Simple, if demand is high, and supply is short, pay more.
Overbid Cisco, or 3com or whatever.
Pay them, and they will come, they will stay.
If you can't handle the bidding war, then you don't deserve the quality candidates. If your company can't afford it, then maybe you need to hire an accountant to spell it out for you. Or maybe your marketroids could stand a pay cut or two, or four.
That's the whole point of the capitalist system. People who are in demand expect higher pay.
Is this such a hard concept for you corporate slogs to understand?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
You are correct, if we deported all of the foreign workers, the US economy would collapse, not because there is a shortage of skilled workers, but because there is a shortage of CHEAP skilled workers. It's been a major force in keeping US inflation in check, by keeping the average wage down, ignoring the MARKET PRESSURE induced by DEMAND, to raise salaries to attract talent. People would rather be doctors or lawyers than engineers in this country, because you make much more money being a doctor or lawyer. So when the DEMAND for engineers goes up, and the salary doesn't, the supply gets tight, which SHOULD raise the salaries to attract more talent, but not if the company's would rather spend money lobbying congress for higher caps on H1-B visas, so they wouldn't have to pay engineers more, so the engineers could move into those exclusive subdivisions with all the doctors and lawyers, and really start cranking up inflation, which would raise interest rates, which would chill the stock market, which would hurt the corporate holdings. . .
Ah, NOW I see why!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
My company has an office in the UK, and I see this too - it's friggin unbeleivable how you folks can get by. Gasoline is like 5 times what it costs in the states. Food, like double. Rent avg about the Bay area. Own a home? not bloody likely. And the pay is generally less.
Then when we were talking about stock options, the brits were saying, "screw stock options, just give us a raise now". Personally, I've done VERY well with my stock options, and if I could trade my options for a 10% pay raise four years ago, I would NOT do it, even though, as a non-programmer, I don't make all that much.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
Were you BORN a witch? I hardly think that being a pagan/wiccan/witch equates with being Jewish or Black. Perhaps the title is offensive to both the witch wannabes out there in the world, but everyone else found it culturally relevant in other ways. So, go take your made-up hokey wish I had a religion of my own because I want to piss of my parents who are Xians because they loved my older brother more than me, and shove it up your butt.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
I'm pretty sure I saw teeth, and also what looked like a bloody tongue, but then I was wondering how Josh could have called out like that w/o a tongue. ..
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
I think that NASA needs to launch Air Force One (fully loaded with the usual passengers), into the moon as a second try at getting a dust plume.
NASA also should probably triple the price it charges the US Military to launch satellites, and THEN keep the profits, since some of the money that's getting sucked out of NASA is being diverted to Military pork.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
I'll also go on record as being geekingly in love with my Palm. But I don't think I'm SO much in love with it that I've lost all my objectivity.
It's simply a workable version of my old Franklin "Seven Habits of Highly Defective People" Planner.
I can't carry my old Planner in my pocket. The Palm III will actually cost LESS over three years than Franklin Planner startup and refills costs. I'm not killing anywhere near as many trees. I can do a global search in the Palm III's records for names or other information. I can backup the data quickly and conveniently to my desktop PC, in case I lose the Palm III. I can reasonably secure private data from casual prying eyes on the Palm III. My Palm III proactively reminds me of appointments and birthday's I'd otherwise miss or forget.
- - - Then there's all the other geeky toy stuff. Games, electronic books, etc. But that's under the starry-eyed geek love category. -----------------
Then my boss showed me his Wince box, 4 times the RAM, stereo sound, a full-duty OS, full compatability with MS Schedule+ and stuff (which is what everyone else at work uses, so I pretty much have no choice). Rechargeable batteries. 90MHz MIPS processor (compared to the Palm's 16MHz DragonBallz) $130. $70 less than my Palm III. I was a bit jealous, even though the thought of actually paying money for a Microsoft product made me cringe. Then I watched my boss over the next week. THIS thing was only a toy to him. He never used it. Not once. He showed it off plenty, but he never used it. This was my first week with the Palm, and damn, it was in near-constant use. Bottom line is, the basic functions that make the Palm a necessity, are much, much easier to use than with a Wince device, even with attempts by the Wince designers to copy some of the basic Palm features, like the application hot buttons, etc.
Now I'm finding that I'd kind of like the Palm to do two things; be smaller, and have news on it (like my stupid text pager). Damn, I'd actually like to merge my pager with my PalmIII. Someone pages me with a text message, phone # or something, I can cut and paste it right to the address book. Palm/Cellphone combo? No thanks. I'm not in the mood for a brain tumor today, plus, the cell phone, not the Palm, is what causes the obligation for you to "be reachable all the time". Changing back from Cellphone to Payphone erects (heh heh, he said "erects") a big barrier to that kind of crap. It's a lot easier to say "no" when there's no payphone around.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
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"I bleed in six colors too" BUT The Newton was WAY, WAY, WAY overpriced, and WAY, WAY too big.
Put a Newton in a Palm III - sized package, in an eBay - Palm III price range (not retail Palm III), and I'd buy one in a second.
Palms are also WAY WAY WAY overpriced compared to some of the Wince devices out there. (but I still love my Palm III).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
I *need* my Palm. I *need* my SUV, for the interior room, and the occasional ability to handle rough terrain/bad snow days, and the ability to crush Honda Civics that get in my way.
I do agree that 99% of SUV-drivers don't *need* SUVs, and would probably be much better off with a minivan or AWD subaru or volvo station wagon. But don't assume all SUV drivers are of that ilk.
As for your demographics estimate for the Palm, what doctor with a flashlight handed you that number? With the increasing whizz-bangedness of the computer age, the author of the article is way behind the curve. I am now expected to have all of this information at my fingertips, and though pocket spades is nice, the "basics" of what the Palm is intended to do are a necessity for an airhead like me to do my job. It also made my wallet MUCH thinner, as it is no longer used as a carrier for dozens of misc. sticky-notes.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
This reminds me of that Sherlock Holmes story, where Watson is telling Sherlock (Sherlock? what a dorky name, anyone here remember his brother's name? Mycroft. What the fsck was WRONG with their parents?! - i digress). Anyway, Watson was telling Sherlock about how the Earth had been proven to orbit around the sun, and Sherlock scolded him for telling him "useless information", and taking up space in the attic of his brain that would otherwise be used for storing information about topics relative to crime-solving. Sherlock Holmes was definately a geek of the first order. I didn't read Sir Doyle's books for the mysteries, but for the fascination for this truly wierd character.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
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Simple, if demand is high, and supply is short, pay more.
Overbid Cisco, or 3com or whatever.
Pay them, and they will come, they will stay.
If you can't handle the bidding war, then you don't deserve the quality candidates. If your company can't afford it, then maybe you need to hire an accountant to spell it out for you. Or maybe your marketroids could stand a pay cut or two, or four.
That's the whole point of the capitalist system. People who are in demand expect higher pay.
Is this such a hard concept for you corporate slogs to understand?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
. . . unfortunately, it doesn't have a vector for fraudulent televangeists or abortion clinic arsonists.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
You are correct, if we deported all of the foreign workers, the US economy would collapse, not because there is a shortage of skilled workers, but because there is a shortage of CHEAP skilled workers. It's been a major force in keeping US inflation in check, by keeping the average wage down, ignoring the MARKET PRESSURE induced by DEMAND, to raise salaries to attract talent. People would rather be doctors or lawyers than engineers in this country, because you make much more money being a doctor or lawyer. So when the DEMAND for engineers goes up, and the salary doesn't, the supply gets tight, which SHOULD raise the salaries to attract more talent, but not if the company's would rather spend money lobbying congress for higher caps on H1-B visas, so they wouldn't have to pay engineers more, so the engineers could move into those exclusive subdivisions with all the doctors and lawyers, and really start cranking up inflation, which would raise interest rates, which would chill the stock market, which would hurt the corporate holdings. . .
Ah, NOW I see why!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
In the Bay Area, $60k is not quite enough to live on, let alone raise a family.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
My company has an office in the UK, and I see this too - it's friggin unbeleivable how you folks can get by. Gasoline is like 5 times what it costs in the states. Food, like double. Rent avg about the Bay area. Own a home? not bloody likely. And the pay is generally less.
Then when we were talking about stock options, the brits were saying, "screw stock options, just give us a raise now".
Personally, I've done VERY well with my stock options, and if I could trade my options for a 10% pay raise four years ago, I would NOT do it, even though, as a non-programmer, I don't make all that much.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Hey mister "neandertal.org"!
Were you BORN a witch?
I hardly think that being a pagan/wiccan/witch equates with being Jewish or Black.
Perhaps the title is offensive to both the witch wannabes out there in the world, but everyone else found it culturally relevant in other ways.
So, go take your made-up hokey wish I had a religion of my own because I want to piss of my parents who are Xians because they loved my older brother more than me, and shove it up your butt.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
3fold? Why not twofold, or fourfold? Sounds a bit arbitrary to me.
And if a witch turns me into a newt, how can that witch be turned into a newt three times? Once a newt, ever after a newt, I always say.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Bwa ha ha!!!
Good one!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
And do you know any REAL witches? If so, please change me into a newt.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
I'm pretty sure I saw teeth, and also what looked like a bloody tongue, but then I was wondering how Josh could have called out like that w/o a tongue. . .
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Remember also, that they were all nicotene junkies, and were jonesin hard for a smoke after the first two days.
REMEMBER, always pack extra cigs.
If you can't smoke them yourself, you can use them to bargain for your life.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Bah!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
God forbid there be a place in the world where an employer treats it's employees as if they were actually human.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
That SciFi channel special didn't seem to have any disclaimers or anything of the like that any part of this story was false.
I call it more of a Hoax, but it's definately art that strays "outside the box" of "fiction" that we'd like to keep it in.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
The fishing guys at the creek sucked - acting wise.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
I think that NASA needs to launch Air Force One (fully loaded with the usual passengers), into the moon as a second try at getting a dust plume.
NASA also should probably triple the price it charges the US Military to launch satellites, and THEN keep the profits, since some of the money that's getting sucked out of NASA is being diverted to Military pork.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
I'll also go on record as being geekingly in love with my Palm. But I don't think I'm SO much in love with it that I've lost all my objectivity.
It's simply a workable version of my old Franklin "Seven Habits of Highly Defective People" Planner.
I can't carry my old Planner in my pocket.
The Palm III will actually cost LESS over three years than Franklin Planner startup and refills costs.
I'm not killing anywhere near as many trees.
I can do a global search in the Palm III's records for names or other information.
I can backup the data quickly and conveniently to my desktop PC, in case I lose the Palm III.
I can reasonably secure private data from casual prying eyes on the Palm III.
My Palm III proactively reminds me of appointments and birthday's I'd otherwise miss or forget.
- - -
Then there's all the other geeky toy stuff. Games, electronic books, etc. But that's under the starry-eyed geek love category.
-----------------
Then my boss showed me his Wince box, 4 times the RAM, stereo sound, a full-duty OS, full compatability with MS Schedule+ and stuff (which is what everyone else at work uses, so I pretty much have no choice). Rechargeable batteries. 90MHz MIPS processor (compared to the Palm's 16MHz DragonBallz) $130. $70 less than my Palm III. I was a bit jealous, even though the thought of actually paying money for a Microsoft product made me cringe. Then I watched my boss over the next week. THIS thing was only a toy to him. He never used it. Not once. He showed it off plenty, but he never used it. This was my first week with the Palm, and damn, it was in near-constant use. Bottom line is, the basic functions that make the Palm a necessity, are much, much easier to use than with a Wince device, even with attempts by the Wince designers to copy some of the basic Palm features, like the application hot buttons, etc.
Now I'm finding that I'd kind of like the Palm to do two things; be smaller, and have news on it (like my stupid text pager). Damn, I'd actually like to merge my pager with my PalmIII. Someone pages me with a text message, phone # or something, I can cut and paste it right to the address book. Palm/Cellphone combo? No thanks. I'm not in the mood for a brain tumor today, plus, the cell phone, not the Palm, is what causes the obligation for you to "be reachable all the time". Changing back from Cellphone to Payphone erects (heh heh, he said "erects") a big barrier to that kind of crap. It's a lot easier to say "no" when there's no payphone around.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
"I bleed in six colors too"
BUT
The Newton was WAY, WAY, WAY overpriced, and WAY, WAY too big.
Put a Newton in a Palm III - sized package, in an eBay - Palm III price range (not retail Palm III), and I'd buy one in a second.
Palms are also WAY WAY WAY overpriced compared to some of the Wince devices out there. (but I still love my Palm III).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
I *need* my Palm.
I *need* my SUV, for the interior room, and the occasional ability to handle rough terrain/bad snow days, and the ability to crush Honda Civics that get in my way.
I do agree that 99% of SUV-drivers don't *need* SUVs, and would probably be much better off with a minivan or AWD subaru or volvo station wagon. But don't assume all SUV drivers are of that ilk.
As for your demographics estimate for the Palm, what doctor with a flashlight handed you that number? With the increasing whizz-bangedness of the computer age, the author of the article is way behind the curve. I am now expected to have all of this information at my fingertips, and though pocket spades is nice, the "basics" of what the Palm is intended to do are a necessity for an airhead like me to do my job. It also made my wallet MUCH thinner, as it is no longer used as a carrier for dozens of misc. sticky-notes.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
DAVEO reminds me of MEEPT
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
It is a goofy name.
Pentium was goofy.
Celeron was goofy.
Xeon was kinda cool - but still way overpriced.
PowerPC was the goofiest of all.
Alpha, was a VERY cool name.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
First they shrink our radios!
Then they shrink our cars!
Now its our robots!
What's next?!!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Well, we've seen how well a large group of people approached the "problem" of the storage capacity of the human brain -
(ROFLMAO)
I know, Gary Kasparov is Russian! He's gonna kick everyone's asses and use it as propaganda to show how stupid democracy is!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Every bloated line of code in Windows 2000
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
This reminds me of that Sherlock Holmes story, where Watson is telling Sherlock (Sherlock? what a dorky name, anyone here remember his brother's name? Mycroft. What the fsck was WRONG with their parents?! - i digress).
Anyway, Watson was telling Sherlock about how the Earth had been proven to orbit around the sun, and Sherlock scolded him for telling him "useless information", and taking up space in the attic of his brain that would otherwise be used for storing information about topics relative to crime-solving.
Sherlock Holmes was definately a geek of the first order. I didn't read Sir Doyle's books for the mysteries, but for the fascination for this truly wierd character.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law