Last I checked, breach of contract wasn't legal. By implication, braking this specific clause isn't legal, and would probably fall under the set called "Illegal."
Last I checked, broadcast signals don't stop at state lines, thus making them subject to interstate commerce. I happen to live in an area where that happens frequently (Kansas City). Signals not stopping, that is. If left to their own devices, I'm sure the two states would find a way to screw everyone over. Fortunately, 80 percent or more of Americans get their TV signals from Cable or Satellite.
As it happens, a lot of recruiters don't even bother looking in December, because the May turnout is so much higher, especially for positions looking to be filled by recent graduates. Graduating in December probably gave you a lot more time to prepare and make the proper rounds compared to those still worried about midterms, finals and senior projects, as well as a few extra months of practice. That said, congratulations, and I hope none of those calls leave you seeing greener pastures. The market may or may not be as robust as it seems, and many companies avoid people who change jobs with the wind.
I'm afraid I must take issue with your very first assumption. The mere availablity of so much related IT talent is what made Silicon Valley a hotbed. Essentially, my counter-argument goes like this: With the number of skilled workers growing while the job numbers remain in check, now is the time to start your own company and give these people a job.
Makes sense to be a contrarian. If more people than just me believe in that, then job growth is partially dependent on the available work force. In other words, the more people out there, the more jobs, rather than a finite and fixed number.
What percent of your potential business would you lose?
Probably the same amount that believed the answer "Yes" to the following question: "Were your clients safe from the attack that broke GreatBigWebsite.com?"
I think he was specifically referring to those two screen versions. IGN also commented on the game and watch similarities. Its possible that in the future, you'll see a DS with some goofy color scheme and an embedded game and watch game instead, for old time's sake.
Even when Opera and Mozilla say they're reporting as IE, they include some Mozilla tags to seperate themselves. Try setting up a small webserver and observing this yourself with a few different browsers. Usually browser statistics like this don't let such hoo-ha fool them. And I doubt the user-agent tag is actually used to give different HTML in the overwhelming majority of web sites.
Funny story about Java. Originally it was designed as a language for embedded systems, back when it was called Oak. There, the idea of a VM to provide various system tasks is actually quite tenable. The idea being, they write the VM once for a platform, and you're free to start prototyping the code before you finalize your choice of board.
Reality sunk in, and the embedded systems market just didn't like the idea. Training people in the new language was going to be expensive (compared to the status quo), and most were skeptical about the utility of a VM. The concern being that you typically need or want access to specific available resources that an abstract interface can't provide.
Seems marketing shifted gears and started pushing applets and the web. Went okay for them in the end, I guess.
Simply because there are no conventional explosives that produce the mushroom cloud reported, doesn't exclude non-conventional explosives. There's an old story about a russian oil pipeline that broke and exploded as a result of some chip documents that they stole, slightly after we modified them to malfunction. Many sources claim it was suspected to be a nuclear detonation for a few hours. We'll see how this one turns out. There's no pipeline to Korea that I know of...
Honestly, I have to say Stephenson started off great and is really tapering off. I think the more popular his name becomes, the less influence editors have over the bookwriting process, much to everyone's detriment. What really appealed to me in books like Snow Crash was a great introduction and general sarcastic attitude towards the future and an intense and creative social outlook. The one dissapointing thing about the book was the conversations between Hiro and the librarian program.
Example: Hiro : So why am I supposed to learn all this Babylonian information, and what does it all mean? Librarian : Well, as a program, I'm not capable of forming such thoughts, but I'll tell you anyways. Blah blah Enki blah blah. Hiro (startled by end of monolog):... Oh! Well, if that's all, then I think I'll go to the local Church of Elvis.
Unfortunately, that's the sort of thing that continued on in Diamond Age, and dominated Cryptonomicon. I was once told that the largest detriment and signal of a SciFi in need of work is explainations. Snow Crash effectively countered this with a healthy dose of cynicism injected directly into the bloodstream of the narrative. History can be interesting, but I don't need a detailed analysis of why our main hero of the era has killer hardons. Sure, it demonstrates character, but by this point we know at that point that if there was a kingdom called Nerd, he'd be the King.
Perhaps the wave of the future is the scifi short story. Reintroduce a thrift of words, and you might find your readership doubling. My theory, in short: the key to writing is brevity.
Last I checked, Ian was busy with Progeny, and UL was Peren's pet project. I could be missing a fact, like Ian is helping out, but it seems somewhat disingenious of Ian to support fragmenting his own Linux support consulting market.
Well, I'd check the Federal Register before you do anything crazy. I'm not sure who trumps who in an Executive Branch matchup of FCC vs FAA. It's likely that the FCC has disallowed the use, in conjunction with the FAA. On a similar note, it's been said the reason Cell phones aren't allowed in the air is that they work too well, connecting to eight or more cells rather than two or three. I'll leave it up to you to debunk that.
Judging by the games, I'd say its closer to Stratovarious not making instruments anymore. No direct impact, but you might not play games based on carmack technology anymore =)
The gba sp is pretty low right now. I'd expect the GBA to be lower. When you consider the number of concessions made for the portablity, it makes sense that the cube player is about 40 dollars.
The real difficulty of the system is media performance. Like it or not, Read Only is faster and cheaper. Flash carts are notoriously expensive, even with the mark up to American consumers. I wish I knew more about this aspect, so I could highlight how the difference in speed affects design, performance, and ultimately, your experience playing the game. Instead, I'll make baseless claims comparing card media to the load times in CDs. Debunk that!
I don't think you'll find anyone selling software with the source available under the GPL. Instead, they usually use a slightly more compatible liscence that doesn't translate into competitors starting up on sourceforge, or a dual liscencing scheme. If the GPL and money matters that much to you, typically you come up with a different revenue approach. The FSF sells manuals, T Shirts and accepts donations. Some people sell contracting services or hardware. ESR wrote one of those faux authortarian articles on the subject that actually has a degree of credibility.
Programs that qualify as Open Source that come to mind is the new xchat, qt was for a while (not sure if it still is), and maybe the Enterprise Redhat.
If you look at political classifications, you'll often find a two axis presentation of policy. On one, social issues, on the other, fiscal issues.
In this, you usually see Democrats as liberal socially and financially. Today's republicans are probably socially conservative and fiscally conservative (maybe, see below). Its an odd transformation the republicans have gone through, from being for a small government to a small tax with a huge deficit. I like to think that the Libertarians are the people who stayed put when the GOP moved.
The whole tax and spend vs dont tax and spent issue really confounds anyone trying to classify fiscal politics. Is a growing deficit conservative or liberal? I don't know, but I think its cowardly. Basically, the two axis model is breaking down.
I hate to be contrarian, but Gatto is talking, in particular, about a much newer education system: public schooling for children. Whether the university system is appropriate or not is certainly debatable, but not germane to the topic. The universities easily predate institutions like public high schools and elementaries. If they have been bent towards the same goals as their counterparts, it is not because the universities are complicit in design, but because it is demanded to be this way.
Enrollment and student applications are a function of business prestige, primarily. Alumni donations dwindle where graduates fail to enter the workforce. Universities need succesful students to survive. Nobody can eat philosophy, unfortunately. Whatever your reservations about university education, it's seen as some form of filtration by businesses, and I can't imagine them resisting the tide against them.
Why? When you go with the friends to lunch, do you make the wealthies guy pay more?
Well, when we split an appetiser, the fellow feeling the richest typically picks up the odd part that doesn't split evenly. So yes, when I go with my friends to lunch, the wealthiest pay more, somewhat.
Of course, if you listen to the academics who mourn the still birth of the art of gaming, the critical flaw of today's games is ignoring storyline. To these people, interactive stories are the epitome of gaming, and it is the designers who choose to ignore the story present in all games, be it Madden Football or even Tetris. What I've gathered is that video gaming art should be an advanced choose your own adventure book with pretty pictures.
Naturally, I tend to view these people as English students with a burning desire for a prosthetic Dungeon Master. People with a need to adapt a work form to a literary analysis tactic, rather than adapt a literary analysis to a work form. But lately, I've been thinking that perhaps there is some validity to the things they say, if the importance of story is overstated and the means of presentation is NEVER stated.
Finally, within the realm of game studies, very little attention is paid to multiplayer games, and what little there is focuses on MMORPGs and econimics. Why counter-strike is such a compelling experience for so many gamers is has not been the subject of many inquiries in academic circles. My pet theory is that the game features a three pronged force: * the spontaneity offered by other players easily trumps preprogrammed yet "interactive" levels and enemies * the team based and multiplayer focus heightens suspense and immersion. Coordination is tantamount to success, and the stress becomes more intense as you're the last man alive, stalking three opponents in silence. * the game offers a very strict set of rewards and punishments by way of money. Do well and be rewarded with money. Fail to survive and face the punishment of limbo.
I'd wager the real reason we haven't seen many worms from apple platforms is the clientelle. Its both small and likely to turn the computer off when not in use. No value in a target thats never on and difficult to propogate. Not like the thousands of servers running BSD, Linux, or Windows, with vast resources for storing pirated goods, sending spam or using as part of a DDoS.
Of course, I'd hate to see what a few powerbooks infected could do with their builtin wifi. If nothing else, it should bring the airspace around it to its knees!
xscreensaver is cool, and the new RSS ports are even cooler, until you accidentally leave on the fireworks one with audio one night.... while the computer is plugged into your sound system instead of headphones. Yea... whoops.
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Last I checked, breach of contract wasn't legal. By implication, braking this specific clause isn't legal, and would probably fall under the set called "Illegal."
Gator, or altria, if they don't know the name change. ;)
Last I checked, broadcast signals don't stop at state lines, thus making them subject to interstate commerce. I happen to live in an area where that happens frequently (Kansas City). Signals not stopping, that is. If left to their own devices, I'm sure the two states would find a way to screw everyone over. Fortunately, 80 percent or more of Americans get their TV signals from Cable or Satellite.
As it happens, a lot of recruiters don't even bother looking in December, because the May turnout is so much higher, especially for positions looking to be filled by recent graduates. Graduating in December probably gave you a lot more time to prepare and make the proper rounds compared to those still worried about midterms, finals and senior projects, as well as a few extra months of practice. That said, congratulations, and I hope none of those calls leave you seeing greener pastures. The market may or may not be as robust as it seems, and many companies avoid people who change jobs with the wind.
There is a finite number of IT jobs available
I'm afraid I must take issue with your very first assumption. The mere availablity of so much related IT talent is what made Silicon Valley a hotbed. Essentially, my counter-argument goes like this: With the number of skilled workers growing while the job numbers remain in check, now is the time to start your own company and give these people a job.
Makes sense to be a contrarian. If more people than just me believe in that, then job growth is partially dependent on the available work force. In other words, the more people out there, the more jobs, rather than a finite and fixed number.
What percent of your potential business would you lose?
Probably the same amount that believed the answer "Yes" to the following question: "Were your clients safe from the attack that broke GreatBigWebsite.com?"
I think he was specifically referring to those two screen versions. IGN also commented on the game and watch similarities. Its possible that in the future, you'll see a DS with some goofy color scheme and an embedded game and watch game instead, for old time's sake.
Even when Opera and Mozilla say they're reporting as IE, they include some Mozilla tags to seperate themselves. Try setting up a small webserver and observing this yourself with a few different browsers. Usually browser statistics like this don't let such hoo-ha fool them. And I doubt the user-agent tag is actually used to give different HTML in the overwhelming majority of web sites.
I'm not entirely sure how storing hydrogen gas is a significantly different idea than fuel cells. Could you enlighten me?
Funny story about Java. Originally it was designed as a language for embedded systems, back when it was called Oak. There, the idea of a VM to provide various system tasks is actually quite tenable. The idea being, they write the VM once for a platform, and you're free to start prototyping the code before you finalize your choice of board.
Reality sunk in, and the embedded systems market just didn't like the idea. Training people in the new language was going to be expensive (compared to the status quo), and most were skeptical about the utility of a VM. The concern being that you typically need or want access to specific available resources that an abstract interface can't provide.
Seems marketing shifted gears and started pushing applets and the web. Went okay for them in the end, I guess.
I don't see what makes a nuclear detonation any different than a non-nuclear explosion the same magnitude. Perhaps you could enlighten me?
Simply because there are no conventional explosives that produce the mushroom cloud reported, doesn't exclude non-conventional explosives. There's an old story about a russian oil pipeline that broke and exploded as a result of some chip documents that they stole, slightly after we modified them to malfunction. Many sources claim it was suspected to be a nuclear detonation for a few hours. We'll see how this one turns out. There's no pipeline to Korea that I know of...
Honestly, I have to say Stephenson started off great and is really tapering off. I think the more popular his name becomes, the less influence editors have over the bookwriting process, much to everyone's detriment. What really appealed to me in books like Snow Crash was a great introduction and general sarcastic attitude towards the future and an intense and creative social outlook. The one dissapointing thing about the book was the conversations between Hiro and the librarian program.
... Oh! Well, if that's all, then I think I'll go to the local Church of Elvis.
Example:
Hiro : So why am I supposed to learn all this Babylonian information, and what does it all mean?
Librarian : Well, as a program, I'm not capable of forming such thoughts, but I'll tell you anyways. Blah blah Enki blah blah.
Hiro (startled by end of monolog):
Unfortunately, that's the sort of thing that continued on in Diamond Age, and dominated Cryptonomicon. I was once told that the largest detriment and signal of a SciFi in need of work is explainations. Snow Crash effectively countered this with a healthy dose of cynicism injected directly into the bloodstream of the narrative. History can be interesting, but I don't need a detailed analysis of why our main hero of the era has killer hardons. Sure, it demonstrates character, but by this point we know at that point that if there was a kingdom called Nerd, he'd be the King.
Perhaps the wave of the future is the scifi short story. Reintroduce a thrift of words, and you might find your readership doubling. My theory, in short: the key to writing is brevity.
Last I checked, Ian was busy with Progeny, and UL was Peren's pet project. I could be missing a fact, like Ian is helping out, but it seems somewhat disingenious of Ian to support fragmenting his own Linux support consulting market.
Well, I'd check the Federal Register before you do anything crazy. I'm not sure who trumps who in an Executive Branch matchup of FCC vs FAA. It's likely that the FCC has disallowed the use, in conjunction with the FAA. On a similar note, it's been said the reason Cell phones aren't allowed in the air is that they work too well, connecting to eight or more cells rather than two or three. I'll leave it up to you to debunk that.
Judging by the games, I'd say its closer to Stratovarious not making instruments anymore. No direct impact, but you might not play games based on carmack technology anymore =)
The gba sp is pretty low right now. I'd expect the GBA to be lower. When you consider the number of concessions made for the portablity, it makes sense that the cube player is about 40 dollars.
The real difficulty of the system is media performance. Like it or not, Read Only is faster and cheaper. Flash carts are notoriously expensive, even with the mark up to American consumers. I wish I knew more about this aspect, so I could highlight how the difference in speed affects design, performance, and ultimately, your experience playing the game. Instead, I'll make baseless claims comparing card media to the load times in CDs. Debunk that!
I don't think you'll find anyone selling software with the source available under the GPL. Instead, they usually use a slightly more compatible liscence that doesn't translate into competitors starting up on sourceforge, or a dual liscencing scheme. If the GPL and money matters that much to you, typically you come up with a different revenue approach. The FSF sells manuals, T Shirts and accepts donations. Some people sell contracting services or hardware. ESR wrote one of those faux authortarian articles on the subject that actually has a degree of credibility.
Programs that qualify as Open Source that come to mind is the new xchat, qt was for a while (not sure if it still is), and maybe the Enterprise Redhat.
If you look at political classifications, you'll often find a two axis presentation of policy. On one, social issues, on the other, fiscal issues.
In this, you usually see Democrats as liberal socially and financially. Today's republicans are probably socially conservative and fiscally conservative (maybe, see below). Its an odd transformation the republicans have gone through, from being for a small government to a small tax with a huge deficit. I like to think that the Libertarians are the people who stayed put when the GOP moved.
The whole tax and spend vs dont tax and spent issue really confounds anyone trying to classify fiscal politics. Is a growing deficit conservative or liberal? I don't know, but I think its cowardly. Basically, the two axis model is breaking down.
I hate to be contrarian, but Gatto is talking, in particular, about a much newer education system: public schooling for children. Whether the university system is appropriate or not is certainly debatable, but not germane to the topic. The universities easily predate institutions like public high schools and elementaries. If they have been bent towards the same goals as their counterparts, it is not because the universities are complicit in design, but because it is demanded to be this way.
Enrollment and student applications are a function of business prestige, primarily. Alumni donations dwindle where graduates fail to enter the workforce. Universities need succesful students to survive. Nobody can eat philosophy, unfortunately. Whatever your reservations about university education, it's seen as some form of filtration by businesses, and I can't imagine them resisting the tide against them.
Why? When you go with the friends to lunch, do you make the wealthies guy pay more?
Well, when we split an appetiser, the fellow feeling the richest typically picks up the odd part that doesn't split evenly. So yes, when I go with my friends to lunch, the wealthiest pay more, somewhat.
Of course, if you listen to the academics who mourn the still birth of the art of gaming, the critical flaw of today's games is ignoring storyline. To these people, interactive stories are the epitome of gaming, and it is the designers who choose to ignore the story present in all games, be it Madden Football or even Tetris. What I've gathered is that video gaming art should be an advanced choose your own adventure book with pretty pictures.
Naturally, I tend to view these people as English students with a burning desire for a prosthetic Dungeon Master. People with a need to adapt a work form to a literary analysis tactic, rather than adapt a literary analysis to a work form. But lately, I've been thinking that perhaps there is some validity to the things they say, if the importance of story is overstated and the means of presentation is NEVER stated.
Finally, within the realm of game studies, very little attention is paid to multiplayer games, and what little there is focuses on MMORPGs and econimics. Why counter-strike is such a compelling experience for so many gamers is has not been the subject of many inquiries in academic circles. My pet theory is that the game features a three pronged force:
* the spontaneity offered by other players easily trumps preprogrammed yet "interactive" levels and enemies
* the team based and multiplayer focus heightens suspense and immersion. Coordination is tantamount to success, and the stress becomes more intense as you're the last man alive, stalking three opponents in silence.
* the game offers a very strict set of rewards and punishments by way of money. Do well and be rewarded with money. Fail to survive and face the punishment of limbo.
I'd wager the real reason we haven't seen many worms from apple platforms is the clientelle. Its both small and likely to turn the computer off when not in use. No value in a target thats never on and difficult to propogate. Not like the thousands of servers running BSD, Linux, or Windows, with vast resources for storing pirated goods, sending spam or using as part of a DDoS.
Of course, I'd hate to see what a few powerbooks infected could do with their builtin wifi. If nothing else, it should bring the airspace around it to its knees!
"citizens of that public (read as: taxpayer-funded) institution have just as much right to the bandwidth as they do inside the building."
Ironically, churches are usually given tax breaks.
xscreensaver is cool, and the new RSS ports are even cooler, until you accidentally leave on the fireworks one with audio one night.... while the computer is plugged into your sound system instead of headphones. Yea... whoops.