If you are serious about landing a job, bashfully asking for a low-or-no paying internship position is completely worthless. In a job market like this, no manager is looking for the smooth young minds to take under their wing and mold into productive, successful workers. They are looking for the people that can get the job done, make the manager look good, and not gripe and grouse about petty issues.
The only way to crack into such a market when you are green is to really dazzle 'em with examples of sharp work and present yourself as someone pleasant to work with!
Also, never try to land a job through an HR department. If you can't get direct access to a project manager, meet someone who can. Try thinking from the perspective of a project manager: He/She wants to look good in front of the peers and boss and make sure the new hire isn't going to rub the existing team wrong and waste a lot of time with interpersonal drama to resolve.
" Maybe the future trend is for other peripherals to start adding computational functionality, and further reduce the CPU load "
Indeed, there are a number of peripherals that could benefit from a trend like this, both for the respective industry's business perspective as well as the user's improved experience:
Speech Recognition Accelerator. With the recent trend of incorporating reasonably capable audio directly on mobo, the viability of he sound card oems is in a state of peril. They will either be forced to adapt by moving into chipset production or by increasing the utility of their cards. Since voice recognition is so processor intensive, an accelerator built into an audio card is an obvious option.
Database Accelerator. With the huge gains being made with the ATA protocol. SCSI oems are facing dwindling performance and sales. At the same time, dB usage is growing and promises to explode with the adoption of the sql based filesytems coming from the GNU world and MSFT. A SCSI controller able to sync, link and otherwise accelerate transactions might be useful enough to warrant an accelerator built on to the SCSI controller / Drive controllers.
Networking Accelerator. There are already several cards that offer limited accelerator features, but there are many paths for this item to follow: encryption acceleration, built in 802.11x and Bluetooth switches, packet error correction, on-NIC DNS caching... perhaps the entire network stack could be moved to hardware, and just spit out the data directly to RAM or HD, depending on what you are doing.
There are probably not too many other opportunities for peripheral acceleration, but with all of these accelerators on a fast bus (one of the proposed standards, or perhaps multiplexed AGP?) your system would sing like a kitten with a processor running at bus speed.
If you're reading this, please update to SourceForge! you're.CX server is utterly bogged by the slashdot effect. I would love to try it out, I have a box just rarin' to go, but we'll never get at it while this is on the front page of slashdot, unless you post something like an ISO somewhere fat.
"But to say that Microsoft has helped other companies financially is preposterous "
I have worked for companies that make windows/dos apps for nearly 15 years... This work has paid for my children, house, cars, appliances, gizmos, toys, vacation and food in all that time. I've personally done quite well by them, so have the several thousand other people at my current corporation, and the millions of others from here to India and on to London.
I don't think you get the scale of the industry that has grown up around MS... While they may be worth many billions, the combined wealth of all the peripheral and partner corporations reaches into the TRILLIONS.
August 2002, Redhat Inc realizes they are about to collapse unless they can tighten up their offerings and make some dough with a distro that offers as many modern features as WinXX, at a lower price point. This would include.NET interoperability.
Meanwhile, the archconservative cabal of Gnome developers have forstalled and denied the inclusion of Mono altogether. All of the behavior you mention comes to pass and Mono is shoved aside...
What on earth shall Redhat do? They need to function as a modern server, and by now some of the shotgun splatter of features introduced by MS have had time to matriculate into Must-Have features... Should Redhat develop their own.NET package from scratch or simply add Mono to Gnome on their own dime to get the ball rolling? The source for all of this will be available, and for a company the size of Redhat, implementation would be trivial.
So I guess the moral is, if you make it, they will come. Mono has a future, one way or another. With or without the Gnome folks blessing.
"...Lots of other companies have attempted to co-exist with Microsoft...
Well, to be fair, a far larger number of companies have had very lucrative and stable relationships with MS than the converse. Companies like all the major software houses, particularly the ones that MS directly licenses software from, standards makers like Intel, HP, Apple and NCSA the major hardware OEMs Compaq, Dell, Gateway and all of the other hundreds of thousands of people around the world who've carved quite a decent living out of the MS umbrella of industry.
I can think of fewer than five examples of MS relationships gone bad in the past (blockstackers, DRDOS, Sun/Java, um... kerberos?) while thousands of companies have made handsome profits. Must I remind you that making a profit is the aim of a company?
This story is wildly out of whack with reality. The primary tenet is that playstation II's are cheaper than computers. A complete PSX2 'computer' would come out to something like $700 US after you add all the rickty hacks like hard drive and globalstar modem connectivity, plus a TV set... This is not cheaper than a refurbished P90 with a 13" monitor!
No, rather I'd say that this is a contrived wet dream of a story, packaged by the Sony Entertainment US marketing department, bundled up and handed off to AOL/Time Warner's news division glorifying certain corporate interests that run contrary to certain looming threats from other quarters. Besides, there's not a lot of money in refurbished P90's sold to developing nations, but there sure is a lot of money in convincing armchair philanthropists to buy a playstation 2 that they may sooth their aching conscience in this land of plenty. Don't believe the hype!
I am applying for one of those jobs tomorrow morning.
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There has been a great deal of mention that 'burning the dealerships releases more pollutants than letting people drive the SUVs to begin with' but I think you people are failing to grasp the singular point of the action: This is merely a means to strike at the brazen greed and shameless covetous of a society that would encourage these hoggish vehicles against better judgement and obvious evidence.
This is a wakeup call to the self-obsessed Americans more concerned with their comfort, ego strokings and illusions of rugged safety than a protest of fossil-fuels and emissions. You folks can try and argue your way out of it, but the facts remain: SUV's are horrible in so many ways that no amount of mental footwork is going to save you from the backlash. People hate these things, and for good reason IMHO. SUV owners, get out while you still can. Get out while you are still able to salvage some self respect. These vehicles represent a blight on our national pride, and will be cast in the light of evil throughout our future history. Think for a change. Make the right decision!
...remind me to stock up on today's technology, like win2k, hackable tivos, high end athlons with PC133 RAM, etc. so that when the seige being currently waged against the consumer is finally won by the big corporations, I'll still have an easy time of pirating intellectual property.:)
So the S.Korean cops are calling real world violence stemming from in-game behavior "offline PK"... The only question after that is who'll scoop this phrase first- Rudy Rucker or Bruce Sterling? I can totally see a new cyber-pulp series wrapped around this one phrase.;-)
1. Make it go. Easily. Linux sure as hell can't do this (Mac OS X, on the other hand, does)
2. Games, Internet, Word processing. In that order- linux has the internet thing down. Games are coming, and office suites are getting there.
These things you mention are, at least on the surface quite obviously important. But I find that even as an internet/coding only type of user, the most important reasons I have for remaining with win2k over any given *NIX are:
1. Standardized keyboard shortcuts. I spend so much time on the keyboard, any delay from reaching for and orienting the mouse can amount to hours per month. If I can alt+tab between apps (or to my dos console to move files around) I tend to do it. If I can alt+F4 to kill a window or app, I'll do that. etc. Since almost every winders app I've come across subscribes to these basic keyboardability tenets, I can usually remain on the keboard throughout an entire computing session. Not so for Gnome or KDE apps. no contest.
2. Robust mouse wheel and extra button support. I find when I am sitting at my computer purely to browse, I rely on the context menu, mouse wheel, back button and forward button (in that order) completely. Again, needing to refocus the mouse, to drag a scroll bar or click a fwd/back button consumes time and effort that really adds up over the course of a month's computing. Using a four or five button mouse relieves much of that problem. And all the mice work as soon as you plug them in. I can indeed configure an intellimouse manually under GNU/Linux, but why the hell would I want to bother?
3. Hardware Support. I don't know what to say here. It is so very obviously the strength of Windows that no comparison to *NIX is worth mentioning. Why people choose to wait months or years to gain the full use of their hardware (if ever) is completely beyond me. Why people would settle for antiquated hardware, ie. that hardware that linux sufficiently supports, is also quite beyond me, considering the prices to be found today.
These features are not just lackoing in linux, however. Anywhere you look, to *NIX, QNX, BeOS, and even MacOS fall drastically short of my personal minimum usabillity standards. Until such time as Linux and the other contenders can support all of these features, I am afraid I'm going to have to pass. I am not on this box 10 hours a day to tweak and fix the OS or reach for the mouse every 30 seconds. I am on it to accomplish some work, quickly, that I may get back to the incessant browsing that sites like slashdot have made me a junky for.
You poke fun at the idea that fat32 is used to facilitate piracy of IP, but what about AIM itself? after all, isn't Aimster a plugin-like program to use the AOL Instant Messenger software to trade music? Not to mention that you can just trade files directly with AIM...
AOL/Time Warner are in the uncomfortable position of needing to sue themselves into oblivion.
Devices like these phones, web-appliances of moderate power, are going to make terrific hosts for script kiddies and info-terrorists.
Also, I can imagine a group of rascally troublemakers that traceroute the phones and sniffs/decrypts packets, grabbing conversations for perhaps public amusement purposes. Much like a police scanner picking up cell-phone conversations.
There is no reason to suppose gravity gradients are even across large distances (>20 A.U.) If you pour over your references, you'll see that at no point, from the General Theory on up, does any theorist take into account the possibility that between strong influences (astral bodies), spacetime must be smooth. in fact, it is perfectly reasonable to suppose that there are variations large enough to account for these variances in trajectory. The universe is not beholden to your 'rubber sheets and marbles' analogy for gravity.
do you have the right to include *any* gpl'd code in a company project? have you read the GPL through yet? If you bury gpl'd code in a closed lic. project, you can get yer ass busted both by the company and by the GPL zealots. or rather, the GPLZs will hassle your company. The typical tactic for that is whining about it on slashdot. hey!- full circle!
I was a big time RoboTech fan through high school. Then I saw Eraserhead, and I knew that I had changed. Now when I see the 28 year olds at the office wiggle in their seats over sailor moon toys, I get the creeps more than when I first saw Eraserhead.
I guess in a way I've become a fan of other people's anime fandom. Please don't mention any of this to JonKatz, thx!
I got mandrake this weekend and it would not even install! I'd rather have a few patchable security issues and an installed OS than this!
It crashed out at several Xwindows related packages, things like the glide drivers, but it let me cancel past those errors and continued the install. But it crashed some more during application setup (these were fatal error crashes and the installation crashed out of its runlevel)! It also kept asking for CD's that weren't included with the $30.00 Box package, who knew what I was skipping when I had to cancel through those entire discs. After all that, after finally getting the core installed, LILO wouldn't run at all! kept printing out "LI [carriage return]" over and over till I rebooted. what a depressing experience....
I was doing the install on a completely ordinary machine- a Celeron 400 with an 8x IDE CD-ROM (totally standard issue) and a riva TNT. I installed both Turbolinux 4.0.5. and Redhat 6.2 just fine, after I'd given up on the mandrake. Turns out Turbolinux is smooth and sweet, if a little sparse, and Redhat is the flagship badass distro, AFACT. Anyone else have problems with the Mandrake 7.1 installer? I think it may have been my partition scheme and that the HD was primary slave that caused all this, but Turbolinux and Redhat had no problems with the same setup. overall a big TWO THUMBS DOWN for mandrake!
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If you are serious about landing a job, bashfully asking for a low-or-no paying internship position is completely worthless. In a job market like this, no manager is looking for the smooth young minds to take under their wing and mold into productive, successful workers. They are looking for the people that can get the job done, make the manager look good, and not gripe and grouse about petty issues.
The only way to crack into such a market when you are green is to really dazzle 'em with examples of sharp work and present yourself as someone pleasant to work with!
Also, never try to land a job through an HR department. If you can't get direct access to a project manager, meet someone who can. Try thinking from the perspective of a project manager: He/She wants to look good in front of the peers and boss and make sure the new hire isn't going to rub the existing team wrong and waste a lot of time with interpersonal drama to resolve.
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Indeed, there are a number of peripherals that could benefit from a trend like this, both for the respective industry's business perspective as well as the user's improved experience:
There are probably not too many other opportunities for peripheral acceleration, but with all of these accelerators on a fast bus (one of the proposed standards, or perhaps multiplexed AGP?) your system would sing like a kitten with a processor running at bus speed.
If you're reading this, please update to SourceForge! you're .CX server is utterly bogged by the slashdot effect. I would love to try it out, I have a box just rarin' to go, but we'll never get at it while this is on the front page of slashdot, unless you post something like an ISO somewhere fat.
You are Wrong!
"But to say that Microsoft has helped other companies financially is preposterous "
I have worked for companies that make windows/dos apps for nearly 15 years... This work has paid for my children, house, cars, appliances, gizmos, toys, vacation and food in all that time. I've personally done quite well by them, so have the several thousand other people at my current corporation, and the millions of others from here to India and on to London.
I don't think you get the scale of the industry that has grown up around MS... While they may be worth many billions, the combined wealth of all the peripheral and partner corporations reaches into the TRILLIONS.
oversight on my part. I guess that would make IBM the fifth example ;)
Here's a scenario for you:
.NET interoperability.
.NET package from scratch or simply add Mono to Gnome on their own dime to get the ball rolling? The source for all of this will be available, and for a company the size of Redhat, implementation would be trivial.
August 2002, Redhat Inc realizes they are about to collapse unless they can tighten up their offerings and make some dough with a distro that offers as many modern features as WinXX, at a lower price point. This would include
Meanwhile, the archconservative cabal of Gnome developers have forstalled and denied the inclusion of Mono altogether. All of the behavior you mention comes to pass and Mono is shoved aside...
What on earth shall Redhat do? They need to function as a modern server, and by now some of the shotgun splatter of features introduced by MS have had time to matriculate into Must-Have features... Should Redhat develop their own
So I guess the moral is, if you make it, they will come. Mono has a future, one way or another. With or without the Gnome folks blessing.
I'm quite curious, could you name some examples?
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Well, to be fair, a far larger number of companies have had very lucrative and stable relationships with MS than the converse. Companies like all the major software houses, particularly the ones that MS directly licenses software from, standards makers like Intel, HP, Apple and NCSA the major hardware OEMs Compaq, Dell, Gateway and all of the other hundreds of thousands of people around the world who've carved quite a decent living out of the MS umbrella of industry.
I can think of fewer than five examples of MS relationships gone bad in the past (blockstackers, DRDOS, Sun/Java, um... kerberos?) while thousands of companies have made handsome profits. Must I remind you that making a profit is the aim of a company?
yes, a train crashed in a baltimore train tunnel and burned a bunch of fiber optic cable.
This story is wildly out of whack with reality. The primary tenet is that playstation II's are cheaper than computers. A complete PSX2 'computer' would come out to something like $700 US after you add all the rickty hacks like hard drive and globalstar modem connectivity, plus a TV set... This is not cheaper than a refurbished P90 with a 13" monitor!
No, rather I'd say that this is a contrived wet dream of a story, packaged by the Sony Entertainment US marketing department, bundled up and handed off to AOL/Time Warner's news division glorifying certain corporate interests that run contrary to certain looming threats from other quarters. Besides, there's not a lot of money in refurbished P90's sold to developing nations, but there sure is a lot of money in convincing armchair philanthropists to buy a playstation 2 that they may sooth their aching conscience in this land of plenty. Don't believe the hype!
I am applying for one of those jobs tomorrow morning.
There has been a great deal of mention that 'burning the dealerships releases more pollutants than letting people drive the SUVs to begin with' but I think you people are failing to grasp the singular point of the action: This is merely a means to strike at the brazen greed and shameless covetous of a society that would encourage these hoggish vehicles against better judgement and obvious evidence.
This is a wakeup call to the self-obsessed Americans more concerned with their comfort, ego strokings and illusions of rugged safety than a protest of fossil-fuels and emissions. You folks can try and argue your way out of it, but the facts remain: SUV's are horrible in so many ways that no amount of mental footwork is going to save you from the backlash. People hate these things, and for good reason IMHO. SUV owners, get out while you still can. Get out while you are still able to salvage some self respect. These vehicles represent a blight on our national pride, and will be cast in the light of evil throughout our future history. Think for a change. Make the right decision!
So the S.Korean cops are calling real world violence stemming from in-game behavior "offline PK"... The only question after that is who'll scoop this phrase first- Rudy Rucker or Bruce Sterling? I can totally see a new cyber-pulp series wrapped around this one phrase. ;-)
These things you mention are, at least on the surface quite obviously important. But I find that even as an internet/coding only type of user, the most important reasons I have for remaining with win2k over any given *NIX are:
1. Standardized keyboard shortcuts. I spend so much time on the keyboard, any delay from reaching for and orienting the mouse can amount to hours per month. If I can alt+tab between apps (or to my dos console to move files around) I tend to do it. If I can alt+F4 to kill a window or app, I'll do that. etc. Since almost every winders app I've come across subscribes to these basic keyboardability tenets, I can usually remain on the keboard throughout an entire computing session. Not so for Gnome or KDE apps. no contest.
2. Robust mouse wheel and extra button support. I find when I am sitting at my computer purely to browse, I rely on the context menu, mouse wheel, back button and forward button (in that order) completely. Again, needing to refocus the mouse, to drag a scroll bar or click a fwd/back button consumes time and effort that really adds up over the course of a month's computing. Using a four or five button mouse relieves much of that problem. And all the mice work as soon as you plug them in. I can indeed configure an intellimouse manually under GNU/Linux, but why the hell would I want to bother?
3. Hardware Support. I don't know what to say here. It is so very obviously the strength of Windows that no comparison to *NIX is worth mentioning. Why people choose to wait months or years to gain the full use of their hardware (if ever) is completely beyond me. Why people would settle for antiquated hardware, ie. that hardware that linux sufficiently supports, is also quite beyond me, considering the prices to be found today.
These features are not just lackoing in linux, however. Anywhere you look, to *NIX, QNX, BeOS, and even MacOS fall drastically short of my personal minimum usabillity standards. Until such time as Linux and the other contenders can support all of these features, I am afraid I'm going to have to pass. I am not on this box 10 hours a day to tweak and fix the OS or reach for the mouse every 30 seconds. I am on it to accomplish some work, quickly, that I may get back to the incessant browsing that sites like slashdot have made me a junky for.
You poke fun at the idea that fat32 is used to facilitate piracy of IP, but what about AIM itself? after all, isn't Aimster a plugin-like program to use the AOL Instant Messenger software to trade music? Not to mention that you can just trade files directly with AIM...
AOL/Time Warner are in the uncomfortable position of needing to sue themselves into oblivion.
now's the time to sit down, strip out all the comments, re-arrange a few algorythms and re-name the variables. duh.
Prefab DDoS Hosts
Devices like these phones, web-appliances of moderate power, are going to make terrific hosts for script kiddies and info-terrorists.
Also, I can imagine a group of rascally troublemakers that traceroute the phones and sniffs/decrypts packets, grabbing conversations for perhaps public amusement purposes. Much like a police scanner picking up cell-phone conversations.
There is no reason to suppose gravity gradients are even across large distances (>20 A.U.) If you pour over your references, you'll see that at no point, from the General Theory on up, does any theorist take into account the possibility that between strong influences (astral bodies), spacetime must be smooth. in fact, it is perfectly reasonable to suppose that there are variations large enough to account for these variances in trajectory. The universe is not beholden to your 'rubber sheets and marbles' analogy for gravity.
do you have the right to include *any* gpl'd code in a company project? have you read the GPL through yet? If you bury gpl'd code in a closed lic. project, you can get yer ass busted both by the company and by the GPL zealots. or rather, the GPLZs will hassle your company. The typical tactic for that is whining about it on slashdot. hey!- full circle!
I was a big time RoboTech fan through high school. Then I saw Eraserhead, and I knew that I had changed. Now when I see the 28 year olds at the office wiggle in their seats over sailor moon toys, I get the creeps more than when I first saw Eraserhead.
I guess in a way I've become a fan of other people's anime fandom. Please don't mention any of this to JonKatz, thx!
ever call their 1-900 support line?
I got mandrake this weekend and it would not even install! I'd rather have a few patchable security issues and an installed OS than this!
It crashed out at several Xwindows related packages, things like the glide drivers, but it let me cancel past those errors and continued the install. But it crashed some more during application setup (these were fatal error crashes and the installation crashed out of its runlevel)! It also kept asking for CD's that weren't included with the $30.00 Box package, who knew what I was skipping when I had to cancel through those entire discs. After all that, after finally getting the core installed, LILO wouldn't run at all! kept printing out "LI [carriage return]" over and over till I rebooted. what a depressing experience....
I was doing the install on a completely ordinary machine- a Celeron 400 with an 8x IDE CD-ROM (totally standard issue) and a riva TNT. I installed both Turbolinux 4.0.5. and Redhat 6.2 just fine, after I'd given up on the mandrake. Turns out Turbolinux is smooth and sweet, if a little sparse, and Redhat is the flagship badass distro, AFACT. Anyone else have problems with the Mandrake 7.1 installer? I think it may have been my partition scheme and that the HD was primary slave that caused all this, but Turbolinux and Redhat had no problems with the same setup. overall a big TWO THUMBS DOWN for mandrake!
Momochrome, you're a flippin hoot! I would totally mod this up (+1, Funny) if I could... rock on!