I disagree. If technical schools aren't providing a traning that fits with the needs of the industry, then they aren't doing what they're supposed to.
You don't graduate from college with a degree in Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, you graduate with a Computer Science degree that (theoretically) means you understand how computers work and how development should be done, and the choice of programming language is merely a reference book away.
Shame that 1) it isn't happening in many schools, leading to 2) HR doesn't believe it when people graduate from schools where it does happen.
In America all you need is a salesperson and a half-decent idea.
And a huge wad of cash you expect to lose. Think getting a car loan or a house loan is hard? At least the bank knows that the car or house is likely to still be there 5 years from now if they need to foreclose and repossess it (or at least they'll require you to insure it so that if the car or house is not, the money is).
But a business? 4 out of 5 startups are gone in 5 years. While the majority of those that don't make it are closed without bankruptcy, at the end if you're not the 1-in-5, you're still without income, and quite possibly in a huge amount of debt.
Before you talk about incorporation, keep in mind that it has costs of its own that will have to be paid up front before the corporation exists to absorb that cost. Additionally, how many companies of fewer than 5 people would not fall under the Alter Ego condition for piercing the corporate veil.
Not entirely. I have an "outwards-facing" programming job, and what it means is that
1) I code 2) I produce end-user documentation and 3) The developers are the top tier of tech support.
The key is to make sure that the company understands what they mean when they talk about setups like this. Every time I get a call escalated to me, that interrupts whatever I'm working on. Time spent on documentation is not time spent on coding. If it looks like the HR guy at the interview is hinting that they want you to be a full time developer and full time support, run like hell.
And what do you expect? People are ridiculed for living with their parents. Mass transit is a chicken-and-egg situation where both the chicken and the egg failed to appear. Health insurance costs rise at a rate that far outstrips any other cost of living index, and the leading alternative (pre-tax funded health expense accounts) are largely untrusted because by and large, the money deducted from the worker's paycheck to fund the account isn't paid back to the worker if it's not used.
But let's say I gave up all that. I live with my parents, carpool to work, and use a medical expense account rather than propping up the ridiculously expensive insurance racket. Do I get employed, or when I walk into a $40k/yr job, am I dismissed as "overqualified"?
Fixes need to be made on both sides of the line. Americans can learn to live with less pay, but it won't matter if companies don't start rejoicing and welcoming professionals aboard when qualified people start accepting less pay.
There are all sorts of conferences and such that go on for the purpose of creating technical law. Remember that international telecom conference Bush's administration pulled engineers off of because they donated to Kerry? There are also numbers of hearings and panels and so on for the same thing on a non-international level.
But all that goes out the door when somebody wants the knee-jerk reaction soundbite on their way to re-election. And that's the saddest part of all of this.
Inevitably, these guys are going to come up with legislation that will be impossible to implement. Just like the library net-nanny laws, which are inevitably going to be doomed to "I thought my kid would be safe if I left him at the library for 4 hours while I did my shopping and a manicure!" lawsuits, it's not going to be possible to screen each and every room name in every language created. Especially, if like IRC, they're simply created automatically.
See if you can write a regular expression that will block all of these channels. I'll throw in some easy ones as well as some that require actually knowing the subject matter (if you don't get it, try google and ageofconsent.com):
Let's all have sex with little girls!!!1! kome ere 2 c lil kitz young kittens 4 men t33nz p1>< Jelly Bracelets R us Chilean Wife pix tennis player porn erotaisou na shashin (I see from other posts that yahoo supposedly supported arabic, so they'd probably have supported japanese as well, and in that case you'll have to match all possible combinations of the japanese alphabets that create that concept)
Yeah, it's too expensive to save the lives of everyone, so the pro-lifers stick to saving the lives of unwanted children and the extreme pro-lifers and anti-eugenics work hard to save the lives of babies so deformed they wouldn't live outside the womb anyway. Of course, they refuse to foot the bill when the baby pops out and then dies after tens of thousands of dollars in futile medical care, because that's actually too expensive too.
Microsoft would be doing a terrible disservice to their shareholders if they didn't do everything possible to be able to do business with those billion+ people.
and then
As a Business, Microsoft's first responsibility is to its shareholders - to maximize profits.
China has HUGE porift potential for Microsoft. Therefore, they have a responsibility to their shareholders to try to do everything they can to do business there.
OK, I give up. I'm obviously a drooling idiot, since I cannot interpret these sentences any other way than "Microsoft must do everything it can to get Chinese business". Please enlighten me as to what exactly you meant here if this is not the case?
The only thing I can think of to reconcile your defense of Microsoft censoring Chinese citizens at the government's request with your statement that you are not saying that Microsoft is trampling on the rights of people, is that either you don't believe that chinese people have the right to speak their mind freely.
Therefore, they have a responsibility to their shareholders to try to do everything they can to do business there.
I don't get it. How is this not "money is more important than freedom"? You're saying Microsoft must trample on the rights of Chinese people in order to "do everything they can to do business there" in order to "maximize profits".
There are no words in your mouth other than your own.
The answer is that in addition to the simple fact of the images being present, intent to view the images must also be present...and proven.
I suspect that the only reason this is news at all is that that intent could not be proven. Maybe he was surfing a japanese or korean imageboard like moeboard on the wrong day? It talks about looking at pictures for 4 hours, but going through moeboard would take days of browsing through mostly harmless, mostly cute drawings posted by random users, plus the occasional handful of crap posted by a troll. The article neglects to mention if the.html files that were also cached had links like "click here to see teh little girls!!!1!"... and with damning evidence like that, the only reason it wouldn't have come up in court and the article is if it just didn't exist.
Actually, if you tried to do that, you'd probably get the drive to hit at least one sector that wasn't quite right, and it would begin remapping sectors. Once it starts remapping blocks on the drive, you've got no way of knowing that you've overwritten everything, since the naughty bits might end up mapped out of the visible part of the drive by the drive's firmware.
While you're correct in your assessment of the volatility of the LindenBuck and current foolishness in investing in a virtual property, just like any other investment, these are risks people can choose to take.
An executive in the company hosting is accused of embezzlement -- *pow*. The hosting company enters Chapter 11 -- *pow*. A new fad massive multiplayer starts up -- *pow*.
You would be taking the same risks by buying stock in the company.
"Virtual" risks would include things on top of that, like "server rollback" or "item/money duping software bug" or "server destroyed, backups lost", etc. You'd certainly want to see a prospectus of how these risks are controlled or mitigated before seriously investing within that market.
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While I seriously doubt that the advent of RSS will affect Google much at all, Google would probably rather you search for something, then forget about where to find it and have to search for it again next time, rather than finding it once and subscribing.
Besides, even if RSS becomes The Next Intarweb(TM), we'll still need to have someone index the billions of RSS feeds.
On the other hand it can turn the game into a "only those with more money have fun" type of thing... Well I guess they are trying to make it more like real life.
The key is that if you don't have money, you can earn it (hey, just like real life!). Make something interesting, like that weird bingo-ish game that showed up on slashdot a while back that's now being produced in the real world. Or just interesting in-game trinkets and convince people in-game to buy them from you.
Then you are just as a hobby, something to spare time on
But that's just it. To most people, myself included, they are at the movies to be entertained, not to critique the medium or study the masterpieces. Sure, a good movie is more entertaining than a bad movie, but it's perfectly fine to say "I do not find this kind of movie entertaining".
There are many different media for telling stories, and not liking animation (or black and white film) is no different than not liking opera or ballet. They may tell stories, but they are not all equally entertaining to all people.
Saying "I don't like anime" is like saying "I don't like B&W movies".
Of course that opinion can be perfectly valid too. I know I'm certainly not a fan of pre-technicolor movies. Grandparent could be of the opinion that he'd rather see human beings on the screen than drawn or otherwise animated characters, humanoid or not. It may be that no matter what genre of anime he saw, he'd not appreciate it without that "human touch".
The reason for the "french" accent on the e is to remind people that even though its romanized "anime" it's still pronounced "anima"tion, the word it was shortened from, and the easiest way to get that across to as many english speakers as possible is to use the accent, like in the word resume (as opposed to the word resume, when read without the accent).
I think that the TV show ALIAS does the whole female-star-without-feminist-blathering quite well.
Its not the show doing the blathering, its the people watching it, and I can guarantee somewhere, someone is out there talking about how the lead character is a symbol for feminist strength, regardless of whether or not the show's creators wanted that.
Except that the government is neglecting to inform its population about the outcomes of this particular form of education.
Hell, the Bush administration likes to keep the people in the dark about all sorts of things, like torturing people, scientific studies that don't match their worldview, and so on. It's sure easier to win support from tax payers when they don't know what it is they're supporting. Just shout "terrorism" at them and they'll happily throw money at everything.
The story of her pictures is apparently very well known in video processing circles, and/. ran an article some time ago about it which introduced her to everyone else;)
I had never heard of her before, but then again, I've never dealt with any kind of photography or video processing.
- New distribution is released. - New distribution includes new and improved upgrade tool capable of dealing with circular dependencies because the new distribution has circular dependencies on certain libraries. - New upgrade tool requires new libraries - Old upgrade tool cannot resolve the circular dependencies required to install those libraries and thus the new upgrade tool and the rest of the distribution.
So since telling the users to upgrade the upgrade tool by hand has been ruled out, I'd like to hear you propose some way of fixing this, in or outside of the box.
A real HDTV: $thousand. Converter: $hundred, less at mass market prices.
HDTV might come down in price, assuming that enough consumers hold out for it, and aren't suckered in by cheap digital SD sets or "high(er) definition" EDTV sets. As long as the majority of customers are willing to pay $100 for a SDTV set and around $200-$500 for an EDTV set, the HDTV sets are going to remain a high-dollar "luxury" item.
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I disagree. If technical schools aren't providing a traning that fits with the needs of the industry, then they aren't doing what they're supposed to.
You don't graduate from college with a degree in Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, you graduate with a Computer Science degree that (theoretically) means you understand how computers work and how development should be done, and the choice of programming language is merely a reference book away.
Shame that 1) it isn't happening in many schools, leading to 2) HR doesn't believe it when people graduate from schools where it does happen.
In America all you need is a salesperson and a half-decent idea.
And a huge wad of cash you expect to lose. Think getting a car loan or a house loan is hard? At least the bank knows that the car or house is likely to still be there 5 years from now if they need to foreclose and repossess it (or at least they'll require you to insure it so that if the car or house is not, the money is).
But a business? 4 out of 5 startups are gone in 5 years. While the majority of those that don't make it are closed without bankruptcy, at the end if you're not the 1-in-5, you're still without income, and quite possibly in a huge amount of debt.
Before you talk about incorporation, keep in mind that it has costs of its own that will have to be paid up front before the corporation exists to absorb that cost. Additionally, how many companies of fewer than 5 people would not fall under the Alter Ego condition for piercing the corporate veil.
Not entirely. I have an "outwards-facing" programming job, and what it means is that
1) I code
2) I produce end-user documentation
and
3) The developers are the top tier of tech support.
The key is to make sure that the company understands what they mean when they talk about setups like this. Every time I get a call escalated to me, that interrupts whatever I'm working on. Time spent on documentation is not time spent on coding. If it looks like the HR guy at the interview is hinting that they want you to be a full time developer and full time support, run like hell.
And what do you expect? People are ridiculed for living with their parents. Mass transit is a chicken-and-egg situation where both the chicken and the egg failed to appear. Health insurance costs rise at a rate that far outstrips any other cost of living index, and the leading alternative (pre-tax funded health expense accounts) are largely untrusted because by and large, the money deducted from the worker's paycheck to fund the account isn't paid back to the worker if it's not used.
But let's say I gave up all that. I live with my parents, carpool to work, and use a medical expense account rather than propping up the ridiculously expensive insurance racket. Do I get employed, or when I walk into a $40k/yr job, am I dismissed as "overqualified"?
Fixes need to be made on both sides of the line. Americans can learn to live with less pay, but it won't matter if companies don't start rejoicing and welcoming professionals aboard when qualified people start accepting less pay.
Should this scenario happen?
There are all sorts of conferences and such that go on for the purpose of creating technical law. Remember that international telecom conference Bush's administration pulled engineers off of because they donated to Kerry? There are also numbers of hearings and panels and so on for the same thing on a non-international level.
But all that goes out the door when somebody wants the knee-jerk reaction soundbite on their way to re-election. And that's the saddest part of all of this.
Inevitably, these guys are going to come up with legislation that will be impossible to implement. Just like the library net-nanny laws, which are inevitably going to be doomed to "I thought my kid would be safe if I left him at the library for 4 hours while I did my shopping and a manicure!" lawsuits, it's not going to be possible to screen each and every room name in every language created. Especially, if like IRC, they're simply created automatically.
See if you can write a regular expression that will block all of these channels. I'll throw in some easy ones as well as some that require actually knowing the subject matter (if you don't get it, try google and ageofconsent.com):
Let's all have sex with little girls!!!1!
kome ere 2 c lil kitz
young kittens 4 men
t33nz p1><
Jelly Bracelets R us
Chilean Wife pix
tennis player porn
erotaisou na shashin (I see from other posts that yahoo supposedly supported arabic, so they'd probably have supported japanese as well, and in that case you'll have to match all possible combinations of the japanese alphabets that create that concept)
Yeah, it's too expensive to save the lives of everyone, so the pro-lifers stick to saving the lives of unwanted children and the extreme pro-lifers and anti-eugenics work hard to save the lives of babies so deformed they wouldn't live outside the womb anyway. Of course, they refuse to foot the bill when the baby pops out and then dies after tens of thousands of dollars in futile medical care, because that's actually too expensive too.
but it helps the Google rankings (shameless, huh?)
Actually, I just logged out to check, and people browsing AC like the google web crawler don't get sigs.
The only thing I can think of to reconcile your defense of Microsoft censoring Chinese citizens at the government's request with your statement that you are not saying that Microsoft is trampling on the rights of people, is that either you don't believe that chinese people have the right to speak their mind freely.
Therefore, they have a responsibility to their shareholders to try to do everything they can to do business there.
I don't get it. How is this not "money is more important than freedom"? You're saying Microsoft must trample on the rights of Chinese people in order to "do everything they can to do business there" in order to "maximize profits".
There are no words in your mouth other than your own.
In the end, it amounts to the same either way.
Imagine this case, except that the images weren't anywhere on the defendant's computer, but the ISP's log showed that they were sent to him?
The answer is that in addition to the simple fact of the images being present, intent to view the images must also be present...and proven.
.html files that were also cached had links like "click here to see teh little girls!!!1!"... and with damning evidence like that, the only reason it wouldn't have come up in court and the article is if it just didn't exist.
I suspect that the only reason this is news at all is that that intent could not be proven. Maybe he was surfing a japanese or korean imageboard like moeboard on the wrong day? It talks about looking at pictures for 4 hours, but going through moeboard would take days of browsing through mostly harmless, mostly cute drawings posted by random users, plus the occasional handful of crap posted by a troll. The article neglects to mention if the
Actually, if you tried to do that, you'd probably get the drive to hit at least one sector that wasn't quite right, and it would begin remapping sectors. Once it starts remapping blocks on the drive, you've got no way of knowing that you've overwritten everything, since the naughty bits might end up mapped out of the visible part of the drive by the drive's firmware.
While you're correct in your assessment of the volatility of the LindenBuck and current foolishness in investing in a virtual property, just like any other investment, these are risks people can choose to take.
An executive in the company hosting is accused of embezzlement -- *pow*. The hosting company enters Chapter 11 -- *pow*. A new fad massive multiplayer starts up -- *pow*.
You would be taking the same risks by buying stock in the company.
"Virtual" risks would include things on top of that, like "server rollback" or "item/money duping software bug" or "server destroyed, backups lost", etc. You'd certainly want to see a prospectus of how these risks are controlled or mitigated before seriously investing within that market.
While I seriously doubt that the advent of RSS will affect Google much at all, Google would probably rather you search for something, then forget about where to find it and have to search for it again next time, rather than finding it once and subscribing.
Besides, even if RSS becomes The Next Intarweb(TM), we'll still need to have someone index the billions of RSS feeds.
On the other hand it can turn the game into a "only those with more money have fun" type of thing... Well I guess they are trying to make it more like real life.
The key is that if you don't have money, you can earn it (hey, just like real life!). Make something interesting, like that weird bingo-ish game that showed up on slashdot a while back that's now being produced in the real world. Or just interesting in-game trinkets and convince people in-game to buy them from you.
So you give them money for land (Lets say 1 block) and they keep said money and give you this block of data.. then.... they keep your money and..?
So you give them money for a piece of paper, and they keep said money and give you this piece of paper, and then they keep your money, and?
Sounds like the stock market to me, I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees it as the "magic beans" it is.
Then you are just as a hobby, something to spare time on
But that's just it. To most people, myself included, they are at the movies to be entertained, not to critique the medium or study the masterpieces. Sure, a good movie is more entertaining than a bad movie, but it's perfectly fine to say "I do not find this kind of movie entertaining".
There are many different media for telling stories, and not liking animation (or black and white film) is no different than not liking opera or ballet. They may tell stories, but they are not all equally entertaining to all people.
Saying "I don't like anime" is like saying "I don't like B&W movies".
Of course that opinion can be perfectly valid too. I know I'm certainly not a fan of pre-technicolor movies. Grandparent could be of the opinion that he'd rather see human beings on the screen than drawn or otherwise animated characters, humanoid or not. It may be that no matter what genre of anime he saw, he'd not appreciate it without that "human touch".
The reason for the "french" accent on the e is to remind people that even though its romanized "anime" it's still pronounced "anima"tion, the word it was shortened from, and the easiest way to get that across to as many english speakers as possible is to use the accent, like in the word resume (as opposed to the word resume, when read without the accent).
I think that the TV show ALIAS does the whole female-star-without-feminist-blathering quite well.
Its not the show doing the blathering, its the people watching it, and I can guarantee somewhere, someone is out there talking about how the lead character is a symbol for feminist strength, regardless of whether or not the show's creators wanted that.
Except that the government is neglecting to inform its population about the outcomes of this particular form of education.
Hell, the Bush administration likes to keep the people in the dark about all sorts of things, like torturing people, scientific studies that don't match their worldview, and so on. It's sure easier to win support from tax payers when they don't know what it is they're supporting. Just shout "terrorism" at them and they'll happily throw money at everything.
The story of her pictures is apparently very well known in video processing circles, and /. ran an article some time ago about it which introduced her to everyone else ;)
I had never heard of her before, but then again, I've never dealt with any kind of photography or video processing.
OK, lets start over from the beginning.
- New distribution is released.
- New distribution includes new and improved upgrade tool capable of dealing with circular dependencies because the new distribution has circular dependencies on certain libraries.
- New upgrade tool requires new libraries
- Old upgrade tool cannot resolve the circular dependencies required to install those libraries and thus the new upgrade tool and the rest of the distribution.
So since telling the users to upgrade the upgrade tool by hand has been ruled out, I'd like to hear you propose some way of fixing this, in or outside of the box.
Go ahead, pop my blood vessels.
A real HDTV: $thousand. Converter: $hundred, less at mass market prices.
HDTV might come down in price, assuming that enough consumers hold out for it, and aren't suckered in by cheap digital SD sets or "high(er) definition" EDTV sets. As long as the majority of customers are willing to pay $100 for a SDTV set and around $200-$500 for an EDTV set, the HDTV sets are going to remain a high-dollar "luxury" item.