I wouldn't say it was easy finding good employers, possibly harder than finding good employees, but it can be done.
I really don't think age has anything to do with it. I worked for a while at Salomon Bros (now Citibank something) in London with a guy who was around 50 and after spending alot of time in the sun looked 65+. Even I thought he was past it. But he had a keen mind and sort of self belief that bordered on arrogance. Maybe it was arrogance... Anyway he used to hack perl scripts and postscript and do whatever. He didn't feel threatened by his age at all and enjoyed working with us kids (I was 28 at the time).
I've had to deal with the odd predjudice at times. I don't have a degree or any training. I take months (sometimes years) off between jobs becuase I don't like working and don't care about money. People think what they want, and frankly I don't give a fuck. If someone thinks I'm too old/young/uneducated/slack/unreliable I think "what a fuckwit", becuase it's true, and go elsewhere. Eventually you find people who understand, but you have to believe in yourself in the meantime.
I also don't believe in "career" and in that sense, there is no such thing as failure. I'm just getting money when I need it, I know what I'm capable of and I don't need some moron trying to tell me. I don't judge myself by their twisted standards. Otherwise I'd have a MSCE right now... and a noose around my neck:)
I have to agree. I've freelanced practically all my working life (18 years) and I've never really had a problem. People generally recognise your skills and value them - if they don't you don't want to work for them. Good people are always hard to come by.
And by skills I don't mean what you have on your CV or what courses you did (although they can contribute). It could be just the way you think or react or your "wisdom", which in most cases comes with age.
The last interview I had was with a very well regarded (in a technical sense) investment bank. It interview was great - we sat down, chatted about the industry for 45 minutes and I got the job. They hardly asked me a question about what I did.
People who know know people who know. Just becuase some people get jobs when demand and pay is high doesn't mean they should have got the jobs or were worth the money.
The published interview is about as balanced as a Linux press-release issued by Microsoft. A couple of points to consider:
- Shareeza has implemented a new protocol and released it soely on it's own client. It hasn't publish any hard details and it's dubbed it "Gnutella2" with no support from existing supporters of the Gnutella protocol.
- The existing clients are a bit upset that Mike has done this, and his actions since, but doesn't really have an opinion on the technology becuase its specifications have not been released.
This seems to me as a fairly egotistical kid hijacking the Gnutella name for his own purposes, then charactising eveybody else as bitter about his wonderful new tchnology.
Theworse thing is that the GDF even pay attention to this fellow, they should just igonre him rather than waste their energy on being upset at his lack of manners.
They are talking $30 per leg. I imagine that at those prices it will go the same way as inseat phones.
I dunno about you, but on a long (12-14 hour) international flight, I would happily pay that to relieve the boredom. And if you're travelling on business it's a small expense if it means you can be productive in some way, such as catching up on industry news, the competitors products, whatever. Like other monopoly players, the phone providers just priced themselves out of the market.
I dub this post, any the increasing number like it, the Google Troll. The shocking thing is that they get modded up... but I guess that is the point of trolling.
Just becuase I'm a hermaphrodite it doesn't mean you can laugh at me.
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Few apps have specifically been optimized for it yet...make apps more multithreaded
This is a reccurring story in the development of parrallelism. It would be great in any form if people just developed for it, but even multithreading is quite tricky to implement compared to a single stream execution environment. And in most apps you just can't get the fine-grained parrallelism that would yield really good speed improvements.
This is a software problem, and no amount of hardware will make a significant difference.
I think this goes to show that it's not just about building a better mousetrap.
No, this is a case of money and influence over technology. Good technology. Bad politics. You could build a processor that executes instructions before they're fetched from memory and the Pentium would still be a best seller.
They're really nothing good about the death of the Alpha.
Yeah, if you say anything even slightly negative you get modded a troll. Moderator's today are so humourless. People really should look at posting history before marking someone a troll, and it should be reserved for real idiots, not borderline cases, or anyone making a critisism.
I think it is a valid point, though. The editors should be looking for questions that prevoke a lively debate. That's what slashdot is for - hundreds of opiniated nerds who think they know best fighting it out - not, as you say, to help them get their homework done. They should be asking questions that in essence, have no answers, not something you could get an answer on whith some applied googling. I think as editors they are missing the point. But even just from a nerdy point of view, who could find a question like this interesting?
...there were a choke point in the supply of really boring "Ask Slahsdot" posts. They are here to entertain us, you know, not to inform some hapless poster...
I have to agree. A lot of people migrated to Win95 becuase it was 32 bit and a much better interface. How many people are still there are will remain there? Microsoft and Intel have profited in the past from people's loathing change. If they ever want to do anything different, they're going to find it works against them. As Intel has found with Itanium. Go Opteron!
I certainly don't want to pay for your pr0n viewing pleasures with _my_ taxes.
You're starting to sound a bit like Mr. Alston. Keep in mind that roads, education, healthcare, etc all indirectly contribute to the manufacture and delivery of porn. Your taxes have already paid for other people's pleasure.
I use Australian appliances every day. And no, we don't have a competetive advantage in cars and such. But Foster's and beer isn't really the best example. Southcorp does much bigger business in the US with brands such as Rosemont wine. Fosters just had some commercials that everybody remebers.
But it's actually a hard job with the consumers wanting the impossible ("It must be our RIGHT to have FREE UNLIMITED broadband")
Exactly, who ever heard of something really useful that benefits the community, but expensive, being available for free. Like free roads. Or free education. Or free healthcare.
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I wouldn't say it was easy finding good employers, possibly harder than finding good employees, but it can be done.
:)
I really don't think age has anything to do with it. I worked for a while at Salomon Bros (now Citibank something) in London with a guy who was around 50 and after spending alot of time in the sun looked 65+. Even I thought he was past it. But he had a keen mind and sort of self belief that bordered on arrogance. Maybe it was arrogance... Anyway he used to hack perl scripts and postscript and do whatever. He didn't feel threatened by his age at all and enjoyed working with us kids (I was 28 at the time).
I've had to deal with the odd predjudice at times. I don't have a degree or any training. I take months (sometimes years) off between jobs becuase I don't like working and don't care about money. People think what they want, and frankly I don't give a fuck. If someone thinks I'm too old/young/uneducated/slack/unreliable I think "what a fuckwit", becuase it's true, and go elsewhere. Eventually you find people who understand, but you have to believe in yourself in the meantime.
I also don't believe in "career" and in that sense, there is no such thing as failure. I'm just getting money when I need it, I know what I'm capable of and I don't need some moron trying to tell me. I don't judge myself by their twisted standards. Otherwise I'd have a MSCE right now... and a noose around my neck
I have to agree. I've freelanced practically all my working life (18 years) and I've never really had a problem. People generally recognise your skills and value them - if they don't you don't want to work for them. Good people are always hard to come by.
And by skills I don't mean what you have on your CV or what courses you did (although they can contribute). It could be just the way you think or react or your "wisdom", which in most cases comes with age.
The last interview I had was with a very well regarded (in a technical sense) investment bank. It interview was great - we sat down, chatted about the industry for 45 minutes and I got the job. They hardly asked me a question about what I did.
People who know know people who know. Just becuase some people get jobs when demand and pay is high doesn't mean they should have got the jobs or were worth the money.
The published interview is about as balanced as a Linux press-release issued by Microsoft. A couple of points to consider:
- Shareeza has implemented a new protocol and released it soely on it's own client. It hasn't publish any hard details and it's dubbed it "Gnutella2" with no support from existing supporters of the Gnutella protocol.
- The existing clients are a bit upset that Mike has done this, and his actions since, but doesn't really have an opinion on the technology becuase its specifications have not been released.
This seems to me as a fairly egotistical kid hijacking the Gnutella name for his own purposes, then charactising eveybody else as bitter about his wonderful new tchnology.
Theworse thing is that the GDF even pay attention to this fellow, they should just igonre him rather than waste their energy on being upset at his lack of manners.
They are talking $30 per leg. I imagine that at those prices it will go the same way as inseat phones.
I dunno about you, but on a long (12-14 hour) international flight, I would happily pay that to relieve the boredom. And if you're travelling on business it's a small expense if it means you can be productive in some way, such as catching up on industry news, the competitors products, whatever. Like other monopoly players, the phone providers just priced themselves out of the market.
And remember, the foldable tray will stop your willie from overheating:)
But that may be counteracted by the porn you are downloading. The tray is handy either way, though.
I dub this post, any the increasing number like it, the Google Troll. The shocking thing is that they get modded up... but I guess that is the point of trolling.
I think that was his/her point... *chuckle*
Just becuase I'm a hermaphrodite it doesn't mean you can laugh at me.
Few apps have specifically been optimized for it yet...make apps more multithreaded
This is a reccurring story in the development of parrallelism. It would be great in any form if people just developed for it, but even multithreading is quite tricky to implement compared to a single stream execution environment. And in most apps you just can't get the fine-grained parrallelism that would yield really good speed improvements.
This is a software problem, and no amount of hardware will make a significant difference.
I think this goes to show that it's not just about building a better mousetrap.
No, this is a case of money and influence over technology. Good technology. Bad politics. You could build a processor that executes instructions before they're fetched from memory and the Pentium would still be a best seller.
They're really nothing good about the death of the Alpha.
Yeah, if you say anything even slightly negative you get modded a troll. Moderator's today are so humourless. People really should look at posting history before marking someone a troll, and it should be reserved for real idiots, not borderline cases, or anyone making a critisism.
I think it is a valid point, though. The editors should be looking for questions that prevoke a lively debate. That's what slashdot is for - hundreds of opiniated nerds who think they know best fighting it out - not, as you say, to help them get their homework done. They should be asking questions that in essence, have no answers, not something you could get an answer on whith some applied googling. I think as editors they are missing the point. But even just from a nerdy point of view, who could find a question like this interesting?
Oh well. Thanks for the support anyways.
.. they found men were thinking mostly about sex and women about shoes.
...there were a choke point in the supply of really boring "Ask Slahsdot" posts. They are here to entertain us, you know, not to inform some hapless poster...
Oh, and FP
Actually I though he was trying to be funny, but the last bit of his post makes me think not, or at least spoils the joke.
The evil corporates want you by the balls. Even if you're a girl.
Someday I may tell you how 13 men took on an Empire, and altared history (for the better), forever, 2000 years ago.
Please...no bible stories...
I have to agree. A lot of people migrated to Win95 becuase it was 32 bit and a much better interface. How many people are still there are will remain there? Microsoft and Intel have profited in the past from people's loathing change. If they ever want to do anything different, they're going to find it works against them. As Intel has found with Itanium. Go Opteron!
Apple has a bug. This is amazing news. FP
I certainly don't want to pay for your pr0n viewing pleasures with _my_ taxes.
You're starting to sound a bit like Mr. Alston. Keep in mind that roads, education, healthcare, etc all indirectly contribute to the manufacture and delivery of porn. Your taxes have already paid for other people's pleasure.
I use Australian appliances every day. And no, we don't have a competetive advantage in cars and such. But Foster's and beer isn't really the best example. Southcorp does much bigger business in the US with brands such as Rosemont wine. Fosters just had some commercials that everybody remebers.
the Australian IT and/or telecommunications industry would be honestly shocked and amazed that Senator Alston even knew what 'spam' was!
He does: "It's what broadband gives you besides games and pornography."
Korean companies anyways have a much stronger global presence than Australian companies.. except for beer ofcourse.... ;)
When was the last time you watched the Simpsons? Next time you do, remeber that it was brought to you by an Australian company...
But it's actually a hard job with the consumers wanting the impossible ("It must be our RIGHT to have FREE UNLIMITED broadband")
Exactly, who ever heard of something really useful that benefits the community, but expensive, being available for free. Like free roads. Or free education. Or free healthcare.
"Oh God, not Windows again! I told her I hate windows..."
the proliferation of extra fees tacked on to just about every product or service under the sun
...like Slashdot.
What benefit does the Xscale line offer over a power-conserving pentium/2/3/4?
An Xscale, and any ARM based processor, will make any Pentium look like a bar heater. They have very, very low power consumption for the performance.