Basically your advocating devalueing tech work by doing it for free. It's part of the problem. Everyone sees people doign tech stuff for free to build experience and assumes that work isn't worth the money. Vicious cycle type stuff. There are a lot of people tryign to build experience by doing stuff for free. What happened is now a lot of people feel this type of work is worth little because so many do it for free.
I can attest to this. I searched for 3 years for a entry level position after I got my bachlors in CS. Got a shitty web dev job for two years then moved to a large telecom as a inbound sales position. I made almost double. But still peanuts. I'm sort of bitter that there exists 0 jobs over 30,000 CND a year for a CS grad. Some of my friend had better luck. They mostly knew someone in a large company and got in that way. I was SOL.
how skilled is the average US programmer versus the average outsourced programmer? it seems it would be harder to communicate effectively to the outsourced person due to locality and language barriers, and would therefore possibly create some interesting roadblocks to development of a project
My cousin was top of her class in a regional tech college in Jiangmen, China. She can put up a lot of high quality code but she doesn't understand much about algorthms of any sort except implementing well solved problems based on references. She's basically the equivalent of a really good Community college grad in Programming with no theoretical back ground.
She basically runs her firm along with her fiancee / company owner. They took on a outsorcing contract once. It was such a huge hassle working for an american firm. The contact had poor chinese skills (Chinese diaspora) and gave some fairly conflicting project requirements. The project ran over time, over budget, and was less profitable then some of the chinese onshore projects they had.
Sometimes it's not the worker quality but the language thats the problem. If you can provide a good middle man who can sufficiently describe your needs and am willing to pay the right amount for the right firm to do it, it can be vert good. If you skimp and think the prices given 4 years ago are still valid then you will only hurt yourself in the end.
Which reminds me - yes, Heinz is far and away the best ketchup and it's American, and quite possibly the best thing to come out of the US, IMO. In my fanaticism, I might even go so far as to call it a food, though I would expect plenty to argue with me.
Ketchup isn't strictly american. Tomato sauce is pretty international. The Tomato is thought to originate in the americas but spread from there by the spaniards. Usage varied and the most europeans countries incorporated it into their dishes with Italian cousine becoming synonymous with it. The word ketchup itself either derives from the Cantonese word for tomato paste (Ke Jup) or the mandrin word for a fermented fish sauce (similarly Ke Jup). I don't know how English got that particular loan word but Ketchup is pretty international. Just because a well known brand is american doens't mean so much. I prefer a 50/50 mix of any ketchup plus Sriracha, A thai hot sauce commonly refered to as rooster sauce. This combo is mighty tasty and gives a zesty garlicy burn to it.
It's like fruit juice. Nearly every brand and variety of fruit juice tastes pretty close. From Mango tropical blend to orange to grape to pommagranate juice. The only real standouts in apple juice because it is what they use to water down everything else so you can't water it down with anything cheaper and cranberry juice because it is so blantly over powering. Most juices only vaguely taste liek the fruit on the label. It's likely because they all debase their product with apple or orange juice to reduce cost. But it's silly how little variety there actually is out there for flavor.
True enough. I never contended that these guys were BD only. I only contended it's not sony alone. The ocmpanies listed are part of directorate of the BD group. Sony might have a lot of sway but they aren't the only ones calling the shots. It's not just Sony's format.
If I could do it, I'd disarm the US as well. But the button is controlled by more then an empty headed muppet, and there are still good non-nutcase people in power in the US. While the non-nutcases were rounded them up and imprisoned them during the iranian revolution. Now it's nutcases up top with good people cowering in fear.
What, that there will be one more country free from the threat of US invasion. Guess I don't see the down side. The only country to ever use nuclear weaponry is the USA, and no mater how insane we may thing other world leaders are, the out cry that country such and such would be a threat if they had nuclear capability has yet to come true. It might also mean that certain countries stop wasting resources on the defense of an artificially established nation.
Downside is a highly religiously motivated nation with nukes. One nutcase and we then have potentially a few million lives at risk. What ever you think of isreal. It's there, it's been a few generations and almost all the nations of the middle east are artificial constructs. With borders and governemnts defined and propped up by third parties. Legitimacy comes through force of arms. Either yours directly or your friends. Isreal can hold their own and beat most of their neightbors. Most of their neighbors harbor delusions of saladine and wish to smite Isreal. Some have made peace with the fact that it's there and will not be moved without force.. force they don't have yet.
At this point evicting Isreal is just as evil an act as the jewish mobs evicting some of the native arab "palastinians" in the arab-isreali war(1948). The majority of the palastinian "refugees" were not part of this expulsion. They fled willingly from civil war with the idea that their arab neighbors would go in an massacre the jews amd then they could return home. Apparently their neighbros were less compitent then they thought and we have the current situation.
I think if they get a single bomb online I wouldn't mind Isreal doing a pre-emptive strike on the nuke site. Chances are Iran will eventually threaten with nuclear war unless isreal retreat to pre 1967 borders and so on. A massive air compaign or a single nuclear strike on all iranian nuclear facilities and suspect labs would curb that... and start a massive arab isreali war perhaps. I know arabia isn't full of evil devils but the ones in power there are not the best of people to get nukes. An iranian could be a good person but I can't imagine the theocrats as good people. I'd vastly prefer open war in the middle east then a theocrat with a nuke.
Minidisk was wildly successful in Asia. It completely replaced the CD for mobile music.
As for DSL speeds. Most providers could do 5-15 mbits right now but they sell 1.5 and 3.0. Why? They want to charge as much as possible for as little as possible and have room to bump it up if the competitor does. So they provide less. Do a poll on DSL speeds. The majority will be 1.5-3.0 all over North America. Cable often offers more 3.0 - 5.0 for standard packages but cable isn't as stable for speeds. You'd see 16 kbits at peak hours and only 5.0 late night. Most also reserve bandwidth for their own IP TV / VOIP services. DVD bitrates are often 4.0 mbits to 8.0 mbits. While you can get close to DVD quality with 3.0 mbits dsl, it's still a bit below DVD.
For archiving, once the cost of blu-ray recorders and media come down I'll be glad to get one. Backing up things 1 DVD at a time is worse then 1 BD at a time. And HD's have a fiarly high failure rate. A good place to store it and frequent back ups is easier and cheaper with disc media. Although I have though about a exstrenal HD, most of my non media data that I want to back up will fit on a CD. I mirror those more often then my media.
Have you compared say DVD9 to SD digital cable with decent wiring? The cable (analogue or digital) is never as good. Obvious quality difference. A lot of people can't tell that well because they have a shitty set connected with shitty cables. I work for a IP TV provider and I know a lot of people rave how much better it is then their last provider. I happen to know it's not the service per se but the fact we replace their shitty coax connection with at least composite at best s-video cables.
Well Broadcast/cable HD right now is at the quality level of a upconverted DVD going through really shitty coax cables. I've seen it from us. From the others guys, from competitors not in the market(I travel). And so far it's all unifromly over compressed garbage. So what will that converter box do for ya? You will get some real shitty DVD upscaled picture. You compare it to anyone of the HD formats and god "wow thats is better" and eventually you'll get one as well. The $50 incentive might help Ma and Pa wallmart to splurge and go into debt on a shitty HD TV with shitty cables connected to a shitty converter box thats hooks into a shitty over compressed signal but I think Ma and Pa best buy will problably get one of the HD players.
Yeppers. And I, for one, couldn't be happer: anything to quash yet ANOTHER attempt by Sony to lock us into another godforsaken proprietary format.
You mean proprietary like CD and DVD? You do realize it's not just Sony behind BD. You do realize that the majority of the successful formats for media in the last three decades have had sony in there somehwere. CD, DVD, 3.5", minidisc. they fell a lot when they went it on their own. But they have had a hand in almost all the successful digital media formats. Proprietary does not mean instant loss. The majority of data formats you use are propriatary. While HTTP, TCP/IP, and ethernet are open formats the bit codes that run your CPU, the assorted IP that make up most of your computer are propriatary. Get some perspective.
PS. This is the the decision makers behind the BD format
* Apple
* Dell
* Hewlett-Packard
* Hitachi
* LG
* Mitsubishi Electric
* Panasonic
* Pioneer
* Philips
* Samsung
* Sharp
* Sony
* Sun Microsystems
* TDK
* Thomson
* Twentieth Century Fox
* Walt Disney Company
* Warner Bros.
Let's see, we've got the pr0n market going to HD-DVD (though why on earth you'd want HD-DVD for pr0n I don't know)... and now we have Walmart pushing it like this, seems like BluRay is going to be reduced to the "has beens" bin... again. Technically it may have been a superior format (?) but once again Sony shows the way to destroy what could have been a promising format.
Your first statement is wrong. Pr0n has not chosen sides. The story came when the lead guy at Vivid said some stuff about Sony not helping them out at a AVN event. Turns out this was false, Sony just wasn't going out of their way to help vivid find a BD disc presser. Vivid anounced recently they are releasing a BD pr0n0. It seems it might have been a negotiation stunt to get Sony to make some calls for vivid.
This story has also been refuted. Walmart wishes to push HD formats not HD DVD in aprticular. No official press has been released just a translated chinese press release. A lot is left ambigious.
) So, you're saying that the company that created Betamax, ATRAC encoding, the S-Link protocol, Minidisc players, Super-AudioCDs, Memory Sticks and Universal Media Discs might actually lose a format war
Don't forget CD, DVD, 3.5" floppies and MiniDisc (in japan)... all collosal failures right?
They don't have the best record but when they cooperate with others on a format like the ones I specified they tend to win. Then they attempt to go it alone they flame out. Blu-ray is a co-operative format. It's the format that most studios are backing now and the consumers seem to agree as they are voting with their dollars. The war is far from over though.
It's not so much the office application as it is "viewing" MS Office files. Like it or not they have become the defacto documents of business..doc.ppt etc..
Apple doesn't target large business/enterprise markets. They never have. Their products are always marketed as tools for empowering individuals. If you didn't know better and could only guess from reviewing their advertising, you might think that businesses don't use personal computers. Often in these cases they behave more like a consumer electronics company rather than a PC maker.
Empowering individuals? please tell me your a shill because if a real person speaks like that then the marketroids have won and we're all doomed to annihalation through mass stupidity.
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Basically your advocating devalueing tech work by doing it for free. It's part of the problem. Everyone sees people doign tech stuff for free to build experience and assumes that work isn't worth the money. Vicious cycle type stuff. There are a lot of people tryign to build experience by doing stuff for free. What happened is now a lot of people feel this type of work is worth little because so many do it for free.
I can attest to this. I searched for 3 years for a entry level position after I got my bachlors in CS. Got a shitty web dev job for two years then moved to a large telecom as a inbound sales position. I made almost double. But still peanuts. I'm sort of bitter that there exists 0 jobs over 30,000 CND a year for a CS grad. Some of my friend had better luck. They mostly knew someone in a large company and got in that way. I was SOL.
how skilled is the average US programmer versus the average outsourced programmer? it seems it would be harder to communicate effectively to the outsourced person due to locality and language barriers, and would therefore possibly create some interesting roadblocks to development of a project
My cousin was top of her class in a regional tech college in Jiangmen, China. She can put up a lot of high quality code but she doesn't understand much about algorthms of any sort except implementing well solved problems based on references. She's basically the equivalent of a really good Community college grad in Programming with no theoretical back ground.
She basically runs her firm along with her fiancee / company owner. They took on a outsorcing contract once. It was such a huge hassle working for an american firm. The contact had poor chinese skills (Chinese diaspora) and gave some fairly conflicting project requirements. The project ran over time, over budget, and was less profitable then some of the chinese onshore projects they had.
Sometimes it's not the worker quality but the language thats the problem. If you can provide a good middle man who can sufficiently describe your needs and am willing to pay the right amount for the right firm to do it, it can be vert good. If you skimp and think the prices given 4 years ago are still valid then you will only hurt yourself in the end.
Which reminds me - yes, Heinz is far and away the best ketchup and it's American, and quite possibly the best thing to come out of the US, IMO. In my fanaticism, I might even go so far as to call it a food, though I would expect plenty to argue with me.
Ketchup isn't strictly american. Tomato sauce is pretty international. The Tomato is thought to originate in the americas but spread from there by the spaniards. Usage varied and the most europeans countries incorporated it into their dishes with Italian cousine becoming synonymous with it. The word ketchup itself either derives from the Cantonese word for tomato paste (Ke Jup) or the mandrin word for a fermented fish sauce (similarly Ke Jup). I don't know how English got that particular loan word but Ketchup is pretty international. Just because a well known brand is american doens't mean so much. I prefer a 50/50 mix of any ketchup plus Sriracha, A thai hot sauce commonly refered to as rooster sauce. This combo is mighty tasty and gives a zesty garlicy burn to it.
It's like fruit juice. Nearly every brand and variety of fruit juice tastes pretty close. From Mango tropical blend to orange to grape to pommagranate juice. The only real standouts in apple juice because it is what they use to water down everything else so you can't water it down with anything cheaper and cranberry juice because it is so blantly over powering. Most juices only vaguely taste liek the fruit on the label. It's likely because they all debase their product with apple or orange juice to reduce cost. But it's silly how little variety there actually is out there for flavor.
China was a bit ahead of renasaunce europe in the area of herbal medicine and practical cures.
True enough. I never contended that these guys were BD only. I only contended it's not sony alone. The ocmpanies listed are part of directorate of the BD group. Sony might have a lot of sway but they aren't the only ones calling the shots. It's not just Sony's format.
If I could do it, I'd disarm the US as well. But the button is controlled by more then an empty headed muppet, and there are still good non-nutcase people in power in the US. While the non-nutcases were rounded them up and imprisoned them during the iranian revolution. Now it's nutcases up top with good people cowering in fear.
What, that there will be one more country free from the threat of US invasion. Guess I don't see the down side. The only country to ever use nuclear weaponry is the USA, and no mater how insane we may thing other world leaders are, the out cry that country such and such would be a threat if they had nuclear capability has yet to come true. It might also mean that certain countries stop wasting resources on the defense of an artificially established nation.
Downside is a highly religiously motivated nation with nukes. One nutcase and we then have potentially a few million lives at risk. What ever you think of isreal. It's there, it's been a few generations and almost all the nations of the middle east are artificial constructs. With borders and governemnts defined and propped up by third parties. Legitimacy comes through force of arms. Either yours directly or your friends. Isreal can hold their own and beat most of their neightbors. Most of their neighbors harbor delusions of saladine and wish to smite Isreal. Some have made peace with the fact that it's there and will not be moved without force.. force they don't have yet.
At this point evicting Isreal is just as evil an act as the jewish mobs evicting some of the native arab "palastinians" in the arab-isreali war(1948). The majority of the palastinian "refugees" were not part of this expulsion. They fled willingly from civil war with the idea that their arab neighbors would go in an massacre the jews amd then they could return home. Apparently their neighbros were less compitent then they thought and we have the current situation.
I think if they get a single bomb online I wouldn't mind Isreal doing a pre-emptive strike on the nuke site. Chances are Iran will eventually threaten with nuclear war unless isreal retreat to pre 1967 borders and so on. A massive air compaign or a single nuclear strike on all iranian nuclear facilities and suspect labs would curb that... and start a massive arab isreali war perhaps. I know arabia isn't full of evil devils but the ones in power there are not the best of people to get nukes. An iranian could be a good person but I can't imagine the theocrats as good people. I'd vastly prefer open war in the middle east then a theocrat with a nuke.
All those ocmpanies are part of the directorship of blueray.
I checked it out and I stand corrected. However doesn't cooke need to prove that information was malicious?
It's already set, forumn operators are not responsible for what is posted there. Libel is libel only if you spread false information.
Minidisk was wildly successful in Asia. It completely replaced the CD for mobile music.
As for DSL speeds. Most providers could do 5-15 mbits right now but they sell 1.5 and 3.0. Why? They want to charge as much as possible for as little as possible and have room to bump it up if the competitor does. So they provide less. Do a poll on DSL speeds. The majority will be 1.5-3.0 all over North America. Cable often offers more 3.0 - 5.0 for standard packages but cable isn't as stable for speeds. You'd see 16 kbits at peak hours and only 5.0 late night. Most also reserve bandwidth for their own IP TV / VOIP services. DVD bitrates are often 4.0 mbits to 8.0 mbits. While you can get close to DVD quality with 3.0 mbits dsl, it's still a bit below DVD.
For archiving, once the cost of blu-ray recorders and media come down I'll be glad to get one. Backing up things 1 DVD at a time is worse then 1 BD at a time. And HD's have a fiarly high failure rate. A good place to store it and frequent back ups is easier and cheaper with disc media. Although I have though about a exstrenal HD, most of my non media data that I want to back up will fit on a CD. I mirror those more often then my media.
This is one game where a good bot would be more then welcome.
Look up the CD. You'll find Phillips and Sony had their name on it.
Have you compared say DVD9 to SD digital cable with decent wiring? The cable (analogue or digital) is never as good. Obvious quality difference. A lot of people can't tell that well because they have a shitty set connected with shitty cables. I work for a IP TV provider and I know a lot of people rave how much better it is then their last provider. I happen to know it's not the service per se but the fact we replace their shitty coax connection with at least composite at best s-video cables.
Well Broadcast/cable HD right now is at the quality level of a upconverted DVD going through really shitty coax cables. I've seen it from us. From the others guys, from competitors not in the market(I travel). And so far it's all unifromly over compressed garbage. So what will that converter box do for ya? You will get some real shitty DVD upscaled picture. You compare it to anyone of the HD formats and god "wow thats is better" and eventually you'll get one as well. The $50 incentive might help Ma and Pa wallmart to splurge and go into debt on a shitty HD TV with shitty cables connected to a shitty converter box thats hooks into a shitty over compressed signal but I think Ma and Pa best buy will problably get one of the HD players.
Yeppers. And I, for one, couldn't be happer: anything to quash yet ANOTHER attempt by Sony to lock us into another godforsaken proprietary format.
You mean proprietary like CD and DVD? You do realize it's not just Sony behind BD. You do realize that the majority of the successful formats for media in the last three decades have had sony in there somehwere. CD, DVD, 3.5", minidisc. they fell a lot when they went it on their own. But they have had a hand in almost all the successful digital media formats. Proprietary does not mean instant loss. The majority of data formats you use are propriatary. While HTTP, TCP/IP, and ethernet are open formats the bit codes that run your CPU, the assorted IP that make up most of your computer are propriatary. Get some perspective.
PS. This is the the decision makers behind the BD format
* Apple
* Dell
* Hewlett-Packard
* Hitachi
* LG
* Mitsubishi Electric
* Panasonic
* Pioneer
* Philips
* Samsung
* Sharp
* Sony
* Sun Microsystems
* TDK
* Thomson
* Twentieth Century Fox
* Walt Disney Company
* Warner Bros.
Let's see, we've got the pr0n market going to HD-DVD (though why on earth you'd want HD-DVD for pr0n I don't know)... and now we have Walmart pushing it like this, seems like BluRay is going to be reduced to the "has beens" bin ... again. Technically it may have been a superior format (?) but once again Sony shows the way to destroy what could have been a promising format.
Your first statement is wrong. Pr0n has not chosen sides. The story came when the lead guy at Vivid said some stuff about Sony not helping them out at a AVN event. Turns out this was false, Sony just wasn't going out of their way to help vivid find a BD disc presser. Vivid anounced recently they are releasing a BD pr0n0. It seems it might have been a negotiation stunt to get Sony to make some calls for vivid.
This story has also been refuted. Walmart wishes to push HD formats not HD DVD in aprticular. No official press has been released just a translated chinese press release. A lot is left ambigious.
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So, you're saying that the company that created Betamax, ATRAC encoding, the S-Link protocol, Minidisc players, Super-AudioCDs, Memory Sticks and Universal Media Discs might actually lose a format war
Don't forget CD, DVD, 3.5" floppies and MiniDisc (in japan)... all collosal failures right?
They don't have the best record but when they cooperate with others on a format like the ones I specified they tend to win. Then they attempt to go it alone they flame out. Blu-ray is a co-operative format. It's the format that most studios are backing now and the consumers seem to agree as they are voting with their dollars. The war is far from over though.
There were Anecdotes published about his gradeschool and middle school life. They made fun of him for being asian and shy.
I think the difference between him (asian geek who was picked on) and me (asian geek who was picked on) is I'm not bat shit crazy.
He was a austic psycho narsist. His motives aren't really coherent and understanding him does very little for us.
It's not so much the office application as it is "viewing" MS Office files. Like it or not they have become the defacto documents of business. .doc .ppt etc..
Apple doesn't target large business/enterprise markets. They never have. Their products are always marketed as tools for empowering individuals. If you didn't know better and could only guess from reviewing their advertising, you might think that businesses don't use personal computers. Often in these cases they behave more like a consumer electronics company rather than a PC maker.
Empowering individuals? please tell me your a shill because if a real person speaks like that then the marketroids have won and we're all doomed to annihalation through mass stupidity.