Looks like HP is moving into IBM/DELL territory ( managed IT services ). I'm not too worried for IBM.
DELL, on the other hand, has a real fight on its hands. So.. umm... Mike.. why don't you forget about your small business services crap and go back to focus on making good machines and providing good customer service.
I don't know if EDS was the best vehicle to use, but its better than trying to setup something new.
That, my friend, was the last CD I ever bought...:/. What a pity to see such a talented group put out such drivel just to satisfy their contract obligations.
All is not dark on the northern front though, Korn did a different deal with Virgin where, as far as I can understand, Virgin was more like a venture capitalist investing in the band. This gave Korn enormous freedom and flexibility in release schedules, tour engagements, merchandizing etc. That freedom reflects in the stellar quality of music they have produced.
If more bands are able to bootstrap themselves into a position where they are not selling their souls to the recording companies to get their names out, I bet we see better quality music that does not cost an arm and a leg.
"bailout?" => Semantics aside, what the fed really did by engineering JPM's take over of BSC is keep the financial system from collapsing. Without this "bailout" Bear would have had no recourse but to declare bankruptcy monday morning.
So What?
Based on my understanding of the situation, a Bear bankruptcy would have resulted in all Bear creditors ( pretty much every other bank ) having to line up to get their money back from a bankruptcy court. Bear assets would have been liquidated at any available price to raise cash. This not only cause markets to sell off across the board, but also provides a "mark", a value to the assets owned by other banks. All that esoteric crap that is "hard to price" ( level 3 ), suddenly has a price ( could be pennies on the dollar ). Such a poor value drastically increases the leverage ratio of the banks that own these assets. This results in automatic credit downgrades and margin calls. In a situation where the credit crunch was already making it hard for banks to borrow, margin calls would pretty much force further asset sales and eventual bankruptcy for other banks. There is no way to predict how this would have ended. Suffice to say, it would have been very very ugly for you, me and everyone else.
AWE works by mapping different sections of a file larger than 2 GB into a pre-defined 2 GB address space already setup by the application. Since only the application can know which section of a large ( 4+GB ) file is relevant at the moment, only the application can actually make use of AWE.
SQL Server makes use of AWE for handling large datafiles. I haven't come across applications other than databases that use file mapping on large files, that plus the added complexity of keeping track of file sections is probably the reason we don't see more AWE usage.
I generally log into an adjecant machine and then:
>query session/server:${SERVER}
>tsdiscon $SESSION/server:${SERVER} ( this disconnects )
>reset session $SESSION/server:${SERVER} ( this logs the session out )
Microsoft or any firm that allows their H1 employees to move laterally in the organization just like any other employee are generally not doing this for their benefit, but for the benefit of the employee in question.
Employment based green card applications require that the employer recruit the immigrant worker for a *specific* role. As long as that green card application is pending, the immigrant worker is not supposed to be able to move from that role because that invalidates any steps taken so far and resets the application back to square 0. So employers will generally make a concession to their workers by letting them maintain their original title and cost center information while still giving them the leeway to move within the organization. This is actually a *good* thing.
Obviously I am not making a case for any particular organization, rules differ from place to place, but based on what I hear from my friend that works at Microsoft ( on an H1-B ) is that they will do anything within their power to accomodate your career goals. Milage might obviously vary from group to group, but this could very well be the reason for the discrepancies you found. Obviously you cannot rule out anything, but I would tend to give the organization the benefit of the doubt on this unless you have evidence of other wrongdoing.
All these people are paying all local, state and federal taxes + social security + medicare without any reasonable expectation of ever seeing a dime of that money even if they were to be suddenly unemployed, have an accident, become incapable of work etc...
Basically, all of the responsibility, none of the benefits.
This is really the only hope for social security imho, the only way you can support a growing aging population that does_not_want/is_incapable_of work, is to hire lots and lots of *temporary* workers that will pay into the program but never withdraw.
/offtopic
In response to your post though, generally my experience has been that you are paid nearly the same if not better than your peers and your immediate manager in most cases is not even aware of your immigration status. So in three years, you would expect the H1-B worker's salary to go up just like any other worker's.
Its called previaling wage and the numbers are maintained by your state workforce agency. So, the way it works is: You submit a prevailing wage request stating the job you are hiring for. The State will tell you what the wages are for that job and then you show that you are paying at least that much.
Novartis is suing the Indian government for rejecting the Novartis patent.
From TFA:
Novartis had sought a patent for a new use for its cancer drug Gleevec, which was rejected by the Indian patents office in January, on the ground that the drug was a new form of an old drug, and therefore, not patentable under Indian law.
... I dunno, I think MSFT might actually be doing something really visionary this time.
I bet that Live services might actually usher in the era of micropayments and on-demand access to the largest online marketplace for software, games and tools... with Microsoft as the gatekeeper. Add to that the ability to have full control on the support/upgrade cycles on business applications and complete knowledge of what users use their PCs for... this could really be a goldmine.
While the concept has existed for some time, its really nice to see a major software vendor bet this much capital to actually realize it.
How do you rate their chances of success with this?
ahem.... dumb down the resume dude!... You dont attach your masters thesis to your resume to get recruited into 7-11. Try paying some attention to what the job description is and only include experience relevant to the job. At this point in the game, the company does not care how fantastically talented you are. Telling them more than they need to know is at best, going to be distracting and at worst, cause them to drop you like a warm slurpy in July.
... then AFTER you have got the job, go look for a better one and switch.
I think this is actually not such a bad suggestion for entry to mid-level IT and management folk... definitely worth testing the waters. A friend recently got his MBA and went to work for an American company in their Singapore office because the opportunities for him as an *american* were greater in the Singapore office than for the locals.
This situation will probably intensify in the coming months.
But retail? c'mon.. this is the largest retail market in the world. Wheres the guy gonna go that offers better than here?
Do you think MS might be able to introduce HD-DVD or Blu-Ray capability into the XBOX 360 down the line? What sort of hardware/software mods will that require?
They could simply let Sony duke it out over format and pick the winner when the dust settles.
1) Offer cheaper ads. Tout automatic million eyeballs.
2) Steal all google customers
3) Google misses earnings
4) Loss of revenue damps expansion
5) goto 3
There are multiple ways to skin the cat, I'm sure a determined Microsoft will come up with something.
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Dear Microsoft: It's all everyone else's fault.
- Bender
Looks like HP is moving into IBM/DELL territory ( managed IT services ). I'm not too worried for IBM.
DELL, on the other hand, has a real fight on its hands. So.. umm... Mike.. why don't you forget about your small business services crap and go back to focus on making good machines and providing good customer service.
I don't know if EDS was the best vehicle to use, but its better than trying to setup something new.
That, my friend, was the last CD I ever bought... :/. What a pity to see such a talented group put out such drivel just to satisfy their contract obligations.
All is not dark on the northern front though, Korn did a different deal with Virgin where, as far as I can understand, Virgin was more like a venture capitalist investing in the band. This gave Korn enormous freedom and flexibility in release schedules, tour engagements, merchandizing etc. That freedom reflects in the stellar quality of music they have produced.
If more bands are able to bootstrap themselves into a position where they are not selling their souls to the recording companies to get their names out, I bet we see better quality music that does not cost an arm and a leg.
"bailout?" => Semantics aside, what the fed really did by engineering JPM's take over of BSC is keep the financial system from collapsing. Without this "bailout" Bear would have had no recourse but to declare bankruptcy monday morning.
So What?
Based on my understanding of the situation, a Bear bankruptcy would have resulted in all Bear creditors ( pretty much every other bank ) having to line up to get their money back from a bankruptcy court. Bear assets would have been liquidated at any available price to raise cash. This not only cause markets to sell off across the board, but also provides a "mark", a value to the assets owned by other banks. All that esoteric crap that is "hard to price" ( level 3 ), suddenly has a price ( could be pennies on the dollar ). Such a poor value drastically increases the leverage ratio of the banks that own these assets. This results in automatic credit downgrades and margin calls. In a situation where the credit crunch was already making it hard for banks to borrow, margin calls would pretty much force further asset sales and eventual bankruptcy for other banks. There is no way to predict how this would have ended. Suffice to say, it would have been very very ugly for you, me and everyone else.
AWE works by mapping different sections of a file larger than 2 GB into a pre-defined 2 GB address space already setup by the application. Since only the application can know which section of a large ( 4+GB ) file is relevant at the moment, only the application can actually make use of AWE.
SQL Server makes use of AWE for handling large datafiles. I haven't come across applications other than databases that use file mapping on large files, that plus the added complexity of keeping track of file sections is probably the reason we don't see more AWE usage.
That's one of the most annoying aspects of RDP...
I generally log into an adjecant machine and then:
>query session /server:${SERVER} /server:${SERVER} ( this disconnects ) /server:${SERVER} ( this logs the session out )
>tsdiscon $SESSION
>reset session $SESSION
Microsoft or any firm that allows their H1 employees to move laterally in the organization just like any other employee are generally not doing this for their benefit, but for the benefit of the employee in question.
Employment based green card applications require that the employer recruit the immigrant worker for a *specific* role. As long as that green card application is pending, the immigrant worker is not supposed to be able to move from that role because that invalidates any steps taken so far and resets the application back to square 0. So employers will generally make a concession to their workers by letting them maintain their original title and cost center information while still giving them the leeway to move within the organization. This is actually a *good* thing.
Obviously I am not making a case for any particular organization, rules differ from place to place, but based on what I hear from my friend that works at Microsoft ( on an H1-B ) is that they will do anything within their power to accomodate your career goals. Milage might obviously vary from group to group, but this could very well be the reason for the discrepancies you found. Obviously you cannot rule out anything, but I would tend to give the organization the benefit of the doubt on this unless you have evidence of other wrongdoing.
It gets better...
All these people are paying all local, state and federal taxes + social security + medicare without any reasonable expectation of ever seeing a dime of that money even if they were to be suddenly unemployed, have an accident, become incapable of work etc...
Basically, all of the responsibility, none of the benefits.
This is really the only hope for social security imho, the only way you can support a growing aging population that does_not_want/is_incapable_of work, is to hire lots and lots of *temporary* workers that will pay into the program but never withdraw.
In response to your post though, generally my experience has been that you are paid nearly the same if not better than your peers and your immediate manager in most cases is not even aware of your immigration status. So in three years, you would expect the H1-B worker's salary to go up just like any other worker's.
Its called previaling wage and the numbers are maintained by your state workforce agency. So, the way it works is: You submit a prevailing wage request stating the job you are hiring for. The State will tell you what the wages are for that job and then you show that you are paying at least that much.
Novartis is suing the Indian government for rejecting the Novartis patent.
From TFA:
the articleNovartis had sought a patent for a new use for its cancer drug Gleevec, which was rejected by the Indian patents office in January, on the ground that the drug was a new form of an old drug, and therefore, not patentable under Indian law.
ME TOO!!!
1. Ice Station Zebra was written by Alistair MacLean.
2. Dan Brown wrote Digital Fortress featuring the NSA.
3. 3rd world != backward.
... I dunno, I think MSFT might actually be doing something really visionary this time.
I bet that Live services might actually usher in the era of micropayments and on-demand access to the largest online marketplace for software, games and tools... with Microsoft as the gatekeeper. Add to that the ability to have full control on the support/upgrade cycles on business applications and complete knowledge of what users use their PCs for... this could really be a goldmine.
While the concept has existed for some time, its really nice to see a major software vendor bet this much capital to actually realize it.
How do you rate their chances of success with this?
dude... i think you're malfunctioning.
i think its "wee" like in wii-tarded.
ahem.... dumb down the resume dude!... You dont attach your masters thesis to your resume to get recruited into 7-11. Try paying some attention to what the job description is and only include experience relevant to the job. At this point in the game, the company does not care how fantastically talented you are. Telling them more than they need to know is at best, going to be distracting and at worst, cause them to drop you like a warm slurpy in July.
... then AFTER you have got the job, go look for a better one and switch.
I think this is actually not such a bad suggestion for entry to mid-level IT and management folk... definitely worth testing the waters. A friend recently got his MBA and went to work for an American company in their Singapore office because the opportunities for him as an *american* were greater in the Singapore office than for the locals.
This situation will probably intensify in the coming months.
But retail? c'mon.. this is the largest retail market in the world. Wheres the guy gonna go that offers better than here?
My 2c? Get an MCSE... *ducks*
Do you think MS might be able to introduce HD-DVD or Blu-Ray capability into the XBOX 360 down the line? What sort of hardware/software mods will that require? They could simply let Sony duke it out over format and pick the winner when the dust settles.
thats when they end each sentence with "tak, a lak"....
OR..... (3) Douse it with gas, set it on fire and give DrKyle a reason to die early.
1) Offer cheaper ads. Tout automatic million eyeballs. 2) Steal all google customers 3) Google misses earnings 4) Loss of revenue damps expansion 5) goto 3 There are multiple ways to skin the cat, I'm sure a determined Microsoft will come up with something.