Give them right, alright. Then, please tell us, who will enroll to be their police, who will prosecute them for murder (if they kill each other in fights, which do happen), who will ensure compulsory education, give them vaccines, and so on. Ehh, why do I even bother, these guys have just found the only thing that gives their lives meaning, we should just mind about ours and let them play.
I have to say, that I'm not American, but I'd like to work in the US, but sorry, I don't have a "batchelors" (funny stuff:) , instead I have a phd.
IMHO, these numbers limiting the legal work visas/year are just ridiculous. For two main reasons. Countless numbers of illegal aliens flow into the US every year, yet their main concern is limiting the number of people who want to work legally and pay taxes. Then, no matter how low or high you put that limit, there will always be more requests than places. Solutions ? I don't really think we - or, more correctly, you - could find an easy one. One of them might be not to put a limit but try to judge every application and try to select, but this also wouldn't work since there are only so much people at USCIS whu can process visa applications. Besides, the whole thing just s*cks, since there are no guarantees you get a job you might fit into, since the best they can tell you is you'll get the job if the gods and uscis want it too.
I mean come on, the linked writing has the following text
Security experts say every time a retailer ends up in the headlines for losing customer credit-card data, a PCI project gets its wings. And,as more companies look to the channel for help with securing their networks for PCI compliance, it's turning out to be a wonderful life for solution providers.
in which they link the PCI acronym to an encyclopedia site detailing what PCI as in Peripheral Component Interconnect means.
Applicants' submissions enjoy a presumption of patentability
This is stupid on so many levels. You want to fix a broken patent system which lets through hundreds of stupid patent by making them easier to slip through ? For heaven's sake, this issue shouldn't be treated like cream with sugar, it should be treated like the worst dictatorship, every and each submission should be presumed to be junk and only if validity could be proved, should it be allowed to be passed.
Well, I'va also been "playing" with feisty beta, on a dell with internal wifi and on an ibm t series with pcmcia wifi. Thing is, wifi didn't work automatically on either of them. It wasn't rocket science to make them work by hand, I know Debian inside out, still, what will take Dell that unspecified amount of time is probably to test their laptop line to see which is the best dell laptop + given linux distro combination. I hope they will come up with a good one, otherwise it will be anything but a success.
Honestly, I don't want no companie's own e-mail verification system. People - yes, real people, and surprise surprise quite a lot of us - use GPG for signing and encrypting e-mails and everything else, and there are lots of freely usable keyservers out there. But hell would freeze over if any company with their bucks dropping out from their a**es would ever just use a proven, available and easy way of e-mail signing. Just give all your users keys and you're done, they don't even have to know they have one. But no, come people, use our DomainKeys. Yup, companies, the ones we love. Right.
"It will be interesting to see how it stands up today alongside all the Tolkien-alike literature that we've become familiar with," said David Bradley
In my world there's nothing like what you could call "Tolkien-alike". Many have tried to ride the waves his writings have raised, still very few come even close to what he's accomplished. Maybe it's his background, maybe it's his decades' long knowledge in mythology, languages and literature, maybe it's his natural writing skill, maybe it's the timing, maybe it's all of these together that have resulted in a physical form that it's unique in so many ways. How will this new compilation be judged ? Supposing it's really good, it still will require a great effort to make it stand out from the oceans of fantasy bestseller wannabes these days.
Well, and I thought it's the state's job to know about a person whether (s)he's a citizen or not. If I show a whatever ID they issued I expect them to know my status and be that ID enough proof of my citizenship. Enormous amounts of tax payers' money is spent of countless forms of identification methods and cards issues, on systems storing these information, so use the damn thing.
and we at Microsoft believe that we have to enable those open standards
Enable ? Hardly. Follow ? When PR requires. Open ? Yeah, right.
"Enable those open standards" does this even mean something ?
First they don't do it. Then they do something similar for a second and act as they've always done it and behaved accordingly forever and even act like it's their ground philosophy.
Not that I would care what a company does to ensure a certain future - economical, technical or otherwise - yet there are certain boundaries to arrogance - like in we think you're ignorant enough to eat whatever we serve you for dinner kind of arrogance - that sometimes just blows the hood.
the fewest number of patches and the shortest average patch development time
I think some people might happen to agree on the first part of this claim - although a low number of patches doesn't mean there hasn't been a larger number of problems that should've been patched. The second part... well, let's put it this way, time is relative, thus a period of time might seem shorter to ones than to some others, more so if there's nothing to compare to, which is not the case. So, let's just change that claim to something like a number of patches and an average patch development time.
Thing is, they had a hand in starting the async. xml and javascript story. Another thing is, they don't really have a good record on standards compliance. Add them together, what do you get ? Yep, innovation at it's best: going backwards.
On the other hand, MS just has to be in there, like in everything else, since it;s harder to influence and/or control if you're not inside. That's all. All the rest about great innovations and lotsa tall blondes and free beers is just a bedside story.
to ensure interoperability among tools built by different vendors
...the entertainment industry's lawsuits are way more interesting than their TV shows, movies, and records? Maybe they should formally change their business model and go primarily into lawsuits as a creative medium.
Well, no problem there, they got the message, and they are just doing it:]
More accurately, people go to Google to search for stuff like Viacom shows
Nope, "people go to Google to search for stuff like" "shows". For Viacom's shows, Google is one way, the easy way, to find them. Without Google there would still be a way, the good old harder way, to find them. How big a step backward would that be ? Remember the mid-nineties ? Good. You don't wanna go there.
How can your government make such an assurance if the only data they have on you is your name, address, and date of birth?
Uh-oh. How enlightened. And I always thought that you treat all people as good citizens with the exceptions of the few who have commited something. If my country says we are all bloody mass murderers unless we prove otherwise, then why shoul I stay here, continue to pay taxes for them, support them, and even be proud of it ? Yep, no reason.
I used to be very proud of being English. I believed Britain to be a light in the darkness and a bastion of freedom. I believed that the U.K., along with the U.S., stood as examples to the rest of the world as to what was possible when freedom won out over fear. But today, I no longer feel that way.
Really no offence, but man, that took you long enough.
freedom won out over fear
The words remained, but their order has changed for a long time now.
As a UK resident, all I can say is "that is what we have come to expect from this government".
Forgive me when I say this, but if this indeed the case, then that's simply pathetic. The government has power only so long as the people let them have it. If the people have grown so uncaring that they don't even bother to question their governments' moves then they are just a bunch of dumb sheep that deserve no better. This is not a UK issue, not even a European or American - or else - issue, it's fairly general these days on this pittyful planet. We give them power and then we do nothing if they don't do as they promised to do, and sometimes even the total opposite. I have to say that all this is our [the people's] own fault.
You falsely assume more expensive education makes better skill. Well, I'd have to disappoint you (no, I really don't) but that's far from being true.
scholarship to an unemployed American programmer
As my grandfather has always said, only those don't have a job who don't want one. While I thought that to be laughable for a long time, now I also am standing firmly with that opinion. "There are no jobs" is an excuse I'd never accept.
Other than that, maybe you should try how it's like to obtain a h1b (if you can, that is), renew once than get out. Many h1bs are there for the money, so after a few years they can go home and begin something with their lives and some money they've earned - with rightful work, that is, and you really should keep that in mind. Additionally, also keep in mind that in time, when the average life quality will raise (yes, I'm optimistic) nobody will want to go to the US, why ? because most people like their home country. Right now, with two degrees and a phd I earn about as much at a fairly good position as a Joe working at a gas station in the US. Yet I'm staying because I value what I have here. But for most, it's hard to argue with the paychecks.
When we're talking about addressable computer memory, approximating the kilobyte to 1024 is a convenience, but since Terabyte gives such a huge error, and makes absolutely no sense for data transfer or disk sizes, it's really time we stopped this illogical naming convention just because some engineers found a term convenient 40 years ago.
Yes, it's so funny when all these guys just keep arguing why 1024bytes should really be 1000bytes because they don't want to care that it's history, it's practical, it works, and anyway why the hell should be 1000, let's make it 999. Now you go calculate. So, it's funny when they just keep arguing about that but just wait and see how they react when you bring up the mile/feet/pound issue (which really is an SI-issue btw, unlike the byte) from "40 years ago", or well, a bit more so what gives.
Fact is, we who care about 1MB being 1024B, we don't really care how mister joe wants to call a megabyte and how much he wants it to be. We know what they mean, it's their freaking problem that they have created this non-issue for themselves so they won't know what we mean.
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Give them right, alright. Then, please tell us, who will enroll to be their police, who will prosecute them for murder (if they kill each other in fights, which do happen), who will ensure compulsory education, give them vaccines, and so on. Ehh, why do I even bother, these guys have just found the only thing that gives their lives meaning, we should just mind about ours and let them play.
I have to say, that I'm not American, but I'd like to work in the US, but sorry, I don't have a "batchelors" (funny stuff :) , instead I have a phd.
IMHO, these numbers limiting the legal work visas/year are just ridiculous. For two main reasons. Countless numbers of illegal aliens flow into the US every year, yet their main concern is limiting the number of people who want to work legally and pay taxes. Then, no matter how low or high you put that limit, there will always be more requests than places. Solutions ? I don't really think we - or, more correctly, you - could find an easy one. One of them might be not to put a limit but try to judge every application and try to select, but this also wouldn't work since there are only so much people at USCIS whu can process visa applications. Besides, the whole thing just s*cks, since there are no guarantees you get a job you might fit into, since the best they can tell you is you'll get the job if the gods and uscis want it too.
although we haven't done anything yet
Not the most convincing argument these days.
I mean come on, the linked writing has the following text
Security experts say every time a retailer ends up in the headlines for losing customer credit-card data, a PCI project gets its wings. And,as more companies look to the channel for help with securing their networks for PCI compliance, it's turning out to be a wonderful life for solution providers.
in which they link the PCI acronym to an encyclopedia site detailing what PCI as in Peripheral Component Interconnect means.
Good job.
Applicants' submissions enjoy a presumption of patentability
This is stupid on so many levels. You want to fix a broken patent system which lets through hundreds of stupid patent by making them easier to slip through ? For heaven's sake, this issue shouldn't be treated like cream with sugar, it should be treated like the worst dictatorship, every and each submission should be presumed to be junk and only if validity could be proved, should it be allowed to be passed.
Well, I'va also been "playing" with feisty beta, on a dell with internal wifi and on an ibm t series with pcmcia wifi. Thing is, wifi didn't work automatically on either of them. It wasn't rocket science to make them work by hand, I know Debian inside out, still, what will take Dell that unspecified amount of time is probably to test their laptop line to see which is the best dell laptop + given linux distro combination. I hope they will come up with a good one, otherwise it will be anything but a success.
Honestly, I don't want no companie's own e-mail verification system. People - yes, real people, and surprise surprise quite a lot of us - use GPG for signing and encrypting e-mails and everything else, and there are lots of freely usable keyservers out there. But hell would freeze over if any company with their bucks dropping out from their a**es would ever just use a proven, available and easy way of e-mail signing. Just give all your users keys and you're done, they don't even have to know they have one. But no, come people, use our DomainKeys. Yup, companies, the ones we love. Right.
"It will be interesting to see how it stands up today alongside all the Tolkien-alike literature that we've become familiar with," said David Bradley
In my world there's nothing like what you could call "Tolkien-alike". Many have tried to ride the waves his writings have raised, still very few come even close to what he's accomplished. Maybe it's his background, maybe it's his decades' long knowledge in mythology, languages and literature, maybe it's his natural writing skill, maybe it's the timing, maybe it's all of these together that have resulted in a physical form that it's unique in so many ways. How will this new compilation be judged ? Supposing it's really good, it still will require a great effort to make it stand out from the oceans of fantasy bestseller wannabes these days.
show proof of citizenship
Well, and I thought it's the state's job to know about a person whether (s)he's a citizen or not. If I show a whatever ID they issued I expect them to know my status and be that ID enough proof of my citizenship. Enormous amounts of tax payers' money is spent of countless forms of identification methods and cards issues, on systems storing these information, so use the damn thing.
and we at Microsoft believe that we have to enable those open standards
Enable ? Hardly. Follow ? When PR requires. Open ? Yeah, right.
"Enable those open standards" does this even mean something ?
First they don't do it. Then they do something similar for a second and act as they've always done it and behaved accordingly forever and even act like it's their ground philosophy.
Not that I would care what a company does to ensure a certain future - economical, technical or otherwise - yet there are certain boundaries to arrogance - like in we think you're ignorant enough to eat whatever we serve you for dinner kind of arrogance - that sometimes just blows the hood.
the fewest number of patches and the shortest average patch development time
I think some people might happen to agree on the first part of this claim - although a low number of patches doesn't mean there hasn't been a larger number of problems that should've been patched. The second part... well, let's put it this way, time is relative, thus a period of time might seem shorter to ones than to some others, more so if there's nothing to compare to, which is not the case. So, let's just change that claim to something like a number of patches and an average patch development time.
Thing is, they had a hand in starting the async. xml and javascript story. Another thing is, they don't really have a good record on standards compliance. Add them together, what do you get ? Yep, innovation at it's best: going backwards.
On the other hand, MS just has to be in there, like in everything else, since it;s harder to influence and/or control if you're not inside. That's all. All the rest about great innovations and lotsa tall blondes and free beers is just a bedside story.
to ensure interoperability among tools built by different vendors
Yupp, MS's paradise.
...the entertainment industry's lawsuits are way more interesting than their TV shows, movies, and records? Maybe they should formally change their business model and go primarily into lawsuits as a creative medium.
:]
Well, no problem there, they got the message, and they are just doing it
More accurately, people go to Google to search for stuff like Viacom shows
Nope, "people go to Google to search for stuff like" "shows". For Viacom's shows, Google is one way, the easy way, to find them. Without Google there would still be a way, the good old harder way, to find them. How big a step backward would that be ? Remember the mid-nineties ? Good. You don't wanna go there.
How can your government make such an assurance if the only data they have on you is your name, address, and date of birth?
Uh-oh. How enlightened. And I always thought that you treat all people as good citizens with the exceptions of the few who have commited something. If my country says we are all bloody mass murderers unless we prove otherwise, then why shoul I stay here, continue to pay taxes for them, support them, and even be proud of it ? Yep, no reason.
and other countries who consider the UK background checks unnecessary can still choose to admit you without a passport
Not much use if you're not allowed to leave your country without one.
I used to be very proud of being English. I believed Britain to be a light in the darkness and a bastion of freedom. I believed that the U.K., along with the U.S., stood as examples to the rest of the world as to what was possible when freedom won out over fear. But today, I no longer feel that way.
Really no offence, but man, that took you long enough.
freedom won out over fear
The words remained, but their order has changed for a long time now.
Yepp, once in a lifetime, but for a lifetime nonetheless.
People in the US value their privacy and expect more of it than in Europe.
Oh, is this the same society that's come to accept the "if you have done nothing wrong you don't have anything to fear" line ? Oh, my bad.
As a UK resident, all I can say is "that is what we have come to expect from this government".
Forgive me when I say this, but if this indeed the case, then that's simply pathetic. The government has power only so long as the people let them have it. If the people have grown so uncaring that they don't even bother to question their governments' moves then they are just a bunch of dumb sheep that deserve no better. This is not a UK issue, not even a European or American - or else - issue, it's fairly general these days on this pittyful planet. We give them power and then we do nothing if they don't do as they promised to do, and sometimes even the total opposite. I have to say that all this is our [the people's] own fault.
U.S. citizens, aware of their surroundings, must be pretty frustrated
:)
U.S. citizens
aware of their surroundings
Yeah. They must be.
As long as good (old) Europe is free(until you bring us democracy too;)
One day they will realise we need salvation too
No, it's not odd. It's probably the only honest manifestation of this project's intentions.
regardless of skill
You falsely assume more expensive education makes better skill. Well, I'd have to disappoint you (no, I really don't) but that's far from being true.
scholarship to an unemployed American programmer
As my grandfather has always said, only those don't have a job who don't want one. While I thought that to be laughable for a long time, now I also am standing firmly with that opinion. "There are no jobs" is an excuse I'd never accept.
Other than that, maybe you should try how it's like to obtain a h1b (if you can, that is), renew once than get out. Many h1bs are there for the money, so after a few years they can go home and begin something with their lives and some money they've earned - with rightful work, that is, and you really should keep that in mind. Additionally, also keep in mind that in time, when the average life quality will raise (yes, I'm optimistic) nobody will want to go to the US, why ? because most people like their home country. Right now, with two degrees and a phd I earn about as much at a fairly good position as a Joe working at a gas station in the US. Yet I'm staying because I value what I have here. But for most, it's hard to argue with the paychecks.
Actually, even tarabyte sounds better than tebibyte :P
When we're talking about addressable computer memory, approximating the kilobyte to 1024 is a convenience, but since Terabyte gives such a huge error, and makes absolutely no sense for data transfer or disk sizes, it's really time we stopped this illogical naming convention just because some engineers found a term convenient 40 years ago.
Yes, it's so funny when all these guys just keep arguing why 1024bytes should really be 1000bytes because they don't want to care that it's history, it's practical, it works, and anyway why the hell should be 1000, let's make it 999. Now you go calculate. So, it's funny when they just keep arguing about that but just wait and see how they react when you bring up the mile/feet/pound issue (which really is an SI-issue btw, unlike the byte) from "40 years ago", or well, a bit more so what gives.
Fact is, we who care about 1MB being 1024B, we don't really care how mister joe wants to call a megabyte and how much he wants it to be. We know what they mean, it's their freaking problem that they have created this non-issue for themselves so they won't know what we mean.