Because the economy increasingly runs on good IT people, but there aren't enough to go around.
People around the age of 40 - 45 in this country come from a real boom for the IT industry - the introduction of the "home computer" - 8-bit microcomputers within the budget of the working citizen.
The perfect storm of kids TV that only lasted for an hour or so each day, and computers that came with a BASIC interpreter, and you needed to learn at least one BASIC command on to get them to do anything, created a generation of "bedroom programmers". People would learn to program for fun. We then had a perfect progression through 8-bit micros, to 16-bit, and then 32-bit PCs, learning all the way.
The skills you need these days to get your computer to do something interesting, whether it sits in a box under your desk, on your lap, or it's just a circuit board behind a flat piece of glass, are very much different, and typically involve poking a couple of pretty icons.
Kids get very disappointed when they can't make things go all whizz-bang within 5 minutes of their first coding lesson. It's always been a special fraction of the population with the inclination to be programmers. But these days, the bar has been set even higher - you have to have a real obsession with programming to overcome the draw of all the other shiny toys out there, especially when they discover that to make even one simple app requires many hours of dedicated study and practice and work.
That's the problem. Computers were fun in our day because we were doing things that no-one else had done. Catching up to others is work.
What, we don't think that Lync and everything else that offers a chat server in your own rack can't be configured to do this?
Hell, at my last office, they were feeding all our VoIP calls through this SIGINT app ; the only reason I found out was because I was copied in on ICT change reports for operational reasons and one of the changes was they moved the storage for the VoIP calls to another server.
Presume that you're being watched. You likely are, by someone.
The NHS might be far from the best healthcare system imaginable, but it's official - it's one of the best universal healthcare systems, in terms of both efficiency and outcomes.
Keep the card in a foil lined sleeve. You can get a pack of five for a few dollars, or get a fancy shielded wallet. I quite like the look of the ones made of woven stainless steel thread. I tested the el-cheapo ones that are just card and foil and they prevent card reads from all the readers I tested.
Then your physical removal of the card from it's sleeve is required to complete any transaction, contactless or otherwise. No-one will have a reason to amputate your finger.
If you scan things into Apple Pay it's not a copy of your card (unless someone seriously fucked up when they designed the crypto schemes for your payment card). You have to trust Apple, who are no doubt greatly enjoying the information about your payment history.
He's not in England. He's in Ecuador. The embassy is their sovereign soil, by international treaty. If the English police set foot in there to deport him to Sweden (as they would do if he left), that's an invastion of their territory.
CVS is just a layer on top of RCS. RCS stores all history for a given file, in a file in the RCS store named for that file.
Therefore to purge all history for that file, you delete it's repository file. Tada! Gone.
CVS is just a layer on top of something designed for single file programs, and it shows. It doesn't handle renames well. It doesn't handle getting arbitrary revisions of entire projects well. The more files you have in your project, the more overhead you'll consume attempting to track global project revisions.
If you used it, it destroyed the entire history of the given source file. It was then no longer possible to replicate any build that included that file, ever again. That's a bad thing, in a revision control system.
I found a lot of these problems were resolved by doing a system cache wipe ; it went from hardly charging at all to charging in sensible time. Currently the tablet has been sat lurking in an IRC channel on my nightstand, off charger, for at least a week, and still has more than 40% charge.
The only cable problem I had was when I dropped the thing on the floor when charging ; I had to rebend the shroud on the USB socket back into place. It's still a bit loose, depending on the cable you use.
Yes, you shouldn't have to tinker with things. I can't say I'm impressed with the overall quality of Asus's tablet offerings - my girlfriend has one of their transformer tablets, and the keyboard dock has failed - the connection seems to work fine, because the touchpad part still works... just the keyboard doesn't.
The decent chaps (particulary ones who naievely point out "not all men..." before discovering this is like a red rag to a bull) are the ones who attempt to engage positively with these issues.. and because they are the ones trying to engage, they are often in receipt of some of the unpleasant feedback that should really be going to those other guys.
The problem is that once bitten, twice shy - it inclines most of us to back away and not prod that particular hornet's nest again. Which is a shame, because the idiots who create these problems in the first place are far more likely to listen to "bro's before ho's" - getting more of the decent men on side and active against their idiot step-brothers would be a victory for feminism.
I was really encouraged to see this point of view put forward by Emma Watson in her speech.
Both sides have something to learn - the well-meaning men need to learn that they don't need to engage with the women - they already *know* about discrimination. They need to engage with the misogynists.
And the feminists could help matters by swallowing some of their totally understandable rage and politely explaining this to us, instead of biting our heads off.
I have multiple contexts I work in during the day. Each time I change tasks, but don't want to close the windows for the task I was doing before, I move to a new desktop. That, plus one desktop devoted entirely to communications (email, social media, etc), and I can switch between contexts with one or two ctrl-alt-arrow key combos, rather than painstakingly reconstructing the window layout each time I switch.
Until the OS supports saving a group of apps, complete with window position, open documents, etc (which would require a lot of app support), this is the best solution to task switching I've got.
As atmospheric creatures, audio is an important and highly optimized sensory modality for us. It makes sense for ultra-modern space avionics to simulate audio in order to utilise this sense.
People don't know what they look like from behind. In particular, for a woman, her rear profile is ascribed nearly as much allure as her front. It's inevitable that any woman with an interest in her appearance is going to want to assess her rear profile, and it's only a short step between wanting to see it, and wanting to photograph it, these days.
There were a number of WMF exploits just because of this - because the WMF parser had insufficient bounds checking and you could pass malformed input directly to the Win32 API just by sending someone a picture.
This is also part of the reason that Microsoft Office Open XML isn't an implementable standard - because it contains a bunch of stuff that boils down to "call the Windows API".
Like many others have stated when confronted with this topic - I'd love to see them make a dramatization of the in-between years of Star Trek - the time between the present (or the near future), going through to the time of Zefram Cochrane and the subsequent ascent into the civilization that birthed Starfleet and the Federation.
Of course, the real "secret sauce" there is presumably that FTL travel means that previously scarce resources become much more readily available, as starships can visit locations where they are abundant and bring them back. This presumably ushers in an era of post-scarcity economics.
If you believe that these technologies can be achieved with mere Earthly resources, then perhaps we may even live to see it...
In addition to the notes that this is a minimal burden on most modern CPUs, Android L will offer much better battery life - on the same devices - owning to it's new execution environment, which will more than offset the additional cost.
I think it's a sop though - the problem, as demonstrated so well recently to a host of famous women, is not that your local device is terribly vulnerable. After all, we're talking one of the few pieces of data storage that most people will have on their person most of their waking hours.
The real problem is cloud storage. While much has been made of the tactics used to gain access to them, note that any sysadmin on the cloud services responsible likely has the same level of access. You'll only have "private" cloud when your device carrys a private encryption key that the service is not privy to - and this isn't going to happen on the big services (excepting MEGA, allegedly), because the reason they let you store your stuff on their cloud for free is because they can mine it for information. And could you really trust a "private" cloud client anyway? Who says the software doesn't leak your private key back to the author?
If you want private data, Free Software is really the only answer, and having your own private hardware would help too.
VB6 may have a similar status in a while. I refused to learn VB.NET because it would destroy my VB6 knowledge, because it's almost but not entirely completely different.
The things I can make VB6 do are both amazing and shameful..
That said ; it's also far harder for developers to actually communicate their rightness to other groups, like management and marketing, because they don't understand the language you're using when talking about it. Even if you break it down to the level where your primary school aged children could understand it, there will be people in positions of power that just won't grok what your project is about or why it's important.
At some point, you either have to finish the project just to justify that it should even exist... or do some sweet talking. And that's where a "professional" appearance comes in.
Although some management grok that developer ability is often reversely correlated with dress formality, a developer who groks that sometimes, it's worth suiting up, will probably be able to promote their own agenda. Even among the group of managers that get it, they will gain respect for the recognition that they have made an effort to speak the appropriate social language.
I agree that daily suit wearing just isn't comfortable or necessary, but for the right occasions having a good suit on standby is an excellent way to make a point - that you're confident about your ability. And heck, if you're confident, then other people should be, right?
The state does not wish to serve the people any longer. The state serves it's corporate masters, in return for scraps from their table.
The corporations don't want to serve the people, they want to profit from them. Any actual services or goods they provide are a mere incidental detail. History has shown us that if a corporation can get away with selling dirt instead of food they will do that.
When the media is controlled by a few large corporations, there is no free market. Free markets depend on perfect information being supplied to the consumer. There can never be a free market while there are large media corporations, but large media corporations are an inevitable consequence of the market.
As you say below, if the state stuck to their natural role of providing services that you cannot trust a corporation to provide, like healthcare, it would be fine. Instead, at the bidding of their masters, they manufacture wars to increase demand and exploitation opportunities, they engage in mass surveillance of their own citizens for fear that they may be deposed, they destroy effcient and functional public utilities so that corporations can buy them out and charge more for what was once reasonably priced for all....
The state is indeed corrupt ; but mostly because the corporations have worked so hard to corrupt it. We need a state that will protect us from corporations, instead of falling to their knees before them.
Wasn't that the Nexus 4? As I understand it, they left a heat spreader out between the CPU and the chassis (and there are hacks to replace it with graphite tape out there online).
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Because the economy increasingly runs on good IT people, but there aren't enough to go around.
People around the age of 40 - 45 in this country come from a real boom for the IT industry - the introduction of the "home computer" - 8-bit microcomputers within the budget of the working citizen.
The perfect storm of kids TV that only lasted for an hour or so each day, and computers that came with a BASIC interpreter, and you needed to learn at least one BASIC command on to get them to do anything, created a generation of "bedroom programmers". People would learn to program for fun. We then had a perfect progression through 8-bit micros, to 16-bit, and then 32-bit PCs, learning all the way.
The skills you need these days to get your computer to do something interesting, whether it sits in a box under your desk, on your lap, or it's just a circuit board behind a flat piece of glass, are very much different, and typically involve poking a couple of pretty icons.
Kids get very disappointed when they can't make things go all whizz-bang within 5 minutes of their first coding lesson. It's always been a special fraction of the population with the inclination to be programmers. But these days, the bar has been set even higher - you have to have a real obsession with programming to overcome the draw of all the other shiny toys out there, especially when they discover that to make even one simple app requires many hours of dedicated study and practice and work.
That's the problem. Computers were fun in our day because we were doing things that no-one else had done. Catching up to others is work.
It boggles the mind, doesn't it.
One of my favourite interview questions is "What's your favourite data structure, and why?", and when they answer, I ask "How would you implement it?"
For something like 80% of the candidates I've interviewed, the answer is usually "erm...."
The vast majority of the remainder say "ArrayList" but don't usually say why.
Out of those, I've only interviewed one who could give any kind of basic indication that they knew how to implement one.
The state of the industry is shocking.
What, we don't think that Lync and everything else that offers a chat server in your own rack can't be configured to do this?
Hell, at my last office, they were feeding all our VoIP calls through this SIGINT app ; the only reason I found out was because I was copied in on ICT change reports for operational reasons and one of the changes was they moved the storage for the VoIP calls to another server.
Presume that you're being watched. You likely are, by someone.
The NHS might be far from the best healthcare system imaginable, but it's official - it's one of the best universal healthcare systems, in terms of both efficiency and outcomes.
Mirror, mirror.
I'm really not sure it puts out a good image of your product if a 5 year old can pass your professional certifications.
It either means your certs are weak sauce, or your product is lamentably simple.
People are going to have to start accepting cryptographic signatures (maybe from keys signed by the government, like they have in Estonia).
Most of my utility bills are now via email.
Screw that.
Keep the card in a foil lined sleeve. You can get a pack of five for a few dollars, or get a fancy shielded wallet. I quite like the look of the ones made of woven stainless steel thread. I tested the el-cheapo ones that are just card and foil and they prevent card reads from all the readers I tested.
Then your physical removal of the card from it's sleeve is required to complete any transaction, contactless or otherwise. No-one will have a reason to amputate your finger.
If you scan things into Apple Pay it's not a copy of your card (unless someone seriously fucked up when they designed the crypto schemes for your payment card). You have to trust Apple, who are no doubt greatly enjoying the information about your payment history.
H1B tax.
You should pay a tax on top of the H1B employees wages that makes the full package 20% more costly than employing a US worker.
He's not in England. He's in Ecuador. The embassy is their sovereign soil, by international treaty. If the English police set foot in there to deport him to Sweden (as they would do if he left), that's an invastion of their territory.
I have one Triganic Pu. Will they make change?
I was unaware CVS had any way to do this
CVS is just a layer on top of RCS. RCS stores all history for a given file, in a file in the RCS store named for that file.
Therefore to purge all history for that file, you delete it's repository file. Tada! Gone.
CVS is just a layer on top of something designed for single file programs, and it shows. It doesn't handle renames well. It doesn't handle getting arbitrary revisions of entire projects well. The more files you have in your project, the more overhead you'll consume attempting to track global project revisions.
SVN does at least fix some of that.
Indeed.
VSS had this feature. It was called "Purge".
If you used it, it destroyed the entire history of the given source file. It was then no longer possible to replicate any build that included that file, ever again. That's a bad thing, in a revision control system.
I found a lot of these problems were resolved by doing a system cache wipe ; it went from hardly charging at all to charging in sensible time. Currently the tablet has been sat lurking in an IRC channel on my nightstand, off charger, for at least a week, and still has more than 40% charge.
The only cable problem I had was when I dropped the thing on the floor when charging ; I had to rebend the shroud on the USB socket back into place. It's still a bit loose, depending on the cable you use.
Yes, you shouldn't have to tinker with things. I can't say I'm impressed with the overall quality of Asus's tablet offerings - my girlfriend has one of their transformer tablets, and the keyboard dock has failed - the connection seems to work fine, because the touchpad part still works... just the keyboard doesn't.
Yeah, I can really relate to this.
The decent chaps (particulary ones who naievely point out "not all men..." before discovering this is like a red rag to a bull) are the ones who attempt to engage positively with these issues.. and because they are the ones trying to engage, they are often in receipt of some of the unpleasant feedback that should really be going to those other guys.
The problem is that once bitten, twice shy - it inclines most of us to back away and not prod that particular hornet's nest again. Which is a shame, because the idiots who create these problems in the first place are far more likely to listen to "bro's before ho's" - getting more of the decent men on side and active against their idiot step-brothers would be a victory for feminism.
I was really encouraged to see this point of view put forward by Emma Watson in her speech.
Both sides have something to learn - the well-meaning men need to learn that they don't need to engage with the women - they already *know* about discrimination. They need to engage with the misogynists.
And the feminists could help matters by swallowing some of their totally understandable rage and politely explaining this to us, instead of biting our heads off.
It's more of a task-switching thing for me.
I have multiple contexts I work in during the day. Each time I change tasks, but don't want to close the windows for the task I was doing before, I move to a new desktop. That, plus one desktop devoted entirely to communications (email, social media, etc), and I can switch between contexts with one or two ctrl-alt-arrow key combos, rather than painstakingly reconstructing the window layout each time I switch.
Until the OS supports saving a group of apps, complete with window position, open documents, etc (which would require a lot of app support), this is the best solution to task switching I've got.
Virtual audio is how I reconcile it.
As atmospheric creatures, audio is an important and highly optimized sensory modality for us. It makes sense for ultra-modern space avionics to simulate audio in order to utilise this sense.
The uninformed want to know.
There in your question lies the answer.
People don't know what they look like from behind. In particular, for a woman, her rear profile is ascribed nearly as much allure as her front. It's inevitable that any woman with an interest in her appearance is going to want to assess her rear profile, and it's only a short step between wanting to see it, and wanting to photograph it, these days.
it's basically a recording of the GDI commands.
There were a number of WMF exploits just because of this - because the WMF parser had insufficient bounds checking and you could pass malformed input directly to the Win32 API just by sending someone a picture.
This is also part of the reason that Microsoft Office Open XML isn't an implementable standard - because it contains a bunch of stuff that boils down to "call the Windows API".
Like many others have stated when confronted with this topic - I'd love to see them make a dramatization of the in-between years of Star Trek - the time between the present (or the near future), going through to the time of Zefram Cochrane and the subsequent ascent into the civilization that birthed Starfleet and the Federation.
Of course, the real "secret sauce" there is presumably that FTL travel means that previously scarce resources become much more readily available, as starships can visit locations where they are abundant and bring them back. This presumably ushers in an era of post-scarcity economics.
If you believe that these technologies can be achieved with mere Earthly resources, then perhaps we may even live to see it...
In addition to the notes that this is a minimal burden on most modern CPUs, Android L will offer much better battery life - on the same devices - owning to it's new execution environment, which will more than offset the additional cost.
I think it's a sop though - the problem, as demonstrated so well recently to a host of famous women, is not that your local device is terribly vulnerable. After all, we're talking one of the few pieces of data storage that most people will have on their person most of their waking hours.
The real problem is cloud storage. While much has been made of the tactics used to gain access to them, note that any sysadmin on the cloud services responsible likely has the same level of access. You'll only have "private" cloud when your device carrys a private encryption key that the service is not privy to - and this isn't going to happen on the big services (excepting MEGA, allegedly), because the reason they let you store your stuff on their cloud for free is because they can mine it for information. And could you really trust a "private" cloud client anyway? Who says the software doesn't leak your private key back to the author?
If you want private data, Free Software is really the only answer, and having your own private hardware would help too.
VB6 may have a similar status in a while. I refused to learn VB.NET because it would destroy my VB6 knowledge, because it's almost but not entirely completely different.
The things I can make VB6 do are both amazing and shameful..
That said ; it's also far harder for developers to actually communicate their rightness to other groups, like management and marketing, because they don't understand the language you're using when talking about it. Even if you break it down to the level where your primary school aged children could understand it, there will be people in positions of power that just won't grok what your project is about or why it's important.
At some point, you either have to finish the project just to justify that it should even exist... or do some sweet talking. And that's where a "professional" appearance comes in.
Although some management grok that developer ability is often reversely correlated with dress formality, a developer who groks that sometimes, it's worth suiting up, will probably be able to promote their own agenda. Even among the group of managers that get it, they will gain respect for the recognition that they have made an effort to speak the appropriate social language.
I agree that daily suit wearing just isn't comfortable or necessary, but for the right occasions having a good suit on standby is an excellent way to make a point - that you're confident about your ability. And heck, if you're confident, then other people should be, right?
The state does not wish to serve the people any longer. The state serves it's corporate masters, in return for scraps from their table.
The corporations don't want to serve the people, they want to profit from them. Any actual services or goods they provide are a mere incidental detail. History has shown us that if a corporation can get away with selling dirt instead of food they will do that.
When the media is controlled by a few large corporations, there is no free market. Free markets depend on perfect information being supplied to the consumer. There can never be a free market while there are large media corporations, but large media corporations are an inevitable consequence of the market.
As you say below, if the state stuck to their natural role of providing services that you cannot trust a corporation to provide, like healthcare, it would be fine. Instead, at the bidding of their masters, they manufacture wars to increase demand and exploitation opportunities, they engage in mass surveillance of their own citizens for fear that they may be deposed, they destroy effcient and functional public utilities so that corporations can buy them out and charge more for what was once reasonably priced for all....
The state is indeed corrupt ; but mostly because the corporations have worked so hard to corrupt it. We need a state that will protect us from corporations, instead of falling to their knees before them.
More like CV Dazzle
A burkha will get you "profiled". Weird hair and makeup is a fasion statement.
Wasn't that the Nexus 4? As I understand it, they left a heat spreader out between the CPU and the chassis (and there are hacks to replace it with graphite tape out there online).