Unfortunately, Dell did not cancel their outsourcing. They simply decided to stop having the *business* customers serviced from the foreign call center.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/11/24/dell. ca ll.centers.ap/ "Calls from some home PC owners will continue to be handled by the technical support center in Bangalore, India, and Weisblatt said Dell has no plans to scale back the operation there. "
Not a perfect idea, unfortunately; hashes are not guaranteed to not have collisions.
They are most useful for indicating it is extraordinarily unlikely that a given message was modified from its original. They are unfortunately not clearly useful for indicating one 16 digit number is not another 16 digit number; two 16 digit numbers may or may not hash to the same value. I am not aware of a solution beyond hashing all possible 13 to 16 digit numbers and looking for collissions; but that brings us around to the problem that once you've admitted you can make a full dictionary, if you prove there are no collisions in the relevant space you now have a 1-to-1 mapping and your 'unbreakable' encryption can be decrypted, and if there are collisions then storing hashes doesn't do much good.
Portability warning: Find does not sort; you tend to get things listed in a date-based ordering. If you don't run this through something like 'sort' you can get different / unpredictable classpath orderings, particularly on different systems, which will lead to disaster when two different JARs have two different versions of the same file (and you will - EJB.jar is a fine example of old/different versions of lots of files.)
Not for nothing - all that hard work was for the paycheck you got, not for something in the future. Just make sure you get enough now to justify the work you do, and don't base your effort on some pie-in-the-sky promise of tomorrow.
Why does TFA never mention Postgres. Anyone have any insight into why CA thinks playing catch-up with Ingres would be better than scrapping it in favor of Postgres?
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My series one stand alone TiVo works fine over Vonage after I upped the Vonage bandwidth (simple selection box on the Vonage website)
You neglect the fact that somebody would have to support the student's system, and it couldn't be the students that wrote it because students graduate and move on. Development costs pale in comparison to ongoing support.
Twice so far incoming calls to my Vonage number mysteriously stopped working. E-mails were able to quickly restore service in both cases, but it was still annoying. Once my international calling stopped working. One phone call, a knowledgeable tech did something and had me reset my phone, and then it was working again.
In short, it's similar to a cell phone - huge benefits vs. landlines, but the perfect reliability just isn't there yet. I would expect to lose a day or two of phone service each year. This may be acceptable to you, it is to me. If it isn't, stick with a landline.
That's the really impressive stuff - it *was* out two years ago. It became available back in 2001 for $99 + some contract terms regarding publishing if you go over $250k in sales.
Depends on company size. Big company, OSS hurts you - their legal dept. might get nervous, and their architecture team likely has a policy of preferring "established vendors". Small company, they might appreciate the potential cost effectiveness.
Second majors add zero unless it happens to be a topic that the interviewer is interested in and you can discuss with them, which is pure luck and you might as well shoot for 'nice tie'. Anyone that cares about a college degree is just looking for the presence of a college degree, not two or three or even the exact topic covered.
Doctrine of first sale. They have no right to make such a restriction, it should be legally unenforcable and therefore void. They sold me something, I can do what I want with it my ownself, including resell it.
Keep me from giving away copies. Keep me from doing a public performance of it. But that's it. The publisher retains a *copy* right, not a *use* right.
*ALL* satellite DVRs are dual-tuner (because their data stream comes in already encoded, all they have to do is record two files at once to the hard-drive; stand-alone units are single tuner because they would need a separate MPEG compression chip to record two streams). You are either hideously misinformed, excessively corporate-loyalty-blinded, or a troll.
My '92 Jeep Cherokee Laredo with 140k miles has cost me, over the past decade:
Replace shocks
Replace water pump
Replace rusted muffler (my own fault for letting it rust)
Replace rusted radiator (again, my own fault, neglected recommended servicing)
That's it. Hardly annoying. You might want to reconsider your anti-American-manufacturing stance, I think it's a few decades out of date.
My mortgage is with http://www.suntrustmortgage.com/ The website won't display in Firebird. Without the user-agent faker, they have a nice polite 'come back with IE' message. With the faker, it's a blank white screen.
Nice polite message: " If you are using Netscape 6.x, Netscape has chosen to alter their communication standards resulting in this incompatibility. In the interim, we recommend you use one of the following browsers:
* Netscape (4.08 - 4.77)
* Internet Explorer (4.0 or higher)
* AOL (4.0 or higher) . ..
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. If you have any questions, please contact us at 1-800-382-3232. "
I have no idea what alteration they are referring to, but they aren't kidding that whatever they are using doesn't work with Firebird.
Ok, so I'm late and will miss the mod points, but maybe you'll see it anyway:
The integrated-with-the-satellite-service DVRs record data staight from the digital broadcast stream directly onto the unit's harddrive. This means, they can record two shows at once, and the picture quality will be perfect, and the hard drive usage will be reasonable. Smart computers have already done all the compression for them before uploading to the satellite.
Stand-alone units record analog data by first digitizing with a real-time MPEG chip. This means, they can only record one show at a time (only have one MPEG chip), and the picture quality will be lower than the satellite version (your cheap chip isn't as good as the pre-satellite-upload computer), and it will use more hard drive space to get that lower picture quality.
So, a "30 hour" DirecTiVo means - 30 hours of high quality picture and recording two shows at once. A "30 hour" standalone TiVo means - 10 hours of good quality picture, or 30 hours of painful compression artifacts, and only tuning one show at a time.
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Unfortunately, Dell did not cancel their outsourcing. They simply decided to stop having the *business* customers serviced from the foreign call center.
. ca ll.centers.ap/
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/11/24/dell
"Calls from some home PC owners will continue to be handled by the technical support center in Bangalore, India, and Weisblatt said Dell has no plans to scale back the operation there. "
Not a perfect idea, unfortunately; hashes are not guaranteed to not have collisions.
They are most useful for indicating it is extraordinarily unlikely that a given message was modified from its original. They are unfortunately not clearly useful for indicating one 16 digit number is not another 16 digit number; two 16 digit numbers may or may not hash to the same value. I am not aware of a solution beyond hashing all possible 13 to 16 digit numbers and looking for collissions; but that brings us around to the problem that once you've admitted you can make a full dictionary, if you prove there are no collisions in the relevant space you now have a 1-to-1 mapping and your 'unbreakable' encryption can be decrypted, and if there are collisions then storing hashes doesn't do much good.
I don't know a good solution, unfortunately.
CVS has a bad habit of getting wedged and needing an admin, which is a poor habit for a revision control tool.
:(
No clue if subversion does or not; I quite using CVS in favor of Perforce, which utterly and completely absolutely rocks, but isn't open source.
But how do you tell the difference between PHBs with impossible deadlines, and procrastinating programmers? End result seems to look the same.
Nope. It was settled, there is no court decision, no admission of right or wrong, and thus no precedent for the next time. Sucks. :(
Portability warning: Find does not sort; you tend to get things listed in a date-based ordering. If you don't run this through something like 'sort' you can get different / unpredictable classpath orderings, particularly on different systems, which will lead to disaster when two different JARs have two different versions of the same file (and you will - EJB.jar is a fine example of old/different versions of lots of files.)
Not for nothing - all that hard work was for the paycheck you got, not for something in the future. Just make sure you get enough now to justify the work you do, and don't base your effort on some pie-in-the-sky promise of tomorrow.
Why does TFA never mention Postgres. Anyone have any insight into why CA thinks playing catch-up with Ingres would be better than scrapping it in favor of Postgres?
My series one stand alone TiVo works fine over Vonage after I upped the Vonage bandwidth (simple selection box on the Vonage website)
You neglect the fact that somebody would have to support the student's system, and it couldn't be the students that wrote it because students graduate and move on. Development costs pale in comparison to ongoing support.
Poor Yahoo. Their new "Life Engine" ad campaign loses out to "Fractal Life Engine" for link #1. I love it. :)
For what it's worth - Cingular and US Cellular may both be right. US Cellular's service was bought by AT&T in some markets (e.g. this license swap ), and AT&T screwed up number portability to a huge degree (e.g. one of many articles about half of all port complaints were just AT&T )
Twice so far incoming calls to my Vonage number mysteriously stopped working. E-mails were able to quickly restore service in both cases, but it was still annoying. Once my international calling stopped working. One phone call, a knowledgeable tech did something and had me reset my phone, and then it was working again.
In short, it's similar to a cell phone - huge benefits vs. landlines, but the perfect reliability just isn't there yet. I would expect to lose a day or two of phone service each year. This may be acceptable to you, it is to me. If it isn't, stick with a landline.
It took me about a month before I even noticed that there *were* traffic lights in that game. Man.
Of course. Whatever computer I am presently using is always named "Twerpy". Much better for polite company than "#$^!*^@! broken box of @*#!^&!@".
That's the really impressive stuff - it *was* out two years ago. It became available back in 2001 for $99 + some contract terms regarding publishing if you go over $250k in sales.
These guys just rule.
Maybe Georgia Tech is just another school to random people on the street, but not to a hiring manager, and that's what counts here.
Depends on company size. Big company, OSS hurts you - their legal dept. might get nervous, and their architecture team likely has a policy of preferring "established vendors". Small company, they might appreciate the potential cost effectiveness.
Second majors add zero unless it happens to be a topic that the interviewer is interested in and you can discuss with them, which is pure luck and you might as well shoot for 'nice tie'. Anyone that cares about a college degree is just looking for the presence of a college degree, not two or three or even the exact topic covered.
Doctrine of first sale. They have no right to make such a restriction, it should be legally unenforcable and therefore void. They sold me something, I can do what I want with it my ownself, including resell it.
Keep me from giving away copies. Keep me from doing a public performance of it. But that's it. The publisher retains a *copy* right, not a *use* right.
Infocom and Legend both went out of business taking this route.
Meanwhile, Deer Hunter is a best seller.
Doesn't the same argument claim that the movie industry should have died out 30 years ago, and books centuries ago?
We'll keep being happily entertained with new twists in old genres, remakes, and sequels. We always have been, we always will be.
*ALL* satellite DVRs are dual-tuner (because their data stream comes in already encoded, all they have to do is record two files at once to the hard-drive; stand-alone units are single tuner because they would need a separate MPEG compression chip to record two streams). You are either hideously misinformed, excessively corporate-loyalty-blinded, or a troll.
My '92 Jeep Cherokee Laredo with 140k miles has cost me, over the past decade:
Replace shocks
Replace water pump
Replace rusted muffler (my own fault for letting it rust)
Replace rusted radiator (again, my own fault, neglected recommended servicing)
That's it. Hardly annoying. You might want to reconsider your anti-American-manufacturing stance, I think it's a few decades out of date.
My mortgage is with http://www.suntrustmortgage.com/
.
The website won't display in Firebird. Without the user-agent faker, they have a nice polite 'come back with IE' message. With the faker, it's a blank white screen.
Nice polite message:
" If you are using Netscape 6.x, Netscape has chosen to alter their communication standards resulting in this incompatibility. In the interim, we recommend you use one of the following browsers:
* Netscape (4.08 - 4.77)
* Internet Explorer (4.0 or higher)
* AOL (4.0 or higher)
. .
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. If you have any questions, please contact us at 1-800-382-3232.
"
I have no idea what alteration they are referring to, but they aren't kidding that whatever they are using doesn't work with Firebird.
Ok, so I'm late and will miss the mod points, but maybe you'll see it anyway:
The integrated-with-the-satellite-service DVRs record data staight from the digital broadcast stream directly onto the unit's harddrive.
This means, they can record two shows at once, and the picture quality will be perfect, and the hard drive usage will be reasonable. Smart computers have already done all the compression for them before uploading to the satellite.
Stand-alone units record analog data by first digitizing with a real-time MPEG chip.
This means, they can only record one show at a time (only have one MPEG chip), and the picture quality will be lower than the satellite version (your cheap chip isn't as good as the pre-satellite-upload computer), and it will use more hard drive space to get that lower picture quality.
So, a "30 hour" DirecTiVo means - 30 hours of high quality picture and recording two shows at once. A "30 hour" standalone TiVo means - 10 hours of good quality picture, or 30 hours of painful compression artifacts, and only tuning one show at a time.