You wanna know the best way to go about getting a job? The key is to save money while you have a job so you can ride out the unemployment. Yeah, I know some of us can't do that for various reasons, but you employed people out there should pay attention.
I've been unemployed for about 5 months now, but I've got enough squirreled away to last me another year. That means I don't have to whore myself for every crappy 2 month contract posted on the job boards nor do I have to kiss up to recruiter weasels.
Plus I don't have that smell of desperation at my interviews and networking events. You ever see those guys at user group meetings? Too eager to meet you and completely out of their element? People like that don't look hireable. I think that in these times, if you look like you don't need the job, it actually counts for something.
Part of the problem here is that you can't really compare security between systems in isolation. Much of the "insecurity" of Windows derives from the fact that there are a whole lot of people out there banging away on Windows machines. If there weren't a lot of IIS and Exchange servers out there, Code Red and Nimda wouldn't have even hit anyone's radar screens.
My Mac-head friends always like to point out that they never have problems with virii and think that this is because the Macintosh is so well designed to prevent this sort of thing. Aside from this being anecdotal evidence, (I, frankly, don't know enough about Macs to judge their design) it ignores the fact that not many people use Macs (relative to Windows).
In short, the more people that use an operating system, the less secure it is, at least to some extent.
Maybe. In another desparate attempt to get me to start going to church again, my mom sent me a book for my birthday last year called Christian Mythmakers. It has chapters on both J.R.R. Tolkein and C. S. Lewis. I confess, I didn't read more than the those chapters (sorry, mom), but in my reading, it seemed that calling LoTR a Christian book in the same sense as the Narnia books, say (definitely Christian books), is a bit of a stretch. It is still fair to say that it is Christian influenced. A Buddist or Muslim Tolkien would have produced a different book. Tolkien and Lewis were definitely buddies and certainly talked about things Christian though.
As a matter of fact, Scientific American has an article about two morons (how could anything like this be considered anything but moronic) who will attempt to jump from balloons at 130,000 feet. See this article.
It is Possible to run a secure NT Based Web/SQL server. The problem is that MS makes everything run as the system acocunt on the machine by default....Most M$ admins are to lazy to [change the defaults].
Well designed systems expect that the admins will be lazy/unreliable/clueless and provide appropriate defaults. Don't blame the admins, blame Microsoft
Doesn't it seem like only about a week is too short a time between probes? You don't have much time to make adjustments to the second probe if the first one goes down.
Though I suppose they could alter the burn parameters to make the second one arrive later if they needed to.
I'm not sure why the average AOL would have a use for telnet or ftp. The point is "can I communicate?" If I'm an AOLer, instant messaging, email and the web are all I need to communicate effectively.
whatever we're seeing in NGC4214 happened 13 million years ago. Not my definition of "currently,"
Nor is it mine, but 13 million years is currently in stellar formation terms. Remember, our Sun is over 4.5 billion years old. The science behind the original statement is sound. My but aren't we quick to judge?
6 people...let's see, that makes 15 possible sexual pairings to document. That doesn't even include larger groupings. They could fill weeks of airtime with this.
Isn't it interesting how the poster accepts the fact that the original story was wrong, but then latches onto the newly found facts to justify the end of days theory. Sure it's coincidental. Cool!
He ignores the fact that rare events occur all the time. Selection bias and our natural propensity to locate patterns causes some people to cluster them around seemingly significant events. Yes there will be a close alignment of planets on May 5 next year, but close alignments of planets occur every year to varying degrees. Why is May 5 significant, anyway? Wouldn't January 1 be a better date for a planetary alignment signaling the end of days? What about the rare catastrophic hurricane in Central America that occured last year, or the impact event in Siberia back in 1907? Or how about that ham sandwich I had for lunch yesterday? What do these and other rare events portend?
The significance of the impending turning of the celestial odometer is the result of a largely arbitrary decision made in the 16th century by the Roman Catholic church that (correctly) saw the need to standardize the calendar. They no more knew the exact date of Jesus' birth than you or I do. Oh yeah, there's also our long held custom of using a base 10 numerical system. That plays a part.
If we had 8 fingers instead of 10, we'd be celebrating the year 3720.
Darkness doesn't "soak in" to anything. If I turn out the light, it doesn't gradually get darker, it just gets dark. What changes in your eyes' adaptation to the dark.
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You wanna know the best way to go about getting a job? The key is to save money while you have a job so you can ride out the unemployment. Yeah, I know some of us can't do that for various reasons, but you employed people out there should pay attention.
I've been unemployed for about 5 months now, but I've got enough squirreled away to last me another year. That means I don't have to whore myself for every crappy 2 month contract posted on the job boards nor do I have to kiss up to recruiter weasels.
Plus I don't have that smell of desperation at my interviews and networking events. You ever see those guys at user group meetings? Too eager to meet you and completely out of their element? People like that don't look hireable. I think that in these times, if you look like you don't need the job, it actually counts for something.
Part of the problem here is that you can't really compare security between systems in isolation. Much of the "insecurity" of Windows derives from the fact that there are a whole lot of people out there banging away on Windows machines. If there weren't a lot of IIS and Exchange servers out there, Code Red and Nimda wouldn't have even hit anyone's radar screens.
My Mac-head friends always like to point out that they never have problems with virii and think that this is because the Macintosh is so well designed to prevent this sort of thing. Aside from this being anecdotal evidence, (I, frankly, don't know enough about Macs to judge their design) it ignores the fact that not many people use Macs (relative to Windows).
In short, the more people that use an operating system, the less secure it is, at least to some extent.
Maybe. In another desparate attempt to get me to start going to church again, my mom sent me a book for my birthday last year called Christian Mythmakers. It has chapters on both J.R.R. Tolkein and C. S. Lewis. I confess, I didn't read more than the those chapters (sorry, mom), but in my reading, it seemed that calling LoTR a Christian book in the same sense as the Narnia books, say (definitely Christian books), is a bit of a stretch. It is still fair to say that it is Christian influenced. A Buddist or Muslim Tolkien would have produced a different book. Tolkien and Lewis were definitely buddies and certainly talked about things Christian though.
As a matter of fact, Scientific American has an article about two morons (how could anything like this be considered anything but moronic) who will attempt to jump from balloons at 130,000 feet. See this article.
Well designed systems expect that the admins will be lazy/unreliable/clueless and provide appropriate defaults. Don't blame the admins, blame Microsoft
Fred Espenak's site is better than any I've seen.
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html
Doesn't it seem like only about a week is too short a time between probes? You don't have much time to make adjustments to the second probe if the first one goes down.
Though I suppose they could alter the burn parameters to make the second one arrive later if they needed to.
I'm not sure why the average AOL would have a use for telnet or ftp. The point is "can I communicate?" If I'm an AOLer, instant messaging, email and the web are all I need to communicate effectively.
whatever we're seeing in NGC4214 happened 13 million years ago. Not my definition of "currently,"
Nor is it mine, but 13 million years is currently in stellar formation terms. Remember, our Sun is over 4.5 billion years old. The science behind the original statement is sound. My but aren't we quick to judge?
sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/e clipse.html
6 people...let's see, that makes 15 possible sexual pairings to document. That doesn't even include larger groupings. They could fill weeks of airtime with this.
Isn't it interesting how the poster accepts the fact that the original story was wrong, but then latches onto the newly found facts to justify the end of days theory. Sure it's coincidental. Cool!
He ignores the fact that rare events occur all the time. Selection bias and our natural propensity to locate patterns causes some people to cluster them around seemingly significant events. Yes there will be a close alignment of planets on May 5 next year, but close alignments of planets occur every year to varying degrees. Why is May 5 significant, anyway? Wouldn't January 1 be a better date for a planetary alignment signaling the end of days? What about the rare catastrophic hurricane in Central America that occured last year, or the impact event in Siberia back in 1907? Or how about that ham sandwich I had for lunch yesterday? What do these and other rare events portend?
The significance of the impending turning of the celestial odometer is the result of a largely arbitrary decision made in the 16th century by the Roman Catholic church that (correctly) saw the need to standardize the calendar. They no more knew the exact date of Jesus' birth than you or I do. Oh yeah, there's also our long held custom of using a base 10 numerical system. That plays a part.
If we had 8 fingers instead of 10, we'd be celebrating the year 3720.
Darkness doesn't "soak in" to anything. If I turn out the light, it doesn't gradually get darker, it just gets dark. What changes in your eyes' adaptation to the dark.