Comment on Why the US is Helping Itself go Bankrupt by sodablue

2012-05-14T02:41:00

Capitalism at it's simplest is supply and demand.

If you have a demand for a certain skill and there is a lack of supply, the price(i.e. wage) will go up until people perceive an incentive to pursue that skill and fill the market need.

All 3 of your points are the same problem.

Comment on Why the US is Helping Itself go Bankrupt by sodablue

2012-05-14T02:35:13

"In her example, she cited that each week, her company must produce proper documentation to prove that the higher rate was paid. They are subject to audits for verification. The documentation takes hours to complete, creates more overhead, and thus adds more cost to the project. Failure six?"

So are you advocating we spend public funds without oversight?

Hmm, it seems we tried that in Iraq and it's unclear to me that it cost us less money.

Comment on Why the US is Helping Itself go Bankrupt by jgaylord

2012-05-10T13:56:07

Great points Keyvan. Part of the problem is that most politicians really don't know what's going on. They act as though they do, but when was the last time your politicians visited your street when there wasn't an election (or a natural disaster tour) going on? High ranking officials need to start making surprise visits to gov't offices to see these issues for themselves.

Comment on Why the US is Helping Itself go Bankrupt by Keyvan Nayyeri

2012-05-10T00:43:45

Well, IMO there are three main problems in the US that are leading it to bankruptcy and your above-mentioned problems will be solved if they are solved.

1- The education is broken and by education, I mean the whole system of educating people from their childhood to adulthood consisting of schools and media. Most people leave their kids in front of TV to learn all the crap they say or ban them too much to be closeminded. Either way, as a foreigner who came here at the age of 25, I can clearly see that a vast majority American people have a wrong standpoint on many things in this world. The most terrible aspect of this education system is the laziness and carelessness. On the laziness part, most American kids hate mathematical disciplines because they don't want to bother dealing with some difficulties, and want to be rich in one night with easy ways like being a celebrity, so America is being emptied from enough skillful people in STEM fields which is a big problem for economy. As of carelessness, the culture of "I don't care about this problem unless it hurts me" is very clear in the society, so people don't react to negative and bad things until they feel their bad impact on their own lives. With better education, you will have better managers who will handle all your disasters better, create jobs, and solve many other issues.

2- The immigration system is totally broken. This country has been built by immigrants and yet due to reason number #1, US suffers badly from a shortage of skills in critical fields, especially STEM fields like science and engineering. Unfortunately, the immigration system has gone wrong since late 90's and has made it easy for unskillful people to become citizens of this country easily, and it's very difficult for educated people to do that. Every year over 50'000 random people are selected to get a green card in a lottery. With no exception, all those people that I've met are lower educated, have language problems, and can't start a good life in here. Likewise, the system has become an open door for some people to cheat and come here by false marriages and similar things. All the recent proppositions in the house, senate, or government around immigration reforms have been boycotted by one of the two parties for stupid political reasons.

3- Capitalism! It's not bad by nature but it's left to grown unexpectedly here. The problem you mentioned about US workers and generally the problem with employment in here is twofold. On one hand, it goes back to the shortage of skills in certain fields that I mentioned above, and on the other hand, it's because there are few people in here who care about their own pockets not employment.

Just my two cents.

Comment on Port your Android or iPhone apps to Windows Phone 7 by lactop

2012-04-25T11:07:33

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Comment on Converting a .NET DateTime object to a JavaScript Date object by Dr. Paul Jarvis

2012-04-04T08:39:31

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Comment on Should Microsoft and Amazon put Windows 8 on the Kindle? by nimatra

2012-03-20T23:43:32

I totally agree with you on the first paragraph.
Azure is not negotiable. Azure is as important as Office and Windows. However, they might strike a deal on W/WP 8 on kindle gadgets as there're rumors about Kindle Phone for this fall. You know, Nokia deal started with S. Elop switching to Nokia and B. Watson just switched to Amazon.

Comment on Should Microsoft and Amazon put Windows 8 on the Kindle? by jgaylord

2012-03-19T21:14:55

Then we'd ride around on pigs instead of driving in cars? Think about it more though. With Brandon leaving and Amazon not happy with their Google relationship, its possible. No one would have suspected Nokia to sign as strong of a partnership with Microsoft over Windows Phone.

Comment on Should Microsoft and Amazon put Windows 8 on the Kindle? by Ben Moore

2012-03-19T21:10:10

What if pigs could fly?

Comment on Should Microsoft and Amazon put Windows 8 on the Kindle? by jgaylord

2012-03-16T13:15:09

Not entirely. Competition would still exist, but there would be more collaboration. And now that you put it that way, it's definitely working in other industries. Take the music industry for example.

But yes, open source is a big player. It allows companies like Microsoft to focus on the meat and potatoes and open source communities to focus on the gravy.

Comment on Should Microsoft and Amazon put Windows 8 on the Kindle? by Bertrand Le Roy

2012-03-15T21:37:11

What if Sony and Nintendo would license Xbox Live? You're talking of a world where collaboration replaces competition. That world exists already, but the big names are not its drivers. It's the world of open source ;)

Comment on Preventing Web Applications from Inheriting Parent Dependencies (bin) by Jason Gaylord

2012-03-13T16:29:57

You are correct that it doesn't work. I'm unaware of a work around, but if I find one, I'll let you know.

Comment on Preventing Web Applications from Inheriting Parent Dependencies (bin) by Tyrone Davis

2012-03-12T21:50:27

Unfortunately, this doesn't work if you need to not inherit elements defined within <configsections>. It would work for everything else as you describe. If you find a way, would love to know how to work around this using the <location> element.</location></configsections>

Comment on Preventing Web Applications from Inheriting Parent Dependencies (bin) by Tyrone Davis

2012-03-12T21:50:27

Comment on Using Data Annotations in the .NET Framework by Jason Gaylord

2012-02-25T15:05:40

Dane, you are correct. I was trying to find a quick way to provide an example is all. :) In my case, I like to create annotations around certain business rules. For instance, forcing dates between two datetime values that are on a sliding scale. For example, you can schedule a new blog post to be posted automatically in the next 30 days, but not earlier than today or later than that 30 day mark. Hopefully that makes sense.

Comment on Using Data Annotations in the .NET Framework by DaneWitbeck

2012-02-25T05:06:02

I guess its a good example of a custom data annotation, but this one is already built-in as well... You just have to specify the GetType parameter as "Date" in Range and then you can do this out of the box! Here's the example on the MSDN page

public class ProductMetaData
{

[Range(10, 1000,
ErrorMessage = "Value for {0} must be between {1} and {2}.")]
public object Weight;

[Range(300, 3000)]
public object ListPrice;

[Range(typeof(DateTime), "1/2/2004", "3/4/2004",
ErrorMessage = "Value for {0} must be between {1} and {2}")]
public object SellEndDate;

}

Here is the link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-u...

Comment on Using HTML 5 Geolocation, Google Maps to Generate Driving Distance by Jason Gaylord

2012-02-17T16:15:17

No problem. Hope it helps!

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2012-02-17T04:33:12

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