Lets see who is going to top the list. Last I heard, MINN has something like 6.8% unemployment and climbing. Looks like the food lines will soon be forming out there in the beach-o-plenty state...
It's been going on for a long time and usually revolves around money in one form or another. Lately you are likely to see much more of these issues crop up. Especially; since many companies have been strategically imbalanced in the finance department to make sure the CEO, CFO, share holders, et al, are all well compensated and stock prices are well reflected as overvalued to perpetuate the theme.
This particular issue also has its roots in HR since they usually are instructed to keep wages low and eliminate anything upper management thinks they no longer need. So; yea, you have a lot of people on edge these days because the meaning of hard work has been thrown out the window now in favor of making sure upper management is making as much money as possible along with all those perks such as "Golden Parachutes" and the like.
Why do you think there are many larger companies who own a lobby in Washington pushing Congress for more H1-B visas so they can replace the tenured staff with "students" who will do the same job for them, but at 1/5th the cost. You do the math.
I knew I made the right decision when I decided not to participate in these silly iphone thingys. This is a fad that will ultimately pass along with other fads. It's a neat gadget but for some to refer to these things as a "platform" is absolutely silly. If someone ultimately did make them a "platform" then adopting companies would have to provide them to employees, and like many companies, most of the features such as listening to music and such would be crippled--because your not supposed to be listening to music, your supposed to be working!
I wasted $70 on a silly little iPod shuffle, and have already had to have it replaced just as the warranty was expiring, and I suspect it will once again fail at the end of year 2. No more Apple products like this. Their computers however are great!
Given the companies that I've worked at in the past(non-enterprise), good luck with that. Those people get those jobs because they know someone high up in the company, or are sleeping with someone high up in the company. More than likely, you'll get the boot for even bringing the subject matter up.
Problem is now that someone brought it up, be rest assured that it will now be thoroughly investigated by many parties. Texas already has that stupid law on the books saying you must have a detectives license in order to work on PC's. What's next??!..
The fact is that this is "Radio" for all its worth. The "radio" part is what carries the signal much like the Cat5e does with the wired stuff. The problem is that people are thinking and going about this from the wrong direction. I saw some of this years back when all we had was 802.11b and we tried to fill up a wireless access point with as many connections as we could. The access point started dropping connections erratically, and bandwidth to all connected users were suffering after only about 10 or so users doing concurrent and sustained file transfers. We tried this again later with 802.11g and pretty much got the same issue.
All they did with 802.11g to get faster throughput, was to spread the signal out wider so it covers up about 3 channels to what 802.11b uses. It didn't really change the fundamental way in which the radio "wire" is connected and how its accessed. The sender/receiver can only handle just so much through it.
This is not really a scaling issue and being able to resolve a large number of hosts behind an access point, but really more of change of the fundamental design of the "carrier" in the first place. My assessment here is that our so-called "Wifi" will actually have to morph to a cellular type of radio rather than what we have now in order to properly scale. A cellular method will carry with it a multi-channeled multi-homing sender-receiver that can better handle multiple connections unlike a single transmitter/receiver pair used to handle the whole lot.
Just take an existing license, attach it, and format the hard drive and load. When authentication time comes, "I replaced the motherboard". Problem solved.
I am in the market for a new laptop to replace my aging old Compaq EVO's and one of the criteria will be purchase of XP licenses to use with them. I may consider leaving one of them at Vista just for testing but since I have to purchase 3 laptops, it's likely that all three of them will go XP. I would put Linux on them as dual boot but I am still not happy with the fact that Windows does not play well with the GNU stuff still, and in my multimedia and recording work, there are still latency issues with Linux that are unacceptable.
So; Something in a dual core (No Celerons please!) of at least 1.8ghz but 2ghz preferred. A nice display chipset that won't fail after 90 days (and that manufacturer knows who they are), and around 250gig with a DVD burner and 15" screen should suffice!
Fact is though that if they outsource then they either need to come up with the money to buy a term length support contract with some Indian company, or they need to call up some local guy who knows nothing of their "stuff" or their methods. Either way, they'll try to get off on the cheap.
I think this will ultimately come around to being a gain for many of us with the talent and experience but we won't be part of a company anymore. We really are beginning to head into the "service sector" type of business, and Desk-side, and support departments are "service" related. To some degree; even our network admins are kinda-sorta "service" jobs. Once you install it, it then becomes more tweaking and adjusting to make people happy, and fixing small anomalies when they happen--much like the days of the old TV repair shop.
This could get interesting in the next 5 years for sure!!
Ok; admittedly, I should have specified eastern Europe. That is the thing here send those jobs over there because American labor just costs too much.
And yea; I was being somewhat sarcastic about it. When you've lost your job as many times as I have because my job was going somewhere out of the US, you get very pessimistic.
You are seeing what we saw back in the 90's and 2000/05 because they discovered offshoring. I once had to do the same thing--train my replacement in my job. However I was in a better position then and was able to give both my replacement, and my boss, and his boss the big fat bird while we were all in a meeting. I even told them what they could do with my final pay check--of course our illustrious government regulations made them send me the check anyway, and I obligingly cashed it. Wasn't much over 4 months later that the company folded. They didn't move--they folded.
Keep a watch on it my friend. It's going to get uglier yet.
This really is entirely for show politically. There are too many strategic positions up for grabs in November that just spoke volumes of "We need to look good"... Yea, I'm speaking to some republicans out there! You know who you are. Who's eyes are you trying to pull wool over??
Fact is there is too much of this out there and these guys are not the only fish out there.
Apple employees should just suck it up and take it. You don't like it, go somewhere else to work. Apple I am sure is strongly considering moving the company to parts Europe so they don't have to deal with the likes of these over-paid labor sensitive people here in the US.
Not to mention, because it's getting too hard to lower wages and earnings, labor costs are cheaper in Europe and Mexico. So you know this is definitely on the table.
Congress I'm sure is still giving them their blessing to send those jobs to China, India, Mexico and where ever the want. There are still plenty of people in the US that will buy these foreign products without issue.
I'll agree with that! We've got a whole lot of dirty politicians in places they should not be. It will be interesting after November to find out how much of the playing field changes.
Of course if a regime change happens at the end of the year, you can rest assured that there are certain politicians who will push hard for law changes to formally "outlaw" the use of DHCP in computer networks due to it's haphazard way of handling network IP's, traffic; and because it doesn't know who the user is!...
What a joke. If you think I'm wrong on this, take a look at the democratic side of the US Congress and look at some discussions that have been bantered about recently! Thats all I'll say on that.
God I hope and pray we get to replace them all next year! They're all bad.
I am still using a legacy 2ghz P4 laptop that has an ATI display in it. My economic status doesn't warrant going out and dropping a couple thousand on a new laptop at the drop of a hat like many of my 'youthful' counterparts who have no responsibilities other than an unusually high car payment for something they drive to impress the girls!
When I ultimately do go looking, I think it's high time now that maybe we all focus on computers with "proven" hardware which may not be state of the art for you to play the latest game on it, but at least you know you'll have a device that will be around for a while. Some of us, don't need to have the latest greatest device every six months!
I'm very disappointed in some of these manufacturers as when they design this stuff, they are doing testing to see how things are stressed especially with laptop designs. HP has always made stable hardware if not the most state of the art. Dell has been up there too except for the Inspiron line. My Latitude I used to have was handed down to my daughter and she used it up to last year when she got herself a new dual core Toshiba. Damned ATI chips just seem to keep working albeit not the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Time to ask; do I really need all that hardware acceleration on the graphics chip with that laptop? Some is good, but if the hardware can't be properly supported or cooled in a laptop design, it shouldn't be there in the first place. Having a manufacturer come up with a band-aide solution for some of these problems until the warranty expires isn't new either. I used to see that in consumer electronics back in the 80's.
Some of these video card designs in laptops are there expressly for hardware acceleration that is mostly requested or generated by game companies more than anything else. Business use doesn't normally need or require this much less Internet surfing. Tell me that when you go buy a laptop, you aren't also thinking of how good that new game you want is going to run on it too??!
The word "Partner" usually has the connotation that money has exchanged hands between parties. When ever Microsoft "partners" with governments, communities, organizations and such, is because there is a business relationship in there somewhere that just; wasn't mentioned. If they are using Windows computers, they probably got a sweet deal on them, or they paid full price for them in order to receive "grants" for a program they are running as a non-profit, etc.
That other thing; wix, I don't see much use of that anywhere. It's a cross platform installer of some kind. Hmm... I don't know of any Microsoft code that can cross compile on anything but; oh wait; Windows server vs Windows XP, vs Windows vista. Oh; that cross compile. Can you point to somewhere it's in use?
Based on Ballmers history, I'd say this is inroads by which to "divide and conquer". So; with the check, what was on the document saying what they wanted in return. Microsoft never gives anything away and usually takes everything it wants?
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Lets see who is going to top the list. Last I heard, MINN has something like 6.8% unemployment and climbing. Looks like the food lines will soon be forming out there in the beach-o-plenty state...
Good call dude!!! Good call!!!
I think they might have called that; "cover thy ass"... :-)
It's been going on for a long time and usually revolves around money in one form or another. Lately you are likely to see much more of these issues crop up. Especially; since many companies have been strategically imbalanced in the finance department to make sure the CEO, CFO, share holders, et al, are all well compensated and stock prices are well reflected as overvalued to perpetuate the theme.
This particular issue also has its roots in HR since they usually are instructed to keep wages low and eliminate anything upper management thinks they no longer need. So; yea, you have a lot of people on edge these days because the meaning of hard work has been thrown out the window now in favor of making sure upper management is making as much money as possible along with all those perks such as "Golden Parachutes" and the like.
Why do you think there are many larger companies who own a lobby in Washington pushing Congress for more H1-B visas so they can replace the tenured staff with "students" who will do the same job for them, but at 1/5th the cost. You do the math.
I knew I made the right decision when I decided not to participate in these silly iphone thingys. This is a fad that will ultimately pass along with other fads. It's a neat gadget but for some to refer to these things as a "platform" is absolutely silly. If someone ultimately did make them a "platform" then adopting companies would have to provide them to employees, and like many companies, most of the features such as listening to music and such would be crippled--because your not supposed to be listening to music, your supposed to be working!
I wasted $70 on a silly little iPod shuffle, and have already had to have it replaced just as the warranty was expiring, and I suspect it will once again fail at the end of year 2. No more Apple products like this. Their computers however are great!
Ha;
Given the companies that I've worked at in the past(non-enterprise), good luck with that. Those people get those jobs because they know someone high up in the company, or are sleeping with someone high up in the company. More than likely, you'll get the boot for even bringing the subject matter up.
Yup! That is absolutely true.
Problem is now that someone brought it up, be rest assured that it will now be thoroughly investigated by many parties. Texas already has that stupid law on the books saying you must have a detectives license in order to work on PC's. What's next??!..
You are now stating your position... Dude;... you are so-republican! :-)
The fact is that this is "Radio" for all its worth. The "radio" part is what carries the signal much like the Cat5e does with the wired stuff. The problem is that people are thinking and going about this from the wrong direction. I saw some of this years back when all we had was 802.11b and we tried to fill up a wireless access point with as many connections as we could. The access point started dropping connections erratically, and bandwidth to all connected users were suffering after only about 10 or so users doing concurrent and sustained file transfers. We tried this again later with 802.11g and pretty much got the same issue.
All they did with 802.11g to get faster throughput, was to spread the signal out wider so it covers up about 3 channels to what 802.11b uses. It didn't really change the fundamental way in which the radio "wire" is connected and how its accessed. The sender/receiver can only handle just so much through it.
This is not really a scaling issue and being able to resolve a large number of hosts behind an access point, but really more of change of the fundamental design of the "carrier" in the first place. My assessment here is that our so-called "Wifi" will actually have to morph to a cellular type of radio rather than what we have now in order to properly scale. A cellular method will carry with it a multi-channeled multi-homing sender-receiver that can better handle multiple connections unlike a single transmitter/receiver pair used to handle the whole lot.
Just my humble opinion.
The problem is that putting the victim in jail also causes problems for freedoms and can have wide reaching affects to other parts of the law.
Face it. The victim is someone who is; "a fool and his money are soon parted".
That should be enough. He ain't gonna get it back once it leaves the country.
Just take an existing license, attach it, and format the hard drive and load. When authentication time comes, "I replaced the motherboard". Problem solved.
I am in the market for a new laptop to replace my aging old Compaq EVO's and one of the criteria will be purchase of XP licenses to use with them. I may consider leaving one of them at Vista just for testing but since I have to purchase 3 laptops, it's likely that all three of them will go XP. I would put Linux on them as dual boot but I am still not happy with the fact that Windows does not play well with the GNU stuff still, and in my multimedia and recording work, there are still latency issues with Linux that are unacceptable.
So; Something in a dual core (No Celerons please!) of at least 1.8ghz but 2ghz preferred. A nice display chipset that won't fail after 90 days (and that manufacturer knows who they are), and around 250gig with a DVD burner and 15" screen should suffice!
Put XP on there, and that thing oughta screem!!
This begs the question then of who has paid whom how much money (American currency)..?
ROTFLMAO....
Fact is though that if they outsource then they either need to come up with the money to buy a term length support contract with some Indian company, or they need to call up some local guy who knows nothing of their "stuff" or their methods. Either way, they'll try to get off on the cheap.
I think this will ultimately come around to being a gain for many of us with the talent and experience but we won't be part of a company anymore. We really are beginning to head into the "service sector" type of business, and Desk-side, and support departments are "service" related. To some degree; even our network admins are kinda-sorta "service" jobs. Once you install it, it then becomes more tweaking and adjusting to make people happy, and fixing small anomalies when they happen--much like the days of the old TV repair shop.
This could get interesting in the next 5 years for sure!!
Ok; admittedly, I should have specified eastern Europe. That is the thing here send those jobs over there because American labor just costs too much.
And yea; I was being somewhat sarcastic about it. When you've lost your job as many times as I have because my job was going somewhere out of the US, you get very pessimistic.
You are seeing what we saw back in the 90's and 2000/05 because they discovered offshoring. I once had to do the same thing--train my replacement in my job. However I was in a better position then and was able to give both my replacement, and my boss, and his boss the big fat bird while we were all in a meeting. I even told them what they could do with my final pay check--of course our illustrious government regulations made them send me the check anyway, and I obligingly cashed it. Wasn't much over 4 months later that the company folded. They didn't move--they folded.
Keep a watch on it my friend. It's going to get uglier yet.
This really is entirely for show politically. There are too many strategic positions up for grabs in November that just spoke volumes of "We need to look good"... Yea, I'm speaking to some republicans out there! You know who you are. Who's eyes are you trying to pull wool over??
Fact is there is too much of this out there and these guys are not the only fish out there.
Apple employees should just suck it up and take it. You don't like it, go somewhere else to work. Apple I am sure is strongly considering moving the company to parts Europe so they don't have to deal with the likes of these over-paid labor sensitive people here in the US.
Not to mention, because it's getting too hard to lower wages and earnings, labor costs are cheaper in Europe and Mexico. So you know this is definitely on the table.
Congress I'm sure is still giving them their blessing to send those jobs to China, India, Mexico and where ever the want. There are still plenty of people in the US that will buy these foreign products without issue.
I'll agree with that! We've got a whole lot of dirty politicians in places they should not be. It will be interesting after November to find out how much of the playing field changes.
LOL...
Thats pretty good. But; remember. We're possibly dealing with people who barely scrapped through school and may not understand the encryption.
By having it simply displayed, and out front that they are looking here illegally, then there's no confusion... :-)
Of course if a regime change happens at the end of the year, you can rest assured that there are certain politicians who will push hard for law changes to formally "outlaw" the use of DHCP in computer networks due to it's haphazard way of handling network IP's, traffic; and because it doesn't know who the user is!...
What a joke. If you think I'm wrong on this, take a look at the democratic side of the US Congress and look at some discussions that have been bantered about recently! Thats all I'll say on that.
God I hope and pray we get to replace them all next year! They're all bad.
I am still using a legacy 2ghz P4 laptop that has an ATI display in it. My economic status doesn't warrant going out and dropping a couple thousand on a new laptop at the drop of a hat like many of my 'youthful' counterparts who have no responsibilities other than an unusually high car payment for something they drive to impress the girls!
When I ultimately do go looking, I think it's high time now that maybe we all focus on computers with "proven" hardware which may not be state of the art for you to play the latest game on it, but at least you know you'll have a device that will be around for a while. Some of us, don't need to have the latest greatest device every six months!
I'm very disappointed in some of these manufacturers as when they design this stuff, they are doing testing to see how things are stressed especially with laptop designs. HP has always made stable hardware if not the most state of the art. Dell has been up there too except for the Inspiron line. My Latitude I used to have was handed down to my daughter and she used it up to last year when she got herself a new dual core Toshiba. Damned ATI chips just seem to keep working albeit not the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Time to ask; do I really need all that hardware acceleration on the graphics chip with that laptop? Some is good, but if the hardware can't be properly supported or cooled in a laptop design, it shouldn't be there in the first place. Having a manufacturer come up with a band-aide solution for some of these problems until the warranty expires isn't new either. I used to see that in consumer electronics back in the 80's.
Some of these video card designs in laptops are there expressly for hardware acceleration that is mostly requested or generated by game companies more than anything else. Business use doesn't normally need or require this much less Internet surfing. Tell me that when you go buy a laptop, you aren't also thinking of how good that new game you want is going to run on it too??!
The word "Partner" usually has the connotation that money has exchanged hands between parties. When ever Microsoft "partners" with governments, communities, organizations and such, is because there is a business relationship in there somewhere that just; wasn't mentioned. If they are using Windows computers, they probably got a sweet deal on them, or they paid full price for them in order to receive "grants" for a program they are running as a non-profit, etc.
That other thing; wix, I don't see much use of that anywhere. It's a cross platform installer of some kind. Hmm... I don't know of any Microsoft code that can cross compile on anything but; oh wait; Windows server vs Windows XP, vs Windows vista. Oh; that cross compile. Can you point to somewhere it's in use?
Based on Ballmers history, I'd say this is inroads by which to "divide and conquer". So; with the check, what was on the document saying what they wanted in return. Microsoft never gives anything away and usually takes everything it wants?
That's an idea.!!
They allow marriage to anyone and anything there in Frisco. Why not that!!