I love it when I get calls / emails from these guys to interview for a job currently offered by my own team! Don't these people take 2 seconds to read my resume?
Even if not, I have my own anecdotal evidence to counter yours, a friend whose fiance cheated on him and got pregnant; he found out and yet she still managed to convince him to go through with the wedding.
So when does he inherit her father's massive corporate holdings? We want the details.
Why don't they concentrate their efforts on something more worthwhile - such as making their cars suck less?
Seriously, I've known at least 3 people who bought them (against my advice) who all unloaded their problem-prone cars within a year to some other poor soul. (Just for the sake of not picking strictly on Jaguar, BMWs suck quite a bit sometimes too. I have a friend that I pick up from the BMW dealer's service dept at least once every 2 months or so).
Before any Jaguar fanbois flame on, there's certainly a reason why the resale value of a Jaguar plummets to 21% of its original retail price after only 5 years of ownership.
About 10 years ago, I witnessed Bill and his wife in their Lexus sedan (nothing fancy, it was the Camry-derived ES300) at the Burlington factory outlet mall (about 40 miles north of Seattle). They were trying to cram a dorm-sized mini-fridge into their back seat.
You mean these people are not loading more debt (Oh my bad..."leveraging Other People's Money") onto their JC Penney's card to do their patriotic duty of financing a new plasma big screen at 27% interest? It's is every American's duty to conform to the purchase requirement of their individual Urban Pacification Device, tuned to the channels provided by Comcast Corporation.
There are many migrant laborers from the Phillippines who work as domestic help in various parts of East Asia (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, etc.) A good portion of them are highly educated, but either cannot find jobs back home or they end up making more babysitting and cleaning house in a foreign country than doing computer work back home.
My aunt, who lives in Hong Kong, hires a full-time Filipino maid to clean house and take care of the kids. She has a MS in Computer Engineering from the Philippines. She said she could just work 10-15 years as a housemaid and have enough to go back home and retire happily. This is a rather common occurence, from what I gathered.
AMD and Intel manufactures in Malaysia for a lot of their product line.
The last 5 DVDs I bought were foreign films from Asia, with plans to remake them in the U.S. underway.
Look closely at food labels next time. Even things like garlic at the supermarket is now made in China. Apparently, it's cheaper to grow them in China and ship them on a container thousands of miles.
It's a cultural thing. Japan (as well as much of first-world Asia) frowns upon buying anything second-hand (there's no concept of a thrift store in much of Asia). This causes phenomenons like "gray-market Yamaha pianos" - used Yamahas which nobody would buy Japan due to the fact that they're used - nevermind that a good percentage of them are good, solid instruments that were probably just lightly used by a family - which are lapped up happily by North American consumers.
But on the other hand, Japanese seem to be very eager to buy second-hand female garments...
Over 200 American companies were operating in South Africa during the embargo (Coca-Cola and IBM among them). So it was probably some other factor(s) which precipitated the end of Apartheid.
Interesting - haven't heard the hair care products theory before.
Another theory I've heard is that because of the high rate of single parenting in the U.S., girls in single-parent households are more likely to be exposed to males who are not related by blood. Apparently, this exposure to males not related by blood increases the rate of puberty. Not sure how much BS this is, but nonetheless it's interesting.
Um. This is not interesting. This is garbage nonsense, and your college friend is utterly retarded, to put it mildly.
Anybody who was in Beijing during that time would have known about protests and tanks. Now I could understand if they did not know the exact number of deaths/arrest or that sort of thing. But "never seen tanks" just doesn't fly.
But then I have talked to Japanese teens (who should be in their mid-20's now) who thought Japan won World War II. So there.
Well, technically speaking, if you're a small government conservative, but disagree with social cons and neocons, it sorts of makes you a "classical liberal." But I hear that's what some libertarians call themselves nowadays.
Actually, in terms of copyright protection, it is well-known (at least in the videophile community) that Spielberg takes quite a bit of personal initiative when it comes to digital rights media / copyright protection. Back when DVD was an emerging format, he has made many well-publicized statements about how he feared that the digitization of his movies on such a convenient format would result in skyrocketing piracy, and therefore withheld publication of his movie library on DVD for almost 2 years after every other movie studio has dived headfirst into the DVD pool. Search some years back on DVD newsgroups, and you'll see many references to "$pielberg" and inevitably many inevitable counter-arguments that follow seeping into cries of anti-Semitism.
most Chinese were better off sixty years ago under the KMT
You're obviously repeating what your parents told you (or some other person who lived in that era) - and I'm not saying they're completely exaggerating or lying, but things are certainly much, much better than when the KMT were in power (and if you think the KMT gives people more freedom and is not corrupt like the Communists, you're out of your mind or you don't know a thing about history). Go visit and take a look for yourself. In my mind, a bigger concern is the environmental armageddon (I suppose you can call it one already) from the laissez-faire factory production sprint race that is going on in China nowadays. Their state health care will surely collapse when half of the 30-year-olds in the country come down with lung cancer.
Consider the Newsweek article (the one with Georgie in a bubble on the cover) that I read while waiting for my haircut. I must have counted at least 10 instances in that article (about 3-5 pages long?) where a quote was followed by "said a senior administration official / confidant / military official, who did not want to reveal his/her name out of fear of reprisal from the administration." Seems to me free speech is alive and well - just not in the White House where it matters quite a bit.
When you're writing software for an air traffic control system, military avionics software, or an authentication system for the NSA, the delivered code can't afford to have bugs
I've been in this industry for quite some time and let me be the first to say that I wish I could repeat this sentence with a straight face.
I'm not familiar with the usage of RTJ, but how does the implementation get around GC in a real-time system? What guarantees are there for adequate heap space given that, in theory, it is possible that GC would not gain enough priority to ever run in the system?
The two speak different languages, eat different foods, and have somewhat different cultures
It's even more complex than that. Many towns would speak mutually unintelligible dialects, even if they're only 15-20 miles away from each other. Did you know that there are several million natives in Guangdong province that does not speak a word of Cantonese?
What most Westerners think is the "Chinese" language and culture is actually that of the southern Chinese particularly from the Guangdong region of China. The Chinese written language is what unites all the people in China.
This is mostly due to the fact that almost all early migrants from China to the West were from southern Chinese provinces (Guangdong, Fujian, etc.) In most Chinatowns in the West, all of the older people will speak their native Southern (mostly Cantonese-derived) dialect. It has been this way for the last 150-200 years. Of course, this will change as more immigrants from mainland China and Taiwan migrate to the West.
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I love it when I get calls / emails from these guys to interview for a job currently offered by my own team! Don't these people take 2 seconds to read my resume?
From the CIA World Factbook:
US:
Life Expectancy: 75.02 yrs (male) 80.02 yrs (female)
Infant Mortality: 6.43 per 1000 births
Canada:
Life Expectancy: 76.86 yrs (male) 83.74 yrs (female)
Infant Mortality: 4.69 per 1000 births
Damn that inefficient noneffective socialized health care!
"I thought Christmush only comesh onesh a yeaar." Oh wait. That's the wrong James Bond.
Most likely, they just couldn't keep their network up long enough to transfer the terabytes of data to the NSA...
Well, it's a good idea. Except that complaining to "John Anderson" from Hyderabad is not going to mean much...
Even if not, I have my own anecdotal evidence to counter yours, a friend whose fiance cheated on him and got pregnant; he found out and yet she still managed to convince him to go through with the wedding.
So when does he inherit her father's massive corporate holdings? We want the details.
From my anonymous "sources", you can strip a car like a Camry or Accord (MSRP $17k-$30k), sell it piece by piece on Ebay and get about $90k in return.
Why don't they concentrate their efforts on something more worthwhile - such as making their cars suck less?
Seriously, I've known at least 3 people who bought them (against my advice) who all unloaded their problem-prone cars within a year to some other poor soul. (Just for the sake of not picking strictly on Jaguar, BMWs suck quite a bit sometimes too. I have a friend that I pick up from the BMW dealer's service dept at least once every 2 months or so).
Before any Jaguar fanbois flame on, there's certainly a reason why the resale value of a Jaguar plummets to 21% of its original retail price after only 5 years of ownership.
Well look at that..."Ann Coulter" gives $250 to Kerry and "William O'Reilly" gives $25,000 to the DNC.
About 10 years ago, I witnessed Bill and his wife in their Lexus sedan (nothing fancy, it was the Camry-derived ES300) at the Burlington factory outlet mall (about 40 miles north of Seattle). They were trying to cram a dorm-sized mini-fridge into their back seat.
You mean these people are not loading more debt (Oh my bad..."leveraging Other People's Money") onto their JC Penney's card to do their patriotic duty of financing a new plasma big screen at 27% interest? It's is every American's duty to conform to the purchase requirement of their individual Urban Pacification Device, tuned to the channels provided by Comcast Corporation.
It costs a lot of money to get a PhD...
There are many migrant laborers from the Phillippines who work as domestic help in various parts of East Asia (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, etc.) A good portion of them are highly educated, but either cannot find jobs back home or they end up making more babysitting and cleaning house in a foreign country than doing computer work back home.
My aunt, who lives in Hong Kong, hires a full-time Filipino maid to clean house and take care of the kids. She has a MS in Computer Engineering from the Philippines. She said she could just work 10-15 years as a housemaid and have enough to go back home and retire happily. This is a rather common occurence, from what I gathered.
AMD and Intel manufactures in Malaysia for a lot of their product line.
The last 5 DVDs I bought were foreign films from Asia, with plans to remake them in the U.S. underway.
Look closely at food labels next time. Even things like garlic at the supermarket is now made in China. Apparently, it's cheaper to grow them in China and ship them on a container thousands of miles.
It's a cultural thing. Japan (as well as much of first-world Asia) frowns upon buying anything second-hand (there's no concept of a thrift store in much of Asia). This causes phenomenons like "gray-market Yamaha pianos" - used Yamahas which nobody would buy Japan due to the fact that they're used - nevermind that a good percentage of them are good, solid instruments that were probably just lightly used by a family - which are lapped up happily by North American consumers.
But on the other hand, Japanese seem to be very eager to buy second-hand female garments...
Over 200 American companies were operating in South Africa during the embargo (Coca-Cola and IBM among them). So it was probably some other factor(s) which precipitated the end of Apartheid.
Interesting - haven't heard the hair care products theory before.
Another theory I've heard is that because of the high rate of single parenting in the U.S., girls in single-parent households are more likely to be exposed to males who are not related by blood. Apparently, this exposure to males not related by blood increases the rate of puberty. Not sure how much BS this is, but nonetheless it's interesting.
Um. This is not interesting. This is garbage nonsense, and your college friend is utterly retarded, to put it mildly.
Anybody who was in Beijing during that time would have known about protests and tanks. Now I could understand if they did not know the exact number of deaths/arrest or that sort of thing. But "never seen tanks" just doesn't fly.
But then I have talked to Japanese teens (who should be in their mid-20's now) who thought Japan won World War II. So there.
Well, technically speaking, if you're a small government conservative, but disagree with social cons and neocons, it sorts of makes you a "classical liberal." But I hear that's what some libertarians call themselves nowadays.
Actually, in terms of copyright protection, it is well-known (at least in the videophile community) that Spielberg takes quite a bit of personal initiative when it comes to digital rights media / copyright protection. Back when DVD was an emerging format, he has made many well-publicized statements about how he feared that the digitization of his movies on such a convenient format would result in skyrocketing piracy, and therefore withheld publication of his movie library on DVD for almost 2 years after every other movie studio has dived headfirst into the DVD pool. Search some years back on DVD newsgroups, and you'll see many references to "$pielberg" and inevitably many inevitable counter-arguments that follow seeping into cries of anti-Semitism.
most Chinese were better off sixty years ago under the KMT
You're obviously repeating what your parents told you (or some other person who lived in that era) - and I'm not saying they're completely exaggerating or lying, but things are certainly much, much better than when the KMT were in power (and if you think the KMT gives people more freedom and is not corrupt like the Communists, you're out of your mind or you don't know a thing about history). Go visit and take a look for yourself. In my mind, a bigger concern is the environmental armageddon (I suppose you can call it one already) from the laissez-faire factory production sprint race that is going on in China nowadays. Their state health care will surely collapse when half of the 30-year-olds in the country come down with lung cancer.
Consider the Newsweek article (the one with Georgie in a bubble on the cover) that I read while waiting for my haircut. I must have counted at least 10 instances in that article (about 3-5 pages long?) where a quote was followed by "said a senior administration official / confidant / military official, who did not want to reveal his/her name out of fear of reprisal from the administration." Seems to me free speech is alive and well - just not in the White House where it matters quite a bit.
When you're writing software for an air traffic control system, military avionics software, or an authentication system for the NSA, the delivered code can't afford to have bugs
I've been in this industry for quite some time and let me be the first to say that I wish I could repeat this sentence with a straight face.
I'm not familiar with the usage of RTJ, but how does the implementation get around GC in a real-time system? What guarantees are there for adequate heap space given that, in theory, it is possible that GC would not gain enough priority to ever run in the system?
Ha...forgot about Vancouver. I should know since I go there quite a bit. Please excuse my Muriken-ness.
The two speak different languages, eat different foods, and have somewhat different cultures
It's even more complex than that. Many towns would speak mutually unintelligible dialects, even if they're only 15-20 miles away from each other. Did you know that there are several million natives in Guangdong province that does not speak a word of Cantonese?
What most Westerners think is the "Chinese" language and culture is actually that of the southern Chinese particularly from the Guangdong region of China. The Chinese written language is what unites all the people in China.
This is mostly due to the fact that almost all early migrants from China to the West were from southern Chinese provinces (Guangdong, Fujian, etc.) In most Chinatowns in the West, all of the older people will speak their native Southern (mostly Cantonese-derived) dialect. It has been this way for the last 150-200 years. Of course, this will change as more immigrants from mainland China and Taiwan migrate to the West.