ENT News Online News: Company Says .NET Violates Its Patent
How does the song go? "Money for nothing and your chicks for free." I can't imagine that MS will take this lying down. I am especially pissed about the fact that our government would allow a description of a patent as obscure as the one filed by Vertical.
I am now convinced that passing the LSAT, going to law school and passing the bar would be in the best interest of all IT folks that want to step on the next stone.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight
WOW! This is beautiful. I am now wondering how this integrates into the expression studio mix from MS. This is head-to-head with Adobe purchase of Macromedia and the tools and products they deliver. Bad news for us is that now we will have that many more standards to manage over multiple forms. Presentation of FLV, SWF, MWV, etc. Hopefully someone will bend and give us a standard on these formats that is usable.
WOW! This is beautiful. I am now wondering how this integrates into the expression studio mix from MS. This is head-to-head with Adobe purchase of Macromedia and the tools and products they deliver. Bad news for us is that now we will have that many more standards to manage over multiple forms. Presentation of FLV, SWF, MWV, etc. Hopefully someone will bend and give us a standard on these formats that is usable.
Boing Boing: Billy Bragg gets MySpace's terms of service changed
Boing Boing: Billy Bragg gets MySpace's terms of service changed
Not only is he a great singer and activist for unions he is also a champion for eliminating non-sense EULA's. Now if we could only get him to get on the GPL 3-0 proposals.
Not only is he a great singer and activist for unions he is also a champion for eliminating non-sense EULA's. Now if we could only get him to get on the GPL 3-0 proposals.
Porn Found On One In Four Corporate PCs -- Business Pornography -- InformationWeek
Porn Found On One In Four Corporate PCs -- Business Pornography -- InformationWeek
Surprised? I see this content still sitting with dates of years ago on machines. Businesses need to also thing about turn over and the legal impact of a new user or casual passer-by walking past these images. Can you imagine the lawsuit in HR for something like this?
Surprised? I see this content still sitting with dates of years ago on machines. Businesses need to also thing about turn over and the legal impact of a new user or casual passer-by walking past these images. Can you imagine the lawsuit in HR for something like this?
Indian IT Outsourcing Firms Plan To Keep Staff With Double-Digit Salary Raises -- Outsourcing
Indian IT Outsourcing Firms Plan To Keep Staff With Double-Digit Salary Raises -- Outsourcing
$30K may be less than a US Tech worker would make, but still puts these folks in the lower-upper class of their economy. The average indian takes home $300/year, which call center folks taking home $3000 per year (http://www.webprowire.com/summaries/1512592.html). Compare that with the $30,000 an IT pro can make? There is no disparity like this in the western economy. An IT pro here may make $60K, but the helpdesk/call center guy down the way is making $35-40K, oh and the average American is making around $30K. The American GDP percapita is $43,000 vs. the Indian GDP percapita of just over $3,000 - some huge disparities. So when we compare the salaries we must also understand that part of that cost includes 15%-30% yoy increases in indian salaries. So that $30K resource today will quickly outstrip the american resource - which means that if the american salaries increase at 2.5% - which is agressive, the Indians will outpace salaries in 4 short years. 4 years in IT is an eternity, but lets face it - reduced skill, firing and moral issues in the us will impact our ability to control these costs longer term. Americans need to get serious about IT - realize that there is a cost to technology and apply it judiciously instead of willy-nilly. Stop stripping the buying power of highly educated and creative americans for off-shore mediocre work. Send the crappy support jobs out - spend time being innovative but don't kill the power of technology at home.
$30K may be less than a US Tech worker would make, but still puts these folks in the lower-upper class of their economy. The average indian takes home $300/year, which call center folks taking home $3000 per year (http://www.webprowire.com/summaries/1512592.html). Compare that with the $30,000 an IT pro can make? There is no disparity like this in the western economy. An IT pro here may make $60K, but the helpdesk/call center guy down the way is making $35-40K, oh and the average American is making around $30K. The American GDP percapita is $43,000 vs. the Indian GDP percapita of just over $3,000 - some huge disparities. So when we compare the salaries we must also understand that part of that cost includes 15%-30% yoy increases in indian salaries. So that $30K resource today will quickly outstrip the american resource - which means that if the american salaries increase at 2.5% - which is agressive, the Indians will outpace salaries in 4 short years. 4 years in IT is an eternity, but lets face it - reduced skill, firing and moral issues in the us will impact our ability to control these costs longer term. Americans need to get serious about IT - realize that there is a cost to technology and apply it judiciously instead of willy-nilly. Stop stripping the buying power of highly educated and creative americans for off-shore mediocre work. Send the crappy support jobs out - spend time being innovative but don't kill the power of technology at home.
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