One should pursue a career because you enjoy what you are doing; never pursue a career/job because some idiot high school guidance counselor tells you that it's good money, or a good profession; only pursue because you want to love your career.
I should ask my friend if she got into accounting because she loves to balance accounts and ferret out fraud.
Another is of African heritage, but in many cases you have to be weary about refering to the color of his skin for fear of being misconstrued as rascist. Logic states that the easiest way to describe this person is to single out the features that make them unique. Ooh, but don't use that feature, because in a PC world skin color doesn't matter. Even when you're not making a judgement about the person in question it's still taboo.
How would you know? Most black people you meet aren't from Africa. The last place I worked, only one was actually from Africa (I think - two months after I started, he finished an MBA and went off somewhere for twice the money). The others were from the USA or Barbados. I don't worry about being called racist - skin color doesn't matter, but it's a great wasy to describe somebody's appearance.
If someone deprives a smoker of cigarettes for a couple of weeks, their "addiction" usually lessons as well. It doesn't make it any less of an addiction.
Depends on the person. My mother, in particular, has quit 5 times. The longest was for several years, and was ended when she walked into a smoky bowling alley. Don't tell me that a gamer is going to spend a month being a total bitch because his game isn't available.
You see, Democrats don't like being (usually accurately) stereotyped as big taxers and the like... Many Republicans, on the other hand, don't mind being stereotyped negatively.
About 50% of the American people obviously supports taxing and spending (because they vote Dem)
So, they both hate being stereotyped as big taxers. You seem to think that tax and spend liberal is an accurate label, while the reality is that our loony republican president has put us $500B in the hole. I guess the difference is that Repubs only spend, while democrats tend to balance the books.
Yeah, I know Linus just does kernel development. It seems to me he ought to care about the user experience just a bit. I guess it isn't as if he's influential or anything./sarcasm
Who are you to tell him how he ought to spend his time. If you care so much, then you evangelize the user experience.
Actually the first words of the 2nd amendment is "A well regulated Militia"
"Well regulated" refers to their competence, and militia generally meant "all able bodied males", so basically the 2nd ammendment is justifiying the right to own and bear arms as necessary to preserve their safety. It is an individual right, not a collective one.
the problem is that Americans REFUSE to pay what the product is actually worth.
The product is worth what people are willing to pay. Sony still manufactures their domestic TVs in Japan.
The last Power PC motherboard I purchased cost me $1295.00 and then I needed to buy a processor. 99% of americans will crap their pants at that and run off and buy an Asus for $125.00
How many of those PPC boards were made vs. the Asus boards? It sounds like you got a reference board.
Americans are not willing to pay $225,000.00 for their SUV
How about $30k? that's what a Highlander costs. Hell, the H2 is $55k and people buy those in flocks.
Even worse, maybe the leak was caused because people were shoving large objects down there.
In this case, the large object was a land attack, so fixing the pipe and noting that shoving a large object through the pipe did not break it would be expected. However, windows is not a leaky pipe, and it doesn't suffer from cold weather or any other sort of physical degradation. Put simply, this is a known vulnerability that should have been tested as part of QA. It wasn't.
Actually, they are related. HP and similar companies are moving their R&D to low-wage countries and getting the same research for less money. Experts are far cheaper there and the laws of physics are the same. Thus, it is cheaper to research say new printing technologies there.
The problem there is that you end up training a bunch of tech leaders in some other country who then found companies and brutalize us in the marketplace. You get what you pay for.
I've asked a lawyer about this. If you agree to a legal venue in a contract, that is binding. The stock MS contract does specify WA as a venue, so if they come after someone who is working in CA, he has to fly up to WA to defend himself in a WA court, subject to WA non-compete laws.
I'd like to see if this extends to stuff like the California non-compete invalidation. You basically have a contract that is conflicting with a state's employment law. I've never heard of something like this before, and if it were this easy, wouldn't more people do it?
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One should pursue a career because you enjoy what you are doing; never pursue a career/job because some idiot high school guidance counselor tells you that it's good money, or a good profession; only pursue because you want to love your career.
I should ask my friend if she got into accounting because she loves to balance accounts and ferret out fraud.
I ended up studying English lit. and autodidacted my way into IT.
Your degree is showing ;). And to think that I caught flack in my last place for 'spurious'.
Another is of African heritage, but in many cases you have to be weary about refering to the color of his skin for fear of being misconstrued as rascist. Logic states that the easiest way to describe this person is to single out the features that make them unique. Ooh, but don't use that feature, because in a PC world skin color doesn't matter. Even when you're not making a judgement about the person in question it's still taboo.
How would you know? Most black people you meet aren't from Africa. The last place I worked, only one was actually from Africa (I think - two months after I started, he finished an MBA and went off somewhere for twice the money). The others were from the USA or Barbados. I don't worry about being called racist - skin color doesn't matter, but it's a great wasy to describe somebody's appearance.
If someone deprives a smoker of cigarettes for a couple of weeks, their "addiction" usually lessons as well. It doesn't make it any less of an addiction.
Depends on the person. My mother, in particular, has quit 5 times. The longest was for several years, and was ended when she walked into a smoky bowling alley. Don't tell me that a gamer is going to spend a month being a total bitch because his game isn't available.
The only legal way to not pay taxes is to not earn any money and not own anything, IE be a bum.
But you still have to file a return.
You see, Democrats don't like being (usually accurately) stereotyped as big taxers and the like... Many Republicans, on the other hand, don't mind being stereotyped negatively.
About 50% of the American people obviously supports taxing and spending (because they vote Dem)
So, they both hate being stereotyped as big taxers. You seem to think that tax and spend liberal is an accurate label, while the reality is that our loony republican president has put us $500B in the hole. I guess the difference is that Repubs only spend, while democrats tend to balance the books.
I usually enjoy your posts, but you might want to switch to decaf for the rest of the day.
Decaf? Never!
How many microkernel os's do you see today?
What about your OS, Bill? NT is based in a microkernel.
Yeah, I know Linus just does kernel development. It seems to me he ought to care about the user experience just a bit. I guess it isn't as if he's influential or anything. /sarcasm
Who are you to tell him how he ought to spend his time. If you care so much, then you evangelize the user experience.
Of course, it was with a tank cannon...
"I'm a lousy shot, but this gun fires really big bullets".
There is no end to how many times they can tax the same item.
Well yeah, it's a sales tax. You don't expect to buy a used CD tax free, do you?
Actually the first words of the 2nd amendment is "A well regulated Militia"
"Well regulated" refers to their competence, and militia generally meant "all able bodied males", so basically the 2nd ammendment is justifiying the right to own and bear arms as necessary to preserve their safety. It is an individual right, not a collective one.
the problem is that Americans REFUSE to pay what the product is actually worth.
The product is worth what people are willing to pay. Sony still manufactures their domestic TVs in Japan.
The last Power PC motherboard I purchased cost me $1295.00 and then I needed to buy a processor. 99% of americans will crap their pants at that and run off and buy an Asus for $125.00
How many of those PPC boards were made vs. the Asus boards? It sounds like you got a reference board.
Americans are not willing to pay $225,000.00 for their SUV
How about $30k? that's what a Highlander costs. Hell, the H2 is $55k and people buy those in flocks.
We watched on TV as @$$holes from around the world rejoiced.
So that would be some stock footage of Palestinians dancing? Oh, and Funkmaster Kim from the DPRK didn't immediately condemn the attacks. Ho hum
IANAL, but I can't see any way you could construe this patent as applying to any of those things.
IANAL, but I can't tell what the hell they're claiming.
The MBA is still going to McDonalds... He must not be rich.
Two things come to mind. First: you can't teach taste. Second: your plumber is more likely to be a millionaire than an MBA.
Except now you are an accountant. Gah i'd rather jab pointy objects into my eyes than have to be an accountant.
You have any idea how many hot women are accountants?
I did not say that Microsoft was exempt from quality control on their coding. I said they are not a security company.
This is a QA issue, not a security issue.
Let's see you make a change to a networking object among 300 million lines of combined code and not miss a step.
Automatic regression testing would have caught this. Let's see you deliberately ignore a failed test, then claim ignorance.
Even worse, maybe the leak was caused because people were shoving large objects down there.
In this case, the large object was a land attack, so fixing the pipe and noting that shoving a large object through the pipe did not break it would be expected. However, windows is not a leaky pipe, and it doesn't suffer from cold weather or any other sort of physical degradation. Put simply, this is a known vulnerability that should have been tested as part of QA. It wasn't.
Are you willing to give up your nation's advantages so easily to make a bunch of MBAs millionaires?
What the hell do you think?
I suppose innovation is a powerful thing, but then, so is having billions of dollars.
Billions in the bank aren't much help against somebody in a third world country that primarily sells to other third world countries.
Actually, they are related. HP and similar companies are moving their R&D to low-wage countries and getting the same research for less money. Experts are far cheaper there and the laws of physics are the same. Thus, it is cheaper to research say new printing technologies there.
The problem there is that you end up training a bunch of tech leaders in some other country who then found companies and brutalize us in the marketplace. You get what you pay for.
Seriously, can my girlfriend complain to the FCC about this?
Maybe she should talk to verizon first. They probably have proxies set up for outbound traffic.
SWF (the file format which flash plays) is open.
No it isn't. You can write a flash player for mozilla using the spec from macromedia's site, but you'll get sued for your troubles.
I've asked a lawyer about this. If you agree to a legal venue in a contract, that is binding. The stock MS contract does specify WA as a venue, so if they come after someone who is working in CA, he has to fly up to WA to defend himself in a WA court, subject to WA non-compete laws.
I'd like to see if this extends to stuff like the California non-compete invalidation. You basically have a contract that is conflicting with a state's employment law. I've never heard of something like this before, and if it were this easy, wouldn't more people do it?