You mean you can't make money by buying a business from somewhere else and sitting back while someone else does everything? What ever happened to pushing up profits by buying all the means of production from overseas?
The guys who research, design and make cell phones, the guys in China, do quite well I hear. It's the pure consumers, the Motorolas, who are hurting.
Forget about finding a case ingenious enough to store large numbers of hard drives unless you live in Korea. Supposedly the rest of us can get $50 of plexiglass and a Dremel to grind out a custom case for large hard drive arrays but who knows what the static is going to be.
Also, hard drives made after 2002, the ones made in the new Shenzen plants, are only lasting a year for me before they start having problems. You're going to have serious data loss if you don't back everything up on removable media so why do you want to have everything on hard drives again?
If US can't keep up with the rest of the world, don't complain, just leave. Only through attrition will Americans be forced to decide whether they want the good stuff or they want to move aside.
Do the star players of the world all want to play for the worst team in the league? Do you watch a superbowl for the 2 worst teams in the league? So why keep rooting for the world's smallest economy? Thanks to globalization there are many countries with more to offer than US, yet opinions of what should be are hard to change.
You should sprint to the next Korean startup to develop terrahertz microprocessors. Sprint to the next Indian startup to develop back office suites. Run to the next Chinese startup to develop nanotechnology rockets.
Yes it's true. Most of the stuff you buy from Motorola, HP, IBM, and others is bought in full from Chinese manufacturers. The retail front end does nothing except label it. All the R&D, design and fabrication, 99% of the value of the product, is done in China. Consumers should really consider buying things directly from China instead of paying fees to have it labelled.
When Jim Carey gets elected, don't be surprised if these monster computer projects get cancelled. For all the simultaneous worshipping of big iron and hatred of republicans, computer scientists still haven't figured out that big iron is defense spending and defense spending is big iron. The two are inseparable.
Some professors from Harvard, Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane, say our goals should be
> teaching a fourth grade class or detecting U.S. > marketing trends rather than solving physics > problems that might be solved equally well in China.
The house of repesentatives is only doing what's in the best interest of most of the country. People in the United States have made a decisive, calculated decision not to be a player in science.
If they want to do things which don't earn much money then it's their right to do so. Lots of people in the world don't know a thing about science, never become very rich, yet live normal lives.
Looks real flimsy, which wouldn't be surprising for a Korean toy. When airplane servos are directly attached to each other, they're as fragile as paper. The servo head is held on by a 3/16" thick piece of plastic and not designed to support the weight of another servo. In this toy, the weight of many servos is being transferred to a 3/16" piece of plastic. Perhaps Japan will make a better toy by coupling the servos to load bearing joints.
Since all the manufacturing and all the engineering are done in the same place, China, there's a very short cycle between manufacturing and development. One day all these manufacturing and development houses figured out they were adding 99% of the value to the products, so they decided to do their own distribution.
Just like that, you now have Chinese and Korean manufacturers doing the whole thing, and turning around ideas in 6 months because everything's in one place.
Compare to traditional distributors who buy manufacturing and design from China but do marketing in America. They add 1% of the value to the product and buy the rest. They have to wait months for each release candidate to come back from manufacturing and communication with the developers takes forever. So little value is added by the American side these days, there's a lot of momentum behind manufacturers to do it all themselves.
The standard multimedia framework is MPlayer. I've never seen anything play back on Helix framework. By definition, you can't benefit from frameworks in Linux multimedia because there's no money to outsource with. In Linux multimedia everyone has to implement. There is no concept of speccing out a framework and buying implementations from overseas, which makes pure frameworks like Helix quite worthless and implementations like MPlayer ubiquitous. These corporate managers seem to be in a different universe.
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Look. Compared to the dot com years that may seem supercompetitive, but for most of the history of software engineering, Anderer is normal.
Wife committing suicide? Writing bombastic emails at all hours? Lighting fires under his butt. Slitting his wrists to win arguments. He sounds like a normal, every day programmer in 2004, 1991, and 1980.
Guys like Anderer are the reality of the business.
> To get job security, developers need to position > themselves as highly effective business-value > generators, working with the rest of the company > to solve common goals.
So to live in the US, you need to have a huge ego, tell everyone else they're idiots, and hold up the entire operation so you can be the funnel through which everything must go. If it doesn't go through you, you have to call the person who bypassed you an idiot.
That seems to be the modus operandi of the guys with the most interaction with the entire company. It's an ego sport.
Burt Rutan seems to build dead end project after dead end project. Each one does something no other plane ever did before. Each one works. A lot of hype is made about this feat being the future.
Then we never hear another word of the feat being achieved again. No-one flys around the world on a single tank of gas. No-one flys to 62,000 ft.
It would be a lot more exciting if we could say, civilians were going to be going into space from now on. It looks more like Space Ship One is going to end up next to Voyager and the concept of civilian space flight never heard from again.
Been through a zillion free email providers since 1996. Most of them vanished after a few months or experienced massive service interruptions. I'll wait a while before switching to rediff.
At least in America, interviewing your future boss is the way it's done. In a rapidly growing company you'll interview at least 1 new boss every year.
Contrary to what you may have conjured up in your mind, the interview with your future boss is more for them to find out about you than it is for you to find out about them.
No-one's going to care about what you think about your future boss. They usually take what they learn from interviewing you and decide who to keep and who to replace with their own team. Yes, most of your current team will be let go in each management changeover.
Rest assured, companies are intensely discriminating in hiring managers. You're going to spend a long, long, really long time interviewing before they take anyone.
For managers, unlike programmers, they spend months and years looking for the absolute best they can find and spend whatever it takes to get them.
The Intel incarnation of EFI is a trophy for outsourcing proponents. Instead of implementing BIOSes, they develop standards for BIOSes. Would Intel be drafting standards if the work done by IIRC was still done in Santa Clara? Probably never.
We should start thinking of standards as commodities rather than intellectual property. The standard will be the product just as noodle salad is to a restaurant.
Distribution channels who want to sell a board can then buy firmware from a single implementor, say a contractor in India, without the need to have their own specialized programming team. They will sell the board under the name of its standard.
Then after a few years the standard will become obsolete. Just like a gadget, the standard will be phased out for the next evolution. Instead of single implementors making their own leaps, we'll have groups of distribution channels making leaps, each selling slight variations of the same product, the standard.
Better yet, just pay another country to do it. Pay India for the software. Pay France for the rockets. Pay Canadia for the robotic arms. Pay China for the electronics. NASA should be an consumer, not a producer.
Forget about raising normal children if you're a programmer. You can raise them allright, but they'll end up being complete and total wierdos. Programming is a low end job nowadays, sort of like light assembly, crop picking, and basketweaving.
Let's get one thing clear. Programming won't provide the finances you need to give children a survivable level of education or the standard of living your parents gave you.
Take whatever you make now, subtract 30% for unemployment periods, 4% for higher taxes next year, another 10% every year for wage deflation and you'll have reality. Yes. Jim Kerry will return middle class taxes to 29% next year.
The kinds of jobs which are going to be around in 20 years are going to take about $300,000 of education to qualify for. If that doesn't happen in 18 years the kid's going to spend its entire life paying back debt, living on the street, or reading slashdot in your apartment.
How about having enough room for a child? Apartments get pretty crowded with those little vipers scurrying around, puking on the carpet, sticking their fingers in the substandard wall outlets.
Will the child ever know what it's like to have a back yard? Will the child live in a neighborhood where kidnappings aren't a daily ritual? These things take more money than a programming career can provide.
As for having family time, consider enlisting the wife in the workforce and reducing your committment to win the bread, something not really possible for a programmer but a goal to shoot for nonetheless.
The kinds of things which put out normal children are easily accessible for project management and above, but for those below P.M. it's pretty bleak.
I spent $120 on an HP48G in 1999. It broke in 2004 after falling 20 ft but even though I didn't really need it anymore, spent another $100 on an HP48GII merely because the HP48G interface was so useful exactly the way it was designed, there was no other replacement. That's dedication.
Surprising that people still think VCR when they want to record video. After all the DVD recording, hard drive recording, flash recording, the VCR is still the first recording device you think of.
The attitude has fundamentally shifted from developing technology to acquiring technology from others. Expect to see more innovations bought from elsewhere rather than developed here.
And not just become a contractor doing what you've been doing, but try producing something more substantial than what you've been doing. Then apply for higher level positions using what you've done on your own.
Contractors historically have only been interested in making more money than the client and ripping the client off in the end. They have no loyalty or incentive to make the client money like a staff employee would.
All this talk about raising the standard of living by using free programmers to do the cutting edge work somewhere else just doesn't make sense given the historic incentive for the contractors to take the money and run.
Today virtually all aspects of American businesses except the top executives are performed by contractors overseas. With so much of the mechanics of business being performed overseas, what's stopping the offshore workers from just running the businesses themselves and taking America out of the loop?
30 seconds is faster than it takes to refill a gas tank. Why don't they mention electric cars? Probably because the batteries are larger and heavier than any conventional battery and have a limited number of recharging cycles.
The best reason to move to India is to develop skills in higher level positions that you could never get in America. Programmers would be wise to become managers in India for a few years and reapply in the US for management positions the next time they get laid off since the US job market is starting to cut off at management.
Many high level executives also work in India to build up their resumes for positions in the US.
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You mean you can't make money by buying a business from somewhere else and sitting back while someone else does everything? What ever happened to pushing up profits by buying all the means of production from overseas?
The guys who research, design and make cell phones, the guys in China, do quite well I hear. It's the pure consumers, the Motorolas, who are hurting.
Forget about finding a case ingenious enough to store large numbers of hard drives unless you live in Korea. Supposedly the rest of us can get $50 of plexiglass and a Dremel to grind out a custom case for large hard drive arrays but who knows what the static is going to be.
Also, hard drives made after 2002, the ones made in the new Shenzen plants, are only lasting a year for me before they start having problems. You're going to have serious data loss if you don't back everything up on removable media so why do you want to have everything on hard drives again?
If US can't keep up with the rest of the world, don't complain, just leave. Only through attrition will Americans be forced to decide whether they want the good stuff or they want to move aside.
Do the star players of the world all want to play for the worst team in the league? Do you watch a superbowl for the 2 worst teams in the league? So why keep rooting for the world's smallest economy? Thanks to globalization there are many countries with more to offer than US, yet opinions of what should be are hard to change.
You should sprint to the next Korean startup to develop terrahertz microprocessors. Sprint to the next Indian startup to develop back office suites. Run to the next Chinese startup to develop nanotechnology rockets.
Yes it's true. Most of the stuff you buy from Motorola, HP, IBM, and others is bought in full from Chinese manufacturers. The retail front end does nothing except label it. All the R&D, design and fabrication, 99% of the value of the product, is done in China. Consumers should really consider buying things directly from China instead of paying fees to have it labelled.
When Jim Carey gets elected, don't be surprised if these monster computer projects get cancelled. For all the simultaneous worshipping of big iron and hatred of republicans, computer scientists still haven't figured out that big iron is defense spending and defense spending is big iron. The two are inseparable.
Some professors from Harvard, Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane, say our goals should be
> teaching a fourth grade class or detecting U.S.
> marketing trends rather than solving physics
> problems that might be solved equally well in China.
The house of repesentatives is only doing what's in the best interest of most of the country. People in the United States have made a decisive, calculated decision not to be a player in science.
If they want to do things which don't earn much money then it's their right to do so. Lots of people in the world don't know a thing about science, never become very rich, yet live normal lives.
Looks real flimsy, which wouldn't be surprising for a Korean toy. When airplane servos are directly attached to each other, they're as fragile as paper. The servo head is held on by a 3/16" thick piece of plastic and not designed to support the weight of another servo. In this toy, the weight of many servos is being transferred to a 3/16" piece of plastic. Perhaps Japan will make a better toy by coupling the servos to load bearing joints.
Since all the manufacturing and all the engineering are done in the same place, China, there's a very short cycle between manufacturing and development. One day all these manufacturing and development houses figured out they were adding 99% of the value to the products, so they decided to do their own distribution.
Just like that, you now have Chinese and Korean manufacturers doing the whole thing, and turning around ideas in 6 months because everything's in one place.
Compare to traditional distributors who buy manufacturing and design from China but do marketing in America. They add 1% of the value to the product and buy the rest. They have to wait months for each release candidate to come back from manufacturing and communication with the developers takes forever. So little value is added by the American side these days, there's a lot of momentum behind manufacturers to do it all themselves.
The standard multimedia framework is MPlayer. I've never seen anything play back on Helix framework. By definition, you can't benefit from frameworks in Linux multimedia because there's no money to outsource with. In Linux multimedia everyone has to implement. There is no concept of speccing out a framework and buying implementations from overseas, which makes pure frameworks like Helix quite worthless and implementations like MPlayer ubiquitous. These corporate managers seem to be in a different universe.
Look. Compared to the dot com years that may seem supercompetitive,
but for most of the history of software engineering, Anderer is normal.
Wife committing suicide? Writing bombastic emails at all hours?
Lighting fires under his butt. Slitting his wrists to win arguments.
He sounds like a normal, every day programmer in 2004, 1991, and 1980.
Guys like Anderer are the reality of the business.
> To get job security, developers need to position
> themselves as highly effective business-value
> generators, working with the rest of the company
> to solve common goals.
So to live in the US, you need to have a huge ego, tell everyone else they're idiots, and hold up the entire operation so you can be the funnel through which everything must go. If it doesn't go through you, you have to call the person who bypassed you an idiot.
That seems to be the modus operandi of the guys with the most interaction with the entire company. It's an ego sport.
Too bad the guys who could most use fiber optic DSL, programmers, are the least likely to earn enough to afford a house.
Burt Rutan seems to build dead end project after dead end project. Each one does something no other plane ever did before. Each one works. A lot of hype is made about this feat being the future.
Then we never hear another word of the feat being achieved again. No-one flys around the world on a single tank of gas. No-one flys to 62,000 ft.
It would be a lot more exciting if we could say, civilians were going to be going into space from now on. It looks more like Space Ship One is going to end up next to Voyager and the concept of civilian space flight never heard from again.
Been through a zillion free email providers since 1996. Most of them vanished after a few months or experienced massive service interruptions. I'll wait a while before switching to rediff.
At least in America, interviewing your future boss is the way it's done. In a rapidly growing company you'll interview at least 1 new boss every year.
Contrary to what you may have conjured up in your mind, the interview with your future boss is more for them to find out about you than it is for you to find out about them.
No-one's going to care about what you think about your future boss. They usually take what they learn from interviewing you and decide who to keep and who to replace with their own team. Yes, most of your current team will be let go in each management changeover.
Rest assured, companies are intensely discriminating in hiring managers. You're going to spend a long, long, really long time interviewing before they take anyone.
For managers, unlike programmers, they spend months and years looking for the absolute best they can find and spend whatever it takes to get them.
As you know, EFI is really old technology.
The Intel incarnation of EFI is a trophy for outsourcing proponents. Instead of implementing BIOSes, they develop standards for BIOSes. Would Intel be drafting standards if the work done by IIRC was still done in Santa Clara? Probably never.
We should start thinking of standards as commodities rather than intellectual property. The standard will be the product just as noodle salad is to a restaurant.
Distribution channels who want to sell a board can then buy firmware from a single implementor, say a contractor in India, without the need to have their own specialized programming team. They will sell the board under the name of its standard.
Then after a few years the standard will become obsolete. Just like a gadget, the standard will be phased out for the next evolution. Instead of single implementors making their own leaps, we'll have groups of distribution channels making leaps, each selling slight variations of the same product, the standard.
Better yet, just pay another country to do it. Pay India for the software. Pay France for the rockets. Pay Canadia for the robotic arms. Pay China for the electronics. NASA should be an consumer, not a producer.
Forget about raising normal children if you're a programmer. You can raise them allright, but they'll end up being complete and total wierdos. Programming is a low end job nowadays, sort of like light assembly, crop picking, and basketweaving.
Let's get one thing clear. Programming won't provide the finances you need to give children a survivable level of education or the standard of living your parents gave you.
Take whatever you make now, subtract 30% for unemployment periods, 4% for higher taxes next year, another 10% every year for wage deflation and you'll have reality. Yes. Jim Kerry will return middle class taxes to 29% next year.
The kinds of jobs which are going to be around in 20 years are going to take about $300,000 of education to qualify for. If that doesn't happen in 18 years the kid's going to spend its entire life paying back debt, living on the street, or reading slashdot in your apartment.
How about having enough room for a child? Apartments get pretty crowded with those little vipers scurrying around, puking on the carpet, sticking their fingers in the substandard wall outlets.
Will the child ever know what it's like to have a back yard? Will the child live in a neighborhood where kidnappings aren't a daily ritual? These things take more money than a programming career can provide.
As for having family time, consider enlisting the wife in the workforce and reducing your committment to win the bread, something not really possible for a programmer but a goal to shoot for nonetheless.
The kinds of things which put out normal children are easily accessible for project management and above, but for those below P.M. it's pretty bleak.
I spent $120 on an HP48G in 1999. It broke in 2004 after falling 20 ft but even though I didn't really need it anymore, spent another $100 on an HP48GII merely because the HP48G interface was so useful exactly the way it was designed, there was no other replacement. That's dedication.
Surprising that people still think VCR when they want to record video. After all the DVD recording, hard drive recording, flash recording, the VCR is still the first recording device you think of.
The attitude has fundamentally shifted from developing technology to acquiring technology from others. Expect to see more innovations bought from elsewhere rather than developed here.
And not just become a contractor doing what you've been doing, but try producing something more substantial than what you've been doing. Then apply for higher level positions using what you've done on your own.
Contractors historically have only been interested in making more money than the client and ripping the client off in the end. They have no loyalty or incentive to make the client money like a staff employee would.
All this talk about raising the standard of living by using free programmers to do the cutting edge work somewhere else just doesn't make sense given the historic incentive for the contractors to take the money and run.
Today virtually all aspects of American businesses except the top executives are performed by contractors overseas. With so much of the mechanics of business being performed overseas, what's stopping the offshore workers from just running the businesses themselves and taking America out of the loop?
30 seconds is faster than it takes to refill a gas tank. Why don't they mention electric cars? Probably because the batteries are larger and heavier than any conventional battery and have a limited number of recharging cycles.
The best reason to move to India is to develop skills in higher level positions that you could never get in America. Programmers would be wise to become managers in India for a few years and reapply in the US for management positions the next time they get laid off since the US job market is starting to cut off at management.
Many high level executives also work in India to build up their resumes for positions in the US.