Gates - and a major of major "American" corporations - deported IT jobs to off shore countries shortly after 911. My feeling is that Bush cut a deal with India to stop playing nuclear one-ups-manship with Pakistan because Bush needed Pakistan's help for his invasion plans. IT jobs flowed to India causing layoffs in the US... causing major IT publishers to down size and a few went out of business...and colleges saw their CS/IT programs decrease in enrollment...in fact an Ivy League University shut-down is IT certification programs that had been running for 15 years...and now Billy is saying, "where are the American programmers"...this is simply a PR tactic to justify sending work to India and other off shoring heavens and to bring them here to work at lower wages.
I use a popular, public email service. My emails have been identified as spam at times. The reality is the everyone from the service uses the same IP email address. All it takes is one person from that service to send spam and all those using the service get flag...so volume along isn't a good indicator.
Why on earth would any sane person knowingly allow a computer program to impersonate themselves or others? My gut feeling is that MS and other software mfg want more control of MY and YOUR computer without us knowing it. It wouldn't surprise me if elements of the Vista allow MS to search your computer for bogus copies of MS software and software from other companies without us knowing it. MS could sell this service to other companies (i.e. music industry, publishing industry with e-books). And how about marketing companies want to know your buying habits. Remember that the OS has unrestricted to your drives - and the Internet. This becomes a serious concern as more home users become hard wired to the Internet 24/7 with fixed IPs. Think about it. Why would a home user need all this sophistication? And forget about worrying about a family member (i.e. kids) updating windows. Most family members who are online have their own PC - $700 is all it cost and no one has to fight for a turn on the Internet.
I wrote one of the first books on computer programming back in days before the IBM PC and continue to write for the world's leading publishers. More than 75 books so far. Not much is mentioned about authors being paid for their work. Consider: a library under contract with a search engine buys one copy and then let's the search engine digitize the book and make it available for free on the web. Does that seem fair? Isn't this happening with CDs? Why should I - and my fellow authors - write a book that makes technology easy to understand for our readers only to have a billion dollar search engine copy it and give it a way - and collect ad revenue from advertisers who want their ads to be displayed along side the text of my book. Contrary to what you might read in the press, authors don't make a lot of money writing books. The move to digitize books will steal the little financial incentive there is. The result will be few of us willing write books and the search engines will be serving up a hodge-podge of bits and pieces of useful - and not so useful - information.
If you go into your boss and resign, you stay in the office until security comes and walks you to your desk to pickup you bag and coat - nothing else - then walks you out the door. A friend later packs up your desks and ships it home...and they send two security guys to your home to pickup any of their equipment (i.e. laptop) that you may have. They won't even let you bring the equipment back the next day...and all this while you're leaving on good terms...so the rule on the Street is to pack your bags a week before you resign and then be prepare to leave immediately...the good thing is most firms pay you to stay home.
Get real. Look at the job market. Unless you are willing to work in India or China, then your chances of a successfull CS career is the same as winning the lottery. The future is outsourcing programming jobs. Transfer to a major that has a lower chance of being outsourced in the future than CS. Oh, I forgot to mention that I teach CS at an Ivy University.
I heard that a popular Ivy League IT certification program had a drop in enrollement from 2000+ to a little more than 100 students - outsourcing and the drop in IT work is said to be a fault.
If there was such a problem as stated by the lawyers, then why would they have to hunt for evidence? Hey maybe there isn't a problem and maybe there is not need to bring a law suit.
Ship tech jobs abroad and those majoring is CS and other tech areas will drop they're tech major for something with more promise. Didn't Gates find this out at MIT recently? There is more to the bottom line - or is there? I guess US leaders (including business) feel they can simply buy what they need abroad. However, what happens when there is no middle class to pay taxes so the government can buy the tech skills? OK maybe I'm going on a limb, but carry the pattern of outsourcing a few years and I might not be far from the truth - not to mention the large security hole this exposes to the US to.
Two questions they may want to ask: 1. Does anyone check the code written by these firms to assure there are no "time delayed" virus in there? Remember that those programs run the economic well-being of major corporations. My guess they'll response with a yes, but in reality no one every looks that closely at the code. Heck the fire the programmers who would look.
2. Where will the find programmers in the future when India gets too expensive for their neighbors nuke them? Remember before the White House bought peace between India and their neighbors by giving them the IT develoment industry, they were close to nuking each other. Students are dramatically dropping out of IT programs in college. Columbia University's IT certificate program use to draw 200 plus candiates to an open house. Now they're happy if they see 10 candidates. Hey, that's Columbia. Wonder how non-Ivy leaguers are doing.
I wonder if anyone has considered the long term effect shipping programming jobs to India will have on the US. Consider this: 1. Computers are the backbone of our economy 2. No jobs for US programmers means no one is going to train to become a programmer (i.e. Gates at MIT) 3. If no one wants to be trained, then so goes CS and IT programs at colleges. 4. Only programmers in India will know how our computers run our economy - OK 20 years from now. 5. Then India starts to play the nuke game with their neighbors. Someone doesn't blink in time and there goes the "US" programming talent. 6. Can't replace those programmers because the infrastructure for training them is gone.
OK, I'm going to extremes, but I'm sure my point is made. And I haven't brought up the security issue. I can't be any US company is checking the millions of lines of code written in India for "time bombs" - code that can executes sometime in the future to screw up the company' books - not enough to crash the system but enough to make them so inaccurate that no one will know the correct figures.
Could this happen? You guess is as good as mine, but it all sounds like a companies are very short sighted - and so are the politicans who are only out to get corporate contributions to pay for the next elections (both sides are guilty of this).
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Gates - and a major of major "American" corporations - deported IT jobs to off shore countries shortly after 911. My feeling is that Bush cut a deal with India to stop playing nuclear one-ups-manship with Pakistan because Bush needed Pakistan's help for his invasion plans. IT jobs flowed to India causing layoffs in the US... causing major IT publishers to down size and a few went out of business...and colleges saw their CS/IT programs decrease in enrollment...in fact an Ivy League University shut-down is IT certification programs that had been running for 15 years...and now Billy is saying, "where are the American programmers"...this is simply a PR tactic to justify sending work to India and other off shoring heavens and to bring them here to work at lower wages.
I use a popular, public email service. My emails have been identified as spam at times. The reality is the everyone from the service uses the same IP email address. All it takes is one person from that service to send spam and all those using the service get flag...so volume along isn't a good indicator.
Why on earth would any sane person knowingly allow a computer program to impersonate themselves or others? My gut feeling is that MS and other software mfg want more control of MY and YOUR computer without us knowing it. It wouldn't surprise me if elements of the Vista allow MS to search your computer for bogus copies of MS software and software from other companies without us knowing it. MS could sell this service to other companies (i.e. music industry, publishing industry with e-books). And how about marketing companies want to know your buying habits. Remember that the OS has unrestricted to your drives - and the Internet. This becomes a serious concern as more home users become hard wired to the Internet 24/7 with fixed IPs. Think about it. Why would a home user need all this sophistication? And forget about worrying about a family member (i.e. kids) updating windows. Most family members who are online have their own PC - $700 is all it cost and no one has to fight for a turn on the Internet.
I wrote one of the first books on computer programming back in days before the IBM PC and continue to write for the world's leading publishers. More than 75 books so far. Not much is mentioned about authors being paid for their work. Consider: a library under contract with a search engine buys one copy and then let's the search engine digitize the book and make it available for free on the web. Does that seem fair? Isn't this happening with CDs? Why should I - and my fellow authors - write a book that makes technology easy to understand for our readers only to have a billion dollar search engine copy it and give it a way - and collect ad revenue from advertisers who want their ads to be displayed along side the text of my book. Contrary to what you might read in the press, authors don't make a lot of money writing books. The move to digitize books will steal the little financial incentive there is. The result will be few of us willing write books and the search engines will be serving up a hodge-podge of bits and pieces of useful - and not so useful - information.
If you go into your boss and resign, you stay in the office until security comes and walks you to your desk to pickup you bag and coat - nothing else - then walks you out the door. A friend later packs up your desks and ships it home...and they send two security guys to your home to pickup any of their equipment (i.e. laptop) that you may have. They won't even let you bring the equipment back the next day...and all this while you're leaving on good terms...so the rule on the Street is to pack your bags a week before you resign and then be prepare to leave immediately...the good thing is most firms pay you to stay home.
Get real. Look at the job market. Unless you are willing to work in India or China, then your chances of a successfull CS career is the same as winning the lottery. The future is outsourcing programming jobs. Transfer to a major that has a lower chance of being outsourced in the future than CS. Oh, I forgot to mention that I teach CS at an Ivy University.
I heard that a popular Ivy League IT certification program had a drop in enrollement from 2000+ to a little more than 100 students - outsourcing and the drop in IT work is said to be a fault.
If there was such a problem as stated by the lawyers, then why would they have to hunt for evidence? Hey maybe there isn't a problem and maybe there is not need to bring a law suit.
Ship tech jobs abroad and those majoring is CS and other tech areas will drop they're tech major for something with more promise. Didn't Gates find this out at MIT recently? There is more to the bottom line - or is there? I guess US leaders (including business) feel they can simply buy what they need abroad. However, what happens when there is no middle class to pay taxes so the government can buy the tech skills? OK maybe I'm going on a limb, but carry the pattern of outsourcing a few years and I might not be far from the truth - not to mention the large security hole this exposes to the US to.
Two questions they may want to ask:
1. Does anyone check the code written by these firms to assure there are no "time delayed" virus in there? Remember that those programs run the economic well-being of major corporations. My guess they'll response with a yes, but in reality no one every looks that closely at the code. Heck the fire the programmers who would look.
2. Where will the find programmers in the future when India gets too expensive for their neighbors nuke them? Remember before the White House bought peace between India and their neighbors by giving them the IT develoment industry, they were close to nuking each other. Students are dramatically dropping out of IT programs in college. Columbia University's IT certificate program use to draw 200 plus candiates to an open house. Now they're happy if they see 10 candidates. Hey, that's Columbia. Wonder how non-Ivy leaguers are doing.
I wonder if anyone has considered the long term effect shipping programming jobs to India will have on the US. Consider this:
1. Computers are the backbone of our economy
2. No jobs for US programmers means no one is going to train to become a programmer (i.e. Gates at MIT)
3. If no one wants to be trained, then so goes CS and IT programs at colleges.
4. Only programmers in India will know how our computers run our economy - OK 20 years from now.
5. Then India starts to play the nuke game with their neighbors. Someone doesn't blink in time and there goes the "US" programming talent.
6. Can't replace those programmers because the infrastructure for training them is gone.
OK, I'm going to extremes, but I'm sure my point is made. And I haven't brought up the security issue. I can't be any US company is checking the millions of lines of code written in India for "time bombs" - code that can executes sometime in the future to screw up the company' books - not enough to crash the system but enough to make them so inaccurate that no one will know the correct figures.
Could this happen? You guess is as good as mine, but it all sounds like a companies are very short sighted - and so are the politicans who are only out to get corporate contributions to pay for the next elections (both sides are guilty of this).