I regularly fill up buckets of piss for you to tip on a strangers garden. You eventually get sick of tipping the buckets of piss on the strangers garden, and start pouring it back on me.
It would probably be easiest if I re-evaluated my policy of supplying you buckets of piss.
Better yet, if I ever have to I do my own dirty work and just try to avoid annoying others to serve to my own commercial benefit.
Yes, try telling that to Australian born David Hicks and his family. After been captured in northern Afghanistan, he had to wait 2 years before receiving legal representation at Guantanamo. More info here
To the best of my knowledge, there has been absolutely no progress here and he is still being detained.
Don't attempt to claim that an Australian doesn't have a "governmental umbrella" that can be negotiated with, this is just a single example of many that the US is a law unto itself and is routinely allowed to detain people of any nation for extended lengths of time without trial. I suspect that the US media doesn't report many of them. I know I certainly don't see much mention of the major cases we hear on local new broadcasts vs re-broadcasts of major US news stations
I'm not sure about internationally, but I know they are regularly dispensed at sporting events here in Australia. I had a friend who regularly worked at such events and spectators complaining of headaches were dispensed a sugar pill or two and a large bottle of water. In most instances they were simply dehydrated (running/yelling & drinking alcohol & hot weather not a real good combination) but informing them they were dehydrated usually caught the ire of the person. As such they are administered the placebo in an attempt to get them to ingest some fluid. Those returning a second time are re-examined and then possible given some paracetamol.
I suspect this would be fairly common practice internationally at most major events.
When was the last time most consumers here in Australia saw a region locked DVD player? Step into any store to buy a DVD and you can consider yourself plain unlucky if you manage to walk away with one of the very few region locked players here.
Did this have anything to do we DeCSS? I doubt it, but to think that region coding has been a global success only shows your ignorance of what is actually happening globally.
I can see the potential for Apple to almost virally distribute the iPod via HP, giving them a much much larger audience than they can ever hope to achieve on their own.
As most previous generation iPod owners will attest, they usually tend to upgrade with each new generation. If that trend continues with the HP user base then even better for Apple without diluting their branding so much.
Installing iTunes on my windows machine alone almost made me want to go and buy and iPod. It was a very simple and elegant interface, and I wondered why I'd tolerated various other programs for so long. Watching how my colleagues use their iPods as removable hard drives, media readers for their digital cameras, stereo for their cars, and of course as a walkman type device only makes me desire one even more.
If apple can pull such beautiful integration with other products (I'm thinking along the lines of cheap low spec and slim iMacs in a few key locations throughout the household serving as media hubs, using xGrid to share the load) then the iPod is a fantastic way of getting that foot in the door and making the customer believe there is a need for their other products.
Don't limit yourself to just the tropics. I spent my holidays last year on an island just off Queensland (Australia). Nothing but board shorts must the time and hardly a hint of sunscreen. Developed quite a nice tan and never burned
I live in Melbourne, a couple of thousand kms closer to Antarctica, and I got sunburnt arms for playing with a frisbee for an hour on my lunch break last Monday.
Damn that hole in the ozone layer, you actually feel it here and sunscreen is a necessity for a day in the sun anywhere here in summer
If the ground rules were put in place beforehand then I can't see there being a problem with this bounty system.
If people are aware that only "non-ugly" submissions will be selected, that would be a big incentive not to waste your time with just a quick fix. Once the first successful admission is accepted, it has a 2 week cooling off period. During that period the submitted code is not to be made available to the public, but will allow other developers to finish their work. If they have considerable development work to do, they can forego the bounty and find something else. If they are confident their solution is the most optimised one, they now have an even bigger incentive to get it finished before the cooling off period expires.
I know that a bounty would certainly motivate me to contribute where I could. And if I only got mine 80% done before someone elses was submitted, well there is a fair chance I would continue to finish it in my own time and submit it just for glory's sake at that point.
I usually find the hardest thing is just getting started.
It's highly unlikely these institutions will move away from their mainframes any time soon. They work, they are stable, why would they? To implement a new system means a massive change to process everywhere, with no guarantee that maintenance will be any cheaper in the long term or that the new system could be as stable.
And at the end of the day, it will always come down to a business case assessing the cost benefit of each alternative.
In this scenario, expect the wage of these staff to sky rocket. They'll be able to name their own figure and working conditions. The youngins will see this, marvel at it, and work frantically to get there so they can chase the dollars too. The problem is, by the time they are up to speed thousands of others have done the exact same thing and now there is a shortage of work.
It happens in most industries. People dont like being labourers, suddenly there is a shortage so their earnings go up and the job becomes more attractive. The same thing happens within IT, only more regularly.
There are lots of you out there at the moment looking for work, because there is currently too many people and not enough jobs. How many in the current marketplace got into the IT industry just because they thought it was the place to be and didn't actually have a love for it? They'll die off because they can't find work and have to chase the next big thing. In the meantime, those that are in it for the love become recognised as the highly skilled and reliable workers they are and keep things moving.
At the end of the day, I think if you keep with your passion you ultimately end up riding the wave infront of all those people that jump on purely because something is popular. Follow your heart and the rest just falls into place with any luck.
Kudos to those tireless cobol guys that ensure my money travels through the various institutions every day. Shame on you those that are now going to try and profit from this and lower the high standard of work these people have set.
I have to say I'm not innocent of it, as much as I wish I could be
In the end there are quite a few factors that ultimately come into play as to why an application I've built crashes:
- Laziness. I just simply forget to put in the appropriate error checking in place, and the user attempts something I didn't account for
- Deadlines/Cost. Unrealistic deadlines mean that, althought I'm loathe to release the product management doesn't care and demands a release anyway
- Something larger. There have been cases (I'm on a MS platform for most parts) where a known problem or undocumented "feature" actually prevent the regular operation of the application
All of these are avoidable, could be adequately planned against, and are completely inexcusable from an end user perspective.
And even as a developer I tend to agree. At the end of the day, I really shouldn't care what OS or processor my computer users so long as it reliably does all the work I need it to. I hope that day eventuall arrives.
They have, well they are at least. At the windows server 2003 launch a couple of weeks back I was quite pleasantly suprised with the steps MS are taking.
The product comes very tightly locked down out of the box, and IIS has had a complete redesign from scratch because they acknowledged their initial implementation was flawed.
So here's to these flash attacks never eventuating, and a decline in warhol attacks.
They aren't there yet, but slowly MS are fixing up SOME of their mistakes.
But of course, the internet does exist outside the US although the way it is costed would have you Americans believe otherwise.
If I download MP3s, I dont get them for zip, nada, zilch. And there is absolutely nothing worse than using some file sharing service to find a rare song, having what appears to be the only user with it log off and lose it almost finished... wasting my money on nothing.
Just because this quite fantastic service doesn't appeal to you or make you feel like you are appeasing your karma a little by actually paying for a service and product you use, doesn't mean there aren't a few million of us overseas who would happily throw money their way for this.
The employers primary concern would be their employees. If she is so well trained in its use you would expect her to know better than to leave it in a relatively unsafe car.
It's not uncommon. Elsewhere in the company we hired someone who also had their masters. Took me the better part of 4 hours (half a day of lost time) to explain to him why the process he had written was overwriting the files, and than no he could not have 1+n number of files in a directory all having the exact same identical name.
And he had a masters? It really makes you wonder. My boss has his degrees in philosophy and politics, and always argued the value of an arts degree... something I was always dubious about. But recently I think my eyes have really been opened. The flood of people with very specialised masters degrees that dont actually know what they are doing or are unable to think laterally really lowers the value of the bit of paper.
I think I now share his view, and would most likely hold someone with an arts degree in higher regard than someone with their masters in comp sci. They seem to be more likely to think laterally, willing to pursue things that they enjoy rather than just where the buck lies, and most importantly show a willingness and ability to actually learn
Problem is, I think that due to the sheer number of people completing education in these "cheap labour" countries, that they dont actually have a decent education. The bell curve model still works, just there are still massive numbers of people in relative terms to what we have here at least (Australia).
I've been interviewing lots of candidates here in the past few weeks for a couple of development positions. The vast majority of these candidates have migrated from india with their Masters degrees, and fail miserably in most of the aptitude testing. We've had two positions available, have been interviewing quite furiously for almost a month now and have only managed to find one candidate suitable (who started last week).
The rest are desperate, but I feel I really would be doing them a great service in telling them to seek an alternate career path.
I can only speak from personal experience, but the reasons I see for their being another boom in the IT job sector here is:
- All the incompetent although highly educated/certified people who are looking for IT work because 6 years ago it was the place to be and thought they could make a quick buck, will move onto the next quick buck. They were never interested in IT anyway, they just wanted the money.
- The only people left for the "new" positions in a few years will be those who were truly dedicated, that rode out the storm, and kept with it because it's what they REALLY WANTED to do, not what seemed the best at the time.
The whole recruiting experience has left me quite drained and jaded, and wondering where exactly all the talented people looking for work are. I've a feeling they are working quite happily already or simply (and sadly) being drowned out by the noise.
Yeah I bought the Dell Inspiron 2100 2 years back now (think they have renamed it now). No internal drives, so if I want to install anything I need the external drive or some USB. But a touch-pad, near full-sized key board, 12.1" screen. Serves the purpose for working while commuting, I get about 2 hours battery life out of each. Perfect for my public transport trip of 1 hour each way.
Plus it sits nicely into my little flip-book diary/organiser case so no need for a carry bag.
New Zealand scientists have produced a breed of genetically modified sheep that produce a reflective woolen coat. This is expected to allow the delivery of high-speed internet into the homes of all kiwis
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Or another analogy...
I regularly fill up buckets of piss for you to tip on a strangers garden. You eventually get sick of tipping the buckets of piss on the strangers garden, and start pouring it back on me.
It would probably be easiest if I re-evaluated my policy of supplying you buckets of piss.
Better yet, if I ever have to I do my own dirty work and just try to avoid annoying others to serve to my own commercial benefit.
I'd rather find out what HER /. ID in ;)
Yes, try telling that to Australian born David Hicks and his family. After been captured in northern Afghanistan, he had to wait 2 years before receiving legal representation at Guantanamo.
More info here
To the best of my knowledge, there has been absolutely no progress here and he is still being detained.
Don't attempt to claim that an Australian doesn't have a "governmental umbrella" that can be negotiated with, this is just a single example of many that the US is a law unto itself and is routinely allowed to detain people of any nation for extended lengths of time without trial. I suspect that the US media doesn't report many of them. I know I certainly don't see much mention of the major cases we hear on local new broadcasts vs re-broadcasts of major US news stations
I'm not sure about internationally, but I know they are regularly dispensed at sporting events here in Australia. I had a friend who regularly worked at such events and spectators complaining of headaches were dispensed a sugar pill or two and a large bottle of water. In most instances they were simply dehydrated (running/yelling & drinking alcohol & hot weather not a real good combination) but informing them they were dehydrated usually caught the ire of the person. As such they are administered the placebo in an attempt to get them to ingest some fluid. Those returning a second time are re-examined and then possible given some paracetamol.
I suspect this would be fairly common practice internationally at most major events.
When was the last time most consumers here in Australia saw a region locked DVD player? Step into any store to buy a DVD and you can consider yourself plain unlucky if you manage to walk away with one of the very few region locked players here.
Did this have anything to do we DeCSS? I doubt it, but to think that region coding has been a global success only shows your ignorance of what is actually happening globally.
I can see the potential for Apple to almost virally distribute the iPod via HP, giving them a much much larger audience than they can ever hope to achieve on their own.
As most previous generation iPod owners will attest, they usually tend to upgrade with each new generation. If that trend continues with the HP user base then even better for Apple without diluting their branding so much.
Installing iTunes on my windows machine alone almost made me want to go and buy and iPod. It was a very simple and elegant interface, and I wondered why I'd tolerated various other programs for so long. Watching how my colleagues use their iPods as removable hard drives, media readers for their digital cameras, stereo for their cars, and of course as a walkman type device only makes me desire one even more.
If apple can pull such beautiful integration with other products (I'm thinking along the lines of cheap low spec and slim iMacs in a few key locations throughout the household serving as media hubs, using xGrid to share the load) then the iPod is a fantastic way of getting that foot in the door and making the customer believe there is a need for their other products.
Just a thought though
Don't limit yourself to just the tropics. I spent my holidays last year on an island just off Queensland (Australia). Nothing but board shorts must the time and hardly a hint of sunscreen. Developed quite a nice tan and never burned
I live in Melbourne, a couple of thousand kms closer to Antarctica, and I got sunburnt arms for playing with a frisbee for an hour on my lunch break last Monday.
Damn that hole in the ozone layer, you actually feel it here and sunscreen is a necessity for a day in the sun anywhere here in summer
If the ground rules were put in place beforehand then I can't see there being a problem with this bounty system.
If people are aware that only "non-ugly" submissions will be selected, that would be a big incentive not to waste your time with just a quick fix. Once the first successful admission is accepted, it has a 2 week cooling off period. During that period the submitted code is not to be made available to the public, but will allow other developers to finish their work. If they have considerable development work to do, they can forego the bounty and find something else. If they are confident their solution is the most optimised one, they now have an even bigger incentive to get it finished before the cooling off period expires.
I know that a bounty would certainly motivate me to contribute where I could. And if I only got mine 80% done before someone elses was submitted, well there is a fair chance I would continue to finish it in my own time and submit it just for glory's sake at that point.
I usually find the hardest thing is just getting started.
it pops up porn? Hhrrmm.... where do I download this thing from again?
Actually, take a look at the security improvements they have included in their 2003 server products.
It is most definitely a step in the right direction, although they aren't all the way there yet.
In Soviet Russia the Russians confuse YOU! ;)
and then:
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5: ???
6: Profit
I've been stating as such on here quite regularly, particularly when people complain about the current lack of jobs.
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Yesterdays COBOL article was a prime example:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=65017&cid=601
It's highly unlikely these institutions will move away from their mainframes any time soon. They work, they are stable, why would they? To implement a new system means a massive change to process everywhere, with no guarantee that maintenance will be any cheaper in the long term or that the new system could be as stable.
And at the end of the day, it will always come down to a business case assessing the cost benefit of each alternative.
In this scenario, expect the wage of these staff to sky rocket. They'll be able to name their own figure and working conditions. The youngins will see this, marvel at it, and work frantically to get there so they can chase the dollars too. The problem is, by the time they are up to speed thousands of others have done the exact same thing and now there is a shortage of work.
It happens in most industries. People dont like being labourers, suddenly there is a shortage so their earnings go up and the job becomes more attractive. The same thing happens within IT, only more regularly.
There are lots of you out there at the moment looking for work, because there is currently too many people and not enough jobs. How many in the current marketplace got into the IT industry just because they thought it was the place to be and didn't actually have a love for it? They'll die off because they can't find work and have to chase the next big thing. In the meantime, those that are in it for the love become recognised as the highly skilled and reliable workers they are and keep things moving.
At the end of the day, I think if you keep with your passion you ultimately end up riding the wave infront of all those people that jump on purely because something is popular. Follow your heart and the rest just falls into place with any luck.
Kudos to those tireless cobol guys that ensure my money travels through the various institutions every day. Shame on you those that are now going to try and profit from this and lower the high standard of work these people have set.
I thought you could do this with almost any PDA that had an IR port? I know I've seen my boss do it with his IPAQ
Student: "Oh sorry I'm late sir, I've lost my watch"
Teacher: "Not a problem so long as you have brought your assignment"
Student: "Oh... uummm.... would you believe..."
I have to say I'm not innocent of it, as much as I wish I could be
In the end there are quite a few factors that ultimately come into play as to why an application I've built crashes:
- Laziness. I just simply forget to put in the appropriate error checking in place, and the user attempts something I didn't account for
- Deadlines/Cost. Unrealistic deadlines mean that, althought I'm loathe to release the product management doesn't care and demands a release anyway
- Something larger. There have been cases (I'm on a MS platform for most parts) where a known problem or undocumented "feature" actually prevent the regular operation of the application
All of these are avoidable, could be adequately planned against, and are completely inexcusable from an end user perspective.
And even as a developer I tend to agree. At the end of the day, I really shouldn't care what OS or processor my computer users so long as it reliably does all the work I need it to. I hope that day eventuall arrives.
They have, well they are at least. At the windows server 2003 launch a couple of weeks back I was quite pleasantly suprised with the steps MS are taking.
The product comes very tightly locked down out of the box, and IIS has had a complete redesign from scratch because they acknowledged their initial implementation was flawed.
So here's to these flash attacks never eventuating, and a decline in warhol attacks.
They aren't there yet, but slowly MS are fixing up SOME of their mistakes.
But of course, the internet does exist outside the US although the way it is costed would have you Americans believe otherwise.
If I download MP3s, I dont get them for zip, nada, zilch. And there is absolutely nothing worse than using some file sharing service to find a rare song, having what appears to be the only user with it log off and lose it almost finished... wasting my money on nothing.
Just because this quite fantastic service doesn't appeal to you or make you feel like you are appeasing your karma a little by actually paying for a service and product you use, doesn't mean there aren't a few million of us overseas who would happily throw money their way for this.
You dang americans with your pro-gun propoganda.
The employers primary concern would be their employees. If she is so well trained in its use you would expect her to know better than to leave it in a relatively unsafe car.
It's not uncommon. Elsewhere in the company we hired someone who also had their masters. Took me the better part of 4 hours (half a day of lost time) to explain to him why the process he had written was overwriting the files, and than no he could not have 1+n number of files in a directory all having the exact same identical name.
And he had a masters? It really makes you wonder. My boss has his degrees in philosophy and politics, and always argued the value of an arts degree... something I was always dubious about. But recently I think my eyes have really been opened. The flood of people with very specialised masters degrees that dont actually know what they are doing or are unable to think laterally really lowers the value of the bit of paper.
I think I now share his view, and would most likely hold someone with an arts degree in higher regard than someone with their masters in comp sci. They seem to be more likely to think laterally, willing to pursue things that they enjoy rather than just where the buck lies, and most importantly show a willingness and ability to actually learn
Problem is, I think that due to the sheer number of people completing education in these "cheap labour" countries, that they dont actually have a decent education. The bell curve model still works, just there are still massive numbers of people in relative terms to what we have here at least (Australia).
I've been interviewing lots of candidates here in the past few weeks for a couple of development positions. The vast majority of these candidates have migrated from india with their Masters degrees, and fail miserably in most of the aptitude testing. We've had two positions available, have been interviewing quite furiously for almost a month now and have only managed to find one candidate suitable (who started last week).
The rest are desperate, but I feel I really would be doing them a great service in telling them to seek an alternate career path.
I can only speak from personal experience, but the reasons I see for their being another boom in the IT job sector here is:
- All the incompetent although highly educated/certified people who are looking for IT work because 6 years ago it was the place to be and thought they could make a quick buck, will move onto the next quick buck. They were never interested in IT anyway, they just wanted the money.
- The only people left for the "new" positions in a few years will be those who were truly dedicated, that rode out the storm, and kept with it because it's what they REALLY WANTED to do, not what seemed the best at the time.
The whole recruiting experience has left me quite drained and jaded, and wondering where exactly all the talented people looking for work are. I've a feeling they are working quite happily already or simply (and sadly) being drowned out by the noise.
In soviet russia music buys YOU?
Yeah I bought the Dell Inspiron 2100 2 years back now (think they have renamed it now). No internal drives, so if I want to install anything I need the external drive or some USB. But a touch-pad, near full-sized key board, 12.1" screen. Serves the purpose for working while commuting, I get about 2 hours battery life out of each. Perfect for my public transport trip of 1 hour each way.
Plus it sits nicely into my little flip-book diary/organiser case so no need for a carry bag.
New Zealand scientists have produced a breed of genetically modified sheep that produce a reflective woolen coat. This is expected to allow the delivery of high-speed internet into the homes of all kiwis