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  1. The answer must lie... on India's Successful Commercial Satellite Launch · · Score: 1

    ... somewhere in the market dynamics and complexity of operation.

    Next invalid speculation... Did India also muscle the Italians into paying more than the market rate or REALLY, are the Italians paying more money than market can demand because the Italian born Sonia Gandhi is the leader of a large (in power?) political party!!

  2. Re:The DHS says these numbers are too low on Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The answer you are looking for is in the DHS document that you linked to. The table 26 on page 64 (where you picked the yearly number from) specifies in the header 'Non Immigrant Admissions (I-94 only)....'. The H1B visa has a maximum validity of 6 years. New visas are issued every year, but the ones issued in previous years (up till last 6) are still valid. All those people can go in and out of the country. Each time they do so, they are issued a new I-94. As a keen eye and some basic analysis will prove to you, the numbers increase every year, as they are cumulative for the last 6. Nothing more sinister here than the lack of understanding of the numbers. You know.. lies, damn lies and statistics.

  3. Re:So this has become another green card lottery? on Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day · · Score: 5, Informative

    As an H1B holding Indian working in the US, I can tell you for a fact that the assertion you make (really your lawyer) is completely and utterly false. The cap applies to the entire world. There are other visa types that you can come to the US under, but if its the H1B you are interested in, the cap applies.

    If your lawyer doesn't know this or is feeding you misinformation for whatever reason, you should look into taking your business elsewhere.

  4. Brother HL-2070N... on Affordable Laser Printers? · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...USB Ethernet 20PPM Laser Printer ~ $170.
    It definately meets the networking and proce requriments. The only one in question is 'decent graphics', but that is subjective! and you know best.

            * Up to 20 pages per minute
            * HQ1200 resolution (up to 2400x600dpi)
            * 250-sheet input capacity and manual by-pass slot for letterhead and envelopes
            * USB 2.0 and Parallel interfaces1
            * Windows® and Mac® compatible
            * One-year limited warranty
            * 16MB memory standard
            * PCL®6 emulation standard
            * Built-in 10/100 BaseT Ethernet
            * Network Interface

  5. Re:Aborted Fetuses = Murdered Children on US Stem Cells Contaminated · · Score: 1

    Well... your bias towards the issue is sub-consciously evident by use of the phrase "not matter how you help the natives or what you do for them, they will hate you for being their master."

  6. Re:Cheap EPIA boards? on Transmeta Mini-ITX Board Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I meant any less than $160 retail.

  7. Cheap EPIA boards? on Transmeta Mini-ITX Board Reviewed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does someone know where to buy Via EPIA boards for cheap? I've read that they are available in volume for $45 for the new M10000, but I can't find any $160 retail.

    What gives?

  8. OT: Does anyone else see a parallel? on Linus on All Sorts of Stuff · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For the question
    "Do you have any advice for people starting to undertake large open source projects? What have you learned by managing the Linux kernel? ",
    as I was reading the reply...
    And if there is anything I've learnt from Linux, it's that projects have a life of their own, and you should _not_ try to enforce your "vision" too strongly on them. Most often you're wrong anyway, and if you're not flexible and willing to take input from others (and willing to change direction when it turned out your vision was flawed), you'll never get anything good done. In other words, be willing to admit your mistakes, and don't expect to get anywhere big in any kind of short timeframe.
    for some reason I was mentally comparing it to the stand that the Bush administration has taken in the "war on terror" and the "desire to spread liberty". I could not help but think, that here is the exact reason why it is flagging and possibly destined for eventual failure.

  9. Sure puts the corporate entities in their place... on DeCSS Injunction Reversed In CA Case · · Score: 1

    "DVDCCA's statutory right to protect its economically valuable trade secret is not
    an interest that is 'more fundamental' than the First Amendment right to freedom of
    speech or even on equal footing with the national security interests and other vital
    governmental interests that have previously been found insufficient to justify a prior
    restraint."

  10. Stealing code from Apple (implied?) on Antitrust · · Score: 3

    everyone of the developers is using an x86 running GNOME, but everytime Tim Robbins hands Milo a piece of code, Tim always shows it to Milo on the new Titanium G4 laptop. Does anybody else also think that there is a subtle reference to history here??

  11. Technology Prostitute?? on Notes From the Cathedral · · Score: 1

    But the contracts are always 'at will'. You can walk out, if it undermines your beliefs. That is a lot better than being an employee.