Two instant solutions: 1) Remove H1B program and replace it with green cards. Most of H1B employees get green cards eventually anyway. If visa holders don't depend on company like they currently do, if they can change jobs at will, they have no reason to accept sub-par offers. One may do an investigation for what money green-card lottery winners work. I really doubt that they work for pennies H1B employees get. 2) As there is more demand than allowed visas, there is some kind of lottery. Instead of lottery, give visas to companies that plan to pay the highest salaries.
I really expected better from someone who studies ethnicity and related DNA. Let's look at some of the examples: Hungarian look like other people from central Europe. Finns look like other people from North Europe. But Ugro-finn people from their native land (Siberia) are actually Mongoloid. Turcic people in Asia are also Mongoloid, but Turks in Turkey look pretty much European. Conclusion: when Hungarians/Turks arrived to Europe, it was actually relatively small number of people* that somehow conquered locals and eventually made them speaking their language.
Another example: distribution of B blood type in Europe isn't related anyhow to ethnic borders (with a notable exception of Basks). Conclusion: ethnicity has no foundation in biology.
Another example: in ancient Balkans, there have lived many nations, well described by Greeks and Romans: Illyrians, Tracians, Dacians, Celts. They have all disappeared long time ago, but there is no mention in history that there was any sort of war, genocide, famine or anything similar that could have annihilated not one but several nations**. Conclusion: entire nations may disappear in process described in the first example.
*) compared to the local population **) some of them remained, but not in all areas where they originally lived; Celts and Tracians disappeared completely
Yes, it does make sense, but it is counter-intuitive when you hear that for the first time. Exactly the case you mentioned = compute server runs clients and they attach to the server which is actually my work station. They could have chosen some other wording, no matter that technically X server is indeed a server.
I was also very skeptical about Wayland advantages, esp. as I considered X to be one of most cool features of Linux/Unix systems. But when you take a look to some details, then you see that it is not so cool. When X was designed, it was designed to draw primitives - lines, fonts. And it was not designed to draw bitmaps. In its current usage, it mostly draws bitmaps, i.e. true rendering is done in applications (using libraries like GTK, KDE, Qt...) while X is just slapping it together. And it does it in a very, very complicate way. Even the network transparency is not done properly. Wayland is way more simple, more suitable to how graphics is used today. It does not have a network layer when not needed; at the same time it brings a layer where you can cut and implement network transparency if you want. X is a dead end.
With the current state of affairs, X is not too useful. For example, there are very few X implementations. I needed a X server* for Windows. There are only two of them that I was able to find - one proprietary Hummingbird's and all others are based on Cygwin. Another example - rendering of fonts depends on the font library on the client's* machine - that should not be if X was used as originally planned.
*) Not to mention the counter-intuitive names for "client" and "server"
Really? By forcing everybody, regardless of their views on abortion, to pay for the abortions for whoever wants one?
Doing a job of "by forcing everybody to pay for X , regardless of their views on X", is what government does. And X may be a thing like war, education, space exploration, roads, water supply... Abortion is no exception in that sense.
Low efficiency of nuclear plants is due to their lower operational temperature, not due to fuel density. Radioactive core heats the water to lower temperature comparing to other types of thermal plants.
I don't think the F-35 is useless, but it sure is an INCREDIBLY expensively mediocre aircraft intended to carry excellent (someday) software and sensors.
SAAB's Gripen Switzerland proposal: $3.5B for 22 planes, it is $159M per plane. For an more-or-less an outdated plane. Does F-35 still looks that expensive comparing to this? I don't think so.
My employer has very simple solution for this. Only company's equipment allowed on Ethernet and Wi-Fi. But there is also a parallel WiFi network for guests and employees' private devices. Easy to implement, the best of both worlds.
No, it is legal, but it is not fair. Why are companies so obsessed with spying their employees, and why are you Americans so willing to accept it? Just because company is legally allowed to do something, it does not make it meaningful or acceptable. And what they believe that they could find there? Even if I want to harm them by using smartphone, I'd do it with my private phone and they cannot do anything without court order. Spying peoples phones is just waste of time and good way to make their employees hate them.
That is pretty much standard procedure. They have made a conspiracy in order to break the US law, and they have broken USA law. US should bring charges against them in US court. If they don't appear in court, US can ask their extradition. If Germany refuses to do so, USA can make an international warrant for them. First time they leave Germany, the country where they are would arrest them and then USA will have to start a procedure to get them to USA. It takes some time, but it is pretty much standard and established procedure.
i.e. I'm not excusing communism's infamy but "we", the west, didn't smell of roses either.
Yes, but there is one important thing. At first, West had the attitude about right-wing dictators "ok, he's a bastard, but it is our bastard". In ~70thies, West started to take care about human rights. Cynics would say that it was for propaganda reasons, as East was reasonably successful (early success in Space race, various unexpected technical achievements, many ex-colonies that decided to become socialist states...), so the human rights record was the thing where West was able to show its superiority. That led to West/USA not to care too much about various dictators any more, and let them go when their people decided that too much is too much. We don't necessary see it that way because what we all remember is Reagan/Thatcher duo that truly believed that supporting thugs like Pinochet gives them any good. In practice, all it gave them was a chance for liberal media to rightly joke on them.
The best solution would be to make VW to fix the mess and to put VW managment to jail. Hefty fine would probably hurt only VW employees anyway. Jail term would hopefully learn big fat cats that rules are to be obeyed.
Investment bankers are worse than random at predicting even how stocks will change, so the subject of why any sensible person would actually listen to them predict future trends is an exercise in forensic pathology rather than any rational form of psychology.
Actually, there is a clear pattern. Those predictions are done by 20-something kids loaded with money (typical new hire in bank), with severely distorted view of reality. So they invest other people's money into what they consider cool. That's how we get some really strange market capitalizations. For example, Tesla is almost worth as VW (before emition scandal). VW is neck-to-neck with Toyota as #1 car produces in world, while Tesla did not make 100.000 cars in total (or something like that), and in their view, they are worth the same. No matter how much I'd like Tesla to succeed (I'm an electrical engineer with major in power engineering) and to become VW instead of VW, that's simply won't happen soon if ever. Uber is also worth amazing amount of money. Illegal taxi company that is nowhere near to make any profit, but very likely to be sued in every single jurisdiction it operates is worth 40B???? GoPro had a capitalization of 1B. WTF??? But from the point of cocain/adrenaline addict that runs your retirement fund, that's probably the coolest thing ever. And so on...
What do you think the purpose of that "well regulated militia" is? And who makes up that "well regulated militia"? To protect the citizens from the government
2nd amendment clearly states "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State..." Hence, militia is for protecting state. State is a form of government. How you can read it and conclude that its purpose is to protect people from the government?
I am not from USA, so I really don't know how it goes with robocalls. What's the point? You are supposed to listen to the recorded advertising message? I'd expect that 99% of people immediately hang up.
My work machine is i7 laptop (4 cores, not "U" variant) with 16GB RAM, no SSD, just HDD. Both Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 8.1 are surprisingly slow in some standard operations, most annoyingly in logging in, starting Chrome... Also annoying thing with Ubuntu is that if it uses HDD, then everything else is way too slow. If I tar/untar some really big file, and I browse web in parallel, I see that browser is noticeably slower than usual.
I still wonder how we used to do more-or-less the same stuff on machines that had 512MB of RAM and 5x slower CPU. Where has all the CPU power gone? Why SW got so bloated?
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Two instant solutions:
1) Remove H1B program and replace it with green cards. Most of H1B employees get green cards eventually anyway. If visa holders don't depend on company like they currently do, if they can change jobs at will, they have no reason to accept sub-par offers. One may do an investigation for what money green-card lottery winners work. I really doubt that they work for pennies H1B employees get.
2) As there is more demand than allowed visas, there is some kind of lottery. Instead of lottery, give visas to companies that plan to pay the highest salaries.
What's the point of remote access to any device that is useful only if you are physically present near it?
I really expected better from someone who studies ethnicity and related DNA. Let's look at some of the examples: Hungarian look like other people from central Europe. Finns look like other people from North Europe. But Ugro-finn people from their native land (Siberia) are actually Mongoloid. Turcic people in Asia are also Mongoloid, but Turks in Turkey look pretty much European. Conclusion: when Hungarians/Turks arrived to Europe, it was actually relatively small number of people* that somehow conquered locals and eventually made them speaking their language.
Another example: distribution of B blood type in Europe isn't related anyhow to ethnic borders (with a notable exception of Basks). Conclusion: ethnicity has no foundation in biology.
Another example: in ancient Balkans, there have lived many nations, well described by Greeks and Romans: Illyrians, Tracians, Dacians, Celts. They have all disappeared long time ago, but there is no mention in history that there was any sort of war, genocide, famine or anything similar that could have annihilated not one but several nations**. Conclusion: entire nations may disappear in process described in the first example.
*) compared to the local population
**) some of them remained, but not in all areas where they originally lived; Celts and Tracians disappeared completely
Yes, it does make sense, but it is counter-intuitive when you hear that for the first time. Exactly the case you mentioned = compute server runs clients and they attach to the server which is actually my work station. They could have chosen some other wording, no matter that technically X server is indeed a server.
I was also very skeptical about Wayland advantages, esp. as I considered X to be one of most cool features of Linux/Unix systems. But when you take a look to some details, then you see that it is not so cool. When X was designed, it was designed to draw primitives - lines, fonts. And it was not designed to draw bitmaps. In its current usage, it mostly draws bitmaps, i.e. true rendering is done in applications (using libraries like GTK, KDE, Qt...) while X is just slapping it together. And it does it in a very, very complicate way. Even the network transparency is not done properly. Wayland is way more simple, more suitable to how graphics is used today. It does not have a network layer when not needed; at the same time it brings a layer where you can cut and implement network transparency if you want. X is a dead end.
With the current state of affairs, X is not too useful. For example, there are very few X implementations. I needed a X server* for Windows. There are only two of them that I was able to find - one proprietary Hummingbird's and all others are based on Cygwin. Another example - rendering of fonts depends on the font library on the client's* machine - that should not be if X was used as originally planned.
*) Not to mention the counter-intuitive names for "client" and "server"
Really? By forcing everybody, regardless of their views on abortion, to pay for the abortions for whoever wants one?
Doing a job of "by forcing everybody to pay for X , regardless of their views on X", is what government does. And X may be a thing like war, education, space exploration, roads, water supply... Abortion is no exception in that sense.
Low efficiency of nuclear plants is due to their lower operational temperature, not due to fuel density. Radioactive core heats the water to lower temperature comparing to other types of thermal plants.
I don't think the F-35 is useless, but it sure is an INCREDIBLY expensively mediocre aircraft intended to carry excellent (someday) software and sensors.
SAAB's Gripen Switzerland proposal: $3.5B for 22 planes, it is $159M per plane. For an more-or-less an outdated plane. Does F-35 still looks that expensive comparing to this? I don't think so.
Because your employer is paying for the phone and the service. If you don't like it then pay for it yourself. It's no simpler than that.
Yes, I agreed that they are allowed to do that. The question is what the sane person expects to find there?
My employer has very simple solution for this. Only company's equipment allowed on Ethernet and Wi-Fi. But there is also a parallel WiFi network for guests and employees' private devices. Easy to implement, the best of both worlds.
If you're on their network, it's fair game.
No, it is legal, but it is not fair. Why are companies so obsessed with spying their employees, and why are you Americans so willing to accept it? Just because company is legally allowed to do something, it does not make it meaningful or acceptable. And what they believe that they could find there? Even if I want to harm them by using smartphone, I'd do it with my private phone and they cannot do anything without court order. Spying peoples phones is just waste of time and good way to make their employees hate them.
Do you really believe that Belarus is anyhow better than Germany?
put VW managment to jail
Why not put the people who did it in jail instead?
VW managment was the one who did this. They knew about this and did nothing about it, so they were/are a part of a criminal conspiracy.
That is pretty much standard procedure. They have made a conspiracy in order to break the US law, and they have broken USA law. US should bring charges against them in US court. If they don't appear in court, US can ask their extradition. If Germany refuses to do so, USA can make an international warrant for them. First time they leave Germany, the country where they are would arrest them and then USA will have to start a procedure to get them to USA. It takes some time, but it is pretty much standard and established procedure.
i.e. I'm not excusing communism's infamy but "we", the west, didn't smell of roses either.
Yes, but there is one important thing. At first, West had the attitude about right-wing dictators "ok, he's a bastard, but it is our bastard". In ~70thies, West started to take care about human rights. Cynics would say that it was for propaganda reasons, as East was reasonably successful (early success in Space race, various unexpected technical achievements, many ex-colonies that decided to become socialist states...), so the human rights record was the thing where West was able to show its superiority. That led to West/USA not to care too much about various dictators any more, and let them go when their people decided that too much is too much. We don't necessary see it that way because what we all remember is Reagan/Thatcher duo that truly believed that supporting thugs like Pinochet gives them any good. In practice, all it gave them was a chance for liberal media to rightly joke on them.
The best solution would be to make VW to fix the mess and to put VW managment to jail. Hefty fine would probably hurt only VW employees anyway. Jail term would hopefully learn big fat cats that rules are to be obeyed.
Investment bankers are worse than random at predicting even how stocks will change, so the subject of why any sensible person would actually listen to them predict future trends is an exercise in forensic pathology rather than any rational form of psychology.
Actually, there is a clear pattern. Those predictions are done by 20-something kids loaded with money (typical new hire in bank), with severely distorted view of reality. So they invest other people's money into what they consider cool. That's how we get some really strange market capitalizations. For example, Tesla is almost worth as VW (before emition scandal). VW is neck-to-neck with Toyota as #1 car produces in world, while Tesla did not make 100.000 cars in total (or something like that), and in their view, they are worth the same. No matter how much I'd like Tesla to succeed (I'm an electrical engineer with major in power engineering) and to become VW instead of VW, that's simply won't happen soon if ever. Uber is also worth amazing amount of money. Illegal taxi company that is nowhere near to make any profit, but very likely to be sued in every single jurisdiction it operates is worth 40B???? GoPro had a capitalization of 1B. WTF??? But from the point of cocain/adrenaline addict that runs your retirement fund, that's probably the coolest thing ever. And so on...
VR is 3D going no where just a big money pit for wall street to collect cash in.
No, it will be huge market, like... 3D TV!
What do you think the purpose of that "well regulated militia" is? And who makes up that "well regulated militia"? To protect the citizens from the government
2nd amendment clearly states "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State..." Hence, militia is for protecting state. State is a form of government. How you can read it and conclude that its purpose is to protect people from the government?
Nope, I'm rooting for Stallman...
Should at least make things intersting ;-)
Let's be realistic... Lessig, of course.
The current tax rate is 42% of Income; ask me how I know.
Sorry for being poor. If you were really rich, you'd pay way less.
How much carbon does it take to make a solar panel, ship it, set it up.
I don't have any idea, but if it is comparable to coal plant, I'm ok.
I am not from USA, so I really don't know how it goes with robocalls. What's the point? You are supposed to listen to the recorded advertising message? I'd expect that 99% of people immediately hang up.
My work machine is i7 laptop (4 cores, not "U" variant) with 16GB RAM, no SSD, just HDD. Both Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 8.1 are surprisingly slow in some standard operations, most annoyingly in logging in, starting Chrome... Also annoying thing with Ubuntu is that if it uses HDD, then everything else is way too slow. If I tar/untar some really big file, and I browse web in parallel, I see that browser is noticeably slower than usual.
I still wonder how we used to do more-or-less the same stuff on machines that had 512MB of RAM and 5x slower CPU. Where has all the CPU power gone? Why SW got so bloated?
Or even better - hire your friend as COO, fire him after less than a year, but still make him earn $109M. http://www.forbes.com/sites/je...