The carriers make it seem like the opposite. I know little about GSM; can you show me that this is true despite what the carriers say?
Ask them what it would cost you to buy your own phone and not be tied down to a service contract.
Out here (.in), I have the choice of prepaid and postpaid connectivity, no contracts beyond the validity of the charge (or one month for postpaid), free incoming.
You don't pay more for a non-provider-provided phone [...] spend the $200 extra for an unlocked phone.
Am I supposed to not see a contradiction here?
The price of the phone is bundled into the contract. The only question is of when you spend that money, upfront or later.
Interestingly, I have most of the skills you list above. I still hesitate to call myself an architect because I don't have enough experience. Another ten years or so to go...
this "truly free market" of which you speak would include creating comparable labor conditions for all countries who trade with each other.
Oddly enough, an Indian software programmer enjoys better living status than the American programmer, once you factor in cost of living adjustments, and material benefits (Americans get bigger houses, Indians get smaller ones because of lack of land, Americans have 46" TVS, Indians have 29", Americans do their own housework, Indians have maids....).
There are also advantages to living in a large city (Mumbai: pop 20,000,000 in the urban conglomeration, 12.5M in the city proper). The commute time varies between 90 minutes to 120 minutes from anywhere to anywhere by mass transit, and 150 minutes to 240 minutes if you drive (unless the city gets flooded by rain like it did in July last year - 37 inches in a single day).
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PC types keep scratching their heads trying to figure out what people like about Apple. It never seems to cross their mind that it's because Apple at least delivers some of what it promises.
Maximum bang for the lowest buck is the PC promise. That isn't Apple'smarket.
Why not? Some parts of writing software are engineering (version control, scheduling, IDEs....). Other parts like gathering requirements and actually writing good code are art (and in some cases, black magic). It isn't visual art, but art all the same.
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That system currently handles over 41 million users, serves up POP3, IMAP, Webmail, spam and virus filtering for paying customers, and deals with over half a billion messages per day.
Every service is on physically separate hardware: MX, outbound MTAs, content filters, frontends....
It wold be nice to not have to change smart hosts from one network to another, but that does not really solve the problem, it just lets me use another overloaded service.
I would say that you would be running your own server colocated somewhere, so you don't have to bother about the overloaded service.
And about the default settings, I work for a fairly large email service provider. I know the problems caused by default installations. And then it doesn't take much to convert that box into an open relay either. You want everyone to run their own MTA, you can expect the current crop of Windows users to be running their own servers. Do you really think that that would be any better?
How naive. You're betting on the good will of a crackpot communist country, and a country that refuses to sign the nuke proliferation treaty.
India is perfectly willing to sign the NPOT provided that all signatories are treated equally. Remember, India is at threat from Pakistani and Chinese nukes. Both countries with which wars have been fought in the recent past, and both countries which have contributed to nuclear proliferation. India just doesn't want to participate in discriminatory treaties.
Like it or not, Indian governments are heavily influenced by American behaviour (as opposed to stated policy). and a move by the US to lower its emissions would lead to similar legislation in India. India also has some fairly strict emission control regulations, and Indians use far less energy than US citizens. They want similar lifestyles though, and the energy usage that goes with them.
Oh, and the carbon emission limitations apply to developed countries, so as India and China atain that status, they will have to curtail emissions as well.
Cox is doing the right thing. If you want to run your own server, get a static IP. If you just want to submit via another MSA, use the submission port (587/tcp) for that.
Running a full mailserver takes far more clue than the average Unix admin has (and that is saying a lot).
.forward isn't going away. See the number of people who don't use a -all in SPF. Hell, a _lot_ of people would be pissed if their spam-filters were to reject legit mail becuase someone else chose to implement SPF. SPF isn't a well thought out solution to the spoofing problem, and it isn't a component of the spam solution.
Domain keys are a good idea, though.
Accept then bounce is evil and has been for quite a few years.
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The carriers make it seem like the opposite. I know little about GSM; can you show me that this is true despite what the carriers say?
Ask them what it would cost you to buy your own phone and not be tied down to a service contract.
Out here (.in), I have the choice of prepaid and postpaid connectivity, no contracts beyond the validity of the charge (or one month for postpaid), free incoming.
You don't pay more for a non-provider-provided phone [...] spend the $200 extra for an unlocked phone.
Am I supposed to not see a contradiction here?
The price of the phone is bundled into the contract. The only question is of when you spend that money, upfront or later.
Lots of technical folks get all excited about "Enterprise" software, but in the long run inexpensive commodity software that actually gets used
s/technical folks/clueless managers/ [1]
[1] clued managers don't get excited about "enterprise" stuff. They use the best tool for the job, regardless of what the salescritter says.
Shower, yes. Bath, no.
No, the rains are an abberation. Like the flooding in New Orleans. Or an earthquake ni San Francisco.
Events like that change the normal commute times from a couple of ours to overnight, but anything short of acts of god keeps commute time sane.
Interestingly, I have most of the skills you list above. I still hesitate to call myself an architect because I don't have enough experience. Another ten years or so to go...
this "truly free market" of which you speak would include creating comparable labor conditions for all countries who trade with each other.
Oddly enough, an Indian software programmer enjoys better living status than the American programmer, once you factor in cost of living adjustments, and material benefits (Americans get bigger houses, Indians get smaller ones because of lack of land, Americans have 46" TVS, Indians have 29", Americans do their own housework, Indians have maids....).
The prevalence of child labour is not that bad. Child labour _is_ illegal, BTW.
Oh, and out here, even call centres need graduates. (I suspect that even McDonalds would want graduates).
Who the fsck is Kato Katlin?
There are also advantages to living in a large city (Mumbai: pop 20,000,000 in the urban conglomeration, 12.5M in the city proper). The commute time varies between 90 minutes to 120 minutes from anywhere to anywhere by mass transit, and 150 minutes to 240 minutes if you drive (unless the city gets flooded by rain like it did in July last year - 37 inches in a single day).
PC types keep scratching their heads trying to figure out what people like about Apple. It never seems to cross their mind that it's because Apple at least delivers some of what it promises.
Maximum bang for the lowest buck is the PC promise. That isn't Apple'smarket.
software is not art
Why not? Some parts of writing software are engineering (version control, scheduling, IDEs....). Other parts like gathering requirements and actually writing good code are art (and in some cases, black magic). It isn't visual art, but art all the same.
Welcome to the real world.
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That system currently handles over 41 million users, serves up POP3, IMAP, Webmail, spam and virus filtering for paying customers, and deals with over half a billion messages per day.
Every service is on physically separate hardware: MX, outbound MTAs, content filters, frontends....
Unix developers name it init.
Yeah, because rootkits have so many other benign and benevolent purposes...
Just ask Sony!
They aren't claiming unlimited bandwidth. No download caps no download limit. And they can very well claim that you are abusing their service.
4. Have one private company run the physical media, and multiple others run layer 3 and above.
It wold be nice to not have to change smart hosts from one network to another, but that does not really solve the problem, it just lets me use another overloaded service.
I would say that you would be running your own server colocated somewhere, so you don't have to bother about the overloaded service.
And about the default settings, I work for a fairly large email service provider. I know the problems caused by default installations. And then it doesn't take much to convert that box into an open relay either. You want everyone to run their own MTA, you can expect the current crop of Windows users to be running their own servers. Do you really think that that would be any better?
How naive. You're betting on the good will of a crackpot communist country, and a country that refuses to sign the nuke proliferation treaty.
India is perfectly willing to sign the NPOT provided that all signatories are treated equally. Remember, India is at threat from Pakistani and Chinese nukes. Both countries with which wars have been fought in the recent past, and both countries which have contributed to nuclear proliferation. India just doesn't want to participate in discriminatory treaties.
Like it or not, Indian governments are heavily influenced by American behaviour (as opposed to stated policy). and a move by the US to lower its emissions would lead to similar legislation in India. India also has some fairly strict emission control regulations, and Indians use far less energy than US citizens. They want similar lifestyles though, and the energy usage that goes with them.
Oh, and the carbon emission limitations apply to developed countries, so as India and China atain that status, they will have to curtail emissions as well.
Cox is doing the right thing. If you want to run your own server, get a static IP. If you just want to submit via another MSA, use the submission port (587/tcp) for that.
Running a full mailserver takes far more clue than the average Unix admin has (and that is saying a lot).
.forward isn't going away. See the number of people who don't use a -all in SPF. Hell, a _lot_ of people would be pissed if their spam-filters were to reject legit mail becuase someone else chose to implement SPF.
SPF isn't a well thought out solution to the spoofing problem, and it isn't a component of the spam solution.
Domain keys are a good idea, though.
Accept then bounce is evil and has been for quite a few years.
So you are the one that is killing the spam filtering daemon! Smack! Bad BOFH!
Neither of the companies mentioned are outsourcing. They have Indian development offices, but not outsourced.