We would have killed for reformated AOL disks! This was 1990 or so, they weren't giving them away yet (at least where I went to school). So past the time when we were cutting extra slots in 5.25" floppy holders to use the single sided ones double sided and saved 50 cents each.
reminds me of the first virus I ever encounter, something Jericho; I knew I was in trouble when/format:c was no longer working. Oh, the days when a reformat and reinstall took 30 min, and all your documents were "safe" on floppies anyway.
The trick is, they rout the calls through Canada or the Caribbean. As a "foreign" call, they get around the "no call" list and the telemarketing rules, and they get around the requirements for caller ID. Since calls from other countries often cannot display caller ID for technical reasons, your phone doesn't perceive the ID as blocked but only as technically unavailable, and lets the call through.
Few comments on this: 1) The poster is a college graduate, he competes with hundreds of nominal equal qualification
2) the trick is not making it past the interview, the trick is making it to the interview
3) Employers will probably interview less than 10% of the applicants
4) 90% of applications don't make it past initial vetting
5) Initial vetting will contain required skill set, anything extraordinary positive, any potential downside
The latter is huge if you're competing with a crowd. Googling the applicant is part of due diligence now, and, unlike e.g. credit check, leaves no trace and doesn't require permission. Which is why he should really try hard to get this either removed, or if needed, try to play google ranking and move something else to the top. Similarly, I never understand why people need to point out things like "active in boy scouts, NAACP, KKK, AARP, League of Woman Voters, PETA, Knights of Columbus or AUSSC"; the potential for positive recognition is so much less than the potential for conflict, either with the HR person himself due to bias or because the HR person knows his or her work force.
And no, you will never be able to prove that, your "thank you for your application" letter will always have a "decided on a person with qualifications more suitable for the position".
I had a rabbit (inherited from a gf who turned out to be allergic to it) what could take the insulation of a 220V cable without ill effect. Ill effect to the rabbit that is, the effect on me upon finding the spot was rather pronounced.
I don't think high voltage is the solution;)
Well, there is a slippery slope hidden deep in there. Right now, text-to-audio is "listenable" but no great experience, compared to an audio book. And you could probably make an argument about the Americans with Disabilities Act making this a "reasonable accommodation. But 10 years from now, the automated reader will probably be indistinguishable from the spoken version. At which point it would be too late to pursue this line of thinking since copyrights need to be defended early on (IANAL).
Sorry, that's not going to cut it since you're comparing apples to oranges, and your customers will know it. There is a huge difference between the millions of poorly maintained windows machines open to everything in Grandma's attic, and professionally supervised MS based environments in a business. My guess is that the second page will be blank in most cases of professional environments. Linux just benefits from the lack of clueless users here; that and the limited market share make it a less attractive target for hackers in the first place.
No, these parts are eaten by the masses in the form of bologna and hot dogs. There are very few parts that need disposal, 4000 years of cow herding has made humans very adapt at using every last morsel. And then there is always pet food, and army rations.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough here - when you file a patent, you're required to list relevant patents in the field. These will (hopefully, if the process works) prevent the troll from getting a patent on your stuff. Prior art based on previous publication might help you get the patent overturned, but it won't necessarily stop the troll from getting the patent in the first place, leading to all kinds of expenses (much more than the 10k to finish the patent process and than abolishing it) or hindrances in the market place (FUD a la SCO).
The only reason to finish the patent process would be to establish your freedom to continue down that path without anyone else patenting your own technology, and then blocking your from using it. I don't know if an abandoned patent application is sufficient to give you that protection. Finishing it and then not keeping it up is definitely going to do it (usual IANAL disclaimer).
The big thing is that most printings of Mein Kampf have swastikas on them - and advertising or showing those Nazi icons is prohibited. Which is why you shouldn't buy plastic airplane models from Germany - the decals are either removed or liberally dotted with black dots.
The copyright thing doesn't work anymore, MK was originally published more than 75 years ago, and it's more than 50 years after the death of the author.
Well, the last 10 contacts they made led to 5 interstellar wars, 3 civilizations wiped out by alien microbe infestation, one civilization committing collective suicide in a religious frency, and a fad of bell bottom pants and moving to sound waves modified by light flashing of mirrored balls.
They definitely aren't interested anymore!
I think the time factor is much more important - even if our civilization lasts eons (dinosaurs hang around for 100 Million years), the odds that some one else is at a point of technological development to understand us or we noticing them is extremely low. Dozens of "advanced" civilizations could have happened in our own galaxy, and we'd missed them completely. Hundreds could exist in the universe right now, and have no way of knowing of us. But then, supernova explosions could just be an elaborate long distance communication system, and gammy burst are really intergalactic warfare. And we completely misunderstood the contact attempts of the guys talking trough burning bushes.
it's all due to a sentence taken out of the earliest version of the bible:
"and on the eights day he decided that this creation game was fun, and went of to try new variations"
Not having seen the creature creator of Spore, our ancestors couldn't make sense of it and dropped it.
Well, at least this time they announce it. I went to one of their Server 2008 forums last year, and the promotional package contained a Vista Ultimate disc. When I finally got to build a new machine after Xmas, they had disabled the key dispensing website (the disc came with a key you needed to convert into a true install key online).
In the US you're sitting in your car for much longer times; no rush hour traffic at the Frankfurter Kreuz can come close to a LA commute, and Hamburg to Munich is a fun drive compared to Phoenix to Dallas at 75 mph.
And please don't underestimate the torque of those "large engine monsters", a 425 (that's 7 l for the SI crowd) can make a 2 t Cadillac accelerate rather decently.
Yes, Germany took forever to catch up on the phone system - but now it's our system that needs to get in sync with the rest of the world. It's amazing that nearly every cell phone in the world works world wide - unless you're with a US carrier. Then you're landlocked so to say.
As for cars - German cars usually seem to have more fault reports in the first years - due to higher expectations mostly (Germans get upset about a wobbly switch and have it fixed, something most Chrysler owners wouldn't find out of the ordinary). The true value usually doesn't show until year 5 - 10 or so. But then, the price reflects the differences; you get a lot more car for the buck from US brands (at least if I compare my Passat to my Chrysler).
The real worry is, under the influence of long term exposure to space radiation, the silk worms might show some interesting mutations. Like football size eggs, and an direct, so inverse, correlation between the number of silk worms and the number of crew members...
What, no one to set up a little wireless peer to peer network and run an IRC server? 300 guys should have enough porn on their laptops to swap to make the most boring cruise palatable.
yes, this approach is extremely energy hungry, not something you want to try on your first run. Maybe you don't have to, you might be able to just dig tunnels. The big question is so - how densely is the regolith packed? My experience with the simulant used by NASA showed it's really fragile even if you compress it at 10,000 psi. But the Apollo astronauts reported a rock-like consistency when they tried to dig deeper than a few inches. 4 billion years of compaction will do that. Will it be strong enough to support underground structures so, that's the unknown until someone goes up and actually tries to dig down. You might need the bricks just to clad out your tunnels so, you definitely don't want to get into contact with regolith, nasty abrasive, and probably a big inhalation health hazard in the long run.
All you need is a 12,000 km diameter sunshade. Preferably made from something light, say aluminum foil. Ups, that's 2 billion tons, maybe something lighter, aluminized mylar at 2 millon tons - we better get that space elevator build fast.
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Well, if the hacker types like the submitter, I'm not too worried about my login credentials.
now that you mention it ...
Actually I started out on Commodore 64s - not THAT much older.
We would have killed for reformated AOL disks! This was 1990 or so, they weren't giving them away yet (at least where I went to school). So past the time when we were cutting extra slots in 5.25" floppy holders to use the single sided ones double sided and saved 50 cents each.
reminds me of the first virus I ever encounter, something Jericho; I knew I was in trouble when /format :c was no longer working. Oh, the days when a reformat and reinstall took 30 min, and all your documents were "safe" on floppies anyway.
The trick is, they rout the calls through Canada or the Caribbean. As a "foreign" call, they get around the "no call" list and the telemarketing rules, and they get around the requirements for caller ID. Since calls from other countries often cannot display caller ID for technical reasons, your phone doesn't perceive the ID as blocked but only as technically unavailable, and lets the call through.
Few comments on this:
1) The poster is a college graduate, he competes with hundreds of nominal equal qualification
2) the trick is not making it past the interview, the trick is making it to the interview
3) Employers will probably interview less than 10% of the applicants
4) 90% of applications don't make it past initial vetting
5) Initial vetting will contain required skill set, anything extraordinary positive, any potential downside
The latter is huge if you're competing with a crowd. Googling the applicant is part of due diligence now, and, unlike e.g. credit check, leaves no trace and doesn't require permission. Which is why he should really try hard to get this either removed, or if needed, try to play google ranking and move something else to the top. Similarly, I never understand why people need to point out things like "active in boy scouts, NAACP, KKK, AARP, League of Woman Voters, PETA, Knights of Columbus or AUSSC"; the potential for positive recognition is so much less than the potential for conflict, either with the HR person himself due to bias or because the HR person knows his or her work force.
And no, you will never be able to prove that, your "thank you for your application" letter will always have a "decided on a person with qualifications more suitable for the position".
That's what Yorkshire terriers are for. You don't think them miners were keeping them for pets?
I had a rabbit (inherited from a gf who turned out to be allergic to it) what could take the insulation of a 220V cable without ill effect. Ill effect to the rabbit that is, the effect on me upon finding the spot was rather pronounced. I don't think high voltage is the solution ;)
Well, there is a slippery slope hidden deep in there. Right now, text-to-audio is "listenable" but no great experience, compared to an audio book. And you could probably make an argument about the Americans with Disabilities Act making this a "reasonable accommodation.
But 10 years from now, the automated reader will probably be indistinguishable from the spoken version. At which point it would be too late to pursue this line of thinking since copyrights need to be defended early on (IANAL).
Sorry, that's not going to cut it since you're comparing apples to oranges, and your customers will know it. There is a huge difference between the millions of poorly maintained windows machines open to everything in Grandma's attic, and professionally supervised MS based environments in a business.
My guess is that the second page will be blank in most cases of professional environments. Linux just benefits from the lack of clueless users here; that and the limited market share make it a less attractive target for hackers in the first place.
No, these parts are eaten by the masses in the form of bologna and hot dogs. There are very few parts that need disposal, 4000 years of cow herding has made humans very adapt at using every last morsel. And then there is always pet food, and army rations.
oh yes, the good old times. BTW, 12 expansions and 8 years later the sleeper was found hiding in a cave temple and killed.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough here - when you file a patent, you're required to list relevant patents in the field. These will (hopefully, if the process works) prevent the troll from getting a patent on your stuff. Prior art based on previous publication might help you get the patent overturned, but it won't necessarily stop the troll from getting the patent in the first place, leading to all kinds of expenses (much more than the 10k to finish the patent process and than abolishing it) or hindrances in the market place (FUD a la SCO).
The only reason to finish the patent process would be to establish your freedom to continue down that path without anyone else patenting your own technology, and then blocking your from using it.
I don't know if an abandoned patent application is sufficient to give you that protection. Finishing it and then not keeping it up is definitely going to do it (usual IANAL disclaimer).
The big thing is that most printings of Mein Kampf have swastikas on them - and advertising or showing those Nazi icons is prohibited. Which is why you shouldn't buy plastic airplane models from Germany - the decals are either removed or liberally dotted with black dots.
The copyright thing doesn't work anymore, MK was originally published more than 75 years ago, and it's more than 50 years after the death of the author.
Well, the last 10 contacts they made led to 5 interstellar wars, 3 civilizations wiped out by alien microbe infestation, one civilization committing collective suicide in a religious frency, and a fad of bell bottom pants and moving to sound waves modified by light flashing of mirrored balls.
They definitely aren't interested anymore!
I think the time factor is much more important - even if our civilization lasts eons (dinosaurs hang around for 100 Million years), the odds that some one else is at a point of technological development to understand us or we noticing them is extremely low. Dozens of "advanced" civilizations could have happened in our own galaxy, and we'd missed them completely. Hundreds could exist in the universe right now, and have no way of knowing of us.
But then, supernova explosions could just be an elaborate long distance communication system, and gammy burst are really intergalactic warfare. And we completely misunderstood the contact attempts of the guys talking trough burning bushes.
it's all due to a sentence taken out of the earliest version of the bible: "and on the eights day he decided that this creation game was fun, and went of to try new variations" Not having seen the creature creator of Spore, our ancestors couldn't make sense of it and dropped it.
Well, at least this time they announce it. I went to one of their Server 2008 forums last year, and the promotional package contained a Vista Ultimate disc. When I finally got to build a new machine after Xmas, they had disabled the key dispensing website (the disc came with a key you needed to convert into a true install key online).
In the US you're sitting in your car for much longer times; no rush hour traffic at the Frankfurter Kreuz can come close to a LA commute, and Hamburg to Munich is a fun drive compared to Phoenix to Dallas at 75 mph.
And please don't underestimate the torque of those "large engine monsters", a 425 (that's 7 l for the SI crowd) can make a 2 t Cadillac accelerate rather decently.
Yes, Germany took forever to catch up on the phone system - but now it's our system that needs to get in sync with the rest of the world. It's amazing that nearly every cell phone in the world works world wide - unless you're with a US carrier. Then you're landlocked so to say. As for cars - German cars usually seem to have more fault reports in the first years - due to higher expectations mostly (Germans get upset about a wobbly switch and have it fixed, something most Chrysler owners wouldn't find out of the ordinary). The true value usually doesn't show until year 5 - 10 or so. But then, the price reflects the differences; you get a lot more car for the buck from US brands (at least if I compare my Passat to my Chrysler).
The real worry is, under the influence of long term exposure to space radiation, the silk worms might show some interesting mutations. Like football size eggs, and an direct, so inverse, correlation between the number of silk worms and the number of crew members...
What, no one to set up a little wireless peer to peer network and run an IRC server? 300 guys should have enough porn on their laptops to swap to make the most boring cruise palatable.
yes, this approach is extremely energy hungry, not something you want to try on your first run. Maybe you don't have to, you might be able to just dig tunnels. The big question is so - how densely is the regolith packed? My experience with the simulant used by NASA showed it's really fragile even if you compress it at 10,000 psi. But the Apollo astronauts reported a rock-like consistency when they tried to dig deeper than a few inches. 4 billion years of compaction will do that. Will it be strong enough to support underground structures so, that's the unknown until someone goes up and actually tries to dig down. You might need the bricks just to clad out your tunnels so, you definitely don't want to get into contact with regolith, nasty abrasive, and probably a big inhalation health hazard in the long run.
All you need is a 12,000 km diameter sunshade. Preferably made from something light, say aluminum foil. Ups, that's 2 billion tons, maybe something lighter, aluminized mylar at 2 millon tons - we better get that space elevator build fast.