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by mjwalshe 14y ago
and I am afraid that India has a shady counterfeit drugs industry where they are selling drugs with less than the required amount of the active ingredient which leads to resistance to say aids drugs. And when the BBC World Service investiga
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
well shall we say south of the border there was lots of Qustionable conduct "Hem Hem" - though Argentina expropraiting Telefonicas assets gave me a good laugh.
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
Well The USA's botched derglation and mobile where the caller pays are another example of messed up telecoms.
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
Yep that is why in third world coutries the PTT minister is a highly desireable job - lots of opertunities for diverting cash to ones swiss bank account.
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
well god forbid that uppity cleaver kids might enjoy school it might impact our plan to game the ofstead inspection so that we get the duffers who are on course for a D up to a C
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
Thats a sign you have sold out and become the "man" - subs eh :-)
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
Interesting so Google has an "Internal Afairs" dept who audit themselves ie if some one looks up celbrities details internaly either for curiosity or to sell to the tabloid press. I know that big telcos have internal security goups and Brit
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
Yes try working on the full OSI Stack you had to learn asn.1 just to beable to read what a concrete decode was doing. Though my boss did impress me by watching an OSI transaction in flight on our network monitor stop it and point to a dwor
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
I think you need to say why TC And Pando are deserving and no disliking MA is not a valid reaseon
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
Thats one of the things that helped kill poptel who built the .coop domain :-(
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
um so why do American Police need hand guns with more powerful rounds than SF Operators (Delta, DEvGuru the SAS etc) do them. I bet Bonnie and Clyde wish that the Police where banned from having "Milatery weapons" as it was the full auto BA
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
yep people have been contacting CEO's CTOs and CIOs of big companies (FSTE 100/DOW 30) trying to sell them on this protection racket.
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
I was one the profesional servies side trying to keep poptel running - though I did sit next to the tech lead. http://www.andrewbibby.com/socialenterprise/poptel2.html has some details. And I did have to chair a share holder meeting and p
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
No running a registry is not a cheap or easy endeveor (I used to be one of the owners of .coop)
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
Well seeing as that 3 US presidents (aproximatly 6% of them) have been Rhodes Scollars he might want to re think that :-)
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
Nothing wrong with confrontational and arguing your corner but you need to keep it professional and when a decision is made respect the collective.
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
Presuambly EVGA and the Other Workstaion Class kit makers will be holding a viking funeral for the Old Apple Woz would be invited to light the funeral pyre
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
well going from UK to Europe "Engineers" are MUCH MUCH Higher status jobs. The wife of the Number 2 at BT labs (you know the place that desigend and built Colossus) once got asked what sort of cars her husband worked on :-( And yes they did
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
Not in the UK from it tech and engineeing jobs our pay is much lower compared to SV and housing costs a lot more. The only advatage we have is only paying 12% for NHS etc instead of 20%+ just for health insurance.
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
"Testify Brother Testify" the rules of tecnical computing 1 there is no such thing as too much RAM 2 there is no such thing as too much IPC 3 there is no such thing as too much DASD/Disk/Backing Store 4 there is such a thing as to little bu
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
Your right I recall a few years back that sound on sound (pro audio industry bible) Mac columnist was getting worried that Apple was going to abandon the creative industrys. Looks like Apple is transitioning from a tech to a consumer compan
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
And CP/M was a bit of a clone of RT-11 from DEC fore the PDP 11's. Even some of the untiities where called the same name
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
well FORTRAN was designed for technical programming so its not just IBM's muscle.
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
What in America the land of "at will" employment I find that very hard to believe.
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
Yes that does seem to be the model in a lot of open source as documentation is normally rather lacking and is of the look hers how to add 2+2 than covering the product in depth. Ive been using mysql for 10+ years and the documentation on se
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
ah I was using it in the technical (political) sense to mean that the balance is slightly more towards the servant than the master. More conservative employment laws would mean less employment rights for workers. Less liberal in the UK woul
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
The really useful part is it gives you an insight into how google sees you site. And you might think you have done your canonical right - but I have seen some horrible mistakes made with the canonical tag.
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
You can see why working in the USA and similar devloped economys with more "liberal" employment laws is so popular.
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
Realy if you want to work for realy smart peopel you go and work at some where like CERN, NASA JPL and other tier 1 RnD organisations - of course for a devloper the pay sucks
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by mjwalshe 14y ago
"Math" really as a dyslexic I find the ungrammatical title of this depressing its Mathematics Physicists learn Physics and not Physic and Chemists don't learn Chem.

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