I disagree with the premise that BASIC teaches bad habits. I stick with the old adage a bad workman blames his tools. BASIC teaches kids (like I was over 30 years ago) from the ages of 5-6 how to put together simple logic, and gives them the very basics of languages constructs like variables, loops, sub routines, etc. without them having to grasp structures, classes, polymorphism, OO, etc. that a lot of grown ups that have been involved with writing code for quite some time can have issues with.
I think what we'll see is what we witnessed after every boy and their dog figured out how to create a HTML page complete with flashing text, awful animated GIFs and background MIDI music. As many have pointed out, nobody cares what Mrs. Rita Boddingworth of 42 Jackass Lane, Nowhereville did between the hours of 6pm and 10pm the night of February 17th or any other night, and so as the reality of this sets into the frenzied benign bloggers and they realize that their time might be well worth spent doing something more productive we'll see a drop in the number of redundant blah blogs just as the masses of Geocities pages died in the early part of this decade.
Blogging has however isn't all negative, it has created a useful paradigm for those people who actually have something useful and worthwhile to say. You can tell these people from the average blogger, while the person who uses this tool for good will probably post say once a week or less but when they post it won't be a rant which nobody gives a toss about and instead it will be some nugget of information which will probably help people out. On the other hand though, you have the other blogger who religiously jumps onto Blogspot or some other blog equiv of myspace and fills in the dreary details of their boring, insignificant life every single day down to the nth detail. Not that I'm necessarily ragging on the blogger here, as there's 6 billion people in the world and most of us lead fairly unassumingly dull lives, I just wish people would realize that most of us also lead the same life and thus have no need to read about it all over again.
Oh...one last point, bloggers as journalists.....please see some sense. That's like saying any monkey that can create a web page is a coder.....true, both can techincally code (something) but who are you going to employ to write software to control your car's safety features?
That's insane, 6% stock for only $20k investment AND they won't sign an NDA so they're free to take your idea and pass it off to one off to whoever they want. If you're a budding entrepreneur and you can't raise $20K for seed funding you really should stick to being a wage slave.
I'm sorry, but it sounds like most people on Slashdot don't know how recruiting works.
With him having his resume in open circulation he has put himself "on the market", Microsoft didn't rely on some hack in MS Exchange to cull all emails that have PhD resumes;)
If I spot a resume on monster, or hotjobs or handed to me via a friend/collegue or wherever, and I think it looks good, I'm not gonna just give the job to that person, they need to be questioned to see if what is on paper stacks up with reality.
Seriously, you're telling me that just because they found him, and he turned out to be a flop that it's their fault????
I'm sorry, but it sounds like most people on Slashdot don't know how recruiting works.
With him having his resume in open circulation he has put himself "on the market", Microsoft didn't rely on some hack in MS Exchange to cull all emails that have PhD resumes;)
If I spot a resume on monster, or hotjobs or handed to me via a friend/collegue or wherever, and I think it looks good, I'm not gonna just give the job to that person, they need to be questioned to see if what is on paper stacks up with reality.
Seriously, you're telling me that just because they found him, and he turned out to be a flop that it's their fault????
Because they cold-called him and invited him for an interview. Implication: "We know you're qualified, and we really want you to work for us."
WRONG!!
Wow...you'd qualify someone with what they'd put out on their resume without verifying it? You're either very naive, or haven't had much experience with interviewing.
I'm sorry, but why should M$ or any company have to sell the job to a prospective candidate? The job market is still fairly tight in comparison with the last 5 years, companies are being more picky than ever before.
At the company I work for, we've interviews serveral PhD candidates and to brutally honest they've been amongst some of the worst candidates. We've even had candidates that claimed to be lecturers at some fairly well known institutions yet when asked basic questions on their own subjects they completely failed to answer the questions correctly.
We get a number of engineers that come into interviews with an air of smugness about themselves but seriously don't know Jack even if you were to introduce them to Jack, Jack's family and Jack's friends who all brought along their photo albums of Jack and then gave a speech on how Jack had touched their lives.
Bottom line, nobody is above scrutiny and things on paper in reality count for little, experience counts for everything. Like I said earlier, I've seen many PhD candidates (and I'm not knocking people with PhD's, we have quite a few of them here at the company already) who would have difficulty just handling basic day to day tasks...their qualifications were in effect a useless indicator.
I didn't think you could copyright just one word that is in the dictionary. I thought you'd be able to copyright "Apple Numbers" but not "Numbers" on it's own. Can anyone confirm or deny?
Apple running on x86 architectures will more than likely aid the big Linux distributions, by providing another viable more well known alternative to Windows. When people start experimenting with OSX because they feel more comfortable with it being more recognizable and come to see that alternatives to Windows can be productive, I think it could tip the scales for a lot of people to try Linux too.
It might not be "free" but its free (as in beer) and its the only serious competitor to M$ Office. You do the math, free vs $$$....sure, you can write it in crayon as long as its performs and its free!;)
Wouldn't the fact that crop of the following year couldn't be identical to the previous year due to genetic variation brought up through the normal cycle of pollenation? The same process that the GM company used to "breed" their super strain of crop?
Seeing that the genetic makeup of the crop has to be somewhat different, all the GM company could claim would be that fractured pieces of their copyrighted genetic code remained in the new crop. This is the case however anyhoe, look hard enough and you'll find that the particular genetic sequence that makes their crop so good is probably out ther in some other non human manipulated form, and thus you could say that there are prior cases of the copyrighted material which would null and void their claim.
Yup...they're thinner than the hair of a unicorn, have negative weight due to their anti-gravity properties, they actually generate money instead of cost money and because they can be produced on such a massive scale the UN is contemplating replacing the sky with a Large Array Unified Graphics Heaven;)
There's enough people out there that don't mind the digital to analogue step down process. Take CDs for example, DRM only works when you can check against something that somewhat resembles the original digital format with watermarks, key points, etc. If someone has simply hooked up a 3.5mm jack plug from their audio out to the mic on their soundcard then they can easily rip music into mp3 format. The same is true with DVDs, there are still plenty of people that won't mind the minute subtle changes that come in to play from using the analogue step down process.
To get around this, companies would have to then have to figure out how to pick up traits in the music/film as opposed to relying on actual markers. This too can be easily overcome though for example for the case of music, the pitch can be altered by less that 1% and for most people the difference would be virtually nill.
What I resent is that film studios and distribution companies are making a fortune here, while something which was one of the basic given rights, to make a legit backup, is being taken away. I'm sure as hell not going to be spending another $70 on some box set when some rugrat happens to scratch one of the DVDs. If film companies were really threatened by piracy and weren't using this as some kind of "anti-double jeopardy" thing they'd have some way that you could prove that you'd bought the original and they'd send you a replacement if you damaged yours for a minimal fee. After all, the media costs literally pence to produce and it is the content that we are actually paying for.
New Kinetics http://newkinetics.com/ offer VoIP training, primarily focused on European clients for their VoIP courses, though they do perform in house training in the US too.
You can never renounce your British citizenship and have it mean anything in Britain if you were born in Britain. If you were born in Britain you will always be granted citizenship. My original point was that I think that this circumstance is the same in other countries across Europe. If the guy's wife was born in Italy then there's a good chance that she hasn't actually given up anything in terms of citizenship. If you read the Italian Consulate General website http://www.italconphila.org/english/citizenship.ht ml it does say that Italy permit dual citizenship and that anyone who is born in Italy or whose parents are born in Italy instantly receive Italian citizenship as of Article 1 of Law n.91/1992
Check this link from the British Consulate website in DC.
18. If I become a US citizen will I lose my British citizenship?
No. But see link about dual nationality.
America does not require you to hand over your passport/revoke citizenship of your place of origin when you become a US citizen. I think most if not all of the EU member countries follow this rule (I'm from England originally and have lived with my US wife in California for quite a few years now and have looked into the whole dual citizenship thing). So I'm betting that your wife would still be able to get a renewed passport from her former country if she contacted the consulate in the US. The trick then would be to get yourself in the country with her. Just because you're married doesn't give you automatic rights to work in the EU if your spouse is born there. Granted it is easier than just trying to get a visa over there if you haveno connections, as your wife can be your sponsor for your visa application, but visa applications do take quite a while. I know that at the moment for the UK visa applications are taking about 12-15 months to complete (unless you're David Blunkett;) ).
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...it decides to bin its proprietary protocol and adopt SIP.
....yeah, next time he smirk's at the "Come and see the violence inherent in the system" line in MP's Holy Grail I'm gonna get him on the next plane out to Iraq for your sins! *LOL*
If the definition of what a VoIP carrier is was black and white then things might be a little more simple (kinda like yourself). The problem lies in the FCC can't make its mind up as to what exactly defines a VoIP carrier.
If someone sets up a publically accessible SIP registrar on their DSL/cable connection at home for everyone to use, which could be a nexus point to various VoIP-to-PSTN gateways supplied by other companies are you seriously suggesting that they should provide 911 services?
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I disagree with the premise that BASIC teaches bad habits. I stick with the old adage a bad workman blames his tools. BASIC teaches kids (like I was over 30 years ago) from the ages of 5-6 how to put together simple logic, and gives them the very basics of languages constructs like variables, loops, sub routines, etc. without them having to grasp structures, classes, polymorphism, OO, etc. that a lot of grown ups that have been involved with writing code for quite some time can have issues with.
Maybe names like THX-1138 aren't that far off in the future after all?
I think what we'll see is what we witnessed after every boy and their dog figured out how to create a HTML page complete with flashing text, awful animated GIFs and background MIDI music. As many have pointed out, nobody cares what Mrs. Rita Boddingworth of 42 Jackass Lane, Nowhereville did between the hours of 6pm and 10pm the night of February 17th or any other night, and so as the reality of this sets into the frenzied benign bloggers and they realize that their time might be well worth spent doing something more productive we'll see a drop in the number of redundant blah blogs just as the masses of Geocities pages died in the early part of this decade.
Blogging has however isn't all negative, it has created a useful paradigm for those people who actually have something useful and worthwhile to say. You can tell these people from the average blogger, while the person who uses this tool for good will probably post say once a week or less but when they post it won't be a rant which nobody gives a toss about and instead it will be some nugget of information which will probably help people out. On the other hand though, you have the other blogger who religiously jumps onto Blogspot or some other blog equiv of myspace and fills in the dreary details of their boring, insignificant life every single day down to the nth detail. Not that I'm necessarily ragging on the blogger here, as there's 6 billion people in the world and most of us lead fairly unassumingly dull lives, I just wish people would realize that most of us also lead the same life and thus have no need to read about it all over again.
Oh...one last point, bloggers as journalists.....please see some sense. That's like saying any monkey that can create a web page is a coder.....true, both can techincally code (something) but who are you going to employ to write software to control your car's safety features?
That's insane, 6% stock for only $20k investment AND they won't sign an NDA so they're free to take your idea and pass it off to one off to whoever they want. If you're a budding entrepreneur and you can't raise $20K for seed funding you really should stick to being a wage slave.
I'm sorry, but it sounds like most people on Slashdot don't know how recruiting works.
;)
With him having his resume in open circulation he has put himself "on the market", Microsoft didn't rely on some hack in MS Exchange to cull all emails that have PhD resumes
If I spot a resume on monster, or hotjobs or handed to me via a friend/collegue or wherever, and I think it looks good, I'm not gonna just give the job to that person, they need to be questioned to see if what is on paper stacks up with reality.
Seriously, you're telling me that just because they found him, and he turned out to be a flop that it's their fault????
I'm sorry, but it sounds like most people on Slashdot don't know how recruiting works.
;)
With him having his resume in open circulation he has put himself "on the market", Microsoft didn't rely on some hack in MS Exchange to cull all emails that have PhD resumes
If I spot a resume on monster, or hotjobs or handed to me via a friend/collegue or wherever, and I think it looks good, I'm not gonna just give the job to that person, they need to be questioned to see if what is on paper stacks up with reality.
Seriously, you're telling me that just because they found him, and he turned out to be a flop that it's their fault????
WRONG!!
Wow...you'd qualify someone with what they'd put out on their resume without verifying it? You're either very naive, or haven't had much experience with interviewing.
I'm sorry, but why should M$ or any company have to sell the job to a prospective candidate? The job market is still fairly tight in comparison with the last 5 years, companies are being more picky than ever before.
At the company I work for, we've interviews serveral PhD candidates and to brutally honest they've been amongst some of the worst candidates. We've even had candidates that claimed to be lecturers at some fairly well known institutions yet when asked basic questions on their own subjects they completely failed to answer the questions correctly.
We get a number of engineers that come into interviews with an air of smugness about themselves but seriously don't know Jack even if you were to introduce them to Jack, Jack's family and Jack's friends who all brought along their photo albums of Jack and then gave a speech on how Jack had touched their lives.
Bottom line, nobody is above scrutiny and things on paper in reality count for little, experience counts for everything. Like I said earlier, I've seen many PhD candidates (and I'm not knocking people with PhD's, we have quite a few of them here at the company already) who would have difficulty just handling basic day to day tasks...their qualifications were in effect a useless indicator.
I didn't think you could copyright just one word that is in the dictionary. I thought you'd be able to copyright "Apple Numbers" but not "Numbers" on it's own. Can anyone confirm or deny?
Apple running on x86 architectures will more than likely aid the big Linux distributions, by providing another viable more well known alternative to Windows. When people start experimenting with OSX because they feel more comfortable with it being more recognizable and come to see that alternatives to Windows can be productive, I think it could tip the scales for a lot of people to try Linux too.
It might not be "free" but its free (as in beer) and its the only serious competitor to M$ Office. You do the math, free vs $$$....sure, you can write it in crayon as long as its performs and its free! ;)
Medical and high end design have seemed to be the exclusive realm of good VR, where is the promised VR for the masses that's beyound 800x600 res?
...it's about 280 miles north west of London. Sheesh, you can tell this posting was put up by a yank! :)
Wouldn't the fact that crop of the following year couldn't be identical to the previous year due to genetic variation brought up through the normal cycle of pollenation? The same process that the GM company used to "breed" their super strain of crop?
Seeing that the genetic makeup of the crop has to be somewhat different, all the GM company could claim would be that fractured pieces of their copyrighted genetic code remained in the new crop. This is the case however anyhoe, look hard enough and you'll find that the particular genetic sequence that makes their crop so good is probably out ther in some other non human manipulated form, and thus you could say that there are prior cases of the copyrighted material which would null and void their claim.
Yup...they're thinner than the hair of a unicorn, have negative weight due to their anti-gravity properties, they actually generate money instead of cost money and because they can be produced on such a massive scale the UN is contemplating replacing the sky with a Large Array Unified Graphics Heaven ;)
There's enough people out there that don't mind the digital to analogue step down process. Take CDs for example, DRM only works when you can check against something that somewhat resembles the original digital format with watermarks, key points, etc. If someone has simply hooked up a 3.5mm jack plug from their audio out to the mic on their soundcard then they can easily rip music into mp3 format. The same is true with DVDs, there are still plenty of people that won't mind the minute subtle changes that come in to play from using the analogue step down process.
To get around this, companies would have to then have to figure out how to pick up traits in the music/film as opposed to relying on actual markers. This too can be easily overcome though for example for the case of music, the pitch can be altered by less that 1% and for most people the difference would be virtually nill.
What I resent is that film studios and distribution companies are making a fortune here, while something which was one of the basic given rights, to make a legit backup, is being taken away. I'm sure as hell not going to be spending another $70 on some box set when some rugrat happens to scratch one of the DVDs. If film companies were really threatened by piracy and weren't using this as some kind of "anti-double jeopardy" thing they'd have some way that you could prove that you'd bought the original and they'd send you a replacement if you damaged yours for a minimal fee. After all, the media costs literally pence to produce and it is the content that we are actually paying for.
New Kinetics http://newkinetics.com/ offer VoIP training, primarily focused on European clients for their VoIP courses, though they do perform in house training in the US too.
You can never renounce your British citizenship and have it mean anything in Britain if you were born in Britain. If you were born in Britain you will always be granted citizenship. My original point was that I think that this circumstance is the same in other countries across Europe. If the guy's wife was born in Italy then there's a good chance that she hasn't actually given up anything in terms of citizenship. If you read the Italian Consulate General website http://www.italconphila.org/english/citizenship.ht ml it does say that Italy permit dual citizenship and that anyone who is born in Italy or whose parents are born in Italy instantly receive Italian citizenship as of Article 1 of Law n.91/1992
Check this link from the British Consulate website in DC.
18. If I become a US citizen will I lose my British citizenship?
No. But see link about dual nationality.
America does not require you to hand over your passport/revoke citizenship of your place of origin when you become a US citizen. I think most if not all of the EU member countries follow this rule (I'm from England originally and have lived with my US wife in California for quite a few years now and have looked into the whole dual citizenship thing). So I'm betting that your wife would still be able to get a renewed passport from her former country if she contacted the consulate in the US. The trick then would be to get yourself in the country with her. Just because you're married doesn't give you automatic rights to work in the EU if your spouse is born there. Granted it is easier than just trying to get a visa over there if you haveno connections, as your wife can be your sponsor for your visa application, but visa applications do take quite a while. I know that at the moment for the UK visa applications are taking about 12-15 months to complete (unless you're David Blunkett ;) ).
...it decides to bin its proprietary protocol and adopt SIP.
....yeah, next time he smirk's at the "Come and see the violence inherent in the system" line in MP's Holy Grail I'm gonna get him on the next plane out to Iraq for your sins! *LOL*
Whatever....lighten up fer f***'s sake. Coke is just evolution's way of saying you're too rich and too stupid. Good ridance to bad junk if you ask me.
.....yeah of the columbian variety!
If the definition of what a VoIP carrier is was black and white then things might be a little more simple (kinda like yourself). The problem lies in the FCC can't make its mind up as to what exactly defines a VoIP carrier.
If someone sets up a publically accessible SIP registrar on their DSL/cable connection at home for everyone to use, which could be a nexus point to various VoIP-to-PSTN gateways supplied by other companies are you seriously suggesting that they should provide 911 services?