Source? Most US courts are understaffed (even judges) and over-scheduled.
That doesn't mean they are underpayed and not soaking up all the resources. Lawyers always will want more money for the same level job. A bit cynical I know but I think a "scarcity" of lawyers is always going to be the case, because they never can actually solve anything.
The problem is probably that after the judges and lawyers salaries are factored in they probably haven't got enough money to do IT properly. These guys will take the lion's share of any amount you throw at them.
Maybe it works for media hosting but what does it really do that a Chromecast doesn't do?
There's a market for seamless video looping that the pis are starting to fill. I use them for exhibition spaces to push videos remotely on a loop with omxplayer. Dispman_vncserver allows for remote viewing of content as well.
It's the small size that makes them attractive and I could see them being mounted to other devices than display screens as well. The new compute module and board would fit fine in home-made drones. I was thinking of trying to make a drone with a servo and 3d printer, but my 3d printer isn't up to the task unfortunately (maybe in a couple of years). You just have to use your imagination.
When you actually have had experiences that you cannot scientifically explain you tend to realize that there is this huge domain called the Universe At Large and then there is this much smaller domain called What Mankind Currently Accepts And Understands.
I think what you are referring to has been known at least since the Egyptian times and is the result of hallucinogenic/intoxicating drugs or head knocking. Nothing wrong with having a good time, but people should at least be honest instead of saying "the god with crocodile head and lion body that only I can see told me to do X."
OTOH, I've had a bit of success with dowsing, (two out of two, when I was seriously trying...not statistically significant) and a bit of success with gambling....
Can you at least explain how one "seriously tr[ies] against a slot machine?" Pull the handle instead of pressing the button? Exert great force while pulling the handle (or pressing the button)? "Be the ball?"
The trick is to wait for the ghost to pull the lever. This is the only way to win at gambling in a statistically significant way and you'll never lose your house.
You are right, I missed that and admittedly did not do a thorough search before posting. Still it is fun to think about how to make a genderless connector that would just click together in any which way.
Seriously, why can't we have cables that fit into each other as well as be symmetrical. Oh wait, that's thanks to the patent system. At least this is progress and maybe we will have one standard for most types of application (not holding my breath).
I'm not at all sure I understand the purpose of tech visas, but if the problem they're supposed to solve is that there aren't enough tech workers to fill the available jobs, then surely the upshot is the same either way? The visas issued to Infosys may be used to displace existing US tech workers, but those displaced workers are then available for Facebook to hire.
Where are the opportunities for recent graduates then?
Wow. I was scrolling down to find a positive comment for the new GNOME release. Well done and hats off to you sir.
For me I'll be keep using GNOME 2 until something usable replaces it, checking GNOME release thread for signs that the devs might go back to producing a high quality and functional DE.
I bet you had to travel both ways uphill in the snow barefoot as well.
Today it is much harder for someone "indigenous" and fresh to get a start and to hold it steady to make it into a good stable career.
So? Females are the norm, and males the exception.
This is not so. By default each human cell is a male cell. Female cells have to be constantly refreshed into being female through hormone release.
The way it works is that when you are born male you have something called SRY and it increases SOX9 and decreases FOXL2 which is the "opposite" part of a cell that determines which gender it is. For females it is the otherway around. However, if a female does not suppress SOX9 they will develop male characteristics (this is why you can get an XX male). The cells default option is to move back toward "maleness" and this is why after menopause women and men aren't really that different (because at a cellular level they are tending towards the same gender expressions).
Where are all the no experience needed programming jobs then? Everywhere I look 3 years of X 5 years of Y extensive knowledge of Z.
I think they mean unpayed jobs, of which there are some for inexperienced graduates. Some years ago when I graduated, I would have done jobs in either physics or engineering or computer science for free for months to get experience. After dealing with "employers" back and forth for long periods of time and them stipulating the terms, I couldn't get anything because of competition! Now I am fine, because once you have experience you can simply waltz from job to job, but getting the initial job with an advanced degree is hard (I think the degree puts many people off and I don't mention it much in my successful job interviews now).
According to you problems could be solved in the 70s and 80s but not now as "there is a pervasive pessimism among younger IT, a terrible can't do attitude". Then you say that coding is for the young man and older people should go into management where "experience and wisdom play a greater role". Can't have it both ways. If the coders are there for coding and management that sets directions is comprised of people from this older generation, then something is amiss. I think you look through rose-tinted glasses at the past. If you attack a whole generation, you should first acknowledge the problems with your own one (which is sometimes very greedy and currently numerous).
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear.
