No, I'm speaking from experience:( Most of the time you never get face time with the hiring manager, his secretary will just tell you he's not there right now (you don't know what he looks like anyway) and probably take your resume and put it in the circular file. Maybe, if you're lucky, it'll get put in his mailbox along with the resumes of about 10 other people. Besides, most places want time to check references, etc. Unless, of course, you don't have any, in which case you're probably not getting the job anyway.
Actually, most companies won't accept paper copies of resumes these days. They want you to e-mail it, because they just throw it in a big database anyway.
Actually, the vodka and squirrel fetish would be a good answer to this question:) If you make the guy laugh, he'll probably remember you, which is more than he would if you spouted off a standard answer to that question. Humor shows confidence, confidence is good.
If you think suprnova will last much longer than a few more months, you're probably mistaken. Yes, I know they change hosting providers about ten times a day, but eventually the RIAA/MPAA will catch up with the guys who run it (who are German iirc) and make them shut it down. The stuff they post is so blatantly illegal and it's basically the hub of the bittorrent piracy scene, so I don't see how they'd allow it to stay active. Unless they're total idiots (which is a real possibility) and won't notice BitTorrent until everyone dumps KaZaA for it.
Use those Motorola radios that get like 1 mile range. They're like $50 for a pair plus $10 for some headsets to plug in. That's what most high school theaters use, cause they're cheap, work well and are simple to operate.
Answer: Because there are clients who want that kind of security, for whatever reason, and are willing to pay handsomely for it. You're also probably not going to knock the root servers offline with a DoS attack, seeing as they see so much traffic that a DoS probably wouldn't put a noticable dent in their usage.
Besides, I don't think they're worried about terrorists, but more of the Kevin Mitnick types who are willing to mix "social engineering" with computer hacking. Tell me there's not a hacker out there who wouldn't DREAM of having root to a root server. You could cause all KINDS of havoc if you could toy with DNS and IP records. Like rerouting all the requests for Amazon.com's order pages to one of your own and swiping the credit card #s. Or just run on your favorite irc server as "l33t@fuck.network-solutions.com". Or rerouting cmdrtaco.net to the former goatse.cx:) The possibilities are endless.
I actually agree. Running Linux desktops would simply put the rest of the world at a disadvantage compared to American companies. China may change this; they actually have the resources to turn Linux into a real desktop OS, but in the meantime, the world runs Windows. It's not like Microsoft is trying to hook them, they're *already* hooked. Gates is really not as evil as he seems, these days he basically just throws money towards building infrastructure (not just computers, but social services, health care, etc. as well) in third world countries. And he's thrown a lot of it; estimates are somewhere around $20 billion. You can't fault the guy for using resources that are easily at his disposal, namely Windows and Office.
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Yeah, but all it would take is one meltdown and we suddenly have a disaster a few orders of magnitude larger than 9/11. That would bankrupt an insurance company instantly. It's not that the insurance companies are saying fission reactors are unsafe, just that if something went catastrophically wrong, they would be doomed. I don't think any company out there could survive a hit of $25 billion to their bottom line, which is probably a conservative figure for a large-scale (say, Chernobyl or worse) nuclear disaster.
Yes but how do you get experience? A CCNA will get you a crap job, but that crap job will give you experience and let you move on. I love how people always say "You can't work in this field, you have no experience in it!" Well, you've gotta get a job to get experience:P
Actually it wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo took the Sega route and just started making games. Nintendo is a big company, but I just don't know if they can keep up with the spending of Sony and Microsoft without a guaranteed success. The only reason the 'Cube did okay in North America was because it was $50 less than its competitors. Besides, they'd still have the GBA, and their games totally rule. If Smash Bros, Metroid Prime and Wind Waker had been released on PS2, Nintendo would be printing money right now. There are very few good third party games on GameCube, (Viewtiful Joe being the notable exception, but Capcom does PS2 stuff as well) so why not just ditch the hardware? Just a thought.
Or they could use any of the other custom OSes that other companies use for samplers, synths, etc. because a LOT of them are based on x86 CPUs. These things use tons of proprietary hardware anyway, there's no reason they can write drivers in Windows that they can't in Linux.
Gainax, to me, is such a cornerstone of quality Japanese animation it's a shame to see that they've sold out such a decent series to the foaming-at-the-mouth Hollywood execs...
You're talking like they never sold out in the first place. Also, the middle and very last episodes of Eva are preachy CRAP, basically Gainax ran out of money and just started cranking episodes out as fast as possible. Evangelion, as a series, is mediocre at best. What makes it great is End of Evangelion (which was funded by two uber-sellout recap movies,) which I doubt you could put into live action (though they may try.) All this praise everyone lavishes upon the "Evangelion" name is usually directed at "Evangelion + End of Evangelion," which is great, but the series is kind of weak without it.
And while we're on the subject of Gainax, I don't get why everyone likes FLCL so much. I thought it was complete crap (and yes, I watched it years before it was on CN) and everyone likes it because they want to seem "enlightened" by saying they understood and liked it. There wasn't much of substance there other than "look at me, I'm a poor shat-on adolescent with fucked up friends who have stuff pop out of their heads."
Well, also, Asuka is a Japanese name for an American character. It'd be like if we called Shinji "Bob." So I really don't have a problem changing Asuka's name, I didn't think it was right in the first one.
I dunno.. that might be kinda cool;) Of course, that means Shinji would probably be played by Haley Joel Osment (sp?) so that would , by result, suck. "I see dead people! Er, I mean angels. I want my mommy!"
Yeah, except if you read the article, it says the guy only does that 4 weeks out of the year. The rest of the year he's actually in Boston. He's also a "personality," he's been on the air for like 30 years, so it's basically a "working vacation." The guy probably gets his weather and news off the internet when he's in the studio as well, so I don't see how this is really any different. So long as ClearChannel doesn't take this too far and replace all the local shows with ones hosted in Des Moines or something, we'll be fine.
No way! Those things were cool. Eventually the kit designs would get boring so I would combine like 3 or 4 kits and build cool stuff. You really could do some fun unique stuff if you took the basic frame from one of those "kits" and went freeform from there. The old school monorail moonbase was *awesome*, once I added so much cool stuff onto the train that it wouldn't get up the inclines without adding a second 9V battery and overloading the motor O:)
Scheme! I had to program in that for an intro CS class. Basically the point was to teach the class in a language nobody knew to filter out all the smartasses who had read an "intro to C++" book. Fun little language, though it's applications are a bit limited...
That would be really cool and I totally agree with you, but unfortunately, due to the fact that shows are paid for by advertising revenue, so most producers wait until episodes go into syndication before releasing DVDs. This is why it takes so God damn long to get the DVDs. There are all sorts of messy contractual obligations involved as well. Unless the TV industry (which operates very differently from the film industry) drastically changes its practices, we probably won't see this feature without a DVR for quite a while. It sucks, yeah, but I think the film industry probably sees this as a niche market (which it's not; they could be making a LOT of money) not deserving of their attention.
...or you can just pay the $30 a month and be done with it. Which is what you're gonna have to do if you wire a cell phone and pager up to the thing anyway. Yes, disconnected cell phones can make 911 calls, but hacking the car to tell the phone it's been stolen/in a wreck/etc. will almost certainly void the warranty on any electrical components and probably need to interfere with the diagnostic computers (which, on new American cars have very much closed and proprietary interfaces. Japanese cars tend to be more user-friendly.) No need to reinvent the wheel if it costs as much and isn't as good.
In the end, if you can afford a new car with OnStar, you can probably afford $400 a year for the service. If you have a good job, $400 a year really isn't THAT much if you use the service. Like anything, it all comes down to if you feel the $30/mo is worth the service they provide. If not, don't pay it.
Of course Slashdot doesn't hate Windows. That's why they updated the news posting twice to heap on anti-Windows propaganda. Maybe some of us out there use Windows and like it? Maybe we've used Linux for many years and still prefer Windows? Linux is not "better" than Windows, it's "different." If I'm setting up a web server, I'm sure as hell not going to touch Windows, but by the same token if I'm building a desktop machine, I'm not going to use Linux. Flame away, you're not going to change anyone's minds and you're just gonna piss off your readers.
No, I'm totally serious! Get a small relay rack for cable management if you must, but chances are you don't have much/any rackmount hardware anyway, and racks are pretty expensive/unnecessary for home use. Most home-use routers and switches have screw mounts on them so you can hang them on the wall and run them with staples to wherever they have to go. If you've got your heart set on rackmount systems, buy a music rack. They're often smaller and cheaper, but they're still not "cheap." Generally, with networking stuff, if you only need one rack, you can usually do without any. The only time you NEED rackmount stuff is large installations, i.e. you'd need 50 or 100 racks.
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No, I'm speaking from experience :( Most of the time you never get face time with the hiring manager, his secretary will just tell you he's not there right now (you don't know what he looks like anyway) and probably take your resume and put it in the circular file. Maybe, if you're lucky, it'll get put in his mailbox along with the resumes of about 10 other people. Besides, most places want time to check references, etc. Unless, of course, you don't have any, in which case you're probably not getting the job anyway.
Actually, most companies won't accept paper copies of resumes these days. They want you to e-mail it, because they just throw it in a big database anyway.
Actually, the vodka and squirrel fetish would be a good answer to this question :) If you make the guy laugh, he'll probably remember you, which is more than he would if you spouted off a standard answer to that question. Humor shows confidence, confidence is good.
If you think suprnova will last much longer than a few more months, you're probably mistaken. Yes, I know they change hosting providers about ten times a day, but eventually the RIAA/MPAA will catch up with the guys who run it (who are German iirc) and make them shut it down. The stuff they post is so blatantly illegal and it's basically the hub of the bittorrent piracy scene, so I don't see how they'd allow it to stay active. Unless they're total idiots (which is a real possibility) and won't notice BitTorrent until everyone dumps KaZaA for it.
Use those Motorola radios that get like 1 mile range. They're like $50 for a pair plus $10 for some headsets to plug in. That's what most high school theaters use, cause they're cheap, work well and are simple to operate.
Answer: Because there are clients who want that kind of security, for whatever reason, and are willing to pay handsomely for it. You're also probably not going to knock the root servers offline with a DoS attack, seeing as they see so much traffic that a DoS probably wouldn't put a noticable dent in their usage.
:) The possibilities are endless.
Besides, I don't think they're worried about terrorists, but more of the Kevin Mitnick types who are willing to mix "social engineering" with computer hacking. Tell me there's not a hacker out there who wouldn't DREAM of having root to a root server. You could cause all KINDS of havoc if you could toy with DNS and IP records. Like rerouting all the requests for Amazon.com's order pages to one of your own and swiping the credit card #s. Or just run on your favorite irc server as "l33t@fuck.network-solutions.com". Or rerouting cmdrtaco.net to the former goatse.cx
I actually agree. Running Linux desktops would simply put the rest of the world at a disadvantage compared to American companies. China may change this; they actually have the resources to turn Linux into a real desktop OS, but in the meantime, the world runs Windows. It's not like Microsoft is trying to hook them, they're *already* hooked. Gates is really not as evil as he seems, these days he basically just throws money towards building infrastructure (not just computers, but social services, health care, etc. as well) in third world countries. And he's thrown a lot of it; estimates are somewhere around $20 billion. You can't fault the guy for using resources that are easily at his disposal, namely Windows and Office.
This is a joke. This is a joke run into the ground. This is a joke run into the ground and then assraped by a 500 lb sweaty fat guy with a cock the size of Ron Jeremy. Please, for the love of the joke's cornhole, stop. Thank you.
Yeah, but all it would take is one meltdown and we suddenly have a disaster a few orders of magnitude larger than 9/11. That would bankrupt an insurance company instantly. It's not that the insurance companies are saying fission reactors are unsafe, just that if something went catastrophically wrong, they would be doomed. I don't think any company out there could survive a hit of $25 billion to their bottom line, which is probably a conservative figure for a large-scale (say, Chernobyl or worse) nuclear disaster.
Yes but how do you get experience? A CCNA will get you a crap job, but that crap job will give you experience and let you move on. I love how people always say "You can't work in this field, you have no experience in it!" Well, you've gotta get a job to get experience :P
Actually it wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo took the Sega route and just started making games. Nintendo is a big company, but I just don't know if they can keep up with the spending of Sony and Microsoft without a guaranteed success. The only reason the 'Cube did okay in North America was because it was $50 less than its competitors. Besides, they'd still have the GBA, and their games totally rule. If Smash Bros, Metroid Prime and Wind Waker had been released on PS2, Nintendo would be printing money right now. There are very few good third party games on GameCube, (Viewtiful Joe being the notable exception, but Capcom does PS2 stuff as well) so why not just ditch the hardware? Just a thought.
Or they could use any of the other custom OSes that other companies use for samplers, synths, etc. because a LOT of them are based on x86 CPUs. These things use tons of proprietary hardware anyway, there's no reason they can write drivers in Windows that they can't in Linux.
Gainax, to me, is such a cornerstone of quality Japanese animation it's a shame to see that they've sold out such a decent series to the foaming-at-the-mouth Hollywood execs...
You're talking like they never sold out in the first place. Also, the middle and very last episodes of Eva are preachy CRAP, basically Gainax ran out of money and just started cranking episodes out as fast as possible. Evangelion, as a series, is mediocre at best. What makes it great is End of Evangelion (which was funded by two uber-sellout recap movies,) which I doubt you could put into live action (though they may try.) All this praise everyone lavishes upon the "Evangelion" name is usually directed at "Evangelion + End of Evangelion," which is great, but the series is kind of weak without it.
And while we're on the subject of Gainax, I don't get why everyone likes FLCL so much. I thought it was complete crap (and yes, I watched it years before it was on CN) and everyone likes it because they want to seem "enlightened" by saying they understood and liked it. There wasn't much of substance there other than "look at me, I'm a poor shat-on adolescent with fucked up friends who have stuff pop out of their heads."
Well, also, Asuka is a Japanese name for an American character. It'd be like if we called Shinji "Bob." So I really don't have a problem changing Asuka's name, I didn't think it was right in the first one.
I dunno.. that might be kinda cool ;) Of course, that means Shinji would probably be played by Haley Joel Osment (sp?) so that would , by result, suck. "I see dead people! Er, I mean angels. I want my mommy!"
Heh, probably true, as a few classes down the line I decided I didn't want to be a programmer anyway :) I'm a sysadmin dammit :(
Yeah, except if you read the article, it says the guy only does that 4 weeks out of the year. The rest of the year he's actually in Boston. He's also a "personality," he's been on the air for like 30 years, so it's basically a "working vacation." The guy probably gets his weather and news off the internet when he's in the studio as well, so I don't see how this is really any different. So long as ClearChannel doesn't take this too far and replace all the local shows with ones hosted in Des Moines or something, we'll be fine.
No way! Those things were cool. Eventually the kit designs would get boring so I would combine like 3 or 4 kits and build cool stuff. You really could do some fun unique stuff if you took the basic frame from one of those "kits" and went freeform from there. The old school monorail moonbase was *awesome*, once I added so much cool stuff onto the train that it wouldn't get up the inclines without adding a second 9V battery and overloading the motor O:)
Scheme! I had to program in that for an intro CS class. Basically the point was to teach the class in a language nobody knew to filter out all the smartasses who had read an "intro to C++" book. Fun little language, though it's applications are a bit limited...
That would be really cool and I totally agree with you, but unfortunately, due to the fact that shows are paid for by advertising revenue, so most producers wait until episodes go into syndication before releasing DVDs. This is why it takes so God damn long to get the DVDs. There are all sorts of messy contractual obligations involved as well. Unless the TV industry (which operates very differently from the film industry) drastically changes its practices, we probably won't see this feature without a DVR for quite a while. It sucks, yeah, but I think the film industry probably sees this as a niche market (which it's not; they could be making a LOT of money) not deserving of their attention.
...or you can just pay the $30 a month and be done with it. Which is what you're gonna have to do if you wire a cell phone and pager up to the thing anyway. Yes, disconnected cell phones can make 911 calls, but hacking the car to tell the phone it's been stolen/in a wreck/etc. will almost certainly void the warranty on any electrical components and probably need to interfere with the diagnostic computers (which, on new American cars have very much closed and proprietary interfaces. Japanese cars tend to be more user-friendly.) No need to reinvent the wheel if it costs as much and isn't as good.
In the end, if you can afford a new car with OnStar, you can probably afford $400 a year for the service. If you have a good job, $400 a year really isn't THAT much if you use the service. Like anything, it all comes down to if you feel the $30/mo is worth the service they provide. If not, don't pay it.
Ad-Aware rocks my world. http://www.lavasoft.de/ Works well for elminating spyware, and it's free.
Of course Slashdot doesn't hate Windows. That's why they updated the news posting twice to heap on anti-Windows propaganda. Maybe some of us out there use Windows and like it? Maybe we've used Linux for many years and still prefer Windows? Linux is not "better" than Windows, it's "different." If I'm setting up a web server, I'm sure as hell not going to touch Windows, but by the same token if I'm building a desktop machine, I'm not going to use Linux. Flame away, you're not going to change anyone's minds and you're just gonna piss off your readers.
No, I'm totally serious! Get a small relay rack for cable management if you must, but chances are you don't have much/any rackmount hardware anyway, and racks are pretty expensive/unnecessary for home use. Most home-use routers and switches have screw mounts on them so you can hang them on the wall and run them with staples to wherever they have to go. If you've got your heart set on rackmount systems, buy a music rack. They're often smaller and cheaper, but they're still not "cheap." Generally, with networking stuff, if you only need one rack, you can usually do without any. The only time you NEED rackmount stuff is large installations, i.e. you'd need 50 or 100 racks.
WWN is a humor paper, plain and simple. It's intended to be, so they have shocking headlines so people will buy it. It's like the onion, except with Jesus and Satan.