When some of us look at a car/truck/suv whatever,
we don't just look at 0 to 60 times, we also look
at quarter mile, RPM, horsepower, torque etc. So
why not make Winmarks/Whetstones (slashstones?)
the main measurement?
Change the very basis of comparisons. Why are
consumers so myopic as to look at MHz ratings but
not MFLOPS or something else?
Good people are always in short supply. Are there H1B types that are bettern than the average American developer - of course there are! However, that isn't the full story.
Firstly, the major reason that companies want to use H1B types is not for the good developers, but for the cheaper developers. I read somewhere that two thirds of the H1B applications are from 3 companies (e.g. Tata in India with a presence stateside). That's a form of oligopoly there. Their clients are not the smaller companies or startup shops that want good skills. Their clients are the Fortune 1000 that want lots of average developers at below average costs.
These developers get paid half of American developers sometimes and few benefits besides. The middleman charges only 2/3 of what it would cost the Fortune 1000 company to pay an American resident (citizen or permanent resident) and usually the middleman's contract with the import employee is that he cannot quit and cannot work for any other company in the United States for some period of time after completion of the contract.
This situation is the single situation IMHO that will create the high tech union if any. Help these H1Bs get their rights (including freedom to switch jobs and equitable salaries) etc and you will see the demand for additional H1Bs go down as well as less American residents losing their jobs.
H1B? Sure, I support them. I have known lots of friends that have H1Bs. Here are the facts as I know them:
1. There is no guarantee that H1Bs will get green cards - a process where some may get them does exist but they are not "owed" them in any way.
2. H1B is less mobile than a green card.
3. H1B visa holders run the whole spectrum from the incompetent to the brilliant where tech skills are concerned.
4. Sure, the INS is not the fastest bureaucracy in the world - hence a certain presidential candidate trying to make it an issue.
5. 50 to 60 percent of H1B applications come from 3 companies - yes - they are middlemen that want to be the bodyshop of Fortune 1000 companies that need tech skills. There is a SYSTEM here folks of companies that use H1B and it isn't for the small startup. One of the companies is named TATA. Check them out. Some of these companies recruit from India under Indian contract law - making sure that these H1B workers do not quit their H1B for another company once stateside since their contract disallows it. They are also prevented from working for a U.S. company under that contract after the completion of the first contract for a period of some years.
I have no problem with H1B people. I do have a problem with companies that use the system and the large bodyshops to _reduce_ cost of labor. To all small companies that hire two or three or even ten H1B people - fine! To the Fortune 1000s that get the middlemen to supply tech skills of a 100 workers at 75% the cost of U.S. labor, I have a problem. The workers themselves get 50% of U.S. rates.
Funny ideas you have there. Here's a few more for you to consider:
The Swiss all have fully automatic M16s and a can (hundreds if not a thousand rounds) of ammo at home due to their military reserve duty. Availability of guns and ammo is surely not a problem there.
Guns have been available since before the founding of this country. Full automatics were available for anyone to purchase over the counter or even mail order with no age limits prior to 1934. Semi autos were available over the counter and through mail order until 1968. Yet through all that time, crimes where kids kill kids in school were quite rare - yet ammo and guns were fully available to them.
There are very few games if any that I have seen that actually make someone more accurate at shooting a real gun. Simulators are a different thing - but I believe that most of them put a real feeling gun in your hand. The N64 interface isn't going to make a better shooter out of a Marine.
I'd suggest that you look at other causes rather than availability of ammo and guns.
If it is legal to have a car with pointy spikes in the front then it should be legal for pedestrians to have defensive measures - how about something just as "offensive"? Or they could start carrying armor...
Where does that leave those that write assemblers, compilers, interpreters, open up APIs (OS or network protocols especially), publish bug reports that could be exploited etc? These are just tools - just as Chicago Cutlery's products or Baseball Slugger's - those that misuse knowledge and software and tools to commit a crime are the one's responsible.
Backups! Stick tape in. Cron job. Forget! Right? WRONG!
Facts: 1. It usually takes longer to restore than it takes to backup. 2. It usually takes longer to backup a 1GB DB than a 1 GB unix file (assuming online backups). 3. It usually takes a lot longer to restore a 1GB DB than a 1 GB unix file (due to transactions, logging, pages, indexes etc)
Do yourself a favor and when your site gets big enough that it would really hurt if it went down and you need to do a restore - spend some time and find out how long it takes to restore. I'll bet that you'll be surprised.
Secondly, when evaluating tape drives - be extremely skeptical about their performance claims when the real world problems hit. I've had DB restores take two to three times longer than similarly sized unix file systems which were still no faster than half the advertised read speeds.
Suggestion: Look into 8mm Mammoth, AIT and DLT7000 formats. Some people like the Onstream and VXA formats too but I have no experience with them.
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When some of us look at a car/truck/suv whatever,
we don't just look at 0 to 60 times, we also look
at quarter mile, RPM, horsepower, torque etc. So
why not make Winmarks/Whetstones (slashstones?)
the main measurement?
Change the very basis of comparisons. Why are
consumers so myopic as to look at MHz ratings but
not MFLOPS or something else?
Good people are always in short supply. Are there H1B types that are bettern than the average American developer - of course there are! However, that isn't the full story.
Firstly, the major reason that companies want to use H1B types is not for the good developers, but for the cheaper developers. I read somewhere that two thirds of the H1B applications are from 3 companies (e.g. Tata in India with a presence stateside). That's a form of oligopoly there. Their clients are not the smaller companies or startup shops that want good skills. Their clients are the Fortune 1000 that want lots of average developers at below average costs.
These developers get paid half of American developers sometimes and few benefits besides. The middleman charges only 2/3 of what it would cost the Fortune 1000 company to pay an American resident (citizen or permanent resident) and usually the middleman's contract with the import employee is that he cannot quit and cannot work for any other company in the United States for some period of time after completion of the contract.
This situation is the single situation IMHO that will create the high tech union if any. Help these H1Bs get their rights (including freedom to switch jobs and equitable salaries) etc and you will see the demand for additional H1Bs go down as well as less American residents losing their jobs.
H1B? Sure, I support them. I have known lots of friends that have H1Bs. Here are the facts as I know them:
1. There is no guarantee that H1Bs will get green cards - a process where some may get them does exist but they are not "owed" them in any way.
2. H1B is less mobile than a green card.
3. H1B visa holders run the whole spectrum from the incompetent to the brilliant where tech skills are concerned.
4. Sure, the INS is not the fastest bureaucracy in the world - hence a certain presidential candidate trying to make it an issue.
5. 50 to 60 percent of H1B applications come from 3 companies - yes - they are middlemen that want to be the bodyshop of Fortune 1000 companies that need tech skills. There is a SYSTEM here folks of companies that use H1B and it isn't for the small startup. One of the companies is named TATA. Check them out. Some of these companies recruit from India under Indian contract law - making sure that these H1B workers do not quit their H1B for another company once stateside since their contract disallows it. They are also prevented from working for a U.S. company under that contract after the completion of the first contract for a period of some years.
I have no problem with H1B people. I do have a problem with companies that use the system and the large bodyshops to _reduce_ cost of labor. To all small companies that hire two or three or even ten H1B people - fine! To the Fortune 1000s that get the middlemen to supply tech skills of a 100 workers at 75% the cost of U.S. labor, I have a problem. The workers themselves get 50% of U.S. rates.
All right. Here's the link with guns and Jews and the 1930s. Get an education!
http://www.jpfo.org/genocide.htm
Funny ideas you have there. Here's a few more for you to consider:
The Swiss all have fully automatic M16s and a can (hundreds if not a thousand rounds) of ammo at home due to their military reserve duty. Availability of guns and ammo is surely not a problem there.
Guns have been available since before the founding of this country. Full automatics were available for anyone to purchase over the counter or even mail order with no age limits prior to 1934. Semi autos were available over the counter and through mail order until 1968. Yet through all that time, crimes where kids kill kids in school were quite rare - yet ammo and guns were fully available to them.
There are very few games if any that I have seen that actually make someone more accurate at shooting a real gun. Simulators are a different thing - but I believe that most of them put a real feeling gun in your hand. The N64 interface isn't going to make a better shooter out of a Marine.
I'd suggest that you look at other causes rather than availability of ammo and guns.
If it is legal to have a car with pointy spikes in the front then it should be legal for pedestrians to have defensive measures - how about something just as "offensive"? Or they could start carrying armor...
Where does that leave those that write assemblers, compilers, interpreters, open up APIs (OS or network protocols especially), publish bug reports that could be exploited etc? These are just tools - just as Chicago Cutlery's products or Baseball Slugger's - those that misuse knowledge and software and tools to commit a crime are the one's responsible.
Backups! Stick tape in. Cron job. Forget! Right? WRONG!
Facts:
1. It usually takes longer to restore than it takes to backup.
2. It usually takes longer to backup a 1GB DB than a 1 GB unix file (assuming online backups).
3. It usually takes a lot longer to restore a 1GB DB than a 1 GB unix file (due to transactions, logging, pages, indexes etc)
Do yourself a favor and when your site gets big enough that it would really hurt if it went down and you need to do a restore - spend some time and find out how long it takes to restore. I'll bet that you'll be surprised.
Secondly, when evaluating tape drives - be extremely skeptical about their performance claims when the real world problems hit. I've had DB restores take two to three times longer than similarly sized unix file systems which were still no faster than half the advertised read speeds.
Suggestion: Look into 8mm Mammoth, AIT and DLT7000 formats. Some people like the Onstream and VXA formats too but I have no experience with them.