"Anonymous said... in short: "Microsoft is in an optimal position to enable 'something' that may be 'better' in the 'future'" Great now if only they could leverage the cloud to seamlessly align an integrated, next-generation dynamic response user experience ensuring a paradigm shift in cost-effective best practices while maximizing ROI. "
WTF!!! Can someone gimme the universal translator rendition of that?
"Linux servers, that run on command line don't have these issues. I know this is shocking to some people, but 99.99% of the world doesn't really give a shit about what you have on your home pc's hard drive."
What benefits do I get from gamer points? Does it give me extra Live hours? More M$ dollars points to buy add-ons? Prizes? A barrel of monkeys? More lotto drawings for free tickets to visit the Naked & Petrified Natalie Portman Exhibit at the Pimple Popper Expo?
IT workers are like all other kinds of workers - they think they're rugged individualists who can stand as an army of One against a totally unified management. And if they cannot, they think they can start their own businesses.
Of course the road of unemployment is littered with tons of squirrels who think this way. But hey, IT workers look at them as examples of natural selection. At least, until they themselves are outsourced and they find themselves spending 4 additional years in college burning through their severance package while amassing ten thousand in debt... you get the picture.
"More importantly, they are getting better at negotiating reasonable work (they used to just say "Yes" to everything- which lead to bad code, failed deadlines. Now they negotiate much better, deliver on deadline and with reasonable quality.
They are sharp, highly motivated, and run about 2/3 our costs locally and 1/3 what we charge remotely."
And then you say
"Do NOT underestimate them. Do NOT be an "ugly" american. They are not going to take the jobs away-- but they do take away the code monkey jobs."
You've already shown that offshore progammers are moving UP the skills chain.
Which means they will be doing more important things than mere code monkey jobs.
They are already offshoring research and innovation jobs to India - see: google's new research centers, and biotech research, too.
By the way how do you become an uber programmer without starting out with a code monkey job?
Assume that is the steering wheel of society and you will be able to accurately predict EVERY twist and turn in politics or economics.
Thusly: the Government does not think about the people. It only cares about the rich. Because of Social Darwinism, which in their world is the core of EVERYTHING.
I despise university shells. Give me internet access and Linux/FreeBSD on my own machine with the proper apps for a given class and I'm off to the races. Of course sometimes you need apps that are only available on their systems. Argh. That's when I wish there was a GPL version of Citrix or something like that.
We farm the processing of a great deal of data to low-wage countries that don't even like us. To be managed by guys whose entire year's pay is the same as what you're paid for a week. Which means they are very easy to bribe. Oh and they also think we Americans are evil lazy shits who deserve the pain and suffering we get.
What I am saying is that a disastrous data breach involving millions of Americans' financial or medical data will happen more likely overseas than it will happen anywhere in the U.S. And when it hits you, you will have absolutely zero recourse. Of course, someone could show I'm wrong by explaining to us how the FBI can manage to arrest an identity thief in Bangalore...
So not only are we unable to agree on disaster planning, but the entire system is DESIGNED to provide fertile ground for a disaster.
It's a 4 page bill that basically proposes to extend Medicare benefits to everyone from age 0 to age 64 with a simple 'buy-in.' You buy in at cost and you're covered.
That means no Cigna Corporation sitting around denying you a liver transplant - which cost at least one girl her life.
I was thinking about exploring those 'darknets' but child porn? I don't even want my browser pre-caching its way into those websites much less directly stumble onto one. At least I was warned. Anyone foolish enough to go there can't expect to feel like a victim if they get caught in a dragnet for showing up on a bad site's web access log.
Even when used as glorified typewriters, laptops can turn students into witless stenographers, typing a lecture verbatim without listening or understanding.
Wait a second... when you're wearing your hand out scrambling to get hastily spoken lecture comments and uber complex differential equations on paper, you're spending exactly how many brain cycles actually listening or understanding?
I did a hell of a lot better getting my master's by having my tablet RECORD what s/he was saying, while watching and comprehending without having to worry about the huge distraction of taking so many notes. Of course I still wrote down stuff, but with the tablet I was also not killing trees while doing so.
Some believe that it's an individual's responsibility to budget and take care of themselves, and not the government. And not from my paycheck. I've managed to find jobs that had insurance for 30 years, and turned down jobs that didn't. My choice. I resent that I might be taxed more to pay for medical procedures for some of my friends that could afford health insurance, but have simply chosen not to so they can have nicer cars or homes. Granted, not everyone is in that position, but I sure know a lot of people that are.
So if you're a child from a poor family who has health insurance and you need a liver transplant and the health insurance company refuses to cover it and you die, is it your fault?
And you wonder why the entire civilized world treats America's private payer health care system like the plague?
I do not like having my computers phone home to anywhere.
It's not so much that my computers deal with mission critical information, it's that I deal with personal information on these machines and I have strict router-based control over what IP's are acceptable to go out to. (Which means employees can't browse the web at random.
I can imagine that medical offices with ten times MORE mission critical issues than I have, are really going to be sweating over this.
Do you realize how fast we threw factories up to fight World War II? It wasn't a year but it sure was incredibly fast. And we certainly didn't pay them peanuts (adjusted for inflation) like someone like you would try to now.
"And the day China stops buying US dollars is the day the dollar collapses."
Maybe that's what we need. We can start over by being self-reliant. Or better yet by ending all trade with China and then ending trade barriers with Western democracies.
It's either that or China rules the world in a century.
Well then, why don't you work for free? Will you be as happy then?
Why do you think everyone, and I mean EVERYONE wants to get rich quick and retire early so they can go fishing or gaming or other hobbies that typically don't make money instead of work?
I betcha that if you took 100 people who are happy doing what they do for work and you gave them the same salary to stay home and slack... 99 of them would stay home. Including you.
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I managed a data center. Temperatures like that radiating from servers is bad, bad news. That is an obvious bad airflow problem.
Plus, there is emerging technology to use sound waves for refrigeration. I wonder when they'll deploy it for data centers?
"Anonymous said...
in short: "Microsoft is in an optimal position to enable 'something' that may be 'better' in the 'future'"
Great now if only they could leverage the cloud to seamlessly align an integrated, next-generation dynamic response user experience ensuring a paradigm shift in cost-effective best practices while maximizing ROI. "
WTF!!! Can someone gimme the universal translator rendition of that?
"Linux servers, that run on command line don't have these issues. I know this is shocking to some people, but 99.99% of the world doesn't really give a shit about what you have on your home pc's hard drive."
Look up the word "botnet".
What benefits do I get from gamer points? Does it give me extra Live hours? More M$ dollars points to buy add-ons? Prizes? A barrel of monkeys? More lotto drawings for free tickets to visit the Naked & Petrified Natalie Portman Exhibit at the Pimple Popper Expo?
IT workers are like all other kinds of workers - they think they're rugged individualists who can stand as an army of One against a totally unified management. And if they cannot, they think they can start their own businesses.
Of course the road of unemployment is littered with tons of squirrels who think this way. But hey, IT workers look at them as examples of natural selection. At least, until they themselves are outsourced and they find themselves spending 4 additional years in college burning through their severance package while amassing ten thousand in debt... you get the picture.
"More importantly, they are getting better at negotiating reasonable work (they used to just say "Yes" to everything- which lead to bad code, failed deadlines. Now they negotiate much better, deliver on deadline and with reasonable quality.
They are sharp, highly motivated, and run about 2/3 our costs locally and 1/3 what we charge remotely."
And then you say
"Do NOT underestimate them. Do NOT be an "ugly" american. They are not going to take the jobs away-- but they do take away the code monkey jobs."
You've already shown that offshore progammers are moving UP the skills chain.
Which means they will be doing more important things than mere code monkey jobs.
They are already offshoring research and innovation jobs to India - see: google's new research centers, and biotech research, too.
By the way how do you become an uber programmer without starting out with a code monkey job?
Ubisoft's CEO deserves to be driven into poverty and homelessness.
Let him off himself and give the rest of the world clean hands. :D
Assume that is the steering wheel of society and you will be able to accurately predict EVERY twist and turn in politics or economics.
Thusly: the Government does not think about the people. It only cares about the rich. Because of Social Darwinism, which in their world is the core of EVERYTHING.
I guess you're the only person who read the story of the tortoise and the hare.
I despise university shells. Give me internet access and Linux/FreeBSD on my own machine with the proper apps for a given class and I'm off to the races. Of course sometimes you need apps that are only available on their systems. Argh. That's when I wish there was a GPL version of Citrix or something like that.
Aw rats, you beat me to it.
Yeah, it's not like those secret unlock codes haven't been broken before. (HD DVD/Blu-Ray, anyone?)
Let me get this straight....you wanted a PhD for an entry-level applications engineer job, and were surprised you had trouble finding candidates?
Methinks your expectations are a tad out-of-whack.
Not in this economy it's not. I imagine plenty of PhD's are seriously underemployed right now.
I don't necessarily believe a pool can cause damage to neighbors by leaking... never heard of such.
But that doesn't make pixelpusher's comment a TROLL.
If you believe the comment is over-rated then moderate it that way. "Troll"? I think not.
Don't worry, nobody is forcing you to buy one,
You'll eat those words upon the next release of the Crytek engine...
We farm the processing of a great deal of data to low-wage countries that don't even like us. To be managed by guys whose entire year's pay is the same as what you're paid for a week. Which means they are very easy to bribe. Oh and they also think we Americans are evil lazy shits who deserve the pain and suffering we get.
What I am saying is that a disastrous data breach involving millions of Americans' financial or medical data will happen more likely overseas than it will happen anywhere in the U.S. And when it hits you, you will have absolutely zero recourse. Of course, someone could show I'm wrong by explaining to us how the FBI can manage to arrest an identity thief in Bangalore...
So not only are we unable to agree on disaster planning, but the entire system is DESIGNED to provide fertile ground for a disaster.
It's a 4 page bill that basically proposes to extend Medicare benefits to everyone from age 0 to age 64 with a simple 'buy-in.' You buy in at cost and you're covered.
That means no Cigna Corporation sitting around denying you a liver transplant - which cost at least one girl her life.
Spread the word. This bill got 50 sponsors in 2 days.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h4789/show
http://www.open.salon.com/blog/brinna_nanda/2010/03/10/a_public_option_we_can_all_love_hr_4789
I was thinking about exploring those 'darknets' but child porn? I don't even want my browser pre-caching its way into those websites much less directly stumble onto one. At least I was warned. Anyone foolish enough to go there can't expect to feel like a victim if they get caught in a dragnet for showing up on a bad site's web access log.
Wait a second... when you're wearing your hand out scrambling to get hastily spoken lecture comments and uber complex differential equations on paper, you're spending exactly how many brain cycles actually listening or understanding?
I did a hell of a lot better getting my master's by having my tablet RECORD what s/he was saying, while watching and comprehending without having to worry about the huge distraction of taking so many notes. Of course I still wrote down stuff, but with the tablet I was also not killing trees while doing so.
So if you're a child from a poor family who has health insurance and you need a liver transplant and the health insurance company refuses to cover it and you die, is it your fault?
And you wonder why the entire civilized world treats America's private payer health care system like the plague?
I do not like having my computers phone home to anywhere.
It's not so much that my computers deal with mission critical information, it's that I deal with personal information on these machines and I have strict router-based control over what IP's are acceptable to go out to. (Which means employees can't browse the web at random.
I can imagine that medical offices with ten times MORE mission critical issues than I have, are really going to be sweating over this.
Do you realize how fast we threw factories up to fight World War II? It wasn't a year but it sure was incredibly fast. And we certainly didn't pay them peanuts (adjusted for inflation) like someone like you would try to now.
"And the day China stops buying US dollars is the day the dollar collapses."
Maybe that's what we need. We can start over by being self-reliant. Or better yet by ending all trade with China and then ending trade barriers with Western democracies.
It's either that or China rules the world in a century.
"you cannot build all the missing factories in a day or a year. things are not as simple as you might think they are"
Wanna bet?
Well then, why don't you work for free? Will you be as happy then?
Why do you think everyone, and I mean EVERYONE wants to get rich quick and retire early so they can go fishing or gaming or other hobbies that typically don't make money instead of work?
I betcha that if you took 100 people who are happy doing what they do for work and you gave them the same salary to stay home and slack... 99 of them would stay home. Including you.