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Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable"
theodp writes "When questioned about his firm's US hiring, Information Week reports that Vineet Nayar, the CEO of the Indian outsourcing giant HCL Technologies, showed he can stereotype with the best of them, telling an audience in NYC that most American tech grads are 'unemployable.' Explaining that Americans are far less willing than students from developing economies like India, China, and Brazil to master the 'boring' details of tech process and methodology, the HCL chief added that most Americans are just too expensive to train. HCL, which was reportedly awarded a secretive $170 million outsourcing contract by Microsoft last April, gets a personal thumbs-up from Steve Ballmer for 'walking the extra mile.' Ballmer was busy last week pitching more H-1B visas as the cure for America's job ills at The National Summit."
Funny how you post as AC and then sign the post...
It's spraying little unselectable boxes all over my screen. If you have to use a stylesheet, you're usually doing it wrong. If you have to use Javascript for a pure text based website like Slashdot, you are _definitely_ doing it wrong: it destabilizes your display and multiplies the testing and development cost ridiculously.
Hamburger meat is made from cows. McDonalds servers hamburgers. Cows are a sacred animal in India.
+1 /. with IE8, unless you turn compatibility mode one.
I despise the "new look and feel"
Yes I know I'm not going to earn any points for this, but you can't use
Yeah, but his point still stands.
Despite having mod points and disagreeing completely with the raft of anti-new-slashdot posts here, there's nothing I can't stand more than modders giving out -1 Disagree disguised as -1 Overrated. So here goes with a slight rebuttal:
/. has moved with the times, and for the most part I like the changes -- and believe that the ones that make no sense will likely disappear. Go figure, this is a discussion supposedly about Americans not willing to learn the details of new technologies. Well, /. is innovating constantly, trying different ideas out, and despite some mistakes along the way, remains, in my mind, the best discussion board on the Net.
/. devs oughtta develop an iPhone version, but for gawd's sake, don't neuter my full bodied, proper monitor experience for the sake of those things.
/. comes much from the mod system, which you ACs aren't contibuting to. If you won't get an account, log in, and change your preferences to a less JS-intensive version, then it's your own fault. Despite your crying, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Using Chrome or Firefox on a 1.6Ghz laptop, I've got no problems with CPU, loading times or anything. I love the new look. A year ago it was different -- long load times, or browser crashes if the discussion had more than 300 comments was normal, but not any more.
Most posts disparaging of the new look are by ACs using iPhone, Opera or Safari. Opera, so proud of Acid compliance, has many a bug when it comes to javascript. Safari has always been a JS nightmare, holding back web developers that need to cater to mac addicts. As for the iPhone...
Finally, the success of
I hate to say it but this is the crap that happens with executable content. Microsoft learned it the hard way and now the Web is about to learn it. I have a quad-core machine with gobs of RAM yet I dread surfing the web and watching the CPU utilization spike.
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
Americans killed about 25% of the population of the Philippines.
Red to red, black to black. Switch it on, but stand well back.