. . . so, are there any Intelers here on Slashdot, who have been told by their managers, that there is not enough money in the company to give them a raise?
But Intel seems to have 300 million to piss away . . .
How about hiring the best person for the job, and fits well with the rest of the team regardless of gender, race, religion, sexual preference, etc? If it happens to be someone who is white, hispanic, or black who cares?
Unfortunately, it seems that the best person for the job is now defined by gender, race, religion, sexual preference, etc
If it happens to be someone who is white
. . . he or she won't be hired . .
hispanic, or black who cares
The PR of big corporations departments care. And Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are shaking them down.
Is anyone here old enough to remember those languages . . . ?
I don't think anyone ever started from scratch, writing a JCL program . . . you always just took an example, and fiddled around with it.
. . . but then, when I needed to write a IP driver for ATM, the folks told me: Just look at the Ethernet driver, and follow that
I have often wondered how much the English language contributed to the industrial revolution taking place in Britain as opposed to other Euripean countries. English is more precise in some ways than other languages, is it a better tool for expressing ideas?
Take a quick glance at German. When I'm sitting in a meeting full of Germans, and one of them mentions Fehlerbehebungsmassnahmen , I know exactly what he is talking about.
I'm a native English speaker, but learned German as a second language. The German language is like programming C++ . . . you can do some wacky things with it that are a hoot and a half, but "normal" users should probably best tend to avoid . . .
. . . haben gehabt wäre gewesen sein . . . .
The difference now is that quite ordinary foreigners learn English to become a support desk worker or software developer or work in an airport or the reception of a hotel and so on. Not to mention here in Europe in many large companies English is now the business language, no matter where you are. Or to put it conversely, if you can't work in English you've significantly limited your employment opportunities. The invisible hand of the market is pushing quite well on this one.
One more advantage of English . . . you can speak it extremely badly, and still make yourself understood. I was once in a cafeteria in scenic Austin, Texas, where a guy from China and a guy from India were talking to each other . . . in English. The English that they were talking would have given my 7th grade English teacher conniption fits, but the two guys managed to communicate with each other:
English is a fault tolerant language.
With a relatively small vocabulary, you can say a whole hell of a lot.
A simple language for simple minds.
It works.
On a trip to Iceland years ago I once shared a hot tub with a bunch of locals (which seems to be a favourite Icelandic activity) one of whom turned out to be the president of the country.
What an awesome Slashdotter challenge! Have you gotten nude with a international political leader?
We want to hear about it here!
Have you seen Vladimir Putin's Grand Poutine?
Maybe a quickie with North Korea's Kim Chee? Tell your stories here!
It's roughly 30 guns per 100 persons averaged over Germany, in my landkreis it's just below 90 handguns per 100 persons (5 years old statistic)..
Well, you know, a brilliant American thinker, Jared Diamond, wrote a book with the title of the three three things that a civilization need to survive: Guns, Germans and Steel
You can buy guns and steel in most American supermarkets . . . . the Germans are the tough one to get in the Beenie Baby set!
Look it now. Merkel pretty much controls Europe -
Look at Angela Merkel now . . . she has Ph.D. in Physics, and a bad bowl-head haircut to boot! A German TV camera team caught her last year buying a jar of mustard in a supermarket in Berlin. The team was filming an advertisement, until one of the crew said. Hey, isn't that the Channcellor or something?"
When was the last time you saw President Obama anywhere, without a half Marine Brigade protecting him . . . ?
IBM is like toenail fungus . . . it never really completely goes away.
They used to sell hardware . . . now they sell services.
In the future, the name IBM will still be around, but I don't know what they will be selling then.
They don't know yet either.
One of my predictions for 2015 is that IBM's CEO Ginni Rometty will get the golden parachute.
the republican base claims prior art.
Actually, Obama has probably been called worse by members of his own party. You can't muscle your way to the presidential candidacy of a major political party, without hearing a lot of low, nasty epithets. I would love to hear what Hilliary Clinton says about him in private!
Obama is a tough guy. My guess, is that he just laughed the North Korean comment off, and said, "Is that the best they can do?!?!?"
They buy them on Tor with Bitcoins . . . just like everybody else.
If they vote Democrat, maybe they might have a chance to get in under Obama. But I doubt if their numbers would be large enough to interest either political party.
So, tough luck. Get in line with the other talented professionals who attempt to entry the country legally.
Illegal immigrants with large voting blocks are preferred!
. . . and then the British rewarded the inventor by chemically castrating him, and then driving him to suicide.
The Germans will claim that the computer was invented by Konrad Zuse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
Americans will cite ENIAC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
. . . any other contenders . . . ?
I had the pleasure of hearing Prof. Forman Acton talk about programming the first von Neumann machines. He would refer to the inventors of FORTRAN as, "The FORTRAN boys" . . . his tales were a hoot and a half!
Love makes the world go 'round, with a little help from intrinsic angular momentum.
