Its high time that americans start to accept outsourcing as a way of life.With the amount of outsourcing increasing as we speak I doubt its gonna go out of fashion for a while.
Economically and logically speaking , it would be more trouble to bring back outsourcing processes than to manage them in India.This is especially true when it comes to customer service jobs.Telemarketing and collections can be shifted easily as they are outbound.
or did they..?:-)
With just a wee bit of ai built into google you cannot expect it to answer questions like those.Of course given a little time goofle will manage to pull it up.
"-- sometimes the only way -- to hear music that would otherwise go unplayed. "
I discover a new song everyday with using shuffle because i download so many random songs using P2P(yes i use it & love it!).If there was no shuffle i wouldnt listen to even half the songs I downloaded!
Besides listening to songs in the same sequence becomes sucky cos you keep listening to your fav songs and then become bored of them.
...By hunting down these small apps.If not PlayFair then there will be some other app in a coupla weeks popping up which remove the copy protection from their songs.
In Fact it would be better for them to ignore these little things which will barely decrease their business and concentrate on marketing and such things.For people who want to circumvent , they will, anyhow.For those who want to buy, they'll buy just for the convenience.
I think it makes no real sense in Apple gunning for these small guys and spoiling their clean reputation.
I'm not defending MS but don't all big companies keep a certain amount reserved for lawsuits and such troubles?
Forget Big companies even smaller ones keep a rreserve fund for bad debts,lawsuits,unexpected losses,bribes(yes,thats right) and other such miscellaneous stuff.And MS knowing that with the way they go trampling smaller companies, lawsuits have become a way of life with them.Just a smart way to earn more money.
Bottom line : I would do it if i were them.
Rightly said that water cooling systems for electronics and computers will benefit the most.
I can think of many places where you'd like to put in cooled liquid but cannot cause it would messup the electronic system.
Also , it appears that its not a conductor of electricity which will help tremendously.
One interesting fact which is underlying in all the 5 points is that Open source still just caters to the more than computer literate GEEK.Most Open source programs still make a lot of assumptions and that creates problems for the average joe.
That is why most of the open source software is just used by geeks and normal computer users have'nt even heard of a majority of them!
Not that Iomega are anymore a VERY big name to reckon with, this product is not at all worth it.Everyone would rather go for cheaper 24GB tape drives or other alternative.
Its just not worth paying for and besides Iomega have only dropped in quality if anything else.
I had an interview scheduled with daksh which i was delaying because they were not paying much.Now after reading this i've got it scheduled for day after tomm.Damn , i'll be working for the BIG blue!:-)
A little about Daksh if you dunno, it was one of the first few call centers in India with a really good reputation.They still are one of the biggest in the arena.No wonder IBM wanted them soo bad.
I'm not sure if you guys know about this but there is minimal customs duty on computers and electronics imported by Indian outsourcing companies. Most of this hardware comes in straight from the United States.You have no idea how much companies like IBM,Dell,Avaya & Compaq (american owned companies i believe)are earning in the bargain.Most of the telecom infrastructure required to setup Call centers here has to be shipped straight from USA.That again is an example of how the economy balances itself out eventually.
Besides the curriculum of Uni's, its also the big companies to blame.I used to work for Citi and their policy states that no 'free' or open source software is to be used in any application development for any of their businesses.Not one open source product resides even on their exemption list(policy exemption after approval).
If you want to use unix buy a HP Unix server(that is if Unix is absolutely critical!), you want a small database get a SQL server.Even if you are paying thousands of $$'s more it does'nt matter.One big arguement is that of support as there is no one to support unix or an open source product.After working for a company like this you actually start believing that what they do is right.
I managed to slip through before they could curropt me.;-)
Is it just me or is this whole thing really being blown out of proportion? It isn't like people are getting homeless on the streets of America that you have to stop outsourcing completely.If America can live with manufacturing in China then it can live with a little outsourcing.
When it comes to the media giving it too much attention, thats their job isnt it? It might be for or against depending upon certain interests.
Maybe its easy for me to say because i'm in India and people here are not pissed off at getting 'more' jobs but it wasnt like we had too many jobs anyway.As long as outsourcing does'nt hurt the overall American economy , I don't think its such a BIG deal.Its just the perspective you take on the issue(or the article you read.) Cheers.
The operating systems are not going to chuck ftp so soon and nor are they going to include torrent as a default program.
I think theres still a while till we ditch ftp and move onto something else completely.Torrents and other p2p stuff is good but only if you take the effort to get them.What about the masses who want to click and go?It won't happen till they can right click and it says "Save torrent as".:-)
I know this sounds like flamebait but it isnt(hopefully).I have a few questions..
1. Does anyone use gameboy anymore?
2.Does anyone use OpenBSD anymore?(FreeBSD's better):-)
3. What do i achieve with OpenBSD on my gameboy(if i buy one)?
4. Why not a Linux based PDA?(with a lot of support available)
And the FAQ takes you to the OpenBSD website faq.
If you notice the google press release says nothing about controlling spam, it talks about speed, space n such.
Knowing google and the amount of space in question, spam mails would increase too and why waste all that computing power on archiving and indexing SPAM.Makes it look more like an April fool thingy?
At my first job I used to make web sites and modify stolen cgi scripts.That was one hell of a boring job,I thought 4 times before posting this here.*embarassed*
HTML has to be the most boring thing ever!Eventually i found PHP as an alternative to the perl cgi scripts.that made life a lil interesting.
As long as the rice tastes better and i won't need viagra to counter the effects of the chemicals in my rice i'm ok with anyting.
Whats next, strawberry flavoured rice???
Even though google uses a few thousand servers to manage the searches, the personalised search is still 'very' fast for a beta product.I guess beta for them means that its been tested for at least a year:-)
And i especially like pesonalise slider which gets all the personalised results.Thats what keeps these guys as pretty much the top search site ever.
PS : Ever heard of google getting slashdotted?
Even though the radiation levels are pretty low, would'nt it catch up if you hang around nuclear waste for too long? By her writing it looks like shes a regular visitor in the areas. Not too many people would taken the risk of riding bikes in 'Ghosttowns' just to have an open road and good weather(my idea of god weather isnt snow).Even though she gives some brilliant insight into the whole matter.I had always imagined the chernobyl area to be a mess but this is the first time im seeing the photo's of a nuclear disaster site and it MORE than a mess.
Wht i fail to understand is that why is online gambling banned when there are so many diff types gambling happening in the USA.Also if anyone wants to start a gambling he can start it up on any other countries servers and americans can still gamble?
Its just like what happenned with alcohol prohibition,the more you ban it the more the people break the law.So when you are allowed to gamble in person in Las Vegas(or another 1000 places) why not online in the convenience of your own home.
Anyone wanna outsource the infrastructure and SW for the Lan party to us indians?;-)
Jokes apart, i'd really like to fly down to USA top be a part of the lan party and see how those guys manage things.Its one thing to have a lan party with 100 ppl but using up complete subnets is one different league!
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I'd never say that! I mean you sould take nemo seriously but... Day after Tomm??? no no.
Its a movie.Don't take it so seriously.watch it.forget it. ;-)
Not that its Lord of the Rings to take seriously.
Its high time that americans start to accept outsourcing as a way of life.With the amount of outsourcing increasing as we speak I doubt its gonna go out of fashion for a while.
Economically and logically speaking , it would be more trouble to bring back outsourcing processes than to manage them in India.This is especially true when it comes to customer service jobs.Telemarketing and collections can be shifted easily as they are outbound.
or did they..? :-)
With just a wee bit of ai built into google you cannot expect it to answer questions like those.Of course given a little time goofle will manage to pull it up.
"-- sometimes the only way -- to hear music that would otherwise go unplayed. "
I discover a new song everyday with using shuffle because i download so many random songs using P2P(yes i use it & love it!).If there was no shuffle i wouldnt listen to even half the songs I downloaded!
Besides listening to songs in the same sequence becomes sucky cos you keep listening to your fav songs and then become bored of them.
...By hunting down these small apps.If not PlayFair then there will be some other app in a coupla weeks popping up which remove the copy protection from their songs.
In Fact it would be better for them to ignore these little things which will barely decrease their business and concentrate on marketing and such things.For people who want to circumvent , they will, anyhow.For those who want to buy, they'll buy just for the convenience.
I think it makes no real sense in Apple gunning for these small guys and spoiling their clean reputation.
I'm not defending MS but don't all big companies keep a certain amount reserved for lawsuits and such troubles?
Forget Big companies even smaller ones keep a rreserve fund for bad debts,lawsuits,unexpected losses,bribes(yes,thats right) and other such miscellaneous stuff.And MS knowing that with the way they go trampling smaller companies, lawsuits have become a way of life with them.Just a smart way to earn more money.
Bottom line : I would do it if i were them.
Rightly said that water cooling systems for electronics and computers will benefit the most. I can think of many places where you'd like to put in cooled liquid but cannot cause it would messup the electronic system.
Also , it appears that its not a conductor of electricity which will help tremendously.
One interesting fact which is underlying in all the 5 points is that Open source still just caters to the more than computer literate GEEK.Most Open source programs still make a lot of assumptions and that creates problems for the average joe.
That is why most of the open source software is just used by geeks and normal computer users have'nt even heard of a majority of them!
Not that Iomega are anymore a VERY big name to reckon with, this product is not at all worth it.Everyone would rather go for cheaper 24GB tape drives or other alternative.
Its just not worth paying for and besides Iomega have only dropped in quality if anything else.
I had an interview scheduled with daksh which i was delaying because they were not paying much.Now after reading this i've got it scheduled for day after tomm.Damn , i'll be working for the BIG blue! :-)
A little about Daksh if you dunno, it was one of the first few call centers in India with a really good reputation.They still are one of the biggest in the arena.No wonder IBM wanted them soo bad.
I'm not sure if you guys know about this but there is minimal customs duty on computers and electronics imported by Indian outsourcing companies.
Most of this hardware comes in straight from the United States.You have no idea how much companies like IBM,Dell,Avaya & Compaq (american owned companies i believe)are earning in the bargain.Most of the telecom infrastructure required to setup Call centers here has to be shipped straight from USA.That again is an example of how the economy balances itself out eventually.
Besides the curriculum of Uni's, its also the big companies to blame.I used to work for Citi and their policy states that no 'free' or open source software is to be used in any application development for any of their businesses.Not one open source product resides even on their exemption list(policy exemption after approval). ;-)
If you want to use unix buy a HP Unix server(that is if Unix is absolutely critical!), you want a small database get a SQL server.Even if you are paying thousands of $$'s more it does'nt matter.One big arguement is that of support as there is no one to support unix or an open source product.After working for a company like this you actually start believing that what they do is right.
I managed to slip through before they could curropt me.
Is it just me or is this whole thing really being blown out of proportion? It isn't like people are getting homeless on the streets of America that you have to stop outsourcing completely.If America can live with manufacturing in China then it can live with a little outsourcing.
When it comes to the media giving it too much attention, thats their job isnt it? It might be for or against depending upon certain interests.
Maybe its easy for me to say because i'm in India and people here are not pissed off at getting 'more' jobs but it wasnt like we had too many jobs anyway.As long as outsourcing does'nt hurt the overall American economy , I don't think its such a BIG deal.Its just the perspective you take on the issue(or the article you read.) Cheers.
The operating systems are not going to chuck ftp so soon and nor are they going to include torrent as a default program. :-)
I think theres still a while till we ditch ftp and move onto something else completely.Torrents and other p2p stuff is good but only if you take the effort to get them.What about the masses who want to click and go?It won't happen till they can right click and it says "Save torrent as".
I know this sounds like flamebait but it isnt(hopefully).I have a few questions..
:-)
1. Does anyone use gameboy anymore?
2.Does anyone use OpenBSD anymore?(FreeBSD's better)
3. What do i achieve with OpenBSD on my gameboy(if i buy one)?
4. Why not a Linux based PDA?(with a lot of support available)
And the FAQ takes you to the OpenBSD website faq.
If you notice the google press release says nothing about controlling spam, it talks about speed, space n such.
Knowing google and the amount of space in question, spam mails would increase too and why waste all that computing power on archiving and indexing SPAM.Makes it look more like an April fool thingy?
At my first job I used to make web sites and modify stolen cgi scripts.That was one hell of a boring job ,I thought 4 times before posting this here.*embarassed*
HTML has to be the most boring thing ever!Eventually i found PHP as an alternative to the perl cgi scripts.that made life a lil interesting.
haha i swear it was unintentional.
As long as the rice tastes better and i won't need viagra to counter the effects of the chemicals in my rice i'm ok with anyting.
Whats next, strawberry flavoured rice???
I'm lookin out for white iPod type headphones for my Sony discman.Anyone? :-)
Looks like theres a small possibility that i might be cool afterall!
Even though google uses a few thousand servers to manage the searches, the personalised search is still 'very' fast for a beta product.I guess beta for them means that its been tested for at least a year :-)
And i especially like pesonalise slider which gets all the personalised results.Thats what keeps these guys as pretty much the top search site ever.
PS : Ever heard of google getting slashdotted?
Even though the radiation levels are pretty low, would'nt it catch up if you hang around nuclear waste for too long? By her writing it looks like shes a regular visitor in the areas.
Not too many people would taken the risk of riding bikes in 'Ghosttowns' just to have an open road and good weather(my idea of god weather isnt snow).Even though she gives some brilliant insight into the whole matter.I had always imagined the chernobyl area to be a mess but this is the first time im seeing the photo's of a nuclear disaster site and it MORE than a mess.
Wht i fail to understand is that why is online gambling banned when there are so many diff types gambling happening in the USA.Also if anyone wants to start a gambling he can start it up on any other countries servers and americans can still gamble?
Its just like what happenned with alcohol prohibition,the more you ban it the more the people break the law.So when you are allowed to gamble in person in Las Vegas(or another 1000 places) why not online in the convenience of your own home.
Anyone wanna outsource the infrastructure and SW for the Lan party to us indians? ;-)
Jokes apart, i'd really like to fly down to USA top be a part of the lan party and see how those guys manage things.Its one thing to have a lan party with 100 ppl but using up complete subnets is one different league!