An American student is asked how long it'd take to learn Chinese. He answers: 2-3 years.
A Russian student is asked the same. The answer: when is the exam?
Obviously, there is a small industry behind scam emails: people that harvest emails, ones that come up with "scam campaigns" (fake pay-pal or citibank solicitations), developers, IT to maintain servers, etc. It's hard to imagine that 420K scam emails an hour in UK alone are sent by a few amateurs.
A lot of commercial real estate in Silicon Valley sits empty: just drive around Santa Clara, or N 1st St in San Jose.
Why cannot it be converted to the data center space ?
Totally agree with "supply and demand" explanation.
I worked for a test & measurement company that designs oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers. That market is competitive. Everything that can be cost-cut and off-shored is already cost-cut and off-shored. But the product margins just cannot be lower than 80% ($2K bill of materials for $10K selling price). It takes a lot to design a new oscilloscope, but not too many customers to sell. It's a specialized equipment.
The answer would vary depending on the complexity of the network. A semiconductor company with mixed win/lin network and lots of different types of servers will likely to require many more IT personnel than an accounting firm of the same size but more "homogeneous" network. That's probably why there isn't much statistics on the average tech per user/computer.
In a large company a software engineer is hired to fill a well-defined position with a specific budget. There is only so much room to increase the monetary and equity compensation.
And that's subject to strict corporate guidlines.
For a soldier to detect a threat the information coming from such a uniform has to be reliable:
- it should work in different weather (rain,snow) and light conditions (day,night)
- it should detect threats moving at different speeds (bullet,running person,vehicle) and different distances (helicopter, sniper)
- it should never produce "false negative" information: it's better to detect an invalid threat rather than miss the real one
- short Microsoft stock
- long Google
- write a book on Chrome OS
- add "10 years of Chrome OS experience" to your resume
- offer PowerPC and other processors support
- register lots of Chrome OS-related URLs
What a great post about Norway !
I'd rather see it on a travel blog or even wiki.
I wish I knew about "one night stands" when I visited Norway a few years ago:)
Are those the same Kuril Islands that are source of the territorial dispute between Russia and Japan.
Maybe after that volcano there is a chance Russia and Japan will finally sign a peace agreement - who needs those islands anyways.
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An American student is asked how long it'd take to learn Chinese. He answers: 2-3 years. A Russian student is asked the same. The answer: when is the exam?
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Those who design the overall architecture of a system called software architects
Somebody is calling from a stack of free GSM
Obviously, there is a small industry behind scam emails: people that harvest emails, ones that come up with "scam campaigns" (fake pay-pal or citibank solicitations), developers, IT to maintain servers, etc. It's hard to imagine that 420K scam emails an hour in UK alone are sent by a few amateurs.
As far as I know, you can use katakana to write any foreign word. It's not absolutely necessary to add kanji characters.
Only a couple of years ago /. would never allow anything with "Windows" in the article title on a front page. Either times have changed, or /.
A lot of commercial real estate in Silicon Valley sits empty: just drive around Santa Clara, or N 1st St in San Jose. Why cannot it be converted to the data center space ?
Totally agree with "supply and demand" explanation. I worked for a test & measurement company that designs oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers. That market is competitive. Everything that can be cost-cut and off-shored is already cost-cut and off-shored. But the product margins just cannot be lower than 80% ($2K bill of materials for $10K selling price). It takes a lot to design a new oscilloscope, but not too many customers to sell. It's a specialized equipment.
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What about teleportation? Well, I guess it's not electronic either.
The answer would vary depending on the complexity of the network. A semiconductor company with mixed win/lin network and lots of different types of servers will likely to require many more IT personnel than an accounting firm of the same size but more "homogeneous" network. That's probably why there isn't much statistics on the average tech per user/computer.
Isn't it 68^140 possibilities?
In a large company a software engineer is hired to fill a well-defined position with a specific budget. There is only so much room to increase the monetary and equity compensation. And that's subject to strict corporate guidlines.
How about reading Slashdot. Does it stimulate brain activity?
When Microsoft Exec Says "You'll Miss Vista", what he really means is "We'll make you miss Vista"
For a soldier to detect a threat the information coming from such a uniform has to be reliable:
- it should work in different weather (rain,snow) and light conditions (day,night)
- it should detect threats moving at different speeds (bullet,running person,vehicle) and different distances (helicopter, sniper)
- it should never produce "false negative" information: it's better to detect an invalid threat rather than miss the real one
Not a simple task
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Google Chrome OS, dazzle me: I want to see it written entirely in JavaScript.
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How to monetize Google Chrome OS:
- short Microsoft stock
- long Google
- write a book on Chrome OS
- add "10 years of Chrome OS experience" to your resume
- offer PowerPC and other processors support
- register lots of Chrome OS-related URLs
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Koenigsegg CCX doesn't fall far behind Bugatti Veyron:
- price: $2,100,000
- 1018 hp
- top speed of 257 mph
And on top of it: it's buying Saab. Koenigsegg has only 45 full time staff empolyees and sold 18 cars last year,which is 97,982 less than SAAB did.
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Use that money to buy more servers for Twitter
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Outsource this job to a low-cost country that doesn't have a potential to build a weapon out of the notes. Micronesia looks promising.
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What a great post about Norway ! I'd rather see it on a travel blog or even wiki. I wish I knew about "one night stands" when I visited Norway a few years ago :)
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Are those the same Kuril Islands that are source of the territorial dispute between Russia and Japan. Maybe after that volcano there is a chance Russia and Japan will finally sign a peace agreement - who needs those islands anyways.
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Oftentimes Wikipedians engage in nasty edit wars
I'm looking forward to seeing video edit wars.
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