If the job description says "MS Word and Excel experience" then we won't see a resume that doesn't say that. IF it said Open Word or Star Office, then HR has no idea what that is and marks it as not meeting the criteria.
Stupid - hell yeah.
Also, I'm betting given the choice between Jane who knows outlook or Betty who used Ximian which is almost just like outlook and moving over should be no problem - all other things being equal, Jane gets the job.
I agree with your theory 100% - learn one you can pick them all up. I just don't agree with your faith in the hiring process to work right.
Honey...some guy on SlashDot told me I need to buy the Bond DVD's...okay? Yes...I do have them on VHS already, but now I can hear the filmmakers comments. No...you don't have to sit through them
Ernst Blofeld was killed in the opening of "For Your Eyes Only". Actually, the character was owned by Kevin McClory who was getting money everytime they used Blofeld and SPECTRE. While they never said it was Blofeld, the "hairstyle" and cat were a dead giveaway. Kinda their way of saying to hell with you McClory...who then went on to make Never Say Never Again with Connery and Blofeld!
Too many of the old characters end up dead, so bringing them back would be real interesting...but I'd love to see Scaramanga or Stromberg again!
As for the violence...I think that they did a good job with it in "The World Is Not Enough" when M came up on Bond after he killed Elektra. It seemed to show it's something he sometimes has to do, but doesn't like it.
As for the characters all about greed - well, they can't really keep doing KGB stories - no one would know what the hell that is. In "Living Daylights" they had Gogol - a big KGB bad guy from prior movies - and mentioned that he is now with the forgeign liason office or something - ie...kgb is dead.
I guess they figure that people would prefer some supervillian for Bond to figure out than our current "threats". MidEast plots would just be people willing to die for religion. Far East plots could be a possiblity.
Something interesting would be the UK trying to get some info out of the US (blah blah blah, political leadership difference, not sharing info), though that may alienate US audiences.
I don't mind the gadgets getting a bit out of hand, but the crash/fx stuff is getting ridiculous.
They need to have a little more of Bond using his wits and physical skills to survive a situation, not some gadget and car.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service and For Your Eyes Only stand out in my mind as some good examples - as does much of The Living Daylights.
Yeah...the stories are a bit over the top - so what...that's the idea...an over the top agent for an over the top situation...but give us at least some espionage, etc...
Hell...even A View To A Kill had a) bond undercover, b) surviving by sucking the air out of the tire on the Rolls, c) making a getaway on a fire truck (this I would call part of the using his wits).
Now adays he'd walk into the horse stables shouting "I'm James Bond...try to stop me...I work for MI6", have a minisub in the trunk of the rolls, and make a getaway in a Harrier while blowing up 30 cars.
I went in 94 and for 5 years late got spammed about comdex regardless of how much I tried to get off their list. I even e-mailed their InterNIC contact and the abuse department at uunet, where it was flowing through showing how it was a violation of UUNets AUP.
I got an e-mail back from zdnet (which was doing the actual spamming) about how it wasn't abuse, but still got the crap.
Palm is another company that seems to be incapable of removing subscribers from their promotion lists.
Wait...I use Nero to burn my CD's. Oh dear...this can't be good.
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I remember reading that one of the reasons the porn studs can go for so long is all the breaks in filming for moving the camera, changing positions, etc... kinda interrups things.
But "Hey...we're returning to gravity" every 30 seconds...that's hilarious
While I remember the ads in compute magazine when it came out on the platforms at that time (PC, C64, Amiga, ST) and how bad the PC looked in 4 colors compared to the rest, I do remember playing the game in college on a friends Amiga...off of floppies.
It would take a long time to load a scene, and if you died, it had to reload the scene from disk. The Dragons Lair itself was spread over a couple of disks and dying was a slow painful process.
While I do remember pumping tons of quarters in a Dragon's Lair game, I will agree that the gameplay is limited to say the least. Press the stick in a certain direction at a certain time, and then do it mirror image later in the game.
Not that I don't like the game, but any game that you can play with your DVD remote has got to be a bit limited in it's gameplay!
Now, Firefox and Mach3 were a better type of laserdisc game - basically a normal game with backgrounds of the LD.
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C'mon - just get a couple starlets up there with a crew and let them go at it. We all know how porn sells - zero G porn would probably sell pretty well and bring in tons of money for NASA.
Just imagine the position the stars could get into!!!
If you don't know how to spell a word it's hard to look it up in a dictionary to get the right spelling.
Same with MSDN - if you don't know exactly what you are looking for when you start, you will have a lot of trouble finding it.
Finding a code snippet on deja and putting the function in will usually return what you want. Trying to find it without this initial clue is a long task.
It depends on how they block it. If they are blocking based on port or a whole protocol, then I don't think that'd assume they know what the content is. It's a big difference between "drop all packets on port 1214" and "drop any illegal mp3's being uploaded."
I wonder about supernews...a while ago they dropped the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.early-teens/pre-teen s (it's amazing what people complain about in support groups). Does that now make them more liable about the content going across? I'd think that'd be more close to loosing common carrier than just port blocking.
I love the mention in the article of how the AI was a bit too good and during one scene, while most were fighting, there were a bit of the orcs that decided it'd be better to run away.
There's AI for you - computer orcs becoming aware of survival!
Once the root server tells your system where the master ".org" server is, your system asks it where "eff.org" is. In particular, it gets back the raw internet IP address, the low level "phone number" of the internet. With that answer, your computer can talk directly to the computers at eff.org
Actually, the root server will tell them to ask the.org server for the DNS servers for eff.org, and then it'll ask those servers for what eff.org should translate into.
just being picky!
Of course, root-servers.net is ICANN of course, and then gtld-servers.net is Verisign/NetSol, so we have two levels of evil to replace:)
On vacation in Maine, you can get lobster rolls and other lobster products for a song at roadside vendors with what is basically a hot-dog stand.
Come back to Atlanta and the price goes up for Maine lobster.
I don't even remember the ridiculous price for Maine Lobster (spelled Main) in Aruba, but it was a LOT.
(Don't eat lobster myself - my wife is the one hooked on it).
As you say there are costs involved in doing business. Should I complain that I can get a 6 pack of Bud for a few bucks, but a four pack of Guinness costs $7 - quality issues aside?
Now...if the local store was told they could not sell Guinness for less than $7 I could see where a case could be made.
1) you can use include files and require files. Very easy to make a library, put the code in there and just call it from your program. You can easily do the same thing with perl and with ASP. Dynamic interpretted libraries anyone?:)
2) plus and minuses with everything. Hopefully yahoo knows the diff between interpred languages and compiled.
3) PHP does have some OO built in. I've not dealt much with it, but it seemed to be similar to Perl's OO.
4) Uh...no. you can run PHP scripts from the command line. Now...if you make your PHP have tons of HTML in the output, then you may have some work...but that's like complaining that your KDE app won't run on the vt100 term...it was not the goal. Like #1, this is a matter of good programming and forthought vs. hacking something together for the web.
5) Well, that all depends on where the developers though their money. Then again, when you go with any method of doing something, you have the same situation. Will such and such that I want to tie into have an interface for the tools I want to use? However, that is a "problem" with open source - you are at the whim of those who need things. You may have an interface for some obscure thing because one person who could code needed it, but for something a little more common no one had wrote the code yet. I'm at a tossup between using popen or just writing an OMAPI php mod for the ISC DHCP server. Too bad I'm lazy.
True...typing "Dear John" won't happen any faster, but the system could be doing a lot of other things with the extra cpu time - faster speech recognition, reading your letter back to you as you type, rendering fonts better, etc...
Close, but read the article. The guy was running KMail. He got a windows program sent to him which he opened. Upon opening it, KMail decided that for the MIME type, wine should handle the program, just as it may decide the acrobat should handle pdfs.
If someone sent the guy notepad and he did the same thing, notepad would have run.
The only noteworthy thing of this article is that all the API's that Klez uses is obviously supported by Wine and Klez can be added to the list of working applications under wine.
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Our HR dept are a bunch of assholes.
If the job description says "MS Word and Excel experience" then we won't see a resume that doesn't say that. IF it said Open Word or Star Office, then HR has no idea what that is and marks it as not meeting the criteria.
Stupid - hell yeah.
Also, I'm betting given the choice between Jane who knows outlook or Betty who used Ximian which is almost just like outlook and moving over should be no problem - all other things being equal, Jane gets the job.
I agree with your theory 100% - learn one you can pick them all up. I just don't agree with your faith in the hiring process to work right.
Honey...some guy on SlashDot told me I need to buy the Bond DVD's...okay?
Yes...I do have them on VHS already, but now I can hear the filmmakers comments.
No...you don't have to sit through them
I'll have to try and check them out
Ernst Blofeld was killed in the opening of "For Your Eyes Only". Actually, the character was owned by Kevin McClory who was getting money everytime they used Blofeld and SPECTRE. While they never said it was Blofeld, the "hairstyle" and cat were a dead giveaway. Kinda their way of saying to hell with you McClory...who then went on to make Never Say Never Again with Connery and Blofeld!
Too many of the old characters end up dead, so bringing them back would be real interesting...but I'd love to see Scaramanga or Stromberg again!
As for the violence...I think that they did a good job with it in "The World Is Not Enough" when M came up on Bond after he killed Elektra. It seemed to show it's something he sometimes has to do, but doesn't like it.
As for the characters all about greed - well, they can't really keep doing KGB stories - no one would know what the hell that is. In "Living Daylights" they had Gogol - a big KGB bad guy from prior movies - and mentioned that he is now with the forgeign liason office or something - ie...kgb is dead.
I guess they figure that people would prefer some supervillian for Bond to figure out than our current "threats". MidEast plots would just be people willing to die for religion. Far East plots could be a possiblity.
Something interesting would be the UK trying to get some info out of the US (blah blah blah, political leadership difference, not sharing info), though that may alienate US audiences.
I don't mind the gadgets getting a bit out of hand, but the crash/fx stuff is getting ridiculous.
:)
They need to have a little more of Bond using his wits and physical skills to survive a situation, not some gadget and car.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service and For Your Eyes Only stand out in my mind as some good examples - as does much of The Living Daylights.
Yeah...the stories are a bit over the top - so what...that's the idea...an over the top agent for an over the top situation...but give us at least some espionage, etc...
Hell...even A View To A Kill had a) bond undercover, b) surviving by sucking the air out of the tire on the Rolls, c) making a getaway on a fire truck (this I would call part of the using his wits).
Now adays he'd walk into the horse stables shouting "I'm James Bond...try to stop me...I work for MI6", have a minisub in the trunk of the rolls, and make a getaway in a Harrier while blowing up 30 cars.
BTW - can't wait for Die Another Day to open
I went in 94 and for 5 years late got spammed about comdex regardless of how much I tried to get off their list. I even e-mailed their InterNIC contact and the abuse department at uunet, where it was flowing through showing how it was a violation of UUNets AUP.
I got an e-mail back from zdnet (which was doing the actual spamming) about how it wasn't abuse, but still got the crap.
Palm is another company that seems to be incapable of removing subscribers from their promotion lists.
Probably because the video store wasn't a home :)
Seriously, are there some stats somewhere about how many people winners are from crotch shots?
Wait...I use Nero to burn my CD's. Oh dear...this can't be good.
I remember reading that one of the reasons the porn studs can go for so long is all the breaks in filming for moving the camera, changing positions, etc... kinda interrups things.
But "Hey...we're returning to gravity" every 30 seconds...that's hilarious
While I remember the ads in compute magazine when it came out on the platforms at that time (PC, C64, Amiga, ST) and how bad the PC looked in 4 colors compared to the rest, I do remember playing the game in college on a friends Amiga...off of floppies.
It would take a long time to load a scene, and if you died, it had to reload the scene from disk. The Dragons Lair itself was spread over a couple of disks and dying was a slow painful process.
While I do remember pumping tons of quarters in a Dragon's Lair game, I will agree that the gameplay is limited to say the least. Press the stick in a certain direction at a certain time, and then do it mirror image later in the game.
Not that I don't like the game, but any game that you can play with your DVD remote has got to be a bit limited in it's gameplay!
Now, Firefox and Mach3 were a better type of laserdisc game - basically a normal game with backgrounds of the LD.
C'mon - just get a couple starlets up there with a crew and let them go at it. We all know how porn sells - zero G porn would probably sell pretty well and bring in tons of money for NASA.
Just imagine the position the stars could get into!!!
If you don't know how to spell a word it's hard to look it up in a dictionary to get the right spelling.
Same with MSDN - if you don't know exactly what you are looking for when you start, you will have a lot of trouble finding it.
Finding a code snippet on deja and putting the function in will usually return what you want. Trying to find it without this initial clue is a long task.
I will agree about MSDN's ability to bury things. If you don't know what you're looking for you may never find it.
Too much documentation? Not a good enough search engine? Either way - heaven only knows what they could hide in there saying they made it available.
Makes the obfuscated C contest look legible!!!
It depends on how they block it. If they are blocking based on port or a whole protocol, then I don't think that'd assume they know what the content is. It's a big difference between "drop all packets on port 1214" and "drop any illegal mp3's being uploaded."
n s (it's amazing what people complain about in support groups). Does that now make them more liable about the content going across? I'd think that'd be more close to loosing common carrier than just port blocking.
I wonder about supernews...a while ago they dropped the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.early-teens/pre-tee
Too bad it doesn't have a NIC Card :)
I love the mention in the article of how the AI was a bit too good and during one scene, while most were fighting, there were a bit of the orcs that decided it'd be better to run away.
There's AI for you - computer orcs becoming aware of survival!
Once the root server tells your system where the master ".org" server is, your system asks it where "eff.org" is. In particular, it gets back the raw internet IP address, the low level "phone number" of the internet. With that answer, your computer can talk directly to the computers at eff.org
.org server for the DNS servers for eff.org, and then it'll ask those servers for what eff.org should translate into.
:)
Actually, the root server will tell them to ask the
just being picky!
Of course, root-servers.net is ICANN of course, and then gtld-servers.net is Verisign/NetSol, so we have two levels of evil to replace
Well...hopefully this perfect mirror stuff will filter down to the consumer and I can have a bitchin telescope. Damn 91% reflectivity.
Amen.
On vacation in Maine, you can get lobster rolls and other lobster products for a song at roadside vendors with what is basically a hot-dog stand.
Come back to Atlanta and the price goes up for Maine lobster.
I don't even remember the ridiculous price for Maine Lobster (spelled Main) in Aruba, but it was a LOT.
(Don't eat lobster myself - my wife is the one hooked on it).
As you say there are costs involved in doing business. Should I complain that I can get a 6 pack of Bud for a few bucks, but a four pack of Guinness costs $7 - quality issues aside?
Now...if the local store was told they could not sell Guinness for less than $7 I could see where a case could be made.
I guess it doesn't help that the UK is an island.
1) you can use include files and require files. Very easy to make a library, put the code in there and just call it from your program. You can easily do the same thing with perl and with ASP. Dynamic interpretted libraries anyone? :)
2) plus and minuses with everything. Hopefully yahoo knows the diff between interpred languages and compiled.
3) PHP does have some OO built in. I've not dealt much with it, but it seemed to be similar to Perl's OO.
4) Uh...no. you can run PHP scripts from the command line. Now...if you make your PHP have tons of HTML in the output, then you may have some work...but that's like complaining that your KDE app won't run on the vt100 term...it was not the goal. Like #1, this is a matter of good programming and forthought vs. hacking something together for the web.
5) Well, that all depends on where the developers though their money. Then again, when you go with any method of doing something, you have the same situation. Will such and such that I want to tie into have an interface for the tools I want to use? However, that is a "problem" with open source - you are at the whim of those who need things. You may have an interface for some obscure thing because one person who could code needed it, but for something a little more common no one had wrote the code yet. I'm at a tossup between using popen or just writing an OMAPI php mod for the ISC DHCP server. Too bad I'm lazy.
Tar-ghay, just like ghay-cee-pen-nay - helps you feel more upclass.
I agree on the stock - I can never find anything I need at Target, so I just don't go there.
True...typing "Dear John" won't happen any faster, but the system could be doing a lot of other things with the extra cpu time - faster speech recognition, reading your letter back to you as you type, rendering fonts better, etc...
Right now you either see people with palms, or if it's like the conference I just came back from "Compaq iPaq" everywhere.
My guess is that hurts them, that people don't get the Dell name when they look at other people's handhelds.
Probably also part of that "me too" mentality.
when I lived in northern NJ it was a toll call to call my girlfriend 17 miles away - same area code.
Now I live in Atlanta. There are 4 whole area codes who are 100% local to me - and it is probably about half the state (a little less).
Go figure.
Close, but read the article. The guy was running KMail. He got a windows program sent to him which he opened. Upon opening it, KMail decided that for the MIME type, wine should handle the program, just as it may decide the acrobat should handle pdfs.
If someone sent the guy notepad and he did the same thing, notepad would have run.
The only noteworthy thing of this article is that all the API's that Klez uses is obviously supported by Wine and Klez can be added to the list of working applications under wine.