Seems plausible. However, since the President is usually the number one government source for just about everything, why wouldn't they use robots.txt to limit server loads on the following searches:
Unemployment
The Economy
The United Nations
Tech job outsourcing
Tax Cuts
Budget Deficits
The most recent Congressional vote on Widget manufacturer subsidies
Thank you. I am very glad someone else thought the same way I do. Syle is NEW? You've got to be kidding me? If we just started caring about the aesthetic, can someone tell me why all of the US Founding Fathers (years 1770 - 1780 A.D.) used to wear Grey Haired Wigs? Because it was the STYLE of the time. They liked style back then. They liked it so much, that Wig makers manufactured Grey-Haired ones so famous people could be painted wearing them!!!
Maybe I am missing the point of this book, because it appears to me that both the writer and the Book Reviewer obviously have never read a book on human history, let alone ever read a book at all.
Why would anybody associated with The Matrix be concerned with anything to do with the Oscars? Seriously, I doubt the Keanu will EVER be nominated for anything, let alone his acting *ability*.
I'll give you that the FX in the series probably warrant a nomination. You could also argue that cinematography merits consideration. Otherwise, this two movies, one Oscar concern is just silly. I mean, come on, the Oscars are for serious movies. Look at the kind of movies that win Oscars: The Godfather (1 & 2), Crouching Tiger, Silence of the Lambs, Schindler's List, Titanic....
Then again, if Titanic could win, then the Matrix is a shoo-in for Best Picture.
Agree with most posters here that Spielberg is not high on my list of preferred directors.
However, to Spielberg's everlasting credit, he did direct one of the greatest movies of all time, Schindler's List. That movie was so great, it almost made me forgive him for Jurassic Park. Shindler's List is actually the fourth best movie of all time, behind the Three Godfather flicks. (Note that I actually liked the third one).
No. Sugar cane used to be grown in Bermuda and other areas of the Carribean
That's odd, I drove by a couple of huge former Sugar Cane plantations on the Island of Hawaii (aka, The Big Island; the one with the Volcano) a few years ago...
No, programming is a service.
I respectfully disagree. Programming is a commodity. You can buy a halfway decent programmer anywhere. Place an add in just about any newspapers, and you'll have a few dozen resumes to choose from. Sort of like picking an airline. To most people, it doesn't make any difference if the airline you fly is British Ariways or Airtran. Just get me to my destination.
The problem is that the level of job being moved overseas is steadily increasing at an almost logarithmic scale.
As for programming being a higher level job than a steelworker, I disagree again. I could find a pack of recent-grad monkeys right out of some Carribean College to do my job. And, I think I'm pretty good at what I do. It isn't hard to code. It isn't even hard to code well. Believe it or not, you don't need a Master's Degree to do any of this work (note, I HAVE a Master's Degree and have been working in the Hi-Tech field since 1996). And, don't trash Steel workers, textile workers and television makers. Their job takes alog more skill and talent than most of the posters here understand. But, their tasks are highly repetitive and rather boring (just like programming work).
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development guidelines on housing afforability suggest spending no more than 30%, but this is getting increasingly difficult.
Interesting, but irrelevant to a discussion on software jobs moving overseas. But, to take your bait anyway: If you pay too much for your house, move either to another house or move to another city. The morons that choose to live in SF Bay, Boston, Atlanta, etc. then complain about the cost of living are sort of on the same intelligence level as the people that live next to a river and then complain about the flooding. No sympathy here.
I was using "Pittsburgh" in the traditional "talking to non-natives, Southwestern Pennsylvania tri-state area"
Yeah, I figured as much. I was just being a pain.:)
Former Transarc employee?
Nah, just a low-life, stinkin' consultant. Been implementing ERP systems as a Big Blue employee for five years. In other words, I'm only at home on weekends. Today, I'm in South Carolina.
Not to nitpick, but Steel is not made in Pittsburgh. Steel is still being made in Braddock, PA at the US Steel plant there. Technically, Braddock isn't Pittsburgh (and, yes, I am nitpicking, I admit it). The last steel mill plant in Pittsburgh proper was the LTV (Long Term Vacation) plant on South Side....Unless some mini-mill has opened up in the City limits that I am unaware of.
And, yes, I'm a Pittsburgher. Still live there, too. Oddly enough, I work for IBM, the company sending jobs overseas. BTW, My old man spent 30 years laying Brick at that LTV pant. Oh, and if you ever get the opportunity to tour the Braddock mill operation, take it. Watching Steel being made is pretty damn cool.
OK, here come the 500 posts all crying about the loss of jobs here in the US....
Stop your crying. Listen, this has been happening in all industries since the dawn of the industrial age. Remember, the NorthEast US used to make textiles. Sugar Cane used to be grown in Hawaii. Steel used to be made to in Pittsburgh. And, televisions once were made here as well.
Programming is simply a commodity. I oughta know, I am a programmer. My job will go overseas sometime soon. I'm just trying to make as much money as possible beforehand, in the opes that I am prepared.
It's Very Normal in the business world to have an irrevocable license. That's how you protect yourself against crap like SCO is trying to pull
Normally, I'd get a warm-fuzzy feeling about the status of the IBM license agreement. However, you should remember that the "brilliant" IBM lawyers were also the ones that pretty much gave away the store when it came to licensing Microsoft's OS on the PC. If IBM had understood what it was talking about when it was negotiating the original license with Bill Gates, M$ would probably not be a monopoly today.
There is always another option. You could always try to find another career. Based on the original post, it sounds like we are dealing with some sort of consultant. In project-oriented work, you get both fucked up clients and fucked up management. In both cases, you are expected to achieve unrealistic deadlines. And, it happens ALL of the time.
For example, right now, on a Sunday Evening, I am 1,100 miles away from my pregnant wife, trying to load data into a fucking database. Do I like this? No. Do I accept it? Yes. This is part of the career path I have chosen. I make what most people would consider to be a high salary. I am well over the median salary for my home state (Pennsylvania). Part of the reason I get paid pretty well is that when my company ends up in a fucked up situation with a whiny client, I am expected to show up at work on Father's Day and do my job.
So, if you don't like a 12/7 schedule for six weeks, don't expect to just change jobs and get out of that schedule. You are better off changing careers.
OK, that whole white boy as "best rapper" and "German's not wanting to go to war" was funny. But it was funny when Charles Barkley said it.
Next time, try to credit your quotations. And, if you can't properly credit them, at least admit you stole the joke from someone else. The actual quote (from Sir Charles) goes like this:
"You know the world is off tilt, when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest basketball player is Chinese, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and US citizens are pouring wine on the ground."
I'm not trying to be redundant. But, I'd like to list IBM's main lines of business:
Hardware (PC's, mainframes, servers, etc.)
Software (Websphere, DB2, Lotus, etc.)
Services (stinkin' consultants)
Technology (basically microchips)
Financing (lending $ so firms can buy IBM stuff)
Research (more of a cost center than a profit center, but it is a huge part of the company).
As many folks have indicated in replying to the original note, largest depends on how you define computer company. I think the article-writer should have used the phrase "largest information technology company" instead.
Airlines are not afraid of cellphones -- the FCC is
I'm glad someone is aware of the rules. Although I think the ban on cell phones might come from the FAA, not the FCC. And, as a frequent flier, I am thrilled they have that rule. I can't imagine anything worse than sitting next to someone on my flight as they engage in hours of inane chatter on their cell phone!
A nice, quiet flight, where I can read a book, magazine or a newspaper; or better yet, where I can sleep, is the best way for me to wind down from a week of stupid clients. I would go crazy if I had to spend the entire flight listening to moron number one talk to moron number two about their party plans for the upcoming weekend.
Changing any of these rules that ban cell phones would result in serious air rage. From me.
Slashdot Mirror
I, for one, welcome our New Solar Physicist Overlords....
That's sad trekkers . My starship commander has instructed me to learn and know the difference.
Seems plausible. However, since the President is usually the number one government source for just about everything, why wouldn't they use robots.txt to limit server loads on the following searches:
Unemployment
The Economy
The United Nations
Tech job outsourcing
Tax Cuts
Budget Deficits
The most recent Congressional vote on Widget manufacturer subsidies
....you should get the point by now
Crosy, Crosby, whatever
Didn't Bing Crosy sing that song?
Thank you. I am very glad someone else thought the same way I do. Syle is NEW? You've got to be kidding me? If we just started caring about the aesthetic, can someone tell me why all of the US Founding Fathers (years 1770 - 1780 A.D.) used to wear Grey Haired Wigs? Because it was the STYLE of the time. They liked style back then. They liked it so much, that Wig makers manufactured Grey-Haired ones so famous people could be painted wearing them!!!
Maybe I am missing the point of this book, because it appears to me that both the writer and the Book Reviewer obviously have never read a book on human history, let alone ever read a book at all.
Wow, you are a husband and you can say 'I win'? Lucky bastard. Even when I DO win (which is all the time), my wife finds a way to blame me.
I, for one, welcome our new rulers from IBM....
Why would anybody associated with The Matrix be concerned with anything to do with the Oscars? Seriously, I doubt the Keanu will EVER be nominated for anything, let alone his acting *ability*.
I'll give you that the FX in the series probably warrant a nomination. You could also argue that cinematography merits consideration. Otherwise, this two movies, one Oscar concern is just silly. I mean, come on, the Oscars are for serious movies. Look at the kind of movies that win Oscars: The Godfather (1 & 2), Crouching Tiger, Silence of the Lambs, Schindler's List, Titanic....
Then again, if Titanic could win, then the Matrix is a shoo-in for Best Picture.
I can just hear the scientests at their meetings once the "baby" is born.
Froederick Frankenstein: Eye-Gore, what was the name on that Brain?
Eye-Gore: Abby-something.
Froederick Frankenstein: Abby-Something?
Eye-Gore: Abby-Normal!
Keanu is such a wooden actor I have a hard time believing he's even alive
Agree with most posters here that Spielberg is not high on my list of preferred directors.
However, to Spielberg's everlasting credit, he did direct one of the greatest movies of all time, Schindler's List. That movie was so great, it almost made me forgive him for Jurassic Park. Shindler's List is actually the fourth best movie of all time, behind the Three Godfather flicks. (Note that I actually liked the third one).
That's odd, I drove by a couple of huge former Sugar Cane plantations on the Island of Hawaii (aka, The Big Island; the one with the Volcano) a few years ago...
No, programming is a service.
I respectfully disagree. Programming is a commodity. You can buy a halfway decent programmer anywhere. Place an add in just about any newspapers, and you'll have a few dozen resumes to choose from. Sort of like picking an airline. To most people, it doesn't make any difference if the airline you fly is British Ariways or Airtran. Just get me to my destination.
The problem is that the level of job being moved overseas is steadily increasing at an almost logarithmic scale.
As for programming being a higher level job than a steelworker, I disagree again. I could find a pack of recent-grad monkeys right out of some Carribean College to do my job. And, I think I'm pretty good at what I do. It isn't hard to code. It isn't even hard to code well. Believe it or not, you don't need a Master's Degree to do any of this work (note, I HAVE a Master's Degree and have been working in the Hi-Tech field since 1996). And, don't trash Steel workers, textile workers and television makers. Their job takes alog more skill and talent than most of the posters here understand. But, their tasks are highly repetitive and rather boring (just like programming work).
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development guidelines on housing afforability suggest spending no more than 30%, but this is getting increasingly difficult.
Interesting, but irrelevant to a discussion on software jobs moving overseas. But, to take your bait anyway: If you pay too much for your house, move either to another house or move to another city. The morons that choose to live in SF Bay, Boston, Atlanta, etc. then complain about the cost of living are sort of on the same intelligence level as the people that live next to a river and then complain about the flooding. No sympathy here.
Yeah, I figured as much. I was just being a pain. :)
Former Transarc employee?
Nah, just a low-life, stinkin' consultant. Been implementing ERP systems as a Big Blue employee for five years. In other words, I'm only at home on weekends. Today, I'm in South Carolina.
Not to nitpick, but Steel is not made in Pittsburgh. Steel is still being made in Braddock, PA at the US Steel plant there. Technically, Braddock isn't Pittsburgh (and, yes, I am nitpicking, I admit it). The last steel mill plant in Pittsburgh proper was the LTV (Long Term Vacation) plant on South Side....Unless some mini-mill has opened up in the City limits that I am unaware of.
And, yes, I'm a Pittsburgher. Still live there, too. Oddly enough, I work for IBM, the company sending jobs overseas. BTW, My old man spent 30 years laying Brick at that LTV pant. Oh, and if you ever get the opportunity to tour the Braddock mill operation, take it. Watching Steel being made is pretty damn cool.
OK, here come the 500 posts all crying about the loss of jobs here in the US....
Stop your crying. Listen, this has been happening in all industries since the dawn of the industrial age. Remember, the NorthEast US used to make textiles. Sugar Cane used to be grown in Hawaii. Steel used to be made to in Pittsburgh. And, televisions once were made here as well.
Programming is simply a commodity. I oughta know, I am a programmer. My job will go overseas sometime soon. I'm just trying to make as much money as possible beforehand, in the opes that I am prepared.
Having experienced PeopleSoft "support" firsthand, Oracle must really be talking bottom of the barrel.
Normally, I'd get a warm-fuzzy feeling about the status of the IBM license agreement. However, you should remember that the "brilliant" IBM lawyers were also the ones that pretty much gave away the store when it came to licensing Microsoft's OS on the PC. If IBM had understood what it was talking about when it was negotiating the original license with Bill Gates, M$ would probably not be a monopoly today.
There is always another option. You could always try to find another career. Based on the original post, it sounds like we are dealing with some sort of consultant. In project-oriented work, you get both fucked up clients and fucked up management. In both cases, you are expected to achieve unrealistic deadlines. And, it happens ALL of the time.
For example, right now, on a Sunday Evening, I am 1,100 miles away from my pregnant wife, trying to load data into a fucking database. Do I like this? No. Do I accept it? Yes. This is part of the career path I have chosen. I make what most people would consider to be a high salary. I am well over the median salary for my home state (Pennsylvania). Part of the reason I get paid pretty well is that when my company ends up in a fucked up situation with a whiny client, I am expected to show up at work on Father's Day and do my job.
So, if you don't like a 12/7 schedule for six weeks, don't expect to just change jobs and get out of that schedule. You are better off changing careers.
OK, maybe it was Chris Rock. When I received the quote in an e-mail a month ago, it was credited to Charles Barkley.
But don't crucify me. I at least admitted that it wasn't my quote, unlike the parent comment.
IBM also re-invented revenue accounting. Just ask the SEC.
OK, that whole white boy as "best rapper" and "German's not wanting to go to war" was funny. But it was funny when Charles Barkley said it.
Next time, try to credit your quotations. And, if you can't properly credit them, at least admit you stole the joke from someone else. The actual quote (from Sir Charles) goes like this:
"You know the world is off tilt, when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest basketball player is Chinese, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and US citizens are pouring wine on the ground."
I'm not trying to be redundant. But, I'd like to list IBM's main lines of business:
Hardware (PC's, mainframes, servers, etc.)
Software (Websphere, DB2, Lotus, etc.)
Services (stinkin' consultants)
Technology (basically microchips)
Financing (lending $ so firms can buy IBM stuff)
Research (more of a cost center than a profit center, but it is a huge part of the company).
As many folks have indicated in replying to the original note, largest depends on how you define computer company. I think the article-writer should have used the phrase "largest information technology company" instead.
Don't you mean especially if he/she has a badge?
I'm glad someone is aware of the rules. Although I think the ban on cell phones might come from the FAA, not the FCC. And, as a frequent flier, I am thrilled they have that rule. I can't imagine anything worse than sitting next to someone on my flight as they engage in hours of inane chatter on their cell phone!
A nice, quiet flight, where I can read a book, magazine or a newspaper; or better yet, where I can sleep, is the best way for me to wind down from a week of stupid clients. I would go crazy if I had to spend the entire flight listening to moron number one talk to moron number two about their party plans for the upcoming weekend.
Changing any of these rules that ban cell phones would result in serious air rage. From me.