If your custom built house is prewired with cat5e/cat6, and you're selling it to someone who wants normal POTS phone, why not just replace the RJ45 jacks with regular phone jacks? After all, Cat5e and Cat6 are just twisted pairs that/can/ be used for phone.
If some future owner wants to convert it back, they can, just by putting RJ45 jacks back in.
If you're pre-wiring, leave enough slack in the walls for several conversions. About 400mm of slack will allow several re-terminations.
In the seven years that my wife and I have been together, I have changed jobs 3 times and my wife has changed jobs 5 times. Each time we have emailed CVs as PDFs created in OO. This did not stop us getting the job. PDFs will look the same on every platform from windows 95 - vista, MacOS, *nix etc.
I do not recommend sending a CV or Resume as a Word doc using different version from your prospective employer, or you will get the margin/font/etc format mess-up that you mentioned.
iiNet are being sued because they didn't do anything when the film companies sent them notices that some of their customers were pirating their media. They apparently sent 18 notices and iiNet refused to do anything because they were allegations rather than court ordered actions.
But they did do something about it. They passed the allegations on to the police. That is what anyone should do. It's the police's job to investigate allegations.
What if the recordings were clandestinely tampered with (editied, lost, damaged, what have you) while people (judges, jury) assume that the recordings are tamper proof?
There's no reason why a copy can't be given to the interviewee (or his/her lawyer) immediately at the end of the interview. If this was a statutory right, then at least the judge/jury would have two copies to compare if there was a discrepency.
1) Getting the paperwork done for an insurance claim after a burglary (I didn't expect the cops to find the burglar, but needed the police report to get laptop and other stuff replaced by insurance company). It was easy, and painless.
2) Being pulled over for speeding. Several times. They were polite, gave me my tickets and sent me on my way. One of them gave me a short lecture about the fact that there was a primary school nearby (I think most/.ers would call it an elementary school) and that I wouldn't want to live with the fact that I'd killed a wee kid. As I drove away I was thinking that the cop was absolutely right and I was a prick for speeding near a school. I've never done it again.
When I worked in a call centre with monthly forced password changes, I did the geometric keyboard pattern thing. It's faster to type, easy to remember and I didn't give a schit about security anyway - it wasn't my network.
The more I read about this sort of crap, the stronger my resolve - if schools here in New Zealand ever become like american schools I'm definitely going to home school my offspring.
I still don't understand how the BSA got the authority to walk into any business as if they were an official govt dept. I'm pretty sure they can't do that here in New Zealand, but I could be mistaken.
I have seen a number of resumes that boast "skills in MS Office" or similar. When I read this I think "Wow, this person learnt how to use something designed to be easy to use. Big deal.
I have a line on my resumé that reads:
* Computer literate - including MS-Office, OpenOffice, StarOffice and inhouse apps.
I felt the need to spell that out because some HR drones filter out resumés that don't specify MS-Office. Sad but true.
As an online discussion thread about computers or IT continues, the probability of someone making an analogy comparing computers or software to cars approaches one.
possibly the new XML format for M$Office documents will make things easier for OpenOffice, since a lot of trial-and-error from trying to figure out the old binary formats is , hopefuly, mostly gone...
I've heard or read somewhere that MS's XML contains chunks of binary data. If this is true (it could be anti-MS FUD) then it's another example of tokenism from Redmond.
So why not make the finance guy the CFO, make the techie the CTO, and they hire someone to be the CEO. The CEO is answerable to the shareholders - ie the submitter of this question and his friend.
When I bought my laptop a couple of years ago I took in a linux liveCD. The salesperson had to ask his boss first, but they let me do it. You'd be amazed at what people on commision will indulge to make a sale.
Remember, never cost someone more than they'd have to pay to have you killed.
Call me psycho, but I've just added that advice to my list of options should the occassion ever arise. And I would give it serious consideration if my back was against the wall - okay I might never do it, but I'd consider it. That alone scares me.
Now-a-days I justify this to myself saying that the kind of class (or professor) that requires this kind of thing (learning by rote memorization) is stupid anyway, and nothing good can come from craming to memorize something you'll forget 10 minutes after the exam.
I never memorised physics or calculus formulae - I derived the formula needed for each question from first principles when I reached a question needing that particular formula.
I owe this ability to a great high school physics teacher, Tom Leys (now deceased, what a loss!) of St Bede's College, Christchurch, New Zealand. Whenever he introduced a new concept we would learn the principles first, and then the formula.
I sat a physics exam when these fancy types of calculators were quite new. We were allowed to use them as long as we showed the exam supervisors that we cleared the memory first. I loaded it with notes and programmed one of the menu buttons to display the message "Memory Clear" so I could *ahem* "clear" it in front of one of the exam supervisors.
Then I had an attack of conscience and cleared it for real before I actually used any of the stored notes.
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If your custom built house is prewired with cat5e/cat6, and you're selling it to someone who wants normal POTS phone, why not just replace the RJ45 jacks with regular phone jacks? After all, Cat5e and Cat6 are just twisted pairs that /can/ be used for phone.
If some future owner wants to convert it back, they can, just by putting RJ45 jacks back in.
If you're pre-wiring, leave enough slack in the walls for several conversions. About 400mm of slack will allow several re-terminations.
In the seven years that my wife and I have been together, I have changed jobs 3 times and my wife has changed jobs 5 times. Each time we have emailed CVs as PDFs created in OO. This did not stop us getting the job. PDFs will look the same on every platform from windows 95 - vista, MacOS, *nix etc.
I do not recommend sending a CV or Resume as a Word doc using different version from your prospective employer, or you will get the margin/font/etc format mess-up that you mentioned.
iiNet are being sued because they didn't do anything when the film companies sent them notices that some of their customers were pirating their media. They apparently sent 18 notices and iiNet refused to do anything because they were allegations rather than court ordered actions.
But they did do something about it. They passed the allegations on to the police. That is what anyone should do. It's the police's job to investigate allegations.
Idealogically speaking, I would expect pro-full-disclosure types to support such a move.
What if the recordings were clandestinely tampered with (editied, lost, damaged, what have you) while people (judges, jury) assume that the recordings are tamper proof?
There's no reason why a copy can't be given to the interviewee (or his/her lawyer) immediately at the end of the interview. If this was a statutory right, then at least the judge/jury would have two copies to compare if there was a discrepency.
My only experience with cops has been:
/.ers would call it an elementary school) and that I wouldn't want to live with the fact that I'd killed a wee kid. As I drove away I was thinking that the cop was absolutely right and I was a prick for speeding near a school. I've never done it again.
1) Getting the paperwork done for an insurance claim after a burglary (I didn't expect the cops to find the burglar, but needed the police report to get laptop and other stuff replaced by insurance company). It was easy, and painless.
2) Being pulled over for speeding. Several times. They were polite, gave me my tickets and sent me on my way. One of them gave me a short lecture about the fact that there was a primary school nearby (I think most
The sooner they start getting heavyhanded with foreign pirates, the sooner we will see other countries pushing open source for economic reasons...
How will stopping crime on the highs seas affect a country's IT policies?
You mean to say that more than 50% of the population are involved in acts of violence on the high seas? Wow!
When I worked in a call centre with monthly forced password changes, I did the geometric keyboard pattern thing. It's faster to type, easy to remember and I didn't give a schit about security anyway - it wasn't my network.
The more I read about this sort of crap, the stronger my resolve - if schools here in New Zealand ever become like american schools I'm definitely going to home school my offspring.
I still don't understand how the BSA got the authority to walk into any business as if they were an official govt dept.
I'm pretty sure they can't do that here in New Zealand, but I could be mistaken.
This is probably the most insightful and perceptive comment under this article.
Finally - someone who Understands.
I have seen a number of resumes that boast "skills in MS Office" or similar. When I read this I think "Wow, this person learnt how to use something designed to be easy to use. Big deal.
I have a line on my resumé that reads:
* Computer literate - including MS-Office, OpenOffice, StarOffice and inhouse apps.
I felt the need to spell that out because some HR drones filter out resumés that don't specify MS-Office. Sad but true.
Loads of CS majors get through 4+ years of college, receive a BS in CS, and STILL know very little about computers that's useful in the real world!
Why do you think they call it a " BS "?
Yuri's law:
As an online discussion thread about computers or IT continues, the probability of someone making an analogy comparing computers or software to cars approaches one.
possibly the new XML format for M$Office documents will make things easier for OpenOffice, since a lot of trial-and-error from trying to figure out the old binary formats is , hopefuly, mostly gone...
I've heard or read somewhere that MS's XML contains chunks of binary data. If this is true (it could be anti-MS FUD) then it's another example of tokenism from Redmond.
If creating structured documents is your thing, check out LyX.
So why not make the finance guy the CFO, make the techie the CTO, and they hire someone to be the CEO.
The CEO is answerable to the shareholders - ie the submitter of this question and his friend.
Dead parrot? I thought it was a living parrot ...
Only if you buy your parrot from a reputable pet store, and not from a pet salesman who would rather be a lumberjack.
When I bought my laptop a couple of years ago I took in a linux liveCD. The salesperson had to ask his boss first, but they let me do it. You'd be amazed at what people on commision will indulge to make a sale.
Remember, never cost someone more than they'd have to pay to have you killed.
Call me psycho, but I've just added that advice to my list of options should the occassion ever arise. And I would give it serious consideration if my back was against the wall - okay I might never do it, but I'd consider it. That alone scares me.
4. predict whether a corporation is going to announce a major transaction by looking at public information about their executives travel behavior
That reminds me of something I read about predicting company mergers by new domain name registrations (whois).
If you knew the answer he was wanting, why not just give it to him?
Was the purpose of the test to get the marks or to be "right".
I admit it's one issue I struggle with myself, but I've given up the fight and I'm telling people what they want to hear more and more.
Now-a-days I justify this to myself saying that the kind of class (or professor) that requires this kind of thing (learning by rote memorization) is stupid anyway, and nothing good can come from craming to memorize something you'll forget 10 minutes after the exam.
I never memorised physics or calculus formulae - I derived the formula needed for each question from first principles when I reached a question needing that particular formula.
I owe this ability to a great high school physics teacher, Tom Leys (now deceased, what a loss!) of St Bede's College, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Whenever he introduced a new concept we would learn the principles first, and then the formula.
I sat a physics exam when these fancy types of calculators were quite new.
We were allowed to use them as long as we showed the exam supervisors that we cleared the memory first.
I loaded it with notes and programmed one of the menu buttons to display the message "Memory Clear" so I could *ahem* "clear" it in front of one of the exam supervisors.
Then I had an attack of conscience and cleared it for real before I actually used any of the stored notes.