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<rant> Is it just me or does anyone else notice a bias towards the US with the Daily news, the salary reports, jobs info, Interview tips etc.. are always US based never from any other country. Is it just me </rant> EDIT - I just relished this could be read slightly wrong I was referring to the Daily news email sent out by code project
modified on Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:10 AM
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<rant> Is it just me or does anyone else notice a bias towards the US with the Daily news, the salary reports, jobs info, Interview tips etc.. are always US based never from any other country. Is it just me </rant> EDIT - I just relished this could be read slightly wrong I was referring to the Daily news email sent out by code project
modified on Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:10 AM
I think the press here in the UK have still got their heads stuck up Obama where the sun doesn't shine. I just can't contemplate the overblown love-in that's going to happen when he actually gets inaugurated. I'll guess at over a week of "how the first african-American got to the white house", "tracing the first african-american's roots from Kenya to the most important job in the world", "how the first african-american president wipes his rz", "see how sycophantic the BBC can be with the first african-american president" etc etc Maybe we could just abbreviate his name to Barack Obama FA-AP. I've no problems in anyone being elected, just the UK press going utterly overboard.
My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"
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<rant> Is it just me or does anyone else notice a bias towards the US with the Daily news, the salary reports, jobs info, Interview tips etc.. are always US based never from any other country. Is it just me </rant> EDIT - I just relished this could be read slightly wrong I was referring to the Daily news email sent out by code project
modified on Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:10 AM
Well, what did you expect, Zimbabwe news ? Most CPians are in the US. Microsoft, the company that makes the technology this site is focused on, is based in the US.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "Iam doing the browsing center project in vb.net using c# coding" - this is why I don't answer questions much anymore. Oh, and Microsoft doesn't want me to.
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Well, what did you expect, Zimbabwe news ? Most CPians are in the US. Microsoft, the company that makes the technology this site is focused on, is based in the US.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "Iam doing the browsing center project in vb.net using c# coding" - this is why I don't answer questions much anymore. Oh, and Microsoft doesn't want me to.
As edited by the OP I read the posting as General News in my country as opposed to CP Daily News etc Wasn't ranting about CP - I like CP.
My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"
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<rant> Is it just me or does anyone else notice a bias towards the US with the Daily news, the salary reports, jobs info, Interview tips etc.. are always US based never from any other country. Is it just me </rant> EDIT - I just relished this could be read slightly wrong I was referring to the Daily news email sent out by code project
modified on Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:10 AM
Just the other day I noticed that three stories on the front page of the BBC website were: (I forget exactly, not being interested): so-called celebrity A gets kicked off big brother (or something) so-called celebrity B had a baby so-called celebrity C did somethign else I remember thinking, in despair, "is this really what interests the people of this country?" Maybe we're better off with US news.... at least it's new to us in the UK!
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<rant> Is it just me or does anyone else notice a bias towards the US with the Daily news, the salary reports, jobs info, Interview tips etc.. are always US based never from any other country. Is it just me </rant> EDIT - I just relished this could be read slightly wrong I was referring to the Daily news email sent out by code project
modified on Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:10 AM
Our culture has expanded well past our borders. Soon we will have a cultural victory and then game will end without much satisfaction.
Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway
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Our culture has expanded well past our borders. Soon we will have a cultural victory and then game will end without much satisfaction.
Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway
Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
Our culture
Reminds me of a joke involving yoghurt...
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Just the other day I noticed that three stories on the front page of the BBC website were: (I forget exactly, not being interested): so-called celebrity A gets kicked off big brother (or something) so-called celebrity B had a baby so-called celebrity C did somethign else I remember thinking, in despair, "is this really what interests the people of this country?" Maybe we're better off with US news.... at least it's new to us in the UK!
It's a sad indictment of society that people aspire to be "famous" without doing anything worthwhile to gain the fame. To WANT to be like some half-wit celeb or some grotesque incarcerated in a pretend house is so desperate. I will own up to watching X-Factor, the Restaurant etc but the winning end product is something that the entrants have actually worked to achieve. It must be quite nice to only have aspirations to be a vacuous half wit.
My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"
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Our culture has expanded well past our borders. Soon we will have a cultural victory and then game will end without much satisfaction.
Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway
Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.The culture that spread the most is British. This can be proved by the language we are all using and the fact that most of us live in Parliamentary Democracies. Also the fact we are using Computers, The Web, Watch TV, Ride on Trains, Have Rubber Tyres, Listen to radios etc as nauseum! This may prove to be a bit soap boxy if I am not careful! :)
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
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Our culture has expanded well past our borders. Soon we will have a cultural victory and then game will end without much satisfaction.
Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway
Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.That made my day! Thanks.
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein
Jason Henderson
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Well, what did you expect, Zimbabwe news ? Most CPians are in the US. Microsoft, the company that makes the technology this site is focused on, is based in the US.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "Iam doing the browsing center project in vb.net using c# coding" - this is why I don't answer questions much anymore. Oh, and Microsoft doesn't want me to.
Christian Graus wrote:
Well, what did you expect, Zimbabwe news ?
No, I expect industry news or international salaries news. Take for example the news from a few days ago of salaries. They only had the salaries from the US. What about pointing to an article on UK salaries for a change. I would only like to see some of the time other countries.
Christian Graus wrote:
Most CPians are in the US
I thought most CPians where from India ;-)
Christian Graus wrote:
Microsoft, the company that makes the technology
SO Focus on the technology not the country.
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As edited by the OP I read the posting as General News in my country as opposed to CP Daily News etc Wasn't ranting about CP - I like CP.
My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"
Baconbutty wrote:
Wasn't ranting about CP - I like CP.
I also like CP I just find it frustrating to see a news item in my daily email which likes like an interesting read that will apply to me and then see it's only really for the US. However I do like the site and enjoy the emails every day.
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Our culture has expanded well past our borders. Soon we will have a cultural victory and then game will end without much satisfaction.
Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway
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Christian Graus wrote:
Well, what did you expect, Zimbabwe news ?
No, I expect industry news or international salaries news. Take for example the news from a few days ago of salaries. They only had the salaries from the US. What about pointing to an article on UK salaries for a change. I would only like to see some of the time other countries.
Christian Graus wrote:
Most CPians are in the US
I thought most CPians where from India ;-)
Christian Graus wrote:
Microsoft, the company that makes the technology
SO Focus on the technology not the country.
To be quite honest, I would guess that whoever does the news (is this Chris or someone else?) simply doesn't read foreign news sources. You could always track down the same information as it applies to your country and post it here in the lounge. Maybe after a while the sources will catch on and become popular reading for whoever posts the news info. Or maybe they will let you help edit it :)
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The culture that spread the most is British. This can be proved by the language we are all using and the fact that most of us live in Parliamentary Democracies. Also the fact we are using Computers, The Web, Watch TV, Ride on Trains, Have Rubber Tyres, Listen to radios etc as nauseum! This may prove to be a bit soap boxy if I am not careful! :)
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
But apart from the English language, parliamentary democracy, computers, web, tv, trains, rubber tyres and radios ... what have the British ever done for us?
Bar fomos edo pariyart gedeem, agreo eo dranem abal edyero eyrem kalm kareore
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<rant> Is it just me or does anyone else notice a bias towards the US with the Daily news, the salary reports, jobs info, Interview tips etc.. are always US based never from any other country. Is it just me </rant> EDIT - I just relished this could be read slightly wrong I was referring to the Daily news email sent out by code project
modified on Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:10 AM
Yes, and it irritates me no end. Just the other day i was thinking, "all of these interview tip articles appear to be relevant, but end up being empty and generic - if only they were on a host named *.co.uk, i could skip reading them more easily". :rolleyes:
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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.
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But apart from the English language, parliamentary democracy, computers, web, tv, trains, rubber tyres and radios ... what have the British ever done for us?
Bar fomos edo pariyart gedeem, agreo eo dranem abal edyero eyrem kalm kareore
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<rant> Is it just me or does anyone else notice a bias towards the US with the Daily news, the salary reports, jobs info, Interview tips etc.. are always US based never from any other country. Is it just me </rant> EDIT - I just relished this could be read slightly wrong I was referring to the Daily news email sent out by code project
modified on Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:10 AM
I try to avoid most of the US-only stuff (offers, contests, etc), but sometimes I feel an item is useful enough to people everywhere (interview tips can be US-specific?!?) to include. If you know of any good news feeds that provide international salary reports, feel free to submit it and I'll start watching it. Thank you for the feedback!
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