Hehe, and interesting to see that you consider HIV something that soldiers might contract "on the job"... I thought that this particular part of a soldier's "job" was against article 27 of the Geneva Convention...
There's nothing in the Geneva Convention about Thai hookers..
"Tummy trouble" is just a polite way of saying things are about to flow freely, and a toilet needs to be nearby at all times. If you catch my drift.
Stomach problems implies something serious.
I think you may be on to something. There is absolutely a significant cultural difference which means, at the very least, Indian programmers cannot be managed the same as western programmers.
Anecdote 1:
I worked for a big, multinational corporation for a while. Towards the end of my stint there, they brought three lads over from India, to learn the ropes and (hopefully) contribute to our dev team. The problems started during the education process. We tried to get them up to speed on our product, the tech we used, etc. by holding some meetings and presentations, and stepping through the material. We always stopped at logical points and asked if they had any questions, if that was clear, etc. The answer was always a resounding "yes" from all three, and lots of nodding. We came to find that although they kept saying this, they had no idea what we were talking about. We started asking followup questions, none of which could ever be answered. In the end we had to start all over again, making sure this time around that everything was comprehended by all three.
Anecdote 2:
In another place of work, they brought over one chap from India to do some support work. There was not much proprietary tech or anything much to learn (according to his skill set) so they just let him get on with it. At the end of the week they checked on his progress and he had only some very basic code to show (which had quite obviously been copied from the web somewhere). What he had was not really useful for anything. When asked why he had not finished any of the tasks assigned to him, he said he just did not understand what his tasks were. When asked why he didn't just ask for help, he had no answer.
The point is, from what I can see, they are not really accustomed to independent learning, or getting help from others. If they are, then perhaps it is, as you say, they are afraid to ask for any assistance, as it shows they do not know as much as they have said they know, and this might cause them dismissal. We have an Indian guy working here, who is as productive as any one of us westerners. I am guessing he probably grew up here, though, and does not have so much cultural differences.
really? Because I live in the UK and I only rarely glance at the speedo. And I have never had a ticket. Not very many cameras around, and when they are, they are signposted so you now they are coming up.
Fair enough, but what you list are atrocities committed under regimes that no longer exist, so even if the right people were not prosecuted for their crimes, at least they are not still in power, parading around, unlike the US of A, which is exempt of any crime at all.
Yes worse than Germans bombing Britain. Ignoring for a moment the immediate death toll of both, the long term result of nuclear bombing is far more grim and cruel than normal HE. Nobody suffered radiation sickness, cancer etc. from bombing Britain. Instead of just death toll, consider the actual suffering of all those affected.
As far as the mustard gas, OK that was also highly cruel, but it was in the trenches, soldiers on soldiers. Not nuking the fuck out of unsuspecting civilians.
Yes, I was "cool" once. Junior year of high school. It was exhausting, going to random places with people just to watch them smoke weed (I would not partake) and then go somewhere else.
In the end, it got in the way of doing things I wanted to do, and the payoff wasn't nearly worth it (if you are "cool" you can hang out with the hot girls but they still won't be interested if you aren't good looking).
It was made public by a local online newszine, after they spoke to our MP. Most likely you won't be able to find out directly from BT, so you have to ask someone who works in the council.
BT fibre is indeed harmful to the competition. The competition being Virgin fibre. The good news is, there will no longer be a monopoly on fibre. The bad news is, those of us who do not have Virgin fibre, and live in broadband notspots, will not see any BT fibre either. Again, this is for the purposes of competition. BT have actually said they will roll out fibre to my exchange by March next year. However, the fine print says that "rolling out fibre" to the exchange means just that; to the exchange. The fibre itself will only run to select cabinets, in my case, only 50% of them. Guess which ones? The ones that already have streets cabled with Virgin fibre, so they can poach Virgin customers. BT already get my £15 per month for the abysmal 0.7mbps they provide, and have no interest in bringing me a better service since I am already paying them.
I was just about to ask, how do you quantify "damage" within software (or otherwise intangible things), when I guess what they mean is reputation damage.
Telemarketers (Debt Collectors are not bound by it) are required to show proof that they checked the number against the list within 14 days of contact. If they cannot, and they made contact, it is a 50k USD fine the last time I checked per infraction.
I had a heated discussion about this the other day (some soulless prick [read:telemarketer] on reddit doing an AMA) and as it turns out, "surveys" and "research questionnaires" are exempt from the DNC list in both the US and the UK. All they have to do is shape the call in the form of some stupid questions and they can advertise to you all they like by cold calling. They also will continue to call unless you say "Please take me off the list" in those exact words and with no variation. "Please stop calling me" will not suffice, and they will call back.
Many areas have only FTTC, their house served by copper (or worse, aluminium).
As a result, there is no point paying for 50mb package from Virgin because you will never get that speed.
They were rioting hooligans that were pissed off at the government and no one thought their actions were in good form except for like-minded anti-establishment types.
History repeats itself, it would seem. Who would have thought?
Not just corporate entities. If everyone was equal under the law, there would be many more people on trial for war crimes, not just frail old Serbian men.
Was going to say something like this. As far as annoying DRM goes, Steam is not the worst. All of my Steam games have been purchased offline, in a shop. I did have to sign up to Steam to play them, but all they need is an email address, of which I have many.
What *does* annoy me is that when I get a spare 30 mins to play a game and Steam isn't working or available for some retarded reason, and all I want is to play the single player campaign for a game. Why do I need their permission to play games I already bought?
The problem with p2p is that it relies on a solid upload speed. Here in the UK, even people with decent down speed have abysmal upspeed (take my last fibre connection with Virgin, 20mbps down,.7mbps up. When questioned, Virgin said "we don't support upload", whatever that means).
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Hehe, and interesting to see that you consider HIV something that soldiers might contract "on the job"... I thought that this particular part of a soldier's "job" was against article 27 of the Geneva Convention...
There's nothing in the Geneva Convention about Thai hookers..
"Tummy trouble" is just a polite way of saying things are about to flow freely, and a toilet needs to be nearby at all times. If you catch my drift.
Stomach problems implies something serious.
I think you may be on to something. There is absolutely a significant cultural difference which means, at the very least, Indian programmers cannot be managed the same as western programmers.
Anecdote 1:
I worked for a big, multinational corporation for a while. Towards the end of my stint there, they brought three lads over from India, to learn the ropes and (hopefully) contribute to our dev team. The problems started during the education process. We tried to get them up to speed on our product, the tech we used, etc. by holding some meetings and presentations, and stepping through the material. We always stopped at logical points and asked if they had any questions, if that was clear, etc. The answer was always a resounding "yes" from all three, and lots of nodding. We came to find that although they kept saying this, they had no idea what we were talking about. We started asking followup questions, none of which could ever be answered. In the end we had to start all over again, making sure this time around that everything was comprehended by all three.
Anecdote 2:
In another place of work, they brought over one chap from India to do some support work. There was not much proprietary tech or anything much to learn (according to his skill set) so they just let him get on with it. At the end of the week they checked on his progress and he had only some very basic code to show (which had quite obviously been copied from the web somewhere). What he had was not really useful for anything. When asked why he had not finished any of the tasks assigned to him, he said he just did not understand what his tasks were. When asked why he didn't just ask for help, he had no answer.
The point is, from what I can see, they are not really accustomed to independent learning, or getting help from others. If they are, then perhaps it is, as you say, they are afraid to ask for any assistance, as it shows they do not know as much as they have said they know, and this might cause them dismissal. We have an Indian guy working here, who is as productive as any one of us westerners. I am guessing he probably grew up here, though, and does not have so much cultural differences.
really? Because I live in the UK and I only rarely glance at the speedo. And I have never had a ticket. Not very many cameras around, and when they are, they are signposted so you now they are coming up.
Fair enough, but what you list are atrocities committed under regimes that no longer exist, so even if the right people were not prosecuted for their crimes, at least they are not still in power, parading around, unlike the US of A, which is exempt of any crime at all.
Yes worse than Germans bombing Britain. Ignoring for a moment the immediate death toll of both, the long term result of nuclear bombing is far more grim and cruel than normal HE. Nobody suffered radiation sickness, cancer etc. from bombing Britain. Instead of just death toll, consider the actual suffering of all those affected.
As far as the mustard gas, OK that was also highly cruel, but it was in the trenches, soldiers on soldiers. Not nuking the fuck out of unsuspecting civilians.
Don't forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Arguably the worst war crime in history. And nobody was held accountable.
TBH I cannot remember the single player storyline for that one, I just remember it was USA vs. Russia.
Then again you don't see a whole lot of games where the states are being invaded by anything besides aliens
Except Modern Warfare 2 and very recently MW3...but yes SPOILER ALERT
*********America does 'win' in the end (well, Russia withdraws troops from US soil after peace talks, if you call that "winning").
I love my Montenegro TLD :)
"Can't touch this" dun, dun dun dun
Many northern european countries would want you, so long as you leave your warped idea of politics at the door ("you" being used collectively here).
Yes, I was "cool" once. Junior year of high school. It was exhausting, going to random places with people just to watch them smoke weed (I would not partake) and then go somewhere else.
In the end, it got in the way of doing things I wanted to do, and the payoff wasn't nearly worth it (if you are "cool" you can hang out with the hot girls but they still won't be interested if you aren't good looking).
I feel your pain. My road is partially cabled. It stops a few houses down, and Virgin won't complete the street because it isn't profitable for them.
It was made public by a local online newszine, after they spoke to our MP. Most likely you won't be able to find out directly from BT, so you have to ask someone who works in the council.
BT fibre is indeed harmful to the competition. The competition being Virgin fibre. The good news is, there will no longer be a monopoly on fibre. The bad news is, those of us who do not have Virgin fibre, and live in broadband notspots, will not see any BT fibre either. Again, this is for the purposes of competition. BT have actually said they will roll out fibre to my exchange by March next year. However, the fine print says that "rolling out fibre" to the exchange means just that; to the exchange. The fibre itself will only run to select cabinets, in my case, only 50% of them. Guess which ones? The ones that already have streets cabled with Virgin fibre, so they can poach Virgin customers. BT already get my £15 per month for the abysmal 0.7mbps they provide, and have no interest in bringing me a better service since I am already paying them.
I was just about to ask, how do you quantify "damage" within software (or otherwise intangible things), when I guess what they mean is reputation damage.
Telemarketers (Debt Collectors are not bound by it) are required to show proof that they checked the number against the list within 14 days of contact. If they cannot, and they made contact, it is a 50k USD fine the last time I checked per infraction .
I had a heated discussion about this the other day (some soulless prick [read:telemarketer] on reddit doing an AMA) and as it turns out, "surveys" and "research questionnaires" are exempt from the DNC list in both the US and the UK. All they have to do is shape the call in the form of some stupid questions and they can advertise to you all they like by cold calling. They also will continue to call unless you say "Please take me off the list" in those exact words and with no variation. "Please stop calling me" will not suffice, and they will call back.
Many areas have only FTTC, their house served by copper (or worse, aluminium).
As a result, there is no point paying for 50mb package from Virgin because you will never get that speed.
They were rioting hooligans that were pissed off at the government and no one thought their actions were in good form except for like-minded anti-establishment types.
History repeats itself, it would seem. Who would have thought?
They also invented the Pet Passport, to allow easier travel with pets in Europe.
Not just corporate entities. If everyone was equal under the law, there would be many more people on trial for war crimes, not just frail old Serbian men.
Apple is a *way* bigger company with far greater resources than Sony.
Dude, what??
Number of employees: Apple: 60,400 Sony: 168,200
Total Assets: Apple: $116bn Sony: $155bn
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I don't speak Russian, but I know "dosvidaniya" (I would have translated it from cyrillic to roman slightly differently) means "good bye". :)
Was going to say something like this. As far as annoying DRM goes, Steam is not the worst. All of my Steam games have been purchased offline, in a shop. I did have to sign up to Steam to play them, but all they need is an email address, of which I have many.
What *does* annoy me is that when I get a spare 30 mins to play a game and Steam isn't working or available for some retarded reason, and all I want is to play the single player campaign for a game. Why do I need their permission to play games I already bought?
The problem with p2p is that it relies on a solid upload speed. Here in the UK, even people with decent down speed have abysmal upspeed (take my last fibre connection with Virgin, 20mbps down, .7mbps up. When questioned, Virgin said "we don't support upload", whatever that means).