People talking about "their job" in that context are implying that somehow they are the best ones to hold it (mostly on fuzzy reasoning like patriotism and what have you).
It is foolish to say this job is mine when in your employment contract there are at lest two interested parts involved.
To say "I have a job" is a figure of speech that when confronted with the cold facts of the law probes to be innacurate.
People don't have jobs, they don't own them. What they have is an agreement to exchanges money for their services which very often ca be terminated at short notice, and for reasons strange to the worker.
That is the work we live.
People in Socialist societes could genuinely claim that they owned a job. Once you got it it was pretty much impossible you could lose it. I frankly don't want to own a job in such socieities or in similar conditions, but many free people in mature Western democracies seem to want just that.
Obviously History is not being tought properly in some places.
What would you say to a plumber that claims that to fix your toilet is his job?
Even if he is the most expensive game in town.
And the less responsible and lacks the most skills.
I know, you would say "stuff it mate, you are not up to the task".
A job is not yours. Specially if you are too expensive, too incompetent or both.
Does that make you fell bad, lonely and unloved? Tough.
Grow up people, that is part of living in a free society, you take responsibility for yourself and stop dreaming things that you wished for but are nothing but pipe dreams.
When you sign an employment contract you are agreeing to provide a service: your labour. To claim you own that contract is such an stupid idea that I don't see how it took hold of people minds at all.
I am so fucking sick and tired of USians whinning about this.
At the beginning it was funny, but now it is tiresome and irritating and even dangerous.
Companies have no reason to be patriotic dumbass (sorry, I need to convey all my feelings). The only patriotic companies I can think off where the ones in the former Soviet Union and its satellites. Look where they ended: improductive, uselese piles of junk that where not work the value of the scrap metal they were built in.
The only other example of "patriotic" industry I can think off is the arms industry, which for obvious reasons is contrained to what they can and can't do. And what happens with these? They entirely depend in goverment contracts (i.e. subsidies by another name). The situation is so bad that the goverment has to organize spurious wars once in a while in order to increase the necessary output of those industries and keep them running. Or declare that the country needs intercontinental misiles to combat a threat whose weapons are sharp cutters and fertilizer bombs, these keep people in the arms industry in "gainful" employment (look at your country's military budget and tell me I am derided).
You want that those same companies that have exploited so well one side of the market (foreing costumers) stop exploiting the other (foreign labour).
Well, if you are prepared to pay for it good luck pal, but I hope you are consistent and also demand with the same energy that those unpatriotic companies stop selling goods in foreign countries and are forced to suply the blessings of their goods and services only to the US citizenry.
Markets are like the old conception of the atom: indivisible. You want the customers? Fine, but alternative labour markets come attached in the package.
I live in a great town of just over 8000000 people. It is very different from when I lived in the Podunk, Nowhereville are, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. I work as a software engineer for a Fortune 100 company that has a great work environment. I just bought a 400 sq ft flat four months ago for $396k. So lets see... 1) work in the IT world (check) 2) Have a great place in a vibrant area (check) 3) have 3MB DSL to my house (check) 4) 20 minute commute to work...walking (check) 5) Classical music concerts every day (check) 6) Uncountable book stores. (check) 7) Several big parks to unwind and relax. (check). 8) Amazing selection of any goods imaginable. (check) 9) Meeting people from all around the worl. (check) 10) Cinemas showing movies from all around the world. (check). 11) Art galleries with blockbuster exhibitions regularly. (check). 12) Easy access to the rest of the worl.(check) 13) Tolerable levels of criminality (hint, no guns allowed). (check).
Yup...I love it here. Outsource from these regions will be a real tragedy.
Got any questions about big cities and IT works? Feel free to ask.
But a real one, not the joke NAFTA is where as soon as Mexico's President suggests people should work wherever they want in the NAFTA area all USians go bananas.
Look, the current Mexican President proposed your Bush to allow free movement of workers between the NAFTA area.
Bush was lukewarm to the idea. The usual suspects (far left, far right) made sure Bush Jr. would not think about it.
If the US is not part of any extended labour markets it is because the populace and its politicians don't want to.
In Europe, South America, South East Asia people recognize that free movement of labour may be inevitable and are facilitating it.
In the meantime people in the US whine about economic reality.
With the US disowning international treaties (the latest was taxing Canadian lumber against NAFTA rules, and against an international panel of judges for bunnies sakes!) you will be very idiotic as a nation to go into a commercial treaty of any kind knowing that at the end the other part does not feel any compulsion to abide by any treaty if it "harms US jobs" as somebody we all know famously put it.
You think globalisation is harming you? You are right, but it is mostly a problem of your own making because you don't want to embrace it.
... fail to notice that the alleged IQ difference could be due to a margin of error )which conveneintly is not mentioned).
IQ is useful if one takes into account one given context, it is completely useless to generalize about full populations in any given context (if a Masai person had invented IQ tests most non Masais probably would score lower due to the cultural differences and pro Masai biases)
So letting "Dukes of Hazzard" into the public domain, thus allowing ANYBODY to make a movie based on it, would do good things for the state of film?
Yes, without a doubt. Because then you will encourage refinement of the original idea, which obviosuly was not so terrible since the TV show was quite popular.
Honestly, just think about it, you are leaving your comfort zone to try niche things. It is bound to hurt, irrespective of what OS you are using. I prefer to do it in a safe, Free, and free environment, not in a virus incubator.
As far as I am concerned using "yum install" or "yum update" as appropriate has kept my systems running with Fedora for the best part of the last year. I have updated from Fedora cor2 up to Fedora core 4, including kernel, kernel source, and recompiled without any issues.
If you want to experiment create a virtual machine (I recommend using VMware) and trash it to your heart content.Once you are satisfied with how things are working then you can apply the changes to your working installation (which is mostly how it is done in serious IT shops, with the caveat that they may normally use real testing machines).
May I suggest that you don;t lnow enough about Solaris if thst is all your expertise with it?
I work with Solaris in Sparc, day in, day out.
200 simultaneous NFS connections? No problem. A couple of heavy databases in one medium powered machine? No problem.
The Linux crowd does not know what is to forget about kernel rebuilding, tuning and patching.
And NIS+ is a thing ob beauty. It is stupidily complicated but once it works it is secure, fast and extensible.
And Solaris 10 has even more goodies (virtual machines any one? industrial scale virtual volume management? (not the lame Linux way, which maybe only Red Hat may e close to get right).
And good hardware diagnostics: in a Solaris machine you get error messages that actually help you to troubleshoot the problem, with Linux the machine may be dying and something you get squat.
Linux is wonderful, It is the OS I use at home, but frankly it is laughable at this moment in time to compare it with Solaris from a purely technical point of view.
This is exactly what so many IT professionals miss when they evaluate Microsoft's products. They just work for the users, plain and simple.
I just spent a couple of days fixing a WXP machine that for some reason decided to stop working.
I had to reinstall Windows XP, drivers, etc.
No hardware failure at all.
In the other hand all my personal machines running different flavours of Linux have been working with no problems for the best part of 2 years. Even a newish IBM laptop with Fedora.
In a corporate environment Windows mostly works, but that is because you have scores of dedicated administrators patching and patching and patching.
For other OSes we patch every 6 months save for must have security exploits.
Don't give me that shit that Windows works, it is just untrue.
I don't remember much about my accounting classes but that sounds like a typical case of depreciation (I most likely am wrong, can somebody correct me:-) ).
The software is 6 years old, somewhere it should have been budgeted money for a possible update. It is not like it would have come out of the blue.
If you don't have to upgrade then you are under budget! (and depending on the situation you may be able to spend that money elsewhere, but the point is that this kind of "intempestive" upgrades can be expected using educated guesses).
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Then you are in the hands of overpriced authorized technicians.
WIth Linux and to some extent Windows, at least you can have a go and find the best and/or cheapest solution to a rpbolem.
With Apple you are stuck with one solution, the Apple, way, or you void your gurantee.
People talking about "their job" in that context are implying that somehow they are the best ones to hold it (mostly on fuzzy reasoning like patriotism and what have you).
It is foolish to say this job is mine when in your employment contract there are at lest two interested parts involved.
To say "I have a job" is a figure of speech that when confronted with the cold facts of the law probes to be innacurate.
People don't have jobs, they don't own them. What they have is an agreement to exchanges money for their services which very often ca be terminated at short notice, and for reasons strange to the worker.
That is the work we live.
People in Socialist societes could genuinely claim that they owned a job. Once you got it it was pretty much impossible you could lose it. I frankly don't want to own a job in such socieities or in similar conditions, but many free people in mature Western democracies seem to want just that.
Obviously History is not being tought properly in some places.
What would you say to a plumber that claims that to fix your toilet is his job?
Even if he is the most expensive game in town.
And the less responsible and lacks the most skills.
I know, you would say "stuff it mate, you are not up to the task".
A job is not yours. Specially if you are too expensive, too incompetent or both.
Does that make you fell bad, lonely and unloved? Tough.
Grow up people, that is part of living in a free society, you take responsibility for yourself and stop dreaming things that you wished for but are nothing but pipe dreams.
When you sign an employment contract you are agreeing to provide a service: your labour. To claim you own that contract is such an stupid idea that I don't see how it took hold of people minds at all.
I am so fucking sick and tired of USians whinning about this.
At the beginning it was funny, but now it is tiresome and irritating and even dangerous.
Companies have no reason to be patriotic dumbass (sorry, I need to convey all my feelings). The only patriotic companies I can think off where the ones in the former Soviet Union and its satellites. Look where they ended: improductive, uselese piles of junk that where not work the value of the scrap metal they were built in.
The only other example of "patriotic" industry I can think off is the arms industry, which for obvious reasons is contrained to what they can and can't do. And what happens with these? They entirely depend in goverment contracts (i.e. subsidies by another name). The situation is so bad that the goverment has to organize spurious wars once in a while in order to increase the necessary output of those industries and keep them running. Or declare that the country needs intercontinental misiles to combat a threat whose weapons are sharp cutters and fertilizer bombs, these keep people in the arms industry in "gainful" employment (look at your country's military budget and tell me I am derided).
You want that those same companies that have exploited so well one side of the market (foreing costumers) stop exploiting the other (foreign labour).
Well, if you are prepared to pay for it good luck pal, but I hope you are consistent and also demand with the same energy that those unpatriotic companies stop selling goods in foreign countries and are forced to suply the blessings of their goods and services only to the US citizenry.
Markets are like the old conception of the atom: indivisible. You want the customers? Fine, but alternative labour markets come attached in the package.
I think one day somebody will give you a trophy or a medal.
I live in a great town of just over 8000000 people. It is very different from when I lived in the Podunk, Nowhereville are, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. I work as a software engineer for a Fortune 100 company that has a great work environment. I just bought a 400 sq ft flat four months ago for $396k. So lets see...
1) work in the IT world (check)
2) Have a great place in a vibrant area (check)
3) have 3MB DSL to my house (check)
4) 20 minute commute to work...walking (check)
5) Classical music concerts every day (check)
6) Uncountable book stores. (check)
7) Several big parks to unwind and relax. (check).
8) Amazing selection of any goods imaginable. (check)
9) Meeting people from all around the worl. (check)
10) Cinemas showing movies from all around the world. (check).
11) Art galleries with blockbuster exhibitions regularly. (check).
12) Easy access to the rest of the worl.(check)
13) Tolerable levels of criminality (hint, no guns allowed). (check).
Yup...I love it here. Outsource from these regions will be a real tragedy.
Got any questions about big cities and IT works? Feel free to ask.
But a real one, not the joke NAFTA is where as soon as Mexico's President suggests people should work wherever they want in the NAFTA area all USians go bananas.
That you make illegal to seel US products in foreing countries.
Stereotypical egoistical USian: wants to have his cake and eat it.
Look, the current Mexican President proposed your Bush to allow free movement of workers between the NAFTA area.
Bush was lukewarm to the idea. The usual suspects (far left, far right) made sure Bush Jr. would not think about it.
If the US is not part of any extended labour markets it is because the populace and its politicians don't want to.
In Europe, South America, South East Asia people recognize that free movement of labour may be inevitable and are facilitating it.
In the meantime people in the US whine about economic reality.
With the US disowning international treaties (the latest was taxing Canadian lumber against NAFTA rules, and against an international panel of judges for bunnies sakes!) you will be very idiotic as a nation to go into a commercial treaty of any kind knowing that at the end the other part does not feel any compulsion to abide by any treaty if it "harms US jobs" as somebody we all know famously put it.
You think globalisation is harming you? You are right, but it is mostly a problem of your own making because you don't want to embrace it.
As they say, if you don't want to burn, yeah, don't get close to the fire.
For each and every bad point that you blissfully remerkaed there is one that counterbalances them.
Of course people are voting with their feet to the best place to live: urban centers keep growing.
It is not like we owe our living to them or anything like that....
... fail to notice that the alleged IQ difference could be due to a margin of error )which conveneintly is not mentioned).
IQ is useful if one takes into account one given context, it is completely useless to generalize about full populations in any given context (if a Masai person had invented IQ tests most non Masais probably would score lower due to the cultural differences and pro Masai biases)
Good movies are good movies.
Not even an snob can deny quality that has been lavishly paid for.
I should know, I tend to be snobish.
So letting "Dukes of Hazzard" into the public domain, thus allowing ANYBODY to make a movie based on it, would do good things for the state of film?
Yes, without a doubt. Because then you will encourage refinement of the original idea, which obviosuly was not so terrible since the TV show was quite popular.
Name 5.
I sometimes wish to understand why some people lack so badly reading comprehension skills.
The GPL is a mechanism to ensure everybody has access to source code when binary files are distributed.
If you don't distribute binary files you are under no obligation whatsoever to distribute code.
You are attributing to the GPL a "spirit" that lives only in a figment of your zealous imagination.
Spill the beans, so many people rubish basic security measures and then, like snake oil sellers, keep the secret recipe to themselves.
Were there any drugs during the concert?
,yeah, maybe you are living that mini Orwellian nightmare we perceive from outside the US.
If yes, sorry, no simpathy, it is illegal, you should change the assholes that govern you.
If not, then
I tried QEMU and did not work. It was sluggish or would freeze without any indication of what the problem was.
On the smae machine I installed VMware and have had no issues.
...is always a pain on the ass.
Honestly, just think about it, you are leaving your comfort zone to try niche things. It is bound to hurt, irrespective of what OS you are using. I prefer to do it in a safe, Free, and free environment, not in a virus incubator.
As far as I am concerned using "yum install" or "yum update" as appropriate has kept my systems running with Fedora for the best part of the last year. I have updated from Fedora cor2 up to Fedora core 4, including kernel, kernel source, and recompiled without any issues.
If you want to experiment create a virtual machine (I recommend using VMware) and trash it to your heart content.Once you are satisfied with how things are working then you can apply the changes to your working installation (which is mostly how it is done in serious IT shops, with the caveat that they may normally use real testing machines).
May I suggest that you don;t lnow enough about Solaris if thst is all your expertise with it?
I work with Solaris in Sparc, day in, day out.
200 simultaneous NFS connections? No problem.
A couple of heavy databases in one medium powered machine? No problem.
The Linux crowd does not know what is to forget about kernel rebuilding, tuning and patching.
And NIS+ is a thing ob beauty. It is stupidily complicated but once it works it is secure, fast and extensible.
And Solaris 10 has even more goodies (virtual machines any one? industrial scale virtual volume management? (not the lame Linux way, which maybe only Red Hat may e close to get right).
And good hardware diagnostics: in a Solaris machine you get error messages that actually help you to troubleshoot the problem, with Linux the machine may be dying and something you get squat.
Linux is wonderful, It is the OS I use at home, but frankly it is laughable at this moment in time to compare it with Solaris from a purely technical point of view.
That would be a war crime, for which you would be rightfully convicted (if in the losing side of course...).
This is exactly what so many IT professionals miss when they evaluate Microsoft's products. They just work for the users, plain and simple.
I just spent a couple of days fixing a WXP machine that for some reason decided to stop working.
I had to reinstall Windows XP, drivers, etc.
No hardware failure at all.
In the other hand all my personal machines running different flavours of Linux have been working with no problems for the best part of 2 years. Even a newish IBM laptop with Fedora.
In a corporate environment Windows mostly works, but that is because you have scores of dedicated administrators patching and patching and patching.
For other OSes we patch every 6 months save for must have security exploits.
Don't give me that shit that Windows works, it is just untrue.
I don't remember much about my accounting classes but that sounds like a typical case of depreciation (I most likely am wrong, can somebody correct me :-) ).
The software is 6 years old, somewhere it should have been budgeted money for a possible update. It is not like it would have come out of the blue.
If you don't have to upgrade then you are under budget! (and depending on the situation you may be able to spend that money elsewhere, but the point is that this kind of "intempestive" upgrades can be expected using educated guesses).
Why do people keep accepting this crap?
I don't know, I never had, never will....