Alcohol abuse in other people is not my business; and this is a deep flaw in your philosophy; you believe that because SOME parents are bad, ALL parents must be put under the wing of the State 'for the sake of the children'. This is the sort of reasoning that creates laws to control the internet, and it gives birth to totalitarian countries like Sweden (Home School banned, because their parliament says their society is perfect, and so there is no need for Home Schooling. Im not making that up. State monopoly on the sale of alcohol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverages_in_Sweden etc etc), Finland (where you are fined for speeding proportionally to your income) and Iceland (train wreck vassal state, hollowed out by the banksters, where you dont have even the most basic of your rights).
People's ability to perform excellent teaching is not my business; and this is a deep flaw in your philosophy; you believe that because SOME parents have the full pedagogical knowledge gathered by humanity, ALL parents must be left to their own whims 'for the sake of freedom'. This is the sort of reasoning that creates anarchic chaos, and it gives birth to people like you.
Man, you're not full of sh*t, you are hollow. You even failed at trolling because I'm not angry, just mildly amused by your arguments. Practice more for next time, n00b.
Blunt question: even if it costs half as much to hire someone working in a third world country, isn't this made up for by the inefficiency of long-distance communication of and delays in understanding across cultures?
A lot of people in the US choose to do offshoring/outsourcing with Latin America because (a) the time zones are similar (b) the culture is similar (c) English is the second or third language of choice and (d) it's possible to get workers who are competitive both in cost and in quality.
Shouting, "Oi, Bob!" across the office and having all relevant materials in front of both of you is so much better for collaboration than having to speak to someone half way across the world (assuming they're even awake).
Agreed, but only in certain cases. If you are doing research or science-y projects, having your collaborators face-to-face really eases the process. A real blackboard would have helped a lot more than one hour of phone conversation. For engineering work, you can manage with regular phone meetings, emails, IM and the occasional travel (once every few months, it REALLY boosts productivity and group-feeling). Speaking is not the best tool for everything, though, because there's no record!
Is there one example in the literature, anywhere, of service which has been maintained or improved following offshoring? What about in the double whammy of offshoring and outsourcing, rather than simply hiring employees abroad?
Well, I do offshoring and it worked out quite well for them in terms of quality and cost, otherwise they would give us the boot. And we've been working with them since 2002. Regarding outsourcing, I don't expect an improved or even maintained service level: they aren't attached to your business, and salaries are usually low. You get what you pay.
Cracked.com also compiled a list. Ever year or so someone goes on a rant like this, and brands it "commandments". TFA focuses heavily on UI and corporate meddling on gamers' affairs; Cracked concentrated on gameplay and plot. Interestingly, both had rants about multiplayer, though with different things in mind.
I did a study on mobile passwords, be them numeric or graphical. The conclusion was the same for each and every password method: people usually choose graphical configurations like crosses, spirals and diagonal lines. They rarely choose the numbers or focal points of the images that were on the background.
Until I read this article, I had totally forgotten that a teacher taught me Logo on primary school.
So many memories, like the time I learned to replace words from a text, first we had to write a story with certain highly-uncommon words, and then they would be replaced for their synonyms (hilarity ensued!). And the time I saw an implementation of Battleship and I thought "Gosh, I'll never do that, it's too hard..."!
It was easy to pass (we were six/seven years old after all), but it was my first contact with my current profession. They don't teach programming nowadays, and it's a shame (I'm 24 btw). It teaches you to be organised and to think on the purpose of what you're writing.
For good reason. The Catholic position on such matters is insane and would almost be comical if not for the damage this fruity little social club of yours has caused and will continue to cause with your support. Is your peace of mind worth a child having to suck the cock of a grown man forced by a stupid reading of Paul to repress his own sexual urges? Even accepting that the majority of Catholics do not force sex on children, the evidence for cover-ups at the highest levels is so great that anyone still identifying as Catholic must surely be in serious denial, or perhaps just a morally bankrupt idol worshiping and bead juggling cunt of a person.
Well, Norbert Elías defined civilization as the continuous addition and modification of self-restraints, about a century ago, and is pretty much uncontested.
It's cheap until you ignore dismantling, cleanup costs, and insurance for if something goes wrong (think 100's of billions of dollars). This is what the US made the Nuclear operators consider in the 1970's for their proposals and why they became uneconomical.
Nobody wants to provide insurance to a nuclear reactor company. Dismantling and cleanup of radioactive elements is not hard, since it's all contained. Exactly what are you talking about?
It always amazes me when I show Pac-man to various people and they "It's too hard." And yet here's an AI that can apparently beat it..... what does that say about my friends and coworkers?
I can't beat level 3, yet I'm sure I can program an AI that could play better than me. What that's supposed to mean?:)
Which indicates that the systems were running Windows XP which is the only OS out there with the autorun "feature". If you're using a Windows OS to run critical industrial facilities then you really deserve to be hacked and have your facility shut down. This system was never intended to do that.
If you want a secure setup use a decent Unix variant to run your servers; you can even have them accessible from the outside if you know what you're doing.
That is false, I'm afraid.
A guy at IBM did an online presentation about that. Ubuntu, by default, comes with thumbnail generation activated by default when you insert a USB drive (no autorun, though). After that, he took advantage of a few shortcomings of PDF and video which, combined with this default conf, escalated his privileges all the way to root. Lost the video link, maybe other/.ers may help.
Conclusion: the choice of OS is not, by itself, a security measure. Servers running Windows can be secure, as you said, if you know what you're doing. I agree with you on that: don't put amateurs to manage your servers, be them Unix-like or Windows.
Agreed. It's mostly a matter of time and money. If you have both, you can be a generalist. Today I'm taking a few courses on Sociology, learning an instrument, a foreign language, and doing engineering work: when I had a girlfriend, she and my job was all I could handle.
A few days ago, I read an article about that here. Turns out they are serious businesses. Well, at least as serious as you can get if you send SPAM:) . Just sharing with you, people.
Furthermore, if you haven't worked with Silverlight or WPF, you're really missing out on an amazing development experience.
I will take your word for it...
Do take it. I have a friend that worked with both technologies, and he said the same thing. I don't agree, but I admit that's because I tried it when WPF was still beta and SL was an alpha release.
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Right before that shot, he says "it's all psychological".
Alcohol abuse in other people is not my business; and this is a deep flaw in your philosophy; you believe that because SOME parents are bad, ALL parents must be put under the wing of the State 'for the sake of the children'. This is the sort of reasoning that creates laws to control the internet, and it gives birth to totalitarian countries like Sweden (Home School banned, because their parliament says their society is perfect, and so there is no need for Home Schooling. Im not making that up. State monopoly on the sale of alcohol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverages_in_Sweden etc etc), Finland (where you are fined for speeding proportionally to your income) and Iceland (train wreck vassal state, hollowed out by the banksters, where you dont have even the most basic of your rights).
People's ability to perform excellent teaching is not my business; and this is a deep flaw in your philosophy; you believe that because SOME parents have the full pedagogical knowledge gathered by humanity, ALL parents must be left to their own whims 'for the sake of freedom'. This is the sort of reasoning that creates anarchic chaos, and it gives birth to people like you.
Man, you're not full of sh*t, you are hollow. You even failed at trolling because I'm not angry, just mildly amused by your arguments. Practice more for next time, n00b.
Blunt question: even if it costs half as much to hire someone working in a third world country, isn't this made up for by the inefficiency of long-distance communication of and delays in understanding across cultures?
A lot of people in the US choose to do offshoring/outsourcing with Latin America because (a) the time zones are similar (b) the culture is similar (c) English is the second or third language of choice and (d) it's possible to get workers who are competitive both in cost and in quality.
Shouting, "Oi, Bob!" across the office and having all relevant materials in front of both of you is so much better for collaboration than having to speak to someone half way across the world (assuming they're even awake).
Agreed, but only in certain cases. If you are doing research or science-y projects, having your collaborators face-to-face really eases the process. A real blackboard would have helped a lot more than one hour of phone conversation. For engineering work, you can manage with regular phone meetings, emails, IM and the occasional travel (once every few months, it REALLY boosts productivity and group-feeling). Speaking is not the best tool for everything, though, because there's no record!
Is there one example in the literature, anywhere, of service which has been maintained or improved following offshoring? What about in the double whammy of offshoring and outsourcing, rather than simply hiring employees abroad?
Well, I do offshoring and it worked out quite well for them in terms of quality and cost, otherwise they would give us the boot. And we've been working with them since 2002. Regarding outsourcing, I don't expect an improved or even maintained service level: they aren't attached to your business, and salaries are usually low. You get what you pay.
Cracked.com also compiled a list. Ever year or so someone goes on a rant like this, and brands it "commandments". TFA focuses heavily on UI and corporate meddling on gamers' affairs; Cracked concentrated on gameplay and plot. Interestingly, both had rants about multiplayer, though with different things in mind.
I did a study on mobile passwords, be them numeric or graphical. The conclusion was the same for each and every password method: people usually choose graphical configurations like crosses, spirals and diagonal lines. They rarely choose the numbers or focal points of the images that were on the background.
Until I read this article, I had totally forgotten that a teacher taught me Logo on primary school.
So many memories, like the time I learned to replace words from a text, first we had to write a story with certain highly-uncommon words, and then they would be replaced for their synonyms (hilarity ensued!). And the time I saw an implementation of Battleship and I thought "Gosh, I'll never do that, it's too hard..."!
It was easy to pass (we were six/seven years old after all), but it was my first contact with my current profession. They don't teach programming nowadays, and it's a shame (I'm 24 btw). It teaches you to be organised and to think on the purpose of what you're writing.
Thank you /. for bringing those memories back!
For good reason. The Catholic position on such matters is insane and would almost be comical if not for the damage this fruity little social club of yours has caused and will continue to cause with your support. Is your peace of mind worth a child having to suck the cock of a grown man forced by a stupid reading of Paul to repress his own sexual urges? Even accepting that the majority of Catholics do not force sex on children, the evidence for cover-ups at the highest levels is so great that anyone still identifying as Catholic must surely be in serious denial, or perhaps just a morally bankrupt idol worshiping and bead juggling cunt of a person.
Yet your username is MysteriousPreacher...
Well, Norbert Elías defined civilization as the continuous addition and modification of self-restraints, about a century ago, and is pretty much uncontested.
It's cheap until you ignore dismantling, cleanup costs, and insurance for if something goes wrong (think 100's of billions of dollars). This is what the US made the Nuclear operators consider in the 1970's for their proposals and why they became uneconomical.
Nobody wants to provide insurance to a nuclear reactor company. Dismantling and cleanup of radioactive elements is not hard, since it's all contained. Exactly what are you talking about?
It doesn't matter how much the insurer pays, you'll still piss off the owner, since almost all containers are leased.
Since the FBI and the rest of three-letter-acronyms stick their fingers in everyone's asses, they would notice right away.
It always amazes me when I show Pac-man to various people and they "It's too hard." And yet here's an AI that can apparently beat it..... what does that say about my friends and coworkers?
I can't beat level 3, yet I'm sure I can program an AI that could play better than me. What that's supposed to mean? :)
Which indicates that the systems were running Windows XP which is the only OS out there with the autorun "feature". If you're using a Windows OS to run critical industrial facilities then you really deserve to be hacked and have your facility shut down. This system was never intended to do that.
If you want a secure setup use a decent Unix variant to run your servers; you can even have them accessible from the outside if you know what you're doing.
That is false, I'm afraid.
A guy at IBM did an online presentation about that. Ubuntu, by default, comes with thumbnail generation activated by default when you insert a USB drive (no autorun, though). After that, he took advantage of a few shortcomings of PDF and video which, combined with this default conf, escalated his privileges all the way to root. Lost the video link, maybe other /.ers may help.
Conclusion: the choice of OS is not, by itself, a security measure. Servers running Windows can be secure, as you said, if you know what you're doing. I agree with you on that: don't put amateurs to manage your servers, be them Unix-like or Windows.
...I'm looking forward to reading about edible plants in my region, organic farming techniques, and the status of women in former Soviet republics.
It seems that you are trying to create a farm labored by women from Eastern Europe at minimum wage, perhaps even a cult. Need some help with that?
Agreed. It's mostly a matter of time and money. If you have both, you can be a generalist. Today I'm taking a few courses on Sociology, learning an instrument, a foreign language, and doing engineering work: when I had a girlfriend, she and my job was all I could handle.
Ok. I'll ask "Why?" to all your statements.
A few days ago, I read an article about that here. Turns out they are serious businesses. Well, at least as serious as you can get if you send SPAM :) . Just sharing with you, people.
Furthermore, if you haven't worked with Silverlight or WPF, you're really missing out on an amazing development experience.
I will take your word for it...
Do take it. I have a friend that worked with both technologies, and he said the same thing. I don't agree, but I admit that's because I tried it when WPF was still beta and SL was an alpha release.
You are right, my engrish vocabulary is too focused on technology, so these mess-ups are common :) .
That's more reasonable, thanks!
That's like 3% of IBM's total workforce. No wonder Apple has those revenue numbers...
Oh, dear. Naturally, drugs are easier to hide than alcohol, so it seems reasonable.
Wikipedia tells me the age of majority in the US is 18, yet they won't let you buy alcohol until 21? My mind hurts. :/
I agree with you, but...
It always has been and still is easier for young people to get illegal drugs than legal ones.
How the hell were you moderated "Insightful" after this sentence? I'm 100 meters away to buy alcohol or cigarettes.
Heh, here says that 33% of car accidents involved an alcoholic person.
Not sure what you're saying here - looks to me like the majority of people said they weren't on [alcohol].
The logical conclusion to this data is that not being on [alcohol] should be outlawed, no?
Sorry, couldn't resist. XD
Being pro-war on drugs is to be pro slavery, sex trade, murder, empowerment of the biggest pieces of shit the world can create...
Whoa! I agree that the war on drugs have to change, but I recognize a non-sequitur when I see it. ;)