I'm going to another site. As a european Im used to american-centric viewpoints etc. And ofcourse I could understand the 9/11 post. But there were 3 people killed in one measly attack. I live in a very small country but there are more people killed in traffic each day then by the Boston attack. Every week there are much bigger terrorist attacks going on in the world. Could you please stick to nerdy stuff?
There are probably more that 3 people killed in Boston alone on a typical day in traffic. There were about 30 killed shortly after the Marathon incident in a single Bagdhad bombing. What makes this particular incident a big deal is the same thing that made 9/11 a big deal.
America is the "safe" place. For much of its history, it was the Destination of Refuge, where corruption rests lightly, wars are something that happen in Some Other Country, and terror incidents likewise. The original inhabitants might not totally agree, but all in all, in the USA you were supposed to be immune to the troubles of the more unstable parts of the world.
Incidents like this, therefore, have more effect simply because they're so unthinkable. Not only for those of us who live here, but for anyone who ever thought of the USA as a refuge, albeit a refuge full of overweight arrogant gun-toting cowboy wannabes.
In the last decade or so, we have sacrificed a lot of our traditional ideals to the God Terror. Today was a day to pay it back. To prove that we don't need to give up more freedom to be what we are supposed to be. We didn't win this fight by bringing in the armies or permanently suspending our legal processes. We did it using our domestic law enforcement resources in co-operation with our citizens.
This is what the noise is all about. We have proven that we can take injury, even though we're "supposed" to be immune to it, and that we can deal with terrorists as the criminals they are and not some sort of supernatural boogie men. Under the law.
Tomorrow we'll be back to arguing whether Windows 8 is the Second Coming of Windows Me, whether the latest solar-cell breakthrough is anything that will mean anything before the sun goes cold and even the latest legal developments with Google in Europe. But while the web is international, slashdot isn't, and today is a pretty big day for the USA. So the best advice I can give you is that if you don't want to hear about it, skip to the next topic. Or another site. But finding a place infested by non-US nerds isn't that easy.
Maybe I am not current and entirely out of line, but with all the locking-down and searching-of-houses happening: what happened to the constitutional rights re: search and seizure? Suspending them for an entire town and effectively rendering it into a war zone with suspended rights to apprehend one guy how killed two people seems a little... ah... third world?
Apparently, the search wasn't all that invasive, nothing is reported seized that wasn't evidence related to the bombers, and it had basically come down to a choice between business as usual versus taking down a 2-man army loaded for bear.
I have more indignation on the subject of personal rights than most people seem to, but there's a big difference between a manhunt for people who are armed, dangerous, and already known to have killed and an "innocent people have nothing to hide, but you look kind of shifty to me" renunciation of due process. It was a war, with specific Rules of Engagement, and unlike the War on Terror, it had a definite duration and now it's over and the normal legal limitations apply again. At least until our geniuses in Congress use this as an excuse to strip away some more of those limitations.
An image on the TV news of the boat in the backyard looks like a Google Street View image.
It's Bing. Google's camera shots didn't line up with the driveway.
Bing has also been used for the aerial views, since their photos are winter and the foliage of Google's summer view obscures part of the property details.
My mistake, I actually meant to type 'houseboat', which is what a news site said it was. Glad it's over, though.
Definitely NOT a houseboat. Just a fairly small motorboat on a trailer in a driveway.
The mainstream press may sneer at the crowdsourced sleuthing, but I can name several well-known news sources who were pretty bad about getting their facts straight before reporting them. Some of them allegedly respectable, even.
Unfortunately for your argument this darkskin person they sanctioned in fact had several bombs in their vehicle which they threw at police vehicles.
A lie can run round the world before the truth can get its boots on. Unfortunately, for your argument.
The "darkskin", as you like to put it - the one whose picture appeared in Rupert Murdoch's newspaper - is the innocent one. People rushed to judgement.
The guys who were throwing bombs and firing off guns right and left were pasty-pale people.
Tek, LSI, ADDS, and similar terminals aren't IBM terminals, by definition.
Back when Sabre was new, the IBM mainframe spoke strictly to IBM terminals - either the 3270 series or their predecessors (2660). I spent quite a few years working in that world. As befitted a mainframe, they transmitted data in blocks, not per-character like their ASCII cousins. They didn't have validation as such, just the ability to lock out non-numeric input to numeric fields and stuff like that. Definitely no GUI widgets except what you could draw with "ASCII Art" (technically, it was EBCDIC Art).
Attaching a non-327x terminal to an IBM mainframe back then was not trivial. The 3277 terminals were practically hollow shells, with what little actual intelligence they had emanating from the 327x control unit, which is what actually talked to the mainframe itself.
Sabre is so old that for all I can recall it originally debuted on 2660 terminals. But I don't think it supported anything more powerful than a 3279 up until PCs started taking over as terminals.
The US military has killed and injured indiscriminately far more people than Muslim terrorists have. Right through history, from the genocide of the native Americans, through unnecessary nuclear bombings of Japan as a demonstration to Russia, to the invasion of Iraq.
Armies do that. The difference is that unlike terrorists, they usually make their intentions plain beforehand. And they don't do it out of personal beliefs, they do it because they were ordered to to it.
Hey how come you forgot to mention these are Chechen Bagger NRA loving bible thumpers huh?
"Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a shootout"
That is not known, it is quite possible he died of bast from his suicide vest at the hospital or on the way, It is believed his last words were "I love the NRA, hold by beer and watch this!"
Fuckwads.
He was apparently shot full of more holes than a Swiss cheese, run over by an SUV, and detonated a suicide device. It may take a while to figure out what actually killed him.
Yes and giving you the chance to hit an innocent bystander or an on duty officer. I definitely don't want to get shot by some person who thinks he's a hero.
There are so many officers crawling around Watertown and its environs that Friendly Fire is a major concern, even though many of them belong to units that have been trained to work in co-ordination. I don't think they'd be too happy to have a loose cannon in the mix as well. Not when the bombers have already shown themselves to be full-on rabid, throwing explosives, apparently wired up with vests, firing all over the place. I mean the one guy apparently ran over his own brother.
And definitely, facing him down man-to-man OK Corral-style isn't a clever thing to attempt. The cops wouldn't. They've had enough trouble barricaded and firing in teams.
Good luck with that. What with basically every government agency spending their entire budget surplus on ammo...
You might want to check that on snopes.com.
Although I admit it makes for a dramatic story if only it were true. Life isn't fair. The stories that should be true, the ones that sound truthy, don't turn out that way.
Yes, but God WANTS them to be true, so we should just believe them anyway. RIght?
Because it already applies. Medical expenses are tax-deductible once they exceed a percentage of your income. And have been for a long, long time.
Health-care premiums don't apply, and that's the biggest health related expense for most people. Since the employer portion of insurance premiums is deductible, it makes it that much harder to get your own insurance.
The IRS (Tax Topic 502) seems to disagree:
Medical care expenses include the insurance premiums you paid for policies that cover medical care or for a qualified long-term care insurance policy covering qualified long-term care services. If you are an employee, medical expenses do not include that portion of your premiums treated as paid by your employer under its sponsored group accident or health policy or qualified long-term care insurance policy.
This would be consistent with other expenses that are often, but not always covered by employers.
The important answer is: whatever the government says it is worth.
Steve Forbes is an idiot, and he simply does not understand how money functions in an advanced economy. His idealized vision has NEVER existed.
Money is the primary projection of sovereign power. When a country collapses, so too does its currency. A sovereign is only as powerful as his ability to force people to use state currency, which is usually done through taxes. This is why tax collection was so important in ancient times - it literally was the only way cohesion of large empires was maintained.
Within a generation of the Roman Empire collapsing, and hence the tax man no longer being a problem, people stopped using currency and reverted to barter. In the 19th century, the British engaged in all sorts of social engineering to get Africans to work for money. It's really a counterintuitive thing that exists only due to outside coercion.
There is zero evidence that the Economics lie of efficiency every occurred.
Actually money is worth whatever everyone says it's worth. The government can distort that value by printing or retiring money, but if the majority of people say a dollar is worth "X", then it's worth "X".
And historically, one of the primary reasons for collecting taxes was to pay the army. Because if you didn't have an army, you'd get invaded by some entrepreneurial group that did (Huns, Vandals, neighbors). And if you did and you didn't pay them, three guesses what came next.
The "salary" of the Roman Legionnaire was more likely to be coinage to buy salt than actual salt. It's more portable and more fungible.
The reason for the development of coinage - and later more abstract forms of specie - was that while barter is a more direct representation of value, it's a whole lot easier to keep pennies in one's pocket than pigs. But you can't eat pennies. And unless the government has set price controls on pigs, the number of pennies required to buy a pig was an acceptance between buyer and seller on the value of the pennies versus the value of the pig. The reason one would revert to barter post-collapse is that the treasury that was backing the coinage has almost certainly been plundered and the coins themselves would typically have been debased.
But Steve Forbes is an idiot, he runs the wannabe-rich person's version of "People" magazine complete with circle-jerk ideology and I suspect that the only reason a lot of actually wealthy people receive it is that they're sent copies gratis just so Forbes can claim them as "readers". Most of the people who actually qualify for their list-of-the-month are probably too busy doing what it is that got them on the list to waste time reading it. Except maybe Larry Ellison, who needs to see if he's managed to get richer than Bill Gates yet.
Their investment advice is always good for laughs, though.
On the plus side, programs back then didn't have to deal with 16 different UI controls (menu, popup menu, toolbar, command keys, etc) so the source code base was much smaller.
But IBM terminals do support things like menus, toolbars, command keys, text input fields, and the like.
I'm not sure what IBM terminals you are talking about, but I'm referring to "green screen" terminals. Their idea of a menu/toolbar/commandkey UI was to have a row down at the bottom of the screen that said "F1 Help F3 END F7 FORWARD F8 BACK".
You call it consumption. The companies that produce it call it "Income". In theory, they pay taxes on it and so offset some of the costs, and employ people who in turn pay taxes (and incidentally also consume things), which also offset some of the costs. And the suppliers get paid and the effect - albeit diluted - trickles down from there.
I ask you this; if the state was truly interested in increasing access to healthcare why didn't they simply and immediately cease collecting income taxes on that portion of income spent on healthcare related expenses? A simple thing to do, immediate and across the board impact directly to the people (which was what they said they wanted to do). Anyone care to guess why they didn't do this?
Yes that's rhetorical.
Because it already applies. Medical expenses are tax-deductible once they exceed a percentage of your income. And have been for a long, long time.
However, that doesn't help people whose incomes are limited because injury or chronic illness limits their abilities to earn, since you cannot pay for medical care with what you didn't have to begin with. And because people who are close to poverty to begin with have more important things to spend their limited resources on than maintenance medicine, even when it means that they will eventually incur higher expenses due to lack of preventative treatments.
As to why Obamacare doesn't do anything more useful, ask the people who originally designed it and now want to repeal it.
I agree it is user error, but I feel very strongly that this is the fault of Excel, not the user. My job is effectively being a professional spreadsheet driver and you eventually learn to become rigid about range checking, row counting, balancing totals, etc, because the structure of Excel makes these errors inevitable.
Ironically, this exact same behavior is why interpreted languages are the darlings of web design these days.
No getting slowed down having to satisfy rigid rules imposed at compile time, just pure productivity.
When I read the title, I expected a calculation or rounding issue, or an internal range issue from built in components and not "dumb ass user didn't set the range correctly when averaging". That's not an Excel error, that's a user error - Excel did exactly what it was told to do.
If "Xen host" means "dom0", there are a whole string of OS releases in the Red Hat family that cannot run a dom0. They keep saying that the "next" Fedora release will be able to host a dom0, but they've been saying that since about Fedora 8, I think.
For those of us who are currently looking would you care to share where these positions are posted?
The big issue I've noticed is that getting past HR is impossible because they are looking for key words to filter based on. You could literally replace them with a computer and get better results.
If you think they haven't, then I have news for you.
What's why they insist on machine-readable documents.
I've gathered that language specific crap has gotten popular, judging from the number of "Java developer" or "C# developer" ads I see. It's ridiculous. No programmer worth his salt should have any trouble learning a new language. Pardon the old fart story, but I actually go back to a time before C was the programmer's lingua franca. I'd just learned the language, and was involved in hiring about a half dozen people for a new project that was going to use it. Not a one of our new hires knew it, and we really didn't care. Everybody came up to speed quickly, and it didn't impede the project at all.
It has never been true that a good programmer only needs to know just the programming language. Well, almost never, but the shop I know of that kept their programmers at that level did so by providing a very unnatural environment, and relied a lot on turnover. Even in the dinosaur era, you not only needed to know programming languages, you needed to know how to work with JCL, the linkage editor, various crochety utility programs and the like.
In Java, you have probably thousands of classes in the extended library set that goes into an industrial-grade web application. UI frameworks, ORMs, web services frameworks, messaging systems, etc., etc., etc. The Java language is pretty easy to learn, but to work effectively, you need to know much more than the language. I provide support for one of the popular Java web frameworks that was specifically designed to make the programmer's job simpler and easier and it's truly horrible what some of the work samples that people who are new to the platform have tried to do before they came for help.
Actually, since the fiction is that H1-Bs are only for jobs that domestic talent cannot fill, the Law of Supply and Demand would imply that you shouldn't get an H1-B salary "on par" with native employees, it should be better.
While the outsourcing companies are certainly big abusers of H1-B, some of the larger local companies in my town abuse them as well. Actually, they do several other things designed to keep natives cowed and desperate as well. Helps drag down the "median wage" that the H1-Bs should be paid.
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I'm going to another site. As a european Im used to american-centric viewpoints etc. And ofcourse I could understand the 9/11 post. But there were 3 people killed in one measly attack. I live in a very small country but there are more people killed in traffic each day then by the Boston attack. Every week there are much bigger terrorist attacks going on in the world. Could you please stick to nerdy stuff?
There are probably more that 3 people killed in Boston alone on a typical day in traffic. There were about 30 killed shortly after the Marathon incident in a single Bagdhad bombing. What makes this particular incident a big deal is the same thing that made 9/11 a big deal.
America is the "safe" place. For much of its history, it was the Destination of Refuge, where corruption rests lightly, wars are something that happen in Some Other Country, and terror incidents likewise. The original inhabitants might not totally agree, but all in all, in the USA you were supposed to be immune to the troubles of the more unstable parts of the world.
Incidents like this, therefore, have more effect simply because they're so unthinkable. Not only for those of us who live here, but for anyone who ever thought of the USA as a refuge, albeit a refuge full of overweight arrogant gun-toting cowboy wannabes.
In the last decade or so, we have sacrificed a lot of our traditional ideals to the God Terror. Today was a day to pay it back. To prove that we don't need to give up more freedom to be what we are supposed to be. We didn't win this fight by bringing in the armies or permanently suspending our legal processes. We did it using our domestic law enforcement resources in co-operation with our citizens.
This is what the noise is all about. We have proven that we can take injury, even though we're "supposed" to be immune to it, and that we can deal with terrorists as the criminals they are and not some sort of supernatural boogie men. Under the law.
Tomorrow we'll be back to arguing whether Windows 8 is the Second Coming of Windows Me, whether the latest solar-cell breakthrough is anything that will mean anything before the sun goes cold and even the latest legal developments with Google in Europe. But while the web is international, slashdot isn't, and today is a pretty big day for the USA. So the best advice I can give you is that if you don't want to hear about it, skip to the next topic. Or another site. But finding a place infested by non-US nerds isn't that easy.
Maybe I am not current and entirely out of line, but with all the locking-down and searching-of-houses happening: what happened to the constitutional rights re: search and seizure? Suspending them for an entire town and effectively rendering it into a war zone with suspended rights to apprehend one guy how killed two people seems a little... ah... third world?
Apparently, the search wasn't all that invasive, nothing is reported seized that wasn't evidence related to the bombers, and it had basically come down to a choice between business as usual versus taking down a 2-man army loaded for bear.
I have more indignation on the subject of personal rights than most people seem to, but there's a big difference between a manhunt for people who are armed, dangerous, and already known to have killed and an "innocent people have nothing to hide, but you look kind of shifty to me" renunciation of due process. It was a war, with specific Rules of Engagement, and unlike the War on Terror, it had a definite duration and now it's over and the normal legal limitations apply again. At least until our geniuses in Congress use this as an excuse to strip away some more of those limitations.
An image on the TV news of the boat in the backyard looks like a Google Street View image.
It's Bing. Google's camera shots didn't line up with the driveway.
Bing has also been used for the aerial views, since their photos are winter and the foliage of Google's summer view obscures part of the property details.
My mistake, I actually meant to type 'houseboat', which is what a news site said it was. Glad it's over, though.
Definitely NOT a houseboat. Just a fairly small motorboat on a trailer in a driveway.
The mainstream press may sneer at the crowdsourced sleuthing, but I can name several well-known news sources who were pretty bad about getting their facts straight before reporting them. Some of them allegedly respectable, even.
Unfortunately for your argument this darkskin person they sanctioned in fact had several bombs in their vehicle which they threw at police vehicles.
A lie can run round the world before the truth can get its boots on. Unfortunately, for your argument.
The "darkskin", as you like to put it - the one whose picture appeared in Rupert Murdoch's newspaper - is the innocent one. People rushed to judgement.
The guys who were throwing bombs and firing off guns right and left were pasty-pale people.
Tek, LSI, ADDS, and similar terminals aren't IBM terminals, by definition.
Back when Sabre was new, the IBM mainframe spoke strictly to IBM terminals - either the 3270 series or their predecessors (2660). I spent quite a few years working in that world. As befitted a mainframe, they transmitted data in blocks, not per-character like their ASCII cousins. They didn't have validation as such, just the ability to lock out non-numeric input to numeric fields and stuff like that. Definitely no GUI widgets except what you could draw with "ASCII Art" (technically, it was EBCDIC Art).
Attaching a non-327x terminal to an IBM mainframe back then was not trivial. The 3277 terminals were practically hollow shells, with what little actual intelligence they had emanating from the 327x control unit, which is what actually talked to the mainframe itself.
Sabre is so old that for all I can recall it originally debuted on 2660 terminals. But I don't think it supported anything more powerful than a 3279 up until PCs started taking over as terminals.
The US military has killed and injured indiscriminately far more people than Muslim terrorists have. Right through history, from the genocide of the native Americans, through unnecessary nuclear bombings of Japan as a demonstration to Russia, to the invasion of Iraq.
Armies do that. The difference is that unlike terrorists, they usually make their intentions plain beforehand. And they don't do it out of personal beliefs, they do it because they were ordered to to it.
Hey how come you forgot to mention these are Chechen Bagger NRA loving bible thumpers huh?
"Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a shootout"
That is not known, it is quite possible he died of bast from his suicide vest at the hospital or on the way, It is believed his last words were "I love the NRA, hold by beer and watch this!"
Fuckwads.
He was apparently shot full of more holes than a Swiss cheese, run over by an SUV, and detonated a suicide device. It may take a while to figure out what actually killed him.
Yes and giving you the chance to hit an innocent bystander or an on duty officer. I definitely don't want to get shot by some person who thinks he's a hero.
There are so many officers crawling around Watertown and its environs that Friendly Fire is a major concern, even though many of them belong to units that have been trained to work in co-ordination. I don't think they'd be too happy to have a loose cannon in the mix as well. Not when the bombers have already shown themselves to be full-on rabid, throwing explosives, apparently wired up with vests, firing all over the place. I mean the one guy apparently ran over his own brother.
And definitely, facing him down man-to-man OK Corral-style isn't a clever thing to attempt. The cops wouldn't. They've had enough trouble barricaded and firing in teams.
You might want to check that on snopes.com.
Although I admit it makes for a dramatic story if only it were true. Life isn't fair. The stories that should be true, the ones that sound truthy, don't turn out that way.
Yes, but God WANTS them to be true, so we should just believe them anyway. RIght?
A population in a small town in the middle ages where no one travels across the country to live, will have a high risk of incest.
That's why fairs were such a big thing. People travelled to them and one of the prime reasons was to have a choice from a wider geographical area.
Of course, another reason was that life back on the farm/small town was boring as all get-out.
I second that one! Especially since I can pay cash anonymously and not end up on a "list" somewhere.
Look over there! See that camera? Heh, heh, heh.
Cracked.com is a perfect example of how to move from a print publication to an online model.
Actually, Cracked was a meh, me-too imitation of MAD as a print publication. They got MUCH better in their online incarnation.
Because it already applies. Medical expenses are tax-deductible once they exceed a percentage of your income. And have been for a long, long time.
Health-care premiums don't apply, and that's the biggest health related expense for most people. Since the employer portion of insurance premiums is deductible, it makes it that much harder to get your own insurance.
The IRS (Tax Topic 502) seems to disagree:
Medical care expenses include the insurance premiums you paid for policies that cover medical care or for a qualified long-term care insurance policy covering qualified long-term care services. If you are an employee, medical expenses do not include that portion of your premiums treated as paid by your employer under its sponsored group accident or health policy or qualified long-term care insurance policy.
This would be consistent with other expenses that are often, but not always covered by employers.
so in the cloud there is no smtp? no imap? no http? ... do you expect things magically turn into cloud transfer protocol or what?
You've pretty much summed up the understanding of every PHB who was ever sold on a cloud solution.
The important answer is: whatever the government says it is worth.
Steve Forbes is an idiot, and he simply does not understand how money functions in an advanced economy. His idealized vision has NEVER existed.
Money is the primary projection of sovereign power. When a country collapses, so too does its currency. A sovereign is only as powerful as his ability to force people to use state currency, which is usually done through taxes. This is why tax collection was so important in ancient times - it literally was the only way cohesion of large empires was maintained.
Within a generation of the Roman Empire collapsing, and hence the tax man no longer being a problem, people stopped using currency and reverted to barter. In the 19th century, the British engaged in all sorts of social engineering to get Africans to work for money. It's really a counterintuitive thing that exists only due to outside coercion.
There is zero evidence that the Economics lie of efficiency every occurred.
Actually money is worth whatever everyone says it's worth. The government can distort that value by printing or retiring money, but if the majority of people say a dollar is worth "X", then it's worth "X".
And historically, one of the primary reasons for collecting taxes was to pay the army. Because if you didn't have an army, you'd get invaded by some entrepreneurial group that did (Huns, Vandals, neighbors). And if you did and you didn't pay them, three guesses what came next.
The "salary" of the Roman Legionnaire was more likely to be coinage to buy salt than actual salt. It's more portable and more fungible.
The reason for the development of coinage - and later more abstract forms of specie - was that while barter is a more direct representation of value, it's a whole lot easier to keep pennies in one's pocket than pigs. But you can't eat pennies. And unless the government has set price controls on pigs, the number of pennies required to buy a pig was an acceptance between buyer and seller on the value of the pennies versus the value of the pig. The reason one would revert to barter post-collapse is that the treasury that was backing the coinage has almost certainly been plundered and the coins themselves would typically have been debased.
But Steve Forbes is an idiot, he runs the wannabe-rich person's version of "People" magazine complete with circle-jerk ideology and I suspect that the only reason a lot of actually wealthy people receive it is that they're sent copies gratis just so Forbes can claim them as "readers". Most of the people who actually qualify for their list-of-the-month are probably too busy doing what it is that got them on the list to waste time reading it. Except maybe Larry Ellison, who needs to see if he's managed to get richer than Bill Gates yet.
Their investment advice is always good for laughs, though.
On the plus side, programs back then didn't have to deal with 16 different UI controls (menu, popup menu, toolbar, command keys, etc) so the source code base was much smaller.
But IBM terminals do support things like menus, toolbars, command keys, text input fields, and the like.
I'm not sure what IBM terminals you are talking about, but I'm referring to "green screen" terminals. Their idea of a menu/toolbar/commandkey UI was to have a row down at the bottom of the screen that said "F1 Help F3 END F7 FORWARD F8 BACK".
You call it consumption. The companies that produce it call it "Income". In theory, they pay taxes on it and so offset some of the costs, and employ people who in turn pay taxes (and incidentally also consume things), which also offset some of the costs. And the suppliers get paid and the effect - albeit diluted - trickles down from there.
I ask you this; if the state was truly interested in increasing access to healthcare why didn't they simply and immediately cease collecting income taxes on that portion of income spent on healthcare related expenses? A simple thing to do, immediate and across the board impact directly to the people (which was what they said they wanted to do). Anyone care to guess why they didn't do this?
Yes that's rhetorical.
Because it already applies. Medical expenses are tax-deductible once they exceed a percentage of your income. And have been for a long, long time.
However, that doesn't help people whose incomes are limited because injury or chronic illness limits their abilities to earn, since you cannot pay for medical care with what you didn't have to begin with. And because people who are close to poverty to begin with have more important things to spend their limited resources on than maintenance medicine, even when it means that they will eventually incur higher expenses due to lack of preventative treatments.
As to why Obamacare doesn't do anything more useful, ask the people who originally designed it and now want to repeal it.
I agree it is user error, but I feel very strongly that this is the fault of Excel, not the user. My job is effectively being a professional spreadsheet driver and you eventually learn to become rigid about range checking, row counting, balancing totals, etc, because the structure of Excel makes these errors inevitable.
Ironically, this exact same behavior is why interpreted languages are the darlings of web design these days.
No getting slowed down having to satisfy rigid rules imposed at compile time, just pure productivity.
When I read the title, I expected a calculation or rounding issue, or an internal range issue from built in components and not "dumb ass user didn't set the range correctly when averaging". That's not an Excel error, that's a user error - Excel did exactly what it was told to do.
GIGO. Garbage In, Gospel Out.
If "Xen host" means "dom0", there are a whole string of OS releases in the Red Hat family that cannot run a dom0. They keep saying that the "next" Fedora release will be able to host a dom0, but they've been saying that since about Fedora 8, I think.
Thammoud,
For those of us who are currently looking would you care to share where these positions are posted?
The big issue I've noticed is that getting past HR is impossible because they are looking for key words to filter based on. You could literally replace them with a computer and get better results.
If you think they haven't, then I have news for you.
What's why they insist on machine-readable documents.
I've gathered that language specific crap has gotten popular, judging from the number of "Java developer" or "C# developer" ads I see. It's ridiculous. No programmer worth his salt should have any trouble learning a new language. Pardon the old fart story, but I actually go back to a time before C was the programmer's lingua franca. I'd just learned the language, and was involved in hiring about a half dozen people for a new project that was going to use it. Not a one of our new hires knew it, and we really didn't care. Everybody came up to speed quickly, and it didn't impede the project at all.
It has never been true that a good programmer only needs to know just the programming language. Well, almost never, but the shop I know of that kept their programmers at that level did so by providing a very unnatural environment, and relied a lot on turnover. Even in the dinosaur era, you not only needed to know programming languages, you needed to know how to work with JCL, the linkage editor, various crochety utility programs and the like.
In Java, you have probably thousands of classes in the extended library set that goes into an industrial-grade web application. UI frameworks, ORMs, web services frameworks, messaging systems, etc., etc., etc. The Java language is pretty easy to learn, but to work effectively, you need to know much more than the language. I provide support for one of the popular Java web frameworks that was specifically designed to make the programmer's job simpler and easier and it's truly horrible what some of the work samples that people who are new to the platform have tried to do before they came for help.
Actually, since the fiction is that H1-Bs are only for jobs that domestic talent cannot fill, the Law of Supply and Demand would imply that you shouldn't get an H1-B salary "on par" with native employees, it should be better.
While the outsourcing companies are certainly big abusers of H1-B, some of the larger local companies in my town abuse them as well. Actually, they do several other things designed to keep natives cowed and desperate as well. Helps drag down the "median wage" that the H1-Bs should be paid.