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Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S.
alphapartic1e writes "Yahoo! News writes "The U.S. software industry lost 16 percent of its jobs from March 2001 to March 2004, the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute found. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that information technology industries laid off more than 7,000 American workers in the first quarter of 2005. Gartner researchers say most people affiliated with corporate information technology departments will assume "business-facing" roles, focused not so much on gadgets and algorithms but corporate strategy, personnel and financial analysis. "If you're only interested in deep coding and you want to remain in your cubicle all day, there are a shrinking number of jobs for you," said Diane Morello, Gartner vice president of research.""
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The sad thing is, as a 12" G4 iBook owner, I have to agree. I've seen some of the screens that my friends have on their new'ish (less than a year old) Dell laptops, and their screens seem to be brighter and sharper than mine.
I'd actually consider a non-Mac laptop, but my last experience with getting everything working properly with Linux on a PC laptop was not encouraging.
ce n'est pas un Sig.
the Indians, Chinese, Pakistanis and the rest of the various SE Asians will make the products, of course.
but Big Brained Americans will remain on top because their brains are so much bigger and better than those of anyone else in the world. nobody else could possibly come up with the same wonderful products that an American Brain can. no way. not ever. nope
I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.
Maybe funny, but there's a real lack of European langauge speekers in India.
If you want to make a bit of cash, and speak at least English and one other European language go get a top level management job in India.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
o great slashdot pundit, plz explain how free software adversely affects the huge custom software industry. k thx bye
The key is taking the time to walk through the advanced calibration setup under System Preferences > Displays > Color. When I first got my iBook, it has a yellowish tint to the screen. After some careful calibration, it now looks almost as good a PowerBook's screen (a little less bright though).
Now to say something about the job market... just to stay on topic ;)
I just landed a PERL programming job on Friday! However, I'm Canadian, so I guess that doesn't really say anything about the state of job availability in the US IT industry...
The bits on the bus go on and off... on and off... on and off...
Going to have to disagree with your iBook comment. The problem is that the screen itself is in the old matte style whereas most other current laptops have a beautiful glossy screen that makes the iBook look like it's straight out of 2001.
That you compare it to the Powerbook rather than a laptop with a good screen is pretty telling.
Congrats on the Perl job! It's not at Activestate in Vancouver is it?