It comes down to salaries, training and growth potential. Most companies I have worked for want skilled, senior developers. They are unwilling to hire and train a reasonable number of junior developers to become skilled, senior developers because they don't actually want to pay them while they are just learning to do their job. It's the downside to this modern, loyalty-free, at will work environment we've grown for ourselves in the U.S.
Companies and their employees both know that they will fire the junior I.T. workers first. They are also unwilling to pay them as much as their competitors will as they grow in their position. Senior engineers know that the only way they are going to move up is to jump ship. Lack of applicants means "lack of applicants willing to accept my salary offer." 51% of companies are not having a problem filling these roles. What does that tell you?
If you live live in a state where the telco is regulated by a public utilities commission, call them and file a formal complaint. Call the telco and give them your case number. They will have a lot of incentive to fix the problem. But do this only after a good faith effort has failed.
Unfortunately we're not allowed to have a green party in the U.S. Nor are we allowed to have a pirate party. You either vote for the party of Big Business and Deficit Spending or you vote for the party of Deficit Spending and Big Business.
The best server naming scheme I've come across was naming servers after cities, towns, rivers, lakes, and mountains in the locale of the business unit. The names are limitless. And people have a near instant mnemonic association with name/location and function. No one forgot what servers were used for. People had a "mental geographic map" of how their systems were interconnected.
Yes, notice what state the politicians are headed for when the topic of manned space exploration (and, more importantly, the space industrial complex) is being "hotly debated". It's no accident. Obama will have his manned space exploration plans in order when he gets there. It's called "pandering to your audience." Pandering is generally benign unless it is by a politician who is doing it by promising money from your bank account.
The outrage over these bills would not be nearly so great had the previous copyright extensions had not utterly eliminated works entering the public domain, and had the DMCA not been systematically abused against fair use. What we lack in the U.S. today is balance in how we treat intellectual property, especially copyrightable works. Restore the public domain and strengthen the rules governing fair use, and you can have fair IP protection. But I strongly believe that the need for PIPA and SOPA would disappear if we restored the public domain and fair use.
Good luck making that work. The government crime data that this feature will be using is usually out of date and highly massaged by police departments and officials with a stake in the crime rates. See, for example this NY Times article.
There was, but Congress won't fund it. Instead, they traded it for a few packages of Depends underwear, a tax cut for their donors, and a massive interest payment.
Now suppose that the first 64-bit word doesn't cause the fault on its own, but "simply" causes an instability in the software. That instability will be triggered by another specific 64-bit word. Now we're looking at 3.40282367 x 10^38 permutations.
That's one bug you don't have to worry about. Really, think about the odds. Unless there is some non-random process that produces those two numbers frequently, the odds of triggering this bug, even with millions of operations per second and millions of devices in use, is staggeringly small -- lifetime of the Universe small.
I assume he wants NEW content over his ENTIRE lifetime. The cost of that content, along with the maintenance cost of the systems to deliver that content, adds up to quite a lot. And his friends and family do not want the same content that he wants. They want something completely different. His mom wants soap operas and Lifetime movies, dad wants all the sports channels and fishing shows, his brother only wants Japanese Anime and fetish porn (but not the same fetish porn he watches), and his niece wants Sesame Street and Sponge Bob. And since they are in the same household, they want all of that (plus all movies in HD the same day they hit the local cinemas) for $30/mo.
How is it unlimited? He would only be able to watch exactly the same quantity of video as he can on a $29.99 basic cable subscription. You are pretty much restricted to the number of hours in a month multiplied by the number of TV's in the household.
Yes, and I want a Mazerati Granturismo but only pay the price of a Ford Focus.
You are getting $30 worth of entertainment with basic cable. You want the "high quality" stuff? Well, just like with cars, that's going to cost a little more than the mass-produced pablum for the masses. That's why the "unlimited (24/7 * n), high-quality, affordable content" doesn't make economic sense.
Should not be hard, apart from the legal nonsense.
It just might be that it's the economics of your wish list that is nonsense. You want unlimited, high-quality, affordable content. You get what you are willing to pay for. It sounds like you are a bit reluctant to pay for unlimited, high-quality content.
The Bose-Einstein condensates we produce on Earth require super-cold temperatures to acheive. How does this happen in a (relatively) hot white dwarf? Does this theorized BEC exist only at the core of the star?
This is a matter of theory predicting specific ratios of elements and isotopes being produced during the formation of the Universe, and a pristine cloud being found to test these ratios. Science: we make predictions and we test those predictions. Finding a pristine reservior of primordial gas was extraordinarily difficult. We now get to see how accurate the models were.
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How about WeLuvURob?
Dude, Rob moved out a while ago.
I don't mind virtualized 17th century Dutch paintings, but my 10" tablet screen doesn't do justice to The Night Watch.
It comes down to salaries, training and growth potential. Most companies I have worked for want skilled, senior developers. They are unwilling to hire and train a reasonable number of junior developers to become skilled, senior developers because they don't actually want to pay them while they are just learning to do their job. It's the downside to this modern, loyalty-free, at will work environment we've grown for ourselves in the U.S.
Companies and their employees both know that they will fire the junior I.T. workers first. They are also unwilling to pay them as much as their competitors will as they grow in their position. Senior engineers know that the only way they are going to move up is to jump ship. Lack of applicants means "lack of applicants willing to accept my salary offer." 51% of companies are not having a problem filling these roles. What does that tell you?
We're talking IT workers and engineers here, not assembly line workers.
If you live live in a state where the telco is regulated by a public utilities commission, call them and file a formal complaint. Call the telco and give them your case number. They will have a lot of incentive to fix the problem. But do this only after a good faith effort has failed.
In the U.S. we call that socialism. And socialism is bad m'kay.
Unfortunately we're not allowed to have a green party in the U.S. Nor are we allowed to have a pirate party. You either vote for the party of Big Business and Deficit Spending or you vote for the party of Deficit Spending and Big Business.
Hey, at least it's a democracy!
Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word "monetize" that I hadn't previously been aware of.
"Monetize"
"To screw the consumer as hard as possible."
"Monetize"
The federal government's computers may contain child porn. We should seize all of them now!!
It's 18TB of unsearchable images. Why didn't they just give it to Google to OCR and index for us all?
I guess that means Capitalism is an Antisocial-ism.
The best server naming scheme I've come across was naming servers after cities, towns, rivers, lakes, and mountains in the locale of the business unit. The names are limitless. And people have a near instant mnemonic association with name/location and function. No one forgot what servers were used for. People had a "mental geographic map" of how their systems were interconnected.
Yes, notice what state the politicians are headed for when the topic of manned space exploration (and, more importantly, the space industrial complex) is being "hotly debated". It's no accident. Obama will have his manned space exploration plans in order when he gets there. It's called "pandering to your audience." Pandering is generally benign unless it is by a politician who is doing it by promising money from your bank account.
The outrage over these bills would not be nearly so great had the previous copyright extensions had not utterly eliminated works entering the public domain, and had the DMCA not been systematically abused against fair use. What we lack in the U.S. today is balance in how we treat intellectual property, especially copyrightable works. Restore the public domain and strengthen the rules governing fair use, and you can have fair IP protection. But I strongly believe that the need for PIPA and SOPA would disappear if we restored the public domain and fair use.
Good luck making that work. The government crime data that this feature will be using is usually out of date and highly massaged by police departments and officials with a stake in the crime rates. See, for example this NY Times article.
There was, but Congress won't fund it. Instead, they traded it for a few packages of Depends underwear, a tax cut for their donors, and a massive interest payment.
Now suppose that the first 64-bit word doesn't cause the fault on its own, but "simply" causes an instability in the software. That instability will be triggered by another specific 64-bit word. Now we're looking at 3.40282367 x 10^38 permutations.
That's one bug you don't have to worry about. Really, think about the odds. Unless there is some non-random process that produces those two numbers frequently, the odds of triggering this bug, even with millions of operations per second and millions of devices in use, is staggeringly small -- lifetime of the Universe small.
The loaded cost of a software developer depends a lot on location and industry.
I assume he wants NEW content over his ENTIRE lifetime. The cost of that content, along with the maintenance cost of the systems to deliver that content, adds up to quite a lot. And his friends and family do not want the same content that he wants. They want something completely different. His mom wants soap operas and Lifetime movies, dad wants all the sports channels and fishing shows, his brother only wants Japanese Anime and fetish porn (but not the same fetish porn he watches), and his niece wants Sesame Street and Sponge Bob. And since they are in the same household, they want all of that (plus all movies in HD the same day they hit the local cinemas) for $30/mo.
How is it unlimited? He would only be able to watch exactly the same quantity of video as he can on a $29.99 basic cable subscription. You are pretty much restricted to the number of hours in a month multiplied by the number of TV's in the household.
Yes, and I want a Mazerati Granturismo but only pay the price of a Ford Focus.
You are getting $30 worth of entertainment with basic cable. You want the "high quality" stuff? Well, just like with cars, that's going to cost a little more than the mass-produced pablum for the masses. That's why the "unlimited (24/7 * n), high-quality, affordable content" doesn't make economic sense.
Should not be hard, apart from the legal nonsense.
It just might be that it's the economics of your wish list that is nonsense. You want unlimited, high-quality, affordable content. You get what you are willing to pay for. It sounds like you are a bit reluctant to pay for unlimited, high-quality content.
The Greeks would have known millenia ago that Hades is not a planet!
The Bose-Einstein condensates we produce on Earth require super-cold temperatures to acheive. How does this happen in a (relatively) hot white dwarf? Does this theorized BEC exist only at the core of the star?
This is a matter of theory predicting specific ratios of elements and isotopes being produced during the formation of the Universe, and a pristine cloud being found to test these ratios. Science: we make predictions and we test those predictions. Finding a pristine reservior of primordial gas was extraordinarily difficult. We now get to see how accurate the models were.
In order to be effective for that purpose, citizens must be allowed to bear the same arms as their government.