And more importantly, if you have a domain name you're not tied into the webmail provider OR your ISP.
I have firstname@lastname.com as my email address (yes, it's a bit generic - ha!). All my email accounts on my domain are consolidated within a gmail account, but now they allow me to properly use my own SMTP server via GMail, I can completely invisibly do this. So nobody sending mail to or receiving mail from me knows it's all done by Gmail.
Not only am I completely decoupled from my ISP, I'm also decoupled from my mail provider. If Google does something I don't like, or something better comes along (unlikely, but possible) I can switch my email instantly at no cost. Likewise, if I'm unlucky enough to have my mail suspended for some reason, again, I'm not at GMail's mercy.
Complete lack of reliance on mail provider and ISP is the only way to be sure.
If I see a developer candidate who has his own personal domain, I'll mod him up. If I see somebody with AOL, I'll be less convinced. It's a bit like going for an interview with a mobile phone carrier, and giving a land-line as your phone number. Or maybe going for an interview as an HGV driver and asking if somebody can pick you up from the station.
The thing that really irritates the hell out of me is seeing vans for tradesman who have their own domain, but an AOL email address. E.g.
All these Rage fans getting so het up about X-factor being top of the chart. And yet they themselves seem to feel the need to have their music choice validated by everyone else buying the same.
The chart is about populist music - by definition. So why complain about X-factor-bots being at the top of it?!?
Jeez. Sheeples, all of them. If you like music, buy/listen to it. If not, don't. WTF GAFF about whether all the other people out their bought it?
I would suggest that whilst you think you're a geek, you're probably not.
I've been a software developer for 17 years, across 7 or 8 different jobs, in different industries ranging from e-commerce website construction/development, through desktop publishing, and (at the moment) finance. In all those years I've never been mentally exhausted, because I love developing software. I often wake up in the middle of the night thinking about how I'm going to fix/write something, and have to write it down. I regularly write code in my spare time. I've also only ever been on-call for all day/night 2 years of that whole career, and that was when I worked for a small company (larger companies have proper support structures so people are only on call at specific, rota'd times). It's perfectly possible to find a software dev job that doesn't require long hours or being on call.
And if you think that life in teaching is going to be a bed of roses, think again - you'll earn far less than you would in IT, and you'll work just as hard (most teachers I know regularly take 2-3 hours' marking work home most evenings during term-time).
You'd be better off finding out what the jobs you want to do are actually like, than basing it on stereotypes and opinions from/.
Ads work by hundreds of thousands of people seeing them, and a small percentage clicking. The cost of delivery is almost nil.
With a phone like the HTC Passion (which is what the Nexus is) the manufacturing/retail costs will be in the hundreds of dollars (£500+). Even if Google showed me ads for 2 hours a day, every day, and I clicked on every one and purchased through one of them every week, there would never be enough revenue to subsidise the cost of the handset to anything like what I'd want to pay (i.e., Free, like my current HTC Magic, on a £35/month tariff... with effectively unlimited minutes, data and SMS).
Gmail has folders. They're just called 'labels', and an email can be cross-referenced to appear under multiple labels, or folders.
I imported my last 7 years' mail from Outlook into Gmail using the IMAP drag-n-drop solution mentioned above, and it works a treat. If you drag the mails folder-by-folder, each Outlook folder will have a label autogenerated (e.g., a folder called 'family' will be created as a label 'INBOX\family'). You can rename the labels (to remove the 'inbox\' part) later, once the import is complete.
Main caveat to this technique is make sure you allow enough time - it takes several hours for hundreds of thousands of emails to be imported this way, and if you abort and restart you have to manually work out which ones already got transferred (easier if you use move rather than copy, obviously).
To elaborate, Android does both. All of the contacts, emails, etc are stored client-side, but the server-side infrastructure (I will never ever ever use the phrase 'cloud' without inverted commas) synchronises with the device to provide a backup and enhanced storage. So your contacts are sync'ed to Google's servers, and your Gmail emails are stored on the server with the most recently-recieved ones stored locally on the device.
By all accounts that's how Sidekick works too, since phone users were told to "not turn off their devices to avoid further data loss".
It's a fine model, but only if your server-side infrastructure is resilient. I have reasonable confident in Google's backup/replication strategy, but even so I still have offline backups of the data I absolutely need (such as a.csv file with all my contacts in it).
Why bother poaching Apple retail staff? They're just sales droids. I'm not a Mac/iPhone owner, but I can see that the products would most likely sell themselves in a lot of cases.
Other than being disruptive by forcing Apple to waste time hiring (which seems a pretty inefficient way for MS to compete) why not just hire some people from outside the industry and do something innovative? It's not like there aren't people available and looking for work right now.
If MS really want to sell their low-quality but commoditised products to the masses with a load of spin and glitz, why not hire some of those who used to sell sub-prime mortgages?;)
There has to be some sort of way to compensate the artist for the hours and the sweat and the blood and the tears and the extreme, extreme expense that goes into making music
This compensation already exists. It's colloquially referred to as "drugs and groupies".
Who cares about changing the god-damn battery? What is this obsession with dissing the iPhone for having a sealed battery?
I've had mobile phones (about one a year) for nigh-on 20 years, and have never ever ever wanted to replace the battery in my device. That includes cellphones, smartphones, PDAs, etc. I have an Android phone now (Magic) and still have no desire to swap out the battery.
So shut up about removable batteries. All but 3 people on the planet DGAS about them!
In order to 'engineer' a crime scene, to incriminate somebody by planting fake DNA, the first thing I need it a real, if tiny, DNA sample, perhaps from a strand of hair or a drinking cup. Then I use that to fake some DNA, which I place at the scene.
So can somebody tell my WTF, if I already have some legitimate DNA from the person I'm attempting to frame, I wouldn't just place that at the crime scene instead?
This is absurd. You're clearly a (junior) trader who can also write a bit of code. You are not a software engineer or developer. There is a difference, you just aren't aware of it.
Any decent software engineering should be perfectly capable of applying their skills to just about any industry. Why? Because good software architecture is a skill in its own right, and the things which go along with it that allow you to interact with the business (good communication, clear specification, lack of jargon, implementing what's needed to run the business) are applicable to any industry.
For example, in my 15-year career as a software developer I've designed and written software systems to do
Book layout and publishing
Newspaper editorial systems
Document imaging
Pensions batch processing
FX trade entry
Car tyre sales
Manufacturing / process management
Purchase and sales ordering
Real-time Stock control
Equities trading systems
Global inter-region cross-business application frameworks
I didn't have specialised knowledge in those fields before I became involved in them, but I have the ability to listen, and that's what is more important than any other skill in IT.
I'm not wishing I had a Blackberry or Android, at all. Never will. Their UI and experience are shit in comparison.
I agree on the BB front, but clearly you've not used an Android device, as the UI experience is pretty much identical (slidy windows, quick response, flickable GUIs, etc).
If the guy was moving house, and packed the van and then went to visit a relative, then what's happening here is that the guy is being a complete and utter fool.
The parent's point was that why do you need to continually call the removal people to find out where they are?
If you trust the company to move your stuff, then they'll get it to your new place as soon as they can. If they're late, they should call you. If you don't trust the company to move your stuff, then hire somebody else, or hire a van and move the stuff yourself.
Seems totally paranoid to want to 'track' the removal company, if you ask me!
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And more importantly, if you have a domain name you're not tied into the webmail provider OR your ISP.
I have firstname@lastname.com as my email address (yes, it's a bit generic - ha!). All my email accounts on my domain are consolidated within a gmail account, but now they allow me to properly use my own SMTP server via GMail, I can completely invisibly do this. So nobody sending mail to or receiving mail from me knows it's all done by Gmail.
Not only am I completely decoupled from my ISP, I'm also decoupled from my mail provider. If Google does something I don't like, or something better comes along (unlikely, but possible) I can switch my email instantly at no cost. Likewise, if I'm unlucky enough to have my mail suspended for some reason, again, I'm not at GMail's mercy.
Complete lack of reliance on mail provider and ISP is the only way to be sure.
Ahhhh. I just wrote exactly the same thing a bit further down. Yes, irritates me hugely, that does.
If I see a developer candidate who has his own personal domain, I'll mod him up. If I see somebody with AOL, I'll be less convinced. It's a bit like going for an interview with a mobile phone carrier, and giving a land-line as your phone number. Or maybe going for an interview as an HGV driver and asking if somebody can pick you up from the station.
The thing that really irritates the hell out of me is seeing vans for tradesman who have their own domain, but an AOL email address. E.g.
www.andys-plumbing.co.uk
andysplumbing@aol.com
Grrrr!
...about who's at #1?
All these Rage fans getting so het up about X-factor being top of the chart. And yet they themselves seem to feel the need to have their music choice validated by everyone else buying the same.
The chart is about populist music - by definition. So why complain about X-factor-bots being at the top of it?!?
Jeez. Sheeples, all of them. If you like music, buy/listen to it. If not, don't. WTF GAFF about whether all the other people out their bought it?
I would suggest that whilst you think you're a geek, you're probably not.
I've been a software developer for 17 years, across 7 or 8 different jobs, in different industries ranging from e-commerce website construction/development, through desktop publishing, and (at the moment) finance. In all those years I've never been mentally exhausted, because I love developing software. I often wake up in the middle of the night thinking about how I'm going to fix/write something, and have to write it down. I regularly write code in my spare time. I've also only ever been on-call for all day/night 2 years of that whole career, and that was when I worked for a small company (larger companies have proper support structures so people are only on call at specific, rota'd times). It's perfectly possible to find a software dev job that doesn't require long hours or being on call.
And if you think that life in teaching is going to be a bed of roses, think again - you'll earn far less than you would in IT, and you'll work just as hard (most teachers I know regularly take 2-3 hours' marking work home most evenings during term-time).
You'd be better off finding out what the jobs you want to do are actually like, than basing it on stereotypes and opinions from /.
Ads work by hundreds of thousands of people seeing them, and a small percentage clicking. The cost of delivery is almost nil. With a phone like the HTC Passion (which is what the Nexus is) the manufacturing/retail costs will be in the hundreds of dollars (£500+). Even if Google showed me ads for 2 hours a day, every day, and I clicked on every one and purchased through one of them every week, there would never be enough revenue to subsidise the cost of the handset to anything like what I'd want to pay (i.e., Free, like my current HTC Magic, on a £35/month tariff... with effectively unlimited minutes, data and SMS).
Gmail has folders. They're just called 'labels', and an email can be cross-referenced to appear under multiple labels, or folders.
I imported my last 7 years' mail from Outlook into Gmail using the IMAP drag-n-drop solution mentioned above, and it works a treat. If you drag the mails folder-by-folder, each Outlook folder will have a label autogenerated (e.g., a folder called 'family' will be created as a label 'INBOX\family'). You can rename the labels (to remove the 'inbox\' part) later, once the import is complete.
Main caveat to this technique is make sure you allow enough time - it takes several hours for hundreds of thousands of emails to be imported this way, and if you abort and restart you have to manually work out which ones already got transferred (easier if you use move rather than copy, obviously).
I'm surprised it's so low.
To elaborate, Android does both. All of the contacts, emails, etc are stored client-side, but the server-side infrastructure (I will never ever ever use the phrase 'cloud' without inverted commas) synchronises with the device to provide a backup and enhanced storage. So your contacts are sync'ed to Google's servers, and your Gmail emails are stored on the server with the most recently-recieved ones stored locally on the device.
By all accounts that's how Sidekick works too, since phone users were told to "not turn off their devices to avoid further data loss".
It's a fine model, but only if your server-side infrastructure is resilient. I have reasonable confident in Google's backup/replication strategy, but even so I still have offline backups of the data I absolutely need (such as a .csv file with all my contacts in it).
Why bother poaching Apple retail staff? They're just sales droids. I'm not a Mac/iPhone owner, but I can see that the products would most likely sell themselves in a lot of cases.
Other than being disruptive by forcing Apple to waste time hiring (which seems a pretty inefficient way for MS to compete) why not just hire some people from outside the industry and do something innovative? It's not like there aren't people available and looking for work right now.
If MS really want to sell their low-quality but commoditised products to the masses with a load of spin and glitz, why not hire some of those who used to sell sub-prime mortgages? ;)
Or not. Bah. ;)
..to be first?
There has to be some sort of way to compensate the artist for the hours and the sweat and the blood and the tears and the extreme, extreme expense that goes into making music
This compensation already exists. It's colloquially referred to as "drugs and groupies".
Who cares about changing the god-damn battery? What is this obsession with dissing the iPhone for having a sealed battery?
I've had mobile phones (about one a year) for nigh-on 20 years, and have never ever ever wanted to replace the battery in my device. That includes cellphones, smartphones, PDAs, etc. I have an Android phone now (Magic) and still have no desire to swap out the battery.
So shut up about removable batteries. All but 3 people on the planet DGAS about them!
I interviewed somebody in 2007 who claimed they'd had 7 years .Net experience.
Did you give the police a sample of your kids' DNA in case they ever got lost or kidnapped?
No. And I wouldn't, even if I had kids, because I'm not a paranoid lunatic.
Do people really do that??!!?
In order to 'engineer' a crime scene, to incriminate somebody by planting fake DNA, the first thing I need it a real, if tiny, DNA sample, perhaps from a strand of hair or a drinking cup. Then I use that to fake some DNA, which I place at the scene.
So can somebody tell my WTF, if I already have some legitimate DNA from the person I'm attempting to frame, I wouldn't just place that at the crime scene instead?
Rumour has it there might be, but in the meantime you can get CoPilot for Android (and iPhone) for about half the price of TomTom.
http://www.alk.eu.com/copilot/android
We've tested this with a mate's HTC Touch, and the crash doesn't happen....
This is absurd. You're clearly a (junior) trader who can also write a bit of code. You are not a software engineer or developer. There is a difference, you just aren't aware of it.
Any decent software engineering should be perfectly capable of applying their skills to just about any industry. Why? Because good software architecture is a skill in its own right, and the things which go along with it that allow you to interact with the business (good communication, clear specification, lack of jargon, implementing what's needed to run the business) are applicable to any industry.
For example, in my 15-year career as a software developer I've designed and written software systems to do
I didn't have specialised knowledge in those fields before I became involved in them, but I have the ability to listen, and that's what is more important than any other skill in IT.
Guess they got spent a bit longer on the security aspect than most Government IT projects then.
Perhaps it might work better if you learned how to spell 'expensive'? ;)
I agree on the BB front, but clearly you've not used an Android device, as the UI experience is pretty much identical (slidy windows, quick response, flickable GUIs, etc).
If the guy was moving house, and packed the van and then went to visit a relative, then what's happening here is that the guy is being a complete and utter fool.
The parent's point was that why do you need to continually call the removal people to find out where they are?
If you trust the company to move your stuff, then they'll get it to your new place as soon as they can. If they're late, they should call you. If you don't trust the company to move your stuff, then hire somebody else, or hire a van and move the stuff yourself.
Seems totally paranoid to want to 'track' the removal company, if you ask me!