I guess our hiring styles differ. In my view, after 5 years of actual work a degree counts for nothing, unless it's very specific and targetted at the role.
My problem with new graduates is that a lot of the times degrees, whilst they do give you a good grounding don't teach flexibility. I've seen people, one year out of college waste hours and email flames because their course taught them to design something one way and any other way is wrong. Of course this does depend on the person, but I've learnt the hard way to not view a degree as a tick box or an advantage.
Unless you're getting HR write the specs for the person you need it shouldn't be any different. You're the one that sets the requirements, if HR are changing them I suggest a clue stick is in order.
Well I'm sure a lot of CS degree holders in here would like to be able to get work in the US. Not to have to move to China or India to get a tech job.
I don't know about the US because I'm in the UK but having a degree doesn't mean much these days. You're sold it as proof you can perform, but frankly that's a load of toss for most degrees. You come out with some academic idea of how things should be done without any real world experience. When hiring I've never looked at anyone's qualifications, but at their experience. Even when looking to take on junior roles, those suitable for people just out of college I've asked them what they've done outside of their school work, looked for web sites they've "developed", or code they've written. I've yet to see a degree that will instil anything I've wanted from a candidate other than a rudimentary idea of OO design and some half assed attempt at lifecycle methodologies.
University degrees do not entitle you to a job and if you're one of the people that treat them as such I suggest you get a large grip on reality. No-one owes you anything.
Why? It's certainly cut my spam down. When blackholes.us went down this week my spam shot up as my mail server starting taking mail from China, South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong and Brazil. Replaced them yesterday with completewhois today and lo, the spam drops.
Yes, it may be the internet equivilant of a grated community, but when your surrounding environs are attacking you in some way you should protect yourself.
asp.net 2.0 (and it's not a vs feature really, it's down to the controls built into the framework) are, finally, xhtml compliant. You can set a switch in web.config to use transitional or strict. There have been a few bugs (including one I reported) which are marked as fixed for release and I've done, as a learning exercise a site that is XHTML compliant with little effort in VS2005.
The effort comes in things like the membership controls, which, by default are table based. This kind of makes sense, because they won't know which stylesheets you're using for layout purposes. However there is the option to template these controls, which means you right the HTML yourself, but the backend is still provided by the built in controls. The only control I've found that refuses to give up a table is the wizard based "Create new user".
There are still problems with VS2005, niggles like style sheets not displaying if they're "included", nested master pages killing off GUI editing and so on, but nothing I've found that will kill XHTML, unless you're on a downlevel browser where will make a best attempt to spit something that renders.
The downlevel browser thing is a pain though, as the W3C validator isn't known to asp.net, so it will spit out XHTML transitional, despite your DTDs. To fix it you can add a.browser file to explain to asp.net that the validator knows what it's doing. I produced one already, and provided it with some documentation for download.
Of course the linked to article doesn't even say it's an employee, just someone that visited the campus. It could have been a simple vistor. But that wouldn't have made for the usual "Har har M$ suck0rz" topics.
Look at the source, which loads in http://ads.kmpads.com/pcode.js. Look in there and there's a hook into document.onClick(). As for the popup on load, I'm sure everyone can see the information bar in Firefox, or IE already.
It certainly didn't get my passwords, but I was less amused by the popup attempts, for both onLoad and the getFocus event for the text box where you're supposed to type. Certainly felt slimey, no wonder the submitter was happy to try to get his own site slashdotted, the popups for casinos (well I had to see what they were!) no doubt bring in some pocket money.
It also seems very limited to dictionary words, there's no attempt at some useful things like IP addresses (I've seen a few BBSes who don't publish IPs, but instead publish hashes).
Things like Final Cut et al drive the adoption and the purchase of the hardware, it's an enabler for their core model.
It's just like Microsoft Consulting. You ask them to help you with a business problem they will, they'll even code up custom stuff for you, but it's all based on the Microsoft platform. The main purpose of MCS is to drive uptake of Windows and other Microsoft programs. That's their reason for being, the fact that the route they take is by consulting is incidental.
This is not new, it's the old razor and blades scenario.
Like they've done with MP3 players? Oh, darn no, they haven't.
Mice, keyboards and joysticks aside MS aren't a hardware company. The Windows Media team produce APIs, DRM is delivered as an API. They've encouraged multiple music stores, even when they have one of their own.
Like it or not "son of ipod" isn't really MS's fault, its their hardware parteners who don't provide players which compete.
There's actually a specific internet connection license for that sort of setup, however it's interesting to note that Microsoft have said, for licensing purposes, dual core CPUs count as a single cpu.
Compare to Oracle; if you buy a licence for a dual core machine, the second core is only counted as.75 of a CPU, as is each succeeding core. However Oracle rounds all numbers up, so.75 = one for licensing, and 1.75 = two, roughly the same cost as if you bought two licences. And so on. It's only a saving if you have 3 dual core cpus or more.
("Public safety" tends to overrule civil liberties in the UK, just look at the banning of Hoodies in shopping centers.)
Bad example;
It was, afaik, one shopping centre, Bluewater.
It was the centre that banned hoddies, not the government, police or any other civil agency. Bluewater are perfectly entitled to place rules on the use of their private property.
On the other hand the ABSO backed curfew zones are an example of civil liberty curtailment.
At most all they need to do is mirror the drive, which can be done without even removing it.
From previous dealings with the police I doubt they have the capability. A while back I was working for a company which had a lot of servers. Mostly windows, but there was a linux box sitting in a corner of the datacentre which no-one working there at the time knew about. It got hacked because it was never patched. It was then used as a porn and warez distribution server and some of the porn on it was disturbing and illegal. When we discovered it we powered down the server and informed the police. We took the server out of the datacentre and put it in the office, powered down, so they could take it away for examination. Each month we prodded the plod (heh) to come take the server.
2 years later, when the company was bought out that server was still sitting there, unused and unexamined.
I may be very blind, but where in the article does it say hotmail will be filtering on V2 records? Of course you realise that V1 records are, in fact, valid v2 records anyway, right?
gmail advertises Sender ID records, as does hotmail. Yahoo uses their own DomainKeys "standard", in test mode last time I looked, but does not check incoming mail
Personally, I don't care. What does bother me are the misconfigured email systems that decide to send an email back to my email address telling me that a mail someone tried to send using my domain name didn't pass SPF requirements. If it didn't pass it was fake, so why the heck would you want to spam telling me you rejected a mail I didn't send. It's going to get as bad as idiot email virus scanners sending bounces back to the from: address.
Security is taken care of by a username, password, pin system (been a while since I set it up, so I think it's right). You get your initial tax return and sign up to pay on-line. The Inland Revenue send you a pin number in the post to the address your tax return went to and you confirm your setup with the pin.
Then, as soon as you get all the information (P60s, P11ds, interest statements, income from other sources etc.) you go to the web page and fill it all out on line. The web site looks pretty much like the paper form. You can stop and start again at any time. Once you're satisified the calculations are done for you. You can then pay any outstanding tax or nominate a bank account for your refund which takes about 2 weeks to arrive. You also get a PDF for download which is basically the prefilled form plus a detailed break down of the values and calcuations used.
Each of the 3 years I've done it it's taken about 30 minutes to go all the way through and hit submit, I actually miss doing it this year.
Slashdot Mirror
Nope, they're pushed to the answering machine immediatly. Good for the mother in law :)
However as I use a phone powered by WindowsMobile I doubt many /. readers would be able to avail themselves of the software <g>
My problem with new graduates is that a lot of the times degrees, whilst they do give you a good grounding don't teach flexibility. I've seen people, one year out of college waste hours and email flames because their course taught them to design something one way and any other way is wrong. Of course this does depend on the person, but I've learnt the hard way to not view a degree as a tick box or an advantage.
Maybe you've just been lucky in your hiring :)
Unless you're getting HR write the specs for the person you need it shouldn't be any different. You're the one that sets the requirements, if HR are changing them I suggest a clue stick is in order.
I don't know about the US because I'm in the UK but having a degree doesn't mean much these days. You're sold it as proof you can perform, but frankly that's a load of toss for most degrees. You come out with some academic idea of how things should be done without any real world experience. When hiring I've never looked at anyone's qualifications, but at their experience. Even when looking to take on junior roles, those suitable for people just out of college I've asked them what they've done outside of their school work, looked for web sites they've "developed", or code they've written. I've yet to see a degree that will instil anything I've wanted from a candidate other than a rudimentary idea of OO design and some half assed attempt at lifecycle methodologies.
University degrees do not entitle you to a job and if you're one of the people that treat them as such I suggest you get a large grip on reality. No-one owes you anything.
Yes, it may be the internet equivilant of a grated community, but when your surrounding environs are attacking you in some way you should protect yourself.
Is there anything factual these days in topics, or is it just astroturfing for OSTG?
<g>
asp.net 2.0 (and it's not a vs feature really, it's down to the controls built into the framework) are, finally, xhtml compliant. You can set a switch in web.config to use transitional or strict. There have been a few bugs (including one I reported) which are marked as fixed for release and I've done, as a learning exercise a site that is XHTML compliant with little effort in VS2005.
The effort comes in things like the membership controls, which, by default are table based. This kind of makes sense, because they won't know which stylesheets you're using for layout purposes. However there is the option to template these controls, which means you right the HTML yourself, but the backend is still provided by the built in controls. The only control I've found that refuses to give up a table is the wizard based "Create new user".
There are still problems with VS2005, niggles like style sheets not displaying if they're "included", nested master pages killing off GUI editing and so on, but nothing I've found that will kill XHTML, unless you're on a downlevel browser where will make a best attempt to spit something that renders.
The downlevel browser thing is a pain though, as the W3C validator isn't known to asp.net, so it will spit out XHTML transitional, despite your DTDs. To fix it you can add a .browser file to explain to asp.net that the validator knows what it's doing. I produced one already, and provided it with some documentation for download.
Well if you want to pay a license fee, my paypal account is ....
Of course the linked to article doesn't even say it's an employee, just someone that visited the campus. It could have been a simple vistor. But that wouldn't have made for the usual "Har har M$ suck0rz" topics.
Look at the source, which loads in http://ads.kmpads.com/pcode.js. Look in there and there's a hook into document.onClick(). As for the popup on load, I'm sure everyone can see the information bar in Firefox, or IE already.
It also seems very limited to dictionary words, there's no attempt at some useful things like IP addresses (I've seen a few BBSes who don't publish IPs, but instead publish hashes).
Things like Final Cut et al drive the adoption and the purchase of the hardware, it's an enabler for their core model.
It's just like Microsoft Consulting. You ask them to help you with a business problem they will, they'll even code up custom stuff for you, but it's all based on the Microsoft platform. The main purpose of MCS is to drive uptake of Windows and other Microsoft programs. That's their reason for being, the fact that the route they take is by consulting is incidental.
This is not new, it's the old razor and blades scenario.
So are you link whoring, or what?
As for royalties, AFAIK there aren't any. Certainly when I was doing it the DRM SDK was free.
Mice, keyboards and joysticks aside MS aren't a hardware company. The Windows Media team produce APIs, DRM is delivered as an API. They've encouraged multiple music stores, even when they have one of their own.
Like it or not "son of ipod" isn't really MS's fault, its their hardware parteners who don't provide players which compete.
Recent? Really? I'm seeing 3-4 attempts against my windows SSH devices daily, and have been seeing it for well over a year. Has it really risen?
There's actually a specific internet connection license for that sort of setup, however it's interesting to note that Microsoft have said, for licensing purposes, dual core CPUs count as a single cpu.
Compare to Oracle; if you buy a licence for a dual core machine, the second core is only counted as .75 of a CPU, as is each succeeding core. However Oracle rounds all numbers up, so .75 = one for licensing, and 1.75 = two, roughly the same cost as if you bought two licences. And so on. It's only a saving if you have 3 dual core cpus or more.
Bad example;
On the other hand the ABSO backed curfew zones are an example of civil liberty curtailment.
From previous dealings with the police I doubt they have the capability. A while back I was working for a company which had a lot of servers. Mostly windows, but there was a linux box sitting in a corner of the datacentre which no-one working there at the time knew about. It got hacked because it was never patched. It was then used as a porn and warez distribution server and some of the porn on it was disturbing and illegal. When we discovered it we powered down the server and informed the police. We took the server out of the datacentre and put it in the office, powered down, so they could take it away for examination. Each month we prodded the plod (heh) to come take the server.
2 years later, when the company was bought out that server was still sitting there, unused and unexamined.
I may be very blind, but where in the article does it say hotmail will be filtering on V2 records? Of course you realise that V1 records are, in fact, valid v2 records anyway, right?
gmail advertises Sender ID records, as does hotmail. Yahoo uses their own DomainKeys "standard", in test mode last time I looked, but does not check incoming mail
Personally, I don't care. What does bother me are the misconfigured email systems that decide to send an email back to my email address telling me that a mail someone tried to send using my domain name didn't pass SPF requirements. If it didn't pass it was fake, so why the heck would you want to spam telling me you rejected a mail I didn't send. It's going to get as bad as idiot email virus scanners sending bounces back to the from: address.
I managed to get it installed. Do you think I should mark slashdot as "dangerous" now?
Security is taken care of by a username, password, pin system (been a while since I set it up, so I think it's right). You get your initial tax return and sign up to pay on-line. The Inland Revenue send you a pin number in the post to the address your tax return went to and you confirm your setup with the pin.
Then, as soon as you get all the information (P60s, P11ds, interest statements, income from other sources etc.) you go to the web page and fill it all out on line. The web site looks pretty much like the paper form. You can stop and start again at any time. Once you're satisified the calculations are done for you. You can then pay any outstanding tax or nominate a bank account for your refund which takes about 2 weeks to arrive. You also get a PDF for download which is basically the prefilled form plus a detailed break down of the values and calcuations used.
Each of the 3 years I've done it it's taken about 30 minutes to go all the way through and hit submit, I actually miss doing it this year.