No, they don't have a RIGHT to it. they have to keep on earning their value. if they can't provide something valuable to the company then someone else who can should get the job. this is exactly what is going to happen with the companies products in the market, i don't know what makes you think peoples jobs are insulated against this.
This isn't about rights, it's about our best interest as a nation and preserving the advantages we've built up over the past 100 years; if you want to talk about it in terms of rights, then the US company has no right to reap the benefits of a US base to build on while screwing that company by pushing the actual work to whatever low wage country they can find. Companies exist for the benefit of the owners and for the benefit of the society that supports them. Stop benefiting either one and see how long you last.
Needles to say a new "test" distribution list was created by one of the offshore team, at which point some moronic project manager decided to send a "test" email which then went to everyone's mailbox at the same time This however was not the problem, the problem was when several users decided to hit "Reply-All" which of course sent the reply to all users everywhere and these replies where then replied to with messages such as "should I be on this list?" The end result was that the outlook servers ground to a complete and utter halt, with the sheer volume of crap flying around on the system
I remember hearing about this at MS (first large place I worked). I would assume that any company of any size has had this happen once. Hopefully, twice never comes.
A lot of people, sadly, seem to have a sense of entitlement, a sense that they deserve the jobs or have somehow earned them through no action whatsoever.
Well yeah, we expect our government to have our back instead of selling us out. It isn't entitlement, just the desire to have the same deal as our parents' generation.
1. Coming from poorer, less-educated countries, immigrants appreciate the value of a dollar.
Aren't you the racist. Immigrants from poor countries are a: used to a lower standard of living and b: generally less educated, so they take what they can get (to start). Poor people here understand the value of a dollar too.
People complain about Dell outsourcing their call centres, which leads to lousy service. Guess what, I've called cable companies and cellphone companies, talked to their Canadian/American employees, and wondered how these people remember to breathe, let alone use their computers.
At least you can understand them when they tell you something stupid and irrelevant. Neither anecdote really proves anything, aside from the fact that Dell trashed their support so they could spend less doing it.
You hear stories about how foreign outsourcers screw up and run over budget, used as an example of why outsourcing is bad, but how many companies, governments, and so on in the 'enlightened west' run over budget and take twice as long?
it's all about requirements. When you have an outsourcing gig governed by a contract and some requirements, it's harder to do right than when you can just call up the customer and expand on a req. without dealing with a change request. Projects fail for mostly the same reasons - poor requirements and scope creep - outsourcing just exacerbates the first one.
In the long-run taking shortcuts will lead to an evolutionary dead-end, but by that time, Microsoft will probably have come out with an entirely new set of API's anyway.
So what? MS isn't the only game in town, and anyway, even with MS stuff, you don't need to go use every new API the produce.
And a good programmer who writes bug-free modular code will probably end up doing himself out of the job because as time goes by, there will be less code that needs to changed or upgraded per job request. A sloppy programmer will end up having the work snowballing up in front of themselves.
Right. More likely, the crap programmer spends all his time fixing his broken code, while the good programmer goes and does new things.
Many times though, some software with bugs is better then no software at all. Think of Linux for example, it really wasn't any better then GNU Hurd, but it came out first and it was adopted. Did it ever reach 1.0? Seriously, it runs on one architecture and has unknown hardware support and the download page hasn't updated in 7 years - who in their right mind would use that? Linux started at about the same time, but had as its primary goal something functional, with little attention paid to ideology. That's probably why it's so popular.
No, it's a case of poor political structure in the places where people are starving; we can send grain to africa, and the local thugs will just use it as leverage to get the starving people to do what they want. Or kill them, either way. Want to fix starvation? get africa stabilized somehow.
Diet and exercise work approximately 80% of the time, provided there's follow through. Sort of like antibiotics. The downside is also limited - you get some minor muscle pain for a few weeks as you get into better shape.
Right, and it's just fine if some other team in my company wants access to the private variables on my classes. Really, what happens when you change the schema, or refactor to a multi-DB architecture? Never mind that oracle is chatty - much better to keep that traffic isolated.
There's also logistical problems in the U.S. that you simply don't have elsewhere... how big is the U.S. compared to Japan?
Who cares? First, the bells took the money, they do the deed and make it work. Second, our cities are as dense as places like DE, though not usually at Tokyo levels, so they should be easy to wire. Of course, I live in seattle, and I don't have fiber, even though I'm in a high density area; anywhere with large chunks of 1/4 acre plots or less mixed with condos should be prime territory for fiber, but the bells take their sweet time, and they sue when a city decides to do for themselves.
The other joke, which is actually true, is that people in his shop do not refer to side cutters as "dikes," out of deference to my gender if not my inclination.
Interesting. I would probably refer to them as dikes just to see who gets offended by common english words.
welfare isn't a benefit of citizenship, it's something we do so people won't get so desperate that they shoot you for your shoes. I like the idea of telling them to go get jobs and come back when they're ready to learn something.
And if they still refuse to straighten out I say leave them overseas permanently, life is short and the world has an over abundance of assholes. We need to quit wasting so much time on those that don't want to participate
These kids have the right to be a screw up and stay in this country - forcibly deporting citizens is the sort of thing that starts revolutions.
We have the 1st Amendment!' Wake up, it's long dead and Hate Crimes is THE big new growth area for the State. Nah, you still have to commit an actual crime, and the prosecution has to show that the primary motivation is hatred of some protected class. If I don't like jews, but I beat one senseless because, I dunno, he grabbed my girlfriend's ass, that's not a hate crime, it's assault/battery, maybe aggravated.
Because as soon as we say that one story or another is an allegory, then the rest of the world immediately claims that the entire work must therefore be fiction.
Why should it be any different than any other historical text? They're all a mix of fact and fiction.
My favorite idea so far is session cookies; funny to see someone go to the trouble of changing their IP and leaving the cookies in their browser alone.
Nerd logic. With the millions that potentially visit wapo, you just can't prevent it, but you can stop 99% of it, and that means much less abuse than without working to stop it. Quit being so binary.
Sounds like an opportunity - hire yourself out to run forums for places like this and solve the problem (sort of) by leverage scalable solutions to the worst abuses.
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This isn't about rights, it's about our best interest as a nation and preserving the advantages we've built up over the past 100 years; if you want to talk about it in terms of rights, then the US company has no right to reap the benefits of a US base to build on while screwing that company by pushing the actual work to whatever low wage country they can find. Companies exist for the benefit of the owners and for the benefit of the society that supports them. Stop benefiting either one and see how long you last.
I remember hearing about this at MS (first large place I worked). I would assume that any company of any size has had this happen once. Hopefully, twice never comes.
Well yeah, we expect our government to have our back instead of selling us out. It isn't entitlement, just the desire to have the same deal as our parents' generation.
1. Coming from poorer, less-educated countries, immigrants appreciate the value of a dollar.Aren't you the racist. Immigrants from poor countries are a: used to a lower standard of living and b: generally less educated, so they take what they can get (to start). Poor people here understand the value of a dollar too.
People complain about Dell outsourcing their call centres, which leads to lousy service. Guess what, I've called cable companies and cellphone companies, talked to their Canadian/American employees, and wondered how these people remember to breathe, let alone use their computers.At least you can understand them when they tell you something stupid and irrelevant. Neither anecdote really proves anything, aside from the fact that Dell trashed their support so they could spend less doing it.
You hear stories about how foreign outsourcers screw up and run over budget, used as an example of why outsourcing is bad, but how many companies, governments, and so on in the 'enlightened west' run over budget and take twice as long?it's all about requirements. When you have an outsourcing gig governed by a contract and some requirements, it's harder to do right than when you can just call up the customer and expand on a req. without dealing with a change request. Projects fail for mostly the same reasons - poor requirements and scope creep - outsourcing just exacerbates the first one.
So what? MS isn't the only game in town, and anyway, even with MS stuff, you don't need to go use every new API the produce.
And a good programmer who writes bug-free modular code will probably end up doing himself out of the job because as time goes by, there will be less code that needs to changed or upgraded per job request. A sloppy programmer will end up having the work snowballing up in front of themselves.Right. More likely, the crap programmer spends all his time fixing his broken code, while the good programmer goes and does new things.
No, it's a case of poor political structure in the places where people are starving; we can send grain to africa, and the local thugs will just use it as leverage to get the starving people to do what they want. Or kill them, either way. Want to fix starvation? get africa stabilized somehow.
Diet and exercise work approximately 80% of the time, provided there's follow through. Sort of like antibiotics. The downside is also limited - you get some minor muscle pain for a few weeks as you get into better shape.
true enough, so long as the schema doesn't change too much. I still wouldn't want to just expose a schema that isn't designed for that.
Right, and it's just fine if some other team in my company wants access to the private variables on my classes. Really, what happens when you change the schema, or refactor to a multi-DB architecture? Never mind that oracle is chatty - much better to keep that traffic isolated.
Who cares? First, the bells took the money, they do the deed and make it work. Second, our cities are as dense as places like DE, though not usually at Tokyo levels, so they should be easy to wire. Of course, I live in seattle, and I don't have fiber, even though I'm in a high density area; anywhere with large chunks of 1/4 acre plots or less mixed with condos should be prime territory for fiber, but the bells take their sweet time, and they sue when a city decides to do for themselves.
Sure, when it's applied to something like credit card theft.
Interesting. I would probably refer to them as dikes just to see who gets offended by common english words.
Spoken like someone who's never had Old Rasputin.
yeah, watch out - they might do their merge overwrite-style.
welfare isn't a benefit of citizenship, it's something we do so people won't get so desperate that they shoot you for your shoes. I like the idea of telling them to go get jobs and come back when they're ready to learn something.
These kids have the right to be a screw up and stay in this country - forcibly deporting citizens is the sort of thing that starts revolutions.
and tabloid journalism is a style of journalism that doesn't require a particular format.
Did you laugh in the chilling manner of Stalin before he enslaved Eastern Europe?
Why should it be any different than any other historical text? They're all a mix of fact and fiction.
In the case of the TSA, I'd call them 110% ineffective - worse than useless. Luckily, they aren't really intended to be effective.
My favorite idea so far is session cookies; funny to see someone go to the trouble of changing their IP and leaving the cookies in their browser alone.
Who cares if you do? Wapo won't ever see your mac addy.
Nerd logic. With the millions that potentially visit wapo, you just can't prevent it, but you can stop 99% of it, and that means much less abuse than without working to stop it. Quit being so binary.
Sounds like an opportunity - hire yourself out to run forums for places like this and solve the problem (sort of) by leverage scalable solutions to the worst abuses.