They do this when there are faults during rush hour to keep people flowing. Otherwise someone inevitably stands at the gate waiting for the green light after they touch their card to the dead Oyster reader and within seconds there is a massive queue behind them.
No, the devices used by Barclays and other UK banks are offline smart card readers for signing transactions. You insert your smartcard (which happens to be the same debit card you use in ATMs and POS devices, not sure why you specify in your earlier post that it should be a different card - what is the advantage of that?), enter some digits that are issued as a challenge token, enter the amount you are authenticating if it is for a payment or transfer etc, and press the sign button. You then get some digits on the display to type back into the webpage to authenticate the transaction.
Most of the "independent" ISPs in the UK resell enta.net's wholesale packages. Enta.net has their own backbone, and is one of the links the GP provided. Being with a formerly good ISP that has gone rapidly downhill since being bought first by Pipex, then Tiscali over the past few years, I've seen a lot of recommendations for Enta.net resellers on the customer support forums, and adsl24 in particular, which seems to be one of their bigger resellers.
I use Sky (although I hadn't realised they were one of the "big six" as I thought their broadband arm wouldn't have had the up-take of their TV).
Right now, sitting outside in the sunshine on the balcony of a 5th floor flat overlooking a residential neighbourhood in an average South-East commuter town, I can see 5 wireless routers within range with the name SKYxxxxx (xxxxx being a 5 digit number). At the same time I see 4 BTHomeHub-xxxx routers and one BT Fusion-xxxx, 8 other named routers, only one of which gives away the ISP (O2), and 4 non-broadcasting. So my impression is that Sky is indeed one of the big 6.
It's not just last.fm, BBC provide live feeds of all their radio stations, as do most private radio stations, and in addition there are podcasts with copyrighted music available from BBC in their "On Demand" section for 7 days after being originally aired.
Another example of this kind of NIH is the standards for Chinese character encoding. There are a series of "GBxxxxx" standards (GB is for Guo-Biao, acronym for national standard in Chinese) which are totally incompatible with Unicode
This is the same around the world, and has nothing to do with NIH. Unicode did not exist until the early 1990s, so in 1980 when the Chinese government standardised GB2312, there was no way they could make it compatible with Unicode. Since then, GB2312 has been extended with some extra characters from Unicode 1.1 (standardised in China as GB13000.1) as GBK, because in the real world compatibility with what everyone else has historically used is easier than a wholesale switch to a new encoding. Then in 2000, the Chinese government standardised GB18030, which is a Unicode encoding, and has the additional benefit for the Chinese market of being backwards codepoint compatible with GB2312 and GBK 1.0 (but not Windows codepage 936 due to Microsoft's misplacement of the Euro symbol).
In my experience people of the caliber you're mentioning doesn't give a damn about which browser they use.
When my inlaws got the automatic upgrade to IE7, the new interface confused the hell out of them. I installed Firefox, and they were over the moon about this wonderful new browser I'd introduced them to. Actually I think its really their new home page; at the same time I changed their home page from the generic cluttered Yahoo to a customized Google Desktop with feeds from my wife's blog and our Flickr photos and some local news and weather, but to them, that's the difference between Firefox and IE and I don't mind letting them think that for the cause of spreading some open source goodness.
Not paying much attention to the Web Services arena, are these some of the most popular Java projects?
I don't know how much traction Geronimo or Derby have got now, but Struts, Hibernate, Tomcat, and JBoss are very popular, Resin and Jonas less so. The others I haven't heard of, but judging by their names OpenCMS and OFBiz are probably a bit outside my field so may be popular within their own field, and hipergate sounds like it might be a fork of hibernate, but a quick google shows it is actually a CRM server, again outside my field.
I suspect the survey is Java heavy so that the anonymous sponsor can pull it out again to put down Java (again without actually providing the data from their own competing platform for comparison, in order to remain anonymous).
Many of the projects they evaluated are Apache projects. The Apache Foundation has a private list for security bugs (security AT apache.org) so their complaints on that basis are unjustified for those projects at least. And I would be very surprised if they found security bugs in all of those projects in order to test the responsiveness of the developers, so I guess they sent some random mail that was probably justifiably discarded as spam.
3. You will put the constant on the left for comparisons. This one isn't bad in and of itself, it's an =/== fix...
Every compiler made in at least the last two decades has a warning for the same purpose. This type of unnatural ordering of comparisons to force compiler errors where an equals sign is left out usually signifies a code base that is in such a bad state that the developers turn off or ignore compiler warnings.
Being 10 years behind does not guarantee that its free of bugs if the technology has never been used in a similar scenario. How many 10 year old Pentium PC's have had to cross the date line and keep running?
I think the ActiveX vs SSL thing has something to do with being in a state of cold war with your neighbour. South Korea did not want to trust any external encryption scheme, so they invented their own, and for whatever reason it was implemented at the application layer rather than as an SSL algorithm.
People won't think twice about sending you an email for stupid little things at 10:00 PM, because they're working and figure everyone else should be as well.
I won't think twice about sending an email at any hour, but not because I expect the recipient to be immediately available - if it was urgent, I'd pick up the phone. Email is supposed to be a non real-time communications protocol. If you want instant attention, use a phone or IM. The problem with blackberries is that they encourage users to lose the distinction and treat email as IM. Recently I've changed my job, and it was astounding the number of recruiters who call the second they send an email because they haven't seen the read-receipt immediately come in and start worrying whether their email is down. My server polls my ISP with fetchmail every 3 hours for new mail. I get more work done that way,as my attention isn't constantly distracted by a steady stream of incoming messages that don't need my immediate attention anyway.
If employers are thinking about the ability of a future purchaser of their business to screw over their employees when they make the decision to create a job, then they are probably not worth working for. But I'm sure your corporate overlords are grateful to you for drinking the kool-aid and accepting your 2 week vacation, unpaid overtime, at-will employment.
You're going to get the same money for doing the same tasks that your currently doing.
That might be true in some states, and it is certainly true in the UK where TUPE regulations protect employees' packages when transferring to a new company, but my impression from other discussions is that in general US workers don't enjoy many rights, and a pay cut or redundancy with little/no compensation and immediate hiring of someone cheaper could well be on the table.
While a lot of typefaces are decorative, intended for use in logos and advertising, part of the function of everyday typefaces is to be able to be read quickly, and shapes and spacing of characters have a big influence over that.
Sorry, but if you didn't give the company the source code along with the derived work, then you have to supply the source code to any third party who requests it. So your master plan to exploit GPLed code fails.
Can you still read serialized objects created by older versions of your software?
As long as all you have done is added new fields, then you can tag the new fields as OptionalField or NonSerialized to maintain backwards compatibility. The advantage of using Google's library is that it works across languages and runtimes. Java,.NET, PHP and Python all have serialization built in, but they are all incompatible, so you can't use it to pass an object from your Java backend to a C# client then on to Python for some final processing before displaying in a PHP generated webpage.
You are fluent the moment that you stop translating in your head and sentences just come out without needing to think about it. Passing tests is irrelevant, especially since the JLPT tests are testing your reading and writing ability, your theoretical knowledge of grammar and your vocab, not your level of fluency.
Somebody deleting all your sensitive files is not a bad thing to happen at that point.
Perhaps, if you have a backup and are able to access it before you need the data - but if that is the case, why were you taking the risk of travelling with the data (albeit encrypted) in the first place? For law enforcement/customs, such a tactic could be used (after making their own backup) to induce the suspect to reveal that they have a second volume there. If no hidden volume exists, then no harm is done by filling up the volume with dummy files and deleting them again, but if there is a hidden volume, it is possible that the suspect's reaction as their hidden data is destroyed will give them away. Even if you do have a backup, it could be difficult to not react to such a scenario when put on the spot.
The most effective way of finding out whether a second volume exists at this point would be to start copying files into the free space of the drive and observe the suspect's reaction as their secret data gets erased. Most effective if you back up first, so you (but not the suspect) still have the original volume intact. This assumes that they need the data for this trip, and cannot easily retrieve any backup they might have left behind before they need it, thus erasing their data is likely to get a reaction.
I speak from experience. I spent 2 years learning French through faux immersion, and speak hardly any at all today. I spent 2 years in Japan, and was fluent in Japanese after around six months, as were all my foreign acquaintances bar one Danish woman who was already fluent in every major European language and several minor ones and picked up Japanese far quicker than anyone else (whether through her previous language learning, or she was just gifted). I've managed to independently study Spanish and Italian through books - learning just vocab and grammatical rules with a bit of interaction with native speakers to get the pronunciation - to about the same level as my French in a few months. I've seen other people become fluent in languages through a couple of years of immersion classes, and others who've become fluent through self study. So I am fairly confident that your assertion that faux immersion is the only way to acquire language is faulty.
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They do this when there are faults during rush hour to keep people flowing. Otherwise someone inevitably stands at the gate waiting for the green light after they touch their card to the dead Oyster reader and within seconds there is a massive queue behind them.
No, the devices used by Barclays and other UK banks are offline smart card readers for signing transactions. You insert your smartcard (which happens to be the same debit card you use in ATMs and POS devices, not sure why you specify in your earlier post that it should be a different card - what is the advantage of that?), enter some digits that are issued as a challenge token, enter the amount you are authenticating if it is for a payment or transfer etc, and press the sign button. You then get some digits on the display to type back into the webpage to authenticate the transaction.
Most of the "independent" ISPs in the UK resell enta.net's wholesale packages. Enta.net has their own backbone, and is one of the links the GP provided. Being with a formerly good ISP that has gone rapidly downhill since being bought first by Pipex, then Tiscali over the past few years, I've seen a lot of recommendations for Enta.net resellers on the customer support forums, and adsl24 in particular, which seems to be one of their bigger resellers.
Right now, sitting outside in the sunshine on the balcony of a 5th floor flat overlooking a residential neighbourhood in an average South-East commuter town, I can see 5 wireless routers within range with the name SKYxxxxx (xxxxx being a 5 digit number). At the same time I see 4 BTHomeHub-xxxx routers and one BT Fusion-xxxx, 8 other named routers, only one of which gives away the ISP (O2), and 4 non-broadcasting. So my impression is that Sky is indeed one of the big 6.
It's not just last.fm, BBC provide live feeds of all their radio stations, as do most private radio stations, and in addition there are podcasts with copyrighted music available from BBC in their "On Demand" section for 7 days after being originally aired.
This is the same around the world, and has nothing to do with NIH. Unicode did not exist until the early 1990s, so in 1980 when the Chinese government standardised GB2312, there was no way they could make it compatible with Unicode. Since then, GB2312 has been extended with some extra characters from Unicode 1.1 (standardised in China as GB13000.1) as GBK, because in the real world compatibility with what everyone else has historically used is easier than a wholesale switch to a new encoding. Then in 2000, the Chinese government standardised GB18030, which is a Unicode encoding, and has the additional benefit for the Chinese market of being backwards codepoint compatible with GB2312 and GBK 1.0 (but not Windows codepage 936 due to Microsoft's misplacement of the Euro symbol).
Really? Wasn't it the KDE developers that were doing the innovating before Safari came into being?
When my inlaws got the automatic upgrade to IE7, the new interface confused the hell out of them. I installed Firefox, and they were over the moon about this wonderful new browser I'd introduced them to. Actually I think its really their new home page; at the same time I changed their home page from the generic cluttered Yahoo to a customized Google Desktop with feeds from my wife's blog and our Flickr photos and some local news and weather, but to them, that's the difference between Firefox and IE and I don't mind letting them think that for the cause of spreading some open source goodness.
Good luck paying your Silicon Valley mortgage while working remotely at Bangalore rates.
I don't know how much traction Geronimo or Derby have got now, but Struts, Hibernate, Tomcat, and JBoss are very popular, Resin and Jonas less so. The others I haven't heard of, but judging by their names OpenCMS and OFBiz are probably a bit outside my field so may be popular within their own field, and hipergate sounds like it might be a fork of hibernate, but a quick google shows it is actually a CRM server, again outside my field.
I suspect the survey is Java heavy so that the anonymous sponsor can pull it out again to put down Java (again without actually providing the data from their own competing platform for comparison, in order to remain anonymous).
Many of the projects they evaluated are Apache projects. The Apache Foundation has a private list for security bugs (security AT apache.org) so their complaints on that basis are unjustified for those projects at least. And I would be very surprised if they found security bugs in all of those projects in order to test the responsiveness of the developers, so I guess they sent some random mail that was probably justifiably discarded as spam.
Every compiler made in at least the last two decades has a warning for the same purpose. This type of unnatural ordering of comparisons to force compiler errors where an equals sign is left out usually signifies a code base that is in such a bad state that the developers turn off or ignore compiler warnings.
Being 10 years behind does not guarantee that its free of bugs if the technology has never been used in a similar scenario. How many 10 year old Pentium PC's have had to cross the date line and keep running?
I think the ActiveX vs SSL thing has something to do with being in a state of cold war with your neighbour. South Korea did not want to trust any external encryption scheme, so they invented their own, and for whatever reason it was implemented at the application layer rather than as an SSL algorithm.
I won't think twice about sending an email at any hour, but not because I expect the recipient to be immediately available - if it was urgent, I'd pick up the phone. Email is supposed to be a non real-time communications protocol. If you want instant attention, use a phone or IM. The problem with blackberries is that they encourage users to lose the distinction and treat email as IM. Recently I've changed my job, and it was astounding the number of recruiters who call the second they send an email because they haven't seen the read-receipt immediately come in and start worrying whether their email is down. My server polls my ISP with fetchmail every 3 hours for new mail. I get more work done that way,as my attention isn't constantly distracted by a steady stream of incoming messages that don't need my immediate attention anyway.
If employers are thinking about the ability of a future purchaser of their business to screw over their employees when they make the decision to create a job, then they are probably not worth working for. But I'm sure your corporate overlords are grateful to you for drinking the kool-aid and accepting your 2 week vacation, unpaid overtime, at-will employment.
That might be true in some states, and it is certainly true in the UK where TUPE regulations protect employees' packages when transferring to a new company, but my impression from other discussions is that in general US workers don't enjoy many rights, and a pay cut or redundancy with little/no compensation and immediate hiring of someone cheaper could well be on the table.
While a lot of typefaces are decorative, intended for use in logos and advertising, part of the function of everyday typefaces is to be able to be read quickly, and shapes and spacing of characters have a big influence over that.
Sorry, but if you didn't give the company the source code along with the derived work, then you have to supply the source code to any third party who requests it. So your master plan to exploit GPLed code fails.
As long as all you have done is added new fields, then you can tag the new fields as OptionalField or NonSerialized to maintain backwards compatibility. The advantage of using Google's library is that it works across languages and runtimes. Java, .NET, PHP and Python all have serialization built in, but they are all incompatible, so you can't use it to pass an object from your Java backend to a C# client then on to Python for some final processing before displaying in a PHP generated webpage.
You are fluent the moment that you stop translating in your head and sentences just come out without needing to think about it. Passing tests is irrelevant, especially since the JLPT tests are testing your reading and writing ability, your theoretical knowledge of grammar and your vocab, not your level of fluency.
Perhaps, if you have a backup and are able to access it before you need the data - but if that is the case, why were you taking the risk of travelling with the data (albeit encrypted) in the first place? For law enforcement/customs, such a tactic could be used (after making their own backup) to induce the suspect to reveal that they have a second volume there. If no hidden volume exists, then no harm is done by filling up the volume with dummy files and deleting them again, but if there is a hidden volume, it is possible that the suspect's reaction as their hidden data is destroyed will give them away. Even if you do have a backup, it could be difficult to not react to such a scenario when put on the spot.
The most effective way of finding out whether a second volume exists at this point would be to start copying files into the free space of the drive and observe the suspect's reaction as their secret data gets erased. Most effective if you back up first, so you (but not the suspect) still have the original volume intact. This assumes that they need the data for this trip, and cannot easily retrieve any backup they might have left behind before they need it, thus erasing their data is likely to get a reaction.
I speak from experience. I spent 2 years learning French through faux immersion, and speak hardly any at all today. I spent 2 years in Japan, and was fluent in Japanese after around six months, as were all my foreign acquaintances bar one Danish woman who was already fluent in every major European language and several minor ones and picked up Japanese far quicker than anyone else (whether through her previous language learning, or she was just gifted). I've managed to independently study Spanish and Italian through books - learning just vocab and grammatical rules with a bit of interaction with native speakers to get the pronunciation - to about the same level as my French in a few months. I've seen other people become fluent in languages through a couple of years of immersion classes, and others who've become fluent through self study. So I am fairly confident that your assertion that faux immersion is the only way to acquire language is faulty.