Indian I.T. contractors who didn't have the real world skills they boast on their resume. I'm not in charge of staffing so I don't know how hard these things are to verify, but I would say we spin out 50% of the non-native contractors we get lately because they simply don't know what they are doing. I've had 5 different Java/J-Boss/Linux pros that have no clue what they are doing, all were from India and all boasted extensive Linux and application server skills, but had never heard of SUDO or what shell script starts J-Boss? Add language barriers in to that equation and it usually isn't worth what we are supposedly saving.
I know our last 2 contractors had to go through a two week trial period at the agencies expense and we kicked both of them back. We probably get just as many bad American contractors, but the whole point of exporting jobs or importing workers was that we gain talents that aren't available here at a lower price. If their skills and education are all suspect and have to be verified at a greater expense and difficulty than local talent why bother? Apple probably found the same thing.
is that OOo is really slow, slow to open and slow to respond. OOo feels faster on my Fedora Core laptop (Pentium M 1.73) but really chugs on my XP Pro box (Pentium D 930). It is even slower on my Ubuntu Dapper test box (Athlon 64 3700+), almost ubearable to use. This makes no sense, but my off the cuff guess is that the Fedora packages have been optimzied better than the Ubuntu packages and the Windows version (by a wide margin). But what it comes down to for me is what feels faster when I have to make a slide show for the PHBs, and for now Office 2003 feels far speedier and responsive than OOo does (on any platform).
Because if Slashdot moves to a "nothing but F/OSS news" model they won't have enough content to last a week and taco will have to get a real job. Face it, 90% of the debate on this site is why MS sucks and how to keep nasty foreign types from stealing our jobs. I seem to recall a time when stuff like user submitted game reviews weren't on this site, but the F/OSS news isn't the torrential down pour you would like, so Windows news drives clicks.
What an absurd post, do you really think those little status lights eat that much battery? What do licensing fees have to do with original hardware? Don't knock Windows laptops because you bought a piece of junk, my Dell XPS M140 is fast, sports 6+ hours of battery life, feels and runs solid and is so much faster than my G4 iBook I sold it. The only issue with factory XP laptops is the need to usually wipe and reload the system without all the factory "free" stuff, too bad there is so much junk software out there to contend with when you buy OEM.
In reference to licensing software, my XPS is now loaded with a clean install of XP Pro, and virtually every other piece of software is either freeware or OSS. So if you and the wife are truly computer wizards why is it neither of you can find SourceForge and she has to relegate all the "interesting" work to your slow iBook?
assume MS can't do well at anything, but the search results on Live are comparable and in a few cases were more accurate than what I was getting with Google. I've tested against all 3 players with the same searches and I would call Live and Google a tie, while Yahoo probably delivered the least relevant results from my very informal test.
You can shrug off MS all you want, hitory shows when they want something bad enough they will get it.
I think the comment was in reference to Office Live, not PC/work station installs. And how much do your techs suck that they don't disable it on install, not really requiring an extra labor, unless you work for such a nasty company that they count your mouse clicks as wasted energy???
Yes and no, if you remake a beloved or classic film, the remake should bear some resemblance to the inspiration. You don't get many "remakes" or "retellings" that live up the stuff like Battlestar 04.
theatre in 2 years, haven't bought any recent films on DVD in at least as long and dropped my NetFlix rental plan to the "cheapo" plan as well. They aren't losing money due to piracy, they haven't released anything I would waste my bandwidth on. They are losing money because they release trash; bad "popcorn" flicks, weak remakes that bear little resemblance to their predecessors, bubble gum movies with pop stars who act worse than they lip synch,etc.. You can blame piracy for a while longer, but eventually the problem will become obvious to even the most oblivious film studio executive.
it means MS is alive and well. Dvorak has been celebrating Apple's death for years and always been wrong, called Linux a hobbyist fad until someone told him about Ajax and now MS is dead too? Methinks someone is trolling for hits, nothing to see here...
You are correct, I can get drivers for the XP system, if I disable my audio and wireless in XP it is just like using Kubuntu. All the *buntus are great, and a huge step in the right direction, but until the "driver thing" is resolved it is still somewhat difficult to run Linux on newer hardware as a primary desktop.
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Clearly you haven't work with any H1Bs from India lately.
I know our last 2 contractors had to go through a two week trial period at the agencies expense and we kicked both of them back. We probably get just as many bad American contractors, but the whole point of exporting jobs or importing workers was that we gain talents that aren't available here at a lower price. If their skills and education are all suspect and have to be verified at a greater expense and difficulty than local talent why bother? Apple probably found the same thing.
is that OOo is really slow, slow to open and slow to respond. OOo feels faster on my Fedora Core laptop (Pentium M 1.73) but really chugs on my XP Pro box (Pentium D 930). It is even slower on my Ubuntu Dapper test box (Athlon 64 3700+), almost ubearable to use. This makes no sense, but my off the cuff guess is that the Fedora packages have been optimzied better than the Ubuntu packages and the Windows version (by a wide margin). But what it comes down to for me is what feels faster when I have to make a slide show for the PHBs, and for now Office 2003 feels far speedier and responsive than OOo does (on any platform).
Because if Slashdot moves to a "nothing but F/OSS news" model they won't have enough content to last a week and taco will have to get a real job. Face it, 90% of the debate on this site is why MS sucks and how to keep nasty foreign types from stealing our jobs. I seem to recall a time when stuff like user submitted game reviews weren't on this site, but the F/OSS news isn't the torrential down pour you would like, so Windows news drives clicks.
I really get a sense of how witty and brilliant you are by replacing the S with a $, you so cut through the marketing hype to the heart of the matter.
Yea, because no update from any OSS project has broken another app or caused downtime...
I've built literally hundreds of PCs for myself, friends, family, co-workers and clients. I couldn't craft an exploit if you paid me too.
as soon as you see "post PC-era" you know it is irrelevant.
In reference to licensing software, my XPS is now loaded with a clean install of XP Pro, and virtually every other piece of software is either freeware or OSS. So if you and the wife are truly computer wizards why is it neither of you can find SourceForge and she has to relegate all the "interesting" work to your slow iBook?
assume MS can't do well at anything, but the search results on Live are comparable and in a few cases were more accurate than what I was getting with Google. I've tested against all 3 players with the same searches and I would call Live and Google a tie, while Yahoo probably delivered the least relevant results from my very informal test. You can shrug off MS all you want, hitory shows when they want something bad enough they will get it.
I think the comment was in reference to Office Live, not PC/work station installs. And how much do your techs suck that they don't disable it on install, not really requiring an extra labor, unless you work for such a nasty company that they count your mouse clicks as wasted energy???
Yes and no, if you remake a beloved or classic film, the remake should bear some resemblance to the inspiration. You don't get many "remakes" or "retellings" that live up the stuff like Battlestar 04.
the GeForce FX5200.
theatre in 2 years, haven't bought any recent films on DVD in at least as long and dropped my NetFlix rental plan to the "cheapo" plan as well. They aren't losing money due to piracy, they haven't released anything I would waste my bandwidth on. They are losing money because they release trash; bad "popcorn" flicks, weak remakes that bear little resemblance to their predecessors, bubble gum movies with pop stars who act worse than they lip synch,etc.. You can blame piracy for a while longer, but eventually the problem will become obvious to even the most oblivious film studio executive.
it means MS is alive and well. Dvorak has been celebrating Apple's death for years and always been wrong, called Linux a hobbyist fad until someone told him about Ajax and now MS is dead too? Methinks someone is trolling for hits, nothing to see here...
You are correct, I can get drivers for the XP system, if I disable my audio and wireless in XP it is just like using Kubuntu. All the *buntus are great, and a huge step in the right direction, but until the "driver thing" is resolved it is still somewhat difficult to run Linux on newer hardware as a primary desktop.