Comment Re:WTF (Score 1) 79
No my mother, but your mom seems to like it.
Dad?
No my mother, but your mom seems to like it.
Dad?
This is a normal cyclical occurrence in companies such as Microsoft, they'll have skimmed off the kids who can actually write C++ compiled binary and assembler software well, and thrown the rest out. I know from years of experience, you'll think you are in a room full of programmers but in reality there will approximately two brainy kids amongst 200. This is the nature of human intelligence, it's a rare commodity and MOST people are “wannabes.”
Then there's the people who can do it but spend all day on Slahsd... oh shit I'd better get some work done!
it's about time that any one useing any h1b's must lay them off first.
What's the betting that the layoffs will be followed by lobbying for more h1bs because of the shortage of skilled staff.
Actually, many people don't want to work with Linux, given the abysmal choices of desktop environments, each with their own style of suck.
I've one word for you. Metro.
Seriously? There is a business called 'Big Ass Fans'?
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Some donkeys get quite hot - they're filling a niche
using secret ink so the paper blank until you hold it over a candle. We used to do that as kids.
I suggest, since they are going back to "old school tech" they should use the "Mission impossible" reel to reel taprecorder that catches alight once played. Maybe Apple are working on a digital version.
the creepy part is the car knowing your health and determining whether it would be more fit to drive than you.
In this case I disagree. The creepy part is that all those intoxicated and fatigued people still take their car. This kind of techonology should not be necessary but clearly it is.
I once knew someone who would drive 400 yards to a pub and quite seriously said that it was because he often couldn't walk properly when he came out, and that just driving down the road "wasn't a problem"!
Why not create an UK team ? You would have more chances of success.
double zero is still zero!
How about getting the England football team beyond the first round for the next world cup? This I see as a much better plan for 2018.
We prefer realistic goals.
David Cameron is currently undertaking a feasibility study on the possibility of holding a piss-up in a brewery.
But it's being pushed by Scottish politicians. I still think it's politics, but for the other side: It's a way for Scotland to demonstrate the have high-tech capabilities too, and are more than just an outpost of England.
It doesn't sound like it, from TFA:
Ministers want to establish the UK spaceport by 2018 - the first of its kind outside of the US.
Eight aerodromes have been shortlisted and Scotland has six of the potential locations.
If the French people want the small booksellers etc. they can simply choose now not to go to amazon. Amazon offering cheap shipping isn't forcing anyone to use it.
It comes down to whether you want to make a considered decision on something or rely on the populace's impulse purchases to determine the direction your country moves in.
At least for now with this most recent situation, an online giant has found a relatively quick and easy way to regain the upperhand.
Why the assumption that it is good for for-profit companies to find loopholes and avoid the will of democratically elected governments. The French government has made a decision that will have repercussions. If this is followed, books will be more expensive in France, but they wont lose the independent small bookstalls in town high streets that so many other countries will have. It may also inhibit the ability of online companies to start in France. But, guess what, the people can decide. They can lobby for it to be an election issue, ask their representatives which way they vote, etc. If they don't like the law they can get it changed.
Why is it assumed to be better for a private company with a board who the French people ave no influence upon circumvent this decision?
Force needed to accelerate 2.2lbs of cookies = 1 Fig-newton to 1 meter per second
