The rate of loss of the rainforest know as the world’s ‘lungs’ has been reduced to its lowest in 21 years: Brazil govt.
BRASILIA: Brazil experienced the smallest loss of its extensive Amazon rainforest over the past year in more than two decades, the government said, attributing the change to its tougher environmental policies.
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Sydney, Australia: Lars and Jens Rasmussen are the two genius brothers behind the über-successful web project called Google. Little did the brothers know that their once-average sophomore project would make a huge bang in the world of virtual reality. This is proven by the fact that there are more than a several million Google fans out there.
Many years later, both brothers flew to Sydney, Australia in order to present their nascent project called Google Wave. Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes, when I listen to some young people talking, I wonder how they would ever manage if the internet was suddenly spirited away and they had to learn to live without it. My generation grew up without the benefit of the internet – or even computers. The highlight of young people’s social lives then revolved around getting together in each others’ homes, listening to music together and chatting. While I certainly don’t advocate returning to those days [I enjoy the internet as much as anybody, despite my generation] – the internet, blessing or pain does need to be carefully monitored to ensure that only appropriate data is accessed by the most vulnerable people.
The future of software engineers can only be directly related to the quality and knowledge of those same software engineers who consider they may have a problem! Basically, if a software engineer has studied and qualified in the field they have chosen – i.e. that of a software engineer, then their skills are highly sought after throughout the world, regardless of which country they come from. The problem arises when somebody aspires to becoming a software engineer and attempts to find a shortcut into the IT industry without the knowledge, qualification and skills that are an essential pre-requisite of any professional. It is those people who put the future of software engineers in jeopardy. Software engineering seems to be an up-and-coming field and one that everybody seems to want to join but, as with any job, it is what you make of it and, to progress in this field [as in any other] you need to show some degree of promise and prove that you have something that makes you infinitely more employable than the colleague sitting next to you.
The job market in Pakistan, generally, tends to fluctuate due to variations in Government policies that can have an adverse, knock-on effect on the job market and deteriorating law and order in certain parts of the country can prevent investors from even thinking about investing in industry – all of which results in lost job opportunities, not just in the IT field in Pakistan, but right across the board, in all job sectors. Global news reports of bomb blasts and ever increasing violence in certain districts of Pakistan continue to give the country a bad name. This is bound to have an adverse effect on the economy of Pakistan as many of the biggest potential investors are based in the US and, if their money is not deemed safe due to threats of violence,
