The US soldier bodycount hovers around 700 (+8 suicides state-side and however many of the 20,000 mercenaries have died), so that's not too much of a concern.
Also, many people ignore the requirements on the job-descriptions for new applications. It surprised me at first when requesting for a SQL engineer and recieving resumes specifying MSaccess experience solely as for a DB admin position. Resume's like this go to the shredder.
This is a direct response to the ridiculous job reqs that people post - they might demand 5 years experience in a given language and 3 in requirement gathering, plus a half dozen other skills for a straight dev job that only needs a junior-medium level of experience. Usually this is due to letting HR drones write the job req instead of the guy who needs the employee. My solution is to go based on primary skill and nature of the job (as presented), usually ignoring other stuff.
Exactly. Eventually rogue nations will begin acquiring (either by purchasing or developing) ballistic missles capable of hitting the U.S. or our allies. Eventually someone will try to use them.
Yeah, because rogue nations are suicidal.
My major concern is that some terror group (you know, those guys that hate us and are willing to die for their cause) gets ahold of a warhead and drives it someplace interesting. Not sure how a missile defense shield would help that.
That said, I forgot to mention that it was refreshing to see somebody actually interested in the MR Spyder. Too many people just discount the car due to its having less horespower than the previous generation.
Thanks, I'm really enjoying my toy - it's getting a LSD next week, and sportivo in a couple months. Power will have to wait a bit.
I'd also like to mention that 2700lb is less than ideal for a sports car, but these days most of the "sport cars" produced weigh even more than that, so the weight really isn't that bad by comparison. Still, that's not exactly an ideal power to weight ratio.
You ain't lyin'. I've got a MR2 spyder, and it weighs ~2200 lbs and puts out about 138Hp. If I build the engine up, it'll do twice that, but right now it's got rather nice acceleration and excellent handling.
Topic for discussion: Is it more silly to try to use MySQL for your 1000 transactions/second purchasing site, or to spend $zillions using Oracle/SQL Server/DB2 for every tiny database app in a large corporation? Either way, you'd be an idiot
You do know that Oracle (and most DBs out there) can host multiple DBs in a single instance, right? All of your tiny apps can be hosted on one server with one license fee.
How does locking the whole database help if your UPDATE or DELETE statement affects multiple rows and fails somewhere in the middle?
Support for aborting transactions is mostly orthogonal from concurrency management. The place they intersect is when a transaction wants to read or write a row that's locked by another transaction. Typical semantics are to allow reading of the old data and block writing of the new data until the transaction completes. This is usually handled by keeping a copy of the old row and the new row util commit time.
If you put on a copyrighted play, as a free, amateur student production, and don't pay royalties... odds (my experience) are >10% that an agent of publishing houses, who's job it is to scan theater listings, will serve you for fines.
This is as it should be. Go license the play and charge $5 a head (we did).
Schools are also presently paying to get packet-shaping devices to try to slow/block P2P shares because they get in the way of other users, or would require the school to get more overall bandwidth. The RIAA is of course offering this service for free.
Schools are buying packet-shapers to manage the traffic level associated with P2P. The RIAA is offering them content-based filtering, which could be argued to remove what little common carrier status still exists for the School-cum-ISP.
1. Because I'm sure most university admins would love to have their network bogged down by music streams flowing hither and yon on the campus. Nobody needs that bandwidth for anything useful anyway.
Dorm Ghetto.
2. Because I'm also sure that most university admins would love to deal with an enviroment where almost every computer has wide-open file shares. And they'd probably all be Windows file shares at that!
Dorm Ghetto.
Well, actually, that's probably offensive to Ghettos - Dormnet is usually the equivalent of a third world shantytown with a rampant Ebola infestation and roving gangs. The typical admin solution is to wall the whole thing off and let nature take its course.
If they agreed with the idea of trying to keep jobs within the country they would have set a precedent with the textile industry. You'd still have your IT job, but you'd pay $400 for a t-shirt.
You can get an american-made tshirt for $20 or so.
I guess it sucks when those markets start getting a little _too_ free, eh?
There's this thing called a national interest: we'd like to maintain a competency in a broad range of skilled professions, even at the expense of a couple dollars. This allows us to continue to compete and lead in these areas instead of selling ourselves down the river for a few baubles.
Yeah, that headlight comment is either way off (Maybe $300) or they are quoting a complete rip of dealer. Such lights usually go for about $60 a pair, though I could see maybe as high as $100 if you bought them yourself.
No, $3k is correct. That's why New Jersey is suing Nissan - they think that a $3k headlight should be a bit harder to steal.
Unless employed, in which case middle management will have a ready excuse to fire the employee and destroy their career. It's really their job. Find a way to fire everyone so they can cut salaries and outsource everything.
Only if they're psychotic. Middle management should only be firing the people that add no value, not firing everybody that they can get awau with.
isn't outsourcing a shining example of capitalism working exactly as it should? People always get so bent out of shape about it, but fundamentally it's rewarding the people/countries who are willing and able to do the same work for less.
If my job goes to Arkansas, I can follow it. If it goes to Bangalore, I can't. The fact is, pure capitalism sucks, and that's why nobody in their right mind does it - it has no concept of a social safety net or a number of the other things necessary for society. It's just an economic abstraction.
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When do YOU think the war will be over, and terrorism will once and for all be defeated?
The Iraq war has nothing to do with terrorism. I expect the Iraq war to last another year or two before we withdraw and declare victory (again).
If enough of them come back alive.
The US soldier bodycount hovers around 700 (+8 suicides state-side and however many of the 20,000 mercenaries have died), so that's not too much of a concern.
Also, many people ignore the requirements on the job-descriptions for new applications. It surprised me at first when requesting for a SQL engineer and recieving resumes specifying MSaccess experience solely as for a DB admin position. Resume's like this go to the shredder.
This is a direct response to the ridiculous job reqs that people post - they might demand 5 years experience in a given language and 3 in requirement gathering, plus a half dozen other skills for a straight dev job that only needs a junior-medium level of experience. Usually this is due to letting HR drones write the job req instead of the guy who needs the employee. My solution is to go based on primary skill and nature of the job (as presented), usually ignoring other stuff.
Exactly. Eventually rogue nations will begin acquiring (either by purchasing or developing) ballistic missles capable of hitting the U.S. or our allies. Eventually someone will try to use them.
Yeah, because rogue nations are suicidal.
My major concern is that some terror group (you know, those guys that hate us and are willing to die for their cause) gets ahold of a warhead and drives it someplace interesting. Not sure how a missile defense shield would help that.
Not to be pedantic or anything but pencils use graphite, not lead.
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YHL
HAND
When you throw 50 GB of that at your music
So why is it that you need 4 months of music on a laptop? Trim it to 40 and grab an iPod already.
That said, I forgot to mention that it was refreshing to see somebody actually interested in the MR Spyder. Too many people just discount the car due to its having less horespower than the previous generation.
Thanks, I'm really enjoying my toy - it's getting a LSD next week, and sportivo in a couple months. Power will have to wait a bit.
I've never had to rebuild the Windows kernel for a new release.
Okay, you don't ahve to rebuild the engine, just take it out of the car, turn it all the way around, and put it back in.
I haven't decided on a target for HP yet though.
280 is about the limit for a 1ZZ 2.0 engine. You might get better power from a 2ZZ, but that's going to be expensive.
I'd also like to mention that 2700lb is less than ideal for a sports car, but these days most of the "sport cars" produced weigh even more than that, so the weight really isn't that bad by comparison. Still, that's not exactly an ideal power to weight ratio.
You ain't lyin'. I've got a MR2 spyder, and it weighs ~2200 lbs and puts out about 138Hp. If I build the engine up, it'll do twice that, but right now it's got rather nice acceleration and excellent handling.
Topic for discussion: Is it more silly to try to use MySQL for your 1000 transactions/second purchasing site, or to spend $zillions using Oracle/SQL Server/DB2 for every tiny database app in a large corporation? Either way, you'd be an idiot
You do know that Oracle (and most DBs out there) can host multiple DBs in a single instance, right? All of your tiny apps can be hosted on one server with one license fee.
How does locking the whole database help if your UPDATE or DELETE statement affects multiple rows and fails somewhere in the middle?
Support for aborting transactions is mostly orthogonal from concurrency management. The place they intersect is when a transaction wants to read or write a row that's locked by another transaction. Typical semantics are to allow reading of the old data and block writing of the new data until the transaction completes. This is usually handled by keeping a copy of the old row and the new row util commit time.
If you put on a copyrighted play, as a free, amateur student production, and don't pay royalties... odds (my experience) are >10% that an agent of publishing houses, who's job it is to scan theater listings, will serve you for fines.
This is as it should be. Go license the play and charge $5 a head (we did).
Schools are also presently paying to get packet-shaping devices to try to slow/block P2P shares because they get in the way of other users, or would require the school to get more overall bandwidth. The RIAA is of course offering this service for free.
Schools are buying packet-shapers to manage the traffic level associated with P2P. The RIAA is offering them content-based filtering, which could be argued to remove what little common carrier status still exists for the School-cum-ISP.
1. Because I'm sure most university admins would love to have their network bogged down by music streams flowing hither and yon on the campus. Nobody needs that bandwidth for anything useful anyway.
Dorm Ghetto.
2. Because I'm also sure that most university admins would love to deal with an enviroment where almost every computer has wide-open file shares. And they'd probably all be Windows file shares at that!
Dorm Ghetto.
Well, actually, that's probably offensive to Ghettos - Dormnet is usually the equivalent of a third world shantytown with a rampant Ebola infestation and roving gangs. The typical admin solution is to wall the whole thing off and let nature take its course.
If they agreed with the idea of trying to keep jobs within the country they would have set a precedent with the textile industry. You'd still have your IT job, but you'd pay $400 for a t-shirt.
You can get an american-made tshirt for $20 or so.
A ford can't make it far enough to be able to offshore it.
That's why you load it on a Mitsu truck.
WORK FOR LESS.
For the $25k that they're paying Indians, Id rather manage a Blockbuster. It pays more.
I guess it sucks when those markets start getting a little _too_ free, eh?
There's this thing called a national interest: we'd like to maintain a competency in a broad range of skilled professions, even at the expense of a couple dollars. This allows us to continue to compete and lead in these areas instead of selling ourselves down the river for a few baubles.
Yeah, that headlight comment is either way off (Maybe $300) or they are quoting a complete rip of dealer. Such lights usually go for about $60 a pair, though I could see maybe as high as $100 if you bought them yourself.
No, $3k is correct. That's why New Jersey is suing Nissan - they think that a $3k headlight should be a bit harder to steal.
it would really suck to have a fire that we really need to put out that we couldn't dowse with water.
C'mon, it's a pickup truck - hit the front end with a fire extinguisher.
If the radiator mount is strong, how can it be brittle at the same time?
High tensile strength, low ductile strength.
Unless employed, in which case middle management will have a ready excuse to fire the employee and destroy their career. It's really their job. Find a way to fire everyone so they can cut salaries and outsource everything.
Only if they're psychotic. Middle management should only be firing the people that add no value, not firing everybody that they can get awau with.
I'm sure you know how difficult it actually is to get an H1B
Not very. If it was at all difficult, we wouldn't have as many clueless gits here on a work visa.
isn't outsourcing a shining example of capitalism working exactly as it should? People always get so bent out of shape about it, but fundamentally it's rewarding the people/countries who are willing and able to do the same work for less.
If my job goes to Arkansas, I can follow it. If it goes to Bangalore, I can't. The fact is, pure capitalism sucks, and that's why nobody in their right mind does it - it has no concept of a social safety net or a number of the other things necessary for society. It's just an economic abstraction.