The fact that there are more tech jobs today than ever before is simply because information technology as a industry is one of the youngest and fastest growing, despite hiccups that occur as the industry course-corrects itself. It is no 'miracle' that this growth is *despite* outsourcing. Outsourcing is a *response* to the growth in the industry.
The more the industry grows, the more jobs there will be - in the US, in Europe, in Asia, everywhere. In fact the fastest growth markets in IT are no longer in the US - for example, the fastest growth market for PCs is India! The reason many IT companies are going to India and China isn't simply to feed the US demand - it is to feed local demand that is likely for far outstrip demand in the US and Europe over the next 20 years. People in the US will have more jobs because US companies are still at the top of the food chain to provide solutions to the fastest growing Asian economies. Thank your stars for outsourcing contributing to income growth in Asia, since that market will likely ensure your job in the future.
Maybe its no help to you if you lost your job to outsourcing, then ask yourself why you would'nt have lost the job eventually anyway had you not moved with the times. And anyway, in every lost job is a new opportunity - that's what makes free market economies great.
Get a global perspective, and you will find that all is well with the world.
For people wondering why Apple introduced the high end MacBook Pro line first, and is still offering the G4 based line of Powerbooks and iBooks - the high initial cost of the Intel chips is precisely the reason. The chips aren't much cheaper (and neither as manufacturing costs) for notebooks offered at much lower price points.
Its a good business strategy - ultimately Apple needs to watch its bottom line while it goes after markets share. As economies of scale, Moore's law, and the network effect (more applications get ported to native Intel architecture) kick in in to drive down the costs, we'll likely see the lower-end notebooks within the next 6 months, and the move to Intel processors despite their high initial costs will pay off for Apple very soon.
Why newspapers work better than their website counterparts is because they tilt the balance towards "pushing" content to us, rather than having us "pull" content. There's too much of interest happening in world for readers to be able to figure out what they should pull.
One website that almost gets it right is http://www.pressdisplay.com/ - it gives you scanned copies of (real) newspapers, and makes it easy to read them straight from your browser. Of course you pay for all but the front pages, but you avoid those nagging online ads.
>> Guys, this is just a modest update of an already existing technology: the telegram.
The news here is not the technology (which is pretty straightforward in this case) but the delivery of a workable application of it at a price point the market will bear.
Try to covince Western Union to go into the business of connecting people living in the higher inaccessible reaches of the Himalayas (many for whom the price of a 37c US first class postage stamp will pay their living costs for a day) with their family and friends in the rest of the country.
>> No news here. Couldn't system resources be better used watching for SCO's latest folly?
Wait till you see SCO going after the email operators over there...
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The fact that there are more tech jobs today than ever before is simply because information technology as a industry is one of the youngest and fastest growing, despite hiccups that occur as the industry course-corrects itself. It is no 'miracle' that this growth is *despite* outsourcing. Outsourcing is a *response* to the growth in the industry.
The more the industry grows, the more jobs there will be - in the US, in Europe, in Asia, everywhere. In fact the fastest growth markets in IT are no longer in the US - for example, the fastest growth market for PCs is India! The reason many IT companies are going to India and China isn't simply to feed the US demand - it is to feed local demand that is likely for far outstrip demand in the US and Europe over the next 20 years. People in the US will have more jobs because US companies are still at the top of the food chain to provide solutions to the fastest growing Asian economies. Thank your stars for outsourcing contributing to income growth in Asia, since that market will likely ensure your job in the future.
Maybe its no help to you if you lost your job to outsourcing, then ask yourself why you would'nt have lost the job eventually anyway had you not moved with the times. And anyway, in every lost job is a new opportunity - that's what makes free market economies great.
Get a global perspective, and you will find that all is well with the world.
For people wondering why Apple introduced the high end MacBook Pro line first, and is still offering the G4 based line of Powerbooks and iBooks - the high initial cost of the Intel chips is precisely the reason. The chips aren't much cheaper (and neither as manufacturing costs) for notebooks offered at much lower price points.
Its a good business strategy - ultimately Apple needs to watch its bottom line while it goes after markets share. As economies of scale, Moore's law, and the network effect (more applications get ported to native Intel architecture) kick in in to drive down the costs, we'll likely see the lower-end notebooks within the next 6 months, and the move to Intel processors despite their high initial costs will pay off for Apple very soon.
Why newspapers work better than their website counterparts is because they tilt the balance towards "pushing" content to us, rather than having us "pull" content. There's too much of interest happening in world for readers to be able to figure out what they should pull.
One website that almost gets it right is http://www.pressdisplay.com/ - it gives you scanned copies of (real) newspapers, and makes it easy to read them straight from your browser. Of course you pay for all but the front pages, but you avoid those nagging online ads.
The news here is not the technology (which is pretty straightforward in this case) but the delivery of a workable application of it at a price point the market will bear.
Try to covince Western Union to go into the business of connecting people living in the higher inaccessible reaches of the Himalayas (many for whom the price of a 37c US first class postage stamp will pay their living costs for a day) with their family and friends in the rest of the country.
>> No news here. Couldn't system resources be better used watching for SCO's latest folly?Wait till you see SCO going after the email operators over there ...