Many of the airlines now advertise that the lowest prices you can get will be found on their site. In practice the prices on the airlines site simply match whatever is shown on the travel sites.
I've never found SW to be cheaper. After checking SW for my last few flights and seeing it consistently more expensive I've just given up checking it. It's much easier for me to just check one of the travel sites.
I believe someone pointed out the odds of dying in a terrorist attack while flying were about the same as getting cancer from the new body scan machines. The government has said that the odds of getting cancer are so small that we shouldn't worry about it, so why worry about dying in a terrorist attack?:)
Like most 'lists' the list would become useless even if only 1/4 of country somehow ended up on it. They would have to throw it out and start over or make a new list called the real suspected terrorist list.
You example still doesn't work. One of the primary jobs of the government is to protect a citizens private property. Using your line of thinking, should we also allow theft since the detection and prosecution of also requires a police presence?
If a business owner wants to discriminate then that business owner is relying on the government to protect his private property just like he is now.
How can people be fed up with 'the cloud' when most people don't even know what it is? You really think those MS commercials are enough to make people understand what the cloud does?
Like most techies you're completely focusing on the wrong thing. Most people don't care about clouds, rails, ruby, or any other tool. They care about solved problems. They care about storing their pictures in a way that they can access them from anywhere and never lose them. If it's the cloud and RoR that makes this happen they are happy. If it's duct tape and bubble gum (more likely:) ) they are still happy.
To most people (other than techies) the end result is what matters, and not the tools you use to get there.
I agree with you. I was on FB for about 2 weeks. People I went to HS with came out of the woodwork (along with ex girlfriends - creepy). I didn't get it because if I never really spoke to them then and haven't spoken to them in years why suddenly do they care about what I'm doing now? And, I certainly don't care about what they are doing now.
This is actually a good question. Through 9/11 Bin Laden started a chain of events that caused more impact on the world over the last decade than any other singular person or event.
From my experience of living in 2 different areas of the country, Comcast is second only to fiber in speed. Now, of course my sample size is small, but when I read about the horrors of other cables cos or DSL I'm happy to have Comcast. I think it just shows how crappy the other broadband companies are.
Crazy. My friend lives in Tampa and I almost sure he said he recently bought FiOS. I wonder what made it easier/more cost effective to put in Tampa, but not Orlando?
I agree with you and that there are even more issues with unemployment insurance. Many people don't get another job right away because if they can't find a job paying similar wages as their last job it can lead to making less than what unemployment pays. And, once they take that new job their unemployment insurance rate will reset lower, so if they lose that job they are really screwed.
UI should support you for a very short amount of time if your jobless. Once you get a job UI should be able to cover the potential gap between your old job and new job for a period of time. This would encourage people to get a job and hopefully give them some time to start moving up the salary scale at the new job.
Second, I have also worked in both the public and private sector. My government job had more holidays, better benefits, and paid more per hour (more on this later) while my private sector job has been cutting benefits each year and removing raises/bonuses. In my private job I'm expected to work OT when needed without extra pay. That NEVER happened in my government job. Any extra time put in was automatically comp time even for salaried employees.
I left the public sector because I was so bored. They kept hiring people and spreading out the work to the point where I would have a hard time filling half my day with real work. Waste at its finest.
Megapixels is a horrible way to determine picture quality. Sensor quality and size is much more important over MPs. With that said sensor tech has advanced quite a lot from the D1X times. Try out a D300 sometime and even though it's only a 12.3 MP camera it will blow away your 14MP P&S. If you really want to see what sensor size can do try out a full frame D700 that is only 12.1MP.
I have a great P&S and my old D60 (10.2MP) with a fixed 50mm kills it in every way with picture sharpness and a host of other quality metrics.
iPhone enables enterprises to securely host and wirelessly distribute in-house apps to employees over Wi-Fi and 3G. In-house apps can be hosted on any web server accessible to users. Users simply tap on a URL to install apps wirelessly without needing to connect to their computers.
I read that as enterprises can have their own internal app store for internally developed apps.
[blockquote] Apple locks down the user experience and rejects apps that change it or threaten it in any way, like widgets and alternate browsers etc. [/blockquote]
Just so you are up to date with your FUD, there are a lot of alternate browsers for iOS now. Additionally, not long ago Apple changed their app policy to be much more liberal with the allowed apps. The big example app that everyone used to point to was Google Voice which is now available.
Actually no one is more equal than another. An enterprise or private user can pay the fee and write all the code they want for their own device(s). Only when they want to distribute to the app store do any rules come into play. What enterprise is going to put their apps for internal use on the app store anyway?
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The 9th amendment doesn't need to say anything about planes or spaceships for that matter. The genius of the US constitution is that the founders crafted it in such a way that said the government can and cannot do x,y,z and everything else is an inherent right of being human. There is a large and interesting discussion between the writers about enumerating any rights at all because they were afraid they could be construed as you have done - that they are listed out and finite.
Also, at this point there will NEVER be another plane turned missile. That was a one time chance that Al Queda used effectively, but going forward they will have to kill every single person on the plane to do it again and I just don't see that happening. If you think about it further you'll see that 9/11 nearly put a halt to all plane hijackings. From now on if any hijacking starts to occur there will be a huge fight on the plane whereas before people were taught to go with it and they would eventually be let off.
I think you hit the nail on the head though. Most of the time should not be spent learning Delphi, but learning your particular code base. I know when I hire someone I expect around 6 months before they'll be productive in the main code base because there is just so many interconnections to learn and understand.
In your case I would rather hire a great programmer who doesn't yet know Delphi than a mediocre programmer who already knows Delphi. The great programmer will likely be able to pick up Delphi and be productive with your codebase faster than the mediocre one.
First off, I wouldn't consider the 'best ADA programmer ever' a very good programmer if he had only used ADA his entire career. The first thing a good programmer does is start looking at other tools, ie, languages, that may meet their requirements better than their current tool. Good programmers also look to other languages to help expand their knowledge of their current language.
If you don't have experience in a certain language then go get some. Again, a good programmer should able to pick up a new language pretty quickly. When it comes to interviews most of what I have encounter are algorithm based with very few being API quizzes. A list is alway a list and a sort a sort no matter what language you implement it in.
And sure there is some age discrimination out there, but I have friends in the late 40s-50s who have no problem finding jobs. They actually have companies chasing them because they have a proven track record of delivering quality software that solves problems.
I take the general view that if you keep yourself *good* at whatever language you choose, you will have a job.
I agree with this, but in an even more general sense. If you are a good programmer then you'll always have a job. Language is largely irrelevant once you get into the larger groupings of languages. A good programmer is a good programmer regardless of the current tool they happen to be using at the time.
I am by no means an expert at C++, but I have used it for a couple production projects that needed the speed. Reading your rant has put to words oddities that I have noticed but was never sure if they were real problems or things that I would come to understand with more experience. Thanks!
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Many of the airlines now advertise that the lowest prices you can get will be found on their site. In practice the prices on the airlines site simply match whatever is shown on the travel sites.
I've never found SW to be cheaper. After checking SW for my last few flights and seeing it consistently more expensive I've just given up checking it. It's much easier for me to just check one of the travel sites.
I believe someone pointed out the odds of dying in a terrorist attack while flying were about the same as getting cancer from the new body scan machines. The government has said that the odds of getting cancer are so small that we shouldn't worry about it, so why worry about dying in a terrorist attack? :)
Like most 'lists' the list would become useless even if only 1/4 of country somehow ended up on it. They would have to throw it out and start over or make a new list called the real suspected terrorist list.
IMHO, you're doing the right thing. As soon as you start not trusting the other person then the relationship is on the slide.
You example still doesn't work. One of the primary jobs of the government is to protect a citizens private property. Using your line of thinking, should we also allow theft since the detection and prosecution of also requires a police presence?
If a business owner wants to discriminate then that business owner is relying on the government to protect his private property just like he is now.
How can people be fed up with 'the cloud' when most people don't even know what it is? You really think those MS commercials are enough to make people understand what the cloud does?
Like most techies you're completely focusing on the wrong thing. Most people don't care about clouds, rails, ruby, or any other tool. They care about solved problems. They care about storing their pictures in a way that they can access them from anywhere and never lose them. If it's the cloud and RoR that makes this happen they are happy. If it's duct tape and bubble gum (more likely :) ) they are still happy.
To most people (other than techies) the end result is what matters, and not the tools you use to get there.
I agree with you. I was on FB for about 2 weeks. People I went to HS with came out of the woodwork (along with ex girlfriends - creepy). I didn't get it because if I never really spoke to them then and haven't spoken to them in years why suddenly do they care about what I'm doing now? And, I certainly don't care about what they are doing now.
This is actually a good question. Through 9/11 Bin Laden started a chain of events that caused more impact on the world over the last decade than any other singular person or event.
From my experience of living in 2 different areas of the country, Comcast is second only to fiber in speed. Now, of course my sample size is small, but when I read about the horrors of other cables cos or DSL I'm happy to have Comcast. I think it just shows how crappy the other broadband companies are.
Crazy. My friend lives in Tampa and I almost sure he said he recently bought FiOS. I wonder what made it easier/more cost effective to put in Tampa, but not Orlando?
Dunno, I live near a big city and just checked my internet (I'm wireless to my router so that may limit my speed a bit).
21.17 Mb/s down
3.65 Mb/s up
That's with 2 computers both VPNed into work plus whatever other network services I run.
I agree with you and that there are even more issues with unemployment insurance. Many people don't get another job right away because if they can't find a job paying similar wages as their last job it can lead to making less than what unemployment pays. And, once they take that new job their unemployment insurance rate will reset lower, so if they lose that job they are really screwed.
UI should support you for a very short amount of time if your jobless. Once you get a job UI should be able to cover the potential gap between your old job and new job for a period of time. This would encourage people to get a job and hopefully give them some time to start moving up the salary scale at the new job.
A common tax is a 'dine in' tax. When going to a fast food restaurant always say it's to go, even if you plan to sit and eat it there.
First, government jobs have grown during the recession:
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/government-jobs-have-grown-during-recession
Second, I have also worked in both the public and private sector. My government job had more holidays, better benefits, and paid more per hour (more on this later) while my private sector job has been cutting benefits each year and removing raises/bonuses. In my private job I'm expected to work OT when needed without extra pay. That NEVER happened in my government job. Any extra time put in was automatically comp time even for salaried employees.
I left the public sector because I was so bored. They kept hiring people and spreading out the work to the point where I would have a hard time filling half my day with real work. Waste at its finest.
Megapixels is a horrible way to determine picture quality. Sensor quality and size is much more important over MPs. With that said sensor tech has advanced quite a lot from the D1X times. Try out a D300 sometime and even though it's only a 12.3 MP camera it will blow away your 14MP P&S. If you really want to see what sensor size can do try out a full frame D700 that is only 12.1MP.
I have a great P&S and my old D60 (10.2MP) with a fixed 50mm kills it in every way with picture sharpness and a host of other quality metrics.
From Apples website on Enterprise Apps:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/integration/
I read that as enterprises can have their own internal app store for internally developed apps.
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Apple locks down the user experience and rejects apps that change it or threaten it in any way, like widgets and alternate browsers etc.
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Just so you are up to date with your FUD, there are a lot of alternate browsers for iOS now. Additionally, not long ago Apple changed their app policy to be much more liberal with the allowed apps. The big example app that everyone used to point to was Google Voice which is now available.
Actually no one is more equal than another. An enterprise or private user can pay the fee and write all the code they want for their own device(s). Only when they want to distribute to the app store do any rules come into play. What enterprise is going to put their apps for internal use on the app store anyway?
The 9th amendment doesn't need to say anything about planes or spaceships for that matter. The genius of the US constitution is that the founders crafted it in such a way that said the government can and cannot do x,y,z and everything else is an inherent right of being human. There is a large and interesting discussion between the writers about enumerating any rights at all because they were afraid they could be construed as you have done - that they are listed out and finite.
Also, at this point there will NEVER be another plane turned missile. That was a one time chance that Al Queda used effectively, but going forward they will have to kill every single person on the plane to do it again and I just don't see that happening. If you think about it further you'll see that 9/11 nearly put a halt to all plane hijackings. From now on if any hijacking starts to occur there will be a huge fight on the plane whereas before people were taught to go with it and they would eventually be let off.
I did Turbo Pascal way back in the day :)
I think you hit the nail on the head though. Most of the time should not be spent learning Delphi, but learning your particular code base. I know when I hire someone I expect around 6 months before they'll be productive in the main code base because there is just so many interconnections to learn and understand.
In your case I would rather hire a great programmer who doesn't yet know Delphi than a mediocre programmer who already knows Delphi. The great programmer will likely be able to pick up Delphi and be productive with your codebase faster than the mediocre one.
First off, I wouldn't consider the 'best ADA programmer ever' a very good programmer if he had only used ADA his entire career. The first thing a good programmer does is start looking at other tools, ie, languages, that may meet their requirements better than their current tool. Good programmers also look to other languages to help expand their knowledge of their current language.
If you don't have experience in a certain language then go get some. Again, a good programmer should able to pick up a new language pretty quickly. When it comes to interviews most of what I have encounter are algorithm based with very few being API quizzes. A list is alway a list and a sort a sort no matter what language you implement it in.
And sure there is some age discrimination out there, but I have friends in the late 40s-50s who have no problem finding jobs. They actually have companies chasing them because they have a proven track record of delivering quality software that solves problems.
I take the general view that if you keep yourself *good* at whatever language you choose, you will have a job.
I agree with this, but in an even more general sense. If you are a good programmer then you'll always have a job. Language is largely irrelevant once you get into the larger groupings of languages. A good programmer is a good programmer regardless of the current tool they happen to be using at the time.
There are more and more jobs available for skilled .NET coders.
I would add if you want pure job marketability then .net + sharepoint is probably the most bang for you buck right now.
I am by no means an expert at C++, but I have used it for a couple production projects that needed the speed. Reading your rant has put to words oddities that I have noticed but was never sure if they were real problems or things that I would come to understand with more experience. Thanks!