If you want a multibuttion mouse, you can get one fairly inexpensively. If you want long battery life on a PC, you can always try a transmeta powered one... oops, those aren't shipping yet.
Sorry, that should have been FAA. The things will be mostly run on automatic pilot and no pilots licenses will be needed when full approval is granted. They have got the noise down pretty well (85db @ 50 ft) and look to be a great buy (if you have the $$$). Try reading their site. The link is in my previous response.
As I'm a network admin as well, I would have to disagree. A Cisco cert will go a long way to improve your money making abilities. Linux certs or even the venerable MCSE can help as well.
I've worked for hellhole companies and decent ones. It sounds like you are at the former. Be aware that the lack of time to update skills is often management planned to keep you there. Don't give in
Anybody who built such a system probably wouldn't be stupid enough to omit emergency clamps which would attach to the cable preventing a fall. We have systems that are similar in concept on all current elevators. This would take care of the problem of the break happening below the car and I suspect that parachutes/retro rockets could help out for breaks happening above the car (no clamp engagement wanted there).
Who's excluding anybody? I mentioned Siberia because we have a history of this with the Russians (Alaska) and didn't mention Canada and Mexico also for historical reasons (war, invasion, & forced territory transfers). Anybody who wants to become a territory should be allowed to apply and clear preconditions for it should be laid out.
Hey, I'm with the open borders folks but that doesn't mean I can't make an observation of the reality on the ground. The smart H1B applicants start the green card process right away. As another poster here mentioned, the INS is very, very slow.
Are you in the US? My comment was aimed at the US situation which is the only country where the H1B debate has any relevance (other than for the foreign applicants). If you are, you need to:
1. post your resume to monster.com and as many other job boards as you can
2. update your skills. If you learned EJB and got certified at it, people will pay to move you to where the action is.
We're working on it. Unfortunately, there are people who make good money stealing via government in each of these countries. These people are entrenched and difficult to disloge. It *does* help if you have cash from a US job to help counteract their own money for votes schemes.
Actually fighting back is leaving for a better firm and then getting the recruiting bonuses at your new firm when you bring over 20-30 of your friends and blow your old firm's dev project deadlines to hell by stealing away their best staff.
There is another option beyond opening the borders and go fix your own country. It's expand the US. We could make out very well with a chunk of Siberia under US territorial law. Even a 100 year deal a la Hong Kong would work out well for all concerned. The US has one great feature, its laws and the system that enforces them. There's no reason that can't be exported to everybody's profit.
You are confusing citizenship with residency. People get here all the time without being citizens and a good thing too. I would certainly want people to be minimally familiar with the culture and political system before they get the right to walk into that voting booth.
How many non-conformists are going to be kept out by the credentials system any sane union is going to insist on? My bet is lots. Unfortunately for the union, coding is a very moveable business and E. Europe, Asia are going to be happy to step into the breach
Those pointy headed bosses are why companies die, get bought out, or otherwise lose economic relevance. Getting out of such a firm whether it be by being recruited out, laid off, or fired, is a favor to the competent who often are so busy working that they don't understand how abused they are at these firms. Start a firm, work for a company that has a clue, these are the proper responses to TPHB. Capitalism is about running towards maximizing value, not staying in place no matter the cost.
The problem with this is that bits are easily transportable. In the next 5-10 years videoconferencing your outsourced programmers in Ulan Bator is going to be cheap, easy, and standards based. It's not that hard to go overseas right now so why would you import labor when you can just export the job specs?
So then what? You end up with a unionized workforce that loses jobs overseas all the time, a shrinking workforce of real programming with the only people with secure jobs being the network admins who have to physically be there to fix boxes (and that's a small sector of IT compared to the programmers). No thanks.
I'm working with an H1B colleague who changed jobs and told me he didn't have much trouble doing it. He just found the new job first, got the paperwork rolling and then gave two weeks notice on his old job. This isn't rocket science.
Silly boy, it's not corporate interests that stop the educational system from getting fixed, it's union interests. The Dems are so in hock to the NEA that they are willing to condemn millions of mostly minority inner city children to the new plantation of 'would you like fries with that' McJobs.
There's quite a bit of corporate support for charter schools/private schools and I haven't heard of any corporate opponents to vouchers or other innovative education initiatives. Care to provide evidence for your point of view?
Actually, the reason people go into sweatshop circumstances is that their alternatives are worse (most often due to other govt. interference in the economy) elsewhere. Immigrants from China are paying 60k to snakeheads to smuggle them in to the US and are willing to exchange 20 years of sweatshop labor for the privilege they are handing their children of living relatively free.
The case of people not capable of earning a living wage is more rare and often transitory. A 15 yr old might not know enough about the business world to do more than flip burgers but in 6 months of conscientious work, he's got the employee skills necessary to clerk or do other office work that should pay better and provide better conditions.
The reality today in many areas is that even McDonalds and many other traditional minimum wage employers are offering $8 per hour to fill those jobs because of a labor shortage because there has been a consensus among enough democrats and republicans to stay out of the free market's way (at least enough to generate full employment).
Unless we screw up via government action, this happy state of affairs will persist most of the time and we will be able to do away with minimum wage, and the stupid effects it has on volunteerism.
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Aside from the ROM, bootstrap code & firmware, what exactly is proprietary about today's mac hardware?
PCI, AGP, Firewire, IDE, USB, what is it? Is it their case design you want to be "non-propietary"?
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If you want a multibuttion mouse, you can get one fairly inexpensively. If you want long battery life on a PC, you can always try a transmeta powered one... oops, those aren't shipping yet.
DB
Sorry, that should have been FAA. The things will be mostly run on automatic pilot and no pilots licenses will be needed when full approval is granted. They have got the noise down pretty well (85db @ 50 ft) and look to be a great buy (if you have the $$$). Try reading their site. The link is in my previous response.
DB
As I'm a network admin as well, I would have to disagree. A Cisco cert will go a long way to improve your money making abilities. Linux certs or even the venerable MCSE can help as well.
I've worked for hellhole companies and decent ones. It sounds like you are at the former. Be aware that the lack of time to update skills is often management planned to keep you there. Don't give in
Good luck,
DB
Even better, ship him off for project building in Iraq...
B-)
DB
That would mean patents on the wheel, lever, ramp, etc. are all open and waiting to be exploited.
Jeff Bezos call your office!
DB
Anybody who built such a system probably wouldn't be stupid enough to omit emergency clamps which would attach to the cable preventing a fall. We have systems that are similar in concept on all current elevators. This would take care of the problem of the break happening below the car and I suspect that parachutes/retro rockets could help out for breaks happening above the car (no clamp engagement wanted there).
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Who's excluding anybody? I mentioned Siberia because we have a history of this with the Russians (Alaska) and didn't mention Canada and Mexico also for historical reasons (war, invasion, & forced territory transfers). Anybody who wants to become a territory should be allowed to apply and clear preconditions for it should be laid out.
DB
Hey, I'm with the open borders folks but that doesn't mean I can't make an observation of the reality on the ground. The smart H1B applicants start the green card process right away. As another poster here mentioned, the INS is very, very slow.
DB
Are you in the US? My comment was aimed at the US situation which is the only country where the H1B debate has any relevance (other than for the foreign applicants). If you are, you need to:
1. post your resume to monster.com and as many other job boards as you can
2. update your skills. If you learned EJB and got certified at it, people will pay to move you to where the action is.
DB
We're working on it. Unfortunately, there are people who make good money stealing via government in each of these countries. These people are entrenched and difficult to disloge. It *does* help if you have cash from a US job to help counteract their own money for votes schemes.
DB
Actually fighting back is leaving for a better firm and then getting the recruiting bonuses at your new firm when you bring over 20-30 of your friends and blow your old firm's dev project deadlines to hell by stealing away their best staff.
DB
There is another option beyond opening the borders and go fix your own country. It's expand the US. We could make out very well with a chunk of Siberia under US territorial law. Even a 100 year deal a la Hong Kong would work out well for all concerned. The US has one great feature, its laws and the system that enforces them. There's no reason that can't be exported to everybody's profit.
DB
You are confusing citizenship with residency. People get here all the time without being citizens and a good thing too. I would certainly want people to be minimally familiar with the culture and political system before they get the right to walk into that voting booth.
DB
Oh my, what a crock!
Credentials!=good code
credentials=can work the system
How many non-conformists are going to be kept out by the credentials system any sane union is going to insist on? My bet is lots. Unfortunately for the union, coding is a very moveable business and E. Europe, Asia are going to be happy to step into the breach
DB
The cure to protective tariffs is to eliminate them, not to build labor tariffs in the form of immigration policy as a response.
DB
H1B conversion to citizenship is a booming legal field, especially with the 200k new limit.
DB
Those pointy headed bosses are why companies die, get bought out, or otherwise lose economic relevance. Getting out of such a firm whether it be by being recruited out, laid off, or fired, is a favor to the competent who often are so busy working that they don't understand how abused they are at these firms. Start a firm, work for a company that has a clue, these are the proper responses to TPHB. Capitalism is about running towards maximizing value, not staying in place no matter the cost.
DB
DB
The problem with this is that bits are easily transportable. In the next 5-10 years videoconferencing your outsourced programmers in Ulan Bator is going to be cheap, easy, and standards based. It's not that hard to go overseas right now so why would you import labor when you can just export the job specs?
So then what? You end up with a unionized workforce that loses jobs overseas all the time, a shrinking workforce of real programming with the only people with secure jobs being the network admins who have to physically be there to fix boxes (and that's a small sector of IT compared to the programmers). No thanks.
DB
I'm working with an H1B colleague who changed jobs and told me he didn't have much trouble doing it. He just found the new job first, got the paperwork rolling and then gave two weeks notice on his old job. This isn't rocket science.
DB
Silly boy, it's not corporate interests that stop the educational system from getting fixed, it's union interests. The Dems are so in hock to the NEA that they are willing to condemn millions of mostly minority inner city children to the new plantation of 'would you like fries with that' McJobs.
There's quite a bit of corporate support for charter schools/private schools and I haven't heard of any corporate opponents to vouchers or other innovative education initiatives. Care to provide evidence for your point of view?
DB
Thus the true benefit to having the second amendment is revealed, keeping the bastards scared of rolling out fascism.
DB
Your argument would be equivalent to dismissing RMS and GNU based on the fact that there is no the FSF has produced no GNU kernel.
4 OS compatibility is certainly better than 1 OS compatibility and when it works, may attract others. What's so wrong with that?
DB
Actually, the reason people go into sweatshop circumstances is that their alternatives are worse (most often due to other govt. interference in the economy) elsewhere. Immigrants from China are paying 60k to snakeheads to smuggle them in to the US and are willing to exchange 20 years of sweatshop labor for the privilege they are handing their children of living relatively free.
The case of people not capable of earning a living wage is more rare and often transitory. A 15 yr old might not know enough about the business world to do more than flip burgers but in 6 months of conscientious work, he's got the employee skills necessary to clerk or do other office work that should pay better and provide better conditions.
The reality today in many areas is that even McDonalds and many other traditional minimum wage employers are offering $8 per hour to fill those jobs because of a labor shortage because there has been a consensus among enough democrats and republicans to stay out of the free market's way (at least enough to generate full employment).
Unless we screw up via government action, this happy state of affairs will persist most of the time and we will be able to do away with minimum wage, and the stupid effects it has on volunteerism.
DB