Perhaps that's because all the people you'd prefer to work with have gone elsewhere because most companies aren't a joy to work for.
There's good stuff to do near by too in the Netherlands. Why would want to stick around with some company that has a PITA HR, stupid IT policies and looks down on tech departments as an unnecessary expense?
I realise that doesn't really apply to start-ups but people will often to need to first pay off some uni debt and save money working for someone else before starting a start-up.
I agree, Cambridge is nice and it's always easy to find work. However we do have start-ups that have or are considering moving to London to find people. That makes no sense to me. They're right beside the best university and should have no problems but they do.
Perhaps they expect too much for not enough in return? That or people have realised you can make a ton of money in London and live in Cambridge or somewhere cheaper like Ely, Newmarket, etc. Even at £6000+ for a train ticket, I can benefit from working in London. The only reaosn is the journey is just a bit too long to risk getting stuck having to stand the whole way and I like having as much free time as possible.
Cambridge has near London costs but the pay isn't anywhere near London pay.
Even if you ignore the regulations and health and safety laws. People just don't have the same attitude. I think that scares away people who can go anywhere in the world with their skills and it's just hard to find the right people.
Plus everything revolves around London. London is expensive, dirty and not always a joy to be in. Compare that to working in California (before factoring anything else) and which would you rather work in?
I enjoy nice things like bacon burgers too but I don't sit on my ass all the time and don't eat them for every meal. There is middle ground between being a fatso and a vegan.
I wouldn't ask a softwre engineer to do web design. Why do designers think they can code? I've yet to see an example of a web designer coding that has ended well. It's only that most of them do small unknown sites that they don't get hacked constantly or go tits up all the time.
At least some of the mirrors are regional so FF is probably in one of those and annoying I suspect the GB mirror got the new files at the end of the day or my net connection was being funny.
True but I was on my way to bed and knew it'd show up the time I woke up so why not just install it with the other updates I ignored earlier this week?
I don't get that. It's not like browsers are a self contained application, like Photoshop, where you can easily get by on Photoshop 6 for years past it's last support date.
A web browsers sole purpose is to display content and content that is always updating. Forgetting the issue of web apps, html, css and js are updating.
And browsers are now a free application. It's not something you can charge money for and then reasonably be expected to spend time back porting new things to old versions. Netscape tried that and Microsoft killed off any chance of selling a browser. So I just can't see how anyone can expect money and resources being wasted on supporting a version of the browser very few people even use.
Perhaps if you donate a million to them they'll consider it but until then I think people just need to realise it doesn't make sense to stay on an old browser. Especially one that was leaky and just is not up to the job rendering a lot of popular sites (including this one).
You don't have to have it but it's sensible that is the default rather than letting everyone stay stuck on some ancient version. If someone wants to be completely backwards and live with something that's going out of date then let them choose to do that and enable it but for the others that don't care or want it to update itself, upgrade them
The Firefox dom inspector is a bit shit. I doubt it's a live view unlike Firebug. In fact they shouldn't have bothered and spoke to the firebug guys about integrating it into Firefox.
Firefox has certainly improved for me. More so with the rapid release cycle. 15 so far is looking pretty good. But I'm still waiting on it to show up for Ubuntu. But my Mac and Windows machines are up to date.
Just because something doesn't go you way doesn't mean it's wrong. What next, only select people should decide if someone is a murderer or not?
The jury's role is to take the law as it stands and see if Samsung did something wrong. They've decided they have and to be honest, I agree.
The system certainly needs fixing but if you accept it as it is now. Samsung deserved to lose.
We could start changing things by making patents non-transferable and only valid for the person / company that inititally applied for it. That would kill off patent trolls.
Also make it so when viewing patents on the website you can easily contact them to point out prior art. This of course would be open to fanboy retardation so you would have to ask for enough information from the person that if they're a time waster you can then go punish them and at least go kick over their computer and plant pots.
Things also have a much shorter life cycle. Perhaps patents shouldn't last as long.
And given that we now have gigantic megacorporations which make it hard for the small guy to even compete, maybe patents enforceable against small businesses until they hit a certain profit level. That would have to be real small businesses, not some corporation spinning off some company that they insist never makes money.
Most likely because Google didn't have any ground to stand on and do something like that. Of course they've now bought Motorola and are resorting to the same tactics.
So no, Google isn't clean and if I had to guess they'll only continue to do this sort of thing, just like the others. So the only solution is to fix the patent system.
The thing is though, this isn't really about how it affects Google or any other large corporation that has a pile of money and patents to go to war with. It's the fact it's pretty much impossible for anyone to start a new business. Sure Microsoft, Apple and Google and agree to share patents and that's all good for them but for anyone entering who will have no patents to begin with and probably little funds. They can't get into a patent sharing deal, they can't deal with being taken to court and if they agree to pay the licensing fees to everyone their product will probably be prohibitively expensive.
So long as we leave the system as it is, you can't really blame anyone for defending their patents. If they don't do it, someone will do it to them. So rather than fighting about which corporation we think is the best, it's better to focus on fixing the patent system.
And that is why the US is destined to fall behind. Selfish pricks think even a dollar to help the nation is too much. It's probably best they do keep sending jobs overseas where people don't hate their fellow man and can get along with each other.
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The Reg is nothing more than the News of the World for IT. So I find it hard to believe anything they say.
Perhaps that's because all the people you'd prefer to work with have gone elsewhere because most companies aren't a joy to work for.
There's good stuff to do near by too in the Netherlands. Why would want to stick around with some company that has a PITA HR, stupid IT policies and looks down on tech departments as an unnecessary expense?
I realise that doesn't really apply to start-ups but people will often to need to first pay off some uni debt and save money working for someone else before starting a start-up.
I agree, Cambridge is nice and it's always easy to find work. However we do have start-ups that have or are considering moving to London to find people. That makes no sense to me. They're right beside the best university and should have no problems but they do.
Perhaps they expect too much for not enough in return? That or people have realised you can make a ton of money in London and live in Cambridge or somewhere cheaper like Ely, Newmarket, etc. Even at £6000+ for a train ticket, I can benefit from working in London. The only reaosn is the journey is just a bit too long to risk getting stuck having to stand the whole way and I like having as much free time as possible.
Cambridge has near London costs but the pay isn't anywhere near London pay.
Even if you ignore the regulations and health and safety laws. People just don't have the same attitude. I think that scares away people who can go anywhere in the world with their skills and it's just hard to find the right people.
Plus everything revolves around London. London is expensive, dirty and not always a joy to be in. Compare that to working in California (before factoring anything else) and which would you rather work in?
I enjoy nice things like bacon burgers too but I don't sit on my ass all the time and don't eat them for every meal. There is middle ground between being a fatso and a vegan.
Google can remote delete apps at the very least. Probably more.
I think I rather give Apple a billion every year than make Windows phones.
It's better than a a group of judges in someone's back pocket.
The judge warned them it'd make more sense to work out their differences and they chose not to.
Yeah it's cheap until you're paying child support.
I wouldn't ask a softwre engineer to do web design. Why do designers think they can code? I've yet to see an example of a web designer coding that has ended well. It's only that most of them do small unknown sites that they don't get hacked constantly or go tits up all the time.
At least some of the mirrors are regional so FF is probably in one of those and annoying I suspect the GB mirror got the new files at the end of the day or my net connection was being funny.
True but I was on my way to bed and knew it'd show up the time I woke up so why not just install it with the other updates I ignored earlier this week?
I don't get that. It's not like browsers are a self contained application, like Photoshop, where you can easily get by on Photoshop 6 for years past it's last support date.
A web browsers sole purpose is to display content and content that is always updating. Forgetting the issue of web apps, html, css and js are updating.
And browsers are now a free application. It's not something you can charge money for and then reasonably be expected to spend time back porting new things to old versions. Netscape tried that and Microsoft killed off any chance of selling a browser. So I just can't see how anyone can expect money and resources being wasted on supporting a version of the browser very few people even use.
Perhaps if you donate a million to them they'll consider it but until then I think people just need to realise it doesn't make sense to stay on an old browser. Especially one that was leaky and just is not up to the job rendering a lot of popular sites (including this one).
It's never done that for me on Windows,Mac or Linux.
3.6 was shit. Take the rose-tinted glasses off.
But I just want half to story so I have something I can bitch about.
You don't have to have it but it's sensible that is the default rather than letting everyone stay stuck on some ancient version. If someone wants to be completely backwards and live with something that's going out of date then let them choose to do that and enable it but for the others that don't care or want it to update itself, upgrade them
The Firefox dom inspector is a bit shit. I doubt it's a live view unlike Firebug. In fact they shouldn't have bothered and spoke to the firebug guys about integrating it into Firefox.
Firefox has certainly improved for me. More so with the rapid release cycle. 15 so far is looking pretty good. But I'm still waiting on it to show up for Ubuntu. But my Mac and Windows machines are up to date.
Just because something doesn't go you way doesn't mean it's wrong. What next, only select people should decide if someone is a murderer or not?
The jury's role is to take the law as it stands and see if Samsung did something wrong. They've decided they have and to be honest, I agree.
The system certainly needs fixing but if you accept it as it is now. Samsung deserved to lose.
We could start changing things by making patents non-transferable and only valid for the person / company that inititally applied for it. That would kill off patent trolls.
Also make it so when viewing patents on the website you can easily contact them to point out prior art. This of course would be open to fanboy retardation so you would have to ask for enough information from the person that if they're a time waster you can then go punish them and at least go kick over their computer and plant pots.
Things also have a much shorter life cycle. Perhaps patents shouldn't last as long.
And given that we now have gigantic megacorporations which make it hard for the small guy to even compete, maybe patents enforceable against small businesses until they hit a certain profit level. That would have to be real small businesses, not some corporation spinning off some company that they insist never makes money.
Forever. I'm enjoying shit too much to want to be limited to 80 or even 150 years.
Most likely because Google didn't have any ground to stand on and do something like that. Of course they've now bought Motorola and are resorting to the same tactics.
http://www.zdnet.com/motorola-mobility-sues-apple-again-seeks-iphone-mac-import-ban-7000002853/
So no, Google isn't clean and if I had to guess they'll only continue to do this sort of thing, just like the others. So the only solution is to fix the patent system.
The thing is though, this isn't really about how it affects Google or any other large corporation that has a pile of money and patents to go to war with. It's the fact it's pretty much impossible for anyone to start a new business. Sure Microsoft, Apple and Google and agree to share patents and that's all good for them but for anyone entering who will have no patents to begin with and probably little funds. They can't get into a patent sharing deal, they can't deal with being taken to court and if they agree to pay the licensing fees to everyone their product will probably be prohibitively expensive.
So long as we leave the system as it is, you can't really blame anyone for defending their patents. If they don't do it, someone will do it to them. So rather than fighting about which corporation we think is the best, it's better to focus on fixing the patent system.
It's not been granted yet afaik so what are they going to do about it when they still may not get it.
And that is why the US is destined to fall behind. Selfish pricks think even a dollar to help the nation is too much. It's probably best they do keep sending jobs overseas where people don't hate their fellow man and can get along with each other.
How did they punish them by awarding Apple half of what they asked for and telling Apple they can't claim to own the shape of tablets?