Perfect. An open source OS backed by a well known name. The perfect stepping stone to get hesitant PHBs to accept an open source OS without a big company behind it into their shops.
It's not a boom, it's the bounce off the floor. Look at what sort of companies are being invested in. It's not the 50-100 person startup. It's large 1000+ companies that survived the burst. Investors finally realise "hey, if that company survived, maybe they actually -are- selling something!". Since even those companies got their stock prices harm by the burst, they're largely undervalued. Hence the "mini-boom". Not a boom. Just adjustment.
Dress codes if anything have gotten more stringent in recent years, as the supply of skilled laborers has rocketed up. Businesses can happily pick the 'less odd' of two applicants.
I think it's a complete farce, and would readily hire the guy with the 2 foot mowhawk. He's more likely to fit in with the team.
But as others have said, most places do like a professional appearance since in most lines of work, appearances matter most. My wife is in the process of doing a bunch of interviews now, with her blue hair. She sticks it up into a little poofy bun and puts on business attire. Only one place [out of perhaps a dozen] even commented, let alone cut short the interview.
Oddly enough only one of her previous employers had any problem with it. Starbucks of all places.
If Some Joe won't buy say... windows XP, even though he can afford it, and has no reason to keep his name off of sales records, do you really expect a terrorist to?
Because any benefits of the research would be far better off owned by a company [see Conagra and the whole genetically modified seed atrocities] than released to the public by a university.
Since the Republicans are asking me to fund a war I'm firmly opposed to, I think they should pony up a few bucks for Stem Cell research.
Just like "take our Star Wars quiz!" and "was Darth Vader born evil?" [also CNN content] are news? The site has been posting Star Wars crap all week as a marketing blitz for the premiere.
Unfortunately, in America far too many people are diagnosed as depressed when the cultural norm for emotion is happy. People -can- be neither happy nor sad, just... there. I'd imagine that quite a few geeks would tend to fit into that distanced analysis of the world leaves them rather neutral feeling. Since neutral is below happy [the cultural norm], they're judged as being sick or depressed. Nothing is making them feel bad, it's just that nothing is there to make them happy.
Though that said, I wouldn't be suprised at all if much of the stereotypical geek lifestyle [bad diet, low exercise, spotty social activity, not enough sex] led to increased rates of proper depression.
A PS3 that still outputs to a low resolution, low refresh television [okay okay, and possibly a much nicer HD TV].
The main feature of this card is to display onto big Apple displays at about 12 times the resolution... Fairly different audiences, even though both will likely be playing games.
This card will likely be Required in the same places the Quattro was required: Big rendering houses for animation and LARGE picture work, and for game devs looking to make a game for "common" hardware 3-4 years from now.
I know the whole "officially supported" practice, but really, it's a damned web browser. Certainly the biggest software services company can find a few people that know how that works...
Someone wake me when the regulation actually has legal consiquence if someone disobeys it. To my knowledge, the FCC can fine people or companies all they like, but have questionable legal standing to actually make them pay up.
I can nearly guarantee that whatever company is providing you the blade servers has already done a ton of quantitative testing [or had someone else do it for them] for the sort of thing you're looking for. Just ask them for the data.
*buzz* wrong, or at least... incorrect terminology.
Viruses by and large run due to exploits in code. They exploit the code, placing themselves as the executable to be run, which then runs on that machine, exploiting other machines. On windows systems, the most commonly exploited code is the OS itself, or other Microsoft code commonly bundled [mssql, iis, ie]. So yes, it is the OS's fault.
Trojans, spyware, and other maladies are a different beast. They're commonly referred to as viruses by the masses, but shouldn't be. They require user action to "infect" a machine since they do not exploit code to run. They just run more than the user expects. In this case, you're right, the OS can't really tell that the app you're running is illegitimate.
No firewall will help in the first case, as you kinda need the service open and running or else it wouldn't be there to infect. No firewall will help in the second case either. If an OS can't tell what's legitimate, how can a firewall?
I mean really, even the review contained so many domain specific terms it was hard to follow. Still, I can't imagine this as being a requirement for game programmers. Certainly many games utilize the features within on PC's, but the majority of the games today aren't made for PC's. And the majority of programmers on a game dev team don't deal with the game's renderer.
Sure, it might be good to have, and much of the parellel processing practices will translate to consoles, but required?
I said that poor and un-educated people are more likely to have poor and un-educated children due to being less likely to provide a stable supportive environment. Race is really immaterial to that trend. American blacks just have the distinction of having poverty and lack of education thrust upon them by slavery and later segregation.
Only one generation has passed since, a very short period for the time it takes to collectively recover from that loop. Racism would be to think that being poor and uneducated was their fault or their nature.
It's missing from the equation by and large due to the statistic you describe. That's not a matter of morals, or faith. It's a matter of providing real equality, not just legislated equality, or feigned equality because it's "right".
That though is a tricky thing.
Stating "You are Free!" at the end of the war did not work. Seperate but equal does not work. Science showed that, not faith. Science, that is looking at observation and proving or disproving hypothesises. The rights movement in the 60's came to change that. Legislated equality is still up for debate. It has provided more oppertunity, but has not perhaps put people in a position to take advantage of those opperunities.
The problem is not for a lack of morals, but due to a lack of... skill. Even if by some miracle, the black man in the United States was never discriminated against, that would not change their situation recoving from generations of oppression. That would not accomplish the free and equal status strived for. Finding a good way to provide that is a matter of science, not of faith or sheer willpower.
Certainly keeping other people unhappy can be profitable. In many ways even; but does greed make you happy?
*shrug*
Certainly science could use some moral framework. It would be by far better to have a moral framework which changes with the observations and knowledge gained from science. From man being introspective, and philosophising. Not from a cult bound to faith and superstition.
The greatest strides in civil freedoms in the United States have come during the most secular periods in it's history. Morality does not require religion. Morals cannot be codified.
From a scientific point of view, it doesn't matter -how- the universe was created, simply that it exists now.
From a practical point of view, knowing that there exists a Creator which has a vested interest in us changes the context of our actions a great deal. Further, most religions tie an afterlife to their Creator[s], which really sways people's decisions. But that's the entire point of religions, isn't it?
Why do you think Symantec made the move to buy/merge with Veritas. At face value, it seems to be an odd pairing. The end goal of computer security is to protect data. The end goal of backup solutions is to protect data.
Google shows their budget to be somewhere around $3.3 billion US over 5 years or about $650m.
Given nasa's budget of $16 billion US, and the US's population of 300m, per capita income of $30k VS india's 1b population at $3k per capita...
The amount of tax [compared to per capita income] needed to fund the space programs are nearly identical. (around.0002% of their yearly income if my math is correct)
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Perfect. An open source OS backed by a well known name. The perfect stepping stone to get hesitant PHBs to accept an open source OS without a big company behind it into their shops.
It's not a boom, it's the bounce off the floor. Look at what sort of companies are being invested in. It's not the 50-100 person startup. It's large 1000+ companies that survived the burst. Investors finally realise "hey, if that company survived, maybe they actually -are- selling something!". Since even those companies got their stock prices harm by the burst, they're largely undervalued. Hence the "mini-boom". Not a boom. Just adjustment.
Dress codes if anything have gotten more stringent in recent years, as the supply of skilled laborers has rocketed up. Businesses can happily pick the 'less odd' of two applicants.
I think it's a complete farce, and would readily hire the guy with the 2 foot mowhawk. He's more likely to fit in with the team.
But as others have said, most places do like a professional appearance since in most lines of work, appearances matter most. My wife is in the process of doing a bunch of interviews now, with her blue hair. She sticks it up into a little poofy bun and puts on business attire. Only one place [out of perhaps a dozen] even commented, let alone cut short the interview.
Oddly enough only one of her previous employers had any problem with it. Starbucks of all places.
Keep my own schedule? Peh, why create more work for myself?
I figure if it's important, someone will remind me.
$600 per car is not a lot to spend to ensure road safety.
Certainly. But this invention won't ensure road safety. It doesn't even ensure sobriety.
If Some Joe won't buy say... windows XP, even though he can afford it, and has no reason to keep his name off of sales records, do you really expect a terrorist to?
Because any benefits of the research would be far better off owned by a company [see Conagra and the whole genetically modified seed atrocities] than released to the public by a university.
Since the Republicans are asking me to fund a war I'm firmly opposed to, I think they should pony up a few bucks for Stem Cell research.
Just like "take our Star Wars quiz!" and "was Darth Vader born evil?" [also CNN content] are news? The site has been posting Star Wars crap all week as a marketing blitz for the premiere.
This isn't news, it's thinly veiled marketing.
Unfortunately, in America far too many people are diagnosed as depressed when the cultural norm for emotion is happy. People -can- be neither happy nor sad, just... there. I'd imagine that quite a few geeks would tend to fit into that distanced analysis of the world leaves them rather neutral feeling. Since neutral is below happy [the cultural norm], they're judged as being sick or depressed. Nothing is making them feel bad, it's just that nothing is there to make them happy.
Though that said, I wouldn't be suprised at all if much of the stereotypical geek lifestyle [bad diet, low exercise, spotty social activity, not enough sex] led to increased rates of proper depression.
A PS3 that still outputs to a low resolution, low refresh television [okay okay, and possibly a much nicer HD TV].
The main feature of this card is to display onto big Apple displays at about 12 times the resolution... Fairly different audiences, even though both will likely be playing games.
This card will likely be Required in the same places the Quattro was required: Big rendering houses for animation and LARGE picture work, and for game devs looking to make a game for "common" hardware 3-4 years from now.
Doom3 patched to allow more than 4(!) people in a multiplayer game...
I know the whole "officially supported" practice, but really, it's a damned web browser. Certainly the biggest software services company can find a few people that know how that works...
I am not a lawyer and might be mistaken, but...
Someone wake me when the regulation actually has legal consiquence if someone disobeys it. To my knowledge, the FCC can fine people or companies all they like, but have questionable legal standing to actually make them pay up.
I can nearly guarantee that whatever company is providing you the blade servers has already done a ton of quantitative testing [or had someone else do it for them] for the sort of thing you're looking for. Just ask them for the data.
*buzz* wrong, or at least... incorrect terminology.
Viruses by and large run due to exploits in code. They exploit the code, placing themselves as the executable to be run, which then runs on that machine, exploiting other machines. On windows systems, the most commonly exploited code is the OS itself, or other Microsoft code commonly bundled [mssql, iis, ie]. So yes, it is the OS's fault.
Trojans, spyware, and other maladies are a different beast. They're commonly referred to as viruses by the masses, but shouldn't be. They require user action to "infect" a machine since they do not exploit code to run. They just run more than the user expects. In this case, you're right, the OS can't really tell that the app you're running is illegitimate.
No firewall will help in the first case, as you kinda need the service open and running or else it wouldn't be there to infect. No firewall will help in the second case either. If an OS can't tell what's legitimate, how can a firewall?
Does it come with a dictionary?
I mean really, even the review contained so many domain specific terms it was hard to follow. Still, I can't imagine this as being a requirement for game programmers. Certainly many games utilize the features within on PC's, but the majority of the games today aren't made for PC's. And the majority of programmers on a game dev team don't deal with the game's renderer.
Sure, it might be good to have, and much of the parellel processing practices will translate to consoles, but required?
Eh? No, I didn't.
I said that poor and un-educated people are more likely to have poor and un-educated children due to being less likely to provide a stable supportive environment. Race is really immaterial to that trend. American blacks just have the distinction of having poverty and lack of education thrust upon them by slavery and later segregation.
Only one generation has passed since, a very short period for the time it takes to collectively recover from that loop. Racism would be to think that being poor and uneducated was their fault or their nature.
Only without the unreasonable demands by product management or the impossible to fille promises of salespeople.
Though the terribly underfunded budget is still there...
It's missing from the equation by and large due to the statistic you describe. That's not a matter of morals, or faith. It's a matter of providing real equality, not just legislated equality, or feigned equality because it's "right".
That though is a tricky thing.
Stating "You are Free!" at the end of the war did not work. Seperate but equal does not work. Science showed that, not faith. Science, that is looking at observation and proving or disproving hypothesises. The rights movement in the 60's came to change that. Legislated equality is still up for debate. It has provided more oppertunity, but has not perhaps put people in a position to take advantage of those opperunities.
The problem is not for a lack of morals, but due to a lack of... skill. Even if by some miracle, the black man in the United States was never discriminated against, that would not change their situation recoving from generations of oppression. That would not accomplish the free and equal status strived for. Finding a good way to provide that is a matter of science, not of faith or sheer willpower.
You underestimate the curiosity of man I think.
Certainly keeping other people unhappy can be profitable. In many ways even; but does greed make you happy?
*shrug*
Certainly science could use some moral framework. It would be by far better to have a moral framework which changes with the observations and knowledge gained from science. From man being introspective, and philosophising. Not from a cult bound to faith and superstition.
The greatest strides in civil freedoms in the United States have come during the most secular periods in it's history. Morality does not require religion. Morals cannot be codified.
No offense intended, but simple psychological studies will say that people are happier when treated well; that people like "good" people.
But science doesn't need to teach us that. And no book written by man will solve the "sin" of man.
Not exactly.
From a scientific point of view, it doesn't matter -how- the universe was created, simply that it exists now.
From a practical point of view, knowing that there exists a Creator which has a vested interest in us changes the context of our actions a great deal. Further, most religions tie an afterlife to their Creator[s], which really sways people's decisions. But that's the entire point of religions, isn't it?
Why do you think Symantec made the move to buy/merge with Veritas. At face value, it seems to be an odd pairing. The end goal of computer security is to protect data. The end goal of backup solutions is to protect data.
Where'd you get those numbers?
.0002% of their yearly income if my math is correct)
Google shows their budget to be somewhere around $3.3 billion US over 5 years or about $650m.
Given nasa's budget of $16 billion US, and the US's population of 300m, per capita income of $30k VS india's 1b population at $3k per capita...
The amount of tax [compared to per capita income] needed to fund the space programs are nearly identical. (around
Perhaps Card is still pissed that he's only written one good novel. Or perhaps that he had to tack on the end of Ender's Game.