Apparently one of the difficulties US IT workers have is that US$50,000 is worth a lot more in India than in the United States. Therefore, an IT worker in India can be paid less money than a US worker and live better. Unfortunately, no amount of skills can top the allure of outsourcing. IT jobs in the United States aren't going to disappear, but the existence of cheaper labor elsewhere has a real impact.
By the way, using a couple of "Learn UNIX in 10 days!" CD's does not make someone an IT profession. Only good training, experience, and the ability to interact with others can do that.
P.S. I know, I shouldn't pick on India. That said, India is a major source outsourced jobs.
What? ECMAScript a "remnant"? There's a reason why AJAX came about; ECMAScript is very useful. Take a look over at deviantArt. Their HTML is only around 360 lines for an extremely complex page. The rest is ECMAScript. Or go over to Google Maps. Insane-o ECMAScript. Yes, there are flaws in ECMAScript implementations. That's almost inevitable for anything so complex. However, complex web applications are well advised to use it.
-Pingveno
Corporate moguls? Why do 'corporations' always become devils? The Mozilla Corporation is more of a technical entity, with all "profits" going into development of Firefox. It can do things that Mozilla Foundation, as a non-profit, can't do. That doesn't suddenly mean Firefox has come over 'corporate' control. Save your insults for executives with a $100 million salary.
Yes, there has definitely been worse disregard of the Constitution. Take the Alien and Sedition Acts in the 18th century. Of course, that's still not an excuse for violating the Constitution.
For the Windows users, the Power Manager (double click the battery with the green bar in the corner) has a battery information tab that does basically the same thing.
I can't help but wonder if the Qt GUI toolkit has helped Opera be among the top few browsers, as well as the other factors involved (small user base, closed source). Is that possible?
When it comes to marijuana, the pot heads somewhat succeeded. Marijuana has been downgraded to a secondary concern in the face of more destructive drugs such as meth.
As I heard it, Colbert was very funny for television viewers, but his performance wasn't very funny for the people in the room. Colbert apparently was very good at appealing to cameras, but not as good as appealing to a person situated right in front of him.
In contrast, Bush's performance was loved by the press, despite several good humoured jabs at the press. However, both performances were funny from the point of view of a television viewer.
One member told me that he uses the Wikipedia to get a rough idea about topics that are not worth the time needed to visit the library. Whether the rough ideas he was provided with courtesy the Wikipedia were correct or counterfactual seemed not to matter to him. Others expressed a mystical belief in the veracity of "knowledge" assembled by the masses of anonymous contributors to the Wikipedia.
I use libraries very often (I'm a bit of a book worm), but some subjects aren't worth taking the 40+ minutes needed to walk to my local library and find a relevant book. If I want to learn a little about sole (the fish), I'd rather not take that long walk. The articles I would find there might not even be as good as what I can get on Wikipedia. The World Book Encyclopedia has an article that is under 200 words on the whole subject of sole. In comparison, the Wikipedia article for sole is fairly large, gives links to articles on the species called "sole", and has a bibliographic link to an authoritative book on the subject. That's all I need, no mysticism there.
The same goes for current events such as the Israel Lebanon conflict/war. First I need a quick history of Lebanon. The Lebanon article is nicely situated within a few keystrokes. Next I need current information. The 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict article is up to the task, with information often added within hours of the reporting of the event by media sources. I also need links to sources for further information, which is located at the bottom of the screen. No library source can beat that.
States rights are all well and good, but the presidential election is different. The individual states elect representatives to Congress, but all citizens take part in the presidential election. However, the electoral college (potentially) takes the voting from what the majority of people want and instead gives it to a bizarre system where simple residency in a state ultimately changes the value of a citizen's vote. (see my earlier post) As long as an election is just state-wide (or another local level), states rights definitely apply. But when it comes to national elections, the power should come directly from the people themselves.
How many times have you seen presidential candidates fighting over, say, North Dakota? How about Massachusetts? California? Texas? Oklahoma? I'm guessing none. North Dakota is too small to be bothered with, while the other four are so locked in to one party or another that the candidates don't have to worry about swaying voters in that state.
Now look at Ohio and Florida. They're swing states, where every vote counts because the race will invariably be close. They're also very populous, so winning or loosing one can easily tip the entire national election. Candidates bend over backwards to appeal to these populous swing states.
Voters in the small states are effectively disenfranchised because winning or loosing a 3 electoral vote state is insignificant. Minority voters in states that are heavily Democrat or Republican are disenfranchised because their votes will not change the outcome of the election. The people whose really have significant power are in the large swing states.
How about not having SCO fall out of existance? There are still good people in the company, even if the company's legal actions have made SCO infamous.
What these scientists have found isn't necessarily correct. There has to be more evidence before it gets to having enough evidence to be get it to established theory.
Martin Luther King and the movement he represented didn't just break laws that they disagreed so they could download music and movies without paying the copyright owners. They rebelled against a system of real, blatant oppression. That's breaking laws discriminately. Breaking copyright laws (except fudging the rules when practical) is indiscriminate.
Calling two nerds switching from Mac OS X to Ubuntu a "canary in the coal mine" reminds me of what the (un)intelligent design people say. The ID people draw up a list of a few hundred scientists who "dissent from Darwinism." So, of course, the scientific community is suddenly going to discover how wrong they were about ID and it will become a hypothesis not ridiculed by all but a miniscule percent of biologists.
The ID movement's lists are bullshit, as demonstrated by Project Steve. Project Steve keeps of a list of (credible) biologists who support the teaching of evolution (about 750 right now). The one restriction for the biologists: they must be named Steve/Stephanie/Stephen. Until I see more than a few nerds switching from Mac to Linux, I'll believe the predictions of mass migration as much as I believe the ID people.
Duct tape has problems with the adhesive melting when it's applied to ducts. The adhesive weakens under the large amounts of heat in the ducts. Because of that, California has recently banned the use of duct tape on ducts. Imagine that on the space shuttle...
Also note that mp3, ogg, flac, and most other formats can have title, artist, etc. stored directly in the file. Music files downloaded through (illegal) file sharing would generally already be tagged, whereas freshly ripped music files need to be tagged (manually or automatically). Freedb is, obviously, more useful for ripping purchased CD's.
I really, really hope you're kidding. Changing colors on mouseovers (aka hover) is part of HTML, CSS, and ECMAScript. PHP is great for generating HTML/CSS/ECMAScript, but any server side language worth its CPU cycles could generate the same effects.
The only difference between the suicides a few weeks ago that was different from before was that more recent suicides succeeded. There were several dozen suicide attempts before. These particular suicides weren't a start, they were a culmination.
I think (s)he means people randomly inserting the word "fuck" into a page. That's opposed to an article on how many times "fuck" is used in various movies.
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Apparently one of the difficulties US IT workers have is that US$50,000 is worth a lot more in India than in the United States. Therefore, an IT worker in India can be paid less money than a US worker and live better. Unfortunately, no amount of skills can top the allure of outsourcing. IT jobs in the United States aren't going to disappear, but the existence of cheaper labor elsewhere has a real impact. By the way, using a couple of "Learn UNIX in 10 days!" CD's does not make someone an IT profession. Only good training, experience, and the ability to interact with others can do that. P.S. I know, I shouldn't pick on India. That said, India is a major source outsourced jobs.
- Go to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
- File bug report
- Submit patch
That's what FOSS is for.What? ECMAScript a "remnant"? There's a reason why AJAX came about; ECMAScript is very useful. Take a look over at deviantArt. Their HTML is only around 360 lines for an extremely complex page. The rest is ECMAScript. Or go over to Google Maps. Insane-o ECMAScript. Yes, there are flaws in ECMAScript implementations. That's almost inevitable for anything so complex. However, complex web applications are well advised to use it. -Pingveno
Corporate moguls? Why do 'corporations' always become devils? The Mozilla Corporation is more of a technical entity, with all "profits" going into development of Firefox. It can do things that Mozilla Foundation, as a non-profit, can't do. That doesn't suddenly mean Firefox has come over 'corporate' control. Save your insults for executives with a $100 million salary.
Yes, there has definitely been worse disregard of the Constitution. Take the Alien and Sedition Acts in the 18th century. Of course, that's still not an excuse for violating the Constitution.
For the Windows users, the Power Manager (double click the battery with the green bar in the corner) has a battery information tab that does basically the same thing.
I can't help but wonder if the Qt GUI toolkit has helped Opera be among the top few browsers, as well as the other factors involved (small user base, closed source). Is that possible?
The change *just happened*. I'm guessing their engineers are currently typing like mad to allow users to turn off the alerts.
When it comes to marijuana, the pot heads somewhat succeeded. Marijuana has been downgraded to a secondary concern in the face of more destructive drugs such as meth.
As I heard it, Colbert was very funny for television viewers, but his performance wasn't very funny for the people in the room. Colbert apparently was very good at appealing to cameras, but not as good as appealing to a person situated right in front of him.
In contrast, Bush's performance was loved by the press, despite several good humoured jabs at the press. However, both performances were funny from the point of view of a television viewer.
One member told me that he uses the Wikipedia to get a rough idea about topics that are not worth the time needed to visit the library. Whether the rough ideas he was provided with courtesy the Wikipedia were correct or counterfactual seemed not to matter to him. Others expressed a mystical belief in the veracity of "knowledge" assembled by the masses of anonymous contributors to the Wikipedia.
I use libraries very often (I'm a bit of a book worm), but some subjects aren't worth taking the 40+ minutes needed to walk to my local library and find a relevant book. If I want to learn a little about sole (the fish), I'd rather not take that long walk. The articles I would find there might not even be as good as what I can get on Wikipedia. The World Book Encyclopedia has an article that is under 200 words on the whole subject of sole. In comparison, the Wikipedia article for sole is fairly large, gives links to articles on the species called "sole", and has a bibliographic link to an authoritative book on the subject. That's all I need, no mysticism there.
The same goes for current events such as the Israel Lebanon conflict/war. First I need a quick history of Lebanon. The Lebanon article is nicely situated within a few keystrokes. Next I need current information. The 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict article is up to the task, with information often added within hours of the reporting of the event by media sources. I also need links to sources for further information, which is located at the bottom of the screen. No library source can beat that.
Computer glitch?
States rights are all well and good, but the presidential election is different. The individual states elect representatives to Congress, but all citizens take part in the presidential election. However, the electoral college (potentially) takes the voting from what the majority of people want and instead gives it to a bizarre system where simple residency in a state ultimately changes the value of a citizen's vote. (see my earlier post) As long as an election is just state-wide (or another local level), states rights definitely apply. But when it comes to national elections, the power should come directly from the people themselves.
How many times have you seen presidential candidates fighting over, say, North Dakota? How about Massachusetts? California? Texas? Oklahoma? I'm guessing none. North Dakota is too small to be bothered with, while the other four are so locked in to one party or another that the candidates don't have to worry about swaying voters in that state.
Now look at Ohio and Florida. They're swing states, where every vote counts because the race will invariably be close. They're also very populous, so winning or loosing one can easily tip the entire national election. Candidates bend over backwards to appeal to these populous swing states.
Voters in the small states are effectively disenfranchised because winning or loosing a 3 electoral vote state is insignificant. Minority voters in states that are heavily Democrat or Republican are disenfranchised because their votes will not change the outcome of the election. The people whose really have significant power are in the large swing states.
How about not having SCO fall out of existance? There are still good people in the company, even if the company's legal actions have made SCO infamous.
What these scientists have found isn't necessarily correct. There has to be more evidence before it gets to having enough evidence to be get it to established theory.
Of course the other reason I'm against organ transplants is that the Chinese harvest organs from prisoners.
Now there's some interesting logic there...
Martin Luther King and the movement he represented didn't just break laws that they disagreed so they could download music and movies without paying the copyright owners. They rebelled against a system of real, blatant oppression. That's breaking laws discriminately. Breaking copyright laws (except fudging the rules when practical) is indiscriminate.
Calling two nerds switching from Mac OS X to Ubuntu a "canary in the coal mine" reminds me of what the (un)intelligent design people say. The ID people draw up a list of a few hundred scientists who "dissent from Darwinism." So, of course, the scientific community is suddenly going to discover how wrong they were about ID and it will become a hypothesis not ridiculed by all but a miniscule percent of biologists.
The ID movement's lists are bullshit, as demonstrated by Project Steve. Project Steve keeps of a list of (credible) biologists who support the teaching of evolution (about 750 right now). The one restriction for the biologists: they must be named Steve/Stephanie/Stephen. Until I see more than a few nerds switching from Mac to Linux, I'll believe the predictions of mass migration as much as I believe the ID people.
Duct tape has problems with the adhesive melting when it's applied to ducts. The adhesive weakens under the large amounts of heat in the ducts. Because of that, California has recently banned the use of duct tape on ducts. Imagine that on the space shuttle...
Also note that mp3, ogg, flac, and most other formats can have title, artist, etc. stored directly in the file. Music files downloaded through (illegal) file sharing would generally already be tagged, whereas freshly ripped music files need to be tagged (manually or automatically). Freedb is, obviously, more useful for ripping purchased CD's.
I really, really hope you're kidding. Changing colors on mouseovers (aka hover) is part of HTML, CSS, and ECMAScript. PHP is great for generating HTML/CSS/ECMAScript, but any server side language worth its CPU cycles could generate the same effects.
The only difference between the suicides a few weeks ago that was different from before was that more recent suicides succeeded. There were several dozen suicide attempts before. These particular suicides weren't a start, they were a culmination.
I think (s)he means people randomly inserting the word "fuck" into a page. That's opposed to an article on how many times "fuck" is used in various movies.