As a Brit now living in the US I can clearly see the reason. Even though many companies in the EU won;t stop trying, this endless free overtime malarkey generally does not fly at all because most people there just won't go along with it.
The problem exists in the US because for some reason, the average American employee's mentality is to just accept and give in to whatever employers do to you without any questions or push back at all. If US employees saw their employment contract as what it actually is, a business deal between equals that exchanges time for money at a fixed rate, The problem would end overnight.
People that complain about having to work endless unpaid overtime just need to grow a pair and stand up to being abused. Do exactly what you're paid for, then go home. Seriously.
Thats funny, I had so much frustration with AMD/ATI's Linux driversI pretty much threw an $800 laptop away, and before and since then have never had any problems at all with nVidia's drivers. It boggles my mind how anyone can believe AMD drivers are better/more stable than nVidia's, especially on Linux.
The reason is that many Software Director positions are now filled with technically clueless people that are basically salesmen rather than engineers. They have no comprehension of the concept of technical debt, or the need to spend time on activities that don't directly translate into new features. The net result is that you're always just piling more crap onto the top of a steaming turd pile so making it worse, instead of working to replace the shit.
Kinda makes you wonder how could it be that the complaint was never answered yet the restaurateur was down $8200 in attorney fees. Especially if the case was so cut-and-dry that the Fairness In Music Licencing act already covered him.
While I appreciate the opportunity to download 11TB of data, it would be a lot nicer if there was a high-level summary somewhere of what the projections are actually indicating are most likely to happen. I've looked but can't find one. Anyone found anything?
If a ladies are allowed in the lab, scientists will be continually distracted by having to help them with all their twisted ankles and fainting spells.
>> the US will run out of schmucks who are underpaid as well.
Nope I'm having a hard time imagining that, partly because Mexico is an apparently infinite source of illegals, and also because the whole US economy is really so top-heavy it needs a constant source of underpaid labor it can exploit to even just keep existing.
Why do you think Obama is trying to make it even easier for companies to get even more H1B's so they can bring in even more cheap Indian coders with fake degrees, and for even more Mexicans to illegally cross the border and immediately get a US driving licence?
Yeah thats about as much of a misnomer as "African American".
If you took any Black American that is more than 1 generation off the boat yet still proudly calling themselves African American, and dropped them in the middle of Africa, I can frickin guarantee they would very quickly change to thinking of themselves as 100% American.
Really? wow. Was he joking or sincere? I could imagine that being believed/said (perhaps naively) with a reasonably straight face about towns in what was the Mexican Cession states, ( Cali, Arizona, Utah, Texas, New Mexico, etc) but NY seems a long way too far North East for that to be intended as a serious comment. Demographics seem to prove him generally wrong too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
They can label you however they want, but it stil doesn't make them right. I think the problem would be helped a lot if the US formally declared a national language....But (assuming Spanish doesn't win) please call it American not English. What you people speak and write really isn't English. At least until you (finally) throw Websters away and adopt the Oxford English Dictionary as the arbiter of correct spelling... and maybe learn to pronounce the word "duty" in a manner not freely interchangeable with the word "doody".:-)
I'm sure you're right, but if we worried about all the stuff that ignorant people make up and claim is right, then we'd all be too scared to even leave the house every day.
>> Learning a new language doesn't come easy to many people. And many people don't have the time or other resources to pay for instruction.
Sorry but that's just a lame excuse. Its all just a case of motivation. The reality is there are many nice but fundamentally lazy people in this world that will never make an effort (even to improve their own life) if they can possibly avoid it. The fact he's (still) only a janitor is a clue. Are you seriously telling me that in over 30 years he couldn't find the time to study a language thats in use all around him all the time? Sorry but you don't need to pay for tuition to do that. You just need to make an effort and maybe buy a book.
Just to prove the point by taking it to the extreme: if he was told he'd have to pass a fairly tough English test in 1 year or his wife/dog/kid would be shot, I freakin guarantee he'd suddenly get it together.
>> If you're going to live in a foreign country for any extended period of time, it is incumbent upon you to learn and adapt to them, not the other way round.
I'm not saying you can't survive, but you have to admit you would have been at least socially much better off in at least the first year or two if you'd have learnt the languages before you got there.
Because there's much more going on than just going to lectures.
For instance what does she do when she needs to ask about/buy something in a store or whatever? just expect everyone should make the exception for her and to learn and speak American because she can't be bothered to learn German? It's exactly that ignorant, arrogant mentality that causes Americans to often have such a bad reputation overseas.
Getting an education in the US is waay different to Germany.
Firstly, education in the US is one of the most expensive in the world. So foreigners that study in the US generally are relatively rich (or from rich families) to start with, and paying A LOT more than it would cost them to live in their own country to be there.
>> not Everyone moves out of the US after studying here...but they're not forced to.
They pretty much are. To study in the US you need a student visa which expires after you graduate or flunk out. If you stay outside of that, without having an something like an H1B or a green card you're illegal. simple. And those are not so easy/quick to get. Also except for some very specific cases to do with training related to study, a student visa does not entitle you to work either.
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As a Brit now living in the US I can clearly see the reason. Even though many companies in the EU won;t stop trying, this endless free overtime malarkey generally does not fly at all because most people there just won't go along with it.
The problem exists in the US because for some reason, the average American employee's mentality is to just accept and give in to whatever employers do to you without any questions or push back at all. If US employees saw their employment contract as what it actually is, a business deal between equals that exchanges time for money at a fixed rate, The problem would end overnight.
People that complain about having to work endless unpaid overtime just need to grow a pair and stand up to being abused. Do exactly what you're paid for, then go home. Seriously.
Thats funny, I had so much frustration with AMD/ATI's Linux driversI pretty much threw an $800 laptop away, and before and since then have never had any problems at all with nVidia's drivers.
It boggles my mind how anyone can believe AMD drivers are better/more stable than nVidia's, especially on Linux.
>> The problem is that this is never done.
The reason is that many Software Director positions are now filled with technically clueless people that are basically salesmen rather than engineers.
They have no comprehension of the concept of technical debt, or the need to spend time on activities that don't directly translate into new features.
The net result is that you're always just piling more crap onto the top of a steaming turd pile so making it worse, instead of working to replace the shit.
Kinda makes you wonder how could it be that the complaint was never answered yet the restaurateur was down $8200 in attorney fees. Especially if the case was so cut-and-dry that the Fairness In Music Licencing act already covered him.
Windows will be around for another 25 years? Oh God please no....
Given there are only 14 variations (One with Jan 1 on each day of the week, and another 7 but for leap years), you could just reuse old ones.
This.
Was exactly my first thought too.
While I appreciate the opportunity to download 11TB of data, it would be a lot nicer if there was a high-level summary somewhere of what the projections are actually indicating are most likely to happen. I've looked but can't find one. Anyone found anything?
>> stating that women are not capable of handling criticism (unless you've got some objective evidence).
you're either
a) female
b) been single all your life
c) found and dated the one woman on the planet who can handle criticism calmly.
If a ladies are allowed in the lab, scientists will be continually distracted by having to help them with all their twisted ankles and fainting spells.
Actually I've always been impressed with how well nearly all the Dutch people I've ever met speak English without much of an accent.
ok I can try...
Y'all listen up now coz y'all need to word up yo edjumacation.
>> the US will run out of schmucks who are underpaid as well.
Nope I'm having a hard time imagining that, partly because Mexico is an apparently infinite source of illegals, and also because the whole US economy is really so top-heavy it needs a constant source of underpaid labor it can exploit to even just keep existing.
Why do you think Obama is trying to make it even easier for companies to get even more H1B's so they can bring in even more cheap Indian coders with fake degrees, and for even more Mexicans to illegally cross the border and immediately get a US driving licence?
Yeah thats about as much of a misnomer as "African American".
If you took any Black American that is more than 1 generation off the boat yet still proudly calling themselves African American, and dropped them in the middle of Africa, I can frickin guarantee they would very quickly change to thinking of themselves as 100% American.
Really? wow. Was he joking or sincere? I could imagine that being believed/said (perhaps naively) with a reasonably straight face about towns in what was the Mexican Cession states, ( Cali, Arizona, Utah, Texas, New Mexico, etc) but NY seems a long way too far North East for that to be intended as a serious comment.
Demographics seem to prove him generally wrong too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
They can label you however they want, but it stil doesn't make them right. I think the problem would be helped a lot if the US formally declared a national language. ...But (assuming Spanish doesn't win) please call it American not English. What you people speak and write really isn't English. At least until you (finally) throw Websters away and adopt the Oxford English Dictionary as the arbiter of correct spelling ... and maybe learn to pronounce the word "duty" in a manner not freely interchangeable with the word "doody". :-)
>> Well, Germans should learn English, as should everyone else.
As an Englishman living in the USA I can't agree more. Americans are at the top of the list of nations that need to learn English :-)
I'm sure you're right, but if we worried about all the stuff that ignorant people make up and claim is right, then we'd all be too scared to even leave the house every day.
>> Learning a new language doesn't come easy to many people. And many people don't have the time or other resources to pay for instruction.
Sorry but that's just a lame excuse. Its all just a case of motivation. The reality is there are many nice but fundamentally lazy people in this world that will never make an effort (even to improve their own life) if they can possibly avoid it. The fact he's (still) only a janitor is a clue. Are you seriously telling me that in over 30 years he couldn't find the time to study a language thats in use all around him all the time? Sorry but you don't need to pay for tuition to do that. You just need to make an effort and maybe buy a book.
Just to prove the point by taking it to the extreme: if he was told he'd have to pass a fairly tough English test in 1 year or his wife/dog/kid would be shot, I freakin guarantee he'd suddenly get it together.
>> If you're going to live in a foreign country for any extended period of time, it is incumbent upon you to learn and adapt to them, not the other way round.
I totally agree.
...And what does she do in the first year or so meanwhile?
Sorry but thats just peecee bullshit.
To be racist you need to be anti a particular race. Where did I say that?
I'm not saying you can't survive, but you have to admit you would have been at least socially much better off in at least the first year or two if you'd have learnt the languages before you got there.
Because there's much more going on than just going to lectures.
For instance what does she do when she needs to ask about/buy something in a store or whatever? just expect everyone should make the exception for her and to learn and speak American because she can't be bothered to learn German? It's exactly that ignorant, arrogant mentality that causes Americans to often have such a bad reputation overseas.
Getting an education in the US is waay different to Germany.
Firstly, education in the US is one of the most expensive in the world. So foreigners that study in the US generally are relatively rich (or from rich families) to start with, and paying A LOT more than it would cost them to live in their own country to be there.
>> not Everyone moves out of the US after studying here...but they're not forced to.
They pretty much are. To study in the US you need a student visa which expires after you graduate or flunk out. If you stay outside of that, without having an something like an H1B or a green card you're illegal. simple. And those are not so easy/quick to get.
Also except for some very specific cases to do with training related to study, a student visa does not entitle you to work either.