I have to agree here. It is going to be tough for you to get a visa to work in the US for such a short period.
If your lucky, you might be able to get a J-1 visa but that does require sponsorship which your unlikely to get unless you have a 'friend' in a company willing to go through the process.
If you are British I would personally recommend you get a Working Holiday visa and go to Australia, Canada or Japan. The process to get such visa's is trivial.
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PS. I did this in reverse (to Europe from Canada) and it was an excellent experience both socially;-) and professionally.
When my wife (a graphic designer) and I (a software engineer) first started seeing one another I convinced her to dump her Mac for Windows.
Windows 2000 was, truth be told, the best operating system for end users at that time. The Mac (pre OS X) was a piece of junk.
Fast forward today. We have 5 Mac's in the house. We have Linux on our servers. The sole remaining Windows machine has not been turned on for at least a few months.
Mac OS X has come a long way. It is everything a UNIX guy could evey have hoped for in a desktop/laptop OS (I started on Solaris).
The fact that it is shiny and cool is great bonus but that is not why I use it. I use it because it's better, it's easier, it's faster, and it's more robust then Vista.
Microsoft might claw it's way back. I hear Windows 2008 Server is a good product. But right now the Microsoft OS is the piece of junk, and Apple dominates in terms of product quality.
Actually, China is actively encouraging this relocation to the interior because the interior is very poor.
If an Apple factory move into one of the interior provinces the government and the people would be ecstatic because of the huge income inflow that would generate in this extremely poor region.
I understand the cleaning, but what is the point of the wax?
You usually wax a surface to give it shine and to give it an additional layer of protection but, in the case of an already scratched CD, that seems redundant.
Indeed, won't the wax make reading the content more difficult?
In fact my new house is in a community (in WA) where, during the plan of the subdivision, they mandated fiber to every home.
The service provider is owned by the local council. They provide 24x7 support. All hardware, including the hookup and the fiber router is free.
The only drawback is that every home owner - even those who do not use the service - have to pay the minimum fee, which is $42 per month for 6MB symmetrical / 20MB symmetrical is an extra $50.
I think this service has been around for about 5 years.
The wacky Javascript that GWT generates is fine if your a Googler and understand and can fix issues that might occur but there many other cleaner solutions out there that mere, non kool-aid drinking, mortals can much more effectively work with.
What we've been doing so far has just been punishment for being non-democratic
No, that has absolutely NOTHING to do with it.
Consider that some of our best friends in the Middle East (such as Saudi Arabia) are not democratic and we not only not embargo them but we sell them weapons wholeheartedly.
If the EULA says you cannot mod or you cannot create an add-on then you can't. Just don't use that software.
Your second paragraph is just totally stupid. You have a choice to support vendors with permissive EULA's. Alternatively, you have a choice to use Blizzard software which does everything it can to protect gameplay. The point is YOU HAVE A CHOICE.
The question I have here is why don't they just attach a helmet mounted camera (or two) to a computer that can identify people and just paint them in a HUD the soldier is wearing.
The camera's could be infrared too so they could 'see' much more easily and in the dark.
Also, if the soldier was connected to some sort of network to command and control they would give them better situational awareness and they could feed friend/foe identification to all soldiers on the battlefield.
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I have to agree here. It is going to be tough for you to get a visa to work in the US for such a short period.
If your lucky, you might be able to get a J-1 visa but that does require sponsorship which your unlikely to get unless you have a 'friend' in a company willing to go through the process.
If you are British I would personally recommend you get a Working Holiday visa and go to Australia, Canada or Japan. The process to get such visa's is trivial.
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PS. I did this in reverse (to Europe from Canada) and it was an excellent experience both socially ;-) and professionally.
More importantly, the summary makes it seem like some part of the fireworks were 'faked'.
In fact, what we're talking about is the fireworks view from above. Rather than being a helicopter shot it was CGI matched to the fireworks.
There were still actual fireworks in place, they just did the CGI to give viewers an idea of what the fireworks looked like from different angles.
This is such a non story. The MSM is obviously playing it up because of insufficient olimpic drama but really, does Slashdot have to do the same?
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Lack of interest; indifference.
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Why did you not just give the each license 1 support call and then charge for each one thereafter (you could always wave the fee for real issues)?
When my wife (a graphic designer) and I (a software engineer) first started seeing one another I convinced her to dump her Mac for Windows.
Windows 2000 was, truth be told, the best operating system for end users at that time. The Mac (pre OS X) was a piece of junk.
Fast forward today. We have 5 Mac's in the house. We have Linux on our servers. The sole remaining Windows machine has not been turned on for at least a few months.
Mac OS X has come a long way. It is everything a UNIX guy could evey have hoped for in a desktop/laptop OS (I started on Solaris).
The fact that it is shiny and cool is great bonus but that is not why I use it. I use it because it's better, it's easier, it's faster, and it's more robust then Vista.
Microsoft might claw it's way back. I hear Windows 2008 Server is a good product. But right now the Microsoft OS is the piece of junk, and Apple dominates in terms of product quality.
Actually, China is actively encouraging this relocation to the interior because the interior is very poor.
If an Apple factory move into one of the interior provinces the government and the people would be ecstatic because of the huge income inflow that would generate in this extremely poor region.
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No, not at all. Most of BMW's cars (except X3/X5/X6) are built out of Germany and imported in.
... or, you know, you could spend $7 a disk and have it done professionally ...
http://www.auraltech.com/prices.htm
I just googled this in like 30 seconds, probably there are other options.
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High bandwidth maybe. Terrible latency though :-)
I understand the cleaning, but what is the point of the wax?
You usually wax a surface to give it shine and to give it an additional layer of protection but, in the case of an already scratched CD, that seems redundant.
Indeed, won't the wax make reading the content more difficult?
In fact my new house is in a community (in WA) where, during the plan of the subdivision, they mandated fiber to every home.
The service provider is owned by the local council. They provide 24x7 support. All hardware, including the hookup and the fiber router is free.
The only drawback is that every home owner - even those who do not use the service - have to pay the minimum fee, which is $42 per month for 6MB symmetrical / 20MB symmetrical is an extra $50.
I think this service has been around for about 5 years.
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Ok, well, I am not from Texas, so I don't know the climate but I assume it is comfortable for biking at least some portions of the year, right?
Let's assume it is real bad and you can bike only 20% of the time.
That still represents a great deal of gas (aka petrol) that you could save along with the associated carbon emissions.
Also, you would be much healthier.
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PS. The idea of my wife 'hosing me down' after work is somewhat appealing but to each his own. ;-)
It's $130 wholesale. By the time you get the thing into the US it would probably have cost you at least $150.
The wacky Javascript that GWT generates is fine if your a Googler and understand and can fix issues that might occur but there many other cleaner solutions out there that mere, non kool-aid drinking, mortals can much more effectively work with.
About .01% of the worlds computers need the kind of power that a CPU with more then say 4 cores provide.
Yes but now that we can't buy XP any more, the penetration of Vista is sure to grow.
Yes, well, 'boycotting' the largest supplier of Oil in the world would turn the US into a 3rd world country real fast.
My family plan with messaging and unlimited data runs $170 per month (for 2 phones, for my wife and I).
What we've been doing so far has just been punishment for being non-democratic
No, that has absolutely NOTHING to do with it.
Consider that some of our best friends in the Middle East (such as Saudi Arabia) are not democratic and we not only not embargo them but we sell them weapons wholeheartedly.
If the EULA says you cannot mod or you cannot create an add-on then you can't. Just don't use that software.
Your second paragraph is just totally stupid. You have a choice to support vendors with permissive EULA's. Alternatively, you have a choice to use Blizzard software which does everything it can to protect gameplay. The point is YOU HAVE A CHOICE.
A EULA can compel you to use the software only while wearing a chicken costume and a tin foil hat. It need not be rational.
You have the option to use the software or not. If you don't like the EULA, don't use the software (or buy the car or whatever).
You have CHOICE!
The court essentially found that if you violate the EULA then the use of the software constitutes a copyright violation.
This is the only precedent here and it's hardly an alarming one.
I certainly prefer a 3D interface while killing my fellow geeks with spells, swords or rocket launchers.
Code, not do much.
Netcraft says the daily heroic killed TV (also relationships, pets, and occasionally a small child).
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American politics is driven by money. Although it's not always the case, often the person who raises most leads (McCain being a rare counter example.
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The question I have here is why don't they just attach a helmet mounted camera (or two) to a computer that can identify people and just paint them in a HUD the soldier is wearing.
The camera's could be infrared too so they could 'see' much more easily and in the dark.
Also, if the soldier was connected to some sort of network to command and control they would give them better situational awareness and they could feed friend/foe identification to all soldiers on the battlefield.
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