The company also lost 3 other contracts with clients I was currently with which would have probably panned out to 50k-100k each per year.
The revenue from that contract would have keep me and 2 other co-workers employed for at least 3 years and now my former company is going to probably fire 2 US citizens. This was the height of irony! The government royally screwed my company.
Your other point about the stupid visa policies is a good one, but I see a logical flaw in this one. If I understand you correctly, you're saying that because you were denied an extension to your H1-B, the company you work(ed) for lost some contracts and two US citizens may lose their jobs. However, wouldn't there be new opportunities (or lack of layoffs) for two or three US citizens to be employed at the companies that did get the contracts?
I granted my upstairs neighbour access to my wifi network for a while. Until I started getting the same problems as sharing the same hot water tank as my neighbour's unit.
The joy and fuzziness of sharing doesn't make up for low flow.
Canadians no longer have to remove their shoes at airport security--except when traveling to the US--according to guidelines obtained by Canadian media.
Apparently, aside from slowing down security clearances, it was spreading foot-borne diseases. And here I thought the world would collapse from an unsanitised telephone.
Rather than making me think that all humans are mutants, this made me think: Wow, over a runtime of 204 years, the DNA copying process has an accuracy of 99.99988%, or an error rate of only 0.00012%.
I think we'll be hard-pressed to replicate that level of awesomeness in computers anytime soon.
And what, if not computers, do you think they used to count the errors?
This is safety first. If my 11-year-old child were to come across a potential attacker while walking the streets alone late at night, I wouldn't want the attacker to be the only one with a 700 lb cannon.
Use something self-contained, like an iPod Touch or one of those digital picture frames. Or if you don't want to spill for some new device like that, get something that's already old.
I've got a laptop from around '96 or so sitting in a drawer. It's practically worthless. It has a 3.5" drive but no CD drive or ethernet port. But if I wanted to, I could still plug it in to an outlet and look at whatever stuff is on it, no matter what "modern" technology can and cannot read.
The only feature of Snow Leopard that looks at all interesting is the hanzi/kanji input on the trackpad...But since I rarely use my laptop OPEN (I run in clamshell mode to an external monitor most of the time), even that is not particularly useful to me.
I don't even have a trackpad, because I use an iMac. I'd probably have to buy an external trackpad to take advantage of this feature.
Come to think of it, I'd also have to learn Japanese.
I, uh, don't really have anywhere clever to go with this idea though...
Take a photo of your idea, then post a link to it on your Twitter with the GPS coordinates of where you were when you first thought of it. Then run it through the dishwasher (your phone does have a dishwasher built in, right?) and render the result into a 3D visualization of how your idea would look as an mp3.
Or at least, that's what I assume you're supposed to do with those damn things; I'm a "simple phone" kind of guy myself.
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The company also lost 3 other contracts with clients I was currently with which would have probably panned out to 50k-100k each per year.
The revenue from that contract would have keep me and 2 other co-workers employed for at least 3 years and now my former company is going to probably fire 2 US citizens. This was the height of irony! The government royally screwed my company.
Your other point about the stupid visa policies is a good one, but I see a logical flaw in this one. If I understand you correctly, you're saying that because you were denied an extension to your H1-B, the company you work(ed) for lost some contracts and two US citizens may lose their jobs. However, wouldn't there be new opportunities (or lack of layoffs) for two or three US citizens to be employed at the companies that did get the contracts?
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No, the real difference is this guy had a girlfriend.
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In my mother tongue, the 'w' is pronounced as [wey].
Must get tiresome to pronounce those square brackets all the time.
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With or without the rocket booster engine?
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Actually, the extraneous variant of "eh" is permitted for the purpose of exaggerating Canadian mannerisms to Americans.
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Kthxbai is the proper spelling. Muphry's law.
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I granted my upstairs neighbour access to my wifi network for a while. Until I started getting the same problems as sharing the same hot water tank as my neighbour's unit.
The joy and fuzziness of sharing doesn't make up for low flow.
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Well, you can solve about 38% of the "last mile" problem if you switched to metric. Then you'd only have to worry about the last kilometre.
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To which Gillette replied, "Fuck everything, we're doing five screens!"
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TFA says the rover is Lunar-Electric. I assume this means it's a hybrid that runs partly on electricity and partly on lunacy.
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Canadians no longer have to remove their shoes at airport security--except when traveling to the US--according to guidelines obtained by Canadian media.
Apparently, aside from slowing down security clearances, it was spreading foot-borne diseases. And here I thought the world would collapse from an unsanitised telephone.
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Rather than making me think that all humans are mutants, this made me think: Wow, over a runtime of 204 years, the DNA copying process has an accuracy of 99.99988%, or an error rate of only 0.00012%.
I think we'll be hard-pressed to replicate that level of awesomeness in computers anytime soon.
And what, if not computers, do you think they used to count the errors?
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The Internet is actually a couple years older than 40, but we don't know it yet because the original network has a ping time of 50 years.
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This is safety first. If my 11-year-old child were to come across a potential attacker while walking the streets alone late at night, I wouldn't want the attacker to be the only one with a 700 lb cannon.
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My bet is on DuPont. After all, pixels in the image use the exact same colours as paints produced by DuPont. Coincidence? I think not.
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Use something self-contained, like an iPod Touch or one of those digital picture frames. Or if you don't want to spill for some new device like that, get something that's already old.
I've got a laptop from around '96 or so sitting in a drawer. It's practically worthless. It has a 3.5" drive but no CD drive or ethernet port. But if I wanted to, I could still plug it in to an outlet and look at whatever stuff is on it, no matter what "modern" technology can and cannot read.
Store in a cool, dry location.
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The only feature of Snow Leopard that looks at all interesting is the hanzi/kanji input on the trackpad...But since I rarely use my laptop OPEN (I run in clamshell mode to an external monitor most of the time), even that is not particularly useful to me.
I don't even have a trackpad, because I use an iMac. I'd probably have to buy an external trackpad to take advantage of this feature.
Come to think of it, I'd also have to learn Japanese.
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Right. The person who should be sued here isn't Google, who had no choice, but Liskula Cohen, who forced them to release the information.
Apparently, Port *is* suing Google. And from the linked article, she sounds like a spoiled little 29-year-old brat.
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I, uh, don't really have anywhere clever to go with this idea though...
Take a photo of your idea, then post a link to it on your Twitter with the GPS coordinates of where you were when you first thought of it. Then run it through the dishwasher (your phone does have a dishwasher built in, right?) and render the result into a 3D visualization of how your idea would look as an mp3.
Or at least, that's what I assume you're supposed to do with those damn things; I'm a "simple phone" kind of guy myself.
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Please enlighten us as to how you constructed this 'perfect' circle.
1. Assume a cow that is perfectly spherical with diameter of 1 metre.
2. Slice the cow in half.
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Yeah, but real estate prices on the moon are astronomical!
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While there were reports of sites being inaccessible, I doubt that filtering is to blame for all of this traffic reduction.
How much was due simply to people being out in the streets protesting, instead of inside their houses watching YouTube videos?
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While Firefox may be competitive in some environments, IE certainly gets a much bigger market share than Opera, Safari, and Chrome.
If you're going to dismiss IE's input, why bother taking anybody's?
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Amazingly enough, "velocity sensitive" keyboards respond to velocity, not pressure.
I don't care if the keyboard knows whether I'm bashing it or I'm throwing it across the room, so long as it knows I'm pissed off at it!
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Very true - Although by the time I see this actually being useful, I imagine other technologies rendering this obsolete.
Which technologies, and why?
Obviously, the combination cellphone-dishwasher, and the electric kettle with built-in microwave oven.
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