We're not outsourcing...sorry if that was the implication...we're hiring for our company in India. We already have several sites in Bangalore.
As a matter of fact, my company has revenue in Asia at 38% of our total, so NOT being in Asia is foolish.
As for why I don't hire people from top schools, we often hire people from top schools, but the salary and responsibility expectations of new college grads is getting very uncompetitive...we have people coming to us demanding $60k fresh out of a bachelor program and expecting to be a Sr. Engineer?!
If anything, the trend to offshoring will force US-based folks into more realistic expectations.
We have to be realistic...every new trend creates windows of opportunity to grow income beyond the average, but every profession matures. We are getting to the maturity point where we need to have more realistic expectations of salaries.
Just like everyone else, I don't want my income to decrease, but is it really valid that a SW engineer makes 2-4x the average national salary?!
So I'm in India right now attempting to hire programmers and a lead to take over maintenance of my completely over engineered code (I inherited it). It is bizarre to me how many of the applicants can't understand or consistently apply basics of maintainability...
We've been through 260 resumes, interviewed 15 applicants and found precisely 2 hits, with a third we'll hire because he's borderline and we can't stay here forever...
At least in my case, it is clear to me that outsourcing is taking the low-level, hack jobs that a newbie would get back at home...so where does that leave the new college grads? Hopefully our university system provides sufficient training that our people can compete...
If India has a very competitive software engineering environment, I sure haven't seen it yet. I HAVE seen that the top universities, such as IIT Mumbai, DO produce world-class engineers, but other schools are not up to speed.
I am a small-l libertarian as the Libertarian party has too many planks that are simply weird and counter-productive, such as plank 6, where mental health is denied. I'm not sure which person wrote that, but having had family in the "helping" profession in prisons and mental institutions, I am firmly in the camp that some people are too dangerous to be free.
(and no, I'm not talking about Bill Clinton OR Rush Limbaugh):-)
Government exists to self-perpetuate and self-propagate. It's one of the reasons that I find myself in a partiless situation. I am fiscally conservative because of the situation described above. Yet I'm socially liberal because government doesn't belong in the bedroom, clinic or other places...it should provide a justice system, a transportation system(s), a defense system, an immigration system, other infrastructure (water, electricity, sewage), and about nothing else...everything else is scope creep and we know where that leads.
The writer's thesis is clearly that internal combustion cars are bad. While that may be true, alternate technologies are more inefficient and polluting.
30% of the electricity in the US is generated by coal (citation, Coal Association advertising in local newspaper). When some idiot discusses "Zero Emissions Vehicles" in the same breath with electric cars, you should smack them. Their ZEV is a remote emissions vehicle, likely polluting Utah or other states with signficant electrical generation.
I agree that hybrids are better. I even agree that alternative sources of fuel would be better, but using corn pollutes more. Hydrogen has this pesky habit of exhibiting the Stockholm Syndrome, making liberation very costly (more energy in than generated).
Show me an alternative and I'll buy the hype, but at this point, I haven't seen empirical evidence of a better alternative. And by the way, I bike commute in Oregon year round (25 miles)
By the logic displayed above, legislation to limit soft money spending, safe drinking water, pollution limits, and just about everything else should have been permanently denied. Most bills are defeated or mangled the 1st time through a committee in Congress.
I won't even go into the victim mentality expressed in the whining about the relation between cash and influence.
The article does a good job of speaking to the differences and the appropriate uses of each. It does not, however, discuss the history or the competition for adoption that has occurred in the background. Hypertransport was originally presented by AMD's consortium as a competitor to PCI-E and AMD worked hard to drive OEMs to HT rather than PCI-E.
This competition was essentially silenced when the PCI SIG selected PCI-E as the next-generation interconnect.
It is interesting to note that the author of the article suggested that PCI-E is the interconnect of choice for expansion buses and backplanes since one of the bigger design-wins for HT is the embedded backplane market.
While I can understand the "new" marketing for each technology, they were presented as competitors by both companies until the SIG made its choice.
Gee, didn't you see that Intel has released (not just announced) Canterwood systems with 800MHz FSB? and Intel procs are all multi-proc capable/aware, so that data point is a bit behind.
Intel chose NOT to use Hypertransport in lieu of PCI-E, which will launch in Q2 next year and offer a lot more flexibility and functionality. Funny how the PCI SIG didn't select Hypertransport and did select PCI-E. While some *might* try to justify that Intel *controls* the PCI SIG, it's funny who else is listed there and could have chagned the vote...but they didn't.
Both zealot campts mis-quote and disseminate bad info...don't let yourself fall into that trap.
I don't know why you wouldn't believe that...after all, the Taliban had agreements with the opium producers in Northern Afghanistan. Why should a religious extremist care if you, an infidel, violate God's laws? And if your stupid enough to fund your own destruction, what delicious irony for them.
While I don't like the scare tactics and I'd like to see proof of the cash flow, it should be neither surprising nor controversial that illegal activity feeds on itself to society's detriment.
Here's a computer manufacturer that has every manufacturer scared, including Dell: Legend. In less than 5 years they've gone from nothing to owning PRC and having a good position in APAC relative to EVERYONE (IBM, HP, Dell, etc.).
Oh, and they haven't yet started doing real internal R&D. That's coming aggressively now and they are the engine of PRC computing...if you haven't heard of Happy Linux, you ought.
How about the fact that every major US computer manufacturer has relocated R&D (and in some cases validation) to Taipei or PRC? Doesn't that scare the hell out of you?!
Here is the mapping: Dell -> Quanta (in Taipei) IBM -> MSI and Gigabyte HP -> Various and lead the migration in desktop Gateway -> Quanta and others
It was in a presentation given to, I believe, the Santa Fe Institute in NM. I don't have a copy any more, but I would suspect that it got posted somewhere. A quick google showed plenty of possibilities.
The idea of complex adaptive systems composed of a swarm of simple nodes with very simple rules is neither new or interesting in and of itself. The fact that this garnered a prestigious award and some press is made all the more disturbing because I've seen more than one software proof-of-concept for this idea in the past five years.
My favorite was a Java-based applet called "Ants" where each entity only 3 rules...
1. where home was 2. what it "liked" (food) 3. communicate food locations to peers when contact was made
Within 20 seconds, the entire "colony" had been notified of the food location and the ants were swarming in a straight line between the colony location and the "food."
I hate it when something that is neither novel nor compelling wins a prize like this...
Hell, my father-in-law thought of this idea for a lawnmower grid, even...
single-wides 'r fur 'em poor folk and kids just atartin' out...double-wide and triple-wide be available for the 'stablished and rich......as a manager, it's my solemn duty as a US citzen [sic] to purchase a double for me and single-wide in the backyard for my kin...
Google "Moore's Law" and you'll find over 87k pages which reference the law...parsed down, it is likely to be less than 50k total pages, but up to page 12 of the query results provide direct correlation to the term and it's subject.
Gordon Moore is one of the more visionary and less well known folks in modern geek-dom...
In my several cases, he did respond, but his responses were on completely different issues that made him appear very unorganized.
I'm realistic enough to know that Wyden and Smith are busy people and cannot hope to repond to their constituents personally every time, but I do expect a certain amount of professionalism from the responsible staff. Thanking me for my mail supporting an agricultural bill when I actually sent a technology concern is clearly a mistake.
Now McCain (certainly his staff, not him) responded to a non constituent with links, facts, discussion of the media distortion of the bill and then encouraged me to read the bill myself...which I should have done before sending my concerns. McCain and his staff were right and I was wrong.
That the Senator from Arizona took the time to constructively address my concerns and provided more detail and direction for even more information...that's the kind of response I want to see from my elected officials in this state.
And I have been corrected that Wyden is the Senoir Senator...
While I generally agree in principle with your recommendations, having spoken with the man, I can tell you that he has a very focused opinion that is not to be confused with facts or reasonable discussion.
Politicians who are focused and supportive of certain industries are generally ruled by hype and money...if you only have considered opinions and no capital, you are welcome to express yourself and will in no way influence these folks.
On other issues the Senior Senator is considered and thoughtful, even erudite and reasonable. In this place, he has been won over by the RIAA/MPAA twins to believe that if he doesn't protect their content, then he will compromise all intellectual property derived in the US. It is an argument that will not be won except by the voice of his constituents.
As a citizen of Oregon, I can tell you I've seen far more responsive government representatives from Arizona (still have the letter from John McCain where he corrected my beliefs about his encryption legislation) than from Oregon.
I won't recommend voting against a candidate for a single issue, but I do believe that we must make it clear to him the nature of his misinformation, and if that includes sending him snail mail and discussing these at town meetings at every opportunity, then I will...
Never suggested being a freak/fanatic, but I can see how I mis-communicated my thoughts.
Waaaayyyy better than is colleague in Oregon, Gordon Smith, who appears to be the next RIAA/MPAA supporter.
Maybe Wyden will rub off on Smith...until then, bombard Smith with anti-MPAA/RIAA mail and informed information. Perhaps we can get a convert in the form of the Senior Senator from the state of Oregon.
I especially like the quote "Google hires spooks." Perhaps it's because I work for a large company, but I know of several special forces folks here whose old work involved infiltration and intelligence gathering...
Should I avoid anything that includes "spooks?" Obviously I should avoid Minnesota, Utah, and several other states because they elect "spooks." (though some *might* suggest that I avoid those states for other reasons;)
At the time, Oregon law did not comprehend the Internet or Internet crime. Could I have made the case that they guys was involved in wire fraud...yeah, but then they might've convened a Grand Jury and issued a warrant...and the statute of limitations would've run out before anything actually happened.
The lawsuit idea was considered, but my attorney told me that it was "not possible to establish loss because very few people use the Internet." Nice.
I experienced this five years ago and a group of sysadmins helped me track the guy back to his ISP and we turned the info over to the FBI as identity theft. We were told that my experience did not meet the threshold for them to investigate further ($5000 in damages). Worse, the ISP didn't have a code of conduct prohibiting this type of thing...
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We're not outsourcing...sorry if that was the implication...we're hiring for our company in India. We already have several sites in Bangalore.
As a matter of fact, my company has revenue in Asia at 38% of our total, so NOT being in Asia is foolish.
As for why I don't hire people from top schools, we often hire people from top schools, but the salary and responsibility expectations of new college grads is getting very uncompetitive...we have people coming to us demanding $60k fresh out of a bachelor program and expecting to be a Sr. Engineer?!
If anything, the trend to offshoring will force US-based folks into more realistic expectations.
We have to be realistic...every new trend creates windows of opportunity to grow income beyond the average, but every profession matures. We are getting to the maturity point where we need to have more realistic expectations of salaries.
Just like everyone else, I don't want my income to decrease, but is it really valid that a SW engineer makes 2-4x the average national salary?!
So I'm in India right now attempting to hire programmers and a lead to take over maintenance of my completely over engineered code (I inherited it). It is bizarre to me how many of the applicants can't understand or consistently apply basics of maintainability...
We've been through 260 resumes, interviewed 15 applicants and found precisely 2 hits, with a third we'll hire because he's borderline and we can't stay here forever...
At least in my case, it is clear to me that outsourcing is taking the low-level, hack jobs that a newbie would get back at home...so where does that leave the new college grads? Hopefully our university system provides sufficient training that our people can compete...
If India has a very competitive software engineering environment, I sure haven't seen it yet. I HAVE seen that the top universities, such as IIT Mumbai, DO produce world-class engineers, but other schools are not up to speed.
I am a small-l libertarian as the Libertarian party has too many planks that are simply weird and counter-productive, such as plank 6, where mental health is denied. I'm not sure which person wrote that, but having had family in the "helping" profession in prisons and mental institutions, I am firmly in the camp that some people are too dangerous to be free.
:-)
(and no, I'm not talking about Bill Clinton OR Rush Limbaugh)
Government exists to self-perpetuate and self-propagate. It's one of the reasons that I find myself in a partiless situation. I am fiscally conservative because of the situation described above. Yet I'm socially liberal because government doesn't belong in the bedroom, clinic or other places...it should provide a justice system, a transportation system(s), a defense system, an immigration system, other infrastructure (water, electricity, sewage), and about nothing else...everything else is scope creep and we know where that leads.
The writer's thesis is clearly that internal combustion cars are bad. While that may be true, alternate technologies are more inefficient and polluting.
30% of the electricity in the US is generated by coal (citation, Coal Association advertising in local newspaper). When some idiot discusses "Zero Emissions Vehicles" in the same breath with electric cars, you should smack them. Their ZEV is a remote emissions vehicle, likely polluting Utah or other states with signficant electrical generation.
I agree that hybrids are better. I even agree that alternative sources of fuel would be better, but using corn pollutes more. Hydrogen has this pesky habit of exhibiting the Stockholm Syndrome, making liberation very costly (more energy in than generated).
Show me an alternative and I'll buy the hype, but at this point, I haven't seen empirical evidence of a better alternative. And by the way, I bike commute in Oregon year round (25 miles)
By the logic displayed above, legislation to limit soft money spending, safe drinking water, pollution limits, and just about everything else should have been permanently denied. Most bills are defeated or mangled the 1st time through a committee in Congress.
I won't even go into the victim mentality expressed in the whining about the relation between cash and influence.
Does this mean they'll finally start shipping the MSDN freebie?! That would be nice...
The article does a good job of speaking to the differences and the appropriate uses of each. It does not, however, discuss the history or the competition for adoption that has occurred in the background. Hypertransport was originally presented by AMD's consortium as a competitor to PCI-E and AMD worked hard to drive OEMs to HT rather than PCI-E.
This competition was essentially silenced when the PCI SIG selected PCI-E as the next-generation interconnect.
It is interesting to note that the author of the article suggested that PCI-E is the interconnect of choice for expansion buses and backplanes since one of the bigger design-wins for HT is the embedded backplane market.
While I can understand the "new" marketing for each technology, they were presented as competitors by both companies until the SIG made its choice.
Gee, didn't you see that Intel has released (not just announced) Canterwood systems with 800MHz FSB? and Intel procs are all multi-proc capable/aware, so that data point is a bit behind.
Intel chose NOT to use Hypertransport in lieu of PCI-E, which will launch in Q2 next year and offer a lot more flexibility and functionality. Funny how the PCI SIG didn't select Hypertransport and did select PCI-E. While some *might* try to justify that Intel *controls* the PCI SIG, it's funny who else is listed there and could have chagned the vote...but they didn't.
Both zealot campts mis-quote and disseminate bad info...don't let yourself fall into that trap.
XP and Win2K client software run IPv6 natively. Those are client OSs.
Not to quibble, but MS has been shipping 6-to-4 since Win2K and supposedly has native IPv6 support in Server 2003...
I've used IPv6 on MS as a research tool.
I don't know why you wouldn't believe that...after all, the Taliban had agreements with the opium producers in Northern Afghanistan. Why should a religious extremist care if you, an infidel, violate God's laws? And if your stupid enough to fund your own destruction, what delicious irony for them.
While I don't like the scare tactics and I'd like to see proof of the cash flow, it should be neither surprising nor controversial that illegal activity feeds on itself to society's detriment.
Here's a computer manufacturer that has every manufacturer scared, including Dell: Legend. In less than 5 years they've gone from nothing to owning PRC and having a good position in APAC relative to EVERYONE (IBM, HP, Dell, etc.).
Oh, and they haven't yet started doing real internal R&D. That's coming aggressively now and they are the engine of PRC computing...if you haven't heard of Happy Linux, you ought.
How about the fact that every major US computer manufacturer has relocated R&D (and in some cases validation) to Taipei or PRC? Doesn't that scare the hell out of you?!
Here is the mapping:
Dell -> Quanta (in Taipei)
IBM -> MSI and Gigabyte
HP -> Various and lead the migration in desktop
Gateway -> Quanta and others
Sense a trend here by any chance...
It was in a presentation given to, I believe, the Santa Fe Institute in NM. I don't have a copy any more, but I would suspect that it got posted somewhere. A quick google showed plenty of possibilities.
The idea of complex adaptive systems composed of a swarm of simple nodes with very simple rules is neither new or interesting in and of itself. The fact that this garnered a prestigious award and some press is made all the more disturbing because I've seen more than one software proof-of-concept for this idea in the past five years.
My favorite was a Java-based applet called "Ants" where each entity only 3 rules...
1. where home was
2. what it "liked" (food)
3. communicate food locations to peers when contact was made
Within 20 seconds, the entire "colony" had been notified of the food location and the ants were swarming in a straight line between the colony location and the "food."
I hate it when something that is neither novel nor compelling wins a prize like this...
Hell, my father-in-law thought of this idea for a lawnmower grid, even...
single-wides 'r fur 'em poor folk and kids just atartin' out...double-wide and triple-wide be available for the 'stablished and rich... ...as a manager, it's my solemn duty as a US citzen [sic] to purchase a double for me and single-wide in the backyard for my kin...
Gee, I went through reference 760+ and they all refered to Gordon Moore and the variations on his law...is that sufficient diligence?
Yeah, it took a while to verify before I posted...
Google "Moore's Law" and you'll find over 87k pages which reference the law...parsed down, it is likely to be less than 50k total pages, but up to page 12 of the query results provide direct correlation to the term and it's subject.
Gordon Moore is one of the more visionary and less well known folks in modern geek-dom...
In my several cases, he did respond, but his responses were on completely different issues that made him appear very unorganized.
I'm realistic enough to know that Wyden and Smith are busy people and cannot hope to repond to their constituents personally every time, but I do expect a certain amount of professionalism from the responsible staff. Thanking me for my mail supporting an agricultural bill when I actually sent a technology concern is clearly a mistake.
Now McCain (certainly his staff, not him) responded to a non constituent with links, facts, discussion of the media distortion of the bill and then encouraged me to read the bill myself...which I should have done before sending my concerns. McCain and his staff were right and I was wrong.
That the Senator from Arizona took the time to constructively address my concerns and provided more detail and direction for even more information...that's the kind of response I want to see from my elected officials in this state.
And I have been corrected that Wyden is the Senoir Senator...
While I generally agree in principle with your recommendations, having spoken with the man, I can tell you that he has a very focused opinion that is not to be confused with facts or reasonable discussion.
Politicians who are focused and supportive of certain industries are generally ruled by hype and money...if you only have considered opinions and no capital, you are welcome to express yourself and will in no way influence these folks.
On other issues the Senior Senator is considered and thoughtful, even erudite and reasonable. In this place, he has been won over by the RIAA/MPAA twins to believe that if he doesn't protect their content, then he will compromise all intellectual property derived in the US. It is an argument that will not be won except by the voice of his constituents.
As a citizen of Oregon, I can tell you I've seen far more responsive government representatives from Arizona (still have the letter from John McCain where he corrected my beliefs about his encryption legislation) than from Oregon.
I won't recommend voting against a candidate for a single issue, but I do believe that we must make it clear to him the nature of his misinformation, and if that includes sending him snail mail and discussing these at town meetings at every opportunity, then I will...
Never suggested being a freak/fanatic, but I can see how I mis-communicated my thoughts.
Waaaayyyy better than is colleague in Oregon, Gordon Smith, who appears to be the next RIAA/MPAA supporter.
Maybe Wyden will rub off on Smith...until then, bombard Smith with anti-MPAA/RIAA mail and informed information. Perhaps we can get a convert in the form of the Senior Senator from the state of Oregon.
A BIOS vendor is copying the EFI Specification ...too bad it is several years overdue...
While I won't suggest Intel has it right per se...it makes sense as a method by which a BIOS can extend functionality...
I especially like the quote "Google hires spooks." Perhaps it's because I work for a large company, but I know of several special forces folks here whose old work involved infiltration and intelligence gathering...
Should I avoid anything that includes "spooks?" Obviously I should avoid Minnesota, Utah, and several other states because they elect "spooks."
(though some *might* suggest that I avoid those states for other reasons;)
At the time, Oregon law did not comprehend the Internet or Internet crime. Could I have made the case that they guys was involved in wire fraud...yeah, but then they might've convened a Grand Jury and issued a warrant...and the statute of limitations would've run out before anything actually happened.
The lawsuit idea was considered, but my attorney told me that it was "not possible to establish loss because very few people use the Internet." Nice.
I experienced this five years ago and a group of sysadmins helped me track the guy back to his ISP and we turned the info over to the FBI as identity theft. We were told that my experience did not meet the threshold for them to investigate further ($5000 in damages). Worse, the ISP didn't have a code of conduct prohibiting this type of thing...
Sucks when it happens, but isn't new.
Probably the same idiot in Minnesota:(