myutdtme

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by myutdtme 18y ago
If it's not fair that a foreigner can come here and take my job - what about people from other states? Why can someone from Idaho move to Ca and compete with me. There should be a quota on out of state workers and they should pay a payroll
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by myutdtme 18y ago
So make it more expensive for the company to do the work in the US than simply offshore it to the H1B applicant's own county.
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by myutdtme 18y ago
Depends if you spent the money you borrowed on Nukes or Herring :-)
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by myutdtme 18y ago
No - they know most people are going to use SMS and want to gauge them for a s much money as possible. The SMS infrastructure is fantastic (for them), they use a spare 140bytes in a message the phone is going to send to the tower as part of
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by myutdtme 18y ago
When you owe 850% of your GDP it doesn't really matter if you nationalize them or not - your country is screwed.
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by myutdtme 18y ago
The interesting story is how mobile operators manage to charge more for sending 160bytes of data than they do for a call. And who was the genius that created the $Bn SMS business out of some spare capacity left in the GSM spec as a debuggin
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by myutdtme 18y ago
Having said that - perhaps Nokia might buy Riverbank to keep pyqt going, or Riverbank might feel they can support themselves on consulting/support contracts with a larger installed base of an LGPL pyqt?
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by myutdtme 18y ago
I would assume they aren't - QT is owned by Nokia so they can afford to give QT away for free just for market share. Riverbank computing (makers of PyQT) is a one man band with bills to pay (it is availabel under the GPL). But if they don't
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by myutdtme 18y ago
>While I agree, that H-1B should be used to bring really >skilled people in It is becoming impossible to do academic collaborations with the US - you can't send postdocs/professors to work on US telescopes, particle accelerators et
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by myutdtme 18y ago
Like flash? How long has it taken to get working flash on Intel-linux?
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by myutdtme 18y ago
It would only be an illegal monopoly, like MSFT, if they charged customers for all ads even those placed elsewhere and charged customers less if they promised never to advertise anywhere else.
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by myutdtme 18y ago
The article title is poor - it should really be oldest indo-european language words found. There are dialect words for 1,2,3 etc in England that are considerably older than English (the people or the language).