When I was still in dial-up land (actually, that was no more than 2 weeks ago), I had 2 Linux boxen - one Mandrake and one Gentoo. In terms of internal modems, I've had pretty good luck with the HSP cheapo internal modems. The Intel HAM modems also have Linux drivers (albeit limited to certain kernel revisions). Both of these modems can be had for just a few dollars online.
Or the surefire way is to get an external modem. Connecting to the serial port will surely work with anything - and without drivers of any kind. I have been using my external and it's never let me know. I was able to get one for a little over $10 online.
We use c++ in our project, so the solution to your first problem is pretty simple.
class Foo {
friend class FooTester;... };
That's it. Now you can do whatever you want in your regression testing without molesting your existing code (having to "program more stuff into your program," as you say)
...because most likely a majority of the "400,000 Americans" injured in home construction projects are illegals / migrant workers. My fiancee, who works in a Walgreens, sees Hispanic construction workers coming in all time because they can't go to the hospital in fear of money or deportation or whatever. They would come in with nails in their hands and eyeballs, and would do all they can to try to get back to work as quickly as possible, because they know they can be replaced with other migrants with the snap of a finger.
So while construction conglomerates have a ready supply of migrant workers, there's little incentive to invest in robots to replace them. (Unless you're talking about making manufactured homes or something like that, then robots may make more sense).
Colleges like foreigners not because they bring diversity, but because they get to pay the full international student tuition. $20-30k for a state school, last I hear?
Speaking of parting people with their money - I was quoted a $400 hotel room in Bangalore last week. It was not too long ago that I stayed at the Bellagio for about that much.
US companies are getting their eyes gouged out over there. After the 20-25% labor savings, "little" things here and there make CIOs everywhere scramble to creatively write off these "miscellaneous" offshoring expenses.
From personal experience of working with outsourced call-centres in poorer countries, people there often have a bigger incentive to incentive to remain honest.
And from my personal experience, it is the complete opposite. I don't want to generalize, but this applies to many that I have met working both here and in India - India has a culture of "yes" and positivity, but not in a good way. I get the feeling that it is rude in their culture to say "no" or give any notion of refusal. I suppose it is either a symbol of shame or failure to be a "no" man, as opposed to a "yes" man.
What this all comes down to is that we have had a number of critical tests that "pass", when they should have all failed. They would rather swim through a huge pool of moral ambiguity and lie and say the test passed by faking test results in order to meet their test quotas for the week.
Oh, by the way, we make products that can potentially kill thousands of people if it didn't work correctly. It drives me bonkers to know that some of these people call themselves engineers.
I wrote several of these "monster" tools that you speak of. I work at a conglomerate with international offices, and it turned out all of these tools ended in the hands of users throughout the world. Since I have no time to support the tool for everyone from India to Europe, the users often tweak the source themselves (it's included in the distribution zip). I would often find my networking libraries embedded in other people's tools afterwards. So...open source, but at a local level may work at some companies.
Bone up on the history. Islamic states spawned some of the world's most important scientific research and discovery in the last 1-2 thousand years.
Iran is reputed to have a good education system. Some of our more advanced research doctorates and faculty were from Sharif Institute of Technology (I was in a major CS program in the US).
Very first thing - teach the fundamentals of safe pointers. Then right-clicking should come naturally after that.
Seriously, if it's just basic computer skills, you can very easily write your own. Make it in a tutorial/hands-on style which the locals can use in real-life applications (keeping track of hotel revenues from tourists, etc.)
Japanese auto industry is going to roar back with a vengence and kick the living shit out of us within 10 years. And Korea, and China, and dare i say Europe...
They already have. Toyota has surpassed Ford to be the #2 automaker in the US.
When inkjet ink cost more than Dom Perignon champagne by volume, it pays to put in date-expire logic chips in the cartridges and tell the consumers that "it's for the good of the printer heads not to be exposed to dated ink."
Just remember - inkjet printer ink is more expensive by volume than Dom Perignon champagne. Her successor will not likely be any improvement that you seek.
I grew up in both North Portland (a block from MLK) and Gresham - in a high school with permanent metal detectors (not the portable ones they bring in for prom or whatnot)...so "Hillsburrito" is not at all intimidating, except for the commute there when I interned at Intel:-)
I understand that - that's why I laugh whenever someone tells me that government is inherently less efficient. I've worked extensively in both and can tell you that I'm actually leaning towards the notion that private enterprise can often be more wasteful and inefficient than the public sector.
Beaverton, along with neighboring Hillsboro and Lake Oswego are the uber-snobby suburban bedroom communities of the Portland area. Sort of like Seattle's Bellevue. High school kids are ridiculed there for driving an Acura that's older than 6 years.
this is just saber-rattling to get volume MSFT discounts for state government IT.
Since the state government doesn't have enough funding to hire really good people, it's mostly just temp consultants from degree mills who get their knowledge and advice from PC World and the now defunct Windows magazine. For the longest time, (it might still be there), there's a pallet of at least 50 sets of retail-boxed Intel Pentium Pro Overdrive upgrade kits (still shrink-wrapped) sitting in one of our meeting rooms which were purchased by some tech lead (for $200 when they were retailing for $80) and when P2's were bottoming out in price. In the same year, someone decided to pay a Canadian consultant $5 million to write a simple Access frontend to a database. And that's not all - they had to fly his entire family down and feed, house, and clothe them for an entire month! Granted, at the time it was difficult to find good people because of the dot-com rush, but they could have easily found a pimply-faced high school intern to have done it for $10/hr.
The point is - there are not nearly enough qualified IT people in state government there to utilize open-source solutions.
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When I was still in dial-up land (actually, that was no more than 2 weeks ago), I had 2 Linux boxen - one Mandrake and one Gentoo. In terms of internal modems, I've had pretty good luck with the HSP cheapo internal modems. The Intel HAM modems also have Linux drivers (albeit limited to certain kernel revisions). Both of these modems can be had for just a few dollars online.
Or the surefire way is to get an external modem. Connecting to the serial port will surely work with anything - and without drivers of any kind. I have been using my external and it's never let me know. I was able to get one for a little over $10 online.
We use c++ in our project, so the solution to your first problem is pretty simple.
...
class Foo
{
friend class FooTester;
};
That's it. Now you can do whatever you want in your regression testing without molesting your existing code (having to "program more stuff into your program," as you say)
...because most likely a majority of the "400,000 Americans" injured in home construction projects are illegals / migrant workers. My fiancee, who works in a Walgreens, sees Hispanic construction workers coming in all time because they can't go to the hospital in fear of money or deportation or whatever. They would come in with nails in their hands and eyeballs, and would do all they can to try to get back to work as quickly as possible, because they know they can be replaced with other migrants with the snap of a finger.
So while construction conglomerates have a ready supply of migrant workers, there's little incentive to invest in robots to replace them. (Unless you're talking about making manufactured homes or something like that, then robots may make more sense).
Colleges like foreigners not because they bring diversity, but because they get to pay the full international student tuition. $20-30k for a state school, last I hear?
Speaking of parting people with their money - I was quoted a $400 hotel room in Bangalore last week. It was not too long ago that I stayed at the Bellagio for about that much.
US companies are getting their eyes gouged out over there. After the 20-25% labor savings, "little" things here and there make CIOs everywhere scramble to creatively write off these "miscellaneous" offshoring expenses.
From personal experience of working with outsourced call-centres in poorer countries, people there often have a bigger incentive to incentive to remain honest.
And from my personal experience, it is the complete opposite. I don't want to generalize, but this applies to many that I have met working both here and in India - India has a culture of "yes" and positivity, but not in a good way. I get the feeling that it is rude in their culture to say "no" or give any notion of refusal. I suppose it is either a symbol of shame or failure to be a "no" man, as opposed to a "yes" man. What this all comes down to is that we have had a number of critical tests that "pass", when they should have all failed. They would rather swim through a huge pool of moral ambiguity and lie and say the test passed by faking test results in order to meet their test quotas for the week. Oh, by the way, we make products that can potentially kill thousands of people if it didn't work correctly. It drives me bonkers to know that some of these people call themselves engineers.
Which bastard? This bastard.
I wrote several of these "monster" tools that you speak of. I work at a conglomerate with international offices, and it turned out all of these tools ended in the hands of users throughout the world. Since I have no time to support the tool for everyone from India to Europe, the users often tweak the source themselves (it's included in the distribution zip). I would often find my networking libraries embedded in other people's tools afterwards. So...open source, but at a local level may work at some companies.
Bone up on the history. Islamic states spawned some of the world's most important scientific research and discovery in the last 1-2 thousand years.
Iran is reputed to have a good education system. Some of our more advanced research doctorates and faculty were from Sharif Institute of Technology (I was in a major CS program in the US).
Wow...the average employee at my workplace has been here for 20 years...that's a one-year advance notice!
Very first thing - teach the fundamentals of safe pointers. Then right-clicking should come naturally after that.
Seriously, if it's just basic computer skills, you can very easily write your own. Make it in a tutorial/hands-on style which the locals can use in real-life applications (keeping track of hotel revenues from tourists, etc.)
And if you want to get technical, the last time a war was fought on US soil with a foreign nation was 1812.
When I went to Ford for an interview, I noticed that almost all employees drove Fords. Enough said.
Japanese auto industry is going to roar back with a vengence and kick the living shit out of us within 10 years. And Korea, and China, and dare i say Europe...
They already have. Toyota has surpassed Ford to be the #2 automaker in the US.
When inkjet ink cost more than Dom Perignon champagne by volume, it pays to put in date-expire logic chips in the cartridges and tell the consumers that "it's for the good of the printer heads not to be exposed to dated ink."
Just remember - inkjet printer ink is more expensive by volume than Dom Perignon champagne. Her successor will not likely be any improvement that you seek.
...but if the AC is using the dual-core computer, then it can first pr0st twice as fast!
Tonya Harding
Senator Bob Packwood
Monica Lewinsky (she went to Lewis and Clark College in Oregon)
I grew up in both North Portland (a block from MLK) and Gresham - in a high school with permanent metal detectors (not the portable ones they bring in for prom or whatnot)...so "Hillsburrito" is not at all intimidating, except for the commute there when I interned at Intel :-)
I understand that - that's why I laugh whenever someone tells me that government is inherently less efficient. I've worked extensively in both and can tell you that I'm actually leaning towards the notion that private enterprise can often be more wasteful and inefficient than the public sector.
Team size: ~100
2004 profit (not revenue): $200m
Hours worked per week: 60-70
Bonus: $600 (in gift certificates, not cash)
Beaverton, along with neighboring Hillsboro and Lake Oswego are the uber-snobby suburban bedroom communities of the Portland area. Sort of like Seattle's Bellevue. High school kids are ridiculed there for driving an Acura that's older than 6 years.
this is just saber-rattling to get volume MSFT discounts for state government IT.
Since the state government doesn't have enough funding to hire really good people, it's mostly just temp consultants from degree mills who get their knowledge and advice from PC World and the now defunct Windows magazine. For the longest time, (it might still be there), there's a pallet of at least 50 sets of retail-boxed Intel Pentium Pro Overdrive upgrade kits (still shrink-wrapped) sitting in one of our meeting rooms which were purchased by some tech lead (for $200 when they were retailing for $80) and when P2's were bottoming out in price. In the same year, someone decided to pay a Canadian consultant $5 million to write a simple Access frontend to a database. And that's not all - they had to fly his entire family down and feed, house, and clothe them for an entire month! Granted, at the time it was difficult to find good people because of the dot-com rush, but they could have easily found a pimply-faced high school intern to have done it for $10/hr.
The point is - there are not nearly enough qualified IT people in state government there to utilize open-source solutions.
I find it extremely troubling that somebody modded this informative.
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