> All the Indian programmers I have worked with have been above average (and some spectacularly so). I totally agree with this book's author that they contribute more than they take away - but H1-B visas ARE the first step to immigration.
I'm a naturalized US citizen, an immigrant. H1-B visas are not immigration visas, and corporations don't look forward to help their H1-B's become citizens.
I have no problem with immigration, but I do have problem when companies use these visas for temporary work that could be done here. H1-B's are not generating many US citizens, which if they did, they'd be great. I'm all for brain draining other countries.
> All the Indian programmers I have worked with have been above average (and some spectacularly so).
They're human being, like most people, there are great ones and there are extremely crappy ones. I haven't found any Computer Science "gene" yet that says what nationality can come up with an algorithm best.
The system comes partially charged. They don't even indicate if they gave it a full charge, and maximum brightness is not a reasonable comparision against something like the DS, because the other handheld doesn't have a screen that is backlight and that bright! C'mon.
They offer no details, and saying the game lasted between 90-3 hours is very strange. Why is the range so different, no details at all...
I've gone to a few PSP message boards to find out more info about the handheld and they're flooded with DS "fans" bad mouthing Sony's PSP. None of these people have even seen one of these machines in person btw. There are even fake photos and videos of defects!!!
While I'm sure there are true defects, the amount of misinformation out there by users it's incredible. I expect companies to lie about their and the competitors products, but not consumers!!! It's pretty sad when consumers have to do free advertising for multinational corporations.
There are many other numbers being posted on the web about the battery life. 90 seems too low, even IGN had it at higher than 2 hours, and others have it from 4-6. The key seems to be the brightness setting, and setting it to 100% is not a fair comparision as it's brighter than the other portables.
> What's so wrong about people seeking work that pays better than what they had originally? Just because they're of a different ethnicity than you, or they speak a different language, you think we should forbid them from coming here to work?
I'm of a different ethnicity and of a different language, an immigrant that is now a US citizen. Don't try to make this into a racial issue, it's not, and you know it.
Of course people in the country that is offshoring are going to complain, they're losing their livelihoods, what do you want them to do just accept until most professions can be done by slave labor?
I don't think anybody's concerned about indymedia. It's full of conspiracy theorists and out of the world wackos. The few serious posts made there are drowned by the insane lunatics who usually post there.
Indymedia discredits itself, it doesn't need to worry about any other org.
If there's to be a politics topic on slashdot, it should be related to policies and positions that have to do with technology.
Heck, an election night thread might be acceptable too, as that is a big event. But a story about a letter from Senator Feinstein from California, goodness gracious, that's pushing it a bit much now.
A monopoly in any market is bad for consumers, if one company dominates a market, they have no incentive to lower prices. Economics 101.
That there's Sony in there now, it's great news for everybody, except stockholders (either Sony's or Nintendo's). Again, you think the DS wasn't launched and priced like this as a response to the PSP? c'mon.
"The opinion has really shifted?". Opinion among who? The general public?
The only company that should be worried here is Nintendo. They came out dead last in the next gen console wars, and their prospects don't look great on the future console versions. They only market they dominate is the portable gaming one, and now the company that beat them before is joining in.
Sony should do well, but there's nothing from the DS that should really worry the PSP team. Just from the get go, people who already do portable gaming should buy these DS units. New people, that don't do portable gaming, will very likely go get a PSP because of the Playstation brand. When we see what the game libraries look like for both systems, we'll know who's going to win. As of now, I can see A LOT of games for the PSP, where's the lineup for the DS?
I find it interesting that a lot of gameboy fans on the internet are wishing for the PSP to fail. I'll never understand this mentality. A monopoly in any market is NEVER good, you can bet that the DS owes it's low price to the arrival of the PSP, and right there if you are a DS fan you should be happy for the new competition.
I'm surprised to see this article here, the Washington Times is about as reputable as the National Enquirer. I have no idea if the story is true or not, but I'm to the point with the "Times" that I just dismiss anything that was written by it's reporters.
And let's not forget who the bizarre owner of this "news source" is, isn't he claiming to be God incarnate?
The new search bar is perfect, I was plesantly surprised when I saw it. I guess it would be nice to have some attention grabbing animation so that it's a bit more noticable, but this is so much better than the horrible search dialog we've been used to.
... but also watch Episode 3. Most hard core whiners are just hypocrites looking for attention, but they'll buy buy buy and whine whine whine at the same time.
He had the most inane and illogical opinions, but I really enjoyed his articles because they just generated levels of flaming and hilarity that are classic on slashdot.
What happened to Katz? Why did he stop contributing to slashdot? Is he still talking about Columbine and geekdoom? Did he lear to use a computer?
I wish slashdot would post an interview with him, I predict record page hits!
Jon Katz we miss you, you sucked, but you are missed!
OK, so we had stun pilots training for 5 years, couldn't they dive in ala James Bond with their own parachutes, grab the capsule and use their own parachutes to slow down it's fall? I mean, if they get movie people, wouldn't it work like that in real life.
"I just wonder when Microsoft will try to say, "See? We are the innovators. Look at mono! They followed our.NET framework in a desperate attempt to copy it!" "
What in the world are you talking about??? That's exactly what they're trying to do! Duh!!!
I would say that most spyware out there is not even installed by a program with the permission of the user, but IE holes that allow websites to install crud.
> Aside from that, you can't really compare the JBoss/Tomcat servlet containers to.Net because it is comparing apples and oranges,
Let's compare apples to apples, let's talk about application servers.
J2EE is an appserver standard with multiple implementations, from open source ones to very expensive containers.
What's the standard for the.net "appserver"? What's the equivalent of a JCP / JSR in the.net world? How does the community drive the components and standards that go into.net?
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> All the Indian programmers I have worked with have been above average (and some spectacularly so). I totally agree with this book's author that they contribute more than they take away - but H1-B visas ARE the first step to immigration.
I'm a naturalized US citizen, an immigrant. H1-B visas are not immigration visas, and corporations don't look forward to help their H1-B's become citizens.
I have no problem with immigration, but I do have problem when companies use these visas for temporary work that could be done here. H1-B's are not generating many US citizens, which if they did, they'd be great. I'm all for brain draining other countries.
> All the Indian programmers I have worked with have been above average (and some spectacularly so).
They're human being, like most people, there are great ones and there are extremely crappy ones. I haven't found any Computer Science "gene" yet that says what nationality can come up with an algorithm best.
The system comes partially charged. They don't even indicate if they gave it a full charge, and maximum brightness is not a reasonable comparision against something like the DS, because the other handheld doesn't have a screen that is backlight and that bright! C'mon.
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They offer no details, and saying the game lasted between 90-3 hours is very strange. Why is the range so different, no details at all
> Because nobody resents new immigrants like old immigrants.
Repeat after me; H1-B != immigration
I've gone to a few PSP message boards to find out more info about the handheld and they're flooded with DS "fans" bad mouthing Sony's PSP. None of these people have even seen one of these machines in person btw. There are even fake photos and videos of defects!!!
While I'm sure there are true defects, the amount of misinformation out there by users it's incredible. I expect companies to lie about their and the competitors products, but not consumers!!! It's pretty sad when consumers have to do free advertising for multinational corporations.
There are many other numbers being posted on the web about the battery life. 90 seems too low, even IGN had it at higher than 2 hours, and others have it from 4-6. The key seems to be the brightness setting, and setting it to 100% is not a fair comparision as it's brighter than the other portables.
Why would not being able to use the old NA be a "flaw"??? It's integrated in the unit!
Do you own one of these, you seem to be awfully uninformed.
> What's so wrong about people seeking work that pays better than what they had originally? Just because they're of a different ethnicity than you, or they speak a different language, you think we should forbid them from coming here to work?
I'm of a different ethnicity and of a different language, an immigrant that is now a US citizen. Don't try to make this into a racial issue, it's not, and you know it.
Of course people in the country that is offshoring are going to complain, they're losing their livelihoods, what do you want them to do just accept until most professions can be done by slave labor?
I don't think anybody's concerned about indymedia. It's full of conspiracy theorists and out of the world wackos. The few serious posts made there are drowned by the insane lunatics who usually post there.
Indymedia discredits itself, it doesn't need to worry about any other org.
You mean Microsoft is not a monopoly because it has competition (Linux & Apple)?
You must have a new definition of the word.
Lingo has the "right" price, however I've heard their customer support is horrible. Have you had any experiences with their support?
What does this have to do with "news for nerds?"?
If there's to be a politics topic on slashdot, it should be related to policies and positions that have to do with technology.
Heck, an election night thread might be acceptable too, as that is a big event. But a story about a letter from Senator Feinstein from California, goodness gracious, that's pushing it a bit much now.
A monopoly in any market is bad for consumers, if one company dominates a market, they have no incentive to lower prices. Economics 101.
That there's Sony in there now, it's great news for everybody, except stockholders (either Sony's or Nintendo's). Again, you think the DS wasn't launched and priced like this as a response to the PSP? c'mon.
"The opinion has really shifted?". Opinion among who? The general public?
The only company that should be worried here is Nintendo. They came out dead last in the next gen console wars, and their prospects don't look great on the future console versions. They only market they dominate is the portable gaming one, and now the company that beat them before is joining in.
Sony should do well, but there's nothing from the DS that should really worry the PSP team. Just from the get go, people who already do portable gaming should buy these DS units. New people, that don't do portable gaming, will very likely go get a PSP because of the Playstation brand. When we see what the game libraries look like for both systems, we'll know who's going to win. As of now, I can see A LOT of games for the PSP, where's the lineup for the DS?
I find it interesting that a lot of gameboy fans on the internet are wishing for the PSP to fail. I'll never understand this mentality. A monopoly in any market is NEVER good, you can bet that the DS owes it's low price to the arrival of the PSP, and right there if you are a DS fan you should be happy for the new competition.
I'm surprised to see this article here, the Washington Times is about as reputable as the National Enquirer. I have no idea if the story is true or not, but I'm to the point with the "Times" that I just dismiss anything that was written by it's reporters.
And let's not forget who the bizarre owner of this "news source" is, isn't he claiming to be God incarnate?
Oh man, watching this live. For a while I thought this was going to be a disaster. Thankfully we all got it wrong.
It looked for a second there that there was going to be a disaster, it started rolling really fast ...
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Also, seems like they didn't get the altitude they wanted
The new search bar is perfect, I was plesantly surprised when I saw it. I guess it would be nice to have some attention grabbing animation so that it's a bit more noticable, but this is so much better than the horrible search dialog we've been used to.
... but also watch Episode 3. Most hard core whiners are just hypocrites looking for attention, but they'll buy buy buy and whine whine whine at the same time.
He had the most inane and illogical opinions, but I really enjoyed his articles because they just generated levels of flaming and hilarity that are classic on slashdot.
What happened to Katz? Why did he stop contributing to slashdot? Is he still talking about Columbine and geekdoom? Did he lear to use a computer?
I wish slashdot would post an interview with him, I predict record page hits!
Jon Katz we miss you, you sucked, but you are missed!
OK, so we had stun pilots training for 5 years, couldn't they dive in ala James Bond with their own parachutes, grab the capsule and use their own parachutes to slow down it's fall? I mean, if they get movie people, wouldn't it work like that in real life.
:-)
C'mon, NASA, get creative
"achademic"
Is that a new word for students of alchemy?
"I just wonder when Microsoft will try to say, "See? We are the innovators. Look at mono! They followed our .NET framework in a desperate attempt to copy it!" "
What in the world are you talking about??? That's exactly what they're trying to do! Duh!!!
I would say that most spyware out there is not even installed by a program with the permission of the user, but IE holes that allow websites to install crud.
Forgot to add a minor nitpick ...
> JBoss/Tomcat servlet
You probably already know this, but JBoss is way way way more than a servlet container.
> Aside from that, you can't really compare the JBoss/Tomcat servlet containers to .Net because it is comparing apples and oranges,
.net "appserver"? What's the equivalent of a JCP / JSR in the .net world? How does the community drive the components and standards that go into .net?
Let's compare apples to apples, let's talk about application servers.
J2EE is an appserver standard with multiple implementations, from open source ones to very expensive containers.
What's the standard for the