Why not restrict H1Bs to students graduating from US universities. There are thousands of them, and they're already familiar with the culture and have similar training as Americans. They're also unlikely to work for significantly lower pay. Currently many international students head back to their home countries right after graduation, so the US gets no benefit of their education.
What's the big deal if the elevator gets damaged over time.
There will ofcourse be multiple elevators, and building the others would cost a fraction of the first since you can use the first to haul up stuff.
All of these "gender gap" studies (in any field) seem to start with the premise that every field of work should have basically a 50/50 gender split. I think that is patently absurd.
I completely agree. Why else would the creater (or nature for you atheists) make two sexes? They're meant for different purposes. Saying men are superior because they're better an engineering makes no more sense than saying engineering is superior to day care/child rearing etc. Both are required for a health society. What we need to do is to stop denigrating the types of work women commonly do and respect them for doing it. Women in the West are typically ashamed to admit they're housewives, fotunately this is not (yet) the case in most of the Islamic world. Maybe that's why 4 out of 5 converts to Islam in the US are women.
NuSphere's Phped is pretty good. It's not free though. It also has an excellent built in profiler that shows how much time each line of code takes to execute.
I won't pick on this movie simply because the plot may be too hard for some people to understand."
Who cares for the plot? I only saw this movie because of Charlize Theron, and I understood all about her
I'm from the middle east but I've studied both in India and the US. Here's my perspective:
The Indians that come to the US are usually the brightest 2% or so from the top colleges in the country. Degrees from the average Indian colleges are usually not worth the paper they're printed on. The facilities available to students are negligible compared to the US. For example, in the city of Hyderabad with a population in the millions, there are maybe 2 public libraries.
However, with home computers and broadband internet fast becoming commonplace, this is all set to change especially in engineering and computer science. Indian students are no longer isolated from the rest of the world, they now have access to the same software, books and culture as their Western counterparts. The latest textbooks were not affordable or even available and publishers would only sometimes bring out an 'eastern economy edition' or something. But now most technology related ebooks are available for free (due to piracy).
I was a TA for undergrads in the US and I can tell you that Indian students are much more hard working than Americans, who seem pampered by comparison. My job was more baby-sitting than teaching. Also, for many Indians education is the only way out of their miserable economic conditions, whereas in the US someone can drop out of high school and get a job flipping burgers and maintain a standard of life that is luxurious compared to his Indian counterpart.
You may be right that outsourcing is not worth it right now, but you'll be surprised how fast this is going to change. Moreover, due to the huge population, if only 10% of Indian students become skilled enough to be globally competitive they will be a force to be reckoned with.
It's obvious Microsoft and the others know this already.
what if the code is used in a web based application? The code is on one server, but used by many distributed clients. What does the gpl say about this?
Not really.
Once the DRM is circumvented, someone is sure to write a slick GUI utility, where all you do is click a large, friendly looking 'copy' button and that's it.
Much easier than opening a locked car door.
The only slight difference is that it's worth more over there.
That's not the only reason, it's very easy to in India to set up a bank account using a false name and address. Hell, you can even set up a whole new identity passport and all for a couple hundred bucks. I guess these perps were too dumb to do that and got traced easily.
I agree with almost all of that article you mentioned. The web forum features I had in mind were the ability to delete posts, memberships, restrict member privileges viewing or posting or both, moderation and similar. These features are useful things like paid tech support, closed communities, educational uses etc.
It would be nice though if there were desktop clients as well for the forum software that would store data on harddisk, according to user settings as well as board policies. This would allow quick searching, viewing, sorting and other similar plus points of usenet clients
Web based forum software offer a lot more features than newsgroups. However they are not indexed by centralized servers like Usenet, so it's as easy to find web forums. It would be nice if the most popular forum software like phpBB, VBulletin etc, have some sort of common standard that allows them to be listed by topic, indicating some statistics like number of members, posts, activity so people can quickly choose a forum.
If a religious scripture makes statements that are not disproved yet, or not proven yet, by science, then a person of intelligence may believe in it without giving anyone any grounds to label him irrational.
However when a scripture makes a statement about something that is clearly shown to be false, and after that if someone insists on believing the scripture, that is stupid. And it alienates people from the religion.
One may then examine the various scriptures with this criteria
"My naive guess was that believers might be feeling more inclined to curse their God than pray to him."
Dawkins is either very short sighted or just ignorant. Major religions (atleast Islam afaik) believe in the after life along with belief in God. Accepting the temporary nature of this life and believing in final justice and recompense in the hereafter is always a source of hope and prevents despair no matter what.
The question should be simply "What do you believe?"
Because if something can be proven, the issue of belief does not arise. And only idiots believe what what is proven as false.
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Why not restrict H1Bs to students graduating from US universities. There are thousands of them, and they're already familiar with the culture and have similar training as Americans. They're also unlikely to work for significantly lower pay. Currently many international students head back to their home countries right after graduation, so the US gets no benefit of their education.
What's the big deal if the elevator gets damaged over time. There will ofcourse be multiple elevators, and building the others would cost a fraction of the first since you can use the first to haul up stuff.
Check this out to patch your kernel and make the SD slot work. I've got gentoo running all hardway flawlessly only my Dell 6000.
There are other ways to get into space without extending a strucuture beyond geosynchronous orbit. Check out launch loop and this wikipedia page.
All of these "gender gap" studies (in any field) seem to start with the premise that every field of work should have basically a 50/50 gender split. I think that is patently absurd.
I completely agree. Why else would the creater (or nature for you atheists) make two sexes? They're meant for different purposes. Saying men are superior because they're better an engineering makes no more sense than saying engineering is superior to day care/child rearing etc. Both are required for a health society. What we need to do is to stop denigrating the types of work women commonly do and respect them for doing it. Women in the West are typically ashamed to admit they're housewives, fotunately this is not (yet) the case in most of the Islamic world. Maybe that's why 4 out of 5 converts to Islam in the US are women.
NuSphere's Phped is pretty good. It's not free though. It also has an excellent built in profiler that shows how much time each line of code takes to execute.
I won't pick on this movie simply because the plot may be too hard for some people to understand." Who cares for the plot? I only saw this movie because of Charlize Theron, and I understood all about her
The Indians that come to the US are usually the brightest 2% or so from the top colleges in the country. Degrees from the average Indian colleges are usually not worth the paper they're printed on. The facilities available to students are negligible compared to the US. For example, in the city of Hyderabad with a population in the millions, there are maybe 2 public libraries.
However, with home computers and broadband internet fast becoming commonplace, this is all set to change especially in engineering and computer science. Indian students are no longer isolated from the rest of the world, they now have access to the same software, books and culture as their Western counterparts. The latest textbooks were not affordable or even available and publishers would only sometimes bring out an 'eastern economy edition' or something. But now most technology related ebooks are available for free (due to piracy).
I was a TA for undergrads in the US and I can tell you that Indian students are much more hard working than Americans, who seem pampered by comparison. My job was more baby-sitting than teaching. Also, for many Indians education is the only way out of their miserable economic conditions, whereas in the US someone can drop out of high school and get a job flipping burgers and maintain a standard of life that is luxurious compared to his Indian counterpart.
You may be right that outsourcing is not worth it right now, but you'll be surprised how fast this is going to change. Moreover, due to the huge population, if only 10% of Indian students become skilled enough to be globally competitive they will be a force to be reckoned with.
It's obvious Microsoft and the others know this already.
what if the code is used in a web based application? The code is on one server, but used by many distributed clients. What does the gpl say about this?
I don't think this will be much of a problem. The hash algorithm can be changed easily and most people are quick to update their P2P clients.
I found this to be a pretty good book on the subject.
Maybe his experimental data made no sense, like this guy's lab report
Not really.
Once the DRM is circumvented, someone is sure to write a slick GUI utility, where all you do is click a large, friendly looking 'copy' button and that's it.
Much easier than opening a locked car door.
That's not the only reason, it's very easy to in India to set up a bank account using a false name and address. Hell, you can even set up a whole new identity passport and all for a couple hundred bucks. I guess these perps were too dumb to do that and got traced easily.
the television programs voice command YOU oh wait... actually that's true in Democratic USA too
instead of physical fighting matches for the remote between people there will be yelling only?
Can an election get slashdotted? Is that the intention of posting the story on /. ?
.Net regular expressions can parse from right to left as well. Very useful sometimes
I agree with almost all of that article you mentioned. The web forum features I had in mind were the ability to delete posts, memberships, restrict member privileges viewing or posting or both, moderation and similar. These features are useful things like paid tech support, closed communities, educational uses etc.
It would be nice though if there were desktop clients as well for the forum software that would store data on harddisk, according to user settings as well as board policies. This would allow quick searching, viewing, sorting and other similar plus points of usenet clients
Web based forum software offer a lot more features than newsgroups. However they are not indexed by centralized servers like Usenet, so it's as easy to find web forums. It would be nice if the most popular forum software like phpBB, VBulletin etc, have some sort of common standard that allows them to be listed by topic, indicating some statistics like number of members, posts, activity so people can quickly choose a forum.
of course you meant .torrent files
In Korea, only old people use
If a religious scripture makes statements that are not disproved yet, or not proven yet, by science, then a person of intelligence may believe in it without giving anyone any grounds to label him irrational. However when a scripture makes a statement about something that is clearly shown to be false, and after that if someone insists on believing the scripture, that is stupid. And it alienates people from the religion. One may then examine the various scriptures with this criteria
Dawkins is either very short sighted or just ignorant. Major religions (atleast Islam afaik) believe in the after life along with belief in God. Accepting the temporary nature of this life and believing in final justice and recompense in the hereafter is always a source of hope and prevents despair no matter what.
Learn basics of islam
The question should be simply "What do you believe?" Because if something can be proven, the issue of belief does not arise. And only idiots believe what what is proven as false.
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