How does somebody become such an expert, if he/she can not get an entry level jobs? In IT experience trumps everything, if you can get that experience, then how do you become such a high-level expert?
The funny thing is, when employers hire guest workers, they seem to use a completely different standard. Most guest workers are here right of college, and they fill entry level positions.
I have seen it many times: a company wants to hire a sysadmin, and they have an list of experience requirements a mile long. But, the same company is over-joyed to give the job to a guest worker with zero experience.
If you want to stay in IT, you may not have a choice. The MNCs are aggressively working to glut the market with cheap offshore labor, and the MNCs will succeed. If you think things are bad now, wait until after the election.
Many jobs that can not be outsourced are being filled by the flood of guest workers coming into the USA every year. And the situation is sure to get much worse. Bill Gates is pushing for an unlimited number of H-1B guest workers, and both presidential candidates strongly favor an increase in guest worker visas. There are many scams going on right now to bring in more guest workers though the backdoor, such as the OPT visa, and WTO Doha talks.
You have to take both sides of the equation into account - both demand and supply. The bls report only accounts for demand.
Guest workers are flooding into the USA and replacing US IT workers by the tens of thousands. And the situation will get much worse in the near future.
There have been several "backdoor" efforts to drastically increase the number of guest workers in the USA. Such as the WTO Doha talks, which fortunately collapsed, for now. Also the new OPT visa.
More importantly, both presidential candidates strongly favor increasing the numbers in the USA. Bill Gates is pushing for unlimited guest workers. IMO: the reasons that we do not have unlimited guest workers already is:
1) record unemployment levels 2) election in November
Once the election is over, I fully expect a drastic increase in the number of guest worker visas allowed.
> Unless I am mistaken, or the NEW new-Math states otherwise, "44,000" is closer to "40,000" than "50,000".
Maybe they are including the 5000 telecomm workers laid off in July? That might bring the total to 49,000. Also worth noting that another 50,000 Americans did not get IT jobs because of the 50,000 h1bs brought into the US last year.
> IT Jobs have been CLIMBING steadily since 2004. From a low of around 3,250,000 IT Jobs in 2004, to around 4,100,000 IT Jobs in 2008
But those jobs are going to guest workers, not Americans. There are nearly 2 million guest workers in the USA right now.
We have all heard the same so-called "free trade" arguments hundreds of times: off-shore IT workers are needed to make up for labor shortages, and that is how free trade works. Anybody who disputes that is called anti-capitalism, and therefore anti-American.
Thing is, in truly free market place, such sustained labor shortages can not possibly exist. In fact, the very idea does not even make sense. In a truly free market: if demand starts to exceed supply, then prices will go up, which will cause supply will go up with the prices, thereby leveling out the equation.
For example: if there were a shortage of PHP developers, then wages for PHP developers would go, thereby attracting more PHP developers. A long term shortage would be impossible.
If something drastic, sudden, and unexpected, were to happen, then there could be a short-term shortage. But, let me emphasize that such occurrences would be extremely rare, and very short-term. A flood of six year visas, year after year, would certainly not be needed.
Also, McCain's claim that Americans would not pick lettuce for $50 an hour is unbelivably stupid, and verifiable untrue - put an ad on craigslist if you don't believe me. Americans will do almost anything if you pay them enough, watch that "Dirty Jobs" series if you don't believe me.
* Wide acceptance: I think most businesses are much more comfortable using products that are accepted standards.
* Wealth of available add-ons: Intuit has a very active community of 3rd party developers. You can buy practically any kind of an add-on you can imagine. These add-ons cost money, but at least they are available.
* Major company: I think a lot of businesses are not comfortable with a product unless there is a major company behind that product. I have to admit, even I am not comfortable with software products that are essentially one man operations.
* Support: I can always hire somebody who knows quickbooks, or find a "ProAdvisor" consultant, or I can get support from the company, and there are hundreds - if not thousands - of developers who specialize in developing for quickbooks. I can not see where that is true for any project.
* Training availability and costs. I can hire people who already know quickbooks. If I hire somebody to work on some foss alternative, then there will be a significant training expense. Of course, there is also the issue of training availability.
* Documentation: If I had to pick one thing that kills the usefulness of more foss projects than anything else, this would win in a slam-dunk. Of course, this varies among projects, some foss projects have great documentation. But, I can always find plenty of books, or other documentation for popular proprietary financial apps.
* Many accountants, maybe as many as 200,000, use QB and recommend it to their clients. Some accountants will charge much more for files that are not in QB format.
* QB has much better 3rd party integration. For example, ecommerce packages like oscommerce, and magento, work with quickbooks, not foss alternatives. Msft accounting works with ebay. I can not find that sort of integration with foss software.
Why go through years of training and come out of college burdened with thousands of dollars of student loan debt, only to see the trained-for job handed over to a foreigner who will work cheaper (while imposing both reduced wages and a significant language barrier on his American co-workers) and who, incidentally, can bring his family with him to take additional American jobs for cheaper wages?
Why spend all that time, money, and effort, just to be replaced by a cheaper off-shore worker. If you are smart enough to be a scientist, you are probably also smart enough to be a lawyer. A lawyer makes much more money, and has a much more secure job. Small wonder that so many Americans would rather study business, or law, than to waste their time studying science and technology.
As long as corporate America keeps aggressively offshoring STEM jobs, I expect less people to be interested in science and technology.
I would not raise the price of the OS to $10K, but maybe $450. That way there would be - at best - a very marginal cost difference. Apple would then refuse to support any non-apple hw.
As it is, very few mac users are interested in non-apple hw, take away any real price advantage, and apple competitors would not stand a chance.
Has anybody else noticed that these reports of gross IT mis-management are almost always government related?
I think there was another story on slashdot, a while back about some guy who accidentally deleted one billion dollars worth of records, and there was no backup. When I was in Florida, there was some scandal about the state spending millions on this new welfare computer system, and the entire thing was borked, so they hired the same company to fix it, and the company borked it again.
Sure, we laugh at the corporate PHBs, but a lot of government IT management seems to make Dilbert's world seem efficient, by contrast.
From what I have been reading, it looks to me like the situation may be even worse in the UK and Australia than in the USA. Although I don't know if the UK and Australia have anything like the USA work visa scam.
More bank jobs move to India > "THE National Australia Bank could more than halve its local technology workforce over the next five years, as it sends jobs offshore as part of its massive technology transformation program, codenamed Neos." http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24020156-15306,00.html
Make the most of IT > "US versus UK" > "Bank of America or Citigroup have done a significant amount of offshoring. But three insurance companies, including Aviva in the UK, have offshored 15 per cent each or more of their work." > "In the US, no company has offshored over 7 per cent of their work. Headcount-wise, US companies may have a lead, but in terms of the quantum of work, the UK companies have demonstrated far greater amount of offshoring." http://sify.com/finance/it-bpo/fullstory.php?id=14715010
Seems that the UK and Australia also get the same BS hype:
Offshoring to India creates jobs in U.K. > "Outsourcing work by British companies to India does not cause job losses but boosts employment, according to a research by economists at the University of Nottingham." http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/11/stories/2008071156181700.htm
I just don't want this to turn in a discussion about unions. There other ways to organize. For example, medical professionals have the powerful AMA protecting their jobs.
My point is: IT workers will not organize in any meaningful way. I am not saying they should, or shouldn't, I am just pointing out that they won't.
I don't see how anybody with more than two working brain cells can not see the direction that IT is heading. IT is going to be outsourced, and staffed by offshore workers. India and China are cranking out one million tech graduates a year, and US employers are absolutely determined to replace US IT with cheaper offshore work.
Fact: offshore IT staffing companies are growing explosively.
Fact: there are nearly two million work visa workers in the US right now.
Fact: recent legislation has ripped the lid of h1b worker visas.
Fact: practically every major tech employer plans to increase it's presense offshore - especially in India.
IT workers will not organize because there is massive mis-information about what is going on. Bogus reports and studies are being cited in numerous pop-article and the like. Then you have your message board bozos who think that is *they* have a job right now, then everything must be great for everybody everywhere. If people would look at the facts, and use common sense, the direction that IT work is heading would be obvious - but I don't suppose that will ever happen.
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At least for IT workers in the USA, UK, Australia, and Canada.
Occam's razor: off-shore labor is a lot cheaper, therefore employers will off-shore every possible job. If you do your job sitting in front of a computer, then your job can probably be off-shored - if not now, then certainly in the near future.
Furthermore, the simple laws of supply and demand dictate that the few jobs that are not off-shored, will have a glut of qualified applicants. The experienced developers who have their jobs off-shored, will clearly try to leverage their existing training and experience into the few remaining IT jobs that can not be easily off-shored. This causes a glut, and drives down wages.
The IT worker glut may be increased even more by improved automation of information system maintenance, standardization of software, and non-IT specialists who are increasingly sophisticated with information technology.
There can be nothing to stop this devastating trend, due to the following:
1) Corrupt USA politicians 2) USA IT workers are not willing to organize (please note: I am not suggesting a union) 3) Influential corporations have effectively distorted the issues
So there you go, it's as simple as that.
IMO: this trend is presently in it's infancy. The present trend has very little to do with the present economic slump. In fact, when the US economy recovers, this trend will accelerate even faster. The present situation for US IT workers is much better now, than it will be five years from now.
Childs, who now sits in a jail cell on US$5 million bond, also happens to be a former felon convicted of aggravated robbery and burglary stemming from charges over two decades ago, which the city knew when it hired him as a city computer engineer.
Yet the city gave hime full admin access to a critical, and sensitive system. The city also didn't bother to insure that the system was safe from being locked out in that manner.
IMO: if Childs goes to prison, the city's IT managers should go with him.
1) As I understand it, they only count PCs and Macs sold at stores that sell both. White boxes are not counted. Also, business sales are not counted - and that is huge. Also, mail is order is not counted - also huge. Please correct if I'm wrong about the way these systems are counted.
2) To me, it has never made sense to say that Apple that is the third biggest PC seller. It may be technically true, but it is a meaningless statistic, since Apple is the only PC seller that sells a Macintosh, which is different than a windows box. So this tells me exactly nothing about Macintosh marketshare relative to windows.
3) It is also important to note that market share is not installed base. Some argue, that Apple has a larger installed base than their market share would indicate, because people keep Macs longer. I don't know if it's true that people keep Macs longer, but I suppose it could be.
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How does somebody become such an expert, if he/she can not get an entry level jobs? In IT experience trumps everything, if you can get that experience, then how do you become such a high-level expert?
The funny thing is, when employers hire guest workers, they seem to use a completely different standard. Most guest workers are here right of college, and they fill entry level positions.
I have seen it many times: a company wants to hire a sysadmin, and they have an list of experience requirements a mile long. But, the same company is over-joyed to give the job to a guest worker with zero experience.
If you want to stay in IT, you may not have a choice. The MNCs are aggressively working to glut the market with cheap offshore labor, and the MNCs will succeed. If you think things are bad now, wait until after the election.
Many jobs that can not be outsourced are being filled by the flood of guest workers coming into the USA every year. And the situation is sure to get much worse. Bill Gates is pushing for an unlimited number of H-1B guest workers, and both presidential candidates strongly favor an increase in guest worker visas. There are many scams going on right now to bring in more guest workers though the backdoor, such as the OPT visa, and WTO Doha talks.
You have to take both sides of the equation into account - both demand and supply. The bls report only accounts for demand.
Guest workers are flooding into the USA and replacing US IT workers by the tens of thousands. And the situation will get much worse in the near future.
There have been several "backdoor" efforts to drastically increase the number of guest workers in the USA. Such as the WTO Doha talks, which fortunately collapsed, for now. Also the new OPT visa.
More importantly, both presidential candidates strongly favor increasing the numbers in the USA. Bill Gates is pushing for unlimited guest workers. IMO: the reasons that we do not have unlimited guest workers already is:
1) record unemployment levels
2) election in November
Once the election is over, I fully expect a drastic increase in the number of guest worker visas allowed.
> Unless I am mistaken, or the NEW new-Math states otherwise, "44,000" is closer to "40,000" than "50,000".
Maybe they are including the 5000 telecomm workers laid off in July? That might bring the total to 49,000. Also worth noting that another 50,000 Americans did not get IT jobs because of the 50,000 h1bs brought into the US last year.
> IT Jobs have been CLIMBING steadily since 2004. From a low of around 3,250,000 IT Jobs in 2004, to around 4,100,000 IT Jobs in 2008
But those jobs are going to guest workers, not Americans. There are nearly 2 million guest workers in the USA right now.
> IT unemployment in the United States is at 2.2%
Could you cite your source on that?
> India's unemployment rate is 7.2%
Why is that relevant?
This study is nothing but a baseless assertion made by a job board. The article also sites a "Study" by the AeA - an industry lobbiest group.
We have all heard the same so-called "free trade" arguments hundreds of times: off-shore IT workers are needed to make up for labor shortages, and that is how free trade works. Anybody who disputes that is called anti-capitalism, and therefore anti-American.
Thing is, in truly free market place, such sustained labor shortages can not possibly exist. In fact, the very idea does not even make sense. In a truly free market: if demand starts to exceed supply, then prices will go up, which will cause supply will go up with the prices, thereby leveling out the equation.
For example: if there were a shortage of PHP developers, then wages for PHP developers would go, thereby attracting more PHP developers. A long term shortage would be impossible.
If something drastic, sudden, and unexpected, were to happen, then there could be a short-term shortage. But, let me emphasize that such occurrences would be extremely rare, and very short-term. A flood of six year visas, year after year, would certainly not be needed.
Also, McCain's claim that Americans would not pick lettuce for $50 an hour is unbelivably stupid, and verifiable untrue - put an ad on craigslist if you don't believe me. Americans will do almost anything if you pay them enough, watch that "Dirty Jobs" series if you don't believe me.
Sorry if there any errors, or omissions, I am trying to be accurate. A lot has happend in a little over a week.
The following takes place between July 29th and August 7th:
August 07, 2008:
Judge rejects student visa injunction sought by H-1B opponents
Tech workers don't have standing to fight Bush administration visa move
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9111963
August 07, 2008:
Jobless claims surge to highest level in 6 years
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/07/news/economy/jobless_benefits.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes
August 06, 2008:
Bureau of Labor Statistics reports big drop in tech jobs
Almost 50,000 IT positions lost in last 12 months
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/07/news/economy/jobless_benefits.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes
Aug 06,2008:
Yet another visa, this one allows 5000 Koreans to work in the USA each year
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200808/200808060014.html
August 06, 2008:
Apple sued over treatment of it's tech workers
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/06/apple-gets-sued-indentured
August 05, 2008:
Bogus diploma ring busted
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/content/education/chi-diploma-mill-04-aug04,0,2164133.story
August 03, 2008:
July marks seventh consecutive month of job loses
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/46146.html
August 02, 2008:
Sun to cut between 1000 to 2500 jobs
http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/08/01/sun-us-tech-market-wont-shine-soon/
August 01, 2008:
Gartner's grim IT hiring outlook
http://blogs.zdnet.com/careers/?p=140
August 01, 2008:
Feds charges man for H1-B fraud
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_visa01.47edb3e.html#
Jul 31, 2008:
More than 3.7 million Americans had full-time jobs chopped to part time
the largest figure since the government began tracking such data more than half a century ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/business/economy/31jobs.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
July 31, 2008:
Layoffs set for 22,000 California state workers
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_10046324
July 30, 2008:
WTO Doha talks collapse
India's backdoor attempt to allow more H-1Bs into the USA failed, for now
http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content/why-you-should-be-thrilled-wto-doha-talks-collapsed
July 30, 2008:
NY gov slashes spending; state said in "recession"
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN3032764920080730?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
July 30, 2008:
China trade has cost 2.3 million U.S. jobs
http://www.reuters.com/article/politic
It may just be a sign of the times.
I don't mean to seem negative, but several recent reports articles seem to indicate that economic conditions might be less than ideal for IT workers. Today, August 7, CNN reports: Jobless claims surge to highest level in 6 years. On Auguest 6, CNN reports: Bureau of Labor Statistics reports big drop in tech jobs - Almost 50,000 IT positions lost in last 12 months. On July 29, this Wall Street Journal blog claims: Tech Departments Cut Budgets, Stop Hiring. Interesting to note that Microsoft still claims that there are sever shortages of IT workers. Wipro claims the USA is being protectionist by not expanding the H-1B caps, and both presidential candidates seem to be guest worker friendly.
Sorry.
This difference is (I think) Microsoft can pull the rug out from under mono any Microsoft decides to do so.
Since MS does that sort of thing all the time, I would be a little nervous about counting mono.
I could be completely wrong about that.
Seems to me that practically nobody uses Mono, or plans to do so.
There are still the issues of acceptance, and support.
Consider Quickbooks for example, even if there were a f/oss equivalent that was just as good, or better:
* No significant cost advantage: QuickBooks simple start is free:
http://quickbooks.intuit.com/product/accounting-software/free-accounting-software.jhtml
Or I can buy the full version of QuickBooks Pro 2008 in only $145:
http://www.amazon.com/Intuit-403697-QuickBooks-Pro-2008/dp/B000V4PLWM/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1217794735&sr=8-1
Seems to me that any cost advantage of using a foss alternative is negligible..
* Wide acceptance: I think most businesses are much more comfortable using products that are accepted standards.
* Wealth of available add-ons: Intuit has a very active community of 3rd party developers. You can buy practically any kind of an add-on you can imagine. These add-ons cost money, but at least they are available.
* Major company: I think a lot of businesses are not comfortable with a product unless there is a major company behind that product. I have to admit, even I am not comfortable with software products that are essentially one man operations.
* Support: I can always hire somebody who knows quickbooks, or find a "ProAdvisor" consultant, or I can get support from the company, and there are hundreds - if not thousands - of developers who specialize in developing for quickbooks. I can not see where that is true for any project.
* Training availability and costs. I can hire people who already know quickbooks. If I hire somebody to work on some foss alternative, then there will be a significant training expense. Of course, there is also the issue of training availability.
* Documentation: If I had to pick one thing that kills the usefulness of more foss projects than anything else, this would win in a slam-dunk. Of course, this varies among projects, some foss projects have great documentation. But, I can always find plenty of books, or other documentation for popular proprietary financial apps.
* Many accountants, maybe as many as 200,000, use QB and recommend it to their clients. Some accountants will charge much more for files that are not in QB format.
* QB has much better 3rd party integration. For example, ecommerce packages like oscommerce, and magento, work with quickbooks, not foss alternatives. Msft accounting works with ebay. I can not find that sort of integration with foss software.
Here is a recent article on the subject:
"Students opting out"
Why go through years of training and come out of college burdened with thousands of dollars of student loan debt, only to see the trained-for job handed over to a foreigner who will work cheaper (while imposing both reduced wages and a significant language barrier on his American co-workers) and who, incidentally, can bring his family with him to take additional American jobs for cheaper wages?
http://www.gvnews.com/articles/2008/07/24/letters/letters02.txt
Why spend all that time, money, and effort, just to be replaced by a cheaper off-shore worker. If you are smart enough to be a scientist, you are probably also smart enough to be a lawyer. A lawyer makes much more money, and has a much more secure job. Small wonder that so many Americans would rather study business, or law, than to waste their time studying science and technology.
As long as corporate America keeps aggressively offshoring STEM jobs, I expect less people to be interested in science and technology.
I would not raise the price of the OS to $10K, but maybe $450. That way there would be - at best - a very marginal cost difference. Apple would then refuse to support any non-apple hw.
As it is, very few mac users are interested in non-apple hw, take away any real price advantage, and apple competitors would not stand a chance.
Has anybody else noticed that these reports of gross IT mis-management are almost always government related?
I think there was another story on slashdot, a while back about some guy who accidentally deleted one billion dollars worth of records, and there was no backup. When I was in Florida, there was some scandal about the state spending millions on this new welfare computer system, and the entire thing was borked, so they hired the same company to fix it, and the company borked it again.
Sure, we laugh at the corporate PHBs, but a lot of government IT management seems to make Dilbert's world seem efficient, by contrast.
From what I have been reading, it looks to me like the situation may be even worse in the UK and Australia than in the USA. Although I don't know if the UK and Australia have anything like the USA work visa scam.
These are all recent articles:
Barclays to cut 1,800 U.K. IT staffers in offshoring move
> "London-based Barclays PLC today disclosed plans to offshore 1,800 of the 2,800 IT jobs at its U.K. operations to locations in Singapore, Hungary and India over the next three years."
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=outsourcing&articleId=9110183&taxonomyId=60
Oz bank to offshore 400 IT jobs to India
> "National Australia Bank is expected to send another 400 information technology jobs to India by the end of the year."
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage_c_online.php?leftnm=10&bKeyFlag=IN&autono=41867
Aviva sells offshoring operations to WNS for 115 mln pounds
> "LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Aviva Plc. said it has sold its offshoring operations to India-based outsourcing services provider WNS Holdings Ltd. for 115 million pounds in cash."
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage_c_online.php?leftnm=10&bKeyFlag=IN&autono=41867
More bank jobs move to India
> "THE National Australia Bank could more than halve its local technology workforce over the next five years, as it sends jobs offshore as part of its massive technology transformation program, codenamed Neos."
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24020156-15306,00.html
Make the most of IT
> "US versus UK"
> "Bank of America or Citigroup have done a significant amount of offshoring. But three insurance companies, including Aviva in the UK, have offshored 15 per cent each or more of their work."
> "In the US, no company has offshored over 7 per cent of their work. Headcount-wise, US companies may have a lead, but in terms of the quantum of work, the UK companies have demonstrated far greater amount of offshoring."
http://sify.com/finance/it-bpo/fullstory.php?id=14715010
Seems that the UK and Australia also get the same BS hype:
Offshoring to India creates jobs in U.K.
> "Outsourcing work by British companies to India does not cause job losses but boosts employment, according to a research by economists at the University of Nottingham."
http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/11/stories/2008071156181700.htm
I just don't want this to turn in a discussion about unions. There other ways to organize. For example, medical professionals have the powerful AMA protecting their jobs.
My point is: IT workers will not organize in any meaningful way. I am not saying they should, or shouldn't, I am just pointing out that they won't.
I don't see how anybody with more than two working brain cells can not see the direction that IT is heading. IT is going to be outsourced, and staffed by offshore workers. India and China are cranking out one million tech graduates a year, and US employers are absolutely determined to replace US IT with cheaper offshore work.
Fact: offshore IT staffing companies are growing explosively.
Fact: there are nearly two million work visa workers in the US right now.
Fact: recent legislation has ripped the lid of h1b worker visas.
Fact: practically every major tech employer plans to increase it's presense offshore - especially in India.
IT workers will not organize because there is massive mis-information about what is going on. Bogus reports and studies are being cited in numerous pop-article and the like. Then you have your message board bozos who think that is *they* have a job right now, then everything must be great for everybody everywhere. If people would look at the facts, and use common sense, the direction that IT work is heading would be obvious - but I don't suppose that will ever happen.
At least for IT workers in the USA, UK, Australia, and Canada.
Occam's razor: off-shore labor is a lot cheaper, therefore employers will off-shore every possible job. If you do your job sitting in front of a computer, then your job can probably be off-shored - if not now, then certainly in the near future.
Furthermore, the simple laws of supply and demand dictate that the few jobs that are not off-shored, will have a glut of qualified applicants. The experienced developers who have their jobs off-shored, will clearly try to leverage their existing training and experience into the few remaining IT jobs that can not be easily off-shored. This causes a glut, and drives down wages.
The IT worker glut may be increased even more by improved automation of information system maintenance, standardization of software, and non-IT specialists who are increasingly sophisticated with information technology.
There can be nothing to stop this devastating trend, due to the following:
1) Corrupt USA politicians
2) USA IT workers are not willing to organize (please note: I am not suggesting a union)
3) Influential corporations have effectively distorted the issues
So there you go, it's as simple as that.
IMO: this trend is presently in it's infancy. The present trend has very little to do with the present economic slump. In fact, when the US economy recovers, this trend will accelerate even faster. The present situation for US IT workers is much better now, than it will be five years from now.
As I understand it, you can't put big wind turbines, or big solar panels just anywhere. And you lose a lot of power if you try to pipe it very far.
I am sure a few small regions can benefit, but can this really put a dent in US energy demands?
http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php/id;1895501252;fp;2;fpid;1
Yet the city gave hime full admin access to a critical, and sensitive system. The city also didn't bother to insure that the system was safe from being locked out in that manner.
IMO: if Childs goes to prison, the city's IT managers should go with him.
A few problems that I have with these numbers.
1) As I understand it, they only count PCs and Macs sold at stores that sell both. White boxes are not counted. Also, business sales are not counted - and that is huge. Also, mail is order is not counted - also huge. Please correct if I'm wrong about the way these systems are counted.
2) To me, it has never made sense to say that Apple that is the third biggest PC seller. It may be technically true, but it is a meaningless statistic, since Apple is the only PC seller that sells a Macintosh, which is different than a windows box. So this tells me exactly nothing about Macintosh marketshare relative to windows.
3) It is also important to note that market share is not installed base. Some argue, that Apple has a larger installed base than their market share would indicate, because people keep Macs longer. I don't know if it's true that people keep Macs longer, but I suppose it could be.
I thought this was about Steve *Ballmer*
Nevermind.