It's been there for a long time in other countries and now with the recession America too is catching up. (I m from India).
It shows the dumbing down of educational standards. America is on the verge of replacing quality with quantity - as we in India have due to the clamour for a BA (Pass) or even a BA (Fail) . It used to be said of America that you did not need a college degree to get ahead but that isn't apparently true anymore.
Looking at it from the point of view of employers, a college degree is probably a way to filter out those who don't know their 3 R s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_three_Rs and thus will need further "on the job" training before being able to work in an office environment.
It's not stupidity but a business move.
If you read the original COMPUTERWORLD article, you will see that the PSF which he claims is a big US corporation, has just a one man office.
The "big American corporation" claim bears investigation too. While POBox Hosting Ltd is a small business, the Python Software Foundation -- although representing the interests of millions of developers worldwide -- is even smaller. Chairman Van Lindberg told me "the PSF is a very small nonprofit. We have one full-time staff administrator and a part-time accountant. All the rest of us are unpaid - we have regular jobs that we do each day and we donate our time to the PSF."
He also exaggerates his own position.
That "trading for 17 years" claim deserved investigation, so I took a look on Archive.org. His company bought the python.co.uk domain in 1997, and did offer "Python Internet Services" in 1997 and again briefly in 2004 (trading as "CheapNet" in between). After 2004, the domain just redirected to Pobox.co.uk (although Tim told me customers could request a "@python.co.uk" e-mail address). So while the company may once have had products with the name, their new cloud service, launched at the start of 2012, seems to have been a new departure.
OK
Yes, and despite all the safeguards while using the web, it is easier to authenticate a student's submission if it is handwritten. More true in CS. The only computer that should be allowed are entire code listings - with proper annotation by hand.
OK
How is that any sort of legitimate fight against a government?
In a sense, it is worse.
(1) The weapons are the at least as powerful as that of anyone else.
(2) He has vowed to kill the families of specific government officers - but not the country as such.
(3) So the debate, even though he is more of a clear danger.
Further,
dBase III followed by FoxPro for DOS.
Novell netware (2.2 the peer2peer ie. no dedicated server - and 3.1). Don't know why 3.2 never caught on.
OK
In India (where I come from), it was indeed wordstar with lotus-123. (Among people like me who have been "around computers" for nearly 4 decades now, it was known that visicalc was the breakthrough spreadsheet. Also that msWord had a lotus-123 compatibility menu option).
OK
First off, kids are cheaper and so eventually they will replace senior workers who are in higher pay slabs.
Secondly how you "pulled it off" may not be the only way or relevant now.
If he shows promise (as you say) ie. he seems genuine and not just criticizing, then you must try to go down to his level and tell it in his techie terms.
OK
Have the Freedom Riders committed to follow the WBC? It would be nice if they did.
May God bless and protect all the guys who go after the WBC.
Because whatever you may think about gun control, this parasitic behavior of the WBC is evil.
OK
"A woman who said she was asked to leave New Hampshire's Pheasant Lane Mall because she WANTED TO BUY too many...
Maybe the cops were right but you have to prove a crime was committed.
The next question is, what would the response have been had the woman been a hispanic, black, powhite, east european immigrant, smartly dressed lady with credit cards... ?
The memo was widely hailed by tech policy scholars and public interests advocates. However, it raised the ire of content industry lobbyists, who applied pressure on the RSC to retract the memo. The organization did so within 24 hours of its release. Khanna's firing will only further raise the memo's profile.
OK
I am from India.
I observer that whenever you visit India (which is about once every year or so), it is followed by Mr. Bill Gates visiting the government of India and giving more aid via his charities. Does this disturb you?
Also, mostly you visit the southern Indian state of Kerala which has a strong open source / fs movement. How is it that this state has so much reliancet on free software? Any lessons for other developing regions that are emerging from a non-computerised era?
OK
In one of my customer's sites which has open office but their main business involving using an ERP with its own interface, we know that the open suites are always playing catchup to the MS versions. But still for cost cutting purposes, we use only open office.
OK
As ever the stats dont tell the full story.
This is only 2012 3rdQ sales. It doesn't take into account the number of already installed and working phones.
OK
Currently I am writing a system to to store, retrieve, and display tagged images using Java on Linux. The full system will be backed by a Postgres database and will be accessed by a web front end.
Interesting. Please post the results.
OK
In Chenna, India, till about 2009 (when I worked there) we used to recruit only form the "diploma" schools which In India are quite common AND AMONG THINGS TEACH LIKE HVAC, AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING, ELECTRONICS etc
These were usually full two years after high school.
We used to use this diploma school for recruiting people after an aptitude test consisting of : numerical and spatial reasoning tests - like IQ tests and real fundamental questions in the OS of their choice.
We found
- Didn't have to teach them the real basics like whats a DBMS, file system.
- Used to working in teams as part of their assignments.
After the orientation and training, they would immediately enrol for higher studies in evening and week end colleges and thus we had lesser employee attrition since they would be more likely to stay till they got their college degree.
I highly recommend this method.
But FIND A GOOD SCHOOL WITH A KNOWN TRADITION OF GOOD EDUCATION AND VALUES.
OK
If triue, this is a hardened gang of criminals going after big money and not a few persons' savings. MITMA attacks do need the fastest hardware and as such seems plausible.
I RTFA'd and found
“This Trojan is not well known. This is not SpyEye or Citadel; it’s not available for everyone to buy,” Ahuvia said. “Security vendors and antivirus signatures are less likely to catch it or be familiar with it. It will be tricky for vendors to detect and block it. This gang is keeping a tight hold on the compiler. By only giving up executable files, they can control how any antivirus signatures are in the wild and keep unique signatures to a minimum.”
Again seems plausible.
OK
Its clear that after the passing of Steve Jobs, making products with bugs is the new normal for Apple also. Of course this is just like the rest of the world.
Now, Apple fan boys must pray for salvation
and
Anti-apple guys must prey on this.
OK
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It's been there for a long time in other countries and now with the recession America too is catching up. (I m from India).
It shows the dumbing down of educational standards. America is on the verge of replacing quality with quantity - as we in India have due to the clamour for a BA (Pass) or even a BA (Fail) . It used to be said of America that you did not need a college degree to get ahead but that isn't apparently true anymore.
Looking at it from the point of view of employers, a college degree is probably a way to filter out those who don't know their 3 R s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_three_Rs and thus will need further "on the job" training before being able to work in an office environment.
OK
The "big American corporation" claim bears investigation too. While POBox Hosting Ltd is a small business, the Python Software Foundation -- although representing the interests of millions of developers worldwide -- is even smaller. Chairman Van Lindberg told me "the PSF is a very small nonprofit. We have one full-time staff administrator and a part-time accountant. All the rest of us are unpaid - we have regular jobs that we do each day and we donate our time to the PSF." He also exaggerates his own position.
That "trading for 17 years" claim deserved investigation, so I took a look on Archive.org. His company bought the python.co.uk domain in 1997, and did offer "Python Internet Services" in 1997 and again briefly in 2004 (trading as "CheapNet" in between). After 2004, the domain just redirected to Pobox.co.uk (although Tim told me customers could request a "@python.co.uk" e-mail address). So while the company may once have had products with the name, their new cloud service, launched at the start of 2012, seems to have been a new departure. OK
Yes, and despite all the safeguards while using the web, it is easier to authenticate a student's submission if it is handwritten. More true in CS. The only computer that should be allowed are entire code listings - with proper annotation by hand. OK
How is that any sort of legitimate fight against a government?
In a sense, it is worse.
(1) The weapons are the at least as powerful as that of anyone else.
(2) He has vowed to kill the families of specific government officers - but not the country as such.
(3) So the debate, even though he is more of a clear danger.
OK
Further, dBase III followed by FoxPro for DOS. Novell netware (2.2 the peer2peer ie. no dedicated server - and 3.1). Don't know why 3.2 never caught on. OK
In India (where I come from), it was indeed wordstar with lotus-123. (Among people like me who have been "around computers" for nearly 4 decades now, it was known that visicalc was the breakthrough spreadsheet. Also that msWord had a lotus-123 compatibility menu option). OK
Maybe his daughter is going to major in sociology and this junket (!?!?) will be written up in the future as a project / thesis sumbmission. OK
First off, kids are cheaper and so eventually they will replace senior workers who are in higher pay slabs. Secondly how you "pulled it off" may not be the only way or relevant now. If he shows promise (as you say) ie. he seems genuine and not just criticizing, then you must try to go down to his level and tell it in his techie terms. OK
How nice it would be for the gun lobby if they just turned the other cheek. I see a very real life or death situation. OK
At this stage, it's nothing but precog and profiling. OK
Have the Freedom Riders committed to follow the WBC? It would be nice if they did. May God bless and protect all the guys who go after the WBC. Because whatever you may think about gun control, this parasitic behavior of the WBC is evil. OK
"A woman who said she was asked to leave New Hampshire's Pheasant Lane Mall because she WANTED TO BUY too many ...
Maybe the cops were right but you have to prove a crime was committed.
The next question is, what would the response have been had the woman been a hispanic, black, powhite, east european immigrant, smartly dressed lady with credit cards... ?
OK
The memo was widely hailed by tech policy scholars and public interests advocates. However, it raised the ire of content industry lobbyists, who applied pressure on the RSC to retract the memo. The organization did so within 24 hours of its release. Khanna's firing will only further raise the memo's profile. OK
Its probably for internal consumption within Iran. OK
I am from India. I observer that whenever you visit India (which is about once every year or so), it is followed by Mr. Bill Gates visiting the government of India and giving more aid via his charities. Does this disturb you? Also, mostly you visit the southern Indian state of Kerala which has a strong open source / fs movement. How is it that this state has so much reliancet on free software? Any lessons for other developing regions that are emerging from a non-computerised era? OK
Read it carefully. It was an act of revenge for getting a (presumably illegal) pigeon shoot cancelled. Enough said. OK
Remember the old ink blotters. Teenagers like all infants are just reflecting whats said in their home, club or whats passed on down to them. OK
In one of my customer's sites which has open office but their main business involving using an ERP with its own interface, we know that the open suites are always playing catchup to the MS versions. But still for cost cutting purposes, we use only open office. OK
As ever the stats dont tell the full story. This is only 2012 3rdQ sales. It doesn't take into account the number of already installed and working phones. OK
Currently I am writing a system to to store, retrieve, and display tagged images using Java on Linux. The full system will be backed by a Postgres database and will be accessed by a web front end. Interesting. Please post the results. OK
In Chenna, India, till about 2009 (when I worked there) we used to recruit only form the "diploma" schools which In India are quite common AND AMONG THINGS TEACH LIKE HVAC, AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING, ELECTRONICS etc These were usually full two years after high school. We used to use this diploma school for recruiting people after an aptitude test consisting of : numerical and spatial reasoning tests - like IQ tests and real fundamental questions in the OS of their choice. We found - Didn't have to teach them the real basics like whats a DBMS, file system. - Used to working in teams as part of their assignments. After the orientation and training, they would immediately enrol for higher studies in evening and week end colleges and thus we had lesser employee attrition since they would be more likely to stay till they got their college degree. I highly recommend this method. But FIND A GOOD SCHOOL WITH A KNOWN TRADITION OF GOOD EDUCATION AND VALUES. OK
In my office we used to have two meanings for SWOT and the second was SHEER WASTE OF TIME. OK
“This Trojan is not well known. This is not SpyEye or Citadel; it’s not available for everyone to buy,” Ahuvia said. “Security vendors and antivirus signatures are less likely to catch it or be familiar with it. It will be tricky for vendors to detect and block it. This gang is keeping a tight hold on the compiler. By only giving up executable files, they can control how any antivirus signatures are in the wild and keep unique signatures to a minimum.” Again seems plausible. OK
Its clear that after the passing of Steve Jobs, making products with bugs is the new normal for Apple also. Of course this is just like the rest of the world. Now, Apple fan boys must pray for salvation and Anti-apple guys must prey on this. OK
The real problems are health care costs and productivity. PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE. OK