If you're going to go to all that trouble, you may as well wire your water cooler into the supply line of the toilet: the tank fill pipe draws from your water reservoir, which draws from your water supply. Add a cutoff valve in the event that your water is cut off and you're done.
Of course this all smacks of the sort of thing a teenager would do to his honda - expensive, failure prone, and mostly useless.
This is not surprising at all and it's what I've been hearing from everybody. Java code is harder to port to.NET than VB
I find this amusing, since C# started life as COOL - a hacked up Java variant. I used to joke that the only reason for it was because MS was enjoined from selling Java. Of course, it's got a few new features. I still don't see how it would be hard.
Hell, why can't you just compile the Java to a CLR and be done with it?
So basically, the analog port is to support older TV sets. What this porbably means is that analog out will be composite or, at best, S-video. I doubt they will output component 720p analog, since this is basically a raw, unprotected feed.
"Which is more likely?" they must have asked themselves, "That Bell has created some magical new invention to send sound along miles of very thin tubes? Or that he is lying?"
So, basically, these scientists set up a strawman (thin tubes) and knocked it over. I don't see how this affects Occam's razor, as it is primarily applicable to natural phenomena, whereas Bell's invention is an act of engineering.
Together we have the twins of more knowledge, and encouraged better driving habits. How is this bad? Road ways are a commons, paid for by everyone's tax dollars. When the government sets a speed limit, it's the people it's speaking for in setting that speed.
No, we have increased monitoring and engendered paranoia, as insurance companies and joe cop will use this info to their advantage. What it amounts to is me paying for a device to tattle on me and give the cops and insurance companies more reasons to gouge me. It's similar to the situation with genetic screening: by vastly increasing your knowledge of the user, you have a better chance of restricting your population to those with perfect health/driving habits. Basically you get to insure only the people who mostly don't need it.
I'm gonna have to disagree on the speed limit too. It's very clear that speed limits are set too low, at least on highways. Everybody speeds, because it's safe and also because, with everybody else speeding, it's safer than not speeding. It's also a fairly minor thing and, unlike drunk driving, can be done without endangering others.
fusion is produced from an isotope of hydrogen called deuterium, which exists in the Earth's oceans in sufficient abundance to supply the planet's energy needs for hundreds of millions of years - until long after the Sun itself has flamed out.
Fat chance of that. When the sun has burned itself out, Earth will be a dry, uninhabitable cinder.
The visa process usually requires that you be sponsored by a company already there. The best place to start would be the embassy for whichever country you are looking at.
Let's face it, Java - for instance - hasn't been around that long, and so my X number of years of COBOL, C, C++, etc., simply don't matter to a Java project manager.
Not much of a PM if he doesn't understand the value of experience. Your C++ and C experience should be directly applicable, for the most part.
What does this mean in a practical sense? Every 3 years or so I've had to start back down near the bottom.
Why don't you take advantage of the stuff you've already learned?
I never understand when people generalize H1-Bs as cheap slave labor.
Because they are. That's their whole point. Sure, there's language about paying equal wages, but if you complain, you're sent home, and there are only about 40 people assigned to police the program.
Oh sure, Indians can build your software for 1/3rd less than Americans, but you have to build it twice, or they added backdoors, so you still need to do it over, or they sold it to your competitor (sorry!).
Especially since we had the whole dot.com bubble bitchslapping the sector back and forth during the same time.
An allusion to lack of supply? You can't argue for the 'Invisible Hand' while at the same time arguing for inflating supply when stuff costs too much.
Aside from pricing, it could be higher quality, more features or simply higher profits for the makers.
It's the allure of a free lunch. executives look at $5/hr Indians and think that they can get by with the same staffing levels and timelines and quality. By the time they realize their error, they are already well into the dev cycle and their most valuable assets were fired months before.
If you think about the majority of software projects that do not result in a software product on the shelfs, but are in house developments it gets a bit clearer.
Actually, the majority of software projects do not result in software. Instead, they die. Imagine what we could do if we were allowed to exercise proper project management techniques and didn't have to deal with arbitrary deadlines or doubled workloads (with the same deadline). To tie this all up, I would posit that, had H1-B not happened, the rising cost of poorly run software projects would have caused companies to run a tighter ship and save money that way.
Your "solution" seems to be to kick poor people back into poverty, shut the protectionist gates behind you, and thumb your nose at them like some latter-day Scrooge.
This is where I note that India is pretty protectionist. They love to sell us stuff, but they don't want to buy much. When their standard of living rises, they will buy more stuff, but probably not from us, since we don't build anything anymore.
Other poor countries have discovered that, by building native industry and trading in an equitable fashion, they can raise their standard of living. It's just that idiots like Mugabe get all the press.
y solution is to build a socialist society where workers on one area of the earth's surface do not need to be divided against workers on another area of the earth's surface due to the inefficiencies and irrationalities of capitalism.
Congratulations, you ahve invented communism! It works great, until you involve humans.
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Bah! That place was always nice and warm. Hell, they had to run the AC in the winter! In Troy!
A widow was selling all her husband's stuff on ebay including this desk and a sweet 89 ferarri.
So, how much did you pay for the Ferarri?
If you're going to go to all that trouble, you may as well wire your water cooler into the supply line of the toilet: the tank fill pipe draws from your water reservoir, which draws from your water supply. Add a cutoff valve in the event that your water is cut off and you're done.
Of course this all smacks of the sort of thing a teenager would do to his honda - expensive, failure prone, and mostly useless.
wonderful!?
Smashing, actually.
What's funny is hlaf the titles that you just named are ridiculous, and half have trailers that i've seen. They're just not the same halves.
So, you don't buy region-protected DVDs?
Region-switchable DVD player.
This is not surprising at all and it's what I've been hearing from everybody. Java code is harder to port to .NET than VB
I find this amusing, since C# started life as COOL - a hacked up Java variant. I used to joke that the only reason for it was because MS was enjoined from selling Java. Of course, it's got a few new features. I still don't see how it would be hard.
Hell, why can't you just compile the Java to a CLR and be done with it?
I can beat that. One place fired me, then demanded I work for them during my severance period.
So basically, the analog port is to support older TV sets. What this porbably means is that analog out will be composite or, at best, S-video. I doubt they will output component 720p analog, since this is basically a raw, unprotected feed.
What's wrong with splitting infinitives, anyway? It's not Latin, you know.
Love that dry English wit!
As I recall, if you model the solar system with gravity propagating at C, everything crashes into the sun in fairly short order.
"Which is more likely?" they must have asked themselves, "That Bell has created some magical new invention to send sound along miles of very thin tubes? Or that he is lying?"
So, basically, these scientists set up a strawman (thin tubes) and knocked it over. I don't see how this affects Occam's razor, as it is primarily applicable to natural phenomena, whereas Bell's invention is an act of engineering.
Perhaps a more direct metaphor is in order: You're picking up litter in a burning building.
That's smurf size
Together we have the twins of more knowledge, and encouraged better driving habits. How is this bad? Road ways are a commons, paid for by everyone's tax dollars. When the government sets a speed limit, it's the people it's speaking for in setting that speed.
No, we have increased monitoring and engendered paranoia, as insurance companies and joe cop will use this info to their advantage. What it amounts to is me paying for a device to tattle on me and give the cops and insurance companies more reasons to gouge me. It's similar to the situation with genetic screening: by vastly increasing your knowledge of the user, you have a better chance of restricting your population to those with perfect health/driving habits. Basically you get to insure only the people who mostly don't need it.
I'm gonna have to disagree on the speed limit too. It's very clear that speed limits are set too low, at least on highways. Everybody speeds, because it's safe and also because, with everybody else speeding, it's safer than not speeding. It's also a fairly minor thing and, unlike drunk driving, can be done without endangering others.
Sounds like a TD engine would also be really good for rally racing.
fusion is produced from an isotope of hydrogen called deuterium, which exists in the Earth's oceans in sufficient abundance to supply the planet's energy needs for hundreds of millions of years - until long after the Sun itself has flamed out.
Fat chance of that. When the sun has burned itself out, Earth will be a dry, uninhabitable cinder.
The visa process usually requires that you be sponsored by a company already there. The best place to start would be the embassy for whichever country you are looking at.
if they wanted they could manufacture diamonds out of coal instead of mining them
Not just yet. Other companies have manufactured diamonds, but they get cloudy after a few years. When this gets solved, you'll hear about it.
Let's face it, Java - for instance - hasn't been around that long, and so my X number of years of COBOL, C, C++, etc., simply don't matter to a Java project manager.
Not much of a PM if he doesn't understand the value of experience. Your C++ and C experience should be directly applicable, for the most part.
What does this mean in a practical sense? Every 3 years or so I've had to start back down near the bottom.
Why don't you take advantage of the stuff you've already learned?
I never understand when people generalize H1-Bs as cheap slave labor.
Because they are. That's their whole point. Sure, there's language about paying equal wages, but if you complain, you're sent home, and there are only about 40 people assigned to police the program.
I meant it is cheaper to produce.
Oh sure, Indians can build your software for 1/3rd less than Americans, but you have to build it twice, or they added backdoors, so you still need to do it over, or they sold it to your competitor (sorry!).
Especially since we had the whole dot.com bubble bitchslapping the sector back and forth during the same time.
An allusion to lack of supply? You can't argue for the 'Invisible Hand' while at the same time arguing for inflating supply when stuff costs too much.
Aside from pricing, it could be higher quality, more features or simply higher profits for the makers.
It's the allure of a free lunch. executives look at $5/hr Indians and think that they can get by with the same staffing levels and timelines and quality. By the time they realize their error, they are already well into the dev cycle and their most valuable assets were fired months before.
If you think about the majority of software projects that do not result in a software product on the shelfs, but are in house developments it gets a bit clearer.
Actually, the majority of software projects do not result in software. Instead, they die. Imagine what we could do if we were allowed to exercise proper project management techniques and didn't have to deal with arbitrary deadlines or doubled workloads (with the same deadline). To tie this all up, I would posit that, had H1-B not happened, the rising cost of poorly run software projects would have caused companies to run a tighter ship and save money that way.
Your "solution" seems to be to kick poor people back into poverty, shut the protectionist gates behind you, and thumb your nose at them like some latter-day Scrooge.
This is where I note that India is pretty protectionist. They love to sell us stuff, but they don't want to buy much. When their standard of living rises, they will buy more stuff, but probably not from us, since we don't build anything anymore.
Other poor countries have discovered that, by building native industry and trading in an equitable fashion, they can raise their standard of living. It's just that idiots like Mugabe get all the press.
y solution is to build a socialist society where workers on one area of the earth's surface do not need to be divided against workers on another area of the earth's surface due to the inefficiencies and irrationalities of capitalism.
Congratulations, you ahve invented communism! It works great, until you involve humans.
Try that today; you'll either get deported, imprisoned, or shot. India is fairly jealous of its borders.