Easy suggestion, Primotech: try it with a $500 iBook. The parts are small enough to fit into the Mac Plus case due to the iBook's portability and you cheaply have an LCD screen. If anyone tries this, email me with pics. I'd love to see it.
I disagree. Call in the gov'ment regulators and union reps, and you can watch your IT jobs disappear twice as quickly. Just look what unionizing did to our manufacturing jobs. If you make the American worker more difficult to deal with, U.S. corporations will wipe out those jobs and send them overseas.
I worked for McDonald's when I was 16. And again at 25 when I couldn't find a job in engineering. Apparently McDonald's is now experimenting with machines that will flip burgers. What's happening now makes sense. They are creating more white-collar jobs for robot builders (I think they're called Electrical Engineers?) and programmers. I think automation is cool, but what we need are more opportunities for startups to provide jobs for all the workers displaced my these machines.
Dear Friend,
Where do you work? And are they hiring?
Do the math - if you worked an entry-level job @ $6.25 per hour and worked fewer than 40 hours per week so your employer didn't have to offer you benefits, how long do you think you could afford to pay rent, utilities, and food expenses - let alone a car payment and internet access fees so you can post your opinions on this web site?
It is a brutal fact that white-collar jobs in the U.S. are being outsourced. Why don't we just start our own companies and forget about all the old corporations? They don't think twice about the damage they are doing to the U.S. economy, so why should we worry about them? We don't need them. Boycott their products and do your own thing. That's what I'd advise.
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Easy suggestion, Primotech: try it with a $500 iBook. The parts are small enough to fit into the Mac Plus case due to the iBook's portability and you cheaply have an LCD screen. If anyone tries this, email me with pics. I'd love to see it.
And install Mac OS X for Pete's sake.
I disagree. Call in the gov'ment regulators and union reps, and you can watch your IT jobs disappear twice as quickly. Just look what unionizing did to our manufacturing jobs. If you make the American worker more difficult to deal with, U.S. corporations will wipe out those jobs and send them overseas.
I worked for McDonald's when I was 16. And again at 25 when I couldn't find a job in engineering. Apparently McDonald's is now experimenting with machines that will flip burgers. What's happening now makes sense. They are creating more white-collar jobs for robot builders (I think they're called Electrical Engineers?) and programmers. I think automation is cool, but what we need are more opportunities for startups to provide jobs for all the workers displaced my these machines.
Dear Friend, Where do you work? And are they hiring? Do the math - if you worked an entry-level job @ $6.25 per hour and worked fewer than 40 hours per week so your employer didn't have to offer you benefits, how long do you think you could afford to pay rent, utilities, and food expenses - let alone a car payment and internet access fees so you can post your opinions on this web site?
It is a brutal fact that white-collar jobs in the U.S. are being outsourced. Why don't we just start our own companies and forget about all the old corporations? They don't think twice about the damage they are doing to the U.S. economy, so why should we worry about them? We don't need them. Boycott their products and do your own thing. That's what I'd advise.