It is more complex with Syria. Like its neighbor Iraq it has a sizable Shiite population and a Shiite government, where the majority of its residents are Sunni. I do not know the statistics, but from what I gather is the protestors are Sunni. This makes the Shiite population back the government. I know nothing of international relations but this is a great reason not to get involved unlike Libya that is predominantly all Sunni.
Also there is no civil war yet in Syria. It is unfortunately, too late in Libya. Armed conflict resulted already and neither side will back down so force is needed to control Gadhaffi. I believe both sides in Syria do not want a civil war. If bombing and attacks start then a civil war will start next when the protestors grab weapons from these attack facilities then raise their own armies. Another poster mentioned Iran would certainly get involved and look gee... Iraq just happens to be in the way with a population that majority Shiite with huge aminosity towards the current government. If Iran moved troops a middle east war would start with several countries involved very quickly. There are many other Arab countries where the monarchs and dictators who hate democracy would love to then attack other countries.... etc. I do not need to go on. These are some very good reasons why involvement is bad and why Gates is resigning for having Obama getting involved in Libya.
I decided to specialize in Java at college. Today, my business I want to start will be php based because I am 5x as productive with it, but Java is great for large scale programs.
With Spring, Hibernate, and MVC you can make great million line code web sites that are more like applications than simple scripts frankensteined together ala PHP. This is great for advanced database access and business logic and intelligence. For 90% of sites out there... tiny... Java is overkill. However with Java I can develop the app, extend it, modify it, and change it little over a decade compared to PHP and can make it scale from a shared single server all the way to an IBM mainframe.
I do admit I will only switch to Java after I have the revenue to hire someone to do it full time so it is not perfect. But if I were to grow my idea into a billion dollar company it would seem Java would fit my bill quite well. I know 10 years from now I can deploy the code and it will run securely with minimal issues.
It seems non Windows users are left in the cold whether they use 64 bit or not.
The mac I think finally has video acceleration but the Windows users still have the best experience... this is for the 32 bit version. Windows 7 has had full hardware acceleration with 64 bit since 10.1.
Maybe not applicable to most governments but the rebels are not the bad guys in Libya.
They are pro democracy and freedom and wont kill you unless your name is Gadhaffi. The only people who support him are government workers who are being paid and those who do not want to be killed by their own government.
Gadhaffi burned many senior officers alive in his compound and showed them to the rest of his military to show what happens if loyalty is not obeyed. Many in the military did support the opposition. Most after this decided to support Gadhaffi and not risk being killed.
Not to sound cynical but most undergrad compsci grats in Florida where I live end up doing help desk for $13/hr after all that work. Programming... thats for the master students or those with 5 years experience. Incredible!
Yeah and how many years of experience do you have?
If you are out of school without certifications or experience there is no work. An Indian can do it. It seems either you get call after call or none at all. The students at these universities do not have experience.
I am honestly not a troll here, but most of the big companies prefer Indian workers who can work for much cheaper and can't leave for better working conditions as easily. Many fortune 500 companies only have 6 or 7 employees that even deal with I.T. as they switch to salesforce.com and outsourcers and leave it very lean and barebones to satisfy Wall Street investors.
This is similiar to obtaining technical certifications for factory jobs. Americans simply do not do them anymore in a global economy.
If the university notices that students who graduate with these degrees do not find work compared to other majors then it makes sense to encourage these students to major in more profitable areas.
The fact of the matter is if you own a business you BETTER DAMN KNOW how much it is going to be and then go back to Excel/Quickbooks and figure out if it is feasible. If it were Groupon (seems likely from what I read) then he has a right to deny their offer or at least renegotiate.
If you do not understand something do not sign. Get a lawyer if you really want too. If Groupon was vague and said things would change depending on his competitors then it is the photographers fault for signing.
It is a fail on Groupon too for being greedy and overcharging. 50% margin! LOL. There is a reason why Walmart is so popular. The other guys got greedy in the 1980s while Walmart attracted new customers with lower prices. Seriously 5-10% margin is more reasonable to charge each customer (businesses). A competitor(s) are brewing right now doing just that. More businesses will use them and soon customers will switch as no businesses will create Groupons anymore. So my answer is both. Many restaurants I see refuse to do business with Groupon for that reason. Makes it less useful to me.
They have over 3 billion in revenue in 2-3 years which is very very impressive and a sure way to get the investors to drool.
However, it is a crash and burn cycle. Many businesses that would do such a thing and lose money are the ones who want a customer to use their product or service once to build name recognition and the money can be made up again by repeat business.
Here is the kicker. Lets say your business makes a 10% profit margin (average). You would make a dime for each dollar you charged. If you were to give 100% away... 50% to Groupon and 50% to the customer for the discount you would lose 100% for the promotion.
Now to make up for this you would need to the customer to come back 10 times to break even since you only make 1/10th the cost for each transaction. If I owned a pub and restaurant I would avoid Groupon like the plague and let my competitors use it. If Groupon were more reasonable and charged a 5% markup and didn't arm twist me to a 50% discount then yes I would use it. I wouldn't mind giving away free appetizers or a free drink or two with a meal.
Finance 101, a tiny profit margin = high volume (Walmart Model), or a Huge profit margin = tiny volume (jewelry stores, car dealerships). Groupon is trying to do both and will fail like the skeletons of past companies. My take is a competitor will come on and charge just 5% or maybe 2% and be flexible. Stores and restaurants will go bannanas dumping Groupon and using them. Then customers will take notice and switch due to the large amounts of businesses.
Finance 101 = You can get a higher profit margin but with little volume or You can get a lower profit margin with higher volume. Which lever do you want to pull.
It seems Groupon wants to pull booth. Is it generating any income? People wont use it or will stop if the amount of suppliers is low. A competitor will come in taking only a 5% margin. Then what? Not a real thought of business plan.
Just remember Walmart? Kmart and Sears were HUGE in 1980. People never heard of or laughed at Walmart. Then they ate both companies for breakfast with their 2-3% profit margin with INSANE volume.
Groupon would be best for things like cars and jewelry which do not sell in volume with these prices.
Why would they do that when they can force you to buy Windows?
It costs money to develop Skype. MS Office for Mac at least generates decent income as much as MS hates it. They only make it on the Mac so the government wont trust bust them up. Skype is different.
Many people like myself would love to use Linux again but have switched back for a variety of reasons. Skype will be one of them. It is frustrating but I view MS as the company that won the desktop, much like IBM won the mainframe. Phones and tablets hopefully will be open as it is not set yet with one monopoly and hopefully never will be.
I notice people become opinionated more with money as well. Whether it is to vote for politicians who favor tax cuts or watch video's by the gas company showing how safe it is.
Case in point I met a lady at work whose sister lives in Pennsylvania. They were bankrupt before they drilled for gas on their land. Anyway, she feels it is perfectly safe. The gas company showed a wonderful video and how the media and these hippie liberals are wrong with environmental damage. She will venomingly deny it is destructive!
Why? Well with $200,000 in cash wouldn't you?.... not too mention she lives by a lake and several neighbors use wells for drinking water. I guess the lawsuits not to mention guilt would eat her inside. But it is better to be brainwashed with money. So for those who say thinking about the children do not get it. Your opinion becomes it is great for the children as I can pay for their college now.
Many people working at these corporations are brainwashed as well. People are strange indeed but money switches everyone's opinion.
You can show them something you work on. True the code is copyrighted but you can show a few hundred lines of code here or there to demonstrate it.
The OP was just saying starting out you need to do this. Unfortunately, that is hard too as many of us have to work 1 to 2 shit jobs non IT related to pay bills while we wait for an IT job and do not have time to do opensource stuff. I guess do it while you are young
A good private school can heavily penalize a student who would be a bad worker. I went to California Baptist University during my last 2 years, and we had to sign in and out and be on time. We get a 0 if any assignment is late. While that seems complete BS their argument is employers need to know who is good and who is a bad apple. It is also not fair to us as students if we never show half the time, party, and turn in assignments late and then get fired when we enter the real world later.
I know it still does not mean that a recruit is a good worker, but I have to say look at certain schools that do these things help. Public ones like University of some state with 100 students per instructor does not encourage self discipline on the students nor good programming. Instructors do not have time to critique code.
I think HR wants someone working for peanuts but demands experience. We are still recovering from the bad recession where they were used to lines of people out of work for 6 months or more begging to work for peanuts with years of experience. THey took advantage of it. This will hopefully reverse.
Here in Florida which is one of the worst hit states I have never seen HR so rude and arrogant, where they get offended if you are not begging to work. I walked out on one interview just a few weeks ago.
Most HR departments wont consider hobbiest stuff valid. They want to see professional experience only! I see many slashdotters mention they disregard hobbiest stuff too such as your Btree assignment for CS 102. They want real valid work.
In 1999 that would have satisfied the HR weenies.
But, I see where corporations are coming from. I want to start an internet company myself and I do not want to waste my time training. Customers do not care about you, me, or my employees. They pay for results only. So I can save my money by hiring someone who can get right in and produce and the customer is happy. It sucks but that is capitalism. Maybe if I were bigger I could afford to train someone but that does not benefit me. Only that other person and I do not want to pay for it.
Very seldom does someone at work, work on a project all by himself.
The problem is HR looks at not certifications and degrees, but years of experience. Someone who is sharp fresh out of school but knows his stuff is filtered out by someone who had 8 years experience but with 15 other developers on his team performance is never evaluated. HR assumes everyone has the same skillset which only increases with years of experience.
I do like the idea of a website, but I can download some php scripts and use a tool to pimp my page ala the Myspace ones a few years ago to look l33t. It doesn't mean I know my stuff.
I guess the old standard of interviewing the applicants yourself rather than HR is the only true and tested way. Do a 2 interview process. HR does the first. The second do a test. Have that person write a function on paper... to write an object in Javascript. Then put challenging questions next like write a towers of hanoi program. Or here is some SQL that works but is not optimized go fix it in 45 minutes etc.
Do that with 3 final candidates and see who has the most correct answers. One place where I interviewed they did this. They do not have to get all of them correct. But 3 or 4 of them you can tell who was at least on the right track. HR maybe surprised but people with associates degrees maybe able to do this... the horrors!
It turns out this one targets those shopping for particular patterns and is unique in that it infects both Macs and PCs. Yes Apple fanbois your machines are not perfect and 100% invulnerable.
I am not a mac user. However, I know how buffer overflows work.
All you need to do to run code on a platform with security or not is to simply trick a program to run to a specific ram address to execute the data. The kernel can't catch this program is already running.
A way to do this is to download the executable code as data. Then somehow use an exploit in JavaScript or Safari to read a particular address and BAM!
Images are stored as data but have the ability to execute code as well.
The only time the OS does a check of its UID or an ACL (Windows) is when the program makes a request to the kernel via an api which in turn decides whether the program can run. If the exploit has its own code this function is never called and its simply bypassed.
The difference is marketers use SEO to trick Google to give them high rankings. Malware writers use it too so an unrelated picture to your search can manipulate Google into displaying the page.
Your post confirms that the vast majority of my apps are web based and apps on your mobile device are 80% web based. Web applets will overtake the pc if not already. Facebook is a classic example
I bought an Andriod phone because I wanted to learn development.
I was surprised to find out most of Andriod/Iphone/Tablet apps are simply Html5 and Javascript. Only tiny amounts of Java or ObjectiveC for OS integration and Sql-lite access are used. I assumed it would be all Java based for almost all apps. HTML and Ajax are the default languages
JavaScript is the most successful language in that it beat Cobol in more lines of it out there than any other language. C/C++ never caught up to Cobol in terms of lines of code out used worldwide.
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Almost as fast as Windows Vista's network performance
It is more complex with Syria. Like its neighbor Iraq it has a sizable Shiite population and a Shiite government, where the majority of its residents are Sunni. I do not know the statistics, but from what I gather is the protestors are Sunni. This makes the Shiite population back the government. I know nothing of international relations but this is a great reason not to get involved unlike Libya that is predominantly all Sunni.
Also there is no civil war yet in Syria. It is unfortunately, too late in Libya. Armed conflict resulted already and neither side will back down so force is needed to control Gadhaffi. I believe both sides in Syria do not want a civil war. If bombing and attacks start then a civil war will start next when the protestors grab weapons from these attack facilities then raise their own armies. Another poster mentioned Iran would certainly get involved and look gee ... Iraq just happens to be in the way with a population that majority Shiite with huge aminosity towards the current government. If Iran moved troops a middle east war would start with several countries involved very quickly. There are many other Arab countries where the monarchs and dictators who hate democracy would love to then attack other countries .... etc. I do not need to go on. These are some very good reasons why involvement is bad and why Gates is resigning for having Obama getting involved in Libya.
I decided to specialize in Java at college. Today, my business I want to start will be php based because I am 5x as productive with it, but Java is great for large scale programs.
With Spring, Hibernate, and MVC you can make great million line code web sites that are more like applications than simple scripts frankensteined together ala PHP. This is great for advanced database access and business logic and intelligence. For 90% of sites out there ... tiny ... Java is overkill. However with Java I can develop the app, extend it, modify it, and change it little over a decade compared to PHP and can make it scale from a shared single server all the way to an IBM mainframe.
I do admit I will only switch to Java after I have the revenue to hire someone to do it full time so it is not perfect. But if I were to grow my idea into a billion dollar company it would seem Java would fit my bill quite well. I know 10 years from now I can deploy the code and it will run securely with minimal issues.
It seems non Windows users are left in the cold whether they use 64 bit or not.
The mac I think finally has video acceleration but the Windows users still have the best experience ... this is for the 32 bit version. Windows 7 has had full hardware acceleration with 64 bit since 10.1.
Maybe not applicable to most governments but the rebels are not the bad guys in Libya.
They are pro democracy and freedom and wont kill you unless your name is Gadhaffi. The only people who support him are government workers who are being paid and those who do not want to be killed by their own government.
Gadhaffi burned many senior officers alive in his compound and showed them to the rest of his military to show what happens if loyalty is not obeyed. Many in the military did support the opposition. Most after this decided to support Gadhaffi and not risk being killed.
Not to sound cynical but most undergrad compsci grats in Florida where I live end up doing help desk for $13/hr after all that work. Programming ... thats for the master students or those with 5 years experience. Incredible!
Yeah and how many years of experience do you have?
If you are out of school without certifications or experience there is no work. An Indian can do it. It seems either you get call after call or none at all. The students at these universities do not have experience.
I am honestly not a troll here, but most of the big companies prefer Indian workers who can work for much cheaper and can't leave for better working conditions as easily. Many fortune 500 companies only have 6 or 7 employees that even deal with I.T. as they switch to salesforce.com and outsourcers and leave it very lean and barebones to satisfy Wall Street investors.
This is similiar to obtaining technical certifications for factory jobs. Americans simply do not do them anymore in a global economy.
If the university notices that students who graduate with these degrees do not find work compared to other majors then it makes sense to encourage these students to major in more profitable areas.
Yeah if you want to be stuck with bing with google locked out
It doesn't matter.
The fact of the matter is if you own a business you BETTER DAMN KNOW how much it is going to be and then go back to Excel/Quickbooks and figure out if it is feasible. If it were Groupon (seems likely from what I read) then he has a right to deny their offer or at least renegotiate.
If you do not understand something do not sign. Get a lawyer if you really want too. If Groupon was vague and said things would change depending on his competitors then it is the photographers fault for signing.
It is a fail on Groupon too for being greedy and overcharging. 50% margin! LOL. There is a reason why Walmart is so popular. The other guys got greedy in the 1980s while Walmart attracted new customers with lower prices. Seriously 5-10% margin is more reasonable to charge each customer (businesses). A competitor(s) are brewing right now doing just that. More businesses will use them and soon customers will switch as no businesses will create Groupons anymore. So my answer is both. Many restaurants I see refuse to do business with Groupon for that reason. Makes it less useful to me.
They have over 3 billion in revenue in 2-3 years which is very very impressive and a sure way to get the investors to drool.
However, it is a crash and burn cycle. Many businesses that would do such a thing and lose money are the ones who want a customer to use their product or service once to build name recognition and the money can be made up again by repeat business.
Here is the kicker. Lets say your business makes a 10% profit margin (average). You would make a dime for each dollar you charged. If you were to give 100% away ... 50% to Groupon and 50% to the customer for the discount you would lose 100% for the promotion.
Now to make up for this you would need to the customer to come back 10 times to break even since you only make 1/10th the cost for each transaction. If I owned a pub and restaurant I would avoid Groupon like the plague and let my competitors use it. If Groupon were more reasonable and charged a 5% markup and didn't arm twist me to a 50% discount then yes I would use it. I wouldn't mind giving away free appetizers or a free drink or two with a meal.
Finance 101, a tiny profit margin = high volume (Walmart Model), or a Huge profit margin = tiny volume (jewelry stores, car dealerships). Groupon is trying to do both and will fail like the skeletons of past companies. My take is a competitor will come on and charge just 5% or maybe 2% and be flexible. Stores and restaurants will go bannanas dumping Groupon and using them. Then customers will take notice and switch due to the large amounts of businesses.
That is just retarded.
Finance 101 = You can get a higher profit margin but with little volume or You can get a lower profit margin with higher volume. Which lever do you want to pull.
It seems Groupon wants to pull booth. Is it generating any income? People wont use it or will stop if the amount of suppliers is low. A competitor will come in taking only a 5% margin. Then what? Not a real thought of business plan.
Just remember Walmart? Kmart and Sears were HUGE in 1980. People never heard of or laughed at Walmart. Then they ate both companies for breakfast with their 2-3% profit margin with INSANE volume.
Groupon would be best for things like cars and jewelry which do not sell in volume with these prices.
Why would they do that when they can force you to buy Windows?
It costs money to develop Skype. MS Office for Mac at least generates decent income as much as MS hates it. They only make it on the Mac so the government wont trust bust them up. Skype is different.
Many people like myself would love to use Linux again but have switched back for a variety of reasons. Skype will be one of them. It is frustrating but I view MS as the company that won the desktop, much like IBM won the mainframe. Phones and tablets hopefully will be open as it is not set yet with one monopoly and hopefully never will be.
I notice people become opinionated more with money as well. Whether it is to vote for politicians who favor tax cuts or watch video's by the gas company showing how safe it is.
Case in point I met a lady at work whose sister lives in Pennsylvania. They were bankrupt before they drilled for gas on their land. Anyway, she feels it is perfectly safe. The gas company showed a wonderful video and how the media and these hippie liberals are wrong with environmental damage. She will venomingly deny it is destructive!
Why? Well with $200,000 in cash wouldn't you? .... not too mention she lives by a lake and several neighbors use wells for drinking water. I guess the lawsuits not to mention guilt would eat her inside. But it is better to be brainwashed with money. So for those who say thinking about the children do not get it. Your opinion becomes it is great for the children as I can pay for their college now.
Many people working at these corporations are brainwashed as well. People are strange indeed but money switches everyone's opinion.
No you don't.
Look up buffer overflows. You can bypass the OS 100% and it wont even know it got infected nor check for security.
You can show them something you work on. True the code is copyrighted but you can show a few hundred lines of code here or there to demonstrate it.
The OP was just saying starting out you need to do this. Unfortunately, that is hard too as many of us have to work 1 to 2 shit jobs non IT related to pay bills while we wait for an IT job and do not have time to do opensource stuff. I guess do it while you are young
A good private school can heavily penalize a student who would be a bad worker. I went to California Baptist University during my last 2 years, and we had to sign in and out and be on time. We get a 0 if any assignment is late. While that seems complete BS their argument is employers need to know who is good and who is a bad apple. It is also not fair to us as students if we never show half the time, party, and turn in assignments late and then get fired when we enter the real world later.
I know it still does not mean that a recruit is a good worker, but I have to say look at certain schools that do these things help. Public ones like University of some state with 100 students per instructor does not encourage self discipline on the students nor good programming. Instructors do not have time to critique code.
Weird. I had the exact opposite experience.
I think HR wants someone working for peanuts but demands experience. We are still recovering from the bad recession where they were used to lines of people out of work for 6 months or more begging to work for peanuts with years of experience. THey took advantage of it. This will hopefully reverse.
Here in Florida which is one of the worst hit states I have never seen HR so rude and arrogant, where they get offended if you are not begging to work. I walked out on one interview just a few weeks ago.
Most HR departments wont consider hobbiest stuff valid. They want to see professional experience only! I see many slashdotters mention they disregard hobbiest stuff too such as your Btree assignment for CS 102. They want real valid work.
In 1999 that would have satisfied the HR weenies.
But, I see where corporations are coming from. I want to start an internet company myself and I do not want to waste my time training. Customers do not care about you, me, or my employees. They pay for results only. So I can save my money by hiring someone who can get right in and produce and the customer is happy. It sucks but that is capitalism. Maybe if I were bigger I could afford to train someone but that does not benefit me. Only that other person and I do not want to pay for it.
Very seldom does someone at work, work on a project all by himself.
The problem is HR looks at not certifications and degrees, but years of experience. Someone who is sharp fresh out of school but knows his stuff is filtered out by someone who had 8 years experience but with 15 other developers on his team performance is never evaluated. HR assumes everyone has the same skillset which only increases with years of experience.
I do like the idea of a website, but I can download some php scripts and use a tool to pimp my page ala the Myspace ones a few years ago to look l33t. It doesn't mean I know my stuff.
I guess the old standard of interviewing the applicants yourself rather than HR is the only true and tested way. Do a 2 interview process. HR does the first. The second do a test. Have that person write a function on paper ... to write an object in Javascript. Then put challenging questions next like write a towers of hanoi program. Or here is some SQL that works but is not optimized go fix it in 45 minutes etc.
Do that with 3 final candidates and see who has the most correct answers. One place where I interviewed they did this. They do not have to get all of them correct. But 3 or 4 of them you can tell who was at least on the right track. HR maybe surprised but people with associates degrees maybe able to do this ... the horrors!
This is a new JavaScript exploit.
More detail about it is here?
It turns out this one targets those shopping for particular patterns and is unique in that it infects both Macs and PCs. Yes Apple fanbois your machines are not perfect and 100% invulnerable.
I am not a mac user. However, I know how buffer overflows work.
All you need to do to run code on a platform with security or not is to simply trick a program to run to a specific ram address to execute the data. The kernel can't catch this program is already running.
A way to do this is to download the executable code as data. Then somehow use an exploit in JavaScript or Safari to read a particular address and BAM!
Images are stored as data but have the ability to execute code as well.
The only time the OS does a check of its UID or an ACL (Windows) is when the program makes a request to the kernel via an api which in turn decides whether the program can run. If the exploit has its own code this function is never called and its simply bypassed.
The difference is marketers use SEO to trick Google to give them high rankings. Malware writers use it too so an unrelated picture to your search can manipulate Google into displaying the page.
Your post confirms that the vast majority of my apps are web based and apps on your mobile device are 80% web based. Web applets will overtake the pc if not already. Facebook is a classic example
I bought an Andriod phone because I wanted to learn development.
I was surprised to find out most of Andriod/Iphone/Tablet apps are simply Html5 and Javascript. Only tiny amounts of Java or ObjectiveC for OS integration and Sql-lite access are used. I assumed it would be all Java based for almost all apps. HTML and Ajax are the default languages
JavaScript is the most successful language in that it beat Cobol in more lines of it out there than any other language. C/C++ never caught up to Cobol in terms of lines of code out used worldwide.