As an extension of that, how many Google hotshots are going to become millionaires and then quit? I'm sure this kind of thing happened all the time in the boom. Anyone know what the resignation rate is after a big IPO?
I'm a software developer in Toronto, my brother is a developer in Sunnyvale, CA. He has 2 years more experience than me, but is comparable in skill and experience. He makes 30-40% more (30% now, but that's because the Canadian dollar is doing better against the $US) and pays 5-10% more for rent.
The cost of living is higher in the states, but if you are living in a big city in Canada (Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, not so much Montreal) the cost of living isn't that much lower.
I was at the airport one time, and the magazines were all one section over from where they labels of the section were. So computer magazines were in a section labled 'Fashion', Fashion magazines were in a section labeled 'Business' and so on. All the porn was in the 'General Interest' section. Seemed appropriate.
An unrelated, but similar phonomenon is that of the effect of jet contrails on temperature. You can read about it here. The study used the period after 9/11 when all flights in North America were grounded for a few days. An interesting read.
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Better buy a bunch of copies now, before all you can buy are the one's with the picture of the cast on the cover saying "Now a major motion picture."
I think a big problem you're going to have with an online system is authentication. With an in person voting system it ensures that Sally house wife is in the booth by herself, and her husband isn't voting on her behalf. A central part of the democratic system is the idea of a single, secret ballot for each person. With an online system you have no way to ensure that.
On top of this, I think you'll have lots of technical problems. Banks make mistakes all the time, but it's cheaper for them to maintain an online system and make mistakes once in a while than have people going to a teller. Also, if a bank makes a mistake they can just make it right by reimbursing you. You can't reimburse votes.
I've used books24x7.com quite extensively. My university has free access, either on campus in the libraries, or through a University proxy server. Forgetting the price for a moment I think it's an excellent resource. Googling is fine for small issues, but you usually get a very superficial introduction to a subject, or the material you find assumes you already know a great deal about the subject. I wanted to learn MFC, and found nothing through google that was both in depth enough and written for the beginner. Surely I could have found something, but being able to pull to 10 books on the subject without looking around was very useful.
I really hate having to read the books online, but if you found something you were interested in you could always print it, or use it as a tool to shop around for good books.
Whether the price is right, well, that's really up to how much money you have, but I'd say that books24x7 is much more convenient and thorough than most sources you'd find by searching.
(N.B. I have no affilation with books24x7.com, I just like their service)
I'm a Canandian, and I made the same comment some time ago on/. It was pointed out to me that elections are *much* simpler in Canada. We vote for MPs in federal elections, MPPs/MLAs in provincial elections, and for one city councilor and one schoolboard trustee in local elections (approximately). In states they vote for Judges, Sherriffs, city controllers, and lots of other positions that I have no idea about. In that sense the US is much more democratic than Canada.
The point is, if you only have to count one vote per ballot it's easy to do by hand, if you have to count 10 or 20 votes per ballot, things get more complicated.
I'm surprised the car companies are going for this. This seems to be a huge liablity problem for them. Right now if you plow into a crowd of school children it's your fault. But if this thing malfunctions, or if someone can argue that the auto-steer system has *anything* to do with the accident, wouldn't there be a ton of lawsuits? Car companies have deep pockets.
Hudson: I am ready, man. Ready to get
it on. Check-it-out. I am the
ultimate badass...state of the
badass art. You do not want to
fuck with me. Hey, Ripley, don't
worry. Me and my squad of
ultimate badasses will protect you.
Check-it-out...
Independently targetting
particle-beam phalanx. VWAP!
Fry half a city with this puppy.
We got tactical smart-missles,
phased-plasma pulse-rifles,
RPG's. We got sonic eeelectronic
ballbreakers, we got nukes, we
got knives...sharp sticks --
I think this is an attempt to split hairs to get as much as they can. As I understand it, it's legal for me (I live in Canada) to lend my friend a CD and for them to copy it, but it's not legal for me to make a copy of a CD I own and give it to a friend (replace 'not legal' with 'copyright infringement' as appropriate). The interpretation with P2P is that if you are downloading then you are 'borrowing' the song from the uploader and so you can legally make the copy, but if you are the uploader you are copying it for a friend, or something to that effect. I think that the law was written with only the physical world in mind, so the extension to the P2p world is a bit fuzzy. I think the Canadian Copyright Board ruled in December that downloadind was OK, so that's why they're going after uploaders.
I clicked the 'More major changes since 0.8 here' link to see what was coming in the next version and saw something funny about it preventing users from 'accidentally' changing their wallpaper to porn they are downloading. On further investigation I found this tid-bit in Bugzilla:
------- Additional Comment #4 From Jesse Ruderman 2002-12-08 18:22 PST [reply] -------
I agree that there should be a confirmation dialog for Set as Wallpaper. The
lack of a confirmation dialog makes the Set as Wallpaper feature less useful to
me, because I keep accidentally blowing away my carefully chosen Phoenix
Wallpaper.bmp when trying to save porn images.
This is just another case of the FireFox developers staying ahead of the curve. Well done boys. Well done.
I could create a brand new, non-obvious email address on one of my domain accounts and put it in as the Admin Contact for a record I own, and use that email address absolutely nowhere else, and I bet that within three months that email address would be getting buckets full of spam.
Funny, I thought the same thing. But I registered one.com and one.ca with an email address I only use for that purpose, and after about 8 months I've gotten zero spam at that address.
What the computer industry is all about is making money. And it's your job as a programmer, sysadm or help desk person to make your company money
As long as the uneducated end user (read: the majority of the market) isn't demanding an end to worms, viruses, spam, etc, and by demanding I mean paying real money for solutions, these problems will continue...
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There's no karma bonus for being +5 funny, or for being a virgin for that matter.
Also, ravaged named Florida's offical state adjective.
As an extension of that, how many Google hotshots are going to become millionaires and then quit? I'm sure this kind of thing happened all the time in the boom. Anyone know what the resignation rate is after a big IPO?
Sweet, I'll finally be able to get some work done.
"12345?!? That's the combination to my suitcase!"
I'm a software developer in Toronto, my brother is a developer in Sunnyvale, CA. He has 2 years more experience than me, but is comparable in skill and experience. He makes 30-40% more (30% now, but that's because the Canadian dollar is doing better against the $US) and pays 5-10% more for rent. The cost of living is higher in the states, but if you are living in a big city in Canada (Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, not so much Montreal) the cost of living isn't that much lower.
I was at the airport one time, and the magazines were all one section over from where they labels of the section were. So computer magazines were in a section labled 'Fashion', Fashion magazines were in a section labeled 'Business' and so on. All the porn was in the 'General Interest' section. Seemed appropriate.
An unrelated, but similar phonomenon is that of the effect of jet contrails on temperature. You can read about it here. The study used the period after 9/11 when all flights in North America were grounded for a few days. An interesting read.
Better buy a bunch of copies now, before all you can buy are the one's with the picture of the cast on the cover saying "Now a major motion picture."
I think a big problem you're going to have with an online system is authentication. With an in person voting system it ensures that Sally house wife is in the booth by herself, and her husband isn't voting on her behalf. A central part of the democratic system is the idea of a single, secret ballot for each person. With an online system you have no way to ensure that.
On top of this, I think you'll have lots of technical problems. Banks make mistakes all the time, but it's cheaper for them to maintain an online system and make mistakes once in a while than have people going to a teller. Also, if a bank makes a mistake they can just make it right by reimbursing you. You can't reimburse votes.
I really hate having to read the books online, but if you found something you were interested in you could always print it, or use it as a tool to shop around for good books.
Whether the price is right, well, that's really up to how much money you have, but I'd say that books24x7 is much more convenient and thorough than most sources you'd find by searching.
(N.B. I have no affilation with books24x7.com, I just like their service)
The point is, if you only have to count one vote per ballot it's easy to do by hand, if you have to count 10 or 20 votes per ballot, things get more complicated.
I'm surprised the car companies are going for this. This seems to be a huge liablity problem for them. Right now if you plow into a crowd of school children it's your fault. But if this thing malfunctions, or if someone can argue that the auto-steer system has *anything* to do with the accident, wouldn't there be a ton of lawsuits? Car companies have deep pockets.
I think the simulation takes this into account. It lets you specify target density, or allows you to select one of 4 pre-defined densities...
Hudson: I am ready, man. Ready to get it on. Check-it-out. I am the ultimate badass...state of the badass art. You do not want to fuck with me. Hey, Ripley, don't worry. Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you. Check-it-out... Independently targetting particle-beam phalanx. VWAP! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart-missles, phased-plasma pulse-rifles, RPG's. We got sonic eeelectronic ballbreakers, we got nukes, we got knives...sharp sticks --
What about "Fall of the Jedi" (symmetry with "Return of the....")??
Those systems seem to be Lindows based. Here's a link to the Sun Java Desktop based systems. Seems the lowest price is $298.
I think this is an attempt to split hairs to get as much as they can. As I understand it, it's legal for me (I live in Canada) to lend my friend a CD and for them to copy it, but it's not legal for me to make a copy of a CD I own and give it to a friend (replace 'not legal' with 'copyright infringement' as appropriate). The interpretation with P2P is that if you are downloading then you are 'borrowing' the song from the uploader and so you can legally make the copy, but if you are the uploader you are copying it for a friend, or something to that effect. I think that the law was written with only the physical world in mind, so the extension to the P2p world is a bit fuzzy. I think the Canadian Copyright Board ruled in December that downloadind was OK, so that's why they're going after uploaders.
This is just another case of the FireFox developers staying ahead of the curve. Well done boys. Well done.
Dude, Unicron doesn't exist, that's just in cartoons. It was Galactis.
How about "I can't believe it's not windows!"
As long as the uneducated end user (read: the majority of the market) isn't demanding an end to worms, viruses, spam, etc, and by demanding I mean paying real money for solutions, these problems will continue...