You can try to convince the headhunters to stop "polishing" your resume, although it appears its their standard operating procedure so they'll probably keep doing it. You really shouldn't put up with it, since whenever you enter an interview you have no idea what's on the resume your interviewer has read. This can make you appear dishonest or stupid and isn't going to help you a job. Also as others have stated, lying on resumes is usually a firing offense, so should your headhunter find you a job, there's no guarantee you will keep it.
Look for a new headhunter or attempt to go it alone, don't bother with them again since they're dishonest. Should you receive any more interviews due to their efforts, be upfront with your interviewer and explain that the previous headhunters have probably doctored your resume and provide a correct copy, preferably before the actual interview. This lets any prospective employer know that they need to be skeptical of resumes from that headhunter in the future and should also make you appear more honest. An employer can then take action against your dishonest headhunter, possibly blacklisting their applicants, warning other companies or calling them out on their actions.
As to why people are hosting these parties, free software is the answer. Party hosts get a free copy of Windows 7 and some promotional crap to distribute to their "guests". All you have to do is organise some form of party and claim its a release party. Plenty of these parties will just be a host and some fictitious guests. Microsoft PR will happily take the raw numbers and use them in future advertising (ie x thousand parties worldwide and y million guests).
I can see why the PR clowns thought this was a good idea, since they don't live in the real world and have no idea how most people perceive Microsoft and its products.
The i7 label is apparently for chips with hyperthreading and the i5 label is for those without hyperthreading. The naming scheme is idiotic since you now have socket 1366 Nehalem i7s and newer socket 1156 Lynnfield i7s. Since Intel wants to have two different sockets for different markets (high end enthusiast and low/mid range buyer) why not actually clearly label the corresponding products? Maybe they think customer confusion will somehow lead to increased sales or greater sales of processors with higher profit margins? Maybe they're just too lazy to try to explain to their customers what hyperthreading is and why they should pay extra for it.
While we're making it simple, why don't we just open up all the keyboards on site and solder the shift key connectors permanently closed? No autorun all the time and anyone who doesn't know about holding down the shift key won't have to learn. It's a perfect solution.
Further predictions of stupidity and almost inevitable failure:
CMX will be a clusterfuck of a standard which is only accessibly by buggy, security-hole ridden software that Sony would be proud of. The DRM will likely be broken shortly before/after release and extracted audio files will be leaked to most p2p networks. The DMCA hammer will be clumsily used to deal with such problems.
The labels will attempt to strong-arm Apple into supporting their format. Should Apple refuse, they'll threaten to pull some or all of their catalogue and go it alone. They could even make a leap of trying to organise Zune exclusivity with Microsoft. Such an act will ultimately hurt them more than it would Apple, unless most of the portable media player market discards their current players for new Zunes.
After many years the format will have gone nowhere, despite the labels spending millions on pushing it. Those who were foolish enough to actually buy into it will lose access to their music when the labels shut down the authentication servers.
Several years later the labels will again come up with a crazy scheme to retake control of their digital sales, which will repeat most of their previous mistakes and also fail.
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You can try to convince the headhunters to stop "polishing" your resume, although it appears its their standard operating procedure so they'll probably keep doing it. You really shouldn't put up with it, since whenever you enter an interview you have no idea what's on the resume your interviewer has read. This can make you appear dishonest or stupid and isn't going to help you a job. Also as others have stated, lying on resumes is usually a firing offense, so should your headhunter find you a job, there's no guarantee you will keep it.
Look for a new headhunter or attempt to go it alone, don't bother with them again since they're dishonest. Should you receive any more interviews due to their efforts, be upfront with your interviewer and explain that the previous headhunters have probably doctored your resume and provide a correct copy, preferably before the actual interview. This lets any prospective employer know that they need to be skeptical of resumes from that headhunter in the future and should also make you appear more honest. An employer can then take action against your dishonest headhunter, possibly blacklisting their applicants, warning other companies or calling them out on their actions.
As to why people are hosting these parties, free software is the answer. Party hosts get a free copy of Windows 7 and some promotional crap to distribute to their "guests". All you have to do is organise some form of party and claim its a release party. Plenty of these parties will just be a host and some fictitious guests. Microsoft PR will happily take the raw numbers and use them in future advertising (ie x thousand parties worldwide and y million guests). I can see why the PR clowns thought this was a good idea, since they don't live in the real world and have no idea how most people perceive Microsoft and its products.
Awesome, I'm off to go upgrade from the abortion that is Amarok 2.0 now.
The i7 label is apparently for chips with hyperthreading and the i5 label is for those without hyperthreading. The naming scheme is idiotic since you now have socket 1366 Nehalem i7s and newer socket 1156 Lynnfield i7s. Since Intel wants to have two different sockets for different markets (high end enthusiast and low/mid range buyer) why not actually clearly label the corresponding products? Maybe they think customer confusion will somehow lead to increased sales or greater sales of processors with higher profit margins? Maybe they're just too lazy to try to explain to their customers what hyperthreading is and why they should pay extra for it.
While we're making it simple, why don't we just open up all the keyboards on site and solder the shift key connectors permanently closed? No autorun all the time and anyone who doesn't know about holding down the shift key won't have to learn. It's a perfect solution.
I'm hoping to see newer anti-piracy messages that reference the Exxon Valdez. "You wouldn't leave a drunk captain in charge of an oil tanker"