If you really want to stand out when you're looking for a job, use your spare time to write a well-designed app that you can show to potential employers.
Holy crap, I can't agree with this enough. I'm currently interviewing for an entry-level(*) perl programmer, and one of the questions I ask is: "outside of your academic work, have you done any personal projects or contributed code to an open source project?". The question first of all tries to determine if they are REALLY interested in programming, or just looking for a paycheck. And second, if they have little or no real world experience but have done personal projects or (even better) worked with other programmers on open source projects, it hopefully means they are a little further along than someone who got a degree then spent 6 months working at Taco Bell and partying while they were looking for a job.
So yeah, my advice to anyone who gets a degree and finds themself unemployed or under-employed for a few months while looking for a programming job: take some initiative and either start a project of your own, or find an open-source project that interests you and contribute!
* In this case "entry-level" means the person has at least been exposed to programming concepts in college, OR has *some* real world experience in programming, be it in perl or somewhat similar language (C++, JAVA, python, etc).
Microsoft does do something similar to this.. If you run MSN Messenger they encourage you to link your mobile number with your MSN account so you can receive messages when not connected to the service. Where is the angry mob with pitchforks?
I have to agree with you 100%.. I think everyone up in arms about google having your mobile number is a bit silly. If you buy a book from amazon.com you have to give them much more info than your mobile phone number - at a minimum you must give them your credit card number and a valid shipping address. Even if you do not save the credit card to your account, you have no guarantee that they do not keep the number linked to your account behind the scenes. This information is infinitely more dangerous than a mobile phone number, but most people trust them with it because they have proven to be a reputable company. How is google different?
FUD. You cannot die from an overdose of GHB. If you managed to ingest tons and tons you would die from the sodium content (most street GHB is NaGHB) long before the GHB had any effect. Deaths have been attributed to GHB, but in 100% of those cases the victim took GHB along with another CNS depressant (alcohol, xanex, ketamine, etc). As long as you are not taking any other CNS depressants you can drink ounces of GHB and all that will happen is you will sleep for 3 or 4 hours and wake up feeling fine.
Maybe you meant to say that the Recreational dose is close to a dose which causes you to sleep, and in this case you would be correct. But you cannot die from GHB alone.
I do think some humans will choose to modify themselves in the future, but I don't see any sort of utopia there.
You have to think big, BIG picture here.. IMO humans will HAVE to integrate with machines to survive long term. We KNOW that in 5 billion years the sun will go supernova and obliterate this solar system. Yes, this is a LONG way off, and yes, it's likely some other extinction level event will happen before then, but nonetheless we know this is coming, and the only way for the species to survive is to live outside of this solar system.. Which is something our frail human bodies are not designed to do. Yes we can terraform planets and provide a sheltered environment in which a human can survive, but why? An engineered human could (theoretically) survive on a dead rock like Mars, but in another solar system. There would be no need to waste all of the effort in terraforming a planet and finding/importing/creating water if we were engineered to live without air and water, and to be able to tolerate extereme temperature changes.
I agree with you that it may not be a priority NOW, but for our continued survival it will be neccessary in the future.
The OP asked for a cheap online solution for his 3TB array - he didn't mention the type of data (hence my disclaimer about esoteric setups) or version history requirements.
What I really need is a backup for my 3T array. Find that and I might consider a couple hundred a month.
As long as there's nothing really esoteric about your setup, this is easy:
- Purchase second 3TB array
- Purchase hosting agreement with local ISP/hosting provider
- Rsync changes from live 3TB array to "warm" 3TB array hosted at aforementioned hosting provider on whatever schedule you need (hourly, daily, weekly, etc)
- Sleep better at night
It was simple advice to anyone who felt like life was passing them by while they sat at home on saturday night. I simply related an experience I had - I didn't ask for praise or for anyone to bow down before me. Take it or leave it, I don't really care.
The OP make it sound like he thought life was passing him by, and that later some girl would settle for him after she already had her fun. My point is he doesn't have to WAIT for a girl to go have fun. He can make the effort now and the girls will come.
And that's the part that has always made me bitter. The fact us geeks will be there when these wild women are "ready to settle down." We won't be out there having the wild fun, partying, adventures with them, we'll be there when they're ready to end that and become more serious. They'll have all these memories and experiences, we'll have Saturday nights watching Star Trek reruns.
Dude, if I could give you and anyone else who reads this some advice, please listen closely.. You do no need a female to go have wild fun partying adventures. Before I get flamed, let me elaborate.
When I was 16-20 I did the typical "nerd" stuff. Sat at home on weekends, tinkered with my computer/hobbies, and never had social interaction. When I turned 21 I was fed up with it and went and got a job at a nightclub. I didn't know a single person there when I started, I didn't have a girlfriend, I just took the plunge and immersed myself in the whole nightlife scene. I was working the door of the club, and believe me, everyone wants to know the door guy. We charged a $5 cover and you wouldn't believe what some people will do to get out of paying cover. I got kisses from hot females, drinks, phone numbers, flashed various body parts, etc. Within a couple of months I was starting to go out partying with my co-workers from the club, and within a year I knew just about everyone that came in regularly.
So in about a year's time I went from a social "zero" to a well known guy in the night life scene. In the few years that followed (my early 20's) I had plenty of girls, tons of friends, and all of the wild partying fun adventures I could handle. At one point I was even dating a stripper for a couple of months. I'm settled down and engaged now (NOT to the stripper), but I wouldn't trade those few years for ANYTHING. Yeah I probably shaved a few years off the end of my life, and yeah I probably could have spend that time doing something "productive" like studying or programming, but you only get once chance at life to have great experiences. IMO you should take them whenever possible, or make them if you have to.
Have you tried it? The tooth I tried it on was horribly pucked after 16 hours in some cheap supermarket cola. Hardly fully dissolved but certainly seriously damaged.
So your point is someone shouldn't hold cola in their mouth for 16 hours before swallowing it?
I don't know about the rest of you guys but I tend to swallow the cola within 5 to 10 seconds of drinking it. I then tend to brush my teeth at least twice a day, so any remaining residue gets brushed off then. I then tend to go to the dentist at least twice a year, so anything I miss gets removed then. So, how again is coke harmful to teeth?
it's a Dell p-133 with 40MB of RAM (absolute maximum) and a 1.6GB HD with several bad sectors running Win98 (it has run various Flavors of Linux and even FreeBSD once).
Heh, not to get in a dick-waving contest over who has the worst laptop, but that reminds me of the one I use for router configuration. It's an ancient no-name model with a 486/66 chip, 4mb ram, a 300mb hard drive, and completely dead battery. My co-workers rag me about it everytime I pull it out. However the only thing I use it for is configuring routers and switches, and I can have it boot into DOS an execute Procomm and be in the router 10 times faster than a new laptop can boot into winxp then execute hyperterminal. Plus many new laptops are coming without serial ports, so they're useless for router configuration anyway.
Netflix should get off their collective butts and start shopping around.
I keep reading people saying this, but my question is: Why? Every interview I read with the founder of Netflix says he's having a ball running the company as is, they're moderately successful, profitable (how many startups can you say THAT about?), and have a strong brand.
What would the deep pockets of wal-mart, amazon, or blockbuster give them? It's not like there's a lot of room for innovation in the online rental market. I go to the site and request a disc, they mail it to me, I mail it back. What sort of value added service are they going to provide, offer to mail me popcorn with my disc? Thanks but no thanks.
I think Netflix has a good thing going, and the founder has said repeatedly he is not going to get into a price war with blockbuster, he is going to compete on service.
Granted I'd love to see netflix do away with throttling, but for my $18/month I'm happy.
If no one else is interested enough to fork the project, is it any real loss if it dies?
I'd say it is.. For example I *LOVE* the mozilla suite, I love the integration between the browser, email, calendar, and address book. I see no need to have 4 apps running on my desktop when I can just run one that covers what I need. However Mofo is going to drop new development on the suite in favor of the stand alone apps. The problem is, I have neither the time, knowledge, money, or resources to take over moz suite development. So it's a real loss to me that it's going to die, but there's nothing REALISTICALLY I can do about it.
This is a lot of why companies (my employer included) are scared of open source.. What if your company invests time and money deploying app XYZ in their enterprise, and the lead developer either takes off or has a tiff with other devs on the project? Then the company either is up a creek with no paddle, or has to hire developers to take over dev on a project they know little about.
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will never, ever tell my son that it is okay for him to watch pornography. It promotes a disgusting view of sex and women that I don't want my son to be exposed to. He will grow up with proper guidance where sex is concerned and that is more than enough.
Please, you are sticking your head in the sand.. Your son will be exposed to porno (and cigarettes, and alcohol, and gambling, and probably drugs) whether you want him to be or not. If you have taught your son to think for himself and supported him to the point that he considers himself his own person he will make the right decisions when exposed to these things.. If you shelter him and pretend this stuff doesn't exist you don't know what will happen when he finds all of this cool stuff his family never told him about.
Growing up I was exposed to porn at an early age (10 or 11) through BBSes, however I never turned in to a "sneaky pervert". I had many homosexual friends that I met through BBSes, but never had a homosexual experience or desire to be homosexual. In high school most of my friends were pot heads, but I never smoked pot. I liked hanging around them but I decided for myself I had no desire to smoke a drug to make me lazy, stupid, and hungry.. I can do that on my own.
I'm not telling you or anyone how to raise your kid, just pointing out an alternate viewpoint that you can take or leave. I've had many friends growing up that were sheltered, and watched them all go wild and end up in jail, on drugs, or in rehab when they turned 18.
Is Microsoft going to have a similar problem, in that it has a nice OS, but few apps to run on it?
According to this page at microsoft, 32-bit apps will be supported via an isolated subsystem called WOW64 (much like win 2000 introduced WOW to isolate 16-bit apps). So if their marketing speak is accurate running 32-bit apps should be no problem, they just have to stick to their own dll's.
Thank you! I wish I had mod points today, but I spent 'em yesterday. That is EXACTLY the right response to the oh-my-god-the-sky-is-falling-and-we'll-run-out-of- oil-in-20-years folks.
I wanted to point out that #3 is already happening, right now. Studies are showing that for the first time Americans are starting to reconsider their large SUV purchase as gas hits $3 USD per gallon. And many drivers are starting to seriously look at hybrids. Hell, people are now paying over retail to get their hands on a prius.
It assumes that the recipient is using a graphical/HTML client.
Yes, it assumes the recipient is participating in 2005 with the rest of us, not stuck in 1994 with you. For $DIETY's sake, even pine will read HTML email these days.
It's there (at least in TB 1.0 and up, and Seamonkey 1.7 and up). Just go to your address book, and go to File->New and pick Mailing List. Seamonkey even has an icon at the top of the addressbook for New List.. Not sure if TB has this icon or not, I don't have it in front of me.
Note this is the Gecko platform, which is not to be confused with the Mozilla Suite product, aka Seamonkey.
If you would have bothered to read the second paragraph of my post you would have noticed that I pointed that distinction out. My point is the roadmap DOESN'T make that distinction clear at ALL... If some mid-level IT manager planning a seamonkey deployment for a large organization and does a little research by reading over the roadmap it's not clear at all that they are about to be SOL with their seamonkey deployment.
Well, Mr AC, it's because the current roadmap that is on the Mozilla site today discusses the development and release process for 1.8 and 1.9. So anyone doing their "due diligence" would see this and assume more releases are forthcoming.
IMO the roadmap doesn't make it clear enough that the 1.8 and 1.9 releases shown are platform releases and not suite releases. Unless you follow moz development religiously (I don't) it's not very clear from the roadmap.
Also the roadmap reads much like the king james edition of the bible, it contradicts itself everywhere. At the top:
The new, significant roadmap update hoped for early in 2004 has been postponed. See Brendan's roadmap blog for thoughts that may feed into it. An interim roadmap update focused on the "aviary 1.0" releases of Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird 1.0, and the 1.8 milestone that will follow, is coming soon.
... which makes one think 1.8 (the suite) is forthcoming. Then a little further down:
Updated: Continue to perform sustaining maintenance, including security updates, on the SeaMonkey application suite's final stable branch (1.7.x) for enterprises and other organizations with large existing Mozilla deployments.
... ah, this must be gospel. No more suite releases. But wait, a little further down:
We are not retiring the SeaMonkey application suite, or its XPFE front end, in the foreseeable future.
Emphasis mine. Is it any wonder people are confused and angry?
Right, but why don't the sites using the captcha prompts only accept captchas they have shown in the last, say, 5 minutes. Surely spammers can't scrape a captcha, show it to a porn viewer, and send the result back to the blog that quickly can they? If so then tighten it up even more. Only accept ones shown in the last minute. Or 30 seconds. You get the idea.
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If you really want to stand out when you're looking for a job, use your spare time to write a well-designed app that you can show to potential employers.
Holy crap, I can't agree with this enough. I'm currently interviewing for an entry-level(*) perl programmer, and one of the questions I ask is: "outside of your academic work, have you done any personal projects or contributed code to an open source project?". The question first of all tries to determine if they are REALLY interested in programming, or just looking for a paycheck. And second, if they have little or no real world experience but have done personal projects or (even better) worked with other programmers on open source projects, it hopefully means they are a little further along than someone who got a degree then spent 6 months working at Taco Bell and partying while they were looking for a job.
So yeah, my advice to anyone who gets a degree and finds themself unemployed or under-employed for a few months while looking for a programming job: take some initiative and either start a project of your own, or find an open-source project that interests you and contribute!
* In this case "entry-level" means the person has at least been exposed to programming concepts in college, OR has *some* real world experience in programming, be it in perl or somewhat similar language (C++, JAVA, python, etc).
Microsoft does do something similar to this.. If you run MSN Messenger they encourage you to link your mobile number with your MSN account so you can receive messages when not connected to the service. Where is the angry mob with pitchforks?
I have to agree with you 100%.. I think everyone up in arms about google having your mobile number is a bit silly. If you buy a book from amazon.com you have to give them much more info than your mobile phone number - at a minimum you must give them your credit card number and a valid shipping address. Even if you do not save the credit card to your account, you have no guarantee that they do not keep the number linked to your account behind the scenes. This information is infinitely more dangerous than a mobile phone number, but most people trust them with it because they have proven to be a reputable company. How is google different?
Maybe you meant to say that the Recreational dose is close to a dose which causes you to sleep, and in this case you would be correct. But you cannot die from GHB alone.
You have to think big, BIG picture here.. IMO humans will HAVE to integrate with machines to survive long term. We KNOW that in 5 billion years the sun will go supernova and obliterate this solar system. Yes, this is a LONG way off, and yes, it's likely some other extinction level event will happen before then, but nonetheless we know this is coming, and the only way for the species to survive is to live outside of this solar system.. Which is something our frail human bodies are not designed to do. Yes we can terraform planets and provide a sheltered environment in which a human can survive, but why? An engineered human could (theoretically) survive on a dead rock like Mars, but in another solar system. There would be no need to waste all of the effort in terraforming a planet and finding/importing/creating water if we were engineered to live without air and water, and to be able to tolerate extereme temperature changes.
I agree with you that it may not be a priority NOW, but for our continued survival it will be neccessary in the future.
Psshh. Everyone knows that Lance Armstrong was the first man on the moon. DUH!
The OP asked for a cheap online solution for his 3TB array - he didn't mention the type of data (hence my disclaimer about esoteric setups) or version history requirements.
What I really need is a backup for my 3T array. Find that and I might consider a couple hundred a month.
As long as there's nothing really esoteric about your setup, this is easy:
- Purchase second 3TB array
- Purchase hosting agreement with local ISP/hosting provider
- Rsync changes from live 3TB array to "warm" 3TB array hosted at aforementioned hosting provider on whatever schedule you need (hourly, daily, weekly, etc)
- Sleep better at night
It was simple advice to anyone who felt like life was passing them by while they sat at home on saturday night. I simply related an experience I had - I didn't ask for praise or for anyone to bow down before me. Take it or leave it, I don't really care.
The OP make it sound like he thought life was passing him by, and that later some girl would settle for him after she already had her fun. My point is he doesn't have to WAIT for a girl to go have fun. He can make the effort now and the girls will come.
And that's the part that has always made me bitter. The fact us geeks will be there when these wild women are "ready to settle down." We won't be out there having the wild fun, partying, adventures with them, we'll be there when they're ready to end that and become more serious. They'll have all these memories and experiences, we'll have Saturday nights watching Star Trek reruns.
Dude, if I could give you and anyone else who reads this some advice, please listen closely.. You do no need a female to go have wild fun partying adventures. Before I get flamed, let me elaborate.
When I was 16-20 I did the typical "nerd" stuff. Sat at home on weekends, tinkered with my computer/hobbies, and never had social interaction. When I turned 21 I was fed up with it and went and got a job at a nightclub. I didn't know a single person there when I started, I didn't have a girlfriend, I just took the plunge and immersed myself in the whole nightlife scene. I was working the door of the club, and believe me, everyone wants to know the door guy. We charged a $5 cover and you wouldn't believe what some people will do to get out of paying cover. I got kisses from hot females, drinks, phone numbers, flashed various body parts, etc. Within a couple of months I was starting to go out partying with my co-workers from the club, and within a year I knew just about everyone that came in regularly.
So in about a year's time I went from a social "zero" to a well known guy in the night life scene. In the few years that followed (my early 20's) I had plenty of girls, tons of friends, and all of the wild partying fun adventures I could handle. At one point I was even dating a stripper for a couple of months. I'm settled down and engaged now (NOT to the stripper), but I wouldn't trade those few years for ANYTHING. Yeah I probably shaved a few years off the end of my life, and yeah I probably could have spend that time doing something "productive" like studying or programming, but you only get once chance at life to have great experiences. IMO you should take them whenever possible, or make them if you have to.
So your point is someone shouldn't hold cola in their mouth for 16 hours before swallowing it?
I don't know about the rest of you guys but I tend to swallow the cola within 5 to 10 seconds of drinking it. I then tend to brush my teeth at least twice a day, so any remaining residue gets brushed off then. I then tend to go to the dentist at least twice a year, so anything I miss gets removed then. So, how again is coke harmful to teeth?
it's a Dell p-133 with 40MB of RAM (absolute maximum) and a 1.6GB HD with several bad sectors running Win98 (it has run various Flavors of Linux and even FreeBSD once).
Heh, not to get in a dick-waving contest over who has the worst laptop, but that reminds me of the one I use for router configuration. It's an ancient no-name model with a 486/66 chip, 4mb ram, a 300mb hard drive, and completely dead battery. My co-workers rag me about it everytime I pull it out. However the only thing I use it for is configuring routers and switches, and I can have it boot into DOS an execute Procomm and be in the router 10 times faster than a new laptop can boot into winxp then execute hyperterminal. Plus many new laptops are coming without serial ports, so they're useless for router configuration anyway.
Netflix should get off their collective butts and start shopping around.
I keep reading people saying this, but my question is: Why? Every interview I read with the founder of Netflix says he's having a ball running the company as is, they're moderately successful, profitable (how many startups can you say THAT about?), and have a strong brand.
What would the deep pockets of wal-mart, amazon, or blockbuster give them? It's not like there's a lot of room for innovation in the online rental market. I go to the site and request a disc, they mail it to me, I mail it back. What sort of value added service are they going to provide, offer to mail me popcorn with my disc? Thanks but no thanks.
I think Netflix has a good thing going, and the founder has said repeatedly he is not going to get into a price war with blockbuster, he is going to compete on service.
Granted I'd love to see netflix do away with throttling, but for my $18/month I'm happy.
If no one else is interested enough to fork the project, is it any real loss if it dies?
I'd say it is.. For example I *LOVE* the mozilla suite, I love the integration between the browser, email, calendar, and address book. I see no need to have 4 apps running on my desktop when I can just run one that covers what I need. However Mofo is going to drop new development on the suite in favor of the stand alone apps. The problem is, I have neither the time, knowledge, money, or resources to take over moz suite development. So it's a real loss to me that it's going to die, but there's nothing REALISTICALLY I can do about it.
This is a lot of why companies (my employer included) are scared of open source.. What if your company invests time and money deploying app XYZ in their enterprise, and the lead developer either takes off or has a tiff with other devs on the project? Then the company either is up a creek with no paddle, or has to hire developers to take over dev on a project they know little about.
will never, ever tell my son that it is okay for him to watch pornography. It promotes a disgusting view of sex and women that I don't want my son to be exposed to. He will grow up with proper guidance where sex is concerned and that is more than enough.
Please, you are sticking your head in the sand.. Your son will be exposed to porno (and cigarettes, and alcohol, and gambling, and probably drugs) whether you want him to be or not. If you have taught your son to think for himself and supported him to the point that he considers himself his own person he will make the right decisions when exposed to these things.. If you shelter him and pretend this stuff doesn't exist you don't know what will happen when he finds all of this cool stuff his family never told him about.
Growing up I was exposed to porn at an early age (10 or 11) through BBSes, however I never turned in to a "sneaky pervert". I had many homosexual friends that I met through BBSes, but never had a homosexual experience or desire to be homosexual. In high school most of my friends were pot heads, but I never smoked pot. I liked hanging around them but I decided for myself I had no desire to smoke a drug to make me lazy, stupid, and hungry.. I can do that on my own.
I'm not telling you or anyone how to raise your kid, just pointing out an alternate viewpoint that you can take or leave. I've had many friends growing up that were sheltered, and watched them all go wild and end up in jail, on drugs, or in rehab when they turned 18.
Is Microsoft going to have a similar problem, in that it has a nice OS, but few apps to run on it?
According to this page at microsoft, 32-bit apps will be supported via an isolated subsystem called WOW64 (much like win 2000 introduced WOW to isolate 16-bit apps). So if their marketing speak is accurate running 32-bit apps should be no problem, they just have to stick to their own dll's.
I wanted to point out that #3 is already happening, right now. Studies are showing that for the first time Americans are starting to reconsider their large SUV purchase as gas hits $3 USD per gallon. And many drivers are starting to seriously look at hybrids. Hell, people are now paying over retail to get their hands on a prius.
It assumes that the recipient is using a graphical/HTML client.
Yes, it assumes the recipient is participating in 2005 with the rest of us, not stuck in 1994 with you. For $DIETY's sake, even pine will read HTML email these days.
Fuck advertisers, fuck consumerism, fuck TV.
Ok, since you asked: fuck
It's there (at least in TB 1.0 and up, and Seamonkey 1.7 and up). Just go to your address book, and go to File->New and pick Mailing List. Seamonkey even has an icon at the top of the addressbook for New List.. Not sure if TB has this icon or not, I don't have it in front of me.
Yes, and right under that it says they are not retiring the Seamonkey application suite.
Note this is the Gecko platform, which is not to be confused with the Mozilla Suite product, aka Seamonkey.
If you would have bothered to read the second paragraph of my post you would have noticed that I pointed that distinction out. My point is the roadmap DOESN'T make that distinction clear at ALL... If some mid-level IT manager planning a seamonkey deployment for a large organization and does a little research by reading over the roadmap it's not clear at all that they are about to be SOL with their seamonkey deployment.
IMO the roadmap doesn't make it clear enough that the 1.8 and 1.9 releases shown are platform releases and not suite releases. Unless you follow moz development religiously (I don't) it's not very clear from the roadmap.
Also the roadmap reads much like the king james edition of the bible, it contradicts itself everywhere. At the top:
The new, significant roadmap update hoped for early in 2004 has been postponed. See Brendan's roadmap blog for thoughts that may feed into it. An interim roadmap update focused on the "aviary 1.0" releases of Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird 1.0, and the 1.8 milestone that will follow, is coming soon.
... which makes one think 1.8 (the suite) is forthcoming. Then a little further down:
Updated: Continue to perform sustaining maintenance, including security updates, on the SeaMonkey application suite's final stable branch (1.7.x) for enterprises and other organizations with large existing Mozilla deployments.
... ah, this must be gospel. No more suite releases. But wait, a little further down:
We are not retiring the SeaMonkey application suite, or its XPFE front end, in the foreseeable future.
Emphasis mine. Is it any wonder people are confused and angry?
Right, but why don't the sites using the captcha prompts only accept captchas they have shown in the last, say, 5 minutes. Surely spammers can't scrape a captcha, show it to a porn viewer, and send the result back to the blog that quickly can they? If so then tighten it up even more. Only accept ones shown in the last minute. Or 30 seconds. You get the idea.