I tend to consider coding to be an IS job. IT is infrastructure and end user support. Then again I've been in both ends of the business for along time and I'm probably old fashioned.
It is taking fewer and fewer people to do jobs that used to take more people to do them. Cuts in the overall number of IT jobs will continue for quite awhile. This is especially true in front line jobs like IT support and Help Desk. The former are fewer because hardware has become more redundant and commoditized; it's easy to just plop a new box down or have your redundant drives/servers take over the load while you get around to fixing it. The latter are fewer because more and more organizations are moving towards 'self healing' and 'self help' type support models.
I get low end broadband speeds from my 3G phone (800-1 megabit per second. Even though I have a 15+ megabit FIOS connection at home I find 3G speeds to be quite acceptable and hardly 'very slow'.
I thought I read something a few weeks back about NASA revising those numbers, but it was in a printed publication. I'll try to find an online reference.
Despite the political rhetoric we have no proof as to how much human activity is contributing to any warming trends, and even less of an idea on the possible side effects of any direct intervention. Other scientists have actually proposed putting more particulate pollution into the air to create a mild 'nuclear winter' style cooling in order to offset any rising temperatures.
I'll leave out the fact that temperatures globally have been flat for several years now, but I will point out in closing that hair brained schemes such as this one remind me of a five year old child trying to rebuild a Formula 1 engine with a pair of chopsticks. We are so very ignorant of how and why we have or can effect the climate. The sheer hubris of some people today who assume we have such great control over climate just amazes, and scares, me.
I mostly agree. I'd say it was very good but not excellent. As for Ledger, he gave a great performance but hardly one matching all the fawning and hype. If he'd not died there would be no Oscar rumors and far less focus on his performance. Don't get me wrong; he did a great job but it was hardly a 'stunning, stellar' performance as most critics are saying. People would not be heaping on the praise like they are had Ledger not died.
No. While it is hard to measure, gravity drops off with any altitude at all. The gravity you feel standing on top of Mt. Everest is ever so slightly less than that in Death Valley.
If you want one that's fine. I am willing to pay for power and I expect said power to be provided to me. If I want to keep my house at 72F that is my business, not that of the power company or government. Using punitive prices to coerce people into these mechanisms is nothing short of bullshit. People who sign up will already save money because their thermostat will change. Everyone should pay the same rate.
That being said, it is bordering on criminal that we haven't switched over from coal to nuclear for the bulk of our energy production.
There is no population problem. Everyone living could fit into the state of Texas right now. The problem is food production and mostly political in nature. Even the US could feed every person living if the Government didn't pay farmers to let land lay fallow in order to keep prices up for the farm lobby. The planet could easily support many times the current population, especially if we can wean ourselves off of fossil fuels and start tapping renewable sources and sources such as the abundant hydrogen all around us.
Then get the right software on your fucking computers that CAN PULL THE NUMBER OUT OF YOUR ASS ON DEMAND and stop making apologies for a crappy system. There is no reason you can't at least give a close estimate.
Oh I was not at ALL excusing this; I was just pointing out that Congress is filled with wasteful hypocrits. Most of them are millionaires yet they get leased cars paid for with our dollars, travel to exotic places on 'fact finding' tours with our dollars, plush padded expense accounts, etc.
Government is out of control with spending in all branches and at all levels, with the possible exception of the Judiciary.
Nor does it surprise me that Congress told them they couldn't to it, yet Congresscritters have NO problem spending tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on expensive travel and live quite ostentatiously while doing so. Case in point: Barack Obama's 'fact finding tour', funded by taxpayers. It's just a campaign trip and the costs for security and the nice living he and his three press secretaries (Couric, Williams, and Gibson) will enjoy while along for the ride will all be paid by people like you and me.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." --Arthur C. Clarke
Except that most criminals are stupid or have fundamental character flaws in the first place and are likely to be tripped up while pretending to be sorry. Is the system perfect? Hardly, but cookie cutter approaches are likely to be worse.
The amount of true remorse that a defendant feels and expresses can and should be used when determining sentencing. It's called a 'mitigating circumstance.'
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I tend to consider coding to be an IS job. IT is infrastructure and end user support. Then again I've been in both ends of the business for along time and I'm probably old fashioned.
It is taking fewer and fewer people to do jobs that used to take more people to do them. Cuts in the overall number of IT jobs will continue for quite awhile. This is especially true in front line jobs like IT support and Help Desk. The former are fewer because hardware has become more redundant and commoditized; it's easy to just plop a new box down or have your redundant drives/servers take over the load while you get around to fixing it. The latter are fewer because more and more organizations are moving towards 'self healing' and 'self help' type support models.
I think it's use must call Alzheimer's, and all the editors have a review unit it would seem.
I get low end broadband speeds from my 3G phone (800-1 megabit per second. Even though I have a 15+ megabit FIOS connection at home I find 3G speeds to be quite acceptable and hardly 'very slow'.
I thought I read something a few weeks back about NASA revising those numbers, but it was in a printed publication. I'll try to find an online reference.
Despite the political rhetoric we have no proof as to how much human activity is contributing to any warming trends, and even less of an idea on the possible side effects of any direct intervention. Other scientists have actually proposed putting more particulate pollution into the air to create a mild 'nuclear winter' style cooling in order to offset any rising temperatures.
I'll leave out the fact that temperatures globally have been flat for several years now, but I will point out in closing that hair brained schemes such as this one remind me of a five year old child trying to rebuild a Formula 1 engine with a pair of chopsticks. We are so very ignorant of how and why we have or can effect the climate. The sheer hubris of some people today who assume we have such great control over climate just amazes, and scares, me.
I mostly agree. I'd say it was very good but not excellent. As for Ledger, he gave a great performance but hardly one matching all the fawning and hype. If he'd not died there would be no Oscar rumors and far less focus on his performance. Don't get me wrong; he did a great job but it was hardly a 'stunning, stellar' performance as most critics are saying. People would not be heaping on the praise like they are had Ledger not died.
No. While it is hard to measure, gravity drops off with any altitude at all. The gravity you feel standing on top of Mt. Everest is ever so slightly less than that in Death Valley.
If you want one that's fine. I am willing to pay for power and I expect said power to be provided to me. If I want to keep my house at 72F that is my business, not that of the power company or government. Using punitive prices to coerce people into these mechanisms is nothing short of bullshit. People who sign up will already save money because their thermostat will change. Everyone should pay the same rate.
That being said, it is bordering on criminal that we haven't switched over from coal to nuclear for the bulk of our energy production.
His Blackberry got shanghaied in Shanghai?
There is no population problem. Everyone living could fit into the state of Texas right now. The problem is food production and mostly political in nature. Even the US could feed every person living if the Government didn't pay farmers to let land lay fallow in order to keep prices up for the farm lobby. The planet could easily support many times the current population, especially if we can wean ourselves off of fossil fuels and start tapping renewable sources and sources such as the abundant hydrogen all around us.
Then get the right software on your fucking computers that CAN PULL THE NUMBER OUT OF YOUR ASS ON DEMAND and stop making apologies for a crappy system. There is no reason you can't at least give a close estimate.
IDK if I agree or not, I guess YMMV
I know many people who have gone out and bought PS3's recently to be used mostly as a BluRay player, and maybe to play the occaisional game.
You don't need hands to watch porn. Cybersex, on the other hand...
Yes. Pun intended.
Here I thought it was some special Mac OS X emulator...
Oh I was not at ALL excusing this; I was just pointing out that Congress is filled with wasteful hypocrits. Most of them are millionaires yet they get leased cars paid for with our dollars, travel to exotic places on 'fact finding' tours with our dollars, plush padded expense accounts, etc.
Government is out of control with spending in all branches and at all levels, with the possible exception of the Judiciary.
Of course he doesn't; he's trolling. Try to find evidence out there for any of his claims. You won't find anything.
Nor does it surprise me that Congress told them they couldn't to it, yet Congresscritters have NO problem spending tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on expensive travel and live quite ostentatiously while doing so. Case in point: Barack Obama's 'fact finding tour', funded by taxpayers. It's just a campaign trip and the costs for security and the nice living he and his three press secretaries (Couric, Williams, and Gibson) will enjoy while along for the ride will all be paid by people like you and me.
I guess you missed the 'almost' part in 'almost certainly'. It's ok though; I know English is not the primary language for many /.ers.
This is somewhat appropriate for this discussion:
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
--Arthur C. Clarke
Ok. It hasn't been settled by the courts.
Except that most criminals are stupid or have fundamental character flaws in the first place and are likely to be tripped up while pretending to be sorry. Is the system perfect? Hardly, but cookie cutter approaches are likely to be worse.
The only way we'll get the will of world Government to do so would be if they have oil.
The amount of true remorse that a defendant feels and expresses can and should be used when determining sentencing. It's called a 'mitigating circumstance.'