I would agree with you except for one big, fat caveat:
With H1-Bs, business and government are colluding to depress wages (albeit with government as a semi-unwitting partner in this affair).
If someone shows up from overseas and applies for the position at a lower wage, then it would be perfectly fair. Because of this, race doesn't mean a damned thing in the equation, at all.
But, when government steps in, things definitely get hinkey. Because companies can now knock down wages across the board for a given position, they can use the overall savings to actively seek and bring in H1-B workers, and still come out ahead.
In other words? Don't think micro-scale, think macro-scale.
I've worked with a *lot* of H1-Bs, been to college, and your assumptions? They suck.
* Cream of the crop? H1-B employees more often than not present a language barrier that often blows productivity, and many need remedial training very quickly in nearly any subject that isn't in the specialty being hired for.
* Subsidized $200k? Man, I'd love to know where I could get that kind of subsidy money! (I had to pay my own effing way through school.) Hint: even if you count governmental loans, only a doctor (as in "MD") at a top-flight school would need that much money to keep tuition paid.
* 65,000 in one year? Two bad assumptions here: One, you only count one year, which is misleading. Two, those 65,000 positions filled last year were for higher-level (thus otherwise higher-paying) positions. We're not talking entry-level desktop support jobs here.
I myself am paid at par with my American colleagues.
...and that's the problem. If $MEGACORP can get employees for a lower price by way of H1-B, then the local people trying to get a job there are forced to accept the same lower wage, or they don't get the job.
In the early MySpace/gaming days, many of the social games gave you big advantages for having more friends than your opponents. Even now, games like Farmville are geared towards having a huge amount of friends to 'gift' you digital trinkets and perform menial digital tasks.
Also, the 'fake friends' and 'fake followers' used to be used for fake click-throughs, to up the amount of money ad advertiser would pay you for hosting an ad banner.
Nowadays, you get what you pay for. TFA's author likely paid on the low-end. If he wanted what folks like Microsoft get (see any CNET article comment section concerning Microsoft if you want examples), you gotta be prepared to open the checkbook...
When you stack the ducats high, you get top-end fake comments/reviews/whatever.
Well, until things get better, that is. Then they (no matter which party 'they' support) will then claim that the Bush legacy is over, and that $leaderOfMyParty was the one who brought back golden days.
4) I'm running a Windows 7 laptop with excellent multi-monitor support right now. I happen to have good video drivers though, which leads me to wonder why multi-monitor support would be Microsoft's problem...
5) I've been able to download VMWare products for free that do the same thing and more... with the added benefit of using something that already has massive industry-wide support. Besides, what the hell would Joe Sixpack need with this?
6) No need for profile roaming and the like here (I have a home server which does additional auto-backups), but this is the first feature that actually makes any sense for the average consumer - well, those who use multiple computers on a regular basis.
7) I've been able to do this in Ubuntu for ages, and the costs are way, way lower.
8) Meh. I use AVG, it seems to work better. This leads to the fact that it is far better to have a choice in the matter than to have one solution rammed down your throat. BTW - if I remember right, most of/. has been clamoring for Microsoft to fix the $#@! security holes and bad security design for ages - and not just glom an AV suite onto the OS.
Aside from workstations and those orgs who are Microsoft partners, can you point to an example of an enterprise which prefers Microsoft solutions?
Even Intel is shifting away from the damned thing. When I worked there, we released all of our SDK/PDKs as Linux VMs. Three reasons why: One, licensing costs dropped to $0.00. Two, it was a hell of a lot more efficient to give a customer a perfect copy of a 'golden box' to compile on and make further copies of, than to try and wet-nurse them through setting up a working VS.NET box to compile their projects on. Three, building drivers and firmware demands efficiency, which.NET certainly does not have.
No,.NET is simply there, as part of a decent IDE, and little else.
By itself, it was/is a way to quickly get a job as a programmer without having to learn all that fluff like design, efficiency, portability, or flexibility. Aside from Miguel D'Icaza (who seriously drank the koolaid on that one), I doubt that any serious programmer who knows more than one language would consider it as the top choice.
Visual Studio is great for writing code in C/C++. OTOH,.NET on its own is rather bloated, shifts drastically over time, seems determined to generate carpal tunnel syndrome, is severely limited in platform scope, and has its upgrade treadmill dial set to '11'.
Most folks take one look at my crappy company-issued Blackberry Curve, and go look for better pickings (figuring that anyone still carryiong one of these probably doesn't have any money either).
I guess even criminals have more self-respect these days than to be seen trying to fence a entry-level crackberry.
Can you give any concrete benefits of installing CCleaner?
It keeps the browser cache sizes down, and keeps the registry bloat to a minimum. It's also a free utility that has no spamware/adware/whatever.
Any snooping should be in the open and agreed upon beforehand.
doveryai, no proveryai. Trusting your teenaged child is a pretty ideal, but making certain that the lessons you taught him sticks is just as important. In an age of a hyperactive RI/MPAA, anti-bullying laws and suchlike, it is doubly important to keep his online activities from coming back to you, and to catch any troubles before they get too big to control. It also allows you to catch any hints of your kid being bullied and suchlike before it gets too ugly.
This is your kid, not an employee, not a spouse, and not your drinking buddy. You still have to raise the child, to teach him, and yes, to control what he does until he is mature enough to prove himself capable of doing so without your supervision.
Run your kid's network connection through it (enforce it via the home router if necessary), and whitelist what he is allowed to visit. Here is an example of how to set up SQUID to do that.
That by itself will knock out virtually all threats from the network.
As for the machine itself, install CCleaner and AVG (which IMHO is among the least intrusive of the A/V solutions), maybe tweak RDP so you can sniff around in there from time to time remotely w/o his knowledge, and that should cover practically everything you really need to protect and control your kid's computer.
Bank Of America had a commercial last night proclaiming they have the same money-passing capabilities. There's also PopMoney, which has just started up and is signing up banks left, right, and sidewise, so they can integrate the same functionality into their own services (and apparently it allows you to use it even w/o your bank participating).
I'm guessing that eventually, aside from eBay, PayPal will eventually become obsolete.
Having recently banged out a 450-page manuscript w/ text and complex figures/tables, on a 15" laptop w/ professional pre-press software? As a guy who regularly fires up LuxRender and Blender for fun?
I don't even want to know how that would work on a ridiculously underpowered tablet processor with a puny GB or two of active RAM that can barely run itself and a couple of apps on most days...
Never mind: I forget the gadget-geeks mostly consume content, and don't build anything beyond the occasional blog.
OTOH, nature already provides a perfect example: Geese have been doing it for literal ages and likely for the same reason (though instead of burning excess liquid fuel, it keeps them from being tired).
...which makes this comment from one of TFAs twice as funny: “I’ve deleted 5 people,” one read. “This is the only place that I have any intolerance. If you like that dude, even just on the Internet, we are enemies. No apologies.”
(Basically, if you facebook-like Romney, that guy considers you an enemy.)
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Otherwise known as a fair market wage?
I would agree with you except for one big, fat caveat:
With H1-Bs, business and government are colluding to depress wages (albeit with government as a semi-unwitting partner in this affair).
If someone shows up from overseas and applies for the position at a lower wage, then it would be perfectly fair. Because of this, race doesn't mean a damned thing in the equation, at all.
But, when government steps in, things definitely get hinkey. Because companies can now knock down wages across the board for a given position, they can use the overall savings to actively seek and bring in H1-B workers, and still come out ahead.
In other words? Don't think micro-scale, think macro-scale.
I've worked with a *lot* of H1-Bs, been to college, and your assumptions? They suck.
* Cream of the crop? H1-B employees more often than not present a language barrier that often blows productivity, and many need remedial training very quickly in nearly any subject that isn't in the specialty being hired for.
* Subsidized $200k? Man, I'd love to know where I could get that kind of subsidy money! (I had to pay my own effing way through school.) Hint: even if you count governmental loans, only a doctor (as in "MD") at a top-flight school would need that much money to keep tuition paid.
* 65,000 in one year? Two bad assumptions here: One, you only count one year, which is misleading. Two, those 65,000 positions filled last year were for higher-level (thus otherwise higher-paying) positions. We're not talking entry-level desktop support jobs here.
HTH.
I myself am paid at par with my American colleagues.
...and that's the problem. If $MEGACORP can get employees for a lower price by way of H1-B, then the local people trying to get a job there are forced to accept the same lower wage, or they don't get the job.
Actually, there was a bit more involved there.
In the early MySpace/gaming days, many of the social games gave you big advantages for having more friends than your opponents. Even now, games like Farmville are geared towards having a huge amount of friends to 'gift' you digital trinkets and perform menial digital tasks.
Also, the 'fake friends' and 'fake followers' used to be used for fake click-throughs, to up the amount of money ad advertiser would pay you for hosting an ad banner.
Nowadays, you get what you pay for. TFA's author likely paid on the low-end. If he wanted what folks like Microsoft get (see any CNET article comment section concerning Microsoft if you want examples), you gotta be prepared to open the checkbook...
When you stack the ducats high, you get top-end fake comments/reviews/whatever.
By comparison, guess how many releases of C -or- C++ have occurred over the past 40 years? ;)
u mad, bro?
Here, let me help you out a little there, champ.
This should be easy, no?
1) Procure working torque wrench of sufficient size and strength.
2) *use* the damned thing next time.
I mean, really - not even one page of paper for the summary.
Well, until things get better, that is. Then they (no matter which party 'they' support) will then claim that the Bush legacy is over, and that $leaderOfMyParty was the one who brought back golden days.
I'd just like to tell them to consider this while they're at it.
Since when is the mere act of possessing or using free software on a strictly local basis a fucking crime, anyway?
4) I'm running a Windows 7 laptop with excellent multi-monitor support right now. I happen to have good video drivers though, which leads me to wonder why multi-monitor support would be Microsoft's problem...
5) I've been able to download VMWare products for free that do the same thing and more... with the added benefit of using something that already has massive industry-wide support. Besides, what the hell would Joe Sixpack need with this?
6) No need for profile roaming and the like here (I have a home server which does additional auto-backups), but this is the first feature that actually makes any sense for the average consumer - well, those who use multiple computers on a regular basis.
7) I've been able to do this in Ubuntu for ages, and the costs are way, way lower.
8) Meh. I use AVG, it seems to work better. This leads to the fact that it is far better to have a choice in the matter than to have one solution rammed down your throat. BTW - if I remember right, most of /. has been clamoring for Microsoft to fix the $#@! security holes and bad security design for ages - and not just glom an AV suite onto the OS.
Aside from workstations and those orgs who are Microsoft partners, can you point to an example of an enterprise which prefers Microsoft solutions?
Even Intel is shifting away from the damned thing. When I worked there, we released all of our SDK/PDKs as Linux VMs. Three reasons why: One, licensing costs dropped to $0.00. Two, it was a hell of a lot more efficient to give a customer a perfect copy of a 'golden box' to compile on and make further copies of, than to try and wet-nurse them through setting up a working VS.NET box to compile their projects on. Three, building drivers and firmware demands efficiency, which .NET certainly does not have.
No, .NET is simply there, as part of a decent IDE, and little else.
By itself, it was/is a way to quickly get a job as a programmer without having to learn all that fluff like design, efficiency, portability, or flexibility. Aside from Miguel D'Icaza (who seriously drank the koolaid on that one), I doubt that any serious programmer who knows more than one language would consider it as the top choice.
Visual Studio is great for writing code in C/C++. OTOH, .NET on its own is rather bloated, shifts drastically over time, seems determined to generate carpal tunnel syndrome, is severely limited in platform scope, and has its upgrade treadmill dial set to '11'.
Thanks but no thanks.
Damn ...*now* I see a post worthy of mod points!
Where the hell were you earlier today? :)
Yeah, we know.
C'mon - Verizon and Comcast likely wrote that provision themselves. After all, why treat it as a procedure when you can treat it as a profit center?
Just wait until they feel that profits aren't high enough...
Most folks take one look at my crappy company-issued Blackberry Curve, and go look for better pickings (figuring that anyone still carryiong one of these probably doesn't have any money either).
I guess even criminals have more self-respect these days than to be seen trying to fence a entry-level crackberry.
Can you give any concrete benefits of installing CCleaner?
It keeps the browser cache sizes down, and keeps the registry bloat to a minimum. It's also a free utility that has no spamware/adware/whatever.
Any snooping should be in the open and agreed upon beforehand.
doveryai, no proveryai. Trusting your teenaged child is a pretty ideal, but making certain that the lessons you taught him sticks is just as important. In an age of a hyperactive RI/MPAA, anti-bullying laws and suchlike, it is doubly important to keep his online activities from coming back to you, and to catch any troubles before they get too big to control. It also allows you to catch any hints of your kid being bullied and suchlike before it gets too ugly.
This is your kid, not an employee, not a spouse, and not your drinking buddy. You still have to raise the child, to teach him, and yes, to control what he does until he is mature enough to prove himself capable of doing so without your supervision.
...one word: Proxy.
Run your kid's network connection through it (enforce it via the home router if necessary), and whitelist what he is allowed to visit. Here is an example of how to set up SQUID to do that.
That by itself will knock out virtually all threats from the network.
As for the machine itself, install CCleaner and AVG (which IMHO is among the least intrusive of the A/V solutions), maybe tweak RDP so you can sniff around in there from time to time remotely w/o his knowledge, and that should cover practically everything you really need to protect and control your kid's computer.
Well for one, as banks they're a bit more regulated...
But I do see your point as far as facing similar problems.
PayPal's time is passing anyway.
Bank Of America had a commercial last night proclaiming they have the same money-passing capabilities. There's also PopMoney, which has just started up and is signing up banks left, right, and sidewise, so they can integrate the same functionality into their own services (and apparently it allows you to use it even w/o your bank participating).
I'm guessing that eventually, aside from eBay, PayPal will eventually become obsolete.
WWBTD?
Actually, Serif PagePlus. Most would consider it less than pro-grade, but aside from it's occasional pagination quirks, it works extremely well...
Having recently banged out a 450-page manuscript w/ text and complex figures/tables, on a 15" laptop w/ professional pre-press software? As a guy who regularly fires up LuxRender and Blender for fun?
I don't even want to know how that would work on a ridiculously underpowered tablet processor with a puny GB or two of active RAM that can barely run itself and a couple of apps on most days...
Never mind: I forget the gadget-geeks mostly consume content, and don't build anything beyond the occasional blog.
OTOH, nature already provides a perfect example: Geese have been doing it for literal ages and likely for the same reason (though instead of burning excess liquid fuel, it keeps them from being tired).
...which makes this comment from one of TFAs twice as funny:
“I’ve deleted 5 people,” one read. “This is the only place that I have any intolerance. If you like that dude, even just on the Internet, we are enemies. No apologies.”
(Basically, if you facebook-like Romney, that guy considers you an enemy.)