Every inch of wire in the plane is supposed to be shielded. While they would like you not to use electronics, in particular in old airplanes, there's no reason why an A330 should have any problems.
I don't believe in a long test, but I don't think it's unreasonable to ask someone write down one or two coding examples. What I've found it the higher up (and expensive) a developer is, the less actually coding they seem to be able to do. If someone is an Architect, holy crap over 75% of them can't write a simple for() loop to save their lives.
And we're supposed to entrust this person with the direction of our development infrastructure. I don't think so.
Fresh off their campaign of getting the English staff of MDN fired for translating Japanese Tabloid articles, they now have their sites set on Google.
The biggest issue the Japanese sites are complaining about is consenting adults photographed going into love hotels.
If they want to be concerned about people taking photos how about putting this much effort into all the pervs taking upskirt pictures. How about dealing with the behavior on rush hour trains that creates the need for "Womens Only" rail cars.
Google street view is an actually really needed in japan because of the illogical addressing system they have for buildings.
The drive suspensions (heads) for Seagate drives are also made in Minneapolis. The parts that require a little less engineering prowess are done overseas. Ontrack has very good relations with Seagate.
I climbed out in the 90s and am now a Sr. Developer. Smaller companies are the way to go. You have more opportunity to work on side projects. Also, don't be afraid to change companies. If you are doing some cool things in the help desk but IT doesn't even want to look at it, you need to look at other companies where you can come in as a Junior Developer.
Other things to note. If you're working for a company that does contract and outsource help desk, make sure it's the kind where you are on-site. There's a lot more opportunity when you're part of mid sized company. I would shy away from places like geek squad. Your reputation could get tied to the reputation of the company as a whole. It could be a mixed bag.
The last thing you want is to be in a 250+ person help desk. Limited opportunity, and the cultures usually value conformance. Upwards paths are limited to supervisor/manager duties for the help desk. Think small!
I cannot stress enough, be willing to skip around between employers to get what you want.
This matches the finding that consumer reports had last year. The CR article went into operational issues with third party ink, and found similar results. That being said, I'd like to see how color laser printers do in these kinds of tests.
Go with a Rapid SSL wildcard cert. It will take care of most external needs with a single cert. They have a self service model that works pretty well. Cost is very reasonable.
I think you're half right. ISPs advertise more bandwidth than their pricing model supports (or get greedy and way oversell their bandwidth). The BBC, YouTube and other large bandwidth content providers pay a pretty penny to upstream providers. That money is used to beef up top tier backbones. When I buy "Unlimited" service with X, Y and Z bandwidth, well, that's what I expect to get.
In either case, everyone is suppose to pay. Which is why when I transfer large payloads b2b where companies have paid for top tier connections there's no problem.
Do you have any actual experience writing embedded apps for cell phones? You seem to imply that all the apps written other cell phones are crappy and have little interest to apple. You also didn't seem to read the article. Sun doesn't have a problem creating a JVM for the iPhone. There's no work for Apple to make "their SDK support [J2ME]". The issue is apple's license, and Apples desire control apps in a way that goes beyond the current draconian rules legacy cell phone providers already have.
What we're talking about is Apple putting up barriers that makes developing apps a lot more difficult than it really needs to be.
Be that as it may, Verizon is the only major Cell provider in the US that uses it. And as the the wiki article points out, apps written in brew lag behind J2ME.
Not really. Apple's Multi-Touch and other UI features are just another component to add as a build artifact. The way the deck works at a cell phone company there is a separate build of each app for every phone. A single source tree can yield an over a hundred different builds. You have different screen size, key layouts, methods to interface with the layouts, touch screens, themes, styles, fonts, whatever, they are all build time configuration. Not to knock Apples SDK, but it's new, and immature. It's been designed with the thought that Apple is the only game in town. Which means features for popular cell phone apps are going to lag the same way as Verizon Brew apps.
Most cell phone applications are written in J2ME. The lack of J2ME support means existing applications already on AT&T's approved app deck would need extensive porting. The only exception is Verizon which has their own language (called BREW), which has less apps than most other companies because of it. Even the Black Berry supports J2ME.
1) He thought a $1300 meal was okay and submitted it. Having worked in the Non-Profit sector, $1300 is a big deal. In particular for an organization that goes around to the general public with it's hat in it's hand on a regular basis. How he wants to run his for profit is one thing, this is another.
2) The board of directors thought it was a big enough deal that they cut his Amex card in half. Organization executives don't loose charging privileges over a simple misunderstandings and mistakes. It just doesn't happen and there's no way to spin it otherwise.
My Opinion is this:
He's stealing from all of us that have donated money to the cause. It's pretty crappy. I think Wikipedia is one of those organizations that succeeds despite the actions of it's organizer and editors.
The problem is most of the plants build up till this time haven't taken transportation into account. Many were build by co-ops (though many have been bought up by very large petrochemical companies) out in the middle of nowhere. So everything gets trucked in and out. It's very inefficient. So yes, old plants bad.
On the other hand, many of the larger biofuel plants on the drawing board have been placed on train lines. Which is crazy fuel efficient compared to trucks. Even more efficient is building out pipelines. So new well placed plants good.
It's about the power supply. More and more airlines have in sear power in Coach. The power supply in the current MacBook and MacBook Pro draw too much power. They trip the breaker on the seat. The Air draws almost half as much as the others and will work with every airline power system out there.
Second, the TSA keeps restricting extra batteries. Recently Spare LiON's were banned from checked luggage. There is no way to know if the same won't be applied to carry on.
From that standpoint, a laptop that works with Airline power seems more important than being able to change the batteries.
Understand the technology for switch grass is new. It costs 5-10 times are much to make it into ethanol vs corn. There also is no market or infrastructure for it. Meaning, once a farmer harvests it, then what? There is no elevator to sell it to. There is no futures market to sell it on. We have about 5-10 years worth of infrastructure to build up in order to move switch grass. We barely have corn ethanol going, let's not get the wagon ahead of the horse.
Corn based ethanol refineries can be upgraded to switch grass. Build them first. Get switch grass online and marketable and the rest will follow.
One of the pluses to switch grass is that it can be grown in places that corn and other crops cannot. At the same time, farmers are a greedy lot. They will grow what they think they have the best chance to sell for the most amount of profit. So at the same time we get switch grass online we need to have farm bill changed to reflect the countries actual needs both in fuel and food.
First, you don't have to sign. So don't. Second, try to communicate the fact that you won't sign in email. If they threaten your job in writing, in most states, you'll have hit the jackpot. Don't quit over this. Let them make the move.
I've worked for companies that have tried to change employment agreements. Usually it involves trying to get employees to sign away their rights to sue. In any case, the companies were never able to fire the employees. At most they would move them into position they didn't like to try to make them quit. Usually they would drop the issue and let it quietly go away.
I was shopping in Best Buy one day. I was looking at hard drives. Some other customer was looking at a couple open box video cards. He asks one of the blue shirts if he can open up the video card and check it out. Blue shirt says sure. I look over and the customer pulls a modem out of the video card box. He asks the blue shirt where the monitor plugs in. I interrupt and tell them that's a modem and not a video card. The customer puts the modem back in the box, hands it to the blue shirt and walks away.
Then what does the blue shirt do? He puts the box BACK ON THE SHELF.
The technical follow up is great. But here's what I find interesting.
"Once his code is injected into the Express SKU's running process it can add menu items, enable features that were disabled, and in general take over that instance of Express."
Notice they say that the injected code "can" do things. Is added you menu items expressly forbidden? Did he actually enable code Microsoft wrote, but disabled for the build? Or did he lawfully replace that functionality with his own code?
There's a lot of technical detail about him using an extention point. There's a pretty good anology about how he wronged MS. But MS doesn't directly say he's enabling MS code. In fact they say he's "replacing the functionality of the removed Add-In Manager." Is that really against the license? It doesn't clearly say that to me. I find it troubling that they imply that he's doing a lot more than he really is.
This would be news worthy is not for the fact that Boeing already had a wifi internet service. It came out years ago. It did SO well that they discontinued it!
It's not BS. T-Mobile started to target specific apps well over a year ago. Anyone who was using Digital Cyclone's My-Cast weather application found that out the hard way some time ago. You shouldn't need to pay $30 for the privilage to use apps that cost less than $5 a month on EVERY other cellular provider in the US. It's obvious that T-Mobile is using it's sub-par T-Zones offering to get people to go with data plans. For most people, you're lock in for the next year. While most people don't need a plan that fancy, you might as well try to push people to it.
It's also not BS that T-Mobile is insane about who it allows on the deck. Any application that works on Sprint, Nextel and Cingular (J2ME applications) can work on T-Mobile. So why aren't more apps out there??? Even Verizon, who has their own language you have to write your apps to (called Brew) allows more companies on the Deck of approved applications than T-Mobile. It should also be noted that companies like Sprint allow you to run non-deck applications. Nextel (owned by Sprint, but is it's own division/network because of vastly better Push To Talk technology) is the most permissive.
So, while T-Mobile does have the right to be heavy handed with pushing people to their data plans most users don't need, they also deserve to have the bad PR associated with it. Most people don't want or need a dataplan to do basic things like checking weather, or pulling up a map.
For whatever reason, T-Mobile has been doing this for years. It started by targeting and filtering popular applications that weren't on their deck. On the one hand they don't want to allow any apps that don't any apps online that aren't paying $$$ to T-Mobile. On the other hand, T-Mobile is perpendicularly insane about who they allow on the deck. There are companies that are on every other deck on every other carrier that T-Mobile wants nothing to do with because they have some sub-par app they made on the deck that's mildly related.
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Every inch of wire in the plane is supposed to be shielded. While they would like you not to use electronics, in particular in old airplanes, there's no reason why an A330 should have any problems.
I don't believe in a long test, but I don't think it's unreasonable to ask someone write down one or two coding examples. What I've found it the higher up (and expensive) a developer is, the less actually coding they seem to be able to do. If someone is an Architect, holy crap over 75% of them can't write a simple for() loop to save their lives.
And we're supposed to entrust this person with the direction of our development infrastructure. I don't think so.
Tell them you'll entertain offers. If they throw out a number, it can only go up. If you throw out a number, it can only go down.
Fresh off their campaign of getting the English staff of MDN fired for translating Japanese Tabloid articles, they now have their sites set on Google.
The biggest issue the Japanese sites are complaining about is consenting adults photographed going into love hotels.
If they want to be concerned about people taking photos how about putting this much effort into all the pervs taking upskirt pictures. How about dealing with the behavior on rush hour trains that creates the need for "Womens Only" rail cars.
Google street view is an actually really needed in japan because of the illogical addressing system they have for buildings.
The drive suspensions (heads) for Seagate drives are also made in Minneapolis. The parts that require a little less engineering prowess are done overseas. Ontrack has very good relations with Seagate.
I climbed out in the 90s and am now a Sr. Developer. Smaller companies are the way to go. You have more opportunity to work on side projects. Also, don't be afraid to change companies. If you are doing some cool things in the help desk but IT doesn't even want to look at it, you need to look at other companies where you can come in as a Junior Developer.
Other things to note. If you're working for a company that does contract and outsource help desk, make sure it's the kind where you are on-site. There's a lot more opportunity when you're part of mid sized company. I would shy away from places like geek squad. Your reputation could get tied to the reputation of the company as a whole. It could be a mixed bag.
The last thing you want is to be in a 250+ person help desk. Limited opportunity, and the cultures usually value conformance. Upwards paths are limited to supervisor/manager duties for the help desk. Think small!
I cannot stress enough, be willing to skip around between employers to get what you want.
This matches the finding that consumer reports had last year. The CR article went into operational issues with third party ink, and found similar results. That being said, I'd like to see how color laser printers do in these kinds of tests.
Apple legal isn't going to let this stand. Even IF everything is legit, they won't have the money to defend themselves against Apple.
Go with a Rapid SSL wildcard cert. It will take care of most external needs with a single cert. They have a self service model that works pretty well. Cost is very reasonable.
I think you're half right. ISPs advertise more bandwidth than their pricing model supports (or get greedy and way oversell their bandwidth). The BBC, YouTube and other large bandwidth content providers pay a pretty penny to upstream providers. That money is used to beef up top tier backbones. When I buy "Unlimited" service with X, Y and Z bandwidth, well, that's what I expect to get.
In either case, everyone is suppose to pay. Which is why when I transfer large payloads b2b where companies have paid for top tier connections there's no problem.
Do you have any actual experience writing embedded apps for cell phones? You seem to imply that all the apps written other cell phones are crappy and have little interest to apple. You also didn't seem to read the article. Sun doesn't have a problem creating a JVM for the iPhone. There's no work for Apple to make "their SDK support [J2ME]". The issue is apple's license, and Apples desire control apps in a way that goes beyond the current draconian rules legacy cell phone providers already have.
What we're talking about is Apple putting up barriers that makes developing apps a lot more difficult than it really needs to be.
Be that as it may, Verizon is the only major Cell provider in the US that uses it. And as the the wiki article points out, apps written in brew lag behind J2ME.
Not really. Apple's Multi-Touch and other UI features are just another component to add as a build artifact. The way the deck works at a cell phone company there is a separate build of each app for every phone. A single source tree can yield an over a hundred different builds. You have different screen size, key layouts, methods to interface with the layouts, touch screens, themes, styles, fonts, whatever, they are all build time configuration. Not to knock Apples SDK, but it's new, and immature. It's been designed with the thought that Apple is the only game in town. Which means features for popular cell phone apps are going to lag the same way as Verizon Brew apps.
Most cell phone applications are written in J2ME. The lack of J2ME support means existing applications already on AT&T's approved app deck would need extensive porting. The only exception is Verizon which has their own language (called BREW), which has less apps than most other companies because of it. Even the Black Berry supports J2ME.
The facts seem to be this:
1) He thought a $1300 meal was okay and submitted it. Having worked in the Non-Profit sector, $1300 is a big deal. In particular for an organization that goes around to the general public with it's hat in it's hand on a regular basis. How he wants to run his for profit is one thing, this is another.
2) The board of directors thought it was a big enough deal that they cut his Amex card in half. Organization executives don't loose charging privileges over a simple misunderstandings and mistakes. It just doesn't happen and there's no way to spin it otherwise.
My Opinion is this:
He's stealing from all of us that have donated money to the cause. It's pretty crappy. I think Wikipedia is one of those organizations that succeeds despite the actions of it's organizer and editors.
The problem is most of the plants build up till this time haven't taken transportation into account. Many were build by co-ops (though many have been bought up by very large petrochemical companies) out in the middle of nowhere. So everything gets trucked in and out. It's very inefficient. So yes, old plants bad.
On the other hand, many of the larger biofuel plants on the drawing board have been placed on train lines. Which is crazy fuel efficient compared to trucks. Even more efficient is building out pipelines. So new well placed plants good.
It's about the power supply. More and more airlines have in sear power in Coach. The power supply in the current MacBook and MacBook Pro draw too much power. They trip the breaker on the seat. The Air draws almost half as much as the others and will work with every airline power system out there.
Second, the TSA keeps restricting extra batteries. Recently Spare LiON's were banned from checked luggage. There is no way to know if the same won't be applied to carry on.
From that standpoint, a laptop that works with Airline power seems more important than being able to change the batteries.
Understand the technology for switch grass is new. It costs 5-10 times are much to make it into ethanol vs corn. There also is no market or infrastructure for it. Meaning, once a farmer harvests it, then what? There is no elevator to sell it to. There is no futures market to sell it on. We have about 5-10 years worth of infrastructure to build up in order to move switch grass. We barely have corn ethanol going, let's not get the wagon ahead of the horse.
Corn based ethanol refineries can be upgraded to switch grass. Build them first. Get switch grass online and marketable and the rest will follow.
One of the pluses to switch grass is that it can be grown in places that corn and other crops cannot. At the same time, farmers are a greedy lot. They will grow what they think they have the best chance to sell for the most amount of profit. So at the same time we get switch grass online we need to have farm bill changed to reflect the countries actual needs both in fuel and food.
First, you don't have to sign. So don't. Second, try to communicate the fact that you won't sign in email. If they threaten your job in writing, in most states, you'll have hit the jackpot. Don't quit over this. Let them make the move.
I've worked for companies that have tried to change employment agreements. Usually it involves trying to get employees to sign away their rights to sue. In any case, the companies were never able to fire the employees. At most they would move them into position they didn't like to try to make them quit. Usually they would drop the issue and let it quietly go away.
IANAL, YMMV.
I was shopping in Best Buy one day. I was looking at hard drives. Some other customer was looking at a couple open box video cards. He asks one of the blue shirts if he can open up the video card and check it out. Blue shirt says sure. I look over and the customer pulls a modem out of the video card box. He asks the blue shirt where the monitor plugs in. I interrupt and tell them that's a modem and not a video card. The customer puts the modem back in the box, hands it to the blue shirt and walks away.
Then what does the blue shirt do? He puts the box BACK ON THE SHELF.
The technical follow up is great. But here's what I find interesting.
"Once his code is injected into the Express SKU's running process it can add menu items, enable features that were disabled, and in general take over that instance of Express."
Notice they say that the injected code "can" do things. Is added you menu items expressly forbidden? Did he actually enable code Microsoft wrote, but disabled for the build? Or did he lawfully replace that functionality with his own code?
There's a lot of technical detail about him using an extention point. There's a pretty good anology about how he wronged MS. But MS doesn't directly say he's enabling MS code. In fact they say he's "replacing the functionality of the removed Add-In Manager." Is that really against the license? It doesn't clearly say that to me. I find it troubling that they imply that he's doing a lot more than he really is.
The SEC has already closed the case. There will be no more action. The story is a whole lot of nothing.
This would be news worthy is not for the fact that Boeing already had a wifi internet service. It came out years ago. It did SO well that they discontinued it!
It's not BS. T-Mobile started to target specific apps well over a year ago. Anyone who was using Digital Cyclone's My-Cast weather application found that out the hard way some time ago. You shouldn't need to pay $30 for the privilage to use apps that cost less than $5 a month on EVERY other cellular provider in the US. It's obvious that T-Mobile is using it's sub-par T-Zones offering to get people to go with data plans. For most people, you're lock in for the next year. While most people don't need a plan that fancy, you might as well try to push people to it.
It's also not BS that T-Mobile is insane about who it allows on the deck. Any application that works on Sprint, Nextel and Cingular (J2ME applications) can work on T-Mobile. So why aren't more apps out there??? Even Verizon, who has their own language you have to write your apps to (called Brew) allows more companies on the Deck of approved applications than T-Mobile. It should also be noted that companies like Sprint allow you to run non-deck applications. Nextel (owned by Sprint, but is it's own division/network because of vastly better Push To Talk technology) is the most permissive.
So, while T-Mobile does have the right to be heavy handed with pushing people to their data plans most users don't need, they also deserve to have the bad PR associated with it. Most people don't want or need a dataplan to do basic things like checking weather, or pulling up a map.
For whatever reason, T-Mobile has been doing this for years. It started by targeting and filtering popular applications that weren't on their deck. On the one hand they don't want to allow any apps that don't any apps online that aren't paying $$$ to T-Mobile. On the other hand, T-Mobile is perpendicularly insane about who they allow on the deck. There are companies that are on every other deck on every other carrier that T-Mobile wants nothing to do with because they have some sub-par app they made on the deck that's mildly related.