This completely depends on where you want to get a job. I've worked in both academia and the "real world", so I've seen both in action.
If you're on staff in academia, you're golden with a PhD. Work experience absolutely doesn't matter. A PhD (and interestingly enough, in ANY degree) can get you pretty damn far. Doesn't matter what you've done in the past, or how experienced you are, it's those three little letters that make all the difference. If you don't have them, you can pretty much write off any upward mobility, and you'll be treated like cattle.
I've seen people with PhDs completely outside the computer field get put into management positions over computer folks.... Believe me, the results are frightening when that PhD tries to tell people how to do their jobs.
In the "real world", it's the opposite. If you have great work experience, and can speak intelligently about what sorts of projects you've worked on, you've got the job. Very few people pay any attention to degrees once you're hired... all that matters is that you can do a good job. In fact, if you try and sling around the fact you've got a PhD, it'll probably just make people think that YOU think you're better than they are.
A lot of people coming through with degrees DO seem to have this opinion, and they really show it during interviews. Those that do that sort of thing don't get called back.
Fine, found guilty, setencing is October. Fact remains that Enron is gone.
As far as Pork goes, get rid of Senator Byrd. That'll get rid of a lot of it right there.
Back to the subject...if the Democrats would just get off their butts and pass the bill, there's a shot at solving this. They'd rather have an "issue" though, so I'm sure they'll do what they usually do, which is complain about it, but do nothing.
He lied under oath in a trial where a woman sued him for trying to nail her in a hotel.
Lied under oath in a trail. That's why the guy was impeached. A lie is a lie. There's not a "that's ok to lie about". Tell that to millions of women suing their husbands for divorce, or thousands of women suing for attempted rape.
Bush's vacation? Seems to be working pretty hard to me. Jealous?
"Impeached ex-president Clinton". I like the sound of that.
Yes, but it's something Arnold's far from being, which is what the implication that Curic had. What she didn't mention were things like this
this article
but instead when on her Democrat talking points, trying to screw him over with false implications.
Apparently you can't stand the fact that Saddam is out of power, millions of Iraqis are free, and it's all because of Bush. I'm sure you'd rather have Saddam in power, his sons running through the country raping women, sending children to prison, and killing people in the streets.
Ok, so you hate Bush... we get that. Just pull your head out of yourself long enough to see that everything isn't crappy as you think it is.
And this all happened under the Clinton administration. It wasn't until Bush took over that Enron was exposed for what it was: a total sham that screwed everyone in sight....mush like Clinton himself.
Glad to hear someone say it. I'm getting sick of this Bush-Haters balling up their fists and stamping their little feet at anything he does. They're just hell-bent on revenge at all costs. What sad little lives.
I don't think Eolas was a licensee of Mosaic from either NCSA or Spyglass during this time. As soon as they released that as a commercial company, they were in voilation of the Mosaic license
Did anyone else notice that Eolas did all this work in Mosaic, yet they're not listed on any licensee list for Spyglass or NCSA?
Sounds like they were doing commercial work without a commerical licensee to the code. The code to NCSA was freely distributable, but to do commercial work with it, it had to be licensed.
I've been following the Eolas lawsuit for a long time now, and this is bad folks.
They basically have a patent on any embedded technology in a browser. A lot of people have looked into this, and so far have come up with nothing. The earliest "application" in a browser technology I'm aware of is Vosaic, but I can't get ahold of anything that shows what date that was originally set up.
This screws Flash, Java applets, and all kinds of other things. Watch for more lawsuits in the future.
I completely agree with this. They're doing protests elsewhere, why not in California too? I think it's pretty sad that they're resorting to this kind of tactic.
The one thing to keep in mind is that all this recall stuff is part of the law, so nothing illegal is going on here.
Not to say it isn't screwy the way they're doing it, because it's being misinterpreted. What should really be happening is two separate ballots, some weeks apart: First one: Do you want Gray Davis recalled. Second (if there is one), ok, who do you want instead.
If Arnold or whoever else gets elected through this process, you can bet there will be an almost instantaneous recall campaign started by the Gray Davis faction.
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This completely depends on where you want to get a job. I've worked in both academia and the "real world", so I've seen both in action.
If you're on staff in academia, you're golden with a PhD. Work experience absolutely doesn't matter. A PhD (and interestingly enough, in ANY degree) can get you pretty damn far. Doesn't matter what you've done in the past, or how experienced you are, it's those three little letters that make all the difference. If you don't have them, you can pretty much write off any upward mobility, and you'll be treated like cattle.
I've seen people with PhDs completely outside the computer field get put into management positions over computer folks.... Believe me, the results are frightening when that PhD tries to tell people how to do their jobs.
In the "real world", it's the opposite. If you have great work experience, and can speak intelligently about what sorts of projects you've worked on, you've got the job. Very few people pay any attention to degrees once you're hired... all that matters is that you can do a good job. In fact, if you try and sling around the fact you've got a PhD, it'll probably just make people think that YOU think you're better than they are.
A lot of people coming through with degrees DO seem to have this opinion, and they really show it during interviews. Those that do that sort of thing don't get called back.
Fine, found guilty, setencing is October. Fact remains that Enron is gone.
As far as Pork goes, get rid of Senator Byrd. That'll get rid of a lot of it right there.
Back to the subject...if the Democrats would just get off their butts and pass the bill, there's a shot at solving this. They'd rather have an "issue" though, so I'm sure they'll do what they usually do, which is complain about it, but do nothing.
You know what? I don't care. If this had been a Republican, people would be raking him over the coals for doing that.
It's a double standard, and it's completely transparent.
I"m really happy Dean's the leading candidate right now, btw.... Shows exactly what the Democrat Party is like.
What really needs to be done is for Congress to get off their butts (more specifically, the democrats in the Senate) and get the energy bill passed...the one they've been sitting on for two years
This just completely ignores the whole point of the original posting:
If everyone's so net savvy, why are they spamming people?
This may be the very first candidate to be taken down via an anti-spam backlash.
Or, maybe...just maybe, Dean's spamming people. That's the most likely explanation.
Screw him. We have more spam now than we know what to do with. We don't need him adding to it.
Nah, Gore's still funnier. "I invented the Internet". "Love Story was about Tipper and me".
Gotta love that!
WOooooooo!
I don't know which is funnier, that he says it, or that he actually BELIEVES it.
He lied under oath in a trial where a woman sued him for trying to nail her in a hotel.
Lied under oath in a trail. That's why the guy was impeached. A lie is a lie. There's not a "that's ok to lie about". Tell that to millions of women suing their husbands for divorce, or thousands of women suing for attempted rape.
Bush's vacation? Seems to be working pretty hard to me. Jealous?
"Impeached ex-president Clinton". I like the sound of that.
CIA didn't try and plant any WMDs...that's just BS, and you know it.
A scientist digs up a gas centrifuge he was ordered to bury in his back yard, and people blow it off as nothing to do with WMDs.
Some people seem to be hoping and praying that the WMD evidence won't be found, because it'll prove that they were wrong.
The evidence is being gathered even as we banter back and forth about this:
read this article from yesterday
I can't wait to see how conspiracy theorists about all this twist the report when it comes out.
Yes, but it's something Arnold's far from being, which is what the implication that Curic had. What she didn't mention were things like this this article but instead when on her Democrat talking points, trying to screw him over with false implications.
Apparently you can't stand the fact that Saddam is out of power, millions of Iraqis are free, and it's all because of Bush. I'm sure you'd rather have Saddam in power, his sons running through the country raping women, sending children to prison, and killing people in the streets.
Ok, so you hate Bush... we get that. Just pull your head out of yourself long enough to see that everything isn't crappy as you think it is.
And this all happened under the Clinton administration. It wasn't until Bush took over that Enron was exposed for what it was: a total sham that screwed everyone in sight....mush like Clinton himself.
Glad to hear someone say it. I'm getting sick of this Bush-Haters balling up their fists and stamping their little feet at anything he does. They're just hell-bent on revenge at all costs. What sad little lives.
That nice little Katie Curic calling Arnold's father a Nazi in less than 24 hours of his announcing on the Tonight show......
..well, on any given day...
That wonderful Barbara Walters asking Hillary if she's a saint....
The New York times, Washington Post, NPR
Yeah...there's no liberal media....Suuuuuuure!
They're talking browsers, not other apps.
Right, and Eolas released it.
I don't think Eolas was a licensee of Mosaic from either NCSA or Spyglass during this time. As soon as they released that as a commercial company, they were in voilation of the Mosaic license
Did anyone else notice that Eolas did all this work in Mosaic, yet they're not listed on any licensee list for Spyglass or NCSA?
Sounds like they were doing commercial work without a commerical licensee to the code. The code to NCSA was freely distributable, but to do commercial work with it, it had to be licensed.
This is bad for anything that supports embedded applications. Flash. Java applets. Anything like that. That's what they got a patent on.
I've been following the Eolas lawsuit for a long time now, and this is bad folks.
They basically have a patent on any embedded technology in a browser. A lot of people have looked into this, and so far have come up with nothing. The earliest "application" in a browser technology I'm aware of is Vosaic, but I can't get ahold of anything that shows what date that was originally set up.
This screws Flash, Java applets, and all kinds of other things. Watch for more lawsuits in the future.
Godwin's law in the first sentence. amazing.
The people that make the least don't pay taxes, apart from sales tax.
That's why HR 25 should be passed.
You never know though... other state parties have been doing some pretty childish things, so I wouldn't put it past them.
He should read this first.
Yes, pollution needs to be decreased, but not with something like Kyoto.
I completely agree with this. They're doing protests elsewhere, why not in California too? I think it's pretty sad that they're resorting to this kind of tactic.
The one thing to keep in mind is that all this recall stuff is part of the law, so nothing illegal is going on here.
Not to say it isn't screwy the way they're doing it, because it's being misinterpreted. What should really be happening is two separate ballots, some weeks apart: First one: Do you want Gray Davis recalled. Second (if there is one), ok, who do you want instead.
If Arnold or whoever else gets elected through this process, you can bet there will be an almost instantaneous recall campaign started by the Gray Davis faction.