Exactly, mate. It's the free market. Just like any other complex global financial system, it has ebbs and flows. At the moment, it's flowing away from the US with jobs. Just like it used to flow to the US (back in the "good ol' days"). Of course, then, the market was playing nice. Now it's not being nice to the US it's 'playing unfairly'.
Complaining about oursourcing while people insist on a $70,000 salary is pathetic. How on earth can you expect to remain at the top of your market if you don't offer anything other than a large hole in someone's pocket? If you want such high wages, you have to be prepared to get turned down. People shouldn't get all pissy with India just because they're getting the jobs that once were American. We're all in the global economy for better or for worse. If it's bad now, just wait a few years and it'll be better. Just like if it's good now, wait a few years and it'll be shitty again. Just wait.
I've never seen a problem with DirectX since I started using it. Every time, running the installer upgrades your libraries. Games never break.
No-one's going to pay for a DVD they have to boot off to play a game. No-one. How can you alt-tab between a game and your downloads if you've got to close your OS down and turn your machine off just to play a game?
Saying Linux has no orientation is like saying Chairman Mao had no political aspirations:-P Linux is about as oriented as it gets - it's open source, which gives it great financial and philosophical repercussions. Windows, on the other hand, has less of an orientation as you think. The components of Windows don't lend it to be a business tool, or anything else. You can hardly call Wordpad, Calculator and Paint a "productivity suite", just like you can't call Solitaire and minesweeper a "games library".
Blame where blame's due, but this time you're slightly off...
Patrick Moore, the famous British astronomer, calls celestial bodies straddling the planet/asteroid line "planetessimals"... I think it covers the gap nicely:)
He'd probably use it to keep his gay kids in, so he doesn't have to see to see the look on their faces when he denounces homosexuality again and again and again...
Things like that are always subject to change. I'm sure their loads can vary tremendously, especially with something like that in use by developers. All it takes is one missing line of code and their servers could be taxed to hades. I wouldn't be surprised if they modified the per-query limit when the load dictates;)
America has had it so sweet in the last 40 years, that now it's seeing what it's like to be almost every other country in the world, it doesn't like it.
America has no special reason to be blame-free for kicking up a stink. It's America's fault it's in this mess, so America only has itself to blame.
The notion America is being "bled dry" is common, and incorrect. It's impossible to bleed America completely dry, due to the sheer size of the market. Funnily enough, a good blood letting would help the market by lowering costs.
The whole world works hard. Saying America deserves more because it built "an industrial infrastructure the... world envies" is, quite frankly, ridiculous. First of all, the world doesn't envy the US's infrastructure (look at the powercuts and oil dependency, lack of environmental standards/worker protection, no healthcare, etc.), and second of all, the rest of the world works just as hard (possibly even harder) for less. America's pissed because instead of getting a great deal, they're now just getting a good deal.
America has never been the place to go for help. Look at WW2 - Europe needed the US's help, but it sat on its hands for YEARS. In the end it helped by selling old arms to the Brits, in return for land bases across the Empire. There was no altruism there - the US only cares for itself. The same goes for Iraq, Vietnam, Korea - the list goes on. The America you're thinking of is simply spin.
America doesn't deserve any help from the rest of the world, as it takes particular delight in shitting on the small guy when they're down, and only getting involved if it makes most sense to America to do so.
This problem is 100%-American made, and as such, should be blamed 100% on America. Slinging the mud at India doesn't help:)
And no, I don't hate America - I'm simply annoyed that America doesn't live up to its promises, and has allowed such an importantly influential nation turn into an insular, selfish, money-driven society.
Don't fight by attacking the country people are going to. As they say, "hate the player, not the game". India is innocent in this. Blaming Liberal politics for not attacking a staunch conservative policy is pretty tenuous finger-pointing, but I'll let it slide;)
Anyway, the only way to fight back is to lower the prices incurred for staying in the US, not raising them for going elsewhere. You can't solve a problem by creating more problems. The market needs to flow freely, otherwise it'll create even more problems down the road.
You didn't read my post. I'm not saying anything about Indian poverty, just the fact America likes free trade when America benefits, but gets all pissy when America 'loses'.
It's a very immature attitude to take. In a free market, you've got to roll with the punches, and live to fight another day. You either adapt or die, bitching about it and instigating artificial means to shore-up the failing market just makes the problem worse. The root of this issue is the stupidly-inflated market values for things in the US compared to other countries. Solve that problem, and the jobs will flood back to the US.
Defend America? Defend it's artificially high market value for IT services? Defend America's pricing itself out of the market?
If Ford was charging $300,000 for a Focus, you'd buy a Honda. If you were a Ford employee, would you "defend Ford" for charging an extortionately high price for a car? Of course not - you can see that's way too much to charge for a car.
America has brought this on itself. Trust conservatives to pass the buck, instead of owning up to the fact it was conservative politics that caused this whole mess in the first place.
Strange how the US didn't mind when people were going to the US to work... now it's the other way round, there's a problem.
Taxing things from abroad to keep the national prices artificially high has been tried before, most notably with the Corn Laws in England. They made people have to pay far too much for corn (in this case, IT service), and the people with the money didn't want any of it. The farmers (techies) making the corn in England found no-one was buying their corn, as it was too expensive. Eventually, the corn laws were repealed.
The real problem here is that American markets pay programmers too much, and charge too much for IT support. Especially seeing as there's no reason to keep it in the US (as there's no lack of service anywhere else). Being a financial market, it flows to where the cheapest resource is. America's priced itself out of the market, and is all huffy 'cos no-one told America it was going to happen.
No, outsourcing will never stop if US companies pay programmers so much. As long as there's such a rift between poor programmers and rich programmers, the poorer ones will always get the work first. If they happen to be in India, then fair enough. The world is driven by markets, not patriotism.
It seems America is seeing the consequences of its financial actions, and can't take it.
Middle America thinks free trade is fair when America's gaining from it, but as soon as America's deal isn't so sweet, fair trade is something to be condemned.
To America, it seems, it's ok for Indians to be poor and begging on the streets of mumbai. As soon as those same Indians out-price the US, they should be stopped. Double-standards all the way:)
No, spiders' silk is. They've already shown that they can farm it and it makes far superior vests. Making artificial spinnerettes is the real problem, but one readily addressable.
The problem is, it's expensive to call from outside the US, and easily traced. Those two problems alone means it's next-to-impossible for a company to make illegal telemarketing calls to the states. As soon as they did, the complaints reaching the telco would make them track down the telemarketers, and at least stop routing their calls. The cost of international calling also means the percentage of callers who purchase their products has to be highter, meaning slimmer profit margins. That must be a very risky game to play.
Unfortunately, with spam, sending a mail to anywhere in the world is free, and very easy to obscure the true origin. As no-one's paying per-email fees for passing the spam along, no-one's that interested if it's spam or not. There's certainly no vested financial interest in stopping it. Just ignoring it is cheaper than actively trying to cut it out.
The real problem with spam is the relative cheapness and anonymity behind it. The only things that stop people spamming via phone/fax/SMS/etc is the fact that the spammer is easily traced. As we all know, with email it's not that simple.
Muscle never solved any argument - it just stopped one side from arguing. The only way to win an argument is to win the other person to your side.
Basically, to get the spammer to stop spamming, stop people buying their product. It's legal, ethical and will stop spam in seconds. Instigate laws that outlaws spam as a method of selling products. Any company found trading via spam can be brought before a court. The beauty with that system is the company has to be reachable via the email somehow (otherwise they wouldn't sell anything, so the spammer wouldn't spam for them), whereas the spammer remains hidden. That lack of anonymity the company posesses means you can find the perpetrator, and press charges. Most likely, the company will release the information about the spammer (including financial information, which can be used to persue the actual spammer).
To reach the spammer you have to go through the only route possible - the vendor.
And that works when the user is behind a proxy/webcache how? Hundreds of thousands of subscribers to freeserve or AOL or whatever appearing from the same IP address, most definitely at the same time.
Matching people to IP addresses when visiting web servers is really tempting, but inherently prohibitively flawed for any global purpose...
And when they decide that political emails from the Democrat party are spam, and start raiding people... Seriously, gone from no PATRIOT act to nearly PATRIOT 2 in 3 years. Going from PATRIOT 2 to PATRIOT 2.5 (with DemoClene(tm)) wouldn't take much longer...
Computers can't do facial recognition?? They've got CCTV systems that can recognise 30 people a second, from a centralised database. If that's not good facial recognition, I'd like to know what is;)
Do they look at the picture, go "duh!", slap their heads and suddenly realise that all the "earth is a planet" stuff was actually true?. I find it truly strange that people need a JPG to realsie that. I'm glad I'm not the only one:-P
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Complaining about oursourcing while people insist on a $70,000 salary is pathetic. How on earth can you expect to remain at the top of your market if you don't offer anything other than a large hole in someone's pocket? If you want such high wages, you have to be prepared to get turned down. People shouldn't get all pissy with India just because they're getting the jobs that once were American. We're all in the global economy for better or for worse. If it's bad now, just wait a few years and it'll be better. Just like if it's good now, wait a few years and it'll be shitty again. Just wait.
No-one's going to pay for a DVD they have to boot off to play a game. No-one. How can you alt-tab between a game and your downloads if you've got to close your OS down and turn your machine off just to play a game?
Saying Linux has no orientation is like saying Chairman Mao had no political aspirations :-P Linux is about as oriented as it gets - it's open source, which gives it great financial and philosophical repercussions. Windows, on the other hand, has less of an orientation as you think. The components of Windows don't lend it to be a business tool, or anything else. You can hardly call Wordpad, Calculator and Paint a "productivity suite", just like you can't call Solitaire and minesweeper a "games library".
Blame where blame's due, but this time you're slightly off...
Patrick Moore, the famous British astronomer, calls celestial bodies straddling the planet/asteroid line "planetessimals"... I think it covers the gap nicely :)
He'd probably use it to keep his gay kids in, so he doesn't have to see to see the look on their faces when he denounces homosexuality again and again and again...
But surely a law against rape is inhibiting rapists' freedom to rape. Your point doesn't make much sense ;)
The Red Team robot had huge sponsors, including Intel. They had over $3m invested in their robot, and look how well they did :-P
Things like that are always subject to change. I'm sure their loads can vary tremendously, especially with something like that in use by developers. All it takes is one missing line of code and their servers could be taxed to hades. I wouldn't be surprised if they modified the per-query limit when the load dictates ;)
America has no special reason to be blame-free for kicking up a stink. It's America's fault it's in this mess, so America only has itself to blame.
The notion America is being "bled dry" is common, and incorrect. It's impossible to bleed America completely dry, due to the sheer size of the market. Funnily enough, a good blood letting would help the market by lowering costs.
The whole world works hard. Saying America deserves more because it built "an industrial infrastructure the ... world envies" is, quite frankly, ridiculous. First of all, the world doesn't envy the US's infrastructure (look at the powercuts and oil dependency, lack of environmental standards/worker protection, no healthcare, etc.), and second of all, the rest of the world works just as hard (possibly even harder) for less. America's pissed because instead of getting a great deal, they're now just getting a good deal.
America has never been the place to go for help. Look at WW2 - Europe needed the US's help, but it sat on its hands for YEARS. In the end it helped by selling old arms to the Brits, in return for land bases across the Empire. There was no altruism there - the US only cares for itself. The same goes for Iraq, Vietnam, Korea - the list goes on. The America you're thinking of is simply spin.
America doesn't deserve any help from the rest of the world, as it takes particular delight in shitting on the small guy when they're down, and only getting involved if it makes most sense to America to do so.
This problem is 100%-American made, and as such, should be blamed 100% on America. Slinging the mud at India doesn't help :)
And no, I don't hate America - I'm simply annoyed that America doesn't live up to its promises, and has allowed such an importantly influential nation turn into an insular, selfish, money-driven society.
Anyway, the only way to fight back is to lower the prices incurred for staying in the US, not raising them for going elsewhere. You can't solve a problem by creating more problems. The market needs to flow freely, otherwise it'll create even more problems down the road.
Right... so the years of Bush Sr. striving to strengthen the market were a mistake then, surely? :)
No, the caste system isn't an issue, as has been discussed on here before. That's one of the common misconceptions of Indian society.
It's a very immature attitude to take. In a free market, you've got to roll with the punches, and live to fight another day. You either adapt or die, bitching about it and instigating artificial means to shore-up the failing market just makes the problem worse. The root of this issue is the stupidly-inflated market values for things in the US compared to other countries. Solve that problem, and the jobs will flood back to the US.
If Ford was charging $300,000 for a Focus, you'd buy a Honda. If you were a Ford employee, would you "defend Ford" for charging an extortionately high price for a car? Of course not - you can see that's way too much to charge for a car.
America has brought this on itself. Trust conservatives to pass the buck, instead of owning up to the fact it was conservative politics that caused this whole mess in the first place.
Strange how the US didn't mind when people were going to the US to work... now it's the other way round, there's a problem.
The real problem here is that American markets pay programmers too much, and charge too much for IT support. Especially seeing as there's no reason to keep it in the US (as there's no lack of service anywhere else). Being a financial market, it flows to where the cheapest resource is. America's priced itself out of the market, and is all huffy 'cos no-one told America it was going to happen.
It seems America is seeing the consequences of its financial actions, and can't take it.
To America, it seems, it's ok for Indians to be poor and begging on the streets of mumbai. As soon as those same Indians out-price the US, they should be stopped. Double-standards all the way :)
That's the key word - yet. Give it 6 months, and you'll be eating your words. Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither will be the space elevator :-P
No, spiders' silk is. They've already shown that they can farm it and it makes far superior vests. Making artificial spinnerettes is the real problem, but one readily addressable.
Unfortunately, with spam, sending a mail to anywhere in the world is free, and very easy to obscure the true origin. As no-one's paying per-email fees for passing the spam along, no-one's that interested if it's spam or not. There's certainly no vested financial interest in stopping it. Just ignoring it is cheaper than actively trying to cut it out.
The real problem with spam is the relative cheapness and anonymity behind it. The only things that stop people spamming via phone/fax/SMS/etc is the fact that the spammer is easily traced. As we all know, with email it's not that simple.
Basically, to get the spammer to stop spamming, stop people buying their product. It's legal, ethical and will stop spam in seconds. Instigate laws that outlaws spam as a method of selling products. Any company found trading via spam can be brought before a court. The beauty with that system is the company has to be reachable via the email somehow (otherwise they wouldn't sell anything, so the spammer wouldn't spam for them), whereas the spammer remains hidden. That lack of anonymity the company posesses means you can find the perpetrator, and press charges. Most likely, the company will release the information about the spammer (including financial information, which can be used to persue the actual spammer).
To reach the spammer you have to go through the only route possible - the vendor.
Matching people to IP addresses when visiting web servers is really tempting, but inherently prohibitively flawed for any global purpose...
And when they decide that political emails from the Democrat party are spam, and start raiding people... Seriously, gone from no PATRIOT act to nearly PATRIOT 2 in 3 years. Going from PATRIOT 2 to PATRIOT 2.5 (with DemoClene(tm)) wouldn't take much longer...
If spam makes you feel violent, maybe it's time for some therapy? Seriously... it peeves me off, but it has never caused violent feelings...
Computers can't do facial recognition?? They've got CCTV systems that can recognise 30 people a second, from a centralised database. If that's not good facial recognition, I'd like to know what is ;)
Do they look at the picture, go "duh!", slap their heads and suddenly realise that all the "earth is a planet" stuff was actually true?. I find it truly strange that people need a JPG to realsie that. I'm glad I'm not the only one :-P