It's hard to get Canadians into the US when there's already plenty of Americans willing and able to do the same job, which is most certainly the case. At least locally I'd have home-court advantage and the foreign applicants would have to take a back seat to any equally qualified regional hirees.
Exactly. I have two friends that have had incidents relating to American laws to protect american workers.
One WAS working in the 'states, but his visa ran out. The company was unable to renew his work visa because he hadn't completed his CSC degree. He HAD been working for this company for 3 years and getting anyone else up to speed would take a LONG time as he was lead developer for a large system. The argument given was that there are americans that are better qualified for the role, i.e. people with degrees who are American citizens that would love the job (which is questionable as the pay wasn't amazing). He did have >10 years programming experience, but that obviously isn't equivalent to someone with a "degree".
The other friend was an artist for gaming companies (he worked at Canadian rockstar for a while and more recently has been art lead at other companies in Canada). He was told straight out by american interviewers, "Great portfolio, wish we could hire you, but you have no degree and we have to hire an American that is "better" qualified."
Excellent point. There is no reason to send any exe by email in a corporation. If necessary for some reason, then it should be posted on the intranet somewhere and only a link sent via email. Allowing any exe to come in via email from externally makes no sense.
The default 'do not show file extensions for known file types' is on for explorer.
That shouldn't even matter. Why can they run anything? Why is Outlook allowing them to open exe files?
If #1 is true (it is where I work, a gov agency, different country), then don't let them make decisions on whether to open a file, have the system do that. You don't let mentally retarded people drive a car, so why let you average idiot choose what to run on a computer?
Canada has a similar tradition. Stephen Harper clubs baby seals on weekends (actually it's saturday's only, he's religous and doesn't do that sort of thing on Sundays).
What appears to be perfectly white fluffy snow around the Parliament buildings is actually seal pup fur.. go figure.
It's funny, Canadians will always point that error out (that Canada is part of North America), however the same Canadian will forget that Mexico is Part of NA too.
Americans forget the Canadians, Canadians forget the Mexicans, who is left for the Mexicans to forget?
With speech recognition, you'll have to be looking at the screen to find mistypes, and then you'll have to do something to retype them, but it'll probably take a while.
Well if you correct items as you go, yeah you will lose all your speed increase. For a speed increase you would have to dictate your entire document and go back and fix it. This will cut down speed if you are using it for emails, but for technical documents it can be a godsend (you have to go back and proof/edit them anyhow, so just fix issues at that time). It really depends on your use. For bashing out emails or code it would be much to slow.
I'd love to use speech recognition software at work, but I don't think my coworkers really want to hear me dictate software requirements to my computer. Maybe I'll switch to an old IBM keyboard first, then they'll be happy when I shift to speaking.
That's like me saying, "Most people I know run OS/2 and BeOS, so this doesn't help."
Sure it could be true, but so what? I just have a skewed sample and it just means I hang out with weirdos (well.. I do but they don't run OS/2 or BeOS, well.. they don't currently run them).
"What type of person would sign a document claiming they forged a legal document?! Someone would have to be insane to do such a thing! Therefor you should find the defendant not guilty!"
Quite true, however most consumers would think of their home router as a firewall (the majority of which do NAT). You have to write to your audience (and although I did not read the article in true slashdot style) I would assume it is aimed at more than just geeks if they are simplifying NAT as a "firewall".
Depends, I like having a module tracker handy (there are a few available for linux). For live-wire type stuf or general geekiness a fun audio tool to play with is ChucK. Marsyas is worth a look too.
punitive damage compensation in the US can reach interesting figures
Isn't that the case with any kind of lawsuit in the US? When I lived in the states my parents were told not to get as much 3rd party liability as they would in Canada on their car insurance as they would just be sued for more.
US employment law is completely different to that in the UK. In particular, IIRC most US states are still "at will" states, where either party may terminate an employment contract without notice, and for any reason not explicitly prohibited (e.g., by anti-discrimination legislation).
So you are saying the US needs to catch up with other countries in its employment legislation. Where I live in Canada the employer would have their ass handed to them for firing someone for not complying with an illegal demand. It seems like common sense: You can't force an employee to do something illegal, and you can't fire them if they refuse to do something illegal. Pretty damn simple.
Of course if it were me where I live, I'd be an ass about not complying with their request in hopes that they fire me so I could get a nice cash settlement. No one wants to work at a place like that, but quitting sucks (no severance pay).
The fact is you can't separate when the treatment is extreme and unreasonable, and when it was reasonable until after they go.
Some doctors and nurses seem to think you can. Ever heard of a slow code? I live in Canada and it does occur here. In the case of patients that are deemed to have a short life expectancy they are ordered to slow code the patient (ie don't bring the crash cart, or at least not in a timely manner).
It is ethically debateable, however it saves the taxpayers lots of money (and I assume most people don't realise it occurs). Don't worry though, your grandmother most likely won't be slow coded if she goes into the hospital with pneumonia as she has family there. Now if you were a 35 year old drug addict living on the street who's health is questionable (life expectancy of 40 at the best) then you should fear being slow coded. Of course in that case there is most likely no one to fight for your "rights" after you died.
My GF is a registered nurse BTW. She has been told to slow code on patients before (in the event that something happens to them). Fortuneatly that has not happened. At first I was quite upset to hear about this as I tend to be idealistic and would love to believe the "same care for every patient" mantra, but if I look at the situation realistically more than idealistically I can see it as responsible use of resources rather than mistreatment of patients.
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Exactly. Blood circulation is the important part and there is a pressure buildup point that isn't reach w/o enough compressions so the blood just sits there.
Actually I am guilty of that right now. I am house sitting and I didn't feel like bringing a wireless router over, so I just leach off the neighbours.
I could do the same thing at home, but even with at least 2 open access points around me I don't like the lack of reliability. Of course during a winter storm that cut out my connection I had some redundancy;). Funny thing was that they were with the same company on the same block and I seemed to get better speeds off them.. oh well.
They used a mac since that was easiest for them to mount HFS, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could do the same with linux (you are just dropping the perian plugin in the correct folder right?).
If you have sex regularly you won't have wet dreams. Of course, if you are at work all the time (especially some place like google) you most definitely aren't getting laid on a frequent basis.
I call BS. Even if they work in education and they manage or know someone who manages 3000 macs I really doubt they ALL connect via wireless to the local area network. It makes no sense. In an office or education setting (school, university etc) there is no reason to not use wired. Presumeably the labs and offices would have been wired with CAT5 a long time ago as wireless has only become affordable lately (long after computers were used in education and connected via a LAN). From performance, reliability and security perspectives it doesn't make any sense running your entire network wirelessly.
The university I attend has wireless throughout the entire campus. How many school workstations connect to the network wirelessly? None. Sure students and professors connect to the wireless with their laptops, but none of the managed school computers do. You'd just be asking for problems. So again I say BS.
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Exactly. I have two friends that have had incidents relating to American laws to protect american workers.
One WAS working in the 'states, but his visa ran out. The company was unable to renew his work visa because he hadn't completed his CSC degree. He HAD been working for this company for 3 years and getting anyone else up to speed would take a LONG time as he was lead developer for a large system. The argument given was that there are americans that are better qualified for the role, i.e. people with degrees who are American citizens that would love the job (which is questionable as the pay wasn't amazing). He did have >10 years programming experience, but that obviously isn't equivalent to someone with a "degree".
The other friend was an artist for gaming companies (he worked at Canadian rockstar for a while and more recently has been art lead at other companies in Canada). He was told straight out by american interviewers, "Great portfolio, wish we could hire you, but you have no degree and we have to hire an American that is "better" qualified."
Ah yes, AmigaOS rewritten in lisp like 'god'/'the gods' intended.
Excellent point. There is no reason to send any exe by email in a corporation. If necessary for some reason, then it should be posted on the intranet somewhere and only a link sent via email. Allowing any exe to come in via email from externally makes no sense.
That shouldn't even matter. Why can they run anything? Why is Outlook allowing them to open exe files?
If #1 is true (it is where I work, a gov agency, different country), then don't let them make decisions on whether to open a file, have the system do that. You don't let mentally retarded people drive a car, so why let you average idiot choose what to run on a computer?
Canada has a similar tradition. Stephen Harper clubs baby seals on weekends (actually it's saturday's only, he's religous and doesn't do that sort of thing on Sundays).
What appears to be perfectly white fluffy snow around the Parliament buildings is actually seal pup fur.. go figure.
Yeah, but all the found was a small hill. They named it Mons Pubis.
I was excited at first. I thought Pirates outsold the Matrix.
It's funny, Canadians will always point that error out (that Canada is part of North America), however the same Canadian will forget that Mexico is Part of NA too.
Americans forget the Canadians, Canadians forget the Mexicans, who is left for the Mexicans to forget?
With speech recognition, you'll have to be looking at the screen to find mistypes, and then you'll have to do something to retype them, but it'll probably take a while.
Well if you correct items as you go, yeah you will lose all your speed increase. For a speed increase you would have to dictate your entire document and go back and fix it. This will cut down speed if you are using it for emails, but for technical documents it can be a godsend (you have to go back and proof/edit them anyhow, so just fix issues at that time). It really depends on your use. For bashing out emails or code it would be much to slow.
I'd love to use speech recognition software at work, but I don't think my coworkers really want to hear me dictate software requirements to my computer. Maybe I'll switch to an old IBM keyboard first, then they'll be happy when I shift to speaking.
Most people i know still run 2.4.x
That's like me saying, "Most people I know run OS/2 and BeOS, so this doesn't help."
Sure it could be true, but so what? I just have a skewed sample and it just means I hang out with weirdos (well.. I do but they don't run OS/2 or BeOS, well.. they don't currently run them).
They used silicon..
but they found that flat square boobs weren't fashionable so they moved to using silicone.
"What type of person would sign a document claiming they forged a legal document?! Someone would have to be insane to do such a thing! Therefor you should find the defendant not guilty!"
Quite true, however most consumers would think of their home router as a firewall (the majority of which do NAT). You have to write to your audience (and although I did not read the article in true slashdot style) I would assume it is aimed at more than just geeks if they are simplifying NAT as a "firewall".
Do you really need anything else?
Depends, I like having a module tracker handy (there are a few available for linux). For live-wire type stuf or general geekiness a fun audio tool to play with is ChucK. Marsyas is worth a look too.
punitive damage compensation in the US can reach interesting figures
Isn't that the case with any kind of lawsuit in the US? When I lived in the states my parents were told not to get as much 3rd party liability as they would in Canada on their car insurance as they would just be sued for more.
US employment law is completely different to that in the UK. In particular, IIRC most US states are still "at will" states, where either party may terminate an employment contract without notice, and for any reason not explicitly prohibited (e.g., by anti-discrimination legislation).
So you are saying the US needs to catch up with other countries in its employment legislation. Where I live in Canada the employer would have their ass handed to them for firing someone for not complying with an illegal demand. It seems like common sense: You can't force an employee to do something illegal, and you can't fire them if they refuse to do something illegal. Pretty damn simple.
Of course if it were me where I live, I'd be an ass about not complying with their request in hopes that they fire me so I could get a nice cash settlement. No one wants to work at a place like that, but quitting sucks (no severance pay).
The fact is you can't separate when the treatment is extreme and unreasonable, and when it was reasonable until after they go.
Some doctors and nurses seem to think you can. Ever heard of a slow code? I live in Canada and it does occur here. In the case of patients that are deemed to have a short life expectancy they are ordered to slow code the patient (ie don't bring the crash cart, or at least not in a timely manner).
It is ethically debateable, however it saves the taxpayers lots of money (and I assume most people don't realise it occurs). Don't worry though, your grandmother most likely won't be slow coded if she goes into the hospital with pneumonia as she has family there. Now if you were a 35 year old drug addict living on the street who's health is questionable (life expectancy of 40 at the best) then you should fear being slow coded. Of course in that case there is most likely no one to fight for your "rights" after you died.
My GF is a registered nurse BTW. She has been told to slow code on patients before (in the event that something happens to them). Fortuneatly that has not happened. At first I was quite upset to hear about this as I tend to be idealistic and would love to believe the "same care for every patient" mantra, but if I look at the situation realistically more than idealistically I can see it as responsible use of resources rather than mistreatment of patients.
Exactly. Blood circulation is the important part and there is a pressure buildup point that isn't reach w/o enough compressions so the blood just sits there.
Happened to me too. I read it as:
"I'll never forget the day I spent removing bat droppings from all the little rodents"
I'll never forget the day I spent removing bat droppings from all the human input devices"
Good example of why to use mouses instead of mice when talking about the computer periprial.
Mega Bloks.
Fully compatible with Lego(tm) (i.e. exact duplicate of most blocks). Lego tried to sue them unsuccessfully.
image processing and data overlay on windshields (e.g. thermal or IR image data to augment the scene in poor visibility)
So the future of computing will be just like The Knight 4000 from Knight Rider 2000?
Let me be the first to say: Too cool.
Actually I am guilty of that right now. I am house sitting and I didn't feel like bringing a wireless router over, so I just leach off the neighbours.
;). Funny thing was that they were with the same company on the same block and I seemed to get better speeds off them.. oh well.
I could do the same thing at home, but even with at least 2 open access points around me I don't like the lack of reliability. Of course during a winter storm that cut out my connection I had some redundancy
They used a mac since that was easiest for them to mount HFS, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could do the same with linux (you are just dropping the perian plugin in the correct folder right?).
If you have sex regularly you won't have wet dreams. Of course, if you are at work all the time (especially some place like google) you most definitely aren't getting laid on a frequent basis.
I call BS. Even if they work in education and they manage or know someone who manages 3000 macs I really doubt they ALL connect via wireless to the local area network. It makes no sense. In an office or education setting (school, university etc) there is no reason to not use wired. Presumeably the labs and offices would have been wired with CAT5 a long time ago as wireless has only become affordable lately (long after computers were used in education and connected via a LAN). From performance, reliability and security perspectives it doesn't make any sense running your entire network wirelessly.
The university I attend has wireless throughout the entire campus. How many school workstations connect to the network wirelessly? None. Sure students and professors connect to the wireless with their laptops, but none of the managed school computers do. You'd just be asking for problems. So again I say BS.