Computer careers -- the viewpoint of leftwing propaganda
Just to show you that I'm open minded, I'm linking to a long critique from the "other side" -- that is, from leftwingers who think that they can get support from Americans by pointing to economic and career changes (including computer careers) and pretending to have a solution.

Here's the article:

leftwing propaganda on outsourcing

Yeah, I'm biased. I just couldn't stand to read the whole thing. It's very long and reminds me of the many hours I wasted reading such stuff during the 80s when I was a progressive radical and tried to keep up with all these analyses of the failures of capitalism.

Now, I'm not saying that many of the article's facts are wrong. Many American jobs are being outsourced etc. We are no longer an fortress country protected from outside competition by two oceans and the limitations of 20th century technology.

Businesses in the U.S. did have to pay relatively high wages to American workers. In the face of global competition and the billions of people in this world who make far less than Americans, that imbalance is not going to continue.

So, I believe it's true that in 20 years American wages are going to be much closer on average to Chinese wages.

It's also true that the wealthiest people in the world will be even relatively wealthier. In 20 years some extremely people will make Bill Gates' current wealth look paltry -- and most of these people won't be Americans (though some will).

If you want to provide mindless labor, you are competing with several billion people who are used to living on next to nothing.

If you want to provide intelligent but standardized commodity intellectual products (such as software programming), you're competing with several hundred million people who are just as intelligent and educated as you are but you are used to living on close to next to nothing.

And yes, all of them want more money and more material goods in their lives. They're human. They're as greedy and needy as you -- and probably will to work a lot harder than you are. (Though I don't want to make that sound like a standard diatribe against Americans. I believe that compared to people in developing countries, we are spoiled. On the other hand, we're the hardest working people in developed countries, except Japan. European workers are the most spoiled on Earth, and are resisting the reforms that will keep them working in the future.)

It's ironic to me that this article which purports to protect American workers from foreign competition actually means these leftwingers are pitting American workers against foreign workers -- when they pretend to be the heros of the international working class.

In reality, protectionist economic policies hurt all working classes.

The billions in the "wretched of the Earth" classes around the world need capitalism to create new wealth.

That is the only way they can hope that their children will live a better life.

Technology and capitalism create the economic growth which will raise the standard of living of the global poor.

Socialism and economic protectionism stifle economic growth and therefore do what socialists refuse to recognize -- they keep the poor poor. No, the poor are supposed to get rich by stealing from the rich, according to the leftwingers. Make a revolution and reform land ownership and let the workers run the factories.

Sure has worked well where it's been tried, right? The U.S.S.R. is dead. China is communist in name only. Laos and Vietnam are reforming. Only Castro in Cuba and Kim Jong Il of North Korea truly are still on the socialist bandwagon -- and it's why the Cuban and North Korean people are starving.

The latest article on my computer careers site is:

Ajax for Not Yet Techies


Computer Careers
Computer Careers
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Jabber update
This article updates the information at:

Jabber for Not Yet Techies

Jabber is now used for Google Talk. Google believes that Jabber's XMPP will become the open standard that all instant messaging and VOIP applications will use. Right now, people using Skype and MSN Messenger and other such services cannot talk to users of other such services.

Jabber Inc and Eyeball Networks have announced a partnership to come up with a program for IP (Internet Protocol) telephony that's based on SIP and extensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP).

They'll combine the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP) with Eyeball’s Messenger, Messenger Software Development Kit (SDK), SIP Application Server, and Any-Firewall Server products.

VoIP service providers and application developers can use these for telephone calling applications and services such as guaranteed call completion and improving sound and video quality.

Jingle is a set of standard extensions to XMPP that allows SIP clients and devices, XMPP clients and devices, and traditional telephony devices to communicate with one another.

The Jabber / XMPP server ejabberd has released a new version -- 1.1.2.


Jabber
Jabber
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