I currently work for a large financial company that uses offshore workers extensively for IT. That being said there are still over 1000 IT employees in the US and we are growing our US IT employee base, we are also growing our offshore outsourcing shop. We look for different skill sets, the offshore teams are either service teams and low end coding or low end system administration, all of the project management happens in onshore teams or we have loads of developers that do the "interesting" coding as well as a few on shore system admins. Basically if you are good at what you do and driven to succeed you should be able to get work in the US. That is assuming you don't buy into the US economy is doomed because of some reason or other:)
I used to work in offshore for the same firm and I was much more worried about my job then, then I am now.
They do get more money per box, but until very resently every computer manufacturer HAD to ship an MS OS with there computer so Billy boy was makeing way more off OEMs because of the sheer volume of sales.
I work at a university we have a department that specializes in helping handicapped students. They often suggest they use computers, we have computers that use JAWS for reading what is on the screen, they have programs that (using a scanner) can scan in pages and read them to the students, they also have brail (sp?) writers so that blind students can read what is on the screen. This department does not do much for students that can't move the hands, that being said we do have a department head who has what I believe is cerebral palsy (in any case he is slowly losing the use of his arms and legs) they purchased a program call GUSS and a GUSS mouse. It uses some form of laser to move the cursor. I do not have much information on the program because all I had to do was install it. The product was quite expensive (around $3000) so you might not be interested, I do not know the website off the top of my head but if your interested reply here and I'll get it for you.
This stuff sounds pretty cool, I certainly agree that that it needs to recognize re-runs or identical programming and only tape them if I told it too... (i.e. do you want reruns taped [y/n]) Personally I don't care about the privacy side of it, even if they do spam me I'll just add it to the pile of spam that I throw out every day from icq and email:)
If they get the smart feature working better it would rock too, I don't always have time to look for things to watch that I would be interested in, in this case it might be able to find them for me.
The idea of being able to watch TV when I want rather then when the networks wants kicks ass. It means at 5:00pm or 6:00pm there will be something more interesting then Martha Stewart for my wife to watch... man Martha pisses me of, and that is not a good thing:)
I don't much care for the subscription idea, I would much rather pay the 200 lifetime up front then pay on a monthly basis though it isn't too bad cause most people already pay for the cable or satellite on a monthly basis.
On the whole it sounds like a big step in the right direction!
I guess that wasn't the best wording, I didn't mean to say that nobody from Japan reads slashdot, but I would assume that most people who do are in North America. Though this may also be wrong seeing as I have nothing to base that on. That being said what I really mean is in the next few months to a year Sony will have (hopefully) cleared up these problems. Too bad they didn't fix them first but that seems to be the way everybody releases software/hardware today. At this time, is when most people be they in Japan, the US or elsewhere is probably when they will buy these systems so why do we give the initial problems so much attention. As for a PC I made another incorrect assumption, that anyone reading slashdot had a PC that was probably capable of playing these games. Obviously this was a bad assumption to make since not everybody can afford to buy a new computer ever year or so. Personally though I would rather spend the money to upgrade my PC then buy a console gaming station. On the other hand if all you have is a mainframe (poor you NOT!:)) then a console game just may be the way to go......
It was my understanding that Athlon Chips were at 100Mhz bus so a 1Ghz would be 10.0x 100=1000Mhz. I believe (though I don't know for sure) that most Athlon motherboards only have 10.5x as the fastest mulpilier so unless you increase the bus speed, which I believe is not supported by the motherboard, or the overclocking cards the fastest you could get is 10.5x100=1050Mhz. Not great for over clocking.......
I don't mean to rain on your parade, but it's only $65 is that really going to break the bank, sure it's a big difference from $20 but it is still pretty close to the cheapest piece of your computer. Is it not?
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I currently work for a large financial company that uses offshore workers extensively for IT. That being said there are still over 1000 IT employees in the US and we are growing our US IT employee base, we are also growing our offshore outsourcing shop. We look for different skill sets, the offshore teams are either service teams and low end coding or low end system administration, all of the project management happens in onshore teams or we have loads of developers that do the "interesting" coding as well as a few on shore system admins. Basically if you are good at what you do and driven to succeed you should be able to get work in the US. That is assuming you don't buy into the US economy is doomed because of some reason or other :)
I used to work in offshore for the same firm and I was much more worried about my job then, then I am now.
The problem with your kernel is GCC version 96, use KGCC and it should work. Or you can use the 2.4.0test kernels they compile normally.....
They do get more money per box, but until very resently every computer manufacturer HAD to ship an MS OS with there computer so Billy boy was makeing way more off OEMs because of the sheer volume of sales.
I work at a university we have a department that specializes in helping handicapped students. They often suggest they use computers, we have computers that use JAWS for reading what is on the screen, they have programs that (using a scanner) can scan in pages and read them to the students, they also have brail (sp?) writers so that blind students can read what is on the screen. This department does not do much for students that can't move the hands, that being said we do have a department head who has what I believe is cerebral palsy (in any case he is slowly losing the use of his arms and legs) they purchased a program call GUSS and a GUSS mouse. It uses some form of laser to move the cursor. I do not have much information on the program because all I had to do was install it. The product was quite expensive (around $3000) so you might not be interested, I do not know the website off the top of my head but if your interested reply here and I'll get it for you.
Andrew Dumaresq
This stuff sounds pretty cool, I certainly agree that that it needs to recognize re-runs or identical programming and only tape them if I told it too... (i.e. do you want reruns taped [y/n]) Personally I don't care about the privacy side of it, even if they do spam me I'll just add it to the pile of spam that I throw out every day from icq and email :)
:)
If they get the smart feature working better it would rock too, I don't always have time to look for things to watch that I would be interested in, in this case it might be able to find them for me.
The idea of being able to watch TV when I want rather then when the networks wants kicks ass. It means at 5:00pm or 6:00pm there will be something more interesting then Martha Stewart for my wife to watch... man Martha pisses me of, and that is not a good thing
I don't much care for the subscription idea, I would much rather pay the 200 lifetime up front then pay on a monthly basis though it isn't too bad cause most people already pay for the cable or satellite on a monthly basis.
On the whole it sounds like a big step in the right direction!
Andrew
I guess that wasn't the best wording, I didn't mean to say that nobody from Japan reads slashdot, but I would assume that most people who do are in North America. Though this may also be wrong seeing as I have nothing to base that on. That being said what I really mean is in the next few months to a year Sony will have (hopefully) cleared up these problems. Too bad they didn't fix them first but that seems to be the way everybody releases software/hardware today. At this time, is when most people be they in Japan, the US or elsewhere is probably when they will buy these systems so why do we give the initial problems so much attention. As for a PC I made another incorrect assumption, that anyone reading slashdot had a PC that was probably capable of playing these games. Obviously this was a bad assumption to make since not everybody can afford to buy a new computer ever year or so. Personally though I would rather spend the money to upgrade my PC then buy a console gaming station. On the other hand if all you have is a mainframe (poor you NOT! :)) then a console game just may be the way to go......
Cheers
It was my understanding that Athlon Chips were at 100Mhz bus so a 1Ghz would be 10.0x 100=1000Mhz. I believe (though I don't know for sure) that most Athlon motherboards only have 10.5x as the fastest mulpilier so unless you increase the bus speed, which I believe is not supported by the motherboard, or the overclocking cards the fastest you could get is 10.5x100=1050Mhz. Not great for over clocking.......
OK I can handle that, though personally everytime I use a soldering iron something else breaks.... so I'll just stick to buying the product outright :)
I don't mean to rain on your parade, but it's only $65 is that really going to break the bank, sure it's a big difference from $20 but it is still pretty close to the cheapest piece of your computer. Is it not?