I was just saying, if Microsoft is handing out certifications with the word "engineer" in its title, which is illegal in some States, then it wouldn't be above creating its own kind of AP exams.
There should be a.NET AP. If Microsoft is not shy about giving out engineering degrees, I'm sure they're not above giving out their own kind of AP exams.
Try bestbookbuys.com, it compares the prices between online bookstores and it takes into account the shipping/tax cost as well if you input your zip code. And no, Amazon is not always cheaper because of shipping.
No, I think the lesson is. Don't go to strip clubs. The time you spend befriending a stripper, you could use to befriend a random woman on the street.
And the same lesson would apply to that woman on the street. Don't pay to buy her attention. Don't supplicate to her. Act as her equal.
Then, your problem is with Google, not blogs. Even if the blog doesn't use the norobot tag/file, it would still be trivial for Google to assign less weight to blogs and/or it would be trivial for Google to place the blog search results out of the way.
vivisimo.com does this to some extent, it doesn't assign less weight, it simply sorts the results into categorized folders, and if it has blog entries -- it places them into a blog folder. Here is the example of a query of a well known blogger.
And even if you don't like vivisimo, you still have plenty of options. You can look for other good search engines. And/or you could copy the Google page and hardcode the negative criterion "blog" into the url string.
In any case, if you do decide to screen out the word "blog" from your searches, it would be interesting to see how useful Google will be after that. At least with bloggers/forum posters, there are so many of them and they produce so much content, most of their links and most of their recommendations are a lot less biased than most commercially-driven web sites and news sites.
This analyst is very defensive about her lack of credentials. She could simply have said how she became interested in Linux instead. She didn't need to qualify herself, she didn't need to emphasize her lack of credentials, it makes her lose all credibility.
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Could you tell us a little bit about your background?
I don't have a computer science background. My college concentration, which was in Asian studies--I took courses in Mandarin and art history and Chinese poetry and Chinese literature - doesn't directly correlate to the job I have today. But I think when you study a language you learn to appreciate the nuances of another culture. There is a parallel in the open source world where you have a multiplicity of programming languages projects and people interacting. There is a cultural context to Linux and open source software.
Can someone please correct me if I'm wrong instead of just modding me down to zero (-1 overrated).
According to this FAQ, Xine can *already* play Windows media and other formats. Here is the quote.
"Can I watch Windows Media (.asf/.wmv/.wma) files using xine?
While the container format (system layer) ASF (wmv is just an alias) is fully supported in xine, for newer windows media 9 based streams you'll need to install windows binary codecs (.DLLs).
Possibly the most convenient way to get the windows DLLs is to download them from the mplayer website http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ . The package is called "Win32 Codecpack". Unpack it and move everything you find inside to/usr/lib/win32 (actually you can place them anywhere you want, e.g. someplace in your homedirectory, but then you'll have to set codec.win32_path in your xine config file accordingly). Restart xine then and you should be able to watch windows media streams. "
Then, according to this press release, the Turbo Media Player (which hasn't even been released yet) is actually dependent of Xine. Here is the quote.
"...Turbolinux engineers developed new software called Turbo Media Player that works with xine, a widely-used Linux media engine, to make it possible for customers to watch streaming video in Windows Media format."
What am I missing here? I expected my previous post to be modded up, not down.
Considering the price of "Cable/DSL" "Routers" sold by Linksys, D-Link, and others, why would you *not* use one? I can't think of a better way of doing firewall/nat for $50 USD and ten minutes of setup time.
Because some of those can be compromised. It's not because the word firewall is written on the box that it is a firewall.
The kidd of speed actually talks about a radioactive television set that showed up on the used market of a neighboring city shortly after the accident.
In any case, some theft will happen, yes, but from the pictures, it does look like the local authorities are taking some precautions (armed guards, chemical showers, geiger counters, etc.).
Also, do note that a lot of our own airports are supposed to be able to detect radioactivity (although that system has been foiled a couple of times by journalists).
And third, I do consider it nice to have native (rather than the hack MPlayer and the like use) support for a given format, but not at the expense of making Linux have the same stability as Windows.
No, this solution is actually worst than MPlayer because it uses code from Wine, an unstable Windows emulator.
The package we sold, included a 3-year extended warranty with once-per-year for so called "End-User Abuse" repairs.
In the business world, full warranty/support can cost way way more than the hardware itself, so the question is, how much did your company sell this 3-year extended warranty for?
Now, what happens when instead of $60, a lost or stolen COMPUTER costs 25 times that to replace? I sense that the parents may not be so happy with this arrangement, either.
You're obviously missing the point. As a high school teacher, you would get your own laptop thrown in for free. That's the beauty of the system. Who cares if the parents/taxpayers have to pay 25 times more for it.
Did you even read the article? TurboLinux licenced the CODECS, not the player itself. The player is going to be an in-house developed product appropriately called "Turbo Media Player."
Yes, I think he read the article. Have you?
"Turbolinux engineers developed new software called Turbo Media Player that works with xine, a widely-used Linux media engine,"
In other words, the "The Turbo Media Player" is dependent on Xine. And in case you didn't know, Xine is based on Wine, a not-so-stable Windows-emulator for Linux. So what has TurboLinux done really? As far as I can tell, they licensed some codecs and renamed/rebranded an open source project that already had the capability to play Windows Media.
Humans are not that special, cows could also serve as energy generators. The reason The Matrix used this energy idea was because the original idea was about using human brains as CPUs and that idea would have gone over the head of most people.
I agree with you. There is no standard contract. There are always exceptions to the rule.
But please don't say to them they are lying even if they are. Instead, you could say "I understand you're offering me a standard company contract, yes, and I understand that in the end you might not be able to make an exception, but if that's the case and you really can't make an exception for me, then I'll have to look elsewhere. "
Also, let the potential employer know that you're flexible and that you might be willing to accept a salary concession if they're willing to give you an additional increase in fringe benefits (e.g expense account, moving expenses, company car, transportation subsidy, stock options, bonus, guaranteed bonus, etc.).
Now I guess these enterprising political goons will have to enlist hackers:)
I am sure if there's an american hacker out there upto the task, he/she can reverse the outsourcing thing:)
Feynman talks about it in his biography, fragile knowledge is I believe how he describes it. For example: He tought in Brazil for a time. He was at an oral test of a student that did quite well. However, after the test he asked the student some more questions to see if he really knew what he was talking about.
Brazilians are not comparable to Indians. Just go take a look at our most competitive engineering/computer science schools, you won't even find any Brazilians there. The few first-generation and second-generation Brazilians that I've met in the US usually limit themselves to Business school instead.
Talk about missing my point... Read the post parent to mine and tell me if it limited only to software and IT jobs.
Then, someone must have gone off-topic because the original headline story that started this thread was only limited to software and IT jobs. Incidently, this seems to happen a lot, whenever I argue with someone about the benefits of outsourcing IT jobs, the emotionally-ladden topic of "sweatshops" seems to always crop up as a counter-argument. I wonder why.
- Pilferage is almost non-existing. There are bad apples everywhere, but most baggage handlers are honest people.
Perhaps at your airport, but how can you be sure all the airports have the same level of honest baggage handlers. Can you really vouch for the baggage handlers in other countries? And can you really vouch for the baggage handlers in the US are that are earning half or a third of what you make?
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It's a joke. Now. Laugh.
I was just saying, if Microsoft is handing out certifications with the word "engineer" in its title, which is illegal in some States, then it wouldn't be above creating its own kind of AP exams.
There should be a .NET AP. If Microsoft is not shy about giving out engineering degrees, I'm sure they're not above giving out their own kind of AP exams.
Yeah, but it looks cool on or off the water!! Perception trumps reality in this case.
Try bestbookbuys.com, it compares the prices between online bookstores and it takes into account the shipping/tax cost as well if you input your zip code. And no, Amazon is not always cheaper because of shipping.
No, I think the lesson is. Don't go to strip clubs. The time you spend befriending a stripper, you could use to befriend a random woman on the street. And the same lesson would apply to that woman on the street. Don't pay to buy her attention. Don't supplicate to her. Act as her equal.
vivisimo.com does this to some extent, it doesn't assign less weight, it simply sorts the results into categorized folders, and if it has blog entries -- it places them into a blog folder. Here is the example of a query of a well known blogger.
And even if you don't like vivisimo, you still have plenty of options. You can look for other good search engines. And/or you could copy the Google page and hardcode the negative criterion "blog" into the url string.
In any case, if you do decide to screen out the word "blog" from your searches, it would be interesting to see how useful Google will be after that. At least with bloggers/forum posters, there are so many of them and they produce so much content, most of their links and most of their recommendations are a lot less biased than most commercially-driven web sites and news sites.
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Could you tell us a little bit about your background?
I don't have a computer science background. My college concentration, which was in Asian studies--I took courses in Mandarin and art history and Chinese poetry and Chinese literature - doesn't directly correlate to the job I have today. But I think when you study a language you learn to appreciate the nuances of another culture. There is a parallel in the open source world where you have a multiplicity of programming languages projects and people interacting. There is a cultural context to Linux and open source software.
According to this FAQ, Xine can *already* play Windows media and other formats. Here is the quote.
"Can I watch Windows Media (.asf/.wmv/.wma) files using xine?
While the container format (system layer) ASF (wmv is just an alias) is fully supported in xine, for newer windows media 9 based streams you'll need to install windows binary codecs (.DLLs). Possibly the most convenient way to get the windows DLLs is to download them from the mplayer website http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ . The package is called "Win32 Codecpack". Unpack it and move everything you find inside to /usr/lib/win32 (actually you can place them anywhere you want, e.g. someplace in your homedirectory, but then you'll have to set codec.win32_path in your xine config file accordingly). Restart xine then and you should be able to watch windows media streams. "
Then, according to this press release, the Turbo Media Player (which hasn't even been released yet) is actually dependent of Xine. Here is the quote.
"...Turbolinux engineers developed new software called Turbo Media Player that works with xine, a widely-used Linux media engine, to make it possible for customers to watch streaming video in Windows Media format."
What am I missing here? I expected my previous post to be modded up, not down.
Because some of those can be compromised. It's not because the word firewall is written on the box that it is a firewall.
In any case, some theft will happen, yes, but from the pictures, it does look like the local authorities are taking some precautions (armed guards, chemical showers, geiger counters, etc.).
Also, do note that a lot of our own airports are supposed to be able to detect radioactivity (although that system has been foiled a couple of times by journalists).
No, this solution is actually worst than MPlayer because it uses code from Wine, an unstable Windows emulator.
In the business world, full warranty/support can cost way way more than the hardware itself, so the question is, how much did your company sell this 3-year extended warranty for?
You're obviously missing the point. As a high school teacher, you would get your own laptop thrown in for free. That's the beauty of the system. Who cares if the parents/taxpayers have to pay 25 times more for it.
Yes, I think he read the article. Have you?
"Turbolinux engineers developed new software called Turbo Media Player that works with xine, a widely-used Linux media engine,"
In other words, the "The Turbo Media Player" is dependent on Xine. And in case you didn't know, Xine is based on Wine, a not-so-stable Windows-emulator for Linux. So what has TurboLinux done really? As far as I can tell, they licensed some codecs and renamed/rebranded an open source project that already had the capability to play Windows Media.
Humans are not that special, cows could also serve as energy generators. The reason The Matrix used this energy idea was because the original idea was about using human brains as CPUs and that idea would have gone over the head of most people.
But please don't say to them they are lying even if they are. Instead, you could say "I understand you're offering me a standard company contract, yes, and I understand that in the end you might not be able to make an exception, but if that's the case and you really can't make an exception for me, then I'll have to look elsewhere. "
Also, let the potential employer know that you're flexible and that you might be willing to accept a salary concession if they're willing to give you an additional increase in fringe benefits (e.g expense account, moving expenses, company car, transportation subsidy, stock options, bonus, guaranteed bonus, etc.).
I think George Lucas is on to something. Why release new movies when you could just as well release new costumes on DVD every four months.
After an extensive search on Google, I found what the article was talking about.
No, they interfere with cell towers, that's the problem. The plane is going so fast that the cell phone keeps on switching towers.
Hackers are not magicians.
Hopefully, your employer will realize what you're doing before you make too much damage.
Brazilians are not comparable to Indians. Just go take a look at our most competitive engineering/computer science schools, you won't even find any Brazilians there. The few first-generation and second-generation Brazilians that I've met in the US usually limit themselves to Business school instead.
Then, someone must have gone off-topic because the original headline story that started this thread was only limited to software and IT jobs. Incidently, this seems to happen a lot, whenever I argue with someone about the benefits of outsourcing IT jobs, the emotionally-ladden topic of "sweatshops" seems to always crop up as a counter-argument. I wonder why.
You mean to say the ideas phase can often be done by people without money, without perseverance, and without the necessary skills.
Yep, this is exactely what we need more of. We need more ideas from poor lazy unskilled people. Imagination is such a rare commodity.
Perhaps at your airport, but how can you be sure all the airports have the same level of honest baggage handlers. Can you really vouch for the baggage handlers in other countries? And can you really vouch for the baggage handlers in the US are that are earning half or a third of what you make?