It comes from BusinessWeek. It's market place is for business management not employees. Offshoring is not a myth. It continues and is growing. The story states nearly 150K jobs created but it also mention the fact that over 1 million jobs were sent out of the country. And this trend is not likely to stop or slowdown any time soon.
Also, Congress is looking to increase H-1Bs into this country. The dearth of qualified tech professionals was the same rallying cry for new visas ten years ago.
Basically, it is not a myth to offshore. H-1Bs do not solve the issue of filling in the gaps for businesses. Job openings are filled as soon as they are posted. The ones that go unfilled are posted by business managers who fail to see why a a good developer should be paid almost as much as they even though they they think it's that "same web stuff my kid does on his cell phone" belief.
Business will always want cheaper labor costs and they will continue to offshore until the benefits of it are no longer apparent. Dell is the perfect example: they pulled the business Help Desk call center from India when business threatened to stop paying on contracts and canceling orders because they couldn't understand what the heck Help Desk was saying. And this was only for business. They kept the personal computer Help Desk in India because losing one or two support contracts and people who have already bought the system was not losing them money.
Members of its Sapling Program will be able to get the wrappers for DirectX10 applications and run them not just on DX10 hardware under Windows XP, but with some DX9 hardware as well.
We just had a similar discussion with email, whether or not a client is more effective as a standalone app or as a web client. I guess the idea of going out and getting your own news article is like a student researching his own term paper.
And to answer the question yet again: yes, and no. What will we consider a web app five or ten years from now? Ten years ago, a website looked a good deal different than today's websites. Will the browser move more towards the cell phone? Or, will there be a viable client that replaces both voice and IP? Who knows...
the same goes for hardened, standalone systems. We go through cycles of Client/Server apps and standalone monoliths programmed for specific tasks. It comes and goes.
But then again, your example is of search engines and data aggregates.
Where exactly does regulation begin and end? In an open market economy, access to data is a commodity, not the data itself. Providers would have to establish some sort of NYSE to measure value of Web sites and price them accordingly.
Also, just because you have the entrance into the Internet does not automatically grant you access to the data. If you wish to continue your example, then owners of the servers would be able to exact tolls as well.
We see something like this when the money pissing match goes public between a provider, like Dish Network, and a content provider, like WRAL TV in Raleigh, NC. Both point the finger at each other: Dish says it won't broadcast WRAL because they want more money; WRAL says Dish is forcing them inot the poor house by forcing them to accept a fixed rate. Who is the villain? It doesn't matter because either way we lose a channel or pay more for what have.
So...a provider provides different tiers of service. In the end, it will lose market share because people will realize that they have to pay more just to view their own content. Which in turn either forces them to go to a another provider or simply remove the content.
I believe this is what happened in part to AOL. As a BBS, they did well because it was a centralized, aggregated focus area for people. When people started to notice the world wide web in general and it became apparent that the content outside of AOL was greater, people left the BBS model. AOL tried to counter the vastness of content with idea of member-only specialized content, or more apparent, services. If Comcast, Verizon, AT&T want to go to the tiered service route they only have to look at AOL to see how their future will look like.
That to Apple, SMB is SOHO and the home family structure.
Yeah, enterprise gets the big ticket win, with the follow on support and infrastructure pricing.
However, take a family, each one gets their own laptop (2 kids) and maybe the parents share one laptop or desktop. OK, now throw in the TV and phones, it may be an easy sell for a server in the house for media and file serving.
So now do the math, how many laptops and ipods are out there in the "family" environment? Like I said, it is isn't a big, single win but capturing the home market could start the bleed into the work environment.
Adobe said Apollo will make the development and use of rich Internet applications (RIAs) -- Web applications that have the interactivity of desktop apps -- quicker and easier. RIAs can offer more interactivity than is usually available via the Web.
The San Jose, California company said upcoming versions of Apollo will run on Linux, integrate PDF, provide deeper Ajax support, extend support for mobile technologies, and enable media assets to be dragged and dropped directly into Apollo apps.
RIAs? So basically, you want me to not only have a wrapper agent on my system but also a network and system app layer that will have direct access to other remote like objects? Hmmm, gee, has anyone told Citrix this?
So this won't fly in an Corporate Enterprise environment and for home use...well, does anyone want mySpace resource hogging your whole system and not just your browser's use of your resources? Uhm, no thanks.
Hopefully $1 million can buy enough education to lift the residents of Massachusetts out of the "burn the witch" mentality that has plagued them for nearly 300 years.
Then again, maybe it won't. It is Massachusetts after all.
Cops suspect illegal activity, say drug ring, but they do not know which apartment it is.
Do the police have the right to search every apartment in the complex to find illegal activity? And what if they come to my apartment and find that I have a computer. Can they seize that to see if I am doing anything illegal in their search for the drug ring?
No. Laws and the Constitution are two separate entities. Congress and states cannot make laws that abridge the freedoms set forth in the Constitution.
The exalted grand poobah of leet skilz signed a contract to manage the network environment, which included websites. With CMS and vendor supplied playbooks and content, the webmaster is more of a caretaker and less of a focal point.
Organizations want a a simple and useful design to their web content. Once that is done, then they do not want it touched. Period. And to keep that running, they look to the webmaster as a base service and nothing more. Because of that, businesses have quantified the role and equated it to an hourly role.
Additionally, big guns like SAP are creating web-enabled modules that snap into Web Application Servers, like WebSphere so that coding is done on the product side and not on the production (outward facing application set) side.
It was fun while it lasted. But I want to know this: who the hell empowered the content creator in the first place? I want that "webmasters'" head?
were also asked to play a computer game designed to measure altruism.
Yeah, it was really buggy but for some reason I decided not to point out their flaws. I dunno, but it made me feel good.
We should look back to the Copyright Act of 1976
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We have the amendment, The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, of the original, COPYRIGHT ACT OF 1976, because of concerns over digital audio tape (DAT).
Basically, the amendment says that digital recording devices must abide by a Serial Copy management System Basically an SCMS will allow you to make as many first generation copies of the original source but this copy will not allow copies to be made from it. (No second generation.)
Maybe the judge sees that this XM+MP3 does not have this copy-bit protection and will allow the lawsuit to continue. I didn't see anymore information in the TFA to tell why she ruled. But if XM+MP3 can show that it only allows for first generation copying only, then there should be no case.
So this is guy is being held on RICO charges and I am assuming that the RIAA is using the provision that allows private parties to sue. They are saying that there is an enterprise involved in the direct theft of material? This is quite different than them going after grandma and one computer.This is racketeering and a serious federal indictment.
But it will be funny when the defendants get to cross examine and no one will say they have been infringed upon except the RIAA itself. Maybe we might get a Johnny Dangerously quote in the court?
I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy corksuckers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves.
From wikipedia.org:
Under RICO, a person or group who commits any two of 35 crimes--27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes--within a 10-year period and, in the opinion of the US Attorney bringing the case, has committed those crimes with similar purpose or results can be charged with racketeering. Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and/or sentenced to 20 years in prison. In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of "racketeering activity." The act also contains a civil component that allows plaintiffs to sue for triple damages.
When the U.S. Attorney decides to indict someone under RICO, he has the option of seeking a pre-trial restraining order or injunction to prevent the transfer of potentially forfeitable property, as well as require the defendant to put up a performance bond. This provision is intended to force a defendant to plead guilty before indictment. [citation needed]
There is also a provision for private parties to sue. A "person damaged in his business or property" can sue one or more "racketeers." There must also be an "enterprise." The defendant(s) are not the enterprise, in other words, the defendant(s) and the enterprise are not one and the same. There must be one of four specified relationships between the defendant(s) and the enterprise. This lawsuit, like all Federal civil lawsuits, can take place in either Federal or State court.
There are people who live and die by tagging their information. They build folders and create lists.
There are people who just go through life serendipitously. They never use the laundry hamper and most people call them slobs.
Between these two groups are the rest of humanity. Sometimes they make lists and sometimes they don't. And just because the word, "librarian," strikes a fear of boredom, most people ignore library sciences. The science of tagging, if to be used as a global panacea, must be approached or studied to be feasible and usable over generations.
Farnan and colleagues have investigated one candidate material hoped to do the job, called zircon (zirconium silicate). The plan is that this ceramic material will hold on fast to the radioactive atoms and stop them from finding their way into the environment -- for example by being dissolved and dispersed in ground water.
Why zircon? Because it is a readily produced crystalline structure? I know the lattice structure bears out certain containment theories, but the ceramic expression of this type would introduce error vectors inherent in the silicate. So basically this article says a zircon container might be okay, even after it degrades into a silicate [glassy] structure, except that it will totally degrade if wet or, as I assume, moved.
Not to be quite flippant, but if my girlfriend won't except a zirconium from me thinking I'm a cheap bastard, shouldn't they either?
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It comes from BusinessWeek. It's market place is for business management not employees. Offshoring is not a myth. It continues and is growing. The story states nearly 150K jobs created but it also mention the fact that over 1 million jobs were sent out of the country. And this trend is not likely to stop or slowdown any time soon.
Also, Congress is looking to increase H-1Bs into this country. The dearth of qualified tech professionals was the same rallying cry for new visas ten years ago.
Basically, it is not a myth to offshore. H-1Bs do not solve the issue of filling in the gaps for businesses. Job openings are filled as soon as they are posted. The ones that go unfilled are posted by business managers who fail to see why a a good developer should be paid almost as much as they even though they they think it's that "same web stuff my kid does on his cell phone" belief.
Business will always want cheaper labor costs and they will continue to offshore until the benefits of it are no longer apparent. Dell is the perfect example: they pulled the business Help Desk call center from India when business threatened to stop paying on contracts and canceling orders because they couldn't understand what the heck Help Desk was saying. And this was only for business. They kept the personal computer Help Desk in India because losing one or two support contracts and people who have already bought the system was not losing them money.
Well the first three letters are right...
We just had a similar discussion with email, whether or not a client is more effective as a standalone app or as a web client. I guess the idea of going out and getting your own news article is like a student researching his own term paper.
And to answer the question yet again: yes, and no. What will we consider a web app five or ten years from now? Ten years ago, a website looked a good deal different than today's websites. Will the browser move more towards the cell phone? Or, will there be a viable client that replaces both voice and IP? Who knows...
the same goes for hardened, standalone systems. We go through cycles of Client/Server apps and standalone monoliths programmed for specific tasks. It comes and goes.
But then again, your example is of search engines and data aggregates.
Where exactly does regulation begin and end? In an open market economy, access to data is a commodity, not the data itself. Providers would have to establish some sort of NYSE to measure value of Web sites and price them accordingly.
Also, just because you have the entrance into the Internet does not automatically grant you access to the data. If you wish to continue your example, then owners of the servers would be able to exact tolls as well.
We see something like this when the money pissing match goes public between a provider, like Dish Network, and a content provider, like WRAL TV in Raleigh, NC. Both point the finger at each other: Dish says it won't broadcast WRAL because they want more money; WRAL says Dish is forcing them inot the poor house by forcing them to accept a fixed rate. Who is the villain? It doesn't matter because either way we lose a channel or pay more for what have.
So...a provider provides different tiers of service. In the end, it will lose market share because people will realize that they have to pay more just to view their own content. Which in turn either forces them to go to a another provider or simply remove the content.
I believe this is what happened in part to AOL. As a BBS, they did well because it was a centralized, aggregated focus area for people. When people started to notice the world wide web in general and it became apparent that the content outside of AOL was greater, people left the BBS model. AOL tried to counter the vastness of content with idea of member-only specialized content, or more apparent, services. If Comcast, Verizon, AT&T want to go to the tiered service route they only have to look at AOL to see how their future will look like.
That to Apple, SMB is SOHO and the home family structure.
Yeah, enterprise gets the big ticket win, with the follow on support and infrastructure pricing.
However, take a family, each one gets their own laptop (2 kids) and maybe the parents share one laptop or desktop. OK, now throw in the TV and phones, it may be an easy sell for a server in the house for media and file serving.
So now do the math, how many laptops and ipods are out there in the "family" environment? Like I said, it is isn't a big, single win but capturing the home market could start the bleed into the work environment.
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RIAs? So basically, you want me to not only have a wrapper agent on my system but also a network and system app layer that will have direct access to other remote like objects? Hmmm, gee, has anyone told Citrix this?
So this won't fly in an Corporate Enterprise environment and for home use...well, does anyone want mySpace resource hogging your whole system and not just your browser's use of your resources? Uhm, no thanks.
And if you go to the Personal Preferences on the Website you can choose from United Kingdom as the country and English as your preferred language.
It is all about choice!
they cried, "porn, porn, porn!"
So that's what the Billy Idol song was trying to say. Damn Brits and their silly abuse of our English language.
Just asking...
others when they themselves started pimping for brand marketing.
I think it was about the same time MTV stopped showing music videos.
So basically I am to get in touch with my dark matter, explode in a million bright but brief glittering shards and then go quickly, fading away?
Like hell I will. If quantum theorems are ever outlawed you'll have to pry mine from my cold, dead hands.
very stormy weather for the poor website linked to in the TFA. I believe the outlook will be dark, followed by intense periods of slashdotting...
Hopefully $1 million can buy enough education to lift the residents of Massachusetts out of the "burn the witch" mentality that has plagued them for nearly 300 years.
Then again, maybe it won't. It is Massachusetts after all.
I, for one, welcome my vibratory Overlords.
Cops suspect illegal activity, say drug ring, but they do not know which apartment it is. Do the police have the right to search every apartment in the complex to find illegal activity? And what if they come to my apartment and find that I have a computer. Can they seize that to see if I am doing anything illegal in their search for the drug ring? No. Laws and the Constitution are two separate entities. Congress and states cannot make laws that abridge the freedoms set forth in the Constitution.
The exalted grand poobah of leet skilz signed a contract to manage the network environment, which included websites. With CMS and vendor supplied playbooks and content, the webmaster is more of a caretaker and less of a focal point.
Organizations want a a simple and useful design to their web content. Once that is done, then they do not want it touched. Period. And to keep that running, they look to the webmaster as a base service and nothing more. Because of that, businesses have quantified the role and equated it to an hourly role.
Additionally, big guns like SAP are creating web-enabled modules that snap into Web Application Servers, like WebSphere so that coding is done on the product side and not on the production (outward facing application set) side.
It was fun while it lasted. But I want to know this: who the hell empowered the content creator in the first place? I want that "webmasters'" head?
Yeah, it was really buggy but for some reason I decided not to point out their flaws. I dunno, but it made me feel good.
Basically, the amendment says that digital recording devices must abide by a Serial Copy management System Basically an SCMS will allow you to make as many first generation copies of the original source but this copy will not allow copies to be made from it. (No second generation.)
Maybe the judge sees that this XM+MP3 does not have this copy-bit protection and will allow the lawsuit to continue. I didn't see anymore information in the TFA to tell why she ruled. But if XM+MP3 can show that it only allows for first generation copying only, then there should be no case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Managemen t_System.
I don't know about that. Lately I've been looking for a better alternative than my localized, gravinometricly created black hole to slow down light.
So this is guy is being held on RICO charges and I am assuming that the RIAA is using the provision that allows private parties to sue. They are saying that there is an enterprise involved in the direct theft of material? This is quite different than them going after grandma and one computer.This is racketeering and a serious federal indictment.
But it will be funny when the defendants get to cross examine and no one will say they have been infringed upon except the RIAA itself. Maybe we might get a Johnny Dangerously quote in the court?
I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy corksuckers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves.From wikipedia.org:
She's dead too, Jim.
[kirk]Slaaaaaaaaaaaashdooooooot![/kirk]
A dictionary.
There are people who live and die by tagging their information. They build folders and create lists.
There are people who just go through life serendipitously. They never use the laundry hamper and most people call them slobs.
Between these two groups are the rest of humanity. Sometimes they make lists and sometimes they don't. And just because the word, "librarian," strikes a fear of boredom, most people ignore library sciences. The science of tagging, if to be used as a global panacea, must be approached or studied to be feasible and usable over generations.
Why zircon? Because it is a readily produced crystalline structure? I know the lattice structure bears out certain containment theories, but the ceramic expression of this type would introduce error vectors inherent in the silicate. So basically this article says a zircon container might be okay, even after it degrades into a silicate [glassy] structure, except that it will totally degrade if wet or, as I assume, moved.
Not to be quite flippant, but if my girlfriend won't except a zirconium from me thinking I'm a cheap bastard, shouldn't they either?
Even I know when someone asks, "is this your final answer," you know that's the last chance you get.