You seem to think driving over someone's goat is the same as shooting up civilians trying to help a wounded man with no weapon in sight.
Or indeed that all Iraqies have goats.
Watch "Apocalypse now" to see why America is in this situation.
No, I know that ain't a real story. Let me finish.
Watch "Apocalypse now" and now imagine this movie set in Europe with the American soldiers replaced by germans. Would such a movie have been tolerated to have been made by the germans? No.
But the Americans have no problem making this action flick in a war where they killed 8 million civilians.
When you claim to be good guy, people expect you to have certain standards. These gunship pilots failed them. Deal with them.
Contrary to what you seem to believe, TV/Internet and electricity are NOT all there is to life. Yes really.
Sure some slashdotters will die as they are exposed to the harsh rays of the sun when they wander outside for the first time but life will continue on. Some people with no healthy fear of hights will repair the cables and voila, everything be back to normal.
We had power failures before. They are no big deal. Go outside, empty the fridge and have a party. You know. With girls... oh okay, you can remain in the kitchen and look through the window at them, while you build a computer out of egg-cartons.
Mind you, I got a phone-jammer, that I sometimes use just for fun. It is amusing to see just how people react when their cell phone dies. Some really do react as if you cut the umbilical cord.
In a way, it would be an intresting social experiment. Cut the power/internet over the entire globe and see how each culture/area reacts to it. Why do some disaster areas result in looting and rioting and others remain calm? You can't really compare disasters but a global strike like this would be easier to compare. Would there be riots all over? None at all? Only in certain economic areas? Or (oh boy I am going to get it for this one) does it depend on race? Culture? Local leadership?
I have been trained as a soldier myself. Granted ordinary grunt, but I can assure you, there were NO instructions telling you to shoot on civilians, in a civilian vehicle carrying away wounded people while not carrying any weapons when you are in a position of safety.
This video, especially the end is just to many mistakes to be mistakes anymore. These guys went on a powertrip were they were just going to shoot up any sub-human (notice how America seems to have trouble in wars against non-whites, they threat the nazi's with kindness but napalm their former allies the Vietnamese) that dared to move. You can hear them discussing a man clearly not armed trying to crawl away severely injured. "Come on buddy all you need to do is pick up a weapon", meaning "pick up a weapon and we will put you out of your misery". Dirty Harry in a gunship.
WATCH the video. Or are you to scared to face the truth? I notice a lot of your type in this thread. They don't watch the video claiming it can't be true. Talk about a serious case of denial.
WATCH the video. Stop sticking your head in the sand. This is the truth of your nation, of the war Bush started and Obama ain't finishing. And the world is watching. Why do you think Holland wants out of Afghanistan? Why do you think the Labour party is getting a kicking in Britain? Because people in the rest of the world no longer can look away.
And after you watched the video, then watch who in the US watches this video and shows it on TV and demands for the justice. None is my bet. And that will hurt the US. Every silent american is food for islamic fundementalists. Who needs to argue about a Zionist conspiracy when you can show this video about american blowing away your own people.
1 american gunship pilot unpunished. 1000 new recruits for suicide bomber duty.
You know what tells me the most that the lives of the helicopter pilots were never in any danger? They spend all that time circling the area, in a predicatable circle, focussing only on a small bit of the "action". If you were really afraid of someone targetting you with an RPG, wouldn't you be looking all over the place? Fly unpredicatble? Call for backup?
It is like the "accidental" shooting down by the US of an Iran airliner. The captain claims he thought he was being attacked by a wing of aircraft. Anyone who knows anything about modern air-naval engagements knows that a wing of aircraft can do serious damage to a modern ship. When you are under attack, it is time to throw everything in the air including the kitchensink because just one missle getting through can sink you.
So what does this captain do against this wing of attacking aircraft, that could easily signal the start of a war? Fire a SINGLE missle. And then not be surprised at any point that the target thought to be a number of aircraft turns out to be just one. Flying slow, not evading at all, not hitting them with radar, not trying to evade the missle and then when the SINGLE missle hit, the captain and crew show no worry about the other aircraft, or other angles of attack.
How odd.
The US thinks everyone is to stupid to see an execution when it happens. Just because your own people are so easily fooled (read the number of americans commenting "Are you sure that is what happened, I doubt it, I didn't watch the video but doubt it shows what you claim because FOX tells me we are the good guys"), doesn't mean the rest of the world is.
As I said in another reaction. mistakes happen, it is how you deal with them that you will be judged by. There is only 1 answer to this. These gunship pilots go against the wall. Show the world that law and order does not just mean "do as we say, don't do as we do". Or Iraq and Afghanistan will go on for ever and ever.
because this is exactly what they do. The US gunship pilot BEGS to be allowed to fire on men who arrive in a minivan with kids in the passenger seat and who clearly are not armed and NOT taking any hostile action. You would think that even Iraqi insurgents would NOT stop a mini-van near a battle to pick a wounded reporter with a gunships hovering nearby.
These butchers begged to fire on a target that was no threath. For that alone they should be lined up against a wall. But they won't and the US will loose this war because of it. When you become worse then the enemy, the enemy has won. Obama must, but won't, make a stand against this. Else it will just be another Vietnam (and Iran and Iraq and every other place where the US propped a puppet regime, treated the locals as sub-human and had its soldiers get out of control). We seen it before.
And all the while Americans like you will doubt clear evidence they could easily check. In war mistakes happen, but it is how you deal with those mistakes that you will be judged. And america doesn't deal with its mistakes, ever.
Listen to the comments by the pilots, they beg to fire on clearly unarmed people in civilian clothing. Then when they learn they fire on kids, they say "well that should teach them not to take kids into battle".
America is in Vietnam 2. And it will loose this war again because its soldiers and leaders are unable to see non-americans as human beings.
My job history is a nightmare, constant job AND career switches and I got no problem finding decent work that pays well.
It is about being able to sell yourself. An employer only wants to know one thing about you. "Am I going to make a profit with this guy."
That is it. And if you can't sell yourself without resume's or a portfolio, then yes you need that. But only if you can't sell yourself.
Sure, there are jobs that ask for 10 years iPad developer experience. MOVE ON. That is what we in the trade call a RED FLAG. Warning, douche bag HR monkey doing the interviewing.
Go for the jobs where the first interview is done by a techie, who grills you. That means they got work to be doing, if you can do it, then you are solid. No techie will care about your papers because every techie knows people with papers who are useless.
So, not much chance of getting a job at IBM, but then, who wants to work in India anyway? Go for the real tech companies. All I really want to see you on your CV is code. Code that shows me you are worth of hiring as an intern or senior because I can see you got potential.
Really, what is this IT sector. Does it include EA? Id? IBM? The guy who fixes the printer? The help desk retard who tells you to reboot?
If you read some slashdot posts, you might almost think that programmers do not belong in IT at all. Or at best are a minor influence.
So, whose job is going down the drain?
I can only speak from my own experience in Holland (un-employment rate 3.9%, that is socialism for you, suck it yanks) and yes, some people are loosing their jobs and finding it hard to find new ones. But having done my fair share of interviews, I am not entirely sure these people belong in the industry anyway.
Come on, what developer can't answer the question of what a join is? What debug tools do you use?
I got jobs from intern to senior but I expect you to be worth your salary. Don't come to me demanding a senior salary if you fail questions I knew when I was a junior. And no, I don't care if you don't know every function or the correct order of parameters. I want to know you understand the concepts behind the tools you use and that you know how to test that what you build works works as it should and how to start tracing problems.
Is that to much to ask? Well, yes, for a lot of people it seems to be.
So I am not surprised with current situation in the US. We had this before, in a recesion the dead wood is sorted out and salaries for the barely adequate settle down. The rest, the few who actually are any good at their job do fine. My own salary has been steadily rising. Not because I am a genius, far from it, but because I am an above average coder. And yes, that does mean that I am on occasion dealing with outsourced work, testing it and fixing it. Can't blaim them. It is not that we don't want to hire western developers, but there just aren't any. Not good ones.
Please tell me that expecting a medior web developer to know what a join is, is not to much to ask.
As has been pointed out, in Israel they got conscription. Everyone serves.
So this study has shown that people named Bozzio have limited knowledge of the world and are unable to make proper informed conclusions. A limited study to be sure, but I think the results will stand up over time.
Then why didn't you think "this is killing me, making me loose the sensation of taste and smell and makes me smell bad as well as costing me an arm and a leg to feed my addiction"?
Hard to take a 10 year drug addict serious as a deep thinker.
This idea is hardly new. It has been used for ages. The idea is simple. There is lots of light outside, I want light inside, I take the light outside inside.
No, it does not work at night. Geez, you must be so clever for pointing this out. But it saves you having to use artificial light from sources which many feel is not as nice as sunlight, during the time the sun is out.
How about cloudy days? Yeah, because it is cloudy outside now and I need a flashlight to move outside it is so dark. NOT.
UV radiation and heat? Can and are often filtered depending on demands.
In a way, this is a just a window. Are the slashdotters responding today so used to living in their mothers basement that using a window to light the room when you can is a completely alien idea to them?
Or maybe the hatred of MS Windows has spilled over?
It is a window. Dissing the usefulness of windows is a bit silly. And we know how to work around it. When the window goes dark, you use artificial lighting. It ain't rocket science.
If human civilization depended on some slashdotters responding today we would have died out long before we got out of the trees.
Smart monkey: "Oh look meat, we can eat that and grow big brains".
Slashdot dweed: "But the meat might not be available tomorrow, this plan is doomed to failure!"
The idea that you can outshine the sun with a man made satellite is so absurd, you have to question the intelligence of the person asking this question. At night it would be easier, but still require an insane amount of power and be totally useless when there are clouds.
At first I thought the question might be about measuring the oceans for tsunami waves, but this kid wants to put up some kind of disco lights.
You already need binoculars to see the ISS and then you can only spot it if the light reflects of it in the right way. The idea that a man made satellite could light up the skies, that is the domain of 5 year olds.
But this is the reason most governments don't listen all that much to the voter. Because this is the kind of letters they get. Hard to take the voter serious when this is what they come up with.
I think real scientists should stay well away from this kinda crap, if you got to research what happens when people die, don't link it to heaven.
It is like "scientist" trying to explain Bible myths. How could Moses have parted the seas, what could have caused the plagues etc.
That is like a bad episode of myth-busters where they test movie stunts. What they do first is try to convince people that a scene in the movie is somehow real and has to follow real world physics and then disprove it... learn to seperate fantasy from reality for Christ damn, for god's sake oh fuck it.
All the happenings in the Bible can be explained very simply if you think of it as a bunch of Fantasy written by people who wanted to create a religion. There is even clear evidence that the Bible is fabricated. Even its followed accept that the New Testament was created from seperate books, edited with some parts and books left out completely. So we know that it is edited. No truly religious person would dare to edit the word of god, so what made the person who edited the new testament decide to think he could do this?
And low and behold, if you think of it as a bad hack job, then suddenly it all makes sense. And we know religions can be entirely fabricated. Scientology anyone?
It is amusing to see a program on trying to explain the story around Moses, when nothing in the historical record mentions this at all. Explain the parting of the red seas, but not why an exodus of slaves was not mentioned in Egyptian records. Now that is science. Up next, myth-busters and the geographic channel examine how a grandmother and a little girl can fit in a wolves stomach whole. Leave your brain at the door.
Culture. It is very important and you can see it very clearly in game.
Try this for an exercise: Compare a Japanese, eastern European, American or British game with each other.
Japanese games, typical Japanese games tend to be rather unforgiving. Hard to the point of impossible with no such concept as levels.
Eastern European games tend to push the edge in some areas, but fail horribly as well rounded games. Tend to have their difficulty all over the place. Take the old Nival Interactive game Silent Storm. Great game, but hopelessly flawed with unclear mission objectives and a dis-jointed structure and even pulling a Jagged Alliance 2 but add unwanted, hated and despised sci-fi elements that totally upset the game balance. We haven't see the kind of fully destructible environment as in Silent Storm since, but also not the "lets switch from one era to another without putting it on the box".
American games tend to be more rounded. They push the edge less perhaps, but they are a more finished product. There is a reason Hollywood dominates the movies. No other nation could have produced Star Wars. The brits would have shot it all in a powerplant and a quary because that is where you shoot Sci-fi. The sweeds would have filled it with personal reflection. The koreans would have swung widely from comedy to ultra-violence for no particular reason. Indians would have added dance.
British games? Tend to be quirky. The odd ball games that you didn't think would work but do. The moment a British developer has enough money, he becomes an American developer.
The above could also be done with movies of course. You can see this very clearly with the change in Jacky Chan movies as he switches countries. His asian movies often haven't got an ending. He bad guy is finished, cut to credits. He doesn't "get the girl", often "the girl" ain't even a love intrest. Unheard of in American movies, and his American productions added the epilogue. The bad guy is defeated, now go get the girl.
It will be intresting to see what African games bring. Just so I can labelled a racist, it is intresting to see russian developers develop games on hardware I dumped out the door. Cutting edge games, on cheapo CRT's. An iPhone game when your neighbour is dying from hunger... well that has to come from a certain mindset. Somehow I don't think ethics are going to be a strong element, anything to survive motto perhaps? Or not.
I have been to Africa and while they do indeed have cities, and there are areas were it almost looks western, there are also huge differences. It is as simple as going from the EU to the US. There may be areas that look the same, and then you see someone walking with a gun and you know it is not.
And the biggest danger? Westerners going all mushy and falling into "well ain't you a clever little african, you can code too, ain't they almost human" mode. Like the article. Wow, two people coded a simple game. In Africa. That this is news, is in a way disturbing.
Think about what is worse racist statement: "Blacks can't hold a steady job" vs "Blacks are really good at dancing".
The second is worse, it sounds like compliment but while you can fight the first stereo-type, there is no getting rid of the second one and its hidden "that is all they are good at" message.
There aren't a lot of games coming from Belgium. Would a game coming from there merit the same attention?
And that is the western economy in a nutshell... well actually, that is the western economy up shit creek without a paddle.
I wonder what the romans thought just before their empire crumbled around them.
And don't worry, it ain't just the US. Holland was labelled a while ago as a tax-haven, while local companies dodge our taxes, how creepy can it get? If you drive across an industrial park, you quickly notice that almost nothing is being produced anymore. Everything is warehouses where boxes from China are shuffled around.
But don't worry, the knowledge and service industry will keep us all employed. The service industry like the banks. That need billions in government handouts to function (and this one wasn't the first) paid from taxes they don't pay themselves. Oh yeah, that is a long term plan.
But I have a very simple solution. No taxes without representation. Bill Gates and his tax dodging company no longer get police protection. Go ahead, do whatever you want with him. The tax payed systems of law enforcement are clearly not something he is willing to pay for.
Time to make it clear that being part of a country is an all or nothing deal. Don't like the tax rules, then piss off. Lets see how the likes of Microsoft and IBM really enjoy living in a tax shelter, with their families.
If Apple had become the dominant IT company, if it hadn't screwed up like everyone else with the PC and allowed Wintel to completly own the industry, then we might have been even worse off.
But that didn't happen. All the lock-in, proprietary, sneakiness of Apple is "mostly harmless". It sucks if it bites you in the ass, but the rest of the world isn't affected.
And that makes all the difference. Apple is a big player in PC's but it got lots of healthy competition and this means that if I don't like the crap that they pull with their display connector, I don't have to like it. Plenty of other PC/laptop makers around.
Now Apple is becoming more powerful, you can see this with the sudden ditching of flash with the coming of the iPad. And that could be bad... give me a minute, got to come up with a reason the painful agonizing and humiliating death of flash is a bad thing... anyone?
Well, it is not bad in itself, but it shows just how powerful a company can become. A techonolgy that was used widely, that you couldn't get rid of with endless security holes and browsers consuming 100% cpu, GONE because a company releases a single product that might still bomb (yeah right). That is pause for thought. What if this extends? What if Apple becomes so powerful it can stop the acceptance of USB 3.0 (Its laptop range still does not support), or a new CPU range (Again, its laptops are still on the ancient Core 2 Duo).
Would Apple have created OSX if it wasn't the underdog? Would it have pulled an IE6 and just kept its old crap around with no development because they owned the market? Maybe.
I for one think that healthy competition is good, so next time you blindly buy an iThingy because everyone buys one, remember what might happen if EVERYONE buys iThingies just because everyone does.
MAJOR BULLSHIT COMING UP. TAKE COVERand that some clients left and did not re-offend within the 5 year window they followed up in.
WHOA, that was a bad one. Everyone okay? Okay, then lets start clearing up this mess before the next wave comes in.
What is this bullshit?
and that some clients left and were not caught within the 5 year window they followed up in.
Fact, only a tiny portion of crimes are ever solved and that is only of reported crimes. Many crimes go unreported. All those catholic child rapist in the news lately? 30 or more years without being caught.
This kinda bullshit is always pulled by the bleeding hearts.
For someone to register as a re-offender that person must:
Commit an other crime.
This crime to be reported.
This crime to be investigated.
This crime to be solved, within the statue of limitations.
This crime to be brought to court.
The crime to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
A sentence to be handed out.
This sentence not be hidden from the records for some reason or another.
This sentence to be linked to the earlier one. (think different jurisdictions and such)
All within a 5 year period. And with the researcher doing the right search to find the second offence. Say offender X goes abroad and is convicted there, how is the researcher ever to know?
All this, and we still get a 70-80+ recidivism rate. Treatment centers slap themselves on the back if they get 84% down to 83%. Whoo, we are so good!
Remember, when we talk about recidivism, we are getting the story from people in the industry. If they ever would suggest that it is all pointless, then they would be out of a job. A job that pays rather well. Only one person claimed it was pointless, right before he killed himself, and all his colleagues have done since is deny that he claimed what he claimed. They don't even try to revute the claims, because they can't. Just claim that he never made them.
Already by simply going to wikipedia you can learn that this is not the true first.
History
The first television image of Earth from space from the TIROS-1 weather satellite.
The first weather satellite, Vanguard 2, was launched on February 17, 1959. It was designed to measure cloud cover and resistance, but a poor axis of rotation kept it from collecting a notable amount of useful data.
The first weather satellite to be considered a success was TIROS-1, launched by NASA on 1 April 1960. TIROS operated for 78 days and proved to be much more successful than Vanguard 2. TIROS paved the way for the Nimbus program, whose technology and findings are the heritage of most of the Earth-observing satellites NASA and NOAA have launched since then.
So the first successful one? And who knows what the soviets did, US history has a tendency to ignore the rest of the world. Simple check, see whether helicopters have ejection seats. You might be surprised how many sources claim they don't. Then you know they are using a map where the rest of the world is labeled "Here be dragons".
I have got experience not with Solaris, but with AIX, and it does indeed just keep running and running. And I also know that plenty of small companies just can't afford those servers. End of story.
In the real world many people make their living on 1000 dollar servers. They are not as reliable as the proper hardware but the 9000+ dollar they save is worth the risk that they are the one who experiences the difference between 99.999 and 99.
And your example is an execellent but useless point. I never felt the need to do that. So what use is Solaris to me?
Don't kill a fly with a nuke when you are on a budget.
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You seem to think driving over someone's goat is the same as shooting up civilians trying to help a wounded man with no weapon in sight.
Or indeed that all Iraqies have goats.
Watch "Apocalypse now" to see why America is in this situation.
No, I know that ain't a real story. Let me finish.
Watch "Apocalypse now" and now imagine this movie set in Europe with the American soldiers replaced by germans. Would such a movie have been tolerated to have been made by the germans? No.
But the Americans have no problem making this action flick in a war where they killed 8 million civilians.
When you claim to be good guy, people expect you to have certain standards. These gunship pilots failed them. Deal with them.
Contrary to what you seem to believe, TV/Internet and electricity are NOT all there is to life. Yes really.
Sure some slashdotters will die as they are exposed to the harsh rays of the sun when they wander outside for the first time but life will continue on. Some people with no healthy fear of hights will repair the cables and voila, everything be back to normal.
We had power failures before. They are no big deal. Go outside, empty the fridge and have a party. You know. With girls... oh okay, you can remain in the kitchen and look through the window at them, while you build a computer out of egg-cartons.
Mind you, I got a phone-jammer, that I sometimes use just for fun. It is amusing to see just how people react when their cell phone dies. Some really do react as if you cut the umbilical cord.
In a way, it would be an intresting social experiment. Cut the power/internet over the entire globe and see how each culture/area reacts to it. Why do some disaster areas result in looting and rioting and others remain calm? You can't really compare disasters but a global strike like this would be easier to compare. Would there be riots all over? None at all? Only in certain economic areas? Or (oh boy I am going to get it for this one) does it depend on race? Culture? Local leadership?
Tell him to just lean out of the window for a better shot. What could go wrong?
I have been trained as a soldier myself. Granted ordinary grunt, but I can assure you, there were NO instructions telling you to shoot on civilians, in a civilian vehicle carrying away wounded people while not carrying any weapons when you are in a position of safety.
This video, especially the end is just to many mistakes to be mistakes anymore. These guys went on a powertrip were they were just going to shoot up any sub-human (notice how America seems to have trouble in wars against non-whites, they threat the nazi's with kindness but napalm their former allies the Vietnamese) that dared to move. You can hear them discussing a man clearly not armed trying to crawl away severely injured. "Come on buddy all you need to do is pick up a weapon", meaning "pick up a weapon and we will put you out of your misery". Dirty Harry in a gunship.
WATCH the video. Or are you to scared to face the truth? I notice a lot of your type in this thread. They don't watch the video claiming it can't be true. Talk about a serious case of denial.
WATCH the video. Stop sticking your head in the sand. This is the truth of your nation, of the war Bush started and Obama ain't finishing. And the world is watching. Why do you think Holland wants out of Afghanistan? Why do you think the Labour party is getting a kicking in Britain? Because people in the rest of the world no longer can look away.
And after you watched the video, then watch who in the US watches this video and shows it on TV and demands for the justice. None is my bet. And that will hurt the US. Every silent american is food for islamic fundementalists. Who needs to argue about a Zionist conspiracy when you can show this video about american blowing away your own people.
1 american gunship pilot unpunished. 1000 new recruits for suicide bomber duty.
You know what tells me the most that the lives of the helicopter pilots were never in any danger? They spend all that time circling the area, in a predicatable circle, focussing only on a small bit of the "action". If you were really afraid of someone targetting you with an RPG, wouldn't you be looking all over the place? Fly unpredicatble? Call for backup?
It is like the "accidental" shooting down by the US of an Iran airliner. The captain claims he thought he was being attacked by a wing of aircraft. Anyone who knows anything about modern air-naval engagements knows that a wing of aircraft can do serious damage to a modern ship. When you are under attack, it is time to throw everything in the air including the kitchensink because just one missle getting through can sink you.
So what does this captain do against this wing of attacking aircraft, that could easily signal the start of a war? Fire a SINGLE missle. And then not be surprised at any point that the target thought to be a number of aircraft turns out to be just one. Flying slow, not evading at all, not hitting them with radar, not trying to evade the missle and then when the SINGLE missle hit, the captain and crew show no worry about the other aircraft, or other angles of attack.
How odd.
The US thinks everyone is to stupid to see an execution when it happens. Just because your own people are so easily fooled (read the number of americans commenting "Are you sure that is what happened, I doubt it, I didn't watch the video but doubt it shows what you claim because FOX tells me we are the good guys"), doesn't mean the rest of the world is.
As I said in another reaction. mistakes happen, it is how you deal with them that you will be judged by. There is only 1 answer to this. These gunship pilots go against the wall. Show the world that law and order does not just mean "do as we say, don't do as we do". Or Iraq and Afghanistan will go on for ever and ever.
because this is exactly what they do. The US gunship pilot BEGS to be allowed to fire on men who arrive in a minivan with kids in the passenger seat and who clearly are not armed and NOT taking any hostile action. You would think that even Iraqi insurgents would NOT stop a mini-van near a battle to pick a wounded reporter with a gunships hovering nearby.
These butchers begged to fire on a target that was no threath. For that alone they should be lined up against a wall. But they won't and the US will loose this war because of it. When you become worse then the enemy, the enemy has won. Obama must, but won't, make a stand against this. Else it will just be another Vietnam (and Iran and Iraq and every other place where the US propped a puppet regime, treated the locals as sub-human and had its soldiers get out of control). We seen it before.
And all the while Americans like you will doubt clear evidence they could easily check. In war mistakes happen, but it is how you deal with those mistakes that you will be judged. And america doesn't deal with its mistakes, ever.
Listen to the comments by the pilots, they beg to fire on clearly unarmed people in civilian clothing. Then when they learn they fire on kids, they say "well that should teach them not to take kids into battle".
America is in Vietnam 2. And it will loose this war again because its soldiers and leaders are unable to see non-americans as human beings.
My job history is a nightmare, constant job AND career switches and I got no problem finding decent work that pays well.
It is about being able to sell yourself. An employer only wants to know one thing about you. "Am I going to make a profit with this guy."
That is it. And if you can't sell yourself without resume's or a portfolio, then yes you need that. But only if you can't sell yourself.
Sure, there are jobs that ask for 10 years iPad developer experience. MOVE ON. That is what we in the trade call a RED FLAG. Warning, douche bag HR monkey doing the interviewing.
Go for the jobs where the first interview is done by a techie, who grills you. That means they got work to be doing, if you can do it, then you are solid. No techie will care about your papers because every techie knows people with papers who are useless.
So, not much chance of getting a job at IBM, but then, who wants to work in India anyway? Go for the real tech companies. All I really want to see you on your CV is code. Code that shows me you are worth of hiring as an intern or senior because I can see you got potential.
Really, what is this IT sector. Does it include EA? Id? IBM? The guy who fixes the printer? The help desk retard who tells you to reboot?
If you read some slashdot posts, you might almost think that programmers do not belong in IT at all. Or at best are a minor influence.
So, whose job is going down the drain?
I can only speak from my own experience in Holland (un-employment rate 3.9%, that is socialism for you, suck it yanks) and yes, some people are loosing their jobs and finding it hard to find new ones. But having done my fair share of interviews, I am not entirely sure these people belong in the industry anyway.
Come on, what developer can't answer the question of what a join is? What debug tools do you use?
I got jobs from intern to senior but I expect you to be worth your salary. Don't come to me demanding a senior salary if you fail questions I knew when I was a junior. And no, I don't care if you don't know every function or the correct order of parameters. I want to know you understand the concepts behind the tools you use and that you know how to test that what you build works works as it should and how to start tracing problems.
Is that to much to ask? Well, yes, for a lot of people it seems to be.
So I am not surprised with current situation in the US. We had this before, in a recesion the dead wood is sorted out and salaries for the barely adequate settle down. The rest, the few who actually are any good at their job do fine. My own salary has been steadily rising. Not because I am a genius, far from it, but because I am an above average coder. And yes, that does mean that I am on occasion dealing with outsourced work, testing it and fixing it. Can't blaim them. It is not that we don't want to hire western developers, but there just aren't any. Not good ones.
Please tell me that expecting a medior web developer to know what a join is, is not to much to ask.
As has been pointed out, in Israel they got conscription. Everyone serves.
So this study has shown that people named Bozzio have limited knowledge of the world and are unable to make proper informed conclusions. A limited study to be sure, but I think the results will stand up over time.
Then why didn't you think "this is killing me, making me loose the sensation of taste and smell and makes me smell bad as well as costing me an arm and a leg to feed my addiction"?
Hard to take a 10 year drug addict serious as a deep thinker.
This idea is hardly new. It has been used for ages. The idea is simple. There is lots of light outside, I want light inside, I take the light outside inside.
No, it does not work at night. Geez, you must be so clever for pointing this out. But it saves you having to use artificial light from sources which many feel is not as nice as sunlight, during the time the sun is out.
How about cloudy days? Yeah, because it is cloudy outside now and I need a flashlight to move outside it is so dark. NOT.
UV radiation and heat? Can and are often filtered depending on demands.
In a way, this is a just a window. Are the slashdotters responding today so used to living in their mothers basement that using a window to light the room when you can is a completely alien idea to them?
Or maybe the hatred of MS Windows has spilled over?
It is a window. Dissing the usefulness of windows is a bit silly. And we know how to work around it. When the window goes dark, you use artificial lighting. It ain't rocket science.
If human civilization depended on some slashdotters responding today we would have died out long before we got out of the trees.
Smart monkey: "Oh look meat, we can eat that and grow big brains".
Slashdot dweed: "But the meat might not be available tomorrow, this plan is doomed to failure!"
Because Toyota hasn't pointed it out. Don't you think that if these incidents occured across all cars, the Toyota would have pointed it out by now?
Usually the best indication that something is not a defense is that the defense ain't using it.
The idea that you can outshine the sun with a man made satellite is so absurd, you have to question the intelligence of the person asking this question. At night it would be easier, but still require an insane amount of power and be totally useless when there are clouds.
At first I thought the question might be about measuring the oceans for tsunami waves, but this kid wants to put up some kind of disco lights.
You already need binoculars to see the ISS and then you can only spot it if the light reflects of it in the right way. The idea that a man made satellite could light up the skies, that is the domain of 5 year olds.
But this is the reason most governments don't listen all that much to the voter. Because this is the kind of letters they get. Hard to take the voter serious when this is what they come up with.
ONE IS CORRECT? My god, I didn't think racism like that survived in this day and age.
If you can't see that both statements are racist, then there really is no hope for you.
Plenty of blacks who can't dance but do hold a steady job. And plenty of whites who can dance, but ain't got a job.
No.
But don't worry, thanks to clever manipulation of statistics, crime is going down. Don't mind the bullet holes.
Being asked to report once a week, by someone who is overworked, is NOT intense supervision.
Parole ain't as hard as you think it is.
In Holland we got TBS (Forced mental treatment) and there are countless incidents with inmates being let out for a short while and offending.
I think real scientists should stay well away from this kinda crap, if you got to research what happens when people die, don't link it to heaven.
It is like "scientist" trying to explain Bible myths. How could Moses have parted the seas, what could have caused the plagues etc.
That is like a bad episode of myth-busters where they test movie stunts. What they do first is try to convince people that a scene in the movie is somehow real and has to follow real world physics and then disprove it... learn to seperate fantasy from reality for Christ damn, for god's sake oh fuck it.
All the happenings in the Bible can be explained very simply if you think of it as a bunch of Fantasy written by people who wanted to create a religion. There is even clear evidence that the Bible is fabricated. Even its followed accept that the New Testament was created from seperate books, edited with some parts and books left out completely. So we know that it is edited. No truly religious person would dare to edit the word of god, so what made the person who edited the new testament decide to think he could do this?
And low and behold, if you think of it as a bad hack job, then suddenly it all makes sense. And we know religions can be entirely fabricated. Scientology anyone?
It is amusing to see a program on trying to explain the story around Moses, when nothing in the historical record mentions this at all. Explain the parting of the red seas, but not why an exodus of slaves was not mentioned in Egyptian records. Now that is science. Up next, myth-busters and the geographic channel examine how a grandmother and a little girl can fit in a wolves stomach whole. Leave your brain at the door.
And so far I seen no evidence that she wasn't under the influence, your claim is the first and you provide no evidence.
You always get these claims after someone did something bad. Suddenly it is not their fault, the moment a lawyer has been consulted. How odd.
Culture. It is very important and you can see it very clearly in game.
Try this for an exercise: Compare a Japanese, eastern European, American or British game with each other.
The above could also be done with movies of course. You can see this very clearly with the change in Jacky Chan movies as he switches countries. His asian movies often haven't got an ending. He bad guy is finished, cut to credits. He doesn't "get the girl", often "the girl" ain't even a love intrest. Unheard of in American movies, and his American productions added the epilogue. The bad guy is defeated, now go get the girl.
It will be intresting to see what African games bring. Just so I can labelled a racist, it is intresting to see russian developers develop games on hardware I dumped out the door. Cutting edge games, on cheapo CRT's. An iPhone game when your neighbour is dying from hunger... well that has to come from a certain mindset. Somehow I don't think ethics are going to be a strong element, anything to survive motto perhaps? Or not.
I have been to Africa and while they do indeed have cities, and there are areas were it almost looks western, there are also huge differences. It is as simple as going from the EU to the US. There may be areas that look the same, and then you see someone walking with a gun and you know it is not.
And the biggest danger? Westerners going all mushy and falling into "well ain't you a clever little african, you can code too, ain't they almost human" mode. Like the article. Wow, two people coded a simple game. In Africa. That this is news, is in a way disturbing.
Think about what is worse racist statement: "Blacks can't hold a steady job" vs "Blacks are really good at dancing".
The second is worse, it sounds like compliment but while you can fight the first stereo-type, there is no getting rid of the second one and its hidden "that is all they are good at" message.
There aren't a lot of games coming from Belgium. Would a game coming from there merit the same attention?
And that is the western economy in a nutshell... well actually, that is the western economy up shit creek without a paddle.
I wonder what the romans thought just before their empire crumbled around them.
And don't worry, it ain't just the US. Holland was labelled a while ago as a tax-haven, while local companies dodge our taxes, how creepy can it get? If you drive across an industrial park, you quickly notice that almost nothing is being produced anymore. Everything is warehouses where boxes from China are shuffled around.
But don't worry, the knowledge and service industry will keep us all employed. The service industry like the banks. That need billions in government handouts to function (and this one wasn't the first) paid from taxes they don't pay themselves. Oh yeah, that is a long term plan.
But I have a very simple solution. No taxes without representation. Bill Gates and his tax dodging company no longer get police protection. Go ahead, do whatever you want with him. The tax payed systems of law enforcement are clearly not something he is willing to pay for.
Time to make it clear that being part of a country is an all or nothing deal. Don't like the tax rules, then piss off. Lets see how the likes of Microsoft and IBM really enjoy living in a tax shelter, with their families.
If Apple had become the dominant IT company, if it hadn't screwed up like everyone else with the PC and allowed Wintel to completly own the industry, then we might have been even worse off.
But that didn't happen. All the lock-in, proprietary, sneakiness of Apple is "mostly harmless". It sucks if it bites you in the ass, but the rest of the world isn't affected.
And that makes all the difference. Apple is a big player in PC's but it got lots of healthy competition and this means that if I don't like the crap that they pull with their display connector, I don't have to like it. Plenty of other PC/laptop makers around.
Now Apple is becoming more powerful, you can see this with the sudden ditching of flash with the coming of the iPad. And that could be bad... give me a minute, got to come up with a reason the painful agonizing and humiliating death of flash is a bad thing... anyone?
Well, it is not bad in itself, but it shows just how powerful a company can become. A techonolgy that was used widely, that you couldn't get rid of with endless security holes and browsers consuming 100% cpu, GONE because a company releases a single product that might still bomb (yeah right). That is pause for thought. What if this extends? What if Apple becomes so powerful it can stop the acceptance of USB 3.0 (Its laptop range still does not support), or a new CPU range (Again, its laptops are still on the ancient Core 2 Duo).
Would Apple have created OSX if it wasn't the underdog? Would it have pulled an IE6 and just kept its old crap around with no development because they owned the market? Maybe.
I for one think that healthy competition is good, so next time you blindly buy an iThingy because everyone buys one, remember what might happen if EVERYONE buys iThingies just because everyone does.
MAJOR BULLSHIT COMING UP. TAKE COVER and that some clients left and did not re-offend within the 5 year window they followed up in.
WHOA, that was a bad one. Everyone okay? Okay, then lets start clearing up this mess before the next wave comes in.
What is this bullshit?
and that some clients left and were not caught within the 5 year window they followed up in.
Fact, only a tiny portion of crimes are ever solved and that is only of reported crimes. Many crimes go unreported. All those catholic child rapist in the news lately? 30 or more years without being caught.
This kinda bullshit is always pulled by the bleeding hearts.
For someone to register as a re-offender that person must:
All this, and we still get a 70-80+ recidivism rate. Treatment centers slap themselves on the back if they get 84% down to 83%. Whoo, we are so good!
Remember, when we talk about recidivism, we are getting the story from people in the industry. If they ever would suggest that it is all pointless, then they would be out of a job. A job that pays rather well. Only one person claimed it was pointless, right before he killed himself, and all his colleagues have done since is deny that he claimed what he claimed. They don't even try to revute the claims, because they can't. Just claim that he never made them.
Already by simply going to wikipedia you can learn that this is not the true first.
History
The first television image of Earth from space from the TIROS-1 weather satellite.
The first weather satellite, Vanguard 2, was launched on February 17, 1959. It was designed to measure cloud cover and resistance, but a poor axis of rotation kept it from collecting a notable amount of useful data.
The first weather satellite to be considered a success was TIROS-1, launched by NASA on 1 April 1960. TIROS operated for 78 days and proved to be much more successful than Vanguard 2. TIROS paved the way for the Nimbus program, whose technology and findings are the heritage of most of the Earth-observing satellites NASA and NOAA have launched since then.
So the first successful one? And who knows what the soviets did, US history has a tendency to ignore the rest of the world. Simple check, see whether helicopters have ejection seats. You might be surprised how many sources claim they don't. Then you know they are using a map where the rest of the world is labeled "Here be dragons".
I have got experience not with Solaris, but with AIX, and it does indeed just keep running and running. And I also know that plenty of small companies just can't afford those servers. End of story.
In the real world many people make their living on 1000 dollar servers. They are not as reliable as the proper hardware but the 9000+ dollar they save is worth the risk that they are the one who experiences the difference between 99.999 and 99.
And your example is an execellent but useless point. I never felt the need to do that. So what use is Solaris to me?
Don't kill a fly with a nuke when you are on a budget.