"As far as Gates' comment goes, it's about like standing waist-deep in a room full of gasoline and pleading for no one to light a match"
i'm just thinking, "can the multi billion dollar gate really afford to tell his associates that open scores means as much to him as the todays temperature on mars?":o)
its hard not being a troll on this when i've had to do business with this type of person. the sad thing is that the project will fail 90% of the time. so you just shake your head, do your job, and hope its not you the boss vents on.
what a lot of 'take no crap' managers don't realize is the extra cost of being a 'take no crap' manager. i use to think i could run a project by the numbers. but experience has shown that if it takes people to complete the work, then the people need to be motivated, and shown reason for tasking requests.
there was a business study done in the early 1970's about the impact of a major loss on any given business, or person. the numerical facts showed that businesses like people take about 5 years to recover from a major loss.
the 'dot-com bust', combined with the '9/11' event resulted in the harshest impact on the u.s. economy since the stock market crash of 1929. the only reason that the impact wasn't greater was because of federal laws in place that stopped a lot of problems before they were allowed to happen.
the 'g.i. bill' was created so that returning solders could educate themselves for other types of jobs. there is ample historical proof of what killers can do, when they don't have a job.
given the above facts, and the current level of outsourcing of work, and an economy of 30 million plus intelligent u.s. citizens still looking for a job. also, other economies have created laws so that they are not flooded by other countries of unemployed. basically our unemployed cannot cross the border to go to work. this is not a good thing.
if people don't have work, people can't buy goods and services; from anyone. if new technologies are being invented elsewhere, are those technologies going to be made avaiable to the u.s. economy without crippling the u.s. economy even more?
this u.s. economy cannot recover if its recovery in the form of goods creation, and services are exported to other economies. the u.s. buyer as a whole only has so much money to spend. when its gone, the buyer becomes an 'ex-buyer'. its this is a multi-billion dollar issue that u.s. law makers are publicly ignoring. and i don't know why...
The bad guys are always on the job 7-24. Its impossible to stop them from commiting an act of 'not cool'; it is their nature.
The problem lies in the fact that the bad guys are allowed to repeat their past. It also appears that the good guys are unwittingly disinfranching themselves from us all.
Yes. Consider the mathmatics of this question. Its far easier to convert SQL to XML, than it is from XML to SQL.
There's some history behind this subject. XML is the love child of the CODASYL standards created back in the 1970's. In the business shoot out for data bases was IBM's SQL(relational) winning over UNIVAC's ADML(hiearchial); only because IBM did its home work better by using math, and marketing. Computers back then were VERY expensive, and SQL proved to be cheaper than ADML. Hardware cost has changed since then.
But our universe is more Hiearchial, than Relational. In the fullness of time, we will see the imergence of XML over SQL, if only because of the cost of developement, and maintanence.
but if the court summons 'john doe' at an address, then if 'john doe' does not appear at court; then the judge can issue a bench warrent for 'john doe'?
if the riaa has 485 such warrents for 'john doe', then the legal system is being flooded with law suits for people that no one knows of. and the issue before the court is that 'john doe' was listening to music.
the riaa says, 'we will sue', and means it.
for me, a lawyer is not a lawyer, but just as guilty as the 'bad guy' when the statement, 'win at any cost' has value.
i believe that the beagle on mars is STILL working perfectly. i own two beagles and can completely understand that when you try to call them, they run away even faster. what is still perplexing to me is that were beagles wonder to is kind of interesting.
success for retrieving beagles begins by opening a bag dog treats. then the beagles will do what ever it takes to get to that bag of treats.
good luck, and god speed to the next beagle landing.
"do not worry about your weaknesses, your enemies are always more than willing to show them to you."
my analysis is not ment to be a trolling, but lets face it; virii, worms, and rootkits are nothing to ignore. i believe your findings require further reasearch.
"Do you think that labor might not be cheaper in the US without exoribitant health care cost, frivolous lawsuits, and regulator burdens?"
fundamental law:business owners do not get to be business owners for free.
point of fact: health care cost have increased. the business owner has only four choices; (1) decrease personel wealth, (2) pass cost to clients, (3) pass cost to employees, (4) a combination of the above.
business owners have chosen a combination of #2, and mostly #3; for me, ouch!
fundamental law:enemy of my enemy is my friend.
point of fact: if my competetor is sued, it did not cost me anything. if anything, it gives me a heads up of things to watch out for. in any case, i'm richer for the experience.
if i am sued, i blame my competetors, quickly change what is now wrong, and join the cursade.
fundamental law:regulators are people.
point of fact: if you disagree with a law, campain to change it. businesses, and 'regular' people do it everyday.
i'm not trying to troll, but peoples lives are in the balance here.
"The report claims that less than 3% of Q1 2004 jobs were lost to offshoring"
lets look at the claims since 2001, q1. 8,000,000 i.t. jobs lost. this number is my personal nightmare.
i'm thinking that firms that get tax ensentives, that do not retrain its employees, and that offshore their work are not helping the improvement of our community, or our economy.
"...it's by reducing the cost of health care and enacting tort reform to prevent frivolous lawsuits, both of which would decrease the regulator burdens that make it very hard to add new employees and be able to pay them well."
health care cost?
frivolous lawsuits?
regulator burdens?
this is the reason for 'offshoring' jobs?
please, why didn't you point to a place were the facts support this conclusion?
what i've read in the newspapers, and read on the net doesn't support your statements.
the sources i use are:
wall street journal investment business daily reuters ap news bloomberg businesswire pr news wire los angeles times orange county register u.s. treasury department new york stock exchange knight rider news
these people say that 'offshoring' is happening because businesses can do it there cheaper.
they maybe wrong, but their 'facts' are supporting it. and their 'facts' are verifiable.
Slashdot Mirror
the prisoner, "who is number 1?".
:)
number 216, "you are number 6".
so, who still says that t.v. isn't educational?
is there a web page that shows ALL the windows programs that can, or cannot run using Wine on Linux?
"As far as Gates' comment goes, it's about like standing waist-deep in a room full of gasoline and pleading for no one to light a match"
:o)
i'm just thinking, "can the multi billion dollar gate really afford to tell his associates that open scores means as much to him as the todays temperature on mars?"
its hard not being a troll on this when i've had to do business with this type of person. the sad thing is that the project will fail 90% of the time. so you just shake your head, do your job, and hope its not you the boss vents on.
what a lot of 'take no crap' managers don't realize is the extra cost of being a 'take no crap' manager. i use to think i could run a project by the numbers. but experience has shown that if it takes people to complete the work, then the people need to be motivated, and shown reason for tasking requests.
technology is the LAST tactic of the bad guys.
its far easier to just 'hire' away a competitor's expertise with a promotion and a raise.
also, a firm's 'top secret' method usually involves some little known method that has not been litigated; yet.
there was a business study done in the early 1970's about the impact of a major loss on any given business, or person. the numerical facts showed that businesses like people take about 5 years to recover from a major loss.
the 'dot-com bust', combined with the '9/11' event resulted in the harshest impact on the u.s. economy since the stock market crash of 1929. the only reason that the impact wasn't greater was because of federal laws in place that stopped a lot of problems before they were allowed to happen.
the 'g.i. bill' was created so that returning solders could educate themselves for other types of jobs. there is ample historical proof of what killers can do, when they don't have a job.
given the above facts, and the current level of outsourcing of work, and an economy of 30 million plus intelligent u.s. citizens still looking for a job. also, other economies have created laws so that they are not flooded by other countries of unemployed. basically our unemployed cannot cross the border to go to work. this is not a good thing.
if people don't have work, people can't buy goods and services; from anyone. if new technologies are being invented elsewhere, are those technologies going to be made avaiable to the u.s. economy without crippling the u.s. economy even more?
this u.s. economy cannot recover if its recovery in the form of goods creation, and services are exported to other economies. the u.s. buyer as a whole only has so much money to spend. when its gone, the buyer becomes an 'ex-buyer'. its this is a multi-billion dollar issue that u.s. law makers are publicly ignoring. and i don't know why...
its at this point that i wish my government would work on laws that would put the 8 million plus i.t. workers that are out of work, back to work...
which is cheaper? five v.b. apprentice level coders taking 90 days to do a medium level project, or one senior level software engineer?
it has been my experience that the generic p.h.b. will pay for both, and in the same order as stated above.
"I analyzed the situation and suggested how to create such a market."
Really? where are your findings published at?
The bad guys are always on the job 7-24. Its impossible to stop them from commiting an act of 'not cool'; it is their nature.
The problem lies in the fact that the bad guys are allowed to repeat their past. It also appears that the good guys are unwittingly disinfranching themselves from us all.
Well, acutally it goes back to the beginings of software developement. The lesson is:
1. First build the application so that it runs to requested specifications, ( development work ).
2. Get paid for doing what was asked for, ( project feedback ).
3. Adjust the coding so that unkown errors that are now known are removed, ( maintanence work ).
4. Get paid for doing what was asked for, ( project feedback ).
5. Go to step 3.
Adminstrative Note:
Corperate goals affect the speed of the above presented model when applied to the consumer model.
Yes. Consider the mathmatics of this question. Its far easier to convert SQL to XML, than it is from XML to SQL.
There's some history behind this subject. XML is the love child of the CODASYL standards created back in the 1970's. In the business shoot out for data bases was IBM's SQL(relational) winning over UNIVAC's ADML(hiearchial); only because IBM did its home work better by using math, and marketing. Computers back then were VERY expensive, and SQL proved to be cheaper than ADML. Hardware cost has changed since then.
But our universe is more Hiearchial, than Relational. In the fullness of time, we will see the imergence of XML over SQL, if only because of the cost of developement, and maintanence.
One can only imagine the field day script kiddies will have when they apply their efforts using virii, worms, and root kits on these devices.
" I'm not a software dev but is it common for people to develop on a platform different than the one they are developing for?"
Yes, journymen software developers can; apprentice software developers cannot. Master software developers can change the platform itself for the Master's desired needs.
"...He also avoided a web bug sent by the firm..."
what's a 'web bug'?
but if the court summons 'john doe' at an address, then if 'john doe' does not appear at court; then the judge can issue a bench warrent for 'john doe'?
if the riaa has 485 such warrents for 'john doe', then the legal system is being flooded with law suits for people that no one knows of. and the issue before the court is that 'john doe' was listening to music.
the riaa says, 'we will sue', and means it.
for me, a lawyer is not a lawyer, but just as guilty as the 'bad guy' when the statement, 'win at any cost' has value.
i believe that the beagle on mars is STILL working perfectly. i own two beagles and can completely understand that when you try to call them, they run away even faster. what is still perplexing to me is that were beagles wonder to is kind of interesting.
success for retrieving beagles begins by opening a bag dog treats. then the beagles will do what ever it takes to get to that bag of treats.
good luck, and god speed to the next beagle landing.
1. could 'white knight' have an ILS and be converted to a 'drone'.
2. given #1, could the 'BD5' be redesigned to do the same thing as 'space ship one'?
3. given #2, could a 300 pound payload be lobbed to either mars, or the moon?
4. given #3, could ion engines be used to stir, and land the payload on the moon?
right now, all i can think about are those dawn japanese transiter jokes of the late 60's.
and what's even funnier is that no ones' laughing now.
the 'golden rule': he who has the gold, makes the rules.
is there somebody that can persaude red china to step up its human space program?
lets see if 'ol papa bear has this figured out correctly.
in the united states when a product has incorrectly enginerred a flaw, the product is recalled and or repaired at the manufactures expense.
when windows has an incorrectly enginerred a flaw, they'll sell you a 'patch' for it?
is this a great country or what!
"do not worry about your weaknesses, your enemies are always more than willing to show them to you."
my analysis is not ment to be a trolling, but lets face it; virii, worms, and rootkits are nothing to ignore. i believe your findings require further reasearch.
"Do you think that labor might not be cheaper in the US without exoribitant health care cost, frivolous lawsuits, and regulator burdens?"
fundamental law: business owners do not get to be business owners for free.
point of fact: health care cost have increased. the business owner has only four choices; (1) decrease personel wealth, (2) pass cost to clients, (3) pass cost to employees, (4) a combination of the above.
business owners have chosen a combination of #2, and mostly #3; for me, ouch!
fundamental law: enemy of my enemy is my friend.
point of fact: if my competetor is sued, it did not cost me anything. if anything, it gives me a heads up of things to watch out for. in any case, i'm richer for the experience.
if i am sued, i blame my competetors, quickly change what is now wrong, and join the cursade.
fundamental law: regulators are people.
point of fact: if you disagree with a law, campain to change it. businesses, and 'regular' people do it everyday.
but really, most people just use lobbyists today.
i'm not trying to troll, but peoples lives are in the balance here.
"The report claims that less than 3% of Q1 2004 jobs were lost to offshoring"
lets look at the claims since 2001, q1. 8,000,000 i.t. jobs lost. this number is my personal nightmare.
i'm thinking that firms that get tax ensentives, that do not retrain its employees, and that offshore their work are not helping the improvement of our community, or our economy.
i'm not getting it.
this is not a troll, but a hard question:
"...it's by reducing the cost of health care and enacting tort reform to prevent frivolous lawsuits, both of which would decrease the regulator burdens that make it very hard to add new employees and be able to pay them well."
health care cost?
frivolous lawsuits?
regulator burdens?
this is the reason for 'offshoring' jobs?
please, why didn't you point to a place were the facts support this conclusion?
what i've read in the newspapers, and read on the net doesn't support your statements.
the sources i use are:
wall street journal
investment business daily
reuters
ap news
bloomberg
businesswire
pr news wire
los angeles times
orange county register
u.s. treasury department
new york stock exchange
knight rider news
these people say that 'offshoring' is happening because businesses can do it there cheaper.
they maybe wrong, but their 'facts' are supporting it. and their 'facts' are verifiable.
"Windows 2000 or Server 2003, most likely, and those are simply not operating systems to be laughed at"
the dead cannot laugh or cry, and 'nt cannot reboot the dead.