or else native born workers would be allowed to telecommute.
Face it, managers see IT staff as "a dime a dozen" these days with all the cheap labor in other countries. They outsource IT for 8 cents on the dollar, and trust the local management in that country to keep things in line. At least when I worked, management felt that way in the company I worked for. So even if I worked minimum wage, I couldn't do it as cheap as a worker in another country.
Nothing against people in other countries working IT jobs for pennies on the dollar, they have to make a living too, I am upset at management deciding to outsource and laying off a lot of talent that worked extra hard for them, only to get the boot because they are natural born USA citizens.
Oracle, for example, lets us developers download a version of their Database Server for use at home, so we can build up those development skills in Oracle PL/SQL at home and use them at work.
Offer a free version of your product, like Borland does for Kylix, that only can be used to create open sourced products, and for commercial use we have to buy that $500USD to $5000USD compiler and license. That way we can try out your language or tool, and if we like it we can buy the full version and get jiggy with it. Nothing like spending $500USD to $5000USD to get a language or tool that you do not like, and wished that you could have test drived it.
Offer free online help, even if limited, it helps out greatly. Create a newsgroup on it, make a forum, get TWIKI/WIKI to document stuff, whatever it takes to help us out. By helping us out, you are helping your company out as well.
companies are willing to spend more, because they like getting a "Total Package" from one vendor (Like Microsoft) instead of having to deal with a dozen vendors whose products might not "Integrate" as well as the single vendor.
Ah but the simple matter of fact is that the pointy haired bosses that run those companies still love Microsoft, not matter how many times Microsoft has bitchslapped them with license fees and upgrade costs. They think that Linux and MySQL is for Hippies.
pick the target market you are going after and then code to suit them. Ask some people in that market what their needs are. get out and network and learn.
The H1B Visa Workers came in and ruined it for us. Not the H1b Worker's Fault, but the MegaCorps that lobbied the Government to triple the H1B Quotas and the NSF for providing false info to get more H1Bs in the US Market to devalue the IT Worker's salary.
Plus the flooding of H1b Visa Workers and the layoff of the Dotcom workers caused a 25% unemployment of IT Workers. Making IT workers "A dime a dozen" in the eyes of managers. People who used to earn $60,000USD to $90,000USD a year now have to compete for $20,000USD to $40,000USD a year jobs in the IT market that require more skills and education than their former jobs did. If their college degree is ten years old, they are rejected because the knowledge they learned is now obsolite (unless they are COBOL programmers or something that doesn't expire that quickly). My degree is now ten years old, and I either have to go back to college and get a new one, or hope that my AAS will get me a job somewhere.
Plus managers have always discriminated against IT workers, calling us all sorts of names, working us 60 hours or more a week at no extra pay, trying to get us to write code faster but not understanding than when code is slammed out at those speeds that it isn't as reliable.
That an Microsoft changing everything every three years doesn't help. Why it is enough to turn a developer to Linux and C++ with a bit of Java and Perl.;)
Seal it for X years until we need it. Then open it up X years from now. It will prove that in 2002, you had this idea, but sat on it.
Or apply to the US Patten Office, and wait 20 years for them to approve it while everyone else rips off your invention like Gilbert Hyatt did when he invented the Microchip.
I just tried to transfer my 10 year old DP AAS Degree to a State College. They claim that my FORTRAN class will not transfer because they do not teach FORTRAN there anymore. I checked with other local colleges and got the same response.
Oh yeah they also won't take my:
Pascal, Ada, 8086 Assembly, C Language, or DOS/VSE JCL classes. What a bummer, eh? Looks like I'll be taking Intro to Programming over using C++ instead?
In ten years time, your computer college courses will be obsolite. Three years and they already have a better version of the language or technology to learn. Ten years and it is practially useless and non-transferable. Sucks, don't it? Same thing does not happen to Math, English, Music, History, Business, Nursing, or Communication Majors.
I've seen a lot of FORTRAN code converted to Visual BASIC. But then I've also seen companies still using FORTRAN 77 on IBM 4381 Mainframes, running DOS/VSE, go figure! FORTRAN and COBOL jockeys also tend to make some serious money for those companies running Dinosaur IBM 4381 Mainframes.
What Kirk and the NCC-1701 encountered were Klingon-Human fusions. Not real Klingons but half-Klingons. It seems that the Klingons had a thing for doing it with humans, and created half-Klingon hybirds (You know, like Spock was half-human) who did boarder patrols in the neutral zone. Why let a real Klingon take over the sh*tty jobs when they could let the Half-Klingons do it?
That and another theory, that the Klingons had mutated due to exposure to the early cloaking devices, and they fixed it in the modern cloaking devices.
Yet another theory suggests bad special effects and makeup from the 1960's, that was corrected with the Star Trek Movies and TNG and on forward.
Yet another theory suggests a conspiracy between Q and Trelane, playing jokes on the Klingon Empire.:)
I'd do this to buy up the old C64 and Atari 8 bit ROMS and then sell them to the public for use in emulators for $1 a ROM file. Maybe even sell a CD with the emulator on it and the ROM images as well.
I doubt that Nintendo, Sega, etc would want to sell their old ROM images, but whomever owns the property of the old Commodore and Atari 8 bit ROMs might want to sell the rights to it as they are not making any money off of them right now.
not the little ones. Apparently even Canada is a Plutocracy like the US.
There are web sites that sell mod chips and even will install them for you for a fee. But do they get shut down? No. But if you run a business and do the same thing, you will get shut down or fined. The Mod Chip can be used for backup purposes, ever scratched a CD or DVD game before and were unable to play it? $30USD to $50USD down the drain if that happens. Sony doesn't replace scratched disks, but with a CDR drive and a Mod Chip, you can burn Backups. This may fall under "Fair Use" but I think that the big corps have done what they could to get rid of "Fair Use" in recent copyright acts that they forced our governments to pass. What if someone needed to copy a game for a legit reason?
It seems silly. What next? Crackdowns on people who sell CD and DVD Copying software, because said software can be used to create pirate copies?
True, he may have been selling pirated games. But how do we know these aren't Japanese versions of the games that are playable with the Mod Chip he was selling? Maybe his distributor ripped him off and sold him pirated knock-off copies and told him they were legit? Did they catch him burning copies of the games or something?
The only thing that Sony can really get him for is voiding the warranty of many Playstation 2 systems by unauthorized tampering.
By hitting him hard, I guess they hope to set an example to the rest of them?
they called it "Zipping" and it was punished by death or a life sentence. If the person had no past criminal history (IE a "blank") a computer tried to match him/her up with a criminal profile if the probability was high enough. So they would get convicted for crimes they didn't commit so that the police would have easier paperwork.
I suppose that is next, if the person doesn't have a criminal history, match him/her up with a criminal profile if the probability is close enough.
Since when did this cease being a free country anyway?
you would need to emulate the Mac ROM or find a way to translate the Mac code into Amiga code.
I assume that MacOSX can be ported to the Amiga hardware, but why would Apple want to? They have locked it into the Mac hardware so Apple can control both the software and hardware. The best the AmigaONE can hope to run is Darwin, has anyone started on an Amiga based Darwin port yet?
Oh well, with the Amiga Anywhere project, maybe AmigaOS 4.0 will get ported to PowerMacs?:)
Of course, didn't any of you understand that the Apple store will have a larger supply than the dealers can get?
If the dealers don't have enough, Apple can claim it must be the demand, and the shortage shows that Apple is breaking their record sales. Nothing like some artifical shortages to throw the investors into a feeding frenzy? Apple did this with the iBook and original iMac. Now the new iMac 2 unit. This way their web store can steal^H^H^H^H^H take sales away from the Apple Dealers.
are attracted because the whole format is different from the standard PC. Just because it isn't Microsoft controlled (yet) and offers an alternative, it gets some people that way.
Another way is that people are looking for the simple solution. Sort of the same reason why Fast Food joints do so well, because they provide a simple service and a simple product. Granted your average Fast Food buyer doesn't know how to grill a hamburger or make their own meal or maybe is too busy to do so, still if they can get something easier, then it is worth it to them to let someone else cook for dinner. The same with Macs, why fudget about the system, when the mac is easier to use and set up?
Another is the cult status, Apple has those fancy models with translucent plastic. Apple has OSX now, hey look it is based on Unix and MacOS! Now you can get an iPod!
Also, they got a lockdown on the education market. If your school uses Macs, chances are you will want to buy one.
Plus a lot of Macs are used for creative content, mostly web pages and web graphics, so more Mac people are on the Internet percentage-wise than PC users.
It costs more than a PC, but the Mac Fan feels he/she will pay more to get the better and easier to use product.
We got ahold of PVC foam tubes and wacked each other silly with them. Nothing like welt marks on your face. Those baby teeth had to come out anyway. More money from the "Tooth Fairy".
Then we went to war with the "Action Figures". Han Solo lost his head, Princess Leia had her boobs blown off, a Stormtrooper got a Colonoscopy with an M80, R2D2 got a few bottlerockets on him and he almost made orbit before the reports blew him up, etc. Whatever parts got left over we built new figures out of them. Then later when I grew up, I wished I kept those action figures in their original packaging instead of bowing them up or selling them at garage sales.:(
He was in his early 30's, and his company had him doing the jobs of three or four people that got let go. He had to do programming, QA, help desk, and debugging. After getting really stressed out and turning to alchohol for relief, he got fired. He got so depressed that he did a Kurt Cobain, that is he took a shotgun at his head and somehow found a way to pull the trigger. His widow was screwed out of his 401K, Profit Sharing, and other employee benefits. This was in 1999 when it happened.
The moral of the story is to not trust the employer when they overwork you. It could effect your health and lead to your death.
My former employer worked me so hard that I almost went and killed myself as well. But I was able to seek help and got talked out of it. If they weren't a lawfirm, I'd sue them for it.
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or else native born workers would be allowed to telecommute.
Face it, managers see IT staff as "a dime a dozen" these days with all the cheap labor in other countries. They outsource IT for 8 cents on the dollar, and trust the local management in that country to keep things in line. At least when I worked, management felt that way in the company I worked for. So even if I worked minimum wage, I couldn't do it as cheap as a worker in another country.
Nothing against people in other countries working IT jobs for pennies on the dollar, they have to make a living too, I am upset at management deciding to outsource and laying off a lot of talent that worked extra hard for them, only to get the boot because they are natural born USA citizens.
because Windows is the dominate platform and the one that sells the most copies of Adobe software.
must be used when dealing with open sourced software. Sun is finding this out the hard way.
Oracle, for example, lets us developers download a version of their Database Server for use at home, so we can build up those development skills in Oracle PL/SQL at home and use them at work.
Offer a free version of your product, like Borland does for Kylix, that only can be used to create open sourced products, and for commercial use we have to buy that $500USD to $5000USD compiler and license. That way we can try out your language or tool, and if we like it we can buy the full version and get jiggy with it. Nothing like spending $500USD to $5000USD to get a language or tool that you do not like, and wished that you could have test drived it.
Offer free online help, even if limited, it helps out greatly. Create a newsgroup on it, make a forum, get TWIKI/WIKI to document stuff, whatever it takes to help us out. By helping us out, you are helping your company out as well.
companies are willing to spend more, because they like getting a "Total Package" from one vendor (Like Microsoft) instead of having to deal with a dozen vendors whose products might not "Integrate" as well as the single vendor.
Ah but the simple matter of fact is that the pointy haired bosses that run those companies still love Microsoft, not matter how many times Microsoft has bitchslapped them with license fees and upgrade costs. They think that Linux and MySQL is for Hippies.
pick the target market you are going after and then code to suit them. Ask some people in that market what their needs are. get out and network and learn.
Someone addresses the H1B Problem More data on the H1B problem Proof that the NSF caused the H1B Mess
Plus the flooding of H1b Visa Workers and the layoff of the Dotcom workers caused a 25% unemployment of IT Workers. Making IT workers "A dime a dozen" in the eyes of managers. People who used to earn $60,000USD to $90,000USD a year now have to compete for $20,000USD to $40,000USD a year jobs in the IT market that require more skills and education than their former jobs did. If their college degree is ten years old, they are rejected because the knowledge they learned is now obsolite (unless they are COBOL programmers or something that doesn't expire that quickly). My degree is now ten years old, and I either have to go back to college and get a new one, or hope that my AAS will get me a job somewhere.
Plus managers have always discriminated against IT workers, calling us all sorts of names, working us 60 hours or more a week at no extra pay, trying to get us to write code faster but not understanding than when code is slammed out at those speeds that it isn't as reliable.
That an Microsoft changing everything every three years doesn't help. Why it is enough to turn a developer to Linux and C++ with a bit of Java and Perl. ;)
Seal it for X years until we need it. Then open it up X years from now. It will prove that in 2002, you had this idea, but sat on it.
Or apply to the US Patten Office, and wait 20 years for them to approve it while everyone else rips off your invention like Gilbert Hyatt did when he invented the Microchip.
I just tried to transfer my 10 year old DP AAS Degree to a State College. They claim that my FORTRAN class will not transfer because they do not teach FORTRAN there anymore. I checked with other local colleges and got the same response.
Oh yeah they also won't take my:
Pascal, Ada, 8086 Assembly, C Language, or DOS/VSE JCL classes. What a bummer, eh? Looks like I'll be taking Intro to Programming over using C++ instead?
In ten years time, your computer college courses will be obsolite. Three years and they already have a better version of the language or technology to learn. Ten years and it is practially useless and non-transferable. Sucks, don't it? Same thing does not happen to Math, English, Music, History, Business, Nursing, or Communication Majors.
I've seen a lot of FORTRAN code converted to Visual BASIC. But then I've also seen companies still using FORTRAN 77 on IBM 4381 Mainframes, running DOS/VSE, go figure! FORTRAN and COBOL jockeys also tend to make some serious money for those companies running Dinosaur IBM 4381 Mainframes.
What Kirk and the NCC-1701 encountered were Klingon-Human fusions. Not real Klingons but half-Klingons. It seems that the Klingons had a thing for doing it with humans, and created half-Klingon hybirds (You know, like Spock was half-human) who did boarder patrols in the neutral zone. Why let a real Klingon take over the sh*tty jobs when they could let the Half-Klingons do it?
:)
That and another theory, that the Klingons had mutated due to exposure to the early cloaking devices, and they fixed it in the modern cloaking devices.
Yet another theory suggests bad special effects and makeup from the 1960's, that was corrected with the Star Trek Movies and TNG and on forward.
Yet another theory suggests a conspiracy between Q and Trelane, playing jokes on the Klingon Empire.
When will Episodes 4, 5, and 6 get released to DVD? I'd like to see the extra scenes from them, and behind the scenes video etc.
I'd do this to buy up the old C64 and Atari 8 bit ROMS and then sell them to the public for use in emulators for $1 a ROM file. Maybe even sell a CD with the emulator on it and the ROM images as well.
I doubt that Nintendo, Sega, etc would want to sell their old ROM images, but whomever owns the property of the old Commodore and Atari 8 bit ROMs might want to sell the rights to it as they are not making any money off of them right now.
Looks like a rejected design for one of Apple's iMacs. ;)
other guys didn't want to do their work, or share information with me that I needed to finish mine. I got fired, they still have their jobs.
not the little ones. Apparently even Canada is a Plutocracy like the US.
There are web sites that sell mod chips and even will install them for you for a fee. But do they get shut down? No. But if you run a business and do the same thing, you will get shut down or fined. The Mod Chip can be used for backup purposes, ever scratched a CD or DVD game before and were unable to play it? $30USD to $50USD down the drain if that happens. Sony doesn't replace scratched disks, but with a CDR drive and a Mod Chip, you can burn Backups. This may fall under "Fair Use" but I think that the big corps have done what they could to get rid of "Fair Use" in recent copyright acts that they forced our governments to pass. What if someone needed to copy a game for a legit reason?
It seems silly. What next? Crackdowns on people who sell CD and DVD Copying software, because said software can be used to create pirate copies?
True, he may have been selling pirated games. But how do we know these aren't Japanese versions of the games that are playable with the Mod Chip he was selling? Maybe his distributor ripped him off and sold him pirated knock-off copies and told him they were legit? Did they catch him burning copies of the games or something?
The only thing that Sony can really get him for is voiding the warranty of many Playstation 2 systems by unauthorized tampering.
By hitting him hard, I guess they hope to set an example to the rest of them?
they called it "Zipping" and it was punished by death or a life sentence. If the person had no past criminal history (IE a "blank") a computer tried to match him/her up with a criminal profile if the probability was high enough. So they would get convicted for crimes they didn't commit so that the police would have easier paperwork.
I suppose that is next, if the person doesn't have a criminal history, match him/her up with a criminal profile if the probability is close enough.
Since when did this cease being a free country anyway?
you would need to emulate the Mac ROM or find a way to translate the Mac code into Amiga code.
:)
I assume that MacOSX can be ported to the Amiga hardware, but why would Apple want to? They have locked it into the Mac hardware so Apple can control both the software and hardware. The best the AmigaONE can hope to run is Darwin, has anyone started on an Amiga based Darwin port yet?
Oh well, with the Amiga Anywhere project, maybe AmigaOS 4.0 will get ported to PowerMacs?
In fact, they still crank out the AmigaOS and Amiga systems over in Germany.
If I was a multi-billionare I'd buy out Be, Amiga, and Palm and make one heck of a new system using technology from all three of them.
If they were smart, they'd open source a version of BeOS (Maybe FreeBeOS?) to the public before going under?
If the dealers don't have enough, Apple can claim it must be the demand, and the shortage shows that Apple is breaking their record sales. Nothing like some artifical shortages to throw the investors into a feeding frenzy? Apple did this with the iBook and original iMac. Now the new iMac 2 unit. This way their web store can steal^H^H^H^H^H take sales away from the Apple Dealers.
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Another way is that people are looking for the simple solution. Sort of the same reason why Fast Food joints do so well, because they provide a simple service and a simple product. Granted your average Fast Food buyer doesn't know how to grill a hamburger or make their own meal or maybe is too busy to do so, still if they can get something easier, then it is worth it to them to let someone else cook for dinner. The same with Macs, why fudget about the system, when the mac is easier to use and set up?
Another is the cult status, Apple has those fancy models with translucent plastic. Apple has OSX now, hey look it is based on Unix and MacOS! Now you can get an iPod!
Also, they got a lockdown on the education market. If your school uses Macs, chances are you will want to buy one.
Plus a lot of Macs are used for creative content, mostly web pages and web graphics, so more Mac people are on the Internet percentage-wise than PC users.
It costs more than a PC, but the Mac Fan feels he/she will pay more to get the better and easier to use product.
To sum it all up, they drank the Kool-Aid. :)
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The "Boy bands" are all clones of each other. The other boy bands may be in Stormtrooper gear? ;)
Then we went to war with the "Action Figures". Han Solo lost his head, Princess Leia had her boobs blown off, a Stormtrooper got a Colonoscopy with an M80, R2D2 got a few bottlerockets on him and he almost made orbit before the reports blew him up, etc. Whatever parts got left over we built new figures out of them. Then later when I grew up, I wished I kept those action figures in their original packaging instead of bowing them up or selling them at garage sales.
He was in his early 30's, and his company had him doing the jobs of three or four people that got let go. He had to do programming, QA, help desk, and debugging. After getting really stressed out and turning to alchohol for relief, he got fired. He got so depressed that he did a Kurt Cobain, that is he took a shotgun at his head and somehow found a way to pull the trigger. His widow was screwed out of his 401K, Profit Sharing, and other employee benefits. This was in 1999 when it happened.
The moral of the story is to not trust the employer when they overwork you. It could effect your health and lead to your death.
My former employer worked me so hard that I almost went and killed myself as well. But I was able to seek help and got talked out of it. If they weren't a lawfirm, I'd sue them for it.