{"id":2819,"date":"2005-03-23T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/2819\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T13:11:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T02:11:43","slug":"2819","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/2819","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I have just requested some bids to do the real work for one of the todays jobs, rather than doing it myself. I would expect that the cost of getting the work done will not be too expensive. I would guess that a decent programmer will be able to do the work I need in a few hours, or maybe a couple of days at the latest. Given that a highly skilled and payed programmer in Argentena costs US$6 per hour rather than the $100 per hour that I would need to charge, I am sure that I will come out ahead. <\/p>\n

OK. Well, my time to myself is free, but you get the idea. And if it costs me most of the income from the project to outsource the project, then either I have underquoted or I should be doing the job myself in order to make money. This is normal business. <\/p>\n

This is of course the advantage of working in an international networked economy. I can get people to do work for me all over the world, safely and securely. I have had a few cases where the work was not up to scratch but that really is the exception. <\/p>\n

ISS Issues<\/h2>\n

There is a story on TechNewsWorld<\/a> about an issue on the Interational Space Station where another of the Gyro’s has failed. The cause seems to be a circuit breaker that has tripped that is outside the space station. Now, seems to me that it is a bit of a problem if a circuit breaker trips and you need to do a space walk to fix the problem. From memory this is similar to what happened in the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” where HAL required that a component be fixed on the outside of the jupiter transport vehicle just before killing them. <\/p>\n

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Music:<\/h2>\n

Yanni with his ‘Aria’, also known as the ‘British Airways’ music from a few years back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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