I got new ISP service in August. I got a router with it. This router does not do IPv6. In August. 2010.
As a gift I got the $35 WGR614NA. I slaved it to my ipv6-compliant router but it failed to forward v6 traffic --in September 2010. We're stuck with lots of tech that just will not get phased out because it is cheap to bundle and expensive to upgrade... like IE6. Perhaps your ISP does servr v6 but your router itself is "broken"? Borrow a known good one like an Apple airports and see if v6 works.
After years, I've concluded that buying v6 consumer routers is hard. NONE say "ipv6-ready!!11oneone" on the box. Only geeks do web searches leading to appropriate forum threads before buying a hardware. WPA and WPA2, and N support are the only features the big players care about highlighting, and v6 is hidden --they most consider it a niche.
"firmware upgradable to 802.11n final" has been an undelivered promise a whole year since the 802.11n standard was finalized. Worse, router boxes still say "802.11n draft standard" or deviously omit the word "final." We need to start posting all non-compliant, backward-ass routers, so google searches help people avoid these "incomplete" product lines.
Geeks with pre-Vista computers will be very sore at this. Businesses who didn't want Vista/Aero upgrades kept their old single core Pentium 4 machines and still game forums are full of posts showing crappy framerates on even recent hardware aren't a dwindling problem.
Though IIRC 3D buildings are an opting-in away, when you try to show off Manhattan's skyline sloooowly --thousands of buildings and skins are downloaded, and then buffered to your job's integrated cards-- disappointment will set in. Worse, even dual cores choke as you fly over the city --without yet handling thousands of trees.
The GP is right, but you seem to be missing the big final point: Android phones come out with 1.6 when version 2.0 and 2.1 are out.
To most people fragmentation doesn't mean "security flaws" --it means "oh, no! I paid $200 and got stuck in a contract for many more hundreds, and now I can't run X new free app." Compare that to Apple, as the GP said: November 28, 2010 some new OS X comes out? not a single PC at the store will sell you a box with the old one.
Hmm, contrast that with Windows XP and see why it's so hard for any company [ie: Microsoft] to be leader in a user environment when your own OS fragmentation (XP, Vista, Seven and even 2000) is out of your control.
I agree with the 3 points, which I summarize as "be more like Windows release cycles and Windows Updates" --seems to work well. On the point of Joe Non-technical User, though, I disagree, respectfully since I don't want to take away from your great post. There's geeks who can do the tarball/compile magic... and then there's everyone else, in the nontechnical side.
In the Window world, Nontechs using windows don't care what version of MS Office they have because they're extremely interoperable. The difference between a company owning Word 2003 and Word 2007 is the year their nontechnical leaders signed your purchase order, and how much of a cash premium the newer version costs.
In Linux, you simply install what's available in your OS repos --being free people assume the larger number is best and try alternative download sites. If someone really cares enough to "upgrade" to OOo 3.2 as opposed to keeping their default OOo 3.0, then they're by no means a "non-technical user." Apologies for the 'No true scotsman' argument here.
On a tangent, I'm pleasantly amazed that Apple manages to make clear to non-techs (old and young) that their new yearly-purchased iPhone/iPod and computer aren't broken, but that artificially "a newer number software already on their machine" needs to be downloaded FOR FREE to link the product and PC. No other mainstream company with free software does this IIRC. People are more likely to replace their iPhone every year than, say, upgrade their MP3 Player and download NEW free drivers for a slightly better model OF THE SAME PRODUCT LINE year after year.
Technically possible isn't even remotely the same as permissible.
You couldn't have put it better. Companies remote-wiping MY JUNK along with their junk is not permissible. An app with OS timebombs is a virus. Period. We can't put up with a feature favoring US-centric wipes, because the unbrella lets random companies worldwide wherever you may live (shuddering about China and Korea here) to pull that same move maliciously ignoring local laws that would give individuals rights over their own hardware that the USA blatantly ignores.
Company "security" is only ever taken to mean the safety of "THEIR" data and not MINE. Lawsuits: because we sign half a dozen contracts/EULA's to become new hires^W^W wage slaves. And THEY laugh in our faces when we wanna enforce only ONE of our own, called "constitutional rights." The US and the EU are the only places you can probably even go to court over damages and/or pulling a revolution like the browser-ballot-screen was.
Maybe it's because I'm no longer in the age group I was in the 80's, but the problem of asking other friends this day is that they all have lives and play DIFFERENT games.
Back in the day, my friends and I didn't have a crazy number of portable consoles/cellphones, mainstream computer games/MMOs, entertainment through the internet. I'm pretty sure web time has considerably eaten up a lot of time that used to be reading and videogame time in my child hood. With so little time, some jadedness and so many choices, friends are naturally a lot pickier and don't all buy the same games anymore.
It's good we have online walkthroughs, most of my games (jRPGs, "Reprobates," Ace Fighter V and others) throw mean curve-balls at us to rack up replay-value^W hour-count --or inadvertently making you quit in some cases.
When you search for CSCO, it is doing some calculations and creating a stock chart. It would be reasonable for them to just link to Google Finance.
"I give you more for 'free'... and you... pay me in return." In case you the Parent post and anyone else missed out our Google Instant discussions the other day, Google makes more ad impressions the longer stay orbiting Google.com.
In other words, Google provides us O(n) more data per keyword search, to ensure an earning of our, er, O(greater-than-linear) time. We're spending that analyzing the massaged top results and actually clicking to yet another google service. That perpetuates the cycle and increases ad-impression. They're making themselves a search portal quite differently than Yahoo.com chose to approache this sales problem.
Really, nobody ever reads CVs. They just do basic pattern matching and assume that's good enough.
In large cities, companies never call you for helpdesk jobs --headhunters do. Their goal isn't a match --just cashing commissions quickly through statistical randomness (keyword matching on Monster.com) out of hundreds of inexperienced people... emails targetted at EXPERT programmers come to me, but all I have is secondary experience and that's no longer good enough to warrant even a phone call out of anyone with a brain. Yet, mistargetted bulk e-mails just won't stop coming. Nobody interviews someone listing "cloud" in their resume for a "3+ year cloud staff manager" position if the resume just lists "cloud trainee" under skills. The real world under this economy only wants resumes where jobs worked show "Cloud manager" as an actual title with 2 or more of years.
Half of my headhunter calls and nearly as many legit helpdesk offers clearly demand years of experience on technology that a sane person would not "hide" if they really had it. Among the less ADHD, commission driven HR people, sane ones will weed me out if I don't fit their bill, but stupid ones only analyze their lack of reading skills when I have them read what I actually put on my resume and mention that their boss won't even see me because I lack 2 or 3 top requirements.
I hope this is only an IT recruiter problem. Most other fields require facetime at a temp agency and I would guess those visits require a bit more reading than a phone interview*. Man, our IT job problems don't even cover scams.
* Common office positions in non-IT fields like clerks, secretaries and retail salesmen are evaluated on personal attitude, actual number of years and breadth of experience worked, and presentation.
Handling Verizon DSL home service's TOS for the past decade, I thought their ban on "servers of any kind" was enforced for these obvious things.
In practice, I can "host" games like Unreal Tournament and not get shut down, but the ISPs ARE dropping inbound port 80 traffic to encourage a costly "business plan" upgrade. Still, it's unsettling that they won't put their foot down and disconnect bots like colleges dorm policies do nowadays.
Regardless, I'm spammed thru e-mail headers from of US broadband bots anyway. In my case there's lots more activity from Latin American and European ISPs.
Fine if the TSA wants ground transportation security jobs... let'em put search/patdown officers 24/7/365 at every bus stop, car rental lot, garage and available yard for parking outside private building complexes so "everyone is safe." Anything else would be a half-assed effort at their current ridiculous goals.
But, wait... nothing will scale that large in any world economy. The TSA is affording employee wages for only 15 thousand airports in the USA, which is fine seeing how it's a fraction of a percent out of our 150M employed/unemployed workforce count (see Economy \ Labor force section of the CIA factbook.)
NOBODY can provide enough 1:1 patdown manpower for the country's more than 60 million registered vehicles. If the government and TSA drafted that required minimum 40% of our available workforce just for searches and patdowns, we'd have 0 manpower for convenience stores supplying our daily food, and secretaries. And enough people would stop making lucrative private business cash that the political support would have to stop such a thing.
Any tech-savvy user won't be infected by the antivirus anymore than they'd be infected by a regular virus. That's the beauty of it.
You're right!
Still, any legit company in the US spreading like this will end up sued and losing, and threatened overseas like Blackberry was a couple months ago.
Why? it takes a few short years of "do no evil" for a closed-source company to get greedy and make you re-evaluate using their stuff --see Google in 2010.
Besides the null legality of infecting PC's with legit antivirus software for the greater good, there is a secondary problem. Any tech-savvy user with their own AV solution, will most likely see their PC acquire a second set of system-hogging antivirus software. Ever installed two concurrent firewalls on your PC and saw that neither one complained? Yup, don't expect coders to make the right assumptions.
You might instead have chosen to stop using ANY antivirus --then you get mad this virusy antivirus has to keep being removed over and over to free your PC. If coders create a an opt-out flag for your registry so the AV will run and not force itself upon you, then we all know real viruses will be the first ones to set it to "true" to actually avoid getting removed. So then the AV writers would have to counter by forcing a full virus check on both the conscious-antivirus-avoiders and the unsuspecting infected users, to play it safe before the software decides it needs no further cleanup action on the avoiders' PC. And then virus writers could just kill that would-be helpful scanner and prevent the real legal-and-virusy-AV's install anyway.
With unlocked phones, you can break into a country's market, but you couldn't take their tech out back to the US.
The US breaking world-wide standards reminds me that Skype charges no extras per USA-bound calls (everyone can do that one for free!) The issue is when you want a two-way platform --fees apply for those calls you want to return.
Why do you believe you have the right to be overpaid for a job? Or that it's more moral to hire an American than someone in China? Simple racism?
It seems that my post just flew by and got tl;dr by some, so read my post to find what I really said.
Compare jobs with software: OpenOffice was in good hands, and the Oracle's ownership apparently killed it. Most people will take something produced by the original crew than the "new" our outsourced ones. Tech support quality loss is a prime example of that.
With the lost jobs that up and left the coutry, people can't just "
Do something that can only be done locally, or do something better than those who can work cheaper.
" is not how a country gets out of 10% unemployment, especially with expert economist forecasts asking to just wait it out another 2 years. A jobless someone with 20 years of management experience and 0 years as nurse has no way to compete with someone at a hospital who spent the same 20 years in their "hard to outsource field," and an oblig. established network of professionals with a foot in the door to resort to, to boot.
People can't switch fields in a heartbeat, like the US or any nation can't shift away from doing what it's best known for in just a few days or weeks to a more profitable venue. You're affected by the recession too, no matter your location, and my [and yours, presumably] IT job exodus plan is miles away from that "currently hard to outsource" nursing job in my prior example. Please be more sensitive.
Cell Phones have existed for a very short time. Technically we have watched them evolve from huge analog call-making units to something beyond even our home computers in functionality.
Anti-establishment people are making the statement that our PC's won't easily head in that direction anytime soon. With cars, well... they've existed for a whole century, and it's too late to stop the lockout. But we look at the suddenly-hardening mindset in the videogame/smartphone industry and see a chance of throwing wrenches to slow down the painful escape of our former liberties.
Heh, I'm not even a lawyer and already realized US firms on Chinese ground will copy a US trick to avoid China's ad-hoc layoff prevention:
Stop growing and start sub-contracting new work/manufacturing to Chinese-owned firms. That eliminates the local contract bindings and allows thousands of ties to be cut by just severing one business relationship --without lowering your internal headcount.
As a bonus, report back to president Obama that 0 jobs were added outside the US and 100% (of 3 or 4 per month, but hey, percentages hide hard numbers) were inside.
Your link discussed China's* sobering anti-layoff laws that make USA's at-will employment look like the joke it really is.
So looking beyond "ad resellers" and Google to the whole outsourcing deal, it's hard to see how laws against US companies layoffs are a problem today. It's here in the US that they can and have been aggressively shrinking forces, and over in Asia where they are growing, so it will be several years before they even think of shrinking, if US outsourcing doubiously ever reverses its growth.
Further, though there are tons of plants manufacturing and assembling stuff there, I thought they were Chinese-owned, so we won't be the ones doing the firing and the point is moot. For the giants who DO see a danger in Chinese land, they'll just do the sensible thing and open India centers like the rest of the world has been doing recently. I reckon India only seems to be used for coding and English-language phone support, so I've no idea about their manufacturing power.
But that's not our problem. The outsourcing will continue wherever it is linguistically and politically easier. Under recent signs of US prosperity, forced accretion has been obversed in US branches while headcounts rise in Asian branches. More power is going to India, Australia and the Philippines because it makes perfect sense to beancounters to avoid promoting American labor again, in spite of what that means to us here.
The quietest I can make Google maps is to display only street maps --no annoying Streetview triggering by mistake if you zoom too close. However, there's no relief map or sat imaging there. Just go to maps.google.com/mobile. I found out that google defaults you to that link if your JS is off or the browser (Konqueror or Midori) is tricky.
I've been conditioning myself this past year because it's when they have made the most visible search changes. Remember that "Google everything" thing? That's when I started sucking my gut and using bing and yahoo for my first searches.
Going to Support and User guide to find out features instead of seeing "Features" in a main menu is a GUI faux-pas of theirs. GP is an RTFM apologist. You never hit Support links unless looking for Windows drivers or troubleshooting forums. The features are supposed to be well-known by the time you want to look at the manual. Or do the other mainstream browsers tout a manual as well?
Their front page avoids static screenshots like they are the plague. The video shows stylized mockups and a few too subtly zoomed-out previews. Most viewers will see the stylized parts and think the small previews are just as stylized and not the real thing the other 90% of that animated preview is misleading without revealing the real Chrome look too overtly.
Firefox is a success: it knows its target audience is NOT GEEKS ALONE and updated its landing page accordingly. Flock's website missed that boat. If we are to listen to the GP, then only patient candidates with no rush to really get into Web 2.0 (and probably latent techy-qualities anyway) will be satisfied that they're downloading what they came looking for. When the audience isn't 13-year old boys downloading the latest fun trojans cursorware or legit Roller-Coaster-Tycoon game, it costs much more in presentation efforts to convince ADHD visitors to be more than simply curious and actually download and install your product. Let's learn from Mozilla's top menu what Flock should imitate well
Products / Firefox Features Under the Hood Security Customization 100% Organic Software Tips & Tricks Videos Connect
Then ponder on unnecessary nesting at Flock's site and all the users they miss because of it.
Isn't the entire point of twitter communicating with a large audience?
Not to state Balmer is an example, but sheeple like my mother misunderstand social media conditions because the sites *want* you to sign up even when you don't need to./. has few nags to sign up on the front page and most importantly, we've always been able to post AC. Twitter and facebook have public areas too, but they misleed noobs to believe they can't watch videos, tweets or the Queen of England's facebook page till after forking over registration info.
The companies win, because now they can datamine them, even if postings aren't being made.
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I got new ISP service in August. I got a router with it. This router does not do IPv6. In August. 2010.
As a gift I got the $35 WGR614NA. I slaved it to my ipv6-compliant router but it failed to forward v6 traffic --in September 2010. We're stuck with lots of tech that just will not get phased out because it is cheap to bundle and expensive to upgrade... like IE6. Perhaps your ISP does servr v6 but your router itself is "broken"? Borrow a known good one like an Apple airports and see if v6 works.
After years, I've concluded that buying v6 consumer routers is hard. NONE say "ipv6-ready!!11oneone" on the box. Only geeks do web searches leading to appropriate forum threads before buying a hardware. WPA and WPA2, and N support are the only features the big players care about highlighting, and v6 is hidden --they most consider it a niche.
"firmware upgradable to 802.11n final" has been an undelivered promise a whole year since the 802.11n standard was finalized. Worse, router boxes still say "802.11n draft standard" or deviously omit the word "final." We need to start posting all non-compliant, backward-ass routers, so google searches help people avoid these "incomplete" product lines.
Geeks with pre-Vista computers will be very sore at this. Businesses who didn't want Vista/Aero upgrades kept their old single core Pentium 4 machines and still game forums are full of posts showing crappy framerates on even recent hardware aren't a dwindling problem.
Though IIRC 3D buildings are an opting-in away, when you try to show off Manhattan's skyline sloooowly --thousands of buildings and skins are downloaded, and then buffered to your job's integrated cards-- disappointment will set in. Worse, even dual cores choke as you fly over the city --without yet handling thousands of trees.
<sarcasm>Thanks Google!</sarcasm>
Wow, you weren't kidding.
That and finding out here that you can also mail scorpions and day-old chicks is priceless.
Just when I thought humanity was cruel enough to animals, someone comes and shows me door #2 ;-)
The GP is right, but you seem to be missing the big final point: Android phones come out with 1.6 when version 2.0 and 2.1 are out.
To most people fragmentation doesn't mean "security flaws" --it means "oh, no! I paid $200 and got stuck in a contract for many more hundreds, and now I can't run X new free app." Compare that to Apple, as the GP said: November 28, 2010 some new OS X comes out? not a single PC at the store will sell you a box with the old one.
Hmm, contrast that with Windows XP and see why it's so hard for any company [ie: Microsoft] to be leader in a user environment when your own OS fragmentation (XP, Vista, Seven and even 2000) is out of your control.
s/upgrade their MP3 Player/upgrade their NON-APPLE MP3 Player/
I agree with the 3 points, which I summarize as "be more like Windows release cycles and Windows Updates" --seems to work well.
On the point of Joe Non-technical User, though, I disagree, respectfully since I don't want to take away from your great post. There's geeks who can do the tarball/compile magic... and then there's everyone else, in the nontechnical side.
In the Window world, Nontechs using windows don't care what version of MS Office they have because they're extremely interoperable. The difference between a company owning Word 2003 and Word 2007 is the year their nontechnical leaders signed your purchase order, and how much of a cash premium the newer version costs.
In Linux, you simply install what's available in your OS repos --being free people assume the larger number is best and try alternative download sites. If someone really cares enough to "upgrade" to OOo 3.2 as opposed to keeping their default OOo 3.0, then they're by no means a "non-technical user." Apologies for the 'No true scotsman' argument here.
On a tangent, I'm pleasantly amazed that Apple manages to make clear to non-techs (old and young) that their new yearly-purchased iPhone/iPod and computer aren't broken, but that artificially "a newer number software already on their machine" needs to be downloaded FOR FREE to link the product and PC. No other mainstream company with free software does this IIRC. People are more likely to replace their iPhone every year than, say, upgrade their MP3 Player and download NEW free drivers for a slightly better model OF THE SAME PRODUCT LINE year after year.
Technically possible isn't even remotely the same as permissible.
You couldn't have put it better. Companies remote-wiping MY JUNK along with their junk is not permissible. An app with OS timebombs is a virus. Period. We can't put up with a feature favoring US-centric wipes, because the unbrella lets random companies worldwide wherever you may live (shuddering about China and Korea here) to pull that same move maliciously ignoring local laws that would give individuals rights over their own hardware that the USA blatantly ignores.
Company "security" is only ever taken to mean the safety of "THEIR" data and not MINE. Lawsuits: because we sign half a dozen contracts/EULA's to become new hires^W^W wage slaves. And THEY laugh in our faces when we wanna enforce only ONE of our own, called "constitutional rights." The US and the EU are the only places you can probably even go to court over damages and/or pulling a revolution like the browser-ballot-screen was.
Maybe it's because I'm no longer in the age group I was in the 80's, but the problem of asking other friends this day is that they all have lives and play DIFFERENT games.
Back in the day, my friends and I didn't have a crazy number of portable consoles/cellphones, mainstream computer games/MMOs, entertainment through the internet. I'm pretty sure web time has considerably eaten up a lot of time that used to be reading and videogame time in my child hood. With so little time, some jadedness and so many choices, friends are naturally a lot pickier and don't all buy the same games anymore.
It's good we have online walkthroughs, most of my games (jRPGs, "Reprobates," Ace Fighter V and others) throw mean curve-balls at us to rack up replay-value^W hour-count --or inadvertently making you quit in some cases.
When you search for CSCO, it is doing some calculations and creating a stock chart. It would be reasonable for them to just link to Google Finance.
"I give you more for 'free'... and you... pay me in return."
In case you the Parent post and anyone else missed out our Google Instant discussions the other day, Google makes more ad impressions the longer stay orbiting Google.com.
In other words, Google provides us O(n) more data per keyword search, to ensure an earning of our, er, O(greater-than-linear) time. We're spending that analyzing the massaged top results and actually clicking to yet another google service. That perpetuates the cycle and increases ad-impression. They're making themselves a search portal quite differently than Yahoo.com chose to approache this sales problem.
Really, nobody ever reads CVs. They just do basic pattern matching and assume that's good enough.
In large cities, companies never call you for helpdesk jobs --headhunters do. Their goal isn't a match --just cashing commissions quickly through statistical randomness (keyword matching on Monster.com) out of hundreds of inexperienced people... emails targetted at EXPERT programmers come to me, but all I have is secondary experience and that's no longer good enough to warrant even a phone call out of anyone with a brain. Yet, mistargetted bulk e-mails just won't stop coming. Nobody interviews someone listing "cloud" in their resume for a "3+ year cloud staff manager" position if the resume just lists "cloud trainee" under skills. The real world under this economy only wants resumes where jobs worked show "Cloud manager" as an actual title with 2 or more of years.
Half of my headhunter calls and nearly as many legit helpdesk offers clearly demand years of experience on technology that a sane person would not "hide" if they really had it. Among the less ADHD, commission driven HR people, sane ones will weed me out if I don't fit their bill, but stupid ones only analyze their lack of reading skills when I have them read what I actually put on my resume and mention that their boss won't even see me because I lack 2 or 3 top requirements.
I hope this is only an IT recruiter problem. Most other fields require facetime at a temp agency and I would guess those visits require a bit more reading than a phone interview*. Man, our IT job problems don't even cover scams.
* Common office positions in non-IT fields like clerks, secretaries and retail salesmen are evaluated on personal attitude, actual number of years and breadth of experience worked, and presentation.
Handling Verizon DSL home service's TOS for the past decade, I thought their ban on "servers of any kind" was enforced for these obvious things.
In practice, I can "host" games like Unreal Tournament and not get shut down, but the ISPs ARE dropping inbound port 80 traffic to encourage a costly "business plan" upgrade. Still, it's unsettling that they won't put their foot down and disconnect bots like colleges dorm policies do nowadays.
Regardless, I'm spammed thru e-mail headers from of US broadband bots anyway. In my case there's lots more activity from Latin American and European ISPs.
Fine if the TSA wants ground transportation security jobs... let'em put search/patdown officers 24/7/365 at every bus stop, car rental lot, garage and available yard for parking outside private building complexes so "everyone is safe." Anything else would be a half-assed effort at their current ridiculous goals.
But, wait... nothing will scale that large in any world economy. The TSA is affording employee wages for only 15 thousand airports in the USA, which is fine seeing how it's a fraction of a percent out of our 150M employed/unemployed workforce count (see Economy \ Labor force section of the CIA factbook.)
NOBODY can provide enough 1:1 patdown manpower for the country's more than 60 million registered vehicles. If the government and TSA drafted that required minimum 40% of our available workforce just for searches and patdowns, we'd have 0 manpower for convenience stores supplying our daily food, and secretaries. And enough people would stop making lucrative private business cash that the political support would have to stop such a thing.
Any tech-savvy user won't be infected by the antivirus anymore than they'd be infected by a regular virus. That's the beauty of it.
You're right!
Still, any legit company in the US spreading like this will end up sued and losing, and threatened overseas like Blackberry was a couple months ago.
Why? it takes a few short years of "do no evil" for a closed-source company to get greedy and make you re-evaluate using their stuff --see Google in 2010.
Besides the null legality of infecting PC's with legit antivirus software for the greater good, there is a secondary problem.
Any tech-savvy user with their own AV solution, will most likely see their PC acquire a second set of system-hogging antivirus software. Ever installed two concurrent firewalls on your PC and saw that neither one complained? Yup, don't expect coders to make the right assumptions.
You might instead have chosen to stop using ANY antivirus --then you get mad this virusy antivirus has to keep being removed over and over to free your PC. If coders create a an opt-out flag for your registry so the AV will run and not force itself upon you, then we all know real viruses will be the first ones to set it to "true" to actually avoid getting removed. So then the AV writers would have to counter by forcing a full virus check on both the conscious-antivirus-avoiders and the unsuspecting infected users, to play it safe before the software decides it needs no further cleanup action on the avoiders' PC. And then virus writers could just kill that would-be helpful scanner and prevent the real legal-and-virusy-AV's install anyway.
Where does the war really stop?
With unlocked phones, you can break into a country's market, but you couldn't take their tech out back to the US.
The US breaking world-wide standards reminds me that Skype charges no extras per USA-bound calls (everyone can do that one for free!) The issue is when you want a two-way platform --fees apply for those calls you want to return.
Someone got carried away ...
emulating those DROID platform ads.
I'm hoping the real cube solver adds no fake robot sounds to its rotating arms.
Why do you believe you have the right to be overpaid for a job? Or that it's more moral to hire an American than someone in China? Simple racism?
It seems that my post just flew by and got tl;dr by some, so read my post to find what I really said.
Compare jobs with software: OpenOffice was in good hands, and the Oracle's ownership apparently killed it. Most people will take something produced by the original crew than the "new" our outsourced ones. Tech support quality loss is a prime example of that.
With the lost jobs that up and left the coutry, people can't just "
Do something that can only be done locally, or do something better than those who can work cheaper.
" is not how a country gets out of 10% unemployment, especially with expert economist forecasts asking to just wait it out another 2 years. A jobless someone with 20 years of management experience and 0 years as nurse has no way to compete with someone at a hospital who spent the same 20 years in their "hard to outsource field," and an oblig. established network of professionals with a foot in the door to resort to, to boot.
People can't switch fields in a heartbeat, like the US or any nation can't shift away from doing what it's best known for in just a few days or weeks to a more profitable venue. You're affected by the recession too, no matter your location, and my [and yours, presumably] IT job exodus plan is miles away from that "currently hard to outsource" nursing job in my prior example. Please be more sensitive.
Cell Phones have existed for a very short time. Technically we have watched them evolve from huge analog call-making units to something beyond even our home computers in functionality.
Anti-establishment people are making the statement that our PC's won't easily head in that direction anytime soon. With cars, well... they've existed for a whole century, and it's too late to stop the lockout. But we look at the suddenly-hardening mindset in the videogame/smartphone industry and see a chance of throwing wrenches to slow down the painful escape of our former liberties.
Heh, I'm not even a lawyer and already realized US firms on Chinese ground will copy a US trick to avoid China's ad-hoc layoff prevention:
Stop growing and start sub-contracting new work/manufacturing to Chinese-owned firms. That eliminates the local contract bindings and allows thousands of ties to be cut by just severing one business relationship --without lowering your internal headcount.
As a bonus, report back to president Obama that 0 jobs were added outside the US and 100% (of 3 or 4 per month, but hey, percentages hide hard numbers) were inside.
Your link discussed China's* sobering anti-layoff laws that make USA's at-will employment look like the joke it really is.
So looking beyond "ad resellers" and Google to the whole outsourcing deal, it's hard to see how laws against US companies layoffs are a problem today. It's here in the US that they can and have been aggressively shrinking forces, and over in Asia where they are growing, so it will be several years before they even think of shrinking, if US outsourcing doubiously ever reverses its growth.
Further, though there are tons of plants manufacturing and assembling stuff there, I thought they were Chinese-owned, so we won't be the ones doing the firing and the point is moot. For the giants who DO see a danger in Chinese land, they'll just do the sensible thing and open India centers like the rest of the world has been doing recently. I reckon India only seems to be used for coding and English-language phone support, so I've no idea about their manufacturing power.
But that's not our problem. The outsourcing will continue wherever it is linguistically and politically easier. Under recent signs of US prosperity, forced accretion has been obversed in US branches while headcounts rise in Asian branches. More power is going to India, Australia and the Philippines because it makes perfect sense to beancounters to avoid promoting American labor again, in spite of what that means to us here.
*Europe too, without additional detail.
The quietest I can make Google maps is to display only street maps --no annoying Streetview triggering by mistake if you zoom too close. However, there's no relief map or sat imaging there. Just go to maps.google.com/mobile. I found out that google defaults you to that link if your JS is off or the browser (Konqueror or Midori) is tricky.
I've been conditioning myself this past year because it's when they have made the most visible search changes. Remember that "Google everything" thing? That's when I started sucking my gut and using bing and yahoo for my first searches.
Are you suggesting that the site necessarily needs a gigantic plain-text bulleted list of things that it can do right in the middle of the page?
Exactly. You're probably using Firefox right now. Their site is guilty as you yourself chose to charge.
Going to Support and User guide to find out features instead of seeing "Features" in a main menu is a GUI faux-pas of theirs. GP is an RTFM apologist. You never hit Support links unless looking for Windows drivers or troubleshooting forums. The features are supposed to be well-known by the time you want to look at the manual. Or do the other mainstream browsers tout a manual as well?
Their front page avoids static screenshots like they are the plague. The video shows stylized mockups and a few too subtly zoomed-out previews. Most viewers will see the stylized parts and think the small previews are just as stylized and not the real thing the other 90% of that animated preview is misleading without revealing the real Chrome look too overtly.
Firefox is a success: it knows its target audience is NOT GEEKS ALONE and updated its landing page accordingly. Flock's website missed that boat. If we are to listen to the GP, then only patient candidates with no rush to really get into Web 2.0 (and probably latent techy-qualities anyway) will be satisfied that they're downloading what they came looking for. When the audience isn't 13-year old boys downloading the latest fun trojans cursorware or legit Roller-Coaster-Tycoon game, it costs much more in presentation efforts to convince ADHD visitors to be more than simply curious and actually download and install your product. Let's learn from Mozilla's top menu what Flock should imitate well
Products / Firefox
Features
Under the Hood
Security
Customization
100% Organic Software
Tips & Tricks
Videos
Connect
Then ponder on unnecessary nesting at Flock's site and all the users they miss because of it.
Isn't the entire point of twitter communicating with a large audience?
Not to state Balmer is an example, but sheeple like my mother misunderstand social media conditions because the sites *want* you to sign up even when you don't need to. /. has few nags to sign up on the front page and most importantly, we've always been able to post AC. Twitter and facebook have public areas too, but they misleed noobs to believe they can't watch videos, tweets or the Queen of England's facebook page till after forking over registration info.
The companies win, because now they can datamine them, even if postings aren't being made.