Yes, my nephew was in GTS, I agree. But I am very closely monitoring the academic scenario in India, and I never heard of anyone (not even 2nd tier IT companies in India) recruiting students who have just completed High School or 10th Grade. Or even 12th Grade. It is nonsensical to claim IBM would recruit Higher Secondary School students when College graduates in India would die to get $500 a month from IBM.
I think Cringely would do well to research a little before spewing bullshit. The average salary of a well qualified software programmer in C, Java or PHP is about $400 to $500. Tech support engineers get a lot less.
Why would IBM go to the trouble of hiring High School graduates when they can get College graduates, or indeed, even post-graduates* for very little money compared to US pay scales? ----------
* : There are 2 very popular programs in India - MSc Software Systems, and MCA - Master of Computer Applications; where the fee is less than for Engineering degrees.
This article is bullshit. I am in India, and I work with a large group, which has 3 colleges, and I am a part-time professor in the engineering college.
IBM employs ZERO high school graduates manning their Helpdesk. My nephew finished his engineering degree in Computer Science and worked as a night-shift SAN support engineer at IBM Bangalore. He was earning about $1,200 per month and was very good at it. But he quit because he couldn't put up with night shifts.
IBM normally employs engineering graduates and a bit of Arts and Science graduates (BSc - Computer Science etc.). These freshers work for about 3 years in IBM for a monthly salary of $ 1,000 to $ 1,500 max.
There are other companies which also provide support for IBM desktops etc. Even these companies only hire graduates, not High Schoolers, ever. The 2nd tier companies pay about $500 to $900 per month which is a king's ransom in India.
Please do not believe the bullshit being written in the article. I challenge the author, or any other Slashdotter to prove that there is a single High Schooler working for IBM in India. -------------- Separately, we have a saying in India, which is drilled into the brains of BPO trainees. It says; 10=35. The IQ of an average 10-year old Indian kid is about the same as the IQ of the average 35-yr old American. Reading the many infantile responses to this article, I begin to suspect this might not be far from the truth.
This article is bullshit. I am in India, and I work with a large group, which has 3 colleges, and I am a part-time professor in the engineering college.
IBM employs ZERO high school graduates manning their Helpdesk. My nephew finished his engineering degree in Computer Science and worked as a night-shift SAN support engineer at IBM Bangalore. He was earning about $1,200 per month and was very good at it. But he quit because he couldn't put up with night shifts.
IBM normally employs engineering graduates and a bit of Arts and Science graduates (BSc - Computer Science etc.). These freshers work for about 3 years in IBM for a monthly salary of $ 1,000 to $ 1,500 max.
There are other companies which also provide support for IBM desktops etc. Even these companies only hire graduates, not High Schoolers, ever. The 2nd tier companies pay about $500 to $900 per month which is a king's ransom in India.
Please do not believe the bullshit being written in the article.
If making a rounded rectangular shaped tablet is a violation of a law, then I have an antique soap-box to sell you for a million bucks. And if you believe that Apple deserved a patent for such a design, then you will be gullible enough to buy it from me at the price offered.
And FYI, matters of law are not decided in your head or Steve Job's head either; it is for the courts to decide whether there has indeed been a violation.
Firstly, this article is about the tussle between Apple and Samsung's Android offerings. I very clearly remember that Apple started the mindlessness vs Samsung first.
Google was not directly sued by Apple, but the suits against Samsung and HTC were enough motivation for Google to acquire MMI and take some counter action.
Your personal views on the matter are completely irrelevant. That a company can be forced to remove a feature that it has provided in the desktop market for almost a decade, in order to not violate a patent that ought not to have been granted; vindicates Posner's views that the patent system is truly broken and absurd.
It is going to take many many years for developers, developers and developers to develop brand new apps for the ARM platform, and MS is making it more and more unattractive for those inclined.
If the.Net runtime is ported to ARM, then X86 apps will compile and run on ARM as well - which is precisely what MS has said they will NOT be doing.
Reading the entire article suggests that Intel had a big hand to play in this decision of MS, which is why I suggested arm-twisting in my earlier post.
as the article suggests, to port.Net apps to the ARM architecture. Arm-twisting both ways in the Wintel duopoly, first it was the turn of MS, now it's Intel's turn.
I cannot think of a single company that has adopted Mono. And even.Net is being deprecated by Microsoft in favour of the Tablet Formfactor Metro apps.
Time for Miguel and his employers to abandon Mono altogether and drop this whole pseudo-open source thing. Enough and more time and talent has been wasted on creating useless things.
ARM need not do anything to completely destroy Intel in a few years from now. Intel tied up with evil Microsoft to add more and more bloat to the X86 CPUs to run more and more bloated OSes. But for the tablet PC factor, the power requirements and bloat completely makes Wintel an unsuitable proposition.
5 years from now Android tablets with large form factor will completely replace netbooks and a sizable fraction of the desktop market as well. And the default architecture will be the ARM processor and Android will be the default OS. Good riddance to the unholy Wintel alliance for good.
So why wouldn't they pull a move often used by every other bad company?
The bad company here is Microsoft, making billions on Android, an OS which it did zilch to build. So Google is hitting back in self defense. Don't get our panties in a twist, yet.
"Owen Hughes, of Oracle, managed not to fall afoul of Stallman. Instead, Hughes angered the entire audience. Working from a
slick presentation that was more "sales pitch" than "technical
information", Hughes referred to numerous Oracle products that are
"free". For each product, the standard pitch was, "I've used this. It's
really cool. You should take a look at it. Download it for free from...".
After a handful of comments like this, the audience could contain
itself no longer. A quick question from the floor asked, "It is free as
in speech or free as in beer?". Hughes wasn't sure how to answer. A
voice from the back of the hall called out, "Don't use the word 'free'
to describe this, use 'cost-less'". It soon became clear that what is
"free" to Oracle, is not "free" to the vast majority of conference
attendees. This distinction was the cue for others to ask if Oracle distributed the
source code to these "free" products. Hughes looked positively shocked
that someone would ask such a question of him, then meekly replied, "No,
source code is not included." From the floor, Bruce Perens offered
Hughes some advice, "You need to clean this up before presenting it to
an audience like this again.".
"Spark: The first free-software, Linux tablet is on its way"
"Open-source software and Linux, thanks to Android, is well represented on tablets. But, if you didnâ(TM)t want to deal with proprietary firmware and software, you were out of luck⦠until now. Aaron Seigo, one of the KDEâ(TM)s lead developers, and his team are just about ready to roll-out the first tablet based entirely on Linux and free software: The Spark.
For those of you who are a little puzzled right nowâ"âBut, isnâ(TM)t Android based on Linux??â let me start by explaining that yes, Android is Linux and open-source software. But, its implementations on various smartphones and tablets always uses some proprietary software, firmware, and/or shims to combine the code into a working device. Spark is different. - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDNet"
So I think if Google hates proprietary stuff on Android phones, it should remove developer support for all GSM phones that have it too. Talk of double standards.... or maybe Google is actually against Qualcomm, not CDMA?
I'm an Indian, and in our Parliament, after our British overlords, Bills are tabled in the House for voting.
The larger issue...
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The people who brought the bill in the first place, are still active; and still receiving funding. More fundamental provisions are called for, to ensure such bills are not tabled in the first place.
Google has taken Linus and modified it to suit their aims and goals, rather than using the power of community Linux. Canonical will give the smartphone world the power of Linux minus the controls and restrictions imposed by Google. Customers will be the biggest winners here.
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Sorry, I had put 'sarcasm' and '/sarcasm' tags in my original post; they didn't appear though. Been a few years since I posted regularly on Slashdot.
Windows 8 is a catastrophe only for those who use it with a keyboard and mouse. For the rest of us, it is the greatest desktop operating system.
Yes, my nephew was in GTS, I agree. But I am very closely monitoring the academic scenario in India, and I never heard of anyone (not even 2nd tier IT companies in India) recruiting students who have just completed High School or 10th Grade. Or even 12th Grade. It is nonsensical to claim IBM would recruit Higher Secondary School students when College graduates in India would die to get $500 a month from IBM.
I think Cringely would do well to research a little before spewing bullshit. The average salary of a well qualified software programmer in C, Java or PHP is about $400 to $500. Tech support engineers get a lot less.
Why would IBM go to the trouble of hiring High School graduates when they can get College graduates, or indeed, even post-graduates* for very little money compared to US pay scales?
----------
* : There are 2 very popular programs in India - MSc Software Systems, and MCA - Master of Computer Applications; where the fee is less than for Engineering degrees.
This article is bullshit. I am in India, and I work with a large group, which has 3 colleges, and I am a part-time professor in the engineering college.
IBM employs ZERO high school graduates manning their Helpdesk. My nephew finished his engineering degree in Computer Science and worked as a night-shift SAN support engineer at IBM Bangalore. He was earning about $1,200 per month and was very good at it. But he quit because he couldn't put up with night shifts.
IBM normally employs engineering graduates and a bit of Arts and Science graduates (BSc - Computer Science etc.). These freshers work for about 3 years in IBM for a monthly salary of $ 1,000 to $ 1,500 max.
There are other companies which also provide support for IBM desktops etc. Even these companies only hire graduates, not High Schoolers, ever. The 2nd tier companies pay about $500 to $900 per month which is a king's ransom in India.
Please do not believe the bullshit being written in the article. I challenge the author, or any other Slashdotter to prove that there is a single High Schooler working for IBM in India.
--------------
Separately, we have a saying in India, which is drilled into the brains of BPO trainees. It says; 10=35. The IQ of an average 10-year old Indian kid is about the same as the IQ of the average 35-yr old American. Reading the many infantile responses to this article, I begin to suspect this might not be far from the truth.
This article is bullshit. I am in India, and I work with a large group, which has 3 colleges, and I am a part-time professor in the engineering college.
IBM employs ZERO high school graduates manning their Helpdesk. My nephew finished his engineering degree in Computer Science and worked as a night-shift SAN support engineer at IBM Bangalore. He was earning about $1,200 per month and was very good at it. But he quit because he couldn't put up with night shifts.
IBM normally employs engineering graduates and a bit of Arts and Science graduates (BSc - Computer Science etc.). These freshers work for about 3 years in IBM for a monthly salary of $ 1,000 to $ 1,500 max.
There are other companies which also provide support for IBM desktops etc. Even these companies only hire graduates, not High Schoolers, ever. The 2nd tier companies pay about $500 to $900 per month which is a king's ransom in India.
Please do not believe the bullshit being written in the article.
From the analyst: I was quoted out of context.
Windows 8 is NOT just BAD
Windows 8 is WORSE than Vista, and that is an understatement.
Windows 8 is the WORST desktop OS from Microsoft - ever!
If making a rounded rectangular shaped tablet is a violation of a law, then I have an antique soap-box to sell you for a million bucks. And if you believe that Apple deserved a patent for such a design, then you will be gullible enough to buy it from me at the price offered.
And FYI, matters of law are not decided in your head or Steve Job's head either; it is for the courts to decide whether there has indeed been a violation.
Firstly, this article is about the tussle between Apple and Samsung's Android offerings. I very clearly remember that Apple started the mindlessness vs Samsung first.
Google was not directly sued by Apple, but the suits against Samsung and HTC were enough motivation for Google to acquire MMI and take some counter action.
You are confusing between Cause and Effect. Apple were the first ones to sue competitors, specially Android mfrs.
Google had to take protective action to prevent untold damage to the Android ecosystem which they created.
Your personal views on the matter are completely irrelevant. That a company can be forced to remove a feature that it has provided in the desktop market for almost a decade, in order to not violate a patent that ought not to have been granted; vindicates Posner's views that the patent system is truly broken and absurd.
I was referring to pre-existing aka legacy apps being able to run on ARM. It appears Intel has prevented MS from enabling that:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/15/sinofsky_windows8_arm_support_x86_apps/
It is going to take many many years for developers, developers and developers to develop brand new apps for the ARM platform, and MS is making it more and more unattractive for those inclined.
Not so ridiculous. For context, please read this article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/15/sinofsky_windows8_arm_support_x86_apps/
If the .Net runtime is ported to ARM, then X86 apps will compile and run on ARM as well - which is precisely what MS has said they will NOT be doing.
Reading the entire article suggests that Intel had a big hand to play in this decision of MS, which is why I suggested arm-twisting in my earlier post.
as the article suggests, to port .Net apps to the ARM architecture. Arm-twisting both ways in the Wintel duopoly, first it was the turn of MS, now it's Intel's turn.
I cannot think of a single company that has adopted Mono. And even .Net is being deprecated by Microsoft in favour of the Tablet Formfactor Metro apps.
Time for Miguel and his employers to abandon Mono altogether and drop this whole pseudo-open source thing. Enough and more time and talent has been wasted on creating useless things.
Get Lost, Get Lost, Get Lost.
Enuff said. The desktop is the only saving grace for Microsoft, let alone Windows. Talk about killing the golden goose.
They discovered a billion dollars worth of junk that doesn't work on all platforms.
ARM need not do anything to completely destroy Intel in a few years from now. Intel tied up with evil Microsoft to add more and more bloat to the X86 CPUs to run more and more bloated OSes. But for the tablet PC factor, the power requirements and bloat completely makes Wintel an unsuitable proposition.
5 years from now Android tablets with large form factor will completely replace netbooks and a sizable fraction of the desktop market as well. And the default architecture will be the ARM processor and Android will be the default OS. Good riddance to the unholy Wintel alliance for good.
So why wouldn't they pull a move often used by every other bad company?
The bad company here is Microsoft, making billions on Android, an OS which it did zilch to build. So Google is hitting back in self defense. Don't get our panties in a twist, yet.
Good one!
I remembered this conference in Belfast years ago; when an Oracle executive got grilled for describing some products as 'free'....
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8941
"Owen Hughes, of Oracle, managed not to fall afoul of Stallman. Instead, Hughes angered the entire audience. Working from a
slick presentation that was more "sales pitch" than "technical
information", Hughes referred to numerous Oracle products that are
"free". For each product, the standard pitch was, "I've used this. It's
really cool. You should take a look at it. Download it for free from...".
After a handful of comments like this, the audience could contain
itself no longer. A quick question from the floor asked, "It is free as
in speech or free as in beer?". Hughes wasn't sure how to answer. A
voice from the back of the hall called out, "Don't use the word 'free'
to describe this, use 'cost-less'". It soon became clear that what is
"free" to Oracle, is not "free" to the vast majority of conference
attendees. This distinction was the cue for others to ask if Oracle distributed the
source code to these "free" products. Hughes looked positively shocked
that someone would ask such a question of him, then meekly replied, "No,
source code is not included." From the floor, Bruce Perens offered
Hughes some advice, "You need to clean this up before presenting it to
an audience like this again.".
I read in a Groklaw link y'day:
"Spark: The first free-software, Linux tablet is on its way"
"Open-source software and Linux, thanks to Android, is well represented on tablets. But, if you didnâ(TM)t want to deal with proprietary firmware and software, you were out of luck⦠until now. Aaron Seigo, one of the KDEâ(TM)s lead developers, and his team are just about ready to roll-out the first tablet based entirely on Linux and free software: The Spark.
For those of you who are a little puzzled right nowâ"âBut, isnâ(TM)t Android based on Linux??â let me start by explaining that yes, Android is Linux and open-source software. But, its implementations on various smartphones and tablets always uses some proprietary software, firmware, and/or shims to combine the code into a working device. Spark is different. - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDNet"
So I think if Google hates proprietary stuff on Android phones, it should remove developer support for all GSM phones that have it too. Talk of double standards.... or maybe Google is actually against Qualcomm, not CDMA?
"Just out of curiousity, are you European?"
I'm an Indian, and in our Parliament, after our British overlords, Bills are tabled in the House for voting.
The people who brought the bill in the first place, are still active; and still receiving funding. More fundamental provisions are called for, to ensure such bills are not tabled in the first place.
Google has taken Linus and modified it to suit their aims and goals, rather than using the power of community Linux. Canonical will give the smartphone world the power of Linux minus the controls and restrictions imposed by Google. Customers will be the biggest winners here.
Just checking.. been a long while since I last commented.