You don't have a clue how H1-B's are abused to drive down the cost of labor by employers. Having run the scam in the past I can tell you it is _very_ popular.
There are plenty of opportunities if you have the skills.
Labor statistics suggest you are working longer hours for a much smaller basket of benefits (wages + extras) than the same aged worker 10 years ago. Why do you choose working more hours for less today? Chances are excellent 10 years from now you will work even more hours for even less. Will you be happy with that too?
If you want a good picture of what unfettered access to labor looks like, visit the small migrant labor towns in agricultural regions in the U.S. Opportunities everywhere to pick produce. 0% unemployment, but it's basically a shanty-town.
Unions that divvy up the labor aren't optimal, but there's a much broader labor movement than *just* unions. Check out the history of "weekend." sometime. No unions required, but we are all truly better off for having weekends.
Finally, for all the misery your Dad puts up with in a Union, does he get paid more? Cheaper health/dental/optical insurance? Why did he agree to it?
Facial recognition software is not trivial. Especially accurate facial recognition. I wonder if it is a licensed library.
Otherwise who cares? Seriously. If you think that Google is somehow the first to do this you would be very, very, wrong. This is water that went under the bridge a looong time ago at a national intelligence scale. Don't jump to the conclusion that it is used everywhere though... But understand that it has been commercially available to governments for a long time.
First, think about the likely effort there will be in case the sale is made. If it is more than a one-man shop there will be legal-eese to read.
Second, ask for a draft agreement that transfers the domain. Don't make any demands, and make them feel at ease. The document they send should make you feel at ease for working with them. If it doesn't just say no thanks.
Third, never mention a price. You are at a perpetual disadvantage if you do. A serious disadvantage. "Higher" and "You've got yourself a deal" are the *only* communications you should have.
From here, it's easy to get screwed, so there are some ways to ensure you get _some_ money out of them even if they would like to screw you. I've seen it before for even the littlest thing. I'll take a 5% commission to explain the rest. post a reply to my post with contact info.
Skype allows text messages to be sent from anywhere in the world for a very reasonable fee.
This is because skype is using some SIP-like protocol over the Internet, forwarding the message to their SMS gateway in the region. Skype is charging you Princely rates for this luxury. This is very different than going mobile-to-mobile.
Are your friends able to text mobile-to-mobile from China to you? What's the cost you pay for each of those international text messages? Another princely sum I'm sure.
I've never heard of complaints about CO2 use making the atmosphere have insufficient oxygen
It's not about insufficient oxygen. It's about creating value processing carbon-dioxide. An oxygen market creates wealth in developing nations as a "CO2 processor" in place of the traditional resource extraction industries normally used to develop a higher standard of living in developing nations. Ideally, there's incentives in there to maintain biological diversity too...
Of course, anyone satisfied with our current method of sustaining the human race will call it crazy. And there's a strong contingent of economists that will fall back on the "infinite substitutions" argument. Which is a very potent form of circular logic bordering on the religious.
On one hand you talk about how corrupt and evil corporations are, and how all the ills of the world are caused by lobbyists, and on the other hand you want to create YET ANOTHER multi-trillion dollar market and have YET ANOTHER lobbyist in DC lobbying for Big Oxygen or Big CO2?
The human condition is full of inconsistency and contradiction. Ideally, your concerns are somewhat allayed by a system that rewards or emphasizes transparency. If one were to monetize oxygen production, then there will be a "big oxygen." If the oxygen market is structured correctly, then their harm will be minimized. Obviously much easier said than done.
The obvious, least economically damaging, least intrusive way to handle the problem is to simply internalize the costs that CO2 emissions throw off, either by tradeable caps or a tax, and then apply the funds to mitigating the damage.
I generally agree with your intrusiveness arguments. But disagree with the whole carbon dioxide plan.
Carbon dioxide markets obfuscate and reward the grossest polluters who have the most wealth and power. I would argue the flipside, an oxygen market. Which is more quantifiable and not as corruptable as a carbon dioxide market and increases the supply of oxygen.
1. Cap and trade is a political problem exposed to all of the usual failures associated with political problems. Corruption, centralization of influence, etc.
2. Carbon dioxide credits don't attach a value to oxygen production. The rest of the world _still_ rewards turning the oxygen producing forests into more economically viable operations like farms, mining, harvesting the timber or industrial parks. And the citizens of that formerly forested country are enriched and in theory lead more comfortable lives by industrializing the formerly oxygen producing lands.
3. Carbon dioxide markets disprove a negative which is why the grossest polluters don't mind the discussion. It's a guaranteed political firestorm with no logical basis. Start a discussion about wealth generated by oxygen production and it is *much* more politically viable.
4. Focusing on carbon dioxide markets creates expensive schemes like pumping carbon into holes in the earth instead of focusing on increasing the supply of oxygen.
Force the grossest consumers of oxygen (co2 makers) to pay rent for oxygen production as a natural resource like oil and natural gas and it becomes wealth-building exercise admittedly fraught with the usual political problems.
I second this suggestion. It's what I did a little while ago and it's the best extra $10/month we spend. Sadly, time-warner cable doesn't send QAM over their $12/month cable so my mythtv is all NTSC:(
The other important thing the cap does is **compel** any movie download service to go to Comcast and pay for the privilege of access to their residential customers. Screwed doesn't begin to describe any company attempting to deliver movies via download that isn't Comcastic.
Before anyone goes blathering on about "ufair" this and "innacurate" that, follow my test.
1. Visit Dell.com on two different browser tabs. 2. Tab #1 starts here.http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs 3. Tab #2 starts here. http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1330?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19 4. Configure the Vista product with the ultimate version. That is roughly feature equivalent to Ubuntu. 5. Pay attention to the hardware options because the Linux product has fewer and generally more storage/RAM. 6. At the end, you should have a spread of about $349.
So, Vista costs the consumer $349 OEM through the consumer URL.
Datacenter workers are far more aware of the demands and complexity of cooling.
1. It's a commercial pursuit, which is meaningfully different than one-off's from the lab. They must have some customer in mind. If they don't, well, their investors will get burned.
2. I can easily imagine a commercial application where, perhaps cooling needs overwhelm a building, this may come in as a cheap alternative.
Get back to us when you've figured out how to cool a rack full of blade servers working near capacity. This may do it more elegantly than air.
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American society tolerates... There is not enough time or resources to protect people from themselves.
identity theft will not go away.... There are too many players in the game Clearly the author has no immediate experience in the banking industry. The process is designed to minimize business risk. It shifts the consequences to the customer. It's intentional and the industry is quite happy with it.
Utter the words EMV in the U.S. banking industry and you are on the wrong end of a tirade on socialist schemes, government regulation and the kitchen sink's role in harming business interests.
These events alone will generate $1MM+ (million??) in legal bills. We all know Apple won't stop until psystar is closed and will use it as an example to every american with a similar idea. You know, heads on a stick at the city gates and all that.
1. How many tolls will be stolen? Too few for anyone in the project to care. They will treat this like "ID theft" and the burden is on you.
2. How many people are going to want or actually *do* anything TFA suggests. It's a number very close to zero.
The same kind of thinking applies to most automated transit toll collecting system. No one that could do anything about these issues cares or would be foolish enough to waste budget on corner cases like this. It would be a huge political/professional liability if they did.
And since there will be a farm, you will need many additional CALs to be compliant, additional terminal server licenses for your staff, the compliance and license budget keeps growing.
Look, I know there are lots of people that can run their non-clustered whatever on Microsoft stuff and get a sense of satisfaction from it. Great.
But when the 16+ cores isn't enough for next year's loads and downtime is counted in hundreds of dollars per second, Microsoft's performance makes it very hard to justify the price.
It's too easy to marginalize so take this as a lesson. "Supports" is where you get buggered on this one.
JUST like nbcolympics.com, it works on some OSX, but not an intel mac from a couple of years ago. And exactly how many users are *actually* going to go download firefox just for the occasion? My wife just closed safari and never went back.
You are really screwed if you are on PowerPC and Linux. Nothing works. Not even wine.
Microsoft bought video delivery privileges to force silverlight downloads. Some people call that a conspiracy. For me, that's just business. But there's still *something* wrong with that.
Busses just send the data off via some kind of modem. Doing it offline is actually cheaper over the life of a transit project by anywhere from 10-40%, but the annual operating costs are slightly higher if they went 100% offline.
You do a good job at sounding like you know something about the subject, but you are woefully misinformed and out of date. The reason offline stored value is not used is that it is too slow for transit. By now the speeds are probably better than they were a few years ago. The other reason is the cost structure makes online systems politically attractive. Municipalities waste 100's of millions of dollars up front for implementing online system to have going-forward operating costs negligibly lower.
The security should lie with the central system. There is no need for this kind of antiquated thinking anymore. Their system is centralized. The guy is misinformed about what is stored on the card. The guy is also misinformed about cloning. Where will he source the right card that is ready for initialization? Will he know how to initialize it correctly? It would work in Hollywood, but in real life it's non-trivial.
1. The target audience really doesn't care. Many people who get asked about things like computers to buy are promoting everything BUT Vista. But there's a great horde of potential consumers some of whom have HUGE budgets to blow who don't ask anyone.
2. The ONLY reason to advertise is to repeat something point of view until it becomes ingrained into the collective unconcious. (sp!!) Vista is good because Microsoft is shouting it from the rooftops.
It's also important to note the hollywood industry labels things "Sienfeldian" because he's brought in so much money making people laugh about nothing in particular. Which, is really hard to do.
So, it's a good idea. It needs to be executed well. Which is harder than coming up with a good idea!
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You don't have a clue how H1-B's are abused to drive down the cost of labor by employers. Having run the scam in the past I can tell you it is _very_ popular.
There are plenty of opportunities if you have the skills.
Labor statistics suggest you are working longer hours for a much smaller basket of benefits (wages + extras) than the same aged worker 10 years ago. Why do you choose working more hours for less today? Chances are excellent 10 years from now you will work even more hours for even less. Will you be happy with that too?
If you want a good picture of what unfettered access to labor looks like, visit the small migrant labor towns in agricultural regions in the U.S. Opportunities everywhere to pick produce. 0% unemployment, but it's basically a shanty-town.
Unions that divvy up the labor aren't optimal, but there's a much broader labor movement than *just* unions. Check out the history of "weekend." sometime. No unions required, but we are all truly better off for having weekends.
Finally, for all the misery your Dad puts up with in a Union, does he get paid more? Cheaper health/dental/optical insurance? Why did he agree to it?
Facial recognition software is not trivial. Especially accurate facial recognition. I wonder if it is a licensed library.
Otherwise who cares? Seriously. If you think that Google is somehow the first to do this you would be very, very, wrong. This is water that went under the bridge a looong time ago at a national intelligence scale. Don't jump to the conclusion that it is used everywhere though... But understand that it has been commercially available to governments for a long time.
First, think about the likely effort there will be in case the sale is made. If it is more than a one-man shop there will be legal-eese to read.
Second, ask for a draft agreement that transfers the domain. Don't make any demands, and make them feel at ease. The document they send should make you feel at ease for working with them. If it doesn't just say no thanks.
Third, never mention a price. You are at a perpetual disadvantage if you do. A serious disadvantage. "Higher" and "You've got yourself a deal" are the *only* communications you should have.
From here, it's easy to get screwed, so there are some ways to ensure you get _some_ money out of them even if they would like to screw you. I've seen it before for even the littlest thing. I'll take a 5% commission to explain the rest. post a reply to my post with contact info.
No. A more pragmatic answer would be that SMS does not and probably will never support Chinese characters, or logograms of any kind
They have chinese input for PC's, then eventually, they'll have a localized mobile phone keyboard. That is, if they don't already.
Your anecdotes about other languages suffer from various problems too.
Skype allows text messages to be sent from anywhere in the world for a very reasonable fee.
This is because skype is using some SIP-like protocol over the Internet, forwarding the message to their SMS gateway in the region. Skype is charging you Princely rates for this luxury. This is very different than going mobile-to-mobile.
Are your friends able to text mobile-to-mobile from China to you? What's the cost you pay for each of those international text messages? Another princely sum I'm sure.
I've never heard of complaints about CO2 use making the atmosphere have insufficient oxygen
It's not about insufficient oxygen. It's about creating value processing carbon-dioxide. An oxygen market creates wealth in developing nations as a "CO2 processor" in place of the traditional resource extraction industries normally used to develop a higher standard of living in developing nations. Ideally, there's incentives in there to maintain biological diversity too...
Of course, anyone satisfied with our current method of sustaining the human race will call it crazy. And there's a strong contingent of economists that will fall back on the "infinite substitutions" argument. Which is a very potent form of circular logic bordering on the religious.
On one hand you talk about how corrupt and evil corporations are, and how all the ills of the world are caused by lobbyists, and on the other hand you want to create YET ANOTHER multi-trillion dollar market and have YET ANOTHER lobbyist in DC lobbying for Big Oxygen or Big CO2?
The human condition is full of inconsistency and contradiction. Ideally, your concerns are somewhat allayed by a system that rewards or emphasizes transparency. If one were to monetize oxygen production, then there will be a "big oxygen." If the oxygen market is structured correctly, then their harm will be minimized. Obviously much easier said than done.
The obvious, least economically damaging, least intrusive way to handle the problem is to simply internalize the costs that CO2 emissions throw off, either by tradeable caps or a tax, and then apply the funds to mitigating the damage.
I generally agree with your intrusiveness arguments. But disagree with the whole carbon dioxide plan.
Carbon dioxide markets obfuscate and reward the grossest polluters who have the most wealth and power. I would argue the flipside, an oxygen market. Which is more quantifiable and not as corruptable as a carbon dioxide market and increases the supply of oxygen.
1. Cap and trade is a political problem exposed to all of the usual failures associated with political problems. Corruption, centralization of influence, etc.
2. Carbon dioxide credits don't attach a value to oxygen production. The rest of the world _still_ rewards turning the oxygen producing forests into more economically viable operations like farms, mining, harvesting the timber or industrial parks. And the citizens of that formerly forested country are enriched and in theory lead more comfortable lives by industrializing the formerly oxygen producing lands.
3. Carbon dioxide markets disprove a negative which is why the grossest polluters don't mind the discussion. It's a guaranteed political firestorm with no logical basis. Start a discussion about wealth generated by oxygen production and it is *much* more politically viable.
4. Focusing on carbon dioxide markets creates expensive schemes like pumping carbon into holes in the earth instead of focusing on increasing the supply of oxygen.
Force the grossest consumers of oxygen (co2
makers) to pay rent for oxygen production as a natural resource like oil and natural gas and it becomes wealth-building exercise admittedly fraught with the usual political problems.
I spend part of my time as a desktop admin, parent's statements are accurate.
I second this suggestion. It's what I did a little while ago and it's the best extra $10/month we spend. Sadly, time-warner cable doesn't send QAM over their $12/month cable so my mythtv is all NTSC :(
The other important thing the cap does is **compel** any movie download service to go to Comcast and pay for the privilege of access to their residential customers. Screwed doesn't begin to describe any company attempting to deliver movies via download that isn't Comcastic.
Probably because the spread between Microsoft's price/computer and the reseller's is *supposed* to be how the reseller makes money.
The reseller ends up taking a direct hit likely blowing whatever margin was there away. It reminds me of how badly merchants get screwed by the banks.
Before anyone goes blathering on about "ufair" this and "innacurate" that, follow my test.
1. Visit Dell.com on two different browser tabs.
2. Tab #1 starts here.http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
3. Tab #2 starts here. http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1330?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19
4. Configure the Vista product with the ultimate version. That is roughly feature equivalent to Ubuntu.
5. Pay attention to the hardware options because the Linux product has fewer and generally more storage/RAM.
6. At the end, you should have a spread of about $349.
So, Vista costs the consumer $349 OEM through the consumer URL.
The url for the account is buried and in Czech.
a translation would be nice. http://www.abclinuxu.cz/clanky/pr/abclinuxu.cz-vyplatil-nahradu-za-licenci-ms-windows-misto-lenovo-cr?page=1
The last time I checked, the spread between a Vista/Linux Dell was about $200 with similar specs.
Look cowboy, YOU come up with one really great thing that becomes an iconic device/OS/whatever and you too can get interviewed 25 years from now.
You know, Linux has made it so much easier to do it too. Go ahead. I look forward to seeing it last 25 years.
You desktop jockeys have no idea.
Datacenter workers are far more aware of the demands and complexity of cooling.
1. It's a commercial pursuit, which is meaningfully different than one-off's from the lab. They must have some customer in mind. If they don't, well, their investors will get burned.
2. I can easily imagine a commercial application where, perhaps cooling needs overwhelm a building, this may come in as a cheap alternative.
Get back to us when you've figured out how to cool a rack full of blade servers working near capacity. This may do it more elegantly than air.
American society tolerates...
There is not enough time or resources to protect people from themselves.
identity theft will not go away .... There are too many players in the game
Clearly the author has no immediate experience in the banking industry. The process is designed to minimize business risk. It shifts the consequences to the customer. It's intentional and the industry is quite happy with it.
Utter the words EMV in the U.S. banking industry and you are on the wrong end of a tirade on socialist schemes, government regulation and the kitchen sink's role in harming business interests.
These events alone will generate $1MM+ (million??) in legal bills. We all know Apple won't stop until psystar is closed and will use it as an example to every american with a similar idea. You know, heads on a stick at the city gates and all that.
So, where's psystar's money coming from?
1. How many tolls will be stolen? Too few for anyone in the project to care. They will treat this like "ID theft" and the burden is on you.
2. How many people are going to want or actually *do* anything TFA suggests. It's a number very close to zero.
The same kind of thinking applies to most automated transit toll collecting system. No one that could do anything about these issues cares or would be foolish enough to waste budget on corner cases like this. It would be a huge political/professional liability if they did.
Do the math.
http://www.google.com/products?q=%22windows+2003%22+enterprise+edition&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
And since there will be a farm, you will need many additional CALs to be compliant, additional terminal server licenses for your staff, the compliance and license budget keeps growing.
Now, for your MS SQL. hmmm look at that. Five figures for *each* machine. http://www.google.com/products?q=%22microsoft+sql%22+enterprise+edition&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd Microsoft is cheap too.
Look, I know there are lots of people that can run their non-clustered whatever on Microsoft stuff and get a sense of satisfaction from it. Great.
But when the 16+ cores isn't enough for next year's loads and downtime is counted in hundreds of dollars per second, Microsoft's performance makes it very hard to justify the price.
Windows Media servers, however, are just regular ol' Windows servers -- couple hundred dollars per box
You know that's complete B.S. They don't set up "a couple" of boxes and therefore pay super-premium-prices because of the license limits.
with no user limits,
you'd be wrong there too.... Unless of course you violate the license restrictions like most licensees..
and they do quite well with heavy loads.
Linux scales better. Corporate won't pay the 5-figure Microsoft licenses to stay ahead of capacity planning.
when the site also supports OSX and Firefox.
It's too easy to marginalize so take this as a lesson. "Supports" is where you get buggered on this one.
JUST like nbcolympics.com, it works on some OSX, but not an intel mac from a couple of years ago. And exactly how many users are *actually* going to go download firefox just for the occasion? My wife just closed safari and never went back.
You are really screwed if you are on PowerPC and Linux. Nothing works. Not even wine.
So, "compatible" is needlessly complicated and as recent news indicates aggressively minimizes their audience to the point that mostly static content drew the same audience numbers. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/sports/olympics/25online.html?ref=technology
Microsoft bought video delivery privileges to force silverlight downloads. Some people call that a conspiracy. For me, that's just business. But there's still *something* wrong with that.
Busses just send the data off via some kind of modem. Doing it offline is actually cheaper over the life of a transit project by anywhere from 10-40%, but the annual operating costs are slightly higher if they went 100% offline.
Politically, which do you think wins?
You do a good job at sounding like you know something about the subject, but you are woefully misinformed and out of date. The reason offline stored value is not used is that it is too slow for transit. By now the speeds are probably better than they were a few years ago. The other reason is the cost structure makes online systems politically attractive. Municipalities waste 100's of millions of dollars up front for implementing online system to have going-forward operating costs negligibly lower.
The security should lie with the central system.
There is no need for this kind of antiquated thinking anymore. Their system is centralized. The guy is misinformed about what is stored on the card. The guy is also misinformed about cloning. Where will he source the right card that is ready for initialization? Will he know how to initialize it correctly? It would work in Hollywood, but in real life it's non-trivial.
I think you over estimate their target audience.
1. The target audience really doesn't care. Many people who get asked about things like computers to buy are promoting everything BUT Vista. But there's a great horde of potential consumers some of whom have HUGE budgets to blow who don't ask anyone.
2. The ONLY reason to advertise is to repeat something point of view until it becomes ingrained into the collective unconcious. (sp!!) Vista is good because Microsoft is shouting it from the rooftops.
It's also important to note the hollywood industry labels things "Sienfeldian" because he's brought in so much money making people laugh about nothing in particular. Which, is really hard to do.
So, it's a good idea. It needs to be executed well. Which is harder than coming up with a good idea!