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http://www.bbc.co.uk...gazine-21302065Have young people never had it so bad?
Rising wages and low house prices helped the baby boom generation to prosper. Today's young face high unemployment, expensive education, and a lifetime of renting. Have they never had it so bad?
(quite a long article - worth a read - very HPC!)
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Have young people never had it so bad?
Rising wages and low house prices helped the baby boom generation to prosper. Today's young face high unemployment, expensive education, and a lifetime of renting. Have they never had it so bad?
(quite a long article - worth a read - very HPC!)
There is a comments section too..!
To 2009 or so, expectations of the youth were never higher in history - needing to be brutally dashed since. Whose fault is that? Is it really worse than 1910 or 1930? Or many other periods in history?
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To 2009 or so, expectations of the youth were never higher in history - needing to be brutally dashed since. Whose fault is that? Is it really worse than 1910 or 1930? Or many other periods in history?
The article specifically states that this is the worst time to be young SINCE the war - obviously pre-war generations have had it worse.
Please read it (and the comments - which are encouraging): it's perfect HPC stuff - house price bubble pricing the young out, the contrast between growing up in the 50s/60s and now, high education costs, people moving abroad... etc.
It's taking time (years and years) but the stuff that was obvious to many HPC members years ago is now coming to the public's (The Flock) mind.
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To 2009 or so, expectations of the youth were never higher in history - needing to be brutally dashed since. Whose fault is that? Is it really worse than 1910 or 1930? Or many other periods in history?
I was earning ?140/week as a 16 year old apprentice, straight out of school, in 1990.
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I was earning ?140/week as a 16 year old apprentice, straight out of school, in 1990.
So that's the equivalent of earning ?1200 a month today. Which you'll be lucky to do at the age of 26...
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I'd say pre war gens had it worse, but I'm constantly surprised by how few boomers understand how hard it is for a lot of youngsters.My dad grew up during a time where if he didn't like his job he could tell his boss to stuff it in the morning and have a new one lined up by lunch. His low early life wage was enough to buy a small house and start a small family with a stay at home mum.
He'd be out work and homeless now or in a dodgy HMO. Worse: queues of boomers would be queuing up to beat him with rolled up copies of the Daily Express and their BTL portfolios, to let him know how that was his fault.
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Have young people never had it so bad?
Rising wages and low house prices helped the baby boom generation to prosper. Today's young face high unemployment, expensive education, and a lifetime of renting. Have they never had it so bad?
(quite a long article - worth a read - very HPC!)
There is a comments section too..!
Good article.
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In October 2011, a new group, the Intergenerational Foundation, argued that older people were "hoarding housing" and should be encouraged to downsize.
"Older generations own more than two-thirds of the nation's housing stock," says Angus Hanton co-founder of the foundation. "They have rewarded themselves with unaffordable pensions and intimidate policy makers through sheer cohort size and lobby-power."
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High property prices increase: living costs; production costs; and government costs - hence all prices , and taxes!
This also reduces Britain's international competitiveness, impoverishing all of us, including property owners
And NIMBYism is evil.
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Have young people never had it so bad?
Rising wages and low house prices helped the baby boom generation to prosper. Today's young face high unemployment, expensive education, and a lifetime of renting. Have they never had it so bad?
(quite a long article - worth a read - very HPC!)
There is a comments section too..!
I dont think anyone under 40 reads the BBc website going by the comments. Apparently the young have never had it so good
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My dad grew up during a time where if he didn't like his job he could tell his boss to stuff it in the morning and have a new one lined up by lunch. His low early life wage was enough to buy a small house and start a small family with a stay at home mum.
He'd be out work and homeless now or in a dodgy
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Much of this problem is not intergenerational. It has to do with the creeping financialization of each sector of the economy. The BBC article is a bit misleading on this. I don't like this intergenerational argument - it is a diversion from the real cause.
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Have young people never had it so bad?
Rising wages and low house prices helped the baby boom generation to prosper. Today's young face high unemployment, expensive education, and a lifetime of renting. Have they never had it so bad?
(quite a long article - worth a read - very HPC!)
There is a comments section too..!
While I absolutely agree that as it stands young people (I could extend that to a lot of age groups) are facing a lifetime of renting - wouldn't those that believe we are on the verge of a property price collapse take a more optimistic view that for those in work ,their ability to afford to buy and leave rented accomodation, will be vastly improved shortly.
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Ten years too late. Other forums too are showing signs that the views expressed here for years are entering the mainstream. I remember when people said I was mad to point out there was a problem. Now they choose not to remember I mentioned it, and talk about it as though they didn't hold the opposite view only a year or two ago. One says to me, 'well with hindsight ... blah blah buy to let problems blah blah'. The problems experienced now are those I pointed out as risks before they 'invested'. Selective memories! Can't help some people.Now I just don't say anything.
Bit late now to wake up isn't it?
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?Toto deVeer, on 05 February 2013 - 10:11 AM, said:
Much of this problem is not intergenerational. It has to do with the creeping financialization of each sector of the economy. The BBC article is a bit misleading on this. I don't like this intergenerational argument - it is a diversion from the real cause.
Not blaming him or his generation, just making a statement of fact really.
He was able to pull himself up by his bootstraps (my dad was born an orphan and could barely read or write) because there was always work he could do. At 35 he joined the police force in the 80s because all the factories he had worked in as a younger man went pop. He was able to buy his first house on what would be a minimum wage job's salary today and keep both me, my mum, and my sister on it. Not saying it was easy, but we survived! :-)
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Is it really worse than 1910 or 1930? Or many other periods in history?
Relative to the other generations, I would say it probably is worse than any other period in history.
This time much of the pain - so far - has been focused like a laser beam on the people under 25.
People talk about pulling the ladder up. This time they took the ladder up, chopped it into pieces, burned it and then ate what was left.
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It's why my son is sodding off to Australia for a year, spending 3 months in farming so that he can have another year, and by then he might have found a way to stay.He's bright enough to realise that there's no hope here.
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I was earning ?140/week as a 16 year old apprentice, straight out of school, in 1990.
You were doing well, I started as a product design office apprentice in 1989 and I was on ?65 a week and was the highest paid apprentice at the first year engineering school, I didn't crack the ton a week until I was in the third year of the apprenticeship.
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Android 4.0 and higher nears 50-percent adoption, 2.3 still the largest share
Right on schedule, the Android Developers Dashboard has reported the share of devices running each version of Android as of February 4, 2013. These numbers are measured based on the number of users accessing Google Play within a 14 day period, which is a great indication of devices being actively used. As you can see in the chart above, Android 4.0 and higher is nearing the 50-percent mark, at 42.6-percent currently. Gingerbread is still holding down the top spot at 45.6-percent, but we're nearing the point where device running Gingerbread will be overtaken by versions with the new design language.
As you'll see in the graph after the break, the share of Gingerbread devices is slowly but surely decreasing, making way for a notably quick Jelly Bean advancement. Jelly Bean (both 4.1 and 4.2) total up to 13.6-percent of devices, surely helped by the success of the Nexus 7 and notable updates to popular devices like the Galaxy S3.
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Sunday, February 3, 2013
State-of-the-art rocket-powered motorcycle sells on eBay
A state-of-the-art rocket-powered motorcycle that was recently advertised for sale on eBay has been sold to Gerd Habermann Racing. Engineered to hit speeds in excess of 400 mph (640 km/h) during the quarter-mile, the bike was designed and built by Glenn Brittian, one of the few drivers licensed by the National Hot Rod Association to drive a rocket dragster. The asking price was US$27,000, but the actual selling price has not been made public.
While we tend to think of manned rockets in terms of spaceflight, adventurers have been using them to power other vehicles for nearly a century. In the late 1920s, Fritz von Opel, of the Opel automobile family, built rocket cars, rocket trains, rocket gliders, rocket snow sleds, and the first known attempt at creating a rocket-powered motorcycle, imaginatively called the Raketen Motorrad (RM ? Rocket Motorcycle).
Side view of a modern replica of Fritz von Opel's Raketen Motorrad (Photo: Joris Bergsma)
The RM was built on a 500cc Opel Neander SuperSport motorcycle. The Opel Neander was propelled by a one-cylinder 500cc engine that produced a massive 22 hp. Opel modified the Opel Neander by adding mounts for six (later fourteen) rockets fueled with compressed smokeless powder. The estimated top speed was 220 km/h (140 mph), but a full speed run was never attempted due to the intervention of the Weimar government, which thought the whole idea was too dangerous.
Side view of rocket motorcycle (Photo: Glenn Brittian)
Many other rocket motorcycles have been made since that time, some for racing and speed, and a few to support motorcycle jumps. Brittian's rocket motorcycle is designed as a dragster from the frame outwards ? it is not intended to turn under power, nor will it run more than quarter-mile time trials and drag races. It is built for one thing alone ? speed.
Dual nozzles attached to combustion chamber (Photo: Glenn Brittian)
Brittian's rocket motorcycle is powered by a dual nozzle rocket engine providing a design maximum of 3500 pounds (15.6 kN) of thrust. When running at that thrust it eats about 30 lb (14 kg) of fuel every second, sucking the fuel tank dry after the few seconds of a quarter-mile drag. The rocket engine uses high-test (80-98 percent pure) hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide does not burn when used in a rocket engine, but passes by a catalyst that makes it decompose into water and oxygen. The water released is converted into steam at about 1100? F (870? C), which then exits through the nozzle producing thrust.
It has become nearly impossible in recent years to buy high-test hydrogen peroxide (in the United States sales to the public have even been banned by the Department of Homeland Security), so it is often concentrated by various methods. As the concentration process is perhaps more dangerous than handling and using hydrogen peroxide, it is not to be undertaken lightly.
This series of photographs taken during construction show many additional details of the rocket system as well as the bike itself. The motorcycle has been tested with a smaller engine producing about half the thrust, and has hit speeds in excess of 220 mph in the quarter-mile. The full design that Mr. Habermann has bought is designed to hit speeds of over 400 mph (640 km/h) in the quarter mile. The real question is can the rider hold on at such speeds? Time will tell, if the bike doesn't blow up first!
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Friday, February 1, 2013
How To Start An Internet Radio Station The Basics
More and more people are tuning in online for their entertainment needs than ever before in the past. In fact it is predicted that Internet TV and Radio will surpass traditional satellite and radio in the future. That being said many companies are now setting up new channel online to capture their share of the market. So now you may ask yourself how can I get in on it?
Well lets begin with the basics. A typical website has a front end and a back end. The front end is what your customer sees when they visit your website or URL. This is your "store front" if you will. This is where your customer/listeners can browse your site. The back end would be compared to the back of a retail store where you keep the things necessary to manage your store. A website is the same thing. It has a front end for your customer or listeners to tune in, and it has a back end to where you can manage the content of your website including display ads, news, blogs, and more. The back end is sometimes referred to as a "admin panel" or a "CMS" (Content management system).
So now that you understand the basics of a website lets discuss what makes a site a Internet radio station. Well the first obvious answer is the fact that it would have a player for your listeners to tune into. Other factors on the front side of your page may be if you have "audio on demand" or "archived" audio from past shows or programs. However what make a Internet radio station work is the back end or the CMS. This is where you would upload your audio files too and arrange them into a play list. This is also where you could store your archived shows and place them where you want them on your web page through your CMS. Through your CMS you could decide to broadcast live or just have a streaming channel of pre recorded audio. When I refer to streaming I am referring to your prerecorded audio that you arrange into a play list that streams to your website. When the play list reaches the end it loops to play the list over again. Through the CMS it will allow you to add, or delete existing content to keep your play list up to date.
For live broadcasts you would have to decide if you would like the existing streaming feed to stop and then insert your live feed or if you want a separate page and audio player to play your live feed. If you had a separate page for your live broadcasts you could always have a notification on your home page when you are broadcasting live. Something like "We are now broadcasting live click here to listen". This way you can keep your streaming player with your prerecorded audio going without interruption while at the same time broadcasting live to a different page.
Your CMS or admin panel will be your most important piece of your Internet radio station. If you are thinking of starting an Internet radio station then I would suggest using a professional. Companies like B&C Enterprise specialize in Internet radio and give you a turn key site ready for broadcasting.
In conclusion there is plenty of room on the net for great ideas in the Internet radio world. So go for it and get your channel going!
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Panasonic, Sharp expect red ink despite yen help
In this Jan. 31, 2013 photo, a shopper takes a look at Sharp's Aquos flat-panel TVs at an electronics store in Tokyo. Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. has reduced its quarterly losses but its outlook remains challenging. The Osaka-based company left its forecast for the full year ending March unchanged Friday, Feb. 1, at a 450 billion yen loss ($5 billion) as its flat-panel business for TVs and mobile devices gets hammered by plunging prices and intense competition. Sharp reported a 36.7 billion yen ($399 million) net loss for the October-December period, a smaller flow of red ink than its 173.6 billion yen loss a year earlier. It posted an operating profit for period, the first time in five quarters. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
In this Jan. 31, 2013 photo, a shopper takes a look at Sharp's Aquos flat-panel TVs at an electronics store in Tokyo. Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. has reduced its quarterly losses but its outlook remains challenging. The Osaka-based company left its forecast for the full year ending March unchanged Friday, Feb. 1, at a 450 billion yen loss ($5 billion) as its flat-panel business for TVs and mobile devices gets hammered by plunging prices and intense competition. Sharp reported a 36.7 billion yen ($399 million) net loss for the October-December period, a smaller flow of red ink than its 173.6 billion yen loss a year earlier. It posted an operating profit for period, the first time in five quarters. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
In this Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 photo, a shopper speaks with a salesclerk in front of Panasonic flat-panel TVs at an electronics store in Tokyo. Japanese electronics maker Panasonic Corp. returned to the black last quarter as cost cuts and a weaker yen offset sliding sales. Panasonic is among the Japanese electronics makers battered by price plunges in gadgets and hot competition from more successful rivals such as U.S. manufacturer Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea. Osaka-based Panasonic reported a 61.4 billion yen ($667 million) profit for the October-December period Friday, Feb. 1. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
TOKYO (AP) ? Japanese electronics makers Panasonic Corp. and Sharp Corp. both stuck to full year forecasts for massive losses even as results for the latest quarter got a boost from the weaker yen.
The two Osaka-based companies are among the Japanese electronics makers battered by price plunges in gadgets and hot competition from more successful rivals such as Apple Inc. and South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co.
Panasonic reported a 61.4 billion yen ($667 million) profit for the October-December period Friday. It had a loss of 698 billion yen in the previous quarter and a loss of 197.6 billion yen a year earlier. Quarterly sales slipped 8 percent to 1.8 trillion yen ($19.6 billion).
The company, which makes Viera TVs and Lumix digital cameras, said global demand weakened for flat panel TVs and digital products and devices while sales grew in LED lighting and auto-related equipment.
Sharp, which makes Aquos TVs and solar panels, reported a smaller flow of red ink for October through December. Its quarterly net loss shrank to 36.7 billion yen ($399 million) from 173.6 billion yen a year earlier.
It posted an operating profit for the period, the first time in five quarters, thanks to a recovery in liquid-crystal panel TVs and devices for smartphones. The operating result excludes one-time gains and losses to provide a clearer picture of financial performance.
Key to its improving fortunes was a return to the black in flat-panel TV operations, which had lost money for a year until the latest quarter. Sharp is promising to return to profit for the fiscal year through March 2014.
Sharp's quarterly sales rose 15 percent to 678.2 billion yen ($7.4 billion).
But both companies left unchanged their dismal forecasts for massive losses for the fiscal year through March.
Panasonic is projecting a 765 billion yen ($9.6 billion) annual loss. Sharp expects a 450 billion yen ($5 billion) loss, record red ink for the manufacturer founded in 1912, making products such as the twist-type mechanical pencil.
Panasonic, a brand that was an archrival to Sony Corp. during the decades of Japan's post World War II economic modernization, has been shifting its business from consumer electronics to focus more on operations that cater to other businesses such as batteries and solar panels.
But it remains strong in appliances such as washing machines and refrigerators in some regions.
As exporters, Panasonic and Sharp got a boost from a favorable exchange rate. The dollar has strengthened about 14 percent against the yen in the past three months on expectations a new government would relax monetary policy to boost the nation's moribund economy.
Panasonic gained 3 billion yen ($33 million) in the latest quarter in operating profit from the weaker yen, according to the company. Sharp did not have a quarterly breakdown, but gained 700 million yen ($7.6 million) from the fall in the yen's exchange rate with the dollar and 500 million yen ($5.4 million) versus the euro over the first nine months of the fiscal year.
Panasonic reported a record loss of 772.2 billion yen ($8.4 billion) for the fiscal year through March 2012 ? among the biggest in Japan's manufacturing history.
Sony, which also sank into a record loss for that fiscal year, reports earnings next week.
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Engadget Podcast 329 - 01.31.13
No sleep 'til... well, let's not do that again. But, yes, it's BlackBerry week, and the podcast crew sift through all the news to come from the New York event. There's plenty of it, too, what with rebrandings, new hardware and, oh, you know BlackBerry 10 an' all. Get it right here.
Hosts: Tim Stevens, Terrence O'Brien, Brian Heater
Producer: James Trew
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/31/engadget-podcast-329-01-31-13/
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