The other issue is that, once you outsource to these dev shops, you never get the same guys twice. So we take junior devs from them, take ages to bring them up to speed, and next time we need them... we get another junior guy.
In a sane world, you would be able to bring the guy who you brought up to speed to US on a H1-B may be and get him/her to spend the earning in the USA and pay the taxes in USA and contribute his/her kids to the local schools and thus enrich the US economy, US Government and US communities in multiple ways.
But instead we limit the H1-B quota to 65000 a year, and offer 50000 visas a year through a lottery program. There was a time USA was in need of agricultural labor and manual industrial labor. Then it made sense to ask the world for their wretched masses yearning to breath free. Now we don't need 50,000 families of uneducated unskilled people from countries that largely despises America. Indians love America. If only we let them come in here, work here, spend here, pay taxes here and keep the business here we will be so much better off.
Flash player settings has an option to set the amount of local storage permitted for the player. What happens if I set that amount to zero and mark it permanent (i.e. check box remember)?
Would it remove the ability of the flash player to set cookies?
I use virtual credit card number when I shop on line. But having to protect the card number against unauthorized use against a brick-and-mortar retailer is new.
Here is what you do. Go to a reputable trusted vendor and buy BestBuy gift cards. Use it to pay for BestBuy purchases. They would not be able to pull this stunt again. Best part of the deal? Local grocery store selling BestBuy card considers it a "purchase" and gives cents-off-gallon frequent shopper reward.
So Microsoft took its vaunted Ms-Office to the cloud, and decided to give it away at throw away prices instead of its usual highway robbery prices. Its Exchange server is forced to play ball with mobile devices running Android and iOS, instead of pulling a fast one with obscure proprietary protocols. And now it is claiming Google does not "get" corporations? Shows how sorely Microsoft does not "get" google.
Google does not care about its Office products. It does not want any revenue from its cloud based office offerings. Google understood that as long as Microsoft is having a cash cow in the form of Microsoft Office, it will be able to out last any competitor. It can take losses in the billions, quarter after quarter and simply wait for the competitors to run out of money. Putting a crimp on the income stream of Ms-Office is the primary goal of Google. That it has achieved. No matter what, people are not going to pay the old norm prices for MS-Office.
Messing with multinational mega corporations are an entirely different thing. They might not care or even look at you indulgently when you take pot shots at the government. But come after them, they don't play nice. To put it mildly.
In that flash laden crap of a site, that has flash overlays creeping up and rejiggering up to be visible even after scrolling, making me wonder how people without noscript/flashblock are really able to surf at all there is this gem in the fourth page:
For instance, Microsoft researchers built tools that are helpful in testing very large and complex software, essential to try to guarantee that the code does what it's supposed to, he said.
If Microsoft software is any indication, they are not using it to test their own OS.
Good job buddy. Just work out the relative velocities and prove that shooting an airplane flying away from you will never work. Then just go back in time and cancel all the WW-II air combat to comply with physics.
Does Al Queda believe that if they depress our economy consistently enough, we will no longer be able to financially support Israel? History proves that not to be true.
They don't consciously think through the consequences. It is like the evolution of bacteria or an insect. They don't think, "Industrialization is emitting soot, making the tree barks dark and if I develop dark wings/body I am likely to escape from the birds". A few of them develop darker wings and a few other develop slightly paler markings and a vast majority of them are very close to their parents in coloring. And whichever strategy produced more viable, more surviving offspring, will continue the line.
The thieves, criminals, terrorists etc do not think that far ahead. They just do whatever their skills allow them to do. Among the many things they do, they lose many people, lose support, earn opprobrium etc etc. And whatever tactics work best, that group gains traction. So let us not attribute some grand strategic vision without any evidence. Grant them tenacity. Grant them numbers and motivation. Remember the question "why attribute to malice what is so easily explained by incompetence?"?. Same way let us not attribute to strategy what is easily explained by trial-and-error process.
Bring in gun registration. "No, it's totally fine to have a rocket launcher. You just have to register it first. Well, yes, if something gets blown up with a rocket we're going to come ask you where you were. Assault rifle? No problem, get an eye exam, take the gun safety course, and fill out form Q-48A and you're golden. You can pick up a rifle case at Wal-Mart."
These guys have no long-term strategy.
No way gun rights people will accept gun registration. The invoke the slippery slope argument. "If I register, then you will come someday and take my gun away" is their argument. (I tried to be as neutral in describing their position as possible. Don't know if I succeeded.)
When there is media frenzy about the latest underwear bomber or about a possibly anthrax but could be chalk dust thing, what is the incentive for the bureaucrat/sheriff/assistant deputy sub administrator to do the sane thing? Should the slightest thing go wrong, in reality or in the imagination of someone, is there any chance for these people to stand up and say, "Look, in retrospect, sitting in arm chair, after all the facts have been collected, whetted and unreliable and useless information removed, it looks like it could have been averted if A has done B or C has not done D. But back at the thick of the things, I did not want to infringe on the liberty and freedom of millions of Americans just on mere suspicion. It was a calculated risk. The millions of people who were not affected by this incident. If I had imposed heavy handed security measures, those millions would have been put through needless burdens. That savings justifies the cost."
No way anyone is going stand that. Everyone from the President down to the last blogger is after some blood, some scape goat, some one who can be blamed for it all, and may be sued on top of that for damages. So every damn bureaucrat is going to make sure there is enough paper trail to protect his tail seven times over.
I am no fan of Microsoft. But their monumental screw-up is so big it is impossible to credit one man with all of it. May be he got bulk of the benefits and so should bear most of the blame, but still all those clueless CIOs of corporations, shills, contractors, brainless users, useless trade magazines... We should hold the feet of the present day honchos to the fire, instead of allowing them to feign innocence by blaming it all on Bill Gates. Saw him on CNN Christiane Ammanpour yesterday, he has earned Warren Buffet's approval in doing charity work. Give him a break.
These dumped extensions can be disabled and uninstalled only from a root account. If you are using a lower privilege account for day to day ops, the uninstall button is grayed out. These extensions are assumed to be installed for "all users" and one low privileged user would/should not be able to take them out. It is a pain to log out, and log in as superuser just to disable one extension that some corporate creep decides to shove on my machine.
Guys, it is time we quit picking on that pitiable guy. Was bad, was responsible for (what passes for) culture in Microsoft. But that was a long time ago. May be he did not know the evil he was unleashing on computers. But now he is mostly out of Microsoft and is trying atone for his sins by spending his money in charity.
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Little do they know there are already a few immortals. Mahabali, Parasuraman, Markandeyan, Vibhishanan, Hanuman, Ashwattaman (cursed with eternal life without love for killing the Panchalas when they were asleep and for the attempted foeticide of Parikshit), Vyasan.
And what fat lot of good did it do to you? Riding them bicycles around town. You ended up a washed out "get off my lawn" poster on slashdot for God's sake.
Yes the catalog sales were the equivalent of on line purchases. But the technology did not exist then to quickly calculate local taxes. The catalogs were pale compared to the modern websites. So there were natural limitations that kept the out-of-state sales low. So the governments ignored the loss of revenue.
Now on-line sales are proving to be a significant part of total trade in USA. The loss of revenue is significant. Killing your local businesses so that some distant multi-billion dollar multi-national corporation can benefit is a strange position for people to take.
The sales tax is due to the local government, usually the county, where the user resides in. Due to practical difficulties it is collected by retailers where the sales takes place and paid to the county where the sale takes place. For example cars are taxed where buyer resides in. (In PA atleast).
The on line retailers can efficiently collect the tax. They should. Intentionally making tax collection inefficient and cumbersome is counterproductive. There is no reduction in appetite for government services. Without addressing that issue if you think you can oppose every tax in every instance and make it so difficult the government simply stops collecting the tax, you are just creating a different problem and different incentives. You are rewarding tax evaders and punishing honest local businesspeople. Eventually it will all degenerate into some kind of idiotic marketplace like India or Somalia.
I am not talking about one particular tax or one particular service. In general the anti-tax crowd that shouts the loudest is incredibly silent when there is a clamor for a government service, any service. They absolutely refuse to take any stand that will be unpopular. They shout loudly against tax because it is easy and it is popular. But the tough thing is to extend the principle and say, "folks, if you expect this service then you should pay a tax for it"
There is no problem with that. I am not against Amazon or online retailers per se. If the off-line guys are forced to act as agents of the state in collecting the tax, the on lie guys must also play by the same rules. Let the best player win, on a level playing ground. Govt should not be biasing the game one way or the other.
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Never code anything important between 1PM and 3PM (or whatever is your most sleepy time of the day based on your circadian rhythm).
Do you realize you could be talking to an ex-H1B, now a proud American?
Now that Chrome browser renders pdf files ridiculously fast, what else can Chrome OS do that Chrome Browser can't?
The other issue is that, once you outsource to these dev shops, you never get the same guys twice. So we take junior devs from them, take ages to bring them up to speed, and next time we need them... we get another junior guy.
In a sane world, you would be able to bring the guy who you brought up to speed to US on a H1-B may be and get him/her to spend the earning in the USA and pay the taxes in USA and contribute his/her kids to the local schools and thus enrich the US economy, US Government and US communities in multiple ways.
But instead we limit the H1-B quota to 65000 a year, and offer 50000 visas a year through a lottery program. There was a time USA was in need of agricultural labor and manual industrial labor. Then it made sense to ask the world for their wretched masses yearning to breath free. Now we don't need 50,000 families of uneducated unskilled people from countries that largely despises America. Indians love America. If only we let them come in here, work here, spend here, pay taxes here and keep the business here we will be so much better off.
Flash player settings has an option to set the amount of local storage permitted for the player. What happens if I set that amount to zero and mark it permanent (i.e. check box remember)? Would it remove the ability of the flash player to set cookies?
Why read mail with html turned on by default? Turn on "dont show images" if your mail client allows it.
Here is what you do. Go to a reputable trusted vendor and buy BestBuy gift cards. Use it to pay for BestBuy purchases. They would not be able to pull this stunt again. Best part of the deal? Local grocery store selling BestBuy card considers it a "purchase" and gives cents-off-gallon frequent shopper reward.
Wait, wait, wait, Gimme a minute, Let me first go and register that domain
Dang it. Some squatter got it already. Damn!
Google does not care about its Office products. It does not want any revenue from its cloud based office offerings. Google understood that as long as Microsoft is having a cash cow in the form of Microsoft Office, it will be able to out last any competitor. It can take losses in the billions, quarter after quarter and simply wait for the competitors to run out of money. Putting a crimp on the income stream of Ms-Office is the primary goal of Google. That it has achieved. No matter what, people are not going to pay the old norm prices for MS-Office.
Messing with multinational mega corporations are an entirely different thing. They might not care or even look at you indulgently when you take pot shots at the government. But come after them, they don't play nice. To put it mildly.
If Microsoft software is any indication, they are not using it to test their own OS.
Good job buddy. Just work out the relative velocities and prove that shooting an airplane flying away from you will never work. Then just go back in time and cancel all the WW-II air combat to comply with physics.
Does Al Queda believe that if they depress our economy consistently enough, we will no longer be able to financially support Israel? History proves that not to be true.
They don't consciously think through the consequences. It is like the evolution of bacteria or an insect. They don't think, "Industrialization is emitting soot, making the tree barks dark and if I develop dark wings/body I am likely to escape from the birds". A few of them develop darker wings and a few other develop slightly paler markings and a vast majority of them are very close to their parents in coloring. And whichever strategy produced more viable, more surviving offspring, will continue the line.
The thieves, criminals, terrorists etc do not think that far ahead. They just do whatever their skills allow them to do. Among the many things they do, they lose many people, lose support, earn opprobrium etc etc. And whatever tactics work best, that group gains traction. So let us not attribute some grand strategic vision without any evidence. Grant them tenacity. Grant them numbers and motivation. Remember the question "why attribute to malice what is so easily explained by incompetence?"?. Same way let us not attribute to strategy what is easily explained by trial-and-error process.
Bring in gun registration. "No, it's totally fine to have a rocket launcher. You just have to register it first. Well, yes, if something gets blown up with a rocket we're going to come ask you where you were. Assault rifle? No problem, get an eye exam, take the gun safety course, and fill out form Q-48A and you're golden. You can pick up a rifle case at Wal-Mart."
These guys have no long-term strategy.
No way gun rights people will accept gun registration. The invoke the slippery slope argument. "If I register, then you will come someday and take my gun away" is their argument. (I tried to be as neutral in describing their position as possible. Don't know if I succeeded.)
No way anyone is going stand that. Everyone from the President down to the last blogger is after some blood, some scape goat, some one who can be blamed for it all, and may be sued on top of that for damages. So every damn bureaucrat is going to make sure there is enough paper trail to protect his tail seven times over.
I am no fan of Microsoft. But their monumental screw-up is so big it is impossible to credit one man with all of it. May be he got bulk of the benefits and so should bear most of the blame, but still all those clueless CIOs of corporations, shills, contractors, brainless users, useless trade magazines... We should hold the feet of the present day honchos to the fire, instead of allowing them to feign innocence by blaming it all on Bill Gates. Saw him on CNN Christiane Ammanpour yesterday, he has earned Warren Buffet's approval in doing charity work. Give him a break.
These dumped extensions can be disabled and uninstalled only from a root account. If you are using a lower privilege account for day to day ops, the uninstall button is grayed out. These extensions are assumed to be installed for "all users" and one low privileged user would/should not be able to take them out. It is a pain to log out, and log in as superuser just to disable one extension that some corporate creep decides to shove on my machine.
Bill Gates: "One milk shake please"
Guys, it is time we quit picking on that pitiable guy. Was bad, was responsible for (what passes for) culture in Microsoft. But that was a long time ago. May be he did not know the evil he was unleashing on computers. But now he is mostly out of Microsoft and is trying atone for his sins by spending his money in charity.
Little do they know there are already a few immortals. Mahabali, Parasuraman, Markandeyan, Vibhishanan, Hanuman, Ashwattaman (cursed with eternal life without love for killing the Panchalas when they were asleep and for the attempted foeticide of Parikshit), Vyasan.
And what fat lot of good did it do to you? Riding them bicycles around town. You ended up a washed out "get off my lawn" poster on slashdot for God's sake.
Regardless of what you install there's no guaranteed way to stop your kid from stumbling upon boobs on the internet.
Yes, boobs in both senses of the word. And most likely he will stumble on to the idiot-inane-nincompoop sense first. Then the other.
Now on-line sales are proving to be a significant part of total trade in USA. The loss of revenue is significant. Killing your local businesses so that some distant multi-billion dollar multi-national corporation can benefit is a strange position for people to take.
The on line retailers can efficiently collect the tax. They should. Intentionally making tax collection inefficient and cumbersome is counterproductive. There is no reduction in appetite for government services. Without addressing that issue if you think you can oppose every tax in every instance and make it so difficult the government simply stops collecting the tax, you are just creating a different problem and different incentives. You are rewarding tax evaders and punishing honest local businesspeople. Eventually it will all degenerate into some kind of idiotic marketplace like India or Somalia.
I am not talking about one particular tax or one particular service. In general the anti-tax crowd that shouts the loudest is incredibly silent when there is a clamor for a government service, any service. They absolutely refuse to take any stand that will be unpopular. They shout loudly against tax because it is easy and it is popular. But the tough thing is to extend the principle and say, "folks, if you expect this service then you should pay a tax for it"
There is no problem with that. I am not against Amazon or online retailers per se. If the off-line guys are forced to act as agents of the state in collecting the tax, the on lie guys must also play by the same rules. Let the best player win, on a level playing ground. Govt should not be biasing the game one way or the other.