Of course, that all blithely ignores people like me who came for three years on an H1b and then decided to leave. I've been offered sponsorship again, and also for a TN1 since becoming a Canadian. But I have absolutely no desire to move back Stateside, and know many people with the same sentiments. I certainly wouldn't want to spend the next decade of my life getting a green card and then citizenship. What's the attraction? I don't get it. Each to their own though, but there's clearly a lot of ignorance about the issue, as well as media spin and sweeping generalisations.
Umm, actually yes, that would be at the higher end of the range, but still within reason. Even in years of lower immigration, more immigrants arrive in Toronto than the US issues H1b visas. 52% of Toronto's population was born overseas, and it's the fifth most populous municipality in N. America. More immigrants apparently settle in Toronto each year than any other N. American city, including places like Miami or Los Angeles. The most recent figures I found are 87,136 in 2007 and 99,293 in 2006.
.Net 2.0 SP2 is an update to.Net 2.0, not XP SP3. It's the same installer binary for whatever version of Windows you have (64/32-bit differences aside)
Those are tax dollars also paid by existing H1bs, and presumably taxes from future H1bs for the debts and the interest payments on the debts that result from the government spending more money than they have.
Furthermore, 85,000 is a drop in the ocean for a country the size of the US. Some H1b people have to leave every year as their six year term is up and they don't have green cards or citizenship. Those 85,000 are spread across different industries, diluting the impact in one particular area. Toronto receives more new immigrants per year than this (maybe 50% more), and it has a 1/60th the population or less... it's generally considered a good thing though. So what's up with this ridiculous over-blown xenophobia? H1bs really aren't affecting people that much.
Or maybe they have proper bug management, and assign the bugs based on priority and schedule impact. Why assign bugs to somebody if you know they won't be able to deal with them? They'll just end up with a huge list which won't be any help to their ability to focus on the critical issues. Yes, experienced engineers are better at managing their tasks, but it's still silly just assigning them willy-nilly as they will get lost in the system eventually.
We have at least weekly bug review boards with the product manager, engineering manager, lead engineer and QA lead. More frequently at other points in the dev cycle. The PM helps adjusts the priority of the issues, with the feedback from engineering who state how much effort they anticipate, and what if any schedule impact there will be, as well dependencies. The QA lead is responsible for the issues in the tracking system, ensuring it's scrubbed at certain points in the project, and raising the flag on any issues that need review or be deferred until the next dev cycle. It really isn't that hard.
Poppycock. That's utter BS, and you know it. If Windows wasn't reliable enough, then it wouldn't be so popular, even for servers. I find Windows to be more reliable and stable than my Mac Book Pro running OS X 10.5.x, and that's based on UNIX. Stop the childish FUD.
Will making my apps look like XP, or Vista or OS X convince people that they might want to dump Linux+KDE and switch to another platform? I didn't think so. In fact most Linux+KDE users would likely complain about it, just as OS X and Windows users are going to complain. Make it native thanks. It's like the GTK people thinking their file open dialog is better than delegating to the native equivalent... but it was so horrendous to use that it was the thing that pushed me over the brink with Gimp about six years, and I haven't touched it since.
As I've read this article, I was trying to figure out why I would want to run this on either my Mac or my Windows PC. What's the point? Both of them have already got fantastic GUIs, so why add another? Some sort of twisted cross-platform bloat?
Hmmm, but I did live in Shanghai for nearly five months over last summer. Once I overcame my fear of the apparent randomness on the roads, cycling is ok there too. I suspect it might be more humid. Cycling is great because it creates a cooling air flow.
Cities like Hangzhou (about 170 km from Shanghai) have built awnings at intersections so that cyclists don't have to sit in the sun when waiting for lights. Not that I saw the sun much in China:P I can't see that happening any time soon though in Western cities, especially in TX where I suppose there are few bike lanes.
Bicycle? Oh you're in TX - I guess somebody will shoot you or run you off the road.
Seriously though. I lived for three years in the suburbs of Denver, and didn't own a car. Not as humid I'm sure as TX. But then I did it for seven years in downtown Toronto (range from hot/humid to cold and danger of frost bite) too. Anything within 10-15km is easy easy easy.
That's rather assuming that a worker can do any job. That's an attitude rather reminiscent of Soviet Russia. The reality is that it can often be hard to find somebody with sufficient experience or with knowledge and expertise specific to the job.
Not true. You think their home country will provide them with unemployment benefits? You think they'll be able to start a new lease on a home without a job? All that time paying Social Security, etc in the US, and US income taxes etc, benefitting other unemployed Americans, and they will get nothing in return. Great attitude.
It's funny how people like Win2K these days. I remember it being very late and a popular target on this website for gaining so much bloat (30 million lines of code, up from NT4's 15 million), and shipping with 65,000 bugs. In a few years, maybe you'll look back at Vista or XP in the same way.
You haven't shopped in China have you? I went there because it has a better returns policy than most places, and at least a few people on staff who speak English (some of the staff I spoke to had been over to Vanvcouver for training).
Even then when I had an obviously broken Airport that needed to be rebooted every 15 minutes when it lost connectivity, I spent days arguing with them that it was faulty and that they should at least exchange it for another. They insisted that I either have somebody come to my house (at my expensive) to demonstrate it doesn't work, or they'd send it off for testing for a week (which surprisingly turned up no problems). None of which was convenient for somebody who had to work from home due to early morning meetings with colleagues in California before the local office was open.
Really, one is stupid not to shop at Best Buy under the circumstances
iPhones in the West are relatively expensive, especially considering the plan lock-ins. iPhones in China are hideously expensive (relatively), and lock-in to the China Telecom plan makes it even worse. Many Chinese like the status symbol, but the cost is ridiculous - hence my comment that China is not a good market (or at least mass market)
Well I'm not buying the current iPhone because it's too large. It's not going to fit in pocket as well as my 83g Samsung SGH-E730, which I hardly notice is there most of the time - perfect. It's pretty functional too, giving my POP3 and SMTP access anywhere I go in the world except Japan and S. Korea. Maybe a Nano would be something I could consider as an eventual replacement.
Yeah, China, don't make me laugh! Why would they launch there? The market for them isn't that big!
There's already big market for iPhone clones, that are much cheaper. You see them everywhere
There's a big market for MyPhone. Runs an illegal copy of Windows, and is more popular with my work colleagues because it's cheaper than the iPhone, runs Windows applications, and has applications that they actually like
Does Apple sell hardware cheaper in China? My Airport Express at Best Buy in Shanghai was 20% more expensive than in the US! Even in Shanghai where salaries are much higher than the rest of the country, our engineers didn't like spending more than RMB25 (<USD$4), just to give perspective about disposable income levels
Click on the mouse wheel. It's normally a mouse button too, and has been for years (or at least as long as I can remember with the Microsoft mice). But then you're not really complaining about mice but trying to make a point about X11, which is actually a shit platform as not every app does copy/paste the same way.
And you treat your kids like they're your friends rather than your kids?
Your statement about status reports would come across as BSing to me. Status reports help engineers focus their minds and keep their attention on track of what they need or have agreed to do. For the managers they help reassure them that they've understood that the engineers understand the requirements and direction, and that they're getting what is required. They still have to talk to each other between reports though.
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Of course, that all blithely ignores people like me who came for three years on an H1b and then decided to leave. I've been offered sponsorship again, and also for a TN1 since becoming a Canadian. But I have absolutely no desire to move back Stateside, and know many people with the same sentiments. I certainly wouldn't want to spend the next decade of my life getting a green card and then citizenship. What's the attraction? I don't get it. Each to their own though, but there's clearly a lot of ignorance about the issue, as well as media spin and sweeping generalisations.
Umm, actually yes, that would be at the higher end of the range, but still within reason. Even in years of lower immigration, more immigrants arrive in Toronto than the US issues H1b visas. 52% of Toronto's population was born overseas, and it's the fifth most populous municipality in N. America. More immigrants apparently settle in Toronto each year than any other N. American city, including places like Miami or Los Angeles. The most recent figures I found are 87,136 in 2007 and 99,293 in 2006.
.Net 2.0 SP2 is an update to .Net 2.0, not XP SP3. It's the same installer binary for whatever version of Windows you have (64/32-bit differences aside)
Those are tax dollars also paid by existing H1bs, and presumably taxes from future H1bs for the debts and the interest payments on the debts that result from the government spending more money than they have.
I thought they changed this system a decade ago, whereby people could change jobs and then apply for the H1b transfer afterwards.
Are you sure? Did you actually mean .Net 3.5 SP1? That's what just installed it on my machine. I've never seen XP SP3 install it.
Furthermore, 85,000 is a drop in the ocean for a country the size of the US. Some H1b people have to leave every year as their six year term is up and they don't have green cards or citizenship. Those 85,000 are spread across different industries, diluting the impact in one particular area. Toronto receives more new immigrants per year than this (maybe 50% more), and it has a 1/60th the population or less... it's generally considered a good thing though. So what's up with this ridiculous over-blown xenophobia? H1bs really aren't affecting people that much.
Or maybe they have proper bug management, and assign the bugs based on priority and schedule impact. Why assign bugs to somebody if you know they won't be able to deal with them? They'll just end up with a huge list which won't be any help to their ability to focus on the critical issues. Yes, experienced engineers are better at managing their tasks, but it's still silly just assigning them willy-nilly as they will get lost in the system eventually.
We have at least weekly bug review boards with the product manager, engineering manager, lead engineer and QA lead. More frequently at other points in the dev cycle. The PM helps adjusts the priority of the issues, with the feedback from engineering who state how much effort they anticipate, and what if any schedule impact there will be, as well dependencies. The QA lead is responsible for the issues in the tracking system, ensuring it's scrubbed at certain points in the project, and raising the flag on any issues that need review or be deferred until the next dev cycle. It really isn't that hard.
Poppycock. That's utter BS, and you know it. If Windows wasn't reliable enough, then it wouldn't be so popular, even for servers. I find Windows to be more reliable and stable than my Mac Book Pro running OS X 10.5.x, and that's based on UNIX. Stop the childish FUD.
Will making my apps look like XP, or Vista or OS X convince people that they might want to dump Linux+KDE and switch to another platform? I didn't think so. In fact most Linux+KDE users would likely complain about it, just as OS X and Windows users are going to complain. Make it native thanks. It's like the GTK people thinking their file open dialog is better than delegating to the native equivalent... but it was so horrendous to use that it was the thing that pushed me over the brink with Gimp about six years, and I haven't touched it since.
As I've read this article, I was trying to figure out why I would want to run this on either my Mac or my Windows PC. What's the point? Both of them have already got fantastic GUIs, so why add another? Some sort of twisted cross-platform bloat?
Do you have any idea how bad for your health it is sitting at a desk for hours every day, repeated for years and years?
Hmmm, but I did live in Shanghai for nearly five months over last summer. Once I overcame my fear of the apparent randomness on the roads, cycling is ok there too. I suspect it might be more humid. Cycling is great because it creates a cooling air flow.
Cities like Hangzhou (about 170 km from Shanghai) have built awnings at intersections so that cyclists don't have to sit in the sun when waiting for lights. Not that I saw the sun much in China :P I can't see that happening any time soon though in Western cities, especially in TX where I suppose there are few bike lanes.
Bicycle? Oh you're in TX - I guess somebody will shoot you or run you off the road.
Seriously though. I lived for three years in the suburbs of Denver, and didn't own a car. Not as humid I'm sure as TX. But then I did it for seven years in downtown Toronto (range from hot/humid to cold and danger of frost bite) too. Anything within 10-15km is easy easy easy.
That's rather assuming that a worker can do any job. That's an attitude rather reminiscent of Soviet Russia. The reality is that it can often be hard to find somebody with sufficient experience or with knowledge and expertise specific to the job.
That was my experience on an H1b too.
Not true. You think their home country will provide them with unemployment benefits? You think they'll be able to start a new lease on a home without a job? All that time paying Social Security, etc in the US, and US income taxes etc, benefitting other unemployed Americans, and they will get nothing in return. Great attitude.
Or more likely, hire more non-U.S. engineers off-shore.
It's funny how people like Win2K these days. I remember it being very late and a popular target on this website for gaining so much bloat (30 million lines of code, up from NT4's 15 million), and shipping with 65,000 bugs. In a few years, maybe you'll look back at Vista or XP in the same way.
You haven't shopped in China have you? I went there because it has a better returns policy than most places, and at least a few people on staff who speak English (some of the staff I spoke to had been over to Vanvcouver for training).
Even then when I had an obviously broken Airport that needed to be rebooted every 15 minutes when it lost connectivity, I spent days arguing with them that it was faulty and that they should at least exchange it for another. They insisted that I either have somebody come to my house (at my expensive) to demonstrate it doesn't work, or they'd send it off for testing for a week (which surprisingly turned up no problems). None of which was convenient for somebody who had to work from home due to early morning meetings with colleagues in California before the local office was open.
Really, one is stupid not to shop at Best Buy under the circumstances
iPhones in the West are relatively expensive, especially considering the plan lock-ins. iPhones in China are hideously expensive (relatively), and lock-in to the China Telecom plan makes it even worse. Many Chinese like the status symbol, but the cost is ridiculous - hence my comment that China is not a good market (or at least mass market)
Well I'm not buying the current iPhone because it's too large. It's not going to fit in pocket as well as my 83g Samsung SGH-E730, which I hardly notice is there most of the time - perfect. It's pretty functional too, giving my POP3 and SMTP access anywhere I go in the world except Japan and S. Korea. Maybe a Nano would be something I could consider as an eventual replacement.
Yeah, China, don't make me laugh! Why would they launch there? The market for them isn't that big!
Click on the mouse wheel. It's normally a mouse button too, and has been for years (or at least as long as I can remember with the Microsoft mice). But then you're not really complaining about mice but trying to make a point about X11, which is actually a shit platform as not every app does copy/paste the same way.
And you treat your kids like they're your friends rather than your kids?
Your statement about status reports would come across as BSing to me. Status reports help engineers focus their minds and keep their attention on track of what they need or have agreed to do. For the managers they help reassure them that they've understood that the engineers understand the requirements and direction, and that they're getting what is required. They still have to talk to each other between reports though.
What is your criteria for a different file system? NTFS is already a very good one for most of the important criteria.