They are very large users of the H1-B visa program
Supposed to say this?
They are the largest user of the H1-B visa program
I'm being cheeky about it. But, I remember when they opened the office here in Vancouver how excited everyone was and then no one was being hired here but there was a lot of people coming in from abroad to work here. The problem is on paper it always looks better to move things offshore because the "operating effeciencies" but look what happens when things are moved, poorer quality, poorer service and no one cares. I'm inclined to blame the "Walmart/everything's disposable and cheaper to replace mentality".
The damn machines will be plugging in hamsters into their giant VR world and just kill us off. Oh man, I thought I'd be made redundant by a robot before a hamster!
I'd rather have the installers available on disk but not actually installed. Then when you go through the OS installation you can pick which browser to install, or better yet, give a "have disk" option or install later. The key thing is give an end user the choice. If the system is boxed then you should go through setting up IE when you go through your initial setup.
As an aside, personally my big grief for a while there was not being able to remove IE. If I find a browser that does everything I want and I don't need IE anymore why should I keep. Unfortunately, due to my work I need it at home so I haven't tried removing IE. Otherwise I'd be fine using Flock/Chrome.
Ok, but if the majority of people say "We don't want this" and would like to make it law then laws are what we get. Government is for the people by the people after all and majority rules. If this is what the majority wants thats what they should get.
"We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free." I'd say that applies to the market just like any individual.
I couldn't agree more. When you file a patent I believe you have an obligation to bring a product to market. The patent is meant to protect you in doing so. Can't get a prototype in 7 years? Too bad, you're gaming the system, scrap the patent and take your licks for trying to stifle innovation. In my mind you shouldn't even be allowed to patent something unless you have some form of prototype... something, anything that shows your working towards getting a product to market. If you're not willing to do that step aside.
Strangely, I'm finding this to be the most enjoyable period of time politically here for the last 2 years. It's so quiet and peacefully and no new stupid legislation! Dare I say it? I want it to last longer!!
NO it is wrong, he had a legal obligation to not act on his knowledge until it was disclosed to ALL shareholders. He's in partnership with those shareholders. Would you ever enter a contractual partnership where your partner could openly screw you over and not have to answer for it? The answer would be NO. IAMAL but my understanding is the law has simply set out a framework to make it easier for business to incorporate and for investors to put their money into those businesses. If he had foreknowledge, he shouldn't have sold off until it was disclosed and every c-level businessperson knows this. He had a fair opportunity to sell off
Drop the communism gripe because in the end saying that a group of people collectively own a business by being shareholders sounds pretty communist to begin with.
What blows my mind away was there was any doubt that Ballmer has unique knowledge. I really doubt that the dealing between MS and Intel was in the mid management solely.
I think you need to familiarize yourself with this concept.
This correlation can not only be thought of as "Obama recieved more press and wins election" but rather as "Obama, a favorite to win the election, recived more press". My belief is that if you look at the causation it has more to do with a grassroots political effort.
Contrast this with how things happen here in Canada where we've had candidates shown very poorly in the press yet they still get elected.
I'm quite taken aback over the last while in retrospect of the election along the lines of "Well he only won because of..." or "People weren't voting for him but against..." Just making excuses for why he won like somehow it is impossible or even inconcievable for him to have won. It's this disbelief in the result that really leads me to think that the racial issues in the US still have a long ways to sort out.
I'd try just asking. But a quick search on google for tupperware and BPA brought up a blog that mentioned that the rock and serve line and I think one or two others has some BPA. But a lot of their stuff is BPA free.
Actually when I posted this I found lots of containers are BPA free. You just have to know what to look for. Sorry that I don't have more than that.
Well, I had this great plan that consisted of selling tax free cigarettes made in China in prisons and then having convicts make money by testing cancer treating drugs. I thought it was ingenius but some folks get so worried by ethics.
Exactly! I think most people have no freaking clue... Oh wait, I know they have no freaking clue that not all plastics are created equal. Also, from the responses, that no one read TFA; mind you the summary is a bit inflamatory so that will lead quite a few to disregard the article.
My wife is big on Tupperware and a quick check showed that some products contain BPA but not all. That's just one line of products. It's quite surprising how far spread these things are.
Anyways, it's like Transfats we should know what contains it and then work towards removing it. BPA has long been known for it's damaging effects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A#Health_effects so eliminating it altogether would be in the best interest of all. Here in Canada our Health system is stretched to the limit due to an aging population why allow something that further impacts health and strains that system? I imagine that there will be the common "Oh it's not conclusive yet!" responses. Heaven forbid if anyone needs to spend an extra penny at Walmart.
Dear god, common sense? Can I hire you to run my network? Once I secure funding and a business model I'm sure my Web Cloud 3.0 application will zoom!
Seriously though, it's not just academics; EVERYONE that is a user believes that somehow "poof!" computers should just magically make things easy and perfect. Unless of course they actually work with the technology as opposed to working on the technology.
It's not that easy, what if someone posts a picture of you that you thought no one took in a comprimising situation and then they or someone else tagged you? Regardless of your interactions online you have a right to those actions being private especially since if taken out of context?
Would it be fair for me to pass a judgment on you based on this post? After all you assume, that someone posts pictures of them self and that is not necessarily correct. So I should assume you don't think through a scenario. It sounds harsh.
How about your personal biases and opinions? In an interview you can effectively screen a person's ability to make a prejudicial judgment by not stating things like age, religion or sexual preference. But when someone "looks you up" the remove your ability to protect yourself from those prejudices.
Oh and final thing, appearances can be decieving. A photo that appears to be of a compromising situation may not be a photo of a comprimising situation.
That term really hits the head of the nail. I also like the point on intellectual honesty. At my previous employer, I remember so many times running into people just not wanting to face the truth to maintain political quagmire and then when the project goes live it's nothing but spin despite massive failures or high support costs.
Mind you, my last employ was in IT at a major retailer and retail is a nightmare to begin with.
Anyways, thanks for sharing this. Hearing everyone sound off on this and share their horror stories is good. I think all of us at one point or another have been on a project like this. It's just the scale that changes.
If you are one of those MSDN shops where you went to subversion because VSS is weak, you can go with Team System. We were using VSS before and Team system is way better for version control plus it has defect tracking and a build agent. Also, they have caching server to aid distributed environments. Considering it's free (sort of) with your MSDN license (I think it's with their "team edition" licenses) it's tough to beat. It's tough to beat that, especially for larger shops. The only things I don't like in some ways is how it represents the branching and the source control permissions and that was comparatively minor problems. I work in Config Management/Build and so I don't know what Joe developer would like/dislike about it.
If you're not an MSDN shop then what to use is more problematic. I really liked subversion but that was years back. From what I recall for what it was it does well. The only product I was ever "wow'ed" with was Accurev. That product deals with branching like a breeze and I think they might have a defect tracking module now.
But why should people who are not accessing the content or paying for the content through something like iTunes have to pay any kind of tax?
In my mind this is no better than extorting ISPs.
Why not address the problem by capping upload limits from customers? I remember my ISP taking people down for hosting websites on their home computer. I can't see that being different.
That would go against intelligent design. He clearly created robot devil and hipno toad after he planted the fossil but before he sent Bender back to earth. It makes perfect sense really...
I wasn't a big fan of that in the article either. Support for the PS 2 is hardly something to point a stick at to Sony. Point the stick to the studios. But the reality there is there are those of us that have the PS 2, like it, still play it and have no interest at this point in moving to a PS 3.
Why don't I? Just as you say, it's about the fun and the games for the PS 2 are still fun (for me anyways).
Don't need quarters, don't need dimes,
to call a friend of mine!
Don't need computer or TV,
to have a real good time!
I'll call for pizza. I'll call my cat.
I'll call the white house, have a chat!
I'll place a call around the world, operator get me Beijing
-jing-jing-jing!
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Ok for that comment I'm talking to the site admins to change your name to Greg Fokker.
They are very large users of the H1-B visa program
Supposed to say this?
They are the largest user of the H1-B visa program
I'm being cheeky about it. But, I remember when they opened the office here in Vancouver how excited everyone was and then no one was being hired here but there was a lot of people coming in from abroad to work here. The problem is on paper it always looks better to move things offshore because the "operating effeciencies" but look what happens when things are moved, poorer quality, poorer service and no one cares. I'm inclined to blame the "Walmart/everything's disposable and cheaper to replace mentality".
The damn machines will be plugging in hamsters into their giant VR world and just kill us off. Oh man, I thought I'd be made redundant by a robot before a hamster!
I'd rather have the installers available on disk but not actually installed. Then when you go through the OS installation you can pick which browser to install, or better yet, give a "have disk" option or install later. The key thing is give an end user the choice. If the system is boxed then you should go through setting up IE when you go through your initial setup.
As an aside, personally my big grief for a while there was not being able to remove IE. If I find a browser that does everything I want and I don't need IE anymore why should I keep. Unfortunately, due to my work I need it at home so I haven't tried removing IE. Otherwise I'd be fine using Flock/Chrome.
Ok, but if the majority of people say "We don't want this" and would like to make it law then laws are what we get. Government is for the people by the people after all and majority rules. If this is what the majority wants thats what they should get.
"We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free." I'd say that applies to the market just like any individual.
I couldn't agree more. When you file a patent I believe you have an obligation to bring a product to market. The patent is meant to protect you in doing so. Can't get a prototype in 7 years? Too bad, you're gaming the system, scrap the patent and take your licks for trying to stifle innovation. In my mind you shouldn't even be allowed to patent something unless you have some form of prototype... something, anything that shows your working towards getting a product to market. If you're not willing to do that step aside.
Either that or we change the debate process to involve weapons and the thunderdome. 4 go in 1 comes out!
Strangely, I'm finding this to be the most enjoyable period of time politically here for the last 2 years. It's so quiet and peacefully and no new stupid legislation!
Dare I say it? I want it to last longer!!
NO it is wrong, he had a legal obligation to not act on his knowledge until it was disclosed to ALL shareholders. He's in partnership with those shareholders. Would you ever enter a contractual partnership where your partner could openly screw you over and not have to answer for it? The answer would be NO. IAMAL but my understanding is the law has simply set out a framework to make it easier for business to incorporate and for investors to put their money into those businesses. If he had foreknowledge, he shouldn't have sold off until it was disclosed and every c-level businessperson knows this. He had a fair opportunity to sell off
Drop the communism gripe because in the end saying that a group of people collectively own a business by being shareholders sounds pretty communist to begin with.
What blows my mind away was there was any doubt that Ballmer has unique knowledge. I really doubt that the dealing between MS and Intel was in the mid management solely.
I think you need to familiarize yourself with this concept.
This correlation can not only be thought of as "Obama recieved more press and wins election" but rather as "Obama, a favorite to win the election, recived more press". My belief is that if you look at the causation it has more to do with a grassroots political effort.
Contrast this with how things happen here in Canada where we've had candidates shown very poorly in the press yet they still get elected.
I'm quite taken aback over the last while in retrospect of the election along the lines of "Well he only won because of..." or "People weren't voting for him but against..." Just making excuses for why he won like somehow it is impossible or even inconcievable for him to have won. It's this disbelief in the result that really leads me to think that the racial issues in the US still have a long ways to sort out.
I'd try just asking. But a quick search on google for tupperware and BPA brought up a blog that mentioned that the rock and serve line and I think one or two others has some BPA. But a lot of their stuff is BPA free.
Actually when I posted this I found lots of containers are BPA free. You just have to know what to look for. Sorry that I don't have more than that.
Well, I had this great plan that consisted of selling tax free cigarettes made in China in prisons and then having convicts make money by testing cancer treating drugs. I thought it was ingenius but some folks get so worried by ethics.
:P
I say why start worrying about that now?
Exactly! I think most people have no freaking clue... Oh wait, I know they have no freaking clue that not all plastics are created equal. Also, from the responses, that no one read TFA; mind you the summary is a bit inflamatory so that will lead quite a few to disregard the article.
My wife is big on Tupperware and a quick check showed that some products contain BPA but not all. That's just one line of products. It's quite surprising how far spread these things are.
Anyways, it's like Transfats we should know what contains it and then work towards removing it. BPA has long been known for it's damaging effects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A#Health_effects so eliminating it altogether would be in the best interest of all. Here in Canada our Health system is stretched to the limit due to an aging population why allow something that further impacts health and strains that system? I imagine that there will be the common "Oh it's not conclusive yet!" responses. Heaven forbid if anyone needs to spend an extra penny at Walmart.
Dear god, common sense? Can I hire you to run my network? Once I secure funding and a business model I'm sure my Web Cloud 3.0 application will zoom!
Seriously though, it's not just academics; EVERYONE that is a user believes that somehow "poof!" computers should just magically make things easy and perfect. Unless of course they actually work with the technology as opposed to working on the technology.
It's not that easy, what if someone posts a picture of you that you thought no one took in a comprimising situation and then they or someone else tagged you? Regardless of your interactions online you have a right to those actions being private especially since if taken out of context?
Would it be fair for me to pass a judgment on you based on this post? After all you assume, that someone posts pictures of them self and that is not necessarily correct. So I should assume you don't think through a scenario. It sounds harsh.
How about your personal biases and opinions? In an interview you can effectively screen a person's ability to make a prejudicial judgment by not stating things like age, religion or sexual preference. But when someone "looks you up" the remove your ability to protect yourself from those prejudices.
Oh and final thing, appearances can be decieving. A photo that appears to be of a compromising situation may not be a photo of a comprimising situation.
No, but I never thought of what his life must be like... until now.
That term really hits the head of the nail. I also like the point on intellectual honesty. At my previous employer, I remember so many times running into people just not wanting to face the truth to maintain political quagmire and then when the project goes live it's nothing but spin despite massive failures or high support costs.
Mind you, my last employ was in IT at a major retailer and retail is a nightmare to begin with.
Anyways, thanks for sharing this. Hearing everyone sound off on this and share their horror stories is good. I think all of us at one point or another have been on a project like this. It's just the scale that changes.
If you are one of those MSDN shops where you went to subversion because VSS is weak, you can go with Team System. We were using VSS before and Team system is way better for version control plus it has defect tracking and a build agent. Also, they have caching server to aid distributed environments. Considering it's free (sort of) with your MSDN license (I think it's with their "team edition" licenses) it's tough to beat. It's tough to beat that, especially for larger shops. The only things I don't like in some ways is how it represents the branching and the source control permissions and that was comparatively minor problems. I work in Config Management/Build and so I don't know what Joe developer would like/dislike about it.
If you're not an MSDN shop then what to use is more problematic. I really liked subversion but that was years back. From what I recall for what it was it does well. The only product I was ever "wow'ed" with was Accurev. That product deals with branching like a breeze and I think they might have a defect tracking module now.
But why should people who are not accessing the content or paying for the content through something like iTunes have to pay any kind of tax?
In my mind this is no better than extorting ISPs.
Why not address the problem by capping upload limits from customers? I remember my ISP taking people down for hosting websites on their home computer. I can't see that being different.
That would go against intelligent design. He clearly created robot devil and hipno toad after he planted the fossil but before he sent Bender back to earth. It makes perfect sense really...
You heard the man! Back to work and no one gets this banana until someone comes up with the next sitcom!
Some people fail to realize that if you go far enough left or right you've really met back end up in the same place. Well, in a way...
I wasn't a big fan of that in the article either. Support for the PS 2 is hardly something to point a stick at to Sony. Point the stick to the studios. But the reality there is there are those of us that have the PS 2, like it, still play it and have no interest at this point in moving to a PS 3.
Why don't I? Just as you say, it's about the fun and the games for the PS 2 are still fun (for me anyways).
Ok, everybody now!
Don't need quarters, don't need dimes, to call a friend of mine! Don't need computer or TV, to have a real good time! I'll call for pizza. I'll call my cat. I'll call the white house, have a chat! I'll place a call around the world, operator get me Beijing -jing-jing-jing!