I work for a large financial instituion. Our offshore rate is $30/hour and our contractor rate is $80/hour. Our senior developers are in the $70k-$120k range. All of them are valuable assets to the company. We use each of them for different roles though. Typically the in-house guys are more of the architecture, designers and subject matter experts. On-shore contractors we'll use for things that aren't well defined and require a lot of communication. However, a LOT of the work we have is very well defined, and pretty much brainless code monkey work that doesn't make sense to use up our expensive in-house or on-shore resources. The off-shore guys have provided excellent quality code that passes rigorous QA testing. Every opportunity we have, we use them because of the enormous savings they provide us. The reality of it is that there just isn't a high degree of complex coding necessary for most things we do here, and as more and more people are capable of doing the work, it drives the value of the work down.
I think much of the overinflation of the dot com boom was the early days when Y2K was still an issue. Simple supply and demand drives salaries up. There was a hard deadline that wasn't moving and companies needed manpower now, not 1 year from now. It's definitley a employee's market right now, but most of the employers hiring are being a lot smarter about it now. We'd rather wait 6 months to get the project done right and for the right price.
One of the rumors driving this current surge in IT work is that all the baby-boomers are retiring causing a huge demand. Sounds plausible to me.
While NASA has never admitted it, it is widely speculated that they have done research on sex in space, sex in zero gravity during one of the shuttle missions. Years ago, one of the shuttle missions just happen to have a married couple as part of the crew. Whether or not these rumors are true is still a question. When the astronaut couple was asked whether they had sex in space, they declined to answer directly but said that they had too many other things on their agenda and not enough time for that.
I've got an application that modifies the memory of the application. It essentially takes out all of the text in the EULA and replaces it with white space. At that point, I agree to the EULA and play the game. I've successfully glided for years without being caught and I'm not breaking the EULA since I don't actually agree to theirs. Technology is great!
Why doesn't Hollywood come out with some original movies, instead of remaking everything. I'd be more inclined to spend $30 for a couple hours to see a movie that I've never seen before, and not just some new special effects from the same movie I've seen a hundred times.
The list of remakes and sequels released in the past couple years is probably boggling. I wouldn't even want to try and list them.
Just the opposite, we expect a lot from our team. With tight budgets, we can't afford to have the architect, the analyst, the q&a tester, the coder, etc. We need people who can perform all of these roles and perform them well.
We consider software development a process, whether or not you want to lump that into a science or not is your perogative.
But in the end, to actually have a program by the deadline, and earn your 8 hours a day pay, you damn better be able to spend at least 7 of them actually coding.
Yikes! If all my team did was program 7 of 8 hours a day I'd fire them. I can hire any code monkey to write code. I'd estimate our best team members probably code at most 10%-15% a day. I'd put more of an emphasis on good design and analysis any day.
If we followed that socialist attitude, technology and everything that has prospered from it would be back in the stone age. Unfortunately socialism fails because of the 2nd law of thermodynamics! Everything tends towards the lowest state of energy. So if we were in a socialist economy, we'd be doing the bare minimum to get by and nothing more. There would be no incentive to work harder and laziness would ensue.
I can attest to this article.
My machine dual boots Win XP and Mandrake 9.1.
I'm using Gnome and sometimes KDE for Mandrake and when I'm in WinXP the system is a lot more fluid then in KDE or Gnome. I'm sure there are somethings I could to to tweak KDE or Gnome, but at least as far as Mandrake is concerned, out of the box, they drag ass!
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I work for a large financial instituion. Our offshore rate is $30/hour and our contractor rate is $80/hour. Our senior developers are in the $70k-$120k range. All of them are valuable assets to the company. We use each of them for different roles though. Typically the in-house guys are more of the architecture, designers and subject matter experts. On-shore contractors we'll use for things that aren't well defined and require a lot of communication. However, a LOT of the work we have is very well defined, and pretty much brainless code monkey work that doesn't make sense to use up our expensive in-house or on-shore resources. The off-shore guys have provided excellent quality code that passes rigorous QA testing. Every opportunity we have, we use them because of the enormous savings they provide us. The reality of it is that there just isn't a high degree of complex coding necessary for most things we do here, and as more and more people are capable of doing the work, it drives the value of the work down.
I think much of the overinflation of the dot com boom was the early days when Y2K was still an issue. Simple supply and demand drives salaries up. There was a hard deadline that wasn't moving and companies needed manpower now, not 1 year from now. It's definitley a employee's market right now, but most of the employers hiring are being a lot smarter about it now. We'd rather wait 6 months to get the project done right and for the right price.
One of the rumors driving this current surge in IT work is that all the baby-boomers are retiring causing a huge demand. Sounds plausible to me.
My friend downloaded the unedited version and this movie is awesome!
While NASA has never admitted it, it is widely speculated that they have done research on sex in space, sex in zero gravity during one of the shuttle missions. Years ago, one of the shuttle missions just happen to have a married couple as part of the crew. Whether or not these rumors are true is still a question. When the astronaut couple was asked whether they had sex in space, they declined to answer directly but said that they had too many other things on their agenda and not enough time for that.
I've got an application that modifies the memory of the application. It essentially takes out all of the text in the EULA and replaces it with white space. At that point, I agree to the EULA and play the game. I've successfully glided for years without being caught and I'm not breaking the EULA since I don't actually agree to theirs. Technology is great!
Why doesn't Hollywood come out with some original movies, instead of remaking everything. I'd be more inclined to spend $30 for a couple hours to see a movie that I've never seen before, and not just some new special effects from the same movie I've seen a hundred times. The list of remakes and sequels released in the past couple years is probably boggling. I wouldn't even want to try and list them.
This game probably saves me money. I pay $15/month for entertainment. I probably save $1000/month in other crap I would normally be doing.
Wow, great tangent to go off on to indicate you are poor.
Thanks for the link. Never really knew how fast I could type.
The link is to the freely available downloads if you didn't get that from the last post.
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/ltoi.html
I just downloaded these puppies last week and played them. They sure seemed a lot longer and more involved 20 years ago.
I'd love to see someone take the original and add some graphics to them.
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/ltoi.html
France surrenders.
Nissan XTerra.
The dealer I bought it from additionally posted the manufacturer mileage estimates. So that whopping 17mpg was right on the nose.
The best thing, is I have a bumper sticker on the back of my SUV that says "Global Warmer", the dirty looks I get while driving are crazy!
Patent on compressed air launches? My dad's been doing that after pork n beans dinner since '83.
Just the opposite, we expect a lot from our team. With tight budgets, we can't afford to have the architect, the analyst, the q&a tester, the coder, etc. We need people who can perform all of these roles and perform them well.
We consider software development a process, whether or not you want to lump that into a science or not is your perogative.
But in the end, to actually have a program by the deadline, and earn your 8 hours a day pay, you damn better be able to spend at least 7 of them actually coding.
Yikes! If all my team did was program 7 of 8 hours a day I'd fire them. I can hire any code monkey to write code. I'd estimate our best team members probably code at most 10%-15% a day. I'd put more of an emphasis on good design and analysis any day.
If we followed that socialist attitude, technology and everything that has prospered from it would be back in the stone age. Unfortunately socialism fails because of the 2nd law of thermodynamics! Everything tends towards the lowest state of energy. So if we were in a socialist economy, we'd be doing the bare minimum to get by and nothing more. There would be no incentive to work harder and laziness would ensue.
It's not really a question of height, its mostly a combination of speed and distance.
One little known fact is that at a typical low earth orbit of 120 miles or so, the gravitational pull of the earth is still over 8 m/s^2
They are moving so fast that the effect of gravity is neutralized because they are in a constant "free fall" around the earth.
I can attest to this article.
My machine dual boots Win XP and Mandrake 9.1.
I'm using Gnome and sometimes KDE for Mandrake and when I'm in WinXP the system is a lot more fluid then in KDE or Gnome. I'm sure there are somethings I could to to tweak KDE or Gnome, but at least as far as Mandrake is concerned, out of the box, they drag ass!
I write Google daily and ask them to put this in their Google Tool bar.
I'm really surprised one of the big toolbar add-on's hasn't done this already.
I use about 3 computer regularly and can never keep my porn straight!
Find the closest area with the bandwidth you need and hire a few bums to bolt directional access points to their heads, pointing at each other.
I've heard of people getting 25 miles with a clear line of sight.
You might want to put the bums up someplace high and provide them with their drink of choice for the duration of the event.
That was driving me nuts!
They tried to reproduce this on Mythbusters and found it was nearly impossible to create a ball of fire this way.
They had to enclose the test area and get the perfect mixture of air and gasolinve vapors, and even go as far as putting an ignitor on the cell phone.
Wouldn't EQ inflation really dillute the real value?
Physicists have theorized that the speed of light is slowing down.
I wonder how much of an effect that would have on the amount of light reaching the earth.
That'll teach them Mac users to go clicking carelessly!