To start with I know little about how the INTEL works (only what I have been told). From my vantage point there has to be built in instruction in the chip in order to really run SAFELY (more in a sentence or two). What has been ingrained in me was that the chip MUST have the ability to serialize any storage. That is if cpu is running thread a and cpu b is running a different thread and one (or both) need to update a storage location they must serialize on it or the other system could (and does) update the same location at the *SAME* time. The first thread (if no serialization takes place) moves a "B" to say location 4096 (any storage location this is an example) meanwhile the second location moves a "C" to the same location (it happens *OFTEN*) so the first thread gets control and checks to see what is in location 4096 and suddenly it was "C" there. It had moved a "B" there in the last instruction why isn't it B ? Then the program gets confused as what should have been there isn't. It could (depending on how the architecture is) sit there either in a never ending wait or a loop. Oh yes BTW the cpu has to flush the cpu's instruction buffer or things could really get bollixed up. I know this is an extremely simplified example but the chip has to do these in order not to create invalid output. The more threads that run simultaneously the more the chip has to be multi cpu aware *AND* can serialize update to storage across CPU's. I have seen many a programming issue that do not use the correct instructions for serializing storage. And it is a PITA to debug (almost impossible) unless everyone agree to use the correct serialization instructions all bets are off, IMO.
That is part of the issue with INTEL is that their chips are not really set to run at 100 percent . Some manufactures chips and OS are designed for thruput and to run at 100 percent (all the time) so they are efficient. They also use computer resources wisely and give a lot more bang to the buck than INTEL.
Believe or not there are studies that show (not in a VM environment) that the practical #'s of CP's limit is around 15. The curve just about goes flat at that time and stay that way no matter how many cp's you add (assuming non VM). The speed is there but sooner or later you have to use another CP for *SOMETHING* and there goes thru put. I am not familiar with how INTEL has its instruction buffers and the logic they employ to decode the instructions and address's but *IF* they do not do a good job in second guessing the next instruction that is coming up aqain the speed in the world will not help you if you have to flush the instruction buffer
Your premise is incorrect (about Cambridge). Think of the INTERNET as a chord that is pretty much infinitely long. You can be pretty much be anywhere to do the research. Now I am not saying they are doing a good job or a bad job, but I would definitely be cautious of *ANY* private firm giving data to the government. They have their own baggage and they could shutdown Britain's access to the Internet.
Well they do take a long term look at Bonuses for their exec's now don't they? And we are paying for their bonuses with TARP money. So I guess they do long term for some thing (like Bonuses ) but not customers.
Interesting item about Dell. The story I can tell occurred in 1995ish time frame. I needed additional memory for my Dell PC. I called up Dell and gave them the model # and expected an instant quote. No sir, not only did I have to give them the model number I had to give them a date as well as they didn't know what memory they put in that model except by date. I had the serial number Dell should have been able to tell by that as well, but apparently not.
I had to hang up the phone and go over to the PC and get the date on the back of the PC. The company was replacing all their computers with DELL. I raised a stink and got them to back down.
The company was screwed up enough to have something like this happen would have raised the heat level several degrees. I left the company about 6 months later and the company fired its IT manager and promoted from within. I honestly thought that was a mistake as the person promoted was a political person like you have ever seen. I was glad to be out of the nut house.
When I was in college a "roommate" stole my wallet. I did not notice it until the next day. Needless to say he went on a crime spree and used my ID. Approximately 3 months later the FBI comes looking for me and I talk with them and I assure them I was not in this state or that state and that I was attending school and working on the dates in question. I get the bank (where I worked) to cough up my records and that proves to the FBI that I am not the person. Fast forward 40 years and I file an FOI with the FBI to see what information they had on me and they came back ZIPPO. I was wanted in at least 3 states and the FBI tracked me down, yet they have zero on me. Me thinks the FBI has a poor memory.
Yea RIGHT....... when has MS EVER thoroughly tested *ANYTHING* ???
They end up fixing bugs and forgetting to pick up the fixes for the last bug. I know large corporations (LIKE MS, IBM and others) have issues with items like this but at least IBM almost never (1 in 10,000 roughly) drops a previous fix. If IBM can do a good job why can't MS?
OK, now this is *OLD* information. I was in the Army over in Germany. At that time I was doing a reasonably tech job on the Mainframe. I was constantly harassed by the company commander for stupid things like the small minded military wants to do. I was also in a position that I could make decisions that no one (well almost no one could call me on). One time I had to halt production of the Army system on supplies for all of Europe because of an error that I caught. Essentially any orders for supplies would not have happened if I had not caught this error. I was able to fix the problem (after explaining it to the officer on duty in simple terms). At the time I was on duty for 12 hours off for 12 hours etc etc 7 days a week. The next morning I had to defend my actions in front of a Full Colonel and a bunch of his subordinates. They were totally in the dark as to the technical issue that prevented the production system from going forward. I had to explain it at least 3 times and even then they did not have a clue. I called my boss into the meeting and he backed me up. The people in the meeting were all officers and some enlisted personal (none of the enlisted had a clue either). I also explained why we had to rerun a portion of production to make sure this one file was correct so it could be used by the following production jobs. That helped out a little but they were still somewhat suspicious of me. AFter that they had an officer look over my shoulder to make sure they could understand what was going on. The next night one of the production jobs crashed. I was looking through the core dump and every time I looked at something I had to explain to the officer what I was doing and why. AFter two minutes the officer could not follow what I was doing and why I was doing this. I figured out what the problem was in about 20 minutes (garbage in a file). I talked over the phone with the programmer and explained what I did and how I found the error. I suggested he fix his program by testing for valid numerics. I told him where in the program he needed to do this check and he concurred and I recompiled the program and I put in a temporary production fix and reran the job and it worked. All in the matter of 45 minutes. The officer that was assigned to look over my shoulder the next morning went straight into the colonels office and explained what I had done. The colonel called me in and I explained to him what I had found and how I fixed it. His eyes glazed over after 3 or so minutes as he could not follow what I had done at all. AFter that they turned off the officer and they did not try and screw me over with military crap. One thing that an officer did try was to screw up by early out. He cancelled my orders because they could not find a replacement. I found out about it and (long story deleted)and got the orders re cut. This time I got a copy of the orders before they knew about them and was on my way to Frankfurt before they knew I was legally gone.
Fringe was the strangest show I ever tried to watch. I liked it but you could never get an idea where the show was going. One episode it was a drug company doing something bad (but they never admitted to it) the next show was totally off the grid then... then... it was way to confusing (in not a nice way either) I liked some of the characters a little but you were never quite sure if the characters were the bad guys or not. The big corporation was a far too easy cop out but with all the crazy conspiracies going on it was really tough to get a handle on anything. Yet it was worth watching (most of the time) the father was really scary almost to the point where he might have been part of the bad guys.
Chuckle I love stories like that. I served in Germany back in the early 70's. Our base was 50 percent computer and 50 paper shufflers. We regularly had Soviet Vehicles camped right by the gate trying to eves drop on what as going on inside our base. We also had a nuclear base down the road a bit. AFAIK we never talked with the base although from time to time you would see the personal in the PX. We supposedly handled top secret information from time to time and I had to get a TS clearance to look problems that contained classified top secret data. Once I was looking through a problem I saw the number of tanks at each base in Germany. I did travel quite a bit and was always observing military items along the autobahn. I dug back into my memory and I came up with the number of tanks at this one base and guess what I counted the same exact number that were parked along side the autobahn. I chuckled and told an officer about the numbers. I do not think anything came out of it as a month later I was riding along in the same area and the numbers had not changed. We were a HQ with a few outposts scattered over Germany and England. One time I had to play army overnight and the captain was given a list of places he had to call to get situation reports. An officer at the other end of the phone gave a report that indicated they were under nuclear attack no matter what the captain did he could not get him to change his status. I drove the captain to the General's house and he had to come back with us. I have not heard more choice words coming out of General's mouth before or after. I ran into the captain a few months later and the person on the other end of the phone was literally transfered to the Aleutians the next week.
And to add shame to it we have politicians like BLAGO. I suppose he will be the replacement for Al Capone.
I used to live over in Germany in a really small town (if you blink you missed it). The mother of the owner that shared the house, she was sure we were going to gun her down with machine guns. I could not convince her otherwise.
Can you imagine a being in a position where a governor brings so much disgrace that you are saddled internationally with shame for the next hundred years? Will the same the same thing happen because of the Bush regime? I will not go over seas again as I might be accused of being a Bush supporter, YIKES!
Are you employed by Microsoft? It certainly sounds like it so what are few thousand system crashes hey its "personal computer" we do not care about stinking thousands (millions). We are MS and WE know what is best for everyone. Sounds a little like the Borg We know what is best for you. How would you like to receive a death penalty and it was based on data from a electronic voting machine that people voted the death by execution. Wouldn't you want *EXACT* numbers and hey so what if it was off by a "few" percentage points. What is the difference between 50 and say 51 percent, then you might want to worry about the 1 or 2 or 3 percent a LOT.
Not that this is a valid comparison but its along similar lines. The infamous chad debacle in Florida is but one example or the number of elections that were lost by 1 or 2 (or more) percent.
I think you have a perspective that a lot of people have in that its not important until in impacts "me".
OK enough is enough. Gay people do *NOT* repeat do *NOT* try to convert straight people. There are straight people out there (ex-gays) that think they can convert gay people into straight people and it has been proven not to work. IIRC the American Psychiatric Association came to this conclusion years ago. What *MAY* happen if a so called straight person finally recognizes he/she is a gay person that is NOT recruiting.
There you go speaking for the religious type people. They can and do exercise their right to free speech through various church groups. If they want to stand on the out side of my house and scream kill all gay people that just makes them look like jerks that they really are. The religious people sort of remind me of early NAZI Germany in a way they yell in beer halls and force people to think their way. Then they go on to the concentration camps. Remember Germany was a religious country before the NAZI's came along. Besides hurting Jews they also had multiple targets like gypsy's and gay people. All of them were sent off to the concentration camps to be murdered.
The nice thing about this country is if you do not like some one you do not have to talk with them. If people find gay people offensive then just do not talk with them. The same can be said for any minority.
Sexual orientation is a private item, if people want to share this it is certainly there right to, I do not see anything wrong with this at any age.
OK I do not know zero about XBOX, but just as a guess it is in the 10-14 year old age group. They are certainly should be mature enough to understand what GAY or LESBIAN means, if not they should be able to research it either on the Internet or various books. Hopefully the parents have around had a talk with them about these matters. Even if you are talking about a 6 year old child (I question the adult giving them access to mature games) but children are capable to lightly understand sex topics. Gay & Lesbian might be a little bit over the typical 6 year old player but they should have a concept or a person they can ask questions of at *ANY* age.
Massive may have been a bit over stated but I can tell you that in my area of speciality the people who cannot find jobs are 95+ percent of the people cannot find jobs. From one or two close friends one went to work for Obama and the other is working in home inspection. They have looked and looked and there is ZERO jobs out there. I know back in 1992 I hunted for 6 months and then got two job offers the same day. One was out in AZ and they would not fly you out there to look. The other was in the far far suburbs. I took that only to find out that they were relocating in 6 months.
OK I am in a highly specialized field and the specialists (good anyway) are far and few in between. Most of the foreign people I have seen have not attempted to get into the field I am in, reason being you have to be first rate and you have to be able to handle company politics and be VERY aware of them. Sure there are some American types that shouldn't be in the same field and if they somehow wiggle their way into it you can spot them a mile away. The semi issue with foreign types is that you do not want to appear like you are out gunning for them. You just have to sit back and push a little here and there and they will be shown for what they are truly a person who is miles beyond their job description. You have to be adroit and let others pitch in but it generally takes a year to accomplish this. You also have to do it before their VISA is up so they do not get renewed. With Americans you let them hang themselves (giving them plenty of rope). It generally takes 1.5 years (or so) but it also doesn't help if your boss is also incompetent and that takes more rope and higher visibility before you can get them dismissed for cause. Sometimes just putting pressure on them to perform up to the same level as everyone else is enough, again it really depends.
To your last point the largest abuse of H1B (IMO) is in the I. T. industry. There is massive unemployment in a lot of positions just because of H1B. Most of the people I know have given up looking because of this abuse. There is also outsourcing(to other countries) which is a form of H1B. Look at it it is the same.
What is really funny in a way is that the PC people do not really have the foggiest what reliability is and what it takes to get it. The PC people think reboot is the answer all the time. The system shouldn't be designed this way it should be designed to stay up yet year after year they cannot come up with reasons and a way to get around the issue.
hmmmm... I have 30++ years experience in my job. I only need training for new things that are just being offered. So new in fact that the other country(ies) have not even gotten the code to get experienced on so why pray tell how does a foreign person get experience when it is not even available in their country yet? So is an employer supposed to train a foreign person as well (I get my training from the manufacturer that is not available elsewhere, at least in early release). Sorry the hiring of these foreign people at the expense of local talent rings as they say a might bit hollow. Plus there are items that need support that (sometimes) contain non-exportable code, so there is a slight catch 22 here.
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To start with I know little about how the INTEL works (only what I have been told).
From my vantage point there has to be built in instruction in the chip in order to really run SAFELY (more in a sentence or two). What has been ingrained in me was that the chip MUST have the ability to serialize any storage. That is if cpu is running thread a and cpu b is running a different thread and one (or both) need to update a storage location they must serialize on it or the other system could (and does) update the same location at the *SAME* time. The first thread (if no serialization takes place) moves a "B" to say location 4096 (any storage location this is an example) meanwhile the second location moves a "C" to the same location (it happens *OFTEN*) so the first thread gets control and checks
to see what is in location 4096 and suddenly it was "C" there. It had moved a "B" there in the last instruction why isn't it B ?
Then the program gets confused as what should have been there isn't. It could (depending on how the architecture is) sit there either in a never ending wait or a loop. Oh yes BTW the cpu has to flush the cpu's instruction buffer or things could really get bollixed up.
I know this is an extremely simplified example but the chip has to do these in order not to create invalid output. The more threads that run simultaneously the more the chip has to be multi cpu aware *AND* can serialize update to storage across CPU's.
I have seen many a programming issue that do not use the correct instructions for serializing storage. And it is a PITA to debug (almost impossible) unless everyone agree to use the correct serialization instructions all bets are off, IMO.
That is part of the issue with INTEL is that their chips are not really set to run at 100 percent . Some manufactures chips and OS are designed for thruput and to run at 100 percent (all the time) so they are efficient. They also use computer resources wisely and give a lot more bang to the buck than INTEL.
Believe or not there are studies that show (not in a VM environment) that the practical #'s of CP's limit is around 15.
The curve just about goes flat at that time and stay that way no matter how many cp's you add (assuming non VM). The speed is there but sooner or later you have to use another CP for *SOMETHING* and there goes thru put. I am not familiar with how INTEL has its instruction buffers and the logic they employ to decode the instructions and address's but *IF* they do not do a good job in second guessing the next instruction that is coming up aqain the speed in the world will not help you if you have to flush the instruction buffer
Do you really want the blond to win the election?? That is worse than what we had for 8 years (but not by much).
Easier than that just accuse them of being terrorist. The DHS will wipe them from the face of the earth and do the vote counting themselves:)
Hmmm would you like some plum on your Danish? That would unstop you:)
Your premise is incorrect (about Cambridge). Think of the INTERNET as a chord that is pretty much infinitely long. You can be pretty much be anywhere to do the research.
Now I am not saying they are doing a good job or a bad job, but I would definitely be cautious of *ANY* private firm giving data to the government. They have their own baggage and they could shutdown Britain's access to the Internet.
Well they do take a long term look at Bonuses for their exec's now don't they? And we are paying for their bonuses with TARP money. So I guess they do long term for some thing (like Bonuses ) but not customers.
Interesting item about Dell. The story I can tell occurred in 1995ish time frame. I needed additional memory for my Dell PC. I called up Dell and gave them the model # and expected an instant quote. No sir, not only did I have to give them the model number I had to give them a date as well as they didn't know what memory they put in that model except by date. I had the serial number Dell should have been able to tell by that as well, but apparently not.
I had to hang up the phone and go over to the PC and get the date on the back of the PC. The company was replacing all their computers with DELL. I raised a stink and got them to back down.
The company was screwed up enough to have something like this happen would have raised the heat level several degrees. I left the company about 6 months later and the company fired its IT manager and promoted from within. I honestly thought that was a mistake as the person promoted was a political person like you have ever seen. I was glad to be out of the nut house.
When I was in college a "roommate" stole my wallet. I did not notice it until the next day. Needless to say he went on a crime spree and used my ID. Approximately 3 months later the FBI comes looking for me and I talk with them and I assure them I was not in this state or that state and that I was attending school and working on the dates in question. I get the bank (where I worked) to cough up my records and that proves to the FBI that I am not the person.
Fast forward 40 years and I file an FOI with the FBI to see what information they had on me and they came back ZIPPO. I was wanted in at least 3 states and the FBI tracked me down, yet they have zero on me. Me thinks the FBI has a poor memory.
Yea RIGHT....... when has MS EVER thoroughly tested *ANYTHING* ???
They end up fixing bugs and forgetting to pick up the fixes for the last bug. I know large corporations (LIKE MS, IBM and others) have issues with items like this but at least IBM almost never (1 in 10,000 roughly) drops a previous fix. If IBM can do a good job why can't MS?
OK, now this is *OLD* information. I was in the Army over in Germany. At that time I was doing a reasonably tech job on the Mainframe. I was constantly harassed by the company commander for stupid things like the small minded military wants to do. I was also in a position that I could make decisions that no one (well almost no one could call me on). One time I had to halt production of the Army system on supplies for all of Europe because of an error that I caught. Essentially any orders for supplies would not have happened if I had not caught this error. I was able to fix the problem (after explaining it to the officer on duty in simple terms).
At the time I was on duty for 12 hours off for 12 hours etc etc 7 days a week. The next morning I had to defend my actions in front of a Full Colonel and a bunch of his subordinates. They were totally in the dark as to the technical issue that prevented the production system from going forward. I had to explain it at least 3 times and even then they did not have a clue. I called my boss into the meeting and he backed me up. The people in the meeting were all officers and some enlisted personal (none of the enlisted had a clue either). I also explained why we had to rerun a portion of production to make sure this one file was correct so it could be used by the following production jobs. That helped out a little but they were still somewhat suspicious of me. AFter that they had an officer look over my shoulder to make sure they could understand what was going on. The next night one of the production jobs crashed. I was looking through the core dump and every time I looked at something I had to explain to the officer what I was doing and why. AFter two minutes the officer could not follow what I was doing and why I was doing this. I figured out what the problem was in about 20 minutes (garbage in a file). I talked over the phone with the programmer and explained what I did and how I found the error. I suggested he fix his program by testing for valid numerics. I told him where in the program he needed to do this check and he concurred and I recompiled the program and I put in a temporary production fix and reran the job and it worked. All in the matter of 45 minutes. The officer that was assigned to look over my shoulder the next morning went straight into the colonels office and explained what I had done. The colonel called me in and I explained to him what I had found and how I fixed it. His eyes glazed over after 3 or so minutes as he could not follow what I had done at all.
AFter that they turned off the officer and they did not try and screw me over with military crap. One thing that an officer did try was to screw up by early out. He cancelled my orders because they could not find a replacement. I found out about it and (long story deleted)and got the orders re cut. This time I got a copy of the orders before they knew about them and was on my way to Frankfurt before they knew I was legally gone.
Fringe was the strangest show I ever tried to watch. I liked it but you could never get an idea where the show was going. One episode it was a drug company doing something bad (but they never admitted to it) the next show was totally off the grid then... then ... it was way to confusing (in not a nice way either) I liked some of the characters a little but you were never quite sure if the characters were the bad guys or not. The big corporation was a far too easy cop out but with all the crazy conspiracies going on it was really tough to get a handle on anything.
Yet it was worth watching (most of the time) the father was really scary almost to the point where he might have been part of the bad guys.
Has Fringe been cancelled?
Chuckle I love stories like that. I served in Germany back in the early 70's. Our base was 50 percent computer and 50 paper shufflers. We regularly had Soviet Vehicles camped right by the gate trying to eves drop on what as going on inside our base. We also had a nuclear base down the road a bit. AFAIK we never talked with the base although from time to time you would see the personal in the PX. We supposedly handled top secret information from time to time and I had to get a TS clearance to look problems that contained classified top secret data. Once I was looking through a problem I saw the number of tanks at each base in Germany. I did travel quite a bit and was always observing military items along the autobahn. I dug back into my memory and I came up with the number of tanks at this one base and guess what I counted the same exact number that were parked along side the autobahn. I chuckled and told an officer about the numbers. I do not think anything came out of it as a month later I was riding along in the same area and the numbers had not changed.
We were a HQ with a few outposts scattered over Germany and England. One time I had to play army overnight and the captain was given a list of places he had to call to get situation reports. An officer at the other end of the phone gave a report that indicated they were under nuclear attack no matter what the captain did he could not get him to change his status. I drove the captain to the General's house and he had to come back with us. I have not heard more choice words coming out of General's mouth before or after. I ran into the captain a few months later and the person on the other end of the phone was literally transfered to the Aleutians the next week.
And to add shame to it we have politicians like BLAGO. I suppose he will be the replacement for Al Capone.
I used to live over in Germany in a really small town (if you blink you missed it). The mother of the owner that shared the house, she was sure we were going to gun her down with machine guns. I could not convince her otherwise.
Can you imagine a being in a position where a governor brings so much disgrace that you are saddled internationally with shame for the next hundred years? Will the same the same thing happen because of the Bush regime? I will not go over seas again as I might be accused of being a Bush supporter, YIKES!
Are you employed by Microsoft? It certainly sounds like it so what are few thousand system crashes hey its "personal computer" we do not care about stinking thousands (millions). We are MS and WE know what is best for everyone. Sounds a little like the Borg We know what is best for you. How would you like to receive a death penalty and it was based on data from a electronic voting machine that people voted the death by execution. Wouldn't you want *EXACT* numbers and hey so what if it was off by a "few" percentage points. What is the difference between 50 and say 51 percent, then you might want to worry about the 1 or 2 or 3 percent a LOT.
Not that this is a valid comparison but its along similar lines. The infamous chad debacle in Florida is but one example or the number of elections that were lost by 1 or 2 (or more) percent.
I think you have a perspective that a lot of people have in that its not important until in impacts "me".
What is also interesting if there are minimum wage earners in the pool. That would violate the law (my understanding that is).
Well now thats a big "maybe". Does it include not receiving *ANY* bonuses?
The big boy get most of their money from incentives and bonuses.
I read hex and EBCDIC not the pc version of ASCII
OK enough is enough. Gay people do *NOT* repeat do *NOT* try to convert straight people. There are straight people out there (ex-gays) that think they can convert gay people into straight people and it has been proven not to work. IIRC the American Psychiatric Association came to this conclusion years ago. What *MAY* happen if a so called straight person finally recognizes he/she is a gay person that is NOT recruiting.
There you go speaking for the religious type people. They can and do exercise their right to free speech through various church groups. If they want to stand on the out side of my house and scream kill all gay people that just makes them look like jerks that they really are. The religious people sort of remind me of early NAZI Germany in a way they yell in beer halls and force people to think their way. Then they go on to the concentration camps. Remember Germany was a religious country before the NAZI's came along. Besides hurting Jews they also had multiple targets like gypsy's and gay people. All of them were sent off to the concentration camps to be murdered.
The nice thing about this country is if you do not like some one you do not have to talk with them. If people find gay people offensive then just do not talk with them. The same can be said for any minority.
Sexual orientation is a private item, if people want to share this it is certainly there right to, I do not see anything wrong with this at any age.
OK I do not know zero about XBOX, but just as a guess it is in the 10-14 year old age group. They are certainly should be mature enough to understand what GAY or LESBIAN means, if not they should be able to research it either on the Internet or various books. Hopefully the parents have around had a talk with them about these matters. Even if you are talking about a 6 year old child (I question the adult giving them access to mature games) but children are capable to lightly understand sex topics. Gay & Lesbian might be a little bit over the typical 6 year old player but they should have a concept or a person they can ask questions of at *ANY* age.
Godnik said:Probably not, but it means that you are staight or bi
Incorrect there is at least one state that *CURRENTLY* offers gays the marriage option.
There are also nations that allow it.
Massive may have been a bit over stated but I can tell you that in my area of speciality the people who cannot find jobs are 95+ percent of the people cannot find jobs. From one or two close friends one went to work for Obama and the other is working in home inspection. They have looked and looked and there is ZERO jobs out there. I know back in 1992 I hunted for 6 months and then got two job offers the same day. One was out in AZ and they would not fly you out there to look. The other was in the far far suburbs. I took that only to find out that they were relocating in 6 months.
OK I am in a highly specialized field and the specialists (good anyway) are far and few in between. Most of the foreign people I have seen have not attempted to get into the field I am in, reason being you have to be first rate and you have to be able to handle company politics and be VERY aware of them. Sure there are some American types that shouldn't be in the same field and if they somehow wiggle their way into it you can spot them a mile away. The semi issue with foreign types is that you do not want to appear like you are out gunning for them. You just have to sit back and push a little here and there and they will be shown for what they are truly a person who is miles beyond their job description. You have to be adroit and let others pitch in but it generally takes a year to accomplish this. You also have to do it before their VISA is up so they do not get renewed. With Americans you let them hang themselves (giving them plenty of rope). It generally takes 1.5 years (or so) but it also doesn't help if your boss is also incompetent and that takes more rope and higher visibility before you can get them dismissed for cause. Sometimes just putting pressure on them to perform up to the same level as everyone else is enough, again it really depends.
To your last point the largest abuse of H1B (IMO) is in the I. T. industry. There is massive unemployment in a lot of positions just because of H1B. Most of the people I know have given up looking because of this abuse. There is also outsourcing(to other countries) which is a form of H1B. Look at it it is the same.
What is really funny in a way is that the PC people do not really have the foggiest what reliability is and what it takes to get it. The PC people think reboot is the answer all the time. The system shouldn't be designed this way it should be designed to stay up yet year after year they cannot come up with reasons and a way to get around the issue.
hmmmm... I have 30++ years experience in my job. I only need training for new things that are just being offered. So new in fact that the other country(ies) have not even gotten the code to get experienced on so why pray tell how does a foreign person get experience when it is not even available in their country yet?
So is an employer supposed to train a foreign person as well (I get my training from the manufacturer that is not available elsewhere, at least in early release). Sorry the hiring of these foreign people at the expense of local talent rings as they say a might bit hollow.
Plus there are items that need support that (sometimes) contain non-exportable code, so there is a slight catch 22 here.