De acuerdo.... Pero que es "moderno". Pienso que tecnicas gringas no son todas buenas. En los EE.UU no todos valoran a sus empleados como deben. Tal Vez, Lo unico que hace en EE.UU es pagar mejor que en otros paises. No sé, pero presumo. Ademas de esto, no estoy seguro que moderno es el camino bueno.
Por ejemplo, companías de technologia deben pagar para cursors con el fin de entrenar a sus empleados en lo mas nuevo. No deben despedirse de ellos para emplear otras que YA saben lo mas nuevo. Etc....
You're right, and I tried not to be TOO accusative, or generalize too much. Europe is a large body of countries, and off the top of my head I only think of Spain and Germany being close to the mark.
Hence my use of the words "mostly pertains to" and "similar to other European countries" instead of "similar to ALL European countries".
Anyways, as hard as we all work, in any country, us Americans often find ourselves envious of such employee comforts in most of Europe. (on the whole)
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Vive La Loafing!
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· Score: 5, Insightful
This mostly pertains to France, which is similar to other European countries whereby employees stay at one job, for life, and very rarely get fired.
I think US citizens should focus on different things, like getting 3 or 4 weeks of vacation per year, not just two.
Also, some professions are not equal in the USA. Medical residents, for example, are under the same employee laws as everyone else, but routinely work 100 to 120 hours per week. Only *now* are they starting to get tired of it and fight back. Good for them, because that kind of thing is outrageous and needs to change.
Opportunity....
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Though this piece of news is a bit old, it's still noteworthy. Xcode, IMHO, is amazing and fun to use. Version 1.2 was too buggy, but I've found 1.5 to be a great improvement. I'm sure version 1.5.1 is on its way soon, if you read the Release Notes carefully enough, Apple admits to releasing 1.5 with 10 to 12 bugs, in semi-basic feature areas, most of which cause Xcode to crash. There are other IDE's available for other platforms, and though Xcode is one of the only ones for the Mac aside from CodeWarrior, I'd still give kudos to it, and Apple for making it.
They seem to be really paying attention to what developers need. They're greatly improved their documentation in the past year, and Xcode is pretty darn developer friendly, now supporting Subversion.
I recommend everyone look into it, install it, and use it. All emails go plain text without encryption, so it's the least you can do to enhance your privacy. As for VoIP, I don't know.
In the article he says: "But the truth is that Apple and Microsoft have seldom been direct competitors."
I agree, but disagree. It's not so cut and dry, and even though he doesn't claim it to be cut and dry, it's just too simple of a concept to throw out there. Apple was a desktop machine, for people. Microsoft aimed dead ahead that market as well. (business, school, and home). Were the Apple II and Macintosh just for school and home, not business? I think VisiCalc would answer that one pretty easily. Same thing with Filemaker. The Apple was a great business machine, a machine for students, and for the home. Microsoft took dead aim at all of them, and continues to do so to this day, as it tries to enter nearly every market out there, even hardware.
The part of the article I do agree with, says: "Thus the difference between Microsoft and Apple wasn't about open-vs.-closed; it was pragmatism-vs.-idealism."
How many times do you hear Bill Gates talking about being a pirate? Well, maybe he does, but you hear MORE of the idealistic talk from Steve Jobs and co. I find it odd that an idealistic company can exist at all. Normally they remove such things (idealism, morals, quality) when money and profit take precedence. But, as the author says, I guess that's why Apple only earns millions, but Microsoft earns billions.
In my mind, Apple has taken steps that will ensure it some great success. It has entered into many markets, not just one. It has servers, desktops, and peripherals. It hocks software *and* hardware. It has embraced open source (let's not discuss to what extents) and made quite an amazing set of documentation for users and developers alike. For me, as a humble developer, it is a godsend. Yet, for my 78 year old father in-law, it's just as amazing. How can that be? And, for an IT company needing a server, it may very well be just as appreciated.
Microsoft made attempts at all of that, too. In my mind, they are competitors. Could Apple have been Microsoft? That's a loaded question.
I would question why any company would want to be Microsoft. Moreover, why not be like Apple?
I'd rather be the old, trustworthy shoemaker on the street corner, making quality in a niche market, than some big shoe company spread all over the world. (if the analogy makes sense)
Public space is part of a city/town/country, where we live. That country is made up of the people that run it: citizens, who own it, and create its laws. That's why Britain has a parliament and the US is a democracy/republic built by the people, for the people.
Public space is *ours* to control, maintain, and pass laws for. We are not hostages in our own country, who should stay home to avoid such things.
Ugh, really?!? Yeah, I heard SEAS dropped their own email servers. I guess Sheryl C got tired of handling the SPAM, or she moved on to bigger and better things.
And what of the SEAS labs? And Tompkins? And no elevators?
Also keep in mind that nothing is stopping anyone, right now, from using iTunes. No need to make a deal with Apple, no need to host a streaming server on campus, no need to pay anything.
Let the students bear the costs IF they choose. But, when an organization purchases such an account (Napster) for all of its associates (students) it's portraying it as the option they endorse. Moreover, nothing is for free, and eventually those costs for EACH student will be paid by the students themselves. They, after all, are the ones providing the university with its funding. That means that Napster is forced onto them, whether they use it or not.
Which is better? Crack down on the illegal sharing on campus, and urge the students to choose a legal option, or, give them all Napster and hope that dissuades them from being bad?
Sigh.
Reminds me of condoms in the dorm rooms, yet the free student clinic is full of pregnancies. Providing napster to the students, at their own cost, won't stop anything and costs more than iTunes would in the long run.
It's because Apple isn't offering the schools anything. If you think Napster's taking advantage of them, you should see Apple's offer:
"Let us advertise on your campus and you can bear our bandwidth costs with an on-campus server! FREE!"
I don't doubt it. But.... but, what's the deal with an on-campus server? Apple's iTunes is over the internet, as any other data stream, and needs no dedicated streaming server like Napster does. Moreover, the people in the dorms trading movies & music illegally are ALREADY using the on-campus servers, for free. So? And, why clog a university LAN with streaming music? Why pay for additional infrastructure and headaches? (ie. a napster dedicated server, and tech support to the kids that can't get it working, or if the server goes down, etc..).
has zero chance of doing anything about the overall problem.
It isn't exactly zero. In fact, the DRM deal they struck with the record labels is pretty great. Napster streaming versus iTunes purchase/download/keep&share, Hmm.... tough decision. (not really). I'd rather buy and keep than listen to streaming music.
Streaming music is fine, yes. But, it's not the end all solution. People want to listen to the radio and then go buy the CD. So, in the future, maybe streaming music will be the radio, but people will always want to buy and keep music in a personal stash.
And I went to the engineering school too (CompSci.) Sad to see they went with Napster instead of, say, iTunes or something better. The engineering school knew better, looks like they never consulted them though. Streaming audio? Ugh... Is it me or did this come out of nowhere? I guess donating money really has influence (no, it wasn't me who did it).
Then again, GW has done this before. They aligned Pepsi, can't find a single Coke on campus, have to go to the nearby Watergate or even further to get one. They also put fridges and microwaves in every freshmen room, and you had to ask to remove it or they'd automatically charge you. Not sure if they still do that, it's been 5 years or so since I was there.
The network on campus was quite good, they even had fiber optic installed in most dorms. So, I don't doubt the sharing of files in campus is quite rampant, and it will no doubt continue.
Sounds to me like he would be a proponent of Java, because of the JVM and the ability to run on any hardware/OS. The storage for the data could be anything, the programming, platform independent, because the JVM can be made to run on an machine and therefore, be moved if/when necessary. However, that's nice for the front-end, but it would have to also apply to the back-end, where the data storage is. Client server architecture would throw a wrench into the situation, but it also may help it. Keeping an old legacy system in the back, maybe made of clusters to allow for expansion and easy replacement, would be ideal. And, the client end could be ugpraded as the years go on to allow for new technologies.
I wonder why Apple's language support isn't showcased or talked about more often.
I've only seen people complain "It doesn't support Greek!", which is understandable (and maybe it should) but it is localized in so many different languages, right out of the box, and that is underappreciated. Spanish? Japanese? Korean? etc... it's all in there.
On a side note, I do wonder why they are localizing it for Hungarian. Is it because of strong demand? Ease of translation?
The person has made very valid points, especially concering politics and "free"dom. But many of the points they made can apply to other languages, such as Ada (easy to read, compiles to C, small syntax set, free compilers, etc..) yet there just aren't enough people using it to make it a good language to move towards.
I mostly agree, but don't forget about geometry/trig, etc...
It was a strange thing back then when philosophers said "Let's not measure things, not even REAL things, instead lets think of the IDEA of spatial relations". The idea of the line, equations, and all of those other fundamentals we all learn today. It was math in the philosophical sense. (a^2 + b^2 = c^2 ) (or the shortest distance between two points is....) If that had never happened, if they hadn't stepped back from the drawing table to theorize and philosophize, we wouldn't have the solid mathematical foundation we have today.
So, the same may be said of other philosophies. Stepping back from reality, and thinking about things that seem unrelated may eventually turn out to be the exact opposite.
However, until I get arrested, just for exercising my first ammendment right to speech, the speech that I'll be making will be against Bush, Cheyney and Ashcroft.
Ugh... the use of the word "until" in that sentence is telling.
It's a sad state of affairs when you have to concede to the fact that one day you'll be arrested just for doing something that is entirely in your right. I hope you don't get arrested, that would mean the end of what we hold dear. Well, SOME of us hold dear, others just don't appreciate it or realize it.
The points I made about American's and we have it so "bad" was compared to other countries, which was done to show we DON'T have it good, or bad. It's all a matter of perspective. The true problem doesn't lie in pay, or benefits, it lies in other areas.
This is a story that starts with a sysadmin seeing a 419 scam, hearing that there was a black guy with a "suspicious" accent in his cafe, deciding that this must be our criminal, and deciding to read his e-mail to find out...
Right?
Not totally. He first said that a company (Spamcop?) blacklisted him and he didn't know why. He went back to investigate and looked through the logs, he saw a lot of traffic by someone using a laptop at the cafe and figured that the person was spamming. He had the hours it happened, and asked, and the person told him about the "suspicious" people during those hours.
Somebody mod this up, I'm all out of points. It's full of great points no one seems to talk about when the outsourcing topic comes up.
- Americans have to pay for college, we don't get it for "free" like other countries provide. - We get two weeks of paid vacation per year, unlike other countries. - Medical care? Same thing.....
The same joblessness in the USA is happening in Europe (esp. Germany) but over there they get 4 weeks of vacation, have better services and health care, etc... yet ask a German citizen and they'll tell you it's not as nice as it sounds, our jobs are going away each day, etc...
I think a larger issue in this whole Outsourcing trend has to do with "throw away society". My grandparents had the same telephone for decades. Now, we buy a new one every few months or years. (900 Mhz?! Bah! Go and get a 2.8 Ghz cordless. Wait... now it's 5.X ghz?) or (1G->2G->3G cellphones, CDMA versus GSM, smaller, lighter, cheaper) etc.... What's the moral? Before, companies and products were built to last. Now is the age of Enrons, job hopping, shorter product lifespans, and speed of change.
Breeding a society of future employees is no longer the best option, it takes too long! Outsource to other countries, that's much faster. Invest in your own country, your own people? Too costly, can't wait for that to happen, need to take care of business right now, not years from now.
Decades from now it may even out, India will eventually have higher income levels, higher costs of living, and it won't be as econonomically "nice", so companies will find cheaper workers elsewhere. But, that's a price India will pay when the realize:
It's all a temporary advantage. Throw-away, not permanent.
Never forget the famous engineering phrase: "Faster, cheaper, better: pick two"
Right now we're choosing "cheaper and faster". The "better" is being left out, things are throw-away, not meant to last or endure.
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De acuerdo....
Pero que es "moderno". Pienso que tecnicas gringas no son todas buenas. En los EE.UU no todos valoran a sus empleados como deben. Tal Vez, Lo unico que hace en EE.UU es pagar mejor que en otros paises. No sé, pero presumo. Ademas de esto, no estoy seguro que moderno es el camino bueno.
Por ejemplo, companías de technologia deben pagar para cursors con el fin de entrenar a sus empleados en lo mas nuevo. No deben despedirse de ellos para emplear otras que YA saben lo mas nuevo. Etc....
No puede ser.....
Bueno, pense que Espana era diferente, mas "seguro" en la tema de sus empleados.
Que pena. A mi, suena como paises sin much socialismo. Odio a la falta de respeta para empleados y su valor.
You're right, and I tried not to be TOO accusative, or generalize too much. Europe is a large body of countries, and off the top of my head I only think of Spain and Germany being close to the mark.
Hence my use of the words "mostly pertains to" and "similar to other European countries" instead of "similar to ALL European countries".
Anyways, as hard as we all work, in any country, us Americans often find ourselves envious of such employee comforts in most of Europe. (on the whole)
This mostly pertains to France, which is similar to other European countries whereby employees stay at one job, for life, and very rarely get fired.
I think US citizens should focus on different things, like getting 3 or 4 weeks of vacation per year, not just two.
Also, some professions are not equal in the USA. Medical residents, for example, are under the same employee laws as everyone else, but routinely work 100 to 120 hours per week. Only *now* are they starting to get tired of it and fight back.
Good for them, because that kind of thing is outrageous and needs to change.
Instead of focusing on "Bonjour Paresse", people should focus on working to live, not living to work. Or, how to be a good employee and not slack off, bringing down the system.
Though this piece of news is a bit old, it's still noteworthy. Xcode, IMHO, is amazing and fun to use. Version 1.2 was too buggy, but I've found 1.5 to be a great improvement. I'm sure version 1.5.1 is on its way soon, if you read the Release Notes carefully enough, Apple admits to releasing 1.5 with 10 to 12 bugs, in semi-basic feature areas, most of which cause Xcode to crash.
There are other IDE's available for other platforms, and though Xcode is one of the only ones for the Mac aside from CodeWarrior, I'd still give kudos to it, and Apple for making it.
They seem to be really paying attention to what developers need. They're greatly improved their documentation in the past year, and Xcode is pretty darn developer friendly, now supporting Subversion.
I recommend everyone look into it, install it, and use it. All emails go
plain text without encryption, so it's the least you can do to enhance your privacy.
As for VoIP, I don't know.
http://www.gnupg.org/
In the article he says:
"But the truth is that Apple and Microsoft have seldom been direct competitors."
I agree, but disagree. It's not so cut and dry, and even though he doesn't
claim it to be cut and dry, it's just too simple of a concept to throw out there.
Apple was a desktop machine, for people. Microsoft aimed dead ahead that market
as well. (business, school, and home). Were the Apple II and Macintosh just for
school and home, not business? I think VisiCalc would answer that one pretty easily.
Same thing with Filemaker. The Apple was a great business machine, a machine for
students, and for the home. Microsoft took dead aim at all of them, and continues
to do so to this day, as it tries to enter nearly every market out there, even hardware.
The part of the article I do agree with, says:
"Thus the difference between Microsoft and Apple wasn't about open-vs.-closed; it was pragmatism-vs.-idealism."
How many times do you hear Bill Gates talking about being a pirate? Well, maybe he
does, but you hear MORE of the idealistic talk from Steve Jobs and co. I find it odd
that an idealistic company can exist at all. Normally they remove such things (idealism,
morals, quality) when money and profit take precedence. But, as the author says, I guess
that's why Apple only earns millions, but Microsoft earns billions.
In my mind, Apple has taken steps that will ensure it some great success. It has
entered into many markets, not just one. It has servers, desktops, and peripherals.
It hocks software *and* hardware. It has embraced open source (let's not discuss to what
extents) and made quite an amazing set of documentation for users and developers alike.
For me, as a humble developer, it is a godsend. Yet, for my 78 year old father in-law,
it's just as amazing. How can that be? And, for an IT company needing a server, it may
very well be just as appreciated.
Microsoft made attempts at all of that, too. In my mind, they are competitors.
Could Apple have been Microsoft? That's a loaded question.
I would question why any company would want to be Microsoft.
Moreover, why not be like Apple?
I'd rather be the old, trustworthy shoemaker on the street corner, making quality in
a niche market, than some big shoe company spread all over the world. (if the analogy
makes sense)
Double but!
Public space is part of a city/town/country, where we live.
That country is made up of the people that run it: citizens, who own it, and create its laws.
That's why Britain has a parliament and the US is a democracy/republic built by the people, for the people.
Public space is *ours* to control, maintain, and pass laws for.
We are not hostages in our own country, who should stay home to avoid such things.
Ugh, really?!? Yeah, I heard SEAS dropped their own email servers. I guess Sheryl C got tired of handling the SPAM, or she moved on to bigger and better things.
And what of the SEAS labs? And Tompkins? And no elevators?
It's been 5 years since I left.
I wish I had mod points, somebody please mod this up.
Also keep in mind that nothing is stopping anyone, right now, from using iTunes. No need to make a deal with Apple, no need to host a streaming server on campus, no need to pay anything.
Let the students bear the costs IF they choose.
But, when an organization purchases such an account (Napster) for all of its associates (students) it's portraying it as the option they endorse. Moreover, nothing is for free, and eventually those costs for EACH student will be paid by the students themselves. They, after all, are the ones providing the university with its funding. That means that Napster is forced onto them, whether they use it or not.
Which is better? Crack down on the illegal sharing on campus, and urge the students to choose a legal option, or, give them all Napster and hope that dissuades them from being bad?
Sigh.
Reminds me of condoms in the dorm rooms, yet the free student clinic is full of pregnancies. Providing napster to the students, at their own cost, won't stop anything and costs more than iTunes would in the long run.
It's because Apple isn't offering the schools anything. If you think Napster's taking advantage of them, you should see Apple's offer:
"Let us advertise on your campus and you can bear our bandwidth costs with an on-campus server! FREE!"
I don't doubt it. But.... but, what's the deal with an on-campus server? Apple's iTunes is over the internet, as any other data stream, and needs no dedicated streaming server like Napster does. Moreover, the people in the dorms trading movies & music illegally are ALREADY using the on-campus servers, for free.
So? And, why clog a university LAN with streaming music?
Why pay for additional infrastructure and headaches? (ie. a napster dedicated server, and tech support to the kids that can't get it working, or if the server goes down, etc..).
has zero chance of doing anything about the overall problem.
It isn't exactly zero. In fact, the DRM deal they struck with the record labels is pretty great. Napster streaming versus iTunes purchase/download/keep&share, Hmm.... tough decision.
(not really). I'd rather buy and keep than listen to streaming music.
Streaming music is fine, yes. But, it's not the end all solution.
People want to listen to the radio and then go buy the CD.
So, in the future, maybe streaming music will be the radio, but
people will always want to buy and keep music in a personal stash.
And I went to the engineering school too (CompSci.) Sad to see they went with Napster instead of, say, iTunes or something better. The engineering school knew better, looks like they never consulted them though. Streaming audio? Ugh...
Is it me or did this come out of nowhere?
I guess donating money really has influence (no, it wasn't me who did it).
Then again, GW has done this before. They aligned Pepsi, can't find a single Coke on campus, have to go to the nearby Watergate or even further to get one. They also put fridges and microwaves in every freshmen room, and you had to ask to remove it or they'd automatically charge you. Not sure if they still do that, it's been 5 years or so since I was there.
The network on campus was quite good, they even had fiber optic installed in most dorms. So, I don't doubt the sharing of files in campus is quite rampant, and it will no doubt continue.
Sounds to me like he would be a proponent of Java, because of the JVM and the ability to run on any hardware/OS. The storage for the data could be anything, the programming, platform independent, because the JVM can be made to run on an machine and therefore, be moved if/when necessary. However, that's nice for the front-end, but it would have to also apply to the back-end, where the data storage is. Client server architecture would throw a wrench into the situation, but it also may help it. Keeping an old legacy system in the back, maybe made of clusters to allow for expansion and easy replacement, would be ideal. And, the client end could be ugpraded as the years go on to allow for new technologies.
and stop complaining.
I wonder why Apple's language support isn't showcased or talked about more often.
I've only seen people complain "It doesn't support Greek!", which is understandable (and maybe it should) but it is localized in so many different languages, right out of the box, and that is underappreciated.
Spanish? Japanese? Korean? etc... it's all in there.
On a side note, I do wonder why they are localizing it for Hungarian. Is it because of strong demand? Ease of translation?
The person has made very valid points, especially concering politics and "free"dom. But many of the points they made can apply to other languages, such as Ada (easy to read, compiles to C, small syntax set, free compilers, etc..) yet there just aren't enough people using it to make it a good language to move towards.
I mostly agree, but don't forget about geometry/trig, etc...
It was a strange thing back then when philosophers said "Let's not measure things, not even REAL things, instead lets think of the IDEA of spatial relations". The idea of the line, equations, and all of those other fundamentals we all learn today. It was math in the philosophical sense. (a^2 + b^2 = c^2 ) (or the shortest distance between two points is....)
If that had never happened, if they hadn't stepped back from the drawing table to theorize and philosophize, we wouldn't have the solid mathematical foundation we have today.
So, the same may be said of other philosophies. Stepping back from reality, and thinking about things that seem unrelated may eventually turn out to be the exact opposite.
MODS?!?!
I remember those when I was in high school running great demos out of Finland, and all of that happened 10 years ago.
It's good to see they're still around, and kudos to Winamp for supporting them, but I wouldn't hold it against iTunes.
(though, the memory footprint, most definitely. I don't run Windows anymore so I wouldn't know firsthand)
However, until I get arrested, just for exercising my first ammendment right to speech, the speech that I'll be making will be against Bush, Cheyney and Ashcroft.
Ugh... the use of the word "until" in that sentence is telling.
It's a sad state of affairs when you have to concede to the fact that one day you'll be arrested just for doing something that is entirely in your right.
I hope you don't get arrested, that would mean the end of what we hold dear. Well, SOME of us hold dear, others just don't appreciate it or realize it.
Read the REST of my post before responding....
The points I made about American's and we have it so "bad" was compared to other countries, which was done to show we DON'T have it good, or bad. It's all a matter of perspective. The true problem doesn't lie in pay, or benefits, it lies in other areas.
Idiot.
Now is a good time to do that, if you're already going through the trouble of a download and a re-install.
This is a story that starts with a sysadmin seeing a 419 scam, hearing that there was a black guy with a "suspicious" accent in his cafe, deciding that this must be our criminal, and deciding to read his e-mail to find out...
Right?
Not totally. He first said that a company (Spamcop?) blacklisted him and he didn't know why. He went back to investigate and looked through the logs, he saw a lot of traffic by someone using a laptop at the cafe and figured that the person was spamming. He had the hours it happened, and asked, and the person told him about the "suspicious" people during those hours.
Somebody mod this up, I'm all out of points.
It's full of great points no one seems to talk about when the outsourcing topic comes up.
- Americans have to pay for college, we don't get it for "free" like other countries provide.
- We get two weeks of paid vacation per year, unlike other countries.
- Medical care? Same thing.....
The same joblessness in the USA is happening in Europe (esp. Germany) but over there they get 4 weeks of vacation, have better services and health care, etc... yet ask a German citizen and they'll tell you it's not as nice as it sounds, our jobs are going away each day, etc...
I think a larger issue in this whole Outsourcing trend has to do with "throw away society".
My grandparents had the same telephone for decades. Now, we buy a new one every few months or years. (900 Mhz?! Bah! Go and get a 2.8 Ghz cordless. Wait... now it's 5.X ghz?) or (1G->2G->3G cellphones, CDMA versus GSM, smaller, lighter, cheaper) etc....
What's the moral? Before, companies and products were built to last. Now is the age of Enrons, job hopping, shorter product lifespans, and speed of change.
Breeding a society of future employees is no longer the best option, it takes too long! Outsource to other countries, that's much faster. Invest in your own country, your own people?
Too costly, can't wait for that to happen, need to take care of business right now, not years from now.
Decades from now it may even out, India will eventually have higher income levels, higher costs of living, and it won't be as econonomically "nice", so companies will find cheaper workers elsewhere. But, that's a price India will pay when the realize:
It's all a temporary advantage. Throw-away, not permanent.
Never forget the famous engineering phrase:
"Faster, cheaper, better: pick two"
Right now we're choosing "cheaper and faster". The "better" is being left out, things are throw-away, not meant to last or endure.