Well, "scammer" is a relative term. Certainly a number of U.S. CEO-types have scammed their employees out of their jobs, and have been scamming the government for years (H1B allocations, outsourcing, not enough capable American workers, TARP, etc. etc. etc.) so a comparison of the level of ethics involved is entirely reasonable.
H1B is a scam? I believe in open immigration. Unless we can prove you are a criminal, we should let you in. Where you were born is random chance, so it hardly seems fair for me to hoard the benefits of living in the USA.
Serious? Really? How are most technology CEO's scammers on a level that this guy is on? Can you name a legit technology CEO that you think is at that same 'scam level'?
I did not say you could see it for free. I just mean that the people have the right to enter into a voluntary transaction to view the movie for a fee without fear of their government throwing them in jail for having some 'dangerous thoughts'.
The people of China have a natural right to view Avatar. The fact that their current government does not respect that right does not diminish that right's inherent truth.
This article makes reference of MapReduce detractors. Here is my response to them:
With cloud computing pricing following Moore's Law, the cost of distributed brute force is headed to $0. This is preferable to most users than:
a) getting screwed by Oracle and other proprietary DBMS vendors on licensing costs b) getting screwed by vertically scaled big iron hardware vendors for running enough horsepower for your large Oracle footprint.
The cloud providers will have growing pains for years to come. However, cloud is a much better choice than the overhead of building and running your own data center.
Startups outsource data center work to cloud providers. These big companies that are struggling to manage their data centers are really only battling their own inertia and internal vested interests while the world around them changes. There is no reason, from 2010 onwards, for 90% of current data center efforts to not be in one of the clouds. The growth in usage of Amazon's AWS cloud is amazing. Avoiding data center management is the reason nimble companies working to get there.
There is a natural ebb and flow to this driven by market forces. The value system is primarily driven by users of the open projects. If Oracle abuses mySQL enough then it will be forked by natural and unstoppable force. I'm not worried at all.
I would sacrifice all of those perks for more paid time off. HP offers new employees something like 12 days PTO and then it schedules 10 days of forced shutdowns per year to get accumulated PTO off the books. This means any new employee gets 2, count them, 2 days to schedule at their own convenience. That's deeply disrespectful. (I don't work at HP but I have friends that do).
You only need internet filtering in the workplace if you have bad hiring practices that allow time wasting B league players on your team. If you build an A league team then they will self manage their use of a wide open network.
Sorry, your argument is bogus. This is a solved problem. ETailers that charge sales tax today use a service provider that calculates sales tax for them for any given zip code.
The problem is that businesses don't want to pay highly-trained and specialized workers more.
In my experience, even during this recent recession, payscales for software developers in Silicon Valley continue to well outpace inflation. Where are you working where business do not pay more?
> Unless Wi-Fi is blacked out for the driver, the safety implications of this development are worrisome.
I'm not the least bit worried. Just think of the apps you can create for the driver if a car were wi-fi connected. Heads up displays for upcoming traffic problems, weather, etc. Constantly upgrade your car's navigation system with updates and patches that download while the car is parked. etc, etc.
Your fear is based on what you know now. You should instead base your hopes on those good things you can imagine.
Apple is within their rights to do this. If consumers thought it was a problem then it would impact Mac sales for Apple. Based on those sales, it does not appear consumers care. So it goes.
The same is true here in the U.S. if you are planning on organizing a demonstration on public property such as a park, or street. You have to get permits to do it.
No, sorry, your analogy does not begin to hold water. Are protesters within the USA held indefinitely without charges and tortured? I don't think so. Bush tortured foreign terrorists and a free American people in a legitimate democratic election rejected that world view and elected Barack Obama. Do you think that could happen in Iran today? No, be honest, no.
Northrop Grumman's core business is making airplanes (at least it was). So what we have here is a non-core business effort on behalf of a state government contract. I'll bet it was staffed by the B team at Northrup Grumman because real IT hot shots just are not motivated to get out of bed in the morning to chase state government contracts. On top of this staffing issues, I'm sure the government had lots of non-standard 'requirements' from insecure bureaucrats that need to justify their jobs. This is a lethal combination of doom for this project. The solution is standard requirements shared by lots of similar customers that is chased after by multiple competing vendors but I suspect the politics of patronage in Virginia would never let that happen.
Why not let the free market decide about unlocking? All you have to do is create your own phone and start selling it. You can advertise it as better than the IPhone because yours is unlocked.
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How does H1B drive down salaries? I've been a hiring manager for many years and I have not seen that.
Well, "scammer" is a relative term. Certainly a number of U.S. CEO-types have scammed their employees out of their jobs, and have been scamming the government for years (H1B allocations, outsourcing, not enough capable American workers, TARP, etc. etc. etc.) so a comparison of the level of ethics involved is entirely reasonable.
H1B is a scam? I believe in open immigration. Unless we can prove you are a criminal, we should let you in. Where you were born is random chance, so it hardly seems fair for me to hoard the benefits of living in the USA.
Serious? Really? How are most technology CEO's scammers on a level that this guy is on? Can you name a legit technology CEO that you think is at that same 'scam level'?
I did not say you could see it for free. I just mean that the people have the right to enter into a voluntary transaction to view the movie for a fee without fear of their government throwing them in jail for having some 'dangerous thoughts'.
The people of China have a natural right to view Avatar. The fact that their current government does not respect that right does not diminish that right's inherent truth.
This article makes reference of MapReduce detractors. Here is my response to them:
With cloud computing pricing following Moore's Law, the cost of distributed brute force is headed to $0. This is preferable to most users than:
a) getting screwed by Oracle and other proprietary DBMS vendors on licensing costs
b) getting screwed by vertically scaled big iron hardware vendors for running enough horsepower for your large Oracle footprint.
The cloud providers will have growing pains for years to come. However, cloud is a much better choice than the overhead of building and running your own data center.
Startups outsource data center work to cloud providers. These big companies that are struggling to manage their data centers are really only battling their own inertia and internal vested interests while the world around them changes. There is no reason, from 2010 onwards, for 90% of current data center efforts to not be in one of the clouds. The growth in usage of Amazon's AWS cloud is amazing. Avoiding data center management is the reason nimble companies working to get there.
There is a natural ebb and flow to this driven by market forces. The value system is primarily driven by users of the open projects. If Oracle abuses mySQL enough then it will be forked by natural and unstoppable force. I'm not worried at all.
I would sacrifice all of those perks for more paid time off. HP offers new employees something like 12 days PTO and then it schedules 10 days of forced shutdowns per year to get accumulated PTO off the books. This means any new employee gets 2, count them, 2 days to schedule at their own convenience. That's deeply disrespectful. (I don't work at HP but I have friends that do).
You only need internet filtering in the workplace if you have bad hiring practices that allow time wasting B league players on your team. If you build an A league team then they will self manage their use of a wide open network.
Sorry, your argument is bogus. This is a solved problem. ETailers that charge sales tax today use a service provider that calculates sales tax for them for any given zip code.
What is the right way to run a country?
If capitalism is broken, then what should we do as an alternative?
If there is a good reason to do this then companies will do it because it serves their own self interest.
The problem is that businesses don't want to pay highly-trained and specialized workers more.
In my experience, even during this recent recession, payscales for software developers in Silicon Valley continue to well outpace inflation. Where are you working where business do not pay more?
> Unless Wi-Fi is blacked out for the driver, the safety implications of this development are worrisome.
I'm not the least bit worried. Just think of the apps you can create for the driver if a car were wi-fi connected. Heads up displays for upcoming traffic problems, weather, etc. Constantly upgrade your car's navigation system with updates and patches that download while the car is parked. etc, etc.
Your fear is based on what you know now. You should instead base your hopes on those good things you can imagine.
Is there some reason why these languages couldn't be compiled and optimized?
Java is another language that has been knocked around for years by C++ puritans but it has, in fact, become very well compiled and optimized.
Apple is within their rights to do this. If consumers thought it was a problem then it would impact Mac sales for Apple. Based on those sales, it does not appear consumers care. So it goes.
The same is true here in the U.S. if you are planning on organizing a demonstration on public property such as a park, or street. You have to get permits to do it.
No, sorry, your analogy does not begin to hold water. Are protesters within the USA held indefinitely without charges and tortured? I don't think so. Bush tortured foreign terrorists and a free American people in a legitimate democratic election rejected that world view and elected Barack Obama. Do you think that could happen in Iran today? No, be honest, no.
Then why are the biggest ecommerce sites in the world (e.g. Amazon, EBay, etc) built using Java?
So?
What do you think we should do about this?
Northrop Grumman's core business is making airplanes (at least it was). So what we have here is a non-core business effort on behalf of a state government contract. I'll bet it was staffed by the B team at Northrup Grumman because real IT hot shots just are not motivated to get out of bed in the morning to chase state government contracts. On top of this staffing issues, I'm sure the government had lots of non-standard 'requirements' from insecure bureaucrats that need to justify their jobs. This is a lethal combination of doom for this project. The solution is standard requirements shared by lots of similar customers that is chased after by multiple competing vendors but I suspect the politics of patronage in Virginia would never let that happen.
Why not let the free market decide about unlocking? All you have to do is create your own phone and start selling it. You can advertise it as better than the IPhone because yours is unlocked.