Indeed, I clearly failed to understand the additional use case involving the mobile but inflexible patient.
Bedpans was the cue.
However, I'm pretty confident that a bidet will not, with no assistance, remove the need for carer attention to the bottom area, so it's an expensive and potentially uncomfortable way of taking a few seconds off a continued unpleasant task.
Well, I'm generalising. I've worked with some genuinely top-end people that were born and educated in India and oddly enough met some utter muppets born just down the road and educated.. actually no, no evidence of that.
There is however a massive and discernable difference and I put it down to the education systems and underpinning culture.
Right now your salary is low because you are competing for jobs with people in India due (in part) to the H1-B visa scheme. Your employer can hire an Indian for $60k; you end up earning $60k because otherwise you don't get the job, the Indian does.
If the cost of employing someone from India (or indeed, anywhere else) was $130k then you could demand $80k, or indeed anything up to $130k (subject to skills availability in your area) and still be a better choice for your employer than the person on a H1-B visa.
The employer is going to spend more money on staff either way, they're going have a resultant impact on their cost base and their profitability, but the average salary for your skillset will rise and you will earn more.
The downside is that if your salary rises too high, you start competing again with Indians but this time not through the H1-B visa scheme. Your employer just offshores (or outsources) your job and someone working in India does it.
Luckily outsourcing software development has been demonstrated to be extremely flawed and problematic, but offshoring is very viable and likely to become more popular with US companies.
If somebody is so infirm that they are unable to go to the toilet, why would a bidet help? Do bidets include some magical teleportation device that takes you from your bed to the toilet, waits for you to take a shit then switches you to the bidet so you can wash your arse before you're dropped back off in bed again?
Or did you just utterly fucking fail to understand the point being made?
That's strange. I'm sure America has a rich multicultural and multiracial heritage.
Right now a white person wanting to emigrate to America has exactly the same options as a non-white person. Should the H1B visa scheme end, a non-white person would have exactly the same options for emigrating to America as a white person.
Reality appears to have completely disregarded your ignorant rant.
On the flipside I wouldn't expect a chartered accountant to be able to knock out a optimised no modulus fizzbuzz solution in any language at interview.
No, it really did use to work like that. People actually got the chance to gain new skills in the workplace. Companies supported and backed their staff.
The world's changed. You don't get final salary pensions any more either.
This is the bit that gets me. The moment you have to train a H1B hire then you've immediately acknowledged that they couldn't do the job either. So train someone local.
Sure, there's a ton of handover in terms of how a code base is put together, what's deployed where, common support gotchas, but that's not training, that's handover or onboarding.
Training while in the role to stay current is a different conversation, but training when you take them on? Hmm, no.
Texas might be mostly smogless but I'm not convinced Dallas is inherently healthier than living near Denver. And mountains. Pretty mountains. Trees! Wildlife!
The legal weed will be an interesting thing to watch but not a personal attraction.
If my employer had offices in Colorado rather than Dallas I'd be tempted to invite them to bring me over for a couple of years - on a H1B of course;)
Only in the US. Here in the UK we were rather more relaxed about it all.
I think it's a control thing. Americans are happy to take risks but they have to be in control, and the risk of nuclear armageddon is beyond their control so they can't handle it.
classrooms were filled with discussions about how to flee cities and survive after a nuclear attack
Filled indeed. I recall zero such discussions. I really find it quite weird just how paranoid the reporting from the US was.
I use Chrome only where complex web applications seem to need it to work (e.g. ones provided to me by my employer).
This move kind of justifies the challenges I face getting certain websites to work in my browser of choice (a Firefox fork). It may lack the level of website support that Chrome enjoys but it provides a shitload more support to me.
Sorry Google, your quest for world domination has already failed. Well, until someone kills me anyway.
Interesting that the summary uses the words from the article on this from The Register but without their link to the old PDF, and your quote includes [PDF] but then challenges their summary.
the actual old licensing regime counted each AWS vCPU as a full CPU core even though it was actually hyperthread
Sadly the PDF linked by El Reg doesn't provide clarity on this. It talks only about virtual cores and doesn't mention hyperthreading at all. Of course LMS would use that lack of clarity to apply your interpretation (assuming they couldn't invent something even nastier with which to fuck over their 'customer').
My only conclusion is to continue to avoid Oracle wherever possible.
If you're building a business, you're adding new capabilities, you're growing, you're managing your cost base for the long term.. that extra $1m next year is affordable. That extra $5m over the next 2-3 years is a sizeable opportunity cost.
That new product that you could build and launch went from a 20% margin to a 20% loss.
No, this may shore up short term revenues but it's yet another reason to choose something other than Oracle.
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Did he also take it apart and use Varsol or gritty hand cleaner to repair the wear and tear caused by 24/7 mechanical movements?
Just that.. the servicing isn't to clean fucking grease off the glass.
I can easily conceive of spending $115k on a watch.
It'd be an Urwerk. It'd last rather longer than an iWatch and sell for more than my house when I'm ready to retire.
I do that comical though. "Buy our expensive bling, it's got the highest profit margins on the market"
Except that people do. This is why I didn't go for a career in marketing.
I use mine for that, and also to impress other men.
That's not really intentional but I've had several men express admiration for it. Apparently limited edition Omega watches have a fanbase out there.
Why would anybody not start with
cd /home
The moment you ever type 'rm -rf /' you've failed, no matter what you put after it.
Indeed, I clearly failed to understand the additional use case involving the mobile but inflexible patient.
Bedpans was the cue.
However, I'm pretty confident that a bidet will not, with no assistance, remove the need for carer attention to the bottom area, so it's an expensive and potentially uncomfortable way of taking a few seconds off a continued unpleasant task.
Well, I'm generalising. I've worked with some genuinely top-end people that were born and educated in India and oddly enough met some utter muppets born just down the road and educated.. actually no, no evidence of that.
There is however a massive and discernable difference and I put it down to the education systems and underpinning culture.
Right now your salary is low because you are competing for jobs with people in India due (in part) to the H1-B visa scheme. Your employer can hire an Indian for $60k; you end up earning $60k because otherwise you don't get the job, the Indian does.
If the cost of employing someone from India (or indeed, anywhere else) was $130k then you could demand $80k, or indeed anything up to $130k (subject to skills availability in your area) and still be a better choice for your employer than the person on a H1-B visa.
The employer is going to spend more money on staff either way, they're going have a resultant impact on their cost base and their profitability, but the average salary for your skillset will rise and you will earn more.
The downside is that if your salary rises too high, you start competing again with Indians but this time not through the H1-B visa scheme. Your employer just offshores (or outsources) your job and someone working in India does it.
Luckily outsourcing software development has been demonstrated to be extremely flawed and problematic, but offshoring is very viable and likely to become more popular with US companies.
If somebody is so infirm that they are unable to go to the toilet, why would a bidet help? Do bidets include some magical teleportation device that takes you from your bed to the toilet, waits for you to take a shit then switches you to the bidet so you can wash your arse before you're dropped back off in bed again?
Or did you just utterly fucking fail to understand the point being made?
That's strange. I'm sure America has a rich multicultural and multiracial heritage.
Right now a white person wanting to emigrate to America has exactly the same options as a non-white person. Should the H1B visa scheme end, a non-white person would have exactly the same options for emigrating to America as a white person.
Reality appears to have completely disregarded your ignorant rant.
On the flipside I wouldn't expect a chartered accountant to be able to knock out a optimised no modulus fizzbuzz solution in any language at interview.
I could easily train them to do that.
Shit, it's finding dance clubs with people under 40 that's the issue here. Even in my mid 40s I'm too frequently the youngest person in the room.
Sure, some of the ladies can really seriously properly dance. Better than me. Doesn't quite compare with a sexy 30yo wriggling against you though.
I can remember when Java didn't exist. Where did all these Java programmers come from?
Oh, wait. They learned to program. Or they took existing programming skills and learned how to use them with the Java language.
Companies even helped. They gave people time and training.
So if I need Java programmers in Charlotte and I can't find them, I'll fucking create them. It's not that hard.
No, it really did use to work like that. People actually got the chance to gain new skills in the workplace. Companies supported and backed their staff.
The world's changed. You don't get final salary pensions any more either.
This is the bit that gets me. The moment you have to train a H1B hire then you've immediately acknowledged that they couldn't do the job either. So train someone local.
Sure, there's a ton of handover in terms of how a code base is put together, what's deployed where, common support gotchas, but that's not training, that's handover or onboarding.
Training while in the role to stay current is a different conversation, but training when you take them on? Hmm, no.
Texas might be mostly smogless but I'm not convinced Dallas is inherently healthier than living near Denver. And mountains. Pretty mountains. Trees! Wildlife!
The legal weed will be an interesting thing to watch but not a personal attraction.
If my employer had offices in Colorado rather than Dallas I'd be tempted to invite them to bring me over for a couple of years - on a H1B of course ;)
Only in the US. Here in the UK we were rather more relaxed about it all.
I think it's a control thing. Americans are happy to take risks but they have to be in control, and the risk of nuclear armageddon is beyond their control so they can't handle it.
classrooms were filled with discussions about how to flee cities and survive after a nuclear attack
Filled indeed. I recall zero such discussions. I really find it quite weird just how paranoid the reporting from the US was.
Hmm. I find people educated in India heavily substandard compared to people educated in Europe or America.
There's a very different culture, a different approach to teaching and education and a different set of outcomes in attitude and capability.
Well, yes, but.. you have to live in North Texas.
You could at least have quoted house prices in Colorado or Utah or somewhere nice.
Surely you mean DOS the shit out of anything? Anybody can DDOS whatever the fuck they want, that's the entire fucking point of DDOS.
Actually the dictionary does not disagree with him:
http://www.webdictionary.co.uk...
The people that have a track record of actually curing people in the UK also do not disagree with him:
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/h...
You seem be deluded. Educate yourself.
Failed? Shit, you don't even let them happen.
I'm cynical enough to believe that half of Oracles 'new' sales are 'if we buy this, will you agree not to audit us?' deals.
I use Chrome only where complex web applications seem to need it to work (e.g. ones provided to me by my employer).
This move kind of justifies the challenges I face getting certain websites to work in my browser of choice (a Firefox fork). It may lack the level of website support that Chrome enjoys but it provides a shitload more support to me.
Sorry Google, your quest for world domination has already failed. Well, until someone kills me anyway.
Interesting that the summary uses the words from the article on this from The Register but without their link to the old PDF, and your quote includes [PDF] but then challenges their summary.
the actual old licensing regime counted each AWS vCPU as a full CPU core even though it was actually hyperthread
Sadly the PDF linked by El Reg doesn't provide clarity on this. It talks only about virtual cores and doesn't mention hyperthreading at all. Of course LMS would use that lack of clarity to apply your interpretation (assuming they couldn't invent something even nastier with which to fuck over their 'customer').
My only conclusion is to continue to avoid Oracle wherever possible.
Sure, if you're looking a couple of quarters out.
If you're building a business, you're adding new capabilities, you're growing, you're managing your cost base for the long term.. that extra $1m next year is affordable. That extra $5m over the next 2-3 years is a sizeable opportunity cost.
That new product that you could build and launch went from a 20% margin to a 20% loss.
No, this may shore up short term revenues but it's yet another reason to choose something other than Oracle.