I am half canadian, half russian and I sort of know what the heavy handedness is. Its just like that, and you have to live in it to see it. You can't really understand it. Either you know it or you don't:-) Its like going to mars. Being oxygen breathing animal you can't breathe whatever there is there. It think thats is very much like it. Same way I cringe when I see russianisms from russian immigrants here. They have hard time adapting. I think it comes from unadulterated honesty, something is avoided in west more often then not.
I don't think Putin is angel, but what he is doing I think straight and honest. His rule is best thing that happen to Russia in a long time. He doesn't drink, take/taken drugs. He is doing what is best to make russia a real country that can content with others on eye to eye in technology, fair resource pricing etc. His allegences are with KGB. Whooppee. Bush Sr. was a head of CIA. Perhaps that makes him best tactitian to bring the country out of the trouble. It was spiraling down the toilet and very fast. Don't forget, the overblown journalists being shot, they have had warnings, but perhaps being backed by crooks like Berezovsky, made them political fodder. I general russian populace is angry what these people have done to the country and won't make any apologies for what they do.
Perhaps if bin laden sponsored revolution in USA, to force the complete government change, he would not be wanted in USA. Except it already happened. Russia's roots aren't in capitalism, as much as we all would like to make it out to be the cure for any ills any country is having. What is important , is that USA has culture of capitalism, which russia doesn't. It is changing and it would take time. I cannot see likes of criminally corrupt Berezovsky running the country.
I am just saying that Russia is a very different country. You can't apply american liberty & capitalism (if that still exists) in Russia. China is taking its own way. So will russia, now that it has strong leader. So far that I talked to friends and relatives, they don't even have doubts about how good for russia Putin is.
Russia has to defend itself from China nearby, as it is still growing. And they need land and resources. NATO is squeezing russia from each side, NATO fighters placed in Estonia, always taunt russian forces. In general West is still very unfriendly toward russia, and thats why you see rennovation of nuclear stock pile.
I dunno I think we should see what happens with Putin.
I am sure if bin laden would finance some sort of protest to encourage dismantlement of current government, they will get executed. It is called treason. Berezovsky is a thief and should be jailed. Putin, if being an autocrat, is brining stability to russia. Currency has stabilized and rising, markets are very optimistic. Investment is coming in. If russians wanted they could've killed him long time ago. I don't think the political shift in russia with putin in power is hunky dory, but he has gotten rid of alot of crime. People who insist on failing russia as a state have been practicing the same, with state palesite too. You make the connections.
Putin has alot to worry about for next 10 years, if he gets relected. Russia faces, sort of friendly, but increasingly hungry china by its side, European union and united states who would be interested in russia being a third world country and their CIA based efforts to destailize the country, destroy any viable political system. Remember Putin: 1. improved situation law enforcement 2. redirected money from illegally assigned oil resources to government, where it was taken from.
- remember in russia resources were all owned by government. so people who privatized the resources were just as good or worse then cocaine warlords of columbia.
- privatization was: one guy brings some solid sum of money and he gets the oil well, for profit all to himself. 3. fought back corruption 4. kicked oligarhs, the super rich elite who threatened to kill him. so what is natural thing to do? -> jail them.
I watch western and russian media, to get sort of the whole picture.
I mean he is KGB ex-agent, so he does as he knows. I think he is honest and not crooked like the previous government. I suspect Yeltsing handed over the power to him, because he was being steadily manipulated and poisoned to whore out russia and its resources to any bidder. Putin's tactics may be somewhat questionable, but he came into situation, there was no way to go but up.
People who invest aren't stupid. Russia has seen record amount of the investment coming there. Because prices are cheap, putin guarantees some sort of stability. You just follow the money, and it tells you what you want. Berezovsky got cut off from his money spigot, he'd be 10x richer now. But he isn't thats why he is angry. I would be very angry as well.
you can always warez it off the friends, or talk to guy at the store in september, to throw in free upgrade with laptop purchase, they are pretty expensive.
I think Blu ray is needed because cinematics at 1080p are quite expensive in terms of space. But then it should be cached to the harddrive anyway,so i don't see a problem with multiple dvd discs. blue ray discs carry 25GB of information, so roughly each disc is replacement for 2 dual layer dvds. I am not sure if it is worth the value. I am not sure if 50 G discs are playable and/or deliverable by content houses anyway.
Apple making effort and does show that they are frank that they cannot deliver half baked product, on release day. So they push it back, they don't release some half baked product even though it isn't really the flagship of the company. There many people who like os x but windows is still everywhere. Still I think people don't mind wating for quality product.
... " If Putin pulled the plug on an anti-Putin web site inside Russia, the anti-Putin web site could simply be migrated offshore to a server in, say, the United States."...
Then it becomes enemy, imperialist propaganda and immediately discarded as such. To have legitimacy sites must be located within the country. 2c
Commercial packages of Rogers, don't guarantee anything anyway, they say it plainly, that you will get faster call backs if you have technical issues with your wiring, but at fixing global network connectivity you get same treatment. Hence get a leased connection and you'll get a flunky you can yell at if you have any problems. In general though even if you get leased line from Bell, you'll still won't get anything resolved. They simply don't care. Since only Bell is allowed to run dedicated connections here, likes of T1, phone and optical fiber. Really a scam. Rogers was decent for a while, but we all knew that they will screw it up sooner or later. Wring every penny from their users. cheers.
Japanese usually never outsource products for inner consumption, while in america people don't have culture of quality. There are many stories of outsourcing gone wrong. It is tough to work remotely, even in your own country. Consider a different culture, timezones and climates. In general it works. But how fast can india churn out "quality" software developers? Often quality developers do take a jump and come over to north america, europe. In the end it is all about the family. Conditions in india and not family friendly in many ways.
All I am saying picture is more complex, then: 1. Look greedy corporations are robbing middle class joe. 2. Most indians if briliant programmers, are idiotic. Only time will tell. Yes now it is scary, but say if european countries will do the work at home, quality work and indian shops will churn out mediocre stuff, americans might face just another "GM" like situation. Large corporations, that are unable to control quality and build process. Toyota is coming up to be the largest car manufacturer. And it is all in quality. Again I don't think cars and software relate, after all analogy is poor mans argument. I would rather point out situation is more or less volatile and beyond comprehension of many.
Many have fears about the situation, but it is not from in depth understanding of the situation. cheers
Perhaps you'd like to calculate the time, that it takes for you to swap in and out and keep track of the media. Unless you have some automated solution to make backups on multiple cds with robot arm actuators replacing dvdr's and marking them, with likes of inkjet.
Magneto-Optical media is used by medical facilities where archival time length is paramount. Such as:
- http://md5.ca/~pavel/md.jpg
- http://tinyurl.com/2cu7zv MO drives are a bit costly, but if you have important media its worth it. Besides cool look for neo's warez stash in Simulcara book. Quoted guaranteed archival time is over 40 years in most cases, and they continually improving the technology, compared to driving the costs down of the generic blank media market of CDs/DVDs.
All it takes, is time. It may well be that apple with parallels and in future some deeper emulation integration with windows, will drive demand for people who abandon insecure windows environments for usable OS X. As Microsoft fails to meet its own promises, people will be forced to look elsewhere. Perhaps OS X with its demanding video applications will drive the next big rise in sales.
I am not analyst, but stagnant windows platform isn't living up to its promises, people will be forced to look elsewhere. Elsewhere as in Ubuntu desktop, OS X. Whichever. It will take time.
This seems like it. I thought we grew up and decided that how we act, look and pretend to care is irrelevant and we focus on what we actually do for others. But I digress...
Textmate is pretty slick for those who aren't already used to vim'sms. I'd love to see real gvim port that works like gvim on windows and unices, for cocoa. I do use OS X though...:/
Most Russian coders [in russia] are assholes and lazy, I am russian and grew up in Canada. I went to russia to work for a while, to see how it is. After all wages in moscow are 2000$+ so it I wasn't just surviving. I was little dismayed at the experience being in russia, finding that while there are alot of brilliant coders, many are lazy and have too few team skills to be usable in a company. Another thing, russians are daring, so this sort of stuff comes up all the time. They won't do work, but throw them a challenge and they'd go at it.
To put it in other way, those who can do and care to work, left a long time ago. Those who stay, ones who aren't willing to change, thinking that old russian ways are fine. In addition, real estate prices in moscow are soaring. Many sysadmins made their way to buy apartment, by reselling hardware to their own company with 5x - 100x markup. Yes these things happen:)
What can I say its a mess, really.
This virus isn't a surprise, there are alot more covert virii, I'd tell you. Ones that do embed themselves in the kernel, not as a process or a program. Cheers.
That seems they are recategorizing lower end jobs that don't require education. Software developers are still up there in being treated nice. Lower end, ones don't require technical knowledge and degree. If you are software developer, I would rather work hourly basis, so that when company stands to benefit from using me under strees clocking extra hours, I can benefit from that as well. There is no better reward to an employee / contractor then straight cash. Stock options are for those who have something to gamble, those who can control destiny, where there invested in. Most of the time working salaried stiffs don't, so hourly rate is better.
Note that most people missed that overtime has to be *approved*. Meaning that they will pay you, but will make you feel like a theif if you worked overtime fixing that build script. Hence bad review, no bonus and possibility of being switched/replaced at moments notice when there is someone else who can take your job.
I think it goes about western ways that university is somehow is a manufacturing ground for workers. However it is not, rather it is manufacturing ground of free thinkers and scientists. At that rate I think compelling students to learn rather then suffering through their school work is more important. After all some of the best schools have the stricter of policies.
It should be tested, if such measures improve in quality of education of the students, not overall experience of the schooling. Undergrad however is cash cow of the university, for partially funding research and facilities. As such they'd be happy to oblige students in anything as long as they pay. Government regulations and school reputation doesn't allow for that. It is good to see someone taking measures in stride of elevation of quality of education. There will be mistakes, but such intent is better then free for all, pay us and do mediocre job and get your degree. Often students with good grades end up being highly unprepared for work or research (into masters/phd degree) in terms of knowledge base(not experience). 2c
I am blaming the situation. You can ultimately blame skype for existing in this imperfect world and hiring programmers that do their job the way they did for the past uh 9 years or more. Blame doesn't solve anything, however seeing things in whole context helps.
I think why viacom is upset about google, is because the youtube takes the jelly out of viacoms doughnut. suddenly viacom doesn't hold the controlling stick of the content they purchase / produce, and that is the crux of the problem. Another way looking at it, is for content there was one mode of delivery, through commercial cable vision. It was very centralized and producers were few and watchers were many. Now with so called web 2.0 model and cheap bandwidth, more people are able to deliver to other people in the world whatever informational material they want.
This is not taking sides, rather, standing back and looking back a horse whip business at the dawn of the car era. Will Viacom embrace and further the fundamental change in way they do content business or will they still try to coerce new and better into old and worse, as in for consumer, model. In the end it is the invisible hand that will smash those who don't obey it. 2c
"The problem that arises is most cell-providers use a white-list of ESNs. For example, if you move your SIM card from a Verizon phone to an unbranded, direct-from-manufacturer phone, your will get rejected of service because the ESN isn't in that whitelist."
Not sure where you live, but in Canada, here if you get unlocked phone, all you have to do is just pop in the sim card and way you go.
On a mac it is matter of copying file into applications folder, and if you want to, deleting it. it is not fault of skype that things on windows are so messed up. Developers are used to this way of coding, so it goes like that, on and on. Still wating for video on linux version of skype. 2c
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I am half canadian, half russian and I sort of know what the heavy handedness is. Its just like that, and you have to live in it to see it. You can't really understand it. Either you know it or you don't :-) Its like going to mars. Being oxygen breathing animal you can't breathe whatever there is there. It think thats is very much like it. Same way I cringe when I see russianisms from russian immigrants here. They have hard time adapting.
I think it comes from unadulterated honesty, something is avoided in west more often then not.
I don't think Putin is angel, but what he is doing I think straight and honest. His rule is best thing that happen to Russia in a long time. He doesn't drink, take/taken drugs. He is doing what is best to make russia a real country that can content with others on eye to eye in technology, fair resource pricing etc.
His allegences are with KGB. Whooppee. Bush Sr. was a head of CIA. Perhaps that makes him best tactitian to bring the country out of the trouble. It was spiraling down the toilet and very fast.
Don't forget, the overblown journalists being shot, they have had warnings, but perhaps being backed by crooks like Berezovsky, made them political fodder. I general russian populace is angry what these people have done to the country and won't make any apologies for what they do.
Perhaps if bin laden sponsored revolution in USA, to force the complete government change, he would not be wanted in USA. Except it already happened. Russia's roots aren't in capitalism, as much as we all would like to make it out to be the cure for any ills any country is having. What is important , is that USA has culture of capitalism, which russia doesn't. It is changing and it would take time. I cannot see likes of criminally corrupt Berezovsky running the country.
I am just saying that Russia is a very different country. You can't apply american liberty & capitalism (if that still exists) in Russia. China is taking its own way. So will russia, now that it has strong leader. So far that I talked to friends and relatives, they don't even have doubts about how good for russia Putin is.
Russia has to defend itself from China nearby, as it is still growing. And they need land and resources. NATO is squeezing russia from each side, NATO fighters placed in Estonia, always taunt russian forces. In general West is still very unfriendly toward russia, and thats why you see rennovation of nuclear stock pile.
I dunno I think we should see what happens with Putin.
I am sure if bin laden would finance some sort of protest to encourage dismantlement of current government, they will get executed. It is called treason. Berezovsky is a thief and should be jailed. Putin, if being an autocrat, is brining stability to russia. Currency has stabilized and rising, markets are very optimistic. Investment is coming in.
If russians wanted they could've killed him long time ago.
I don't think the political shift in russia with putin in power is hunky dory, but he has gotten rid of alot of crime. People who insist on failing russia as a state have been practicing the same, with state palesite too. You make the connections.
Putin has alot to worry about for next 10 years, if he gets relected. Russia faces, sort of friendly, but increasingly hungry china by its side, European union and united states who would be interested in russia being a third world country and their CIA based efforts to destailize the country, destroy any viable political system.
Remember Putin:
1. improved situation law enforcement
2. redirected money from illegally assigned oil resources to government, where it was taken from.
- remember in russia resources were all owned by government. so people who privatized the resources were just as good or worse then cocaine warlords of columbia.
- privatization was: one guy brings some solid sum of money and he gets the oil well, for profit all to himself.
3. fought back corruption
4. kicked oligarhs, the super rich elite who threatened to kill him. so what is natural thing to do? -> jail them.
I watch western and russian media, to get sort of the whole picture.
I mean he is KGB ex-agent, so he does as he knows. I think he is honest and not crooked like the previous government. I suspect Yeltsing handed over the power to him, because he was being steadily manipulated and poisoned to whore out russia and its resources to any bidder. Putin's tactics may be somewhat questionable, but he came into situation, there was no way to go but up.
People who invest aren't stupid. Russia has seen record amount of the investment coming there. Because prices are cheap, putin guarantees some sort of stability. You just follow the money, and it tells you what you want. Berezovsky got cut off from his money spigot, he'd be 10x richer now. But he isn't thats why he is angry. I would be very angry as well.
you can always warez it off the friends, or talk to guy at the store in september, to throw in free upgrade with laptop purchase, they are pretty expensive.
I think Blu ray is needed because cinematics at 1080p are quite expensive in terms of space. But then it should be cached to the harddrive anyway,so i don't see a problem with multiple dvd discs. blue ray discs carry 25GB of information, so roughly each disc is replacement for 2 dual layer dvds. I am not sure if it is worth the value. I am not sure if 50 G discs are playable and/or deliverable by content houses anyway.
Apple making effort and does show that they are frank that they cannot deliver half baked product, on release day. So they push it back, they don't release some half baked product even though it isn't really the flagship of the company. There many people who like os x but windows is still everywhere. Still I think people don't mind wating for quality product.
I wonder what would be nominal price of oled monitors, it seems that the circuitry is quite a bit simpler for them.
... " If Putin pulled the plug on an anti-Putin web site inside Russia, the anti-Putin web site could simply be migrated offshore to a server in, say, the United States." ...
Then it becomes enemy, imperialist propaganda and immediately discarded as such. To have legitimacy sites must be located within the country.
2c
mod parent up, and distribute the url to your non-internet wielding friends, make a few printouts :)
bandwidth is near free and bands don't need the riaa cartel anymore. just telecom cartel. hopefully obama is going to be elected and jolt them good.
Commercial packages of Rogers, don't guarantee anything anyway, they say it plainly, that you will get faster call backs if you have technical issues with your wiring, but at fixing global network connectivity you get same treatment. Hence get a leased connection and you'll get a flunky you can yell at if you have any problems. In general though even if you get leased line from Bell, you'll still won't get anything resolved. They simply don't care. Since only Bell is allowed to run dedicated connections here, likes of T1, phone and optical fiber. Really a scam. Rogers was decent for a while, but we all knew that they will screw it up sooner or later. Wring every penny from their users.
cheers.
Mandatory car insurance? Now there is a scam.
Japanese usually never outsource products for inner consumption, while in america people don't have culture of quality. There are many stories of outsourcing gone wrong. It is tough to work remotely, even in your own country. Consider a different culture, timezones and climates.
In general it works. But how fast can india churn out "quality" software developers? Often quality developers do take a jump and come over to north america, europe. In the end it is all about the family. Conditions in india and not family friendly in many ways.
All I am saying picture is more complex, then: 1. Look greedy corporations are robbing middle class joe. 2. Most indians if briliant programmers, are idiotic.
Only time will tell. Yes now it is scary, but say if european countries will do the work at home, quality work and indian shops will churn out mediocre stuff, americans might face just another "GM" like situation. Large corporations, that are unable to control quality and build process. Toyota is coming up to be the largest car manufacturer. And it is all in quality. Again I don't think cars and software relate, after all analogy is poor mans argument. I would rather point out situation is more or less volatile and beyond comprehension of many.
Many have fears about the situation, but it is not from in depth understanding of the situation.
cheers
Perhaps you'd like to calculate the time, that it takes for you to swap in and out and keep track of the media. Unless you have some automated solution to make backups on multiple cds with robot arm actuators replacing dvdr's and marking them, with likes of inkjet.
Magneto-Optical media is used by medical facilities where archival time length is paramount. Such as:
- http://md5.ca/~pavel/md.jpg
- http://tinyurl.com/2cu7zv
MO drives are a bit costly, but if you have important media its worth it. Besides cool look for neo's warez stash in Simulcara book. Quoted guaranteed archival time is over 40 years in most cases, and they continually improving the technology, compared to driving the costs down of the generic blank media market of CDs/DVDs.
All it takes, is time. It may well be that apple with parallels and in future some deeper emulation integration with windows, will drive demand for people who abandon insecure windows environments for usable OS X. As Microsoft fails to meet its own promises, people will be forced to look elsewhere. Perhaps OS X with its demanding video applications will drive the next big rise in sales.
I am not analyst, but stagnant windows platform isn't living up to its promises, people will be forced to look elsewhere. Elsewhere as in Ubuntu desktop, OS X. Whichever. It will take time.
This seems like it. I thought we grew up and decided that how we act, look and pretend to care is irrelevant and we focus on what we actually do for others.
But I digress...
http://crazy.codetroop.com/randimg/imgs/computer_b omb.jpg
Textmate is pretty slick for those who aren't already used to vim'sms. I'd love to see real gvim port that works like gvim on windows and unices, for cocoa. :/
I do use OS X though...
This comes from my experience:
:)
Most Russian coders [in russia] are assholes and lazy, I am russian and grew up in Canada. I went to russia to work for a while, to see how it is. After all wages in moscow are 2000$+ so it I wasn't just surviving.
I was little dismayed at the experience being in russia, finding that while there are alot of brilliant coders, many are lazy and have too few team skills to be usable in a company. Another thing, russians are daring, so this sort of stuff comes up all the time. They won't do work, but throw them a challenge and they'd go at it.
To put it in other way, those who can do and care to work, left a long time ago. Those who stay, ones who aren't willing to change, thinking that old russian ways are fine. In addition, real estate prices in moscow are soaring. Many sysadmins made their way to buy apartment, by reselling hardware to their own company with 5x - 100x markup. Yes these things happen
What can I say its a mess, really.
This virus isn't a surprise, there are alot more covert virii, I'd tell you. Ones that do embed themselves in the kernel, not as a process or a program.
Cheers.
That seems they are recategorizing lower end jobs that don't require education. Software developers are still up there in being treated nice.
Lower end, ones don't require technical knowledge and degree. If you are software developer, I would rather work hourly basis, so that when company stands to benefit from using me under strees clocking extra hours, I can benefit from that as well. There is no better reward to an employee / contractor then straight cash. Stock options are for those who have something to gamble, those who can control destiny, where there invested in. Most of the time working salaried stiffs don't, so hourly rate is better.
Note that most people missed that overtime has to be *approved*. Meaning that they will pay you, but will make you feel like a theif if you worked overtime fixing that build script. Hence bad review, no bonus and possibility of being switched/replaced at moments notice when there is someone else who can take your job.
I think it goes about western ways that university is somehow is a manufacturing ground for workers. However it is not, rather it is manufacturing ground of free thinkers and scientists. At that rate I think compelling students to learn rather then suffering through their school work is more important. After all some of the best schools have the stricter of policies.
It should be tested, if such measures improve in quality of education of the students, not overall experience of the schooling. Undergrad however is cash cow of the university, for partially funding research and facilities. As such they'd be happy to oblige students in anything as long as they pay. Government regulations and school reputation doesn't allow for that. It is good to see someone taking measures in stride of elevation of quality of education. There will be mistakes, but such intent is better then free for all, pay us and do mediocre job and get your degree.
Often students with good grades end up being highly unprepared for work or research (into masters/phd degree) in terms of knowledge base(not experience).
2c
I am blaming the situation. You can ultimately blame skype for existing in this imperfect world and hiring programmers that do their job the way they did for the past uh 9 years or more. Blame doesn't solve anything, however seeing things in whole context helps.
I think why viacom is upset about google, is because the youtube takes the jelly out of viacoms doughnut. suddenly viacom doesn't hold the controlling stick of the content they purchase / produce, and that is the crux of the problem. Another way looking at it, is for content there was one mode of delivery, through commercial cable vision. It was very centralized and producers were few and watchers were many. Now with so called web 2.0 model and cheap bandwidth, more people are able to deliver to other people in the world whatever informational material they want.
This is not taking sides, rather, standing back and looking back a horse whip business at the dawn of the car era. Will Viacom embrace and further the fundamental change in way they do content business or will they still try to coerce new and better into old and worse, as in for consumer, model. In the end it is the invisible hand that will smash those who don't obey it.
2c
"The problem that arises is most cell-providers use a white-list of ESNs. For example, if you move your SIM card from a Verizon phone to an unbranded, direct-from-manufacturer phone, your will get rejected of service because the ESN isn't in that whitelist."
Not sure where you live, but in Canada, here if you get unlocked phone, all you have to do is just pop in the sim card and way you go.
On a mac it is matter of copying file into applications folder, and if you want to, deleting it. it is not fault of skype that things on windows are so messed up. Developers are used to this way of coding, so it goes like that, on and on.
Still wating for video on linux version of skype.
2c