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2005/6/19 [Computer/SW/Languages] UID:38189 Activity:high 76%like:38198 |
6/19 Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Tech-Job-Decline.html?pagewanted=print \_ Oh darn. You mean those opportunistic little shits who clogged up all of my project groups in CS classes aren't around anymore? Cry me a fucking river. \_ is there a CSUA password? \_ No, some dumbass disabled it. Just use http://bugmenot.com. |
2005/6/19-22 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll/Jblack] UID:38190 Activity:nil |
6/19 jblack, tell us a little bit about yourself. Why did you vote for George W Bush, and what are some Republican values you like and dislike? Also, tell us what you think about Bush's War. Was it a right decision, and has it made US and the world safer? Lastly, what do you think about gays, lesbians, and immigrants? Curious. |
2005/6/19-20 [Politics/Domestic/Immigration, Politics/Foreign/Asia/Others] UID:38191 Activity:nil |
6/19 The great management consultancy ripoff: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1509728,00.html \_ Sensationalism, to a degree. My girlfriend works for one of these, and their billing is far more straightforward--each project is sold with x% fixed expenses on top. The problems with a lot of management consultancy projects are far more subtle--things like failing to draw the line at helping a customer's management fuck up a company through short-sighted cost cutting, etc. -John \_ Yeah, like moving jobs to India. I heard that some management finally realize that it's not a great idea after all. |
2005/6/19-20 [Computer/Companies/Apple, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:38193 Activity:nil |
6/19 I'm going to upgrade to Tiger, and I'll be backing up all my files to do a fresh install. What is the best way (if there is a way) to back up all my iPhoto images and then bring them into Tiger, still in their original albums, subalbums, etc. Will a simple export and import accomplish this? Thanks. \_ I installed Tiger on a new HD, then I hooked up my old HD and copied the iPhoto library over. This seemed to work. \_ Thanks, but unfortunately I'll be installing Tiger onto the same drive that currently has the old OS. \_ copy your entire Pictures directory onto another drive. \_ I backed my dad's iPhoto library onto dvd using toast and then copied it back over and it seemed to work okay. If your library is bigger than 4 gb this won't work though. |
2005/6/19-20 [Consumer/Audio] UID:38194 Activity:nil |
6/19 Dear iPod owners, I have a few questions for you. 1) Does iPod Photo work on the PC? I'm asking because when I went to the Apple Store, the Mac version of iTunes had a photo option whereas my PC version of iTunes didn't give me one. \_ iPod Photo does work on the PC. \_ Just installed a 60GB iPod Photo on my mom's PC laptop on Saturday. Worked just fine for her. -- Marco 2) Can I plug in an iPod to multiple machines, do a sync, and *keep* all the downloads? \_ Yes, but not with Apple software. As far as iTunes is concerned, your iPod must be "tied" to a particular machine. You can sync to another machine, but you will lose all the data from the previous machine. This is a flimsy attempt at "copy protection" that just ends up being a pain in the ass for those of us with more than one computer (imagine that! two computers! What will they think of next!). However, there are 3rd party programs that will allow you to circumvent some of these restrictions. Podmaster is a free program written for this purpose, although you get what you pay for - it is written in RealBasic and has a fugly UI. For $8 you can get PodManager, which is quite a bit better: http://podmanager.brunoblondeau.com |
2005/6/19-20 [Computer/SW/Security, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:38195 Activity:nil |
6/19 Stupid question. how do we implement POP and IMAP access on Soda? \_ imap and pop over SSL works fine - danh \_ Stupid answer. Slave monkeys and Google page-rank pigeons. - jvarga |
2005/6/19-20 [Recreation/Dating] UID:38196 Activity:nil |
6/19 Is this Lila? http://personals.sfgate.com/profile.aspx?bookmark=wlyIzn%2fRCPg%3d \_ I like how she says she weighs less than 486 pounds. \_ That's the "person being sought" line \_ ___ Hi I'm Snuggy! I'm cute, cuddly, and very friendly! {~._.~} / _( Y )_ (:_~*~_:) (_)-(_) \_ Which stalker wants to know? \_ yes \_ It was just "Whoah, the personal add on SFGate looks like Lila. Weird." \- The give away is "Ethnicity: 50% Caucasian, 50% Butter". \_ Um, why are you looking at personal ads, nweaver? \_ It was on the friggin FRONT PAGE of http://sfgate.com (chron website). \_ Why wouldn't nweaver be looking at personal ads? \_ Because he should be partying with us instead, duh! \_ Because he has a gf |
2005/6/19-20 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:38197 Activity:moderate |
6/19 Before Oct 2004, had you heard of "The Lancet"? Yes: ... No: . What is "The Lancet?": .. I don't give a shit about politics, let's talk about Linux: . \- If you had not heard of The Lancet, that says more about you than "The Lancet" ... that is "their" NEJM or JAMA. \_ Oh wise and noble partha, please enlighten us unwashed masses on why we ought to be spending time reading some medical journal in the uk? \- i am not saying you need to read The Lancet or the economist ... just that if you havent, that doesnt suggest they are obscure publications. the fact that say sephen hawking has not won the nobel prize doesnt reflect badly on his importance as a physicist. and were he to win one day, his reputation will not change one bit. maybe you didn not know Yale has one of the best law schools in the country, but this probably would not surprise you. it may surprise you to learn rutgers has one of the best philosophy depts around ... however that doesnt meant rutgers/phil isnt a strong dept. "the lancet" along with nature, science, cell, NEJM, JAMA is one of the "standards". \_ Actually, ed is the standard, but Partha's 100% correct. This is just the sort of thing you should know as part of a 100% complete breakfast, sorry. -John |
2005/6/19-20 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus] UID:38198 Activity:moderate 76%like:38189 |
6/19 Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S. http://tinyurl.com/737b8 (nytimes.com) \_ Oh darn. You mean those opportunistic little shits who clogged up all of my project groups in CS classes aren't around anymore? Cry me a fucking river. \_ is there a CSUA password? \_ No, some dumbass disabled it. Just use http://bugmenot.com. \_ Just checked out http://bugmenot.com. what a great site! \_ If you are using firefox there is a nice bugmenot plugin: http://roachfiend.com/archives/2005/02/07/bugmenot \_ err... if you think of it, programming jobs *ARE* manufacturing jobs... manufacturing of software, that is. \_ Some computer jobs could be classified as manufacturing (ex. build/release engineering) but stuff like actual design of new software products and development is more like classical engineering work than manufacturing jobs. \_ just like design of new consumer electronics and other traditional products are done in USA, and manufacturing is done somewhere else. \_ If asian countries can do better at software and engineering, they can also do better at other things. What will the US be left with? More than half the new jobs created are related to real estate. Besides that, what else? Scientists, lots of accountants, MBAs? Service jobs are being outsourced too, and pay tend to be low, and those won't help in balancing the trade deficit. The top people will be making more and more, while the others will become poorer and poorer. "Learn foreign language and become cross-cultural managers"? huh? Once language and become cross-cultural managers"? snicker. Once everything moves to asia, they don't need no stupid cross- cultural managers from the US. I find it a little funny that some people seem to think that we can just let asians do the software and engineering work, and we can just be their managers. \_ What's gonna happen? Possibly, the US will continue hemorrhaging those jobs until the wage differrentials between US and East Asia are not so wide as they are now. Another possibility is to come up with new types of products and jobs to replace them. \_ America has thrived because it's able to invent new things that have never been done. Look at all the cool things that came from America: aeronautics, automobile, consumer electronics, DRAM, LCD, GPS, etc. At first America has the lead on these things, but in a matter of 5-10 years, foreigners find ways to perfect techniques and out produce better automobiles, TVs, stereos, LCDs, DRAM, and other common things. Go to Fry's or Best Buy... how many products are really made in the US? My point is America has never really been good at perfecting existing products. They invent something new, and move on to something else. The way I see software and hardware development is that it's maturing, and a lot of complexities are broken down in such a way that SW dev is more and more like designing automobile and consumer electronics. Despite what we know about OO, scalability, reliability, usability, QA, verification, and other things that complacent Americans think they're the only people who excel at, it's just a matter of time before Indians and Chinese really understand computer science, and catch up. \_ The assumption is that America can out invent the Chinese and Indians. The thing is, the Chinese and Indians ain't bad historically at inventions (compared with say the Japanese), but just haven't had the opportunity (wars, poverty, easier to just copy instead of invent when you are behind) to lead and invent. Once they have lots of engineers doing leading edge work, they will become very competitive with inventing new things. The other thing is that with internet and globalization and how fast information travels, the benefit you get by being the inventor has been reduced. \- Some years ago on the cover of the IEEE Spectrum there was a pictures of the Pentium design team. That should tell you something about the Chinese and Indians as ethnicities vs. nations. See also winners of programming olympiad type stuff. \_ I am thinking more in terms of culture / nation and not race / ethnicity. \_ The advantage America has is one of numbers. We have so few people and so much resources that large numbers of creative minds can simply sit around and tinker w/ things until they make something new. It is not so in Asia (my experience is w/ India, but China is the same from what I'm told). In Asia there are a million people competing for every single dead end job that is out there. If you just want to live you have to stay w/in the system. This societal setup does not allow for the freedom to invent new things b/c if you sit around wasting time tinkering your kids end up starving to death. \- The US universites benefitted from the Oxbridge braindrain. They got some big names who were paid ass there and were picked up here. On the other hand some junior faculty and grad student types I have known seem to feel kind of threatened by russians and chinese people who are way better at math than they are ... these people are not mathematicians but in related disciplines like stat, finance, econ etc. People losing out to competition are not happy. But the structural metaphor isnt outsourcing but a raising of the bar in a field like applied stat. \_ "the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." \_ Where's this from? cultural managers from the US. \_ Bet they said this about the huns or the Ottomans as well. \_ Or the Mongols. |
2005/6/19 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:38199 Activity:nil |
6/19 More fuel for the flame war. Passages from Solzhenitsyn compared with Gitmo reports. http://billmon.org/archives/001911.html |
2005/6/19 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:38200 Activity:nil |
6/19 Is the "Downing Street" memo real? http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/004746.php |
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