Yeah, and all just because Passport allowed sinister types to hijack your hotmail account and any information you had entered in Passport. One little mistake by Microsoft that was remedied within a few weeks, and the people on Slashdot can never forgive or forget or stop talking about it or bringing it up over and over again whenever Passport is mentioned. Personally, I can't think of any company I'd trust more with all my personal and financial information. (If anyone had trouble detecting the sarcasm, let me know, and I'll work on it.:)
Just because others don't do it doesn't mean its not true. Also there could be plenty of reasons why they don't do it
Sorry, just because others don't do it does mean it's true that it's a one-way street. Being an apologist doesn't change that.
Because maybe these universities don't follow that same philosophy (or believe they have enough diversity).
How can a fan of diversity like yourself believe that the homogenous student bodies in European or Asian universities are diverse (enough) when compared to the diversity of race, nationality, age, and class in American universities? America is already the most ethnically diverse nation on the planet to start with.
but i think you get my point. most likely it's cause of reason #1, the perception of the u.s isn't very good out there, most people just assume kids from the u.s are arrogant and don't care about the world.
No, I don't get your point - you just proved mine. If the lack of outreach to American students is because of preconceived opinions about them, that is called prejudice, which is a demonstration of intolerance, and it certainly doesn't embrace diversity as a goal.
Yes. Tolerence and diversity work the other way around.
Then why don't I see foreign universities with programs to recruit and underwrite American students, and why are there no complaints about it? It looks like a one-way street to me. (Grenada doesn't count either. They don't give scholarships - they do it for the money.)
I never said the original Star Trek was great. But after all this time it still has a bunch of crazed fans, and as you said, it was genre-defining. That's why it deserves the top spot as much as any other SciFi show.
And what is worse, the HR departments/agencies
will not forward your resumes unless you state you have *all* of those
qualifications.
HR people playing alphabet soup games with things they know absolutely nothing about is certainly frustrating. While it won't help things, there is some poetic justice in that more and more HR functions are being offshored. Let's hope they enjoy the outplacement service and find all the resume advice helpful.
The best way to get a job these days is to bypass HR. Many companies give priority to resumes that come in through current employees. I know it's tired, old advice, but network as well as you can. Talk to people who have a job at a company you'd like to work for. Some are still offering employees bonuses for bringing in new people, so it's not like you'd have to work real hard to get someone to take in your resume.
So, do you want to spend twice the amount for food?
Ask the Americans without jobs if they'd be willing to pay twice as much for food if they could have a decent paying job. Do I need to supply the answer? This nation's agriculture worked just fine even before the Braceros and illegal immigrants. One set of my great-grandparents were migrant farm workers in California, and they managed to own a house and raise a family. This race to the bottom in wages is not good for the long-term health of the country.
By that measure you'd probably want people from outside the U.S since since these individuals tend to have far more varied experiences and are less inflicted by 'american culture'.
By that logic, universities in other countries should be trying to recruit American students so they could "inflict" American culture on their native students, yes? No? You mean tolerance and diversity don't work the other way around?
This whole deal with H-1B workers being hired at lower wages is absolutely baseless. The corporations are required to show that pay scales are in line with other employees (black/brown/yellow). Besides do you realize how much it costs to actually sponsor a person on such a visa, and the legal bills that pile up.
What a load of crap. A company submitting an LCA is free to use whatever method it wants to determine a prevailing wage for an employment category if they wish, and the number of companies using H-1Bs that choose to set their own number is 68%. Every analysis I've seen shows H-1Bs are paid 15-30% less than resident workers with comparable education and experience. The one-time cost to sponsor an H-1B runs from 2,000 to 10,000 dollars. If an employer can replace a resident worker making $60,000 with an H-1B making $45,000 for six years, it doesn't take a math major to figure out what the company's motivation is.
Oh brother. First, Farscape died because it was too dependent on cathing every single episode. Second, enough of the elitist bullshit. I can't believe how obnoxious the Farscape fans I've talked to are.
:) I guess the personal attacks mean I touched a hot button. What is elitist about liking an improvement in the stagnant old TV SciFi format? Why should I waste 15 minutes of a one-hour show getting up to speed on an ongoing story when I could get an additional 15 minutes of story?
You may have made the time to watch and fully appreciate Farscape, but not everybody can. Star Trek was more accessible, that's why it was successful.
I was a major (original) Star Trek fan, and I made time to watch it. There were no VCRs then. Watching Farscape was no problem with the neat gadgets we have today.
If you catch a bizarre show and you have no fucking clue what's going on, it's not because you're simple. It's hard for a show to work if it demands that you stick to its schedule.
Drag yourself into the late 20th century, guy. We have neat little time-shifting devices with names like VCR and Myth TV. Places like amazon.com and Best Buy are also selling reduced-cost DVD versions of the first two seasons for the technologically challenged. The (misnomered) SciFi Channel had a major rerun of the series last year, so it wouldn't have been too hard for even a busy guy with a VCR to check it out. You really just like your SciFi bland and easily palatable, while real science fiction should give you mental indigestion (IMHO, of course).
Oops, sorry. Was there some complaint about Firefly's demise that I never heard about? Have I managed to offend some other minor, unappreciated SciFi community akin to Farscape fans?:)
WTF.. no Farscape? Certainly should have made the top 50.. perhaps even edging in on the top 10.
After seeing Wild Wild West and the Man from UNCLE on the list, I'd expect to see Get Smart and Johnny Quest before Farscape. Whatever the list was about, it wasn't SciFi.
As you've said repeatedly. People who want to have their SciFi spoon-fed to them with a predictable Star Trek space opera format will not like Farscape. Something original is out of many viewers' comfort zone, but it's too bad that it resulted in the cancellation of a show that appealed to fans of real science fiction.
Agreed. I can't believe Farscape didn't make the list while shows like Wild Wild West, the Man from UNCLE, and the Avengers did. The Prisoner was far more SciFi than the Avengers, and that didn't make the list either. While I liked the other shows, they were not science fiction. While the original Star Trek probably deserves the top spot, the only other show that had fans actively protesting and trying to reverse its cancellation was Farscape.
If the Chinese gov't isn't willing to enforce the preservation of US intellectual property rights, then the US ought not have to export machinery and machine parts, integrated circuits, or soybeans to them -- oh wait -- that's much of the raw materials needed by their entire economy.
What a joke. The only thing the Chinese want from us is a market for all the things we used to produce. Look at the trade figures (deficit). You must have been sleeping during the past decade when we became an importer of machined parts from China. I hear Ford is now importing engines from China. I also read somewhere that we are importing cement from China. It that's true, it means we can't process dirt for less than the cost of transporting it half-way around the world.
The British couldn't win in the American colonies.
We couldn't win in Korea.
We couldn't win in Vietnam.
We couldn't win in Somolia.
We won't "win" in Afghanistan.
We won't "win" in Iraq.
Note the common theme of a population that views the military force as occupiers rather than liberators. The closest we have come to a recent military success is (discounting the overwhelming victory in Grenada) the previous Gulf War where Bush Sr. wisely decided not to try occupying after the borders had been restored. Instead of forcing a political system on the current Iraq, it should be broken up into the countries it was before the Brits messed with it - there were age-old reasons for those borders. We might have had a chance in Afghanistan if we hadn't previously abandoned the insurgents fighting the Soviets - some people have long memories.
The best we can hope for in Iraq is a near-term orderly withdrawal of our forces, so that we don't have to watch people being evacuated from the embassy by helicopter - again. (Before anyone starts throwing accusations, I volunteered for service back in the day, but I didn't get 8-up either.) I really hope I'm proven wrong, but I'll put my money on history repeating itself.
The TeraGrid is well managed too.. very few problems for such a huge system.
For $48 million, one should hope so. There are "national assets" of other federal agencies that don't get anywhere near that kind of funding for managing much more data. It really sounds like someone brought the bacon home from Congress.
Perhaps not a very helpful analogy. How about, "Buggy whip stores concerned that rampant theft of buggy whips from the factory will reduce retail demand." OK, not the best analogy either, but the point is that someone who goes to a lot of trouble (and time, and money) to produce something that people will want for their education and entertainment are not going to be buggy-whipped out of demand.
Even that doesn't apply to the situation. The most relevant passage in the article was the guy claiming the burden of producing the titles they don't want copied shouldn't be on them because they don't really know about all of their old titles.
That just proves what a crock these near-eternal copyrights are. These companies aren't selling or reprinting the old books - they don't even know their titles. They just don't want anyone else to get any use from them. This continual lockout is the exact opposite of the result intended by the original copyright law. I say good for Google. This is information that not only wants to be free but should be free according to the law when it was written.
Actually that is why it appeared that so many people voted for John Kerry, I mean cmon, I know that alot of people said they were going to vote for, but when push came shove, no one in their right mind voted for him.
I'm a real Republican (not a neocon) who voted for Kerry. Being a choice of lesser evils, it wasn't an easy decision, but I believe events have shown that I was in my right mind. If we get Hillary in '08, it will be due to Bush in '04.
a tiny minority of alcoholics give the rest of us a bad name, just as a tiny minority of smackheads give us heroin shooting middle managers a bad name.
This is only funny if you actually believe OSS means more code review and not less. The reverse is actually true as OSS has the aura of suggesting the first case so in effect, it becomes the opposite by way of assumption of it having been or being checked, so few bother.
Got any proof to back that up? When I have a problem with an OSS program, I often dig into the code to see if I can find the cause. That's not saying there is a great deal of peer review before OSS code is released, but as it becomes mature, there will have been a lot of peer review. It's certainly better than closed source sofware that gets one perfunctory in-house peer review by people who want to be doing something else.
I am so sick of hearing the word rich applied to everything in the Windows world. Yes, no doubt Bill Gates has an affinity for the term rich. But from recent usage in the real Windows world, it really means "overhyped, overpriced and bloated".
While there is something to what you say, the flip side is that knowing your sh!t doesn't mean you'll know how to teach said sh!t
When I was in school, Education was the major you switched to when you were failing out of your original choice. I don't see how being unable to learn a subject makes one qualified to teach others. My point is that being an educator doesn't necessarily mean you can teach either (or that you have any mastery of subject material).
Most teachers never... ever... left the school system.
That's because in K-12, the teachers' union has a lock. Only certified educators need apply. There was a recent proposal to bring in retired professionals to help alleviate the claimed teacher shortage. There was nothing but howls of outrage from the teachers and their handlers. Considering that some of my kids' teachers have been unable to spell or write a complete sentence, I don't see that the certification has much worth. That said, there are a few really good teachers in the system, just like any other job.
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Yeah, and all just because Passport allowed sinister types to hijack your hotmail account and any information you had entered in Passport. One little mistake by Microsoft that was remedied within a few weeks, and the people on Slashdot can never forgive or forget or stop talking about it or bringing it up over and over again whenever Passport is mentioned. Personally, I can't think of any company I'd trust more with all my personal and financial information. (If anyone had trouble detecting the sarcasm, let me know, and I'll work on it. :)
Just because others don't do it doesn't mean its not true. Also there could be plenty of reasons why they don't do it
Sorry, just because others don't do it does mean it's true that it's a one-way street. Being an apologist doesn't change that.
Because maybe these universities don't follow that same philosophy (or believe they have enough diversity).
How can a fan of diversity like yourself believe that the homogenous student bodies in European or Asian universities are diverse (enough) when compared to the diversity of race, nationality, age, and class in American universities? America is already the most ethnically diverse nation on the planet to start with.
but i think you get my point. most likely it's cause of reason #1, the perception of the u.s isn't very good out there, most people just assume kids from the u.s are arrogant and don't care about the world.
No, I don't get your point - you just proved mine. If the lack of outreach to American students is because of preconceived opinions about them, that is called prejudice, which is a demonstration of intolerance, and it certainly doesn't embrace diversity as a goal.
host that video file on the P2P networks and see what happens to you ! *smile*
The MPAA would poison the torrent with old interviews of Jack Valenti.
Yes. Tolerence and diversity work the other way around.
Then why don't I see foreign universities with programs to recruit and underwrite American students, and why are there no complaints about it? It looks like a one-way street to me. (Grenada doesn't count either. They don't give scholarships - they do it for the money.)
I never said the original Star Trek was great. But after all this time it still has a bunch of crazed fans, and as you said, it was genre-defining. That's why it deserves the top spot as much as any other SciFi show.
And what is worse, the HR departments/agencies will not forward your resumes unless you state you have *all* of those qualifications.
HR people playing alphabet soup games with things they know absolutely nothing about is certainly frustrating. While it won't help things, there is some poetic justice in that more and more HR functions are being offshored. Let's hope they enjoy the outplacement service and find all the resume advice helpful.
The best way to get a job these days is to bypass HR. Many companies give priority to resumes that come in through current employees. I know it's tired, old advice, but network as well as you can. Talk to people who have a job at a company you'd like to work for. Some are still offering employees bonuses for bringing in new people, so it's not like you'd have to work real hard to get someone to take in your resume.
So, do you want to spend twice the amount for food?
Ask the Americans without jobs if they'd be willing to pay twice as much for food if they could have a decent paying job. Do I need to supply the answer? This nation's agriculture worked just fine even before the Braceros and illegal immigrants. One set of my great-grandparents were migrant farm workers in California, and they managed to own a house and raise a family. This race to the bottom in wages is not good for the long-term health of the country.
By that measure you'd probably want people from outside the U.S since since these individuals tend to have far more varied experiences and are less inflicted by 'american culture'.
By that logic, universities in other countries should be trying to recruit American students so they could "inflict" American culture on their native students, yes? No? You mean tolerance and diversity don't work the other way around?
This whole deal with H-1B workers being hired at lower wages is absolutely baseless. The corporations are required to show that pay scales are in line with other employees (black/brown/yellow). Besides do you realize how much it costs to actually sponsor a person on such a visa, and the legal bills that pile up.
What a load of crap. A company submitting an LCA is free to use whatever method it wants to determine a prevailing wage for an employment category if they wish, and the number of companies using H-1Bs that choose to set their own number is 68%. Every analysis I've seen shows H-1Bs are paid 15-30% less than resident workers with comparable education and experience. The one-time cost to sponsor an H-1B runs from 2,000 to 10,000 dollars. If an employer can replace a resident worker making $60,000 with an H-1B making $45,000 for six years, it doesn't take a math major to figure out what the company's motivation is.
I bid one site.
Oh brother. First, Farscape died because it was too dependent on cathing every single episode. Second, enough of the elitist bullshit. I can't believe how obnoxious the Farscape fans I've talked to are.
:) I guess the personal attacks mean I touched a hot button. What is elitist about liking an improvement in the stagnant old TV SciFi format? Why should I waste 15 minutes of a one-hour show getting up to speed on an ongoing story when I could get an additional 15 minutes of story?
You may have made the time to watch and fully appreciate Farscape, but not everybody can. Star Trek was more accessible, that's why it was successful.
I was a major (original) Star Trek fan, and I made time to watch it. There were no VCRs then. Watching Farscape was no problem with the neat gadgets we have today.
If you catch a bizarre show and you have no fucking clue what's going on, it's not because you're simple. It's hard for a show to work if it demands that you stick to its schedule.
Drag yourself into the late 20th century, guy. We have neat little time-shifting devices with names like VCR and Myth TV. Places like amazon.com and Best Buy are also selling reduced-cost DVD versions of the first two seasons for the technologically challenged. The (misnomered) SciFi Channel had a major rerun of the series last year, so it wouldn't have been too hard for even a busy guy with a VCR to check it out. You really just like your SciFi bland and easily palatable, while real science fiction should give you mental indigestion (IMHO, of course).
Oops, sorry. Was there some complaint about Firefly's demise that I never heard about? Have I managed to offend some other minor, unappreciated SciFi community akin to Farscape fans? :)
WTF.. no Farscape? Certainly should have made the top 50.. perhaps even edging in on the top 10.
After seeing Wild Wild West and the Man from UNCLE on the list, I'd expect to see Get Smart and Johnny Quest before Farscape. Whatever the list was about, it wasn't SciFi.
I didn't like Farscape or B5 . . .
As you've said repeatedly. People who want to have their SciFi spoon-fed to them with a predictable Star Trek space opera format will not like Farscape. Something original is out of many viewers' comfort zone, but it's too bad that it resulted in the cancellation of a show that appealed to fans of real science fiction.
A lot of those shows aren't Science Fiction.
Agreed. I can't believe Farscape didn't make the list while shows like Wild Wild West, the Man from UNCLE, and the Avengers did. The Prisoner was far more SciFi than the Avengers, and that didn't make the list either. While I liked the other shows, they were not science fiction. While the original Star Trek probably deserves the top spot, the only other show that had fans actively protesting and trying to reverse its cancellation was Farscape.
If the Chinese gov't isn't willing to enforce the preservation of US intellectual property rights, then the US ought not have to export machinery and machine parts, integrated circuits, or soybeans to them -- oh wait -- that's much of the raw materials needed by their entire economy.
What a joke. The only thing the Chinese want from us is a market for all the things we used to produce. Look at the trade figures (deficit). You must have been sleeping during the past decade when we became an importer of machined parts from China. I hear Ford is now importing engines from China. I also read somewhere that we are importing cement from China. It that's true, it means we can't process dirt for less than the cost of transporting it half-way around the world.
Then shouldn't we have won by now?
Note the common theme of a population that views the military force as occupiers rather than liberators. The closest we have come to a recent military success is (discounting the overwhelming victory in Grenada) the previous Gulf War where Bush Sr. wisely decided not to try occupying after the borders had been restored. Instead of forcing a political system on the current Iraq, it should be broken up into the countries it was before the Brits messed with it - there were age-old reasons for those borders. We might have had a chance in Afghanistan if we hadn't previously abandoned the insurgents fighting the Soviets - some people have long memories.
The best we can hope for in Iraq is a near-term orderly withdrawal of our forces, so that we don't have to watch people being evacuated from the embassy by helicopter - again. (Before anyone starts throwing accusations, I volunteered for service back in the day, but I didn't get 8-up either.) I really hope I'm proven wrong, but I'll put my money on history repeating itself.
The TeraGrid is well managed too.. very few problems for such a huge system.
For $48 million, one should hope so. There are "national assets" of other federal agencies that don't get anywhere near that kind of funding for managing much more data. It really sounds like someone brought the bacon home from Congress.
Perhaps not a very helpful analogy. How about, "Buggy whip stores concerned that rampant theft of buggy whips from the factory will reduce retail demand." OK, not the best analogy either, but the point is that someone who goes to a lot of trouble (and time, and money) to produce something that people will want for their education and entertainment are not going to be buggy-whipped out of demand.
Even that doesn't apply to the situation. The most relevant passage in the article was the guy claiming the burden of producing the titles they don't want copied shouldn't be on them because they don't really know about all of their old titles.
That just proves what a crock these near-eternal copyrights are. These companies aren't selling or reprinting the old books - they don't even know their titles. They just don't want anyone else to get any use from them. This continual lockout is the exact opposite of the result intended by the original copyright law. I say good for Google. This is information that not only wants to be free but should be free according to the law when it was written.
Actually that is why it appeared that so many people voted for John Kerry, I mean cmon, I know that alot of people said they were going to vote for, but when push came shove, no one in their right mind voted for him.
I'm a real Republican (not a neocon) who voted for Kerry. Being a choice of lesser evils, it wasn't an easy decision, but I believe events have shown that I was in my right mind. If we get Hillary in '08, it will be due to Bush in '04.
a tiny minority of alcoholics give the rest of us a bad name, just as a tiny minority of smackheads give us heroin shooting middle managers a bad name.
Tom, is that you?
This is only funny if you actually believe OSS means more code review and not less. The reverse is actually true as OSS has the aura of suggesting the first case so in effect, it becomes the opposite by way of assumption of it having been or being checked, so few bother.
Got any proof to back that up? When I have a problem with an OSS program, I often dig into the code to see if I can find the cause. That's not saying there is a great deal of peer review before OSS code is released, but as it becomes mature, there will have been a lot of peer review. It's certainly better than closed source sofware that gets one perfunctory in-house peer review by people who want to be doing something else.
I am so sick of hearing the word rich applied to everything in the Windows world. Yes, no doubt Bill Gates has an affinity for the term rich. But from recent usage in the real Windows world, it really means "overhyped, overpriced and bloated".
While there is something to what you say, the flip side is that knowing your sh!t doesn't mean you'll know how to teach said sh!t
When I was in school, Education was the major you switched to when you were failing out of your original choice. I don't see how being unable to learn a subject makes one qualified to teach others. My point is that being an educator doesn't necessarily mean you can teach either (or that you have any mastery of subject material).
Most teachers never... ever... left the school system.
That's because in K-12, the teachers' union has a lock. Only certified educators need apply. There was a recent proposal to bring in retired professionals to help alleviate the claimed teacher shortage. There was nothing but howls of outrage from the teachers and their handlers. Considering that some of my kids' teachers have been unable to spell or write a complete sentence, I don't see that the certification has much worth. That said, there are a few really good teachers in the system, just like any other job.