I want to move the freakin' Meridian to the US. Maybe NYC, or maybe somewhere closer to the middle of the country, like Dallas. What's so special about Greenwich? Hell, move it to NYC and make it GVMT.
My wife is an H1A nurse from the Philippines. Well, used to be, she's a citizen now. Anyway, she came over here long before I met her and worked for a company that "sponsored" her.
The company was a nursing home that was staffed almost entirely by foreign nurses that were being paid below the prevailing wage. Their problem wasn't in attracting nurses, it was simply that they wanted to pay less.
This same home had a fire a year or two ago that killed some patients, and it turned out that they didn't have sprinklers.
My observation of the medical industry is that facilities don't want to pay what nurses require, so they end up hiring foreign nurses if they're lucky. If they're not lucky, they end up paying twice what they'd pay a staff nurse to get someone from an agency.
Anyway, this is a two-sided issue. On one side, my wife started making more when she met me and I told her to simply ask for more money. She went to one place where they offered her $13/hour (with 7 or 8 years of experience at the time). Not surprisingly, she ended up working there through an agency for $35/hour at one point. God only knows what they were paying the agency for her time, probably more than $13/hour.
In the Filipino culture, it would be disrespectful to ask for more money of an employer, so they end up hurting over here. I mean this literally, the thought never crossed my wife's mind to ask for more money until she'd met me. Even then, it took a lot for her to get over it. The difference in pay is very significant.
Now, the other side. She was making PHP15K/month as a nurse when she left the Philippines. In US dollars, that's about $300. Actually, less now due to exchange rates. In terms of cost of living, that would be below the poverty line here. Even the $13/hour would be big bucks. It's all a matter of perspective.
Anyway, a lot of people are just happy to have a job, something we often lose site of here in the US. Still, there's no excuse for screwing people. And paying somebody less for the same work just because they won't complain is immoral.
It's also illegal. The Dept. of Labor has standards for H1A and H1B, and the workers are (by law) to be paid the same wages as an American. Of course, you can't legally hire them if an American is available to do the work, either.
I can't complain, I have a beautiful wife because of H1A.
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MySQL > PostgreSQL; MySQL is easier to set up
This myth kept me away from postgres for a couple of years, since I knew how to set up mysql and didn't have time to learn something new. The fact is, as I found out easily, postgres is every bit as easy to set up as mysql, just different. And after it's ready, well, there's no comparison.
I wish he would have given us more information regarding the problems he ran into. I'm talking about system specs, the name and version of the Linux distro used, and more information regarding the software they apparently had so much trouble installing.
I doubt his handlers wanted him to say too much, just some vague "it crashed a lot" statements. After all, any further information and the source of the problem might be obvious. At this point, though, it should be blatantly obvious to anybody with a clue that Linux doesn't crash often or it wouldn't be as popular as it is.
I always wonder what exactly these guys get from their handlers for turning in every shred of credibility that they might have. I also wonder if their employers will ever catch on that they've got a weasel in their organization.
Why do people keep saying that FOSS products don't have licenses?
I suppose because I can use most FOSS products without a license. The GPL is a license relating to copying the code, it has nothing to do with usage. I can use it any way that I want, the license specifically states that you don't have to accept it to use the software.
I used to get at least one every couple of days, I can count on one hand the number of illegal calls that I have received since the federal list went into affect.
The problem that I have now is that some people call me at my business, ask for me, then try to sell me something that has nothing to do with the business.
Just go to downtown London or any British city: cameras and microphones everywhere!! Do they prevent any terrorist attacks? OBVIOUSLY NOT!
They used the cameras to track the movements of the perpetrators of the July bombings, and determine who they were. With that information, they were able to gain more information on other cell members, etc. So, yes, they probably did prevent attacks.
I don't like it when our cities look like police states, on the other hand, people don't like being blown up by a fanatical idiot, either. The balance will be found, it'll just take awhile.
Microsoft has $40B in the bank, and 60,000 employees. If that $40B were invested at 5% annual interest, the interest alone ($2B) would be enough to pay each employee $33,333.33/year indefinitely. At 10%, obviously, we're talking about $66,666.67, which is probably not far off of their average wage.
Put another way, they have 2/3 of $1 million ($666,667) per employee. That would be 10 years of $66,667/year/employee- even if they never had any more revenue.
Those who think Microsoft is going away aren't good with math.
This exposes the gulf between open source security and proprietary security. Ignore for a minute the fact that Symantec a) has a vested interest in you using insecure products and b) uses highly flawed methodolgy as their "count" is actually "count of vendor-admitted bugs". There's a major difference between a vulnerability in Mozilla and a vulnerability in IE.
Since we don't have the source for IE, any vulnerability found is, by definition, exploitable. Someone found a way to exploit it- you get a vulnerability.
Vulnerabilities found in Mozilla, on the other hand, are often theoretical in nature. Someone looking through the source finds the problem, but no exploit is written.
Another major problem is here:
The average severity rating of the vulnerabilities associated with both IE and Mozilla browsers in this period was classified as "high", which Symantec defined as "resulting in a compromise of the entire system if exploited."
My entire system isn't going to be compromised from me browsing with Mozilla. Period. Somebody is confused.
Oh, and Symantec says you aren't safe, and some guy in England who competes with open source software says it is going to ruin his industry without government help.
You can read *any* TCO study sponsored by Microsoft and you'll find that the upgrade to Windows Vista won't cost anything. There are *never* upgrade costs if you stick with Windows. Sheesh.
Also, there won't be any retraining costs if you stick with Windows.
Microsoft buys a lot of good research, you folks should read it more often.
...Its your car's amplifier doing the job, not the Nano. The nano has a line-level or headphone-level power output... Nothing impressive there, other than that Apple didn't goof up, right?
This is Walter Mossberg, not Maureen O'Gara. If you read his column, you'll find that he knows his shit. That's why he writes for the WSJ.
If he's pointing out that it sounds good in the car, he's likely noticed that a lot of other players don't. No surprise, a lot of people have complained about that.
Anyway, don't talk down to Mossberg, it just makes you look clueless.
some of us were smart enough to never start playing. I see people get hacks so that they can "win" warcraft (back in the wc2 days) and counterstrike, how much more when money's involved?
If some kind of reasonably open standard were in use instead of Flash we would be able to use it on our mobile devices...
Why do we go through this every time Flash is mentioned? Flash is an open standard. Putting "macromedia flash specification" takes all of 10 seconds and comes up with the page on Macromedia's site where you can download the complete specification.
Of course they don't want you to create your own player using their specification. I'm not sure what authority they have to specify your use of the specification after you download it.
Regardless, one of the main reasons there are no alternatives is because the format, by itself, isn't useful. With a content creation program, on the other hand, it's very useful. Macromedia sells one.
Unless you come up with a content creator, and players for all platforms, don't bother to come up with a specification for a Flash alternative.
Um, no, people like me are over there killing terrorists. The vast majority of Iraqis are now living better than they were under Saddam. The infrastructure is being built, something Saddam had neither the intention nor the capability to do. Peace will take time, but it will come.
It's sickening, though, to see you claim that Saddam was "better" because the current situation, as you see it, is bad. Saddam had some of the worst torture chambers in the world, why you would support that is beyond comprehension.
People want freedom, and the vast majority of them understand that there is a price. There was a price in America for the freedom that we have, also. It's a hell of a price, but it is necessary.
You know, I see this tired response way too often. Past stupidity by the US (and present stupidity) doesn't negate the value of any certain action. Seriously, your argument is stupid: it was wrong to overthrow Saddam because the US once supported him. That makes no sense. Regardless of anything in the past, Saddam was evil. Look at this:
Don't give me a song and dance about how you helped free the Iraqi people by deposing Hussein. You helped subjugate them in the first place by propping him up.
Let's make this clear: any dealings the US had with Saddam were wrong. Period. But, that doesn't mean that freeing the Iraqis from him is now wrong, also.
I seriously want to know: why do people like you support Saddam Hussein?
Probably urban legends. The only cases of which I'm familiar where a criminal successfully sued a victim (in a petty case) was an unarmed robber in Indiana who was shot by the victim and claimed that it was excessive force. He won $12,000, as I recall, but the victim easily paid that with donations. The $12,000 probably didn't begin to cover the robber's legal expenses, let alone his medical expenses *and* separate criminal case defense. It also may have been overturned on appeal. The guy was shot in the back while running away, and Indiana only allows deadly force when a life is being threatened (besides that of the criminal, of course).
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I want to move the freakin' Meridian to the US. Maybe NYC, or maybe somewhere closer to the middle of the country, like Dallas. What's so special about Greenwich? Hell, move it to NYC and make it GVMT.
My wife is an H1A nurse from the Philippines. Well, used to be, she's a citizen now. Anyway, she came over here long before I met her and worked for a company that "sponsored" her.
The company was a nursing home that was staffed almost entirely by foreign nurses that were being paid below the prevailing wage. Their problem wasn't in attracting nurses, it was simply that they wanted to pay less.
This same home had a fire a year or two ago that killed some patients, and it turned out that they didn't have sprinklers.
My observation of the medical industry is that facilities don't want to pay what nurses require, so they end up hiring foreign nurses if they're lucky. If they're not lucky, they end up paying twice what they'd pay a staff nurse to get someone from an agency.
Anyway, this is a two-sided issue. On one side, my wife started making more when she met me and I told her to simply ask for more money. She went to one place where they offered her $13/hour (with 7 or 8 years of experience at the time). Not surprisingly, she ended up working there through an agency for $35/hour at one point. God only knows what they were paying the agency for her time, probably more than $13/hour.
In the Filipino culture, it would be disrespectful to ask for more money of an employer, so they end up hurting over here. I mean this literally, the thought never crossed my wife's mind to ask for more money until she'd met me. Even then, it took a lot for her to get over it. The difference in pay is very significant.
Now, the other side. She was making PHP15K/month as a nurse when she left the Philippines. In US dollars, that's about $300. Actually, less now due to exchange rates. In terms of cost of living, that would be below the poverty line here. Even the $13/hour would be big bucks. It's all a matter of perspective.
Anyway, a lot of people are just happy to have a job, something we often lose site of here in the US. Still, there's no excuse for screwing people. And paying somebody less for the same work just because they won't complain is immoral.
It's also illegal. The Dept. of Labor has standards for H1A and H1B, and the workers are (by law) to be paid the same wages as an American. Of course, you can't legally hire them if an American is available to do the work, either.
I can't complain, I have a beautiful wife because of H1A.
When skimming this, I thought "autopilot" was "slashdot" the first time through. Oddly, it didn't seem to change the meaning of the sentence.
Let's see, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8:
I guess I'm missing the "promotion" part here.
This myth kept me away from postgres for a couple of years, since I knew how to set up mysql and didn't have time to learn something new. The fact is, as I found out easily, postgres is every bit as easy to set up as mysql, just different. And after it's ready, well, there's no comparison.
I doubt his handlers wanted him to say too much, just some vague "it crashed a lot" statements. After all, any further information and the source of the problem might be obvious. At this point, though, it should be blatantly obvious to anybody with a clue that Linux doesn't crash often or it wouldn't be as popular as it is.
I always wonder what exactly these guys get from their handlers for turning in every shred of credibility that they might have. I also wonder if their employers will ever catch on that they've got a weasel in their organization.
Why do people keep saying that FOSS products don't have licenses?
I suppose because I can use most FOSS products without a license. The GPL is a license relating to copying the code, it has nothing to do with usage. I can use it any way that I want, the license specifically states that you don't have to accept it to use the software.
I used to get at least one every couple of days, I can count on one hand the number of illegal calls that I have received since the federal list went into affect.
The problem that I have now is that some people call me at my business, ask for me, then try to sell me something that has nothing to do with the business.
They used the cameras to track the movements of the perpetrators of the July bombings, and determine who they were. With that information, they were able to gain more information on other cell members, etc. So, yes, they probably did prevent attacks.
I don't like it when our cities look like police states, on the other hand, people don't like being blown up by a fanatical idiot, either. The balance will be found, it'll just take awhile.
Microsoft has $40B in the bank, and 60,000 employees. If that $40B were invested at 5% annual interest, the interest alone ($2B) would be enough to pay each employee $33,333.33/year indefinitely. At 10%, obviously, we're talking about $66,666.67, which is probably not far off of their average wage.
Put another way, they have 2/3 of $1 million ($666,667) per employee. That would be 10 years of $66,667/year/employee- even if they never had any more revenue.
Those who think Microsoft is going away aren't good with math.
How about using the AOL screen name generator?
We're sorry, the name "Hurricane Sam" is taken. How about "Hurricane TNBabe2348"?
This exposes the gulf between open source security and proprietary security. Ignore for a minute the fact that Symantec a) has a vested interest in you using insecure products and b) uses highly flawed methodolgy as their "count" is actually "count of vendor-admitted bugs". There's a major difference between a vulnerability in Mozilla and a vulnerability in IE.
Since we don't have the source for IE, any vulnerability found is, by definition, exploitable. Someone found a way to exploit it- you get a vulnerability.
Vulnerabilities found in Mozilla, on the other hand, are often theoretical in nature. Someone looking through the source finds the problem, but no exploit is written.
Another major problem is here:
My entire system isn't going to be compromised from me browsing with Mozilla. Period. Somebody is confused.
Seems you need a haircut.
Oh, and Symantec says you aren't safe, and some guy in England who competes with open source software says it is going to ruin his industry without government help.
Anyone see a pattern?
Holy shit, people, who modded this "informative"?
IT"S A JOKE!
As are the research and TCO "studies" that Microsoft buys.
You can read *any* TCO study sponsored by Microsoft and you'll find that the upgrade to Windows Vista won't cost anything. There are *never* upgrade costs if you stick with Windows. Sheesh.
Also, there won't be any retraining costs if you stick with Windows.
Microsoft buys a lot of good research, you folks should read it more often.
Especially when that represents 9,000,000 man hours without email.
He had great things to say about FireFox, which isn't made by Apple, Palm, or Microsoft.
That little refutation was easy...
This is Walter Mossberg, not Maureen O'Gara. If you read his column, you'll find that he knows his shit. That's why he writes for the WSJ.
If he's pointing out that it sounds good in the car, he's likely noticed that a lot of other players don't. No surprise, a lot of people have complained about that.
Anyway, don't talk down to Mossberg, it just makes you look clueless.
some of us were smart enough to never start playing. I see people get hacks so that they can "win" warcraft (back in the wc2 days) and counterstrike, how much more when money's involved?
If some kind of reasonably open standard were in use instead of Flash we would be able to use it on our mobile devices...
Why do we go through this every time Flash is mentioned? Flash is an open standard. Putting "macromedia flash specification" takes all of 10 seconds and comes up with the page on Macromedia's site where you can download the complete specification.
Of course they don't want you to create your own player using their specification. I'm not sure what authority they have to specify your use of the specification after you download it.
Regardless, one of the main reasons there are no alternatives is because the format, by itself, isn't useful. With a content creation program, on the other hand, it's very useful. Macromedia sells one.
Unless you come up with a content creator, and players for all platforms, don't bother to come up with a specification for a Flash alternative.
I guess my viagra and ciliax orders are going to be delayed.
I always feel like I know less after reading Darl's various enlightenments....
Um, no, people like me are over there killing terrorists. The vast majority of Iraqis are now living better than they were under Saddam. The infrastructure is being built, something Saddam had neither the intention nor the capability to do. Peace will take time, but it will come.
It's sickening, though, to see you claim that Saddam was "better" because the current situation, as you see it, is bad. Saddam had some of the worst torture chambers in the world, why you would support that is beyond comprehension.
People want freedom, and the vast majority of them understand that there is a price. There was a price in America for the freedom that we have, also. It's a hell of a price, but it is necessary.
You know, I see this tired response way too often. Past stupidity by the US (and present stupidity) doesn't negate the value of any certain action. Seriously, your argument is stupid: it was wrong to overthrow Saddam because the US once supported him. That makes no sense. Regardless of anything in the past, Saddam was evil. Look at this:
Don't give me a song and dance about how you helped free the Iraqi people by deposing Hussein. You helped subjugate them in the first place by propping him up.
Let's make this clear: any dealings the US had with Saddam were wrong. Period. But, that doesn't mean that freeing the Iraqis from him is now wrong, also.
I seriously want to know: why do people like you support Saddam Hussein?
Probably urban legends. The only cases of which I'm familiar where a criminal successfully sued a victim (in a petty case) was an unarmed robber in Indiana who was shot by the victim and claimed that it was excessive force. He won $12,000, as I recall, but the victim easily paid that with donations. The $12,000 probably didn't begin to cover the robber's legal expenses, let alone his medical expenses *and* separate criminal case defense. It also may have been overturned on appeal. The guy was shot in the back while running away, and Indiana only allows deadly force when a life is being threatened (besides that of the criminal, of course).