kept the instant video. Why would you try to push a market that is doomed to fail especially with the rise of instant media players for the TV and applications for phones/tablets?

I would bet they have enough subscribers on their own right now to push this idea... considering they already have. I like how you all are trying to criticize a CEO for his business strategy but I think you should let their business speak for it first.. I think this is a good idea and only time will tell, I'm sorry if you're hurt that you'll have to go to another website for your DVD shipping service, but in all honesty, the DVD is dying market. Why should I ship myself a DVD if I can buy a media streamer where I can also rent or buy movies? (waiting for every angry technologist to tell me I'm wrong. meanwhile, not realizing that they're the minority in the market... especially the minority that's smart enough to pirate something if it really wants it)

This is how I look at it... you may have to sign up with two different webpages to have them hit your credit card but in return it's cheaper than having the combined Netflix instant/dvd package. ALSO, you're getting the option to combine a gamefly like service with a movie rental service. And, as the CEO said in the article, they'll be able to focus on using their capital for more movie licenses for the people (majority) who use Netflix for their streaming services.

Having said all this, Quixster is still a lame name.

Will further hype the tablet craze.... however, I am very curious as to what they could add to a tablet now to make it more appealing to everyone else (people who type) which is how I could see the Acer CEO saying such a thing... but since Google/Apple/Samsung have and will keep investing in tablets, I wouldn't be surprised to see the hype at least stay around until something better comes out. (folder pcs? I forget how you refer to them, basically 2 tablets that fold together... pretty much like a laptop >_)

You know what else I find fascinating? Apple products do extremely well in recessions... I went to the mall the other day in King of Prussia and it was like a ghost town EXCEPT for the Apple Store which was about to bust from so many people fiddling with their products...

I'm surprised by the amount of different viewpoints represented by tech-geeks here. However, having said that, it's ultimately unsettling because it would seem most people have no idea about concepts in macro-economics.
So, I thought I'd compile a few points for people to take into account before they make a final conclusion about this situation we're in (No, not just America, the world)
1. This is NOT the first time we’ve raised the debt ceiling.
2. Most countries peg their currency off of ours, which allows us a lot of freedom when it comes to dealing with debt. We may owe a lot of money but there are countless countries who owe AMERICA a lot of money. So for instance, China is so successful when it comes to cheaper prices because it will lower their prices based on our dollar so that they can keep the same level of competitive advantage. China does own a lot of our deficit but without our demand they are worthless (for the time being)
3. We have done a lot of favors. Most notable mentions are to Japan, Germany, and China after World War 2 because the United States paid for most of the rebuilding and aid that went into reestablishing these great nations. (and must I mention, we didn’t ask for that back yet)
4. Back before World War 2, we originally got off the gold standard for multiple reasons but the biggest one being, A DEBT THE US COULD NOT COVER that includes, social programs like SOCIAL SECURITY, and I don’t know, a more well known problem, World War 1. Germany got off the gold standard a long time ago because they needed to pay for WW1 and because they were already in a deficit.
5. Adding more debt is a bad thing, AU CONTRAIR my lads, if you look at history, it would seem most times we needed to spend money to get out of a recession but we have a tough time dealing with after-effects, or basically, inflation. The way we’ve dealt with it is basically by sitting still, we haven’t done anything. We’re supposed to reduce the budget but we never do, no one really ever does by that much. Think about it, my grandfather always said blablabla icecream use to be 5 cents, well now it’s 2 dollars but our quality of living is still the same if not higher.

A final, moot point.

We will never rid ourselves of debt, especially with a system that makes money out of thin air by adjusting credit regulations. It is inevitable; we cannot and will not go back to a gold standard When it comes down to it, we can borrow as much money as we’d like so long as the US still stands as the international market-place for the world. We no longer are a manufacturing nation credit has become our bread and butter. It all just comes down to whether the bank will give us more credit should they, no.. Will they? Yes. Why? Because the United States with a limited budget is bad for everyone.
People pay us to police the world

There are just a lot of well-informed nerds in the universe now, especially with the development of web pages like slashdot, arstechnica, gizmodo, wired, lifehacker exc exc. And so, it's a good product. Yeah. Google + has a couple of bugs, but it is getting tons of publicity. ...and there are a lot of tech geeks out there and if they have a couple friends, and those friends have a couple more friends, if one goes, two will too. Eventually. Maybe a celebrity, that's 100,000 more. To be truly exclusive, it must have an awesome fan-base. Let's see if it breaks 50 million.