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Ohhh, so I'm supposed to pay more for all of my software so you can have higher wages right?
H-1B, correct me if I'm wrong, does not dictate your choice of software vendors. If one is too expensive for your tastes, you still have the option to go elsewhere.
The government should force the IT business to have a minimum wage of $45 per hour because that'd be ethical right?
Nope, can't agree with you there. I don't think the minimum wage should go up that much, we'd have wholesale inflation.
I think Marx and co. tried that in Europe last century and it didn't go over so well.
So you think it's worth another try?
If you can't compete get the hell out of the IT kitchen, I'm not going to pay for your lack of skill.
I look forward to having this discussion again after you complete 2nd grade.
> Payment services, which makes them gatekeepers. Read past the headlines, please.
Um, no. eBay bought Verisign's payment services, which means that's now part of eBay.
Exactly.
Your argument is like saying that if I buy a car from you, I get to determine what you have for dinner.
No, it's like you want to buy a car from me, but I tell you to go stuff yourself, because I'm not going to let you buy the car you want to. I'll tell you which car you can buy, but you have to keep asking, one after another, rather than me telling you which ones you are allowed to buy.
This should be no surprise, really, as VeriSign was just letting phishers and who knows what buy domains. Control the means of completing the transaction and you control who gets what.
The two things (eBay (formerly VeriSign) payment services and VeriSign controlling the registry) are completely unrelated.
You really need to think these things through before making such ridiculous claims. Why do you THINK that eBay bought that part of VeriSign? Because they like the way the cubicles are arranged? Sheesh.
Ebay bought a very, very small part of Verisign, the part that did payment processing. No big deal. Verisign still controlls the.com,.net root servers, and that's all this article is about. Period.
Yes, payment processing, which gives them oversight of domain name purchasing. You're the 4th poster who couldn't even see this, despite it being spelled out in The Bob knows how many news articles.
PWC has a interesting attitude... br>BSD is free and great but there's still costs for retraining, reconfiguring, and ferreting out things that don't quite work the same way as in a Windows environment. Good luck, PWC, and please share your results about this switch!
Sure, but you do this with Windows every two years anyway, right?
It appears PWC is after stability, not just the software humming along smoothly, but controlling their upgrade path rather than leaving that in the hands of the goofballs in Redmond who leave profit to drive dubious innovation.
Except that Bittorrent is a protocol not a piece of software. They might as well argue that TCP/IP needs to be outlawed because of copyright infringement.
It seems it would be more cost effective simply to buy a cheaper processor and upgrade your system more often than it would be to spend on the more expensive processors.
While I agree on general principles, it still drags you into getting a new motherboard, memory and possibly having to switch from your AGP card (if you have one) to the new PCI-Express version. All of which can put the cost of the CPU a ways down on your list of considerations.
I moved from 32 to 64 bit, but stuck with a motherboard which used my grotty old memory (3200 DDR stuff) and (AGP) video card, because upgrading these, too, only keeps me about where I am and costs me enough to buy a roundtrip airfare to London, a ticket to a footy match and fish & chips.
I found it interesting how well the AMD 3000+ did in the benchmarks. On almost every benchmark it had the highest score for price/performance in 3d and gaming related tests. It seems like buying this cpu and putting money in a better video card are the smart choice. I'm basing this on the fact that most gamers go through quicker upgrade cycles anyway.
This is precisely why I bought one of these.
It's an upgrade to 64 bits, it's cheap, it runs cool, it uses less power then the CPU I currently have. It's a cheapskates delight.:-)
Why don't you go out this monday night and grab a bunch of kids trick or treat bags... its all stealing, either way you look at it!
Just because its a new medium doesn't make it any right...er?
When you do it it's stealing. When the gummint does it, it's taxes.
The worst, most blatant piracy I've seen in my live was in educational institutions and government offices, where they'll just copy stuff, install it on more than one computer, etc. Is this the original form of "Entertainment Tax"?
And to be caught and sent to a Chinese prison for... daredevil? Ick.... that just ain't worth it.
What do you know about chinese prisons?
Outside Hong Kong I'd expect token punishment to show willing in complying with international copyrights and so on. In Hong Kong I'm not sure. Under the brits the guy would do cold porridge, under the special HK administration, who knows?
I did have an ebay run-in with a weasel in Hong Kong, which I brought in the police for. It's in my journal.
We can't be havin' none a these varmints tarnishin' the good ol' name o' BitTorrent.
Next thin ya'll know, dang ol' house o' repersentatives an' courts an' lawyers be tarrin' it all up with the same brush used on Gnutella, Kazah and whatnot.
I'm not complaining about my current pay. Just about the responsibilities that I have to fulfill. I wanted to get more experience in UI technologies, but website maintenance is not very mentally challenging.
And the problem for you is that community colleges, even highschools are cranking out people who can do a decent web site. The tools available make it less code and more artistic, unlike the early days.
I used to work with someone who was employed by Disney/Go. When they shut down Go.com she was sent packing and makes considerably less than she did there.
Deriving an equilibrium wage using supply and demand curves has nothing to do with Keynesian economic theory. Economists (and mere mortals) understood the effects of supply and demand on wages long before the mid-20th century.
Do tell me, now that Web Design is a commodity skill, who still makes six figures designing web pages?
The last person I knew who was doing that is now living in his parent's house.
You do realize that kissing ass actually is a very disgusting, dehumanizing act, not to mention fraught with danger of disease, and that aftertaste... WHEW...! Those execs deserve every bit of that 6%. After the first couple of nibbles, I'd probably be in the stall for a few hours puking my guts out. Hats off to you execs out there, you deserve a break today!
My favorites are these two cases:
The CIO at previous job got a retro-active 15% pay increase, even as budgets were being tightened and people being cut.
The President, at the first place I worked, got a 5% or better retro increase, under the same dire conditions for staff.
That's the incentive, I guess, be ruthless enough to rise up to such a position and then grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
LAN specialist Stephen Noisseau as saying, "I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles... I'll take 4% over nothing. We're getting basically cost-of-living raises."
Took a 30% pay cut two years ago, as nothing was available but a job 40 miles from home.
Only one pay increase in two years, 1.15% which has more than been eaten by the rise
in petrol cost.
It's simple Supply-Demand (Keynesian economic theory), when workers with a particular skill set are
not in demand or supply excedes demand, there's not much rationale to give workers higher pay.
Of course some increase is a sign of goodwill and encourages workers, but tell the beancounters.
Oh, and the execs got about 6% pay increase this year. Can't have that lot starving, can we?
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H-1B, correct me if I'm wrong, does not dictate your choice of software vendors. If one is too expensive for your tastes, you still have the option to go elsewhere.
The government should force the IT business to have a minimum wage of $45 per hour because that'd be ethical right?
Nope, can't agree with you there. I don't think the minimum wage should go up that much, we'd have wholesale inflation.
I think Marx and co. tried that in Europe last century and it didn't go over so well.
So you think it's worth another try?
If you can't compete get the hell out of the IT kitchen, I'm not going to pay for your lack of skill. I look forward to having this discussion again after you complete 2nd grade.
Exactly.
Your argument is like saying that if I buy a car from you, I get to determine what you have for dinner.
No, it's like you want to buy a car from me, but I tell you to go stuff yourself, because I'm not going to let you buy the car you want to. I'll tell you which car you can buy, but you have to keep asking, one after another, rather than me telling you which ones you are allowed to buy.
This should be no surprise, really, as VeriSign was just letting phishers and who knows what buy domains. Control the means of completing the transaction and you control who gets what.
The two things (eBay (formerly VeriSign) payment services and VeriSign controlling the registry) are completely unrelated.
You really need to think these things through before making such ridiculous claims. Why do you THINK that eBay bought that part of VeriSign? Because they like the way the cubicles are arranged? Sheesh.
And the payment services are the keys to the registry.
And I'm an idiot? You should run for public office!
What's beneath it is probably some hideous unethical, if not illegal, practice of hiring only H-1B people into jobs.
Clearly someone brighter than you.
Ebay bought a very, very small part of Verisign, the part that did payment processing. No big deal. Verisign still controlls the .com, .net root servers, and that's all this article is about. Period.
Yes, payment processing, which gives them oversight of domain name purchasing. You're the 4th poster who couldn't even see this, despite it being spelled out in The Bob knows how many news articles.
Payment services, which makes them gatekeepers. Read past the headlines, please.
Verisign merging with eBay is like me merging with a cheeseburger.
This explains something, I'm quite certain of it.
Yes, the payment division, which therefore gives them control.
Can't see how two posters actually missed that aspect, as it was the driver behind the purchase.
Sorry, Theo, but that's the way I talk on me own time.
I wonder if they'll auction off the expired names.
You have been outbid on Domain Name www.cgi-ebay-com.com
My experience is that if something has to be done, just do it - don't ask! They will thank you later
Certainly you've heard: "It's often easier to just do it and ask for forgiveness later than to get permission."
Sounds like experience talking, to me.
br>BSD is free and great but there's still costs for retraining, reconfiguring, and ferreting out things that don't quite work the same way as in a Windows environment. Good luck, PWC, and please share your results about this switch!
Sure, but you do this with Windows every two years anyway, right?
It appears PWC is after stability, not just the software humming along smoothly, but controlling their upgrade path rather than leaving that in the hands of the goofballs in Redmond who leave profit to drive dubious innovation.
Shortly after the news, PriceWaterhouseCoopers issued the following press release:
Don't give 'em ideas, son.
While I agree on general principles, it still drags you into getting a new motherboard, memory and possibly having to switch from your AGP card (if you have one) to the new PCI-Express version. All of which can put the cost of the CPU a ways down on your list of considerations.
I moved from 32 to 64 bit, but stuck with a motherboard which used my grotty old memory (3200 DDR stuff) and (AGP) video card, because upgrading these, too, only keeps me about where I am and costs me enough to buy a roundtrip airfare to London, a ticket to a footy match and fish & chips.
This is precisely why I bought one of these.
It's an upgrade to 64 bits, it's cheap, it runs cool, it uses less power then the CPU I currently have. It's a cheapskates delight. :-)
Got a pair of them right here, with heatsinks. 256K cache, make nice paperweights.
When you do it it's stealing. When the gummint does it, it's taxes.
The worst, most blatant piracy I've seen in my live was in educational institutions and government offices, where they'll just copy stuff, install it on more than one computer, etc. Is this the original form of "Entertainment Tax"?
And to be caught and sent to a Chinese prison for... daredevil? Ick.... that just ain't worth it.
What do you know about chinese prisons?
Outside Hong Kong I'd expect token punishment to show willing in complying with international copyrights and so on. In Hong Kong I'm not sure. Under the brits the guy would do cold porridge, under the special HK administration, who knows?
I did have an ebay run-in with a weasel in Hong Kong, which I brought in the police for. It's in my journal.
Next thin ya'll know, dang ol' house o' repersentatives an' courts an' lawyers be tarrin' it all up with the same brush used on Gnutella, Kazah and whatnot.
Dang. Put me right offen my coffee!
No profit centers in 3 of the 5 companies I've worked for. They just treated IT as a necessary evil, until 2 of then outsourced it.
And the problem for you is that community colleges, even highschools are cranking out people who can do a decent web site. The tools available make it less code and more artistic, unlike the early days.
I used to work with someone who was employed by Disney/Go. When they shut down Go.com she was sent packing and makes considerably less than she did there.
Do tell me, now that Web Design is a commodity skill, who still makes six figures designing web pages?
The last person I knew who was doing that is now living in his parent's house.
My favorites are these two cases:
The CIO at previous job got a retro-active 15% pay increase, even as budgets were being tightened and people being cut.
The President, at the first place I worked, got a 5% or better retro increase, under the same dire conditions for staff.
That's the incentive, I guess, be ruthless enough to rise up to such a position and then grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
Took a 30% pay cut two years ago, as nothing was available but a job 40 miles from home. Only one pay increase in two years, 1.15% which has more than been eaten by the rise in petrol cost.
It's simple Supply-Demand (Keynesian economic theory), when workers with a particular skill set are not in demand or supply excedes demand, there's not much rationale to give workers higher pay. Of course some increase is a sign of goodwill and encourages workers, but tell the beancounters.
Oh, and the execs got about 6% pay increase this year. Can't have that lot starving, can we?
Because this way they can keep an eye on you.
Nevermind that execs and sales people are often out of the office doing who knows what.
Oh, and McDonalds profits from people going out and burning up fossil fuels, that's the foundation of the fast-food industry.
Not at all! You can have your console and games any day in January that you like!