People who had their locker beside yours in high-school are not 'long lost friends'
Yes, they pretty much are, almost by definition, since they are/were friends who you lost touch with a long time ago.
they don't need to see photos of your cars and kids nor need they to know where you live.
Need? No, but maybe they want to. I know that I have really enjoyed seeing photos of friends from high school, their kids, whatever, and have had some fun exchanges catching up with people I hadn't spoken to in years. In my case, I grew up on military bases, so it was particularly easy to lose track of people, especially since this was pre-Internet. Just because circumstances caused me to lose touch with someone doesn't mean they should be permanently erased from my life. Just because I don't call someone on the phone every Sunday doesn't mean that I don't enjoy a quick browse of their photos, updates, whatever they post.
Listen, if you don't want to read or post to Facebook, fine. But you're being an arrogant ass to tell others they shouldn't. Not every interaction with people has to rise to the level of a discussion over the validity of Keynesian vs. Hayekian economics. Maybe I just want to see a cute pic of an old friend playing with his daughter from time to time.
Interestingly, the Ars Technical piece in question doesn't directly quote anybody from Intel saying Clover Trail “cannot run Linux”, they just say that the Inquirer reported that an Intel spokesperson at the Intel Developer Forum made that statement.
That's not "Yes," that's "No." If Ars is referencing The Inquirer, then there is no other original source than The Inquirer. Given The Inquirer's reputation, I think it's pretty important that we get independent confirmation before rushing to get the torches and pitchforks ready (or rushing to defend Intel's rights, depending on your bent).
Do you also agree, irrevocably, to never accept a donated organ for yourself or your minor children? Do you also agree to refuse drugs and therapies developed via research requiring donated organs? If so, no problem.
I was a little disappointed to learn that this won't really complete with or replace Dropbox, at least not yet. For me, OS-integration is critical-- I've got plenty of places to store info via a manual interface (web, FTP, etc). Hopefully this is just a start, and we'll see more features soon. Frankly, Dropbox works perfectly for me, so this just adds competition to the space that will hopefully drive up free storage capacities.
There may no viable alternate car routes, but I think the GP meant there are ferries, buses, and formal and casual carpools which are all valid alternatives to a solo driver crossing the bridge. These are the alternatives the toll is meant to encourage.
This likely only happened because you were in the boondocks. We just moved back to the States from two years in London. It took forever to get a current account (checking) set up when we first moved to England, so we lived on our US Capital One card (no ForEx charges) for nearly a month. We were never once hassled for using a non CnP card-- everyone knew to swipe it. I don't recall ever having to give my post code the whole time I was there either.
On topic, I think CnP has to be more secure than swipe and keyboard pin as used for debit card transactions in the US. Seems like it would be trivial to skim the stripe data and the pin pads are not private at all.
SpamCop/Blacklisting - This is actually very effective. I lookup the IP address of every email and check it against these databases. A failure has its session terminated immediately. The vast majority of the entries in these databases are from infected computers sending spam.
So here's something I've never understood: if zombies are such an issue, why aren't the ISPs taking action? It's their bandwidth being gobbled up too.
I would expect that network traffic from compromised machines would match some simple heuristics (high-speed, repeated http requests for DDOS, many non-local SMTP connections for outgoing spam, etc). If a machine trips the heuristics, knock the client off with an http redirect instructing them to contact support). Whitelists could keep online those few legitimate users who trigger the blocks.
This would probably never fly with commercial and high-end users, but I'm assuming Joe Sixpack (and Grandpa Sixpack) are the bigger problem. What am I missing? Or is this already happening?
Exactly. For example, if my boss makes me work late, and a restaurant at which I had planned to eat dinner is closed, it's not theft. "Theft" and "steal" have very precise definitions that involve the taking propery that also deprives someone of that property.
You cannot say that you aren't stealing, because you are. You are depriving the right holders money, and that is the same as stealing money from them.
Intellectual property crimes are illegal, and they may or may not be immoral, but they are not "theft," "stealing," nor the same as stealing money.
You are uninformed and/or prejudiced against plasmas.
Plasmas run hot, and have a severe burn-in problem.
Really? Are you saying a projector runs cooler than a plasma with identical display area? Are there any fanless projectors? There are lots of fanless plasmas.
Modern plasmas (i.e. ones made in the past few years) do not have burn-in problems. Temporary image retention (as long as a few hours in extreme cases) can still occur if an owner is careless and leaves a high-contrast, static image on for a few hours. Phosphor halflife is now approximately that of a standard CRT, meaning the lifetimes are similar.
For that reason, people in-the-know avoid them.
Oh please. Go spend some time getting informed over at AVSForum.com. A true videophile will acknowledge that FP and plasma both have a place in a serious home theater setup. But, if you can only pick one, you'd be crazy to go with the FP-- unless you have blackout curtains you can draw every time you want to watch TV.
A more interesting question, is how many power-users that own a laptop rely on the battery life of the laptop? Everyone that I know that uses a laptop, and some of these people are music majors are chronically tied to the wall
Another advantage of lower power is fewer or slower fans. This reduces noise and cost.
Its probably the best way to make sure that spammers don't start getting gmail accounts/
I don't get it. Why couldn't a spammer beg for an account like everyone else? Once they get in, they get 50 invites and create 50 more accounts (and repeat). I suppose they could track who invited whom and watching the parents and children of known spam accounts.
Not by any competent network architect. It is well known that a corporate wireless infrastructure needs to be isolated from the wired LAN with full firewall protection. Users can access internal resources via VPN, just like they do at home.
It will be the death of Apple's hardware division.
I'm not so sure, for the following reasons:
If I could buy a PowerBook G4 form-factor/industrial design and install Windows, I would buy it in a heartbeat. Call me old and set in my ways, but I like Windows. I don't want to learn a new OS.
Intel has the best high-performance, low power processor available. There's probably a reason we haven't seen a PowerBook G5.
There is much speculation that Apple runs iTMS at razor-thin margins with the sole goal of pushing more iPods out the door. Maybe they're applying that model to their PCs-- barring a catastrophic MS blunder, it's the only way their hardware can break out of their niche.
Apple makes a lot of money off their hardware. I think the frenzy over iPod made them realize that their ID is a major reason instead of the OSX lock-in. When Mac mini launched, they got the same frenzied response, but sales were muted due to peoples' reluctance to start over with a new OS.
If they can keep their existing business and sell into the ultra-premium x86 hardware market, they stand to win big. But, they have to be careful to not crater the OSX business, or they will just become another AlienWare-- with all due respect to AlienWare, it would be a step down for Apple.
The problem is that you'll be paying that $5 a month for the rest of your life... and Yahoo are perfectly capable of increasing the $5 to say... $1000 a month, and then where will you be, you'll be paying $12000 a year to keep your music, or you'll be listening to a lot of silence.
Why wouldn't I just switch to another provider? These are not exclusive libraries.
What happens if I buy an iPod and a bunch of iTMS files, Apple raises the price of iPods to $1000 (hey, what do I care, I already have my iPod), and then my iPod breaks? I either pony up for a new iPod or walk away from my DRMed music.
Can you honestly tell me that a potential employer who sees two resumes, one with a degree and 5 years programming experience, and one with only a high school diploma and 5 years programming experience, that he'll interview the high school graduate over the college graduate?
I think a better analogy would be a person with a college degree and five years of programming experience vs a person with a high school diploma and nine years of programming experience.
I'm starting to wonder if this a myth propagated by local LCD manufacturers.
I don't think it's that sinister. Plasma display technology has made great improvements over the past 5 or so years. This is not to say that there are not still major issues with them, but there are fewer than there used to be. Phosphor life, contrast ratio, and burn in (mitigation) are a few they've managed to fix. There are still issues with image retention and high power demand. LCD has problems with black levels, saturation, (to some extent) ghosting, and cost.
Of course, this is not to say that plasmas and LCDs don't have their irrational fanboys. AVSForum is pretty civil, but they still come out every now and then.
During that time the brightness will continue to decline.
True.
The following paper has a graph demonstrating the decline.
The graph (on page 6) does illustrate the decline in brightness of some Planar product at some point in time. It is not indicative of current plasma technology.
Modern plasma panels have half-brightness times as high as 30,000 hours. In addition, your eye measures brightness logarithmically-- similarly to the measure by which your ears hears sound. 1/2 measured brightness is not the same as 1/2 perceived brightness.
AVS Forum is a great source for information and real world experience from owners of nearly every panel out there.
Yes, Buffet makes an excellent argument. However, consider some of the negatives. Companies will be expensing something that has no cash cost. Therefore, they will be deducting the opportunity cost of those options (fair market value if they had sold them to an outsider) from their income. Does this really make sense?
Right now, companies already expense the cost of the capital appreciation of the share sold when the option is exercised. How? Stock buybacks. When a stock option is exercised, the employee is sold a share out of the option pool (which usually means there's no dilution). The company books this cash as a share sold, just as if it was sold on the open market (but at the lower option strike price instead of fair market value). Eventually, that share is bought back (most companies continuously buy back shares) and the cost of that buyback is expensed. What is up for discussion is if/how to expense the option value of the option, not the capital appreciation of the underlying share.
Also, consider that many of these options will go unused, either because the employee leaves the company before they vest or because the options are underwater when they expire. The FASB recommendation permits companies to make allowances for these situations, but those allowances will always be wrong. The FASB permits similar allowances for bad debt and other estimations on the pro formas, but those entries are made up of many transactions, and they will statistically approach a historical value. Stock options are typically granted to many employees at once with the same strike price. This will appear as a single transaction-- instead of multiple, offsetting errors, companies will have single, large errors. This will drive more volatility than the other estimations on the pro formas.
I agree with Buffet that options clearly have value-- otherwise employees would not value them as compensation. I also agree that some method should be employed to correct the pro formas for options. But, the two major mechanisms recommended were designed to estimate fair market value, not the impact of an opportunity cost to a company's financial situation. I think using them in this way is not accurate. In fact, I think it will make the pro formas less accurate.
In the interim while we wait for the accounting wizards to come up with a better solution, I think it makes sense to just continue doing what most companies do today. If you look the 10-K for most companies, you will find extremely detailed option data. Using this data, you can compute the "expense" to the company in any way you find best. If the SEC requires companies to bake this in to the pro formas, it will be much more difficult to unwind the financials to use your own technique.
Yes, it will be more effort than just looking at the Net Income line or doing a quick ratio (or a Quick Ratio). But, investing in individual securities is not for amateurs (and I include myself if this category). That's what mutual funds are for.
I'm sure some people do, but most resume screeners won't look at anything past the first page. If someone does go longer than a page (which I still do not recommend), he or she needs to carefully prioritize to get the important information on the first page. While some college grads do have lots of experience and skills, I don't agree that they should all go on the resume. Resumes should be focused-- a cruel fact of recruiting is that screeners have more resumes than time.
Personal opinion: the only people that should go over one page are those with > 10 years of experience (and need the space for work experience) or highly technical people (PhDs mainly) that have lists of publications.
As a new college grad, your resume should not be any longer than a single page. Screeners are spending less than a minute on each resume-- they're not going to waste time paging through tons of detail. Here's a few tips I think will help you be successful:
Cusomize your resume as much as possible for every position. What industry is the company in? Highlight non-engineering experiences you have that would help you (as a programmer) in that sector. Of course, you don't have time to rewrite your resume for every employer, but a little tweaking (with the right buzzwords) can help your resume get a few more seconds of attention.
Focus, focus, focus. Pretend you're the employer; do you really care that a candidate was a lifeguard in high school? Probably not. Do you care that he or she provided weekly status reports in his last internship? Again, probably not. Remember, resume screeners are skimming your resume. They're not going to read every word. Make sure that most of the words on there are valuable. Leave off obvious stuff. It's great that you know how to use Windows XP and Microsoft Offce, but those skills are assumed.
Bullet your accomplishments. For every job/school, list a short summary of your primary duties so that the screener knows what the role was. Then, give a list of bullets that show concrete accomplishments in that role. Things like "reduced cycle time by 15% by restructuring development process" or "wrote credit card transaction module for BuyFast middleware on time with zero errors, as verified by validation team."
Links. Done online work? Why not include a link? Especially if you're on the UI or creative side, if your resume makes it past the first cut, a look at your work might get you an interview. On that same note, if you do provide a link to your web site, make sure everything is Safe for Work (tm). That picture of you puking off a balcony might be hilarious to you and your friends, but not so much for a potential employer. Same thing for blogs.
Have a few friends proofread it.
You've got one chance to make a first impression. Make sure it's a good one. Nothing will get you in the "NO" pile faster than misspellings and grammatical errors. Even one. No matter how much of a perfectionist you are, you will miss your own errors. Have a few people read over your final draft for you. Yes, it's embarrasing-- but less so than moving back in to your parents' basement when you run out of money.
Consider adding relevant nonwork experience. Don't limit yourself to programming experience. Show an employer that you've got the skills they need to work for them, including teamwork, leadership, creativity, networking, and influence. Don't just throw them on there-- you need to spin how it will help you in your career as a programmer. This one is a little trickier to use (and still follow the other advice above), so use carefully.
I used to be a resume consultant for younger sutudents when I was in grad school and am willing to provide brief help if anyone wants to email me. I've put a decent amount of time into crafting my own resume-- it's online, but I fear the mockery of the Slashdot community. If anyone's interested in an example that follows the notes above, email me and I'll send the link.
Actually the breathing hole in the hard drive is critical to maintaining the cushion of air that the drive heads use to float the couple of microns over the platter surface that they need.
Reference? I don't know of any hard drive where this is the case. The only purpose of the breather hole is for pressure equalization. The heads fly due to the aerodynamics of their physical design-- just like an airplane wing.
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People who had their locker beside yours in high-school are not 'long lost friends'
Yes, they pretty much are, almost by definition, since they are/were friends who you lost touch with a long time ago.
they don't need to see photos of your cars and kids nor need they to know where you live.
Need? No, but maybe they want to. I know that I have really enjoyed seeing photos of friends from high school, their kids, whatever, and have had some fun exchanges catching up with people I hadn't spoken to in years. In my case, I grew up on military bases, so it was particularly easy to lose track of people, especially since this was pre-Internet. Just because circumstances caused me to lose touch with someone doesn't mean they should be permanently erased from my life. Just because I don't call someone on the phone every Sunday doesn't mean that I don't enjoy a quick browse of their photos, updates, whatever they post.
Listen, if you don't want to read or post to Facebook, fine. But you're being an arrogant ass to tell others they shouldn't. Not every interaction with people has to rise to the level of a discussion over the validity of Keynesian vs. Hayekian economics. Maybe I just want to see a cute pic of an old friend playing with his daughter from time to time.
TL;DR: FOAD.
Is there any source for this statement besides The Inquirer?
Yes.
Interestingly, the Ars Technical piece in question doesn't directly quote anybody from Intel saying Clover Trail “cannot run Linux”, they just say that the Inquirer reported that an Intel spokesperson at the Intel Developer Forum made that statement.
That's not "Yes," that's "No." If Ars is referencing The Inquirer, then there is no other original source than The Inquirer. Given The Inquirer's reputation, I think it's pretty important that we get independent confirmation before rushing to get the torches and pitchforks ready (or rushing to defend Intel's rights, depending on your bent).
Do you also agree, irrevocably, to never accept a donated organ for yourself or your minor children? Do you also agree to refuse drugs and therapies developed via research requiring donated organs? If so, no problem.
I was a little disappointed to learn that this won't really complete with or replace Dropbox, at least not yet. For me, OS-integration is critical-- I've got plenty of places to store info via a manual interface (web, FTP, etc). Hopefully this is just a start, and we'll see more features soon. Frankly, Dropbox works perfectly for me, so this just adds competition to the space that will hopefully drive up free storage capacities.
There may no viable alternate car routes, but I think the GP meant there are ferries, buses, and formal and casual carpools which are all valid alternatives to a solo driver crossing the bridge. These are the alternatives the toll is meant to encourage.
What alternative do you propose?
LastPass
This likely only happened because you were in the boondocks. We just moved back to the States from two years in London. It took forever to get a current account (checking) set up when we first moved to England, so we lived on our US Capital One card (no ForEx charges) for nearly a month. We were never once hassled for using a non CnP card-- everyone knew to swipe it. I don't recall ever having to give my post code the whole time I was there either.
On topic, I think CnP has to be more secure than swipe and keyboard pin as used for debit card transactions in the US. Seems like it would be trivial to skim the stripe data and the pin pads are not private at all.
So here's something I've never understood: if zombies are such an issue, why aren't the ISPs taking action? It's their bandwidth being gobbled up too.
I would expect that network traffic from compromised machines would match some simple heuristics (high-speed, repeated http requests for DDOS, many non-local SMTP connections for outgoing spam, etc). If a machine trips the heuristics, knock the client off with an http redirect instructing them to contact support). Whitelists could keep online those few legitimate users who trigger the blocks.
This would probably never fly with commercial and high-end users, but I'm assuming Joe Sixpack (and Grandpa Sixpack) are the bigger problem. What am I missing? Or is this already happening?
Hmmm, so the loss of a sale isn't theft?
Exactly. For example, if my boss makes me work late, and a restaurant at which I had planned to eat dinner is closed, it's not theft. "Theft" and "steal" have very precise definitions that involve the taking propery that also deprives someone of that property.
You cannot say that you aren't stealing, because you are. You are depriving the right holders money, and that is the same as stealing money from them.
Intellectual property crimes are illegal, and they may or may not be immoral, but they are not "theft," "stealing," nor the same as stealing money.
What diesel powered car is available in the US for $20,000?
The Golf TDI base MSRP is around $18,500.
except you can't buy any passenger diesel in California
Not true. I test drove the VW Golf and Jetta TDI (diesel) models at VW of Sunnyvale (CA).
You are uninformed and/or prejudiced against plasmas.
Plasmas run hot, and have a severe burn-in problem.
Really? Are you saying a projector runs cooler than a plasma with identical display area? Are there any fanless projectors? There are lots of fanless plasmas.
Modern plasmas (i.e. ones made in the past few years) do not have burn-in problems. Temporary image retention (as long as a few hours in extreme cases) can still occur if an owner is careless and leaves a high-contrast, static image on for a few hours. Phosphor halflife is now approximately that of a standard CRT, meaning the lifetimes are similar.
For that reason, people in-the-know avoid them.
Oh please. Go spend some time getting informed over at AVSForum.com. A true videophile will acknowledge that FP and plasma both have a place in a serious home theater setup. But, if you can only pick one, you'd be crazy to go with the FP-- unless you have blackout curtains you can draw every time you want to watch TV.
A more interesting question, is how many power-users that own a laptop rely on the battery life of the laptop? Everyone that I know that uses a laptop, and some of these people are music majors are chronically tied to the wall
Another advantage of lower power is fewer or slower fans. This reduces noise and cost.
Its probably the best way to make sure that spammers don't start getting gmail accounts/
I don't get it. Why couldn't a spammer beg for an account like everyone else? Once they get in, they get 50 invites and create 50 more accounts (and repeat). I suppose they could track who invited whom and watching the parents and children of known spam accounts.
WiFi is so often deployed inside the firewall.
Not by any competent network architect. It is well known that a corporate wireless infrastructure needs to be isolated from the wired LAN with full firewall protection. Users can access internal resources via VPN, just like they do at home.
I'm not so sure, for the following reasons:
- If I could buy a PowerBook G4 form-factor/industrial design and install Windows, I would buy it in a heartbeat. Call me old and set in my ways, but I like Windows. I don't want to learn a new OS.
- Intel has the best high-performance, low power processor available. There's probably a reason we haven't seen a PowerBook G5.
- There is much speculation that Apple runs iTMS at razor-thin margins with the sole goal of pushing more iPods out the door. Maybe they're applying that model to their PCs-- barring a catastrophic MS blunder, it's the only way their hardware can break out of their niche.
Apple makes a lot of money off their hardware. I think the frenzy over iPod made them realize that their ID is a major reason instead of the OSX lock-in. When Mac mini launched, they got the same frenzied response, but sales were muted due to peoples' reluctance to start over with a new OS.If they can keep their existing business and sell into the ultra-premium x86 hardware market, they stand to win big. But, they have to be careful to not crater the OSX business, or they will just become another AlienWare-- with all due respect to AlienWare, it would be a step down for Apple.
The problem is that you'll be paying that $5 a month for the rest of your life... and Yahoo are perfectly capable of increasing the $5 to say... $1000 a month, and then where will you be, you'll be paying $12000 a year to keep your music, or you'll be listening to a lot of silence.
Why wouldn't I just switch to another provider? These are not exclusive libraries.
What happens if I buy an iPod and a bunch of iTMS files, Apple raises the price of iPods to $1000 (hey, what do I care, I already have my iPod), and then my iPod breaks? I either pony up for a new iPod or walk away from my DRMed music.
Can you honestly tell me that a potential employer who sees two resumes, one with a degree and 5 years programming experience, and one with only a high school diploma and 5 years programming experience, that he'll interview the high school graduate over the college graduate?
I think a better analogy would be a person with a college degree and five years of programming experience vs a person with a high school diploma and nine years of programming experience.
And if you can't trust Microsoft, who can you trust?
Apple, I guess?
I'm starting to wonder if this a myth propagated by local LCD manufacturers.
I don't think it's that sinister. Plasma display technology has made great improvements over the past 5 or so years. This is not to say that there are not still major issues with them, but there are fewer than there used to be. Phosphor life, contrast ratio, and burn in (mitigation) are a few they've managed to fix. There are still issues with image retention and high power demand. LCD has problems with black levels, saturation, (to some extent) ghosting, and cost.
Of course, this is not to say that plasmas and LCDs don't have their irrational fanboys. AVSForum is pretty civil, but they still come out every now and then.
Plasma TV's will only last around five years.
False.
During that time the brightness will continue to decline.
True.
The following paper has a graph demonstrating the decline.
The graph (on page 6) does illustrate the decline in brightness of some Planar product at some point in time. It is not indicative of current plasma technology.
Modern plasma panels have half-brightness times as high as 30,000 hours. In addition, your eye measures brightness logarithmically-- similarly to the measure by which your ears hears sound. 1/2 measured brightness is not the same as 1/2 perceived brightness.
AVS Forum is a great source for information and real world experience from owners of nearly every panel out there.
Yes, Buffet makes an excellent argument. However, consider some of the negatives. Companies will be expensing something that has no cash cost. Therefore, they will be deducting the opportunity cost of those options (fair market value if they had sold them to an outsider) from their income. Does this really make sense?
Right now, companies already expense the cost of the capital appreciation of the share sold when the option is exercised. How? Stock buybacks. When a stock option is exercised, the employee is sold a share out of the option pool (which usually means there's no dilution). The company books this cash as a share sold, just as if it was sold on the open market (but at the lower option strike price instead of fair market value). Eventually, that share is bought back (most companies continuously buy back shares) and the cost of that buyback is expensed. What is up for discussion is if/how to expense the option value of the option, not the capital appreciation of the underlying share.
Also, consider that many of these options will go unused, either because the employee leaves the company before they vest or because the options are underwater when they expire. The FASB recommendation permits companies to make allowances for these situations, but those allowances will always be wrong. The FASB permits similar allowances for bad debt and other estimations on the pro formas, but those entries are made up of many transactions, and they will statistically approach a historical value. Stock options are typically granted to many employees at once with the same strike price. This will appear as a single transaction-- instead of multiple, offsetting errors, companies will have single, large errors. This will drive more volatility than the other estimations on the pro formas.
I agree with Buffet that options clearly have value-- otherwise employees would not value them as compensation. I also agree that some method should be employed to correct the pro formas for options. But, the two major mechanisms recommended were designed to estimate fair market value, not the impact of an opportunity cost to a company's financial situation. I think using them in this way is not accurate. In fact, I think it will make the pro formas less accurate.
In the interim while we wait for the accounting wizards to come up with a better solution, I think it makes sense to just continue doing what most companies do today. If you look the 10-K for most companies, you will find extremely detailed option data. Using this data, you can compute the "expense" to the company in any way you find best. If the SEC requires companies to bake this in to the pro formas, it will be much more difficult to unwind the financials to use your own technique.
Yes, it will be more effort than just looking at the Net Income line or doing a quick ratio (or a Quick Ratio). But, investing in individual securities is not for amateurs (and I include myself if this category). That's what mutual funds are for.
I'm sure some people do, but most resume screeners won't look at anything past the first page. If someone does go longer than a page (which I still do not recommend), he or she needs to carefully prioritize to get the important information on the first page. While some college grads do have lots of experience and skills, I don't agree that they should all go on the resume. Resumes should be focused-- a cruel fact of recruiting is that screeners have more resumes than time.
Personal opinion: the only people that should go over one page are those with > 10 years of experience (and need the space for work experience) or highly technical people (PhDs mainly) that have lists of publications.
I used to be a resume consultant for younger sutudents when I was in grad school and am willing to provide brief help if anyone wants to email me. I've put a decent amount of time into crafting my own resume-- it's online, but I fear the mockery of the Slashdot community. If anyone's interested in an example that follows the notes above, email me and I'll send the link.
Good luck!
Actually the breathing hole in the hard drive is critical to maintaining the cushion of air that the drive heads use to float the couple of microns over the platter surface that they need.
Reference? I don't know of any hard drive where this is the case. The only purpose of the breather hole is for pressure equalization. The heads fly due to the aerodynamics of their physical design-- just like an airplane wing.