Outsourcing on a Cruise Ship

"SeaCode is a one-year-old company that aims to build its corporate environment around a novel idea: “Take a used cruise ship, plant it in international waters three miles off the coast of El Segundo, near Los Angeles, people it with 600 of the brightest software engineers they can find around the world (both men and women), and run a 24-hour-a-day programming shop, thereby avoiding H-1B visa hassles while still exploiting offshore labor cost arbitrage and completing development projects in half the time they’d take onshore or offshore.”

There are varying opinions about this new outsourcing concept. I think that if they are willing to hire "english" speaking techs as often or more often, this is an idea whose time has come. Have you tried to actually get some technical information from Hewlitt Packard recently. They charge you for the assistance and you spend half the time trying to translate.