seconded, bass is mass produces pish. Although i'd disagree on the Theakstons, although their standard pint isn't great, Old Peculiar is a nice pint.
I remember the choice of english beer in the us being really poor when i was last there, but i guess all the good stuff here is pretty localised, although it wouls be nice to see someone like Wadworths making themselves available in the US.
The problem with the workplace is that people don't need to be spending time doing things which aren't suited to their skillsets. If an accountants pc has a problem they shouldn't be spending a day fixing it when they are hired because of their ability to do accounts. In the same way that a programmer doesn't need to be spending half his day sorting out HR issues. In small companies there is a need for people to multitask, but in larger organisations you need people with specific skills to do specific jobs and they need to be able to focus on their jobs.
From my experience i can generally fix most IT problems in 1/10th the time of someone who hasn't spent their life fixing pc's which is the most effient use of company resources.
I've worked in it support from years of desktop work to where i am now as a senior manager. I have more experience than most of the industry. I've also set up skills programs to teach people those basic skills as adults. And trust me it's harder for adults to pick up things than it is kids.
I don't expect people to have more than basic computer skills, most people just don't need to in the modern world. That's why they hire sys admins and support people in workplaces. Basic email, web browsing and writing documents and doing accounts can be taught in a very quick time. I've taught my grandfather to do all of those in a few evenings and he's never even been able to program a VCR.
but on the other hand "good computer skills" for the average person is little more than being able to send an email, browse the web and use an wordprocessor or spreadsheet. These skills can be taught in a tiny fraction of the time that other skills will take to teach, in fact they will be and are adaquately covered by most computer lessons in schools, in fact they were adaquately covered for me in school over 15 years ago
There is no need to have a computer for every student, this is just lazy teaching, akin to sticking a child in front of a tv for hours on end rather than interacting with them.
SUre have specialist computer labs and maybe 1 or 2 terminals per classroom, but there needs to be an understanding that computers aren't the optimum tool for everything.
there are too many flawed assumptions here. FIrstly the asssumption that rental increases are inflationary. Rental prices are not factored by inflation, but by the supply and demand of the rental market.
In the UK in the last few years there has been huge house price inflation (100%+ in only a few years) which has created a house price boom and also a boom in demand for houses for sale. However a lot of people are buying to rent out. This has led to a huge increase in the number of rental properties whilst at the same time the number of renters has dropped. For the last few years rental prices have in fact been dropping at a considerable rate to the point where renting is now up to 50% cheaper than mortgage payments for the same property.
+ the fact that house prices can drop, some commentators have noted that the house prices in the uk have a potential to drop by up to 30% in coming years if the economy starts to drop and consumer confidence in the market fails.
actually it's only a legal requirement to pay if you actually use the tv to watch tv, if you have it detuned and just use it for watching dvd's and videos then you can get away with not paying. Although like friends of mine you may well have to allow the licensing authorities to examine the box to prove it's not used for watching TV.
50 hour week is more or less standard in the finance sector, my minimum hours were supposedly 48 hours but i never worked less than 50, usually 60+ and unpaid overtime at weekends which was compulsory. I worked wuite closely with the TT guys as they were partners in the firm i was with and the tech level guys were pretty clued up and friendly (and they put on great sandwiches and cake for meetings.)
the problem is that TT don't have particually good tech. their platforms are universally flakey (almost daily i needed to reset accounts and restart the x-trader platforms) I used to get daily patch updates to iron out bugs. When i left my previous job as a tech support manager for a Futures and options traders we were actually looking to move away from TT to other vendors.
we couldn't even patch the servers that their gateway software ran on because they refused to support on any platform above a 2 year old windows 2000 service pack.
Our traders used to lose a fortune in exchange fees due to their downtime. It's no wonder they are desperate for money.
the bbc are also hancuffed financially for the licence fee. Back in the dotcom boom days the BBC website was rated the second most used site in the world after microsoft's sites. the estimated value of the website was in the billions of dollars range. The advertising potential of it was huge too, but they were not alowed to exploit it for commercial purposes.
it's actually so successful even now that the British government is making them remove huge chunks of it because it's anti competitive.
I know, but many people tried to champion him as a case of a poor homeowner just trying to defend his property and claimed he was being unfairly gaoled.
that and the fact he held that gun illegally after having his licence revoked.
Tony Martin is the worst example that could possibly be used by the people advocating rights of homowners, in any sane society he would have been convicted.
http://www.virtualmusicstores.com/ being a prime example (and my current employers) As a complete music freak i've been waiting for digital music to become more flexible. I like mp3s, etc, but i still love cd's and buy them by the bucketload and the industry needs convergence between to two and there are a number of out there working on ways to get this off the ground. Over the next year there are going to be a lot of places offering this type of service, especially in non urban areas where music is more scarce.
From interviews i've seen in the past Bill intends to leave a few million + houses etc to his children and wife in his will, the rest of his personal assets will go to the foundation. In real terms it seems like he is commiting well over 99 percent of his assets to charity in the long run.
In the first company i worked for all pcs were ordered with no floppy disks and no cd roms, and there was no internet access from workstations, only the mailservers had access to anything external.
All installs and upgrades were done via the lan.
Even now i don't buy pc's for users with floppy drives (although that's mainly because they have no use in the modern workplace;-) )
Shame that they are charging artists an exorbitant fee to recover the songs and put them back up.
99 dollars to resurrect the account then 3 songs recovered for free then after that 7 odd dollars every song recovered.
One of my friends was a top selling mp3.com artist and he had hundreds of songs on mp3.com and it would literally cost him thousands of dollars to get them on there again.....
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well if you take my weight = 82kg i'd need 15.74g of caffine to kill me which would be 1.2kg of coffee beans approximately.
Although I doubt the conversion rate for caffine into the human system is that strong.
Yes it mentions in depth the possible links back to the Linux and open source community, but does so in the context of saying this is a theory which is being touted as a possible reason.
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I must say,/. readers dissapoint me more and more. Incitement of harrassment is exactly the sort of thing Bruce Perens was trying to get away from.
The response to the mydoom virus and the sco case in general on here and other forums might well have put the advance of Linux back 5 years in terms of it's corporate image.
This should not be a personal battle against one individual (and now by your actions and that of others direct harrassment of his family) it should be a legal and economic battle. Whatever moral high ground the linux community might have about the sco case is effectively undermined by childish actions such as these.
I could see some point in publishing the company address and his corporate number. But publishing his personal contact details is reprehensible. Encouraging harrassment is not big, clever or funny.
I certainly wouldn't take a hdd based mp3 player jogging or to the gym. Can't imagine how much life you'd be removing from them in the long term.
Personally I'm waiting for a player which accepts CF cards at a reasonable price for the gym so I can just chuck in one of the many 1gb cf cards I have lying about.
One of the problems is that there is a vocal proportion of the linux fanbase and open source community who is cheering on this attack on public forums. Often in a jokey way, but even so it does nothing to diminish the fact that there is a view that there are a number of people on/. and other forums who will probably have cracked a little smile and chuckled when they saw the target was sco.
People will draw conclusions from the target of the DDOS attack. And the obvious conclusion is that a disgruntled member of the linux userbase has created this virus (especially as it also exploits a MS vulnerability and everyone on the outside looking in to the linux community assums that everyone there hates ms and wants to discredit it [see response to Gate's knighthood on any forum to see the vitriol])
One of the biggest stumbling blocks linux and open source faces is that it does have a rabid very vocal fanbase who do nothing to help it's world view. It is a marketing mans nightmare dealing with the negativity eminating from within forums like/.
I can't count myself as a pro photographer, but I do quite a lot of work when I have time. Minimum digital kit these days for anyone serious about digital photography is a half decent digital slr (i'm picking up my EOS 10D on wednesday) If I go to a club or a gig to shoot I can easily shoot 100+ pictures a night. I used to do 120+ with film which cost a fortune) With digital it's easier to take more as TBH it's easier to deal with the pictures and more immediate when you gt home. I can easily envisige taking 1.5gb's worth of pictures a night with my new camera... In terms of cost though I'm sticking with a 1gb microdrive and that will limit me. when the larger flash memory cards come down in price they will be must haves. Although tbh the best bet for a photographer is to bring an ultraportable with them for downloading and viewing.......
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seconded, bass is mass produces pish. Although i'd disagree on the Theakstons, although their standard pint isn't great, Old Peculiar is a nice pint.
I remember the choice of english beer in the us being really poor when i was last there, but i guess all the good stuff here is pretty localised, although it wouls be nice to see someone like Wadworths making themselves available in the US.
The problem with the workplace is that people don't need to be spending time doing things which aren't suited to their skillsets. If an accountants pc has a problem they shouldn't be spending a day fixing it when they are hired because of their ability to do accounts. In the same way that a programmer doesn't need to be spending half his day sorting out HR issues. In small companies there is a need for people to multitask, but in larger organisations you need people with specific skills to do specific jobs and they need to be able to focus on their jobs.
From my experience i can generally fix most IT problems in 1/10th the time of someone who hasn't spent their life fixing pc's which is the most effient use of company resources.
I've worked in it support from years of desktop work to where i am now as a senior manager. I have more experience than most of the industry. I've also set up skills programs to teach people those basic skills as adults. And trust me it's harder for adults to pick up things than it is kids.
I don't expect people to have more than basic computer skills, most people just don't need to in the modern world. That's why they hire sys admins and support people in workplaces. Basic email, web browsing and writing documents and doing accounts can be taught in a very quick time. I've taught my grandfather to do all of those in a few evenings and he's never even been able to program a VCR.
but on the other hand "good computer skills" for the average person is little more than being able to send an email, browse the web and use an wordprocessor or spreadsheet. These skills can be taught in a tiny fraction of the time that other skills will take to teach, in fact they will be and are adaquately covered by most computer lessons in schools, in fact they were adaquately covered for me in school over 15 years ago
There is no need to have a computer for every student, this is just lazy teaching, akin to sticking a child in front of a tv for hours on end rather than interacting with them.
SUre have specialist computer labs and maybe 1 or 2 terminals per classroom, but there needs to be an understanding that computers aren't the optimum tool for everything.
there are too many flawed assumptions here. FIrstly the asssumption that rental increases are inflationary. Rental prices are not factored by inflation, but by the supply and demand of the rental market.
In the UK in the last few years there has been huge house price inflation (100%+ in only a few years) which has created a house price boom and also a boom in demand for houses for sale. However a lot of people are buying to rent out. This has led to a huge increase in the number of rental properties whilst at the same time the number of renters has dropped. For the last few years rental prices have in fact been dropping at a considerable rate to the point where renting is now up to 50% cheaper than mortgage payments for the same property.
+ the fact that house prices can drop, some commentators have noted that the house prices in the uk have a potential to drop by up to 30% in coming years if the economy starts to drop and consumer confidence in the market fails.
And other such gems as the law of Sticky Downwards.
+ the optimum market condition is 0 profits, but that's dependant on perfect competition.
Price function is a very complex part of econometric theory, i spent about 8 years studying it and never quite got my head round it fully.
actually it's only a legal requirement to pay if you actually use the tv to watch tv, if you have it detuned and just use it for watching dvd's and videos then you can get away with not paying. Although like friends of mine you may well have to allow the licensing authorities to examine the box to prove it's not used for watching TV.
50 hour week is more or less standard in the finance sector, my minimum hours were supposedly 48 hours but i never worked less than 50, usually 60+ and unpaid overtime at weekends which was compulsory. I worked wuite closely with the TT guys as they were partners in the firm i was with and the tech level guys were pretty clued up and friendly (and they put on great sandwiches and cake for meetings.)
the problem is that TT don't have particually good tech. their platforms are universally flakey (almost daily i needed to reset accounts and restart the x-trader platforms) I used to get daily patch updates to iron out bugs. When i left my previous job as a tech support manager for a Futures and options traders we were actually looking to move away from TT to other vendors.
we couldn't even patch the servers that their gateway software ran on because they refused to support on any platform above a 2 year old windows 2000 service pack.
Our traders used to lose a fortune in exchange fees due to their downtime. It's no wonder they are desperate for money.
I hope they don't try this with first generation athlon processors, they are likely to melt through their cookware!
the bbc are also hancuffed financially for the licence fee. Back in the dotcom boom days the BBC website was rated the second most used site in the world after microsoft's sites. the estimated value of the website was in the billions of dollars range. The advertising potential of it was huge too, but they were not alowed to exploit it for commercial purposes.
it's actually so successful even now that the British government is making them remove huge chunks of it because it's anti competitive.
I know, but many people tried to champion him as a case of a poor homeowner just trying to defend his property and claimed he was being unfairly gaoled.
that and the fact he held that gun illegally after having his licence revoked.
Tony Martin is the worst example that could possibly be used by the people advocating rights of homowners, in any sane society he would have been convicted.
This is exactly where the industry is going IMO.
http://www.virtualmusicstores.com/
being a prime example (and my current employers) As a complete music freak i've been waiting for digital music to become more flexible. I like mp3s, etc, but i still love cd's and buy them by the bucketload and the industry needs convergence between to two and there are a number of out there working on ways to get this off the ground.
Over the next year there are going to be a lot of places offering this type of service, especially in non urban areas where music is more scarce.
From interviews i've seen in the past Bill intends to leave a few million + houses etc to his children and wife in his will, the rest of his personal assets will go to the foundation. In real terms it seems like he is commiting well over 99 percent of his assets to charity in the long run.
OF course this is all just a ploy by Brad to test out his new fat pipe and load balancers in the best way possibly, but getting himself slashdotted.
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Probably the best test of server load there can be
In the first company i worked for all pcs were ordered with no floppy disks and no cd roms, and there was no internet access from workstations, only the mailservers had access to anything external.
;-) )
All installs and upgrades were done via the lan.
Even now i don't buy pc's for users with floppy drives (although that's mainly because they have no use in the modern workplace
Shame that they are charging artists an exorbitant fee to recover the songs and put them back up.
99 dollars to resurrect the account then 3 songs recovered for free then after that 7 odd dollars every song recovered.
One of my friends was a top selling mp3.com artist and he had hundreds of songs on mp3.com and it would literally cost him thousands of dollars to get them on there again.....
well if you take my weight = 82kg i'd need 15.74g of caffine to kill me which would be 1.2kg of coffee beans approximately.
Although I doubt the conversion rate for caffine into the human system is that strong.
Warwick Davis wasn't in time bandits though.
Yes it mentions in depth the possible links back to the Linux and open source community, but does so in the context of saying this is a theory which is being touted as a possible reason.
I must say, /. readers dissapoint me more and more. Incitement of harrassment is exactly the sort of thing Bruce Perens was trying to get away from.
The response to the mydoom virus and the sco case in general on here and other forums might well have put the advance of Linux back 5 years in terms of it's corporate image.
This should not be a personal battle against one individual (and now by your actions and that of others direct harrassment of his family) it should be a legal and economic battle. Whatever moral high ground the linux community might have about the sco case is effectively undermined by childish actions such as these.
I could see some point in publishing the company address and his corporate number. But publishing his personal contact details is reprehensible. Encouraging harrassment is not big, clever or funny.
I certainly wouldn't take a hdd based mp3 player jogging or to the gym. Can't imagine how much life you'd be removing from them in the long term.
Personally I'm waiting for a player which accepts CF cards at a reasonable price for the gym so I can just chuck in one of the many 1gb cf cards I have lying about.
One of the problems is that there is a vocal proportion of the linux fanbase and open source community who is cheering on this attack on public forums. Often in a jokey way, but even so it does nothing to diminish the fact that there is a view that there are a number of people on /. and other forums who will probably have cracked a little smile and chuckled when they saw the target was sco.
/.
People will draw conclusions from the target of the DDOS attack. And the obvious conclusion is that a disgruntled member of the linux userbase has created this virus (especially as it also exploits a MS vulnerability and everyone on the outside looking in to the linux community assums that everyone there hates ms and wants to discredit it [see response to Gate's knighthood on any forum to see the vitriol])
One of the biggest stumbling blocks linux and open source faces is that it does have a rabid very vocal fanbase who do nothing to help it's world view. It is a marketing mans nightmare dealing with the negativity eminating from within forums like
not even just pros.
I can't count myself as a pro photographer, but I do quite a lot of work when I have time. Minimum digital kit these days for anyone serious about digital photography is a half decent digital slr (i'm picking up my EOS 10D on wednesday)
If I go to a club or a gig to shoot I can easily shoot 100+ pictures a night. I used to do 120+ with film which cost a fortune)
With digital it's easier to take more as TBH it's easier to deal with the pictures and more immediate when you gt home. I can easily envisige taking 1.5gb's worth of pictures a night with my new camera...
In terms of cost though I'm sticking with a 1gb microdrive and that will limit me. when the larger flash memory cards come down in price they will be must haves.
Although tbh the best bet for a photographer is to bring an ultraportable with them for downloading and viewing.......