There need to be more of these "safe tests" to point out to people that they need to be more careful about their email habits. Maybe, eventually, I won't have to worry about family members getting phished and falling victim to identity theft if they're educated this way.
It's entirely possible that those fixes were not made specifically for ACID3, but instead had been targeted for Fx3 a while ago.
I think someone on the Mozilla team has publicly posted that they are not intentionally going after ACID3 fixes for the sake of making ACID3 fixes, in the interest of a stable & sane release.
Seriously - at the risk of sounding like a basher - has Microsoft ever produced a product where they focused on providing better quality than the competition?
Plenty of times. But only until they beat the competition, at which point they get complacent and either don't make improvements, or start turning out crappy "upgrades."
And yet for the past few generations, those that came before you had to go through the exact same thing. This is precisely what the article is talking about with regards to salary. Pay doesn't come with education, it comes with experience.
The portion you're missing here is that relative to salaries, education is far more expensive than it was in our parents' generation. In short, people are graduating from degree programs (Bachelor's or Master's) with more debt than ever before, while starting salaries aren't keeping up. By the time you're done paying for all your loans and necessities, it's getting harder to put gas in the $300 car and keep healthy food stocked in the fridge.
Examples:
A year's tuition, room & board at my alma mater (a private school) is about 40% higher than it was when I was a student there - 9 years ago. That outpaces inflation by a good margin. Have starting salaries for the position I got out of college gone up 40% over that same time period? Somehow I doubt it.
My wife has a Master's degree (for about 4 years now), and her annual salary is half of the outstanding balance on the loan she had to take out to get that degree to get the job (state school for her undergrad work, private for her Master's). And she gets paid better than 75% of people in our area in similar positions. So no, the "well, go somewhere that will pay you more" mantra doesn't hold here - there is nowhere else for her to go to get more money in her field.
Most people born after 1980 are treated like shit in the IT industry. You are taken on for pitiful wages with vague promises of future riches, squeezed for every bit of knowledge you have, then booted out when the project(s) you are working on are finished. So it is hardly surprising that people treated so shabbily don't have a particular commitment to their workplace.
About 10 years ago when I left college and joined the IT industry, many of us were saying the exact same thing, only with a date of about 1975 or so.
Beta 3 was much faster than Safari on my November-issue MacBook. And memory usage was better on top of that. I was impressed enough for Fx Beta 3 to replace Fx2 as my primary browser at work.
Don't ever work for an insurance/financial services company then. Which is basically the same as a commissioned sales force anyway. Those assholes would give up their firstborn and their wives for an extra $10K in commissions.
The guy wouldn't stop talking long enough for me to ask him what benefit either of us would get out of me staying longer.
Besides, whether I left at 15 minutes or stayed the whole time, my afternoon was shot anyway. And after listening to him for 15 minutes, I really couldn't care less if I wasted his time.
I had an interview with someone like that once. He basically wanted me to do a job very similar to what I was doing elsewhere at the time, but take a 40% pay cut in the process. I wasted a whole afternoon (and wasted an hour of his day) because I wouldn't tell him what salary I wanted before he told me what the job was.
We got that part out of the way in the first 10 minutes of the interview because he wouldn't move on till I answered; he spent the next 45 telling me that he wanted someone right out of college, or possibly from overseas (but not interested in sponsoring an H1B visa due to cost), because he didn't want to spend much money.
The ones that jump on you when you update your monster.com profile aren't true headhunters. They're recruiters. They work for "body shops" and their goal is to simple blast resumes and candidates out to every company, hoping to get a bite.
A real headhunter is pickier about your next job than you are. He'll get to know you and your work, and knows the people in influential & informed positions at companies. He'll then work to match that company with the right person.
Apparently you didn't buy DVD when it was new. I paid over $500 for my first DVD player, and I didn't even get a 1st gen player (more like 1.5 gen). And that was in 1997 dollars.... DVD really didn't take off until 3-4 years after it came out, when the players got really cheap.
1997 + 3-4 years = 2000. PS2 came out in October 2000, mass availability in early 2001.
Quick show of hands...how many bought a PS2 not because it was a game console, but because it let them get a console and DVD player in one, for not a lot more than a high-quality DVD player?
PS3/Blu-Ray is going to follow a very similar track, I think.
A quick Google search confirmed that many municipalities do consider them public record (whether they are or not); Sacramento, CA's site is very helpful (I picked one at random), but also protects identifying data like parcel ownership.
I agree. It makes having a party for the game with me, my wife, and 10 of our closest friends, on our 55.9 inch screen (so as to not run afoul of the No Fun League's lawyers) pretty difficult.
I think it's just done on Sunday because Sunday is traditionally pro football day.
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There need to be more of these "safe tests" to point out to people that they need to be more careful about their email habits. Maybe, eventually, I won't have to worry about family members getting phished and falling victim to identity theft if they're educated this way.
It's entirely possible that those fixes were not made specifically for ACID3, but instead had been targeted for Fx3 a while ago.
I think someone on the Mozilla team has publicly posted that they are not intentionally going after ACID3 fixes for the sake of making ACID3 fixes, in the interest of a stable & sane release.
While you're at college/university in the US, you're typically still covered under your parents' health insurance, so they end up paying.
Cries of "Why the hell are you playing GAMES while I'm paying $30K/year for you to be there to get an education?"
Plus the whole helicopter parenting situation.
Examples:
A year's tuition, room & board at my alma mater (a private school) is about 40% higher than it was when I was a student there - 9 years ago. That outpaces inflation by a good margin. Have starting salaries for the position I got out of college gone up 40% over that same time period? Somehow I doubt it.
My wife has a Master's degree (for about 4 years now), and her annual salary is half of the outstanding balance on the loan she had to take out to get that degree to get the job (state school for her undergrad work, private for her Master's). And she gets paid better than 75% of people in our area in similar positions. So no, the "well, go somewhere that will pay you more" mantra doesn't hold here - there is nowhere else for her to go to get more money in her field.
I really wish I could live in the magical land of Theory.
Beta 3 was much faster than Safari on my November-issue MacBook. And memory usage was better on top of that. I was impressed enough for Fx Beta 3 to replace Fx2 as my primary browser at work.
Don't ever work for an insurance/financial services company then. Which is basically the same as a commissioned sales force anyway. Those assholes would give up their firstborn and their wives for an extra $10K in commissions.
The guy wouldn't stop talking long enough for me to ask him what benefit either of us would get out of me staying longer.
Besides, whether I left at 15 minutes or stayed the whole time, my afternoon was shot anyway. And after listening to him for 15 minutes, I really couldn't care less if I wasted his time.
This wasn't a job listing. I met him at a job fair/networking event, gave him my resumé, and he called me a couple weeks later.
I had an interview with someone like that once. He basically wanted me to do a job very similar to what I was doing elsewhere at the time, but take a 40% pay cut in the process. I wasted a whole afternoon (and wasted an hour of his day) because I wouldn't tell him what salary I wanted before he told me what the job was.
We got that part out of the way in the first 10 minutes of the interview because he wouldn't move on till I answered; he spent the next 45 telling me that he wanted someone right out of college, or possibly from overseas (but not interested in sponsoring an H1B visa due to cost), because he didn't want to spend much money.
My wife's 4 year old eMachines laptop has an FW800 port on it, as does my year-old Lenovo R60.
The ones that jump on you when you update your monster.com profile aren't true headhunters. They're recruiters. They work for "body shops" and their goal is to simple blast resumes and candidates out to every company, hoping to get a bite.
A real headhunter is pickier about your next job than you are. He'll get to know you and your work, and knows the people in influential & informed positions at companies. He'll then work to match that company with the right person.
They've been doing it in parts of Upstate NY since December, maybe earlier.
except Europa. I'll not be attempting any landings there.
Quick show of hands...how many bought a PS2 not because it was a game console, but because it let them get a console and DVD player in one, for not a lot more than a high-quality DVD player?
PS3/Blu-Ray is going to follow a very similar track, I think.
Remember, kids. Garbage In, Garbage Out.
The player was protecting people from that steaming pile of crap.
That's exactly what I thought.
A quick Google search confirmed that many municipalities do consider them public record (whether they are or not); Sacramento, CA's site is very helpful (I picked one at random), but also protects identifying data like parcel ownership.
That's what they said SP1 would be!
If you aren't in the country, then Customs should have no jurisdiction either, as agents of the US Gov't.
Except that it would be obvious in the regularity of its orbit and lack of a "tumble.
I agree. It makes having a party for the game with me, my wife, and 10 of our closest friends, on our 55.9 inch screen (so as to not run afoul of the No Fun League's lawyers) pretty difficult.
I think it's just done on Sunday because Sunday is traditionally pro football day.