> Oh, you mean give over my personal sovereignty to leftist union thugs, giving me another faction to struggle against to try to retain my earnings. No thanks.
Then bend over, and wait for that ungreased cattle prod.
BTW: I specifically said "If not a union, then a worthwhile professional organization, like the AMA."
Without organization, tech workers are entirely at the mercy of ruthless tech companies. Unlike real professions, tech workers have no organization, and therefore no power.
Practically all US tech companies are hiring as many visa workers as they possibly can. Keeps the remaining American workers in line.
IMO: it's way past time for US tech workers to organize, and stand up for themselves. If not a union, then a worthwhile professional organization, like the AMA.
> If you sent that reply to me I'd tell you to fuck off and then ask your superiors why they are employing a jackass that would rather grandstand over non-work related issues than to actually get his job done.
Why should allow myself to be vendor-locked by MS? That is for total morons, like you.
I think Google buying Motorola was clearly a defensive move. Google was attempting to protect itself from the most vicious patent trolls, and scam artists in the business, namely Apple, Oracle, and Microsoft.
As I write this, MS, Oracle, Apple, and others are ganging up on Google. The primary weapon is junk IP claims. You can read about it on Groklaw. Google is simply trying to fight fire with fire, against the worst scam artists in the industry.
Microsoft, BSA, Scott McNealy, others file amicus briefs in support of Oracle's appeal against Google ~pj
Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 05:57 AM EST
Yesterday there were numerous amicus briefs filed all on the same day and all in support of Oracle against Google in Oracle's appeal at the Federal Circuit. None of the briefs are posted publicly yet, but they should be available soon. Microsoft has filed one, together with EMC Corporation, and NetApp, Inc. Scott McNealy has filed one with Brian Sutphin. Can McNealy be a witness for Oracle at trial, which he was [PDF], and also file an amicus brief? Well, he has. The Picture Archive Council of America, Inc. has filed one with the Graphic Artists Guild. Also there's one from the BSA. And finally Eugene Spafford, Zhi Ding, and Lee A. Hollaar have filed an amicus in support of Oracle. Hollaar seems to file a lot of amicus briefs.
So why do these entities and individuals care about this Java API case, do you suppose?
> Throw all the blue collar citizens out so foreigners can get their jobs for cheaper? Cool sounds great, after all, they can ALL retrain into tech jobs, right? Do the same to the white collar people and the white collar journalists start whining
I don't remember Billy Joel writing a song about the plight of IT workers, or Michael Moore making a movie about it.
Techies are seen as spoiled, nobody gives a shit if you stomp on somebody who put his/her self through 5 years of engineering studies.
It happens all the time in tech. Every hear of a nurse having to train his/her H1B replacement?
The idea of tech visa workers is to lower wages, not because foreign talent is needed. Anybody who works with a lot of H1Bs will tell you, they are generally not exceptional. In fact, most H1Bs are entry level, and only about 7% work at an advanced level.
Wasting? Are you kidding? Apple's investment in scam lawsuits have paid off tremendously for Apple.
2. Start making quality products.
Apple already does.
3. ??? (actually you can skip this step) 4. profit.
Apple does profit - huge profits, unheard of profits. What's $100 million a quarter in legal fees, if you making about $15 billion a quarter in pure profits?
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Good Riddance, indeed!
> Oh, you mean give over my personal sovereignty to leftist union thugs, giving me another faction to struggle against to try to retain my earnings. No thanks.
Then bend over, and wait for that ungreased cattle prod.
BTW: I specifically said "If not a union, then a worthwhile professional organization, like the AMA."
Without organization, tech workers are entirely at the mercy of ruthless tech companies. Unlike real professions, tech workers have no organization, and therefore no power.
Practically all US tech companies are hiring as many visa workers as they possibly can. Keeps the remaining American workers in line.
IMO: it's way past time for US tech workers to organize, and stand up for themselves. If not a union, then a worthwhile professional organization, like the AMA.
> Office is the Sun; QuickOffice is a microscopic dot on the Sun. Of the Fortune 1000 how many, realistically, use Chromebooks? Or Google Apps, even?
Not long ago, nobody thought Word would replace WordPerfect, for the Legal profession.
In 1997, Apple stock was $3 a share. Many thought Apple was going bankrupt, and out of business. Now Apple is bigger than Microsoft.
IBM used to nearly monopolize all business computing.
Things can change.
> You're doing it wrong! Why not just save as DOC in 2007. Open it in 2003 and it works fine every situation I've encountered.
What if it's not up to you? What if somebody emails you a document?
> If you sent that reply to me I'd tell you to fuck off and then ask your superiors why they are employing a jackass that would rather grandstand over non-work related issues than to actually get his job done.
Why should allow myself to be vendor-locked by MS? That is for total morons, like you.
> what is this magical scam, one that can be avoided by installing a free plugin from microsoft so that office 2003 can read 2007 files?
The OOXML scam that MS bribed (caught red-handed) the ISO to accept as a standard. A standard that only one company can really adopt.
Who care about 2003 and 2007? Those were generations ago.
> what is more standard than a format thats been going on for nearly 30 fucking years
You think that MS is using the same format that it was using 30 years ago? You are completely ignorant, or just a filthy liar.
> I dont have time for your hippy freetard bullshit
Yeah, all of us "hippy freetards" have .mil addresses, and work for the DoD. You seem angry and defensive.
Okay, for you, for now, QuickOffice won't work.
But does that mean that QuickOffice cannot gain wide enough acceptance to disrupt ms-office dominance?
I have a .mil email address. That means I can buy Office 2013 for $10. But I don't. I hate ms-office, and I'm sick of MS's file format scam.
If I get an office doc that I cannot read, I will send it back, and ask for it to be saved in a more standard format, then re-sent.
I don't know for sure, but the idea of online docs disrupting ms-office sales does not seem entirely unrealistic to me.
Sure seems like it. Every load of BS that MS wants to promote seems to be a slashdot article. As if this corporate propaganda were actually news.
Pfft. Never mind 15 decimal places, I have memorized the entire 26 letter alphabet!
If you want people to learn STEM, provide good, stable jobs for them.
People don't want to learn a difficult subject just have their jobs offshored, or to be forced to train their visa-worker replacement.
I think Google buying Motorola was clearly a defensive move. Google was attempting to protect itself from the most vicious patent trolls, and scam artists in the business, namely Apple, Oracle, and Microsoft.
Who has Google extorted, and how?
As I write this, MS, Oracle, Apple, and others are ganging up on Google. The primary weapon is junk IP claims. You can read about it on Groklaw. Google is simply trying to fight fire with fire, against the worst scam artists in the industry.
Oracle seems very active in suing anybody who uses Oracle open source.
> Oracle Files Appeal Brief in Oracle v. Google ~pj
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130213000119924
COBOL devs are not retiring, they are being replaced by much cheaper offshore workers.
For an American, learning COBOL is only useful for training your offshore replacement.
COBOL developers are not retiring, they are being pushed out in favor of younger, cheaper, visa workers. Or, better yet, offshore the work.
> Throw all the blue collar citizens out so foreigners can get their jobs for cheaper? Cool sounds great, after all, they can ALL retrain into tech jobs, right? Do the same to the white collar people and the white collar journalists start whining
I don't remember Billy Joel writing a song about the plight of IT workers, or Michael Moore making a movie about it.
Techies are seen as spoiled, nobody gives a shit if you stomp on somebody who put his/her self through 5 years of engineering studies.
Why bother with stuff like evidence, and logic, when you can use an purely emotional appeal, right?
Look them up for yourself. 54% of H1Bs are entry level. Only 7% of H1Bs work at an advanced level.
It happens all the time in tech. Every hear of a nurse having to train his/her H1B replacement?
The idea of tech visa workers is to lower wages, not because foreign talent is needed. Anybody who works with a lot of H1Bs will tell you, they are generally not exceptional. In fact, most H1Bs are entry level, and only about 7% work at an advanced level.
1. Stop wasting money on lawyers.
Wasting? Are you kidding? Apple's investment in scam lawsuits have paid off tremendously for Apple.
2. Start making quality products.
Apple already does.
3. ??? (actually you can skip this step)
4. profit.
Apple does profit - huge profits, unheard of profits. What's $100 million a quarter in legal fees, if you making about $15 billion a quarter in pure profits?
Doesn't the phone company charge an extra fee for digital dialing? As if it's still costing them extra?
Both are total rip-offs.
Dosen't Bestbuy have a clear glass storefront?
And the Apple's zealots here think Apple invented a clear glass storefront.
I can see golden arches being a trademark, but not a glass storefront.
Name me a restaurant that has trademarked something like a glass storefront? And tell me how common that is.