It's a bullshit question, because it's unfair on the person that's being asked. It requires you to answer
With a lie, or
With a joke, or
With honesty if you want to suicide the interview
All it really shows is how the person handles an unanswerable question under pressure, or if they have a sense of humour. That might be appropriate for some jobs (e.g. sales or PR) but generally it's just an excuse for interviewers to assert their 'superiority'. If I'm asked that question in an interview, I make sure to ask the interviewer 'What's the worst thing about working for xyz corp' when they ask if I have any questions!
everyone I know (including those younger than me) measures their weight in stones and pounds, and their height in feet and inches
You know, I've noticed this... At weekends I often do karaoke at a local bar (hey, I've got to meet people sometime!) and consequently meet a lot of people in the 18-24 bracket. (This is in the UK, so we can drink at 18). On occasions that height comes into the conversation they all give their height in feet and inches. But otherwise, people talk in terms of metres and kg etc. I think the attachment to 'stones' for weight is that 10st 5lb sounds less than 145 pounds or 66kg.
I think it would be safest for all concerned if you just gave the job to me. Then I'd move to all the lawyers and owners of nonsense patents to an uninhabited isle, Send the CIA in to 'take out' Darl, give free overclocked supercomputers to all geeks and broadband into every home. Oh yes, I'll instigate porcine aviation too!
Well speaking as someone who works in a QA department, I can understand it. They don't have a lab! Look:
OCZ does not manufacture Ultra 2 thermal compound in house, it is provided by a foreign manufacturer with our specifications. Previous independent lab tests conducted at the request of OCZ have shown that the silver compound content in Ultra 2 is 25% by volume and 70% by weight.
So they do what a great many companies do; they order something, test what they get the first time and assume the spec doesn't changes. I would imagine OCZ get the paste already in the little syringes (I.E. they don't fill them) so they just have to package & ship them. However, to their credit when a critique of their product appeared on a website (and presumably someone contacted them and told them) they did the right thing:
In response to this article, OCZ has submitted another batch of Ultra 2 to a third party for extensive lab testing. This Independent lab report show's that the most recent batch of OCZ Ultra 2 indeed contains less than 1% silver by volume. While simultaneously we have received lab reports from an outside source indicating the silver content to be 30% by weight. This leads us to the conclusion that recent batch(s) of OCZ Ultra 2 from our supplier did not meet the agreed specifications.
Lab testing is expensive. I doubt the margins on this product are huge, so it's not economically viable to test every batch in an external lab. Having said that, I imagine OCZ might be investing in some of that orange acid that the guy at overclockers used, they'll not want to get caught with their pants down again! We accept full responsibility for these problems and we will be seeking legal action against our supplier.
I'd say it's nearer to 12.99 - 14.99 for chart releases, rarities can be more expensive, sometimes if a record is being promoted you'll see it being sold for 8.99 - 12.99 (like when the record companies trying to hype it into the charts...) So ordinarily I'd say 12.99 - 14.99 for an album in the UK.
Well, AFAICT there's not much difference between the two. Except we don't get parades outside the houses of parliment. Oh, and the Russians paid less taxes....
If Darl really beleives what he has written here that there really is no hope for him, he's lost touch with reality, poor guy. I don't know where to start... Those who designed the GPL readily admit that they created this licence to have the effect of "freeing" software - taking it out of the realm of copyright protection by placing it in the public domain... WRONG: The GPL asserts the right of the creator's ownership by restricting the use of the code - it just gives permission for others to read, modify and distribute the code under strict provisions. GPL software is not public domain at all. The GPL is carefully designed to have a viral effect - it "frees" the software that is proprietary, licenceable and a source of income from the companies that developed it WRONG! - GPL'ing someone else's software is theft as much as giving it away. GPL'd software is licenced as such by the companies and individuals that created it and it is their right to allow their work to be used in whatever way they wish. The second problem with Open Source software is that it is not all original PROVE IT - If someone has stolen your code, then prove it! To assert it without offering any evidence is dishonest. You may have "taken legal action against those who have misappropriated their corporate assets but they don't seem to have succeeded in even raising a case, other than threats and misinformation. Free, or low cost Open Source software, full of proprietary code, is grabbing an increasing portion of the software market UNPROVEN! - Darl, you're asserting something you've not proven then said it's unfair. If it where true, then it would be scandalous. But, it's not true. The problem is you can't cope with low cost competition. But free newspapers compete with regular papers that cost, because they offer more, which is what SCO should be trying to do rather than throwing it's toy's out the pram. Why should a software company invest to develop exciting new capabilities when their software coud end up "freed" as part of Linux under the GPL? MISLEADING! - GPL software is not propriatary software that's been freed - it's been developed by the people that chose to releas it under the GPL - it's not been "freed" or "stolen". This is just scare words to make the GPL feel illegal. Instead of UNIX from any number of U.S.companies or Windows from Microsoft, governments throughout Europe and Asia are using Linux, often downloaded free from the internet. I find this particularly galling because that Linux software contains thousands of lines of my company's proprietary UNIX code - for which we recieve no revenue. SCO has a strong, involuntary presence in certain non-U.S. government markets - but this is only through the unauthrised use of our code in Linux software BALONEY Once again you assert something you have not even been able to illustrate let alone prove!!!..Open Source software that has gained many of its capabilities through the illegal incorporation of code "borrowed" from the rightful owners... WRONG! - if I was going to steal code, I would hardly publish under the GPL where it's owners lawyesr would have unhindered access to proof of my crime! No, if I had stolen code I might choose to fail to show my code to anyone, even if I was accusing others of stealing mine in an attempt to divert attention from my crime.... The threat to our national security... WRONG and ALARMIST! - If Open Software didn't exist I don't see that would stop a Libian Terrorist popping into CIrcuit City and buying a PC with Windows XP or SCO unix on. ANd if I was trying to overthrow the US government I would think my budget would stretch to a few hundred pounds for a SCO unix licence... I'm not going to comment on the rest of this pile of detrietus because I may lose the will to live in the process.. I do hope the SCO board and shareholders realise what complete idiots Darl is making them look like. I hope Congress send him off with a flea in his ear, but somehow I fear they will not.
Well, I'm a Newbury resident, just up the road from Basingstoke... which is the only place for miles that has a Goth nightclub running at all, so as far as I'm concerned it's the centre of my cultural world LOL.
I have a problem with this. No-one really has a right to a domain address; they should be issued on a first-come-first-served basis by the name registrars. It is an address, not a trademark! This whole mess has happened because brain dead corporations have confused what a domain name is. Just because some companies use their trademark names as an address doesn't mean that use of the address is a trademark! Why doesn't Microsoft sue Alaska because there is a road there called 'Excel Street'? OK so assuming that I've lost that argument, you could say Microsoft had the right to 'MikeRoweSoft.Com' but it was a right they failed to exercise, by buying the domain when it was available. If they didn't do that because they didn't realise it would be confusing, or that use of the name could be injurious to their business, then how can they now claim that it is confusing? If it wasn't an obviously confusing possibility then, why is it now? Is anyone really likely to type in 'mikerowesoft.com' when they're looking for 'microsoft.com'? One could argue that 'Mike Rowe Soft' is parody and I thought that was allowable use? IANAL and I am a brit, so maybe I'm misguided, but this whole case sounds like a quiet day in the office of Microsofts lawyers.
Oh, why doesn't anyone think of the children???
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Other bills are aimed at protecting minors who use P2P software to inadvertently download pornographic material, especially child pornography.
Inadvertently? Hmm, I'm sorry this isn't a tech issue, it's a social one. If you want to control what your kids do and see online then you have to supervise them. There's no law or crappy bit of software that can do it that won't be circumvented within days. You wouldn't let a kid roam around alone in a city 'till they where old enough to look out for themselves? So why in cyberspace? The internet is not a TV you can park your kids in front of to keep them quiet, it's a communication tool and you need to know who they're talking to! The internet is not a library, it is a seedy city with all the glitter and vice that entails. That's why it's so facinating, that's why we bother with it, and that's why we need to be responsible when exposing our kids to it.
We need to find other ways to solve the problems rather than issuing lawsuits and lobbying Congress to pass tougher laws
My oh my! We may not have found intelligent life on the moon, but maybe there's a sign of it on earth...
Well, as someone who has spent a lot of time in chatting to people over the years (Hey I was on Compu$erve!), I can say I have made many friends online, many I've met, talked to on the phone, or exchanged letters with. I've even had relationships with girls I've met online. You do get a connection.. with someone you talk to a lot you get to understand what they're saying subliminally by the way they type. Some of my friends I can spot in a chat room even when they're using a different name, by the way they chat. I can tell what mood there in, even if they're trying to hide it. In my experience we all reveal far more about ourselves by the words we choose and the way we use them than we realise. Like in most walks of life, online you get out what you put in. If you can't be bothered to put in the effort to 'know' someone then you never will. That applies if you're hanging in chatrooms, bars or classes. The biggest problem with the detachment of online chat is people tend to be more aggressive than they would be IRL. It's easier to try to appear cool by cutting other people down than to actually be cool by listening and appreciating other peoples opinions may have some value, even if you don't agree.
Perspex is a trade name for Acrylic sheeting. It's usually clear, but can be supplied in many colours, translucent or opaque. Have a look at their website if the flash-madness isn't going to scare you off. It's lovely stuff, I've made all kinds of things from it over the years, its easy to cut and drill, and a lot less likely to shatter than polycarbonates. And no, I don't work for them!
I was somewhat bemused when I read the previous press release, they can't be killing Mindstorms, I thought to myself. After all, of their entire range, Mindstorms is practically unique - the only cheap 'control system' experimentation kit for all ages. And yes, it is cheap, in the context of the alternatives. Don't know about the bionicals thing though, I've never really looked into it.
Erm.. NetBSD hopes to sell outside the USA, no? I mean, you do know there is somewhere outside of the USA?
Seriously, if you intend to distribute your wares around the world to peoples of different race and belief, it pays to be a little sensitive to the cultural context of any symbols or trademarks you use. Just ask anyone who tried to sell a Chevy Nova in Spain..
Sadly, I fear it is. In my youth I was a 'born again' Christian and its precisely this kind of wooly headed thinking, all too common, that finally made me give up on wanted to be associated with the word 'Christian'. In one sense it's a shame because there are a great many erudite and interesting Christian academics around that have a lot of relevant things to say about the world. Unfortunately, they tend to be swamped by the miasma of lame-brained, half thought out claptrap that the evangelical organisations trot out.
Call me a paranoid old man if you will, but doesn't it make you feel a little uneasy that the black hats can require Adobe to insert 'black box' code into their product? We only have the man's word to assure us that it only checks for currency in the image.. And I mean, surely the gov would never trojan something into a companies code to spy on us? Would they?
isn't the GPL stating that GPL code that is given out must be given out in the same medium as the binary?
No, the GPL says that if you make a binary distribution of a GPL program you must
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above
on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
Perhaps so that sunrise has a margin of 1 hour to 'reset' our biological clock every 24 hours? In the same way that the frame rate on TV's (used to?) free run slower than 50Hz in the absence of a sync signal..
Well, Lego don't, but here in Blighty most big toy shops (Toys'r'us etc) sell other block sets, some of which are "compatible".. or at least they did when I looked last, a couple of years ago.
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Yes, I imagine that's why CmdrTaco said
We mentioned the myDoom Worm just a few hours ago,
No?
Lol
Seriously, its is a shame, it will only fuel Darl's paranoia.
Then he asks me, "So where do you see yourself in 5 years time?".
"Doing your job, I should think.."
- With a lie, or
- With a joke, or
- With honesty if you want to suicide the interview
All it really shows is how the person handles an unanswerable question under pressure, or if they have a sense of humour. That might be appropriate for some jobs (e.g. sales or PR) but generally it's just an excuse for interviewers to assert their 'superiority'. If I'm asked that question in an interview, I make sure to ask the interviewer 'What's the worst thing about working for xyz corp' when they ask if I have any questions!I think the attachment to 'stones' for weight is that 10st 5lb sounds less than 145 pounds or 66kg.
I think it would be safest for all concerned if you just gave the job to me. Then I'd move to all the lawyers and owners of nonsense patents to an uninhabited isle, Send the CIA in to 'take out' Darl, give free overclocked supercomputers to all geeks and broadband into every home.
Oh yes, I'll instigate porcine aviation too!
So they do what a great many companies do; they order something, test what they get the first time and assume the spec doesn't changes. I would imagine OCZ get the paste already in the little syringes (I.E. they don't fill them) so they just have to package & ship them.
However, to their credit when a critique of their product appeared on a website (and presumably someone contacted them and told them) they did the right thing:
Lab testing is expensive. I doubt the margins on this product are huge, so it's not economically viable to test every batch in an external lab.
Having said that, I imagine OCZ might be investing in some of that orange acid that the guy at overclockers used, they'll not want to get caught with their pants down again!
We accept full responsibility for these problems and we will be seeking legal action against our supplier.
..and you would ha' gotten away with it, if it wasn't for them pesky kids!
But I would imagine "most people" would think Microsoft (TM) would be able to spell their own name... So 'MikeRoweSoft' really isn't confusing at all.
I'd say it's nearer to 12.99 - 14.99 for chart releases, rarities can be more expensive, sometimes if a record is being promoted you'll see it being sold for 8.99 - 12.99 (like when the record companies trying to hype it into the charts...)
So ordinarily I'd say 12.99 - 14.99 for an album in the UK.
Well, AFAICT there's not much difference between the two. Except we don't get parades outside the houses of parliment. Oh, and the Russians paid less taxes....
If Darl really beleives what he has written here that there really is no hope for him, he's lost touch with reality, poor guy. I don't know where to start... ..Open Source software that has gained many of its capabilities through the illegal incorporation of code "borrowed" from the rightful owners...
Those who designed the GPL readily admit that they created this licence to have the effect of "freeing" software - taking it out of the realm of copyright protection by placing it in the public domain...
WRONG: The GPL asserts the right of the creator's ownership by restricting the use of the code - it just gives permission for others to read, modify and distribute the code under strict provisions. GPL software is not public domain at all.
The GPL is carefully designed to have a viral effect - it "frees" the software that is proprietary, licenceable and a source of income from the companies that developed it
WRONG! - GPL'ing someone else's software is theft as much as giving it away. GPL'd software is licenced as such by the companies and individuals that created it and it is their right to allow their work to be used in whatever way they wish.
The second problem with Open Source software is that it is not all original
PROVE IT - If someone has stolen your code, then prove it! To assert it without offering any evidence is dishonest. You may have "taken legal action against those who have misappropriated their corporate assets but they don't seem to have succeeded in even raising a case, other than threats and misinformation.
Free, or low cost Open Source software, full of proprietary code, is grabbing an increasing portion of the software market
UNPROVEN! - Darl, you're asserting something you've not proven then said it's unfair. If it where true, then it would be scandalous. But, it's not true. The problem is you can't cope with low cost competition. But free newspapers compete with regular papers that cost, because they offer more, which is what SCO should be trying to do rather than throwing it's toy's out the pram.
Why should a software company invest to develop exciting new capabilities when their software coud end up "freed" as part of Linux under the GPL?
MISLEADING! - GPL software is not propriatary software that's been freed - it's been developed by the people that chose to releas it under the GPL - it's not been "freed" or "stolen". This is just scare words to make the GPL feel illegal.
Instead of UNIX from any number of U.S.companies or Windows from Microsoft, governments throughout Europe and Asia are using Linux, often downloaded free from the internet. I find this particularly galling because that Linux software contains thousands of lines of my company's proprietary UNIX code - for which we recieve no revenue. SCO has a strong, involuntary presence in certain non-U.S. government markets - but this is only through the unauthrised use of our code in Linux software
BALONEY Once again you assert something you have not even been able to illustrate let alone prove!!!
WRONG! - if I was going to steal code, I would hardly publish under the GPL where it's owners lawyesr would have unhindered access to proof of my crime! No, if I had stolen code I might choose to fail to show my code to anyone, even if I was accusing others of stealing mine in an attempt to divert attention from my crime....
The threat to our national security...
WRONG and ALARMIST! - If Open Software didn't exist I don't see that would stop a Libian Terrorist popping into CIrcuit City and buying a PC with Windows XP or SCO unix on. ANd if I was trying to overthrow the US government I would think my budget would stretch to a few hundred pounds for a SCO unix licence...
I'm not going to comment on the rest of this pile of detrietus because I may lose the will to live in the process.. I do hope the SCO board and shareholders realise what complete idiots Darl is making them look like. I hope Congress send him off with a flea in his ear, but somehow I fear they will not.
Well, I'm a Newbury resident, just up the road from Basingstoke... which is the only place for miles that has a Goth nightclub running at all, so as far as I'm concerned it's the centre of my cultural world LOL.
My oh my! We may not have found intelligent life on the moon, but maybe there's a sign of it on earth...
Well, as someone who has spent a lot of time in chatting to people over the years (Hey I was on Compu$erve!), I can say I have made many friends online, many I've met, talked to on the phone, or exchanged letters with. I've even had relationships with girls I've met online. You do get a connection.. with someone you talk to a lot you get to understand what they're saying subliminally by the way they type. Some of my friends I can spot in a chat room even when they're using a different name, by the way they chat. I can tell what mood there in, even if they're trying to hide it. In my experience we all reveal far more about ourselves by the words we choose and the way we use them than we realise.
Like in most walks of life, online you get out what you put in. If you can't be bothered to put in the effort to 'know' someone then you never will. That applies if you're hanging in chatrooms, bars or classes.
The biggest problem with the detachment of online chat is people tend to be more aggressive than they would be IRL. It's easier to try to appear cool by cutting other people down than to actually be cool by listening and appreciating other peoples opinions may have some value, even if you don't agree.
Perspex is a trade name for Acrylic sheeting. It's usually clear, but can be supplied in many colours, translucent or opaque. Have a look at their website if the flash-madness isn't going to scare you off.
It's lovely stuff, I've made all kinds of things from it over the years, its easy to cut and drill, and a lot less likely to shatter than polycarbonates. And no, I don't work for them!
I was somewhat bemused when I read the previous press release, they can't be killing Mindstorms, I thought to myself. After all, of their entire range, Mindstorms is practically unique - the only cheap 'control system' experimentation kit for all ages. And yes, it is cheap, in the context of the alternatives.
Don't know about the bionicals thing though, I've never really looked into it.
Erm.. NetBSD hopes to sell outside the USA, no? I mean, you do know there is somewhere outside of the USA?
Seriously, if you intend to distribute your wares around the world to peoples of different race and belief, it pays to be a little sensitive to the cultural context of any symbols or trademarks you use. Just ask anyone who tried to sell a Chevy Nova in Spain..
Sadly, I fear it is. In my youth I was a 'born again' Christian and its precisely this kind of wooly headed thinking, all too common, that finally made me give up on wanted to be associated with the word 'Christian'. In one sense it's a shame because there are a great many erudite and interesting Christian academics around that have a lot of relevant things to say about the world. Unfortunately, they tend to be swamped by the miasma of lame-brained, half thought out claptrap that the evangelical organisations trot out.
Looks like I'm going to have to buy another box of floppies for backups....
Would they??
No, the GPL says that if you make a binary distribution of a GPL program you must
Perhaps so that sunrise has a margin of 1 hour to 'reset' our biological clock every 24 hours? In the same way that the frame rate on TV's (used to?) free run slower than 50Hz in the absence of a sync signal..
Well, Lego don't, but here in Blighty most big toy shops (Toys'r'us etc) sell other block sets, some of which are "compatible".. or at least they did when I looked last, a couple of years ago.