jtr_47

This ISPs have, or will become the true monopolies that will be the gatekeepers of all access to the internet.

They are entrenched and are not expanding their services, instead, they are digging in and keeping their foothold within their regions, limiting/eliminating competition, both from a rules/laws (like preventing municipal ISPs from forming) and limiting their service footprint to maximize their "profits" within their regions. Next expanding, but always increasing the amount they charge to poor service and access to the "internet."

If anything, it appears that ISP behavior is similar to the original Ma-Bell (USA) telephone Corp. It looks like somebody needs to break them up. But that's wishful thinking this day & age, just like having a nation wide (USA) fiber deploy to all states, cities and towns. Imagine, a Renaissance would develop.

Peace

What kind of person would consider going or being interviewed after they heard that statement? Regardless if they wore a suit and brought their mother to the event. It shows that you may be interested but are testing the waters? If this person really wanted the job, it looks like she would have done almost anything to get it.

I do not condone the behavior of either party involved. But at least one person should be strong enough to say no thanks, I don't believe in compromising my integrity for an interview with those requirements attached. I'd report this to HR ASAP too.

peace.

Wouldn't it funny if sometime in a few years you'll need to take out a loan or lease the apple products instead of being able to buy them outright.

Too bad the thunderbolt is not running over a fiber connection. That would have been a better upgrade and made the external devices, GPU etc. even better.

"Jim, it appears you have been yelling at your child. We have contacted child services, submitted for a warrant to enter your home automatically to allow lawful entry into your home to remove your child for further investigation."

How about hooking into SQLite in some way, in which an instance of it acts like a file system.

Do not trust a for profit company, ever to provide free or open anything. They are there to make money off of the work they do or that others do as contributions to their open source products.

This sounds strangely familiar in relation to what is occurring within the USA. I wonder if the same play book is being used today in my country, the USA.

In late 70's and 80's we had a TV (x-ray gun) - an RCA that sat on the floor of our living room. Our carpet in the living room, which was never shampooed, in front of the TV turned much darker than the rest of the carpet in the living room over time. This was noticeable when the original RCA died and we got another in the late 80's.

I used to sit close to the TV sometimes. I enjoyed the static & anti-gravity of the screen when the TV was turned on. It was cool looking at dust particles falling into the screen :)

Those were the days!

We don't need replacements. We need to eliminate these companies.

Build in a trial period then with limited functionality/levels. The cost of that trail period is a small percentage of the overall price. For isntance, let's say the game is $12 USD. The trial period of the game would be 2 days 1 or 2 levels & cost $2 USD. you can upgrade to the full game (no refunds) or pay as you go for each level/functionality.

Yes - maybe this is more programming, but we have better languages & libraries to make this happen.

I think there's a way to do this & eliminate nonsense.

To remove issues with fake reviews, remove the ability to post reviews and rankings for an application. Instead, enable a application refund system. If you don't like the application, you have 60-90 days to get a refund. No more nonsense with fake reviews and such. You as the individual will determine if an application or song or whatever is good for you. Don't rely on reviews, they can be faked.

peace

Early fall should be around end of September - through October

I agree- Also, bonus pools also decrease in some groups year after year because the new project pool has dried up & you end up in BAU (business as usual) support mode and can't get another "new" project. New projects have nice bonus pools for most folks.

Salary increases can also decrease, but you get something VS a bonus which could be 0 - some percentage of your base salary in some cases.

As an American, I can gladly say fuck the EU. Their laws do not and never shall be imposed on me or the work I do ever. I'm glad not to do business within the EU.

Logically, don't use Clojure & the JVM if you want to avoid bloat. Try LFE, Lisp Flavored Erlang: http://lfe.io/ or SBCL: http://sbcl.org/

Just a recommendation if you want to avoid the JVM bloat issues, which are real and have existed since the JVM was developed

peace

This is not a complex topic. It's very simple. Facebook and the various other messaging platforms sole purpose is to make money. End of story. They have no values no morals or ethics. They do what is necessary and within a legal framework (region dependent) that allows them to make money.

IF our USA government decides to designate Facebook, twitter etc. News Media outlets, then they will have to confirm to a different set of laws within our country and maybe others.

These companies are merely a 2.0 of USENET NEWS. and nothing more. They've monetize the users' of the system.

Peace

Interesting, with all of the money that Microsoft has, why can't they fix these backdoors and exploits? For many years now, MS Windows has been the "most" exploited OS in our history.

Maybe they're under an NDA with our, USA government thus allowing all these issues to exist.

I know they can fix these issues. They have the manpower and money to do so.

The community should start pressuring them to fix their OS and plug those back door holes and exploits.

Peace

You'll have to use their "new" version of a URL.

Sounds like Google is becoming a bully ;p. They shouldn't reset standards of World Wide Web.

I had a similar experience in High School late 80s (Jamaica HS, NY). We had Pascal, x86 Assembly, Some C. The computer teacher was also our physics teacher.

It was an excellent set of courses that taught some basics of programming and hardware architecture and we learned. There was a computer club where we interfaced with a laser disc player. Some really cool time back then. I was lucky to have my C=64/128 and Amiga 500 to extend my learning experience, with C.

Peace.

Have you tried a little meditation to help with some symptoms? I recommend this. Sit in a slightly dark room, be comfortable. Close your eyes, relax & take no thought (try it's hard). Do that for 15-30 minutes. Do this at least once a week, more the better. This will help you focus.

Peace and love on your journey. JTR

Don't choose a language because it will make you money. Choose language because it's something to learn and you'll enjoy programming in it. You can know more than 1 language. The main one is that which will earn you an income. The other, or others it to play and enjoy what the language and environment has too offer.

My personal experience is as follows: 1. Eat meals, breakfast, lunch and a light dinner - end at 4pm.. You begin your fasting after this - no eating or snacking after you have dinner. YOu should eat breakfast around 8am the next day - so between 4pm to 8am, this is when you are fasting.. that's why they call breakfast - BREAK the FAST. You can do this every day. Not sure if this is helping my stage 4 colon cancer, but it's doable :) Peace

this sounds like a scare piece of "news." A possible competitor to twitter etc.

There was a time when Smalltalk was an Operating system.

Imagine a fully lisp based OS...hmm.... the things you can do!

Peace

H1B needs to be abolished. It has only been used to suppress US wages and to bring in lower paying bodies to do the same work a properly trained US Citizen could perform in IT. There's no shortage of IT skills in the USA.

They should be punished to the fullest.