When I first moved to Silicon Valley, the company that moved me out went bust within six months. I was stuck in a foreign place with few connections and needed a job -- BAD.
Luckily, the headhunters smelled the carcass of the dying company I was working for, and like vultures, started calling. I actually found a good one and got a better job WITH a 50% raise. Would not have happened without a headhunter.
I've had mixed dealings with headhunters. Most don't give a crap about who you are and what you want. They are just trying to fill seats and make as much money as they possibly can.
I have met a select few who do go the extra mile. I remember one way back in 1989 who actually sat down with me and we talked for good while about what I wanted. She actually got me an interview with my dream company at the time (Pixar) but when that fell through, she got me other interviews and finally landed me at another pretty good company.
After dealing with someone who was honest, decent, and actually listened to me, I had no desire to even talk to the other 99% of headhunters. Usually, I interview them before they have a chance to interview me. If they seem skanky, I leave.
My very first job (at age 16) was programming business and accounting applications for an Altair 8800b. Summer of '77. The little computer tracked inventory, payroll, and did job costing for a cable manufacturing company with about 50 employees. It also sent assorted reports back to a corporate mainframe.
Believe me, at the time, microcomputers were very useful -- but only to those who needed them.
if you thought the stink over the Florida Presidential results was bad you ain't seen NOTHING yet.
That's exactly the problem with electionic voting -- it ain't seen. You can see a hanging chad. You can't see a flipped bit......and if it ain't seen, there will be no stink....but it still stinks.
Well, you shouldn't feel safe about this because the Diebold OCR machines are fed into the same servers as the touchscreen machines.
The servers are where the votes are counted and where most of the security issues are located. It is just as easy to change OCR votes as it is to change touchscreen votes.
OCR paper is better, but they only recount manually if the election is "close." In Georgia, Max Cleland (sp??) lost in 2002 to a Republican even though he was polling 11% ahead right before the election. Who counted the votes? Diebold.
With Diebold claiming 'copyright' on everything, and shutting down sites that are asking for inspections, I doubt they'll let anyone inspect anything. They want to keep people in the dark.
Until these machines start prining paper receipts, there's NO WAY your rights will be protected.
What's amusing is that these companies could make more money selling voting machines with printers attached than they do with their current line.
Printers are cheap and totally NOT the issue. How much does a couple of thousand printers cost? A million bucks with a fat markup? Chicken feed for these people.
They will make a heck of a lot more money by rigging elections and putting people in office who will perpetuate the scam. Diebold also sells a lot more things to the government than voting machines.
The president of Diebold has personally promised to deliver the state of Ohio to Bush in 2004. If that's not conflict of interest, I don't know what is...
Oh... and the other voting machine company -- partly owned by Sen. Chuck Hagel, another prominent Republican.
A number of CA counties use the touch screen machines, but the big holes are on the servers, not the voting machines. Those who use OCR ballots are also just as vulnerable because the back-end servers are the same.
There was an article on the Blackboxvoting.com site about how time stamps on files found on the Diebold FTP site indicate that Diebold downloaded vote counts DURING an election in Santa Barbara (??) county. For those who are unaware, it is against the law to count votes before the polls close.
So... part of the evidence suggests that employees of Diebold BROKE THE LAW by counting votes before the polls closed. No wonder Diebold wants to keep things secret.
So... this brings up a question. If I obtain a document indicating that a company broke the law, can that document be suppressed by saying it's copy righted? If so, that's a BIG problem.
The rumors are that this chips are the same or very similar to the $4000 Xeon MPs with 2MB cache. I wonder if these will work on the workstation class MP motherboards. Would be sweeeeet.
Boy, it seems as though Utah has invented yet another way to do fusion... didn't a pair of scientists from Utah already invent fusion once before? What were their names? Pons and Fleischman?
Oh yeah, I forgot... that line of investigation went cold.
I always see case mods, but the fact of the matter is that most cases are tucked away under desks where people can't see them. The monitor, however, is always on top of the desk, front and center.
I'm wondering if anyone is doing monitor mods. Maybe the high voltages scare people off... but then again, the possibility of deadly shock might make the art of monmodding even more extreme...
I personally would love a monitor that looks like a Philco Predicta...
I mean, 733Mhz processor, GeForce 2/3 graphics, the technology is getting rather long in the tooth by today's standards. By the time they actually get a bootable Linux running on this thing, it'll almost be cheaper to just buy a used machine off of eBay...
I know people are going to argue this, but by the time you consider the thousands upon thousands of man-hours put into trying to crack the thing, it's just not worth it.
Now, to go back to this arguement... its nice to see that nVidia managed to get rid of the vacumn cleaner sized fan!
What do you mean, the fan is huge on this thing. I've had one for the past month or so and it is a nice card, but man, it's a total hog. The card requires you plug it in to a hard drive power connector because it can't suck enough juice off the AGP slot. It also requires that the PCI slot adjacent to the AGP slot remain open for cooling.
I find that price is usually commensurate with the size of the card. I think there must be a secret law that any card that takes up two slots can't be sold for less than $1500.
Well, they used to send an aircraft carrier loaded with about 5000 sailors and various support ships just to fish 3 people and a capsule the size of a Volkswagen out of the drink... that's pretty complicated and expensive.
I say the capsule floats... why not just put an outboard motor on the thing and drive it home? You could do some fishing while you're at it...
On second thought, maybe there's a solution somewhere in the middle.
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When I first moved to Silicon Valley, the company that moved me out went bust within six months. I was stuck in a foreign place with few connections and needed a job -- BAD.
Luckily, the headhunters smelled the carcass of the dying company I was working for, and like vultures, started calling. I actually found a good one and got a better job WITH a 50% raise. Would not have happened without a headhunter.
I've had mixed dealings with headhunters. Most don't give a crap about who you are and what you want. They are just trying to fill seats and make as much money as they possibly can.
I have met a select few who do go the extra mile. I remember one way back in 1989 who actually sat down with me and we talked for good while about what I wanted. She actually got me an interview with my dream company at the time (Pixar) but when that fell through, she got me other interviews and finally landed me at another pretty good company.
After dealing with someone who was honest, decent, and actually listened to me, I had no desire to even talk to the other 99% of headhunters. Usually, I interview them before they have a chance to interview me. If they seem skanky, I leave.
If I use a phone with a different layout, man, there goes a bunch of my friends! :)
If they were REALLY your friends, you would store their numbers in the phonebook and never have to dial again.
My very first job (at age 16) was programming business and accounting applications for an Altair 8800b. Summer of '77. The little computer tracked inventory, payroll, and did job costing for a cable manufacturing company with about 50 employees. It also sent assorted reports back to a corporate mainframe.
Believe me, at the time, microcomputers were very useful -- but only to those who needed them.
if you thought the stink over the Florida Presidential results was bad you ain't seen NOTHING yet.
...and if it ain't seen, there will be no stink. ...but it still stinks.
That's exactly the problem with electionic voting -- it ain't seen. You can see a hanging chad. You can't see a flipped bit...
Well, you shouldn't feel safe about this because the Diebold OCR machines are fed into the same servers as the touchscreen machines.
The servers are where the votes are counted and where most of the security issues are located. It is just as easy to change OCR votes as it is to change touchscreen votes.
OCR paper is better, but they only recount manually if the election is "close." In Georgia, Max Cleland (sp??) lost in 2002 to a Republican even though he was polling 11% ahead right before the election. Who counted the votes? Diebold.
There was no manual recount.
Rights? We don't need no steeenking rights!
With Diebold claiming 'copyright' on everything, and shutting down sites that are asking for inspections, I doubt they'll let anyone inspect anything. They want to keep people in the dark.
Until these machines start prining paper receipts, there's NO WAY your rights will be protected.
What's amusing is that these companies could make more money selling voting machines with printers attached than they do with their current line.
Printers are cheap and totally NOT the issue. How much does a couple of thousand printers cost? A million bucks with a fat markup? Chicken feed for these people.
They will make a heck of a lot more money by rigging elections and putting people in office who will perpetuate the scam. Diebold also sells a lot more things to the government than voting machines.
The president of Diebold has personally promised to deliver the state of Ohio to Bush in 2004. If that's not conflict of interest, I don't know what is...
Oh... and the other voting machine company -- partly owned by Sen. Chuck Hagel, another prominent Republican.
Conflict of interest? Noooooo....
A number of CA counties use the touch screen machines, but the big holes are on the servers, not the voting machines. Those who use OCR ballots are also just as vulnerable because the back-end servers are the same.
There was an article on the Blackboxvoting.com site about how time stamps on files found on the Diebold FTP site indicate that Diebold downloaded vote counts DURING an election in Santa Barbara (??) county. For those who are unaware, it is against the law to count votes before the polls close.
So... part of the evidence suggests that employees of Diebold BROKE THE LAW by counting votes before the polls closed. No wonder Diebold wants to keep things secret.
So... this brings up a question. If I obtain a document indicating that a company broke the law, can that document be suppressed by saying it's copy righted? If so, that's a BIG problem.
Why?
The same reason dogs lick themselves. Because they can.
The rumors are that this chips are the same or very similar to the $4000 Xeon MPs with 2MB cache. I wonder if these will work on the workstation class MP motherboards. Would be sweeeeet.
Boy, it seems as though Utah has invented yet another way to do fusion... didn't a pair of scientists from Utah already invent fusion once before? What were their names? Pons and Fleischman?
Oh yeah, I forgot... that line of investigation went cold.
I always see case mods, but the fact of the matter is that most cases are tucked away under desks where people can't see them. The monitor, however, is always on top of the desk, front and center.
I'm wondering if anyone is doing monitor mods. Maybe the high voltages scare people off... but then again, the possibility of deadly shock might make the art of monmodding even more extreme...
I personally would love a monitor that looks like a Philco Predicta...
The shiny aluminum one is my favorite...
SPECS: 350-MHz Intel Pentium II, 256 Mbytes RAM, 4-Gbyte Ultrawide SCSI hard disk
COST: $84 in scrap aluminum, abrasives, screws, and LEDs; $1,800 in computer components
TIME: 100 hours over two years
By the time he finished it, the computer was obsolete. Right on!
Yeah, but you can't pick up chicks in an XBox.
Spoken like a true non-hacker.
I mean, 733Mhz processor, GeForce 2/3 graphics, the technology is getting rather long in the tooth by today's standards. By the time they actually get a bootable Linux running on this thing, it'll almost be cheaper to just buy a used machine off of eBay...
I know people are going to argue this, but by the time you consider the thousands upon thousands of man-hours put into trying to crack the thing, it's just not worth it.
The one bad thing about greasemobiles is that they encourage people to eat more grease... lawsuit waiting to happen, I tells ya.
If I were Cringely, I would have sold those names and now be the proud new owner of Microsoft. Free the source!
Now, to go back to this arguement... its nice to see that nVidia managed to get rid of the vacumn cleaner sized fan!
What do you mean, the fan is huge on this thing. I've had one for the past month or so and it is a nice card, but man, it's a total hog. The card requires you plug it in to a hard drive power connector because it can't suck enough juice off the AGP slot. It also requires that the PCI slot adjacent to the AGP slot remain open for cooling.
I find that price is usually commensurate with the size of the card. I think there must be a secret law that any card that takes up two slots can't be sold for less than $1500.
I agree. I haven't bought a CD in over a year.
The fact that they took money from a 12 year old (or her Mom) and pocketed it rather than donating to a music school or something is just awful.
I already have plenty of music on CD, tape and vinyl. If I want to listen to new stuff, Shoutcast seems to serve the purpose just fine.
The RIAA is so blowing it.
Yes, but they lived in a housing project. I would imagine that $2000 is her college fund.
You couldn't position the "fishing boat" close enough to the capsule to lift it without pushing the capsule out of the way with the boat's thrusters.
Then put the crane on the front of the boat rather than the back...
Well, they used to send an aircraft carrier loaded with about 5000 sailors and various support ships just to fish 3 people and a capsule the size of a Volkswagen out of the drink... that's pretty complicated and expensive.
I say the capsule floats... why not just put an outboard motor on the thing and drive it home? You could do some fishing while you're at it...
On second thought, maybe there's a solution somewhere in the middle.
The radio is still free, and I have an TV/FM tuner/capture card
Right... like there's still a ton of really good radio stations on the air. Damn you Clear Channel!
Right... my name is user@kazaa.lite which is probably the same name used by 2 million other people...
I'm not typing it in anyways...