Look. I work in a major US tech company and am involved with hiring from a technical level, and I can tell you first hand that the quantity of quality people in North America IS lacking. Out of all of the employees you hire, maybe 1 of the 10 is the rockstar you need for your project... the rest are OK, sure, but when you are working under tight timelines and need creative solutions on a global stage, you don't need a bunch of churned-out code monkeys, you NEED those rock stars.
You're managing to hire 10% "rockstars"? You should get out of tech and set yourself up as a recruiter; if you can actually manage to get 90% OK and 10% "rockstar", you're so far ahead of the game it's not even funny.
These H-1Bs aren't "rockstars" either. Most IT departments would prefer to hire 50 code monkeys over 10 competent people, if the 50 cost the same as the 10... and that's true even if you'd actually only need 5 competent people. So they get the warm bodies.
Of course there are "rockstar" H-1Bs as well. But most tech H-1Bs, like most American _applicants_ to US tech jobs, can barely qualify for "code monkey" status.
Prostitution is another speciality - take a look at any of several UK escort directories (I don't want to give links here) and you will see a much higher proportion of Asian and East European girls than in the general population.
ROTFL. If you had the choice between an Asian hooker, an Eastern European hooker, and an English hooker, you'd seriously pick the English one?
Pretty much, most people are of the hurd mentality and if you go against the hurd, then you wind up being burnt at the stake or shunned.
Linux is still doing quite well against the Hurd. So is BSD. Heck, I think the Colecovision might still have more users.
Experience is a good thing if what you're doing is like the things you've had experience with, it gets the job done faster, but if there's any novelty to it, you run the risk of doing it wrong.
There's always risk of doing it wrong. But if I had a dollar for every time someone told me "This time, things will be different" and they weren't, I'd be wealthy. You know who believes that things will be different when every damn time in the past they haven't been? Charlie Brown, that's who. He never managed to kick that football.
"How much evil must we do in order to do good? We have certain ideals, certain responsibilities. Recognize that at times you will have to engage in evil, but minimize it."
-ROBERT S. McNAMARA
Architect of the US involvement in Vietnam. Who next, Dick Cheney?
With ALL the information available, the NSA could come up with a credit scoring system WAY better than FICO. No more getting into a he said/she said with creditors; the NSAs computers just check into their records of everyone's transactions (and emails and phone conversations and...) and get to the bottom of it. Of course the down side is they'll know that American Express transaction for fancy drinks at a certain Washington D.C. bar is for hookers, and they'll calculate in an "expected alimony" penalty... but at least it'll be accurate.
Assuming the rest of the world does come to their aid. I can easily see the rest of the world wringing its hands long enough for China to make it a fait accompli.
I know China isn't going to stop. You know China isn't going to stop. Obama knows China isn't going to stop. China sure as hell knows it's not going to stop. So most likely this is grandstanding so Obama can say he's "doing something" to his more clueless buddies in business.
Do you remember server crashes? Our favorite sites being down for weeks rather than minutes? How about email that had latency in the range of hours or days?
Wrong decade on that last one. Anyway, in the '90s, sites didn't so much go down for weeks as just vanish.
I will never block ads, and just because you can doesn't make it right. If I disagree with or dislike the method of advertising delivery I will simply not visit the site. Just because I don't like a site's implied contract doesn't make it right for me to steal from them.
There's no implied contract to view advertising. There's certainly no stealing.
Most business people are just like you, struggling to survive and trying to find a way to give their customers the things they want at the lowest price possilble, and when a site is ad supported that price is free, the least you can do is leave the ads in place.
Substitute "lowest price" for "highest profit", and you have a more true statement.
Get the US to pull out the 8th Army in exchange for China dropping all support for NK, and we'd be getting somewhere. NK would then either quickly starve, or would start listening when we tell them to knock it off.
The only place pulling the 8th Army out leads is to China taking BOTH Koreas (the North invades the South and China picks up the pieces, regardless of any agreements made).
Unfortunately, such optimism is not justified. The copyright absolutists have friends in all three branches of government, and their harsh and punitive stance plays well with harsh and punitive judges, especially when the defendants aren't all that sympathetic. The rules of procedure will be bent well past the breaking point for them, while ridiculously narrow interpretations of the same rules will be applied to the defense.
I see tons of garbage sponsored links and "recommendations" that I seriously doubt my specific friends would recommend.
Probably part of the evil plan.
Step 1) Build up a good reputation by providing legitimate recommendations based on valid data including preferences of friends.
Step 2) Spend some of that reputation to get cold hard cash by slipping totally unjustified paid "recommendations" in there.
However, Facebook probably skipped Step 1 entirely. There's no reason in principle this evil plan couldn't work indefinitely provided you kept the paid recommendations to a small proportion, but greed pretty much ensures that you wouldn't, so instead of a slow burn of replenishable reputation, the evildoer burns it all out at once.
and now all their star systems have slipped through their fingers. Seriously, if you go to the site first of all it hangs for a long time. This does not appear to be due to loading ads but I bet a lot of users think it is. Then you get an interstitial ad. Once you're past the interstitial, you get a huge animated banner at the top and depending on the page, possibly also animated ads to the right. If you were trying to push users to adblockers, this is how you would design a site.
It doesn't matter what the facts are if the RIAA takes me to court; it's Bambi vs. Godzilla, and my best option would be to take whatever deal they offer. I'm too quixotic to do so and would instead fight them with whatever I had, but I'm not stupid enough to think that would result in anything less than my bankruptcy.
Invite Dan Savage as well. If you think Aurora will cause trouble if you don't cancel the talk, imagine the santorum Savage will stir up if you DO cancel it.
First strike: Nasty email Second strike: nasty email requiring acknowledgement or call Third and fourth strikes: redirect to boring video Fifth and Sixth strikes: temporary throttling and/or another boring video. Seventh and subsequent strikes: Absolutely nothing.
If I didn't have a business class connection (which I think is not subject to Six Strikes) I'd be tempted to start downloading all sorts of apparently-pirated material just to get through with the costly strikes.
We can argue till we are blue in the face about the cause of global warming. The fact remains that if you act and nothing happens with global warming, you louse and end up in a depression, thatâ(TM)s the worst that can happen. The worst that can happen if you donâ(TM)t act and we do end up with global warming is a complete catastrophe. In the worst case scenario, possibly even complete extinction of life.
Pascal's wager is stupid when it comes to conventional religion, and just as stupid when it comes to global warming.
The answer to (less energy) is not (energy source A), it is (energy source A + B + C + D) adjusted by the optimal sources for the region you are in.
Unfortunately, even A + B + C + D F + H + N, where F, H, and N are fossil, existing hydro, and nuclear plants. Which make you wonder why you're dicking around with any of them.
The basic idea is to burn coal with rust in an oven, then capture the CO2. Why not just burn coal and air in an oven and capture the CO2? The hard part is surely the CO2 capture, not the burning.
That said... can someone explain to me how this is not a police state? 'Cuz, save the concentration camps, I fail to see what's missing...
Because as long as there's one place which is worse, apologists for the state will sneer at you for even suggesting the place you're in is not a paragon of liberty.
The one place, of course, is North Korea. Why else has no country slapped it down by now? Somewhere in a work camp in China, an overseer is telling his charges they should be happy they're not in Haengyong.
You mean they're all going to live and carry on the human race while the rest of us die a horrible, horrible death due to us selfishly overlooking some unglamorous-yet-vital sanitary task they did?
Yeah, he confused his arks. San Franciscans (and San Jose residents and Europeans and people from Austin, TX) are all going on the "A" ark, without people who do seemingly useless but actually vital things like use clean bags every time they grocery shop, clean public telephones, shower regularly (water-wasting scum), flush the toilet every time, etc.
See you on the "B" ark. I'll be the guy disinfecting the keyboards in the common area.
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You're managing to hire 10% "rockstars"? You should get out of tech and set yourself up as a recruiter; if you can actually manage to get 90% OK and 10% "rockstar", you're so far ahead of the game it's not even funny.
These H-1Bs aren't "rockstars" either. Most IT departments would prefer to hire 50 code monkeys over 10 competent people, if the 50 cost the same as the 10... and that's true even if you'd actually only need 5 competent people. So they get the warm bodies.
Of course there are "rockstar" H-1Bs as well. But most tech H-1Bs, like most American _applicants_ to US tech jobs, can barely qualify for "code monkey" status.
ROTFL. If you had the choice between an Asian hooker, an Eastern European hooker, and an English hooker, you'd seriously pick the English one?
Linux is still doing quite well against the Hurd. So is BSD. Heck, I think the Colecovision might still have more users.
There's always risk of doing it wrong. But if I had a dollar for every time someone told me "This time, things will be different" and they weren't, I'd be wealthy. You know who believes that things will be different when every damn time in the past they haven't been? Charlie Brown, that's who. He never managed to kick that football.
Architect of the US involvement in Vietnam. Who next, Dick Cheney?
With ALL the information available, the NSA could come up with a credit scoring system WAY better than FICO. No more getting into a he said/she said with creditors; the NSAs computers just check into their records of everyone's transactions (and emails and phone conversations and...) and get to the bottom of it. Of course the down side is they'll know that American Express transaction for fancy drinks at a certain Washington D.C. bar is for hookers, and they'll calculate in an "expected alimony" penalty... but at least it'll be accurate.
Assuming the rest of the world does come to their aid. I can easily see the rest of the world wringing its hands long enough for China to make it a fait accompli.
I know China isn't going to stop. You know China isn't going to stop. Obama knows China isn't going to stop. China sure as hell knows it's not going to stop. So most likely this is grandstanding so Obama can say he's "doing something" to his more clueless buddies in business.
Wrong decade on that last one. Anyway, in the '90s, sites didn't so much go down for weeks as just vanish.
There's no implied contract to view advertising. There's certainly no stealing.
Substitute "lowest price" for "highest profit", and you have a more true statement.
The only place pulling the 8th Army out leads is to China taking BOTH Koreas (the North invades the South and China picks up the pieces, regardless of any agreements made).
Unfortunately, such optimism is not justified. The copyright absolutists have friends in all three branches of government, and their harsh and punitive stance plays well with harsh and punitive judges, especially when the defendants aren't all that sympathetic. The rules of procedure will be bent well past the breaking point for them, while ridiculously narrow interpretations of the same rules will be applied to the defense.
...bans Glass before it's cool.
Probably part of the evil plan.
Step 1) Build up a good reputation by providing legitimate recommendations based on valid data including preferences of friends.
Step 2) Spend some of that reputation to get cold hard cash by slipping totally unjustified paid "recommendations" in there.
However, Facebook probably skipped Step 1 entirely. There's no reason in principle this evil plan couldn't work indefinitely provided you kept the paid recommendations to a small proportion, but greed pretty much ensures that you wouldn't, so instead of a slow burn of replenishable reputation, the evildoer burns it all out at once.
and now all their star systems have slipped through their fingers. Seriously, if you go to the site first of all it hangs for a long time. This does not appear to be due to loading ads but I bet a lot of users think it is. Then you get an interstitial ad. Once you're past the interstitial, you get a huge animated banner at the top and depending on the page, possibly also animated ads to the right. If you were trying to push users to adblockers, this is how you would design a site.
It doesn't matter what the facts are if the RIAA takes me to court; it's Bambi vs. Godzilla, and my best option would be to take whatever deal they offer. I'm too quixotic to do so and would instead fight them with whatever I had, but I'm not stupid enough to think that would result in anything less than my bankruptcy.
Invite Dan Savage as well. If you think Aurora will cause trouble if you don't cancel the talk, imagine the santorum Savage will stir up if you DO cancel it.
First strike: Nasty email
Second strike: nasty email requiring acknowledgement or call
Third and fourth strikes: redirect to boring video
Fifth and Sixth strikes: temporary throttling and/or another boring video.
Seventh and subsequent strikes: Absolutely nothing.
If I didn't have a business class connection (which I think is not subject to Six Strikes) I'd be tempted to start downloading all sorts of apparently-pirated material just to get through with the costly strikes.
Pascal's wager is stupid when it comes to conventional religion, and just as stupid when it comes to global warming.
Unfortunately, even A + B + C + D F + H + N, where F, H, and N are fossil, existing hydro, and nuclear plants. Which make you wonder why you're dicking around with any of them.
I'm sure it costs more.
Coal is oxidized to produce CO2 and heat. That's "burning", regardless of whether you use air or iron oxides as the oxidizer.
The basic idea is to burn coal with rust in an oven, then capture the CO2. Why not just burn coal and air in an oven and capture the CO2? The hard part is surely the CO2 capture, not the burning.
Because as long as there's one place which is worse, apologists for the state will sneer at you for even suggesting the place you're in is not a paragon of liberty.
The one place, of course, is North Korea. Why else has no country slapped it down by now? Somewhere in a work camp in China, an overseer is telling his charges they should be happy they're not in Haengyong.
Don't bet on it. When it comes to copyright and the courts, evil always wins in the end.
Yeah, he confused his arks. San Franciscans (and San Jose residents and Europeans and people from Austin, TX) are all going on the "A" ark, without people who do seemingly useless but actually vital things like use clean bags every time they grocery shop, clean public telephones, shower regularly (water-wasting scum), flush the toilet every time, etc.
See you on the "B" ark. I'll be the guy disinfecting the keyboards in the common area.