The story I'm hearing here in China is that the majority of the "Specially trained, highly skilled, highly experienced and professional" construction workers used their extra salaries to hire regular labor off the farms and streets to sign in and do their work for them, paid them the normal construction rates, and then stayed home on the other 80% of the salary.
I actually appreciate them announcing this now. I was due to start integrating the Facebook API to my current game project next week. That's a bit of work saved.
>>I would really like to know why the prosecutor is >>really going after this man. It sounds personal.
He located evidence that the mother is not the best suited of the two parents to keep custody of the child. In the US this is blasphemy of the highest order. He shall be stoned forthwith.
I'm really not sure that anything that should be classed as a crime has occurred here.
Anyone that dim should not have access to/control of anything close to that much money. It is far better for the nation and the world that the money is in the hands of the cognitively capable.
I've been using C# for windows and iPhone development for 2 years now.
But the long and the short of it is that it is a non-free non-open collection of code, libraries and other binaries and there is a definite risk attached to using it in ways that do not directly benefit Microsoft.
>> I am sure more than one group of developers is >> seriously looking at core language jump.
I know we are. Oracle is quite simply not a rational enough company to entrust with our ongoing development.
Decisions, decisions.C# on MONO or C++ as itself. Pros and Cons for each are obvious, but the actual final scores will be hard to determine efficiently.
Individually I'm leaning to C++ and arguing the point that sooner or later MS will do to C# & associated platforms what Oracle is doing to Java now, and what lawyers may say about MONO now will count for nothing in reality when MS decides it's time to drop the hammer.
>> Had the bomb been armed with its fissile capsule, the immediate death toll may have reached six figures.
So now we see why the bomb wasn't "armed with its fissile capsule", don't we? Seriously, sad about the lives lost at the time an all, but to describe this as "almost nuked America" is facetious at best. This being the example chosen to represent the articles contents (and so probably the "best" of the incidents) I see no reason to read any further.
This is no more "nearly nuked" than the making of the movie "Broken Arrow". After all, they had props that looked like nukes in that. What if there's been a mix-up somewhere along the line? OMG! Nearly nuked America again!
Might I inquire as to what your career/specialty was? Or the mission of your department/unit?
I'm guessing it wasn't code monkey in a brand new buzzword heavy department of IT/network defense overseen by high-ranked goons who believe (and have stated on record) that IT skills in such a situation (a secure non-combat air-conditioned office in the US, with orders to detect and protect against IT infiltration) are a distant second to having had the experience of shooting at people because someone with more sparkly bits on their uniform told you to?
> This being China (where I live) it's a pretty damn solid guess that the scalper in question is, or is in the employ of, the Apple store local management.
> If people are willing to pay (or can be tricked into paying) more than the Apple sanctioned price then any store manager or employee here who didn't take the chance to skim a > chunk from the marked up price would be physically and verbally abused by his (Yes, "his", not "his/her". This is China) mother when he got home.
-- 40% Flamebait -- 30% Troll -- 30% Interesting
Nice to know day to day realities of life here are Interesting trollish flamebait. Doesn't change that they are realities though.
Actually, given that the scalpers are almost certainly in the employ of the store and get to buy the items in bulk before the store is open, this reservation system in the control of Apple outside of China is a futile effort that had to be made.
This being China (where I live) it's a pretty damn solid guess that the scalper in question is, or is in the employ of, the Apple store local management.
If people are willing to pay (or can be tricked into paying) more than the Apple sanctioned price then any store manager or employee here who didn't take the chance to skim a chunk from the marked up price would be physically and verbally abused by his (Yes, "his", not "his/her". This is China) mother when he got home.
Ever wondered just how America can afford to keep wasting money on sending legions of goons overseas to re-write everyone else's politics down the barrel of a massively overpriced indiscriminately slaughtering automated drone?
Simple. They just deny the basic services and protection (Education, Health, Fire, Police, Public transit) to their own people and use the savings to train swathes of the ill-educated and desperate to kill on command with no thought involved.
Could it be that anyone skilled enough to participate is also skilled enough to see a complete operational failure that will smear the resume of anyone desperate enough to work there? And with the additional toxic working environment supplied by mass-employed "upper-tiers" of politically motivated and utterly incompetent management not even the draw of decent pay in the coming second half of the recession is likely to reverse that.
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Ok, so the actual hires might have had to make do on 75% of their salaries...
The story I'm hearing here in China is that the majority of the "Specially trained, highly skilled, highly experienced and professional" construction workers used their extra salaries to hire regular labor off the farms and streets to sign in and do their work for them, paid them the normal construction rates, and then stayed home on the other 80% of the salary.
Unsubtle, unfunny and utterly unlikely to fool anyone sentient enough to have learned to read.
Really, what is the point? If these are the best you can manage, then just don't bother.
This is about as accurate, realistic, rational and un-hyped a headline as here has yet been regarding the entire nuclear incident...
>> "But officer, it's not littering. I'm building a habitat for endangered species!"
The US Navy have run this scam a few times...
"It's not a derelict hulk scuttled in a delicate ecosystem! It's a hub for a new coral reef!"
I actually appreciate them announcing this now.
I was due to start integrating the Facebook API to my current game project next week. That's a bit of work saved.
Far better to just not develop for Mac or iOS and not purchase crippled hardware.
>>I would really like to know why the prosecutor is
>>really going after this man. It sounds personal.
He located evidence that the mother is not the best suited of the two parents to keep custody of the child. In the US this is blasphemy of the highest order. He shall be stoned forthwith.
>> RIDLEY, Mark (1560-1624). A Short Treatise of
>> Magneticall Bodies and Motions. London: Nicholas
>> Okes, 1613.
Translation :
Magneticall Bodies : How Theye doth Fornicating Function.
Finally someone has created a genuine and effective reason for me to desire to be a millionaire...
The correct reference point for how long a game should be is "Elite" on the BBC Micro by Braben et al.
I'm really not sure that anything that should be classed as a crime has occurred here.
Anyone that dim should not have access to/control of anything close to that much money. It is far better for the nation and the world that the money is in the hands of the cognitively capable.
Thank you. That is the point I wanted to convey, and exactly my stance and viewpoint on the matter.
And phrased and explained a lot more eloquently than I managed.
I've been using C# for windows and iPhone development for 2 years now.
But the long and the short of it is that it is a non-free non-open collection of code, libraries and other binaries and there is a definite risk attached to using it in ways that do not directly benefit Microsoft.
Don't forget the killing off of multiple smaller projects and developments.
Admittedly, till now the only one I've cared about was the Sun Game Server (Project Darkstar), but I'm sure there'll be plenty more.
After all, it's not like Oracle can even produce a decent database of their own any more.
>> I am sure more than one group of developers is
>> seriously looking at core language jump.
I know we are.
Oracle is quite simply not a rational enough company to entrust with our ongoing development.
Decisions, decisions.C# on MONO or C++ as itself. Pros and Cons for each are obvious, but the actual final scores will be hard to determine efficiently.
Individually I'm leaning to C++ and arguing the point that sooner or later MS will do to C# & associated platforms what Oracle is doing to Java now, and what lawyers may say about MONO now will count for nothing in reality when MS decides it's time to drop the hammer.
The original article is only available in Chinese: http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2010-10/09/c_12640540.htm
In case if you are still wondering, Xin Hua Net is the offical China news agency.
Wrong newspaper, and nothing in the text remotely close to what the quotes in this slashdot submission say.
I hate you very much right now.
>> Had the bomb been armed with its fissile capsule, the immediate death toll may have reached six figures.
So now we see why the bomb wasn't "armed with its fissile capsule", don't we?
Seriously, sad about the lives lost at the time an all, but to describe this as "almost nuked America" is facetious at best. This being the example chosen to represent the articles contents (and so probably the "best" of the incidents) I see no reason to read any further.
This is no more "nearly nuked" than the making of the movie "Broken Arrow". After all, they had props that looked like nukes in that. What if there's been a mix-up somewhere along the line? OMG! Nearly nuked America again!
Might I inquire as to what your career/specialty was? Or the mission of your department/unit?
I'm guessing it wasn't code monkey in a brand new buzzword heavy department of IT/network defense overseen by high-ranked goons who believe (and have stated on record) that IT skills in such a situation (a secure non-combat air-conditioned office in the US, with orders to detect and protect against IT infiltration) are a distant second to having had the experience of shooting at people because someone with more sparkly bits on their uniform told you to?
> This being China (where I live) it's a pretty damn solid guess that the scalper in question is, or is in the employ of, the Apple store local management.
> If people are willing to pay (or can be tricked into paying) more than the Apple sanctioned price then any store manager or employee here who didn't take the chance to skim a
> chunk from the marked up price would be physically and verbally abused by his (Yes, "his", not "his/her". This is China) mother when he got home.
-- 40% Flamebait
-- 30% Troll
-- 30% Interesting
Nice to know day to day realities of life here are Interesting trollish flamebait.
Doesn't change that they are realities though.
Actually, given that the scalpers are almost certainly in the employ of the store and get to buy the items in bulk before the store is open, this reservation system in the control of Apple outside of China is a futile effort that had to be made.
This being China (where I live) it's a pretty damn solid guess that the scalper in question is, or is in the employ of, the Apple store local management.
If people are willing to pay (or can be tricked into paying) more than the Apple sanctioned price then any store manager or employee here who didn't take the chance to skim a chunk from the marked up price would be physically and verbally abused by his (Yes, "his", not "his/her". This is China) mother when he got home.
Ever wondered just how America can afford to keep wasting money on sending legions of goons overseas to re-write everyone else's politics down the barrel of a massively overpriced indiscriminately slaughtering automated drone?
Simple.
They just deny the basic services and protection (Education, Health, Fire, Police, Public transit) to their own people and use the savings to train swathes of the ill-educated and desperate to kill on command with no thought involved.
Could it be that anyone skilled enough to participate is also skilled enough to see a complete operational failure that will smear the resume of anyone desperate enough to work there?
And with the additional toxic working environment supplied by mass-employed "upper-tiers" of politically motivated and utterly incompetent management not even the draw of decent pay in the coming second half of the recession is likely to reverse that.