It's actually funny, my girlfriend's mother (I know, not technically an inlaw..) makes the best damn fruitcake in existence. She wrote out the recipe for me once, but it's full of statements like "until it looks right".
If you know how to cook then that's fine.
Bake 10 cakes, and you'll figure out what "until it looks right" means. Don't follow the recipe too closely (apart from the flour/eggs/sugar/butter/etc amounts).
I make a fruitcake. It is used as a carrier for the rum,
A couple of weeks ago I went to a goth music festival. The "you brought WHAT?" award went to a friend of mine, who'd made Jägermeister fruit cake. It was delicious:-)
(Although, a very different taste to rum, so probably only worth trying if you like Jägermeister.)
I'm afraid it wins in terms of money, but often also in terms of interest.
I meant IT jobs in finance, rather than finance jobs in finance. I have no interest at all in the latter, although this being the global finance capital (London), there are plenty of financial services jobs, and some of them could be interesting. One friend works in a small start-up that makes some kind of reliable messaging infrastructure software, that doesn't seem so bad for technical interest. He still works long hours, and he's essentially still working for Barclay's (only customer), and still enabling the kind of trade I think is detrimental to society (buying stuff not for investment, but to sell it on a fraction of a second later at a profit).
I bet you could work at Google and NOT think your work was interesting.
Yep, the guy who interviewed me at Google said he found it boring. But I know a few other Google staff, and they seem happy. They work long hours, through "choice" (social pressure) but they get paid well.
Regarding contributing to the world, I don't know what you mean.
I work for a government department that's also a registered charity (about 50% funding from each), we do scientific research. Some stuff helps all people, some helps poorer countries more.
I'm still paid more than most people my age. (The scientists here also get paid less than they would in industry.) I get about 8-10 days more annual leave (holiday) than people at private companies, and I have enough money to do something worthwhile with all of it. (Usually, travelling within Europe. About the only thing I'd like to have but can't really afford is going to faraway places more than once a year, but there's still plenty of stuff to see within range of the cheap airlines.)
Well, if that's the definition of art, I just created an art masterpiece in my bathroom. I named the piece "Where's the plunger?" It's a kind of performance art, actually.
And neither includes Information Science, which is what you get taught elsewhere. Seriously: naming a study Computer Studies is asking for trouble. Give it a better name and include rigorous math. Computer Science is a big red sign telling everyone "vocational studies, not a real academic subject". Small wonder you don't get Ph.D's.
What country is that for?
Computer Science degrees in the UK can include plenty of maths, though it depends how good the university is. The University of Cambridge calls their course "Computer Science", and I'm sure it includes lots of maths.
But there is no "good" UK university for undergraduate CS, excepting perhaps Cambridge (and expect a mound of the sort of theory the dilettante technicians on Slashdot eschew). Hell, Oxford is mediocre in terms of actually providing CS education but has going for it the good name and the safe bet that a graduate will have been sufficiently challenged.
I went to Imperial, and my experience says that's a good university for undergraduate CS. Lots of theory, and lots of practise too.
I don't really feel qualified to compare it with anywhere else, except that some CS students from Oxford I met were annoyed that we were doing "cooler" stuff, and when I met some from Cambridge we decided both places were pretty similar, except living and studying in London was much more fun than boarding school 2.0. I don't remember meeting CS students/grads from other top-10 universities.
Yeah, keep in mind that you're trying to hire from the same pool of applicants who are having finance jobs dangled in front of them. When you're 22, 35K + bonus sounds like winning the lottery.
Yeah, but my friends who took those jobs become more and more boring as time goes on.
I went with the £25k, interesting job (in outer London). I have less spare cash, but I also have no pressure, a relaxed working environment, a shorter working week, more holiday, there aren't any w^Hbankers in the office, and most importantly I contribute something to the world rather than steal from it.
My advice is: when you're 22, £25k is still way more than when you were a student. Look at the other things.
(There are a few places that pay bank-range basic wages but are more interesting, like Google, although finance still wins because of the bonuses.)
Good CS graduates shouldn't care what language they've been taught in, although I've heard it make it easier to get past HR in some companies if the right things appear on a CV. I'm still at my first job since leaving university though, and here all CVs are sent to my manager to review, and if she's not sure she asks the developers.
At my interview for this job I was asked if I knew certain languages and some modules/frameworks for those languages. I didn't (except Java), but explained in general terms what I thought the frameworks did, and what the languages they used were like. They were happy with that.
On my first day I was given a VBA application to fix (a non-IT person had made it himself, and suddenly hit a problem with it and a deadline approaching). I'd not used VBA since I was about 15, so it probably took an extra half-day to be sure I was doing the right thing, but I fixed the bug, and rewrote an O(n^2) loop (of database queries) to be O(n log n) (using a cached index), bringing the processing time down from days to minutes. Knowing how to use a debugger (though I'd not used Visual Basic's one properly before) and write a decent comparison sort was mostly irrelevant to the implementation language.
Ah, that's the only case where I would be charged a fee.
But that's because credit cards companies tend to charge a percentage of the total, whereas debit cards, electronic transfers and cheques have a fixed cost.
Here in Britain some people are complaining that more and more businesses are requiring a fee when customers don't pay electronically. I'd have to pay, I think, £2.50 per month to pay my Internet connection bill by cheque, and £5 for the gas, electricity and mobile phone bills. Receiving a paper bill costs extra on top of that. But, I signed up for cheaper deals where I knew part of the discount was because of this.
Paying "Council tax", a local tax I must pay, by cheque doesn't charge any extra, but the council explains that it's in my interest to reduce their costs.
Some smaller places don't accept electronic payments, but if they've invested in a system to accept them it's to save staff costs, so they will want people to use it. Even the residents association prefers electronic payments.
Processing paper cheques means the company has to employ lots of staff to move bits of paper around. Finding out the cheque is no good takes longer than for a bad electronic payment.
In the UK, I think the Post Office offers junk mail services from "next day" (which is relatively expensive) to "when we have some other mail to send to that address, or else in 7 days", which is cheap. This doesn't just cover "junk", I sometimes get non-urgent information from my bank using this service.
I send cards to [...] Finland, [...] Germany, [...] Taiwan, [...] Netherlands and [...] Siberia. [...] I live in the UK
That is going to help the USPS how?
In the whole scale of everything, it probably won't. Although 14% of Postcrossing members are from the USA (36k users) between them sending over a million postcards.
My next two cards, which I will write this evening, are to be sent to Washington, USA and Austria. Me sending the card to Washington is a result of the person in Washington sending one to someone else, so that has helped the USPS in a tiny way.
"Post Roulette" might encourage people to send postcards of things that are quite phallic
I know better than to send something like that to the USA, but I wouldn't mind receiving it -- except it's a crap card: the head is missing just to centre the phallus. If it must be centred, why not zoom out a little, but show three herms together?
I want to send cards showing my own country, so something like the Cerne Abbas Giant would be better.
I joined Postcrossing last month. I liked the idea of sending random people postcards, and in return receiving cards from other random people.
I send cards to a child in Finland, a girl in Germany, a student in Taiwan, a recent-graduate lawyer in the Netherlands and a woman in Siberia. So far, only the first two have received my cards, and I've not received one in return yet -- but it's only been two or three days. (I live in the UK, so it's no surprise that the cards to Finland and Germany arrived quickly.)
I like travelling and meeting people from other countries, so hopefully I'll like reading the cards I receive too.
What are the rest of the UK's top 'space' science people doing if they have "work experience" people using telescopes?
Many PhDs, researchers, grads are produced per year and a limited count of fully funded "telescopes" - usually in demand and something coveted.
As the other reply says, inspiring the next generation.
We have some 18 year old students for 6 weeks over the summer, doing science. Also, about 10 university students work here for a year between 2nd and 3rd year ("year in industry"). Most of them learn loads, the university students make a good contribution, the pre-uni ones probably do to (none in my department) and many of them eventually work here, or somewhere similar, after graduating. Part of our remit is to educate.
I work in IT, so what the science students do is nothing to do with me. But it seems the ones doing the more expensive stuff (e.g. presenting their work at a conference somewhere, doing more costly research themselves) are the best ones.
The maximum speed of a R142A train (found randomly on Wikipedia) is 55mph (25 m/s). Subway trains don't go very fast. I can't find any information for New York, but in London they barely hit 30-40mph (13-18 m/s) in the centre of the city. (Though that's fast compared to road traffic.)
That gives an elevation of 8-16m.
(More technical facts about the London Underground than you could possibly want: Key Facts)
It's only because Germany very recently started pushing an anti-facebook stance.
No, the whole EU has, pretty much since the start, had a pro-privacy stance. More recently, attention has turned to website privacy matters -- e.g. cookies.
I work for the British government, and a few months ago had to confirm exactly what cookies were used on our websites. In my case, only session cookies to track "shopping basket" type things, which are fine, but the main website uses Google Analytics. It's likely that at some point in the next 12 months we'll have to remove Google Analytics. (Or, perhaps more likely, Google will change GA in the UK(/EU) to conform to the new regulations and keep their 'customers'). That seems reasonable to me -- someone looking at our website shouldn't have to have their details shared with Google.
The tracking company should not have shared revealing pictures of her. Other information to help the police is fine, even pictures of her face, but instead they decided she was obviously a criminal and therefore sharing her nude pics was fine. It isn't.
1) Get naked 2) Rob a bank. The bank won't be allowed to look at the CCTV, because this is America and nudity is evil 3) Profit.
The woman who bought the laptop is clearly a victim here, she's just not the victim of the laptop owner. She's the victim of her criminal student who sold her stolen property.
She played her part in the theft of the laptop by buying it.
It's for the court to decide how she should be punished for this. Normally, someone who buys stolen goods that they would reasonably think were legitimate (e.g. a used bicycle for a fair price in a shop) has no punishment beyond forfeiting the goods. Knowing the goods are stolen obviously warrants some punishment, and there's a whole area in between, where a normal person should be suspicious.
I just removed the trust setting from this CA in my browser. So can anyone else. Anyone know a site for which they've issued a cert to test and see if this actually makes any difference?
Their own (it just redirects to the non-SSL site, but that should be sufficient for you).
Oh, we can do better than Sussex and Essex (and Middlesex -- which officially no longer exists, having been absorbed into the London region decades ago. I think my house would have been in Middlesex, but I'm not sure.).
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I had a friend at school originally from Scunthorpe, who was blocked sometimes from forums if he filled in the location. His address while at school was Scraptoft (not far from Bushby, Burton Overy, Noseley, Pickwell,... Leicestershire has some fantastic place names, though most aren't rude.)
You dont get it at all. You dont live here in NYC its obvious.
There ARE NO OPEN SPOTS across the street.
I'm not from NYC, but I can look around it on Google Streetview. It looks like wherever parking is forbidden, a side street around the block has parking permitted.
My conclusion is the delivery drivers (for whatever reason -- time saving or laziness) don't bother to park round the corner.
Walk round many cities in Germany and you'll see delivery people wheeling things round on carts in pedestrian and no-parking areas. They don't get away with flouting the parking rules there, but the country hasn't collapsed. (For that matter, walk down a major central London road at 6 in the morning, and you'll see when the big shops take big deliveries -- early in the morning when parking is permitted. However, the restrictions aren't enforced so well here as in Germany, so smaller businesses flout some of the rules in some places.)
And this is why in the UK at least, license plates now have by law RFID chips embedded in them.
Do you have a reference for that? I can find articles about a trial in 2005-ish, but nothing since then.
(Is it that much of a big deal? The plates already have a big, unique number on, which is reasonably easy to recognise by OCR. The standard way to get a fake number is already to steal someone else's plates.)
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Or would you like someone to deface the grave of your mother with the statement
Wouldn't that be vandalizing someone's physical property? I don't think that's the same thing at all.
Maybe, but it would still be hate speech (whatever the legal term is).
It's actually funny, my girlfriend's mother (I know, not technically an inlaw..) makes the best damn fruitcake in existence. She wrote out the recipe for me once, but it's full of statements like "until it looks right".
If you know how to cook then that's fine.
Bake 10 cakes, and you'll figure out what "until it looks right" means. Don't follow the recipe too closely (apart from the flour/eggs/sugar/butter/etc amounts).
I make a fruitcake. It is used as a carrier for the rum,
A couple of weeks ago I went to a goth music festival. The "you brought WHAT?" award went to a friend of mine, who'd made Jägermeister fruit cake. It was delicious :-)
(Although, a very different taste to rum, so probably only worth trying if you like Jägermeister.)
I'm afraid it wins in terms of money, but often also in terms of interest.
I meant IT jobs in finance, rather than finance jobs in finance. I have no interest at all in the latter, although this being the global finance capital (London), there are plenty of financial services jobs, and some of them could be interesting. One friend works in a small start-up that makes some kind of reliable messaging infrastructure software, that doesn't seem so bad for technical interest. He still works long hours, and he's essentially still working for Barclay's (only customer), and still enabling the kind of trade I think is detrimental to society (buying stuff not for investment, but to sell it on a fraction of a second later at a profit).
I bet you could work at Google and NOT think your work was interesting.
Yep, the guy who interviewed me at Google said he found it boring. But I know a few other Google staff, and they seem happy. They work long hours, through "choice" (social pressure) but they get paid well.
Regarding contributing to the world, I don't know what you mean.
I work for a government department that's also a registered charity (about 50% funding from each), we do scientific research. Some stuff helps all people, some helps poorer countries more.
I'm still paid more than most people my age. (The scientists here also get paid less than they would in industry.) I get about 8-10 days more annual leave (holiday) than people at private companies, and I have enough money to do something worthwhile with all of it. (Usually, travelling within Europe. About the only thing I'd like to have but can't really afford is going to faraway places more than once a year, but there's still plenty of stuff to see within range of the cheap airlines.)
Well, if that's the definition of art, I just created an art masterpiece in my bathroom. I named the piece "Where's the plunger?" It's a kind of performance art, actually.
Sure. But that's not a new idea.
And neither includes Information Science, which is what you get taught elsewhere. Seriously: naming a study Computer Studies is asking for trouble. Give it a better name and include rigorous math. Computer Science is a big red sign telling everyone "vocational studies, not a real academic subject". Small wonder you don't get Ph.D's.
What country is that for?
Computer Science degrees in the UK can include plenty of maths, though it depends how good the university is. The University of Cambridge calls their course "Computer Science", and I'm sure it includes lots of maths.
But there is no "good" UK university for undergraduate CS, excepting perhaps Cambridge (and expect a mound of the sort of theory the dilettante technicians on Slashdot eschew). Hell, Oxford is mediocre in terms of actually providing CS education but has going for it the good name and the safe bet that a graduate will have been sufficiently challenged.
I went to Imperial, and my experience says that's a good university for undergraduate CS. Lots of theory, and lots of practise too.
I don't really feel qualified to compare it with anywhere else, except that some CS students from Oxford I met were annoyed that we were doing "cooler" stuff, and when I met some from Cambridge we decided both places were pretty similar, except living and studying in London was much more fun than boarding school 2.0. I don't remember meeting CS students/grads from other top-10 universities.
Yeah, keep in mind that you're trying to hire from the same pool of applicants who are having finance jobs dangled in front of them. When you're 22, 35K + bonus sounds like winning the lottery.
Yeah, but my friends who took those jobs become more and more boring as time goes on.
I went with the £25k, interesting job (in outer London). I have less spare cash, but I also have no pressure, a relaxed working environment, a shorter working week, more holiday, there aren't any w^Hbankers in the office, and most importantly I contribute something to the world rather than steal from it.
My advice is: when you're 22, £25k is still way more than when you were a student. Look at the other things.
(There are a few places that pay bank-range basic wages but are more interesting, like Google, although finance still wins because of the bonuses.)
Good CS graduates shouldn't care what language they've been taught in, although I've heard it make it easier to get past HR in some companies if the right things appear on a CV. I'm still at my first job since leaving university though, and here all CVs are sent to my manager to review, and if she's not sure she asks the developers.
At my interview for this job I was asked if I knew certain languages and some modules/frameworks for those languages. I didn't (except Java), but explained in general terms what I thought the frameworks did, and what the languages they used were like. They were happy with that.
On my first day I was given a VBA application to fix (a non-IT person had made it himself, and suddenly hit a problem with it and a deadline approaching). I'd not used VBA since I was about 15, so it probably took an extra half-day to be sure I was doing the right thing, but I fixed the bug, and rewrote an O(n^2) loop (of database queries) to be O(n log n) (using a cached index), bringing the processing time down from days to minutes. Knowing how to use a debugger (though I'd not used Visual Basic's one properly before) and write a decent comparison sort was mostly irrelevant to the implementation language.
My arse it is, I've never heard a native English speaker use that word
There is more than one country in Europe, and I think there are more native German speakers than native English speakers. In German it's "Informatik".
I've always called it computer science, but I'm willing to be persuaded. We don't often do science (testing theories, etc).
Ah, that's the only case where I would be charged a fee.
But that's because credit cards companies tend to charge a percentage of the total, whereas debit cards, electronic transfers and cheques have a fixed cost.
That's odd.
Here in Britain some people are complaining that more and more businesses are requiring a fee when customers don't pay electronically. I'd have to pay, I think, £2.50 per month to pay my Internet connection bill by cheque, and £5 for the gas, electricity and mobile phone bills. Receiving a paper bill costs extra on top of that. But, I signed up for cheaper deals where I knew part of the discount was because of this.
Paying "Council tax", a local tax I must pay, by cheque doesn't charge any extra, but the council explains that it's in my interest to reduce their costs.
Some smaller places don't accept electronic payments, but if they've invested in a system to accept them it's to save staff costs, so they will want people to use it. Even the residents association prefers electronic payments.
Processing paper cheques means the company has to employ lots of staff to move bits of paper around. Finding out the cheque is no good takes longer than for a bad electronic payment.
In the UK, I think the Post Office offers junk mail services from "next day" (which is relatively expensive) to "when we have some other mail to send to that address, or else in 7 days", which is cheap. This doesn't just cover "junk", I sometimes get non-urgent information from my bank using this service.
I send cards to [...] Finland, [...] Germany, [...] Taiwan, [...] Netherlands and [...] Siberia. [...] I live in the UK
That is going to help the USPS how?
In the whole scale of everything, it probably won't. Although 14% of Postcrossing members are from the USA (36k users) between them sending over a million postcards.
My next two cards, which I will write this evening, are to be sent to Washington, USA and Austria. Me sending the card to Washington is a result of the person in Washington sending one to someone else, so that has helped the USPS in a tiny way.
"Post Roulette" might encourage people to send postcards of things that are quite phallic
I know better than to send something like that to the USA, but I wouldn't mind receiving it -- except it's a crap card: the head is missing just to centre the phallus. If it must be centred, why not zoom out a little, but show three herms together?
I want to send cards showing my own country, so something like the Cerne Abbas Giant would be better.
I joined Postcrossing last month. I liked the idea of sending random people postcards, and in return receiving cards from other random people.
I send cards to a child in Finland, a girl in Germany, a student in Taiwan, a recent-graduate lawyer in the Netherlands and a woman in Siberia. So far, only the first two have received my cards, and I've not received one in return yet -- but it's only been two or three days. (I live in the UK, so it's no surprise that the cards to Finland and Germany arrived quickly.)
I like travelling and meeting people from other countries, so hopefully I'll like reading the cards I receive too.
What are the rest of the UK's top 'space' science people doing if they have "work experience" people using telescopes?
Many PhDs, researchers, grads are produced per year and a limited count of fully funded "telescopes" - usually in demand and something coveted.
As the other reply says, inspiring the next generation.
We have some 18 year old students for 6 weeks over the summer, doing science. Also, about 10 university students work here for a year between 2nd and 3rd year ("year in industry"). Most of them learn loads, the university students make a good contribution, the pre-uni ones probably do to (none in my department) and many of them eventually work here, or somewhere similar, after graduating. Part of our remit is to educate.
I work in IT, so what the science students do is nothing to do with me. But it seems the ones doing the more expensive stuff (e.g. presenting their work at a conference somewhere, doing more costly research themselves) are the best ones.
The maximum speed of a R142A train (found randomly on Wikipedia) is 55mph (25 m/s). Subway trains don't go very fast. I can't find any information for New York, but in London they barely hit 30-40mph (13-18 m/s) in the centre of the city. (Though that's fast compared to road traffic.)
That gives an elevation of 8-16m.
(More technical facts about the London Underground than you could possibly want: Key Facts)
It's only because Germany very recently started pushing an anti-facebook stance.
No, the whole EU has, pretty much since the start, had a pro-privacy stance. More recently, attention has turned to website privacy matters -- e.g. cookies.
I work for the British government, and a few months ago had to confirm exactly what cookies were used on our websites. In my case, only session cookies to track "shopping basket" type things, which are fine, but the main website uses Google Analytics. It's likely that at some point in the next 12 months we'll have to remove Google Analytics. (Or, perhaps more likely, Google will change GA in the UK(/EU) to conform to the new regulations and keep their 'customers'). That seems reasonable to me -- someone looking at our website shouldn't have to have their details shared with Google.
Our website has "share" buttons, but they don't track the user. They just send them to Facebook with the URL of our page in the query string: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.example.org/
Germany is just slightly ahead of the UK here.
The tracking company should not have shared revealing pictures of her. Other information to help the police is fine, even pictures of her face, but instead they decided she was obviously a criminal and therefore sharing her nude pics was fine. It isn't.
1) Get naked
2) Rob a bank. The bank won't be allowed to look at the CCTV, because this is America and nudity is evil
3) Profit.
The woman who bought the laptop is clearly a victim here, she's just not the victim of the laptop owner. She's the victim of her criminal student who sold her stolen property.
She played her part in the theft of the laptop by buying it.
It's for the court to decide how she should be punished for this. Normally, someone who buys stolen goods that they would reasonably think were legitimate (e.g. a used bicycle for a fair price in a shop) has no punishment beyond forfeiting the goods. Knowing the goods are stolen obviously warrants some punishment, and there's a whole area in between, where a normal person should be suspicious.
I just removed the trust setting from this CA in my browser. So can anyone else. Anyone know a site for which they've issued a cert to test and see if this actually makes any difference?
Their own (it just redirects to the non-SSL site, but that should be sufficient for you).
Oh, we can do better than Sussex and Essex (and Middlesex -- which officially no longer exists, having been absorbed into the London region decades ago. I think my house would have been in Middlesex, but I'm not sure.).
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I had a friend at school originally from Scunthorpe, who was blocked sometimes from forums if he filled in the location. His address while at school was Scraptoft (not far from Bushby, Burton Overy, Noseley, Pickwell, ... Leicestershire has some fantastic place names, though most aren't rude.)
You dont get it at all. You dont live here in NYC its obvious.
There ARE NO OPEN SPOTS across the street.
I'm not from NYC, but I can look around it on Google Streetview. It looks like wherever parking is forbidden, a side street around the block has parking permitted.
My conclusion is the delivery drivers (for whatever reason -- time saving or laziness) don't bother to park round the corner.
Walk round many cities in Germany and you'll see delivery people wheeling things round on carts in pedestrian and no-parking areas. They don't get away with flouting the parking rules there, but the country hasn't collapsed. (For that matter, walk down a major central London road at 6 in the morning, and you'll see when the big shops take big deliveries -- early in the morning when parking is permitted. However, the restrictions aren't enforced so well here as in Germany, so smaller businesses flout some of the rules in some places.)
And this is why in the UK at least, license plates now have by law RFID chips embedded in them.
Do you have a reference for that? I can find articles about a trial in 2005-ish, but nothing since then.
(Is it that much of a big deal? The plates already have a big, unique number on, which is reasonably easy to recognise by OCR. The standard way to get a fake number is already to steal someone else's plates.)