What the above paragraph really means is they couldn't find enough Americans capable of the job, who were willing to take less pay than average, so their costs would be less, and their profit margins would be more.
H1B rules say that you specifically cannot pay them less. An American worker has the right to go to a company, demand the salary, related qualifications and job descriptions. If the American citizen can prove that she is qualified for that position, then the company cannot continue hiring the H1B. In fact, all this information is REQUIRED BY LAW to be posted in a public space in the company (in the bulletin board of the hallway).
There are rules and safeguards up the wazoo about hiring workers with with lower pay on H1B.
On the other hand, H1B sponsorship costs money in application fees and lawyer fees. You'd have to hire the H1B for ridiculously little for the whole system of underpaying to be even worth it and have a way to get away with it.
As far as I know, there has been no major disclosure or legal action against a practice like this. All that has been are stories that people have put up in the web.
The banking industry needs a lot of IT and database people. This is where a lot of H1B hiring goes on I believe.
That's true, but since it was the *government* who brought the foreign workers to the U.S., it's no longer a free market.
H1B specifically says that the company cannot find a local person who can do the same job. H1B specifically says it is not to compete against American workers.
"If you layoff American workers, we the government will take a hands-off policy and no longer help you with your future labor shortages. Figure it out on your own." The Republican policy can best be described as non-interference (sounds like Star Trek).
That's a great idea. Then, Microsoft since cannot get the talent in the US will just build an HQ in India.
And this affects the commons because power is increasingly a rare resource being squandered to provide a 5' wide screen typically viewed 15 feet back that provides the same viewing aspect ratio as a 19" TV at 4 feet at 11x the power. Power that isn't then available for running manufacturing plants, hospitals, and other things that generate real wealth, and require a tax-funded power plant to compensate for.
By the same logic, people should not partake in recreational strenuous activities like sports because they need to consume more food by expending energy. Then, the land freed up from less agriculture could be used to increase wealth.
In this case, people are notoriously bad at figuring long term expenses that are sustained and slightly elevated. People will tend to pay $10,000 over the life of a car for a "cheaper" model that costs $4,000 less. They'll tend to buy the plasma TV that costs $300 less than the $2000 LED TV that lasts twice as long and uses 30% less electricity.
People who watch movies with their families will buy the plasma but the pro-gamer who spends over 10 hours/day gaming will go for the LED TV. Different people have different needs. On the contrary, I think people are very prudent in estimating long term costs (you didn't give a reason why for your assumption so I don't need to give mine as well).
Everything that has a price is a rare resource. And, not everything is equally rare.
The RIAA (and the MPAA) have a stated goal of educating the public about copyright law and the evils of infringement. However, the actual goal is to "re-educate" the public, much as our totalitarian friends around the world "re-educate" those who disagree with them. In the RIAA's case, this absolutely does not include informing the public about their sleazy, if not outright criminal courtroom behavior.
My psychology professor used to say that people make up their minds first and then look for reasons to support their decisions. This way people can rationalize anything as the right thing.
The obvious purpose of the legal action was to spread fear and terror - like terrorists and serial killer do. Anyone out there, downloading a song, can be sued. There is no logic, no system - it's just random. This can strike fear to millions of people even though 10 people are prosecuted.
Of course, we want to scare and terrorize anyone who downloads MP3 is not a "good" reason. So, an absurd reason of educating the public is made up. This is not a rational or logical reason and we don't require the Greek style logical discourse method of justifying a reason (OK, I have Philosophy 101 knowledge of these things, please correct me if it's wrong). So, we hear absurd reasons for doing things. Maybe this is not the most straightforward example, but the war of Iraq's reason was first WMD and then liberation. You almost felt that the leaders were just trying to find any excuse to justify and rationalize their actions.
So, my point is why does anyone even bother anymore, questioning reasoning and such? People make up their minds about certain things first and build reasons for justifying them. So, let's not waste precious time and energy with snark remarks about educating the public and such. Just ignore them and focus on the matter at hand rather than going into illogical discussions about stated reasons for actions.
Apple stores are tiny mall rooms whereas circuit city is one of those giant warehouse sized stores. I don't think comparison is valid.
Best buy is doing fine so there is nothing wrong with business models of selling electronics in big stores. I just think circuit city wasn't managed well. They weren't able to offer low prices and good deals like Best Buy does.
One would think that retail is pretty much a science by now. If a company has market share and market presence, then it should just do the basics and coast along using tried and true techniques. I don't know how they managed to fuck this up so badly.
Random reads and sequential reads are the same for flash drives.
A few flash drives cache random writes and batch write them. So, your random write speed varies with time. Plus, totally random random writes probably don't make much sense as an indicator of performance.
720p only signifies the resolution. You can have an SD signal with higher bitrate than a 720p signal. If you upscale an SD signal, it also becomes a 720p, 1080p signal.
Since signals are compressed, you'd have to compare in different types of scenes. If you look at high detail panoramic scenes or very fast moving scenes with the newer blu-ray level bitrate for high definition signals, you'd be able to tell the difference.
Maybe you don't watch that many movie trailers, but sub-second flashes of scantily clad women are in every trailer. Just watch a few random big movies on apple trailers.
There is the kissing flash and the semi-naked girl flash. It's in every trailer. I think a flash of the female body somehow gives a positive view of the movie or something.
Regardless of how you feel about Together Datingâ(TM)s industry or its methods, you have to appreciate their tremendous, low-profile marketing machine and the data-driven technological infrastructure that supports it. This company brings in 8 solid figures of revenue every year using nothing but yard signs, some parked domains, and a firm grasp of the data that drives their growth.
Every thing about this company is trivial and their main source of their income is directly related to the illegal sign placements. If they had to pay for posting of said signs, then they would function at a normal level. As the article mentions, everything else is trivial except for the illegal advertising.
If you're willing to do illegal things and that has low probability of being prosecuted, then you can make lots and lots of money.
Replace your company staff with illegal workers and thousands of dollars saved. Just multiply it by eliminating your competitors and you're into huge numbers.
A person who's good with working with cars enjoys a nice car. People who enjoy lots of physical relationships have to work on it and obtain knowledge and expertise to acquire them. I was a through and through computer geek but happened to date some women and there definitely is a lot of techniques, knowledge to be acquired to be skillful in obtaining stream of physical relationships. Just like hacking assembly, it is a skill.
But, a relationship is important.
One of the most important points is that the desperation is men decreases as they go older. In women, it increases. So, at 24 trying to date 20-24 year olds is going to be very hard and frustrating in a dating scenario. A good option is to find activities that women also partake in and get involved in. If you can't think of anything, then blame your parents - it is essential that you teach your children at least one such thing. Top choices are: a sport, a musical instrument, singing or drama or so on. Your XBox or Bluray or your home theater or your home network doesn't count.
As you get older, you will find that there are enough desperate women who are desperate as you are. You will need to go through your social network to find them. If you're 24, then just worry about your career and skills - women could turn your life upside down if you're too desperate and some women takes advantage of you (unknowingly to the women as well since they are messed up or in a bad situation with weirdo ex-boyfriends).
Physical relationships can feel hollow since there is a lot of faking to get something going on.
It is a general rule of thumb that for a successful relationship, your partner and you must be about equal attractiveness. This doesn't imply that you're given an attractiveness score that's fixed - you can buy better clothes, get fit and get a better haircut etc). So, don't waste your time going after a girl that too pretty or be prepared to make it clear if you're not attracted to someone as stringing someone on is bad.
Anyway, that is probably just cliches you've heard a million times before. Anyway, just to help out a younger geek.
Not because of Godel's incompleteness but because of Turing's undecidability.
The argument goes like this, there is no general algorithm to solve any problem and so, a real advance in math occurs when a non-straightforward method of doing something is found. It can be verified that this trick or method works but there is no general algorithm to produce these tricks. Hence, we will always need mathematicians to continually come up with these tricks.
I'm half joking since the notion that finding these tricks are some special human quality that cannot be defined (and turned into an algorithm) is assumed.
..assuming computers cease making any new advances.
Mathematicians do rely on their ability to spot patterns and sense implications that no computer can likely sift for today. But this will not always be the case.
But, mathematicians have already proved that a computer will never be able to take a mathematician's job.
It was in some discussion or documentary that sort of made whim remark that Godel's incompleteness led indirectly to the creation of the computer programming languages.
As far as I know, most modern mathematics consider a set small enough so that it is not a problem. So, for Ruseel's paradox, if you make sure you don't consider the sets of all sets, then all the good mathematics still works and the paradox is avoided. For Godel's incompleteness, there is a countable set of proofs that are free from this and that's where all known interesting proofs lie.
But, I could be wrong. All this is from seminars and such, and I'm not a logician.
It goes towards the enormous knowledge on prime number theory.
The problem of if there is a pattern to the sequence of prime numbers is unknown. That is, if I ask you what is the 69th prime number, the only known general algorithm is to computer the 1st prime, 2nd prime and so on until the 69th prime. And, also there are unsolved problems with Mersenne primes as well.
So, if someone comes up with a good theory, then it's good to have some big examples.
And, in case you didn't know, prime number theory is used in cryptography.
I'm pretty sure you'd have to brainwash women like crazy for this to work.
Imagine 3 dudes and 1 wife. I lived with 4 people to a house as roommates in college and we drove each other nuts. Add that everyone bonking the same woman and I'm pretty sure I'd get into fights every day.
Maybe women can accept other women more easily - female roommates don't seem that better off.
At least in modern US society, if a woman has children from different fathers, she'd be at the best situation provided all the fathers got along and let her stay wherever she wanted. She'd have more money, more genetic diversity among her children and more competition for attention from her husbands.
Finally, I've gotten caught in a triangle of two guys and 1 girl and I tell you it was awful. I'd need a serious mind scrubbing to be dandy with it. I was jealous as hell and hated the other guy and knew he hated me equally as well.
Well, if you think your line of thinking is fine and dandy then I think you should prepare for the time when your wife will tell you that she needs a second husband. Maybe you can't fix cars and renting a mechanic is so 'throwaway'.
Or what about going to the old ways of hunting and growing food? How would you feel about living as brothers with another guy who bangs your wife?
Polygamy would work when you either have a iron fist male dominant society or if wife1 doesn't know about wife2.
It is always a good idea to praise your neighbor when that neighbor is low on oil and high on nuclear weapons while you are high on oil but low on nuclear weapons.
Why? So, one neighbor can completely destroy the other neighbor 100 times over while the other neighbor can do it 1000 times over?
The record companies first market the band, give them money to make their CD with top producers and expensive studios and pay for the music videos. Also, in many cases, payola to have their singles on the radio and articles on magazines.
This is nationwide stuff and no band do it by themselves.
Ticket sales come after being famous and everyone knowing who they are. Most people cannot name a few good local bands whereas they can name Radiohead, Weezer etc.
Ebay's growth doesn't have to be by squeezing the sellers. For example, they bought Skype and they could do something with it to grow their company.
They have a tremendous product search experience and they could go into a google shopping style thing to expand. Look at Amazon - it was place to buy textbooks at first but now it's to buy even food, see ratings and reviews and everything else.
The fact is that the ebay sellers are an easy target since ebay is a monopoly. The least riskiest way of expanding for ebay is to squeeze the sellers for more money - at least in the short term. Amazon has had to innovate like crazy to make money but ebay hasn't.
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H1B rules say that you specifically cannot pay them less. An American worker has the right to go to a company, demand the salary, related qualifications and job descriptions. If the American citizen can prove that she is qualified for that position, then the company cannot continue hiring the H1B. In fact, all this information is REQUIRED BY LAW to be posted in a public space in the company (in the bulletin board of the hallway).
There are rules and safeguards up the wazoo about hiring workers with with lower pay on H1B.
On the other hand, H1B sponsorship costs money in application fees and lawyer fees. You'd have to hire the H1B for ridiculously little for the whole system of underpaying to be even worth it and have a way to get away with it.
As far as I know, there has been no major disclosure or legal action against a practice like this. All that has been are stories that people have put up in the web.
The banking industry needs a lot of IT and database people. This is where a lot of H1B hiring goes on I believe.
H1B specifically says that the company cannot find a local person who can do the same job. H1B specifically says it is not to compete against American workers.
That's a great idea. Then, Microsoft since cannot get the talent in the US will just build an HQ in India.
By the same logic, people should not partake in recreational strenuous activities like sports because they need to consume more food by expending energy. Then, the land freed up from less agriculture could be used to increase wealth.
People who watch movies with their families will buy the plasma but the pro-gamer who spends over 10 hours/day gaming will go for the LED TV. Different people have different needs. On the contrary, I think people are very prudent in estimating long term costs (you didn't give a reason why for your assumption so I don't need to give mine as well).
Everything that has a price is a rare resource. And, not everything is equally rare.
My psychology professor used to say that people make up their minds first and then look for reasons to support their decisions. This way people can rationalize anything as the right thing.
The obvious purpose of the legal action was to spread fear and terror - like terrorists and serial killer do. Anyone out there, downloading a song, can be sued. There is no logic, no system - it's just random. This can strike fear to millions of people even though 10 people are prosecuted.
Of course, we want to scare and terrorize anyone who downloads MP3 is not a "good" reason. So, an absurd reason of educating the public is made up. This is not a rational or logical reason and we don't require the Greek style logical discourse method of justifying a reason (OK, I have Philosophy 101 knowledge of these things, please correct me if it's wrong). So, we hear absurd reasons for doing things. Maybe this is not the most straightforward example, but the war of Iraq's reason was first WMD and then liberation. You almost felt that the leaders were just trying to find any excuse to justify and rationalize their actions.
So, my point is why does anyone even bother anymore, questioning reasoning and such? People make up their minds about certain things first and build reasons for justifying them. So, let's not waste precious time and energy with snark remarks about educating the public and such. Just ignore them and focus on the matter at hand rather than going into illogical discussions about stated reasons for actions.
Apple stores are tiny mall rooms whereas circuit city is one of those giant warehouse sized stores. I don't think comparison is valid.
Best buy is doing fine so there is nothing wrong with business models of selling electronics in big stores. I just think circuit city wasn't managed well. They weren't able to offer low prices and good deals like Best Buy does.
One would think that retail is pretty much a science by now. If a company has market share and market presence, then it should just do the basics and coast along using tried and true techniques. I don't know how they managed to fuck this up so badly.
Random reads and sequential reads are the same for flash drives.
A few flash drives cache random writes and batch write them. So, your random write speed varies with time. Plus, totally random random writes probably don't make much sense as an indicator of performance.
720p only signifies the resolution. You can have an SD signal with higher bitrate than a 720p signal. If you upscale an SD signal, it also becomes a 720p, 1080p signal.
Since signals are compressed, you'd have to compare in different types of scenes. If you look at high detail panoramic scenes or very fast moving scenes with the newer blu-ray level bitrate for high definition signals, you'd be able to tell the difference.
In a TV series, the actor takes over a character, parts of the actor's personality starts showing up in the character.
Maybe you don't watch that many movie trailers, but sub-second flashes of scantily clad women are in every trailer. Just watch a few random big movies on apple trailers.
There is the kissing flash and the semi-naked girl flash. It's in every trailer. I think a flash of the female body somehow gives a positive view of the movie or something.
This is a correlation statement.
A causation statement would be:
or
Every thing about this company is trivial and their main source of their income is directly related to the illegal sign placements. If they had to pay for posting of said signs, then they would function at a normal level. As the article mentions, everything else is trivial except for the illegal advertising.
If you're willing to do illegal things and that has low probability of being prosecuted, then you can make lots and lots of money.
Replace your company staff with illegal workers and thousands of dollars saved. Just multiply it by eliminating your competitors and you're into huge numbers.
A person who's good with working with cars enjoys a nice car. People who enjoy lots of physical relationships have to work on it and obtain knowledge and expertise to acquire them. I was a through and through computer geek but happened to date some women and there definitely is a lot of techniques, knowledge to be acquired to be skillful in obtaining stream of physical relationships. Just like hacking assembly, it is a skill.
But, a relationship is important.
One of the most important points is that the desperation is men decreases as they go older. In women, it increases. So, at 24 trying to date 20-24 year olds is going to be very hard and frustrating in a dating scenario. A good option is to find activities that women also partake in and get involved in. If you can't think of anything, then blame your parents - it is essential that you teach your children at least one such thing. Top choices are: a sport, a musical instrument, singing or drama or so on. Your XBox or Bluray or your home theater or your home network doesn't count.
As you get older, you will find that there are enough desperate women who are desperate as you are. You will need to go through your social network to find them. If you're 24, then just worry about your career and skills - women could turn your life upside down if you're too desperate and some women takes advantage of you (unknowingly to the women as well since they are messed up or in a bad situation with weirdo ex-boyfriends).
Physical relationships can feel hollow since there is a lot of faking to get something going on.
It is a general rule of thumb that for a successful relationship, your partner and you must be about equal attractiveness. This doesn't imply that you're given an attractiveness score that's fixed - you can buy better clothes, get fit and get a better haircut etc). So, don't waste your time going after a girl that too pretty or be prepared to make it clear if you're not attracted to someone as stringing someone on is bad.
Anyway, that is probably just cliches you've heard a million times before. Anyway, just to help out a younger geek.
Finally, my favorite youtube song, BJ in a bar, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ4PdgWGYF0
Not because of Godel's incompleteness but because of Turing's undecidability.
The argument goes like this, there is no general algorithm to solve any problem and so, a real advance in math occurs when a non-straightforward method of doing something is found. It can be verified that this trick or method works but there is no general algorithm to produce these tricks. Hence, we will always need mathematicians to continually come up with these tricks.
I'm half joking since the notion that finding these tricks are some special human quality that cannot be defined (and turned into an algorithm) is assumed.
But, mathematicians have already proved that a computer will never be able to take a mathematician's job.
It only makes sense to talk about demand and supply when there is scarcity.
It was in some discussion or documentary that sort of made whim remark that Godel's incompleteness led indirectly to the creation of the computer programming languages.
As far as I know, most modern mathematics consider a set small enough so that it is not a problem. So, for Ruseel's paradox, if you make sure you don't consider the sets of all sets, then all the good mathematics still works and the paradox is avoided. For Godel's incompleteness, there is a countable set of proofs that are free from this and that's where all known interesting proofs lie.
But, I could be wrong. All this is from seminars and such, and I'm not a logician.
It goes towards the enormous knowledge on prime number theory.
The problem of if there is a pattern to the sequence of prime numbers is unknown. That is, if I ask you what is the 69th prime number, the only known general algorithm is to computer the 1st prime, 2nd prime and so on until the 69th prime. And, also there are unsolved problems with Mersenne primes as well.
So, if someone comes up with a good theory, then it's good to have some big examples.
And, in case you didn't know, prime number theory is used in cryptography.
Actually, it has been pretty effective.
Look at Playstation 3 and XBox 360. There hasn't been a lot of success in running unsigned code even 2-3 years after it was launched.
I'm pretty sure you'd have to brainwash women like crazy for this to work.
Imagine 3 dudes and 1 wife. I lived with 4 people to a house as roommates in college and we drove each other nuts. Add that everyone bonking the same woman and I'm pretty sure I'd get into fights every day.
Maybe women can accept other women more easily - female roommates don't seem that better off.
At least in modern US society, if a woman has children from different fathers, she'd be at the best situation provided all the fathers got along and let her stay wherever she wanted. She'd have more money, more genetic diversity among her children and more competition for attention from her husbands.
Finally, I've gotten caught in a triangle of two guys and 1 girl and I tell you it was awful. I'd need a serious mind scrubbing to be dandy with it. I was jealous as hell and hated the other guy and knew he hated me equally as well.
Well, if you think your line of thinking is fine and dandy then I think you should prepare for the time when your wife will tell you that she needs a second husband. Maybe you can't fix cars and renting a mechanic is so 'throwaway'.
Or what about going to the old ways of hunting and growing food? How would you feel about living as brothers with another guy who bangs your wife?
Polygamy would work when you either have a iron fist male dominant society or if wife1 doesn't know about wife2.
Does anyone know who in the US elected government caused the US DMCA to happen?
So, if even slashdot users can't remember who caused the original DMCA to happen, what hope is there that any Canadian politicians would be worried?
Why? So, one neighbor can completely destroy the other neighbor 100 times over while the other neighbor can do it 1000 times over?
The record companies first market the band, give them money to make their CD with top producers and expensive studios and pay for the music videos. Also, in many cases, payola to have their singles on the radio and articles on magazines.
This is nationwide stuff and no band do it by themselves.
Ticket sales come after being famous and everyone knowing who they are. Most people cannot name a few good local bands whereas they can name Radiohead, Weezer etc.
Ebay's growth doesn't have to be by squeezing the sellers. For example, they bought Skype and they could do something with it to grow their company. They have a tremendous product search experience and they could go into a google shopping style thing to expand. Look at Amazon - it was place to buy textbooks at first but now it's to buy even food, see ratings and reviews and everything else. The fact is that the ebay sellers are an easy target since ebay is a monopoly. The least riskiest way of expanding for ebay is to squeeze the sellers for more money - at least in the short term. Amazon has had to innovate like crazy to make money but ebay hasn't.
Tata consulting is in India. There are no H1B visas needed. The work is now done in India instead of the US.