Well... Reality is not that black and white.
I have a few colleagues as PhD students, that have a lot of experience. And I have colleagues who have PhD, a lot of practical experience and are academically active.
Analytical skills are the most important thing that a university provides. And that is valued by both "big and bad" corp's and "pink and fluffy" academics.
My take is that good IT people with experience will not suffer any fallout from this professionally. Unless their companies are hit hard and go down.
If you remember that this downturn was, in minds of a lot of people, due to LACK of information. And IT people are the ones that can deliver the information and add value to that information. We will see NO impact on IT profession a a whole. Sure, young, graduates with no experience will find it hard, but it's always hard for them, ever since.com bust.
Relax... It will not be because it's east, it will be because it will have the cheapest labor. At least, looking at the economic forecasts and unemployment.
6. The unspoken argument. Who do I sue when the applications wrecks my business?
OMFG! You know that you really can't sue any of the commercial software vendors for anything? If you're big enough, the only way is threatening of changing the vendor.
The keyword here is "when". Working as a consultant in a number extra-BIG companies, I have yet to see a business process that has Office a san integral part of it.
You are right. It's called discrimination based on religion. I believe, that is right next to discrimination based on race in some law. And, maybe a layer can correct me, but I don't think that there are any laws that use the word racism.
TO be fair, catholicism, was the keeper and promoter of knowledge in the dark ages and before the reformation.
Islam is a whole different thing. Islam, to this day MANDATES you to change you lifestyle to be part of Islam. And Islam does impose quite strict rules in a much wider sphere than Christianity. Just think of it, Mohammad was NOT only a prophet, but also military and political leader. So Islam, is the way how things should be governed(spiritual and physical). It's kind of a constitution, if you like. And reality is, that it is quite effective in a lot of areas.
On the other hand we don't think like that about any form of Christianity. While 1800 years ago, if you wanted to be a Christian, your whole life had to be changed fundamentally.
Unless that NDA is not overshadowed by a law.
A company that I work for has a policy of having new employees sign a contract stating, that every IP that you create while in employment belongs to them. The problem is, the contract law in my country expressively states that any contract work that has IP as a result will have 2 owners the receiving party and the producing party. So legally, I can do contract work without breaking my contract.
Actually they say that they will give you credit for it. And unless US copyright law is different from my country's copyright law, the author has 2 types of rights: material and non material. Non material are the rights by witch you can force anyone to disclose that you are the original author of the work.
Well this is different I'm afraid. They are not asking how well they are doing. They are asking if there is anything they could do for us.
You don't charge your waiter/cook for giving him instructions or an idea of what the chef will materialize. You actually PAY for listening to your needs and materializing them and you even leave a TIP!
For an OS Mac OSX is OK. I just hate their stance on hardware. In that sense they are worse than MS.
Come to think of it, Apple is much more secretive and much more closed off than MS ever was...
There are 2 options though:
A) You strive for a socially responsible corporations, with resulting loss to your own profits on your stocks and fund values
B) You abolish all taxes on corporations and tax only personal income - with definite loss in taxes and social benefits in the result
FIY: A lot of the same taxpayers are direct or indirect shareholders of those companies. These are people DEMAND higher profit margins at ANY cost, since they don't care where those profits come from. So really, you, Americans, are your own hostages - your greed holds your greed hostage.
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Yeah... On the other side of the channel we really HAVE options and we are picky. Specially for people that have several years of experience.
Well... Reality is not that black and white.
I have a few colleagues as PhD students, that have a lot of experience. And I have colleagues who have PhD, a lot of practical experience and are academically active.
Analytical skills are the most important thing that a university provides. And that is valued by both "big and bad" corp's and "pink and fluffy" academics.
My take is that good IT people with experience will not suffer any fallout from this professionally. Unless their companies are hit hard and go down. .com bust.
If you remember that this downturn was, in minds of a lot of people, due to LACK of information. And IT people are the ones that can deliver the information and add value to that information. We will see NO impact on IT profession a a whole. Sure, young, graduates with no experience will find it hard, but it's always hard for them, ever since
Relax... It will not be because it's east, it will be because it will have the cheapest labor. At least, looking at the economic forecasts and unemployment.
The french prefer to be called franÃais. You insensitive brit-descendant!
Why the fuck are they charging so much to study there?
OMFG! You know that you really can't sue any of the commercial software vendors for anything? If you're big enough, the only way is threatening of changing the vendor.
No, the best legacy support in the industry award goes to IBM! CICS anyone?
The keyword here is "when". Working as a consultant in a number extra-BIG companies, I have yet to see a business process that has Office a san integral part of it.
I believe statistically you are more likely to be attacked by a red-coat wearing Englishman, than a Muslim :) (Talking about US obviously)
It's not profiling. It's statistics.
It's like saying that there is a 80% chance that the person sitting next to you is NOT a Chinese person.
You are right. It's called discrimination based on religion. I believe, that is right next to discrimination based on race in some law. And, maybe a layer can correct me, but I don't think that there are any laws that use the word racism.
TO be fair, catholicism, was the keeper and promoter of knowledge in the dark ages and before the reformation.
Islam is a whole different thing. Islam, to this day MANDATES you to change you lifestyle to be part of Islam. And Islam does impose quite strict rules in a much wider sphere than Christianity. Just think of it, Mohammad was NOT only a prophet, but also military and political leader. So Islam, is the way how things should be governed(spiritual and physical). It's kind of a constitution, if you like. And reality is, that it is quite effective in a lot of areas.
On the other hand we don't think like that about any form of Christianity. While 1800 years ago, if you wanted to be a Christian, your whole life had to be changed fundamentally.
FYI: David is not an alien name to arabs and other muslims.
Unless that NDA is not overshadowed by a law.
A company that I work for has a policy of having new employees sign a contract stating, that every IP that you create while in employment belongs to them. The problem is, the contract law in my country expressively states that any contract work that has IP as a result will have 2 owners the receiving party and the producing party. So legally, I can do contract work without breaking my contract.
A "shout out" is also attribution. And they promise to do that.
No, no, no. The advertisers actually secretly transfer the $$ to your account to COVER the expenses.
Actually they say that they will give you credit for it. And unless US copyright law is different from my country's copyright law, the author has 2 types of rights: material and non material. Non material are the rights by witch you can force anyone to disclose that you are the original author of the work.
Well this is different I'm afraid. They are not asking how well they are doing. They are asking if there is anything they could do for us.
You don't charge your waiter/cook for giving him instructions or an idea of what the chef will materialize. You actually PAY for listening to your needs and materializing them and you even leave a TIP!
Idea is worthless in monetary value. Implemented idea is what matters. History teaches us exactly that!
OMFG! There were 2 Service Packs for Vista already!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Mono: Isn't that a disease?
For an OS Mac OSX is OK. I just hate their stance on hardware. In that sense they are worse than MS.
Come to think of it, Apple is much more secretive and much more closed off than MS ever was...
There are 2 options though:
A) You strive for a socially responsible corporations, with resulting loss to your own profits on your stocks and fund values
B) You abolish all taxes on corporations and tax only personal income - with definite loss in taxes and social benefits in the result
FIY: A lot of the same taxpayers are direct or indirect shareholders of those companies. These are people DEMAND higher profit margins at ANY cost, since they don't care where those profits come from. So really, you, Americans, are your own hostages - your greed holds your greed hostage.