So what you are saying is just because Indians are racist its OK for Americans to be racist. Following your logic you could say just because the Nazis put Jews in Gas chambers it is ok for Americans to put Blacks into gas chambers (No wait.. thats not really a good example given the number of blacks on death row but you know what I mean) America as a nation of immigrants needs to be held to a higher standard than other countries. America has always benefited from immigration . India on the other hand has just recently regained its independence which it lost by welcoming foreign traders to their shores. So maybe Indians, French or Germans could have some reason for being racist but why Americans? Everytime a foreigner comes to America and becomes American they increase America's strength. I do agree that assimilation should be fast - maximum one generation and am violently opposed to bilingual education. A common language is necessary for common civic culture. On that note I have an interesting idea for those who believe large scale immigration will swamp communities and create their own Little Mexicos, Little Italies , Indiatown etc. Make it easier for people from mixed cultures to become Americans e.g. Allow any couple where the husband and wife have different mother tongues become Americans. These are obviously people who dont want to recreate their own countries in USA and their loyalty is going to be only to the US
Schools have always had two departments. Computer Science and Computer Engineering. CS was meant for theoreticians and Engg was meant for practitioners. Its a sad thing that the actual breakdown happened on the lines of CE is HArdware (VLSI and chip design) and CS as software and once CS got ladled with the Software only tag it degenerated into programming only. So having different programs would not solve the problem at all. What we need is there should be a two year associate degree in Programming just like we used to have draftsmen in Civil Engineering. For those interested in 4 year courses we should have Engineering concentrating on building new systems both hardware and software and CS concentrating on research in new systems both hardware and software. And to do it right do not combine EE and CE.
At my ex company (which I left to do my Masters) I used to do this all the time. I used to be on site in different countries for 1 month 2 month assignments. Those were the days. Stay in 5 star hotels paid by the client so no need to clean or do laundry (laundry allowance), no need to cook (per diem for dinners), no transportation problems - taxis reimbursed or rented cars with unlimited mileage. After work you can go out and party on the town and a month really lets you hit all the party spots and the clubs are not crazily crowded on weekdays. And on weekends just take the company car and drive off to see the tourist destinations. Ah that was the lifestyle. Its ideal for bachelors and if you are the right countries chicks really dig foreigners. BTW I met my wife while partying on my last assignment at which point it made sense to go get my Masters and give up the bedouin lifestyle.
What CS department are you talking about? Ours made even Graduate students take a functional programming course if they hadnt taken it as an undergrad and of course it was compulsory for undergrads. Even though at first functional programming can seem counter intuitive to people raised on OOP it is kind of neat once you understand it ( Of course it has no application for 90 % of real world software). BTW there is a JSR for introducing closures into Java so you might have to backoff on the Java bashing
You worked as a recruiter. So were you the one who hired the guy who said hes good with an AXE to administer the companys AIX system? My experience is that recruiters are some of the dumbest people in the industry and ex recruiters with no jobs sitting at home and posting on/. are dumber still
People going into Science and Math have no problems getting money for college. They can get loans as the banks know that they can get jobs to repay the loans. Its the arts and philosphy types who need the Delaware handouts as banks wont give them money to go to college to get their nipples pierced , fuck around, sleep late and write bad poetry so they can work at McD after 4 years
Jews were not so much expelled from Arab countries as encouraged to immigrate to Israel using big economic incentives so as to justify Zionism. Sure the blatant zionists were encouraged to leave which was still better than what was done to the American Nazi party members who were imprisoned in detention camps without trials during WW2 and believe me Zionism and Nazism are not much different. That is not a surprise as Israel was built by the Kapos from the concentration camps who killed their own brethren to survive. The true jews died in the holocaust. The ones who came to Israel were the sickos who survived by selling their souls to the Nazis and no wonder they used the methods of their Nazi masters against the Arabs.
Why would someone wan to leave and go to Israel unless one was a crazy fanatic. At that point you become suspect. Its just like an American Muslim selling all his property and deciding to emigrae to Afghanistan or Somalia with his enire family. When you want to emigrate to a terrorist nation like Israel people will naturally suspect what have you been doing in the last few years. Maybe you were working for the Mossad and you have placed nuclear or biological weapons in strategic locations and now want to leave. If you think these kind of people are over suspicion why was Mr Lindh an American Muslim who went to Afghanistan imprisoned?
In India to graduate high school you have to take 2 national level standardised exams - One after class 10 and one after class 12. Till Class 10 you have 10 subjects the whole year- English, Hindi, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Math, History, Geography, Civics, Economics and a third language (my school had the choice of Sanskrit and French - I took Sanskrit) as well as compulsory Music, Art, Yoga and Physical Ed classes (mostly playing soccer, basketball or tennis recreationally no organized sports). After giving the exams in these subjects depending on how well you scored you will get to choose Science (Engineering track), Science(Medical track), Economics track or Arts track . In each of these tracks you will have English and Math(including Calculus except in Arts where there is no Math) and 3 more subjects. People survive this while at the same time preparing for college entrance exams as college entrance is not based on High school scores (for professional colleges). Sure Indian kids suck at sports and have low social skills as they dont have time for organized sports or dating but they sure are much more prepared for college level acaemics. Its these kids against whom American kids have to start to compete so its time to toughen up the US curriculum and fail kids without mercy if they cant keep up. The most ridiculous thing I have heard is passing a kid who obviously hasnt learnt the material so as to not hurt their self esteem. WTF. If a kid cant be bothered to learn enough to pass the minimum requirements his/her self esteem needs to be hurt - in fact the self esteem needs to be taken out to the woods and shot. Respect and self respect are earned not a right. If the curriculum isnt toughened up the Indian kids will take the jobs - either here or in India through outsourcing. No amount of racist immigration policies can stop that.
The 57000 CS grads probably includes 30000 F1 students so even if you give all of them H1B (many do go back) and jobs to the other 27000 and import another 35000 for the rest of the H1b quota you are still at 92000 and you have not even started counting the people retiring. In CS because of the large amounts of money as well as the long hours the retirement age is much lower and people can afford to and need to retire in much larger numbers than other fields
The point I was trying to make is that so called Israeli civilian casualties are not all they are made out to be. If a group of Israeli soldiers are on a bus going to their reserve duty post and the bus gets blown up I would consider it a valid strike against military assets but international media reports it as civilian casualties as the soldiers were not carrying their weapons (which they would receive once they arrived at their duty post). As for Arabs serving in Israeli parliament its like the token Christian in Saddam Hussein's parliament. No sane person tries to even pretend that Israel is not a Zionist country with a state religion. As for the small discrimination Israeli army law allows them to confiscate any Arab land and turn around and give it to Jewish settlers free of charge. This is inside Israel proper and not the West Bank colonies where the natives have no rights at all when compared to the White (Russian) settlers. Also Arabs are not allowed to serve in the Army even if they want to (both Christian and Muslim Arabs). This might not seem a big deal but Israel being a semi-communist country where everything from housing to transportation allowances come from the state and are not given to those who have not served is a big crimp on the Arabs' lifestyle. At least the religious nuts get funding from the zionist cults. The sad fact of the existence of Israel is that it has taken a peacefull religion (Jews were never a race. The only person who believed Jews are a race and not a religion was Hitler) and turned it into one reviled in most of the world. The vast majority of Jews are not Zionists (even those who move to Israel mostly do for economic reasons) but all Jews reap the hatred sown by the zionist/apartheid policies.
If you try to point to Muslim atrocities to justify Israeli atrocities it would be like Hitler pointing at the American wiping out of the American Indians to justify the final solution. Just because there are crazies in other countries doesnt justify craziness .
Basically in the 20th century 3 countries have been created in the name of religion - Israel, Pakistan and Northern Island and all we get out the three is trouble. Maybe we should realize its time countries were based on secularism and equal rights for all residents irrespective of religion. Once Israel absorbs the Palestinian territories legally, gives the Palestinians right to vote in Israeli elections and becomes a true democracy and then it still faces terrorism from its neighbours thats when we should help them not while they are a apartheid regime.
Every Israeli serves in the Army or is a religious fundamentalist jew. Given this fact every Israeli is either a reserve soldier or someone who served their 2 years in the army in the past or will grow up to serve their two years in the Army or is a religious nut so basically the only civilians in In Israel are the Israeli arabs. So where are you getting civilian casualties figures for Israelis from? unless you are counting Israeli Arabs or the religious nuts? The Arabs are second class citizens who have very little control over their lives and the religious nuts deserve everything they get (especially for wearing those black dresses and beards which stink like crazy)
plainly stated genocide -check I Agree Native American genocide intolerant idealism -check I agree Creationism, Christian Fundamentalism racist -check Do I need to even say anything. America invented modern racism sworn enemy of neighbor(s) -check Invaded Canada,Panama, Granada and Mexico in the past Sworn enemy of Cuba Sure I agree willing to sacrifice entire nation for megalomaniac goals -check Iraq and cold war anyone? Who the hell cares if the Russian peasants worked for a capitalist elite or for a communist elite but no we have to have billions of dollars of missiles for our megalomaniac goals
So sure dont ignore Hitler but dont elect him too but gosh you rednecks went ahead and elected him twice. Will you please go out into the woods and shoot yourself now or are you just as shameless as the Chritian right?
Hey I work for AMD and we will soon ( 5yrs or so) be transitioning off silicon to high K material. Once CPU manufacturers are no longer using silicon the wafer fabs will produce a huge amount of silicon wafers with the only market beingsolar . Hence dont worry about the wafer supply
It could be more due to the fact that they couldnt get away with such human right violations in Europe. Its only in America that the law says once you are inside a corporate building normal laws regarding search and surveillance without warrants dont apply.
Intern salaries are almost the same as new grad salaries. CS is not like law and politics where mommy and daddy have to bribe to get you the internship and then you get screwed. In CS you get screwed(in just a different way) but you do get paid
Seriously hiding your badges? I regularly walk out of AMD with 16000 dollar servers. Hint: Use the side door. (BTW people I am not stealing:). My lab and my office just happen to be in different buildings). But if you want a really really cool software job you should come work at a hardware company. Thats where the men get separated from the boys. To be able to send of emails to Linus saying please change this piece of code on the next kernel because it will work better this way due to the new features our hardware boys have dreamt up is kind of priceless)
Well if racism demands racism here is my contribution "Europeans go home" What are white skinned people doing on this continent anyway? Asia is a lot closer to America than Europe is. Why dont these European squatters just go home.
How does that feel and if you happen to be black same goes for Africans too.
Just because you are a frustated out of work bum doesnt give you the right to insult others. America is all about mixing many cultures and intermarriage between different nationalities is what makes America so great. If you want to be insular and propagate the master race I have news for you buddy . Your master Hitler had his go at it and failed. You are 50 years too late. Now go jump off a bridge or something.
They are only going to use the Diamond cutter to produce the master for the molded glass lenses. After the master is created cost of molding a plastic reflective imager is pretty much the same as cost of molding a plastic lens. They do need more software but we all know software is free as in beer Right?
For IBM JVM writers Websphere is the main paying customer while all the rest are the test customers. They will no doubt port it ot Websphere once it is stable. I have run WAS 6.1 with JDK 6 but not with webservices so maybe the SOA portion needs to be ported. What exact problem did you get with Webservices?
Even better as the IRS allows you to deduct expenses while job hunting have him claim a deduction on his taxes for the cost of travel for job hunting purposes...
You are making my point for me. If we have an election commission which gets control over the police and other local law enforcement and civic officials for 15 days prior to a national election and after the election till the votes are ratified you are not giving up control to the federal government. India has a much worse record of outright booth-capturing(taking over of polling booths and allowing only your supporters to vote though some of it happened in Florida too where black voters were turned away) and double voting but ever since the National Election commision has received powers to conduct the election voting fraud has gone down. Also the Election Commision announces a model code of conduct 6 weeks prior to a major election and the Central and State governments are not allowed to announce major policies during the period so as to not unduely influence the voters.
The way to get rid of election controversies is to have a national election commission like in India. India has a lot more voters than the US and a much lower level of education but it manages to pull off general elections a lot more cleanly and fairly just because the standards are same for all elections and all precincts. The decentralized form of elections might have made sense for the age of horse coaches but in the age of internet it is not too tough to have thge same standards everywhere in the US
Also why not have a paper trail.With a paper backup all fraud can be caught given enough time for recounts (again if elections are not controlled by local partisan officials they cant arbitrarily decide not to have recounts).
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So what you are saying is just because Indians are racist its OK for Americans to be racist. Following your logic you could say just because the Nazis put Jews in Gas chambers it is ok for Americans to put Blacks into gas chambers (No wait .. thats not really a good example given the number of blacks on death row but you know what I mean) America as a nation of immigrants needs to be held to a higher standard than other countries. America has always benefited from immigration . India on the other hand has just recently regained its independence which it lost by welcoming foreign traders to their shores. So maybe Indians, French or Germans could have some reason for being racist but why Americans? Everytime a foreigner comes to America and becomes American they increase America's strength. I do agree that assimilation should be fast - maximum one generation and am violently opposed to bilingual education. A common language is necessary for common civic culture. On that note I have an interesting idea for those who believe large scale immigration will swamp communities and create their own Little Mexicos, Little Italies , Indiatown etc. Make it easier for people from mixed cultures to become Americans e.g. Allow any couple where the husband and wife have different mother tongues become Americans. These are obviously people who dont want to recreate their own countries in USA and their loyalty is going to be only to the US
Schools have always had two departments. Computer Science and Computer Engineering. CS was meant for theoreticians and Engg was meant for practitioners. Its a sad thing that the actual breakdown happened on the lines of CE is HArdware (VLSI and chip design) and CS as software and once CS got ladled with the Software only tag it degenerated into programming only. So having different programs would not solve the problem at all. What we need is there should be a two year associate degree in Programming just like we used to have draftsmen in Civil Engineering. For those interested in 4 year courses we should have Engineering concentrating on building new systems both hardware and software and CS concentrating on research in new systems both hardware and software. And to do it right do not combine EE and CE.
At my ex company (which I left to do my Masters) I used to do this all the time. I used to be on site in different countries for 1 month 2 month assignments. Those were the days. Stay in 5 star hotels paid by the client so no need to clean or do laundry (laundry allowance), no need to cook (per diem for dinners), no transportation problems - taxis reimbursed or rented cars with unlimited mileage. After work you can go out and party on the town and a month really lets you hit all the party spots and the clubs are not crazily crowded on weekdays. And on weekends just take the company car and drive off to see the tourist destinations. Ah that was the lifestyle. Its ideal for bachelors and if you are the right countries chicks really dig foreigners. BTW I met my wife while partying on my last assignment at which point it made sense to go get my Masters and give up the bedouin lifestyle.
What CS department are you talking about? Ours made even Graduate students take a functional programming course if they hadnt taken it as an undergrad and of course it was compulsory for undergrads. Even though at first functional programming can seem counter intuitive to people raised on OOP it is kind of neat once you understand it ( Of course it has no application for 90 % of real world software). BTW there is a JSR for introducing closures into Java so you might have to backoff on the Java bashing
You worked as a recruiter. So were you the one who hired the guy who said hes good with an AXE to administer the companys AIX system? My experience is that recruiters are some of the dumbest people in the industry and ex recruiters with no jobs sitting at home and posting on /. are dumber still
People going into Science and Math have no problems getting money for college. They can get loans as the banks know that they can get jobs to repay the loans. Its the arts and philosphy types who need the Delaware handouts as banks wont give them money to go to college to get their nipples pierced , fuck around, sleep late and write bad poetry so they can work at McD after 4 years
Jews were not so much expelled from Arab countries as encouraged to immigrate to Israel using big economic incentives so as to justify Zionism. Sure the blatant zionists were encouraged to leave which was still better than what was done to the American Nazi party members who were imprisoned in detention camps without trials during WW2 and believe me Zionism and Nazism are not much different.
That is not a surprise as Israel was built by the Kapos from the concentration camps who killed their own brethren to survive. The true jews died in the holocaust. The ones who came to Israel were the sickos who survived by selling their souls to the Nazis and no wonder they used the methods of their Nazi masters against the Arabs.
Why would someone wan to leave and go to Israel unless one was a crazy fanatic. At that point you become suspect. Its just like an American Muslim selling all his property and deciding to emigrae to Afghanistan or Somalia with his enire family. When you want to emigrate to a terrorist nation like Israel people will naturally suspect what have you been doing in the last few years. Maybe you were working for the Mossad and you have placed nuclear or biological weapons in strategic locations and now want to leave. If you think these kind of people are over suspicion why was Mr Lindh an American Muslim who went to Afghanistan imprisoned?
In India to graduate high school you have to take 2 national level standardised exams - One after class 10 and one after class 12. Till Class 10 you have 10 subjects the whole year- English, Hindi, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Math, History, Geography, Civics, Economics and a third language (my school had the choice of Sanskrit and French - I took Sanskrit) as well as compulsory Music, Art, Yoga and Physical Ed classes (mostly playing soccer, basketball or tennis recreationally no organized sports). After giving the exams in these subjects depending on how well you scored you will get to choose Science (Engineering track), Science(Medical track), Economics track or Arts track . In each of these tracks you will have English and Math(including Calculus except in Arts where there is no Math) and 3 more subjects. People survive this while at the same time preparing for college entrance exams as college entrance is not based on High school scores (for professional colleges). Sure Indian kids suck at sports and have low social skills as they dont have time for organized sports or dating but they sure are much more prepared for college level acaemics. Its these kids against whom American kids have to start to compete so its time to toughen up the US curriculum and fail kids without mercy if they cant keep up. The most ridiculous thing I have heard is passing a kid who obviously hasnt learnt the material so as to not hurt their self esteem. WTF. If a kid cant be bothered to learn enough to pass the minimum requirements his/her self esteem needs to be hurt - in fact the self esteem needs to be taken out to the woods and shot. Respect and self respect are earned not a right.
If the curriculum isnt toughened up the Indian kids will take the jobs - either here or in India through outsourcing. No amount of racist immigration policies can stop that.
The 57000 CS grads probably includes 30000 F1 students so even if you give all of them H1B (many do go back) and jobs to the other 27000 and import another 35000 for the rest of the H1b quota you are still at 92000 and you have not even started counting the people retiring. In CS because of the large amounts of money as well as the long hours the retirement age is much lower and people can afford to and need to retire in much larger numbers than other fields
The point I was trying to make is that so called Israeli civilian casualties are not all they are made out to be. If a group of Israeli soldiers are on a bus going to their reserve duty post and the bus gets blown up I would consider it a valid strike against military assets but international media reports it as civilian casualties as the soldiers were not carrying their weapons (which they would receive once they arrived at their duty post).
As for Arabs serving in Israeli parliament its like the token Christian in Saddam Hussein's parliament. No sane person tries to even pretend that Israel is not a Zionist country with a state religion.
As for the small discrimination Israeli army law allows them to confiscate any Arab land and turn around and give it to Jewish settlers free of charge. This is inside Israel proper and not the West Bank colonies where the natives have no rights at all when compared to the White (Russian) settlers.
Also Arabs are not allowed to serve in the Army even if they want to (both Christian and Muslim Arabs). This might not seem a big deal but Israel being a semi-communist country where everything from housing to transportation allowances come from the state and are not given to those who have not served is a big crimp on the Arabs' lifestyle. At least the religious nuts get funding from the zionist cults.
The sad fact of the existence of Israel is that it has taken a peacefull religion (Jews were never a race. The only person who believed Jews are a race and not a religion was Hitler) and turned it into one reviled in most of the world. The vast majority of Jews are not Zionists (even those who move to Israel mostly do for economic reasons) but all Jews reap the hatred sown by the zionist/apartheid policies.
If you try to point to Muslim atrocities to justify Israeli atrocities it would be like Hitler pointing at the American wiping out of the American Indians to justify the final solution. Just because there are crazies in other countries doesnt justify craziness .
Basically in the 20th century 3 countries have been created in the name of religion - Israel, Pakistan and Northern Island and all we get out the three is trouble. Maybe we should realize its time countries were based on secularism and equal rights for all residents irrespective of religion.
Once Israel absorbs the Palestinian territories legally, gives the Palestinians right to vote in Israeli elections and becomes a true democracy and then it still faces terrorism from its neighbours thats when we should help them not while they are a apartheid regime.
Every Israeli serves in the Army or is a religious fundamentalist jew. Given this fact every Israeli is either a reserve soldier or someone who served their 2 years in the army in the past or will grow up to serve their two years in the Army or is a religious nut so basically the only civilians in In Israel are the Israeli arabs. So where are you getting civilian casualties figures for Israelis from? unless you are counting Israeli Arabs or the religious nuts? The Arabs are second class citizens who have very little control over their lives and the religious nuts deserve everything they get (especially for wearing those black dresses and beards which stink like crazy)
plainly stated genocide -check I Agree Native American genocide ,Panama, Granada and Mexico in the past Sworn enemy of Cuba Sure I agree
intolerant idealism -check I agree Creationism, Christian Fundamentalism
racist -check Do I need to even say anything. America invented modern racism
sworn enemy of neighbor(s) -check Invaded Canada
willing to sacrifice entire nation for megalomaniac goals -check Iraq and cold war anyone? Who the hell cares if the Russian peasants worked for a capitalist elite or for a communist elite but no we have to have billions of dollars of missiles for our megalomaniac goals
So sure dont ignore Hitler but dont elect him too but gosh you rednecks went ahead and elected him twice. Will you please go out into the woods and shoot yourself now or are you just as shameless as the Chritian right?
Hey I work for AMD and we will soon ( 5yrs or so) be transitioning off silicon to high K material. Once CPU manufacturers are no longer using silicon the wafer fabs will produce a huge amount of silicon wafers with the only market beingsolar . Hence dont worry about the wafer supply
It could be more due to the fact that they couldnt get away with such human right violations in Europe. Its only in America that the law says once you are inside a corporate building normal laws regarding search and surveillance without warrants dont apply.
Intern salaries are almost the same as new grad salaries. CS is not like law and politics where mommy and daddy have to bribe to get you the internship and then you get screwed. In CS you get screwed(in just a different way) but you do get paid
Seriously hiding your badges? I regularly walk out of AMD with 16000 dollar servers. Hint: Use the side door. (BTW people I am not stealing :). My lab and my office just happen to be in different buildings).
But if you want a really really cool software job you should come work at a hardware company. Thats where the men get separated from the boys. To be able to send of emails to Linus saying please change this piece of code on the next kernel because it will work better this way due to the new features our hardware boys have dreamt up is kind of priceless)
Well if racism demands racism here is my contribution "Europeans go home" What are white skinned people doing on this continent anyway? Asia is a lot closer to America than Europe is. Why dont these European squatters just go home.
How does that feel and if you happen to be black same goes for Africans too.
Just because you are a frustated out of work bum doesnt give you the right to insult others. America is all about mixing many cultures and intermarriage between different nationalities is what makes America so great. If you want to be insular and propagate the master race I have news for you buddy . Your master Hitler had his go at it and failed. You are 50 years too late. Now go jump off a bridge or something.
They are only going to use the Diamond cutter to produce the master for the molded glass lenses. After the master is created cost of molding a plastic reflective imager is pretty much the same as cost of molding a plastic lens. They do need more software but we all know software is free as in beer Right?
For IBM JVM writers Websphere is the main paying customer while all the rest are the test customers. They will no doubt port it ot Websphere once it is stable. I have run WAS 6.1 with JDK 6 but not with webservices so maybe the SOA portion needs to be ported. What exact problem did you get with Webservices?
Even better as the IRS allows you to deduct expenses while job hunting have him claim a deduction on his taxes for the cost of travel for job hunting purposes...
LZCOUNT and POPCOUNT are for making the call stack more efficient
You are making my point for me. If we have an election commission which gets control over the police and other local law enforcement and civic officials for 15 days prior to a national election and after the election till the votes are ratified you are not giving up control to the federal government. India has a much worse record of outright booth-capturing(taking over of polling booths and allowing only your supporters to vote though some of it happened in Florida too where black voters were turned away) and double voting but ever since the National Election commision has received powers to conduct the election voting fraud has gone down. Also the Election Commision announces a model code of conduct 6 weeks prior to a major election and the Central and State governments are not allowed to announce major policies during the period so as to not unduely influence the voters.
BTW the last Indian general election was an all electronic election with EVMs used in all precincts.
The way to get rid of election controversies is to have a national election commission like in India. India has a lot more voters than the US and a much lower level of education but it manages to pull off general elections a lot more cleanly and fairly just because the standards are same for all elections and all precincts. The decentralized form of elections might have made sense for the age of horse coaches but in the age of internet it is not too tough to have thge same standards everywhere in the US
.With a paper backup all fraud can be caught given enough time for recounts (again if elections are not controlled by local partisan officials they cant arbitrarily decide not to have recounts).
Also why not have a paper trail