...tell me how you really feel! If you think the ideas of an object system (entity beans) over a constant barrage into an RDBMS are bad, then you must really be pissing your pants now that Web Services is the new rage. Talk about one more re-hash for distributed computing. "Let's think of the slowest possible distributed computing infrastructure and promote that".
Maybe one can define all the patterns on a few basic patterns -- caller, callee, data store. In addition to GoF, "The Pattern Almanac" was the best book I found because it lists all the names of these patterns as used in various industries. As skilled programmers who know how computers work we all have done most of these before or could do them in a few weeks if needed. Personally, I think using pattern names is useful as it gives one more level of composition abstraction - something between talking about a module and a class perhaps.
This is serious stuff because of the possible problem of engineered viruses like the recent article about being able to engineer one in two weeks. Fortunately the good people are a few decades ahead of the bad people. Let's hope it stays this way. Unfortunately, in the world of globalization and free sharing of knowledge on the Internet one cannot suppose the future is determined by yanking all the "how to build a nuke in your engine compartment" books etc. from the library shelves. At some point another country will have a free Internet and the knowledge will no longer be policeable.
After this point we may need weekly or more often vaccines just as our computers do. Today's vaccinations could be problematic though due to the risks discussed above and due to the ability for a "terrorist" to re-eningeer the vaccine... maybe that's the real reason we need an ebola vaccine even though it has only occurred in the US in monkeys in a lab AFAIK; and did not transfer.
one also really has to wonder about the Ph.D. in Biology or whatever who worked for Sadaam: Either she was a martyr for not creating severe viruses etc., we bombed that despicable waste from existence, or she cheated her way through college!
My $.02, TimJOwers
P.S> I almost said "red scare" instead of "terrorist" but, hey, I'll call my cards on that one.
We had a family friend who patriotically volunteered for the small pox vaccine being developed. Took him out.
The pharm.s want you to believe the vaccine cannot induce the disease but this is bad science and a lie. Start to poll your network of people and you'll determine a direct correlation between people taking the flu vaccine and getting sick or else those nearby getting sick within a fwe days.
That part about max on healthy humans is very scary as many pharm.s are trying to promote older people to take vaccines. This is a really bad idea IMHO. I have a nephew who recently became quite ill from a flu vaccine. His two siblings (one older and one younger) did not get the vaccine and did not get sick. As no monetary impetus stimulates determining vaccines are not healthy choices, one has to be extremely conservative.
What you have to understand is the mentality of those driving the vaccines. They think "well, some 0.1% will die but then the human race will in the future be tolerant as those intolerant died." This is the thought. Controlled elimination of non-tolerant human strains rather than sudden elimination. As one who is fairly tolerant this does not scare me but you must realize the rights of the individual are being succumbed to the goal of the whole.
"In Bordeaux, picking began on August 12, nearly a month ahead of schedule and the earliest harvest since 1893." cnnfn
This cannot be true! We have Global Warming!
Seattlewireless is the coolest. Only if you haven't tried to create a wireless MAN in your neighborhood would you think otherwise. But for those of you who are wired, you should realize the significance. Global warming, some new video card, and other stuff are slashdotted; but this is earth shattering. Personal wireless could possibly save each and everyone of us $100+ per month on phone, net, and cable not to mention creating true freedom of information (or will we each have a "carnivore" inside our Intel?:-) Of course they are a decade ahead of their time - or two decades for most of the country like the technology backwater of Columbia, SC where I live where the maximum govn't investment in technology growth has been like $160,000 and they even speak in the congress about closing one of the two University engineering programs in the state!
I cannot believe all of these posts and nobody mentioned the whole impetus for the "global warming" thing. Don't any of you remember when the patent for Freon was expiring so the company, think it was DuPont, started all this research! And got Freon outlawed!!! supports: http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t= 7226 denies: http://www.imcool.com/articles/aircondition/refrig erant_history.htm
So easy to see why we get in these silly manipulated predicaments because the only history we remember is the one our media (schools, news, gov, etc) record. BTW, I won a school science fair on Global Warming back in 1984 or so. Today I certainly agree with those that think it is a scientific hypothesis and maybe even a farce - just look at the geological evidence; but we need to keep it cold as mammals survive better than insects and other non-mammals in cold times. 'Course, Mars is really cold so we could always take our planet warming ways and our dirt-fungus somone mentioned and move over there.
The questions I've seen are: 1) What does the staff know (db guys do stored procs not Java code) 2) Are there other app.s hitting the data? Maybe then the stored proc.s are a central location for business logic. 3) How fast is the db/ does the app need to be? No matter what db vendors claim, running queries will never be as fast as in-memory objects; even ignoring that the db server is often across a wire. This can be ignored for simple app.s but once the data is over a few thousand records in a few tables and the logic is complex then you really do have to move some data into memory rather than hit the db every time. Consider an algorithm that must touch every row and its relation to another table: better to "cache" the data in memory. 4) Where is the "official data"? Is it in the database? Is it in memory? Both? Is some in one database and some in another? Should the JSP developer's have to contend with knowing this? Etc. 5) Your point that if the algorithm is update intensive then putting it in a stored proc makes more sense. My experience, TimJowers
I know y'all never researched this any eh? Electric motors are rated on continuous output for 30 minutes or something like that while ICE's are rated on peak output. So you can 3x any electrical motor number or something like that. My father-in-law maintins the beetle and the CRX were some of the best cars ever built as they were so lite one could get $50 MPG. Not to mention all that other parts needed for gas-based cars which are not needed on electric cars.
Anyways, the whole issue with usefulness is battery weight. Period. Lead's about as heavy as it gets. Gas is per weight about as efficient as it gets ('cept the nuke subs) So, the usefulness is in home/fixed power. I researched a fews years back that I could switch over for about $20K but was not convinced the system would last long enough to pay itself off and could not determine that the local power monopoly allowed credit for power I'd supply back to the system when I was not running at capacity.
I hope we see some more consumer applications of solar in the near future.
TimJowers
Possible solutions to the loss of jobs: 1. OpenSource means no need to pay for development per se so development becomes an as-needed task for the IT staff versus something we pay a monopoly royally for. SEriously nobody can give a good argument for not using Linux, Java, and Eclipse for many applications. Probably mySQL for many application etc. Sure Windows has its places but if you think Windows is easier than Linux then you have not tried both out on a new user. I still think assembly is pretty easy myself. 2. Lobby for software importers to pay taxes. This will never work due to electronic data transfer and I suspect almost no company pays taxes on IP import much less software IP import. Anyone from the IRS out there? 3. Tell your kids never go into tech. Sure we are already there:-) 4. Wait a hundred years until costs level. Well, take a look at Mississippi for a good example. Been an American state for quite some time but still light years behind California in the wealth effect. And that's not changing; so, unless the production of goods is better than the purchase then the US will stay ahead of India financially. 5. Government breaks up the monopoly and we can all make money selling software rather than competing with free. Oooo.. so I'm saying Open Source is just a taste of their own medicine. I agree with the hypothesis that Open Source is a result of needs of the many not being met by the products of the few but also think it is the inevitable requirement when the monopoly is not deterred (these are probably both the same cause).
I know lots of new grads as well as multi-decade engineers who have left to be school teachers, policeman, fireman, waiters, and real estate agents. Their skills will be lost forever. Oh yeah, the 10-1 ratio on pay is totally bogus. My experience tells me it is at most 5-1 (that was using someone from a former soviet republic where the workers are very well trained but unemployed) and typically 1-1 (from experience working with a major India outsourcer where I suspect the workers who were not in the US were probably doing double duty).
The situation is really bad and I am also strategizing how to get out of tech. My $.02, TimJowers
It is very bad. Much worse than the recent CNN article suggests (http://money.cnn.com/2003/07/22/news/economy/jobl ess_offshore/index.htm). Has anyone found the MSFT presentation? This ought to be a smack in the face to the MSFT lovers. Jobs to India is fine as long as they experience the same costs (taxes, hidden taxes, and layered taxes) as we do.
The only real plan I see is OpenSource. When the software is free nobody has to worry about a monopoly giving away free software like what others are selling, a government that is unwilling to tax/tariff large companies (or prosecute the monopoly), or a cheap labor force that can produce the software more cheaply. Sounds like others are like me and have already experienced this from the receiving end. The midrange server company [omitted] has effectively closed its plant after a presentation in 1996 showing no new headcount in the US into the future. OpenSource (Linux, JBoss, Java) is now just as good/better than the costly stuff so we have no reason not to use it. Send the jobs to India, we are no longer buying your products! Even IBM saw this as they OpenSourced Eclipse and it is now the base for their development environment. Not sure about mySQL.
The only other viable plans include requesting the government tax the imports. Will never happen... just look at manufacturing for auto.s and hard goods. Take a look at the steel industry. Studies showed something like 80% of the refined products are passed off as raw products such that a US steel manufacturer could never compete with this level of tax evasion. Even those board/machine manufactures that take sufficient engineering are gradually defined into a process in the USA and mass-manufactured to Mexico or Tiawan. Software is inherently untaxable as my experience is the companies in India simply FTP over their work product. So, how could one even try to tax that. No, taxes will never be applied and that is reason enough for companies to move their software manufacturing and support overseas.
I know lots of techies and programmers who have exited the tech field. The new college grad.s just gave it up and went to Japan to teach english, to become a policeman, or back to waiting tables. Very sad. The older techies tried to go into real-estate, to be a fireman etc. Lots of Cobol programmers looking for anything (for the un-illuminated who said unwanted jobs are what is going over-seas - who prefers integration to product development!!!) Lots of my friends were unemployed but not smart enough to even draw unemployment as they expected a contract "any day now" for eight months! Or, like me, laid off after being laid off in a way I cannot get it I do not think. Suspect the government isn't realizing these people in its numbers. I myself am strategizing how to exit the tech field which is tough since that is all I have done for many years; and I certainly will tell my children not to go into technology of any type. Medical OK. Heat/Air and other such services. Good. Legal/politcial. Best. As the government will never let legal jobs go overseas; though hiring a lawyer in India to do a house closing seems fairly possible - just illegal! I'm afraid the teachers are going to have a real problem as techies with advanced degrees are attemptng to devour those jobs and are possibly more qualified. E.g. my friend who has a Ph.D. in math some 30 years ago and was recently laid off from a local University and has worked for many tech companies. Imagine some algebra teacher with a BS trying to compete for her/his job next fall with people like that!
Besides all this, the IRS is in attack mode against small businesses such that despite using one of the top 100 accunting firms per Inc. Magazine and nothing ever being filed incorrectly I still ended up paying $800 to the accounting firm and/or several hundred to the IRS every few quarters until I finally gave up and closed my business. I have contacted them each year since 2000 about making an online portal so we can see what was filed (and entered int
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USPTO has experts. Most patents are not "new and unique" they are just modifications and mostly that any competent engineer could create without any special insight. Visit the USPTO and take a read. My wife's cousin worked at the USPTO in the 90's and the problem then was the Japanese would read each patent and file 11 patents covering each possible revision to the original patent in order to block improvement!
Patent is big business. Takes a regular person $6k or so to get one. Takes 3 years AFTER the filing last I checked. Used to be 2 years 4 years ago. At this rate before long, patents will expire before granted.
Only big business can defend a patent - look at lemon or whatever his name was who is #2 most prolific patenter ever and invented lots of the automated manufacturing but was not paid by the major automakers until he was like 65. Patents do not result in knowledge sharing etc.
I think everyone knows these things. Too many systems of our government made sense at the beginning of the industrial age but were never deprecated.
Clearly this is why one-world government is bad. The nation that structures around advancing knowledge rather than lawsuits about it will surpass the U$A. We need more competition in governments rather than more unification.
Would you vote for a candidate who sought to fix the patent technology roadblock? I would. Tim
Totally agree. Consumers are actually starting to pay for those one-off apps. Companies show no signs of belt-tightening WRT operational costs and are still looking only toward ROI. Surely Linux on the desktop would be a no-brainer if investment cost mattered - or maybe companies would just stay with Win2k (oops, cat out of bag:-). Of course with interest rates so low everyone is encouraged to gamble/invest.
Tim
Nix the use MSN. Haven't seen that at all. Just surf and email. That's all. Oh yea, quicken and solitaire for 25% of that 75%. Kids and state employees *might* IM.
Tim
I agree, application servers is a broad definition looking for identity. Surely the old web servers simply served up web pages and some scripted content so App Server was coined to delineate those servers that knew how to run in a cluster and, to a lesser extent, run objects. Also, in the last half of the 90's companies had lots of heterogeneous systems so an App server had to have connector for each of them and bring it into a unified "middleware". The Entity Beans and other data caching on the AS is of debateable need when other tools such as a db provide alot of this as well; yet one could argue similarly for db connection pools - doesn't Oracle etc. already pool the connections internally? Now if your example had said "5TB rather than 100s GB then you would have a good reason to use a cluster of servers as now you are outgrowing the load Oracle can handle and maybe even an MPP db like Teradata will barf once you get into the 50 TB. How big is the web? (7,500 terabytes ref: http://www.howstuffworks.com/news-item127.htm) Uh, so perhaps the web is one big cluster of App Servers. The biggest db ever. Cannot do that with any RDBMS on the market.
JBoss ain't pretty and that is the #1 problem. If it takes a WebLogic or WebSpehere expert more than a day to figure out how in the heck to get beans running under JBoss then I think the #1 problem is clear. Selling the docs rather than providing an Open solution (from the documentation viewpoint) is a bad strategy. Anyone from JBoss listening?
Tim
Doubtful. Most Linux distributions have lots of EoU features such as multiple desktops that are not standard practice in Winders. And most have the do-it-with-a-mouse features such "find in files" type features that the Winders users know and love. Heck, you can even *see* your NTFS (v1 only?) partitions from Mandrake and other Linux distro.s. Can you see/use EXT2/3 from Windows?
BTW, new DirectX stuff in XP screws up Java (the 2d optimizations from the old 1.3 and also in 1.4 have to be disabled with "java -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true" etc. or screen redraws do not work). Personally, I think when your XP updates break the most standard VM distribution in the world then that means you are anti-EoU!
As to MSFT providing solutions to their customers one can surely argue that jumping track from COM to.NET may have been a costly mistake because if you look at IBM their customers from the 70's are stil paying $Millions for Mainframes just because they run their old code; yet they could be using a Beowulf cluster at a fraction of the cost and far better reliability and performance if they re-wrote the code in C++ or Java. Could even be using SQL Server for that matter. A very good product. What would MSFT have to do to convince you to buy their products? In general, with the SW market expanding immensely over the next decade like the gaming market has started to do then MSFT, Linux, and everyone will make money. As people start to consume soft goods then the market will become huge. MSFT will be big but no more a monopoly and I think looking at IBM is a good example.
BTW, I think the MCSE program is one of their smartest moves ever. Get a bunch of people who do not have CS degrees and who bill out at a lower rate to drink the lemonade and the managers who think they are saving money be getting these less qualified employees will be forced to drink. Don't get me wrong, 2/3 of the material is useful but theirs a world of difference between memorizing where the icons are and knowing how things work.
Lastly, the Open Source idea is one of co-operation. Gates can send his work to India but when the competition is leveraging the work done by their customers then he's still paying more $. While in India he is venerated as a god in the USA the market continues to innovate. (I view the Open Source contributors as customers since they use the product. Any user who has valid feedback can drop an email with their source changes to the MAINTAINERs for Linux and possible get their change into the next release.)
The really smart Linux distro. would be the one that is optimized to run J2EE web servers in my opinion as this is/will be the #1 biggest app used in a few years; given that MSFT Office may be supplanted by other office suites ala 1993 revisited; and given that an OS without an App is a non-OS. I cannot see MSFT adopting this innovation as their strategy for Windows:-)
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...tell me how you really feel! If you think the ideas of an object system (entity beans) over a constant barrage into an RDBMS are bad, then you must really be pissing your pants now that Web Services is the new rage. Talk about one more re-hash for distributed computing. "Let's think of the slowest possible distributed computing infrastructure and promote that".
Maybe one can define all the patterns on a few basic patterns -- caller, callee, data store. In addition to GoF, "The Pattern Almanac" was the best book I found because it lists all the names of these patterns as used in various industries. As skilled programmers who know how computers work we all have done most of these before or could do them in a few weeks if needed. Personally, I think using pattern names is useful as it gives one more level of composition abstraction - something between talking about a module and a class perhaps.
This is serious stuff because of the possible problem of engineered viruses like the recent article about being able to engineer one in two weeks. Fortunately the good people are a few decades ahead of the bad people. Let's hope it stays this way. Unfortunately, in the world of globalization and free sharing of knowledge on the Internet one cannot suppose the future is determined by yanking all the "how to build a nuke in your engine compartment" books etc. from the library shelves. At some point another country will have a free Internet and the knowledge will no longer be policeable.
After this point we may need weekly or more often vaccines just as our computers do. Today's vaccinations could be problematic though due to the risks discussed above and due to the ability for a "terrorist" to re-eningeer the vaccine... maybe that's the real reason we need an ebola vaccine even though it has only occurred in the US in monkeys in a lab AFAIK; and did not transfer.
one also really has to wonder about the Ph.D. in Biology or whatever who worked for Sadaam: Either she was a martyr for not creating severe viruses etc., we bombed that despicable waste from existence, or she cheated her way through college!
My $.02,
TimJOwers
P.S> I almost said "red scare" instead of "terrorist" but, hey, I'll call my cards on that one.
We had a family friend who patriotically volunteered for the small pox vaccine being developed. Took him out.
The pharm.s want you to believe the vaccine cannot induce the disease but this is bad science and a lie. Start to poll your network of people and you'll determine a direct correlation between people taking the flu vaccine and getting sick or else those nearby getting sick within a fwe days.
That part about max on healthy humans is very scary as many pharm.s are trying to promote older people to take vaccines. This is a really bad idea IMHO. I have a nephew who recently became quite ill from a flu vaccine. His two siblings (one older and one younger) did not get the vaccine and did not get sick. As no monetary impetus stimulates determining vaccines are not healthy choices, one has to be extremely conservative.
What you have to understand is the mentality of those driving the vaccines. They think "well, some 0.1% will die but then the human race will in the future be tolerant as those intolerant died." This is the thought. Controlled elimination of non-tolerant human strains rather than sudden elimination. As one who is fairly tolerant this does not scare me but you must realize the rights of the individual are being succumbed to the goal of the whole.
"In Bordeaux, picking began on August 12, nearly a month ahead of schedule and the earliest harvest since 1893." cnnfn This cannot be true! We have Global Warming!
Seattlewireless is the coolest. Only if you haven't tried to create a wireless MAN in your neighborhood would you think otherwise. But for those of you who are wired, you should realize the significance. Global warming, some new video card, and other stuff are slashdotted; but this is earth shattering. Personal wireless could possibly save each and everyone of us $100+ per month on phone, net, and cable not to mention creating true freedom of information (or will we each have a "carnivore" inside our Intel?:-) Of course they are a decade ahead of their time - or two decades for most of the country like the technology backwater of Columbia, SC where I live where the maximum govn't investment in technology growth has been like $160,000 and they even speak in the congress about closing one of the two University engineering programs in the state!
My $.02, Tim
I cannot believe all of these posts and nobody mentioned the whole impetus for the "global warming" thing. Don't any of you remember when the patent for Freon was expiring so the company, think it was DuPont, started all this research! And got Freon outlawed!!!= 7226g erant_history.htm
supports: http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t
denies: http://www.imcool.com/articles/aircondition/refri
So easy to see why we get in these silly manipulated predicaments because the only history we remember is the one our media (schools, news, gov, etc) record. BTW, I won a school science fair on Global Warming back in 1984 or so. Today I certainly agree with those that think it is a scientific hypothesis and maybe even a farce - just look at the geological evidence; but we need to keep it cold as mammals survive better than insects and other non-mammals in cold times. 'Course, Mars is really cold so we could always take our planet warming ways and our dirt-fungus somone mentioned and move over there.
Tim
The questions I've seen are:
1) What does the staff know (db guys do stored procs not Java code)
2) Are there other app.s hitting the data? Maybe then the stored proc.s are a central location for business logic.
3) How fast is the db/ does the app need to be? No matter what db vendors claim, running queries will never be as fast as in-memory objects; even ignoring that the db server is often across a wire. This can be ignored for simple app.s but once the data is over a few thousand records in a few tables and the logic is complex then you really do have to move some data into memory rather than hit the db every time. Consider an algorithm that must touch every row and its relation to another table: better to "cache" the data in memory.
4) Where is the "official data"? Is it in the database? Is it in memory? Both? Is some in one database and some in another? Should the JSP developer's have to contend with knowing this? Etc.
5) Your point that if the algorithm is update intensive then putting it in a stored proc makes more sense.
My experience,
TimJowers
I know y'all never researched this any eh? Electric motors are rated on continuous output for 30 minutes or something like that while ICE's are rated on peak output. So you can 3x any electrical motor number or something like that. My father-in-law maintins the beetle and the CRX were some of the best cars ever built as they were so lite one could get $50 MPG. Not to mention all that other parts needed for gas-based cars which are not needed on electric cars.
Anyways, the whole issue with usefulness is battery weight. Period. Lead's about as heavy as it gets. Gas is per weight about as efficient as it gets ('cept the nuke subs) So, the usefulness is in home/fixed power. I researched a fews years back that I could switch over for about $20K but was not convinced the system would last long enough to pay itself off and could not determine that the local power monopoly allowed credit for power I'd supply back to the system when I was not running at capacity.
I hope we see some more consumer applications of solar in the near future. TimJowers
I think OpenSource is the solution.
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Possible solutions to the loss of jobs:
1. OpenSource means no need to pay for development per se so development becomes an as-needed task for the IT staff versus something we pay a monopoly royally for. SEriously nobody can give a good argument for not using Linux, Java, and Eclipse for many applications. Probably mySQL for many application etc. Sure Windows has its places but if you think Windows is easier than Linux then you have not tried both out on a new user. I still think assembly is pretty easy myself.
2. Lobby for software importers to pay taxes. This will never work due to electronic data transfer and I suspect almost no company pays taxes on IP import much less software IP import. Anyone from the IRS out there?
3. Tell your kids never go into tech. Sure we are already there
4. Wait a hundred years until costs level. Well, take a look at Mississippi for a good example. Been an American state for quite some time but still light years behind California in the wealth effect. And that's not changing; so, unless the production of goods is better than the purchase then the US will stay ahead of India financially.
5. Government breaks up the monopoly and we can all make money selling software rather than competing with free. Oooo.. so I'm saying Open Source is just a taste of their own medicine. I agree with the hypothesis that Open Source is a result of needs of the many not being met by the products of the few but also think it is the inevitable requirement when the monopoly is not deterred (these are probably both the same cause).
I know lots of new grads as well as multi-decade engineers who have left to be school teachers, policeman, fireman, waiters, and real estate agents. Their skills will be lost forever. Oh yeah, the 10-1 ratio on pay is totally bogus. My experience tells me it is at most 5-1 (that was using someone from a former soviet republic where the workers are very well trained but unemployed) and typically 1-1 (from experience working with a major India outsourcer where I suspect the workers who were not in the US were probably doing double duty).
The situation is really bad and I am also strategizing how to get out of tech.
My $.02,
TimJowers
It is very bad. Much worse than the recent CNN article suggests (http://money.cnn.com/2003/07/22/news/economy/jobl ess_offshore/index.htm). Has anyone found the MSFT presentation? This ought to be a smack in the face to the MSFT lovers. Jobs to India is fine as long as they experience the same costs (taxes, hidden taxes, and layered taxes) as we do.
The only real plan I see is OpenSource. When the software is free nobody has to worry about a monopoly giving away free software like what others are selling, a government that is unwilling to tax/tariff large companies (or prosecute the monopoly), or a cheap labor force that can produce the software more cheaply. Sounds like others are like me and have already experienced this from the receiving end. The midrange server company [omitted] has effectively closed its plant after a presentation in 1996 showing no new headcount in the US into the future. OpenSource (Linux, JBoss, Java) is now just as good/better than the costly stuff so we have no reason not to use it. Send the jobs to India, we are no longer buying your products! Even IBM saw this as they OpenSourced Eclipse and it is now the base for their development environment. Not sure about mySQL.
The only other viable plans include requesting the government tax the imports. Will never happen... just look at manufacturing for auto.s and hard goods. Take a look at the steel industry. Studies showed something like 80% of the refined products are passed off as raw products such that a US steel manufacturer could never compete with this level of tax evasion. Even those board/machine manufactures that take sufficient engineering are gradually defined into a process in the USA and mass-manufactured to Mexico or Tiawan. Software is inherently untaxable as my experience is the companies in India simply FTP over their work product. So, how could one even try to tax that. No, taxes will never be applied and that is reason enough for companies to move their software manufacturing and support overseas.
I know lots of techies and programmers who have exited the tech field. The new college grad.s just gave it up and went to Japan to teach english, to become a policeman, or back to waiting tables. Very sad. The older techies tried to go into real-estate, to be a fireman etc. Lots of Cobol programmers looking for anything (for the un-illuminated who said unwanted jobs are what is going over-seas - who prefers integration to product development!!!) Lots of my friends were unemployed but not smart enough to even draw unemployment as they expected a contract "any day now" for eight months! Or, like me, laid off after being laid off in a way I cannot get it I do not think. Suspect the government isn't realizing these people in its numbers. I myself am strategizing how to exit the tech field which is tough since that is all I have done for many years; and I certainly will tell my children not to go into technology of any type. Medical OK. Heat/Air and other such services. Good. Legal/politcial. Best. As the government will never let legal jobs go overseas; though hiring a lawyer in India to do a house closing seems fairly possible - just illegal! I'm afraid the teachers are going to have a real problem as techies with advanced degrees are attemptng to devour those jobs and are possibly more qualified. E.g. my friend who has a Ph.D. in math some 30 years ago and was recently laid off from a local University and has worked for many tech companies. Imagine some algebra teacher with a BS trying to compete for her/his job next fall with people like that!
Besides all this, the IRS is in attack mode against small businesses such that despite using one of the top 100 accunting firms per Inc. Magazine and nothing ever being filed incorrectly I still ended up paying $800 to the accounting firm and/or several hundred to the IRS every few quarters until I finally gave up and closed my business. I have contacted them each year since 2000 about making an online portal so we can see what was filed (and entered int
USPTO has experts. Most patents are not "new and unique" they are just modifications and mostly that any competent engineer could create without any special insight. Visit the USPTO and take a read. My wife's cousin worked at the USPTO in the 90's and the problem then was the Japanese would read each patent and file 11 patents covering each possible revision to the original patent in order to block improvement!
Patent is big business. Takes a regular person $6k or so to get one. Takes 3 years AFTER the filing last I checked. Used to be 2 years 4 years ago. At this rate before long, patents will expire before granted.
Only big business can defend a patent - look at lemon or whatever his name was who is #2 most prolific patenter ever and invented lots of the automated manufacturing but was not paid by the major automakers until he was like 65. Patents do not result in knowledge sharing etc.
I think everyone knows these things. Too many systems of our government made sense at the beginning of the industrial age but were never deprecated.
Clearly this is why one-world government is bad. The nation that structures around advancing knowledge rather than lawsuits about it will surpass the U$A. We need more competition in governments rather than more unification.
Would you vote for a candidate who sought to fix the patent technology roadblock? I would.
Tim
Totally agree. Consumers are actually starting to pay for those one-off apps. Companies show no signs of belt-tightening WRT operational costs and are still looking only toward ROI. Surely Linux on the desktop would be a no-brainer if investment cost mattered - or maybe companies would just stay with Win2k (oops, cat out of bag :-). Of course with interest rates so low everyone is encouraged to gamble/invest.
Tim
Nix the use MSN. Haven't seen that at all. Just surf and email. That's all. Oh yea, quicken and solitaire for 25% of that 75%. Kids and state employees *might* IM. Tim
Yep. My CPQ notebook runs RHAT and Mandrake fine too. And COMPAQ DOES NOT EVEN SUPPORT LINUX on this notebook - unbelievable to me. Tim
I agree, application servers is a broad definition looking for identity. Surely the old web servers simply served up web pages and some scripted content so App Server was coined to delineate those servers that knew how to run in a cluster and, to a lesser extent, run objects. Also, in the last half of the 90's companies had lots of heterogeneous systems so an App server had to have connector for each of them and bring it into a unified "middleware". The Entity Beans and other data caching on the AS is of debateable need when other tools such as a db provide alot of this as well; yet one could argue similarly for db connection pools - doesn't Oracle etc. already pool the connections internally? Now if your example had said "5TB rather than 100s GB then you would have a good reason to use a cluster of servers as now you are outgrowing the load Oracle can handle and maybe even an MPP db like Teradata will barf once you get into the 50 TB. How big is the web? (7,500 terabytes ref: http://www.howstuffworks.com/news-item127.htm) Uh, so perhaps the web is one big cluster of App Servers. The biggest db ever. Cannot do that with any RDBMS on the market. JBoss ain't pretty and that is the #1 problem. If it takes a WebLogic or WebSpehere expert more than a day to figure out how in the heck to get beans running under JBoss then I think the #1 problem is clear. Selling the docs rather than providing an Open solution (from the documentation viewpoint) is a bad strategy. Anyone from JBoss listening? Tim
Doubtful. Most Linux distributions have lots of EoU features such as multiple desktops that are not standard practice in Winders. And most have the do-it-with-a-mouse features such "find in files" type features that the Winders users know and love. Heck, you can even *see* your NTFS (v1 only?) partitions from Mandrake and other Linux distro.s. Can you see/use EXT2/3 from Windows? .NET may have been a costly mistake because if you look at IBM their customers from the 70's are stil paying $Millions for Mainframes just because they run their old code; yet they could be using a Beowulf cluster at a fraction of the cost and far better reliability and performance if they re-wrote the code in C++ or Java. Could even be using SQL Server for that matter. A very good product. What would MSFT have to do to convince you to buy their products? In general, with the SW market expanding immensely over the next decade like the gaming market has started to do then MSFT, Linux, and everyone will make money. As people start to consume soft goods then the market will become huge. MSFT will be big but no more a monopoly and I think looking at IBM is a good example. :-)
BTW, new DirectX stuff in XP screws up Java (the 2d optimizations from the old 1.3 and also in 1.4 have to be disabled with "java -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true" etc. or screen redraws do not work). Personally, I think when your XP updates break the most standard VM distribution in the world then that means you are anti-EoU!
As to MSFT providing solutions to their customers one can surely argue that jumping track from COM to
BTW, I think the MCSE program is one of their smartest moves ever. Get a bunch of people who do not have CS degrees and who bill out at a lower rate to drink the lemonade and the managers who think they are saving money be getting these less qualified employees will be forced to drink. Don't get me wrong, 2/3 of the material is useful but theirs a world of difference between memorizing where the icons are and knowing how things work.
Lastly, the Open Source idea is one of co-operation. Gates can send his work to India but when the competition is leveraging the work done by their customers then he's still paying more $. While in India he is venerated as a god in the USA the market continues to innovate. (I view the Open Source contributors as customers since they use the product. Any user who has valid feedback can drop an email with their source changes to the MAINTAINERs for Linux and possible get their change into the next release.)
The really smart Linux distro. would be the one that is optimized to run J2EE web servers in my opinion as this is/will be the #1 biggest app used in a few years; given that MSFT Office may be supplanted by other office suites ala 1993 revisited; and given that an OS without an App is a non-OS. I cannot see MSFT adopting this innovation as their strategy for Windows
My biased $.02,
Tim