The article is obviously not very thorough. Not exactly a shock. It's a typical Forbes fluff piece, and now I know the reason no one really puts much stock in their content.
Almost all of the "no's" were inaccurate on their criteria list. They would have been inaccurate while I was there from 93-97!
The author forgot to mention one thing I noticed in A New Hope. In the scene where the stormtrooper hits his head, the sound it makes seems to be much louder.
As usual, the media has overblown this whole outsourcing thing. Like anything else, outsourcing is met with varying degrees of success. It does lend itself to large, well-defined projects where the requirements almost never change (and change very little when they do). Companies with work that fits this bill often find a very cost effective way of getting what they need. Outsourcing doesn't work so well with more fluid projects, where the business often interferes with, and changes project direction. This kind of work requires too much constant communication to effectively be managed remotely. In cases like this, outsourcing will experience far less success, and the increase in management costs can sometimes even outweigh the savings in labor.
Additionally, trend predictions can pretty much be considered worthless. Many of the assumptions are based on the cheap labor remaining cheap. What happens when salaries begin to rise with demand?
Good point. I find the estimates provided by the study a little suspect, but I just don't know enough about industrial production. Some quick estimates I rang up put the price of energy for manufacturing a single PC at around 25-30 bucks. My estimate is based on about $12 for the fossil fuels, and the rest for the water. This is assuming that the fuel used is coal only, and also does not account for the 20+ KG of "other" chemicals.
While I know next to nothing about manufacturing, but I do know this -- the manufacturer is taking in probably about $250-300 per unit. This puts your energy costs at about 10+% of the cost of a unit. When you have to factor in labor, shipping, taxes, equipment maintenance/replacement, etc., etc., could you effectively make money while spending so much on energy? Anyone?
It does nothing to remove their infestation of Scooby Doo content. Can I turn around without an episode of Scooby Doo, A Pup Named Scooby Doo, Scooby Doo Theatre, etc. coming up???
I do like that they're catering to some of the older crowd, though. The Anime Adult Swim is nice, and I always catch the Adult Swim on Sundays. Is it me, or does The Ripping Friends totally blow. John K. has pretty much lost it.
Yeah, and we also wouldn't have any places to surf to. We wouldn't be able to buy computer crap online for dirt cheap. We wouldn't have SlashDot.org.
I wish everyone would get off of this notion that the internet is some kind of entitlement. You don't like JavaScript? Turn it off in your browser. You don't like what the internet has become? Don't use it. Start your own damn internet!
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The article is obviously not very thorough. Not exactly a shock. It's a typical Forbes fluff piece, and now I know the reason no one really puts much stock in their content.
Almost all of the "no's" were inaccurate on their criteria list. They would have been inaccurate while I was there from 93-97!
The author forgot to mention one thing I noticed in A New Hope. In the scene where the stormtrooper hits his head, the sound it makes seems to be much louder.
As usual, the media has overblown this whole outsourcing thing. Like anything else, outsourcing is met with varying degrees of success. It does lend itself to large, well-defined projects where the requirements almost never change (and change very little when they do). Companies with work that fits this bill often find a very cost effective way of getting what they need. Outsourcing doesn't work so well with more fluid projects, where the business often interferes with, and changes project direction. This kind of work requires too much constant communication to effectively be managed remotely. In cases like this, outsourcing will experience far less success, and the increase in management costs can sometimes even outweigh the savings in labor.
Additionally, trend predictions can pretty much be considered worthless. Many of the assumptions are based on the cheap labor remaining cheap. What happens when salaries begin to rise with demand?
Good point. I find the estimates provided by the study a little suspect, but I just don't know enough about industrial production. Some quick estimates I rang up put the price of energy for manufacturing a single PC at around 25-30 bucks. My estimate is based on about $12 for the fossil fuels, and the rest for the water. This is assuming that the fuel used is coal only, and also does not account for the 20+ KG of "other" chemicals.
While I know next to nothing about manufacturing, but I do know this -- the manufacturer is taking in probably about $250-300 per unit. This puts your energy costs at about 10+% of the cost of a unit. When you have to factor in labor, shipping, taxes, equipment maintenance/replacement, etc., etc., could you effectively make money while spending so much on energy? Anyone?
If Sprint would spend this much money on making my signal better, I'd be a much happier consumer.
It does nothing to remove their infestation of Scooby Doo content. Can I turn around without an episode of Scooby Doo, A Pup Named Scooby Doo, Scooby Doo Theatre, etc. coming up???
I do like that they're catering to some of the older crowd, though. The Anime Adult Swim is nice, and I always catch the Adult Swim on Sundays. Is it me, or does The Ripping Friends totally blow. John K. has pretty much lost it.
Then you'll see how much of the W3C HTML standard Netscape either chooses to ignore or is incapable of implementing.
Say what you want about M$, but they are World Wide Web Consortium compliant.
Yeah, and we also wouldn't have any places to surf to. We wouldn't be able to buy computer crap online for dirt cheap. We wouldn't have SlashDot.org.
I wish everyone would get off of this notion that the internet is some kind of entitlement. You don't like JavaScript? Turn it off in your browser. You don't like what the internet has become? Don't use it. Start your own damn internet!