That's a lie for good programmers, for mediocre ones, it might be true.
And, NAICT, it only applies to "tech industry" jobs. Every time I see a picture of a team working the Shuttle software, or the flight control software for a major civil airframe, etc... etc... it's older programmers. The "kids" are the minority.
IBM / Rational, Forrester research, GE. I could keep going.
Google uses multiple container systems and a lot of their infrastructure isn't Linux but Docker is a key component of their containerization strategy. If it were even 10+% Docker you talking well in excess of 100m Docker containers in production.
People not physically present in the US would fail the substantial presence test and so would be taxed as a non-resident alien.
Unless they're contractors who file tax on the foreign country's equivalent of form 1099.
I doubt it's going to change anything, because customers are too used to computers not working. That is the real damage that 30 years of Microsoft dominance have done to the world.
The truth of it is that significant outages are rare considering the size of the Microsoft ecosystem.
The geek posts his rant to Slashdot in the hope that his story will make the front page before service is restored.
Given the first word is "whereas" it's stating the opposite of the post it is replying to.
To use a baseball analogy, all the farm teams and minor leagues have been shipped out of the country, so where do we get the next generation of major league players from?
Same place NFL and NBA get their players: college.
If they come to the US, the US can tax their income. If they work remotely, their home country gets all the income tax.
The brown ones remind Van Halen of a shoddy set builder.
Why do these systems need network access to play a game bought on a disk? That is the bigger question, sure I can understand only supporting multiplayer through a centralized service, my issue is with the activation and phone home crap.
Consoles have long since ceased to be video game players alone.
That is why Xbox Live Status posts a breakdown by services and apps.
It is perfectly possible for activation and content management services to be up while multiplayer gaming is down.
That way the scope of these little disasters would be limited.
The geek needs to remember that he pays a high price for these attacks.
"The Lizard Squad" is a perfect fit for the popular stereotype of the eternally-adolescent-and-irresponsible geek, aka the malicious practical joker, the hacker. Each hack chips away at the geek's credibility and political effectiveness where he needs it the most.
Would copyright infringement be a valid form of protest if the incumbent music publishers start suing indie songwriters on trumped-up charges of creating a derivative work by accident? (For example, Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music)
These jobs represent an exit for most of these workers, the opportunity to build their life as they wish - or try.
Yeah. She's one of the lucky ones, she got out. Most don't. You'll never hear from them though.
Before any uninformed comments start blossoming
The crappy living conditions, the crappy hours, the lack of industrial safety, the crappy pay... all these things are well documented. Commenting on them is far from uninformed.
OK, early fish could see in colors. And clearly modern birds (and their dino ancestors) can see in color
The mineralized rods and cones in this fossil fish are the first to be found in any vertebrate fossil. The argument for color vision in dinosaurs is more or less based on the theory that if a sexually attractive feather-like structure was colored, a dino must have seen it in color.
There's an entire episode of ST: Enterprise devoted to ripping off Robert Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy
TFTFY.
Seriously, read Citizen... RAH handles it so much better than TV.
Get rid of the sports that cannot measure the success of the competitors using the Olympic motto: higher, faster, stronger. That means no figure skating, no synchronized swimming, and, especially, no more rhythmic gymnastics. Essentially, nothing that requires assigning a number to a performance via a panel of judges.
The motto was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin on the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894."These three words represent a programme of moral beauty. The aesthetics of sport are intangible."
I take that as an explicit rejection of the notion that the human element can be taken out of the equation.
That "higher, faster, stronger" implies an aesthetically pleasing and moral achievement, not merely something which can be captured and understood by examining the clock and camera alone.
Coubertin would go on to say that "The most important thing is not to win but to take part!"
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
