This kind of reminds me of an asinine decision made at my first real job. The CIO decided that every computer in the organization would all be the same and contain the same exact software located in the same place. No extra software, no customization of anything. The thought being that an employee can be trained once and use any computer in the company. When they implemented it, IT went around an basically backed up and wiped every computer then installed all the accepted software. When I, any my co-workers came back in on Monday we were greeted with a PC that had nothing but Office and custom internal applications. We knew what was going on but just assumed it didn't include our department which did all the custom development for the company. Our compilers and other development tools were gone. They were not on the list and hence not allowed. The brianiacs at IT would not let us install anything on the PCs. That lasted about 3 days while the committes talked and finaly went to the CIO for a decision. Of course exceptions were made for us, the programmers and soon for other groups and soon it was totally reversed. So basically, the moral of the story is blanket directives like that and the no personal tech are lame brained and are indicitve of management that will soon drive the company into the ground.
No, and why should a user who just wants to use a computer, not configure a computer, need to know about that? This is the kind of stuff that really makes Linux and Windows different. Linux is for those who care about THE computer windows os for those who care about USING a computer...
When you stick a flopy disk in a Windows machine you don't have to mount it, you can immediately read and write to it, you can eject the disk without unmounting it and put it into another computer and read what you just wrote on the previous computer. And other such obvious stuff that Linux just doesn't do because its so much better to do it the better (ie) Linux way...
If one was truely smart, one would understand when a non-technical user was explaining a problem or making a request. Otherwise one would just make jokes with the others who also cannot in order make one's self feel superior when in reality one's not...
A company with that much crap with no revenues totally deserves to die. I hope the founders are in jail right now. Although they probably aren't Well then I hope they're bankrupt. But again they're probably on a beach somewhere getting a tan while earning interest on their ill gotten gains...
We use job boards not monster or hot jobs though, we like craigslist and kitlist. We find some good candidates but most (249 out of 278 so far) are from people who don't read the job posting they just send their resume hoping they'll fit. That's very frustrating. We're filling a Junior Engineering position with 5 years being the maximum allowed experience. We're getting crap from VP's of Engineering, Senior Software Architect / Toilet Flushers etc. etc. If I read one more resume from a guy who led a world class team of top developers creating the next generation, end-to-end, J2EE, Oracle Enabled development envionment for toasters that allow them to toast evenly on both sides I'm going to scream...
which means that if your're not careful and not looking you could change the channel instead of reversing a bit to rehear that line of dialog you missed. Of course that means that you've lost the history of what you were watching. That is my biggest peave about the TiVO remote.
If you're not damn good at what you want to do ALREADY then think about another field. At some point, only highly talented engineers will find work in the US. For everything else, India will do.
Comp Sci is no longer the major that will almost assure a job with a large salary. Its more akin to an Art degree. You need to be talented to begin with.
Its quite evident that this guy had lots of money. Lots of money makes it easy to make the bone-headed mistakes this guy made. He bought and office building!!!!! This guy does not belong at the top of a company. Don't listen to him. I created a company Rockstar Software with $8000 seven years ago. I know from where I speak. This guy is a total moron. Run away from his advice. Run far far far away.
Indian tech workers work for what amounts to US minimum wage or lower. If a US tech has been employed for a period of time then laid-off, their unemployment checks are larger then a minimum wage check. If a US tech takes a once high-paying job for minimum wage, it sets a precedent; one that tech managers don't want to set as it will effect their own market value. Working from home doesn't save a company much, it may even cost more in productivity loss.
Another factor is what a company values talent at. Lets face it, many people with Comp-Sci, or Electrical Engineering degrees don't have a whole lot of talent. They just went though the motions and met the basic requirements to graduate. Forget MCSE folks who got their "certification" from a school that advertises on TV. If, in the US, these folk's annual salaries are upwards of $70k or higher and in Bangalore they're $13k and talent being equal, companies are going to choose the lower rate for the lower talent. Talented people in the US have no problems finding jobs, as companies are willing to pay for real talent.
The tech profession has become like the medical and legal professions; lots of wannabes chasing ambulances and few truly good practitioners. We just can't offshore those jobs. Yet.
I'm hiring some people (in the SF Bay Area) and I can tell you its definately an employer's market for tech right now. There's so many people out there taking what ever pays $1 more than unemployment. I'm seeing lots of resumes with "self-employed private consultant" listed as the recent experience (2 or more years).
What we would payed 3 years ago for a software engineer would now pay for an engineer and a qa engineer and we don't have to worry about them scanning DICE once a month for something better.
I just talked to a guy who had to move to Philadephia from the Bay Area because it was the only offer he had. God, I felt sorry for him
Its a clerical mistake. It happens all the time. The person who recorded the trade put the decimal in the wrong place, or ommited it entirely. Any time you see a spike like that on a pink sheet (OTC) chart its clerical error.
It will be overturned by the Supreme Court or even a lower court on a First Amendment basis. The California law makers know that but they need to look like their acting tough on SPAM. A more reasonable law that would stand the scrutiny of judical review would have taken too long to draft and pass. Most elected people in Sacramento dont give a rats ass about SPAM. This is all about grabbing media attention for a few seconds and having something to say to the next contributor who is effected in a large way by SPAM.
If a software enginner wrote something that will break when it gets garbabe then that person needs to step away from the computer and go get a marketing job.
There's prior art for a lot of what's been awarded a software patent. Besides that, a patent should only be awarded for a process or design that is non-obvious. The test for that is supposed to be a committee of highly credentialed people in the field to agree that its non-obvious. Few software "inventions" are non-obvious. The committee is filled with DeVry dropouts who donated enough to a campaign or two to get a committee seat. Hence the utterly stupid patents that have been awarded.
The browsers catch DNS erros and redirect to a search page, NOT the DNS servers. In that case all DNS queries would resolve to something. Doing it from DNS would break other software. What if a mail client was going to a bad address and instead of reporting that there is no such address it would report that there is a problem with the server? It a stupid idea. Its the job of DNS to give me an address for a valid query and give me an error for an invalid query. Nothing more, nothing less.
You're probably typing on a QWERTY keyboard, right? Why? Its function is to slow you down so that you don't jam the typewriter.
Moral: Just because one design is better than an already widespread yet inferior design does not mean that it can and will replace the current one. Change is not easy in the least.
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This kind of reminds me of an asinine decision made at my first real job. The CIO decided that every computer in the organization would all be the same and contain the same exact software located in the same place. No extra software, no customization of anything. The thought being that an employee can be trained once and use any computer in the company. When they implemented it, IT went around an basically backed up and wiped every computer then installed all the accepted software. When I, any my co-workers came back in on Monday we were greeted with a PC that had nothing but Office and custom internal applications. We knew what was going on but just assumed it didn't include our department which did all the custom development for the company. Our compilers and other development tools were gone. They were not on the list and hence not allowed. The brianiacs at IT would not let us install anything on the PCs. That lasted about 3 days while the committes talked and finaly went to the CIO for a decision. Of course exceptions were made for us, the programmers and soon for other groups and soon it was totally reversed. So basically, the moral of the story is blanket directives like that and the no personal tech are lame brained and are indicitve of management that will soon drive the company into the ground.
No, and why should a user who just wants to use a computer, not configure a computer, need to know about that? This is the kind of stuff that really makes Linux and Windows different. Linux is for those who care about THE computer windows os for those who care about USING a computer...
When you stick a flopy disk in a Windows machine you don't have to mount it, you can immediately read and write to it, you can eject the disk without unmounting it and put it into another computer and read what you just wrote on the previous computer. And other such obvious stuff that Linux just doesn't do because its so much better to do it the better (ie) Linux way...
If one was truely smart, one would understand when a non-technical user was explaining a problem or making a request. Otherwise one would just make jokes with the others who also cannot in order make one's self feel superior when in reality one's not...
...especially if it's one's job!
Too bad a traffic jam that readlly sounded like that would eventually lead to gun fire. No one constantly hits the horn in real traffic...
Funny, searching for Xfree85 or 87 brings results. Why just XFree86? Is that a popular porn serving platform? Hmmm...
A company with that much crap with no revenues totally deserves to die. I hope the founders are in jail right now. Although they probably aren't Well then I hope they're bankrupt. But again they're probably on a beach somewhere getting a tan while earning interest on their ill gotten gains...
AMEN brudda!!
We use job boards not monster or hot jobs though, we like craigslist and kitlist. We find some good candidates but most (249 out of 278 so far) are from people who don't read the job posting they just send their resume hoping they'll fit. That's very frustrating. We're filling a Junior Engineering position with 5 years being the maximum allowed experience. We're getting crap from VP's of Engineering, Senior Software Architect / Toilet Flushers etc. etc. If I read one more resume from a guy who led a world class team of top developers creating the next generation, end-to-end, J2EE, Oracle Enabled development envionment for toasters that allow them to toast evenly on both sides I'm going to scream...
which means that if your're not careful and not looking you could change the channel instead of reversing a bit to rehear that line of dialog you missed. Of course that means that you've lost the history of what you were watching. That is my biggest peave about the TiVO remote.
Don't mention it. If your previous emplouers are called all that they can legally say is that you did indeed work there. They can't say anything else.
If you're not damn good at what you want to do ALREADY then think about another field. At some point, only highly talented engineers will find work in the US. For everything else, India will do. Comp Sci is no longer the major that will almost assure a job with a large salary. Its more akin to an Art degree. You need to be talented to begin with.
Lets hope SCO doesn't get any ideas from this...
Its quite evident that this guy had lots of money. Lots of money makes it easy to make the bone-headed mistakes this guy made. He bought and office building!!!!! This guy does not belong at the top of a company. Don't listen to him. I created a company Rockstar Software with $8000 seven years ago. I know from where I speak. This guy is a total moron. Run away from his advice. Run far far far away.
Indian tech workers work for what amounts to US minimum wage or lower. If a US tech has been employed for a period of time then laid-off, their unemployment checks are larger then a minimum wage check. If a US tech takes a once high-paying job for minimum wage, it sets a precedent; one that tech managers don't want to set as it will effect their own market value. Working from home doesn't save a company much, it may even cost more in productivity loss.
Another factor is what a company values talent at. Lets face it, many people with Comp-Sci, or Electrical Engineering degrees don't have a whole lot of talent. They just went though the motions and met the basic requirements to graduate. Forget MCSE folks who got their "certification" from a school that advertises on TV. If, in the US, these folk's annual salaries are upwards of $70k or higher and in Bangalore they're $13k and talent being equal, companies are going to choose the lower rate for the lower talent. Talented people in the US have no problems finding jobs, as companies are willing to pay for real talent.
The tech profession has become like the medical and legal professions; lots of wannabes chasing ambulances and few truly good practitioners. We just can't offshore those jobs. Yet.
I'm hiring some people (in the SF Bay Area) and I can tell you its definately an employer's market for tech right now. There's so many people out there taking what ever pays $1 more than unemployment. I'm seeing lots of resumes with "self-employed private consultant" listed as the recent experience (2 or more years).
What we would payed 3 years ago for a software engineer would now pay for an engineer and a qa engineer and we don't have to worry about them scanning DICE once a month for something better.
I just talked to a guy who had to move to Philadephia from the Bay Area because it was the only offer he had. God, I felt sorry for him
Are things different in other areas?
Its a clerical mistake. It happens all the time. The person who recorded the trade put the decimal in the wrong place, or ommited it entirely. Any time you see a spike like that on a pink sheet (OTC) chart its clerical error.
...oh yeah. Shows how long its been since I've coded ICMP stuff and that age does effect the brain.
Your TTL is way too low.
It will be overturned by the Supreme Court or even a lower court on a First Amendment basis. The California law makers know that but they need to look like their acting tough on SPAM. A more reasonable law that would stand the scrutiny of judical review would have taken too long to draft and pass. Most elected people in Sacramento dont give a rats ass about SPAM. This is all about grabbing media attention for a few seconds and having something to say to the next contributor who is effected in a large way by SPAM.
If a software enginner wrote something that will break when it gets garbabe then that person needs to step away from the computer and go get a marketing job.
There's prior art for a lot of what's been awarded a software patent. Besides that, a patent should only be awarded for a process or design that is non-obvious. The test for that is supposed to be a committee of highly credentialed people in the field to agree that its non-obvious. Few software "inventions" are non-obvious. The committee is filled with DeVry dropouts who donated enough to a campaign or two to get a committee seat. Hence the utterly stupid patents that have been awarded.
The browsers catch DNS erros and redirect to a search page, NOT the DNS servers. In that case all DNS queries would resolve to something. Doing it from DNS would break other software. What if a mail client was going to a bad address and instead of reporting that there is no such address it would report that there is a problem with the server? It a stupid idea. Its the job of DNS to give me an address for a valid query and give me an error for an invalid query. Nothing more, nothing less.
Satan Rulez Doode. Iron Maiden sez so and that's good enough for me.
You're probably typing on a QWERTY keyboard, right? Why? Its function is to slow you down so that you don't jam the typewriter.
Moral: Just because one design is better than an already widespread yet inferior design does not mean that it can and will replace the current one. Change is not easy in the least.