This is new computer I am getting for Christmas (Definitaly)

[Hitmen]

IIRC, all the big US companies are switching support stations to foreign lands. (AOL, Microsoft, Dell, etc.)

People in other countries seem to do more work for less money, that's just the way it is.

[hismajesty]

IIRC, all the big US companies are switching support stations to foreign lands. (AOL, Microsoft, Dell, etc.)

People in other countries seem to do more work for less money, that's just the way it is.

Yeah...that's why they switched the support places. Although, I think I'd rather pay more for a product that was made in the US rather than one made in a foreign place (like China or Japan) it's gonna screw the US over in the future.

[Hostile]

Obviously you're realizing a very important issue that many people have been worried about and are still worried about. The government is doing some things to try and promote companies to stay here but its often not enough. (i.e.: giving companies 10 years of no federal taxes for moving to the country.) It is still an much cheaper to move a factory or more busy work scenarios to different countries (I think some of you may have noticed a farely wide-spread article about alot of jobs moving to India. The government makes alot more money this way, thanks to trade deals and import taxes but it lowers jobs for the citizens and hurts the economy more so in other ways.

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

In other words: us, the aspiring, entry-level CS majors are screwed.

[Grok]

In other words: us, the aspiring, entry-level CS majors are screwed.

It may depend on whether you value money or happiness.  If money, it is always possible to learn something that is in great demand, but is boring.  I've mentioned before that the American corporate engine is going to face a crisis in the next 5-10 years over COBOL, which represents 75% of the existing code, and where 90% of the programmers are 50+ and beginning to retire.  You can make a killing there, but COBOL will not satisfy you intellectually.

[Hostile]

Theres always money out, for someone who wants it. I'm being a broken record saying this.... Right now the economy still down, yeah so what its no where near the point where someone whos willing to the work to get paid. You can -still- do anything you put your mind to.