Generally I agree (and am glad for the recommendation of newegg.com), but I've had really good luck putting together decent boxes from two or three mailorder houses with the help of www.pricewatch.com, www.pricegrabber.com, and www.pricescan.com.
Are you paying attention, or are you a congenital idiot? The only banners are the original banners, if any. That means the Wayback folks aren't adding banners to make their own money.
I doubt I would have made it as far as I have if my
BBS quotes were still around...
I don't see why not. I have lots of fun quotes floating around in google, deja* and slashdot, but my employers have never called me on them. Do you think HR has nothing better to do than find ways to embarass potential employees? Perhaps some places, but I wouldn't want to work there....
Public office is a different matter, but honestly, I don't see how embarassing things said on the net are any worse than embarassing things done in the public record (like the famous Newt G. divorce your wife while she's in the hospital with cancer debacle).
That's ludicrous. Any piece of software that implements a standard or common algorithm can be "replicated by anyone". Is it worht billions in stock? No. But it's not worthless either.
No, I think the editors have a responsibility to be clear, given the number of idiots who obviously posted before me without realizing that this was about eXtreme Programming.
Oh yeah. After all, every prospective employer I may apply to asks everyone I ever applied to in the past but didn't take the job at, what my history was like. After they read my mind to get the list, anyway.
I would think that if you worked for such an unscrupulous company, you'd have some inkling of it, and know not to take the counter.
Beyond that, if you haven't set up your finances such that you can survive an unexpected firing for some reasonable time to find a new job, in this time & work environment you're a damn fool.
Company A will soon have that spot filled and you have to start to the whole job search over.
Duh.
I said "worth in the marketplace", not "worth to Company A". If Company A thought you were worth 50% more, and your company thought you were worth counter offering enough to keep you, then damn, you're pretty worthless if no one else in the market wants you for what you're making right now or anywhere close.
And where exactly did I say anything about loyalty or being a pioneer in your field (and how many people reading this actually are pioneers in their fields? I would bet damn few).
The fact is that you take a risk if you take the counter, but if your company is so likely to screw you AFTER investing more money in you, you probably knew that before you started looking in the first place.
I don't have the money or patience for a wireless network, and I don't have the time to exert the effort to put ethernet ports in every room of my 80-year-old house. It's awfully hard to read laser printed web pages (not to mention a P.i.t.A to print them in the first place) when you're lying in bed. Printed and bound books are an excellent resource for those of us who don't spend our lives with our eyes glued to a tube.
I'm writing on web-based lab equipment reservation tool with PHP & MySQL and this was one of my main references. It was just fine. Just because they don't hand you your app on a platter doesn't mean it's only good for people who want to build E-Commerce sites.
If you take the counter, and they diss you, what stops you from getting another offer and really leaving this time? You've already proven your worth in the marketplace.
It may sound promising, but in my experience it don't work for crap. I suppose I may be atypical in that I don't run Internet Exploder as a browser on my windows box, at all, so I haven't updated it in ages upon ages. But 1) Bit Torrent didn't work with netscape at all, and 2) when I tried to use it with Exploder it exploded.
In coverage of this on NPR this afternoon, the current keeper of the database whose name I can't remember and probably couldn't spell anyway, stated unequivocally that the password was the backward name.
Bah, I hate HTML formatting. That parenthetical thing that says "AT10 years" was supposed to be "AT&T SVR3, then SVR4, then Solaris....I dunno if they'd have moved on to Linux by now or not) for a long time now (> 10 years)"
Assuming you mean U of Michigan and not Minnesota or Mississippi, it's worth noting that they used to have lots of security issues; I recall having students at Bradley University running crack against the password/shadow files from UMich way back in the day.
As far as it goes, Bradley has used Unix machines (originally AT10 years). I suppose it's possible that they stopped that practice, but I doubt it. Go poking around www.bradley.edu and look for Computer or Computing Services to find contact information, I'm sure they'd be willing to talk to you about how they deal with the issues that come up in giving shell accounts to naive users.
I'd say this sounds kinda of like how NASA and Morton Thiokol management said it was ok to set the Challenger off that morning. Unions can be many bad things, but when it comes to people's safety I'm thinking we want to go with the most conservative view on the subject.
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Yah, 'cos you know colors add in your head so much easier than numbers.
Generally I agree (and am glad for the recommendation of newegg.com), but I've had really good luck putting together decent boxes from two or three mailorder houses with the help of www.pricewatch.com, www.pricegrabber.com, and www.pricescan.com.
Are you paying attention, or are you a congenital idiot? The only banners are the original banners, if any. That means the Wayback folks aren't adding banners to make their own money.
What exactly is the Wayback Machine selling again?
I don't see why not. I have lots of fun quotes floating around in google, deja* and slashdot, but my employers have never called me on them. Do you think HR has nothing better to do than find ways to embarass potential employees? Perhaps some places, but I wouldn't want to work there....
Public office is a different matter, but honestly, I don't see how embarassing things said on the net are any worse than embarassing things done in the public record (like the famous Newt G. divorce your wife while she's in the hospital with cancer debacle).
2)There are plenty of overvalue software companies.
Methinks your disdain smacks of sour grapes more than substantive criticism.
That's ludicrous. Any piece of software that implements a standard or common algorithm can be "replicated by anyone". Is it worht billions in stock? No. But it's not worthless either.
And misquoting to boot. Sorry about that.
You misspelled "poop music".
Harlan has a history of being a little prick though.
Chip on your shoulder much?
An article about Extreme Programming uses an acronym that makes everyone assume it's about Windows XP. How foresighted.
Oh yeah. After all, every prospective employer I may apply to asks everyone I ever applied to in the past but didn't take the job at, what my history was like. After they read my mind to get the list, anyway.
Beyond that, if you haven't set up your finances such that you can survive an unexpected firing for some reasonable time to find a new job, in this time & work environment you're a damn fool.
Duh.
I said "worth in the marketplace", not "worth to Company A". If Company A thought you were worth 50% more, and your company thought you were worth counter offering enough to keep you, then damn, you're pretty worthless if no one else in the market wants you for what you're making right now or anywhere close.
And where exactly did I say anything about loyalty or being a pioneer in your field (and how many people reading this actually are pioneers in their fields? I would bet damn few).
The fact is that you take a risk if you take the counter, but if your company is so likely to screw you AFTER investing more money in you, you probably knew that before you started looking in the first place.
I don't have the money or patience for a wireless network, and I don't have the time to exert the effort to put ethernet ports in every room of my 80-year-old house. It's awfully hard to read laser printed web pages (not to mention a P.i.t.A to print them in the first place) when you're lying in bed. Printed and bound books are an excellent resource for those of us who don't spend our lives with our eyes glued to a tube.
I'm writing on web-based lab equipment reservation tool with PHP & MySQL and this was one of my main references. It was just fine. Just because they don't hand you your app on a platter doesn't mean it's only good for people who want to build E-Commerce sites.
If you take the counter, and they diss you, what stops you from getting another offer and really leaving this time? You've already proven your worth in the marketplace.
It may sound promising, but in my experience it don't work for crap. I suppose I may be atypical in that I don't run Internet Exploder as a browser on my windows box, at all, so I haven't updated it in ages upon ages. But 1) Bit Torrent didn't work with netscape at all, and 2) when I tried to use it with Exploder it exploded.
In coverage of this on NPR this afternoon, the current keeper of the database whose name I can't remember and probably couldn't spell anyway, stated unequivocally that the password was the backward name.
It was misleading the first time I did it in Netscape 4.01. Since then, it's expected.
Bah, I hate HTML formatting. That parenthetical thing that says "AT10 years" was supposed to be "AT&T SVR3, then SVR4, then Solaris....I dunno if they'd have moved on to Linux by now or not) for a long time now (> 10 years)"
As far as it goes, Bradley has used Unix machines (originally AT10 years). I suppose it's possible that they stopped that practice, but I doubt it. Go poking around www.bradley.edu and look for Computer or Computing Services to find contact information, I'm sure they'd be willing to talk to you about how they deal with the issues that come up in giving shell accounts to naive users.
I'd say this sounds kinda of like how NASA and Morton Thiokol management said it was ok to set the Challenger off that morning. Unions can be many bad things, but when it comes to people's safety I'm thinking we want to go with the most conservative view on the subject.
God knows they look like crap in Netscape 4.79.