I feel the same way about illegal aliens. If they are willing to work for less money, put up with racial and sexual harassment, and get cheated out of their wages, then they deserve your job.
The article is extremely misleading and makes you think that these companies may have been started by people that came to the US on H1-B visas
They never break out the number of immigrants who come to the US on H1-B visas that start technology companies (H1-B is of course a temporary non-immigration visa).
Google was started by Sergey Brin who was a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Union whose family immigrated to the US when he 6 and Larry Page of Lansing Michigan.
Andy Grove of Intel fame was a Jewish refugee who fled post WWII Europe to the US (Gordon Moore was born in San Fran and Robert Noyce born in Iowa however, where the actual founders of Intel).
Pierre Omidyar of eBay of course is a Frenchman who moved to this country with his family when he was 6 years old.
Yahoo! founded by David Filo ( cheese head from Wisconsin) and Jerry Yang who came to this country with his family when he 10 from Taiwan.
None of these people came to the US on work visas.
This article is reprinted by Business Week & Wall Street Journal every year close to the May deadline for H1-B visas.
In May, there will be an article about how the 85,000 visas were snapped up in one day due to "shortages" amongst technology and science workers and how we need to have unlimited H1-B visas to fix this problem.
That reminds me of the Beatles song "Hey Jude". The reason there is no drums on the beginning of the song is because Ringo Star was in the bathroom when they started the song.
Win2k could handle multiple processors(as could Windows NT 4.0).
Win2k Professional was limited to two processors, while Win2k Dataserver had a limit of 32 processors(more than Linux did at the time IIRC).
There was also a 64bit version available. HP was the only company (Itanium anyone??) I knew that sold the 64bit version ( http://http//news.cnet.com/2100-1001-243038.html/ CNET article from July 2000 announcing the release of Win 2k 64 to developers).
One way companies get around the pay issues it to apply for the H1-B via a company (body shop) located in Maine for example, and then contract out the H1-B to a company in California.
I believe this is all covered in graduate school when you get your MBA now.
You need to read your history books again. Remember the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty?
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Take a look at Essbase http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essbase. It is now owned by Oracle and is used by finance departments at most Fortune 100 companies.
As you have do doubt discovered, SAP is great for transaction level detail, but kinda sucks at the big picture and doing "what ifs". Essbase's tight integration with MS Excel and very cool reporting tools makes it a much easier to analyze your data than looking at spending reports from SAP.
Mainly implemented by budgeting and finance groups, Essbase is not a favorite of IT departments though, as change management is a challenge and Essbase requires quite a bit of subject knowledge and is almost impossible to outsource to another continent.
IIRC, you will be at sea for 1 day and in port for 7. There are plenty of internet cafe's in Europe and you could adjust to having to study for 1 entire day without an internet connection.
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As Henry Ford said, "if I had asked people what they had wanted, they would have told me a faster horse".
I feel the same way about illegal aliens. If they are willing to work for less money, put up with racial and sexual harassment, and get cheated out of their wages, then they deserve your job.
The article is extremely misleading and makes you think that these companies may have been started by people that came to the US on H1-B visas
They never break out the number of immigrants who come to the US on H1-B visas that start technology companies (H1-B is of course a temporary non-immigration visa).
Google was started by Sergey Brin who was a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Union whose family immigrated to the US when he 6 and Larry Page of Lansing Michigan.
Andy Grove of Intel fame was a Jewish refugee who fled post WWII Europe to the US (Gordon Moore was born in San Fran and Robert Noyce born in Iowa however, where the actual founders of Intel).
Pierre Omidyar of eBay of course is a Frenchman who moved to this country with his family when he was 6 years old.
Yahoo! founded by David Filo ( cheese head from Wisconsin) and Jerry Yang who came to this country with his family when he 10 from Taiwan.
None of these people came to the US on work visas.
This article is reprinted by Business Week & Wall Street Journal every year close to the May deadline for H1-B visas.
In May, there will be an article about how the 85,000 visas were snapped up in one day due to "shortages" amongst technology and science workers and how we need to have unlimited H1-B visas to fix this problem.
That reminds me of the Beatles song "Hey Jude". The reason there is no drums on the beginning of the song is because Ringo Star was in the bathroom when they started the song.
That song could never be made today.
It is very strange for Microsoft & HP/EDS to be doing this with the huge shortage of technology workers.
Edgar Cayce predicted that Atlantis would be found:
http://www.edgarcayce.org/ancient_mysteries/atlantis_mysteries.html/
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in the meeting when Jean Louis Gassee turned down $500 million from Apple and walked away.
Actually, the hub and spoke for commercial airlines started in 1980 at DFW airport.
Prior to that, each airline bid and was rewarded service between two destinations.
I thought Slashdot had to remove the posts the Scientologist abjected with?
+100 points!
This shoots holes in any company that claims they needs to hire H1-Bs due to shortages of Engineers, Scientists, etc.
The top paragraph points out that the 60mb service has no cap.
For now.
Win2k could handle multiple processors(as could Windows NT 4.0).
Win2k Professional was limited to two processors, while Win2k Dataserver had a limit of 32 processors(more than Linux did at the time IIRC).
There was also a 64bit version available. HP was the only company (Itanium anyone??) I knew that sold the 64bit version ( http://http//news.cnet.com/2100-1001-243038.html/ CNET article from July 2000 announcing the release of Win 2k 64 to developers).
H1-Bs seem to be doing ok. At least the financial institutions are still hiring them.
IBM is in the process of eliminating all but a handful of US based employees.
They have been doing this since 2003.
Protectionism worked out fine during World War II.
One way companies get around the pay issues it to apply for the H1-B via a company (body shop) located in Maine for example, and then contract out the H1-B to a company in California.
I believe this is all covered in graduate school when you get your MBA now.
I agree, the United States should have open borders. If you can make it here, you should get to stay. Keeping anyone out is just soo unfair.
True, its a shame American IT workers are the worst in the world.
You realize that the goal is 5% US based employees.
Top management will be the only remaining ones in a couple of years.
The binary formats (eg. .xlsb) are incompatible with earlier versions of office (and create a smaller file).
There are no work visas to apply for if you want to move to India.
None, zero, zip.
Can you please post the average salary the post/pre docs are receiving?
I have heard they are paid $30k with no benefits.
You need to read your history books again. Remember the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty?
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
--Emma Lazarus
It doesn't mention that Master or Ph.d required.
Take a look at Essbase http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essbase. It is now owned by Oracle and is used by finance departments at most Fortune 100 companies.
As you have do doubt discovered, SAP is great for transaction level detail, but kinda sucks at the big picture and doing "what ifs". Essbase's tight integration with MS Excel and very cool reporting tools makes it a much easier to analyze your data than looking at spending reports from SAP.
Mainly implemented by budgeting and finance groups, Essbase is not a favorite of IT departments though, as change management is a challenge and Essbase requires quite a bit of subject knowledge and is almost impossible to outsource to another continent.
IIRC, you will be at sea for 1 day and in port for 7. There are plenty of internet cafe's in Europe and you could adjust to having to study for 1 entire day without an internet connection.