Let's set the record straight - Microsoft won the browser wars over the Netscape, because it delivered a better product with IE 4 and IE 5.
Ahh, let's set the record even more straight (with a nod to dimator):
Netscape made a fatal development decision. THEY CEASED DEVELOPMENT FOR THREE YEARS. Let me say that again: some PHB acquiesced to the developers' request (or decided on his own---who knows?) to allow them to start over. Oh a medium to large project, you never, ever, ever start over when market share is on the line, lest you wish to become number two or lower. And they did.
People much smarter than you
already determined that the K-T boundary is uniformly deposited (in terms of time) across the earth, no
matter which craton you
examine, and it occurs at the same point in time as a significant biomass die-off.
This indicates that a extreme amount of dust and ash must've
been airborne for many years, blocking much of the sunlight that would normally enable plant life to flourish. While it is
entirely feasible that dinosaurs were in decline prior to this time, the event that killed
them is the same one that ultimately created the K-T.
Anyone who has a mortgage and realizes the risk of missing a payment. See, if some crook double-dips your debig card for an extra 2 grand when you buy a new Iron Horse, then you get a nice asspole from the bank when your mortgage payment fails to go through.
No, you don't get your money back when you report the crime; you have to wait for the investigation to complete before that happens. That cash is "in your account" but you can't touch it; you can't use it to pay bills, keep your credit clean, or keep the repo man away.
See what you get to look forward to when you move out of your Mom's house?
So we can safely conclude that you do not write checks at your local QuickyMart; all of your transactions are via debit card or cash withdrawn from an ATM, since no merchant will take a check without a drivers licence (or State ID; which is the same thing save an 'x' in a field on the green screen).
Lastly, I'll wonder if you can really do the work.
If you aren't asking the applicant to actually do some of the same type of work in the interview that they'd do on the job, you are wasting everyone's time.
Please tell me you have something more than "So... I see that... you worked at Acme, Inc... for 2 years... Do you know... HTML?... Hmmm... where do you see yourself in five years?... What is your greatest weakness?... (etc)"
When you swipe the shopping cart, make sure you take the kind that don't have the auto-locking wheels
The motorists usually don't care that your windshield-washing bucket isn't filled with *cough* cleaning fluid
A "Will compute for food"-sign is novel enough to get an extra few bucks from the yuppies when they're stopped at the light; just make sure you deplace every few days
The best food scraps are found in Tai-food restaurant trashcans
Incorrect. I earned my BS in Geophysics, Minor in Math. BFD. Took about 1/2 the courses for the MS before I got tired of being poor.
When the rubber hits the road, having a paper doesn't mean jack shite in determining whether someone can actually do the job, and that, mi amigo, is all that matters.
that degrees mean absolutely nothing in the real world*, what does it matter?
The people in charge of Wally*Mart most certainly received their degrees decades ago. I doubt there are any PDP-11s--or whatever they programmed their PIC projects on--still in use today. I also doubt they use Pascal/Fortran on the job, but your sundry 80s BS CS has some of that on her transcript.
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* PHBs and other people who don't know how to interview/judge an applicant's stillset abscribe "value" to a degree, but if you asked them exactly how that applies to the job at hand, you'd get nothing more than vapor lock in return.
What can Southern Californians learn from this prediction?
Southern Californians should take the Keilis-Borok predictions as strong reminders that earthquakes have happened and will happen again in the region.
ClearChannel has a program called Burn Live (the name was changed to
"Instant Live"® after an unfortuante incident) that
records most of the entire concert direct from the soundboards. Their
deal with Worst^H^H^H^H^HBestBuy also has the CDs in those stores after
the show.
Some people don't think Burn Live
is all that, either. Note that ClearChannel is trying to lock out
competition of their live CD burninating model by using the patent system.
And when you molest/murder the other young girl you were hoping to chat to, the authorites have somewhere to start looking - they know the online identities of the people the girl was chatting to, and start looking into them...
...only to discover that the token you used was stolen from some kid 6 months ago in another state and sold on the black market...
Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your
life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly. When
you're a teenager you think you can work on any OS, and you do. Your
twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you learn to program, you make a
little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?"
Your forties, you grow into middle managment you grow another chin. The
streaming video starts to get too fast and one of your old girlfriends
from high school becomes a CTO. Your fifties you start to have trouble
finding a job. You'll call it "planned obsolescence," but it's age
discrimination. Your sixties you're totally unable to find a job, the
computers are faster, but you're unable to use them anyway. Seventies,
you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start playing Ultimate
Starcraft Tournament at two, Sims Live 10 around ten, Doom 7 the night
before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking
for the ultimate in softcore virtual four-D porn and muttering "how come
the kids don't 'holo'?" By your eighties, you've had a major stroke, and
you end up babbling to some Jamaican AI nurse who your wife can't stand
but who you call mama. Any questions?
You're assuming the government employs programmers with the technical skill sets to be able to 1) understand the code, and 2) determine if there are security flaws.
With the government "techs" I had the pleasure of working with, this is equivalent to asking a USian 5th grader to make a working Saturn 5 armed with popsicle sticks and string. We're talking about half the techs in one department resigning because the dept Director mandated all machines would be upgraded to use W2k instead of 95, and the techs said W2k was "way too complicated."
It is not that they become illegal to use, it is that you no longer have a license to use them. When MS end of lifes Windows/Office XP and beyond, you can bet that there's no way they'll activate your copy again if you blow your hard drive or want to upgrade your machine. You are effectively railroaded into two choices:
Pay your MS tax and upgrade to the latest Office/Windows, or
ESAD*
(*FOSS Office suites/OSes is not yet a viable option for the general public)
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Now get back to work before you become a line item in the weekly status report.
-- American Project Manager
Netscape made a fatal development decision. THEY CEASED DEVELOPMENT FOR THREE YEARS. Let me say that again: some PHB acquiesced to the developers' request (or decided on his own---who knows?) to allow them to start over. Oh a medium to large project, you never, ever, ever start over when market share is on the line, lest you wish to become number two or lower. And they did.
People much smarter than you already determined that the K-T boundary is uniformly deposited (in terms of time) across the earth, no matter which craton you examine, and it occurs at the same point in time as a significant biomass die-off.
This indicates that a extreme amount of dust and ash must've been airborne for many years, blocking much of the sunlight that would normally enable plant life to flourish. While it is entirely feasible that dinosaurs were in decline prior to this time, the event that killed them is the same one that ultimately created the K-T.
Go get iRate.
No, you don't get your money back when you report the crime; you have to wait for the investigation to complete before that happens. That cash is "in your account" but you can't touch it; you can't use it to pay bills, keep your credit clean, or keep the repo man away.
See what you get to look forward to when you move out of your Mom's house?
We know the government doesn't track ATM transactions, so you're safe.
If they hit a fixed object, like a tree or concrete barrier, everyone dies too.
Please tell me you have something more than "So... I see that ... you worked at Acme, Inc ... for 2 years ... Do you know... HTML? ... Hmmm... where do you see yourself in five years? ... What is your greatest weakness? ... (etc)"
Finally someone who understands. I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Incorrect. I earned my BS in Geophysics, Minor in Math. BFD. Took about 1/2 the courses for the MS before I got tired of being poor.
When the rubber hits the road, having a paper doesn't mean jack shite in determining whether someone can actually do the job, and that, mi amigo, is all that matters.
The people in charge of Wally*Mart most certainly received their degrees decades ago. I doubt there are any PDP-11s--or whatever they programmed their PIC projects on--still in use today. I also doubt they use Pascal/Fortran on the job, but your sundry 80s BS CS has some of that on her transcript.
.
* PHBs and other people who don't know how to interview/judge an applicant's stillset abscribe "value" to a degree, but if you asked them exactly how that applies to the job at hand, you'd get nothing more than vapor lock in return.
submit your SSN and retinal scan for further instructions...
You must be new...
ClearChannel has a program called Burn Live (the name was changed to "Instant Live"® after an unfortuante incident) that records most of the entire concert direct from the soundboards. Their deal with Worst^H^H^H^H^HBestBuy also has the CDs in those stores after the show.
Some people don't think Burn Live is all that, either. Note that ClearChannel is trying to lock out competition of their live CD burninating model by using the patent system.
You're new here, aren't you?
root@localhost is mine, as are safety@localhost, sc@me and test@none!!!!!
Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly. When you're a teenager you think you can work on any OS, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you learn to program, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow into middle managment you grow another chin. The streaming video starts to get too fast and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a CTO. Your fifties you start to have trouble finding a job. You'll call it "planned obsolescence," but it's age discrimination. Your sixties you're totally unable to find a job, the computers are faster, but you're unable to use them anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start playing Ultimate Starcraft Tournament at two, Sims Live 10 around ten, Doom 7 the night before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate in softcore virtual four-D porn and muttering "how come the kids don't 'holo'?" By your eighties, you've had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican AI nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama. Any questions?
...then don't bother. They won't get it.
With the government "techs" I had the pleasure of working with, this is equivalent to asking a USian 5th grader to make a working Saturn 5 armed with popsicle sticks and string. We're talking about half the techs in one department resigning because the dept Director mandated all machines would be upgraded to use W2k instead of 95, and the techs said W2k was "way too complicated."
Then again, some people believe in the Tooth Fairy, so what are you going to do?
(*FOSS Office suites/OSes is not yet a viable option for the general public)