This would start an entire market for products designed to foil these things. Let's see: james bond style license plate rotators. Those defraction grating thinies that mean you can only view the plate from head on, not from an angle. You could speed as long as you don't change lanes. I'm sure someone can come up with an electronic device that can burn out the dots. I bet all of these products would be sold by the company that sells the dots. It would be another arms race just like the radar detector detector detectors.
People will "interpret" the bible to mean that extraterrestrials are really angels.
I think there will always be people who interpret the bible in strage ways. If the bible is right though (which I believe it is) then this entire discussion is irrelevant, which makes me wonder why a vatican official is even discussing it. Other events will come to pass before we ever discover intellegent life elsewhere.
On most unix implementations you get floating point exception since the divide operator takes floating point operands. On AIX, when the denominator is cast to a float, it's a zero approximation rather than the official floating point zero. The result is that instead of a core dump, you get... 15.
Not locking your front door doesn't give you the right to blame the door-making companies when you get burgled.
What if the door company advertised their doors in a way that led you to believe that the door was locked when a design flaw meant it wasn't? And when the design flaw was pointed out to them, they mentioned it with a free fix on their website, but did nothing else? And a hundred thousand people were all robbed on the same night? In meatspace, people would be screaming for blood. I think the admins may have also been at fault here. But as someone else pointed out, what if they were still testing that patch?
The typical geek (and i may get flamed for this but oh well) is somewhat scared/timid, and will retreat to that which they know best and get better at it, and shrink from the rest of the world.
You've hit the nail on the head. I was exactly this way growing up. I avoided a lot of social situations and spent my time around a small group of (equally socially inept) friends.
I think it's important for men to have a certain quality to their personality that's hard to describe. It's a form of aggression, recklessness, or self-confidence. You have to have the bravery to step up to the plate no matter what you're facing. Because trying matters most, even if you're defeated. You must be willing to put your safety on the line when it matters. That's character. You must also project the image of self-confidence. You must be sure of who you are and how you will allow yourself (and not allow yourself) to be treated by others.
I wish I had known this when I was growing up. I was smaller than everyone and constantly bullied, because they knew I would back down every time. I wish I could go back and tell that kid that he doesn't have to be bullied. Had I leveled the playing field with a 2x4, maybe I would have won, maybe not. And maybe I would have gotten busted for using a "weapon". But it would have ended the bullying then and there.
I'm teaching my sons the right way to be and act, so that it never goes that far for them. I'm teaching them to be strong, but compationate, agressive when necessary, but calm and even-handed in all things. In short, I'm not raising a pussy like my parents did.
This is crap. In the end, for the end user, what does spam really ammount to? I have to click delete several dozen times. Cry me a river. How in the hell is this anywhere near as bad as murder or any other violent crime? Let's keep spam in perspective. At worst, it's an economic crime. Make sure the punishment fits the crime.
"there are trillions even quadrillions of infringing lines in linux. all your atoms comprising our lines of code are belong to us. hence you clearly and specifically infringed on SCO's rights."
Yeah, and that doesn't make since. Chewbacca is a wookie.
A computer hacker does something real quick on a computer because someone's coming, downloads or save something in half a second
My favorite movie for computer mistakes is Blown Away. It's about the bomb squad or something. The opening scene is the best. There's this girl who had a wacked out geek boyfriend. He rigged her computer so that she would have to keep typing "i love you" so that it wouldn't explode. The boyfriend was dead for some reason so they called the hero of the film to come over and fix it. Let's just say there were a few problems with the scene:
The computer was a sun workstation pizza box. The monitor was a color monitor from an apple 2e. The keyboard was an old 83 ibm keyboard.
They tried to fake out the computer and have a robot hand type for the girl... on a second keyboard. They attached a second keyboard to the computer with out disconnecting the power. Where did they plug it in?
When the hero showed up, he saved the day by climbing under the desk and sawing a hole in the top under the computer. The computer had no bottom cover. The guts of the computer were removed to make room for the bomb.
I'm also amused whenever they show hard drives with their covers removed. And for realism, they slowly move the drive head back and forth. This is attached to a voice coil, people. Think speaker movement.
The only real issue that could be holding Tivo out of the Canadian market is French language issues.
I doubt it. I record french programs on my tivo all the time. The title shows up in french and everything works perfectly. The menu has to be a snap to change over to french. I bet it's political.
Yeah, I've just about had it. A friend of mine here at work just got busted for bringing a "weapon" to work. The weapon? A pocket knife for opening boxes.
I don't go to work to be friends, I get that outside of work, what is the hard thing to understand?
Why do you go on living? Seriously. A man is not measured by the hours he works, or the deadlines he meets, or by the money he makes, but by the relationships he forms and the affect he has on the people around him. When you're dying and thinking about your life, what will you say? I'm glad I hit that deadline! That makes it ok that my children ignore me and I have no friends!
When you reach the top of that mountain, thousands of indians already there will greet you.:-)
does having OSS development on your resumé improve your chances?
I doubt it. There is cool factor that may help you in an interview, but landing the interview is the hard part. Maybe it matters if the job requires linux development experience.
Do employers look at it as 'real experience' like as if I had been been employed?
Employers will look for any reason they can to exclude experience from your resume because it weakens your negotiating position. I've been coding real-world since I was 19. I can't count the number of times I've been asked how much post-graduation experience I've had, as if I magically became qualified that day.
Really what is it all worth? For anyone hiring what are you looking for?
For a contract, show me the money. For a direct position: Are you stable? Are you assholes? That's about it.
Would say that a Philosophy degree brings a little something more to the table
No. Maybe if the interviewer also has a philosophy degree, you could use that as common ground for building a relationship. It may help you get your foot in the door. But I really doubt it.
How about non-CS job experience?
No. Not unless there's a lot of management experience or business specific experience. For example, working on the floor of an exchange may help you get an IT job at an exchange. This could be a big factor. If it's unrelated though, it will probably be ignored.
brian (a jaded IT consultant with 14 years of experience considering a career change to auto repair)
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Grrr.. ch ch ch.. grrrr. ch ch ch... grrrr.. ch ch ch..
I don't know about the firewall, but my monitor (or maybe it's the phone) sounds exactly like this when I hold my nextel phone too close.
Downs syndrome
Downs syndrome is genetic. It can't possibly have anything to do with what you consume.
Don't worry, they're just medichlorians.
That reminds me of a joke! What do you get when you cross a Helicopter, Elephant, and Rhinocerous? Helifino!
This would start an entire market for products designed to foil these things. Let's see: james bond style license plate rotators. Those defraction grating thinies that mean you can only view the plate from head on, not from an angle. You could speed as long as you don't change lanes. I'm sure someone can come up with an electronic device that can burn out the dots. I bet all of these products would be sold by the company that sells the dots. It would be another arms race just like the radar detector detector detectors.
People will "interpret" the bible to mean that extraterrestrials are really angels.
I think there will always be people who interpret the bible in strage ways. If the bible is right though (which I believe it is) then this entire discussion is irrelevant, which makes me wonder why a vatican official is even discussing it. Other events will come to pass before we ever discover intellegent life elsewhere.
Opps. I meant, seven.
IBM may agree with you! Try this code on AIX:
#include"stdio.h"
int x,y,z;
int main() {
x=1;
y=0;
z=x/y;
printf("%d", z);
}
On most unix implementations you get floating point exception since the divide operator takes floating point operands. On AIX, when the denominator is cast to a float, it's a zero approximation rather than the official floating point zero. The result is that instead of a core dump, you get... 15.
Well as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter.
(sorry, i couldn't resist)
Not locking your front door doesn't give you the right to blame the door-making companies when you get burgled.
What if the door company advertised their doors in a way that led you to believe that the door was locked when a design flaw meant it wasn't? And when the design flaw was pointed out to them, they mentioned it with a free fix on their website, but did nothing else? And a hundred thousand people were all robbed on the same night? In meatspace, people would be screaming for blood. I think the admins may have also been at fault here. But as someone else pointed out, what if they were still testing that patch?
Of course, being a French asteroid, we can be sure that it would never hit us on account of
:-D
the enevitable asteroid strike.
oh hell, I have karma to burn...
Of course, being a French asteroid, it will never hit us, just smell bad as it goes by.
or, similarly...
Of course, being a French asteroid, it will never actually hit us because it would simply surrender once we declared war.
Sheesh! Tell that to the moon!
The typical geek (and i may get flamed for this but oh well) is somewhat scared/timid, and will retreat to that which they know best and get better at it, and shrink from the rest of the world.
You've hit the nail on the head. I was exactly this way growing up. I avoided a lot of social situations and spent my time around a small group of (equally socially inept) friends.
I think it's important for men to have a certain quality to their personality that's hard to describe. It's a form of aggression, recklessness, or self-confidence. You have to have the bravery to step up to the plate no matter what you're facing. Because trying matters most, even if you're defeated. You must be willing to put your safety on the line when it matters. That's character. You must also project the image of self-confidence. You must be sure of who you are and how you will allow yourself (and not allow yourself) to be treated by others.
I wish I had known this when I was growing up. I was smaller than everyone and constantly bullied, because they knew I would back down every time. I wish I could go back and tell that kid that he doesn't have to be bullied. Had I leveled the playing field with a 2x4, maybe I would have won, maybe not. And maybe I would have gotten busted for using a "weapon". But it would have ended the bullying then and there.
I'm teaching my sons the right way to be and act, so that it never goes that far for them. I'm teaching them to be strong, but compationate, agressive when necessary, but calm and even-handed in all things. In short, I'm not raising a pussy like my parents did.
"I'm cold"
:-)
samui des
4 syllables.
That gives a whole new meaning to three-fingered salute!
... or a core dump?
I look forward to my diamond ax head.
It's on level 3 of Mangar's Tower. Just tell the Magic Mouth the answer to the riddle and make sure your Bard is playing the right tune.
If you understand this obscure reference, you're a dork... oh wait...
This is crap. In the end, for the end user, what does spam really ammount to? I have to click delete several dozen times. Cry me a river. How in the hell is this anywhere near as bad as murder or any other violent crime? Let's keep spam in perspective. At worst, it's an economic crime. Make sure the punishment fits the crime.
"there are trillions even quadrillions of infringing lines in linux. all your atoms comprising our lines of code are belong to us. hence you clearly and specifically infringed on SCO's rights."
Yeah, and that doesn't make since. Chewbacca is a wookie.
Imagine if Da Vinci's genius would have been amplified...
I thought you were going to mention a beowulf cluster of DaVincis.
A computer hacker does something real quick on a computer because someone's coming, downloads or save something in half a second
My favorite movie for computer mistakes is Blown Away. It's about the bomb squad or something. The opening scene is the best. There's this girl who had a wacked out geek boyfriend. He rigged her computer so that she would have to keep typing "i love you" so that it wouldn't explode. The boyfriend was dead for some reason so they called the hero of the film to come over and fix it. Let's just say there were a few problems with the scene:
The computer was a sun workstation pizza box. The monitor was a color monitor from an apple 2e. The keyboard was an old 83 ibm keyboard.
They tried to fake out the computer and have a robot hand type for the girl... on a second keyboard. They attached a second keyboard to the computer with out disconnecting the power. Where did they plug it in?
When the hero showed up, he saved the day by climbing under the desk and sawing a hole in the top under the computer. The computer had no bottom cover. The guts of the computer were removed to make room for the bomb.
I'm also amused whenever they show hard drives with their covers removed. And for realism, they slowly move the drive head back and forth. This is attached to a voice coil, people. Think speaker movement.
The only real issue that could be holding Tivo out of the Canadian market is French language issues.
I doubt it. I record french programs on my tivo all the time. The title shows up in french and everything works perfectly. The menu has to be a snap to change over to french. I bet it's political.
gotapex.com
You scared the crap out of me. I first read that as goatsex.com.
Yep... Isn't corporate fun?
Yeah, I've just about had it. A friend of mine here at work just got busted for bringing a "weapon" to work. The weapon? A pocket knife for opening boxes.
I don't go to work to be friends, I get that outside of work, what is the hard thing to understand?
Why do you go on living? Seriously. A man is not measured by the hours he works, or the deadlines he meets, or by the money he makes, but by the relationships he forms and the affect he has on the people around him. When you're dying and thinking about your life, what will you say? I'm glad I hit that deadline! That makes it ok that my children ignore me and I have no friends!
PhD
:-)
When you reach the top of that mountain, thousands of indians already there will greet you.
does having OSS development on your resumé improve your chances?
I doubt it. There is cool factor that may help you in an interview, but landing the interview is the hard part. Maybe it matters if the job requires linux development experience.
Do employers look at it as 'real experience' like as if I had been been employed?
Employers will look for any reason they can to exclude experience from your resume because it weakens your negotiating position. I've been coding real-world since I was 19. I can't count the number of times I've been asked how much post-graduation experience I've had, as if I magically became qualified that day.
Really what is it all worth? For anyone hiring what are you looking for?
For a contract, show me the money. For a direct position: Are you stable? Are you assholes? That's about it.
Would say that a Philosophy degree brings a little something more to the table
No. Maybe if the interviewer also has a philosophy degree, you could use that as common ground for building a relationship. It may help you get your foot in the door. But I really doubt it.
How about non-CS job experience?
No. Not unless there's a lot of management experience or business specific experience. For example, working on the floor of an exchange may help you get an IT job at an exchange. This could be a big factor. If it's unrelated though, it will probably be ignored.
brian (a jaded IT consultant with 14 years of experience considering a career change to auto repair)