I thought snow was like gravel, in that you will stop faster by locking up the wheels and piling up some snow in front of them, rather than trying to stop the wheels from locking up? On the other hand, slowing down slowly can be safer than slowing down more quickly with no directional control, so it is rarely a better way out of trouble. Additionally a snowy road very quickly turns to ice once a few cars have packed the snow down hard, which changes the physics substantially.
HR departments and recruitment agents are part of the problem, the other part is managers who don't know how to write a decent job description so they give all the details to those HR departments or recruitment agents for them to piece together the information so 10 years of industry experience + Hadoop experience becomes 10 years of Hadoop experience.
What makes you believe best movie you have ever seen?
It reminds me of when the laboratories that rated sunscreens could only rate them up to SPF 15, and pretty much every sunblock on the market was exceeding that. At some point, at least in New Zealand and Australia, the government stepped in and said they couldn't advertise higher than 15, so they all became SPF15+ for a while.
The problem of inconsistent floating point calculations between machines has been solved since 1985. I'm sure moving your app into the cloud doesn't suddenly undo 28 years of computing history.
There is another difference, which I think is more relevant to Gartner's report. Most crappy corporate software comes with glossy sales brochures written at a level that even an analyst can understand.
I don't know about your smartphone, but mine comes with MHL and Bluetooth keyboard support (I was going to say USB-OTG, but I think if you're using the MHL port, you can't use USB at the same time since they share the same physical plug).
The problem was, it was a lecture about fair use AND the topic was about a song that should have been a fair use of their content. The band had been sued by Island back in the early 90's and there were lots of issues with the way the whole thing went down.
Did they ever find what they were looking for?
Yes, don't forget all the people checking the Beijing Olympics website daily for the latest updates. They have Silverlight installed too.
I remember when Intel added power on timers to the BIOS specification and released some software for configuring it. I think I was using a 386DX40 desktop at the time I tested it out. Your BIOS has the feature even if it doesn't expose it in the BIOS setup UI. Its the kind of feature that doesn't make sense as a standalone feature so its provided more for the OS to use.
Is Timor the nearest part of Indonesia to mainland Australia? What about Papua?
Except New Zealand is about 10 times the distance from Australia that Indonesia is. The only countries closer than Indonesia are Papua New Guinea, and maybe East Timor (though I think from the tip of Queensland to the border between PNG and Indonesia might be closer than East Timor to Bathurst Island)
I wouldn't want to be the one who was assigned to take samples if this life turns out to resemble velociraptors.
So has Australia swallowed it whole like a fratboy scarfing a goldfish and I just missed the news?
The other way around. Indonesia sent an army of boat people to take over from the inside. It's been widely reported in the news over the last 10 years or so, especially around election time.
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