Too late. Here in TN I am stuck with a "driving certificate" which says in big red letters "This is not an ID". I am here legally, abiding by all rules, yet the assumption seems to be that I must be a terrorist just because I am a foreigner. California had a much better system whereby they simply ensured that your license expired the same day as your visa. I get treated with respect but I will not be able to use the license past my legal limit either. Both sides win.
However, good luck convincing anybody to treat foreigners with some respect in the current climate.
Couldn't agree more. I managed to get everything working on my PC, including a winmodem, but the X config just wouldn't play along and no matter how much I fiddled it just kept producing garbage. After the third complete reinstall I grabbed some Fedora CD's and everything just worked.
Now, this isn't meant to bash Gentoo as I think the concept of getting source files for all your applications is a good idea (reduced download size and conflicts). Unfortunately for me I just couldn't get it to work and in the end I didn't really want to fiddle around with my system that much, I just wanted to use it. Maybe once this GUI installer is out of beta then I will give it a shot again.
Unless it involves bombing a third-world nation somewhere, you probably shouldn't rely on a government run by George W. Bush to get something like this done right.
Quote directly from the article...Congress this weekend approved an increase in the number of H-1B visas by 20,000 but limited it to specially qualified students
Therefore there are not more people competing for jobs. There are more students, which benefits the Americans as there is more cash flowing into the country. Something that is desperately needed right now.
The article actually makes little sense as the person goes on to quote figures showing how the IT-related unemployment dropped in the 3rd quarter of 2004. What does that have to do with H1 visa holders? They stay here for 6 years. They don't magically evaporate out of the country overnight as soon as the cap drops.
Guess what the limit weill be this time? UNLIMITED!!!
Hey, at least I was willing to stick the work "unlikely" in front of my predictions. You arent't even wavering there. Do you know something the rest of us don't?
The numbers of H1's issued in recent years was unusual and we are unlikely to see any of that happening in the near future again. As for the comparison between the number of IT related H1's and the total population; This is meant to give an indication of where they fit into the larger picture. I.e. not every American wants to end up in IT, but at the same time work sectors other than IT also have immigrants coming here to fight for their jobs.
Futher, if an H1 visa holder loses his job he either has to leave the country or find another IT job. If an American loses his job he could get some non-IT job as a stopgap or go and study again. Thus the 3.3 million IT workers that you refer to can always revert back to the 300 million Americans I referred to. The H1 visa holder cannot become a normal part of the workforce.
Oh, and $500 for the visa renewal? Please refer me to your lawyer.
Just to avert the usual avalanche of people saying "What do we need to do to keep these foreigners out of our country?"
The following actions can be considered and will be guaranteed to stop the flow of immigrants and or jobseekers;
Kill the economy. I mean really kill it - we are talking 40% or higher inflation here.
Start a civil war.
etc. etc. You get the picture. If it gets to the point where others don't want to live here then you won't want to live here either. Pick your poison.
Now, let's look at some figures for perspective. H1-B visas last for six years. They are also granted to people in fields other than IT. so, if we assume that 75 000 H1's were granted every year and that about 60% of those were for IT related fields then you would be fighting a total of 270 000 foreigners for a job at any one time. In a country of 300 million that is a statistically insignificant number. Offshoring - which doesn't involve any visas - is orders of magnitude more disastrous to your job security than any other person living in the US and therefore having to deal with the same living standards as you. So, can we please keep the H1 and offshoring issues separate this time?
I used your birthday newspaper to look up my birthday in 1967 and then looked up my children for 1997 and 2002. For my birthdate they must have had 40 or more papers listed. For my children only 3.
As a side note. I have been collecting a newspaper every year on my children's birthdays and will put this together for them in a scrapbook when they are about 20 so that they can see what was relevant in the areas they were living in at the time.
I was wondering if anybody could justify news being under copyright for that long. What is there for a newspaper to gain by holding such long copyrights?
I am in the same situation. I am currently paying for a 1 year POP subscription with Yahoo, but I will let that expire once it is used up. At first I wanted them to add POP to Gmail, but since using it more and more, I have come to love using it online too much. Plus all the sent mail stays with the received mail on the server where it is supposed to.
In fact I liked the Gmail interface so much that about 2 weeks ago I killed my email client and uploaded all my old mail into Gmail.
Yahoo charges $20/year for their POP service. It also bounces you up to a 2GB storage. I mean come on, it isn't like they are trying to bankrupt anybody here.
when most of the time more or less of all [linux distributions|women] look the same,if they are all [customized|dressed|undressed] the same. And here on Slashdot I'm sure everyone already know what [things|insert favourite part of anatomy here] look like in almost all the different [window managers|bikinis|lingerie|nothing].
Yeah, no idea why people like looking at pictures.
I quote from your comment. The article doesn't tell you anything significant about how it works...
And here is your sig. Proudly posting without reading the article since 1998!
Obviously the new and improved/. code realised you subconsiously were trying to avoid the article. It went ahead and slashdotted the real servers on your behalf and then placed a fake article in it's place so you wouldn't be disappointed.
Moral of the story: Sig. and actions must be consistent at all times.
Most large theatres today, whether live or movie, offer online and in person sales with displays of seat availability.
Which part of the country do you live in? I have been to movies in 4 states and have not had that facility yet. Compare this with me growing up in a 3rd world country ten years ago where I did have that facility. I am talking specifically about the ability to purchase a ticket to a numbered seat so that I don't have to fight off people 30 minutes prior to the start of the movie just to get a decent seat.
Many days it seems insane to me to call the US a 1st world country.
You would be surprised. My wife runs XP and I recently tried changing one of the directories from read only to read-write. Windows happily applies the change but as soon as you click on the directory it just slaps the change back in again. I eventually had to copy the contents and kill the directory. I remember a couple of years back thinking I could solve my cookie problem by setting the cookies directory for IE to read-only. Imagine my surprise when I found out that IE reset my changes each time it started up. In fact I just tried this on the office PC running XP pro where I have administrator rights. Nothing I did could convince the cookies directory to go to read-only. Good thing I am telling the PC what to do and not the other way around.
Instead of enlisting aid to actually secure the peace (rebuilding infrastructure, training Iraqi civil forces, promoting education), we chose to go it alone. Why? Because we'd be better at finding the WMDs without interference.
But at the point that we'd won the war, the WMDs didn't matter!
My personal belief has always been that the WMD issue was settled as soon as the first american missile was fired. If Saddam had WMD's and he was as big a nutcase as he was made out to be then he would have used those WMD's to fight off the invasion. That was all the proof I needed to know that we had been lied to. The rest is just paperwork to cover butts.
For those that have asked the question. I am currently learning Python. However, I wanted to keep the question general enough so that if I came up against a new language then I would have an "arsenal" of small problems that I could throw at it quickly to tweak out the difficult areas to code in and to highlight the strengths of the language.
Funny you should mention that as I just did a tic-tac-toe version. I didn't teach it how to play - just the basic rules. I then saved each game to disk and allowed the program to learn how to play from this history. After about 60 games it started playing "properly" and after about 90 games I could no longer beat it.
This is all good and well until you decide to make the form resizable. Then all hell breaks loose: none of the widgets move unless you explicitly change their coordinates.
It has been some time since I last used VB, but I seem to recall (Delphi definately has this) that you could "tie" components to the form so that they would grow and shrink as the form resizes. You could also specify upper and lower limits for the width and height of each component you placed on the form. I found the Delphi IDE to be far superior to anything found on the Linux front. Now, if only we could convince the Borland idiots not to annoy the developers with their mindless management style then we might have something going again.
Amen to that. I was an avid Delphi developer right up to version 5 at which point the whole Inprise/Borland/"We don't know which direction we are going" thing finally got to me. Since then I have not had a nice programming language lying around to manipulate files and code up quick utilities. I tried Java a few times but after puking my guts out for the last time I am now happily moved along and settled into Python.
Borland can shove Kylix at this stage. They burnt up all my goodwill and then some.
Good call Mr. Pike: humans function well in small self-organising or randomly-organised groups of up to 8.
Right there is the rub. My last manager had heard of this idea as well and stuffed 46 of us in a room together. Testers, developers, managers, even the client reps all in one room. After 3.5 years they cancelled the project with virtually nothing to show for it. Of course completely changing direction on the project no less that 5 times during that timeframe didn't help either. However, I do believe that if we could have gone off and produced something for the client to look at rather than have yet another daily full team meeting to discuss what we could be doing instead of meeting then something might have come of it.
I think you are missing the point here. Before I was allowed to enter the country I had to undergo a criminal background check. My documentation is checked each time I move and each time I change employers. I.e. I am doing everything the government is asking me to do to ensure the safety of their citizens. So far I am not pissed off. However, I do get pissed off when I have gone through all that hassle - and believe me it is a lot of hassle - and then I still get treated exactly the same as somebody who is in the country illegally. The fact that I am complying with the government should count for something in my opinion.
If the police had checked their visas (which they almost never do), they would have seen that the visas were expired and the hijackers should have been deported. That could have (and probably would have) prevented 9-11 and saved the lives of 3,000 Americans.
That would require the INS to start doing its job properly and more importantly timeously. My local DMV and cop station had no idea how to go about checking the status of my visa. I had to explain to them what to look for on the various pieces of paper. Luckily I am honest, but it could just as easily have been some guy trying to stay here past his visa date with a forgery and they wouldn't have been any the wiser.
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Too late. Here in TN I am stuck with a "driving certificate" which says in big red letters "This is not an ID". I am here legally, abiding by all rules, yet the assumption seems to be that I must be a terrorist just because I am a foreigner. California had a much better system whereby they simply ensured that your license expired the same day as your visa. I get treated with respect but I will not be able to use the license past my legal limit either. Both sides win.
However, good luck convincing anybody to treat foreigners with some respect in the current climate.
Could the users make the mouse 'click'?
Yes, but only on a Mac. They haven't perfected the right-click yet.
I can see why. On your splashscreen the copyright expires in 2003. Tsk. Fix that minor little detail up and I am sure you will be in the door.
Stupid, Bloody X configuration
Couldn't agree more. I managed to get everything working on my PC, including a winmodem, but the X config just wouldn't play along and no matter how much I fiddled it just kept producing garbage. After the third complete reinstall I grabbed some Fedora CD's and everything just worked.
Now, this isn't meant to bash Gentoo as I think the concept of getting source files for all your applications is a good idea (reduced download size and conflicts). Unfortunately for me I just couldn't get it to work and in the end I didn't really want to fiddle around with my system that much, I just wanted to use it. Maybe once this GUI installer is out of beta then I will give it a shot again.
Unless it involves bombing a third-world nation somewhere, you probably shouldn't rely on a government run by George W. Bush to get something like this done right.
They have managed to get it right? Where?
Did you even read the article you posted there?
Quote directly from the article...Congress this weekend approved an increase in the number of H-1B visas by 20,000 but limited it to specially qualified students
Therefore there are not more people competing for jobs. There are more students, which benefits the Americans as there is more cash flowing into the country. Something that is desperately needed right now.
The article actually makes little sense as the person goes on to quote figures showing how the IT-related unemployment dropped in the 3rd quarter of 2004. What does that have to do with H1 visa holders? They stay here for 6 years. They don't magically evaporate out of the country overnight as soon as the cap drops.
Guess what the limit weill be this time? UNLIMITED!!!
Hey, at least I was willing to stick the work "unlikely" in front of my predictions. You arent't even wavering there. Do you know something the rest of us don't?
The numbers of H1's issued in recent years was unusual and we are unlikely to see any of that happening in the near future again. As for the comparison between the number of IT related H1's and the total population; This is meant to give an indication of where they fit into the larger picture. I.e. not every American wants to end up in IT, but at the same time work sectors other than IT also have immigrants coming here to fight for their jobs.
Futher, if an H1 visa holder loses his job he either has to leave the country or find another IT job. If an American loses his job he could get some non-IT job as a stopgap or go and study again. Thus the 3.3 million IT workers that you refer to can always revert back to the 300 million Americans I referred to. The H1 visa holder cannot become a normal part of the workforce.
Oh, and $500 for the visa renewal? Please refer me to your lawyer.
Just to avert the usual avalanche of people saying "What do we need to do to keep these foreigners out of our country?"
The following actions can be considered and will be guaranteed to stop the flow of immigrants and or jobseekers;
Kill the economy. I mean really kill it - we are talking 40% or higher inflation here.
Start a civil war.
etc. etc. You get the picture. If it gets to the point where others don't want to live here then you won't want to live here either. Pick your poison.
Now, let's look at some figures for perspective. H1-B visas last for six years. They are also granted to people in fields other than IT. so, if we assume that 75 000 H1's were granted every year and that about 60% of those were for IT related fields then you would be fighting a total of 270 000 foreigners for a job at any one time. In a country of 300 million that is a statistically insignificant number. Offshoring - which doesn't involve any visas - is orders of magnitude more disastrous to your job security than any other person living in the US and therefore having to deal with the same living standards as you. So, can we please keep the H1 and offshoring issues separate this time?
Oh well, it was nice to have karma for a while.
I used your birthday newspaper to look up my birthday in 1967 and then looked up my children for 1997 and 2002. For my birthdate they must have had 40 or more papers listed. For my children only 3.
As a side note. I have been collecting a newspaper every year on my children's birthdays and will put this together for them in a scrapbook when they are about 20 so that they can see what was relevant in the areas they were living in at the time.
I was wondering if anybody could justify news being under copyright for that long. What is there for a newspaper to gain by holding such long copyrights?
I am in the same situation. I am currently paying for a 1 year POP subscription with Yahoo, but I will let that expire once it is used up. At first I wanted them to add POP to Gmail, but since using it more and more, I have come to love using it online too much. Plus all the sent mail stays with the received mail on the server where it is supposed to.
In fact I liked the Gmail interface so much that about 2 weeks ago I killed my email client and uploaded all my old mail into Gmail.
Yahoo charges $20/year for their POP service. It also bounces you up to a 2GB storage. I mean come on, it isn't like they are trying to bankrupt anybody here.
when most of the time more or less of all [linux distributions|women] look the same,if they are all [customized|dressed|undressed] the same. And here on Slashdot I'm sure everyone already know what [things|insert favourite part of anatomy here] look like in almost all the different [window managers|bikinis|lingerie|nothing].
Yeah, no idea why people like looking at pictures.
This didn't work because you broke the rules man!
/. code realised you subconsiously were trying to avoid the article. It went ahead and slashdotted the real servers on your behalf and then placed a fake article in it's place so you wouldn't be disappointed.
I quote from your comment. The article doesn't tell you anything significant about how it works...
And here is your sig. Proudly posting without reading the article since 1998!
Obviously the new and improved
Moral of the story: Sig. and actions must be consistent at all times.
Most large theatres today, whether live or movie, offer online and in person sales with displays of seat availability.
Which part of the country do you live in? I have been to movies in 4 states and have not had that facility yet. Compare this with me growing up in a 3rd world country ten years ago where I did have that facility. I am talking specifically about the ability to purchase a ticket to a numbered seat so that I don't have to fight off people 30 minutes prior to the start of the movie just to get a decent seat.
Many days it seems insane to me to call the US a 1st world country.
So far they have not.
You would be surprised. My wife runs XP and I recently tried changing one of the directories from read only to read-write. Windows happily applies the change but as soon as you click on the directory it just slaps the change back in again. I eventually had to copy the contents and kill the directory. I remember a couple of years back thinking I could solve my cookie problem by setting the cookies directory for IE to read-only. Imagine my surprise when I found out that IE reset my changes each time it started up. In fact I just tried this on the office PC running XP pro where I have administrator rights. Nothing I did could convince the cookies directory to go to read-only. Good thing I am telling the PC what to do and not the other way around.
Instead of enlisting aid to actually secure the peace (rebuilding infrastructure, training Iraqi civil forces, promoting education), we chose to go it alone. Why? Because we'd be better at finding the WMDs without interference.
But at the point that we'd won the war, the WMDs didn't matter!
My personal belief has always been that the WMD issue was settled as soon as the first american missile was fired. If Saddam had WMD's and he was as big a nutcase as he was made out to be then he would have used those WMD's to fight off the invasion. That was all the proof I needed to know that we had been lied to. The rest is just paperwork to cover butts.
For those that have asked the question. I am currently learning Python. However, I wanted to keep the question general enough so that if I came up against a new language then I would have an "arsenal" of small problems that I could throw at it quickly to tweak out the difficult areas to code in and to highlight the strengths of the language.
Funny you should mention that as I just did a tic-tac-toe version. I didn't teach it how to play - just the basic rules. I then saved each game to disk and allowed the program to learn how to play from this history. After about 60 games it started playing "properly" and after about 90 games I could no longer beat it.
This is all good and well until you decide to make the form resizable. Then all hell breaks loose: none of the widgets move unless you explicitly change their coordinates.
It has been some time since I last used VB, but I seem to recall (Delphi definately has this) that you could "tie" components to the form so that they would grow and shrink as the form resizes. You could also specify upper and lower limits for the width and height of each component you placed on the form. I found the Delphi IDE to be far superior to anything found on the Linux front. Now, if only we could convince the Borland idiots not to annoy the developers with their mindless management style then we might have something going again.
Amen to that. I was an avid Delphi developer right up to version 5 at which point the whole Inprise/Borland/"We don't know which direction we are going" thing finally got to me. Since then I have not had a nice programming language lying around to manipulate files and code up quick utilities. I tried Java a few times but after puking my guts out for the last time I am now happily moved along and settled into Python.
Borland can shove Kylix at this stage. They burnt up all my goodwill and then some.
Good call Mr. Pike: humans function well in small self-organising or randomly-organised groups of up to 8.
Right there is the rub. My last manager had heard of this idea as well and stuffed 46 of us in a room together. Testers, developers, managers, even the client reps all in one room. After 3.5 years they cancelled the project with virtually nothing to show for it. Of course completely changing direction on the project no less that 5 times during that timeframe didn't help either. However, I do believe that if we could have gone off and produced something for the client to look at rather than have yet another daily full team meeting to discuss what we could be doing instead of meeting then something might have come of it.
I think you are missing the point here. Before I was allowed to enter the country I had to undergo a criminal background check. My documentation is checked each time I move and each time I change employers. I.e. I am doing everything the government is asking me to do to ensure the safety of their citizens. So far I am not pissed off. However, I do get pissed off when I have gone through all that hassle - and believe me it is a lot of hassle - and then I still get treated exactly the same as somebody who is in the country illegally. The fact that I am complying with the government should count for something in my opinion.
If the police had checked their visas (which they almost never do), they would have seen that the visas were expired and the hijackers should have been deported. That could have (and probably would have) prevented 9-11 and saved the lives of 3,000 Americans.
That would require the INS to start doing its job properly and more importantly timeously. My local DMV and cop station had no idea how to go about checking the status of my visa. I had to explain to them what to look for on the various pieces of paper. Luckily I am honest, but it could just as easily have been some guy trying to stay here past his visa date with a forgery and they wouldn't have been any the wiser.