The reason why companies outsource is simple -- to lower their tax liability. With FTE's, you have to pay FICA, Social Security, Medicare and other payroll taxes. If you outsource (whether keeping it in the country or not), you can deduct the whole shebang as a cost of doing business. I'm sure there are small savings to outsourcing in addition to the tax savings -- but they're nothing like what proponents claim. Administration and overhead increase as a result of outsourcing, negating a lot of the savings.
Now I hope nobody mods me as a Troll or Flamebait or anything, but there is a possible solution to all of this -- ***REFORM THE TAX SYSTEM IN THIS COUNRY!!!!***... I am a proponent of the FairTax, which would abolish the IRS, repeal the 16th amendment, and take us to a consumption tax where the costs of government are visible for all to see. Take a look at it. You just might like it.
This is the third time I've seen this article in several months..really, can't moderators be bothered to do a quick archive search to see if a story has already been posted?
What if you're at a job fair and you want to brush up your resume and print it off? And the kiosk PC has 'net access but not the Office suite on it? You can go online, edit your document (which might be on a USB fob) and print out an updated copy. I can see this having many applications (no pun intended). Be imaginative!:)
Ahem...just as they say 'a feature is a bug with seniority' in computing circles, I guess biologists can say that a function is a mutation with seniority.
Mod parent up! What you just described is *exactly* what the UK government forced upon BT, and the UK enjoys some of the lowest rates and highest penetration for broadband in the world. We should use the BT divestiture as a model for this country...
Mod parent up. Most of the 'busy, harried' people are actually busy-bodies who like to stick their noses in others' work, thus slowing the OTHER people down.
The problem is that technology is used to 'automate' outdated, meaningless, inefficient business processes. Rather than using technology as an enabler, businesses view it as a panacaea; instead, they should take a tabula rasa approach and re-evaluate ALL business processes to see if they are still relevant to prevailing business conditions. Doing this first and then automating gives you much more bang for the buck. Simply automating a brain-dead procedure falls under the rubric of 'premature optimisation'.
They would need to do MAJOR upgrades to the connectivity of all those ATM's. Most ATM's are backhauled to a mainframe via, at best, a 56Kbps frame-relay circuit. Adding T1 or better pipes to the tens of thousands of ATM's in this country is a nontrivial investment. Who's going to pay for it? Apple? The banks?
Run a good software firewall as well as a good hardware firewall (Sonicwall comes to mind, NOT the 'firewall' built into broadband routers, which is nothing more than NAT). Your buddy's advice is like saying that the way to prevent auto accidents is to travel cross-country using a horse and buggy...
Unfortunately, there are plenty of gullible and slavish customers out there who will pay $2.50 a song and not complain. Look at all the morons who pay $2 per ringtone and have to pay that every three months for each one because it expires at the end of that period. In the immortal words of P.T. Barnum, 'There's a sucker born every minute.'
Could this be a harbinger of a more 'intimate' relationship amongst MSN, Yahoo!, and AOL? Perhaps a 'merger' of the three (or at least a very tight alliance) is what each one feels it needs to contend with the oncoming Google juggernaut.
Demand isn't shifting because Americans as a whole are selfish, arrogant, ignorant gluttons (i.e., 'fat, happy and stupid'). Lest this get modded as a troll, I'm an American.
Use Notes/Domino on the backend and set up Outlook as the client. That way, people get to keep the same look and feel, but it's being handled by a much more scalable solution on the backend.
Make sure this wealth of information ends up in GEDCOM, which is pretty much the de facto standard for exchanging genealogical data electronically. Any genealogy software worth its salt can read from and write to this format.
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The reason why companies outsource is simple -- to lower their tax liability. With FTE's, you have to pay FICA, Social Security, Medicare and other payroll taxes. If you outsource (whether keeping it in the country or not), you can deduct the whole shebang as a cost of doing business. I'm sure there are small savings to outsourcing in addition to the tax savings -- but they're nothing like what proponents claim. Administration and overhead increase as a result of outsourcing, negating a lot of the savings. Now I hope nobody mods me as a Troll or Flamebait or anything, but there is a possible solution to all of this -- ***REFORM THE TAX SYSTEM IN THIS COUNRY!!!!*** ... I am a proponent of the FairTax, which would abolish the IRS, repeal the 16th amendment, and take us to a consumption tax where the costs of government are visible for all to see. Take a look at it. You just might like it.
Yeah, but Tivoli makes even Openview look good by comparison...if Openview is a steaming pile of shit, then Tivoli is a putrescent, rotting corpse.
This is the third time I've seen this article in several months..really, can't moderators be bothered to do a quick archive search to see if a story has already been posted?
What if you're at a job fair and you want to brush up your resume and print it off? And the kiosk PC has 'net access but not the Office suite on it? You can go online, edit your document (which might be on a USB fob) and print out an updated copy. I can see this having many applications (no pun intended). Be imaginative! :)
Oh don't forget to mention that sometimes the pipes passed packets so quickly they had to be water-cooled....
Dude, this is the absolutely funniest comment I've ever seen on here...
Great, does Synthehol mean an end to Girls Gone Wild? Damn....
Ahem...just as they say 'a feature is a bug with seniority' in computing circles, I guess biologists can say that a function is a mutation with seniority.
...can't the CDC stick to invisible nasties? What next, trying to get people to Mars?
Mod parent up! What you just described is *exactly* what the UK government forced upon BT, and the UK enjoys some of the lowest rates and highest penetration for broadband in the world. We should use the BT divestiture as a model for this country...
Mod parent up. Most of the 'busy, harried' people are actually busy-bodies who like to stick their noses in others' work, thus slowing the OTHER people down.
The problem is that technology is used to 'automate' outdated, meaningless, inefficient business processes. Rather than using technology as an enabler, businesses view it as a panacaea; instead, they should take a tabula rasa approach and re-evaluate ALL business processes to see if they are still relevant to prevailing business conditions. Doing this first and then automating gives you much more bang for the buck. Simply automating a brain-dead procedure falls under the rubric of 'premature optimisation'.
...these guys should go back to flipping burgers...
They would need to do MAJOR upgrades to the connectivity of all those ATM's. Most ATM's are backhauled to a mainframe via, at best, a 56Kbps frame-relay circuit. Adding T1 or better pipes to the tens of thousands of ATM's in this country is a nontrivial investment. Who's going to pay for it? Apple? The banks?
Why was the parent post modded off-topic? I found it very informative....
Run a good software firewall as well as a good hardware firewall (Sonicwall comes to mind, NOT the 'firewall' built into broadband routers, which is nothing more than NAT). Your buddy's advice is like saying that the way to prevent auto accidents is to travel cross-country using a horse and buggy...
...it says, 'Steve is dead; Steve is dead.'
Or some ill-tempered sea bass...
When it comes to ANYTHING (not just security), most IT departments are underfunded, underrepresented and understaffed.... Thank you, Captain Obvious!
Unfortunately, there are plenty of gullible and slavish customers out there who will pay $2.50 a song and not complain. Look at all the morons who pay $2 per ringtone and have to pay that every three months for each one because it expires at the end of that period. In the immortal words of P.T. Barnum, 'There's a sucker born every minute.'
Could this be a harbinger of a more 'intimate' relationship amongst MSN, Yahoo!, and AOL? Perhaps a 'merger' of the three (or at least a very tight alliance) is what each one feels it needs to contend with the oncoming Google juggernaut.
Demand isn't shifting because Americans as a whole are selfish, arrogant, ignorant gluttons (i.e., 'fat, happy and stupid'). Lest this get modded as a troll, I'm an American.
Use Notes/Domino on the backend and set up Outlook as the client. That way, people get to keep the same look and feel, but it's being handled by a much more scalable solution on the backend.
The subject says it all...
Make sure this wealth of information ends up in GEDCOM, which is pretty much the de facto standard for exchanging genealogical data electronically. Any genealogy software worth its salt can read from and write to this format.