The mere fact that they issued 3 times as many tickets as there are people in the town is an indication that something is wrong here
Not really. Most of the vehicles were likely people from out of town. 18,000 vehicles go through it every day - it's in between two highly populated areas.
The posting is NOT a "scathing rant", it's a pretty clear, calm and well-reasoned explanation as to issues that the author sees with GNU and GNU software development. There's no flamebait, no ranting, no name-calling.
1. It is scathing.
2. The person who wrote it describes it as a rant (see the subject line).
You want to start working freelance and you don't want to publicize how people can reach you? I'd expect a decent head shot, a phone number, a short bio and an email address.
Pretty much this.
If you were to open your FB and other social network accounts with business ONLY information, and keep your personal information (name, image, etc) off the Facebook account...will this keep your personal privacy still from them
This is silly, and I don't mean in the Internet era, but in any era. Go back to ye old pre-Internet days. Would you expect to be able to place an ad in a newspaper but refuse to give them your name, phone number, address and credit card information?
I was just trying to say that if one objects to universities' restrictions on free speech, they'll find that the legal and ethical issues differ when considering public vs. private secular vs. religiously affiliated universities.
For some, yes, they'd make a distinction. The WSJ article didn't, and nor does FIRE.
Most of the examples in the article have a pro-conservative leaning. So I went to their FIRE database and tried to find some cases where I knew universities tried blocking left-wing people from speaking. Not surprisingly, I didn't find at least the ones I was aware of.
I think it's good someone is defending conservatives' right to speech. I simply feel they should be open about their partisanship.
This is largely because of the flood of foreign labor has decreased the wages and opportunities in STEM compared to the college workload and tuition required. It's a viscous cycle.
I'm willing to bet most of that foreign labor can correctly spell "vicious".
I've worked with many very talented foreign born engineers, but in all cases, the most capable people I've worked with didn't want to be H1B. They wanted to stay.
And they do stay!
Cringely may be right about the wage depression, but he's misleading about the H-1B's implications. It is officially a dual-intent visa, and allows people who have that status to apply for a Green card. Most qualified H-1B's get green cards that way - not through marriage as he claims. In fact most foreigners with STEM jobs who have green cards get it through H-1B and not through the O program.
I say, don't accept foreign students to US colleges unless we would be willing to let them immigrate afterwards
You're pretty much saying "Admit them and let them work on H-1B", because the US allows people on H-1B to apply for green cards.
This article fails to even mention that H-1B visas are dual intent - green card applications are common for H-1B visa holders, and many large tech companies encourage green card application as an employee retention mechanism.
You're right, although it doesn't really detract from the main point of his article. He also claims most H-1B folks get green cards via marriage. While many do, it's not that many. I don't have hard numbers, but I'd guess 20%, and can easily believe less than 10% get their green cards through marriage. Most will get it in the manner you described.
What would you do if you were a non-techie, you ask the one computer guy you know which phone to get, and he tells you HTC, hands down? Versus seeing a TV commerical with a spiffy-looking unknown phone?
Word-of-mouth advertising is the best advertising. Plus, it's free.
Sorry to be a jerk, but do you have data to back that up?
As the local techie, everyone asks me which PC/camera/TV/ereader etc to get. I tell them. Almost none of them follows my advice.
You see, I'm the weird guy who has the stuff that none of their other friends have. They don't want to be that weird guy in front of all their friends.
He's a Bishop. He has a temple recommend. He still goes to church, even on the campaign trail. Sure, he had to be a little shifty on his opinions of abortion, but that's because he's a politician.
Oh dear. You really don't know devout people.
They don't judge others by religious education, but by things like morality. Does he lie? Does he cheat? Will he walk all over people for personal gain?
If yes, he's not devout. Period. That's how a Mormon who cares about his/her faith will view him. They may still vote for him (most of the country votes for idiots anyway), but they won't think of him as religious.
Sure, but the people who make important policy decisions are, in all likelihood, not very devout.
That will change if Romney wins.
Wow. You really don't know Mormons. Had he been an ordinary dude not running for office, most LDS adherents would die of laughter at the suggestion that he's devout.
Of the 176,745,364 people in Pakistan (according to World Bank), they chose 130 and managed to get more than half who were related to the "474 to 884" people who've died.
Not at all sure what your point is. I haven't read the report, but your comment is without merit.
They targeted a lot of people who were relatives of the deceased. They didn't randomly sample the country and then happen to get over 65 who were related to the deceased.
Don't be fooled by the raw numbers. Look at how many meetups they've had, and whether any of those Meetups actually occurred. My one lists 3 past meetups, but the location had never been finalized - no one actually got together and met up.
Authors are likely getting the same cut (or less). So that mostly leaves lining the pockets of Amazon.
If you put aside the top publishing companies, as well as the top bestselling authors, many/most authors are getting a better deal with ebooks than with print books. What's happening is that since the distribution/production costs have gone down, Amazon is offering authors a higher percentage than they normally get from a traditional publisher. I suspect some publishers are doing likewise to prevent authors from ditching them and selling directly on Amazon.
In any case, we're straying away from the point. If you want to know why the big publishers are charging as much, I suggest you read these articles. In a nutshell, the big publishers did not anticipate the change occurring as rapidly as it did, and had made several long term (e.g. 20+ years) financial commitments (norm for that and other industries) back in the early 2000's. They can't dump a lot of their facilities as a cost saving measure as they've committed to paying for them for the long term.
Amazon came and messed it up for them (and I'm not sympathetic to the publishers). But the point is a lot of other forces come into play in determining the final cost. Had the ebook revolution not occurred, they would have lost had they not made such investments. It was a gamble they were used to making, and they played the wrong hand.
Sony? Nook? Ipad? Sure selection helps Amazon but they also have a very good product and they are ahead in the game than any of the other alternatives that i know of.
I really can't speak of today, but less than 2 years ago when I was in the market for one, both the Sony and the Nook were well ahead of the Kindle.
The Kindle did not have a touch sensitive display. When you read news ePubs like I do, it's almost useless.
The Kindle did not support ePubs (not sure it does even now). There goes the option to buy books from different stores, or the option to find a better deal. Or the option to check out books from the library (in those days, none of the libraries I checked supported the Kindle - only in the past year did my local one add Kindle support). I think there were other formats the Kindle did not support which many other ereaders did. If it's hard for me to buy epubs from other stores on today's Kindle, then it's still a crappy option.
At the time, the Kindle's support for PDFs was poor. The others weren't that much better, to be honest, but Kindle usually ended last when it came to handling PDFs.
If I could find the notes I had written comparing some 5-6 different ereader brands, I could probably list more deficiencies. Sure, one or two of the brands were worse than the Kindle, but the Sony and the Nook (in those days) were better. Today may be a different story (the Sony is ridiculously expensive).
The Kindle started off with a bang. They just failed to stay ahead of the competition for a while and let others catch up.
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The mere fact that they issued 3 times as many tickets as there are people in the town is an indication that something is wrong here
Not really. Most of the vehicles were likely people from out of town. 18,000 vehicles go through it every day - it's in between two highly populated areas.
And the docs for Python in Open Office are...
Oh right - there aren't any docs.
Good for them if they're comfortable with their sexuality, but "gimp" is derogatory slang for a disabled person.
And the more people use GIMP, the less derogatory the word will appear.
It's almost as if people here want to preserve a biogted, derogatory word.
The posting is NOT a "scathing rant", it's a pretty clear, calm and well-reasoned explanation as to issues that the author sees with GNU and GNU software development. There's no flamebait, no ranting, no name-calling.
1. It is scathing.
2. The person who wrote it describes it as a rant (see the subject line).
You want to start working freelance and you don't want to publicize how people can reach you? I'd expect a decent head shot, a phone number, a short bio and an email address.
Pretty much this.
If you were to open your FB and other social network accounts with business ONLY information, and keep your personal information (name, image, etc) off the Facebook account...will this keep your personal privacy still from them
This is silly, and I don't mean in the Internet era, but in any era. Go back to ye old pre-Internet days. Would you expect to be able to place an ad in a newspaper but refuse to give them your name, phone number, address and credit card information?
I was just trying to say that if one objects to universities' restrictions on free speech, they'll find that the legal and ethical issues differ when considering public vs. private secular vs. religiously affiliated universities.
For some, yes, they'd make a distinction. The WSJ article didn't, and nor does FIRE.
Somewhere like Liberty has goals, and a legal status, very different than those of a state university.
The database contains both public and private universities.
Most of the examples in the article have a pro-conservative leaning. So I went to their FIRE database and tried to find some cases where I knew universities tried blocking left-wing people from speaking. Not surprisingly, I didn't find at least the ones I was aware of.
I think it's good someone is defending conservatives' right to speech. I simply feel they should be open about their partisanship.
This is largely because of the flood of foreign labor has decreased the wages and opportunities in STEM compared to the college workload and tuition required. It's a viscous cycle.
I'm willing to bet most of that foreign labor can correctly spell "vicious".
I've worked with many very talented foreign born engineers, but in all cases, the most capable people I've worked with didn't want to be H1B. They wanted to stay.
And they do stay!
Cringely may be right about the wage depression, but he's misleading about the H-1B's implications. It is officially a dual-intent visa, and allows people who have that status to apply for a Green card. Most qualified H-1B's get green cards that way - not through marriage as he claims. In fact most foreigners with STEM jobs who have green cards get it through H-1B and not through the O program.
I say, don't accept foreign students to US colleges unless we would be willing to let them immigrate afterwards
You're pretty much saying "Admit them and let them work on H-1B", because the US allows people on H-1B to apply for green cards.
An unbiased opinion, I'm sure...
Cringely is a US citizen with tech skills (he did work for Apple, after all). Therefore, one should treat his column as biased.
The 9-11 effect. Foreigners attacked us. It was bad. Foreigners are bad.
Sad but true.
Yes, all the hijackers came on an H-1B visa and worked under crappy conditions for 5 years. No wonder they got upset and resorted to terrorism!
Pouring metal in a melting pot, "absorbed metal", "pre-heated"... you sound like a crack pot
One made of metal, perhaps?
This article fails to even mention that H-1B visas are dual intent - green card applications are common for H-1B visa holders, and many large tech companies encourage green card application as an employee retention mechanism.
You're right, although it doesn't really detract from the main point of his article. He also claims most H-1B folks get green cards via marriage. While many do, it's not that many. I don't have hard numbers, but I'd guess 20%, and can easily believe less than 10% get their green cards through marriage. Most will get it in the manner you described.
What would you do if you were a non-techie, you ask the one computer guy you know which phone to get, and he tells you HTC, hands down? Versus seeing a TV commerical with a spiffy-looking unknown phone?
Word-of-mouth advertising is the best advertising. Plus, it's free.
Sorry to be a jerk, but do you have data to back that up?
As the local techie, everyone asks me which PC/camera/TV/ereader etc to get. I tell them. Almost none of them follows my advice.
You see, I'm the weird guy who has the stuff that none of their other friends have. They don't want to be that weird guy in front of all their friends.
Never underestimate the power of conformity.
I second Greg Egan. For a taste, here's a free short story.
Besides, as noted in the post, this particular journal charges a fee for publishing
I'm not too familiar with open access math journals, but I beleive pretty much all open access journals in the sciences charge for publication.
He's a Bishop. He has a temple recommend. He still goes to church, even on the campaign trail. Sure, he had to be a little shifty on his opinions of abortion, but that's because he's a politician.
Oh dear. You really don't know devout people.
They don't judge others by religious education, but by things like morality. Does he lie? Does he cheat? Will he walk all over people for personal gain?
If yes, he's not devout. Period. That's how a Mormon who cares about his/her faith will view him. They may still vote for him (most of the country votes for idiots anyway), but they won't think of him as religious.
Sure, but the people who make important policy decisions are, in all likelihood, not very devout.
That will change if Romney wins.
Wow. You really don't know Mormons. Had he been an ordinary dude not running for office, most LDS adherents would die of laughter at the suggestion that he's devout.
Yes there is. Here's what it says in the slashdot quote: "One major study shows that 74% of Pakistanis now consider the U.S. an enemy."
The summary is discussing several studies. This isn't the one where they interviewed 130+ people.
Of the 176,745,364 people in Pakistan (according to World Bank), they chose 130 and managed to get more than half who were related to the "474 to 884" people who've died.
Not at all sure what your point is. I haven't read the report, but your comment is without merit.
They targeted a lot of people who were relatives of the deceased. They didn't randomly sample the country and then happen to get over 65 who were related to the deceased.
And the problem with that is...?
... and they've never actually met!
Don't be fooled by the raw numbers. Look at how many meetups they've had, and whether any of those Meetups actually occurred. My one lists 3 past meetups, but the location had never been finalized - no one actually got together and met up.
No Al-Jazeera English?
No BBC?
Really?
Authors are likely getting the same cut (or less). So that mostly leaves lining the pockets of Amazon.
If you put aside the top publishing companies, as well as the top bestselling authors, many/most authors are getting a better deal with ebooks than with print books. What's happening is that since the distribution/production costs have gone down, Amazon is offering authors a higher percentage than they normally get from a traditional publisher. I suspect some publishers are doing likewise to prevent authors from ditching them and selling directly on Amazon.
In any case, we're straying away from the point. If you want to know why the big publishers are charging as much, I suggest you read these articles. In a nutshell, the big publishers did not anticipate the change occurring as rapidly as it did, and had made several long term (e.g. 20+ years) financial commitments (norm for that and other industries) back in the early 2000's. They can't dump a lot of their facilities as a cost saving measure as they've committed to paying for them for the long term.
Amazon came and messed it up for them (and I'm not sympathetic to the publishers). But the point is a lot of other forces come into play in determining the final cost. Had the ebook revolution not occurred, they would have lost had they not made such investments. It was a gamble they were used to making, and they played the wrong hand.
Sony? Nook? Ipad? Sure selection helps Amazon but they also have a very good product and they are ahead in the game than any of the other alternatives that i know of.
I really can't speak of today, but less than 2 years ago when I was in the market for one, both the Sony and the Nook were well ahead of the Kindle.
The Kindle did not have a touch sensitive display. When you read news ePubs like I do, it's almost useless.
The Kindle did not support ePubs (not sure it does even now). There goes the option to buy books from different stores, or the option to find a better deal. Or the option to check out books from the library (in those days, none of the libraries I checked supported the Kindle - only in the past year did my local one add Kindle support). I think there were other formats the Kindle did not support which many other ereaders did. If it's hard for me to buy epubs from other stores on today's Kindle, then it's still a crappy option.
At the time, the Kindle's support for PDFs was poor. The others weren't that much better, to be honest, but Kindle usually ended last when it came to handling PDFs.
If I could find the notes I had written comparing some 5-6 different ereader brands, I could probably list more deficiencies. Sure, one or two of the brands were worse than the Kindle, but the Sony and the Nook (in those days) were better. Today may be a different story (the Sony is ridiculously expensive).
The Kindle started off with a bang. They just failed to stay ahead of the competition for a while and let others catch up.