It was only a matter of time before India got screwed too. All the free traders have it wrong. The race to the bottom simply creates new third world countries- the U.S. will be one soon. Only the French have it right- the businesses that had the opportunity to become successful in France keep their jobs there. Does Michael Dell think if he was born and raised in India he could have created the same company he has today? Unlikely. US businesses need to show some loyalty to the workers that made them so successful in the first place- AMERICANS !
Munich and India advocate open source! Soon MS will be gone and the world be as one, singing in perfect harmony! Yawn. India's adopting open source in order to stop buying US made software (which is mostly MS platform). First they steal IT jobs, to break the incomes of US IT workers, then they develop their own version of Linux which will cut the incomes of US software businesses- which includes MS, but don't forget a lot of companies develop for the MS platform will lose money in the bargain too, which means developers for those companies lose their jobs too. Of course, the linux zealots consider MS developers as infidels anyway. I know I'll probably be flamed to death for it, but having the USA stick with a USA-centric platform like MS may be the best shot US IT workers have at retaining their jobs. If India totally abandons MS, then maybe some jobs (including call centers for MS specific products) may move back to the USA.
I have a History degree too- with an Information Science minor. I was originally a CS major, but I got tired of the BS from snotty profs who felt anyone who didn't code "their way" was inferior. I was in the IT field for a three years as a generalist (some programming, some hardware), got fired when the company went downhill, and now been unemployed 6 months. I'm now looking to getting into teaching History. Programming is great as a hobby (for me), but I never want to return to the business of software development. Getting to the topic, part of my job as an IT generalist was to screen applicants- many of them had certs but no degrees- couldn't even tell me what CD-R stood for. I'm glad to hear that CS enrollment has dropped. People should only be in school for CS/IS if they love the field- not to make a fast buck. What's worse is all these frigging tech schools that push certs as the fastest way to a high paying career - it's criminal what they charge for these things.
Looking at pics of the upcoming episode I find it hard to believe ancient Borg would look pretty much the same as the ones in TNG (unless these are survivors from the Borg orb ship blown up in First Contact...). I'd prefer to see pre-collective Borg. How about this for a plot instead? The crew comes in contact with a vessel of colonists heading out towards the outer reaches of the Alpha Quadrant. Onboard (along with regular colonists) are a small group of scientists experimenting with cybernetic implants and are obsessed with the idea of using them for telepathic communication and something called a "group mind" in order to acheive what the scientists consider a state of perfection (sound familiar?). Some scientists have already begun putting implants in themselves... Naturally Archer & co is repulsed by this and they go their seperate way from the colonists. The scientists on the colonist ship kidnap T'Pol thinking they can torture her into handing over some info on Vulcan technology in order to further their research. Archer & crew give chase, get T'Pol back, and the colonists ship is sucked (at the very end of the episode) into something called a "wormhole". Thus the Borg are created from a group of colonists stuck alone in the Delta quadrant who willingly become part of a collective at first as a means of survival...
Maybe not great, but better than a lame-o look what we dug up in the ice plot !
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It was only a matter of time before India got screwed too. All the free traders have it wrong. The race to the bottom simply creates new third world countries- the U.S. will be one soon. Only the French have it right- the businesses that had the opportunity to become successful in France keep their jobs there. Does Michael Dell think if he was born and raised in India he could have created the same company he has today? Unlikely. US businesses need to show some loyalty to the workers that made them so successful in the first place- AMERICANS !
Munich and India advocate open source! Soon MS will be gone and the world be as one, singing in perfect harmony! Yawn. India's adopting open source in order to stop buying US made software (which is mostly MS platform). First they steal IT jobs, to break the incomes of US IT workers, then they develop their own version of Linux which will cut the incomes of US software businesses- which includes MS, but don't forget a lot of companies develop for the MS platform will lose money in the bargain too, which means developers for those companies lose their jobs too. Of course, the linux zealots consider MS developers as infidels anyway. I know I'll probably be flamed to death for it, but having the USA stick with a USA-centric platform like MS may be the best shot US IT workers have at retaining their jobs. If India totally abandons MS, then maybe some jobs (including call centers for MS specific products) may move back to the USA.
I have a History degree too- with an Information Science minor. I was originally a CS major, but I got tired of the BS from snotty profs who felt anyone who didn't code "their way" was inferior. I was in the IT field for a three years as a generalist (some programming, some hardware), got fired when the company went downhill, and now been unemployed 6 months. I'm now looking to getting into teaching History. Programming is great as a hobby (for me), but I never want to return to the business of software development. Getting to the topic, part of my job as an IT generalist was to screen applicants- many of them had certs but no degrees- couldn't even tell me what CD-R stood for. I'm glad to hear that CS enrollment has dropped. People should only be in school for CS/IS if they love the field- not to make a fast buck. What's worse is all these frigging tech schools that push certs as the fastest way to a high paying career - it's criminal what they charge for these things.
Looking at pics of the upcoming episode I find it hard to believe ancient Borg would look pretty much the same as the ones in TNG (unless these are survivors from the Borg orb ship blown up in First Contact...). I'd prefer to see pre-collective Borg. How about this for a plot instead?
The crew comes in contact with a vessel of colonists heading out towards the outer reaches of the Alpha Quadrant. Onboard (along with regular colonists) are a small group of scientists experimenting with cybernetic implants and are obsessed with the idea of using them for telepathic communication and something called a "group mind" in order to acheive what the scientists consider a state of perfection (sound familiar?). Some scientists have already begun putting implants in themselves... Naturally Archer & co is repulsed by this and they go their seperate way from the colonists. The scientists on the colonist ship kidnap T'Pol thinking they can torture her into handing over some info on Vulcan technology in order to further their research. Archer & crew give chase, get T'Pol back, and the colonists ship is sucked (at the very end of the episode) into something called a "wormhole". Thus the Borg are created from a group of colonists stuck alone in the Delta quadrant who willingly become part of a collective at first as a means of survival...
Maybe not great, but better than a lame-o look what we dug up in the ice plot !