First, as more companies invest in places like India, wages will rise (just as they may fall in the US).
Second, developers in India will leave American companies and form spin-offs or direct competitors, which requires more local employees, reducing the number of developers available for the US firms, also driving up wages in India.
Third, India will eventually develop a market for software, rather than just be a supplier. As that market grows, more and more Indian developers will be employeed to fill the demand, and American companies can compete as well.
Fourth, many jobs can't or won't be moved over, and IT is in general still a growing field. Computers and software are even more ubiquitous than ever, and the demand for domestic workers will still exist.
Fifth, only large companies can really afford to do this. They're usually the shittiest jobs anyway; I'd rather sand-blast my ass-crack than work for IBM. Working for a small-to-medium sized company is far more exciting.
Most people wrote, "Write a temporary fix, and then write a good solution after". I say bullshit. There is nothing as permanent as temporary code. Write crap now, and people who have to work on it in ten years will curse your name.
Here's the low-down:
If a feature/product is over-promised by marketing, and no one notices, then your company is too big to be efficient. You can do what ever you want. Marketing over-promised, and no one was savy enough to realize it. How will they ever figure out that you've done a shitty job?
If your company is small, smart, and fast moving, then they'll notice. Check with marketing and management.
A company must act as One; a company where marketing, engineering and management are not in sync will most likely fail.
I tried to buy a Casio watch from a store on Yahoo - it had tide data and barometric pressure (useful for boating) - no US credit card, and no sale.
I bought some 3Ware 7500-4 RAID-5 cards for my company from the US, and I had to fax a form in with my signature because the credit card was Canadian.
I think it's the anti-fraud restrictions placed by credit card companies; sell something over the Internet, and the risk goes up if the laws of your country can't be used to track down a stolen credit card.
"...this movie wasn't as good as T2, but it was better than the first Terminator...".
How much have you had to drink this morning? Time to cut back, buddy. I know it's July 4th, and all...
T2 had a whiney kid who couldn't act, and the movie started to get "cute". T1 had the best lines, and it was actually scarey when the Terminator was hot on their trail (unlike T2/3). And the scenes of what life was like in the future was very unsettling. Roasting rats over the fire in the TV, etc.
Was it just me, or did Arnie have an easier time against the T3 terminator than he did against the T2 terminator?
8 gig is not that much. There are 2-gig DDR dimms out now; we are looking at moving MySQL to the Opteron for one reason: putting most of the database into the MySQL buffer. If I was to run a dev machine at home, I'd like a full working set.
I guess I am thinking more light-server, and Apple doesn't make those. The new Tyan K8S (Opteron) supports 12, and I think that's low.
Happy the Apple people are fairly cutting edge. Nice to see ATI and nVidia options.
Why only 8-gig of RAM? 64-bit CPUs supports terabytes. I guess it's not a server, but 8 gig isn't that much any more.
Some comparisons with the Opteron (or, to be more fair, Athalon64) would be nice. Of course, since you can (or will be able to) select from a slew of motherboards, it will be tough to get a decent comparison.
One other thought just struck me (I can feel a bruise developing) - Apple never releases their stuff to independant hardware vendors. Never seen an Apple product (other than an iPod) reviewed at Anandtech, Toms Hardware, TechExtreme, Ars Technica, etc. Would be interesting to hear what a site like that had to say.
I said we'd keep that stuff away from our kids; book made no suggestions (other than organic foods, and avoid preservatives, etc).
Refined sugar and refined flour are empty calories/carbohydrates. Why are Americans so fat, even if they've followed the conventional wisdom and cut back their fat? Maybe fat's not bad. Maybe Wonder Bread is.
The book compiled FDA data about pesticides (etc) in foods (meat, poultry, fish, fruits, vegetables) from various parts of the world (mostly North America). What chemicals were found, what studies had linked what diseases to the chemicals, what the average amount found was, what the FDA allows, and what other studies have found etc. IE tuna from the Gulf of Mexico is worse than tuna caught off Alaska. It would then assign one of three "colors" to each food (green, yellow, red). Of all the fruits, vegetables and nuts, only raisins and peanuts were "red". Wasn't quackary - just an empirical analysis of food testing done by the FDA, with some basic recommendations spread on top.
Of course, there was the news item not too long ago about the scientists who disagree; some chemical adversity is good for the body. I guess it's along the lines of what-doesn't-kill-you-only-makes-you-stronger.
I read a book a while back, Diet for a Poisoned Planet, which at the end talked about additives, preservatives and pesticides, and their effects on children.
An adult eating a few pieces of licorice can handle the Red Dye #4, and all the chemicals. A child can't, and they often manifest in behavioral problems (the back of the book listed the studies, but the book is packed away somewhere). Same with fruits and vegetables sprayed with pesicides.
If my child was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, I'd try a lifestyle change first. My wife and I are going to make a real effort to keep sugar, white flour, pesticides and preservatives away from our children (first one is scheduled to arrive in 2 months).
Both ex-British colonies, parlimentary systems (big ramifications there when passing legislation - like a benevolant dictatorship), both have positive views towards monopolies (the Canadian government sets them up from time to time), and both are large countries with small populations spread over a diverse and challenging geography. In countries like Australia and Canada, the Internet is important (small towns in the middle of nowhere - lived once in a town of 600 people - no where to buy shoes, cloths, books - and 6 hours from the nearest town).
In BC, we have one phone provider for local calling (Telus). They are also a monopoly in Alberta, and operate in other provinces. They provide DSL, but the government makes them sublease network access to smaller ISPs (though the price is tied to Telus). And they have Shaw/Rogers Cable to compete with (cable broadband).
Despite their monopoly in the telephone and DSL market, I pay $65 CDN (about $45 US) for a 2.5 megabit line. I could pay $45 CDN/$32 US for a 1.5 megabit line. What keeps the costs down? Well, Telus has to share their bandwidth; small ISPs can sell DSL that sits on the Telus networks. Second, the cable Interet providers provide an alternative.
I'm guessing Australia has neither of these two alternatives, and thus they get f*cked by a nasty monopoly.
The press release says that SuSE Desktop 1.0 works with SuSE's Enterprise OS, but doesn't mention any 64-bit CPUs (Opteron, Itanium, etc).
LinuxLasVegas says, "The distro is built on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8.x technology"... which means it would have native support for the Opteron.
Not sure who's right here - this looks like a workstation OS, and thus limited to 32-bit. That might change once the Athalon64 comes out in a few months, I guess.
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Really liked Song of Fire and Ice, but I think it's fall-winter reading. It's so good, you won't enjoy the outdoors.
We're in the middle of a nasty registered-mail war with them about licencing of software.
As a result, more and more of us are moving to Linux (developers can run whatever they want on their machines, so long as they get the job done). No licencing hassles, and no software-asset-management hassles.
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Not just small towns. States/provinces, regions, countries. Diversification is key. Go ask the French about their only exported product, the French Fry. I hear they're really hurting right now:)
Wilkes-Barre is a (dead) coal-mining town; "As the stock market crashed in 1929, the coal industry struggled, but it never recovered after World War II. By the 1920's consumers gradually switched from coal to oil, gas, and electricity. One by one, the collieries were shutdown, and mine operators moved on to other enterprises, leaving the area with an unemployment rate in excess of 12% after the war..." (from this site).
Unfort, I think it's tough to turn towns like this around. Go see Michael Moore's "Roger and Me" (ignore his politics if you disagree with them - the message in the documentary is pretty important). He talks about how Flint tried to revitalize itself after an industry (auto) that it had grown all-too-dependant on shut down.
Dark fibre, the collapse of many companies that built these networks (and then had other companies buy them at pennies on the dollar), etc, then why do this?
Or maybe someone is thinking long-term; five-years, and maybe this will be a very valuable asset. Bah. Perhaps I need more foresight.
They aren't immortals from Earth, they come from the planet Zeist, and are really rebels exiled to earth!
MacLeod has put a shield around the earth to replace the depleted ozone layer, and evil men inside The Shield Corporation are covering up the fact that the ozone layer has restored itself!
Birdmen on flying skateboards try to kill MacLeod (for some unknown reason) and accidentally restore his immortality!
Virginia Madsen is a terrible actress!
Christopher Lambert is worse!
Not sure who Sean Connery's agent was, but I hope he was fired!
Actually, I subscribe to the Postgres mailing list, and I see alot of, "Why isn't this query using the index", or "Why is this query so slow".
I think every database, however, has query optimizations problems. Oracle has a "hint" that you can put in a query to override default optimization. They wouldn't need that if their query optmizer was perfect.
Before you start yelling FUD, do some reading. Closed source isn't perfect, and either is open source.
Of course, one might say that it's the job of the intelligence community to pre-empt, not the army. There have been several critiques that have shown an inter-agency breakdown was a key factor in the 9/11 attacks.
There used to be collection boxes for the IRA in the North East (Boston, etc). The US has supported terrorism in the past, and will no doubt support it in the future.
W/regards to the Taliban, what I (as a Canadian) found most amusing was the cost of all the Stinger missiles the CIA provided to the Afghani's. I still remember watching TV when I was 14 or so, seeing the last Soviet transports take off, firing flares just in case someone with a Stinger was close by.
The US is still trying to recover the unused Stinger missiles. I believe that for every dollar they spent in donating the missiles, a few hundred have been spent trying to recover them.
Act in haste, repent in leisure. That should be the new motto of the CIA.
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Going to use India as an example:
First, as more companies invest in places like India, wages will rise (just as they may fall in the US).
Second, developers in India will leave American companies and form spin-offs or direct competitors, which requires more local employees, reducing the number of developers available for the US firms, also driving up wages in India.
Third, India will eventually develop a market for software, rather than just be a supplier. As that market grows, more and more Indian developers will be employeed to fill the demand, and American companies can compete as well.
Fourth, many jobs can't or won't be moved over, and IT is in general still a growing field. Computers and software are even more ubiquitous than ever, and the demand for domestic workers will still exist.
Fifth, only large companies can really afford to do this. They're usually the shittiest jobs anyway; I'd rather sand-blast my ass-crack than work for IBM. Working for a small-to-medium sized company is far more exciting.
Beer is ok (after a while), and there are lo-carb beers out there. The food is good, and it kills your sugar cravings.
I lost 15 pounds in two months, with less exercise than normal.
David
Most people wrote, "Write a temporary fix, and then write a good solution after". I say bullshit. There is nothing as permanent as temporary code. Write crap now, and people who have to work on it in ten years will curse your name.
Here's the low-down:
If a feature/product is over-promised by marketing, and no one notices, then your company is too big to be efficient. You can do what ever you want. Marketing over-promised, and no one was savy enough to realize it. How will they ever figure out that you've done a shitty job?
If your company is small, smart, and fast moving, then they'll notice. Check with marketing and management.
A company must act as One; a company where marketing, engineering and management are not in sync will most likely fail.
... and it's still a major pain.
I tried to buy a Casio watch from a store on Yahoo - it had tide data and barometric pressure (useful for boating) - no US credit card, and no sale.
I bought some 3Ware 7500-4 RAID-5 cards for my company from the US, and I had to fax a form in with my signature because the credit card was Canadian.
I think it's the anti-fraud restrictions placed by credit card companies; sell something over the Internet, and the risk goes up if the laws of your country can't be used to track down a stolen credit card.
"...this movie wasn't as good as T2, but it was better than the first Terminator...".
How much have you had to drink this morning? Time to cut back, buddy. I know it's July 4th, and all...
T2 had a whiney kid who couldn't act, and the movie started to get "cute". T1 had the best lines, and it was actually scarey when the Terminator was hot on their trail (unlike T2/3). And the scenes of what life was like in the future was very unsettling. Roasting rats over the fire in the TV, etc.
Was it just me, or did Arnie have an easier time against the T3 terminator than he did against the T2 terminator?
I thought the acting was pretty poor in general.
Overall, a 5/10.
But there are these:
http://www.sunrise.co.uk/press/2G_DDR.htm
Samsung makes a 2-gig DIMM as well (saw the link advertised on Slashdot).
To answer all at once:
8 gig is not that much. There are 2-gig DDR dimms out now; we are looking at moving MySQL to the Opteron for one reason: putting most of the database into the MySQL buffer. If I was to run a dev machine at home, I'd like a full working set.
I guess I am thinking more light-server, and Apple doesn't make those. The new Tyan K8S (Opteron) supports 12, and I think that's low.
Happy the Apple people are fairly cutting edge. Nice to see ATI and nVidia options.
Why only 8-gig of RAM? 64-bit CPUs supports terabytes. I guess it's not a server, but 8 gig isn't that much any more.
Some comparisons with the Opteron (or, to be more fair, Athalon64) would be nice. Of course, since you can (or will be able to) select from a slew of motherboards, it will be tough to get a decent comparison.
One other thought just struck me (I can feel a bruise developing) - Apple never releases their stuff to independant hardware vendors. Never seen an Apple product (other than an iPod) reviewed at Anandtech, Toms Hardware, TechExtreme, Ars Technica, etc. Would be interesting to hear what a site like that had to say.
Time to start defrauding companies of about $4999. Maybe make it $4000 to be safe.
I've read a fair bit about investigations of eBay fraud - I wonder if the same limits apply there.
I said we'd keep that stuff away from our kids; book made no suggestions (other than organic foods, and avoid preservatives, etc).
Refined sugar and refined flour are empty calories/carbohydrates. Why are Americans so fat, even if they've followed the conventional wisdom and cut back their fat? Maybe fat's not bad. Maybe Wonder Bread is.
The book compiled FDA data about pesticides (etc) in foods (meat, poultry, fish, fruits, vegetables) from various parts of the world (mostly North America). What chemicals were found, what studies had linked what diseases to the chemicals, what the average amount found was, what the FDA allows, and what other studies have found etc. IE tuna from the Gulf of Mexico is worse than tuna caught off Alaska. It would then assign one of three "colors" to each food (green, yellow, red). Of all the fruits, vegetables and nuts, only raisins and peanuts were "red". Wasn't quackary - just an empirical analysis of food testing done by the FDA, with some basic recommendations spread on top.
Of course, there was the news item not too long ago about the scientists who disagree; some chemical adversity is good for the body. I guess it's along the lines of what-doesn't-kill-you-only-makes-you-stronger.
Food for thought, pardon the pun.
or what your kids eat.
I read a book a while back, Diet for a Poisoned Planet, which at the end talked about additives, preservatives and pesticides, and their effects on children.
An adult eating a few pieces of licorice can handle the Red Dye #4, and all the chemicals. A child can't, and they often manifest in behavioral problems (the back of the book listed the studies, but the book is packed away somewhere). Same with fruits and vegetables sprayed with pesicides.
If my child was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, I'd try a lifestyle change first. My wife and I are going to make a real effort to keep sugar, white flour, pesticides and preservatives away from our children (first one is scheduled to arrive in 2 months).
Both ex-British colonies, parlimentary systems (big ramifications there when passing legislation - like a benevolant dictatorship), both have positive views towards monopolies (the Canadian government sets them up from time to time), and both are large countries with small populations spread over a diverse and challenging geography. In countries like Australia and Canada, the Internet is important (small towns in the middle of nowhere - lived once in a town of 600 people - no where to buy shoes, cloths, books - and 6 hours from the nearest town).
In BC, we have one phone provider for local calling (Telus). They are also a monopoly in Alberta, and operate in other provinces. They provide DSL, but the government makes them sublease network access to smaller ISPs (though the price is tied to Telus). And they have Shaw/Rogers Cable to compete with (cable broadband).
Despite their monopoly in the telephone and DSL market, I pay $65 CDN (about $45 US) for a 2.5 megabit line. I could pay $45 CDN/$32 US for a 1.5 megabit line. What keeps the costs down? Well, Telus has to share their bandwidth; small ISPs can sell DSL that sits on the Telus networks. Second, the cable Interet providers provide an alternative.
I'm guessing Australia has neither of these two alternatives, and thus they get f*cked by a nasty monopoly.
The press release says that SuSE Desktop 1.0 works with SuSE's Enterprise OS, but doesn't mention any 64-bit CPUs (Opteron, Itanium, etc).
LinuxLasVegas says, "The distro is built on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8.x technology"... which means it would have native support for the Opteron.
Not sure who's right here - this looks like a workstation OS, and thus limited to 32-bit. That might change once the Athalon64 comes out in a few months, I guess.
Really liked Song of Fire and Ice, but I think it's fall-winter reading. It's so good, you won't enjoy the outdoors.
I prefer non-fiction in the summer.
We're in the middle of a nasty registered-mail war with them about licencing of software.
As a result, more and more of us are moving to Linux (developers can run whatever they want on their machines, so long as they get the job done). No licencing hassles, and no software-asset-management hassles.
Hibernate
It uses XML files to map between databases and Java. Good support for transactions, and more complicated cases.
A good overview can be found here...
It's easy, and it's not easy.
If you have alot of PL/SQL stored procs, and you are moving to MySQL (no stored procedures yet, no PL/SQL) then it's tough.
If you are moving to Postgres, then it gets easier.
It really depends on how you coded your application. Even if you use a bit of non-standard SQL, there are usually equivalents.
Not only that, the Barton 2500 is capable (with stock cooling and voltage) of nearly reaching the same clockspeed of a 3000.
Not just small towns. States/provinces, regions, countries. Diversification is key. Go ask the French about their only exported product, the French Fry. I hear they're really hurting right now :)
"from the crumbling town of Wilkes-Barre"...
Wilkes-Barre is a (dead) coal-mining town; "As the stock market crashed in 1929, the coal industry struggled, but it never recovered after World War II. By the 1920's consumers gradually switched from coal to oil, gas, and electricity. One by one, the collieries were shutdown, and mine operators moved on to other enterprises, leaving the area with an unemployment rate in excess of 12% after the war..." (from this site).
Unfort, I think it's tough to turn towns like this around. Go see Michael Moore's "Roger and Me" (ignore his politics if you disagree with them - the message in the documentary is pretty important). He talks about how Flint tried to revitalize itself after an industry (auto) that it had grown all-too-dependant on shut down.
Dark fibre, the collapse of many companies that built these networks (and then had other companies buy them at pennies on the dollar), etc, then why do this?
Or maybe someone is thinking long-term; five-years, and maybe this will be a very valuable asset. Bah. Perhaps I need more foresight.
They aren't immortals from Earth, they come from the planet Zeist, and are really rebels exiled to earth!
MacLeod has put a shield around the earth to replace the depleted ozone layer, and evil men inside The Shield Corporation are covering up the fact that the ozone layer has restored itself!
Birdmen on flying skateboards try to kill MacLeod (for some unknown reason) and accidentally restore his immortality!
Virginia Madsen is a terrible actress!
Christopher Lambert is worse!
Not sure who Sean Connery's agent was, but I hope he was fired!
Actually, I subscribe to the Postgres mailing list, and I see alot of, "Why isn't this query using the index", or "Why is this query so slow".
I think every database, however, has query optimizations problems. Oracle has a "hint" that you can put in a query to override default optimization. They wouldn't need that if their query optmizer was perfect.
Before you start yelling FUD, do some reading. Closed source isn't perfect, and either is open source.
That's an interesting point.
Of course, one might say that it's the job of the intelligence community to pre-empt, not the army. There have been several critiques that have shown an inter-agency breakdown was a key factor in the 9/11 attacks.
There used to be collection boxes for the IRA in the North East (Boston, etc). The US has supported terrorism in the past, and will no doubt support it in the future.
W/regards to the Taliban, what I (as a Canadian) found most amusing was the cost of all the Stinger missiles the CIA provided to the Afghani's. I still remember watching TV when I was 14 or so, seeing the last Soviet transports take off, firing flares just in case someone with a Stinger was close by.
The US is still trying to recover the unused Stinger missiles. I believe that for every dollar they spent in donating the missiles, a few hundred have been spent trying to recover them.
Act in haste, repent in leisure. That should be the new motto of the CIA.