Little bits and peices breaking away and becoming unfree as the money starts to peek it's little head into the mix of things....
Re:What's the story here?
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I remember programming a VIC-20 with 5K of memory. And I got it to do some cool stuff. Some of my younger co-workers are dunbfounded on how to do this sort of thing!!!
I too discovered this. A lot of my "needs" were really my "wants." The more crap I had, the more money I needed to house, store, and move the crap I had. Less crap, less crap maintenance money. I look at people who can't park their cars in their garages because of all the crap, and I think to myself "that is a lot of inventory money sitting on those shelves." How much money were they storing in those boxes? Tens of thousands of dollars spent here and there on some trinket simply boxed up and placed into a garage that costs how much?
I guess as I got older - I began to respect my time a bit more. This is my time on the planet, and it is a limited time. I simply decided I don't have the time to mess around with idiots anymore. I don't have time to waste in meetings about nothing (such as the famous fiasco I encountered at Siemens - deservedly mentioned in other postings, where by it took five meetings over three weeks with seven managers simply to create a directory on a server.)
I spend my time rounding out my life - or being flat out lazy. So yeah, I had to put $4,000 bucks of repairs into my BMW, but ya know what - practically a new drive train at 10% of the cost of a new car. And I own my car. Repairs spread out over the months are lower than new car payments - even under leases.
There is so much disrespect for employee's as well as customers these days in corporations. Flat out, simple, disrespect. They lie to you. They rip you off. They send you around the goose chase time after time. Heck, GM was sued royally for killing their customers when the defense figured it cost less to pay off the expected rear crash explosion lawsuits than to fix their cars. Talk about the ultimate disrespect.
I put in those killer hours - pulling off those mega-projects. What happened? Two years later they were looking to replace the stuff simply because some new technology was the hot technology of the moment. Quality of work? Puh-lease. Look at MS vs Apple. Quality doesn't mean anything to many of the corporate types where the motto is the 80/20 rule. They don't want to spend the money on quality, and they don't want to spend the time on quality.
The industry has certainly changed, especially with the off-shore outsourcing. Time for the geeks to accept change with it.
WRONG. Apple put more computers into households and schools before IBM got into the game with their PC which just HAPPENED to have MS software on it. The computer revolution was well on it's way with Digital Research and other's without the help of MS. In fact, it could be said it has hindered software.
NO - Bullshit that SECOND HAND smoke caused cancer. Put down the hot pockets and watch the show. They said nothing about dragging on a cig not causing cancer.
Between shipping H1-Bs/L-1s in, outlawing certain technologies, and shipping technology jobs off-shore - I fear the United States of America is about to become a half measure of what it once was.
I have to admit it - I rarely voted since I was young. But now in my early thirties, I compare the US to what I knew of it in my youth, and I don't like the changes and directions this country's politicians are taking it.
They are destroying the goose that laid the golden egg. Already Asia has cool gadgets that will never make it over here; And broadband services for pennies of what it is here.
Is there any wonder why the economy is in shabbles? For a country who's economy is driven by technology (god knows it isn't McDonald's or manufacturing) we are doing everything we possibly can to destroy that industry!
Believe it or not, the Taco Bell application requires you to sign them permission to looky loo your credit records.
Outsourcing will deal a blow to US Corporations
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In the end, outsourcing will deal a critical blow to US corporations.
Already, Cisco is sueing a Chinese company over products that have the exact same bugs, messages, and functionallity. Wonder how that company got Cisco's source code - either outsourcing or via an H1-B/L1.
Four chinese people have been arrested and/or charged with selling military grade technology from Silicon Valley to China.
We are sending software over to the biggest bunch of pirates ever known - repeatedly our lawyers bitch at their governments to stop copying this and that.
We are just beginning to see the fall of intellectual property rights....
It should be an entertaining five years from now when the outsourcing bubble bursts, while American valuable technology is copied and pirated to the cost of media.
Just as Microsoft used IBM to fund their work, one can bet the far east is going to do the same. Then they will be not working for the US, but competing directly against us.
But without the oft mentioned worker rights rules, environmental rules, etc. that make the level of living in the US that much better.
Not blogging. Americans being fired from their own companies replaced by foreigners. I am not talking about immigrants, people who want to make a life in the United States, but FOREIGN WORKERS. Hell, with the L-1, they don't even need to worry about H1-B quotas.
I laugh at these numbskulls who think their "skillz" and "contribution to ze company" will let them keep their jobs. Your time is coming, and I feel bad for you because I was right there with ya. Look at your managers - skills DON'T MEAN SHIT. How much you cost is what they are looking at now. And it is pretty hard to rate against third world nations.
I know of companies that are PROFITABLE who are shedding american jobs, replaced by or keeping foreign workers.
IT jobs are going the way of steel, auto, textile, and most manufacturing jobs. The decay has reached upwards into our eco-social system.
California has a budget problem - why? Over 60% of the taxes are paid for by 10% of the taxpayers. What has happened to those high paying jobs? Shipped overseas. Those salaries and consultant level hourly wages are GONE man. And those stupid idiots in Sacremento want to raise even more taxes?!?!
Silicon Valley has a 40% office vacancy rate. This place is done, man. It's nearly half empty. I am seeing more and more graffitti and boards. It ain't coming back like it was. It is full of indians and chinese people - English is barely spoken here. That is the future of IT - better re-train into Bio-Tech cuz the money ain't in IT anymore - irregardless what those ITAA fools say about jobs.
It is important that our government be even more unreachable with the citizens of this country. Who wants to hear from whiney citizens anyhow - besides they obviously are dangerous!
I think we should move the fences further out from the white house so that you need binoculars to see it.
I think we should close down streets around government buildings for a half mile around, and make security such an intrusion and frustrating experience no one will want to visit their lawmakers.
I think they should make snail mail even slower and have it sitting around for weeks at a time in some postal facility and then simply ignore email sent to them.
Then the lawmakers and executors of the law can live peacefully doing what ever they want irregardless of the citizens of the country.
Just b/c mom & dad make a combined 100k doesn't mean they're giving any of it to me, dammit
Pain duly noted and been there too. There is a reason so many kids are coming out of college 50K in debt these days. Thats ok, the government is run by the bankers and they like that interest.
Adding to this, these high taxes would create more pollution. How? One has to cut costs somewhere and the environment is usually where it is. Where? Think the US has pollution problems? Look at Asia.
The media industry has in effect neutered our availablility to information. Why were we attacked on September 11th? Can anyone say anything other than they were a bunch of savages from caves?
I believe, because the media industry has been so wound up in who is giving who blowjobs, news stories told in 40 words or less, and flat out not telling us about potential problems rising outside our culture and country - they are literally destroying the United States.
Now that they have destroyed effective government in the US, they now are working on the resources the citizenry have to freely communicate with each other after all, it is communications they make their money on.
Hopefully they will not have driven the technology business outside of the United States before I retire, but I fear that they will. Where once I was an innovator, they have now branded me a criminal merely by the programs I have created.
Already tobacco is being smuggled between states because of high taxes. It is certain that tech will become a smuggler's boon and little Johnny will go to jail for possession of a MP3 player.
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Little bits and peices breaking away and becoming unfree as the money starts to peek it's little head into the mix of things....
I remember programming a VIC-20 with 5K of memory. And I got it to do some cool stuff. Some of my younger co-workers are dunbfounded on how to do this sort of thing!!!
No sense of elegance.
I too discovered this. A lot of my "needs" were really my "wants." The more crap I had, the more money I needed to house, store, and move the crap I had. Less crap, less crap maintenance money. I look at people who can't park their cars in their garages because of all the crap, and I think to myself "that is a lot of inventory money sitting on those shelves." How much money were they storing in those boxes? Tens of thousands of dollars spent here and there on some trinket simply boxed up and placed into a garage that costs how much?
I guess as I got older - I began to respect my time a bit more. This is my time on the planet, and it is a limited time. I simply decided I don't have the time to mess around with idiots anymore. I don't have time to waste in meetings about nothing (such as the famous fiasco I encountered at Siemens - deservedly mentioned in other postings, where by it took five meetings over three weeks with seven managers simply to create a directory on a server.)
I spend my time rounding out my life - or being flat out lazy. So yeah, I had to put $4,000 bucks of repairs into my BMW, but ya know what - practically a new drive train at 10% of the cost of a new car. And I own my car. Repairs spread out over the months are lower than new car payments - even under leases.
There is so much disrespect for employee's as well as customers these days in corporations. Flat out, simple, disrespect. They lie to you. They rip you off. They send you around the goose chase time after time. Heck, GM was sued royally for killing their customers when the defense figured it cost less to pay off the expected rear crash explosion lawsuits than to fix their cars. Talk about the ultimate disrespect.
I put in those killer hours - pulling off those mega-projects. What happened? Two years later they were looking to replace the stuff simply because some new technology was the hot technology of the moment. Quality of work? Puh-lease. Look at MS vs Apple. Quality doesn't mean anything to many of the corporate types where the motto is the 80/20 rule. They don't want to spend the money on quality, and they don't want to spend the time on quality.
The industry has certainly changed, especially with the off-shore outsourcing. Time for the geeks to accept change with it.
WRONG. Apple put more computers into households and schools before IBM got into the game with their PC which just HAPPENED to have MS software on it. The computer revolution was well on it's way with Digital Research and other's without the help of MS. In fact, it could be said it has hindered software.
You forgot the fore-coming burst of:
The credit bubble
and
The housing bubble
NO - Bullshit that SECOND HAND smoke caused cancer. Put down the hot pockets and watch the show. They said nothing about dragging on a cig not causing cancer.
Between shipping H1-Bs/L-1s in, outlawing certain technologies, and shipping technology jobs off-shore - I fear the United States of America is about to become a half measure of what it once was.
I have to admit it - I rarely voted since I was young. But now in my early thirties, I compare the US to what I knew of it in my youth, and I don't like the changes and directions this country's politicians are taking it.
They are destroying the goose that laid the golden egg. Already Asia has cool gadgets that will never make it over here; And broadband services for pennies of what it is here.
Is there any wonder why the economy is in shabbles? For a country who's economy is driven by technology (god knows it isn't McDonald's or manufacturing) we are doing everything we possibly can to destroy that industry!
Wrong, it is Progress. www.progress.com
I have been using it for over half a decade now - it seems to run fine for me. Been on systems with 300 users to less than 10 users.
Worked it on OpenServer, HPUX, NCR MP-RAS, AIX, and finally - finally - Red Hat Linux.
These guys might have a clue for you:
http://I.webring.com/hub?ring=prodev&id=38&hub
Try http://www.amduus.com - lots of code and stuff - not much DBA though.
Not all Progress based applications are smooth though.
Believe it or not, the Taco Bell application requires you to sign them permission to looky loo your credit records.
In the end, outsourcing will deal a critical blow to US corporations.
Already, Cisco is sueing a Chinese company over products that have the exact same bugs, messages, and functionallity. Wonder how that company got Cisco's source code - either outsourcing or via an H1-B/L1.
Four chinese people have been arrested and/or charged with selling military grade technology from Silicon Valley to China.
We are sending software over to the biggest bunch of pirates ever known - repeatedly our lawyers bitch at their governments to stop copying this and that.
We are just beginning to see the fall of intellectual property rights....
It should be an entertaining five years from now when the outsourcing bubble bursts, while American valuable technology is copied and pirated to the cost of media.
Just as Microsoft used IBM to fund their work, one can bet the far east is going to do the same. Then they will be not working for the US, but competing directly against us.
But without the oft mentioned worker rights rules, environmental rules, etc. that make the level of living in the US that much better.
Translation Management Guide is a PDF file. More docs here
Not blogging. Americans being fired from their own companies replaced by foreigners. I am not talking about immigrants, people who want to make a life in the United States, but FOREIGN WORKERS. Hell, with the L-1, they don't even need to worry about H1-B quotas.
I laugh at these numbskulls who think their "skillz" and "contribution to ze company" will let them keep their jobs. Your time is coming, and I feel bad for you because I was right there with ya. Look at your managers - skills DON'T MEAN SHIT. How much you cost is what they are looking at now. And it is pretty hard to rate against third world nations.
I know of companies that are PROFITABLE who are shedding american jobs, replaced by or keeping foreign workers.
IT jobs are going the way of steel, auto, textile, and most manufacturing jobs. The decay has reached upwards into our eco-social system.
California has a budget problem - why? Over 60% of the taxes are paid for by 10% of the taxpayers. What has happened to those high paying jobs? Shipped overseas. Those salaries and consultant level hourly wages are GONE man. And those stupid idiots in Sacremento want to raise even more taxes?!?!
Silicon Valley has a 40% office vacancy rate. This place is done, man. It's nearly half empty. I am seeing more and more graffitti and boards. It ain't coming back like it was. It is full of indians and chinese people - English is barely spoken here. That is the future of IT - better re-train into Bio-Tech cuz the money ain't in IT anymore - irregardless what those ITAA fools say about jobs.
It is important that our government be even more unreachable with the citizens of this country. Who wants to hear from whiney citizens anyhow - besides they obviously are dangerous!
I think we should move the fences further out from the white house so that you need binoculars to see it.
I think we should close down streets around government buildings for a half mile around, and make security such an intrusion and frustrating experience no one will want to visit their lawmakers.
I think they should make snail mail even slower and have it sitting around for weeks at a time in some postal facility and then simply ignore email sent to them.
Then the lawmakers and executors of the law can live peacefully doing what ever they want irregardless of the citizens of the country.
to reduce any and all interaction with the government to be:
1) paying taxes
2) buying car licensing
Give the King his tribute and stay away. Citizens need not apply.
I believe some day MAPS and DUL will make the major ISPs monopolies of email delivery.
ISPs are consolidating into larger and larger groups of users under a smaller and smaller set of companies.
ISPs help out by blocking port 25 from regular users.
MAPS knocks out the dial in users.
As one message notes, entire countries are blocked from sending email.
MAPS, while a good idea in a growing thriving ISP world, is not a good idea in a shrinking ISP world.
MAPS will destroy the email internet as we know it in a few years.
Just b/c mom & dad make a combined 100k doesn't mean they're giving any of it to me, dammit
Pain duly noted and been there too. There is a reason so many kids are coming out of college 50K in debt these days. Thats ok, the government is run by the bankers and they like that interest.
Adding to this, these high taxes would create more pollution. How? One has to cut costs somewhere and the environment is usually where it is. Where? Think the US has pollution problems? Look at Asia.
The media industry has in effect neutered our availablility to information. Why were we attacked on September 11th? Can anyone say anything other than they were a bunch of savages from caves?
I believe, because the media industry has been so wound up in who is giving who blowjobs, news stories told in 40 words or less, and flat out not telling us about potential problems rising outside our culture and country - they are literally destroying the United States.
Now that they have destroyed effective government in the US, they now are working on the resources the citizenry have to freely communicate with each other after all, it is communications they make their money on.
Hopefully they will not have driven the technology business outside of the United States before I retire, but I fear that they will. Where once I was an innovator, they have now branded me a criminal merely by the programs I have created.
Already tobacco is being smuggled between states because of high taxes. It is certain that tech will become a smuggler's boon and little Johnny will go to jail for possession of a MP3 player.