What amazes me is the difference between average IT salaries in Europe and the US. Here in Europe, an average 30-year-old IT worker could expect to be making about 3000 euros before taxes every month (i.e. 36,000 a year). Reading that article, I gather the average US IT salary is about $80,000, which is about 56,000.
Can anybody explain this huge difference? Is the cost of living in the US just so much higher than in Europe? Or does IT just pay a lot more in the US?
Actually i and some friends used to hit the local strip bar before euro's got introduced here in Belgium. You used to have 100 franc notes (about 2,5 euros) that you could stuff into their undies, now you have to go for 5 euro notes..
The same thing happened to SNES cartidges. They were made out of two pieces of plastic that clipped together. Many of my older cartidges have one yellow half and one half that still looks normal, propbably because they were made out of two different batches of the plastic.
In my opinion, extreme programming is extremely overrated. Some of the ideas, such as test-driven development (although this concept is not restricted to XP), work well. Others, such as pair programming just do not work in my opinion. Programmersare solo beasts - putting two of these dragons behind one keyboard is asking for trouble.
Better, and cheaper phones will make everyone better off.
As has been stated elsewhere here, it is not the mobile phone divisions that are being merged, but rather the mobile and fixed network divisions.
Also, behind this "technological" advancement social dramas always follow. Ten thousand people losing their jobs means ten thousand families having to look for new income.
I live in Belgium (which is directly south of the Netherlands for you geographically challenged people:-)) and my local game store has WoW game cards; I find it hard to believe not a single store in.nl does.
When I was in uni, we had a guy from the Belgian Computer Crime Unit (CCU) come and talk to us about computer criminality. We asked a load of questions, including whether they actually actively went after casual downloaders. Basically they said they were so swamped going after child pornography sites, they did not have any resources at all for those kind of activities.
Most police "cybercrime" units are still very underfunded.
What does any country need with their domain name?
You seem to have a very peculiar view of the DNS system, most likely due to the fact you live in the US.
I live in Belgium, which has top-level domain name ".be". Any individual or business can register whatevertheylike.be. Do you not think that Belgium would rather control it's own domain rather than depending on another country to make sure root zone files point to a.ns.dns.be for the.be domain? Do you not think every country would rather have full control over it's domain zone files?
As root files will always be necessary, I would rather have a central (neutral) authority guard over such systems that trust on a (not so neutral) country to allow me to use my domain.
I totally agree. It's been twenty-five years since I have lived in the UK, and I'm not expert on VCJD, but if i haven't developed any illness by now, I don't think I ever will. Also, VJCD has occurred a couple of times here, so it's a bit of a stupid rule.
The UK however has had a lot more cases than other European countries. Other countries have been France, Belgium and the Netherlands, but to a lot lesser extent than the UK (probably about 90% of cases).
It's always funny to see uninformed, ignorant Americans making such rash remarks over the United Nations or over other "small insignificant countries".
If we're to get this world into any kind of peaceful place for future generations, it's through an international forum where every member, no matter how small or large, should have equal voice. The UN is the ideal place for that.
Every country in the world has it's merit, history and culture (of which you only have the first and a bit of the second), and thus contributes to the world as a whole.
The only thing you have contributed to the world as a whole in the past few years is death, misery, suffering and sadness.
The U.S. Department of Justice can jump and shout and stand on its head all it wants, it has absolute zero jurisdiction over any other country, although some U.S. authorities might like to think they do.
In most European subways there are mobile receivers (I have noticed them firsthand in Brussels and Stockholm), so chances are they are around in London too - although i cannot be certain.
Congratulations to the FFII for all their hard work and patience campaigning against the directive!!! These people deserve all the support they can get.
For the time being I can rest assured that working as a programmer I do not have to watch my every statement.
That this whole universe as we see it is not an experiment in somebody's supercomputer?
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The whole point of the TLD system is to have distributed authorities for various branches in the tree. The system you suggest would require exactly one authority to manage everything (including dns updates).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the loss or profit made on each unit depend initially on the development costs, and then on the actual amount of units produced?
i.e. if the development costs were a theoretical $1000 and each unit has a cost of $1, making 1000 units will be $2 each, whereas making 2000 will cost $1.50?
I didn't RTFA, but I assumed the patents that BB was being sued over were software patents. Stifling innovation like BB (like em or not) through lawsuits is just the reason why software should not be patentable. Copyright laws are more than enough to protect software.
Unfortunately this is the very kind of situation that software patents herald. I'm just hoping our EU MEPs get their act together to disallow these practices for once and for all.
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These numbers might be valid for the Netherlands, but they are not valid for the whole of the European Union.
What amazes me is the difference between average IT salaries in Europe and the US. Here in Europe, an average 30-year-old IT worker could expect to be making about 3000 euros before taxes every month (i.e. 36,000 a year). Reading that article, I gather the average US IT salary is about $80,000, which is about 56,000.
Can anybody explain this huge difference? Is the cost of living in the US just so much higher than in Europe? Or does IT just pay a lot more in the US?
Actually i and some friends used to hit the local strip bar before euro's got introduced here in Belgium. You used to have 100 franc notes (about 2,5 euros) that you could stuff into their undies, now you have to go for 5 euro notes..
The same thing happened to SNES cartidges. They were made out of two pieces of plastic that clipped together. Many of my older cartidges have one yellow half and one half that still looks normal, propbably because they were made out of two different batches of the plastic.
In my opinion, extreme programming is extremely overrated. Some of the ideas, such as test-driven development (although this concept is not restricted to XP), work well. Others, such as pair programming just do not work in my opinion. Programmersare solo beasts - putting two of these dragons behind one keyboard is asking for trouble.
As has been stated elsewhere here, it is not the mobile phone divisions that are being merged, but rather the mobile and fixed network divisions.
Also, behind this "technological" advancement social dramas always follow. Ten thousand people losing their jobs means ten thousand families having to look for new income.
My first computer was the Acorn Electron, I used to write games on it (including my very own Spaceballs adventure game.. ahem).
Yes they do - they are sold wherever WoW is sold.
Don't forget that US WoW and European WoW use different servers etc.
I live in Belgium (which is directly south of the Netherlands for you geographically challenged people :-)) and my local game store has WoW game cards; I find it hard to believe not a single store in .nl does.
When I was in uni, we had a guy from the Belgian Computer Crime Unit (CCU) come and talk to us about computer criminality. We asked a load of questions, including whether they actually actively went after casual downloaders. Basically they said they were so swamped going after child pornography sites, they did not have any resources at all for those kind of activities.
Most police "cybercrime" units are still very underfunded.
What does any country need with their domain name?
.be domain? Do you not think every country would rather have full control over it's domain zone files?
You seem to have a very peculiar view of the DNS system, most likely due to the fact you live in the US.
I live in Belgium, which has top-level domain name ".be". Any individual or business can register whatevertheylike.be. Do you not think that Belgium would rather control it's own domain rather than depending on another country to make sure root zone files point to a.ns.dns.be for the
As root files will always be necessary, I would rather have a central (neutral) authority guard over such systems that trust on a (not so neutral) country to allow me to use my domain.
I totally agree. It's been twenty-five years since I have lived in the UK, and I'm not expert on VCJD, but if i haven't developed any illness by now, I don't think I ever will. Also, VJCD has occurred a couple of times here, so it's a bit of a stupid rule.
The UK however has had a lot more cases than other European countries. Other countries have been France, Belgium and the Netherlands, but to a lot lesser extent than the UK (probably about 90% of cases).
In Belgium, I am banned from donating blood because i was born in 1978, and lived in the UK till 1980. I left the UK when I was two years old.
It's always funny to see uninformed, ignorant Americans making such rash remarks over the United Nations or over other "small insignificant countries".
If we're to get this world into any kind of peaceful place for future generations, it's through an international forum where every member, no matter how small or large, should have equal voice. The UN is the ideal place for that.
Every country in the world has it's merit, history and culture (of which you only have the first and a bit of the second), and thus contributes to the world as a whole.
The only thing you have contributed to the world as a whole in the past few years is death, misery, suffering and sadness.
since the crimes were commited in these countries (i.e. the software was being housed there), why would these people be tried in the us?
The U.S. Department of Justice can jump and shout and stand on its head all it wants, it has absolute zero jurisdiction over any other country, although some U.S. authorities might like to think they do.
In most European subways there are mobile receivers (I have noticed them firsthand in Brussels and Stockholm), so chances are they are around in London too - although i cannot be certain.
Congratulations to the FFII for all their hard work and patience campaigning against the directive!!! These people deserve all the support they can get.
For the time being I can rest assured that working as a programmer I do not have to watch my every statement.
A supercomputer with a serious sense of humour :)
It would be cool to imagine that during the above experiment, in what for us seemed a few days, an entire universe came to be, evolved and faded away.
That this whole universe as we see it is not an experiment in somebody's supercomputer?
The whole point of the TLD system is to have distributed authorities for various branches in the tree. The system you suggest would require exactly one authority to manage everything (including dns updates).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the loss or profit made on each unit depend initially on the development costs, and then on the actual amount of units produced?
i.e. if the development costs were a theoretical $1000 and each unit has a cost of $1, making 1000 units will be $2 each, whereas making 2000 will cost $1.50?
that was my original point :)
Your hostility amuses me.
I didn't RTFA, but I assumed the patents that BB was being sued over were software patents. Stifling innovation like BB (like em or not) through lawsuits is just the reason why software should not be patentable. Copyright laws are more than enough to protect software.
Unfortunately this is the very kind of situation that software patents herald. I'm just hoping our EU MEPs get their act together to disallow these practices for once and for all.