Meanwhile, American students will apparently have been delivering pizza for the summer because there's usually nothing listed.
While there are good number of people who take the summer off to party, plenty of people I know also did basic jobs during the summer time off in order to accumulate money to pay off their costs during the school semester. Co-op courses make it better, but finding an internship that pays enough to make it worthwhile AND gives useful experience isn't such an easy thing, especially if you don't live in a big city (or have relatives that do). Either you have to move and then pay out most of your wages in rent, etc, or you live with relatives for cheap a few months while you get the cash to pay the tuition/loans.
It's not about immigrants, really, it's about companies saving a buck at the taxpayers' expense. If the system weren't so f***'ed up to favor this, immigration wouldn't be as much of an issue.
Anyhow, I'm a Canadian, but from what I've seen the situation is much the same on either end of the border. My girlfriend is from China. She's got a degree in accounting, a masters in business, and taught university level accounting courses both in China and Australia.
Here, she can't find a (legitimate) job. Small places don't want to hire her because they know once she gets enough local working experience, she'll move on to something bigger. Big companies don't want to hire her because she doesn't have local working experience.
What there are, though, are lots of companies willing to screw over the immigrants in this situation. Sadly, most of these seem to be run by those from the same backgrounds as the people they're screwing.
So far she's recently had two+ companies that grilled her with days of interviews/tests and then ended with "your experience isn't quite good enough. Pay us $xxxx and we'll train you, then if you pass one more test we'll hire you". She's had a few where they tried to sell her some product/software to do the job.
The most recent one was a fricking lawyer, who - after asking her a bunch of illegal personal questions (are you married, got kids, live with anyone) to determine if she was an ignorant just-off-the-boat immigrant, proceeded to offer her a pay that was only 68% of the legal minimum wage.
So if you think you've got it bad due to immigrants, I'd look at lot harder at the companies that are hiring them, because in many cases they're doing so because it's much easier to trick or screw over somebody who's recent to the country and ignorant of the laws here.
I'm hoping that this will eventually lead to a fix of many ATI-related issues on Linux and 3D, as their cards seem to experience a lot of weird GL bugs compared to Nvidia, etc.
KDE4 on an ATI card, for example, does lots of weird things if you try to use FMV or have 3d apps and the 3d accelerated functions. Likewise Cedega has been known to behave oddly with ATI cards.
On a positive note about ATI though, their drivers seem to have improved quite noticeably since the AMD takeover, and in some instances are updated quicker than Nvidia's. When 2.6.28 came out, the Nvidia driver wouldn't compile but ATI's drivers worked just fine. Also, ATI's installer has a GUI portion for those users that aren't so comfortable with a command-line.
In this case, I don't think that that's the root of the problem. Yes, you're going to get people trolling about any contentious issue, but the fact is that many people that have been bitching the loudest about KDE4 are those that were strong users of KDE 3.5. I would include myself among those, as one of the first things I tended to do when setting up a new 'nix machine installing KDE in favour of gnome. However, KDE4 has been a big mess. A lot of functionality that one might almost take for granted in the previous version was dropped, apps haven't been ported, or didn't work properly. The whole configuration system has changed, and overall it looks like a lot more focus seems to have been put on "prettiness" VS functionality.
I don't doubt that eventually KDE4 will turn out fairly polished, but for the current release the existing quality has been more on par with a beta than a proper release. With major distros pushing KDE4 over KDE3 (and tending to drop 3.5 overall), it's certainly ticked off a lot of users, and in many ways rightfully so.
now I can't say if it was the fault of the OS, TV, or laptop, but my mother did have a new (within the year) large-screen TV and an equally new laptop, but could not get her blu-ray disks to play to the TV over the HDCP connection. Other output would work, but trying to play BD discs would just pop up an HDCP error on the TV.
I can't say whether it was the OS or the hardware those, since XP won't run on that particular laptop due to lack of drivers.
True enough. The KKK are a whole I don't really see as being among "the brightest and the best", but I suppose there are reasons one might have for joining such groups that transcends normal intelligence or reason.
I have seen many racist persons that were actually otherwise quite bright, or groups that have some rather intelligent members. Sometimes the reasons are as you mentioned, or something simpler such as "person of ethnicity X killed my brother, so I hate all people of X", but perhaps it's only my own personal bias that the KKK doesn't lend itself to an overall impression of intelligence in that regard.
While many have already mentioned the obvious drawbacks (heat may drop on the most-effected areas, but it still needs to get the heat *out* of the case), if this is still an effective and innovative method for cooling then I wonder how Intel would go about licensing it. Holding onto tech that would allow for a 15c drop in core temperature would probably give them quite a strong advantage over competitors such as AMD, etc, which might be worth more than the advantage of licensing it out...
Another sad point is that the attitude of many organizations is to immediately go into cover-my-ass mode. So while you're trying to address things reasonably, they're already prepping ways to hammer your and/or bring in the lawyers to drive things home. At least if you get a lawyer's advice ahead of time, he/she can tell you what *NOT* to say or agree with.
That's not to say that you should hit the school with a lawsuit right away, but seeking legal counsel might not be entirely unreasonable.
While I'm not fan of the triple-K, it seems to me that the above exerpt is more of a "rally to us if you're against a black president" (distasteful for sure, but not visibly advocating violence) as opposed to "rally to us and help us track down and kill Obama during event X at Y etc etc"
Nobody's posted what the original comments on the IM server was, but I could see the line being drawn as "group of assholes" VS "notice of group planning specific criminal action" (however much they may be associated with such in a broad aspect).
I wonder who actually runs the servers for groups like the KKK though. I get a "connection refused" when trying to do a whois, probably because it's blocked by Canada's anti-hate laws etc, but I do wonder about being intelligent enough to be a sysadmin but dumb enough to be a member of such a group...
I always thought it would be better if they had a way of submitting names/phone #'s in a standardized format to a webpage that would verify they're legit to call.
Like when you're checking a password against a hash, the submitter never sees a plain password (or in this case a phone #), only whether or not it's accepted.
Heck, you could do something similar with data on a CD/DVD-ROM of actually MD5'ed #'s with a quick lookup app to check them.
Today we announced second quarter revenue of $16.6 billion. This number is an increase of just 2 percent compared with the second quarter of last year
These are the parts that always get me. We're not losing money, in fact we're making more profit than last year. However, because we wanted/expected to make even MORE money than that, we're going to have to fire a bunch of people
Whether or not the firings are reasonable, it seems to me that in all industries I'm hearing about a lack of profit *increase*. Companies like the music/movie industry continually bemoan that the profits they're making didn't go up as much as they hoped. Again, not that they're not making *shitloads* of cash hand over fit, but they're not making shitloads of cash at an exponential rate over the previous year/term/etc...
Fido by default on my account charges that stupid "system access fee."
However, it didn't actually mention the SAF on my account, and I recently discovered that Fido has *other* plans that DON'T have a SAF. It seems to me that by charging the SAF on some plans and not others, what they're really doing is adding an undisclosed extra charge on top of the actual plan, in an attempt to make the plan look cheaper than it actually is...
Of course. Around here we have separate recycle bins for various materials (although there's always *somebody* who mixes them up), and where I lived before they had bottle returns etc. But what I was talking about was something on-site to do most of the processing, particularly of the wastes which could be used to produce power, fuel or some other reusable byproduct.
For those that can be flashed, do they allow firmware downgrades or will they just allow a newer firmware to fix the issue (it's hard to tell from the discussion board)? In that case it's also pretty much bricked until a fix comes around, because there's not going to be any way for the user to fix it.
Waste re-processors have a lot of advantages. I remember reading about one project awhile ago that basically produced biofuel from sewage. Assuming that it also helped produce cleaner water once the fuel was removed for consumption, it seems like you've got two advantages there.
For something that could use more common forms of waste, you're saving space and money on gas, landfills, transportation of waste, and a huge array of other expenses.
Perhaps one day in the hopeful future, large apartment complexes or city blocks will have mini-plants which have a septic and solid waste processor, and perhaps even something to separate metals or plastics for re-use.
I believe that for boxes with a whole lotta CPUs, you're paying more (because hey, what you *should* be doing is having multiple boxes and buying extra copies of the software for each), or at least that used to be the case.
I'm not sure how they've updated licenses for multi-core though.
Most places I've been have tests that are set per the model of vehicle, which I find rather a rather ridiculous concept. If car X is better for emissions overall than car Y, but has more emissions for its grade, then it fails. Unfortunately they won't release the actual scales, but it seems to me that having an older but somewhat efficient vehicle which is out of tune is still better than having a newer guzzler which - even in tune - pours out more pollution is not an fair solution.
Seems that a lot of them would still have a market under portables. Playing a good ol' game of Bubble Bobble or even Pacman as part of a "classics collection" is still a fun way to pass excess time while taking transit etc.
If they add basic networking capabilities to allow the multi-player stuff to work (just enough to connect and allow for two controllers and a shared screen) it should work rather well.
Yes, because everyone knows that the plants where they build cars are fuelled by gasoline.
While in some cases they may be fueled by rather environmentally unfriendly sources such as coal, etc, I'm guessing that a good number are powered by sources such as Hydroelectric, Nuclear, etc, which are going to offer a lot less pollution than burning gasoline.
I'm not sure what actual CC stores are like - since most here are bought out "radio shack" stores -, but the local "Source/Circuit City" store was the only bloody place that I could find that would sell desolding braid (used to suck up solder off of PCB's etc). Hardware stores, electronics stores, etc, plenty of them had solder and crappy soldering guns, but CC was the only one that actually carried the desoldering braid.
It also cost me $5.99 for a little 5ft braid, and the saleperson charged $6.99 (until I picked up the price sign, brought it to him, and got a refund at the cost of my contact info)... so I can see how their prices aren't helping them.
Also pensions, etc, which there are often a gov't portion and a employer/employee contribution. That might very well be an important topic to a big corp or at least an employee thereof.
If "Company X" has a large business presence in "state Y", but "person Z" had a partner that's going to be screwed out pension/etc if he lives in "Y", he might decide to find work in an alternate location that has more flexible laws, but where X doesn't have a strong business presence.
It seems that most who are against gay marriage are either generally anti-gay and/or rather religious (and still view marriage as a church, male+female institution).
As a taxpayer, one thing that concerns me more is the current court cases (see BC, Canada) with polygamy.
It seems to me that being married to multiple partners muddles the whole benefits/insurance/etc situation a lot more than gay marriages would.
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Meanwhile, American students will apparently have been delivering pizza for the summer because there's usually nothing listed.
While there are good number of people who take the summer off to party, plenty of people I know also did basic jobs during the summer time off in order to accumulate money to pay off their costs during the school semester. Co-op courses make it better, but finding an internship that pays enough to make it worthwhile AND gives useful experience isn't such an easy thing, especially if you don't live in a big city (or have relatives that do). Either you have to move and then pay out most of your wages in rent, etc, or you live with relatives for cheap a few months while you get the cash to pay the tuition/loans.
It's not about immigrants, really, it's about companies saving a buck at the taxpayers' expense. If the system weren't so f***'ed up to favor this, immigration wouldn't be as much of an issue.
Anyhow, I'm a Canadian, but from what I've seen the situation is much the same on either end of the border. My girlfriend is from China. She's got a degree in accounting, a masters in business, and taught university level accounting courses both in China and Australia.
Here, she can't find a (legitimate) job. Small places don't want to hire her because they know once she gets enough local working experience, she'll move on to something bigger. Big companies don't want to hire her because she doesn't have local working experience.
What there are, though, are lots of companies willing to screw over the immigrants in this situation. Sadly, most of these seem to be run by those from the same backgrounds as the people they're screwing.
So far she's recently had two+ companies that grilled her with days of interviews/tests and then ended with "your experience isn't quite good enough. Pay us $xxxx and we'll train you, then if you pass one more test we'll hire you". She's had a few where they tried to sell her some product/software to do the job.
The most recent one was a fricking lawyer, who - after asking her a bunch of illegal personal questions (are you married, got kids, live with anyone) to determine if she was an ignorant just-off-the-boat immigrant, proceeded to offer her a pay that was only 68% of the legal minimum wage.
So if you think you've got it bad due to immigrants, I'd look at lot harder at the companies that are hiring them, because in many cases they're doing so because it's much easier to trick or screw over somebody who's recent to the country and ignorant of the laws here.
I'm hoping that this will eventually lead to a fix of many ATI-related issues on Linux and 3D, as their cards seem to experience a lot of weird GL bugs compared to Nvidia, etc.
KDE4 on an ATI card, for example, does lots of weird things if you try to use FMV or have 3d apps and the 3d accelerated functions. Likewise Cedega has been known to behave oddly with ATI cards.
On a positive note about ATI though, their drivers seem to have improved quite noticeably since the AMD takeover, and in some instances are updated quicker than Nvidia's. When 2.6.28 came out, the Nvidia driver wouldn't compile but ATI's drivers worked just fine. Also, ATI's installer has a GUI portion for those users that aren't so comfortable with a command-line.
In this case, I don't think that that's the root of the problem. Yes, you're going to get people trolling about any contentious issue, but the fact is that many people that have been bitching the loudest about KDE4 are those that were strong users of KDE 3.5. I would include myself among those, as one of the first things I tended to do when setting up a new 'nix machine installing KDE in favour of gnome. However, KDE4 has been a big mess. A lot of functionality that one might almost take for granted in the previous version was dropped, apps haven't been ported, or didn't work properly. The whole configuration system has changed, and overall it looks like a lot more focus seems to have been put on "prettiness" VS functionality.
I don't doubt that eventually KDE4 will turn out fairly polished, but for the current release the existing quality has been more on par with a beta than a proper release. With major distros pushing KDE4 over KDE3 (and tending to drop 3.5 overall), it's certainly ticked off a lot of users, and in many ways rightfully so.
now I can't say if it was the fault of the OS, TV, or laptop, but my mother did have a new (within the year) large-screen TV and an equally new laptop, but could not get her blu-ray disks to play to the TV over the HDCP connection. Other output would work, but trying to play BD discs would just pop up an HDCP error on the TV.
I can't say whether it was the OS or the hardware those, since XP won't run on that particular laptop due to lack of drivers.
Umm, this appears to apply to camera PHONES. I can't see professionals using those for their pictures.
Seems to me that it wouldn't do much to prevent videos, which would be just as much of a problem as the photos if not worse...
Maybe I shouldn't give them ideas.
True enough. The KKK are a whole I don't really see as being among "the brightest and the best", but I suppose there are reasons one might have for joining such groups that transcends normal intelligence or reason.
I have seen many racist persons that were actually otherwise quite bright, or groups that have some rather intelligent members. Sometimes the reasons are as you mentioned, or something simpler such as "person of ethnicity X killed my brother, so I hate all people of X", but perhaps it's only my own personal bias that the KKK doesn't lend itself to an overall impression of intelligence in that regard.
While many have already mentioned the obvious drawbacks (heat may drop on the most-effected areas, but it still needs to get the heat *out* of the case), if this is still an effective and innovative method for cooling then I wonder how Intel would go about licensing it. Holding onto tech that would allow for a 15c drop in core temperature would probably give them quite a strong advantage over competitors such as AMD, etc, which might be worth more than the advantage of licensing it out...
Another sad point is that the attitude of many organizations is to immediately go into cover-my-ass mode. So while you're trying to address things reasonably, they're already prepping ways to hammer your and/or bring in the lawyers to drive things home. At least if you get a lawyer's advice ahead of time, he/she can tell you what *NOT* to say or agree with.
That's not to say that you should hit the school with a lawsuit right away, but seeking legal counsel might not be entirely unreasonable.
While I'm not fan of the triple-K, it seems to me that the above exerpt is more of a "rally to us if you're against a black president" (distasteful for sure, but not visibly advocating violence) as opposed to "rally to us and help us track down and kill Obama during event X at Y etc etc"
Nobody's posted what the original comments on the IM server was, but I could see the line being drawn as "group of assholes" VS "notice of group planning specific criminal action" (however much they may be associated with such in a broad aspect).
I wonder who actually runs the servers for groups like the KKK though. I get a "connection refused" when trying to do a whois, probably because it's blocked by Canada's anti-hate laws etc, but I do wonder about being intelligent enough to be a sysadmin but dumb enough to be a member of such a group...
I always thought it would be better if they had a way of submitting names/phone #'s in a standardized format to a webpage that would verify they're legit to call.
Like when you're checking a password against a hash, the submitter never sees a plain password (or in this case a phone #), only whether or not it's accepted.
Heck, you could do something similar with data on a CD/DVD-ROM of actually MD5'ed #'s with a quick lookup app to check them.
Today we announced second quarter revenue of $16.6 billion. This number is an increase of just 2 percent compared with the second quarter of last year
These are the parts that always get me. We're not losing money, in fact we're making more profit than last year. However, because we wanted/expected to make even MORE money than that, we're going to have to fire a bunch of people
Whether or not the firings are reasonable, it seems to me that in all industries I'm hearing about a lack of profit *increase*. Companies like the music/movie industry continually bemoan that the profits they're making didn't go up as much as they hoped. Again, not that they're not making *shitloads* of cash hand over fit, but they're not making shitloads of cash at an exponential rate over the previous year/term/etc...
Fido by default on my account charges that stupid "system access fee."
However, it didn't actually mention the SAF on my account, and I recently discovered that Fido has *other* plans that DON'T have a SAF. It seems to me that by charging the SAF on some plans and not others, what they're really doing is adding an undisclosed extra charge on top of the actual plan, in an attempt to make the plan look cheaper than it actually is...
Of course. Around here we have separate recycle bins for various materials (although there's always *somebody* who mixes them up), and where I lived before they had bottle returns etc. But what I was talking about was something on-site to do most of the processing, particularly of the wastes which could be used to produce power, fuel or some other reusable byproduct.
For those that can be flashed, do they allow firmware downgrades or will they just allow a newer firmware to fix the issue (it's hard to tell from the discussion board)? In that case it's also pretty much bricked until a fix comes around, because there's not going to be any way for the user to fix it.
Waste re-processors have a lot of advantages. I remember reading about one project awhile ago that basically produced biofuel from sewage. Assuming that it also helped produce cleaner water once the fuel was removed for consumption, it seems like you've got two advantages there.
For something that could use more common forms of waste, you're saving space and money on gas, landfills, transportation of waste, and a huge array of other expenses.
Perhaps one day in the hopeful future, large apartment complexes or city blocks will have mini-plants which have a septic and solid waste processor, and perhaps even something to separate metals or plastics for re-use.
Is it per server, or per server per CPU?
I believe that for boxes with a whole lotta CPUs, you're paying more (because hey, what you *should* be doing is having multiple boxes and buying extra copies of the software for each), or at least that used to be the case.
I'm not sure how they've updated licenses for multi-core though.
My question is: How well do "wiping" methods apply to SSD's, and how necessary are they versus something like a simple "zeroing" of data?
Most places I've been have tests that are set per the model of vehicle, which I find rather a rather ridiculous concept. If car X is better for emissions overall than car Y, but has more emissions for its grade, then it fails. Unfortunately they won't release the actual scales, but it seems to me that having an older but somewhat efficient vehicle which is out of tune is still better than having a newer guzzler which - even in tune - pours out more pollution is not an fair solution.
Seems that a lot of them would still have a market under portables. Playing a good ol' game of Bubble Bobble or even Pacman as part of a "classics collection" is still a fun way to pass excess time while taking transit etc.
If they add basic networking capabilities to allow the multi-player stuff to work (just enough to connect and allow for two controllers and a shared screen) it should work rather well.
Yes, because everyone knows that the plants where they build cars are fuelled by gasoline.
While in some cases they may be fueled by rather environmentally unfriendly sources such as coal, etc, I'm guessing that a good number are powered by sources such as Hydroelectric, Nuclear, etc, which are going to offer a lot less pollution than burning gasoline.
I'm not sure what actual CC stores are like - since most here are bought out "radio shack" stores -, but the local "Source/Circuit City" store was the only bloody place that I could find that would sell desolding braid (used to suck up solder off of PCB's etc). Hardware stores, electronics stores, etc, plenty of them had solder and crappy soldering guns, but CC was the only one that actually carried the desoldering braid.
It also cost me $5.99 for a little 5ft braid, and the saleperson charged $6.99 (until I picked up the price sign, brought it to him, and got a refund at the cost of my contact info)... so I can see how their prices aren't helping them.
Also pensions, etc, which there are often a gov't portion and a employer/employee contribution. That might very well be an important topic to a big corp or at least an employee thereof.
If "Company X" has a large business presence in "state Y", but "person Z" had a partner that's going to be screwed out pension/etc if he lives in "Y", he might decide to find work in an alternate location that has more flexible laws, but where X doesn't have a strong business presence.
It seems that most who are against gay marriage are either generally anti-gay and/or rather religious (and still view marriage as a church, male+female institution).
As a taxpayer, one thing that concerns me more is the current court cases (see BC, Canada) with polygamy.
It seems to me that being married to multiple partners muddles the whole benefits/insurance/etc situation a lot more than gay marriages would.