Seriously .. I'm aware that graduate debts are higher these days than when I graduated (about 10 years ago), but as low as £18k may seem, you'd only need to 'cope' with it for a year and will then find that more doors are open to you, having gained some experience. I'm afraid that after a while you'll start finding that prospective employers care more about your experience than your degree.
Get 12 months under your belt in your current role, keep your mobile skills sharp and I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for.
Hopefully they won't screw it up, as it's a handy service when living abroad. Normal post takes forever to arrive, so this service means I can forget people's birthdays right up until the day before and still get a card there in time.
That "boffin with a Back To The Future hair-style" would be Martyn Poliakoff. He supervised my mate's postdoctoral research and is well-respected both in the UK and internationally. Give the man some credit.
But I'll concede that he does have Back To The Future style hair.
"According to Mozilla's stats, Firebug slows startup by 75 per cent."
Surely the target audience for that plugin expect that debugging-type tools will slow things down a little?
I use it at work and it's running all day, so a one-off 17.5 second startup time compared to 10 seconds isn't all that much of a problem, especially not while I'm doing the most important task of the day - making that vital first brew of the day!
Well, surely for that to be the case the chicken would need to know that being puffed was a bad thing and would therefore be aware that the first one was experiencing discomfort.
Same down here in Andalucia - the bin lorries come round every night at about midnight and take everything. There are plenty of street-side recycling bins too.
Meanwhile in the UK, my Nan's collection has dropped to weekly (recyclables) or fortnightly (general) and it appears they actually pay somebody to sift through your 'standard' rubbish and charge you if you're not recycling things (no I'm not a Daily Mail immigrant-botherer, that's actually on the council's published material). My sister has to pay if she wants a recyclables collection. In view of fairness, other places are pretty reasonable.
Haven't we been over this before? If I search for a generic term like 'map' then I expect to see Google's map products promoted. They'd be idiots NOT to do that and I'd be an idiot to expect them not to do that. If I searched for a specific, competing map product and Google Maps gets a leg-up to the top then that's a different matter.
But even if they're not doing this, let's think for a minute. If Google's services weren't at the top, where would they be? Second? Fifth? On page 10? If Google's developers can't write Google's sites so that the Google search engine picks them up efficiently, then something's wrong.
So either they're deliberately promoting their own products and nobody really cares, or their own products are naturally appearing at or near* the top and nobody cares. These guys sniffing the barrel of the smoking gun apparently do care, so I'll leave it to them to find out.
* In my quick test, "email" actually sent Hotmail to the top with GMail winning the silver medal in second place. Maybe it's because my 'hl' parameter defaults to Spain? The other searches in this article perform as described.
I think post-Borging, Orange were the first company to coin the term 'simplifying' in relation to price plans, as a synonym for "increasing cost whilst reducing service".
I agree with all the +44 comments above, but don't see why we have the (0) thing. It's simple for us lot to understand but 'normal' people have to use it too.
i.e. 01234xxxxxx becomes +441234xxxxxx but when written on stationery it's usually +44(0)1234xxxxx.
My Spanish mobile number simply gets a +34 stuck on the front of it to make it internationally callable. 648xxxxx becomes +34648xxxxxx
When people visit me here, even in these times of international connectedness I still get asked how to call UK numbers.
"For years cellular operators have been charging ludicrously high roaming charges for calls in neighboring countries and making excess profits on overseas traffic. It has taken years of legislation from Neelie Kroes and others, to stop this profiteering."
In that case, can she take a look at some non-roaming charges down here in Spain please? It's cheaper for me to send an SMS from my roaming UK mobile, than it is for me to do so from my Spanish phone on the same network as the recipient. 11p versus 15 cents (at today's rate that's 13p)
Even considering that SMS isn't as popular here so will naturally be more expensive, this isn't right. And sending SMS to the UK, for example, is about 50p a go.
I don't use it much, but it's handy for the odd "I'm going to be leaving this really noisy bar soon" type message.
"In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it."
Isn't that the electronic version of a head mounted barcode? Scary stuff.
Before they go, can they spray-paint gossip show favourite Belén Esteban off my actual TV screen please? She's on the box so much that the image of her face has been burned into my old fashioned CRT.
This is a shit idea, out-shitted only by my 'email by post' idea (I've already submitted the patent, so hands off!)
It's also a solution in search of a problem. I've never had the need for anything to be printed by the time I get home. I can usually take the 5 seconds hit.
I'm no Government lover (Guvnophile?), but it's proportional surely? i.e. Central Government generally has more cash to spend on bigger projects than local councils.
Anyway, hopefully this will at least bring out into the open a lot of the 'budget wasting' that goes on each February/March time (to ensure the same amount next year). Examples include turning a T-junction into the tiniest mini-roundabout you've ever seen, for no apparent benefit, and erecting 'speed limit of 30mph in 150yds' type signs. From 150 yards away I can quite clearly SEE the 30mph sign, thanks very much.
No doubt such projects will now be conveniently priced at £499.99.
Outside the scope of your tests, but still related to mobile broadband in general...
I use it regularly down here in Spain and find it a great alternative to fixed-line, with similar results (in Andalucia at least) to those that you show for 3 in the UK, using Movistar (Telefonica). Good for everything from browsing, Skype, work VPN access and 'streaming media' of course.
> which offers so-called "out of process plug-ins," or OOPP
Do we really have to do this with every single technical term? It doesn't help with our collective separation from real people when we talk in a stream of abbreviations!
Their company page has a quote from somebody claiming that BDNA helped them find nearly 3000 servers that they didn't know about. How do you manage to misplace 3000 servers in the first place?
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Re: Not Fair
"it's Zed that I feel sorry for. Poor bugger hardly ever gets any work at all."
That's because Zed's dead, baby.
IonMonkey
I don't even care what an 'IonMonkey' is, I want one!
It's the missing "it" in there that you need to be worrying about.
re: slang
"It occasionally is heard in the enhanced version, "putain de merde".)"
Works in a similar way in Spanish, "puta mierda".
Doorstep
600 light years? I'll start packing my suitcase. Will I need a jumper?
Do Some Maths!
Solve for X:
(18000 - tax - rent) / (price_of_pint) = X
Seriously .. I'm aware that graduate debts are higher these days than when I graduated (about 10 years ago), but as low as £18k may seem, you'd only need to 'cope' with it for a year and will then find that more doors are open to you, having gained some experience. I'm afraid that after a while you'll start finding that prospective employers care more about your experience than your degree.
Get 12 months under your belt in your current role, keep your mobile skills sharp and I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for.
Business as Usual Please
Hopefully they won't screw it up, as it's a handy service when living abroad. Normal post takes forever to arrive, so this service means I can forget people's birthdays right up until the day before and still get a card there in time.
Not Just The Pros
"Survey after survey finds that IT professionals’ number one concern about cloud services is security."
I'm quite unprofessional and I worry about it too.
That Boffin
That "boffin with a Back To The Future hair-style" would be Martyn Poliakoff. He supervised my mate's postdoctoral research and is well-respected both in the UK and internationally. Give the man some credit.
But I'll concede that he does have Back To The Future style hair.
Hubba Jubba
I didn't read the article properly, but Shite-anic in glorious 36D? Ace!
re: legacy, legacy, legacy, la la la
I think the official term is Corporate Complancency
Firebug
"According to Mozilla's stats, Firebug slows startup by 75 per cent."
Surely the target audience for that plugin expect that debugging-type tools will slow things down a little?
I use it at work and it's running all day, so a one-off 17.5 second startup time compared to 10 seconds isn't all that much of a problem, especially not while I'm doing the most important task of the day - making that vital first brew of the day!
re: Finder
How so?
Serious question. I mean, it does the job for me so I just wonder what people's beef is with it.
Cheers
re: Precisely
"HTML 5 Millennium Edition" ?
re: My god that takes me back...
Me! Classic.
re: Cluck
Well, surely for that to be the case the chicken would need to know that being puffed was a bad thing and would therefore be aware that the first one was experiencing discomfort.
QED.
It's...
"Every lawyer doing business before a court knows, or should know, what it's document filing requirements are."
Blunders like that lead to ambiguities in your documents, me old china!
re: You've got to....
A 15 foot screen? Those guys can cram so much into a tiny form factor!
But I agree with you about SSD and that 'glossy' screen.
SW
“This machine is basically a jet engine running on a hot liquid,” says top boffin Steve Wright
... shortly before playing "You Are Everything" for Sharon in Leicester.
p.s. I also have a famous name, so I'm well-positioned to crack this joke. Nonetheless, I'll get my coat.
@AC, re: @George Tuk
Same down here in Andalucia - the bin lorries come round every night at about midnight and take everything. There are plenty of street-side recycling bins too.
Meanwhile in the UK, my Nan's collection has dropped to weekly (recyclables) or fortnightly (general) and it appears they actually pay somebody to sift through your 'standard' rubbish and charge you if you're not recycling things (no I'm not a Daily Mail immigrant-botherer, that's actually on the council's published material). My sister has to pay if she wants a recyclables collection. In view of fairness, other places are pretty reasonable.
re: title
Sounds like you need a decider...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing
The Ultimate Tweak
"Ryanair would do well to consider making tweaks to its website."
Like taking it off the internet forever, along with its late-90s style flashing ads for hotels and car hire.
re: Not believable
"Airlines and Oil Tankers do not run on Windows so are unlikely to be hacked."
Yeah ... but it's not real.
Merry-go-round
Haven't we been over this before? If I search for a generic term like 'map' then I expect to see Google's map products promoted. They'd be idiots NOT to do that and I'd be an idiot to expect them not to do that. If I searched for a specific, competing map product and Google Maps gets a leg-up to the top then that's a different matter.
But even if they're not doing this, let's think for a minute. If Google's services weren't at the top, where would they be? Second? Fifth? On page 10? If Google's developers can't write Google's sites so that the Google search engine picks them up efficiently, then something's wrong.
So either they're deliberately promoting their own products and nobody really cares, or their own products are naturally appearing at or near* the top and nobody cares. These guys sniffing the barrel of the smoking gun apparently do care, so I'll leave it to them to find out.
* In my quick test, "email" actually sent Hotmail to the top with GMail winning the silver medal in second place. Maybe it's because my 'hl' parameter defaults to Spain? The other searches in this article perform as described.
re: It was done
I remember it.
I think post-Borging, Orange were the first company to coin the term 'simplifying' in relation to price plans, as a synonym for "increasing cost whilst reducing service".
(Oh)
I agree with all the +44 comments above, but don't see why we have the (0) thing. It's simple for us lot to understand but 'normal' people have to use it too.
i.e. 01234xxxxxx becomes +441234xxxxxx but when written on stationery it's usually +44(0)1234xxxxx.
My Spanish mobile number simply gets a +34 stuck on the front of it to make it internationally callable. 648xxxxx becomes +34648xxxxxx
When people visit me here, even in these times of international connectedness I still get asked how to call UK numbers.
re: Will it...
Of course.
Also, you .. sorry, 'people' will be able to enjoy watching the actors and actresses in every possible state, at once.
Que?
"For years cellular operators have been charging ludicrously high roaming charges for calls in neighboring countries and making excess profits on overseas traffic. It has taken years of legislation from Neelie Kroes and others, to stop this profiteering."
In that case, can she take a look at some non-roaming charges down here in Spain please? It's cheaper for me to send an SMS from my roaming UK mobile, than it is for me to do so from my Spanish phone on the same network as the recipient. 11p versus 15 cents (at today's rate that's 13p)
Even considering that SMS isn't as popular here so will naturally be more expensive, this isn't right. And sending SMS to the UK, for example, is about 50p a go.
I don't use it much, but it's handy for the odd "I'm going to be leaving this really noisy bar soon" type message.
re: You are the product
Good to see somebody else assessing things in terms of ratios too.
Work = cash : effort
Food = tastiness : effort peeling/opening etc
Hubble Bubble
"more than 200 engineers working on Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)."
I forget, what's that saying about the quality of broth being inversely proportional to the number of cooks involved?
Drove my levy to the levy but the levy was levied
"All this will be paid for by levying a 0.1 per cent levy"
They'll be ruling rules next.
You what?
"In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it."
Isn't that the electronic version of a head mounted barcode? Scary stuff.
Wolf?
Well, IT job people never listen to me so why should I listen to them?
"I've found the perfect role for you... 10k less than you said, 100 miles further than you said, with a completely different skill set."
Requests?
Before they go, can they spray-paint gossip show favourite Belén Esteban off my actual TV screen please? She's on the box so much that the image of her face has been burned into my old fashioned CRT.
(untitled)
What a Thuat.
The final picture
Well I for one look forward to watching 'NH-Ass'.
re: Collectors' item?
Indeed. "Limited edition" by virtue of sales figures?
All of the above
This is a shit idea, out-shitted only by my 'email by post' idea (I've already submitted the patent, so hands off!)
It's also a solution in search of a problem. I've never had the need for anything to be printed by the time I get home. I can usually take the 5 seconds hit.
(Sorry, I've had a bad day)
The Furious Furniture Flinger
What's with this guy?
Whoever operates his controls needs to drink less. Or more. I'm not sure which.
re: Adolph Hitler?
That's even better than the Wikipedia 'Hilter game'! I'll start my research now...
p.s. This has reminded me of the great Monty Python sketch, Mr Hilter.
re: Disclosure of spending...
I'm no Government lover (Guvnophile?), but it's proportional surely? i.e. Central Government generally has more cash to spend on bigger projects than local councils.
Anyway, hopefully this will at least bring out into the open a lot of the 'budget wasting' that goes on each February/March time (to ensure the same amount next year). Examples include turning a T-junction into the tiniest mini-roundabout you've ever seen, for no apparent benefit, and erecting 'speed limit of 30mph in 150yds' type signs. From 150 yards away I can quite clearly SEE the 30mph sign, thanks very much.
No doubt such projects will now be conveniently priced at £499.99.
re: Ha ha ha ha!
That'll be the one where Graham Norton et al were riverdancing in the tiny caravan?
Cracking!
Fleetwood Mac
> There's lots of uncertainty here, as is the way with rumours
Exactly. Why complain about lack of information about a product that may not even exist?
re: er you can't die at 38C no way
Agreed. I was strolling around Sevilla at 37C last year and don't recall dying.
No problems here
Outside the scope of your tests, but still related to mobile broadband in general...
I use it regularly down here in Spain and find it a great alternative to fixed-line, with similar results (in Andalucia at least) to those that you show for 3 in the UK, using Movistar (Telefonica). Good for everything from browsing, Skype, work VPN access and 'streaming media' of course.
It's Your Letters
> which offers so-called "out of process plug-ins," or OOPP
Do we really have to do this with every single technical term? It doesn't help with our collective separation from real people when we talk in a stream of abbreviations!
Why does a reply need a new title?
Ah I see, so that would explain the cables trailing out of the window then.
iPad iPad iPad iPad iPad iPad
Their company page has a quote from somebody claiming that BDNA helped them find nearly 3000 servers that they didn't know about. How do you manage to misplace 3000 servers in the first place?
Small Print to the Rescue!
Hey, come and see our Zero Energy House!*
* True for large values of zero.
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