Wow, $6.79 of purchasing power per hour for 15 hour shifts! Where do I sign up?
Gotta love the libertarian view of "screw them, they're a different color."
I've pretty much stopped posting to slashdot because I'm so disgusted with you people.
What you have written is false.
H1B Visa holders almost to a man get paid less than regular salaried employees. In fact, law firms have seminars to educate management on how to rig the system to hire H1B employees, how to advertise jobs in areas where they won't get applicants, and how to advertise so that they can obtain green cards for foreign employees.
Here's one such seminar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
"nonsense. what happened was people acted in their own rational [so they thought] interest..."
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Whether people think they're rational doesn't make their acts rational. Professors Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith challenged the old Libertarian thought that people act in their own self-interest. "human decisions, rather than being based on a full analysis of the situation, often rely on shortcuts or rules of thumb. The studies developed the idea of representativeness, in which people are too quick to see patterns in data that are actually random."
If someone believes that it is in their best interests to sell their stock it would be irrational of them to just sit there and watch their wealth erode away... but it would also mean that if they did sell their stock under incomplete information conditions the entire system becomes comparatively irrational...
Again, no. Your premise is wrong that they are acting in their own self-interest, your premise is also wrong that they are acting rationally, and your presumption that the entire system becomes irrational because people act on incomplete information is... well, incomplete. This is behavioral finance.
Not only is the search getting worse, adsense is critically broken. I wrote a gag DVD rewinding joke webpage and despite using keywords Google ran irrelevent, stupid, non-joke ads for the years the page was active. Then after all these years the adsense people decided, perhaps, although they wouldn't say, that people might take the jokes seriously (!) and so they banned the site and me, forever. Google's a mess.
My favorite gag website for the new user is BlankSheetofPaper.com -- it's a utility for printing blank sheets of paper from the printer in case you need a blank sheet (apparently the "input tray" is too confusing) -- as it states in the testimonials:
"I had a big meeting, but had no blank paper to write on! It was an emergency! After a quick Google, I found your site and sure enough after reading the FAQ's and online manual, boom, there was a blank sheet of paper for me to use from the printer! Thanks blanksheetof paper.com!" -- Earl, from Dallas
It also states "Extend the Life of your Print Cartridge! Print Blank Sheets!"
New users' heads always explode when they see this one.
Somewhere, a Cisco employee in the US will have to now form a team to make sure that the Chinese government can repress unhindered.
Then he'll go home to his wife and kids, proud that he's done a good job. If you're here, raise your hand.
Kind of funny, eh, that repression has been outsourced to us now. (Yes, Cisco helped set up the great firewall, sold the equipment, and worked extensively to prevent free access by Chinese citizens.)
This just happened to the Fox News wiki page as well. There's now a "debates about Fox News" or some such. They've managed to isolate criticisms of Fox to a corner of Wikipedia.
In a thousand years, the current trend towards open software will be regarded just as the Rennaisance is today. Minds opened, components that will form the basis of all communications were begun, no different than painters sharing the idea of perspective.
Which will make being enslaved in the corporate underground salt mines that much more pleasant.
As a Microsoft customer I feel this should really simplify things for me. Now my TCO between Linux and Windows will be much better and favor Microsoft! I can easily understand paying hundreds of dollars for a virtual process (which means, of course, a process that would be like a virtual machine, you know, a bunch of threads -- which I'm running now, but they're not actually a bunch of machine-like threads, well, they are, since they're on my machine, but they're not, like separate machines. If I were to say, run an emulator on my machine then I should pay Microsoft... wait... okay, now I'm getting confused.
Maybe I'd better start with the Linus Torvald's "per-seat cheek" licencing plan. Okay, I've got my spreadsheet out and I'm adding up the column marked "Zero." Now keep in mind that is PER PROCESSOR! Not per thread. No wait... that's per cheek. Dang formula!
Can someone please clarify for me how this will help Microsoft be more competitive, especially on the server side where they've taken a hit from Linux? I know everybody likes complicated and expensive licencing schemes, but still!
The first I heard about "Rome" was right now, on this story. (Amazing, the power of word of mouth promotion like this!) I would download an episode to see if it's any good or not (and then, perhaps, tune in) but since it sounds like it might take a long time I'll just pass. It's too much work, and it sounds like it's far too much trouble to deal with.
Therefore HBO has solved its own problem. They want to impede viewership, and I shall cooperate with them.
It appears that they have forgotten that there's a 500 channel universe out there and a thing called "word of mouth."
Enjoy your show HBO, you're the only ones who'll want to watch it.
I've been working for months on my colostomy viewer website! They stole my idea and just changed a couple of letters! Once again it's the big guy beating up the little guy!
And now I'm sitting here with a room full of sticky webcams!
I am so happy to see that the government is cracking down on the real threats to this nation! Far too long we have put up with pornographers and their damaging effects which could even possibly culminate in losses of life! I can't imagine anything more threatening to this nation than a 17 year old boy wanking violently in his room while looking at deviant nakedness, except possibly naughty words on television, which causes wanking, which causes taking the Lord's name in vain ("Oh god!"). This is a cycle dammit!
If we don't stand up together and fight against this very real threat to the impurity of our nations willies the terrorists will have won! You don't see them wanking off in their spare time! No! They are taking up hobbies, such as flying!
Everybody, I want you to stand up with me now, yes, even those with your spigots in your palms, stand up right now and put your hand on your heart. Now join me in a small prayer to save this nation from all its threats, one of the top of which is hurricane, war causing, terrorism supporting out of control yogurt squeezing. Let us begin:
Google has the grouped conversations, but still hasn't made it so that I can group any two conversations into one. So right now I have fragments of conversations spread throughout my emails. If only I could drag and drop one conversation into another, or separate them when they need to be separated, Google would have a perfect little product.
Sadly, I use Google not because it's the best, but because I have a long memory -- and I remember VERY WELL YAHOO how you guys screwed us with your two megabyte/ten megabyte limit. Yahoo will not get my business again, no matter how much Gmail might frustrate me.
In a surprise announcement today, Toshiba Japan announced that it was recalling it's Methanol Powered batteries from the market after users reported missing limbs, including fingers, hands, and chunks of leg.
Toshiba spokesperson Udai appeared shocked, "We really thought mixing electricity and methanol was a good idea" he stated. Initial reports of these small explosions from the MP3 players appear to be caused by the music pop sensation Brittany Spears. Estimates to this point indicate that over 50% of her fan base has lost at least one finger up to the knuckle rendering the frustrated users incapable of using the mp3 player. Cries of "dammit" could be heard from Junior High Schools across the nation.
Why post it twice? We already know they're trying to get our attention. Heck, they're even running ads on tv. Although now it makes sense now why Sun's Ad campaign was refused --
"This is a gamma ray burst! We can't air this! We'll kill all our viewers!"
I'm a developer and look at Microsoft's actions from my point of view.
I just spent the last two weeks building a replacement Microsoft's ADO/DAO in our product using sqlite. Why? Because on rolling out we discovered that ADO would fault on half the machines, and DAO would fault on the other half of the machines. Weird error messages. Strange unrelated machine problems. Both implementations ran fine in the lab, but in the real world they would fail. Who has time for that?
So we ripped out both and replaced them with a brand spanking new sqlite version. Wasted a lot of programming and testing time, but it was the only way to make sure that our program would work in the real world. In a similar vein, we had to remove all the Microsoft calendar controls from our product because some of the machines in the real world would fault. Working around Microsoft's problems is not what programmers should be paid for.
Now, given a choice between Google's products, which are generally stable and just work, and Microsoft's API which will potentially lead to a lot of uncomfortable surprises on rollout, which would I choose? It's a no brainer.
No thanks, Microsoft, but you had your chance. When we got to the point that we had to set a policy to minimize the use of Microsoft controls as much as possible you lost any chance of ever getting us back in the fold.
Here is what Bush did right after his grave speech about how difficult this time would be. This was just yesterday when people were dying. You can see the Presidential Seal on the guitar he's smiling and playing, which apparently was supplied by the US Department of Irony:
Pictures of bodies floating by are currently on the front page of the New York Times.
I posted the following quote on the previous article, with no conclusions, but it was modded down by people who dislike facts they disagree with. Additionally there's more information now and I am posting a link to the original article from editor and publisher:
"It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us." June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, in the Times-Picayune
Additionally it appears that Louisiana should have been "high on the list of FEMA's biggest disaster mitigation grant program" but received nothing. Here's the article that states this:
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2004-09-2 8/cover_story2.html
Now, as before, mod this post into oblivion so that you don't have to see Bush smiling and playing the guitar yesterday while bodies float around. I'm not sure what disgusts me more -- him doing that, or people closing their eyes to truth.
"It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us." -- Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004.
I've got a question -- why can't he just clip off the plug end of an old phone cord, pick the two center wires and then just plug that in to the socket on his cordless base station and use those to feed the voice signal in just as if it were coming direct from the line? Not trolling, this is a serious question. Perhaps it wouldn't work for some odd reason.
I remember in the old days I used a tape record on a phone line somewhat like that and it was even good enough to record the 300 baud line connection. I could even play it back and reproduce the text transmitted. That was when I was a rotten kid and... errr... experimenting.
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Wow, $6.79 of purchasing power per hour for 15 hour shifts! Where do I sign up? Gotta love the libertarian view of "screw them, they're a different color." I've pretty much stopped posting to slashdot because I'm so disgusted with you people.
Yes, I have. Your position that excessive protectionism is bad, therefore ALL protectionism is bad, is wrong and silly.
Protectionism is quite often useful. And 1930, the great depression, would not have been helped by outsourcing to Chinese children.
What you have written is false. H1B Visa holders almost to a man get paid less than regular salaried employees. In fact, law firms have seminars to educate management on how to rig the system to hire H1B employees, how to advertise jobs in areas where they won't get applicants, and how to advertise so that they can obtain green cards for foreign employees. Here's one such seminar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
Whether people think they're rational doesn't make their acts rational. Professors Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith challenged the old Libertarian thought that people act in their own self-interest. "human decisions, rather than being based on a full analysis of the situation, often rely on shortcuts or rules of thumb. The studies developed the idea of representativeness, in which people are too quick to see patterns in data that are actually random."
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/irrational-studies-lead-to-nobel-prize-for-us-economists-613675.html
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They won a Nobel prize in economics for this.
If someone believes that it is in their best interests to sell their stock it would be irrational of them to just sit there and watch their wealth erode away... but it would also mean that if they did sell their stock under incomplete information conditions the entire system becomes comparatively irrational... Again, no. Your premise is wrong that they are acting in their own self-interest, your premise is also wrong that they are acting rationally, and your presumption that the entire system becomes irrational because people act on incomplete information is... well, incomplete. This is behavioral finance.
Not only is the search getting worse, adsense is critically broken. I wrote a gag DVD rewinding joke webpage and despite using keywords Google ran irrelevent, stupid, non-joke ads for the years the page was active. Then after all these years the adsense people decided, perhaps, although they wouldn't say, that people might take the jokes seriously (!) and so they banned the site and me, forever. Google's a mess.
"I had a big meeting, but had no blank paper to write on! It was an emergency! After a quick Google, I found your site and sure enough after reading the FAQ's and online manual, boom, there was a blank sheet of paper for me to use from the printer! Thanks blanksheetof paper.com!" -- Earl, from Dallas
It also states "Extend the Life of your Print Cartridge! Print Blank Sheets!"
New users' heads always explode when they see this one.
Then he'll go home to his wife and kids, proud that he's done a good job. If you're here, raise your hand.
Kind of funny, eh, that repression has been outsourced to us now. (Yes, Cisco helped set up the great firewall, sold the equipment, and worked extensively to prevent free access by Chinese citizens.)
This has to stop.
Which will make being enslaved in the corporate underground salt mines that much more pleasant.
My Mosquito, Spanky, never escaped from our backyard until the tragic day that he was hit by a car. (Sobbing) Oh god, Spanky! Oh god!
Maybe I'd better start with the Linus Torvald's "per-seat cheek" licencing plan. Okay, I've got my spreadsheet out and I'm adding up the column marked "Zero." Now keep in mind that is PER PROCESSOR! Not per thread. No wait... that's per cheek. Dang formula!
Can someone please clarify for me how this will help Microsoft be more competitive, especially on the server side where they've taken a hit from Linux? I know everybody likes complicated and expensive licencing schemes, but still!
Nobody was more shocked than me!
Therefore HBO has solved its own problem. They want to impede viewership, and I shall cooperate with them.
It appears that they have forgotten that there's a 500 channel universe out there and a thing called "word of mouth."
Enjoy your show HBO, you're the only ones who'll want to watch it.
How is this roomba going to fit the dead sniper in the tiny little vacuum cleaner bag?
And now I'm sitting here with a room full of sticky webcams!
I guess I just came at this from the wrong angle.
If we don't stand up together and fight against this very real threat to the impurity of our nations willies the terrorists will have won! You don't see them wanking off in their spare time! No! They are taking up hobbies, such as flying!
Everybody, I want you to stand up with me now, yes, even those with your spigots in your palms, stand up right now and put your hand on your heart. Now join me in a small prayer to save this nation from all its threats, one of the top of which is hurricane, war causing, terrorism supporting out of control yogurt squeezing. Let us begin:
Oh God!
Sadly, I use Google not because it's the best, but because I have a long memory -- and I remember VERY WELL YAHOO how you guys screwed us with your two megabyte/ten megabyte limit. Yahoo will not get my business again, no matter how much Gmail might frustrate me.
CUSTOMERS HAVE LONG MEMORIES YAHOO!
In a surprise announcement today, Toshiba Japan announced that it was recalling it's Methanol Powered batteries from the market after users reported missing limbs, including fingers, hands, and chunks of leg.
Toshiba spokesperson Udai appeared shocked, "We really thought mixing electricity and methanol was a good idea" he stated. Initial reports of these small explosions from the MP3 players appear to be caused by the music pop sensation Brittany Spears. Estimates to this point indicate that over 50% of her fan base has lost at least one finger up to the knuckle rendering the frustrated users incapable of using the mp3 player. Cries of "dammit" could be heard from Junior High Schools across the nation.
Sun's Bold New Ad Campaign!
Why post it twice? We already know they're trying to get our attention. Heck, they're even running ads on tv. Although now it makes sense now why Sun's Ad campaign was refused --
"This is a gamma ray burst! We can't air this! We'll kill all our viewers!"
Stupid McNealy. He'll kill us all.
I just spent the last two weeks building a replacement Microsoft's ADO/DAO in our product using sqlite. Why? Because on rolling out we discovered that ADO would fault on half the machines, and DAO would fault on the other half of the machines. Weird error messages. Strange unrelated machine problems. Both implementations ran fine in the lab, but in the real world they would fail. Who has time for that?
So we ripped out both and replaced them with a brand spanking new sqlite version. Wasted a lot of programming and testing time, but it was the only way to make sure that our program would work in the real world. In a similar vein, we had to remove all the Microsoft calendar controls from our product because some of the machines in the real world would fault. Working around Microsoft's problems is not what programmers should be paid for.
Now, given a choice between Google's products, which are generally stable and just work, and Microsoft's API which will potentially lead to a lot of uncomfortable surprises on rollout, which would I choose? It's a no brainer.
No thanks, Microsoft, but you had your chance. When we got to the point that we had to set a policy to minimize the use of Microsoft controls as much as possible you lost any chance of ever getting us back in the fold.
http://americablog.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/gu itar-710427.jpg
Pictures of bodies floating by are currently on the front page of the New York Times.
I posted the following quote on the previous article, with no conclusions, but it was modded down by people who dislike facts they disagree with. Additionally there's more information now and I am posting a link to the original article from editor and publisher:
"It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us." June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, in the Times-Picayune
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/artic le_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001051313
The above article also details what cuts were done by Bush to the SELA grants (for levees in New Orleans), which, by the way, were started and funded in 1995.
Additionally it appears that Louisiana should have been "high on the list of FEMA's biggest disaster mitigation grant program" but received nothing. Here's the article that states this: http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2004-09-2 8/cover_story2.html
Now, as before, mod this post into oblivion so that you don't have to see Bush smiling and playing the guitar yesterday while bodies float around. I'm not sure what disgusts me more -- him doing that, or people closing their eyes to truth.
"It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us." -- Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004.
I remember in the old days I used a tape record on a phone line somewhat like that and it was even good enough to record the 300 baud line connection. I could even play it back and reproduce the text transmitted. That was when I was a rotten kid and ... errr... experimenting.