Disney not two weeks ago fired their IT department and replaced them with H1B workers. They just didn't want to pay American salaries to American workers. The arguments is over.
Disney has plenty of money but to give you a view from the other side: We're a small business (less than 20 employees) and we've had this discussion more than once. I have no desire to outsource but our IT budget can barely afford to hire American programmers. Sure, we would love to pay everyone six figures but the money just isn't there. To make matters worse, our competitors have already outsourced their IT. We pay our office staff above market wages at 30-40k per year but we just can't afford to pay our IT the 80k plus required when everyone else is at 40k. It's got to the point where it's hurting our growth as we just can't find programmers willing to work for what we're able to pay (60k) and we are considering what it would take to outsource our IT.
With 92 million people out of work I can guarantee you they can easily find anybody they want to work for them relocate for them and work extra hours. But of course if you want to pay half or less than that you have to go outside the country and that is what they're doing. it is even worse than offshoring at least then you have to watch your actual job leave not simply be replaced by someone who just flies in and takes it.
Most of those 92 million are not qualified. If you know of a GOOD programmer out of work and is willing to work for double or even triple minimum wage then please contact me as I will hire him on the spot. Many programmers with a 4 year degree are paid on par with doctors who spend 8+ years in school. I'm not saying that h1b1s aren't being abused to save money but good employees in IT can still find jobs that are paying considerably above what most other professionals make as well as at least 4-5 times what you make on minimum wage. A good programmer can easily make double what many non-IT people with masters degrees make.
Agree 100%. I installed adblock plus when slashdot started throwing URL blocks from the ad rotator. How do I know the next ad rotation won't be a driveby? The industry provides zero guarantees and relies too much on upstream ad providers to vouch for safety.
This is a valid excuse but what percentage of adblock users do you think still allow static images? My guess is that this is just an excuse to make people feel better and people would still block ads even if they were all static.
You forgot to follow that with..."that are willing to work for the peanuts I want to pay them."
I'm not sure it's that simple. Sure, one business could pay double the market rate and steal employees from the shop down the street but that only gets you so far and IT is already paid at about double the rate of most industries so the people who can do it already are doing IT and it doesn't matter if every employer doubled the amount that they are willing to pay tomorrow if there are no more employees left. I think that's the reason that facebook, etc... have all the other perks. They are trying as hard as they can to recruit people and I don't know of anyone who has turned down a job with either google or facebook because the pay was too low or there wasn't enough perks.
Microsoft is doing all of those things you mentioned in Windows 10. And none of it requires running desktop applications.
I was using those as just examples and I'm not as familiar with microsoft but I know at least on the ipad, the iphone, and on the androids that I've used voice recognition is not realtime. They upload it to the cloud and wait for a response which means that even if you're lucky to be on a fast connection there is a significant delay and if you're on a slow connection or don't have a connection then something as simple as asking siri to call one of you contacts fails.
How do you collect $1 a month from each user? The problem isn't so much that people don't want to pay. Most people wouldn't mind paying $1 a month, but will not pay $12 once a year.
Unfortunately without microtransactions, the next best way to extract small sums of money is with advertisements. The best way to get $1 every 3 months from the casual user is to throw in the occasional ad. It doesn't take very many ads to generate $0.33 per user and then charge people $12 a year to remove the ads.
Thin clients died out once before when we switched from terminal to gui. We're currently in a lull where handhelds are good enough but all it would take would be a new 3d gui, holographic gui, real time voice recognition, or something else that required either massive video cards, massive storage, or massive processing. Basically, the desktop needs a new killer app to become relevant again.
The first is obvious-Your website makes a profit, and you want your family members to continue to profit in your absence. This is kinda like how life insurance works.
This is not obvious, it's stupid. If your website is making money then leave it and it's password in your will to your next of kin. Why would you go thru the trouble of prepaying for a website, figuring out a way to mail a check to the next of kin's current address, and a whole host of other things when you can just as easily just give the whole thing to them.
This is like trying to figure out how to keep putting gas in your wife's car after your dead. Just give her the keys to the car and the money and let her do it.
You can renew for 10 years, and some registers will allow you to leave a credit in the account and set auto-renew. That should last until the register business goes tits-up at least.
2) If someone tries to claim work for hire, the judge will dismiss the case immediately (it never applies between two corporations.)
So if I hire a web development company to create a website for me and they sell it to my competitor as soon as they get done then that's fine because we are both corporations and it's not "work for hire"? Just because you are a contractor doesn't mean you automatically get to keep what someone pays you to create.
There is some gray areas when it comes to libraries, etc... and those should obviously be agree upon as the issues come up but you don't own something just because you made it. That's like saying I own a painting or book because someone paid me to paint/write it for them. Yes, you're still the author but you sold your rights when you gave it to them and got paid. You can't turn around and sell unlicensed copies of that painting/book to other people. Musicians have been sued for this exact thing.
that thing is $15-20 so I'm no surprised people haven't bought 6 of them.
The one sold by keurig is expensive and doesn't work right. The offbrand ones work much better and work with any machine. I bought a pack of 4 for $10. So they cost me $2.50 each which is slightly more than the price of a single k-cup. Here is a current listing on ebay for 4 for $8.50: http://www.ebay.com/itm/4pk-So... which is even less than what I paid. You can get them even cheaper on ebay if you are willing to wait on shipping from china.
In contrast, the only way to eliminate CO2 from an internal-combustion engine is to turn it off.
That's not entirely true. It would probably be cost prohibitive but it should be possible to create a system that routes the exhaust to a compression chamber and stores the co2 as compressed gas creating a system that has zero emissions. You would still have to dispose of that compressed gas but there are several ways you could dispose of it without releasing it into the atmosphere.
people are lazy, but the advertising and marketing of disposable items for extraordinary profit is partially to blame as well.
I don't understand this either. You would think that the off brand coffees would help cause a race to the bottom but even the offbrand pods are extremely expensive. Is the cost of production really that high (and therefore a low profit margin) or has everyone colluded together to keep their profit margins high?
The whole idea is just stupid. I get that they are trying to make money from every cup sold, just like the razor model, but frankly that is a boardroom fantasy...
With the exception of the DRM part, the rest of the 2.0 idea was somewhat sound. The idea that you could have a barcode which adjusted the brew temp, etc... depending on what was in the cup and have a larger cup so you could include creamer, etc.. If they would have just did that and made a better product and completely left off the DRM part then they might have actually had a sellable product and they could have even gotten the advantage of being able to hold off generics longer with renewed patents. By adding the DRM all they did was make sure that 2.0 was a complete flop.
Personally I'd like to see the environmental nightmare of the Keurig and Tassimo curl up and die.
I own a keurig and a half dozen reusable pods that I throw in the dishwasher. I actually waste less coffee, coffee filters, etc.. now that I own a keurig and I like that I can make a single cup of coffee in the morning without any waste. I used the 20 pods that came free with my keurig but I haven't bought any since. I don't understand why people continue to buy those overpriced pieces of plastic when the same exact coffee is a fraction of the cost. Are people really that lazy that they can't spend 3 seconds dumping the old grounds in the trash?
When do we have an expectation of privacy anymore?
When we are not actively broadcasting our location to third parties as an inherent part of the service? Privacy isn't possible when your phone is broadcasting constantly where it is. Any more than privacy on the internet is possible, since everything you do, by the nature of the internet, passes through multiple parties' anonymous hands.
By that same screwed up logic, you have no expectation of privacy when talking on the phone because you are transmitting your voice to a third party to relay it to it's final destination. Yes, my cell phone carrier has to know where I am to route my calls but that doesn't mean that they are free to put a map on their website showing my exact location at all times to anyone who wants it.
Most (?) cell phone companies have explicit privacy policies, which should both prevent them from releasing customer data unless legally required (i.e. a warrant), and at the same time give the customer a reasonable expectation of privacy. The king (11th Circuit) has no clothes.
The wording I have seen usually states that they can release information to comply with police requests. They don't say that it has to be a warrant and I think most of them just give it over freely to police without much hassle if it's a legitimate request with or without a warrant. Besides that, police are trained on how to make a "polite request" look like something a person has to comply with and in most cases it's easier to comply than to pay a lawyer to decide if you are required to comply. Also, if they serve a warrant then they dictate the terms and it can produce more work for you than just complying with the request in the first place.
There is enough similarity between programming languages that there really is no point in learning any more than what you need. If you find yourself in a position where you need to learn a new one, as long as you have a pretty broad background it usually only will take a couple of days to get going and a couple of weeks to get really good.
As a programmer, I can somewhat agree but if you're trying to get hired as a COBOL programmer chances are that you'll move to the top of the stack if you actually know COBOL and can list it on your resume. Also, just because you've been coding in one language for years and you can start writing functional code in a different language after a couple week, you're not going to be as skilled at the nuances of that language as someone who has been using it for several years. I consider myself an expert in c, c++, and perl. I can read/write php and python just fine but I don't consider myself an expert in them. It takes me longer to write code, find modules, debug, etc... in a language that I'm not as familiar with and having hired people and cross trained them for a new language I can say that it takes about 6 months or longer for a new programmer with a new language to be as fast in the new language as they were in the old language.
Yeah, but that's what a normal killswitch that you see on a jetski or a lawnmower does. Slightly misleading but the point is that if you remove power and have full encryption then they need the password to turn it back on.
Your guess is wrong. It was held at this venue because of a "Stand With The Prophet" event that was held at the same place after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. The purpose of that event was to highlight that the media and American Islamaphobes are the reason that Islam has such a bad reputation in the west. More can be read here.
So I was wrong about the reason Texas was chosen but the fact that it was the same venue as a previous opposing muslim rally pretty much backs up that they wanted a confrontation. The really ironic part is that although it does help support that there are plenty of crazy mulsims out there this might actually work against their stated goal and actually make it harder to have a similiar event in the future.
I've seen internet kiosks that work something like this. To access the raw internet was $5/hour but certain companies have paid the kiosk to allow their services to be accessed for free.
The later versions of AOL, the old style kindles, and even some internet tvs and game consoles work on a similiar approach. The "start screen" is a bunch of apps, but you could still mostly access the "raw internet" 3 levels deep via a menu item.
I guess I'm not completely opposed to trying to figure out a way to monetize aka subsidize the internet if it means we can get more people connected but it definitely sounds alot less like a charity and more like a business venture.
"Texas". That's really the only part of that sentence you need. I would be surprised if the people attending and local homes weren't about as well armed as the police in the article.
Even if I wasn't normally armed, there is no way I would go to a rally like this without a weapon. You basically knew you were walking into a war zone. My guess is that the reason it was held in Texas was exactly because of the available gun laws, the death penalty statutes, and other similiar laws. This was pretty much a honeypot operation with the SWAT team on standby.
I think it's even worse than that. Are there ANY caching services, edgecast, or CDNs that support encryption? https is great when you need it but for static content like images it makes caching next to impossible as well as requires several times more servers to serve the same amount of traffic as an http server can serve over double the number of pages per second as a https server and that's without looking at all the traffic that is skipped with caching and CDNs.
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Disney not two weeks ago fired their IT department and replaced them with H1B workers. They just didn't want to pay American salaries to American workers. The arguments is over.
Disney has plenty of money but to give you a view from the other side:
We're a small business (less than 20 employees) and we've had this
discussion more than once. I have no desire to outsource but our IT
budget can barely afford to hire American programmers. Sure, we would
love to pay everyone six figures but the money just isn't there. To make
matters worse, our competitors have already outsourced their IT. We pay
our office staff above market wages at 30-40k per year but we just can't
afford to pay our IT the 80k plus required when everyone else is at 40k.
It's got to the point where it's hurting our growth as we just can't find
programmers willing to work for what we're able to pay (60k) and we are
considering what it would take to outsource our IT.
With 92 million people out of work I can guarantee you they can easily find anybody they want to work for them relocate for them and work extra hours. But of course if you want to pay half or less than that you have to go outside the country and that is what they're doing. it is even worse than offshoring at least then you have to watch your actual job leave not simply be replaced by someone who just flies in and takes it.
Most of those 92 million are not qualified. If you know of a GOOD programmer out of work
and is willing to work for double or even triple minimum wage then please contact me as I
will hire him on the spot. Many programmers with a 4 year degree are paid on par with
doctors who spend 8+ years in school.
I'm not saying that h1b1s aren't being abused to save money but good employees in IT can
still find jobs that are paying considerably above what most other professionals make as
well as at least 4-5 times what you make on minimum wage. A good programmer can
easily make double what many non-IT people with masters degrees make.
Agree 100%. I installed adblock plus when slashdot started throwing URL blocks from the ad rotator. How do I know the next ad rotation won't be a driveby? The industry provides zero guarantees and relies too much on upstream ad providers to vouch for safety.
This is a valid excuse but what percentage of adblock users do you think still allow static images?
My guess is that this is just an excuse to make people feel better and people would still block ads even if they were all static.
A pretty good idea. Too bad you posted on the wrong article.
"The issue is lack of skilled workers"...
You forgot to follow that with ..."that are willing to work for the peanuts I want to pay them."
I'm not sure it's that simple. Sure, one business could pay double the market rate and steal employees from the shop down the street
but that only gets you so far and IT is already paid at about double the rate of most industries so the people who can do it already are
doing IT and it doesn't matter if every employer doubled the amount that they are willing to pay tomorrow if there are no more employees
left. I think that's the reason that facebook, etc... have all the other perks. They are trying as hard as they can to recruit people and
I don't know of anyone who has turned down a job with either google or facebook because the pay was too low or there wasn't enough
perks.
Microsoft is doing all of those things you mentioned in Windows 10. And none of it requires running desktop applications.
I was using those as just examples and I'm not as familiar with microsoft but I know
at least on the ipad, the iphone, and on the androids that I've used voice recognition is
not realtime. They upload it to the cloud and wait for a response which means that
even if you're lucky to be on a fast connection there is a significant delay and if you're
on a slow connection or don't have a connection then something as simple as asking
siri to call one of you contacts fails.
How do you collect $1 a month from each user? The problem isn't so much that people don't want to pay. Most people wouldn't mind paying $1 a month, but will not pay $12 once a year.
Unfortunately without microtransactions, the next best way to extract small sums of money is with advertisements.
The best way to get $1 every 3 months from the casual user is to throw in the occasional ad.
It doesn't take very many ads to generate $0.33 per user and then charge people $12 a year to remove the ads.
Thin clients died out once before when we switched from terminal to gui.
We're currently in a lull where handhelds are good enough but all it would take would be a new 3d gui, holographic gui, real time voice recognition, or something else that required either massive video cards, massive storage, or massive processing.
Basically, the desktop needs a new killer app to become relevant again.
The first is obvious-Your website makes a profit, and you want your family members to continue to profit in your absence. This is kinda like how life insurance works.
This is not obvious, it's stupid. If your website is making money then leave it and it's password in your will to your next of kin.
Why would you go thru the trouble of prepaying for a website, figuring out a way to mail a check to the next of kin's current address,
and a whole host of other things when you can just as easily just give the whole thing to them.
This is like trying to figure out how to keep putting gas in your wife's car after your dead. Just give her the keys to the
car and the money and let her do it.
You can renew for 10 years, and some registers will allow you to leave a credit in the account and set auto-renew. That should last until the register business goes tits-up at least.
10 years? Bah... Network solutions offers 100 years: http://www.networksolutions.co...
Now whether they'll be around that long is a completely different question.
How would the domain be renewed if the estate cancels the credit cards?
Why renew? Just prepay for 100 years: http://www.networksolutions.co...
2) If someone tries to claim work for hire, the judge will dismiss the case immediately (it never applies between two corporations.)
So if I hire a web development company to create a website for me and they sell it to my competitor as soon as
they get done then that's fine because we are both corporations and it's not "work for hire"? Just because
you are a contractor doesn't mean you automatically get to keep what someone pays you to create.
There is some gray areas when it comes to libraries, etc... and those should obviously be agree upon as the
issues come up but you don't own something just because you made it. That's like saying I own a painting
or book because someone paid me to paint/write it for them. Yes, you're still the author but you sold your
rights when you gave it to them and got paid. You can't turn around and sell unlicensed copies of that
painting/book to other people. Musicians have been sued for this exact thing.
that thing is $15-20 so I'm no surprised people haven't bought 6 of them.
The one sold by keurig is expensive and doesn't work right. The offbrand ones work much better and work with any machine. I bought a pack of 4 for $10. So they cost me $2.50 each which is slightly more than the price of a single k-cup. Here is a current listing on ebay for 4 for $8.50: http://www.ebay.com/itm/4pk-So... which is even less than what I paid. You can get them even cheaper on ebay if you are willing to wait on shipping from china.
In contrast, the only way to eliminate CO2 from an internal-combustion engine is to turn it off.
That's not entirely true. It would probably be cost prohibitive but it should be possible to create a system that routes the exhaust to a compression chamber and stores the co2 as compressed gas creating a system that has zero emissions. You would still have to dispose of that compressed gas but there are several ways you could dispose of it without releasing it into the atmosphere.
people are lazy, but the advertising and marketing of disposable items for extraordinary profit is partially to blame as well.
I don't understand this either. You would think that the off brand coffees would help cause a race to the bottom but even the offbrand pods are extremely expensive. Is the cost of production really that high (and therefore a low profit margin) or has everyone colluded together to keep their profit margins high?
The whole idea is just stupid. I get that they are trying to make money from every cup sold, just like the razor model, but frankly that is a boardroom fantasy...
With the exception of the DRM part, the rest of the 2.0 idea was somewhat sound. The idea that you could have a barcode which adjusted the brew temp, etc... depending on what was in the cup and have a larger cup so you could include creamer, etc.. If they would have just did that and made a better product and completely left off the DRM part then they might have actually had a sellable product and they could have even gotten the advantage of being able to hold off generics longer with renewed patents. By adding the DRM all they did was make sure that 2.0 was a complete flop.
Personally I'd like to see the environmental nightmare of the Keurig and Tassimo curl up and die.
I own a keurig and a half dozen reusable pods that I throw in the dishwasher. I actually waste less coffee, coffee filters, etc.. now that I own a keurig and I like that I can make a single cup of coffee in the morning without any waste. I used the 20 pods that came free with my keurig but I haven't bought any since. I don't understand why people continue to buy those overpriced pieces of plastic when the same exact coffee is a fraction of the cost. Are people really that lazy that they can't spend 3 seconds dumping the old grounds in the trash?
When do we have an expectation of privacy anymore?
When we are not actively broadcasting our location to third parties as an inherent part of the service? Privacy isn't possible when your phone is broadcasting constantly where it is. Any more than privacy on the internet is possible, since everything you do, by the nature of the internet, passes through multiple parties' anonymous hands.
By that same screwed up logic, you have no expectation of privacy when talking on the phone because you are transmitting your voice to a third party
to relay it to it's final destination. Yes, my cell phone carrier has to know where I am to route my calls but that doesn't mean that they are free to put
a map on their website showing my exact location at all times to anyone who wants it.
Most (?) cell phone companies have explicit privacy policies, which should both prevent them from releasing customer data unless legally required (i.e. a warrant), and at the same time give the customer a reasonable expectation of privacy. The king (11th Circuit) has no clothes.
The wording I have seen usually states that they can release information to comply with police requests.
They don't say that it has to be a warrant and I think most of them just give it over freely to police without
much hassle if it's a legitimate request with or without a warrant. Besides that, police are trained on how
to make a "polite request" look like something a person has to comply with and in most cases it's easier
to comply than to pay a lawyer to decide if you are required to comply. Also, if they serve a warrant then
they dictate the terms and it can produce more work for you than just complying with the request in the
first place.
There is enough similarity between programming languages that there really is no point in learning any more than what you need. If you find yourself in a position where you need to learn a new one, as long as you have a pretty broad background it usually only will take a couple of days to get going and a couple of weeks to get really good.
As a programmer, I can somewhat agree but if you're trying to get hired as a COBOL programmer chances are that you'll move
to the top of the stack if you actually know COBOL and can list it on your resume.
Also, just because you've been coding in one language for years and you can start writing functional code in a different language
after a couple week, you're not going to be as skilled at the nuances of that language as someone who has been using it for
several years.
I consider myself an expert in c, c++, and perl. I can read/write php and python just fine but I don't consider myself an expert
in them. It takes me longer to write code, find modules, debug, etc... in a language that I'm not as familiar with and having
hired people and cross trained them for a new language I can say that it takes about 6 months or longer for a new programmer
with a new language to be as fast in the new language as they were in the old language.
s/killswitch/shutdown/
Yeah, but that's what a normal killswitch that you see on a jetski or a lawnmower does.
Slightly misleading but the point is that if you remove power and have full encryption then they need the password to turn it back on.
Your guess is wrong. It was held at this venue because of a "Stand With The Prophet" event that was held at the same place after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. The purpose of that event was to highlight that the media and American Islamaphobes are the reason that Islam has such a bad reputation in the west. More can be read here.
So I was wrong about the reason Texas was chosen but the fact that it was the same venue
as a previous opposing muslim rally pretty much backs up that they wanted a confrontation.
The really ironic part is that although it does help support that there are plenty of crazy
mulsims out there this might actually work against their stated goal and actually make it
harder to have a similiar event in the future.
I've seen internet kiosks that work something like this. To access the raw internet was $5/hour but certain companies
have paid the kiosk to allow their services to be accessed for free.
The later versions of AOL, the old style kindles, and even some internet tvs and game consoles work on a similiar approach.
The "start screen" is a bunch of apps, but you could still mostly access the "raw internet" 3 levels deep via a menu item.
I guess I'm not completely opposed to trying to figure out a way to monetize aka subsidize the internet if it means we can
get more people connected but it definitely sounds alot less like a charity and more like a business venture.
"Texas". That's really the only part of that sentence you need. I would be surprised if the people attending and local homes weren't about as well armed as the police in the article.
Even if I wasn't normally armed, there is no way I would go to a rally like this without a weapon.
You basically knew you were walking into a war zone. My guess is that the reason it was held
in Texas was exactly because of the available gun laws, the death penalty statutes, and other
similiar laws. This was pretty much a honeypot operation with the SWAT team on standby.
I think it's even worse than that. Are there ANY caching services, edgecast, or CDNs that support encryption?
https is great when you need it but for static content like images it makes caching next to impossible as well
as requires several times more servers to serve the same amount of traffic as an http server can serve over
double the number of pages per second as a https server and that's without looking at all the traffic that is
skipped with caching and CDNs.