Not that e-bay has ever been a real auction anyway (how many auctions have you been to that end just when everyone starts bidding?), but several other auctions (see Barret-Jackson) allow owners to do this, they don't care because it still counts as a sell and the owner has to pay the commission. I for one wouldn't want to let a $100K car go for 20 just because no one there wanted it that day. I think this article was written by someone bitter that they didn't get that ipod for $20.
There's no such continent as "America". There are 2 continents in the Western Hemisphere, North America and South America. Collectively known as "The Americas", NOT "America". But, go on with your America-bashing, we're getting pretty used to it.
I love the "Americans are arrogant because they call themselves Americans when there are other countries in North and South America" dillusion. America is the name of our nation! The states that make up that nation are the United States of "America". When we say "of America", we mean of the nation of America, not "of the North American Continent". We are simply calling ourselves by the name of or nation just as anyone else does. The country of Mexico is officially "The United States of Mexico", no one ever gets their panties in a wad over them calling themselves Mexicans. It wouldn't make sense for every country that was made up of states that are united in a country to call themselves "USians". I know of no other country that uses the name America as part of their name. If you want to refer to someone by their continent, please use the proper name "North Americans" or "South Americans", as far as I've studied, there is no continent of "America".
It's only Sr. level people that we are looking for in the U.S. I've worked for a major IT outsourcing company for 10 years now as a Sr. UNIX SA. I can say that it is rare that we ever fill an open position on the first interview. When the job description clearly states that we are looking for senior level UNIX admins and we get people that don't can't read cidr notation, don't know how to manage a cluster, don't know the difference between RAID, SAN, and NAS, etc... We get plenty of applicants that I would consider junior, or total newbs. Unless you're planning to move to India, work for 5 years, and then come back as a senior-level engineer, don't believe this article. Run Away!!!
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Not that e-bay has ever been a real auction anyway (how many auctions have you been to that end just when everyone starts bidding?), but several other auctions (see Barret-Jackson) allow owners to do this, they don't care because it still counts as a sell and the owner has to pay the commission. I for one wouldn't want to let a $100K car go for 20 just because no one there wanted it that day. I think this article was written by someone bitter that they didn't get that ipod for $20.
There's no such continent as "America". There are 2 continents in the Western Hemisphere, North America and South America. Collectively known as "The Americas", NOT "America". But, go on with your America-bashing, we're getting pretty used to it.
I love the "Americans are arrogant because they call themselves Americans when there are other countries in North and South America" dillusion. America is the name of our nation! The states that make up that nation are the United States of "America". When we say "of America", we mean of the nation of America, not "of the North American Continent". We are simply calling ourselves by the name of or nation just as anyone else does. The country of Mexico is officially "The United States of Mexico", no one ever gets their panties in a wad over them calling themselves Mexicans. It wouldn't make sense for every country that was made up of states that are united in a country to call themselves "USians". I know of no other country that uses the name America as part of their name. If you want to refer to someone by their continent, please use the proper name "North Americans" or "South Americans", as far as I've studied, there is no continent of "America".
It's only Sr. level people that we are looking for in the U.S. I've worked for a major IT outsourcing company for 10 years now as a Sr. UNIX SA. I can say that it is rare that we ever fill an open position on the first interview. When the job description clearly states that we are looking for senior level UNIX admins and we get people that don't can't read cidr notation, don't know how to manage a cluster, don't know the difference between RAID, SAN, and NAS, etc... We get plenty of applicants that I would consider junior, or total newbs. Unless you're planning to move to India, work for 5 years, and then come back as a senior-level engineer, don't believe this article. Run Away!!!