I got my knowledge from a book I read where Taiwanese officials described fear of a desecration of Chinese culture by the communists. THe fear was that the real China is being lost as the communists brainwashed and changed the morals of its people. Many nationalists included democracy advocates but most of Chinese culture preferred to have stability in a short term dictatorship after the last empire collapsed.
Java is a whole platform that is scalable. Its not just about using identifiers and objects but using the vast API's. Some would Java is even an OS as it has its own I/O, threads, etc.
I suppose you could write your own threading and processes code but most Java developers just use whats built into the api.
If you do a search you need some relational abilities. If PostgreSQL can not handle this then Oracle can. Is it just me or alot of the NoSQL databases are reimplementing SQL to make up for the shortcomings?
Its not only that we have less leisure time but the fact that our worth is based on money. Inflation is very high if you count insurance, food, rent/mortgage, and gas prices (economists don't count this) and depressing wages and you have misery.
There is always someone richer than you who is busy trying to take away what you have.
Mysql sucked for many years but is getting better with each release. It was never designed to be a fully RDBMS .
In Japan people use PostgreSQL and I am surprised that its not common among geeks. Many ISPs now offer it as well as MySQL. The problem is the trendy word is Nosql and mostly non database programmers are promoting the movement due to bad experiences of trying to learn mysql to do things that are very complicated.
PostgreSQL is very easy to switch your existing code too if you used SQL compliant code in languages such as Php. WIth triggers, views, stored procedures, and abilities of self repairing in case of a power failure make postgreSQL an easier platform to develop for.
PostgreSQL is a real relational database that support views, nested sql, triggers, foreign keys, and even statistical analysis.
I think Mysql supports foreign keys now and my info might be dated. But if a database does not support foreign keys then its not a real relational database and mysql had that problem for years.
Once switching over you can find out how hard processor intensive tasks that took minutes can be done easily in seconds with the features I described above with PostgreSQL. You can save alot of speed with complex queries with PostgreSQL.
China's culture is a product of the government as people are afraid of it due to being a dictatorship. they are brainwashed Look at Taiwan? Taiwan is what China was culture wise before the communists destroyed. In democracies the culture is the center and the government molds itself in it. In communism its the other way around.
Google has no power in China. Badu, MSN, and Yahoo own the market and beat them. Second, banks errr shareholders will fire the CEO of Google if they are forced to leave China.
China has the power and has Google right where they want them.
I wish laws existed to help companies like this but as long as the board of directors are owned by souless banks and institutions like Goldman Sachs this wont change as they care only about short term stock price increases. A kick out of China will surely lower the value of its stocks.
With clarity, I mean the catholic church in the old days picked kings and made them sign covenants to serve the church. France and Italy for example had hand selected leaders by the pope. In England the king or queen is hte head of state with its anglican church too.
The seperation merely means government is government and church is church.
I think the finding fore fathers were thinking of the Catholic Church to influence American politics or at least have some other church like the King's Anglican Church. That is it and I agree with the religious right that if senators want a prayer meeting in an office in a government building then they should. Its to just make sure a religious organizations do not pull the puppet strings of the leaders.
Very very conservative. Had two teachers who were democrats who taught political science and debate the rest were republican. My english and history teachers worked for Nixon, and a few republican legislatures before becoming teachers. One even mentioned during a creative writing assignment that we should write something we are passionate about like Bob Dole.
My dad was shocked as I turned super conservative thanks to my view of teachers including one who was saying how Reagan saved America. The curriculum was at least supposed to be neutral even though the teachers mentioned their own conservative philosophy they at least taught the other side... a little.
I do not mind conservative curriculum if liberal is taught beside it so people can think for themselves. I do not get how these extremist feel threatened with anyone who does not think like them. I at least understand how other people and maybe thats what makes me different. Some people think ignorance is a bliss.
In any large organization whether its government or private you will have the same problem. Part of the job is to help the owners look good. If you do that you get promoted. When you do not you get fired. Its a fact of life when you work. You can have a place with great management who may not do this as much but you wont get anywhere if you are a whistler blower or labeled a whiner.
""Maley's dismissal comes amid ongoing budget and staff cuts at Pennsylvania's IT security organization, the source said. Over the past 18 months to two years, the administration has cut information security budgets by close to 38%, and staff by 40%. They also put a "lockdown" on talking about cybersecurity, the source claimed.""
So basically staff was cut so much that security could now be compromised. So lets also make a rule of not talking about cyber security to cover our cuts and protect senior officials.
Think of a McDonalds. If you walk into one with only 2 people working you would end up with slow crappy service. Three would be ALOT better as one can man you, the cash registers, and the drive thru. Four workers would be a nice increase, five would be ok I guess, 6 would not bring "your burger much faster, by the time 7 and 8 go in you would not see much improvement, etc.
With add more workers to a complex project it would appear that a negative return and more delays would happen. This is because even the most hardcore programmers will need help to understand the project and not scew it up with their code. My guess is you would see a negative graph and then a bump up later with each new programmer. Notice results only quadrupled and did go up 20x?
Something like Linux would be a nightmare for even the best C hackers to understand within a month or two without special training. Linux.1 would be only a few hours.
In the real world people get hired are hand picked and are usually people the boss or someone on their teams know.
Its a real problem when you are fresh out of school and no one has ever heard of you. Networking is an important part of a job. This is especially true the more higher up you are on the corporate ladder. CEO's are hired on the basis of having extensive contacts with vendors and other companies to increase sales.
SCO lost because Novel owns Unix, the utilities, posix, and how it operates.
I am afraid of someone like Microsoft buying Unix only to cease and desist any Unix like product that looks similar. What better way to get back at Oracle and kill Linux then to own the unix standard?
Code is not expressive but are rather a serious of actions so its not like a blue print.
At least that's how judges interpret it (forgot which case as I am not a lawyer).
It is certainly not ok to reuse code in another product used by a competitor no different than a chief using part of a recipe and altering it only slightly and selling it to a competitor. KFC would go nuts if someone did this with the secret recipe for chicken.
I would bet software company lawyers would have a field day if someone ever tried this.
If someone in the marketing department created a brochure with pictures of a product and a press release then who owns it? I would assume the company and not the actual marketers who created it. What about construction workers making a house? Do they own the house and not the buyer?
What is the deciding factor? Is it your computer equipment that the work is being produced on? Is it work only between 9 - 5? Or is it always yours even if you are paid to write it?
Curious minds would like to know as I want to create some software that is free but also want a job making software for someone else.
"I fear that without radically different selection of management based on psychological profiles that prevent those seeking power from getting into management in the first place, neither problem can be solved."
Speaking of which I had an interview last week that was going fairly well. He then asked me why I got my degree in Business rather than Computer Science. I told him I wanted to become a manager and learn business processes and understand the ROI on what I do so I can fulfill a company's needs better. The manager got nervous and mentioned there is no place to move up in a medium sized business like this one and a manager is as far as anyone could possible go. The interview went downhill after that and he quickly thanked me for my time and set me on my way.
I figured I either blew smoke from quoting common knowledge that I read on forums such as Slashdot or he got nervous that I would challenge him for his job.
I found this quite bizarre as I would assume a good manager would want someone with both skillsets who knows about business processes and understanding customer problems. After all I work for a business. If a great engineer can not provide value to his employer then whats the point? Maybe I am too naive thinking that managers with great salaries would be more loyal to their employer needs. I guess not. I could not live with myself and go to work each day if I were in it only for me.
Maybe the best managers do not have an ego like what you mentioned.
My wife has the same job that you do and I am a sub who sometimes works in her classroom. The problem is No Child Left Behind is putting pressure on special ed teachers to have their (sometimes non english speaking) students to perform at grade level or else!
The students who have been transferred to her classroom have been at psychiatric wards and are E.D. (emotionally disturbed). Three of them are violent and have thrown desks across the room, attacked students, and she only has an aide for half the day. Her math group has 13 of these students!
The principal is mad at her because they are violent. Why are you sending kids to me every other day? Why are they violent? Do you know how to manage a classroom? Etc.
The principal does observations and they are done properly, she does not tell my wife what she wants and says do not worry about it, now she is having a fit for not doing what she wants and she is worried about keeping her job next year.
The insurance companies are the ones releasing unstable ED kids unto teachers which only make them look incompetent and the NCLB and now stories showing teachers making 100k a year who hit other students and never get fired that just anger the public agaisnt us.
If there was not a recession she would leave but do what? With no one hiring and no corporate experience you can not get a job and its a catch 22.
My wife is a teacher and you can be fired for being seen in a bar, having a facebook page, or just wearing a bikini in public. There is zero tolerance as teachers need to be holier than thou and the union can not save you. Also, teachers do not become immune from being fired until about 3 to 4 years and even then you can still be fired for gross negligence such as coming to work drunk. Infact, this happened with a new teacher. He just got hired and partied all night the night before class to celebrate his new job and passed out in the bushes by lunch. He was fired on the spot before the first day finished.
Even a picture of you smoking in public outside the school can get you canned. They are that strict. Firing teachers is quite popular in this political climate. This is true even in minority districts where 65% of students do not speak English as a native language. hmm why do not the students there test at grade level in English? Must be the teachers fault right? Fire them!
Teachers are fired left and right every 1 to 2 years and rehired so they do not get the union benefits of job security. My wife is always let go and rehired every year. It has a devastating psychological effect as the kids and I freak out every summer about living out in the street only to be rehired. I tell you one thing. If this happens again she will not be a teacher anymore. This crap has got to stop and teachers are anything but un-fireable. Infact, I would even say teachers have less job security than most professions. You do not just go in and teach. Your lesson plans and your schedule have to be very very detailed in a particular format that takes a few college level courses to do it right. Think of it as writing an APA paper? This is for every day and the principals love to ring you in by the neck if its not 100% perfect or not to their liking. Its not fun nor easy anymore.
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I got my knowledge from a book I read where Taiwanese officials described fear of a desecration of Chinese culture by the communists. THe fear was that the real China is being lost as the communists brainwashed and changed the morals of its people. Many nationalists included democracy advocates but most of Chinese culture preferred to have stability in a short term dictatorship after the last empire collapsed.
Java is a whole platform that is scalable. Its not just about using identifiers and objects but using the vast API's. Some would Java is even an OS as it has its own I/O, threads, etc.
I suppose you could write your own threading and processes code but most Java developers just use whats built into the api.
If you do a search you need some relational abilities. If PostgreSQL can not handle this then Oracle can. Is it just me or alot of the NoSQL databases are reimplementing SQL to make up for the shortcomings?
Its not only that we have less leisure time but the fact that our worth is based on money. Inflation is very high if you count insurance, food, rent/mortgage, and gas prices (economists don't count this) and depressing wages and you have misery.
There is always someone richer than you who is busy trying to take away what you have.
Mysql sucked for many years but is getting better with each release. It was never designed to be a fully RDBMS .
In Japan people use PostgreSQL and I am surprised that its not common among geeks. Many ISPs now offer it as well as MySQL. The problem is the trendy word is Nosql and mostly non database programmers are promoting the movement due to bad experiences of trying to learn mysql to do things that are very complicated.
PostgreSQL is very easy to switch your existing code too if you used SQL compliant code in languages such as Php. WIth triggers, views, stored procedures, and abilities of self repairing in case of a power failure make postgreSQL an easier platform to develop for.
PostgreSQL is a real relational database that support views, nested sql, triggers, foreign keys, and even statistical analysis.
I think Mysql supports foreign keys now and my info might be dated. But if a database does not support foreign keys then its not a real relational database and mysql had that problem for years.
Once switching over you can find out how hard processor intensive tasks that took minutes can be done easily in seconds with the features I described above with PostgreSQL. You can save alot of speed with complex queries with PostgreSQL.
Its the other way around.
China's culture is a product of the government as people are afraid of it due to being a dictatorship. they are brainwashed Look at Taiwan? Taiwan is what China was culture wise before the communists destroyed. In democracies the culture is the center and the government molds itself in it. In communism its the other way around.
Google has no power in China. Badu, MSN, and Yahoo own the market and beat them. Second, banks errr shareholders will fire the CEO of Google if they are forced to leave China.
China has the power and has Google right where they want them.
I wish laws existed to help companies like this but as long as the board of directors are owned by souless banks and institutions like Goldman Sachs this wont change as they care only about short term stock price increases. A kick out of China will surely lower the value of its stocks.
With clarity, I mean the catholic church in the old days picked kings and made them sign covenants to serve the church. France and Italy for example had hand selected leaders by the pope. In England the king or queen is hte head of state with its anglican church too.
The seperation merely means government is government and church is church.
I think the finding fore fathers were thinking of the Catholic Church to influence American politics or at least have some other church like the King's Anglican Church. That is it and I agree with the religious right that if senators want a prayer meeting in an office in a government building then they should. Its to just make sure a religious organizations do not pull the puppet strings of the leaders.
Very very conservative. Had two teachers who were democrats who taught political science and debate the rest were republican. My english and history teachers worked for Nixon, and a few republican legislatures before becoming teachers. One even mentioned during a creative writing assignment that we should write something we are passionate about like Bob Dole.
My dad was shocked as I turned super conservative thanks to my view of teachers including one who was saying how Reagan saved America. The curriculum was at least supposed to be neutral even though the teachers mentioned their own conservative philosophy they at least taught the other side ... a little.
I do not mind conservative curriculum if liberal is taught beside it so people can think for themselves. I do not get how these extremist feel threatened with anyone who does not think like them. I at least understand how other people and maybe thats what makes me different. Some people think ignorance is a bliss.
In any large organization whether its government or private you will have the same problem. Part of the job is to help the owners look good. If you do that you get promoted. When you do not you get fired. Its a fact of life when you work. You can have a place with great management who may not do this as much but you wont get anywhere if you are a whistler blower or labeled a whiner.
""Maley's dismissal comes amid ongoing budget and staff cuts at Pennsylvania's IT security organization, the source said. Over the past 18 months to two years, the administration has cut information security budgets by close to 38%, and staff by 40%. They also put a "lockdown" on talking about cybersecurity, the source claimed.""
So basically staff was cut so much that security could now be compromised. So lets also make a rule of not talking about cyber security to cover our cuts and protect senior officials.
Yes if its written in Java. ... well not the xbox
You should be able to increase productivity the more people you add. However, the return gets smaller and smaller as you add more people.
Think of a McDonalds. If you walk into one with only 2 people working you would end up with slow crappy service. Three would be ALOT better as one can man you, the cash registers, and the drive thru. Four workers would be a nice increase, five would be ok I guess, 6 would not bring "your burger much faster, by the time 7 and 8 go in you would not see much improvement, etc.
With add more workers to a complex project it would appear that a negative return and more delays would happen. This is because even the most hardcore programmers will need help to understand the project and not scew it up with their code. My guess is you would see a negative graph and then a bump up later with each new programmer. Notice results only quadrupled and did go up 20x?
Something like Linux would be a nightmare for even the best C hackers to understand within a month or two without special training. Linux .1 would be only a few hours.
In the real world people get hired are hand picked and are usually people the boss or someone on their teams know.
Its a real problem when you are fresh out of school and no one has ever heard of you. Networking is an important part of a job. This is especially true the more higher up you are on the corporate ladder. CEO's are hired on the basis of having extensive contacts with vendors and other companies to increase sales.
... and where exactly is FreeBSD today?
Gnu/Linux totally creamed its marketshare as the result of that lawsuit.
SCO lost because Novel owns Unix, the utilities, posix, and how it operates.
I am afraid of someone like Microsoft buying Unix only to cease and desist any Unix like product that looks similar. What better way to get back at Oracle and kill Linux then to own the unix standard?
I do not think I could trust this guy with anything programming related. He surely would not have passed computer science 101 with my instructors.
They would not be worth $650 if it were easy and simple to do.
Are they defective or old Core2Duos?
Code is not expressive but are rather a serious of actions so its not like a blue print.
At least that's how judges interpret it (forgot which case as I am not a lawyer).
It is certainly not ok to reuse code in another product used by a competitor no different than a chief using part of a recipe and altering it only slightly and selling it to a competitor. KFC would go nuts if someone did this with the secret recipe for chicken.
I would bet software company lawyers would have a field day if someone ever tried this.
I am confused about this.
If someone in the marketing department created a brochure with pictures of a product and a press release then who owns it? I would assume the company and not the actual marketers who created it. What about construction workers making a house? Do they own the house and not the buyer?
What is the deciding factor? Is it your computer equipment that the work is being produced on? Is it work only between 9 - 5? Or is it always yours even if you are paid to write it?
Curious minds would like to know as I want to create some software that is free but also want a job making software for someone else.
"I fear that without radically different selection of management based on psychological profiles that prevent those seeking power from getting into management in the first place, neither problem can be solved."
Speaking of which I had an interview last week that was going fairly well. He then asked me why I got my degree in Business rather than Computer Science. I told him I wanted to become a manager and learn business processes and understand the ROI on what I do so I can fulfill a company's needs better. The manager got nervous and mentioned there is no place to move up in a medium sized business like this one and a manager is as far as anyone could possible go. The interview went downhill after that and he quickly thanked me for my time and set me on my way.
I figured I either blew smoke from quoting common knowledge that I read on forums such as Slashdot or he got nervous that I would challenge him for his job.
I found this quite bizarre as I would assume a good manager would want someone with both skillsets who knows about business processes and understanding customer problems. After all I work for a business. If a great engineer can not provide value to his employer then whats the point? Maybe I am too naive thinking that managers with great salaries would be more loyal to their employer needs. I guess not. I could not live with myself and go to work each day if I were in it only for me.
Maybe the best managers do not have an ego like what you mentioned.
I hear you.
My wife has the same job that you do and I am a sub who sometimes works in her classroom. The problem is No Child Left Behind is putting pressure on special ed teachers to have their (sometimes non english speaking) students to perform at grade level or else!
The students who have been transferred to her classroom have been at psychiatric wards and are E.D. (emotionally disturbed). Three of them are violent and have thrown desks across the room, attacked students, and she only has an aide for half the day. Her math group has 13 of these students!
The principal is mad at her because they are violent. Why are you sending kids to me every other day? Why are they violent? Do you know how to manage a classroom? Etc.
The principal does observations and they are done properly, she does not tell my wife what she wants and says do not worry about it, now she is having a fit for not doing what she wants and she is worried about keeping her job next year.
The insurance companies are the ones releasing unstable ED kids unto teachers which only make them look incompetent and the NCLB and now stories showing teachers making 100k a year who hit other students and never get fired that just anger the public agaisnt us.
If there was not a recession she would leave but do what? With no one hiring and no corporate experience you can not get a job and its a catch 22.
Thats not true.
My wife is a teacher and you can be fired for being seen in a bar, having a facebook page, or just wearing a bikini in public. There is zero tolerance as teachers need to be holier than thou and the union can not save you. Also, teachers do not become immune from being fired until about 3 to 4 years and even then you can still be fired for gross negligence such as coming to work drunk. Infact, this happened with a new teacher. He just got hired and partied all night the night before class to celebrate his new job and passed out in the bushes by lunch. He was fired on the spot before the first day finished.
Even a picture of you smoking in public outside the school can get you canned. They are that strict. Firing teachers is quite popular in this political climate. This is true even in minority districts where 65% of students do not speak English as a native language. hmm why do not the students there test at grade level in English?
Must be the teachers fault right? Fire them!
Teachers are fired left and right every 1 to 2 years and rehired so they do not get the union benefits of job security. My wife is always let go and rehired every year. It has a devastating psychological effect as the kids and I freak out every summer about living out in the street only to be rehired. I tell you one thing. If this happens again she will not be a teacher anymore. This crap has got to stop and teachers are anything but un-fireable. Infact, I would even say teachers have less job security than most professions. You do not just go in and teach. Your lesson plans and your schedule have to be very very detailed in a particular format that takes a few college level courses to do it right. Think of it as writing an APA paper? This is for every day and the principals love to ring you in by the neck if its not 100% perfect or not to their liking. Its not fun nor easy anymore.