That did not result in any loss of data. And the SOAP API still is accessible, just deprecated. So what, eventually ALL web services will be deprecated as the specs progress.
Any company that is publicly traded would be fucking mortified to find out you're using a non-corporate email address. There are so many issues with this...security for one, professionalism for another, and then there's all the legal stuff. Sarbanes Oxley has specific requirements on logging of email, instant messenger traffic, etc.
Your facts are stupid, you're counting only 50% of John and Cindy McCains combined income. For Obama you're counting 100% of his and Michelle's combined incomes. Furthermore, Cindy McCain like many wealth people gets most of her income not from salary but through capital gains and other tax advantaged sources which McCain is not required to report on his tax returns (which he files separately).
Judges generally seem willing to ignore election laws that are causing problems. In this case, 99% of voters support McCain or Obama, so leaving them off the ballot due to a technicality would disenfranchise those voters. A judge will have no problem saying the constitution takes precedence and voters would be harmed by that action.
Ultimately it doesn't really matter if Barr is right or not.
This may not be a bad idea actually. Salaries in India can actually be pretty high, up to 2/3rds of what US workers are making. India is not the bargain it once was for outsourcing. If you can find a good job there in a specific area of technical expertise or in a leadership role for a US organization you can do well. And in India, my understanding is that tech workers speak English on the job as it is considered the language of business.
4 years experience is what you need to get a skills certification from the Australian Computer Society, which should qualify you for an independent skilled migration visa (subclass 175). This is basically a green card for australia, you're a permanent resident with essentially no restrictions and you don't need employment in advance.
It will take 12-18 months to go through the process though. If you're looking to move long term this is probably a realistic timeframe for visa applications in many countries. I'm personally doing this, and since every small error in the paperwork is probably a 2-3 month delay I hired an immigration attorney to represent me (I found migration agents seemed to be amateurish so I ended up finding an attorney with an immigration specialization license). Costs about $3k for the attorney, and $3k for the various fees for the assessment, visa app, and all the supporting documentation.
The only real problem with the system is that most of the states electors are chosen in a winner-take-all manner. If they were all elected proportionally then the scenario by which a president is elected without the popular vote becomes extremely unlikely. The constitution grants the states the authority to assign their electors by any method the state legislature chooses. So really, you have to blame the states for this problem.
California tried to switch to proportional electors a year or two ago...it didn't succeed, mainly because it was just a ploy to ensure no democrat would ever be elected president. But if the states began to pass a collective agreement to go proportional that would work ok. It would basically be each state passing a law agreeing to proportional electors once all the other states had also passed a similar law. Then it happens all at once.
I don't see how this is any different than using a third party product. Netflix surely has a good engineering team that is thoroughly familiar with the system. If the system was similarly broken and it was provided by a third party then you'd just have that company's engineering team working on it.
Where's the disadvantage? (if anything, the fact that the engineers work for netflix probably motivates them to fix it faster since it's their own company's ass on the line)
By the way, I got my DVDs right on schedule despite receiving that email and not getting any notifications of my returns being received or shipments being sent. So it isn't clear that the problem is really that signficant. It kind of sounds like they don't really know the extent of the issue yet.
I think we're talking past each other here. If you start blasting out resumes with the idea that someone will sponsor you for a J1, you're highly unlikely to get anywhere. If an employer is willing to do a J1 they will probably be working through a specific exchange program/agency.
There are other visa you can get without prior sponsorship. If you're looking for an internship you almost surely will need to have one of these in hand to pull it off (again assuming you're not going through a dedicated program, but rather searching for internships to apply to).
I really think there are very few companies willing to sponsor J1s except in unusual circumstances for an internship, especially when the person probably wont be authorized to accept a full time position after graduation. You need to get a visa in advance or use a dedicated program for placing J1s.
Of course there are visas available, my point is his first step should be to get one. No company will want to spend any time looking at you if you don't already have work authorization.
Unless you're a PhD student with a unique skillset, without authorization to work in the US you will not be able to get anywhere. It takes a lot of time, effort, and money for an employer to sponsor someone and it is highly unlikely any company will do that for a mere intern.
Generally internships with medium to large companies pay well, almost as much as an entry level full time employer. A small company or startup may not be able to afford that.
How are potential employers supposed to know that your project is of any value at all? Your version number indicates you don't consider it anywhere close to a first release. Your website says it is painfully slow and lacks precision. It also says that you've never really used it for anything because you're too busy developing it.
It would appear to be a hobby project and while I doubt it is hurting you, employers want to see how it shows your ability to contribute to a product (meaning, something with a schedule that is treated as an investment with an expected return).
If you just scoff at anyone who doesn't somehow understand your brilliance based on the debbie downer presentation of your website I don't think you're likely to get a job if this is the main thing you're trying to use as the basis of your qualifications.
I'm sure there must be some accomplishments you could highlight...
And my point is so what? Many Olympics have had their major events during the middle of the night in North/South America (such as those held in Europe).
Beijing is 5 hours ahead of Greece, so if they want to have live primetime coverage from 7-11pm like we have in the states the athletes would have to be competing from midnight to 4am. For primetime live coverage, it simply doesn't make any sense to schedule it to accomodate Europe. And it makes plenty of sense for the Americas.
Furthermore, there are some events scheduled for convenient live coverage in Europe. As an example, next Sunday many of the gymnastics final events will be held in the evening in Beijing, which will make for convenient live coverage through the afternoon for Europe. And in the Americas it will be the middle of the night.
Take off your tin foil hat, drop your instinct for outrage and realize that everyone will see some events live and everyone will miss some events. It has nothing to do with bribes or anti-europeanism or any of this other nonsense.
The United States participated in the original 1896 summer games (the first Olympics of the "modern era"). So unless you're greek, you have no special claim to the games.
Nonetheless, I prefer watching tape delay. Tonight they had a lot of weird dead time to fill between swimming events, they kept cutting to recorded gymnastics. It was all very choppy, I don't have any problem just seeing the taped and nicely edited version.
There actually is an antenna option. But it wont let you watch video if you pick that. Instead it encourages to you "change your selection." Considering none of us accepted any kind of license I don't see how picking wahtever you want it a problem.
And if people do have some moral objection to that, why not just, you know...watch it on TV when it is actually aired? (and for other sports, tough, you're lucky we have any choice for watching shooting or fencing. In years past, you could do no better than reading the news recap the next day).
How in gods name did people get the impression that this was a news? It called the opening ceremony. It is entertainment. News shows do not typically feature fireworks, dance performances, hundreds of syncronized drummers, a man on a cable running through the air to light a giant torch, or any of the rest of the ceremony. Because, it was a ceremony for the purpose of entertaining us.
Haven't seen any discussion of the actual presentation. For the actual SmartCard (rather than just the mag stripe paper ticket), it wasn't clear to me if they ever actually managed to break the key. They noted that it was a short key. Then they showed how they would build a key cracker using an FPGA. Then they wrote some code to reprogram the card once they had the key.
But did they ever manage to use all of these successfully (meaning, did they ever actually break a key with their FPGA or is it just an FPGA that theoretically could break a key?). And if so, how long did it take? And is that key specific to the card?
Maybe they did, it was powerpoint so there is some vagueness compared to a paper or something. The real question is how much effort is involved in forging a single card? This attack could be relatively harmless or utterly devastating based on that factor.
This is not true at all, airline passengers are extremely cost sensitive. They will choose a different destination that has a cheaper fare, or find a vacation that is close to home, or if it is a business they may consider trying to avoid the trip by using conference calls or video conferencing (or sending fewer people, etc).
If price was no big deal, wouldn't the airlines raise prices and get rid of all this red ink?
Non competes are pretty limited anywhere and almost totally unenforcable in California. Apple engineers would be able to get other equally challenging jobs that match their qualifications with trivial effort.
I'm not taking a position on their claim, but they certainly weren't trapped at Apple.
I'm guessing the person who actually needs to be smacked is taco for using some weird browser that doesn't render the page like any of the mainstream browsers...
That could be, I was mainly responding to the idea that you must be very senior to be able to find a job. Seems it is not true. I do still worry about falling into a gap between junior and senior at some point in the future.
Off the top of my head I can think of a few reasons why this is an issue. Because it is changing everyone's pay rate, rather than just a small adjustment to a particular job. Consider a few factors...vacation and sick time are probably correllated somehow with your pay grade. Pension and retirement benefits as well. Then, each title or job level probably has a mandated pay range which everyone has to be in. Changing the pay rate also means that tax withholding has to be adjusted. Many employees may have automatic deductions from their checks that would end up being more than the paycheck if they were dropped to minimum wage...what happens in this situation? That's just in 30 seconds of thinking.
Making a change to a large system can have a lot of secondary effects that are hard to correct for. If you combine that with antiquated systems and a severe shortage of qualified staff, it could indeed take 6 months to make a change like this. And 9 months to undo it, since you'd have to retroactively adjust all the secondary effects to pay back what was missing until the budget passed. Especially if you're careful to watch for quality in your development process. Mistakes made in payroll systems are really not acceptable.
You must not have searched lately, I was laid off in April and I was inundated with calls from recruiters just by posting a resume on Monster and Dice. They were for quality jobs too for the most part. I ended up with 6 offers and a 30% raise. This doesn't seem to be uncommon from chatting with others in the industry, and with recruiters (who were saying it's particularly tough to get people to accept because they have so many options right now). Oh, and I have about 4 years of experience and a very broad skillset but with little depth due to bouncing from project to project.
This is for product development, I don't know about general IT (syadmins and whatnot).
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That did not result in any loss of data. And the SOAP API still is accessible, just deprecated. So what, eventually ALL web services will be deprecated as the specs progress.
Any company that is publicly traded would be fucking mortified to find out you're using a non-corporate email address. There are so many issues with this...security for one, professionalism for another, and then there's all the legal stuff. Sarbanes Oxley has specific requirements on logging of email, instant messenger traffic, etc.
Your facts are stupid, you're counting only 50% of John and Cindy McCains combined income. For Obama you're counting 100% of his and Michelle's combined incomes. Furthermore, Cindy McCain like many wealth people gets most of her income not from salary but through capital gains and other tax advantaged sources which McCain is not required to report on his tax returns (which he files separately).
Judges generally seem willing to ignore election laws that are causing problems. In this case, 99% of voters support McCain or Obama, so leaving them off the ballot due to a technicality would disenfranchise those voters. A judge will have no problem saying the constitution takes precedence and voters would be harmed by that action.
Ultimately it doesn't really matter if Barr is right or not.
This may not be a bad idea actually. Salaries in India can actually be pretty high, up to 2/3rds of what US workers are making. India is not the bargain it once was for outsourcing. If you can find a good job there in a specific area of technical expertise or in a leadership role for a US organization you can do well. And in India, my understanding is that tech workers speak English on the job as it is considered the language of business.
4 years experience is what you need to get a skills certification from the Australian Computer Society, which should qualify you for an independent skilled migration visa (subclass 175). This is basically a green card for australia, you're a permanent resident with essentially no restrictions and you don't need employment in advance.
It will take 12-18 months to go through the process though. If you're looking to move long term this is probably a realistic timeframe for visa applications in many countries. I'm personally doing this, and since every small error in the paperwork is probably a 2-3 month delay I hired an immigration attorney to represent me (I found migration agents seemed to be amateurish so I ended up finding an attorney with an immigration specialization license). Costs about $3k for the attorney, and $3k for the various fees for the assessment, visa app, and all the supporting documentation.
The only real problem with the system is that most of the states electors are chosen in a winner-take-all manner. If they were all elected proportionally then the scenario by which a president is elected without the popular vote becomes extremely unlikely. The constitution grants the states the authority to assign their electors by any method the state legislature chooses. So really, you have to blame the states for this problem.
California tried to switch to proportional electors a year or two ago...it didn't succeed, mainly because it was just a ploy to ensure no democrat would ever be elected president. But if the states began to pass a collective agreement to go proportional that would work ok. It would basically be each state passing a law agreeing to proportional electors once all the other states had also passed a similar law. Then it happens all at once.
They've got 14 hours a day of coverage for like 16 days...obviously no single hour is going to draw the ratings of the super bowl.
This is one of the most watched Olympics ever, that is simply a fact.
I don't see how this is any different than using a third party product. Netflix surely has a good engineering team that is thoroughly familiar with the system. If the system was similarly broken and it was provided by a third party then you'd just have that company's engineering team working on it.
Where's the disadvantage? (if anything, the fact that the engineers work for netflix probably motivates them to fix it faster since it's their own company's ass on the line)
By the way, I got my DVDs right on schedule despite receiving that email and not getting any notifications of my returns being received or shipments being sent. So it isn't clear that the problem is really that signficant. It kind of sounds like they don't really know the extent of the issue yet.
I think we're talking past each other here. If you start blasting out resumes with the idea that someone will sponsor you for a J1, you're highly unlikely to get anywhere. If an employer is willing to do a J1 they will probably be working through a specific exchange program/agency.
There are other visa you can get without prior sponsorship. If you're looking for an internship you almost surely will need to have one of these in hand to pull it off (again assuming you're not going through a dedicated program, but rather searching for internships to apply to).
I really think there are very few companies willing to sponsor J1s except in unusual circumstances for an internship, especially when the person probably wont be authorized to accept a full time position after graduation. You need to get a visa in advance or use a dedicated program for placing J1s.
Of course there are visas available, my point is his first step should be to get one. No company will want to spend any time looking at you if you don't already have work authorization.
Unless you're a PhD student with a unique skillset, without authorization to work in the US you will not be able to get anywhere. It takes a lot of time, effort, and money for an employer to sponsor someone and it is highly unlikely any company will do that for a mere intern.
Generally internships with medium to large companies pay well, almost as much as an entry level full time employer. A small company or startup may not be able to afford that.
I can't imagine what facts of any particular importance I learned from the opening ceremony. It was purely entertainment for most viewers.
How are potential employers supposed to know that your project is of any value at all? Your version number indicates you don't consider it anywhere close to a first release. Your website says it is painfully slow and lacks precision. It also says that you've never really used it for anything because you're too busy developing it.
It would appear to be a hobby project and while I doubt it is hurting you, employers want to see how it shows your ability to contribute to a product (meaning, something with a schedule that is treated as an investment with an expected return).
If you just scoff at anyone who doesn't somehow understand your brilliance based on the debbie downer presentation of your website I don't think you're likely to get a job if this is the main thing you're trying to use as the basis of your qualifications.
I'm sure there must be some accomplishments you could highlight...
And my point is so what? Many Olympics have had their major events during the middle of the night in North/South America (such as those held in Europe).
Beijing is 5 hours ahead of Greece, so if they want to have live primetime coverage from 7-11pm like we have in the states the athletes would have to be competing from midnight to 4am.
For primetime live coverage, it simply doesn't make any sense to schedule it to accomodate Europe. And it makes plenty of sense for the Americas.
Furthermore, there are some events scheduled for convenient live coverage in Europe. As an example, next Sunday many of the gymnastics final events will be held in the evening in Beijing, which will make for convenient live coverage through the afternoon for Europe. And in the Americas it will be the middle of the night.
Take off your tin foil hat, drop your instinct for outrage and realize that everyone will see some events live and everyone will miss some events. It has nothing to do with bribes or anti-europeanism or any of this other nonsense.
The United States participated in the original 1896 summer games (the first Olympics of the "modern era"). So unless you're greek, you have no special claim to the games.
Nonetheless, I prefer watching tape delay. Tonight they had a lot of weird dead time to fill between swimming events, they kept cutting to recorded gymnastics. It was all very choppy, I don't have any problem just seeing the taped and nicely edited version.
There actually is an antenna option. But it wont let you watch video if you pick that. Instead it encourages to you "change your selection." Considering none of us accepted any kind of license I don't see how picking wahtever you want it a problem.
And if people do have some moral objection to that, why not just, you know...watch it on TV when it is actually aired? (and for other sports, tough, you're lucky we have any choice for watching shooting or fencing. In years past, you could do no better than reading the news recap the next day).
How in gods name did people get the impression that this was a news? It called the opening ceremony. It is entertainment. News shows do not typically feature fireworks, dance performances, hundreds of syncronized drummers, a man on a cable running through the air to light a giant torch, or any of the rest of the ceremony. Because, it was a ceremony for the purpose of entertaining us.
Haven't seen any discussion of the actual presentation. For the actual SmartCard (rather than just the mag stripe paper ticket), it wasn't clear to me if they ever actually managed to break the key. They noted that it was a short key. Then they showed how they would build a key cracker using an FPGA. Then they wrote some code to reprogram the card once they had the key.
But did they ever manage to use all of these successfully (meaning, did they ever actually break a key with their FPGA or is it just an FPGA that theoretically could break a key?). And if so, how long did it take? And is that key specific to the card?
Maybe they did, it was powerpoint so there is some vagueness compared to a paper or something. The real question is how much effort is involved in forging a single card? This attack could be relatively harmless or utterly devastating based on that factor.
This is not true at all, airline passengers are extremely cost sensitive. They will choose a different destination that has a cheaper fare, or find a vacation that is close to home, or if it is a business they may consider trying to avoid the trip by using conference calls or video conferencing (or sending fewer people, etc).
If price was no big deal, wouldn't the airlines raise prices and get rid of all this red ink?
Non competes are pretty limited anywhere and almost totally unenforcable in California. Apple engineers would be able to get other equally challenging jobs that match their qualifications with trivial effort.
I'm not taking a position on their claim, but they certainly weren't trapped at Apple.
I'm guessing the person who actually needs to be smacked is taco for using some weird browser that doesn't render the page like any of the mainstream browsers...
That could be, I was mainly responding to the idea that you must be very senior to be able to find a job. Seems it is not true. I do still worry about falling into a gap between junior and senior at some point in the future.
Off the top of my head I can think of a few reasons why this is an issue. Because it is changing everyone's pay rate, rather than just a small adjustment to a particular job. Consider a few factors...vacation and sick time are probably correllated somehow with your pay grade. Pension and retirement benefits as well. Then, each title or job level probably has a mandated pay range which everyone has to be in. Changing the pay rate also means that tax withholding has to be adjusted. Many employees may have automatic deductions from their checks that would end up being more than the paycheck if they were dropped to minimum wage...what happens in this situation? That's just in 30 seconds of thinking.
Making a change to a large system can have a lot of secondary effects that are hard to correct for. If you combine that with antiquated systems and a severe shortage of qualified staff, it could indeed take 6 months to make a change like this. And 9 months to undo it, since you'd have to retroactively adjust all the secondary effects to pay back what was missing until the budget passed. Especially if you're careful to watch for quality in your development process. Mistakes made in payroll systems are really not acceptable.
You must not have searched lately, I was laid off in April and I was inundated with calls from recruiters just by posting a resume on Monster and Dice. They were for quality jobs too for the most part. I ended up with 6 offers and a 30% raise. This doesn't seem to be uncommon from chatting with others in the industry, and with recruiters (who were saying it's particularly tough to get people to accept because they have so many options right now). Oh, and I have about 4 years of experience and a very broad skillset but with little depth due to bouncing from project to project.
This is for product development, I don't know about general IT (syadmins and whatnot).