The article claims they have researched the name thoroughly, and have applied for the trademark. Personally, I like the name, and more importantly, the browser kicks ass.
I'm no MS fan, but substitute any other company for Microsoft in this story, and it's not worth wiping your ass with, let alone/. material. The guy blogged some info that MS considers confidential, so he was fired. Wake me up when someone posts a real story.
If you would have bothered to RTF iTunes help, you would have seen that unchecking 'Keep my iTunes Folder Organized' will stop it from rearranging you directory structure and filenames.
I do read it, having been a subscriber for about 9 years. What constitutes "everything you've seen" to indicate that they're anti-Mac? They are not biased against Macs. They review them occasionally, and tend to give them high marks when they do. Yes the focus is on Wintels since that's what 90+% of the market uses, but they are giving Linux and Macs more coverage as people gain interest in those platforms.
I can't beleive anyone would actually want to own SCO right now, let alone buy into it. You'd think that even non-techies could spot this act of desparation a mile away. Why initiate a scheme like this that has the potential to get SCO such bad publicity? Could it be because they have NO future? Sheesh.
We epitimize the problem with hiring practices? Of the past 10 people we've hired, perhaps three were actually qualified. The rest we've taken because while they weren't qualified, they were at least the most likely of the bunch. Of those 7 people, two of them have gone on to be great programmers.
If you can't find qualified people in this market, wouldn't you agree that your standards just might be a bit too high? Because I call bullshit if you're saying you can't find a solid Perl programmer. But for arguement's sake, lets say you can't. You can either hire:
1) Someone with a good grasp on the fundamentals of programming, and some Perl to boot but who doesn't claim to be all that + bag of chips OR 2) Someone who claims to be a Perl guru, and can BS his way through an interview but who can't find his ass with both hands.
My experience is that person 2 will get hired by companies 8 out of 10 times. Then mgmt is actually suprised when they turn out to either be unable to pick up other skills necessary to do the job, or suck even at what they supposedly knew.
Bottom line is, tell me who all these "nice" compainies are, and I'll submit a resume tomorrow.
Amazing. So this guy gets modded +1 for having a firm grasp of the obvious? The popular vote doesn't mean dick, only the electoral college votes do. He wouldn't be in office were he not elected by the people, however indirectly. . .
I only skimmed you comment, but from what I can see you're one of these elitists that looks down on anyone whose resume is less spectacular than yours. Your company no doubt won't hire anyone without n+1 years of experience with a technology that has only existed for n years. There are plenty of us out here who have, through no fault of our own, not settled down in any one particular technical environment. My resume is similar to Dvorkin's in that I've done a little of everything, but a lot of nothing. Part of it is that I'm still deciding what to focus on, but most is that I have to take what I can find in this shit market. Your post just epitomizes, to me, the problem with hiring practices nowadays. A company will hire a complete idiot as long as he (claims to) have the requisite experience, but won't give a second look to those of us who can probably do the job better, despite having less familiarity with the particular technology. To sum up: Hire smart people who can learn what you need from them, both now and in the future, not idiots who will obsolete as soon as their tool of choice falls out of use, if not sooner.
I don't get it. Are you saying that you don't think self-proclaimed President Bush and his "cabinet" are a bunch of crooks and liars?!! I mean, we are talking about people like Rumsfeld here, a man that happily sold Saddam WMD while he was know to be using them on the Iranians? Or Dick "Dick" Chaney, who's being paid by Halliburton 1 million dollars a year to be VP! Let alone the rest of the half-crazed ultra-rightwing nut cases from the Project for the New American Century.
What exactly don't you get? That some people out there actually disagree with you? That some people might actually have some shred of support for President Bush? That shouldn't be too suprising, considering he was elected by the American people (no comment please, I have no intention of debating the validity of that election). At any rate, I didn't reply to start a political flamewar, I just think it's BS that the parent comment gets modded down for pointing out how blantantly partisan this Dvorkin guy is. If the poster would have jumped on the Bush bashing bandwagon, he'd probably be +4 insightful by now. Pulllleze.
I just hope the last few episodes give the show the ending it deserves. DD has apparently been asked to come back for the 2 part finale, I hope he accepts.
I'm really glad to see that RH is finally shipping the latest (2.1.1) KDE. No doubt that other desktop is still the default, but at least they're not still shipping an old KDE and making you download the latest. Kudos to RH for finally making this move.
WHY do game publishers hate europe? Every time a beta cycle is started, you have to be located in the US of A (and sometimes canada) to be able to apply. Do these people think we can download? We don't buy games?
Sorry, dude, but you said it -- they're US based companies. If a European company produced a game(not saying they don't I don't know) I'm sure the beta test would include europeans. But Blizz is sending out CD's by FedEx to the beta testers. It's not a download. They want to stay in close contact with the testers to get as much feed back as possible. That means staying local. And while I'm sure their revenue from Europeans is substantial, I'd bet the Lion's share still comes from the US of A. my.02
Uhh, I'm confused. You claim that we need to get rid of guns to stop the seemingly ever increasing crime rate in our society, but then claim you don't understand why law abiding citizens need to protect themselves. Think about what you're saying. . .
Actually your gun is of little value, even if you're highly skilled with it. If I wanted to kill you you'd be dead and I wouldn't even need a weapon other than my hands.
"Well, I guess we'll have to register you as a lethal weapon." Give me a break. You don't know a damn thing about me.
The solution to foot-in-mouth disease is to not have any foot-in-mouth disease. Read: get rid of the guns. I know that won't help the poor individuals who will take their own lives or come up with more inventive means of striking out, but it might slow things down. Seriously, what the f*ck does a person need a gun for anyway?
Sure. Get rid of the guns. Thats the answer! After all, that approach has worked so well with drugs. Why don't we just reinstate prohabition, I'm sure that would cut down the number of people killed by drunk drivers. I own a gun, I like to target shoot, occasionally hunt, and if need be protect myself, maybe from someone with a knife, who knows? Just because it would allegedly work doesn't make it the RIGHT thing to do.
There is a HUGE difference in being against private ownership of guns and being against young people having access to them. I got a shotgun when I was 12. And I was bullied. And you know what, if I'd have retaliated with it (which never crossed my mind), I'd have been responsible. Not the gun, not the bully, certainly not the government -- me.
. ..getting bullied for generations. Myself included. You just have to deal with it. Find friends in others who are buillied, fight back, ignore it, whatever. I also recall doing some bullying; maybe as some type of payback. I don't know. But the bottom line, as always is that you have to take responsibility for YOUR actions.
Rapid growth happens in small companies, not large ones, and that's where the greatest returns are to be found.
Small companies are also MUCH more likely to go under completely. Currently, I would only invest "play money" in RH. That's money you can most definately afford to lose. Anything more than that is like playing Russian Roulette with your financial future. . .
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but can a hamster really survive on Mars?
Cover Your Ass.
The article claims they have researched the name thoroughly, and have applied for the trademark. Personally, I like the name, and more importantly, the browser kicks ass.
Better make sure you get that Robot insurance.
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I'm no MS fan, but substitute any other company for Microsoft in this story, and it's not worth wiping your ass with, let alone /. material. The guy blogged some info that MS considers confidential, so he was fired. Wake me up when someone posts a real story.
If you would have bothered to RTF iTunes help, you would have seen that unchecking 'Keep my iTunes Folder Organized' will stop it from rearranging you directory structure and filenames.
Have you seen what Gateway is selling lately?
I do read it, having been a subscriber for about 9 years. What constitutes "everything you've seen" to indicate that they're anti-Mac? They are not biased against Macs. They review them occasionally, and tend to give them high marks when they do. Yes the focus is on Wintels since that's what 90+% of the market uses, but they are giving Linux and Macs more coverage as people gain interest in those platforms.
I can't beleive anyone would actually want to own SCO right now, let alone buy into it. You'd think that even non-techies could spot this act of desparation a mile away. Why initiate a scheme like this that has the potential to get SCO such bad publicity? Could it be because they have NO future? Sheesh.
We epitimize the problem with hiring practices? Of the past 10 people we've hired, perhaps three were actually qualified. The rest we've taken because while they weren't qualified, they were at least the most likely of the bunch. Of those 7 people, two of them have gone on to be great programmers.
If you can't find qualified people in this market, wouldn't you agree that your standards just might be a bit too high? Because I call bullshit if you're saying you can't find a solid Perl programmer. But for arguement's sake, lets say you can't. You can either hire:
1) Someone with a good grasp on the fundamentals of programming, and some Perl to boot but who doesn't claim to be all that + bag of chips
OR
2) Someone who claims to be a Perl guru, and can BS his way through an interview but who can't find his ass with both hands.
My experience is that person 2 will get hired by companies 8 out of 10 times. Then mgmt is actually suprised when they turn out to either be unable to pick up other skills necessary to do the job, or suck even at what they supposedly knew.
Bottom line is, tell me who all these "nice" compainies are, and I'll submit a resume tomorrow.
Amazing. So this guy gets modded +1 for having a firm grasp of the obvious? The popular vote doesn't mean dick, only the electoral college votes do. He wouldn't be in office were he not elected by the people, however indirectly. . .
I only skimmed you comment, but from what I can see you're one of these elitists that looks down on anyone whose resume is less spectacular than yours. Your company no doubt won't hire anyone without n+1 years of experience with a technology that has only existed for n years. There are plenty of us out here who have, through no fault of our own, not settled down in any one particular technical environment. My resume is similar to Dvorkin's in that I've done a little of everything, but a lot of nothing. Part of it is that I'm still deciding what to focus on, but most is that I have to take what I can find in this shit market. Your post just epitomizes, to me, the problem with hiring practices nowadays. A company will hire a complete idiot as long as he (claims to) have the requisite experience, but won't give a second look to those of us who can probably do the job better, despite having less familiarity with the particular technology. To sum up: Hire smart people who can learn what you need from them, both now and in the future, not idiots who will obsolete as soon as their tool of choice falls out of use, if not sooner.
I don't get it. Are you saying that you don't think self-proclaimed President Bush and his "cabinet" are a bunch of crooks and liars?!! I mean, we are talking about people like Rumsfeld here, a man that happily sold Saddam WMD while he was know to be using them on the Iranians? Or Dick "Dick" Chaney, who's being paid by Halliburton 1 million dollars a year to be VP! Let alone the rest of the half-crazed ultra-rightwing nut cases from the Project for the New American Century.
What exactly don't you get? That some people out there actually disagree with you? That some people might actually have some shred of support for President Bush? That shouldn't be too suprising, considering he was elected by the American people (no comment please, I have no intention of debating the validity of that election). At any rate, I didn't reply to start a political flamewar, I just think it's BS that the parent comment gets modded down for pointing out how blantantly partisan this Dvorkin guy is. If the poster would have jumped on the Bush bashing bandwagon, he'd probably be +4 insightful by now. Pulllleze.
Actually, wouldn't it be Mr. Arathorn?
I just hope the last few episodes give the show the ending it deserves. DD has apparently been asked to come back for the 2 part finale, I hope he accepts.
Now if we could just get you guys to install it under /opt, in accordance with LSB. . . ;)
I'm really glad to see that RH is finally shipping the latest (2.1.1) KDE. No doubt that other desktop is still the default, but at least they're not still shipping an old KDE and making you download the latest. Kudos to RH for finally making this move.
Sorry, dude, but you said it -- they're US based companies. If a European company produced a game(not saying they don't I don't know) I'm sure the beta test would include europeans. But Blizz is sending out CD's by FedEx to the beta testers. It's not a download. They want to stay in close contact with the testers to get as much feed back as possible. That means staying local. And while I'm sure their revenue from Europeans is substantial, I'd bet the Lion's share still comes from the US of A. my .02
. . .And BTW excersizing my RIGHT to own a gun hardly makes me anachonistic.
Uhh, I'm confused. You claim that we need to get rid of guns to stop the seemingly ever increasing crime rate in our society, but then claim you don't understand why law abiding citizens need to protect themselves. Think about what you're saying. . .
"Well, I guess we'll have to register you as a lethal weapon." Give me a break. You don't know a damn thing about me.
Sure. Get rid of the guns. Thats the answer! After all, that approach has worked so well with drugs. Why don't we just reinstate prohabition, I'm sure that would cut down the number of people killed by drunk drivers. I own a gun, I like to target shoot, occasionally hunt, and if need be protect myself, maybe from someone with a knife, who knows? Just because it would allegedly work doesn't make it the RIGHT thing to do.
There is a HUGE difference in being against private ownership of guns and being against young people having access to them. I got a shotgun when I was 12. And I was bullied. And you know what, if I'd have retaliated with it (which never crossed my mind), I'd have been responsible. Not the gun, not the bully, certainly not the government -- me.
. . .getting bullied for generations. Myself included. You just have to deal with it. Find friends in others who are buillied, fight back, ignore it, whatever. I also recall doing some bullying; maybe as some type of payback. I don't know. But the bottom line, as always is that you have to take responsibility for YOUR actions.
Small companies are also MUCH more likely to go under completely. Currently, I would only invest "play money" in RH. That's money you can most definately afford to lose. Anything more than that is like playing Russian Roulette with your financial future. . .