The system Canada uses to determine who can get a permanent resident card is based on points. You get so many points for your occupation (assuming it's on the list, which changes periodically), so many points for speaking English and/or French, etc. If you have enough points you can apply for your PR card (pay the fee, send them your fingerprints, medical examination, etc.). Once you've lived in Canada for about three years you can apply for citizenship.
The quickest route to Canadian citizenship used to be being a Somali Warlord or a member of the warlord's family. Welfare cheques for all...and a nicely appointed apartment. At one point "professional escorts" were actively recruited and granted fast-track permanent resident status. The Government of Canada apparently needed more companions for the politicians when they lived in Ottawa and were away from their families.
As always, the best approach is to marry a Canadian and then be very careful that you follow the application procedure to the letter.
I always thought linux users were not afraid of change and welcomed the new. Sometimes I think some linux users are a bunch of luddites with strong right wing conservative leanings. Who would have thought.
Think of a series of 26 words, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet, and ending with a different letter of the alphabet. The NATO phonetic alphabet, for example, has alpha and delta, which both end with 'a', but you could modify that alphabet so every word ends with a different letter.
That would be an interesting exercise for the cunning linguist...
Interesting, but a very simple substitution cipher of which there are many.
Years ago I was returning to Ottawa from a business trip to the UK I was seated behind one of the Xen project members (from Cambridge or Oxford?) who was on his way to present about Xen at a conference.
I know this because he spent a significant portion of the flight editing his slides in OpenOffice under Linux, that turned into one of my most educational flights ever.
It's just the way Java works, and Eclipse is all Java. To make it work like any other program just set the min heap size small and the max heap size huge.
(Smalltalk was the same. Ah Smalltalk, I knew thee well.)
1. Run: Quit, don't let someone else's failure become a black mark on your record.
i.e. You're a coward, not up to the challenge, nobody should hire you.
2. Coast: Just survive and let the waves wash over you.
i.e. You're a lazy fuck, nobody should hire you.
3. Double Down: It's not a problem, it's an opportunity. Tell your boss there's a major issue, but show them that you're on top of it. Make a full written analysis of the code base you've inherited; document it's strengths and weaknesses and what needs to be done to address them. Provide a task list and a schedule.
i.e. You're exactly the person people want to hire.
Also his degree is in a completely non-CS related subject.
If you have a choice between two candidates for a coding job and the only difference is one had a degree in CS or Software Eng. and the other doesn't it's really not hard to make the choice.
That's probably the biggest issue, there were so many people out of work that those with relevant degrees would simply float higher up the stack of resumes.
optimized for business applications with strong support for emails, calendars, networking, etc.
Perhaps someone needs to explain to me in short simple words precisely how you support email, calendars and what I assume is social networking in an operating system.
Like my XP soundcards that don't work in Vista/7? My Vista devices that don't work in win8? How about programs that require.NET [insert non-latest version here]?
Your hardware problems are probably caused by vendors who never updated drivers. (And yes, the driver model did change, but that's not supposed to be end user software.) I've hit more than one of these myself, my 10 year old Epson scanner ceased to be useful after I moved to Win 7.
.NET is an interesting case, I think the best phrase to apply here would be "screwing the pooch". Now whether that should be applied to Microsoft for shipping it in the first place, software vendors for adopting it or end-users who can't figure out how to install a runtime without written instructions is a whole other debate.
"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."
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prone to leering at young women and making frequent sexist jokes
This pretty much describes every Australian man I've ever met.
While this is not uniquely an Australian trait, in my experience the percentage of Australian men that exhibit it are damn near 100%.
And yes, I know this is an unfair stereotype so I apologize, but flame on Bruce.
The system Canada uses to determine who can get a permanent resident card is based on points. You get so many points for your occupation (assuming it's on the list, which changes periodically), so many points for speaking English and/or French, etc. If you have enough points you can apply for your PR card (pay the fee, send them your fingerprints, medical examination, etc.). Once you've lived in Canada for about three years you can apply for citizenship.
The quickest route to Canadian citizenship used to be being a Somali Warlord or a member of the warlord's family. Welfare cheques for all...and a nicely appointed apartment. At one point "professional escorts" were actively recruited and granted fast-track permanent resident status. The Government of Canada apparently needed more companions for the politicians when they lived in Ottawa and were away from their families.
As always, the best approach is to marry a Canadian and then be very careful that you follow the application procedure to the letter.
That's "Canajian", isn't it?
That's the Canajian spelling, in the US the use of Canajan is tolerated.
I always thought linux users were not afraid of change and welcomed the new. Sometimes I think some linux users are a bunch of luddites with strong
right wing conservative leanings. Who would have thought.
It wasn't new, it was Mac OS from 1984.
Who's the conservative luddite now smart guy?
That's actually an interesting idea.
Think of a series of 26 words, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet, and ending with a different letter of the alphabet. The NATO phonetic alphabet, for example, has alpha and delta, which both end with 'a', but you could modify that alphabet so every word ends with a different letter.
That would be an interesting exercise for the cunning linguist...
Interesting, but a very simple substitution cipher of which there are many.
Most substitution ciphers can be cracked by simple frequency analysis.
Note that the statistical frequency of particular letters is language specific, so you have to know the source language.
An operating system running a Linux kernel is not Linux, this argument is only made by people who don't know what they're talking about.
It was linux in the wild in the real world doing real work a decade ago.
Sorry if that doesn't crank your engine.
Years ago I was returning to Ottawa from a business trip to the UK I was seated behind one of the Xen project members (from Cambridge or Oxford?) who was on his way to present about Xen at a conference.
I know this because he spent a significant portion of the flight editing his slides in OpenOffice under Linux, that turned into one of my most educational flights ever.
I commented on the article/blog/bullshit itself.
It's also badly researched and factually incorrect, at least one of the so called IBM employees does not appear to have ever been an IBM employee.
Any idiot can submit content to developer works.
It's just the way Java works, and Eclipse is all Java. To make it work like any other program just set the min heap size small and the max heap size huge.
(Smalltalk was the same. Ah Smalltalk, I knew thee well.)
Have you adjusted the heap memory settings in eclipse.ini?
Here's the guide I wrote for using the IBM JVM for RSA and RTC, Oracle/JVM settings are similar.
1. Run: Quit, don't let someone else's failure become a black mark on your record.
i.e. You're a coward, not up to the challenge, nobody should hire you.
2. Coast: Just survive and let the waves wash over you.
i.e. You're a lazy fuck, nobody should hire you.
3. Double Down: It's not a problem, it's an opportunity. Tell your boss there's a major issue, but show them that you're on top of it. Make a full written analysis of the code base you've inherited; document it's strengths and weaknesses and what needs to be done to address them. Provide a task list and a schedule.
i.e. You're exactly the person people want to hire.
Apples and oranges my friend.
Also his degree is in a completely non-CS related subject.
If you have a choice between two candidates for a coding job and the only difference is one had a degree in CS or Software Eng. and the other doesn't it's really not hard to make the choice.
That's probably the biggest issue, there were so many people out of work that those with relevant degrees would simply float higher up the stack of resumes.
It was the battery reference that convinced me it was bullshit.
And never the two shall meet . . .
Except over Mars.
... fleetingly...
I guess I missed the humor tag in your original post.
That's OK. You were publicly correcting someone for the misuse of units of measure.
None of us expected you to have a functional sense of humor.
Which makes me wonder, is there an internationally accepted standard unit for measuring humor?
If not I would propose the Leacock
The real question is what is MS going to do now that computers are stable, secure, and fast enough and there is no night ...?
Read this quickly!
optimized for business applications with strong support for emails, calendars, networking, etc.
Perhaps someone needs to explain to me in short simple words precisely how you support email, calendars and what I assume is social networking in an operating system.
in the meantime lets not forget about the cops who arrested him.
The non-existent ones? This is getting very meta-physical, I may have to make some coffee.
And it's possibly the main reason or at least one of the reasons Windows provides such a poor experience compared to everything else.
Yes and no... Sure Vista and Win 8 have been relative trainwrecks, but Windows 7 is possibly the best consumer OS out there.
(I've been using OSX daily for three years now and I still think half the UI is ass-backwards... )
Like my XP soundcards that don't work in Vista/7? My Vista devices that don't work in win8? .NET [insert non-latest version here]?
How about programs that require
Your hardware problems are probably caused by vendors who never updated drivers. (And yes, the driver model did change, but that's not supposed to be end user software.) I've hit more than one of these myself, my 10 year old Epson scanner ceased to be useful after I moved to Win 7.
.NET is an interesting case, I think the best phrase to apply here would be "screwing the pooch". Now whether that should be applied to Microsoft for shipping it in the first place, software vendors for adopting it or end-users who can't figure out how to install a runtime without written instructions is a whole other debate.
Why doesn't the new version of Python interpreter support older dialects ?
Bingo.
Why has Microsoft dominates so much for so long? Backwards compatibility.
(Not the only reason, but a arguably the big one that nobody can compete with.)
(One day you'll get your day in the sun WINE...)
"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."