My university has a large number of Spanish students - it might not have been a legal law, but it was more of a "traditiion". The students come over here to do postgraduate work, at which time they return to get a decent salary.
Stock prices for data brokering companies, goverment contractors (HP, EDS), and server manufacturers. Seems more like an attempt to breath life into the UK IT industry to win votes in the home counties rather than anything practical.
Sending all that information to the database system is going to generate just as much traffic as spam generates. How on earth are they going to differentiate between spam with forged E-mail addresses and real E-mail, when they won't have access to the actual message contents?
In that case, make the Airtel employee responsible for cleaning the birdpoop off the top off cellphone towers using his own toothbrush for one year, and have him use it afterwards each day.
That was the reason that my undergraduate Computer Science course started up - the world was facing a shortage of knowledge workers - they didn't quite figure out the growth of India and China.
One mature student I knew, came from the Merchant Navy. He did the course for three/four years, then found himself pushed out by cheaper staff, and went back to the Merchant Navy because the salaries were better.
Spain has a law that entry-level Spanish engineers must be paid half the salary of an engineer with several years experience. As a a consequence many choose to work abroad for their first few years then return once their salaries are no longer capped by the government.
According to this article, students are choosing to take law school courses instead, and get paid a more rewarding salary which leads directly to management than a long route which only leads to becoming a wage-slave.
Exam systems have been tinkered with. Previous governments introduced the concept of Foundation, Standard and Credit 'O' Grades so that everyone could say that they got an 'A' in their subject. Then there was switch to using coursework for assessment rather than exams, and the merger of Biology/Chemistry/Physics into General Science or the removal of various topics from Mathematics (permnutations and combinations, trigonometric equations and Physics.
As the same time, providing sanctuary to large numbers of asylum seekers who couldn't speak English as a first language, overloaded schools in London, which forced the government to "share the burden" across cities all across the UK. The side-effect of this was that the local parents pulled their children out of the popular state schools and send them to private schools instead. Now, the state schools are being forced to close due to lack of demand.
Then if there is a fight between students, the teachers can't intervene for fear of being injured, or being accused of being a pedophile for touching one of the students.
Dependent sale: the guide of refunding of Racketiciel is âoea successâ
the drafting, published on April 9, 2008 Tags: linux, Windows, open source, legal, operating system, asus France, acer France, make an attempt judgement
On the whole more than one about thirty files were presented since February. âoeAbout half has serious bases making it possible to launch a procedureâ, continues Alain Coulais, who thus expects a multiplication in France of the applications for repayment.
Between 2006 and 2008, three important lawsuits were gained: Asus France had to refund by twice a consumer, just like Acer France. The amount goes from 100 to 300 euros. A fourth similar lawsuit is on standby of judgement in Caen (14).
Heavier procedures were also initiated by UFC-That To choose, which continues for dependent sale Hewlett-Packard, Auchan and Darty.
(*) Aful: French-speaking association of the Users of Linux and the Free software; April: Association of promotion and defense of the free software
don't think so, unless the programmer is only good with a couple of things. First all too often there's mission creep.
While I was writing this, I was thinking of inhouse tools for a company which has directors who are just happy using the technology they are confident about, and not necessarily interested in keeping up to date with the latest technology. If For a company that is forward looking, this is not a problem, but a small company might be tempted to promote the programmer to a new position.
In such companies, if you ever dare to learn anything beyond those skills that are currently required by your current job, you are treated with suspicion that you are looking for a better job in your spare time. So you can't win either with such a company.
It's more because of the tight deadlines and underbidding for contracts that is the cause.
I worked in company had that philosophy to code programming. The whole project was planned to a timetable, with each module give two to four weeks to complete. There was a gold bonus if the project was completed before the deadline with no killer bugs, and a silver bonus if the project was completed by the deadline with no killer bugs. Any other bugs would be fixed during the handover stage.
If a module wasn't completed exactly to specification by that milestone, then we were just to move onto the next module. Only serious killer bugs were to be placed on the buglist.
As far as inhouse IT goes, it's more important to have some piece of software up and running to generate useful results that it is to have perfectly modular software that can be reused by changing the a couple of inherited classes.
In the long-run taking shortcuts will lead to an evolutionary dead-end, but by that time, Microsoft will probably have come out with an entirely new set of API's anyway. And a good programmer who writes bug-free modular code will probably end up doing himself out of the job because as time goes by, there will be less code that needs to changed or upgraded per job request. A sloppy programmer will end up having the work snowballing up in front of themselves.
That's the way my womenfolk shop as well. They'll have a list of things they want to get, and they will zig-zag back and forth through the shop, even if items #1 and #3 are within one aisle of each other, they will still travel the four aisles to item #2. I tend to go for the items that are most likely to sell out first, then go for the items that never go out of stock, using the same optimised rout e that I have used before.
With most shops, they try and arrange the floor sections so that people walk through as many areas as possible. The most popular areas will be at the most inaccessible corner - Bookstores tend to have the expensive educational titles at the very back, while they have the cheap paperbacks at the front of the store.
DIY stores (like IKEA) try and arrange all the sections so that you have to walk through every section (think Koch curve) to get from the main door to the item you want to buy to the checkout desk and the exit.
Supermarkets tend to have the flowers/fruit/newspapers/magazines seem to be next to the entrance, the bakery is way back near the opposite side/end of the store, and the liquor/beer/wine is in another corner, with the frozen food section somewhere in the middle. In that way, they get everyone to wander all through the aisles, rather than just walking in and out.
They intercept the IMEI number of the cell phone; the serial number of the hardware, not your personal telephone number. You could change the telephone number simply by unlocking the phone and inserting a new SIM card. But the IMEI never changes unless you got a new phone.
Like cable broadband networks, the actual data transferred for calls is encrypted, but the IMEI is not.
When my step-father was in hospital from a amoebic infection of the blood stream, he once called home, still a bit woozy and told us, "The doctors have removed my brain, they told me I don't need it any more". The doctor went on the line and explained he meant drain.
Researchers did a study on primitive surgical techniques. They found out that the caves used for these operations were as far back as possible, meaning that the air was dry and had no dust. Also, whenever a flintstone was used as a cutting instrument, a brand new stone was split, so there was no bacteria on the surfaces of the stone.
Traditionally, if a process wishes to access a single resource, it is placed in a suspended state on a queue until that resource becomes available (monitors)
When another process releases the lock on that process, the first process in that queue is restarted.
For a single atomic multi-resource lock to work, the process would have to be placed on multiple queues. Whenever one resource was released, the process would be unable to continue because it did not have the other processes. It would be permanently asleep until all resources were released at exactly the same time.
The main problem is remembering the locations of all four remote controls. Not too easy when there are newspapers, cats, notepads, books in the living room area as well.
There is also the added complexity of navigating the customized menu of the DVD player itself, particularly those DVD's with multiple menu pages (for complete collections).
Doing something as simple as switching from watching Sky News to watching a DVD will involve:
1. Switch DVD player on. 2. Place DVD in DVD player. 3. Wait for copyright notice to play. 4. Wait for menu to appear 5. Ensure universal remote is in DVD mode 6. Figure out whether left arrow or down arrow moves between menu options. 7. Wander around until correct menu item is found. 8. Press [Play]. 9. Adjust volume until sound level is in comfort zone. 10. Watch DVD. 11. Press stop to end DVD. 12. Remove DVD 13. Switch DVD player off. 14. Adjust satellite/TV volume to get back into comfort range (do this repeatedly due to stupid adverts maximising the sound level they are allowed to play at).
Even freeview satellite offers 300+ channels, and the channels are not easily identified. For BBC 1Scotland it is something like channel 941, for BBC London, it is something like channel 944.
I had the lightpen controller for the Atari 800/800XL. It was really neat just being able to point the pen at a point on the screen, press the silver contact, and have something happen - fun applications were a scientific calculator, virtual musical keyboard, and games like chess, reversi, join-the-dots, tic-tac-toe. It was much easier to play than using a joystick, especially for isometric views.
I do not want a touchscreen remote control, for example.
The womenfolk in my family get annoyed having to have separate remote controls for each device (TV, satellite box, DVD player, VCR player, cable box). Having a universal remote is one solution to this problem, but there is still the problem of remembering which buttons control the sound volume, change channels, and knowing which channel has which number. A programmable touch screen LCD remote control seems to be a solution to this problem (if it could have a simple menu for TV/satellite/display the icons of the favorite channels), but the price for such remote controls seem to be anywhere between $600 and $1000.
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If there is ionised oxygen and hydrogen in this space, could these combine to form water?
My university has a large number of Spanish students - it might not have been a legal law, but it was more of a "traditiion". The students come over here to do postgraduate work, at which time they return to get a decent salary.
The number of British nationals emigrating every year to Australia, New Zealand France, Spain and many other countries runs to anywhere between 200K and 700K. Mainly due to increasing crime, increasing taxation, declining standard of living and being treated as second class citizens.
Stock prices for data brokering companies, goverment contractors (HP, EDS), and server manufacturers. Seems more like an attempt to breath life into the UK IT industry to win votes in the home counties rather than anything practical.
Sending all that information to the database system is going to generate just as much traffic as spam generates. How on earth are they going to differentiate between spam with forged E-mail addresses and real E-mail, when they won't have access to the actual message contents?
In that case, make the Airtel employee responsible for cleaning the birdpoop off the top off cellphone towers using his own toothbrush for one year, and have him use it afterwards each day.
I was told this by a Spanish PhD student.
Even worse, one of Google's employees provided the IP address of the wrong user. So an innocent man was beaten, and punished for no crime.
I hope his compensation claims is successful and for a substantial amount of money - and that the sloppy Google employee is fired.
That was the reason that my undergraduate Computer Science course started up - the world was facing a shortage of knowledge workers - they didn't quite figure out the growth of India and China.
One mature student I knew, came from the Merchant Navy. He did the course for three/four years, then found himself pushed out by cheaper staff, and went back to the Merchant Navy because the salaries were better.
Spain has a law that entry-level Spanish engineers must be paid half the salary of an engineer with several years experience. As a a consequence many choose to work abroad for their first few years then return once their salaries are no longer capped by the government.
According to this article, students are choosing to take law school courses instead, and get paid a more rewarding salary which leads directly to management than a long route which only leads to becoming a wage-slave.
New Labour didn't help things either - parents of children with behavour problems demanded that their children be sent to mainstream schools in order to avoid the stigma of being sent to "special schools". Teachers have to deal with students who will constantly hit other students or hide under their desk the minute there is a loud noise. Teaching Assistants were introduced, but that was seen as a tn attempt to recruit teachers on a reduced salary.
Then there was also the attempt to stop schools from telling off, expelling or suspending disruptive students as this would be a violation of their fundamental human rights. Then there was the requirement that schools should provide breakfast to students who don't have time to have breakfast in the morning.
Exam systems have been tinkered with. Previous governments introduced the concept of Foundation, Standard and Credit 'O' Grades so that everyone could say that they got an 'A' in their subject. Then there was switch to using coursework for assessment rather than exams, and the merger of Biology/Chemistry/Physics into General Science or the removal of various topics from Mathematics (permnutations and combinations, trigonometric equations and Physics.
As the same time, providing sanctuary to large numbers of asylum seekers who couldn't speak English as a first language, overloaded schools in London, which forced the government to "share the burden" across cities all across the UK. The side-effect of this was that the local parents pulled their children out of the popular state schools and send them to private schools instead. Now, the state schools are being forced to close due to lack of demand.
Then if there is a fight between students, the teachers can't intervene for fear of being injured, or being accused of being a pedophile for touching one of the students.
MBA = Master in Business Administration
MPA = Master in Public Administration
MPSM = Master in Public Sector Management
Dependent sale: the guide of refunding of Racketiciel is âoea successâ
the drafting, published on April 9, 2008
Tags: linux, Windows, open source, legal, operating system, asus France, acer France, make an attempt judgement
Success of the guide of refunding of RacketicielThe Racketiciel work group, which is opposed to the dependent sale OS with a PC, is very requested since the publication last February of its guide of refunding. A text which describes the legal bases and procedures to obtain from a manufacturer of a PC the refunding of the operating system préinstallé, in general Windows.
Racketiciel, supported by Aful and April (*), also provides a legal assistance. âoeThe guide is a success. We receive a request per day to assist a consumer in a procedure of refundingâ, explains to ZDNet.fr, Alain Coulais, one of the persons in charge of Racketiciel (collective in the past GdT Détaxe).
A trentraine of presented dossiers
On the whole more than one about thirty files were presented since February. âoeAbout half has serious bases making it possible to launch a procedureâ, continues Alain Coulais, who thus expects a multiplication in France of the applications for repayment.
Between 2006 and 2008, three important lawsuits were gained: Asus France had to refund by twice a consumer, just like Acer France. The amount goes from 100 to 300 euros. A fourth similar lawsuit is on standby of judgement in Caen (14).
Heavier procedures were also initiated by UFC-That To choose, which continues for dependent sale Hewlett-Packard, Auchan and Darty.
(*) Aful: French-speaking association of the Users of Linux and the Free software;
April: Association of promotion and defense of the free software
By the drafting, ZDNet France
don't think so, unless the programmer is only good with a couple of things. First all too often there's mission creep.
While I was writing this, I was thinking of inhouse tools for a company which has directors who are just happy using the technology they are confident about, and not necessarily interested in keeping up to date with the latest technology. If
For a company that is forward looking, this is not a problem, but a small company might be tempted to promote the programmer to a new position.
In such companies, if you ever dare to learn anything beyond those skills that are currently required by your current job, you are treated with suspicion that you are looking for a better job in your spare time. So you can't win either with such a company.
It's more because of the tight deadlines and underbidding for contracts that is the cause.
I worked in company had that philosophy to code programming. The whole project was planned to a timetable, with each module give two to four weeks to complete. There was a gold bonus if the project was completed before the deadline with no killer bugs, and a silver bonus if the project was completed by the deadline with no killer bugs.
Any other bugs would be fixed during the handover stage.
If a module wasn't completed exactly to specification by that milestone, then we were just to move onto the next module. Only serious killer bugs were to be placed on the buglist.
As far as inhouse IT goes, it's more important to have some piece of software up and running to generate useful results that it is to have perfectly modular software that can be reused by changing the a couple of inherited classes.
In the long-run taking shortcuts will lead to an evolutionary dead-end, but by that time, Microsoft will probably have come out with an entirely new set of API's anyway. And a good programmer who writes bug-free modular code will probably end up doing himself out of the job because as time goes by, there will be less code that needs to changed or upgraded per job request. A sloppy programmer will end up having the work snowballing up in front of themselves.
That's the way my womenfolk shop as well. They'll have a list of things they want to get, and they will zig-zag back and forth through the shop, even if items #1 and #3 are within one aisle of each other, they will still travel the four aisles to item #2. I tend to go for the items that are most likely to sell out first, then go for the items that never go out of stock, using the same optimised rout e that I have used before.
If people had a way of using their mobile phones to tag make the CCTV system tag camera videos as "something interesting" maybe it might help.
With most shops, they try and arrange the floor sections so that people walk through as many areas as possible. The most popular areas will be at the most inaccessible corner - Bookstores tend to have the expensive educational titles at the very back, while they have the cheap paperbacks at the front of the store.
DIY stores (like IKEA) try and arrange all the sections so that you have to walk through every section (think Koch curve) to get from the main door to the item you want to buy to the checkout desk and the exit.
Supermarkets tend to have the flowers/fruit/newspapers/magazines seem to be next to the entrance, the bakery is way back near the opposite side/end of the store, and the liquor/beer/wine is in another corner, with the frozen food section somewhere in the middle. In that way, they get everyone to wander all through the aisles, rather than just walking in and out.
They intercept the IMEI number of the cell phone; the serial number of the hardware, not your personal telephone number. You could change the telephone number simply by unlocking the phone and inserting a new SIM card. But the IMEI never changes unless you got a new phone.
Like cable broadband networks, the actual data transferred for calls is encrypted, but the IMEI is not.
When my step-father was in hospital from a amoebic infection of the blood stream, he once called home, still a bit woozy and told us, "The doctors have removed my brain, they told me I don't need it any more". The doctor went on the line and explained he meant drain.
Researchers did a study on primitive surgical techniques. They found out that the caves used for these operations were as far back as possible, meaning that the air was dry and had no dust. Also, whenever a flintstone was used as a cutting instrument, a brand new stone was split, so there was no bacteria on the surfaces of the stone.
Ancient Brain Surgery
I need trepanning like a hole in the head.
Traditionally, if a process wishes to access a single resource, it is placed in a suspended state on a queue until that resource becomes available (monitors)
When another process releases the lock on that process, the first process in that queue is restarted.
For a single atomic multi-resource lock to work, the process would have to be placed on multiple queues. Whenever one resource was released, the process would be unable to continue because it did not have the other processes. It would be permanently asleep until all resources were released at exactly the same time.
The main problem is remembering the locations of all four remote controls. Not too easy when there are newspapers, cats, notepads, books in the living room area as well.
There is also the added complexity of navigating the customized menu of the DVD player itself, particularly those DVD's with multiple menu pages (for complete collections).
Doing something as simple as switching from watching Sky News to watching a DVD will involve:
1. Switch DVD player on.
2. Place DVD in DVD player.
3. Wait for copyright notice to play.
4. Wait for menu to appear
5. Ensure universal remote is in DVD mode
6. Figure out whether left arrow or down arrow moves between menu options.
7. Wander around until correct menu item is found.
8. Press [Play].
9. Adjust volume until sound level is in comfort zone.
10. Watch DVD.
11. Press stop to end DVD.
12. Remove DVD
13. Switch DVD player off.
14. Adjust satellite/TV volume to get back into comfort range (do this repeatedly due to stupid adverts maximising the sound level they are allowed to play at).
Even freeview satellite offers 300+ channels, and the channels are not easily identified. For BBC 1Scotland it is something like channel 941, for BBC London, it is something like channel 944.
I had the lightpen controller for the Atari 800/800XL. It was really neat just being able to point the pen at a point on the screen, press the silver contact, and have something happen - fun applications were a scientific calculator, virtual musical keyboard, and games like chess, reversi, join-the-dots, tic-tac-toe. It was much easier to play than using a joystick, especially for isometric views.
I do not want a touchscreen remote control, for example.
The womenfolk in my family get annoyed having to have separate remote controls for each device (TV, satellite box, DVD player, VCR player, cable box). Having a universal remote is one solution to this problem, but there is still the problem of remembering which buttons control the sound volume, change channels, and knowing which channel has which number. A programmable touch screen LCD remote control seems to be a solution to this problem (if it could have a simple menu for TV/satellite/display the icons of the favorite channels), but the price for such remote controls seem to be anywhere between $600 and $1000.