Zuckerberg heads up a PAC which is trying to open up more immigration and H1Bs - because, y'know, he *cares* about the people and it has nothing at all to do with getting cheaper tech labor into the states.
Zuckerberg's desire for H1Bs has nothing to do with the cost of tech labor. Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc., are constantly struggling to find tech labor, not because they aren't willing to shell out the big bucks for qualified talent, but because they struggle to find qualified talent at any price IN MENLO PARK. That labor pool is completely depleted IN MENLO PARK ; there are more positions available than there are people to work them. They're already paying $250K+ (including salary, bonus and stock) for people not much past the new grad stage, and about the same for senior engineers and making it $300K, or $400K, or $1M, won't get them many more new hires once the other companies in the area bump their pay scales to match. cause FB isn't that much better than any other company in SV (Actually, paying *too* much can increase attrition as employees gain sufficient financial independence that they decide to strike out on their own, or simply stop working, so increasing the pay scales could well make their hiring problems even worse.).
The reason the likes of Facebook want H1Bs is because the market for US labor is tapped out, and they want to be able to draw on the rest of the world. It's not about keeping wages down, it's about finding an additional 200 hireable people per week, on top of the 200 they're hiring every week right now. The supply of available American talent IN MENLO PARK isn't keeping up with the demand, and paying more money doesn't appreciably increase the supply.
Just trying to help you clarify your position. And adding H1B won't help FB/Google et. al. But capping the H1B's given to WiPro/Tata/Infosys/IBM *will*. Or even pushing the H1B minimum wage to FB's 250k (as you say it's their basic wage) the FB/Google et. al will have all the H1B's they want 'cause WiPro/Tata/Infosys/IBM's H1B model will be utterly destroyed and those companies will just pack up and go home.
This has been going on far far far longer than existence of google, or apple or facebook. These tax havens have been running like this for last couple hundred years. Just because it's being advertised now doesn't make it a new thing.
I for one am not a gamer but I do occasionally dabble in the OpenGL, OpenGLES and presumably I will get pulled into Vulkan at some point.
However I am not a fan of NVidia cards on my desktop and I only use the OpenSource AMD drivers for which I have had good luck.
So I absolutely appreciate all the hard work and will mostly likely buy one of the cards that is reported to work with this preview on Tuesday for my semi-annual computer re-fresh.
Good luck with the deployment and keep up the good work.
Vulkan shares a lot of commonality with OpenGL at a high level. It also will be quite some time before enough Vulkan hardware is available for a significant industry shift to happen. Think of it as the difference between OpenGL and OpenGLES. Early OpenGL is a quite different beast from the current version. ES is close (as intended) but not the same.
Go ahead and learn OpenGL it will make learning Vulkan easier (IMO) as all the basic concepts will transfer (writing shaders et. al).
Yes... but is he an idiot conning the people. Or a nut trying to con the moneyed stakeholders running this mess?
Either way he's a better bet that what we have. H. Clinton will double down on this continued economic and foreign policy nightmare. Not to mention the continuous onslaught against person freedom and privacy.
My hope is that Trump is arrogant enough and dumb enough to do whatever the bleep he wants because he thinks his handlers can't destroy him. Either that or we get more of the same.. what do we have to lose?
RPi is a video capture/processing chip (Broadcom VideoCore) with an ARM co-processor. Compresses, manipulates, and streams Full HD input video in real-time.
As opposed to 4K video at 60 fps on the ODroid? Depending on how to slice that up you should be able to transcode 2 or 4 Full HD streams at 30 fps at the same time.
ODroid has no video input at all (the product page suggests getting a USB camera which performs its own compression, because the ODroid could never keep up)
This has to do with bandwidth on USB. Doing 4k screen grabs over USB at 30 or 60 FPS ain't gonna happen. Unless you have a dedicated path to offload the data to the VPU you can't even feed it fast enough to do anything remotely useful.
Ok, probably most users care more about the general-purpose ARM cores and Linux than the VideoCore, but it's just wrong to say that ODroid "has the same cores but faster", when the biggest portion of BCM2837, the VideoCore, is completely absent from the ODroid.
Hardware wise the ODroid is a bargain. Fitness for use is up to each application. Software support... to be honest hardkernel doesn't have a good track record with Exynos but perhaps they will get better support through Amlogic.
And to be fair Broadcom is still one of the worst chip vendors when it comes to specs and support. What makes the RPi anything but DoA is the community that formed around the ultra cheap platform. So while RPi is riding the wave there is lots of room for a new player in the mid-range but low cost hobbyist market.
In Minnesota we have something similar. Property tax rates are essentially capped at 10%/yr. Exceptions for improvements (if you put 200k in, expect a substantial portion of that to go into the next valuation).
There is also a homestead rebate which means that your primary residence property tax rate is reduced by a significant margin (~30-50%).
However we also have property tax rebates for low incomes to fix the 'old people on fixed incomes' problem. It also helps other various low income homeowners whose home valuation has outsripped thier income levels.
Finding an encryption scheme that isn't already backdoor'd by the CIA. AFAIK the US/CIA has corrupt deals with all the known for-profit crypto suppliers.
Taxi's in China are already dirt cheap and many already do an 'uber' like model. If you get in a taxi and you like your driver you start to nego. "I'll be here at such time and need to go to.. how much will that cost". Very often you can get a fixed fare and a driver you know for about 30% or so less the metered fare. We do it all the time in HK. Many drivers will even have business cards offering fixed fares for places they travel frequently. The largest advantage of Uber over a taxi in China is the frequency of being taken on a tour of the city on the way to your destination or having a taxi driver refuse to use his meter and/or doctor it is not uncommon occurrence for a foreigner. Once you combine the added expense for vehicle rent to the lower than taxi fare it's not surprising you have to bribe the drivers.
Not the same AT&T. AT&T Wireless was purchased by Cingular who promptly changed their name to AT&T Wireless. The AT&T your thinking of was sold to Alcatel-Lucent long before that.
And porn is rapidly becoming mainstream today. So perhaps you are implying that if BTC sticks around everyone will be okay with a 'little' criminal activity? Not saying I disagree, just saying.
Yes in the sense that there is no (actual) tax advantage or legal need for moving the shares from his personal account to the LLC. No in the sense that without the LLC and PR hoopla selling a large amount of stock by the Founder/CEO/Majority share holder would shake investor confidence wipe out the valuation of FB stock pretty quickly. Since Zuck already did is 'one-time-huge-sale' at the IPO where he sold $1b of stock he has more than enough personal cash for anything he could reasonably claim as the reason for selling a large percentage of his remaining shares.
With the intermediary vehicle in place there is a blanket reason for divestiture and he can have a standing sell order of $10-100M worth of shares sold on a monthly basis. Then when the LLC sells the stock (however quickly) it is understood that the LLC needs $$ for operating and investments not as a lack of confidence in his own company.
Of the dozen or so cities I have used the metro/subway system Paris is by far the worst [croweded and rude people] and least reliable (multiple breakdowns). Mexico City has a better run metro system and that's just sad. Considering that Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, and Milan are all relatively close comparables and infinitely better in pretty much all aspects in my experience. If you think the Paris subway is acceptable much less 'good' then I just have to assume you are a gallophile that has no comparable experience.
There are 18 Fortune 500 companies in Minnesota. 17 of which are in the metropolitan area of Minneapolis-St. Paul. There is also Cargill.. which Forbes' lists as the largest private company. Actually valuation is now known but is estimated around 55 billion. (more than double ADM at a market cap of 21 billion). There is also Carlson which owns hotel changes, and resorts such as Radisson, among others.
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Zuckerberg heads up a PAC which is trying to open up more immigration and H1Bs - because, y'know, he *cares* about the people and it has nothing at all to do with getting cheaper tech labor into the states.
Zuckerberg's desire for H1Bs has nothing to do with the cost of tech labor. Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc., are constantly struggling to find tech labor, not because they aren't willing to shell out the big bucks for qualified talent, but because they struggle to find qualified talent at any price IN MENLO PARK. That labor pool is completely depleted IN MENLO PARK ; there are more positions available than there are people to work them. They're already paying $250K+ (including salary, bonus and stock) for people not much past the new grad stage, and about the same for senior engineers and making it $300K, or $400K, or $1M, won't get them many more new hires once the other companies in the area bump their pay scales to match. cause FB isn't that much better than any other company in SV (Actually, paying *too* much can increase attrition as employees gain sufficient financial independence that they decide to strike out on their own, or simply stop working, so increasing the pay scales could well make their hiring problems even worse.).
The reason the likes of Facebook want H1Bs is because the market for US labor is tapped out, and they want to be able to draw on the rest of the world. It's not about keeping wages down, it's about finding an additional 200 hireable people per week, on top of the 200 they're hiring every week right now. The supply of available American talent IN MENLO PARK isn't keeping up with the demand, and paying more money doesn't appreciably increase the supply.
Just trying to help you clarify your position.
And adding H1B won't help FB/Google et. al. But capping the H1B's given to WiPro/Tata/Infosys/IBM *will*. Or even pushing the H1B minimum wage to FB's 250k (as you say it's their basic wage) the FB/Google et. al will have all the H1B's they want 'cause WiPro/Tata/Infosys/IBM's H1B model will be utterly destroyed and those companies will just pack up and go home.
They refused to disclose the illegal bits (evasion) which are clearly not the bits everyone knows (avoidance).
This has been going on far far far longer than existence of google, or apple or facebook.
These tax havens have been running like this for last couple hundred years.
Just because it's being advertised now doesn't make it a new thing.
Or you just fly enough to get status from your airline and you get it w/o getting fingerprinted or anything else.
Border finger printing happens for non-US citizens.
You see there only are 42 digits ... we just make the rest of them up as we go along :P
I for one am not a gamer but I do occasionally dabble in the OpenGL, OpenGLES and presumably I will get pulled into Vulkan at some point.
However I am not a fan of NVidia cards on my desktop and I only use the OpenSource AMD drivers for which I have had good luck.
So I absolutely appreciate all the hard work and will mostly likely buy one of the cards that is reported to work with this preview on Tuesday for my semi-annual computer re-fresh.
Good luck with the deployment and keep up the good work.
Thanks!
Vulkan shares a lot of commonality with OpenGL at a high level.
It also will be quite some time before enough Vulkan hardware is available for a significant industry shift to happen.
Think of it as the difference between OpenGL and OpenGLES. Early OpenGL is a quite different beast from the current version. ES is close (as intended) but not the same.
Go ahead and learn OpenGL it will make learning Vulkan easier (IMO) as all the basic concepts will transfer (writing shaders et. al).
Yes ... but is he an idiot conning the people. Or a nut trying to con the moneyed stakeholders running this mess?
Either way he's a better bet that what we have.
H. Clinton will double down on this continued economic and foreign policy nightmare. Not to mention the continuous onslaught against person freedom and privacy.
My hope is that Trump is arrogant enough and dumb enough to do whatever the bleep he wants because he thinks his handlers can't destroy him. Either that or we get more of the same .. what do we have to lose?
RPi is a video capture/processing chip (Broadcom VideoCore) with an ARM co-processor. Compresses, manipulates, and streams Full HD input video in real-time.
As opposed to 4K video at 60 fps on the ODroid? Depending on how to slice that up you should be able to transcode 2 or 4 Full HD streams at 30 fps at the same time.
ODroid has no video input at all (the product page suggests getting a USB camera which performs its own compression, because the ODroid could never keep up)
This has to do with bandwidth on USB. Doing 4k screen grabs over USB at 30 or 60 FPS ain't gonna happen. Unless you have a dedicated path to offload the data to the VPU you can't even feed it fast enough to do anything remotely useful.
Ok, probably most users care more about the general-purpose ARM cores and Linux than the VideoCore, but it's just wrong to say that ODroid "has the same cores but faster", when the biggest portion of BCM2837, the VideoCore, is completely absent from the ODroid.
Hardware wise the ODroid is a bargain. ... to be honest hardkernel doesn't have a good track record with Exynos but perhaps they will get better support through Amlogic.
Fitness for use is up to each application.
Software support
And to be fair Broadcom is still one of the worst chip vendors when it comes to specs and support. What makes the RPi anything but DoA is the community that formed around the ultra cheap platform. So while RPi is riding the wave there is lots of room for a new player in the mid-range but low cost hobbyist market.
Which BSD license? The 2 clause or the 3 clause?
In Minnesota we have something similar. Property tax rates are essentially capped at 10%/yr. Exceptions for improvements (if you put 200k in, expect a substantial portion of that to go into the next valuation).
There is also a homestead rebate which means that your primary residence property tax rate is reduced by a significant margin (~30-50%).
However we also have property tax rebates for low incomes to fix the 'old people on fixed incomes' problem. It also helps other various low income homeowners whose home valuation has outsripped thier income levels.
Finding an encryption scheme that isn't already backdoor'd by the CIA.
AFAIK the US/CIA has corrupt deals with all the known for-profit crypto suppliers.
http://mediafilter.org/caq/cry...
https://www.schneier.com/blog/...
Going from the 'buy' to 'don't buy' list. Ouch.
I hope Asus keeps up with their OpenWRT support.
Taxi's in China are already dirt cheap and many already do an 'uber' like model. .. how much will that cost". Very often you can get a fixed fare and a driver you know for about 30% or so less the metered fare. We do it all the time in HK. Many drivers will even have business cards offering fixed fares for places they travel frequently.
If you get in a taxi and you like your driver you start to nego. "I'll be here at such time and need to go to
The largest advantage of Uber over a taxi in China is the frequency of being taken on a tour of the city on the way to your destination or having a taxi driver refuse to use his meter and/or doctor it is not uncommon occurrence for a foreigner.
Once you combine the added expense for vehicle rent to the lower than taxi fare it's not surprising you have to bribe the drivers.
Perception is not reality. Having china even close to India on that score is highly discourteous the rampantly and openly corrupt in India.
Not the same AT&T. AT&T Wireless was purchased by Cingular who promptly changed their name to AT&T Wireless.
The AT&T your thinking of was sold to Alcatel-Lucent long before that.
You see the plan is to connect a big glider to a Tesla Model S by a graphene wire ... er, well. May this idea won't fly after all.
And porn is rapidly becoming mainstream today.
So perhaps you are implying that if BTC sticks around everyone will be okay with a 'little' criminal activity?
Not saying I disagree, just saying.
Presumably they are implying that nuclear fusion is a fraud based on pseudoscience?
Yes in the sense that there is no (actual) tax advantage or legal need for moving the shares from his personal account to the LLC.
No in the sense that without the LLC and PR hoopla selling a large amount of stock by the Founder/CEO/Majority share holder would shake investor confidence wipe out the valuation of FB stock pretty quickly. Since Zuck already did is 'one-time-huge-sale' at the IPO where he sold $1b of stock he has more than enough personal cash for anything he could reasonably claim as the reason for selling a large percentage of his remaining shares.
With the intermediary vehicle in place there is a blanket reason for divestiture and he can have a standing sell order of $10-100M worth of shares sold on a monthly basis. Then when the LLC sells the stock (however quickly) it is understood that the LLC needs $$ for operating and investments not as a lack of confidence in his own company.
I suppose because it was their best selling car in China.
Of the dozen or so cities I have used the metro/subway system Paris is by far the worst [croweded and rude people] and least reliable (multiple breakdowns). Mexico City has a better run metro system and that's just sad.
Considering that Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, and Milan are all relatively close comparables and infinitely better in pretty much all aspects in my experience.
If you think the Paris subway is acceptable much less 'good' then I just have to assume you are a gallophile that has no comparable experience.
There are 18 Fortune 500 companies in Minnesota. 17 of which are in the metropolitan area of Minneapolis-St. Paul. .. which Forbes' lists as the largest private company. Actually valuation is now known but is estimated around 55 billion. (more than double ADM at a market cap of 21 billion).
There is also Cargill
There is also Carlson which owns hotel changes, and resorts such as Radisson, among others.
So yeah. There is a lot of money here.
Obviously to build a playpen for her baby and cut their remote workers.