41% is less than half in one sentence, but 43% is nearly half in the next. I guess 42% is the hard cutoff by which we begin referring to the statistic in the affirmative vs. the negative.
I haven't read (this) fa, but I have read others about this story. The guy frequently visits the middle east for business and also regularly sends money to his family in Egypt. It's no surprise that he tripped some "Hey, watch out for this guy" thing. Yes it was a waste of time and money and I do think the tracking should require a warrant but let's not blow this out of proportion.
No, imho the POTUS is the CEO of the Executive branch. His orders should be followed in the same way as if the CEO of your current employer walked over to your office and told you to do something. Sure, sometimes things don't work out, are technically impossible, etc. But generally you'd better at least begrudgingly attempt to do what he wants. Otherwise what the heck is the point of electing him?
69% reported they had not received a pay raise in the past six months.
If raises were given evenly distributed throughout the year you should see 50% answering no. My experience is that most companies give raises at the beginning of the year (Feb/March) so 70% saying no isn't surprising. Is anyone really getting raises every 6 months? If you do, is your company hiring Java developers? I've clearly been doing this wrong.
Some of this I think is just timing. With respect to the timeline of human existence we've made some really historic, revolutionary discoveries/innovations in the last 50 years. The revolutionary discoveries have waned and now we're continuing with evolutionary progress. This is easily seen in computers and cell phones that keep just getting smaller and faster but lack really amazing new things. Having them at all was revolutionary, now we're incrementally improving upon them. IMO the industrial revolution is largely over. The past 50 years are the exception rather than the rule. Will we have another technological renaissance? Probably, but we need to figure out how to use all the stuff we've already invented/discovered first.
How about this. I believe I have the right to medical care. I don't believe I have the right to compel others to provide medical care for me against their will.
I'm quite sure the fire department showed up for the sole purposes of making sure everyone was safe. Once it was determined there were no human lives on the line they said "Sorry about your luck." Which is the appropriate response imho.
Yes, clearly the tablet market is is a bolt-on feature for a cell phone OS, only with limited cellular features. Microsoft tried to make a PC smaller, Apple made a cell phone bigger. Clearly Apple won but it's not as if one direction is obviously superior to the other from an objective viewpoint.
There's a company down the street that does billing for (I think) Sprint. Some of their developers have interviewed here. Apparently it's a pretty rough shop to work in. I dunno if it's bad legacy code or not but they have constant problems and they're always getting after hours calls. It's a big deal if a billing cycle has problems. Part of the problem is that the bills are so unnecessarily complicated. And lots of stuff *does* get flagged before it goes out. That's what happens when the company creates so many different kinds of fees and credits it could make your head spin. Anyways, at least from this end (developer) it doesn't appear to be a big corporate conspiracy to overcharge you.
A CPU can contain multiple cores which share Level 2 cache. Conversely a multi-CPU system has multiple complete CPUs which do not share their L2 cache.
My company (another household name) had internet routable addresses for all workstations up until about a year or two ago. Dunno if they gave up their IP block when they changed that or not.
I feel more bad for suppliers/retailers who have stuff in stock. When companies semi-announce a future price drop from $800 to sub-$250 that has to kill sales. The only way those vendors/suppliers are going to sell the chips they bought for $800 is to sell them as if they had paid $250. I realize this is an age-old problem with technology, but it just struck me as a startling drop in this case.
IE 6 may be that way, but IE 8 on Windows 7 is one of the most secure browser/OS combinations out there. It's still the widest target (read: most users) so it will have the most security activity but it's really quite good on the security side these days.
I have no idea where the GP was from, but I find it pretty common for Brits to say this about America. Because there's no oppression at all in Britain *boggle*.
Where I work it's more like, "If the first implementation sucks, then the second implementation made by the exact same team will suck equally. As will the third."
Google has no grounds to prosecute the guy. The kids/parents may have some grounds based on harassment or something but the guy legitimately had access to that data, he just abused it. It happens, he was fired. I love these posts which act as if "my company" could never hire anyone who would abuse their access to data. It happens regularly at every company I've ever worked at to some degree or another. When it happens, you deal with it. *shrug*
So last weekend I went to see the new Resident Evil flick and I was amazed/appalled at how many parents brought their 5-10 year old children to see that movie. That is a wicked violent movie with lots of gross imagery. While I did spend a few minutes during the previews questioning the parenting ability of those people at no time did I think to myself "Boy, we really need to create a new regulatory power which would stop this." That would be stupid. Freedom means people are going to do things you think are retarded. *shrug*
On a scale from 1->10 (1 being OMGPOWNIES! and 10 being OMGWTFBBQ) how much fear should I have of a terrorist PURCHASING A PERSONAL JET because doing so would be the most expedient method for getting a hand full of shurikens on a commercial flight?
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41% is less than half in one sentence, but 43% is nearly half in the next. I guess 42% is the hard cutoff by which we begin referring to the statistic in the affirmative vs. the negative.
Stats like that are misleading when you consider Servlets are J2EE.
I haven't read (this) fa, but I have read others about this story. The guy frequently visits the middle east for business and also regularly sends money to his family in Egypt. It's no surprise that he tripped some "Hey, watch out for this guy" thing. Yes it was a waste of time and money and I do think the tracking should require a warrant but let's not blow this out of proportion.
No, imho the POTUS is the CEO of the Executive branch. His orders should be followed in the same way as if the CEO of your current employer walked over to your office and told you to do something. Sure, sometimes things don't work out, are technically impossible, etc. But generally you'd better at least begrudgingly attempt to do what he wants. Otherwise what the heck is the point of electing him?
69% reported they had not received a pay raise in the past six months.
If raises were given evenly distributed throughout the year you should see 50% answering no. My experience is that most companies give raises at the beginning of the year (Feb/March) so 70% saying no isn't surprising. Is anyone really getting raises every 6 months? If you do, is your company hiring Java developers? I've clearly been doing this wrong.
Some of this I think is just timing. With respect to the timeline of human existence we've made some really historic, revolutionary discoveries/innovations in the last 50 years. The revolutionary discoveries have waned and now we're continuing with evolutionary progress. This is easily seen in computers and cell phones that keep just getting smaller and faster but lack really amazing new things. Having them at all was revolutionary, now we're incrementally improving upon them. IMO the industrial revolution is largely over. The past 50 years are the exception rather than the rule. Will we have another technological renaissance? Probably, but we need to figure out how to use all the stuff we've already invented/discovered first.
How about this. I believe I have the right to medical care. I don't believe I have the right to compel others to provide medical care for me against their will.
That doesn't even mean anything... enough to keep you alive. Indefinitely?
Adequate and effective health care based on what standards? In short, no.
Actually the best way to ensure payment of the prepayment is education that the postpayment means your house has already burned down.
Think of all the new construction jobs created by having to rebuild the house. Why do you hate jobs creation?
I'm quite sure the fire department showed up for the sole purposes of making sure everyone was safe. Once it was determined there were no human lives on the line they said "Sorry about your luck." Which is the appropriate response imho.
Yes, clearly the tablet market is is a bolt-on feature for a cell phone OS, only with limited cellular features. Microsoft tried to make a PC smaller, Apple made a cell phone bigger. Clearly Apple won but it's not as if one direction is obviously superior to the other from an objective viewpoint.
There's a company down the street that does billing for (I think) Sprint. Some of their developers have interviewed here. Apparently it's a pretty rough shop to work in. I dunno if it's bad legacy code or not but they have constant problems and they're always getting after hours calls. It's a big deal if a billing cycle has problems. Part of the problem is that the bills are so unnecessarily complicated. And lots of stuff *does* get flagged before it goes out. That's what happens when the company creates so many different kinds of fees and credits it could make your head spin. Anyways, at least from this end (developer) it doesn't appear to be a big corporate conspiracy to overcharge you.
Hey watch it buddy, I resemble that remark!
A CPU can contain multiple cores which share Level 2 cache. Conversely a multi-CPU system has multiple complete CPUs which do not share their L2 cache.
My company (another household name) had internet routable addresses for all workstations up until about a year or two ago. Dunno if they gave up their IP block when they changed that or not.
Does it print? :-D
I feel more bad for suppliers/retailers who have stuff in stock. When companies semi-announce a future price drop from $800 to sub-$250 that has to kill sales. The only way those vendors/suppliers are going to sell the chips they bought for $800 is to sell them as if they had paid $250. I realize this is an age-old problem with technology, but it just struck me as a startling drop in this case.
IE 6 may be that way, but IE 8 on Windows 7 is one of the most secure browser/OS combinations out there. It's still the widest target (read: most users) so it will have the most security activity but it's really quite good on the security side these days.
I have no idea where the GP was from, but I find it pretty common for Brits to say this about America. Because there's no oppression at all in Britain *boggle*.
Where I work it's more like, "If the first implementation sucks, then the second implementation made by the exact same team will suck equally. As will the third."
Google has no grounds to prosecute the guy. The kids/parents may have some grounds based on harassment or something but the guy legitimately had access to that data, he just abused it. It happens, he was fired. I love these posts which act as if "my company" could never hire anyone who would abuse their access to data. It happens regularly at every company I've ever worked at to some degree or another. When it happens, you deal with it. *shrug*
So last weekend I went to see the new Resident Evil flick and I was amazed/appalled at how many parents brought their 5-10 year old children to see that movie. That is a wicked violent movie with lots of gross imagery. While I did spend a few minutes during the previews questioning the parenting ability of those people at no time did I think to myself "Boy, we really need to create a new regulatory power which would stop this." That would be stupid. Freedom means people are going to do things you think are retarded. *shrug*
On a scale from 1->10 (1 being OMGPOWNIES! and 10 being OMGWTFBBQ) how much fear should I have of a terrorist PURCHASING A PERSONAL JET because doing so would be the most expedient method for getting a hand full of shurikens on a commercial flight?