It is worse than that. Management is always tiered, which means that lower level managers will be also outsourced. For example, if you need to write an MP3 player for your portable gizmo you don't sign a contract with three individuals. You sign a contract with an overseas company which will then allocate resources, including the coders and their managers. Pretty much you outsource the whole software development department. All you do is to write requirements.
Yeah, you only need to work 20 hours per day 7 days per week. On the bright side, though, you will qualify for disability benefits after several years of such work.
None of these three strategies will work out. If you drop your salary to an Indian level you will be booted out of your apartment, or lose your home. If you try to work as much as three offshore programmers you will kill yourself. And if you try to become a manager yourself... good luck, most people don't make it.
There is only one viable scenario. You get fired, and an overseas programmer takes your job. If it happens everywhere in the industry, your best chance is to move overseas.
What if N developers migrate to N management positions and 3*N offshored developers?
Because your market is not large enough to pay for 3x more of a product. You always start from what you can sell, and work down from there.
This is exactly why Joe does not take $1M loan to expand his 10 seat eatery into a huge restaurant for 10,000 tables... there would never be enough customers in his middle of nowhere.
Another version could detect the presence of drunk members of the opposite sex via a signal sent out by their phone.
If you need an electronic device to detect the presence of members of the opposite sex (drunk or not) then you probably wouldn't be capable of making any use out of a successful detection:-)
But they saved a bundle on being able to sell their DVD players in any market; the seller (or even the end user) just configures the box to the region he needs.
Otherwise it would be necessary to ship the boxes back to the factory to change the region code, and shipping alone would eat all the profit. DVD players and other electronics is made on a very small profit margin. It is said that every DVD player ($100) makes only $1 profit to the OEM. Imagine shipping that... better just to discard it somewhere in Australia than to send it back to Taiwan and then to India.
This is a well known situation. For example, you distribute something on a CD and sell it for $1 each. If you burn the CDs yourself, on CD-R, and sell in low numbers, then your costs are $1.50 and you lose $0.50 on each CD sold. However if you sell in large volume, say 100,000 CDs, then you order them pressed in China, for $0.05 per CD, and then you make $0.95 (or so) per CD.
during landing or takeoff, faster than anyone else could react. Yeah, they're on automatic pilot,
Takeoff and landing are not done on autopilot, though the technology exists. Human pilots deal with emergencies better.
Besides, would one rather prefer to fall victim to a hacked autopilot software? That is possible; but now the autopilot would be overruled by a pilot. During landing, OTOH, a pilot can't react fast enough.
Why then not to teach everyone who wants (and who is not a felon,) and upon successful completion of the course give the concealed carry permit. That would be popular and effective.
The fact that this could also screw up plane communications and positioning equipment is irrevelant.
Most people know how to turn their cell phones off when asked by the crew, but does anyone really know how to shut down that built-in wireless card? On many computers it is difficult to even see that it is on (Thinkpad G40) and it is enabled by default. To disable you have to go deep into Device Manager, or to play with Wireless settings.
So chances are when you are flying, lots of passengers have 802.11 up and running, transmitting away at full power... and they don't know about it.
As I said, anything is useful to someone, somewhere. Myself, I haven't been at a presentation or a meeting that depends on Internet connection, but I guess there is always a possibility...
But for most sales people it is easier to bring a roll of Ethernet cable as opposed to setting up a completely new wireless network.
In addition, many companies do not permit unauthorized APs on their network, for obvious reasons:-)
One of my favorite travel notebooks - IBM Thinkpad 240 - has PCMCIA 802.11b card that I bought for $8 or so. All other notebooks have 802.11 built in. And at the hotel they have their access points mounted in each room.
In option 3 I see no need for this device whatsoever, with USB or without... Even if you are stuck with an older notebook without 802.11, get a PCMCIA card, it is tiny and light, and does not need cables.
There are three ways to connect from a hotel: a modem, an Ethernet jack, and a 802.11b network. If you have the #1 or #3 then the device does not apply at all. If you have #2 then you can surf while in the bed, for example.
Even the bed example is not a best fit; business travelers are usually tired enough, and they spend more time in restaurants (between 6pm and midnight) than in bed.
Even more detached from reality is the claim that you can share the connection. Sure you can, but with who? When you travel you have your room to yourself. I don't see any scenario when a bunch of people suddenly needs to share some Internet connection. I travel with other people sometimes, and we have notebooks... but sneakernet with USB flash disks is the media of choice; besides, we all have Internet access in our rooms, often included into the bill which we don't pay ourselves anyway, along with newspapers which we don't have time or desire to read.
This device may be useful to someone - anything is useful to someone, somewhere. But when I travel I need an Access Point much less than a spare battery, for example, or a stack of CDs. I do not need this AP on the road, and I don't know anyone who would need it.
Besides, most of business travelers are sales people, not very familiar with computers and rightfully afraid to mess with them. These guys know how to turn the thing on and how to start their PowerPoint presentation, and that's pretty much all they know. The good part is that they don't even need to know more.
The farmer is not a buyer, he is a seller. Buyers don't advertise their prices, the seller does. But even that is irrelevant, the farmer usually negotiates a sale of this particular lot at this particular time, and the price varies depending on many things.
Besides, the questions would be:
What is the advantage of online access?
What is the cost of online access?
What is the chance that the Web prices are correct and up to date?
What is the chance that the seller or the buyer, being simple folks, fail to maintain the system?
etc.
In any case, the cheaper computer is definitely needed in that village; but forget about farmers; that example is contrived. Farmers' children will be the sole users of the device, and good for them.
Currently, he just has to flip a coin, because he has no way of knowing the prices, out there.
Why can't he just make a quick phone call to his buyers in the two cities? No need to burden the man with fluff technology when the answer can be gotten in his own language, within seconds, and be as up to date as possible (not every buyer would be posting his prices, they depend on who sells, what sells, how much etc.)
And if the village has no phones, then the computer would be useless too.
Unfortunately, nobody bothers to look at signatures on most documents, like checks.
Not just that - the banks are now scanning the original checks and destroying the originals. So anyone with a Photoshop and an inkjet printer has a very good chance to commit a perfect crime, with all the evidence destroyed before the crime is even noticed...
We use VoIP internally, over 100 Mbps Ethernet, and it works great, much better than analog and much cheaper (no extra cables.) However don't try it over Internet - the voice will be broken up and all jittery. So we have Asterisk PBX which takes all our VoIP and analog lines and switches them onto several POTS lines. That works.
We have the PBX registered with SIPPhone, IAXTel and FWD, but we use VoIP over Internet only to talk to friends, and the jitter sometimes is very audible.
Yes, that is possible, but only a/.ter will consider this as his #1 attack method. It's too technocratic for most of the people. If someone really wants to present someone as gay, he simply can drop some gay photos on victim's desk or in drawers, or near his cubicle if he is particularly sneaky. This would be more effective, and less risky.
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You'd better check what CPU you got :-)
This will change; and what will you do then?
The company prospers and new jobs are created
But not in the IT sector, since the previous experiment with outsourcing was so successful.
You somehow assume that work force is an amorphous fluid which can be pumped from one place into another without a loss. But that's not so.
It is worse than that. Management is always tiered, which means that lower level managers will be also outsourced. For example, if you need to write an MP3 player for your portable gizmo you don't sign a contract with three individuals. You sign a contract with an overseas company which will then allocate resources, including the coders and their managers. Pretty much you outsource the whole software development department. All you do is to write requirements.
Yeah, you only need to work 20 hours per day 7 days per week. On the bright side, though, you will qualify for disability benefits after several years of such work.
None of these three strategies will work out. If you drop your salary to an Indian level you will be booted out of your apartment, or lose your home. If you try to work as much as three offshore programmers you will kill yourself. And if you try to become a manager yourself... good luck, most people don't make it.
There is only one viable scenario. You get fired, and an overseas programmer takes your job. If it happens everywhere in the industry, your best chance is to move overseas.
Because your market is not large enough to pay for 3x more of a product. You always start from what you can sell, and work down from there.
This is exactly why Joe does not take $1M loan to expand his 10 seat eatery into a huge restaurant for 10,000 tables... there would never be enough customers in his middle of nowhere.
The Canadian Content requirements are not that unreasonable, given the abysmal quality and immense quantity of the content that comes from the south.
If you need an electronic device to detect the presence of members of the opposite sex (drunk or not) then you probably wouldn't be capable of making any use out of a successful detection :-)
Otherwise it would be necessary to ship the boxes back to the factory to change the region code, and shipping alone would eat all the profit. DVD players and other electronics is made on a very small profit margin. It is said that every DVD player ($100) makes only $1 profit to the OEM. Imagine shipping that... better just to discard it somewhere in Australia than to send it back to Taiwan and then to India.
They would have no use for the black Sharpie marker. Also, they don't have any blank DVDs :-)
This is a well known situation. For example, you distribute something on a CD and sell it for $1 each. If you burn the CDs yourself, on CD-R, and sell in low numbers, then your costs are $1.50 and you lose $0.50 on each CD sold. However if you sell in large volume, say 100,000 CDs, then you order them pressed in China, for $0.05 per CD, and then you make $0.95 (or so) per CD.
Takeoff and landing are not done on autopilot, though the technology exists. Human pilots deal with emergencies better.
Besides, would one rather prefer to fall victim to a hacked autopilot software? That is possible; but now the autopilot would be overruled by a pilot. During landing, OTOH, a pilot can't react fast enough.
Why then not to teach everyone who wants (and who is not a felon,) and upon successful completion of the course give the concealed carry permit. That would be popular and effective.
Allegedly, that's what happened with that Egyptian airplane. One pilot took the controls and drove the airplane into the water, at full speed.
Most people know how to turn their cell phones off when asked by the crew, but does anyone really know how to shut down that built-in wireless card? On many computers it is difficult to even see that it is on (Thinkpad G40) and it is enabled by default. To disable you have to go deep into Device Manager, or to play with Wireless settings.
So chances are when you are flying, lots of passengers have 802.11 up and running, transmitting away at full power... and they don't know about it.
But for most sales people it is easier to bring a roll of Ethernet cable as opposed to setting up a completely new wireless network.
In addition, many companies do not permit unauthorized APs on their network, for obvious reasons :-)
In option 3 I see no need for this device whatsoever, with USB or without... Even if you are stuck with an older notebook without 802.11, get a PCMCIA card, it is tiny and light, and does not need cables.
Even the bed example is not a best fit; business travelers are usually tired enough, and they spend more time in restaurants (between 6pm and midnight) than in bed.
Even more detached from reality is the claim that you can share the connection. Sure you can, but with who? When you travel you have your room to yourself. I don't see any scenario when a bunch of people suddenly needs to share some Internet connection. I travel with other people sometimes, and we have notebooks... but sneakernet with USB flash disks is the media of choice; besides, we all have Internet access in our rooms, often included into the bill which we don't pay ourselves anyway, along with newspapers which we don't have time or desire to read.
This device may be useful to someone - anything is useful to someone, somewhere. But when I travel I need an Access Point much less than a spare battery, for example, or a stack of CDs. I do not need this AP on the road, and I don't know anyone who would need it.
Besides, most of business travelers are sales people, not very familiar with computers and rightfully afraid to mess with them. These guys know how to turn the thing on and how to start their PowerPoint presentation, and that's pretty much all they know. The good part is that they don't even need to know more.
Besides, the questions would be:
In any case, the cheaper computer is definitely needed in that village; but forget about farmers; that example is contrived. Farmers' children will be the sole users of the device, and good for them.
Why can't he just make a quick phone call to his buyers in the two cities? No need to burden the man with fluff technology when the answer can be gotten in his own language, within seconds, and be as up to date as possible (not every buyer would be posting his prices, they depend on who sells, what sells, how much etc.)
And if the village has no phones, then the computer would be useless too.
Not just that - the banks are now scanning the original checks and destroying the originals. So anyone with a Photoshop and an inkjet printer has a very good chance to commit a perfect crime, with all the evidence destroyed before the crime is even noticed...
If THAT is true, the children will not understand anyway :-)
We have the PBX registered with SIPPhone, IAXTel and FWD, but we use VoIP over Internet only to talk to friends, and the jitter sometimes is very audible.
Yes, that is possible, but only a /.ter will consider this as his #1 attack method. It's too technocratic for most of the people. If someone really wants to present someone as gay, he simply can drop some gay photos on victim's desk or in drawers, or near his cubicle if he is particularly sneaky. This would be more effective, and less risky.