I used to be an H1B holder, and one day decided to switch employer and start working for startup. The visa transfer application has been filed, I quit my job and moved to startup, without waiting for application to be approved (which is legal, as transfer considered to be pure formality). Few months later my transfer application gets refused on the grounds that startup doesn't seem to have profits and may fire me. Thank you very much Department of Labor for firing me out of fear that my employer may fire me.
One can argue that its my fault, and I had to wait for transfer to get approved, but that's not the point. I knew that I was taking a risk, and was prepared, but to get refusal on such grounds? That's pretty lame.
Anyways, getting back on topic. Suppose I were the best developer in the company and in rough times company had to downsize, but they would like to keep me and get rid of some slackers, however some legislation wouldn't allow them to do so, so they have to fire me. I pack my stuff move back home, and then economy picks up, there is shortage of qualified people in US, and US companies start to bombard me with offers. Do you honestly believe I would go there again?
It is very shortsighted policy, you are risking to alienate the most qualified people. Way to go.
Another argument against it -- it is pretty much unenforcible. What will business do? They'll just create new entity and move all H1B holders they would like to keep to that new entity. Oh, big brother patches this loophole? Fine. They'll create an independent "consultancy" business and move all H1B holders there, and hire them as consultants. I am sure there are thousand tricks to work around such restrictions.
It would be nice to find a list of all major cities ranked by their pollution level. I would be curious to see NYC vs London vs Paris vs Tokyo vs Beijing.
You can do checkout-edit-checkin in SVN as well. That's what locks and svn:needs-lock property are for.
See overview and details in official documentation.
3cm is NOT a good enough security. Imagine someone bumping into you on a crowded train and stealing all your photos, sensitive files from memory stick, etc.
Well, answering my own question. Wikipedia says
By calling a federal referendum a group of citizens may challenge a law that has been passed by Parliament, if they can gather 50,000 signatures against the law within 100 days. If so, a national vote is scheduled where voters decide by a simple majority whether to accept or reject the law. Eight cantons together can also call a referendum on a federal law.
Not useless but harder to execute. Instead of laying off dev team they'll have to let them work away for awhile and then slowly kill them with corporate bureaucracy and politics. Once people start quitting put some more devs on the team and steer development in non-portable direction and fragment the market.
Some high profile projects are hard to buy, because they already in hands of IBM, Sun and other Microsoft archrivals.
Mozilla is a tad hard to buy out due to antitrust suit.
They can however wreck some havoc on medium sized projects with corporate backing. Then again if there is corporate backing already what stops those corporates from forking?
You realize that all non-removable media can be a single drive letter on Windows right? It's trivial to configure on win2k-XP Yeah, except for a small caveat that even Microsoft installers can't deal with it.
I had to go back to letters once Visual Studio 2005 refused to install claiming there is not enough space, while in fact there was plenty of space at the mount point where I wanted it to install, but it stubbornly insisted for checking space at the root.
Anyone who had programed complex systems would tell you that it overcomplicates a lot of logic.
Just one example -- I used to work for energy trading company (think gas, power, oil, etc).
We had a datastructure for storing actual gas flow hour by hour. Guess what, it is an array with 24 entries, except for DST change days, when it can be 23 or 25. Thanks god we didn't operate in those backward off by hour and a half timezones.
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I used to be an H1B holder, and one day decided to switch employer and start working for startup. The visa transfer application has been filed, I quit my job and moved to startup, without waiting for application to be approved (which is legal, as transfer considered to be pure formality). Few months later my transfer application gets refused on the grounds that startup doesn't seem to have profits and may fire me. Thank you very much Department of Labor for firing me out of fear that my employer may fire me.
One can argue that its my fault, and I had to wait for transfer to get approved, but that's not the point. I knew that I was taking a risk, and was prepared, but to get refusal on such grounds? That's pretty lame.
Anyways, getting back on topic. Suppose I were the best developer in the company and in rough times company had to downsize, but they would like to keep me and get rid of some slackers, however some legislation wouldn't allow them to do so, so they have to fire me. I pack my stuff move back home, and then economy picks up, there is shortage of qualified people in US, and US companies start to bombard me with offers. Do you honestly believe I would go there again?
It is very shortsighted policy, you are risking to alienate the most qualified people. Way to go.
Another argument against it -- it is pretty much unenforcible. What will business do? They'll just create new entity and move all H1B holders they would like to keep to that new entity. Oh, big brother patches this loophole? Fine. They'll create an independent "consultancy" business and move all H1B holders there, and hire them as consultants. I am sure there are thousand tricks to work around such restrictions.
Depends on how you count. Use binary and you can count 2^10=1024 countries.
It would be nice to find a list of all major cities ranked by their pollution level. I would be curious to see NYC vs London vs Paris vs Tokyo vs Beijing.
You can do checkout-edit-checkin in SVN as well. That's what locks and svn:needs-lock property are for. See overview and details in official documentation.
Try http://eol.org/ not http://www.eol.org/. Yeah, how dumb is that? Could be a bug in their firefox support though.
3cm is NOT a good enough security. Imagine someone bumping into you on a crowded train and stealing all your photos, sensitive files from memory stick, etc.
How hard it is to strike down the law? If 50,000 citizens some petition or what not, would it be possible to hold a referendum?
The more you know, the more you understand how little you really know. I don't think we'll ever learn "origin and the end of all".
Looks like their domain has expired Nov 15th, the renewed, but haven't put the site back yet. Google cache still has their real home page, not much to see there though. http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:xKBxzHjlRfYJ:tigicorp.com/index.html+tigi+dram&hl=ru&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ru&client=firefox-a
How would they stop some dodgy Nigerian site from hosting Italian blog?
Not useless but harder to execute. Instead of laying off dev team they'll have to let them work away for awhile and then slowly kill them with corporate bureaucracy and politics. Once people start quitting put some more devs on the team and steer development in non-portable direction and fragment the market.
Some high profile projects are hard to buy, because they already in hands of IBM, Sun and other Microsoft archrivals.
Mozilla is a tad hard to buy out due to antitrust suit.
They can however wreck some havoc on medium sized projects with corporate backing. Then again if there is corporate backing already what stops those corporates from forking?
* 2347 - 1,9 GHz, $316
* 2350 - 2,0 GHz, $389
* 8347 - 1,9 GHz, $786
* 8350 - 2,0 GHz, $1019
* 2344 HE - 1,7 GHz, $209
* 2346 HE - 1,8 GHz, $255
* 2347 HE - 1,9 GHz, $377
* 8346 HE - 1,8 GHz, $698
* 8347 HE - 1,9 GHz, $873
Maybe because it is based on existing platform, while Apple has to get approval for brand new platform?
Just one example -- I used to work for energy trading company (think gas, power, oil, etc).
We had a datastructure for storing actual gas flow hour by hour. Guess what, it is an array with 24 entries, except for DST change days, when it can be 23 or 25. Thanks god we didn't operate in those backward off by hour and a half timezones.