Well sure there are less jobs. Where there is a demand for work there will eventually be a supply sufficient if given enough time. In this case though i have found personally that IT jobs are easy to come by ( midwest and california ) for those who know what they are doing. I have found there is a real need not for warm bodies. But, for a person who knows what they are doing there is no real problem. I can't think of the times i have heard yeah we can fill that position but will it be with someone who actually knows what they are doing.
This seems like a trivial thing, as i am involved with the interview process at my company for the IT portions of the interview i find it amazing the people that try to apply to certain positions. This is the case in any job but it seems even if a person is college educated and supposively technically savy, it turns out to be not true or they end up being more suited as a help desk technition rather than a programmer.
1st.. What he did. He destroyed most of the user
password files and caused other small problems.
2nd.. He deleted many many things.
After that he wanted to brag. They set him up in a sting (friend was in on it) He went on and on about how cool he was and my friend was wired.
After they tried to recover the password files most of the user data was saved from a backup. But the rest of the system was toast.
They had plans to upgrade the system anyways and decided to do exactly that. Insted of putting the system back on the old freebsd box they put it on a newer system and reloaded everything and eventually got all of the accounts back on. Some of the delay was due to the police and an investigation.
m-net isn't into pulling silly pranks to get cash. the system is put together from donations and volunteers.
As a fellow delphi developer I see this as yet another incompatability between version. Such as 2.0 to 4.0. Most of us expect this to a certain degree. One of the important things to remember is not that you have to update and change your components making native api calls. Everyone who really works delphi to its limits must call on the API's to do some fudimental work. The point is that most if not all of the standard calls are going to port without modification. That to me is a life saver if you have to port a large project.
Most of the details and time it takes to port lie in the fact that if you built components on a well rounded component structure it would lend itself to being simple to update/port. This means seperating the api to a seperate object that is used by the component. You update the lower level that actually does the work and the logic and functionality of the rest of child objects stay in tact.
All this im sure is known by most people but its nice to re-iterate it from time to time to remind ourselfs how to design correctly. Even in the light of ever pressing demands by the boss to produce not screw with objects all day.
Most people would leave porting to the birds. This is because if you don't have any intentions of porting in the first place you probibly don't really have any need to port it at all. Most desktops are not going to suddenly switch to Linux overnight. The point of Kylix is to give you a choice of platforms. Thankfully they have also given us a thin API driven database attachment. The BDE is a hulking beast that often is too slow. Speed increases using native SQL Server api have made me blink more than twice. It will be a good thing for them to start out again with the database connectivity to iron out any bloated pieces.
The bde of course is a wonderful tool. That is it makes our lives very very very simple. This does not make it the best thing. Just a good thing.
Well enuf rant for now have to save some energy for The actual release.
If you have a problem with sharing your credit card and other information you probibly would be weary of giving out information to the said company at all. In cases where your not sure what they want or they want too much information, you have three options. Don't do buisness with them, send them the information and cross your fingers, or simply send them a money order or some equivelant. If they won't accept a money order then that is there problem and you shouldn't do buisness with them anyhow.
Having a little problem. See i bought these tapes about 10 years ago. I had 6 by 1999 from this band called Metallica. After a long trip through the desert most of the tapes in my car melted. As anyone knows it can be difficult to buy the Ride the lightning single. So i downloaded all of the songs from the tape. Now Metallica wants me banned. What should i do?
It occurs to me i am very agressive. I drive fast, Swerve often, get loud at work, saucy at interviews. Often i find myself fairly distructive. Yet depsite all of this i am a valuable member of society that has not a smidge of homicidal tendencies. Did i play lots of video games when i was young? Nope i sucked at them. So i programmed insted. Obviously there are factors well beyond that of a simple video game. The residing though within me screams that this is rediculous. They take a snapshot of a life and try to do a full analysis to discover what is wrong. Every good psychologist knows it is often years before any real healing can be done for those who are actually aflicted with a real problem. Just check there salary if you don't beleve me.
When did society become so weak. Agression is not a bad thing. Violence against other humans is.
I was trying to find information on trends of book stores online and otherwise. There seems to be little data to be found on the web. After checking at the Border Group Inc. Website there sales have been steadily climing since 1995 none of this due to online sales. It seems the media is at it again promoting how wonderful the online stores are doing and speaking doom of the retail chain market.
There is one possibility, the small business will certainly take a dive due to retail chains. But honestly it will be some time before we see the emergance of hundreds of pages online that people will actually sit for hours and read for pleasure.
This may be personal bias, I have read a number of Gutenberg prints on the screen and often am left dissapointed as the eye strain and poor fonts evetually leave me wanting to read more but can't.
Reading all of this on a 17 trinitron is about as good as it gets when it comes to clarity and ease of reading.
For anyone who reads often ( daily, hourly ) the though of spending all those hours in front of a screen for pleasure seems odd. Albiet I have spent days in front of IRC.
Oh well perhaps they will get rid of the stores i like to stop in and have a chat. Oh right thats another interesting thing about books stores. The people you get to interact with. Online book selling is interesting and useful if you know what you want. I seldom know what i want. Perhaps they will put up a chat to ask about books. Either way i will be saddened if the media, publishers and other sources try to get me to read it all online.
First off....How horrible.../.ing an Atari. I feel guilty doing it.
Why? Why those damn pseudo animals. The electronic equivelants to complete uselessness. My cat (Not a bot) has to earn a living around the house. She catches bugs and i give her food. Where would someone get so confused on what a pet does?
Why am i ranting. Most likely the result of visiting timecube. I walk away feeling all slick and nasty from that strange little site. Perhaps i am a little to inept to understand whats going on. Either way i feel stretched and chewed apon from the inside out.
The tube may be the coolest little laptop design idea yet. This may be something i can actually get into. Im not a weight lifter and i don't have 0.003 micron fingers capable of typing on some of the keyboards available. So, This may just be the answer.
The man who changed his name. Does it really matter to him? What possible motivation could encourage this behaviour? Let not forget Dotcom guy..arg.
The e-mail tunnel is astounding. To think someone wanted out of the firewall that bad. Wow.
But my opinion is, let them exist. Let the CONSUMER Choose. NOT a lawyer. I feel you are doing the BIGGEST Injustice by making my choices for me in court. Microsoft has NEVER prevented anyone from making a compatible system, had they done that it would have been anticompetitve. But simply existing without anything better or no one stepping up to the bat does not make microsoft an evil empire.
One little problem with this is using extremely questionable practices and buying out companies left and right even if they have a better product may be business. But, it is they who are keeping you from the best possible solution. This doesn't rely on the court but in there decisions not to play fair. It is your savior who has dug there own hole.
Now no matter how much you like there products they will be getting a slap on the hand thusly deserved.
Anyone who lets themselves be fooled into thinking that a large corporation is doing it for the consumer is eventually going to find out they care nothing about you or your issues.
What a great site. I think it would be really nice for trying different databases and such when testing new ideas for programming. Being able to rent an informix or oracle box to see how it would perform with your php code.
Couple things need fixing but for a beta seems to be running nice. There is no php support...sigh... also having mysql on there would be nice if you wanted to use a database. And the one terrable thing...SameGame the spinny stones wouldn't work. I got so excited that i would be able to play it at work.
Actually, the system is running freeBSD on a... can't remember what type of system but is a pentium something with lots of extras i beleve about 128 meg ram and plenty of disk space. I have been on there for some time...i think we first checked it out calling in from an amiga 2000 at 2400 baud after a long night of mudding and bbsing. Kind of strange lately. There seems to be a resurgance of people using the system and appearing in my life. Some of the folks i work with and know have been part of the core group of folks for a while. Every time i go out i run into someone from m-net. Very strange.
How about this nose...sniff...
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There are a number of computerized sinffers available and have been for quite a while. Some that yes, even sniff for drugs. One was even approved by the government. Very cheesy site but contains alot of information. Also there are many others that are here.
ISPs such as Excite@Home and AT&T WorldNet say about 10 percent to 15 percent of their subscribers access Usenet. And according AT&T, the percentage has not changed over the years.
Wouldn't this mean that the Usage has increased as there user base has also increased. They first say Usenet is stagnating next they are commenting on how the percentage of usage among there users is the same.
In my household sex has always been a thing of pleasure, and never something that was perverted or wrong. Everything was always open and taught from a young age. This left us with more respect for it and i think a better understanding of what it contributed to our lives.
When you throw in pornography it simply ties in another aspect of sex. It is appropriate sometimes, and other times it is not. This of course depends on mutual consent and sharing. Some if of course for personal use. Lets not get out of focus though. Most of the common complaints about sex i have heard have been either that it is against god (as a sin) or that it teaches our young ones something too personal about our deepest secrets.
There are no real secrects when it will not hurt anyone. This of course can be changed by some respect and knowlege about the subject. If you yourself are afraid of something don't you usually try to overcome it? It would seem folly not to. If this is your fear then step past it. Nothing is that personal or your obviously taking yourself, your sexuality, and your life entirely to seriously.
Why would you ever try to limit something as simple as this: Don't have the pornography in your home and your children won't get it. If you enjoy it and keep it in your home then teach them about it (not by showing but explaining) what and why it is there. Perhaps i am thrown off by the fact that this was always a truth when i grew up. But, i don't think it too hard.
The first argument about God i cannot comment on that is up to you. There is too much fire under religion to make a dent with some.
I never saw a problem with sex, online or otherwise (mags, video, etc...) I think i lead a healthy life and never have felt criminal buying any of the sources mentioned. I do find it a bother when i can't afford them. A little price regulation would be really nice.
How does freedom reign in? I think it appears when i step though the door of the seedy p0rn shop to buy something that interests me, or when i think that most of the reason the VHS beat out beta was the avalibility of video's on VHS and not the other. These simple things that allow me to do what i like with my money without having to bribe the police or be browbeaten by my peers, or even move to do what i like. That is my version of freedom.
Oh well time to pop in that new dvd(good luck in the trial maybe it will be on a linux system next time)
I am curious about the subtle method they are using. It seems that you could just as well use two click shopping with little or no problems. One click to submit, one click to verify.
Its cheap and almost rediculous but seems like it should work.
Just dumped my cable modem because of massive bandwidth loss due to too many people on my segment. Scheduled to get adsl shortly as a replacement. The good news is at least i got free installation and the dsl company also offers SDSL(for 3 times as much of course). I think i shall not get rid of my dialup isp just yet. Kept it even after i got my cable modem just in case. I think ill start sending e-mails now in anticipation, to all the AM stations in the area. That should be about 40 e-mails if i remember correctly.
Actually what do people use there AM radio for? Probibly most listen to games and Art Bell anyhow. If thats the case you can get online broadcast's of it all anyways.
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Well sure there are less jobs. Where there is a demand for work there will eventually be a supply sufficient if given enough time. In this case though i have found personally that IT jobs are easy to come by ( midwest and california ) for those who know what they are doing. I have found there is a real need not for warm bodies. But, for a person who knows what they are doing there is no real problem. I can't think of the times i have heard yeah we can fill that position but will it be with someone who actually knows what they are doing.
This seems like a trivial thing, as i am involved with the interview process at my company for the IT portions of the interview i find it amazing the people that try to apply to certain positions. This is the case in any job but it seems even if a person is college educated and supposively technically savy, it turns out to be not true or they end up being more suited as a help desk technition rather than a programmer.
1st.. What he did. He destroyed most of the user
password files and caused other small problems.
2nd.. He deleted many many things.
After that he wanted to brag. They set him up in a sting (friend was in on it) He went on and on about how cool he was and my friend was wired.
After they tried to recover the password files most of the user data was saved from a backup. But the rest of the system was toast.
They had plans to upgrade the system anyways and decided to do exactly that. Insted of putting the system back on the old freebsd box they put it on a newer system and reloaded everything and eventually got all of the accounts back on. Some of the delay was due to the police and an investigation.
m-net isn't into pulling silly pranks to get cash. the system is put together from donations and volunteers.
off and out
As a fellow delphi developer I see this as yet another incompatability between version. Such as 2.0 to 4.0. Most of us expect this to a certain degree. One of the important things to remember is not that you have to update and change your components making native api calls. Everyone who really works delphi to its limits must call on the API's to do some fudimental work. The point is that most if not all of the standard calls are going to port without modification. That to me is a life saver if you have to port a large project.
Most of the details and time it takes to port lie in the fact that if you built components on a well rounded component structure it would lend itself to being simple to update/port. This means seperating the api to a seperate object that is used by the component. You update the lower level that actually does the work and the logic and functionality of the rest of child objects stay in tact.
All this im sure is known by most people but its nice to re-iterate it from time to time to remind ourselfs how to design correctly. Even in the light of ever pressing demands by the boss to produce not screw with objects all day.
Most people would leave porting to the birds. This is because if you don't have any intentions of porting in the first place you probibly don't really have any need to port it at all. Most desktops are not going to suddenly switch to Linux overnight. The point of Kylix is to give you a choice of platforms. Thankfully they have also given us a thin API driven database attachment. The BDE is a hulking beast that often is too slow. Speed increases using native SQL Server api have made me blink more than twice. It will be a good thing for them to start out again with the database connectivity to iron out any bloated pieces.
The bde of course is a wonderful tool. That is it makes our lives very very very simple. This does not make it the best thing. Just a good thing.
Well enuf rant for now have to save some energy for The actual release.
If you have a problem with sharing your credit card and other information you probibly would be weary of giving out information to the said company at all. In cases where your not sure what they want or they want too much information, you have three options. Don't do buisness with them, send them the information and cross your fingers, or simply send them a money order or some equivelant. If they won't accept a money order then that is there problem and you shouldn't do buisness with them anyhow.
Having a little problem. See i bought these tapes about 10 years ago. I had 6 by 1999 from this band called Metallica. After a long trip through the desert most of the tapes in my car melted. As anyone knows it can be difficult to buy the Ride the lightning single. So i downloaded all of the songs from the tape. Now Metallica wants me banned. What should i do?
It occurs to me i am very agressive. I drive fast, Swerve often, get loud at work, saucy at interviews. Often i find myself fairly distructive. Yet depsite all of this i am a valuable member of society that has not a smidge of homicidal tendencies. Did i play lots of video games when i was young? Nope i sucked at them. So i programmed insted. Obviously there are factors well beyond that of a simple video game. The residing though within me screams that this is rediculous. They take a snapshot of a life and try to do a full analysis to discover what is wrong. Every good psychologist knows it is often years before any real healing can be done for those who are actually aflicted with a real problem. Just check there salary if you don't beleve me.
When did society become so weak. Agression is not a bad thing. Violence against other humans is.
I was trying to find information on trends of book stores online and otherwise. There seems to be little data to be found on the web. After checking at the Border Group Inc. Website there sales have been steadily climing since 1995 none of this due to online sales. It seems the media is at it again promoting how wonderful the online stores are doing and speaking doom of the retail chain market.
There is one possibility, the small business will certainly take a dive due to retail chains. But honestly it will be some time before we see the emergance of hundreds of pages online that people will actually sit for hours and read for pleasure.
This may be personal bias, I have read a number of Gutenberg prints on the screen and often am left dissapointed as the eye strain and poor fonts evetually leave me wanting to read more but can't.
Reading all of this on a 17 trinitron is about as good as it gets when it comes to clarity and ease of reading.
For anyone who reads often ( daily, hourly ) the though of spending all those hours in front of a screen for pleasure seems odd. Albiet I have spent days in front of IRC.
Oh well perhaps they will get rid of the stores i like to stop in and have a chat. Oh right thats another interesting thing about books stores. The people you get to interact with. Online book selling is interesting and useful if you know what you want. I seldom know what i want. Perhaps they will put up a chat to ask about books. Either way i will be saddened if the media, publishers and other sources try to get me to read it all online.
off and out...
The FAQ also mentions the word synergy...nothing like marketing puke to confuse an issue.
I think i found the final element missing from /. the Gdancer plugin to give a talk show like feel to the stream.
off and out
First off....How horrible... /.ing an Atari. I feel guilty doing it.
Why? Why those damn pseudo animals. The electronic equivelants to complete uselessness. My cat (Not a bot) has to earn a living around the house. She catches bugs and i give her food. Where would someone get so confused on what a pet does?
Why am i ranting. Most likely the result of visiting timecube. I walk away feeling all slick and nasty from that strange little site. Perhaps i am a little to inept to understand whats going on. Either way i feel stretched and chewed apon from the inside out.
The tube may be the coolest little laptop design idea yet. This may be something i can actually get into. Im not a weight lifter and i don't have 0.003 micron fingers capable of typing on some of the keyboards available. So, This may just be the answer.
The man who changed his name. Does it really matter to him? What possible motivation could encourage this behaviour? Let not forget Dotcom guy..arg.
The e-mail tunnel is astounding. To think someone wanted out of the firewall that bad. Wow.
off and out
But my opinion is, let them exist. Let the CONSUMER Choose. NOT a lawyer. I feel you are doing the BIGGEST Injustice by making my choices for me in court. Microsoft has NEVER prevented anyone from making a compatible system, had they done that it would have been anticompetitve. But simply existing without anything better or no one stepping up to the bat does not make microsoft an evil empire.
One little problem with this is using extremely questionable practices and buying out companies left and right even if they have a better product may be business. But, it is they who are keeping you from the best possible solution. This doesn't rely on the court but in there decisions not to play fair. It is your savior who has dug there own hole.
Now no matter how much you like there products they will be getting a slap on the hand thusly deserved.
Anyone who lets themselves be fooled into thinking that a large corporation is doing it for the consumer is eventually going to find out they care nothing about you or your issues.
What a great site. I think it would be really nice for trying different databases and such when testing new ideas for programming. Being able to rent an informix or oracle box to see how it would perform with your php code.
Couple things need fixing but for a beta seems to be running nice. There is no php support...sigh... also having mysql on there would be nice if you wanted to use a database. And the one terrable thing...SameGame the spinny stones wouldn't work. I got so excited that i would be able to play it at work.
But great job to those at workspot
Actually, the system is running freeBSD on a... can't remember what type of system but is a pentium something with lots of extras i beleve about 128 meg ram and plenty of disk space. I have been on there for some time...i think we first checked it out calling in from an amiga 2000 at 2400 baud after a long night of mudding and bbsing. Kind of strange lately. There seems to be a resurgance of people using the system and appearing in my life. Some of the folks i work with and know have been part of the core group of folks for a while. Every time i go out i run into someone from m-net. Very strange.
There are a number of computerized sinffers available and have been for quite a while. Some that yes, even sniff for drugs. One was even approved by the government. Very cheesy site but contains alot of information. Also there are many others that are here.
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ISPs such as Excite@Home and AT&T WorldNet say about 10 percent to 15 percent of their subscribers access Usenet. And according AT&T, the percentage has not changed over the years.
Wouldn't this mean that the Usage has increased as there user base has also increased. They first say Usenet is stagnating next they are commenting on how the percentage of usage among there users is the same.
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In my household sex has always been a thing of pleasure, and never something that was perverted or wrong. Everything was always open and taught from a young age. This left us with more respect for it and i think a better understanding of what it contributed to our lives.
When you throw in pornography it simply ties in another aspect of sex. It is appropriate sometimes, and other times it is not. This of course depends on mutual consent and sharing. Some if of course for personal use. Lets not get out of focus though. Most of the common complaints about sex i have heard have been either that it is against god (as a sin) or that it teaches our young ones something too personal about our deepest secrets.
There are no real secrects when it will not hurt anyone. This of course can be changed by some respect and knowlege about the subject. If you yourself are afraid of something don't you usually try to overcome it? It would seem folly not to. If this is your fear then step past it. Nothing is that personal or your obviously taking yourself, your sexuality, and your life entirely to seriously.
Why would you ever try to limit something as simple as this: Don't have the pornography in your home and your children won't get it. If you enjoy it and keep it in your home then teach them about it (not by showing but explaining) what and why it is there. Perhaps i am thrown off by the fact that this was always a truth when i grew up. But, i don't think it too hard.
The first argument about God i cannot comment on that is up to you. There is too much fire under religion to make a dent with some.
I never saw a problem with sex, online or otherwise (mags, video, etc...) I think i lead a healthy life and never have felt criminal buying any of the sources mentioned. I do find it a bother when i can't afford them. A little price regulation would be really nice.
How does freedom reign in? I think it appears when i step though the door of the seedy p0rn shop to buy something that interests me, or when i think that most of the reason the VHS beat out beta was the avalibility of video's on VHS and not the other. These simple things that allow me to do what i like with my money without having to bribe the police or be browbeaten by my peers, or even move to do what i like. That is my version of freedom.
Oh well time to pop in that new dvd(good luck in the trial maybe it will be on a linux system next time)
I am curious about the subtle method they are using. It seems that you could just as well use two click shopping with little or no problems. One click to submit, one click to verify.
Its cheap and almost rediculous but seems like it should work.
Just dumped my cable modem because of massive bandwidth loss due to too many people on my
segment. Scheduled to get adsl shortly as a replacement. The good news is at least i got
free installation and the dsl company also offers SDSL(for 3 times as much of course).
I think i shall not get rid of my dialup isp just yet. Kept it even after i got my cable modem just in case.
I think ill start sending e-mails now in anticipation, to all the AM stations in the area.
That should be about 40 e-mails if i remember correctly.
Actually what do people use there AM radio for? Probibly most listen to games
and Art Bell anyhow. If thats the case you can get online broadcast's of it all anyways.