Greed resulted in the hi-tech jobs being shipped offshore to low cost of development countries. These countries are not guilty of anything but providing income for their talented employees.
These employees displaced their counterparts in the USA, resulting in large scale US layoffs (1990-). Who was left to earn high pay? A few.
If you took the sum of all the IT jobs in the USA, big and small, and compared that sum taken in the offshore companies, which sum do you think will come out ahead?
And here is the other side of the coin. The children of these tech workers will be the innovators for the newer technologies. In fact, it is already happening. Innovation is being done offshore.
Slip-sliding away....
Will I have to move there to have my children enjoy a better future?
Am I a negative pessimist? I see myself as a visionary. We learn from our parents, who work in high tech, and where are majority of these high-tech individuals residing? Not on the north american continent.
Being one of the Hebrews in North America, I find that out of consideration to Arab and other languages that write right to left, that as long as the suffix is short (.com, for example), that they quickly learn it as moc. It gets to be second nature.
Why do these langauges do right to left? Well, think of right handed stone workers who made inscriptions for the Egyptians. The chisel was held in the left hand and the hammer in the right. Think about it. Pretend to do it as they would.
Leslie
Montreal.
Actually, as the airways are public, controlled by the government, so should the broadband connections between cities be government owned.
The AT&Ts would use the broadband, and be responsible only for the last mile. All companies would pay the same connection fees, perhaps based on terrabytes of transfer. The post office is a good example of who should own the pipes between cities.
Actually, 64gig is too small a drive, with todays video and audio files being sent and stored. The laptops will require external drives for storage.
If load times go from 9 milliseconds to 0.09 milliseconds, what is the deal, my keyboarding and reading speed has not changed. I still read at 250 words a minute and type at 30.
I worked on hours accounting software for two years. That work included accomodations for union agreements, and these can surprise you as to their complexity.
Imagine, I had 6 companies for which to be responsible, and each had a different agreement.
There is no hours accounting system that a union contract cannot beat.
Leslie
Why does one think that one has to have fibre cable entirely across barren stretches of land? There are still things that can be done with microwave towers, with Satellite, etc. And I am certain that for isolated towns of 10,000 or more, they can have a fibre distribution point from the Microwave tower to their establishments. We already have Satellite TV, so what is the big deal.
The big deal is thinking outside the box.
In the end, just as the federal government paid for the interstate highways, it will do the same for telecommunications, because telecommunications will be too important for the national good to leave to the private (ripoff) sector. You cannot beat the low cost of service and good quality that a government can provide. If the administration of this service is watched, then support will NOT become fat with more people in administration then required.
Gee, I feel I am missing the high notes. In Canada we have a store called Dollarama. Everything for a buck.
And I bought my cables there, all for a dollar. (they came in pairs and were 8 feet long, with gold looking tips).
I also bought a few USB cables and Firewire cables for the expensive price of one dollar each. They did not come gold tipped, but I guess they were tin tipped. And gee, I did not notice the electrons travelling through them being slowed down, or meeting with a a few noise generator collections of molecules.
At our local discount store I was able to buy 50 feet of speaker wire for $3.00
I was able to buy 50 feet of good Category 5 cable (with molded connectors) for three dollars too.
The two local big box stores ask between $20 and $40 for the same things.
In my view, linux is ready for the desktop. Fortunately, being a license holder of office 2003, allows me to install this office product to run directly under linux. Microsoft gets their compensation, and I get to use a great product.
Open Office generates bloated files. That is a problem. Open Office has no quality grammar checker, that is another problem. Open Office is slower, but with every newer release, speed of execution is improving.
Think back to 1985 and windows 3.0 Because there was nothing else, everyone jumped onto using it.
So far, I use XP only for the office product, Everything else that I use a computer for, including this reply is done with Linux. And it is a no brainer to install and maintain. And one does not really need to know command line instructions, as almost every task is being guified.
Today is Oct 6, 2007. Take a look at Fedora 8 test3, or UBUNTU, or SUSE10.3 Then re-examine Vista. Tell me which you think is more stable, faster in execution and more stable.
If the claim is true, then we only need to protect it from the elements (sun) and use it to construct bridges. The bridges will not support rust from salt.
Here in Quebec it is not unusual to kiss a co-worker. We do it as a birthday greeting, or even because of friendship.
No, it is not a romantic kiss, but one on each cheek. As it is done in civilized countries.
Leslie
Bush and CNN have trained you to be paranoiac. Why are you afraid to go out for an evening stroll.
Get a medical prescription and if they find the vial of pills on you, you could be accused of carrying weapons of mass destruction.
Each pill could blow up a building. We dont know how to ignite it, but it could, really, honestly, and imaginatively.
I feel regret for what the professor was subjected to. His wife dies, and he is accused of being a terrorist. Shame.
Linux is international. And irrespective of country, linux is saving money for governments, schools, and that translates to saving taxes.
If you were to assess the major use of XP in the home or school, there would be less than 6 topics, ranging from writing, spread-sheet, internet, emails and other lower priority activities that are used by 99% of the population.
As for hacking, the same people intent on hacking are world-wide residents without borders.
In closing, Bravo Russia.
Leslie in Montreal, Canada
Remember, Russia was first with Man in Space. No country has exclusivity on intelligence.
I am disappointed at the pessimism that is being displayed over Intels discoveries.
Really, instead of commenting positively about an initiative that would reduce burning coal in Ohio, or oil in the Midwest power plants, you guys look at criticizing a company that did not write the software, but discovered that through some changes, power could be reduced.
All I can say to the critics is: SHAME SHAME SHAME.
I see a few areas where IBM can make good contributions. One is with sound and webcam integration with the equivalent of power-point. I would like to be able to have a powerpoint and in one frame, show a video.
The other area where OO lacks is in a good grammar checker. Until one is developed, I use MS word. Actually, I find MS word file sizes to be half those for the same OO file.
The grammar checker is for the english guy like me who has to write in French or Spanish. I need the conjugation's to be correct, and the accents too.
If DDR2 ram is $75.00 a gig, then perhaps the flash guys think that the flash memory prices are too low.
But DDR2 is used in PCs mainly, while the flash memory market includes cameras, cellphones, pcs and a whole host of systems where the bios or information is needed between poweroffs or to be preserved between system boots.
I think that ddr2 memory should also be around $10.00 per gig. Why not?
The USA should adopt the patent rules of other countries. There, the fine or reward for patent infringement would be the assessment of the damages to an existing product, or of proof that a company was using the patent to produce a product. Intending to use the patent is considered, but to a much lessor degree.
So, I buy a patent, because I can sue companies and make xyz dollars. That is the rule in the USA, but in my country, the patent holder would get zero, not even his court costs. If he was to license the patent, then there would be a judgement as to the worth of the patent and the revenue it could bring. Here again, the judge would treat the patent as one would treat a lottery ticket.
One chance in hell.
Actually, I think that there was a deadline to meet, and this was thought to be a fix that could be done after widespead distribution of Vista.
A business decision, no more or less.
Where I live the local Cable company does reverse billing. Using a datawarehouse and information from it's cable boxes, they are able to determine the hours and shows and channels that are being watched. They compensate the channel based on number of hours viewed.
I have stopped watching TV simply because 1/4 of the time is allocated to commercials. I tried channel flipping at commercial time, but found that all the channels presented their commercials at the same minutes in the hour.
Ah well, I prefer to read slashdot.org for my entertainment.
What they don't want you to know is how many viaducts, underpasses, bridges and tunnels are in a dangerous state.
Now if the engineer stated it as an employee, the press would jump on it. They may even confirm his statements.
If the engineer stated the same facts as an individual, we don't know the fate of that individual, in that his job may disappear due to restructuring or he may be transfered to an office in the next state.
So the muzzle is on, no matter what.
Now the engineer has to tell a friend, who has to tell a friend who has to report the danger. (If that is what it is about).
Realize that this is a weekly charge. 20 * 52 is over 1000 per year. Is this amount tax deductable?
On the other hand, it will force you to stop the MacDO "bigger it up for 99 " activity
I believe that Red Hat, Novell, and even others that are European or Asian based will share the up and coming linux market with UBUNTU. It is even possible and in my mind, it makes sense that MS would eventually buy a linux distribution and use it to compete in the linux marketplace.
What augers well for Canonical is that they are there first, and they are relentless in making improvements to the product.
That said, I reviewed a distribution from Italy, which was gentoo based, and I was impressed with performance and functionality. Compared to all the above mentioned, I can say it was faster between mouse clicks when a window or session had to be opened.
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Greed resulted in the hi-tech jobs being shipped offshore to low cost of development countries. These countries are not guilty of anything but providing income for their talented employees.
These employees displaced their counterparts in the USA, resulting in large scale US layoffs (1990-). Who was left to earn high pay? A few.
If you took the sum of all the IT jobs in the USA, big and small, and compared that sum taken in the offshore companies, which sum do you think will come out ahead?
And here is the other side of the coin. The children of these tech workers will be the innovators for the newer technologies. In fact, it is already happening. Innovation is being done offshore.
Slip-sliding away....
Will I have to move there to have my children enjoy a better future?
Am I a negative pessimist? I see myself as a visionary. We learn from our parents, who work in high tech, and where are majority of these high-tech individuals residing? Not on the north american continent.
Leslie
Why do these langauges do right to left? Well, think of right handed stone workers who made inscriptions for the Egyptians. The chisel was held in the left hand and the hammer in the right. Think about it. Pretend to do it as they would. Leslie Montreal.
Actually, as the airways are public, controlled by the government, so should the broadband connections between cities be government owned. The AT&Ts would use the broadband, and be responsible only for the last mile. All companies would pay the same connection fees, perhaps based on terrabytes of transfer. The post office is a good example of who should own the pipes between cities.
Actually, 64gig is too small a drive, with todays video and audio files being sent and stored. The laptops will require external drives for storage. If load times go from 9 milliseconds to 0.09 milliseconds, what is the deal, my keyboarding and reading speed has not changed. I still read at 250 words a minute and type at 30.
The Jehovah Witnesses are as guilty as the Jews, they both abhor the use of blood in their workship.
I worked on hours accounting software for two years. That work included accomodations for union agreements, and these can surprise you as to their complexity. Imagine, I had 6 companies for which to be responsible, and each had a different agreement. There is no hours accounting system that a union contract cannot beat. Leslie
The big deal is thinking outside the box.
In the end, just as the federal government paid for the interstate highways, it will do the same for telecommunications, because telecommunications will be too important for the national good to leave to the private (ripoff) sector. You cannot beat the low cost of service and good quality that a government can provide. If the administration of this service is watched, then support will NOT become fat with more people in administration then required.
Leslie in Montreal
Leslie in Montreal
I also bought a few USB cables and Firewire cables for the expensive price of one dollar each. They did not come gold tipped, but I guess they were tin tipped. And gee, I did not notice the electrons travelling through them being slowed down, or meeting with a a few noise generator collections of molecules.
At our local discount store I was able to buy 50 feet of speaker wire for $3.00
I was able to buy 50 feet of good Category 5 cable (with molded connectors) for three dollars too.
The two local big box stores ask between $20 and $40 for the same things.
Leslie in Montreal
Open Office generates bloated files. That is a problem. Open Office has no quality grammar checker, that is another problem. Open Office is slower, but with every newer release, speed of execution is improving.
Think back to 1985 and windows 3.0 Because there was nothing else, everyone jumped onto using it.
So far, I use XP only for the office product, Everything else that I use a computer for, including this reply is done with Linux. And it is a no brainer to install and maintain. And one does not really need to know command line instructions, as almost every task is being guified.
Today is Oct 6, 2007. Take a look at Fedora 8 test3, or UBUNTU, or SUSE10.3 Then re-examine Vista. Tell me which you think is more stable, faster in execution and more stable.
Leslie in Montreal
If the claim is true, then we only need to protect it from the elements (sun) and use it to construct bridges. The bridges will not support rust from salt.
Here in Quebec it is not unusual to kiss a co-worker. We do it as a birthday greeting, or even because of friendship. No, it is not a romantic kiss, but one on each cheek. As it is done in civilized countries. Leslie
Bush and CNN have trained you to be paranoiac. Why are you afraid to go out for an evening stroll. Get a medical prescription and if they find the vial of pills on you, you could be accused of carrying weapons of mass destruction. Each pill could blow up a building. We dont know how to ignite it, but it could, really, honestly, and imaginatively. I feel regret for what the professor was subjected to. His wife dies, and he is accused of being a terrorist. Shame.
Linux is international. And irrespective of country, linux is saving money for governments, schools, and that translates to saving taxes. If you were to assess the major use of XP in the home or school, there would be less than 6 topics, ranging from writing, spread-sheet, internet, emails and other lower priority activities that are used by 99% of the population. As for hacking, the same people intent on hacking are world-wide residents without borders. In closing, Bravo Russia. Leslie in Montreal, Canada Remember, Russia was first with Man in Space. No country has exclusivity on intelligence.
I am disappointed at the pessimism that is being displayed over Intels discoveries. Really, instead of commenting positively about an initiative that would reduce burning coal in Ohio, or oil in the Midwest power plants, you guys look at criticizing a company that did not write the software, but discovered that through some changes, power could be reduced. All I can say to the critics is: SHAME SHAME SHAME.
I see a few areas where IBM can make good contributions. One is with sound and webcam integration with the equivalent of power-point. I would like to be able to have a powerpoint and in one frame, show a video.
The other area where OO lacks is in a good grammar checker. Until one is developed, I use MS word. Actually, I find MS word file sizes to be half those for the same OO file.
The grammar checker is for the english guy like me who has to write in French or Spanish. I need the conjugation's to be correct, and the accents too.
If DDR2 ram is $75.00 a gig, then perhaps the flash guys think that the flash memory prices are too low. But DDR2 is used in PCs mainly, while the flash memory market includes cameras, cellphones, pcs and a whole host of systems where the bios or information is needed between poweroffs or to be preserved between system boots. I think that ddr2 memory should also be around $10.00 per gig. Why not?
The USA should adopt the patent rules of other countries. There, the fine or reward for patent infringement would be the assessment of the damages to an existing product, or of proof that a company was using the patent to produce a product. Intending to use the patent is considered, but to a much lessor degree. So, I buy a patent, because I can sue companies and make xyz dollars. That is the rule in the USA, but in my country, the patent holder would get zero, not even his court costs. If he was to license the patent, then there would be a judgement as to the worth of the patent and the revenue it could bring. Here again, the judge would treat the patent as one would treat a lottery ticket. One chance in hell.
I believe that it will overtake that blue screen of death software called Vista, or XP, or whatever name they give it.
How do we know Bush is not a terrorist?
Actually, I think that there was a deadline to meet, and this was thought to be a fix that could be done after widespead distribution of Vista. A business decision, no more or less.
Where I live the local Cable company does reverse billing. Using a datawarehouse and information from it's cable boxes, they are able to determine the hours and shows and channels that are being watched. They compensate the channel based on number of hours viewed. I have stopped watching TV simply because 1/4 of the time is allocated to commercials. I tried channel flipping at commercial time, but found that all the channels presented their commercials at the same minutes in the hour. Ah well, I prefer to read slashdot.org for my entertainment.
What they don't want you to know is how many viaducts, underpasses, bridges and tunnels are in a dangerous state. Now if the engineer stated it as an employee, the press would jump on it. They may even confirm his statements. If the engineer stated the same facts as an individual, we don't know the fate of that individual, in that his job may disappear due to restructuring or he may be transfered to an office in the next state. So the muzzle is on, no matter what. Now the engineer has to tell a friend, who has to tell a friend who has to report the danger. (If that is what it is about).
Realize that this is a weekly charge. 20 * 52 is over 1000 per year. Is this amount tax deductable? On the other hand, it will force you to stop the MacDO "bigger it up for 99 " activity
I believe that Red Hat, Novell, and even others that are European or Asian based will share the up and coming linux market with UBUNTU. It is even possible and in my mind, it makes sense that MS would eventually buy a linux distribution and use it to compete in the linux marketplace.
What augers well for Canonical is that they are there first, and they are relentless in making improvements to the product.
That said, I reviewed a distribution from Italy, which was gentoo based, and I was impressed with performance and functionality. Compared to all the above mentioned, I can say it was faster between mouse clicks when a window or session had to be opened.