"the latter has been addressed with H1B portability and faster green-card
approvals."
The much vaunted H1-B portability is working much to detriment of US
workers..
With the average wage in India less than Haiti, they are staying right
here. China isn't much better.
Hell, 99% percent of the world make less than the average US wage.
So even a sub par wage is way better than they can get in their homeland.
The body shops, instead of laying off H1-B's and sending them home are
giving them extended leave of absence without pay.
Thus the hoard of H1-B's continue to depress the labor markets long
after their need was gone, (remember the shortage cries, the only justification
for H1-B in the first place.).
". Jobs will probably continue to go off-shore, but the best way
of stemming that is to bring the qualified programmers from those other
countries to the US; if you force them to go back to their countries of
origin, they won't become farmers, they'll create a thriving and competitive
software industry there."
They've been trying that for years.. except this time they will have
lots of on the job training.
Almost inevitiably the flaws in the home country will drag them down.
Corruption, lack of due process and ability to equitably enforce
contracts, lack of infrastructure, etc.
The H1-B program reeks of fraud, corruption, and represents a primary
failure of a society to CONSERVE resources (the benefits of citizenship)
for it citizens. It has a destiny to inflict enormous harm upon the US
citizens, and their society.
****
H1-B import levels, based on federal fiscal year, Oct 1 -> Sep 30.
Initial H1-B visa length 3 years, + 3 year extension, +1 year if GC
application pending. (Total length 7 years).
"NO. From ZDNet:"
"IBM and Japanese electronics giant Hitachi on Tuesday said they have
agreed to collaborate on developing open data-storage systems as they take
aim at industry leader EMC."
"collaborate != out of the game. "
It only supports two 500Mhz stacked signals (Just enough for
One Sat slot).. or CATV.
In this day and age.. U.S. DBS services have three to four different
Sat slots.
Then there is the multiple receiver issue, that can't be addressed
by this product.
---
Another item: The high speed internet is no faster than the existing
DOCSIS modems.
Data bandwidth Downstream Full duplex Burst packets: 10 Mbps Measured payload: 3.5 Mbps to 7 Mbps Upstream Full duplex Measured payload: 3.5 Mbps to 4.5 Mbps
"This is the typical slashdot blabbering. SoftWiFi is a GREAT idea.
"
Yes, great idea !!
Right up until some hacker decompiles M$ code and finds
the inevitable missing stack overflow check, timing flaw, or
similar logic hole.
Given the inherent homogenous nature of M$ xxx86 SoftWiFi code,
add in most of SoftWiFi's protocol stack will be running in the
kernel, should offer the hackers & feds the ultimate in backdoors!
Instant, nearly undetectable, untraceable, unstoppable security breach
in millions of SoftWifi'd PC's.
Boy, oh, Boy.. One can only imagine the possibilities!
"I am a citizen of the United States, so perhaps this post is a
manifestation of a major difference between the European point-of-view/thought
process and the American, but I cannot see how this is can posibly be a
good thing."
"1. The language is going to be broad. Face it. Jus about anything
will qualify because as soon as the precedent is set, everybody will be
clamoring to have their pet peeve branded as hate speech. Someone makes
a joke like: "How do you make a dog go meow? You run it quickly over a
circular saw," and it will be branded as hateful to animals and animal
lovers. 2. As a direct consequence, since everyone is guilty of this in
one way or another, the law will only be selectively applied. It will only
be used against minority viewpoints. Anti-globalization protesters (which
I am not a part of and to some extent find some disquieting parallels with
Naziis m in their beliefs) will be branded hatemongers and barred from
internet use. These laws will turn into icing on the cake and cheap means
to punish people when nothing else can be pinned on them. "
I wouldn't label citizens trying to protect society from repeating
history, as "Naziis"!
Fifty centuries of recorded history have taught us that, "Societies
which failed to conserve resources for it citizens" are only remembered
in the history books !
The globalists have an agenda. Use the world's weakest
societies too roll back the acheivements of the strongest societies.
Now decide which of societies protections, you would like
to live without?.
Maybe the Environmental laws, or Minimum wage, or the Eight (8)
Work day, or the 40 hour work week, an impartial Court system, or Workmans
compensation, or even Social security/medicare?
Hell, why not repeal the 13th amendment, and bring back slavery?
There is a lot to loose by letting the globalists/(IVPP),
run things !
"There's one fellow who comes to the KMart where I work occasionally
who is rather indignant about the big screen TV behind the service desk
that shows continuous advertisements and things; he says it makes him sick,
and he has to make a wide loop around it when he comes in or out. "
Most TV set's emit asignificant amount of sonic energy,
and no, I am not just talking about the content of the TV programs.:-)
In the US, the NTSC standard frequency of 15.75 kilohertz was chosen
for horizontal retrace interval. As a natural design consequence
of the standard, both the horizontal coil and fly back transformer both
operate at this same frequency. These components contain wire coils
which vibrate as the magnetic field expands and contracts 15,750 times a
second. As these wire coils vibrate, the mechanical movement converts
into sonic energy at the same frequency, very similar to a speaker.
This vibration results in the TV set emitting a continuous, high pitched
pure tone, just within the hearing range of humans.
For the most part, the larger the TV screen, the larger the components, which
results in an even higher intensity pure tone emission.
Exposure to these moderately intense, high frequency pure tones for
long periods of time,
can inflict serious damage too your hearing. One of these
conditions is called "Tinnitus".
Tinnitus sufferers, will often continue to perceive these continuous
high pitch tones, long after being exposed. (often years). I.E. A living
hell ! The number of 'Tinnitus" sufferers in the US is
estimated to be in the 30 to 50 million range. Their number continues to
increase at epidemic proportions.
Thus, avoiding additional exposure to these continuous, pure sound tones
is a good start!
Some suggestions for the technically inclined.
1. Switch to a full time line double HDTV set/monitor (~31Khz)
for normal TV viewing.
2. Change the scan rate frequency preferences for the video card,
sometimes up or sometimes down.
Often a 1/2 or 1/3 harmonic can inflict just as much damage,
especially if it is just a few feet away.
3. Avoid placing CRT monitors & TV sets in the corners of
a room.
The sound reflections off walls just increase the exposure.
4. Replace computer CRT monitors with LCD monitors.
5. Use a laptop computer, and it's built in LCD display for most
daily tasks.
Same here, except I was with M1/RR/At&T in South florida.
I was a customer for 2.5 years,
Started out fast(4Mb/700Kb) then got slower(1.5Mb/300Kb) and
slower(10X, packet loss).
On top of that they increased the price for their pitiful
service.
I finally disconnected my cable
modem service after the code red fiasco
and they blocked port 80 from the outside.
For the last month or two with AT&T/RR, (June/July, 2001), I wasn't
able to establish a reliable VPN connection. Packet loss during
the daytime was way too high,
averaged 5%. During the evenings and weekends, forget about it, packet
loss averaged 20 to 30%.
I am now using a DSL based service with a lot less problems.
Packet loss to clients less than 0.2%,
VPN sessions stay connected, for hours on end, with few session
interruptions.
No restrictions on low volume servers, plus I have a static IP address.:-)
"I once worked at a place where we had a lightning storm. Within a week,
about half of the hard drives had failed, out of about a dozen. RAID won't
save you then. And how fast can you get replacement hard drives installed,
anyway?"
"All the affected machines were plugged into good UPSes, too. "
The hard drives were likely damaged by the pressure shock wave of a
nearby strike.
I.E. Heads touched spinning media while running and contaminated the
mechanism.
I've been bitten by tape backups, which initially backup'd/verified
up successfully.
Only to discover bad spots on the tapes after a disk crash!
Warning! NT/W2K/XP/Veritas backup aborts restore tape operation after
encountering the first nonrecoverable tape media error! Ten(10) year
old technology exists to skip over bad spots, but is not implemented on the
previously mentioned M$ based products. Needless to say, no more M$ products.
Until DVD-R's/RW media/drives come down in price.
I'll continue to use CDR's and CD-RW's at 0.30$/GB and 0.65$/GB respectively.
CDR/RW drives are fairly fast now, 12 to 16x is typical , got a new
12X-CDR/8X-CDRW drive for $70.
I would burn all permanent data onto at least three(3) master sets of CDR's, and the
volatile incremental data onto 10 sets of CD-RW's.
I would make sure you can restore an entire image of your data with
any combination of one permanent, and one incremental set. Note: Make sure your
CD burning software supports a verify option, (like Nero), very important!
More than likely your TR interface tried to come up at the WRONG speed. Instant data corruption since all data passing thru get's reclocked to slower data rate and corrupted. Then all the adapters start beaconing, (everybody get off the ring), but the adapter at the wrong speed doesn't hear the beaconing signal, because....(It's still at the wrong speed!!)
(The 1st node coming up is supposed to set the speed, but all it takes is one broken adapter to sense the wrong speed, big mess.)
Agreed, black holes formed in the atmosphere should have a high relative
velocity, allowing them to escape back into space.
Creating ones (with lower velocities) near the ground, using opposing
particle beams may be extremely dangerous. (They just might hang
around for a while and consume the earth).
If they want to perform that experiment, find a different planet
to do it on!!
A little civil disobedience goes a long way!
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It would be high time for a little protest action,WTO style.
The inexpensive tests of alcohol can't tell the difference between the
various types of alcohol's.
You could differentiate between them, if you had a gas chromatography
analyzer, but they are very expensive and somewhat fragile.
Each driver could stock one's car with a little bottle of isopropyl
(rubbing) alcohol. Use a little to clean the rear view
mirror, and spill a little on the carpet before setting out
on that evening's journey. The police would wind up chasing million's
automobiles per day, with no convictions to show for it, damned
inconvenient. Needless to say, that program would end in heartbeat!
Note: Their are lots of other sources of alcohol vapors, fermenting
fruit, etc..
If any of you had written any Unix Network device drivers, protocol layers,
you would quickly realize the folly in your statements. Just configuring
the ethernet link types is a fairly complex task (needs a CPU), HDLC ATM
virtual circuits even more so.
Just one 64 KB IP layer packet can be constructed from 60+ ethernet
packets, and/or 1200 ATM packets. All/any of which can be received out
of order. After it is assembled, you can verify the checksum and the begin
checking the payload. Then you've got to add time-out's, duplicate discards,
CRC handling, retries, sliding window acknowledgments. Once data contents
are checked, then the IP packet can be sent along to the destination, (another
45 or 1200 packets worth of packets sent, retries, collision detects, Ack's,
etc.). So far I just described ONE IP packet of One IP Stream. Add in processing
multiple IP streams at the same time, plus the extensive memory management
to keep track of resources.
So far that's just up layer 3 stuff, you still got TCP layers
4 through 7. Anyone who thinks they can accomplish the objective without
using ten's, hundred's of thousands of lines of CPU code is dreaming.
ASIC only implementation without CPU, forget about it.
B.T.W.. Implementing a somewhat slow CPU in a programmable ASIC is a
terrible waste of very expensive resources (>1/2 of 500$ programmable ASIC).
It much/much cheaper to use a very fast DSP ($10 + $10 DRAM) to perform
such tasks. You might use a smaller ASIC ($20) to accelerate some of the
slower, repetitive logic processes, but that's about the maximum
extent of any ASIC usage.
If any of you had written any Unix Network device drivers, protocol layers,
you would quickly realize the folly in your statements. Just configuring
the ethernet link types is a fairly complex task (needs a CPU), HDLC ATM
virtual circuits even more so.
Just one 64 KB IP layer packet can be constructed from 60+ ethernet
packets, and/or 1200 ATM packets. All/any of which can be received out
of order. After it is assembled, you can verify the checksum and the begin
checking the payload. Then you've got to add time-out's, duplicate discards,
CRC handling, retries, sliding window acknowledgments. Once data contents
are checked, then the IP packet can be sent along to the destination, (another
45 or 1200 packets worth of packets sent, retries, collision detects, Ack's,
etc.). So far I just described ONE IP packet of One IP Stream. Add in processing
multiple IP streams at the same time, plus the extensive memory management
to keep track of resources.
So far that's just up layer 3 stuff, you still got TCP layers
4 through 7. Anyone who thinks they can accomplish the objective without
using ten's, hundred's of thousands of lines of CPU code is dreaming.
ASIC only implementation without CPU, forget about it.
B.T.W.. Implementing a somewhat slow CPU in a programmable ASIC is a
terrible waste of very expensive resources (>1/2 of 500$ programmable ASIC).
It much/much cheaper to use a very fast DSP ($10 + $10 DRAM) to perform
such tasks. You might use a smaller ASIC ($20) to accelerate some of the
slower, repetitive logic processes, but that's about the maximum
extent of any ASIC usage.
"One company I worked with had an innovative idea for a firewall: build
it with programmable logic and it works at wire speed. Wire speed meant
no buffering, no data storage, and therefore no need for a microprocessor
or for an IP (Internet Protocol) address. Simple installation, simple management,
but so different that experts--even those from programmable logic companies--didn't
understand it. To them, proposing a firewall without a microprocessor and
an IP address was like proposing a car without an engine. No funding. Back
to work at a big company. Worse for them; worse for us. The industry loses.
Progress is delayed. "
Trying to building a firewall without a uP was an exceptionally DUMB
IDEA!
First you would have to build a real fancy state machine. TCP/IP protocols
are based on streams of bytes/bits. Doing a couple of states in a parallel
hardware design is easy, but thousands, or ten's of thousands of states
is nearly impossible. Plus, a firewall needs to be flexible, (catch the
latest un-expected hacker exploit, log it, etc), which is something most
hardware designs are not.
Hence the idea of using Microprocessors is a very useful thing.
B.T.W. What where they going to use to drive the I/O interfaces?
All the designs I know of need at least one micro to run them! (I.E. Program
dma lists, handle errors, etc). Unless you're going to re-invent those
wheels as well, and build your own custom interfaces.
In summary, that idea deserved to die, it failed to reduce risks too
an acceptable level!
The VC's were right not fund a real dumb idea, next time, pick a better example.
"IIRC from my early Computer Engineering classes, all it takes to damage
a circuit is +5 volts or static electricity. It seems like it was something
around +10,000 volts of static electricity before we as humans feel it.
I think that's right. I'll have to dig out my old books"..
Not quite.. Low power circuits (especially CMOS) are susceptible to voltages outside the Ground to VCC range. Just a couple of volts either way and the damage is done. Fortunately the capacitance is low and charge can be quickly eliminated with the right design.
They need to add some chassis grounds, and bleed resistors (100K) between signal/chassis ground and each of the signals on both sides of the palm interface. (The fatal zap can occur from either object, I.E. an imbalance of static charge). They also need to make sure the chassis grounds make contact before any of the signals. There are even better solutions, but that advice is reserved for paying customers.
They've been trying foreign IT outsourcing for decades, most
of them fail every time.
"The basic flaw with Matloff's argument is that he assumes that if
foreigners don't come to the US on H1B visas, the jobs will go to US residents.
That's wrong. What happens in real life is that if the foreign programmers
and professionals can't come here, the jobs simply go to where the people
are. Most large companies already have development labs set up all around
the world and can shift resources overseas at a moment's notice and without
any increase in cost. In fact, that's already what happens when potential
foreign hires can't come to the US: they simply work overseas until their
visas come through. "
Some of the flaws with foreign outsourcing.
1. In the time you have developed a project definition of sufficient
detail for outsourcing, you could have completed the project using
competent staff..
2. In the states, I stand behind my products I produce. Yes, I can
be sued, in a U.S. court, if I fail to perform. Just try to
get the same accountability in a foreign Jurisdictions. Same
goes for NDA's, non-competes, etc. Will the foreign courts enforce it
or render fair judgments? or will it based on who you know, or paid off? 3. Time to watch you IP fly out the door, and wind
up in the hands of foreign competitor.
4. Lack of modern infrastructure. In the US you can ship
packages and it will arrive at it destination 99.99% of the time.
Good luck with 2nd/3rd world countries and the various customs
problems you will encounter.
5. Protected utility monopolies can and will charge and
arm and leg for even simple items. phone lines, long distance, T1 line
(ouch).
6. Are the utilities reliable. Is the power up 24x7,
are the phones reliable, (or do they yield busy signals 10 hours a day)?
7. Time lag issues, Management problems, Language
issues.
8. Loss of insight. when a local worker often observes
the issues/problems first hand, then proposes sensible solutions
that can be accomplished in a realistic time frame. Very rarely is
the client able to accurately describe what they really need or desire.
I.E. Loss of fit, finish and function.
9. Over specificity. In order to lock down a cost of a
foreign, one has a tendency too over specify the design, often locking
themselves into a useless product design or solution.
10. Lack of experience in approaching problems in a modern
fashion. Difference cost basis applies here, in 3rd world, labor
is cheap, in the US labor is expensive(tech support, sales, etc). What
type of solution will you finally get?
Any combination of the above items can conspire too ruin any
foreign outsourcing relationship.
In summary, foreign IT outsourcing has been tried and tried again.
Most fail or yield little long term success.
Telocity/Directvdsl has a online click through sign-up agreement,
which includes the terms of returning the gateway. Thus a contract
is established, like it or not.
Second, what purpose does it serve to retain their equipment? Force
them to raise rates for remaining customers? Force another DSL isp
into bankruptcy?
I prefer having the option of a decent alternate ISP, whom doesn't
impose the requirement of wasteful PPPoE protocol stack, allows servers,
and gives out public static IP addresses.
Right now, I will admit, I am in the last stages of signing up
with telocity/directvdsl. Modem will arrive this coming monday. In the
past I have set up friends with a Telocity account, and I am glad that
steered them away from AT&T/RR. I've been tortured for last 2.5 years,
by M1/RR/AT&T cable modem service, (50+ outages lasting over a day,
News, DNS, Routing loops, Oversubscribing, RF problems, etc.) plus mostly
low brow tech support. (The most recent outage affecting 50,000+
customers, lasted for over a week, starting June 17.
The suspected problem, routing loops/misconfigured network, 30 to 40% packet
loss during peak hours, 4 to 5% middle(4am) of the night.).
I am pleased, that their still exists at least ONE decent national DSL
provider. Note: The incubant Bell South's DSL service, forced PPPoE usage,
no server policies is a non-starter.
So, think twice before ripping off your ex-ISP. They aren't
the only one hurt by your actions, you may be encouraging the remaining
broadband ISP's to provide even less service. The grass isn't
always greener, on the otherside of the fence.
"so Intel can not legally challenge AMD's use of EV6".
The key question is.. Can Intel use this purchase to screw
upthird party support for AMD's EV6 bus?
For example, raise EV6 licensing fees to discourage any other
VIA's supporting AMD's product lines.
Why is Intel really buying the ALPHA? Maybe trying to pull off a Rambus backdoor maneuver?
Sounds like they have to go back to school and learn about the conservation of energy law.
The statement "LCD monitor only drew 1/10 the power and generated 1/4 the heat of a 17" CRT monitor" is highly unlikely to be true. Except for the trivial amount of light output, maybe a couple of watts (total). All energy used, even the light output, ultimately gets converted to heat. So 1/10 the power should result in 1/10 the heat, etc. Or 1/4 of the heat roughly equals 1/4 of the power. One or the other, not 1/10 equals 1/4.
"On another topic, around here, as you've seen--as we've all
seen--with the dot-com bust, a lot of people lost their jobs, lost their
options. What role do you think government should have in that, in boosting
the tech sector? Is there a role there? "
"But not all of this falls into the administration's responsibility.
Clearly, the Federal Reserve has a role to play here in terms of the amount
of money in circulation and the interest rates."
Let's review the Fed's tech record....
H1-B, el cheapo imported tech labor program, (currently set at
250K+ new bodies per year), is federal subsidy for corporations at the
expense of U.S. tech workers. DCMA is a federal law protecting
corporations lame ass IP implementations at the expense of the consumers.
A Patent Office which does NOT know the difference, between a
hole in a ground and a flush toilet, (subsidy for lawyers/big corporations).
IRS 1776 tax code change, which forced most independant workers
into cheaper W2 (employee) positions. The 1986 labor ruling
which decided employees making more than ~27 dollars and hour are
not entitled to over time pay multipliers. Do you see the
pattern yet!
Yes, the Fed's have been screwing around the tech industry for a LONG....
time.
Each time they act, you can bet, the U.S. worker will get
screwed.
The worst of the lot, is the current "H1-B" program, which
is corrosively destroying our tech industry infrastructure from the
inside out. Do you think it was an accident? That the
tech industry started collapsing at an ever increasing rate, after
theFED'smore than doubled the yearly H1-B quotas?
When you answer the question,
who really drove U.S. tech sales forward,
and who are the same people getting displaced by the H1-B's,
then you will have found enlightenment about the current tech crash.
Yep, great job..NOT!! I think we would be better off,
if monkey's ran the U.S. government, at least they would be a little
more consistent.
Oh.. one last thought.. Greenspan's attempt to boost what remains of
our economy, is going to trigger a serious bout of stagflation. Have
a nice day..
"I used to find myself in the position of being a guru to friends, family,
and neighbors. I'm very reluctant to do so now.", "The big problem is complexity,
as a lot of other posters have pointed out. "
Same here. Except that they often forget, or loose critical information.
For example:
Did it ever work?
When was the last time it worked correctly?
When was the last time you used that product?
What have you installed since it last worked correctly?
What have you changed since the last time it worked correctly?
-- side issue -- funny..
Sent an email to tech support, of a major UPS manufacturer.
It detailed that after brief power outages, units were getting
stuck for hours,
in a high voltage charging mode. (bad news, produces explosive gases..
)
I noticed that email message, sat in my outgoing mail box, retrying
every few minutes.
... all weekend long!! Monday, it finally got delivered..
They shut email server off, on weekends!!! Side note: they still haven't responded.
"Gurus of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.
And, um, most of your friends.:-) "
I wonder just how, those college students will pay off their student loans?
Flashback to just six months ago!!
Intel's President/CEO relayed the following comments,
during
the house floor debate of SB 2045. That bill expanded
the H1-B yearly quota to 195,000
a year, plus added
an additional 55,000+ a year
in non quota limited categories.
--From the Congressional record, House of representatives, Oct. 3, 2000,
page H8704 --
[Time: 19:00]
Mr. CANNON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as
I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I just had a phone
call from the president and CEO of Intel, Mr. Craig Barrett, whose view of this is that
we can either import workers, or export jobs. I think that is really what this
comes down to.
Part of the criticism of this bill has
come from people who believe that bringing in new workers would keep wages low.
As a practical matter, these people that are coming in with high skills
and high education are making the pie bigger. They are making us all wealthier.
That is just the fundamental distinction between the sides here.
Intel's CEO got his demands! SB 2045 became law a few weeks later..
But, This gets even better, talk about about a bunch of two timing
CEO's.
All of them kept on contracting/hiring H1-B's right up until they announced
MAJOR jobs cuts,
Plus, they continued with their plans to export jobs anyway!!
It is disgusting, that American
citizen's that must loose/forgo their high tech careers,
so these two timing CEO's can keep 600,000+ H1-B's employed
as their replacements!
The time is NOW, to END the H1-B
program!
You can start by Boycotting
all INTEL products, purchase AMD
based systems instead!
""If I notice it's drifting and looking / spying into my house, I'll pull the courtains and then complain. ""
"I'd shine a powerful spotlight into the bloody camera..."
Then the energy waste patrol hauls you off to a reeducation camp for a few years.
Consider any technology/rights given to government, can and will fall into the hands of your worst enemy.
When government runs out of criminals, they simply make more of them, by enacting yet another draconian law. Do you live a perfect life?
Throughout history, governments have directly caused more violent deaths of humans than any other cause. Have you never heard of wars, purges, and genocide? Those are not caused by average criminals, rather by special ones called presidents, dictators, kings, emperors, kaisers, potentates, and other names for "sovereign" heads of state. They cause the deaths of both soldiers and civilians alike.
Actually, They have no powers one a firm files for bankruptcy protection in federal court.
All the power is in the hands of the federal bankruptcy judge/trustee. CPUC can pass all the votes if wants, they are non-binding, the judge decides all issues. He also has the power to void almost any government regulation and modify the terms of almost any existing contracts. Unfortunately this means Northpoint's DSL services will most likely remain shutdown.
Well, first thing to determine is if you really need a FULL time computer expert. Or do you really just need them from time to time?
If the second sentence fits your bill, then go with an older computer consultant/engineer on a part time, as needed basis. Get a consultant who's had real some lab training, I.E. Chemistry Minor/Math major (Very important).
A person who is skilled in laboratory techniques approaches scientific problems in a much different manor. I.E. What are the sources of error, how to determine the error rates, how to compensate for them, confirm the results, etc.
Don't put absolute faith in having degrees or certain types of degrees. Many CS degree programs haven't been around more than fifteen maybe twenty years. Note, that of some the very best engineers/consultants may have never finished their degrees.
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The much vaunted H1-B portability is working much to detriment of US workers..
With the average wage in India less than Haiti, they are staying right here. China isn't much better.
Hell, 99% percent of the world make less than the average US wage. So even a sub par wage is way better than they can get in their homeland.
The body shops, instead of laying off H1-B's and sending them home are giving them extended leave of absence without pay.
Thus the hoard of H1-B's continue to depress the labor markets long after their need was gone, (remember the shortage cries, the only justification for H1-B in the first place.).
". Jobs will probably continue to go off-shore, but the best way of stemming that is to bring the qualified programmers from those other countries to the US; if you force them to go back to their countries of origin, they won't become farmers, they'll create a thriving and competitive software industry there."
They've been trying that for years.. except this time they will have lots of on the job training.
Almost inevitiably the flaws in the home country will drag them down. Corruption, lack of due process and ability to equitably enforce contracts, lack of infrastructure, etc.
The H1-B program reeks of fraud, corruption, and represents a primary failure of a society to CONSERVE resources (the benefits of citizenship) for it citizens. It has a destiny to inflict enormous harm upon the US citizens, and their society.
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H1-B import levels, based on federal fiscal year, Oct 1 -> Sep 30.
Initial H1-B visa length 3 years, + 3 year extension, +1 year if GC application pending. (Total length 7 years).
FY 1997, 65,000 (H1-B cap first reached)
FY 1998, 65,000
FY 1999, 138,385
FY 2000, 149,850
FY 2001, 357,000+
FY 2002, 54,000(Q1)*2 = 108,000(six months)?
Left over from FY 1996 & 95 == ~50,000*2
"IBM and Japanese electronics giant Hitachi on Tuesday said they have agreed to collaborate on developing open data-storage systems as they take aim at industry leader EMC."
"collaborate != out of the game. "
WRONG ! (next time check your facts)..
IBM drive spinout ends an era
"Disk pioneer sells bulk of operation to smaller rival Hitachi"
"By Rick Merritt and Yoshiko Hara"
EE Times
April 19, 2002 (5:34 p.m. EST)
Can you imagine a bunch of cubes filled with IBM's Deathstar drives?
Error, error, must assimilate, assimilate.. need more drives...
It only supports two 500Mhz stacked signals (Just enough for One Sat slot).. or CATV.
In this day and age.. U.S. DBS services have three to four different Sat slots.
Then there is the multiple receiver issue, that can't be addressed by this product.
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Another item: The high speed internet is no faster than the existing DOCSIS modems.
Data bandwidth
Downstream Full duplex
Burst packets: 10 Mbps
Measured payload: 3.5 Mbps to 7 Mbps
Upstream Full duplex
Measured payload: 3.5 Mbps to 4.5 Mbps
Yes, great idea !!
Right up until some hacker decompiles M$ code and finds the inevitable missing stack overflow check, timing flaw, or similar logic hole.
Given the inherent homogenous nature of M$ xxx86 SoftWiFi code, add in most of SoftWiFi's protocol stack will be running in the kernel, should offer the hackers & feds the ultimate in backdoors!
Instant, nearly undetectable, untraceable, unstoppable security breach in millions of SoftWifi'd PC's.
Boy, oh, Boy.. One can only imagine the possibilities!
"1. The language is going to be broad. Face it. Jus about anything will qualify because as soon as the precedent is set, everybody will be clamoring to have their pet peeve branded as hate speech. Someone makes a joke like: "How do you make a dog go meow? You run it quickly over a circular saw," and it will be branded as hateful to animals and animal lovers.
2. As a direct consequence, since everyone is guilty of this in one way or another, the law will only be selectively applied. It will only be used against minority viewpoints. Anti-globalization protesters (which I am not a part of and to some extent find some disquieting parallels with Naziis m in their beliefs) will be branded hatemongers and barred from internet use. These laws will turn into icing on the cake and cheap means to punish people when nothing else can be pinned on them. "
I wouldn't label citizens trying to protect society from repeating history, as "Naziis"!
Fifty centuries of recorded history have taught us that, "Societies which failed to conserve resources for it citizens" are only remembered in the history books !
The globalists have an agenda. Use the world's weakest societies
too roll back the acheivements of the strongest societies.
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20020214-31481 960.htm
a l_strat_labor.html
http://www.epinet.org/webfeatures/viewpoints/glob
Now decide which of societies protections, you would like to live without?.
Maybe the Environmental laws, or Minimum wage, or the Eight (8) Work day, or the 40 hour work week, an impartial Court system, or Workmans compensation, or even Social security/medicare?
Hell, why not repeal the 13th amendment, and bring back slavery?
There is a lot to loose by letting the globalists/(IVPP), run things !
Most TV set's emit a significant amount of sonic energy, and no, I am not just talking about the content of the TV programs. :-)
In the US, the NTSC standard frequency of 15.75 kilohertz was chosen for horizontal retrace interval. As a natural design consequence of the standard, both the horizontal coil and fly back transformer both operate at this same frequency. These components contain wire coils which vibrate as the magnetic field expands and contracts 15,750 times a second. As these wire coils vibrate, the mechanical movement converts into sonic energy at the same frequency, very similar to a speaker. This vibration results in the TV set emitting a continuous, high pitched pure tone, just within the hearing range of humans.
For the most part, the larger the TV screen, the larger the components, which results in an even higher intensity pure tone emission.
Exposure to these moderately intense, high frequency pure tones for long periods of time,
can inflict serious damage too your hearing. One of these conditions is called "Tinnitus".
Tinnitus sufferers, will often continue to perceive these continuous high pitch tones, long after being exposed. (often years). I.E. A living hell ! The number of 'Tinnitus" sufferers in the US is estimated to be in the 30 to 50 million range. Their number continues to increase at epidemic proportions.
Thus, avoiding additional exposure to these continuous, pure sound tones is a good start!
Some suggestions for the technically inclined.
1. Switch to a full time line double HDTV set/monitor (~31Khz) for normal TV viewing.
2. Change the scan rate frequency preferences for the video card, sometimes up or sometimes down.
Often a 1/2 or 1/3 harmonic can inflict just as much damage, especially if it is just a few feet away.
3. Avoid placing CRT monitors & TV sets in the corners of a room.
The sound reflections off walls just increase the exposure.
4. Replace computer CRT monitors with LCD monitors.
5. Use a laptop computer, and it's built in LCD display for most daily tasks.
Started out fast(4Mb/700Kb) then got slower(1.5Mb/300Kb) and slower(10X, packet loss).
On top of that they increased the price for their pitiful service.
I finally disconnected my cable modem service after the code red fiasco and they blocked port 80 from the outside.
For the last month or two with AT&T/RR, (June/July, 2001), I wasn't able to establish a reliable VPN connection. Packet loss during the daytime was way too high, averaged 5%.
During the evenings and weekends, forget about it, packet loss averaged 20 to 30%.
I am now using a DSL based service with a lot less problems. :-)
Packet loss to clients less than 0.2%,
VPN sessions stay connected, for hours on end, with few session interruptions.
No restrictions on low volume servers, plus I have a static IP address.
"All the affected machines were plugged into good UPSes, too. "
The hard drives were likely damaged by the pressure shock wave of a nearby strike.
I.E. Heads touched spinning media while running and contaminated the mechanism.
I've been bitten by tape backups, which initially backup'd/verified up successfully.
Only to discover bad spots on the tapes after a disk crash!
Warning! NT/W2K/XP/Veritas backup aborts restore tape operation after encountering the first nonrecoverable tape media error! Ten(10) year old technology exists to skip over bad spots, but is not implemented on the previously mentioned M$ based products. Needless to say, no more M$ products.
Until DVD-R's/RW media/drives come down in price.
I'll continue to use CDR's and CD-RW's at 0.30$/GB and 0.65$/GB respectively.
CDR/RW drives are fairly fast now, 12 to 16x is typical , got a new 12X-CDR/8X-CDRW drive for $70.
I would burn all permanent data onto at least three(3) master sets of CDR's, and the volatile incremental data onto 10 sets of CD-RW's.
I would make sure you can restore an entire image of your data with any combination of one permanent, and one incremental set. Note: Make sure your CD burning software supports a verify option, (like Nero), very important!
Agreed, it's ugly...
....(It's still at the wrong speed!!)
More than likely your TR interface tried to come up at the WRONG speed. Instant data corruption since all data passing thru get's reclocked to slower data rate and corrupted. Then all the adapters start beaconing, (everybody get off the ring), but the adapter at the wrong speed doesn't hear the beaconing signal, because
(The 1st node coming up is supposed to set the speed, but all it takes is one broken adapter to sense the wrong speed, big mess.)
Creating ones (with lower velocities) near the ground, using opposing particle beams may be extremely dangerous. (They just might hang around for a while and consume the earth).
If they want to perform that experiment, find a different planet to do it on!!
The inexpensive tests of alcohol can't tell the difference between the various types of alcohol's.
You could differentiate between them, if you had a gas chromatography analyzer, but they are very expensive and somewhat fragile.
Each driver could stock one's car with a little bottle of isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol. Use a little to clean the rear view mirror, and spill a little on the carpet before setting out on that evening's journey. The police would wind up chasing million's automobiles per day, with no convictions to show for it, damned inconvenient. Needless to say, that program would end in heartbeat!
Note: Their are lots of other sources of alcohol vapors, fermenting fruit, etc..
Just one 64 KB IP layer packet can be constructed from 60+ ethernet packets, and/or 1200 ATM packets. All/any of which can be received out of order. After it is assembled, you can verify the checksum and the begin checking the payload. Then you've got to add time-out's, duplicate discards, CRC handling, retries, sliding window acknowledgments. Once data contents are checked, then the IP packet can be sent along to the destination, (another 45 or 1200 packets worth of packets sent, retries, collision detects, Ack's, etc.). So far I just described ONE IP packet of One IP Stream. Add in processing multiple IP streams at the same time, plus the extensive memory management to keep track of resources.
So far that's just up layer 3 stuff, you still got TCP layers 4 through 7. Anyone who thinks they can accomplish the objective without using ten's, hundred's of thousands of lines of CPU code is dreaming. ASIC only implementation without CPU, forget about it.
B.T.W.. Implementing a somewhat slow CPU in a programmable ASIC is a terrible waste of very expensive resources (>1/2 of 500$ programmable ASIC). It much/much cheaper to use a very fast DSP ($10 + $10 DRAM) to perform such tasks. You might use a smaller ASIC ($20) to accelerate some of the slower, repetitive logic processes, but that's about the maximum extent of any ASIC usage. If any of you had written any Unix Network device drivers, protocol layers, you would quickly realize the folly in your statements. Just configuring the ethernet link types is a fairly complex task (needs a CPU), HDLC ATM virtual circuits even more so.
Just one 64 KB IP layer packet can be constructed from 60+ ethernet packets, and/or 1200 ATM packets. All/any of which can be received out of order. After it is assembled, you can verify the checksum and the begin checking the payload. Then you've got to add time-out's, duplicate discards, CRC handling, retries, sliding window acknowledgments. Once data contents are checked, then the IP packet can be sent along to the destination, (another 45 or 1200 packets worth of packets sent, retries, collision detects, Ack's, etc.). So far I just described ONE IP packet of One IP Stream. Add in processing multiple IP streams at the same time, plus the extensive memory management to keep track of resources.
So far that's just up layer 3 stuff, you still got TCP layers 4 through 7. Anyone who thinks they can accomplish the objective without using ten's, hundred's of thousands of lines of CPU code is dreaming. ASIC only implementation without CPU, forget about it.
B.T.W.. Implementing a somewhat slow CPU in a programmable ASIC is a terrible waste of very expensive resources (>1/2 of 500$ programmable ASIC). It much/much cheaper to use a very fast DSP ($10 + $10 DRAM) to perform such tasks. You might use a smaller ASIC ($20) to accelerate some of the slower, repetitive logic processes, but that's about the maximum extent of any ASIC usage.
Trying to building a firewall without a uP was an exceptionally DUMB IDEA!
First you would have to build a real fancy state machine. TCP/IP protocols are based on streams of bytes/bits. Doing a couple of states in a parallel hardware design is easy, but thousands, or ten's of thousands of states is nearly impossible. Plus, a firewall needs to be flexible, (catch the latest un-expected hacker exploit, log it, etc), which is something most hardware designs are not.
Hence the idea of using Microprocessors is a very useful thing. B.T.W. What where they going to use to drive the I/O interfaces? All the designs I know of need at least one micro to run them! (I.E. Program dma lists, handle errors, etc). Unless you're going to re-invent those wheels as well, and build your own custom interfaces.
In summary, that idea deserved to die, it failed to reduce risks too an acceptable level!
The VC's were right not fund a real dumb idea, next time, pick a better example.
Not quite.. Low power circuits (especially CMOS) are susceptible to voltages outside the Ground to VCC range. Just a couple of volts either way and the damage is done. Fortunately the capacitance is low and charge can be quickly eliminated with the right design.
They need to add some chassis grounds, and bleed resistors (100K) between signal/chassis ground and each of the signals on both sides of the palm interface. (The fatal zap can occur from either object, I.E. an imbalance of static charge). They also need to make sure the chassis grounds make contact before any of the signals. There are even better solutions, but that advice is reserved for paying customers.
"The basic flaw with Matloff's argument is that he assumes that if foreigners don't come to the US on H1B visas, the jobs will go to US residents. That's wrong. What happens in real life is that if the foreign programmers and professionals can't come here, the jobs simply go to where the people are. Most large companies already have development labs set up all around the world and can shift resources overseas at a moment's notice and without any increase in cost. In fact, that's already what happens when potential foreign hires can't come to the US: they simply work overseas until their visas come through. "
Some of the flaws with foreign outsourcing.
1. In the time you have developed a project definition of sufficient detail for outsourcing, you could have completed the project using competent staff..
2. In the states, I stand behind my products I produce. Yes, I can be sued, in a U.S. court, if I fail to perform. Just try to get the same accountability in a foreign Jurisdictions. Same goes for NDA's, non-competes, etc. Will the foreign courts enforce it or render fair judgments? or will it based on who you know, or paid off?
3. Time to watch you IP fly out the door, and wind up in the hands of foreign competitor.
4. Lack of modern infrastructure. In the US you can ship packages and it will arrive at it destination 99.99% of the time. Good luck with 2nd/3rd world countries and the various customs problems you will encounter.
5. Protected utility monopolies can and will charge and arm and leg for even simple items. phone lines, long distance, T1 line (ouch).
6. Are the utilities reliable. Is the power up 24x7, are the phones reliable, (or do they yield busy signals 10 hours a day)?
7. Time lag issues, Management problems, Language issues.
8. Loss of insight. when a local worker often observes the issues/problems first hand, then proposes sensible solutions that can be accomplished in a realistic time frame. Very rarely is the client able to accurately describe what they really need or desire. I.E. Loss of fit, finish and function.
9. Over specificity. In order to lock down a cost of a foreign, one has a tendency too over specify the design, often locking themselves into a useless product design or solution.
10. Lack of experience in approaching problems in a modern fashion. Difference cost basis applies here, in 3rd world, labor is cheap, in the US labor is expensive(tech support, sales, etc). What type of solution will you finally get?
Any combination of the above items can conspire too ruin any foreign outsourcing relationship.
In summary, foreign IT outsourcing has been tried and tried again. Most fail or yield little long term success.
Second, what purpose does it serve to retain their equipment? Force them to raise rates for remaining customers? Force another DSL isp into bankruptcy?
I prefer having the option of a decent alternate ISP, whom doesn't impose the requirement of wasteful PPPoE protocol stack, allows servers, and gives out public static IP addresses.
Right now, I will admit, I am in the last stages of signing up with telocity/directvdsl. Modem will arrive this coming monday. In the past I have set up friends with a Telocity account, and I am glad that steered them away from AT&T/RR. I've been tortured for last 2.5 years, by M1/RR/AT&T cable modem service, (50+ outages lasting over a day, News, DNS, Routing loops, Oversubscribing, RF problems, etc.) plus mostly low brow tech support. (The most recent outage affecting 50,000+ customers, lasted for over a week, starting June 17. The suspected problem, routing loops/misconfigured network, 30 to 40% packet loss during peak hours, 4 to 5% middle(4am) of the night.).
I am pleased, that their still exists at least ONE decent national DSL provider. Note: The incubant Bell South's DSL service, forced PPPoE usage, no server policies is a non-starter.
So, think twice before ripping off your ex-ISP. They aren't the only one hurt by your actions, you may be encouraging the remaining broadband ISP's to provide even less service. The grass isn't always greener, on the otherside of the fence.
The key question is.. Can Intel use this purchase to screw up third party support for AMD's EV6 bus?
For example, raise EV6 licensing fees to discourage any other VIA's supporting AMD's product lines.
Why is Intel really buying the ALPHA? Maybe trying to pull off a Rambus backdoor maneuver?
Sounds like they have to go back to school and learn about the conservation of energy law.
The statement "LCD monitor only drew 1/10 the power and generated 1/4 the heat of a 17" CRT monitor" is highly unlikely to be true. Except for the trivial amount of light output, maybe a couple of watts (total). All energy used, even the light output, ultimately gets converted to heat. So 1/10 the power should result in 1/10 the heat, etc. Or 1/4 of the heat roughly equals 1/4 of the power. One or the other, not 1/10 equals 1/4.
"But not all of this falls into the administration's responsibility. Clearly, the Federal Reserve has a role to play here in terms of the amount of money in circulation and the interest rates."
Let's review the Fed's tech record....
H1-B, el cheapo imported tech labor program, (currently set at 250K+ new bodies per year), is federal subsidy for corporations at the expense of U.S. tech workers. DCMA is a federal law protecting corporations lame ass IP implementations at the expense of the consumers. A Patent Office which does NOT know the difference, between a hole in a ground and a flush toilet, (subsidy for lawyers/big corporations). IRS 1776 tax code change, which forced most independant workers into cheaper W2 (employee) positions. The 1986 labor ruling which decided employees making more than ~27 dollars and hour are not entitled to over time pay multipliers. Do you see the pattern yet!
Yes, the Fed's have been screwing around the tech industry for a LONG.... time.
Each time they act, you can bet, the U.S. worker will get screwed.
The worst of the lot, is the current "H1-B" program, which is corrosively destroying our tech industry infrastructure from the inside out. Do you think it was an accident? That the tech industry started collapsing at an ever increasing rate, after the FED's more than doubled the yearly H1-B quotas? When you answer the question, who really drove U.S. tech sales forward, and who are the same people getting displaced by the H1-B's, then you will have found enlightenment about the current tech crash.
Yep, great job..NOT!! I think we would be better off, if monkey's ran the U.S. government, at least they would be a little more consistent.
Oh.. one last thought.. Greenspan's attempt to boost what remains of our economy, is going to trigger a serious bout of stagflation. Have a nice day..
Same here. Except that they often forget, or loose critical information.
For example:
Did it ever work?
When was the last time it worked correctly?
When was the last time you used that product?
What have you installed since it last worked correctly?
What have you changed since the last time it worked correctly?
-- side issue -- funny..
Sent an email to tech support, of a major UPS manufacturer.
It detailed that after brief power outages, units were getting stuck for hours,
in a high voltage charging mode. (bad news, produces explosive gases.. )
I noticed that email message, sat in my outgoing mail box, retrying every few minutes.
... all weekend long!! Monday, it finally got delivered..
They shut email server off, on weekends!!!
Side note: they still haven't responded.
"Gurus of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains. And, um, most of your friends. :-) "
Flashback to just six months ago!!
Intel's President/CEO relayed the following comments, during the house floor debate of SB 2045. That bill expanded the H1-B yearly quota to 195,000 a year, plus added an additional 55,000+ a year in non quota limited categories.
--From the Congressional record, House of representatives, Oct. 3, 2000, page H8704 --
[Time: 19:00]
Mr. CANNON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I just had a phone call from the president and CEO of Intel ,
Mr. Craig Barrett, whose view of this is that we can either import workers, or
export jobs. I think that is really what this comes down to.
Part of the criticism of this bill has come from people who believe that
bringing in new workers would keep wages low. As a practical matter, these
people that are coming in with high skills and high education are making the pie
bigger. They are making us all wealthier. That is just the fundamental
distinction between the sides here.
Intel's CEO got his demands! SB 2045 became law a few weeks later..
But, This gets even better, talk about about a bunch of two timing CEO's.
All of them kept on contracting/hiring H1-B's right up until they announced MAJOR jobs cuts,
Plus, they continued with their plans to export jobs anyway!!
Intel looks to software to lift Itanium
HP to add 3,500 jobs, open labs in India
It is disgusting, that American citizen's that must loose/forgo their high tech careers, so these two timing CEO's can keep 600,000+ H1-B's employed as their replacements!
The time is NOW, to END the H1-B program!
You can start by Boycotting all INTEL products, purchase AMD based systems instead!
""If I notice it's drifting and looking / spying into my house, I'll pull the courtains and then complain. ""
"I'd shine a powerful spotlight into the bloody camera..."
Then the energy waste patrol hauls you off to a reeducation camp for a few years.
Consider any technology/rights given to government, can and will fall into the hands of your worst enemy.
When government runs out of criminals, they simply make more of them, by enacting yet another draconian law. Do you live a perfect life?
Throughout history, governments have directly caused more violent deaths of humans than any other cause. Have you never heard of wars, purges, and genocide? Those are not caused by average criminals, rather by special ones called presidents, dictators, kings, emperors, kaisers, potentates, and other names for "sovereign" heads of state. They cause the deaths of both soldiers and civilians alike.
"If I feel bad, I'll pull the courtains. "
Then they flip to the IR mode and look right through your curtains!
You might want to add lead lining those curtains.
Actually, They have no powers one a firm files for bankruptcy protection in federal court.
All the power is in the hands of the federal bankruptcy judge/trustee. CPUC can pass all the votes if wants, they are non-binding, the judge decides all issues. He also has the power to void almost any government regulation and modify the terms of almost any existing contracts. Unfortunately this means Northpoint's DSL services will most likely remain shutdown.
Well, first thing to determine is if you really need a FULL time computer expert. Or do you really just need them from time to time?
If the second sentence fits your bill, then go with an older computer consultant/engineer on a part time, as needed basis. Get a consultant who's had real some lab training, I.E. Chemistry Minor/Math major (Very important).
A person who is skilled in laboratory techniques approaches scientific problems in a much different manor. I.E. What are the sources of error, how to determine the error rates, how to compensate for them, confirm the results, etc.
Don't put absolute faith in having degrees or certain types of degrees. Many CS degree programs haven't been around more than fifteen maybe twenty years. Note, that of some the very best engineers/consultants may have never finished their degrees.