Before you move, or just visit India for a short time, do yourself a favor and get the necessary immunizations. India still has a bunch of diseases that Westerners have absolutely no immunity for. At one point, the mortality rate among Americans visiting India was as high as 1%. Hope this helps.
She should have sued the company that makes sweaters as well - what kind of defective sweater was it that it could be pulled down, so it exposed her breasts?! Huh? That's why we have justice in this country!
Coincidence? Probably. But the fact is that the US (capitalist, for those who forget) economy is restructuring itself to make more money, shedding dead weight.
I thought they found some hidden cameras, and spent like 5 minutes reading the article - nada. They found a couple of cameras where you'd expect them (security). Much of this rather long piece is just about prancing around with a hand-held monitor and a huge antenna.
I would moderate you -1 Ignorant, but since there is no such category, I will reply instead:
It is extremely hard to get H1B, GreenCard, etc. through your employer. Just because you see, say, many olympic athletes on TV, does not mean that it's easy to be one.
BTW, I think you are stupid and do not deserve a white-collar job.
The thing that most people are missing about outsourcing, and one that the article is trying to emphasize, is that outsourcing is unstoppable and will happen to many white collar jobs (not just IT). Any "thinking" job that does not require the worker's immediate presence in the US may, and for the most part, will get outsourced. The only jobs that are secure are surgens, dentists, trial laywers and blue-collar jobs like cops, delivery people, chefs, etc.
"[google] concerned about locking in users" ?! Are companies now concerned about being too popular, having too many customers and making too much money? News to me.
You may find this interesting (true story): USENET has long had a kook from Australia who trolled many a newsgroup claiming to be tortured by the US government via a NASA satellite. He called himself I-Iector (IIRC) and would post messages like "Turn off your satellite NASA". He also admitted to having been diagnosed with schizophrenia, but was otherwise an intelligent character. Turns out, he was on to something!
Packages are downloadable in binary form, just as you would use with Debian.
pkg_add -r package..... will retrieve a package using FTP, all other relevant packages required, and install them.
Not too hard? Easier than this "apt-get update, apt-get install -f, apt-get install package", or "emerge package" (what???) bullshit, no?
I'm sorry, but I think you have no idea what you are talking about. Debian's direct analogy of "pkg_add -r package" is "apt-get install package". The is no difference in simplicity. The difference comes from the fact on Debian this is much more likely to work: all Debian packages are available in binary form, unlike FreeBSD ports; Debian is better tested (On FreeBSD "pkg_add -r package" isn't really the right way (TM) to install things. You need to RTF 1000+ page M yourself, as well as read up on Debian before pretending to be an expert - you may have used it for long, but you haven't learned much, I'm afraid).
I'm a long time Debian user, and I've tried FreeBSD, so I believe my experiences will be of interest to other Linux and especially Debian users.
First of all, the claims of superiority of FreeBSD to Debian/GNU Linux are utterly bogus. Debian chooses to distribute its packages in ready binary form, while FreeBSD mostly prefers it if you compile everything from ports. So neither is superior as far as packages are concerned. However, keeping Debian current and secure is a single command that needs to be run occasionally (you know what it is). With FreeBSD it's more difficult and you have to spend considerable time compiling stuff regularly.
Another issue that FreeBSD advocates like to bring up is that there are many Linux distributions and only one FreeBSD. This argument is as popular as it is irrelevant. You don't have to run all the Linux distributions, just pick one (like Debian, for example)
I can't speak about the kernel quality, since I never use unstable kernels and all kernels that I used were very fine with me.
As to security, BSD advocates frequently claim that their system is more secure that Linux (which for me stands for Debian, since it's the only Linux I will use). This claim is wrong. To see for yourself, check SecurityFocus. OpenBSD, allegedly the more secure BSD brand claims to only have had 1 or 2 remote exploits in the past few years. Considering how minimalistic OpenBSD is, this is no big deed - you need to run services to have remote exploits.
Much has to be said about community. Debian has one of the best geek communities around. #debian IRC channel is much, much more helpful than #freebsd channel, in my experience. Most of the FreeBSD questions are answered with RTFM, which implies reading a 1000+ page FreeBSD manual. Quite often the RTFM answer is simply misplaced (there is no answer in the manual). But at least it makes the 31337 FreeBSD h4k0rs feel superior.
Last, but not least, the industry is consolidating behind Linux, and not BSD or Windows or OS X.
If you hear more anti-Linux and pro-BSD rants than
anti-BSD and pro-Linux ones it's only because BSD is largely irrelevant to Linux users, while BSD users have to suffer in the shaddow of Linux, and port software from it (or try to run it in the compatibility mode - not always successfully)
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Linuxers are acne-covered dateless red commie cheapskates.
Is this off-topic, troll, redundant or what? You decide!
It's too early for Joes to start using Linux. Linus and Redhat said it would be like 5 years before Linux is ready for the desktop.
Before you move, or just visit India for a short time, do yourself a favor and get the necessary immunizations. India still has a bunch of diseases that Westerners have absolutely no immunity for. At one point, the mortality rate among Americans visiting India was as high as 1%. Hope this helps.
She should have sued the company that makes sweaters as well - what kind of defective sweater was it that it could be pulled down, so it exposed her breasts?! Huh? That's why we have justice in this country!
- US productivity up 9.4% in Q3 2003 (annual rate)
- US IT employment down 8% in 2003
Coincidence? Probably. But the fact is that the US (capitalist, for those who forget) economy is restructuring itself to make more money, shedding dead weight.I thought they found some hidden cameras, and spent like 5 minutes reading the article - nada. They found a couple of cameras where you'd expect them (security). Much of this rather long piece is just about prancing around with a hand-held monitor and a huge antenna.
here is another short article about this.
It is extremely hard to get H1B, GreenCard, etc. through your employer. Just because you see, say, many olympic athletes on TV, does not mean that it's easy to be one.
BTW, I think you are stupid and do not deserve a white-collar job.
The thing that most people are missing about outsourcing, and one that the article is trying to emphasize, is that outsourcing is unstoppable and will happen to many white collar jobs (not just IT). Any "thinking" job that does not require the worker's immediate presence in the US may, and for the most part, will get outsourced. The only jobs that are secure are surgens, dentists, trial laywers and blue-collar jobs like cops, delivery people, chefs, etc.
I admit it, I have not read the article, but the pictures there are pretty ugly!
Firstly, an article that's clearly an ad is posted in two parts (only one day apart).
Secondly *all* criticism of this fact is down-moderated (troll or offtopic), see my previous message for example.
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd venture a guess that this is a new special paid ad feature (clearly this works better than banners and pop-ups)
I'm awed by how some clever people use Slashdot for free advertisement (twice) and then some karma.
I spent the last month testing out a new keyboard and mouse every day
What some people wouldn't do for a little karma!
"[google] concerned about locking in users" ?! Are companies now concerned about being too popular, having too many customers and making too much money? News to me.
You may find this interesting (true story): USENET has long had a kook from Australia who trolled many a newsgroup claiming to be tortured by the US government via a NASA satellite. He called himself I-Iector (IIRC) and would post messages like "Turn off your satellite NASA". He also admitted to having been diagnosed with schizophrenia, but was otherwise an intelligent character. Turns out, he was on to something!
... lawsuit should be in order
First of all, the claims of superiority of FreeBSD to Debian/GNU Linux are utterly bogus. Debian chooses to distribute its packages in ready binary form, while FreeBSD mostly prefers it if you compile everything from ports. So neither is superior as far as packages are concerned. However, keeping Debian current and secure is a single command that needs to be run occasionally (you know what it is). With FreeBSD it's more difficult and you have to spend considerable time compiling stuff regularly.
Another issue that FreeBSD advocates like to bring up is that there are many Linux distributions and only one FreeBSD. This argument is as popular as it is irrelevant. You don't have to run all the Linux distributions, just pick one (like Debian, for example)
I can't speak about the kernel quality, since I never use unstable kernels and all kernels that I used were very fine with me.
As to security, BSD advocates frequently claim that their system is more secure that Linux (which for me stands for Debian, since it's the only Linux I will use). This claim is wrong. To see for yourself, check SecurityFocus. OpenBSD, allegedly the more secure BSD brand claims to only have had 1 or 2 remote exploits in the past few years. Considering how minimalistic OpenBSD is, this is no big deed - you need to run services to have remote exploits.
Much has to be said about community. Debian has one of the best geek communities around. #debian IRC channel is much, much more helpful than #freebsd channel, in my experience. Most of the FreeBSD questions are answered with RTFM, which implies reading a 1000+ page FreeBSD manual. Quite often the RTFM answer is simply misplaced (there is no answer in the manual). But at least it makes the 31337 FreeBSD h4k0rs feel superior.
Last, but not least, the industry is consolidating behind Linux, and not BSD or Windows or OS X.
If you hear more anti-Linux and pro-BSD rants than anti-BSD and pro-Linux ones it's only because BSD is largely irrelevant to Linux users, while BSD users have to suffer in the shaddow of Linux, and port software from it (or try to run it in the compatibility mode - not always successfully)