While the government raised the number of H1B visas in response to the Internet bubble (belated as usual), the H1B numbers have since shrunk back to pre-1995 levels. All H1B visas for 2005 were exhausted in a single day last October. According to the parent, since there is a cap on H1Bs we should be seeing the raising wages and improved working conditions. I can't wait...
They are just copying what OpenOffice.org is doing - representing the document as a set of XML files, and compressing them all into a single ZIP archive.
Microsoft is using an open and robust format (XML) for their office documents No, they are not. They are using a proprietary XML format to represent electronic forms. The standard way to implement forms in XML is XForms which has been around since 2003.
Probably because Fox News is a news source that can and does report objective stories frequently, despite its editorial slant.
What the so-called "Fox News Channel" does, goes well beyond an "editorial slant." I know of no other news program, where the management sends memos to the reporters on how to present the news. Check out the documentary Outfoxed to get a glimpse on the practices in that organization.
In addition, there are blatant misrepresentations and outright lies spouted as fact on the various FNC programs. One example: Barbara Boxter made a statement accusing Bush (I think) of having "disdain for the truth." O'Reily didn't hear it right, and maintained that she had said "disdain for the troops." He shut down a caller on his show, who tried to correct him.
Now, anyone can make a mistake, or hear something incorrectly. However, normal people check facts, and then apologize, if they have made a mistake. I challenge you to find a place where O'Reily has apologized for his mistake.
So no, Fox's slant is not "unacceptable because it's right-leaning," it is unacceptable because it is aimed at destroying what the United States stand for. For those who think I am exagerating, think about this: without truth, there is no "American way of life."
I think one of the main reasons was to make sure the Soviets did not take over Japan. The Red Army had just defeated the main Japanese army in Manchuria [sp?], and after demonstrating that losing 20 million people in the war against Germany did not prevent them from marching to Belrin, it would have been very likely that they would have taken over Japan in due time.
It is bad enough that it is somewhat accepted that politicians lie, and we don't think it is a big deal, but now we have a University professor twisting and omitting facts to support his flawed premise.
From the article: Congress, openly admitting that it was responding to industry campaign donations rather than the popular will, complied by increasing the H-1B cap in 1998 and 2000, the latter action coming at the time the mass layoffs began. This past December, despite a continuing abysmal tech labor market, Congress enacted another expansion of the program.
The facts: The H1B cap (which covers not only computer professionals, but also foreign workers in a wide variety of fields, including sports, and fashion model) was 65,000/year. For those who remember the situation in the IT market in 1997-1998, it was clear that there was a shortage of qualified computer specialists, especially in areas away from the major IT centers like the Silicon Valley, New York City, Boston, etc. The raise of the H1B cap, if I remember correctly, was done only once - in 1998. It was temporary, and in two stages, with initial raise to 120,000, then to 195,000 (in 2000), and then it went back to 65,000 in 2004, with the additional rule that the number is not for the visas issued, but for the visa applications - i.e., if a company applied improperly for an H1B visa, they used one of the allotted numbers even though they were refused the visa. This is far from the implied continuous expansion that Norm Matloff wants you to believe.
While the cap was up there, close to 200K a year, the supply and demand equilibrium was achieved and not all available visas were used (obviously the bubble burst had a great impact on that). In the fiscal 2004 (Oct. 2003 to Sept. 2004), the 65,000 visa application were exhausted in about 4-5 months. In the fiscal 2005, all 65,000 applications were submitted in a single day (Oct. 1, 2004) since that number included the applications filed in fiscal 2004 after the cap was reached. This meant that high-tech companies had to wait for an year to offer a job to a non-citizen, regardless of their qualifications. This is why there were an additional 20,000 H1B visas allocated in December, restricted to MS and PhD holders from US universities.
Quote: Government data show, for instance, that Intel, which claims that its H-1Bs have master's degrees and Ph.D.s, pays them far less than the national medians for engineers with these degrees.
The H1B visa regulation require that the salary of the visa holder is comparable to the local level of compensation, and not to the national median, and for a very good reason. The IT and CS professionals in California are probably skewing the average and median values nationally to such an extent, that companies in Tennessee or Alabama, for example, would have a hard time hiring someone at or above these levels of compensation, since it will make their local costs too high, and make them less competitive in their local markets.
If Norm Matloff (or anybody else) has credible evidence that Intel, or anyone else, is paying their H1B employees less than their US counterparts, he should file a lawsuit - it will bring them the gratitude of current and future H1B employees around the country. BTW, HP tried this in the late 80's - early 90's, and got slapped very hard with fines. I haven't heard of anything comparable from a large corporation since then.
Quote: Contrary to these parties' putative goal of maintaining American technological competitiveness, H-1B has brought great harm.
What "great harm"? The scandals at Enron and WorldCom? The Internet bubble? In my opinion, clueless and arrogant executives, who believe that they are above the law, or that they can manage in areas about which they have no understanding have brought much greater harm to the US economy than a million H1B workers will ever do.
She doesn't mention her quick involvement in the SCO case, where she was one of the first and only Analysts to sign the SCO NDA and claim publically they had a solid case. She wasn't all to forthcoming to her 15 year friendship with everyone's fav marketing vp, Black Stowell either.
And if some are inclined to dismiss the above as trivial ("there are always stupid people out there, no need to pay attention to them"), read this statement at Groklaw.
For those not aware of what had happened in the past few months:
Canopy is an "umbrella" company, which was the biggest shareholder in SCO. It was founded by Ray Noorda, the founder of Novell, after he left Novell. Canopy's president (and SCO's chairman of the board of directors) was Ralph Yarro. Ralph Yarro was sacked from Canopy for bad business practices, he sued the new leadership of Canopy, and they sued him back, which exposed Yarro's schemes to distribute most of the money coming in from Canopy's investments to himself, and other directors in the form of huge bonuses.
This was settled by giving Yarro Canopy's stock in SCO, but no before two people commiting suicide, one of which was Noorda's daughter. Her brother had this to say about her death:
But the journalistic integrity of any publication is defeated when articles, such as those recently appearing in the Salt Lake Tribune, include quotes from "analysts" who are completely misleading and just plain wrong about nearly every fact and interpretation. When the information provided by analysts like Rob Enderle and Laura DiDio weren't incorrect, their statements represented speculation more fitting to a daytime soap opera than to the business section of a newspaper.
The most valuable feature of Access is not the database (the database itself is rather pathetic). What Access provides is a simple, user-friendly (dumbed down?) front end. OO.o could be providing such a front end, where the database can be MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP DB, or an ODBC data source on Windows...
That was true regardless of whether they made the statement or not.
You are forgetting that there is already a precedent of MS customers (MS SQL developers) being liable and MS covering neither royalty cost nor liability. Here is one reference to the Timeline lawsuit.
We can't test your arm everytime and watch you have a horrible reaction.
Horrible reaction? In my experience, it has been just about 1 cm... Also, the rest of the world takes immunization quite seriously, and I had to be re-immunized because I didn't have a positive skin test. It was standard practice to do this in high schools in my country.
The vaccine only works for 10-20 years...
I don't know if it works for only 10-20 years, but I still test positive after close to 30 years... Of course, in the US I directly go for a chest X-ray when I have to be tested, since I know the test will be positive:-)
The article attempts to group together different mistakes made by Microsoft as a whole. and puts the blame on the lack of world awareness of the programmers. Many have pointed out that for the majority of the cases this is incorrect. In others, it is general bugs that exist in any kind of sodtware. For example, one of the Outlook version had Thanksgiving on the wrong week, becasue the program was caculating the fourth Thursday of November, instead of the last Thursday in November. In 1998, November had five Thursdays, and Outlook showed the wrong week.
...you wouldn't expect westerners to know the details of how the muslims handled conquered peoples and their religion...
Or maybe they were trying to be historically correct. One of the most famous places in Istanbul is Hagia Sophia. It used to be a Greek Orthodox Cathedral, and when Constantinople was taken over by the Turks in the 15th century, it was turned into a mosque. Now it is a museum, but the practice to turn churches into mosques did exist in the past...
Why does everyone insist upon Amazon and B&N? (see suggestive sell above: You can buy...")
The "You can buy" link is the "official" Slashdot link. It is always to B&N for two reasons: Slashdot gets a percentage for the referral, and Amazon is punished for the one-click patent. This has never been a secret...
I'll trade you my AMD CPU and nForce2 ASUS motherboard for one that doesn't cause Linux to hard lock after 1 to 5 minutes of use if you have APIC enabled. The Gentoo 2.6.7 kernel fixes that. I don't know if the Gentoo-specific set of patches they have or the vanilla kernel contains the fix, but it is working just fine for me now...
She has no middle name. She is of Russian descent. But all Russians do have a middle name. It is derived from their father's first name. For example, if your girlfriend's father's name were Yakov, her middle name would be Yakovlevna. Now, if she was born in Israel, then it is possible that she didn't have a middle name, but then why bring up her Russian descent?
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While the government raised the number of H1B visas in response to the Internet bubble (belated as usual), the H1B numbers have since shrunk back to pre-1995 levels. All H1B visas for 2005 were exhausted in a single day last October. According to the parent, since there is a cap on H1Bs we should be seeing the raising wages and improved working conditions. I can't wait...
They are just copying what OpenOffice.org is doing - representing the document as a set of XML files, and compressing them all into a single ZIP archive.
Microsoft is using an open and robust format (XML) for their office documents
No, they are not. They are using a proprietary XML format to represent electronic forms. The standard way to implement forms in XML is XForms which has been around since 2003.
InfoPath is to Information what PsychoPath is to the Psyche...
You mean SBC, right?
Probably because Fox News is a news source that can and does report objective stories frequently, despite its editorial slant.
What the so-called "Fox News Channel" does, goes well beyond an "editorial slant." I know of no other news program, where the management sends memos to the reporters on how to present the news. Check out the documentary Outfoxed to get a glimpse on the practices in that organization.
In addition, there are blatant misrepresentations and outright lies spouted as fact on the various FNC programs. One example: Barbara Boxter made a statement accusing Bush (I think) of having "disdain for the truth." O'Reily didn't hear it right, and maintained that she had said "disdain for the troops." He shut down a caller on his show, who tried to correct him.
Now, anyone can make a mistake, or hear something incorrectly. However, normal people check facts, and then apologize, if they have made a mistake. I challenge you to find a place where O'Reily has apologized for his mistake.
So no, Fox's slant is not "unacceptable because it's right-leaning," it is unacceptable because it is aimed at destroying what the United States stand for. For those who think I am exagerating, think about this: without truth, there is no "American way of life."
I think one of the main reasons was to make sure the Soviets did not take over Japan. The Red Army had just defeated the main Japanese army in Manchuria [sp?], and after demonstrating that losing 20 million people in the war against Germany did not prevent them from marching to Belrin, it would have been very likely that they would have taken over Japan in due time.
From the article:
Congress, openly admitting that it was responding to industry campaign donations rather than the popular will, complied by increasing the H-1B cap in 1998 and 2000, the latter action coming at the time the mass layoffs began. This past December, despite a continuing abysmal tech labor market, Congress enacted another expansion of the program.
The facts:
The H1B cap (which covers not only computer professionals, but also foreign workers in a wide variety of fields, including sports, and fashion model) was 65,000/year. For those who remember the situation in the IT market in 1997-1998, it was clear that there was a shortage of qualified computer specialists, especially in areas away from the major IT centers like the Silicon Valley, New York City, Boston, etc. The raise of the H1B cap, if I remember correctly, was done only once - in 1998. It was temporary, and in two stages, with initial raise to 120,000, then to 195,000 (in 2000), and then it went back to 65,000 in 2004, with the additional rule that the number is not for the visas issued, but for the visa applications - i.e., if a company applied improperly for an H1B visa, they used one of the allotted numbers even though they were refused the visa. This is far from the implied continuous expansion that Norm Matloff wants you to believe.
While the cap was up there, close to 200K a year, the supply and demand equilibrium was achieved and not all available visas were used (obviously the bubble burst had a great impact on that). In the fiscal 2004 (Oct. 2003 to Sept. 2004), the 65,000 visa application were exhausted in about 4-5 months. In the fiscal 2005, all 65,000 applications were submitted in a single day (Oct. 1, 2004) since that number included the applications filed in fiscal 2004 after the cap was reached. This meant that high-tech companies had to wait for an year to offer a job to a non-citizen, regardless of their qualifications. This is why there were an additional 20,000 H1B visas allocated in December, restricted to MS and PhD holders from US universities.
Quote:
Government data show, for instance, that Intel, which claims that its H-1Bs have master's degrees and Ph.D.s, pays them far less than the national medians for engineers with these degrees.
The H1B visa regulation require that the salary of the visa holder is comparable to the local level of compensation, and not to the national median, and for a very good reason. The IT and CS professionals in California are probably skewing the average and median values nationally to such an extent, that companies in Tennessee or Alabama, for example, would have a hard time hiring someone at or above these levels of compensation, since it will make their local costs too high, and make them less competitive in their local markets.
If Norm Matloff (or anybody else) has credible evidence that Intel, or anyone else, is paying their H1B employees less than their US counterparts, he should file a lawsuit - it will bring them the gratitude of current and future H1B employees around the country. BTW, HP tried this in the late 80's - early 90's, and got slapped very hard with fines. I haven't heard of anything comparable from a large corporation since then.
Quote:
Contrary to these parties' putative goal of maintaining American technological competitiveness, H-1B has brought great harm.
What "great harm"? The scandals at Enron and WorldCom? The Internet bubble? In my opinion, clueless and arrogant executives, who believe that they are above the law, or that they can manage in areas about which they have no understanding have brought much greater harm to the US economy than a million H1B workers will ever do.
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And if some are inclined to dismiss the above as trivial ("there are always stupid people out there, no need to pay attention to them"), read this statement at Groklaw.
For those not aware of what had happened in the past few months: Canopy is an "umbrella" company, which was the biggest shareholder in SCO. It was founded by Ray Noorda, the founder of Novell, after he left Novell. Canopy's president (and SCO's chairman of the board of directors) was Ralph Yarro. Ralph Yarro was sacked from Canopy for bad business practices, he sued the new leadership of Canopy, and they sued him back, which exposed Yarro's schemes to distribute most of the money coming in from Canopy's investments to himself, and other directors in the form of huge bonuses.
This was settled by giving Yarro Canopy's stock in SCO, but no before two people commiting suicide, one of which was Noorda's daughter. Her brother had this to say about her death:
$400 a month T-1? Where do I sign up? The least expensive I've found is around $700 a month not including taxes.
Click on one of those Speakeasy ads on Slashdot - in addition to DSL, they offer T1 (below $300, I think)...
1and1.com supports PHP 5
Once I hit about 10,000 lines of code it became so slow it was unusable
Please tell us you don't mean you had 10,000 lines of code in a single file...
This guy first ditches microsoft, because they don't want to code with extreme programming methods (laughs), and then gets himself fired from Google.
I wonder if this guy was sent by Microsoft with the specific purpose of undermining Google...
The most valuable feature of Access is not the database (the database itself is rather pathetic). What Access provides is a simple, user-friendly (dumbed down?) front end. OO.o could be providing such a front end, where the database can be MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP DB, or an ODBC data source on Windows...
USA Today is the newspaper usually provided in most US hotels. An ad there will likely have even more exposure than the NYT...
That was true regardless of whether they made the statement or not.
You are forgetting that there is already a precedent of MS customers (MS SQL developers) being liable and MS covering neither royalty cost nor liability. Here is one reference to the Timeline lawsuit.
It looks like one of the project leaders is Alan Kay, whose team at Xerox developed the "window and mouse" interface...
I learned a lot more about networking by setting up a few myself and writing a few servers than I did in college CS classes.
You didn't write servers in you college CS classes? I hope you can get some of your money back...
We can't test your arm everytime and watch you have a horrible reaction.
:-)
Horrible reaction? In my experience, it has been just about 1 cm... Also, the rest of the world takes immunization quite seriously, and I had to be re-immunized because I didn't have a positive skin test. It was standard practice to do this in high schools in my country.
The vaccine only works for 10-20 years...
I don't know if it works for only 10-20 years, but I still test positive after close to 30 years... Of course, in the US I directly go for a chest X-ray when I have to be tested, since I know the test will be positive
The article attempts to group together different mistakes made by Microsoft as a whole. and puts the blame on the lack of world awareness of the programmers. Many have pointed out that for the majority of the cases this is incorrect. In others, it is general bugs that exist in any kind of sodtware. For example, one of the Outlook version had Thanksgiving on the wrong week, becasue the program was caculating the fourth Thursday of November, instead of the last Thursday in November. In 1998, November had five Thursdays, and Outlook showed the wrong week.
...you wouldn't expect westerners to know the details of how the muslims handled conquered peoples and their religion...
Or maybe they were trying to be historically correct. One of the most famous places in Istanbul is Hagia Sophia. It used to be a Greek Orthodox Cathedral, and when Constantinople was taken over by the Turks in the 15th century, it was turned into a mosque. Now it is a museum, but the practice to turn churches into mosques did exist in the past...
Why does everyone insist upon Amazon and B&N? (see suggestive sell above: You can buy...")
The "You can buy" link is the "official" Slashdot link. It is always to B&N for two reasons: Slashdot gets a percentage for the referral, and Amazon is punished for the one-click patent. This has never been a secret...
Here is an article where Bruce Perens is quoted...
I'll trade you my AMD CPU and nForce2 ASUS motherboard for one that doesn't cause Linux to hard lock after 1 to 5 minutes of use if you have APIC enabled.
The Gentoo 2.6.7 kernel fixes that. I don't know if the Gentoo-specific set of patches they have or the vanilla kernel contains the fix, but it is working just fine for me now...
She has no middle name. She is of Russian descent.
But all Russians do have a middle name. It is derived from their father's first name. For example, if your girlfriend's father's name were Yakov, her middle name would be Yakovlevna. Now, if she was born in Israel, then it is possible that she didn't have a middle name, but then why bring up her Russian descent?