I don't know alot about the US, however, if you're taking your mobile around Europe, then you get stuck with the "Roaming" fee! I had to pay 500UK pounds last month due to the number of ppl calling me!!! I was in Munich; they were calling my UK number. I had to pay the international part of the call!
Whom in their right mind would ever expect a straight (let alone honest) answer from a politician?
I don't see the point of asking them questions.
Their answers range from:
1. Lie
2. Unfulfilled Promise.
3. Score point at oppossition's expense
4. Misrepresentation of truth
5. Political Sound bite
6. Politically correct empty statement
7. Politically correct statement based on a knee-jerk reaction to something in the news.
8. Nonesence
9. Playing party politics
10. Dodging the issue
11. Re-directing blame
Since I'm a UK Citizen, my primary consideration is for the UK market. Since I work in Germany (and until recently the Netherlands), my secondary consideration is the rest of Europe.
Your immediate assertion that I'm some kind of Euro xenephobe is baseless and insolent!
Have the decency to apologise!
Who cares about a name?!?! Slackware is the best distro I've installed/used. From a techie point of view I feel it is the best since it allows you to control you installation instead of some "wizard".
I've used the Red Hat distro and it SUX! You get stuck with the distro having just too much control. I hate it when an OS (Win 2000 comes to mind) thinks it is a just soooooo smart, and stops me from making decisions without going on some fsckin' expensive course that has to teach me!
Slackware is cool, and I for one am glad that they haven't followed all the hype and made their distro more "useable". Who is it supposed to be used by anyway? A marketing dude in a suit or as a server installed by a Techie!?!?
How many ppl care about the names of software anyway?
True Democracy (Power to the people, for the people, by the people) is nonesence since this would require the people to be consulted on EVERY issue. That would make next to impossible!
As a result of this you get political parties that (alledgedly) represent the opinions of the people. The people then get to choose between the (two) parties once every 4/5 years and then realise that it's the same shit, except it smells slightly different!
Politicians are generally the liars who'd sell their own mothers to reach a position of power! They are the worst of ppl.
People should gain national office as result of merit, not the size of their campaign budgets or due to how well they use the media and the "sound bite"!
Personally, I'd prefer a military dictatorship! Atleast you know you're fscked as opposed to having the media and politicians telling you how "free" you are!
I've been using JSP for over a year and a half. In computing terms that makes it OLD!
New Atlanta (http://www.newatlanta.com) have had a plugin for Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6 for some time. JSP is also supported by MS IIS (once again with the New atlanta plugin), Inprise Application Server, IBM Websphere, and the newer version of Weblogic Application Server.
JSP is a Java extension of Servlets. It allows you to leverage the OO concepts of Java in what is basically a HTML environment.
Besides, the real beauty of JSP is that you can invoke Java Beans directly, and leaving you JSP relatively clean of Java Code (Although I've seen some REALLY BAD/DIRTY JSP).
I would also take issue with the Articles description of JSP as a scripting language.
All JSP is compiled to a java servlet on the Server! Hence it isn't what I'd call a script.
The most annoying thing about projects like this, is that I know it'll be atleast 5/10 years before we see similar stuff in the UK or Europe!
Why are Europeans so slow to pick up on these things? Or rather, why are the established financial institutions, so slow to back such enterprises?
O well, I guess that's one reason to move to the US!
I'm just wondering. With all this nonesence about not reverse engineering anything, and not allowed to look inside a system to see how it works and find problems etc. Would this extend to the average car mechanic goes around tweaking adjusting his car to be "just right".
Sure he may void his warranty, but he don't care does he! He bought the car, surely it his to do with as he pleases!
If he subsequently uses his tweaked and customised car as an accessory in a bank robbery, surely he is guilty of bank robbery, and the state of his car isn't the point!
I know it is naive, but I feel that if I buy a cool toy, I'm allowed to break, fix or adjust it.
Sure my Warranty is void, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.
Now if I try to make a profit from somebody else intellectual property, that I'll agree is a separate issue, but they can't make it illegal to learn how a technology works (or doesn't work as the case may be)!!!
What's with all the negative noise here!
They were probably well intensioned Hackers trying to fix bugs in M$ code!
They can't legally see the code, so they did the next best thing!
I recently spent a year working in Holland, and am now working in Germany. In both places the language of business has been English.
The German company is strange in that I'm the only person of English extraction that works here! Everyone else is predominantly German, with few other "foriegners".
Everyone speaks and communicates in English. All documents are written in English (with the odd grammatical error, but it's still better than my German!). All code is commented in English!
And this seems to be the norm in both Holland, and Germany.
I'm just wondering if this only takes place in the IT industry or has anybody noticed this in other industries?
I don't know about your exact situation, but I find that the Agencies are too interested in getting you placed (commission) than finding you a suitable position for your skills etc. Don't let them rush you. It's your life!
However, with the market being what it is, you can definitely afford to be choosy.
Make it clear to the interviewers the kind of work that you're interested in. Also find out the kind of work you shall be doing. (Don't let them be vague with you). If your manager doesn't know what you'll be doing, you're in trouble!
Also try to avoid Jerks from HR. Get hired by the manager directly, not a third rate psychiatrist!
I've got a Sony VPL-CS1 LCD Projector.
I haven't tried to measure the dimensions (Kinda depends on the distance you can get it from your screen)
It is great.
I can plug my DVD system into, my Laptop can connect to it, and it's got USB connectors so you can control your mouse through the remote control.
It can deal with PAL and NTSC.
Quake III is NICE!;-)
All you need is a big White wall (or projector screen) good curtains/blinds, oh and about 2000UKP sterling (I bought mine in April, so the price may have come down since then).
So, 20" + screen - check; Hang on the wall - er-check; $3000 - check!
Governments are simply higher profile, and that is what Crackers are interested in.
What Kudos does a Cracker get for hacking in to the local KMart's Inventory list, compared to the one that defaces the CIA home page.
The govenrment fails more often because more ppl try to crack it.
Simple Law of averages!
How much information are they requesting, and if you feel that it is intrusive, why don't ask for some justification/explanation, or just ask them to stop!?
Do they have a privacy statement?
The serivice inside their shops (The local Superstores) is pretty good, so I'm sure they'd be responsive.
I'd like to know Tescos position on this before I go ahead and discuss it.
That's a first, the interests of the consumer has gone above the Marketing department! I wonder if this trend will catch on, or if this is simply a blip?!
1. Microsoft has pulled the plug on its support for VJ++, and it will not appear in the next installment of Visual InterDev. The Rational Corporation is taking over the J++ side of things. 2. Where do you get the idea that MS J++ is widespread use? Just beacause a company has a licence for the MS InterDev, doesn't mean that they use J++. The majority of Java developers that I know of, either use Cafe, or JBuilder. Some of them use vi/emacs and the JDK! 3. Claiming the Jini is dead generally comes from ppl that don't know anything about the technology. Jini is totally new protocol with a new architecture and it is NOT designed for backward compatibility with existing CORBA, RMI or EJB. In short, it is a technology for the future. Hence, many telcos are investigating Jini for future use. ys
It seems very poor form that the company from whom you get your service, doesn't keep you in anyway informed about the status of your connection. Even if they source it from somebodyelse, that isn't YOUR problem. These are the basics of a service industry. I personally haven't got a problem paying a little extra for a good service, and wouldn't hesitate to drop a provider if they didn't provide the desired service.
It's no point complaining about MS or RIAA or MPAA etc. The law currently favours the big corporation over the small consumer. Political "Sound bites" and BS aside, the government and law makers persuaded more by the deep purses and lobbyist of the big corporations than they are by the complaints of Joe Public. This kind of crap will continue until the law starts to favour the consumer. If a big corp wants to silence you, or out shout you, then they have the money, time, legal team, marketing department and man power to achieve this despite all the moral arguments that you'd care to distribute. Even what used to be free platform for all - the Internet - can be sileced at the whims of these Scum.
Surely the good ppl of Cuba or China wouldn't object to a little "Bash the American Corporation, morality and ethics" angle. If it's liberalism your looking for, try out Amsterdam (Holland). If it is complete freedom, then get some friends together and buy a small Island in the Pacific...:-) Then again, seeing as the US and Western Europe are democracies, then surely they should be working for the people...
Thanx to all the guys and grrls that responded. We sorted the problem at our end, with out making any chages to the existing Servlet model.
The way we got around it was to make the first page that is called be a Servlet that will generate the WML. This way the first session id is not superceded by a second session id created for the WML. This is the same session id that gets passed around between all the rest of the servlets now. We found that the solution requires WAP 1.1 on the gateway/phone - WAP 1.0 doesn't work - we don't know if that is the gateway or the phone causing the problem, but we suspect it to be the gateway.
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I don't know alot about the US, however, if you're taking your mobile around Europe, then you get stuck with the "Roaming" fee! I had to pay 500UK pounds last month due to the number of ppl calling me!!! I was in Munich; they were calling my UK number. I had to pay the international part of the call!
Whom in their right mind would ever expect a straight (let alone honest) answer from a politician?
I don't see the point of asking them questions.
Their answers range from:
1. Lie
2. Unfulfilled Promise.
3. Score point at oppossition's expense
4. Misrepresentation of truth
5. Political Sound bite
6. Politically correct empty statement
7. Politically correct statement based on a knee-jerk reaction to something in the news.
8. Nonesence
9. Playing party politics
10. Dodging the issue
11. Re-directing blame
Have I missed anything?
Since I'm a UK Citizen, my primary consideration is for the UK market. Since I work in Germany (and until recently the Netherlands), my secondary consideration is the rest of Europe.
Your immediate assertion that I'm some kind of Euro xenephobe is baseless and insolent!
Have the decency to apologise!
Actually it is only ADSL. i.e. Slow uploads! Put another way, you can't host!
Who cares about a name?!?! Slackware is the best distro I've installed/used. From a techie point of view I feel it is the best since it allows you to control you installation instead of some "wizard".
I've used the Red Hat distro and it SUX! You get stuck with the distro having just too much control. I hate it when an OS (Win 2000 comes to mind) thinks it is a just soooooo smart, and stops me from making decisions without going on some fsckin' expensive course that has to teach me!
Slackware is cool, and I for one am glad that they haven't followed all the hype and made their distro more "useable". Who is it supposed to be used by anyway? A marketing dude in a suit or as a server installed by a Techie!?!?
How many ppl care about the names of software anyway?
True Democracy (Power to the people, for the people, by the people) is nonesence since this would require the people to be consulted on EVERY issue. That would make next to impossible!
As a result of this you get political parties that (alledgedly) represent the opinions of the people. The people then get to choose between the (two) parties once every 4/5 years and then realise that it's the same shit, except it smells slightly different!
Politicians are generally the liars who'd sell their own mothers to reach a position of power! They are the worst of ppl.
People should gain national office as result of merit, not the size of their campaign budgets or due to how well they use the media and the "sound bite"!
Personally, I'd prefer a military dictatorship! Atleast you know you're fscked as opposed to having the media and politicians telling you how "free" you are!
I've been using JSP for over a year and a half. In computing terms that makes it OLD!
New Atlanta (http://www.newatlanta.com) have had a plugin for Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6 for some time. JSP is also supported by MS IIS (once again with the New atlanta plugin), Inprise Application Server, IBM Websphere, and the newer version of Weblogic Application Server.
JSP is a Java extension of Servlets. It allows you to leverage the OO concepts of Java in what is basically a HTML environment.
Besides, the real beauty of JSP is that you can invoke Java Beans directly, and leaving you JSP relatively clean of Java Code (Although I've seen some REALLY BAD/DIRTY JSP).
I would also take issue with the Articles description of JSP as a scripting language.
All JSP is compiled to a java servlet on the Server! Hence it isn't what I'd call a script.
The most annoying thing about projects like this, is that I know it'll be atleast 5/10 years before we see similar stuff in the UK or Europe!
Why are Europeans so slow to pick up on these things? Or rather, why are the established financial institutions, so slow to back such enterprises?
O well, I guess that's one reason to move to the US!
Next they'll make Libraries illegal because the circumvent Amazon's right to sell books!
I'm just wondering. With all this nonesence about not reverse engineering anything, and not allowed to look inside a system to see how it works and find problems etc. Would this extend to the average car mechanic goes around tweaking adjusting his car to be "just right".
Sure he may void his warranty, but he don't care does he! He bought the car, surely it his to do with as he pleases!
If he subsequently uses his tweaked and customised car as an accessory in a bank robbery, surely he is guilty of bank robbery, and the state of his car isn't the point!
I know it is naive, but I feel that if I buy a cool toy, I'm allowed to break, fix or adjust it.
Sure my Warranty is void, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.
Now if I try to make a profit from somebody else intellectual property, that I'll agree is a separate issue, but they can't make it illegal to learn how a technology works (or doesn't work as the case may be)!!!
My two cents!
What's with all the negative noise here!
They were probably well intensioned Hackers trying to fix bugs in M$ code!
They can't legally see the code, so they did the next best thing!
I recently spent a year working in Holland, and am now working in Germany. In both places the language of business has been English.
The German company is strange in that I'm the only person of English extraction that works here! Everyone else is predominantly German, with few other "foriegners".
Everyone speaks and communicates in English. All documents are written in English (with the odd grammatical error, but it's still better than my German!). All code is commented in English!
And this seems to be the norm in both Holland, and Germany.
I'm just wondering if this only takes place in the IT industry or has anybody noticed this in other industries?
Is this the same Council of Europe that came up with the fscking Euro! Don't look now, it's just dropped another 10 points!
I wonder if the Bacteria has the same problem that Austin Powers had?
"That's not mine!"
ys
I don't know about your exact situation, but I find that the Agencies are too interested in getting you placed (commission) than finding you a suitable position for your skills etc. Don't let them rush you. It's your life!
However, with the market being what it is, you can definitely afford to be choosy.
Make it clear to the interviewers the kind of work that you're interested in. Also find out the kind of work you shall be doing. (Don't let them be vague with you). If your manager doesn't know what you'll be doing, you're in trouble!
Also try to avoid Jerks from HR. Get hired by the manager directly, not a third rate psychiatrist!
just my two cents.
ys
I've got a Sony VPL-CS1 LCD Projector.
;-)
I haven't tried to measure the dimensions (Kinda depends on the distance you can get it from your screen)
It is great.
I can plug my DVD system into, my Laptop can connect to it, and it's got USB connectors so you can control your mouse through the remote control.
It can deal with PAL and NTSC.
Quake III is NICE!
All you need is a big White wall (or projector screen) good curtains/blinds, oh and about 2000UKP sterling (I bought mine in April, so the price may have come down since then).
So, 20" + screen - check; Hang on the wall - er-check; $3000 - check!
I think you're all out of excuses...
ys
Er... Czechoslavakia doesn't exist anymore.
It is now two countries: Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Governments are simply higher profile, and that is what Crackers are interested in.
What Kudos does a Cracker get for hacking in to the local KMart's Inventory list, compared to the one that defaces the CIA home page.
The govenrment fails more often because more ppl try to crack it.
Simple Law of averages!
How much information are they requesting, and if you feel that it is intrusive, why don't ask for some justification/explanation, or just ask them to stop!?
Do they have a privacy statement?
The serivice inside their shops (The local Superstores) is pretty good, so I'm sure they'd be responsive.
I'd like to know Tescos position on this before I go ahead and discuss it.
That's a first, the interests of the consumer has gone above the Marketing department!
I wonder if this trend will catch on, or if this is simply a blip?!
ys
1. Microsoft has pulled the plug on its support for VJ++, and it will not appear in the next installment of Visual InterDev. The Rational Corporation is taking over the J++ side of things. 2. Where do you get the idea that MS J++ is widespread use? Just beacause a company has a licence for the MS InterDev, doesn't mean that they use J++. The majority of Java developers that I know of, either use Cafe, or JBuilder. Some of them use vi/emacs and the JDK! 3. Claiming the Jini is dead generally comes from ppl that don't know anything about the technology. Jini is totally new protocol with a new architecture and it is NOT designed for backward compatibility with existing CORBA, RMI or EJB. In short, it is a technology for the future. Hence, many telcos are investigating Jini for future use. ys
It seems very poor form that the company from whom you get your service, doesn't keep you in anyway informed about the status of your connection.
Even if they source it from somebodyelse, that isn't YOUR problem. These are the basics of a service industry.
I personally haven't got a problem paying a little extra for a good service, and wouldn't hesitate to drop a provider if they didn't provide the desired service.
ys
It's no point complaining about MS or RIAA or MPAA etc. The law currently favours the big corporation over the small consumer.
Political "Sound bites" and BS aside, the government and law makers persuaded more by the deep purses and lobbyist of the big corporations than they are by the complaints of Joe Public.
This kind of crap will continue until the law starts to favour the consumer.
If a big corp wants to silence you, or out shout you, then they have the money, time, legal team, marketing department and man power to achieve this despite all the moral arguments that you'd care to distribute.
Even what used to be free platform for all - the Internet - can be sileced at the whims of these Scum.
Surely the good ppl of Cuba or China wouldn't object to a little "Bash the American Corporation, morality and ethics" angle. :-)
If it's liberalism your looking for, try out Amsterdam (Holland).
If it is complete freedom, then get some friends together and buy a small Island in the Pacific...
Then again, seeing as the US and Western Europe are democracies, then surely they should be working for the people...
Thanx to all the guys and grrls that responded. We sorted the problem at our end, with out making any chages to the existing Servlet model.
The way we got around it was to make the first page that is called be a Servlet that will generate the WML. This way the first session id is not superceded by a second session id created for the WML. This is the same session id that gets passed around between all the rest of the servlets now.
We found that the solution requires WAP 1.1 on the gateway/phone - WAP 1.0 doesn't work - we don't know if that is the gateway or the phone causing the problem, but we suspect it to be the gateway.
Thanx again for all the info,
ys