I don't think anyone reading slashdot is surprised by this. Companies use H-1B people as the closest legal thing to indentured servants.
The companies do generally pay the legal fees for said person to get a green card. So while the time as H-1B is "bad" compared to being a citizen or green carded, most of them feel it is worth it for the green card. After all the INS listens to high paid corporate lawyers much better than to the poor immigrant. (Or maybe the lawyers just know how to work the system better.)
Since you are posting on Slashdot I have to think you are a Tech person. Did you know that the moon shoot was a major driver that pushed computers from being bigger than a house, to something that would fit in a plane or the moon lander module?
Sadly the current political climate in the US seems to be that if a few company can make a small short time profit by doing things that hasten the US's fall from being the superpower to a 2nd world nation; then we are all for it. Profit at any price.
Reminds me of the bumper sticker "If your not outraged, your not paying attention."
So that page had links to download Bit Torrent. I was hoping to find links to use bit torrent to download Open Office. Doing a search just gave an error.
Columbia will use 5 Stratellites to provide a wireless broadband network. This seems like the same thing.
Nothing new under the sun? Not from this story anyway.
I still remember arguing with Bob Young at RTP area LUG meetings back in 1995 about why RedHat should release sales numbers. I still think it would have given Linux more credibility to have the numbers out there. But all's well that ends well.
While I like the idea of downloading my TV programs and dropping cable, $1.99 an episode makes this MUCH more expensive than my cable bill for what I would want to watch. A week's worth of the Daily Show would be $10, plus Fox's animation shows, and a few others. Quickly I'm at $80+ a month.
$1.99 for music videos works, because you are likely to buy less of them, and to watch them over and over again. But TV shows you are likely to watch once or twice and then delete them. I think $0.50 or $0.25 a show would make me regularly buy shows.
Perhaps I'm just crazy, but I thought you could only patent things you invent, instead of things you discovered?!
I remember an english class way back in my school days where we discussed how often people get these two terms mixed up. For example: Columbus disovered America; he did not invent America. Ben Franklin disovered electricity, but did not invent it. (Really bad example as I'm pretty sure people already knew about electricity, but in US schools Americans invented everything:-))
You can discover Human Genes, but you don't invent them since they already exist. So what gives here? Is this something more alarming than the normal patent insanity? Should I file my patent on "breathing oxygen" tomorrow?
I remember when Tech reporters we too afraid to every say anything publicly critical of MS. Seeing articles like this, regarless of their technical usefulness, does mean we are moving in the right direction. Moving slowly I'll grant you, but moving all the same.
I once predicted that historiclly some year around 1997 to 1999 will be seen as the peak of MS influence in the tech world. Although it might take 20 years for the company to be weakened to a minor player, I think we are seeing MS in its declining years!
But I'd like to know the BIG picture. In terms of total x86 based CPU's what is the share sold by AMD? I know it will still be small, but then at least I can go to older news items and compare apples to apples (or Apples to Dells).
While I do beleive in global warming, one year does not prove a trend. It will take a few decades of this to prove the trend, of course by then it might be too late.
I have a freind who used to work at a major cell phone company. I remember him telling me people would NEVER use java or linux in embedded products because the memory foot print was just too big.
Ah, Moore's Law, what isn't practical today will be in 18 months (or 36 months, etc.).
He is a smart guy, he just doesn't have the vision to look out that far into the future.
I have to reboot Win XP have the time I switch networks because DHCP can't release and get a new IP. So while that might not be a crash, its just as bad in that it results in a reboot and 5 minutes of lost time.
Natural selection, or competition is good for the end user. If it wasn't Windows might be a better OS.
Having different companies specialize in distributions for different markets make the products a better fit than one "do it all" distribution. RedHat might be the corporate standard in the US, but SUSE is in Europe, and then there is Asia, India, Africa, etc. And lets not forget all the types: home computer, server, desktop, geek, grand parents, mobile, embedded, realtime, hardened, softened, etc.
In the future we might see Timelix "the best linux distro for your watch."
The trend seems to be more distros not less. Look at Windows, MS says there will be 7 flavors (distributions) of the next version of Windows. And that doesn't even include mobile and/or embedded versions of Windows.
Does this news just make anyone else want to vomit? I thought MS was greedy.
Well its just another reason for me to NOT buy the latest Madona release.
Honestly for the past 5 years I have only bought CD's directly from the small time artist at local coffee shops. This just makes me want to continue that trend. (That and my existing collection of several hundred CD's purchased during my colledge years and early twenties is enough to fill my iPod.)
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On slashdot everything is Microsoft's fault.
Where in the past bad things were attributed to the Devil, now its just Microsoft.
However the question arises, what would MythTV do with the same hardware?
I don't think anyone reading slashdot is surprised by this. Companies use H-1B people as the closest legal thing to indentured servants.
The companies do generally pay the legal fees for said person to get a green card. So while the time as H-1B is "bad" compared to being a citizen or green carded, most of them feel it is worth it for the green card. After all the INS listens to high paid corporate lawyers much better than to the poor immigrant. (Or maybe the lawyers just know how to work the system better.)
Apples descision could have been based on a Jobs saying "They will be out when?".
In 2 years Apple might put them in dual core iPods or something. You know the pocket sized holo-suite projector model!
PS. As I sit here ripping DVD's to iPod video format, I have to say Apple NEEDS to care about speed. A mac mini is not a video editing box!
Since you are posting on Slashdot I have to think you are a Tech person. Did you know that the moon shoot was a major driver that pushed computers from being bigger than a house, to something that would fit in a plane or the moon lander module?
Neither article clearly states if it is design problems or bugs that are causing the back up.
1) If its design, then I expect its a problem that the designers never talked to the people actually doing the work to see what they really needed.
2) If it is bugs, then clearly there wasn't enough testing before release.
Either case bad management is to blame. Of course managers will deflect the blame somewhere else and go on to screw up other projects.
Reminds me of the bumper sticker "If your not outraged, your not paying attention."
Please post direct links please.
Columbia will use 5 Stratellites to provide a wireless broadband network. This seems like the same thing. Nothing new under the sun? Not from this story anyway.
I still remember arguing with Bob Young at RTP area LUG meetings back in 1995 about why RedHat should release sales numbers. I still think it would have given Linux more credibility to have the numbers out there. But all's well that ends well.
Where is this team located?
I suspect the bigger companies will go along, seeing the fee as away of keeping smaller players from moving into the market.
$1.99 for music videos works, because you are likely to buy less of them, and to watch them over and over again. But TV shows you are likely to watch once or twice and then delete them. I think $0.50 or $0.25 a show would make me regularly buy shows.
I remember an english class way back in my school days where we discussed how often people get these two terms mixed up. For example: Columbus disovered America; he did not invent America. Ben Franklin disovered electricity, but did not invent it. (Really bad example as I'm pretty sure people already knew about electricity, but in US schools Americans invented everything :-))
You can discover Human Genes, but you don't invent them since they already exist. So what gives here? Is this something more alarming than the normal patent insanity? Should I file my patent on "breathing oxygen" tomorrow?
this service a backstop for users who violate basic common sense. Violate basic common sense by doing what? Running windows?
I once predicted that historiclly some year around 1997 to 1999 will be seen as the peak of MS influence in the tech world. Although it might take 20 years for the company to be weakened to a minor player, I think we are seeing MS in its declining years!
This is just one more reason for people to switch to ___________ (insert favorite OS). My favorites are Linux and OS X.
But I'd like to know the BIG picture. In terms of total x86 based CPU's what is the share sold by AMD? I know it will still be small, but then at least I can go to older news items and compare apples to apples (or Apples to Dells).
While I do beleive in global warming, one year does not prove a trend. It will take a few decades of this to prove the trend, of course by then it might be too late.
Buy those Nanos while Apple is still getting a good deal on memory. :-)
If you want to do VOIP using Linux or Mac (OS X) based PC's what are your options? As a follow up question, what works with Asterisk?
I have a freind who used to work at a major cell phone company. I remember him telling me people would NEVER use java or linux in embedded products because the memory foot print was just too big.
Ah, Moore's Law, what isn't practical today will be in 18 months (or 36 months, etc.).
He is a smart guy, he just doesn't have the vision to look out that far into the future.
I have to reboot Win XP have the time I switch networks because DHCP can't release and get a new IP. So while that might not be a crash, its just as bad in that it results in a reboot and 5 minutes of lost time.
Really a show of hands for the people who want MS software in their TV, stereo, car, planes, traffic lights, etc. Is anyone that stupid?
In the future we might see Timelix "the best linux distro for your watch."
Honestly for the past 5 years I have only bought CD's directly from the small time artist at local coffee shops. This just makes me want to continue that trend. (That and my existing collection of several hundred CD's purchased during my colledge years and early twenties is enough to fill my iPod.)