Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Wasn't there a story of somebody at HP/IBM/etc that interviewed with two different divisions on different floors of the same building - got offered both jobs - and took them
By leaving his jacket on the back of the chair and always attending meetings - he got away with it for a long time!
My bank has Windows PCs running IE displaying an internal app with lots of text boxes that the user tabs between to enter the numbers.
I suggest replacing the virus prone PC and the malware prone browser with some sort of custom hardware which sends tab characters directly down a wire to the big computer and receives the text to print in the box directly from the same wire. The custom box wouldn't have an OS or be able to access facebook
Can anyone suggest a name for this technology?
Surprisingly there is a certain amount of terminological-inexactitude on both sides.
The EPA has gone over the top in some areas of natural sources. any quarrying removing overburden (the natural rock on top of the minerals they want) have to treat that as contaminated waste if it naturally contains above limits of certain elements. So it would have to be buried in a special waste site, which would mean digging up the overburden there, which would then be contaminated waste which would have to buried in a waste site ......
But the farmers want an exemption from the EPA for any "natural" waste. So an intensive feedlot could dump a 1000 tons of cow slurry in a stream killing everything downstream and that would be "natural"
Because if it wasn't - somebody would have left a CIA branded jacket at the scene, they would have parked half-a-dozen Ford Escalades with backed out windows and flashing lights outside while they did it.
And the agents would now all be on Oprah plugging their book of the operation and signing-up the movie rights
JSTOR is a sop to the universities by the publishers to keep the status-quo
Academics argue that since the tax payer funds the research and their salaries, the journals charge them for publishing (hey Springer why am I paying for color plates in an online journal? Are colored pixels more expensive?) and they edit and peer-review the papers for free - then access to the papers should be free.
JSTOR is a consortium of publishers saying to universities - OK we will let you have access for free as long as you all pay to join the club.
He released the published results of 1000s of government funded researchers to the general public
imagine what would happen if the ordinary man in the street started learning about evolution and the universe being older than 4000 years and things being made of atoms. Why - they might write to their congressman !
"Under an open-source license,code ceases to be solely owned by the author of that code"
Round-objects: I wrote the code, I own the code (unless my employer says otherwise) - I choose to distribute the code to other people under the GPL but I still own it and I may choose to sell commercial versions to certain customers
The Govt support to Rover was a conservative govt backhander to BAe while they owned it.
It was an attempt not to look like an illegal subsidy so the Americans wouldn't object - or so they could pretend not to have a reason to object while US defense companies were courting BAe
Most mergers are so the CEO has "done something".
CEO at companyA - slow and steady, grows market a bit, money in the bank, happy workforce = laughing stock.
CEO at companyH - 'invests' $8bn in iBuzzword-cloudy thing that they eventually shut down = a Big Swinging Dick for heading up a multi-billion $ merger and being a forward thinking visionary in the iBuzzword technology. Gets hired by companyA whose current CEO hasn't made any $Bn investments.
The other alternative is either to split the company into competing business units to enhance competitiveness - or (if the last CEO did this) merge the competing business units into one giant company to enhance efficency.
> the parents will tell him why it's not appropriate
Mummy why is fuck/shit/piss rude but fornicate/defecate/urinate nice?
Because words from Germanic roots makes little baby Jesus cry but Latin words are OK
Why doesn't little baby Jesus like Germans?
Because he's Jewish
But he likes Romans - who nailed him to a tree ?
Yes dear
Military details consisted of messages from US embassies that revealed:
Pakistan might not be completely on our side helpful in dealing with muslim terrorists
Putin wields some power over the president in Russia
Israel might not be entirely sincere in seeking a political settlement with the Palestinians.
The police responsible have been arrested and the chief fired ?
Don't they know the proper thing to do is to claim the victim's visa had expired, was carrying a chair leg and resisted arrest - then promote the offices. Then 20years later have a public enquiry and do nothing
But it's relatively expensive to fly him from India when the secretary's screen won't come on or you need to plugin that new NAS into the network.
Until we all work in the cloud from our iGlasses day-day office IT support is likely to be the only thing that actually does have a job future. A bit like how nurses are safe but expert doctors will be replaced by telemedicine.
The other problem is that this affects your lifetime earnings.
Because raises are always a % of your salary - if you got hired in a slump you are going to be paid 20% less and this compounds each year so you end up with 50% less lifetime earnings than somebody hired in a boom.
One previous employer went bust because it had an entire telecoms division hired at "competing with banks" salaries who got the same round of pay rises but never billed enough work. Of course they also had enough people on the board to make sure that their division never got cut - right upto the point everyone got cut!
> he's willing to move production elsewhere to save money - not the wisest template for UK.gov to follow for trying to grow the economy.
It's exactly the wisest template.
R&D and engineering here, cheap ,mass production in SE Asia.
ARM doesn't manufacture anything but that doesn't mean it's better to fund some screwdriver plant that puts made in UK badges on TVs until the subsidy runs out.
It's extra-ordinarily difficult to create a valid email regex see http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
And when you do it's totally useless because to allow all the bizarre edge cases you end up having to allow so many genuine mistakes that there is no point.. "Abc\@def"@abc.com is valid
In this case I think it's more like:
Wife discovers husband just spent a fortune on an old sportscar
Husband then spent another fortune trying to make the car run.
Husband now claims that mileage was wrong because it didn't account for tire wear changing the radius and that they should get their money back before wife makes them sleep in the shed.
Back in the early days of ARM we had a core design that was licensed to an American company and the resulting chip wasn't exportable back to the UK because of it's scary supercomputer like performance
None of this is actually about secrets, it's all politics / trade barriers / stupidity - mostly stupidity.
