Two Microsoft employees selling everything they own to get outta Redmond ..
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Originally posted by: LordSnailz
no tivo!?
Yeah.... I have a hard time believing this is everything they own...
especially considering they're Microsoft employees and their computer is a 400mhz Dell.
Originally posted by: deftron
Originally posted by: LordSnailz
no tivo!?
Yeah.... I have a hard time believing this is everything they own...
especially considering they're Microsoft employees and their computer is a 400mhz Dell.
Don't be surprised. My girlfriend's dad is so rich. He works for Intel and makes so much money that he decides he wants a new TV, so he gets up, goes to the computer to do some researching, and goes to best buy and comes home with a $2000 TV. He's got enough money to put all three of his daughters through private schools at the same time and has more than enough to put them through college as well. He's sent all over the world to teach classes by Intel. Nvidia apparently contacted Intel some time a few years ago (before GF4 came out) to get help with driver interaction with intel hardware. Who'd Intel send to Santa Clara? The girlfriend's dad. NVidia wanted him to stay and teach them more, but Intel wouldn't let him. Anyway, I detract.
Long story short, this guy is infreakingcredibly loaded. He has two PCs that are P2433's and Matrox G450s. The guy can probably afford a small country and he's got the crappiest computers on earth.
they probably worked for the it staff, the core staff isn't outsourced, if their project got outsourced they would just be moved into other teams inside MS, as far as i know the it staff is getting parts of its group outsourced to india so there is always staff 24 hours a day.
It might be unfair but face it, if things were manufactured in the US all US companies would go out of business. It is quickly becoming this way in the IT industry. Given the choice between companies in the US being in business but outsourcing jobs or companies going out of business and jobs being completely lost overseas I'll take my chances with outsourced.
Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
Originally posted by: deftron
Originally posted by: LordSnailz
no tivo!?
Yeah.... I have a hard time believing this is everything they own...
especially considering they're Microsoft employees and their computer is a 400mhz Dell.
Don't be surprised. My girlfriend's dad is so rich. He works for Intel and makes so much money that he decides he wants a new TV, so he gets up, goes to the computer to do some researching, and goes to best buy and comes home with a $2000 TV. He's got enough money to put all three of his daughters through private schools at the same time and has more than enough to put them through college as well. He's sent all over the world to teach classes by Intel. Nvidia apparently contacted Intel some time a few years ago (before GF4 came out) to get help with driver interaction with intel hardware. Who'd Intel send to Santa Clara? The girlfriend's dad. NVidia wanted him to stay and teach them more, but Intel wouldn't let him. Anyway, I detract.
Long story short, this guy is infreakingcredibly loaded. He has two PCs that are P2433's and Matrox G450s. The guy can probably afford a small country and he's got the crappiest computers on earth.
Maybe he knows something the rest of us don't.
Siddhartha
Lifer
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Siddhartha
Lifer
- Oct 17, 1999
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Keep in mind only software engineering jobs and IT department jobs are oursourced in the majority of cases. Now, a country like India lends itself very well to those types of jobs as almost no english is needed in order to perform them. ANyone can pick up a book and learn to program. Now, other jobs such as circuit design take a little bit more skill and communication with the people who write the specs and the testers and so forth...which means harder to outsource.
As an example, I work w/ a guy who works for a major tape storage manufacturer. A few years ago they hired a guy from china who spoke no english, he came in and wrote all their firmware. He did a good job...all the comments were cryptic and in symbols. He was a contractor so they never heard from him again. Now their firmware is supported by interns. Now their boards were designed in house, and all those guys still have jobs and support for these boards goes through sustaining engineering. Fact is, it's harder to outsource some things and if you don't adjust you're going to get outsourced.
Now, highly skilled microsoft software engineers...that's a different story. Those guys are cream of the crop and paid accordingly. You can't outsource those guys because they're valuable and the best. Become valuable, do something at your company that no one else can do, and don't get outsourced.
As an example, I work w/ a guy who works for a major tape storage manufacturer. A few years ago they hired a guy from china who spoke no english, he came in and wrote all their firmware. He did a good job...all the comments were cryptic and in symbols. He was a contractor so they never heard from him again. Now their firmware is supported by interns. Now their boards were designed in house, and all those guys still have jobs and support for these boards goes through sustaining engineering. Fact is, it's harder to outsource some things and if you don't adjust you're going to get outsourced.
Now, highly skilled microsoft software engineers...that's a different story. Those guys are cream of the crop and paid accordingly. You can't outsource those guys because they're valuable and the best. Become valuable, do something at your company that no one else can do, and don't get outsourced.
I feel bad for these guys. This auction will be overrun by 13 and 14 year old "OMG!!! $10MILLION BID CAUSE IT'LL BE FUNNY TO BID AND DISSAPPEAR!" idiots.
although you are right
microsoft does have a very big development center in india where besides low level coding stuff, other parts of development process also take place, i think they do similar stuff to what they do in redmond there, nothing is being outsourced but they hire the best brains inindia and most of them have pretty good communication skills, only talking about MS mind you
for other companies yes i do agree its low leve implementation stuff which is being outsourced but i believe that those positions are the majority of the positions in a typical software company.
If they are actually serious about this, they would get tons more money if they listed all the items separetly.
Not necessarily. Doing it like this creates exposure. 1 local news site, a major site like this, maybe a major news site covers it and they've got people willing to donate, people buying it for a good cause, way more exposure than selling each item separately.
Siddhartha
Lifer
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I'm suprised that these people work at Microsoft and also worried about outsource which means they're some sort of engineers and they can't even find a simple picture host.
Well, when you consider that most of their waking time was probably spent @ work, there probably wasn't much need for a faster computer at home. They probably had more than enough horsepower for their machines at work, though.
...they own an Xbox, not a 'cube. Granted, an employee can buy whatever system they choose, but you figured if they worked for Nintendo they may get some freebie stuff here and there, so they'd at least have SOMETHING relating to Nintendo.
Aside from that, there are a number of software companies in Redmond. Microsoft and Nintendo among the biggest, but other companies have moved out there to be closer to them. I'm not saying that they couldn't work for Microsoft, but they fact that they didn't outright say it is kinda fishy. I seriously doubt that MS has a clause prhobiting them from saying when someone works for them.
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