I don't mind good ideas, but this isn't one. The problem is an engineering shortage in the U.S. There are currently way more good ideas than there are engineers to implement them. H1Bs at least keep the job in the U.S. with the option of filling it with an American if we can ever get a decent number recruited into STEM and properly trained.
If you forcibly reduce the ability to use H1Bs then companies will either become less competitive and/or go out of business or they hire offshore consulting firms to do the work. Either way, the job is gone.
H1Bs aren't here so that a tech company can pay them less than an American engineer. They are here because tech companies can't find any fucking qualified American engineers. Just go talk to your HR department. Go talk to admissions of any university.
You might save some money but if you factor in the cost of a Windows 7 Professional license then the small (and I mean small) savings doesn't offset the amount of time you spent spec'ing, purchasing, stocking, and building your workstations. This is because Redmond won't give you the same deal they give Michael Dell.
A direct "upgrade" from Windows XP to Windows 7 requires the user to backup their data, reload the OS and reinstall all of their apps. I can understand why a typical XP user wouldn't find the process at all appealing. It was and still is a mistake for Microsoft to not provide a one-step upgrade path from XP to W7 that maintains the user environment. Since it's not impossible but requires a costly two-step upgrade from XP->Vista->W7, Microsoft could have offered a one-step XP->W7 process but apparently chose not to.
Yes it can. An autopilot/autothrottle/autoland system can fly an ILS approach, flare and touchdown. It's called CAT III ILS and isn't new technology. It has been around for a few decades. Both JFK and Heathrow have CAT III ILS approaches.
If you only had to show ID, then you went into a "tavern." Taverns can only sell 3.2 beer. No hard liquor.
And you're not supposed to be able to get "hammered." Bars are supposed to refuse to sell alcohol to somebody who is visibly "hammered" or else they are liable of the drunkard later injures somebody.
1) The Mormon church has its hands in every level of state politics.
2) Mormons don't discuss politics. They wait for their church leaders to tell them what to think.
3) Members of the Mormon church will ostracize others who disagree with the de facto political position of their church's leadership. You won't see an vocal pr0n supporters.
If you want to know what Mormons believe in, don't ask a "good, practicing Mormon." They'll lie to you.
Do you have a 3rd party DVD drive and Apple DVD Player won't recognize it?
If so, then you can get it working again by reinstalling an older version of DVDPlayback.framework. I use Pacifist to reinstall this from my Panther 10.3 install CDs.
("DVDPlayback.framework" is in "Contents of EssentialSystemSoftware.mpkg : Contents of Essentials.pkg : System : Frameworks")
I am working on an RFID client project at my company. There are read-only tags and read-write tags. The read-write tags can also be locked on a per-byte basis so that those bytes can never be written to again. Believe me, the system can be secured.
By the way, the/.'er that dissed Walmart's technology because of his experience with their sales people is pretty myopic. I'm definitely no fan of Walmart--last time I stepped into one was about 10 years ago--but their distribution system is incredibly efficient. In 1993, their gross sales were $USD244 Billion. The U.S. GDP was 10.98 Trillion, so if my math is correct, their sales amounts to 2.2% of the U.S. GDP. That is a lot of inventory for a single company to move around the world. Of course, they have 3rd party distributors that bring in a lot of their products, but they still have to keep track of that as well.
For mass retailers like Walmart, RFID will work much better than barcodes and it will probably be first implemented in the distribution system, not the sales system. One RFID tag will keep track of a single shipment lot, case, box, whatever.
RFID tags will NOT replace barcodes in the forseeable future. But they can accomplish some things better than barcodes so they will coexist.
You can't compare broadband data to landline voice or wireless voice. The landline voice system has been around since 1877 and has paid for itself many times over. The wireless network isn't as costly because a single tower can hook up hundreds of subscribers whose bandwidth requirements are pretty limited. For high bandwidth data, new, costly equipment must be installed all the way through the network, right into your home. And for that, you currently aren't paying much more than service in the other two networks. Think about it.
I work for a telecom equipment manufacturer. Over nearly the past decade, the regional bells (RBOCs) and competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) were stumbling over themselves trying to build out broadband networks, and they went deeply into debt to do so. Broadband equipment isn't cheap. Believe, I know! The current pricing scheme was based upon the internet-bubble business plan of "market share at any price." We all know how well that worked. The RBOCs and the very few remaining CLECs are bleeding very badly with broadband, so this was inevitable as competition decreased due to carriers going out of business. So, this is the future. The faster we get used to it, the faster the RBOCs will resume building out the network and the better off we will all be.
But The Original also had phasers occasionally set to kill. To be true to Roddenberry, you gotta have both.
I hope they bring back Q. He was the best damned character that Berman ever created. And "Encounter At Farpoint" was still his best episode, IMO, better than the Borg ones (but not by much).
Also, no mormon I know (and I grant you they are a bit more fanatical in Utah) really gives a dam if you drink (or cuss...)
Recently in Salt Lake City, the Mormon-dominated Salt Lake City Council sold a chunk of downtown Main Street to the Mormon church. YES the actual street...the sidewalks, pavement and right of way...the whole shebang. It was torn up, walled up and annexed into the Mormon Temple grounds.
Now, if you walk in there and start yelling "FUCK", you will be escorted out. Do it again, and the Mormon-dominated Salt Lake City cops will arrest you and you will get to sleep next to Bubba at the city jail that night.
Sure, that's smart. Sue the company you were trying to hire onto.
And when you spend loads of bucks on lawyers and finally get to court, it'll go something like this:
You: They asked for my religion.
Them: No we didn't.
You: Yes they did.
Them: No we didn't.
ad infinitum....
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Well, Apple has Beats. So there.
The important differentiator for me is the built-in 4G LTE. The Surface Pro 4 doesn't have a 4G model and one hasn't been announced (yet).
But a good idea is a good idea.
I don't mind good ideas, but this isn't one. The problem is an engineering shortage in the U.S. There are currently way more good ideas than there are engineers to implement them. H1Bs at least keep the job in the U.S. with the option of filling it with an American if we can ever get a decent number recruited into STEM and properly trained.
If you forcibly reduce the ability to use H1Bs then companies will either become less competitive and/or go out of business or they hire offshore consulting firms to do the work. Either way, the job is gone.
H1Bs aren't here so that a tech company can pay them less than an American engineer. They are here because tech companies can't find any fucking qualified American engineers. Just go talk to your HR department. Go talk to admissions of any university.
You might save some money but if you factor in the cost of a Windows 7 Professional license then the small (and I mean small) savings doesn't offset the amount of time you spent spec'ing, purchasing, stocking, and building your workstations. This is because Redmond won't give you the same deal they give Michael Dell.
They use applications (word processor, spreadsheet, web browser).
Programmers use operating systems (module_init(), atomic_read_and_sub(), kmem_cache_shrink()).
I wonder how "most people" launch and switch between their word processor, spreadsheet and web browser without using the OS?
A direct "upgrade" from Windows XP to Windows 7 requires the user to backup their data, reload the OS and reinstall all of their apps. I can understand why a typical XP user wouldn't find the process at all appealing. It was and still is a mistake for Microsoft to not provide a one-step upgrade path from XP to W7 that maintains the user environment. Since it's not impossible but requires a costly two-step upgrade from XP->Vista->W7, Microsoft could have offered a one-step XP->W7 process but apparently chose not to.
I guess you no longer have any reason to ask the guy sitting in the window seat to pull down the shade so you can sleep.
Yes, you still need a pilot. Somebody has to push the "autoland" button.
Yes it can. An autopilot/autothrottle/autoland system can fly an ILS approach, flare and touchdown. It's called CAT III ILS and isn't new technology. It has been around for a few decades. Both JFK and Heathrow have CAT III ILS approaches.
You were too hammered to know. :)
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If you only had to show ID, then you went into a "tavern." Taverns can only sell 3.2 beer. No hard liquor.
And you're not supposed to be able to get "hammered." Bars are supposed to refuse to sell alcohol to somebody who is visibly "hammered" or else they are liable of the drunkard later injures somebody.
Utah legal code here: http://www.le.state.ut.us/~code/TITLE32A/htm/32A0
You're wrong. It's all about the booze. Consider yourself corrected.
Baloney. I live in Salt Lake City.
1) The Mormon church has its hands in every level of state politics.
2) Mormons don't discuss politics. They wait for their church leaders to tell them what to think.
3) Members of the Mormon church will ostracize others who disagree with the de facto political position of their church's leadership. You won't see an vocal pr0n supporters.
If you want to know what Mormons believe in, don't ask a "good, practicing Mormon." They'll lie to you.
Do you have a 3rd party DVD drive and Apple DVD Player won't recognize it?
If so, then you can get it working again by reinstalling an older version of DVDPlayback.framework. I use Pacifist to reinstall this from my Panther 10.3 install CDs.
("DVDPlayback.framework" is in "Contents of EssentialSystemSoftware.mpkg : Contents of Essentials.pkg : System : Frameworks")
I am working on an RFID client project at my company. There are read-only tags and read-write tags. The read-write tags can also be locked on a per-byte basis so that those bytes can never be written to again. Believe me, the system can be secured.
/.'er that dissed Walmart's technology because of his experience with their sales people is pretty myopic. I'm definitely no fan of Walmart--last time I stepped into one was about 10 years ago--but their distribution system is incredibly efficient. In 1993, their gross sales were $USD244 Billion. The U.S. GDP was 10.98 Trillion, so if my math is correct, their sales amounts to 2.2% of the U.S. GDP. That is a lot of inventory for a single company to move around the world. Of course, they have 3rd party distributors that bring in a lot of their products, but they still have to keep track of that as well.
By the way, the
For mass retailers like Walmart, RFID will work much better than barcodes and it will probably be first implemented in the distribution system, not the sales system. One RFID tag will keep track of a single shipment lot, case, box, whatever.
RFID tags will NOT replace barcodes in the forseeable future. But they can accomplish some things better than barcodes so they will coexist.
So, have you cracked Bin Laden's encryption key yet?
You can't compare broadband data to landline voice or wireless voice. The landline voice system has been around since 1877 and has paid for itself many times over. The wireless network isn't as costly because a single tower can hook up hundreds of subscribers whose bandwidth requirements are pretty limited. For high bandwidth data, new, costly equipment must be installed all the way through the network, right into your home. And for that, you currently aren't paying much more than service in the other two networks. Think about it.
I work for a telecom equipment manufacturer. Over nearly the past decade, the regional bells (RBOCs) and competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) were stumbling over themselves trying to build out broadband networks, and they went deeply into debt to do so. Broadband equipment isn't cheap. Believe, I know! The current pricing scheme was based upon the internet-bubble business plan of "market share at any price." We all know how well that worked. The RBOCs and the very few remaining CLECs are bleeding very badly with broadband, so this was inevitable as competition decreased due to carriers going out of business. So, this is the future. The faster we get used to it, the faster the RBOCs will resume building out the network and the better off we will all be.
I think he did. He killed himself. There, do you feel better?
But The Original also had phasers occasionally set to kill. To be true to Roddenberry, you gotta have both. I hope they bring back Q. He was the best damned character that Berman ever created. And "Encounter At Farpoint" was still his best episode, IMO, better than the Borg ones (but not by much).
Recently in Salt Lake City, the Mormon-dominated Salt Lake City Council sold a chunk of downtown Main Street to the Mormon church. YES the actual street...the sidewalks, pavement and right of way...the whole shebang. It was torn up, walled up and annexed into the Mormon Temple grounds.
Now, if you walk in there and start yelling "FUCK", you will be escorted out. Do it again, and the Mormon-dominated Salt Lake City cops will arrest you and you will get to sleep next to Bubba at the city jail that night.
Sure, that's smart. Sue the company you were trying to hire onto. And when you spend loads of bucks on lawyers and finally get to court, it'll go something like this: You: They asked for my religion. Them: No we didn't. You: Yes they did. Them: No we didn't. ad infinitum....