The parent didnt say that at all. In fact he explicitly said not to bring central London house prices into it. There are some places in the UK that are *much* cheaper... but overall I find the tax in the UK to be higher than most of europe. For god sake it cost £5 for a pack of cigarettes here... tell that toi a german smoker and watch the look of horror on their face.
While I agree with you 100% I must say Ive been in business environments where they *insist* that it be word format. No PDF. No HTML. And if you get caught using something like *gasp* open office you get reprimanded. Sad but true.
I agree the second season is fairly weak so far... but I forgave them greatly for the parody of the "You wouldn't steal a car would you" ad... That stupid anti-piracy ad definitely needed the piss taken out of it.
I think today it is similar to asking why kids of yesteryear require pencil and paper when they could use chalk and slate. Use of a computer, while I would agree is not a necessity for a good education, is certainly something required to seek most types of employment.
The use of Microsoft Excel in normal information management processes. This is by FAR the biggest, most obvious sign that there may be a systems integration issue. Excel is a fine spreadsheet for most people so don't take it as a slight against that product itself. However, EINAFDB and EINAFRE (Excel is not a f'ing database and Excel is not a f'ing reporting engine).
Yes! Thank you!. I don't know who you are but I like you and would work with you happily. Excel *is* a wonderful spreadsheet but it isnt a database or report reporting engine. Ive actually had a real life meeting with someone who was so enamored with Excel that she actually claimed that Excel was better than using an Oracle database(for a particular project... not the data volumes for this project were in the 10s of megabytes of data a day) because Excel had pivot tables!!!! Arghh!!! Excel is put in the hands of people that suddenly have a little knowledge and become dangerous. Actual quote from that meeting after I proposed that perhaps we need a real database was "But does Oracle do pivot tables?"... she was serious.
Ive worked with several female developers both senior and junior. In fact my first job out of university was with a female lead developer. Ive often found that(and I really dont mean to sound sexist here) femlae developer often bring a much more balanced perspective to a project. When you have an all male crew there can be a tendency for situations to turn into a big competition between geeks rather than focusing on the task had had. YMMV of course.
I suspect Australia(disclaimer Im Australian) thought that as the US and Australia are very close allies the USAF might give us the ability to use the aircraft we purchased. But hey we followed the US into Iraq so what the hell do we know:)
It was also my understanding that the original ISBN system was thought up decades ago by the British newsagent chain W.H Smiths. And it is now managed by ISO. Do either ISO or W.H Smith have anything to say about this?
I just looked at you job ad sig and I can do better than learning C by reading K&R. I learned C by reading the original papers that K&R was based on:) Alas Im in London, UK and have no plans to move to the bay area. If I ever do then Ill keep you in mind.
That was an excellent post. I agree with you on just about everything. But as an Australian I would have brought up the Pacific Testing as well as the Rainbow Warrior for our region. However the post I was responding to someone who was saying basically "just because you disagree with someones opinion doesnt mean you can make unwarranted attacks on their character". I thought the un thought thru attitude of the United States towards the French was an example.
Perhaps I chose a poor example as, as an Australian I suspect I have many more reasons to object to French Foreign policy than a US citizen. The way Australia was treated with regard to the Pacific testing and NZ to the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior(which is a incident that is still string in the Australian mind... it was an Australian ABC reporter that uncovered the plot) was disgusting.
However my major point still stands. There seems to be a predominant attitude in parts of the US(and yes I know what a large country you have... Ive lived on the west coast and Im married to an American citizen) to simply dismiss countries that disagree with your policies as a priori unstable and insane. I object to this.
Ummm. I don't think Americans really understand the French that well. Try being a Brit in France and you get treated in a very similar way. Also you didn't really slap the French. They are disliked by pretty much the rest of Europe. Ask a Brit, ask a German, ask (especially a Flemish) Belgian. The French generally dont care at all what other nations think of them.
iven that 30 million people in the USA are estimated to be here illegally
Where did you get a figure of 30 million? I admit to having no idea as to how many illegal immigrants are in the US... however the only number I can find from google is a top figure of about 12 million. And some of those sources have some fairly obvious biases.
I may be conservative, but I'm neither arrogant nor close-minded enough to believe that somebody is stupid, callous, or a coward just because they don't agree with me.
I have no doubt that you as a person are not. However as a non American I must ask what did you think of the treatment of the French. Who disagreed with US policy and have the American media and public ridicule them as a country of cowards and idiots. Even tho I dont like the French(Ive had to work with them:) ) I found this behavior fairly appalling.
You aint the only country that does that. In Australia we call the conservative party the Australian Liberal Party.... when they are rarely anywhere near liberal.
The odd things about these days of enormous hard disks and memory is that emacs is no longer a large system. I realised this the other day when using it and realising that my browser(firefox) was using an order of magnitude of memory than poor little emacs:)
I have some second hand direct experience with ISO standardization as, when I was growing up my father was a member of several ISO committees. One was for example the X.500 standard. Hes told me many stories that would lead me to assure people that if they think hard core politics and vendor vested interests don't go on in ISO they are sadly, sadly mistaken. This kind of microsoft OOXML thing is really nothing that new. Its just been rather public. In true ISO style, what will now happen I think is they will now argue about it for the next 25 years. A final spec will come out and be ignored by everyone.
I think the worst thing all this business does is tarnish the *AAs reputation and annoy consumers. A case from a recent purchase I made. I found The Simpsons season 4 DVD set for cheap a while ago at a sale. As it has the monorail episode I decided to buy it:) Its all great except when I load it into my home DVD player I am force to watch the copyright violation scare message in 14 odd languages(Im in the EU) and I cant skip any of them. Slightly annoying. But then I find that *every* time I watch an episode I have to watch thew scarcy copyright message *again* in english for a good 40-50 seconds!
What the hell is up with that. Why did I not just bit torrent it and burn it myself? I did the correct thing and bought the product. So I ripped the thing and stuck it on a hard disk and took out all the nonsensical messages.
I don't really advocate mass copyright infringement but little things like that make me thing... what the hell... BT and burn away people.
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Reprocess it and generate mopre power is tho. Things that are radioactive are generally pretty good power sources.
The parent didnt say that at all. In fact he explicitly said not to bring central London house prices into it. There are some places in the UK that are *much* cheaper... but overall I find the tax in the UK to be higher than most of europe. For god sake it cost £5 for a pack of cigarettes here... tell that toi a german smoker and watch the look of horror on their face.
Errr. Ive lived and worked in both London and Frankfurt. London is more expensive. Even things like food and beer are more expensive in London.
According to surveys(particularly this one) London is the second most expensive city in the world.
While I agree with you 100% I must say Ive been in business environments where they *insist* that it be word format. No PDF. No HTML. And if you get caught using something like *gasp* open office you get reprimanded. Sad but true.
Errr as a Londoner I think we may be way about the +10% limit you set.
I agree the second season is fairly weak so far... but I forgave them greatly for the parody of the "You wouldn't steal a car would you" ad... That stupid anti-piracy ad definitely needed the piss taken out of it.
I think today it is similar to asking why kids of yesteryear require pencil and paper when they could use chalk and slate. Use of a computer, while I would agree is not a necessity for a good education, is certainly something required to seek most types of employment.
The use of Microsoft Excel in normal information management processes. This is by FAR the biggest, most obvious sign that there may be a systems integration issue. Excel is a fine spreadsheet for most people so don't take it as a slight against that product itself. However, EINAFDB and EINAFRE (Excel is not a f'ing database and Excel is not a f'ing reporting engine).
Yes! Thank you!. I don't know who you are but I like you and would work with you happily. Excel *is* a wonderful spreadsheet but it isnt a database or report reporting engine. Ive actually had a real life meeting with someone who was so enamored with Excel that she actually claimed that Excel was better than using an Oracle database(for a particular project... not the data volumes for this project were in the 10s of megabytes of data a day) because Excel had pivot tables!!!! Arghh!!! Excel is put in the hands of people that suddenly have a little knowledge and become dangerous. Actual quote from that meeting after I proposed that perhaps we need a real database was "But does Oracle do pivot tables?"... she was serious.
Ive worked with several female developers both senior and junior. In fact my first job out of university was with a female lead developer. Ive often found that(and I really dont mean to sound sexist here) femlae developer often bring a much more balanced perspective to a project. When you have an all male crew there can be a tendency for situations to turn into a big competition between geeks rather than focusing on the task had had. YMMV of course.
I suspect Australia(disclaimer Im Australian) thought that as the US and Australia are very close allies the USAF might give us the ability to use the aircraft we purchased. But hey we followed the US into Iraq so what the hell do we know :)
It was also my understanding that the original ISBN system was thought up decades ago by the British newsagent chain W.H Smiths. And it is now managed by ISO. Do either ISO or W.H Smith have anything to say about this?
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I agree with you. I just cant decide if that would be better or worse :)
I *will* make my own site. With Blackjack! And Hookers! In fact. Forget the site.
I just looked at you job ad sig and I can do better than learning C by reading K&R. I learned C by reading the original papers that K&R was based on :) Alas Im in London, UK and have no plans to move to the bay area. If I ever do then Ill keep you in mind.
That was an excellent post. I agree with you on just about everything. But as an Australian I would have brought up the Pacific Testing as well as the Rainbow Warrior for our region. However the post I was responding to someone who was saying basically "just because you disagree with someones opinion doesnt mean you can make unwarranted attacks on their character". I thought the un thought thru attitude of the United States towards the French was an example.
Perhaps I chose a poor example as, as an Australian I suspect I have many more reasons to object to French Foreign policy than a US citizen. The way Australia was treated with regard to the Pacific testing and NZ to the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior(which is a incident that is still string in the Australian mind... it was an Australian ABC reporter that uncovered the plot) was disgusting.
However my major point still stands. There seems to be a predominant attitude in parts of the US(and yes I know what a large country you have... Ive lived on the west coast and Im married to an American citizen) to simply dismiss countries that disagree with your policies as a priori unstable and insane. I object to this.
I'm not French.
Ummm. I don't think Americans really understand the French that well. Try being a Brit in France and you get treated in a very similar way. Also you didn't really slap the French. They are disliked by pretty much the rest of Europe. Ask a Brit, ask a German, ask (especially a Flemish) Belgian. The French generally dont care at all what other nations think of them.
iven that 30 million people in the USA are estimated to be here illegally
Where did you get a figure of 30 million? I admit to having no idea as to how many illegal immigrants are in the US... however the only number I can find from google is a top figure of about 12 million. And some of those sources have some fairly obvious biases.
I may be conservative, but I'm neither arrogant nor close-minded enough to believe that somebody is stupid, callous, or a coward just because they don't agree with me.
:) ) I found this behavior fairly appalling.
I have no doubt that you as a person are not. However as a non American I must ask what did you think of the treatment of the French. Who disagreed with US policy and have the American media and public ridicule them as a country of cowards and idiots. Even tho I dont like the French(Ive had to work with them
You aint the only country that does that. In Australia we call the conservative party the Australian Liberal Party.... when they are rarely anywhere near liberal.
The odd things about these days of enormous hard disks and memory is that emacs is no longer a large system. I realised this the other day when using it and realising that my browser(firefox) was using an order of magnitude of memory than poor little emacs :)
What about plain old C? Its still one of the most popular languages on the planet as well :)
I have some second hand direct experience with ISO standardization as, when I was growing up my father was a member of several ISO committees. One was for example the X.500 standard. Hes told me many stories that would lead me to assure people that if they think hard core politics and vendor vested interests don't go on in ISO they are sadly, sadly mistaken. This kind of microsoft OOXML thing is really nothing that new. Its just been rather public. In true ISO style, what will now happen I think is they will now argue about it for the next 25 years. A final spec will come out and be ignored by everyone.
I think the worst thing all this business does is tarnish the *AAs reputation and annoy consumers. A case from a recent purchase I made. I found The Simpsons season 4 DVD set for cheap a while ago at a sale. As it has the monorail episode I decided to buy it :) Its all great except when I load it into my home DVD player I am force to watch the copyright violation scare message in 14 odd languages(Im in the EU) and I cant skip any of them. Slightly annoying. But then I find that *every* time I watch an episode I have to watch thew scarcy copyright message *again* in english for a good 40-50 seconds!
What the hell is up with that. Why did I not just bit torrent it and burn it myself? I did the correct thing and bought the product. So I ripped the thing and stuck it on a hard disk and took out all the nonsensical messages.
I don't really advocate mass copyright infringement but little things like that make me thing... what the hell... BT and burn away people.