"I can see there is evidence I have gone against the rules," he concedes. "But they have taken all my money for three years and pulled me up the day before I finished. If they had pulled me up with my first essay at the beginning and warned me of the problems and consequences, it would be fair enough."
Waaah! I admit that I did wrong, but I was misled into thinking it wasn't a problem!
GOTO has been long supported by Java, it just hasn't been used by its developers.
If you define "supported" as "reserved by the developers precisely so it wouldn't be used as an identifier, or, worse, as a method name, then yeah, it's been there all along.
I've got 2 test subjects, er, 21-month-old boy/girl twins at home, and we allow them to play with whatever toys they want to.
Generally, they both play with (and share) the Duplo blocks (Legos are still a choking hazard), the Matchbox cars, the Mr. (and Mrs.) Potato Head, the Brio trains, my bass amp, and so on. There are also baby dolls (boy/girl twins, like them), various stuffed critters, and the Little Tykes kitchen our friends gave them. And books -- tons of 'em. Boynton, Little Golden Books, DK, Shel Silverstein poetry, Dr. Seuss, Pooh (AA Milne, not the Disney-fied crap), etc. They sometimes insist on taking a book to bed with them at nap time...
Does my son play with the trains more than the kitchen? Seems like it to me.
Does my daughter play more with the baby dolls? Again, seems like it to me.
Do we "direct" them in their play, shooing them away from any particular toy or "suggesting" to them to play with something else instead?
My boss (hardcore BSD hacker and anti-spam activist) added a simple rule to our spam filters: more than 5 consonants in a row in the From: field and it's tagged as spam.
That's just swell. The company I work for uses the mail-account naming convention of FirstInitial MiddleInitial LastName, so an employee named "Thomas Phillip Schneck" would be tpschneck@companyname.com.
So your hardcore BSD hacker and anti-spam activist's scheme would automatically tag email from the fictional Mr. Schneck as spam.
Since when is "Chapter 11-like protection" a good business model??
Since staying in business is better than going out of business, quite a while.
In the early 90s, I worked for a company that filed for Chapter 11 protection while I was on vacation.
"D'ah!" thought I.
Not a terrible thing, really. Debt got restructured (read: our creditors took it in the a**), we got rid of a whole lot of things we didn't really need (read: way too much floorspace (including a no-longer-used manufacturing area)), and got out of a lease on said space, moving to a more appropriate-sized office at a much lower per-foot cost. Then came a couple of years of consecutive positive cash-flow, and *poof* we were out of Chapter 11. Never missed a paycheck, got raises during that time, etc.
No big deal from where I stand.
Would it have been better to have had a better handle on what was going on before it got to the point where Chapter 11 protection was necessary?
I'm fully aware that the guide started as a radio series in the first place... But I'm still not sure that radio, nor film, can do the books justice. The surreal whimsical quality is just very hard to convey.
So, you haven't actually heard any of the radio series, yet you're criticzing it?
Please send all resumes in text or pdf format. We do not open word documents sent from outside the company. We will immediately delete them, and the mail they came attached to, if recieved.
Good idea, security-wise.
Now, if only they would immediately delete any resumes which were obviously not checked for spelling errors...
<rant> When reviewing resumes, my eye is immediately drawn to typos like this, and resumes containing things like this are put into the "consider them only if nothing else better shows up" pile. It's important, folks -- you only have one chance to make a first impression. Do you really want the boss to see that you can't be troubled to hit F7 (in Word)? </rant>
Since it looks so much like a path name (and represents a pathname to the compiler)
Close.
It represents a namespace to the compiler.
To the JVM, it represents a path to a particular class (or set of classes if you use the * notation). That path can be found in either the directories or the.jar files in your CLASSPATH.
why doesn't it do the same thing as ls foo/*/CVS
Isn't it the shell that does the expansion of the * (as opposed to ls)?
An import statement serves the purpose of declaring a namespace, so that you can just refer to WindowAdapter, rather than java.awt.event.WindowAdapter within your code. By using
import java.awt.event.*;
you can refer to ANY class within the java.awt.event package by its basename.
The only time you run into problems is if you want to use a classname that exists in more than one package, such as Date, which exists in both the java.util and java.sql packages. In that case, you can't say
import java.sql.Date; import java.util.Date; ... Date d = new Date;
because the compiler won't know which one you want.
That's great, if you have the option of refusing a job. Some of us don't, or won't
True that.
I'd like to think that it's one of the perks of having 18 years of experience. Of course, I'm expensive enough that I've gotta start worrying about being replaced by a couple or three young pups willing to work for much less than I'd accept.
"Dear Sirs: I must decline your offer of employment, since you have obviously misconstrued my salary requirements as thousands per year instead of dollars per hour."
I have a ponytail myself and fully expect to be asked to cut it
I guess then it's up to you what's more important: the fashion statement you make or the rent payment you make. That is not a slam -- it's a hard choice to make whether to make a stand on a personal matter like that. I have chosen my path; it works for me.
You misspelled something there -- the word "not" should be replaced by ^H^H^H.
Hope this helps.
I haven't worn a tie to work for more than 11 years. The last time I wore a tie for business purposes was for an interview that seemed to go well -- I was interested in the work, they seemed to be interested in me... The next morning I got a call from my headhuntress who told me that the company definitely like my qualifications, but that I "didn't fit their image; they wanted someone more clean-cut."
For this interview, I had donned my suit, gotten a haircut (I kept my hair reasonably short (above the collar) at that time) and trimmed my beard (always kept reasonably short -- *not* an RMS-like thatch).
I told her that I was certainly not interested in any company that was more concerned about my wardrobe than what I could do for them.
My grooming (ponytail, neatly trimmed beard, small diamond stud earring in left ear) and wardrobe (typically polo or silk (or occasionally Aloha) shirt, jeans or Dockers, and moccasins hasn't been an issue for any of my employers in the intervening time. Go figure...
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Waaah! I admit that I did wrong, but I was misled into thinking it wasn't a problem!
File this one under, "Sit down and shut up!"
GOTO has been long supported by Java, it just hasn't been used by its developers.
If you define "supported" as "reserved by the developers precisely so it wouldn't be used as an identifier, or, worse, as a method name, then yeah, it's been there all along.
What about HP? HP-UX is dying, they need to jump on something.
HP-UX was never intended to be a desktop OS.
Don't care, as I don't use IM...
Does this strike anyone else as the fox guarding the henhouse?
I've got 2 test subjects, er, 21-month-old boy/girl twins at home, and we allow them to play with whatever toys they want to.
Generally, they both play with (and share) the Duplo blocks (Legos are still a choking hazard), the Matchbox cars, the Mr. (and Mrs.) Potato Head, the Brio trains, my bass amp, and so on. There are also baby dolls (boy/girl twins, like them), various stuffed critters, and the Little Tykes kitchen our friends gave them. And books -- tons of 'em. Boynton, Little Golden Books, DK, Shel Silverstein poetry, Dr. Seuss, Pooh (AA Milne, not the Disney-fied crap), etc. They sometimes insist on taking a book to bed with them at nap time...
Does my son play with the trains more than the kitchen? Seems like it to me.
Does my daughter play more with the baby dolls? Again, seems like it to me.
Do we "direct" them in their play, shooing them away from any particular toy or "suggesting" to them to play with something else instead?
Absolutely not.
Two spoons, chalk, washing up bowl, rubber patch, glue.
Isn't that how the Predator fixed its arm?
My boss (hardcore BSD hacker and anti-spam activist) added a simple rule to our spam filters: more than 5 consonants in a row in the From: field and it's tagged as spam.
That's just swell. The company I work for uses the mail-account naming convention of FirstInitial MiddleInitial LastName, so an employee named "Thomas Phillip Schneck" would be tpschneck@companyname.com.
So your hardcore BSD hacker and anti-spam activist's scheme would automatically tag email from the fictional Mr. Schneck as spam.
Thanks a bunch.
My friend never got reimbursed for his choice of a Bernoulli drive, and that was a lot more than 100 bucks down the drain.
Um, what?
Who is supposed to be paying him (and why) for obsolete technology?
Really, I'd like to know, because I made this choice of an 8-track player in the '70s...
I was pretty stunned at how terrible the CGI was.
I'd wanted to see this movie, until I watched the "Making of" hype on Sci-Fi.
"Look at that," I said to myself. "A big, computer-generated, green guy. It's Shrek!
Since when is "Chapter 11-like protection" a good business model??
Since staying in business is better than going out of business, quite a while.
In the early 90s, I worked for a company that filed for Chapter 11 protection while I was on vacation.
"D'ah!" thought I.
Not a terrible thing, really. Debt got restructured (read: our creditors took it in the a**), we got rid of a whole lot of things we didn't really need (read: way too much floorspace (including a no-longer-used manufacturing area)), and got out of a lease on said space, moving to a more appropriate-sized office at a much lower per-foot cost. Then came a couple of years of consecutive positive cash-flow, and *poof* we were out of Chapter 11. Never missed a paycheck, got raises during that time, etc.
No big deal from where I stand.
Would it have been better to have had a better handle on what was going on before it got to the point where Chapter 11 protection was necessary?
You bet.
Was it a handy way of saving the company?
Damn skippy.
What, no links?
it's a *joke*, people...
At least in Vegas you get alcohol. Damn election day prohibition laws.
Erm, something is preventing you from purchasing a container of preferred beverage the day before election day?
WTF?
Dang -- you beat me to it.
Short, sweet, to the point...
I'm fully aware that the guide started as a radio series in the first place... But I'm still not sure that radio, nor film, can do the books justice. The surreal whimsical quality is just very hard to convey.
So, you haven't actually heard any of the radio series, yet you're criticzing it?
*Harumph*
Please send all resumes in text or pdf format. We do not open word documents sent from outside the company. We will immediately delete them, and the mail they came attached to, if recieved.
Good idea, security-wise.
Now, if only they would immediately delete any resumes which were obviously not checked for spelling errors...
<rant>
When reviewing resumes, my eye is immediately drawn to typos like this, and resumes containing things like this are put into the "consider them only if nothing else better shows up" pile. It's important, folks -- you only have one chance to make a first impression. Do you really want the boss to see that you can't be troubled to hit F7 (in Word)?
</rant>
Microsoft Dislikes Nations Trying to Escape Lock-in
In other news, Fire Hot.
Microsoft is building a school... Does it need to be rebooted periodically?
Open Source Community Approaches SCO
[insert video clip of villagers with pitchforks and torches storming the castle here]
Close.
It represents a namespace to the compiler.
To the JVM, it represents a path to a particular class (or set of classes if you use the * notation). That path can be found in either the directories or the
why doesn't it do the same thing as ls foo/*/CVS
Isn't it the shell that does the expansion of the * (as opposed to ls)?
An import statement serves the purpose of declaring a namespace, so that you can just refer to WindowAdapter, rather than java.awt.event.WindowAdapter within your code. By using you can refer to ANY class within the java.awt.event package by its basename.
The only time you run into problems is if you want to use a classname that exists in more than one package, such as Date, which exists in both the java.util and java.sql packages. In that case, you can't say because the compiler won't know which one you want.
According to the compiler, it means a syntax error:
That's great, if you have the option of refusing a job. Some of us don't, or won't
True that.
I'd like to think that it's one of the perks of having 18 years of experience. Of course, I'm expensive enough that I've gotta start worrying about being replaced by a couple or three young pups willing to work for much less than I'd accept.
"Dear Sirs: I must decline your offer of employment, since you have obviously misconstrued my salary requirements as thousands per year instead of dollars per hour."
I have a ponytail myself and fully expect to be asked to cut it
I guess then it's up to you what's more important: the fashion statement you make or the rent payment you make. That is not a slam -- it's a hard choice to make whether to make a stand on a personal matter like that. I have chosen my path; it works for me.
there's no reason to actually not wear a tie.
You misspelled something there -- the word "not" should be replaced by ^H^H^H.
Hope this helps.
I haven't worn a tie to work for more than 11 years. The last time I wore a tie for business purposes was for an interview that seemed to go well -- I was interested in the work, they seemed to be interested in me... The next morning I got a call from my headhuntress who told me that the company definitely like my qualifications, but that I "didn't fit their image; they wanted someone more clean-cut."
For this interview, I had donned my suit, gotten a haircut (I kept my hair reasonably short (above the collar) at that time) and trimmed my beard (always kept reasonably short -- *not* an RMS-like thatch).
I told her that I was certainly not interested in any company that was more concerned about my wardrobe than what I could do for them.
My grooming (ponytail, neatly trimmed beard, small diamond stud earring in left ear) and wardrobe (typically polo or silk (or occasionally Aloha) shirt, jeans or Dockers, and moccasins hasn't been an issue for any of my employers in the intervening time. Go figure...
Linux is more closely related (at least in terms of origin) to *shutter* Minix.
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I think you meant shudder
Hope this helps.