This is actually true. I applied for a Java job that requires Spring and Hibernate knowledge. I was a C/C++ embedded guy. They required me to pass a Brainbench Java test before an interview. I read a few Wikipedia articles on Java, Spring, and Hibernate and passed the test with flying colors. (Disclosure - I've had a little Java experience before, but nothing beyond simple data structures and some Hello World's dealing with file I/O).
I went in the interview and made an offer right on the spot. All I needed was a working knowledge of OO basics and a smattering of SQL and the keywords "extend" and "implements".
Either the standards were not that high or they figured I could learn on the job.
I don't see how this changes the close race anyhow. Hillary's women spiteful voters may defect to McCain, but most will just hold their nose and go Obama. The numbers are just not there to move any numbers in any significant way.
Besides - Palin's just too easy to pick on. Off the top of my head - mayor of a town of 5000 people just 2-3 years ago, images of threatening Iran while breastfeeding in the oval office in case McCain croaks mid-term (she's got 5 kids, one of them just a few months old), that business with her brother-in-law state trooper...
He could have picked a better person, but this is probably some greater Republican party strategy to keep Alaska red for the 2012 Congress to spearhead the drilling efforts, so they may be willing to sacrifice the presidency this time around for that.
10 red light cameras in Lynnwood, WA have brought in $1.3 million in 8 months alone.
Enough money for hiring 3 cops and 3 firefighters after paying off the company that makes the cameras, according to the article.
That's an interesting piece of information. There is some tradition in some Chinese communities where births are not registered until they reach 1 year of age (especially in more rural areas). Adding the discrepancy of the lunar calendar to the mix, the 1-2 year deficit may very well be explained away.
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Because, you know, we have SUCH a vested National Interest in beating up Tibetans and Han Chinese in the Himalayas
an area of the world totally outside our influence
An area into the backyard of a competing superpower, and sandwiched between 3 known nuclear powers...and you're saying the U.S. has no interest in projecting a sphere of influence?
That is an awesome park. I love taking my lunch break walk there and watching the tourists lay down on the lawn not knowing that there was probably vomit and other bodily fluids right where they are just several hours prior.
And pointing the tourists to a random direction each day when they ask for the Space Needle (it's almost clearly visible from the park, yet they still ask).
It's also interesting to note that the Midwesterners who congregate around the original Starbucks to listen to the live musicians will stand an average of 3 ft away if the musicians are white, but at least 7-8 ft away if they happen to be black.
Sometimes the locations of manufacturers puzzle me. (I live in the U.S.) My Colgate toothbrush (analog, not electronic) from Costco is made in Switzerland, and my Braun electric shaver is from Germany. My cooking pan is from Italy. For these low-end items, I don't see how these companies can justify the high cost of labor in these countries. Tax incentives, I suppose...
. This little-known provision was passed as part of the Heroes Act of 2008 on 6/17. Looks like Congress foresees a mass exodus of Americans at some point in the foreseeable future - at least the ones that matter.
I'm not sure. But traditionally, the Chinese system of civil service exams established as much as possible a meritocracy where everyone, rich and poor, strove to do well on the exam to obtain well-sought-after public servant positions (meaning positions of prestige, relative wealth, and power). Those who flunk the exam may have no other choice but to enter the merchant class or become a soldier (read: cannon fodder) for the emperor. Hence, a "good son" would have done well on the civil service exams, whereas a "bad son" (defined as one who is less gifted academically or less hardworking) would be more likely to become a soldier.
In a way - not too different from the rest of the world even today. Police and soldiers, in nations without mandatory conscription, tend to generally recruit from the lower economic spectra.
I hung out with some pretty no-good people back in high school, and a good percentage of them ended up being police officers. Kind of like what happened in Clockwork Orange in that sense.
An old Chinese adage states that "a good son does not go on to become a cop" (in this context, a "cop" means any person given martial authority by the ruling regime, such as a police officer or military soldier).
The evening online program at the Illinois Institute of Technology is quite popular with Indians. One of our high-ranking executives in India lists "IIT" on his resume. A quick Google search shows him asking for help on a IllinoisIT homework website.
Universally speaking (almost everyone from Sub-Saharan bushmen to people in Indonesia), irrespective to religion and cultural upbringing, curse words usually evolve around three things:
1.) your mama 2.) fecal matter 3.) wishing untimely death
I don't own a Prius, but I like the Prius, and I think the the build quality is superb.
Although based on solely the economic point of view, I would have to disagree with the "no-brainer" part of getting a Prius. I have come up with the following analysis based on my wife's 2005 Corolla. From my calculation, it gets about 30/38 for mileage (about 33 MPG mixed average usually).
So the annual gas savings from driving a Prius (let's say 48.5 MPG mixed average) for 12,000 miles at $4.25/gallon would be about $493 per year.
The Corolla LE (mid-level model) is approximately $8,000-$10,000 less than a Prius - and therefore will take my about 15-20 years to recoup the gas savings.
Certainly, this disregards the higher build quality of the Prius, plus the number of extra features not available on the Corolla. But based strictly on a cost analysis, the Prius just doesn't work very well for the sub-$20,000 car consumer. I'm not doubting your numbers either - but I have a number of friends who have the new Priuses who get no better than 42MPG mixed non-lead-foot driving.
Even if gas went up to $5-$6/gallon, the math still doesn't work out very attractively for the Prius.
As a side issue: wtf is up with Islam and dogs? Jesus friggin' Christ. Any religion that doesn't "allow" a boy to have a dog as a pet is... sick.
When you're living 2000 years ago in the Middle East with no hand sanitizer and refrigeration and such, they're not silly rules - it's advice that can potentially save your life (like not eating pork). But of course their advice is somewhat out of date nowadays, or is it? Dogs are pretty filthy and eat their own feces. I personally sure don't want one running around on my carpet.
Yeah, usually I just explain to people that it's really just God initializing all the objects in the threads. But the OS clock doesn't really start ticking until you kickstart the threads.
But it doesn't seem like they understand it any better after that...
That's the problem. When I interviewed for an design engineer position at Ford, they stuck me in a room with other MBAs and finance PhDs (I was a BSEE) and tested my business acumen. They didn't care about technical expertise, but was more interested in seeing if I can come up with a business case for a product line, or be able to give an impromptu sales pitch to a high exec type. It's sure a useful skill to have, but it must be silly of me to think that you still have to go after the techies to design your products that you're selling.
When I interviewed at Ford about 5 years ago, the man who took me on a tour of the Explorer line commented that their bumpers had a length variation of +/- 3-5%. He said it like it wasn't an issue to be bothered with.
By the way, the Mazda 6 is made by Ford. So is the Mazda Tribute (rebadged Ford Escape). The Japanese made Mazdas (Mazda 3 and Mazda 5, for example) have much higher workmanship than the Ford-made ones.
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This is actually true. I applied for a Java job that requires Spring and Hibernate knowledge. I was a C/C++ embedded guy. They required me to pass a Brainbench Java test before an interview. I read a few Wikipedia articles on Java, Spring, and Hibernate and passed the test with flying colors. (Disclosure - I've had a little Java experience before, but nothing beyond simple data structures and some Hello World's dealing with file I/O).
I went in the interview and made an offer right on the spot. All I needed was a working knowledge of OO basics and a smattering of SQL and the keywords "extend" and "implements".
Either the standards were not that high or they figured I could learn on the job.
It's certainly a valid concern. The average life expectancy for American males is 75.15 years - right in McCain's first term.
I don't see how this changes the close race anyhow. Hillary's women spiteful voters may defect to McCain, but most will just hold their nose and go Obama. The numbers are just not there to move any numbers in any significant way.
Besides - Palin's just too easy to pick on. Off the top of my head - mayor of a town of 5000 people just 2-3 years ago, images of threatening Iran while breastfeeding in the oval office in case McCain croaks mid-term (she's got 5 kids, one of them just a few months old), that business with her brother-in-law state trooper...
He could have picked a better person, but this is probably some greater Republican party strategy to keep Alaska red for the 2012 Congress to spearhead the drilling efforts, so they may be willing to sacrifice the presidency this time around for that.
10 red light cameras in Lynnwood, WA have brought in $1.3 million in 8 months alone. Enough money for hiring 3 cops and 3 firefighters after paying off the company that makes the cameras, according to the article.
1 PC, 2 flash drives, Microsoft SyncToy (free). Works pretty well for me.
My 2008 Subaru Outback basic trim model has a audio input jack, plus a hole to lead your audio cable out of the center console.
Women lying about their age.
Sheesh. Next you're going to tell me they don't look the same without makeup.
That's an interesting piece of information. There is some tradition in some Chinese communities where births are not registered until they reach 1 year of age (especially in more rural areas). Adding the discrepancy of the lunar calendar to the mix, the 1-2 year deficit may very well be explained away.
Because, you know, we have SUCH a vested National Interest in beating up Tibetans and Han Chinese in the Himalayas
United States involvement in the 1959 Tibet uprising.
an area of the world totally outside our influence
An area into the backyard of a competing superpower, and sandwiched between 3 known nuclear powers...and you're saying the U.S. has no interest in projecting a sphere of influence?
That is an awesome park. I love taking my lunch break walk there and watching the tourists lay down on the lawn not knowing that there was probably vomit and other bodily fluids right where they are just several hours prior.
And pointing the tourists to a random direction each day when they ask for the Space Needle (it's almost clearly visible from the park, yet they still ask).
It's also interesting to note that the Midwesterners who congregate around the original Starbucks to listen to the live musicians will stand an average of 3 ft away if the musicians are white, but at least 7-8 ft away if they happen to be black.
Sometimes the locations of manufacturers puzzle me. (I live in the U.S.) My Colgate toothbrush (analog, not electronic) from Costco is made in Switzerland, and my Braun electric shaver is from Germany. My cooking pan is from Italy. For these low-end items, I don't see how these companies can justify the high cost of labor in these countries. Tax incentives, I suppose...
The draw may have already been broken...or at least someone thinks it will be soon...
You will be taxed on all your assets if you give up your US citizenship
. This little-known provision was passed as part of the Heroes Act of 2008 on 6/17. Looks like Congress foresees a mass exodus of Americans at some point in the foreseeable future - at least the ones that matter.
I'm not sure. But traditionally, the Chinese system of civil service exams established as much as possible a meritocracy where everyone, rich and poor, strove to do well on the exam to obtain well-sought-after public servant positions (meaning positions of prestige, relative wealth, and power). Those who flunk the exam may have no other choice but to enter the merchant class or become a soldier (read: cannon fodder) for the emperor. Hence, a "good son" would have done well on the civil service exams, whereas a "bad son" (defined as one who is less gifted academically or less hardworking) would be more likely to become a soldier. In a way - not too different from the rest of the world even today. Police and soldiers, in nations without mandatory conscription, tend to generally recruit from the lower economic spectra.
Last time people did that, they sort of looked like this.
I hung out with some pretty no-good people back in high school, and a good percentage of them ended up being police officers. Kind of like what happened in Clockwork Orange in that sense.
An old Chinese adage states that "a good son does not go on to become a cop" (in this context, a "cop" means any person given martial authority by the ruling regime, such as a police officer or military soldier).
http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/22685.html
I Googled this, then just took a quick look at places like Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky. Pretty self-explanatory.
The evening online program at the Illinois Institute of Technology is quite popular with Indians. One of our high-ranking executives in India lists "IIT" on his resume. A quick Google search shows him asking for help on a IllinoisIT homework website.
Universally speaking (almost everyone from Sub-Saharan bushmen to people in Indonesia), irrespective to religion and cultural upbringing, curse words usually evolve around three things:
1.) your mama
2.) fecal matter
3.) wishing untimely death
Maybe he read too many of our "pound me in the a$$" prison jokes and freaked out?
Did we cause his ultimate demise?
I don't own a Prius, but I like the Prius, and I think the the build quality is superb.
Although based on solely the economic point of view, I would have to disagree with the "no-brainer" part of getting a Prius. I have come up with the following analysis based on my wife's 2005 Corolla. From my calculation, it gets about 30/38 for mileage (about 33 MPG mixed average usually).
So the annual gas savings from driving a Prius (let's say 48.5 MPG mixed average) for 12,000 miles at $4.25/gallon would be about $493 per year.
The Corolla LE (mid-level model) is approximately $8,000-$10,000 less than a Prius - and therefore will take my about 15-20 years to recoup the gas savings.
Certainly, this disregards the higher build quality of the Prius, plus the number of extra features not available on the Corolla. But based strictly on a cost analysis, the Prius just doesn't work very well for the sub-$20,000 car consumer. I'm not doubting your numbers either - but I have a number of friends who have the new Priuses who get no better than 42MPG mixed non-lead-foot driving.
Even if gas went up to $5-$6/gallon, the math still doesn't work out very attractively for the Prius.
As a side issue: wtf is up with Islam and dogs? Jesus friggin' Christ. Any religion that doesn't "allow" a boy to have a dog as a pet is... sick.
When you're living 2000 years ago in the Middle East with no hand sanitizer and refrigeration and such, they're not silly rules - it's advice that can potentially save your life (like not eating pork). But of course their advice is somewhat out of date nowadays, or is it? Dogs are pretty filthy and eat their own feces. I personally sure don't want one running around on my carpet.
Yeah, usually I just explain to people that it's really just God initializing all the objects in the threads. But the OS clock doesn't really start ticking until you kickstart the threads.
But it doesn't seem like they understand it any better after that...
That's the problem. When I interviewed for an design engineer position at Ford, they stuck me in a room with other MBAs and finance PhDs (I was a BSEE) and tested my business acumen. They didn't care about technical expertise, but was more interested in seeing if I can come up with a business case for a product line, or be able to give an impromptu sales pitch to a high exec type. It's sure a useful skill to have, but it must be silly of me to think that you still have to go after the techies to design your products that you're selling.
When I interviewed at Ford about 5 years ago, the man who took me on a tour of the Explorer line commented that their bumpers had a length variation of +/- 3-5%. He said it like it wasn't an issue to be bothered with.
By the way, the Mazda 6 is made by Ford. So is the Mazda Tribute (rebadged Ford Escape). The Japanese made Mazdas (Mazda 3 and Mazda 5, for example) have much higher workmanship than the Ford-made ones.