It looks like the judgement date should have been a few years later on the Ideosphere claim that demand for JavaScript programmers would overtake demand for Java programmers.
Where were the digerati futurists on this?
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Actually there is a real question of how much of the benefit really goes to consumers or the H-1b workers. I expect the lions share goes to the owners and managers of the companies in question. So the question becomes why are the owners and managers so much more important than the original tech workers?
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and the quality is _NEVER_ going to be there if companies like yours can pay folks in immigration rights instead of corporate cash. This is just a corporate welfare program.
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Actually, there _is_ a little matter of perjury to congress. We'll know the politicians are under serious heat when they start handling some of the more blatant cases of that which led up to H-1b expansion.
What I'd like to see here is a complete set of major milestones that would enable deployment of a Lunar Space Elevator.
Current estimates suggest that a space elevator will be deployed in 2045 or so. I lunar elevator could be done much sooner-and would have immediate practical value.
I understand the low end aspect of MySQL quite well. What I'm thinking is that eventually Postgresql or something like it will become an Oracle killer. Oracle has quite a few customers for whom their fees are _barely_ affordable. In fact, I think that is more the case with Oracle than even Microsoft.
I still tend to think that Oracle will be killed by Open Source before Microsoft is. Much of Oracle's revenue stream and prestige depends on the sale of their database server and their financial packages. Those all tend to be high ticket products. Linux could kill Unix because Unix implementations tended to be high end products. Now, Oracle may be able to slow things down a bit by messing with MySQL-still long term _someone_ will produce an open source database that is faster and more reliable than Oracle--and to which Oracle users can easily migrate.
Barrett isn't being paid to be a math/science wiz. He's being paid an absurd amount to be a businessman-and because he's making so much money, folks are trying to do something more similar to what he does rather than math and science. Hell, even the math and science folks that work form him are largely working to get their green cards-and the ones that aren't are very happy if the page Face Intel is any indication.
Anyhow, I covered the corporate welfare aspect of companies like Intel in this article.
I honestly doubt we really can have guys like Barrett running companies like Intel and really improve the math/science situation in the US. We need to rethink US immigration policy, money in politics and the whole set of intellectual property laws and the tendency for lawyers and CEO's to dominate the legislative process so.
"The year 1996 marked a milestone in the history of space transportation. According to a study led by the accounting firm KPMG Peat Marwick, that was when worldwide commercial revenues in space for the first time surpassed governments' spending on space, totaling some $77 billion."
There _is_ an economy in space-and its growing. Have a cheap source of materials to orbit would be a major infrastructure item. The US government isn't really relevant here. Hell, what happens if the Chinese yank Uncle Sam's credit card?
If the Chinese go to the moon, I don't think it will be just a publicity stunt-I expect they'll develop a real economic presence there. Stuff like a Lunar space elevator could be a highly profitable enterprise.
This may be what is needed to show just how short-sighted the folks running the US these days really are.
schooltool.org is a vertical market packaged aimed at school districts funded by Shuttleworth(yes that one). IMHO Technology can make various administrative and overhead costs much lower.
Just opening up the green card quote won't solve the problem. There are 5 billion people that live in countries poorer than Mexico-and a big chunk of Mexico's population would come to the US if they had the chance(and a lot are here already).
What Bill Gates wants are programmers that will work cheap-and kiss his ass-to get a green card. That green card would be worth $100K if it were available on the open market(that is what a girls family in India will pay him to get that green card). Until Gates has to pay that amount for a green card, this arrangement will still be a free ride for the likes of Gates.
Assuming that rockets are anything like the mechanical things that I understand (cars), this just isn't how you can go about these things -- you've got to settle on a promising, well thought-out design and then dedicate your efforts towards ironing out the kinks or you'll perpetually be just past "go".
Here's the thing: you understand cars. It took a lot of tries to get the first car engines working well-then afterwards folks could come in and look at what was done. When folks were doing the first cars, the whole methodology was _nothing_ like it is today. You had a lot of substantial projects that crashed/burned. Nobody really understands rockets. There are no commercially viable orbital launch systems-that is what Carmack is trying to create(God bless him). My sense is his approach is far more likely to create a commercially viable launch system than anything Nasa-or even the Russians are doing.
Science is not going to attract the best of the best (i.e. the folks that can do _anything_ they want) until : 1) pay is better 2) working conditions are better
Right now, working as a scientists means relatively low pay compared to a good actor, financier, lawyer or pro athlete-so if you can do those other things, you will.
Furthermore, working conditions are problematic. Look at what really successful guys like Kary Mullis and Philo Farnsworth have had to go through. Working for the army is especially bad: Put up with egotists barking orders and get paid beans.
National security of the US is doomed. These guys just don't get it.
Whoever forks over the $100 Million will get far more in $100 Million in publicity and media access.
Think about it, when you bring up the name "Shuttleworth" what do folks know about the guy? They know he was a space tourist and somehow technical. That kind of name recognition is valuable to folks that know how to use it.
Bill Gates did more to move US students away from technical education than anybody when he promoted the H-1b program. That program means that scientific and technical professionals are more exposed to competition from immigrants than any other skilled occuptation. The result has been that Americans move to occupations where they can earn a living.
There are additional costs besides the direct economic costs this paper focused on. For example, there are various costs and risks associated with having an insecure OS as an industry standard. Microsoft also imposes various costs on the US as a whole via its business practices. For example, Microsoft is an exceptionally large user of the H-1b/L-1 programs that allow them to pay employees by facilitating US immigration rights instead of paying cash. Microsoft and its partners can broadly affect prevailing wages using this practice. Microsoft is also a major political player. Much of its activity is focused on maintaining its monopoly position-but that political activity isn't limited to that area-and has other attendent side effects.
One thing that makes his case a little stronger: Windows was also greatly influenced under the skin by Dec VMS-the OS that was previously created by Cutler-the guy that later went to MS.
That said: I agree with a previous poster that the emergence of good VM's is what really promises to break open OS development again. We already have decent commercial VM's(VMware) and Xen. When Xen supports Windows, there will be a VERY compelling case for larger installations to use it.
Traditionally, fraud rings in Nigeria have operated with broad support from the government and the population. I wouldn't be surprised if the trials aren't in part a con to make it look like the government is getting serious about combattting fraud because the _real_ successful fraud artists are finding these small fry to be a problem.
These 419 letters are a small part of what operates out of Nigeria. Credit card fraud rings are also _really_ big there. The 419 letters are just what is visible to the public.
Ian(aka sanity) let me be blunt: You take wealth and property rights of the rich _much_ too seriously. If work can be done without creating enormously wealthy individuals, there is a big incentive to do so. H-1b in the US was largely a way to prop up wealthy interests(and was largely a creation of these absurd trade decifits the US has due to international currency arrangements).
H-1b never delivered on its promise to create jobs in the US. H-1b never had broad, popular support-it was a scam facilitated by the willingness of congresmen in the US to sell their offices.
You might want to read this article I wrote a while back.
Part of the issue: citizenship is a form of property right-like a share in a large condominium. Letting companies import workers in a specific profession dilutes the property rights of condo owners in that profession-and has the effect of letting employers pay in immigration rights rather than cash. The "market value" of an H-1b visa right now is around $50,000. If companies paid that in visa fees, there would be much less of an issue(also if the visas were up for public auction without being tied to a particular job/profession).
Now, that aside, I'm not sure if the move of countries like Canada to let folks essentially buy residency rights(i.e. by promising a certain level of investment) is a good idea. H-1b is nothing but a corporate welfare program though. Companies pay in green cards rather than cash. The real issue is why major companies are so dependent on these kinds of subsidies.
The job of the government isn't to enforce some kind of utopia property rights applicable only to the very wealthy. The job of the government is to create a situation in which the broad base of its citizens have decent life-while being a good "international citizen". The present US government isn't doing that job-and is in fact liquidating the assets of the broad base of citizens for the profit of wealthy elites(technies and African Americans have been among the hardest hit BTW).
Just FYI, the group among which immigration is the hottest issue according to Pew Research are the heavily black "Disadvantaged Democrats". The way immigration continues is massive buying of corrupt politicians. Most Americans want less immigration.
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More than that, Apache's market share is still growing-and Windows topped out sometwhere around 20%(depite some noise a few years ago).
should have been a few years later on the Ideosphere claim that demand
for JavaScript programmers would overtake demand for Java
programmers.
Where were the digerati futurists on this?
Actually there is a real question of how much of the benefit really goes to consumers or the H-1b workers. I expect the lions share goes to the owners and managers of the companies in question. So the question becomes why are the owners and managers so much more important than the original tech workers?
and the quality is _NEVER_ going to be there if companies like yours can pay folks in immigration rights instead of corporate cash. This is just a corporate welfare program.
Actually, there _is_ a little matter of perjury to congress. We'll know the politicians are under serious heat when they start handling some of the more blatant cases of that which led up to H-1b expansion.
Current estimates suggest that a space elevator will be deployed in 2045 or so. I lunar elevator could be done much sooner-and would have immediate practical value.
I understand the low end aspect of MySQL quite well. What I'm thinking is that eventually Postgresql or something like it will become an Oracle killer. Oracle has quite a few customers for whom their fees are _barely_ affordable. In fact, I think that is more the case with Oracle than even Microsoft.
I still tend to think that Oracle will be killed by Open Source before Microsoft is. Much of Oracle's revenue stream and prestige depends on the sale of their database server and their financial packages. Those all tend to be high ticket products. Linux could kill Unix because Unix implementations tended to be high end products. Now, Oracle may be able to slow things down a bit by messing with MySQL-still long term _someone_ will produce an open source database that is faster and more reliable than Oracle--and to which Oracle users can easily migrate.
Anyhow, I covered the corporate welfare aspect of companies like Intel in this article.
I honestly doubt we really can have guys like Barrett running companies like Intel and really improve the math/science situation in the US. We need to rethink US immigration policy, money in politics and the whole set of intellectual property laws and the tendency for lawyers and CEO's to dominate the legislative process so.
from Scientific American
"The year 1996 marked a milestone in the history of space transportation. According to a study led by the accounting firm KPMG Peat Marwick, that was when worldwide commercial revenues in space for the first time surpassed governments' spending on space, totaling some $77 billion."
There _is_ an economy in space-and its growing. Have a cheap source of materials to orbit would be a major infrastructure item. The US government isn't really relevant here. Hell, what happens if the Chinese yank Uncle Sam's credit card?
If the Chinese go to the moon, I don't think it will be just a publicity stunt-I expect they'll develop a real economic presence there. Stuff like a Lunar space elevator could be a highly profitable enterprise.
This may be what is needed to show just how short-sighted the folks running the US these days really are.
schooltool.org is a vertical market packaged aimed at school districts funded by Shuttleworth(yes that one). IMHO Technology can make various administrative and overhead costs much lower.
What Bill Gates wants are programmers that will work cheap-and kiss his ass-to get a green card. That green card would be worth $100K if it were available on the open market(that is what a girls family in India will pay him to get that green card). Until Gates has to pay that amount for a green card, this arrangement will still be a free ride for the likes of Gates.
Here's the thing: you understand cars. It took a lot of tries to get the first car engines working well-then afterwards folks could come in and look at what was done. When folks were doing the first cars, the whole methodology was _nothing_ like it is today. You had a lot of substantial projects that crashed/burned. Nobody really understands rockets. There are no commercially viable orbital launch systems-that is what Carmack is trying to create(God bless him). My sense is his approach is far more likely to create a commercially viable launch system than anything Nasa-or even the Russians are doing.
It also tells me many films are made to gratify managerial egos-rather than to actually make money.
Science is not going to attract the best of the best (i.e. the folks that can do _anything_ they want) until :
1) pay is better
2) working conditions are better
Right now, working as a scientists means relatively low pay compared to a good actor, financier, lawyer or pro athlete-so if you can do those other things, you will.
Furthermore, working conditions are problematic. Look at what really successful guys like Kary Mullis and Philo Farnsworth have had to go through. Working for the army is especially bad: Put up with egotists barking orders and get paid beans.
National security of the US is doomed. These guys just don't get it.
Whoever forks over the $100 Million will get far more in $100 Million in publicity and media access.
Think about it, when you bring up the name "Shuttleworth" what do folks know about the guy? They know he was a space tourist and somehow technical. That kind of name recognition is valuable to folks that know how to use it.
Bill Gates did more to move US students away from technical education than anybody when he promoted the H-1b program. That program means that scientific and technical professionals are more exposed to competition from immigrants than any other skilled occuptation. The result has been that Americans move to occupations where they can earn a living.
There are additional costs besides the direct economic costs this paper focused on. For example, there are various costs and risks associated with having an insecure OS as an industry standard. Microsoft also imposes various costs on the US as a whole via its business practices. For example, Microsoft is an exceptionally large user of the H-1b/L-1 programs that allow them to pay employees by facilitating US immigration rights instead of paying cash. Microsoft and its partners can broadly affect prevailing wages using this practice. Microsoft is also a major political player. Much of its activity is focused on maintaining its monopoly position-but that political activity isn't limited to that area-and has other attendent side effects.
One thing that makes his case a little stronger:
Windows was also greatly influenced under the skin by Dec VMS-the OS that was previously created by Cutler-the guy that later went to MS.
That said:
I agree with a previous poster that the emergence of good VM's is what really promises to break open OS development again. We already have decent commercial VM's(VMware) and Xen. When Xen supports Windows, there will be a VERY compelling case for larger installations to use it.
I agree-this one is really rather nice.
Tell that to the Japanese and for that matter the Koreans and Taiwanese.
Traditionally, fraud rings in Nigeria have operated with broad support from the government and the population. I wouldn't be surprised if the trials aren't in part a con to make it look like the government is getting serious about combattting fraud because the _real_ successful fraud artists are finding these small fry to be a problem.
These 419 letters are a small part of what operates out of Nigeria. Credit card fraud rings are also _really_ big there. The 419 letters are just what is visible to the public.
Ian(aka sanity) let me be blunt:
You take wealth and property rights of the rich _much_ too seriously. If work can be done without creating enormously wealthy individuals, there is a big incentive to do so. H-1b in the US was largely a way to prop up wealthy interests(and was largely a creation of these absurd trade decifits the US has due to international currency arrangements).
H-1b never delivered on its promise to create jobs in the US. H-1b never had broad, popular support-it was a scam facilitated by the willingness of congresmen in the US to sell their offices.
You might want to read this article I wrote a while back.
Part of the issue:
citizenship is a form of property right-like a share in a large condominium. Letting companies import workers in a specific profession dilutes the property rights of condo owners in that profession-and has the effect of letting employers pay in immigration rights rather than cash. The "market value" of an H-1b visa right now is around $50,000. If companies paid that in visa fees, there would be much less of an issue(also if the visas were up for public auction without being tied to a particular job/profession).
Now, that aside, I'm not sure if the move of countries like Canada to let folks essentially buy residency rights(i.e. by promising a certain level of investment) is a good idea. H-1b is nothing but a corporate welfare program though. Companies pay in green cards rather than cash. The real issue is why major companies are so dependent on these kinds of subsidies.
The job of the government isn't to enforce some kind of utopia property rights applicable only to the very wealthy. The job of the government is to create a situation in which the broad base of its citizens have decent life-while being a good "international citizen". The present US government isn't doing that job-and is in fact liquidating the assets of the broad base of citizens for the profit of wealthy elites(technies and African Americans have been among the hardest hit BTW).
Just FYI, the group among which immigration is the hottest issue according to Pew Research are the heavily black "Disadvantaged Democrats". The way immigration continues is massive buying of corrupt politicians. Most Americans want less immigration.