It's currently a 3-year backlog before you can get the 1-coder-per-office ratio. They're frantically buying up office space to catch up to personnel expansion.
I've had to in France and the UK. Not so in Spain, but the guards started raising their automatic rifles at me when I walked to the wrong part of the airport looking for my wife.
When I grew up in Portland, OR, they used to ship books and CDs to your house free of charge. I don't know if they still do that. I'm guessing they probably place a surcharge on that service now.
First they would have to fix the potholes on the roads. When I was in Bangalore, there were numerous holes in the middle of a wide boulevard. You can't use the word "potholes" because these holes can easily swallow a Honda Civic. Plus, they're usually marked and blocked off by only one single traffic cone. So if Bangalore, being a world class tech city, was like this - I can only imagine the less-endowed cities throughout India. You see a lot less of this in China. Not even the third-tier cities away from the coastline.
You can set your workers on auto - either to work on the surrounding city, work on any city, or work on connecting your cities.
They've made some adjustments balancing towards more peaceful-oriented means of winning the game. I've taken over an entire continent just with my culture expansion alone. But I feel that it still leans toward the pro-war side in terms of final scoring.
Japan, as well as many other industrialized nations, will face a dire shortage of workers as their population ages rapidly amidst a very low birthrate. While North America, and to some extent, Europe, have paths laid out to take care of this problem partially with immigration, Japan is not at all immigrant-friendly. Immigration to Japan is very difficult. Crime is universally blamed on ethnic Koreans and Chinese, despite the fact that they commit less than 1% of all crimes in Japan. Other than Korea, Japan is probably one of the more racially homogeneous societies in the world.
What this means is that the Japanese would very eagerly pour their resources into creating robots which can man factory floors, clean houses, and cook food. Expect lots of jaw-dropping innovation in robotics from Japan in the coming decade, simply due to pure demand.
jiyuu-shikan.org is a well-known Japanese history revisionist website. No better than Holocaust deniers.
The best evidence they could come up with for the baby picture was "the photographer laughed" and "the guy carrying some baby walked towards the rail tracks".
Basically as a government employee your only job is to not rock the boat too hard. Take your 2 hr lunch breaks, leave early on fridays, take expensive training classes, attend one useless meeting after another, and take 4 years to do what a bright 16 yr old could do over a weekend.
And this is different from a private sector job?
I've worked in both public and private sector long enough to know that there is negligible difference in productivity or waste between the two.
During my time at the Dept of Transportation, the roads budget tripled for the same maintenance projects year-to-year after switching to private contractors.
Sure - John Woo blows up stuff sometimes, but aside from squibs he doesn't really spend too much money. Doves are only a couple hundred for several dozen.
There's a large concentration of Indians (people from India) in the Redmond area (because of high-tech). It's always amusing to go to the mall when the native tribal council puts on a cultural display (music, arts, etc.) and watch the ensuing confusion from the passersby.
If you look at people from Central Asia (Persia, Kazakhstan, etc.), they resembled Europeans much more than East Asians. I'm sure some of the migration from Asia stemmed from Central Asia.
...is a frickin marketing genius. He/she's convinced telecom customers to actually pay money to use much, much less of the bandwidth that they're already paying for.
I just came back from Switzerland a month or so ago, and they just had their elections. One of the major parties competing campaigned on a poster where three white sheep kicked a black sheep off the Swiss flag. Another poster featured a dark-skinned hand reaching for a basket of Swiss passports.
And I think I heard that this party won the election too.
Clean out the closet and basement. Microsoft, Dell and Intechra are offering free computer recycling from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Safeco Field's Safeco Parking Plaza at Edgar Martinez Way near Occidental Avenue South. To mark America Recycles Day, the collections event will accept any make or model of computers and related equipment, including computers, monitors, printers, scanners, keyboards, mice and laptops. Gaming consoles and mobile entertainment devices also will be accepted. Electronic items not accepted include televisions, stereo equipment, cellphones and appliances.
Participants are asked to remove all data from their computer's hard drive and any removable media such as disks, PC cards, flash drives and CD-ROM's. Drop-off is free, and all equipment will be refurbished or recycled. The first 500 participants will receive free energy-saving, compact fluorescent light bulbs.
I think you've a bit too much trust in engineering and manufacturing done in the US.
At a job interview at Ford, I learned that they didn't seem to think it was a big deal if the bumper was within 5% variance in length. WTF???? I wonder what tolerance they had for other parts of the car.
Working as an engineer at an aerospace outfit on a military contract, they decided to release firmware on a plane fighting in Iraq today with 200+ known fatal errors. Decision to delay release was overridden on the basis of cost and time.
So there's really no way to tell the quality of a product without having other people try them out first.
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It's currently a 3-year backlog before you can get the 1-coder-per-office ratio. They're frantically buying up office space to catch up to personnel expansion.
Your reasoning would also apply to all immigrants, not just the illegal ones.
And it consumed very little fuel - around 40 gpm, I think.
Oh, come on. Even the Hummer gets somewhere around 3 gallons per mile!
Not quite. My gently-used 2005 Corolla with 48,000 miles in excellent condition still gets a private party value of nearly $13,000 on the Blue Book.
I've had to in France and the UK. Not so in Spain, but the guards started raising their automatic rifles at me when I walked to the wrong part of the airport looking for my wife.
When I grew up in Portland, OR, they used to ship books and CDs to your house free of charge. I don't know if they still do that. I'm guessing they probably place a surcharge on that service now.
First they would have to fix the potholes on the roads. When I was in Bangalore, there were numerous holes in the middle of a wide boulevard. You can't use the word "potholes" because these holes can easily swallow a Honda Civic. Plus, they're usually marked and blocked off by only one single traffic cone. So if Bangalore, being a world class tech city, was like this - I can only imagine the less-endowed cities throughout India. You see a lot less of this in China. Not even the third-tier cities away from the coastline.
Some Civ 4 observations I made while playing it:
You can set your workers on auto - either to work on the surrounding city, work on any city, or work on connecting your cities.
They've made some adjustments balancing towards more peaceful-oriented means of winning the game. I've taken over an entire continent just with my culture expansion alone. But I feel that it still leans toward the pro-war side in terms of final scoring.
Japan, as well as many other industrialized nations, will face a dire shortage of workers as their population ages rapidly amidst a very low birthrate. While North America, and to some extent, Europe, have paths laid out to take care of this problem partially with immigration, Japan is not at all immigrant-friendly. Immigration to Japan is very difficult. Crime is universally blamed on ethnic Koreans and Chinese, despite the fact that they commit less than 1% of all crimes in Japan. Other than Korea, Japan is probably one of the more racially homogeneous societies in the world.
What this means is that the Japanese would very eagerly pour their resources into creating robots which can man factory floors, clean houses, and cook food. Expect lots of jaw-dropping innovation in robotics from Japan in the coming decade, simply due to pure demand.
jiyuu-shikan.org is a well-known Japanese history revisionist website. No better than Holocaust deniers.
The best evidence they could come up with for the baby picture was "the photographer laughed" and "the guy carrying some baby walked towards the rail tracks".
Basically as a government employee your only job is to not rock the boat too hard. Take your 2 hr lunch breaks, leave early on fridays, take expensive training classes, attend one useless meeting after another, and take 4 years to do what a bright 16 yr old could do over a weekend.
And this is different from a private sector job?
I've worked in both public and private sector long enough to know that there is negligible difference in productivity or waste between the two.
During my time at the Dept of Transportation, the roads budget tripled for the same maintenance projects year-to-year after switching to private contractors.
And all the sucky programmers go to work for government contracts that pay more in one year than one can earn in a typical private company job.
Sad, but true.
Oops. Tens. Not hundreds of kilometers.
Seattle geography only allows light rail to be only viable rail solution. Can't do subway. Can't do monorail.
I think mostly you need a city government that doesn't have to deal with pesky voters, right of way, or eminent domain - like Beijing.
They're literally finished with hundreds of kilometers of subway in just 4-5 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Subway#Lines_planned_or_under_construction.
Sure - John Woo blows up stuff sometimes, but aside from squibs he doesn't really spend too much money. Doves are only a couple hundred for several dozen.
There's a large concentration of Indians (people from India) in the Redmond area (because of high-tech). It's always amusing to go to the mall when the native tribal council puts on a cultural display (music, arts, etc.) and watch the ensuing confusion from the passersby.
If you look at people from Central Asia (Persia, Kazakhstan, etc.), they resembled Europeans much more than East Asians. I'm sure some of the migration from Asia stemmed from Central Asia.
...is a frickin marketing genius. He/she's convinced telecom customers to actually pay money to use much, much less of the bandwidth that they're already paying for.
Places that appear "friendly" are often not.
I just came back from Switzerland a month or so ago, and they just had their elections. One of the major parties competing campaigned on a poster where three white sheep kicked a black sheep off the Swiss flag. Another poster featured a dark-skinned hand reaching for a basket of Swiss passports.
And I think I heard that this party won the election too.
And don't you just love how they dubbed over the black woman's voice with a more "Euro" sounding voice?
NeverSingleSaurus.
For those living near Seattle, Microsoft and Dell are taking back old PCs, monitors, printers, keyboards, mice, laptops, etc. this Saturday at Safeco Field.
Clean out the closet and basement. Microsoft, Dell and Intechra are offering free computer recycling from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Safeco Field's Safeco Parking Plaza at Edgar Martinez Way near Occidental Avenue South. To mark America Recycles Day, the collections event will accept any make or model of computers and related equipment, including computers, monitors, printers, scanners, keyboards, mice and laptops. Gaming consoles and mobile entertainment devices also will be accepted. Electronic items not accepted include televisions, stereo equipment, cellphones and appliances.
Participants are asked to remove all data from their computer's hard drive and any removable media such as disks, PC cards, flash drives and CD-ROM's. Drop-off is free, and all equipment will be refurbished or recycled. The first 500 participants will receive free energy-saving, compact fluorescent light bulbs.
"I'm going to a company that starts with a G and ends of oogle".
"I'm going to a secret company whose initials are H and P".
That'll teach em.
I think you've a bit too much trust in engineering and manufacturing done in the US.
At a job interview at Ford, I learned that they didn't seem to think it was a big deal if the bumper was within 5% variance in length. WTF???? I wonder what tolerance they had for other parts of the car.
Working as an engineer at an aerospace outfit on a military contract, they decided to release firmware on a plane fighting in Iraq today with 200+ known fatal errors. Decision to delay release was overridden on the basis of cost and time.
So there's really no way to tell the quality of a product without having other people try them out first.
I think the new Wendy's commercials just topped that.