Another thing to keep in mind, though, is that you MUST make sure you follow up the recruiters. They will NOT follow up you if you don't show interest.
Except, of course, in Soviet Russia. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
It's a safe bet that it'll be at least 18 months to a stable release for 6, and even longer before it gets significant adoption. From what I've read in the Apocalyses, the core part of the language will remain the same. (One of the goals for the redesign is "Perl should stay Perl.") Much of the new stuff is either extensions to the existing language or redesigns of advanced features like OO. Even for regular expressions, which have seen the most changes so far, Larry has emphasized that existing code can be adapted rather than rewritten.
Finally, remember that most other Perl programmers will be in the same boat as you are in learning the new language, so Perl 5 should remain well supported for some time to come.
There is a theory which states that if anyone discovers just exactly what the universe is for and why we are here, that it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
Why do people have to be so elitist about this? These viruses exploit people's false expectations of security when launching email attachments, so the proper solution is make things work like people expect. When a user opens an executable attachment (and this includes things like Word docs with macros) it should run with restricted priviledges. If it wants to touch systems files, or spawn background processes, or edit the registry to run itself at startup, the user must okay it. This is ought happen rarely enough that users will take it seriously, rather than the current policies, which are so restrictive they just get disabled.
I agree that this is one of the more reasonable patents to be mentioned on Slashdot, and it does make sense for Apple to have some temporary protection against knock-offs. But 20 years? By the time this patent expires, who knows what portable music players will be like.
I'm a occasional Mac consultant, and I've been recommending this book to people mostly just on the reputation of Pogue and O'Reilly. Now it looks like I'll actually have to read it myself!
Mark's Shuttleworth's an interesting guy. He knew one of the developers of the POV-Ray raytracer, and before he went into orbit he comissioned an image to be rendered on his laptop while in orbit. It was done by Gilles Tran and Jaime Piqueres, two well respected POV-Ray artists. Gilles has the story on his website.
I learned to type on this when it was part of Typing Tutor III for the Apple II. That program was sort of the vi of typing tutors, as opposed to the newer ones that remind me more of MS Office style bloatware. It looks like you actually can get Letter Invaders separately on a bunch of modern platforms these days, even AIX!
I like how he tells us that users have rejected traditional UIs for the web right after mentioning the success of Watson/Sherlock 3, which wrap web services in a traditional GUI. People don't use web services because they're intuitive, they use them because they're available anywhere with a web browser. Just because they're successful doesn't mean they're not a kludge.
First off, the story is badly mistitled (even in the original). The author is only asking to phase out SMTP, not redo the Internet entirely. What he seems to want to do is have all email users get their identities certified by Verisign (or some other cert. agency) so spammers can't forge their identities. He notes correctly that this would be the end of anonymous email (for those using the system) then says:
Of course, it was never really supposed to be anonymous, and real e-mail anonymity is only possible if you forge headers and if your mail-server admin doesn't care. Speaking of not caring, I don't care about the anonymity problem.
Sure, your IP address may be in the headers, but to resolve it to an identity still takes the cooperation of your ISP. People use webmail accounts all the time with the expectation of anonymity. People use email to leak rumors and expose secrets, like with the Halloween documents. A friend of mine uses her Hotmail account on a mailing list for domestic abuse victims. There's lots of good reasons to hide your identity online, and I won't give them up just as a quick fix to the spam problem.
Yeah, so you may not be happy forever, but at least you get a few years of bliss you might not have had otherwise. There's other ways of doing that too, but they all require personal change, which is hard to do (as opposed to sending messages back through time). And even after you've been disillusioned, you won't be bummed out about how much better things would be if you won the lottery.
Every office needs one nice piece of eye candy... It makes the day go by so much better. Its like in lectures... If the prof sucks... Just stare at the hot chick... And they wonder why there are so few women in computer science.
3D is destined to become a major part of the 'net. VRML is poorly suited for anything better than novelty worlds, but much of the idea behind it is good. Once someone creates a language/protocol with real interactivity, then things will start happending, fast. But this is an important first step toward growing the VR user base to critical mass. If anything VRML-like is to suceed, it needs a better implementation than a web browser plug-in.
IRC is a chat protocol. ICQ and AIM are instant messaging protocols. While similar in purpose, they differ greatly in organization.
IRC is based around the concept of rooms. You can only talk to other users inside that room, and all messages are public (by default) to the room. The IRC protocol works very well, although its restricted by its ASCII-based interface.
A system like ICQ is based around the concept of lists of people. You can send messages to anyone on your list, and the messages and generally private to that person. Its restricted by its generally centralized and proprietary architecture and protocols.
ICQ and AIM may do chat too now (I've only used an old ICQ client), but their specialty is one to one communication. IRC's specialty is group-based communication. Both have their own own advantages, and a good general-purpose realtime messaging system should incorporate both schemes.
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Finally, remember that most other Perl programmers will be in the same boat as you are in learning the new language, so Perl 5 should remain well supported for some time to come.
Why do people have to be so elitist about this? These viruses exploit people's false expectations of security when launching email attachments, so the proper solution is make things work like people expect. When a user opens an executable attachment (and this includes things like Word docs with macros) it should run with restricted priviledges. If it wants to touch systems files, or spawn background processes, or edit the registry to run itself at startup, the user must okay it. This is ought happen rarely enough that users will take it seriously, rather than the current policies, which are so restrictive they just get disabled.
I agree that this is one of the more reasonable patents to be mentioned on Slashdot, and it does make sense for Apple to have some temporary protection against knock-offs. But 20 years? By the time this patent expires, who knows what portable music players will be like.
I'm a occasional Mac consultant, and I've been recommending this book to people mostly just on the reputation of Pogue and O'Reilly. Now it looks like I'll actually have to read it myself!
Curvus Pro looks pretty impressive.
if new true friend not protected for explicit private union, break case and try using this.
--Nathan Meyers
Mark's Shuttleworth's an interesting guy. He knew one of the developers of the POV-Ray raytracer, and before he went into orbit he comissioned an image to be rendered on his laptop while in orbit. It was done by Gilles Tran and Jaime Piqueres, two well respected POV-Ray artists. Gilles has the story on his website.
Of course it depends which kind of mouse you are.
I learned to type on this when it was part of Typing Tutor III for the Apple II. That program was sort of the vi of typing tutors, as opposed to the newer ones that remind me more of MS Office style bloatware. It looks like you actually can get Letter Invaders separately on a bunch of modern platforms these days, even AIX!
I like how he tells us that users have rejected traditional UIs for the web right after mentioning the success of Watson/Sherlock 3, which wrap web services in a traditional GUI. People don't use web services because they're intuitive, they use them because they're available anywhere with a web browser. Just because they're successful doesn't mean they're not a kludge.
They don't call it "agent technology" for nothing.
Of course, it was never really supposed to be anonymous, and real e-mail anonymity is only possible if you forge headers and if your mail-server admin doesn't care. Speaking of not caring, I don't care about the anonymity problem.
Sure, your IP address may be in the headers, but to resolve it to an identity still takes the cooperation of your ISP. People use webmail accounts all the time with the expectation of anonymity. People use email to leak rumors and expose secrets, like with the Halloween documents. A friend of mine uses her Hotmail account on a mailing list for domestic abuse victims. There's lots of good reasons to hide your identity online, and I won't give them up just as a quick fix to the spam problem.
Yeah, so you may not be happy forever, but at least you get a few years of bliss you might not have had otherwise. There's other ways of doing that too, but they all require personal change, which is hard to do (as opposed to sending messages back through time). And even after you've been disillusioned, you won't be bummed out about how much better things would be if you won the lottery.
Every office needs one nice piece of eye candy... It makes the day go by so much better. Its like in lectures... If the prof sucks... Just stare at the hot chick...
And they wonder why there are so few women in computer science.
Read the article. The FCC says that frequencies wont' be auctioned off, but rather given to those who can show their ties to the community.
3D is destined to become a major part of the 'net. VRML is poorly suited for anything better than novelty worlds, but much of the idea behind it is good. Once someone creates a language/protocol with real interactivity, then things will start happending, fast. But this is an important first step toward growing the VR user base to critical mass. If anything VRML-like is to suceed, it needs a better implementation than a web browser plug-in.
-- mblagusz@DELETEMEalleg.edu
IRC is a chat protocol. ICQ and AIM are instant messaging protocols. While similar in purpose, they differ greatly in organization.
IRC is based around the concept of rooms. You can only talk to other users inside that room, and all messages are public (by default) to the room. The IRC protocol works very well, although its restricted by its ASCII-based interface.
A system like ICQ is based around the concept of lists of people. You can send messages to anyone on your list, and the messages and generally private to that person. Its restricted by its generally centralized and proprietary architecture and protocols.
ICQ and AIM may do chat too now (I've only used an old ICQ client), but their specialty is one to one communication. IRC's specialty is group-based communication. Both have their own own advantages, and a good general-purpose realtime messaging system should incorporate both schemes.