Nice idea in theory, but I've become somewhat attached to having a job in the IT industry, getting a paycheck every week, and being able to afford to feed myself.
Seriously... if we really wanted to take on foreign outsourcing, we should have done it 5 years ago when it was just getting popular. At this point, most Fortune 500 companies are using outsourced labor for at least some IT functions, and you're not going to get a tech job at all if you're not willing to cooperate with them.
Yeah... I wouldn't worry about finding a new job quite yet. As someone who's currently in the middle of an IT outsourcing to HP, I noticed that most folks have at least six months after the official announcement before they start laying people off.
That said, I wouldn't put too much faith in finding something on the HP internal job board. You'll soon have tens of thousands of EDS employees looking at those jobs as well.
He could also consider becoming a Windows sysadmin as well, which pays a bit less but requires even less programming skills. It's not much better than being a hard drive replacement monkey in terms of difficulty, though.
Also consider becoming a consultant sysadmin as well, which pays better but has less job security.
Slim and none. Hell... unless they want another flaky release product like Vista, they'll probably need at least 12 months just for software vendor QA testing and driver development.
Does anyone honestly think that Microsoft will have a fully featured beta released by the end of this year in order to make that happen?
I predicted Q4 2011 when they announced "7" earlier last year, and I'm sticking with that prediction.
The big problem with supporting independent music is finding artists that you like. Since they're not part of the RIAA marketing machine, odds are that I'm never going to hear their music on the radio, see it on TV, or find it as a featured download on iTunes.
I wish that there were more mainstream methods out there of promoting independent music. And my mainstream, I mean something that most people have actually heard of and use to find independent music! Yes, I'm sure that there are already tons of indie fan sites out there, but they aren't much help if most people have never seen them.
True... but you know the first time a Paris Hilton or Jessica Alba type celebrity walks through one of these scanners, the pictures will be on TMZ or The Superficial within a matter of hours.
(Yes, I know that there are rules about bringing cameras into the scanner rooms. That said, the tabloid sites pay a hell of a lot more than the TSA does!)
They already do to some extent. Take gunbroker.com, for example, which sells guns and knives. That site has become so big that they can afford to sponsor a NASCAR racing team!
Seriously, why would I pay even 10 cents to listen to a song online when practically every song in existence now has a free YouTube music video that you can to listen to?
Sure, the sound quality isn't all that great, but even the best quality.MP3 or.AAC file sounds like crap on my laptop's speakers.
Hell... they should let folks pay $100K an hour just to DRIVE the thing! I'll bet that you could get a good rivalry between the technology billionaires to see who could drive the rover the furthest during their rental:)
A lot of the article isn't accurate, either. For example, they've had freeze dried "astronaut ice cream" for decades! Almost every science museum that I've ever been to sells this stuff. I've heard that they've also tried "space pizza" prototypes as well.
I also find it hard to believe that the standard battery on an iPod is going to suddenly going to turn into an explosive device if they take it into space. That sounds like more of a bureaucratic oversight than anything else.
One unfortunate lesson that the OLPC team should have learned is that you shouldn't promise a $100 laptop unless you're sure that you can DELIVER a $100 laptop. Now that it costs twice as much as originally promised, many of the third world countries who were wanted to buy OLPC's aren't interested anymore and are looking at alternatives from other hardware manufacturers.
I know that's a tough lesson to learn, but it is the unfortunate truth.
Exactly. Shouldn't the KDE team be putting their development efforts behind an MP3 player that's "Linux friendly", rather than help a company who's trying to screw them over by locking out their products?
Are their any plans to release a simplified Windows installer that also installs required GTK runtime libraries as well? That was always a pet peeve of mine.
OpenOffice and Firefox 2 aren't bloated? Sadly, those are only two open source freeware alternatives that are actually slower than their Microsoft counterparts on my computer.
Companies like IBM and Microsoft say that they need more programmers and engineers all the time. In reality, they need more CHEAP programmers and engineers from China and India. Paying for the experienced programmers and engineers already out there aren't as good for the profit margins.
Perhaps they should buy Hitachi Global Storage instead, and then pick up Lexmark as well. Do that, and they've basically rebuilt a Chinese version IBM's former hardware division!
Realistically, he's probably trying to figure out how many entry level system administrators from India or Brazil they'll need to take over your job remotely. If the answer is less than 4, they're probably thinking that they're saving money on salary and benefits.
The PHB's usually don't realize that this is a bad idea until their systems crash or get hacked because they weren't maintained properly, and they lose data because nobody bothered the check the backups since "the old guy" got outsourced.
Sadly, their solution for this will be to hire more Indians or Brazilians to double-check their work.
"Folks, Apple is a company that makes neat products. It's not a club or a religion"
You've never seen any coverage of MacWorld, have you? It's like Steve Jobs' own personal cult! They way they fawn over every single product in his keynote addresses is beyond pathetic... it's downright scary.
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Nice idea in theory, but I've become somewhat attached to having a job in the IT industry, getting a paycheck every week, and being able to afford to feed myself.
Seriously... if we really wanted to take on foreign outsourcing, we should have done it 5 years ago when it was just getting popular. At this point, most Fortune 500 companies are using outsourced labor for at least some IT functions, and you're not going to get a tech job at all if you're not willing to cooperate with them.
Yeah... I wouldn't worry about finding a new job quite yet. As someone who's currently in the middle of an IT outsourcing to HP, I noticed that most folks have at least six months after the official announcement before they start laying people off.
That said, I wouldn't put too much faith in finding something on the HP internal job board. You'll soon have tens of thousands of EDS employees looking at those jobs as well.
He could also consider becoming a Windows sysadmin as well, which pays a bit less but requires even less programming skills. It's not much better than being a hard drive replacement monkey in terms of difficulty, though.
Also consider becoming a consultant sysadmin as well, which pays better but has less job security.
Slim and none. Hell... unless they want another flaky release product like Vista, they'll probably need at least 12 months just for software vendor QA testing and driver development.
Does anyone honestly think that Microsoft will have a fully featured beta released by the end of this year in order to make that happen?
I predicted Q4 2011 when they announced "7" earlier last year, and I'm sticking with that prediction.
The big problem with supporting independent music is finding artists that you like. Since they're not part of the RIAA marketing machine, odds are that I'm never going to hear their music on the radio, see it on TV, or find it as a featured download on iTunes.
I wish that there were more mainstream methods out there of promoting independent music. And my mainstream, I mean something that most people have actually heard of and use to find independent music! Yes, I'm sure that there are already tons of indie fan sites out there, but they aren't much help if most people have never seen them.
True... but you know the first time a Paris Hilton or Jessica Alba type celebrity walks through one of these scanners, the pictures will be on TMZ or The Superficial within a matter of hours.
(Yes, I know that there are rules about bringing cameras into the scanner rooms. That said, the tabloid sites pay a hell of a lot more than the TSA does!)
They already do to some extent. Take gunbroker.com, for example, which sells guns and knives. That site has become so big that they can afford to sponsor a NASCAR racing team!
Seriously, why would I pay even 10 cents to listen to a song online when practically every song in existence now has a free YouTube music video that you can to listen to?
.MP3 or .AAC file sounds like crap on my laptop's speakers.
Sure, the sound quality isn't all that great, but even the best quality
You picked a from a WINDOWS game for your BSD song? That's soooo wrong!
Hell... they should let folks pay $100K an hour just to DRIVE the thing! I'll bet that you could get a good rivalry between the technology billionaires to see who could drive the rover the furthest during their rental :)
A lot of the article isn't accurate, either. For example, they've had freeze dried "astronaut ice cream" for decades! Almost every science museum that I've ever been to sells this stuff. I've heard that they've also tried "space pizza" prototypes as well.
I also find it hard to believe that the standard battery on an iPod is going to suddenly going to turn into an explosive device if they take it into space. That sounds like more of a bureaucratic oversight than anything else.
...and YES, we already tried rebooting it!
One unfortunate lesson that the OLPC team should have learned is that you shouldn't promise a $100 laptop unless you're sure that you can DELIVER a $100 laptop. Now that it costs twice as much as originally promised, many of the third world countries who were wanted to buy OLPC's aren't interested anymore and are looking at alternatives from other hardware manufacturers.
I know that's a tough lesson to learn, but it is the unfortunate truth.
Do you still think that the iPod is lame? Sure.... It finally has wireless now, but that model STILL has less storage than a Nomad.
If I remember right, CmdrTaco switched to a Mac a few years ago. He's probably running Mac OS 10.4 like most Apple users are right now.
Exactly. Shouldn't the KDE team be putting their development efforts behind an MP3 player that's "Linux friendly", rather than help a company who's trying to screw them over by locking out their products?
Are their any plans to release a simplified Windows installer that also installs required GTK runtime libraries as well? That was always a pet peeve of mine.
OpenOffice and Firefox 2 aren't bloated? Sadly, those are only two open source freeware alternatives that are actually slower than their Microsoft counterparts on my computer.
7-Zip is pretty good as well... Last I saw, the installer was about 1MB.
Companies like IBM and Microsoft say that they need more programmers and engineers all the time. In reality, they need more CHEAP programmers and engineers from China and India. Paying for the experienced programmers and engineers already out there aren't as good for the profit margins.
That will work for a few months, until the RIAA uses the WTO to come after them as well. Look at what happened to Allofmp3, for example.
Perhaps they should buy Hitachi Global Storage instead, and then pick up Lexmark as well. Do that, and they've basically rebuilt a Chinese version IBM's former hardware division!
Realistically, he's probably trying to figure out how many entry level system administrators from India or Brazil they'll need to take over your job remotely. If the answer is less than 4, they're probably thinking that they're saving money on salary and benefits.
The PHB's usually don't realize that this is a bad idea until their systems crash or get hacked because they weren't maintained properly, and they lose data because nobody bothered the check the backups since "the old guy" got outsourced.
Sadly, their solution for this will be to hire more Indians or Brazilians to double-check their work.
With the monster legal bills that those guys racked up, I'd be amazed if the stockholders got a dime after they liquidated everything.
"Folks, Apple is a company that makes neat products. It's not a club or a religion"
You've never seen any coverage of MacWorld, have you? It's like Steve Jobs' own personal cult! They way they fawn over every single product in his keynote addresses is beyond pathetic... it's downright scary.