I think the technical term is "Thing that drops 10 records at once from medium heights on the needle"
I had a record player that had one of those as a child but never found out what was actually supposed to make sure that only one record will fall down.
They (and especially the most indignant among them) should be happy to pay a little more to keep the work local; after all, they're demanding that others do it.
You know that for most of the people neither Taiwan nor the US actually counts as "local"?
Or in other words: This ist not much more than off-shoring. From China.
Actually they already are in the workforce - so the question is a bit more subtle: whether the world's best and brightest work at companies in the USA or whether the world's best and brightest work at companies in other countries.
The best and brightest will usually find a similar job in their home countries and feel no pressure to emmigrate. (Except perhaps highly specialized research where you have to make up your mind if you want to apply at CERN or Fermilab)
If you're an American worker, then the question you should be asking is whether you want the world's best and brightest working with you to make your American company successful or whether you want the world's best and brightest working at foreign companies competing against you.
Difficult question... I don't think I would want the best and brightest of the world competing with me for my next promotion.....
Smart engineers will always find a way to make something faster, better, stronger. To think that people in finance would accept that things "have got fast enough now and we should just stop" is a bit naive. Why should finance technology be any different from any other kind of technology?
But if that something is (more or less) "gaming the system", it's usually not leading to something desireable.
I believe they were separated by about ten million years; to put that in perspective, humans and chimps split 4–8 million years ago.
And to put THAT in perspective. He tried it three times ago with a female-thing that's even 2 to 6 million years further apart from his biology than man is away from monkeys.
That's why it's called a "request". Words mean things.
But 'demand' is such an ugly word... doesn't "offer you can't refuse" sound much friendlier?
look up euphemism.
And one of my favourite movie quotes:
James Bond: [thinking] Mr. Ling, the Red Chinese at the factory, he's a specialist in nuclear fission... but of course! His government's given you a bomb. Auric Goldfinger: I prefer to call it an "atomic device."
the company has created a 'cheater's pool' (sort of like the populating of Australia with criminals)
And just like Australia, the cheater's pool will become a lawless hellhole, where might makes right, as biker gangsters fight for supremacy in the irradiated wastelands.
" Although, Ars Technica points out that players may actually prefer the 'special' world.""
That sounds like they got caught by a trap laid out by the YesMen. They probably set up an event organizing company as a storefront and waited till someone hired them to pull of that stunt.
You should tell them that the ability to block whole TLDs with a single DNS line is the whole point of new TLDs. If for example there was a.kids domain that verified the content, you'd set up a DNS that only answers to.edu and.kids. The other way round, you know you can go to.xxx for pr0n, but completly block it from your office dns.
Now ask those companies again if they still think those categoriy-tld a good idea.
I consider myself tech savy, but don't use bookmarks. I've lost enough bookmark collections due to browser switches et.al. And when I found one of those collections on s 10 year old backup and did a spot check for a trip to memory lane, most of the pages were down or sold or moved or had switched the content that once was good.
I have the URLs of the services I use frequemtly memorized (no more than 5 of them are different from or not accessible via [servicename].com anyway), the regular ones are in history/autocomplete and for any information I need once in a while i type a text fragment I remember into google.
Bigger database and less hassle than any tool to sync bookmarks between browsers/computers.
.com means that you're looking for an US or international website/company. if you were looking for a domestic one, you'd add co.uk,.at,.ch or.de instead.
because is its where clods to stupid to understand computers, think the work of buying, installing, maintaining and computers is done in a magic cloud cuckooland by robot and fairies.
So what? When I'm booking computing time and storade from any of the usual cloud suspects, I pay hard money so that I don't have to care about that stuff. If those cloud fairies do a job as good as the average sys admin - so be it.
Well... if THAT fit's your job profile, I'm oik with that.
OTOH, if your job requires some fast respones to external stimuli and remembering stuff, then that game might really do a good job sorting out applicants.
But that's not that type of skillset that you aquire by studying for your master degree.
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I think the technical term is "Thing that drops 10 records at once from medium heights on the needle"
I had a record player that had one of those as a child but never found out what was actually supposed to make sure that only one record will fall down.
They (and especially the most indignant among them) should be happy to pay a little more to keep the work local; after all, they're demanding that others do it.
You know that for most of the people neither Taiwan nor the US actually counts as "local"?
Or in other words: This ist not much more than off-shoring. From China.
Actually they already are in the workforce - so the question is a bit more subtle: whether the world's best and brightest work at companies in the USA or whether the world's best and brightest work at companies in other countries.
The best and brightest will usually find a similar job in their home countries and feel no pressure to emmigrate. (Except perhaps highly specialized research where you have to make up your mind if you want to apply at CERN or Fermilab)
If you're an American worker, then the question you should be asking is whether you want the world's best and brightest working with you to make your American company successful or whether you want the world's best and brightest working at foreign companies competing against you.
Difficult question... I don't think I would want the best and brightest of the world competing with me for my next promotion.....
Now THAT sounded exactly like Dr. Bunsen-Honeydew!
Smart engineers will always find a way to make something faster, better, stronger. To think that people in finance would accept that things "have got fast enough now and we should just stop" is a bit naive. Why should finance technology be any different from any other kind of technology?
But if that something is (more or less) "gaming the system", it's usually not leading to something desireable.
I believe they were separated by about ten million years; to put that in perspective, humans and chimps split 4–8 million years ago.
And to put THAT in perspective. He tried it three times ago with a female-thing that's even 2 to 6 million years further apart from his biology than man is away from monkeys.
Yuck. Must. not. think. about it.
Or A causes C which in turn causes B.
Correlation usually means that there is most likely a causation - but very well hidden.
That's why it's called a "request". Words mean things.
But 'demand' is such an ugly word... doesn't "offer you can't refuse" sound much friendlier?
look up euphemism.
And one of my favourite movie quotes:
James Bond: [thinking] Mr. Ling, the Red Chinese at the factory, he's a specialist in nuclear fission... but of course! His government's given you a bomb.
Auric Goldfinger: I prefer to call it an "atomic device."
Sory but I don't even know these actresses, let alone where they're from.
the company has created a 'cheater's pool' (sort of like the populating of Australia with criminals)
And just like Australia, the cheater's pool will become a lawless hellhole, where might makes right, as biker gangsters fight for supremacy in the irradiated wastelands.
" Although, Ars Technica points out that players may actually prefer the 'special' world.""
And why not... some people like Australia.
Varying opinions on what "really good work" is.
What if you kept a copy of the Goldmine database from your former company?
What if??? I don't know anyone in sales who doesn't.....
That sounds like they got caught by a trap laid out by the YesMen. They probably set up an event organizing company as a storefront and waited till someone hired them to pull of that stunt.
Either that, or Monty Python.
Depends on how expensive the training is.
You should tell them that the ability to block whole TLDs with a single DNS line is the whole point of new TLDs. If for example there was a .kids domain that verified the content, you'd set up a DNS that only answers to .edu and .kids. The other way round, you know you can go to .xxx for pr0n, but completly block it from your office dns.
Now ask those companies again if they still think those categoriy-tld a good idea.
In theory: yes.
In realite: McDonalds the restaurant will sue the s**t out of the farm and the family to get holds of .us, .org and .net, too.
I consider myself tech savy, but don't use bookmarks. I've lost enough bookmark collections due to browser switches et.al. And when I found one of those collections on s 10 year old backup and did a spot check for a trip to memory lane, most of the pages were down or sold or moved or had switched the content that once was good.
I have the URLs of the services I use frequemtly memorized (no more than 5 of them are different from or not accessible via [servicename].com anyway), the regular ones are in history/autocomplete and for any information I need once in a while i type a text fragment I remember into google.
Bigger database and less hassle than any tool to sync bookmarks between browsers/computers.
And why can't I buy tickets for vahhalen on the van halen website like www.vanhalen.com/tickets/boston?
people should be familiar by now with the folder/subfolder notation for structured content.
.com means that you're looking for an US or international website/company. if you were looking for a domestic one, you'd add co.uk, .at, .ch or .de instead.
because is its where clods to stupid to understand computers, think the work of buying, installing, maintaining and computers is done in a magic cloud cuckooland by robot and fairies.
So what? When I'm booking computing time and storade from any of the usual cloud suspects, I pay hard money so that I don't have to care about that stuff. If those cloud fairies do a job as good as the average sys admin - so be it.
There is nothing in that EULA that would keep facebook from publishing your non-public pictures to your non-contacts.
"Hell is other people."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Exit
ANOTHER Unique number!
Besides:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_International_Authority_File , NDL Authorities, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Control_Number , or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Authority_File
And these are only the ones I found assigned to a single author in Wikipedia.
Why not just use one of these?
Well, those games might be perfect to find out those things.
Well... if THAT fit's your job profile, I'm oik with that.
OTOH, if your job requires some fast respones to external stimuli and remembering stuff, then that game might really do a good job sorting out applicants.
But that's not that type of skillset that you aquire by studying for your master degree.