There is more to a programming career then programming. When I did my CS degree there were heaps of kids who had already hacked together their own websites/programs/flavour of linux... And they had a massive head start. But there is more to coding then hacking, there is team work, development models and methodologies, test case development and discipline. Brilliant script kiddies found it hard to work in groups and definitely didn't get the best jobs at the end of the course. It was the asian kids, because no matter how good you are there is always an asian kid who's better.
Being so close to Asia, We do this in a big way in Australia.
I went to a high school that had over 40% south east Asian students. When I got to university I found that they were paying up to 10x more for their fees than me. Dentistry for example is over $100k per year for a international student, but for residents its only about $10k. Why would they come here to pay fees like that? Easy migration path once they finish. We do have problems with immigration but its mainly with those who are granted asylum and live off government handouts. Immigration is also what has made Australia the powerhouse that it is.
I work in an Engineering office. Gaming has always occupied too large a slice of my life. The thousands of hours (/PLAYED) I have spent on wow could have taught me 3 new languages to the fluent level, become a master pianist, or
Actually we use the term Sambo for a Fish round here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_fish
Because of the stupid few, all handheld laser devices are now restricted imports(ie Banned) in Australia and it is illegal to own a laser over 1mw. (Weak laser pointer power) So applying a film, goggles, blah blah blah. These people need to be educated, they are endangering the lives of these people. They do deserve jail time. These people are the stupidest of the stupid of people and deserve to be taken out of circulation. Now however having a 1000mw laser when you are lost in the bush would definitely help people find you, however I think that these lasers need to be banned like fireworks as the general population is too stupid to respect their dangers.
I don't think that there are many ultra capacitors adding storage capacity to grids. Its definitely on the table for the future however at the moment the capacitor banks that you see at your transmission yards are actually for power factor correction not power storage.
Since youtube probably gets like 1000 copyright infringement notices a day, does that mean they will punish their own service and put it at the bottom of the results?
Flame coat on.
What's missing is iTunes. Samsung Kies has no bluetooth support, the usb micro port is dodgey at best and HTC Sync is also just lacking. Having a Samsung Galaxy S2, Galaxy Tab and HTC Desire, the manufacturer fragmentation is not the only pain, you have carrier fragmentation on top of hardware fragmentation. Updating a Galaxy is impossible (bar rooting) without OTA updates which are Carrier Specific. Should your carrier not be bothered with a phone/tablet that they offered 9 months ago you will never get updates regardless of whether every other carrier in the world has an update. I think that the either the OS needs to be further separated from the HMI so that updates don't break the crappy carrier only apps, and whatever apps they have restricted on your phone and do make your phone better, or Google restricts what the branding can do such that it doesnt get in the way of users being able to upgrade their phones.
Apple does this by not allowing carrier branding on their phones. Google is trying to do this with the Nexus line up. I think in the future if I stick with android I will only be buying Nexus devices due to the complete lack of carrier&hardware support I have had with my previous devices. All of them still run gingerbread as their haven't been any updates available for my carrier.
Finally a universal android Sync app for windows/mac/linux which could give the user full access to their phones (and ideally root), access to updates, usb modem, full bluetooth stack, wifi sync and full data and app backup.
Under the the laws of physics i guess that they could verify the note was real, but due to the observer effect in the process of that validation they would destroy the security particles in the note rendering it useless for future transactions...
Well I have traveled Domestically from australia and internationally to places such as the UK recently and not once have i seen a security employee pat someone down. At one airport their was a spread leg station where you had to stand on a platform spread eagle while they wanded you but thats it. Oh and for a while there they were really anal about you taking liquids on the plane... Every person I know who has travelled to the US has nightmare stories about hour long queues at security and missing transfers due to having their entire luggage emptied for them.
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