Its actually 10 days. 10 days to get a new job and file for a H1B or leave the country. Not much time at all.
Ok, it still should be enough if you have the kind of rare and valuable talent that the H1B program was designed to fill...
they are taxed by the US, but can't vote (taxation without representation, sound familiar?)
Umh, that's because it's temporary employment...if you want representation, then apply for citizenship...otherwise, it doesn't bother you enough...
Of course, then again, I'm sure you don't use any of our roads or public schools...right???
OTOH, it could be argued that the same thing holds for those too young to vote as well...
they dont have freedom of speech
Oh, please...
Do you actually think that publicly stating your opinion on domestic issues will get you deported?
Re: finding another job in 30 days - obviously you've never looked for a tech job lately - even if you are excellently qualified it can take significantly longer than 30 days just to land 1 interview, let alone get an offer that you take. Try to do that in 10 days - no way jose!
No, as a matter of fact, I just got a job after being unemployeed for a period of time...
To be honest, my previous statement still holds true...if you can't find a job almost immediately (even in the current market), then there's probably a citizen with the same or better skills out there...
In reference to H1Bs - most of us them have advanced degrees. To get a H1B job you basically have to have at minimum a Bachelors, and many others have Masters and even some PhDs. H1Bs aren't rubber stamped by some fly by night technical institute.
I'm not saying all, H1Bs are "rubber stamped by some fly by night technical institute", but there are a signifigant ammount of H1Bs with these degrees...probably more than in the citizen market...
Some H1Bs are here because of inside connections and have little skill...but others are here because they honestly posses a much needed skill...I've known both kinds and to be honest, the talented H1Bs should be happy to see more limitations put into the system...it will at the very least improve the public opinion of the program...
First, H1-B is a temporary visa. People come here, settle down, buy a home, start a family, become part of the community. But unless they take steps to achieve a more permanent status, such as citizenship or having a green card, they can be kicked out of the country at a moments notice. And with the current political climate, I wouldn't recommend overstaying your visa in the USA right now.
If you don't persue citizenship, then you don't really diserve it...I mean, even those born here had ancestors that went through something similar (or are Native Americans/etc)...why should H1-Bs be different?
Second, H1-B is sponsored by a company. The worker only has the legal right to work for that company. Don't like your working conditions? Don't think you're getting a fair wage? Fine, then leave your home, family, and friends and leave the country. H1-Bs can't quit a job and look for other work. It's hard not to get settled in and used to a place after a couple years, so there are plenty of stories of people who thought of themselves as permanent residents getting shipped off.
Umh, I think they actually allow 30 days for you to obtain another H1-B job...and if you honestly posses the credentials required for an H1-B, then it should be no problem for you to find another job...
Third, part of the requirements for H1-B is workers get paid prevailing wages. One of the ways companies get around that is bringing in people with little experience. "Sure, the H1-B doesn't get paid as much as the citizen engineer. But one has 1 year experience and the other has 10, so you can't make a direct comparison." But what happens as the years go by as the worker with the visa gets more experienced and worth more in the marketplace? As the disparity between the prevailing rate and the H1-B's salary grows, the company as two choices. They can give the guy a raise. Although if they wanted to do that, they could of kept the original citizen worker that got laid off.
Umh, from what I hear, a lot of H1-Bs don't even posses the skills they claim...they instead have obtained certifications that aren't worth much (but noone else knows that) and they simply learn on the job...
Of course, the whole thing could be fixed by requiring the company to pay for an independent assessment of skills before they are hired as an H1-B.
Well, this may be the situation right now, but if it continues for long, someone is bound to start indexing faster and will therefore gain market share from Google/Fast...
I currently prefer Google, but both are fairly good...
Google will likely stay up there for a long time, but sooner or later it will be #2...
The barriers to entry for the search engine market are still not as high as in the auto industry (for instance)...
How are they going to assure these addresses are actually being used...$2.25 is a lot to spend for each address...the business side doesn't work...
I understand that they probably require you to fill out a form with name, mailing address, phone, etc...but if it's a good cause, I'd figure most ppl would be more willing to donate $3 to the school than to give out a good E-Mail address...
Of course, there are a lot of con artists that falsely claim to be from a school...this is why the door-to-door fund raising thing doesn't work anymore...this is hardly better...
What you might look into is local restaurants...some of them (like Baja Fresh) will do a "boosters day" for your school...your boosters come in on a given day, present a ticket or in some cases simply mention the school name and the store donates a percentage (or all) of the profits for that sale to the school... The store will also give out coupons on that day which brings back customers and hopefully makes your boosters happy...And if I remember correctly, the stores generally take donations for that day, so if you want to just donate $5 to the school, you can...of course this requires a good store that you can trust, but that's probably not hard to find...
I've not seen figures on how much money is involved, but this is just one of the alternatives to having kids knock on doors selling candy/books/etc or in this case obtaining e-mail addresses...
It's not their decision...it's the taxpayer's decision. If a private company funded the shuttle, I'd agree...but as it stands, the.gov is footing the bill...
We have already established that no shuttle can be replaced...this means if we lost another shuttle we'd have 2 options... 1) develop another system for manned ground-to-orbit payload delivery (space-elevator, new reusable space craft, rocket, etc...)...This would also increase the cost of sending the other shuttles into orbit...which brings me to.... 2) privatize the entire industry...take the.gov out of the equation all together...if there would be no manned space program in this case, then maybe we should ask why...
We already know that the.mil doesn't need a manned space program for satellite deployment...
I honestly would like to see the program continue, but I don't think it's smart to go up until we know exactly what caused the accident and if it can be fixed...
Umh, the new 750M Zip Disks hold more, but that's it...the older 250 only holds ~40M more and the 100M version is certainly smaller...
It's arguable that anyone would want to spend ~$100 on a 750M Zip setup where the disks cost ~$15 each when you can get a good CD-RW drive for much less (~$70 for a Sony)... that takes 700M disks and works with almost every system built in the last 4 years...
If you really want the smaller size, you can always get Mini CD-RWs...a pack of 10 will hold a total of ~2G of data and will cost ~$10...
As far as ruggedness, if you need more than the MINI-CD Jewel Case that comes with it, you can always buy a MINI-CD carrying case (just check out camera stores)...
And then there's the write speeds...4 minutes to wtite 66M to a 250M Zip disk on the new drives...and it won't even write a 100M disk...
Nothing really...Russia would run flights to & from the ISS, they would use the rocket that the UK is developing for all new ISS modules...
The shuttle's only mission is now scientific (ISS missions could be considered scientific)...
The military no longer uses the shuttle...they use unmanned rockets...companies have never used the shuttle...some things would not be possible any more (fixing satelites in space), but there are a lot of countries with space agencies...the end of NASA would not be the end of all manned space research...
But this is a good thing for *NIX... as more and more companies make the switch to Linux support, they will bring their developers and source code...
SGI and IBM have both embraced Linux...
I think this should have more correctly said "Proprietary *NIX is Dead"... But it doesn't have the shock factor...
The question is, will someone ever pay to get Linux certified as a true UNIX OS??? The problem is, there is very little to gain by a company doing this (as their competitors also get the benefits)... the only thing that would probably make a company do this would be the recognition from the community...
Or he could have simply built a custom case out of plexiglass...plexiglass is a nice material because it is sturdy (hard to break), but it's easy to cut with a dermel. ~$60 should give him all of the 1/4" plexiglass he needs and there's also the kewlness factor of having a clear case...
It seems to me that all of the "better" companies with large HR divisions require a SSN for use in their HR system...many contract companies require this information before you are even submitted for a possition. When you think about it, it would probably be hard to deal with thousands of names without something like that...
It's honestly becoming more and more difficult to do anything without at least a SSN. The problem is, companies are all too often willing to give credit on a SSN and a signature...the only way to keep Identity theft from happening is to have built-in checks in the system...but this is easier said than done...
yea, I think you'ld be better spending your money on a pre-built notebook...this is the same reason why a lot of ppl have stopped building custom desktops...the price is not that far off from pre-built systems...
CPU: 1.8 GHz Mobil P-4 $445.00 Yes, but you can get a Northwood 1.81 GHz for $136.99 from pricewatch (this is the low-ball figure)...I'ld never buy from a low-ball vendor, but it should put you in the ballpark
RAM: PC133 128MB $37.97 Don't forget it has to be SO-DIMMs...
But...close...$33.05 from Axion Technologies...
HDD: 20GB $149.00 $105.00 for an IBM 30GB ATA100@4200rpm
DISPLAY: 14.1 LCD Screen $749.00 $589.00 for a Sony VAIO PCG-FX370 15.0" TFT LCD or $395.00 if you're willing to go with a 12.1" Compaq
TOTAL: (APPROX) $1380.00 More like $670.00 - $864.00
The problem with this is that this new format will no doubt be more expensive to produce than CD-R and most likely CD-RW media...the question is...will it be cheaper without levies than your CD-Rs with the levies???
What's most likely happening here is that these companies are afraid of frivolous law suits...so instead of actually attempting to enforce their patents, they can say "but we had this patent" when someone else tries to sue...
Of course, this might be Departments/Managers/Developers trying to make it look like they have been contributing to the company's profits...the IT industry is still soft and ppl still fear for their jobs...
PowerBook that spent two days at the bottom of the Amazon
Too bad it wasn't a ToughBook...I have a friend that works for a major university...the same thing happened to a ToughBook (fell into the Amazon), but the PHD that was using the notebook had his intern jump in and get it:)
The ToughBook came right back on...didn't lose any data at all...actually, the only difference between the military version of the ToughBook and the civilian model is the color...the military model comes in matte colors (black and various camouflage)...
And you should really look at Ogg Vorbis a little more...the file size will be the same with Ogg Vorbis as an MP3 with the same bit rate, but the Ogg Vorbis file will be higher quality.
This means you can have smaller files that sound just as good...to hear how good Ogg Vorbis files can be, try encoding a file with -q0 and you'll see what I mean (a 3-4 minute file should be ~1-1.5M)...
It uses advanced acoustic modeling to do quality based encoding...something not built into MP3 (Lame tries to approximate this)...
If you want to talk raw bit rate, Vorbis can do higher bit rates as well (640max I think...current encoders can only do a max of 320 but the format allows for it), but the real reason to use Vorbis is better sounding, smaller sized files...I mean, isn't that the ultimate goal of lossy compression???
As a matter of fact, Ogg Media (Generally VP3...sometimes XviD + Vorbis) is becoming the preferred format for some Anime Fan-Subbers...for a good look at how to do OGM, look here and here...
What's even better about Ogg Vorbis is the format allows for tuning of algorithms even now (after the format is frozen)...
You should also check out the Dare To Compare page on Xiph's own site...
No it's not...go read the FAQ...there's actually been a recent upgrade to the player that adds advanced anti-skip protection and increases battery life by up to an hour...
The RioVolt SP-100 is directly upgradable with the iRiver iMP-100 firmware...the SP-250 requires a search & replace with the iMP-250 name...
iRiver makes the player, it is rebadged as a RioVolt, but it's the same player...iRiver is actually selling the newer models in the US now....I guess SonicBlue thought the SlimX design wasn't the way to go...
But, when does a project suited for scripting become a project suited for a more powerful language? For instance a database script that pulls data , parses a few things and spits them out...what is the point at which the code becomes so big that a scripting language is no longer suited to the task? What will happen in a business environment is that your code will become more and more bloated with code on top of code to do new revisions...adding calculations for new things, sorting, etc...
What's moreso, how does one go about communicating the need for a change and the difficulty in implimenting it?
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Its actually 10 days. 10 days to get a new job and file for a H1B or leave the country. Not much time at all.
Ok, it still should be enough if you have the kind of rare and valuable talent that the H1B program was designed to fill...
they are taxed by the US, but can't vote (taxation without representation, sound familiar?)
Umh, that's because it's temporary employment...if you want representation, then apply for citizenship...otherwise, it doesn't bother you enough...
Of course, then again, I'm sure you don't use any of our roads or public schools...right???
OTOH, it could be argued that the same thing holds for those too young to vote as well...
they dont have freedom of speech
Oh, please...
Do you actually think that publicly stating your opinion on domestic issues will get you deported?
Re: finding another job in 30 days - obviously you've never looked for a tech job lately - even if you are excellently qualified it can take significantly longer than 30 days just to land 1 interview, let alone get an offer that you take. Try to do that in 10 days - no way jose!
No, as a matter of fact, I just got a job after being unemployeed for a period of time...
To be honest, my previous statement still holds true...if you can't find a job almost immediately (even in the current market), then there's probably a citizen with the same or better skills out there...
In reference to H1Bs - most of us them have advanced degrees. To get a H1B job you basically have to have at minimum a Bachelors, and many others have Masters and even some PhDs. H1Bs aren't rubber stamped by some fly by night technical institute.
I'm not saying all, H1Bs are "rubber stamped by some fly by night technical institute", but there are a signifigant ammount of H1Bs with these degrees...probably more than in the citizen market...
Some H1Bs are here because of inside connections and have little skill...but others are here because they honestly posses a much needed skill...I've known both kinds and to be honest, the talented H1Bs should be happy to see more limitations put into the system...it will at the very least improve the public opinion of the program...
The article mentions that this will be of particular interest for web servers.
Why? Gzip already uses minimal processor time...and many sites already use Mod_Gzip...
So, as far as I'm concerned, unless the Mod_Gzip project supports this hardware,it's not gonna float...
First, H1-B is a temporary visa. People come here, settle down, buy a home, start a family, become part of the community. But unless they take steps to achieve a more permanent status, such as citizenship or having a green card, they can be kicked out of the country at a moments notice. And with the current political climate, I wouldn't recommend overstaying your visa in the USA right now.
If you don't persue citizenship, then you don't really diserve it...I mean, even those born here had ancestors that went through something similar (or are Native Americans/etc)...why should H1-Bs be different?
Second, H1-B is sponsored by a company. The worker only has the legal right to work for that company. Don't like your working conditions? Don't think you're getting a fair wage? Fine, then leave your home, family, and friends and leave the country. H1-Bs can't quit a job and look for other work. It's hard not to get settled in and used to a place after a couple years, so there are plenty of stories of people who thought of themselves as permanent residents getting shipped off.
Umh, I think they actually allow 30 days for you to obtain another H1-B job...and if you honestly posses the credentials required for an H1-B, then it should be no problem for you to find another job...
Third, part of the requirements for H1-B is workers get paid prevailing wages. One of the ways companies get around that is bringing in people with little experience. "Sure, the H1-B doesn't get paid as much as the citizen engineer. But one has 1 year experience and the other has 10, so you can't make a direct comparison." But what happens as the years go by as the worker with the visa gets more experienced and worth more in the marketplace? As the disparity between the prevailing rate and the H1-B's salary grows, the company as two choices. They can give the guy a raise. Although if they wanted to do that, they could of kept the original citizen worker that got laid off.
Umh, from what I hear, a lot of H1-Bs don't even posses the skills they claim...they instead have obtained certifications that aren't worth much (but noone else knows that) and they simply learn on the job...
Of course, the whole thing could be fixed by requiring the company to pay for an independent assessment of skills before they are hired as an H1-B.
Many of the multinationals are skipping the "middle man" so to speak and are simply moving whole departments to India...
There really isn't anything illegal about this and they get to take advantage of a much lower wage/hr...
Of course, when enough tech employees are employed in this way, the wage will go up and the monetary advantages will be less...
Well, this may be the situation right now, but if it continues for long, someone is bound to start indexing faster and will therefore gain market share from Google/Fast...
I currently prefer Google, but both are fairly good...
Google will likely stay up there for a long time, but sooner or later it will be #2...
The barriers to entry for the search engine market are still not as high as in the auto industry (for instance)...
Maybe the next one will be Teoma (Owned by Ask Jeeves, Inc.)...
But until then, I'll still keep an eye on Search Engine Watch...
How are they going to assure these addresses are actually being used...$2.25 is a lot to spend for each address...the business side doesn't work...
I understand that they probably require you to fill out a form with name, mailing address, phone, etc...but if it's a good cause, I'd figure most ppl would be more willing to donate $3 to the school than to give out a good E-Mail address...
Of course, there are a lot of con artists that falsely claim to be from a school...this is why the door-to-door fund raising thing doesn't work anymore...this is hardly better...
What you might look into is local restaurants...some of them (like Baja Fresh) will do a "boosters day" for your school...your boosters come in on a given day, present a ticket or in some cases simply mention the school name and the store donates a percentage (or all) of the profits for that sale to the school... The store will also give out coupons on that day which brings back customers and hopefully makes your boosters happy...And if I remember correctly, the stores generally take donations for that day, so if you want to just donate $5 to the school, you can...of course this requires a good store that you can trust, but that's probably not hard to find...
I've not seen figures on how much money is involved, but this is just one of the alternatives to having kids knock on doors selling candy/books/etc or in this case obtaining e-mail addresses...
It's not their decision...it's the taxpayer's decision. If a private company funded the shuttle, I'd agree...but as it stands, the .gov is footing the bill...
.gov out of the equation all together...if there would be no manned space program in this case, then maybe we should ask why...
.mil doesn't need a manned space program for satellite deployment...
We have already established that no shuttle can be replaced...this means if we lost another shuttle we'd have 2 options...
1) develop another system for manned ground-to-orbit payload delivery (space-elevator, new reusable space craft, rocket, etc...)...This would also increase the cost of sending the other shuttles into orbit...which brings me to....
2) privatize the entire industry...take the
We already know that the
I honestly would like to see the program continue, but I don't think it's smart to go up until we know exactly what caused the accident and if it can be fixed...
Well, Ritek makes a Mini DVD-R, so I'm sure Mini DVD-RWs will come around as soon as the writers become more commonplace...
Umh, the new 750M Zip Disks hold more, but that's it...the older 250 only holds ~40M more and the 100M version is certainly smaller...
It's arguable that anyone would want to spend ~$100 on a 750M Zip setup where the disks cost ~$15 each when you can get a good CD-RW drive for much less (~$70 for a Sony)... that takes 700M disks and works with almost every system built in the last 4 years...
If you really want the smaller size, you can always get Mini CD-RWs...a pack of 10 will hold a total of ~2G of data and will cost ~$10...
As far as ruggedness, if you need more than the MINI-CD Jewel Case that comes with it, you can always buy a MINI-CD carrying case (just check out camera stores)...
And then there's the write speeds...4 minutes to wtite 66M to a 250M Zip disk on the new drives...and it won't even write a 100M disk...
You're right...it is being developed by the ESA, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that the UK had a big hand in the development...
Nothing really...Russia would run flights to & from the ISS, they would use the rocket that the UK is developing for all new ISS modules...
The shuttle's only mission is now scientific (ISS missions could be considered scientific)...
The military no longer uses the shuttle...they use unmanned rockets...companies have never used the shuttle...some things would not be possible any more (fixing satelites in space), but there are a lot of countries with space agencies...the end of NASA would not be the end of all manned space research...
Old, proprietary UNIcies are dying...
... as more and more companies make the switch to Linux support, they will bring their developers and source code ...
...
... But it doesn't have the shock factor ...
... the only thing that would probably make a company do this would be the recognition from the community ...
But this is a good thing for *NIX
SGI and IBM have both embraced Linux
I think this should have more correctly said "Proprietary *NIX is Dead"
The question is, will someone ever pay to get Linux certified as a true UNIX OS??? The problem is, there is very little to gain by a company doing this (as their competitors also get the benefits)
Or he could have simply built a custom case out of plexiglass...plexiglass is a nice material because it is sturdy (hard to break), but it's easy to cut with a dermel. ~$60 should give him all of the 1/4" plexiglass he needs and there's also the kewlness factor of having a clear case...
It seems to me that all of the "better" companies with large HR divisions require a SSN for use in their HR system...many contract companies require this information before you are even submitted for a possition. When you think about it, it would probably be hard to deal with thousands of names without something like that...
It's honestly becoming more and more difficult to do anything without at least a SSN. The problem is, companies are all too often willing to give credit on a SSN and a signature...the only way to keep Identity theft from happening is to have built-in checks in the system...but this is easier said than done...
Colors yes (only 4 unique colors if i'm not mistaken) and no support for transparency or animation of all pointer types in Windoze 95....
32 bit color mouse pointers with support for transparency and animation.
:)
This is very kewl...I am actually trying to do my own pointer set...if I'm not mistaken, this is a first for those using the X86 platform...
It seriously brings back memories of the Amiga...
Of course, the performance enhancements are kewl too
yea, I think you'ld be better spending your money on a pre-built notebook...this is the same reason why a lot of ppl have stopped building custom desktops...the price is not that far off from pre-built systems...
This product differs from a notebook in that it does not include an integrated battery. An optional external battery is available. (emphasis mine)
I don't think so...
CPU: 1.8 GHz Mobil P-4 $445.00
Yes, but you can get a Northwood 1.81 GHz for $136.99 from pricewatch (this is the low-ball figure)...I'ld never buy from a low-ball vendor, but it should put you in the ballpark
RAM: PC133 128MB $37.97
Don't forget it has to be SO-DIMMs...
But...close...$33.05 from Axion Technologies...
HDD: 20GB $149.00
$105.00 for an IBM 30GB ATA100@4200rpm
DISPLAY: 14.1 LCD Screen $749.00
$589.00 for a Sony VAIO PCG-FX370 15.0" TFT LCD or $395.00 if you're willing to go with a 12.1" Compaq
TOTAL: (APPROX) $1380.00
More like $670.00 - $864.00
The problem with this is that this new format will no doubt be more expensive to produce than CD-R and most likely CD-RW media...the question is...will it be cheaper without levies than your CD-Rs with the levies???
What's most likely happening here is that these companies are afraid of frivolous law suits...so instead of actually attempting to enforce their patents, they can say "but we had this patent" when someone else tries to sue...
Of course, this might be Departments/Managers/Developers trying to make it look like they have been contributing to the company's profits...the IT industry is still soft and ppl still fear for their jobs...
PowerBook that spent two days at the bottom of the Amazon
:)
Too bad it wasn't a ToughBook...I have a friend that works for a major university...the same thing happened to a ToughBook (fell into the Amazon), but the PHD that was using the notebook had his intern jump in and get it
The ToughBook came right back on...didn't lose any data at all...actually, the only difference between the military version of the ToughBook and the civilian model is the color...the military model comes in matte colors (black and various camouflage)...
And you should really look at Ogg Vorbis a little more...the file size will be the same with Ogg Vorbis as an MP3 with the same bit rate, but the Ogg Vorbis file will be higher quality.
This means you can have smaller files that sound just as good...to hear how good Ogg Vorbis files can be, try encoding a file with -q0 and you'll see what I mean (a 3-4 minute file should be ~1-1.5M)...
It uses advanced acoustic modeling to do quality based encoding...something not built into MP3 (Lame tries to approximate this)...
If you want to talk raw bit rate, Vorbis can do higher bit rates as well (640max I think...current encoders can only do a max of 320 but the format allows for it), but the real reason to use Vorbis is better sounding, smaller sized files...I mean, isn't that the ultimate goal of lossy compression???
As a matter of fact, Ogg Media (Generally VP3...sometimes XviD + Vorbis) is becoming the preferred format for some Anime Fan-Subbers...for a good look at how to do OGM, look here and here...
What's even better about Ogg Vorbis is the format allows for tuning of algorithms even now (after the format is frozen)...
You should also check out the Dare To Compare page on Xiph's own site...
No it's not...go read the FAQ...there's actually been a recent upgrade to the player that adds advanced anti-skip protection and increases battery life by up to an hour...
The RioVolt SP-100 is directly upgradable with the iRiver iMP-100 firmware...the SP-250 requires a search & replace with the iMP-250 name...
iRiver makes the player, it is rebadged as a RioVolt, but it's the same player...iRiver is actually selling the newer models in the US now....I guess SonicBlue thought the SlimX design wasn't the way to go...
But, when does a project suited for scripting become a project suited for a more powerful language? For instance a database script that pulls data , parses a few things and spits them out...what is the point at which the code becomes so big that a scripting language is no longer suited to the task? What will happen in a business environment is that your code will become more and more bloated with code on top of code to do new revisions...adding calculations for new things, sorting, etc...
What's moreso, how does one go about communicating the need for a change and the difficulty in implimenting it?
I've had that very thing happen to me...