I'm going to assume the EU actually stipulates that particular IEC standard must be followed in law then, because the IEC isn't an EU body, it's an international one. In fact ANSI is a full member of the IEC.
Those "100,000 unfilled IT jobs" almost certainly do not require people with a Computer Science degree; they mostly likely require people with more general IT skills. I wouldn't be at all surprised if a lot of them are for third line support roles, which pay peanuts - probably not even enough to start paying off the student loans for the expensive degree they're almost certainly asking for as a qualification requirement.
Our current MD was one of the last people at our company to have his degree paid for by the business. The only time he hasn't worked for us was a brief period when he left to work for a competitor (I believe there was a difference of opinion between him and the then MD). We have people who have worked for us for their entire working lives - the head of HR has been there since they were 16 or 17 (I would guess they're around 50 by now). It's something of a novelty nowadays.
Companies fairly predictably won't deal with anyone but the person named on the account, this can frequently be very annoying as a lot of them won't actually accept instructions of the "this person can do whatever I can do". My broadband provider at least will happily talk to anyone who knows the account password and username, which is good because I'm the account holder and I don't like talking to people; "Are you the account holder?" "No, a house mate." "OK".
The trolls talking about turning to stone in daylight I just wrote off as Jackson assuming not everyone knew that bit of lore - it's not a terrible assumption. Without there would be some people going "what just happened?"
My copy of "Doctor Zhivago" on DVD is on two discs, because it didn't fit on one. When it gets to the end of the first disc it plays the original theatrical intermission card on a loop. I just wish the DVD allowed for it, like buffering the scene so it could keep playing it while you changed disc.
Fortunately it's actually quite easy to delete your Foursquare account: you just go to the Privacy Setting section of your settings. You even get a little tick box where you can indicate that you're doing it because of privacy concerns. Whether they genuinely delete all of your data, like they say they do, is another matter.
You can register an interest in knowing about power events by calling RegisterPowerSettingNotification(); your application then gets sent the WM_POWERBROADCAST message when the the power setting changes, that includes suspending the system (PBT_APMSUSPEND). You get about two seconds to actually do something with this information.
I'm surprised you're not pointing to the fact that the university he went to in the USSR - The Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications, and Computer Science - was sponsored by the KGB and Russian Ministry of Defence.
Assets in a game would be all the audio, textures, models, sprites, map/level data, possibly game engine scripts, etc.. All you're left with without assets is a game engine.
WOW64 works because it limits itself to translating kernel function calls, program entry points, and does some CPU mode switching stuff. If you wanted to be able to use any 32-bit library in a 64-bit application then you'd need to create similar wrappers for every library. In theory that can be done automatically, however it's probably also highly error prone. Microsoft, despite what people think, make a lot of effort maintaining backward compatibility; however there comes a time when pragmatism wins out and you have to say "this is more trouble than it's worth".
WOW64 itself contains known bugs and incompatibilities, e.g. unless they've fixed it then any 32-bit application using GetThreadContext() is likely to break.
The bits of government responsible for creating and maintaining cyphers are different to the bits of government that use them; the problem is generally with the end users.
A lot of the cable theft in the UK is from the rail network, because it's almost all electrified using overhead power cables. Oddly this comes with its own inbuilt (mostly) 25 kV AC protection. It doesn't stop them. They also target the signal cables, which I think use high voltage as well.
Ooh, that's interesting - I've not come across that at all. All my.NET development is for the desktop platform; I shall have to take a closer look at that. I feel the need to make all the fanboys howl with rage by seeing if you can use it in bare metal mode on a Rasperry Pi (looks like people have already been looking in to it).
They were actually tacitly supporting the Mono project at one point I believe, because - I think - they saw it was their way of getting Silverlight support on as many non-Windows platforms as possible. Only Silverlight seems to have fallen flat on its face ("and nothing of value was lost") and thus I suspect MS are no longer that interested in Mono.
The.NET framework actually has built-in support for running on non-Windows and non-x86/x64 systems: there are various internal enumerations which indicate running on Windows, Mac, or Linux systems and there are also flags for indicating Big and Little Endian CPUs. It was *designed* to be cross platform; it's just MIcrosoft themselves have never bothered to take advantage of this.
The Common Language Infrastructure that underpins the.NET Framework is a published ISO/ECMA standard (current version is ISO/IEC 23271:2012) - one you can actually download for free. C# is also published as an ISO/ECMA standard (ISO/IEC 23270:2006), but hasn't been updated since 2006, so doesn't include the newer extensions Microsoft have added; it's also freely downloadable from ITTF Freely Available Standards Both the CLI and C# are part of Microsoft's "Community Promise", for whatever people consider that worth.
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They brought out a new one in 2011, I believe; they also have some others in planning stages.
I'm going to assume the EU actually stipulates that particular IEC standard must be followed in law then, because the IEC isn't an EU body, it's an international one. In fact ANSI is a full member of the IEC.
Those "100,000 unfilled IT jobs" almost certainly do not require people with a Computer Science degree; they mostly likely require people with more general IT skills. I wouldn't be at all surprised if a lot of them are for third line support roles, which pay peanuts - probably not even enough to start paying off the student loans for the expensive degree they're almost certainly asking for as a qualification requirement.
Our current MD was one of the last people at our company to have his degree paid for by the business. The only time he hasn't worked for us was a brief period when he left to work for a competitor (I believe there was a difference of opinion between him and the then MD). We have people who have worked for us for their entire working lives - the head of HR has been there since they were 16 or 17 (I would guess they're around 50 by now). It's something of a novelty nowadays.
Sometimes it actually does just mean "I would actually like to see my family a bit more often".
The interviews I've seen with various ones suggests that isn't true. A lot of them are jaded and burnt out as well.
Companies fairly predictably won't deal with anyone but the person named on the account, this can frequently be very annoying as a lot of them won't actually accept instructions of the "this person can do whatever I can do". My broadband provider at least will happily talk to anyone who knows the account password and username, which is good because I'm the account holder and I don't like talking to people; "Are you the account holder?" "No, a house mate." "OK".
LOTR was originally written as a single book; Tolkien split it in to three at the publisher's request/suggestion/insistence.
Well *obviously* authors are allowed to gut their own stuff, because it's *theirs*. Unless it's George Lucas.
I don't really find any of Jackson's changes all that galling. Some of the additions are a bit "why?" but most are "fair enough".
The trolls talking about turning to stone in daylight I just wrote off as Jackson assuming not everyone knew that bit of lore - it's not a terrible assumption. Without there would be some people going "what just happened?"
My copy of "Doctor Zhivago" on DVD is on two discs, because it didn't fit on one. When it gets to the end of the first disc it plays the original theatrical intermission card on a loop. I just wish the DVD allowed for it, like buffering the scene so it could keep playing it while you changed disc.
Fortunately it's actually quite easy to delete your Foursquare account: you just go to the Privacy Setting section of your settings. You even get a little tick box where you can indicate that you're doing it because of privacy concerns. Whether they genuinely delete all of your data, like they say they do, is another matter.
You can register an interest in knowing about power events by calling RegisterPowerSettingNotification(); your application then gets sent the WM_POWERBROADCAST message when the the power setting changes, that includes suspending the system (PBT_APMSUSPEND). You get about two seconds to actually do something with this information.
I'm surprised you're not pointing to the fact that the university he went to in the USSR - The Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications, and Computer Science - was sponsored by the KGB and Russian Ministry of Defence.
Or poison you. Or both.
In this context it means being modest in price, I would assume.
THQ isn't exactly in a happy place right now. They might not even be around in a year.
Assets in a game would be all the audio, textures, models, sprites, map/level data, possibly game engine scripts, etc.. All you're left with without assets is a game engine.
WOW64 works because it limits itself to translating kernel function calls, program entry points, and does some CPU mode switching stuff. If you wanted to be able to use any 32-bit library in a 64-bit application then you'd need to create similar wrappers for every library. In theory that can be done automatically, however it's probably also highly error prone. Microsoft, despite what people think, make a lot of effort maintaining backward compatibility; however there comes a time when pragmatism wins out and you have to say "this is more trouble than it's worth".
WOW64 itself contains known bugs and incompatibilities, e.g. unless they've fixed it then any 32-bit application using GetThreadContext() is likely to break.
The bits of government responsible for creating and maintaining cyphers are different to the bits of government that use them; the problem is generally with the end users.
I believe this is mostly down to the various libraries that Chrome relies on not being 64-bit clean themselves.
Given it doesn't appear on the nautical charts of the HO responsible for the area, I would suggest that it was already proven not to exist.
A lot of the cable theft in the UK is from the rail network, because it's almost all electrified using overhead power cables. Oddly this comes with its own inbuilt (mostly) 25 kV AC protection. It doesn't stop them. They also target the signal cables, which I think use high voltage as well.
Ooh, that's interesting - I've not come across that at all. All my .NET development is for the desktop platform; I shall have to take a closer look at that. I feel the need to make all the fanboys howl with rage by seeing if you can use it in bare metal mode on a Rasperry Pi (looks like people have already been looking in to it).
They were actually tacitly supporting the Mono project at one point I believe, because - I think - they saw it was their way of getting Silverlight support on as many non-Windows platforms as possible. Only Silverlight seems to have fallen flat on its face ("and nothing of value was lost") and thus I suspect MS are no longer that interested in Mono.
The .NET framework actually has built-in support for running on non-Windows and non-x86/x64 systems: there are various internal enumerations which indicate running on Windows, Mac, or Linux systems and there are also flags for indicating Big and Little Endian CPUs. It was *designed* to be cross platform; it's just MIcrosoft themselves have never bothered to take advantage of this.
The Common Language Infrastructure that underpins the .NET Framework is a published ISO/ECMA standard (current version is ISO/IEC 23271:2012) - one you can actually download for free. C# is also published as an ISO/ECMA standard (ISO/IEC 23270:2006), but hasn't been updated since 2006, so doesn't include the newer extensions Microsoft have added; it's also freely downloadable from ITTF Freely Available Standards Both the CLI and C# are part of Microsoft's "Community Promise", for whatever people consider that worth.