The hardest part of finding a new job is getting past the recruiters, who are generally not capable of anything more than keyword matching against your experience. Use your contacts if you can to get in front of the technical managers who will understand that your domain knowledge and overall experience is more valuable than which languages you have been using for the past few years.
I am guessing that the rate of urbanization matters more than population density in regards to ease of broadband access.
The rate of urbanization in the US at 75% is average among developed countries. Compare Ireland at 60% to see if your theory holds up. I suspect not, as it seems to me that broadband access depends entirely on the political will to make it happen. The US's problem is that they have offloaded all responsibility for important infrastructure from the government to local monopoly corporations.
Perhaps if there was true competition, the market would sort it out, but there isn't, so only the short-term interests of the shareholders matter.
You lose the ability for software on your PC to tell your router that it wants an incoming port to be forwarded to it. The feature is commonly used by VoIP, IM and P2P programs, but most software has less efficient alternatives to fall back on (connecting via a centralized TCP proxy usually) if it can't open externally visible incoming ports.
The US is quick to threaten trade sanctions when foreign companies try selling their products cheaper in the US than their own market. How is this different?
1. Your plea to the mods is redundant, someone else already posted the same link some time ago.
The broken window fallacy is itself a fallacy, as it assumes that once the glazier gets his wealth that's the end of the story, it then goes on to list all the downstream benefactors who have "missed out" on that wealth because the shopkeeper spent it elsewhere. The glazier spends the money too, duh! The same wealth exists in the system, it is just distributed differently.
If you can eavesdrop on session cookies, you can eavesdrop on any other plain text connection. Whoever modded the GP as Offtopic needs his head examined, as the vulnerability of other applications to the same attack is very relevant.
Under server settings for your mail account, make sure either TLS or SSL is selected if you want to ensure that your connection is encrypted. I think TLS, if available is the default. On servers that support STARTTLS, this is OK, but it won't warn you if your server does not support it. Its better to try the forced TLS, and if you get an error, try SSL. If you have to switch back because your server does not support either, at least you know its insecure and can change your behaviour on insecure networks to compensate. It's also worth firing a request to the administrator if you find your server does not support TLS or SSL.
Sorry I really don't want to flame, but that reminded me of the British attitude to housing - single glazed windows so it's freezing in winter and no air-conditioning
I imagine any houses left in the UK with single glazed windows, are probably older than your country. And the climate in the UK makes air-conditioning unnecessary on all but 2 or 3 days a year, likewise in winter, freezing isn't anywhere near as close to freezing as North America or even much of continental Europe experiences.
I'd look at pharmaceuticals too. Like record companies, they are abusing the monopoly granted to them by IP laws to make excessive profits. Unlike entertainment though, their customers don't really have the choice to stop consuming (unless they want to die). Governments are going to get wise to this sooner or later, and start regulating for the public good.
Destroying one house means another needs to be built in its place. This creates wealth for the people involved in its construction, and eventually for the new owner and the bank who finances their mortgage. As the original poster said, the wealth doesn't go away, it just shifts away from the idiot who destroyed his house.
Most of the new companies and ones who survived are service related. Those can live on, and whether it's AJAX or the next big tech, it doesnt matter.
Companies can only live on if they focus on becoming profitable. Part of the problem in the previous bubble, and IMHO now, is that companies are focusing on the next round of investment and "exit", the latter often pushed on them by the investors who are only in it for the short term. So they tend to spend more money than they need to, because it raises the paper valuation of the company, but it soon reaches a point where that paper valuation is unjustified. At that point, the sensible thing to do would be to sell the company at a loss and at least recover something, but VC's in my experience would rather shut a company down than sell it at a loss to someone else who might profit from their investment.
They buy a camera/graphics card/printer/etc and plug it in and it "just works".
That's not my experience of Windows, unless "just works" includes inserting a CD to install often buggy drivers and a bunch of useless utilities that take up room in the notification area on the taskbar, and rebooting. Ubuntu by contrast really has supported every piece of hardware I've ever thrown at it out of the box.
As my most recent concrete example, I recently had to do some debugging on an embedded board which was accessible via a serial cable. Since I have a recent laptop, I don't have any COM ports onboard, and had to use a USB-serial adapter. On Windows XP, I had to search for a driver (the adapter was lent to me without accompanying CD), and I get frequent crashes of my terminal emulator and occasional bluescreens. On Linux, it just works, and the only problem I've had is that when I unplug and replug it quickly, the tty it gets assigned to changes (this also happens with the COM ports on Windows).
Which is the largest bank in the world depends a lot on how you measure size, but MUFJ doesn't do any better than 5th by any measure. The top 10 used to be dominated by Japanese banks until the property bubble in Tokyo burst in the early 1990's followed by the rest of the economy. They went from 8 Japanese banks in the top 10 by tier one capital in the 1980's (I used to have an encyclopedia that listed them, I think Mitsubishi was 2nd behind another Japanese bank, and Tokyo Citybank was also in there) to just 3. By other measures, they do less well, with at most one featuring in the top 10 now.
even though they share the same name, the affiliation is much looser than you might think.
Even though the US forceably broke up the Zaibutsu after the war, the affiliations are still strong (Keiretsu). The reason Mitsubishi Bank (now Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi after they merged with Tokyo Citybank) is one of the worlds largest banks is that all the Mitsubishi companies still do all their banking there.
There are multiple holes in Symbian and of course Windows Mobile that remain completely unpatched. Nobody knows when that is going to change.
Anyone who has done the smallest amount of investigation into the smartphone platforms will know that OTA updates are a standard part of Windows Mobile 6. So somebody does know when it is going to change.
In the early 1990's, I owned a Fiat 124 sport. Although long out of production, and not that common around where I lived, many of the parts were shared with Lada models that were still current at the time, so getting parts (apart from body panels) was never a problem.
TRON eventually found it's way in to US Submarines for a time, so it's not surprising that they would want to keep it domestic.
I think you misunderstand things. TRON is a Japanese invention, so by the time it got into US Submarines (if that is indeed true), it would be a bit late to try to keep it domestic.
Wordperfect was the high end word-processor for the Amiga, and there were several cheaper options. Maxiplan Plus was comparable with 123 or Excel of the time, again with a couple of cheaper alternatives.
You mean EPA standards haven't changed since then? No wonder the US's carbon emissions are so atrocious! It's just not possible to pass emissions tests for new cars in Europe without fuel injection and a modern ECU.
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So if this judge is convicted, will Bush commute his sentence?
The hardest part of finding a new job is getting past the recruiters, who are generally not capable of anything more than keyword matching against your experience. Use your contacts if you can to get in front of the technical managers who will understand that your domain knowledge and overall experience is more valuable than which languages you have been using for the past few years.
3 * 5 = 8 (per thousand population)?
8? There are 4 a day LHR->JFK, and 5 a day LHR->EWR. And I haven't even started on other US destinations or other UK airports with flights to the US.
The rate of urbanization in the US at 75% is average among developed countries. Compare Ireland at 60% to see if your theory holds up. I suspect not, as it seems to me that broadband access depends entirely on the political will to make it happen. The US's problem is that they have offloaded all responsibility for important infrastructure from the government to local monopoly corporations. Perhaps if there was true competition, the market would sort it out, but there isn't, so only the short-term interests of the shareholders matter.
You lose the ability for software on your PC to tell your router that it wants an incoming port to be forwarded to it. The feature is commonly used by VoIP, IM and P2P programs, but most software has less efficient alternatives to fall back on (connecting via a centralized TCP proxy usually) if it can't open externally visible incoming ports.
The US is quick to threaten trade sanctions when foreign companies try selling their products cheaper in the US than their own market. How is this different?
If you can eavesdrop on session cookies, you can eavesdrop on any other plain text connection. Whoever modded the GP as Offtopic needs his head examined, as the vulnerability of other applications to the same attack is very relevant.
Under server settings for your mail account, make sure either TLS or SSL is selected if you want to ensure that your connection is encrypted. I think TLS, if available is the default. On servers that support STARTTLS, this is OK, but it won't warn you if your server does not support it. Its better to try the forced TLS, and if you get an error, try SSL. If you have to switch back because your server does not support either, at least you know its insecure and can change your behaviour on insecure networks to compensate. It's also worth firing a request to the administrator if you find your server does not support TLS or SSL.
I imagine any houses left in the UK with single glazed windows, are probably older than your country. And the climate in the UK makes air-conditioning unnecessary on all but 2 or 3 days a year, likewise in winter, freezing isn't anywhere near as close to freezing as North America or even much of continental Europe experiences.
I'd look at pharmaceuticals too. Like record companies, they are abusing the monopoly granted to them by IP laws to make excessive profits. Unlike entertainment though, their customers don't really have the choice to stop consuming (unless they want to die). Governments are going to get wise to this sooner or later, and start regulating for the public good.
Destroying one house means another needs to be built in its place. This creates wealth for the people involved in its construction, and eventually for the new owner and the bank who finances their mortgage. As the original poster said, the wealth doesn't go away, it just shifts away from the idiot who destroyed his house.
Banks. Accountants. Lawyers....
Companies can only live on if they focus on becoming profitable. Part of the problem in the previous bubble, and IMHO now, is that companies are focusing on the next round of investment and "exit", the latter often pushed on them by the investors who are only in it for the short term. So they tend to spend more money than they need to, because it raises the paper valuation of the company, but it soon reaches a point where that paper valuation is unjustified. At that point, the sensible thing to do would be to sell the company at a loss and at least recover something, but VC's in my experience would rather shut a company down than sell it at a loss to someone else who might profit from their investment.
That's not my experience of Windows, unless "just works" includes inserting a CD to install often buggy drivers and a bunch of useless utilities that take up room in the notification area on the taskbar, and rebooting. Ubuntu by contrast really has supported every piece of hardware I've ever thrown at it out of the box.
As my most recent concrete example, I recently had to do some debugging on an embedded board which was accessible via a serial cable. Since I have a recent laptop, I don't have any COM ports onboard, and had to use a USB-serial adapter. On Windows XP, I had to search for a driver (the adapter was lent to me without accompanying CD), and I get frequent crashes of my terminal emulator and occasional bluescreens. On Linux, it just works, and the only problem I've had is that when I unplug and replug it quickly, the tty it gets assigned to changes (this also happens with the COM ports on Windows).
Which is the largest bank in the world depends a lot on how you measure size, but MUFJ doesn't do any better than 5th by any measure. The top 10 used to be dominated by Japanese banks until the property bubble in Tokyo burst in the early 1990's followed by the rest of the economy. They went from 8 Japanese banks in the top 10 by tier one capital in the 1980's (I used to have an encyclopedia that listed them, I think Mitsubishi was 2nd behind another Japanese bank, and Tokyo Citybank was also in there) to just 3. By other measures, they do less well, with at most one featuring in the top 10 now.
How do you figure that? There is no provision in the syslog protocol for random file access. It's very simple, you can only log messages.
They do.
Even though the US forceably broke up the Zaibutsu after the war, the affiliations are still strong (Keiretsu). The reason Mitsubishi Bank (now Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi after they merged with Tokyo Citybank) is one of the worlds largest banks is that all the Mitsubishi companies still do all their banking there.
Anyone who has done the smallest amount of investigation into the smartphone platforms will know that OTA updates are a standard part of Windows Mobile 6. So somebody does know when it is going to change.
In the early 1990's, I owned a Fiat 124 sport. Although long out of production, and not that common around where I lived, many of the parts were shared with Lada models that were still current at the time, so getting parts (apart from body panels) was never a problem.
I think you misunderstand things. TRON is a Japanese invention, so by the time it got into US Submarines (if that is indeed true), it would be a bit late to try to keep it domestic.
Wordperfect was the high end word-processor for the Amiga, and there were several cheaper options. Maxiplan Plus was comparable with 123 or Excel of the time, again with a couple of cheaper alternatives.
You mean EPA standards haven't changed since then? No wonder the US's carbon emissions are so atrocious! It's just not possible to pass emissions tests for new cars in Europe without fuel injection and a modern ECU.