Has anyone witnessed someone being turned down for a job because he had too much education?
It's not so much being turned down rather than you turning jobs down. You become much more picky and much more easily bored with mundane jobs.
My PhD got me into operating systems, distributed systems and distributed applications, and indirectly into hardware, radio/satellite communications and travel (giving papers all round the world). I now want a job that has everything; it's hard to try and knuckle down to just one of them and there are few out and out research posts about.
According to eWEEK's confidential source, SCO's coders "basically re-implemented the Linux kernel with functions available in the Unix kernel to build what is now known as the Linux Kernel Personality (LKP) in SCO Unix."
The evidence for this seems to be sections of exact identical code right down to the variable names and comments. Gee, where have we heard claims like this, recently?
and
IBM likely recoils from the thought of buying out SCO because -- aside from refusing to reward such flimsy blackmail -- it might want to avoid "owning" Unix. It's almost like an Egyptian mummy's curse, it seems.
Surprise, surprise, it was an ugly looking thing, I used to see them in a shop window in San Francisco. So it's followed the C5, remember Sinclair's triumph?
This has been happening since the early days of the net; I remember these warnings from the early '80s. Here are a "few" examples. It used to be blamed on the amount of porn on Usenet, then email loads, then spam, now it the big bad corporations restricting our freedoms.
However, people use it in a way that they find value. Ok, so we can't post copyrighted mp3s but we can share our own creations, we can look up information (I rarely turn to a book now-a-days), we can chat and debate and express opinions that can reach people that we could do in no other way.
People will still find it useful. It will still exist, maybe not in its current form, but it will evolve as it always has.
I looked at this page and the advertisment at the top, just below the introduction, was one for HP saying "Exercise your freedom of expression."
Ok HP, you suck for doing this!
I have just bought an all-in-one from HP and am very pleased with it but I have this chip in my cartridge. The argument is that they want to ensure that you get top quality prints but I think that that is something that I should be able to decide for myself.
Where the hell do you shop, man?
The cheapest I've seen the thing is $350.
Home Shopping Network (of all places!) had a special a few weeks ago where the 5500 was $200. Luckily Sharp sent a note around beforehand and I snapped one up. Subscribe to Sharp's mailing list for upcoming specials.
"Even though the miles and gallons they use are different than ours"
When I last looked it was only the pint (and therefore the gallon) that was different. It is hard enough getting used to the smaller pints of beer in the States without having to worry about distances.
As a consultant I hooked a company up to the Internet, mid 90's. I then gave a demo to show everybody what the Internet was about and that they could quickly access information to help them in their work. The only search engine then was AltaVista, but in the pressure of the demo, I kept spelling it www.altervista.com; I only showed them email, very embarassing.
I'll write a program that filters out the ads and people can pay me a small one-time fee to use it to access their "free" service. Or would this be like "stealing from the Television" with respect to Tivos et al?
It's been slashdotted, here it is
on
UT2003 LiveCD
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· Score: 5, Funny
Since you can no longer get it from the site, in line with other helpful people in other discussions, I have copied the entire CD, gzipped it, uuencoded it and pasted it below.
Enjoy!
* ALSA support. ALSA is a pain to keep patching your kernel with every redownload. ALSA is a Good Thing, if a pain in the butt to configure. My guess is that there will be decent front ends on top of the thing when distros start shipping 2.6.
Viral nature? There is no Black Eye here. You are talking like a Microsoft weenie. They have used copyrighted code, have acknowledged it and pulled it. There is no difference between using GPL'd code and any other copyrighted code. The GPL allows code to be used but with certain requirements which Epson have decided that they don't want to adhere to. It seems like they are behaving very responsibly.
Even the whois database is timing out now. I'd like to list all the whois data here in the traditional slashdot manner but I think that it may be a little too large:-)
Slashdot Mirror
It's not so much being turned down rather than you turning jobs down. You become much more picky and much more easily bored with mundane jobs.
My PhD got me into operating systems, distributed systems and distributed applications, and indirectly into hardware, radio/satellite communications and travel (giving papers all round the world). I now want a job that has everything; it's hard to try and knuckle down to just one of them and there are few out and out research posts about.
According to eWEEK's confidential source, SCO's coders "basically re-implemented the Linux kernel with functions available in the Unix kernel to build what is now known as the Linux Kernel Personality (LKP) in SCO Unix."
The evidence for this seems to be sections of exact identical code right down to the variable names and comments. Gee, where have we heard claims like this, recently?
and
IBM likely recoils from the thought of buying out SCO because -- aside from refusing to reward such flimsy blackmail -- it might want to avoid "owning" Unix. It's almost like an Egyptian mummy's curse, it seems.
Surprise, surprise, it was an ugly looking thing, I used to see them in a shop window in San Francisco.
So it's followed the C5, remember Sinclair's triumph?
However, people use it in a way that they find value. Ok, so we can't post copyrighted mp3s but we can share our own creations, we can look up information (I rarely turn to a book now-a-days), we can chat and debate and express opinions that can reach people that we could do in no other way.
People will still find it useful. It will still exist, maybe not in its current form, but it will evolve as it always has.
It will be difficult to tap. No Carnivore to watch over us all for our protection.
Ok, Victory for free speech.
Wow, that felt good, thanks Slashdot.
Here's the google cache
I looked at this page and the advertisment at the top, just below the introduction, was one for HP saying "Exercise your freedom of expression."
Ok HP, you suck for doing this!
I have just bought an all-in-one from HP and am very pleased with it but I have this chip in my cartridge. The argument is that they want to ensure that you get top quality prints but I think that that is something that I should be able to decide for myself.
Allow only very few services and open just those ports. Probably HTTP, SMTP, FTP, SSH that's all.
Keep Web and FTP on separate DMZ LANS.
The cheapest I've seen the thing is $350.
Home Shopping Network (of all places!) had a special a few weeks ago where the 5500 was $200. Luckily Sharp sent a note around beforehand and I snapped one up. Subscribe to Sharp's mailing list for upcoming specials.
"Even though the miles and gallons they use are different than ours"
When I last looked it was only the pint (and therefore the gallon) that was different. It is hard enough getting used to the smaller pints of beer in the States without having to worry about distances.
Britain has larger things where it matters!
Now I can get a phone that will work both in the States AND in Iraq! I just can't wait!
No thanks, I'll just stick to my world-wide GSM phone.
As a consultant I hooked a company up to the Internet, mid 90's. I then gave a demo to show everybody what the Internet was about and that they could quickly access information to help them in their work. The only search engine then was AltaVista, but in the pressure of the demo, I kept spelling it www.altervista.com; I only showed them email, very embarassing.
Great search engine, welcome back.
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No. $42 million for the invention.
I really like automatic news grabbers. I have been using Columbia Newsblaster for a while which does a similar sort of thing.
I'll write a program that filters out the ads and people can pay me a small one-time fee to use it to access their "free" service. Or would this be like "stealing from the Television" with respect to Tivos et al?
and at no cost to them.
A bargain!
How much?
From the ALSA site:
"2002-02-13 ALSA has been integrated to the official Linux 2.5 tree! The initial merge is in patch-2.5.5-pre1."
Yippiee! Great sound, here we come!
Since it was so obviously testing stolen credit card numbers one would hope that all the cards would be immediately cancelled.
:-(
If so, the thieves must be kicking themselves for being so greedy.
Although knowing the way that institutions work, I somehow doubt that that has happened yet!
1 spam = -0.1 IHU,
1 segfault = -1 IHU
1 the execution of one spammer = 5342 IHU
You forgot:
1 BSOD = -5 IHU
Why hasn't Bill Gates been arrested yet?
Viral nature? There is no Black Eye here. You are talking like a Microsoft weenie. They have used copyrighted code, have acknowledged it and pulled it. There is no difference between using GPL'd code and any other copyrighted code. The GPL allows code to be used but with certain requirements which Epson have decided that they don't want to adhere to. It seems like they are behaving very responsibly.
What about the Greeks outlawing all computer games?
Even the whois database is timing out now. I'd like to list all the whois data here in the traditional slashdot manner but I think that it may be a little too large :-)