Disney has plenty of money but to give you a view from the other side:
We're a small business (less than 20 employees) and we've had this
discussion more than once. I have no desire to outsource but our IT
budget can barely afford to hire American programmers. Sure, we would
love to pay everyone six figures but the money just isn't there. To make
matters worse, our competitors have already outsourced their IT. We pay
our office staff above market wages at 30-40k per year but we just can't
afford to pay our IT the 80k plus required when everyone else is at 40k.
It's got to the point where it's hurting our growth as we just can't find
programmers willing to work for what we're able to pay (60k) and we are
considering what it would take to outsource our IT.

Most of those 92 million are not qualified. If you know of a GOOD programmer out of work
and is willing to work for double or even triple minimum wage then please contact me as I
will hire him on the spot. Many programmers with a 4 year degree are paid on par with
doctors who spend 8+ years in school.
I'm not saying that h1b1s aren't being abused to save money but good employees in IT can
still find jobs that are paying considerably above what most other professionals make as
well as at least 4-5 times what you make on minimum wage. A good programmer can
easily make double what many non-IT people with masters degrees make.

This is a valid excuse but what percentage of adblock users do you think still allow static images?
My guess is that this is just an excuse to make people feel better and people would still block ads even if they were all static.

A pretty good idea. Too bad you posted on the wrong article.

I'm not sure it's that simple. Sure, one business could pay double the market rate and steal employees from the shop down the street
but that only gets you so far and IT is already paid at about double the rate of most industries so the people who can do it already are
doing IT and it doesn't matter if every employer doubled the amount that they are willing to pay tomorrow if there are no more employees
left. I think that's the reason that facebook, etc... have all the other perks. They are trying as hard as they can to recruit people and
I don't know of anyone who has turned down a job with either google or facebook because the pay was too low or there wasn't enough
perks.

I was using those as just examples and I'm not as familiar with microsoft but I know
at least on the ipad, the iphone, and on the androids that I've used voice recognition is
not realtime. They upload it to the cloud and wait for a response which means that
even if you're lucky to be on a fast connection there is a significant delay and if you're
on a slow connection or don't have a connection then something as simple as asking
siri to call one of you contacts fails.

Unfortunately without microtransactions, the next best way to extract small sums of money is with advertisements.
The best way to get $1 every 3 months from the casual user is to throw in the occasional ad.
It doesn't take very many ads to generate $0.33 per user and then charge people $12 a year to remove the ads.

Thin clients died out once before when we switched from terminal to gui.
We're currently in a lull where handhelds are good enough but all it would take would be a new 3d gui, holographic gui, real time voice recognition, or something else that required either massive video cards, massive storage, or massive processing.
Basically, the desktop needs a new killer app to become relevant again.

This is not obvious, it's stupid. If your website is making money then leave it and it's password in your will to your next of kin.
Why would you go thru the trouble of prepaying for a website, figuring out a way to mail a check to the next of kin's current address,
and a whole host of other things when you can just as easily just give the whole thing to them.

This is like trying to figure out how to keep putting gas in your wife's car after your dead. Just give her the keys to the
car and the money and let her do it.

10 years? Bah... Network solutions offers 100 years: http://www.networksolutions.co...

Now whether they'll be around that long is a completely different question.

Why renew? Just prepay for 100 years: http://www.networksolutions.co...

So if I hire a web development company to create a website for me and they sell it to my competitor as soon as
they get done then that's fine because we are both corporations and it's not "work for hire"? Just because
you are a contractor doesn't mean you automatically get to keep what someone pays you to create.

There is some gray areas when it comes to libraries, etc... and those should obviously be agree upon as the
issues come up but you don't own something just because you made it. That's like saying I own a painting
or book because someone paid me to paint/write it for them. Yes, you're still the author but you sold your
rights when you gave it to them and got paid. You can't turn around and sell unlicensed copies of that
painting/book to other people. Musicians have been sued for this exact thing.

The one sold by keurig is expensive and doesn't work right. The offbrand ones work much better and work with any machine. I bought a pack of 4 for $10. So they cost me $2.50 each which is slightly more than the price of a single k-cup. Here is a current listing on ebay for 4 for $8.50: http://www.ebay.com/itm/4pk-So... which is even less than what I paid. You can get them even cheaper on ebay if you are willing to wait on shipping from china.

That's not entirely true. It would probably be cost prohibitive but it should be possible to create a system that routes the exhaust to a compression chamber and stores the co2 as compressed gas creating a system that has zero emissions. You would still have to dispose of that compressed gas but there are several ways you could dispose of it without releasing it into the atmosphere.

I don't understand this either. You would think that the off brand coffees would help cause a race to the bottom but even the offbrand pods are extremely expensive. Is the cost of production really that high (and therefore a low profit margin) or has everyone colluded together to keep their profit margins high?