Online job boards went steadily downhill from 2000.
For each _real_ client position, there were probably 10 recruiting firms pushing the same job listing, some with different wording, some with identical text.
Then in 2001 when the shit hit the fan in IT world, other interesting things started to happen. Client positions would be listed and relisted as if they were new, but in fact they were positions that had been vacant for a year. The client had created the position, but due to market or other reasons had just avoided filling it.
To make matters worse, the bubble burst destroyed consulting firms. Firms with 30+ people suddenly became 2-3 person operations. They started getting hundreds of resumes, and in my view they began to thrash. One headhunter couldn't handle that volume. In any event, there just weren't many jobs anyway.
Fast forward to now. The job boards are full of MLM bs. I glanced at monster a couple of days ago and was shocked to see what it had become. 3 of 5 listings supposedly related to the "java" keyword were for bogus "work from home" jobs.
So basically, it's all a crock. The one thing that has, and will always work, is human networking. Get to know people, lots of them. Then you'll have people to contact when you need a job. They may not have a job for you, but one of them may know someone who does.
Even though web-bbs are slower, they sure are more pleasant to use than ancient-tech mailing list. That's especially true when someone sends a virus to the list.
If you leave a 200ft gap between you and the car in front of you, that space will be claimed very quickly by one or more other cars, thus eliminating your buffer.
If you fall back again, the same thing will happen, and so on.
The cell phone user you mention isn't going to comprehend the radar information anyway, so it's a moot point. The problem with cell phone users is that they typically have placed talk/listen at a higher priority than drive.
When I'm talking on the cell phone, I frequently just drop out of the conversation when traffic gets messy. Then I have to make the caller repeat what they were saying. That's because I keep the driving at a higher priority.
But it's not just cell phones. Have you ever seen drivers who have to turn their heads to the side to talk to their passengers? WTF.
For people like me, the radar would be a lovely solution to a real problem. For bad drivers, it won't make any difference.
That's your view. As I stated elsewhere, looking over your shoulder can easily result in you rear-ending the guy in front of you.
Some people are brake-happy. If it takes the average person 2 seconds to look back, focus, identify vehicles, look back forward, and finally refocus, that person just drove blind for 160 or more feet. You would have to have 12 car-length gap between you and the car in front of you to give you enough time to do that turnaround-look and still brake to avoid him.
You're better off identifying the cars beside you and ahead of you, then speeding up to fill a forward slot if possible.
Radar would be wonderful, especially if it could quickly display the vehicles around my car in relation to my car (at the center of the display). That kind of information would be completely useful, and not at all a krutch.
But you're right, we should have retests of driving skill periodically, especially as people age.
In cities like Dallas, where average traffic speed on the freeway can be 75mph, looking over your shoulder can cost you dearly.
It's almost a given that when you turn your head to look over your shoulder, the car in front of you will brake. By the time you look back, you probably don't have time to stop. Turning your head, refocusing, etc., takes way too much time at speed on a busy freeway.
You're safer speeding up a bit and moving into an open spot (or creating one) in the next lane.
Analog sweep-hand watches are more aesthetically pleasing (to many, myself included).
Plus, your brain can see the simple 2-element picture (two hands) and know immediately, even subconsciously, what the current time is. For years I wore a watch that didn't even have any markings. Just pure blank face and two hands.
Digital watches, even simple ones that merely display the time, require more brain processing to understand.
First off, I couldn't RTFM because it's/.'ed already.
The nifty side of my wants a Mac. The practical side of me knows that's a bad idea. Apple has had plenty of high profile problems with hardware quality lately. This applies even to iPod. Support isn't guaranteed to be good either.
OSX 10.3 may have fixed the sluggish UI problem. 10.2 was definitely slow feeling (on iMac G4s).
Linux may not be "quite ready" for the desktop, but that's a very arbitrary judgement. Given some circumstances, Linux is quite capable and ready. Given other circumstances, it's not ready. It depends on your situation. It is indeed a matter of time (1-2 years perhaps) until Linux's desktop polish reaches the level of quality that most people would be very pleased with.
Meanwhile, as much as I despise MS, their XP OS has been very good to me, both on desktop PC, and especially on my Sony laptop. It really does work well, and by using Firebird instead of IE, most issues of network/internet risk don't apply.
It's absurd for you to compare BG's "donations", considering he's got tens of billions of dollars in financial worth.
If you stop and consider how he got that money, you'll probably not consider his donations so valuable.
By hook or by crook he has essentially taken money from every US citizen, plus many citizens of other countries. The monopolistic and politic behaviors of Microsoft have wasted and siphoned public funds, not to mention corporate funds, needlessly, for years. No company can maintain 80% profit margin without underhanded tricks, unless of course they have the market cornered on some particular resource. Microsoft doesn't have any special resouce - not any more than other companies. But they have stolen, robbed, bribed, and marketed their way to monopolistic domination.
Fortunately, all giants fall. Microsoft will fall, and perhaps someday, Bill Gates will be recorded accurately in the history books.
What I got from the article was that simply beliving in R value is a mistake. A house that allows a lot of unregulated airflow in and out will gain very little from any amount of insulation.
Thus, believing your home will be efficient simply because it has a high R value may be a mistake. Typical homes allow quite a bit of unregulated airflow, and adding vast quantities of traditional (breathing) insulation won't help much.
with a jackass name like "d34thm0nk3y", how do you expect anyone to take you seriously?
you're some college boy, living in a liberal haven also known as "higher education", jumping on a bandwagon to refute my points. of course you add nothing.
get out of the lab once in a while. I'm sure there are more interesting things to do on a campus than sit and show off in/.
well you know, I personally feel presidents don't have a lot of power over the economy too. but if someone is going to stand up and say the two bush presidents have been bad for the economy, but clinton was good for the economy, then I have to disagree.
that's not specifically saying bush policies made it so.
but it's absolutely ridiculous to think that what power a president has over the economy would take effect within even months of his actions. thus, what power a president has over the economy won't be evident until many months, or even years after.
might be similar to what you describe, but you left out something important.
The crawling that was done for you was silently biased toward Google advertising clients.
And the travel suggestions have been biased toward Google advertising clients.
Oh, and the Froogle selections also were biased toward paying ad customers.
Maybe that's all ok (legally and economically), but it's probably not what you would expect, and as such you'll be working from bad data to make your decisions.
Parent's point is so often overlooked, at least in US.
It used to be that people spent all their time hunting, gathering, and protecting themselves. They had to, because that's what they needed to do to survive.
Now we go thru our 12-16+ years of school (which is a good thing), then rush off to make $$$. Then we spend a lot of our time trying to make more $$$. Then we're 65 or 70, and we stop and think about all the things we'd like to do, and wish we had done.
Like the saying goes, on your death-bed, you're not likely to say "I wish I had worked more"...
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot doesn't take issue with Intel copying AMD, it takes issue with Intel failing to acknowledge that it is being compatible with AMD.
Intel makes it sound like this is their baby, when in fact they are following.
There's no reason to be ashamed of following something good. This is about ego.
Just license the Nascar name and yes, average Joe will make a point to buy it.
Sad isn't it
Online job boards went steadily downhill from 2000.
For each _real_ client position, there were probably 10 recruiting firms pushing the same job listing, some with different wording, some with identical text.
Then in 2001 when the shit hit the fan in IT world, other interesting things started to happen. Client positions would be listed and relisted as if they were new, but in fact they were positions that had been vacant for a year. The client had created the position, but due to market or other reasons had just avoided filling it.
To make matters worse, the bubble burst destroyed consulting firms. Firms with 30+ people suddenly became 2-3 person operations. They started getting hundreds of resumes, and in my view they began to thrash. One headhunter couldn't handle that volume. In any event, there just weren't many jobs anyway.
Fast forward to now. The job boards are full of MLM bs. I glanced at monster a couple of days ago and was shocked to see what it had become. 3 of 5 listings supposedly related to the "java" keyword were for bogus "work from home" jobs.
So basically, it's all a crock. The one thing that has, and will always work, is human networking. Get to know people, lots of them. Then you'll have people to contact when you need a job. They may not have a job for you, but one of them may know someone who does.
Mailing lists are a royal pain.
Even though web-bbs are slower, they sure are more pleasant to use than ancient-tech mailing list. That's especially true when someone sends a virus to the list.
If you leave a 200ft gap between you and the car in front of you, that space will be claimed very quickly by one or more other cars, thus eliminating your buffer.
If you fall back again, the same thing will happen, and so on.
The cell phone user you mention isn't going to comprehend the radar information anyway, so it's a moot point. The problem with cell phone users is that they typically have placed talk/listen at a higher priority than drive.
When I'm talking on the cell phone, I frequently just drop out of the conversation when traffic gets messy. Then I have to make the caller repeat what they were saying. That's because I keep the driving at a higher priority.
But it's not just cell phones. Have you ever seen drivers who have to turn their heads to the side to talk to their passengers? WTF.
For people like me, the radar would be a lovely solution to a real problem. For bad drivers, it won't make any difference.
That's your view. As I stated elsewhere, looking over your shoulder can easily result in you rear-ending the guy in front of you.
Some people are brake-happy. If it takes the average person 2 seconds to look back, focus, identify vehicles, look back forward, and finally refocus, that person just drove blind for 160 or more feet. You would have to have 12 car-length gap between you and the car in front of you to give you enough time to do that turnaround-look and still brake to avoid him.
You're better off identifying the cars beside you and ahead of you, then speeding up to fill a forward slot if possible.
Radar would be wonderful, especially if it could quickly display the vehicles around my car in relation to my car (at the center of the display). That kind of information would be completely useful, and not at all a krutch.
But you're right, we should have retests of driving skill periodically, especially as people age.
If you leave a reasonable gap between you and the car in front of you, someone will slip in and fill that space.
If you fall back to leave a gap between you and the new lead car, someone else will come fill that space.
In cities like Dallas, where average traffic speed on the freeway can be 75mph, looking over your shoulder can cost you dearly.
It's almost a given that when you turn your head to look over your shoulder, the car in front of you will brake. By the time you look back, you probably don't have time to stop. Turning your head, refocusing, etc., takes way too much time at speed on a busy freeway.
You're safer speeding up a bit and moving into an open spot (or creating one) in the next lane.
These are marketers. Was that a trick question?
If I were in a room with a lawyer and a marketer, and I only had one bullet... I'd kill myself.
Analog sweep-hand watches are more aesthetically pleasing (to many, myself included).
Plus, your brain can see the simple 2-element picture (two hands) and know immediately, even subconsciously, what the current time is. For years I wore a watch that didn't even have any markings. Just pure blank face and two hands.
Digital watches, even simple ones that merely display the time, require more brain processing to understand.
What. The. Fuck.
Parent modded as "troll"?
Crossover Office. That just blew away half your argument.
World of Warcraft beta test? OSX can't sign you up for that, at least not until 6PM PST today.
First off, I couldn't RTFM because it's /.'ed already.
The nifty side of my wants a Mac. The practical side of me knows that's a bad idea. Apple has had plenty of high profile problems with hardware quality lately. This applies even to iPod. Support isn't guaranteed to be good either.
OSX 10.3 may have fixed the sluggish UI problem. 10.2 was definitely slow feeling (on iMac G4s).
Linux may not be "quite ready" for the desktop, but that's a very arbitrary judgement. Given some circumstances, Linux is quite capable and ready. Given other circumstances, it's not ready. It depends on your situation. It is indeed a matter of time (1-2 years perhaps) until Linux's desktop polish reaches the level of quality that most people would be very pleased with.
Meanwhile, as much as I despise MS, their XP OS has been very good to me, both on desktop PC, and especially on my Sony laptop. It really does work well, and by using Firebird instead of IE, most issues of network/internet risk don't apply.
It's absurd for you to compare BG's "donations", considering he's got tens of billions of dollars in financial worth.
If you stop and consider how he got that money, you'll probably not consider his donations so valuable.
By hook or by crook he has essentially taken money from every US citizen, plus many citizens of other countries. The monopolistic and politic behaviors of Microsoft have wasted and siphoned public funds, not to mention corporate funds, needlessly, for years. No company can maintain 80% profit margin without underhanded tricks, unless of course they have the market cornered on some particular resource. Microsoft doesn't have any special resouce - not any more than other companies. But they have stolen, robbed, bribed, and marketed their way to monopolistic domination.
Fortunately, all giants fall. Microsoft will fall, and perhaps someday, Bill Gates will be recorded accurately in the history books.
What I got from the article was that simply beliving in R value is a mistake. A house that allows a lot of unregulated airflow in and out will gain very little from any amount of insulation.
Thus, believing your home will be efficient simply because it has a high R value may be a mistake. Typical homes allow quite a bit of unregulated airflow, and adding vast quantities of traditional (breathing) insulation won't help much.
But that's precisely why home insulation, no matter how much you put in it, is essentially worthless.
Here's an article to shed some light on that.
To summarize, insulation can be completely defeated if the building isn't airtight.
with a jackass name like "d34thm0nk3y", how do you expect anyone to take you seriously?
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you're some college boy, living in a liberal haven also known as "higher education", jumping on a bandwagon to refute my points. of course you add nothing.
get out of the lab once in a while. I'm sure there are more interesting things to do on a campus than sit and show off in
well you know, I personally feel presidents don't have a lot of power over the economy too. but if someone is going to stand up and say the two bush presidents have been bad for the economy, but clinton was good for the economy, then I have to disagree.
that's not specifically saying bush policies made it so.
but it's absolutely ridiculous to think that what power a president has over the economy would take effect within even months of his actions. thus, what power a president has over the economy won't be evident until many months, or even years after.
You are on crack. My post was evenly delivered, did not use rude language, and gave another point of view.
What gives you the right to decide? I decline to moderate when given the chance, and you certainly should do the same.
Don't confusing having mod points to spend as being equivalent to being qualified to spend them.
might be similar to what you describe, but you left out something important.
The crawling that was done for you was silently biased toward Google advertising clients.
And the travel suggestions have been biased toward Google advertising clients.
Oh, and the Froogle selections also were biased toward paying ad customers.
Maybe that's all ok (legally and economically), but it's probably not what you would expect, and as such you'll be working from bad data to make your decisions.
moron moderators
dude, that's not spin. and I'm not a conservative, I'm libertarian if anything.
you're in denial, and you keep repeating things not based on fact (which is a trait of many liberals).
the US political system is totally broken, and the sheep on both sides of the fence (liberal and conservative) are blind to reality.
so you're no better than the conservatives you obviously hate.
Parent's point is so often overlooked, at least in US.
It used to be that people spent all their time hunting, gathering, and protecting themselves. They had to, because that's what they needed to do to survive.
Now we go thru our 12-16+ years of school (which is a good thing), then rush off to make $$$. Then we spend a lot of our time trying to make more $$$. Then we're 65 or 70, and we stop and think about all the things we'd like to do, and wish we had done.
Like the saying goes, on your death-bed, you're not likely to say "I wish I had worked more"...
Actually, the economic boom you speak of was arguably initiated by Bush Sr. in his latter two years.
The economy tends to lag years behind governmental changes.
And in fact, the bad economy that GWB started with was handed to him by Clinton. So in fact, your example is completely opposite reality.