I know quite a few Canadians here. We've seen huge manufacturing layoffs over the last few years and those people would love to be back on a line getting paid to do what they know how to do. I also know a ton of 20-somethings who'd be happier to have that option instead of instead of selling cell phones, front-lining at banks, becoming realtors,... The few manufacturers that are still operating here have no trouble getting and keeping employees. In fact, a Germany company moved a small production facility here last year. Heck, most tech lines are cleaner, nicer, more reliable jobs than meat or seafood processing and those companies operate here.
I know a few of engineers who'd be happy supporting lines that don't exist either, or at least being able to move on to a new employer or lead a maintenance team instead of being stuck because the demand for their skills has gone to China. They don't want to be designers, project managers, or go to grad school to specialize and become consultants. It really burns the guys who got to do it as interns but can't find a similar job now that they've graduated.
Whether one job is better than another depends on the person considering them. I know lots of people who'd never be happy as programmers and plenty of people who are. You may have hated production but I found it far better than a cushy government research job without enough to keep busy.
Only if you promise to bring a viable, charismatic (heck, even just socially functional, smiling, non-sweater-vest-wearing) leader. Our current guy thinks he's Bush's lieutenant but all the other options are pretty weak. It's sounding like we'd vote for Shatner, so you can come if you can get him here.
I'm not sure what iPhone sales have to do with how many iPod Touches and iPads are out there, especially given that iPod Touches now outsell the iPhone. And outselling during one quarter doesn't make a bigger market, especially when there were many more iPhones than Androids sold before that period that are still in use. Perhaps you're confusing the smartphone market with the app market? Few, if any, app devs are actually selling phones.
Hope they atleast release the Actionscript to Obj-C cross compiler so that people can at least attempt to use it for themselves, if not distribute it through the App Store.
Or for enterprise (proprietary, in-house) use.
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Could you pull some strings to get Canada into the EU? We're financially responsible, well-mannered, and already used to dealing with the French. I'm tired of having my automotive selection reduced by 80% because I want a stick.
At the one I attended, they ran a second projector with a twitter feed. Yep, 5 minute presentations were too much and needed to be condensed into a set of tweets. Either that or people needed to be told what to think about the talks.
To be followed by the sequel "Should you be buying that overpriced trendy crap?" But perhaps that would be too close to Starbucks' business model or be too close to actionable to make the consumers comfortably smug. (Yes, I'm sure I'm as bad as the rest of them. Pot, kettle, etc.)
Um, what? Both the first and third links have maps with little pins all over the place including Lima, Bangalore, Madrid, Nairobi, Montreal, and Cape Town. The list of events is missing at lot of them but clicking on the towns will get you local event pages. From the third link: "Ignite is coming to 60+ cities on 6 continents during the first Global Ignite Week, March 1-5, 2010."
I think the time is ripe for a Society for the Responsible Use of Information and Computational Power. Or we could convert the world to geekdom so we'll all be too busy drooling over this stuff to use it for evil.
You know all those people that geeks support and keep trying to convert to Linux? The ones that keep messing up Outlook and calling about how get their documents back (the ones in "My Documents")? Give them one of these: they'll trust it and the support calls will disappear. One of my relatives has a netbook and an iPod Touch. We're counting the days until we can get the netbook away from her but we need something like the iPad so she can "see all of Facebook" and "read the little letters". I'd love to put her on Linux but she doesn't like it when things are "hidden" (at least differently than Windows does it) and I don't have the time to design a new, intuitive distro. It's gotta just work to be worth losing what little experience she has with an OS.
People will pay for something that doesn't seem like a hassle. It's analogous to the "build or buy" decision: geeks want to make stuff and some people just want to get things done.
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I know quite a few Canadians here. We've seen huge manufacturing layoffs over the last few years and those people would love to be back on a line getting paid to do what they know how to do. I also know a ton of 20-somethings who'd be happier to have that option instead of instead of selling cell phones, front-lining at banks, becoming realtors, ... The few manufacturers that are still operating here have no trouble getting and keeping employees. In fact, a Germany company moved a small production facility here last year. Heck, most tech lines are cleaner, nicer, more reliable jobs than meat or seafood processing and those companies operate here.
I know a few of engineers who'd be happy supporting lines that don't exist either, or at least being able to move on to a new employer or lead a maintenance team instead of being stuck because the demand for their skills has gone to China. They don't want to be designers, project managers, or go to grad school to specialize and become consultants. It really burns the guys who got to do it as interns but can't find a similar job now that they've graduated.
Whether one job is better than another depends on the person considering them. I know lots of people who'd never be happy as programmers and plenty of people who are. You may have hated production but I found it far better than a cushy government research job without enough to keep busy.
Only if you promise to bring a viable, charismatic (heck, even just socially functional, smiling, non-sweater-vest-wearing) leader. Our current guy thinks he's Bush's lieutenant but all the other options are pretty weak. It's sounding like we'd vote for Shatner, so you can come if you can get him here.
Sounds like sufficient cause to invade and drive them into poverty and disorganization for the next century. Plus bonus oil!
About equivalent to deeming someone a Norse pagan for signing something "on this Thursday, 2010".
I'm not sure what iPhone sales have to do with how many iPod Touches and iPads are out there, especially given that iPod Touches now outsell the iPhone. And outselling during one quarter doesn't make a bigger market, especially when there were many more iPhones than Androids sold before that period that are still in use. Perhaps you're confusing the smartphone market with the app market? Few, if any, app devs are actually selling phones.
I know of a large North American bank that not only uses password auth, it limits pwds to 6 characters.
Hope they atleast release the Actionscript to Obj-C cross compiler so that people can at least attempt to use it for themselves, if not distribute it through the App Store.
Or for enterprise (proprietary, in-house) use.
Yes, it does: At the Macworld Conference & Expo in January 2008, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that both the iPhone and iPod Touch will use Skyhook's WPS as the primary location engine for Google Maps and other applications. I've tested iPhone geolocation code I've written on an iPod Touch and it works fine.
I tried "rm -rf /" but permission was denied. :-)
Try "sudo rm -rf /" then see if "ls" works.
Until Facebook changes the privacy policy next week.
Could you pull some strings to get Canada into the EU? We're financially responsible, well-mannered, and already used to dealing with the French. I'm tired of having my automotive selection reduced by 80% because I want a stick.
The same thing we do every night - try to take over the world.
But they do have VB!
Geez Danny, getting surgery south of the border and now this? We may have to revoked your Canadian license.
More likely they would tax hard drives and other storage media. Streaming a radio station wouldn't get taxed.
It's like healthcare: pay a little now and get protection from bankruptcy later. Plus it lets Canada legislate where the media tax proceeds are going.
At the one I attended, they ran a second projector with a twitter feed. Yep, 5 minute presentations were too much and needed to be condensed into a set of tweets. Either that or people needed to be told what to think about the talks.
To be followed by the sequel "Should you be buying that overpriced trendy crap?" But perhaps that would be too close to Starbucks' business model or be too close to actionable to make the consumers comfortably smug. (Yes, I'm sure I'm as bad as the rest of them. Pot, kettle, etc.)
Um, what? Both the first and third links have maps with little pins all over the place including Lima, Bangalore, Madrid, Nairobi, Montreal, and Cape Town. The list of events is missing at lot of them but clicking on the towns will get you local event pages. From the third link: "Ignite is coming to 60+ cities on 6 continents during the first Global Ignite Week, March 1-5, 2010."
I think the time is ripe for a Society for the Responsible Use of Information and Computational Power. Or we could convert the world to geekdom so we'll all be too busy drooling over this stuff to use it for evil.
Maybe the right approach is to ask whether the job should be done?
You know all those people that geeks support and keep trying to convert to Linux? The ones that keep messing up Outlook and calling about how get their documents back (the ones in "My Documents")? Give them one of these: they'll trust it and the support calls will disappear. One of my relatives has a netbook and an iPod Touch. We're counting the days until we can get the netbook away from her but we need something like the iPad so she can "see all of Facebook" and "read the little letters". I'd love to put her on Linux but she doesn't like it when things are "hidden" (at least differently than Windows does it) and I don't have the time to design a new, intuitive distro. It's gotta just work to be worth losing what little experience she has with an OS.
People will pay for something that doesn't seem like a hassle. It's analogous to the "build or buy" decision: geeks want to make stuff and some people just want to get things done.
To match with a top of a different size? To let you choose between matching halter, athletic, etc. tops?
*Raises hand* And I was kinda thinking about new boarding goggles...