Bingo! I've been obsessed with this topic for many years (I'm 50) and that's what my conclusion is as well. Mix things up and time appears to slow down. That can include things like traveling too.
The same ole routine, while boring, also makes time fly. Not good.
Also, always have some sort of trip or event to look forward to. One one hand you are wishing time away but on the other hand, the act of doing so makes time go by more slowly.
So you'd reject me because I have [inital][surname]@gmail.com rather then [firstname]@[surname].com.[country]?
No, not reject. It's all a scoring system and first impressions. @aol.com -1, @gmail.com +0, @domain +1
Being a smart-ass prat, -5
So you see, if there are multiple prats with their own domain name and one non-smart ass with an aol.com then the latter wins (if all other issues are equal).
It's quite possible that they simply don't trust you with their @theirdomain address.
If a candidate doesn't trust me with their email address, I'm not about to trust them with access to confidential data that an IT position usually has access to.
It's even worse than that. Many businesses have dozens of domain names, for no real reason. Like I do work for a company with a 4 letter domain name, call it LLLL.com -- they also own LLLL2.com (for testing), SHOPLLLL.com, and various vanity names for events they throw, like LLLL-theeventname.com and LLLLtheeventname.com for a one-time event.
What's wrong with test.LLLL.com, shop.LLLL.com, and eventname.LLLL.com?
(I'm currently trying to straighten them out)
Then every time a new two letter TLD opens up for outside registrations, like.cm you get a "land rush" with everyone buying up that version from their.com name.
Don't be fucking stupid, cats can't even read, let alone fill out domain registration documents. And how is she going to pay for it? With dead mice?
Any decent cat will train their human pets to do their bidding. It's not all that difficult to understand. She needs her own domain name to let everyone know how great she is.
Interestingly, that strikes me as potentially pretentious and wasteful. Don't tie up a chuck of Internet real estate just for your own personal vanity, IMO.
Tying up a domain name for personal vanity? I take it you've never looked into the domain speculators market. Read dnforum.com for a bit. These guys buy/sell thousands of domain names and park most of them for ad income. I had to compete with these speculators in a domain auction to get my weave.org domain. If I had not gotten it, it would have ended up being a parked page.
I'm not saying your point is unreasonable. There's probably a lot better uses for weave.org than my own email domain -- but at least I'm using the domain and it's not just parked by some speculator hoping to double their money by reselling it to yet another speculator. To give you an idea of what they charge, weave.info is currently parked and for sale for almost $1700 and is also listed as $2000 on Sedo. If they smell a legit business wanting to buy the domain name to use it as a website for useful content, their asking price goes through the roof.
"weave"
there isn't a joke that hasn't been made about girls with weaves
I doubt any of us would apply for a job with these names, although my username is a shortened version of my surname and has squat all to do with girl's weaves!
I still use my college email address which we get to keep forever - name@school.edu and I kind of look at it the same as wearing your class ring or something. Would that be a potential turnoff for an IT related position?
No, not a turnoff at all for me (and I interview a lot of tech people), as long as it matches the school on your resume and isn't some diploma mill.
Given the cost-cutting trend we've seen in IT over the past decade, would the image of someone that spends additional money/time on unnecessary technology be appealing?
A domain name and simple email plan from most registrar's is less than $40/year. That's hardly extravagant.
What's bad is getting a resume with something embarrassing before that @aol.com bit, like p4rtyg1rl69 or phillygansta92. (Yes, I've seen a few like that).
If it's a technology person, that's a red flag. I'd expect them to at least have their own domain name. It doesn't cost THAT much and looks far more professional.
Heck, even my cat has her own domain name.
If it's a non-tech field, meh, I don't care that much. But I have to chuckle when I see a small business with a website and their own domain name, but still using @comcast or @aol on their business card for email.
I'm still convinced virtual worlds have a fascinating future in our lives -- Second Life may be a bit ahead of its time and needs more technology however.
Here some students from Delaware, USA designed and built virtual homes for the townships around Cape Town. The designs were critiqued by an organization that handles this stuff in Cape Town in real-life. The students got some valuable experience. For example, designing a house with multiple bathrooms. Ah, no. Or using materials not readily available in South Africa.
I can see with time and technological advances that students won't have to truck into their local university, they'll be able to learn within virtual classrooms.
I saw Stoll at a book signing in the mid 90s for that book. He said at the time he stopped using email totally, if you want to contact him, use the postal service.
Maybe he's mellowed since then, but he was definitely heading to luddite realm back then.
p.s., I agree that technology is no substitute for effective teaching. I work at one of those places and not too long ago a math teacher was freaking out that the Internet was down so she couldn't get the students into MyMathLab and didn't know what to do. So I replied "How about pick up some chalk?"
Yeah, I got in trouble for that remark... but really, you can't teach math without the Internet? Gimme a break.
Remember him? And his book Silicon Snake Oil from the mid-90s about the evils of the new Internet.
What does he do now? Makes weird bottles. Wow.
Yesterday my boss was pissed because his new Mac laptop with Snow Leopard wouldn't work with his old Laserjet 1020. A few minutes on Google and I found the solution.
I remember what it was like finding tech info in the 80s. A nightmare. For example, I wanted some tech books on CANDE, WFL, and ALGOL that a Burrough's mainframe that my university used and was told by the publisher that they'll only ship if I proved I was an employee of a firm that owned one.
Keep your romance about the past to yourself. Adapt or die I say.
Mountains tend to be the highest point in the area so you get bonus distance due to a clear line of sight.
I beg to differ. I think the towers are somewhat directional and don't point up. I've hiked up quite a few mountains and have trouble placing calls. Even in places that are somewhat close to an urban center, like Picacho Peak near Tucson, AZ a few times, and getting a signal there can be problematic. Other areas, like Yellowstone and Glacier National Park I can understand, but Picacho Peak is right off of busy I-10.
I just got a N900 and love the thing. First thing I did was install openssh server, set a root password, and then ssh'ed into my phone. I created a nice little script I found on maemo site that enables the DUN bluetooth profile so I can use it to tether.
It's a great feeling.
I also own an iPhone 3GS and will carry around both. Overall, for the average consumer, the iPhone is a great phone. But the N900 is a geek dream come true. It is quite the milestone.
Generally I agree with the article. It's going to remain a niche product. I can't see any carrier subsidizing this phone, and with no carrier support, it will never hit mainstream.
A friend of mine was a columnist in my Uni's newspaper and he actually used a similar example... "Should a family who's loved one is currently on life support and in a coma, upon being told by the attending physician that they expect the patient to be able to come off of life support and regain consciousness in three months, and then eventually go on to lead a normal fully functional life afterward, be allowed to have the patient removed from life support simply due to not wanting the financial burden? No? Then why is abortion legal?"
Ah, but that person in a coma still has enough brain activity to keep the thing refreshed. A comatose person may even be self-aware. But a one month old fetus certainly doesn't have a brain to even function yet. I could buy that logic at 4-6 months in though.
I've often wished reasonable scientific methods could determine when a life becomes sentient/aware and define that as having the same legal protections as born people. It's unfortunate that each side on the debate will not compromise and find a reasonable standard. One one side you have some pro-choice people who think nothing of killing a perfectly viable fetus and the horrors of partial-birth abortion, and on the other side you have pro-life people who are against even the day after pill because a conception may have occurred. Sorry folks, but a zygote that has no brain yet is incapable of being self-aware.
Define a time in a pregnancy when the fetus starts to develop a brain and possible self-awareness and just cut the line there.
I have a feeling that's pretty early, like 2 months in. But if abortions were illegal after that point, decisions would be made sooner.
Of course if the mother's life is in danger, that's a different issue -- as is that pre-determined "Trig" factor and whether it's ethical to abort based on parental convenience issues.
But starting somewhere using scientific reason and logic to me would be refreshing. I don't buy that a week or two old fetus is a "person" any more than a brain dead accident victim is, to whom it's legal to remove life support from and let die. The "potential" and soul argument is mainly a religious one and shouldn't be a factor. If your religious beliefs believe that, then don't have an abortion.
I know a lot of credit card checks go over modem and not the Internet, but I do remember being a cashier in the 70s and having to not only swipe credit cards through an impression machine, but also check it against a "hot list" to see if it was valid -- which was a printed booklet. No idea how often that thing was updated. Amazing.
That so-called great Verizon network can't even manage to allow one to do data and voice at the same time.
I'm currently looking at the Nokia N900. Too bad it's tied to T-mobile for 3G data currently, but at least I won't be competing for limited bandwidth with a bunch of iPhone users!
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Bingo! I've been obsessed with this topic for many years (I'm 50) and that's what my conclusion is as well. Mix things up and time appears to slow down. That can include things like traveling too.
The same ole routine, while boring, also makes time fly. Not good.
Also, always have some sort of trip or event to look forward to. One one hand you are wishing time away but on the other hand, the act of doing so makes time go by more slowly.
No, not reject. It's all a scoring system and first impressions. @aol.com -1, @gmail.com +0, @domain +1
Being a smart-ass prat, -5
So you see, if there are multiple prats with their own domain name and one non-smart ass with an aol.com then the latter wins (if all other issues are equal).
If a candidate doesn't trust me with their email address, I'm not about to trust them with access to confidential data that an IT position usually has access to.
It's even worse than that. Many businesses have dozens of domain names, for no real reason. Like I do work for a company with a 4 letter domain name, call it LLLL.com -- they also own LLLL2.com (for testing), SHOPLLLL.com, and various vanity names for events they throw, like LLLL-theeventname.com and LLLLtheeventname.com for a one-time event.
What's wrong with test.LLLL.com, shop.LLLL.com, and eventname.LLLL.com?
(I'm currently trying to straighten them out)
Then every time a new two letter TLD opens up for outside registrations, like .cm you get a "land rush" with everyone buying up that version from their .com name.
What a racket.
Any decent cat will train their human pets to do their bidding. It's not all that difficult to understand. She needs her own domain name to let everyone know how great she is.
Do you skimp on your suit you go to interviews with as well?
Good show, and true. I did notice that after posting. :-(
Tying up a domain name for personal vanity? I take it you've never looked into the domain speculators market. Read dnforum.com for a bit. These guys buy/sell thousands of domain names and park most of them for ad income. I had to compete with these speculators in a domain auction to get my weave.org domain. If I had not gotten it, it would have ended up being a parked page.
I'm not saying your point is unreasonable. There's probably a lot better uses for weave.org than my own email domain -- but at least I'm using the domain and it's not just parked by some speculator hoping to double their money by reselling it to yet another speculator. To give you an idea of what they charge, weave.info is currently parked and for sale for almost $1700 and is also listed as $2000 on Sedo. If they smell a legit business wanting to buy the domain name to use it as a website for useful content, their asking price goes through the roof.
I doubt any of us would apply for a job with these names, although my username is a shortened version of my surname and has squat all to do with girl's weaves!
Anyway, nice gotcha post regardless!
No, not a turnoff at all for me (and I interview a lot of tech people), as long as it matches the school on your resume and isn't some diploma mill.
Same here. weave.org ^_^
I see your website is almost as exciting as mine too.
A domain name and simple email plan from most registrar's is less than $40/year. That's hardly extravagant.
What's bad is getting a resume with something embarrassing before that @aol.com bit, like p4rtyg1rl69 or phillygansta92. (Yes, I've seen a few like that).
If it's a technology person, that's a red flag. I'd expect them to at least have their own domain name. It doesn't cost THAT much and looks far more professional.
Heck, even my cat has her own domain name.
If it's a non-tech field, meh, I don't care that much. But I have to chuckle when I see a small business with a website and their own domain name, but still using @comcast or @aol on their business card for email.
I'm still convinced virtual worlds have a fascinating future in our lives -- Second Life may be a bit ahead of its time and needs more technology however.
There are also useful things going on there. For example, Cape Town Housing Project.
Here some students from Delaware, USA designed and built virtual homes for the townships around Cape Town. The designs were critiqued by an organization that handles this stuff in Cape Town in real-life. The students got some valuable experience. For example, designing a house with multiple bathrooms. Ah, no. Or using materials not readily available in South Africa.
I can see with time and technological advances that students won't have to truck into their local university, they'll be able to learn within virtual classrooms.
I saw Stoll at a book signing in the mid 90s for that book. He said at the time he stopped using email totally, if you want to contact him, use the postal service.
Maybe he's mellowed since then, but he was definitely heading to luddite realm back then.
p.s., I agree that technology is no substitute for effective teaching. I work at one of those places and not too long ago a math teacher was freaking out that the Internet was down so she couldn't get the students into MyMathLab and didn't know what to do. So I replied "How about pick up some chalk?"
Yeah, I got in trouble for that remark... but really, you can't teach math without the Internet? Gimme a break.
Clifford Stoll
Remember him? And his book Silicon Snake Oil from the mid-90s about the evils of the new Internet.
What does he do now? Makes weird bottles. Wow.
Yesterday my boss was pissed because his new Mac laptop with Snow Leopard wouldn't work with his old Laserjet 1020. A few minutes on Google and I found the solution.
I remember what it was like finding tech info in the 80s. A nightmare. For example, I wanted some tech books on CANDE, WFL, and ALGOL that a Burrough's mainframe that my university used and was told by the publisher that they'll only ship if I proved I was an employee of a firm that owned one.
Keep your romance about the past to yourself. Adapt or die I say.
It's always possible that AT&T just sucks around Picacho Peak.
Nah.... couldn't be THAT!
I beg to differ. I think the towers are somewhat directional and don't point up. I've hiked up quite a few mountains and have trouble placing calls. Even in places that are somewhat close to an urban center, like Picacho Peak near Tucson, AZ a few times, and getting a signal there can be problematic. Other areas, like Yellowstone and Glacier National Park I can understand, but Picacho Peak is right off of busy I-10.
I just got a N900 and love the thing. First thing I did was install openssh server, set a root password, and then ssh'ed into my phone. I created a nice little script I found on maemo site that enables the DUN bluetooth profile so I can use it to tether.
It's a great feeling.
I also own an iPhone 3GS and will carry around both. Overall, for the average consumer, the iPhone is a great phone. But the N900 is a geek dream come true. It is quite the milestone.
Generally I agree with the article. It's going to remain a niche product. I can't see any carrier subsidizing this phone, and with no carrier support, it will never hit mainstream.
Verizon is also increasing the early termination fee to $350 for advanced devices.
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Ah, but that person in a coma still has enough brain activity to keep the thing refreshed. A comatose person may even be self-aware. But a one month old fetus certainly doesn't have a brain to even function yet. I could buy that logic at 4-6 months in though.
I've often wished reasonable scientific methods could determine when a life becomes sentient/aware and define that as having the same legal protections as born people. It's unfortunate that each side on the debate will not compromise and find a reasonable standard. One one side you have some pro-choice people who think nothing of killing a perfectly viable fetus and the horrors of partial-birth abortion, and on the other side you have pro-life people who are against even the day after pill because a conception may have occurred. Sorry folks, but a zygote that has no brain yet is incapable of being self-aware.
Define a time in a pregnancy when the fetus starts to develop a brain and possible self-awareness and just cut the line there.
I have a feeling that's pretty early, like 2 months in. But if abortions were illegal after that point, decisions would be made sooner.
Of course if the mother's life is in danger, that's a different issue -- as is that pre-determined "Trig" factor and whether it's ethical to abort based on parental convenience issues.
But starting somewhere using scientific reason and logic to me would be refreshing. I don't buy that a week or two old fetus is a "person" any more than a brain dead accident victim is, to whom it's legal to remove life support from and let die. The "potential" and soul argument is mainly a religious one and shouldn't be a factor. If your religious beliefs believe that, then don't have an abortion.
I know a lot of credit card checks go over modem and not the Internet, but I do remember being a cashier in the 70s and having to not only swipe credit cards through an impression machine, but also check it against a "hot list" to see if it was valid -- which was a printed booklet. No idea how often that thing was updated. Amazing.
That so-called great Verizon network can't even manage to allow one to do data and voice at the same time.
I'm currently looking at the Nokia N900. Too bad it's tied to T-mobile for 3G data currently, but at least I won't be competing for limited bandwidth with a bunch of iPhone users!