Now, my understanding was that H-1B's were required to get the same pay as the American who would have taken the job. I just now skimmed the wikipedia article but didn't find anything. So I'm more than willing to admit that I may simply have misunderstood here, but it seems to me that either:
a.) My understanding is incorrect
b.) Many employers are violating the law with regard to H-1b compensation, which would not necessitate abolishing the program, just enforcing its provisions.
c.) You work at an unscrupulous company:).
I don't have any data on labor statistics but, taking the H-1B program at face value, it's supposed to allow the hiring of foreign talent when the local talent isn't available. If this is true, and you simply abolish the program, you're not going to create jobs over the long term. You're going to put affected companies at a competitive disadvantage versus foreign companies and this will, in the long run, harm the local employees they DO employ.
Slashdot on an unfinished construction project:
"One year after beginning the project, the construction company THREATENS to deliver a building that is unbearably cold and has CRIPPLING compatibility problems with my electronics."
Slashdot on Obama:
"Weeks after being elected the next President, Obama, the successor to the LEAST POPULAR PRESIDENT IN HISTORY, has failed to end the war in Iraq and fix the economy. He promised a new direction for the country but SO FAR things are EERILY similar to the Bush administration."
And though I may have missed it by accident, I didn't see a single one of the people posting here with complaints about the broken system suggest stepping up and getting involved in that system in an attempt to fix it. I see lots of people lamenting that poor schools are essentially sinking our society, and yet I didn't see anyone itching to do anything about it - instead it's "ooooh, if only the pay were higher..."
So you either don't think it's that broken, you do think it's that broken but you'd rather be well paid than make a difference, or you're convinced it's broken, willing to forgo the money, but too scared to pull the trigger.
For me, it's a mix of the latter two.
But you don't just have to be a teacher. Get on the school board. Attend the meetings. Be the most vocal critic of your school's bone-headed policies. Volunteer. Mentor. Fucking do *something.* I don't mean to imply that if you're a parent, you're necessarily uninvolved, but I do want to inject a sense of involvement into this discourse because I am not seeing it.
I think part - at least *part* - of the reason that our culture stifles math achievement (and all academic achievement in general) is that the "achievers" just mill around and whine to each other about how bad it is and don't do anything about it.
I just graduated college with a CS degree. I didn't become a teacher. After 20 years I need a breather from that bullshit for a bit. But, at the very least, before I finally retire for good - once i get to the point where I don't need the money - I plan to go back for a few years and teach math or science.
Slashdot Mirror
"Either they are rushing it, or it's really just a minor change to Vista."
Yes
No.
Now, my understanding was that H-1B's were required to get the same pay as the American who would have taken the job. I just now skimmed the wikipedia article but didn't find anything. So I'm more than willing to admit that I may simply have misunderstood here, but it seems to me that either: a.) My understanding is incorrect b.) Many employers are violating the law with regard to H-1b compensation, which would not necessitate abolishing the program, just enforcing its provisions. c.) You work at an unscrupulous company :).
I don't have any data on labor statistics but, taking the H-1B program at face value, it's supposed to allow the hiring of foreign talent when the local talent isn't available. If this is true, and you simply abolish the program, you're not going to create jobs over the long term. You're going to put affected companies at a competitive disadvantage versus foreign companies and this will, in the long run, harm the local employees they DO employ.
Slashdot on an unfinished construction project: "One year after beginning the project, the construction company THREATENS to deliver a building that is unbearably cold and has CRIPPLING compatibility problems with my electronics." Slashdot on Obama: "Weeks after being elected the next President, Obama, the successor to the LEAST POPULAR PRESIDENT IN HISTORY, has failed to end the war in Iraq and fix the economy. He promised a new direction for the country but SO FAR things are EERILY similar to the Bush administration."
Technologically, Linux and OS X are light years ahead of Windows...
This is just wrong. Regardless of how you feel about Windows as a whole, the NT kernel is easily among the best, if not the best on the market.
And though I may have missed it by accident, I didn't see a single one of the people posting here with complaints about the broken system suggest stepping up and getting involved in that system in an attempt to fix it. I see lots of people lamenting that poor schools are essentially sinking our society, and yet I didn't see anyone itching to do anything about it - instead it's "ooooh, if only the pay were higher..." So you either don't think it's that broken, you do think it's that broken but you'd rather be well paid than make a difference, or you're convinced it's broken, willing to forgo the money, but too scared to pull the trigger. For me, it's a mix of the latter two. But you don't just have to be a teacher. Get on the school board. Attend the meetings. Be the most vocal critic of your school's bone-headed policies. Volunteer. Mentor. Fucking do *something.* I don't mean to imply that if you're a parent, you're necessarily uninvolved, but I do want to inject a sense of involvement into this discourse because I am not seeing it. I think part - at least *part* - of the reason that our culture stifles math achievement (and all academic achievement in general) is that the "achievers" just mill around and whine to each other about how bad it is and don't do anything about it. I just graduated college with a CS degree. I didn't become a teacher. After 20 years I need a breather from that bullshit for a bit. But, at the very least, before I finally retire for good - once i get to the point where I don't need the money - I plan to go back for a few years and teach math or science.
The fact they use the registry as the interface makes my eye twitch.
The fact that you take an anti-MS post on /. at face value makes me sad for humans.