Where was the outcry when manufacturing and textiles took a flying leap into ASIA?
When they started offshoring manufacturing jobs, they told us to forget about dirty manufacturing jobs and get jobs in the information industry. Now, they are offshoring the IT jobs, so what is left?
Whenever there is a labour force to do simple training to do the same job you do at half the price, I would be stupid not to say yes.
STUPID
They also have MBAs in other countries that would be willing to work for a tiny fraction of what American CEOs make. Why aren't those jobs being offshored? STUPID!
Hey, I know, maybe Microsoft could do these new things called DESIGN REVIEW and CODE REVIEW, rather than trying to test out bugs.
You must have missed it. After Bill declared a new focus on security, they did a code review -- one month of review for twenty years of code. The next code review is scheduled for 2022.:)
They're playing with fire if they do that; printer manufacturers are already under investigation for anticompetitive practices by the EU. If they have any sense, they'll back off fast.
Do you really think Carly cares about your silly rules? She is busy adding HP to her list of dying companies. As long as that rigged cartridge adds a nickel to her bonus, that's the way it will be.
Deer. We've got bad deer problems where I come from.
It's gotten so bad the children are afraid to go to school.
You may think that's funny, but where I am, it's mostly true. The kids aren't afraid - their moms are afraid to drive them to school. Each deer carcass on the side of the road equals one vehicle taken out of commission.
Of course, the answer is not AK-47s, it's big, ironwork grills, ala the Road Warrior.
IMHO, politics in the USA is focused way too much at the federal level.
Absolutely. The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written to retain personal and states rights and to limit the power of the federal government. Since the signing, it's been a continual power grab by the federal government. It is not what the founders intended.
my right to vote, however i want, as informed as i want, is just as important to america as free speech. if you don't understand that, god help you.
Wrong. If you are uniformed on the issues and vote anyway, you are doing a disservice to the country and all the people who did their homework. I no longer have kids in school, and I don't follow school board issues, so I don't vote on school board issues any more. Yet you would vote on every issue if you could just point and click. Seems to me your Libertarian veneer is pretty thin.
As well, don't forget that with any windoze program, I double click, and it installs, and finds the libraries it needs (or just installs them itself). One click. I don't have to tar xzvf filename, and then compile it. Or rpm -i filename, or urpmi -prayitfindsfilename, or whatever.
And during installation, it opens all the ports, doors, and windows, so you're comfy and feel right at home. As they say, ingnorance is bliss.:) There are linux distros (Mandrake for instance) that have GUI software installers to take care of those pesky details for you.
"Incompatibility is about the only thing MS knows how to do -- I guess I have to disagree and say (just as always in the past) that it's just a matter of time."
Gimme an example or two so I can understand your point pls?
I can't be sure what the parent poster's intent was, but I can supply examples of intentional incompatibility: MS Word with every new version. The file formats are not backwards-compatible. In my experience, even trying to save as a older version won't work if you have anything other than plain text. Not hardly user friendly.
Use the best product for the job. Windows is the absolute best OS out there for gaming at this point unless you want to play on a console.
Twenty years ago, that comment would have been: To get the best gaming OS, buy Commodore or Atari - not that unsupported DOS thing. We can only hope that Windows shares the same fate. The consoles will survive.:)
This could become really tricky for Microsoft and Mono when and if.NET starts to become big. Can Microsoft prohibit.NET applications from running on non-MS OS's? It seems rather foolish for them to start pulling stuff like this if they plan on inplementing their CLR on multiple platforms.
But why not? If they can gain a majority of the market with.NYET, why shouldn't they then try to pull the plug and enforce something similar? I mean it's not like they are concerned with ethics.
Remember, insurance companies are not in business to pay claims. They are really in the premium collection business. MS is not in business to provide users with reasonable, useable software. MS is in the software licensing business, and it's old methods (bad as they were) were not providing the constant revenue increases needed to keep the stock price pumped.
Look for more and more license games and restrictions as MS tries to inflate that bottom line.
Although "disc" is sometimes used for HDDs, the (currently in the US) common convention is "disk" - floppy or hard. Disc is more often used to refer to optical media (CDs and DVDs).
Right now, tape drives are the right cost/benefit compromise. Could they be better? Yes. Would it cost a lot more? Yes. Why are you using hard drives over tape, when tape holds so much more for the cost?
That's only true if you use lots of tapes. Check out the price of a DLT drive, well over $1000 - and $60 per tape is fairly steep too. High speed and reliable, but not cheap. An external hard drive is well under $200 and is randomly accessible, unlike tape.
We offer FireWire/USB hard drives as well as tape and optical media as delivery options to our customers.
So how do you rotate/alter camera angle while changing aiming point at the same time with a mouse? How many buttons you got on that thing, and how many fingers do you have? Or perhaps the PC FPS games are 3-D challenged?:)
The very fact that they have to release it for xbox shows a huge shift over there at Id. PC gaming is dying, they need console revenue to break even with this dog.
PC Gaming is Dying!! It will be buried next to BSD! Heck, I'm a console gamer, and even I don't believe that.
The shareholders of Universal will now be Steve Jobs boss. In todays sad greedy world they and not the CEO's run the companies. They can easily fire him if he does not cripple his own macs.
Um, where have you been during recent decades? Unless you have a really significant chunk of stock, you have no say in what happens. It is (some) CxOs that are running wild, looting companies while receiving obscene salaries and stock options and destroying the shareholders investments. Hint: think Enron, WorldCom, Quest, etc. Typically, only the board of directors can fire a CEO, and as long as the board is composed of other CEOs, there won't be any firings at most companies.
I never cease to be amazed at how little programming has changed since the 1960's. It really seems that the only innovation in compilier user-interface design has been that (some) compiliers will actually allow you to put your keywords and comments in color! (duh!)
I've never seen a compiler that did anything in color - typically, they just crunch source code and output something like object code. I have seen some editors that color-code the source code.
We must abandon our kilobyte mentality to gigabyte technology!
Yes, of course. Bloat is good. All hail the Borg. If the software isn't well coded, blame it on the hardware. Don't write efficient code, be a glutton, and tell the user to pay for faster hardware. What a grand goal.
I heard there is an object-oriented COBOL now in the works. I had assumed it would be called COBOL++, but one wag stated it was going to be called COOBOOL.
If we stopped teaching COBOL in school,and programmers stopped emerging just asking for torture - then perhaps businesses would get it into their heads that it is about time to switch.
Wrong. Thankfully I don't have to do COBOL maintenance, but there are millions of lines of COBOL out there generating everyone's paychecks and monthly statements for all their accounts. It works, and there is too much invested to simply say, "Oh, let's redo the accounting system in the popular language of the week." In case you haven't noticed, IT budgets are pretty tight recently.
Open Source Linux is so easy to find a hole and attack that it isn't even funny. If someone smarter than the person that wrote the code can read it, then they can find a hole.
That is so stooopid. If the code is properly written, I don't care how smart you *think* you are, you can't magically create exploits.
It is just people outside of the anti-Microsoft religion have better things to do than punch holes in Linux.
Are you working up a comedy routine? The UNIX and Linux users I know deal as little as possible with Windows because they realize it's a bug-ridden piece of crap. Duh, it is people who work with Windows and are familiar with it that do the cracks.
PS. According to studies (independant) there have been more holes and pathes for Linux than Windows 2000 and Windows XP combined.
PS? You were only half done. Studies? Provide links. I have seen some poorly thought out articles that make such claims, but they don't seem to realize (or don't admit) that they are comparing only the supported versions of Windows operating systems to dozens of variants of UNIX and Linux and hundreds of applications which are often unused. One *nix exploit in these comparisons gets counted multiple times because of the different distros and the continuing support for older versions.
I know of a casual observer that knows of several himself, and he doesn't care enough about the open source crap to write something to exploit these holes.
Right. Time to pony up. Give some real examples so we all know you're not talking out of your ass.
Get real. If I can read your code, I can find every flaw to exploit. Period.
Unlike you, we aren't using Visual Basic. You wouldn't understand the code. Twit.
Yeah, that's it, you insightful dude! VisiCalc first allowed dummies^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCEOs to do what-if calculations based on short-term changes and led to the resulting fascination with the quarterly bottom line (and the CEO's compensation based on stock performance).
So the seminal American IT application was the seed of American IT's destruction. I should have some pithy quote here, but I don't.
No, it is not becuase the USA attracts criminals. Ever hear of these things called "borders" and "immigration"? Most of your locked up people are citizens from the "war on drugs". The USA has a higher percentage of its citizens locked up than China.
ROFL. You have something of a point, but ever see a Canadian denied entrance at the border? The southern border is almost as bad with just a once-in-a-while check unless it's a big truck - I know, I lived around there for a while. And I'm not sure where you came up with the number for "citizens". The only numbers I've seen are for total people in prison.
Many of those locked-up for drug crimes are foreigners and resident aliens. I don't believe in the restrictive drug laws, but that's not the point - the point is money and the ability to get it by criminal means. There are many people from Asia and people from south of the border in prison for everything from racketeering and drug dealing to bootlegging M$ software. A Chinese lady who resided in my old home town just got sent up the river for such offenses.
China has a different solution for those it considers antisocial, which may include death by tank treads or a life shortened by tetanus due to sewing accidents while engaged in prison labor for American companies. Given my druthers, I'd pick the American prison with laws against forced labor, color TV, three square meals a day, training courses, a legal library, and free medical and dental instead of a virtual short death sentence - but that's just me - you're welcome to the Chinese version.
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Where was the outcry when manufacturing and textiles took a flying leap into ASIA?
When they started offshoring manufacturing jobs, they told us to forget about dirty manufacturing jobs and get jobs in the information industry. Now, they are offshoring the IT jobs, so what is left?
Whenever there is a labour force to do simple training to do the same job you do at half the price, I would be stupid not to say yes. STUPID
They also have MBAs in other countries that would be willing to work for a tiny fraction of what American CEOs make. Why aren't those jobs being offshored? STUPID!
Hey, I know, maybe Microsoft could do these new things called DESIGN REVIEW and CODE REVIEW, rather than trying to test out bugs.
You must have missed it. After Bill declared a new focus on security, they did a code review -- one month of review for twenty years of code. The next code review is scheduled for 2022. :)
They're playing with fire if they do that; printer manufacturers are already under investigation for anticompetitive practices by the EU. If they have any sense, they'll back off fast.
Do you really think Carly cares about your silly rules? She is busy adding HP to her list of dying companies. As long as that rigged cartridge adds a nickel to her bonus, that's the way it will be.
Think of it. A federal judge here in Los Angeles just stated that a software company can't be liable for what its software is used for.
Hasn't Microsoft been claiming this for years?
Thanks. I'm so glad that you agree. :)
I tried washing windows but they are still odiferous....
Did you just make up that word? Windows is/are odoriferous.
Deer. We've got bad deer problems where I come from.
It's gotten so bad the children are afraid to go to school.
You may think that's funny, but where I am, it's mostly true. The kids aren't afraid - their moms are afraid to drive them to school. Each deer carcass on the side of the road equals one vehicle taken out of commission.
Of course, the answer is not AK-47s, it's big, ironwork grills, ala the Road Warrior.
IMHO, politics in the USA is focused way too much at the federal level.
Absolutely. The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written to retain personal and states rights and to limit the power of the federal government. Since the signing, it's been a continual power grab by the federal government. It is not what the founders intended.
And members will be treated to Kool-Aid after the victory.
my right to vote, however i want, as informed as i want, is just as important to america as free speech. if you don't understand that, god help you.
Wrong. If you are uniformed on the issues and vote anyway, you are doing a disservice to the country and all the people who did their homework. I no longer have kids in school, and I don't follow school board issues, so I don't vote on school board issues any more. Yet you would vote on every issue if you could just point and click. Seems to me your Libertarian veneer is pretty thin.
As well, don't forget that with any windoze program, I double click, and it installs, and finds the libraries it needs (or just installs them itself). One click. I don't have to tar xzvf filename, and then compile it. Or rpm -i filename, or urpmi -prayitfindsfilename, or whatever.
And during installation, it opens all the ports, doors, and windows, so you're comfy and feel right at home. As they say, ingnorance is bliss. :) There are linux distros (Mandrake for instance) that have GUI software installers to take care of those pesky details for you.
"Incompatibility is about the only thing MS knows how to do -- I guess I have to disagree and say (just as always in the past) that it's just a matter of time."
Gimme an example or two so I can understand your point pls?
I can't be sure what the parent poster's intent was, but I can supply examples of intentional incompatibility: MS Word with every new version. The file formats are not backwards-compatible. In my experience, even trying to save as a older version won't work if you have anything other than plain text. Not hardly user friendly.
Use the best product for the job. Windows is the absolute best OS out there for gaming at this point unless you want to play on a console.
Twenty years ago, that comment would have been: To get the best gaming OS, buy Commodore or Atari - not that unsupported DOS thing. We can only hope that Windows shares the same fate. The consoles will survive. :)
This could become really tricky for Microsoft and Mono when and if .NET starts to become big. Can Microsoft prohibit .NET applications from running on non-MS OS's? It seems rather foolish for them to start pulling stuff like this if they plan on inplementing their CLR on multiple platforms.
But why not? If they can gain a majority of the market with .NYET, why shouldn't they then try to pull the plug and enforce something similar? I mean it's not like they are concerned with ethics.
Remember, insurance companies are not in business to pay claims. They are really in the premium collection business. MS is not in business to provide users with reasonable, useable software. MS is in the software licensing business, and it's old methods (bad as they were) were not providing the constant revenue increases needed to keep the stock price pumped.
Look for more and more license games and restrictions as MS tries to inflate that bottom line.
Only floppies are "disks".
Although "disc" is sometimes used for HDDs, the (currently in the US) common convention is "disk" - floppy or hard. Disc is more often used to refer to optical media (CDs and DVDs).
Right now, tape drives are the right cost/benefit compromise. Could they be better? Yes. Would it cost a lot more? Yes. Why are you using hard drives over tape, when tape holds so much more for the cost?
That's only true if you use lots of tapes. Check out the price of a DLT drive, well over $1000 - and $60 per tape is fairly steep too. High speed and reliable, but not cheap. An external hard drive is well under $200 and is randomly accessible, unlike tape.
We offer FireWire/USB hard drives as well as tape and optical media as delivery options to our customers.
FPS are mouse games, pure and simple.
Two analogue joysticks does not a mouse make
So how do you rotate/alter camera angle while changing aiming point at the same time with a mouse? How many buttons you got on that thing, and how many fingers do you have? Or perhaps the PC FPS games are 3-D challenged? :)
The very fact that they have to release it for xbox shows a huge shift over there at Id. PC gaming is dying, they need console revenue to break even with this dog.
PC Gaming is Dying!! It will be buried next to BSD! Heck, I'm a console gamer, and even I don't believe that.
The shareholders of Universal will now be Steve Jobs boss. In todays sad greedy world they and not the CEO's run the companies. They can easily fire him if he does not cripple his own macs.
Um, where have you been during recent decades? Unless you have a really significant chunk of stock, you have no say in what happens. It is (some) CxOs that are running wild, looting companies while receiving obscene salaries and stock options and destroying the shareholders investments. Hint: think Enron, WorldCom, Quest, etc. Typically, only the board of directors can fire a CEO, and as long as the board is composed of other CEOs, there won't be any firings at most companies.
I never cease to be amazed at how little programming has changed since the 1960's. It really seems that the only innovation in compilier user-interface design has been that (some) compiliers will actually allow you to put your keywords and comments in color! (duh!)
I've never seen a compiler that did anything in color - typically, they just crunch source code and output something like object code. I have seen some editors that color-code the source code.
We must abandon our kilobyte mentality to gigabyte technology!
Yes, of course. Bloat is good. All hail the Borg. If the software isn't well coded, blame it on the hardware. Don't write efficient code, be a glutton, and tell the user to pay for faster hardware. What a grand goal.
I heard there is an object-oriented COBOL now in the works. I had assumed it would be called COBOL++, but one wag stated it was going to be called COOBOOL.
If we stopped teaching COBOL in school,and programmers stopped emerging just asking for torture - then perhaps businesses would get it into their heads that it is about time to switch.
Wrong. Thankfully I don't have to do COBOL maintenance, but there are millions of lines of COBOL out there generating everyone's paychecks and monthly statements for all their accounts. It works, and there is too much invested to simply say, "Oh, let's redo the accounting system in the popular language of the week." In case you haven't noticed, IT budgets are pretty tight recently.
Open Source Linux is so easy to find a hole and attack that it isn't even funny. If someone smarter than the person that wrote the code can read it, then they can find a hole.
That is so stooopid. If the code is properly written, I don't care how smart you *think* you are, you can't magically create exploits.
It is just people outside of the anti-Microsoft religion have better things to do than punch holes in Linux.
Are you working up a comedy routine? The UNIX and Linux users I know deal as little as possible with Windows because they realize it's a bug-ridden piece of crap. Duh, it is people who work with Windows and are familiar with it that do the cracks.
PS. According to studies (independant) there have been more holes and pathes for Linux than Windows 2000 and Windows XP combined.
PS? You were only half done. Studies? Provide links. I have seen some poorly thought out articles that make such claims, but they don't seem to realize (or don't admit) that they are comparing only the supported versions of Windows operating systems to dozens of variants of UNIX and Linux and hundreds of applications which are often unused. One *nix exploit in these comparisons gets counted multiple times because of the different distros and the continuing support for older versions.
I know of a casual observer that knows of several himself, and he doesn't care enough about the open source crap to write something to exploit these holes.
Right. Time to pony up. Give some real examples so we all know you're not talking out of your ass.
Get real. If I can read your code, I can find every flaw to exploit. Period.
Unlike you, we aren't using Visual Basic. You wouldn't understand the code. Twit.
So VisiCalc added speed to greed, eh?
Yeah, that's it, you insightful dude! VisiCalc first allowed dummies^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCEOs to do what-if calculations based on short-term changes and led to the resulting fascination with the quarterly bottom line (and the CEO's compensation based on stock performance).
So the seminal American IT application was the seed of American IT's destruction. I should have some pithy quote here, but I don't.
No, it is not becuase the USA attracts criminals. Ever hear of these things called "borders" and "immigration"? Most of your locked up people are citizens from the "war on drugs". The USA has a higher percentage of its citizens locked up than China.
ROFL. You have something of a point, but ever see a Canadian denied entrance at the border? The southern border is almost as bad with just a once-in-a-while check unless it's a big truck - I know, I lived around there for a while. And I'm not sure where you came up with the number for "citizens". The only numbers I've seen are for total people in prison.
Many of those locked-up for drug crimes are foreigners and resident aliens. I don't believe in the restrictive drug laws, but that's not the point - the point is money and the ability to get it by criminal means. There are many people from Asia and people from south of the border in prison for everything from racketeering and drug dealing to bootlegging M$ software. A Chinese lady who resided in my old home town just got sent up the river for such offenses.
China has a different solution for those it considers antisocial, which may include death by tank treads or a life shortened by tetanus due to sewing accidents while engaged in prison labor for American companies. Given my druthers, I'd pick the American prison with laws against forced labor, color TV, three square meals a day, training courses, a legal library, and free medical and dental instead of a virtual short death sentence - but that's just me - you're welcome to the Chinese version.