I have a hard time giving my parents valuable gifts, they won't accept them. We had a heck of a time getting my mom to accept a new Mac Mini for Mother's day even though all three of us were pitching in for it.
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I'm a development manager and hire programmers and IT people in Toronto...
I wouldn't worry too much about getting Canadian designations or education, Canadians are used to hiring Eastern Europeans, Indians and Chinese talent and know how to deal with differences in education.
Do document what you did and what you can do in resume. Keep it to two pages unless you have 10+ years of experience. Do list specific technologies you work with and relative skill level in each. When you list designations, make sure they are either the same in Canada or explain what they are.
If you are using your employer to move to Canada, I would be careful to go with a legit company. You might want to use a headhunter for that reason. There are many headhunters that are used to dealing with immigration issues. The hiring company usually the headhunter's fees not the job seeker. If you find a headhunter that is charging you a fee run away unless it is for specific services (such as immigration aid).
I wouldn't waste money hiring a lawyer unless you get a job offer that has an employment contract containing lots of restrictions. Canada has fairly good labour laws. Be careful about signing contracts that take away too many rights upon termination.
I have to take off my shoes and leave my toothpaste at the gate when I fly but hundreds of hick
sheriffs and other random yokels are going to be piloting sophisticated UAFs in the near future.
The Gonazales quote shows a disturbing lack of understanding
of what a right is.
A right is something a person has. A power is something to goverment
can do. The Constitution outlines how rights are a check on powers.
The fact that the Attorney General of the US can even talk about the
trade off of the first amendment rights against the right of the federal
government shows how deeply he, and the President he works for,
misunderstand the basic tenents of a constitutional republic.
Let me understand this -- you guys don't use secure delete on
your laptops before returning them? Everybody techincal I know
does a secure whipe before handing their laptops in -- and every
IT guy expects it.
If you allow the employee to use the laptop for personal use
(online banking eg.) then you have to expect them to take steps
to protect themselves.
This is a bizarre ruling -- I expect some interesting repercussions.
To amend your analogy... After youve already invited someone into your house, just because you say you don't want to buy their cookies doesnt mean they have to take the boxes when they leave. They can leave the cookies and walk out, and they are yours to eat or not as you please with no obligations.
To admend your amendment... After youve already invited someone into your house because they claim to be selling cookies, just because you say you don't want to buy their cookies and leaking canisters of anthrax combo doesnt mean they have to take the leaking canisters of anthrax when they leave. They can leave the leaking canisters of anthrax and walk out taking the cookies with them, and vapours are yours to breath in or not as you please with no obligations.
Remember this is almost a bait and switch, the people bought a Celine Deon album and got the DRM disaster along with it.
So, I'm driving on the 401 here in Toronto. The GPS suddenly decides I'm on
Wilson (a major street that parallels and slips under the 401) and I'm going
50kph over the speed limit. What happens? Broken foot as the amount of
force required to hold the pedal down skyrockets?
Ok, here's another scenario; I'm clipping along the 401 at 118 kph...
Now wait, this is the "intended speed limit", the 401 is banked for 120 kph,
cops set their radar at 123 or higher. The "legal limit" is set at 100kph so
that when everybody speeds "a little" they'll be driving between 110-120.
Does this kick in because I'm 18kph "over" the limit?
I bought a $700 flicker free monitor -- why would I like flickering, jumping, flashing, strobing ads?
If ads were not complete crap, didn't comprise > 50% of the page view, and did bog my machine
down with some freaky flash animation, I might actually take a look at the product, if it had
anything to do with the page view I mean.
In Windows that is much harder and often impossible to do, because so much software for mostly stupid reasons will not run correctly if the user is not an adminsitrator.
What software run in a school/business environment needs to be run as an administrator? Stop spreading FUD.
The only way you can even come close to calling this FUD is by rescoping the problem to school/business. Half the games my kids get for Christmas can't run without admin privs. It's why my kids have administrative accounts even though I'd originally set them up as unprivledged users.
Never had that problem when they were on the Mac... too bad only the elementary school games run on Macs...
Actually they do. The famous example was Joe Kennedy who headed the SEC when it was first created. Roosevelt said it "took a thief to catch a thief." He basically outlawed every dirty trick he used to become rich himself.
The wags are already coming out about you can carry a lot of batteries and still have it weigh less than 20kg.
I'd just like to point out that if you were working deep back country you are often carrying much more than 20kg in rock samples or camping gear or other equipment.
If that's the case you get the recharging essentially for free.
Although you could probably hook someting into a good laptop bag...
This question is impossible to answer without knowing the
application being developed.
For a complex app with lot's of business logic, I'd use Java and the related frameworks. Unless my team had a lot of Windows developers than I'd use.NET (shudder:-).
For a dynamic app with many users probably php.
For something simple with a big bunch of users, probably python or C/C++.
I just did a D&D day for my son's birthday party. I created 7 different characters complete with character sheets, minature, and a set of dice each. I described the advantages and disadvantages of each character and let the highest die role pick their character first.
After each adventure I gave them a new character sheet with their new leveled up character.
Sort of like the Basic Game box but with more characters and real adventures (rescue the kidnapped kid, raid an evil temple and cleanse it, fight a young dragon etc.)
This way worked *really* well, they were up and playing in 10 minutes and everybody had a real blast.
I can't believe the submitter didn't take the oppourtunity to link to Amazon with a refer code. *THAT* would be referer points worth getting modded down for!
I've tried using reduced privledge accounts, I really did.
I tried using it for myself but gave up because both of the games I play under XP require admin privs to run (and that's pretty much the only reason I have an XP box).
I tried using it for the kids accounts, but I ended up turning it off; seems every kids game in the world can't run without admin privs.
If I can't even turn it on for a kids account what bloody use is it? And why is it my fault for not using it?
That was a copyright violation and lawyers actually got to look at it. I'm surprised they didn't extend a "little professional curtesy" to Sony's lawyers, or whoever owns of all Carlin's work and inform them of your heinous crime so that they could begin pro$ecution against you.
Well, except for the fact that the quotes were never distributed to anybody so no copyright violation could have occured.
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I have a hard time giving my parents valuable gifts, they won't accept them. We had a heck of a time getting my mom to accept a new Mac Mini for Mother's day even though all three of us were pitching in for it.
I'm a development manager and hire programmers and IT people in Toronto ...
I wouldn't worry too much about getting Canadian designations or education, Canadians are used to hiring Eastern Europeans, Indians and Chinese talent and know how to deal with differences in education.
Do document what you did and what you can do in resume. Keep it to two pages unless you have 10+ years of experience. Do list specific technologies you work with and relative skill level in each. When you list designations, make sure they are either the same in Canada or explain what they are.
If you are using your employer to move to Canada, I would be careful to go with a legit company. You might want to use a headhunter for that reason. There are many headhunters that are used to dealing with immigration issues. The hiring company usually the headhunter's fees not the job seeker. If you find a headhunter that is charging you a fee run away unless it is for specific services (such as immigration aid).
I wouldn't waste money hiring a lawyer unless you get a job offer that has an employment contract containing lots of restrictions. Canada has fairly good labour laws. Be careful about signing contracts that take away too many rights upon termination.
Let me get this straight:
I have to take off my shoes and leave my toothpaste at the gate when I fly but hundreds of hick sheriffs and other random yokels are going to be piloting sophisticated UAFs in the near future.
Is that correct?
Irony or precience?
Aiiieeeeeeee -- in what level of hell does vim have menus! Linuxers, we hates them we does!
A right is something a person has. A power is something to goverment can do. The Constitution outlines how rights are a check on powers.
The fact that the Attorney General of the US can even talk about the trade off of the first amendment rights against the right of the federal government shows how deeply he, and the President he works for, misunderstand the basic tenents of a constitutional republic.
If you allow the employee to use the laptop for personal use (online banking eg.) then you have to expect them to take steps to protect themselves.
This is a bizarre ruling -- I expect some interesting repercussions.
To admend your amendment ... After youve already invited someone into your house because they claim to be selling cookies, just because you say you don't want to buy their cookies and leaking canisters of anthrax combo doesnt mean they have to take the leaking canisters of anthrax when they leave. They can leave the leaking canisters of anthrax and walk out taking the cookies with them, and vapours are yours to breath in or not as you please with no obligations.
Remember this is almost a bait and switch, the people bought a Celine Deon album and got the DRM disaster along with it.
Often that is true. Card, how ever, is a playwright turned author. I think he'll do ok ...
Ok, here's another scenario; I'm clipping along the 401 at 118 kph ...
Now wait, this is the "intended speed limit", the 401 is banked for 120 kph, cops set their radar at 123 or higher. The "legal limit" is set at 100kph so that when everybody speeds "a little" they'll be driving between 110-120.
Does this kick in because I'm 18kph "over" the limit?
If ads were not complete crap, didn't comprise > 50% of the page view, and did bog my machine down with some freaky flash animation, I might actually take a look at the product, if it had anything to do with the page view I mean.
Airheaded teenage girls are welcome to post to Apple threads on /. -- it's part of the package.
The only way you can even come close to calling this FUD is by rescoping the problem to school/business. Half the games my kids get for Christmas can't run without admin privs. It's why my kids have administrative accounts even though I'd originally set them up as unprivledged users.
Never had that problem when they were on the Mac ... too bad only the elementary school games run on Macs ...
Actually they do. The famous example was Joe Kennedy who headed the SEC when it was first created. Roosevelt said it "took a thief to catch a thief." He basically outlawed every dirty trick he used to become rich himself.
I'd just like to point out that if you were working deep back country you are often carrying much more than 20kg in rock samples or camping gear or other equipment.
If that's the case you get the recharging essentially for free.
Although you could probably hook someting into a good laptop bag ...
For a complex app with lot's of business logic, I'd use Java and the related frameworks. Unless my team had a lot of Windows developers than I'd use .NET (shudder :-).
For a dynamic app with many users probably php.
For something simple with a big bunch of users, probably python or C/C++.
Again it would really depend ...
I've also seen this rumor on another site ...
After each adventure I gave them a new character sheet with their new leveled up character.
Sort of like the Basic Game box but with more characters and real adventures (rescue the kidnapped kid, raid an evil temple and cleanse it, fight a young dragon etc.)
This way worked *really* well, they were up and playing in 10 minutes and everybody had a real blast.
No. Since 'Rip' pretty explicitly means you have the CD to burn from ... ripping is fair use, not a breech of copyright.
Also, does it just apply to software, or to hardware also, e.g. my PVR? No, again because a PVR records for time shifting purposes which is fair use.
I can't believe the submitter didn't take the oppourtunity to link to Amazon with a refer code. *THAT* would be referer points worth getting modded down for!
I tried using it for myself but gave up because both of the games I play under XP require admin privs to run (and that's pretty much the only reason I have an XP box).
I tried using it for the kids accounts, but I ended up turning it off; seems every kids game in the world can't run without admin privs.
If I can't even turn it on for a kids account what bloody use is it? And why is it my fault for not using it?
No, it highlights the problem of using the results of this study to determine things like Princeton admissions ...
Well, except for the fact that the quotes were never distributed to anybody so no copyright violation could have occured.
All of them that want to keep their deep Windows OS discounts from our friends in Redmond ...
If I swapped to Dvorak layout none of the vi key stokes would make sense in the new layout (jklh...)