I am not a fan of Hillary, but pretending that she is as bad as Donald Trump is just insane. Bernie Sanders is trying to influence the party platform and trying to prevent the disaster that would be Trump. I don't think that is unprincipled. If you think that is, the rest of the house and senate are crooked as hell.
The US system doesn't have the possibility of coalition governments and you can't really do a protest vote unless you want to risk Trump. Maybe one decides to bide the time until the next election or move to a different front in the senate / house races.
Firstly, where is your evidencce that mathematicians don't wear shoes, bathe or keep a tidy house?
Secondly, the quote in question says that "Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house." Not that a person who can cope with mathematics needs to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Give India a break, it *is* a democracy and it is only 60 years since it has gained independence from Britain which left it in not-the-greatest shape. It is true that there are problems of the lower castes, etc, but something is being done, albeit slowly, in terms of reservation in education and government jobs for the lower-castes. Why it was only 50 years ago that afro-americans in the US were second-class citizens.
I'm not an APPLE fanboy though I own an iPhone. While Apple is to blame for giving in to AT&T's alleged pressure, I don't see how it benefits Apple. Can you elaborate?
I don't think it's so much "A Good Company" as "A company that makes well designed, albeit expensive, products." If I had the cash my PC would be a mac and my phone would be an iPhone... at least, if I could use anybody but AT&T with the iPhone. That's a bigger hurde than the cost.
I don't dislike Microsoft because of their business practices; I dislike Microsoft because I don't like the way they design most of their products. YMMV as always.
Well I don't like Microsoft not because they make bad software, but because they make it difficult for my OS of choice (Linux) to function well and compete on an even footing with their anti-competitive practices, sabotaging of truly open standards, etc. If they just make bad software, I don't have to use it. Unfortunately, if I need to edit an MS Office document cleanly I need MS Windows.
I think there is much confusion about the term agnostic. Since one cannot disprove the non-existence of any god, agnosticism is the most logical stance one can take. However, the fact that one is agnostic should mean that one is equally agnostic about Zeus, the christian or any other mainstream god, and (not to ignore the pastafarians) the FSM as there is little evidence to support any of them. I am, strictly speaking, agnostic, but for practical purposes, I'm an atheist.
A comment with the heading "I find most Indians incompetent" is "interesting"? It doesn't matter if you replace "Indians" with any other country, it is a patently stupid generalization. I am an Indian and I didn't go to IIT, but I can tell you that most of the guys who get into IIT every year are some of the smartest 2000 guys in a country of 1 billion people. True, some of them have an attitude but they are rather raw because they are undergraduates, but they are definitely very talented.
Really? I hold a Phd in Electrical Engineering from Maryland and I have several good friends who got their PhD's in the US (all of them had their tuition paid and stipends) and are now in India. Their average age is around 30 as well. Some of them worked here for a couple of years. I still think that the US attracts a lot of students who want to excel in engineering and science. Getting a suitable job in India for these highly qualified people is difficult because of the competition and the scarcity of good jobs, but that is fast changing.
Well, I do not know about that. I tried taking pictures at a NYC subway station and immediately a cop came over and asked me not to take pictures. I do not know if it was legal or not though.
A few facts for your perusal. In the electrical and computer science graduate program at Maryland (ranked ~12), I'd say that the majority of graduate students were Asians. I'd say that the percentage of Americans in the program was less than 15%. I don't doubt that the numbers are similar in other top-ranked schools. I'd say the majority of these students get employed in the US. The average pay (including both PhDs and MS students) would be in the range of $75K-$90K If you set a minimum wage of 120K for H-1B students, you are going to blow a gaping hole in the workforce and in the competitiveness of American companies.
My point is that in graduate school in top universities across America the majority of the students are not Americans and most of these guys are going to be willing to work for less than American graduate students. Conversely, for a fixed salary, you are likely to get better qualified foreigners than Americans.
On the other hand, for jobs requiring a Bachelor's degree, it is true that H1B workers are exploited.
They kind of already do...and there have been...but the reason Apple won't face any lawsuits for this is because they are breaking into the Windows browser market, not dominating it. If they ever gained control of that market, then lawsuits may crop up (even still, you can always uninstall iTunes and use the iPod with one of a number of other programs, something Apple would be sure to point out).
You seem to be missing the point. Apple dominates the online music market and they are leveraging the domination in the music market to break into another market. It doesn't matter if they are not dominating the browser market.
It could be that he feels this is not the proper forum to offer condolences to some famous guy who many people on this forum didn't care about when he was alive. If Slashdot didn't care when he was alive, why should they when he died (although his death was a little unusual). Considering that I'd say that most people on Slashdot really don't care for Slashdot to report this and this guy feels particularly strongly. That could be why he tagged it. Its another way of saying "Why is Slashdot posting this?"
Yahoo is all FreeBSD, the engineers there HATE and laugh at Microsoft and its products. I know for a fact that moral will sink and people will leave Yahoo.
Mod parent up. Science has limitations, but the only way around it is more scientific research, not substitution with religion. In fact, if you view religious beliefs from a scientific view point, there is no evidence to back religious claims (including the God hypothesis) and there is no reason to believe in God more than in a celestial teapot revolving around the earth (Bertrand Russell) or in the Flying Spagetti Monster.
As HL Mencken says "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." I think it is a good thing that religious belief should be questioned in the classroom and what better forum than a science class.
Dawkins makes all these points and more in his book "The God Delusion".
There are 65,000 H1B slots available per year for foreign workers. There are an additional 20,000 H1B slots for workers who have a MS or PhD degree from a US university. For the H1B visa starting Oct 1, 2007, the application process started on April 2, 2007. By April 4 more than 150,000 applications were received and the INS stopped accepting new applications. It turned out the MS/PhD slots were available for a couple more weeks, but out of the remaining 130,000+ people whose application got in before April 4, 50% were rejected on a random basis.
I know this, because I'm graduating with a PhD this summer. Since I plan to join a non-profit research institute, I will not be subject to the H1B cap, but most other similarly qualified people are.
There is a common misconception that the employee who is on an H1-B visa is beholden to the employer. This is not true. An employee who obtained an H1-B visa can switch jobs and "transfer" the visa to another job. This lessens the hold that companies have over their H1-B employees.
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The US system doesn't have the possibility of coalition governments and you can't really do a protest vote unless you want to risk Trump. Maybe one decides to bide the time until the next election or move to a different front in the senate / house races.
This post is insightful?
Firstly, where is your evidencce that mathematicians don't wear shoes, bathe or keep a tidy house?
Secondly, the quote in question says that "Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house." Not that a person who can cope with mathematics needs to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Give India a break, it *is* a democracy and it is only 60 years since it has gained independence from Britain which left it in not-the-greatest shape. It is true that there are problems of the lower castes, etc, but something is being done, albeit slowly, in terms of reservation in education and government jobs for the lower-castes. Why it was only 50 years ago that afro-americans in the US were second-class citizens.
iFad - 'nuff said :)
This one has ratings and comments enabled. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oWWt_L-qeo&feature=related)
I'm not an APPLE fanboy though I own an iPhone. While Apple is to blame for giving in to AT&T's alleged pressure, I don't see how it benefits Apple. Can you elaborate?
I don't think it's so much "A Good Company" as "A company that makes well designed, albeit expensive, products." If I had the cash my PC would be a mac and my phone would be an iPhone... at least, if I could use anybody but AT&T with the iPhone. That's a bigger hurde than the cost.
I don't dislike Microsoft because of their business practices; I dislike Microsoft because I don't like the way they design most of their products. YMMV as always.
Well I don't like Microsoft not because they make bad software, but because they make it difficult for my OS of choice (Linux) to function well and compete on an even footing with their anti-competitive practices, sabotaging of truly open standards, etc. If they just make bad software, I don't have to use it. Unfortunately, if I need to edit an MS Office document cleanly I need MS Windows.
I read somewhere that it meant "I can't configure Debian". :)
I think there is much confusion about the term agnostic. Since one cannot disprove the non-existence of any god, agnosticism is the most logical stance one can take. However, the fact that one is agnostic should mean that one is equally agnostic about Zeus, the christian or any other mainstream god, and (not to ignore the pastafarians) the FSM as there is little evidence to support any of them. I am, strictly speaking, agnostic, but for practical purposes, I'm an atheist.
A comment with the heading "I find most Indians incompetent" is "interesting"? It doesn't matter if you replace "Indians" with any other country, it is a patently stupid generalization. I am an Indian and I didn't go to IIT, but I can tell you that most of the guys who get into IIT every year are some of the smartest 2000 guys in a country of 1 billion people. True, some of them have an attitude but they are rather raw because they are undergraduates, but they are definitely very talented.
Really? I hold a Phd in Electrical Engineering from Maryland and I have several good friends who got their PhD's in the US (all of them had their tuition paid and stipends) and are now in India. Their average age is around 30 as well. Some of them worked here for a couple of years. I still think that the US attracts a lot of students who want to excel in engineering and science. Getting a suitable job in India for these highly qualified people is difficult because of the competition and the scarcity of good jobs, but that is fast changing.
They should just call themselves "Association for Dealing with Competitive Technology."
Well, I do not know about that. I tried taking pictures at a NYC subway station and immediately a cop came over and asked me not to take pictures. I do not know if it was legal or not though.
Imagine if everybody did - then we'd know for sure that the Internet was built wrong when everything melts.
Hey, at least I glanced at the title.
A few facts for your perusal. In the electrical and computer science graduate program at Maryland (ranked ~12), I'd say that the majority of graduate students were Asians. I'd say that the percentage of Americans in the program was less than 15%. I don't doubt that the numbers are similar in other top-ranked schools. I'd say the majority of these students get employed in the US. The average pay (including both PhDs and MS students) would be in the range of $75K-$90K If you set a minimum wage of 120K for H-1B students, you are going to blow a gaping hole in the workforce and in the competitiveness of American companies.
My point is that in graduate school in top universities across America the majority of the students are not Americans and most of these guys are going to be willing to work for less than American graduate students. Conversely, for a fixed salary, you are likely to get better qualified foreigners than Americans.
On the other hand, for jobs requiring a Bachelor's degree, it is true that H1B workers are exploited.
Good thing I'm running Mojave and not Vista.
Hey! How is global warming in 2050?
You seem to be missing the point. Apple dominates the online music market and they are leveraging the domination in the music market to break into another market. It doesn't matter if they are not dominating the browser market.
The official course of action for COS in cases like these is set down by elron himself
Who is this elron? Is he some sort of a cross between L Ron and Elrond? or what? :-)
It could be that he feels this is not the proper forum to offer condolences to some famous guy who many people on this forum didn't care about when he was alive. If Slashdot didn't care when he was alive, why should they when he died (although his death was a little unusual). Considering that I'd say that most people on Slashdot really don't care for Slashdot to report this and this guy feels particularly strongly. That could be why he tagged it. Its another way of saying "Why is Slashdot posting this?"
Not only morals, but morale will also sink. :-)
Mod parent up. Science has limitations, but the only way around it is more scientific research, not substitution with religion. In fact, if you view religious beliefs from a scientific view point, there is no evidence to back religious claims (including the God hypothesis) and there is no reason to believe in God more than in a celestial teapot revolving around the earth (Bertrand Russell) or in the Flying Spagetti Monster.
As HL Mencken says "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." I think it is a good thing that religious belief should be questioned in the classroom and what better forum than a science class.
Dawkins makes all these points and more in his book "The God Delusion".
This is slashdot. What dignity?
And what children?
There are 65,000 H1B slots available per year for foreign workers. There are an additional 20,000 H1B slots for workers who have a MS or PhD degree from a US university. For the H1B visa starting Oct 1, 2007, the application process started on April 2, 2007. By April 4 more than 150,000 applications were received and the INS stopped accepting new applications. It turned out the MS/PhD slots were available for a couple more weeks, but out of the remaining 130,000+ people whose application got in before April 4, 50% were rejected on a random basis.
I know this, because I'm graduating with a PhD this summer. Since I plan to join a non-profit research institute, I will not be subject to the H1B cap, but most other similarly qualified people are.
Dude, you just slashdotted search.live.com!!! They are probably not used to such load.
There is a common misconception that the employee who is on an H1-B visa is beholden to the employer. This is not true. An employee who obtained an H1-B visa can switch jobs and "transfer" the visa to another job. This lessens the hold that companies have over their H1-B employees.