This is truly a problem with the system. I will elaborate. I don't know the author of the question, but let's assume he's a fairly good programmer with a lot of useful experience. The problem is that a company will take a kid straight out of school with a CS degree over this guy any time. Whats unfair or stupid about that is that the guy probably has more useful experience than the student. Students are taught CS, which is basically sorts, lists, theory, etc, but usually don't know anything that actually gets used like Perl or JSPs or SQL, etc. Thus the student will have to take a huge learning curve to learn all the packages, which will be less effecient and cost more than if our guy just walked in and started working, even if he doesn't have a degree. So HR people are morons and should hire based on what practical shit you know, not on whether you have a silly degree from some shit university.
You are discussing the job of people who practice materials science. Materials scientists study a lot of chemistry and some physics and also learn a lot about shaping solids. Other areas of interest are molecular structures of certain materials and manipulating various structures tiny scales either chemically or mechanically to produce the indented material or structure.
Try finding a machinist or a materials science firm that does designs for and implements commercial plastic or metal housings for consumer products. These firms are few and far between, and most material scientists work directly for companies that mass produce products, but you should be able to find someone to help you. The best bet for you would be to come up with a detailed design for the housing and hire a firm to produce prototypes for you according to the design. The shaping of plastic and metals is not something you can really do in your home, unless you are a materials scientist or you have a great deal of knowledge and experience with such things.
Why are X10 cameras so popular? Why do people think they are worth their $80 and what do they use them for? Are they being used for surveillence of their families? Or are managers spying on or monitoring their employees? Either of these scenarios are undesirable from the standpoint of the family members or the workers. Who wants to be watched like in 1984? Basically, surveillence culture will lead to a culture of fear of doing anything except what you would be able to do in public.
Microsoft gains nothing by attacking free software, they should either ignore it or somehow adopt it, for instance publishing a version of Office for FreeBSD or something where they wouldn't have to open the code like they do for Mac Office. By fighting it like this it only makes the programmer/engineer/IT community hate Microsoft more and want to adopt more free software solutions in the workplace.
I enjoyed your review of this book about scepticism to fraud. I would like to see more reviews about books that investigate fraudulent tricksters and other nonsence. I would also like to see a change in US election laws requiring a certain level of education for policymakers to ensure they have a grasp of reality.
We are all going to loose all our freedoms! My roomate's from the Soviet Union, and he remembers the old police state! We will all be constrained in the straightjacket of surveillence culture!
What the fuck? Has Slashdot sold out? Are they really getting a TV show? This is hilarious, exactly the way the capitalist system works. I hope Slashdot's editors fuck themselves. If this isn't a hoax I will be very disappointed.
This is a highly homosexual story. Why the fuck is it being posted? One fucking comment posted so far. Why not post an informational article about mathematics or information theory that might actually enrich or prove beneficial to the careers of Slashdot's readers? I think the editors of Slashdot are brain damaged.
They keep posting duplicate stories. I've seen like five this past week. If you are getting sick of running Slashdot, let people from the community takeover who you say really support Slashdot. I mean is Slashdot a "community" site? Not really, it's more like the opinion of about 8 guys. Slashdot reminds me of the old style communist regines that were supposed to be run by the people but were really run by a few unyielding few.
Hold on captain America, if you read the article it's in the Microsoft JVM.
Second, it is only a vulnerability if the connection is to an applet through a proxy, so really its a very minor problem, although it may be a large hole the conditions for it's use are limited.
Slashdot Mirror
(Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!)
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)
"simplify programming by representing programs in ways other than in the text syntax of conventional programming languages"
Don't you mean Visual Basic?
Thanks,
Travis
Where is the old version downloadable? I'm sure someone has the download of the old version, where is it?
"In one particular instance, the Japanese market seemed far more demanding of functionality which dealt with quality issues."
What does this mean? I think all customers expect quality.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
This is truly a problem with the system. I will elaborate. I don't know the author of the question, but let's assume he's a fairly good programmer with a lot of useful experience. The problem is that a company will take a kid straight out of school with a CS degree over this guy any time. Whats unfair or stupid about that is that the guy probably has more useful experience than the student. Students are taught CS, which is basically sorts, lists, theory, etc, but usually don't know anything that actually gets used like Perl or JSPs or SQL, etc. Thus the student will have to take a huge learning curve to learn all the packages, which will be less effecient and cost more than if our guy just walked in and started working, even if he doesn't have a degree. So HR people are morons and should hire based on what practical shit you know, not on whether you have a silly degree from some shit university.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
It's a short trip to put the camera in the bedroom from the den...this is a clear violation of trust and is sick voyeurism.
You are discussing the job of people who practice materials science. Materials scientists study a lot of chemistry and some physics and also learn a lot about shaping solids. Other areas of interest are molecular structures of certain materials and manipulating various structures tiny scales either chemically or mechanically to produce the indented material or structure.
Try finding a machinist or a materials science firm that does designs for and implements commercial plastic or metal housings for consumer products. These firms are few and far between, and most material scientists work directly for companies that mass produce products, but you should be able to find someone to help you. The best bet for you would be to come up with a detailed design for the housing and hire a firm to produce prototypes for you according to the design. The shaping of plastic and metals is not something you can really do in your home, unless you are a materials scientist or you have a great deal of knowledge and experience with such things.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
Why are X10 cameras so popular? Why do people think they are worth their $80 and what do they use them for? Are they being used for surveillence of their families? Or are managers spying on or monitoring their employees? Either of these scenarios are undesirable from the standpoint of the family members or the workers. Who wants to be watched like in 1984? Basically, surveillence culture will lead to a culture of fear of doing anything except what you would be able to do in public.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
By "they wouldn't have to open the code like they do for Mac Office" I meant that the source for Mac Office isn't currently open.
Microsoft gains nothing by attacking free software, they should either ignore it or somehow adopt it, for instance publishing a version of Office for FreeBSD or something where they wouldn't have to open the code like they do for Mac Office. By fighting it like this it only makes the programmer/engineer/IT community hate Microsoft more and want to adopt more free software solutions in the workplace.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
They downmodded my story to a 2!
I enjoyed your review of this book about scepticism to fraud. I would like to see more reviews about books that investigate fraudulent tricksters and other nonsence. I would also like to see a change in US election laws requiring a certain level of education for policymakers to ensure they have a grasp of reality.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
"And if there aren't any powerful open source tools for it, any thoughts on why?"
Because programming is hard and nobody has time to create a widget for every possible format.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
We are all going to loose all our freedoms! My roomate's from the Soviet Union, and he remembers the old police state! We will all be constrained in the straightjacket of surveillence culture!
first toast!
http://slashdot.org/~forkspoon/journal/6764
http://slashdot.org/~forkspoon/journal/6764
http://slashdot.org/~forkspoon/journal/6764
What the fuck? Has Slashdot sold out? Are they really getting a TV show? This is hilarious, exactly the way the capitalist system works. I hope Slashdot's editors fuck themselves. If this isn't a hoax I will be very disappointed.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
This is a highly homosexual story. Why the fuck is it being posted? One fucking comment posted so far. Why not post an informational article about mathematics or information theory that might actually enrich or prove beneficial to the careers of Slashdot's readers? I think the editors of Slashdot are brain damaged.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
They keep posting duplicate stories. I've seen like five this past week. If you are getting sick of running Slashdot, let people from the community takeover who you say really support Slashdot. I mean is Slashdot a "community" site? Not really, it's more like the opinion of about 8 guys. Slashdot reminds me of the old style communist regines that were supposed to be run by the people but were really run by a few unyielding few.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
Can I sue all the companies whose routers spam goes through that comes to me?
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
You son of a bitch!
I should go to bed.
It appears that now horrible strains of terrible bacteria can be easily generated by anyone if they have the right equipment.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
Hold on captain America, if you read the article it's in the Microsoft JVM.
Second, it is only a vulnerability if the connection is to an applet through a proxy, so really its a very minor problem, although it may be a large hole the conditions for it's use are limited.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com