I doubt they will be laying off much if any of their chip design talent. This is probably managerial and administrative staff throughout the company (general IT, accounting, call centers, etc...) People who can't really provide a comptetive advantage to another chip maker and most like don't even have non-compete agreements.
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Let's face it, most "keychain" drives are flimsy affairs made of plastic, with tops that pop off easily--hardly the kind of thing you want to carry around every day in your pocket (especially if you're active). I wouldn't every want to drop these things, much less think of them going through the wash or getting banged around by my keys.
I have a SanDisk 512MB stick that has been washed and dried no less than 3 times and it still works perfectly. I'm impressed actually.
I've found that XP has much better memory management than 2K. Just from my personal observations on various 2K machines at work and my two XP boxes at home so take it with a grain of salt.
Citicards, the Credit card division of Citibank, got a new CIO several months ago. Mitchell Habib. He came from GE Medical. Before leaving there, he outsourced about 75% of their IT staff to India. He's currently doing the same at Citi. I worked there as a contractor. Two other contractors on the team and I were unable to get our contracts renewed because it came down from on high that all new contracts had to go thru TCS, Tata Consulting Services. They are the Indian outsourcing company that he used in the past. I recently went back to visit some friends and met my replacement. A nice young Indian guy making a third to a quarter of what I made there.
From what I understand, the standard rate for calculating your budget for contract work went from $70/hr to $22/hr. Of course, I believe they charge around $40/hr for their workers in the states.
"Again, the problem isn't that competition from foreign workers is inherently unfair; the problem is that a particular profession has essentially been targeted for an across the board salary cut through legislation."
Show me a non-trivial enterprise application that sticks straight to the spec. I wish it could be done.
Come have a look at mine. 59736 lines of code in 256 Java files. Not to mention the JSP files.
We probably have 25 EJB's. 5 being Session Beans and the rest are BMP Entity beans. Not using CMP because our schema is really complex. We have tested our app in JBoss and WebSphere. Didn't have to make any changes b/c we don't use any app server specific features and it works great.
The only thing we're tied to is ORACLE b/c of the BMP SQL code although we wrote it in such a generic way that porting to other DB's is pretty easy and can be done without having multiple code bases. We get good performance to boot!
SQL implementations and J2EE can't be compared b/c there are 3 different levels of compliance with SQL, Entry, intermediate and full. J2EE is either all or nothing.
unless the US is planning to have many planes airborne, around the clock, which does seem somewhat wasteful.
You mean like the height of the Cold War when bombers with hydrogen bombs where kept airborne around the clock?
"Throughout the Cold War there were times when tension nearly escalated to nuclear war. The most dramatic was in June 1962 when a U-2 spy plane photographed Soviet missile bases being built on Cuba, 90 miles (145 kilometers) off the coast of Florida. For 14 tense days, the world feared nuclear war would begin. Finally, in the words of Secretary of State Dean Rusk, "the Soviets blinked" and removed the missiles. Khrushchev noted that the nuclear threat, especially the fact that "20 percent of all Strategic Air Command planes, carrying atomic and hydrogen bombs, were kept aloft around the clock," had been a major part of the withdrawal decision." more
"I congratulate them on the technical achievement, but I think that $0.99 (which is the price quoted in the review) is way too high a price for this service-- for that I could actually buy the song on iTunes or Napster. Unless they drop the price, I don't think this service will be terribly successful."
Kinda hard to buy the song from iTunes if you have to use this ID service to find the name.
I honestly think that if Sun gets to the point where it will go out of business that IBM will snatch them up faster than 2 jiggles of a jack rabbit's bottom.
Here is an MSDN article from 1998 that tells how MS did it. http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?ur l=/archive/en-us/dnarwbgen/html/msdn_unixwin32.asp
They used MainSoft's Win32 layer for Unix.
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"Those were what the young computer geeks were using in the 1980s."
I was a young computer geek in the 1980's and I got my start on a Tandy 1000 running DOS 2.0 I think. That was about 18 years ago and too long for me to remember!
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Offtopic but if you liked that book then check out Company also by Max Barry. It's kinda like Office Space meets 1984.
I doubt they will be laying off much if any of their chip design talent. This is probably managerial and administrative staff throughout the company (general IT, accounting, call centers, etc...) People who can't really provide a comptetive advantage to another chip maker and most like don't even have non-compete agreements.
I have a SanDisk 512MB stick that has been washed and dried no less than 3 times and it still works perfectly. I'm impressed actually.
The fact that I know what you're talking about makes me want to cry.
This looks like OWA included with Exchange 2003, but with ads. I'm sure it's virtually the same code.
http://www.jboss.com/products/list
Hibernate is part of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS).
I've found that XP has much better memory management than 2K. Just from my personal observations on various 2K machines at work and my two XP boxes at home so take it with a grain of salt.
Citicards, the Credit card division of Citibank, got a new CIO several months ago. Mitchell Habib. He came from GE Medical. Before leaving there, he outsourced about 75% of their IT staff to India. He's currently doing the same at Citi. I worked there as a contractor. Two other contractors on the team and I were unable to get our contracts renewed because it came down from on high that all new contracts had to go thru TCS, Tata Consulting Services. They are the Indian outsourcing company that he used in the past. I recently went back to visit some friends and met my replacement. A nice young Indian guy making a third to a quarter of what I made there.
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From what I understand, the standard rate for calculating your budget for contract work went from $70/hr to $22/hr. Of course, I believe they charge around $40/hr for their workers in the states.
Can't compete with that.
Here are some links about Mitchell Habib and TCS:
http://www.rediff.com/money/2003/apr/03tcs.htm?zc
http://www.tcs.com/0_media_room/releases/200204ap
"Again, the problem isn't that competition from foreign workers is inherently unfair; the problem is that a particular profession has essentially been targeted for an across the board salary cut through legislation."
Amen.
" Yeah, because device drivers and operating systems are being written in Java"
;-)
http://jnode.sourceforge.net/portal/
"The goal is to get an simple to use and install Java operating system..."
And here's the link to prove it.
e t=d&package=j2sdk-1_4_2_01-i586-1
http://www.slackware.org/pb/?vers=slackware-9.1&s
Show me a non-trivial enterprise application that sticks straight to the spec. I wish it could be done.
Come have a look at mine. 59736 lines of code in 256 Java files. Not to mention the JSP files.
We probably have 25 EJB's. 5 being Session Beans and the rest are BMP Entity beans. Not using CMP because our schema is really complex. We have tested our app in JBoss and WebSphere. Didn't have to make any changes b/c we don't use any app server specific features and it works great.
The only thing we're tied to is ORACLE b/c of the BMP SQL code although we wrote it in such a generic way that porting to other DB's is pretty easy and can be done without having multiple code bases. We get good performance to boot!
SQL implementations and J2EE can't be compared b/c there are 3 different levels of compliance with SQL, Entry, intermediate and full. J2EE is either all or nothing.
"Um, my dog at my laptop..."
More like: "Uh, I dropped my laptop and now it just makes this clicking sound when I turn it on."
unless the US is planning to have many planes airborne, around the clock, which does seem somewhat wasteful.
You mean like the height of the Cold War when bombers with hydrogen bombs where kept airborne around the clock?
"Throughout the Cold War there were times when tension nearly escalated to nuclear war. The most dramatic was in June 1962 when a U-2 spy plane photographed Soviet missile bases being built on Cuba, 90 miles (145 kilometers) off the coast of Florida. For 14 tense days, the world feared nuclear war would begin. Finally, in the words of Secretary of State Dean Rusk, "the Soviets blinked" and removed the missiles. Khrushchev noted that the nuclear threat, especially the fact that "20 percent of all Strategic Air Command planes, carrying atomic and hydrogen bombs, were kept aloft around the clock," had been a major part of the withdrawal decision." more
I wonder what qualifications you need to join the NSA?
Find out here.
Most of them I can only assume weren't finished anyway, so they wouldn't fit into the actual films.
That hasn't stopped him yet.
"I congratulate them on the technical achievement, but I think that $0.99 (which is the price quoted in the review) is way too high a price for this service-- for that I could actually buy the song on iTunes or Napster. Unless they drop the price, I don't think this service will be terribly successful."
Kinda hard to buy the song from iTunes if you have to use this ID service to find the name.
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" The only thing Sun has that IBM needs is its customers. "
And control of Java which IBM has heavily invested in.
I honestly think that if Sun gets to the point where it will go out of business that IBM will snatch them up faster than 2 jiggles of a jack rabbit's bottom.
At least provide a link to clue him in. http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html
But the Mac port of IE is a different codebase.
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Here is an MSDN article from 1998 that tells how MS did it.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?u
They used MainSoft's Win32 layer for Unix.
"Those were what the young computer geeks were using in the 1980s."
I was a young computer geek in the 1980's and I got my start on a Tandy 1000 running DOS 2.0 I think. That was about 18 years ago and too long for me to remember!
"I use *IX instead of *NIX since they seem to have had an IRIX or two in there" So what do you do when they have Solaris? *I*??