The info on your web site says you have no significant experience in technology, and you do not yet have your degree. Perhaps part of the reason these companies are looking for H1Bs are because there are so many people at your level of experience who think they're worth 75k a year.
Hey! I have a C.S. PhD and a degree in Software Engineering and are currently making just 30K net in Germany.
I would gladly work for 50K in the USA... it is closer to my home country (Mexico) and they speak English (keine deustche sorry:P)
How would that tax apply to, say, companies and people that just use the Internet for anything but pirated copy downloads?
The same way it applies to people in the UK who have a TV but do not watch the boring BBC channels... or those who have Cable or SKY and similarly, do not watch the BBC.
Sadly that is, they will have to pay anyway. I find these TV/Radio/whatever licensing so annoying. However, the UK has it not so bad as it only costs £139.50 a year. In Germany on the other hand, it costs â204.36!
This thread just reminded me of a guy I met last December (2008) at Barcelona where I went to spend new year with some friends.
One night we went to a bar, a friend of mine (a girl from Mexico) invited one of her best friends (a girl from ther USA), she told me that the american's boyfriend was an Indian guy (that is, a guy from India) who has a PhD in Economics.
That night I met the booyfriend, who had a PhD in Economics/from Oxford/ and who is head of a university department in Spain.
The guy gave to my friend a bag with some mariguana. And according to what she told me some days after, the guy likes smoking and he make such gifts to some his friends (the ones that like it).
I personally have never tried it, but I really find it stupid to have so much fear and worry of a plant.
Don't worry I'm working on archiving all that porn locally. Eventually I'll combine every single file into one giant torrent and upload at least 99.9% of it before dropping offline;)
All of it of course, in the appropiate rar archive.
Just poke around your college especially in the masters levels, for Computer Science and Engineering. Look at those classes listen to the accents of the people talking. Even in MBA classes Americans are just not trying to get smarter and be competitive anymore.
This is [un]fortunately true also in the UK. While I was doing my PhD (in the top 10 Comp.Sci. according to the last RAE) the majority of people doing MsC and PhD were international students. Moreover, the Electric/Electronic Engineering departments was (from what I saw) 80% Asians.
It seemed to me that Britons were more attracted to social, natural sciences and medicine.
The main reason is the underlying technology used for the memory.
The 32GB SD card uses MLC flash technology, achieving higher memory storage in less space and at less price at the cost of performance while the 64GB SATA gard disk uses SLC technology which is more expensive (per MB) but also faster and more reliable.
Don't know if this is of any use, but about one month ago a friend asked me to check his Windows computer because it 'suddenly' became very slow and stopped at random times.
What happened is that after trying to save a file in OpenOffice or opening Windows Explorer, the programs just freezed.
I spent two hours looking at different things without real success, however after that somehow we needed to copy a file (we were also installing a camera... what a pain in Windows Vista!!) and that is when I realized an SD card was inserted into the reader.
As soon as we removed the SD card, the problem completely dissapeared. After thinking a bit he told me that it made sense, because the computer started failing more or less at the time he inserted the card (to copy some photos). AND, that his card was old.
It may be worth checking what you have connected in the computer!!
Thanks for the advice, I get it a lot, but how would you go about integrating it in a way that would make it more useful than as a standalone program?
I do not know a lot about sound processing but I used to play with Sonic Foundry SoundForge (before it was bought by Sony) and my brother is a music producer (record, master, etc).
From what I have seen, the people that use those things professionaly base their work on a specific tool (protools, for example) and then use the available plugins to modify a specific section of their projects.
Moreover, when you offer it as a plugin for one of these more "professional" (read expensive) software, you are aiming at a different userbase (market).
Finally, although the idea of your program seems interesting (I have to admit I only had a quick look at your website), you should think about offering something/useful/. Right now, the product seems like a gimmick. Do not take it the wrong way, it seems like an interesting idea and the software seems fine, but if you really want to profit, it should have a purpose (maybe mixing it with other instruments [a channel in Protools or other prof. software]).
It is in some way similar to Phtoshop. You can find have several free programs that do image processing, but graphic designers happily buy Photoshop plugins that achieve the same results, just because such plugins follow their workflow.
And among computer experts, blah blah blah...They won't run likes of plan9 or make their own distribution because *that* would require actual knowledge... blah blah blah...if you just want to make "I am different, adore me!" statement. blah blah blah.
I think you mistook this for the Apple Mac thread.
There are many good reasons to criticise Virgin, but they don't fuck around on bandwidth.
LOL
Except that you get your 20Mb for what, 10 minutes and then they cap you to 10Kbps. At least that was their policy on June last year when I moved out of the UK and cancelled the contract.
This [photosounder.com] is the commercial project I'm talking about. People were excited about the original idea,
Despite your shameless ad plug, let me give you a tip. You may have better luck by implementing your idea as a plug-in for one of the many sound editors available like SoundForge, Pro-Tools, GarageBand and whatnot.
That's why Linux takes so long to boot these days. You can have very good hardware compatibility or you can have very good boot speed. You can't have both. (Well, until someone invents persistent RAM.)
I agree that detecting and configuring all the devices might take time. What I do not understand is why should it be doing at booting time and, why should the OS wait until the devices are detected.
IMHO, only the keyboard, mouse, screen , hard disk and memory are absolutely needed for booting. All the other things can be loaded afterwards or even in parallel (of course, giving the proces a higher than 0 nice value).
I would love to go to Florida again... I remember when I was a kid (around 1991) I traveled with my parents to Disney world, Universal Studios, Epcot center and the NASA center (I believe it is cape Canaveral?). It was an amazing experience for me, I remember it sweetly.
Today I would like to return with my wife but I refuse to go through all the border shenanigans as they stand now.
Compared to the US, visa applications for Schengen and Switzerland are infinitely more simple.
For me the difference is quite clear (of course, that may vary depending on your country of origin).
To enter a Shengen country for vacations (max. 6 months) I just need to... flight there with my passport and that's it.
If I want to stay longer, say to study then I need to feel a form (some personal information) and pay for the Visa. I have done that twice (one for UK and another for Germany, including my wife). No interviews whatsoever, you give the forms and the passport, copies etc. and in 5 working days you get the Visa.
However, if I wanted to go to the USA for say, 1 week, I would have to pay $100 USD just to get an "interview" with a guy in the embassy, after looking at my past and asking whatnot the guy would decide IF he is in the mood (and I assume if I don't look to Mohamed-ish) if I can or can't go.
My wife, with a full time job in Mexico (working as supervisor in a manufacturer for a USA company, owned by the USA company) was DENIED a TRANSIT visa! she just wanted to buy cheaper flight to the UK... I told her not to do it (see my previous comment in this story) but well, she tried.
The USA immigration (is that the name also for transit visa stuf?) is really screwed up.
I will take advantage of this post to ask a question I have been asking myself, has anyone done a USB cable charger for the NDS? I travel a lot in and out of Europe and hate to take the European, American, English converters (not to mention the difference in voltage).
Last time I looked in Google there was one page with a DIY project mentioned , however the page was not available any more (and archive.org did not got it)...
I have also looked for it on stores without success...
The innovation which gave us the particular flat bread we call âoepizzaâ was the use of tomato as a topping. For some time after the tomato was brought to Europe from the Americas in the 16th century, it was believed by many Europeans to be poisonous (as are some other fruits of the nightshade family). However, by the late 18th century it was common for the poor of the area around Naples to add tomato to their yeast-based flat bread, and so the pizza was born. The dish gained in popularity, and soon Pizza became a tourist attraction as visitors to Naples ventured into the poorer areas of the city in order to try the local speciality.
Seriously, the number of crap "games" for the Nintendo DS is astounding... whatever happened to the Nintendo Seal of Quality.
OTOH, I do have a CycloDS. That combined with Visual C++ Express and GCC toolchain has been a godsend for me to play (yes, programming games is like playing for me). Right now I am doing a port of the dual n-task game.
There is one very simple reason to get a flash cart. After you have more than 10 games it becomes unpractical to take all of them wherever you go. Instead, you just upload them to your flash memory and now you have all your games in there.
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Foxit is, however, nice... too bad it isn't multi-platform.
Well, in fact there is a version of Foxit available for Linux.
...so is the Free PDF readers campaign over now?
No until I can get a PDF reader that allows me to add bookmarks to any page to cotinue reading at a later time.
And I would also like the capability to mark part of the pages (even if it is not text but a big image a yellow marker is fine).
The info on your web site says you have no significant experience in technology, and you do not yet have your degree. Perhaps part of the reason these companies are looking for H1Bs are because there are so many people at your level of experience who think they're worth 75k a year.
Hey! I have a C.S. PhD and a degree in Software Engineering and are currently making just 30K net in Germany.
I would gladly work for 50K in the USA... it is closer to my home country (Mexico) and they speak English (keine deustche sorry :P)
uuu,
does Slumdog Millionaire rings any bells to you?
How would that tax apply to, say, companies and people that just use the Internet for anything but pirated copy downloads?
The same way it applies to people in the UK who have a TV but do not watch the boring BBC channels... or those who have Cable or SKY and similarly, do not watch the BBC.
Sadly that is, they will have to pay anyway. I find these TV/Radio/whatever licensing so annoying. However, the UK has it not so bad as it only costs £139.50 a year. In Germany on the other hand, it costs â204.36!
Does it run on windows?
One of its many versions DOES run on windows
This thread just reminded me of a guy I met last December (2008) at Barcelona where I went to spend new year with some friends.
One night we went to a bar, a friend of mine (a girl from Mexico) invited one of her best friends (a girl from ther USA), she told me that the american's boyfriend was an Indian guy (that is, a guy from India) who has a PhD in Economics.
That night I met the booyfriend, who had a PhD in Economics /from Oxford/ and who is head of a university department in Spain.
The guy gave to my friend a bag with some mariguana. And according to what she told me some days after, the guy likes smoking and he make such gifts to some his friends (the ones that like it).
I personally have never tried it, but I really find it stupid to have so much fear and worry of a plant.
Don't worry I'm working on archiving all that porn locally. Eventually I'll combine every single file into one giant torrent and upload at least 99.9% of it before dropping offline ;)
All of it of course, in the appropiate rar archive.
Just poke around your college especially in the masters levels, for Computer Science and Engineering. Look at those classes listen to the accents of the people talking. Even in MBA classes Americans are just not trying to get smarter and be competitive anymore.
This is [un]fortunately true also in the UK. While I was doing my PhD (in the top 10 Comp.Sci. according to the last RAE) the majority of people doing MsC and PhD were international students. Moreover, the Electric/Electronic Engineering departments was (from what I saw) 80% Asians.
It seemed to me that Britons were more attracted to social, natural sciences and medicine.
The main reason is the underlying technology used for the memory.
The 32GB SD card uses MLC flash technology, achieving higher memory storage in less space and at less price at the cost of performance while the 64GB SATA gard disk uses SLC technology which is more expensive (per MB) but also faster and more reliable.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
Don't know if this is of any use, but about one month ago a friend asked me to check his Windows computer because it 'suddenly' became very slow and stopped at random times.
What happened is that after trying to save a file in OpenOffice or opening Windows Explorer, the programs just freezed.
I spent two hours looking at different things without real success, however after that somehow we needed to copy a file (we were also installing a camera... what a pain in Windows Vista!!) and that is when I realized an SD card was inserted into the reader.
As soon as we removed the SD card, the problem completely dissapeared. After thinking a bit he told me that it made sense, because the computer started failing more or less at the time he inserted the card (to copy some photos). AND, that his card was old.
It may be worth checking what you have connected in the computer!!
except that he may not be a professor but a teacher.
Big difference.
Thanks for the advice, I get it a lot, but how would you go about integrating it in a way that would make it more useful than as a standalone program?
I do not know a lot about sound processing but I used to play with Sonic Foundry SoundForge (before it was bought by Sony) and my brother is a music producer (record, master, etc).
From what I have seen, the people that use those things professionaly base their work on a specific tool (protools, for example) and then use the available plugins to modify a specific section of their projects.
Moreover, when you offer it as a plugin for one of these more "professional" (read expensive) software, you are aiming at a different userbase (market).
Finally, although the idea of your program seems interesting (I have to admit I only had a quick look at your website), you should think about offering something /useful/. Right now, the product seems like a gimmick. Do not take it the wrong way, it seems like an interesting idea and the software seems fine, but if you really want to profit, it should have a purpose (maybe mixing it with other instruments [a channel in Protools or other prof. software]).
It is in some way similar to Phtoshop. You can find have several free programs that do image processing, but graphic designers happily buy Photoshop plugins that achieve the same results, just because such plugins follow their workflow.
And among computer experts, blah blah blah...They won't run likes of plan9 or make their own distribution because *that* would require actual knowledge ... blah blah blah ...if you just want to make "I am different, adore me!" statement. blah blah blah.
I think you mistook this for the Apple Mac thread.
There are many good reasons to criticise Virgin, but they don't fuck around on bandwidth.
LOL
Except that you get your 20Mb for what, 10 minutes and then they cap you to 10Kbps. At least that was their policy on June last year when I moved out of the UK and cancelled the contract.
This [photosounder.com] is the commercial project I'm talking about. People were excited about the original idea,
Despite your shameless ad plug, let me give you a tip. You may have better luck by implementing your idea as a plug-in for one of the many sound editors available like SoundForge, Pro-Tools, GarageBand and whatnot.
That's why Linux takes so long to boot these days. You can have very good hardware compatibility or you can have very good boot speed. You can't have both. (Well, until someone invents persistent RAM.)
I agree that detecting and configuring all the devices might take time. What I do not understand is why should it be doing at booting time and, why should the OS wait until the devices are detected.
IMHO, only the keyboard, mouse, screen , hard disk and memory are absolutely needed for booting. All the other things can be loaded afterwards or even in parallel (of course, giving the proces a higher than 0 nice value).
Moreover, now that QT has gone LPGL maybe we will at last have white chocolate Ferrero versions!
What about wxWidgets, have you tried it?
Has anyone used both of them enough and can do an informed comparison of their functionality/easy of use [programming]?
That is really sad...
I would love to go to Florida again... I remember when I was a kid (around 1991) I traveled with my parents to Disney world, Universal Studios, Epcot center and the NASA center (I believe it is cape Canaveral?). It was an amazing experience for me, I remember it sweetly.
Today I would like to return with my wife but I refuse to go through all the border shenanigans as they stand now.
Compared to the US, visa applications for Schengen and Switzerland are infinitely more simple.
For me the difference is quite clear (of course, that may vary depending on your country of origin).
To enter a Shengen country for vacations (max. 6 months) I just need to... flight there with my passport and that's it.
If I want to stay longer, say to study then I need to feel a form (some personal information) and pay for the Visa. I have done that twice (one for UK and another for Germany, including my wife). No interviews whatsoever, you give the forms and the passport, copies etc. and in 5 working days you get the Visa.
However, if I wanted to go to the USA for say, 1 week, I would have to pay $100 USD just to get an "interview" with a guy in the embassy, after looking at my past and asking whatnot the guy would decide IF he is in the mood (and I assume if I don't look to Mohamed-ish) if I can or can't go.
My wife, with a full time job in Mexico (working as supervisor in a manufacturer for a USA company, owned by the USA company) was DENIED a TRANSIT visa! she just wanted to buy cheaper flight to the UK... I told her not to do it (see my previous comment in this story) but well, she tried.
The USA immigration (is that the name also for transit visa stuf?) is really screwed up.
I will take advantage of this post to ask a question I have been asking myself, has anyone done a USB cable charger for the NDS? I travel a lot in and out of Europe and hate to take the European, American, English converters (not to mention the difference in voltage).
Last time I looked in Google there was one page with a DIY project mentioned , however the page was not available any more (and archive.org did not got it)...
I have also looked for it on stores without success...
You are wrong
The innovation which gave us the particular flat bread we call âoepizzaâ was the use of tomato as a topping. For some time after the tomato was brought to Europe from the Americas in the 16th century, it was believed by many Europeans to be poisonous (as are some other fruits of the nightshade family). However, by the late 18th century it was common for the poor of the area around Naples to add tomato to their yeast-based flat bread, and so the pizza was born. The dish gained in popularity, and soon Pizza became a tourist attraction as visitors to Naples ventured into the poorer areas of the city in order to try the local speciality.
Does it read SD cards? or are you still limited to the propietary overpriced sony stick pro duo?
I refuse to buy any Sony for several reasons, and one of them is their use of closed propietary shit.
Right now all my devices are "standardized" to use SD... heck, even Nintendo got it right!
Or what about "Let's play Mums".
Seriously, the number of crap "games" for the Nintendo DS is astounding... whatever happened to the Nintendo Seal of Quality.
OTOH, I do have a CycloDS. That combined with Visual C++ Express and GCC toolchain has been a godsend for me to play (yes, programming games is like playing for me). Right now I am doing a port of the dual n-task game.
There is one very simple reason to get a flash cart. After you have more than 10 games it becomes unpractical to take all of them wherever you go. Instead, you just upload them to your flash memory and now you have all your games in there.