You have most cogently and lucidly described the present reality with the correct solution. I applaud you and your pentrating brilliance. If but there were more thinking Americans such as yourself.....
Which is pretty much what MS has been doing forever to win market share. AND LET'S NOT FORGET how MS came by Internet Explorer to begin with - they bought the browser (was it Spyglass???) and they sued the fellow who owned the rights to the name INTERNET EXPLORER to death! THAT'S RIGHT - THEY SUED HIM TO DEATH!!! Anybody who wished to dispute the record only need check the background on it.
YOU ARE COMPLETELY WRONG, OF COURSE! MS (as it was proven in court back in the mid to late '90s - so it is simply accepted FACT) used their OS dominance to come out with the latest and most compatible spreadsheet - Excel - quicker to market than Lotus (superior spreadsheet) and WordPerfect (superior WP). That is why and how. For many years, until perhaps version 6 or later, Excel was far inferior to Lotus - I could do major online file swapping and downloads and integration from financial services and banks on Lotus - that were simply impossible to do on Excel - UNTIL MUCH LATER!!!! History can be revised - but never truly changed!
You are absolutely right on everything - but, in all fairness, there is ONE INNOVATIVE item that McSoftware did - that equation editor in WORD - assuming they actually did that in-house - I forget - did they buy that too?????
I MUST STRONGLY DISAGREE! First MS has all but killed customer service. When I worked tech support for them they adamantly were against it - except, of course, when that clown Jerry Pournelle would complain to high-level execs at a high-level seminar - in which case they'd all claim they didn't understand why he was getting such lousy service and hurry to give him personalized service (HE WAS GETTING LOUSY SERVICE BECAUSE OF YOUR MANAGEMENT DICTATES, YOU MORONS!)
Say, wasn't it Ballmer who said they were going to "Out Google Google..." ? Yeah, right.....
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ONE MORE TIME - am I the only Iain Banks' fan out here - have you ever read his "Player of Games" or any of his other CULTURE series???? Geez, this guy is great.
Those were really his only good ones - and they were pretty great! I've never been a Stephenson fan, some of his passages are good - but overall his novels are somewhat lame. (Although that article he did on telecommunications and Cable & Wireless in Wired was excellent.) Anybody an Iain Banks' fan - his "Player of Games" was one of the best sf futuristic tech ever, and short story collection "State of the Art" (Also "Excession") ---- AS FAR AS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - that recent scientific breakthrough demonstrating how individual brain cells recognize celebrities, etc., seems to fairly well prove what Penrose believed about AI and the brain - that the tubular dimer - and not the neuron - is the smallest component of intelligence in the human brain.
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AGREED!!!
"My most lucrative ever vein of fraudulence" - HUH! You call this writing of any kind - sounds like so much flatulence to me. This is about as exciting as a nerd's wet dream. Sombody tell this poster to raise the bar on their reading...
It's long been known by contractors and former contractors there that (up until the time they started offshoring all the jobs to India and elsewhere - this would have started big time exactly 09/12/01 - no coincidence there as it didn't make the news!) all the REAL WORK was done by the contractors - all of whom McSoftware always attempted to keep in the dark as much as possible. 'Nuff said.....
Outstanding post. As for this "war on terror" where is Osama and why hasn't Bushie Wushie gotten him? And why does the Bush administration give arms to the biggest support of terrorism, Pakistan??? Too many whys and not constructive action on terror by this "do-nothing" administration who just wants to circumvent the rights of American citizens.
I have nothing against honest draft-dodgers - it's the sniveling cowards like Cheney and Bush who turn this real American's stomach.
Some of these gullible posters here actually believe what the ruling classes have foisted on them, i.e., the "dignity of work" - something THEY avoid at all costs. Then, when they feel labor is cheaper in another country - they won't even allow people to live by that faulty illusion.
You're right, dude! The economy can't possibly be in the toilet - although the B.L.S. (I'm sure you know who they are) recently stated that over 50% of the 2 million "jobs" created during the Bush administration were part-time - please note they refuse to qualify exactly HOW MUCH OVER 50%. Is it 60%, 70% or 97%??? Also, the definition of a part-time job is considerably variegated: could be a one-day temp job; could be a part-time job lasting a week, or just a month.....
Wow, sanctimonious dude! You actually know people who still own cars! I've got to make friends and network with you guy. BTW, ever create anything of value for this economy? Ever fulfill your citizenship duty and serve in the military? Ever donate blood (my lifetime record is 220 times, to date)? You sound way toooo neoconservative for me with the predictable - but our poverty isn't as bad as their poverty line. I pay for my internet with day labor - how about you, rich dude?
You've not only pointed to the future trend - you are accurately describing a trend that's been happening over the previous 4 years. Although, in too many cases with regard to American, Japanese and Euro companies, it's not buying - but stealing - that's been the case. Either way - the working people are screwed.
Reality check: today less than 1% control over 90% of the assets - for sure, dude, it may be difficult - but do the math! 99% make under $323,000 per year - the upper 1% make over $323,000 per year - we have reached the era of ultra-concentration of wealth - other countries have revolutions long before reaching this point. Perhaps we're clueless....
Outstanding post and to review the history of outsourcing (I've been doing volunteer work warning against it for over 30 years):
It started back in the '60s and '70s; speeded up during the Carter Administration, thanks in great part to the Black Congressional Caucus - responsible for creating the bill that gives corporations tax breaks for laying off American workers and shipping their jobs overseas (thus making ALL Americans, white, BLACK and other, more unemployable), and given ever greater impetus again in 1985 thanks to Jack Welch, that perennial loser CEO (at that time) of GE - who decided he should offshore as many tech and manufacturing jobs as possible. End of history lesson, boys and girls.....
This brings to mind a short-lived radio show personality we used to have in the Seattle market who claimed he was both a grad and taught at Princeton (have they really gone that far downhill?) who mistakenly attributed the invention of Velcro to the NASA space program.
In actuality, that's about the ONLY THING that can't be attributed to research from the NASA space program. An EXTRAORDINARY amount of advances and devices, from digital electronics, computer science, materials science, biomedical engineering, polymer chemistry, etc., etc., ad infinitum, stem from there. See any massive government-supported research programs on the horizon?????? See the present administration kill scientific research!!!!! 'Nuff said.
Exactly so! Big business has truly killed free enterprise - along with innovation. First, they all want to hire the same "Stepford corp zombie" - Second, they've pretty much killed true competitve hiring as it once existed in this country, Third, now they're shipping all the research jobs that once existed here overseas to further exacerbate an already sinking situation!
You said it, dude! In Seattle they've been trying to get a city-wide monorail for over 40 years - and it's always the corporations that try to kill intelligent and functioning urban transportation......
But WHY might also not be the correct question. Many innovate without bothering to get patents. Wasn't it that neocon clown and media moron, John Stoessel, who attempted a phony expose of Jack LaLanne, the father of American physical fitness?
Frankly, Jack hadn't bothered to patent any of the exercise equipment he developed and consequently others made millions (if not billions) off of them. You could probably find numerous other examples. Then there's that modern-day clown, Jeff Bezos, who patented WHAT! A SINGLE CLICK LINK, for God's sakes!!! What an anti-innovation idiot!!!!
And with the offshoring of research to the ancient (and some might say backward and dictatorial) cultures of China, Russia, India, etc., don't look for any more innovation from non-innovative cultures like these. (And no - this isn't an egocentric comment - newer cultures inspire innovation for obvious reasons.)
Frankly, no you can't. I have communicated with far too many people, who like me, were once in the IT field, and are consistently turned down for everything from dishwasher to barista to construction laborer.
And as far as you being privy to the "secret language" of HR types, sorry, dude, but they are usually far too literally-minded and far too lowbrow to be handle their native language, let alone a secret one....
You make a most telling point. Far too many "successful" CEOs are hired based upon their previous "success" at other companies due to a few superior fiscal quarters because of offshoring (outsourcing) jobs and dramatically (albeit temporarily, it appears) lowering the costs of labor.
They apply the same model (also known as the GE/Jack Welch lemming model) to their next company and their next company and their next company.... Guest what finally happens. The enlightened will have figured this out already.
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You have most cogently and lucidly described the present reality with the correct solution. I applaud you and your pentrating brilliance. If but there were more thinking Americans such as yourself.....
Which is pretty much what MS has been doing forever to win market share. AND LET'S NOT FORGET how MS came by Internet Explorer to begin with - they bought the browser (was it Spyglass???) and they sued the fellow who owned the rights to the name INTERNET EXPLORER to death! THAT'S RIGHT - THEY SUED HIM TO DEATH!!! Anybody who wished to dispute the record only need check the background on it.
YOU ARE COMPLETELY WRONG, OF COURSE! MS (as it was proven in court back in the mid to late '90s - so it is simply accepted FACT) used their OS dominance to come out with the latest and most compatible spreadsheet - Excel - quicker to market than Lotus (superior spreadsheet) and WordPerfect (superior WP). That is why and how. For many years, until perhaps version 6 or later, Excel was far inferior to Lotus - I could do major online file swapping and downloads and integration from financial services and banks on Lotus - that were simply impossible to do on Excel - UNTIL MUCH LATER!!!! History can be revised - but never truly changed!
You are absolutely right on everything - but, in all fairness, there is ONE INNOVATIVE item that McSoftware did - that equation editor in WORD - assuming they actually did that in-house - I forget - did they buy that too?????
Say, wasn't it Ballmer who said they were going to "Out Google Google..." ? Yeah, right.....
ONE MORE TIME - am I the only Iain Banks' fan out here - have you ever read his "Player of Games" or any of his other CULTURE series???? Geez, this guy is great.
Those were really his only good ones - and they were pretty great! I've never been a Stephenson fan, some of his passages are good - but overall his novels are somewhat lame. (Although that article he did on telecommunications and Cable & Wireless in Wired was excellent.) Anybody an Iain Banks' fan - his "Player of Games" was one of the best sf futuristic tech ever, and short story collection "State of the Art" (Also "Excession") ---- AS FAR AS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - that recent scientific breakthrough demonstrating how individual brain cells recognize celebrities, etc., seems to fairly well prove what Penrose believed about AI and the brain - that the tubular dimer - and not the neuron - is the smallest component of intelligence in the human brain.
AGREED!!!
"My most lucrative ever vein of fraudulence" - HUH! You call this writing of any kind - sounds like so much flatulence to me. This is about as exciting as a nerd's wet dream. Sombody tell this poster to raise the bar on their reading...
It's long been known by contractors and former contractors there that (up until the time they started offshoring all the jobs to India and elsewhere - this would have started big time exactly 09/12/01 - no coincidence there as it didn't make the news!) all the REAL WORK was done by the contractors - all of whom McSoftware always attempted to keep in the dark as much as possible. 'Nuff said.....
I have nothing against honest draft-dodgers - it's the sniveling cowards like Cheney and Bush who turn this real American's stomach.
The best description I've ever heard: "It is the art of the complex configuration." (OK - maybe not the most eloquent, but.....)
Some of these gullible posters here actually believe what the ruling classes have foisted on them, i.e., the "dignity of work" - something THEY avoid at all costs. Then, when they feel labor is cheaper in another country - they won't even allow people to live by that faulty illusion.
You're right, dude! The economy can't possibly be in the toilet - although the B.L.S. (I'm sure you know who they are) recently stated that over 50% of the 2 million "jobs" created during the Bush administration were part-time - please note they refuse to qualify exactly HOW MUCH OVER 50%. Is it 60%, 70% or 97%??? Also, the definition of a part-time job is considerably variegated: could be a one-day temp job; could be a part-time job lasting a week, or just a month.....
Wow, sanctimonious dude! You actually know people who still own cars! I've got to make friends and network with you guy. BTW, ever create anything of value for this economy? Ever fulfill your citizenship duty and serve in the military? Ever donate blood (my lifetime record is 220 times, to date)? You sound way toooo neoconservative for me with the predictable - but our poverty isn't as bad as their poverty line. I pay for my internet with day labor - how about you, rich dude?
Perhaps the really good people are far too smart to work for the likes of you corporate droids....
You've not only pointed to the future trend - you are accurately describing a trend that's been happening over the previous 4 years. Although, in too many cases with regard to American, Japanese and Euro companies, it's not buying - but stealing - that's been the case. Either way - the working people are screwed.
Reality check: today less than 1% control over 90% of the assets - for sure, dude, it may be difficult - but do the math! 99% make under $323,000 per year - the upper 1% make over $323,000 per year - we have reached the era of ultra-concentration of wealth - other countries have revolutions long before reaching this point. Perhaps we're clueless....
It started back in the '60s and '70s; speeded up during the Carter Administration, thanks in great part to the Black Congressional Caucus - responsible for creating the bill that gives corporations tax breaks for laying off American workers and shipping their jobs overseas (thus making ALL Americans, white, BLACK and other, more unemployable), and given ever greater impetus again in 1985 thanks to Jack Welch, that perennial loser CEO (at that time) of GE - who decided he should offshore as many tech and manufacturing jobs as possible. End of history lesson, boys and girls.....
It's not how many hours one works in a day, but how much work one performs in those hours. It's no wonder the pyramids were built under budget....
In actuality, that's about the ONLY THING that can't be attributed to research from the NASA space program. An EXTRAORDINARY amount of advances and devices, from digital electronics, computer science, materials science, biomedical engineering, polymer chemistry, etc., etc., ad infinitum, stem from there. See any massive government-supported research programs on the horizon?????? See the present administration kill scientific research!!!!! 'Nuff said.
You said it, dude! In Seattle they've been trying to get a city-wide monorail for over 40 years - and it's always the corporations that try to kill intelligent and functioning urban transportation......
Frankly, Jack hadn't bothered to patent any of the exercise equipment he developed and consequently others made millions (if not billions) off of them. You could probably find numerous other examples. Then there's that modern-day clown, Jeff Bezos, who patented WHAT! A SINGLE CLICK LINK, for God's sakes!!! What an anti-innovation idiot!!!!
And with the offshoring of research to the ancient (and some might say backward and dictatorial) cultures of China, Russia, India, etc., don't look for any more innovation from non-innovative cultures like these. (And no - this isn't an egocentric comment - newer cultures inspire innovation for obvious reasons.)
And as far as you being privy to the "secret language" of HR types, sorry, dude, but they are usually far too literally-minded and far too lowbrow to be handle their native language, let alone a secret one....
They apply the same model (also known as the GE/Jack Welch lemming model) to their next company and their next company and their next company.... Guest what finally happens. The enlightened will have figured this out already.