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  1. Re:People vote with their wallets. on U.S. IT jobs Down 400K Since 2001 · · Score: 1

    The slave wages in China or Mexico are higher, proportionally, than the "living wage" of most people in America. It's just that the standard of living is much lover overall in those countries.

  2. Re:Analysis of Outsourcing, H-1Bs, and Illegal Ali on U.S. IT jobs Down 400K Since 2001 · · Score: 1

    Cheney's "more important things to do" including supporting a wife and two kids. Kerry, in contrast, went home after 3 1/2 months in Vietnam and sided with the Viet Cong.

  3. Re:in other news... on U.S. IT jobs Down 400K Since 2001 · · Score: 1

    Well, FICA, to start with.

  4. Re:Outsourcing is an effect, not a cause on U.S. IT jobs Down 400K Since 2001 · · Score: 1

    If you've got programmers doing math and/or algorithms, chances are you've got a big failure coming up for at least 95% of jobs that require programmers unless that job title has "research" in it.

  5. Re:Outsourcing is an effect, not a cause on U.S. IT jobs Down 400K Since 2001 · · Score: 1

    Well, the "recession" was for the first two fiscal quarters of 2001 (i.e. the last two quarters of 2000) but the NASDAQ started it's plunge in March of 2000 and really got up to speed in April with the Microsoft Anti-trust ruling. By 2001 the stock market had pretty much leveled off until the Worldcom/Enron collapses followed closely by 9/11.

  6. Re:Outsourcing is an effect, not a cause on U.S. IT jobs Down 400K Since 2001 · · Score: 1

    Hey! I'm an English, History, and Communications dropout who knows HTML and can author some VBScript, I've managed to find pretty lucrative programming contracts since my corporate IT job got outsourced early this year.

  7. Re:Sounds awesome. on Ubuntu Linux Preview Released · · Score: 1

    I've seen compiler output long before gentoo existed. Seeing more of it won't teach me anything new. Likewise, I've used symlinks before LFS, so using that won't teach me anything new either.

  8. Re:wait a minute on Turn Your House Plants Into Speakers · · Score: 1

    10W-50!?! -- That's a pretty thick viscosity.

  9. Re:But in episode... on Obsessively Detailed Map Of Springfield · · Score: 1

    But is his establishment on the map? I can't find it.

  10. Re:your mission, should you choose to accept it .. on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1

    I really like thunderbird, but if I'm reading a good thread in slashdot and I want to buy some herbal viagra, I can't just right click on my email and "open in new browser tab" That's why I still use the full mozilla suite.

  11. Re:Right up there with Gates on Intel Predicts Death Of WWW · · Score: 1

    rewinding (and fastforwarding) is a FEATURE, not a defect.

  12. Re:Buy more chips on Intel Predicts Death Of WWW · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure this was meant to be a "there are more than 5 billion people in the world, and fewer than 5 billion addresses in IPv4."

  13. Re:Hmmm... on Miguel de Icaza Debates Avalon with an Avalon Designer · · Score: 1

    The problem is that "old fashioned" security doesn't matter anymore. In order to stop viruses, malware, etc, you need to block ports 80, 110, & 5901/6901. It all comes through email, web, & chat anymore. And alot of it is starting to tunnel using ssh through 80.

  14. Re:been debunked on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 1

    giving up your right to own a weapon doesn't reduce the chance of people being shot. Do you still want to make knives illegal? What about clubs and other blunt objects? What about muscles. Sam Colt made the skinny guy able to defend himself against the buff dude. And who's going to defend us against the cops. I recently had a cop DRAW HIS PISTOL ON ME because I didn't want to listen to his lecture about why he was blocking the road, and instead decided to turn my car around and find a route not blocked by an imperious imbecile. (In all fairness, he may have thought I was trying to ignore his roadblock, but killing civilians in order to defend a flawed theory of traffic flow is worse than anything Stalin did.)

  15. Re:Clarification? hostile bidding on Federal Judge Rules Oracle can Bid for PeopleSoft · · Score: 1

    of course, the controlling interest is usually around 25% of the shares.

  16. Re:That applies to any ERP on the market on Federal Judge Rules Oracle can Bid for PeopleSoft · · Score: 1

    You're right. Configuring ERP software is a vast majority of the problem.

  17. Re:Well, this is just great. on Federal Judge Rules Oracle can Bid for PeopleSoft · · Score: 1

    I don't trust bullion. Give me stamped coin from a trustworthy mint. I don't have time to weigh and displace my gold to make sure it's pure.

  18. Re:Point on Federal Judge Rules Oracle can Bid for PeopleSoft · · Score: 1

    Applications like Peoplesoft and SAP are *VERY* resistant to migration. That's the whole point of these otherwise not-so-complex applications. 75% of the code is designed to lock you in to the vendor, although when it comes down to it, it's just forms and database tables and reports. The complexity comes from the proprietary lock-in designed to prevent you from getting at your information in non-standard ways. You can't just query a peoplesoft database. Since I'm throwing stones, I'll mention Siebel, JD Edwards, and Quicken while I'm at it.

  19. Re:Let me get this straight on Federal Judge Rules Oracle can Bid for PeopleSoft · · Score: 1

    That's right, the board has to obey the shareholders. Peoplesoft is a publicly traded company. If Oracle is willing to pay what the shareholder are asking, then they're the new shareholders. "We reserver the right to reserve service..." does not apply to publicly traded companies. If you wanted to still control your company, you shouldn't have sold it. That said, earlier, Peoplesofts shareholders resisted a bid by Oracle to purchase their shares, feeling that a short-term profit was less than the long term gains of not being an Oracle-subsidiary, and thus the share price rose above the Oracle offer.

  20. Re:The fish on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 1

    there's 4 eyas is Sveedeech, ja?

  21. Get this kid a dictionary on How Well Do You Estimate? · · Score: 1

    He has no clue what "estimate" means. He wants you to estimate fixed dates such the year Harold II became King of England. And estimate obscure measured quanta such as the distance between the earth and the moon. The few real categories for estimations are ballpark-pulled-out-of-the-ass number like how many shopping bags are used anually by Australians, and in such cases, his "factual" numbers are so wildly off as to be rediculous. And then after being called on it, admits that he uses basically random numbers and made up equations, and then performs them incorrectly. Then there are the "estimates" which are really biases numbers pulled out of someone else's hat, created to justify personal motivations, using loaded, unquantifiable terms, such as how many british are "functionally" illiterate. Crap. No, shit. His political survey (I quit halfway through) is so loaded as to be even more rEdiculous.

  22. Re:My 2 cents on Dive Into Python · · Score: 1

    Is there a patch to python that can alter that syntax?

  23. Re:Actually... on Mozilla's Sunbird Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Yeah! Only let's ditch the XML, and make them persistable, provide some kind of transaction locking mechanism, and call these little "gifts" something else, something like "files"

  24. Re:Actually... on Mozilla's Sunbird Reviewed · · Score: 1

    But ascii doesn't Elvish, Klingon, or ancient Mandarin characters.

  25. Re:New methods needed? on Implications Of The Recent Hash Function Attacks · · Score: 1

    If the time frame to brute force will take 6 years, then you will get it done twice as fast if you start 3 years from now (with quadruple the computing power.)