I certainly don't want to downplay the importance of this discovery, but oh man, could you imagine sitting on a stool every day for 20 years watching a dozen petri dishes waiting for something to happen?
You're correct. I was just in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago. In most places - restaurants, buses, trains, etc. - it's expressly forbidden to talk on mobile phones. But look around and you see nearly everyone's thumbs going a million miles per hour.
I wonder if the persons or organizations responsible for these claims of IT shortages have looked into the logistics of IT.
In other words, it's possible that, due to the size of the U.S. and the distribution of skilled labor, there are surpluses in some areas and shortages in others.
I work for an international telecom company. Our office traditionally has a difficult time filling jobs because of our location in Northeast Ohio. The office has been here for years, but it's not exactly a mecca of technology, and thusly we find ourselves interviewing people from all across the country. Then it becomes an issue when we need to relocate someone from one of the coasts to NE Ohio. Firstly, not many people get excited about the prospects of NEO, and Secondly it's an expensive proposition to pick up someone and their family and move them across the country.
NE Ohio is also lacking "real" companies, while simultaneously being overly-saturated with contracting companies and recruiters. I have no interest in being a contract employee so that severely limits employment prospects.
Conversely, I'm not overly excited about the prospects of staying in NE Ohio for the rest of my career, but I have dozens of considerations that preclude me from just picking up and moving somewhere else. I have my family to consider, a home (to attempt) to sell in a dismal market, the whole prospect of relocation of household, my wife works and loves her job, etc. I would love to be able to move to a "hotbed" of technology, but of course it's not a simple process.
I wonder if the net employment/employee ratio nationwide is a wash? How many of these employers who are claiming shortages would be willing to hire someone like me, purchase my house, pay relocation costs, etc.??
Computer science isn't a science, and it isn't even about computers.
I'd like to welcome you to this course on Computer Science. Actually that's a terrible way to start, Computer Science is a terrible name for this business. First of all, it's not a Science. It might be engineering or it might be art, although we'll actually see that Computer (so-called) "Science" actually has a lot in common with magic. And you'll see that in this course
So it's not a Science. It's also not really very much about Computers. Computer Science is not about computers in the same way that Physics is not about particle accelerators and Biology is not really about microscopes and petri dishes.
-- Hal Abelson, professor MIT - Lecture 1a: Overview and Introduction to Lisp
You can look up just about anything that ever went through the court system on that site. Anything.
I'm 33 right now, and there's a record on that site of a speeding ticket I got when I was 18. Full Name, home address at the time, birthdate, full case disposition. For a speeding ticket that I got 15 years ago. ANYone can look up ANY record on ANY person for ANY case that went through ANY court in Stark county with that site. I can see "private", or more accurately embarrasing, information on that site about family and friends (bankruptcy, garnishments, 20 year old DUIs) that I'm certain they don't want to sit around and discuss at Christmas parties, let alone divulge to future employers, but it's all there for anyone to see.
Use tax must be paid on all purchases made by Ohio residents and businesses if the proper amount of sales tax has not been paid to the vendor, seller, or service provider. The use tax rate is equal to the sales tax rate in effect in the county where the property is used or benefit of the service is received by the purchaser.
The state is starting to ratchet down on it a bit since, for the first time, for tax year 2006 it actually sent out a separate notice explaining the use tax. They want their money and they know that not everyone is reporting it.
So, if Amazon would start collecting the sales tax then I wouldn't have to figure it out myself and report it. One less headache for me.
There are a number of posts here decrying the complexity of creating the infrastructure to calculate and report the sales taxes for sites like Amazon.
Having spent years in the payroll (tax) software world, I can tell you from experience that there are a number of companies that specialize in this type of software for other companies like Amazon.
With the proliferation of Web Applications and SOA, and the diminishing relevance of desktop software, it's in Microsoft's best interest NOT to make it cross-platform.
Let's say that a full implementation of the.Net framework was available for *nix or OS X - all of the framework libs, ASP, WinForms, etc. What incentive would I have to fill a Web server farm full of thousands of dollars of Windows Server licenses when I could run my ASP.Net apps on Apache? The only real costs to add machines to the farm are hardware-related..Net already has providers for Oracle and MySQL. Suddenly, Microsoft's Operating systems and platforms become irrelevant to developers who have years of experience and time invested in learning.Net.
Since.Net 1.0 was released there has been a shared source implementation several platforms besides windows - FreeBSD and OS X.
So far, the SSCLI (formerly known as rotor), is kept up-to-date with the current.NET CLR. The current "cross-platform" version of the.Net framework available is 2.0. The 3.0 framework and SDK were recently released but are only supported on Vista. I wouldn't be suprised if no SSCLI for 3.0 is released since it's Vista- and Longhorn-centric.
I'm not too familiar with the Mono project, but I'd bet that the SSCLI was probably a key tool for its (at least initial) implementation.
I concede that the shared source license prohibits commercial use, but that wouldn't stop someone (e.g. Mono) from making a truly open-source cross-platform implementation.
But, like others have already said - it's not so much the CLR that makes languages like C# so useful, it's the framework libraries - ASP.Net, WinForms, etc. Without those, it's not very useful for anything interesting.
I'd love to see the Microsoft + Novell partnership result in a truly cross-platform implementation, but I won't hold my breath.
Don't feel bad, I too have been here almost that long - 192332.
I disagreed with him the other day too - respectfully even - and he proceeded to rudely "correct" me then tell me, and several others, in no uncertain terms, how offtopic we were. Then, to add insult to injury, he immediately made me his foe.
*shrug*
I'm as jaded with these RIAA stories as I am with their tactics. In my opinion, rather than draw the "right kind" of attention, NYCL is putting people off. Not everyone thinks this topic is as life-and-death as Ray.
Hmm, I have Sarcoidosis, which causes my body to over-manufacture a subtype of vitamin D, thus causing issues with over-use of calcium, which leads to things like calcification of the kidneys, among others.
Genetically speaking, my family on both sides is void of any cancer history, so I should be OK on that end. Even though I could die from complications of sarcoidosis, I likely won't get cancer. Good news. Everyone is dying of something - disease, old age, CHF, stroke, whatever - some people just know it sooner.
So, in conclusion, I stand by "everything in moderation."
Just remember, don't take life too serious - no one gets out alive.
Slashdot Mirror
is quite simple, actually.
First, if it's not invented here, then it's crap.
Second, I'm the only one I trust to write it correctly.
Third, I work alone, and I don't write comments - see number two.
I certainly don't want to downplay the importance of this discovery, but oh man, could you imagine sitting on a stool every day for 20 years watching a dozen petri dishes waiting for something to happen?
That's a lot of crossword puzzles.
Gee, I thought I was old. You win, Pops.
You're correct. I was just in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago. In most places - restaurants, buses, trains, etc. - it's expressly forbidden to talk on mobile phones. But look around and you see nearly everyone's thumbs going a million miles per hour.
I wonder if the persons or organizations responsible for these claims of IT shortages have looked into the logistics of IT.
In other words, it's possible that, due to the size of the U.S. and the distribution of skilled labor, there are surpluses in some areas and shortages in others.
I work for an international telecom company. Our office traditionally has a difficult time filling jobs because of our location in Northeast Ohio. The office has been here for years, but it's not exactly a mecca of technology, and thusly we find ourselves interviewing people from all across the country. Then it becomes an issue when we need to relocate someone from one of the coasts to NE Ohio. Firstly, not many people get excited about the prospects of NEO, and Secondly it's an expensive proposition to pick up someone and their family and move them across the country.
NE Ohio is also lacking "real" companies, while simultaneously being overly-saturated with contracting companies and recruiters. I have no interest in being a contract employee so that severely limits employment prospects.
Conversely, I'm not overly excited about the prospects of staying in NE Ohio for the rest of my career, but I have dozens of considerations that preclude me from just picking up and moving somewhere else. I have my family to consider, a home (to attempt) to sell in a dismal market, the whole prospect of relocation of household, my wife works and loves her job, etc. I would love to be able to move to a "hotbed" of technology, but of course it's not a simple process.
I wonder if the net employment/employee ratio nationwide is a wash? How many of these employers who are claiming shortages would be willing to hire someone like me, purchase my house, pay relocation costs, etc.??
Computer science isn't a science, and it isn't even about computers.
I'd like to welcome you to this course on Computer Science. Actually that's a terrible way to start, Computer Science is a terrible name for this business. First of all, it's not a Science. It might be engineering or it might be art, although we'll actually see that Computer (so-called) "Science" actually has a lot in common with magic. And you'll see that in this course
So it's not a Science. It's also not really very much about Computers. Computer Science is not about computers in the same way that Physics is not about particle accelerators and Biology is not really about microscopes and petri dishes.
-- Hal Abelson, professor MIT - Lecture 1a: Overview and Introduction to Lisp
OI, MATE! YOUR F***IN' FLIES ARE OPEN!
That sounds like something an Australian would say. In America we say "Hey, Dude! You have windows on your laptop!"
What was your first experience with gaming?
Hide and seek, you insensitive clod.
Dude, I'm with you on principle.
But, "jackhammer to swat a fly?" Seriously, a jackhammer? I dunno.
This is the site of the county court system where I live:
http://www.starkcjis.org/docket/main.html
You can look up just about anything that ever went through the court system on that site. Anything.
I'm 33 right now, and there's a record on that site of a speeding ticket I got when I was 18. Full Name, home address at the time, birthdate, full case disposition. For a speeding ticket that I got 15 years ago. ANYone can look up ANY record on ANY person for ANY case that went through ANY court in Stark county with that site. I can see "private", or more accurately embarrasing, information on that site about family and friends (bankruptcy, garnishments, 20 year old DUIs) that I'm certain they don't want to sit around and discuss at Christmas parties, let alone divulge to future employers, but it's all there for anyone to see.
Privacy is such a myth.
Yes, I'd say there's a problem here.
Either the black-hats or the condom company, but someone has to change the name of their product.
These subject lines are killing me.
...and when were done with that wheel torcher them with speling lesons!!
Yarr!
All this time I just thought leftovers in the tupperware reheated in the lunchroom microwave were just yucky.
It's all so clear now.
Don't get me wrong, I'm totally opposed to paying sales tax on internet purchases. Somehow it feels dirty.
a 03.asp) which I'm required to pay on anything I buy that I didn't pay sales tax on.
On the other hand, I live in Ohio. In Ohio there's this stupid thing called "Use Tax" (http://tax.ohio.gov/faqs/content/sales_and_use/q
Use tax must be paid on all purchases made by Ohio residents and businesses if the proper amount of sales tax has not been paid to the vendor, seller, or service provider. The use tax rate is equal to the sales tax rate in effect in the county where the property is used or benefit of the service is received by the purchaser.
The state is starting to ratchet down on it a bit since, for the first time, for tax year 2006 it actually sent out a separate notice explaining the use tax. They want their money and they know that not everyone is reporting it.
So, if Amazon would start collecting the sales tax then I wouldn't have to figure it out myself and report it. One less headache for me.
You guys need new jobs.
I spend well over 33% of my week on slashdot. I figure I'm "working off" the tax that way. So, I guess they're getting what they pay for.
Poo.
Was that out loud?
There are a number of posts here decrying the complexity of creating the infrastructure to calculate and report the sales taxes for sites like Amazon.
Having spent years in the payroll (tax) software world, I can tell you from experience that there are a number of companies that specialize in this type of software for other companies like Amazon.
E.g. Vertex - http://www.vertexinc.com/Products/sales_tax.asp
It really wouldn't be that difficult or take that long to implement sales tax collection.
I'm still opposed to it, but it wouldn't be very difficult.
Start > Run > Calc.exe
(what are all these _buttons_ ?!)
View > Standard
2x2=4
x2 =8
x2 =16
x2 =32
x2 =64
They did it in eleven months??
This is going to take a while... I'll be back.
*shrug*
Why not use your sleeve as a handkerchief?
Yeah. I was with you right up to that one.
With the proliferation of Web Applications and SOA, and the diminishing relevance of desktop software, it's in Microsoft's best interest NOT to make it cross-platform.
.Net framework was available for *nix or OS X - all of the framework libs, ASP, WinForms, etc. What incentive would I have to fill a Web server farm full of thousands of dollars of Windows Server licenses when I could run my ASP.Net apps on Apache? The only real costs to add machines to the farm are hardware-related. .Net already has providers for Oracle and MySQL. Suddenly, Microsoft's Operating systems and platforms become irrelevant to developers who have years of experience and time invested in learning .Net.
Let's say that a full implementation of the
Since .Net 1.0 was released there has been a shared source implementation several platforms besides windows - FreeBSD and OS X.
.NET CLR. The current "cross-platform" version of the .Net framework available is 2.0. The 3.0 framework and SDK were recently released but are only supported on Vista. I wouldn't be suprised if no SSCLI for 3.0 is released since it's Vista- and Longhorn-centric.
So far, the SSCLI (formerly known as rotor), is kept up-to-date with the current
I'm not too familiar with the Mono project, but I'd bet that the SSCLI was probably a key tool for its (at least initial) implementation.
I concede that the shared source license prohibits commercial use, but that wouldn't stop someone (e.g. Mono) from making a truly open-source cross-platform implementation.
But, like others have already said - it's not so much the CLR that makes languages like C# so useful, it's the framework libraries - ASP.Net, WinForms, etc. Without those, it's not very useful for anything interesting.
I'd love to see the Microsoft + Novell partnership result in a truly cross-platform implementation, but I won't hold my breath.
You can't possibly have any human friends.
You're a complete asshole.
You even give lawyers a bad name.
I agree 100%.
Don't feel bad, I too have been here almost that long - 192332.
I disagreed with him the other day too - respectfully even - and he proceeded to rudely "correct" me then tell me, and several others, in no uncertain terms, how offtopic we were. Then, to add insult to injury, he immediately made me his foe.
*shrug*
I'm as jaded with these RIAA stories as I am with their tactics. In my opinion, rather than draw the "right kind" of attention, NYCL is putting people off. Not everyone thinks this topic is as life-and-death as Ray.
Hmm, I have Sarcoidosis, which causes my body to over-manufacture a subtype of vitamin D, thus causing issues with over-use of calcium, which leads to things like calcification of the kidneys, among others.
http://www.sarcinfo.com/calcium.htm
Genetically speaking, my family on both sides is void of any cancer history, so I should be OK on that end. Even though I could die from complications of sarcoidosis, I likely won't get cancer. Good news. Everyone is dying of something - disease, old age, CHF, stroke, whatever - some people just know it sooner.
So, in conclusion, I stand by "everything in moderation."
Just remember, don't take life too serious - no one gets out alive.