I've a theory about the outsourcing wave, before 9/11 a lot of indians already worked on the software business in US, and they were well there.
But then 9/11, anthrax, terrorism fear, came and they became full of fear, US weren't so nice anymore and they came back to their home country.
Almost all people i knew that was living in US came back fearing terrorism, you probably didn't fell that effect but in the 3rd world we felt very well, every one that was working in the US suddelly showed up.
So, with all those people caming back to India, a lot were very good professionals (the tops on their companies) and had a lot of money in the pocket for working all those years in US, and we all know that in the 3rd world money worths at least 3 times more than in US (that's why we earn 3U$/hour)
They also had very good professionals avaible, those that also came back and others that India traditionally has. So they opened their software companies in India, exactly like if they where in the US.
I don't know exactly how the connection was finally done: - If it was the former employer that asked him to come back an he proposed outsourcing (because couldn't come back to US) - If it was a fellow indian that remained in the US and happened to already have a Software House and proposed partnership - Or if it was a regreted indian, eager for the same money that was earning before, but couldn't return to the US because of the new immigration laws, made contact himself with a Software House in the US
So that's how it starts, after that it's mouth-to-mouth marketing, companies copying other companies success, need to reduce costs and remain competitive.
People say that outsourcing is another bubble that will explode, but unlike the internet bubble I don't see many reasons for that. Those that work on a company that is outsourcing are usually the bests around, and are very happy with their sallaries.
It may happen that companies abroad will receive more demand than they actually can qualitly handle, and start to hire low qualified people reducing quality of their products, but there is a lot of qualified people around able to work, and I don't belive that it will happen soon. It may happen someday but if it happens it will not be a bubble explosion, but an adjustment.
PS: I'm not from India, I'm from Brazil, but we are togheter with Russia in the outsourcing market and the situation here is very similar to India.
I forgot to mention, one of the reasons that soviet cars didn't evolve is that they didn't suffer the oil crisis on the 70's, because they had all the oil they need and weren't in the market, so they didn't need to care about efficiency
That would be good for songwriters and bad for singers that don't write songs theirselves and are just a good body/voice.
Songwriters won't need them (who get most of the authoring money) because they will be able to "sing" the songs themselves.
This will cheap production costs because there will exist no need to pay studio time. Which may make easier to product an album (more indepency from labels).
But everyone will loose money, from less concerts, because people will be less motivated to go to any of them, since it will exist less real singers.
What about using it to give expression to the voice and creating virtual actors. That with CG would result in much cheaper movies:-) No millionarie contracts anymore...
I'm not flame baiting, it depends what you're using to say it's fast.
I ran X on a 300mhz computer, i use blackbox (you can't blame desktop) X takes sometime to load.
Now a second proof, run Xfree 3.3.6 4.1.0 and 4.3.0 , run top each time, and you see how bloated it became, 4.3 use at least 4 times more memory than 3.3.6. that dramaticly reduces speed on a 128MB machine (mine) and is a nightmare for a 32MB one (i administer 4 of them, poor country). A lot of friends have similar machines to mine: about 350mhz 128ram
If developers use high end machines and not real word machines, anything will be fast for them, even MSWindows XP
A lot of you know that spammers get your email address using webspiders (similar to the ones web search engines use) to catch email addresses on homepages.
A lot of those are from mailing lists archives. Mailing lists usually take care to remove user email from the header of the messages they archive, but they don't (what maybe would be hard to do) filter the content.
And a lot, maybe most, of mail readers (like outlook from microsoft-sue-spammers) include the email address of the original sender in the message content when replying/fowarding a email address. So you may take care using your email to avoid spam, but if someone foward your email (with your address included) to some "open archive" mailing list the damage is already done.
So if mail readers (webmail included) didn't (at least by default) automatically post the email of the original sender on the content of every replied/fowarded email the spammers would have much less email addresses on their databases.
Go on, webmail providers, for you it's much easier to update the whole base, and that will save you some bandwidth/disk
There's also closed caption people, those which make closed caption for tv shows for impaired, they use a different keyboard and they can do it real time (i watch a lot of live tv shows that are captioned)
I needed to subtitle a movie once, i used mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) to listen the audio, it was easier than another means because you have shortcuts for rewind <- rows back 10 seconds, and you can adjust how much it rewind ( i changed to 4 seconds).
I didn't know by the time but you can also use it to slowdown the speech, like slow motion for video, i think it's much easier to type.
I don't know if it was because i also needed to translate/syncronize and wasn't a native speaker i gave up on it. I advice you to search better for speech recognition software.
PS: For those that want to subtitle movies using my advices you need to -dumpaudio for that, because videos codecs use a minimum rewind time.
If you buy a computer today you are not expecting to wait until tomorrow to get its promissed performance. Buy when better compilers are avaible then, i think the benchmark is valid.
The article says Caridi couldn't make a copy of the tapes himself, how can he be tech person? And make copies for himself i think is fair use, even he probably will go to jail.
And i don't think that Sprague put that copies on the internet himself, the article said it gaves back vhs copies. If he was able to digitalize them he would send copies on dvd.
Just updating, some guy promissed to send us some ram modules (i don't know how it's going on, he said would look for), a hard drive is dead and a processor seens to be dying (old hardware is hard to mantain).
By looking at your server hardware i think it would be more easy to use them for some charity purpose if it stay there (in the US or where you are) hosting social or non-profit projects websites.
Moving them abroad may cost more than they actually cost and bandwith is much more expensive here.
I don't know which country you mean by Amazon (it covers several countries), maybe Brazil. Here coke is about 0.30U$ and an OEM copy of MS Windows XP is about 67U$.
Microsoft already donate software here to a national NGO that teach poor people. I bet this money would be used by UN for teaching aswell.
Poor people don't have money to buy computers, and if they manage to buy an old computer, that wouldn't run MS Windows XP neither Gnome or KDE (the defaults of linux distros).
BTW, that NGO trows a lot of used computers (parts) away because they can't run MS Windows on it.
Buy the processor with the highest frequency your money can buy, the best heat sink, and an adjustable speed cooler. When you need silence, reboot, downclock the processor and turnoff the cooler. A 3.2Ghz half at half frequency (that not means half speed) is still very fast.
You can also just use a high quality headphone
And those sound enginners might user their computers on a hot room, because air-conditioning make noise too.
There's a diskette image "isolinux/sbootmgr.dsk" that comes with slackware that show a visual interface that let you boot to harddisk or cdrom. Only one diskette and works with any bootable cdrom (not just slackware)
It will have more users when it has more support...
"But what you mean, how many times did you call microsoft?"
That not the kind of support desktop users use, they usually ask some friend. Maybe few years ago there wasn't m(any) people that desktop users knew that use linux, today there's but now it's another problem, the programs people use is very diverse.
I use slackware, blackbox and shell, and i've received a lot of questions of friends about "how to do that in mandrake, windowmaker, gnome, kde..." or "which graphic program that do that" that i couldn't answer (because i'm was offline at the moment or i really didn't know).
More than a lot of "geek friends" to solve your questions i think linux also need to stabilize in few major distros/apps, that geeks can talk with their friends.
And for Kde/gnome people: no way i will use bloated software, try to reduce memory/processor needs!
Do I correctly understand that you don't want a solar-powered jacket-charger because going outside will give you wrinkles?
Not going outside but staring in the sun to charge your devices. It may give you wrinkles you're used to think because it reduces elasticity of the skin, but the major problem is that it kind broke your skin. In a tropical country near Antartica (where all CFC gas go to broke the ozone layer) we see that a lot, even with people on their 30's. It also give you freckles and dark dots, i often swin on the outside, i take care but still have some of it, i know what i'm talking about.
And there is also cancer that damages genes of few cells now and will show it's results just ten or 20 years later, when the damage was already done.
And that you would consider hanging the jacket outside with all your gadgetry No i was just saying that the jacket is pretty useless after it's appearence is damaged because of excessive sun expose
..U.S. law, which allows color reproductions of U.S. bank notes so long as the reproductions are smaller than 75 percent or larger than 150 percent of actual size.. The reproduction must be one-sided...
The dollars i see on movies (when something carring a lot of then explodes or breaks) don't look smaller or white on the other side. Which kind of replica they use?
1) Use it with you inside, but you can damage your skin appearence or get cancer that way
2) Leave the jacket staring on the sun, but the sun will damage your jacket (specially colors) and soon you will not be able to use it on yourself (you still can just carry it with you though)
I would prefer carry just that flexible solar panels on my pocket/car/wallet
tried again using a new class of laser that emits light in ultraviolet
Using a non-visible laser can generate much more accidents that regular lasers because operators and people around may not see where laser is beaming to until the damage is already done
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I've a theory about the outsourcing wave, before 9/11 a lot of indians already worked on the software business in US, and they were well there.
But then 9/11, anthrax, terrorism fear, came and they became full of fear, US weren't so nice anymore and they came back to their home country.
Almost all people i knew that was living in US came back fearing terrorism, you probably didn't fell that effect but in the 3rd world we felt very well, every one that was working in the US suddelly showed up.
So, with all those people caming back to India, a lot were very good professionals (the tops on their companies) and had a lot of money in the pocket for working all those years in US, and we all know that in the 3rd world money worths at least 3 times more than in US (that's why we earn 3U$/hour)
They also had very good professionals avaible, those that also came back and others that India traditionally has. So they opened their software companies in India, exactly like if they where in the US.
I don't know exactly how the connection was finally done:
- If it was the former employer that asked him to come back an he proposed outsourcing (because couldn't come back to US)
- If it was a fellow indian that remained in the US and happened to already have a Software House and proposed partnership
- Or if it was a regreted indian, eager for the same money that was earning before, but couldn't return to the US because of the new immigration laws, made contact himself with a Software House in the US
So that's how it starts, after that it's mouth-to-mouth marketing, companies copying other companies success, need to reduce costs and remain competitive.
People say that outsourcing is another bubble that will explode, but unlike the internet bubble I don't see many reasons for that. Those that work on a company that is outsourcing are usually the bests around, and are very happy with their sallaries.
It may happen that companies abroad will receive more demand than they actually can qualitly handle, and start to hire low qualified people reducing quality of their products, but there is a lot of qualified people around able to work, and I don't belive that it will happen soon. It may happen someday but if it happens it will not be a bubble explosion, but an adjustment.
PS: I'm not from India, I'm from Brazil, but we are togheter with Russia in the outsourcing market and the situation here is very similar to India.
Volkswagen Kombi, we still use it in Brazil, noisy, hard to drive, low fuel efficient
I forgot to mention, one of the reasons that soviet cars didn't evolve is that they didn't suffer the oil crisis on the 70's, because they had all the oil they need and weren't in the market, so they didn't need to care about efficiency
Soviet Cars were like trucks in shape of a sedan, they were made to work several years without failure, what makes than awful to drive.
That would be good for songwriters and bad for singers that don't write songs theirselves and are just a good body/voice.
Songwriters won't need them (who get most of the authoring money) because they will be able to "sing" the songs themselves.
This will cheap production costs because there will exist no need to pay studio time. Which may make easier to product an album (more indepency from labels).
But everyone will loose money, from less concerts, because people will be less motivated to go to any of them, since it will exist less real singers.
What about using it to give expression to the voice and creating virtual actors. That with CG would result in much cheaper movies :-) No millionarie contracts anymore ...
I'm not flame baiting, it depends what you're using to say it's fast.
I ran X on a 300mhz computer, i use blackbox (you can't blame desktop) X takes sometime to load.
Now a second proof, run Xfree 3.3.6 4.1.0 and 4.3.0 , run top each time, and you see how bloated it became, 4.3 use at least 4 times more memory than 3.3.6. that dramaticly reduces speed on a 128MB machine (mine) and is a nightmare for a 32MB one (i administer 4 of them, poor country).
A lot of friends have similar machines to mine: about 350mhz 128ram
If developers use high end machines and not real word machines, anything will be fast for them, even MSWindows XP
A lot of you know that spammers get your email address using webspiders (similar to the ones web search engines use) to catch email addresses on homepages.
A lot of those are from mailing lists archives. Mailing lists usually take care to remove user email from the header of the messages they archive, but they don't (what maybe would be hard to do) filter the content.
And a lot, maybe most, of mail readers (like outlook from microsoft-sue-spammers) include the email address of the original sender in the message content when replying/fowarding a email address.
So you may take care using your email to avoid spam, but if someone foward your email (with your address included) to some "open archive" mailing list the damage is already done.
So if mail readers (webmail included) didn't (at least by default) automatically post the email of the original sender on the content of every replied/fowarded email the spammers would have much less email addresses on their databases.
Go on, webmail providers, for you it's much easier to update the whole base, and that will save you some bandwidth/disk
There's also closed caption people, those which make closed caption for tv shows for impaired, they use a different keyboard and they can do it real time (i watch a lot of live tv shows that are captioned)
I needed to subtitle a movie once, i used mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) to listen the audio, it was easier than another means because you have shortcuts for rewind <- rows back 10 seconds, and you can adjust how much it rewind ( i changed to 4 seconds).
I didn't know by the time but you can also use it to slowdown the speech, like slow motion for video, i think it's much easier to type.
I don't know if it was because i also needed to translate/syncronize and wasn't a native speaker i gave up on it. I advice you to search better for speech recognition software.
PS: For those that want to subtitle movies using my advices you need to -dumpaudio for that, because videos codecs use a minimum rewind time.
You can get more images as soon as they're out here
If you buy a computer today you are not expecting to wait until tomorrow to get its promissed performance. Buy when better compilers are avaible then, i think the benchmark is valid.
I wonder if he's even familiar with the Internet
The article says Caridi couldn't make a copy of the tapes himself, how can he be tech person? And make copies for himself i think is fair use, even he probably will go to jail.
And i don't think that Sprague put that copies on the internet himself, the article said it gaves back vhs copies. If he was able to digitalize them he would send copies on dvd.
You can read a previous comment i wrote here
Just updating, some guy promissed to send us some ram modules (i don't know how it's going on, he said would look for), a hard drive is dead and a processor seens to be dying (old hardware is hard to mantain).
By looking at your server hardware i think it would be more easy to use them for some charity purpose if it stay there (in the US or where you are) hosting social or non-profit projects websites.
Moving them abroad may cost more than they actually cost and bandwith is much more expensive here.
I don't know which country you mean by Amazon (it covers several countries), maybe Brazil. Here coke is about 0.30U$ and an OEM copy of MS Windows XP is about 67U$.
Microsoft already donate software here to a national NGO that teach poor people.
I bet this money would be used by UN for teaching aswell.
Poor people don't have money to buy computers, and if they manage to buy an old computer, that wouldn't run MS Windows XP neither Gnome or KDE (the defaults of linux distros).
BTW, that NGO trows a lot of used computers (parts) away because they can't run MS Windows on it.
Buy the processor with the highest frequency your money can buy, the best heat sink, and an adjustable speed cooler.
When you need silence, reboot, downclock the processor and turnoff the cooler.
A 3.2Ghz half at half frequency (that not means half speed) is still very fast.
You can also just use a high quality headphone
And those sound enginners might user their computers on a hot room, because air-conditioning make noise too.
There's a diskette image "isolinux/sbootmgr.dsk" that comes with slackware that show a visual interface that let you boot to harddisk or cdrom. Only one diskette and works with any bootable cdrom (not just slackware)
It will have more users when it has more support...
"But what you mean, how many times did you call microsoft?"
That not the kind of support desktop users use, they usually ask some friend. Maybe few years ago there wasn't m(any) people that desktop users knew that use linux, today there's but now it's another problem, the programs people use is very diverse.
I use slackware, blackbox and shell, and i've received a lot of questions of friends about "how to do that in mandrake, windowmaker, gnome, kde..." or "which graphic program that do that" that i couldn't answer (because i'm was offline at the moment or i really didn't know).
More than a lot of "geek friends" to solve your questions i think linux also need to stabilize in few major distros/apps, that geeks can talk with their friends.
And for Kde/gnome people: no way i will use bloated software, try to reduce memory/processor needs!
Because they take so long time a release a new version that you don't need to care very much about upgrades :-)
Dalsa, (...) makes cinema-quality video components
...
Does anyone know where i can buy used ccd video cameras, from Dalsa clients (like holywood studios) that don't want to use them anymore?
I mean from the real clients, not from some intermediary that will sell them on ebay
Do I correctly understand that you don't want a solar-powered jacket-charger because going outside will give you wrinkles?
Not going outside but staring in the sun to charge your devices.
It may give you wrinkles you're used to think because it reduces elasticity of the skin, but the major problem is that it kind broke your skin.
In a tropical country near Antartica (where all CFC gas go to broke the ozone layer) we see that a lot, even with people on their 30's.
It also give you freckles and dark dots, i often swin on the outside, i take care but still have some of it, i know what i'm talking about.
And there is also cancer that damages genes of few cells now and will show it's results just ten or 20 years later, when the damage was already done.
And that you would consider hanging the jacket outside with all your gadgetry
No i was just saying that the jacket is pretty useless after it's appearence is damaged because of excessive sun expose
..U.S. law, which allows color reproductions of U.S. bank notes so long as the reproductions are smaller than 75 percent or larger than 150 percent of actual size.. The reproduction must be one-sided...
The dollars i see on movies (when something carring a lot of then explodes or breaks) don't look smaller or white on the other side. Which kind of replica they use?
You have two options for charge that jacket:
1) Use it with you inside, but you can damage your skin appearence or get cancer that way
2) Leave the jacket staring on the sun, but the sun will damage your jacket (specially colors) and soon you will not be able to use it on yourself (you still can just carry it with you though)
I would prefer carry just that flexible solar panels on my pocket/car/wallet
The expenses of buy a laser and feeding it with energy don't cover the costs of cleaning the blades once in a while.
And where all that dirt that need to be avoid comes from, the only thing you're cutting is cheese
tried again using a new class of laser that emits light in ultraviolet
Using a non-visible laser can generate much more accidents that regular lasers because operators and people around may not see where laser is beaming to until the damage is already done