Lies, damn lies, and statistics. From the article:
"In fact, Zavodny said that in 2001, the latest data available, H-1B workers with bachelor's degrees were paid more, on average, than U.S. citizens with bachelor's degrees. In that sense, then, it would seem that H-1B competition could actually put upward pressure on wages."
Now this is a very nicely worded statement that, on the surface, seems to indicate that H-1Bs are actually helping wages.
Hooey.
H-1B visa holders are concentrated in the hi-tech industry (57.8% of H-1B holders worked in computer-related fields in 2001, also according to the article). OF COURSE their average salary was more than that of the average degreed US worker. If they compared the H-1B salaries to the salaries of US workes IN THE SAME FIELD, would the averages work out the same way?
Over the past year, mainly the past 3 months, I've bought 100s of CDR's, music and data both. And I've burned music onto every single one of them....
My band's music.
CDR has become our preferred method for passing tracks, rough mixes, demo songs, back and forth. We also burn special one-off CDs with live stuff and various bits to hand out to fans at shows, as an incentive for attending.
Now that Mars is at its closest point for thousands of years, we should expect the voracious thread to start appearing in our skies any day now. And us without any dragons to fly.... we're doomed!
It has always amazed me that it was ever possible to record music that anybody could stand back in the days of 44.1kHz, 16 bit recorders. Or (gasp!) even analog.
Seriously, the "my recorder has more kHz than your recorder" argument is like comparing computers strictly by clock speed. Great music is great music whether recorded using my hand held microcassette or the latest/greatest SSL 192kHz behemoth. And crappy music is still crappy, even at 192k. Its just more highly refined crap.
Microsoft is taking legal measures because spammers cost them time and money
What other reason is there? Out of the goodness of their hearts? For the poor children? For the good of the people?
I would argue that money (which converts to time) is the ONLY incentive that will ever motivate a corporation to do something. Why does ANY service provider care about spam? Because it costs them money for the bandwidth, disk space, paying for the extra staff to handle the customer's complaints, etc. Similarly, why do we (the spammed public) care? Because it costs us time (which converts to money) to delete with all of it, configure and manage our spam blockers, pay the extra costs that our ISPs pass on to us.
Any service provider knows that killing spam will save them money directly (less bandwidth, less compute power, less disk space required), and GAIN them money through happier customers.
LEARN TO LOVE SOFTWARE DELIVERED AS A SERVICE. Although few software execs may actually say it, many agree with Benioff: Software should be delivered as a service over the Internet instead of shipped to customers on a disk.
I live in software development. I've written software packages designed to be delivered as a service. But if I owned a company, I would have serious doubts about using a service-based product for any of my core business processes.
Why? What happens to your precious historical accounting data and sales information when ServiceCorp declares bankrupcy and ceases to exsit? Oh wait, that never happens with.coms....
I suppose the same argument could be made against outsourced payroll systems and the like, which seem to be popular and quite stable for small businesses.
Gah. I feel so old-fashioned sometimes.
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Running an OS inside an OS, hummmm emulation
Like a Matrix within a Matrix?
Steve == Neo ? I mean, he always wear a black turtleneck... hmmm...
Music. LOTS of music. Writing it, studying it, playing it, practicing it, listening to it, running sound for clubs/bands, researching the business and politics of it. Its not really a hobby any more... I'll give up this geeky shite in a heartbeat the day my income from music equals my outgo to support my chosen comfort level.
Other things that occupy my time: I occasionally dabble in local theatre. Bought a house last year, so it consumes quite a bit of free time as well. All that time spent floating in the pool.. is that considered a hobby?;-)
And re: the sociopathic attack cats... mine came that way, no training required.
I missed the bulk of this conversation, but I would add a couple of compilations:
Swing Time. 3 CDs of swing music from 1925 to 1955. From old scratchy mono recordings to polished studio stuff. I lub it.
Tito Puente: 50 years of swing. Yeah, maybe this is more Tito than the law allows, but don't rule out Latin-themed jazz in your collection.
Similarly, the Buena Vista Social Club albums, especially the first, are pure sweetness.
Also consider some guitar jazz. Wes Montgomery is my fave. I've got several albums.. the only one I'm not sold on is "California Dreaming". It just doesn't hit my spots for some reason.
I hate to respond like this, but I can't resist a good paradox.;)
A physics professor once mused thusly; "Were time travel possible, we'd know about it by now."
Okay, here I go even further off topic. Wheee!
What if time travel _is_ possible, but only forward? Every time I see time travel discussed, it is assumed to work in both directions. Just a thought....
And would that make time travel half a paradox? A unidox maybe?
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I see your bid, and raise you one:
Its a pain in the ass to cut-and-paste a script name, path, directory, etc from a phone conversation. Its a piece of cake from an IM session.
No, the "hordes of mutant water-breathing ship sinking killer farting cows" are apparently generating my Slashdot pages.
I for one .... oh never mind.
The fact is that the war was started from a lie, and has turned out to be the predicatable disaster we thought it would be.
:-(
All wars start from a lie.
Might makes right.
But Insightful?
stick shoved into eye?
I'd buy Insightless.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. From the article:
"In fact, Zavodny said that in 2001, the latest data available, H-1B workers with bachelor's degrees were paid more, on average, than U.S. citizens with bachelor's degrees. In that sense, then, it would seem that H-1B competition could actually put upward pressure on wages."
Now this is a very nicely worded statement that, on the surface, seems to indicate that H-1Bs are actually helping wages.
Hooey.
H-1B visa holders are concentrated in the hi-tech industry (57.8% of H-1B holders worked in computer-related fields in 2001, also according to the article). OF COURSE their average salary was more than that of the average degreed US worker. If they compared the H-1B salaries to the salaries of US workes IN THE SAME FIELD, would the averages work out the same way?
Over the past year, mainly the past 3 months, I've bought 100s of CDR's, music and data both. And I've burned music onto every single one of them....
My band's music.
CDR has become our preferred method for passing tracks, rough mixes, demo songs, back and forth. We also burn special one-off CDs with live stuff and various bits to hand out to fans at shows, as an incentive for attending.
So, RIAA, how do I figure into your stats?
> And here I thought the whole purpose was to use it when stiff...
... fight ... must ... avoid ... penis ... jokes ....
Must
Now that Mars is at its closest point for thousands of years, we should expect the voracious thread to start appearing in our skies any day now. And us without any dragons to fly .... we're doomed!
Oh know the movie doesn't spoon feed me a happy end whatever shall I do?
... oh, never mind.
Because there is no
It has always amazed me that it was ever possible to record music that anybody could stand back in the days of 44.1kHz, 16 bit recorders. Or (gasp!) even analog.
Seriously, the "my recorder has more kHz than your recorder" argument is like comparing computers strictly by clock speed. Great music is great music whether recorded using my hand held microcassette or the latest/greatest SSL 192kHz behemoth. And crappy music is still crappy, even at 192k. Its just more highly refined crap.
Alsihad == ProTools
I thought this was going to be about US sailors downloading mp3 files from KaZaa.
Microsoft is taking legal measures because spammers cost them time and money
What other reason is there? Out of the goodness of their hearts? For the poor children? For the good of the people?
I would argue that money (which converts to time) is the ONLY incentive that will ever motivate a corporation to do something. Why does ANY service provider care about spam? Because it costs them money for the bandwidth, disk space, paying for the extra staff to handle the customer's complaints, etc. Similarly, why do we (the spammed public) care? Because it costs us time (which converts to money) to delete with all of it, configure and manage our spam blockers, pay the extra costs that our ISPs pass on to us.
Any service provider knows that killing spam will save them money directly (less bandwidth, less compute power, less disk space required), and GAIN them money through happier customers.
I live in software development. I've written software packages designed to be delivered as a service. But if I owned a company, I would have serious doubts about using a service-based product for any of my core business processes.
Why? What happens to your precious historical accounting data and sales information when ServiceCorp declares bankrupcy and ceases to exsit? Oh wait, that never happens with
I suppose the same argument could be made against outsourced payroll systems and the like, which seem to be popular and quite stable for small businesses.
Gah. I feel so old-fashioned sometimes.
Running an OS inside an OS, hummmm emulation
... hmmm ...
Like a Matrix within a Matrix?
Steve == Neo ? I mean, he always wear a black turtleneck
Ratchet the wench
I've never heard it called _that_ before.
Music. LOTS of music. Writing it, studying it, playing it, practicing it, listening to it, running sound for clubs/bands, researching the business and politics of it. Its not really a hobby any more ... I'll give up this geeky shite in a heartbeat the day my income from music equals my outgo to support my chosen comfort level.
.. is that considered a hobby? ;-)
... mine came that way, no training required.
Other things that occupy my time: I occasionally dabble in local theatre. Bought a house last year, so it consumes quite a bit of free time as well. All that time spent floating in the pool
And re: the sociopathic attack cats
I missed the bulk of this conversation, but I would add a couple of compilations:
.. the only one I'm not sold on is "California Dreaming". It just doesn't hit my spots for some reason.
Swing Time. 3 CDs of swing music from 1925 to 1955. From old scratchy mono recordings to polished studio stuff. I lub it.
Tito Puente: 50 years of swing. Yeah, maybe this is more Tito than the law allows, but don't rule out Latin-themed jazz in your collection.
Similarly, the Buena Vista Social Club albums, especially the first, are pure sweetness.
Also consider some guitar jazz. Wes Montgomery is my fave. I've got several albums
lame AYB joke in here somewhere, I don't have the heart to go for it.
OT: every time I hear the phrase Honest Abe, my brain renders it as Honest AYB. Its too late for me, the rest of you might still have a chance.....
how these fish taste. .. and whether the glow-in-the-dark effect will .. um .. pass through ...
Bush administration's sincere stance against corporate crime
You mean bent over grabbing their ankles?
ouch.
I hate to respond like this, but I can't resist a good paradox. ;)
A physics professor once mused thusly; "Were time travel possible, we'd know about it by now."
Okay, here I go even further off topic. Wheee!
What if time travel _is_ possible, but only forward? Every time I see time travel discussed, it is assumed to work in both directions. Just a thought....
And would that make time travel half a paradox? A unidox maybe?
most masturbatory press release I have EVER read
Sure explains why they appear to be lashing out blindly...
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