In the case of HP, HP does not have to deal with unions for its contract and IT work. Why? Because they make the rules. They apply a unified contract to anyone that works for them and if you don't like the contract, they don't hire you.
The problem for workers in the States, is that the opportunity cost to HP to have a worker here, or in India is getting so low that there is barely any competition.
I have seen jobs grow a little bit in the contract area, mainly due to the needs of the company and the company's refusal to increase employee headcount. So what happens when they need a worker onsite? The hire a contractor until they can figure out how to send it to India, South America, or Russia.
Speaking as an hourly worker, there is never 52 weeks a year of work. If you take a vacation, or a sick day, that just means you don't get paid. That means your total possible working days for the year went from 5 x 52 down to 5 x 51.8. Take another day off, and it goes down to 51.6. Take a week off, spread out through the year, and you are down to 5 x 51 which at $13.05/hr is $26,622. Take two weeks over a year off (is this near nat. average?) and you are down to $26,100.
However, the general sum is not significantly changed.
To do this is to swim against the current of consumerism that floods American culture. Greed and pride in our population is what makes the gathering of things so "necessary" to people in our world.
And this is one of the reasons that an income where multiple forms of entertainment (besides the radio) seem like a necessity instead of a luxury is considered middle class.
Spending beyond your means for anything but a house, which usually does not loose value, is just plain foreign to anyone under 50 years old. This is unfortunate. I saved up money to buy a shotgun. It was only $300 and I could have put it on a credit card 6 months ago, but instead I just waited. Waiting isn't that hard, but our instant gratification world has been taught that you should not have to wait for anything.
I have been trying to resolve how someone can be against outsourcing, but not be a protectionist.
Either you let the worl market forces decide, or you artifically inflate something (or deflate something) to induce the behavior you want to see naturally occuring.
Heh. You got rooked for $6. I was rooked for $50 (plus some for the T-Shirt) when it first came out.
But digress... Did your purchased copy come with the keyboard shortcut menu? I found that quite handy when learning the game.
Incidentally... I played for a few years before I actually bought the first game (Shhhhhh don't tell). Man was it worth it. On a per hour basis, if I had purchased that game at full retail for $50, it would still have cost me near $0.05 for an hour of play time (rought estimate).
Man I loved my Voodoo3 3500. That thing could fly in Tribes! Cranked all the way up to 1024 baby! Though I was never quite that obsesive with the Dev team signature thing.... Still neat though.
I may have had your total sound pack installed at one time. Did it have just tons of Loony toons quotes, Arnold quotes, WB cartoons, etc?
Unless you were an engineere of light and a heavy with the chain gun trached you. The was an 2 second kill. I always hated that.....
But then I was the guy that would team up with another engineer using the rail gun on opposite hills across a valley to snipe the same person at the same time.:-) Then set up lasers to kill flag runners.
Nothing like getting shot by a sniper - the same sniper - 2-3 times before you figure out where he is; another 4-5 times while you're trying to snipe back; then finally getting him, and having him congratulate you
Did we play on the same server? I was [DEMB]-Jason?
But serriously. I loved hunting for snipers, and then being a sniper also. I was usually Engineer class with repair gun, rail, missles, grenade launcher, EMP grenades (to take out heavies with shield pack), and an Inventory station to place lasers to catch flag runners.
I loved how people hosting would put a long delay before a game starts so the teams could get a strategy going. Then in game these teams would develop where two heavies would protect an Engineer placing forward lasers to kill flag runners, then the Eng would heal the heavies while returning to base.
Or on Tribes 2, groups would wait by the vehicle pad for a guy to fly the transport so they could just swamp the enemy base.
Or coordinating a bombing run as a distraction for the transport unloading flag runners.
there is just so much to the Renagades mod for Tribes 1 that made it great.
It seems several individuals did not grasp the humor involved with the monkey analogy. Especially since some of us have been known to greet each other in the hall ways with "Eeek Eeek!" and other monkey like expressions.
If you don't work here, than you simply don't know what it is like.
jason Tell me where The Bingo quote is from And win yourself a banana
You don't understand the nightmare of a creation I have made. A 1600 line indows batch file that operates in both command line and prompted input modes which calls another 10 or so batch files (total of 5000 lines or so) to automate Visual Studio project builds.
As a chimp, which is an hpMonkey's apprentice (contractor) for those not in the know, I can understand. In fact we have several other simians assigned to our group in the "Monkey see monkey do" capacity for when our work is shipped to them in India and South America (no less than two different offshore groups salivating at the chance to eat our bananas).
We simply do not have a choice in training our replacements. It is practically in our job description as is evidence below:
1) Eat bananas 2) Produce crap 3) Fling at customers 4) Document banana to crap-on-customer process 5) Train replacement simian to fling same crap using less bananas
jason "Hello! My name is Bingo. I like to climb on things. Can I have a bananna? Eek. Eek."
We already have machine images for 24 languages and Win98SE, WinNT4, WinMe, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003.
For those counting at home, that is 144 possible test solutions on just the windows 32bit side of things.
Sure would be nice to get rid of support for Win98SE and NT4. Then again, the IA-64 means we have WinXP-64 and W2K3-64 to test. Comming soon... WinXPSE-64 and WinXPSE-AMD64...
Good point. This is one of the issues facing my employer. The temporary L1 visa holders brought in by the ofshore staffing firm WIPRO tend to be very quiet and not speak up in meetings. I'm not sure if it is due to a lack of confidence, r some perceived language skills missing. In any case, one of the full time workers commented that he likes workign with those of us that live over on this side of the ocean because he isn't afraid to point out mistakes, or show us where/when we are wrong.
I was starting to wonder the same thing. But then again, Apple people seem to like throwing more money around.
jason Note: I use windows (Legally) and occasionally I'll turn on my linux system.
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If you have to explain why something is useful to someone then you are probably targeting the wrong audience
That is like saying that you made a great OSS project hosted on SF. People occasionally hear about it, but if they don't know what it is, what it can do for them, and why, then it is their own fault.
That pretty much is a horrible attitude to have for anything except a society controleld by an absolute dictator / monarchy. In those societies, you are told what to use and why.
In a society with choice, people need to convince you why you should use their item/software/political view as opposed to the one they currently hold.
Good thing the world doesn't follow that first line of thought.
Cell phones now days seem to be more like personal ink jet printers. Disposable after a year. Take a run of the line, ultra cheap, ~$150 inkjet. That sucker is designed to eat ink as fast as possible, and then die after 1.1 years. Seems like phoes are the same. My phone's battery now hasa life of about 1.5 days, down from 3-4 about 1.5 years ago when I got it. After I talked with some other people, it seems like your trendy users upgrade phone more frequently than that. Average users upgrade from 1.5-2 years becaus their phones just quit working as well.
That is one reason I have been warry of shelling out $500 for a PDA / phone combo. My Palm m100 is still working great and I got it At-Intro just under 3 years ago. No PDA made today could stand up to nose dives on tile floors (dozens of times a year) and other abuses like it can.
Hummmmm this is roughly the same situation I am in. I signed with Sprint but I have long since elapsed my contract and am on month-to-month. I am thinking about an upgrade to a convergence device because I am a Palm fan and Samsung has a slick combo device the i500 that looks like it would fit my desire for a m515 combined with a phone.
I am thinking of switching to an AT&T plan because it has unlimited nights/weekends with nationwide long distance and 300 daytime minutes and is $10 cheaper a month. Granted, I already have 1000 day and 2000 night/weekend and I only use (on average) 350/600 and it costs $40 with in-state long distance.
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In the case of HP, HP does not have to deal with unions for its contract and IT work. Why? Because they make the rules. They apply a unified contract to anyone that works for them and if you don't like the contract, they don't hire you.
The problem for workers in the States, is that the opportunity cost to HP to have a worker here, or in India is getting so low that there is barely any competition.
I have seen jobs grow a little bit in the contract area, mainly due to the needs of the company and the company's refusal to increase employee headcount. So what happens when they need a worker onsite? The hire a contractor until they can figure out how to send it to India, South America, or Russia.
jason
Speaking as an hourly worker, there is never 52 weeks a year of work. If you take a vacation, or a sick day, that just means you don't get paid. That means your total possible working days for the year went from 5 x 52 down to 5 x 51.8. Take another day off, and it goes down to 51.6. Take a week off, spread out through the year, and you are down to 5 x 51 which at $13.05/hr is $26,622. Take two weeks over a year off (is this near nat. average?) and you are down to $26,100.
However, the general sum is not significantly changed.
jason
Hummmm. I had not thought about global implications for a national sales tax. What is the connection between income & corporate taxes?
Also, how would a small business (like an S-Corp or a LLC) be affected differently from a C-Corp?
jason
To do this is to swim against the current of consumerism that floods American culture. Greed and pride in our population is what makes the gathering of things so "necessary" to people in our world.
And this is one of the reasons that an income where multiple forms of entertainment (besides the radio) seem like a necessity instead of a luxury is considered middle class.
Spending beyond your means for anything but a house, which usually does not loose value, is just plain foreign to anyone under 50 years old. This is unfortunate. I saved up money to buy a shotgun. It was only $300 and I could have put it on a credit card 6 months ago, but instead I just waited. Waiting isn't that hard, but our instant gratification world has been taught that you should not have to wait for anything.
jason
end rant
I have been trying to resolve how someone can be against outsourcing, but not be a protectionist.
Either you let the worl market forces decide, or you artifically inflate something (or deflate something) to induce the behavior you want to see naturally occuring.
jason
Heh. You got rooked for $6. I was rooked for $50 (plus some for the T-Shirt) when it first came out.
But digress... Did your purchased copy come with the keyboard shortcut menu? I found that quite handy when learning the game.
Incidentally... I played for a few years before I actually bought the first game (Shhhhhh don't tell). Man was it worth it. On a per hour basis, if I had purchased that game at full retail for $50, it would still have cost me near $0.05 for an hour of play time (rought estimate).
jason
Man I loved my Voodoo3 3500. That thing could fly in Tribes! Cranked all the way up to 1024 baby! Though I was never quite that obsesive with the Dev team signature thing.... Still neat though.
I may have had your total sound pack installed at one time. Did it have just tons of Loony toons quotes, Arnold quotes, WB cartoons, etc?
"Ahahahahah What a mah-roon"
jason
Unless you were an engineere of light and a heavy with the chain gun trached you. The was an 2 second kill. I always hated that.....
:-) Then set up lasers to kill flag runners.
But then I was the guy that would team up with another engineer using the rail gun on opposite hills across a valley to snipe the same person at the same time.
jason
Nothing like getting shot by a sniper - the same sniper - 2-3 times before you figure out where he is; another 4-5 times while you're trying to snipe back; then finally getting him, and having him congratulate you
Did we play on the same server? I was [DEMB]-Jason?
But serriously. I loved hunting for snipers, and then being a sniper also. I was usually Engineer class with repair gun, rail, missles, grenade launcher, EMP grenades (to take out heavies with shield pack), and an Inventory station to place lasers to catch flag runners.
I loved how people hosting would put a long delay before a game starts so the teams could get a strategy going. Then in game these teams would develop where two heavies would protect an Engineer placing forward lasers to kill flag runners, then the Eng would heal the heavies while returning to base.
Or on Tribes 2, groups would wait by the vehicle pad for a guy to fly the transport so they could just swamp the enemy base.
Or coordinating a bombing run as a distraction for the transport unloading flag runners.
there is just so much to the Renagades mod for Tribes 1 that made it great.
jason
It seems several individuals did not grasp the humor involved with the monkey analogy. Especially since some of us have been known to greet each other in the hall ways with "Eeek Eeek!" and other monkey like expressions.
If you don't work here, than you simply don't know what it is like.
jason
Tell me where
The Bingo quote is from
And win yourself a banana
You don't understand the nightmare of a creation I have made. A 1600 line indows batch file that operates in both command line and prompted input modes which calls another 10 or so batch files (total of 5000 lines or so) to automate Visual Studio project builds.
I can GoTo like the day is long baby!
jason
As a chimp, which is an hpMonkey's apprentice (contractor) for those not in the know, I can understand. In fact we have several other simians assigned to our group in the "Monkey see monkey do" capacity for when our work is shipped to them in India and South America (no less than two different offshore groups salivating at the chance to eat our bananas).
We simply do not have a choice in training our replacements. It is practically in our job description as is evidence below:
1) Eat bananas
2) Produce crap
3) Fling at customers
4) Document banana to crap-on-customer process
5) Train replacement simian to fling same crap using less bananas
jason
"Hello! My name is Bingo.
I like to climb on things.
Can I have a bananna?
Eek. Eek."
No kidding...
We already have machine images for 24 languages and Win98SE, WinNT4, WinMe, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003.
For those counting at home, that is 144 possible test solutions on just the windows 32bit side of things.
Sure would be nice to get rid of support for Win98SE and NT4. Then again, the IA-64 means we have WinXP-64 and W2K3-64 to test. Comming soon... WinXPSE-64 and WinXPSE-AMD64...
jason
Good point. This is one of the issues facing my employer. The temporary L1 visa holders brought in by the ofshore staffing firm WIPRO tend to be very quiet and not speak up in meetings. I'm not sure if it is due to a lack of confidence, r some perceived language skills missing. In any case, one of the full time workers commented that he likes workign with those of us that live over on this side of the ocean because he isn't afraid to point out mistakes, or show us where /when we are wrong.
jason
I was starting to wonder the same thing. But then again, Apple people seem to like throwing more money around.
jason
Note: I use windows (Legally) and occasionally I'll turn on my linux system.
If you have to explain why something is useful to someone then you are probably targeting the wrong audience
That is like saying that you made a great OSS project hosted on SF. People occasionally hear about it, but if they don't know what it is, what it can do for them, and why, then it is their own fault.
That pretty much is a horrible attitude to have for anything except a society controleld by an absolute dictator / monarchy. In those societies, you are told what to use and why.
In a society with choice, people need to convince you why you should use their item/software/political view as opposed to the one they currently hold.
Good thing the world doesn't follow that first line of thought.
jason
Speaking as someone with several $K in etrade just sitting on some 10% per year dividend stocks (not a bad investment) I wonder a few things...
How long can you short? Is a short settled over a specified time period?
Has the run up stopped? If so, great. Otherwise, eTrade would be calling in my shorts to cover and I'd loose my cash cushion.
jason
Dam Lucas influence!!!!
jason
I wonder if that meant he was now taller relatively to the other. They could both still be taller than average.
Gotcha. I was thinking it was a varient of the red / blue light shift.
jason
Reference to canadian Red Gree Show? OR am I not geeky enough?
jason
No no no. Play all 48 pieces in the Well Tempered Clavier book I & II and bore them to death!
jason
Cell phones now days seem to be more like personal ink jet printers. Disposable after a year. Take a run of the line, ultra cheap, ~$150 inkjet. That sucker is designed to eat ink as fast as possible, and then die after 1.1 years. Seems like phoes are the same. My phone's battery now hasa life of about 1.5 days, down from 3-4 about 1.5 years ago when I got it. After I talked with some other people, it seems like your trendy users upgrade phone more frequently than that. Average users upgrade from 1.5-2 years becaus their phones just quit working as well.
That is one reason I have been warry of shelling out $500 for a PDA / phone combo. My Palm m100 is still working great and I got it At-Intro just under 3 years ago. No PDA made today could stand up to nose dives on tile floors (dozens of times a year) and other abuses like it can.
jason
Hummmmm this is roughly the same situation I am in. I signed with Sprint but I have long since elapsed my contract and am on month-to-month. I am thinking about an upgrade to a convergence device because I am a Palm fan and Samsung has a slick combo device the i500 that looks like it would fit my desire for a m515 combined with a phone.
I am thinking of switching to an AT&T plan because it has unlimited nights/weekends with nationwide long distance and 300 daytime minutes and is $10 cheaper a month. Granted, I already have 1000 day and 2000 night/weekend and I only use (on average) 350/600 and it costs $40 with in-state long distance.
hummmmmm just one more thing to think about...
jason
Well just choose Disney Princess Royal Horse show and watch your stats soar!!
jason