And people used to say that Japan's cars are flimsy and will never take off. Now, Toyota (or maybe Honda?) is poised to take over the number 3 slot over DaimlerChrylser for market share in the U.S.
Fortunately, market trends will (and already have begun to) increase wages for Indian programmers. Also, the conditions in India are worsening politically, and makes investing a large proportion of mission-critical projects in that country a dicey game for some.
I absolutely love discouraged workers. They help to hedge the competitive nature of the current market. Offshoring has put a temporary decline into the workforce, and while I improve my debugging skills preparing for the inevitable crash caused by their bad programming practices, I'm loving it when people drop out of the employment market. Go ahead: become a one income family, move back in with Mommy, go study abroad, whatever. Just get out of my way of getting that next job! Also, for the discouraged, forget the numbers. Market yourself like mad, don't just user Monster, etc to find work. Network, network, network...you only need 1 job!
Obviously this rambling is from someone who picked up PHP last night coding their web site down in mommy's basement while watching Monty Python and eating either day old pizza or szechuan chicken in heavy sauce (can't figure out which) and drinking Jolt cola.
Business failure is a more extreme example. Typically, this is an endless tennis match. Taking the example again, company B now has a better mousetrap, so to speak. Company A gets on the ball by hiring some new workers, or outsourcing temp workers. Company B now sees that it needs to ramp up its processes or else it's efforts were wasted. This is something akin to how IT consultants work, only on a more simplistic scale. I remember an episode of Ren & Stimpy where a salesperson was conning two hillbillies to outwit each other with outlandish inventions. One hillbilly would get an elephant capapult from this salesperson, and afterwords the salesperson sold an elephant catcher to his neighbor. This went back and forth until the hillbillies were broke, and the salesperson (IT consultant) had his pockets lined with money.
If I am a competing organization, say company B, who's CEO has a brilliant new idea to put company A out of business, or at least to claim market share from them, would it not be true that in order to implement this idea in a timely manner, I would have to beef up my labor staff? If this idea requires years to implement and maintain, then this workforce is only viable as full-time salaried workers. This happens everyday. Once this happens with more organizations, it causes job creation.
No privileges in my infrastructure to create stored procedures. DBAs lock out the creation of procs in the development area. Several client sites I've been exposed to involve too much politics in the migration process of procs as a result of DBA laziness. Now, in smaller infrastructures, developers are responsible for creation/management of procs. Not here.
Concerning a solution, create some facades to construct SQL statements relating to more straightforward INSERTs and UPDATEs through a Map (Hash/Tree). Takes about half hour to code the API, it's the first thing I do on any new project, and the results are simpler to read INSERT and UPDATE statement construction. SELECTs are certainly more difficult, as the other respondents' points are duly noted (outer joins, subselects, aggregates, etc).
I'll correct you now.
You forgot a commma after "fucking keyboard down" and before "you idiot". You don't know how to spell realize, and you apparently cannot comprehend the concept of a colon within your grammar skills. Please show more respect for someone using a superior vocabulary.
Your response is messed up in all actuality, and it is most certainly funny. Individuals not involved in organized crime would never be able to do anything about prohibition anyway. It took organized crime to bootleg liquor to the public. You have zero evidence to the contrary.
Having obtained a mathematics minor in my education, I am well aware of the term "0 probability". If a shotgun does not have that range (200 yards), then the probability is guaranteed to be 0, as opposed to some marginal value. This is why I posed the question.
The analogy I like to use in dealing with our population is "frog in the bunson burner". Society has gotten used to the concept of the "Patriot Act" and other forms of law which squash human rights and civil liberties, in addition to amplifying corporate interests. It has happened over time and very slowly, so as to allow society to become accustomed to them. Although tragic, it is not unlike our frog friend who is slowly scalding from the heated water. Revolution is not an alternative in cases like this. Believe me, I am a proponent for change in the record industry. However, unlike yourself, I do believe that the $1 track is a step in the right direction. Can you tell me what is wrong with this business model? I would be more than happy to discuss the various pros/cons of these packages intended to help consumers find more of what they are looking for.
It's difficult to refute the argument that downloading music from a P2P peer is akin to shoplifting. Consider that increased security measures coupled with increased consequences have helped to thwart many would-be shoplifters and has decreased the losses stores eat from these criminals. Very few individuals have made a scene about detectors being placed all around stores, and fewer have complained about the increased penalties for shoplifting. The same may apply here...
Anecdotal evidence suggests that my friends and colleagues who used to steal music are now refraining from doing so. Activity will statistically decrease as people continue to check the "don't share files", and further will decrease if Kazaa incorporates (or is forced to by a court order) a default "on" status for this checkbox.
I hope you are right about the fact that people aren't as easily scared as I think. I hope people rationally try to change the system from within. Judging from today's youth and their unique ability to accept ever more restrictive freedoms, however, I am not optimistic.
Prohibition didn't work primarily because of organized crime's involvement and their ability to bribe officers who were supposed to be enforcing the law. The analogy is invalid unless you presume that individuals will be bribing the ISPs or courts to look the other way, provide false information to the RIAA, etc. individuals are not organized enough to begin corruption, and what would be the point anyway? Your argument also falls apart when considering the absense of alcohol had few alternatives. Making alcohol in your basement was dangerous and could make you go blind or die. The alternative to stealing music is to buy music in your local store, hardly a dangerous feat whatsoever. As you probably know, people can even go to used music store to purchase albums, bypassing the RIAA.
It's unfortunate that you make the argument about me not being able to predict the future, but use phases like "the truth is...", the truth is nothing like you say. You have a right to your own opinion, but you do NOT have a right to your own truth. The analogy of shooting elephants from 200 yards out is flawed too, assuming your suggesting that the probability is zero that an elephant will be hit from that range. BTW, media coverage of a few hudred lives ruined may very well cause a long-term decline in the future of P2P file sharing activity, scaring many people fearful of the same outcome. It may instill anger in you, but it hasn't done much for the general population as of yet.
The only people who feel anger are the individuals who pilfer music. I don't feel anger. Ever remember the phrase "It's nothing personal, it's just business?". Also, U.S. has lobbied in the past to cooperate with foreign governments on criminal activities (e.g. worms, viruses, etc). File sharing can be minimized to a whisper, and may very well be an inevitability. Although the underground file-sharing "industry" may evolve, forces against it can become more and more tyrannical/iron-fisted until the vast majority of individuals live in fear from doing it. Since Gen-Xers (the primary source of P2P filesharing) are too lazy and shiftless in general to do anything about it (this is a reason democrats/indepedents will have a difficult time winning most elections), corporate interests will squash the general public's voice. The government is alrady banning and prosecuting imports of drugs from Canada, protecting the profit margins of pharm. companies. Unfortunately, and sadly, this scenario is the immediate outcome.
When the consequences become too financially catastrophic, people will become too fearful to even come close to a P2P network.
Has anyone considered what happens when some of these organizations steal proprietary code and resell them for a profit? I know of an electronics company who is farming work out to Russia. What is to stop these potentially unscrupulous organizations from using these trade secrets to develop their own cheaper version of the software/hardware. Lawyers are powerless in this case, as their government would laugh at the corporate attorneys in terms of extradition. I welcome the chaos this ensues.
I'm a heavy subscriber to one of these points. The quality and tightness of the product is often diminished with offshoring. Volatility and uncertainty increases, in direct correlation with the amount of offshoring that exists within an organization. Although there are well-planned implementations, what I've described is the norm rather than the exception. Now, for me, this matters very little since my focus is beginning to gear more into Bioinformatics, which really cannot be outsourced successfully for the forseeable future given the collusion of mathematics, biology, physics, and computer science involved (the barrier to entry is set very high).
Also, offshoring is actually helping the industry prepare for the potentially devastating effect of the demographics shift. Without offshoring to hedge the job demand that will make 1999 look like a small ripple, a glut in workforce contributes to a shrinking economy and potentially depression-like atmosphere. (Major economists have been predicting one at around the 2020-2030 time frame). Beef up your debugging skills: companies may require them very soon, and in a bad way.
"Cliches are an excuse for rigorous thought."
Considering your dribble against the context of the above quote, you kind sir, are without any thought whatsoever. You and Homer Simpson are in good company.
Terrorist is a proper word. If you are a person who strikes terror into a population, you are a terrorist. Terrorism has been more recently a highly successful way of motivating political change, from the IRA to Indonesia, and however you feel on this issue, you have to argue that it is psychologically affecting people who used to feel melancholy about downloading music. Just because the word is associated with the Middle Eastern crowd doesn't mean it's not applicable to an association which brings forth potentially bogus amensty offers. Nazi is a specific political party which existed for a brief time and was fortunately destroyed almost as quickly as it began. Communism is a theory that was never implemented in human history (never confuse the Soviet Union political implementation, Bolshevism, with communism).
Another thing...the child you describe is expressing him/herself by recreating a derivative of Mickey Mouse, which will most certainly not have the exact characteristics of the original. You can create your own song with the same title as other songs from before (happens all the time). However, there is nothing expressive about pilfering other people's work. Only a knucklehead would consider an analogy between the two. I feel somewhat stupid for even initially responding in kind.
Another thing...the child you describe is expressing him/herself by recreating a derivative of Mickey Mouse, which will most certainly not have the exact characteristics of the original. You can create your own song with the same title as other songs from before (happens all the time). However, there is nothing expressive about pilfering other people's work. Only a knucklehead would consider an analogy between the two. I feel stupid for even initially responding likewise.
If Disney required it, yes, she should have to pay it if caught drawing Mickey Mouse. However, Disney would be required to announce this ahead of time and warn people of the consequences. Fortunately, this is not the case. The RIAA has warned people that stealing music is an offense. They've been fairly adequate on getting the word out. Only the truly ignorant would not know this when downloading music they do not own yet.
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And people used to say that Japan's cars are flimsy and will never take off. Now, Toyota (or maybe Honda?) is poised to take over the number 3 slot over DaimlerChrylser for market share in the U.S. Fortunately, market trends will (and already have begun to) increase wages for Indian programmers. Also, the conditions in India are worsening politically, and makes investing a large proportion of mission-critical projects in that country a dicey game for some.
Is this true? Visual Basic programmers can read?
I absolutely love discouraged workers. They help to hedge the competitive nature of the current market. Offshoring has put a temporary decline into the workforce, and while I improve my debugging skills preparing for the inevitable crash caused by their bad programming practices, I'm loving it when people drop out of the employment market. Go ahead: become a one income family, move back in with Mommy, go study abroad, whatever. Just get out of my way of getting that next job! Also, for the discouraged, forget the numbers. Market yourself like mad, don't just user Monster, etc to find work. Network, network, network...you only need 1 job!
Obviously this rambling is from someone who picked up PHP last night coding their web site down in mommy's basement while watching Monty Python and eating either day old pizza or szechuan chicken in heavy sauce (can't figure out which) and drinking Jolt cola.
Business failure is a more extreme example. Typically, this is an endless tennis match. Taking the example again, company B now has a better mousetrap, so to speak. Company A gets on the ball by hiring some new workers, or outsourcing temp workers. Company B now sees that it needs to ramp up its processes or else it's efforts were wasted. This is something akin to how IT consultants work, only on a more simplistic scale. I remember an episode of Ren & Stimpy where a salesperson was conning two hillbillies to outwit each other with outlandish inventions. One hillbilly would get an elephant capapult from this salesperson, and afterwords the salesperson sold an elephant catcher to his neighbor. This went back and forth until the hillbillies were broke, and the salesperson (IT consultant) had his pockets lined with money.
If I am a competing organization, say company B, who's CEO has a brilliant new idea to put company A out of business, or at least to claim market share from them, would it not be true that in order to implement this idea in a timely manner, I would have to beef up my labor staff? If this idea requires years to implement and maintain, then this workforce is only viable as full-time salaried workers. This happens everyday. Once this happens with more organizations, it causes job creation.
Concerning a solution, create some facades to construct SQL statements relating to more straightforward INSERTs and UPDATEs through a Map (Hash/Tree). Takes about half hour to code the API, it's the first thing I do on any new project, and the results are simpler to read INSERT and UPDATE statement construction. SELECTs are certainly more difficult, as the other respondents' points are duly noted (outer joins, subselects, aggregates, etc).
I'll correct you now. You forgot a commma after "fucking keyboard down" and before "you idiot". You don't know how to spell realize, and you apparently cannot comprehend the concept of a colon within your grammar skills. Please show more respect for someone using a superior vocabulary.
Your response is messed up in all actuality, and it is most certainly funny. Individuals not involved in organized crime would never be able to do anything about prohibition anyway. It took organized crime to bootleg liquor to the public. You have zero evidence to the contrary.
Apparently, I'm not intelligent enough to use fowl language in my debates, or to rebute someone on issues not pertaining to the main topic.
Please understand, this is a /. user.
The analogy I like to use in dealing with our population is "frog in the bunson burner". Society has gotten used to the concept of the "Patriot Act" and other forms of law which squash human rights and civil liberties, in addition to amplifying corporate interests. It has happened over time and very slowly, so as to allow society to become accustomed to them. Although tragic, it is not unlike our frog friend who is slowly scalding from the heated water. Revolution is not an alternative in cases like this. Believe me, I am a proponent for change in the record industry. However, unlike yourself, I do believe that the $1 track is a step in the right direction. Can you tell me what is wrong with this business model? I would be more than happy to discuss the various pros/cons of these packages intended to help consumers find more of what they are looking for.
It's difficult to refute the argument that downloading music from a P2P peer is akin to shoplifting. Consider that increased security measures coupled with increased consequences have helped to thwart many would-be shoplifters and has decreased the losses stores eat from these criminals. Very few individuals have made a scene about detectors being placed all around stores, and fewer have complained about the increased penalties for shoplifting. The same may apply here...
Anecdotal evidence suggests that my friends and colleagues who used to steal music are now refraining from doing so. Activity will statistically decrease as people continue to check the "don't share files", and further will decrease if Kazaa incorporates (or is forced to by a court order) a default "on" status for this checkbox.
I hope you are right about the fact that people aren't as easily scared as I think. I hope people rationally try to change the system from within. Judging from today's youth and their unique ability to accept ever more restrictive freedoms, however, I am not optimistic.
It's unfortunate that you make the argument about me not being able to predict the future, but use phases like "the truth is...", the truth is nothing like you say. You have a right to your own opinion, but you do NOT have a right to your own truth. The analogy of shooting elephants from 200 yards out is flawed too, assuming your suggesting that the probability is zero that an elephant will be hit from that range. BTW, media coverage of a few hudred lives ruined may very well cause a long-term decline in the future of P2P file sharing activity, scaring many people fearful of the same outcome. It may instill anger in you, but it hasn't done much for the general population as of yet.
The politicians will further obfuscate the laws to make it difficult for the generally ignorant public to understand.
When the consequences become too financially catastrophic, people will become too fearful to even come close to a P2P network.
Has anyone considered what happens when some of these organizations steal proprietary code and resell them for a profit? I know of an electronics company who is farming work out to Russia. What is to stop these potentially unscrupulous organizations from using these trade secrets to develop their own cheaper version of the software/hardware. Lawyers are powerless in this case, as their government would laugh at the corporate attorneys in terms of extradition. I welcome the chaos this ensues.
Also, offshoring is actually helping the industry prepare for the potentially devastating effect of the demographics shift. Without offshoring to hedge the job demand that will make 1999 look like a small ripple, a glut in workforce contributes to a shrinking economy and potentially depression-like atmosphere. (Major economists have been predicting one at around the 2020-2030 time frame). Beef up your debugging skills: companies may require them very soon, and in a bad way.
"This is everyone else's fault but mine" - Homer Simpson
H1Bs have a limited impact on the U.S. Tech worker
"Cliches are an excuse for rigorous thought." Considering your dribble against the context of the above quote, you kind sir, are without any thought whatsoever. You and Homer Simpson are in good company.
Terrorist is a proper word. If you are a person who strikes terror into a population, you are a terrorist. Terrorism has been more recently a highly successful way of motivating political change, from the IRA to Indonesia, and however you feel on this issue, you have to argue that it is psychologically affecting people who used to feel melancholy about downloading music. Just because the word is associated with the Middle Eastern crowd doesn't mean it's not applicable to an association which brings forth potentially bogus amensty offers. Nazi is a specific political party which existed for a brief time and was fortunately destroyed almost as quickly as it began. Communism is a theory that was never implemented in human history (never confuse the Soviet Union political implementation, Bolshevism, with communism).
Odds are 250 to 1 the moderator modding this down is not a pirate. Who wants in?
Another thing...the child you describe is expressing him/herself by recreating a derivative of Mickey Mouse, which will most certainly not have the exact characteristics of the original. You can create your own song with the same title as other songs from before (happens all the time). However, there is nothing expressive about pilfering other people's work. Only a knucklehead would consider an analogy between the two. I feel somewhat stupid for even initially responding in kind.
Another thing...the child you describe is expressing him/herself by recreating a derivative of Mickey Mouse, which will most certainly not have the exact characteristics of the original. You can create your own song with the same title as other songs from before (happens all the time). However, there is nothing expressive about pilfering other people's work. Only a knucklehead would consider an analogy between the two. I feel stupid for even initially responding likewise.
If Disney required it, yes, she should have to pay it if caught drawing Mickey Mouse. However, Disney would be required to announce this ahead of time and warn people of the consequences. Fortunately, this is not the case. The RIAA has warned people that stealing music is an offense. They've been fairly adequate on getting the word out. Only the truly ignorant would not know this when downloading music they do not own yet.