Posts by kleinluka

I like this one too

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A "Brazil"-like story recently emerged from the INS California Service Center regarding one immigration official's creative approach to reducing backlogs. The INS measured the productivity in their mailroom by how quickly they processed applications, from the time of receipt to the time of ultimate approval or denial. The INS California Service Center was running behind the desired rate, which was going to reflect badly on the people responsible for processing cases through the mailroom. Accordingly, the supervisor in charge of the INS mailroom decided to shred 90,000 immigration applications stacked up on their shelves. This did wonders to reduce the backlog and produced a seemingly great productivity rate. It was, of course, not great for the foreign nationals whose applications were shredded, and it took took months to straighten out the mess.

OK here's the short version:

requirements for H1B temporary work visa:

- 4 year university degree OR 3 years of related work experience for every missing year of college -> 12 years.

There is an annual quota limit on this type of visa so only 65000 can be handed out every year (so the most qualified people are selected, the rest is refused)....

There's also the O1 visa but that is impossible to get unless you have won internationally recognized awards like the grammy.

For a full explanation on all visa types and their requirements, go here:

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20030425/rose_pfv.htm

The information there is from April 24, 2003 so some things might have changed but it gives you a good idea of how hard it is to get a work visa for the US.

Oh and before anyone says "JUST GET MARRIED TO AN US CHICK".... visa officers aren't stupid... They are required to view your relationship like you're faking it for immigration purposes when they process applications and it is YOUR responsibility and obligation to prove visa officer wrong by providing proof like letters from bank showing joint bank account for at least 1 year, holiday photos, bills, statements from neighbors and employers, and so on.... so forget about that

Steppe, ask your company if you can work offsite contract.... That's what IR did with Valve when they couldn't bring him over.

what are you applying as?

Smart judge... Intelligent design is stupid.

i think you meant hessi, i already have a job.

and there IS a way for non US residents to get work visas for the states. It is just pretty hard (you need a degree or international recognition/awards)... but that's a different subject. stick to topic plz

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i would not want to work for valve. i would think they could not pay you as much as a regular game company like ubisoft

regular game company? isn't valve a regular game company?

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Klein you doing any texture or shader work or anything for SC:DA? You did a little for CT, right?

nothing for DA, no.... i made a few for CT yea...

where's that little violin .gif icon that zaphod posted some time ago?

lol aweee

the aftermath:

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it was also peter jackson's second attempt at doing king kong. his first attempt was aborted half-way through.

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I just got the good news from the squirrel himself.

It's a healthy boy by the name of Reilan Clark

Born at Meriter Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin on:

December 16, 2005

At the time of:

12:15 AM

Weighing:

7 pounds and 10 ounces

Measuring:

19 inches Long

All my best wishes to you and the lil' one!

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i havnt seen kong yet, though i want to, as for LOTR, ya they were good, but still grossly overrated, as for my thoughts on Peter Jackson, to me he'll always be the director of Dead Alive (thats not a good thing)...

actually that IS a good thing, cause his splatter movies are freakin hilarious. It's amazing to see how much he has improved since then....Going from crappy movies like that to something like LOTR or King Kong is just incredible.

yeah sorry for having an opinion thats different from yours

saw it today.....and holy crap its fucking amazing. SFX were simply mind blowing and the actors and characters were all very fitting and did a great job playing their roles... the girl was really hot and kong had awesome facial expressions..... aboslutely loved it. best movie in a long long time. kicks the shit out of LOTR too if you ask me..

peter jackson, you ROCK!

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yep...cant go to work, all the buses are fucked and i paid 8 bucks in a taxi to move me 200 metres forward lol

my neighbor had to shovel our way out the drive way cause our door was snowed in.....the snow is sooooo deeep

some quick pix

http://kleinluka.morphew.de/misc/snow/holyshit/

darker direction? the only thing thats somewhat dark is the little 82x25 pixel buttons....but geez get over it. it's buttons!

i agree some of them look a bit choppy but its only buttons, and it can be easily fixed...

you wont have trouble finding work so im not worried. but sad to hear midway is closing studios...did you at least get to ship a title there?

dont really like the buttons but guess we'll have to see what the final thing looks like....the new logo is cool tho..