"The "standard" changes between versions because the document classes change as new features are added. There is no deliberate policy to "break" things between versions, it is just a side effect."
Dont u know this is/.
Shhh... back to sleep everybody, that was just a bad dream, MS does change the format on purpose...
"As the gap between US and Indian wages decreases, they will need to find other ways to compete than price."
Very true, today the competition is not in terms of skill (to a very large percentage) and its more in terms of numbers that can fill a sweat shop. What an Indian worker does today is the "unsexy work" of maintaining the past work done by others. This stifles innovation and also helps keep a check on the money paid out to engineers. As time goes on though, due to the sheer numbers in terms of population, innovation and quality would rise and thereby raising the bar on the pay demanded. This then would lead to an equal market where hiring and Indian (or for that matter a Chinese/Vietnamese) would be a question of what can be the overall output, through which the company can profit. What's moving out of the US is only the "unsexy work" and in the long run, if inovation is maintained the job markets would become equally tempting to organizations.
Look at it from another perspective, computers and computer education in the US has been around for a long time now, say 30 years. This is not the case in these other countries where the work is being outsourced. Hence todays competiion is in terms of labour which can be applid to only to the less skilled jobs in the software industry. The more skilled ones will start getting some competition futher down the road, but like manual labour to make shoes or a car, the less skilled software jobs will go to the masses that can work at lower wages.
Ask yourself, what are the set of skills that you applied on your job that is being outsourced? Can the same set of skills not be applied by someone else? You will find that the jobs that are out sourced are the ones that require only a few skills that are easy to gain anywhere in the world today. Again, just to reiterate this I belive define a majority of the jobs that are being outsourced, not all.
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"The "standard" changes between versions because the document classes change as new features are added. There is no deliberate policy to "break" things between versions, it is just a side effect."
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Dont u know this is
Shhh... back to sleep everybody, that was just a bad dream, MS does change the format on purpose...
Could I get one if you feel the urge for some generosity towards the lesser mortals...
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"As the gap between US and Indian wages decreases, they will need to find other ways to compete than price."
Very true, today the competition is not in terms of skill (to a very large percentage) and its more in terms of numbers that can fill a sweat shop. What an Indian worker does today is the "unsexy work" of maintaining the past work done by others. This stifles innovation and also helps keep a check on the money paid out to engineers. As time goes on though, due to the sheer numbers in terms of population, innovation and quality would rise and thereby raising the bar on the pay demanded. This then would lead to an equal market where hiring and Indian (or for that matter a Chinese/Vietnamese) would be a question of what can be the overall output, through which the company can profit. What's moving out of the US is only the "unsexy work" and in the long run, if inovation is maintained the job markets would become equally tempting to organizations.
Look at it from another perspective, computers and computer education in the US has been around for a long time now, say 30 years. This is not the case in these other countries where the work is being outsourced. Hence todays competiion is in terms of labour which can be applid to only to the less skilled jobs in the software industry. The more skilled ones will start getting some competition futher down the road, but like manual labour to make shoes or a car, the less skilled software jobs will go to the masses that can work at lower wages.
Ask yourself, what are the set of skills that you applied on your job that is being outsourced? Can the same set of skills not be applied by someone else? You will find that the jobs that are out sourced are the ones that require only a few skills that are easy to gain anywhere in the world today. Again, just to reiterate this I belive define a majority of the jobs that are being outsourced, not all.