That'll give you one giant patch of everything Red Hat has done. Now, what changes in what files go together and implement a patch? The point would be to look at the patches one by one to see they've been applied, and now if you want to do this you must break it down yourself.
Well, you could do that, but you'd lose the whole point of moving to xhtml that is well formatted and usable by any generic xml tool. Only browsers that implement all these hacks and quirks could parse it, because everything else would correctly complain that this isn't xml.
As I understand it, the reasoning for deleting non-notable content is that it does not have enough sources to actually be verifiable and all information on Wikipedia should be verifiable, noting that Wikipedia explicitly aims to have its information be verifiable, not necessarily true.
There's an extremely lot of verifiable information that isn't notable under their current policy. Notability is the pinhole you need to get through to get an article, then verifiability is more the QA that you wont' fill it with lies and unsubstantiated claims. For example take sports, I'd say all the local sports leagues are typically reliable and neutral enough sources for the results in their own league, the teams are the primary subjects and the league more of a secondary source reporting on it. Is a little league team notable? No. Would it hurt their verifiability if someone put up the table and results on Wikipedia? Also no. They have simply decided that Wikipedia is just for the "important" people.
Hard to say, if only someone could invent simple figurative expressions to go with the text we might know the writer's feeling on the subject. That's way too complicated to ever happen though.
maybe i'm just a decadent libertine, but i generally eat when i'm hungry, and sleep when i'm tired
If I ever want to get to work on time I have to go to bed way before I'm tired and the cafeteria is only open from 11 to 13, which also leaves breakfast boxed in between sleep and work and dinner postponed to after work - usually long after I'm hungry. So for the most part I'd say I don't...
As I understand it the point of RICO is that you can't be part of a criminal organization and get away with it because you're not doing the actual criminal acts, they assume you know it's criminal in nature. It's not a secret that a drug cartel smuggles drugs, no matter what part you have. OTOH it was a pretty big secret that Enron was a huge case of institutionalized accounting fraud, even to the vast majority of the employees.
And one thing is active malfeasance, but how about neglect? Sometimes through poor organization and communication - and lord help us if that becomes a crime - no employee has really been grossly, criminally negligent but the company as a whole might have been. Of course you can just ride it all the way to the top and say the CEO is responsible for everything but that'd only lead to crazy risk premiums on being the CEO and no real effect on everyone else. Also you'll probably get another ton of CYA and impossible to follow process that everyone will break until shit hits the fan - then it's your fault for violating procedure.
Once the disk learns the blocks are unused, I would think yes. It'd be strange if the OS differentiated between blocks it knows are free through GC or is told are free through TRIM. However, the problem they talk about would not happen. With a write blocker - which I assume can be extended to a TRIM-blocker - no commands are issued so nothing is cleared after the forensics take over. Unless the suspect's OS sent a bunch of TRIM commands right before it was cease and there's already a backlog of blocks the disk is aware of should be erased but haven't gotten around to, I suppose.
For a practical application, you can just assume the model is correct. For example ancient swordsmiths knew lots about how to make microstructures in steel without ever being able to see it in a microscope. But it didn't matter, because it worked. Nothing directly is held up by this, if something needs supersymmetry to work we could just build it and see if it works.
However, the more you know the more chance you can come up with something intelligent to try. For example it's highly unlikely you'd come up with the idea of a laser without finding out how atoms and photons work. Of course you can do thought experiments but they have their bounds. If we find the Higgs boson and that is responsible for mass, maybe we can manipulate it? There's plenty possibilities but first we have to find it.
The only reason MS is being so nice lately is they're more irrelevant than ever. Microsoft can handle being loved and they can handle being hated. What they don't want to face is being ignored. They're hardly obscure yet but they are long-term strategic thinkers so they realize that things are moving in that direction, in baby steps at the moment. The real interesting stuff is coming from Google and Apple while Microsoft is stagnating. Windows 7 is nice but it's not the giant improvement that XP was over Win98. Even the XBox360 is showing its age.
Go back ten years, and you're exactly the same... Microsoft owns the desktop with Windows, the businesses through Exchange and Office, everybody is going "Microsoft is stagnating" Uh no, just no. If anything most companies are now even deeper in the pockets of Microsoft than before through Sharepoint and various other hooks. Many people will continue to use Windows at home because they use Windows at work, and honestly if Microsoft wasn't in a crisis over Vista then Windows 7 is a walk in the park. The only thing it's fighting is 10 years of user skills, routine and procedures built up around WinXP that users and corporations don't want to let go of. Apple has always had the flashier and more stylish stuff and gotten the press attention, they've been the fashion show while people went to the Microsoft store and bought clothes to use. We may review again in 2021, but I'm willing to wager Microsoft is still an IT giant with a business heavy side.
Known terrorists have literally been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama was awarded the prize for having done absolutely nothing to earn it. The combination literally means everyone on earth has earned a Nobel prize. Sadly, the prize has become something of a sad joke and isn't respected by anyone with a brain. Worse, in modern times, they've been attempting to use it to shape politics rather than reward high ethics and peaceful politics, making it all the more pathetic.
A known terrorist that at the time was shaking hands and making peace with the israelis on the White House lawn. Also I think Norway suffered an awful lot of hubris because these were the Oslo Accords, Oslo being the capital of Norway. Many people liked to believe this was the agreement to finally settle things between the israelis and palestinians, which would have been a prize-worthy accomplishment no matter his past. The trouble is that they act too soon, they put the prestige of the peace prize into the deal to make it hold rather than wait and see if this agreement flops like so many have in the past. And when it does, the agreement becomes less important and people start looking at who the f*** they actually gave the prize to. It was a screwup, I think all agree on that.
I don't see them trying to shape politics as bad as such, obviously awarding it to Liu Xiaobo is an attempt to influence Chinese politics. You can go back to 1935 and the prize to Carl von Ossietzky was clearly an attempt to influence German politics, it's not like this is a new thing. What's bad is that they no longer reward high risk, long term commitment and actual accomplishments. Instead they try making it an obligation on the recipients, like they did with Obama. Plus they stuck their hand up the beehive of global politics, you can't give the prize to a sitting US president one year and a Chinese dissident the next year without apparently taking sides. And that's the last thing they should do. At least they're not too afraid to award the prize to controversial characters, like they did with Gandhi. It's not like the past was perfect and the present hopeless, but I wish they'd stick more with unknown heroes and less with top politicians, big UN made organizations and such.
So, look up the specs, then. Current write cycles are over 1,000,000 per cell. Modern wear-leveling algorithms combined with extra blocks and ECC mean that it's more likely that some other component will fail before your SSD will.
Are you looking at MTBF numbers or something? Expensive 34nm flash has 10,000/cell, cheap 34nm 5000/cell and 25nm is down to 3000/cell.
And yes, you can kill an SSD that way, already done it. Granted, I tortured it in pretty much every way possible by running torrents and Freenet 24/7 and keeping it 90%+ full all the time. It died after about 1.5 years with 7000 writes/cell average, 15000 highest.
Fortunately for me I still managed to sneak it in as a warranty repair, even though they aren't supposed to do that on drives that are worn out. Now I've got a new SSD and I'm doing all my heavy lifting to rotating media keeping it as a fast OS/application disk. I'm guessing it'll last 10+ years that way. But if you want to kill it quickly, you can.
This is very much unlike rotating media. Google released a huge bunch of data on HDD reliability, what they found was that actual use didn't really matter. Hard disks lasted more or less X years spinning away at 5400-7200 rpm whether you read/wrote to them or not, as long as they weren't completely idle and could sleep. SSDs are exactly the opposite, each read/write takes a little bit of life out of it.
Particularly if you count the number of people pulled out of absolute poverty. That is defined as:
David Gordon's paper, "Indicators of Poverty & Hunger", for the United Nations, further defines absolute poverty as the absence of any two of the following eight basic needs:
Food: Body Mass Index must be above 16.
Safe drinking water: Water must not come from solely rivers and ponds, and must be available nearby (less than 15 minutes' walk each way).
Sanitation facilities: Toilets or latrines must be accessible in or near the home.
Health: Treatment must be received for serious illnesses and pregnancy.
Shelter: Homes must have fewer than four people living in each room. Floors must not be made of dirt, mud, or clay.
Education: Everyone must attend school or otherwise learn to read.
Information: Everyone must have access to newspapers, radios, televisions, computers, or telephones at home.
Access to services: This item is undefined by Gordon, but normally is used to indicate the complete panoply of education, health, legal, social, and financial (credit) services.
While the US and Europe may struggle at the moment, we have not fallen this far. I don't mean to take away from the hardships that many endure right now, but the number of people living without the most basic of needs has been going way, way down. Today we estimate that 1.7 out of 6.9 billion live in absolute poverty, it's still a huge number but 5.2 billion do not.
There's also relative poverty but I care less about that, sure some other guys may make 10x as much as you but as long as you have all the basic needs covered you're not suffering in nearly the same way.
But if you read through all that hoping to find my explanation, unfortunately I have none. It makes some sense to me to apply for a job you're not fully qualified for -- how else do you grow? But to apply for a job you don't even really want doesn't make much sense to me. (...) to apply for a job that you do want but to not even really try -- not even bothering to tweak your resume so it lists a few of the asked-for skills? What's up with that?
The first guess is that some people think it's like a lottery, it's all about getting the most tickets into the pool. That's not how an hire process actually works, but if you're fairly fresh out of school or just desperate they don't know any better. Like the girl who applied for my current position, she was like 19 years old with a year of some kind of clerk duty, for a position that I think I did well to get with a master's degree and five years relevant experience. Obviously I wasn't part of that hire process, but I heard about it afterwards as it still made people chuckle. Also applications for public positions are public here in Norway, there was this grad student that applied for the position as head of the central bank.
My second guess is that some people are on benefits, but they are actually working illegally or on vacation so they don't actually want any interviews or the job. It is a requirement that you be an active job applicant, so they send off a ton of generic, crappy applications for jobs they're woefully underqualified and thus have proof they've been applying for work. If they do get an interview they'll drop out, then not show that application if asked to provide proof. So every company they call to verify would say "Yes, we got the application. No, she was not a suitable candidate."
Third, some people just don't have an inch of marketing in them. Yes, they got a decent CV and apply for relevant jobs, but they're making absolutely no effort to sell themselves. They'd sell sushi as cold, dead fish. I don't pretend to be an expert, but at least I'm not naive about how the game is played. Some people think it's some kind of line-up where they'll measure you up to the position. That's not how it happens, you have to make the sales pitch that says you are the man for the job.
That the Internet is two way is rather obvious but it isn't really enough, you have to understand that your browser actually executes code. Otherwise they just see it as a very advanced channel selection, you send an URL, you get a page to watch back. And honestly if the web was nothing but html/images 99.99% of the current attacks would fail.
In my opinion you have to be pretty uptight to care about most product placements. Most of the time I've just seen the Apple logo on the back of a laptop the protagonist is using, it's not particularly in your face. As long as the character doesn't actually go around promoting the product, it's not out of character to have the product and it actually serves a purpose that he's using it, why not? For example, most everybody drives a car. Does it matter if they get paid to make the hero drive a specific brand? I mean it does it detract from the film that it's a Ford and not $random_brand? If you didn't know the it was a paid placement, could $random_brand just as well have been Ford?
Obviously you can cross the line if the character is bragging to another character about his new Macbook, you excessively focus on it, it doesn't make sense in the story, the guy is just not the type to own a Macbook and so on. But hey, almost everything comes from somewhere. You strictly speaking don't have to point out that's a Gucci handbag or Nike shoe, as long as people recognize it it's a placement and that could make almost anything a placement. All the clothes they're wearing, all the furniture they have, pretty much all is some brand or the other. Ok so you add a disclaimer with "Contains product placement" but after the movie most people will go "What? Where? I didn't even notice it"
It doesn't mean that cars are obsolete after 63.9 months, it means that most people don't own a car their whole lifetime from brand new to scrap heap. Does it really surprise you that the man who can afford the sticker price on a new car doesn't keep driving it until it's a beat up 20 year old car? They drive it for a while with high reliability and low upkeep then sell it while it still has decent second hand value, then get a new one. Meanwhile that lets other people with really old used cars replace theirs with a younger one.
So what I gather from this is that these people, who'd typically be people making good money are now not making as much money and keeping their cars longer. For the auto companies this means trouble - they only care when people buy new cars. But as a secondary effect it means the used car market will have older and fewer cars, driving costs up and quality down. After all somebody must be buying new cars for there to be used cars, we can't all do that. It's the opposite of the trickle down economy, if they can't afford a new car then no one can buy theirs at a reasonable price either.
Yet, companies want to pay graduate prices (at best) for people with 5+ years of experience. Not only do they want experience, they want experience in the exact same technologies they're using - everything is extraneous. They may even be perfectly experienced in the desired skills and not be considered a 'good candidate' because they've got a degree in something tangential/unrelated, or have a couple years of experience doing something not quite the same.
Don't assume that most companies will know how related something is, often not on HR nor on staff. Also you may find there's a lot of silent technology rivalry going on - a PHP fan who think Perl is the shitz won't bring an "enemy" into his camp. That could turn the balance inside the company and make them go with Perl for the next project, where he'll no longer be alpha male and people will look to you because you've worked with this before.
And in all honestly, some people are just one trick ponies. They're not quite as bad as the people who can't move from one email client to the other without retraining, but they're the IT equivalent. They've worked themselves up to a certain passable skill with their language, their tools and not much else. Maybe you do get good hires that do adapt, but the bad hires are *really* bad. If you hire someone who has done exactly the same before, hopefully the last company has at least taught him to avoid the worst blunders.
I don't know, I've been part of a few technical interviews and it's hard trying to pick the right candidates - it's easy to pretend and say so roughly the right things, but very hard to tell who's really got the knack for it and not. Particularly things like "will you figure stuff out on your own or do you need lots of documentation telling you how to do it?" because you never get the right answer if you ask them.
And some are just too vague to figure out what they want:
82% seek database skills 80% seek problem solving and technical skills
Database skills? You want them to know how to design a database using nth normal form? The basics of SQL syntax? How ISAM works? How to use Oracle Forms? It's not enough to say "database skills". The other one is even more vague.
Generally I would just say working with databases, using them as persistent storage for an application. I think you'd get high notes being able to just wrap more than one SQL statement into a transaction, so it couldn't leave the database in a corrupted condition. You'd be surprised how many developers never really worked much with a database-driven application. Maybe just the basics of normalization so their designs aren't completely puke.
Formal definitions of the nth formal form, ISAM and Oracle Forms I'd not expect unless you've taken specific classes on databases. Nothing will teach you the finer points in school, but you'd be surprised how much of the basics many still miss...
Innovation in the electronics and technology industry is stagnating. What really separates a high-def TV, smart phone, or computer from one of 5 years ago?
Innovation is live and well, their problem is that they can't really invent demand. I must admit I'm a bit of an upgrade monkey, I've gone from 4 GB to 8 GB to now 16 GB of RAM, more because I could for a reasonable bit of money ($170 now for 16GB) than actual demand, even though I'm a fairly heavy user.
It doesn't really matter if they innovate to 8-16-32 core processors with 32-64-128 GB RAM, the demand just isn't going to be there. Eventually you end up with something like a toothbrush, it serves its purpose and has its market but hasn't really done anything new for decades.
Well XvMC will never do more than MPEG2, so it's not suited for much of anything.
As far as modern codecs go, nVidia has VDPAU, Intel has VA API and ATI has XvBA. Why everyone needs to reinvent the wheel I don't know, but there it is. I figure eventually someone will write the right wrappers so apps only need to deal with one API.
This headline is widely misleading. They've now documented their equivalent of nVidia's VDPAU blob, but it's only available when you run the closed source Catalyst driver. TFA says so quite clearly.
Before anyone starts wondering, this won't do much good for those hoping to see AMD's UVD2 engine supported by the open-source Radeon graphics drivers.
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That'll give you one giant patch of everything Red Hat has done. Now, what changes in what files go together and implement a patch? The point would be to look at the patches one by one to see they've been applied, and now if you want to do this you must break it down yourself.
Well, you could do that, but you'd lose the whole point of moving to xhtml that is well formatted and usable by any generic xml tool. Only browsers that implement all these hacks and quirks could parse it, because everything else would correctly complain that this isn't xml.
As I understand it, the reasoning for deleting non-notable content is that it does not have enough sources to actually be verifiable and all information on Wikipedia should be verifiable, noting that Wikipedia explicitly aims to have its information be verifiable, not necessarily true.
There's an extremely lot of verifiable information that isn't notable under their current policy. Notability is the pinhole you need to get through to get an article, then verifiability is more the QA that you wont' fill it with lies and unsubstantiated claims. For example take sports, I'd say all the local sports leagues are typically reliable and neutral enough sources for the results in their own league, the teams are the primary subjects and the league more of a secondary source reporting on it. Is a little league team notable? No. Would it hurt their verifiability if someone put up the table and results on Wikipedia? Also no. They have simply decided that Wikipedia is just for the "important" people.
Looks a lot like a flash site. :-(
That good then?
Hard to say, if only someone could invent simple figurative expressions to go with the text we might know the writer's feeling on the subject. That's way too complicated to ever happen though.
maybe i'm just a decadent libertine, but i generally eat when i'm hungry, and sleep when i'm tired
If I ever want to get to work on time I have to go to bed way before I'm tired and the cafeteria is only open from 11 to 13, which also leaves breakfast boxed in between sleep and work and dinner postponed to after work - usually long after I'm hungry. So for the most part I'd say I don't...
As I understand it the point of RICO is that you can't be part of a criminal organization and get away with it because you're not doing the actual criminal acts, they assume you know it's criminal in nature. It's not a secret that a drug cartel smuggles drugs, no matter what part you have. OTOH it was a pretty big secret that Enron was a huge case of institutionalized accounting fraud, even to the vast majority of the employees.
And one thing is active malfeasance, but how about neglect? Sometimes through poor organization and communication - and lord help us if that becomes a crime - no employee has really been grossly, criminally negligent but the company as a whole might have been. Of course you can just ride it all the way to the top and say the CEO is responsible for everything but that'd only lead to crazy risk premiums on being the CEO and no real effect on everyone else. Also you'll probably get another ton of CYA and impossible to follow process that everyone will break until shit hits the fan - then it's your fault for violating procedure.
They haven't figured that out... they've just figured out how to go to google first...
BadAnalogyGuy, is that you? Because you say that "truth in advertising" should teach them a lesson about copyright in a trademark case?
Once the disk learns the blocks are unused, I would think yes. It'd be strange if the OS differentiated between blocks it knows are free through GC or is told are free through TRIM. However, the problem they talk about would not happen. With a write blocker - which I assume can be extended to a TRIM-blocker - no commands are issued so nothing is cleared after the forensics take over. Unless the suspect's OS sent a bunch of TRIM commands right before it was cease and there's already a backlog of blocks the disk is aware of should be erased but haven't gotten around to, I suppose.
For a practical application, you can just assume the model is correct. For example ancient swordsmiths knew lots about how to make microstructures in steel without ever being able to see it in a microscope. But it didn't matter, because it worked. Nothing directly is held up by this, if something needs supersymmetry to work we could just build it and see if it works.
However, the more you know the more chance you can come up with something intelligent to try. For example it's highly unlikely you'd come up with the idea of a laser without finding out how atoms and photons work. Of course you can do thought experiments but they have their bounds. If we find the Higgs boson and that is responsible for mass, maybe we can manipulate it? There's plenty possibilities but first we have to find it.
The only reason MS is being so nice lately is they're more irrelevant than ever. Microsoft can handle being loved and they can handle being hated. What they don't want to face is being ignored. They're hardly obscure yet but they are long-term strategic thinkers so they realize that things are moving in that direction, in baby steps at the moment. The real interesting stuff is coming from Google and Apple while Microsoft is stagnating. Windows 7 is nice but it's not the giant improvement that XP was over Win98. Even the XBox360 is showing its age.
Go back ten years, and you're exactly the same... Microsoft owns the desktop with Windows, the businesses through Exchange and Office, everybody is going "Microsoft is stagnating" Uh no, just no. If anything most companies are now even deeper in the pockets of Microsoft than before through Sharepoint and various other hooks. Many people will continue to use Windows at home because they use Windows at work, and honestly if Microsoft wasn't in a crisis over Vista then Windows 7 is a walk in the park. The only thing it's fighting is 10 years of user skills, routine and procedures built up around WinXP that users and corporations don't want to let go of. Apple has always had the flashier and more stylish stuff and gotten the press attention, they've been the fashion show while people went to the Microsoft store and bought clothes to use. We may review again in 2021, but I'm willing to wager Microsoft is still an IT giant with a business heavy side.
Known terrorists have literally been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama was awarded the prize for having done absolutely nothing to earn it. The combination literally means everyone on earth has earned a Nobel prize. Sadly, the prize has become something of a sad joke and isn't respected by anyone with a brain. Worse, in modern times, they've been attempting to use it to shape politics rather than reward high ethics and peaceful politics, making it all the more pathetic.
A known terrorist that at the time was shaking hands and making peace with the israelis on the White House lawn. Also I think Norway suffered an awful lot of hubris because these were the Oslo Accords, Oslo being the capital of Norway. Many people liked to believe this was the agreement to finally settle things between the israelis and palestinians, which would have been a prize-worthy accomplishment no matter his past. The trouble is that they act too soon, they put the prestige of the peace prize into the deal to make it hold rather than wait and see if this agreement flops like so many have in the past. And when it does, the agreement becomes less important and people start looking at who the f*** they actually gave the prize to. It was a screwup, I think all agree on that.
I don't see them trying to shape politics as bad as such, obviously awarding it to Liu Xiaobo is an attempt to influence Chinese politics. You can go back to 1935 and the prize to Carl von Ossietzky was clearly an attempt to influence German politics, it's not like this is a new thing. What's bad is that they no longer reward high risk, long term commitment and actual accomplishments. Instead they try making it an obligation on the recipients, like they did with Obama. Plus they stuck their hand up the beehive of global politics, you can't give the prize to a sitting US president one year and a Chinese dissident the next year without apparently taking sides. And that's the last thing they should do. At least they're not too afraid to award the prize to controversial characters, like they did with Gandhi. It's not like the past was perfect and the present hopeless, but I wish they'd stick more with unknown heroes and less with top politicians, big UN made organizations and such.
So, look up the specs, then. Current write cycles are over 1,000,000 per cell. Modern wear-leveling algorithms combined with extra blocks and ECC mean that it's more likely that some other component will fail before your SSD will.
Are you looking at MTBF numbers or something? Expensive 34nm flash has 10,000/cell, cheap 34nm 5000/cell and 25nm is down to 3000/cell.
And yes, you can kill an SSD that way, already done it. Granted, I tortured it in pretty much every way possible by running torrents and Freenet 24/7 and keeping it 90%+ full all the time. It died after about 1.5 years with 7000 writes/cell average, 15000 highest.
Fortunately for me I still managed to sneak it in as a warranty repair, even though they aren't supposed to do that on drives that are worn out. Now I've got a new SSD and I'm doing all my heavy lifting to rotating media keeping it as a fast OS/application disk. I'm guessing it'll last 10+ years that way. But if you want to kill it quickly, you can.
This is very much unlike rotating media. Google released a huge bunch of data on HDD reliability, what they found was that actual use didn't really matter. Hard disks lasted more or less X years spinning away at 5400-7200 rpm whether you read/wrote to them or not, as long as they weren't completely idle and could sleep. SSDs are exactly the opposite, each read/write takes a little bit of life out of it.
Particularly if you count the number of people pulled out of absolute poverty. That is defined as:
David Gordon's paper, "Indicators of Poverty & Hunger", for the United Nations, further defines absolute poverty as the absence of any two of the following eight basic needs:
While the US and Europe may struggle at the moment, we have not fallen this far. I don't mean to take away from the hardships that many endure right now, but the number of people living without the most basic of needs has been going way, way down. Today we estimate that 1.7 out of 6.9 billion live in absolute poverty, it's still a huge number but 5.2 billion do not.
There's also relative poverty but I care less about that, sure some other guys may make 10x as much as you but as long as you have all the basic needs covered you're not suffering in nearly the same way.
But if you read through all that hoping to find my explanation, unfortunately I have none. It makes some sense to me to apply for a job you're not fully qualified for -- how else do you grow? But to apply for a job you don't even really want doesn't make much sense to me. (...) to apply for a job that you do want but to not even really try -- not even bothering to tweak your resume so it lists a few of the asked-for skills? What's up with that?
The first guess is that some people think it's like a lottery, it's all about getting the most tickets into the pool. That's not how an hire process actually works, but if you're fairly fresh out of school or just desperate they don't know any better. Like the girl who applied for my current position, she was like 19 years old with a year of some kind of clerk duty, for a position that I think I did well to get with a master's degree and five years relevant experience. Obviously I wasn't part of that hire process, but I heard about it afterwards as it still made people chuckle. Also applications for public positions are public here in Norway, there was this grad student that applied for the position as head of the central bank.
My second guess is that some people are on benefits, but they are actually working illegally or on vacation so they don't actually want any interviews or the job. It is a requirement that you be an active job applicant, so they send off a ton of generic, crappy applications for jobs they're woefully underqualified and thus have proof they've been applying for work. If they do get an interview they'll drop out, then not show that application if asked to provide proof. So every company they call to verify would say "Yes, we got the application. No, she was not a suitable candidate."
Third, some people just don't have an inch of marketing in them. Yes, they got a decent CV and apply for relevant jobs, but they're making absolutely no effort to sell themselves. They'd sell sushi as cold, dead fish. I don't pretend to be an expert, but at least I'm not naive about how the game is played. Some people think it's some kind of line-up where they'll measure you up to the position. That's not how it happens, you have to make the sales pitch that says you are the man for the job.
That the Internet is two way is rather obvious but it isn't really enough, you have to understand that your browser actually executes code. Otherwise they just see it as a very advanced channel selection, you send an URL, you get a page to watch back. And honestly if the web was nothing but html/images 99.99% of the current attacks would fail.
Ah, the "-1, I disagree" mod... at least grow a spine and let people metamoderate you.
In my opinion you have to be pretty uptight to care about most product placements. Most of the time I've just seen the Apple logo on the back of a laptop the protagonist is using, it's not particularly in your face. As long as the character doesn't actually go around promoting the product, it's not out of character to have the product and it actually serves a purpose that he's using it, why not? For example, most everybody drives a car. Does it matter if they get paid to make the hero drive a specific brand? I mean it does it detract from the film that it's a Ford and not $random_brand? If you didn't know the it was a paid placement, could $random_brand just as well have been Ford?
Obviously you can cross the line if the character is bragging to another character about his new Macbook, you excessively focus on it, it doesn't make sense in the story, the guy is just not the type to own a Macbook and so on. But hey, almost everything comes from somewhere. You strictly speaking don't have to point out that's a Gucci handbag or Nike shoe, as long as people recognize it it's a placement and that could make almost anything a placement. All the clothes they're wearing, all the furniture they have, pretty much all is some brand or the other. Ok so you add a disclaimer with "Contains product placement" but after the movie most people will go "What? Where? I didn't even notice it"
It doesn't mean that cars are obsolete after 63.9 months, it means that most people don't own a car their whole lifetime from brand new to scrap heap. Does it really surprise you that the man who can afford the sticker price on a new car doesn't keep driving it until it's a beat up 20 year old car? They drive it for a while with high reliability and low upkeep then sell it while it still has decent second hand value, then get a new one. Meanwhile that lets other people with really old used cars replace theirs with a younger one.
So what I gather from this is that these people, who'd typically be people making good money are now not making as much money and keeping their cars longer. For the auto companies this means trouble - they only care when people buy new cars. But as a secondary effect it means the used car market will have older and fewer cars, driving costs up and quality down. After all somebody must be buying new cars for there to be used cars, we can't all do that. It's the opposite of the trickle down economy, if they can't afford a new car then no one can buy theirs at a reasonable price either.
Yet, companies want to pay graduate prices (at best) for people with 5+ years of experience. Not only do they want experience, they want experience in the exact same technologies they're using - everything is extraneous. They may even be perfectly experienced in the desired skills and not be considered a 'good candidate' because they've got a degree in something tangential/unrelated, or have a couple years of experience doing something not quite the same.
Don't assume that most companies will know how related something is, often not on HR nor on staff. Also you may find there's a lot of silent technology rivalry going on - a PHP fan who think Perl is the shitz won't bring an "enemy" into his camp. That could turn the balance inside the company and make them go with Perl for the next project, where he'll no longer be alpha male and people will look to you because you've worked with this before.
And in all honestly, some people are just one trick ponies. They're not quite as bad as the people who can't move from one email client to the other without retraining, but they're the IT equivalent. They've worked themselves up to a certain passable skill with their language, their tools and not much else. Maybe you do get good hires that do adapt, but the bad hires are *really* bad. If you hire someone who has done exactly the same before, hopefully the last company has at least taught him to avoid the worst blunders.
I don't know, I've been part of a few technical interviews and it's hard trying to pick the right candidates - it's easy to pretend and say so roughly the right things, but very hard to tell who's really got the knack for it and not. Particularly things like "will you figure stuff out on your own or do you need lots of documentation telling you how to do it?" because you never get the right answer if you ask them.
And some are just too vague to figure out what they want:
82% seek database skills
80% seek problem solving and technical skills
Database skills? You want them to know how to design a database using nth normal form? The basics of SQL syntax? How ISAM works? How to use Oracle Forms? It's not enough to say "database skills". The other one is even more vague.
Generally I would just say working with databases, using them as persistent storage for an application. I think you'd get high notes being able to just wrap more than one SQL statement into a transaction, so it couldn't leave the database in a corrupted condition. You'd be surprised how many developers never really worked much with a database-driven application. Maybe just the basics of normalization so their designs aren't completely puke.
Formal definitions of the nth formal form, ISAM and Oracle Forms I'd not expect unless you've taken specific classes on databases. Nothing will teach you the finer points in school, but you'd be surprised how much of the basics many still miss...
Innovation in the electronics and technology industry is stagnating. What really separates a high-def TV, smart phone, or computer from one of 5 years ago?
Innovation is live and well, their problem is that they can't really invent demand. I must admit I'm a bit of an upgrade monkey, I've gone from 4 GB to 8 GB to now 16 GB of RAM, more because I could for a reasonable bit of money ($170 now for 16GB) than actual demand, even though I'm a fairly heavy user.
It doesn't really matter if they innovate to 8-16-32 core processors with 32-64-128 GB RAM, the demand just isn't going to be there. Eventually you end up with something like a toothbrush, it serves its purpose and has its market but hasn't really done anything new for decades.
However if you have a copyright on the name, e.g. firefox
Trademark.
Well XvMC will never do more than MPEG2, so it's not suited for much of anything.
As far as modern codecs go, nVidia has VDPAU, Intel has VA API and ATI has XvBA. Why everyone needs to reinvent the wheel I don't know, but there it is. I figure eventually someone will write the right wrappers so apps only need to deal with one API.
This headline is widely misleading. They've now documented their equivalent of nVidia's VDPAU blob, but it's only available when you run the closed source Catalyst driver. TFA says so quite clearly.
Before anyone starts wondering, this won't do much good for those hoping to see AMD's UVD2 engine supported by the open-source Radeon graphics drivers.