That's if you limit your definition of "knowledge gained" to JUST what was discovered on the trip itself!
What about all the knowledge gained by figuring out how to do it? That's where the real gains came from.
We really are in the "corporate era" aren't we? We believe as a society right now that nothing is worth knowing unless there are immediate financial gains involved. It's not healthy. Eventually there won't be any platform of new fundamental science to grow the "practical" stuff from, so it's self defeating even by when looked at a narrow corporatist perspective.
This is just another arbitrary way to "weed out" candidates. You wonder why the screeching that "the U.S. has no qualified candidates" to do jobs... this is one of the reasons. We have H.R. people that roundfile applications because of their own lack of knowledge.
Or, to an H.R. drone, unqualified because there isn't a "Microsoft" in there somewhere.
Yes... they think that way. If they can think this way because you don't use Office and DARE to send your resume out in PDF format, they can easily think this way about an Open Source distro.
I had a recruiter dress me down about this before. He had never heard of "Open Office" and I am not sure he had ever heard of Linux, either.
That's licensing... which is a different thing. Professional licensing is professionals looking at another professional and making sure they are competent, and it's a lot different than some organization slapping down a test.
At some point most of these certs that get a stamp put on a package require money to be exchanged for nothing. Some are more useful than others (certainly UL has some worth), but there is a lot of money changing hands for very little with most of these.
And there you have the crux of the problem. The U.S. absolutely refuses to enforce the laws behind H1-B visa. As a matter of fact we don't NEED more laws about H1-B enforcement. We simply need to enforce the laws that are there.
The U.S. is the ONLY economy in the world where government *doesn't* work to make sure that their own citizens are first in line for jobs. Just try to emigrate to the U.K. Try to emigrate to Canada.
Somehow we have a majority of people that are willing to parrot the corporate position on issues. Protecting your citizen's job first is not "protectionism," it's doing what the god damned government is SUPPOSED to do.
Please explain how we have no one from this country qualified to do these jobs and our H.R. departments are continuously throwing resumes away because the candidate is "overqualified."
It's a weird tangent on the original storyline from "The Way Back," but part of that story WAS that his wife and family were taken away and he was just seeing them in "vids."
The reason that I think it has come back up is that it the production company has just started marketing it to foreign channels. There was a press release I saw on it to that effect yesterday, and someone at the entertainment desks must have picked up on it.
There has been talk about this particular revival for a year and talks about revival going back a decade. Paul Darrow even owned the rights himself for a while but he fell out with his partner in the deal.
EA does suck. They did screw up SimCity in a big way. But they won because gamers are loud, not because they are the worst.
As another forum (I can't remember which now) pointed out, they were up against a company that has foreclosed on houses they don't even hold the note on.
I recently re-watched Blakes' 7 while down recovering from surgery, and it has good stories. It has good stories probably because they didn't have to rely on the effects.
The new Doctor Who now has a good budget, but they have gotten over reliant on the imagery at times. All newer sci-fi has.
I'm looking forward to a new series (even if it is on SeeFee) and I hope they keep with the gritty, amoral feel they had in the old series. Better effects... sure, but it won't be any good without good writing.
Could you make sure that Ben Aaronovitch gets a decent job??
For real... the guy wrote "Remembrance of the Daleks!" I found out this week that he has to work selling books. What is up with that? He deserves a decent writing gig.
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That's if you limit your definition of "knowledge gained" to JUST what was discovered on the trip itself!
What about all the knowledge gained by figuring out how to do it? That's where the real gains came from.
We really are in the "corporate era" aren't we? We believe as a society right now that nothing is worth knowing unless there are immediate financial gains involved. It's not healthy. Eventually there won't be any platform of new fundamental science to grow the "practical" stuff from, so it's self defeating even by when looked at a narrow corporatist perspective.
He won't... that's the point.
This is just another arbitrary way to "weed out" candidates. You wonder why the screeching that "the U.S. has no qualified candidates" to do jobs... this is one of the reasons. We have H.R. people that roundfile applications because of their own lack of knowledge.
Nothing. Because you couldn't have gotten your online application put into their proprietary system.
Or, to an H.R. drone, unqualified because there isn't a "Microsoft" in there somewhere.
Yes... they think that way. If they can think this way because you don't use Office and DARE to send your resume out in PDF format, they can easily think this way about an Open Source distro.
I had a recruiter dress me down about this before. He had never heard of "Open Office" and I am not sure he had ever heard of Linux, either.
If your browser string looks like this:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
You're not a corporate believer and should never have a job... ever...
-- your typical H.R. idiot.
That's licensing... which is a different thing. Professional licensing is professionals looking at another professional and making sure they are competent, and it's a lot different than some organization slapping down a test.
At some point most of these certs that get a stamp put on a package require money to be exchanged for nothing. Some are more useful than others (certainly UL has some worth), but there is a lot of money changing hands for very little with most of these.
And there you have the crux of the problem. The U.S. absolutely refuses to enforce the laws behind H1-B visa. As a matter of fact we don't NEED more laws about H1-B enforcement. We simply need to enforce the laws that are there.
If you think that there isn't an effort to skirt the law, watch this video. It pretty much shows the true intention these H.R. "professionals" have with H1-B and they're doing their activities out in the open.
So is the government working for the citizenry, or the corporate state?
Never mind... we all know the answer as it comes to U.S. politics.
What bullshit. "Protectionist" my ass.
The U.S. is the ONLY economy in the world where government *doesn't* work to make sure that their own citizens are first in line for jobs. Just try to emigrate to the U.K. Try to emigrate to Canada.
Somehow we have a majority of people that are willing to parrot the corporate position on issues. Protecting your citizen's job first is not "protectionism," it's doing what the god damned government is SUPPOSED to do.
Please explain how we have no one from this country qualified to do these jobs and our H.R. departments are continuously throwing resumes away because the candidate is "overqualified."
it's come to this... toe to toe with the russians in new-clear-ar combat.
I say this because I'd be surprised if Microsoft do go the always on DRM route, I don't think even MS is that stupid, but time will tell I guess.
Stupid might not be the right word. "Being stuck inside the corporate bubble" but be better. "Arrogant" might be another.
Crediting sources who "wish to remain anonymous"...
For everyone but the person that leaked THIS story, of course...
The thing is, even if they do want it on their home screen there are these things called "gadgets."
This is obviously for someone who wants their life dominated by Facebook...
I am not sure I can agree with that when it comes to something as fundamental as housing and defrauding persons out of their life savings.
I think of Starlost every time a series remake comes up.
There is a huge opportunity there. Get real money, actually WORK with Ellison and his original scripts, and you would have a great series.
Remake something with a strong concept that wasn't done right the first time. Even as screwy as it turned out it was often enjoyable to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48gH_v8ulLA
Did you know Servalan sang a key section of a very famous album?
It's a weird tangent on the original storyline from "The Way Back," but part of that story WAS that his wife and family were taken away and he was just seeing them in "vids."
The reason that I think it has come back up is that it the production company has just started marketing it to foreign channels. There was a press release I saw on it to that effect yesterday, and someone at the entertainment desks must have picked up on it.
There has been talk about this particular revival for a year and talks about revival going back a decade. Paul Darrow even owned the rights himself for a while but he fell out with his partner in the deal.
EA does suck. They did screw up SimCity in a big way. But they won because gamers are loud, not because they are the worst.
As another forum (I can't remember which now) pointed out, they were up against a company that has foreclosed on houses they don't even hold the note on.
EA screwed up a game. BoA has destroyed lives.
Since it seems to have gone over your head, I *was* making fun of the name.
he's pining.
I recently re-watched Blakes' 7 while down recovering from surgery, and it has good stories. It has good stories probably because they didn't have to rely on the effects.
The new Doctor Who now has a good budget, but they have gotten over reliant on the imagery at times. All newer sci-fi has.
I'm looking forward to a new series (even if it is on SeeFee) and I hope they keep with the gritty, amoral feel they had in the old series. Better effects... sure, but it won't be any good without good writing.
Could you make sure that Ben Aaronovitch gets a decent job??
For real... the guy wrote "Remembrance of the Daleks!" I found out this week that he has to work selling books. What is up with that? He deserves a decent writing gig.
I don't think this is an example of Bush Jr doing the right thing. I think it's an example of something he didn't think of.
Obama and Bush Jr. are both corporate shills, no matter what is said on TV.