When can we Americans start viewing this? I've been a huge Dr. Who fan since I was a little kid. I first saw Dr. Who in the early 80's on PBS in Chicago. Are there any UK people nice enough to recommend a way to view these new episodes without resorting to buy expensive international subscription channels? Thanks and much appreciated!
The search engine looks very similar to Google after hitting the search button. The search was very fast and as mentioned in previous posts, the results between Google and MSN vary to some degree. The tabs do not work in Firefox and Opera. Maybe it's because I'm using Suse Linux? Doubtful. The frontpage is clean, but I can't help to think that it's a cross between Yahoo and Foxnews.com. I believe I'll stick with Google because:
a) It's a no-nonsense, true search engine.
b) I don't need a frontpage with news. If I want a news site, I'll search for one.
Next up for taxation is sex. Soon the state of California will put a "special" chip in or around our groin area to determine how much sex we have and tax us accordingly. For a lot of us geeks, we'll come out shining as we are like Vulcans - sex once every seven years. Unless you're a chronic masturbater, then you're in trouble. Ha!
But seriously, what a ridiculous proposal! Why doesn't the state of California propose more public transportation? My sister lives in San Diego, and the public transportation is aweful compared to other big metropolitan areas like Chicago or New York.
I go out to San Diego about 3 times a year. Each time, I see a new road extension being built or the highways widened. They should be be expanding their Coaster rail system (or similar). This also makes sense since California is worried about keeping pollution down.
It almost seems obvious that Microsoft is lacking a QA department. Unless their QA department is employed by a bunch of monkeys...Oh wait, the monkeys would have caught the problem.
If mi2g is saying that BSD OS's and Mac OS-X's are the most secure, then why are they using Linux? Netcraft shows they're running Linux with Apache and have been for over 1.5 years. To me, this study is pointless.
WNP is a huge undertaking for cell carriers as it requires major changes to the cell towers, cell phones, and other infrastructure. There is little to no return on investment. But then again, who's fault is that? It would be the cell carriers because WNP was conceived many years before. It sounds like they weren't very proactive in trying to get this done and now companies like Verizon are trying to block it.
I have a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering and a BS in Computer Engineering. I am currently working on an MS in Software Engineering. I program for a living and apply my engineering skills in building software. I think the bottomline of this article is the kind of courses one took in college. Courses in the engineering curriculum just don't compare to the courses in computer science or software engineering, though I respect these fields. Basically, programmers don't deserve the title of engineer (even if they have a Software Engineering degree - maybe it should be changed to Software Designer degree?). People who have MCSE certificates aren't engineers, either, and certainly don't deserve the title of engineer. If you've passed both the EIT and PE exams, then you may be called an engineer because you are the best at what you do.
Mr. Dollery is right on the money. Using myself as an example, when my manager asks me to attend 10 meetings a week, of which 2 are useful, then things will not get done on time. Meetings in my company lasts for at least an hour. Thus, 10 meetings is a minimum of 10 hours. That leaves 30 hours to do the work. However, of these 30 hours, at least another 10 hours is spent explaining to the rest of the team what went on in those meetings (our company has a "dynamic" vision where information should be passed to everyone). Due to the lack of time trying to get a project finished or the project is finished half-assed because of the lack of time, there are production problems that must be dealt with. These waste about 5 hours a week. That leaves about 15 hours. But, since all of the programmers here have open cubes where non-programmers can pass by and start talking about "the weather," these tend to waste another 5 hours per week. Wow, I actually have about 10 sporadic hours per week to get my project done on time! Overtime? Hell no! I don't paid for overtime. Yeah, well, I should be grateful that I have a job in these rough times, but programmers just don't get any respect around here. Our CEO is even said publicly that the I.S. Department is a necessary evil. Now how can I have respect for the company? Keep the programmers out of meetings unless absolutely necessary and give us some privacy so we can concentrate.
I work for a medium-sized cell phone company in the Chicagoland area. Number portability is actually going to happen in phases (I do not know the timeframes). The first phase is local portability. This means that if you are in your calling area (non-roaming), you can take your cell phone number with you if you change carriers (i.e.: if you live in Chicago and have AT&T, you can take your number to Cingular). The next phase will be regional portability. You'll be able take your Illinois cell number with you to Wisconsin. The last phase is that you can take your number with you anywhere in the U.S.A. (Caller identification becomes useless because although you'll see a New York number, the number may actually be from Nebraska, for example).
Unbeknowest to the consumer, their cell phones will actually contain two cell numbers associated with it. The first number is called the MDN (mobile dialed number). This is the actual number that the customer uses for their friends and family to call them. Think of it as "My Dialed Number." The next number is called the MSID and the customer never knows about this. It stands for mobile station ID, but think of it as "My Secret ID." Cell companies are still in charge of their pool of numbers they give out to new customers which is local to the given area. The MSID is the actual number that the cell towers will recognize for making or receiving the phone call. Thus, when a customer moves to Nebraska and wants to keep their number from New York, their cell number (MDN) will be a New York number, but the actual number that's being "used" is a Nebraska number (MSID) that was assigned by the sales agent from Nebraska.
This brings up another point. Cell phones older than 2 years will NOT work for portability. If a customer wants to port their number, they will have to buy the latest phone that is programmed for that. As stated earlier, these cell phones will need to contain two cell numbers in them: the one the customers know about and the one the cell towers know about.
After reading the article, Dell plans to Migrate off of Sun and use RedHat Linux with its software. If Dell's CIO is saying that "Unix is Dead", isn't Linux just another hybrid of Unix? His opening slide should have said "Sun is Setting". Dell's CIO needs to go back to Computer Science 101.
Most of these types of "programmers" are the leftovers from the mid 90's when companies were hiring anybody as programmers. In my experience, they don't have the aptitude to actually design a software system using a software development paradigm. So, the company stuck them in a specialized group that did only scripting with one type of scripting language (e.g.: Javascript).
If you want to get ahead in your company, make sure you know a compiled language as well as a scripting language. They complement each other when trying to get a project done on time.
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When can we Americans start viewing this? I've been a huge Dr. Who fan since I was a little kid. I first saw Dr. Who in the early 80's on PBS in Chicago. Are there any UK people nice enough to recommend a way to view these new episodes without resorting to buy expensive international subscription channels? Thanks and much appreciated!
Vince
The search engine looks very similar to Google after hitting the search button. The search was very fast and as mentioned in previous posts, the results between Google and MSN vary to some degree. The tabs do not work in Firefox and Opera. Maybe it's because I'm using Suse Linux? Doubtful. The frontpage is clean, but I can't help to think that it's a cross between Yahoo and Foxnews.com. I believe I'll stick with Google because:
a) It's a no-nonsense, true search engine.
b) I don't need a frontpage with news. If I want a news site, I'll search for one.
Vince
Next up for taxation is sex. Soon the state of California will put a "special" chip in or around our groin area to determine how much sex we have and tax us accordingly. For a lot of us geeks, we'll come out shining as we are like Vulcans - sex once every seven years. Unless you're a chronic masturbater, then you're in trouble. Ha!
But seriously, what a ridiculous proposal! Why doesn't the state of California propose more public transportation? My sister lives in San Diego, and the public transportation is aweful compared to other big metropolitan areas like Chicago or New York.
I go out to San Diego about 3 times a year. Each time, I see a new road extension being built or the highways widened. They should be be expanding their Coaster rail system (or similar). This also makes sense since California is worried about keeping pollution down.
It almost seems obvious that Microsoft is lacking a QA department. Unless their QA department is employed by a bunch of monkeys...Oh wait, the monkeys would have caught the problem.
If mi2g is saying that BSD OS's and Mac OS-X's are the most secure, then why are they using Linux? Netcraft shows they're running Linux with Apache and have been for over 1.5 years. To me, this study is pointless.
WNP is a huge undertaking for cell carriers as it requires major changes to the cell towers, cell phones, and other infrastructure. There is little to no return on investment. But then again, who's fault is that? It would be the cell carriers because WNP was conceived many years before. It sounds like they weren't very proactive in trying to get this done and now companies like Verizon are trying to block it.
Vince
I have a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering and a BS in Computer Engineering. I am currently working on an MS in Software Engineering. I program for a living and apply my engineering skills in building software. I think the bottomline of this article is the kind of courses one took in college. Courses in the engineering curriculum just don't compare to the courses in computer science or software engineering, though I respect these fields. Basically, programmers don't deserve the title of engineer (even if they have a Software Engineering degree - maybe it should be changed to Software Designer degree?). People who have MCSE certificates aren't engineers, either, and certainly don't deserve the title of engineer. If you've passed both the EIT and PE exams, then you may be called an engineer because you are the best at what you do.
Vince
Mr. Dollery is right on the money. Using myself as an example, when my manager asks me to attend 10 meetings a week, of which 2 are useful, then things will not get done on time. Meetings in my company lasts for at least an hour. Thus, 10 meetings is a minimum of 10 hours. That leaves 30 hours to do the work. However, of these 30 hours, at least another 10 hours is spent explaining to the rest of the team what went on in those meetings (our company has a "dynamic" vision where information should be passed to everyone). Due to the lack of time trying to get a project finished or the project is finished half-assed because of the lack of time, there are production problems that must be dealt with. These waste about 5 hours a week. That leaves about 15 hours. But, since all of the programmers here have open cubes where non-programmers can pass by and start talking about "the weather," these tend to waste another 5 hours per week. Wow, I actually have about 10 sporadic hours per week to get my project done on time! Overtime? Hell no! I don't paid for overtime. Yeah, well, I should be grateful that I have a job in these rough times, but programmers just don't get any respect around here. Our CEO is even said publicly that the I.S. Department is a necessary evil. Now how can I have respect for the company? Keep the programmers out of meetings unless absolutely necessary and give us some privacy so we can concentrate.
Vince
I work for a medium-sized cell phone company in the Chicagoland area. Number portability is actually going to happen in phases (I do not know the timeframes). The first phase is local portability. This means that if you are in your calling area (non-roaming), you can take your cell phone number with you if you change carriers (i.e.: if you live in Chicago and have AT&T, you can take your number to Cingular). The next phase will be regional portability. You'll be able take your Illinois cell number with you to Wisconsin. The last phase is that you can take your number with you anywhere in the U.S.A. (Caller identification becomes useless because although you'll see a New York number, the number may actually be from Nebraska, for example).
Unbeknowest to the consumer, their cell phones will actually contain two cell numbers associated with it. The first number is called the MDN (mobile dialed number). This is the actual number that the customer uses for their friends and family to call them. Think of it as "My Dialed Number." The next number is called the MSID and the customer never knows about this. It stands for mobile station ID, but think of it as "My Secret ID." Cell companies are still in charge of their pool of numbers they give out to new customers which is local to the given area. The MSID is the actual number that the cell towers will recognize for making or receiving the phone call. Thus, when a customer moves to Nebraska and wants to keep their number from New York, their cell number (MDN) will be a New York number, but the actual number that's being "used" is a Nebraska number (MSID) that was assigned by the sales agent from Nebraska.
This brings up another point. Cell phones older than 2 years will NOT work for portability. If a customer wants to port their number, they will have to buy the latest phone that is programmed for that. As stated earlier, these cell phones will need to contain two cell numbers in them: the one the customers know about and the one the cell towers know about.
I hope this helps!
Vince
After reading the article, Dell plans to Migrate off of Sun and use RedHat Linux with its software. If Dell's CIO is saying that "Unix is Dead", isn't Linux just another hybrid of Unix? His opening slide should have said "Sun is Setting". Dell's CIO needs to go back to Computer Science 101.
Vince
Most of these types of "programmers" are the leftovers from the mid 90's when companies were hiring anybody as programmers. In my experience, they don't have the aptitude to actually design a software system using a software development paradigm. So, the company stuck them in a specialized group that did only scripting with one type of scripting language (e.g.: Javascript).
If you want to get ahead in your company, make sure you know a compiled language as well as a scripting language. They complement each other when trying to get a project done on time.