Grafitti sucks to put it simply. The softare was never really upgraded or enhanced to learn from the user. So most folks get frustrated with it and use the popup keyboard instead. Well that pretty much sucks too. So now most PDA's will be moving toward the physical keyboards which made the blackberry so popular.
If my bill isn't rounded off why should the tip be?
Yes I could use the PalmOS's built in calculator to calculate the tip but why do that if the Tipper app makes it so much easier? I enter the price of the bill, select the percentage I want to tip at (15%, 20%..etc) and hit enter and there's the exact tip the waiter should get.
The percentage is used to represent the waiters service. If the service is below average they get a lower percentage. Great service gets a 25% tip from me. Besides I suck at math, don't need to be good at math, and machines rock at math, machines are built to do work for humans so WHY NOT USE IT?
How is someone silently typing away on their computer disrupting others? Not all keyboards are loud you know.
Furthermore asking a question aloud that others already know the answer to wastes THEIR time. So simply asking one person about it is much more efficient.
Just because someone or a group of people say they are moral doesn't mean they actually ARE. Furthermore morals are subjective and distinct to time, place and situation. Some would have you believe that there are absolute morals that are universal around the world and througout all time but that is simply not true otherwise we wouldn't be having this debate to begin with.
I understand that there are baseline economical differences between India and the US. The workers in India are cheaper than workers in the US. This does not equal disaster however. What will happen over time is an equalizing of prices (and wages are a price as well for companies have to pay them) worldwide. While we are in the process of this transition there will be discomfort and upheaval. But it simply must happen. If it is delayed via protectionist measures then we will only stagnate our own economy while nations who do not will benefit from lower prices on everything and the efficiency that that brings.
Another thing that needs to be pointed out is that the IT industry, and when I say the IT industry I mean the actual hardcore geeks (programmers, developers, network administrators, CISCO ninjas...etc) make up a very very small part of the overal employed population. Everyone other than those folks who work in the IT industry can work in any other industry as well. Just because a secretary or advertising exec works for Google that does not make them an IT worker. Likewise when they are laid off it is of no major consequence for there's the entire REST of the economy where they may apply their talents to. Sometimes these outsourcing stories make you think there are millions and millions or tens of millions of jobless geeks roaming the streets wearing rags and jumping out of windows as during the Great Depression.
As for that guy who DID kill himself what would you have the company do? Never layoff anyone for fear they may off themselves? People get laid off or fired everyday and they usually do not go around killing themselves. You get fired or layoff, you find a new job. Simple as that. Otherwise companies are going to start having to do incoming psych evaulations and that means those unstable folks won't be able to get jobs to begin with.
Why don't you try actually using that little handheld computer you have for more than just the basic 4 PIM apps?
First of all I'd love to have more than 4 buttons. Right now I have to use an app called Button Launch (its free people) that lets me assign more than 1 app per button. (counting what the buttons are already assigned to there's three apps to a button).
I have a Kyocera 7135 Smartphone. It runs Palm OS 4.1 and has 16MB of RAM. It also has a SD Card slot, 3G speed capability and a built in MP3 Player with a stereo headset. My AvantGo app alone has 8MB worth of channels (thats around 50 channels folks).
Not to mention I have real estate software to synch with my state's MLS systems, SnapperMail for on the go email, iSilo for reading ebooks at my leisure, PocketQuicken that synchs to Quicken Deluxe on the desktop so I can do away with paper checkbooks, Teal Script so grafitti can learn from me and not the other way around, Tipper so I can calculate the exact tips at restaraunts, upIR for IRC on the go, SplashID for keeping all my bank account, credit card account, web logins, and other sensitive data all in one encrypted place.
My PDA is more than just a glorified addressbook/datebook/todolist/memopad. Its a real friggin handheld computer. AND it does it all in 33Mhz. I can't wait to see what can be done when Smartphones get 400Mhz CPU's like the standalone PDA's already have.
www.kyocerasmartphone.com
I could never be satisified with the earlier models.
A person in India is the same as a person in the United States. They're both humans. A wolf in the US doesn't give a rats ass about the eating conditions of another wolf in Europe. If the eating is good in one place thats where all the wolves will be. Same for any other animal. Humans are animals too.
You make it sound like tech workers are the only people to ever commit suicide over losing their job. I mean for crying out loud the unemployment rate in this country is only 6.6%. There was no need for that man to kill himself. He obviously had pre-existing mental problems that are completely irrelevant to the overal outsourcing trend.
The problem is there are folks who STILL believe that they DESERVE a certain standard of living. What they don't realize is you have to EARN this. And by earning it I mean more than simply going to high school, college, then 30 years of employment at one company until you can retire with a nice pension. The period after WWII that the GI Bill ushered in was a TEMPORARY existence. Just because one works hard or goes to college does not mean they will succeed. You must work SMART not just hard. Be innovative, resourceful and flexible. Most of all, THINK. I AM thinking with my brain. Thats why I don't think any industry or business owes me anything. I hand over my labor (or I used to) for a wage in return. Thats the contract. Why should I or anyone else expect anything more?
Another thing why the heck does that article keep hyping over the fact that the Bank of America has the name "America" in it? the name is irrelevant. Its a business. Would you feel better if Deutch Bank screwed you over?
So should we do the same for the auto industry? What about the textile industries? Is your job more important than those people's jobs were? Are American consumers supposed to pay higher prices just to keep your wages artificially inflated?
This isn't a troll. This guy is exactly on point. Why worry about those who will work for lower wages than you will when there are those who will work for NOTHING?
The people who are "well off" already have the money to afford buying more expensive higher quality items in the first place. Some single mother may WANT to buy a high end appliance but has to settle for the cheap stuff at Walmart instead.
Why shouldn't good grades and test scores be enough? Is Harvard looking for and thus also promoting being good at bullshitting people into thinking you are better at something then you really are?
Business is cuthroat. Whats with all the sympathy for small business owners and animoistiy towards big business? Just because a business is small doesn't mean its any less ruthless. If you are both competent and ambitious your business will survive. If you're a moron and afraid to step up to the plate your business will founder.
You have to fight to keep jobs in this country because you are a living organism who will always have to compete to eke out a living. Every living thing must do this. Just because we have large brains and advanced civilizations you think this is supposed to be any different?
Your efforts are noble but in the long run irrelevant and futile. The masses are who count and if they buy the lowest priced products, origin be damned, then thats where the market will go.
So would your 2 points apply to all the potential Linux users out there advising them to stay away because their time is far too valuable to waste learning how to use some strange obscure Unix based OS?
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Grafitti sucks to put it simply. The softare was never really upgraded or enhanced to learn from the user. So most folks get frustrated with it and use the popup keyboard instead. Well that pretty much sucks too. So now most PDA's will be moving toward the physical keyboards which made the blackberry so popular.
MIT produces people who cannot capitalize the first letter in the beginning of a sentence and use profanity needlessly?
Oy vey!
If my bill isn't rounded off why should the tip be?
Yes I could use the PalmOS's built in calculator to calculate the tip but why do that if the Tipper app makes it so much easier? I enter the price of the bill, select the percentage I want to tip at (15%, 20%..etc) and hit enter and there's the exact tip the waiter should get.
The percentage is used to represent the waiters service. If the service is below average they get a lower percentage. Great service gets a 25% tip from me. Besides I suck at math, don't need to be good at math, and machines rock at math, machines are built to do work for humans so WHY NOT USE IT?
As long as the student gets the grade they desire why does it matter if they come to class or not?
How is someone silently typing away on their computer disrupting others? Not all keyboards are loud you know.
Furthermore asking a question aloud that others already know the answer to wastes THEIR time. So simply asking one person about it is much more efficient.
So students discussing the topics in class and helping each other to learn are not allowed?
No wonder our school system is so great!
And there are some people who consider people who consider progress in general to be rude to be morons.
Just because someone or a group of people say they are moral doesn't mean they actually ARE. Furthermore morals are subjective and distinct to time, place and situation. Some would have you believe that there are absolute morals that are universal around the world and througout all time but that is simply not true otherwise we wouldn't be having this debate to begin with.
I understand that there are baseline economical differences between India and the US. The workers in India are cheaper than workers in the US. This does not equal disaster however. What will happen over time is an equalizing of prices (and wages are a price as well for companies have to pay them) worldwide. While we are in the process of this transition there will be discomfort and upheaval. But it simply must happen. If it is delayed via protectionist measures then we will only stagnate our own economy while nations who do not will benefit from lower prices on everything and the efficiency that that brings.
Another thing that needs to be pointed out is that the IT industry, and when I say the IT industry I mean the actual hardcore geeks (programmers, developers, network administrators, CISCO ninjas...etc) make up a very very small part of the overal employed population. Everyone other than those folks who work in the IT industry can work in any other industry as well. Just because a secretary or advertising exec works for Google that does not make them an IT worker. Likewise when they are laid off it is of no major consequence for there's the entire REST of the economy where they may apply their talents to. Sometimes these outsourcing stories make you think there are millions and millions or tens of millions of jobless geeks roaming the streets wearing rags and jumping out of windows as during the Great Depression.
As for that guy who DID kill himself what would you have the company do? Never layoff anyone for fear they may off themselves? People get laid off or fired everyday and they usually do not go around killing themselves. You get fired or layoff, you find a new job. Simple as that. Otherwise companies are going to start having to do incoming psych evaulations and that means those unstable folks won't be able to get jobs to begin with.
Why don't you try actually using that little handheld computer you have for more than just the basic 4 PIM apps?
First of all I'd love to have more than 4 buttons. Right now I have to use an app called Button Launch (its free people) that lets me assign more than 1 app per button. (counting what the buttons are already assigned to there's three apps to a button).
I have a Kyocera 7135 Smartphone. It runs Palm OS 4.1 and has 16MB of RAM. It also has a SD Card slot, 3G speed capability and a built in MP3 Player with a stereo headset. My AvantGo app alone has 8MB worth of channels (thats around 50 channels folks).
Not to mention I have real estate software to synch with my state's MLS systems, SnapperMail for on the go email, iSilo for reading ebooks at my leisure, PocketQuicken that synchs to Quicken Deluxe on the desktop so I can do away with paper checkbooks, Teal Script so grafitti can learn from me and not the other way around, Tipper so I can calculate the exact tips at restaraunts, upIR for IRC on the go, SplashID for keeping all my bank account, credit card account, web logins, and other sensitive data all in one encrypted place.
My PDA is more than just a glorified addressbook/datebook/todolist/memopad. Its a real friggin handheld computer. AND it does it all in 33Mhz. I can't wait to see what can be done when Smartphones get 400Mhz CPU's like the standalone PDA's already have.
www.kyocerasmartphone.com
I could never be satisified with the earlier models.
The Treo 600 is WHY Palm bought Handspring. They aren't going to kill it, they want to take it and support it and come out with better future models.
A person in India is the same as a person in the United States. They're both humans. A wolf in the US doesn't give a rats ass about the eating conditions of another wolf in Europe. If the eating is good in one place thats where all the wolves will be. Same for any other animal. Humans are animals too.
You make it sound like tech workers are the only people to ever commit suicide over losing their job. I mean for crying out loud the unemployment rate in this country is only 6.6%. There was no need for that man to kill himself. He obviously had pre-existing mental problems that are completely irrelevant to the overal outsourcing trend.
The problem is there are folks who STILL believe that they DESERVE a certain standard of living. What they don't realize is you have to EARN this. And by earning it I mean more than simply going to high school, college, then 30 years of employment at one company until you can retire with a nice pension. The period after WWII that the GI Bill ushered in was a TEMPORARY existence. Just because one works hard or goes to college does not mean they will succeed. You must work SMART not just hard. Be innovative, resourceful and flexible. Most of all, THINK. I AM thinking with my brain. Thats why I don't think any industry or business owes me anything. I hand over my labor (or I used to) for a wage in return. Thats the contract. Why should I or anyone else expect anything more?
Another thing why the heck does that article keep hyping over the fact that the Bank of America has the name "America" in it? the name is irrelevant. Its a business. Would you feel better if Deutch Bank screwed you over?
So should we do the same for the auto industry? What about the textile industries? Is your job more important than those people's jobs were? Are American consumers supposed to pay higher prices just to keep your wages artificially inflated?
This isn't a troll. This guy is exactly on point. Why worry about those who will work for lower wages than you will when there are those who will work for NOTHING?
The global economy is NOT a zero-sum game. Wealth/money is CREATED or WASTED not found or lost.
A DKNY shirt is a luxury not an essential. If you want a $2 shirt you can find one. It just won't have a brand name.
The people who are "well off" already have the money to afford buying more expensive higher quality items in the first place. Some single mother may WANT to buy a high end appliance but has to settle for the cheap stuff at Walmart instead.
THAT is why price rules.
Actually they're better educated. The CS programs in India make ours (even those at MIT, Harvard...etc) look like high school level courses.
Why shouldn't good grades and test scores be enough? Is Harvard looking for and thus also promoting being good at bullshitting people into thinking you are better at something then you really are?
Business is cuthroat. Whats with all the sympathy for small business owners and animoistiy towards big business? Just because a business is small doesn't mean its any less ruthless. If you are both competent and ambitious your business will survive. If you're a moron and afraid to step up to the plate your business will founder.
Understand?
You have to fight to keep jobs in this country because you are a living organism who will always have to compete to eke out a living. Every living thing must do this. Just because we have large brains and advanced civilizations you think this is supposed to be any different?
Your efforts are noble but in the long run irrelevant and futile. The masses are who count and if they buy the lowest priced products, origin be damned, then thats where the market will go.
Someone mod this up!
So would your 2 points apply to all the potential Linux users out there advising them to stay away because their time is far too valuable to waste learning how to use some strange obscure Unix based OS?
Says who?
And WTF is the point of all this computing power if its just to display boring text? For the love of GAWD even BOOKS have pictures!
BOOKS!