That is a point that often gets missed also. The skills needed to do 90% of IT work has dropped in the last 20 years, yet the number of employers that demand a degree has risen.
Part of that is that people take the short sighted view that giving in the use of human shields is a good idea. It gets argued that if you shut down Evil Puppy Stomping Inc. that Poor Widow Mary will lose her job, and Little Sebastian won't get his life saving medicine.
Exactly. The Industry group that the summary quotes admits that the H-1B visas are a scam. It says there will be a shortage by 2018. That is 5 years away. For the kind of work that these H-1B workers will be doing, every last one of those people could be trained locally.
But I will say that someone who has the ambition and drive to leave their home country and culture and come to the US has already shown more ambition and willingness to take a risk than most local candidates. Not a knock on the locals, just a recognition that the immigrants are a self selected pool that have already demonstrated willingness to go to some lengths for their career.
The fact that you think this way and would even consider it in hiring places you squarely into the realm of evil.
No you didn't. You just said that you would not hire the US worker that is asking for the fair $120k if you could underpay an H-1B by $30k. You didn't say that you wouldn't behave unethically. You just said that your price to behave unethically is more than $2000.
Splashtop is more than just an RDP client. It also handles establishing connection through NAT, has better throughput than VNC, while having Mac and Windows hosts.
It is the easiest way I have seen to connect to a machine behind NAT without ongoing payments.
This is why physical docks are a dead end. The "docks" need to be wireless. NFC, WiFi, Bluetooth, and inductive charging cover everything needed to make a dock that is no more proprietary than a mouse pad.
It doesn't have it today, but if we are talking about replacing your desktop, replacing your monitor is not enough of a stretch to be on the radar. For those that are obsessive about using the existing monitor, an external receiver would also work. For those that just can't cope with either of those, you could just be a late adopter and not an early one.
That is one reason data connection via dock is a bad idea. (The other being that phones are incompatible in shape, so docks are not interchangable.) A dock is a 1980's solution to a 2010's problem. HS Bluetooth allows the management of Wifi for connection to the "wireless dock". Bluetooth keyboard and mice are already readily available, and the phones already use them. NFC is a perfect paring mechanism, so it becomes trivial for even the least technically inclined, and inductive charging handles powering the device.
The usages should look like... User walks up and sets their phone on what looks like a mouse pad. The phone starts charging, and because of the NFC the 'wireless dock' knows that this is the device it should be connected to, so, the screen pops up with their environment, and the mouse and keyboard now control the phone. If the phone rings, the user picks up the phone, and the phone stops charging, but everything else works just like it did until the user either disconnects via a widget on their phone, or the phone leaves the Bluetooth range of the 'wireless dock'.
This kind of setup would be good for a lot of mainstream uses, and would be awesome for a lot of niche uses. Things like hotel rooms. Hotels already have TVs. Most are switching to large flat panels. A connected (wirelessly of course) connected mouse and keyboard in the drawer underneath, and every hotel room hand have a computer workstation for their guests. Presentations at conferences could just have a pad on the podium for presenters to connect. TVs in the home would be trivial for displaying videos stored on not only the household members phones, but also guests phones.
Inductive charging is the real answer for power. If even one major manufacturer would make it standard in their phones, and didn't find some kind of IP shenanigans to prevent interoperability, everyone else would follow suit very quickly. The chargers being ubiquitous would happen almost overnight.
The answer is putting a few features together with proper software to make it seamless. NFC to notify the clamshell that the phone is "docked". Bluetooth for peripheral connections. High Speed Bluetooth/Wifi for connecting to the monitor.
With these in place, docks become far less phone specific. for a desktop, the dock can just be a spot on the desk that looks similar to a mouse pad. Just set the phone down and the NFC tells the device and phone not negotiate everything into desktop mode while charging the phone.
Beyond that , with the connection only requiring flat surface to flat surface, making a doc for laptop use become a matter of a cheap piece of plastic or cloth.
I'm pretty sure that claiming we should kill babies in response to a logical argument that healthy people pay more taxes to cover their heal cost is not a statement of "agreement".
Your belief that my point was off target, and how you chose to express it was an example of my point being correct. So, again. Thanks for supporting my point.
I think that too much credit is given to the skills of upper management. I would say that while upper management that are good at the external issues facing their companies is relatively common, they are more often incompetent at handling their internal issues. The biggest one is in hiring and promoting middle managers. It is upper management's responsibility to manage the middle managers. The fact that incompetent middle management is the defacto standard is a direct result of failure in upper management.
I'm pretty sure that the parent poster was well aware that Buenos Aires was comparable to many US cities since he specifically listed three of them, and you even quoted that.
I'll agree with this. When I work for a manager that is actually skilled in management, I can produce at least twice as much work and at noticeably higher quality than when I am working for a manager that is bad at their job. The sad part is that people actually skilled at management are far and few between.
It's not just that. It is also that the general public doesn't recognize time very well. They complain about the problem they are having at the moment, but are unwilling or unable to consider that the actions they took hours, days or months earlier lead to that problem. Watching it is like seeing a drunk driver complain about a tree being in his way instead of recognizing that the bottle of Jack he drank an hour earlier was actually the problem.
Don't argue with me. Argue with GodWasAnAlien. He is the one that is claiming that 0 calorie drinks do not help reduce weight over high calorie drinks.
You are correct. The fact that healthcare is tied to employment also keep people from owning their own businesses. Not everyone of course, but an awful lot of people. Healthcare has largely turned us into a nation of indentured servants..
insurance companies would check fat content to charge a higher rate to less healthy people. Oh wait. They do.
No they don't. They check your weight vs. your height. (A.K.A. BMI) I would be perfectly happy if they checked body fat %. As it stands, the insurance companies will charge me extra if my body fat is not between ~3% and -15%.
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That is a point that often gets missed also. The skills needed to do 90% of IT work has dropped in the last 20 years, yet the number of employers that demand a degree has risen.
Part of that is that people take the short sighted view that giving in the use of human shields is a good idea. It gets argued that if you shut down Evil Puppy Stomping Inc. that Poor Widow Mary will lose her job, and Little Sebastian won't get his life saving medicine.
Exactly. The Industry group that the summary quotes admits that the H-1B visas are a scam. It says there will be a shortage by 2018. That is 5 years away. For the kind of work that these H-1B workers will be doing, every last one of those people could be trained locally.
But I will say that someone who has the ambition and drive to leave their home country and culture and come to the US has already shown more ambition and willingness to take a risk than most local candidates. Not a knock on the locals, just a recognition that the immigrants are a self selected pool that have already demonstrated willingness to go to some lengths for their career.
The fact that you think this way and would even consider it in hiring places you squarely into the realm of evil.
No you didn't. You just said that you would not hire the US worker that is asking for the fair $120k if you could underpay an H-1B by $30k. You didn't say that you wouldn't behave unethically. You just said that your price to behave unethically is more than $2000.
While the are both horrible, would you rather find out that your child was molested, or find their dead body on your front yard? No, murder is worse.
Of course not... ( Sorry. I didn't mean to out you.)
Splashtop is more than just an RDP client. It also handles establishing connection through NAT, has better throughput than VNC, while having Mac and Windows hosts.
It is the easiest way I have seen to connect to a machine behind NAT without ongoing payments.
This is why physical docks are a dead end. The "docks" need to be wireless. NFC, WiFi, Bluetooth, and inductive charging cover everything needed to make a dock that is no more proprietary than a mouse pad.
It doesn't have it today, but if we are talking about replacing your desktop, replacing your monitor is not enough of a stretch to be on the radar. For those that are obsessive about using the existing monitor, an external receiver would also work. For those that just can't cope with either of those, you could just be a late adopter and not an early one.
That is one reason data connection via dock is a bad idea. (The other being that phones are incompatible in shape, so docks are not interchangable.) A dock is a 1980's solution to a 2010's problem. HS Bluetooth allows the management of Wifi for connection to the "wireless dock". Bluetooth keyboard and mice are already readily available, and the phones already use them. NFC is a perfect paring mechanism, so it becomes trivial for even the least technically inclined, and inductive charging handles powering the device.
The usages should look like... User walks up and sets their phone on what looks like a mouse pad. The phone starts charging, and because of the NFC the 'wireless dock' knows that this is the device it should be connected to, so, the screen pops up with their environment, and the mouse and keyboard now control the phone. If the phone rings, the user picks up the phone, and the phone stops charging, but everything else works just like it did until the user either disconnects via a widget on their phone, or the phone leaves the Bluetooth range of the 'wireless dock'.
This kind of setup would be good for a lot of mainstream uses, and would be awesome for a lot of niche uses. Things like hotel rooms. Hotels already have TVs. Most are switching to large flat panels. A connected (wirelessly of course) connected mouse and keyboard in the drawer underneath, and every hotel room hand have a computer workstation for their guests. Presentations at conferences could just have a pad on the podium for presenters to connect. TVs in the home would be trivial for displaying videos stored on not only the household members phones, but also guests phones.
Inductive charging is the real answer for power. If even one major manufacturer would make it standard in their phones, and didn't find some kind of IP shenanigans to prevent interoperability, everyone else would follow suit very quickly. The chargers being ubiquitous would happen almost overnight.
The answer is putting a few features together with proper software to make it seamless. NFC to notify the clamshell that the phone is "docked". Bluetooth for peripheral connections. High Speed Bluetooth/Wifi for connecting to the monitor.
With these in place, docks become far less phone specific. for a desktop, the dock can just be a spot on the desk that looks similar to a mouse pad. Just set the phone down and the NFC tells the device and phone not negotiate everything into desktop mode while charging the phone.
Beyond that , with the connection only requiring flat surface to flat surface, making a doc for laptop use become a matter of a cheap piece of plastic or cloth.
I'm pretty sure that claiming we should kill babies in response to a logical argument that healthy people pay more taxes to cover their heal cost is not a statement of "agreement".
Your belief that my point was off target, and how you chose to express it was an example of my point being correct. So, again. Thanks for supporting my point.
I think that too much credit is given to the skills of upper management. I would say that while upper management that are good at the external issues facing their companies is relatively common, they are more often incompetent at handling their internal issues. The biggest one is in hiring and promoting middle managers. It is upper management's responsibility to manage the middle managers. The fact that incompetent middle management is the defacto standard is a direct result of failure in upper management.
I'm pretty sure that the parent poster was well aware that Buenos Aires was comparable to many US cities since he specifically listed three of them, and you even quoted that.
I'll agree with this. When I work for a manager that is actually skilled in management, I can produce at least twice as much work and at noticeably higher quality than when I am working for a manager that is bad at their job. The sad part is that people actually skilled at management are far and few between.
Thanks for making supporting my point.
It's not just that. It is also that the general public doesn't recognize time very well. They complain about the problem they are having at the moment, but are unwilling or unable to consider that the actions they took hours, days or months earlier lead to that problem. Watching it is like seeing a drunk driver complain about a tree being in his way instead of recognizing that the bottle of Jack he drank an hour earlier was actually the problem.
Don't argue with me. Argue with GodWasAnAlien. He is the one that is claiming that 0 calorie drinks do not help reduce weight over high calorie drinks.
You are not being serious are you? In case you are not. One does not need to be an expert on a subject to recognize when someone else isn't either.
What might confuse you is that any carb can result in a high glycemic index
This is a major problem. Most of the population thinks that carbohydrates the healthy alternative to sugar.
You are correct. The fact that healthcare is tied to employment also keep people from owning their own businesses. Not everyone of course, but an awful lot of people. Healthcare has largely turned us into a nation of indentured servants..
insurance companies would check fat content to charge a higher rate to less healthy people. Oh wait. They do.
No they don't. They check your weight vs. your height. (A.K.A. BMI) I would be perfectly happy if they checked body fat %. As it stands, the insurance companies will charge me extra if my body fat is not between ~3% and -15%.