Not thinking about marriage, even a sham one if you guys are not ready to commit otherwise? Would solve visa problems and she can get citizenship after 3 years.
The idea that visas are allocated to help big companies recruit cheap workforce is ridiculous for many reasons, including the fact that government should help (as in maintain opportunities to succeed) individuals rather than corporations. Let companies work with local universities instead. On the flip side of the coin, a job is the least of the reasons most people (including me) come to US. Rather, it's a milder form of political asylum. Maybe you will not be killed for your beliefs, race or personality traits, but your government or countrymen are sure going to make your life miserable. Think of widows in India, second children in China or people who dislike killing other people (fight in Chechnya war) in Russia. If such individuals lose their jobs even for a month while on H-1, they get kicked out of the country where they discovered value of freedom, bought a house, have a girlfriend...
A partial solution would be simply to have a longer time to find another job. I guess a country can afford only so many unemployed people or new immigrants in general at a time. A better long term solution would be to create an international agency that helps people resettle in some country - not necessarily US - where they will not be killed or harassed. In any case, basing visa quote on what Microsoft says it needs seems ridiculous.
Well, notebook batteries are tiny. Surely, a suitcase-sized box can provide a thousand notebook/hours even if its not convenient to draw power from the engine.
I don't know, maybe Diebold has some kind of Braille plugin or voice prompts, but how is a guy without arms and legs supposed to vote, unless he is a truly great lower. I would hope disabled people can get a special poll assistant, who ideally sends the voter back with a videotape documenting the transaction.
Otherwise WiFi is useless on flights over 3 hours, where its actually needed. Weather its a regular outlet, cigarette ligher adapter or some fixed voltage DC source, notebook makers will come up with adapters. Alternatively, show me a notebook that can last 10 hours while actually working - hardrrive/CPU on - AND using the network.
Ah, but the beauty of English is that even very broken grammar is still understandable by everyone. We can just forget past and present perfect and speak English like everyone in SF Bay Area.
to this date fast breeders have been very disappointing (eg. Superphoenix)
Which was not used at full capacity as a precaution for being experimental, suffered from mechanical problems, and on top of all that attacked by rockets! Not much to do with the basic physics going on inside.
Oh well, if all you care about is some cellulose to burn, you can plant a mixture of plants that will not be a monoculture. You can plant species that need minimum fertilizers and irrigation (you actually want them to be dry). You can burn weeds as well as your indented plants. You can make do with plants half eaten by insects. So overall, growing fuel might be a good way to give land a break from conventional agriculture.
None of those disasters made a huge area of land uninhabitable. However, if you read my original comment, I am all for using modern, safer nuclear reactors instead of burning coal - which generates more pollution, including radiation.
Regardless of what Al Gore says, giving up our cars will not save the planet.
It just might. Perhaps if we start riding bicycles and mass transport like Chinese, CO2 concentration will reach equilibrium where increased photosynthesis by plants due to higher temperature + higher CO2 compensates for remaining human activity.
For any problem, first solutions prove to be questionable. First, and many existing nuclear power plants are obviously very dangerous - just consider Chernobyl. Yet, now we can build very safe nuclear plants that produce less radioactive waste than comparable coal plants. No matter what it is now, early adoption of biofuel will eventually encourage better solutions. In principal at least, plants get all their combustible content by capturing greenhouse gases from the air. If dry grass or agricultural byproducts can be burned, at least for home heating purposes, without much processing, we are reducing our output of CO2.
I normally have my left hand on the keyboard and my right hand on the pointing device. Doing desktop publishing must look on video a lot like someone playing a first person shooter
What kind of pointing device are you holding in your right hand exactly to make it shoot?
Anyone has a right to bundle and sell a Linux distro and more choice is better for the future of the platform. I venture a wild guess that with Oracle Linux, you might have less problems installing Oracle software. Let RedHat come up with some other advantages.
There is always place for multiple projects. Different focus, different personalities even different geographical location. Multiple projects encourage innovations that wouldn't be thought about otherwise.
Jobs didn't want that, though. He didn't want universally compatible music, he wanted ipod-and-only-ipod compatible music, which is why these new higher priced songs are only offered in AAC. It allows him to keep leveraging his near-monopoly between itunes and ipods in the same manner that Apple-DRM-Protected files did.
It may be hard to imagine, but at times people decide to release a product which is good for customer, even though they could make more money short term on some sleazy scheme. Long term, offering DRM-free music will get even more people to download iTunes over built-in WMP and eventually buy movies and other pricier Apple products. MP3 served us well, but these days few people consider it to be the highest quality music format. It would be hard to justify the premium over an AAC track. On the other hand, these days there is a variety of software and hardware that supports AAC.
Youtube hosts a plenty of home video, independent and fair use content. The site was also instrumental in exposing a number of crimes, including by law enforcement, and unprofessional conduct. As a site with user-maintained content, it ends up with a variety with legal and illegal material, just like web hosting providers. Any provider of a neutral public forum can not be responsible for actions of others. The same transparency that makes it attractive to pirates also makes it attractive to others exercising their free speech rights.
And the biggest problem with multiple copyleft licenses is that it undermines software freedom
Well, if you believe FSF should have freedom to impose GPL on others, other authors surely shouldn't be criticized for choosing whatever license best suites their tastes. I happen to believe that copyright should last for very limited time - say 7 years as envisioned by founders - and then everyone should be free to create derivative works. This way we don't have to be permanently restricted by either RMS or Microsoft.
Turning a retail store into a showroom would allow you to lower price to match Amazon after accounting for in-store return/service and impulse buying. You are eliminating overhead of shipping, overstocking, obsolesense and a whole lot of associated jobs. You are getting a powerful advertisement of having an actual working item that can be instantly purchased.
c) Retail needs to evolve to provide advantages over Internet shopping.
Build a showroom-type store where you buy low-end items as usual, but for high end items there are only a couple of copies to play with in real life and then get it shipped home for Internet price (since you eliminated stocking overhead). Host LAN parties and get participants to buy hardware and games in question. Provide in-store and at-home customer service. Open an advertise a location in second life where people can fit the items into their room before buying. The fact that the guy with $1.4M salary and a corporate jet didn't even attempt any innovations in a small, inexpensive experimental store just shows that big companies != capitalism.
Sure, you can also build your own PC or change oil in your car by yourself. People who don't enjoy compiling NVIDIA kernel module on their own might pay a few extra bucks to get it done instead.
Why so? For many users, a well configured Linux distribution with CrossOffice is better than Vista with confusing DRM and susceptibility to malware. If there are tested drivers, proper power management support, a recover disk, at home support option and so on, wouldn't you pay a bit more to give a maintenance-free computer to your relative? Are we arguing that Linux is inferior to Windows and therefore should cost less? Superior products generally come at a premium. True, basic Linux source code is free. But full hardware+software support/upgrade guarantee and proprietary software on top of the OS are not necessarily so.
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medical fields - a field the US is sorely in need of more skilled people.
Nope, there are plenty of skilled people. We just need to stop suing them so much and torturing them with inhuman work hours.
yet lets the illegals who burden the system walk across the border without fear of repercussion.
Those would be the ones who ensure you never have to worry about affording basic groceries in Safeway.
Not thinking about marriage, even a sham one if you guys are not ready to commit otherwise? Would solve visa problems and she can get citizenship after 3 years.
The idea that visas are allocated to help big companies recruit cheap workforce is ridiculous for many reasons, including the fact that government should help (as in maintain opportunities to succeed) individuals rather than corporations. Let companies work with local universities instead. On the flip side of the coin, a job is the least of the reasons most people (including me) come to US. Rather, it's a milder form of political asylum. Maybe you will not be killed for your beliefs, race or personality traits, but your government or countrymen are sure going to make your life miserable. Think of widows in India, second children in China or people who dislike killing other people (fight in Chechnya war) in Russia. If such individuals lose their jobs even for a month while on H-1, they get kicked out of the country where they discovered value of freedom, bought a house, have a girlfriend...
A partial solution would be simply to have a longer time to find another job. I guess a country can afford only so many unemployed people or new immigrants in general at a time. A better long term solution would be to create an international agency that helps people resettle in some country - not necessarily US - where they will not be killed or harassed. In any case, basing visa quote on what Microsoft says it needs seems ridiculous.
Well, notebook batteries are tiny. Surely, a suitcase-sized box can provide a thousand notebook/hours even if its not convenient to draw power from the engine.
I don't know, maybe Diebold has some kind of Braille plugin or voice prompts, but how is a guy without arms and legs supposed to vote, unless he is a truly great lower. I would hope disabled people can get a special poll assistant, who ideally sends the voter back with a videotape documenting the transaction.
Otherwise WiFi is useless on flights over 3 hours, where its actually needed. Weather its a regular outlet, cigarette ligher adapter or some fixed voltage DC source, notebook makers will come up with adapters. Alternatively, show me a notebook that can last 10 hours while actually working - hardrrive/CPU on - AND using the network.
Ah, but the beauty of English is that even very broken grammar is still understandable by everyone. We can just forget past and present perfect and speak English like everyone in SF Bay Area.
Rejoice!
to this date fast breeders have been very disappointing (eg. Superphoenix)
Which was not used at full capacity as a precaution for being experimental, suffered from mechanical problems, and on top of all that attacked by rockets! Not much to do with the basic physics going on inside.
Oh well, if all you care about is some cellulose to burn, you can plant a mixture of plants that will not be a monoculture. You can plant species that need minimum fertilizers and irrigation (you actually want them to be dry). You can burn weeds as well as your indented plants. You can make do with plants half eaten by insects. So overall, growing fuel might be a good way to give land a break from conventional agriculture.
None of those disasters made a huge area of land uninhabitable. However, if you read my original comment, I am all for using modern, safer nuclear reactors instead of burning coal - which generates more pollution, including radiation.
Regardless of what Al Gore says, giving up our cars will not save the planet.
It just might. Perhaps if we start riding bicycles and mass transport like Chinese, CO2 concentration will reach equilibrium where increased photosynthesis by plants due to higher temperature + higher CO2 compensates for remaining human activity.
For any problem, first solutions prove to be questionable. First, and many existing nuclear power plants are obviously very dangerous - just consider Chernobyl. Yet, now we can build very safe nuclear plants that produce less radioactive waste than comparable coal plants. No matter what it is now, early adoption of biofuel will eventually encourage better solutions. In principal at least, plants get all their combustible content by capturing greenhouse gases from the air. If dry grass or agricultural byproducts can be burned, at least for home heating purposes, without much processing, we are reducing our output of CO2.
I normally have my left hand on the keyboard and my right hand on the pointing device. Doing desktop publishing must look on video a lot like someone playing a first person shooter
What kind of pointing device are you holding in your right hand exactly to make it shoot?
Anyone has a right to bundle and sell a Linux distro and more choice is better for the future of the platform. I venture a wild guess that with Oracle Linux, you might have less problems installing Oracle software. Let RedHat come up with some other advantages.
There is always place for multiple projects. Different focus, different personalities even different geographical location. Multiple projects encourage innovations that wouldn't be thought about otherwise.
Jobs didn't want that, though. He didn't want universally compatible music, he wanted ipod-and-only-ipod compatible music, which is why these new higher priced songs are only offered in AAC. It allows him to keep leveraging his near-monopoly between itunes and ipods in the same manner that Apple-DRM-Protected files did.
It may be hard to imagine, but at times people decide to release a product which is good for customer, even though they could make more money short term on some sleazy scheme. Long term, offering DRM-free music will get even more people to download iTunes over built-in WMP and eventually buy movies and other pricier Apple products. MP3 served us well, but these days few people consider it to be the highest quality music format. It would be hard to justify the premium over an AAC track. On the other hand, these days there is a variety of software and hardware that supports AAC.
Youtube hosts a plenty of home video, independent and fair use content. The site was also instrumental in exposing a number of crimes, including by law enforcement, and unprofessional conduct. As a site with user-maintained content, it ends up with a variety with legal and illegal material, just like web hosting providers. Any provider of a neutral public forum can not be responsible for actions of others. The same transparency that makes it attractive to pirates also makes it attractive to others exercising their free speech rights.
And the biggest problem with multiple copyleft licenses is that it undermines software freedom
Well, if you believe FSF should have freedom to impose GPL on others, other authors surely shouldn't be criticized for choosing whatever license best suites their tastes. I happen to believe that copyright should last for very limited time - say 7 years as envisioned by founders - and then everyone should be free to create derivative works. This way we don't have to be permanently restricted by either RMS or Microsoft.
Turning a retail store into a showroom would allow you to lower price to match Amazon after accounting for in-store return/service and impulse buying. You are eliminating overhead of shipping, overstocking, obsolesense and a whole lot of associated jobs. You are getting a powerful advertisement of having an actual working item that can be instantly purchased.
Actually, it shows that (big companies != innovation). Big Box retail is profitable by following the formula.
As TFA and closing of CompUSA stores indicate, not for electronic items.
Users would be willing more to pay for superior product when its http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/>properly marketed.
c) Retail needs to evolve to provide advantages over Internet shopping.
Build a showroom-type store where you buy low-end items as usual, but for high end items there are only a couple of copies to play with in real life and then get it shipped home for Internet price (since you eliminated stocking overhead). Host LAN parties and get participants to buy hardware and games in question. Provide in-store and at-home customer service. Open an advertise a location in second life where people can fit the items into their room before buying. The fact that the guy with $1.4M salary and a corporate jet didn't even attempt any innovations in a small, inexpensive experimental store just shows that big companies != capitalism.
Sure, you can also build your own PC or change oil in your car by yourself. People who don't enjoy compiling NVIDIA kernel module on their own might pay a few extra bucks to get it done instead.
Why so? For many users, a well configured Linux distribution with CrossOffice is better than Vista with confusing DRM and susceptibility to malware. If there are tested drivers, proper power management support, a recover disk, at home support option and so on, wouldn't you pay a bit more to give a maintenance-free computer to your relative? Are we arguing that Linux is inferior to Windows and therefore should cost less? Superior products generally come at a premium. True, basic Linux source code is free. But full hardware+software support/upgrade guarantee and proprietary software on top of the OS are not necessarily so.