Re:Gotta add my $0.02 worth
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Voyager Eulogy
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Now that I've become used to the characters, it's kind of dissappointing that the next series will be set two hundred years before Voyager... guess that leaves out any option for cameo appearanes, with the possible exception of Q. Oh, well, time goes on.
This could be the basis of a copy protection mechanism.
OS boots up and does a simple check:
if(partition.GUID != installed.GUID) abort;
This could be implemented with pretty much any software package, especially with more and more machines coming with the software bundle preinstalled and without the original CDs.
I'm looking to buy a laptop to develop and demo web apps which run off PHP and MySQL. I will be running Apache + PHP, MySQL, X (KDE) and a couple of different web clients (Mozilla, Konqueror) simultaneously, along with my development environment (Vim -g:-) ). I'm looking for a laptop that can take this kind of load and provide good battery life, with at least a 14 inch XGA LCD featuring 32 bit color. Any suggestions on what to get? My budget is $2000 max.
The FOSA and Ashton notebooks being advertised on Egghead.com seem interesting, but I've never heard of these names, so I'm a little concerned about putting down my hard earned cash on them.
The Tuxtops laptops seem overpriced compared to their equivalents among other manufacturers/rebadgers, even after factoring in the MS Tax. Eg, a Dell 5000e configured equivalently to the Topaz costs 100s less.
I'd like to clear up a few misconceptions a lot of people seem to have.
I was on an H1-B until October 1999 and had to leave the US after my 6 years ran out. I am currently working in Japan for a multinational investment bank.
Here are the points I'd like to make:
1. H1-Bs are issued only after the government determines that the salary of the prospective employee is at least equal to a baseline "fair" salary for that region. In most places, this minimum would be around "40,000 - 45,000 USD, for a person with say 3 years of experience.
I was earning 6 figures while working in the northeast and 80+K while in Florida.
2. There is a problem with job mobility while on an H1 visa. However, things are now much better after a rule was passed allowing an employee to join a new company as soon as the visa transfer request is filed, rather than only after approval has been obtained.
3. There are unscrupulous companies out there that bring people in by exploiting loopholes in the law. These people don't stay with those companies too long however, once they realize the market situation.
4. The biggest hold employers have over H1-B visa holders is the green card. If a scheme were brought about where green cards were issued not as a result of employer sponsorship, but rather by the employees petitioning the INS on the basis of their own merit, with green card processing being independent of current employment location, this hold would be removed and H1 visa holders would be equal in all respects to their American colleagues.
5. The time limit on H1s is a detriment to the US, in my opinion, as all that is being acheived is that highly skilled people are leaving the US workforce for other countries. It is, however a boon to other countries facing a skilled manpower crunch (as in my own case, where I found employment in Japan.)
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There's always time travel. ;)
Krishna
This could be the basis of a copy protection mechanism.
OS boots up and does a simple check:
if(partition.GUID != installed.GUID) abort;
This could be implemented with pretty much any software package, especially with more and more machines coming with the software bundle preinstalled and without the original CDs.
Krishna
The FOSA and Ashton notebooks being advertised on Egghead.com seem interesting, but I've never heard of these names, so I'm a little concerned about putting down my hard earned cash on them.
Wouldn't Linux->Plex86->Win95 be an ideal platform to reverse engineer drivers for all those pieces of hardware that didn't have Linux drivers?
I was on an H1-B until October 1999 and had to leave the US after my 6 years ran out. I am currently working in Japan for a multinational investment bank.
Here are the points I'd like to make:
1. H1-Bs are issued only after the government determines that the salary of the prospective employee is at least equal to a baseline "fair" salary for that region. In most places, this minimum would be around "40,000 - 45,000 USD, for a person with say 3 years of experience. I was earning 6 figures while working in the northeast and 80+K while in Florida.
2. There is a problem with job mobility while on an H1 visa. However, things are now much better after a rule was passed allowing an employee to join a new company as soon as the visa transfer request is filed, rather than only after approval has been obtained.
3. There are unscrupulous companies out there that bring people in by exploiting loopholes in the law. These people don't stay with those companies too long however, once they realize the market situation.
4. The biggest hold employers have over H1-B visa holders is the green card. If a scheme were brought about where green cards were issued not as a result of employer sponsorship, but rather by the employees petitioning the INS on the basis of their own merit, with green card processing being independent of current employment location, this hold would be removed and H1 visa holders would be equal in all respects to their American colleagues.
5. The time limit on H1s is a detriment to the US, in my opinion, as all that is being acheived is that highly skilled people are leaving the US workforce for other countries. It is, however a boon to other countries facing a skilled manpower crunch (as in my own case, where I found employment in Japan.)