Is your system set up to allow votes for people not listed i.e. write-ins or do you have to select 'only' from the list provided?
You are only allowed to vote for the candidates that have registered themselves ( whose names/symbols are present on the ballot paper/EVM )
If you have to select from the list, can you withhold your vote on parts of the ballot because you don't like any of the candidates or does that invalidate the entire ballot?
In case of any unauthorized marking the vote is invalidated.
Sarovar means lake(i think). Is there a hidden meaning in this?
Yeah, sarovar is lake in Hindi. Its generally used only in written language though.
In this case, the hidden meaning may be something like "pool of projects" or somesuch.
Yes, both F4 in Opera & Ctrl-H in FireFox are quite good.
But the problem is that the search is based on URL and page title. This becomes a problem if I am searching for some interesting bit on the web page, which is totally unrelated to the title (or the URL).
Free text search can help, but visual search seems to be much more intuitive. Or probably a combination of free text search and visual scanning...
I faced this problem sometime back, when I came across a very funny quote on a random web page. I was completely stumped when searching for the quote again some days later. The problem was excaberated by the fact that I didn't even remember the quote:(
From the postings, some common reasons why people think outsourcing is bad :
Code quality is bad
You will find shitty programmers all over the world just as you will find good programmers. One guy gave an example of code to check the zip code. Any vendor that has even a half-good QA will ensure that such code will never be shipped. Ditch the vendor. Look for another one.
Problem of context. Developers don't get to interact with clients.
To some extent thats true. But all good vendors have onsite co-ordinators who are in touch with the clients continously & act as an interface between the clients & the developers. And lets face it; you don't generally find clients and developers chatting together near the coffee machine and discussing changes in the system.
They should compete on equal terms with respect to Health benefits, labor laws etc..
Its easy to say this when you have many years of economic development behind you. For a developing country where much of the population lives in abject poverty, such policies are very difficult to implement. They are leveraging their only advantage (cheap labor) to boost their economy.
I am losing my job to foriegn code-monkeys
Move up the food chain. Become a PHP and spend your life doing powerpoint presentations:-)
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I had a flags-of-the-world poster too. It was fun :)
I see my machine has not made it into the list. Ah well. Maybe next year...
the weaknesses of you-know-who
Common, you can say "microsoft". Theres no need to use a harry potterism
Rediff is traded on NASDAQ :
REDF
Its definitely not a fly by night service...
please give him only half the prize money for having tabs as integral part of make syntax :-))
yes, it was a joke
Is your system set up to allow votes for people not listed i.e. write-ins or do you have to select 'only' from the list provided?
You are only allowed to vote for the candidates that have registered themselves ( whose names/symbols are present on the ballot paper/EVM )
If you have to select from the list, can you withhold your vote on parts of the ballot because you don't like any of the candidates or does that invalidate the entire ballot?
In case of any unauthorized marking the vote is invalidated.
...can be toppled pretty much anytime by losing a confidence vote...
:-))
You spell "lose" correctly. You are definitely not an american
Well, xPde look and feel is similar to XP, but I have not heard of Microsoft going after them...
Except that brightest, best performing offshore people do not work in outsourcing companies.
They either :
Looking forward to job ads saying :
Duh !!
More Balls Through Windows
Shouldn't that be More B*lls Through Windows ?
Sarovar means lake(i think). Is there a hidden meaning in this?
Yeah, sarovar is lake in Hindi. Its generally used only in written language though.
In this case, the hidden meaning may be something like "pool of projects" or somesuch.
Don't say this damnit
Saying foo-bar is dead on
Yes, both F4 in Opera & Ctrl-H in FireFox are quite good.
But the problem is that the search is based on URL and page title. This becomes a problem if I am searching for some interesting bit on the web page, which is totally unrelated to the title (or the URL).
Free text search can help, but visual search seems to be much more intuitive. Or probably a combination of free text search and visual scanning...
I faced this problem sometime back, when I came across a very funny quote on a random web page. I was completely stumped when searching for the quote again some days later. The problem was excaberated by the fact that I didn't even remember the quote :(
I *am* a linux user so I don't read documentation, you insensitive clod...
Shit.
For a moment there I thought they were investigating Michael Dell's computers
While we may be happy to get our cherished x'mas present, its going to be a very tense and distracting one for kernel developers :-)
From the postings, some common reasons why people think outsourcing is bad :
You will find shitty programmers all over the world just as you will find good programmers. One guy gave an example of code to check the zip code. Any vendor that has even a half-good QA will ensure that such code will never be shipped. Ditch the vendor. Look for another one.
To some extent thats true. But all good vendors have onsite co-ordinators who are in touch with the clients continously & act as an interface between the clients & the developers. And lets face it; you don't generally find clients and developers chatting together near the coffee machine and discussing changes in the system.
Its easy to say this when you have many years of economic development behind you. For a developing country where much of the population lives in abject poverty, such policies are very difficult to implement. They are leveraging their only advantage (cheap labor) to boost their economy.
Move up the food chain. Become a PHP and spend your life doing powerpoint presentations