I wonder if this is something the government in China want to see happen. Think about the amount of effort they spend on reviewing sites and blocking on their end. It also becomes a political issue for their civilians. What is our government keeping from us? Yet if millions of people are freely allowed to have a part on our dime from their shores, more and more companies will do this. I know of at least 3 fortune 200 companies that have this practice or are implementing blocking all Chinese ip's. So if we block them on our end, then they will not have to block them on their end. Then they can shift the blame to the western countries when their citizens complain about not being able to access a site.
Hey let's perfect this technology on computers before you go applying it to the auto industry Bill. I see soon a time when a person kicks the tire, knocks on the window six times and say's open sesame and the car door opens and starts the engine for you LOL. Symnatic will get into the Car keys buiness. The auto companies will hacker hackers to create virus' for their competitors cars.
I work for a fortune 500 companies, and I see all types of things. I also worked 7 years as a consultant, so I saw one or two things there. It is not a vanishing work force MS is caring about. It is a cheap workforce. I also would be willing to bet if you looked at the majority of the tech people that have been laid off for a significant time. They are individuals with lots of experience. I know when I noticed the end of consulting, as I knew it. I could get no one to hire me due to the salary I made. I had to fib and say I made 30 grand less, just to get the interviews. I ended up taking a 40k cut just to get a job.
I see now companies post "Entry Level" positions with things like 7 years of c++ experience, 3 years of.Net experience, for 32k. They already have a person in India that will take the job, but they have to post it here for a certain number of weeks to get that person here.
That is what this is about. There are plenty of tech people that cannot get a job. They could be bringing in more college hires. This is about two things.
1) Money. They want to pay less for more. Thank you Walmart LOL.
2) They want people they can work until they fall over and will not go to human resources or sue.
In my opinion
It is because instead of paying a half way decent rate they can get them for $15-$20 an hour. My concern is how will OUR economy recover, when major corporations are sending all this development money over seas. What about the H1's here? When will the companies that brought them over in planeloads, say " Why should I pay you 60,000 a year, and pay for your H1? You go back home, and work for me for $15.00 an hour" At least they bout cars, houses, clothes. Remember, when we lost manufacturing? Do not worry they said, High-tech will save us. Well in 5-10 years, our high-tech industry will go the way of American Manufacturing. You will see other companies subsidising their programmers, so American companies can get them for $4.00 an hour. You will see our economy go slowly down the drain. You will see Indian companies coming over here, buying our American Companies, much like Japan did. I want to know about things like HIPA! When they send medical claims over seas to be processed, who will ensure that the safegaurds have been put in place, that our Government now requires? As a contract programmer, everyday more and more of my clients are offloading their work offshore. This isn't in N.Y. or Silicon Valley, this is in Mid-America they are doing this too. If you are going to school to learn programming, switch your major, become a rapper.
Isn't this the same Caldera that bought DRDos from Novell for $1 to create openDos, to stick it to MS? Are they not the same ones, who made a great little linux distribution, that was perfect to give friends who couldn't make it through Red Hat's install process. What happened to them?
One thing I wonder if they have thought of, even though they claim that they are not responsible for slander... of their users. If they are claiming that they share the copyright. It might open them up to legal challenges in certatin circumstances. Say one of their users places a copyrighted work on a site that they claim is their own creation. Then the original holder instead of suing joe-blow they decide , hey lets sue the ISP they have computers, resources, seeing as I use to own an ISP I know they don't have a lot of MONEY LOL.
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I wonder if this is something the government in China want to see happen. Think about the amount of effort they spend on reviewing sites and blocking on their end. It also becomes a political issue for their civilians. What is our government keeping from us? Yet if millions of people are freely allowed to have a part on our dime from their shores, more and more companies will do this. I know of at least 3 fortune 200 companies that have this practice or are implementing blocking all Chinese ip's. So if we block them on our end, then they will not have to block them on their end. Then they can shift the blame to the western countries when their citizens complain about not being able to access a site.
Hey let's perfect this technology on computers before you go applying it to the auto industry Bill. I see soon a time when a person kicks the tire, knocks on the window six times and say's open sesame and the car door opens and starts the engine for you LOL. Symnatic will get into the Car keys buiness. The auto companies will hacker hackers to create virus' for their competitors cars.
I work for a fortune 500 companies, and I see all types of things. I also worked 7 years as a consultant, so I saw one or two things there. It is not a vanishing work force MS is caring about. It is a cheap workforce. I also would be willing to bet if you looked at the majority of the tech people that have been laid off for a significant time. They are individuals with lots of experience. I know when I noticed the end of consulting, as I knew it. I could get no one to hire me due to the salary I made. I had to fib and say I made 30 grand less, just to get the interviews. I ended up taking a 40k cut just to get a job. I see now companies post "Entry Level" positions with things like 7 years of c++ experience, 3 years of .Net experience, for 32k. They already have a person in India that will take the job, but they have to post it here for a certain number of weeks to get that person here.
That is what this is about. There are plenty of tech people that cannot get a job. They could be bringing in more college hires. This is about two things.
1) Money. They want to pay less for more. Thank you Walmart LOL.
2) They want people they can work until they fall over and will not go to human resources or sue.
In my opinion
I would not be so quick to jump on thsi story. When you look at the figures it looks like it may be an April fools joke
It is because instead of paying a half way decent rate they can get them for $15-$20 an hour. My concern is how will OUR economy recover, when major corporations are sending all this development money over seas. What about the H1's here? When will the companies that brought them over in planeloads, say " Why should I pay you 60,000 a year, and pay for your H1? You go back home, and work for me for $15.00 an hour" At least they bout cars, houses, clothes. Remember, when we lost manufacturing? Do not worry they said, High-tech will save us. Well in 5-10 years, our high-tech industry will go the way of American Manufacturing. You will see other companies subsidising their programmers, so American companies can get them for $4.00 an hour. You will see our economy go slowly down the drain. You will see Indian companies coming over here, buying our American Companies, much like Japan did. I want to know about things like HIPA! When they send medical claims over seas to be processed, who will ensure that the safegaurds have been put in place, that our Government now requires? As a contract programmer, everyday more and more of my clients are offloading their work offshore. This isn't in N.Y. or Silicon Valley, this is in Mid-America they are doing this too. If you are going to school to learn programming, switch your major, become a rapper.
Isn't this the same Caldera that bought DRDos from Novell for $1 to create openDos, to stick it to MS? Are they not the same ones, who made a great little linux distribution, that was perfect to give friends who couldn't make it through Red Hat's install process. What happened to them?
One thing I wonder if they have thought of, even though they claim that they are not responsible for slander... of their users. If they are claiming that they share the copyright. It might open them up to legal challenges in certatin circumstances. Say one of their users places a copyrighted work on a site that they claim is their own creation. Then the original holder instead of suing joe-blow they decide , hey lets sue the ISP they have computers, resources, seeing as I use to own an ISP I know they don't have a lot of MONEY LOL.