Outsourcing out of the country has never resulted in a job being done better.
The job being done better has never been the reason given for outsourcing out of the country by any American company.
It's always about the bottom line and a reduction in overhead.
If labor in other countries was as expensive as it is here, other countries would outsource to us and no American company would ever send work to another country.
I want to know when "Free Trade" is going to include labor costs.
Why aren't the teamsters and the UAW working to organize labor in other countries? They want to protect American jobs, that's the way to do it.
Either "they" have to get paid more or we have to get used to living 12 to a mud hut and living off of $1.50 a month.
I suppose this robot replaced an American robot for a 10th the price and does the job a 10th as well?
(This is a jab at American companies who show no loyalty to their country while demanding it from their workers, not a jab a India. Who's food I absolutely love... MMMmmmm curry. Just in case anyone wants to get up in arms about it.)
They may say they're doing it anonymously, and they may be, but I wouldn't bet on it. Anonymous marketing data isn't worth much. It's nice to see you're so trusting in marketing firms though.
I don't think it's brain washing, I think it's mainly just a waste... the junk mail that is.
I DO think the Nielsen system should be replaced with cable transceivers in televisions so they know what people are watching and can improve programming based on that rather than the very small subset of people that are currently shaping what's on the tube.
As for Paris Hilton: Worst Homemade Sex Video Ever! Good god girl, let the phone ring.
Are you actually suggesting that the viewing habits of everyone that owns a Tivo aren't being collected and used for marketing purposes?
With everyone up in arms over telemarketing you'd have to be a fool to think they aren't keeping track of what you watch, transmitting it through your phone line, which is required for the subscription service, which is married to your address and phone number, and selling all that information to anyone who wants it.
I work in the telemarketing industry. Trust me, that's exactly what's happening.
Plus the cost of a phone line which I currently don't have or need in my house. Plus god knows what kind of statistics they're grabbing from you. Plus a complete lack of expansion.
Give a man a Tivo and he watches for a day. Build a man an open source PVR and he watches for a lifetime.
But I do receive at least three a month (that's a considerable amount of waste),they go straight from the mailbox to the trash and there's no way to recycle them.
Being disappointed with digital (mostly the price for a professional quality camera) I prefer film but still wanted to be able to do digital.
What I do is shoot slide film that can be processed easily in the home without a dark room.
Slides can be easily transferred to prints by just about any photo processing house and with a decent scanner that has a transparency light (top light) you can just as easily transfer to digital files that are of a MUCH higher quality than all but the most expensive digital cameras.
Suggesting that the Dept of Homeland Security got an "F" for it's security rating is an act of terrorism under the Patriot act... even though it's true.
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"If you have the same job being done for a lower cost, the job is being done better."
Customer satisfaction surveys are proving that the job is NOT getting done better.
"No, let them be paid for the real value of the work."
The "real value" has to account for the cost of living.
"yeah right, Indian is just a big mud pile."
No, but perhaps you've heard of the slave labor in Central America, China, etc...?
Outsourcing out of the country has never resulted in a job being done better.
The job being done better has never been the reason given for outsourcing out of the country by any American company.
It's always about the bottom line and a reduction in overhead.
If labor in other countries was as expensive as it is here, other countries would outsource to us and no American company would ever send work to another country.
I want to know when "Free Trade" is going to include labor costs.
Why aren't the teamsters and the UAW working to organize labor in other countries? They want to protect American jobs, that's the way to do it.
Either "they" have to get paid more or we have to get used to living 12 to a mud hut and living off of $1.50 a month.
You obviously don't know what WINE is if you think it came from Microsoft.
I suppose this robot replaced an American robot for a 10th the price and does the job a 10th as well?
(This is a jab at American companies who show no loyalty to their country while demanding it from their workers, not a jab a India. Who's food I absolutely love... MMMmmmm curry. Just in case anyone wants to get up in arms about it.)
...and a gross of drummers drumming... what a racket! Keep it down out there!
This also doesn't take into account the cost of a cabret license.
Name one thing in Linux that's taken from Windows?
Ansel would have loved digital.
He would have needed one hell of a server to store the files on though.
There are well over six million negatives in his vault.
If you learn Access you learn Access.
If you learn SQL you can use just about anything.
Why would your IT dept have anyting to do with setting academic policy anyway?
They may say they're doing it anonymously, and they may be, but I wouldn't bet on it. Anonymous marketing data isn't worth much. It's nice to see you're so trusting in marketing firms though.
I don't think it's brain washing, I think it's mainly just a waste... the junk mail that is.
I DO think the Nielsen system should be replaced with cable transceivers in televisions so they know what people are watching and can improve programming based on that rather than the very small subset of people that are currently shaping what's on the tube.
As for Paris Hilton: Worst Homemade Sex Video Ever! Good god girl, let the phone ring.
Oh... and the tin foil hat thing is getting old.
If your PVR is PC based putting a second or bigger hard drive in it is the least of the expansion you can do.
If Tivo supported firewire devices and ethernet THEN it would have expansion capabilities.
I wasn't suggesting that I think Tivo is a bad company or that they are in danger of going out of business.
Just that "lifetime" only means the life of the company and no one can quarentee how long their company will be in business.
Are you actually suggesting that the viewing habits of everyone that owns a Tivo aren't being collected and used for marketing purposes?
With everyone up in arms over telemarketing you'd have to be a fool to think they aren't keeping track of what you watch, transmitting it through your phone line, which is required for the subscription service, which is married to your address and phone number, and selling all that information to anyone who wants it.
I work in the telemarketing industry. Trust me, that's exactly what's happening.
Until Tivo goes out of business.
Plus the cost of a phone line which I currently don't have or need in my house.
Plus god knows what kind of statistics they're grabbing from you.
Plus a complete lack of expansion.
Give a man a Tivo and he watches for a day.
Build a man an open source PVR and he watches for a lifetime.
Of course not... embellishment for effect.
But I do receive at least three a month (that's a considerable amount of waste),they go straight from the mailbox to the trash and there's no way to recycle them.
I've been an avid photographer for quite a while.
Being disappointed with digital (mostly the price for a professional quality camera) I prefer film but still wanted to be able to do digital.
What I do is shoot slide film that can be processed easily in the home without a dark room.
Slides can be easily transferred to prints by just about any photo processing house and with a decent scanner that has a transparency light (top light) you can just as easily transfer to digital files that are of a MUCH higher quality than all but the most expensive digital cameras.
Plus slides are easy to store in large numbers.
Yes! This is a great camera. They're out of production AFAIK but still widely available.
They can be fully automatic or fully manual and come with many add-ons available.
It's one of the best cameras ever made for the price.
I hope it's everyone responsible for sending me a tin can with a CD in it every ten minutes for the past five years.
There must be whole landfills full of those things.
Suggesting that the Dept of Homeland Security got an "F" for it's security rating is an act of terrorism under the Patriot act... even though it's true.
That goes both ways, like most things.
Uh... I'm pretty sure you did:
"Backspace key in Internet Explorer goes back a page"
Yes, that's another one that's pure idiocy.
I can remember times when I've had to press "NO" hundreds of times. Very useful.
Doh! Okay... I missed that... that's funny.
You're IE is broken dude. Mine doesn't do that.