My current job was acquired through a head-hunter (a good one) and I wouldn't have gotten it any other way. The employer had an exclusive agreement to bring on a certain number of people and they all had to go through this head-hunter. A sort of package deal.
As it turns out, the costs for a head-hunter can be equivalent to what one might pay an HR department to do similar work... and when you have a small or non-existant HR department, a reputable head-hunter can be a great asset.
That all being said, I found the job because the head-hunter had posted specific positions to a job web-site and I responded to two of them because they were both buzz-word compliant with my resume. Within a week I had the job, with salary negotiated through the head-hunter. I felt that they did a good job of playing advocate for both sides.
Since then, I've had an opportunity to deal with them from the employer side and the people they sent us were always very close to what we were looking for... at least as close as one can get without being "us".
They misspell words so that they can trademark them. You can't get trademark protection for ordinary english words. But if you cleverly misspell them, then they are not ordinary english words.
Yeah, I know. It is kind of funny though, when you think about it. Now that they have the registered trademark Cingular, another company (in a similar or related industry) couldn't name themselves Singular even if they didn't want to trademark the ordinary english word. It's too similar to Cingular.
[Wavy lines back to the management meeting long long ago.]
Marketroid 1: We need to come up with a name for our company.
Marketroid 2: Yeah, and it needs to be snazzy... catchy... possibly spelled wrong.
Geek (sweating heavily): Big problem. We can't go live yet, our network has way too many singular points of failure. (A geek with poor grammar, who knew?)
Marketroid 1: That's awesome! Singular it is!
Marketroid 2: Or Cingular.
Marketroid 1: Genious. There's a new BMW for both of us for this one...
The BSD license, by contrast, isn't viral: you can do what you want with the code. Including stealing it, branding it as your own, and packaging it up within your closed-source product.
Actually, that's not true. Specifically, pretty much the only thing you can't do with BSD code is call it your own or pretend that you wrote it. BSD says basically three things:
1: If you distribute source, leave the copyright. 2: If you distribute binaries, reproduce the copyright. 3: Don't use our names to endorse your product without our consent.
Pretty much the only right you retain with BSD is the ability to still call it yours.
RMS and the FSF didn't like that, which is why they wrote the GPL and the LGPL; to prevent "freed" software from being "captured" again.
Just wait, it will be posted again as top story in a few hours.;)
Re:this reminds me of a trick for telemarketers
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At this point, I just wish they'd actually talk to me. I get eight or more calls a day from auto-dialers that just hang up on me. There should be a law about how high they can set their drop threshold. How can we tell them to stop calling if they don't even pick up? Thank heaven for caller ID.
Anyway, for a guy who gets really serious about his telemarketers (and has too much time on his hands) check out: http://www.mindspring.com/~dave.heisler/tele .html
Another reason that the computer industry grows exponentially is because the computer industry uses computer technology... which is growing exponentially. In other words, if I design my chip using a computer, as computers get faster so does chip design. As chip design gets faster, it becomes feasible to design more complicated chips... thereby allowing me to design more complicated chips which allow me to design more complicated chips...
Perhaps we can use a situation like this to eventually get sites filtered.
Just start using common web names in derogatory ways.
"First he told me to lick his msn hole and then he unzipped his fly and started waving his amazon around. Next thing you know he'll be trying to have sex with mpaa's."
Hey, it's a thought...
Educational sig-line: Choose rhymes with lose. Chose rhymes with goes. Loose rhymes with goose.
Then he can be fined for continuing to call you. I wish I knew where to look this stuff up, but this was a big deal when I was working for a company that wrote auto-dialers for call centers.
Perhaps Verio needs to answer more tech support calls instead of making so many sales calls. The company I work for now recently dropped all of their Verio accounts because when things went wrong they couldn't get anyone on the phone... for hours. And things went wrong often.
I hate to disparage a company like this, but they really ticked us off.
Educational sig-line: Choose rhymes with lose. Chose rhymes with goes. Loose rhymes with goose.
However, "goto" used improperly will cause your code to spaghetti. Very rarely will it cause memory corruption.
"delete this" will certainly cause memory corruption if the object is allocated on the stack. The more special rules you impose on an object's use, the more likely it will be that those rules will be broken.
Just my $0.02. Educational sig-line: Choose rhymes with lose. Chose rhymes with goes. Loose rhymes with goose.
"Why should Microsoft be held to a higher standard than UNIX software developers?"
Because they asked to be.
Linux: "Yeah, we will have security bugs. That's why we have thousands of developers constantly creating patches for this sort of thing."
Win2000: "It will be so bug free and secure that you will never need one of those patch things. We are finally taking security seriously. No, really this time. Last time we said that we weren't as serious as this time."
The fact that it happened to MS is just gravy, the real story was the subtle irony involved. Educational sig-line: Choose rhymes with lose. Chose rhymes with goes. Loose rhymes with goose.
They were driving around looking for Stampy and drove into a prehistoric park complete with a tar pit. Stampy was the elephant Bart won by answering correctly, "KBBL wants to give me something stupid." It was a gag prize but Bary insisted. He knew about the contest because it was the station he was listening to while helping clean the house. Marge insisted that everyone help despite the fact that they all had other plans.
Homer: "I'm going to a beer drinking contest." Bart: "Think you'll win?" Homer: "Son, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, it's how drunk you get." Bart: "Got it."
That's what I love about those shows. Lots of different stories in one episode.
Homer: "Lisa, a man with lots of ivory is _less_ likely to hurt stampy..."
Re:Another great one [was:Re:My favorite...]
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"had done something beforehand to Bart (which escapes me at the moment"
Left a carton of milk by the furnace for a week and then put it back in the refrigerator.
Bart: "I'm going to get you for this, Homer."
Homer: "Oh yeah, You talk better than you fool."
Bart: "You'll pay for this." (I don't really remember this one.)
Homer: "You couldn't fool me on the foolingest day in your life if you had an electrified fooling machine."
That line still cracks me up!
The only time I've laughed as hard is probably when Homer turned to the back seat of the car and said, "T.S.!"
There are differences between what Sun is doing and what Microsoft has done. (And this analogy is getting really tired of being trotted out for any company Redhat's size or larger.)
First, Microsoft does not license their Windows technology to anyone. (Wince doesn't count.)
Sun licenses their technology to anyone that wants to pay the fees. In fact, Sun would be happy if they never had to do their own JVM implementations. They would be content to provide a reference implementation and compatability testing.
Microsoft charges for everything.
Sun gives JDK, JRE, etc. away for free... and has even made the JDK more free.
Microsoft does not provide a source for input to the evolution of their products.
Sun provides a Community Process to which anyone can become a member for a fee. Sure, not any old Joe can give his input, but would we really want a language developed by popular vote? I sure wouldn't.
Microsoft creates products to push their own defacto standards for API's and such.
Sun regularly publishes draft standards for Java extensions. Many of which are designed around third party implementations to be plugged in.
In conclusion, Sun controls the Java platform but not with the same stranglehold that Microsoft has on anything Microsoft. And this difference is significant.
If Sun suddenly decided to take Java in strange directions that the majority of the Java development community didn't agree with, Java would live on as another language. If that happens then I'll be the first one joining in on the Myva(?) project.:)
However, right now I think Sun is doing a fantastic job and I'm willing to give them some leeway.
I agree. Sun has a process for contributing to Java's evolution. Sure, they have final say, but they've done a good job so far at weeding out the bad ideas. In that sense, Sun has set themselves up as their own standards body with a vested interest in the success of the language they guide. And the process is working.
I think the language is still too young for a totally committee based evolution. It would be 5 years before we saw a new version.
Rather than convincing Sun to do something as drastic as giving over their baby to a third-party, maybe we should be working on having them slowly open up the Java Community Process a little more.
I personally have no problem considering them to be their own standards body. At least for the forseeable future.
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No, irony would be if Alanis was an english professor instead of a song-writer.
Today, Multi-Mega-Bucks incorporated was accused of wrong-doing in their latest stream of litigatory aftermath.
When asked for comment, a spokesman for Multi-Mega-Bucks, incorporated said in a statement, "Whoops, our bad. Yeah, we really screwed that one up."
In other news, millions of geeks suddenly dropped dead from shock today...
I hesitated to do this to my server bandwidth, but...
I wanted my own Gauntlet cabinet. Couldn't find one that I liked so I reverse engineered it from pictures on the 'net.
My Gauntlet-based Mame Cabinet
I put those pics together for friends, so it isn't the greatest looking site... mistakes documented and everything.
I respectfully disagree.
My current job was acquired through a head-hunter (a good one) and I wouldn't have gotten it any other way. The employer had an exclusive agreement to bring on a certain number of people and they all had to go through this head-hunter. A sort of package deal.
As it turns out, the costs for a head-hunter can be equivalent to what one might pay an HR department to do similar work... and when you have a small or non-existant HR department, a reputable head-hunter can be a great asset.
That all being said, I found the job because the head-hunter had posted specific positions to a job web-site and I responded to two of them because they were both buzz-word compliant with my resume. Within a week I had the job, with salary negotiated through the head-hunter. I felt that they did a good job of playing advocate for both sides.
Since then, I've had an opportunity to deal with them from the employer side and the people they sent us were always very close to what we were looking for... at least as close as one can get without being "us".
They misspell words so that they can trademark them. You can't get trademark protection for ordinary english words. But if you cleverly misspell them, then they are not ordinary english words.
Yeah, I know. It is kind of funny though, when you think about it. Now that they have the registered trademark Cingular, another company (in a similar or related industry) couldn't name themselves Singular even if they didn't want to trademark the ordinary english word. It's too similar to Cingular.
Heh. The only way a firewall can come close to solving the problem is if you put one on every desktop.
[Wavy lines back to the management meeting long long ago.]
Marketroid 1: We need to come up with a name for our company.
Marketroid 2: Yeah, and it needs to be snazzy... catchy... possibly spelled wrong.
Geek (sweating heavily): Big problem. We can't go live yet, our network has way too many singular points of failure. (A geek with poor grammar, who knew?)
Marketroid 1: That's awesome! Singular it is!
Marketroid 2: Or Cingular.
Marketroid 1: Genious. There's a new BMW for both of us for this one...
[wavy lines forward to present day.]
Am I the only geek that knows that a spade and a shovel are two different gardening tools?
The BSD license, by contrast, isn't viral: you can do what you want with the code. Including stealing it, branding it as your own, and packaging it up within your closed-source product.
Actually, that's not true. Specifically, pretty much the only thing you can't do with BSD code is call it your own or pretend that you wrote it. BSD says basically three things:
1: If you distribute source, leave the copyright.
2: If you distribute binaries, reproduce the copyright.
3: Don't use our names to endorse your product without our consent.
Pretty much the only right you retain with BSD is the ability to still call it yours.
RMS and the FSF didn't like that, which is why they wrote the GPL and the LGPL; to prevent "freed" software from being "captured" again.
Right. RMS wants all code to be free.
-Paul
Just wait, it will be posted again as top story in a few hours. ;)
At this point, I just wish they'd actually talk to me. I get eight or more calls a day from auto-dialers that just hang up on me. There should be a law about how high they can set their drop threshold. How can we tell them to stop calling if they don't even pick up? Thank heaven for caller ID.
e .html
;)
Anyway, for a guy who gets really serious about his telemarketers (and has too much time on his hands) check out:
http://www.mindspring.com/~dave.heisler/tel
Hopefully, it hasn't already been posted here.
Another reason that the computer industry grows exponentially is because the computer industry uses computer technology... which is growing exponentially. In other words, if I design my chip using a computer, as computers get faster so does chip design. As chip design gets faster, it becomes feasible to design more complicated chips... thereby allowing me to design more complicated chips which allow me to design more complicated chips...
Nuking a country on this planet is the equivalent of pissing in your own drinking water.
Note: we are still feeling the affects of the Chernobl accident. Albeit, in very minor ways. Radiation is like that.
Perhaps we can use a situation like this to eventually get sites filtered.
Just start using common web names in derogatory ways.
"First he told me to lick his msn hole and then he unzipped his fly and started waving his amazon around. Next thing you know he'll be trying to have sex with mpaa's."
Hey, it's a thought...
Educational sig-line: Choose rhymes with lose. Chose rhymes with goes. Loose rhymes with goose.
"Yeah, I have told him to take me off his list"
Then he can be fined for continuing to call you. I wish I knew where to look this stuff up, but this was a big deal when I was working for a company that wrote auto-dialers for call centers.
Perhaps Verio needs to answer more tech support calls instead of making so many sales calls. The company I work for now recently dropped all of their Verio accounts because when things went wrong they couldn't get anyone on the phone... for hours. And things went wrong often.
I hate to disparage a company like this, but they really ticked us off.
Educational sig-line: Choose rhymes with lose. Chose rhymes with goes. Loose rhymes with goose.
Agreed, to an extent.
However, "goto" used improperly will cause your code to spaghetti. Very rarely will it cause memory corruption.
"delete this" will certainly cause memory corruption if the object is allocated on the stack. The more special rules you impose on an object's use, the more likely it will be that those rules will be broken.
Just my $0.02.
Educational sig-line: Choose rhymes with lose. Chose rhymes with goes. Loose rhymes with goose.
"Why should Microsoft be held to a higher standard than UNIX software developers?"
Because they asked to be.
Linux: "Yeah, we will have security bugs. That's why we have thousands of developers constantly creating patches for this sort of thing."
Win2000: "It will be so bug free and secure that you will never need one of those patch things. We are finally taking security seriously. No, really this time. Last time we said that we weren't as serious as this time."
The fact that it happened to MS is just gravy, the real story was the subtle irony involved.
Educational sig-line: Choose rhymes with lose. Chose rhymes with goes. Loose rhymes with goose.
I guess this means the public-at-large is less intelligent than the PHB's. Scary thought.
Educational sig-line: Choose rhymes with lose. Chose rhymes with goes. Loose rhymes with goose.
They were driving around looking for Stampy and drove into a prehistoric park complete with a tar pit. Stampy was the elephant Bart won by answering correctly, "KBBL wants to give me something stupid." It was a gag prize but Bary insisted. He knew about the contest because it was the station he was listening to while helping clean the house. Marge insisted that everyone help despite the fact that they all had other plans.
Homer: "I'm going to a beer drinking contest."
Bart: "Think you'll win?"
Homer: "Son, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, it's how drunk you get."
Bart: "Got it."
That's what I love about those shows. Lots of different stories in one episode.
Homer: "Lisa, a man with lots of ivory is _less_ likely to hurt stampy..."
"had done something beforehand to Bart (which escapes me at the moment"
Left a carton of milk by the furnace for a week and then put it back in the refrigerator.
Bart: "I'm going to get you for this, Homer."
Homer: "Oh yeah, You talk better than you fool."
Bart: "You'll pay for this." (I don't really remember this one.)
Homer: "You couldn't fool me on the foolingest day in your life if you had an electrified fooling machine."
That line still cracks me up!
The only time I've laughed as hard is probably when Homer turned to the back seat of the car and said, "T.S.!"
Ack! Just don't put him in a skin-tight body suit. The internet doesn't need that level of perversion/grossness. :)
There are differences between what Sun is doing and what Microsoft has done. (And this analogy is getting really tired of being trotted out for any company Redhat's size or larger.)
:)
First, Microsoft does not license their Windows technology to anyone. (Wince doesn't count.)
Sun licenses their technology to anyone that wants to pay the fees. In fact, Sun would be happy if they never had to do their own JVM implementations. They would be content to provide a reference implementation and compatability testing.
Microsoft charges for everything.
Sun gives JDK, JRE, etc. away for free... and has even made the JDK more free.
Microsoft does not provide a source for input to the evolution of their products.
Sun provides a Community Process to which anyone can become a member for a fee. Sure, not any old Joe can give his input, but would we really want a language developed by popular vote? I sure wouldn't.
Microsoft creates products to push their own defacto standards for API's and such.
Sun regularly publishes draft standards for Java extensions. Many of which are designed around third party implementations to be plugged in.
In conclusion, Sun controls the Java platform but not with the same stranglehold that Microsoft has on anything Microsoft. And this difference is significant.
If Sun suddenly decided to take Java in strange directions that the majority of the Java development community didn't agree with, Java would live on as another language. If that happens then I'll be the first one joining in on the Myva(?) project.
However, right now I think Sun is doing a fantastic job and I'm willing to give them some leeway.
I agree. Sun has a process for contributing to Java's evolution. Sure, they have final say, but they've done a good job so far at weeding out the bad ideas. In that sense, Sun has set themselves up as their own standards body with a vested interest in the success of the language they guide. And the process is working.
I think the language is still too young for a totally committee based evolution. It would be 5 years before we saw a new version.
Rather than convincing Sun to do something as drastic as giving over their baby to a third-party, maybe we should be working on having them slowly open up the Java Community Process a little more.
I personally have no problem considering them to be their own standards body. At least for the forseeable future.
The devices may be described as "Windows Powered", but I will still Wince when I think of the battery requirements. :)
Sorry, had to do it.
Pluss, if you chose to reed slashdot over the other publikations than you might loose you're ability to spell or grammar correctly right.
;) )
(Heh, nerd prize to the person that can correctly count all of the mistakes above.
Heehee, I can just see many slashdot posters now, "Gee, well pluss is obviously wrong but I think chose and loose are right..."