There is one part of the H1B program i have not seen mentioned which I think explains why the industry likes them so much. H1B workers are pretty tightly linked to their job and won't quit, because they would jeopardize their visa, and later their Green Card application process. I have seen a lot of H1Bs working for years maintaining crappy legacy code while they were waiting for their visa number. Americans on that team would ask to be transfered to another project or quit.
The other hidden face of that program is that a lot of H1B workers are employed by staffing companies who are taking advantage of them ruthlessly.
>I can't imagine that there really is nobody already in the US (to take an example from the dozen or so H1B's at my day job), willing to relocate to Raleigh, who can do router development.
I used to wonder about that. I have spent the last 6 months interviewing candidates for a senior developer position, and the one qualified guy we interviewed was snatched by another company.
transfers without entry are limited to people who stay in the international zone of the airport. this would not work for reaching a ship. as for tourist visas you need to get them stamped at a US consulate and they have a short validity time.
sailing the ship to india seems a bit expensive. on the other hand if they stay a few miles off of LA, the indian coders will need to fly into LA, get admitted into the US, and then take a boat to their cruise ship. something tells me the immigration officers at LAX will not like that.
in addition to that, if they want to go anywhere once they are on the ship they have to either enter the US without a visa, which is a felony and will get you banned for 10 years, or find a way to get a visa while on the ship. good luck!
I think you need to have a look at the TeX book to understand how untrue your statement is. Knuth is probably of all mathematicians the one who pays the most attention to form.
in 1ms, sound travels about one foot, so having a 1ms latency will give you the same effect as being 3 feet from speaker A and 4 feet from speaker B. you need much more than 1 or 2 ms latency to get 'nasty' effects.
I just heard on the french Radio that Renault had the car looked at by a court appointed expert, denies the whole story, and is suing the guy for damaging its brand by making false allegations.
i think she has a shot in courts regardless of trademark laws.
imagine i write a book called '10 downing street' which is about a brothel set at 10 downing street. tony blair does not own the trademark of downing street but i bet the court would recognize he has some rights over the place. and for sure i could not clame blair should move out and let me move in.
the main point of the letter is "why would you try and make a living as a mechanic when people are so clueless they will go on paying you to reinvent the wheel over and over and over ?"
though it mostly reminds me of old whores complaining about the sluts who give it for free.
how can the publishers get away with selling this book for 70$? the usual excuse for technical books being expensive is that they do not sell in large quantities, but that does not apply for this one. and it is the 3rd edition. and the last review consisted mainly in removing content...
how much damage do you think the poster caused to his ISP's brand by crying wolf and claiming the DHCP server was own3d, instead of realizing he had been duped by some windows spyware?
i hope charter does not call the FBI, cause my suspicion is that is way more than 5000$.
It certainly won't be the bible of the programers who think java is a good language, and it won't suit the people who trust the people who built Rational Rose to teach them how to make software. I had the chance to work with PVR when he was working for digital (hey peter!), before digital collapsed, and, though i have yet to start reading the boook, I expect some serious coding kung-fu!
Someone should tell ESR there are hackers outside of Texas. Neo Conservatism is virtually inexistant in Europe, where the corporate brain washing procedures are much less developped than they are in ESR's trailer park, and have to actually compete with a working education system.
this news item makes me feel like there is a need for a generic screen scraper plugged into mozilla that would know how to get to a piece of data without having to navigate in mouseclick hell.
it is most probably a difficult task to make a tool that would be easy to use and powerful (how do you describe the way to parse the NFL webpage and get the score of your favorite team?) but sticking it to the people who create artificial limitation to the way their data can be accessed feels like a reward worth the effort.
a 70% failing rate is not uncommon for some introductory level classes in France, and A's are a rarity. this might be related to the fact that tuition for a year of college in france is about a week of minimum wage salary compared to 2 years of minimum wage salary in the US.
my experience with rational rose is that it is mostly useful as a tool to keep incompetent project managers busy clicking on spiffy looking icons. it would be good if someone came up with a modeling tool that would approach the efficiency of my whiteboard and the pub's napkins. anybody know whether there are projects getting anywhere?
I think most people are misunderstanding the kind of applications this is targetting. people who need a supercomputer for a definite computation can already buy CPU time.
What IBM is talking about here is the anti-slashdot effect. I no longer need to engineer my server to have it survive the peak demand of my customers. I put my application in a DB2 farm maintained by IBM, on routine days it shares a CPU with other customers, the one day where i am on slashdot and everybody wants to buy my product, IBM lets my application use more CPUs, I only get charged for a high volume server if and when i have high volume operations ( and hopefully high volume revenues).
Slashdot Mirror
There is one part of the H1B program i have not seen mentioned which I think explains why the industry likes them so much. H1B workers are pretty tightly linked to their job and won't quit, because they would jeopardize their visa, and later their Green Card application process. I have seen a lot of H1Bs working for years maintaining crappy legacy code while they were waiting for their visa number. Americans on that team would ask to be transfered to another project or quit.
The other hidden face of that program is that a lot of H1B workers are employed by staffing companies who are taking advantage of them ruthlessly.
>I can't imagine that there really is nobody already in the US (to take an example from the dozen or so H1B's at my day job), willing to relocate to Raleigh, who can do router development.
I used to wonder about that. I have spent the last 6 months interviewing candidates for a senior developer position, and the one qualified guy we interviewed was snatched by another company.
http://aes.harmony-central.com/119AES/Content/Sony /PR/PCM-D1.html
4 96-main.html
it looks incredibly cool too.
m-audio has a cheaper thing
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MicroTrack2
transfers without entry are limited to people who stay in the international zone of the airport. this would not work for reaching a ship. as for tourist visas you need to get them stamped at a US consulate and they have a short validity time.
a three days visa is hard to get if you are indian. the hard part is when you have to go to a US consulate to pick it up.
sailing the ship to india seems a bit expensive. on the other hand if they stay a few miles off of LA, the indian coders will need to fly into LA, get admitted into the US, and then take a boat to their cruise ship. something tells me the immigration officers at LAX will not like that.
in addition to that, if they want to go anywhere once they are on the ship they have to either enter the US without a visa, which is a felony and will get you banned for 10 years, or find a way to get a visa while on the ship. good luck!
I think you need to have a look at the TeX book to understand how untrue your statement is. Knuth is probably of all mathematicians the one who pays the most attention to form.
in 1ms, sound travels about one foot, so having a 1ms latency will give you the same effect as being 3 feet from speaker A and 4 feet from speaker B. you need much more than 1 or 2 ms latency to get 'nasty' effects.
I just heard on the french Radio that Renault had the car looked at by a court appointed expert, denies the whole story, and is suing the guy for damaging its brand by making false allegations.
i think she has a shot in courts regardless of trademark laws.
imagine i write a book called '10 downing street' which is about a brothel set at 10 downing street. tony blair does not own the trademark of downing street but i bet the court would recognize he has some rights over the place. and for sure i could not clame blair should move out and let me move in.
the main point of the letter is "why would you try and make a living as a mechanic when people are so clueless they will go on paying you to reinvent the wheel over and over and over ?"
though it mostly reminds me of old whores complaining about the sluts who give it for free.
how can the publishers get away with selling this book for 70$? the usual excuse for technical books being expensive is that they do not sell in large quantities, but that does not apply for this one. and it is the 3rd edition. and the last review consisted mainly in removing content...
how much damage do you think the poster caused to his ISP's brand by crying wolf and claiming the DHCP server was own3d, instead of realizing he had been duped by some windows spyware?
i hope charter does not call the FBI, cause my suspicion is that is way more than 5000$.
It certainly won't be the bible of the programers who think java is a good language, and it won't suit the people who trust the people who built Rational Rose to teach them how to make software. I had the chance to work with PVR when he was working for digital (hey peter!), before digital collapsed, and, though i have yet to start reading the boook, I expect some serious coding kung-fu!
are you just talking or do you really want to do it? anybody else interested in reclaiming that project from the malignant hands of ESR?
talking about cracker.. i think i found the book ESR gets his wisdom from.
Someone should tell ESR there are hackers outside of Texas. Neo Conservatism is virtually inexistant in Europe, where the corporate brain washing procedures are much less developped than they are in ESR's trailer park, and have to actually compete with a working education system.
>I hate C++. It's a miserable language for
>developing an application. Java, on the other hand,
>is a great language for application development.
must be a matter of taste.
any idea why anybody would want or need to use that?
mozilla runs on at least as many platforms as any JRE, and many more if you expect swing to work properly.
i don't get it.
this news item makes me feel like there is a need for a generic screen scraper plugged into mozilla that would know how to get to a piece of data without having to navigate in mouseclick hell.
it is most probably a difficult task to make a tool that would be easy to use and powerful (how do you describe the way to parse the NFL webpage and get the score of your favorite team?) but sticking it to the people who create artificial limitation to the way their data can be accessed feels like a reward worth the effort.
a 70% failing rate is not uncommon for some introductory level classes in France, and
A's are a rarity. this might be related to the fact that tuition for a year of college in france is about a week of minimum wage salary compared to 2 years of minimum wage salary in the US.
Laurent
last time i looked they were a unit of GM. sounds like some deep pockets right there.
my experience with rational rose is that it is mostly useful as a tool to keep incompetent project managers busy clicking on spiffy looking icons. it would be good if someone came up with a modeling tool that would approach the efficiency of my whiteboard and the pub's napkins. anybody know whether there are projects getting anywhere?
Laurent
I think most people are misunderstanding the kind of applications this is targetting. people who need a supercomputer for a definite computation can already buy CPU time.
What IBM is talking about here is the anti-slashdot effect. I no longer need to engineer my server to have it survive the peak demand of my customers. I put my application in a DB2 farm maintained by IBM, on routine days it shares a CPU with other customers, the one day where i am on slashdot and everybody wants to buy my product, IBM lets my application use more CPUs, I only get charged for a high volume server if and when i have high volume operations ( and hopefully high volume revenues).
the make utility used to answer 'i don't know how to make xxx' when it did not find a target. which lead to the famous
>make love
I don't know how to make love.
>