Right. But you still fail to explain why urbane, well-educated foreigners are being denied a route to work and live in the US. They obey American laws, are perfectly willing to pay American taxes, and seek only to be productive. For all intents and purposes, these people are ALREADY assimilated in all the ways that matter! Your romanticized view of what the path to American citizenship should be is precisely the kind of idiocy that Europeans have engaged in for the last 40 years. Look at what they got for their troubles: a marginalized subclass of second-class citizens who have been herded into a parallel system from which escape into the mainstream is nearly impossible.
Admit it: the modern American is so uncomfortable around people who are different from him that makes him perfectly willing to pass up a net benefit to his society because of something as stupid as a foreign accent.
Then again, who am I to say these things? I'm biased: I am a foreign-born, US-educated engineer who has been separated from his American fiancee because of the psychotic American immigration regime.
... it's not that I'm not looking forward to a world where MS no longer controls the desktop market. It's just that in the places it matters, MS software is *so* much easier to use than the competitors.
An example, if you will: I recently wanted to set up a mailing/scheduling system at home because I have way too many computers to manually add all my appointments and contacts to. My order of preference for these kinds of projects is usally Linux first, and then MS, so I tried setting up Zimbra (thanks for acting like MS and locking features down, asshats!), then Scalix (holy hell, I've never seen such a complicated management interface) and finally Kolab (feature incomplete). I spent a total of about 40 hours getting all of these things to run.
I was left with no choice other than an MS solution. I had all the bits and pieces lying around the house, and in the end, it took less than two hours to put together an AD domain controller with Exchange running on it. And that includes the time it took to set up each of my seven computers to talk to the system.
Really, I don't mean to come off as an MS shill. When I'm working for myself, Linux is my first port of call. But OSS is far behind MS on the usability front, and until it catches up, the (bulk) business customers that drive the IT industry won't abandon MS.
Where do you live? Just for information purposes... I'm looking to rearrange my life over the next year or so, and it would be cool to have a few pointers.
You forget that you'll actually be able to buy this one in the US. Sets it apart from the XO, which is apparently only for starving children in the developing world.
Someone will hire you. You've clearly got the right attitude: that's 90% of getting a job.
The other thing I will suggest is applying to many, many companies to start with. HR departments at companies are black holes in general, and it may take quite a few applications before you get anywhere.
I'm just coming off a longish job search myself, so I know how frustrating the process can be. Keep your chin up, and good luck!
Well, if you're American, you should watch the movie. If you're from Europe, you should watch the news. And if you're from *mumble*, you should go to bed.
KB943899 plays havoc with laptops with misconfigured AHCI devices as well. This isn't reduced performance or anything trival like that; we're talking about full blown "cannot find boot device" BSODs on reboot.
I had to turn off automatic updates to stop the update from installing.
The marketing meeting parody almost writes itself: "Guys, how can we possibly make our slow, bloated software even slower and even more bloated while making it buzzword-compliant?"
It's not that the DNA changes spontaneously... it's that it changes over the course of several generations. That's my layman's understanding of it. Here's a quote that I found helped clear matters up for me a great deal:
www.bash.org/?95326
Bash.org clarifying matters? Now I've seen everything...
Man oh man, talk about a massive waste of money. Does SCO even produce anything anymore? I thought SCO was basically Darl in a hotel room somewhere with two of hookers doubling as his "legal team"...
I wonder what kind of face sucking nasties are hanging out in those hydrocarbon lakes. I volunteer my kid brother (who, annoyingly enough, has been pestering me all morning for a ride to school) to find out.
Why is everyone acting surprised about this? The Germans perfected the art of surveillance; to think that this knowledge died with the Cold War is naive, no?
I just don't understand how people can live in a country where this can be a valid statement. Most people aren't given a choice about where they're born.
I'm assuming you're American... You have the power to vote, don't you? Use it and change the things that bother you instead of throwing your arms up in despair.
I can offer a little bit of perspective on Dengue fever, because I had a particularly bad version that required me to be hospitalized. During my hospital stay, I needed several blood/plasma transfusions in order to compensate for all the internal haemorrhaging caused by the virus. All in all, I was debillitatingly ill for almost five months.
As serious as the illness was, there was never any risk of me dying: my family is well enough off that I received good medical care. But for every guy like me with the resources to get by in the event of catastrophic illness, there are about a thousand who die, coughing and bleeding, in the gutters. I really wish people in the west would think about these people before they dismiss potential solutions to epidemics for "environmental" reasons.
Good point. My background is with larger financial firms, so I may be slightly (read: very) blinkered when it comes to the problems facing smaller companies.
That said, it seems to me though that the problems with FIX can be made to go away by just mandating that all transaction occur over a VPN or SSH. It's better than nothing, costs little or nothing, and will probably get rid of these kinds of alarmist year-end stories.
It sounds terrifying: FIX hacking in financial systems. The problem is that it assumes that this information goes over the public internet. In almost 99 out of a 100 cases, this isn't the case. If a company can afford to directly deal with a stock exchange, it can most certainly afford a private line into the stock exchange, thus doing away with the hullabaloo over session hijacking and malicious interception.
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Right. But you still fail to explain why urbane, well-educated foreigners are being denied a route to work and live in the US. They obey American laws, are perfectly willing to pay American taxes, and seek only to be productive. For all intents and purposes, these people are ALREADY assimilated in all the ways that matter! Your romanticized view of what the path to American citizenship should be is precisely the kind of idiocy that Europeans have engaged in for the last 40 years. Look at what they got for their troubles: a marginalized subclass of second-class citizens who have been herded into a parallel system from which escape into the mainstream is nearly impossible.
Admit it: the modern American is so uncomfortable around people who are different from him that makes him perfectly willing to pass up a net benefit to his society because of something as stupid as a foreign accent.
Then again, who am I to say these things? I'm biased: I am a foreign-born, US-educated engineer who has been separated from his American fiancee because of the psychotic American immigration regime.
No offense intended... but how do you bake tea?
... it's not that I'm not looking forward to a world where MS no longer controls the desktop market. It's just that in the places it matters, MS software is *so* much easier to use than the competitors.
An example, if you will: I recently wanted to set up a mailing/scheduling system at home because I have way too many computers to manually add all my appointments and contacts to. My order of preference for these kinds of projects is usally Linux first, and then MS, so I tried setting up Zimbra (thanks for acting like MS and locking features down, asshats!), then Scalix (holy hell, I've never seen such a complicated management interface) and finally Kolab (feature incomplete). I spent a total of about 40 hours getting all of these things to run.
I was left with no choice other than an MS solution. I had all the bits and pieces lying around the house, and in the end, it took less than two hours to put together an AD domain controller with Exchange running on it. And that includes the time it took to set up each of my seven computers to talk to the system.
Really, I don't mean to come off as an MS shill. When I'm working for myself, Linux is my first port of call. But OSS is far behind MS on the usability front, and until it catches up, the (bulk) business customers that drive the IT industry won't abandon MS.
Where do you live? Just for information purposes... I'm looking to rearrange my life over the next year or so, and it would be cool to have a few pointers.
You forget that you'll actually be able to buy this one in the US. Sets it apart from the XO, which is apparently only for starving children in the developing world.
Someone will hire you. You've clearly got the right attitude: that's 90% of getting a job.
The other thing I will suggest is applying to many, many companies to start with. HR departments at companies are black holes in general, and it may take quite a few applications before you get anywhere.
I'm just coming off a longish job search myself, so I know how frustrating the process can be. Keep your chin up, and good luck!
Well, if you're American, you should watch the movie. If you're from Europe, you should watch the news. And if you're from *mumble*, you should go to bed.
News at eleven.
The fools could have figured it out ages ago by simply using linux: taliesin@charis> diff genomeA genomeB | less
KB943899 plays havoc with laptops with misconfigured AHCI devices as well. This isn't reduced performance or anything trival like that; we're talking about full blown "cannot find boot device" BSODs on reboot.
I had to turn off automatic updates to stop the update from installing.
The marketing meeting parody almost writes itself: "Guys, how can we possibly make our slow, bloated software even slower and even more bloated while making it buzzword-compliant?"
It's not that the DNA changes spontaneously... it's that it changes over the course of several generations. That's my layman's understanding of it. Here's a quote that I found helped clear matters up for me a great deal:
www.bash.org/?95326
Bash.org clarifying matters? Now I've seen everything...
What's the problem here? Evolution is a theory.
Do not look at laser beam with remaining eye.
Who are these paragons of good ISP behavior, by the way? If they are in the northeast, I would like to give them my custom.
:)
When, that is, they are willing to take it.
Man oh man, talk about a massive waste of money. Does SCO even produce anything anymore? I thought SCO was basically Darl in a hotel room somewhere with two of hookers doubling as his "legal team"...
I wonder what kind of face sucking nasties are hanging out in those hydrocarbon lakes. I volunteer my kid brother (who, annoyingly enough, has been pestering me all morning for a ride to school) to find out.
Really, flamebait?
Why is everyone acting surprised about this? The Germans perfected the art of surveillance; to think that this knowledge died with the Cold War is naive, no?
Easy to say until you've seen actual people die. Try it sometime; I assure you, you'll come out with a very different view of the world.
I'm assuming you're American... You have the power to vote, don't you? Use it and change the things that bother you instead of throwing your arms up in despair.
I apologize if I sound like a philistine, but why would I want my next-gen disc player to connect to the internet?
I can offer a little bit of perspective on Dengue fever, because I had a particularly bad version that required me to be hospitalized. During my hospital stay, I needed several blood/plasma transfusions in order to compensate for all the internal haemorrhaging caused by the virus. All in all, I was debillitatingly ill for almost five months.
As serious as the illness was, there was never any risk of me dying: my family is well enough off that I received good medical care. But for every guy like me with the resources to get by in the event of catastrophic illness, there are about a thousand who die, coughing and bleeding, in the gutters. I really wish people in the west would think about these people before they dismiss potential solutions to epidemics for "environmental" reasons.
Good point. My background is with larger financial firms, so I may be slightly (read: very) blinkered when it comes to the problems facing smaller companies.
That said, it seems to me though that the problems with FIX can be made to go away by just mandating that all transaction occur over a VPN or SSH. It's better than nothing, costs little or nothing, and will probably get rid of these kinds of alarmist year-end stories.
It sounds terrifying: FIX hacking in financial systems. The problem is that it assumes that this information goes over the public internet. In almost 99 out of a 100 cases, this isn't the case. If a company can afford to directly deal with a stock exchange, it can most certainly afford a private line into the stock exchange, thus doing away with the hullabaloo over session hijacking and malicious interception.