Thats interesting. What about oil? The OPEC controls the price of oil by controlling the production. I presume China having more power than OPEC, could pull off control of prices of these metals, quite easily.
H1-B is fraud alright. It exists to bring in foreign talent not available locally, is a total lie. Coming to think of it, I am not sure there had ever been a job in the computer science industry, where a US citizen was not available to work on, or could not be trained in a month or so to work on.
So what drives it? I second your point that it is Economics of cheaper talent/labour. So do you believe this will be solved if H1B program were to be stopped today? Do you sincerely believe an american will be get the job he deserves with a salary better than a foreigner? What I believe will happen is the job will move to a foreign country, where they can get even cheaper talent/labour. And this has already been happening for quite some time, if you are not aware of it. One of the prominent companies that was involved in the mainframes and has a name that starts with a I, stopped processing H1B visas for the past 2-3 years except when absolutely necessary, and have established huge centers in India and China. I cannot quote numbers, but you can ask their employees about it.
There one more factor driving these H1b visas - Educational Institutions in the US. There is a huge number of foreign students coming to the US every year, bring money from their home country for their tuition (which is much higher that out-state tution fees) and their living expenses. This helps these institutions survive and subsidise local students education and contributes to the economy. If it were to continue, the students need to find jobs in the US.
The other important factor is retaining these students, so that they can contribute to the US. The students who come to the US are the creamy layer of their home country. They are usually ones that have been educated in the best institutes in their home country. Its is important to retain the talent in the US, then to send them back to their home country.
I hope I have directly or indirectly countered your points. Any point countering mine is welcome.
But the Na'vis did not win the war on their own. Nature helped them, those rhinoceros like hard armoured animals helped eliminate the ground forces, without which they were pretty much doomed. These were not creatures tamed/controlled by the the Na'vis, but autonomous ones.
... a single legally distributable work that is distributed/tracked through Google (heck even the Internet) and isn't actually readily available via another mainstream channel anyways?
The torrent file contains Hashes to makes sure that never happens. You can trust a file downloaded through torrents to be more authentic than files obtained through http/ftp.
The bad news is that, the screen is to appear only for users in Europe. I hope the US anti-trust takes hint a from their European counterparts and mandate in the US too.
Actually the supermarkets jack up the prices for the ones without the discount card. If you try other supermarkets in your area, the prices would pretty much be the discounted price you get at your store.
And if google were to do something similar, they will have to charge you for googling without tracking you. And lower the price to, free, if you agree to be data-mined.
PS: on second thought charging for 'privacy guaranteed' service indeed seems nice, I wish one of the search provider comes up with such a service.
Ahh yet another I can do it faster. My point is that, if you could do a page every four seconds in your setup, with this guys setup you could do it much faster, with lesser effort. Which in my opinion is worth it.
Hmmm i wonder if turning the page and pressing a button takes the same time as lifting the book and turning the page, placing the book back and pressing a button.
And if you can do 400 pages on a flat bed scanner in 20 min, i bet you could do it much much faster on this guys setup.
They do - "We offer our engineers “20-percent time” so that they’re free to work on what they’re really passionate about. Google Suggest, AdSense for Content and Orkut are among the many products of this perk."
[nosarcasm]Corporate America: our mistakes are our customers' fault and they need to pay through the nose or else they'll never learn.[/nosarcasm]
[sarcasm]Maybe with all the extra money they'll be getting with this, they'll upgrade their network so they can actually give people what they said they would give them at the price they said they would![/sarcasm]
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Mmmm how can the both patent it and keep it secret?
Thats interesting. What about oil? The OPEC controls the price of oil by controlling the production. I presume China having more power than OPEC, could pull off control of prices of these metals, quite easily.
H1-B is fraud alright. It exists to bring in foreign talent not available locally, is a total lie. Coming to think of it, I am not sure there had ever been a job in the computer science industry, where a US citizen was not available to work on, or could not be trained in a month or so to work on.
So what drives it? I second your point that it is Economics of cheaper talent/labour. So do you believe this will be solved if H1B program were to be stopped today? Do you sincerely believe an american will be get the job he deserves with a salary better than a foreigner? What I believe will happen is the job will move to a foreign country, where they can get even cheaper talent/labour. And this has already been happening for quite some time, if you are not aware of it. One of the prominent companies that was involved in the mainframes and has a name that starts with a I, stopped processing H1B visas for the past 2-3 years except when absolutely necessary, and have established huge centers in India and China. I cannot quote numbers, but you can ask their employees about it.
There one more factor driving these H1b visas - Educational Institutions in the US. There is a huge number of foreign students coming to the US every year, bring money from their home country for their tuition (which is much higher that out-state tution fees) and their living expenses. This helps these institutions survive and subsidise local students education and contributes to the economy. If it were to continue, the students need to find jobs in the US.
The other important factor is retaining these students, so that they can contribute to the US. The students who come to the US are the creamy layer of their home country. They are usually ones that have been educated in the best institutes in their home country. Its is important to retain the talent in the US, then to send them back to their home country.
I hope I have directly or indirectly countered your points. Any point countering mine is welcome.
But the Na'vis did not win the war on their own. Nature helped them, those rhinoceros like hard armoured animals helped eliminate the ground forces, without which they were pretty much doomed. These were not creatures tamed/controlled by the the Na'vis, but autonomous ones.
Because they couldnt defend themselves from high tech humans. (Well, atleast without human help :))
Primitive in certain aspects, high-tech in certain aspects I guess.
Quality though, is often considered to be higher on the German Wikipedia
Citation Needed
Was the plot only thing he was complaining about? Please read his post again.
I completely agree that the plot was a very typical one. But the visual effects were worth my 3 hours and 10 dollars in my opinion.
I can't.
I have no idea what cinemas charge nowadays
Guess you were one of the unfortunate ones, who had to watch the movie in bad 2D cam-rip with russian subs.
To enjoy the movie, you should check the 3D version at the theatres.
The torrent file contains Hashes to makes sure that never happens. You can trust a file downloaded through torrents to be more authentic than files obtained through http/ftp.
The bad news is that, the screen is to appear only for users in Europe. I hope the US anti-trust takes hint a from their European counterparts and mandate in the US too.
Yeah its neat, but is not DYI and would cost a hell. A slashdotter above claimed he had seen one of those cost $20,000.
My library does appreciate lending books and returning them as a digital copy. Can you direct me to one that does?
Actually the supermarkets jack up the prices for the ones without the discount card. If you try other supermarkets in your area, the prices would pretty much be the discounted price you get at your store.
And if google were to do something similar, they will have to charge you for googling without tracking you. And lower the price to, free, if you agree to be data-mined.
PS: on second thought charging for 'privacy guaranteed' service indeed seems nice, I wish one of the search provider comes up with such a service.
Run your own mail server and have a look at Ask's Eraser Feature
Ahh yet another I can do it faster. My point is that, if you could do a page every four seconds in your setup, with this guys setup you could do it much faster, with lesser effort. Which in my opinion is worth it.
Hmmm i wonder if turning the page and pressing a button takes the same time as lifting the book and turning the page, placing the book back and pressing a button.
And if you can do 400 pages on a flat bed scanner in 20 min, i bet you could do it much much faster on this guys setup.
We would love to see you scan 400 pages in 20 minutes with your 'book scanner'.
Or do they actually mean internet 'pirates'?
Yeah, they should start an idle^2 for such stuff!
Can be done, at the cost of performance.
They do - "We offer our engineers “20-percent time” so that they’re free to work on what they’re really passionate about. Google Suggest, AdSense for Content and Orkut are among the many products of this perk."
Source: http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/lifeatgoogle/englife.html
Any body working at google care to comment on it?
Yes! it seems so. This is a rhetorical answer btw.
Actually 1 killowatt-hour = 3.6E+6 Joules. Now, what was your point again?
[nosarcasm]Corporate America: our mistakes are our customers' fault and they need to pay through the nose or else they'll never learn.[/nosarcasm]
[sarcasm]Maybe with all the extra money they'll be getting with this, they'll upgrade their network so they can actually give people what they said they would give them at the price they said they would![/sarcasm]
Fixed that for you!