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I thought this was just an allusion to the 5150 in the error message.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5150_(album) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peavey_5150

So rockstar in this context is spot on.

But otherwise, that terminology is complete shit, yes.

This was actually the first thing I noticed too.

I agree with this. I've just got Windows 7 on my corporate desktop. Although there is wide adoption of Win 7 here, Win XP was running previously, and still is on a large number of machines, if this truly sucks the enterprise sector will just wait it out like they did with Vista.

Actually it shows 'Your order has been sent to Google Commerce Ltd.'

Play shows 'Completed'. Which I assume to mean "the order has been successfully placed, you'll get the product". If I'm really that unsure I can click on 'info' and be taken to the Google wallet transaction.

I truly cannot see why this is confusing to anyone. Yes it's crap that there is no announced shipping date.

I've seen people get so ridiculously worked up over this, you've pre-ordered it, just be patient. It's already stated that you'll receive an email with a tracking number when it ships. Relax, it's coming.

Payment hasn't been taken yet. Payment is taken when it ships, and you'll get your tracking number then too.

Lol thanks, although it's not that really an 'off the charts' type of salary. I think making this clearer would be much more helpful :)

Edit: One more little snag: I encountered 'Percentile: 73th' - just need to change the suffix cases :)

This reported my percentile versus my age group as in the 100th percentile. This is flattering, however, you can't score in the 100th percentile.

Other than that, this is a flawless execution in my opinion. Clear data representation and very intuitive to use.

I'd doubt whether there'd be much money in it from an HFT perspective; traditional trading might benefit from it, however.

HFT shops co-locate, so they're running their code right there next to the exchange.

Edit: In case I've missed a point in the article, it wasn't intentional, it's banned at work so wasn't able to read it.

I agree with what you're saying, I've seen it used to write up a text document! Talk about missing the point...

Often equations are needed, along with graphing. It's very expandable and customisable by a non-programmer with VBA.

I'm not saying it's the best, but it's pretty good at what it does, and there's not a better spreadsheet application that I've found.

As an aside, I've seen it be used for managing portfolios worth millions. Then you get a clever IT dept say 'oh no, you shouldnt be doing that on a spreadsheet' and so a new IT project is created to retire the spreadsheet and copy the functionality. Predictably, the project is late, over-budget and under-delivers, so the spreadsheet lives on. Tragic tale of far too many IT projects.

I have to agree with this comment.

As unglamorous as it is, Excel is great, and you can also create some _very_ powerful software rather easily with VBA.

I did not know this, that's reassuring so thanks :)

I can also believe that most users can't do select all or stuff like that; I've seen far too many regular folk copying one file at a time.

I really wish they'd get rid of that awful 'ribbon' in the file explorer. It's very practical in Office applications, but for a file explorer it's just a bit too much, imo.

Traditionally, with an IPO that's become as popular as this one, you have a representative from the company being listed ring the bell on the trading floor of the exchange they're listing on.

However, NASDAQ lacks a proper trading floor, as they're all electronic, so they have companies deliver a live feed of said representative ringing the opening bell from the company HQ.

Can't view people's icons, which is a bit of a hindrance (Twitter is banned at work)

Perhaps mirror the images? Or use Gravatar? Or ignore people working at BigCorps, they may not be your target demo?

Yeah it's pretty impressive parsing of natural language to form financial opinions.

The Bloomberg website or Bloomberg terminal? There's a big difference between the sorts of things you can do with those two, but the website leaves a lot to be desired! Google's finance pages are fairly good at aggregation.

Check out http://bullbear.ca/ - it was posted here before and is quite interesting. (I'm not involved with it)

In what way is it a waste of talent?

Additionally, how are they occasionally destroying the world's economy?

Wow, I didn't know this! Cheeky buggers :)

If they disclose who they are hiring for then what's to stop a candidate applying to the company directly? Cuts out the recruiter and they lose their fee. I've known this has happened to a few friends when they've dealt with recruiters who were stupid enough to disclose this in the first e-mail.

I concur.

There isn't even a little description to say WHAT I'm leaving my details for.

Yes, and I assume it was to be assessed with what the teacher, and the curriculum, were instructed to assess.

Just because you feel MySQL is better doesn't mean you should get bonus points.

I agree using Access to teach database design is stupid, but that's hopefully something that this will address. Going against the curriculum because you feel you're above the instructed way is a fantastic way to get low marks.

Fortunately when it comes to university there's usually flexibility if you want to go above and beyond the minimum, but you still have to tick the boxes of being able to meet their assessment criteria.

Edit: And what happened in that article is what should've happened, in my opinion. You don't get bonus points for being a smart arse. IT teaching is woefully poor, there's no way that teacher could assess a proper app when the original assignment proposed a mock-app in PowerPoint.

As you should've done. MySQL wasn't being taught.

This is true. Additionally, however, at my university I was told by the department admissions head that it isn't a requirement because it limits your set of applicants. The university is interested in people who haven't had the exposure to programming, but are keen and interested. A fair amount of my friends in first year weren't very well versed in programming, but found discrete mathematics very enjoyable.

Let's not forget that programming ability isn't the end goal of a computer science degree.

Assuming you're studying computer science at university, then programming is also not a requirement because it's simply not necessary to know before you start the degree.

From my experience with grad jobs, it's due to the large volume of applications, each of which are different. Some attach cover letters, some detail their grades, etc.

Though it's a horrible method, it means all of the data from an application will be in a standardised format, which can be compared with other applicants, queried, etc. very easily.

If you meet their minimum criteria they can then actually look at your cover letter and CV. Broken system, but they're all the same.

Sane way is speaking directly to recruiters or hiring managers.

Split screen functionality would be SUCH a welcome addition.

You're referring to their UI suite, Sense. Peep and those other apps are HTC products, and part of their own (customised) Android experience.

I think there's a difference between a manufacturer's own UI and corresponding apps, and the sort of crap that gets shovelled onto the American handsets.

Edit: Actually I've just checked and my phone does have Adobe Reader! Didn't even notice that there... Oops.

Surely this is more of a provider issue than a manufacturer?

I could be wrong, I live in the UK and I've never had any specific apps come installed on my phone. Nothing except a network's app to check your balance/plan usage, which is easily uninstalled.

Not just this, but your GCSEs and A-Levels too.

I was actually turned down from a graduate job because my GCSEs were not all straight A, despite my A-Levels being so.

Although this might seem a bit ridiculous from a graduate point of view, the market has become so saturated with graduates. So much so that these companies can be VERY selective, for no other reason than to get the number of people's CVs they have to look at down to a manageable amount.

Additionally, just because you did a History degree, doesn't mean you have to do something USING that degree. University is an academic and educational pursuit, it isn't an apprenticeship.

Assuming you want real-time data, this is the sort of thing that would cost a fair amount of money.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. But, from what I can see, this is merely meant as a useful tool for those who are interested in commodities. The people who are seriously interested in trading commodities will probably already have their own favourite price feeds and charting tools.