There are already signs of his with some Indian firms subcontracting to China. Result, we pay India to do a job, India get China to do the work and turn a nice profit for basically managing the contract.
Then my job got offshored. The person now doing my job got a huge promotion and now has a higher manday rate than me despite being offshore. probably makes sense to someone, somewhere.
On the plus side, my firm is switched on enough to ensure that despite my original job going, I am getting new opportunities and training rather than being let go. Guess I'm lucky so far.
On the downside, I now get rated on how much I grow skill wise and what extra curicular activities I get involved with rather than my day to day job. I get top marks from everyone I work for but because I don't get involved much in training other staff etc., I've had one (1.5%) pay rise in 5 years. Before anyone else points out the obvious, my location is somewhat remote compared to the rest of the team so most things I could get involved with are precluded.
Still got a job though..
You're probably right about Aurora. I used to work with a guy who was an ex-boeing tech who had worked on one of their stealth efforts 15-20 years ago. He told me about some pretty crazy stuff that was supposed to exist even back then. Normally I'd have put it down to bs but he really wasn't the sort of person to invent stuff or say things for fun, quite frighteningly straight really.
Exactly right. It's all too easy to look upon a foreign nation trying to prevent surveillance of their activities as being an aggressive act but turn those tables and ask yourself how you'd feel if US airspace was being overflown (although it probably is..) by Chinese Sats watching military bases, the Skunkworks etc. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander.
grounding all the Blackbirds and relying on Satallites was a really good one.
To be fair though, I'm guessing there are SR-71 replacements (Aurora?) busy doing a similar job but we just don't know about it yet.
>It's like Doctors - they are expected to be arrogant, aloof
Dude, I think it's time you changed your doctor. I haven't met one like that in years - all the ones I use are all warm & welcoming these days.
>No doubt that the U.S. ** IS ** the greatest democracy ever, but it has some serious shortcomings
Translation: I only really know about the way we do it and I'm comfy with that. The news talks about ones that went bad so I'm guessing they're all bad and we're therefor the best.
Reality: Many countries have better versions of democracy and involve the people in far more decision making.
I had decided that my next machine was going to be a nice Intel Mac after 15 years of PCs. On the strength of this, I'm not sure I want to give my hard earned money to a firm who are going to start playing silly like this. I could just about forgive their last attempt but this is getting out of control. As the OP said, it's free advertising! OTOH I suppose it's also true that in the US at least a company has to be seen to try to protect a trademark otherwise they could lose it. Ah dammit, choices, choices.
That you've just stepped off a space ship and are visiting and know nothing of our ways and culture. Read this thread. You'd be thinking you'd landed on some pretty crazy planet!
>I honestly think it has something to do with them having been convinced once already to move away from that type of architecture
I remember us smugly installing x-terminals everywhere to replace the PCs we had. It's the future! It's open! It's economical to run!
Within 3 years, several million pounds worth of x-terminals were junked and we were back with PCs. So much easier to get the software! People know how to use them! Easier to find support staff!
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>I use photoshop.
What a wuss. All your photos are just steams of bytes. Use cmd line tools to pattern match and modify. You have to do a little pre-planning but heck, if you can't scan down a few thousand K of numbers, memorise them all, spot patterns and write scripts to work on them, you can't be trying hard enough.
I don't know definitively about the airline booking system but even back then, a lot of stuff was starting to happen. I had a friend who used to access his banking details, make transfers etc on an Atari 800 with a 1200/75 modem (who remembers those?) and PRESTEL graphic back around 1985. Equally, firms that did have online systems for their own staff's use often were somewhat lazy about protecting them from the outside world so I can well believe an airline booking system *aimed at travel agents* would be accessible to someone who'd worked out a valid id/password combo.
The bandwidth costs for YouTube are $1bn a month so whoever buys it will need to make it produce revenues of at least that plus staff/infrastructure costs before they even think of recouping the purchase cost.
Scary.
If it's any consolation, there is one that is nearing flight readiness, funds, volunteers allowing. There is one at Southend that does taxi runs from time to time but isn't near airworthiness yet.
Probably the best sounding jet in the world when it turns it's tail on the audience and cranks up the engines.
It's a lot easier to build a new infrastructure from scratch than to drag an existing one kicking and screaming in to the 21st century. Making it go fast isn't the problem, it's putting on the go-faster stripes while the existing one continues to run 24/7.
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There are already signs of his with some Indian firms subcontracting to China. Result, we pay India to do a job, India get China to do the work and turn a nice profit for basically managing the contract.
>17.5% would be like decimating... and then decimating the survivors.
I think I saw that video once.
Then my job got offshored. The person now doing my job got a huge promotion and now has a higher manday rate than me despite being offshore. probably makes sense to someone, somewhere.
On the plus side, my firm is switched on enough to ensure that despite my original job going, I am getting new opportunities and training rather than being let go. Guess I'm lucky so far.
On the downside, I now get rated on how much I grow skill wise and what extra curicular activities I get involved with rather than my day to day job. I get top marks from everyone I work for but because I don't get involved much in training other staff etc., I've had one (1.5%) pay rise in 5 years. Before anyone else points out the obvious, my location is somewhat remote compared to the rest of the team so most things I could get involved with are precluded.
Still got a job though..
+funny mods points needed over here urgently!
Do you write for www.shelleytherepublican.com ? ;-)
You're probably right about Aurora. I used to work with a guy who was an ex-boeing tech who had worked on one of their stealth efforts 15-20 years ago. He told me about some pretty crazy stuff that was supposed to exist even back then. Normally I'd have put it down to bs but he really wasn't the sort of person to invent stuff or say things for fun, quite frighteningly straight really.
Exactly right. It's all too easy to look upon a foreign nation trying to prevent surveillance of their activities as being an aggressive act but turn those tables and ask yourself how you'd feel if US airspace was being overflown (although it probably is..) by Chinese Sats watching military bases, the Skunkworks etc. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander.
grounding all the Blackbirds and relying on Satallites was a really good one.
To be fair though, I'm guessing there are SR-71 replacements (Aurora?) busy doing a similar job but we just don't know about it yet.
>no end in sight.
Don't say you weren't warned. Heck, even Bush snr said invading Iraq was a bad move.
>It's like Doctors - they are expected to be arrogant, aloof
Dude, I think it's time you changed your doctor. I haven't met one like that in years - all the ones I use are all warm & welcoming these days.
>No doubt that the U.S. ** IS ** the greatest democracy ever, but it has some serious shortcomings
Translation: I only really know about the way we do it and I'm comfy with that. The news talks about ones that went bad so I'm guessing they're all bad and we're therefor the best.
Reality: Many countries have better versions of democracy and involve the people in far more decision making.
I bet they'd not be too enthused about iSuck though.
I had decided that my next machine was going to be a nice Intel Mac after 15 years of PCs. On the strength of this, I'm not sure I want to give my hard earned money to a firm who are going to start playing silly like this. I could just about forgive their last attempt but this is getting out of control. As the OP said, it's free advertising! OTOH I suppose it's also true that in the US at least a company has to be seen to try to protect a trademark otherwise they could lose it. Ah dammit, choices, choices.
That you've just stepped off a space ship and are visiting and know nothing of our ways and culture. Read this thread. You'd be thinking you'd landed on some pretty crazy planet!
>I honestly think it has something to do with them having been convinced once already to move away from that type of architecture
I remember us smugly installing x-terminals everywhere to replace the PCs we had. It's the future! It's open! It's economical to run!
Within 3 years, several million pounds worth of x-terminals were junked and we were back with PCs. So much easier to get the software! People know how to use them! Easier to find support staff!
>I use photoshop.
What a wuss. All your photos are just steams of bytes. Use cmd line tools to pattern match and modify. You have to do a little pre-planning but heck, if you can't scan down a few thousand K of numbers, memorise them all, spot patterns and write scripts to work on them, you can't be trying hard enough.
>Creating a worm doesn't involve moving little 3-D blocks around on a computer screen. ;-)
Pah! You clearly don't get object programming
I don't know definitively about the airline booking system but even back then, a lot of stuff was starting to happen. I had a friend who used to access his banking details, make transfers etc on an Atari 800 with a 1200/75 modem (who remembers those?) and PRESTEL graphic back around 1985. Equally, firms that did have online systems for their own staff's use often were somewhat lazy about protecting them from the outside world so I can well believe an airline booking system *aimed at travel agents* would be accessible to someone who'd worked out a valid id/password combo.
Jeez, I rest my case.
WTF is going on with mods these days. Troll? Error sure, and that was fixed within a couple of minutes but troll? Don't think so.
sorry, mistype, it's $1m.
The bandwidth costs for YouTube are $1bn a month so whoever buys it will need to make it produce revenues of at least that plus staff/infrastructure costs before they even think of recouping the purchase cost.
Scary.
Concur. I was thinking mil. jets but yes, Concorde is/was the king, especially when the afterburners kick in.
If it's any consolation, there is one that is nearing flight readiness, funds, volunteers allowing. There is one at Southend that does taxi runs from time to time but isn't near airworthiness yet.
Probably the best sounding jet in the world when it turns it's tail on the audience and cranks up the engines.
It's a lot easier to build a new infrastructure from scratch than to drag an existing one kicking and screaming in to the 21st century. Making it go fast isn't the problem, it's putting on the go-faster stripes while the existing one continues to run 24/7.