I'm willing to bet the source for the allegations has an Android or Windows phone in his pocket.
As a side note, several years ago, it was reported that a company in California was busted because the workers were wearing adult diapers so that the manufacturing line didn't have to be stopped for piss breaks.
Politicians are such idiots and most of the population is no better. It's not about "jobs" - it's about education. High tech jobs went to India, China, etc because those countries put a long-term emphasis on educating a large percentage of their school-age population in high-tech subject areas - and the population responded by actually becoming educated in those subjects. It's too late for this generation - we should be focusing on our children so that there is a future for them to live in that is not dominated by greedy senior citizens, greedy executives, greedy politicians and an uneducated workforce that wants someone else to think for them so they can buy a new flat screen and a season pass to WWE.
Also, saying "buy American" is not a solution - that ship sailed decades ago. Let's not forget that it is the same population screaming about the jobs going offshore that are willing to buy the cheap imported cars, electronics and other consumer goods from Walmart, Costco, Amazon & eBay. When the money is coming out of *your* wallet, the vast majority of people will buy the product that gives them what they want for the least amount of money. We need to re-insert ourselves into the world economy, not try to put the genie back into the bottle and become islolationists. That would simply turn the entire USA into the equivalent of an Amish community.
Be nostalgic if you want to - but that keyboard really was horrible. We're not talking Samsung proximity touch screens - this was as painful as the weird old lady who works at Burger King punching a special order into the funky membrane keyboard point-of-sale system.
It was a blessing that you only had 1K - it meant your Basic program probably wouldn't be very long.
VTC is the thing that all executives want to have, but that never gets used. They are bought with great fanfare and everyone wants to use it - for about 90 days - then the controls sit in the corner collecting dust. Having one that is actually powered on and functional would be a novelty.
... to find the car keys my wife lost yesterday (for about the 20th time). Should be a piece of cake for anyone able to see aliens on the moon in 1972.
You admit that if you were not given a BB by your company, you wouldn't have a smart phone. You are not the target market for the android/iphone.
As far as what the browser on BB won't do, try using a site with lots of complex CSS, javascript and other dynamic components. I admit that I haven't tried the latest and greatest BBOS, but as of about 8 months ago, the BB browser was not functional on complex web pages - or on many of the more popular Facebook games.
Why do business users need games and multimedia? Those of us that commute long distances and/or spend large amounts of time in airplanes want something to do while we are wasting our lives for the damn company!
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Your post shows EXACTLY the problem with RIM - the thinking that screen size, screen quality, browser features and games are unimportant for business users. Of course they are important - and we want our corporate email, calendar & address book AND a good browser, games & a nice screen.
The most telling part of your post that indicates you are a dinosaur is this line: "It stays on my belt out of the way, along with my personal phone ( a 5 year old dumb phone that can make calls and text), knife, flashlight and wahtever else I may be carrying." Be gone ye demon of the past - there is no place for you in this time!!
I've seen it a million times and it's always a disaster. Just look at the user interfaces for the vast majority of appliances & peripherals - ghastly...
"You might think you could find it on YouTube or other public venues, given its importance in American history. But no — the rights are firmly locked away until 2038."
10 years? Yeah - you're the cock of the walk, almost at the peak of your programming career. Now, picture yourself at 50 years old. Look around your office. Do you see any 50 year old programmers? If you do, he's probably the surly little troll sitting in the corner working on some old legacy code that no one else in the office will touch.
You need to start planning for what you will do when you aren't programming any more. Development manager? Project manager? Enterprise Architect is cool - but how many of those are in a typical company - and many companies don't have that role at all. Contrary to what most career books will tell you, for the vast majority of companies, there *is* a ceiling to the technical path. To get to the Director or VP level you will need much more than tech skills. I think it's better to start learning about project & people management now than 20 years from now when you are being bypassed by younger folks who have taken the time to learn more than code.
"For this 'delay,' Oracle has no one to blame but itself, given that twice now it has advanced improper methodologies obviously calculated to reach stratospheric numbers,"
"stratospheric numbers" for the rest of the world is pocket change to Larry.
I was recently laid-off from a job less than a month after taking a 2 week vacation. This was a once-in-a-lifetime, on-my-bucket-list trip that I had told my boss about before I was even hired. I'm sure the layoff was planned before I went on vacation, and I'm sure it's not the only reason I got the ax - but I also know it was a factor.
... than I did in 2008. I left a good, but boring job to go to a company that hired me to manage a big ERP project, then a week after I started they canceled the project and 7 months later I was laid-off. I was an idiot that let a weasel of a CIO completely fool me. It took me almost 5 months to find a new full-time gig and a 20% lower salary was the best I could find in Southern California.
Companies are using contractors and temps more than ever before, and because of the number of people still out looking for jobs, they are paying less for those resources than they have in many years. So, the placement firms are offering much less to the contractors - with absolutely zero insurance & benefits. From the perspective of your average CIO, he doesn't need to invest in his internal staff - he can just bring in contractors that he can swap in and out based on the specific tech skills he needs. When the project goes wrong (which it will when it is staffed by people who know nothing about your business) he can blame the contractors and the project manager.
Even the small internal IT staff that is kept for maintenance & local sysadmin duties is not immune - there is no reason to invest in their training and career path - you can just swap them out whenever you decide to change technologies. If you are replacing Goldmine with Salesforce.com, don't bother training your current staff (that has given you many years of excellent work) on Salesforce - just lay them off and hire people who already know Salesforce.com, then repeat & rinse in a few years when the next shiny new toy is released.
Bottom line: Now, more than ever before, IT employees are considered tech monkeys that can be swapped out and "traded-up" (a term used by my last weasel of a CIO) just like the HW & SW they work on. That might be OK for young, single IT geeks - but not for people who are trying to provide for their family. Get out now, while you can!
...was making the SW easy enough to install and use that someone could download it and start using it. Oracle never makes that mistake, which is why you can download anything you want directly from otn. They know you're going to call eventually...
... in the fight to keep technology as a way to empower society, not be enslaved by it.
Like most of his speeches and posts, I think you need to look beyond the alarmist examples that he uses to get your attention and actually think about the underlying message. This is not about whether PCs still have BASIC interpreters. I think it's about the deeper concepts of personal privacy and that we can not passively rely on corporations or the government to act benevolently and "do the right thing". We need to control our own destinies and manage our freedoms or we will lose them. Cory Doctorow wants to make us think.
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I'm willing to bet the source for the allegations has an Android or Windows phone in his pocket.
As a side note, several years ago, it was reported that a company in California was busted because the workers were wearing adult diapers so that the manufacturing line didn't have to be stopped for piss breaks.
Politicians are such idiots and most of the population is no better. It's not about "jobs" - it's about education. High tech jobs went to India, China, etc because those countries put a long-term emphasis on educating a large percentage of their school-age population in high-tech subject areas - and the population responded by actually becoming educated in those subjects. It's too late for this generation - we should be focusing on our children so that there is a future for them to live in that is not dominated by greedy senior citizens, greedy executives, greedy politicians and an uneducated workforce that wants someone else to think for them so they can buy a new flat screen and a season pass to WWE.
Also, saying "buy American" is not a solution - that ship sailed decades ago. Let's not forget that it is the same population screaming about the jobs going offshore that are willing to buy the cheap imported cars, electronics and other consumer goods from Walmart, Costco, Amazon & eBay. When the money is coming out of *your* wallet, the vast majority of people will buy the product that gives them what they want for the least amount of money. We need to re-insert ourselves into the world economy, not try to put the genie back into the bottle and become islolationists. That would simply turn the entire USA into the equivalent of an Amish community.
No true techie knows any women, let alone goes on dates and gets married.
Be nostalgic if you want to - but that keyboard really was horrible. We're not talking Samsung proximity touch screens - this was as painful as the weird old lady who works at Burger King punching a special order into the funky membrane keyboard point-of-sale system.
It was a blessing that you only had 1K - it meant your Basic program probably wouldn't be very long.
VTC is the thing that all executives want to have, but that never gets used. They are bought with great fanfare and everyone wants to use it - for about 90 days - then the controls sit in the corner collecting dust. Having one that is actually powered on and functional would be a novelty.
... to find the car keys my wife lost yesterday (for about the 20th time). Should be a piece of cake for anyone able to see aliens on the moon in 1972.
You admit that if you were not given a BB by your company, you wouldn't have a smart phone. You are not the target market for the android/iphone.
As far as what the browser on BB won't do, try using a site with lots of complex CSS, javascript and other dynamic components. I admit that I haven't tried the latest and greatest BBOS, but as of about 8 months ago, the BB browser was not functional on complex web pages - or on many of the more popular Facebook games.
Why do business users need games and multimedia? Those of us that commute long distances and/or spend large amounts of time in airplanes want something to do while we are wasting our lives for the damn company!
Your post shows EXACTLY the problem with RIM - the thinking that screen size, screen quality, browser features and games are unimportant for business users. Of course they are important - and we want our corporate email, calendar & address book AND a good browser, games & a nice screen.
The most telling part of your post that indicates you are a dinosaur is this line: "It stays on my belt out of the way, along with my personal phone ( a 5 year old dumb phone that can make calls and text), knife, flashlight and wahtever else I may be carrying." Be gone ye demon of the past - there is no place for you in this time!!
I've seen it a million times and it's always a disaster. Just look at the user interfaces for the vast majority of appliances & peripherals - ghastly...
Where is Matthew Sobel when you need him??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel)
In California, that big blue thing right over there ---->>>> is the Pacific Ocean. That's a pretty good heatsink...
"You might think you could find it on YouTube or other public venues, given its importance in American history. But no — the rights are firmly locked away until 2038."
Posted in 2009, and still available as I type this:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x833ml_martin-luther-king-i-have-a-dream-s_news
Unfortunately, you will have to endure inserted breaks for advertising on that one.
Or, this one, posted on Youtube a year ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs
... perhaps a FOIA request to the FBI would turn it up...
...and Space 1999, and 2001 AND 2010...
10 years? Yeah - you're the cock of the walk, almost at the peak of your programming career. Now, picture yourself at 50 years old. Look around your office. Do you see any 50 year old programmers? If you do, he's probably the surly little troll sitting in the corner working on some old legacy code that no one else in the office will touch.
You need to start planning for what you will do when you aren't programming any more. Development manager? Project manager? Enterprise Architect is cool - but how many of those are in a typical company - and many companies don't have that role at all. Contrary to what most career books will tell you, for the vast majority of companies, there *is* a ceiling to the technical path. To get to the Director or VP level you will need much more than tech skills. I think it's better to start learning about project & people management now than 20 years from now when you are being bypassed by younger folks who have taken the time to learn more than code.
"For this 'delay,' Oracle has no one to blame but itself, given that twice now it has advanced improper methodologies obviously calculated to reach stratospheric numbers,"
"stratospheric numbers" for the rest of the world is pocket change to Larry.
I was recently laid-off from a job less than a month after taking a 2 week vacation. This was a once-in-a-lifetime, on-my-bucket-list trip that I had told my boss about before I was even hired. I'm sure the layoff was planned before I went on vacation, and I'm sure it's not the only reason I got the ax - but I also know it was a factor.
Kodak needs some way to pay for the bankruptcy lawyers...
When I was 14, the only kind of camp I was interested in was one with hot girls. That isn't going to be a tech camp...
... than I did in 2008. I left a good, but boring job to go to a company that hired me to manage a big ERP project, then a week after I started they canceled the project and 7 months later I was laid-off. I was an idiot that let a weasel of a CIO completely fool me. It took me almost 5 months to find a new full-time gig and a 20% lower salary was the best I could find in Southern California.
Companies are using contractors and temps more than ever before, and because of the number of people still out looking for jobs, they are paying less for those resources than they have in many years. So, the placement firms are offering much less to the contractors - with absolutely zero insurance & benefits. From the perspective of your average CIO, he doesn't need to invest in his internal staff - he can just bring in contractors that he can swap in and out based on the specific tech skills he needs. When the project goes wrong (which it will when it is staffed by people who know nothing about your business) he can blame the contractors and the project manager.
Even the small internal IT staff that is kept for maintenance & local sysadmin duties is not immune - there is no reason to invest in their training and career path - you can just swap them out whenever you decide to change technologies. If you are replacing Goldmine with Salesforce.com, don't bother training your current staff (that has given you many years of excellent work) on Salesforce - just lay them off and hire people who already know Salesforce.com, then repeat & rinse in a few years when the next shiny new toy is released.
Bottom line: Now, more than ever before, IT employees are considered tech monkeys that can be swapped out and "traded-up" (a term used by my last weasel of a CIO) just like the HW & SW they work on. That might be OK for young, single IT geeks - but not for people who are trying to provide for their family. Get out now, while you can!
...when you cross an owl with a bungee cord?
...was making the SW easy enough to install and use that someone could download it and start using it. Oracle never makes that mistake, which is why you can download anything you want directly from otn. They know you're going to call eventually...
... in the fight to keep technology as a way to empower society, not be enslaved by it.
Like most of his speeches and posts, I think you need to look beyond the alarmist examples that he uses to get your attention and actually think about the underlying message. This is not about whether PCs still have BASIC interpreters. I think it's about the deeper concepts of personal privacy and that we can not passively rely on corporations or the government to act benevolently and "do the right thing". We need to control our own destinies and manage our freedoms or we will lose them. Cory Doctorow wants to make us think.
Sister Mary Magdalene just rolled over in her grave.
But I want it to include a date with Danica Patrick.