Comments on: Could Silicon Valley become the next Detroit?

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By: David Duggins

David Duggins — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:43:18 +0000

If tech jobs are disapearing and India is taking over, how come I get emails and even phone calls from Indian recruiting companies looking for American talent for American Companies?

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Reading digest for 01/26/09 to 02/02/09 « Andy Oakley — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:00:38 +0000

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By: Will The Real Lastangelman Please Stand Up?

Will The Real Lastangelman Please Stand Up? — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:06:42 +0000

Holy Shit Khrisþe!
Who’s seen the pre-release of Google’s online music solution? – everything else gets blown out of the water when this monster is unleashed. Includes managing video, photos, images, games – works on all platforms – but Android works best.

By: FSJ

FSJ — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:45:34 +0000

The really big question is why industries are dying. One reason quoted to death is “lack of innovation.”

Another reason is the Destruction of Business Location. Big automakers are also big on outsourcing. While outsourcing makes sense in the short term and spices up balance sheets, in the long run (and we have been into it for some time now), outsourcing will destroy the location and the brand that comes with location. It certainly does not help Detroit that foreign automakers are making better cars (overall).

This is why we have the “Designed in California” thing.

On that note, I second Bobert. Technical education is too expensive (and requires too much effort) for the long-term payoff – in America, anyway.

In America, we need CSI agents, forensic dudes, lawyers (lots of them) and doctors (even more of those). Technology? Not so much. We leave that to Steve.

By: Bobert

Bobert — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:09:57 +0000

I’m a bit biased, because I used to work for HP. The auto makers have no monopoly on stupidity, bad management, or lousy products. The whole technology industry should look at itself. If the U.S. isn’t turning out engineering and science majors, it may not be that Americans are too lazy and stupid to major in these fields, but that they are too smart to do so. Who in their right mind would put in 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, and years of post-graduation training to become an M.D. specialist, only to have treatment recommendations second-guessed by some idiot business major at an HMO?

Why work to earn a Ph.D. in physics, EE, or computer science, when the career path ensures that the only way to pay off the education loans is to move into management?

There is something wrong with the system, but I don’t think it is on the universities’ end of things.

By: Builder

Builder — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:04:42 +0000

How pathetic it must be to have had a much talked about and enjoyed blog and them be relegated to shilling for dying inconsequential liberal rag sheet.

Go ahead Dannyboy, head over to CNBC and do the little hair flip thing again. As if you didn’t look vain enough the first time you did it!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:22:17 +0000

I think we need to cut taxes for the rich. They, in turn, will invest that money in businesses like AIG and they, in turn, will loan students money through student loans and credit cards at 12% APR. This will fuel massive profits which can be used to bribe politicians into increasing visas for foreigners and we can get the Taiwanese, Chinese, and Indians to come here and work for peanuts and we’ll never have to spend a dime educating our own. It’s working so far.

By: EngineerBill

EngineerBill — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:46:34 +0000

The Intels, H-Ps, Microsofts, etc, want a huge bubble of engineering students so that they can benefit from a buyer’s market … ie, hold down salaries.

These same companies are constantly whining about not getting enough lower cost engineers into the USA, under the H1B visa program. They _already_ off-shore huge, and growing amounts, of their product development to the cheap developing countries (mainly India & China).

A modern-day engineer in the US has poor job security, and salary that is no where near commensurate with the many required years of formal and on-going education. A corporate engineer approaching his late 50s is at risk for being laid-off under any number of contrived pre-texts, not because his expertise has lagged, but because his salary has gotten “too high”, in the judgement of the multi-million or multi-deca-million dollar compensated executives populating the C-suite.

If the corporations want to attract more engineers and scientists, economic theory offers a simple solution — increase the pay of the people doing this “indispensable” work.