I am pretty sure that H1-B workers need to be paid the "prevailing wage".
It is all there in black and white.
The issue is, and always has been, that individuals need to file complaints for enforcement to occur, and even then the response is to look at an "Authoritative source" for what an appropriate wage is.
As stated, the law is it isn't that bad. It only allows 65,000 workers anyway, with an intent for skills that truly aren't available in this country.
In practice the consulting shops that recruit H-1B workers, shack them into temporary housing, and get 40% margins on them is a gaming of the system, not an indictment of the system itself.
Bob
Bravo!
I agree completely that faster computers change everything, but I think that your assertion that computers are cheaper than people is a little misleading. I would rather say that all software development is a tradeoff between non-recurring costs (programmer/engineer time) and recurring costs (maintaining all the extra hardware needed because of non-optimized programming). For a long lived product, the recurring costs tend to far outweigh the non-recurring costs, a situation that is exacerbated by high hardware costs; as hardware costs come down, the non-recurring costs start to become more of a factor, so one needs to start to think about the overall solution as a cost factor. As a side note, I made this same argument 15 years ago about trusting compilers to write good code. Sure, I could go in and tweak the assembly generated, but in 85% of the cases that ended up taking more time than the runtime advantages, unless the program were to run for 100 years.
I suppose I am arguing that this problem has always been there, it is just that there have been generations of programmers and program managers who haven't recognized the switch
Wow! while I agree in principle with you (but then again, I agree in principal to universal health care), I realllllly don't want my isp to be examine pretty much anything unless I sign up for said service.
you need to balance the common good with reasonable efforts of reasonable people to protect themselves. The "average user" explanation ceases to hold water in this day and age.
Or maybe that is your point and I am just not grokking it. In that case, my humblest.
So yeah, I have been greppping the main stream media for the last twenty four hours, and the best i can find is this : microsoft stock price drops marginally (video, safe for work). I mean seriously. An executive at a major company gets fired and the talking heads don't think this is news worthy? What am I missing here?
And by "grepping" I mean seriously searching for the sound "microsoft" being mentioned on any national television or radio news. Do you know if they have and I have just missed it? Not that I own stock or anything.
Bob
if at first you don't succeed, redefine success
ooo! I love analogies! Un fortuneatley, why exactly are you checking the locks in the back of a walmart? I can see it if you are a supplier and want to make sure that your supplies are secure, but even that is felacious, since you have already gotten [aid for your delivery.
There is no reasonable analogy. How about this one : you test a store's security by giving them someone else's credit card. I swear officer, it was all for a good cause.
I haven't time for the entire coherent argument, and since this is such alate post i don't really care, but if you read this, my point is just that there is no analogy for this situation.
All that being said, the copmanies involved are pretty riduclous for looking a gift horse in the teeth.
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I am pretty sure that H1-B workers need to be paid the "prevailing wage". It is all there in black and white. The issue is, and always has been, that individuals need to file complaints for enforcement to occur, and even then the response is to look at an "Authoritative source" for what an appropriate wage is. As stated, the law is it isn't that bad. It only allows 65,000 workers anyway, with an intent for skills that truly aren't available in this country. In practice the consulting shops that recruit H-1B workers, shack them into temporary housing, and get 40% margins on them is a gaming of the system, not an indictment of the system itself. Bob
lots of people watch cspan. Here is the video at redlasso : kucinich speech. there is another one on there that has the gavel wrapping part
... then what is a 4 minute screen cast worth? 15 frames per second x 60 seconds per minute x 4 minutes x 1000 words wow 3,600,000 words!
Bravo! I agree completely that faster computers change everything, but I think that your assertion that computers are cheaper than people is a little misleading.
I would rather say that all software development is a tradeoff between non-recurring costs (programmer/engineer time) and recurring costs (maintaining all the extra hardware needed because of non-optimized programming). For a long lived product, the recurring costs tend to far outweigh the non-recurring costs, a situation that is exacerbated by high hardware costs; as hardware costs come down, the non-recurring costs start to become more of a factor, so one needs to start to think about the overall solution as a cost factor.
As a side note, I made this same argument 15 years ago about trusting compilers to write good code. Sure, I could go in and tweak the assembly generated, but in 85% of the cases that ended up taking more time than the runtime advantages, unless the program were to run for 100 years.
I suppose I am arguing that this problem has always been there, it is just that there have been generations of programmers and program managers who haven't recognized the switch
Wow!
while I agree in principle with you (but then again, I agree in principal to universal health care),
I realllllly don't want my isp to be examine pretty much anything unless I sign up for said service.
you need to balance the common good with reasonable efforts of reasonable people to protect themselves.
The "average user" explanation ceases to hold water in this day and age.
Or maybe that is your point and I am just not grokking it. In that case, my humblest.
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MSNBC had an interesting cover of this. The video is a little out of sync with the audio, but still worth a look. CC for the hearing impaired.
Bob
Is this why they are doing it? South Park XBox (video)
Bob
And here he is on the early show defending his position : http://test.redlasso.com/service/svc/clip/playClip?fid=c0b13b09-58eb-488b-b6c3-608a7766216f
Here you go : cspan feed of kucinich )ok, you don't trust links : http://test.redlasso.com/service/svc/clip/playClip?fid=e2700866-e9e8-4b59-8d67-d8df83c107ae. You gotta love the moxy. and the hair.
Bob
if at first you don't succeed...oh never mind
So yeah, I have been greppping the main stream media for the last twenty four hours, and the best i can find is this : microsoft stock price drops marginally (video, safe for work). I mean seriously. An executive at a major company gets fired and the talking heads don't think this is news worthy? What am I missing here? And by "grepping" I mean seriously searching for the sound "microsoft" being mentioned on any national television or radio news. Do you know if they have and I have just missed it? Not that I own stock or anything. Bob if at first you don't succeed, redefine success
ooo! I love analogies!
Un fortuneatley, why exactly are you checking the locks in the back of a walmart?
I can see it if you are a supplier and want to make sure that your supplies are secure, but even that is felacious,
since you have already gotten [aid for your delivery.
There is no reasonable analogy. How about this one :
you test a store's security by giving them someone else's credit card. I swear officer, it was all for a good cause.
I haven't time for the entire coherent argument, and since this is such alate post i don't really care, but if you read this, my point is just that
there is no analogy for this situation.
All that being said, the copmanies involved are pretty riduclous for looking a gift horse in the teeth.
Regards,
Bob