Seems to me that Google only produces that nice little page summary (which here included the guys obfuscated email address) when you haven't put a page description META tag in the header. For some reason google will use the FOOTER of the page if there is no header. MS Bing however does not use the META description, but seems to take anything similar to it in the body of the page.
Saying that wind is the best option because it's better than coal . . . well, that's just as shortsighted as the group that ignores the environment entirely.
I agree. Diversity would seem to be the name of the game as far as sustainability goes. Spreading the environmental as well as economic and social costs as well and as sensibly as possible.
The thing that always seems to concern me is this: is it possible for the large amount of energy pulled from the winds to change weather patterns even slightly? I know it sounds stupid, but could even a very slight change over the planet potentially have an impact? Perhaps it is safest that we diversify our energy production. So much wind, solar, atomic etc.
One useful attack vector is to vote for the bug report concerning the violation at bugzilla. Anyone with a Bugzilla userID can do that. It's the squeaky hinge that gets the oil after all. If they can no longer distribute their dodgy package through Mozilla, they're pretty much done for anyway as far as SoThink is concerned.
I grew up in a semi-rural mountainous area of Australia - basically a mix of state run forest and low density residential with a lot of narrow winding gravel roads. Interestingly enough the maintenance costs on the gravel roads are so high that the local council is converting roads with through traffic to bitumen, but only it seems when they can get the residents to chip in around $6000 each to help pay for it.
After speaking with a council engineer, it seems that even for reasonably low traffic roads, say 1,000 cars a day, bitumen is low maintenance and cheaper than gravel over a 7yr maintenance schedule. The more traffic you have, the cheaper bitumen gets, but with the main expenses in big bursts several years apart. To run heavy traffic gravel roads through the year your costs are steady and higher overall as you need an army of graders going and new gravel all the time. In the end, Michigan is probably going to lose a lot of money on this.
Yes. When I first saw mention of this I got my hopes up but they were soon dashed.
Same here. I think the only people calling it the 'twitpocalypse' and sensationalist journalists. Only two apps were affected and we can presume, as other free apps are available according to the article, that the number of users affected is rather small.
I just went by the number of people I've known with either Crohn's disease or irritable bowel syndrome. As far as common, 1/1000 is considered reasonably common. For the record I also suffer from chronic illness (not Crohn's), which was diagnosed by my Mother after almost two years so bad I don't even have much memory of them. My Dad was diagnosed with the same condition after maybe 30yrs of suffering. The tests are straight-forward, the diagnosis easy. It's even pretty common, but most doctors don't have a clue about it. Go figure.
Crohn's disease is pretty common, so how come it wasn't diagnosed? The idiot medicos just pocketed the money for tests, hospital stays, appointments, medical certs etc for 8 years while the girl suffered? Hmmm. Come to think of it I'm not that surprised. There are far more quacks out there than decent doctors in my experience.
It would be nice to have a common repository for many/all distros, probably something which detects the distro and version you are using and acts accordingly.
Why? If you are using a package manager it doesn't matter where the official repository is. The package manager knows where it is and that's all that matters. If however you want to do things the Windows way and hunt for things online... Well, you'll be amongst the first to download dodgy trojan ridden packages for Linux.
If the company was based in Mumbai they wouldn't be subject to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act anyway - plus they'd have to get caught. They've been pretty much proven to be using bribery already in different places anyway. What's to stop them doing it again?
Consider the crime that it would bring with it (pirate from the M$ labs instead of buying their overpriced products? sure),
If you can find me one legitimate, non-pirated version of a microsoft product in an Indian home or small business I'll give you a medal. By increasing it's influence there MS has a lot to gain in Indias rapidly emerging economy.
Far more sensible for MS to move to Mumbai for most of their operations and keep the Dublin setup as it is. Staffing is cheap in Mumbai and there is a fast-growing computer/IT industry there and to top it all off a government that is willing to bend over backwards - for a small fee.
You were right also. I do need more learning and experience - and I intend to enjoy every bit of it! I like learning and don't mind admitting that I need it.
An honest appreciation of ones abilities, when, and only when, coupled with an honest awareness of ones shortcomings puts one on the best road to overcoming them. In other words, 'Humility is the straightest path to Nobility.'
Soft skill? Depends how well it's done. Lets use car repairs as an example. There are many times I've known or heard tell of where well trained city mechanics throw up their hands in defeat before the car is taken to either a 'mate who knows something about cars' or a 'bush mechanic' and fixed in 15 minutes. Ie. Sometimes the ability to observe, sort information well and problem solve is worth a lot more than a piece of paper with 'engineer' written on it.
Another example. I run a computer repair business with a 'no fix, no fee' policy. Even though I've never had a single day of formal training in the field, I have never, ever had to bring that policy into action. Meanwhile it's surprising how often my mates who have done IT or computer science ask me for help on something because they just don't know how to THINK.
I think that attendance is often mandatory (certainly in tertiary studies that I've done in Australia it has been) because soaking in the subject during lecture, hearing questions answered and participating in group discussions are actually part of the educational process. It's not just about the essays or exams.
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Seems to me that Google only produces that nice little page summary (which here included the guys obfuscated email address) when you haven't put a page description META tag in the header. For some reason google will use the FOOTER of the page if there is no header. MS Bing however does not use the META description, but seems to take anything similar to it in the body of the page.
Saying that wind is the best option because it's better than coal . . . well, that's just as shortsighted as the group that ignores the environment entirely.
I agree. Diversity would seem to be the name of the game as far as sustainability goes. Spreading the environmental as well as economic and social costs as well and as sensibly as possible.
The thing that always seems to concern me is this: is it possible for the large amount of energy pulled from the winds to change weather patterns even slightly? I know it sounds stupid, but could even a very slight change over the planet potentially have an impact? Perhaps it is safest that we diversify our energy production. So much wind, solar, atomic etc.
One useful attack vector is to vote for the bug report concerning the violation at bugzilla. Anyone with a Bugzilla userID can do that. It's the squeaky hinge that gets the oil after all. If they can no longer distribute their dodgy package through Mozilla, they're pretty much done for anyway as far as SoThink is concerned.
I grew up in a semi-rural mountainous area of Australia - basically a mix of state run forest and low density residential with a lot of narrow winding gravel roads. Interestingly enough the maintenance costs on the gravel roads are so high that the local council is converting roads with through traffic to bitumen, but only it seems when they can get the residents to chip in around $6000 each to help pay for it.
After speaking with a council engineer, it seems that even for reasonably low traffic roads, say 1,000 cars a day, bitumen is low maintenance and cheaper than gravel over a 7yr maintenance schedule. The more traffic you have, the cheaper bitumen gets, but with the main expenses in big bursts several years apart. To run heavy traffic gravel roads through the year your costs are steady and higher overall as you need an army of graders going and new gravel all the time. In the end, Michigan is probably going to lose a lot of money on this.
Yes. When I first saw mention of this I got my hopes up but they were soon dashed.
Same here. I think the only people calling it the 'twitpocalypse' and sensationalist journalists. Only two apps were affected and we can presume, as other free apps are available according to the article, that the number of users affected is rather small.
Which twit didn't see that one coming? Surely it should have shown up in testing?
I just went by the number of people I've known with either Crohn's disease or irritable bowel syndrome. As far as common, 1/1000 is considered reasonably common. For the record I also suffer from chronic illness (not Crohn's), which was diagnosed by my Mother after almost two years so bad I don't even have much memory of them. My Dad was diagnosed with the same condition after maybe 30yrs of suffering. The tests are straight-forward, the diagnosis easy. It's even pretty common, but most doctors don't have a clue about it. Go figure.
Crohn's disease is pretty common, so how come it wasn't diagnosed? The idiot medicos just pocketed the money for tests, hospital stays, appointments, medical certs etc for 8 years while the girl suffered? Hmmm. Come to think of it I'm not that surprised. There are far more quacks out there than decent doctors in my experience.
It would be nice to have a common repository for many/all distros, probably something which detects the distro and version you are using and acts accordingly.
Why? If you are using a package manager it doesn't matter where the official repository is. The package manager knows where it is and that's all that matters. If however you want to do things the Windows way and hunt for things online... Well, you'll be amongst the first to download dodgy trojan ridden packages for Linux.
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I think we found the problem here!
You'd think that someone would work their synaptic brain patterns and come up with that!
Screenshots have been available in synaptic on ubuntu for a couple of releases now
If the company was based in Mumbai they wouldn't be subject to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act anyway - plus they'd have to get caught. They've been pretty much proven to be using bribery already in different places anyway. What's to stop them doing it again?
Oh no! I must be so wrong because an Anonymous Coward said so!
Consider the crime that it would bring with it (pirate from the M$ labs instead of buying their overpriced products? sure),
If you can find me one legitimate, non-pirated version of a microsoft product in an Indian home or small business I'll give you a medal. By increasing it's influence there MS has a lot to gain in Indias rapidly emerging economy.
That's the difference between experience and knowledge. Knowledge can save you a lot of bad experience, but it only brings you this far.
Exactly. The whole learning and traditional learning methods balance each other.
Apples and Oranges: your mates are trained to design and write software etc, not debug hardware and OS config problems.
I thought that's just what the IT guys were supposed to be accomplished in?
Far more sensible for MS to move to Mumbai for most of their operations and keep the Dublin setup as it is. Staffing is cheap in Mumbai and there is a fast-growing computer/IT industry there and to top it all off a government that is willing to bend over backwards - for a small fee.
You were right also. I do need more learning and experience - and I intend to enjoy every bit of it! I like learning and don't mind admitting that I need it.
An honest appreciation of ones abilities, when, and only when, coupled with an honest awareness of ones shortcomings puts one on the best road to overcoming them. In other words, 'Humility is the straightest path to Nobility.'
Soft skill? Depends how well it's done. Lets use car repairs as an example. There are many times I've known or heard tell of where well trained city mechanics throw up their hands in defeat before the car is taken to either a 'mate who knows something about cars' or a 'bush mechanic' and fixed in 15 minutes. Ie. Sometimes the ability to observe, sort information well and problem solve is worth a lot more than a piece of paper with 'engineer' written on it.
Another example. I run a computer repair business with a 'no fix, no fee' policy. Even though I've never had a single day of formal training in the field, I have never, ever had to bring that policy into action. Meanwhile it's surprising how often my mates who have done IT or computer science ask me for help on something because they just don't know how to THINK.
You need more of it.
Haha. Probably...
How about a rigorous, ever changing, ever intriguing discipline? It already is and will be more so.
Interesting. We had an 80% attendance requirement. If you fell below that, it was an instant fail.
I think that attendance is often mandatory (certainly in tertiary studies that I've done in Australia it has been) because soaking in the subject during lecture, hearing questions answered and participating in group discussions are actually part of the educational process. It's not just about the essays or exams.