The reason this happens is due to the vast ability of talent available during a recession:
1) All future raises are based on your starting salaries. A lower starting salary and you will never catch up with the 1-5% raises.
2) Companies like to make an offer based on the salary your last company was paying you. Start with a lower salary, and companies will forever be offering you lower salaries
I find a lot of folks in the IT trenches tend to be reactive rather than proactive.
They seem to enjoy being the "goto" guy that saves the day by resurrecting the server with the melty motherboard and toasted power supply while hundreds of users anxiously sit by their desks in breathless anticipation. Merely, switching to a failover server would never be as rewarding.
They regale in bragging to their co-workers and more importantly, their bosses about how many hours they spent rebuilding databases and applying emergency kernel patches at 3 am.
Face it, what kind of attention do you get when your servers never fail? When you never lose a database?
Before everyone gets all tinfoily, this is merely a PNR (Passenger Name Record) from Continental Airlines reservation system (System One) made through their online website. Most employees at Continental would have access to this.
Its relatively easy to decode:
1 CO 40H 20JUN FR EWRFCO HK1 525P 745A 27B
1 -1st leg 40H -Flight number + ? CO -Continental Airlines 20Jun -Departs June 20 EWRFCO -Flight is Newark to Rome 525P -Departs 5:25 pm 745A -Arrives 7:45 am 27B -Seat number
2 ARNK -ARrival uNKnown, means legs are not continuous
3 CO 103V 06JUL SU AMSEWR HK1 920A 1150A 27b
AMSEWR -Return flight is Amsterdam to Newark
IP Address stuck in case of credit card fraud.
Most airlines have something very similar that is created every time you make a reservation.
J. Michael Straczynski has related how he pitched the idea for Babylon 5 to anyone and everyone(including the producers of ST:NG) in Hollywood in 1989.
Some how, they forgot that long story arcs don't work to well on a moving starship and we got Voyager.
Having worked at CompUSA when Win '95 went on sale, I can say that the store was not open at midnight and there were no geeks lined up to be the first to own '95.
Be careful, if you are a girl coder sitting in a bar on Thursday nights chatting up business travelers about a part-time job, you just might get the wrong type of job offer.
At even $100/hr, the labor cost that goes into a Escalade is only $2,100 out of a $50,000 vehicle.
Even on a $25,000 car, removing all labor costs would only lower the price to $23,000, hardly enough to get hundreds of thousands of consumers into the showroom to buy a new car.
In the lead-up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, NSA and military spies missed the Soviets transferring a battery of offensive missiles to Cuba. That "marked the most significant failure" by government eavesdroppers to warn national leaders since World War II, Mr. Johnson wrote.
I guess 9/11 won't be included until Volumn 4 due out in 2058.
The least they could do is require H1-Bs to buy a portfolio of stocks and keep it all until they leave the country. I'm sure Wall Street would approve of this plan!
It is important to note that Chimpanzees will not cross rivers or lakes. There is no way they could have traveled to Leopoldville.
It is also important to note that they are only talking about HIV-1.
HIV-2 ( from the Sootey Mangabe, a simian that lives in Western Africa ) also exploded at the exact same time as HIV-1. Amazing coincidence for these two diseases to appear simultaneously on opposite sides of the African continent.
The River, by Ed Hopperhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/River-Journey-Source-Penguin-Science/dp/0140283773/ has a very interesting argument that HIV-1 & HOV-2 were introduced by accident during the cultivation of Polio vaccines in Chimpanzee livers. Vaccinations and the earliest cases of HIV can be plotted on a map with amazing correlation.
Or just check you Sunday newspaper for the bogus job ads. You know the ones, the ads that don't mention a company or website, just a PO Box to snail mail your resume to.
Slashdot Mirror
"avation class"
You know, that says a lot about your right there.
The reason this happens is due to the vast ability of talent available during a recession:
1) All future raises are based on your starting salaries. A lower starting salary and you will never catch up with the 1-5% raises.
2) Companies like to make an offer based on the salary your last company was paying you. Start with a lower salary, and companies will forever be offering you lower salaries
I find a lot of folks in the IT trenches tend to be reactive rather than proactive.
They seem to enjoy being the "goto" guy that saves the day by resurrecting the server with the melty motherboard and toasted power supply while hundreds of users anxiously sit by their desks in breathless anticipation. Merely, switching to a failover server would never be as rewarding.
They regale in bragging to their co-workers and more importantly, their bosses about how many hours they spent rebuilding databases and applying emergency kernel patches at 3 am.
Face it, what kind of attention do you get when your servers never fail? When you never lose a database?
Nothing.
Before everyone gets all tinfoily, this is merely a PNR (Passenger Name Record) from Continental Airlines reservation system (System One) made through their online website. Most employees at Continental would have access to this.
Its relatively easy to decode:
1 CO 40H 20JUN FR EWRFCO HK1 525P 745A 27B
1 -1st leg
40H -Flight number + ?
CO -Continental Airlines
20Jun -Departs June 20
EWRFCO -Flight is Newark to Rome
525P -Departs 5:25 pm
745A -Arrives 7:45 am
27B -Seat number
2 ARNK -ARrival uNKnown, means legs are not continuous
3 CO 103V 06JUL SU AMSEWR HK1 920A 1150A 27b
AMSEWR -Return flight is Amsterdam to Newark
IP Address stuck in case of credit card fraud.
Most airlines have something very similar that is created every time you make a reservation.
There is no legal requirement that H1-B visa holders be let go before US citizens.
This may indeed, be a ploy for Microsoft to free up more slots to hire H1-B visa holders by changing the requirements for the jobs.
J. Michael Straczynski has related how he pitched the idea for Babylon 5 to anyone and everyone(including the producers of ST:NG) in Hollywood in 1989.
Some how, they forgot that long story arcs don't work to well on a moving starship and we got Voyager.
Hmmm...war going on in the Gaza strip for the past 7 days and they are suspicious of people who look like Palestinians?
Sounds like good police work to me.
Having worked at CompUSA when Win '95 went on sale, I can say that the store was not open at midnight and there were no geeks lined up to be the first to own '95.
The midnight hype only occurred with Win '98.
Be careful, if you are a girl coder sitting in a bar on Thursday nights chatting up business travelers about a part-time job, you just might get the wrong type of job offer.
Breakfast at their house must be a trip.
Their labor costs are absolutely horrendous.
Labor costs are not really that much. It takes on average only 21 man hours to build an automobile at GM. ( http://www4.vindy.com/content/local_regional/340717933141399.php/
At even $100/hr, the labor cost that goes into a Escalade is only $2,100 out of a $50,000 vehicle.
Even on a $25,000 car, removing all labor costs would only lower the price to $23,000, hardly enough to get hundreds of thousands of consumers into the showroom to buy a new car.
By limiting the number of boards you could participate on, there are now more job available to serve on the Board of Directors.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is available online free courtesy of Univ of Virginia:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/Fitzgerald/jazz/benjamin/benjamin1.htm
How does that figure into the tail?
You are correct. The obvious solution is to allow in more H1-Bs for these companies to hire.
Imagine how fun an office would be with everyone saying HTTP://SLASHDOT.ORG REFRESH all day long.
An Old Timer might have even been outside the US of A and know that foriegn zip codes sometimes contain letters in addition to numbers.
In the lead-up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, NSA and military spies missed the Soviets transferring a battery of offensive missiles to Cuba. That "marked the most significant failure" by government eavesdroppers to warn national leaders since World War II, Mr. Johnson wrote.
I guess 9/11 won't be included until Volumn 4 due out in 2058.
You should try Windows Mojave. I hear it really really good.
Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/03/1449200&from=rss/
The quick answer is "yes - you will be charged for all of the SPAM and ads".
Since SPAM will cost you actual money, will you be able to sue for damages?
Obviously, you actually never fly first class. Steak knives have been replaced by plastic knives.
The least they could do is require H1-Bs to buy a portfolio of stocks and keep it all until they leave the country. I'm sure Wall Street would approve of this plan!
I hope they didn't give them the Presidential Book of Secrets, we could all be in trouble then!
It is important to note that Chimpanzees will not cross rivers or lakes. There is no way they could have traveled to Leopoldville.
It is also important to note that they are only talking about HIV-1.
HIV-2 ( from the Sootey Mangabe, a simian that lives in Western Africa ) also exploded at the exact same time as HIV-1. Amazing coincidence for these two diseases to appear simultaneously on opposite sides of the African continent.
The River, by Ed Hopperhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/River-Journey-Source-Penguin-Science/dp/0140283773/ has a very interesting argument that HIV-1 & HOV-2 were introduced by accident during the cultivation of Polio vaccines in Chimpanzee livers. Vaccinations and the earliest cases of HIV can be plotted on a map with amazing correlation.
H1-Bs are cheap labor.
Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains why it is not in the best interest of companies to hire American Citizens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU/
Or if you are a conservative - here is FOX New covering the same story:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zs8m3MzRw4&feature=related/
Or just check you Sunday newspaper for the bogus job ads. You know the ones, the ads that don't mention a company or website, just a PO Box to snail mail your resume to.