Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers - Vol 13 No 1

"Roy McCammon" <rmccammon@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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Randy Yates wrote:
Roy McCammon <rbmccammon@mmm.com> writes:


Randy Yates wrote:


Hear, hear. Too much information, too little knowledge.

There, there, don't let it get you down.


Are you an author?

I published one article in an IEEE publication
about 20 years ago and an article about guard
rings in a trade mag about 5 years ago.
What has this ng got to do with curry? Please stay on-topic.

Peter
 
Peter Dickerson wrote:
"Roy McCammon" <rmccammon@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
news:4093F7CA.2070507@austin.rr.com...


Randy Yates wrote:

Roy McCammon <rbmccammon@mmm.com> writes:



Randy Yates wrote:



Hear, hear. Too much information, too little knowledge.

There, there, don't let it get you down.


Are you an author?

I published one article in an IEEE publication
about 20 years ago and an article about guard
rings in a trade mag about 5 years ago.


What has this ng got to do with curry? Please stay on-topic.
He asked me if I was an author.

I don't know enough about curry to comment.
 
del cecchi <dcecchi.nojunk@att.net> wrote:
+---------------
| In the USA there has been a lot of controversy about "out sourcing" or
| sending jobs to other countries.
+---------------

This is an interesting case of vocabulary drift [or simply drifting
further off-topic, whatever]...

"Outsourcing" *used* to mean simply *any* change from doing something
yourself to having someone else do it, e.g., outsourcing your payroll
system to a bank, or outsourcing your company guards to a security firm,
or even outsourcing some of your core work to a consulting firm. Chunka
Mui & Larry Downes's book "Unleashing the Killer App" points out nicely
how the telephone and the Internet have reduced transaction costs (Moore's
Law and Metcalfe's Law), and why (Coase's "law" of the Firm) this forces
companies increasingly to outsource almost *everything* that is not "core"
(and even some of that!).

Some outsourcing is to foreign locations, and in that case it was called
"off-shoring" to distinguish it from ordinary domestic outsourcing.
But recently, at least in the popular media, the distinction between
"outsourcing" and "offshoring" seems to have been lost.

This is unfortunate, since several economists have noted that the total
amount of offshoring (at least, currently, from the U.S.) is actually
only a small part of the total outsourcing going on.


-Rob

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Rob Warnock wrote:

(snip)

Some outsourcing is to foreign locations, and in that case it was called
"off-shoring" to distinguish it from ordinary domestic outsourcing.
But recently, at least in the popular media, the distinction between
"outsourcing" and "offshoring" seems to have been lost.

This is unfortunate, since several economists have noted that the total
amount of offshoring (at least, currently, from the U.S.) is actually
only a small part of the total outsourcing going on.
Not to mention the balancing onshoring (??), work done by US companies
for foreign companies. Look to see where Japanese cars are built
these days, for one.

I do believe, though, that the tax laws shouldn't encourage
offshoring, which it might be that they currently do.

-- glen
 
In article <RTwlc.22300$Ik.1617944@attbi_s53>,
gah@ugcs.caltech.edu says...
Rob Warnock wrote:

(snip)

Some outsourcing is to foreign locations, and in that case it was called
"off-shoring" to distinguish it from ordinary domestic outsourcing.
But recently, at least in the popular media, the distinction between
"outsourcing" and "offshoring" seems to have been lost.

This is unfortunate, since several economists have noted that the total
amount of offshoring (at least, currently, from the U.S.) is actually
only a small part of the total outsourcing going on.

Not to mention the balancing onshoring (??), work done by US companies
for foreign companies. Look to see where Japanese cars are built
these days, for one.

I do believe, though, that the tax laws shouldn't encourage
offshoring, which it might be that they currently do.
Agreed. But watch the retaliation for "protections", either real
or imagined. Government has shown that it is *really* bad at
assessing the "law of unintended consequences". Capitolism does
far better at allocating resources.

Further, I predict some spectacular disasters from poorly
thought-out off-shoring. The companies that can afford to open
first-class outfits abroad will do well (nothing new to them),
maybe. Those looking for cheap bodies will get exactly what
they've contracted for.

I've seen more than one dumb idea come and go. This is no
exception. You won't see the disasters on the 6:00 news but
they'll be there.

--
Keith
 
In article <MPG.1b00bbacbfb34c759897f6@news1.news.adelphia.net>,
krw@att.biz says...
In article <RTwlc.22300$Ik.1617944@attbi_s53>,
gah@ugcs.caltech.edu says...
Rob Warnock wrote:

(snip)

Some outsourcing is to foreign locations, and in that case it was called
"off-shoring" to distinguish it from ordinary domestic outsourcing.
But recently, at least in the popular media, the distinction between
"outsourcing" and "offshoring" seems to have been lost.

This is unfortunate, since several economists have noted that the total
amount of offshoring (at least, currently, from the U.S.) is actually
only a small part of the total outsourcing going on.

Not to mention the balancing onshoring (??), work done by US companies
for foreign companies. Look to see where Japanese cars are built
these days, for one.

I do believe, though, that the tax laws shouldn't encourage
offshoring, which it might be that they currently do.

Agreed. But watch the retaliation for "protections", either real
or imagined. Government has shown that it is *really* bad at
assessing the "law of unintended consequences". Capitolism does
Oh damn -----------^ a

far better at allocating resources.

Further, I predict some spectacular disasters from poorly
thought-out off-shoring. The companies that can afford to open
first-class outfits abroad will do well (nothing new to them),
maybe. Those looking for cheap bodies will get exactly what
they've contracted for.

I've seen more than one dumb idea come and go. This is no
exception. You won't see the disasters on the 6:00 news but
they'll be there.
 

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