U.S. is still one of the best places for free speech. The criteria for any expansion of governance in an international context should be directly linked to a country's free speech laws. So theoretically countries like Estonia and Norway deserve some power, but in reality, the only people who care about internet governance are those who want to suppress free speech.
In Australia. We have a pretty high standard of living here. The reason I would like to move to the U.S. is because I'm an entrepreneur and it's nearly impossible to hire people here for speculative projects. I've did it twice before and anyone decent is 150K+. In a seed funded company that is a huge amount. Also VC exists but they are like the Merchant of Venice here. Also there are a ton of other reasons why even with U.S. litigation madness, the U.S. is still a better place to start companies. Entrepreneurs in SF have it better than anyone else on the planet. U.S. (average) salaries actually look quite low to me. I understand where you are coming from though with the rest of it. Maybe you should move here, it's pretty civilized. #grassisgreener I guess.
This year they also added a CAPTCHA after you've signed in for the results. So I had a little OMG moment today before the usual let down.
My wife and I have applied every year for the last 9 or so (since they went to internet based registrations). It's always been the same, nothing has changed until now. In hindsight, since I never applied in the first two weeks I was probably wasting my time all those years which is a bit of a bummer.
I probably should have just went over on an H1-B. It always seemed a bit like indentured servitude tho..
People told me how incomprehensible it was, but once they learned it, how incredibly thoughtfully laid out the UI was.
I hope that the new UI still has that spirit. FYI, if you are interested in 3D and want a tool that is really easy to use, try Google Sketchup. It's pretty awesome.
"Sarah Palin has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district and when people do that, they’ve gotta realize there are consequences to that action.” --Gabrielle Gifford March 25, 2010, MSNBC Interview.
Alot of foreigners (like me) out there would like to come to the U.S. and hire (relatively) cheap American engineers, but we can't do it because foreign investment visas are too costly/risky for small companies.
Here in Australia, our labour market is tightly government regulated, and it's nearly impossible to hire decent engineers here for anything less than a king's ransom as competition for anyone good is fierce - even the banks have problem hiring people.
So support startupvisa.com, to drive jobs and innovation from America's greatest asset - it's people.
I talked to my federal MP about this and he says in his 12 years in parliament, he has never seen such a vocal and mobilised electorate.
This issue has been re-introduced into parliament by the government a number of times. It shows that despite this widespread unpopularity of it, how extremist the Christians (Rudd, Conroy) running Labour are. And now the Liberals too.
This is the right decision and it's overdue franky. It's all been downhill since the amazing achievements of the 1960s.
The entire agency should be dismantled, and at that time the U.S. government should:
1) Publish a list of X-prizes for space research achievements. 2) VC fund a number of companies designed to go after those X-Prizes. 3) Put a salary cap on startup employees. Weed out the dispassionate.
This has two effects: It makes the cost of failure a linear and known quantity. It incentives the people who will make it happen.
Online poker is the ultimate RSI inducing activity. It demands total focus, I've always wanted a dedicated wireless poker keyboard that supports multitabling.
It would be an easy product for a poker playing slashdotter out there. Maybe these guys could help http://www.synctronics.com/
It never occurs to him at any point along the way to ask Nintendo for their permission and support. It comes as a surprise when the rights holder pulls the plug.
I get what your saying but...c'mon. Artists shouldn't have to ask permission to do their work.
This happened because trademark law says companies are required to defend their TM or lose them. The rise of the global DNS makes (word) trademark law obsolete however it will probably take at least another century before governments figure this out.
In the meantime, the creators of this should rename their word to the Legend of Velda, to avoid the legal hassles.
Im the founder/ceo of a funded tech startup. Let me share some advice I learned the hard way:
Share your great ideas promiscuously as possible to attract collaborators, even in highly specialised science and engineering fields. Otherwise your ideas will never gain traction and actually happen, and you will always be a dreamer.
In the unlikely event that someone steals your idea, take it as a compliment and move on to the next great idea. Great ideas are easy to come up with. It's the execution that's the tough part. Startups are 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Unless only 1-2 people in the world understand what your talking about, pretty much anything you communicate verbally is not going to have much value to a competitor.The vast majority of the time secrecy is extremely toxic and harmful to getting an idea off the ground.
Even if H-1B workers are good for the U.S., which is debatable, it doesn't matter in the long run, because American companies will continue to offshore work because of the cost of living in the U.S.
In the country I live in (Australia) I own a 4bedroom house in an inner-city suburb. (That's considered desirable here.) The house is worth a shade under 2M and it's nothing special. That's pretty typical for your average professional here.
I run a small sw company that is developing software for android. Labor costs in Australia are very expensive. It's tough to find good engineers for less than 100K/yr. The best graduates usually want to work for the big blue chip companies. Despite the alleged global economic downturn, unemployment here is still very low.
I would love to move to the U.S. and take advantage of the insanely cheap housing and labor costs. However the process looks hard, scary and filled with uncertainty. I would be required to retain ownership of my Australian house as proof that I plan on coming back. There is no guarantee I could stay there if I went, though I could renew my visa indefinitely.
I bet there are thousands of small business people like myself worldwide. Given the chance these people would move to the U.S. and open small-medium sized businesses that would provide a ton of jobs. But it's just too risky for many of us at the moment.
Canada is similar and I could move there tomorrow but let's face it, it's just too damn cold. I have one of the most beautiful beaches in the world about 30 minute drive from my door now. If I moved to the U.S. it would be to the South West.
It's a bit of a shame. I would love to buy a house in the U.S. real estate market right now.
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Use drobo if you are time poor and money rich, use btrfs if you are time rich and money poor.
Btrfs's capabilities are nothing short of amazing. Here is a vid about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bQc_z-Cb7E
Maybe Google could partner with Microsoft to get those people onto the free Android system?
U.S. is still one of the best places for free speech.
The criteria for any expansion of governance in an international context should be directly linked to a country's free speech laws. So theoretically countries like Estonia and Norway deserve some power, but in reality, the only people who care about internet governance are those who want to suppress free speech.
1. All Content is Copyright by default.
2. How do you distinguish the legal from the illegal content?
In Australia. We have a pretty high standard of living here. The reason I would like to move to the U.S. is because I'm an entrepreneur and it's nearly impossible to hire people here for speculative projects. I've did it twice before and anyone decent is 150K+. In a seed funded company that is a huge amount. Also VC exists but they are like the Merchant of Venice here. Also there are a ton of other reasons why even with U.S. litigation madness, the U.S. is still a better place to start companies. Entrepreneurs in SF have it better than anyone else on the planet. U.S. (average) salaries actually look quite low to me. I understand where you are coming from though with the rest of it. Maybe you should move here, it's pretty civilized. #grassisgreener I guess.
This year they also added a CAPTCHA after you've signed in for the results.
So I had a little OMG moment today before the usual let down.
My wife and I have applied every year for the last 9 or so (since they went to internet based registrations). It's always been the same, nothing has changed until now.
In hindsight, since I never applied in the first two weeks I was probably wasting my time all those years which is a bit of a bummer.
I probably should have just went over on an H1-B. It always seemed a bit like indentured servitude tho..
(See subject)
Maybe there is something interesting to be learned about that 'measurement error'...
We desperately want to meet the aliens. Unless they are illegal aliens, then they should GTFO.
I've heard this before about the old UI.
People told me how incomprehensible it was, but once they learned it, how incredibly thoughtfully laid out the UI was.
I hope that the new UI still has that spirit. FYI, if you are interested in 3D and want a tool that is really easy to use, try Google Sketchup.
It's pretty awesome.
"Sarah Palin has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district and when people do that, they’ve gotta realize there are consequences to that action.”
--Gabrielle Gifford March 25, 2010, MSNBC Interview.
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This sounds an awful lot like incitement to commit murder. Is there any chance this tough guy will get charged?
To take it one step farther, I propose that every major U.S. corporation should have a dolphin as it's chairman of the board.
Last time I looked (~2.0 era) there was still a ton of closed source stuff in android, usually labelled 'prebuilt' in the source directory.
Even if all the prebuilt stuff is gone now, there is still a ton of closed source firmware that's not distributed, but required for a working handset.
Cyanogen would be the man to ask get all the nitty gritty.
I'll bet good money this will fail. One reason apps are so popular is that their user experience is so highly customised to their individual devices.
Alot of foreigners (like me) out there would like to come to the U.S. and hire (relatively) cheap American engineers,
but we can't do it because foreign investment visas are too costly/risky for small companies.
Here in Australia, our labour market is tightly government regulated, and it's nearly impossible to hire decent
engineers here for anything less than a king's ransom as competition for anyone good is fierce - even the banks
have problem hiring people.
So support startupvisa.com, to drive jobs and innovation from America's greatest asset - it's people.
This is what I have and ...wow. This is the most rock solid stable and fast ADSL model router that I have ever owned.
Kudos to Billion.
I talked to my federal MP about this and he says in his 12 years in parliament, he has never seen such a vocal and mobilised electorate.
This issue has been re-introduced into parliament by the government a number of times.
It shows that despite this widespread unpopularity of it, how extremist the Christians (Rudd, Conroy) running Labour are.
And now the Liberals too.
They even wanted to censor http://www.exitinternational.net/ .
To build a whole new package management system that works across Linux and Windows.
Any chance you could build something that uses a git / msysgit / jgit backend, to allow for rewind-fastforward versioning of apps?
This is the right decision and it's overdue franky.
It's all been downhill since the amazing achievements of the 1960s.
The entire agency should be dismantled, and at that time the
U.S. government should:
1) Publish a list of X-prizes for space research achievements.
2) VC fund a number of companies designed to go after those X-Prizes.
3) Put a salary cap on startup employees. Weed out the dispassionate.
This has two effects:
It makes the cost of failure a linear and known quantity.
It incentives the people who will make it happen.
Online poker is the ultimate RSI inducing activity.
It demands total focus, I've always wanted a dedicated wireless poker keyboard that supports multitabling.
It would be an easy product for a poker playing slashdotter out there.
Maybe these guys could help http://www.synctronics.com/
Start a political party or GTFO
It never occurs to him at any point along the way to ask Nintendo for their permission and support. It comes as a surprise when the rights holder pulls the plug.
I get what your saying but...c'mon. Artists shouldn't have to ask permission to do their work.
This happened because trademark law says companies are required to defend their TM or lose them.
The rise of the global DNS makes (word) trademark law obsolete however it will probably take at least another
century before governments figure this out.
In the meantime, the creators of this should rename their word to the Legend of Velda, to avoid the legal
hassles.
Im the founder/ceo of a funded tech startup.
Let me share some advice I learned the hard way:
Share your great ideas promiscuously as possible to attract collaborators, even in highly specialised science and engineering fields.
Otherwise your ideas will never gain traction and actually happen, and you will always be a dreamer.
In the unlikely event that someone steals your idea, take it as a compliment and move on to the next great idea.
Great ideas are easy to come up with. It's the execution that's the tough part. Startups are 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Unless only 1-2 people in the world understand what your talking about, pretty much anything you communicate verbally is not going to have
much value to a competitor.The vast majority of the time secrecy is extremely toxic and harmful to getting an idea off the ground.
Even if H-1B workers are good for the U.S., which is debatable, it doesn't matter in the long run, because American companies will continue to offshore work because of the cost of living in the U.S.
In the country I live in (Australia) I own a 4bedroom house in an inner-city suburb. (That's considered desirable here.) The house is worth a shade under 2M and it's nothing special. That's pretty typical for your average professional here.
I run a small sw company that is developing software for android. Labor costs in Australia are very expensive. It's tough to find good engineers for less than 100K/yr. The best graduates usually want to work for the big blue chip companies. Despite the alleged global economic downturn, unemployment here is still very low.
I would love to move to the U.S. and take advantage of the insanely cheap housing and labor costs. However the process looks hard, scary and filled with uncertainty. I would be required to retain ownership of my Australian house as proof that I plan on coming back. There is no guarantee I could stay there if I went, though I could renew my visa indefinitely.
I bet there are thousands of small business people like myself worldwide. Given the chance these people would move to the U.S. and open small-medium sized businesses that would provide a ton of jobs. But it's just too risky for many of us at the moment.
Canada is similar and I could move there tomorrow but let's face it, it's just too damn cold. I have one of the most beautiful beaches in the world about 30 minute drive from my door now. If I moved to the U.S. it would be to the South West.
It's a bit of a shame. I would love to buy a house in the U.S. real estate market right now.