If they bought the systems from some of the major manufacturers, e.g. dell, then they could know from them. Every Dell system has windows on it.. you can't, from my knowledge, buy a bare-ass system from them. remember a while back when/. reported on how MS was pressuring companies into revealing specific people purchasing systems w/o operating systems? well if they can get *that* information, which has NOTHING to do with them, i can see how they could get the information on who DID buy their OS.
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Ok, two things... first, they've done it before. (made previous versions incompatible with the network forcing upgrades) and second, it seems to me that if they can do *that* then it implies they really *are* centralized.
I don't remember exactly who it is, but there's some guy that makes cracks to software (I remember him saying that he was sued by Macromedia for cracking their stuff, but that probably doesn't narrow it down) and for some strange reason he has a website. Anyway, on his website he (or maybe in an article he cites on his website) mentioned how, in order to help the economy, and thus the general state of well-being of Russians, they've initiated schools for youngsters where they're taught computer programming from young ages, so by the time they're 18 or so they're badd-ass mofo's capable of a decent professional wage (and a healthy amount of software cracking, apparently).
maybe so.. but some of us are entry level with no skills & experiences other than academic. (*sigh*) but hey... if you guys know someone interested in an entry level java/c++ programmer willing to work for free* let me know!
oh, and that would be me, the "programming wannabe" you mentioned.:P 'cause I really "wannabe" a freakin' programmer but can't get a freakin' entry level freakin' job.
When do we get the flying cars? I can't wait to see a hovering Delorean. LOL.
BG and Hiding windows from prying eyes...
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OK, I would feel insanely uncomfortable playing a game at work (well, during work hours and without the consent of the work community), but here's an option for those that don't...
First, Baldur's Gate has a great option... in the Options tab you can set BG to run in a window instead of full-screen. This can kill the playability on older PCs but BG isn't an action game so it's still a viable option.
Also many games support the (on windows) ALT+ENTER hotkey to switch between normal and full screen mode (like if you're watching a DVD or MPEG you can switch this way).
But whatever your game of choice, if, unlike at Kasmiur's, your workplace does not allow games, you might want to look into an insanely useful program called "Watchcat." First of all, it's FREEWARE. The program, either by clicks or hotkeys, will hide any or all applications currently running... so if you're a Solitaire freak and you hear someone coming up, smack that hotkey and not only is the game off the desktop, it's off of the taskbar too. This program ROCKS.
Here's a small article about the program on Tech TV
It's called "Bookmark Groups".. Most anyone that uses Mozilla knows about Tabbed browsing. that's where you can open up a second webpage in the same browsing window and "tab" between them...
If you haven't tried it believe me once you get used to it it's awesome and going back to any other browser just sucks.
well consider this scenario: let's say when you get up you go to the same 10 websites every morning.. slashdot, cnn, scifiwire, PA... whatever.. with this bookmark groups feature you just load up all 10 of your websites into tabs and then bookmark the entire group.. then when you get up you can load up immediately all 10 websites for your perusal all in one tidy window. HELL Yeah. I can't wait for this feature! i just hope it gets done in time for 1.0:)
They introduce a caste system for the morlocks in this movie, something I thought was really cool, and one of the points made is that they've bread warriors and hunters.. I don't see why after 800,000 years of hunting in the twilight hours that *that* caste wouldn't be able to hunt into the daytime. other castes, like that of jeremy irons', meanwhile would never even see starlight, let alone twilight or sunlight. i wouldn't have been surprised if they hadn't even have eyes.
one thing I thought was interesting though..... The morlocks attain the time machine and jeremy irons' character says "I am the unavoidable result of YOU"... which could be read as "your race's decisions and actions"... or it could mean that this morlock did what any sentient being with an inkling of curiosity would do: USE THE MACHINE!
That's something that all great time-manipulation stories have (except this one!): paradoxes that blow your mind. like the Terminator and how you find out that he couldn't have existed if he hadn't come through time from the future. How cool would it have been to find out that the time traveler **created** the morlocks? (*Oops!*)
ALSO, one thing introduced in this movie was the concept that "one cannot change the past" but... what is "the past" with a time machine? So in the end, he flies into the 99-bazillion year future and sees the exact same morlock totems ruling the landscape and goes back, saves Weena, or whatever they call her in this version, and blows the morlock hole into oblivion... but if you can't change the past, or "fate", then all he did was waste his time. (ha-ha. waste his time. hah. err..) because what he saw, if you cannot change time, was the unavoidable future. So is this a plot hole?
I think it can be argued, "no," but with some disagreeable outcomes.. 1. The Time-Traveler (in the book and first movie he has no name) failed and the other morlock encampments invaded and overcame the eloi again.. 2. The Time-Traveler misinterpreted the Morlock temples as signs that the morlocks were still there when it may have been possible that they were simply warnings from the past.. sort of a macabre museum... but i doubt this as it seemed to be pretty obviously alive, well, and thriving in opression.. what do you think?
... ok.. i've read often about companies flouting US copyrights, e.g. Rubbermaid came up with their groovy plastic containers that pop back out when you accidentally (or otherwise) squish them. They were immediately undercut in asian countries by companies simply duplicating their processes and ignoring the copyrights on the technology...
so, this is a russian company.. what's to keep them from just saying 'piss off' if they lose this and are required to pay the $2mil? What is the DCMA to them?
I go to roughly 20 job sites as regularly as one can, and I send my résumé off all the time. Mostly by email, sometimes via snail-mail, as that's usually the most that's given.
As to "spamming" my résumé, what else is there? Résumé by telepathy? "woo.... you will hire the guy that hasn't sent his résumé because you'll consider it spam and sue him... wooo...."
Anyway, I'm trying to get in as a programmer and my work thusfar has all been pc repair, networking, and maintenance. I had an internship, but they're a dot-com and since I was there last year the population has more than halved, so they're not interested! I'm just glad they've survived this far; it was a good company.
As for consultants, I've contacted every tech recruiter/headhunter/consultant I can think of and the ones that talked to me at all said "we don't do entry level. Come back in two years."
I know finding a job takes effort, I'm no sloth. But apparently I'm not doing it right anyway.
Ok, not to boo-hoo my way through this, but I'm a recent computer science graduate at a small, no-name university. I've been sending my résumé out almost daily to people since October, with no luck.
Personally, I think I have a great résumé for a new graduate. I have been part of a dozen different honor societies (most of them a waste of time, actually), I was on the dean's list every semester, I was Vice President and President of the school's ACM organization (you guys, of anyone, know about them, right?), I was on the school's ACM programming team, given awards in the computer science department for solving obscure program-of-the-month tasks, I'm willing to relocate anywhere, I worked hard and graduated magna cum laude, but none of this really matters.
The only work experience I have is with fixing computers. But I'm interested in programming. Java, or C++, mostly, but I'm very open to other possibilities. So where do I look for companies that are looking entry level people? No one seems to advertise them, and when they do they don't write back to me.
I recently had a discussion with a friend about an interesting situation:
If you graduate as a nurse (what my school is known for, incidentally), how do you find a job out of school? You open the phone book and start calling people under "Health" or "Health Care" etc. and you've pretty much got everyone, right there together.
So for an entry level programmer guy, where do you look? Sure there are the big companies that "have got to have a need for IS" but when that doesn't bear fruit? then what?
Basically, what I'm saying is that I understand this guy's situation, desperately wanting a job and simply not finding anyone interested.
Sure, I can work for peanuts, that's not the problem. I simply don't know how to look, I guess. I don't know how to say "Hey, even though I don't have 2 years programming java j2ee using weblogic, i'm damn quick and I'll stay up every night until i understand it up-down-left-right-center and you're satisfied" to people and have them listen.
so, yeah. If they don't advertise, and they get mad when I ask them for a job without their solicitation, how do I get in the door?
Slashdot Mirror
Along with quizzes on each page to make sure you're actually reading and not just clicking straight through to 37..
If they bought the systems from some of the major manufacturers, e.g. dell, then they could know from them. Every Dell system has windows on it.. you can't, from my knowledge, buy a bare-ass system from them. remember a while back when /. reported on how MS was pressuring companies into revealing specific people purchasing systems w/o operating systems? well if they can get *that* information, which has NOTHING to do with them, i can see how they could get the information on who DID buy their OS.
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Ok, two things... first, they've done it before. (made previous versions incompatible with the network forcing upgrades) and second, it seems to me that if they can do *that* then it implies they really *are* centralized.
I don't remember exactly who it is, but there's some guy that makes cracks to software (I remember him saying that he was sued by Macromedia for cracking their stuff, but that probably doesn't narrow it down) and for some strange reason he has a website. Anyway, on his website he (or maybe in an article he cites on his website) mentioned how, in order to help the economy, and thus the general state of well-being of Russians, they've initiated schools for youngsters where they're taught computer programming from young ages, so by the time they're 18 or so they're badd-ass mofo's capable of a decent professional wage (and a healthy amount of software cracking, apparently).
note that it was KaZaA itself that kicked Morpheus off their FastTrack network...
oh, and that would be me, the "programming wannabe" you mentioned. :P 'cause I really "wannabe" a freakin' programmer but can't get a freakin' entry level freakin' job.
* as in, food+rent. ;)
minority report, eh? but without the whole time-travel bit.. ;)
When do we get the flying cars? I can't wait to see a hovering Delorean. LOL.
First, Baldur's Gate has a great option... in the Options tab you can set BG to run in a window instead of full-screen. This can kill the playability on older PCs but BG isn't an action game so it's still a viable option.
Also many games support the (on windows) ALT+ENTER hotkey to switch between normal and full screen mode (like if you're watching a DVD or MPEG you can switch this way).
But whatever your game of choice, if, unlike at Kasmiur's, your workplace does not allow games, you might want to look into an insanely useful program called "Watchcat." First of all, it's FREEWARE. The program, either by clicks or hotkeys, will hide any or all applications currently running... so if you're a Solitaire freak and you hear someone coming up, smack that hotkey and not only is the game off the desktop, it's off of the taskbar too. This program ROCKS.
Here's a small article about the program on Tech TV
It's called "Bookmark Groups".. Most anyone that uses Mozilla knows about Tabbed browsing. that's where you can open up a second webpage in the same browsing window and "tab" between them...
If you haven't tried it believe me once you get used to it it's awesome and going back to any other browser just sucks.
well consider this scenario: let's say when you get up you go to the same 10 websites every morning.. slashdot, cnn, scifiwire, PA... whatever.. with this bookmark groups feature you just load up all 10 of your websites into tabs and then bookmark the entire group.. then when you get up you can load up immediately all 10 websites for your perusal all in one tidy window. HELL Yeah. I can't wait for this feature! i just hope it gets done in time for 1.0
what a humiliating job
Does this mean Wil Wheaton won't be in Enterprise?? Damn!
one thing I thought was interesting though..... The morlocks attain the time machine and jeremy irons' character says "I am the unavoidable result of YOU" ... which could be read as "your race's decisions and actions" ... or it could mean that this morlock did what any sentient being with an inkling of curiosity would do: USE THE MACHINE!
That's something that all great time-manipulation stories have (except this one!): paradoxes that blow your mind. like the Terminator and how you find out that he couldn't have existed if he hadn't come through time from the future. How cool would it have been to find out that the time traveler **created** the morlocks? (*Oops!*)
ALSO, one thing introduced in this movie was the concept that "one cannot change the past" but... what is "the past" with a time machine? So in the end, he flies into the 99-bazillion year future and sees the exact same morlock totems ruling the landscape and goes back, saves Weena, or whatever they call her in this version, and blows the morlock hole into oblivion... but if you can't change the past, or "fate", then all he did was waste his time. (ha-ha. waste his time. hah. err..) because what he saw, if you cannot change time, was the unavoidable future. So is this a plot hole?
I think it can be argued, "no," but with some disagreeable outcomes.. 1. The Time-Traveler (in the book and first movie he has no name) failed and the other morlock encampments invaded and overcame the eloi again.. 2. The Time-Traveler misinterpreted the Morlock temples as signs that the morlocks were still there when it may have been possible that they were simply warnings from the past.. sort of a macabre museum... but i doubt this as it seemed to be pretty obviously alive, well, and thriving in opression.. what do you think?
so, this is a russian company.. what's to keep them from just saying 'piss off' if they lose this and are required to pay the $2mil? What is the DCMA to them?
As to "spamming" my résumé, what else is there? Résumé by telepathy? "woo.... you will hire the guy that hasn't sent his résumé because you'll consider it spam and sue him... wooo...."
Anyway, I'm trying to get in as a programmer and my work thusfar has all been pc repair, networking, and maintenance. I had an internship, but they're a dot-com and since I was there last year the population has more than halved, so they're not interested! I'm just glad they've survived this far; it was a good company.
As for consultants, I've contacted every tech recruiter/headhunter/consultant I can think of and the ones that talked to me at all said "we don't do entry level. Come back in two years."
I know finding a job takes effort, I'm no sloth. But apparently I'm not doing it right anyway.
Personally, I think I have a great résumé for a new graduate. I have been part of a dozen different honor societies (most of them a waste of time, actually), I was on the dean's list every semester, I was Vice President and President of the school's ACM organization (you guys, of anyone, know about them, right?), I was on the school's ACM programming team, given awards in the computer science department for solving obscure program-of-the-month tasks, I'm willing to relocate anywhere, I worked hard and graduated magna cum laude, but none of this really matters.
The only work experience I have is with fixing computers. But I'm interested in programming. Java, or C++, mostly, but I'm very open to other possibilities. So where do I look for companies that are looking entry level people? No one seems to advertise them, and when they do they don't write back to me.
I recently had a discussion with a friend about an interesting situation:
If you graduate as a nurse (what my school is known for, incidentally), how do you find a job out of school? You open the phone book and start calling people under "Health" or "Health Care" etc. and you've pretty much got everyone, right there together.
So for an entry level programmer guy, where do you look? Sure there are the big companies that "have got to have a need for IS" but when that doesn't bear fruit? then what?
Basically, what I'm saying is that I understand this guy's situation, desperately wanting a job and simply not finding anyone interested.
Sure, I can work for peanuts, that's not the problem. I simply don't know how to look, I guess. I don't know how to say "Hey, even though I don't have 2 years programming java j2ee using weblogic, i'm damn quick and I'll stay up every night until i understand it up-down-left-right-center and you're satisfied" to people and have them listen.
so, yeah. If they don't advertise, and they get mad when I ask them for a job without their solicitation, how do I get in the door?