[Sigia-l] Short Term freelance rates

[Sean Lawerence]

> Marketing.
>
OH GOOD LORD!!!   Maybe I'll go cut grass.

> Hands on? That's so 90s!  When a server at Google borks, they don't take
it
> into service any longer, they just junk it and swap in a new one. It's
> apparently no longer worth repairing.

Still need hands to yank it and know how to reconnect it.  Parts are
generally swapped in as long as you know what is wrong.  Trust me, replacing
a $500 backplane or a $400 memory DIMM, is far more economical than
replacing a $50k server.  But give them awhile, there'll be disposable
server appliances in no time!  I'm sure the salaries for this will go down
as soon as it becomes part of the HS curriculum.

> As I pointed out previously, one out of every two tech-related jobs in
Wall
> Street has been lost and the top investment banks now outsource their top
> technical jobs (like new product R&D) overseas.

When are we going to start outsourcing management to the lowest bidder
overseas??  That would certainly get companies a better bottom line.