Well. I only have 1 experience in this area and I was awarded a relocation cost of $10,000 when I transferred to Florida. So, I guess I was lucky then, huh?
The best way, is to work for a multi national company and get a transfer to one of their offices in a country of your choice. This is how I ended up in Florida from Norway. I work for a large software corporation and was asked by my company if I wanted to relocate as they needed someone with my knowledge and experience here.
And by doing so, they have taken care of all the visa work. First I came over on an L-1, then later when I applied for permanent residency, I was transferred over to an H1-B when L-1 ran out of time and now I'm well into the last phase of the green card process, but it has taken over seven years so far to get there. Luckily they are using a law firm who's specialty is immigration so all I have to do, is to send over papers and sign the dotted line and get a PO for the cost.
Language skills are of course essential but I happen to speak seven different languages so I'm pretty well set for working almost anywhere in the world.
The old British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill once said: "You can depend on the Americans to do the right thing once all other options have been exhausted!"
No offense, Sir Winston, but after over a decade of living and working in the US, I have to change it to: "You can NOT depend on the Americans to do the right thing once all other options have been exhausted!"
Get on with the program and get rid of the antiquated foot, inches lbs and what not and move into the 21st century!
Ok, so I have lived and worked in IT in Orlando for the past 10 years and on top of it all, I work from home. Trust me on this, there is nothing that beast working out by the pool in January in T-shirt and shorts and a cold one.
And climate, well.. for 9 months of the year, the climate is perfect, warm and not humid. For three months, July-September, it's hot and humid and that is also the peak of hurricane season. But I prefer 95F and an occasional hurricane over months of waist deep snow and below zero . Hacking ice of the windshield before freezing on my way to work is way too overrated!
Not to mention that I can see each shuttle and rocket launch from my living room!
Here in the USA it is, yes. Here corporations do exactly what they want and if there is a law they disagree with, they just pay some politicians to get it changed to suite them better. When the same politicians retire from politics, they are given a VP position int he company they helped and make millions in pay offs
USA does not have a justice system, they only have a punishment system. This is the reason why USA with 5% of the worlds population has 25% of the worlds prison population.
The difference between US and Norwegian television is that here in the US, TV is an endless stream of commercials, briefly interrupted by programming while NRK actually show interesting programming and have a great news division, of the best I have ever seen anywhere.
Oklahoma - making the Vatican look like a leftist hellhole!
I'm amazed at the stupidity among Americans who think they can "deny" evolution. Why don't you try to deny gravity too? Fucking morons! The whole damn central USA is third world religious dump!
Just the fact that it is a bill with this stupidity in it tells me that the supporters of the bill are mentally retarded and should never have any public position whatsoever.
I'll put $100 on this being a religiously motivated bill, once more showing the stupidity of following bronze age mythology.
Well, I have already consumed over half a pot of strong black coffee today and nobody is out to get me, yet!
And I have been drinking an equal amount of coffee each day for the past 30 odd years and nobody has been out to get me nor have I ever been high strung or hallucinating, quite the opposite really.
No, it is not.
Replication is used to move data in a simple way between two running databases that needs access to SOME of the data.
Replication is extremely bad for backups, mostly because it is a very slow process and not meant to be used to duplicate the whole database. In such cases, you use a cluster system with multiple data points.
I work with one of the large database vendors and have for many years. Backup is not an issue, as we, at least, deliver some very good tools so you can manage backups and never miss more than a second or so of transactions, if any at all.
But when that is said, I have worked with so many companies where the DBA is running their system, resignation filled out and signed, the only thing missing, is the date as they are bound to fail and lose their data because of incompetence. No matter how many and how good the tools are, some DBA's are set on screwing up everything for some reason.
And this is basically an idea that is force fed you from childhood onwards. It results in an egocentric society like USA is today, socially, USA is already a third world country, the southern coast line from Pensacola to the Mexican border looks like you average third world country.
Every year passing by, with some form of natural disaster, the society is sinking deeper into the abyss because nobody feel it is a common interest and good for the country to pool money together and rebuild these areas. Today, years later, the areas still looks like the ruins of Europe did in 1945, the difference was that three years later, it looked nothing like it had just been through five years of war, USA's southern coast looks worse today.
Above you can see an example of a early 21st century Homo Americanensis thinking. The species died out shortly after due to brain starvation.
One of the characteristics about this failed species was their egocentric orientation and allergy towards the common good. It eventually led to isolationism and the world turning towards more lucrative areas and the species faded avay quickly... Now if you will follow me into the next exhibition hall..
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Well. I only have 1 experience in this area and I was awarded a relocation cost of $10,000 when I transferred to Florida. So, I guess I was lucky then, huh?
The best way, is to work for a multi national company and get a transfer to one of their offices in a country of your choice. This is how I ended up in Florida from Norway. I work for a large software corporation and was asked by my company if I wanted to relocate as they needed someone with my knowledge and experience here.
And by doing so, they have taken care of all the visa work. First I came over on an L-1, then later when I applied for permanent residency, I was transferred over to an H1-B when L-1 ran out of time and now I'm well into the last phase of the green card process, but it has taken over seven years so far to get there. Luckily they are using a law firm who's specialty is immigration so all I have to do, is to send over papers and sign the dotted line and get a PO for the cost.
Language skills are of course essential but I happen to speak seven different languages so I'm pretty well set for working almost anywhere in the world.
The old British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill once said: "You can depend on the Americans to do the right thing once all other options have been exhausted!"
No offense, Sir Winston, but after over a decade of living and working in the US, I have to change it to: "You can NOT depend on the Americans to do the right thing once all other options have been exhausted!"
Get on with the program and get rid of the antiquated foot, inches lbs and what not and move into the 21st century!
Grandiosa!
Now that is one thing I miss after 10 years in the US, Grandiosa, Brunost and Sursild!
Ok, so I have lived and worked in IT in Orlando for the past 10 years and on top of it all, I work from home. Trust me on this, there is nothing that beast working out by the pool in January in T-shirt and shorts and a cold one.
And climate, well.. for 9 months of the year, the climate is perfect, warm and not humid. For three months, July-September, it's hot and humid and that is also the peak of hurricane season. But I prefer 95F and an occasional hurricane over months of waist deep snow and below zero . Hacking ice of the windshield before freezing on my way to work is way too overrated!
Not to mention that I can see each shuttle and rocket launch from my living room!
Mr. Ballmer!
Please move to Ireland, we will then make any Microsoft products illegal to sell in the US.
Have a nice day!
Regards,
USA
Not quite correct but...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(school)#Nordic_and_Baltic_gymnasium
Here in the USA it is, yes. Here corporations do exactly what they want and if there is a law they disagree with, they just pay some politicians to get it changed to suite them better. When the same politicians retire from politics, they are given a VP position int he company they helped and make millions in pay offs
USA does not have a justice system, they only have a punishment system. This is the reason why USA with 5% of the worlds population has 25% of the worlds prison population.
One simple requirement!
You must be able to pronounce, flawlessly the following word: "minoritetsladningsbærerdiffusjonskoeffisientmålingsapparatur"
I'm running the development version of Firefox, Minefield 3.6a1pre, nightly builds and scores 96/100 on the ACID3 test.
You?
Well.. They guillotined the blue screen of death!
I've got people!
And the corn syrup produced in such copious amounts can now be found around Americans waists...
The difference between US and Norwegian television is that here in the US, TV is an endless stream of commercials, briefly interrupted by programming while NRK actually show interesting programming and have a great news division, of the best I have ever seen anywhere.
Oklahoma - making the Vatican look like a leftist hellhole!
I'm amazed at the stupidity among Americans who think they can "deny" evolution. Why don't you try to deny gravity too? Fucking morons! The whole damn central USA is third world religious dump!
I don't need Quicken to know where my money goes, I have a brain!
Six years since the e-mail was written and if anything, the situation is even worse today!
Obviously, Microsoft has ignored all the valid points made by Bill Gates and it makes him look quite bad as a leader of such a company.
Have RIAA not learned a thing from the products their friends in MPAA pushes?
We all know that taking on people from Harvard Law is a futile activity, thanks to Legally Blond!
RIAA meet Elle Woods!
Just the fact that it is a bill with this stupidity in it tells me that the supporters of the bill are mentally retarded and should never have any public position whatsoever.
I'll put $100 on this being a religiously motivated bill, once more showing the stupidity of following bronze age mythology.
Well, I have already consumed over half a pot of strong black coffee today and nobody is out to get me, yet!
And I have been drinking an equal amount of coffee each day for the past 30 odd years and nobody has been out to get me nor have I ever been high strung or hallucinating, quite the opposite really.
No, it is not.
Replication is used to move data in a simple way between two running databases that needs access to SOME of the data.
Replication is extremely bad for backups, mostly because it is a very slow process and not meant to be used to duplicate the whole database. In such cases, you use a cluster system with multiple data points.
I work with one of the large database vendors and have for many years. Backup is not an issue, as we, at least, deliver some very good tools so you can manage backups and never miss more than a second or so of transactions, if any at all.
But when that is said, I have worked with so many companies where the DBA is running their system, resignation filled out and signed, the only thing missing, is the date as they are bound to fail and lose their data because of incompetence. No matter how many and how good the tools are, some DBA's are set on screwing up everything for some reason.
The word "Mojave" has forever been ruined by Microsoft! Thank you for ruining a perfectly fine name and polluting my mind with that jingle.
And this is basically an idea that is force fed you from childhood onwards. It results in an egocentric society like USA is today, socially, USA is already a third world country, the southern coast line from Pensacola to the Mexican border looks like you average third world country.
Every year passing by, with some form of natural disaster, the society is sinking deeper into the abyss because nobody feel it is a common interest and good for the country to pool money together and rebuild these areas. Today, years later, the areas still looks like the ruins of Europe did in 1945, the difference was that three years later, it looked nothing like it had just been through five years of war, USA's southern coast looks worse today.
Ladies and Gentlemen!
Above you can see an example of a early 21st century Homo Americanensis thinking. The species died out shortly after due to brain starvation.
One of the characteristics about this failed species was their egocentric orientation and allergy towards the common good. It eventually led to isolationism and the world turning towards more lucrative areas and the species faded avay quickly... Now if you will follow me into the next exhibition hall..