Thats the problem, masters degree or not, there ARE no entry level positions.
I dont know what economy you are talking about but in the USA theres no jobs for people with bachlors degrees so your buddy with the masters is in the same position as the rest of us.
I dont think a person with a masters degree is over qualified, consider the fact that you'll need to be over qualified in order to get a job at all, theres no way to earn experience so you'll have to compete for jobs at the startups.
If you come in with a bachlors degree you are just another person with a bachlors degree, why hire you when the indian, mexican, chinese or african american all will do your job for cheaper, why ever hire you?
You have to market yourself and currently the market is designed so that you must seperate yourself from the pack to get a job.
You dont need to reverse engineer the code to crack it but its really trivial to reverse engineer stuff, you can decompile it, you can crack it, you can use stuff like hex editors, there are many many ways to crack code.
This isnt about cars, its about software. China has cheaper labor, cheaper labor means more programmers, more programmers in alot of cases means better software.
These are the numbers, this has nothing to do with politics or opinions, the fact that the USA is not number 1 in the car industry anymore proves my point, or the electronics industry, so why would USA be number 1 in the computer industry?
I say China will be number 1 because theres more of them, but it could always be India, my point is, it most likely wont be us.
What does the president of the USA have to do with this? That didnt even make sense.
Its a monopoly for the Chinese maybe but not for us. It means now we can choose to use their software if theirs is better.
Just like Japan making electronics was good for competition, its good for China to make software.
And I say innovation will happen because I know that Microsoft will have competition, I'm not caring what happens in China, I'm American, I'm more worried about the USA, and it would be good for us if that happened in China just like Sony was good for our economy (well for alittle while)
I'm not saying Chinese are superior, they dont have to be, they have numbers on their side.
Theres a billion of them, they ARE going to make better software, period, theres no way we can debate this, the chances of us making the best software in the world are slim, its nice to believe we are the best at it but reality and math says that the Chinese will be better at it simply because they have more people and their people are willing to work for alot less money.
Just like with the car industry, and all the other industries.
Simple, we pirate their software and then offer it up for download all over the internet to the Chinese.
What are they going to do? Sue you? LMAO
If they dont follow our rules why should we follow theirs? If they try to sell open source software, we buy it, crack it and give it away. Problem solved.
Guess what, We cant afford our software, you go buy photoshop, I'll use Gimp.
Do you think I care if they dont buy our intellectual property when I dont own any of it and dont profit from any of its sales? Do you think I care if they pirate music when artists dont even own the copyrights on the music?
Its not a matter of them buying our goods, if their goods are better and cheaper why not buy theirs? Sure I prefer to buy goods made in the USA to support the US economy, but I'm not rich, so a choice must be made, if our products are equally as good and the same price I'll always buy ours, but if their products are better and cost less I'll be forced to buy theirs.
Either way their cheaper products will force the price of our products down, this will help the economy.
Even if they dont, we will still get better software. Windows will have competition, Microsoft Word, and all the American software companies will now have competitors in China, this is great.
Sure not all the companies will be open source, but even if they are closed source you'll still be able to buy or download Chinese software which may be x100 better than the American software we have currently.
Do you know what this means for the open source movement? Better yet do you know what this means for the global economy? This changes the whole dynamics of the game.
Now China will have two options, develop an alternative to Microsoft Windows using open source, or develop an alternative to microsoft windows which is closed source.
Either way, we will get better software through competition, this is good for capitalism, good for the user, good for the software industry, and I cant see anything bad coming from this. I hope they take Redhat Linux and make it standard in China.
From the current trend, people are switching to free, be it via P2P, or software itself, now that people actually know what open source is, and they are considering Linux.
Currently Linux has a few issues but overall, for the price (free), when it comes time to buy a new computer, why buy longhorn when you can get Linux for free?
How do you know? You dont even use Linux. Windows won because you have to present an alternative thats worth making the effort to switch to (anyone who's second to market will tell you this is hard). Telling someone that they have to spend time (and often money) in order to get back to where they are now because "Linux is better" is just going to get them pissed off.
Until they get the MSblaster worm. Thats when you switch them to Linux.
And, of course, in many ways Linux is NOT better. Evangelizing is all well and good, but know your audience.
Yes Windows has better fonts and eye candy, so does OSX, but in terms of software Windows no longer has the advantage, most important Windows software runs in Linux, even the games.
No one has to be convinced that Linux is better, once Linux is preinstalled next to the Windows machine, and a person can choose a Lindows computer or a Windows computer from a store, people on their own will choose Lindows when they think back to why they are upgrading in the first place (well Windows keeps crashing, I got infected by MSblaster, I need to save money, I think I'll go with Linux)
People will choose Linux if Linux has the same exact software, a cheaper price, and is virus proof.
How is our OS supposed to be worth using if its not better than theirs?
The average user does not judge better by how secure or stable it is, the judge better by how it looks, how smooth and easy to use it is, and how much eye candy it has.
because they arent my Ideas, the point I am making, and the humor, is intended to show that Republicans are just as socialist as the democrats. The Republicans get socialist when the name "Christ" is mentioned, and in situations where it furthers their Agenda, they also like to give lots of welfare to big companies.
Maybe we will respect the middle east now that they have the same abilities as us, this does not mean anything, the soviets have had nuke for years and years.
I dont really care if India has nuke, and I doubt they'd put it in space unless we do it first, its insane to put it in space but I see them doing it to protect themselves from us, I mean we are willing to go to war just because we want to without going through the UN, I wouldnt blame India for being alittle bit scared of us.
First culture is a factor, second race is a factor, theres lots of differences between the countries of europe and the countries of Asia.
Going to space is not profitable, and look at Africa if you want to see how well different cultures and races get along in this country, they still are having wars, and apartied(legal slavery and segregation) lasted all the way till the 1990s!
India does have a high tech economy, I mean where do you think all our jobs are going? Then you have Microsoft who is willing to pour endless amounts of money into India as long as they use Windows.
I think right now, the USA putting a man to mars would be a riduclous was of money considering we need to fix our electric grid, secure ourselves from terrorism, and fix up all the ghettos accross the country while providing after school programs.
By the way before people label my ideas socialist, each one of these ideas came from the Republican Party.
We were on the moon in the 1960s. In 2003 India should have no problem doing what we did all those years ago, their economy is plenty fast considering they have all the worlds tech jobs.
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Thats the problem, masters degree or not, there ARE no entry level positions.
I dont know what economy you are talking about but in the USA theres no jobs for people with bachlors degrees so your buddy with the masters is in the same position as the rest of us.
I dont think a person with a masters degree is over qualified, consider the fact that you'll need to be over qualified in order to get a job at all, theres no way to earn experience so you'll have to compete for jobs at the startups.
If you come in with a bachlors degree you are just another person with a bachlors degree, why hire you when the indian, mexican, chinese or african american all will do your job for cheaper, why ever hire you?
You have to market yourself and currently the market is designed so that you must seperate yourself from the pack to get a job.
How else are we supposed to compete with the billions of Indian and Chinese programmers who have bachlors degrees just like us?
The only Americans who will have a job in IT will be people with a masters degree or above, its going to end up being like law, or medicine.
You dont need to reverse engineer the code to crack it but its really trivial to reverse engineer stuff, you can decompile it, you can crack it, you can use stuff like hex editors, there are many many ways to crack code.
This isnt about cars, its about software. China has cheaper labor, cheaper labor means more programmers, more programmers in alot of cases means better software.
These are the numbers, this has nothing to do with politics or opinions, the fact that the USA is not number 1 in the car industry anymore proves my point, or the electronics industry, so why would USA be number 1 in the computer industry?
I say China will be number 1 because theres more of them, but it could always be India, my point is, it most likely wont be us.
What does the president of the USA have to do with this? That didnt even make sense.
No, Pirate their software if they sell it, and if they dont sell it, well then you'll never know it exists because it will be for their government.
Pay me money and I'll show you how.
Oh and I'm sure China will put me to death here in the USA lol you are funny.
Its a monopoly for the Chinese maybe but not for us. It means now we can choose to use their software if theirs is better.
Just like Japan making electronics was good for competition, its good for China to make software.
And I say innovation will happen because I know that Microsoft will have competition, I'm not caring what happens in China, I'm American, I'm more worried about the USA, and it would be good for us if that happened in China just like Sony was good for our economy (well for alittle while)
I'm not saying Chinese are superior, they dont have to be, they have numbers on their side.
Theres a billion of them, they ARE going to make better software, period, theres no way we can debate this, the chances of us making the best software in the world are slim, its nice to believe we are the best at it but reality and math says that the Chinese will be better at it simply because they have more people and their people are willing to work for alot less money.
Just like with the car industry, and all the other industries.
Simple, we pirate their software and then offer it up for download all over the internet to the Chinese.
What are they going to do? Sue you? LMAO
If they dont follow our rules why should we follow theirs? If they try to sell open source software, we buy it, crack it and give it away. Problem solved.
Guess what, We cant afford our software, you go buy photoshop, I'll use Gimp.
Do you think I care if they dont buy our intellectual property when I dont own any of it and dont profit from any of its sales? Do you think I care if they pirate music when artists dont even own the copyrights on the music?
Its not a matter of them buying our goods, if their goods are better and cheaper why not buy theirs? Sure I prefer to buy goods made in the USA to support the US economy, but I'm not rich, so a choice must be made, if our products are equally as good and the same price I'll always buy ours, but if their products are better and cost less I'll be forced to buy theirs.
Either way their cheaper products will force the price of our products down, this will help the economy.
Even if they dont, we will still get better software. Windows will have competition, Microsoft Word, and all the American software companies will now have competitors in China, this is great.
Sure not all the companies will be open source, but even if they are closed source you'll still be able to buy or download Chinese software which may be x100 better than the American software we have currently.
Do you know what this means for the open source movement? Better yet do you know what this means for the global economy? This changes the whole dynamics of the game.
Now China will have two options, develop an alternative to Microsoft Windows using open source, or develop an alternative to microsoft windows which is closed source.
Either way, we will get better software through competition, this is good for capitalism, good for the user, good for the software industry, and I cant see anything bad coming from this. I hope they take Redhat Linux and make it standard in China.
From the current trend, people are switching to free, be it via P2P, or software itself, now that people actually know what open source is, and they are considering Linux.
Currently Linux has a few issues but overall, for the price (free), when it comes time to buy a new computer, why buy longhorn when you can get Linux for free?
Lindows is way cheaper
By the way Linux has surpassed OSX, OSX is very new and not many people can afford Apple computers.
How do you know? You dont even use Linux.
Windows won because you have to present an alternative thats worth making the effort to switch to (anyone who's second to market will tell you this is hard). Telling someone that they have to spend time (and often money) in order to get back to where they are now because "Linux is better" is just going to get them pissed off.
Until they get the MSblaster worm. Thats when you switch them to Linux.
And, of course, in many ways Linux is NOT better. Evangelizing is all well and good, but know your audience.
Yes Windows has better fonts and eye candy, so does OSX, but in terms of software Windows no longer has the advantage, most important Windows software runs in Linux, even the games.
No one has to be convinced that Linux is better, once Linux is preinstalled next to the Windows machine, and a person can choose a Lindows computer or a Windows computer from a store, people on their own will choose Lindows when they think back to why they are upgrading in the first place (well Windows keeps crashing, I got infected by MSblaster, I need to save money, I think I'll go with Linux)
People will choose Linux if Linux has the same exact software, a cheaper price, and is virus proof.
How is our OS supposed to be worth using if its not better than theirs?
The average user does not judge better by how secure or stable it is, the judge better by how it looks, how smooth and easy to use it is, and how much eye candy it has.
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because they arent my Ideas, the point I am making, and the humor, is intended to show that Republicans are just as socialist as the democrats. The Republicans get socialist when the name "Christ" is mentioned, and in situations where it furthers their Agenda, they also like to give lots of welfare to big companies.
And who ends up controlling all the technology? never the inventors, but the people with the most money.
Why should other countries help us when we will just use our money to buy all their inventions and sell it back at a price they cannot afford?
Maybe we will respect the middle east now that they have the same abilities as us, this does not mean anything, the soviets have had nuke for years and years.
I dont really care if India has nuke, and I doubt they'd put it in space unless we do it first, its insane to put it in space but I see them doing it to protect themselves from us, I mean we are willing to go to war just because we want to without going through the UN, I wouldnt blame India for being alittle bit scared of us.
Just making a correction to my previous post.
Why do you ask silly questions like this?
First culture is a factor, second race is a factor, theres lots of differences between the countries of europe and the countries of Asia.
Going to space is not profitable, and look at Africa if you want to see how well different cultures and races get along in this country, they still are having wars, and apartied(legal slavery and segregation) lasted all the way till the 1990s!
If you havent noticed, the US economy is slowed down, the Japanese economy is slowed down, so the worlds biggest economies are slow as hell.
Why would you want to waste money on something like the space program for bragging rights when we can cut taxes and create jobs?
India does have a high tech economy, I mean where do you think all our jobs are going? Then you have Microsoft who is willing to pour endless amounts of money into India as long as they use Windows.
I think right now, the USA putting a man to mars would be a riduclous was of money considering we need to fix our electric grid, secure ourselves from terrorism, and fix up all the ghettos accross the country while providing after school programs.
By the way before people label my ideas socialist, each one of these ideas came from the Republican Party.
We were on the moon in the 1960s. In 2003 India should have no problem doing what we did all those years ago, their economy is plenty fast considering they have all the worlds tech jobs.