Let's be clear here. We are talking about H1B program, not outsourcing. Companies outsource entire department to save costs, because they can pay less to equivalent workers overseas. On the other hand, when sponsoring a H1B visa, the employer has to show that the guest worker gets the prevailing wage, on par with all the "similarly qualified" U.S. citizens in the same business. On top of that, the government increases the application fee every now and then to make it costlier to hire H1B workers. In general, it's actually more expensive and difficult to hire a truly qualified H1B employee. Nobody would hire a permanent employee holding H1B visa unless they can't find anyone else equally competent. If anything they've probably already prioritized the H1B holders in their layoff plan, because it makes business sense.
So a student would fail the class if he/she didn't take complete notes? That's just nuts. I, for one, never took ANY serious notes of ANY class, during my entire school education including doctorate classes. It tends to take away my focus and hinders my active thinking. Not taking notes also means that I don't need to review them, and the saved time can be spent on studying the actual damn textbooks. I always find it ironic that those instructors who are meticulous about their class notes usually can't teach any new ideas beyond what is in the textbook.
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For a fan like me, this is still a pretty obscure stargate reference. You must have spent many many sleepless nights appreciating Amanda Tapping's acting.
I would say it's much easier for Google to implement some kind of fact check for their automated news. They are only putting up about 20, 30 pieces at each given time, and it won't be too hard for a group of people to manually trace back the news crawling routes and proofread each one quickly. The job would probably suck big time but hey it's Google, I'm sure they will pay well.
It sounds like some kind of clustering algorithm, which is nothing new in the field of genetic data mining. Nothing to do with a bloodbath, just a "pool" of data in the database sense.
This is old news. There were already some discussions regarding this on various Chinese forums. People have dug up webpages showing reports of her age as 14, all coming from the same source, namingly the "6-city competition". Insiders said it's actually the local gymnastics team which He belongs to that forged her age as 14, in order to get the highly skilled olympian into this event,which has a underage group meant for young gymnastists under 15.
Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see how this new discovery of hidden spreadsheets is going to fit in the story.
Blah blah blah, it's all good and noble. But did the Chinese wipe out the entire native population of a continent and then express their gratitudes every winter by slaughtering millions of big birds?
The native American tribes have their own land and can make their own laws, appropriately after 90% of their population having been wiped out and the rest of it squeezed into small packs of barren lands.There, fixed it for you. Talking about hypocrisy.
Perhaps the government of China doesn't want his citizens to see how their fellow Chinese were beaten up by the tibetian mob, in order to avoid further public uproars?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmqWRoZaFMk
I see a possible solution to the energy problem, and the developed world's obesity problem: free liposuction for everyone and turn that fat into biofuels! There's one problem though. According to my wife, who used to major in biochemical engineering, the technology to convert animal fat into fuels is just not there yet. Another possible solution that may be less efficient is to hook a generator to every freaking treadmill and stationary bike. Turn your fat into energy and stay away from foreign oil!
If I understand the concept correctly, this combined with headtracking (the Wii guy?) will revolutionize the gaming world. Of course there's a fat chance I didn't get it at all, 'coz I don't have the time to read TFA at work...
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Let's be clear here. We are talking about H1B program, not outsourcing. Companies outsource entire department to save costs, because they can pay less to equivalent workers overseas. On the other hand, when sponsoring a H1B visa, the employer has to show that the guest worker gets the prevailing wage, on par with all the "similarly qualified" U.S. citizens in the same business. On top of that, the government increases the application fee every now and then to make it costlier to hire H1B workers. In general, it's actually more expensive and difficult to hire a truly qualified H1B employee. Nobody would hire a permanent employee holding H1B visa unless they can't find anyone else equally competent. If anything they've probably already prioritized the H1B holders in their layoff plan, because it makes business sense.
So a student would fail the class if he/she didn't take complete notes? That's just nuts. I, for one, never took ANY serious notes of ANY class, during my entire school education including doctorate classes. It tends to take away my focus and hinders my active thinking. Not taking notes also means that I don't need to review them, and the saved time can be spent on studying the actual damn textbooks. I always find it ironic that those instructors who are meticulous about their class notes usually can't teach any new ideas beyond what is in the textbook.
For a fan like me, this is still a pretty obscure stargate reference. You must have spent many many sleepless nights appreciating Amanda Tapping's acting.
I would say it's much easier for Google to implement some kind of fact check for their automated news. They are only putting up about 20, 30 pieces at each given time, and it won't be too hard for a group of people to manually trace back the news crawling routes and proofread each one quickly. The job would probably suck big time but hey it's Google, I'm sure they will pay well.
It sounds like some kind of clustering algorithm, which is nothing new in the field of genetic data mining. Nothing to do with a bloodbath, just a "pool" of data in the database sense.
I'm a Ph.D. and never bother to read the privacy policies. Life is too short for that. Besides not all Ph.D.s can read.
So the only non-US slashdotter who answered a question about the world's reaction to this scandal is "troll"?
This is old news. There were already some discussions regarding this on various Chinese forums. People have dug up webpages showing reports of her age as 14, all coming from the same source, namingly the "6-city competition". Insiders said it's actually the local gymnastics team which He belongs to that forged her age as 14, in order to get the highly skilled olympian into this event,which has a underage group meant for young gymnastists under 15. Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see how this new discovery of hidden spreadsheets is going to fit in the story.
Noooooo, a slashdotter USES WINDOWS????
Look at my shiny new Tesla! Oops, it's 110 miles away from my garage already, gotta turn around...
Because hearing the same nonsense a thousand times and more is very, very annoying! Remember the M$ clippy?
Blah blah blah, it's all good and noble. But did the Chinese wipe out the entire native population of a continent and then express their gratitudes every winter by slaughtering millions of big birds?
The native American tribes have their own land and can make their own laws, appropriately after 90% of their population having been wiped out and the rest of it squeezed into small packs of barren lands.There, fixed it for you. Talking about hypocrisy.
Perhaps the government of China doesn't want his citizens to see how their fellow Chinese were beaten up by the tibetian mob, in order to avoid further public uproars? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmqWRoZaFMk
Well million is still a quite big number. I mean you could hold the world ransom for... ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
I always think they should have issued a health warning for desktop tower defense, that thing is killing me.
I see a possible solution to the energy problem, and the developed world's obesity problem: free liposuction for everyone and turn that fat into biofuels! There's one problem though. According to my wife, who used to major in biochemical engineering, the technology to convert animal fat into fuels is just not there yet. Another possible solution that may be less efficient is to hook a generator to every freaking treadmill and stationary bike. Turn your fat into energy and stay away from foreign oil!
I can't believe you didn't mention anything sex related.
And with that settled, we can now welcome Jesus Christ the true overlord?
Isn't Hacking the phone against one's will sort of like torturing people for incriminating information?
If I understand the concept correctly, this combined with headtracking (the Wii guy?) will revolutionize the gaming world. Of course there's a fat chance I didn't get it at all, 'coz I don't have the time to read TFA at work...