Based in Russia? Address from http://www.iea.org/about/contact.asp: 9, rue de la Fédération 75739 Paris Cedex 15, France Telephone: Fax: (33 1) 40 57 65 00/01 (33 1) 40 57 65 59
Wow someone who makes sense. Why not just say pollution is dirty, stinks, and we don't like it? That's good enough for me. It can be proven, and it's fact.
Then there's the desertification of the Sahara, the millions of acres a year that we are clear-cutting out of forests.
It's not just carbon use that's causing it. It's carbon use, destruction of biomass, the natural cooling/warming cycle of the earth, and the natural temperature variations of the sun (which causes the other planets to warm and cool), changing ocean currents etc etc etc.
The product of all of this stuff combined is what we are seeing. Only problem is we don't how much each factor really contributes, including AGW.
Then there's the global cooling scare during the 80's. Prove to me that the current AGW alarmism isn't the same thing? I'd lay money down that says in 20 years we'll be ashamed of ourselves for being so stupid.
The glaciers started melting 12000 years ago. Man had nothing to do with it. We've been on a constant upward trend since then. We've had some dips, but overall, it's been getting warmer since before our species existed. Of course it's been getting warmer since we started collecting data.
Canada, the EU and a lot of the U.S. used to be under ice that had thickness which measured in kilometers. That all melted long before the industrial age. The great lakes were carved by glaciers and that ice was gone before human history. What's the AGW argument for this? When should the cooling cycle have begun? Nobody knows if it should have already, or whether it should be 2000 years from now.
The only facts we have is that the earth gets warmer, it also gets cooler, and we also have a bunch of incomplete statistical data that's less than 200 years old being used to try and predict what's going on with a macro-climactic cycle that lasts over 100000 years.
AGW theory is just that, a theory. It hasn't been tested yet. We don't have the knowledge or data to predict what part we play in anything on this scale.
I'm not saying the theory is wrong, just that people shouldn't portray it as something that is definite. If you do you are talking out of your ass. You can believe in a theory, but if you state it as fact, you are as bad as a right wing fundamentalist Christian. At this point, they have just as much evidence for their theory as you do for yours: a bunch of people said so, here's what they say they saw.
"There's absolutely no question that we humans are changing the atmospheric makeup of the earth." No shit. The question of the day is whether or not it's enough to impact climate cycles.
Climate science has become a religion followed by fervent zealots. This is not a good thing because facts go out the window and people get persecuted because of religion. They also become incapable of real science because of fear of the zealots and bias.
“I still want to stab a certain someone with a trocar. I’m not a monster. I’m not someone who’s going to attack anybody.”
Holy self contradiction batman!
I'd get a restraining order if I was the ex, and demand that the police do something about it. I'm not surprised she got suspended, especially making statements like that. She publicly said she wants to stab someone with a trocar for chrissakes. What more do you need? Now she has nothing to lose ROFL. Not a good situation.
They aren't authorized to sell OSX at all, shrink wrapped or not, and the judge put an injunction on them to prevent them from doing so.
What they can do is offer a patch on their site. Users can buy OSX at the crapple store, download their patch, patch the OS and do what they want with their copy.
That's all they need to do to get around the DMCA. Good luck going after users...
This is going to cause software companies to write very specific hardware requirements like: 2.6 ghz quad core AMD processor [model number, driver revision] AMD 790x chipset [model number, driver revision] ATi 4870 GPU [model number, driver revision] Western Digital 1tb drive [model number] Microsoft windows 7 [patch, revision, release year]
No one will read the hardware requirements, just like they don't now and the software companies will essentially have the same leeway they do now unless you have the exact motherboard, cpu, gpu, memory, hard drive they spec for the game. Assuming people do read the hardware requirements, most people won't even know what they have in their computer. If there are bugs, there will be a very small subset of people that get refunds.
There's no way a guy that buys Assassin's Creed II to run on his netbook is going to get a refund.
Essentially [with few notable exceptions] most people that can't run a game bought something too ambitious for their hardware.
Then there are people with broken hardware, like the first couple of runs of nvidia multicore chipsets.
It's going to boil down to "Prove our software is broken, it works on the machines we coded it on, the configuration of which we made abundantly clear in the hardware requirements, and if you don't have one [flips bird]"
I personally have never bought a game that didn't work.
There are plenty of products that get replaced under warranty. A software patch is essentially the equivalent a warranty replacement.
Companies will get 4-6 weeks to put a patch out, and probably have 3 chances to do it before it's declared a lemon.
Nothing to see here move along...
Devices with software that works perfectly, as Andy mentions, have software written for a very specific piece of hardware, so it's hella easier to get it right than software that runs on millions of permutations of hardware combinations like PC's.
As a programmer he should know better...
If anything this will make things WORSE for consumers. Once hardware manufacturers release a new driver for any piece of hardware, or Microsoft has a patch Tuesday, the software company is off the hook and won't be obliged to release any more patches.
How many people do you know of that build a new computer for every game they buy? Well they'll have to for the software companies to be liable for their game bugs. They also won't be able to patch anything if they want to fill their end of the warranty for the game.
This will never do any good for anyone. It will make things worse. The security implications aren't pretty.
Good luck training a machine to decide what the perceived volume is then decide how the human ear is perceiving it in relation to the television programming. Unfortunately sound meters are how machines decide what volume is, and the sound meters only understand peaks, which are the same for the programming and the commercials.
There are average volume meters but the relationship between what they read, and what you are hearing is tenuous at best. That's why a real engineer relies on his ears, not the meters. All the meters are good for is to keep you from clipping a signal.
If you want to be able to hold an intelligent conversation about sound, study every article on the site.
For purposes of the link I gave you, think of the original recording as the tv show, with the LOUD WIMPY SOUND BEING THE COMMERCIAL. The peak levels are the same, but the average volume (aka perceived volume) is much higher. So to make the perceived volumes match, you either brick wall limit the tv show to sound as horrible as the commercial (which wouldn't really work, continue reading), which is a violation of contract, since you are tampering with the programming, or you have a guy sitting there on the board turn the commercial down, which is also tampering with the material and will cost you your advertisers. Since all commercials are mixed differently, it'd be a non-stop job to keep the apparent volume of the commercials right and a human would have to do it.
If it were regulated there'd be no way to measure whether or not a broadcaster was compliant since all sound volume measurement devices register peak volume. The volumes would "match" right now with no regulation.
The problem lies with the people that make the commercials. The engineers on the commercials are getting paid by these people and if you want to get paid, you do what you are told.
This is why I don't watch TV. TV doesn't care and I know it. I just don't like the constant auditory assault every few minutes. It drives me crazy.
If you don't like it, watch a pay cable channel, or watch movies. Stop supporting broadcasters that take overcompressed ads from advertisers.
That wouldn't solve the problem. Compressing the tv programming ruins it's sound quality.
The problem is caused by over-compressed commercials with 1db of dynamic range. A television show has a much larger dynamic range. Stuff can be quiet. If you compress a normal tv show like a commercial every sound in it would be LOUD. Whispers would be loud, the sound of a bird in the distance would be as loud as the actor. Wind and traffic noise would make conversations impossible to understand when filmed outside.
What needs to happen is the commercial needs to be aired at it's real volume. The peak average of the commercial needs to match the peak average of the TV show. Commercials would sound wimpy indeed, unless they stopped compressing them that much;-)
Unfortunately, this is Really Hard(tm) to do accurately. A human would need to review every commercial and assign it a loudness value, then the machines that played the commercials would need to be modified to read this loudness value and adjust the output volume accordingly. Then, you'd need to assign a peak average loudness value to each show and make sure the commercials were normalized to match the show. In other words, it's not going to happen.
Disclaimer: I don't know jack shit about broadcasting, I'm a sound engineer who happens to know a lot about dynamic range and how human perception of loudness works. I know exactly what broadcasters are up against.
The problem doesn't occur on the radio because the programming on the radio is compressed to 1db of dynamic range just like the commercials. Most people don't know everything sounds like shit because they are in a car and it HAS to be like that for you to hear anything over the road noise.
yea but if you buy a warranty for every item you buy, chances are one or none out of 20 will fail within the warranty period. At the end of the day, you are better off taking that warranty money, starting a special bank account, and dumping all the money you would have dumped on extended warranties into it. Then if something fails, you'll have more than enough cash for a new item.
I GUARANTEE, you'll come out ahead, and earn interest on it to boot. Ditto for car warranties.
Waste of money... at least if you put it in your account, and never need to use it, you still have your money.
Extended warranties are a scam. Don't give them your money, period. All you need to do is play the same numbers game the insurance companies do. It works for them and it will work for you.
The reason manufacturers spec a different battery than everyone else is so they can fix prices without collusion, sidestepping the price fixing laws altogether.
Laptop battery form factors and interfaces would be a good candidate for regulatory action which required standardization. It could be framed as a environmental necessity since if a particular laptop doesn't sell at all, and they have a crap ton of spare batteries to dispose of which only work in that laptop, they created a bunch of environmental impact for FAIL.
It's also a gigantic opportunity for someone to create a set of standardized batteries, then make adapters for each laptop which adjust voltage down or up as necessary, and have capability to adjust the charging to the standard battery's liking.
The pricing issues are caused by a lack of competition. Such a business would be future proof since as new battery technology matures, and the old batteries wear out, they could sell new standardized batteries that fit in the old adapters. Extrapolate to camcorders, cameras and everything else that uses proprietary battery form factors.
There's a ton of money to be made here if you could make it work and handle fulfillment. I have several devices packed in boxes which I won't get a new battery for. In a lot of cases the batteries cost more than the original item did.
Again, the state should simply tell them either service the _entire_ state, or none of it. There'd be 30 companies vying for the business if Verizon were kicked out.
You take the profits from densely populated areas, which they make a killing on, and apply it to the rest of the state. Take the good with the bad or take nothing. If no one bites, then the state takes over and handles all the infrastructure for a tax hike. I'd pay $100 a month extra in taxes if that meant I didn't have to pay Verizon that $100.
Unfortunately they pay off the politicians to subsidize their infrastructure for them so that would never happen.
don't know about cellular network, but in MD taxes paid for Verizon's eastern shore fiber infrastructure. Last I checked my internet costs didn't go down because my taxes were paying for the infrastructure that would be generating profit for Verizon over the next 20 years.
IMHO taxes should never be used to buy infrastructure for private companies, ever. If they won't service a particular area, don't bribe them, tell them to serve the state or don't serve the state. If they won't, revoke their license to do business, kick them out and open the market up for someone that will.
Lets see what's skewed that average: p2p compulsive downloaders stealing music, movies, software and porn 24x7 60% avg: 350GB a day windows malware sending spam 28% avg 15GB a day users downloading netflix and other legitimate media they paid for 8% avg 4GB a day median user using internet for news and email 4% avg.01 GB a day
Look ma, I can make up statistics too! Mine are probably more accurate.
lol when I started there were no interns. If you knew how to load a driver with config.sys and connect DOS/Win 3.11 to a network, you had a full time job. If you didn't you got someone to show you how. That being said, I was earning 32k at my first "IT" job and my salary went up drastically every year and I didn't know squat. However, I knew more than most others they could find. My previous job before my IT job, as a OS/2-powered controls tech, paid 24k, which is ~$12 an hour and I walked in knowing Commodore 64. That was in 1993 and my very first "real" job. I was 21. It was all OJT. The demand for IT people hasn't gone down since then. Apply a supply and demand curve, as well as inflation to decide if that internship pays enough. I'm also in the mid-atlantic region (Balt/Washington) which pays better than most of the country so factor that in.
If you don't have bills, and parents are helping you, and you can't find anything else, take the job. It's better than working at Best Buy or fast food, though you should be able to do a lot better as a computer science student, depending on market conditions in your area. If it's depressed and the job landscape looks like the Sahara desert, take what you can get.
I'll use the cloud when the vendors decide on a open data access standard (along with standard data import and export capability) and actually adhere to it. Til then they can keep it. Submitting to vendor lock in is not a very intelligent IT strategy, which means using cloud computing isn't an intelligent IT strategy if it involves development.
Maybe unions in your country are different. I worked in one here in the U.S. and the workers in my union were the biggest group of crybabies I've ever had the misfortune of working with. They were pissed that I was 19 and making a bigger union starting wage than they did in 1972, so they did crap like hide my tools and set traps in the shop for me.
On night shift they slept and did drugs. This is the tip of the iceburg.
No thank you. You can have your unions. In fact, I can thank unions for making me decide to go back to college and get a degree so I could work in a non-union job. There's no way I wanted to spend my life at work with those people.
Yo yo! U shoulda seen that lich mutha****a go down. I busted out my +5 holy burst repeating crossbow gat and put a S in his chest so hard his momma felt it. Me an' my homies is some bad mutha****as, terrorizin tha' Menechtarun hood.
> "...continued migration away from iPhone development will most likely result in lower quality software." Either that or a rise of quality software in Cydia. xGPS, Google Voice, and lots of other stuff are already there after being shot down by the app store. I use xGPS at least 3x a week and experience none of the problems reported by Tom-Tom users who didn't buy the TT hardware mount. Google voice has personally revolutionized my calling services.
As well, you can use balls of yarn for chaff. If the enemy uses a laser and makes the movement of the laser more interesting than the targeting laser, cat-missile will go after the more enticing laser.
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Based in Russia?
Address from http://www.iea.org/about/contact.asp:
9, rue de la Fédération
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Telephone:
Fax: (33 1) 40 57 65 00/01
(33 1) 40 57 65 59
Wow someone who makes sense. Why not just say pollution is dirty, stinks, and we don't like it? That's good enough for me. It can be proven, and it's fact.
Then there's the desertification of the Sahara, the millions of acres a year that we are clear-cutting out of forests.
It's not just carbon use that's causing it. It's carbon use, destruction of biomass, the natural cooling/warming cycle of the earth, and the natural temperature variations of the sun (which causes the other planets to warm and cool), changing ocean currents etc etc etc.
The product of all of this stuff combined is what we are seeing. Only problem is we don't how much each factor really contributes, including AGW.
Then there's the global cooling scare during the 80's. Prove to me that the current AGW alarmism isn't the same thing? I'd lay money down that says in 20 years we'll be ashamed of ourselves for being so stupid.
The glaciers started melting 12000 years ago. Man had nothing to do with it. We've been on a constant upward trend since then. We've had some dips, but overall, it's been getting warmer since before our species existed. Of course it's been getting warmer since we started collecting data.
Canada, the EU and a lot of the U.S. used to be under ice that had thickness which measured in kilometers. That all melted long before the industrial age. The great lakes were carved by glaciers and that ice was gone before human history. What's the AGW argument for this? When should the cooling cycle have begun? Nobody knows if it should have already, or whether it should be 2000 years from now.
The only facts we have is that the earth gets warmer, it also gets cooler, and we also have a bunch of incomplete statistical data that's less than 200 years old being used to try and predict what's going on with a macro-climactic cycle that lasts over 100000 years.
AGW theory is just that, a theory. It hasn't been tested yet. We don't have the knowledge or data to predict what part we play in anything on this scale.
I'm not saying the theory is wrong, just that people shouldn't portray it as something that is definite. If you do you are talking out of your ass. You can believe in a theory, but if you state it as fact, you are as bad as a right wing fundamentalist Christian. At this point, they have just as much evidence for their theory as you do for yours: a bunch of people said so, here's what they say they saw.
"There's absolutely no question that we humans are changing the atmospheric makeup of the earth." No shit. The question of the day is whether or not it's enough to impact climate cycles.
Climate science has become a religion followed by fervent zealots. This is not a good thing because facts go out the window and people get persecuted because of religion. They also become incapable of real science because of fear of the zealots and bias.
For me VirtualBox wins because it works on Windows 7 home premium. VMWare Server requires Professional.
I also like the interface better than VMWare's free server product which I was using on my old xp pro installation.
FTA: http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/UM-Student-Suspended-over-Facebook-Comment-dec-15-2009
Despite offering a simple explanation for the post, which was about a recent break-up with her boyfriend, Tatro was suspended from the mortuary science program, just a week before semester finals.
“I still want to stab a certain someone with a trocar. I’m not a monster. I’m not someone who’s going to attack anybody.”
Holy self contradiction batman!
I'd get a restraining order if I was the ex, and demand that the police do something about it. I'm not surprised she got suspended, especially making statements like that. She publicly said she wants to stab someone with a trocar for chrissakes. What more do you need? Now she has nothing to lose ROFL. Not a good situation.
PSY-CHO. I bet she's good in the sack :-p
They aren't authorized to sell OSX at all, shrink wrapped or not, and the judge put an injunction on them to prevent them from doing so.
What they can do is offer a patch on their site. Users can buy OSX at the crapple store, download their patch, patch the OS and do what they want with their copy.
That's all they need to do to get around the DMCA. Good luck going after users...
This is going to cause software companies to write very specific hardware requirements like:
2.6 ghz quad core AMD processor [model number, driver revision]
AMD 790x chipset [model number, driver revision]
ATi 4870 GPU [model number, driver revision]
Western Digital 1tb drive [model number]
Microsoft windows 7 [patch, revision, release year]
No one will read the hardware requirements, just like they don't now and the software companies will essentially have the same leeway they do now unless you have the exact motherboard, cpu, gpu, memory, hard drive they spec for the game.
Assuming people do read the hardware requirements, most people won't even know what they have in their computer. If there are bugs, there will be a very small subset of people that get refunds.
There's no way a guy that buys Assassin's Creed II to run on his netbook is going to get a refund.
Essentially [with few notable exceptions] most people that can't run a game bought something too ambitious for their hardware.
Then there are people with broken hardware, like the first couple of runs of nvidia multicore chipsets.
It's going to boil down to "Prove our software is broken, it works on the machines we coded it on, the configuration of which we made abundantly clear in the hardware requirements, and if you don't have one [flips bird]"
I personally have never bought a game that didn't work.
There are plenty of products that get replaced under warranty. A software patch is essentially the equivalent a warranty replacement.
Companies will get 4-6 weeks to put a patch out, and probably have 3 chances to do it before it's declared a lemon.
Nothing to see here move along...
Devices with software that works perfectly, as Andy mentions, have software written for a very specific piece of hardware, so it's hella easier to get it right than software that runs on millions of permutations of hardware combinations like PC's.
As a programmer he should know better...
If anything this will make things WORSE for consumers. Once hardware manufacturers release a new driver for any piece of hardware, or Microsoft has a patch Tuesday, the software company is off the hook and won't be obliged to release any more patches.
How many people do you know of that build a new computer for every game they buy? Well they'll have to for the software companies to be liable for their game bugs. They also won't be able to patch anything if they want to fill their end of the warranty for the game.
This will never do any good for anyone. It will make things worse. The security implications aren't pretty.
The same argument could be made for a patent on "Using a server connected to the internet to process commerce transactions"
WTF /agree
Good luck training a machine to decide what the perceived volume is then decide how the human ear is perceiving it in relation to the television programming. Unfortunately sound meters are how machines decide what volume is, and the sound meters only understand peaks, which are the same for the programming and the commercials.
There are average volume meters but the relationship between what they read, and what you are hearing is tenuous at best. That's why a real engineer relies on his ears, not the meters. All the meters are good for is to keep you from clipping a signal.
You have no idea how sound engineering works...
I'll do you a favor. Go learn something: http://www.digido.com/loudness-war-explained.html
If you want to be able to hold an intelligent conversation about sound, study every article on the site.
For purposes of the link I gave you, think of the original recording as the tv show, with the LOUD WIMPY SOUND BEING THE COMMERCIAL. The peak levels are the same, but the average volume (aka perceived volume) is much higher. So to make the perceived volumes match, you either brick wall limit the tv show to sound as horrible as the commercial (which wouldn't really work, continue reading), which is a violation of contract, since you are tampering with the programming, or you have a guy sitting there on the board turn the commercial down, which is also tampering with the material and will cost you your advertisers. Since all commercials are mixed differently, it'd be a non-stop job to keep the apparent volume of the commercials right and a human would have to do it.
If it were regulated there'd be no way to measure whether or not a broadcaster was compliant since all sound volume measurement devices register peak volume. The volumes would "match" right now with no regulation.
The problem lies with the people that make the commercials. The engineers on the commercials are getting paid by these people and if you want to get paid, you do what you are told.
This is why I don't watch TV. TV doesn't care and I know it. I just don't like the constant auditory assault every few minutes. It drives me crazy.
If you don't like it, watch a pay cable channel, or watch movies. Stop supporting broadcasters that take overcompressed ads from advertisers.
That wouldn't solve the problem. Compressing the tv programming ruins it's sound quality.
The problem is caused by over-compressed commercials with 1db of dynamic range. A television show has a much larger dynamic range. Stuff can be quiet. If you compress a normal tv show like a commercial every sound in it would be LOUD. Whispers would be loud, the sound of a bird in the distance would be as loud as the actor. Wind and traffic noise would make conversations impossible to understand when filmed outside.
What needs to happen is the commercial needs to be aired at it's real volume. The peak average of the commercial needs to match the peak average of the TV show. Commercials would sound wimpy indeed, unless they stopped compressing them that much ;-)
Unfortunately, this is Really Hard(tm) to do accurately. A human would need to review every commercial and assign it a loudness value, then the machines that played the commercials would need to be modified to read this loudness value and adjust the output volume accordingly. Then, you'd need to assign a peak average loudness value to each show and make sure the commercials were normalized to match the show. In other words, it's not going to happen.
Disclaimer: I don't know jack shit about broadcasting, I'm a sound engineer who happens to know a lot about dynamic range and how human perception of loudness works. I know exactly what broadcasters are up against.
The problem doesn't occur on the radio because the programming on the radio is compressed to 1db of dynamic range just like the commercials. Most people don't know everything sounds like shit because they are in a car and it HAS to be like that for you to hear anything over the road noise.
yea but if you buy a warranty for every item you buy, chances are one or none out of 20 will fail within the warranty period. At the end of the day, you are better off taking that warranty money, starting a special bank account, and dumping all the money you would have dumped on extended warranties into it. Then if something fails, you'll have more than enough cash for a new item.
I GUARANTEE, you'll come out ahead, and earn interest on it to boot. Ditto for car warranties.
Waste of money... at least if you put it in your account, and never need to use it, you still have your money.
Extended warranties are a scam. Don't give them your money, period. All you need to do is play the same numbers game the insurance companies do. It works for them and it will work for you.
-Viz
Economics 101: The market is driven by expectations
If people expect and are willing to pay the price, they will pay the price. Why should they lower prices on an item if people are still buying it?
The problems start when the manufacturers collude and fix prices. That's illegal http://business-law.freeadvice.com/trade_regulation/price_fixing.htm
The reason manufacturers spec a different battery than everyone else is so they can fix prices without collusion, sidestepping the price fixing laws altogether.
Laptop battery form factors and interfaces would be a good candidate for regulatory action which required standardization. It could be framed as a environmental necessity since if a particular laptop doesn't sell at all, and they have a crap ton of spare batteries to dispose of which only work in that laptop, they created a bunch of environmental impact for FAIL.
It's also a gigantic opportunity for someone to create a set of standardized batteries, then make adapters for each laptop which adjust voltage down or up as necessary, and have capability to adjust the charging to the standard battery's liking.
The pricing issues are caused by a lack of competition. Such a business would be future proof since as new battery technology matures, and the old batteries wear out, they could sell new standardized batteries that fit in the old adapters. Extrapolate to camcorders, cameras and everything else that uses proprietary battery form factors.
There's a ton of money to be made here if you could make it work and handle fulfillment. I have several devices packed in boxes which I won't get a new battery for. In a lot of cases the batteries cost more than the original item did.
Again, the state should simply tell them either service the _entire_ state, or none of it. There'd be 30 companies vying for the business if Verizon were kicked out.
You take the profits from densely populated areas, which they make a killing on, and apply it to the rest of the state. Take the good with the bad or take nothing. If no one bites, then the state takes over and handles all the infrastructure for a tax hike. I'd pay $100 a month extra in taxes if that meant I didn't have to pay Verizon that $100.
Unfortunately they pay off the politicians to subsidize their infrastructure for them so that would never happen.
don't know about cellular network, but in MD taxes paid for Verizon's eastern shore fiber infrastructure. Last I checked my internet costs didn't go down because my taxes were paying for the infrastructure that would be generating profit for Verizon over the next 20 years.
IMHO taxes should never be used to buy infrastructure for private companies, ever. If they won't service a particular area, don't bribe them, tell them to serve the state or don't serve the state. If they won't, revoke their license to do business, kick them out and open the market up for someone that will.
That kind of crap pisses me off...
Lets see what's skewed that average: .01 GB a day
p2p compulsive downloaders stealing music, movies, software and porn 24x7 60% avg: 350GB a day
windows malware sending spam 28% avg 15GB a day
users downloading netflix and other legitimate media they paid for 8% avg 4GB a day
median user using internet for news and email 4% avg
Look ma, I can make up statistics too! Mine are probably more accurate.
lol when I started there were no interns. If you knew how to load a driver with config.sys and connect DOS/Win 3.11 to a network, you had a full time job. If you didn't you got someone to show you how. That being said, I was earning 32k at my first "IT" job and my salary went up drastically every year and I didn't know squat. However, I knew more than most others they could find. My previous job before my IT job, as a OS/2-powered controls tech, paid 24k, which is ~$12 an hour and I walked in knowing Commodore 64. That was in 1993 and my very first "real" job. I was 21. It was all OJT. The demand for IT people hasn't gone down since then. Apply a supply and demand curve, as well as inflation to decide if that internship pays enough. I'm also in the mid-atlantic region (Balt/Washington) which pays better than most of the country so factor that in.
If you don't have bills, and parents are helping you, and you can't find anything else, take the job. It's better than working at Best Buy or fast food, though you should be able to do a lot better as a computer science student, depending on market conditions in your area. If it's depressed and the job landscape looks like the Sahara desert, take what you can get.
I'll use the cloud when the vendors decide on a open data access standard (along with standard data import and export capability) and actually adhere to it. Til then they can keep it. Submitting to vendor lock in is not a very intelligent IT strategy, which means using cloud computing isn't an intelligent IT strategy if it involves development.
Sometimes cheap isn't very cheap at all.
Union == communism
Maybe unions in your country are different. I worked in one here in the U.S. and the workers in my union were the biggest group of crybabies I've ever had the misfortune of working with. They were pissed that I was 19 and making a bigger union starting wage than they did in 1972, so they did crap like hide my tools and set traps in the shop for me.
On night shift they slept and did drugs. This is the tip of the iceburg.
No thank you. You can have your unions. In fact, I can thank unions for making me decide to go back to college and get a degree so I could work in a non-union job. There's no way I wanted to spend my life at work with those people.
As long as you release it properly you should do it.
Yo yo! U shoulda seen that lich mutha****a go down. I busted out my +5 holy burst repeating crossbow gat and put a S in his chest so hard his momma felt it. Me an' my homies is some bad mutha****as, terrorizin tha' Menechtarun hood.
There are people that don't own iPhones who run pirated software on their phones.
no-script for the win, yet again.
> "...continued migration away from iPhone development will most likely result in lower quality software."
Either that or a rise of quality software in Cydia. xGPS, Google Voice, and lots of other stuff are already there after being shot down by the app store. I use xGPS at least 3x a week and experience none of the problems reported by Tom-Tom users who didn't buy the TT hardware mount. Google voice has personally revolutionized my calling services.
As well, you can use balls of yarn for chaff. If the enemy uses a laser and makes the movement of the laser more interesting than the targeting laser, cat-missile will go after the more enticing laser.