The article quotes the executive director of the SIIA as saying, '[Offshoring] was used almost entirely as a form of expansion, not as a replacement.'
That's all fine and dandy in an even modestly expanding economy, but what about when the economy hits the bust cycle and contracts, who's going to lose the job, the expensive domestic worker or the cheap foreign one?
As a professional employee, I feel qualified to offer an objective, insightful, completely neutral, unbiased answer to this crucially important question:
Yes, absolutely, indubitably 30" flatscreens do indeed produce an immense productivity increase and should be immediately rolled out to all knowledge workers without a second thought!
Dell and Apple wholeheartedly concur with my assessment.
"I have no intention of purchasing a new license every time I swap out motherboards."
You said it brother. If MS only wants non-techies and corporate lemmings for its OS users, then so be it. If they harbored any pretensions of gaining mindshare among innovators and early adopters with Vista, they forget it now. With Solaris now foss and excellent Linux distro's like Ubuntu (and a cool hybrid of the two, Nexenta) all available, there's no reason, no reason whatsoever to put up with restrictive licenses like this.
"Who here is expecting that this hypothetical software release will be "perfect" when it goes gold?"
People intend to hold the richest company in the world to a slightly higher standard than the average Linux distro. Though maybe we should give MS some slack, it's not like writing working operating systems is their core competency or anything.
I hope they're not pinning their hopes on SaaS desktop apps, which Google and others already supply freely. Your average home user won't pay monthly fees for something s/he can get free. They might be able to create enough of a value-added product for businesses to spend money on, though, but even that's a bit of a stretch.
Yes, and we do that by engineers, scientists, and technologists starting and running their own businesses, and not hiring any MBA's. Hire an accountant and lawyer if you must, but make sure the company's decision makers are the technologists. Eg, company by-laws require the CEO, COO, CFO to have a PhD or equivalent background in science or engineering.
"If anything, working in Google is worse than Oracle/Microsoft due to the people I work with (brainwashed losers.) They are the type of people who want to join a cult."
Brainwashed in what way(s)? I got the impression Google succeeds b/c it has a lot of creative, innovative techies. Not the kind of people you'd think could/would be brainwashed losers.
I would be very interested to hear the results of your experimentation with Gentoo. I'm building a Linux HTPC machine and am debating b/t Gentoo and Ubuntu while waiting for the parts to come in. If the Gentoo compile optimizations really do provide >=25% performance improvement, it would be worth the extra build/install time.
I beg to differ. Absolutely, indubitably this is the end for Intel. Anyone who argues otherwise is clearly a fool, an Intel phanboi, or someone with a lot of Intel stock. The question is purely rhetorical, and not in any way intended to generate faux commentary or a flamewar.
Could this be lights out for Intel?
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Yes, of course. Absolutely, indubitably this is the end for Intel. Anyone who argues otherwise is clearly a fool, an Intel phanboi, or someone with a lot of Intel stock.
The phrase "I could care less" is a sarcastic version of "I couldn't care less."
No it's not, it's a lazy misunderstanding of the double negative meaning of 'I couldn't care less'. The former suggests the exact opposite of the latter, making the utterer sound like an utter ignoramus. Except of course, to the vast majority of other utter ignoramuses who also don't know any better...
People to whom English is a second language are excluded from this rant, even though they probably understand this better than most of the aforementioned.
B/c unfortunately for Opera, they're sort of in a grey middle ground. They're proprietary and not oss, so they get so support from the religious faithful. Conversely, they're not an abusive monopoly, so they get no hate from the religous faithful either. If all publicity is good publicity, Firefox/Mozilla gets all the good, IE gets all the bad, and Opera is stuck in the unnoticed middle. I guess free, market-leading webstandards support and consistently ahead-of-its-time, frequently-copied innovation just isn't enough to get you your own icon...
What's not to like? Combined with Opera's terrific download manager, it streamlines one more aspect of working with the Web/Internet. An incremental but noticeably helpful addition. I love it.
Renders Flash into meaningless symbols.
Decodes Java into meaningless binary.
Turns javascript powered websites into impossible to understand hex clusters that don't do anything when you click on them.
Dumps MP3 data to beep()
Neo : Is that...
Cypher : The Matrix? Yeah.
Neo : Do you always look at it encoded?
Cypher : Well, you have to. The image translators work for the construct program. But there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it... I don't even see the code. All I see is...blond, brunette, red-head...
Agreed. It's a great option, but installing more than a handful starts affecting performance. Both Firefox and Opera are snappy, but load up FF with enough extensions and it noticeably loses responsiveness.
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The article quotes the executive director of the SIIA as saying, '[Offshoring] was used almost entirely as a form of expansion, not as a replacement.'
That's all fine and dandy in an even modestly expanding economy, but what about when the economy hits the bust cycle and contracts, who's going to lose the job, the expensive domestic worker or the cheap foreign one?
"I can see the US doing all the initial space colonization/weaponization work on to have China duplicate the work and 1/1000th the cost"
Duplicate, or steal?
As a professional employee, I feel qualified to offer an objective, insightful, completely neutral, unbiased answer to this crucially important question:
Yes, absolutely, indubitably 30" flatscreens do indeed produce an immense productivity increase and should be immediately rolled out to all knowledge workers without a second thought!
Dell and Apple wholeheartedly concur with my assessment.
"I have no intention of purchasing a new license every time I swap out motherboards."
You said it brother. If MS only wants non-techies and corporate lemmings for its OS users, then so be it. If they harbored any pretensions of gaining mindshare among innovators and early adopters with Vista, they forget it now. With Solaris now foss and excellent Linux distro's like Ubuntu (and a cool hybrid of the two, Nexenta) all available, there's no reason, no reason whatsoever to put up with restrictive licenses like this.
"Who here is expecting that this hypothetical software release will be "perfect" when it goes gold?"
People intend to hold the richest company in the world to a slightly higher standard than the average Linux distro. Though maybe we should give MS some slack, it's not like writing working operating systems is their core competency or anything.
I hope they're not pinning their hopes on SaaS desktop apps, which Google and others already supply freely. Your average home user won't pay monthly fees for something s/he can get free. They might be able to create enough of a value-added product for businesses to spend money on, though, but even that's a bit of a stretch.
"Maybe we should outsource the management."
Yes, and we do that by engineers, scientists, and technologists starting and running their own businesses, and not hiring any MBA's. Hire an accountant and lawyer if you must, but make sure the company's decision makers are the technologists. Eg, company by-laws require the CEO, COO, CFO to have a PhD or equivalent background in science or engineering.
"If anything, working in Google is worse than Oracle/Microsoft due to the people I work with (brainwashed losers.) They are the type of people who want to join a cult."
Brainwashed in what way(s)? I got the impression Google succeeds b/c it has a lot of creative, innovative techies. Not the kind of people you'd think could/would be brainwashed losers.
I would be very interested to hear the results of your experimentation with Gentoo. I'm building a Linux HTPC machine and am debating b/t Gentoo and Ubuntu while waiting for the parts to come in. If the Gentoo compile optimizations really do provide >=25% performance improvement, it would be worth the extra build/install time.
And P3 is Intel's most successful product so far anyway. Bad comparison...
I can't wait until I can use this free energy to power my flying car and heat my aquarium of mermaids.
Flippancy aside, I'd be perfectly happy if it could power one of these flying cars for me...
I beg to differ. Absolutely, indubitably this is the end for Intel. Anyone who argues otherwise is clearly a fool, an Intel phanboi, or someone with a lot of Intel stock. The question is purely rhetorical, and not in any way intended to generate faux commentary or a flamewar.
Yes, of course. Absolutely, indubitably this is the end for Intel. Anyone who argues otherwise is clearly a fool, an Intel phanboi, or someone with a lot of Intel stock.
The phrase "I could care less" is a sarcastic version of "I couldn't care less."
No it's not, it's a lazy misunderstanding of the double negative meaning of 'I couldn't care less'. The former suggests the exact opposite of the latter, making the utterer sound like an utter ignoramus. Except of course, to the vast majority of other utter ignoramuses who also don't know any better...
People to whom English is a second language are excluded from this rant, even though they probably understand this better than most of the aforementioned.
lmao. Well done. Wish I had mod points. Thank FSM for smart asses...
Would we have a Borg Ballmer? A Chair-Throwing Ballmer? Just a M$ in large font?
Just a pic of a chair, perhaps with a bent leg or two.
For those who haven't seen Salesman Balmer in his younger days...
Looks like a used car salesman. Clearly the guy is out of his depth, Gates made a mistake in passing the company to him.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, [then they try to compromise with you], then you win.
Most of you are probably familiar with Sandra's Drive Index rating...[so I won't bother to explain it]
But actually, not all of us are. I'm ashamed to say I'm not. Please enlighten me. That's what I read reviews for.
B/c unfortunately for Opera, they're sort of in a grey middle ground. They're proprietary and not oss, so they get so support from the religious faithful. Conversely, they're not an abusive monopoly, so they get no hate from the religous faithful either. If all publicity is good publicity, Firefox/Mozilla gets all the good, IE gets all the bad, and Opera is stuck in the unnoticed middle. I guess free, market-leading webstandards support and consistently ahead-of-its-time, frequently-copied innovation just isn't enough to get you your own icon...
What's not to like? Combined with Opera's terrific download manager, it streamlines one more aspect of working with the Web/Internet. An incremental but noticeably helpful addition. I love it.
Renders Flash into meaningless symbols.
Decodes Java into meaningless binary.
Turns javascript powered websites into impossible to understand hex clusters that don't do anything when you click on them.
Dumps MP3 data to beep()
Neo : Is that...
Cypher : The Matrix? Yeah.
Neo : Do you always look at it encoded?
Cypher : Well, you have to. The image translators work for the construct program. But there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it... I don't even see the code. All I see is...blond, brunette, red-head...
Heh. For my fellow Yanks who don't have the priviledge of being constantly exposed to British slang, toss doesn't mean to throw something.
target the MySpace demographic with a new, and highly sanitized, site designed to appeal to teens.
Nuff said, it's doomed to failure. This is Generation Porn they're trying to appeal to, after all.
The problem with FireFox is the extensions.
Agreed. It's a great option, but installing more than a handful starts affecting performance. Both Firefox and Opera are snappy, but load up FF with enough extensions and it noticeably loses responsiveness.