The real true cost is that you need more then half a brain to get linux (or any unix system) to work efficiently. That's the true cost!! It's not good enough to read a book with step by step instructions on how to set something up, and it should just magically work! In a lot of cases, with any unix platform you have to trouble shoot problems and a lot of times think about what is going wrong and how it should be fixed.
I have yet to meet an MCSE who knows anything about how the OS actually works, it's more or less just a cases of clicking the right set of buttons and it works or it doesn't, if it doesn't then a service call goes into MS who then has to patch the product.
As for all the things this guy talks about, sure linux isn't the best SMP OS but it will work.. i use Freebsd on my SMP boxes which is very stable and a dual celeron 500mhz is more responsive then the 1.6ghz p4 with windows2k.
We all put up with a certian amount of junkmail, it's a given, we already get it with our daily snailmail, in newspapers and with products we buy.. we do tolerate a certian amount of this stuff.
I think one of the biggest things we can do is to cut down the number of open relays (this will help) also have a global ban list of ISP's that allow large scale spammers. I have pretty much banned entire contry codes and class A networks because all that comes out of them is spam. But also all the ISP (in the world, not just the US) need to define dsl or modem connections, these are the worst, i have spammers coming from open dsl connections all the time. They have to define in the reverse lookup that the connect ins a dsl user, like xxx.detr.dsl.comcast.com I need to filter those ip's based on the "DSL" or "cable" portion, right now i can only ban based on city codes they use, as I would love to ban all of "comcast", "t-dial.de" and a few other spam sending ISP's.
I know that my ISP, Sympatico.ca, won't allow me to send out email directly anymore which cuts down on spammers, but allows all dsl users to relay thru their mail server (which does annoy me cause I could run an smtp server I wanted too but I like which relevies me from getting any spam from the domain)
Pay in cash, and never give out your name and address (radio shack!).
I avoid giving out any personal information to anyone, my girlfriend wonders why I never want to 'sign up' for a chance for a free car or trip.. gee.. wonder where that information is going to end up!.
Though if you have friends who know your name, address and phone number well enough you could end up giving that info a way. While in University I had a friend sign up as me for a credit card so he could get the free gift.. bastard!
Did i miss something over the past 2 years ?? was i asleep?? We have a Dell with Radhat 7 installed on it, and that's the way it came from the factory, even with some redhat disks and support.
I would consider Dell a major PC producer.. Guess to get frontpaged on slashdot all you have to do is mention a "linux" powered anything.. any one want to link to my new inventions, linux powered toilets and a linux powered vibrator.
It's amazing the amount of congestion and crap on the airwaves, i was suprised by this when the power went out and i started to flip thru the AM stations, since most of the East was out I could pick up signals from distance places. Located in Windsor Ontario Canada (right across from Detroit) I was able to pick up NYC, Chicago, Des Moines, and Pittsburg stations.
Of coures as more places came online, the signals started to drop out, and i would get more interference between channels, but for that breif time it was like I stepped back in time, where I was able to listen to cities far away.. now i know how the first people to pick up a NYC station in upstate New York must have felt in the 40's..
there is too much chatter and not enough people listening..
Isn't there a problem with heat inversion and all sorts of weird stuff like that while shooting a signal over desert like settings? Sure it's flat and no trees to kill your frezel zone but i think it's just like water which can apparently be a pain in the ass to get a good signal across a notablely short span.
Then again they aren't bouncing it off the atmoshpere or anything (which i'm sure they would have had to do on a 310 mile link..)
I would like to find some of those on the network but truth is you can't find much! The main reason why the RIAA doesn't care about these artists is cause most of them own all the rights to their work, and in most cases the big labels (if any) just license the work for use, so it's not in the best interest of these labels to protect the artist cause they have nothing invested.
Also lots of electronic fans, real ones, would and do support the artists which they really like. I have cd's that have been so well done that they have stayed in the cd player for weeks on end. The Matthew Herbert bodily functions comes to mind.
I would want this to stick on expensive items like my computer or palm, so the next time my house or car get broken into, it can track where the items are.. i could just sent the police to go retreive them for me!
I do some work for a company that already sells the mp3 albums online (not apple) and they were doing it a 1/2 year before Apple, so an e-music store is nothing new. The system they use is all custom written perl/sql which allows people to do the downloads once they paid. It also includes the cover art and any extras if they buy the entire album (i think it's about $8), but we figured the cost of hosting and bandwidth to be about $3 to $4 per album sold (that is if they download the entire thing)
That means there is about $4 to divide up between the label and artist (which is about the same if you were to press the CD). Though you have to think of the consumer point of view now.. they also have bandwidth costs (as most dsl/cable companies are putting on data restrictions) and also cost of medium if they are going to burn it to cd. Then again if they got it off napster then it might be the same anyways.
Biggest thing by far is bandwidth.. do some math, 300mb per album X 100 ppl and you have 30 GB easy.. and that is only about $800 revenue, $400 which might go towards hosting..
Sun had this years ago, we have java stations which are like 4 yrs old now, which did fast switching, login to a session with your smart card in the station, pop it out and you session is saved while the terminal returns to a login screen.. pop that baby back in any other terminal on the network and your session returns pretty much instantanously!
And what sort of "leak" has 'censored' material, it's more like a marketing ploy to me. Sad part is that Mac users get all excited about it.
if it's truely a leak, they wouldn't have those pretty censor boxes on the screen.. what pirate is going to photoshop the images cause they don't want people to see 'all of it' when they leak a new product. You don't see cracked warez with portion of the game disabled or MP3 rips with only 3/4 of a song unless it's intentionally leaked or distributed by the company.
get a clue mac people.. it's just a computer, not a way of life..
The Optra series for Lexmark do Rock, they are the printers that pretty much put them on tne map and were compareable to HP Laserjet series. The old optras were true workhorses and they would handle PS which is important when you are spitting out data from a unix server, but the inkjets they now produce.. pure junk.. ok.. not junk, as I do have the X83 which has a scanner, and didn't cost me that much, but I got about 500 pages out of the cartriges, they are both dry and it's a big paperweight now. Cost for replacing the cartridges.. close to $100!! I'm almost tempted to see if I can find a cheap $40 walmart lexmark that uses the same cartidges, use those, sell the unit off on ebay for $5.
I also have an Okidata 400e that's almost 5 yrs old (think it got a PC Mag Best of 1994 rating)and the thing still works, though it does need a new drum/fuser unit as there are smudges on each printout but with a cost of $35 per toner unit the machine has been an amazing deal. The new fuser is about $250 which is close to the same price as new laser unit.. i'm debating just buying a new printer again.. But this Okidata unit has rocked, i have definatly gotten my money's worth out of it.
This is old news.. i've been watching wireless for a while, and the business model sucks ass till you invest billions to control whole population areas, so people could effectively use the wireless anywhere in their area, so your broadband becomes your wirless connection.. One ISP provider gives it all to you.
There has already been a company that went under trying to do wifi setups, look at metrocom or what ever that pole top wireless was out in Cali.. they went under, as with the company that was to provide the wireless to Starbucks, they were stupid though, trying to put a T1 to every location to feed these AP's, when you could use a 3mb dsl for 1/10th the cost. That company already went under and was taken over by someone else with the same idea.
Someone related wireless to be similar to fax machines.. It was either Fedex or UPS that spent millions outfitting locations with faxes, so that anyone could send a document around the world same day.. they didn't realize that the fax network was going to build it's self, people would buy low cost fax machines and send their documents themselves for pennies instead of spending dollars at the delivery company. Wifi is sort of like this.. unless they up the power for providers or something the range sucks ass, you would need cells of wifi that cover area like phone signals..which doesn't seem to happen. You think that cell phone coverage sucks.. imagine needing a wifi tower like ever 300 ft.. not going to happen.
Some of use are still using the 3.x tree.. though there are no updates for that, as long as the server isn't broken and I can recompile my busted apps (when updates are done) then i'm a happy camper..
going on 121 days of uptime..the machine only goes down to install new hardware (last time it was some fans cause the drives were overheating)
i don't have time to down it for an os change.. that will happen when the box is retired.
Look at the number of disks that most Distros now have, Redhat is up to what 4 CD's?? what the hell, I remember when it all fit on one CD, and if they can get a distro that fits on a floppy then what is the other 2GIG of stuff? With all the crap that a distro installs it's over a GIG of software, and this is just getting close to the Base OS as an End user can with the menu system. Microsoft isn't even this blotted!
This is the reason for the great success of OSX, great OS, and useful applications, there might be a few that do almost the same thing but you don't have hundreds of crappy little programs that do very specific tasks. The Opensource community should start to get together and build one really fucking amazing interface, that is fluid for everything (seems like all the environments are about 1/2 done as far as look and feel, work great for a few things then look like total shit for everything else). Then work on some really great core apps... that's pretty much what Apple did.. build a great interface, then release some good core apps that everyone wants to use.
OSX is what Linux wants to be when it grows up.. problem is everyone in linux is on a holy crusade and that their distro and packages are the best.. you are all fighting against eachother... If there was a distro for Linux that was on par with OSX, I would buy it in a heartbeat.. truth is.. most suck ass.
Everyone seems to be talking about cheatbots and tricks for the use to cash in, what about who's actually running these things? Are they going to be regulated. How easy would it be that if you were winning lots of money that they would then jack the level of the bot movement, or another player ( i remember the 4 person Daytona USA game that would 'throw' the trailing drivers up close behind the leaders if they got to far back) In that case it's pretty harmless, you are paying to play and no point someone getting stuck way back, but it would really suck when you were on an advanced track driving super well, and some 10yr old kid is on your ass only because the system would make sure he was staying up with the pack.
Casino are regulated so that the tables are clean, decks are true and the dice aren't weighted but in all cases the odds are in the house's favour, and there is very little way to improve difficulty. Though slot machines I don't really trust, computer controlled to regulate payouts and all that.. who's going to regulate these?
This is really a double edge sword. The complaints about the H1B is really related to where the workers are comming from. There seems to be two factions, first world H1B workers and 3rd world H1B workers. I have some friends that are H1B workers, both from Canada, they get paid like Americans and pretty much fit american profiles (one is a physist, the other an accountant). In one case, the company likes to hire H1B workers for the position because of the traveling required with the job. Seems most american workers don't want to leave home and travel the world. Guess they figure that H1B workers are more open to this, since they did leave their home to go work in the US. I have never heard anyone say negative things to them about working in the US.
The second set of workers are the people from 3rd world nations that come over and receive less pay then an American and are basically servents of the companies that they work for. The are treated badly by the companies, and receive less pay for more hours of work. The only way to stop this is for these workers to stop taking the jobs (doubt this will happen since they can make more in a week in the US then they could in a year in their own country) or for the the Gov't to crack down on these companies that are taking advantage of this situation. I also recall there being an indian saying something like 'The eldest son must die for the family', which basically relates to they must work their ass off even at their own happiness to support their family. There are a number of workers who come over, get a dirt cheap place, crappy car and send back a good portion of their pay check to the family. They work and save up enough to in those 6 years to not have to work again in India.. they are betting on it. Some fall in to the traps of Americanism don't want to leave and to aquire stuff.
Oh.. ever wonder why there are so many forigners running the convience stores? they work over here as owners, don't pay taxes to the US, send all the profits back home, and when the time they are allowed to live here expires, they transfer ownership to someone else in the family who come over and work the store.. repeat process till America is bleed dry..
I'm looking to go work in Europe.. where 4 to 6 weeks of vaction time is mandatory! oh.. and no one works weekends like a religion. Americans should really watch "Office Space" and really take notes.
i thought there was one show where a team build a hydroplane (not the object of the comp, i think it was the river raft episode) where they used a jetski engine and build a wing to plane up the boat. the front planed (though they had to tie some stuff down cause the first time it didn't work to well) but they pretty much got the front end out of the water, the boat and the driver were to heavy for the entire thing to plane, poor little jetski engine. I think they aslo blew out their tranny in the same show.
Even the Germanys don't want anything to do with America, isn't that a huge sign?? A country that had been bent on world domination for so long, doesn't even want to touch the USA with a 10 foot pole. You might wonder if they know something based on experiance. Hell, don't jump in bed with a madman trying to turn the country into a policed state!.
The USA is passing laws for unlimited gov't control and secrect agencies. People disappear for no good reason or explaination and get deported (least they aren't gassing them on the way out, they wait till they get them to their home country and then just bomb the shit of it.. All's fair in love and war.) And all this time anyone who doesn't think this is a good idea is called unpatriotic and an america hater. I do beleive this all happened before, started with a guy named Hitler.
You know, say what you want about Clinton, but in the 8 years he was in office, there wasn't one major war.. Vote in two Bush's and you get a war for oil everytime.. oh but wait I guess the second Bush wasn't really voted in.. was he.. damn America is full of stupid people..
For anyone who has been to a resort while they are making snow (which) involve large snowguns (the newer ones look like jet engines, old ones look like a big firehose) know it's not fun to have to ski by one of these things.
You better hope they filter everything out of there or you could be covered in some sort of virii or feces by product.
Isn't there something about not shitting where you eat? How bout not shitting where you make snow either.
I just returned back to University to complete my CS degree (only part time now) but I have become totally suprised by the new grading schema. I wasn't the greatest student before but under this marking system i would have been an A/solid B student. One course, you don't receive an F till you reach 39-20% of the grade. Hell, and F- is under 20%, and you get up to 5% just for attending the Lab section! that means you just need to get over 15% on all the rest of the exams before you fail really bad!.
Here a B is 75%, as I recall that use to be a C+ if you were lucky. Sad part is the grading on my other class is worse.. an A- goes right down to like 75% or something silly like that.. you don't get a C- till somewhere around 55%, which is the min. required grade to continue with future classes. Almost like they are pushing everyone thru for a degree.. why couldn't they done that 8 yrs ago when I was there.. i would be a graduate then!
Ya.. but people forget that he got $250 000 upfront to do the album.. that's money he made before he recorded anything. Also keeping the costs under control is the managers job, if you have a good manager then they will keep shit in budget. Lots of times the managers are working for the label and hire everyone/thing directly from the label, so it's all kicked back into the label (like the label pays the lawyer, who's on retainer only $50/hr but then charges the artist $100/hr to use that same laywer)
Problem is the artist themselves, they get a bunch of cash, think they are big time with a Major label and don't care about the details. Next thing they know they owe their label money and have to go tour to pay it off.
On another note, $500 for a blowout party for friends is nothing. I have been to parties thrown by small independant labels/artists and they will drop $2 to $3 grand for a blowout party for friends.. I have seen bar tabs on a normal nite of partying with friends (nothing special) hit $500 easy...
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DO NOT GIVE HONEYBAKED HAM!
This is the worst idea.. it gets inflicted on friends an relatives. I have been on the receiving end of this so calle gift... it sucks.
-b
The real true cost is that you need more then half a brain to get linux (or any unix system) to work efficiently. That's the true cost!! It's not good enough to read a book with step by step instructions on how to set something up, and it should just magically work! In a lot of cases, with any unix platform you have to trouble shoot problems and a lot of times think about what is going wrong and how it should be fixed.
I have yet to meet an MCSE who knows anything about how the OS actually works, it's more or less just a cases of clicking the right set of buttons and it works or it doesn't, if it doesn't then a service call goes into MS who then has to patch the product.
As for all the things this guy talks about, sure linux isn't the best SMP OS but it will work.. i use Freebsd on my SMP boxes which is very stable and a dual celeron 500mhz is more responsive then the 1.6ghz p4 with windows2k.
We all put up with a certian amount of junkmail, it's a given, we already get it with our daily snailmail, in newspapers and with products we buy.. we do tolerate a certian amount of this stuff.
I think one of the biggest things we can do is to cut down the number of open relays (this will help) also have a global ban list of ISP's that allow large scale spammers. I have pretty much banned entire contry codes and class A networks because all that comes out of them is spam. But also all the ISP (in the world, not just the US) need to define dsl or modem connections, these are the worst, i have spammers coming from open dsl connections all the time. They have to define in the reverse lookup that the connect ins a dsl user, like xxx.detr.dsl.comcast.com I need to filter those ip's based on the "DSL" or "cable" portion, right now i can only ban based on city codes they use, as I would love to ban all of "comcast", "t-dial.de" and a few other spam sending ISP's.
I know that my ISP, Sympatico.ca, won't allow me to send out email directly anymore which cuts down on spammers, but allows all dsl users to relay thru their mail server (which does annoy me cause I could run an smtp server I wanted too but I like which relevies me from getting any spam from the domain)
my thoughts..
-b
Pay in cash, and never give out your name and address (radio shack!).
.. wonder where that information is going to end up!.
I avoid giving out any personal information to anyone, my girlfriend wonders why I never want to 'sign up' for a chance for a free car or trip.. gee
Though if you have friends who know your name, address and phone number well enough you could end up giving that info a way. While in University I had a friend sign up as me for a credit card so he could get the free gift.. bastard!
-b
quit posting stuff that has been around for years!! i remember reading about using the dish's for antenna's like 2 years ago.
slashdot has lost my interest..
should read "Slashdot, News for want to be nerds so they can catch up and try to talk intelligentally about topics"
blah!
Did i miss something over the past 2 years ?? was i asleep?? We have a Dell with Radhat 7 installed on it, and that's the way it came from the factory, even with some redhat disks and support.
I would consider Dell a major PC producer.. Guess to get frontpaged on slashdot all you have to do is mention a "linux" powered anything.. any one want to link to my new inventions, linux powered toilets and a linux powered vibrator.
It's amazing the amount of congestion and crap on the airwaves, i was suprised by this when the power went out and i started to flip thru the AM stations, since most of the East was out I could pick up signals from distance places. Located in Windsor Ontario Canada (right across from Detroit) I was able to pick up NYC, Chicago, Des Moines, and Pittsburg stations.
Of coures as more places came online, the signals started to drop out, and i would get more interference between channels, but for that breif time it was like I stepped back in time, where I was able to listen to cities far away.. now i know how the first people to pick up a NYC station in upstate New York must have felt in the 40's..
there is too much chatter and not enough people listening..
Isn't there a problem with heat inversion and all sorts of weird stuff like that while shooting a signal over desert like settings? Sure it's flat and no trees to kill your frezel zone but i think it's just like water which can apparently be a pain in the ass to get a good signal across a notablely short span.
Then again they aren't bouncing it off the atmoshpere or anything (which i'm sure they would have had to do on a 310 mile link..)
I would like to find some of those on the network but truth is you can't find much! The main reason why the RIAA doesn't care about these artists is cause most of them own all the rights to their work, and in most cases the big labels (if any) just license the work for use, so it's not in the best interest of these labels to protect the artist cause they have nothing invested.
Also lots of electronic fans, real ones, would and do support the artists which they really like. I have cd's that have been so well done that they have stayed in the cd player for weeks on end. The Matthew Herbert bodily functions comes to mind.
I would want this to stick on expensive items like my computer or palm, so the next time my house or car get broken into, it can track where the items are.. i could just sent the police to go retreive them for me!
that is true progress.
I do some work for a company that already sells the mp3 albums online (not apple) and they were doing it a 1/2 year before Apple, so an e-music store is nothing new. The system they use is all custom written perl/sql which allows people to do the downloads once they paid. It also includes the cover art and any extras if they buy the entire album (i think it's about $8), but we figured the cost of hosting and bandwidth to be about $3 to $4 per album sold (that is if they download the entire thing)
.. and that is only about $800 revenue, $400 which might go towards hosting..
That means there is about $4 to divide up between the label and artist (which is about the same if you were to press the CD). Though you have to think of the consumer point of view now.. they also have bandwidth costs (as most dsl/cable companies are putting on data restrictions) and also cost of medium if they are going to burn it to cd. Then again if they got it off napster then it might be the same anyways.
Biggest thing by far is bandwidth.. do some math, 300mb per album X 100 ppl and you have 30 GB easy
-b
Sun had this years ago, we have java stations which are like 4 yrs old now, which did fast switching, login to a session with your smart card in the station, pop it out and you session is saved while the terminal returns to a login screen.. pop that baby back in any other terminal on the network and your session returns pretty much instantanously!
lightyears ahead of this point and click...
And what sort of "leak" has 'censored' material, it's more like a marketing ploy to me. Sad part is that Mac users get all excited about it.
if it's truely a leak, they wouldn't have those pretty censor boxes on the screen.. what pirate is going to photoshop the images cause they don't want people to see 'all of it' when they leak a new product. You don't see cracked warez with portion of the game disabled or MP3 rips with only 3/4 of a song unless it's intentionally leaked or distributed by the company.
get a clue mac people.. it's just a computer, not a way of life..
-b
The Optra series for Lexmark do Rock, they are the printers that pretty much put them on tne map and were compareable to HP Laserjet series. The old optras were true workhorses and they would handle PS which is important when you are spitting out data from a unix server, but the inkjets they now produce.. pure junk.. ok.. not junk, as I do have the X83 which has a scanner, and didn't cost me that much, but I got about 500 pages out of the cartriges, they are both dry and it's a big paperweight now. Cost for replacing the cartridges.. close to $100!! I'm almost tempted to see if I can find a cheap $40 walmart lexmark that uses the same cartidges, use those, sell the unit off on ebay for $5.
I also have an Okidata 400e that's almost 5 yrs old (think it got a PC Mag Best of 1994 rating)and the thing still works, though it does need a new drum/fuser unit as there are smudges on each printout but with a cost of $35 per toner unit the machine has been an amazing deal. The new fuser is about $250 which is close to the same price as new laser unit.. i'm debating just buying a new printer again.. But this Okidata unit has rocked, i have definatly gotten my money's worth out of it.
This is old news.. i've been watching wireless for a while, and the business model sucks ass till you invest billions to control whole population areas, so people could effectively use the wireless anywhere in their area, so your broadband becomes your wirless connection.. One ISP provider gives it all to you.
There has already been a company that went under trying to do wifi setups, look at metrocom or what ever that pole top wireless was out in Cali.. they went under, as with the company that was to provide the wireless to Starbucks, they were stupid though, trying to put a T1 to every location to feed these AP's, when you could use a 3mb dsl for 1/10th the cost. That company already went under and was taken over by someone else with the same idea.
Someone related wireless to be similar to fax machines.. It was either Fedex or UPS that spent millions outfitting locations with faxes, so that anyone could send a document around the world same day.. they didn't realize that the fax network was going to build it's self, people would buy low cost fax machines and send their documents themselves for pennies instead of spending dollars at the delivery company. Wifi is sort of like this.. unless they up the power for providers or something the range sucks ass, you would need cells of wifi that cover area like phone signals..which doesn't seem to happen. You think that cell phone coverage sucks.. imagine needing a wifi tower like ever 300 ft.. not going to happen.
It's 80/20 rule.. you are optomisic with 90%...
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there is also the 2/3 rule, you can only have 2 of the 3 conditions at any given time
good
cheap
fast
-b
Some of use are still using the 3.x tree.. though there are no updates for that, as long as the server isn't broken and I can recompile my busted apps (when updates are done) then i'm a happy camper..
going on 121 days of uptime..the machine only goes down to install new hardware (last time it was some fans cause the drives were overheating)
i don't have time to down it for an os change.. that will happen when the box is retired.
Look at the number of disks that most Distros now have, Redhat is up to what 4 CD's?? what the hell, I remember when it all fit on one CD, and if they can get a distro that fits on a floppy then what is the other 2GIG of stuff? With all the crap that a distro installs it's over a GIG of software, and this is just getting close to the Base OS as an End user can with the menu system. Microsoft isn't even this blotted!
.. you are all fighting against eachother... If there was a distro for Linux that was on par with OSX, I would buy it in a heartbeat.. truth is .. most suck ass.
This is the reason for the great success of OSX, great OS, and useful applications, there might be a few that do almost the same thing but you don't have hundreds of crappy little programs that do very specific tasks. The Opensource community should start to get together and build one really fucking amazing interface, that is fluid for everything (seems like all the environments are about 1/2 done as far as look and feel, work great for a few things then look like total shit for everything else). Then work on some really great core apps... that's pretty much what Apple did.. build a great interface, then release some good core apps that everyone wants to use.
OSX is what Linux wants to be when it grows up.. problem is everyone in linux is on a holy crusade and that their distro and packages are the best
Everyone seems to be talking about cheatbots and tricks for the use to cash in, what about who's actually running these things? Are they going to be regulated. How easy would it be that if you were winning lots of money that they would then jack the level of the bot movement, or another player ( i remember the 4 person Daytona USA game that would 'throw' the trailing drivers up close behind the leaders if they got to far back) In that case it's pretty harmless, you are paying to play and no point someone getting stuck way back, but it would really suck when you were on an advanced track driving super well, and some 10yr old kid is on your ass only because the system would make sure he was staying up with the pack.
Casino are regulated so that the tables are clean, decks are true and the dice aren't weighted but in all cases the odds are in the house's favour, and there is very little way to improve difficulty. Though slot machines I don't really trust, computer controlled to regulate payouts and all that.. who's going to regulate these?
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This is really a double edge sword. The complaints about the H1B is really related to where the workers are comming from. There seems to be two factions, first world H1B workers and 3rd world H1B workers. I have some friends that are H1B workers, both from Canada, they get paid like Americans and pretty much fit american profiles (one is a physist, the other an accountant). In one case, the company likes to hire H1B workers for the position because of the traveling required with the job. Seems most american workers don't want to leave home and travel the world. Guess they figure that H1B workers are more open to this, since they did leave their home to go work in the US. I have never heard anyone say negative things to them about working in the US.
The second set of workers are the people from 3rd world nations that come over and receive less pay then an American and are basically servents of the companies that they work for. The are treated badly by the companies, and receive less pay for more hours of work. The only way to stop this is for these workers to stop taking the jobs (doubt this will happen since they can make more in a week in the US then they could in a year in their own country) or for the the Gov't to crack down on these companies that are taking advantage of this situation. I also recall there being an indian saying something like 'The eldest son must die for the family', which basically relates to they must work their ass off even at their own happiness to support their family. There are a number of workers who come over, get a dirt cheap place, crappy car and send back a good portion of their pay check to the family. They work and save up enough to in those 6 years to not have to work again in India.. they are betting on it. Some fall in to the traps of Americanism don't want to leave and to aquire stuff.
Oh.. ever wonder why there are so many forigners running the convience stores? they work over here as owners, don't pay taxes to the US, send all the profits back home, and when the time they are allowed to live here expires, they transfer ownership to someone else in the family who come over and work the store.. repeat process till America is bleed dry..
I'm looking to go work in Europe.. where 4 to 6 weeks of vaction time is mandatory! oh.. and no one works weekends like a religion. Americans should really watch "Office Space" and really take notes.
i thought there was one show where a team build a hydroplane (not the object of the comp, i think it was the river raft episode) where they used a jetski engine and build a wing to plane up the boat. the front planed (though they had to tie some stuff down cause the first time it didn't work to well) but they pretty much got the front end out of the water, the boat and the driver were to heavy for the entire thing to plane, poor little jetski engine. I think they aslo blew out their tranny in the same show.
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Even the Germanys don't want anything to do with America, isn't that a huge sign?? A country that had been bent on world domination for so long, doesn't even want to touch the USA with a 10 foot pole. You might wonder if they know something based on experiance. Hell, don't jump in bed with a madman trying to turn the country into a policed state!.
.. was he.. damn America is full of stupid people..
The USA is passing laws for unlimited gov't control and secrect agencies. People disappear for no good reason or explaination and get deported (least they aren't gassing them on the way out, they wait till they get them to their home country and then just bomb the shit of it.. All's fair in love and war.) And all this time anyone who doesn't think this is a good idea is called unpatriotic and an america hater. I do beleive this all happened before, started with a guy named Hitler.
You know, say what you want about Clinton, but in the 8 years he was in office, there wasn't one major war.. Vote in two Bush's and you get a war for oil everytime.. oh but wait I guess the second Bush wasn't really voted in
For anyone who has been to a resort while they are making snow (which) involve large snowguns (the newer ones look like jet engines, old ones look like a big firehose) know it's not fun to have to ski by one of these things.
You better hope they filter everything out of there or you could be covered in some sort of virii or feces by product.
Isn't there something about not shitting where you eat? How bout not shitting where you make snow either.
I just returned back to University to complete my CS degree (only part time now) but I have become totally suprised by the new grading schema. I wasn't the greatest student before but under this marking system i would have been an A/solid B student. One course, you don't receive an F till you reach 39-20% of the grade. Hell, and F- is under 20%, and you get up to 5% just for attending the Lab section! that means you just need to get over 15% on all the rest of the exams before you fail really bad!.
Here a B is 75%, as I recall that use to be a C+ if you were lucky. Sad part is the grading on my other class is worse.. an A- goes right down to like 75% or something silly like that.. you don't get a C- till somewhere around 55%, which is the min. required grade to continue with future classes. Almost like they are pushing everyone thru for a degree.. why couldn't they done that 8 yrs ago when I was there.. i would be a graduate then!
Ya.. but people forget that he got $250 000 upfront to do the album.. that's money he made before he recorded anything. Also keeping the costs under control is the managers job, if you have a good manager then they will keep shit in budget. Lots of times the managers are working for the label and hire everyone/thing directly from the label, so it's all kicked back into the label (like the label pays the lawyer, who's on retainer only $50/hr but then charges the artist $100/hr to use that same laywer)
Problem is the artist themselves, they get a bunch of cash, think they are big time with a Major label and don't care about the details. Next thing they know they owe their label money and have to go tour to pay it off.
On another note, $500 for a blowout party for friends is nothing. I have been to parties thrown by small independant labels/artists and they will drop $2 to $3 grand for a blowout party for friends.. I have seen bar tabs on a normal nite of partying with friends (nothing special) hit $500 easy...