I did not say this was the way I thought; this is the way positions are being presented. You know, it really sucks that alot of companies break IT jobs down in this manner.
I have been job hunting recently as I am leaving my current job. The requirements for IT positions are just outrageous, they do want everything and the kitchen sink on a resume because they really do not know what they need you to do.
For example, for a web developer they will ask for HTML, UML, XML, Javascript, VBScript, VB, Java, C#, ASP,.NET, Websphere, Weblogic, Apache, IIS. With 3 to 4 years of experience in all the environments.
Companies are not willing to train their staff, hell they are lucky if they understand what their staff even do. Managers look at their budget on software and use that for the skill sets that they put on Job Positions.
You want to find another job? Start networking with friends outside the company and see what is available. Otherwise you are just another cog in the machine and that is all you will ever be to them.
India has a population over a billion, just like China. How many of those people are educated enough and in a position that they could compete with college-educated american?
There are very few proportionally that are college educated, and number of those people are going to working for companies that are based in their home country not IBM.
Think about this, China which as about 1.4 billion people only about 150 million are middle class. Of that number, how many are working for a foriegn based company, 10, 20, 50 million? There is a limit on the number of people that can work for an american company in both India and China; companies like IBM are hitting that limit.
Outsourcing is something that can be done indefinitely, but it takes while for the actual economic impact to work itself out.
It sucks, I work in IT and cannot find a job that is not broken down into little more than a checklist of technical skills, like a construction worker. In the long run, economics has this tendency to fix itself. Unfortunately people get sucked into the problems that it causes.
Why do people pay $250,000 for a Rolls Royce, its just a car? Performance is not the only reason people buy something, some just want to say they have the latest and greatest. You should be thanking those people too; new products push the price down for the older stuff and I can get something at a price I am willing to pay.
That Skittles got to this story first.
FYI: Skittles has been playing a commercial with two sheep with human heads are eating Skittles. They comment on how they could manage to cross two completely different flavors into one candy.
This did not sound right so looking up on the Toyota Web site.
How long does the Prius battery last and what is the replacement cost?
The Prius battery (and the battery-power management system) has been designed to maximize battery life. In part this is done by keeping the battery at an optimum charge level - never fully draining it and never fully recharging it. As a result, the Prius battery leads a pretty easy life. We have lab data showing the equivalent of 180,000 miles with no deterioration and expect it to last the life of the vehicle. We also expect battery technology to continue to improve: the second-generation model battery is 15% smaller, 25% lighter, and has 35% more specific power than the first. This is true of price as well. Between the 2003 and 2004 models, service battery costs came down 36% and we expect them to continue to drop so that by the time replacements may be needed it won't be a much of an issue. Since the car went on sale in 2000, Toyota has not replaced a single battery for wear and tear.
I agree to a certain extent, some of the closings are about politics. To say that is the only reason is like calling all Republicans conservatives and all Democrats liberals; it ignores that there is more than one reason for doing something.
When I went to Shanghai, there were internet cafe's all over the place. Basically any place you could setup a table and a computer could be a internet cafe. Here are a few reasons I could think of closing some cafes.
1. Some of the places were absolute dumps and not safe.
2. They use pirated software, in fact all of them do so.
3. high school and middle school kids would skip school to go to the cafe to play games instead.
I am sure that there are other good reasons to close the cafes as well. Some of those reasons are not altruistic, but to think that they have no good reasons would be just be judgemental and shallow.
One of my friends was trying to spec out a Dell computer.
He asked them for the price on the base unit. He asked how much it cost to add X amount of RAM. He asked him to take it off and asked them the base unit price again.
That is when he noticed that the price had gone up. I guess teh time spent putting the memory in the board and then taking it out cost them something...
Dell is the Wal-Mart of the PC world. When people stop being enarmored about the retail price and get a quality product you will probalbly see some some real competition. As it is, Dell is still the king of PC's.
The first two is are basically goals of a company called Affymetrix Inc. Basically can take a piece of tissue and put it in their device. It takes the tissue, unzips the DNA and compares it with whatever is supposed to be looking for. Very neat stuff.
What you're saying makes it sound like the bug doesn't exist until somebody talks about it.
Bugs, and problems in general, cannot be fixed until someone starts talking about it. To try to limit the knowledge of problem also limits the ability to find a solution.
The logic is more along the lines of the government attempting to ban salt. You really cannot ban something that is totally beyond your ability to control.
Enron was a substantial pipeline company long before the frauds appear to have begun there. But it now appears that Parmalat, like CUC International, was able to grow so large only because its longtime auditors failed to discover a fraud that went on for over a decade. That gave the company the ability to use stock for acquisitions.
The CUC fraud, which involved the creation of $500 million in phony profits in the three years before it was discovered in 1998, cost investors $19 billion.
A fraudulently run business can ruin the whole company. I doubt the same can be said for a slacking driver.
The question for me is when you give executives millions in salary and stock options and they have little oversight of their actions. You do not have to look too far to see this behavior (Lord Black, the paper baron or Micheal Eisner handing away a $140 million severance package). These are people in charge of hundred of millions of dollars.
A GPS system to micromanage a $10-20/hour employee seems to be small potatoes.
There was a web site that I used to play two GMT board games. The first was "Paths of Glory" the second was "Barbarossa to Berlin". They are both excellent board games but required 8 hours to play. The other problem is that they are a card based system which means that you cannot use a pure email system. There has to be a way of keeping track of cards.
There is a web site called the Automated Card Tracking System that addresses both these issues. It provides card tracking, die rolls and a game log. It would then send an email when an entry was put into the log to the other player. While not strictly a play-by-email system is has the same mechanics.
The web site provides a useful service because I could not play some of these games at all because they take too long and it is hard to find a local player. I know that I would not purchase some of these games; I would never get a chance to play them without this site.
Great product, easy to learn, hard to master. You will be glad you played. It never gets outdated and the updates are free. The only bad thing is there is no save and reload option.
If you wait until the market has developed you have missed your oppurtunity. A market developed because someone else has created it. The first person there will have a big advantage over someone trying to break into it. How long will it be before Microsoft could port Office over to Linux? I would say at least 3 to 4 years. During that time you can lose alot of market share.
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I did not say this was the way I thought; this is the way positions are being presented. You know, it really sucks that alot of companies break IT jobs down in this manner.
I have been job hunting recently as I am leaving my current job. The requirements for IT positions are just outrageous, they do want everything and the kitchen sink on a resume because they really do not know what they need you to do. For example, for a web developer they will ask for HTML, UML, XML, Javascript, VBScript, VB, Java, C#, ASP, .NET, Websphere, Weblogic, Apache, IIS. With 3 to 4 years of experience in all the environments.
Companies are not willing to train their staff, hell they are lucky if they understand what their staff even do. Managers look at their budget on software and use that for the skill sets that they put on Job Positions.
You want to find another job? Start networking with friends outside the company and see what is available. Otherwise you are just another cog in the machine and that is all you will ever be to them.
India has a population over a billion, just like China. How many of those people are educated enough and in a position that they could compete with college-educated american? There are very few proportionally that are college educated, and number of those people are going to working for companies that are based in their home country not IBM. Think about this, China which as about 1.4 billion people only about 150 million are middle class. Of that number, how many are working for a foriegn based company, 10, 20, 50 million? There is a limit on the number of people that can work for an american company in both India and China; companies like IBM are hitting that limit. Outsourcing is something that can be done indefinitely, but it takes while for the actual economic impact to work itself out. It sucks, I work in IT and cannot find a job that is not broken down into little more than a checklist of technical skills, like a construction worker. In the long run, economics has this tendency to fix itself. Unfortunately people get sucked into the problems that it causes.
Yes officer, I was trying to figure out how fast I was going but the speedometer was not refreshing and when I looked up "WHAM!"
Why do people pay $250,000 for a Rolls Royce, its just a car? Performance is not the only reason people buy something, some just want to say they have the latest and greatest. You should be thanking those people too; new products push the price down for the older stuff and I can get something at a price I am willing to pay.
That Skittles got to this story first. FYI: Skittles has been playing a commercial with two sheep with human heads are eating Skittles. They comment on how they could manage to cross two completely different flavors into one candy.
Look at Mr. Daft, wasting all that money on rice when there is a good pile of grass clippings right outside! ;P
This did not sound right so looking up on the Toyota Web site.
How long does the Prius battery last and what is the replacement cost? The Prius battery (and the battery-power management system) has been designed to maximize battery life. In part this is done by keeping the battery at an optimum charge level - never fully draining it and never fully recharging it. As a result, the Prius battery leads a pretty easy life. We have lab data showing the equivalent of 180,000 miles with no deterioration and expect it to last the life of the vehicle. We also expect battery technology to continue to improve: the second-generation model battery is 15% smaller, 25% lighter, and has 35% more specific power than the first. This is true of price as well. Between the 2003 and 2004 models, service battery costs came down 36% and we expect them to continue to drop so that by the time replacements may be needed it won't be a much of an issue. Since the car went on sale in 2000, Toyota has not replaced a single battery for wear and tear.
Didn't you know? They already rule the world, or at least their world, you know 'High school'.
I agree to a certain extent, some of the closings are about politics. To say that is the only reason is like calling all Republicans conservatives and all Democrats liberals; it ignores that there is more than one reason for doing something.
When I went to Shanghai, there were internet cafe's all over the place. Basically any place you could setup a table and a computer could be a internet cafe. Here are a few reasons I could think of closing some cafes.
1. Some of the places were absolute dumps and not safe.
2. They use pirated software, in fact all of them do so.
3. high school and middle school kids would skip school to go to the cafe to play games instead.
I am sure that there are other good reasons to close the cafes as well. Some of those reasons are not altruistic, but to think that they have no good reasons would be just be judgemental and shallow.
One of my friends was trying to spec out a Dell computer.
He asked them for the price on the base unit.
He asked how much it cost to add X amount of RAM.
He asked him to take it off and asked them the base unit price again.
That is when he noticed that the price had gone up. I guess teh time spent putting the memory in the board and then taking it out cost them something...
Dell is the Wal-Mart of the PC world. When people stop being enarmored about the retail price and get a quality product you will probalbly see some some real competition. As it is, Dell is still the king of PC's.
Yahoo already had a patent for it and threaten to sue Taco if they dare use it.
or "The Postman".
The first two is are basically goals of a company called Affymetrix Inc. Basically can take a piece of tissue and put it in their device. It takes the tissue, unzips the DNA and compares it with whatever is supposed to be looking for. Very neat stuff.
What you're saying makes it sound like the bug doesn't exist until somebody talks about it.
Bugs, and problems in general, cannot be fixed until someone starts talking about it. To try to limit the knowledge of problem also limits the ability to find a solution.
The logic is more along the lines of the government attempting to ban salt. You really cannot ban something that is totally beyond your ability to control.
Taking a reference from the New York Times
Enron was a substantial pipeline company long before the frauds appear to have begun there. But it now appears that Parmalat, like CUC International, was able to grow so large only because its longtime auditors failed to discover a fraud that went on for over a decade. That gave the company the ability to use stock for acquisitions.
The CUC fraud, which involved the creation of $500 million in phony profits in the three years before it was discovered in 1998, cost investors $19 billion.
A fraudulently run business can ruin the whole company. I doubt the same can be said for a slacking driver.
The question for me is when you give executives millions in salary and stock options and they have little oversight of their actions. You do not have to look too far to see this behavior (Lord Black, the paper baron or Micheal Eisner handing away a $140 million severance package). These are people in charge of hundred of millions of dollars.
A GPS system to micromanage a $10-20/hour employee seems to be small potatoes.
There was a web site that I used to play two GMT board games. The first was "Paths of Glory" the second was "Barbarossa to Berlin". They are both excellent board games but required 8 hours to play. The other problem is that they are a card based system which means that you cannot use a pure email system. There has to be a way of keeping track of cards.
There is a web site called the Automated Card Tracking System that addresses both these issues. It provides card tracking, die rolls and a game log. It would then send an email when an entry was put into the log to the other player. While not strictly a play-by-email system is has the same mechanics.
The web site provides a useful service because I could not play some of these games at all because they take too long and it is hard to find a local player. I know that I would not purchase some of these games; I would never get a chance to play them without this site.
Me: "IsNot" a valid patent.
Microsoft: "IsTo"! damn forgot to patent that one!
Get a Life: Real World Ed.
Great product, easy to learn, hard to master. You will be glad you played. It never gets outdated and the updates are free. The only bad thing is there is no save and reload option.
If you wait until the market has developed you have missed your oppurtunity. A market developed because someone else has created it. The first person there will have a big advantage over someone trying to break into it. How long will it be before Microsoft could port Office over to Linux? I would say at least 3 to 4 years. During that time you can lose alot of market share.
Something like this?
Wal-Mart outsources it's distribution network to other companies. Noone is going to do the IT distribution systems better than Wal-Mart.
What you really want is a guard baboon.
G. Bush already has a job, though maybe he will be available at the end of the year.