I had to google the State Governor concerned to find out he was a Democrat. I'm sure that information would have been more prominent if he had been a Republican.
If anyone is interested in Sanitation (possibly a niche topic, I realise) they could do worse than read The Big Necessity by Rose George.
It's amazing some of the things we take for granted in the West - for instance the teenage "untouchable" girls in India whose job is to literally scrape up other people's shit and dispose of it.
..I recently upgraded to Sky HD+, but other than that my Tivo was still perfectly usable (and very, very useful) after about 10 years of usage. Very, very rarely crashed - less than once per year and a much better UI than my new Sky box.
TBH, it's one of the most reliable pieces of hardware I've ever owned. I wish my PC, Phone, etc could be as reliable.
1. People shouldn't assume that this means that shutting the websites would have only saved £3.99 from the BBC budget. Given large orgs and the cost mulitpliers for internally supported servers, it could well be tens of thousands of pounds per year.
2. Instead of people like Ben Goldacre boo-hooing and expecting the government (which the BBC is effectively an arm of) to save the sites, he could have shelled out the £4 and done it himself. Could it be that - GASP - sometimes governments aren't the best way to get things done?:-O
My neighbour runs a company that does WEEE (the European Electrical Recycling directive) recycling for a large area of the UK.
When the commodities boom was happening just before the Beijing Olympics, they were recycling electrical goods for free as they were making so much money on the reclaimed copper, gold etc.
Now that the metals prices have dropped, they charge the people that they are recycling for (councils, large corporates etc) so they still make money.
I like slashdot a lot more when it was just real geeks with a clue, you know, before all the angsty idiots who happened to be socially inept and own a computer started calling it home as though they were geeks too.
Yeah, I can see how it would piss off old timers with single figure slashdot IDs like you.
..I'd leave the guy in his job. Then when I do the official next gen iPhone launch and start the build up to announcing the details of the product, I'd then pause and say "Actually, I know someone who could do a better job than me at this. He got so much publicity last time..." and then bring on the tool of an engineer that lost the phone to help in the presentation.
Jobs looks good, Apple looks human, good publicity all round, and the engineer gets his career rehabilitated.
Somewhere like betfair, I would view positively. They're effectively a stock-exchange for sports.
Some of these flash-based games that encourage poor people to gamble their benefits? I'd personally find it hard to work for them, but wouldn't use it as a black mark in hiring decisions.
1) Taleb has a bit of the stopped clock quality about him. Anyone saying "bad things will happen" is bound to be right sooner or later. Plus, his writing is the most self-indulgent wankfest ever.
2) I don't know whether you will choose financial maths or not, but Banks will always need people that can do "fancy" maths. Although some maths is out of favour, high-frequency (algo) trading is currently still popular, and making money.
Fast enough for home based tasks, but not for PCs used in banks either on a trader desktop running complex maths, or as part of a grid. To take full advantage of multiple cores (4 for now, but going to 96 or so in the not to distant future) we really need tools that developers used to programming single core systems can pick up easily and use .
Has anyone got any decent how-tos on how to setup a Jabber server, preferably with a web-based front end? I'd like to put one on my home PC so I can bypass the people that have blocked IM here.
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You need to hide a goatse link in your post as well. Maybe in a Beowulf cluster.
Ha ha. Man, that guy got some hate.
I remember him, CmdrTaco etc back in the day. Feels like the end of an era.
I had to google the State Governor concerned to find out he was a Democrat. I'm sure that information would have been more prominent if he had been a Republican.
If anyone is interested in Sanitation (possibly a niche topic, I realise) they could do worse than read The Big Necessity by Rose George.
It's amazing some of the things we take for granted in the West - for instance the teenage "untouchable" girls in India whose job is to literally scrape up other people's shit and dispose of it.
That way they won't confuse correlation with causation.
..I recently upgraded to Sky HD+, but other than that my Tivo was still perfectly usable (and very, very useful) after about 10 years of usage. Very, very rarely crashed - less than once per year and a much better UI than my new Sky box.
TBH, it's one of the most reliable pieces of hardware I've ever owned. I wish my PC, Phone, etc could be as reliable.
I think you are violently agreeing with me.
But as Margaret Thatcher said, "The facts of life are Conservative."
Yes, that's why the right-wing party won the recent election.
And to conflate Murdoch or recognition of the BBC bias with the EDL is just assinine.
Agreed. The BBC is very left wing, and basically takes it's news agenda from the Guardian.
I have a couple of points to make:
1. People shouldn't assume that this means that shutting the websites would have only saved £3.99 from the BBC budget. Given large orgs and the cost mulitpliers for internally supported servers, it could well be tens of thousands of pounds per year.
2. Instead of people like Ben Goldacre boo-hooing and expecting the government (which the BBC is effectively an arm of) to save the sites, he could have shelled out the £4 and done it himself. Could it be that - GASP - sometimes governments aren't the best way to get things done? :-O
My neighbour runs a company that does WEEE (the European Electrical Recycling directive) recycling for a large area of the UK.
When the commodities boom was happening just before the Beijing Olympics, they were recycling electrical goods for free as they were making so much money on the reclaimed copper, gold etc.
Now that the metals prices have dropped, they charge the people that they are recycling for (councils, large corporates etc) so they still make money.
I like slashdot a lot more when it was just real geeks with a clue, you know, before all the angsty idiots who happened to be socially inept and own a computer started calling it home as though they were geeks too.
Yeah, I can see how it would piss off old timers with single figure slashdot IDs like you.
..I'd leave the guy in his job. Then when I do the official next gen iPhone launch and start the build up to announcing the details of the product, I'd then pause and say "Actually, I know someone who could do a better job than me at this. He got so much publicity last time..." and then bring on the tool of an engineer that lost the phone to help in the presentation.
Jobs looks good, Apple looks human, good publicity all round, and the engineer gets his career rehabilitated.
Somewhere like betfair, I would view positively. They're effectively a stock-exchange for sports.
Some of these flash-based games that encourage poor people to gamble their benefits? I'd personally find it hard to work for them, but wouldn't use it as a black mark in hiring decisions.
1) Taleb has a bit of the stopped clock quality about him. Anyone saying "bad things will happen" is bound to be right sooner or later. Plus, his writing is the most self-indulgent wankfest ever.
2) I don't know whether you will choose financial maths or not, but Banks will always need people that can do "fancy" maths. Although some maths is out of favour, high-frequency (algo) trading is currently still popular, and making money.
In other words, is this analogous to writing an uncovered put option?
Did anyone else read the judge's name as Tuna Davis?
Just me? Ok then.
Fast enough for home based tasks, but not for PCs used in banks either on a trader desktop running complex maths, or as part of a grid. To take full advantage of multiple cores (4 for now, but going to 96 or so in the not to distant future) we really need tools that developers used to programming single core systems can pick up easily and use .
Plus mental birds are dynamite in the sack. FACTO. I bet she shagged the arse off him.
Has anyone got any decent how-tos on how to setup a Jabber server, preferably with a web-based front end? I'd like to put one on my home PC so I can bypass the people that have blocked IM here.
Thanks.
I saw a posting just as good on Digg once:
LOL!11! Subz are cule. Don't liek peopel much.
Not only that, you are (as far as I can tell) earning pretty decent living doing something you love. That's not to be underestimated.
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