COBOL developers are in demand at many large, multinational corps. Mastercard, for example, uses it heavily. Text books on COBOL are rare, and few have studied it in formal education. The best part is that offshore's don't offer COBOL skills, so job security is quite high.
Part-timers can actually slow down a development project, so they can cost you more than simple idle resources. Full-timers are often made to wait until the part-time resource is available. And sometimes the part-timers get caught waiting on each other. If the team is larger and international in scope, scheduling and resource utilization can become gridlocked. That's why two part-timers are not equal to 1 full-timer.
I would love to be there so I could scream "stand on one foot! Do the Hokee Pokee and turn yourself about!"
Detroit kids will learn that conducting is nothing more than waving your arms to a programmed pattern.
Conducting is about 1% physical the rest is musicianship. Gestures are used because they are silent. And during the performance, what happens next is based mostly on what has happened up until that moment.
ASIMO knows only gestures. It knows nothing of the performance or whether the musicians are even playing, so why not make it funny to the audience?
First CNET reports Jim Cicconi said by 2010, 20 households => the entire internet.
Then in the same article they quote him as saying broadband traffic would increase 50-fold by 2015.
You would think a responsible reporter would seek clarifications before printing glaring contradictions. Or perhaps CNET is relying on their spell checker a bit too much. 20 million households? But spell checkers don't catch omitted words.
Verizon and AT&T networks have always been open. They even brag about it. You can easily buy a handset from a variety of manufacturers and both Verizon and AT&T will hook you right up.
The problem is when these carriers contract for their own custom handsets they lock these models to their own networks. That makes it hard to switch carriers without buying a new phone.
The networks are open already. It's the products that use them which are not. So, what really did Google do? I don't know. Google has always had the freedom to build a handset that runs on either of these networks. So where is it?
I read some of the horribly vicious things said to Megan... like "I don't like you anymore" and "I heard you're saying bad things about my friends".
Obviously, those parents and esteemed legislators have never read the comments on Slashdot. We're all going to jail.
And what if a real 16 yr old boy had said, "I don't want to be your boyfriend because people are saying you're mean"? Ok, I agree. That's totally implausible. Anyone could tell that's a 42 yr old woman talking.
Perhaps, more correctly, [the dumbing down of] corporate IT departments... Demand shapes everything.
I'm a tech architect for a fortune 50 company, and I use headhunters to find IT cattle for my body shop.
We insist on Java skills for three reasons:
1) The speed of development in my shop is merciless. If you can meet your quota using FORTH -- knock yourself out.
2) We position our needs to correspond with abundant supply. This is not a coincidence. It's simple predation.
3) By the time you become a principal architect in my company, you haven't written a program for 10 years. We follow the edge, far from the bleeding cuts.
Weirdly, the bar is set far higher than it's ever been. 10 years ago, HTML was a programming skill. Today, my department regards HTML is a secretarial skill.
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COBOL developers are in demand at many large, multinational corps. Mastercard, for example, uses it heavily. Text books on COBOL are rare, and few have studied it in formal education. The best part is that offshore's don't offer COBOL skills, so job security is quite high.
Part-timers can actually slow down a development project, so they can cost you more than simple idle resources. Full-timers are often made to wait until the part-time resource is available. And sometimes the part-timers get caught waiting on each other. If the team is larger and international in scope, scheduling and resource utilization can become gridlocked. That's why two part-timers are not equal to 1 full-timer.
Conducting is about 1% physical the rest is musicianship. Gestures are used because they are silent. And during the performance, what happens next is based mostly on what has happened up until that moment.
ASIMO knows only gestures. It knows nothing of the performance or whether the musicians are even playing, so why not make it funny to the audience?
HTML used to be a programming skill. So were nroff and troff. Let it go.
Admit it. Live Mesh is so much better than Dead Mesh... almost.
Then in the same article they quote him as saying broadband traffic would increase 50-fold by 2015.
You would think a responsible reporter would seek clarifications before printing glaring contradictions. Or perhaps CNET is relying on their spell checker a bit too much. 20 million households? But spell checkers don't catch omitted words.
The problem is when these carriers contract for their own custom handsets they lock these models to their own networks. That makes it hard to switch carriers without buying a new phone.
The networks are open already. It's the products that use them which are not. So, what really did Google do? I don't know. Google has always had the freedom to build a handset that runs on either of these networks. So where is it?
Obviously, those parents and esteemed legislators have never read the comments on Slashdot. We're all going to jail.
And what if a real 16 yr old boy had said, "I don't want to be your boyfriend because people are saying you're mean"? Ok, I agree. That's totally implausible. Anyone could tell that's a 42 yr old woman talking.
Perhaps, more correctly, [the dumbing down of] corporate IT departments... Demand shapes everything.
I'm a tech architect for a fortune 50 company, and I use headhunters to find IT cattle for my body shop.
We insist on Java skills for three reasons:
1) The speed of development in my shop is merciless. If you can meet your quota using FORTH -- knock yourself out.
2) We position our needs to correspond with abundant supply. This is not a coincidence. It's simple predation.
3) By the time you become a principal architect in my company, you haven't written a program for 10 years. We follow the edge, far from the bleeding cuts.
Weirdly, the bar is set far higher than it's ever been. 10 years ago, HTML was a programming skill. Today, my department regards HTML is a secretarial skill.