← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · madrussian
Thread ID: 18628 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2005-06-11
2005-06-11 23:54 | User Profile
It's a thread about microprocessors. At some point, when the death of some processor family is discussed, the topic of who designed the surviving RISC processor families was touched upon and hinduchinkmonkeys put in their word and...
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I'll reproduce a couple of posts so that you know what I am talking about:
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[1] Not ironically, the only two surviving RISC chips in the server or desktop markets was designed by native engineers, not H-1B engineers. As a matter of policy, IBM does not hire H-1Bs unless they have a Ph.D. and a critical skill. Fujitsu just, flat, does not hire foreign engineers; like other Japanese companies, Fujitsu prefers native engineers.
Re:Did RISC really matter? Nope. (Score:0) by pstudent12 (842643) on Saturday June 11, @01:41PM (#12789621) Good troll. Matloff is a racist and so are you. Ironic that matloff is also Jewish. Intel chips are designed almost entirely by Indians (the lead designer of the orignial Pentium was Indian) and Isrealis (yonah etc)
Re:Did RISC really matter? Nope. (Score:5, Informative) by Alioth (221270) dyls@alioth.net on Saturday June 11, @01:42PM (#12789628) ([url]http://www.alioth.net/[/url] | Last Journal: Saturday June 11, @02:07PM) What you say about IBM and H1B workers isn't true; I've worked for IBM as an H1B worker yet I do not have a Ph.D, and many of my colleagues on the project we were on were also on H1B workers. There was a critical (and genuinely rare) piece of experience we all had, but other than that we were just normal engineers.
Additionally, I was paid significantly more than the native IBMers because they paid me an International Service Allowance (which was generous enough I could live off it and spend hardly any of my actual salary) - so IBM was certainly not abusing the H1B system to hire cheap foreign workers because none of us were cheap. [ Reply to This | Parent ]
Re:Did RISC really matter? Nope. (Score:2)
by 0racle (667029) on Saturday June 11, @02:08PM (#12789757)
Don't bring facts into a xenophobic argument about visas and how the United States should shield its self from the evils of the rest of the world, which come in the form of foreign engineers and workers.
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IBM & HP Employment Policies (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 11, @04:03PM (#12790360)
Generally speaking, neither HP nor IBM hires H-1Bs unless they can present a Ph.D. with critical skills. There are exceptions, but approval requires an okay from upper management.
This policy remains in place at both IBM and HP. I have worked at IBM for 17 years and lost my job this year due to layoffs. I managed a team at Fishkill.
By the way, the grandparent post is correct. There is simply no evidence to suggest that the American economy needs H-1Bs. Shortages of workers in any area are simply a signal that wages and benefits are too low. Raising wages and benefits quickly resolves the shortages. No H-1Bs are necessary.
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Fujitsu avoids foreign engineers in Japan. (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 11, @04:13PM (#12790427) The grandparent post is correct. Like most traditional Japanese companies, Fujitsu in Japan (not in the USA) does indeed avoid hiring engineers who are not Japanese citizens. However, if Fujitsu has a branch in the USA, Fujitsu will hire American engineers only at that branch.
Note that the SPARC64 was designed and built in Japan. The SPARC64 was built without the use of foreign engineers.
Branching further out to Korea, Korean companies also avoid hiring foreign engineers. Note the success of Samsung Microelectronics.
There is simply no need for H-1Bs, despite the bizarre comments by the Chinese and the Indians.
2005-06-12 00:51 | User Profile
First!
2005-06-12 01:14 | User Profile
Everyone not yet enlightned must say something remotely pro-white and immediately be jumped upon by some self-righteous monkey coolies claiming that they have graced white countries with their engineering talents and how whitey owes them a debt of gratitude, if not opening the flood gates to more of their kin to elevate the backward whitey to the level of their "civilizations".
2005-06-12 01:28 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]Everyone not yet enlightned must say something remotely pro-white and immediately be jumped upon by some self-righteous monkey coolies claiming that they have graced white countries with their engineering talents and how whitey owes them a debt of gratitude, if not opening the flood gates to more of their kin to elevate the backward whitey to the level of their "civilizations".[/QUOTE]
Why can't they "grace" us from Bombay or Peking? Is there a need to bring them into America at all?
2005-06-12 01:49 | User Profile
Because there's a lot of money waiting to be invested into new projects, and you need to hire a lot of bodies to keep this scheme going. Interestingly enough, the most innovations happened before this age of "hire million monkeys and hype shite to VCs".
Hopefully, rising living standards and costs of doing business in the turd world will stem the tide.
2005-06-12 02:23 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]Hopefully, rising living standards and costs of doing business in the turd world will stem the tide.[/QUOTE] Or a fall in the dollar
2005-06-12 05:40 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Howard Campbell, Jr.]Why can't they "grace" us from Bombay or Peking? Is there a need to bring them into America at all?[/QUOTE] There was an American guy working for TI in Dallas who was noticing that more and more of his co workers were H1B visa people. So curious he went to HR to find out what the policy on hiring the H1B's was. From conversations with the foreign coworkers he said it sounded as if they were being paid less. Which is supposedly against the law for H1B's to compete on our turf for less money. When he recieved the HR propoganda on the H1B's some of the foreigners started to read up and complained that this wasn't the deal that they were given. The American was fired and then replaced by yet another h1b visa holder. If you drive through Dallas where TI is this used to be a vibrant bustling population of Americans. Now it looks like some third world ghetto.
2005-06-13 00:17 | User Profile
I fear are far from being a computer expert, but I have a few thoughts. Almost everything is running x86 microprocessors. They are descended from old processors designed in Americans in the 1970's and 1980's going back to the 4004. I am not sure anything fundamentally new has happened but dramatic improvement in speed and great reduction in cost has happened as result of many improvements over the years. Most of the major improvement were finished with the coming of the 386.
List of Intel microprocessors [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors[/url]
Ah those evil racists: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bradford_Shockley[/url]