That sure hasn't been my experience. In over ten years of consulting with, well it was the Big Six, when I started, many of the project teams I've worked on have had a majority of immigrant and H1B consultants.
I've never been on a project where one of the top performers was an H1B, or even an immigrant. And of the handful of consultants I've had to remove from projects, all of them were immigrants who somebody thought would be good consultants because they had advanced computer science degrees.
Obviously, that's a very small sample, but it certainly creates an impression.
Actually, the question in my mind is, why don't we have bigger notebook drives? I believe a 100GB 2.5" drive exists, although it seems to be difficult to find. If they can get 80GB in an iPod-sized drive, why can't I get > 200GB in my notebook?
The Declaration of Independence clearly states that our country was founded on the principle that The People have certain "inalienable rights," which cannot be restricted by any govenment. Then, our Constitution was written to document which powers The People would ceede to the government. The Constitution is quite clear that any powers not granted to the governement are reserved by The People.
The Bill of Rights simply lists some specific rights to highlight the fact that nothing about the rest of the Constitution should be interpreted to mean that those things were "priveledges," instead of "inalienable rights."
Regardless of how the government has abused the powers we gave it, we, The People, have a right to freedom of expression, and it is our solemn duty to constantly excercise that right, and remind the government that it is our right.
But isn't Mach a rather odd unit, too? It's defined as the speed of sound, but the speed of sound varies a lot. 7,000 mph would be nearly Mach 10 at sea level, but what's the speed of sound at the 110,000 feet level the plane was at?
Yeah, and since they have all those thousands of people "making the internet better, (by filtering stuff out)" some people really believe AOL is something on its own.
I always thought that was the most amazing thing about my Newton 2000. I would write a scribble on the screen that I certainly couldn't have read later, myself, but the Newton would turn it into the right word! The word-based recognition (instead of character-by-character) seemed to figure out that my scribble had about the same overall shape, and maybe the same number of up and down strokes, as a word it knew. Of course, the problem was that if you wrote a word it didn't know, it would turn it into one it did. But I quickly learned to carefully print things like proper names or acronyms to solve that problem.
How about this: astronauts need excersize anyway. So hook the stationary bike to a gear train that compresses a really big spring. After a few days of cranking, you've got lots of tension in the spring. Use that spring to kick the garbage out the "back" of the space station (180 degrees to the orbit). That effective slows the garbage down a lot, relative to the space station, and should cause it to fall out of orbit, while at the same time giving a useful nudge up to the station
It's a recent switch, but it's not "radical." One of the selling points of the Mac IIci was that there was only one screw holding the thing together, and that one only needed to be there for shipping. Once you removed that screw, all the parts of the computer snapped into place with plastic locking tabs, and could easily be swapped out if needed. Of course, I still have a IIci, which still works fine, and I've never had to swap out anything...
I patented that idea months ago! Please start mailing your royalty checks.:-)
Seriously, I've been doing it for a long time with my TiBook, and I still get funny looks on the airplane. And I still haven't seen anyone else doing it. But I get a huge, clear screen, and >4 hours battery life. Only thing I'd change would be to make it lighter.
I've been asking why something like this didn't exist for years. The reason that it still doesn't (really) exist is clear from these comments--nobody seems to "get it."
I'm a consultant, and travel 100% of the time. I carry a laptop with me, but I virtually never actually use it on the plane. Instead, I go into a client office each day, and hook my laptop up to their monitor and network, and plug in the mouse I carry with me. I sit at that desk and work until late in the evening, then put the laptop in my bag and carry it back to the hotel.
I would LOVE something the size of a paperback book that included a mid-range CPU, 512Mb of RAM, a 2.5" hard disk, and standard VGA, USB, 100 base T and PS/2 connectors. Then, most of the time, all I'd have to carry would be that little "brick." I'd have my own monitor, keyboard, and mouse at home, and make use of the monitor, keyboard and mouse on my desk at the client site.
Of course, if I really needed to be able to use the thing on a flight, it seems like it would be easy for someone to design a laptop-type peripheral that you plugged the brick into.
Of course, if everyone would just switch to Macs, I wouldn't need the whole computer in the brick, I could just use my external 2.5" firewire disk. But Windows won't run programs off the external disk without installing them....
I think the conclusion you have to come to is that Democrats "make jobs" by screwing up the economy, then the Republicans have to come in and fix the imbalance before trade collapses.
"Protecting" jobs works for a little while, but if workers aren't competitive, the companies can't be, either. Eventually the company finds it doesn't have a market for it's product any more. The "Big Three" automakers provide an excellent case study.
I have lots of plain-text versions of books on my Mac TiBook's hard drive. I print one to PDF(native file format, there), open the PDF with the standard Preview viewer and do a command-R to rotate the pages 90 degrees. Then I hold the TiBook like a book. I get plenty of text on a page, very legible text, and 3-4 hours of battery life. I turn pages by touching the trackpad button, so it's just like turning pages in a book. Only thing I miss is that the Preview app doesn't automatically save my place if I quit.
Since I travel every week, I read two or three books a week, and it's a lot easier to carry one laptop than a box full of books.
A couple of years ago I built a Linux server with a 10Gb 7200 rpm IDE drive as the system disk, and 4x80Gb 5400 rpm IDE drives in a RAID 5 as a home file server. I used the 2.2 series software RAID, and was serving files via netatalk to a couple of Macs. In just over a year, I had multiple disk failures, and twice the RAID ended up unrecoverable. It was cool to be able to change out a drive and watch the RAID get rebuilt, when it worked, but too often it didn't work.
I was never able to determine whether there was some kind of conflict between netatalk, the kernel, and the driver for the two Promise IDE controllers, if I had problems with a bad batch of drives or if I didn't have enough airflow through my case.
Also during that period, I somehow had a filesystem get corrupted, and lost the RAID, even though no drive had failed.
Given that bad experience with [software][IDE] RAID, I now use four 250 GB SATA drives on two controllers. Every night I do an rsync backup (changes only) from one disk on one controller to a different disk on the other controller. So far, none of the disks have failed (I'm using Maxtor Maxline IIs), but now I'm confident that I can survive either a disk failure or a filesystem failure.
One other interesting point: I recently found an article about a relatively new RAID problem. Apparently a RAID 5 using 250 GB IDE hard drives can take more than a week to rebuild the array when a drive is replaced! Might want to try to find some more details on that before you build your big RAID.
My wife's car is a WRX sedan (not an STi). The Acrua's not as fast, but the build quality, and especially the fantastic six-speed, make it a much more fun car to drive.
The TiBook may cost more for a machine that's not as fast, but the build quality and overall experience make it more fun to use and worth the money.
That's a ridiculous argument. Who said we all had to live out our 1,000 year lifespans on the Earth? Obtaining more natural resources is an easier problem than extending lifespan--there's a whole galaxy full of natural resources around us!
It would be an even easier problem to sove if people could work on it for more than just a few years at a time!
As simplistic example, if it takes 100 years to travel to the nearest habitable planet, but you're going to live more than 1,000 years, that trip doesn't seem like nearly as big a deal as it does today.
I assume this post was meant to be funny. However, realize that sticking someone with a knife is, by definition, using deadly force--no different than shooting them with a gun. Knives are also generally considered "concealed weapons" and are subject to the same restrictions and same potential criminal penalties. Colorado law, for example, is quite clear about the fact that deadly force and concealed carry laws apply equally to any type of deadly weapon. Other states may not be as clear (IANAL), but deadly force is never limited to only a specific type of weapon.
"Warning shots" are a dangerous myth! There is no such thing as "shooting to kill." If you fire a gun, you are using deadly force, always, by any definition.
Nobody, ever, in any law enforcement agency is "trained to only shoot to kill." The only lawful reason to shoot someone is to stop the perpetrator from hurting or killing another person. It just so happens that the only reliable way to stop a determined attacker usually involves shooting him in a place that will probably kill him.
In America, fortunately, most states recognize that there are justifiable reasons to use deadly force. However, you'd better have a REALLY GOOD JUSTIFICATION!
Definitely just add one more gadget. The Springfield XD is pretty high-tec. I personally prefer a decidedly low-tech.357 magnum, though, and the polished stainless matches my iPod!
An interesting article at www.space.com suggests that the problem might actually be that there is so much oil in the Earth that we could destroy our environment burning it all. Since we all know that there should be vast amounts of various hydrocarbons available in the asteroids, it's somewhat believable.
I keep wondering why somebody doesn't replace the piston engine in one of these hybrids with a turbine engine.
A turbine is more fuel efficient, but has never worked well for automotive applications because it's slow to speed up and slow down. If instead of trying to drive the wheels, the turbine was used to generate power, it could run at a constant speed while the electric motors provided the acceleration.
This argument is so lame, I shouldn't even respond to it, but I'm getting tired of hearing it.
I bought an iPod for my wife. She's paid for 2 songs in the year she's had it. Mostly, it's loaded with songs from my collection of 300 CDs, which I ripped using iTunes and store on a linux-based server in my basement.
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That sure hasn't been my experience. In over ten years of consulting with, well it was the Big Six, when I started, many of the project teams I've worked on have had a majority of immigrant and H1B consultants.
I've never been on a project where one of the top performers was an H1B, or even an immigrant. And of the handful of consultants I've had to remove from projects, all of them were immigrants who somebody thought would be good consultants because they had advanced computer science degrees.
Obviously, that's a very small sample, but it certainly creates an impression.
Actually, the question in my mind is, why don't we have bigger notebook drives? I believe a 100GB 2.5" drive exists, although it seems to be difficult to find. If they can get 80GB in an iPod-sized drive, why can't I get > 200GB in my notebook?
Sorry, but you're the one who is wrong.
The Declaration of Independence clearly states that our country was founded on the principle that The People have certain "inalienable rights," which cannot be restricted by any govenment. Then, our Constitution was written to document which powers The People would ceede to the government. The Constitution is quite clear that any powers not granted to the governement are reserved by The People.
The Bill of Rights simply lists some specific rights to highlight the fact that nothing about the rest of the Constitution should be interpreted to mean that those things were "priveledges," instead of "inalienable rights."
Regardless of how the government has abused the powers we gave it, we, The People, have a right to freedom of expression, and it is our solemn duty to constantly excercise that right, and remind the government that it is our right.
But isn't Mach a rather odd unit, too? It's defined as the speed of sound, but the speed of sound varies a lot. 7,000 mph would be nearly Mach 10 at sea level, but what's the speed of sound at the 110,000 feet level the plane was at?
Yeah, and since they have all those thousands of people "making the internet better, (by filtering stuff out)" some people really believe AOL is something on its own.
I always thought that was the most amazing thing about my Newton 2000. I would write a scribble on the screen that I certainly couldn't have read later, myself, but the Newton would turn it into the right word! The word-based recognition (instead of character-by-character) seemed to figure out that my scribble had about the same overall shape, and maybe the same number of up and down strokes, as a word it knew. Of course, the problem was that if you wrote a word it didn't know, it would turn it into one it did. But I quickly learned to carefully print things like proper names or acronyms to solve that problem.
How about this: astronauts need excersize anyway. So hook the stationary bike to a gear train that compresses a really big spring. After a few days of cranking, you've got lots of tension in the spring. Use that spring to kick the garbage out the "back" of the space station (180 degrees to the orbit). That effective slows the garbage down a lot, relative to the space station, and should cause it to fall out of orbit, while at the same time giving a useful nudge up to the station
It's a recent switch, but it's not "radical." One of the selling points of the Mac IIci was that there was only one screw holding the thing together, and that one only needed to be there for shipping. Once you removed that screw, all the parts of the computer snapped into place with plastic locking tabs, and could easily be swapped out if needed. Of course, I still have a IIci, which still works fine, and I've never had to swap out anything...
I patented that idea months ago! Please start mailing your royalty checks. :-)
Seriously, I've been doing it for a long time with my TiBook, and I still get funny looks on the airplane. And I still haven't seen anyone else doing it. But I get a huge, clear screen, and >4 hours battery life. Only thing I'd change would be to make it lighter.
I've been asking why something like this didn't exist for years. The reason that it still doesn't (really) exist is clear from these comments--nobody seems to "get it."
I'm a consultant, and travel 100% of the time. I carry a laptop with me, but I virtually never actually use it on the plane. Instead, I go into a client office each day, and hook my laptop up to their monitor and network, and plug in the mouse I carry with me. I sit at that desk and work until late in the evening, then put the laptop in my bag and carry it back to the hotel.
I would LOVE something the size of a paperback book that included a mid-range CPU, 512Mb of RAM, a 2.5" hard disk, and standard VGA, USB, 100 base T and PS/2 connectors. Then, most of the time, all I'd have to carry would be that little "brick." I'd have my own monitor, keyboard, and mouse at home, and make use of the monitor, keyboard and mouse on my desk at the client site.
Of course, if I really needed to be able to use the thing on a flight, it seems like it would be easy for someone to design a laptop-type peripheral that you plugged the brick into.
Of course, if everyone would just switch to Macs, I wouldn't need the whole computer in the brick, I could just use my external 2.5" firewire disk. But Windows won't run programs off the external disk without installing them....
I think the conclusion you have to come to is that Democrats "make jobs" by screwing up the economy, then the Republicans have to come in and fix the imbalance before trade collapses.
"Protecting" jobs works for a little while, but if workers aren't competitive, the companies can't be, either. Eventually the company finds it doesn't have a market for it's product any more. The "Big Three" automakers provide an excellent case study.
I have lots of plain-text versions of books on my Mac TiBook's hard drive. I print one to PDF(native file format, there), open the PDF with the standard Preview viewer and do a command-R to rotate the pages 90 degrees. Then I hold the TiBook like a book. I get plenty of text on a page, very legible text, and 3-4 hours of battery life. I turn pages by touching the trackpad button, so it's just like turning pages in a book. Only thing I miss is that the Preview app doesn't automatically save my place if I quit.
Since I travel every week, I read two or three books a week, and it's a lot easier to carry one laptop than a box full of books.
A couple of years ago I built a Linux server with a 10Gb 7200 rpm IDE drive as the system disk, and 4x80Gb 5400 rpm IDE drives in a RAID 5 as a home file server. I used the 2.2 series software RAID, and was serving files via netatalk to a couple of Macs. In just over a year, I had multiple disk failures, and twice the RAID ended up unrecoverable. It was cool to be able to change out a drive and watch the RAID get rebuilt, when it worked, but too often it didn't work.
I was never able to determine whether there was some kind of conflict between netatalk, the kernel, and the driver for the two Promise IDE controllers, if I had problems with a bad batch of drives or if I didn't have enough airflow through my case.
Also during that period, I somehow had a filesystem get corrupted, and lost the RAID, even though no drive had failed.
Given that bad experience with [software][IDE] RAID, I now use four 250 GB SATA drives on two controllers. Every night I do an rsync backup (changes only) from one disk on one controller to a different disk on the other controller. So far, none of the disks have failed (I'm using Maxtor Maxline IIs), but now I'm confident that I can survive either a disk failure or a filesystem failure.
One other interesting point: I recently found an article about a relatively new RAID problem. Apparently a RAID 5 using 250 GB IDE hard drives can take more than a week to rebuild the array when a drive is replaced! Might want to try to find some more details on that before you build your big RAID.
See, you just don't get it.
My wife's car is a WRX sedan (not an STi). The Acrua's not as fast, but the build quality, and especially the fantastic six-speed, make it a much more fun car to drive.
The TiBook may cost more for a machine that's not as fast, but the build quality and overall experience make it more fun to use and worth the money.
Bet I can find a post where this guy claims Macs are too expensive, though.
But he's right. I have a TiBook for the same kinds of reasons I drive an RSX Type S.
That's a ridiculous argument. Who said we all had to live out our 1,000 year lifespans on the Earth? Obtaining more natural resources is an easier problem than extending lifespan--there's a whole galaxy full of natural resources around us!
It would be an even easier problem to sove if people could work on it for more than just a few years at a time!
As simplistic example, if it takes 100 years to travel to the nearest habitable planet, but you're going to live more than 1,000 years, that trip doesn't seem like nearly as big a deal as it does today.
I assume this post was meant to be funny. However, realize that sticking someone with a knife is, by definition, using deadly force--no different than shooting them with a gun. Knives are also generally considered "concealed weapons" and are subject to the same restrictions and same potential criminal penalties. Colorado law, for example, is quite clear about the fact that deadly force and concealed carry laws apply equally to any type of deadly weapon. Other states may not be as clear (IANAL), but deadly force is never limited to only a specific type of weapon.
"Warning shots" are a dangerous myth! There is no such thing as "shooting to kill." If you fire a gun, you are using deadly force, always, by any definition.
Nobody, ever, in any law enforcement agency is "trained to only shoot to kill." The only lawful reason to shoot someone is to stop the perpetrator from hurting or killing another person. It just so happens that the only reliable way to stop a determined attacker usually involves shooting him in a place that will probably kill him.
In America, fortunately, most states recognize that there are justifiable reasons to use deadly force. However, you'd better have a REALLY GOOD JUSTIFICATION!
Definitely just add one more gadget. The Springfield XD is pretty high-tec. I personally prefer a decidedly low-tech .357 magnum, though, and the polished stainless matches my iPod!
They are certainly filing lots of "John Doe" lawsuits against a DNA profile now.
An interesting article at www.space.com suggests that the problem might actually be that there is so much oil in the Earth that we could destroy our environment burning it all. Since we all know that there should be vast amounts of various hydrocarbons available in the asteroids, it's somewhat believable.
I keep wondering why somebody doesn't replace the piston engine in one of these hybrids with a turbine engine.
A turbine is more fuel efficient, but has never worked well for automotive applications because it's slow to speed up and slow down. If instead of trying to drive the wheels, the turbine was used to generate power, it could run at a constant speed while the electric motors provided the acceleration.
I do the same thing. So why isn't there some way to checksum just the music part of the MP3, so that the checksum doesn't change when the tags do?
What's an "M.A.C." user?
This argument is so lame, I shouldn't even respond to it, but I'm getting tired of hearing it.
I bought an iPod for my wife. She's paid for 2 songs in the year she's had it. Mostly, it's loaded with songs from my collection of 300 CDs, which I ripped using iTunes and store on a linux-based server in my basement.