We don't need any more foreign nationals for any reason, including H-1B. We have too many people out of work, and the conditions which prevailed in this country when we needed immigrants no longer exist. Potential immigrants need to focus on solving the problems in their own country, including unemployment, and quit trying to migrate to a fairy tail kingdom where all their problems will be solved.
There already seem to be laws against everything, so why do we need more? If we aren't enforcing the laws we have, we obviously need a law making it illegal to break the law.
A doctorate in anything is likely to make you over qualified for most jobs. Doctorates tend to be very specialized, which means the number of jobs available drops dramatically. Unless a doctorate is really necessary for the job (medical doctors, lawyers), the perception is that this person is going to want a lot more money than, say, someone with a masters' or bachelors' degree, and is perhaps too specialized for the job. Experience in the field, coupled with a less specialized degree, is likely to be more attractive to prospective employers.
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When I got my masters' (1979) I considered getting a doctorate. I asked several friends with doctorates what they thought about pursuing the doctorate. To a person, they recommended against it, for the reasons cited above, plus one more: with a doctorate, it was very unlikely the company would ever promote me or them to management. They needed those doctors doing technical work that they could wheel out before customers, not managing things, where their doctorate had no additional credibility.
This should be just loads of fun. I see this probably causing retailers to keep track of each sale by state of purchase, calculate the amount of sales tax, and send it to the appropriate state. Guess who's going to pay for all this?
Nope, wasn't me. I don't think I've ever even tried Gentoo. There are just so many Linux variants these days, that I just don't get around to trying them all.
You might donate them to a local thrift store, along with a printout of how to use Linux (although it seems obvious to me, it may not be to others). For a while, I was checking out and repairing computers for a thrift store associated with our church.
Some came it with a usable operating system; some had to have one installed. I'd always stick Ubuntu on.
None of them ever failed to sell. After all, the price was right, and the people usually needed whatever they could get. I felt good about it, because a computer that would have seen the scrap heap got reused. Let's face it: for word processing and simple spreadsheets, it doesn't take that much computer. You can also browse the web, if you stay away from overbloated sites. Email is a no brainer.
And, if they didn't like Linux, they were free to install Windows or whatever they chose. Given the financial state of a lot of these people, I doubt they could have afforded Microsoft's price. But Linux at least let them see the machine was funcitonal.
You bet. I worked around Boeing projects for years. They really don't appear to care if they ever deliver anything, as long as they can scoop cash in the front door. Ask them about the Airborne Laser Project, which they won with numerous promises. After 10-15 years, they Pentagon had to cancel it, because Boeing hadn't really delivered anything usable.
Or ask them about Wedgetail, the AWACS-like aircraft for Australia, they won over competitors Lockheed and Raytheon E-Systems. After a few years, the Australian government was back begging for the losers to re-submit their bids, because Boeing was a day late and a dollar short.
The list is nearly endless. The Minuteman missile bid is infamous: when the government asked for Boeing to provide a basis for the bid they submitted, Boeing pointed to two boxcars of data, not sorted into any particular order. At the time, they weren't required to structure data so anyone could make sense of it, and they hadn't. The government was stuck with their bid, because it was the lowest, and they had cleverly found a loophole which allowed them to not tell the government what the government got for the price quoted.
To give credit where it is due, the government did have the common sense to close that loophole.
This discussion seems to ignore one of the basic factors: education, even at the university level, has been so watered down that its value has dramatically decreased. I know professor after professor who has been told to "dumb it down."
That is, reduce the information content, and make the courses easier to pass.
State Universities are some of the worst. Their success, in the form of federal funding, depends on the number of students they successfully herd through the program. Not enough students making it? Make the courses simpler!
If degrees are to mean anything, they must have enough information content and be challenging enough that not everyone can complete the course or the degree. That creates competition for only the best and finest to finish, and creates graduates whose degrees mean something.
I realize this runs into the face of equal opportunity, and the idea that everyone deserves a college education. If that is the approach which is to be taken, why not just pass a law declaring that everyone over 21 is issued a bachelors' degree from the university of their choice in the field of their choice. The diplomas could be printed on toilet paper, so they are biodegradable. It would save the government money, and be a lot more honest.
There is finally a local gas station that sells ethanol-free gas. Suddenly, my truck's mileage jumped from 18 mpg to 20 mph. The stuff was actually wasting fuel! It may be a great idea in Iowa, but it sucks out here.
I realize needs differ, but Microsoft Works did everything I needed to do years ago. Thus far, the only reason to buy new versions of Office is being forced into compatibility with the suckers who bought the new version.
I see a lot of comments here that suggest mental health may be the sole issue. I'd have to disagree with that. There are perfectly sane people out there who want to hold up convenience stores, break in homes, and yes, kill a whole bunch of people. They may not be very nice people, but they're sane, and can be tried for their crimes. Some would argue that these people are a product of the culture we have, and I'm not sure I'd totally disagree with them.
A big problem with gun control is that the government is once again trying to protect us from ourselves. If you make guns harder to get, they will be harder to get for honest people who need to protect themselves. Criminals aren't bothered by breaking the law now, and passing new gun laws won't bother them a bit. In fact, making more laws that are difficult if not impossible to enforce just weakens the enforcement of the laws we already have.
Whenever you introduce new technology on an aircraft design, you open the door for problems you haven't seen before. If you introduce a lot of new technology, you get a lot of new problems, some of which are almost certain to catch the public eye. Look what happened to Airbus on the A320 some years back!
They'll no doubt find the problems, but more are likely to occur. Whether Boeing is able to maintain a good image for the airplane is another question.
As failure rates of electronics decrease, sets last longer and longer. This seems like just another sales ploy to force us all to buy new TV sets. 3D hasn't been widely received with popularity, so maybe the proles will buy into needing even higher definition!
My established procedure is this:
1) Go to bed.
2) Go to sleep.
3) Wake up on Jan 1. Voila! It's a new year without all the fuss, bother, and hangovers.
An old question goes like this: "do you manage what you don't understand, or understand what you don't manage?"
It's entirely too easy for companies to hire managers on the basis of an MBA, who really don't understand the practical considerations of what they are managing. I'm not sure there is a "fix" for these situations that is palatable to higher management.
During my days in program management, I watched programs get severely damaged, because our vice-president simply did not understand the technical and legal constraints we had. Having the technical types work with program management goes a long ways, but as long as companies hire those who have never done the work as managers, this problem will be with us.
My fix was to retire early, brought on largely by the stress associated with just these sorts of problems.
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We don't need any more foreign nationals for any reason, including H-1B. We have too many people out of work, and the conditions which prevailed in this country when we needed immigrants no longer exist. Potential immigrants need to focus on solving the problems in their own country, including unemployment, and quit trying to migrate to a fairy tail kingdom where all their problems will be solved.
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There already seem to be laws against everything, so why do we need more? If we aren't enforcing the laws we have, we obviously need a law making it illegal to break the law.
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When I got my masters' (1979) I considered getting a doctorate. I asked several friends with doctorates what they thought about pursuing the doctorate. To a person, they recommended against it, for the reasons cited above, plus one more: with a doctorate, it was very unlikely the company would ever promote me or them to management. They needed those doctors doing technical work that they could wheel out before customers, not managing things, where their doctorate had no additional credibility.
It's still ethanol. It still damages car and truck engines, and it still isn't efficient as real gasoline.
This should be just loads of fun. I see this probably causing retailers to keep track of each sale by state of purchase, calculate the amount of sales tax, and send it to the appropriate state. Guess who's going to pay for all this?
Surely there are better things to do with our time and money than to pursue goals like this.
The fact that they're doing it in Austin makes many of the rest of us Texans leary of the idea.
Nope, wasn't me. I don't think I've ever even tried Gentoo. There are just so many Linux variants these days, that I just don't get around to trying them all.
Actually, I checked a bunch of those out, also. Some went with a printer; some didn't.
Some came it with a usable operating system; some had to have one installed. I'd always stick Ubuntu on.
None of them ever failed to sell. After all, the price was right, and the people usually needed whatever they could get. I felt good about it, because a computer that would have seen the scrap heap got reused. Let's face it: for word processing and simple spreadsheets, it doesn't take that much computer. You can also browse the web, if you stay away from overbloated sites. Email is a no brainer.
And, if they didn't like Linux, they were free to install Windows or whatever they chose. Given the financial state of a lot of these people, I doubt they could have afforded Microsoft's price. But Linux at least let them see the machine was funcitonal.
This is nothing new. Obama and his cronies are proof that rats already act in tandem.
Or ask them about Wedgetail, the AWACS-like aircraft for Australia, they won over competitors Lockheed and Raytheon E-Systems. After a few years, the Australian government was back begging for the losers to re-submit their bids, because Boeing was a day late and a dollar short.
The list is nearly endless. The Minuteman missile bid is infamous: when the government asked for Boeing to provide a basis for the bid they submitted, Boeing pointed to two boxcars of data, not sorted into any particular order. At the time, they weren't required to structure data so anyone could make sense of it, and they hadn't. The government was stuck with their bid, because it was the lowest, and they had cleverly found a loophole which allowed them to not tell the government what the government got for the price quoted.
To give credit where it is due, the government did have the common sense to close that loophole.
That is, reduce the information content, and make the courses easier to pass.
State Universities are some of the worst. Their success, in the form of federal funding, depends on the number of students they successfully herd through the program. Not enough students making it? Make the courses simpler!
If degrees are to mean anything, they must have enough information content and be challenging enough that not everyone can complete the course or the degree. That creates competition for only the best and finest to finish, and creates graduates whose degrees mean something.
I realize this runs into the face of equal opportunity, and the idea that everyone deserves a college education. If that is the approach which is to be taken, why not just pass a law declaring that everyone over 21 is issued a bachelors' degree from the university of their choice in the field of their choice. The diplomas could be printed on toilet paper, so they are biodegradable. It would save the government money, and be a lot more honest.
There is finally a local gas station that sells ethanol-free gas. Suddenly, my truck's mileage jumped from 18 mpg to 20 mph. The stuff was actually wasting fuel! It may be a great idea in Iowa, but it sucks out here.
IMHO, after trying to manage a number of software projects in the 70's, 80's and 90's, no.
1) Don't let any more "students" in. 2) Require those here to work here at least ten years, replay the cost of their presence, then send them home.
I realize needs differ, but Microsoft Works did everything I needed to do years ago. Thus far, the only reason to buy new versions of Office is being forced into compatibility with the suckers who bought the new version.
A big problem with gun control is that the government is once again trying to protect us from ourselves. If you make guns harder to get, they will be harder to get for honest people who need to protect themselves. Criminals aren't bothered by breaking the law now, and passing new gun laws won't bother them a bit. In fact, making more laws that are difficult if not impossible to enforce just weakens the enforcement of the laws we already have.
Why would anyone bother to cheat at chess? It's a game for old men and Russians.
They'll no doubt find the problems, but more are likely to occur. Whether Boeing is able to maintain a good image for the airplane is another question.
As failure rates of electronics decrease, sets last longer and longer. This seems like just another sales ploy to force us all to buy new TV sets. 3D hasn't been widely received with popularity, so maybe the proles will buy into needing even higher definition!
My established procedure is this: 1) Go to bed. 2) Go to sleep. 3) Wake up on Jan 1. Voila! It's a new year without all the fuss, bother, and hangovers.
It's entirely too easy for companies to hire managers on the basis of an MBA, who really don't understand the practical considerations of what they are managing. I'm not sure there is a "fix" for these situations that is palatable to higher management.
During my days in program management, I watched programs get severely damaged, because our vice-president simply did not understand the technical and legal constraints we had. Having the technical types work with program management goes a long ways, but as long as companies hire those who have never done the work as managers, this problem will be with us.
My fix was to retire early, brought on largely by the stress associated with just these sorts of problems.