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  1. Re:Here's the deal on Do Good Programmers Need Agents? · · Score: 1

    However the company will be willing to pay a bit more to cover the agent cost to cover the risk of hiring a new employee.

    Really the difference between an Agent and a head hunting firm, is that the agent should be having some credibility behind his name for offering quality workers.
    So even if you are good at negotiating say you think you should be getting 250k a year. However most business will not be willing to hire you because, while your resume looks good with glowing references. You are still a risk. If there is an agent and he may get 50k for your job. The company may be happy to pay that amount if they know they will actually get a good worker.

  2. Re:Can someone expolain what's so great about HTML on HTML5: It's Already Everywhere, Even In Mobile · · Score: 1

    A lot of HTML limitations is also due to the fact that it will need to render on many different platforms. The goal for a correct web app is not to copy your PC app, but stay in the browsers rules and limitations.

  3. Re:Can someone expolain what's so great about HTML on HTML5: It's Already Everywhere, Even In Mobile · · Score: 2

    Back in the good old days. We had a data format that was in essence a memory dump of the system. So the data will only work with one application and sometimes on the same OS and hardware (Endianness).
    Then we started to get some open format solutions such as Postscript, LaTex which allowed for cross platform and software sharing of data. HTML got popular mostly due to it compatibility with flat text. Simple commands and the fact that you could link to an other document. This linking feature ment you could dig further in a document.
    They added more features including images more formatting then JavaScript was a bit of a hack added in for client side processing.
    So now we have apps that we access online and we really don't care if you are using windows, macs, tablets, phones, or plan9. The browser follows the standard and gives you the output.

    Java was an attempt at this concept too, hovever many apps that we call webpages today would be too much work to code in Java.

  4. Re:Sad on Philae's Batteries Have Drained; Comet Lander Sleeps · · Score: 0

    There tends to be a commonality with Europeans to ignore problems of their own. If this was an American project, they will be in full flame on stating how this mission was a complete failure.

  5. Re:Too Little, Too Late on Researchers Develop $60 Sonar Watch To Aid the Visually Impaired · · Score: 2

    Echo location isn't about removing the blind persons need for a cane, even with people who are good at it are still recommended to use a cane because things like grates, poles, or holes do not work well with echo location. As the sound passed threw it and back.
    What it does mean is with the aid of a cane and the watch they will be able to move more quickly with more assurance that there isn't something big going to be in the way.

  6. Re:Or just practicing for an actual job on Duke: No Mercy For CS 201 Cheaters Who Don't Turn Selves In By Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Yes it would be.
    However if the point was teaching nested loops and you gave the simple loop answer. You may have gotten points for being clever. However the actual point was about teaching how to use loops.

    An other example is a program to say power a number. This can be done via a loop or really small with recursion.

  7. Re:Duh on Your Incompetent Boss Is Making You Unhappy · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you are dead, you don't know you are dead but all the people you know are effected from your death.

    The same is true with Stupidity.
    Your Incompetent boss doesn't know that he is incompetent, yet we all suffer from this.

  8. Re:Step one. on Linux Foundation Comments On Microsoft's Increasing Love of Linux · · Score: 1

    Because every successful tech company keeps the same business model for over 30 years!
    Lets face it.
    The Desktop Business isn't where the money is anymore. The Desktop is a dying idea. It is shifting towards Servers,Workstations, and Mobile.

    New applications take more advantage of the Web Standards, and less of OS dependent technologies. (With the key exceptions of heavy processing systems (Such as CAD, Games, Simulations, Programming)
    The nice thing about following web standards for Web Applications your program is in essence write once run everywhere.

  9. Re:Or just practicing for an actual job on Duke: No Mercy For CS 201 Cheaters Who Don't Turn Selves In By Wednesday · · Score: 2

    I don't think it is a case of regularly. But it happens a few times per month.
    But there is a big difference in doing this for your work and doing it for school.

    If you are doing this for work, your goal is to get the computer to solve the problem.
    For school your goal is to learn how to get the computer to solve problems.

    For Example a CS101 student will have a nested for statement that displays a triangle in text.
    The point of the exercise isn't about having a triangle to appear. But to teach and impress the ideas of nested loops.
    Now if you take the code:

    for i in range(10):
        st = ""
        for j in range(i):
            st+="#"
        print(st)
    print("Done!")

    For a someone new to the topic. You wouldn't have realized that you needed to reset your string in the correct level of the looping. The real learning isn't about getting the program right, but finding all your mistakes in the process. Just copying the code so you got it done you failed to learn. You just completed the assignment.

    Now for professional work you goal is to get the assignment done, and they really don't care if you learned something new or not. So just as long as you got that triangle even if you had a...

    print("#")
    print("##")
    print("###")
    print("####")
    print("#####")
    print("######")
    print("#######")
    print("########")
    print("#########")
    print("##########")
    print("Done!")

    they really don't care.

  10. Re:Please, Please, Please on Worrying Aspects of Linux Gaming · · Score: 1

    LINUX ISN'T A DESKTOP OS!
    It is a Server OS and a Work Station OS.
    I am talking about GNU/Linux base distributions not Android and other OS's that happen to use the Linux Kernel.

    Gaming is never a big priority in Linux because gaming on Linux tends to stick at the novelty factor, but rarely gets serious. Sure we talk about Steam... But that is only one company, and for the most part their main reputation is releasing niche indie games.

    Next you have the GNU community vocal nuts. Gaming doesn't bode well with Open Source. They take a lot of work, with a lot of talented people to make, with a lot of stuff that isn't fun. So they are expensive to make, as well because they are entertainment programs, people feel less charitable with their effort and are more out to make money with it. So you port to Linux then you get a small set of GNU nuts demanding you release your code. You are better off sticking to Windows or Macs and live well in the walled garden.

  11. Re:Be the Change You Wish to See in the World on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 1

    Almost everyone doesn't see themselves as the bad guy. They do bad things because in one way or an other they feel justified to do it. They will find a religious text/Constitution/legal prescience that reinforces their belief, even if it explained otherwise later on.

    Now legal systems are meant to objectively look at the situation and determine if they were really justified or they were just convincing themselves to get what they want.

  12. Re:They ARE a utility. on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 1

    The biggest difference between Dial Up and Broadband. Is the following
    With Dial Up the Telephone line infrastructure is already there and sent to every last mile. So everyone has access to the Telephone line. Until Recently all the infrastructure was put in by Ma-Bell which was a highly regulated by the government monopoly. So they were forced to put lines in every home even if it wasn't to their best self interests. So the infrastructure is there and it exists.
    Now the dialup ISP's are not in the infrastructure business but in internet service(s) so they paid for the high speed backbone and the telephone lines to meet customer demand. But the customer had to pay someone else for phone service and the ISP for internet Service, You were just as stuck today with phone service as you are with broadband. however you had a bunch of ISP to choose from. If you paid more you may have more services (your own IP address, more available lines so less busy signals, or you can get a cheap service with just the connection and that's it. So you had some real choice.

    Broadband companies you buy the infrastructure and the services in one big block. If your area only has Comcast you are stuck with Comcast, if they don't want to give you a connection you will not have access at all. So you are doubly stuck.

  13. Re:Hollywood overlords on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again · · Score: 1

    Why?
    A phone or laptop physical presence of raw material is only a few dollars, but still even that why is material worth any money at all, you just need to dig into the ground and get it.

    So this stuff cost money because of shifting of data and legal rights.
    You need to have someone agree to dig in their property to mine for the materials. You will need for people agree to do the labor of mining the stuff. you will need to people to agree to forge the material into a more useful method... All the value in a physical device is about license agreements of people will do the work for money that they will be able to trade with others.

    Music isn't free to produce either. The musician has expenses that needs to be paid for, the data needs to be recorded edited produced... So a lot of people need to get paid for this as well.

    You can tout that the record companies are making disproportional money... But people are paying the price, so complaining about that isn't the issue. A piece of digital data is valuable as a piece of equipment.

    The real issues comes down to the fact that Supply and Demand. Digital Data can be copied exactly so cheaply that the Supply is nearly infinite, causing the actual price to go below the cost of creating it. So the companies try to put these barriers to limit supply as keep this data to be sustainable.

  14. Re:But what do you need? on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Data Warehouse Server System? · · Score: 1

    The key problem is most business run into their own insecurities.
    They are afraid of picking the uncool system that in 5 years would be scoffed at.
    Such as creating a new web app in Perl, nothing technically wrong but it isn't cool anymore.
    It's the no one has gotten fired for choosing IBM. It is more about picking the name that suppose to impress your customers. Not what is best for the job.

  15. Re:so is this a fancy proof of on Mathematical Proof That the Universe Could Come From Nothing · · Score: 2

    Sure...
    As we all know a Fraction where the numerator and denominator are equal is equal to one.

    All fractions with a numerator of 0 is 0

    So the Fraction of 0/0 is both 0 and 1. so 0 = 1 QED.

  16. DON'T ABUSE TECHNOLOGY!!! on Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco · · Score: -1

    This is the reason why we can't have anything nice. Is because their are too many jerks out there who will use a new technology as a way to do illegal activities!

  17. Re:Recipe for Success on Landfill Copies of Atari's 'E.T.' End Up On eBay · · Score: 1

    $50 To sell isn't really that great of an investment.

    Now if these games cost $20.00 back in 1983, then you will not be making any money due to inflation.

  18. Re:Fascinating on Why the Time Is Always Set To 9:41 In Apple Ads · · Score: 1

    In some ways it makes sense to have the adds with the same time. That way you don't see the differences in the the cutting, or reusing old footage without having to be spotted about it.

  19. Re:Poor animal. on Discovery Claims It Will Show a Man Being "Eaten Alive" By an Anaconda · · Score: 1

    You have been playing a bit too much Kings Quest IV

  20. Re:Yesbut does it run Linux on CNN Anchors Caught On Camera Using Microsoft Surface As an iPad Stand · · Score: 2

    The big problem with today's mobile devices, is that they are so locked down that it is nearly impossible (Sure it can be done, but it is tough) to install a new OS on it, or worse have backup media to restore it back to factory condition if you happened to prefer Windows over Linux for tablet usage.
    Unlike a PC where you plug in a USB Stick or a CD/DVD if you sill have one of those and when it is booting you can hit Esc, F1, F2, Del.... Whatever to bring you into the BIOS and say boot from this drive instead, you will need to find an alternative way of fighting the OS security to get a new OS on.

  21. Re:When you encrypt everything... on Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why · · Score: 4, Insightful

    However your TCP/IP packets can have encrypted data... but it also needs to have unecrypted the host and destination information.
    Unless you are encrypting via a proxy server or port forwarding over ssh. For the most part when you connect to Netflix your ISP can say oh this data is from netflix lets slow this down.

  22. Re:They're probably correct on Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart · · Score: 1

    For all those who were thinking that.
    Did you get into science from smarts alone, or was it from a lot of work?
    Sure science came easy to me, but I was interested in it before hand and spent a lot of time outside of formal class leading science. So when I took the classes they were an easy A. But it wasn't about me being Smarter then the others but the fact I have invested more time into it.

  23. Re:Because on Some Virgin Galactic Customers Demand Money Back · · Score: 1

    The part that really gets me is the fact that this was testing the experimental design.
    With a new design there is a period of getting the kinks out. Yes unfortunately this caused the life a pilot. However that is one risks that an experimental pilot takes for his job.

    Now after the investigation, I would expect that there will be something that can be fixed to prevent such a problem again. You build an other better design ship you test it out, hopefully this will not cause any lives, but I expect there will still be more glitches to fix on it.

    It is part of the process.

  24. Re:Correlation/Causation on Shift Work Dulls Brain Performance · · Score: 1

    I have seen a lot of sharp people working in factories.
    They are smart people, they are just not ambitious.

    Getting a College Degree/Certificates/Licences etc... Isn't about intelligence it is about doing the work. Now a lot of this work is not fun or enjoyable. So the people who get these accreditation get it from their own personal ambition, not from actual intelligence.

    Sure there is a set of people who have significantly below intelligence who are unable to do work that requires brain power. But people with 1 Sigma below average and all above average, in general can be prepared for jobs that doesn't require shift work.

  25. For the most part these people do no know your ambitions in life so they will offer jobs that match keywords.
    Their value is that they know of places who are hiring better then you may. There are a lot of jobs, and most of them are in small businesses, or business without much of a name with them. These companies will often contact recruiters who have a history of finding good people and see if they can find employment.
    If the recruiter is giving you a job that you feel over skilled for or isn't part of your life ambition you can either ignore their message and tell them that you are not interested in such a job.

    Now my real issue are the companies who make job requirements so select, in essence they are trying to get the same guy that left. So undoubtly they will not find a person to fit the role. Then they will just drop their standards down to Zero and outsource to India and proclaim that there isn't enough skilled tech workers in the US.

    I see jobs say you Must have so many years of experience in technology that is 2 Google pages in the search results. After you dig threw you find that it is a custom built app made just for that company.