Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

There's an excellent Reply All episode about exactly this -- where a journalist dives deep into figuring out how one of these scams work and who is behind it. https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/long-distance On 2019-03-12 10:51 p.m., Howard Gibson via talk wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2019

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On 03/12/2019 10:51 PM, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: > Is Microsoft paying the Microsoft help-desk peole who call me to fix my > Microsoft networking problems? [Ctrl][r] does not seem to work! I think they're just scammers and certainly sound like they're in India or Pakistan. Bell's help

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:25:22 -0400 James Knott via talk wrote: > Several years ago, many companies decided to cut costs by moving help > desks etc. to India.  Many have come to regret that decision, due to the > poor quality "help".  In another thread, I mentioned how many put cost > ahead of

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

> Not to be left behind in an uncompetitive position, our Canadian > companies, too, are making great strides in reigning in costs by > shifting work offshore. A friend of mine had a job from hell for a while as Canada-side overseer of an India-based programming effort. The job entailed being

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On 03/12/2019 06:45 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > A number of years ago I read that India is generating more engineers per year > that the rest of the world combined. How good they are - - - - that's > another question. Several years ago, many companies decided to cut costs by moving help

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

India is an up and coming nation because the demographics are very favourable. India has more than *50*% of its population below the age of *25* and more than *65*% below the age of *35*. It is expected that, in 2020, the average age of an Indian will be *29 years*, compared to *37* for China

Re: [GTALUG] Where are we eating this evening? EOM

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 6:18 PM Christopher Browne wrote: > Not Kabul Express; they're busy renovating. > > I'm at Laziz Curry Kitchen a block further > It's cheap, and pretty generic Indian food, would not be quick to return. I notice TacoRito and Hurry Curry on the opposite side of the

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 3:37 PM Gary via talk wrote: > > I must complement Boeing management for the huge sums that they save on > salaries by shifting software engineering to India. Gleaned from the URL > below I take it that the average Boeing software engineer in India makes > 26,930

Re: [GTALUG] Where are we eating this evening? EOM

Not Kabul Express; they're busy renovating. I'm at Laziz Curry Kitchen a block further --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

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Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

On 03/12/2019 07:27 AM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > As appealing as "Buck a Beer" is I don't that that really carried the > day. I know of one person who voted for Ford, because his killing cap 'n trade would cut the gas tax.  Of course, like Ford, this guy doesn't all the facts. --- Talk

[GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

I must complement Boeing management for the huge sums that they save on salaries by shifting software engineering to India. Gleaned from the URL below I take it that the average Boeing software engineer in India makes 26,930 rupees/month, which is about $500 Canadian and that makes an annual

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

Here too. Chrome and Ghostery usually serves me well, but on rogers.com I was not able to view my account until I allowed the trackers. It’s on todo list to revisit and figure out what trackers are “mandatory” and which trackers are not. From: talk On Behalf Of Ivan Avery Frey via talk

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# FPGAs for Fun, Acceleration, and Profit! w/ Chris Tyler Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have moved from being expensive, exotic prototyping tools to affordable mainstream devices for hardware customization and acceleration. This talk takes a general

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019, 21:30 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > Why would that be? > It claims to support MS Edge, IE 11, Chrome, and Safari. > > I don't have Chrome on my desktop because it is closed source. > I was having trouble with the Rogers website until I started to allow trackers.

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

As much as I am unhappy with the outcome of the last election your characterization is not really fair. Only 40% of the population in Ontario voted for the PC party. The voting process has part of the blame. Dissatisfaction with the previous government both real and generated take part of

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

[...as one who has totally given up on getting big business to understand their imminent demise] I disagree. The very fact that Doug Ford can get elected on a platform like "A buck a beer" speaks to the utter stupidity of the masses. This is a testament to the fact that the masses are