I'm sorry, but basing the "health of the IT employment market" on the number of job ads is flawed.
Employment consultants are somewhere just below Real estate agents and car salesmen, where their job is not just making an individual sale(read commission), but portraying a positive and bouyant market, while continuing the industry's success.
By glutting the market with jobs ads that many would not stand up to audit, achieves several things:
- A percieved shortage means that commissions remain higher.
- Give the business community the belief that things are buoyant and its OK to pursue that IT BPR at last.
- Keeps the IT market turning over, rather than IT workers staying where they are because they are insecure, because they believe the market is flat.
is head straight for the settings and set "Classic Desktop".
Hows that fancy screenshot gonna look then.
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"...he defected to protest the Saudi government oppressive polices against reformers and democratic activists. Al-Shaikh called for a fully elected parliament with real powers in order to curb massive official corruption and to ensure the human rights f the population, and their rights for free expression.
This can't be right. GW isn't vocal against Saudi Arabia. Therefore, they must best a shining light of Freedom(tm) and democracy.
All I can think of is the bosses of our local telecomms incumbent reading this, instantly loosing control of their bowels, the splash of the explosion showering their faithful lieutenants in gooey excrement.
I'm in New Zealand. We pay $70/month for 2mb down 196K up. Its sketchy at best as interleaving pushes pings to about 70-90ms. No unbundling of the LL, and a government that takes it like the Goatse guy from the incumbent, better service is a far off dream.
Please, dear jesus, let alternatives like BB over powerlines work.
...as the onboard unit would have to send data at the rate of hundreds of location datagrams per minute. The point being, a location is a point in time - may not be relevant 30 seconds later, travelling at 150km/hr.
Trains move quite quickly, and given past British rail mishaps, existing systems must have to be sped up a bit.
With that said, GPS/GPRS units would have to communicate fairly frequently. At the very most a location sent to the server(probably over GPRS as a UDP datagram) every 2 minutes.
In New Zealand, the GSM provider here (business plan) charges per 10,000KB packet, even for a 500byte datagram:-(
Some rough maths:
A location data packet(charged at 10k) every 1 minute.
Thats 0.6 MB per hour.
Train runs, say, 10 hours per day, thats 6mb.
Per month thats 180mb.
In New Zealand, thats about $200 of data.
In my town, a taxi company uses it. The combined cost per month is $33,000 in data charges.
And thats on 5 min updates!
Anyone got some info on charges from other countries?
IE how much will is cost our pommie friends per month per train, running 10 hr/days, sending location every 5,2,1 minutes, 30 seconds?
Rule: Once you accept money for a service, the relationship changes.
I fix computers for the odd friend. I do not charge.
I fix computers for customers who I do charge.
So what about the compost?
I like to garden to relax. I also maintain a triple bay compost area at the back of the section. I generate more compost than I can use. I started offering bags of compost to friends for free.
Some months later, my wife pointed out that the bags I purchased to put the compost in, had cost $200. Works out to about.50c per bag.
I starting asking for a coin donation for the compost to cover the cost of the bag, I would explain to the people.
In the first 2 weeks of "selling" 5 bags, I recieved 5 "feedbacks". Previously I recieved none over 2 years, over maybe 100 bags given away.
Comments I recieved were:"
- "But I bought a bag last time, I don't have to pay for another?"
- Recieved a call from the wife of a customer, saying there was a milk bottle cap in the compost. Could she bring it back and get another bag of compost.
- "I don't have any change, can I give it to you later?"
- "Oh, thats a bit expensive. You can get twice the amount of compost from the garden centre.". ( I later learn that thats per bucket, and the liners you can buy for the cars Trunk(US), boot(UK, Aus, NZ) cost $2.00.
If your business is considering inside or outside resources for a project, consider:
- What are the first 3 letters that Consultant begins with?
- Consultants are, at their core, like retail units, who must generate repeat business. Very few business models rely on providing a one off sale or service. Therefore, consultants create an ongoing product in terms of support, or licensing etc.
Lastly, consultant is different to contractor. While the 2 provide similar services, the consultant will only get out of bed for >$200. If this is not you then you are most likely a contractor.
As the weather changes for the worse recently, freely available weather data could possibly save lives.
Highlighted by a recent incident where heavy rain fell, a river rose, and 700 people were evacuated at 1am in a camp ground. On the news a 10yo kid recounted how the water was ankle deep in his tent, when the family was woken for evac. Some hours later only the tent tops were visible.
The commercial weather incumbent couldnt warn these people. A camper in the internet cafe might of.
- Detonate when threatened with capture.
- Detonate when "insurgents" outnumber civilians in a 50m sample radius.
These things will just be sophisticated IED's.
As a by line, the word improvised in Improvised Explosive Device, makes it sound like they are cobbled together in 10 minutes using camel excrement and old shoes.
"In the meantime, it would create jobs, taxable profits, and make the US a lot more fun.
If it reaps benefits to America's industry of only a fraction of those from its involvement in the 2nd World War, then yes, you would indeed be onto a winner.
In sticking to the requirements - budget, and assuming box will be somewhat out of the way, I advise:
1) Sit case on a block of wood.
2) Seal case with duct tape leaving the input and output vents clear. You will need to seal every thing like CD etc.
3) Go to autowreckers, find air filter housing, its (clean) air filter and its snorkle tube(at beast 3" diameter.)
4) Afix filter housing to wooden block, Route snorkle to computers air intake, notch end and 4 self tapers to case intake (avoids internals:)
5) Seal w/ silicon.
6) Tape a light weight flap over exhaust so it will will lift easily it allow exhaust air to escape, but settles over output when computer off.
7) dust seal over keyboard.
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I'm sorry, but basing the "health of the IT employment market" on the number of job ads is flawed.
Employment consultants are somewhere just below Real estate agents and car salesmen, where their job is not just making an individual sale(read commission), but portraying a positive and bouyant market, while continuing the industry's success.
By glutting the market with jobs ads that many would not stand up to audit, achieves several things:
- A percieved shortage means that commissions remain higher.
- Give the business community the belief that things are buoyant and its OK to pursue that IT BPR at last.
- Keeps the IT market turning over, rather than IT workers staying where they are because they are insecure, because they believe the market is flat.
"Um... it's probably worth pointing out that Wales is actually in the Union"
Yup, and that really helped them get Welsh players into the test matchs in the Lion's tour to New Zealand.
So we get things like this:
Disgusted Lions fan auctions burnt jersey
This confirms it.
In my primary school(5-10 yrs), in those class maths competitions, our team would fear the team who ended up with asian kid in.
"Oh, they'll get all the questions with fractions in"
As youngsters I think we had an uncanny sense of prophecy.
This is sort of like those school yard spats over a girl.
Wiki is the girl. Google and Yahoo are the two guys.
My mother's advice surely applies to this situation(that I got many years back):
"Stay away from that little trollop! Anyone that causes a fight is not worth it."
Of course, I did hang round that girl. Pretty wee thing. It was all fruitles of course.
Bitch! You whore Wiki!
*begins to cry*
Having tired of my favoritest pass time on the internet - hunting live animals with a remote control rifle...
I can now indulge my 2nd favorite over the internet: feeling chickens.
I can hear my non-nerd friend now: "But why don't you get a real chicken to feel?"
Is there a thriving business driving wooden barrells of wine over state borders in the USA? With the old trucks, and stetson hats and tommy guns?
Does the book keeper come along too?
OK, so my visualisation is a little close to the rediculous, but where I come from, nuclear weapons might get you in trouble.
But a bottle of 1986 Shiraz?
"...could we be heading into an era where our automobiles will require software updates and fixes to keep them from literally 'crashing'?"
Yes.
Australia has welcomed their new American overlords.
"Microsoft Wants Sit-Down With OSS Advocates"
Be wary OSS advocates - if you sleep with dogs, you awaken with fleas.
Everyone knows that Russians are good at math
Yup, just like when I was 12 and we had math team competitions at school...
We dreaded the team with the asian kid in, as we knew they'd get all the questions with fractions in them.
Converting my old MPEG2 encoded porno movie collection into DivX could really benefit from this.
My ol' PII 300 takes a night per movie basically.
Been going for 60 nights now, only 300 to go.
Could this be a way to get the hole shebang done in a night?
What a wonderous time we live in.
is head straight for the settings and set "Classic Desktop".
Hows that fancy screenshot gonna look then.
"...he defected to protest the Saudi government oppressive polices against reformers and democratic activists. Al-Shaikh called for a fully elected parliament with real powers in order to curb massive official corruption and to ensure the human rights f the population, and their rights for free expression.
This can't be right. GW isn't vocal against Saudi Arabia. Therefore, they must best a shining light of Freedom(tm) and democracy.
I love reading stuff like this.
All I can think of is the bosses of our local telecomms incumbent reading this, instantly loosing control of their bowels, the splash of the explosion showering their faithful lieutenants in gooey excrement.
I'm in New Zealand. We pay $70/month for 2mb down 196K up. Its sketchy at best as interleaving pushes pings to about 70-90ms. No unbundling of the LL, and a government that takes it like the Goatse guy from the incumbent, better service is a far off dream.
Please, dear jesus, let alternatives like BB over powerlines work.
Sorry, but anything with "hamster" in it makes me think of this:
RealHampster - Elastic flesh, luxurious fur, a cybernetic infrastructure
I'm ruined for life.
...as the onboard unit would have to send data at the rate of hundreds of location datagrams per minute. The point being, a location is a point in time - may not be relevant 30 seconds later, travelling at 150km/hr. Trains move quite quickly, and given past British rail mishaps, existing systems must have to be sped up a bit.
:-(
With that said, GPS/GPRS units would have to communicate fairly frequently. At the very most a location sent to the server(probably over GPRS as a UDP datagram) every 2 minutes.
In New Zealand, the GSM provider here (business plan) charges per 10,000KB packet, even for a 500byte datagram
Some rough maths:
A location data packet(charged at 10k) every 1 minute.
Thats 0.6 MB per hour.
Train runs, say, 10 hours per day, thats 6mb.
Per month thats 180mb.
In New Zealand, thats about $200 of data.
In my town, a taxi company uses it. The combined cost per month is $33,000 in data charges.
And thats on 5 min updates!
Anyone got some info on charges from other countries?
IE how much will is cost our pommie friends per month per train, running 10 hr/days, sending location every 5,2,1 minutes, 30 seconds?
"Google Maps is starting to cause a bit of a stir"
Really? With US residents only presumably.
In the absence of international support, the only "stir" I get is what I'm doing with my coffee at the moment.
Rule: Once you accept money for a service, the relationship changes. I fix computers for the odd friend. I do not charge.
I fix computers for customers who I do charge.
So what about the compost?
I like to garden to relax. I also maintain a triple bay compost area at the back of the section. I generate more compost than I can use. I started offering bags of compost to friends for free.
Some months later, my wife pointed out that the bags I purchased to put the compost in, had cost $200. Works out to about
I starting asking for a coin donation for the compost to cover the cost of the bag, I would explain to the people.
In the first 2 weeks of "selling" 5 bags, I recieved 5 "feedbacks". Previously I recieved none over 2 years, over maybe 100 bags given away.
Comments I recieved were:"
- "But I bought a bag last time, I don't have to pay for another?"
- Recieved a call from the wife of a customer, saying there was a milk bottle cap in the compost. Could she bring it back and get another bag of compost.
- "I don't have any change, can I give it to you later?"
- "Oh, thats a bit expensive. You can get twice the amount of compost from the garden centre.". ( I later learn that thats per bucket, and the liners you can buy for the cars Trunk(US), boot(UK, Aus, NZ) cost $2.00.
I have gone back to giving it away.
If your business is considering inside or outside resources for a project, consider:
- What are the first 3 letters that Consultant begins with?
- Consultants are, at their core, like retail units, who must generate repeat business. Very few business models rely on providing a one off sale or service. Therefore, consultants create an ongoing product in terms of support, or licensing etc.
Lastly, consultant is different to contractor. While the 2 provide similar services, the consultant will only get out of bed for >$200. If this is not you then you are most likely a contractor.
It puts the Skype button on its webpage, or it gets the hose again.
As the weather changes for the worse recently, freely available weather data could possibly save lives.
Highlighted by a recent incident where heavy rain fell, a river rose, and 700 people were evacuated at 1am in a camp ground. On the news a 10yo kid recounted how the water was ankle deep in his tent, when the family was woken for evac. Some hours later only the tent tops were visible.
The commercial weather incumbent couldnt warn these people. A camper in the internet cafe might of.
I would say these things will be designed to:
- Detonate when threatened with capture.
- Detonate when "insurgents" outnumber civilians in a 50m sample radius.
These things will just be sophisticated IED's.
As a by line, the word improvised in Improvised Explosive Device, makes it sound like they are cobbled together in 10 minutes using camel excrement and old shoes.
"In the meantime, it would create jobs, taxable profits, and make the US a lot more fun.
If it reaps benefits to America's industry of only a fraction of those from its involvement in the 2nd World War, then yes, you would indeed be onto a winner.
In sticking to the requirements - budget, and assuming box will be somewhat out of the way, I advise:
:)
1) Sit case on a block of wood.
2) Seal case with duct tape leaving the input and output vents clear. You will need to seal every thing like CD etc.
3) Go to autowreckers, find air filter housing, its (clean) air filter and its snorkle tube(at beast 3" diameter.)
4) Afix filter housing to wooden block, Route snorkle to computers air intake, notch end and 4 self tapers to case intake (avoids internals
5) Seal w/ silicon.
6) Tape a light weight flap over exhaust so it will will lift easily it allow exhaust air to escape, but settles over output when computer off.
7) dust seal over keyboard.
In the broadest sense, once people start paying money, no matter how small, the relationship changes.
When connectivity on Sunday at 7am goes down, people will look at where they can get help. If they have a door to knock on, then woe betide you.