Microsoft has 90,000 employees. Intel has 83,000 at least. Considering that there are around 100,000 H1B recipients, you could place nearly all of them at just these two companies and they wouldn't have to pay a dime for any applications, since it would be less than 50% of their employment.
In other words, this is little more than a tempest in a teapot. Yeah, Microsoft and Intel are big companies who employ lots of people. However, as a fraction of the overall economy, they only make up a small portion. Immediately revoking all of the H1-B visas and deporting those workers would barely have a perceptible impact on unemployment figures.
According to the latest report, in July there were 6.6 million people who had been unemployed for more than 27 weeks, 8.5 million underemployed part-time workers, 1.2 million discouraged workers, and countless more underemployed full-timers. Cutting 100,000 from that figure would be little more than a drop in the barrel.
People were pissed because she was giving textbook answers to make it through the job interview with the Senate while everyone knows she's going to be an activist judge ruling off of her opinion because she has no practical experience.
[citation-needed]
"Everyone knows" is a shitty argument, and the "no practical experience" argument has been thoroughly debunked. True, she's never been a judge, but she's more than qualified, and if "everybody knew," she wouldn't have been confirmed -- 5 Republicans broke ranks and voted for her, whilst the current crop of Senate Dems are fairly moderate, and wouldn't vote to confirm a far-left activist in considerable numbers, particularly with an election cycle coming up.
The complaints were based on her record. Also, some of her terrible answers--she couldn't answer the question of whether or not the government has the power to tell you what to eat.
I'd say that it's a good thing for a supreme court nominee to not give off-the-cuff, kneejerk answers to a question that could have considerable legal repercussions.
I'd imagine that this also has to do with carbon monoxide, considering that a balcony BBQ could easily vent into the apartment adjacent to the balcony or into the AC vent of the unit above.
Meh for the average user, true. Nice to see RiM focusing back on business users without trying to introduce an "iPhone killer".
And how are they focusing on businesses moreso than they already do? It looks like they're missing the forest for the trees by rushing to include every new buzzword-laden technology (Social Feeds! Instant messaging! Facebook!) without actually understanding the underlying themes and trends. To me, that seems like the antithesis of "focusing on business users."
Also, why is it that businesses cannot benefit from the (considerably superior) graphical, processing, and multitouch capabilities of the current crop of Android and iOS devices?
No kidding. Have you ever tried developing for the BlackBerry browser, or the Widget API, which uses the same rendering engine? Netscape 4 is literally more capable and standards-compliant by comparison. It's virtually unusable to do anything beyond bare basics with JavaScript or CSS (and even then, behavior is often inconsistent and unreliable).
The Widget API is also perplexing in its own right. Although it supposedly uses the same rendering engine, its implementation of the DOM is slightly different from the Browser's. In short: a nightmare.
There's been a fair amount of debate over whether Dr. Hawking's condition is actually ALS, as he's survived far longer than any other documented ALS case.
No. You're wrong, and I'm not being pedantic. There are several dozen districts in Morris County, of which Mount Olive is only one. Extrapolating Mount Olive's policy decision to the entire county (as MSNBC did) is factually incorrect.
Also, I have never lived in Mount Olive, nor have I ever attended school there.
I grew up in Morris County, and am a bit bewildered by this article, given that there's no Morris County school board. This particular issue pertains to Mount Olive -- a town of 26,000 people with a 5000-student school district, not the entire county.
Not sure how they butchered these details from the source article.
That very well may be, but the comment we're referring to made zero sense. NASA exists to make muslims feel smart? How does that even begin to make sense? What does Atlas Shrugged have to do with any of this?
Personally, I would be in favor of keeping it going as a servicer for the ISS until the next generation of craft is actually up and running.
Soyuz is cheaper and safer. There's no scientific or engineering reason not to use it.
They've had a few close calls, but unlike the shuttle, the Soyuz capsule has modes of failure in which the cosmo/astronauts aboard do not die. Hell, a Soyuz rocket once exploded on the pad, and the astronauts aboard walked away from the incident with nothing more than minor injuries.
And I'm not surprised that there's no hard evidence linking him to anything. Wouldn't you expect that a Russian counterintelligence agent would necessarily be rather good at hiding his tracks?
Well, that's some terrifying logic right there. He turned me into a newt!
Speaking of paying attention, has he actually been formally accused of anything beyond immigration violations?
The story seems awfully speculative. Good on the feds for doing their diligence, but as far as I can tell, there's no hard evidence linking him to anything.
running an outdated OS designed for enterprise users?
Enterprise user here. Apart from the exchange support and BES (which is admittedly quite nifty and unique), I certainly wouldn't argue that Blackberry's OS fits our needs to a T. In fact, we're routinely frustrated by almost all aspects of it.
I've said this many times, but it bears repeating -- The first phone manufacturer who can make a product that functions as a drop-in replacement for BES will capture the enterprise smartphone market. It's ripe for the picking.
I'm talking about UI aesthetics, and those Vertu phones have got to be some of the gaudiest, ugliest things I've ever seen. I should also apologize for all the work I've been doing on my Android phone that's apparently "fake".
Honestly, this article and subsequent discussion sounds like a lot of Symbian developers trying to give themselves job security, while sneering at an unmistakable trend.
(And my particular employer does care about applications other than bare necessities. We're trying to port a few applications specific to our business to the Blackberry (because that's what the company issues to its employees by default), and are having a hell of a time doing it. It is hands-down the worst environment any of us have ever developed for. We're having to program every single UI widget from scratch using Blackberry's broken Java implementation.
I suspect Blackberry users don't care about other applications, because there are none, given just how awful Blackberry's developer platform is. Should I also mention their browser's godawful Javascript and CSS implementation, or their much-touted map/GPS application that looks like it was made in 1996? If you're going to do something, do it right.
The second that another company figures out how to market phones to the enterprise market, and can successfully sell itself on also being a good development platform, RIM will be toast. Those execs pull out their blackberry when "real work" needs to be done, because their enterprises are integrated into Exchange, which isn't supported nearly as well by any other platform (or because company policies prohibit Android/IOS devices on their network).
The problem is that unlike android and iphone, these phones are very competitively priced, and sacrifice "bling" features for actual function, such as better features, lower price and business-directed application support. As a result, there's many fewer people with "loose money" who are willing to sink a few euros/dollars/etc into some funny looking application on a weekly basis. They also tend to look much less pretty, focusing on function, and have slower hardware, meaning less responsive UI, which is advertised as a major feature on IOS and android.
Thanks for your opinion. Having used all major mobile platforms, I will respectfully disagree (as, I suppose, would anybody else who's switched from Blackberry or Symbian to an Apple or Android-based phone). A responsive UI, high-resolution screen, and reasonable aesthetics, I argue, can indeed improve the usability of a device, even for business users.
Honestly, I don't see much of a future for Symbian -- in my mind, they represent the "old" mobile phone industry, and the inferiority and stagnation that came along with it. Similarly, RIM needs to watch its back, as the enterprise market is ripe for the picking. Developing applications for the Blackberry is like pulling teeth, and their mobile browser is slightly less capable than Netscape 4.
In other words, they predicted that the results would be random and hard to predict.
By itself, that statement is bullshit, and means nothing. On the other hand, amongst a sea of outlandishly incorrect predictions from a variety of respected individuals and firms, Goldman may have been onto something.
This is actually a useful result to have. Unfortunately, I don't think we're likely to hear Goldman say anytime soon that "The markets are volatile and chaotic, and we can't predict them right now. Better hold off a few months on investing that money you have"
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Microsoft has 90,000 employees. Intel has 83,000 at least. Considering that there are around 100,000 H1B recipients, you could place nearly all of them at just these two companies and they wouldn't have to pay a dime for any applications, since it would be less than 50% of their employment.
In other words, this is little more than a tempest in a teapot. Yeah, Microsoft and Intel are big companies who employ lots of people. However, as a fraction of the overall economy, they only make up a small portion. Immediately revoking all of the H1-B visas and deporting those workers would barely have a perceptible impact on unemployment figures.
According to the latest report, in July there were 6.6 million people who had been unemployed for more than 27 weeks, 8.5 million underemployed part-time workers, 1.2 million discouraged workers, and countless more underemployed full-timers. Cutting 100,000 from that figure would be little more than a drop in the barrel.
People were pissed because she was giving textbook answers to make it through the job interview with the Senate while everyone knows she's going to be an activist judge ruling off of her opinion because she has no practical experience.
[citation-needed]
"Everyone knows" is a shitty argument, and the "no practical experience" argument has been thoroughly debunked. True, she's never been a judge, but she's more than qualified, and if "everybody knew," she wouldn't have been confirmed -- 5 Republicans broke ranks and voted for her, whilst the current crop of Senate Dems are fairly moderate, and wouldn't vote to confirm a far-left activist in considerable numbers, particularly with an election cycle coming up.
Saying something doesn't make it true.
The complaints were based on her record. Also, some of her terrible answers--she couldn't answer the question of whether or not the government has the power to tell you what to eat.
I'd say that it's a good thing for a supreme court nominee to not give off-the-cuff, kneejerk answers to a question that could have considerable legal repercussions.
The two sound similar, but they're nothing close to each other in terms of technical difficulty.
Or cost.
I'd imagine that this also has to do with carbon monoxide, considering that a balcony BBQ could easily vent into the apartment adjacent to the balcony or into the AC vent of the unit above.
Meh for the average user, true. Nice to see RiM focusing back on business users without trying to introduce an "iPhone killer".
And how are they focusing on businesses moreso than they already do? It looks like they're missing the forest for the trees by rushing to include every new buzzword-laden technology (Social Feeds! Instant messaging! Facebook!) without actually understanding the underlying themes and trends. To me, that seems like the antithesis of "focusing on business users."
Also, why is it that businesses cannot benefit from the (considerably superior) graphical, processing, and multitouch capabilities of the current crop of Android and iOS devices?
The Torch feels and looks very much like a BlackBerry
Wait. Is that supposed to be a compliment? The only nice things to say about Blackberry relate to their keyboards and enterprise software.
No kidding. Have you ever tried developing for the BlackBerry browser, or the Widget API, which uses the same rendering engine? Netscape 4 is literally more capable and standards-compliant by comparison. It's virtually unusable to do anything beyond bare basics with JavaScript or CSS (and even then, behavior is often inconsistent and unreliable).
The Widget API is also perplexing in its own right. Although it supposedly uses the same rendering engine, its implementation of the DOM is slightly different from the Browser's. In short: a nightmare.
[citation-needed]
At my university, ~$1300 of undergraduate tuition/fees per year went toward (our hilariously awful) intercollegiate athletics program.
On the other hand, our intramural sports and fitness programs cost each student about $130, and had nearly a 100% participation rate.
Guess which one had its funding cut last year?
There's been a fair amount of debate over whether Dr. Hawking's condition is actually ALS, as he's survived far longer than any other documented ALS case.
No. You're wrong, and I'm not being pedantic. There are several dozen districts in Morris County, of which Mount Olive is only one. Extrapolating Mount Olive's policy decision to the entire county (as MSNBC did) is factually incorrect.
Also, I have never lived in Mount Olive, nor have I ever attended school there.
I grew up in Morris County, and am a bit bewildered by this article, given that there's no Morris County school board. This particular issue pertains to Mount Olive -- a town of 26,000 people with a 5000-student school district, not the entire county.
Not sure how they butchered these details from the source article.
Just wait until we have nuclear powered space ships exploding and showering us with radioactive space dust.
Pssh. That's so 20th Century.
That very well may be, but the comment we're referring to made zero sense. NASA exists to make muslims feel smart? How does that even begin to make sense? What does Atlas Shrugged have to do with any of this?
Personally, I would be in favor of keeping it going as a servicer for the ISS until the next generation of craft is actually up and running.
Soyuz is cheaper and safer. There's no scientific or engineering reason not to use it.
They've had a few close calls, but unlike the shuttle, the Soyuz capsule has modes of failure in which the cosmo/astronauts aboard do not die. Hell, a Soyuz rocket once exploded on the pad, and the astronauts aboard walked away from the incident with nothing more than minor injuries.
And I'm not surprised that there's no hard evidence linking him to anything. Wouldn't you expect that a Russian counterintelligence agent would necessarily be rather good at hiding his tracks?
Well, that's some terrifying logic right there. He turned me into a newt!
Speaking of paying attention, has he actually been formally accused of anything beyond immigration violations?
The story seems awfully speculative. Good on the feds for doing their diligence, but as far as I can tell, there's no hard evidence linking him to anything.
running an outdated OS designed for enterprise users?
Enterprise user here. Apart from the exchange support and BES (which is admittedly quite nifty and unique), I certainly wouldn't argue that Blackberry's OS fits our needs to a T. In fact, we're routinely frustrated by almost all aspects of it.
I've said this many times, but it bears repeating -- The first phone manufacturer who can make a product that functions as a drop-in replacement for BES will capture the enterprise smartphone market. It's ripe for the picking.
The Atom is a ridiculous car. I'd actually like to see a drag race between it and the Tesla Roadster.
I'm talking about UI aesthetics, and those Vertu phones have got to be some of the gaudiest, ugliest things I've ever seen. I should also apologize for all the work I've been doing on my Android phone that's apparently "fake".
Honestly, this article and subsequent discussion sounds like a lot of Symbian developers trying to give themselves job security, while sneering at an unmistakable trend.
(And my particular employer does care about applications other than bare necessities. We're trying to port a few applications specific to our business to the Blackberry (because that's what the company issues to its employees by default), and are having a hell of a time doing it. It is hands-down the worst environment any of us have ever developed for. We're having to program every single UI widget from scratch using Blackberry's broken Java implementation.
I suspect Blackberry users don't care about other applications, because there are none, given just how awful Blackberry's developer platform is. Should I also mention their browser's godawful Javascript and CSS implementation, or their much-touted map/GPS application that looks like it was made in 1996? If you're going to do something, do it right.
The second that another company figures out how to market phones to the enterprise market, and can successfully sell itself on also being a good development platform, RIM will be toast. Those execs pull out their blackberry when "real work" needs to be done, because their enterprises are integrated into Exchange, which isn't supported nearly as well by any other platform (or because company policies prohibit Android/IOS devices on their network).
The problem is that unlike android and iphone, these phones are very competitively priced, and sacrifice "bling" features for actual function, such as better features, lower price and business-directed application support. As a result, there's many fewer people with "loose money" who are willing to sink a few euros/dollars/etc into some funny looking application on a weekly basis. They also tend to look much less pretty, focusing on function, and have slower hardware, meaning less responsive UI, which is advertised as a major feature on IOS and android.
Thanks for your opinion. Having used all major mobile platforms, I will respectfully disagree (as, I suppose, would anybody else who's switched from Blackberry or Symbian to an Apple or Android-based phone). A responsive UI, high-resolution screen, and reasonable aesthetics, I argue, can indeed improve the usability of a device, even for business users.
Honestly, I don't see much of a future for Symbian -- in my mind, they represent the "old" mobile phone industry, and the inferiority and stagnation that came along with it. Similarly, RIM needs to watch its back, as the enterprise market is ripe for the picking. Developing applications for the Blackberry is like pulling teeth, and their mobile browser is slightly less capable than Netscape 4.
Nokia contributes greatly to the world having close to 5 billion mobile subsribers by now (for many of them, first practical means of communication)
Misleading. Nokia's marketshare accounts for approximately 1.5 billion customers (which, admittedly, is nothing to sneer at).
5 billion mobile telephones have been manufactured to date. Not all of them are currently extant, in use, or manufactured by Nokia.
In any event, this discussion is irrelevant to the story.
One big problem I had with Facebook is that friends from completely disparate groups can share information about you without your control.
This is an issue in the real world, always has been, and always will be. People talk about other people, often times behind their backs. Deal with it.
Shit. That's the combination on my luggage!
In other words, they predicted that the results would be random and hard to predict.
By itself, that statement is bullshit, and means nothing. On the other hand, amongst a sea of outlandishly incorrect predictions from a variety of respected individuals and firms, Goldman may have been onto something.
This is actually a useful result to have. Unfortunately, I don't think we're likely to hear Goldman say anytime soon that "The markets are volatile and chaotic, and we can't predict them right now. Better hold off a few months on investing that money you have"