Agree completely - I've sat in all sorts of office situations - shared a "private" office with other developers, individual cubes with high walls, low walls, etc. The best arrangement is the bullpen - 4 developers with their backs to one another but a circular table in between them. Its a great balance between privacy and being able to collaborate when they want to.
Looks like I'm switching to Chrome or Safari for Windows.
What the hell iz Mozilla thinking? The ribbon is a good idea? It was invented by the same folks who gave us BOB and Clippy, for Christ sake.
I'm not resistant to change. But I am resistant to crap. If Mozilla wants to trash the existing menus and start over with a UI paradigm that actually works, I'm all for it. But to replace it with *THIS*??? WHY????
IMHO, Office 2007 was such a gigantic leap backwards in terms of its UI, that any "progress" towards "increased usability" this time out I fear will be in the wrong direction.
So are you willing to give up your job and your ability to feed yourself and your family so that more Indians can feed their family? If not, you've got no business saying that.
Nielsen is in the business of gathering and selling information. You know, the "I" in "IT". And they have a very large IT division. So I have to respectfully disagree with you when you say that "They don't do techy things, make techy things or relate to tech at all."
I was at Citigroup when Habib brought in Tata for a 2nd time. Initially, he brought them in for the credit card division. He was then promoted to CIO of North America and by then it was obvious to everyone that after what happened at GE and in our credit card division that there existed a quid pro quo arrangement between Habib and Tata. So there was no suprise when Tata was awarded the contract for all of North America, even though there was a 'competition' with at least 5 Indian outsourcing companies. I've got no idea if Habib thought that this move was really in the best interests of our company, I only know that he promptly left Citi for Nielsen right smack in the middle of all the resulting layoffs that he initiated. And anyone paying attention knew at the time that Tata and Nielsen would soon be working together, and every IT worker at Nielsen needed to get their resumes polished up in a big hurry.
Yes, there was an interceptor version of the SR-71 - it was built as a prototype (the YF-12) and would have been the F-12 had it gone to production. It was designed to carry I believe four AIM-47 Falcon missles. The Pheonix missle shared roughly the same shape as the Falcon but they were otherwise unrelated.
Yes, it was enough. The chemical was used to ignite the afterburners as well (even once the engine was running) and the plane was designed to inject the chemical into the afterburners each time the throttles were advanced from dry thrust to AB. So the chemical was necessary both for restarts and igniting the AB, and there were even counters in the cockpit that would estimate how many restarts / AB lightings were left in each checmical tank (there were two, one for each engine).
They needed a fuel with a very high flashpoint because the fuel itself was actually circulated while in flight and used to cool the airframe. At the temperatures reached at mach 3, regular fuel would explode before it reached the temperatures that JP7 in the SR-71 reached even before entering the engines.
This is true. JP7 could have a lighted match dropped on it and it would extinguish the match. They had to use a special chemical to ignite the engines. They'd also use the chemical to ignite the afterburners - when the trottles were moved from dry thrust to afterburner the chemical would automatically be injected into the afterburner. They carried enough of the chemical to do so about 20 times.
No, but to have even the slightest chance of hitting the SR-71, most SAM's (especially those around at the time when the SR first entered service) would have had to been launched well before the plane would have even been detected. Yes, a SAM could reach Mach 3+ and 80,000 feet, but if they didn't lead the target enough, no way to hit a plane flying that profile.
Thank you for mentioning this! While I did like some aspects of Sci-Fi's adaptation, the stillsuits were a joke. And the actors who played the Fremen looked nothing like rough, desert hardened, water deprived people as Herbert described them. Still, the lady who played Channi made up for it:)
My other beef with Sci-Fi's version is that all of a sudden Irulan is showing up everywhere. I guess I can forgive them for it in the sense that she is a major figure in Dune Messiah, and if they planed for the possibility of bringing that book and Children of Dune to the screen then it might not be fair to the audience if Irulan suddenly showed up as a major character, but still...
Having said all that, I thought Sci-Fi's "Children of Dune" was quite good, better than their "Dune", but it only spent 2 of its 6 hours on Dune Messiah which, IMHO, was the stronger of the two books.
I am really sick of the Obama bandwagoners who are going around the internet insinuating that we're all supposed to give up our right to vote for whom we want to vote for, even if they aren't necessarily popular or have the best chance of winning. And its sad to see that creeping its way on to/. now too. What is the point of this article? Since there is supposedly only one guy watchng over Hillary's page, we can conclude that she's in political trouble and we shouldn't vote for her? WTF?
Hell, I am going to head over there right now and volunteer to help this guy out if it will shut up the author of this article and people like him.
The RIAA might as well be trying to sell fresh air right now. Sure there's lots of demand for their product, but (right or wrong) the availability of music for free via P2P completely undercuts them.
The RIAA's only prayer for long term survival is to cease all music sales on CD and move immediately to a new format that includes some form of DRM which for their sake had best be very, very difficult to bypass. That, and they have to start putting out a good product again instead of cookie cutter hits. If they do these two things, then eventually demand for the new music that cannot be easily pirated might just recreate a desire to purchase their products. Otherwise, they will wither and die away.
Well, obviously I don't *know* the NSA's capabilities with any certainty, but I can assume / deduce a few things with a fair degree of certainty:
a) its almost certainly a problem that the NSA has focused on a great deal b) it is widely believed that the NSA is the world's single largest employer of math PhD's c) it is also widely believed that the NSA has more computing power at its disposal than just about any other organization d) who knows what sorts of back doors may be built into PGP at the government's behest?
So to me, it seems safe to say that at the very least, if anyone can break PGP (assuming that they don't already have a back door) it would be the NSA. That's not to say they have, but to me it seems that they can either break them outright or brute force attack them relatively quickly.
I know its bad to paraphrase from Star Wars, but the power of your PGP key is insignifigant next to the power of the NSA. Really. Do you really believe the gov. can't break PGP encryption in a few minutes these days? If not faster?
For all intents and purposes, Time is right. I wouldn't go so far as to say nobody cares, but I will say this: nobody cares enough. Considering what's been done, there should be, at a minimum, mass protests in the streets of every city, every town, and every villiage. Yet by and large there has been little or no public outcry over what's been done. Maybe 44% of the people think the government is very secrative, but what percentage think the government has become secretive in a way that violates the law and the Constitution? And of those, what percentage care enough to do something about it? So far, I'd have to say, saddly, pretty much zero.
"but it is obvious that they acted in good faith to aid this country in an time of crisis." Did you read the one about the telecoms shutting down wiretaps because the FBI failed to pay them for the wiretaps on time? Shutting down wiretaps that they supposedly believe are vital for our national security because someone forgot to pay them? This is acting in good faith?
"Does no one remember what is was like following the 9/11 attacks?" Yes, a bunch of people had just attacked our country, basically trying to eliminate our freedoms. Many members of our society, for whatever reason, were only too quick to comply. They willing offering up many of these supposedly precious freedoms to the vaunted Alter of Safety (better known as a heightened false sense of security), at the same time forgetting that our country was kept perfectly safe for 200+ years and 42 Presidents without sucumbing to warrantless wiretaps or other extra-Constitutional measures. They failed to question why the one President in all that time who had allowed us to be attacked in this way was the only President who told us he could not defend us without trouncing the Constitution, and instead of questioning the absurdity of this reasoning instead proceeded to asceed without so much as a single question.
To quote the relevant portion of the Constitution: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
I would say it can be argued that by attempting to subvert the Constitution in such a way as to help our enemies (the "terrorists") achieve their goals (the destruction of our freedoms) that Mr. Bush has, in fact, provided aid and comfort to the enemy.
The problem with your argument is this... while I certainly agree that "oversight of the telecoms" is probably a good way to label what should be going on here, "oversight of the president" is just as valid. Why? Because the the telecoms engaged in activities that now require oversight at the behest of the President. The President broke the law. So to did the telecoms, but the President asked the telecoms to not only break the law but also to help him break the law.
From the article summary, that you have some people already like the ones you are looking for. I think its the people you already have who will be your best resources when it comes to finding more people like themselves. Birds of a feather flock together - people will tend to have friends like themselves - either past colleagues, college buddies etc. Incent your people with referral bonuses and they will bring the programming superstars to you. I work for a very successful but low profile company that does not advertise itself and while they do advertise their jobs to some extent, it is still true that a very high percentage of people they hire, especially in IT, find the company because other employees referred them. The company offers a generous referral bonus, makes it known that they really appreciate referrals (even when they end up not hiring the person) and *pays attention* to candidates who are referred by reviewing their application and contacting the candidate much more quickly than they do with applications received through other sources. And as a past job candidate, I can tell you that I'd always look first at a company where someone is referring me if it makes me feel like I have a better chance at getting the job and really being wanted there.
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Agree completely - I've sat in all sorts of office situations - shared a "private" office with other developers, individual cubes with high walls, low walls, etc. The best arrangement is the bullpen - 4 developers with their backs to one another but a circular table in between them. Its a great balance between privacy and being able to collaborate when they want to.
Looks like I'm switching to Chrome or Safari for Windows.
What the hell iz Mozilla thinking? The ribbon is a good idea? It was invented by the same folks who gave us BOB and Clippy, for Christ sake.
I'm not resistant to change. But I am resistant to crap. If Mozilla wants to trash the existing menus and start over with a UI paradigm that actually works, I'm all for it. But to replace it with *THIS*??? WHY????
IMHO, Office 2007 was such a gigantic leap backwards in terms of its UI, that any "progress" towards "increased usability" this time out I fear will be in the wrong direction.
"a look-a-like parking ticket is displayed - for your specific city"
Does this mean I can use the service to print up fake parking tickets and use them to annoy the hell out of my neighbors?
First Brian Herbert, and now this. Is nothing sacred?
Patriot Games showed us that women can be identified in spy satellite photos from their, ahem, curves.
So are you willing to give up your job and your ability to feed yourself and your family so that more Indians can feed their family? If not, you've got no business saying that.
Nielsen is in the business of gathering and selling information. You know, the "I" in "IT". And they have a very large IT division. So I have to respectfully disagree with you when you say that "They don't do techy things, make techy things or relate to tech at all."
I was at Citigroup when Habib brought in Tata for a 2nd time. Initially, he brought them in for the credit card division. He was then promoted to CIO of North America and by then it was obvious to everyone that after what happened at GE and in our credit card division that there existed a quid pro quo arrangement between Habib and Tata. So there was no suprise when Tata was awarded the contract for all of North America, even though there was a 'competition' with at least 5 Indian outsourcing companies. I've got no idea if Habib thought that this move was really in the best interests of our company, I only know that he promptly left Citi for Nielsen right smack in the middle of all the resulting layoffs that he initiated. And anyone paying attention knew at the time that Tata and Nielsen would soon be working together, and every IT worker at Nielsen needed to get their resumes polished up in a big hurry.
Yes, there was an interceptor version of the SR-71 - it was built as a prototype (the YF-12) and would have been the F-12 had it gone to production. It was designed to carry I believe four AIM-47 Falcon missles. The Pheonix missle shared roughly the same shape as the Falcon but they were otherwise unrelated.
Yes, it was enough. The chemical was used to ignite the afterburners as well (even once the engine was running) and the plane was designed to inject the chemical into the afterburners each time the throttles were advanced from dry thrust to AB. So the chemical was necessary both for restarts and igniting the AB, and there were even counters in the cockpit that would estimate how many restarts / AB lightings were left in each checmical tank (there were two, one for each engine).
They needed a fuel with a very high flashpoint because the fuel itself was actually circulated while in flight and used to cool the airframe. At the temperatures reached at mach 3, regular fuel would explode before it reached the temperatures that JP7 in the SR-71 reached even before entering the engines.
This is true. JP7 could have a lighted match dropped on it and it would extinguish the match. They had to use a special chemical to ignite the engines. They'd also use the chemical to ignite the afterburners - when the trottles were moved from dry thrust to afterburner the chemical would automatically be injected into the afterburner. They carried enough of the chemical to do so about 20 times.
No, but to have even the slightest chance of hitting the SR-71, most SAM's (especially those around at the time when the SR first entered service) would have had to been launched well before the plane would have even been detected. Yes, a SAM could reach Mach 3+ and 80,000 feet, but if they didn't lead the target enough, no way to hit a plane flying that profile.
Thank you for mentioning this! While I did like some aspects of Sci-Fi's adaptation, the stillsuits were a joke. And the actors who played the Fremen looked nothing like rough, desert hardened, water deprived people as Herbert described them. Still, the lady who played Channi made up for it :)
My other beef with Sci-Fi's version is that all of a sudden Irulan is showing up everywhere. I guess I can forgive them for it in the sense that she is a major figure in Dune Messiah, and if they planed for the possibility of bringing that book and Children of Dune to the screen then it might not be fair to the audience if Irulan suddenly showed up as a major character, but still...
Having said all that, I thought Sci-Fi's "Children of Dune" was quite good, better than their "Dune", but it only spent 2 of its 6 hours on Dune Messiah which, IMHO, was the stronger of the two books.
And then was shameless ripped off by Tim Kring on Heroes when he named his character "Hiro" too.
I am really sick of the Obama bandwagoners who are going around the internet insinuating that we're all supposed to give up our right to vote for whom we want to vote for, even if they aren't necessarily popular or have the best chance of winning. And its sad to see that creeping its way on to /. now too. What is the point of this article? Since there is supposedly only one guy watchng over Hillary's page, we can conclude that she's in political trouble and we shouldn't vote for her? WTF?
Hell, I am going to head over there right now and volunteer to help this guy out if it will shut up the author of this article and people like him.
The RIAA might as well be trying to sell fresh air right now. Sure there's lots of demand for their product, but (right or wrong) the availability of music for free via P2P completely undercuts them.
The RIAA's only prayer for long term survival is to cease all music sales on CD and move immediately to a new format that includes some form of DRM which for their sake had best be very, very difficult to bypass. That, and they have to start putting out a good product again instead of cookie cutter hits. If they do these two things, then eventually demand for the new music that cannot be easily pirated might just recreate a desire to purchase their products. Otherwise, they will wither and die away.
Well, obviously I don't *know* the NSA's capabilities with any certainty, but I can assume / deduce a few things with a fair degree of certainty:
a) its almost certainly a problem that the NSA has focused on a great deal
b) it is widely believed that the NSA is the world's single largest employer of math PhD's
c) it is also widely believed that the NSA has more computing power at its disposal than just about
any other organization
d) who knows what sorts of back doors may be built into PGP at the government's behest?
So to me, it seems safe to say that at the very least, if anyone can break PGP (assuming that they don't already have a back door) it would be the NSA. That's not to say they have, but to me it seems that they can either break them outright or brute force attack them relatively quickly.
I know its bad to paraphrase from Star Wars, but the power of your PGP key is insignifigant next to the power of the NSA. Really. Do you really believe the gov. can't break PGP encryption in a few minutes these days? If not faster?
For all intents and purposes, Time is right. I wouldn't go so far as to say nobody cares, but I will say this: nobody cares enough. Considering what's been done, there should be, at a minimum, mass protests in the streets of every city, every town, and every villiage. Yet by and large there has been little or no public outcry over what's been done. Maybe 44% of the people think the government is very secrative, but what percentage think the government has become secretive in a way that violates the law and the Constitution? And of those, what percentage care enough to do something about it? So far, I'd have to say, saddly, pretty much zero.
"but it is obvious that they acted in good faith to aid this country in an time of crisis." Did you read the one about the telecoms shutting down wiretaps because the FBI failed to pay them for the wiretaps on time? Shutting down wiretaps that they supposedly believe are vital for our national security because someone forgot to pay them? This is acting in good faith?
"Does no one remember what is was like following the 9/11 attacks?" Yes, a bunch of people had just attacked our country, basically trying to eliminate our freedoms. Many members of our society, for whatever reason, were only too quick to comply. They willing offering up many of these supposedly precious freedoms to the vaunted Alter of Safety (better known as a heightened false sense of security), at the same time forgetting that our country was kept perfectly safe for 200+ years and 42 Presidents without sucumbing to warrantless wiretaps or other extra-Constitutional measures. They failed to question why the one President in all that time who had allowed us to be attacked in this way was the only President who told us he could not defend us without trouncing the Constitution, and instead of questioning the absurdity of this reasoning instead proceeded to asceed without so much as a single question.
To quote the relevant portion of the Constitution: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
I would say it can be argued that by attempting to subvert the Constitution in such a way as to help our enemies (the "terrorists") achieve their goals (the destruction of our freedoms) that Mr. Bush has, in fact, provided aid and comfort to the enemy.
The problem with your argument is this... while I certainly agree that "oversight of the telecoms" is probably a good way to label what should be going on here, "oversight of the president" is just as valid. Why? Because the the telecoms engaged in activities that now require oversight at the behest of the President. The President broke the law. So to did the telecoms, but the President asked the telecoms to not only break the law but also to help him break the law.
From the article summary, that you have some people already like the ones you are looking for. I think its the people you already have who will be your best resources when it comes to finding more people like themselves. Birds of a feather flock together - people will tend to have friends like themselves - either past colleagues, college buddies etc. Incent your people with referral bonuses and they will bring the programming superstars to you. I work for a very successful but low profile company that does not advertise itself and while they do advertise their jobs to some extent, it is still true that a very high percentage of people they hire, especially in IT, find the company because other employees referred them. The company offers a generous referral bonus, makes it known that they really appreciate referrals (even when they end up not hiring the person) and *pays attention* to candidates who are referred by reviewing their application and contacting the candidate much more quickly than they do with applications received through other sources. And as a past job candidate, I can tell you that I'd always look first at a company where someone is referring me if it makes me feel like I have a better chance at getting the job and really being wanted there.