In the States we have Credit Unions (not sure if you have them in the UK) that operate in a similar fashion. It's the larger commercial banks that are by far the worst practitioners of fees-as-revenue-model. Which naturally makes no sense, since the larger banks presumably have more ATMs (so less out-of-network transactions) and a larger capital base to fill their coffers.
We only put up with it because they put chemicals in our water that make us lazy.
Sure, and the bank charges you out the ass for the convenience. Kinda like ATMs... there's no excuse for $3.00 "convenience" fees when they used to be free! Except for the fact that, well, they can.
for those who don't know, Futura is a totally awesome font that hardly any OS has by default
Yeah, and the reason no OS has it by default is because Linotype charges through the nose for it. The licensing costs are the primary reason Microsoft starting packaging Arial with Windows. Helvetica (also owned by Linotype) was too expensive.
Pacifists, like you, assume the people are inherently good, and left to their own devices they will act as such.
Well, pacifists (like me) assume people are inherently evil, but go one further and assume people are inherently lazy, and will put up with all manner of crap before they finally get up and do something about it.
But, and here's the crucial point, until they've reached that point, you can't force it upon them. Oh you can try, sure. And look at all the good that does.
If the people of Afghanistan were so displeased with their government, it is their responsibility to do something about it, not ours. Stepping in and doing it for them only engenders hostility because we're perceived as invaders.
This used to be how we got shit done in the world. Give them the guns. Give them the training. Give them the tools to do it themselves.
If you wouldn't send it on a postcard, you shouldn't email it unencrypted.
When you send unencrypted mail (let's say by postcard to keep the analogy straight) your postman sees it, your post office sees it, and 10 or 20 other civil servants between you and your destination party can probably see it, too.
I seem to remember a year or two ago there was a call for maintainers of the Xbox port
Funny, I recall a few years before that when the XBMC group were positively adamant that they would never, ever do a Linux port because so much of the code relied on DirectX (MS-only) routines.
I'm extremely grateful they decided to change their position.
BitTyrant does something like this. Essentially it prioritizes connections to peers that have the best response rates.
In essence, uTorrent connects to clients randomly, and makes no attempt to prioritize "nearby" clients.
The problem isn't simply proximity. If, for example, Kazakhstan upgraded their capacity and you really could get better transfer speeds than, say, your neighbor next door, well then they should be prioritized.
Read more carefully. Defamation and libel are not synonyms. Truth has always been an absolute defense against libel. It is not, however, an absolute defense against defamation.
Or will you try to argue that these are not huge enterprise apps?
Uh, I will. Those are not huge enterprise apps. Those are fairly simple websites operating off fairly trivial schemas. You could use PHP to do most of those websites. I don't think you really understand what enterprise means. Enterprise apps run whole businesses.
For the general case in enterprise computing, either JVM or.NET do fine, and it has to do more with making the right choices in integration, architecture and implementation than on the platform itself.
And cost.
That's the big elephant in the corner. J2EE and.NET will accomplish basically the same things, and have basically the same toys to play with. The difference is that Java:
1. Is free 2. Can be deployed anywhere
If you already know you'll be using x86 architecture and don't mind/are already paying the microsoft tax, it makes sense to stick with.NET. But for companies just starting out, trying to make every penny stretch as far as possible, nothing beats Java.
Truth is an absolute defence against being sued for libel in England and Wales.
Just to clarify this statement: truth is an absolute defense against libel, it is not for defamation. Libel is a subset of defamation--thus a defamatory statement can be proved true (which would mean it is not a libel) but still be defamatory.
I was really curious about the chaos that was to ensue once Conficker's creators brought the hammer down.
The most effective pathogens are the ones that keep their host alive as long as possible, because then they have best chances of re-infecting the healthy. BotNets are no different. If you "bring the hammer down," you lose everything.
This is the reason why influenza is a far more dangerous killer than, say, Ebola.
I've been using SSDs for my primary drives for more than a year now. I'm a software developer and the IDE I use does constant, intensive code analysis, and it was crippling my productivity. Switching to SSD has essentially taken I/O out of the performance equation. They are, in a word, incredible.
Yes, they are expensive. But the performance increases are so palpable, so immediately obvious, that I tell people it feels like going from from a Pentium 4 to a Core 2 Duo. You could spend easily over two grand upgrading to the latest & greatest I7 Extreme and not notice as much of a difference in performance as you would moving up from a 7200rpm rotating platter drive to an SLC SSD.
And as for the question of reliability, I have had zero problems with them. None. Of course, they're both Samsungs, not some no-name company that makes printers and decides they're going to try and break into the SSD market on a whim. I've been harping on my manager to switch some of the more overloaded database servers to SSD for temp-table creation optimization. One of these days...
Anyway, that's my two cents. Oh, and make & models of the drives I use at home and at work:
DRIVE #1: SAMSUNG 2.5" 32GB SATA II SLC Model #: MCBQE32G5MPP-0VA00 Purchase Date: 8/11/2008
DRIVE #2: G.SKILL FS-25S2-64GB 2.5" 64GB SATA II SLC Model #: MCC0E64G5MPP (Re-branded Samsung) Purchase Date: 10/7/2008
SYSTEM USAGE: Always-on, 24/7/365 system. SOFTWARE USAGE: Heavy J2EE software development, code inspection & analysis. Heavy application use (photographer in my spare time so plenty of Photoshop) and some Flex development on the side. Home system doubles as media-center hub & personal web server.
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Basically, these things are used constantly, and have yet to fail me.
The immigration dept has really cracked down on H1-B visa holders and is rejecting them by asking them to prove stupid claims.
Well, be reasonable about this.
1. Why does a Senior Software Engineer position require a Computer Science degree!
That's a good question. I know plenty of successful, talented Sr. software engineers that went to school for philosophy, art history, history... many of them never even finished school. The only real reason a Sr. software engineer would require a CS degree is if it were a requirement for the job. Which is circular reasoning: you need a CS degree to be a Sr. SE because a Sr. SE needs a CS degree.
2. Provide all earning statements for the last 3 years and for all states you had income from.
Hate to break it to you, but we citizens have to do this every year.
3. Provide all client contracts that you had in the last 3 years for the full company.
Most likely to prove that you're actually working, and not attempting to bullshit your way to a green card.
4. Provide a detailed job description along with future contracts (for all 3 years) along with locations, contacts of client companies and images of work areas.
Same as above. Although, I find it a little ridiculous that they want to know what your future contracts are for the next three years. I mean, you're not a fortune-teller!
The process is really ridiculous right now and I have started looking at canada, singapore and india.
I mean this with sincere honesty: leave. Not because you're a burden on the system, or because immigrants==suck, or any other racist, xenophobic bullshit excuse a lot of people will give.
No, I'm saying leave because this country is a sinking ship. As an American, I would leave this country in a heartbeat if I knew I could find work in Canada or Europe. You do not want to be here. The people here are some of the most vile, ignorant, hateful people on the planet. Go someplace where you will be appreciated. Go someplace that has health insurance. Go someplace that treats its immigrants with the respect that they deserve.
So pack your bags, sell your car and belongings (or throw them away) and get the fuck out in 10 days.
Yeah, that's some fucking bullshit right there. Like I said... this is an opportunity in disguise. The next twenty years are going to be incredibly rough on the great American "experiment," and I feel the only ones who will be left will be the religious nut-jobs that seem to breed like rabbits.
"Brain Drain" is a generic term. I don't know who suggested it's a U.S.-only phenomenon, but I would posit they're jingoistic, ignorant fools who have never even stepped foot outside their own country. I would further posit that they're American.
The reverse of brain drain is brain gain. What's being talked about here is the opposite. The term for the opposite of the opposite is the same.
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In the States we have Credit Unions (not sure if you have them in the UK) that operate in a similar fashion. It's the larger commercial banks that are by far the worst practitioners of fees-as-revenue-model. Which naturally makes no sense, since the larger banks presumably have more ATMs (so less out-of-network transactions) and a larger capital base to fill their coffers.
We only put up with it because they put chemicals in our water that make us lazy.
I can send money to a private individual easily
Sure, and the bank charges you out the ass for the convenience. Kinda like ATMs... there's no excuse for $3.00 "convenience" fees when they used to be free! Except for the fact that, well, they can.
Because GFCI outlets cost $17
You are paying way, way too much for your outlets.
I mean, like, WAY too much.
But on the other hand you sent over Yahoo Serious and Paul Hogan, which should have been considered a war crime or something.
But they also gave us AC/DC.
And now we've come full-circle.
Don't know why this was modded funny, since that's the actual concern. As for circumvention: just rewrite it using your own language.
--e.g.--
I'm not sure as to why this was modded funny as this is precisely the concern. Circumventing it would be as simple as rewriting it in your own words.
for those who don't know, Futura is a totally awesome font that hardly any OS has by default
Yeah, and the reason no OS has it by default is because Linotype charges through the nose for it. The licensing costs are the primary reason Microsoft starting packaging Arial with Windows. Helvetica (also owned by Linotype) was too expensive.
It's only when we show up and offer protection that they lose support.
You must be living in a different world than I am. Or the Afghans.
Pacifists, like you, assume the people are inherently good, and left to their own devices they will act as such.
Well, pacifists (like me) assume people are inherently evil, but go one further and assume people are inherently lazy, and will put up with all manner of crap before they finally get up and do something about it.
But, and here's the crucial point, until they've reached that point, you can't force it upon them. Oh you can try, sure. And look at all the good that does.
If the people of Afghanistan were so displeased with their government, it is their responsibility to do something about it, not ours. Stepping in and doing it for them only engenders hostility because we're perceived as invaders.
This used to be how we got shit done in the world. Give them the guns. Give them the training. Give them the tools to do it themselves.
If you wouldn't send it on a postcard, you shouldn't email it unencrypted.
When you send unencrypted mail (let's say by postcard to keep the analogy straight) your postman sees it, your post office sees it, and 10 or 20 other civil servants between you and your destination party can probably see it, too.
And yet that's protected.
So... why is email different again?
I seem to remember a year or two ago there was a call for maintainers of the Xbox port
Funny, I recall a few years before that when the XBMC group were positively adamant that they would never, ever do a Linux port because so much of the code relied on DirectX (MS-only) routines.
I'm extremely grateful they decided to change their position.
BitTyrant does something like this. Essentially it prioritizes connections to peers that have the best response rates.
In essence, uTorrent connects to clients randomly, and makes no attempt to prioritize "nearby" clients.
The problem isn't simply proximity. If, for example, Kazakhstan upgraded their capacity and you really could get better transfer speeds than, say, your neighbor next door, well then they should be prioritized.
The one where the court was considering defamation? Yes.
Once again...
Libel and defamation are not the same.
Read more carefully. Defamation and libel are not synonyms. Truth has always been an absolute defense against libel. It is not, however, an absolute defense against defamation.
Or will you try to argue that these are not huge enterprise apps?
Uh, I will. Those are not huge enterprise apps. Those are fairly simple websites operating off fairly trivial schemas. You could use PHP to do most of those websites. I don't think you really understand what enterprise means. Enterprise apps run whole businesses.
For the general case in enterprise computing, either JVM or .NET do fine, and it has to do more with making the right choices in integration, architecture and implementation than on the platform itself.
And cost.
That's the big elephant in the corner. J2EE and .NET will accomplish basically the same things, and have basically the same toys to play with. The difference is that Java:
1. Is free
2. Can be deployed anywhere
If you already know you'll be using x86 architecture and don't mind/are already paying the microsoft tax, it makes sense to stick with .NET. But for companies just starting out, trying to make every penny stretch as far as possible, nothing beats Java.
Wooooosh!
That's the sound of sarcasm as it passes over your head.
Truth is an absolute defence against being sued for libel in England and Wales.
Just to clarify this statement: truth is an absolute defense against libel, it is not for defamation. Libel is a subset of defamation--thus a defamatory statement can be proved true (which would mean it is not a libel) but still be defamatory.
normal people don't want to take their computer apart to install software.
It's four screws and a cable.
It's not like you're de-soldering capacitors and trying to line up surface-mount components with a magnifying lens.
Normal people "take apart" their cars all the time. You know... lift the hood, check the oil. CRAZY stuff.
I was really curious about the chaos that was to ensue once Conficker's creators brought the hammer down.
The most effective pathogens are the ones that keep their host alive as long as possible, because then they have best chances of re-infecting the healthy. BotNets are no different. If you "bring the hammer down," you lose everything.
This is the reason why influenza is a far more dangerous killer than, say, Ebola.
I've been using SSDs for my primary drives for more than a year now. I'm a software developer and the IDE I use does constant, intensive code analysis, and it was crippling my productivity. Switching to SSD has essentially taken I/O out of the performance equation. They are, in a word, incredible.
Yes, they are expensive. But the performance increases are so palpable, so immediately obvious, that I tell people it feels like going from from a Pentium 4 to a Core 2 Duo. You could spend easily over two grand upgrading to the latest & greatest I7 Extreme and not notice as much of a difference in performance as you would moving up from a 7200rpm rotating platter drive to an SLC SSD.
And as for the question of reliability, I have had zero problems with them. None. Of course, they're both Samsungs, not some no-name company that makes printers and decides they're going to try and break into the SSD market on a whim. I've been harping on my manager to switch some of the more overloaded database servers to SSD for temp-table creation optimization. One of these days...
Anyway, that's my two cents. Oh, and make & models of the drives I use at home and at work:
DRIVE #1: SAMSUNG 2.5" 32GB SATA II SLC
Model #: MCBQE32G5MPP-0VA00
Purchase Date: 8/11/2008
DRIVE #2: G.SKILL FS-25S2-64GB 2.5" 64GB SATA II SLC
Model #: MCC0E64G5MPP (Re-branded Samsung)
Purchase Date: 10/7/2008
SYSTEM USAGE: Always-on, 24/7/365 system.
SOFTWARE USAGE: Heavy J2EE software development, code inspection & analysis. Heavy application use (photographer in my spare time so plenty of Photoshop) and some Flex development on the side. Home system doubles as media-center hub & personal web server.
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Basically, these things are used constantly, and have yet to fail me.
emigration of "scientists and technologists" to North America from post-war Europe
And since the article is primarily about Chinese and Indian workers, I guess that means both the term and its "reverse" aren't even applicable.
Was that your point? I must have missed it amongst all the split hairs.
The immigration dept has really cracked down on H1-B visa holders and is rejecting them by asking them to prove stupid claims.
Well, be reasonable about this.
1. Why does a Senior Software Engineer position require a Computer Science degree!
That's a good question. I know plenty of successful, talented Sr. software engineers that went to school for philosophy, art history, history... many of them never even finished school. The only real reason a Sr. software engineer would require a CS degree is if it were a requirement for the job. Which is circular reasoning: you need a CS degree to be a Sr. SE because a Sr. SE needs a CS degree.
2. Provide all earning statements for the last 3 years and for all states you had income from.
Hate to break it to you, but we citizens have to do this every year.
3. Provide all client contracts that you had in the last 3 years for the full company.
Most likely to prove that you're actually working, and not attempting to bullshit your way to a green card.
4. Provide a detailed job description along with future contracts (for all 3 years) along with locations, contacts of client companies and images of work areas.
Same as above. Although, I find it a little ridiculous that they want to know what your future contracts are for the next three years. I mean, you're not a fortune-teller!
The process is really ridiculous right now and I have started looking at canada, singapore and india.
I mean this with sincere honesty: leave. Not because you're a burden on the system, or because immigrants==suck, or any other racist, xenophobic bullshit excuse a lot of people will give.
No, I'm saying leave because this country is a sinking ship. As an American, I would leave this country in a heartbeat if I knew I could find work in Canada or Europe. You do not want to be here. The people here are some of the most vile, ignorant, hateful people on the planet. Go someplace where you will be appreciated. Go someplace that has health insurance. Go someplace that treats its immigrants with the respect that they deserve.
So pack your bags, sell your car and belongings (or throw them away) and get the fuck out in 10 days.
Yeah, that's some fucking bullshit right there. Like I said... this is an opportunity in disguise. The next twenty years are going to be incredibly rough on the great American "experiment," and I feel the only ones who will be left will be the religious nut-jobs that seem to breed like rabbits.
"Brain Drain" is a generic term. I don't know who suggested it's a U.S.-only phenomenon, but I would posit they're jingoistic, ignorant fools who have never even stepped foot outside their own country. I would further posit that they're American.
The reverse of brain drain is brain gain. What's being talked about here is the opposite. The term for the opposite of the opposite is the same.
And it was all planned by Reagan since his youth I guess.
The word both you and the GP are struggling with is détente. And it was no more Reagan's idea than the lightbulb.
much better drivers for 64-bit 7 then XP
Ah, well at least you're honest about your lying.