I'll probably get downmodded for this but some GNAA members (a couple of them are MIT students) developed OCR tools that defeat captchas, very long ago.
Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, has a PhD in CompSci from UC Berkeley; the two founders are both "presidents" of separate divisions. Then again, Google would probably be succesful with 10-yo CEO; their success relies on mature businesses along with continuous innovation, not marketing (have you ever seen a Google commercial?). But at my company (Eclipse Aviation, an aircraft design startup firm) the CEO serves a distinct purpose from the engineers. He has a business background but he absolutely believes in our company's goal. He probably doesn't remember his calculus, but he can sure as hell sell our product, to wealthy lawyers or government officials. He's the face of our company, somebody that other businessmen can feel comfortable with (Paul Allen among others). Our CEO is the face of our company, and the media loves it.
Are you a number crunching geek who puts people to sleep during presentations? Or can you captivate an audience with a mundane software project? Are you a Steve Jobs, or a Bill Gates? At its best, a CEO can lead a company through cut-throat business and coddle its consumers. At its worst, the CEO is little more than a figurehead who won a power struggle. Powerstruggling is an aspect of business of course, but a team player will always get further than the one tries to steal the other's thunder. Don't be an asshole and let the business dude run the business, unless you want to stop writing code.
In the latest edition of Ben Graham's landmark text on investing, The Intelligent Investor, the editor actually classified Steve Jobs a CEO who's overpaid. The value of the stock options given to Jobs guaranteed him vast wealth regardless of the company's future performance. Free stock shares are like free lottery tickets, they can either win or do nothing... unlike lottery tickets though, they can be sold if they don't win. With the amount of shares Jobs was given, he's bound to win... regardless if the company succeeds or not.
I'm guessing the popularity of this will explode, leading many business and scientific users to switch to Macs. This will probably lead to Apple to add Vista support in mid-2007, even though PC software won't require Vista until 2008 at the earliest.
A CNN journalist cycled across America and it took him almost 12 weeks. You're hiking/walking part of a longer route, you'll probably need closer to 16 weeks. Another useful bit on gear:
Be obsessive about leaving stuff home. You will feel every ounce. Expensive synthetic clothing pays off in light weight, quick cleaning and durability. Footwear is bulky; anything more than one good pair of biking shoes and a pair of sandals to stave off the campground-shower nasties is an indulgence.
Travel light and don't underestimate the rigors of this journey, especially if you're going by foot part of the way. I'm hoping you'll drastically shorten your route, unless you're extremely well prepared.
I'm guessing you used that word get your submission accepted, this being slashdot and all. I recommend you bring an LED flashlight, swiss army knife or leatherman and cellphone at the least, as well as a good road atlas and some hiking maps. You don't need a Garmin or other GPS unit... I'm assuming you're sticking to most major roads and can usually ask someone for directions. If no one's around, then use your phone.
I don't recommend bringing much in the way of gadgets because on a trip like that your essential gear will weigh enough. A PDA is absolute excess. Cycling for the journey alone will require a few pounds of tools, several spare tubes and a pump. Add food, water, clothing, sleeping bag+pad, and medical gear and you'll be carrying a lot. Don't underestimate the dangers of nature either; all it takes is some slick pavement to end your trip with a sprained angle. Even on 2-hour hikes at midday, hikers usually bring a sleeping bag+pad, because shit happens and they end up spending the night in the forest. You've got enough on your hands already, cycling and hiking, focus on the essentials because those help you survive.
You know, if the developers were all actually regularly paid that much, they probably wouldn't be asking for donations. Most open source development proceeds unpaid, donations are used for tangible assets like hardware or bandwidth. In that way, $10,000 can pay for a lot. It may shock you, but much of the Internet was built on volunteer programming.
Seriously though... if you like writing, you could become a tech journalist. You know, like the guys who write for Wired, Popular Science, ExtremeTech, PC Gamer magazine etc. You could be covering E3 or benchmarking video cards and combing through the data. Or you might be at a future Apple WWDC reporting on Mac OS XI (eleven or "zye"?), or in Cambridge meeting some MIT prof about his flying car. Eventually perhaps you'll author a definitive history of SGI (it truly was an amazing company). I wouldn't call these serious "tech" jobs, but it sounds like you want to get paid to have fun related to tech, preferably involving journalism. Tech journalism would bridge your interests pretty well I think.
And hey, your/. submission was accepted, congrats. You're already published. Well, kinda.
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Shutup.
This is one of the worst submissions I've ever read.
I'll probably get downmodded for this but some GNAA members (a couple of them are MIT students) developed OCR tools that defeat captchas, very long ago.
It's the standard filler text for page layout, see lipsum.com. It's a garbled version of a latin speech by Cicero.
Probably because you don't know how to punctuate quotations properly.
Bite me twice.
Offtopic karma whore.
It's a cellphone, not a radio.
Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, has a PhD in CompSci from UC Berkeley; the two founders are both "presidents" of separate divisions. Then again, Google would probably be succesful with 10-yo CEO; their success relies on mature businesses along with continuous innovation, not marketing (have you ever seen a Google commercial?). But at my company (Eclipse Aviation, an aircraft design startup firm) the CEO serves a distinct purpose from the engineers. He has a business background but he absolutely believes in our company's goal. He probably doesn't remember his calculus, but he can sure as hell sell our product, to wealthy lawyers or government officials. He's the face of our company, somebody that other businessmen can feel comfortable with (Paul Allen among others). Our CEO is the face of our company, and the media loves it.
Are you a number crunching geek who puts people to sleep during presentations? Or can you captivate an audience with a mundane software project? Are you a Steve Jobs, or a Bill Gates? At its best, a CEO can lead a company through cut-throat business and coddle its consumers. At its worst, the CEO is little more than a figurehead who won a power struggle. Powerstruggling is an aspect of business of course, but a team player will always get further than the one tries to steal the other's thunder. Don't be an asshole and let the business dude run the business, unless you want to stop writing code.
hi Linguo :)
I would like to know if it can outrun a Cheetah.
You sir are the only honest troll.
In the latest edition of Ben Graham's landmark text on investing, The Intelligent Investor, the editor actually classified Steve Jobs a CEO who's overpaid. The value of the stock options given to Jobs guaranteed him vast wealth regardless of the company's future performance. Free stock shares are like free lottery tickets, they can either win or do nothing... unlike lottery tickets though, they can be sold if they don't win. With the amount of shares Jobs was given, he's bound to win... regardless if the company succeeds or not.
I'm guessing the popularity of this will explode, leading many business and scientific users to switch to Macs. This will probably lead to Apple to add Vista support in mid-2007, even though PC software won't require Vista until 2008 at the earliest.
That's pretty desperate reasoning. You could just be full of shit.
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Travel light and don't underestimate the rigors of this journey, especially if you're going by foot part of the way. I'm hoping you'll drastically shorten your route, unless you're extremely well prepared.
I'm guessing you used that word get your submission accepted, this being slashdot and all. I recommend you bring an LED flashlight, swiss army knife or leatherman and cellphone at the least, as well as a good road atlas and some hiking maps. You don't need a Garmin or other GPS unit... I'm assuming you're sticking to most major roads and can usually ask someone for directions. If no one's around, then use your phone.
I don't recommend bringing much in the way of gadgets because on a trip like that your essential gear will weigh enough. A PDA is absolute excess. Cycling for the journey alone will require a few pounds of tools, several spare tubes and a pump. Add food, water, clothing, sleeping bag+pad, and medical gear and you'll be carrying a lot. Don't underestimate the dangers of nature either; all it takes is some slick pavement to end your trip with a sprained angle. Even on 2-hour hikes at midday, hikers usually bring a sleeping bag+pad, because shit happens and they end up spending the night in the forest. You've got enough on your hands already, cycling and hiking, focus on the essentials because those help you survive.
You know, if the developers were all actually regularly paid that much, they probably wouldn't be asking for donations. Most open source development proceeds unpaid, donations are used for tangible assets like hardware or bandwidth. In that way, $10,000 can pay for a lot. It may shock you, but much of the Internet was built on volunteer programming.
Epitaph would never have these kinds of problems.
Open Document Format, big deal. Who gives a shit? How can we focus on that when Brian Bouchard is about to revolutionize the computing world? Linux is nothing; Brian's got this OS stuff all figured out. It will support ODF.
Seriously though... if you like writing, you could become a tech journalist. You know, like the guys who write for Wired, Popular Science, ExtremeTech, PC Gamer magazine etc. You could be covering E3 or benchmarking video cards and combing through the data. Or you might be at a future Apple WWDC reporting on Mac OS XI (eleven or "zye"?), or in Cambridge meeting some MIT prof about his flying car. Eventually perhaps you'll author a definitive history of SGI (it truly was an amazing company). I wouldn't call these serious "tech" jobs, but it sounds like you want to get paid to have fun related to tech, preferably involving journalism. Tech journalism would bridge your interests pretty well I think.
/. submission was accepted, congrats. You're already published. Well, kinda.
And hey, your
Thank god.
Wow, that's pathetic.
Finally they expose the real reason for switching to CSS. Such a design change would be infeasible without the wonders of stylesheets.