Atlanta to Birmingham is 145 miles. 145 miles on a bus in 3 hours? Have you ever actually ridden a bus?
It's entirely possible to have a 3 hour commute here in the Dallas-Ft Worth metroplex without leaving the DFW area: 1. Hop on local bus 2. Transfer to light rail crossing a greater distance 3. Hop on another local bus to get to destination
You have transfer times, stops and the general slowness that is the bus.
A lot of people do this. I rode the light rail here in Dallas just last week and it took an hour from the north end to downtown. Add in two local bus trips at either end of that and it would easily be over 2 hours of one way commute.
Buses don't go to farms? Sure they do. Probably not from the bus depot downtown, but it isn't uncommon for a pick up from some location to take workers out to a farm.
You act like a 3 hour trip by bus is something that will pick you up at your door and drive you straight there. That's a taxi. A three hour trip by bus can be a mere 50 miles or possibly even less.
A lot of these jobs aren't going based on skill. Sure, some of the H1B's are legit. But there are are lot of them out there like the two guys I trained who turned out not to be additions to the team, but my replacement at under $25 an hour. Now supposedly they have to be paid market rate, but they never are.
You say develop the skill. What you should be saying is, "Develop the credentials (legit or not) and work for half as much even though legally you should be offered fair market value."
You see the same thing competing against grad students in college. There is cheating on a massive scale in foreign countries to place students here as is easily evidenced by the large numbers that seemingly speak no English at all.
Of course, those grad students typically pay full rates, so nobody will be kicking them out any time soon.
Our university had a "Student Bill of Rights" which said that all tests and assignments of greater than 5 or 10% had to be identified in the syllabus. Identifying one, issuing it, having students take it, then changing it from a major portion of the grade to 0% and issuing another major test would break that agreement with the university.
As a casual player who can't hit that 5th button on a regular basis, I don't need expansions.
What I really need is for the jump from medium to hard to be the same difficulty with an extra button, instead of a huge jump in difficulty in addition to the extra button.
I have no rhythm, so I don't need to buy more songs I can't get past.
The difference here is that Linus was trading on the name Linux. He had a legitimate business working with that name.
The issue is the phrase "It's on like Donkey Kong." Nintendo does not conduct a business using that phrase. As far as can be told, it was something coined and used by game players. So not only have they had no business interest in the phrase that they did not invent, but it has been undefended for years.
They really should have no chance to trademark this phrase, except that there is no coherent body to stand up against them.
Yea, I was thinking it could cost $13,000 just to get the orchestra together for a night.
The only thing I can figure is that this is an additional income for an orchestra which is already touring through the composers.
That, and it doesn't need to be the greatest recording ever to see a lot of use. Background music in indie games and movies would be possible. Layered in with ambient noise, sound effects and character dialog, the lesser quality of this work might not stand out.
It's quite the opposite effect. Get that music out there were everyone can hear it and drum up the market for a live performance. Particularly for orchestras which survive through ticket sales and donations.
You don't go to the concert to hear Beethoven for the first time. You decide which night of the season to go because they're playing what you really want to hear live.
Burning crosses carried with it a bodily threat. Burning the Koran is merely a rejection of a religion. Roughly equivalent of burning a flag. Shouldn't all you flag burning communists be supporting this? The mainstream wouldn't blink at burning the bible -- been there, done that.
Rackspace is, of course, free to terminate services with anyone they see fit. I'd say it's probably a bad idea to get into the game of judging the quality of content when you have that much content, however. Someone can be offended by almost anything. And this is what it is about, a group is feeling offended, not threatened.
Whenever I drive on the tollway, I think tolls should be charged based on lane changes. You'd get left lane changes for free. Every left lane change after that would cost. That means you'd be able to get into the left lane once and it would charge anyone who insists on weaving back and forth between lanes to speed themselves up by a few seconds at the cost of slowing everyone down.
Getting passed while in the left lane would put the charge on the person in the left lane if they weren't doing the limit. Those who want to pass to drive 80 in a 55 can just pay extra to drive like madmen.
More fees to be charged for exiting if you weren't in the rightmost lane for the last half-mile.
Not sure how you got any of that from the multitude of Apple stories that have been going on everywhere.
Apple first said their customers where holding it wrong. People posted montage videos of Apple ads/commercials of people holding it in exactly the way that makes the phone drop calls.
Then Apple said that *an additional problem with the phone* was the cause of a perceived problem with the phone. Somehow these two problems were to cancel out and owners of the phone were supposed to feel better about this. All iphones have been misreporting their ability to perform their (arguably) primary function and this is being spun as a *solution* to the problem of dropped calls. Nice job, this problem just got swept under the rug, but people were still unable to make calls. The attenuation problem that they claimed all phones had was linked with this supposedly because the user was looking at a call barely connected and when the grip changed the position of the phone, the reception changed and a call was dropped. This was called normal.
It wasn't really until Consumer Reports came out with a real easy to follow video where they have the phone on and touch it in the corner and signal strength drops dramatically. No movement of the phone, very simple. Apple finally says, "Here is a free bumper to cover up the design factor we had told you to obsess over, we'd now like you to obsess over our generosity. We're still not going to really admit a problem."
Some guy gets fired, apparently getting to be the first guy to take credit for something while Jobs is in charge.
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So you've reduced the problem to parsing English. That should eliminate the 200 programming languages too.
Nice job.
Amazon is playing by the rules?
I love the "employees benefit from local..." like no taxes are paid locally. Property tax, income taxes, etc...
Atlanta to Birmingham is 145 miles. 145 miles on a bus in 3 hours? Have you ever actually ridden a bus?
It's entirely possible to have a 3 hour commute here in the Dallas-Ft Worth metroplex without leaving the DFW area:
1. Hop on local bus
2. Transfer to light rail crossing a greater distance
3. Hop on another local bus to get to destination
You have transfer times, stops and the general slowness that is the bus.
A lot of people do this. I rode the light rail here in Dallas just last week and it took an hour from the north end to downtown. Add in two local bus trips at either end of that and it would easily be over 2 hours of one way commute.
Buses don't go to farms? Sure they do. Probably not from the bus depot downtown, but it isn't uncommon for a pick up from some location to take workers out to a farm.
You act like a 3 hour trip by bus is something that will pick you up at your door and drive you straight there. That's a taxi. A three hour trip by bus can be a mere 50 miles or possibly even less.
Probably 3 hours by bus, which might only be 50 miles and cost $60 a month for a pass.
A lot of these jobs aren't going based on skill. Sure, some of the H1B's are legit. But there are are lot of them out there like the two guys I trained who turned out not to be additions to the team, but my replacement at under $25 an hour. Now supposedly they have to be paid market rate, but they never are.
You say develop the skill. What you should be saying is, "Develop the credentials (legit or not) and work for half as much even though legally you should be offered fair market value."
You see the same thing competing against grad students in college. There is cheating on a massive scale in foreign countries to place students here as is easily evidenced by the large numbers that seemingly speak no English at all.
Of course, those grad students typically pay full rates, so nobody will be kicking them out any time soon.
Our university had a "Student Bill of Rights" which said that all tests and assignments of greater than 5 or 10% had to be identified in the syllabus. Identifying one, issuing it, having students take it, then changing it from a major portion of the grade to 0% and issuing another major test would break that agreement with the university.
How much cheaper would it be for you to settle a suit for $2k instead of going to court to prove you are compliant?
The problem with comparing engineers to attorneys is you can hire an attorney to put that chalk mark anywhere you want it. (or an economist)
As a casual player who can't hit that 5th button on a regular basis, I don't need expansions.
What I really need is for the jump from medium to hard to be the same difficulty with an extra button, instead of a huge jump in difficulty in addition to the extra button.
I have no rhythm, so I don't need to buy more songs I can't get past.
I would imagine some partner in the music business would be better than partnering with MTV.
The difference here is that Linus was trading on the name Linux. He had a legitimate business working with that name.
The issue is the phrase "It's on like Donkey Kong." Nintendo does not conduct a business using that phrase. As far as can be told, it was something coined and used by game players. So not only have they had no business interest in the phrase that they did not invent, but it has been undefended for years.
They really should have no chance to trademark this phrase, except that there is no coherent body to stand up against them.
Or nobody buys the game and the patch never comes out. Then the *next* game gets released when it is ready.
I tried playing one yesterday. I'm still working on getting past the splash screens after starting it.
Wealth is not income.
We tax income.
Unless the test contains porn and all the accompanying popups, it's not a real world test.
Yea, I was thinking it could cost $13,000 just to get the orchestra together for a night.
The only thing I can figure is that this is an additional income for an orchestra which is already touring through the composers.
That, and it doesn't need to be the greatest recording ever to see a lot of use. Background music in indie games and movies would be possible. Layered in with ambient noise, sound effects and character dialog, the lesser quality of this work might not stand out.
It's quite the opposite effect. Get that music out there were everyone can hear it and drum up the market for a live performance. Particularly for orchestras which survive through ticket sales and donations.
You don't go to the concert to hear Beethoven for the first time. You decide which night of the season to go because they're playing what you really want to hear live.
The scary part is the politicians are never quite sure when it is being made up. They either like it or don't like it.
Burning crosses carried with it a bodily threat. Burning the Koran is merely a rejection of a religion. Roughly equivalent of burning a flag. Shouldn't all you flag burning communists be supporting this? The mainstream wouldn't blink at burning the bible -- been there, done that.
Rackspace is, of course, free to terminate services with anyone they see fit. I'd say it's probably a bad idea to get into the game of judging the quality of content when you have that much content, however. Someone can be offended by almost anything. And this is what it is about, a group is feeling offended, not threatened.
Which Sarah Jones?
You just need to convert more Java guys to keep telling everyone it's not slow.
Whenever I drive on the tollway, I think tolls should be charged based on lane changes. You'd get left lane changes for free. Every left lane change after that would cost. That means you'd be able to get into the left lane once and it would charge anyone who insists on weaving back and forth between lanes to speed themselves up by a few seconds at the cost of slowing everyone down.
Getting passed while in the left lane would put the charge on the person in the left lane if they weren't doing the limit. Those who want to pass to drive 80 in a 55 can just pay extra to drive like madmen.
More fees to be charged for exiting if you weren't in the rightmost lane for the last half-mile.
'We have zero tolerance for dishonest behavior inside or outside the company.'
*cough*
back dated options
*cough*
Not sure how you got any of that from the multitude of Apple stories that have been going on everywhere.
Apple first said their customers where holding it wrong. People posted montage videos of Apple ads/commercials of people holding it in exactly the way that makes the phone drop calls.
Then Apple said that *an additional problem with the phone* was the cause of a perceived problem with the phone. Somehow these two problems were to cancel out and owners of the phone were supposed to feel better about this. All iphones have been misreporting their ability to perform their (arguably) primary function and this is being spun as a *solution* to the problem of dropped calls. Nice job, this problem just got swept under the rug, but people were still unable to make calls. The attenuation problem that they claimed all phones had was linked with this supposedly because the user was looking at a call barely connected and when the grip changed the position of the phone, the reception changed and a call was dropped. This was called normal.
It wasn't really until Consumer Reports came out with a real easy to follow video where they have the phone on and touch it in the corner and signal strength drops dramatically. No movement of the phone, very simple. Apple finally says, "Here is a free bumper to cover up the design factor we had told you to obsess over, we'd now like you to obsess over our generosity. We're still not going to really admit a problem."
Some guy gets fired, apparently getting to be the first guy to take credit for something while Jobs is in charge.
It might provide an acceptable solution to the person who never learned to type or spell.