The point of college/university is to teach you how to think not fucking tradeschool. The classes you refer as filler and fluff are the damn point!
For a business owner I do not give a shit. I want someone who can walk right in and make me money for the cheapest price with no training. If not then I won't hire you. Expanding your boundaries? That doesn't make me money.
Someone skilled does.
Not that simple.
Fixed costs will make it more expensive. Not everything is a variable cost.
It costs $12,000 for software/administrative cost for each $800 computer at work. $10,000 a year in taxes. In the US it costs $30,000 a year for health and liability insurance for someone making just $40,000 a year. Add $30,000,000 for the cost of the building and your $40,000 job cost $85,000 to an employer!
Why are wages flat? Because the costs keep getting higher and higher and your employer can't keep up with the price hikes. Just that you are not getting them.
So making everyone part time at half the wage could still double your costs.
This is the real push to India. It is not that the workers are cheaper. It is the fact you can get an office building for $250,000 not $20,000,000 for the same in San Jose. No health care costs. Taxes are 1/5th per employer. No sue happy lawyers. You can fire Djhrijad and not expect 1-800-sue-you! to come in demanding $10 million in compensation and harassment lawsuits etc. The cost of cheap Indian labor? Well yess that is a small part of it.
The US has a problem with all of the above. Conservatives whine that it is all about unions and taxes only. Fact is if we made it nearly impossible to sue and didn't have corruption and price gouging for health insurance we could hire millions more today! These costs are too much so it makes sense to overwork your existing employers right?
We are surely not going to be more socialistic! At least not here in the US with the TeaPartiers calling everyone who get out of work through no fault of their own freeloaders as well as austerity taken into effect in Europe.
Right now, the wealthy are using their extra cash to make sure the government doesn't take their god given right cash saved through automation and will revolt! The Koch brothers are well financed and are afraid of the poor people.
The right in every country is going more and more extreme and the budget deficit shows it. They accuse Obama of being a radical socialist, not because he wants more socialism, but rather does not insist on cutting to the eldery and poor and letting the rich get more cars they do not need.
So once these folks want unions where do the jobs go next?
I doubt penguins in Antarctica will be able to do this work.
Then we all start off where we left off in 1999.
Africa needs to have a significant boast to their standard of living to reduce war, poverty, unwanted births, death, and disease.
China, still has bad working conditions yes, but as a whole being a chinesse citizen today is insanely better than being a citizen 30 years ago. Where before an average farmer never had a dirt floor and no more than $10 in his whole life in addition to an average food stable of just one serving a meat a week shared with rice for the whole family to tiles on their floors, meat 5 times a week, $100 if you saved for a good month, with huge metropolitan changes like cars, highways, and modern 21st century living.
Yes, working 14 hours a day in a factory really does suck. But that is the first process to move up economic wise and everyone benefits.
Africans are pirating ships in Somalia not because they want to be thugs, but because there is no money to buy food. Africa has more natural resources than China and could be even more powerful than China or India if they get their shit together with infrastructure and education.
If it were not for wars, lack of infrastructure like electricity/roads, lack of education, Africa would be rich and China still poor. China has the benefits of educated citizens and infrastructure with a large population of potential consumers. It is not just because they are willing to work for cheaper.
Africa has the resources. China has some rare earth metals and some fisheries and that is about it.
Every vendor wants their own proprietary extenstions, and even fight each other on who gets the most proprietary lockin, apis, and extensions on top of their own SQL to maximize pain leaving their shit ecosystem. ADO.NET, ODBC, and other things where you can't just use sql, but another vendor $$$ framework that locks you in further and add dozens of lines of ugly code and before you add another proprietary layer of Vendor X SQL inside it.
Then gee you can't leave it. Larry grins and then raises the cost knowing you are hostage etc (dramatization here).
HTML and CSS was that way in the 1990s as well. We bash IE 6 here but Netscape didn't follow standards either. Today that is fixed.Why can't we do that with data access?
What will it take for all of them to work together like ansi ascii text, C++, or HTML?
I admit Oracle and SQL Server will be a bitch to get rid of in the enterprise due to these sneaky moves, but slowly change will come when PostgresSQL, MariaDB, and others who want to play nice come up with one standard, one way to do things, and get oustracized here on slashdot as crap if they do not follow the spec? This is 2013 and these proprietary games are oldschool before the internet when corps were in a pissing match on who could make the most crappiest proprietary system out there so customers could never leave... cough unix.
That's all pretty comical. Your view is obviously colored by working at the kind of company that can't hold its high value employees, and you are obviously not one. So just stay at that sorry place where you have the misfortune to be abused every day by incompetent IT staff with unsustainable ties to last century software and the rest of us will have a life. Yes, I would be out of that place you are in like a shot, if I was stupid enough to land there in the first place. And I don't give a rat's fuzzy behind if your idiot PHB thinks that's funny, that's his problem. Anybody who is worth anything will get paid more by leaving a place like that.
Well your salary is a cost center, and that $2,000,000 million peoplesoft/DerpMaster ERP solution is an asset! (aka money in accounting terms).
Who do you think the accountants will value more? You (cost center who steals money from the shareholders) or that annoying app that generates money? I give you a hint. It is cheaper to replace you with a BestBuy employee/Indian h1b1 worker who is happy to use IE 6 than to make you happy. Who cares?
Every single employer will sell their souls to fire you if it means more money with an IE 6 app. That is work and you can say it is the PHB problem but he is just looking after the CEO.
CEOs get rewarded for staying behind by the shareholders for being so intelligent and industry leaders yada yada. You can't just get rid of an app unless you prove it is cheaper to do so. Windows 7 is now just forcing them. Being cool with great technology just doens't motivate.
You wont find a job elsewhere who will share your values. Everyone would happy downgrade to IE 6 if an app made them more money to do so and costs more money to be hip to be modern. Just do not be modern and everyone but you gets a nice fat bonus for being cost saver geniuses including your boss.
We know what that means.
The fact is Fedora is even easier than Debian so WTF is this guy talking about when he says saying a disk is full is waaay too advanced. Yes, for my Mom she doesn't know what that means and is too advanced for joe six pack. But for the geek crowd it makes sense.
I have not run Fedora 18 yet but I plan to this weekend. The screenshots look similiar to earlier versions so I assume it is just that. I do not see the big deal with anaconda. It talks about disk space, some packages online, then reboots but goes into another setup after a reboot (just like Windows 7) where it asks for a user account. Then done.
First off you want geek non intuitive for non-geeks look no further than Debian or sysinstall with FreeBSD?
It is for geeks. We all know what those screeenshots mean. So in a sense Fedora is for IT pros but not unix hardcore elitists who know what a wifi chipset is or what it means when a disk is full.
No I would not recommend it to my Mom who just freaked out at her IPAD being sooo hard to use to today when she couldn't figure out something for the millionith time. But I bet if such a dumb oriented distro existed it would be bashed here as being crippled for wusses but the same people who prefer distro X.
For the record Fedora/Cent is my favorite Linux distro, but I tend to prefer Windows 7 now these days and still feel Unix was better than Linux in most areas for servers GO FREEBSD 4.12!
Go play with a debian when it mentions all sorts of of archaic things like subnet masks to noobs. My mom still does not know what an IP address is and would freak in comparison.
Funny you mentioned GW2. I had a former female friend who tried to get me into that game. In that or most MMOs a women can use her biological rewards grinding and collecting herbs and earning the hard core raiding great in the process. My exwife loved doing that and I despiced the work.
But the social interaction where you spend time together and get away together with friends is not threatening like playing Halo 3 by yourself and ignoring her while the house is a wreck or when you need to do chores. Otherwise you end end up with a situation like this? I think having it pretty is not that important.
In addition I also notice the women who play Sims create relationships iwth the characters and even get them to make out which I find humorous. I guess the social structure in addition to the patience oriented things appeal more.
As long as IE ships with Windows, it will always have a significant market share because of companies that simply do nothing.
That's the kind of company that can't hold its high value employees. Makes for a good short.
I will make the same tired arguments that have been made for 10 years. When you have a $2,000,000 peoplesoft installation that only works in IE 6 and java 5 will you dare to approach the PHB cost accountants at work and say you should throw that $2,000,000 away because Chrome is sooo cool!! Go do it?
When you graduate college or work in anything but a small business you see IE everywhere. One to throw a bitch fest, yell at Oracle, SAP, IBM, and other enterprise vendors.
They are finally supporting Firefox 3.6, but anything above 4+ they wont certifiy as it changes every 6 weeks. So IE it is!
Also yell at Mozilla? Only IE has group policy objects, active directory integration, and other things where you can push a IE update to 90,000 workstations across 5 continents with ease. Have you managed thousands of PCs before? Only IE has this.
Until Mozilla wakes up the enterprise will constantly always pick IE.
I second that. MMOs have big cult followings among women.
Women are just different. They are social beings. They want to integrate people and technology into their already existing lives. Not use it to get away as a stress reliever like men. The fact you need downtime makes them resentful. However if sheis included like in Wow has an appeal.
Which site is that if you do not mind asking?
IE 8 seems a little earlier. Especially if you have business users. Even on the internet many sites still work better with IE 8 including Slashdot. Yes, they have standards, but when they see a string that says IE they feed old IE code.
Maybe slashdot.org can fix the comment threading in IE 9?
For the exact same reason, I had been wondering why people tried/are still trying to kill Java instead of improving it altogether. And I came up with a pretty obvious conclusion that people are selfish, egotistic, and arrogant. If we knew how to cooperate with the others, the world would definitely be a much better place.
We have HTML 5 and ajax to do just that. We do not own Adobe or Oracle. That is the difference. Java needs to die too. It had its chance but Sun and Oracle never improved it outside the 1990s and it is time to move on to something we own and control instead.
Funny
I view Adobe as the evil money grab trying to destroy internet standards, GPL, hobbiests, and free operating systems.
Why? In 1999 Linux/FreeBSD was the ulitmate web development platform. So many tools and a cutting edge Netscape and Mozilla browsers, codecs (yes distros including them back then), and php modules galore. Today employers demand Adobe flash, adobe dreamweaver, adobe photoshop, adobe preimere, for any web development job. You need WIndows or Mac only to learn web development. Windows preferable as IE is standard.I have to pirate as I wont blow $2,000 to learn things and the cool tools of linux have to run on an ISP or another computer. That is messed up if you ask me.
Flash is terrible, insecure, hardware acceleration non existent on many platforms, non mobile friendly, and controlled by a corporation. HTML 5 is coming a long way but its a start.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein
