A tip I gleamed from an in-law is that at the end of the (formal) interview ask the interviewer(s) if they feel you have the ability to do the job. If they say yes, ask them for the job! I've typically phrased it from the point of view of saving them time, e.g. "so, why don't you save yourself some time and hassle, and just hire me now?" Has worked quite well I must say. One HR person (albeing fresh off the block) was actually taken aback and visibly impressed by my asking this and I had a job offer half an hour later (I was waiting for a lift home and he came over to make me an offer), while another was comfortable enough already by this point to say yes.
Then again, if you get a "no, we're not sure if you're quite right" there's not much point in pushing it unless you can first get past their issues.
To add more detail for those who've not seen his Meaningless Obviously Vacant & Idiotic Eggheaded Shindigs aka "movies", they have appalling stories (yes, even considering the source material), terrible acting, horrendous special effects - they're just aweful! For some reason he thought it would be a good idea to show snippets of the original game footage in House of the Dead while Alone in the Dark used an anti-racism song in a terrible sex scene?!?!
Did they walk around with vials of blood to see what would happen? I could just imagine someone walking near a hospital and the blood disappearing under a nearby rock, or getting all bubbly if a [PC|hot chick|fast car] was nearby.
The real question is: Just how much can you improve an office suite, before it's 'good enough'? Many Office users (my employers included) feel Office 2003 is just fine, and have no plans whatsoever for Office 12.
The real question is, how many people said that about Office 97 then upgraded to Office 2000, or Office XP, or Office 2003?
Its rare these days that US school districts aren't 100% Microsoft shops, so its very good to see this happening. As others have commented I'd wonder what the rationale for running Apache on Windows in the first place was, while yes it generally works its far from the best solution and IMHO the admins should have known better.
Is it just me or are those just like the old, heavy, Quake-god keyboards from the early/mid 90's? Back in the day at college the keyboards they had like this were almost totally blank they were used so heavily, well, aside from the coating of crud around the keys...
My wife and I simply loved the cooperative multi-play in Diablo 1 and especially 2. DS1 was hailed as a Diablo heir so we tried it. The first day it seemed great, some really cool graphics and atmopherics, definitely a step up for us as we'd not bought a game in two years. After a few days of on-and-off play we realized it was boring! The action took care of itself so you were left to do the directing... the land was extremely sprawling and at times difficult to work out or remember directions, so even that was out. And the story wasn't exactly Oscar material. Boring! If they haven't fixed the action aspect then I really don't think this is going to be any great shakes.
Now, what's this about Diablo 3 on the drawing board?
The PS3 will be released for the same price as one expansion card and have (guessing) ten times the technology in it and people are bitching? Get a life. Does the 7800 have a cell processor behind it? Or any of the other advanced features?
he hopes to develop the next generation of high-performance computers that will give birth to true artificial intelligence
Let me get this straight. We're geeks. We read science fiction. Much of science fiction is spent talking about the dangers of pushing technology too far too quickly, especially artificial intelligence. We know that corporations like pushing too far too quickly as they can boost their stock prices. Here's a guy saying he wants to create "true" artificial intelligence and we're all-of-a-sudden thinking its a good thing?
Not to generalize everything to death and throw blanket statements around, but most if not all of the PHP-based CMS engines I've looked at aren't designed for scaling to high traffic loads. Part of the problem is PHP, most of it is application design.
How many small companies out there that simply have their employees use AOL for the company email? Even when they've paid for web hosting for their own domain? Too many, that's what!
Maybe if they used CFC-based insulation that was stronger, like they used to, they'd have fewer explosions therefore less polutants entering the atmosphere and fewer dead astronauts? Just my vote.
In the past few days Eric Meyer, CSS guru and general cool guy, released a version 1.1 of his wondeful S5 presentation system. Right afterwards a part-time employee of Opera Software posted a rant on his weblog bitching that Eric gives Opera the "cold shoulder" and questioning S5's status as being cross-browser compatible. As Eric says in a follow-up blog on the topic
Lying about S5's cross-browser nature? Giving Opera the cold shoulder? Utterly wrong on both counts. I've done everything I can to make sure Opera is still at this particular table.
As a test Eric disabled the Opera-validation code, changed Opera to properly identify itself and ran the default S5 slideshow...
Everything worked just fine except for two things. One, the browser window had a vertical scroll bar for no apparent reason. Two, the controls were nowhere to be found, either by hovering over where they're supposed to be or using the "C" key to toggle them.
So is it possible that Opera took this as a slap in the face and maybe are starting to change their opinion of their place in the world, i.e. "if I can't easily detect your browser I can't begin to fix my code"? Are they trying to stand up against the PR machine that Firefox has behind it to say that they're still in the running, and maybe also make life easier for web developers who'll finally be able to easily identify their browser?
No matter what the reasons, its a good decision IMHO.
This week I had to spec out a replacement server when one of ours disappeared thanks to a delivery company, and I really wanted to get a HP DL145, HP's entry level Opteron server. As it turned out CDW's site said there was a two+ week delay in shipping the servers, whereas I needed one pronto. Given that other OEMs have no problem with supply, I can only guess this may be part of AMD's case against Intel putting undue influence on the OEMs.
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A tip I gleamed from an in-law is that at the end of the (formal) interview ask the interviewer(s) if they feel you have the ability to do the job. If they say yes, ask them for the job! I've typically phrased it from the point of view of saving them time, e.g. "so, why don't you save yourself some time and hassle, and just hire me now?" Has worked quite well I must say. One HR person (albeing fresh off the block) was actually taken aback and visibly impressed by my asking this and I had a job offer half an hour later (I was waiting for a lift home and he came over to make me an offer), while another was comfortable enough already by this point to say yes.
Then again, if you get a "no, we're not sure if you're quite right" there's not much point in pushing it unless you can first get past their issues.
Damien
If this is what comes after the golden age, I'm not sure I want that to happen.
Sounds like a job for everyone's favorite do-everything markup language, XML! Seriously, why isn't it used to structure everything?
I remember one time I actually studied and got an A. I was so totally shocked and wondered why I hadn't done that for the previous twenty years.
Great going everyone!
Damien
All together now:
Ding, dong, the witch is dead.
Damien
find it to be a valuable app in terms of form and basic function with my Canon A95.
You're using a $500 software product with a $300 camera? There's something wrong here.
Damien
'nuff said.
To add more detail for those who've not seen his Meaningless Obviously Vacant & Idiotic Eggheaded Shindigs aka "movies", they have appalling stories (yes, even considering the source material), terrible acting, horrendous special effects - they're just aweful! For some reason he thought it would be a good idea to show snippets of the original game footage in House of the Dead while Alone in the Dark used an anti-racism song in a terrible sex scene?!?!
Yet, somehow he keeps getting relatively big name projects, like Dungeon Seige, Bloodrayne, Far Cry, Hunter: The Reckoning and more! Someone just take him out, it'd be a whole lot cheaper than making piss-poor movies!
Damien
Word wrapping?
Dmaien
Did they walk around with vials of blood to see what would happen? I could just imagine someone walking near a hospital and the blood disappearing under a nearby rock, or getting all bubbly if a [PC|hot chick|fast car] was nearby.
Damien
More like it will fit into their deal with Apple on processors & chipsets for their forthcoming media devices.
Damien
The real question is, how many people said that about Office 97 then upgraded to Office 2000, or Office XP, or Office 2003?
Damien
I'd not seen it before but Roundcube is pretty darn nice! Now if only the Horde team would merge in some of its UI...
Damien
Its rare these days that US school districts aren't 100% Microsoft shops, so its very good to see this happening. As others have commented I'd wonder what the rationale for running Apache on Windows in the first place was, while yes it generally works its far from the best solution and IMHO the admins should have known better.
Damien
Is it just me or are those just like the old, heavy, Quake-god keyboards from the early/mid 90's? Back in the day at college the keyboards they had like this were almost totally blank they were used so heavily, well, aside from the coating of crud around the keys...
Damien
Net2Phone has been able to do this for years and there are possibly others. What's the point?
My wife and I simply loved the cooperative multi-play in Diablo 1 and especially 2. DS1 was hailed as a Diablo heir so we tried it. The first day it seemed great, some really cool graphics and atmopherics, definitely a step up for us as we'd not bought a game in two years. After a few days of on-and-off play we realized it was boring! The action took care of itself so you were left to do the directing... the land was extremely sprawling and at times difficult to work out or remember directions, so even that was out. And the story wasn't exactly Oscar material. Boring! If they haven't fixed the action aspect then I really don't think this is going to be any great shakes.
Now, what's this about Diablo 3 on the drawing board?
Damien
The PS3 will be released for the same price as one expansion card and have (guessing) ten times the technology in it and people are bitching? Get a life. Does the 7800 have a cell processor behind it? Or any of the other advanced features?
Damien
he hopes to develop the next generation of high-performance computers that will give birth to true artificial intelligence
Let me get this straight. We're geeks. We read science fiction. Much of science fiction is spent talking about the dangers of pushing technology too far too quickly, especially artificial intelligence. We know that corporations like pushing too far too quickly as they can boost their stock prices. Here's a guy saying he wants to create "true" artificial intelligence and we're all-of-a-sudden thinking its a good thing?
Damien
Not to generalize everything to death and throw blanket statements around, but most if not all of the PHP-based CMS engines I've looked at aren't designed for scaling to high traffic loads. Part of the problem is PHP, most of it is application design.
How many small companies out there that simply have their employees use AOL for the company email? Even when they've paid for web hosting for their own domain? Too many, that's what!
Damien
Maybe if they used CFC-based insulation that was stronger, like they used to, they'd have fewer explosions therefore less polutants entering the atmosphere and fewer dead astronauts? Just my vote.
As a test Eric disabled the Opera-validation code, changed Opera to properly identify itself and ran the default S5 slideshow...
So is it possible that Opera took this as a slap in the face and maybe are starting to change their opinion of their place in the world, i.e. "if I can't easily detect your browser I can't begin to fix my code"? Are they trying to stand up against the PR machine that Firefox has behind it to say that they're still in the running, and maybe also make life easier for web developers who'll finally be able to easily identify their browser?
No matter what the reasons, its a good decision IMHO.
Damien
This week I had to spec out a replacement server when one of ours disappeared thanks to a delivery company, and I really wanted to get a HP DL145, HP's entry level Opteron server. As it turned out CDW's site said there was a two+ week delay in shipping the servers, whereas I needed one pronto. Given that other OEMs have no problem with supply, I can only guess this may be part of AMD's case against Intel putting undue influence on the OEMs.
Damien