The login / password input is done through a Flash object. If the rhythm is correct, you're logged in just like you used to be with the old system. If the rhythm is not correct, you're presented with some additional security questions before being allowed to proceed.
Yes, they're fairly close--Redmond's a suburb of Seattle (and not one of the farther out one's really). It's only about 12 miles from downtown Seattle to the main Microsoft campus in Redmond and only takes about 20 minutes in light traffic (over an hour in heavy rush hour traffic though).
OOXML types (docx, xlsx, pptx) are the default file types in Office 2007, which has been out now for over a year. The files are already out in the wild and therefore are becoming a de facto standard. As for its name being mud, I'd say that's really only with the slashdot set. Most people have no idea what's different about these formats (binary vs. XML), let alone that there's a fierce battle being fought in various standards bodies over it.
Well, the study is put out by CRA which is basically an association of computer science departments that grant doctoral degrees that annually asks its members for this information. It's not completely comprehensive, but it probably does give a good idea of the trends in enrollment and students graduated.
It varies a lot based on the ranking and perceived quality of the school. Once you get down out of the top 20 departments or so, the programs are almost entirely foreign grad students. Basically, the best and brightest domestic students get into the most highly ranked programs while those who are a cut below find it more attractive to go straight into industry. There's almost no value for an American student with an MS or PhD from a third rate school--it would have been better for them to keep working their current job in most circumstances. For foreigners, it can be a ticket in the door though. Also, admissions for foreigners is more competitive which means you can still find some fairly bright students at departments a bit farther down in the rankings.
Sure, in the most basic denotation of that word. However, "African-American" has a very specific connotative meaning in the US today, relating to the descendants of slaves who lived through Jim Crow and are part of an overarching, non-immigrant black culture in the US today.
Where you're at geographically and what part of the industry you're in colors this a lot, so your experience may not be like mine... For me, the difference between looking for a job in the bay area in 2002 when I finished undergrad (good grades from a very well reputed CS program, several years of software development part-time and internship experience) and nationwide in 2005 when I left grad school with an MS (less respected but good program, no additional job experience) was night and day. In 2002, I sent out many resumes for months both through my university's career service (which ALL the big companies in the valley recruited at) and on my own without any results except for 2 interviews from national laboratories for non-specific positions. In 2005, I applied for two positions--one randomly because the company was at a career fair that had pretty much no tech employers and I felt I should at least use one of the resumes I copied, the other at a local software company. I got two interviews from which I got two attractive job offers.
Moreover, in 2002 in the Bay Area the effects of the dot com bust were very widely visible. Most people in my graduating class did not have jobs lined up and those who did often only had one offer. I would send out a resume somewhere then read in the paper the next day about how that company was laying off thousands of workers. I even had interviews cancelled on me by companies that had instituted hiring freezes after starting their recruiting processes. It was a dramatic change from even just a couple years before when almost everybody was graduating with several offers to choose from. Things weren't as crazy in 2005, but graduates were certainly finding jobs and in many cases for higher salaries than during the boom.
I admit the weakening dollar may complicate these figures, but they're using PPP adjustment which should correct for at least some of that. It's *total* spending on healthcare, not just government spending on healthcare. The other interesting exhibit in that link is numbers 4 and 5 where it shows that the US spends a much larger share of its GDP on healthcare as well.
I think what the parent is getting at is that Obama is the son of a white, American native mother and a black, Kenyan father. He doesn't fit the typical African-American pattern of being the descendant of slaves, living through segregation/Jim Crow, etc.
No, if Microsoft products were banned for sale in the EU, the many, many European companies and individuals that have built their IT infrastructure around those products would be furious. As much as many slashdotters hate Microsoft and their products, most people and organizations out in the real world have no interest in spending huge sums of money and amounts of time to replace their entire existing IT infrastructure with non-Microsoft alternatives. Can you imagine what would ensue if everybody in the EU had to either freeze their current use of Microsoft software and begin transitioning to other alternatives at the same time? At least in the short to mid term, it would be a financial and productivity disaster for most large companies. Such a move would result in national governments intervening to fundamentally alter the EU governmental institutions that were responsible. It would weaken the European Commission's ability to deal with anti-trust issues in the future substantially.
FWIW, voter registration is handled by the states (not the feds). Some states, such as Washington, do not have partisan voter registration. The form doesn't even mention political parties. Effectively, everybody is considered an independent and in a primary chooses their party of choice in the voting booth.
Germany has a different political history than countries like the US and France, which ended up with strict church/state separation by way of revolutions involving ideas of the Enlightenment.
Perhaps the strangest thing about religion in the US vs. Germany, is that while Germany has little church/state separation, religion plays a much smaller role in public life than it does in the US. You have to wonder if state support of religion just makes the citizenry more clearly see that churches are just a non-democratic power structure dictating rules (of a moral nature) and collecting taxes (tithing).
Microsoft is the largest software company in the world. Believe it or not, there are a LOT of geeks there and a LOT of them read slashdot.
Of course, that there are real, non-evil people down in the trenches making and supporting products at Microsoft is inconvenient to those slashdotters who prefer to hate the company as an evil monolith whose only faces are those of Ballmer and Gates.
What is needed is a smooth integration of Windows executables with Linux execution code. Conceptually, windows programs are nothing more than binaries that need their own environment, similar to the way one runs GNOME applications of KDE and vice versa, or better still Java programs. (Yes, I know that Java is a tokenized interpretive environment with a JIT, but this is a discussion not a compsci course.) This is exactly what WINE is--an implementation of the Windows API. However, the Windows API was never designed to be implemented anywhere besides on the Microsoft Windows OS (well, maybe OS/2). It's very complicated because it does a lot, has been around a long time and has been extended many times over the years. Moreover, it's defined by how it runs on released version of Windows, which means that it's a moving target.
OS X has roots in Free BSD, but that doesn't mean it would be an easy port. In particular, Photoshop is built on the Carbon API, which was designed by Apple as an easy way of transitioning Classic Mac apps over to OS X. UI, file I/O, threading, etc. are all specific to that API which doesn't exist outside of the Apple world. Even if they were using the more modern Cocoa API, there's nothing quite like that available on Linux or other UNIX-like systems with the exception of GNUStep which is just not ready for prime time.
It's highly unlikely that such a port would pay for itself. The costs would not just be for the initial port, but for the continued support of that additional platform into the future. That's one more platform that needs to be tested on and developed for every time any code is changed whether that's to add features or stabilize a product for release or release security fixes. Effectively, it means more people and longer timeframes for every modification made on the software.
Moreover, it's hard to believe that Adobe would sell any more copies of Photoshop. I imagine most users would just be switching from Windows or Mac. You'd actually have to get Linux users who don't currently use Photoshop to buy it.
How would this really be any different with open source software? The company could still claim they found an exploit and won't release a patch or announce the details until somebody pays $x in ransom.
Actually, alt-f-s should still work even in versions as new as Office 2007 with the ribbon because legacy menu keyboarding is still supported even if the menus themselves are inaccessible. However, you could even save yourself more trouble by hitting Ctrl-S to save or at least turning Clip-it off in the options dialog.
You'd get a letter from US Customs notifying you that your package is being held and asking you to present yourself in person at their facility to retrieve your laptop.
Actually, they do withhold Social Security and Medicare taxes when the stock grant vests. I know this because I work for Microsoft and have grants that vest every year. They sell an equivalent amount of shares for all the taxes before you even receive the shares in your brokerage account.
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The login / password input is done through a Flash object. If the rhythm is correct, you're logged in just like you used to be with the old system. If the rhythm is not correct, you're presented with some additional security questions before being allowed to proceed.
Yes, they're fairly close--Redmond's a suburb of Seattle (and not one of the farther out one's really). It's only about 12 miles from downtown Seattle to the main Microsoft campus in Redmond and only takes about 20 minutes in light traffic (over an hour in heavy rush hour traffic though).
OOXML types (docx, xlsx, pptx) are the default file types in Office 2007, which has been out now for over a year. The files are already out in the wild and therefore are becoming a de facto standard. As for its name being mud, I'd say that's really only with the slashdot set. Most people have no idea what's different about these formats (binary vs. XML), let alone that there's a fierce battle being fought in various standards bodies over it.
Well, the study is put out by CRA which is basically an association of computer science departments that grant doctoral degrees that annually asks its members for this information. It's not completely comprehensive, but it probably does give a good idea of the trends in enrollment and students graduated.
It varies a lot based on the ranking and perceived quality of the school. Once you get down out of the top 20 departments or so, the programs are almost entirely foreign grad students. Basically, the best and brightest domestic students get into the most highly ranked programs while those who are a cut below find it more attractive to go straight into industry. There's almost no value for an American student with an MS or PhD from a third rate school--it would have been better for them to keep working their current job in most circumstances. For foreigners, it can be a ticket in the door though. Also, admissions for foreigners is more competitive which means you can still find some fairly bright students at departments a bit farther down in the rankings.
Sure, in the most basic denotation of that word. However, "African-American" has a very specific connotative meaning in the US today, relating to the descendants of slaves who lived through Jim Crow and are part of an overarching, non-immigrant black culture in the US today.
Where you're at geographically and what part of the industry you're in colors this a lot, so your experience may not be like mine... For me, the difference between looking for a job in the bay area in 2002 when I finished undergrad (good grades from a very well reputed CS program, several years of software development part-time and internship experience) and nationwide in 2005 when I left grad school with an MS (less respected but good program, no additional job experience) was night and day. In 2002, I sent out many resumes for months both through my university's career service (which ALL the big companies in the valley recruited at) and on my own without any results except for 2 interviews from national laboratories for non-specific positions. In 2005, I applied for two positions--one randomly because the company was at a career fair that had pretty much no tech employers and I felt I should at least use one of the resumes I copied, the other at a local software company. I got two interviews from which I got two attractive job offers.
Moreover, in 2002 in the Bay Area the effects of the dot com bust were very widely visible. Most people in my graduating class did not have jobs lined up and those who did often only had one offer. I would send out a resume somewhere then read in the paper the next day about how that company was laying off thousands of workers. I even had interviews cancelled on me by companies that had instituted hiring freezes after starting their recruiting processes. It was a dramatic change from even just a couple years before when almost everybody was graduating with several offers to choose from. Things weren't as crazy in 2005, but graduates were certainly finding jobs and in many cases for higher salaries than during the boom.
I admit the weakening dollar may complicate these figures, but they're using PPP adjustment which should correct for at least some of that. It's *total* spending on healthcare, not just government spending on healthcare. The other interesting exhibit in that link is numbers 4 and 5 where it shows that the US spends a much larger share of its GDP on healthcare as well.
I think what the parent is getting at is that Obama is the son of a white, American native mother and a black, Kenyan father. He doesn't fit the typical African-American pattern of being the descendant of slaves, living through segregation/Jim Crow, etc.
Here's some stats from 2003 about per capita spending on health care by nation. If anything, the gap has only widened in those past five years too.
Because telling teens to just say no to sex works so well...
You could always ask big pharma...
No, if Microsoft products were banned for sale in the EU, the many, many European companies and individuals that have built their IT infrastructure around those products would be furious. As much as many slashdotters hate Microsoft and their products, most people and organizations out in the real world have no interest in spending huge sums of money and amounts of time to replace their entire existing IT infrastructure with non-Microsoft alternatives. Can you imagine what would ensue if everybody in the EU had to either freeze their current use of Microsoft software and begin transitioning to other alternatives at the same time? At least in the short to mid term, it would be a financial and productivity disaster for most large companies. Such a move would result in national governments intervening to fundamentally alter the EU governmental institutions that were responsible. It would weaken the European Commission's ability to deal with anti-trust issues in the future substantially.
FWIW, voter registration is handled by the states (not the feds). Some states, such as Washington, do not have partisan voter registration. The form doesn't even mention political parties. Effectively, everybody is considered an independent and in a primary chooses their party of choice in the voting booth.
Germany has a different political history than countries like the US and France, which ended up with strict church/state separation by way of revolutions involving ideas of the Enlightenment.
Perhaps the strangest thing about religion in the US vs. Germany, is that while Germany has little church/state separation, religion plays a much smaller role in public life than it does in the US. You have to wonder if state support of religion just makes the citizenry more clearly see that churches are just a non-democratic power structure dictating rules (of a moral nature) and collecting taxes (tithing).
Microsoft is the largest software company in the world. Believe it or not, there are a LOT of geeks there and a LOT of them read slashdot.
Of course, that there are real, non-evil people down in the trenches making and supporting products at Microsoft is inconvenient to those slashdotters who prefer to hate the company as an evil monolith whose only faces are those of Ballmer and Gates.
OS X has roots in Free BSD, but that doesn't mean it would be an easy port. In particular, Photoshop is built on the Carbon API, which was designed by Apple as an easy way of transitioning Classic Mac apps over to OS X. UI, file I/O, threading, etc. are all specific to that API which doesn't exist outside of the Apple world. Even if they were using the more modern Cocoa API, there's nothing quite like that available on Linux or other UNIX-like systems with the exception of GNUStep which is just not ready for prime time.
It's highly unlikely that such a port would pay for itself. The costs would not just be for the initial port, but for the continued support of that additional platform into the future. That's one more platform that needs to be tested on and developed for every time any code is changed whether that's to add features or stabilize a product for release or release security fixes. Effectively, it means more people and longer timeframes for every modification made on the software.
Moreover, it's hard to believe that Adobe would sell any more copies of Photoshop. I imagine most users would just be switching from Windows or Mac. You'd actually have to get Linux users who don't currently use Photoshop to buy it.
Not that I really want to dignify your post with a response, but I'm gay and you straight people can keep that son of bitch!
How would this really be any different with open source software? The company could still claim they found an exploit and won't release a patch or announce the details until somebody pays $x in ransom.
Actually, alt-f-s should still work even in versions as new as Office 2007 with the ribbon because legacy menu keyboarding is still supported even if the menus themselves are inaccessible. However, you could even save yourself more trouble by hitting Ctrl-S to save or at least turning Clip-it off in the options dialog.
Yup, it's true--Microsoft is dying.
You'd get a letter from US Customs notifying you that your package is being held and asking you to present yourself in person at their facility to retrieve your laptop.
Actually, they do withhold Social Security and Medicare taxes when the stock grant vests. I know this because I work for Microsoft and have grants that vest every year. They sell an equivalent amount of shares for all the taxes before you even receive the shares in your brokerage account.