Could there possibly be enough web content to satisfy a need for this kind of thing?
I find on average that a slow day at work results in my web browsing finishing up around 8:30 - 9:30 in the morning. After that there is simply nothing else that I want to look at on the web. If I used this on my drive into the office then I would have absolutely nothing to do on those slow days.
I put some of my garbage in my neighbor's garbage bin. He takes some of it back inside.
You either throw out some very useful stuff in which case I would like to give you my postal address or you have a very weird neighbor.
I can live with the throwing stuff in the other guy's bin (I used to do it all the time while living in Germany with the tiny restmuel bins there), but why on earth does he take the stuff inside?
Hmmm...unless your neighbor is actually an undercover cop placed there on long term duty to keep tabs on you. Did you think of that possibility?
Do you honestly think the IT manager is going to make the decision to move to another office suite? I would love to work in that company, but out in the real world where I work that ain't gonna happen.
Some guy who knows nothing about the technical stuff is going to make the decision based on costs. And by costs, I don't mean the cheapest to buy. Accountants are amazingly good at making the most expensive option look the most attractive over the long run.
Think about it - if this kind of mentality wasn't rampant already then we wouldn't have the kinds of debt problems floating around at the moment.
What about people without arms? How are they expected to hold it?
Why would people without arms buy a wristwatch you clod!
Fans - I was thinking of music supporters!
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When I saw the heading, "Next Generation Fans", my first thought was. "Finally, somebody is starting to use this genome mapping thing properly and they have started breeding better music supporters. (i.e. people that don't slavishly follow everything that gets poured down their throats. Of course nobody on/. does that.)"
Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok, in an orgy of blood and the kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.
Right, and in steps Roomba to clean up the mess! You have just created the perfect marketing strategy for these guys!
Sadly, due to the constant eroding of such invaluable skills, like... say spelling for example, this one slipped by. What the original poster meant to say was that it starred in the movie (i.e. it played a role) as opposed to it staring in the movie. (i.e. looking at something with a fixed gaze.) Feel free to look them up in dictionary.com for better definitions, but you get the idea.
But under this law, they should have to pay South America! It'll be nice to Hillary Rosin rotting in prison in Buenos Aires!
Maybe Johannesburg would work better as that is a city that is actually inside the South African borders?
Then again, speaking as an ex-South African, the current government does have such boundless abilities to mess everything up that it would not surprise me in the least if they sent people off to prisons in Buenos Aires.
Actually, NASA have signed deals which will put this in place. However, they have not agreed to have all their computers "Fritzed" to guarantee the DRM quality that they studios are asking for.
Once this is in place, then we will all be able to sit back and watch the trusted content at a movie theater of your choice.
So, don't delay. Send your $'s to NASA right away to help them get all their computers DRMed.
It's not saying that every person the computer notices is going to get thrown in jail or anything, it's simply saying that the computer is going to scan the info given to it without bias and look for possible baddies.
Errmm. Not that I want to interrupt your party here or anything like that, but I would like to point out that the computer will be scanning with a bias. If it was not scanning with a bias, then it would simply look over your records and then spit out a random number to show if you should be searched or not. It is the bias - albiet previously programmed into the computer - that has most people worried.
Yes, the same applies. They are not allowed (legally) to pay you less just because you are an H1. (I put in the disclaimer because there are always scumbags out there that will try anything. And I am talking about people on both sides of the equation here.)
Also you don't save any taxes by employing an H1. I get taxed the same as any other W2 in the country.
I am also dumbfounded as to the Flamebait mod status.
I currently have an H1 and my visa holder is an American company. Therefore from a tax, legal and financial point of view it is a simple corp-to-corp hire. This is the same process used by thousands of Americans on a daily basis.
I am not denying that the economy was down, but as I pointed out in my original post - there are jobs out there right now that I could fill. They have not been able to find Americans to fill those positions for 8-9 weeks. My frustration came about because these people wouldn't give me a chance to interview even if I fulfilled all their requirements and nobody else currently did.
But then again, being a foreigner I suppose I shouldn't have expected anything less. However, in reality it has still made me very angry. I have uprooted my entire family to come and make something better for them over in the US and then this comes along and threatens to wipe my future out.
Now if I was some scumbag then that would be OK, but I just want to put in an honest day's work. And for all you people out there saying that there are a bunch of Americans that want jobs as well please read on. I have seen numerous ads on the jobsites looking for somebody with my skills (ABAP programming) so I apply for these jobs. After a couple of days I follow up. Sometimes I get a reply, sometimes not. If I do get a reply then it is always the same. "We don't employ H1's." Now, some of these same ads have been running for more than 8 weeks. So, they have still not managed to find an American to fit the bill, yet I don't get asked to interview. All this is a direct result of 9/11 as I had no problem getting a job prior to that. People are stupidly paranoid of foreigners all of a sudden.
This makes me sad in a way because I grew up in a country filled with terrorism and the one thing I learnt was this: The minute you change your lifestyle due to fear then they have already succeeded.
These terrorists don't need to drop a single bomb on the US to further their goals. The media and the government are doing a sterling job of terrifying their citizens all on their own.
End of rant. What can I say? I am frustrated as hell that there are jobs out there and I simply cannot get one of them due to people's fear.
By the way, if somebody does feel like employing a foreign ABAP programmer, then please send me an email. Mod me as you wish.
Oi, just because it is a video doesn't mean that it can be believed. You can rent a James Bond movie at Blockbuster where it actually looks as if he can singehandedly save the world - without getting his tie out of place!
With a little bit of video editing experience I could put together a video showing you where I just put together some code and voila - there is a new OS on the screen of my PC!
However, all the cynicism aside - I doubt these guys would do that as it would be a fair bit of effort and they would be nailed fairly soon.
If LSB wants to be a serious thing instead of a back slapping software tick then they need a diverse Standard - the best GNU Linux at the moment for development and use from all i have tried is Debian yet its not a standard... What about Slackware ?...
I beg your pardon!? A diverse standard!? Are you smoking the really good stuff!?
A standard is supposed to be something that remains...well gosh STANDARD! - not something which changes every couple of months!
I don't know how many times this has to be drummed into people's heads. Just because I am standing there - delayed for the 3rd time in one day due to obvious incompetence - could make me think "Wow, I would like to kill a few people." Does this mean that I am actually going to go out there and kill them? No, of course not, because I am not a maniac.
There is a difference between thinking about something and actually doing it.
One patient, who was 20 years old when he lost his vision in a WW II mortar explosion, saw good phosphenes 57 years later. One of our earlier patients (1) lost his sight at age five and was implanted at age 68. He never saw anything and this may be related to the fact that he was blinded in childhood before the visual cortex fully developed.
So, the short answer is no. If you were blind at birth you seem to be shafted.
I would think that any changes the US Government (or its agencies) made to GPL code would have to fall into the Public Domain.
Not so. If the NSA decided to release NSALinux to the public, then sure they would have to release the code as well. However, if they simply continued using it for themselves then there is no requirement for them to release the code to anybody.
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Could there possibly be enough web content to satisfy a need for this kind of thing?
I find on average that a slow day at work results in my web browsing finishing up around 8:30 - 9:30 in the morning. After that there is simply nothing else that I want to look at on the web. If I used this on my drive into the office then I would have absolutely nothing to do on those slow days.
I put some of my garbage in my neighbor's garbage bin. He takes some of it back inside.
You either throw out some very useful stuff in which case I would like to give you my postal address or you have a very weird neighbor.
I can live with the throwing stuff in the other guy's bin (I used to do it all the time while living in Germany with the tiny restmuel bins there), but why on earth does he take the stuff inside?
Hmmm...unless your neighbor is actually an undercover cop placed there on long term duty to keep tabs on you. Did you think of that possibility?
Why doesn't the WSJ get the same treatment that the NYT does each time they produce a story.
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I know I am breaking all the slashdot rules here. But I decided to head over and read the article. I had to login.
Oh well, no worries. It shouldn't make any difference to the quality of the posts.
Do you honestly think the IT manager is going to make the decision to move to another office suite? I would love to work in that company, but out in the real world where I work that ain't gonna happen.
Some guy who knows nothing about the technical stuff is going to make the decision based on costs. And by costs, I
don't mean the cheapest to buy. Accountants are amazingly good at making the most expensive option look the most attractive over the long run.
Think about it - if this kind of mentality wasn't rampant already then we wouldn't have the kinds of debt problems floating around at the moment.
What about people without arms? How are they expected to hold it?
Why would people without arms buy a wristwatch you clod!
When I saw the heading, "Next Generation Fans", my first thought was. "Finally, somebody is starting to use this genome mapping thing properly and they have started breeding better music supporters. (i.e. people that don't slavishly follow everything that gets poured down their throats. Of course nobody on /. does that.)"
Oh, never mind. I guess it was just me.
Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok, in an orgy of blood and the kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.
Right, and in steps Roomba to clean up the mess! You have just created the perfect marketing strategy for these guys!
Sadly, due to the constant eroding of such invaluable skills, like... say spelling for example, this one slipped by. What the original poster meant to say was that it starred in the movie (i.e. it played a role) as opposed to it staring in the movie. (i.e. looking at something with a fixed gaze.) Feel free to look them up in dictionary.com for better definitions, but you get the idea.
But under this law, they should have to pay South America! It'll be nice to Hillary Rosin rotting in prison in Buenos Aires!
Maybe Johannesburg would work better as that is a city that is actually inside the South African borders?
Then again, speaking as an ex-South African, the current government does have such boundless abilities to mess everything up that it would not surprise me in the least if they sent people off to prisons in Buenos Aires.
Actually, NASA have signed deals which will put this in place. However, they have not agreed to have all their computers "Fritzed" to guarantee the DRM quality that they studios are asking for.
Once this is in place, then we will all be able to sit back and watch the trusted content at a movie theater of your choice.
So, don't delay. Send your $'s to NASA right away to help them get all their computers DRMed.
It's not saying that every person the computer notices is going to get thrown in jail or anything, it's simply saying that the computer is going to scan the info given to it without bias and look for possible baddies.
Errmm. Not that I want to interrupt your party here or anything like that, but I would like to point out that the computer will be scanning with a bias. If it was not scanning with a bias, then it would simply look over your records and then spit out a random number to show if you should be searched or not. It is the bias - albiet previously programmed into the computer - that has most people worried.
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Employing incompetence: $35/h
Fixing the resulting mistakes: $1000's
Employing me: Priceless
Does this work on the theory that if you consume enough Pepsi quickly enough, then the resulting gas will propel you into outer space automatically?
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Employing incompetence: $35/h
Fixing the resulting mistakes: $1000's
Employing me: Priceless
Yes, the same applies. They are not allowed (legally) to pay you less just because you are an H1. (I put in the disclaimer because there are always scumbags out there that will try anything. And I am talking about people on both sides of the equation here.)
Also you don't save any taxes by employing an H1. I get taxed the same as any other W2 in the country.
I am also dumbfounded as to the Flamebait mod status.
I currently have an H1 and my visa holder is an American company. Therefore from a tax, legal and financial point of view it is a simple corp-to-corp hire. This is the same process used by thousands of Americans on a daily basis.
I am not denying that the economy was down, but as I pointed out in my original post - there are jobs out there right now that I could fill. They have not been able to find Americans to fill those positions for 8-9 weeks. My frustration came about because these people wouldn't give me a chance to interview even if I fulfilled all their requirements and nobody else currently did.
Why the heck was this modded flamebait? I was serious with each of these points!
But then again, being a foreigner I suppose I shouldn't have expected anything less. However, in reality it has still made me very angry. I have uprooted my entire family to come and make something better for them over in the US and then this comes along and threatens to wipe my future out.
Now if I was some scumbag then that would be OK, but I just want to put in an honest day's work. And for all you people out there saying that there are a bunch of Americans that want jobs as well please read on. I have seen numerous ads on the jobsites looking for somebody with my skills (ABAP programming) so I apply for these jobs. After a couple of days I follow up. Sometimes I get a reply, sometimes not. If I do get a reply then it is always the same. "We don't employ H1's." Now, some of these same ads have been running for more than 8 weeks. So, they have still not managed to find an American to fit the bill, yet I don't get asked to interview. All this is a direct result of 9/11 as I had no problem getting a job prior to that. People are stupidly paranoid of foreigners all of a sudden.
This makes me sad in a way because I grew up in a country filled with terrorism and the one thing I learnt was this:
The minute you change your lifestyle due to fear then they have already succeeded.
These terrorists don't need to drop a single bomb on the US to further their goals. The media and the government are doing a sterling job of terrifying their citizens all on their own.
End of rant. What can I say? I am frustrated as hell that there are jobs out there and I simply cannot get one of them due to people's fear.
By the way, if somebody does feel like employing a foreign ABAP programmer, then please send me an email. Mod me as you wish.
Oi, just because it is a video doesn't mean that it can be believed. You can rent a James Bond movie at Blockbuster where it actually looks as if he can singehandedly save the world - without getting his tie out of place!
With a little bit of video editing experience I could put together a video showing you where I just put together some code and voila - there is a new OS on the screen of my PC!
However, all the cynicism aside - I doubt these guys would do that as it would be a fair bit of effort and they would be nailed fairly soon.
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Employing incompetence: $35/h
Fixing the resulting mistakes: $1000's
Employing me: Priceless
So, who do you work for? This sounds like something I could use.
When will people get it into their heads! This is a historical site.
Use the correct solution for the problem, people!
Strap packets to the legs of carrier pigeons and get them to transmit the information between the buildings.
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Employing incompetence: $35/h
Fixing the resulting mistakes: $1000's
Employing me: Priceless
If LSB wants to be a serious thing instead of a back slapping software tick then they need a diverse Standard - the best GNU Linux at the moment for development and use from all i have tried is Debian yet its not a standard... What about Slackware ?...
I beg your pardon!? A diverse standard!? Are you smoking the really good stuff!?
A standard is supposed to be something that remains...well gosh STANDARD! - not something which changes every couple of months!
I don't know how many times this has to be drummed into people's heads. Just because I am standing there - delayed for the 3rd time in one day due to obvious incompetence - could make me think "Wow, I would like to kill a few people." Does this mean that I am actually going to go out there and kill them? No, of course not, because I am not a maniac.
There is a difference between thinking about something and actually doing it.
(President Bush's niece was among those students whose privacy was violated).
Maybe she can get C's at Yale too...
Then again, if she knows how to spell Nepotism, she could get something better...
(Sorry! The urge to post a reply was just too overwhelming!)
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Employing incompetence: $35/h
Fixing the resulting mistakes: $1000's
Employing me: Priceless
From the news section on their website;
One patient, who was 20 years old when he lost his vision in a WW II mortar explosion, saw good phosphenes 57 years later. One of our earlier patients (1) lost his sight at age five and was implanted at age 68. He never saw anything and this may be related to the fact that he was blinded in childhood before the visual cortex fully developed.
So, the short answer is no. If you were blind at birth you seem to be shafted.
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Employing incompetence: $35/h
Fixing the resulting mistakes: $1000's
Employing me: Priceless
I would think that any changes the US Government (or its agencies) made to GPL code would have to fall into the Public Domain.
Not so. If the NSA decided to release NSALinux to the public, then sure they would have to release the code as well. However, if they simply continued using it for themselves then there is no requirement for them to release the code to anybody.
--
Employing incompetence: $35/h
Fixing the resulting mistakes: $1000's
Employing me: Priceless
Nonsense, I was just trying to spice things up a bit.
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Employing incompetence: $35/h
Fixing the resulting mistakes: $1000's
Employing me: Priceless