However there is another catch - Everything on pcs and laptops and the like might have evolved to a state that might handle much complex web operations, but there are also a phletora of new gadgetry that is entering the world of telecommunication - we have the wap for example, a brand new and exciting new area for the net/web to expand into, however it is definite that they will have a hard time handling the fancy stuff we might be putting on the websites yet. And if, and when they wont, we will have to create two versions of the site/service, test them out and maintain them so that this new medium and the mediums that are developing alike could be able to reach out to websites.
Outsourcing to outside from u.s. is indeed a big market-cutter for u.s. based developers.
But its a brave new world. Internet is something different than us, japan, china, sweden and any country in the world combined - it is a new country.
So, the 'invisible hand' in the market in this brand new 'country' similarly adjusts the prices taking the supply/demand balance into account, just as it does in the real world. Web development prices took a sharp dive as chinese and hindu entered the market and took on work for rates that virtually meant 'for nothing' earlier. Now all it matters is about competence, reliability and skill in development world. Reliability is by far the most important aspect clients seek in web development - noone takes this word lightly twice ; if its very cheap, there is something missing in any product/service. And so it happens - you get what you pay for.
As a result, there is and will be very low prices around put out by hordes of software houses and developers which are new to the business and just entering the market, but the 'you get what you pay for' motto will always stand. As a matter of fact, what happens to most independent web developers or small software houses is that, after taking on around 20-30 projects, they garner a regular clientele that brings in repeat jobs for the same or similar projects, and this goes on. You wont be able to take in new clients unless you are willing to enlarge the operation by enlarging the company and making more investment. Which is a choice, can stay small and keep happy, can grow and join the foray.
But all in all, web development is something that is defined by the quality of its source.
Thus do not hesitate, but devote yourself to the field. If you cant or are not willing to become a netizen in the endless network that is internet - take law or medicine.
Japanese Police force should investigate and root out the yakuza that have infiltrated every aspect of their community first. Yakuza has power in japan ranging in a spectrum of fields from fast food stands to big corporations, and politics. They are a much more harmful factor than any anime or video game could ever be. At least, kids do not have semi automatic weapons en masse.
People, even if senators or lawmakers, shouldnt be allowed to propose laws for things that are outside their expertise area.
Most apparently the aforementioned attorney general does now nothing about the concept of 'dynamic web pages'. There are web entities that in them hundreds of pages are dynamically generated by user input every hour, or less. Im sure the attorney general in question would definitely be in at a loss to explain how such phenomenon that are specific to world wide web could be ever moderated as proposed.
We definitely ban people from proposing laws outside their expertise area, or they should have to take 'adaptation courses' to be able to do so.
There might be positives and negatives to microsoft, and in the end it might or might not be evil, just a company trying to make maximum amount of money it can. However these do not negate the fact that, due to nature of the concepts 'software' and 'compatibility', microsoft has become something that is very harmful to free competition, new titles of software in the areas it did put foot in, and in general small or starting establishments in software field.
Some of the areas it set foot in, like o/s field, is impossible for start ups, and i guess very little of you who read my comment have ever thought of setting up a start up and producing an operation system to sell it commercially.
There was icq first. Now the number of people using icq is not increasing, if not decrasing rapidly. Because msn messenger has become something that is directly put in front of any pc user upon installation of a windows xp system. Many people do not know the past of internet, the opportunities and different software to use for any task, and take what they are served as the prominent one.
This is not a good going. It should not be let to continue, people should have freedom to choose whatever they use.
I have come to known Seagate hard disks as the most silent ones in the sector. As a matter of fact im in the process of acquiring an 200 Gb one to replace my existent samsung which makes pretty much harmful 'szziiii' noise with the engine/spinde. Its good to hear companies that deliver quality products are making innovations to keep themselves on the edge.
I still definitely refrain from Ajax like hell.
The concept of delivering the load to client's computer whereas being subject to limitations of the visitor pc, and the risk of not being able to deliver the content as wanted or even at all, is one too big to take.
Processing everything server side, and printing out just plain old HTML formatted result to a client pc, thus bypassing all overzealous anti-virus, privacy, anti-spyware and security software and any limitation the client pc has, is the surest thing to do, dont you think ?
This is definitely a case of the new hype going around 'Personnel & Human Resources Management' thing - Trying to profile out a person's characteristics by asking totally irrelevant and absurd questions with no correlation to the job s/he will be interviewed about. It does not matter what a person would do in a 's/he comes home tired from work, learns that friends are coming to dinner and there is nothing in the house except a sack of flour' case if the person is going to be employed in a routine, regular, tedious repetitive duty of maintaining a branch of a production line in a manufacturing plant.
I think that the social sciences, yet being too distant to pose all encompassing theories about the human psyche, are being over utilized in industry. This leads to the 'totally irrelevant psychological profiling' and 'human resources management with no correlation to actual work/sector' cases.
As a result id say that this company might be one of those that in it the head does not know what the hand is doing. Scratch them out of your list.
Of course they will recover the market from pirates.
The overpricing of easily reproducable materials is the reason piracy comes into being anyways. That has always been the case in history of civilization, and it will be so in future.
The 'copyright' concept is still being taken as if we were in the days where voltaire, rousseau published their books. Book was something expensive to produce and publish, resulting in high prices. In the recent years, it has become increasingly easier to produce and publis materials, but prices did not take a steep dive, leading to high profit margins for intellectual rights market participants.
However the 'invisible hand' always does its trick - piracy came into being.
If anyone does not want to be pirated, s/he/they shouldnt be selling anything in exorbitant prices.
Someone might object by saying 'but so and so prices are normal in the industry' - nay you cant decide what is an exorbitant price as the seller. The buyer decides what is an exorbitant price and what is not. If there is piracy somewhere, it means something is being pushed into the market far more than its market value there.
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However there is another catch - Everything on pcs and laptops and the like might have evolved to a state that might handle much complex web operations, but there are also a phletora of new gadgetry that is entering the world of telecommunication - we have the wap for example, a brand new and exciting new area for the net/web to expand into, however it is definite that they will have a hard time handling the fancy stuff we might be putting on the websites yet. And if, and when they wont, we will have to create two versions of the site/service, test them out and maintain them so that this new medium and the mediums that are developing alike could be able to reach out to websites.
Outsourcing to outside from u.s. is indeed a big market-cutter for u.s. based developers. But its a brave new world. Internet is something different than us, japan, china, sweden and any country in the world combined - it is a new country. So, the 'invisible hand' in the market in this brand new 'country' similarly adjusts the prices taking the supply/demand balance into account, just as it does in the real world. Web development prices took a sharp dive as chinese and hindu entered the market and took on work for rates that virtually meant 'for nothing' earlier. Now all it matters is about competence, reliability and skill in development world. Reliability is by far the most important aspect clients seek in web development - noone takes this word lightly twice ; if its very cheap, there is something missing in any product/service. And so it happens - you get what you pay for. As a result, there is and will be very low prices around put out by hordes of software houses and developers which are new to the business and just entering the market, but the 'you get what you pay for' motto will always stand. As a matter of fact, what happens to most independent web developers or small software houses is that, after taking on around 20-30 projects, they garner a regular clientele that brings in repeat jobs for the same or similar projects, and this goes on. You wont be able to take in new clients unless you are willing to enlarge the operation by enlarging the company and making more investment. Which is a choice, can stay small and keep happy, can grow and join the foray. But all in all, web development is something that is defined by the quality of its source. Thus do not hesitate, but devote yourself to the field. If you cant or are not willing to become a netizen in the endless network that is internet - take law or medicine.
Japanese Police force should investigate and root out the yakuza that have infiltrated every aspect of their community first. Yakuza has power in japan ranging in a spectrum of fields from fast food stands to big corporations, and politics. They are a much more harmful factor than any anime or video game could ever be. At least, kids do not have semi automatic weapons en masse.
People, even if senators or lawmakers, shouldnt be allowed to propose laws for things that are outside their expertise area. Most apparently the aforementioned attorney general does now nothing about the concept of 'dynamic web pages'. There are web entities that in them hundreds of pages are dynamically generated by user input every hour, or less. Im sure the attorney general in question would definitely be in at a loss to explain how such phenomenon that are specific to world wide web could be ever moderated as proposed. We definitely ban people from proposing laws outside their expertise area, or they should have to take 'adaptation courses' to be able to do so.
There might be positives and negatives to microsoft, and in the end it might or might not be evil, just a company trying to make maximum amount of money it can. However these do not negate the fact that, due to nature of the concepts 'software' and 'compatibility', microsoft has become something that is very harmful to free competition, new titles of software in the areas it did put foot in, and in general small or starting establishments in software field. Some of the areas it set foot in, like o/s field, is impossible for start ups, and i guess very little of you who read my comment have ever thought of setting up a start up and producing an operation system to sell it commercially. There was icq first. Now the number of people using icq is not increasing, if not decrasing rapidly. Because msn messenger has become something that is directly put in front of any pc user upon installation of a windows xp system. Many people do not know the past of internet, the opportunities and different software to use for any task, and take what they are served as the prominent one. This is not a good going. It should not be let to continue, people should have freedom to choose whatever they use.
I have come to known Seagate hard disks as the most silent ones in the sector. As a matter of fact im in the process of acquiring an 200 Gb one to replace my existent samsung which makes pretty much harmful 'szziiii' noise with the engine/spinde. Its good to hear companies that deliver quality products are making innovations to keep themselves on the edge.
I still definitely refrain from Ajax like hell. The concept of delivering the load to client's computer whereas being subject to limitations of the visitor pc, and the risk of not being able to deliver the content as wanted or even at all, is one too big to take. Processing everything server side, and printing out just plain old HTML formatted result to a client pc, thus bypassing all overzealous anti-virus, privacy, anti-spyware and security software and any limitation the client pc has, is the surest thing to do, dont you think ?
This is definitely a case of the new hype going around 'Personnel & Human Resources Management' thing - Trying to profile out a person's characteristics by asking totally irrelevant and absurd questions with no correlation to the job s/he will be interviewed about. It does not matter what a person would do in a 's/he comes home tired from work, learns that friends are coming to dinner and there is nothing in the house except a sack of flour' case if the person is going to be employed in a routine, regular, tedious repetitive duty of maintaining a branch of a production line in a manufacturing plant. I think that the social sciences, yet being too distant to pose all encompassing theories about the human psyche, are being over utilized in industry. This leads to the 'totally irrelevant psychological profiling' and 'human resources management with no correlation to actual work/sector' cases. As a result id say that this company might be one of those that in it the head does not know what the hand is doing. Scratch them out of your list.
Of course they will recover the market from pirates. The overpricing of easily reproducable materials is the reason piracy comes into being anyways. That has always been the case in history of civilization, and it will be so in future. The 'copyright' concept is still being taken as if we were in the days where voltaire, rousseau published their books. Book was something expensive to produce and publish, resulting in high prices. In the recent years, it has become increasingly easier to produce and publis materials, but prices did not take a steep dive, leading to high profit margins for intellectual rights market participants. However the 'invisible hand' always does its trick - piracy came into being. If anyone does not want to be pirated, s/he/they shouldnt be selling anything in exorbitant prices. Someone might object by saying 'but so and so prices are normal in the industry' - nay you cant decide what is an exorbitant price as the seller. The buyer decides what is an exorbitant price and what is not. If there is piracy somewhere, it means something is being pushed into the market far more than its market value there.