As someone within a company that is slowly shifting to offshore IT workers (to complement the offshore manufacturing workers who make almost all of the products sold in our stores) I can tell you this is 100% crap. Offshoring is not about moving jobs to more knowledgable workers, it is about moving jobs to cheaper workers. When you need a horde for a particular project or task, you always go with the lower cost solution. Remember, quantity of graduates says absolutely nothing about the quality of such graduates.
Oddly enough, we've had to pull back in a few cases where the offshore workers knowledge and experience weren't up to the tasks (fairly simple DBA maintenance support). It seems that the sharp DBA we were shown and worked with at the start of the engagement, was replaced with a week of the start by a trainee of limited language skills. It kind of makes you think that maybe the whole offshoring thing is just some scam to rake in the bucks from gullible idiots.
Sorry, that one's not true either. At least it's somewhat misleading, since it is a community team, not Bioware, that is responsible for the Community Expansion Pack. All of this is wishful thinking based on the ravings of a whacky Atari PR flack and a badly mistranslated and exaggerated interview with someone at Bioware.
Fool, haven't you ever listened to George Carlin? It's not about oil. It's about brown people. We just love blowing up brown people. Their having oil is just a bonus.
My first programming job, right out of school was with a small mortgage company. I knew things were going to be bad when the monthly processing run to distribute interest payments to the various loan 'investors' crashed on my 3rd day, while I was still figuring out where my predecessor had hidden stuff before he was fired.
2 years later, I quit after my entry in the employee pool on which regulator would close them didn't win. My final check wasn't really a check, since no bank would open an account for them. I got a paper sack literally filled with small bills.
I thought I was done with them, but 2 months later the trustee handling their bankruptcy called and I went to work for him as a consultant, recovering their data. We got almost 90% of the principal identified and recovered, which surprised everyone and netted me a nice bonus. But the real bonus didn't occur until over a year after that, when armed guys with badges and everything showed up at my door. I didn't even know postal inspectors carried weapons, but they do. They wanted me to help them prosecute and convict the owner of the mortgage company.
There is nothing in the world as satisfying as the sight of a former bad boss being led off to serve time in federal Pound Me In The Ass prison.
We had the locusts of Keane descend on us here too. 18 months worth of them walking through mountains of code, charging us while they got training (that we mere employees could never get) on our systems and their tools. Then when they went to start putting their changes to 'fix' things into production, the crashes began. After all their work, it only took us virtually worthless employees 3 months to fix their changes and run an actual complete test on a rented system that we scraped together. I'd like to think that our experience was the exception, but unfortunately most large scale consultant driven projects turn into fiascos without proper management and TECHNICAL oversight.
Unfortunately, Open Source development methods work for both the good guys (Linux Kernel, Gnome, Open Office, GIMP, etc.) and the bad guys (virus writers and their associated hangers on). Good development practices are good development practices, regardless of what the intent of the code being produced is.
Obviously, you either don't live in California or you haven't come out from under your tinfoil hat lately. In any event, the Governator is one of those rare, in California at least, Republiboobs and the AG, a Mr. Lockyer, is one of the more numerous Dummycrats that have infested the Sacramento area lately. And lately, what with all the gay marriage fuss going on lately, neither the Governator or the AG are exactly on speaking terms after the AG got 'ordered' to enforce the existing laws. So the notion of the AG doing something that would benefit the Governator is a bit far fetched to say the least.
On a side note to the moderators: Since when is pandering to the silliest of prejudices found here 'insightful'?
I know, I had trouble getting a confirmed ship date for my Area-51 too. But it did actually arrive. Since then the machine just screams along, despite the weekly need to clean cat hair out of the vents.
Now with my wife's Dell laptop, what arrived was not what we ordered, and it took almost 3 months of constant phone calls, 3 shipments from Dell of the wrong replacement parts (including a desktop DVD drive that they expected me to hack onto the laptop I guess), before the DVD drive that should have been on the laptop from the beginning arrived. Then after 14 months of mostly okay service, the darn thing turned it's screen off and died.
My son has a Dell desktop, which is still running, but he also got to go the rounds with Dell's "award winning" customer service. They eventually told him that his bundled Windows recovery CD they customized and sent along with the computer being in reality a blank unburned CD wasn't their problem and they weren't gonna replace it. On a lark, he called that company we all love to hate/dislike here, and a couple days later an XP CD showed up on our doorstep.
Anyone who is thinking of buying a Dell should remember that Dell's service is capable of making Microsoft look good.
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I saw someone say something like this earlier, but it does bear repeating here dispite my paraphrasing.
Yes, of course ALL of his writings are pure science fiction. But the question is, are they GOOD science fiction?
I think not.
As someone within a company that is slowly shifting to offshore IT workers (to complement the offshore manufacturing workers who make almost all of the products sold in our stores) I can tell you this is 100% crap. Offshoring is not about moving jobs to more knowledgable workers, it is about moving jobs to cheaper workers. When you need a horde for a particular project or task, you always go with the lower cost solution. Remember, quantity of graduates says absolutely nothing about the quality of such graduates.
Oddly enough, we've had to pull back in a few cases where the offshore workers knowledge and experience weren't up to the tasks (fairly simple DBA maintenance support). It seems that the sharp DBA we were shown and worked with at the start of the engagement, was replaced with a week of the start by a trainee of limited language skills. It kind of makes you think that maybe the whole offshoring thing is just some scam to rake in the bucks from gullible idiots.
Don't worry, Firexxx 1.0 isn't out yet, so there's still time for them to get that last minute name change in to confuse and confound everyone.
Sorry, that one's not true either. At least it's somewhat misleading, since it is a community team, not Bioware, that is responsible for the Community Expansion Pack. All of this is wishful thinking based on the ravings of a whacky Atari PR flack and a badly mistranslated and exaggerated interview with someone at Bioware.
Fool, haven't you ever listened to George Carlin? It's not about oil. It's about brown people. We just love blowing up brown people. Their having oil is just a bonus.
My first programming job, right out of school was with a small mortgage company. I knew things were going to be bad when the monthly processing run to distribute interest payments to the various loan 'investors' crashed on my 3rd day, while I was still figuring out where my predecessor had hidden stuff before he was fired.
2 years later, I quit after my entry in the employee pool on which regulator would close them didn't win. My final check wasn't really a check, since no bank would open an account for them. I got a paper sack literally filled with small bills.
I thought I was done with them, but 2 months later the trustee handling their bankruptcy called and I went to work for him as a consultant, recovering their data. We got almost 90% of the principal identified and recovered, which surprised everyone and netted me a nice bonus. But the real bonus didn't occur until over a year after that, when armed guys with badges and everything showed up at my door. I didn't even know postal inspectors carried weapons, but they do. They wanted me to help them prosecute and convict the owner of the mortgage company.
There is nothing in the world as satisfying as the sight of a former bad boss being led off to serve time in federal Pound Me In The Ass prison.
We had the locusts of Keane descend on us here too. 18 months worth of them walking through mountains of code, charging us while they got training (that we mere employees could never get) on our systems and their tools. Then when they went to start putting their changes to 'fix' things into production, the crashes began. After all their work, it only took us virtually worthless employees 3 months to fix their changes and run an actual complete test on a rented system that we scraped together. I'd like to think that our experience was the exception, but unfortunately most large scale consultant driven projects turn into fiascos without proper management and TECHNICAL oversight.
Unfortunately, Open Source development methods work for both the good guys (Linux Kernel, Gnome, Open Office, GIMP, etc.) and the bad guys (virus writers and their associated hangers on). Good development practices are good development practices, regardless of what the intent of the code being produced is.
Obviously, you either don't live in California or you haven't come out from under your tinfoil hat lately. In any event, the Governator is one of those rare, in California at least, Republiboobs and the AG, a Mr. Lockyer, is one of the more numerous Dummycrats that have infested the Sacramento area lately. And lately, what with all the gay marriage fuss going on lately, neither the Governator or the AG are exactly on speaking terms after the AG got 'ordered' to enforce the existing laws. So the notion of the AG doing something that would benefit the Governator is a bit far fetched to say the least. On a side note to the moderators: Since when is pandering to the silliest of prejudices found here 'insightful'?
I know, I had trouble getting a confirmed ship date for my Area-51 too. But it did actually arrive. Since then the machine just screams along, despite the weekly need to clean cat hair out of the vents.
Now with my wife's Dell laptop, what arrived was not what we ordered, and it took almost 3 months of constant phone calls, 3 shipments from Dell of the wrong replacement parts (including a desktop DVD drive that they expected me to hack onto the laptop I guess), before the DVD drive that should have been on the laptop from the beginning arrived. Then after 14 months of mostly okay service, the darn thing turned it's screen off and died.
My son has a Dell desktop, which is still running, but he also got to go the rounds with Dell's "award winning" customer service. They eventually told him that his bundled Windows recovery CD they customized and sent along with the computer being in reality a blank unburned CD wasn't their problem and they weren't gonna replace it. On a lark, he called that company we all love to hate/dislike here, and a couple days later an XP CD showed up on our doorstep.
Anyone who is thinking of buying a Dell should remember that Dell's service is capable of making Microsoft look good.