This is by no means a rare situation for publicly traded companies to be in when they have a nasty burn rate.
If the company stays in business, they will soon be worth less, so having a cheap stock price is completely reasonable.
The problem is the people that paid more for the stock refuse to admit the company has a stupid business model and won't give up till the cash is completely gone - which is also very common (the entire dot-com industry for example).
If you dont like it go create some content people want and put it in the public domain for people to copy. Not commercial, not GPL, but public domain...
What? you want to be paid for your work or restrict it somehow? Yea, I thought so...
The fact that you should never document anything is practicly part of the OSI definition... Documentation is something real engineers do (and do first), not silly coders.
There is floating point in a codec that they wanted in embedded devices? What the heck were they thinking anyway.
Have you even looked at the job listing lately? Everything is Java and.NET now, paying 20$/hr to boot, which isn't even close to what it costs to live in most cities. Most job listing arent even real, just resume bait.
All my 10yr+ C hardcore geek friends are out of work. The ones over 30 have preaty much given up on finding geek jobs entirely. The lucky ones that can afford it (pre-kids etc) have retured to college to study non-computer related things so they can find work.
The ones that have found jobs have done so by stripping off all but the last 2-3 years of work experience and playing dumb, like other posters have reported.
If you can't find someone it's because you have some insane requirements, or you're in a place noone wants to live.
Publicly funded research should all either be public domain or BSD style, definatly NOT GPL, since that ends up in the same duplication of work.
Anything GPL has to be duplicated at least once to get it as something BSD/PD so that everyone can use it.
MIS: IT dept head
CIS: helpdesk manager
CE: really an EE - hardware designers
CS: programmers - mostly unemployed these days
Since all the programming is being outsourced to $5/hr people in other countries as fast as they can, I'd stay away from CS, the long term potential is limited. CE is preaty hardcore on the math and physics (in a good program) so is not for the faint of heart.
In the end, it's all those OTHER courses you have to take when getting a degree that matter anyway.
Oh no! Someone let an actual scientist on Slashdot, and worse let them post about a subject they might understand. This breaks so many Slashdot rules it's not even funny.
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This is the first P2P application that I've seen with encryption built into it.
Actually, it's an extention of OpenSSL. So, this is the first time someone has added P2P to an encryption library.
And yet they still arent making any money with it.
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Old tech, new hipe, more money down the well *yawn*
The article says they only plan to do this for very large value bills.
When was the last tmie you used anything larger then a $20 that the ATM spits out? Every try and use a $100 bill? You get looked at strangely, they examine the bill, and preaty much assume you're a drug dealer.
Who used big bills rather then a bank tracked way? Yea, I'd want to design a tracking devices in them too if I was in charge.
Besides, criminals are all using the dollar, why change now:)
Any ISP not charging $5/GB will go out of business...
Any ISP not charging $5/GB will go out of business...
Speeds dont matter, amounts transfered do. THEY have bills to pay.
Now, in the bigger picture, the fact that ISP dont do this, they rely on HOSTING to make their money on the bandwidth, means that eventually, all the content providers but AOL/TW and friends are going to be forced out, noone can survive on ads, because content sites ARE paying $5/GB
So, either we need consumers paying $5/GB for BIDIRECTIONAL urestricted bandwidth, or it's going to be a very boring internet soon.
But that wont change. We're doomed. Consumers are cheap bastards and cant comprehend the big picture.
To use C you have to understand how a computer actually works, unlike scripting languages like Python or Java.
libc - which was designed by complete morons who obviously didn't.
Now granted, noone knows the first much any more, because "Learn XXX in 30 minutes" doesn't cover it. I wouldn't teach someone C unless they were really a computer geek, and anyone who doesn't know what a register and MMU are should NOT be using C.
But if you do know how a computer works, and can avoid the traps in libc, you'll be fine and have nearly 100% portable code as well.
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This is by no means a rare situation for publicly traded companies to be in when they have a nasty burn rate.
If the company stays in business, they will soon be worth less, so having a cheap stock price is completely reasonable.
The problem is the people that paid more for the stock refuse to admit the company has a stupid business model and won't give up till the cash is completely gone - which is also very common (the entire dot-com industry for example).
Keep in mind Dice NEVER deletes a job posting. So of those 4595 Oracle jobs, only 3 were posted this month :)
Becasue of this "feature" Dice is 99% useless. Anything you track down was filled in 2001...
Sure, direct links to .mpg files on slashdot, what the heck were they thinking?
If you dont like it go create some content people want and put it in the public domain for people to copy. Not commercial, not GPL, but public domain...
What? you want to be paid for your work or restrict it somehow? Yea, I thought so...
China is _thee_ place to be, cheap workers, cheap engineers, cheap managers, cheap...
America has prices itself right out of business, and China is even cheaper then Mexico, which is where all the jobs went last decade.
the horror...
the horror...
Fear not, Slashdot will make sure those sites are taken down :)
So if it was open source it would be just fine... like GIMP!
For an open source project?
Hahahahahhahahaha...
The fact that you should never document anything is practicly part of the OSI definition... Documentation is something real engineers do (and do first), not silly coders.
There is floating point in a codec that they wanted in embedded devices? What the heck were they thinking anyway.
You are on crack.
.NET now, paying 20$/hr to boot, which isn't even close to what it costs to live in most cities. Most job listing arent even real, just resume bait.
Have you even looked at the job listing lately? Everything is Java and
All my 10yr+ C hardcore geek friends are out of work. The ones over 30 have preaty much given up on finding geek jobs entirely. The lucky ones that can afford it (pre-kids etc) have retured to college to study non-computer related things so they can find work.
The ones that have found jobs have done so by stripping off all but the last 2-3 years of work experience and playing dumb, like other posters have reported.
If you can't find someone it's because you have some insane requirements, or you're in a place noone wants to live.
"Some of Infinera's 700 or so competitors"...
Even if they do it, the cost competition is gonna make sure they never make any money....
When a browser knows its talking to a proxy, it will send the full "GET http://host/" rather then the "GET /".
RFC 2616 just doesn't allow for transparent proxying.
And if you are coding a client, ALWAYS send the full http://... string and the Host: line too, it's RFC compliant and solves this little snag
The studies show people with internet access at work waste 2 hours per day on it.
So the internet lowers productivity by 25% just by connecting to it. Anyone with any brains at all would pull the plug.
Guess again. All the people I know out of jobs are hardcore geek types. The marketing people I know actually had no trouble finding new jobs.
Can they even generate speech fast enough to keep up with the huge patches?
Publicly funded research should all either be public domain or BSD style, definatly NOT GPL, since that ends up in the same duplication of work. Anything GPL has to be duplicated at least once to get it as something BSD/PD so that everyone can use it.
Can't anyone read anymore?
MIS: IT dept head
CIS: helpdesk manager
CE: really an EE - hardware designers
CS: programmers - mostly unemployed these days
Since all the programming is being outsourced to $5/hr people in other countries as fast as they can, I'd stay away from CS, the long term potential is limited. CE is preaty hardcore on the math and physics (in a good program) so is not for the faint of heart.
In the end, it's all those OTHER courses you have to take when getting a degree that matter anyway.
Why not? you just spent ~$60 (15B) to bailout the airlines, and you didn't even notice did you.
Oh no! Someone let an actual scientist on Slashdot, and worse let them post about a subject they might understand. This breaks so many Slashdot rules it's not even funny.
Actually, it's an extention of OpenSSL. So, this is the first time someone has added P2P to an encryption library.
Old tech, new hipe, more money down the well *yawn*
The article says they only plan to do this for very large value bills.
When was the last tmie you used anything larger then a $20 that the ATM spits out? Every try and use a $100 bill? You get looked at strangely, they examine the bill, and preaty much assume you're a drug dealer.
Who used big bills rather then a bank tracked way? Yea, I'd want to design a tracking devices in them too if I was in charge.
Besides, criminals are all using the dollar, why change now :)
Any ISP not charging $5/GB will go out of business...
Any ISP not charging $5/GB will go out of business...
Speeds dont matter, amounts transfered do. THEY have bills to pay.
Now, in the bigger picture, the fact that ISP dont do this, they rely on HOSTING to make their money on the bandwidth, means that eventually, all the content providers but AOL/TW and friends are going to be forced out, noone can survive on ads, because content sites ARE paying $5/GB
So, either we need consumers paying $5/GB for BIDIRECTIONAL urestricted bandwidth, or it's going to be a very boring internet soon.
But that wont change. We're doomed. Consumers are cheap bastards and cant comprehend the big picture.
Now granted, noone knows the first much any more, because "Learn XXX in 30 minutes" doesn't cover it. I wouldn't teach someone C unless they were really a computer geek, and anyone who doesn't know what a register and MMU are should NOT be using C.
But if you do know how a computer works, and can avoid the traps in libc, you'll be fine and have nearly 100% portable code as well.