After all we all now use macrovision and many of us bought new TV's because we could not figure out why we could not watch some certain movies. I know my parents did and it was years later until I found about Macrovision.
This new standard will be standard. It has to be by law. June 2005 is the deadline for the old standard to become obsolute under the DMCA.
Its also a crime punishable to 10 years in prison to copy movies you own or practice fair use.
The US government is always on the side of big business. Get use to it.
I was very angry with my old man when he would not let me go to college after highschool.
4 years later I went motivated to see what I could do. I refused to work on "boring" classes and didn't do the homework. I dropped out after the first semester in shame.
Today I have near a 3.4 GPA as I matured and realized you need to be ready for college. Not everyone is when they go. Its all in your head and doing a do-over might not work if you think like you did a decade ago.
Which is true but whom do you feel will perform better?
The kid with a 2.9 GPA or the kid with the 3.7 GPA?
I think the ladder is true but does not guarantee it.
Yes its hand holding but someone who does not do well even with the hand holding probably wont de well at work either. I am not saying its an absolute truth but it is a correct asumption 90% of the time. In this job market you need to filter anyone below a 3.4 GPA unless him or her has tons of experience. Its dumb not too.
This argument reminds me of the sig The Wizard of OZ:"I can't give you a brain but I can give you this diploma" that I see here on slashdot.
Both of you are right. John Carmack is one of the greatest programmers alive. He dropped out of college due to his immaturity and is now the leader in 3d graphics engines. He showed he knows his stuff. Carmack has reviewed graphics research on his own when developing the quake series.
Yes, not all great programmers have college degrees or they have degrees in other fields outside of CS. In addition, most college's today hand out degrees to look better for the Princeton review.
Its wrong and many people cheat on tests because HR assumes GPAs are the only important thing that matters.
However, employers need a way to make sure their investment in human resources will perform optimally. This is why they always ask strange questions in interviews, like explain a situation where you took initiative? Alternatively, explain a situation where an obstacle came up with another worker? What happened and how did you overcome it? A good GPA will ensure proof they can handle challenges and hard work as well as the ability to handle "boring" things. It ensures basic intelligence as well.... but does not guarantee it.:-)
Fact is there is no way to know if hiring a particular person will work out.
I think experience should account for something and if he/she without a degree has 8 years experience and long job dates on his or her resume than it shows the person is competent. I would not care as an IT manager unless the person has less than 5 years experience.
HR today assumes people without the degree in CS are not intelligent enough for the job regardless of experience, which is not true at all. I have seen this requirement even for help desk jobs. If I were an IT manager, I would to go through the resumes myself and I agree with the other poster that good people are being filtered out. In today's economy, they can afford to do just that and it really stings for those without degree's trying to get back in the workforce.
A good GPA is important for a student would be important for an IT manager because his or her job would be on the line if you underperformed.
Sadly, I never finished college and I was shafted myself. I learned a valuable lesson and returned and will hopefully get back on my two feet again.
Last, the previous comment about Google requiring a cs degree is not true.
What is true is that they have a horribly hard and complicated test they use to score your intelligence with questions like "What is the 1,000 digit in E? Or, how would you spice up a haiku? (sp) Obviously, they want insanely brilliant people to apply and if your score is, high enough they will probably hire you. The haiku (sp) is ancient Japanese poetry and a term people use to write short poems on their journals. It is a great way for Google to find extraordinary people who are savory in internet logo.
At least google knows how to filter the so-called "paper" degrees with real knowledge.
I switched to NT back in the 90's while I found Unix too hard to use.
Finally in 98 after years of fustration and MS dominating everything and costing $$ I switched to Caldera OpenLinux 1.1 and never looked back.
The command line was rediscovered. I find learning all the commands cumbersome but I like the command line due to the fact I can script jobs and tasks.
Also because everything is a file I can move mountains with perl.
Of course the choice of multiple gui's was another reason.:-)
You may want to read the comments on this story and past HP stories for all the details.
HP like IBM was a different company in the past. They were once known for their engineering, ingenuity, innovativeness, and big R&D.
Today they are becoming the walmart of the pc industry while still charging high prices. Also they made some questionable business decisions in terms of their superior products. For example killing the alpha processor because they already invested billions in the sinking Itanium to killing off the clustering in the superior Digital Unix and using a vendor to write a lower quality clustering solution for HP-UX, etc.
Also do not get me started on the calculators. They are practically non existent anymore as HP killed them off.
HP has turned into a short sighted company who makes substandard products and does not look at the long term effects.
I for one would never trust an HP printer or server made after 2001 as a result. They are just not good anymore and frankly are still expensive.
Many slashdotters who have a grudge agaisnt HP were probably former HP customers and loyalists.
Actually from a marketing perspective Intel was right.
Home users bought Intel's because they ran out a higher clock rate and many vendors like Dell knew consumers would look at the mhz speed of their products when making purchasing deciscions. In return Dell chose Intel for the nice glossy ads you see in pc magazine which show the mhz speed.
Technical wise you and I know better but INtel is a business. Not a charity orgranization for hackers.
The PentiumII's and III's are also very similiar too I may add. Just some extra cache and a newer set of mmx instructions were added to the pentiumIII if I recall.
I agree with the other poster who said the names are more of a creation from the Intel marketing department.
Yep and the pentium pro's are really pentium 3's but with some limited 16-bit pipelines.
But I can also see the controversy of the p4 since intel made it slow per clock cycle than the p3 with longer pipelines in order to overclock it more to make it "appear" faster to the dumb average joe conusmer who buys based on mhz speed.
I know the G5's are probably at least 15-30 times faster than the 68040's in the Quadra's but if it took 3 days on such a beast it would still take a few minutes to perhaps an hour on a G5. This is pure cpu time.
The rest may be because your huge data now sits in the ram vs sitting in the hard drive.
If its up to 2 miles wide than yeas certainly a tsunamia that big can form.
It will be less if the mass is smaller.
There is a creater in Arizona from a meteor that was only 600 feet long. The creater is over 2 miles wide and over 1000 feet deep.
These things travel very fast and are loaded with energy. Some of them can travel over 100k miles an hour. Predicting the energy is taken from the speed of the object as well.
But still even if the energy of this meteor equaled the amount of the earthquake, the results would be devestating. 11,000 people are missing so far and that is only estimated so far.
Now the ipod spammers on livejournal and elsewhere will point out this article as absolute proof that ITS NOT A SCAM and its totally free with no strings attached.
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What if consumers do not know?
After all we all now use macrovision and many of us bought new TV's because we could not figure out why we could not watch some certain movies. I know my parents did and it was years later until I found about Macrovision.
This new standard will be standard. It has to be by law. June 2005 is the deadline for the old standard to become obsolute under the DMCA.
Its also a crime punishable to 10 years in prison to copy movies you own or practice fair use.
The US government is always on the side of big business. Get use to it.
By law June 2005 is the last month any equipment can be made to ignore broadcast flags.
This is the new standard whether we like it or not since many dvd makers will be fined if they do not include the drm.
Isn't corruption great?
Your CRT monitor according to some studies shows it can cause brain damage and short term memory problems due to the radiation.
Well the other poster is correct.
How do you sort through 100 resumes?
Filter out the ones with a less than 3.5 GPA or no degree.
Go to any employment seminar. Its a fact that corporate America does this and do have tons and tons of resumes.
I have a friend in HR and she finds most students with so called 4.0 GPAs as dishonest.
8 out of 10 times the applicants refuse to show the credentials or claim to get them and never show.
I find someone with a 3.5 GPA as more trustable and honest.
Believe it or not the vast majority of applicants lie on their resume.
Yep
I was very angry with my old man when he would not let me go to college after highschool.
4 years later I went motivated to see what I could do. I refused to work on "boring" classes and didn't do the homework. I dropped out after the first semester in shame.
Today I have near a 3.4 GPA as I matured and realized you need to be ready for college. Not everyone is when they go. Its all in your head and doing a do-over might not work if you think like you did a decade ago.
Which is true but whom do you feel will perform better?
The kid with a 2.9 GPA or the kid with the 3.7 GPA?
I think the ladder is true but does not guarantee it.
Yes its hand holding but someone who does not do well even with the hand holding probably wont de well at work either. I am not saying its an absolute truth but it is a correct asumption 90% of the time. In this job market you need to filter anyone below a 3.4 GPA unless him or her has tons of experience. Its dumb not too.
That is what the previous poster was saying.
This argument reminds me of the sig The Wizard of OZ:"I can't give you a brain but I can give you this diploma" that I see here on slashdot.
:-)
Both of you are right. John Carmack is one of the greatest programmers alive. He dropped out of college due to his immaturity and is now the leader in 3d graphics engines. He showed he knows his stuff. Carmack has reviewed graphics research on his own when developing the quake series.
Yes, not all great programmers have college degrees or they have degrees in other fields outside of CS. In addition, most college's today hand out degrees to look better for the Princeton review.
Its wrong and many people cheat on tests because HR assumes GPAs are the only important thing that matters.
However, employers need a way to make sure their investment in human resources will perform optimally. This is why they always ask strange questions in interviews, like explain a situation where you took initiative? Alternatively, explain a situation where an obstacle came up with another worker? What happened and how did you overcome it? A good GPA will ensure proof they can handle challenges and hard work as well as the ability to handle "boring" things. It ensures basic intelligence as well.... but does not guarantee it.
Fact is there is no way to know if hiring a particular person will work out.
I think experience should account for something and if he/she without a degree has 8 years experience and long job dates on his or her resume than it shows the person is competent. I would not care as an IT manager unless the person has less than 5 years experience.
HR today assumes people without the degree in CS are not intelligent enough for the job regardless of experience, which is not true at all. I have seen this requirement even for help desk jobs. If I were an IT manager, I would to go through the resumes myself and I agree with the other poster that good people are being filtered out. In today's economy, they can afford to do just that and it really stings for those without degree's trying to get back in the workforce.
A good GPA is important for a student would be important for an IT manager because his or her job would be on the line if you underperformed.
Sadly, I never finished college and I was shafted myself. I learned a valuable lesson and returned and will hopefully get back on my two feet again.
Last, the previous comment about Google requiring a cs degree is not true.
What is true is that they have a horribly hard and complicated test they use to score your intelligence with questions like "What is the 1,000 digit in E? Or, how would you spice up a haiku? (sp) Obviously, they want insanely brilliant people to apply and if your score is, high enough they will probably hire you. The haiku (sp) is ancient Japanese poetry and a term people use to write short poems on their journals. It is a great way for Google to find extraordinary people who are savory in internet logo.
At least google knows how to filter the so-called "paper" degrees with real knowledge.
Reliable yes. Functional and expandable? No.
:-)
I switched to NT back in the 90's while I found Unix too hard to use.
Finally in 98 after years of fustration and MS dominating everything and costing $$ I switched to Caldera OpenLinux 1.1 and never looked back.
The command line was rediscovered. I find learning all the commands cumbersome but I like the command line due to the fact I can script jobs and tasks.
Also because everything is a file I can move mountains with perl.
Of course the choice of multiple gui's was another reason.
Well I found it because I kept finding the communities whenever I did a google search on some things I am interested in.
I made friends and found my gf as a result of joining.
LJ is a very nice thing to have if your a socially isolated person so to speak.
Greatestjournal is much more for adults but I still use LJ for the friends I made.
Well most people use PVR's to watch TV and record shows like a VCR on steriods. Not hack.
Disabling DRM would be quite nice and so would something similiar to TIVO to go and perhaps a built in mp3 player would be cool.
If I could install applications somehow it would be cool as I could turn it into a media hub to do anything.
This is something MS wants to do badly and become the gatekeeper for any file stores whether its on the net, pc, or a tv show.
You may want to read the comments on this story and past HP stories for all the details.
HP like IBM was a different company in the past. They were once known for their engineering, ingenuity, innovativeness, and big R&D.
Today they are becoming the walmart of the pc industry while still charging high prices. Also they made some questionable business decisions in terms of their superior products. For example killing the alpha processor because they already invested billions in the sinking Itanium to killing off the clustering in the superior Digital Unix and using a vendor to write a lower quality clustering solution for HP-UX, etc.
Also do not get me started on the calculators. They are practically non existent anymore as HP killed them off.
HP has turned into a short sighted company who makes substandard products and does not look at the long term effects.
I for one would never trust an HP printer or server made after 2001 as a result. They are just not good anymore and frankly are still expensive.
Many slashdotters who have a grudge agaisnt HP were probably former HP customers and loyalists.
Well I only own a regular pc and I can tell you Xine and Mplayer crap on me all the time for any distro except debian and the 4.x versions of FreeBSD.
Now tell me if most of hte linux distro's are really that tested? SuSE particularly is very buggy.
If I were your boss I would fire you for installing free software that has not been testing for QA.
The redhat scare had to do with some patches for the stl library which many c++ unix programs needed to be ported to Linux.
In general Solaris and other unix admins do not like Linux that much for their servers. Reliablity is the number one reason.
I prefer pipes and tools like grep and awk then to script anything with vbscript and com.... shudder.
Actually from a marketing perspective Intel was right.
Home users bought Intel's because they ran out a higher clock rate and many vendors like Dell knew consumers would look at the mhz speed of their products when making purchasing deciscions. In return Dell chose Intel for the nice glossy ads you see in pc magazine which show the mhz speed.
Technical wise you and I know better but INtel is a business. Not a charity orgranization for hackers.
Intel could just move their manufactoring to China.
They could save on labor costs and not have to worry about patents outside the US.
Which is why they run Windows.
What I have a problem is that if something can not be observed then it does not exist.
This is how a an experiment or proof is made. Without an observation it should not be accepted as valid science.
I can see why many scientists bulked at quantum mechanics when it was first introduced since they wanted observable proof.
I know its generally accepted fact today but I find it odd that the scientific community could ever accept just a proposterious idea.
Ooops my mistake.
The PentiumII's and III's are also very similiar too I may add. Just some extra cache and a newer set of mmx instructions were added to the pentiumIII if I recall.
I agree with the other poster who said the names are more of a creation from the Intel marketing department.
Yep and the pentium pro's are really pentium 3's but with some limited 16-bit pipelines.
But I can also see the controversy of the p4 since intel made it slow per clock cycle than the p3 with longer pipelines in order to overclock it more to make it "appear" faster to the dumb average joe conusmer who buys based on mhz speed.
Was your dataset memory limited?
I know the G5's are probably at least 15-30 times faster than the 68040's in the Quadra's but if it took 3 days on such a beast it would still take a few minutes to perhaps an hour on a G5. This is pure cpu time.
The rest may be because your huge data now sits in the ram vs sitting in the hard drive.
How big is the asteriod?
If its up to 2 miles wide than yeas certainly a tsunamia that big can form.
It will be less if the mass is smaller.
There is a creater in Arizona from a meteor that was only 600 feet long. The creater is over 2 miles wide and over 1000 feet deep.
These things travel very fast and are loaded with energy. Some of them can travel over 100k miles an hour. Predicting the energy is taken from the speed of the object as well.
But still even if the energy of this meteor equaled the amount of the earthquake, the results would be devestating. 11,000 people are missing so far and that is only estimated so far.
Try a tsunami about 500x times bigger almost a mile high traveling 20 miles inland destroying everything in its site.
Keep in mind 90% of the population lives within 100 miles of the coast.
Devestating indeed.
Now the ipod spammers on livejournal and elsewhere will point out this article as absolute proof that ITS NOT A SCAM and its totally free with no strings attached.