Out of interest, how much TV do people here watch? I see maybe an hour a week if I'm lucky on a real TV although I watch perhaps another 1-2 hours a week on my laptop during my daily commute. I've seen surveys where they ask how many hours a day you watch and some go up to 18 hours or more. Say it ain't so?
A stranger trying to shove his ear-waxy headphones into me is a total turn off, by the way. And who's to say they don't have a heroin-tipped needle in them or something worse (like AIDS).
What a scary world you live in!
I guess if headphones being inserted are a turn off, any other penetration is right off the menu.
It all sounds a bit desperate. Translation of the whole piece is probably "AMD won't give us any more samples unless we say something nice about them and this is the best we can manage at this stage".
I'd say Microsoft would be better for your CV, Google for your career. A subtle but important difference. In the early days you need a big safe 'corporate' name to gain credability, that would be MS. After that you need a firm like Google to actually allow you to grow and advance.
That said, If I was young, I'd go for Google but then I have zero career sense when it comes to myself.
I'm amazed that someone said MS got you the weekend off, I always got the impression they were hard workers and everyone there was burned out.
This would have been a fun jape by some naughty kids. Give them a good whack with the cane and send them on their way. Job done. It is possible to over analyse these things and get overly hung up on damage done. Heck, I think of some of things we got up to (I mean other people got up to, natch) at school and squirm now - you'd probably get social workers, child psychologists and all sorts involved plus a bunch of litigation no doubt from any 'injured' parties. Kids will be kids and kids are very good at coming up with pranks and TBH, as pranks goes, this one sounded like a good one. Punish the kids, try to keep a straight face and move on people.
>They would be much better served by modern medicine, education
Have you got the right country? To quote Wikipedia "These oil revenues and a small population give Libya one of the highest GDPs per person in Africa and have allowed the Libyan state to provide an extensive and impressive level of social security, particularly in the fields of housing and education"
Their standing on human rights still leaves much to be desired but most US sanctions have been pulled now and Condi has been a-visiting to shake hands with the Foreign Minister.
You should worry, I thought race relations meant you worked for Formula 1, hanging out with the blonde chicks, top drivers, parking the F1 cars after the race, that sort of thing.
And when you try to have your mid-morning coffee it yells in your ear the whole time 'Are you done yet? Are you done yet? Are you done yet?'.
OMG, What if Microsoft decide to add 'personality' to clippy and next time you're trying to finish a Word document to a deadline it pops up and says 'relax, I'm taking a break for 15mins, see ya later!' before Word minimises and refuses to play ball.
Twas nothing to do with modesty or lack thereof, it was to point out that one would hope it was obvious it was humour as others had already realised.
I'll grant you humour works better with a bit of truth in it though.
If it makes you feel better, in future I'll read all references twice and twice again before attempting any humour based around them. That way I should be able to ensure further posts save you having to sigh too much.
>The hydrogen bombs fell near the fishing village
Such simple times when you could have a crash, lose 3 nukes then shrug and say 'ah well, never mind'.
These days every ounce of anything remotely useful for bomb making needs to be accounted for just in case some nasty terrorist gets their hands on it. What went wrong? I want the good old days back when you could casually leave weapons of mass destruction lying around near fishing villages ('if they trawl one up they'll probably just throw it back, right?) and not worry about it.
Companies with their head screwed on use multiple countries for 24/7 development and/or support. US works on code, goes home, code handed over to Phillipines, they work on it, hand it on to Eastern Europe, they do their bit then it goes back to the US.
Bad analogy. What you are perhaps talking about is someone owning a sword at home and after they've had a bit of practice waving it about, someone from a street nearby takes umbrance, smashes their door down, beats them up, slams them in jail and takes all their posessions.
North Korea is not the US, it is an independant country. We may not like what it does or the people who run it but that does not mean we can tell them how to behave, arrange a regime change or threaten them. If they invade someone, sure we can help the invadee but until then they are just another country doing their thing and not our problem.
Google look like their joining that happy band of companies that grew so big and had so much cash burning a hole in their pocket that they started buying insane companies for insane prices.
1. Invent Google algorithm
2. Invent Adsense
3. Profit!
4. Profit!
5. Buy loss making company for huge amount of money
6. No more profit!
Why not get a job in the UK working for a German firm? I'd have thought German & IT skills would go down well with Deutschebank who have a huge IT dept in the UK supporting one of the largest dealing rooms in the country.
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Out of interest, how much TV do people here watch? I see maybe an hour a week if I'm lucky on a real TV although I watch perhaps another 1-2 hours a week on my laptop during my daily commute. I've seen surveys where they ask how many hours a day you watch and some go up to 18 hours or more. Say it ain't so?
I guess if headphones being inserted are a turn off, any other penetration is right off the menu.
It all sounds a bit desperate. Translation of the whole piece is probably "AMD won't give us any more samples unless we say something nice about them and this is the best we can manage at this stage".
I'd say Microsoft would be better for your CV, Google for your career. A subtle but important difference. In the early days you need a big safe 'corporate' name to gain credability, that would be MS. After that you need a firm like Google to actually allow you to grow and advance.
That said, If I was young, I'd go for Google but then I have zero career sense when it comes to myself.
I'm amazed that someone said MS got you the weekend off, I always got the impression they were hard workers and everyone there was burned out.
This would have been a fun jape by some naughty kids. Give them a good whack with the cane and send them on their way. Job done. It is possible to over analyse these things and get overly hung up on damage done. Heck, I think of some of things we got up to (I mean other people got up to, natch) at school and squirm now - you'd probably get social workers, child psychologists and all sorts involved plus a bunch of litigation no doubt from any 'injured' parties. Kids will be kids and kids are very good at coming up with pranks and TBH, as pranks goes, this one sounded like a good one. Punish the kids, try to keep a straight face and move on people.
Leans over, shakes hand ;-)
>They would be much better served by modern medicine, education
Have you got the right country? To quote Wikipedia "These oil revenues and a small population give Libya one of the highest GDPs per person in Africa and have allowed the Libyan state to provide an extensive and impressive level of social security, particularly in the fields of housing and education"
Their standing on human rights still leaves much to be desired but most US sanctions have been pulled now and Condi has been a-visiting to shake hands with the Foreign Minister.
You should worry, I thought race relations meant you worked for Formula 1, hanging out with the blonde chicks, top drivers, parking the F1 cars after the race, that sort of thing.
And when you try to have your mid-morning coffee it yells in your ear the whole time 'Are you done yet? Are you done yet? Are you done yet?'.
OMG, What if Microsoft decide to add 'personality' to clippy and next time you're trying to finish a Word document to a deadline it pops up and says 'relax, I'm taking a break for 15mins, see ya later!' before Word minimises and refuses to play ball.
>cartography (making maps),
Please say that didn't really need explaining.
Twas nothing to do with modesty or lack thereof, it was to point out that one would hope it was obvious it was humour as others had already realised.
I'll grant you humour works better with a bit of truth in it though.
If it makes you feel better, in future I'll read all references twice and twice again before attempting any humour based around them. That way I should be able to ensure further posts save you having to sigh too much.
>no one squirts better than we do
The thought of Balmer saying that just makes me shudder and not in a good way.
Was the clue not in the '4, funny' rating? Let it never be said you're troubled by a sense of humour.
Slimeball - we're on your trail. Better get back in your shell because we're going to butter you up good.
>The hydrogen bombs fell near the fishing village
Such simple times when you could have a crash, lose 3 nukes then shrug and say 'ah well, never mind'.
These days every ounce of anything remotely useful for bomb making needs to be accounted for just in case some nasty terrorist gets their hands on it. What went wrong? I want the good old days back when you could casually leave weapons of mass destruction lying around near fishing villages ('if they trawl one up they'll probably just throw it back, right?) and not worry about it.
Companies with their head screwed on use multiple countries for 24/7 development and/or support. US works on code, goes home, code handed over to Phillipines, they work on it, hand it on to Eastern Europe, they do their bit then it goes back to the US.
>early eighties UK tv production
1975 & 1979 actually. God I feel old.
>being reviewed by enough people
Let's hope no-one missed:
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Bad analogy. What you are perhaps talking about is someone owning a sword at home and after they've had a bit of practice waving it about, someone from a street nearby takes umbrance, smashes their door down, beats them up, slams them in jail and takes all their posessions.
North Korea is not the US, it is an independant country. We may not like what it does or the people who run it but that does not mean we can tell them how to behave, arrange a regime change or threaten them. If they invade someone, sure we can help the invadee but until then they are just another country doing their thing and not our problem.
Google look like their joining that happy band of companies that grew so big and had so much cash burning a hole in their pocket that they started buying insane companies for insane prices.
1. Invent Google algorithm
2. Invent Adsense
3. Profit!
4. Profit!
5. Buy loss making company for huge amount of money
6. No more profit!
All I can report is that the vast majority of non Brit IT contractors where I work are Aussie, Kiwis and South African. Plus one German.
Unfortunately, that is the average here too. A 3 bed flat in parts of London could be as high as $750k
>2006 $219,375
I wish a 3 bed was that cheap here. $350-400k would be closer (UK)
Why not get a job in the UK working for a German firm? I'd have thought German & IT skills would go down well with Deutschebank who have a huge IT dept in the UK supporting one of the largest dealing rooms in the country.