We can only hope this is true. I'm off to my first protest march since university next weekend against this abomination (and I've voted Labor for over two decades - this is going too far).
I'd just like to add the words anorexia, bulimia, sexual abuse, incest, penis, vagina and genital to this post so that when I look it up after the filter comes in on my ISP at Xmas (or the winter Solstice for us old-skool people) I can point to it as being a false positive. Of course all of those items are found in the Bible so having that put on the internet blacklist may not be such a bad thing...
I don't know why the parent was modded as a 'Troll' because the fist few sentences are very close to the mark. I was in a similar situation a few years ago when working for a large US bank in London as a developer on contract. They terminated almost everyone's contract and outsourced all development to India. We were told by the (NY-based executive) that this was "because you cost too much". The fun bit was that most of our customers were business departments within the bank and they were based in the major European financial centres. In most cases this meant they were communicationg with us using English as a second language. Then they had to deal with Indian developers doing the same...
Twelve months later the development was moved back to London and most of the original developers were re-hired at an increased rate to fix the problems of the previous year. The biggest push for this came from the business departments who were frustrated with the increase in time required to get anything done in India. Whereas we could apply a change or fix within a few minutes the highly formalised structure used in India meant at least a week for any change.
Relevant to the parent post is that the executive who pushed the outsourcing more than met his budget target for that year and got a promotion along with a big bonus. It was left to the person filling his role afterwards who had to deal with all the fall-out.
Since it looks like Sony wishes to go it alone how would that affect the re-negotiation of existing contracts in other iTMS stores? Being the oldest I imagine the US store would be the first one up for renewal. Is that due in the next few years?
Given the number of governments that flirt with the concept of ID cards (especially when the bombs go off) aren't you glad they practise such strong safeguards when it comes to data?
Some people on one of the Apple boards in Australia managed to create accounts today and purchased a few tracks. The cost of them was AUD$1.69 which is more expensive than the US but cheaper than the UK. That's pretty much par for the course for everything these days.
Those accounts have now been closed by Apple. Sorry, I won't put up the link to the relevant threads on the Apple board as local readership to an article on there caused the server to slow down appreciably and there's no way they will ever suvive a slashdotting.
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We can only hope this is true. I'm off to my first protest march since university next weekend against this abomination (and I've voted Labor for over two decades - this is going too far).
I'd just like to add the words anorexia, bulimia, sexual abuse, incest, penis, vagina and genital to this post so that when I look it up after the filter comes in on my ISP at Xmas (or the winter Solstice for us old-skool people) I can point to it as being a false positive. Of course all of those items are found in the Bible so having that put on the internet blacklist may not be such a bad thing...
You'd be better off apologising to Joan Osborne for mistaking her for they whiny one.
I don't know why the parent was modded as a 'Troll' because the fist few sentences are very close to the mark. I was in a similar situation a few years ago when working for a large US bank in London as a developer on contract. They terminated almost everyone's contract and outsourced all development to India. We were told by the (NY-based executive) that this was "because you cost too much". The fun bit was that most of our customers were business departments within the bank and they were based in the major European financial centres. In most cases this meant they were communicationg with us using English as a second language. Then they had to deal with Indian developers doing the same...
Twelve months later the development was moved back to London and most of the original developers were re-hired at an increased rate to fix the problems of the previous year. The biggest push for this came from the business departments who were frustrated with the increase in time required to get anything done in India. Whereas we could apply a change or fix within a few minutes the highly formalised structure used in India meant at least a week for any change.
Relevant to the parent post is that the executive who pushed the outsourcing more than met his budget target for that year and got a promotion along with a big bonus. It was left to the person filling his role afterwards who had to deal with all the fall-out.
Sony BMG won't be able to hold out forever.
Since it looks like Sony wishes to go it alone how would that affect the re-negotiation of existing contracts in other iTMS stores? Being the oldest I imagine the US store would be the first one up for renewal. Is that due in the next few years?
Given the number of governments that flirt with the concept of ID cards (especially when the bombs go off) aren't you glad they practise such strong safeguards when it comes to data?
Some people on one of the Apple boards in Australia managed to create accounts today and purchased a few tracks. The cost of them was AUD$1.69 which is more expensive than the US but cheaper than the UK. That's pretty much par for the course for everything these days.
Those accounts have now been closed by Apple. Sorry, I won't put up the link to the relevant threads on the Apple board as local readership to an article on there caused the server to slow down appreciably and there's no way they will ever suvive a slashdotting.