From what I can tell congress people are satires unto themselves. Sure there a few good congress people, but they usually get lost in the crowd of senators trying to draw attention to themselves.
I really believe that we need some sort of technology awareness course in the school system, so at least people don't take the FUD, spread by journalists, at face value.
I can't comment on what browser the original poster is using, but taking the IE theme further, I will say that is one browser that is too integrated with its environment, at least under Windows. There are one or two websites that will install an application, without you even knowing, to change your cursor to something else. Sure this is a harmless installation, if not irritating, but imagine if the that application was a virus?
If you combine this behaviour with the recent IIS targeted virus, then you could easily have a virus that modifies web pages to include javascript to install itself into the machines of the vistors to the site.
I definetly ask myself why Javascript is not limited to a sandbox, in the same way Java is? Until then best use some other navigator to surf the web.
There are some CD-ROM players that allow you to read a CD and know where the apparent errors are. These are popular amongst people wanting to rip data CDs. Since I came across this a few months ago I can't remember which drives provide this facility, but if you hunt around the internet then you are bound to find one.
The problem with many of the copy-protections systems is that they only make it difficult for the your average listener to copy the data. Commercial pirates will always look at all possible ways to break the protection, as they see an incentive to make money. This means that while fair use is stamped out, nothing is realistically done about the people the record industry should really be worrying about.
The truth is what-ever copy protection system exists, it will only be a matter of time before it is broken, since on the one hand people want their rights back and on the other you have some people wanting to make money whatever the costs.
It looks like we need the return of the blue ribbon campaign, or at least an equivalent that addresses the DMCA and such laws. I am sure that if everyone started pasting a ribbon their web-pages that the press would notice that something is going on. Now what colour for the ribbon?
This once again proof that running JavaScript on the client end is bad. I am one of those people who turn JavaScript off the most part, though there are one or two web-sites that I have to turn it on if I want to get beyond the first page. I would love it if Mozilla provided an option for only having JavaScript activated for certain sites.
I am a believer in the thin-client approach to web-pages and that is if you can't do it on the server and you can't use HTML for your web page then you are probably doing something wrong. This is my opinion and you don't have to share in it.
If you did both degrees at the same time then you could always forget that you did Biology on your CV, unless that's what you are looking for. The problem you will probably find is that employers will make rash judgements on you suitability for a job based on the degrees you have, so by not putting biology down the employer doesn't get the notion that you are looking for a biology related computer job. While there are a ethics on pretending to do something, I don't think there are any on pretending not do something in a CV. The way I see it is that you have to be able to twist the truth sometimes without lying about it - after all the company you are going to be working for is probably doin that themselves.
I have often been in interviews with companies that required me to answer a number of skill related questions. Things that I find in the questions asked are as follow:
The questions are so obscure as even to elimnate the best 'practical' programmer. They will be best answered by the theoretical programmer, ie the one who has only ever read a book on the subject.
The questions are usually unanswerable even by the guys already working at the company and these guys are doing a good job.
Some of the tests aren't actually proof read and thus the answer sheet that the HR guy has no relavence.
It is the HR guy who checks the answers not another programmer - so there in no real way to make a proper judgement.
The questions tend to test known facts, as opposed to the ability to learn new skills fast opposed to being a compatible personality for the company's development team.
If you feel that the applicant thinks and tackles problems in the right way, then it is often more important that whether they know skill x. After all what is a perfect match if they can't get beyond the examples in the book?
Part of the problem is that companies will always be fussy, shortage or no shortage. Their HR departments are usually slow, so the companies that do employ you will usually be those with the better recruitment process in place.
Graduates usually have a tough time because companies are looking for people withe experience, so this leads to that paradox that you need work experience to get work, but where the heck do you get the experience if no one wants to employ graduates.
In the end you wil find something, but you will have to work at it. Usually a good thing is to get registered with some agencies or even check with your university for companies interested in hiring graduates. One thing that you will find has its weight in gold are contacts, as in the end the people you know will help you get the job you want.
Currently in North America finding a computer job is tough for everyone, since companies having been firing people left, right and center and those that haven't re in near hiring freezes.
Don't forget that Aristotol's theories were taken to be unbreakable laws and thus no one wanted to around proving that they were wrong for fear of death. I think that this prevented science from advancing for over 4 centuries.
This goes to show you that there needs to be controls over what sort of information a company can ask from an individual. Sure the are probably exceptions to the rule, but date of birth and social security numbers should not be necessary to open an account with anyone, but a bank.
Maybe this is where we need to use the approach of trusted third party authorization. Basically the only person you share this trusted information with is your bank and it is the bank who gives to a unique, time based, validation id to share with the company you are buying the service from. If a bank is incapable of keeping your details secret, then you know that you don't want an account with them.
Looks like the Bush administration is wanting to copy China's approach to things: first by making a weapons program that has no point in being in place (missile shield et al.), secondly by trampling on human-rights issues in favour of corporate America (Dmitry vs Adobe/USA) and do nothing to realistically reduce planetary pollution on the USA side (Kyoto). Maybe I am over generalizing, but this is the image that is getting given by the news coming out of the USA and just as the Dmitry case is bad for Adobe, it doesn't help Bush much either.
The problem with requiring the 'From' field to contain an address from the Verizon domain is that every spammer know how to hack a 'From' field. This now means that we will be having a lot more spam apparently originating from the 'Verizon' domain.
The better approach is to use user authentication at the e-mail server. I have come across a fair number of SMTP servers that require you to authenticate yourself, preferbly with the help of SSL, before you can send your e-mail through them. Couple this with IP verification, as Verizon should know which IP ranges they own, it make it would very difficult for a spammer to relay e-mail via their server.
With all new Macs the fabled ROM has gone. All new Mac use what Apple calls the 'new-world' ROM, whereby the only thing it contains is the open firmware. The old style ROM is now in the form of an image supplied with MacOS 9.x. This was done for both cost (256Mb ROMs are costly) and with the advent of MacOS X most of the stuff on the ROM was no longer of any use.
This looks like another reason not to use C#. I feel that is important that we stick to languages where we have at least a hint of control on cross-platform issues, such as C++ and Java. Yes there are other languages but these 3 are the more main-stream.
The.us domain has been under used mainly because of the way it is currently organized, which create mile long addresses. For this reason most US companies would rather use the.com domain. I strongly believe that the.us domain needs to be made the great American domain, whereby universities and government organizations are also encouraged to use it. The way I see it, any two letters domains following.us should be for the states, as it is at the moment and then we should use top level style 3 letter domains for nation wide stuff. Examples:
oh.us - Ohio
ca.us - California
com.us - USA commerical zone
edu.us - USA educational institutions
gov.us - USA government
mil.us - USA miltary
The.mil,.edu, and.gov TLDs would then be disbanded since they would no longer have any use.
This may be a bit off topic, but unless the domain is improved giving it away free will not encourage it to be used to its full extent.
I supposes the big difference is that no one has been bitching about Win2000 release 1. Also since MacOS X lives on top of a Unix base and is user friendly, any improvements are a target for Linux users and developers to aim for and beat.
You should look into installing a DNS server, at least that way anyone, no matter what their OS can access the network. You shoul take a look at OS X server as that is definetly a server OS for a hetrogenious environment.
While I can agree that encoding MP3s on both platforms make for a fair performance test, compiling the kernel doesn't. To start with the architectures are different, one is CISC, the other is RISC, so the machine code geneated is not the same. Compiling to RISC machine code requires a number of compile time optimizations that compiling to CISC machine code doesn't. Another problem with this test is that the motherboards aren't the same so the required support modules will be different.
BTW I couldn't care which is faster since I use both the x86 and the PPC - in separate computers;)
This is true, but from what I can tell this whole affair was due to lawyers acting proactivley, instead of waiting to Adobe to ask them to act. I reckon that companies should really set out a set of rules of conduct with the their law firms, ie what sort of things that can do without waitng for the company to call on and what they have to wait to act an before getting an acknowledgement from the company that employed them. This would probably save the company money aswell.
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From what I can tell congress people are satires unto themselves. Sure there a few good congress people, but they usually get lost in the crowd of senators trying to draw attention to themselves.
I really believe that we need some sort of technology awareness course in the school system, so at least people don't take the FUD, spread by journalists, at face value.
I can't comment on what browser the original poster is using, but taking the IE theme further, I will say that is one browser that is too integrated with its environment, at least under Windows. There are one or two websites that will install an application, without you even knowing, to change your cursor to something else. Sure this is a harmless installation, if not irritating, but imagine if the that application was a virus?
If you combine this behaviour with the recent IIS targeted virus, then you could easily have a virus that modifies web pages to include javascript to install itself into the machines of the vistors to the site.
I definetly ask myself why Javascript is not limited to a sandbox, in the same way Java is? Until then best use some other navigator to surf the web.
There are some CD-ROM players that allow you to read a CD and know where the apparent errors are. These are popular amongst people wanting to rip data CDs. Since I came across this a few months ago I can't remember which drives provide this facility, but if you hunt around the internet then you are bound to find one.
The problem with many of the copy-protections systems is that they only make it difficult for the your average listener to copy the data. Commercial pirates will always look at all possible ways to break the protection, as they see an incentive to make money. This means that while fair use is stamped out, nothing is realistically done about the people the record industry should really be worrying about.
The truth is what-ever copy protection system exists, it will only be a matter of time before it is broken, since on the one hand people want their rights back and on the other you have some people wanting to make money whatever the costs.
It looks like we need the return of the blue ribbon campaign, or at least an equivalent that addresses the DMCA and such laws. I am sure that if everyone started pasting a ribbon their web-pages that the press would notice that something is going on. Now what colour for the ribbon?
I am a believer in the thin-client approach to web-pages and that is if you can't do it on the server and you can't use HTML for your web page then you are probably doing something wrong. This is my opinion and you don't have to share in it.
For those of you interested, the BBC also has an article on the same subject.
If you did both degrees at the same time then you could always forget that you did Biology on your CV, unless that's what you are looking for. The problem you will probably find is that employers will make rash judgements on you suitability for a job based on the degrees you have, so by not putting biology down the employer doesn't get the notion that you are looking for a biology related computer job. While there are a ethics on pretending to do something, I don't think there are any on pretending not do something in a CV. The way I see it is that you have to be able to twist the truth sometimes without lying about it - after all the company you are going to be working for is probably doin that themselves.
- The questions are so obscure as even to elimnate the best 'practical' programmer. They will be best answered by the theoretical programmer, ie the one who has only ever read a book on the subject.
- The questions are usually unanswerable even by the guys already working at the company and these guys are doing a good job.
- Some of the tests aren't actually proof read and thus the answer sheet that the HR guy has no relavence.
- It is the HR guy who checks the answers not another programmer - so there in no real way to make a proper judgement.
- The questions tend to test known facts, as opposed to the ability to learn new skills fast opposed to being a compatible personality for the company's development team.
If you feel that the applicant thinks and tackles problems in the right way, then it is often more important that whether they know skill x. After all what is a perfect match if they can't get beyond the examples in the book?Part of the problem is that companies will always be fussy, shortage or no shortage. Their HR departments are usually slow, so the companies that do employ you will usually be those with the better recruitment process in place.
Graduates usually have a tough time because companies are looking for people withe experience, so this leads to that paradox that you need work experience to get work, but where the heck do you get the experience if no one wants to employ graduates.
In the end you wil find something, but you will have to work at it. Usually a good thing is to get registered with some agencies or even check with your university for companies interested in hiring graduates. One thing that you will find has its weight in gold are contacts, as in the end the people you know will help you get the job you want.
Currently in North America finding a computer job is tough for everyone, since companies having been firing people left, right and center and those that haven't re in near hiring freezes.
Don't forget that Aristotol's theories were taken to be unbreakable laws and thus no one wanted to around proving that they were wrong for fear of death. I think that this prevented science from advancing for over 4 centuries.
This goes to show you that there needs to be controls over what sort of information a company can ask from an individual. Sure the are probably exceptions to the rule, but date of birth and social security numbers should not be necessary to open an account with anyone, but a bank.
Maybe this is where we need to use the approach of trusted third party authorization. Basically the only person you share this trusted information with is your bank and it is the bank who gives to a unique, time based, validation id to share with the company you are buying the service from. If a bank is incapable of keeping your details secret, then you know that you don't want an account with them.
Looks like the Bush administration is wanting to copy China's approach to things: first by making a weapons program that has no point in being in place (missile shield et al.), secondly by trampling on human-rights issues in favour of corporate America (Dmitry vs Adobe/USA) and do nothing to realistically reduce planetary pollution on the USA side (Kyoto). Maybe I am over generalizing, but this is the image that is getting given by the news coming out of the USA and just as the Dmitry case is bad for Adobe, it doesn't help Bush much either.
But surely you could then counter-sue saying that the only way Adobe could have found out was be reverse engineering the code?
The problem with requiring the 'From' field to contain an address from the Verizon domain is that every spammer know how to hack a 'From' field. This now means that we will be having a lot more spam apparently originating from the 'Verizon' domain.
The better approach is to use user authentication at the e-mail server. I have come across a fair number of SMTP servers that require you to authenticate yourself, preferbly with the help of SSL, before you can send your e-mail through them. Couple this with IP verification, as Verizon should know which IP ranges they own, it make it would very difficult for a spammer to relay e-mail via their server.
Now if only more e-mail clients supported SSL.
Just curious, but what isn't solid about their current batch of G4s? Maybe you're suggesting that they need some rack-mountable machines?
With all new Macs the fabled ROM has gone. All new Mac use what Apple calls the 'new-world' ROM, whereby the only thing it contains is the open firmware. The old style ROM is now in the form of an image supplied with MacOS 9.x. This was done for both cost (256Mb ROMs are costly) and with the advent of MacOS X most of the stuff on the ROM was no longer of any use.
I would be courious to see whether anyone can get Darwin working on those things, or any other PPC based OS for that matter.
This looks like another reason not to use C#. I feel that is important that we stick to languages where we have at least a hint of control on cross-platform issues, such as C++ and Java. Yes there are other languages but these 3 are the more main-stream.
The .us domain has been under used mainly because of the way it is currently organized, which create mile long addresses. For this reason most US companies would rather use the .com domain. I strongly believe that the .us domain needs to be made the great American domain, whereby universities and government organizations are also encouraged to use it. The way I see it, any two letters domains following .us should be for the states, as it is at the moment and then we should use top level style 3 letter domains for nation wide stuff. Examples:
.mil, .edu, and .gov TLDs would then be disbanded since they would no longer have any use.
oh.us - Ohio
ca.us - California
com.us - USA commerical zone
edu.us - USA educational institutions
gov.us - USA government
mil.us - USA miltary
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This may be a bit off topic, but unless the domain is improved giving it away free will not encourage it to be used to its full extent.
I supposes the big difference is that no one has been bitching about Win2000 release 1. Also since MacOS X lives on top of a Unix base and is user friendly, any improvements are a target for Linux users and developers to aim for and beat.
You should look into installing a DNS server, at least that way anyone, no matter what their OS can access the network. You shoul take a look at OS X server as that is definetly a server OS for a hetrogenious environment.
While I can agree that encoding MP3s on both platforms make for a fair performance test, compiling the kernel doesn't. To start with the architectures are different, one is CISC, the other is RISC, so the machine code geneated is not the same. Compiling to RISC machine code requires a number of compile time optimizations that compiling to CISC machine code doesn't. Another problem with this test is that the motherboards aren't the same so the required support modules will be different.
;)
BTW I couldn't care which is faster since I use both the x86 and the PPC - in separate computers
I like it: the 'Creative Industries Task Force' imposes an education that is anything but creative.
This is true, but from what I can tell this whole affair was due to lawyers acting proactivley, instead of waiting to Adobe to ask them to act. I reckon that companies should really set out a set of rules of conduct with the their law firms, ie what sort of things that can do without waitng for the company to call on and what they have to wait to act an before getting an acknowledgement from the company that employed them. This would probably save the company money aswell.
Maybe we need a lawyer as borg icon?