I wonder sometimes where this persistent stereotype of the "techie" comes from.
Dont you watch the mass media? The media are run by people who failed basic science, and assume that,
because they are clueless about sci/tech, that anyone with sci/tech understanding must be as
clueless about the rest of the world as they are about sci/tech.
Not only that, they often
have a huge personal comittment to protraying techies as "wierd" because it justifies their
own willful ignorance.
You can not take every word in the Bible literally. It was not meant to be a literal factual scientific document. It was written to teach people the Word of God.
there is also a shortage of good C programmers. [snip] You will have no problem finding a job.
Give me a job then. I have > 30 years C experience, everything from embedded motor control to banking.
I also have excellent hardware design mcroamps to 500A, microvolts to 3k3V),
FPGA design, Postgresql, C++ and PHP skills.
I also speak and write good English, and I am presentable.
(And have a current, clean HGV licence and experience of plumbing, and diesel engine fitting)
I dont agree. Most of my family can tell the temperature to within plus or minus a degree C, I have never met anyone who could do this to plus or minus one degree Fahrenheit.
Mergers are not intended to "work". They are intended to produce a bigger company, which justifies bigger salaries for the board. Stuff the shareholders, and everyone else.
Women do not enter science because they don't like to focus for long periods on one objective at the expense of all others. The like to "multi-task".
Being obsessive about a single concept for years is a male phenomenon, and is pretty essential to leanring/practicing science. Men see this type of focus/obsession as a desirable attribute, women see it as perverted.
As my mother said "Women are not just men with grapefruit up their jumpers". However, this, like reality in general, is not politically correct, so reality is ignored.
Great exhibit for why allowing the patenting of software was a bad idea.
Tomtom is a European country, and software is not patentable in the EU.
The FAT patent will not work in Europe. Tomtom may not be able to sell in the US
though if there is a patent case there. However, I would expect the EU to ban MS
in retaliation if this gets to a trade war.
Microsoft inherited drive letters and backslashes from CP/M. And CP/M got the drive letters from RSX/11, but they migrated to be device names:
tape:
disk:
MT:
etc, and most other 1970's operating systems used the same conventions. Hell, they also used disco music and flared trousers. 1970's software rocked!
As someone who did development for Apple ][ add-on hardware in the UK, I can tell you the APPLE ][ was HUGE in the UK. its penetration of the business market was incredible, because you could not run a business without Visicalc if the competition had it.
Only businesses with a PDP11 or DG Nova did not need an Apple ][, The Apple ][ cost about GBP100 and used about 30W, while a PDP11 or DG Nova cost at least GBP10,000, and used about 30kW.
No need wo worry, even if you had one, you surely won't next year. I am expecting bankruptcies to exeed the level they were in the last recession - where, three years in a row, 33% of companies were wiped out. (ie leaving about 15% of the original number of businesses) and there were considerable losses in the years before and after this exciting catastrophy.
I fully expect 50% of businesses to go in this year, and each of the two following years. This will leave less than 10% of the businesses we had a year ago.
Quite possibly most of these will be very antisocial. None will be in manufactur9ing, or anything else with a need for investment over a period exceeding 1 quarter.
Yes, I am making plans for my family to leave. But I wont be going to America.
Gordon Brown has been recieving secret training in Government methods by Robert Mugabe
So they try and block all child porn - job well done, no?
They are not very good at it, these are the people that have already blocked Wikipedia on the grounds that it is child porn.
They dont tell you you are blocked, and they they have been known to block groups of IP addresses because one address in the group was virtual hosting 10,000 sites had a link to a site that had once had child porn on it (or some similar fiasco).
Its not about the children, its about justifying interception and censorship. See how the anti-terrorist laws were used against people insulting Tony Blair - expect a law that insulting Gordon Brown is child abuse some time shortly before the next election.
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I spit on your DOS, and show you my K&R C manual for Unix v7 on the PDP11/60
Or, in most of the world, 2009/04/04.
To be sure its a great idea that America needs more Chiefs and fewer Indians. Isn't the real problem: too many cowboys!
Dont you watch the mass media? The media are run by people who failed basic science, and assume that, because they are clueless about sci/tech, that anyone with sci/tech understanding must be as clueless about the rest of the world as they are about sci/tech.
Not only that, they often have a huge personal comittment to protraying techies as "wierd" because it justifies their own willful ignorance.
after which the companies are obliged to SIM Unlock the phone for an extortionate fee
There, fixed it for you.
I was taught that this is true "for large values of 2".
For real things use INTEGER, for virtual stuff use REAL.
You must be new here.
Unlike you, I have tried both, and I chose Nigeria. It is much less stressful, the cost of living is lower, and the music and girls are better.
One big problem with science education is that it tends to be taught as THE TRUTH without any nuances
If that is what is happening in America, then creationists are not your only problem. AFAIK, it does not happen in the rest of the world.
I also have excellent hardware design mcroamps to 500A, microvolts to 3k3V), FPGA design, Postgresql, C++ and PHP skills.
I also speak and write good English, and I am presentable.
(And have a current, clean HGV licence and experience of plumbing, and diesel engine fitting)
Best learn plumbing and Polish, and forget about programming. Most of us with a lifetime in IT have barely had 60% employment.
I dont agree. Most of my family can tell the temperature to within plus or minus a degree C, I have never met anyone who could do this to plus or minus one degree Fahrenheit.
Mergers are not intended to "work". They are intended to produce a bigger company, which justifies bigger salaries for the board. Stuff the shareholders, and everyone else.
Being obsessive about a single concept for years is a male phenomenon, and is pretty essential to leanring/practicing science. Men see this type of focus/obsession as a desirable attribute, women see it as perverted.
As my mother said "Women are not just men with grapefruit up their jumpers". However, this, like reality in general, is not politically correct, so reality is ignored.
Tomtom is a European country, and software is not patentable in the EU.
The FAT patent will not work in Europe. Tomtom may not be able to sell in the US though if there is a patent case there. However, I would expect the EU to ban MS in retaliation if this gets to a trade war.
YES
I dont know what _you_ think censorship is, but that is definitely it.
Google is your friend.
tape:
disk:
MT:
etc, and most other 1970's operating systems used the same conventions. Hell, they also used disco music and flared trousers. 1970's software rocked!
Only businesses with a PDP11 or DG Nova did not need an Apple ][, The Apple ][ cost about GBP100 and used about 30W, while a PDP11 or DG Nova cost at least GBP10,000, and used about 30kW.
100% of heroin addicts ate cornflakes for breakfast as children.
If you are going to ban things, you know where to start...
But now featuring dumb users.
No need wo worry, even if you had one, you surely won't next year. I am expecting bankruptcies to exeed the level they were in the last recession - where, three years in a row, 33% of companies were wiped out. (ie leaving about 15% of the original number of businesses) and there were considerable losses in the years before and after this exciting catastrophy.
I fully expect 50% of businesses to go in this year, and each of the two following years. This will leave less than 10% of the businesses we had a year ago.
Quite possibly most of these will be very antisocial. None will be in manufactur9ing, or anything else with a need for investment over a period exceeding 1 quarter.
Yes, I am making plans for my family to leave. But I wont be going to America.
Gordon Brown has been recieving secret training in Government methods by Robert Mugabe
All the evidence is that the present UK government cannot tell fact from fiction. (like w^hbankers)
You must be new here.
mp3's of "Poison Ivy" by the Drifters? The Searchers?
They are not very good at it, these are the people that have already blocked Wikipedia on the grounds that it is child porn. They dont tell you you are blocked, and they they have been known to block groups of IP addresses because one address in the group was virtual hosting 10,000 sites had a link to a site that had once had child porn on it (or some similar fiasco).
In short, that should read "job well done NO".
Its not about the children, its about justifying interception and censorship. See how the anti-terrorist laws were used against people insulting Tony Blair - expect a law that insulting Gordon Brown is child abuse some time shortly before the next election.