I spent 6 months in rehad many years ago when I was 18. Any comparison between "gaming addiction" and drug addiction is silly, and moreso insulting. I have lost several friends to overdose and hiv as a result of drug abuse. I have lost no friends to "gaming addiction".... Chemical Dependence run in my family, and has impacted many lives within my family alone. Gaming addiction doesn't.
In our next article.... Studies Say, Trauma Cause By Paper Cuts Comparable To Road Traffic Accidents.
Recognise firstly that you're probably considering the Anglo-American model of business, and then realise the world outside the US and UK is a big place.
If a different model of business would you suspect serve you better, move.
This isn't the snide "if you don't like it ship out" remark, it's a genuine suggestion that you might prefer a different model of business. I know it comes as a shock to many American and Brits when they realise that their model of business isn't the way all countries do business.
I got fed-up with the bullshit that surrounded working in London so I moved to Spain. In a few years I'll probably check out France or Italy... I'm not talking about a young mans bus mans holiday either, I'm 36 and an experienced programmer/developer.
This also isn't to suggest other countries are better or worse... there's advantages and disadvantages to any model. Simply there are differences, and a variety of expressed values in business.
The upside also is that trying such a move is actually quite low risk. For most people (not all I'd admit), trying work in a different country can only enhance their CV even should the person decide the experiment is a failure.
If you are interested in trying it out... find a place abroad where lots of your nationality holiday... that has a "resort" presence, and preferably where plenty of your nationality are buying property. Chances are there's a fair few local property management companies that have a really hard time getting hold of good developers. Start learning the local language, and if you do decide you want to stay you can start integrating yourself more into the local business.
American and British programmers have a good reputation abroad.... Well actually I know British programmers do, and my assumption is American programmers would too.
From a lot of what people are expressing here as how they'd prefer to do things in business.... learn German. The German model of business fits a lot of what people are describing. Or if you fancy something less extreme, get a job in London which is just starting an upturn at the moment. The business there will be the Anglo-American model you're familiar with just slightly less extreme.
The world's a big place and you have a lot of choices.
It's the business of the US populace who they elect as their leader.... that goes without saying, but one has to realise there will be a reaction to who they choose.
Electing Bush as President once could be put down to an accident.... a second time and other countries started to question the stability of the country that elected him. Now all these other countries may well be in the wrong, and the US may have the right of it, but widespread polls outside the US consistenctly show the people in other countries regard Bush as the single most dangerous man on the planet, and more dangerous that S. Hussein..... in short they're no happier with a country that Bush is leader holding the reigns that they would have been pre regiime-change Iraq.
That is what a large portion of the planet is reacting to. Not the US in and of itself, but the man you elected as your leader twice (to the amazement of anybody not American), and to whom most of the rest of the planet wouln't trust the running of a corner store. Truthfully, everybody else may be wrong, I'm just trying to convey sentiment in large portions of the rest of the world... we think Bush is a moron, and we don't trust the people who decided he was they best they could find as their leader.
For the record, as I realise this does wade into traditionally anti-American flame territory... I'm English, I've traditionally been very pro the Anglo-American relationship, and a Europsceptic, but I want nothing to do with a Bush lead regime, and if you elect another muppet as your leader then yeah, I'm in favour of the EU backing away from the US on any matter of international import... and that includes DNS
The man's a nut job..... That's what most of us out here thing. We may well be wrong, but right or wrong it's how we view him. In light of that we view the US as a country whose leader is a nut. We therefore don't consider the US a safe and stable country to entrust anything in.
It's your president we don't trust, not the US. Your trustworthiness is only in question because you elected him.
I'm sorry if this gets read as anti-American as I enjoy the company of a fair few American colleagues, and more than a few online friends. I think the world is a better place to have had the US in it, but men of worse character than normal have convinced enough people to fear all else but their vision.
Good luck over the next couple of years, and I look forward to you electing a leader that might actualy qualify for a McJob before you attempt to make him Leader of The Free World.
Walk into any hospital in the UK and count the number of doctors of Asian ethnicity.
Walk into any large IT company in the city and count the number of Asian programmers.
You're talking crap mate.
Asian families aspire for their children to be professionals in the UK pretty much as they do anywhere else on the planet. And they succedd at it. The stereotype of most Indians and Pakistanis is of hard working, family orientated, law abiding and honest people.... you'll find it really hard to find a view of them being backward.
I suggest you visited another country and simply carried your own view with you.
For reference, I now live in Spain (used to work in central London), and the model of the Indian/Pakistani family is exactly the same here in Spain as it is in the UK. It's completely identifiable in every way.
Ummm, isn't OpenOfice administered seperate from Sun? In which case why would an agreement with Sun cover OpenOffice?
One could equally say the agreement left open the possibility of suing people over Linux, or indeed washing machines.
I doubt Sun wants to enmesh itself as responsible for washing machines anymore that they would OpenOffice... yes I understand where OpenOffice comes from, but ask yourself if you;d want blurry lines if you were Sun.
Perhaps the spin on the reportage is a little askew. I'm not sure one can infer any intent on Microsofts part.... unless of course MS are planning on suing makers of washing machines.
Gee, how about if we have two levels of support from police and firemen? The paying customers get immediate 911 support, and the regular citizens, well, we'll get to you when we can. You're not important.
The ordinary citizen is the paying customer for the emergency services... it's called taxes.
Did you not make the connection between taxes and those services? Have you never actually stopped to think about what it is your taxes pay for?
Now if you're house catches on fire, and you have family trapped inside, I'll be happy to "picth in and support" as per your vision of an "Open Source Fire Brigade".... myself, I'll be hoping the real emergency services turn up along with ambulances and a swift trip to hospital.
"Um Doctor, sorry I mean John... are you supposed to be cutting that?"
*sigh* "RTFM wouldya, it says, step 5 cut the aorta in a clean upward stroke.... hang on.... damn! This is Open Heart Bipass Surgery For Dummies! Where's the Gallstone Removal For Dummies?!"
I think there's similar legislation in most EU countries, but I'm not sure.
It's a criminal act btw, meaning Crown prosecution and a jail sentence, not a civil matter. Not a problem if the chap doesn't plan on entering the EU.
It really doesn't matter if somebody is in the process of pirating his software. That's a seperate offence and doesn't give him license to commit unauthorised modification of a computers data.... and I can sense the pedantics gathering in the wings, but it doesn't really matter how you want to split hairs on what is unauthorised modification of data, the Crown Prosecution Service and the courts get to decide that.
If it were a global ecconomy I wouldn't require a Green Card to work and live in your country.
Now before you think that a flipant statement, consider this...
I cannot get a work permit in the US if I'm going to be taking a job that a US worker can do (hence not the global ecconomy you think it is). This is seen as a common sense protection of US jobs.... so what's the difference in sending your job oversea compared to me comming and taking your job in the US? At least if I was taking your job in the US my taxes and purchases would be IN the US rather than Bangalore, India.
Me taking your job IN the US is many times better for you than me taking your job from over here.
don't buy cheap overseas products if it bothers you
I'm not in your country. I'm in the EU and telling you we'll pick up the pieces when you've gutted your own IT industry =)
...cos it's always better to have somebody else doing your job aint it?
Now if you're a shareholder of Nike, then it may help you that Indian programmers are wearing Nikes. If you're the CEO of Nike it sure as hell is going to help you.
If you work in a Nike factory overseas it may well help you. But Indian programmers wearing Nikes aint going to help you when you're working in a McJob wishing you could afford to buy a pair of Nikes for your kid.
Never confuse what's good for large corporate shareholders with what's good for you as a jobbing programmer.
This ecconomic strategy was brought to you by the same people that brought you the US National Debt... http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
You spend what you EARN. If you don't you end up in debt. It's not rocket science or *gasp* ecconomics. The idea of turning yourself into a service ecconomy is fine if you're Ireland, but if you're a large country you actually have to make and sell stuff to support your ecconomy.
If there's those that have shied away from Microsoft, well because they're Microsoft, you might not be aware of http://research.microsoft.com which regardless of which side of various fences you might sit has some very interesting material and is generally worth tracking over time.
Aplogise for the tangent, on the back of this article seemed an apt place to point to the MS research site for those that might not of been aware of it.
Well actually while the ethos of your post may fit the broadly American attitude to employment it doesn't fit everywhere. Some countries view the job market as too important to leave to the quip "the world doesn't owe you a living".
Each country represents a society where we share collective interests, and where we help each other meet our collective interests... outsourcing occurs when one section of the society we live in (the CEOs) decide they don't care to participate in the meeting of collective interests and will instead persue their individual interests ahead of the collective ones.
And if you think it's so much horseshit a society regarding its job market as something to protect you might care to perform a search on "American Subsidies" on Google. The difference between America and a broad swathe of other countries is you took on the bullshit rhetoric the corporate execs fed you. If you listen carefully that's the sound of them laughing at you in the background as they outsource your job.
Now one could argue a collective interest in a global society, and one might believe your altruistic argument if you weren't about to move your outsourcing away from India to a cheaper country as soon as one presented itself. It also requires that you ignore a bond of interest between your company and the country in which it was nurtured while it grew.... whether you be American, British, German, Indian or Russian.
The core issue being faced here which starts getting tangental is the multinational company which is a transgenerational, transnational entity rather than one which is limited by a charter of incorporation that limits scope of business and has a period of review. We've experience of transgenerational, transnational entities in history with the noble families of feudal Europe... the point? They used serfs interchangably as units of labour too.
Do some Googling on the history of charters of incorporation. It's quite an eye openner.
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I spent 6 months in rehad many years ago when I was 18. Any comparison between "gaming addiction" and drug addiction is silly, and moreso insulting. I have lost several friends to overdose and hiv as a result of drug abuse. I have lost no friends to "gaming addiction".... Chemical Dependence run in my family, and has impacted many lives within my family alone. Gaming addiction doesn't.
In our next article.... Studies Say, Trauma Cause By Paper Cuts Comparable To Road Traffic Accidents.
Wankers.
It was for the Olympics.
Recognise firstly that you're probably considering the Anglo-American model of business, and then realise the world outside the US and UK is a big place.
If a different model of business would you suspect serve you better, move.
This isn't the snide "if you don't like it ship out" remark, it's a genuine suggestion that you might prefer a different model of business. I know it comes as a shock to many American and Brits when they realise that their model of business isn't the way all countries do business.
I got fed-up with the bullshit that surrounded working in London so I moved to Spain. In a few years I'll probably check out France or Italy... I'm not talking about a young mans bus mans holiday either, I'm 36 and an experienced programmer/developer.
This also isn't to suggest other countries are better or worse... there's advantages and disadvantages to any model. Simply there are differences, and a variety of expressed values in business.
The upside also is that trying such a move is actually quite low risk. For most people (not all I'd admit), trying work in a different country can only enhance their CV even should the person decide the experiment is a failure.
If you are interested in trying it out... find a place abroad where lots of your nationality holiday... that has a "resort" presence, and preferably where plenty of your nationality are buying property. Chances are there's a fair few local property management companies that have a really hard time getting hold of good developers. Start learning the local language, and if you do decide you want to stay you can start integrating yourself more into the local business.
American and British programmers have a good reputation abroad.... Well actually I know British programmers do, and my assumption is American programmers would too.
From a lot of what people are expressing here as how they'd prefer to do things in business.... learn German. The German model of business fits a lot of what people are describing. Or if you fancy something less extreme, get a job in London which is just starting an upturn at the moment. The business there will be the Anglo-American model you're familiar with just slightly less extreme.
The world's a big place and you have a lot of choices.
It's the business of the US populace who they elect as their leader.... that goes without saying, but one has to realise there will be a reaction to who they choose.
Electing Bush as President once could be put down to an accident.... a second time and other countries started to question the stability of the country that elected him. Now all these other countries may well be in the wrong, and the US may have the right of it, but widespread polls outside the US consistenctly show the people in other countries regard Bush as the single most dangerous man on the planet, and more dangerous that S. Hussein..... in short they're no happier with a country that Bush is leader holding the reigns that they would have been pre regiime-change Iraq.
That is what a large portion of the planet is reacting to. Not the US in and of itself, but the man you elected as your leader twice (to the amazement of anybody not American), and to whom most of the rest of the planet wouln't trust the running of a corner store. Truthfully, everybody else may be wrong, I'm just trying to convey sentiment in large portions of the rest of the world... we think Bush is a moron, and we don't trust the people who decided he was they best they could find as their leader.
For the record, as I realise this does wade into traditionally anti-American flame territory... I'm English, I've traditionally been very pro the Anglo-American relationship, and a Europsceptic, but I want nothing to do with a Bush lead regime, and if you elect another muppet as your leader then yeah, I'm in favour of the EU backing away from the US on any matter of international import... and that includes DNS
The man's a nut job..... That's what most of us out here thing. We may well be wrong, but right or wrong it's how we view him. In light of that we view the US as a country whose leader is a nut. We therefore don't consider the US a safe and stable country to entrust anything in.
It's your president we don't trust, not the US. Your trustworthiness is only in question because you elected him.
I'm sorry if this gets read as anti-American as I enjoy the company of a fair few American colleagues, and more than a few online friends. I think the world is a better place to have had the US in it, but men of worse character than normal have convinced enough people to fear all else but their vision.
Good luck over the next couple of years, and I look forward to you electing a leader that might actualy qualify for a McJob before you attempt to make him Leader of The Free World.
Going to call bollocks on that mate.
Walk into any hospital in the UK and count the number of doctors of Asian ethnicity.
Walk into any large IT company in the city and count the number of Asian programmers.
You're talking crap mate.
Asian families aspire for their children to be professionals in the UK pretty much as they do anywhere else on the planet. And they succedd at it. The stereotype of most Indians and Pakistanis is of hard working, family orientated, law abiding and honest people.... you'll find it really hard to find a view of them being backward.
I suggest you visited another country and simply carried your own view with you.
For reference, I now live in Spain (used to work in central London), and the model of the Indian/Pakistani family is exactly the same here in Spain as it is in the UK. It's completely identifiable in every way.
Do a query of "tenerife population" and you'll be told 214,000 which if you navigation to the source you'll see is the population of Santa Cruz.
Now the page in question is indeed about Tenerife, and reasonably goes on to mention it's Capital, Santa Cruz and it's population.
If they were granted, they woulnd't be inherent would they?
Isn't Rupert Murdoch Australian?
Either way, the Sun is a UK Registered company. It's (for better or for worse) a UK company.
That would be the properly selected ones like the LAYER tag then? Or JSSS as the prefered alternative to CSS?
Netscapes track record pre-Mozilla with the W3C makes MS look like angels.
Firefox is a fantastic browser, but lets not start revising history. The original Netscape sucked and deserved to fall flat on its face.
Because what? Gay people can't be alcoholic?
I'd be very interested for you to expand upon the "culture of alcoholics".
article on BT filtering
Only there's no levy on UK residents direct. One might argue that BT massages costs into it's charges *shrug*
Why we're going to reinvent Prolog and take 20 years doing it.
Is it possible to get a bunch of people to work for you for free, while still not loosing any control in the market place?
...I'd of been able to tell them why this idea wasn't going to work if they're search engine worked to any degree.
But I don't work for them, so they went and did it =)
Ummm, isn't OpenOfice administered seperate from Sun? In which case why would an agreement with Sun cover OpenOffice?
One could equally say the agreement left open the possibility of suing people over Linux, or indeed washing machines.
I doubt Sun wants to enmesh itself as responsible for washing machines anymore that they would OpenOffice... yes I understand where OpenOffice comes from, but ask yourself if you;d want blurry lines if you were Sun.
Perhaps the spin on the reportage is a little askew. I'm not sure one can infer any intent on Microsofts part.... unless of course MS are planning on suing makers of washing machines.
The ordinary citizen is the paying customer for the emergency services... it's called taxes.
Did you not make the connection between taxes and those services? Have you never actually stopped to think about what it is your taxes pay for?
Now if you're house catches on fire, and you have family trapped inside, I'll be happy to "picth in and support" as per your vision of an "Open Source Fire Brigade".... myself, I'll be hoping the real emergency services turn up along with ambulances and a swift trip to hospital.
"Um Doctor, sorry I mean John... are you supposed to be cutting that?"
*sigh* "RTFM wouldya, it says, step 5 cut the aorta in a clean upward stroke.... hang on.... damn! This is Open Heart Bipass Surgery For Dummies! Where's the Gallstone Removal For Dummies?!"
I'm pretty damn sure this would be in breach of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 specifically Section 3, Unauthorised modification of computer material.
I think there's similar legislation in most EU countries, but I'm not sure.
It's a criminal act btw, meaning Crown prosecution and a jail sentence, not a civil matter. Not a problem if the chap doesn't plan on entering the EU.
It really doesn't matter if somebody is in the process of pirating his software. That's a seperate offence and doesn't give him license to commit unauthorised modification of a computers data.... and I can sense the pedantics gathering in the wings, but it doesn't really matter how you want to split hairs on what is unauthorised modification of data, the Crown Prosecution Service and the courts get to decide that.
Why?... lets try a scenario and see how you feel about it.
Your 18 year old daughter (or sister) has been priating software amongst his friends in college to make spare cash.
Some of the software he's pirating it produced in the UK, and the UK want to extradite him to stand trial there.
How do you feel about it now?
Now before you think that a flipant statement, consider this...
I cannot get a work permit in the US if I'm going to be taking a job that a US worker can do (hence not the global ecconomy you think it is). This is seen as a common sense protection of US jobs.... so what's the difference in sending your job oversea compared to me comming and taking your job in the US? At least if I was taking your job in the US my taxes and purchases would be IN the US rather than Bangalore, India.
Me taking your job IN the US is many times better for you than me taking your job from over here.
I'm not in your country. I'm in the EU and telling you we'll pick up the pieces when you've gutted your own IT industry =)
...cos it's always better to have somebody else doing your job aint it?
Now if you're a shareholder of Nike, then it may help you that Indian programmers are wearing Nikes. If you're the CEO of Nike it sure as hell is going to help you.
If you work in a Nike factory overseas it may well help you. But Indian programmers wearing Nikes aint going to help you when you're working in a McJob wishing you could afford to buy a pair of Nikes for your kid.
Never confuse what's good for large corporate shareholders with what's good for you as a jobbing programmer.
This ecconomic strategy was brought to you by the same people that brought you the US National Debt... http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
You spend what you EARN. If you don't you end up in debt. It's not rocket science or *gasp* ecconomics. The idea of turning yourself into a service ecconomy is fine if you're Ireland, but if you're a large country you actually have to make and sell stuff to support your ecconomy.
If there's those that have shied away from Microsoft, well because they're Microsoft, you might not be aware of http://research.microsoft.com which regardless of which side of various fences you might sit has some very interesting material and is generally worth tracking over time.
Aplogise for the tangent, on the back of this article seemed an apt place to point to the MS research site for those that might not of been aware of it.
If you think that's funny try "mobile phone exploding" on Google =)
& q= mobile+phone+exploding
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8
Fair comment then if you were simply stating the reality of the current position.
Well actually while the ethos of your post may fit the broadly American attitude to employment it doesn't fit everywhere. Some countries view the job market as too important to leave to the quip "the world doesn't owe you a living".
Each country represents a society where we share collective interests, and where we help each other meet our collective interests... outsourcing occurs when one section of the society we live in (the CEOs) decide they don't care to participate in the meeting of collective interests and will instead persue their individual interests ahead of the collective ones.
And if you think it's so much horseshit a society regarding its job market as something to protect you might care to perform a search on "American Subsidies" on Google. The difference between America and a broad swathe of other countries is you took on the bullshit rhetoric the corporate execs fed you. If you listen carefully that's the sound of them laughing at you in the background as they outsource your job.
Now one could argue a collective interest in a global society, and one might believe your altruistic argument if you weren't about to move your outsourcing away from India to a cheaper country as soon as one presented itself. It also requires that you ignore a bond of interest between your company and the country in which it was nurtured while it grew.... whether you be American, British, German, Indian or Russian.
The core issue being faced here which starts getting tangental is the multinational company which is a transgenerational, transnational entity rather than one which is limited by a charter of incorporation that limits scope of business and has a period of review. We've experience of transgenerational, transnational entities in history with the noble families of feudal Europe... the point? They used serfs interchangably as units of labour too.
Do some Googling on the history of charters of incorporation. It's quite an eye openner.
I can just see me telling my boss...
Me: "I had to shelve the clients project, sorry."
Boss: "Why?!"
Me: "Incompatabilities with Windows."
My arse.