If you take the statistical odds of a cars gas tank blowing up and calculate the number of cars with a defective gas tank and you multiply the percentage change of said gas tank blowing up and you multiply that by the average cost to settle a lawsuit out of court, that give you "X". You then take then cost to recall one car with a defective gas tank, you multiply that by the number of defective gas tanks that have been shipped to get "Y". if X is less then Y, you don't do a recall.
I butcher that story from "Fight Club" but you get my point...
Your not going to take down Microsoft with a few, "I want my money back" lawsuits.
For some time now I've been formulating my rant for our baby boomer middle management that are clogging up the corporate ladders of American. This is not that rant. That one may just become a book! This is about those money hungry flower children trying to keep they're middle tear management job by dumping jobs, en mass, to India and South America. Hay converted Hippie! You made your number look good this year by putting that call center off shore! Talk about "forest for the trees!" For the next 5 years we will experience the American peoples backlash and watch the economic bottem fall outta that plan. This could possibly putting an end to your little management racket, friend(but I could be wrong, you "good old boy club" baby boomers stick together like glue) Once, we, generation X, the ones you so incorrectly, dubbed as lazy, fix the crap you screwed up yet AGAIN, America as a whole will still be out x number of jobs because you CYA'd (Cover Your Ass) this year! Its become all to obvious that the boomer generation cares only for getting a good retirement plan, propping up Social Security till they get they're piece, and then moving to retirement and laugh while the following generations that you've dumped all the work on for the past 5 years burn themselves out trying to support your retirement community. What do you care? You got your golden parachute attached to your golden goose (Gen X). What happened to the flattening out of the corporate ladder? We don't hear about that anymore, cleared out the generation ahead of you and then dropped that sword, did we? Have you seen how many fat men hang from our corporate ladder today?
Some times my rants come with a solution; some times I leave them as a rant.
Disclaimer: This solution is just plan, politically incorrect, a bit morbid, and violent. So please, read on at your own risk. If you where born before 1965, I hope it makes you just a little red in the face.
Solution: Lets open up all those old Hippie communes again! Put the problem back where it came from. In the 60's you talked of living off the land and being free. Well, kool, do that. Let us handle business from here on out, you've proven your ability at the helm. We'll supply the sunflower seeds, tie dye, and cyanine pills. Come to think of it, to bad more of you didn't follow in line with those crazies that killed themselves on that commune. Could have solved all the problems that we have now. Problem is, then, like now, Boomers, you didn't follow through. Took the lazy way out and blamed it on the next generation. Talked outta one side of the ol mouth about free love and working together and then grabbed for every penny you could.
What's wrong with our economy? A lot of things... Sending work that isn't cut out for a people to a disbalanced and already weak local economy? Abusing our global influence to save your job? We've spent years sticking our noise in other peoples business, pissing off about everyone out there. When the bill comes for this migration of jobs to India and South America. When those people realize, as a whole, how we used and abused them and left them with nothing... who's gonna pay the piper? Generation "X", you should have named us generation "fooked" cuz we are the ones that are gonna get the screws for the crap you leave behind. Don't be to shocked when the power goes out on your retirement village because we can't pay the bills for you!
There is a fine line between Patents protection and prevention of the propagation of technology. How close do you hold your cards to your chest before you release that your product is so proprietary that no one uses it?
Sony was using JPEG in there cameras... that kept the oh so VALUABLE compressed image technology on our systems. If yah sue everyone that uses your tech then your tech will disappear. We have maybe one other image compression tech? oh no wait, we've got a tone.
I'm not an open source junky... some of us need to get paid, but chasing patients on industry standards just because you gave it away and now EVERYONE uses it is dumb.
Listen, It says Intel has a patent for the technology. Maybe they want to enable it for business desktops for large companies. Maybe they will set up a structure so that you can purchase a chip with or without a lock (costing less for an unlocked chip). You don't know any of this from the fact that they have established a patent. I think the idea itself is good, before everyone freaks out and bashes Intel...wait for them to announce a WAR on overclockers! I doubt it will happen.. Overclockers may be more likely to consume more caffeine then your regular users but I don't think they pose a threat to Intel as a chip maker.
Lets be honest. Right now there are a ton of Indian IT professionals that will get certified in what you need for you applications coding and work from with in they're country to write your code. The only thing we need in America are project managers and sales people that will find out what American customers needs, develop the outline for the solutions and then shove it over to a global resource that is to cheap for you as an American in our economy to even try to do, meanwhile our baby boomer middle management shuffle around above our heads trying to keep they're over paid role in some fictitious or newly created department that they don't understand themselves just so that they can all pat each other on the back and make it to the next golf outing. The only way to survive in IT today is to put down the Coding and pick up the Management or Design stick. Only problem is, there are already to many managers in corporate America. So you'll just have to wait 20 years for all that middle management to hit retirement. Hay, you'll have a job now, only problem is, you'll be spending 3 billion dollars in social security to pay for the 5 managers that where keeping you from getting a job right now to, AGAIN, make it to the next golf outing.
Geeh, did that sound pessimistic? Just my 2 cents.
I was in architecture for 4 years before I moved to IT. Atchitects are responsible for every build they built until they die. I believe they're estates can be sued if a building falls down. Point is, Software is getting more and more important to money, wellbeing, and the market today. Wouldn't we want venders and even coders to be accountable for they're work. Open Source work its great but its not exempt from accountability...unless you just keep your code to yourself.
I guess I wouldn't buy plans for my house from a guys on the street corner, so I guess I wouldn't secure my computer systems with open source written by some kid in his basement. Only problem in that is the kid probly writes better code the Microsoft.
UM... wait. I've been a PC fan forever but I had to work at a Graphics comany that (you guessed it ) had MACs. Have you ever seen the workings of the strange and lovely towers on MACs? theres a funny looking green button on the top....push it the whole thing opens into 3 panels filled with all the hardware. Your motherbooard is ope and right in front of you the drives are on the right with the wiring all neetly placed in rail. other stuff and card all all organized around eachother. RAM, CPU, CARD, AND DRIVES are EASY to add and replace! It realy beats the pants of any lame PC layout for a box. I-MACs are a differant thing all together and I've never opened one.
First off your comparision of Good Code and Good art is only flawed by the simple fact of mass appeal. Yes good code could be just as awe inspiring as art but what makes tru art good is mass appeal. Maybe someday when your dead and gone all our childrens children will look up at your code in that way as we look at classic art, but not now.
There are people that bridge that gap. I do it all the time. I got my BS in architectural design and worked in the field for 4 years till I found my true calling in the IT industry. I spent most my life drawing, writing code, playing video games, and making computers and electronics work. I'm realy a freak amoung freaks. I also find myself doing what I call translation work.
i.e. Ok guys, the customer needs this this and this...translation. We need an SQL DB and develope our own application...yah yah yah.
or
In order to do that you will need a VPN. To explain..A VPN is like having a network like the one in the this office but....
I'm not a realy nerd, real nerds are much smarter then me and I realy respect them for it. Theres already new people and ideas knocken on the IT industries doors and the IT industry is going to need to open alot of them in the next few years. I just plan on stiken my foot in em.
Mobile communication? What? Well your whole country only need what, 3 or radio towers and 4 Microwave stations to set up modile communication? Are you using percentage of coverage statistics.. dat don't fly?!? Look at the size of our country... and yours. a "Big deal" when it comes to standardizing and developing new tech. Wow you got your stuff to work in that wee little country. Try getten something like that to work in Texas.. (a state in the US).
I believe Sweden is a very nice country. I think that advances in tech in other countries are awsome. Talent is everywhere, sloths and trolls are everywhere. Please don't be as narrow minded as the sterotypes that other countries already try to attach to mine.
US will remain a fine place to work and develope world technology. I say this from within a plant owned by "THE LARGEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD".
OK.. I was two sec. from openen the can of Woop-ass and then I realized that this comment needs no retort.
Your envy and jealousy are apparent in your comment.
as always and for a long time to come.. "USA OWNS you"
Please keep your country bashing to small less developed countries.
The poor Russian can get his Linux! The agony the pain! Oh lord. Top Story on SlashDot!
Come on! This Ask Slash Dot would have never seen light of day but for the mention of Linux in the 3rd sentance.
This post wouldn't have ran if he was tryen to send a Win95 CD and the story is not even about Linux or the OS.
I am very suprised that Packages can't been sent to Russia. It is a sad description of the problems Russia faces these days.
I think I'm fixen for some SPAM mentioning the "Say Linux = get on Slashdot" thing but it is kinda funny!
Light the fires and Kick the tires!...its on!
Below someone posted that Linux and AOL...oxymoron.. well the oxymoron is that the Linux crowd bosts about there system becoming mainstream and destroying microsoft but they realy deep down wanna keep there OS to themselves.
Don't get me wrong I love linux. I like what the community is doing and the ground they're breaking, but believe it. If you wanna take on mainstream your gonna have to give into the pop culture (AOL).
You guys are gonna start sounden like a rock band that just hit startem. "No we like to keep it real.", then release one POP single after another.
AOL is a real and its a good thing for the mainstream movement of Linux, if thats what you want.....
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If you take the statistical odds of a cars gas tank blowing up and calculate the number of cars with a defective gas tank and you multiply the percentage change of said gas tank blowing up and you multiply that by the average cost to settle a lawsuit out of court, that give you "X". You then take then cost to recall one car with a defective gas tank, you multiply that by the number of defective gas tanks that have been shipped to get "Y". if X is less then Y, you don't do a recall.
I butcher that story from "Fight Club" but you get my point...
Your not going to take down Microsoft with a few, "I want my money back" lawsuits.
That someon jumped through all the hoops that Microsoft put up to keep they're strong hold?
Sounds more like proof that they're plan works.
For some time now I've been formulating my rant for our baby boomer middle management that are clogging up the corporate ladders of American. This is not that rant. That one may just become a book! This is about those money hungry flower children trying to keep they're middle tear management job by dumping jobs, en mass, to India and South America. Hay converted Hippie! You made your number look good this year by putting that call center off shore! Talk about "forest for the trees!" For the next 5 years we will experience the American peoples backlash and watch the economic bottem fall outta that plan. This could possibly putting an end to your little management racket, friend(but I could be wrong, you "good old boy club" baby boomers stick together like glue) Once, we, generation X, the ones you so incorrectly, dubbed as lazy, fix the crap you screwed up yet AGAIN, America as a whole will still be out x number of jobs because you CYA'd (Cover Your Ass) this year! Its become all to obvious that the boomer generation cares only for getting a good retirement plan, propping up Social Security till they get they're piece, and then moving to retirement and laugh while the following generations that you've dumped all the work on for the past 5 years burn themselves out trying to support your retirement community. What do you care? You got your golden parachute attached to your golden goose (Gen X). What happened to the flattening out of the corporate ladder? We don't hear about that anymore, cleared out the generation ahead of you and then dropped that sword, did we? Have you seen how many fat men hang from our corporate ladder today?
Some times my rants come with a solution; some times I leave them as a rant.
Disclaimer: This solution is just plan, politically incorrect, a bit morbid, and violent. So please, read on at your own risk. If you where born before 1965, I hope it makes you just a little red in the face.
Solution: Lets open up all those old Hippie communes again! Put the problem back where it came from. In the 60's you talked of living off the land and being free. Well, kool, do that. Let us handle business from here on out, you've proven your ability at the helm. We'll supply the sunflower seeds, tie dye, and cyanine pills. Come to think of it, to bad more of you didn't follow in line with those crazies that killed themselves on that commune. Could have solved all the problems that we have now. Problem is, then, like now, Boomers, you didn't follow through. Took the lazy way out and blamed it on the next generation. Talked outta one side of the ol mouth about free love and working together and then grabbed for every penny you could.
What's wrong with our economy? A lot of things... Sending work that isn't cut out for a people to a disbalanced and already weak local economy? Abusing our global influence to save your job? We've spent years sticking our noise in other peoples business, pissing off about everyone out there. When the bill comes for this migration of jobs to India and South America. When those people realize, as a whole, how we used and abused them and left them with nothing... who's gonna pay the piper? Generation "X", you should have named us generation "fooked" cuz we are the ones that are gonna get the screws for the crap you leave behind. Don't be to shocked when the power goes out on your retirement village because we can't pay the bills for you!
There is a fine line between Patents protection and prevention of the propagation of technology. How close do you hold your cards to your chest before you release that your product is so proprietary that no one uses it?
... some of us need to get paid, but chasing patients on industry standards just because you gave it away and now EVERYONE uses it is dumb.
Sony was using JPEG in there cameras... that kept the oh so VALUABLE compressed image technology on our systems. If yah sue everyone that uses your tech then your tech will disappear. We have maybe one other image compression tech? oh no wait, we've got a tone.
I'm not an open source junky
Listen, It says Intel has a patent for the technology. Maybe they want to enable it for business desktops for large companies. Maybe they will set up a structure so that you can purchase a chip with or without a lock (costing less for an unlocked chip). You don't know any of this from the fact that they have established a patent. I think the idea itself is good, before everyone freaks out and bashes Intel...wait for them to announce a WAR on overclockers! I doubt it will happen.. Overclockers may be more likely to consume more caffeine then your regular users but I don't think they pose a threat to Intel as a chip maker.
Lets be honest. Right now there are a ton of Indian IT professionals that will get certified in what you need for you applications coding and work from with in they're country to write your code. The only thing we need in America are project managers and sales people that will find out what American customers needs, develop the outline for the solutions and then shove it over to a global resource that is to cheap for you as an American in our economy to even try to do, meanwhile our baby boomer middle management shuffle around above our heads trying to keep they're over paid role in some fictitious or newly created department that they don't understand themselves just so that they can all pat each other on the back and make it to the next golf outing. The only way to survive in IT today is to put down the Coding and pick up the Management or Design stick. Only problem is, there are already to many managers in corporate America. So you'll just have to wait 20 years for all that middle management to hit retirement. Hay, you'll have a job now, only problem is, you'll be spending 3 billion dollars in social security to pay for the 5 managers that where keeping you from getting a job right now to, AGAIN, make it to the next golf outing.
Geeh, did that sound pessimistic? Just my 2 cents.
I was in architecture for 4 years before I moved to IT. Atchitects are responsible for every build they built until they die. I believe they're estates can be sued if a building falls down. Point is, Software is getting more and more important to money, wellbeing, and the market today. Wouldn't we want venders and even coders to be accountable for they're work. Open Source work its great but its not exempt from accountability...unless you just keep your code to yourself.
I guess I wouldn't buy plans for my house from a guys on the street corner, so I guess I wouldn't secure my computer systems with open source written by some kid in his basement. Only problem in that is the kid probly writes better code the Microsoft.
UM... wait. I've been a PC fan forever but I had to work at a Graphics comany that (you guessed it ) had MACs. Have you ever seen the workings of the strange and lovely towers on MACs? theres a funny looking green button on the top....push it the whole thing opens into 3 panels filled with all the hardware. Your motherbooard is ope and right in front of you the drives are on the right with the wiring all neetly placed in rail. other stuff and card all all organized around eachother. RAM, CPU, CARD, AND DRIVES are EASY to add and replace! It realy beats the pants of any lame PC layout for a box. I-MACs are a differant thing all together and I've never opened one.
First off your comparision of Good Code and Good art is only flawed by the simple fact of mass appeal. Yes good code could be just as awe inspiring as art but what makes tru art good is mass appeal. Maybe someday when your dead and gone all our childrens children will look up at your code in that way as we look at classic art, but not now. There are people that bridge that gap. I do it all the time. I got my BS in architectural design and worked in the field for 4 years till I found my true calling in the IT industry. I spent most my life drawing, writing code, playing video games, and making computers and electronics work. I'm realy a freak amoung freaks. I also find myself doing what I call translation work. i.e. Ok guys, the customer needs this this and this...translation. We need an SQL DB and develope our own application...yah yah yah. or In order to do that you will need a VPN. To explain..A VPN is like having a network like the one in the this office but.... I'm not a realy nerd, real nerds are much smarter then me and I realy respect them for it. Theres already new people and ideas knocken on the IT industries doors and the IT industry is going to need to open alot of them in the next few years. I just plan on stiken my foot in em.
Mobile communication? What? Well your whole country only need what, 3 or radio towers and 4 Microwave stations to set up modile communication? Are you using percentage of coverage statistics.. dat don't fly?!? Look at the size of our country... and yours. a "Big deal" when it comes to standardizing and developing new tech. Wow you got your stuff to work in that wee little country. Try getten something like that to work in Texas.. (a state in the US). I believe Sweden is a very nice country. I think that advances in tech in other countries are awsome. Talent is everywhere, sloths and trolls are everywhere. Please don't be as narrow minded as the sterotypes that other countries already try to attach to mine. US will remain a fine place to work and develope world technology. I say this from within a plant owned by "THE LARGEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD".
OK.. I was two sec. from openen the can of Woop-ass and then I realized that this comment needs no retort. Your envy and jealousy are apparent in your comment. as always and for a long time to come.. "USA OWNS you" Please keep your country bashing to small less developed countries.
The poor Russian can get his Linux! The agony the pain! Oh lord. Top Story on SlashDot! Come on! This Ask Slash Dot would have never seen light of day but for the mention of Linux in the 3rd sentance. This post wouldn't have ran if he was tryen to send a Win95 CD and the story is not even about Linux or the OS. I am very suprised that Packages can't been sent to Russia. It is a sad description of the problems Russia faces these days. I think I'm fixen for some SPAM mentioning the "Say Linux = get on Slashdot" thing but it is kinda funny! Light the fires and Kick the tires! ...its on!
Below someone posted that Linux and AOL...oxymoron.. well the oxymoron is that the Linux crowd bosts about there system becoming mainstream and destroying microsoft but they realy deep down wanna keep there OS to themselves. Don't get me wrong I love linux. I like what the community is doing and the ground they're breaking, but believe it. If you wanna take on mainstream your gonna have to give into the pop culture (AOL). You guys are gonna start sounden like a rock band that just hit startem. "No we like to keep it real.", then release one POP single after another. AOL is a real and its a good thing for the mainstream movement of Linux, if thats what you want.....