to keep people busy learning new MS ways of doing old tricks and stop looking into competing products. After 10 years it's fair to say that It has fully achieved it's goal. It seems like now it's time for a rerun.
Screwing up good processes at State Dept., that is. This is strictly anecdotal evidence from personal experience, but under previous administration scheduling visa interview at US consulate abroad was a matter of going to a website and doing some clicks.
Under Clinton that changed into two phone calls to the consulate: first to pay some bucks for the privilege to talk to a call center rep and second is to schedule appt.
Every call we made to customer support would turn into sales pitch. I am talking about 24/7 enterprise-level support that we paid gazzilion bucks for. Despite all that "help" our expensive equipment was mis-configured from the very begging by IBM technician on site and was operating at half-capacity for years.
Bottom line: IBM is out off our approved vendor list.
"...nothing on the internet ever really proves who was using the computer or internet connection..." - tell it to the squad busting your door. Or lawyers. Or thugs.
One more time. That's like 10th time around. First time I distinctly remember them doing this with DDE in like '92 - now OLE is king. Wait, OLE is junk, ActiveX is king; No, wait, ActiveX is junk,.NET is king, and by the way, Silverlight is king too. Oh wait...
Same with database access tech - ODBC, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, etc. Same with GUI toolkits.
I got tired of listening to their stupid routine ten years ago and stopped concentrating on Windows and MS. Best career decision ever.
He will see the point in using those "obsolete" (read stable) technologies in 10 years: the goal of business is to make money, not make work by constantly upgrading.
He's constantly poking his nose into different things which are none of his business. With abysmal results as well. Just couple months ago he dragged us into this Libya thing. Before that was global banking regs (did not go well either.) Even before that he "negotiated" with Russia during Georgian war - and Putin basically had him to fuck off.
If those in-shored jobs pay enough for people to abandon their homeland and family it must pay quite good, isn't it? Could it be that the problem is entitlement attitudes of native-born Americans?
P.S. I'm one of those in-shored quite some time ago. I do not know of anyone in-shored along with me (out of several dozens by single company) who now does not earn in top 3% of income distribution.
This case makes it clear that potential risks involved in working for Goldman Sachs in technical position just not worth the risk. Likely that very few tech people are senior partners which is the only way to make any serious money there. From the circumstances of the case it seems that Aleynikov got sued because he pissed off his manager by taking higher paying position elsewhere and making it known. Unfortunately for him GS has deep connections in the government so banal civil case got blown out into criminal "IP theft" investigation.
They will stop laughing when Cybersitter will get court permit to seize Air China aircraft on US grounds. If you think this is far fetched, think again. In 2001 Russian fighter jets fled from Paris Air show because of property dispute between Swiss trading company Noga and Russian government. Russia eventually settled with Noga by paying in full. http://articles.cnn.com/2001-06-22/world/france.planes_1_paris-air-show-noga-jet-fighters?_s=PM:WORLD
No surprise here for anyone working with them. Their marked data specs have hundreds of pages while Chi-X EU have about 20. Chi-X EU quoting and trading volume is far greater. Coincidence? I say no - people voting with their feet and going from LSE to Chi-X EU (biggest trading platform in EU now), BATS EU, and other MTFs. Maybe the only thing keeping LSE still afloat is a fact that FTSE 100 index is computed using LSE prices. Once that gone, potentially as soon as MIFID II comes out, LSE is going to circle in the crapper.
He has a point in this case. Google has a long history of working with NSA since it's beginning. It is plausible that since USG spying on their citizens is restricted by law the agencies simply subcontracted dirty work to private entities.
Per WSJ story (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704858404576127854072207040.html , use google hole to view) intruders "...installed malicious programs on a Web-accessible system called Director's Desk, one of its technology offerings that facilitates communication and sharing of files among corporate officers."
I wonder how many key-loggers etc are cleaned up from executive workstations an laptops every day in US but never reported.
Most of good coders (and not only coders) had left long time ago and are busy making money working for US companies. All what's left in Russia is a sediment on the bottom of the barrel.
Out of many different securities markets LSE has most bizarre bureaucratic procedures, rules, and provisioning processes. In the past years their market share shrunk a lot under pressure from much simpler to deal with MTFs (BATS, Chi-X etc.) Seems like they have too many people busy making work for themselves and their clients. Besides they have not switched to Millennium (Linux based) yet. I'm not holding my breath though. Millennium platform is developed by Sri-Lancan Millennium IT. Out of all places where you have people skilled in developing trading engines I would pick maybe New York or Chicago. But Colombo???
This is just plain wrong: "Unlike profit distributions, all salary is subject to a 2.9% Medicare tax and the first $106,800 is subject to a 12.4% Social Security tax (FICA)."
Not only FICA applies to all your income regardless if it is W2 or 1099 income, you actually pay self-employment tax on 1099 portion.
Unlike this dimwit CPA Jobs at all do not actually get any taxable distributions: they receive stock option grants that will be taxable at exercise.
There are other ways to lower your tax exposure but switching your W2 income to 1099 only increases it.
The pool of fools to dump this crap on has shrunk by more that half by excluding US people. So their fees are that much less plus IPO price will be less since there is lesser demand.
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to keep people busy learning new MS ways of doing old tricks and stop looking into competing products.
After 10 years it's fair to say that It has fully achieved it's goal. It seems like now it's time for a rerun.
Nothing has changed in 15 years
Screwing up good processes at State Dept., that is.
This is strictly anecdotal evidence from personal experience, but under previous administration scheduling visa interview at US consulate abroad was a matter of going to a website and doing some clicks.
Under Clinton that changed into two phone calls to the consulate: first to pay some bucks for the privilege to talk to a call center rep and second is to schedule appt.
Job creating, my ass.
Every call we made to customer support would turn into sales pitch. I am talking about 24/7 enterprise-level support that we paid gazzilion bucks for.
Despite all that "help" our expensive equipment was mis-configured from the very begging by IBM technician on site and was operating at half-capacity for years.
Bottom line: IBM is out off our approved vendor list.
No amount of education will help if nothing gets done because we are drowning in paper.
No money = No mojo. Simple.
"...nothing on the internet ever really proves who was using the computer or internet connection..." - tell it to the squad busting your door. Or lawyers. Or thugs.
Whoever believed otherwise was an ignorant fool.
One more time. That's like 10th time around. First time I distinctly remember them doing this with DDE in like '92 - now OLE is king. Wait, OLE is junk, ActiveX is king; No, wait, ActiveX is junk, .NET is king, and by the way, Silverlight is king too. Oh wait...
Same with database access tech - ODBC, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, etc.
Same with GUI toolkits.
I got tired of listening to their stupid routine ten years ago and stopped concentrating on Windows and MS. Best career decision ever.
What's the next intermediate stop? South Pole? Seems like typical government project to me.
He will see the point in using those "obsolete" (read stable) technologies in 10 years: the goal of business is to make money, not make work by constantly upgrading.
He's constantly poking his nose into different things which are none of his business. With abysmal results as well.
Just couple months ago he dragged us into this Libya thing. Before that was global banking regs (did not go well either.) Even before that he "negotiated" with Russia during Georgian war - and Putin basically had him to fuck off.
Could French finally have this clown stop?
By not loading up multi-megabyte runtime to print "Hello world!"
If those in-shored jobs pay enough for people to abandon their homeland and family it must pay quite good, isn't it? Could it be that the problem is entitlement attitudes of native-born Americans?
P.S. I'm one of those in-shored quite some time ago. I do not know of anyone in-shored along with me (out of several dozens by single company) who now does not earn in top 3% of income distribution.
This case makes it clear that potential risks involved in working for Goldman Sachs in technical position just not worth the risk. Likely that very few tech people are senior partners which is the only way to make any serious money there. From the circumstances of the case it seems that Aleynikov got sued because he pissed off his manager by taking higher paying position elsewhere and making it known. Unfortunately for him GS has deep connections in the government so banal civil case got blown out into criminal "IP theft" investigation.
They will stop laughing when Cybersitter will get court permit to seize Air China aircraft on US grounds. If you think this is far fetched, think again. In 2001 Russian fighter jets fled from Paris Air show because of property dispute between Swiss trading company Noga and Russian government. Russia eventually settled with Noga by paying in full.
http://articles.cnn.com/2001-06-22/world/france.planes_1_paris-air-show-noga-jet-fighters?_s=PM:WORLD
Is this the same dude who got rich by forced irradiation of flying public by TSA (which he recently lead?)
No surprise here for anyone working with them. Their marked data specs have hundreds of pages while Chi-X EU have about 20. Chi-X EU quoting and trading volume is far greater. Coincidence? I say no - people voting with their feet and going from LSE to Chi-X EU (biggest trading platform in EU now), BATS EU, and other MTFs. Maybe the only thing keeping LSE still afloat is a fact that FTSE 100 index is computed using LSE prices. Once that gone, potentially as soon as MIFID II comes out, LSE is going to circle in the crapper.
We do realize that national security "jobs" do not produce anything, don't we?
He has a point in this case. Google has a long history of working with NSA since it's beginning. It is plausible that since USG spying on their citizens is restricted by law the agencies simply subcontracted dirty work to private entities.
Per WSJ story (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704858404576127854072207040.html , use google hole to view) intruders "...installed malicious programs on a Web-accessible system called Director's Desk, one of its technology offerings that facilitates communication and sharing of files among corporate officers."
I wonder how many key-loggers etc are cleaned up from executive workstations an laptops every day in US but never reported.
Most of good coders (and not only coders) had left long time ago and are busy making money working for US companies. All what's left in Russia is a sediment on the bottom of the barrel.
Out of many different securities markets LSE has most bizarre bureaucratic procedures, rules, and provisioning processes. In the past years their market share shrunk a lot under pressure from much simpler to deal with MTFs (BATS, Chi-X etc.) Seems like they have too many people busy making work for themselves and their clients.
Besides they have not switched to Millennium (Linux based) yet. I'm not holding my breath though. Millennium platform is developed by Sri-Lancan Millennium IT. Out of all places where you have people skilled in developing trading engines I would pick maybe New York or Chicago. But Colombo???
When country is under real seige it's already too late to think about innovation. Romans learned it the hard way. No need to repeat their experience.
This is just plain wrong: "Unlike profit distributions, all salary is subject to a 2.9% Medicare tax and the first $106,800 is subject to a 12.4% Social Security tax (FICA)."
Not only FICA applies to all your income regardless if it is W2 or 1099 income, you actually pay self-employment tax on 1099 portion.
Unlike this dimwit CPA Jobs at all do not actually get any taxable distributions: they receive stock option grants that will be taxable at exercise.
There are other ways to lower your tax exposure but switching your W2 income to 1099 only increases it.
The pool of fools to dump this crap on has shrunk by more that half by excluding US people. So their fees are that much less plus IPO price will be less since there is lesser demand.
Somehow I do not feel bad for US persons. :-)