Now, I'm not defending certs, and I'm not in HR(I'm a programmer by trade, and have no certs but a college degree), but how do you propose to filter the tons of resumes you are bound to receive? You can't reasonably expect someone to read them all, can you? How does a company deal with "resume bombers" if they can't filter resumes?
I suppose there are other solutions out there. For example, graduate schools used to get inundated with applications of people who really were either not qualified or not really interested in going there, but were just applying because they were told to apply everywhere. Some of the schools then started introducing a $100-$150 application fee, and the number of unqualified applicants dropped off significantly. However, is it fair to charge someone for applying to your company? Are you bound to scare away the top talent with fees?
It's a hell of a lot more complex than you make it out to be.....
No, it's vapid and devoid of content, much like your post.
Maybe I'm just a dumb slave, but the fact is I like and use some propietary software. Does that mean I am a marketing droid unable to think for myself? No, it means that I saw what was out there and made a choice, the very definition of freedom. I also use a lot of OSS tools, does that mean anything? Not really, there is a market, and I made a choice.
The one thing I can't stand about OSS zealouts is how they scream "freedom" but get mad when freedom means a choice that isn't OSS. Choice=freedom, end of story.
It's not just a bubble, China has copied EVERYTHING Japan has done right down to the bad loans.
The dollar bought 360 yen from after the war into the 70s, just like a dollar right now buys an inordinate of RMB
China's industry started off by manufacturing cheap labor intensive goods at western company owned factories, as did Japan.
China eventually started moving up the food chain, and even making things for their own companies, as did Japan
Everyone thinks that China's record growth will continue unabated, so banks loan money to businesses that have no realistic hope of ever making a profit. Same thing happened in Japan.
China's bubble will be bursting, much like Japan's did, but as you pointed out, Japan didn't have nuclear weapons or one of the strongest conventional forces on earth when it's bubble burst.
China is heading towards having too much capacity, they can't even sell all the stuff they are making, but they are making it anyway. The problem with the export economy is that it cannot grow when it doesn't have anyone to export to anymore. The centrally planned(yes, China's economy is still centrally planned, just not as tightly controlled by the government, much like Japan's economy) works well when you are trying to grow, but the distortions introduced eventually warp the economy. For instance, everyone lists Japan's high rate of savings as one of the reasons that Japan grew so quickly, however now the problem is that they cannot get consumers to spend their money. Every economic report coming out of the country states that, and thus Japan seems to only be able to grow by exporting more.
The export economy can also warp the economy on the whole in more subtle ways as well. For instance, in Japan the export industries are among the most efficient in the world, but everything outside of it is a mess. All one has to do is walk into any big store in Japan and you are just hit with how many store clerks there are. Overemployment is phenominal there. There are even people at some of the bigger stores who are solely in charge of managing the umbrella condom dispenser(umbrella condoms=the plastic bag you put over your umbrella when you enter a building in Japan. They really aren't called umbrella condoms, but it's an accurate description) China seems to be suffering from some of the same problems, only it's going to get worse there as they have 10x the population of Japan.
I honestly don't think the world economy can continue on this pace forever. Every poor country wants to get rich the same way Japan did, but for that to happen, the dollar has to remain strong. However, for every dollar they import, the dollar just gets that much weaker. When only 1 country was doing it, but now there are a lot more, and eventually, something will have to break.
Heh, the reason I put the $500 in there was that I wanted to use the mac mini as a ceiling. Actually I think I am going to go mini-itx, it is much cheaper than a mac mini with about the same(if not somewhat less) power consumption.
Heh, depends on the rural area. My favorite place in the world is State College, you have any type of food you can imagine, there are plenty of entertainment options both on and off campus(theatres, cinemas, bars etc), a somewhat decent public transportation system if you don't want to use your bike, and the cost of living is almost nothing. Not to mention you are only a few hours drive from NYC, DC, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
It's also pretty rural(and thus cheap!) as well. I was renting an apartment that covered everything but electricity(but they paid for the gas heating and cooking), phone and internet for $270 a month. I had my own room and only had to share a bathroom with 1 other person. For about $100 more per month you can get your own bathroom and a roomier kitchen in a very modern apartment. You can eat well for about $50 a week etc. Rural doesn't have to mean it sucks!
Mars rover for one.
I think you are only seeing the negative and assuming that is all that is out there. The problem with constant media is that we really do lose our sense of proportion. Yeah, one airport luggage system failed because of bad planning. You don't think anything like this ever happens in Europe? Or that there aren't success stories in the US? Think again.
You mention outsourcing that is another story that has been blown out of proportion by the media, including the self-promiting asshats..I mean "researchers" at Gartner. Yeah, some jobs have gone over to India, and they may not be coming back, but it's not nearly as big of thing as NeoIt, Gartner, or the Washington Tech Alliance(is that their name? Can't remember, the group in Washington State who is organizing against outsourcing) would have you believe.
The media only reports on what is new and interesting. Remember the huge SARS scare? Worldwide that killed about 800 people. That is about the number of people who die on America's highways PER WEEK, and yet whenever the Transportation Safety Board issues it's report on how 40,000 people died last year in car accidents, the media gives it a blurb and then turns it's attention to whatever the scare tactics of today are.
The US economy isn't nearly as bad as the naysayers claim it is, nor is it nearly as strong as the Bush apologists boast. The hardest thing to find in this sea of information is the truth.
Heh, in that case I just go p2p. I usually use iTunes to get my music UNLESS they do stupid crap like that. Don McClean lost a sale because he insisted that people buy his albulm(which most people probably don't want to do).
between humans? Esp. humans of different races? It seems to me that Asians(esp. East Asians) actually tend to age much less than caucasians. Japan especially tends to have a lot of very old people, I remember in 2003 the oldest person in the world was Japanese, they died, and then again the oldest person in the world was Japanese. In China, esp. rural China, you buy your own casket at age 60 or 70, but it's not uncommon for one to use it as a piece of furniture for 20 or 30 years!
Even in very poor parts of Asia, such as Pakistan, centarians(sp?) are not nearly as rare as they are in the US and Europe. Is this due to the same gene? Is it due to diet/exercise? Or is it a combination of factors?
but there is STILL "artificial" scarcity in cars. Does Honda go and tell everybody exactly how to make a Prius? No, they don't, thus "artificial" shortages of Priuses are created. Does Toyota use all their factory capacity? Not all the time. They make cars according to demand. They could make a lot more cars, but they choose to make the number of cars that they think will make them the maximum amount of profit. Thus, "artificial" scarcity(the scarcity is not based on the amount of material available but instead based on human decision)
The Free software movement has a lot of things going for it, but Stallman-omics is pure and utter BS. He seems to think that the value of something is solely based on it's scarcity. But outside of raw materials, scarcity alone is not the determining factor of the value of items. Perceived usefulness, cost to build, even stuff like brand names have value.
Are they also taking into account changes in exchange rates when they are calculating the dollar cost? The figures stated look like they are basing the dollar cost in todays dollars(since the ratios stay about the same), but could it be that 6,000 ruppees buys more dollars now than it did 4 years ago?
No, they didn't tell me to stay in the US because Japanese graduate school was difficult, they told me to stay in the US because they felt I would get a much better education there than I would in Japan. I have talked to others who shared this sentiment. You get even less credit for your work, you rarely get a chance to do real research etc.
Along with some electronic(portable) dictionaries for the various languages. It's becoming more and more important for Americans to learn a 2nd(or 3rd!) language, and one of the more interesting ways to learn a language is to take an original(and hopefully interesting) text, and an accurately translated text, and use that translation as a guide.
Dude, if you don't like, DON'T FUCKING BUY A PSP!! There are plenty of open PDAs and whatnot. Geez, where in any nations constitution does it guarentee you the right to consumer electronics?
Sony subsidises the PSP by selling game companies the license to develop for their system. If they left it wide open, then they could no longer sell the rights, and would thus be losing money on PSPs and would have to charge more for them. Last time I checked, Sony wasn't in the business of losing money just so you can have shiny toys. If you want an open environment, then you have to pony up the dough. If you want to save money, then buy a psp and live with it's limitations.
I find it ironic that you are going on and on about how since you own the machine you can do whatever you want with it, which is true, but by extension that also means that before you buy the machine, it's Sony's machine and they can do whatever they want to it. Don't like it? Don't buy it. Simple as that.
Um, that might work for your average PC program, but I wouldn't try doing that on a complex, incredibly expensive real time embedded system where failure can equal lives lost....
Something tells me the transition isn't nearly as simple as a/. post.
Then how come every Japanese professor at my American university urged me NOT to go to Japanese universities for grad school? Also, Japan is still having troubles attracting enough students from places like China. You site anectdotal evidence, but I really doubt that is the trend.
European students tend to stay in Europe because the education is free. Regardless of the value of the Euro, it's usually much cheaper to stay at home than it is to go abroad. A strong Euro would also tend to keep them at home since if they go overseas and earn money in dollars for a few years, it wouldn't translate into Euros as well. At the graduate level you see a large increase in the number of European students at most major universities in the US.
Interesting, but the problem is "trade" in this case isn't really trade at all, it's taking stuff in exchange for paper with perceived value. Therefore, the trade itself might be quite innefficient. It may look "cheaper" in terms of dollars, but it actually may take more resources to make the same product, introducing lots of innefficiencies.
To take your example, apples and oranges. Apples grow really well in Washington State, and oranges grow well in Florida. If you made a very concerted effort, you could grow oranges in Washington or apples in Florida. But you don't see that, why? Because it would take a lot more resources to grow oranges in Washington and apples in Florida, and since they both use the same currency and can trade freely, it becomes more expensive in dollar terms to do so.
Asume for mathematical simplicity that an apple costs $1 and an orange $2 in Washington and vice versa for Florida. Also assume that it takes 1 pound of fertilizer to grow the easy fruit, and 2 pounds to grow the harder one(yeah, I know, 'Thats a lot of shit!'). Now, lets suppose that Washington and Florida decide to secede and form their own countries with their own currency(called WD for Washington dollar and FD for Florida dollar) etc. Initially they set an exchange rate that says one WD or FD is worth 1 USD. Well, since people love Mickey Mouse and old people, the value of the Florida dollar doubles and the value of the Washington dollar halves. Now it costs $2 usd to produce an orange in Florida, with 1 pound of fertilizer. However, it only costs $1 to produce it in Washington, but it takes 2 pounds of fertilizer.
So what we have is the same amount of goods being produced but we used up more resources to do so. The economy was skewed because of fluctuations in exchange rates. One could argue that eventually the exchange rates would even out, but remember, Washington likes those fruit growing jobs, and does everything in it's power to keep them there, including artificially manipulating the currency until it gets to the point that Washington is utterly dependent on selling Florida oranges, but Florida can no longer afford to buy them. The result: a very painful re-alignment.
It took a lot of time and money to transfer those orange growing capabilities to Washington, and it takes a lot of time and money to transfer them back to Florida, thus decreasing efficiency and lowering the overall GDP of the 2 countries(they use the same amount of resources to produce less).
That is my opinion on the current situation anyway. There are a lot of so called "export oriented" economies that have to find people to buy their products because the export sector is all that country has. It produces items that are not demanded by it's populace(in fact, a lot of the "Asian Miracles" encouraged their citizens to save as much as possible). The currency game skews the entire economy, and they quickly run into trouble if they can't sell anything abroad.
I think that unless the rest of the world starts buying more American products or unless America starts importing less, the world economy is headed for a major, and potentially very painful, reallignment in the next 10-15 years.
I think a lot of the quality problems come out of the fact that it seems like programming/IT jobs are a huge fad in India, so people who have no real interest in technology are going out and being "trained"(training = dumping a whole lot of info on them and memorizing it) by some fly by night institution and then going out and getting a job. 9 time out of 10 that person is going to suck. Not to mention that from what I have read, resume fraud over there is MUCH more common than it is in the US, so it quickly becomes next to impossible to filter the resumes. Turnover is also much more common in India than in the US, and no matter how talented someone is, if you only have them for 3 months, they aren't going to be worth much.
It's very difficult to guage just where outsourcing stands, you have companies like Gartner who shout "Outsource everthing! It's awesome, and oh we just HAPPEN to have an outsourcing consulting division, kind of convient huh?" on one end, and you have the talentless dot-bomb era programmers who are out of a job they weren't qualified for screaming that India's software development is worthless. The truth is most likely somewhere in between.
Outsourcing will never totally go away, but the key point to watch for is the signal to noise ratio. If there is a lot of crap coming out, it makes it much harder to find the gems.
education fits in well with this. I think that the CS degree should be split into 2:
One degree would be theoretical with a lot of math, hardcore analysis of algorithms etc. as well as getting the student to choose a specialization: AI, algorithms, supercomputing etc. There would be a lot of "re-inventing the wheel" type assignments because it would help the student discover how a lot of the algorithms really work.
The other degree would be an applied degree, this would focus soley on applied CS. They still need to know a bit about algorithms, but don't have to prove anything. There should be a bit more devoted to current topics over theory. However, I think that this degree should ONLY be allowed if the student majors in something other than CS as well, ie business, chemistry, even a foriegn language. They could then take their CS knowledge and apply it in new and interesting ways in their chosen field.
I have a question, so do the retailers all pay the same price for the system then? I just moved to Germany from the US, so I'm not very well informed about how this all works, but it seems that retailers who sell it for the suggested price in lower VAT countries would make out a lot better than in the higher VAT countries. For instance, does a German retailer who sells an Xbox for 299 euros(with a 16% VAT) make more money than a French one who sells for the same price(an almost 20% VAT)?
What's this? A concise and well written summary with a link directly to the well written article? No twisting/breaking of the truth in order to incite/. groupthink comments? No pointless plugs for unrelated topics? No ADS?!?!
Jesus, the editors keep that up they might actually have a worthwhile site going....never fear, I'm sure the next dupe and/or an article comparing spooning to unmanned space travel will surface before the day's end.
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Now, I'm not defending certs, and I'm not in HR(I'm a programmer by trade, and have no certs but a college degree), but how do you propose to filter the tons of resumes you are bound to receive? You can't reasonably expect someone to read them all, can you? How does a company deal with "resume bombers" if they can't filter resumes?
I suppose there are other solutions out there. For example, graduate schools used to get inundated with applications of people who really were either not qualified or not really interested in going there, but were just applying because they were told to apply everywhere. Some of the schools then started introducing a $100-$150 application fee, and the number of unqualified applicants dropped off significantly. However, is it fair to charge someone for applying to your company? Are you bound to scare away the top talent with fees?
It's a hell of a lot more complex than you make it out to be.....
No, it's vapid and devoid of content, much like your post.
Maybe I'm just a dumb slave, but the fact is I like and use some propietary software. Does that mean I am a marketing droid unable to think for myself? No, it means that I saw what was out there and made a choice, the very definition of freedom. I also use a lot of OSS tools, does that mean anything? Not really, there is a market, and I made a choice.
The one thing I can't stand about OSS zealouts is how they scream "freedom" but get mad when freedom means a choice that isn't OSS. Choice=freedom, end of story.
It's not just a bubble, China has copied EVERYTHING Japan has done right down to the bad loans.
The dollar bought 360 yen from after the war into the 70s, just like a dollar right now buys an inordinate of RMB
China's industry started off by manufacturing cheap labor intensive goods at western company owned factories, as did Japan.
China eventually started moving up the food chain, and even making things for their own companies, as did Japan
Everyone thinks that China's record growth will continue unabated, so banks loan money to businesses that have no realistic hope of ever making a profit. Same thing happened in Japan.
China's bubble will be bursting, much like Japan's did, but as you pointed out, Japan didn't have nuclear weapons or one of the strongest conventional forces on earth when it's bubble burst.
China is heading towards having too much capacity, they can't even sell all the stuff they are making, but they are making it anyway. The problem with the export economy is that it cannot grow when it doesn't have anyone to export to anymore. The centrally planned(yes, China's economy is still centrally planned, just not as tightly controlled by the government, much like Japan's economy) works well when you are trying to grow, but the distortions introduced eventually warp the economy. For instance, everyone lists Japan's high rate of savings as one of the reasons that Japan grew so quickly, however now the problem is that they cannot get consumers to spend their money. Every economic report coming out of the country states that, and thus Japan seems to only be able to grow by exporting more.
The export economy can also warp the economy on the whole in more subtle ways as well. For instance, in Japan the export industries are among the most efficient in the world, but everything outside of it is a mess. All one has to do is walk into any big store in Japan and you are just hit with how many store clerks there are. Overemployment is phenominal there. There are even people at some of the bigger stores who are solely in charge of managing the umbrella condom dispenser(umbrella condoms=the plastic bag you put over your umbrella when you enter a building in Japan. They really aren't called umbrella condoms, but it's an accurate description) China seems to be suffering from some of the same problems, only it's going to get worse there as they have 10x the population of Japan.
I honestly don't think the world economy can continue on this pace forever. Every poor country wants to get rich the same way Japan did, but for that to happen, the dollar has to remain strong. However, for every dollar they import, the dollar just gets that much weaker. When only 1 country was doing it, but now there are a lot more, and eventually, something will have to break.
Heh, the reason I put the $500 in there was that I wanted to use the mac mini as a ceiling. Actually I think I am going to go mini-itx, it is much cheaper than a mac mini with about the same(if not somewhat less) power consumption.
What about NintenSTD?
Hey man, did you get the special gold herpes edition yet? I'm commanding my syphillis to attack the central nervous system now! It's awesome!
Heh, depends on the rural area. My favorite place in the world is State College, you have any type of food you can imagine, there are plenty of entertainment options both on and off campus(theatres, cinemas, bars etc), a somewhat decent public transportation system if you don't want to use your bike, and the cost of living is almost nothing. Not to mention you are only a few hours drive from NYC, DC, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
It's also pretty rural(and thus cheap!) as well. I was renting an apartment that covered everything but electricity(but they paid for the gas heating and cooking), phone and internet for $270 a month. I had my own room and only had to share a bathroom with 1 other person. For about $100 more per month you can get your own bathroom and a roomier kitchen in a very modern apartment. You can eat well for about $50 a week etc. Rural doesn't have to mean it sucks!
Mars rover for one.
I think you are only seeing the negative and assuming that is all that is out there. The problem with constant media is that we really do lose our sense of proportion. Yeah, one airport luggage system failed because of bad planning. You don't think anything like this ever happens in Europe? Or that there aren't success stories in the US? Think again.
You mention outsourcing that is another story that has been blown out of proportion by the media, including the self-promiting asshats..I mean "researchers" at Gartner. Yeah, some jobs have gone over to India, and they may not be coming back, but it's not nearly as big of thing as NeoIt, Gartner, or the Washington Tech Alliance(is that their name? Can't remember, the group in Washington State who is organizing against outsourcing) would have you believe.
The media only reports on what is new and interesting. Remember the huge SARS scare? Worldwide that killed about 800 people. That is about the number of people who die on America's highways PER WEEK, and yet whenever the Transportation Safety Board issues it's report on how 40,000 people died last year in car accidents, the media gives it a blurb and then turns it's attention to whatever the scare tactics of today are.
The US economy isn't nearly as bad as the naysayers claim it is, nor is it nearly as strong as the Bush apologists boast. The hardest thing to find in this sea of information is the truth.
Heh, in that case I just go p2p. I usually use iTunes to get my music UNLESS they do stupid crap like that. Don McClean lost a sale because he insisted that people buy his albulm(which most people probably don't want to do).
between humans? Esp. humans of different races? It seems to me that Asians(esp. East Asians) actually tend to age much less than caucasians. Japan especially tends to have a lot of very old people, I remember in 2003 the oldest person in the world was Japanese, they died, and then again the oldest person in the world was Japanese. In China, esp. rural China, you buy your own casket at age 60 or 70, but it's not uncommon for one to use it as a piece of furniture for 20 or 30 years!
Even in very poor parts of Asia, such as Pakistan, centarians(sp?) are not nearly as rare as they are in the US and Europe. Is this due to the same gene? Is it due to diet/exercise? Or is it a combination of factors?
but there is STILL "artificial" scarcity in cars. Does Honda go and tell everybody exactly how to make a Prius? No, they don't, thus "artificial" shortages of Priuses are created. Does Toyota use all their factory capacity? Not all the time. They make cars according to demand. They could make a lot more cars, but they choose to make the number of cars that they think will make them the maximum amount of profit. Thus, "artificial" scarcity(the scarcity is not based on the amount of material available but instead based on human decision)
The Free software movement has a lot of things going for it, but Stallman-omics is pure and utter BS. He seems to think that the value of something is solely based on it's scarcity. But outside of raw materials, scarcity alone is not the determining factor of the value of items. Perceived usefulness, cost to build, even stuff like brand names have value.
Are they also taking into account changes in exchange rates when they are calculating the dollar cost? The figures stated look like they are basing the dollar cost in todays dollars(since the ratios stay about the same), but could it be that 6,000 ruppees buys more dollars now than it did 4 years ago?
No, they didn't tell me to stay in the US because Japanese graduate school was difficult, they told me to stay in the US because they felt I would get a much better education there than I would in Japan. I have talked to others who shared this sentiment. You get even less credit for your work, you rarely get a chance to do real research etc.
Along with some electronic(portable) dictionaries for the various languages. It's becoming more and more important for Americans to learn a 2nd(or 3rd!) language, and one of the more interesting ways to learn a language is to take an original(and hopefully interesting) text, and an accurately translated text, and use that translation as a guide.
Dude, if you don't like, DON'T FUCKING BUY A PSP!! There are plenty of open PDAs and whatnot. Geez, where in any nations constitution does it guarentee you the right to consumer electronics?
Sony subsidises the PSP by selling game companies the license to develop for their system. If they left it wide open, then they could no longer sell the rights, and would thus be losing money on PSPs and would have to charge more for them. Last time I checked, Sony wasn't in the business of losing money just so you can have shiny toys. If you want an open environment, then you have to pony up the dough. If you want to save money, then buy a psp and live with it's limitations.
I find it ironic that you are going on and on about how since you own the machine you can do whatever you want with it, which is true, but by extension that also means that before you buy the machine, it's Sony's machine and they can do whatever they want to it. Don't like it? Don't buy it. Simple as that.
Um, that might work for your average PC program, but I wouldn't try doing that on a complex, incredibly expensive real time embedded system where failure can equal lives lost.... /. post.
Something tells me the transition isn't nearly as simple as a
Then how come every Japanese professor at my American university urged me NOT to go to Japanese universities for grad school? Also, Japan is still having troubles attracting enough students from places like China. You site anectdotal evidence, but I really doubt that is the trend.
European students tend to stay in Europe because the education is free. Regardless of the value of the Euro, it's usually much cheaper to stay at home than it is to go abroad. A strong Euro would also tend to keep them at home since if they go overseas and earn money in dollars for a few years, it wouldn't translate into Euros as well. At the graduate level you see a large increase in the number of European students at most major universities in the US.
Interesting, but the problem is "trade" in this case isn't really trade at all, it's taking stuff in exchange for paper with perceived value. Therefore, the trade itself might be quite innefficient. It may look "cheaper" in terms of dollars, but it actually may take more resources to make the same product, introducing lots of innefficiencies.
To take your example, apples and oranges. Apples grow really well in Washington State, and oranges grow well in Florida. If you made a very concerted effort, you could grow oranges in Washington or apples in Florida. But you don't see that, why? Because it would take a lot more resources to grow oranges in Washington and apples in Florida, and since they both use the same currency and can trade freely, it becomes more expensive in dollar terms to do so.
Asume for mathematical simplicity that an apple costs $1 and an orange $2 in Washington and vice versa for Florida. Also assume that it takes 1 pound of fertilizer to grow the easy fruit, and 2 pounds to grow the harder one(yeah, I know, 'Thats a lot of shit!'). Now, lets suppose that Washington and Florida decide to secede and form their own countries with their own currency(called WD for Washington dollar and FD for Florida dollar) etc. Initially they set an exchange rate that says one WD or FD is worth 1 USD. Well, since people love Mickey Mouse and old people, the value of the Florida dollar doubles and the value of the Washington dollar halves. Now it costs $2 usd to produce an orange in Florida, with 1 pound of fertilizer. However, it only costs $1 to produce it in Washington, but it takes 2 pounds of fertilizer.
So what we have is the same amount of goods being produced but we used up more resources to do so. The economy was skewed because of fluctuations in exchange rates. One could argue that eventually the exchange rates would even out, but remember, Washington likes those fruit growing jobs, and does everything in it's power to keep them there, including artificially manipulating the currency until it gets to the point that Washington is utterly dependent on selling Florida oranges, but Florida can no longer afford to buy them. The result: a very painful re-alignment.
It took a lot of time and money to transfer those orange growing capabilities to Washington, and it takes a lot of time and money to transfer them back to Florida, thus decreasing efficiency and lowering the overall GDP of the 2 countries(they use the same amount of resources to produce less).
That is my opinion on the current situation anyway. There are a lot of so called "export oriented" economies that have to find people to buy their products because the export sector is all that country has. It produces items that are not demanded by it's populace(in fact, a lot of the "Asian Miracles" encouraged their citizens to save as much as possible). The currency game skews the entire economy, and they quickly run into trouble if they can't sell anything abroad.
I think that unless the rest of the world starts buying more American products or unless America starts importing less, the world economy is headed for a major, and potentially very painful, reallignment in the next 10-15 years.
I think a lot of the quality problems come out of the fact that it seems like programming/IT jobs are a huge fad in India, so people who have no real interest in technology are going out and being "trained"(training = dumping a whole lot of info on them and memorizing it) by some fly by night institution and then going out and getting a job. 9 time out of 10 that person is going to suck. Not to mention that from what I have read, resume fraud over there is MUCH more common than it is in the US, so it quickly becomes next to impossible to filter the resumes. Turnover is also much more common in India than in the US, and no matter how talented someone is, if you only have them for 3 months, they aren't going to be worth much.
It's very difficult to guage just where outsourcing stands, you have companies like Gartner who shout "Outsource everthing! It's awesome, and oh we just HAPPEN to have an outsourcing consulting division, kind of convient huh?" on one end, and you have the talentless dot-bomb era programmers who are out of a job they weren't qualified for screaming that India's software development is worthless. The truth is most likely somewhere in between.
Outsourcing will never totally go away, but the key point to watch for is the signal to noise ratio. If there is a lot of crap coming out, it makes it much harder to find the gems.
education fits in well with this. I think that the CS degree should be split into 2:
One degree would be theoretical with a lot of math, hardcore analysis of algorithms etc. as well as getting the student to choose a specialization: AI, algorithms, supercomputing etc. There would be a lot of "re-inventing the wheel" type assignments because it would help the student discover how a lot of the algorithms really work.
The other degree would be an applied degree, this would focus soley on applied CS. They still need to know a bit about algorithms, but don't have to prove anything. There should be a bit more devoted to current topics over theory. However, I think that this degree should ONLY be allowed if the student majors in something other than CS as well, ie business, chemistry, even a foriegn language. They could then take their CS knowledge and apply it in new and interesting ways in their chosen field.
Any opinion that is unpopular automatically is a "troll"
Big brother must love you guys, you prove that it's easy to make everyone follow the leader.
I have a question, so do the retailers all pay the same price for the system then? I just moved to Germany from the US, so I'm not very well informed about how this all works, but it seems that retailers who sell it for the suggested price in lower VAT countries would make out a lot better than in the higher VAT countries. For instance, does a German retailer who sells an Xbox for 299 euros(with a 16% VAT) make more money than a French one who sells for the same price(an almost 20% VAT)?
What's this? A concise and well written summary with a link directly to the well written article? No twisting/breaking of the truth in order to incite /. groupthink comments? No pointless plugs for unrelated topics? No ADS?!?!
Jesus, the editors keep that up they might actually have a worthwhile site going....never fear, I'm sure the next dupe and/or an article comparing spooning to unmanned space travel will surface before the day's end.
the answer always is 'not enough#....on a side note, fucking german kezboards!!!
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eh, it was only funny to the old Korean Soviets