Some businesses buy blocks of numbers in case of expansion. Take cellular carriers, for example. Some people want different home/cell numbers. Let's face it, we could just dial the Soc Sec No. if we wanted a number to keep for life, but I don't think that ultimate accountability/accessibility is really what people are after when they purchase a phone.
Fair enough. I didn't intend to contradict your statement, only to elaborate on your assertion based on some phenomena that I've noticed. I do believe that for two students with roughly the same innate curiosity, work-ethic, and ability level, the student in the smaller department (in many cases, department size relates to school size) will have the advantage in terms of getting into a top graduate school.
Attention from the faculty of huge benefit to grad school applicants. In a small department, there are fewer students competing for that attention, and there is less demand on those faculty members' time.
I think this is a very important point. Compared to the highly competetive institutions named, some of the smaller liberal arts colleges actually produce better-qualified and more competetive applicants for Ph.D. programs. I attribute this to the fact that the smaller schools provide better research opportunities for undergraduates and have fewer of the core curriculum courses set up as "weeder" classes designed only to limit enrollment in popular majors.
If you try to force him, he's likely going to major in Philosophy and have long hair and learn to code on his own and write only GPL'ed software.
Oh yeah, and he'll probably spend a lot of time on Slashdot. In fact, he's probably going to look at these very comments in Google Cache one day, so be careful what you say.
That may be true, but nobody is forcing any of the employees to work there. If they don't like it, they should leave. They're entitled to disagree with the decision to have the doll made, the decision about parking, and about a host of other much more important things. But having a bad attitude and feeling like a victim is only going to limit them.
If you deserve more, congratulations for recognizing it. Now go out and find it. Sitting around whining may feel good, but it certainly won't get you a bonus.
Anyone who uses the word suits to describe people whose responsibilities are focused on the bottom line is way out of touch. Both stragegy/managerial and technical positions require intelligence, problem solving, and creativity. Anyone who thinks otherwise should try to run a company by him/herself.
I don't think anyone feels sorry for you, considering how many tech jobs have been cut in the last 2 years. You are lucky to have a job. If you think you deserve a bonus, take your skills out onto the job market and negotiate yourself a signing bonus.
Nobody owes you anything. If you don't have the skills to earn the kind of money you want, there's nobody to blame but yourself.
You're exactly right. The person who submitted the story has a rotten attitude and is lucky to have kept his job this long. If you want a bonus, then save a few bucks each paycheck or negotiate one with HR. If those approaches fail, then take your skills out on the job market and find a company that pays bonuses.
Speakeasy doesn't do this. They'll sell you an extra static IP for around $3 per month, but you can have a router and as many internal IPs as you want.
It depends on what tech you get. Speakeasy has grown a lot as a company in the past few years. It used to be that you'd wait on hold for 40 minutes and finally talk to someone who had a lot of expertise. Speakeasy initiated an effort to hire more tech support reps. There were a few bad apples who were absolutely infuriating to deal with. 90% of the Speakeasy support personnel that I've spoken to have been excellent and have been perfectly willing and able to schedule a conference call with Covad's techs and do a loop test, etc., to get to the bottom of any issues.
I think the bad apples are (fortunately) gone. My Speakeasy DSL has had minimal downtime, and now that the growing pains are over, Speakeasy is once again a joy to deal with on the phone.
The US is in the unique position of having ancient POTS lines: miles and miles of copper that works fine for voice, but is difficult to squeeze data through.
In the US, populated urban areas have much more competition and thus lower rates on broadband. Some smaller cities (40-50K people) may have only ISDN or very limited DSL availability at $100+ per month.
Tokyo sounds like it'd be a good place for broadband: lots of people who want it, relatively small geographical area meaning that the providers' return on investment for infrastructure is very good.
By the way, if anyone wants to sign up for Speakeasy DLS, Sign up here
I've been a speakeasy customer for 3 years now and the service has been excellent. I subscribe to the 1.5/384 package with a couple of extra static IPs.
By the way, Speakeasy now has a promotion and is giving a free XBox, PSII, or Gamecube to new subscribers for certain plans.
All advertisers are doing is taking volunteers and doing studies. The fact that the brains of those volunteers may have enough similarity to yours may be what has you worried.
I doubt that the approach is much more than a way for the agency to claim that its approach is more reliable than traditional focus groups.
it's kind of cool from a neuroscience perspective, though.
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these are all good arguments in favor of languages like Java and LISP (and maybe eventually C#).
Non embedded-systems programmers should not waste time worrying about machine level details, or even worrying about using best-practices to ensure cross-platform code, unless performance is more important than maintainability and reliability.
for some people, a "For Dummies" book may be a good way to get started, and may very quickly lead to books with etched animals on the cover instead of comics inside.
Do you think that just because you had your "For Dummies" exposure in your first few comp sci classes that those books are somehow beneath you?
Who gives a fs*k about his/. userid. You say that there are no such thing as shortcuts or valuable pointers. I suppose you were taught predicate logic and deduced the rest of modern mathematics from it, huh? I bet the first program you wrote was a compiler. Give me a break. It's called learning and people do it all different ways and progress at different speeds.
When you lament slashdot's decline, blame your arrogant self.
Linux does not pretend to be something it's not. MS does.
If "linux" (aka the oss community consisting of for-profit companies, not-for-profit companies, and generous and self-interested individuals oriented toward developing software to run on top of the gnu-linux kernel) had a marketing department, people would make the same accusation.
Since "it" doesn't, "we" rely on urban legends and viral marketing. Microsoft wishes it could market this way, but it can't.
If you want to crack into people's boxes, where will you spend your time? Bugtrack! Posting the information there is a surefire way to alert everyone about the problem. This is not to say that keeping everyone naive is the answer, but it is irresponsible to pretend that posting to a public forum frequented by crackers is the best way to handle the situation.
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Some businesses buy blocks of numbers in case of expansion. Take cellular carriers, for example. Some people want different home/cell numbers. Let's face it, we could just dial the Soc Sec No. if we wanted a number to keep for life, but I don't think that ultimate accountability/accessibility is really what people are after when they purchase a phone.
I'm sure someone will actually create a practical quantum computer, biological massively-parallel computer, or some other yet-unimagined breakthrough.
I don't disagree with that. But research is obviously a necessary precedent to implementation.
Moore's law would appear to be alive and well.
One day we'll see people like Steve Irwin making careers out of dealing with rogue appliances.
How big is your music collection? And how can the rest of us get a chance to hear you sing?
Fair enough. I didn't intend to contradict your statement, only to elaborate on your assertion based on some phenomena that I've noticed. I do believe that for two students with roughly the same innate curiosity, work-ethic, and ability level, the student in the smaller department (in many cases, department size relates to school size) will have the advantage in terms of getting into a top graduate school.
Attention from the faculty of huge benefit to grad school applicants. In a small department, there are fewer students competing for that attention, and there is less demand on those faculty members' time.
Mod the parent up. It's interesting. Sure, it may also be flamebait, but it's worth reading/discussing.
Creating a consistent and unhypocritical outlook on copyright, ownership, property, etc., is going to be important to the success of Linux.
I think this is a very important point. Compared to the highly competetive institutions named, some of the smaller liberal arts colleges actually produce better-qualified and more competetive applicants for Ph.D. programs. I attribute this to the fact that the smaller schools provide better research opportunities for undergraduates and have fewer of the core curriculum courses set up as "weeder" classes designed only to limit enrollment in popular majors.
If you try to force him, he's likely going to major in Philosophy and have long hair and learn to code on his own and write only GPL'ed software.
Oh yeah, and he'll probably spend a lot of time on Slashdot. In fact, he's probably going to look at these very comments in Google Cache one day, so be careful what you say.
That may be true, but nobody is forcing any of the employees to work there. If they don't like it, they should leave. They're entitled to disagree with the decision to have the doll made, the decision about parking, and about a host of other much more important things. But having a bad attitude and feeling like a victim is only going to limit them.
If you deserve more, congratulations for recognizing it. Now go out and find it. Sitting around whining may feel good, but it certainly won't get you a bonus.
Anyone who uses the word suits to describe people whose responsibilities are focused on the bottom line is way out of touch. Both stragegy/managerial and technical positions require intelligence, problem solving, and creativity. Anyone who thinks otherwise should try to run a company by him/herself.
You are certainly a victim!
I don't think anyone feels sorry for you, considering how many tech jobs have been cut in the last 2 years. You are lucky to have a job. If you think you deserve a bonus, take your skills out onto the job market and negotiate yourself a signing bonus.
Nobody owes you anything. If you don't have the skills to earn the kind of money you want, there's nobody to blame but yourself.
You're exactly right. The person who submitted the story has a rotten attitude and is lucky to have kept his job this long. If you want a bonus, then save a few bucks each paycheck or negotiate one with HR. If those approaches fail, then take your skills out on the job market and find a company that pays bonuses.
Speakeasy doesn't do this. They'll sell you an extra static IP for around $3 per month, but you can have a router and as many internal IPs as you want.
It depends on what tech you get. Speakeasy has grown a lot as a company in the past few years. It used to be that you'd wait on hold for 40 minutes and finally talk to someone who had a lot of expertise. Speakeasy initiated an effort to hire more tech support reps. There were a few bad apples who were absolutely infuriating to deal with. 90% of the Speakeasy support personnel that I've spoken to have been excellent and have been perfectly willing and able to schedule a conference call with Covad's techs and do a loop test, etc., to get to the bottom of any issues.
I think the bad apples are (fortunately) gone. My Speakeasy DSL has had minimal downtime, and now that the growing pains are over, Speakeasy is once again a joy to deal with on the phone.
In the US, populated urban areas have much more competition and thus lower rates on broadband. Some smaller cities (40-50K people) may have only ISDN or very limited DSL availability at $100+ per month.
Tokyo sounds like it'd be a good place for broadband: lots of people who want it, relatively small geographical area meaning that the providers' return on investment for infrastructure is very good.
By the way, if anyone wants to sign up for Speakeasy DLS, Sign up here
By the way, Speakeasy now has a promotion and is giving a free XBox, PSII, or Gamecube to new subscribers for certain plans.
To sign up for Speakeasy, click here to give me credit for the referral.
I doubt that the approach is much more than a way for the agency to claim that its approach is more reliable than traditional focus groups.
it's kind of cool from a neuroscience perspective, though.
Non embedded-systems programmers should not waste time worrying about machine level details, or even worrying about using best-practices to ensure cross-platform code, unless performance is more important than maintainability and reliability.
for some people, a "For Dummies" book may be a good way to get started, and may very quickly lead to books with etched animals on the cover instead of comics inside.
/. userid. You say that there are no such thing as shortcuts or valuable pointers. I suppose you were taught predicate logic and deduced the rest of modern mathematics from it, huh? I bet the first program you wrote was a compiler. Give me a break. It's called learning and people do it all different ways and progress at different speeds.
Do you think that just because you had your "For Dummies" exposure in your first few comp sci classes that those books are somehow beneath you?
Who gives a fs*k about his
When you lament slashdot's decline, blame your arrogant self.
fyi: vb7 is very similar syntactically to vb6 and yet it has all of the functionality of c#.
If "linux" (aka the oss community consisting of for-profit companies, not-for-profit companies, and generous and self-interested individuals oriented toward developing software to run on top of the gnu-linux kernel) had a marketing department, people would make the same accusation.
Since "it" doesn't, "we" rely on urban legends and viral marketing.
Microsoft wishes it could market this way, but it can't.
If you want to crack into people's boxes, where will you spend your time? Bugtrack! Posting the information there is a surefire way to alert everyone about the problem. This is not to say that keeping everyone naive is the answer, but it is irresponsible to pretend that posting to a public forum frequented by crackers is the best way to handle the situation.