Even if it performs like a 9200, if it does not have a 9200, it's False and Misleading advertising- and that is quite illegal. Even if it's a mistake, the companies guilty of this typically end up on the end of a class-action suit and pay out some small rebate or similar.
I'd have thought you'd have some 'witty' riposte for me by now. No substance and all rhetoric. Just like all the other "Libertarians" I've yet to meet up with. Your first clue about what I am should have been the tagline- that's a Libertarian sentiment, through and through. And, I do believe that much of what we got going on is a mess and is wrong- I just find that your answers aren't much better either.
There's historical reasons why some of the things we have going on are there and in place- and if you know nothing of the history you shouldn't be gainsaying it in the first place. Some of the laws in place are there because of abuses made by business people and there's no changing that fact- nice stories telling you that all it does is ensure that teenagers, etc. get a guaranteed amount of money not withstanding, it's still a fact that there were exploitative people and the government stepped in to prevent the exploitation. If the minimum wage doesn't fix the problem, then suggest something else that WILL fix the problem- otherwise keep quiet because that something is actually better than nothing.
The same goes for many of the other laws on the books. Now, things like Social Security, there's no good rationale for those- there really wasn't much of a real problem for the government to step in and fix there. But, that's different than the child labor laws and minimum wage laws.
Each of those laws should be weighed on their merits and whether or not government has a business in the situation or not (in the case of Child Labor Laws, it does...)- not an utterly simplistic view that there should be no government whatsoever ("Anarchistic Capitalism" is the statement you make in your tagline, I believe- that would be no government whatsoever, letting the businesses run everything. Bad Idea, really. Businesses, if not checked, would actually go about killing people if it made a profit.).
...for what they are, or are you just telling different ones yourself. I didn't ask to be helped in my situation, I'm my own person and I managed to make it all work out, but to say that anyone can just "easily" get a job right now is also LYING just as much as the people you're trying to expose.
Your message would be much better recieved (and believed by all) if you got off your damned high horse yourself.
I didn't turn down anything that was actually offered to me in the form of "real work". It took me TWO FRIGGING YEARS to find a 6 month gig that I'm now two months into. Every place I talked to used the line "overqualified" quite a bit. You don't see device driver developers and client/server systems developers, getting VB coding jobs (which is what a lot of the positions out there have been for the past two years...).
And, if you must know, just before I got this gig, I was trying to scrape up the cash to get HVAC technician certifications so I could get a journeyman job doing that (since everybody, including businesses have to have that sort of thing these days...). Lots of money in that trade, I'm already knowlegeable and skilled at it having done it as a side business growing up, and I don't mind doing the work. But, I had to come up with the cash all the same so that I can be allowed by the Federal government to service HVAC systems- there's official training and tests to be taken for handling CFC's and HCFC's, etc.
If you've never been in the position these people are/have been in, you're hardly qualified or knowlegeable about commenting on the subject. Like I said to you in an earlier post, do EVERYONE else a favor and be quiet, will you?
I get busted all the time for my mistakes. Embedded systems don't play by the same rules as the desktop world stuff. A single mistake can go out to thousands of machines. In the case some of the systems I develop, a single mistake can KILL people. I do my level best not to make mistakes- just like those Hardware engineers you refer to. Keep that in mind the next time you think that all the software world is like frigging Microsoft or an apps vendor where people keep buying their broken crap.
What if your resume is legitimately miles long (i.e. 4-5 pages...)?
Unless you've been working fast food or retail jobs all that time, they're going to wonder WHY you're applying for the position- and think that with all those skills that you're going to leave at the first opportunity- AND NOT GIVE YOU THE JOB. The same goes for a lot of the tech positions out there. And not revealing your qualifications will lose you the job if they find out you omitted things on your application.
Do you have any idea of the HISTORY behind such laws? It's because employers would pay below subsistence wages to unskilled workers (as in not even really enough to live off of...) so that they'd have to work 12 or more hours in a day just to make enough money to barely live.
Not a pretty sight, really.
Now they're exporting that misery to the third world countries because they can and it nets a profit short-term for the businesses.
It amazes me how many "get a job" people are so clueless- because they're NOT IN THE SITUATION AND NEVER HAVE BEEN IN THE FIRST PLACE. They don't understand that many of these people that are "too good to work a real job" (By the way, define "real job" for me... If it's manual labor, then you don't understand what many actually did in the Tech fields- not all of them were "web developers" that got laid off, etc. Many of the people that got laid off had "real" jobs that were worth what they were getting paid for them until the Great Downsizing...) actually have obligations like houses and the such that many of what you'd consider "real" jobs won't even pay for an efficiency, let alone the obligations like car payments, insurance, etc.
If you've not been there, PLEASE do everyone a favor and shut the fuck up.
"n the meantime, classified government work looks like the best bet as far as job security goes - that will never be outsourced."
Indeed, it won't because it really can't. Now, having said this, it's very hard to get into that sort of work right now. Currently they're only really hiring 6-24 month contracts and you have to have an active security clearance of Secret or Higher in order to be seriously considered. The market's so damn saturated with people that they're being excessively picky- even in that area of work. If someone goes and whines about a lack of High-Tech workers and asking for more H1B's, I'm going to have words with them and they're not going to be at all nice ones...
If that's the way they work and you left after two months (that's pretty telling, in and of itself, no?) then what you're talking about just plain flat doesn't work.
And as other posters have pointed out Accenture, Cap Gemini, EDS, Perot Systems, and others are synonymous with disaster.
We spent more money fixing a clearinghouse system that Perot Systems "helped" develop for us at one of my previous employers.
His argument is 100% right. If it's part of your innovation, whether or not you're selling it, you have NO business outsourcing it to anyone let alone to a company in India or China. It really IS like worrying about the box and outsourcing the chocolates in his example.
They DO have stores (They've got Dell Direct sales kiosks in the mall- where you get to see something of what you're ordering through the system) and the online sales system for Dell (Whether it be by phone or by web) is also a store.
It's just that they didn't have brick and mortar storefronts until very recently- and these don't keep inventory, they're solely there to show off the wares so people can see what they're buying.
They have yet to really sell to the consumer. Each and every piece that they do is either dedicated to selling more server iron, engineering workstations, or screwing the competition (If you don't think StarOffice/OpenOffice isn't scorched earth intended for Microsoft, you probably ought to look at it closer.).
Much of the Netwinder drivers, etc. went into the Linux kernel as part of the ARM version of the kernel. This includes framebuffer drivers and framegrabber drivers for the IGST/Tvia CyberPro 2XXX and 5XXX series of set-top display adapters.
But I do happen to have a Forth overlay for Postscript lying about somewhere in my files from the SIG Forth meeting I'd attended when I was in college.
You ought to see what Chuck's come up with lately... Interesting to say the least.
Nahh... It'd be, "PermaSuck: We don't just make things that suck..... we make things that suck permanently!" (With all due respect to Infocom/Activision's Zork:The Grand Inquisitor...)
...with an expense. Alphas were dramatically faster than the machines of their era. They were also ferociously expensive, costing $5-8k compared to the $750-2k for a PC. Which do you think people will buy unless they need every drop of speed available?
If Alphas were as cheap as PCs and you could easily get software for them like you could Macs and PCs, what do you think people would have bought?
The AMD64 series is an expression of most of that raw power at cheaper prices for all.
They (The FCC) have made it as lax as they can and still make it useful. Rule 15 in a nutshell, is, if you're not licensed and you're interfering with licensed services, you get to redesign to avoid interfering or stop doing it altogether. Licensed services (i.e. HF Amateur, FEMA, and Military radio) have precedence- and they're not going to change that rule because of some commercial Part 15 service- partly because the military is involved, and what Uncle Sam wants, Uncle Sam gets.
If they're dinking with RACES or MARS (which is the case), then they're going to stop the emissions no matter what.
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"He was trying to be too cute with his lessons. If you read the story leading up to that rule, you find the real lesson in the last sentence, "RADish was designed to solve a problem that almost nobody has."
I don't know-seems like he was just early to that market. I'm pretty sure there's a LOT of companies, etc. using VB that'd love to get out from underneath that yoke (Many tax packages are written in either Delphi or VB- I know, I interviewed with two of the main players at one point in time. I wish Kylix was a better answer for Delphi (it's, sadly, not as much of one as Borland should have released) but there's nothing in the VB department right at the moment save re-writing the whole thing in C/C++.) It's not that the problem doesn't exist, it's just not a hot one yet- and in all honesty, if they'd made it so they could target Windows, Linux, *BSD, other Unices, and MacOS X- they'd have had at least as sellable a product as the one they have now (which is the other maxim that he should have gotten for himself- don't enter into markets with heavily established players without having something obviously superior and have a LOT of money market and sell it.
The current venture of his may be making money, but it's sure not a success in the sense he's talking about as far as I can tell- he's facing competition from PVCS, SourceSafe, Perforce, Seapine, and ClearCase. Better yet, he's only made it.NET capable so he's closed off a good portion of his potential market since the other systems, with the exception of SourceSafe happen to be fully cross-platform, bridging all sorts of platforms.
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..."lessons" learned.
"A market with no competition aint"
That's pure unadulterated bull- and anyone with business sense KNOWS this.
A market with no competition may not be a market afterall, but it may also be an untapped, unsold to market as well. You take a risk entering into a market with nobody in it- but someone has to be first into it. Let only the big players or the bold ones get into there first and then collect the tablescraps? Bullsh*t. Utter bullsh*t.
Anyone that takes this man's advice to heart is setting themselves up for limitations, etc. that may actually doom your business as much as he did his for the early part of it's existance. Better yet, he's currently making products that compete with SourceSafe- which means he's got PVCS, ClearCase, Perforce, and Seapine to deal with as competitors as well. I hope he's got a MUCH better product than all the above and a LARGE budget for advertising and all.
It's a development model, nothing more nothing less.
Anyone that thinks that it's a business model and moves forward from that premise is certain to fail and most likely spectacularly. Red Hat's not in the "Free Software" business, they're in the software and solutions business- they just us a LOT of Free Software to help accomplish these solutions they sell. There's other examples.
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Even if it performs like a 9200, if it does not have a 9200, it's False and Misleading advertising- and that is quite illegal. Even if it's a mistake, the companies guilty of this typically end up on the end of a class-action suit and pay out some small rebate or similar.
While your sentiments run true, Carly's a her not a him...
Not knowing whom you're really talking about mars the impact of the statement, unfortunately.
I'd have thought you'd have some 'witty' riposte for me by now. No substance and all rhetoric. Just like all the other "Libertarians" I've yet to meet up with. Your first clue about what I am should have been the tagline- that's a Libertarian sentiment, through and through. And, I do believe that much of what we got going on is a mess and is wrong- I just find that your answers aren't much better either.
There's historical reasons why some of the things we have going on are there and in place- and if you know nothing of the history you shouldn't be gainsaying it in the first place. Some of the laws in place are there because of abuses made by business people and there's no changing that fact- nice stories telling you that all it does is ensure that teenagers, etc. get a guaranteed amount of money not withstanding, it's still a fact that there were exploitative people and the government stepped in to prevent the exploitation. If the minimum wage doesn't fix the problem, then suggest something else that WILL fix the problem- otherwise keep quiet because that something is actually better than nothing.
The same goes for many of the other laws on the books. Now, things like Social Security, there's no good rationale for those- there really wasn't much of a real problem for the government to step in and fix there. But, that's different than the child labor laws and minimum wage laws.
Each of those laws should be weighed on their merits and whether or not government has a business in the situation or not (in the case of Child Labor Laws, it does...)- not an utterly simplistic view that there should be no government whatsoever ("Anarchistic Capitalism" is the statement you make in your tagline, I believe- that would be no government whatsoever, letting the businesses run everything. Bad Idea, really. Businesses, if not checked, would actually go about killing people if it made a profit.).
...for what they are, or are you just telling different ones yourself. I didn't ask to be helped in my situation, I'm my own person and I managed to make it all work out, but to say that anyone can just "easily" get a job right now is also LYING just as much as the people you're trying to expose.
Your message would be much better recieved (and believed by all) if you got off your damned high horse yourself.
I didn't turn down anything that was actually offered to me in the form of "real work". It took me TWO FRIGGING YEARS to find a 6 month gig that I'm now two months into. Every place I talked to used the line "overqualified" quite a bit. You don't see device driver developers and client/server systems developers, getting VB coding jobs (which is what a lot of the positions out there have been for the past two years...).
And, if you must know, just before I got this gig, I was trying to scrape up the cash to get HVAC technician certifications so I could get a journeyman job doing that (since everybody, including businesses have to have that sort of thing these days...). Lots of money in that trade, I'm already knowlegeable and skilled at it having done it as a side business growing up, and I don't mind doing the work. But, I had to come up with the cash all the same so that I can be allowed by the Federal government to service HVAC systems- there's official training and tests to be taken for handling CFC's and HCFC's, etc.
If you've never been in the position these people are/have been in, you're hardly qualified or knowlegeable about commenting on the subject. Like I said to you in an earlier post, do EVERYONE else a favor and be quiet, will you?
I get busted all the time for my mistakes. Embedded systems don't play by the same rules as the desktop world stuff. A single mistake can go out to thousands of machines. In the case some of the systems I develop, a single mistake can KILL people. I do my level best not to make mistakes- just like those Hardware engineers you refer to. Keep that in mind the next time you think that all the software world is like frigging Microsoft or an apps vendor where people keep buying their broken crap.
What if your resume is legitimately miles long (i.e. 4-5 pages...)?
Unless you've been working fast food or retail jobs all that time, they're going to wonder WHY you're applying for the position- and think that with all those skills that you're going to leave at the first opportunity- AND NOT GIVE YOU THE JOB. The same goes for a lot of the tech positions out there. And not revealing your qualifications will lose you the job if they find out you omitted things on your application.
Do you have any idea of the HISTORY behind such laws? It's because employers would pay below subsistence wages to unskilled workers (as in not even really enough to live off of...) so that they'd have to work 12 or more hours in a day just to make enough money to barely live.
Not a pretty sight, really.
Now they're exporting that misery to the third world countries because they can and it nets a profit short-term for the businesses.
It amazes me how many "get a job" people are so clueless- because they're NOT IN THE SITUATION AND NEVER HAVE BEEN IN THE FIRST PLACE. They don't understand that many of these people that are "too good to work a real job" (By the way, define "real job" for me... If it's manual labor, then you don't understand what many actually did in the Tech fields- not all of them were "web developers" that got laid off, etc. Many of the people that got laid off had "real" jobs that were worth what they were getting paid for them until the Great Downsizing...) actually have obligations like houses and the such that many of what you'd consider "real" jobs won't even pay for an efficiency, let alone the obligations like car payments, insurance, etc.
If you've not been there, PLEASE do everyone a favor and shut the fuck up.
For each mistake of ANY kind you make, you should knock a quarter off of your hourly wage. Don't make any mistakes? BULLSHIT.
Grow up. That's my advice to you. Grow up.
Indeed, it won't because it really can't. Now, having said this, it's very hard to get into that sort of work right now. Currently they're only really hiring 6-24 month contracts and you have to have an active security clearance of Secret or Higher in order to be seriously considered. The market's so damn saturated with people that they're being excessively picky- even in that area of work. If someone goes and whines about a lack of High-Tech workers and asking for more H1B's, I'm going to have words with them and they're not going to be at all nice ones...
If that's the way they work and you left after two months (that's pretty telling, in and of itself, no?) then what you're talking about just plain flat doesn't work.
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And as other posters have pointed out Accenture, Cap Gemini, EDS, Perot Systems, and others are synonymous with disaster
We spent more money fixing a clearinghouse system that Perot Systems "helped" develop for us at one of my previous employers.
His argument is 100% right. If it's part of your innovation, whether or not you're selling it, you have NO business outsourcing it to anyone let alone to a company in India or China. It really IS like worrying about the box and outsourcing the chocolates in his example.
They DO have stores (They've got Dell Direct sales kiosks in the mall- where you get to see something of what you're ordering through the system) and the online sales system for Dell (Whether it be by phone or by web) is also a store.
It's just that they didn't have brick and mortar storefronts until very recently- and these don't keep inventory, they're solely there to show off the wares so people can see what they're buying.
And, it only applies to aircraft flying over our airspace that they have to apply the limitation.
They have yet to really sell to the consumer. Each and every piece that they do is either dedicated to selling more server iron, engineering workstations, or screwing the competition (If you don't think StarOffice/OpenOffice isn't scorched earth intended for Microsoft, you probably ought to look at it closer.).
Much of the Netwinder drivers, etc. went into the Linux kernel as part of the ARM version of the kernel. This includes framebuffer drivers and framegrabber drivers for the IGST/Tvia CyberPro 2XXX and 5XXX series of set-top display adapters.
Early model Qubes had MIPS CPUs, not ARM...
But I do happen to have a Forth overlay for Postscript lying about somewhere in my files from the SIG Forth meeting I'd attended when I was in college.
You ought to see what Chuck's come up with lately... Interesting to say the least.
Any of the "new-world" Macs happen to use it, all the Mac clones used it, and some models of early PowerMacs used it.
It's your BIOS for your machine whether you know it or not.
Nahh... It'd be, "PermaSuck: We don't just make things that suck ..... we make things that suck permanently!" (With all due respect to Infocom/Activision's Zork:The Grand Inquisitor...)
...with an expense. Alphas were dramatically faster than the machines of their era. They were also ferociously expensive, costing $5-8k compared to the $750-2k for a PC. Which do you think people will buy unless they need every drop of speed available?
If Alphas were as cheap as PCs and you could easily get software for them like you could Macs and PCs, what do you think people would have bought?
The AMD64 series is an expression of most of that raw power at cheaper prices for all.
They (The FCC) have made it as lax as they can and still make it useful. Rule 15 in a nutshell, is, if you're not licensed and you're interfering with licensed services, you get to redesign to avoid interfering or stop doing it altogether. Licensed services (i.e. HF Amateur, FEMA, and Military radio) have precedence- and they're not going to change that rule because of some commercial Part 15 service- partly because the military is involved, and what Uncle Sam wants, Uncle Sam gets.
If they're dinking with RACES or MARS (which is the case), then they're going to stop the emissions no matter what.
I don't know-seems like he was just early to that market. I'm pretty sure there's a LOT of companies, etc. using VB that'd love to get out from underneath that yoke (Many tax packages are written in either Delphi or VB- I know, I interviewed with two of the main players at one point in time. I wish Kylix was a better answer for Delphi (it's, sadly, not as much of one as Borland should have released) but there's nothing in the VB department right at the moment save re-writing the whole thing in C/C++.) It's not that the problem doesn't exist, it's just not a hot one yet- and in all honesty, if they'd made it so they could target Windows, Linux, *BSD, other Unices, and MacOS X- they'd have had at least as sellable a product as the one they have now (which is the other maxim that he should have gotten for himself- don't enter into markets with heavily established players without having something obviously superior and have a LOT of money market and sell it.
The current venture of his may be making money, but it's sure not a success in the sense he's talking about as far as I can tell- he's facing competition from PVCS, SourceSafe, Perforce, Seapine, and ClearCase. Better yet, he's only made it
That's pure unadulterated bull- and anyone with business sense KNOWS this.
A market with no competition may not be a market afterall, but it may also be an untapped, unsold to market as well. You take a risk entering into a market with nobody in it- but someone has to be first into it. Let only the big players or the bold ones get into there first and then collect the tablescraps? Bullsh*t. Utter bullsh*t.
Anyone that takes this man's advice to heart is setting themselves up for limitations, etc. that may actually doom your business as much as he did his for the early part of it's existance. Better yet, he's currently making products that compete with SourceSafe- which means he's got PVCS, ClearCase, Perforce, and Seapine to deal with as competitors as well. I hope he's got a MUCH better product than all the above and a LARGE budget for advertising and all.
It's a development model, nothing more nothing less.
Anyone that thinks that it's a business model and moves forward from that premise is certain to fail and most likely spectacularly. Red Hat's not in the "Free Software" business, they're in the software and solutions business- they just us a LOT of Free Software to help accomplish these solutions they sell. There's other examples.