This is actually a program secretly funded by the evil Indian Software companies to quickly get Indian developers flown cheap to US companies like Google setting up offshore research centers on the moon.:-P
If animation is cheaper in Korea or China as the article suggests then Japanese animators will either have to compete at global prices or be out of jobs. It's a global market for jobs now and I'd suspect $500 a month is a pretty decent salary in China.
Actually there's a lot of scope for foreigners in India except it's not in programming, it's in the marketing, management, public relations kind of jobs.
Call it the colonial hangover but white skin and a (preferably) british accent with people skills and you have a pulsh job in an Indian company.
Lots of Indian companies (not MNCs) are now hiring.us/.eu expats for local jobs. The primary quality you must have is a willingness to understand and adapt to the local environment. A client of mine a large Indian hotel chain has an expat at head with a salary running into 8 figures in dollar units.
The life is good, even a lower level manager would get a chauffeur driven car, a cook and a maid.
Plus the purchasing power parity (almost everything except tech stuff is cheaper in India) means that you could buy anything much cheaper here with the same salary abroad.
Hosting companies such as EV1 are probably the easiest targets for SCO because,
1.) They have thousands of servers.
2.) They operate on razor thin margins making money on volumes.
The legal costs of a suit with SCO would for sure shut them down.
EV1 was offered a cheap site license not $699 per server at a cost probably heavily negotiated with a carrot and stick approach by SCO.
Finally it's interesting to note that EV1 advertises Red Hat Enterprise and Windows as their selling point. Infact I don't see any server with SCO Linux on offer at all.
I asked a couple of others who speak German to make sure this last was an accurate translation, even holding off on the story for half a day, because it still sounds a bit odd. Evidently, they can sue their own customers in Germany if they feel like it.
Sounds like a cool twisted ploy to make them lose their two remaining german customers.
If it's sendmail they'll probably push to verify against passport.com.
Microsoft does have the power and the ubiquity to push a standard through but we also know about embrace and extend.
Instead of everyone working on seperate anti-spam standards (yahoo - domainkeys, AOL testing SPF) it would be better if the largest email providers used industry standards bodies (IETF, ECMA) to push through a common verification standard.
So paid is the way to go but so many registrations, so many usernames, so many passwords and so much content left unread.
It would be neat if there could be a single authentication protocol where one could use the same user/pass (a passport.com like open source or free authentication method) which worked anywhere and which one could tie to any micropayment based payment gateway to read and possibly OWN (in case you visit later) any content you bought at any of the sites.
Text-mining programs go further, categorizing information, making links between otherwise unconnected documents
For any google results "Category" is shown right on top of the results. "Links" - try link:slashdot.org & related:slashdot.org as google queries.
If someone is doing research on computer modeling, for example, it not only knows to discard documents about fashion models but can also extract important phrases, terms, names and locations
Try the google advanced search you can search with "all of these words" and "without these words".
Slashdot Mirror
Its open source. You can extend it it's functionality with zimlets and it's already quite popular with universities.
http://www.zimbra.com/
Why aren't they simply blocking google using robots.txt if they don't want to be listed?
GNU is Not Unix.
....
Pine Is Not Elm.
Wine Is Not an Emulator.
This is actually a program secretly funded by the evil Indian Software companies to quickly get Indian developers flown cheap to US companies like Google setting up offshore research centers on the moon. :-P
- cnb
If animation is cheaper in Korea or China as the article suggests then Japanese animators will either have to compete at global prices or be out of jobs. It's a global market for jobs now and I'd suspect $500 a month is a pretty decent salary in China.
a cluster costs more then just machines
At one of Miguel's talks I attended he pronouced it "Hexe M El". But then he has a strong Mexican accent.
I wonder what sort of credit limit Bill Gates has on the card.
Actually there's a lot of scope for foreigners in India except it's not in programming, it's in the marketing, management, public relations kind of jobs.
.us/.eu expats for local jobs. The primary quality you must have is a willingness to understand and adapt to the local environment. A client of mine a large Indian hotel chain has an expat at head with a salary running into 8 figures in dollar units.
Call it the colonial hangover but white skin and a (preferably) british accent with people skills and you have a pulsh job in an Indian company.
Lots of Indian companies (not MNCs) are now hiring
The life is good, even a lower level manager would get a chauffeur driven car, a cook and a maid.
Plus the purchasing power parity (almost everything except tech stuff is cheaper in India) means that you could buy anything much cheaper here with the same salary abroad.
- cnb
Hosting companies such as EV1 are probably the easiest targets for SCO because,
1.) They have thousands of servers.
2.) They operate on razor thin margins making money on volumes.
The legal costs of a suit with SCO would for sure shut them down.
EV1 was offered a cheap site license not $699 per server at a cost probably heavily negotiated with a carrot and stick approach by SCO.
Finally it's interesting to note that EV1 advertises Red Hat Enterprise and Windows as their selling point. Infact I don't see any server with SCO Linux on offer at all.
Sounds like a cool twisted ploy to make them lose their two remaining german customers.
- cnb
If it's sendmail they'll probably push to verify against passport.com.
Microsoft does have the power and the ubiquity to push a standard through but we also know about embrace and extend.
Instead of everyone working on seperate anti-spam standards (yahoo - domainkeys, AOL testing SPF) it would be better if the largest email providers used industry standards bodies (IETF, ECMA) to push through a common verification standard.
- cnb
So paid is the way to go but so many registrations, so many usernames, so many passwords and so much content left unread.
It would be neat if there could be a single authentication protocol where one could use the same user/pass (a passport.com like open source or free authentication method) which worked anywhere and which one could tie to any micropayment based payment gateway to read and possibly OWN (in case you visit later) any content you bought at any of the sites.
Innocent Until Proven Guilty?
- cnb
You stole from me but I can't tell you what it was until I search your house.
- cnb
and that one person has spent $29,500 on iTunes Music Store. Yes, $29,500.
This one person also bought a SCO license and invested in Enron.
Anti SPAM tools already include anti-obfuscation support. Here's one of many scripts for spamassassin.
- cnb
Now if only someone would post a link to some Pamela Jones photos
- cnb
SPAM/VIRUS/WORM SCANNING
amavis - http://amavis.org/
qmail-scanner - http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/
dspam - http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/
JWZ
Bio: I used to be a hacker. Now I run a nightclub.
the psychology of virus writers and Sarah Gordon,who has been studying this area for 20 years.
Talk about people with no life!!
Why does SCO keep getting away with talking nonsense in both press and court?
it appears, fefe's website does not scale well to a slashdotting. :)
That sounded too much like SCO Magazine :)
Text-mining programs go further, categorizing information, making links between otherwise unconnected documents
For any google results
"Category" is shown right on top of the results.
"Links" - try link:slashdot.org & related:slashdot.org as google queries.
If someone is doing research on computer modeling, for example, it not only knows to discard documents about fashion models but can also extract important phrases, terms, names and locations
Try the google advanced search you can search with "all of these words" and "without these words".
Google shows dictionary definitions for every searched term if they exist. There's also already a location based search and a
phone book
Finally as the article says it all comes down to asking the right question.