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  1. Two ways... on How To Get a Job At a Mega-Corp · · Score: 1

    Method 1
    Step 1: Pay the Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Waterloo, Harvard, IIT, Beijing University,Oxford, or a similar school lots of money for a piece of paper (or get lucky and get financial aid)
    Step 2: Pay the school even more money to get an "advanced degree"
    Step 3: Put all kinds of keywords on your resume/CV, but highlight the school name in bold and make it a few font sizes larger then everything else

    Method 2
    Step 1: Build successful company
    Step 2: Get acquired ...

    Profit?

  2. PR/Viral marketing? on $300 Sci-Fi YouTube Video Lands $30m Movie Deal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Am I the only one who thinks that the whole situation was setup as a viral marketing/PR stunt? Maybe I'm just naturally distrustful of Hollywood.

    It is easier to sell tickets to another run of the mill Sci-Fi movie if it has a story like this behind it.

  3. Re:Why do people place such a sucker bet anyway? on "Back Door" Cheating Scandal Rocks Online Poker · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter how many players there are that can beat you - it isn't a game of winner-takes-all in the long run.

    Good poker play is similar to good investing - you take the information you have and make decisions based on that. It is a lot of numbers - how much money do your opponents have on the table? (This is your potential reward.)

    What are the odds that they have you beat? (This is your potential risk.)

    What moves do you have to make to convince them that you have them beat? (This is how you make your plays.)

    Good play means making these decisions in every hand you're involved in. You will find that a large number of professional poker players are former software engineers and math nerds. It helps to be good with numbers.

  4. HTTP on Is Today's Web Still 'the Web'? · · Score: 1

    I still use hypertext transfer protocol to access this stuff. Looks like the web to me.

  5. Re:auto-complete is at fault? on A $1 Billion Email Gaffe · · Score: 1

    NOTICE: This message is distributed under the Slashdot Propriety License. By reading this message, you agree to moderate this message "+1 Informative" if you have mod points, otherwise to send $1,000 in small unmarked bills to the author. Failure to adhere to the terms of the license (which, if you are still reading at this point, you have already agreed to) will result in your being prosecuted under the terms of the DMCA and thrown in a small unheated cell on Guantanamo.

    But by not ACTUALLY throwing me in an unheated cell, can't I sue you for breach of contract?

    And why does a heater matter when you're on a tropical island?

  6. Re:So where does this leave the jews? on Egypt to Copyright Pyramids and Sphynx · · Score: 1

    Not to be a stick in the mud, but there is little evidence that the builders of the pyramids were Jewish.

  7. Re:story is bull on Heavily Discounted Zune Outpacing iPod Sales · · Score: 1

    Something is left out when you filter on the subgroups. iPods are not #1 in any of the sub-categories, only the root one.

  8. Re:Maybe... on The Pirate Bay Facing "Old Fashioned" Pressure · · Score: 1

    Not exactly - the recording companies will pay for the recording out of future profits from the album. So the band really is negative until they recoup the recording costs, and pay back any other advances the record company gave them.

  9. iTunes isnt the only digital distribution system on TV Torrents — When Piracy Is Easier Than Purchase · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I just downloaded all of the new NBC pilots onto my Tivo for free from Amazon unbox. Just because something isnt on iTunes doesnt mean there is no way to legally get it.

  10. WoW is next... on Sun Holds News Conference In Second Life · · Score: 1

    I cant wait until your visit Thrall's Chamber and are greeted with representatives from all the big tech companies. Maybe they can all have a duelling competition outside of Org!

  11. TechExcel HelpDesk on Support Desk Software for ITIL-Based IT Department · · Score: 2, Informative

    I work for a company (TechExcel) that makes HelpDesk software. We have implemented several ITIL configurations.
    Here's a link - TechExcel HelpDesk

  12. Re:Why? on Acclaim Game Franchises Bought By Throwback · · Score: 1

    NBA Jam and Mortal Kombat are owned by Midway. Acclaim just did the console ports.

  13. Re:stored procs and triggers, finally on MySQL 5.0 Now Available for Production Use · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And if its in your code, the query executes using the resources of the machine running your code, as opposed to the resources of that (usually) bigged database server.

  14. Re:I stopped reading at... on IGN Talks Games Industry Salaries · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they replace "engineers" with "executives", the sentance makes sense.

  15. DevTrack on Bug Tracking Across Multiple Code Streams? · · Score: 4, Informative

    DevTrack allows you to generate multiple sub-issues automatically based on a value of the original issue, such as platform. You end up with several sub-issues to fix/validate the bug on the selected attribute. You can then link these in parent/child relationships. Its not free, but it works well.

  16. Re:Any chance of litigation? on GTA3 and Vice City now Online Multiplayer · · Score: 1

    3) Rockstar isn't losing any money off it, more likely the opposite.

    Unless Rockstar planned to release this feature as an expansion to the existing PC games.

  17. Re:Copyrights... on Star Wars Revelations - May the Force Be With You! · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lucas endorses fan films - I was trying to find more detail, but all i found was here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_fiction#Legal_asp ect/

  18. Re:Be calm, relax, things aren't that bad... on Following the Chips in Wynn's New Casino · · Score: 1

    Watch them deny you a line of credit when they see you blow a mess of chips in less than three minutes, and are able to track where they went.

    Or, maybe in that case, they'd approve you for a higher line of credit?

  19. Re:The wife? on Safeway Club Card Leads to Bogus Arson Arrest · · Score: 1

    Why do you need to go back and look at old shopping trips? Arent the trends you are looking for on a broad-scale, over a period of time? What good would knowing an individual's patterns be then? Wouldnt a date and time stamp be enough to reconize these trends?

  20. Re:That's why... on Worm Hits Windows Machines Running MySQL · · Score: 1

    Maybe the better question would be "Why would you call yourself a system administrator and not follow basic security practices, like setting up a firewall or changing default passwords?"

    Doesnt matter what platform you're on: if you allow root to connect over ssh and make the password "root", you're in trouble.

  21. Re:Current Scientific American on Genetically-Modified Everything · · Score: 1

    But how would we learn more about it if we dont try it?

  22. Hmmm... on SpaceShipOne Captures the X Prize · · Score: 4, Funny

    When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
    -Fight Club

  23. Re:800lb Gorilla on Gates on Spyware and OS Competition · · Score: 1

    Maybe it wasnt the streaming video that was trying to connect, but someother part of the software, that just gave up after the connection timed out?

  24. Re:history of dooom on History Of Doom Movie Debuts · · Score: 1

    I thought Descent was the first game to have true 3D?

  25. Re:It's a super bad analogy on Report From "Get The Facts" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's an even worse analogy, because aircraft manufacturers CAN share components with each other because parts are all built to published and accurate specifications, so if the specs say it will work, IT WILL WORK!

    Yes, and if you write your software using VC++ and the MFC libraries, your code will work too. The specs for getting something to work with windows are mostly included in the Windows.H header.

    And Windows programs can share components with each other, as long as the specs and APIs are published. Now, the specs for all aircraft isnt standard: for example, the specs on a Stealth Bomber arent out there for people to build things on. The same works for software - you dont allow your competition to know what your algorithms do, or how they work, because then you have no advantage over them.