With your masters you should be smart enough to know that not everyone falls within the standard deviation....
Your not typical and if you think you are your not being honest with yourself. There are some older, experienced, legitimate H-1B workers. I never said there were not. But, the vast majority of them are fresh from school and drive down the prevailing wage.
Exactly so they should buy a house they can afford or rent. I am sick and tired of people making excuses for "ordinary" people. The people who gave the loans suck, the ones who took ones they could not pay suck too.
If you can't afford to buy a home then rent an apartment. I rented for 6 years after college. Didn't want to, thought it was a waste of money. But, it's what I could afford. Then when I could afford to buy a home. I bought one that I could afford to make the payments on.
Everyone is looking for a get rich quick scheme. Or wants to look richer than they are by taking a negative interest mortgage and maxing out their credit cards rather than living within their means.
American financial habits have to change or the $ will eventually be worth nothing. The consumer culture has to change or we will all be broke.
Even if the H-1B program had no fraud it would push wages down in the US by artificially changing the demographic in the workplace.
Older experienced high tech workers are more likely to stay at home with their families. Younger recent graduates are more likely to travel for work/opportunity. They also earn less because they have less experience.
But, it doesn't surprise me that greed leads to fraud in a situation that already drove wages down.
Look at how greed is affecting the economy now. Greedy people want houses they cant afford, greedy bankers want to make money by giving risky loans and turning them over. Greedy companies want to reduce wage costs by defrauding the H-1B program.
Geeks don't deal well with other geeks that can't produce!!!
I would never hire someone without a logic test and a "coding" test. When hiring C developers I used to ask them to write strcpy() the answers I got to that simple question would give you nightmares. Out of 10 applicants with 6 years of experience 3 could do it. 2 of those would use array notation and I would ask them to re-write it in pointer notation. In the end 1-2 out of ten could do it in pointer notation. The rest just gave me frightening insight into just how poorly someone can perceive a problem.
The real problem is that in our world someone can be completely successful and still produce crap. The business measures of success are, is it on-time, on-budget, and does it do what it should. It can still be unmaintainable garbage. So without seeing what type of code a person writes you are setting yourself up to deal with a mess.
They were looking for a sip client. I'm not sure if netmeeting does sip or not. But, it is probably not the first thing that shows up when you search for sip clients.
We were using asterix as a sip server and had it able to dial out via our land lines, but when we out of the office we would just connect via our laptops. Those of us that used Linux had good luck with Ekiga, those that used Windows did not.
I've had good luck with Ekiga on Linux, but my friends that use windows have stability problems with it.
It will stop sending audio, and after one call can not make anymore without the system being restarted( this is on Vista though so who knows the cause ).
The quality factor is interesting in software. I've always thought that the business measures of quality don't apply very easily.
In business I say a project was successful if it was on time, on budget, and does what it is supposed to do.
With software you can meet these criteria and under the hood have the worst mess ever. None of the business decision makers will know how inelegant and unmaintainable the product is.
But, when it takes 6 months to add the next feature that you should have been able to add in 6 days you feel the impact.
Problem is how to demonstrate the value of that "quality" elegant code to the business as a differentiator before they have experienced it.
Actually I didn't complain because I didn't give a shit. I can't say I buckled in any salary negotiation because that poster was on the wall either...lol
She was a tough woman, but I found her very easy to work for she could dish it out and also take it.
If, it had been my desktop wallpaper that got the complaint would I have asked to have her poster removed? I hope not, because that would have just been out of spite not because I was really offended.
I really only told the story because it is an example of how things are perceived differently not because I felt personally harmed.
As far as it being illegal, I don't think so. If no one complains then it's not sexual harassment, or is it?
This brings me back to my first post college job. It was 1991 and the guy sitting next to me had a picture of Paula Abdul as his desktop background. Someone complained to HR and he was asked to remove it.
At the same time my boss who was also his boss had an anatomical poster "Penises of the Animal Kingdom" on her wall with to scale anatomical drawings of about 10 different species penises - including homo sapien. HR never asked her to remove it, and she was in a position of authority.
Never really bothered me, but did show me that sexism and sexual harassment rules are applied differently to men than to women.
I know that my little anecdote only adds one sample to this set of data. But, for me it didn't cause the injury it just kept if from being able to heal.
I hurt my wrist playing volleyball and the inflammation that I had caused the median nerve to be squeezed and gave me some nice Carpal Tunnel symptoms. I had never had problems with this before, but it seemed to get worse after the injury with computer use and would not heal. I had never had a problem with mouse use before so this was really frustrating.
I ended up buying a vertical mouse and after about 3 weeks problem gone. I can only assume that the inflamed tendons where rubbing in the tunnel and staying inflamed.
Now I don't worry about the mouse I use and the problem has not come back 4+ years later. I still take out and use the oddball vertical mouse though.
But, mouse use definitely caused my wrist pain to stick around longer than it needed to.
Crap! Yes. I guess that is the easiest way to translate it.
It's weird I grew up speaking both English and German and I have the hardest time translating between the two. When I speak in German I think in German and same goes for English. So, whenever I try to translate I get really hung up the feelings certain words evoke in me and I have a hard time just picking the obvious word, like crap.
So the vulgar way of saying sh*t is Scheiße - this is considered vulgar, but not as bad as in the U.S. So, in the US you might discipline your child for saying sh*t in Germany Scheiße might only get junior a bad look.
Mist is even less vulgar. Sort of like saying dung or manure. A "Mist Haufen" is a dung heap. But, Mist is still used as an expletive.
If I take my motorcycle to work I get 47 MPG but in my car I only get 28 MPG how long before they start varying the tax based on the vehicles mileage? This is just pathetic.
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With your masters you should be smart enough to know that not everyone falls within the standard deviation....
Your not typical and if you think you are your not being honest with yourself. There are some older, experienced, legitimate H-1B workers. I never said there were not. But, the vast majority of them are fresh from school and drive down the prevailing wage.
Exactly so they should buy a house they can afford or rent. I am sick and tired of people making excuses for "ordinary" people. The people who gave the loans suck, the ones who took ones they could not pay suck too.
If you can't afford to buy a home then rent an apartment. I rented for 6 years after college. Didn't want to, thought it was a waste of money. But, it's what I could afford. Then when I could afford to buy a home. I bought one that I could afford to make the payments on.
Everyone is looking for a get rich quick scheme. Or wants to look richer than they are by taking a negative interest mortgage and maxing out their credit cards rather than living within their means.
American financial habits have to change or the $ will eventually be worth nothing. The consumer culture has to change or we will all be broke.
You're right there is nothing wrong with someone wanting it. But, they shouldn't take a mortgage they can not afford to do it!!
The loans should also have never been offered to them.
Greed at the top greed at the bottom, everyone trying to get a little more.
Same with the H-1B.
Until people get some integrity this just goes on and on.
Even if the H-1B program had no fraud it would push wages down in the US by artificially changing the demographic in the workplace.
Older experienced high tech workers are more likely to stay at home with their families. Younger recent graduates are more likely to travel for work/opportunity. They also earn less because they have less experience.
But, it doesn't surprise me that greed leads to fraud in a situation that already drove wages down.
Look at how greed is affecting the economy now. Greedy people want houses they cant afford, greedy bankers want to make money by giving risky loans and turning them over. Greedy companies want to reduce wage costs by defrauding the H-1B program.
It's just par for the course!!
Geeks don't deal well with other geeks that can't produce!!!
I would never hire someone without a logic test and a "coding" test. When hiring C developers I used to ask them to write strcpy() the answers I got to that simple question would give you nightmares. Out of 10 applicants with 6 years of experience 3 could do it. 2 of those would use array notation and I would ask them to re-write it in pointer notation. In the end 1-2 out of ten could do it in pointer notation. The rest just gave me frightening insight into just how poorly someone can perceive a problem.
The real problem is that in our world someone can be completely successful and still produce crap. The business measures of success are, is it on-time, on-budget, and does it do what it should. It can still be unmaintainable garbage. So without seeing what type of code a person writes you are setting yourself up to deal with a mess.
Thanks that's good to know. Means it might be worth me putting a few hours getting it to work.
Did you use a vanilla-kernel or did it require suspend/resume patches?
Thing is I don't use windows so I can't experiment with them easily.
Can you suggest a good free sip client for windows? Then I can pass that suggestion on.
Thanks
They were looking for a sip client. I'm not sure if netmeeting does sip or not. But, it is probably not the first thing that shows up when you search for sip clients.
We were using asterix as a sip server and had it able to dial out via our land lines, but when we out of the office we would just connect via our laptops. Those of us that used Linux had good luck with Ekiga, those that used Windows did not.
It was a nice retort, but I'm still pretty sure it's ass isn't as nice as Gates' in that bizarre commercial.
Could be, I guess friends shouldn't let friends use windows!
I did the very same thing, have everything working under Gentoo except I have not played with suspend resume.
I've had good luck with Ekiga on Linux, but my friends that use windows have stability problems with it.
It will stop sending audio, and after one call can not make anymore without the system being restarted( this is on Vista though so who knows the cause ).
The quality factor is interesting in software. I've always thought that the business measures of quality don't apply very easily.
In business I say a project was successful if it was on time, on budget, and does what it is supposed to do.
With software you can meet these criteria and under the hood have the worst mess ever. None of the business decision makers will know how inelegant and unmaintainable the product is.
But, when it takes 6 months to add the next feature that you should have been able to add in 6 days you feel the impact.
Problem is how to demonstrate the value of that "quality" elegant code to the business as a differentiator before they have experienced it.
Actually I didn't complain because I didn't give a shit. I can't say I buckled in any salary negotiation because that poster was on the wall either...lol
She was a tough woman, but I found her very easy to work for she could dish it out and also take it.
If, it had been my desktop wallpaper that got the complaint would I have asked to have her poster removed? I hope not, because that would have just been out of spite not because I was really offended.
I really only told the story because it is an example of how things are perceived differently not because I felt personally harmed.
As far as it being illegal, I don't think so. If no one complains then it's not sexual harassment, or is it?
This brings me back to my first post college job. It was 1991 and the guy sitting next to me had a picture of Paula Abdul as his desktop background. Someone complained to HR and he was asked to remove it.
At the same time my boss who was also his boss had an anatomical poster "Penises of the Animal Kingdom" on her wall with to scale anatomical drawings of about 10 different species penises - including homo sapien. HR never asked her to remove it, and she was in a position of authority.
Never really bothered me, but did show me that sexism and sexual harassment rules are applied differently to men than to women.
I'll bet Keebler's are pissed.
Or when your dick gets hard!!! That would actually be fun color changing condoms.
I know that my little anecdote only adds one sample to this set of data. But, for me it didn't cause the injury it just kept if from being able to heal.
I hurt my wrist playing volleyball and the inflammation that I had caused the median nerve to be squeezed and gave me some nice Carpal Tunnel symptoms. I had never had problems with this before, but it seemed to get worse after the injury with computer use and would not heal. I had never had a problem with mouse use before so this was really frustrating.
I ended up buying a vertical mouse and after about 3 weeks problem gone. I can only assume that the inflamed tendons where rubbing in the tunnel and staying inflamed.
Now I don't worry about the mouse I use and the problem has not come back 4+ years later. I still take out and use the oddball vertical mouse though.
But, mouse use definitely caused my wrist pain to stick around longer than it needed to.
Amen Brother!! - This is the smartest comment I have read on this whole thread.
Crap! Yes. I guess that is the easiest way to translate it.
It's weird I grew up speaking both English and German and I have the hardest time translating between the two. When I speak in German I think in German and same goes for English. So, whenever I try to translate I get really hung up the feelings certain words evoke in me and I have a hard time just picking the obvious word, like crap.
Now I feel like I have to give some more details:
So the vulgar way of saying sh*t is Scheiße - this is considered vulgar, but not as bad as in the U.S. So, in the US you might discipline your child for saying sh*t in Germany Scheiße might only get junior a bad look.
Mist is even less vulgar. Sort of like saying dung or manure. A "Mist Haufen" is a dung heap. But, Mist is still used as an expletive.
Mist is slang for manure or sh*t. But, it is often used for a device that does not work like the English phrase "what a piece of sh*t"
I think that simply creating a unique ID for each form/URL and validating that on the Post/Get request should stop the problem.
:-(
Unless of course the javascript loaded the page containing the form, parsed it and pulled out the secret variable
there is at least one douchebag in every organization :-(
If I take my motorcycle to work I get 47 MPG but in my car I only get 28 MPG how long before they start varying the tax based on the vehicles mileage? This is just pathetic.