This is Marketing designed to be self-fulling not a real survey. It's to make the trend following keep up with the Jones' crowd think that everybody else is doing it so they need to.
It was carried out for Disney Mobile (no prizes for guessing their target market) by Dhaliwal Brown a marketing company that states the following on the home page.
Working with a wide range of clients has given us the ability to see commonality and parralels in market development and share this experience with emerging sectors, such as convergent telecoms media.
Editors would consist of "trusted" users, picked by some sensible criteria.
This won't work because there are many established gnomes (Wikipedia's nick name for trusted users) with well established posting histories that also have an agenda. Their expertise is not in the subject matter but playing the wikipedia system for often for revisionist purposes. They often reguritate popular myth over facts.
What is needed is a method of independent expert review and/or fact checkers.
An EMP disables electronics by inducing a current overload into a circuit which burns it out like a fuse is burnt out by a current overload. This is just as likely to set off the bomb by inducing a current into the detonator as disabling it.
Do the Swedish Police need a search warrant to conduct this raid/ seize servers? I would assume so, normally evidence is required that the law has been broken before a warrant is issued. Can somebody enlighten us about Swedish law on this point ?
It's not helpful to call this cyber-terrorism, people do not feel terrorised by it, it sounds superlative and generally they see it as exaggeration, which turns them off and they feel they can safely ignore it.
We need to point out that internet crime, junk email, scam email, credit card fraud, ddos, ddos extortion are all organised crime part of the broader problem of organised crime.
We need the general public to see this as a everyday threat to _them_ like mail fraud, mugging, burglary, are threats against them.
The value of a network is equal to the power of the number of nodes. SMTP Email has many more nodes than any other collaboration option. In order to eclipse email another collaboration technology must have several orders of magnitude more value per node to overcome the network value added of email.
Call it collusion or consultation, it is perfectly normal and proper for the investigators to seek 3rd party perspectives on the evidence from a range of experts, including at least, techical, legal, economic, and market experts. This is perfectly proper and normal in EU investigations.
To believe Microsoft was unaware this is proper and normal would require a belief that Microsoft is incompetent and had incompentent legal experts.
Microsoft knows this normal and proper and is trying to spin things in a more favourable light.
The biggest problem with MMOG's is their insistence on combining character progression with PvP.
Where a one month old character can insta-kill a one week old character, a two month old character can insta-kill a one month old... and completely disregard of the player skill level.
As a recent college grad, I took a job to pay the bills, but soon realized that it would end up sucking the life out of me. I work a lot of overtime in a high-stress, tight deadline job.
Most Managers/Corporation will exploit you if you let them. They respect you more for being a Wolf than a sheep. Use your geek given skills to attack the problem.
Say No to the next piece of work you're given, if you Manager insists you have to do it, ask them what task from your existing work load it replaces. Make the workload his problem. You can only do one task at a time.
Saying no is in some ways the most difficult and the easiest thing to learn to say. Practice it. It's not actually that difficult if approached in the right way. The only person that is allowing this to happen is you and the only person who can stop it is you.
Once you get into that kind of downward spiral, how do you find another job?"
Start on time, Leave on time. If somebody ask, or makes a sarcastic comment just say you have something you HAVE to do. Use an excuse if you have to, but keep it something simple. You don't have to explain what it is. 'That's my business not yours' is better than a lame excuse.
Despite what you may think they are not going to sack you for leaving on time. They cannot do it legally, it would be a breach of your contract. You would have them by the short and curlies. As long as you fullfill you contracted hours they cannot sack you. They cannot sack you for looking for another job.
Use your Holiday leave, sick leave but sometimes you just have to quit.
"All my free time, during the week, is completely non-existent, and the weekends are needed to take care of chores, and preserve my mental health.
I don't think you are preserving your mental health. Your question is ozing a fatalism that suggests some level of depression. Dont dismiss this, don't consider it an insult. I've been there.
Are potential employers typically sensitive to the fact that I may not be able to interview during the week or during standard work hours?
Generally not unless you use the proffessionalism angle to spin it. However Im my experience those that understand the long hours your talking about are likely to exploit you just the same.
Also, will having left here after a year seem like a real black mark on my resume?
Yes and no, be honest, tell prospective employers you made a mistake working for the company. Pick one or two examples of bad practice your existing employer uses as examples. Dont turn this into a moan. Keep it subscinct and neutral.
My reasons for leaving, aside from the overtime (I am non-exempt), would be that I've basically been promoted in work load and responsibilities -- and have even taken on another job role, IN ADDITION to my current one. All of this without a raise in pay, or new title.
This is a good basis. I suggest that you say something along the lines that you feel you are taken for granted and your contribution is not recognised. This tells any prospective new employer that you are prepared and able to contribute. It has also turned a possible negative question into a positive answer.
I'd quit if I had a choice, but I really need the money, yet I'm unable to look for a new job because of lack of time. How am I supposed to job hunt under these circumstances?"
Sometimes you just have to quit, take a rest and start again.
When you interview, walk slowly when being led to the interview room, take a good look around and try to gauge the culture. Do the staff look happy ? A good question for interviews is to ask about the corporate culture. Don't be taking in by rhetoric, 'like we work hard and play hard' which is the biggest bunch of bollocks I've heard. Look for examples.
Finally you should be interviewing the company as much as them interviewing you.
... hypocritical when many slashbots trash corporations for creating genetically modified foods yet they see absolutely no problem creating genetically modified people.
The problem most people (not just slashdotters) have with GM-Food is that it based on bad science. The companies behind GM-Food are agro-businesses, not scientists. The GM-Food corps hide the facts behind a wall of silence and secrecy. They spread fear and legal threats around like confetti.
Good science require openness, peer review and blind testing. GM-Food has never been subject to open rigorous scientific processes of peer review and blind testing. The GM-Food corporations tried to sneak it into the environment and food chain without testing. They wanted profit from their product while using the general public as guinea pigs.
Embryonic stem cell research is carried out by properly qualified scientists and medics in a controlled environments of research labs, IS subject to rigorous peer-review, IS subject to rigorous blind-testing, and is administered by scientifically competent medical staff and IS scientific sound. GM-Food is none of these.
Your own link states the weighted average as 5.6 per 1 million people and the US results as 7.15508 per 1 million people.
This supports the OP's statement as literally true. Your follow up comments also support the OP's conclusion. That environmental competition plays a role even when the objective of that competition is different; financial gain vs nation pride.
The irony is that Motorola lots its IPTV skills when it closed down its world leading Stream Master project a couple of years ago to save money after the dot-com crash. Now they've come to realise that IPTV is the future of DTV they've needed to reaquire those skills.
Also, Alcatel bought iMagicTV to replace those lost skills. In fact nearly every leader in IPTV field from a couple of years ago did the same thing post dot-com crash, and are all stuggling to get back in the field.
Carlye group are reported as after Kingston's KIT project but will probably have to to take on the whole Kingston Communications group to get it.
In pretty much every case a Windows license will be a lot cheaper than the license for the J2EE app server... especially Web Sphere.
Not true, Web Sphere is bundled with OS400 on IBM servers like the AS400 and the Sun [One] Application server is bundled with Solaris on Sun servers.
Either of those machines will out perform a whole rack of Windows/Intel PC's where you would also have to pay for a Windows licences on each PC and a fundamental unstable and insecure platform.
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This is Marketing designed to be self-fulling not a real survey. It's to make the trend following keep up with the Jones' crowd think that everybody else is doing it so they need to.
It was carried out for Disney Mobile (no prizes for guessing their target market) by Dhaliwal Brown a marketing company that states the following on the home page.
Working with a wide range of clients has given us the ability to see commonality and parralels in market development and share this experience with emerging sectors, such as convergent telecoms media.
Editors would consist of "trusted" users, picked by some sensible criteria.
This won't work because there are many established gnomes (Wikipedia's nick name for trusted users) with well established posting histories that also have an agenda. Their expertise is not in the subject matter but playing the wikipedia system for often for revisionist purposes. They often reguritate popular myth over facts.
What is needed is a method of independent expert review and/or fact checkers.
The idea that forecast cannot be tested is absurd if you use the scientific method; predict, test, revise & repeat.
The UK Meteorological Office has successfull Forecasts of Global Temperature risk using their climate model for the last six years.
Here is there take on the future : Climate, the greenhouse effect and global warming - is the climate changing?
An EMP disables electronics by inducing a current overload into a circuit which burns it out like a fuse is burnt out by a current overload. This is just as likely to set off the bomb by inducing a current into the detonator as disabling it.
Do the Swedish Police need a search warrant to conduct this raid/ seize servers? I would assume so, normally evidence is required that the law has been broken before a warrant is issued. Can somebody enlighten us about Swedish law on this point ?
Obviously forgotten about the alleged NSA backdoor in the Windows Crypto API.
It's not helpful to call this cyber-terrorism, people do not feel terrorised by it, it sounds superlative and generally they see it as exaggeration, which turns them off and they feel they can safely ignore it.
We need to point out that internet crime, junk email, scam email, credit card fraud, ddos, ddos extortion are all
organised crime part of the broader problem of organised crime.
We need the general public to see this as a everyday threat to _them_ like mail fraud, mugging, burglary, are threats against them.
80% of the IP addresses measured no longer support spoofing!
Given the move to broadband with home routers and NAT it seems obvious that spoofing capable networks are on the decline.
The page behind Jasmine [dot] com also tries to install flash malware.
There are javascript pop-up's hidden hundreds of characters off to the right, which appear to be click-through ads.
The link techinterviews [dot] com behind the poster prostoalex is another link farm.
/me smells a rat.
The Network Effect is at work.
The value of a network is equal to the power of the number of nodes. SMTP Email has many more nodes than any other collaboration option. In order to eclipse email another collaboration technology must have several orders of magnitude more value per node to overcome the network value added of email.
"Sir Tim"
I found this amusing,
I found it saddening against the recent UK Honour scandal.
If Sir Tim was viewed as a member of traditional sphere such as Law, Economics, Education he would be Lord Tim.
His work has changed the world in all of those traditional spheres.
The whole interview content, our agenda would, would gain real traction in the second house of a G8 Nation.
Call it collusion or consultation, it is perfectly normal and proper for the investigators to seek 3rd party perspectives on the evidence from a range of experts, including at least, techical, legal, economic, and market experts. This is perfectly proper and normal in EU investigations.
To believe Microsoft was unaware this is proper and normal would require a belief that Microsoft is incompetent and had incompentent legal experts.
Microsoft knows this normal and proper and is trying to spin things in a more favourable light.
... has already edited the original
The biggest problem with MMOG's is their insistence on combining character progression with PvP.
Where a one month old character can insta-kill a one week old character, a two month old character can insta-kill a one month old... and completely disregard of the player skill level.
As a recent college grad, I took a job to pay the bills, but soon realized that it would end up sucking the life out of me. I work a lot of overtime in a high-stress, tight deadline job.
Most Managers/Corporation will exploit you if you let them. They respect you more for being a Wolf than a sheep. Use your geek given skills to attack the problem.
Say No to the next piece of work you're given, if you Manager insists you have to do it, ask them what task from your existing work load it replaces. Make the workload his problem. You can only do one task at a time.
Saying no is in some ways the most difficult and the easiest thing to learn to say. Practice it. It's not actually that difficult if approached in the right way. The only person that is allowing this to happen is you and the only person who can stop it is you.
Once you get into that kind of downward spiral, how do you find another job?"
Start on time, Leave on time. If somebody ask, or makes a sarcastic comment just say you have something you HAVE to do. Use an excuse if you have to, but keep it something simple. You don't have to explain what it is. 'That's my business not yours' is better than a lame excuse.
Despite what you may think they are not going to sack you for leaving on time. They cannot do it legally, it would be a breach of your contract. You would have them by the short and curlies. As long as you fullfill you contracted hours they cannot sack you. They cannot sack you for looking for another job.
Use your Holiday leave, sick leave but sometimes you just have to quit.
"All my free time, during the week, is completely non-existent, and the weekends are needed to take care of chores, and preserve my mental health.
I don't think you are preserving your mental health. Your question is ozing a fatalism that suggests some level of depression. Dont dismiss this, don't consider it an insult. I've been there.
Are potential employers typically sensitive to the fact that I may not be able to interview during the week or during standard work hours?
Generally not unless you use the proffessionalism angle to spin it. However Im my experience those that understand the long hours your talking about are likely to exploit you just the same.
Also, will having left here after a year seem like a real black mark on my resume?
Yes and no, be honest, tell prospective employers you made a mistake working for the company. Pick one or two examples of bad practice your existing employer uses as examples. Dont turn this into a moan. Keep it subscinct and neutral.
My reasons for leaving, aside from the overtime (I am non-exempt), would be that I've basically been promoted in work load and responsibilities -- and have even taken on another job role, IN ADDITION to my current one. All of this without a raise in pay, or new title.
This is a good basis. I suggest that you say something along the lines that you feel you are taken for granted and your contribution is not recognised. This tells any prospective new employer that you are prepared and able to contribute. It has also turned a possible negative question into a positive answer.
I'd quit if I had a choice, but I really need the money, yet I'm unable to look for a new job because of lack of time. How am I supposed to job hunt under these circumstances?"
Sometimes you just have to quit, take a rest and start again.
When you interview, walk slowly when being led to the interview room, take a good look around and try to gauge the culture. Do the staff look happy ? A good question for interviews is to ask about the corporate culture. Don't be taking in by rhetoric, 'like we work hard and play hard' which is the biggest bunch of bollocks I've heard. Look for examples.
Finally you should be interviewing the company as much as them interviewing you.
... hypocritical when many slashbots trash corporations for creating genetically modified foods yet they see absolutely no problem creating genetically modified people.
The problem most people (not just slashdotters) have with GM-Food is that it based on bad science. The companies behind GM-Food are agro-businesses, not scientists. The GM-Food corps hide the facts behind a wall of silence and secrecy. They spread fear and legal threats around like confetti.
Good science require openness, peer review and blind testing. GM-Food has never been subject to open rigorous scientific processes of peer review and blind testing. The GM-Food corporations tried to sneak it into the environment and food chain without testing. They wanted profit from their product while using the general public as guinea pigs.
Embryonic stem cell research is carried out by properly qualified scientists and medics in a controlled environments of research labs, IS subject to rigorous peer-review, IS subject to rigorous blind-testing, and is administered by scientifically competent medical staff and IS scientific sound. GM-Food is none of these.
Yet another example of big Companies ignoring internet standards.
http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/policy-abuse.php
The following link from the same site might add more light than heat to the overall discussion.
http://www.nationmaster.com/correlations/spo_sum_
Your own link states the weighted average as 5.6 per 1 million people and the US results as 7.15508 per 1 million people.
This supports the OP's statement as literally true. Your follow up comments also support the OP's conclusion. That environmental competition plays a role even when the objective of that competition is different; financial gain vs nation pride.
The irony is that Motorola lots its IPTV skills when it closed down its world leading Stream Master project a couple of years ago to save money after the dot-com crash. Now they've come to realise that IPTV is the future of DTV they've needed to reaquire those skills.
Also, Alcatel bought iMagicTV to replace those lost skills. In fact nearly every leader in IPTV field from a couple of years ago did the same thing post dot-com crash, and are all stuggling to get back in the field.
Carlye group are reported as after Kingston's KIT project but will probably have to to take on the whole Kingston Communications group to get it.
Criminalise the people you can catch.
In pretty much every case a Windows license will be a lot cheaper than the license for the J2EE app server... especially Web Sphere.
Not true, Web Sphere is bundled with OS400 on IBM servers like the AS400 and the Sun [One] Application server is bundled with Solaris on Sun servers.
Either of those machines will out perform a whole rack of Windows/Intel PC's where you would also have to pay for a Windows licences on each PC and a fundamental unstable and insecure platform.
J2ME is the subset, cut down version for embeded devices like PDA's/Mobile phones etc.
2 44/
J2EE is a superset of Java which adds the Enterpise level extensions to the core Java technology.
In summary :
* Java Servlets
* Java Server Pages (JSP
* Enterpise Java Beens (EJB)
* Java Connector Architecture (JCA)
* Web Services
* XML services
You can read the full spec here :
http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/jsr
genamics-dot-com is known MS astrotufing site, which requires the question, what's your motivation for ramping it up ?
Another sticky problem is access to the data is no longer controlled by the RDBMS, since that application account needs wide open access.
The application does not need wide open access, that is just a sloppy design/implementation.
If the Application is single-purpose you can just as easily restrict access to a limited subset of data the application requires.
If the Application is multi-purpose, you can use the application's user credentials passed through.