This also partially applies to H1B in that these people will work for lower wages since their goal is to save money and go home, not to live a comfortable life here as a citizen.
You're partially correct since it's the theory behind H1-B, but for most foreigner, the H1-B visa is first step in becoming a permanent resident and/or citizen. Many companies will sponsor H1-B for their greencard applications. So, for those H1-B workers - a great deal of them, although I don't stats to quote - yes, they want to make a comfortable life in the US.
I don't see how it's easier. You have to unplug everything, repack everything into the styrofoam molded box (hopefully you kept it), drive down to the store, line up with all the other people returning stuff (lots of people after xmas), fill out the forms - and then if you're lucky, the refund will show up on the credit card in a timely fashion.
That wouldn't look one bit suspicious in a grocery store... I can just see someone pulling a bloody hand out of his pockets to pay for the pack of tic-tacs...
Well, they are supposed to verify the signature with the one in the back of the card. Granted, they rarely do in the US and either way, store clerk are probably not handwriting experts, but in theory the signature is the "code".
As a funny story during a trip in Taiwan a department store (Sogo) clerk refused to accept my signature! I looked in the back of my card and sure enough it looked a bit different - I guess after about 2 years my signature had evolved ever so slightly. She made me re-sign the slip at least 4 times before she gave up and let it go.
Or like my local store claims, it's because of a staffing shortage (apparently they can't find enough people willing to make $6/hour - what a shocker) and therefore since the self-checkout lanes are in ADDITION to the regular lanes, it allows them to have more lanes open than normally. See, helps everyone!
As a side note, I love these self checkout lanes. Well, except when the person in front of me has a 10 year old kid and decides that it should be the kid's job to scan.
The "shipping the job to india" bit is not about relocation of the office/staff. It's about hiring contractors over there. There are some big shops over there that do nothing but that.
Oh, sure... I don't particularly care what they blame it on. A fact is a fact: they're not (and never have been) profitable and they're begging for money again to stay afloat in the short term.
But apparently it's not working for them (it is for RedHat). That's all I am saying. There may be a few too many for-profit Linux distributors out there (at least considering the current market shares of Linux) and it's gonna be survival of the fittest. In other words, MandrakeSoft will most likely go.
Giving them some cash would not be good. It would only delay the inevitable (this is not the first time they do this). MandrakeSoft is a for-profit corporation. Clearly they can't make a profit - it is time to close.
Who knows, Mandrake-the-distribution may live after MandrakeSoft dies. If it's that good of a distro (I wouldn't know, never tried) volunteers will keep it going.
That works most of the time. But there are two problems. You format of your SMS email is predictable. Even if you don't give it out, anyone that knows your cell phone number can go ahead and send you stuff. A second problem is with spammers that just send to random numbers.
You're wrong. On cell phone incoming calls always get deducted from your airtime (usually you sign up for a plan that give a certain amount of airtime a month).
Of course, we're talking about SMS messages. Some carrier charge you a very small fee (i.e. $0.02) for each message, with possibly an allotment of free messages.
As far as I know, a former criminal IS marked for life already. What? Never heard of criminal records? Any background check performed will bring up such things.
Because when you pay for cable, you're paying the cable company for the delivery of the channels (it's a pretty expensive network to maintain you know) - not the broadcaster for its content (or very little anyway). The broadcaster gets its bread and butter from ads.
Now, are you being overcharged by the cable company? Probably. But that's a different topic really...
I think the point is that he is signing up for premium channels (and he might not without a PVR). The cable companies does make money on premium channels. I guess not 100% of the premium fee goes to the premium company.
People would complain if the fuel taxes were 5% too. That's the thing about taxes, love to hate them. But the truth of the matter is that taxes in europe are higher all around (income, sales taxes, etc) and apparently, in spite of the grumbling, we're apparently quite happy with the socialist governments in place in most of europe which provide us with all kinds of benefits and protections that Americans (with their lower taxes) can only dream of having (free education, free healthcare - yes, I know it's broken in the UK, etc.)
Hey! All I am saying is that European countries are all democratic. Looks like we've made our own bed.
(I now live in the US, but it has nothing to do with taxes...)
Well the main thing that bothers me about the term "comics" is that it implies something about its content - such as comedy or something fun or funny about it. I guess that's how they started in the US, and that's how the term came to exist. However, I have read French "comics" about the holocaust, and there is nothing even remotely fun or funny about them, and they're definetely not targeted at kids. So I personally prefer a more content neutral term for these things. I had never heard of "graphic novel" before, but I guess it is more appropriate.
I know. It's just a word. However weird it sounds in some context, it's the correct word to use.
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This also partially applies to H1B in that these people will work for lower wages since their goal is to save money and go home, not to live a comfortable life here as a citizen.
You're partially correct since it's the theory behind H1-B, but for most foreigner, the H1-B visa is first step in becoming a permanent resident and/or citizen. Many companies will sponsor H1-B for their greencard applications. So, for those H1-B workers - a great deal of them, although I don't stats to quote - yes, they want to make a comfortable life in the US.
Well, Maes Pils is hardly a good beer by belgium's standards, but you are right that it's still better than *any* beer from france :)
Which is democratic.
Just like Belgium (my native country, I live in the US) is a "Constitutional Monarchy" and is nevertheless democratic.
I don't see how it's easier. You have to unplug everything, repack everything into the styrofoam molded box (hopefully you kept it), drive down to the store, line up with all the other people returning stuff (lots of people after xmas), fill out the forms - and then if you're lucky, the refund will show up on the credit card in a timely fashion.
Again, how is this easier?
That wouldn't look one bit suspicious in a grocery store... I can just see someone pulling a bloody hand out of his pockets to pay for the pack of tic-tacs...
Well, they are supposed to verify the signature with the one in the back of the card. Granted, they rarely do in the US and either way, store clerk are probably not handwriting experts, but in theory the signature is the "code".
As a funny story during a trip in Taiwan a department store (Sogo) clerk refused to accept my signature! I looked in the back of my card and sure enough it looked a bit different - I guess after about 2 years my signature had evolved ever so slightly. She made me re-sign the slip at least 4 times before she gave up and let it go.
Or like my local store claims, it's because of a staffing shortage (apparently they can't find enough people willing to make $6/hour - what a shocker) and therefore since the self-checkout lanes are in ADDITION to the regular lanes, it allows them to have more lanes open than normally. See, helps everyone!
As a side note, I love these self checkout lanes. Well, except when the person in front of me has a 10 year old kid and decides that it should be the kid's job to scan.
I think you're missing the point...
The "shipping the job to india" bit is not about relocation of the office/staff. It's about hiring contractors over there. There are some big shops over there that do nothing but that.
Oh, sure... I don't particularly care what they blame it on. A fact is a fact: they're not (and never have been) profitable and they're begging for money again to stay afloat in the short term.
But apparently it's not working for them (it is for RedHat). That's all I am saying. There may be a few too many for-profit Linux distributors out there (at least considering the current market shares of Linux) and it's gonna be survival of the fittest. In other words, MandrakeSoft will most likely go.
Giving them some cash would not be good. It would only delay the inevitable (this is not the first time they do this). MandrakeSoft is a for-profit corporation. Clearly they can't make a profit - it is time to close.
Who knows, Mandrake-the-distribution may live after MandrakeSoft dies. If it's that good of a distro (I wouldn't know, never tried) volunteers will keep it going.
That works most of the time. But there are two problems. You format of your SMS email is predictable. Even if you don't give it out, anyone that knows your cell phone number can go ahead and send you stuff. A second problem is with spammers that just send to random numbers.
You're wrong. On cell phone incoming calls always get deducted from your airtime (usually you sign up for a plan that give a certain amount of airtime a month).
Of course, we're talking about SMS messages. Some carrier charge you a very small fee (i.e. $0.02) for each message, with possibly an allotment of free messages.
Yes, and they are still funded and still free. Doesn't AOL deserve credit for that?
Yes, I have. But that's not what he described about someone having served his/her time.
As far as I know, a former criminal IS marked for life already. What? Never heard of criminal records? Any background check performed will bring up such things.
Consider saving ever version of a config file as config.YYYYMMDD (or whatever scheme you want) prior to changing it. That'll do the trick.
Of course, you'll still need backups in case someone types rm -Rf, but doing backups for versioning purpose is ridiculous.
The only thing that's really the same between ASP and ASP.NET is the first three letter of the name.
Give it a try before judging. But for sure, you are way off base if you put down ASP.NET based on ASP (which DOES suck).
Because when you pay for cable, you're paying the cable company for the delivery of the channels (it's a pretty expensive network to maintain you know) - not the broadcaster for its content (or very little anyway). The broadcaster gets its bread and butter from ads.
Now, are you being overcharged by the cable company? Probably. But that's a different topic really...
I think the point is that he is signing up for premium channels (and he might not without a PVR). The cable companies does make money on premium channels. I guess not 100% of the premium fee goes to the premium company.
People would complain if the fuel taxes were 5% too. That's the thing about taxes, love to hate them. But the truth of the matter is that taxes in europe are higher all around (income, sales taxes, etc) and apparently, in spite of the grumbling, we're apparently quite happy with the socialist governments in place in most of europe which provide us with all kinds of benefits and protections that Americans (with their lower taxes) can only dream of having (free education, free healthcare - yes, I know it's broken in the UK, etc.)
Hey! All I am saying is that European countries are all democratic. Looks like we've made our own bed.
(I now live in the US, but it has nothing to do with taxes...)
FYI - in case you're wondering....
Slashdot breaks long strings by inserting blank spaces in them.
Next time, consider make an actual HTML link instead like this
Maybe so. But I think we're talking about the time for basic phone functionalities (making a call) to be available after turning on the phone.
On my T-Mobile GSM phone that takes just a few seconds. Maybe 3 or 4.
Well the main thing that bothers me about the term "comics" is that it implies something about its content - such as comedy or something fun or funny about it. I guess that's how they started in the US, and that's how the term came to exist. However, I have read French "comics" about the holocaust, and there is nothing even remotely fun or funny about them, and they're definetely not targeted at kids. So I personally prefer a more content neutral term for these things. I had never heard of "graphic novel" before, but I guess it is more appropriate.
I know. It's just a word. However weird it sounds in some context, it's the correct word to use.
I know, so am I.