Reply to: Boomed and IT is the leader

[Stan.goodvibes]

Wow, he's a proper nutter.

WHERE is NickyG lately? i could do with a good laff again.

The rapture hasn't happened yet has it?

[motoukenin]

16-17. "Windows 7 is perfect"

Thats gotta be B******S!

[OwlHoot]

I have found some more doom on the subject. This is high quality doom. Read on.

Linky

Very scary. Still hinting that a global reset is the most likely outcome.

Isn't Lyndon Larouche a bit of an ultra left wing firebrand though?

[OwlHoot]

.. things aren't fixed but i do think they are getting better.

Botheration! Sounds like things are troughing too early - The election may not be until next year!

Well, maybe we're in for a double dip.

[suityou01]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaRouche_movement

You are from the NickyG school of paranoia and I claim my 5 free tinfoil hats

Wow, he's a proper nutter.

[oracleslave]

I have found some more doom on the subject. This is high quality doom. Read on.

Linky



Very scary. Still hinting that a global reset is the most likely outcome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaRouche_movement

You are from the NickyG school of paranoia and I claim my 5 free tinfoil hats

[suityou01]

It will all crash again in September.

I have found some more doom on the subject. This is high quality doom. Read on.

Linky

What is certain, as of now, unless there's a very radical change from anything in sight between now and the middle of October, is, we are in a period of a general breakdown of the entire world financial system. That is not an exaggeration. That's not maybe: The breakdown of the entire international financial system is now in progress.

The thing that will trigger the breakdown, is the collapse of the U.S. dollar. The whole system is ready to go: Where is the detonator on the explosive charge? The detonator on the explosive charge is inside the United States, and involves the effect of a collapse of the value of the dollar on the international market. And by collapse, I mean collapse. We have 48 states in the United States, which are formally in bankruptcy; we have a debt outstanding against the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve System, in the order of magnitude of $24-25 trillion: A collapse of the debt of that magnitude, in the U.S. dollar, would blow every economy in the world, immediately, into bankruptcy. Which means, we're on the verge of a crisis, which is going to hit between now, and the 15th or 25th of October, which is following the end of the U.S. fiscal year, which is the end of September.

Very scary. Still hinting that a global reset is the most likely outcome.

[bobhope]

I'd give you a run down of Computer Weekly but last week's never came.

And IT Week has disappeared. And where is my "IT Now"? that never came either.

Yes I also just noticed that Freelance Informer has stopped popping through the letterbox too :-)

[Joe Bloque]

IT was the most optimistic sector

I'm sure they have spoken to unemployed on 'Life on the bench: in my dressing gown' thread

[RichardCranium]

I'd give you a run down of Computer Weekly but last week's never came.

And IT Week has disappeared. And where is my "IT Now"? that never came either.

[RichardCranium]

Computing's contents

Is it still running the same "stories" re: research/polls from Gartner predicting something that will be proven to be totally wrong in 5 years?

1. Headlines.
2. ad for hosting
3. headlines
4-5. Tesco and Fidelity Investments going to India and how it's a good thing
6. Gartner ad
7. "Optimism returns"
8. BCS interview: "the government is crap"
9. Ad for The Institution of Engineering and Technology (who?)
10. Children's charity appeal
11-12. Some tedious 'Comment' waffle: "spend now", the "government is crap"
13. Ad for some tedious web site of waffle
14-15. Letters: "ID cards crap"
16-17. "Windows 7 is perfect"
18. "Outsourcing is a good thing"
19. vnunet has rebranded to v3
20. More "Outsourcing is a good thing"
21. 3 job ads from Computing's own job web site (so no job ads really).
22. Backbytes! Dilbert!
23. Ad for the Institution of Analysts & Programmers (much better than the IET one)
24. Ad for Kyocera printers.

That's your lot.

[bobhope]

Is it still running the same "stories" re: research/polls from Gartner predicting something that will be proven to be totally wrong in 5 years?

[TimberWolf]

I've just received Computing from 20/08/2009.

It has 1½ pages of job ads; that's up 50%



Oops. Sorry, they were small ads for PC recycling, a testing event an some council procurement crap. So it's just the one page. Of 3 jobs.

Stand down everyone. Go back to being depressed.

1½ pages is about the whole magazine these days. Ever noticed that £2.75 symbol they print on the front cover, I wonder what it means?

[Shimano105]

Offshoring doesn't fuss me too much - it always needs us to go in and make it work. Boomed!

[thunderlizard]

About 41% of senior professionals were more confident about their business prospects in the next year, but only 6% were much more confident, indicating that some caution remains.

Doesn't that mean that 53% were less confident?