1) There is nothing that IT workers in the U.S., as a group can do, that they can't do in India as well. Don't say that they can't be at the office in person, that is not my point.
2) Politicians could save the jobs. But I doubt that they want to. If they agreed with the idea of trying to keep jobs within the country they would have set a precedent with the textile industry. You'd still have your IT job, but you'd pay $400 for a t-shirt.
3) The weak dollar and the strong rupie is your friend. This is how you will lose your buying power, without really noticing it. And it is how you will become competitive with the Indians again. And this is why the U.S. economy will grow slowly and it is the reason that the Indian economy will boom. They are catching up.
Just because you can doesn't mean that you should.
Other people smoking is not an argument for you to start smoking as well.
I saw a demo by Jonathan Schwartz from Sun, they are doing the same thing. They had _one_ feature which I thought was nifty, if you were looking at a web page you could turn your browser around and make notes about that web page. But mostly I thought it was cumbersome. But pretty. And therein lies the problem. People will be awed, and fooled into believing that it actually is an improvement.
Maybe I will be quoted 10 years from now in the same breath as when people talk about IBM predicting that there only was a need for 5 computers in the world and Bill Gates saying that 640KB will be enough memory.
Maybe so, but I think that there is a good chance that this is a technology looking for a solution, rather than the other way around.
I don't think that this is innovation. I think it is a _lack_ of innovation. "We can't think of anything better to do with our time and we have all this nifty technology and nVidia is releasing their Ultra 6800, we gotta do something".
Opera makes browsers for cell phones. If you could use voice commands to browse on your phone instead of having to type your URL's on your phone that would be pretty neat.
Cell phones not powerful enough to do voice recognition you say? True, but they are made to send speech from one point to another.
So, some big computer somewhere in the world could interpret your voice commands and direct the browser on your phone to the correct link.
And I'm sure that someone could make money by selling that service too.
This was admittedly before 9/11 but I used to carry 5 spare batteries for my Dell Inspiron in my carry on bag. I hate to fly and I can't sleep, no matter how long the flight is. So I used these batteries to watch DVDs.
I used to cross the atlantic several times a year and never had a problem with security personell giving me a hard time about these batteries.
Well, at least it is harder to make it in a stable kernel than in a test kernel.
Replacing 50 000 (number pulled from hat) lines of code on a production server is rather "hairy", even if the interfaces stay the same. The chance that a bug creeps in is high and unacceptable to many of the users.
The type of users that this is unacceptable for happens to coincide with the type of users who have the money to pay for licenses.
So, why did it take so long for SCO to produce this?
I can't help but wondering that they wanted to wait until 2.6 was out, thereby ensuring that one more generation of the kernel would be guaranteed to be "tainted". The article was full of references to 2.6.0.
2.6.0 is now in freeze mode and it will be really hard to remove all the lines that SCO alleges are infringement. Had they released this while 2.6 still was 2.5, the community could (at least in theory) have done a halt in development and spend some time on removing these lines.
Even if these lines of code really aren't infringement SCO can argue that they are. If they were removed, they can't even argue that.
SCOs ability to extort large amounts of money is greatly decreased if all people had to do was to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.0 to be out of the woods.
Being Swedish I can tell you that that isn't French. It is Norwegian or Danish and it says:
"It doesn't matter if you smell a little like this"
I don't have any moderator points right now, which is just as well, because I don't know if I should moderate this as funny or if I should moderate it down.
Why would you want to go to India? If you were serious about mov9ing to a country with a lower cost of living to compete on the same terms you should consider Mexico.
You can probably get a work visa there and what's more, you could be in the same time zone as your customers.
most of the jobs that are moving out of the country are the type of jobs that are high profile. And therefor we hear a lot about it.
Typically, it is programming projects that require teams of 20 or 30 people (maybe) and that lasts for a year or longer.
But many programmers are employed where proximity is important and where the primary product isn't the software itself. Maybe it is a small financial institution or maybe a factory which needs a few programmers to build in house systems.
Sure, it sucks when HP, Sun and others move their big and fun projects to India, but many jobs will remain here, because it isn't cost effective to move them to India.
The power supply generates heat, but it isn't itself very sensitive to that heat.
If you move the power supply outside of your computer case you will need less cooling for your CPU and grafx card. Or with the same amount of cooling you'll have some headroom to overclock.
And the power supply itself does not need to be cooled.
First of all, having a dinner meeting with 80 people and trying to actually understand the problems of the department is really stupid. It is so stupid, in fact, that I don't really believe that the managers expect to learn anything new.
So my advice for this dinner is to just try to have fun and eat as much free food as possible.
Secondly, I'm Swedish, but I've lived in Texas for about 5 years now. So I find the culture differences that show in this thread to be interesting.
Job security is much higher in Sweden. And that is very obvious in this thread. Many people hear advice you to take a very cautious approach. Or it may come back and bite you. In Sweden the attitude is, hide nothing from your managers. You aren't supposed to point fingers, but you describe the problems when asked.
And ultimately, I feel that that is much better. You have no right to say that the PHBs are clueless unless you tell them what you want them to know. The one thing I've found in common though, between Sweden and the U.S. is, don't stab anyone in the back.
Anyway, I know that people here warn you to be very cautious about what you tell your manager, but I decided to continue being who I am. I have earned a reputation of not being afraid of saying what I think and I have earned a lot of respect because of that. Managers regularly ask me for my opinion, because I will tell it like it is. My golden rule though, is to never say anything that I couldn't say with a few of my co-workers in the same room. I always think, is there anyone here at this company that I don't want in this room saying this and if I can think of someone, then I try to rephrase myself.
Here's another tip though, never bypass your manager, with something that is within his/hers responsibility, unless it is really necessary, or unless the problem isn't within your managers power to fix it without the help of his boss.
1) tell everyone in the world to stop buying what the spammers sell. This will make it useless to spam. You probably have to tell morons twice though.
2) Tell everyone in the world to lead spammers on as far as they can without actually spending any money. This will waste the spammers time to a point where it isn't profitable.
3) The combination of 1 and 2. I actually do both of these but as you can tell by looking at your inbox I'm loosing this battle.
They would write their own mail servers where more than one recpient would be linked to one post on the server. This means that they can send a small header it to a gazillion people and only spend 400 bytes on actually storing the message on their server since they only need one copy of a particular Email.
Bandwith is only wasted when a user comes to look at the mail, which also verifies that that user exists (double spam for you my friend).
So, this would make spam worse.
so in short
1) spammers could send at least twice as much spam as they can now. 2) they will get much better verification that the mail address they had is correct.
In a regular game, how much time is spent in DirectX? Lets say, for the sake of argument that it is 50% and that the DirectX code is compiled natively. Furthermore, lets assume that it runs about 4 times faster then the 800Mhz PIII.
This means that the rest of the game code, the emulated part, would have to run just a little faster than half (about 60% I believe) the speed of a PIII for the game to have the same speed on average.
It isn't perfect, but it goes to show that not all code has to be emulated. And DirectX isn't the only code that can run natively. Every call to an API that the game makes will be running native code. Also, recall that much of the DirectX code will be executed on the grafx card which never was and never (knock on wood) will be Intel.
I have a friend that treats spam snail mail by ripping it to pieces and send it back in the return to sender envelope.
He just cost that company a postage fee and the time to open that envelope.
If everyone clicked into the web sites and started doing things that took the spammers time, effectively spamming them back, it would become less efficient.
If you send out a million E-mails and you get 100 takers, you have a profit. But if you get one million takers where all but 100 of those are just trying to cause spammers to spend time, such as asking questions, some types of spam would disappear.
There are some types of spam that you can't spam back so it won't work for everything. But if you get an offer to lower your mortgage rate you have to meet with someone. Spend an hour of his time and see how happy he is about that.
Sky net was also written by people but that wasn't my point.
I couldn't help to associate this with sky net (from terminator 1, 2 and 3 for those who doesn't know what sky net is). I mean, sky net attacks and take over "the Internet" in the movies.
And now we have a "war" for the control of the Internet. Two worms fighting each other.
...Is that if it is an improvement that the consumer can notice then the product will have a new name or model numbers.
So any changes made to a product, that doesn't change name or model number because of that change, are either minor or to the benefit of the company that makes it.
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1) There is nothing that IT workers in the U.S., as a group can do, that they can't do in India as well. Don't say that they can't be at the office in person, that is not my point.
2) Politicians could save the jobs. But I doubt that they want to. If they agreed with the idea of trying to keep jobs within the country they would have set a precedent with the textile industry. You'd still have your IT job, but you'd pay $400 for a t-shirt.
3) The weak dollar and the strong rupie is your friend. This is how you will lose your buying power, without really noticing it. And it is how you will become competitive with the Indians again. And this is why the U.S. economy will grow slowly and it is the reason that the Indian economy will boom. They are catching up.
Just because you can doesn't mean that you should.
Other people smoking is not an argument for you to start smoking as well.
I saw a demo by Jonathan Schwartz from Sun, they are doing the same thing. They had _one_ feature which I thought was nifty, if you were looking at a web page you could turn your browser around and make notes about that web page. But mostly I thought it was cumbersome. But pretty. And therein lies the problem. People will be awed, and fooled into believing that it actually is an improvement.
Maybe I will be quoted 10 years from now in the same breath as when people talk about IBM predicting that there only was a need for 5 computers in the world and Bill Gates saying that 640KB will be enough memory.
Maybe so, but I think that there is a good chance that this is a technology looking for a solution, rather than the other way around.
I don't think that this is innovation. I think it is a _lack_ of innovation. "We can't think of anything better to do with our time and we have all this nifty technology and nVidia is releasing their Ultra 6800, we gotta do something".
Opera makes browsers for cell phones. If you could use voice commands to browse on your phone instead of having to type your URL's on your phone that would be pretty neat.
Cell phones not powerful enough to do voice recognition you say? True, but they are made to send speech from one point to another.
So, some big computer somewhere in the world could interpret your voice commands and direct the browser on your phone to the correct link.
And I'm sure that someone could make money by selling that service too.
Now, can someone help me patent this?
that the challenge/response could be outsourced to.
Only kidding (I think).
This was admittedly before 9/11 but I used to carry 5 spare batteries for my Dell Inspiron in my carry on bag. I hate to fly and I can't sleep, no matter how long the flight is. So I used these batteries to watch DVDs.
I used to cross the atlantic several times a year and never had a problem with security personell giving me a hard time about these batteries.
Or KDE vs. Gnome
Well, at least it is harder to make it in a stable kernel than in a test kernel.
Replacing 50 000 (number pulled from hat) lines of code on a production server is rather "hairy", even if the interfaces stay the same. The chance that a bug creeps in is high and unacceptable to many of the users.
The type of users that this is unacceptable for happens to coincide with the type of users who have the money to pay for licenses.
So, why did it take so long for SCO to produce this?
I can't help but wondering that they wanted to wait until 2.6 was out, thereby ensuring that one more generation of the kernel would be guaranteed to be "tainted". The article was full of references to 2.6.0.
2.6.0 is now in freeze mode and it will be really hard to remove all the lines that SCO alleges are infringement. Had they released this while 2.6 still was 2.5, the community could (at least in theory) have done a halt in development and spend some time on removing these lines.
Even if these lines of code really aren't infringement SCO can argue that they are. If they were removed, they can't even argue that.
SCOs ability to extort large amounts of money is greatly decreased if all people had to do was to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.0 to be out of the woods.
Heh... OK, sorry.
My danish isn't great. At least it was good enough to know that it wasn't french.
Well,
Being Swedish I can tell you that that isn't French. It is Norwegian or Danish and it says:
"It doesn't matter if you smell a little like this"
I don't have any moderator points right now, which is just as well, because I don't know if I should moderate this as funny or if I should moderate it down.
Why would you want to go to India? If you were serious about mov9ing to a country with a lower cost of living to compete on the same terms you should consider Mexico.
You can probably get a work visa there and what's more, you could be in the same time zone as your customers.
See,
most of the jobs that are moving out of the country are the type of jobs that are high profile. And therefor we hear a lot about it.
Typically, it is programming projects that require teams of 20 or 30 people (maybe) and that lasts for a year or longer.
But many programmers are employed where proximity is important and where the primary product isn't the software itself. Maybe it is a small financial institution or maybe a factory which needs a few programmers to build in house systems.
Sure, it sucks when HP, Sun and others move their big and fun projects to India, but many jobs will remain here, because it isn't cost effective to move them to India.
The power supply generates heat, but it isn't itself very sensitive to that heat.
If you move the power supply outside of your computer case you will need less cooling for your CPU and grafx card. Or with the same amount of cooling you'll have some headroom to overclock.
And the power supply itself does not need to be cooled.
First of all, having a dinner meeting with 80 people and trying to actually understand the problems of the department is really stupid. It is so stupid, in fact, that I don't really believe that the managers expect to learn anything new.
So my advice for this dinner is to just try to have fun and eat as much free food as possible.
Secondly, I'm Swedish, but I've lived in Texas for about 5 years now. So I find the culture differences that show in this thread to be interesting.
Job security is much higher in Sweden. And that is very obvious in this thread. Many people hear advice you to take a very cautious approach. Or it may come back and bite you. In Sweden the attitude is, hide nothing from your managers. You aren't supposed to point fingers, but you describe the problems when asked.
And ultimately, I feel that that is much better. You have no right to say that the PHBs are clueless unless you tell them what you want them to know. The one thing I've found in common though, between Sweden and the U.S. is, don't stab anyone in the back.
Anyway, I know that people here warn you to be very cautious about what you tell your manager, but I decided to continue being who I am. I have earned a reputation of not being afraid of saying what I think and I have earned a lot of respect because of that. Managers regularly ask me for my opinion, because I will tell it like it is. My golden rule though, is to never say anything that I couldn't say with a few of my co-workers in the same room. I always think, is there anyone here at this company that I don't want in this room saying this and if I can think of someone, then I try to rephrase myself.
Here's another tip though, never bypass your manager, with something that is within his/hers responsibility, unless it is really necessary, or unless the problem isn't within your managers power to fix it without the help of his boss.
1) tell everyone in the world to stop buying what the spammers sell. This will make it useless to spam. You probably have to tell morons twice though.
2) Tell everyone in the world to lead spammers on as far as they can without actually spending any money. This will waste the spammers time to a point where it isn't profitable.
3) The combination of 1 and 2. I actually do both of these but as you can tell by looking at your inbox I'm loosing this battle.
This would a spammers wet dream.
They would write their own mail servers where more than one recpient would be linked to one post on the server. This means that they can send a small header it to a gazillion people and only spend 400 bytes on actually storing the message on their server since they only need one copy of a particular Email.
Bandwith is only wasted when a user comes to look at the mail, which also verifies that that user exists (double spam for you my friend).
So, this would make spam worse.
so in short
1) spammers could send at least twice as much spam as they can now.
2) they will get much better verification that the mail address they had is correct.
Are you sure you meant nice and not niche?
The G5 may be a niche processor for now, but I really hope that it can give x86 a run for the money.
In a regular game, how much time is spent in DirectX? Lets say, for the sake of argument that it is 50% and that the DirectX code is compiled natively. Furthermore, lets assume that it runs about 4 times faster then the 800Mhz PIII.
This means that the rest of the game code, the emulated part, would have to run just a little faster than half (about 60% I believe) the speed of a PIII for the game to have the same speed on average.
It isn't perfect, but it goes to show that not all code has to be emulated. And DirectX isn't the only code that can run natively. Every call to an API that the game makes will be running native code. Also, recall that much of the DirectX code will be executed on the grafx card which never was and never (knock on wood) will be Intel.
What about the poor saps who have to sit in the server room all day long?
Poor guys.
I have a friend that treats spam snail mail by ripping it to pieces and send it back in the return to sender envelope.
He just cost that company a postage fee and the time to open that envelope.
If everyone clicked into the web sites and started doing things that took the spammers time, effectively spamming them back, it would become less efficient.
If you send out a million E-mails and you get 100 takers, you have a profit. But if you get one million takers where all but 100 of those are just trying to cause spammers to spend time, such as asking questions, some types of spam would disappear.
There are some types of spam that you can't spam back so it won't work for everything. But if you get an offer to lower your mortgage rate you have to meet with someone. Spend an hour of his time and see how happy he is about that.
Heh... I'm only kidding.
Sky net was also written by people but that wasn't my point.
I couldn't help to associate this with sky net (from terminator 1, 2 and 3 for those who doesn't know what sky net is). I mean, sky net attacks and take over "the Internet" in the movies.
And now we have a "war" for the control of the Internet. Two worms fighting each other.
Send me your credit card number and I'll fax the money to you.
Now we are one step closer to sky net
Look out, the machines will take over.
I must say that I'm actually a bit bummed that Ultima Underworld hasn't gotten more credit for helping create todays 3D FPS games.
I also played that game until the cows came home and it was just one of the greatest gaming experiences I ever had.
Yet, it is never mentioned when people talk about the origins of 3D games.
I don't quite remember the timeline any more. But I do know that Ultima Underworld was really early.
I even remember that you would bounce up and down a little as you walked (because of your steps).
...Is that if it is an improvement that the consumer can notice then the product will have a new name or model numbers.
So any changes made to a product, that doesn't change name or model number because of that change, are either minor or to the benefit of the company that makes it.