*disclaimer*This is a re-post of a comment I made a while back.
I was a sysadmin for 7 years, the fact that lusers would never heed my warings, read the documentation, or flat out needed things repeated to them 20 times in a row made me decide to quit being the McDonalds coke and a smile "Hi How may I fix your computer today?"
Near my 7th year, I became frustrated, started telling people how stupid I thought they were to their face (Usually after the 8th time of explaining something) And generally degraded into the self absorbed irritating prick that I am today.
2 years later i'm still recovering. Where I used to fix my friends and families computers for free I now charge the shit outta them till they don't wanna come back. Everytime the phone rings my hair still stands up on end because i'm afraid of yet another person saying, "Hey toq just wanted to ask you a quick question!" No it's never a quick question, it's a gateway into a line of questioning not even the worse murderer would be subjected to in a police interregation.
And you dare say was I ever a sysadmin, jeesh. I'd bet money I could w00p your arse in a contest of skills any day of the week. Trust me kid, you just haven't burned out yet, but you will. And when you do, that's where open source with the lack of stupid people and politics will be waiting.
How would employing Linux benefit Sony? Your ideas sound like another one of those horrible scribbled on a napkin business plans that dotted the dot.com landscape so many years ago. 1. Hire Linus 2. ?????? 3. Profit!
I think the whole underwear gnome thing is getting to be pretty lame. It was funny maybe the first million times someone posted it. Here i'll break it down past 3 tiers for you.
1. Hire Linus
a. With linus in charge of the consumer electronics division, he immediately orders that the OS on every device is made open source. Every game console, every robot, every Mp3 player can now be made to work better (although sony does build solid stuff now)
b. Now that every device sony makes has a foundation which the world can build upon, instead of feature requests, features can now be programmed in for free.
c. Sony still produces the quality hardware, has the name brand, and the research facilities to still have that "Sony Edge"
d. Stuff like games, really really secret sony stuff, are still kept closed source i.e. just binaries. 2. Consumers buy sony for both it's Quality, Ease of use, Features, Reliability, and open source'ness. Sony pushes with a big media campaign to shame those that would build inferior products based on their technology thereby keeping their global market share. 3. Profit!
Actually, it's a lot more complex than that. I know you were just posting to razz me a bit.
As far as linus being a multidimensional business mogul, well last time I checked linux was almost on par with NT in the small to medium business market. Linux owns the supercomputer market when compared to NT for sure. Which sounds better on a resume?
A. My operating system is used for file sharing and user authentication on corporate networks. B. My operating system is run by many research facilities around the world for everything from simulating an atomic blast to unraveling the human genome.
I think if bill or linus ever lose their jobs, Sony would bet on Linus before they would EVER bet on bill.
I would think a tape with macrovision means the manufacturer doesn't want you to copy their tape. You want to copy it for backup purposes.
I think I see 3 problems here...
I think before any DMCA type stuff is added to any kind of media, the media producer needs to be held accountable for replacement. I've never seen this happen however as most of them simply tell you "Return this to your place of purchase"
Problem is, the place of purchase has no easy way of RMA'ing defective merchandise. Wait a minute! *light bulb*
I think I see an easy solution to all this. When you purchase something you should be able to anonymously register your product online (HINT HINT!) When it goes bad, you go online, login, report it bad and get a POPRMA# (place of purchase return merchandise authorization #)You take your bad merchandise back to the store with your POPRMA and the store validates the POPRMA and destroys the media. Now that the media producer has a valid POPRMA, they just mail you a new tape.
Unfortunately, reality is record companies (major labels) are all bloodsucking thirsty vultures that would eat your grandparents. They would soon as rather write off the sale with no recourse than be held accountable for it.
Despite all the good the internet can do, greed, jealosy, and evil are still a part of the human collective. Despite how easy of an idea this may be to implement, these negative instincts are rooted in the core of many peoples brain. You get a lot of money, you want a lot more. Bob has big nose, you want one bigger.
So until mother terasa is running the Media moguls, we're all fucked.
Oh yeah, i've been thinking about that alot in the last year....
Thing is, if Gates actually programmed the XP kernel himself I think I could have more respect for him. I don't think he does anything anymore other than fly around buying up bikini babes at E3 shows and the like. I have to wonder if that man is totally detatched from coding now?
Linus on the other hand continues his work into the linux kernel and makes tremendous contributions to the world in computer science with both his OS and the philosophy of open source. Sort of goes without saying.
When it boils down to it, do you do it for yourself or the world? That is what these two mens moral fiber has been about. Bill is for himself, Linus isn't.
I think if Linus ever had the oppertunity to influence a megacorp like sony from the inside it would benifit the world, with the side effect of benifiting sony. As long as they gave him "free reign" I think he would be kept happy.
Imagine Linus turning sony into an "Open Source" megacorp. Every product, from camera's to robots would be completly open source. The current programming teams would have to learn to swim or sink, which is sorta bad but it would weed out the uglies.
Why didn't they just buy out transmeta? I know they just had a big round of layoffs, lost some big contracts, and can really use the cash right now.
The main benifit of course would be having linus. Throw in the transmeta technology after that.
The really scary thing about the whole sony/linux relationship is the parent company Sony is also Sony Records, one of the biggest supporters of DRM and the DMCA. It's kind of odd that they would support an open O/S that will never have DRM in it, makes me wonder why?
I think the problem with current solar cells is they are hard to produce and less than efficient.
I had a dream the other day about algea that could convert solar energy into electrical energy. I envisioned giant ponds of green murky water with evenly spaced rods to collect the electricity the little buggers give off.
It's probably just a pipe dream, but considering our current biotech and genetic technology, is electricity producing algea possible? I mean we already have algea (or was it bacteria?) that live off of sulpher given off by thermal stacks deep below our oceans.
Consider this...
You can see the crystals on a solar panel with the naked eye. Very large, sort of wasteful. Can you see a single celled organism with the naked eye? Theoretically you could pack a whole lot more algea into a square inch that you could solar crystals.
This is just a question, it's been buggin me for the last few weeks, and if anyone has an answer please share.
I had a weird vision of things to come the other day...
I dreamt in the future, man will have developed his skills of genetic engineering and stem cell research to the point where he can make things that are only science fiction now..
For example, I started thinking about genetically engineered photovoltic algea. I saw big gigantic pools of green liquid converting sunlight to electricity using completely enviromentally friendly and biodegradeable algea.
I also thought about genetically engineered eyeballs that could do the same thing. Imagine 100 foot eyeballs looking up at the sky in the desert. Or genetically engineered eyeballs for space observation.
Just another one of those weird topics, on a weird day. Just to humor myself, does anyone know of any research being done into this field?
713 frames on a single P4 1.4 48 hours. 713 frames on a dual p4 2ghz xeon 14 hours (hyperthread off) 713 frames on a dual p4 2ghz xeon 13.8 hours (hyperthread on) 713 frames on a single AMD 2200MP 12 hours
The application totally makes use of SMP too. The main reason for the scenes complexity is the animated chain drive created in VC tec. Each Chain link is an individual object with it's own move and rotation path in the key frame editor. Each of my chain drives comprise of 3 sprockets with a chain consisting of 173 links, each link is like a good 1000 vertices apiece. So we have 173,000 vertices times 3...
Chain drives are comprised of over 519,000 vertices. Lots of math. 519,000 vertices 1038 Keyframe entries (have to account for move and rotation)
Troll me if you dare moderators, I have the karma:P
Lately i've been building a machine in 3D for a neighbor down the street. I've been using truespace 5.2 and a plugin called vctek.
Well, the scene got to a point where it just became impossible to work in due to the high poly count. My p4 1.4 just could not handle it. The vctek chains were taking up a helluva lotta time to render.
I asked the neighbor if he could buy me a fast computer to do redering on. From my years of being a sysadmin i've always been able to count on intel for both reliability and speed. So I speced out a dual p4 xeon 2ghz system.
The peices came, I put them together and I started rendering my scene. What normally took me 48 hours to render was now going to take 14 hours. Yipee I told myself, time saved! Wait a minute though...
scene on a single 1.4 takes 48hours scene on a dual 2.0 takes 14 hours That's only a 3 fold increase!!!
So what the fuck? I thought the xeons were SUPPOSED to be faster. I thought I should have seen an increase in speed on a magnitide of 4 or 5.
Well another sysadmin buddy of mine has been buyin AMD stuff for years. We get into the same rivalry over our systems as 2 grease monkeys might do with their cars. For kicks he wanted to benchmark the scene on his single 2200MP. I went ahead and e-mailed the scene off to him and waited for the results.
The Results? A single AMD 2200MP will match a dual xeon.
I'm sorry to say it folks, but from what i've seen this last week intel is slipping. Hyperthreading is a pretty useless technology, basically just a software CPU. It didn't do anything for my render times. Intel has lost yet another loyal follower.
My next system will be AMD for sure. For pure price/performance they are blowing intel out of the water. Yes AMD, you have another convert.
I used to work for a taiwanese "Intel Wholesale Motherboard Distributor". This was a lesson in the grey market. Ever hear of it? No? Then let me explain to you...
When a corporation sells it's products in other countries they price the product according to the local economy. They will also provide support local to that area with people trained from that area.
Now grey market is the practice of buying that product up cheaply in a foriegn market, then ship it back to the good ol USA and sell it at a below wholesale price.
The problem is, as I said before is it creates an imbalance between intercontinental support groups. The USA group might end up having to do support for the Asia market, and so on.
Tying this all back to peru, you're trying to compare the price of windows XP here, to there. When you deal with as much volume as MS does, you can afford to lose some money in a foriegn market as long as you maintain volume. There is already a grey market for english versions of XP that were sold to china, just go to any local screwdriver shop.
Sure peruvians live on 1.25 a day. By their economic standard thats about lower middle class.
I heard this from a exec I once worked with that frequented that area that you can live like a king down there for $1k@month. That included food, accomidations, and a maid. Try and tell me I can do that here in america!
Oh yeah I totally agree with you, don't forget to toss GM, Ford, and any other american auto maker in the same boat as MS and SUN.
Thing is though, it's too late to bring back the american auto factory. We still have a pretty decent chance of keeping coding jobs here on our shores.
I don't think Peru should give MS the shaft, I think before Puru or any foriegn goverment wants to get involved with a US company, there should be a standard trade system in place. In it's current form, coders are treated much like a commodity, it's volume and price instead of quality and craftsmanship.
I've seen isle after isle of h1-b workers from india in a former job. Even though they were on site, and they did have masters degree's in CS, and they spoke english, the quality of what they produced was shit, constantly crashed, was in an endless cycle of QA. This had nothing to do with how smart they were, it was due to the language/cultural barriers between that office and the main offices. A similiar team of good english speaking coders from the USA (note: they could have any ancestory) in another office constantly outperformed them because of their ability to communicate with upper management.
Back to peru though..
It's time Bush got off his ass and started commodisizing the coding trade deficet. I still see no problem with MS getting the contract if they are forced to use american labor.
Some of you with jobs may disagree with me, but for the rest of the slashdotters out there, this is for you!
We've all seen people hurt by this economy. A family member, a friend, hell maybe a lover. Point is it's about time americans put a stop to H1-B's and foriegn outsourcing.
The people running these big corporations for the last 30 years must be shortsighted, because this has been happening since the 70's in more fields than just computing. Look at where that intel chip is being manufactured, more than likely in malasia!
Now we let it happen with our coding. How many spams a day have you recieved for, "Hire cheap indian coders! ASP, VB, C++ for just 20dollars a day?" We can no longer sit by and watch the corporations lie when they say "But we can't find any qualified people over here.
Look, I don't like M$ any more than the rest of you. 7 years of being a M$ jumpin fire monkey, I am BURNED OUT. I don't give a crap about why outlook crashes or how do you do something in word anymore. I've since moved onto higher things. Point is though, that was a job for me, taught me a lot, it let me grow in both my personal and financial life, here in USA.
If M$ wants to take it to peru, let them. As long as they keep the coders here working. Hey I know a lot of bi-lingual (spanish/english) coders live right here in San Jose, M$ has an office here. If they had to expand their support for more bi-lingual support it would create a lot of jobs around here. Sorry, but after a year of eatin ramen noodles to make house payments, I don't see nothing wrong in that.
Yeah I got a bunch of spare 1050 boards, 800 boards, some odd internal docs. During the liqudation days of atari goodwill in san jose obtained a lot of stuff.
I wish HP had given him their blessing on this, but I guess they have to worry about shareholders first
Why would you wish anyone to break a law and possibly go to jail? I think if anything, HP should be applauded.
Of course we all know the reason HP didn't back him up to cover their own ass. HP as a company is known for it's damn near scientologist corporate culture, it's lack of workplace safety in both domestic and foriegn sweatshops, and since carly's reign of terror, some of the worst corporate decisions to keep the executives paid. Fuck everyone else and the shareholders, that's the new HP.
You know what folks? Fark HP those fargin bastages.
yes I was laid off once by HP, only once you fargin bastages!
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You should in the very least get a +1 funny for that. Good one sir :P
*disclaimer*This is a re-post of a comment I made a while back.
I was a sysadmin for 7 years, the fact that lusers would never heed my warings, read the documentation, or flat out needed things repeated to them 20 times in a row made me decide to quit being the McDonalds coke and a smile "Hi How may I fix your computer today?"
Near my 7th year, I became frustrated, started telling people how stupid I thought they were to their face (Usually after the 8th time of explaining something) And generally degraded into the self absorbed irritating prick that I am today.
2 years later i'm still recovering. Where I used to fix my friends and families computers for free I now charge the shit outta them till they don't wanna come back. Everytime the phone rings my hair still stands up on end because i'm afraid of yet another person saying, "Hey toq just wanted to ask you a quick question!" No it's never a quick question, it's a gateway into a line of questioning not even the worse murderer would be subjected to in a police interregation.
And you dare say was I ever a sysadmin, jeesh. I'd bet money I could w00p your arse in a contest of skills any day of the week. Trust me kid, you just haven't burned out yet, but you will. And when you do, that's where open source with the lack of stupid people and politics will be waiting.
--toq
How would employing Linux benefit Sony? Your ideas sound like another one of those horrible scribbled on a napkin business plans that dotted the dot.com landscape so many years ago.
1. Hire Linus
2. ??????
3. Profit!
I think the whole underwear gnome thing is getting to be pretty lame. It was funny maybe the first million times someone posted it. Here i'll break it down past 3 tiers for you.
1. Hire Linus
a. With linus in charge of the consumer electronics division, he immediately orders that the OS on every device is made open source. Every game console, every robot, every Mp3 player can now be made to work better (although sony does build solid stuff now)
b. Now that every device sony makes has a foundation which the world can build upon, instead of feature requests, features can now be programmed in for free.
c. Sony still produces the quality hardware, has the name brand, and the research facilities to still have that "Sony Edge"
d. Stuff like games, really really secret sony stuff, are still kept closed source i.e. just binaries.
2. Consumers buy sony for both it's Quality, Ease of use, Features, Reliability, and open source'ness. Sony pushes with a big media campaign to shame those that would build inferior products based on their technology thereby keeping their global market share.
3. Profit!
Actually, it's a lot more complex than that. I know you were just posting to razz me a bit.
As far as linus being a multidimensional business mogul, well last time I checked linux was almost on par with NT in the small to medium business market. Linux owns the supercomputer market when compared to NT for sure.
Which sounds better on a resume?
A. My operating system is used for file sharing and user authentication on corporate networks.
B. My operating system is run by many research facilities around the world for everything from simulating an atomic blast to unraveling the human genome.
I think if bill or linus ever lose their jobs, Sony would bet on Linus before they would EVER bet on bill.
I would think a tape with macrovision means the manufacturer doesn't want you to copy their tape.
You want to copy it for backup purposes.
I think I see 3 problems here...
I think before any DMCA type stuff is added to any kind of media, the media producer needs to be held accountable for replacement. I've never seen this happen however as most of them simply tell you "Return this to your place of purchase"
Problem is, the place of purchase has no easy way of RMA'ing defective merchandise.
Wait a minute!
*light bulb*
I think I see an easy solution to all this. When you purchase something you should be able to anonymously register your product online (HINT HINT!) When it goes bad, you go online, login, report it bad and get a POPRMA# (place of purchase return merchandise authorization #)You take your bad merchandise back to the store with your POPRMA and the store validates the POPRMA and destroys the media.
Now that the media producer has a valid POPRMA, they just mail you a new tape.
Unfortunately, reality is record companies (major labels) are all bloodsucking thirsty vultures that would eat your grandparents. They would soon as rather write off the sale with no recourse than be held accountable for it.
Despite all the good the internet can do, greed, jealosy, and evil are still a part of the human collective. Despite how easy of an idea this may be to implement, these negative instincts are rooted in the core of many peoples brain. You get a lot of money, you want a lot more. Bob has big nose, you want one bigger.
So until mother terasa is running the Media moguls, we're all fucked.
Oh yeah, i've been thinking about that alot in the last year....
Thing is, if Gates actually programmed the XP kernel himself I think I could have more respect for him. I don't think he does anything anymore other than fly around buying up bikini babes at E3 shows and the like. I have to wonder if that man is totally detatched from coding now?
Linus on the other hand continues his work into the linux kernel and makes tremendous contributions to the world in computer science with both his OS and the philosophy of open source. Sort of goes without saying.
When it boils down to it, do you do it for yourself or the world? That is what these two mens moral fiber has been about. Bill is for himself, Linus isn't.
I think if Linus ever had the oppertunity to influence a megacorp like sony from the inside it would benifit the world, with the side effect of benifiting sony. As long as they gave him "free reign" I think he would be kept happy.
Imagine Linus turning sony into an "Open Source" megacorp. Every product, from camera's to robots would be completly open source. The current programming teams would have to learn to swim or sink, which is sorta bad but it would weed out the uglies.
Well, that's me retort. Fire away.
and while having linus would be nice how would this benefit their ps3 line?
Well the article did state they were building this thing around linux.
Why didn't they just buy out transmeta? I know they just had a big round of layoffs, lost some big contracts, and can really use the cash right now.
The main benifit of course would be having linus. Throw in the transmeta technology after that.
The really scary thing about the whole sony/linux relationship is the parent company Sony is also Sony Records, one of the biggest supporters of DRM and the DMCA. It's kind of odd that they would support an open O/S that will never have DRM in it, makes me wonder why?
--toq
I think the problem with current solar cells is they are hard to produce and less than efficient.
I had a dream the other day about algea that could convert solar energy into electrical energy. I envisioned giant ponds of green murky water with evenly spaced rods to collect the electricity the little buggers give off.
It's probably just a pipe dream, but considering our current biotech and genetic technology, is electricity producing algea possible? I mean we already have algea (or was it bacteria?) that live off of sulpher given off by thermal stacks deep below our oceans.
Consider this...
You can see the crystals on a solar panel with the naked eye. Very large, sort of wasteful. Can you see a single celled organism with the naked eye? Theoretically you could pack a whole lot more algea into a square inch that you could solar crystals.
This is just a question, it's been buggin me for the last few weeks, and if anyone has an answer please share.
--toq
Screw those puny battlebots.
I want to see a schoolbus powered by twin GE turbojet engines and a giant rotating blade go against a garbage truck with big ass pinchers.
I think I would actually pay to see it on PPV.
--toq
Start>programs>administrative tools>group policies
play around with the software group policies, you can figure out the rest.
I had a weird vision of things to come the other day...
I dreamt in the future, man will have developed his skills of genetic engineering and stem cell research to the point where he can make things that are only science fiction now..
For example, I started thinking about genetically engineered photovoltic algea. I saw big gigantic pools of green liquid converting sunlight to electricity using completely enviromentally friendly and biodegradeable algea.
I also thought about genetically engineered eyeballs that could do the same thing. Imagine 100 foot eyeballs looking up at the sky in the desert. Or genetically engineered eyeballs for space observation.
Just another one of those weird topics, on a weird day. Just to humor myself, does anyone know of any research being done into this field?
--toq
And the #'s are...
713 frames on a single P4 1.4 48 hours.
713 frames on a dual p4 2ghz xeon 14 hours (hyperthread off)
713 frames on a dual p4 2ghz xeon 13.8 hours (hyperthread on)
713 frames on a single AMD 2200MP 12 hours
The application totally makes use of SMP too. The main reason for the scenes complexity is the animated chain drive created in VC tec. Each Chain link is an individual object with it's own move and rotation path in the key frame editor. Each of my chain drives comprise of 3 sprockets with a chain consisting of 173 links, each link is like a good 1000 vertices apiece. So we have 173,000 vertices times 3...
Chain drives are comprised of over 519,000 vertices. Lots of math.
519,000 vertices
1038 Keyframe entries (have to account for move and rotation)
So yeah, its a big big scene.
--toq
Troll me if you dare moderators, I have the karma :P
Lately i've been building a machine in 3D for a neighbor down the street. I've been using truespace 5.2 and a plugin called vctek.
Well, the scene got to a point where it just became impossible to work in due to the high poly count. My p4 1.4 just could not handle it. The vctek chains were taking up a helluva lotta time to render.
I asked the neighbor if he could buy me a fast computer to do redering on. From my years of being a sysadmin i've always been able to count on intel for both reliability and speed. So I speced out a dual p4 xeon 2ghz system.
The peices came, I put them together and I started rendering my scene. What normally took me 48 hours to render was now going to take 14 hours. Yipee I told myself, time saved! Wait a minute though...
scene on a single 1.4 takes 48hours
scene on a dual 2.0 takes 14 hours
That's only a 3 fold increase!!!
So what the fuck? I thought the xeons were SUPPOSED to be faster. I thought I should have seen an increase in speed on a magnitide of 4 or 5.
Well another sysadmin buddy of mine has been buyin AMD stuff for years. We get into the same rivalry over our systems as 2 grease monkeys might do with their cars. For kicks he wanted to benchmark the scene on his single 2200MP. I went ahead and e-mailed the scene off to him and waited for the results.
The Results?
A single AMD 2200MP will match a dual xeon.
I'm sorry to say it folks, but from what i've seen this last week intel is slipping. Hyperthreading is a pretty useless technology, basically just a software CPU. It didn't do anything for my render times. Intel has lost yet another loyal follower.
My next system will be AMD for sure. For pure price/performance they are blowing intel out of the water. Yes AMD, you have another convert.
--toq
Well, here's my response.
I used to work for a taiwanese "Intel Wholesale Motherboard Distributor". This was a lesson in the grey market. Ever hear of it? No? Then let me explain to you...
When a corporation sells it's products in other countries they price the product according to the local economy. They will also provide support local to that area with people trained from that area.
Now grey market is the practice of buying that product up cheaply in a foriegn market, then ship it back to the good ol USA and sell it at a below wholesale price.
The problem is, as I said before is it creates an imbalance between intercontinental support groups. The USA group might end up having to do support for the Asia market, and so on.
Tying this all back to peru, you're trying to compare the price of windows XP here, to there. When you deal with as much volume as MS does, you can afford to lose some money in a foriegn market as long as you maintain volume. There is already a grey market for english versions of XP that were sold to china, just go to any local screwdriver shop.
Yeah and fuck you again.
Thems fightin words!
Sure peruvians live on 1.25 a day. By their economic standard thats about lower middle class.
I heard this from a exec I once worked with that frequented that area that you can live like a king down there for $1k@month. That included food, accomidations, and a maid. Try and tell me I can do that here in america!
Fuck you too!
This leads to suspicion that NVidia plans to add and tailor the language in the future according to its own hardware and their respective features.
Smells like glide!
I have also noticed, you try to cut and paste other ppl's +5 comments as yours, taking credit for their work. This is very lame.
Hey, again man, chill. I reply logged in, never AC.
I still stand behind my opinion even if you don't agree with me.
Replying to your own post is concidered to be Astrotrufing
Shit only thing I replied to was another reply, I don't do the AC thing in replies...
Oh yeah I totally agree with you, don't forget to toss GM, Ford, and any other american auto maker in the same boat as MS and SUN.
Thing is though, it's too late to bring back the american auto factory. We still have a pretty decent chance of keeping coding jobs here on our shores.
I don't think Peru should give MS the shaft, I think before Puru or any foriegn goverment wants to get involved with a US company, there should be a standard trade system in place. In it's current form, coders are treated much like a commodity, it's volume and price instead of quality and craftsmanship.
I've seen isle after isle of h1-b workers from india in a former job. Even though they were on site, and they did have masters degree's in CS, and they spoke english, the quality of what they produced was shit, constantly crashed, was in an endless cycle of QA. This had nothing to do with how smart they were, it was due to the language/cultural barriers between that office and the main offices. A similiar team of good english speaking coders from the USA (note: they could have any ancestory) in another office constantly outperformed them because of their ability to communicate with upper management.
Back to peru though..
It's time Bush got off his ass and started commodisizing the coding trade deficet. I still see no problem with MS getting the contract if they are forced to use american labor.
Some of you with jobs may disagree with me, but for the rest of the slashdotters out there, this is for you!
We've all seen people hurt by this economy. A family member, a friend, hell maybe a lover. Point is it's about time americans put a stop to H1-B's and foriegn outsourcing.
The people running these big corporations for the last 30 years must be shortsighted, because this has been happening since the 70's in more fields than just computing. Look at where that intel chip is being manufactured, more than likely in malasia!
Now we let it happen with our coding. How many spams a day have you recieved for, "Hire cheap indian coders! ASP, VB, C++ for just 20dollars a day?" We can no longer sit by and watch the corporations lie when they say "But we can't find any qualified people over here.
Look, I don't like M$ any more than the rest of you. 7 years of being a M$ jumpin fire monkey, I am BURNED OUT. I don't give a crap about why outlook crashes or how do you do something in word anymore. I've since moved onto higher things. Point is though, that was a job for me, taught me a lot, it let me grow in both my personal and financial life, here in USA.
If M$ wants to take it to peru, let them. As long as they keep the coders here working. Hey I know a lot of bi-lingual (spanish/english) coders live right here in San Jose, M$ has an office here. If they had to expand their support for more bi-lingual support it would create a lot of jobs around here. Sorry, but after a year of eatin ramen noodles to make house payments, I don't see nothing wrong in that.
Yeah I got a bunch of spare 1050 boards, 800 boards, some odd internal docs. During the liqudation days of atari goodwill in san jose obtained a lot of stuff.
*melvin the martian*
Quick somebody stop that bush! He just stole my plutonium 238 Actuator!
The REAL question all the guys wanna know down at the trailer park is can she REALLY suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.
That is all
--toq
that's what i was sayin, well in a cynical way I guess. They Dont give a shit.
No I don't own any shares of anything, I dumped all my money into a house! Best thing I ever could have done with it.
I wish HP had given him their blessing on this, but I guess they have to worry about shareholders first
Why would you wish anyone to break a law and possibly go to jail? I think if anything, HP should be applauded.
Of course we all know the reason HP didn't back him up to cover their own ass. HP as a company is known for it's damn near scientologist corporate culture, it's lack of workplace safety in both domestic and foriegn sweatshops, and since carly's reign of terror, some of the worst corporate decisions to keep the executives paid. Fuck everyone else and the shareholders, that's the new HP.
You know what folks? Fark HP those fargin bastages.
yes I was laid off once by HP, only once you fargin bastages!
--toq