"make more leaving school after 4 years than going to school for 8," if one invests wisely, the earnings for the 4 additional years alone, you would "make" more.
What?!? "Microsoft pays very well." If that was the case they would not need to bring "people legally in to the county." If Microsoft was willing to pay a competitive wage for the kind of talent they want, they would be knocking at the door. Google however is apparently a pretty good place to work...
"The emphasis, as I read it, of Dick's novel was that no matter how real something seems, it is never as good as the real thing."
One Sean Young replicant, to go, please.
Why trash Indiana Jones when there is a plethora of bad movies to choose from for you example. Indiana Jones was a phenomanaly groundbreaking movie for it's day and not soon forgotten. If you want to pick on Lucas, why not the last 4 Star Wars movies for example?
There are many forms of government that do not exist to protect the rights of the people, so I am doubtful as to your passing grade in Political Science. In the USA the very document that DOES exist to protect the rights of the people also, unfortunantly protectes the "rights" of corporations to buy various government representitives. It would be my contention that the Consitution is broken in that regard and infact may need to be adjusted to prevent this type of abuse.
I agree. Test is a hard, boring and underrated job. Bad developers are a dime a dozen, and good tester is a rare gem. A good developer should also test thier code, and evokes tears of joy when I find one.
Supply and Demand. If the market for skilled tecnical workers is inflated with H1B's, the wage that existing skilled tecnical workers can demand will go down or, not go up. This retards the incentive for potential skilled technical workers to get training or change careers.
The H1B program MAY have some value if greater proportion of the skilled technical worker are in the US but that could be acheved by a regular immigration program to target people with those skills. The US industy however, wants a cheap TEMPORARY workforce. They would not want a surplus of skilled tecnical workers here as they might start thier own bussiness here and start to compete against you.
Banning the H1Bs will only make it harder to fill these vacancies, which helps no one.
Banning the H1B's makes it more EXPENSIVE to fill the vacandies. If the compensation to fill thise roles rises high enough, more domestic students and qualified applicants will change jobs or get training for these jobs.b>
Or the jobs that can be, will be outsourced, freeing up qulified applicants to fill the jobs that are cost effective to remain.
H1B serves no useful purpose other than to increase the supply of qulified domestic help, thus reducing the possible compensation that existing domestic labor can demand.
I love this idea as it brings the hurt to Microsoft in a way that they can not defend. By invalidating Microsofts patents they are
1)derived of a much needed revenue stream.
2)made more vulnerable to a suit from another patent holder
3)hurt in the stock market, as their assets are reduced, + 1 and 2
This will happen because Dell wants to improve it's brand. Dell's brand has taken a collossal hit as a result of outsourcing support to India. On slashdot at least, this will be money in the bank to restoring that damage.
"Testers are the people who annoy everybody by coming back with a build and saying "it doesn't meet xbox certification criteria 347-15a", thereby causing the developers to have to work another 12 hour day to fix it."
As a PjM for a development team, this statement is a key indicator of a bad developer. If you want to blame test for preventing your crappy code from getting to the customer that is fine, but if you said that in my staff you would be on your way out.
"Canada uses it too! Does this mean it gets mocked less?... why is everyone laughing?"
Canadians are clearly worthy of quality mockery in thier own right, with the added incentive of the French Canadians. Plus since Canada is in North America they are literaly Americans resulting in mockery incentive that is off scale.
Why should we grant Microsoft copyright on their new products, if they are going to cease to support or licence the old? In that instance XP should go to the public domaian. Microsoft is trying to cheat the copyright bargin. They get a "temporary" monoploy on the copying of there code in exchange for it's eventual entry into the public domain.
Wow. To imply that the Clinton administration was as courupt as the Bush? Granted, Clinton did lie to a grand jury regarding a completly inproper question. No doubt. I will give the Repubs that kaviat. But if the Bush administration had to endure the level of scurutiny that Starr brought forth on the Clinton admin, he would have been impeached in year 2.
Pink Floyd, Smithereens, The Cure, Cars Clash, Pear Jam, Nirvana. Who the heck makes albums like that anymore? Even the whith the Beatles, it seemed like a collection of singles. How do you top Dark Side of the Moon? Am I out of touch. Old? What? Who makes a complete album anymore?
Many artists were only able to achive that 'one hit wonder'. But it is still art. Modern English's "I melt whith you" or "I Want Candy!" by Bow Wow Wow. Or the 100 others on VH-1's one hit wonders. Where the stars alligned and the band made a great hit, and for a short time it was a good thing, that for the rest of thier existinace, they try to repeat, but never achieve. It is kind of a beautiful thing to have accomplished an imaculate success and be unable to repeat it.
There is something artistic in the glory once achieved, that can not be reproduced dispite the bands best efforts.
It makes the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Kinks, Stones, Pearl Jam and the many others that many others thatI could not begin to do justice, that much more fuckin' special.
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Mod this up +10 insightful. For the life of me, Bangalore English is a challenge to understand.
Aye there's the rub, "they are looking for cheap labor." But of course you might get what you pay for.
"make more leaving school after 4 years than going to school for 8," if one invests wisely, the earnings for the 4 additional years alone, you would "make" more.
What?!? "Microsoft pays very well." If that was the case they would not need to bring "people legally in to the county." If Microsoft was willing to pay a competitive wage for the kind of talent they want, they would be knocking at the door. Google however is apparently a pretty good place to work...
Have you seen what Czech women look like? Sign me up!
They want Both ?
I find it sad that Paris did more time, for a lesser crime. Money is not everything, but Power sure is.
"The emphasis, as I read it, of Dick's novel was that no matter how real something seems, it is never as good as the real thing." One Sean Young replicant, to go, please.
Why trash Indiana Jones when there is a plethora of bad movies to choose from for you example. Indiana Jones was a phenomanaly groundbreaking movie for it's day and not soon forgotten. If you want to pick on Lucas, why not the last 4 Star Wars movies for example?
Deep belly laugh, that is funny. Mod parent up more, please! I've been there and done that!
It sure would be nice if this Bill was A La Carte. That way we could tell our reps to vote for the "A La Care" and against the censorship.
There are many forms of government that do not exist to protect the rights of the people, so I am doubtful as to your passing grade in Political Science. In the USA the very document that DOES exist to protect the rights of the people also, unfortunantly protectes the "rights" of corporations to buy various government representitives. It would be my contention that the Consitution is broken in that regard and infact may need to be adjusted to prevent this type of abuse.
I agree. Test is a hard, boring and underrated job. Bad developers are a dime a dozen, and good tester is a rare gem. A good developer should also test thier code, and evokes tears of joy when I find one.
Supply and Demand. If the market for skilled tecnical workers is inflated with H1B's, the wage that existing skilled tecnical workers can demand will go down or, not go up. This retards the incentive for potential skilled technical workers to get training or change careers. The H1B program MAY have some value if greater proportion of the skilled technical worker are in the US but that could be acheved by a regular immigration program to target people with those skills. The US industy however, wants a cheap TEMPORARY workforce. They would not want a surplus of skilled tecnical workers here as they might start thier own bussiness here and start to compete against you.
I love this idea as it brings the hurt to Microsoft in a way that they can not defend. By invalidating Microsofts patents they are 1)derived of a much needed revenue stream. 2)made more vulnerable to a suit from another patent holder 3)hurt in the stock market, as their assets are reduced, + 1 and 2
No, you do not understand the Dell manufacturing process. This effort can be done in a week. It is easy. You will see Ubuntu on Dell.com this month.
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Dell already sells Red Hat and Suse on Servers and Workstations. http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetai
This will start with one or two desktops and portables with more being added over time. 100% coverage will occour as old models expire and new ones are launched (providing the demand is there).
This will happen because Dell wants to improve it's brand. Dell's brand has taken a collossal hit as a result of outsourcing support to India. On slashdot at least, this will be money in the bank to restoring that damage.
"Testers are the people who annoy everybody by coming back with a build and saying "it doesn't meet xbox certification criteria 347-15a", thereby causing the developers to have to work another 12 hour day to fix it."
As a PjM for a development team, this statement is a key indicator of a bad developer. If you want to blame test for preventing your crappy code from getting to the customer that is fine, but if you said that in my staff you would be on your way out.
"Canada uses it too! Does this mean it gets mocked less? ... why is everyone laughing?"
Canadians are clearly worthy of quality mockery in thier own right, with the added incentive of the French Canadians. Plus since Canada is in North America they are literaly Americans resulting in mockery incentive that is off scale.
Why should we grant Microsoft copyright on their new products, if they are going to cease to support or licence the old? In that instance XP should go to the public domaian. Microsoft is trying to cheat the copyright bargin. They get a "temporary" monoploy on the copying of there code in exchange for it's eventual entry into the public domain.
I did not know that. How informative.
Wow. To imply that the Clinton administration was as courupt as the Bush? Granted, Clinton did lie to a grand jury regarding a completly inproper question. No doubt. I will give the Repubs that kaviat. But if the Bush administration had to endure the level of scurutiny that Starr brought forth on the Clinton admin, he would have been impeached in year 2.
Very well said. Why do I never have mod points when I come accross a post that so well addresses and intelligent point of view.
Pink Floyd, Smithereens, The Cure, Cars Clash, Pear Jam, Nirvana. Who the heck makes albums like that anymore? Even the whith the Beatles, it seemed like a collection of singles. How do you top Dark Side of the Moon? Am I out of touch. Old? What? Who makes a complete album anymore?
I disagree.
Many artists were only able to achive that 'one hit wonder'. But it is still art. Modern English's "I melt whith you" or "I Want Candy!" by Bow Wow Wow. Or the 100 others on VH-1's one hit wonders. Where the stars alligned and the band made a great hit, and for a short time it was a good thing, that for the rest of thier existinace, they try to repeat, but never achieve. It is kind of a beautiful thing to have accomplished an imaculate success and be unable to repeat it.
There is something artistic in the glory once achieved, that can not be reproduced dispite the bands best efforts.
It makes the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Kinks, Stones, Pearl Jam and the many others that many others thatI could not begin to do justice, that much more fuckin' special.
I love that shit.