How can you take this article seriously for even one second?
Google is going into the same business that others are already in . . . OMFG!!!!!! EVIL!!!! EVIL!!!
So if I open a hardware strore, am I evil because others have opened hardware stores?
What tech has not done anything like dropbox? Yahoo, MS, Apple, are all doing similar, and have been for some time.
If MS starts Bing, that's fine, no problem at all, no slashdot article screaming about microsoft being a monopoloy or anything. But if it's Google . . . OMFG!!!!!! EVIL!!!! EVIL!!!
Don't you people even recognize a Google smear when you see it?
Microsoft cannot sue Android makers directly, because they all already paying Microsoft for the bogo patents. But since MS essentially owns Nokia, Microsoft gets to double dip.
The time you need to waste with Linux costs a lot more than something that just works. Hobbyists might value their time less, but employee hour for a company costs A LOT.
Ten years ago, that would have been a valid point. Today, I find Linux much easier to use, and much easier administration.
For example, I can install Linux in about 40 minutes, windows seems to take all day. Especially since windows requires me to install apps separately, then I have to install anti-virus software, and fight with all that DRM crap.
BTW: I have many years experience in professional desktop support, and systems administration, both windows, and linux. For ease of use, and admin, I'll take Linux, over Windows, any day.
During the days of the Puritans in the US, they used to worry about people becoming too logical, because such people might begin to doubt the existance of god.
All this bunk about google privacy issues is mostly just MS/facebook smear campaign. But of those companies are far worse than google when it comes to privacy issues.
There was Section 1706 of the 1986 Tax Reform Act. Just recently there was a bill before congress to eliminate overtime for IT employees. Nobody else, just IT employees.
The entire H-1B visa workers scam was manufactured to bash tech employees.
The reason that techies are so easy to stomp, is that techies are not organized. Accountants, lawyers, doctors, nurses, teachers, and so on, are organized, and they can protect themselves (to some extent) against conspiring employers. Techies will never learn.
Sorry, but practically all the "trash" about google is nothing but a smear campaign. The smear campaign is just part of the coordinated, under-handed, attacks on Google, but shit companies who don't want fair competition, namely: oracle, microsoft, and apple.
But I would not expect those jobs to last. Employers are offshoring as fast as they possible can, and the few jobs that cannot be offshored, are being filed by foreign visa workers. There is just no way for Americans to compete with third world wages.
China, and India, are cranking out about 600,000 tech degrees a year. And the US is not even able to place it's own tech graduates.
Remember how manufacturing was offshored? Well offshoring IT is far easier. With IT, you don't even have to ship anything, just zap files back and forth over the internet. Practically all IT jobs can be offshored, and that is clearly the trend.
You say your manager likes your work, and would never replace you with a foreign worker? When your department gets offshored, your manager will lose his/her job as well.
Sorry, but it's a no-brainer, offshoring work saves money. So what do you think US companies are going to do?
Sure, there are more men than woman in IT. But this article make it seem like men are actively working together to keep woman out. I have never seen anything like that.
I figure that woman stay out of IT because woman are smarter than men, at least in terms of common sense.
Maybe it has something to do with woman doing more to take care of the children, so the long, unpaid, hours of many IT jobs don't appeal to woman?
Maybe woman tend to be more social, and don't care for work that often lacks social interaction?
Maybe it's a self perpetuating problem where woman don't want to be a field where there are hardly any woman?
Maybe it's because IT is being taken over by visa workers who are mostly men?
Maybe it's because other fields, like health care, are far more stable, and professional?
No reason to jump to the conclusion that men are actively conspiring against women.
When was the last time you saw a couple guilty of adultery begin stoned to death at the city gates?
Happens in Iran, I think you can see videos on youtube.
Unlike any Christian society, you can be executed in Iran, or Suadi, for: whichcraft, apostasy, blasphemy, homosexuality, and many other such "crimes." Amputation, lashing, and other such barbaric punishments are also quit common - even for children.
Woman also get punished, even executed, for the crime of being raped.
Also, in Iran, children as young as nine years old can be executed.
Yes the old testimate, and the Koran have a lot in common. But nobody lives in a theocracy where the old testimate is the law of the land.
"At best western society is 2 generations ahead of the middle east in its treatment of women."
When was the last time a woman in the US was sentenced to being stoned to death for adultery?
How often are woman in the US hanged for the crime of being raped?
Since when can you divorce a woman, in the US, just by saying "I divorce you" three times; and also get away with no alimony, no child support, and full custody, automatically.
Since when have women not been allowed to drive, or work, in the US?
Absolutely, just a few items, off the top of my head, about MS's shameful - and mostly unreported - history.
1) Microsoft fully funded, and supported the scox-scam right from the begining.
2) MS outright lied to the US DoJ in video-taped testimony.
3) MS caught red-handed bribing officials at ISO during
4) MS caught red-handed astro-turfing on many occasions. My favorite was the letters from dead people campaign.
5) MS caught paying shills such as Florian Mueller, or Rob Enderle.
6) MS gets Washington taxpayer to spend $11 million to build a bridge on MS campus
7) MS fires thousand of US workers in 2009, and replaces those workers with Indian H1Bs in 2009. All the while MS insisting that they could not find any US workers. Watch HDnet, Dan Rather, piece "No Thanks For Everything."
8) MS patents fat32, and sues TomTom, and B&N.
I could go on. Point is: media has been overly kind to MS, if anything.
If Microsoft bids to buy patents, it's a patent troll, but if Google does it, it's protecting the great open source Android OS
Because it's true. How many offensive lawsuits has been filed by Microsoft, or Microsoft proxies such as scox, acaia, or whatever? And how many has google filed? Was Google buying up patents before MS's lawsuit blitz? Google opposes software patents, does Microsoft?
Since the early 1990s, I've been disgusted with how pop-media rags, such as infoworld put a crazy pro-msft spin on their so-called "news."
Now Microsoft is playing the victim? I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.
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How can you take this article seriously for even one second?
Google is going into the same business that others are already in . . . OMFG!!!!!! EVIL!!!! EVIL!!!
So if I open a hardware strore, am I evil because others have opened hardware stores?
What tech has not done anything like dropbox? Yahoo, MS, Apple, are all doing similar, and have been for some time.
If MS starts Bing, that's fine, no problem at all, no slashdot article screaming about microsoft being a monopoloy or anything. But if it's Google . . . OMFG!!!!!! EVIL!!!! EVIL!!!
Don't you people even recognize a Google smear when you see it?
So if I open a Chinese restaurant, I am being evil because other's have already opened Chinese restaurants?
Is all competition evil, according to you?
MS was caught red-handed handing out bribes. And that was just one of the many irregularities in that obvious scam.
I think MS, and their buddies at ISO, still want us to beleive that OOXML. What a total joke.
Microsoft cannot sue Android makers directly, because they all already paying Microsoft for the bogo patents. But since MS essentially owns Nokia, Microsoft gets to double dip.
If APIs are copyrightable, could other companies use that against Oracle?
Ten years ago, that would have been a valid point. Today, I find Linux much easier to use, and much easier administration.
For example, I can install Linux in about 40 minutes, windows seems to take all day. Especially since windows requires me to install apps separately, then I have to install anti-virus software, and fight with all that DRM crap.
BTW: I have many years experience in professional desktop support, and systems administration, both windows, and linux. For ease of use, and admin, I'll take Linux, over Windows, any day.
If not MS-Office, then it's Photoshop, or AutoCAD, or some game, or whatever.
On my home desktop, I don't need any of those apps, so I use Linux, and I consider it a far superior desktop experience in every way.
I'm not sure it works like that.
In any case, it would be easy for the guy to dely until he's dead.
During the days of the Puritans in the US, they used to worry about people becoming too logical, because such people might begin to doubt the existance of god.
I am seeing it happening. But I don't know if it's very widespread.
All this bunk about google privacy issues is mostly just MS/facebook smear campaign. But of those companies are far worse than google when it comes to privacy issues.
I don't really care. But it seems to me there would be not accurate way to measure this sort of thing.
IT is even easier to offshore than manufacturing, there is nothing to ship, just zap files back and forth.
No reason to teach CS, or IT, in the US. That stuff is on the way out. Stick a fork in it.
Seriously? These huge corporation conspire to stomp their employees, and that's cool?
How is this not anti-competition? How is this not oligopoly abuse?
It's been going on for a long time.
There was Section 1706 of the 1986 Tax Reform Act. Just recently there was a bill before congress to eliminate overtime for IT employees. Nobody else, just IT employees.
The entire H-1B visa workers scam was manufactured to bash tech employees.
The reason that techies are so easy to stomp, is that techies are not organized. Accountants, lawyers, doctors, nurses, teachers, and so on, are organized, and they can protect themselves (to some extent) against conspiring employers. Techies will never learn.
Or, maybe Larry is lying because he does not want to admit that the lawsuit is just a scam, very much like the scox-scam.
Oracle sucks, that's all there is to it.
Copyright violations over APIs? And Java is supposed to be F/OSS?
Sorry, but practically all the "trash" about google is nothing but a smear campaign. The smear campaign is just part of the coordinated, under-handed, attacks on Google, but shit companies who don't want fair competition, namely: oracle, microsoft, and apple.
Yeah, I know, there are some high paid IT jobs.
But I would not expect those jobs to last. Employers are offshoring as fast as they possible can, and the few jobs that cannot be offshored, are being filed by foreign visa workers. There is just no way for Americans to compete with third world wages.
China, and India, are cranking out about 600,000 tech degrees a year. And the US is not even able to place it's own tech graduates.
Remember how manufacturing was offshored? Well offshoring IT is far easier. With IT, you don't even have to ship anything, just zap files back and forth over the internet. Practically all IT jobs can be offshored, and that is clearly the trend.
You say your manager likes your work, and would never replace you with a foreign worker? When your department gets offshored, your manager will lose his/her job as well.
Sorry, but it's a no-brainer, offshoring work saves money. So what do you think US companies are going to do?
Sure, there are more men than woman in IT. But this article make it seem like men are actively working together to keep woman out. I have never seen anything like that.
I figure that woman stay out of IT because woman are smarter than men, at least in terms of common sense.
Maybe it has something to do with woman doing more to take care of the children, so the long, unpaid, hours of many IT jobs don't appeal to woman?
Maybe woman tend to be more social, and don't care for work that often lacks social interaction?
Maybe it's a self perpetuating problem where woman don't want to be a field where there are hardly any woman?
Maybe it's because IT is being taken over by visa workers who are mostly men?
Maybe it's because other fields, like health care, are far more stable, and professional?
No reason to jump to the conclusion that men are actively conspiring against women.
Happens in Iran, I think you can see videos on youtube.
Unlike any Christian society, you can be executed in Iran, or Suadi, for: whichcraft, apostasy, blasphemy, homosexuality, and many other such "crimes." Amputation, lashing, and other such barbaric punishments are also quit common - even for children.
Woman also get punished, even executed, for the crime of being raped.
Also, in Iran, children as young as nine years old can be executed.
Yes the old testimate, and the Koran have a lot in common. But nobody lives in a theocracy where the old testimate is the law of the land.
When was the last time a woman in the US was sentenced to being stoned to death for adultery?
How often are woman in the US hanged for the crime of being raped?
Since when can you divorce a woman, in the US, just by saying "I divorce you" three times; and also get away with no alimony, no child support, and full custody, automatically.
Since when have women not been allowed to drive, or work, in the US?
Absolutely, just a few items, off the top of my head, about MS's shameful - and mostly unreported - history.
1) Microsoft fully funded, and supported the scox-scam right from the begining.
2) MS outright lied to the US DoJ in video-taped testimony.
3) MS caught red-handed bribing officials at ISO during
4) MS caught red-handed astro-turfing on many occasions. My favorite was the letters from dead people campaign.
5) MS caught paying shills such as Florian Mueller, or Rob Enderle.
6) MS gets Washington taxpayer to spend $11 million to build a bridge on MS campus
7) MS fires thousand of US workers in 2009, and replaces those workers with Indian H1Bs in 2009. All the while MS insisting that they could not find any US workers. Watch HDnet, Dan Rather, piece "No Thanks For Everything."
8) MS patents fat32, and sues TomTom, and B&N.
I could go on. Point is: media has been overly kind to MS, if anything.
And the article is just more Microsoft propaganda
Infoworld might at least mentioned this:
http://www.devconnections.com/conf/speakers.aspx?s=164
From the article:
Because it's true. How many offensive lawsuits has been filed by Microsoft, or Microsoft proxies such as scox, acaia, or whatever? And how many has google filed? Was Google buying up patents before MS's lawsuit blitz? Google opposes software patents, does Microsoft?
Since the early 1990s, I've been disgusted with how pop-media rags, such as infoworld put a crazy pro-msft spin on their so-called "news."
Now Microsoft is playing the victim? I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.
All JMHO, of course.
Apple and MS are just as nasty to their customers as Sony. What about Comcast?