I recently spent 3 hours trying to get what I needed from the insanity that is their website booking system, and finally gave up in frustration, so I phoned them, was kept on long hold multiple times and repeatedly asked for the same info, then was told it would cost extra just because I was trying to book over the phone.
They have so many stupid apparently arbitrary and entirely arcane rules about seat pricing and availability depending on which currency you pay in (hint: much less available seats and far more expensive if you try and pay in UK pounds), They don;t even accepting their own travellers points (avios) in many circumstances. Their internet pricing keeps going up every time you quit and start-over, which you will need to multiple times just to work out the arcane tricks to get what you want from their system. I can't believe BA are even still in business.
Judging from their awful customer relations and hideously unfriendly/buggy website I'd be surprised if it wasn't all running off a single laptop on some offshoring company's desk in Mumbai.
It seems clear to me that if you give everyone the same amount of free money, the economy will simply adjust by making everything more expensive, until the net benefit gained by the people from the free money becomes zero.
I can't even get my head around what "weight" actually means in the context of a black hole, but assuming it even has weight, it seems to me that 49 suns must be a massive underestimate for a supermassive black hole given that both black holes that formed it have already been vaccuming up stars, suns and everything else for millions if not billions of years.
Well that's clearly not how its working here. The judge isn;t enforcing limits on the cops, he's using the system to apply duress to the defendant, which by everything I've read is illegal under US law.
The fact is that in the US, the judges clearly believe themselves to be above the law because they sometimes act without regard to the law, and even in direct contradiction to it. The real problem is that no one holds them accountable.
> You mean as an example of Trump making promises that he can't deliver and why people shouldn't believe anything he says?...and yet your comment is even attached to an article directly showing that how Trump HAS delivered. What it actually is, is another example of how all you snowflakes will even sink to "alternative facts" and obviously false generalizations to continue your retarded smear campaign against the President because you're all STILL so butt-hurt that Hillary lost.
If we're going to add in the additional cost of preserving and maintaining the old systems that the new systems replaced, isn't it better to just use the old systems and save money by totally ditching the new ones?
>> The question is: is software engineering really an engineering discipline...? I say no.
They you're clearly one of the many people that incorrectly think that being a good Software Engineer just means being good at "coding".
>> Isn't programming a mix of logic and maths? yes, but honestly most programming jobs (at least that I've had in my 35 years as a Software Engineer) only require very basic maths. Even those jobs including signal processing.
>> I'm going to guess that most programming degrees have at least a year of maths. Yes but you usually get 3+ years of Software Engineering.
Yes, that's why i wrote "Unless you're doing signal processing".
That said, Signal Processing is a quite small field of all software development, and even then, its most usually done on DSPs that also come with libraries containing everything you need such as FFTs etc, so you rarely if ever actually code them yourself any more.
>> Seriously does anyone believe anything Trump says?
He said he was going to end H1B abuse. Given giant outsourcing companies like Tech Mahindra are sounding the alarm bells and directly blaming Trump after taking about a 33% hit on their net profits I can't see how you could make any rational argument that he's actually NOT following through on what he said he would.
Also WTF does coal have to do with this? but I'll respond since you bought it up. here's a direct quote from HIllary Clinton during the March 13 CNN Town Hall: "....we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?"
BTW congratulations on choosing a clearly appropriate user name.
>> Nothing he does will save auto industry jobs, coal industry jobs, or any other kind of job.
Seems obvious to me from this and many other similar articles that he's already saving many US software developer jobs. Frankly thats all I care about.
Clearly happening just because all the offshoring companies who's staff all have degrees from Indian "universities" that are clearly no more than certificate printing shops can't get US H1Bs anymore, so now the poor old UK is next in line to suffer a giant plague of cheap, inherently buggy and totally unsupportable code.
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I don't know which I find most likely:
1) That a Californian feminist would get self-righteously offended at anything/everything and conveniently mislabel it all as sexual harassment.
2) That Elon Musk is screwing his own workers as hard as he can.
I mean there are already plenty of real-world examples of both.
Its a LOT cheaper if you use unwilling donors.
BA totally sucks ass.
I recently spent 3 hours trying to get what I needed from the insanity that is their website booking system, and finally gave up in frustration, so I phoned them, was kept on long hold multiple times and repeatedly asked for the same info, then was told it would cost extra just because I was trying to book over the phone.
They have so many stupid apparently arbitrary and entirely arcane rules about seat pricing and availability depending on which currency you pay in (hint: much less available seats and far more expensive if you try and pay in UK pounds), They don;t even accepting their own travellers points (avios) in many circumstances. Their internet pricing keeps going up every time you quit and start-over, which you will need to multiple times just to work out the arcane tricks to get what you want from their system. I can't believe BA are even still in business.
Judging from their awful customer relations and hideously unfriendly/buggy website I'd be surprised if it wasn't all running off a single laptop on some offshoring company's desk in Mumbai.
It seems clear to me that if you give everyone the same amount of free money, the economy will simply adjust by making everything more expensive, until the net benefit gained by the people from the free money becomes zero.
I can't even get my head around what "weight" actually means in the context of a black hole, but assuming it even has weight, it seems to me that 49 suns must be a massive underestimate for a supermassive black hole given that both black holes that formed it have already been vaccuming up stars, suns and everything else for millions if not billions of years.
Well that's clearly not how its working here. The judge isn;t enforcing limits on the cops, he's using the system to apply duress to the defendant, which by everything I've read is illegal under US law.
The fact is that in the US, the judges clearly believe themselves to be above the law because they sometimes act without regard to the law, and even in direct contradiction to it. The real problem is that no one holds them accountable.
But it amounts to the same invasion of privacy, which is the same thing no matter who it comes from.
> You mean as an example of Trump making promises that he can't deliver and why people shouldn't believe anything he says? ...and yet your comment is even attached to an article directly showing that how Trump HAS delivered.
What it actually is, is another example of how all you snowflakes will even sink to "alternative facts" and obviously false generalizations to continue your retarded smear campaign against the President because you're all STILL so butt-hurt that Hillary lost.
Other than having an existing PS3 games library, is there any other reason to buy a new PS3 even after the PS4 came out?
If we're going to add in the additional cost of preserving and maintaining the old systems that the new systems replaced, isn't it better to just use the old systems and save money by totally ditching the new ones?
Tell that to Alan Turing and every CS student and professor ever.
Here's some more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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>> Software literally cannot be a machine.
Sure it can. In fact that concept is pretty fundamental to most of Computer Science.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Absolutely.
That whole everyone should care about me thing... how's that working out for you?
>> The question is: is software engineering really an engineering discipline...? I say no.
They you're clearly one of the many people that incorrectly think that being a good Software Engineer just means being good at "coding".
>> Isn't programming a mix of logic and maths?
yes, but honestly most programming jobs (at least that I've had in my 35 years as a Software Engineer) only require very basic maths. Even those jobs including signal processing.
>> I'm going to guess that most programming degrees have at least a year of maths.
Yes but you usually get 3+ years of Software Engineering.
>> "doesn't signal processing use.."
Yes, that's why i wrote "Unless you're doing signal processing".
That said, Signal Processing is a quite small field of all software development, and even then, its most usually done on DSPs that also come with libraries containing everything you need such as FFTs etc, so you rarely if ever actually code them yourself any more.
Far more unlikely, but even if true its far more likely to at least include some American workers.
You have to go to the type 2 diabetes demographic? Wow scraping the barrel there much?
...or... they actually have nothing.
>> Seriously does anyone believe anything Trump says?
He said he was going to end H1B abuse. Given giant outsourcing companies like Tech Mahindra are sounding the alarm bells and directly blaming Trump after taking about a 33% hit on their net profits I can't see how you could make any rational argument that he's actually NOT following through on what he said he would.
Also WTF does coal have to do with this? but I'll respond since you bought it up. here's a direct quote from HIllary Clinton during the March 13 CNN Town Hall:
"....we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?"
BTW congratulations on choosing a clearly appropriate user name.
>> Nothing he does will save auto industry jobs, coal industry jobs, or any other kind of job.
Seems obvious to me from this and many other similar articles that he's already saving many US software developer jobs. Frankly thats all I care about.
Of course. I also read this article. Did you?
Clearly happening just because all the offshoring companies who's staff all have degrees from Indian "universities" that are clearly no more than certificate printing shops can't get US H1Bs anymore, so now the poor old UK is next in line to suffer a giant plague of cheap, inherently buggy and totally unsupportable code.
Finally, a president that actually demonstrates care about US workers, and also actually follows through on at least some of their campaign promises.