De Icaza has been pushing with all his might to get stuff into Linux that is, sure as hell, covered by MS patents.
One thing is to write software and then find a submarine patent, another is to use technology most likely patent encumbered, and champion it in the knowledge that the "owner" of the patents may sue you (and if you don't know about Ballmer comments on this regard then please tell me where the rock you have been hiding under is, I need a quiet place for meditation).
De Icaza contends that one can't write software that is not encumbered anyway, so you may do it as well, but I don't concur with that, the least you can do is to use your own ideas so at least your work can be continued in places with less asinine patent laws (Europe, Russia).
Job safety is gone. The only difference is that in some localities corporations are forced to pay something when they get rid of you. But that is pretty much all.
If you play your cards correctly (you know, put enough savings aside, I now recommend to have at least one year of salary covered in hard cold cash via your savings) there should be no difference whatsoever between being contracted or being employed (oh no, wait, bein contracted you are not sucked into office politics and you actually get work done)...
.... but I am as sure as hell that I would come up with something that orders a list.
That should be a most basic skill: to get things done even if they are not optimal. Optimization can't be done in the short span of a test during a job application, situation in which you don't have access to Google, books, etc.
As somebody that has just being replaced by people working in India (hello chaps!) I can categorically tell you there are labour shortages in Western countries.
I did the interviews, the people is just not there. As for myself I will take a few months off because I know there will be a job for me once I am rested and have done a few things I have in the back burner.
The situation in the US is not the way you are portraying it. Foreign workers are well paid (by definition, given the kind of visa they need to enter the country) so they are not driving salaries down, and most importantly pay taxes and spend money in the local economy, which benefits without having invested a dime in the education of these individuals.
The people driving salaries down are the ones working remotely and that never set foot in the country they are serving, very often using the infrastructure in that country, which was originally built to benefit the local population. That is what happened to me. I have no problem with this, I will have to take a lower salary most likely, but this is just natural given the savage competition to which we are being confronted (people in India are forced to work insane hours for a quarter of what we earn in the West, but fret no, salaries are going up and it is a matter of 3 or 4 years before they are comparable to Western standards, the turnover rate over there is atrocious, because techie people over there are not stupid: as soon as they get a better skill set they move on. In my experience this is at the very least 40% a year of attrition rate, so you always have a half competent group of people, half of which will leave very soon. Some companies are waking up to this fact, but some others are going ahead like a blinded lemming with suicidal thoughts).
Techies in developed countries should be writing to politicians about why they are allowing people working remotely in machines based locally, offering services locally. If they are affecting the economy in such way, they should be taxed as if they were working locally, people working remotely get all the money but pay no taxes locally, while the other way around is nigh to impossible to set up shop.
Or we should get free access to Indian and Chinese markets in order to compete in a fair basis. But our politicians are too busy wasting billions of dollars killing innocent people instead of investing in the future of our respective countries.
Who are you? Billy Gates? Ballmer? The Joker? The Penguin?
I have news for you: people who receive training are more likely to stay with you (good companies will have no qualms to offer training because they know it is a retention tool, specially if training is immediately relevant to the position).
The problem is companies that give you training only because they get some deal for free with a provider, that gives you "free" training in topics tat are not relevant to your project, and the training only happens once in a blue moon when the company gets a "a good" training deal.
Companies that don't have properly funded training programs will gain no sympathy with high skilled workers.
In the improbable case that this would ever happen to me, I would demand that the offending peace of luggage is removed from the first class area (either put elsewhere or put in the cargo area).
If you are late, you board at the end. Or don't board. Many airlines do it (I shall know, I have missed a couple of flights with cheap airlines for being late).
Special needs? Elderly people, children, etc board first or last. Nobody can carry nowadays baggage heavier than 10 kg (at least in the EU). that is around 20 lb. Your scenario simply isn't happening.
For the airline is not the same. Once they sold you a ticket and you are waiting in the gate to be left in, they have to take you. They can't say "sorry folks, only the people queuing up to here will fly today". Well, they could, but frankly we know that is not an option, so they have to take a later slot with all the cost implications. Thus it is vital for them to get passengers in the plane asap so they can use the slot they have been allocated.
In places where the rule of law prevales, any legal entity what is found to be breaking the law has to assume the consequences of its acts.
In the case of corporations if they are fined, they have to pay the fine.
It is not a matter of choice. If they don't the scandal would be mayuscule and you would see people in shackles being thrown in jail, bnak accounts forzen and assets confiscated.
How somebody can suggest this scenario is completely baffling.
These fines are used to reduce the EU's budget, which means member countries have to pay less for the running of the EU. How each country uses that is up to them, but you make it sound like the EU bureaucrats are pocketing this money, which simply is false.
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De Icaza has been pushing with all his might to get stuff into Linux that is, sure as hell, covered by MS patents.
One thing is to write software and then find a submarine patent, another is to use technology most likely patent encumbered, and champion it in the knowledge that the "owner" of the patents may sue you (and if you don't know about Ballmer comments on this regard then please tell me where the rock you have been hiding under is, I need a quiet place for meditation).
De Icaza contends that one can't write software that is not encumbered anyway, so you may do it as well, but I don't concur with that, the least you can do is to use your own ideas so at least your work can be continued in places with less asinine patent laws (Europe, Russia).
Because he is pulling the trojan horse that may cripple Linux-Troy...
Job safety is gone. The only difference is that in some localities corporations are forced to pay something when they get rid of you. But that is pretty much all.
If you play your cards correctly (you know, put enough savings aside, I now recommend to have at least one year of salary covered in hard cold cash via your savings) there should be no difference whatsoever between being contracted or being employed (oh no, wait, bein contracted you are not sucked into office politics and you actually get work done)...
.... but I am as sure as hell that I would come up with something that orders a list.
That should be a most basic skill: to get things done even if they are not optimal. Optimization can't be done in the short span of a test during a job application, situation in which you don't have access to Google, books, etc.
And no, not everybody has to learn to drive (I can tell you this most definitively: I don't ).
As somebody that has just being replaced by people working in India (hello chaps!) I can categorically tell you there are labour shortages in Western countries.
I did the interviews, the people is just not there. As for myself I will take a few months off because I know there will be a job for me once I am rested and have done a few things I have in the back burner.
The situation in the US is not the way you are portraying it. Foreign workers are well paid (by definition, given the kind of visa they need to enter the country) so they are not driving salaries down, and most importantly pay taxes and spend money in the local economy, which benefits without having invested a dime in the education of these individuals.
The people driving salaries down are the ones working remotely and that never set foot in the country they are serving, very often using the infrastructure in that country, which was originally built to benefit the local population. That is what happened to me. I have no problem with this, I will have to take a lower salary most likely, but this is just natural given the savage competition to which we are being confronted (people in India are forced to work insane hours for a quarter of what we earn in the West, but fret no, salaries are going up and it is a matter of 3 or 4 years before they are comparable to Western standards, the turnover rate over there is atrocious, because techie people over there are not stupid: as soon as they get a better skill set they move on. In my experience this is at the very least 40% a year of attrition rate, so you always have a half competent group of people, half of which will leave very soon. Some companies are waking up to this fact, but some others are going ahead like a blinded lemming with suicidal thoughts).
Techies in developed countries should be writing to politicians about why they are allowing people working remotely in machines based locally, offering services locally. If they are affecting the economy in such way, they should be taxed as if they were working locally, people working remotely get all the money but pay no taxes locally, while the other way around is nigh to impossible to set up shop.
Or we should get free access to Indian and Chinese markets in order to compete in a fair basis. But our politicians are too busy wasting billions of dollars killing innocent people instead of investing in the future of our respective countries.
...... poor, celibate, sod.
I dropped several possible relationships for that reason.
Look guys, if one is not religious you don't want a religious nut trying to impose his or her point of view on you.
This is one of those things in which you really have to think long and hard about the situation.
... of 2000 years of scientific development....
It is not that astrology is important, it is that he did not know any better!
You telling us what you are going to do next will not protect in any way your salary or earnings.
The market will decide, irrespectively of you telling us or not.
Lets be forced into serfdom.
Who are you? Billy Gates? Ballmer? The Joker? The Penguin?
I have news for you: people who receive training are more likely to stay with you (good companies will have no qualms to offer training because they know it is a retention tool, specially if training is immediately relevant to the position).
The problem is companies that give you training only because they get some deal for free with a provider, that gives you "free" training in topics tat are not relevant to your project, and the training only happens once in a blue moon when the company gets a "a good" training deal.
Companies that don't have properly funded training programs will gain no sympathy with high skilled workers.
... it is not even funny.
....
For starters, the Pope is elected.
And check for councils through history.
Honestly, stop giving opinions about things you know nothing about, even laterally
Or your airline is fooling you.
In the improbable case that this would ever happen to me, I would demand that the offending peace of luggage is removed from the first class area (either put elsewhere or put in the cargo area).
If you are late, you board at the end. Or don't board. Many airlines do it (I shall know, I have missed a couple of flights with cheap airlines for being late).
Special needs? Elderly people, children, etc board first or last. Nobody can carry nowadays baggage heavier than 10 kg (at least in the EU). that is around 20 lb. Your scenario simply isn't happening.
For the airline is not the same. Once they sold you a ticket and you are waiting in the gate to be left in, they have to take you. They can't say "sorry folks, only the people queuing up to here will fly today". Well, they could, but frankly we know that is not an option, so they have to take a later slot with all the cost implications. Thus it is vital for them to get passengers in the plane asap so they can use the slot they have been allocated.
Courts can size assets of a criminal (corporation, person whatever) that is not complying with the law.
Copyrights are one of such assets, and they can be seized if necessary.
Honestly guys, some of you you can't put 2 + 2 together....
In places where the rule of law prevales, any legal entity what is found to be breaking the law has to assume the consequences of its acts.
In the case of corporations if they are fined, they have to pay the fine.
It is not a matter of choice. If they don't the scandal would be mayuscule and you would see people in shackles being thrown in jail, bnak accounts forzen and assets confiscated.
How somebody can suggest this scenario is completely baffling.
These fines are used to reduce the EU's budget, which means member countries have to pay less for the running of the EU. How each country uses that is up to them, but you make it sound like the EU bureaucrats are pocketing this money, which simply is false.
Superstars? If I was applying for a serious job I would avoid a company advertising positions for superstars this or that.
You are not making auditions for a soap opera or a bad B movie after all.
You jest surely.
Linux began to be considered a serious server OS just a few years ago (I would say 1999 or 2000).
I know triathletes and marathon runners that are depressed (people that by definition do the 3 things you mention).
I don't understand how somebody can make such an stupid statement.
You don't like to be in clinical depression hell. Whatever you had does not remotely compare to what clinically depressed people suffer.
News at 11:00...
In the UK for example, parties can't buy advertisement in mass media.
The consequence? Lobby groups are immensely weaker than in the US because they can't "buy" the attention of politicians.
A contractor like you would have no place in my team.
For bunnies sakes, what an attitude...
Thankfully contractors can be whisked away quickly out of a building...
I have consulted all around the world.
I don't have neck ties or suits, never had.
What does one thing have to do with each other?
If they would try the same I would leave immediately.
If they want to blkanize the Web that is fine by me, I just simply would move the other side of their border....