Arthur B. - you're way over the top. There is *plenty* of H1-B abuse. 65% of the H1-B visas go to Wipro, HCL, Infosys, etc.. that is the Indian outsourcing companies. These are for jobs that cannot be shipped overseas and have to be done on U.S. soil. So rather than hire Americans and pay a pervailing wage - they bring over cheap and barely capable Indians. Thats how they can bid so low that their service is so much cheaper to a company using them than hiring their own I.T. people would be.
We need real H1-B reforms to stop the blatant abuse. And we should not just be opening the floodgates to purpitrate the abuse.
Now, I'm with you for truly talented and capable engineers. These are the ones that work for Microsoft, Google, and all the other big companies needing programmers and EE's.
AND if you get a Masters Degree or Ph.D. from a U.S. accredited university - you should get an automatic Green Card (after background check).
Hear, Hear! I don't think 90% of the/. repliers here actually read the details to have a clue on this. This applies to international students who obtained a Masters Degree (typically in Computer Science) at a U.S. University. Geez, what's the Masters Degree percentage of/. readers I wonder.... low, so they don't have a clue that an international student has to be decent to graduate. Universities don't lower their exam and degree requirements for international students.
We need these folks to stay in the U.S. rather than take their talents and U.S. taught skills overseas to complete with those of us in the U.S.
As far as international students taking jobs away from U.S. citizens that is just hog wash! (at least for Computer Science and EE) In the Silicon Valley it is very hard to find talented OS programmers right now. The job demand is there and not enough U.S. citizens can be found.
[Able to hack a BSD kernel and looking for a Silicon Valley job? My company is hiring. Search the job boards - you'll find it]
No this is a brand new model, that upon research - I need to download an updated driver, compile and install it. While this is doable, I would have preferred it work out of the box - or I could just do a binary update and get it working.
Wrong! Commersial Database vendors will give their eye teeth to get 15% higher TPC-C scores. 15% isn't something to sneeze at when it comes to benchmarks. Now if you can get the 15% for "free" by switching to a different OS to submit your scores on.... They 100% will.
Another point is that dtrace and zfs would be hard to port, from what I hear on the kernel lists.
Really? Take a look at the FreeBSD ports of ZFS and Dtrace. It only took one person to port ZFS and one person to port Dtrace. Both in a reasonable amount of time.
Really? I'll take oprofile over dtrace
Feh. Are you've really sure you've used both Oprofile and Dtrace??
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You either have no real skills, or you're unwilling to move to where the jobs are.
[Relocate to the Silicon Valley, but hey thats what these H1-Bs do, so why can't you?]
Arthur B. - you're way over the top. There is *plenty* of H1-B abuse. 65% of the H1-B visas go to Wipro, HCL, Infosys, etc.. that is the Indian outsourcing companies. These are for jobs that cannot be shipped overseas and have to be done on U.S. soil. So rather than hire Americans and pay a pervailing wage - they bring over cheap and barely capable Indians. Thats how they can bid so low that their service is so much cheaper to a company using them than hiring their own I.T. people would be.
We need real H1-B reforms to stop the blatant abuse. And we should not just be opening the floodgates to purpitrate the abuse.
Now, I'm with you for truly talented and capable engineers. These are the ones that work for Microsoft, Google, and all the other big companies needing programmers and EE's.
AND if you get a Masters Degree or Ph.D. from a U.S. accredited university - you should get an automatic Green Card (after background check).
Hear, Hear! I don't think 90% of the /. repliers here actually read the details to have a clue on this. This applies to international students who obtained a Masters Degree (typically in Computer Science) at a U.S. University. Geez, what's the Masters Degree percentage of /. readers I wonder.... low, so they don't have a clue that an international student has to be decent to graduate. Universities don't lower their exam and degree requirements for international students.
We need these folks to stay in the U.S. rather than take their talents and U.S. taught skills overseas to complete with those of us in the U.S.
As far as international students taking jobs away from U.S. citizens that is just hog wash! (at least for Computer Science and EE) In the Silicon Valley it is very hard to find talented OS programmers right now. The job demand is there and not enough U.S. citizens can be found.
[Able to hack a BSD kernel and looking for a Silicon Valley job? My company is hiring. Search the job boards - you'll find it]
No this is a brand new model, that upon research - I need to download an updated driver, compile and install it. While this is doable, I would have preferred it work out of the box - or I could just do a binary update and get it working.
Wrong! Commersial Database vendors will give their eye teeth to get 15% higher TPC-C scores. 15% isn't something to sneeze at when it comes to benchmarks. Now if you can get the 15% for "free" by switching to a different OS to submit your scores on.... They 100% will.
Add to this list my Logitech USB headset (headphones + microphone) won't work out of the box on Fedora Core 8.
The portable C compiler?? No, not in the least. FreeBSD's upcoming 7.0 kernel is only compilable with GCC 4.2.
Really? Take a look at the FreeBSD ports of ZFS and Dtrace. It only took one person to port ZFS and one person to port Dtrace. Both in a reasonable amount of time.
Really? I'll take oprofile over dtrace
Feh. Are you've really sure you've used both Oprofile and Dtrace??
Please be accurate - Wind River (note it's two words) bought the BSD/OS assets from BSDi in spring 2001. Not the late 1990's.