Offshoring does not decrease US tech jobs. What it does do is increase the supply of IT workers available to a US company, thus lowering the price. Instead of having to dangle a $60,000 / year job to get a good candidate, a company can dangle a $50,000 / year job and have it filled.
You'll need a dog. I simply feed him my excess cans of spam. If you're dealing with spam e-mail, then simply print out the spam, and use it to paper train the dog after it's gorged on Spiced HAM.
Every computer i've gotten recently have included an straight from Microsoft OEM version of windows. Same as the normal retail version, just with a scary "Don't ever sell this without a computer or Steve Ballmer will personally throw a chair through your window" warning. That's the one I reinstall. That version doesn't include OEM crapware with it, they normally include that on the "Packard Bell restoration CD".
Does this mean that I won't get my free CompuServ account with each new computer I buy?
In all seriousness, this is great news. I'm all in favor of Packard-Bell supporting a group home for the criminally insane and mentally handicapped, but don't have them write software. The first thing I do when I get a new computer is to wipe the Hard Disk, reinstall Windows, and one by one copy drivers I need off of the Manufacturers' website.
Here is Sony's plan to dominate the Game Console market:
Wait for Blu-Ray to plow HD-DVD in this round of 'format wars'.
Wait for all of the games to come out that will make people want to pay the extra money for a PS3 vs an XBox.
Don't stand where the comet is assumed to strike oil (/salute Scott Adams).
You don't need netcraft to tell you the PS3 is essentially stillborn. Their sales are 50% lower than expected. Right now Microsoft is beating Sony at it's own game (high end console for hardcore gamers) and Nintendo is running unopposed in it's niche (middle-end console for casual gamers).
I'm also responding to this guy as well. The piece of hardware I'm writing the kernel module for is a proprietary card running on a VME bus (there isn't a VME driver included with the Linux kernel as far as I know). The military, as well as my employer, tends to get uppity about just 'giving away' our source code. In addition, I'd be surprised if more than 1000 of the cards I write for have ever been produced, and they're all used in a specific piece of military hardware that is unavailable to anyone that's not a military with about $100 million.
It's their right to change the API whenever they want to, as it is Microsoft's. I've written drivers for windows as well, and the kernel API for windows is much better than the linux one. It rarely changes, except between major releases of the operating system and small security updates.
yeah, and as a kernel developer, I get sick of having to re-write parts of my modules every 2-3 maintainence releases (For example, how the way to do parameters was changed). And don't get me started on EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL (Bite me, Stallman). Maybe a stable (and available to us that don't work in GPL hippie-ville) API is needed, at least within the same minor release. I'm fine with having to change thing when I upgrade from 2.4.28 to 2.6.6, but not from 2.6.8 to 2.6.10.
Alright, I'm not a lawyer. I don't even play one on slashdot. But can someone please tell me how one Microsoft rep referring to developers as a cheap date is in any way shape or form relevant in an anti-trust case.
Also, does anyone else get an image of the robot preacher from Futurerama when they hear the words "Tech Evangelist"?
A large corporation spending money to defend it's business? I'm shocked!
the problem doesn't lie with Exxon-Mobil, it lies with the whole corporate structure in general. If they don't defend their bottom line, they can get sued by shareholders (Look at how Dodge got their startup capital). Don't hate the playa, hate the game.
If you have a large code base already, rather than rewriting the whole thing, you should carefully refactor it to become whatever you need it to become. Joel Spolsky wrote a great article on it. When Netscape decided to spend 2-3 years rewriting Navigator from scratch, they lost 2-3 years, during which Microsoft Internet Explorer was able to assert itself as the dominant browser. By the time the new Navigator was released, it was too late. Now all that remains of the re-write effort is the Gecko engine that lives on in Mozilla.
If you've ever had to use Seagate hard drives, you'll know that HARM is an extremely appropriate name for them.
We had a batch come in for some IBM e-servers, and a third of them died within 6 months. Absolutely disgraceful. The ones we have running Hitachi hard drives are all still going.
The difference is that North Korea has China backing them up. I assure you that if, say, Russia (or any other real threat) had backed up Iraq, we would have stayed out.
Although, China has been making moves to distance themselves from N.K. recently. but until they do, they'll be off limits. Both of my grandfathers fought in the last Korean war, and as one of them put it "Frequently, we'd run out of machine gun bullets before they ran out of troops to throw at us"
The president's personal library burned down last night. Both books were destroyed. The president was upset because he was almost done colouring in one of them.
in all seriousness, I don't think the president is a stupid as he claims he is. I think it's just a way for him to get support from his....unsophisticated base of good-old-boys that are glad that the "Yale ivory tower elites" aren't running things anymore.
My fondest memory was using the Monkey Bars, Trapeze and Rings over a solid concrete surface. Of course, these all had perfectly polished rungs to ensure that only the most coordinated children could make it through without an injury.
11. ISECOM using run on sentences on just about every point in that article making it impossible to read, leading to people who have competent english skills to go insane from the lack of a breaking point even though all ISECOM has to do is to look between the comma and the slash keys and press that damn button once or twice during the duration of thier insane rants that don't really make any sense anyway.
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Offshoring does not decrease US tech jobs. What it does do is increase the supply of IT workers available to a US company, thus lowering the price. Instead of having to dangle a $60,000 / year job to get a good candidate, a company can dangle a $50,000 / year job and have it filled.
You'll need a dog. I simply feed him my excess cans of spam. If you're dealing with spam e-mail, then simply print out the spam, and use it to paper train the dog after it's gorged on Spiced HAM.
Every computer i've gotten recently have included an straight from Microsoft OEM version of windows. Same as the normal retail version, just with a scary "Don't ever sell this without a computer or Steve Ballmer will personally throw a chair through your window" warning. That's the one I reinstall. That version doesn't include OEM crapware with it, they normally include that on the "Packard Bell restoration CD".
In all seriousness, this is great news. I'm all in favor of Packard-Bell supporting a group home for the criminally insane and mentally handicapped, but don't have them write software. The first thing I do when I get a new computer is to wipe the Hard Disk, reinstall Windows, and one by one copy drivers I need off of the Manufacturers' website.
You don't need netcraft to tell you the PS3 is essentially stillborn. Their sales are 50% lower than expected. Right now Microsoft is beating Sony at it's own game (high end console for hardcore gamers) and Nintendo is running unopposed in it's niche (middle-end console for casual gamers).
It's their right to change the API whenever they want to, as it is Microsoft's. I've written drivers for windows as well, and the kernel API for windows is much better than the linux one. It rarely changes, except between major releases of the operating system and small security updates.
yeah, and as a kernel developer, I get sick of having to re-write parts of my modules every 2-3 maintainence releases (For example, how the way to do parameters was changed). And don't get me started on EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL (Bite me, Stallman). Maybe a stable (and available to us that don't work in GPL hippie-ville) API is needed, at least within the same minor release. I'm fine with having to change thing when I upgrade from 2.4.28 to 2.6.6, but not from 2.6.8 to 2.6.10.
Also, does anyone else get an image of the robot preacher from Futurerama when they hear the words "Tech Evangelist"?
[Raid] Jihadjoe: might be afk, got some flakey power here.
[Raid] Hollydiver: same here, got to go run some trajectory stuff for a mortar strike :-(
[Raid] Hollydiver: Real pain cause we can't hit the school next to it.
[Raid] Jihadjoe: Oh, that's cool, I live just north of PS 318. dont' want to hit the wrong thing ;-)
[Raid Leader] Bob: Ok, here's the loot: [Sword of 1000 Truths]. Holly and Ji, youre tied in DKP
[System] Jihad Joe has disconnected (timeout)
[Raid] Hollydiver: Strange. I'll take the sword.
Run an extension cord from the Green Zone.
"Alright, we can't have everyone pick Terrorist again this time. At least some of you will have to go CT"
*ducks*
Is the position for Emperor still available? If not, I'll settle for chancellor.
the problem doesn't lie with Exxon-Mobil, it lies with the whole corporate structure in general. If they don't defend their bottom line, they can get sued by shareholders (Look at how Dodge got their startup capital). Don't hate the playa, hate the game.
So say we all
If you have a large code base already, rather than rewriting the whole thing, you should carefully refactor it to become whatever you need it to become. Joel Spolsky wrote a great article on it. When Netscape decided to spend 2-3 years rewriting Navigator from scratch, they lost 2-3 years, during which Microsoft Internet Explorer was able to assert itself as the dominant browser. By the time the new Navigator was released, it was too late. Now all that remains of the re-write effort is the Gecko engine that lives on in Mozilla.
We had a batch come in for some IBM e-servers, and a third of them died within 6 months. Absolutely disgraceful. The ones we have running Hitachi hard drives are all still going.
Although, China has been making moves to distance themselves from N.K. recently. but until they do, they'll be off limits. Both of my grandfathers fought in the last Korean war, and as one of them put it "Frequently, we'd run out of machine gun bullets before they ran out of troops to throw at us"
ssshhh...I'm currently working on a way to glue a 10ghz crystal on a 8086 chip and (truthfully) sell them as "an x86 processor with a 10ghz clock".
in all seriousness, I don't think the president is a stupid as he claims he is. I think it's just a way for him to get support from his....unsophisticated base of good-old-boys that are glad that the "Yale ivory tower elites" aren't running things anymore.
The French tried to change that after their revolution. It went down in failure because there was only one day of rest per nine work days. Linkey
I would have preferred Larry Gardner and the Angry Half-Orc
My fondest memory was using the Monkey Bars, Trapeze and Rings over a solid concrete surface. Of course, these all had perfectly polished rungs to ensure that only the most coordinated children could make it through without an injury.
11. ISECOM using run on sentences on just about every point in that article making it impossible to read, leading to people who have competent english skills to go insane from the lack of a breaking point even though all ISECOM has to do is to look between the comma and the slash keys and press that damn button once or twice during the duration of thier insane rants that don't really make any sense anyway.
I have a feeling a lot of Night Elves are going to disappear from the game...
I've already started buying beach front property in Nevada.