10 - 15 years or so ago... My grandmother had a CD of the phantom of the opera and a fakebook. She asked me to put the CD on for her... I asked her if she wanted it on any particular song to which she replies, "No... I'll just wait for the one I want"... I say, "Grandma there's no reason to wait."... she says, "I don't want to scratch it!"
Look first off, your recruiter called me. Second of all you're mistaking "bitter" for pissed that you guys wasted my time. I took a day off of a $500/day contract to interview for revver. When I do something like that I expect the company to meet me in good faith, which revver did not. The person I was sent to see *WASN'T THERE*, the people I did see clearly had no experience conducting an interview. End of discussion.
Give me a break. It was either LVM or dm-crypt which I replaced (don't recall), and either way -- the package was in world as stable, it shouldn't have had a compatibility issue, end of question.
I have to agree. I am a recent Apple convert *FROM* linux (and I helped found Gentoo, so I think I have a little street cred here). I think the *failure* of open source is the failure to adopt unit/integration/etc testing, in otherwise, quality. The big name applications for linux are generally very stable. But you need more then *big* applications.
Just the other day I did an emerge world which replaced some LVM library which was incompatible apparently with what I'd previously used. It was extremely frustrating because I couldn't access my array... it basically highlighted to me the fact that the reliability of a lot of applications on linux simply sucks.
I interviewed for the folks at revver.com. Don't even bother other with them... It's basically a bunch of kids in a shitty building in Hollywood who have no clue about business or the real world. They handled me so unprofessionally that I can't imagine how they've managed to get a website up at all. They will *NEVER* make money.
This talking point brought to you by the Church of Scientology. Just trust in Scientology alone to maintain your sanity, look at everything it has done for Tom Cruise...
Um, you have no idea what can of worms you just openend. I have been targeted by Scientology for speaking out against them and associating with Keith Henson. So don't even start with me.
Messing with the brain chemistry of anybody, but most of all kids is something taht needs to be done with extreme care and caution, and I dont believe our drug happy medical industry is approaching it as such.
"A big problem" ???? Sniping is perfectly "legal" and it is in fact the *best* strategy, which is something we've all known for years (these scientists really need to work on curing cancer instead of telling us stuff we know).
The *REAL* problem with ebay is the sky high fees which make it impossible for buyers to find a "deal" and impossible for sellers to provide one. Seems to me the fee's are in the 9 - 10% range after everything is added up.
Add that -- half the stuff on ebay is counterfit anyways -- and tell me why should anyone care? Ebay is *RIPE* for the taking. If another service opened up and only charged half what ebay does -- it would be an instant success.
Walmarts success is really the result of wage compression due to the loss of manufacturing jobs. The problem is wage compression is a self reinforcing cycle. Someone outsources, their goods are cheaper but the consumers now have less earning power to buy said goods, which puts more pressure on business to outsource. 30 years later, there are hadrly ANY manufacturing jobs.
It also puts pressure on upstream businesses. Consumers don't have the money to pay for aything but the cheapest goods/services. A buddy of mine does about the same job I do but makes 40% less. The reason? He works for Net Zero whose product costs 10$ a month -- they cant afford to pay their employees well. I work in the semiconductor industry and our products cost a fortune and at least for now are difficult to out source.
Like everthing else -- this is probably a good idea if used by responsible constitution respecting police officers. It could be horribly abused as well. So it boils down to, do you trust the government?
(now the editoral) Five years ago I would have said I trusted the government to basically do the right thing, most of the time. With Bush openly defying the constitution because he wants to, I'm not so sure anymore.
Equality is the *OPPORTUNITY* to do everything a man does, not the necessity of doing it. Women are able to enter CS and the contest with no discrimination, therefore, there is equality. When I got a CS degree there were *VERY* few women, and I think all but one in my class dropped out (this is at a college with a 30% graduation rate though).
I have *NEVER* met a male nursing student, and I know quite a few nursing students. Nobody gives a crap about that?
Delegates are *really* arrays of function pointers that have the conveniant notation of being able to call the entire array with one line of code. This is handy when thats what you want to do (event/subscriber pattern). Its horrible when you actually want JUST A FUNCTION POINTER:)
The company I work for was the inspiration for many Dilbert strips as a personal fried ofScott Adams used to work there. Even stranger, we seem to have meetings and then a few months later the verbage used in the meetings shows up in a strip. We think there may still be a mole.
I've lived in California a long time, and we got a long just fine without hordes of illegal immigrants. Second of all, them paying taxes doesn't matter -- no matter how much taxes they pay, they consume more taxes than they pay. Net loss for the state. End of story
Yes. Its the same situation here in southern california. Illegal Immigrants have snatched up every low to medium skill job and driven down the wages. Wages in construction here are less than they were 20 years ago. The funny thing though, is the illegals can live on so little money because: They do not not pay taxes, they do not pay any of the mandatory insurances, they qualify for massive ammounts of assistance, their kids get free educations which even provide free breakfast and dinners etc etc...
Meanwhile as a native, you have to pay for all of that FOR them out of your taxes, then you have to pay car insurance, car taxes, property taxes, medical, dental, vision, you have to send your kids to a private school because their kids have ruined the public schools, you can't goto the hospital because illegals are clogging it up (I had to wait about 30 hours to be seen when I broke my leg!). Illegals turn your nice community into a shit pile and your house gets broken into constantly... Oh, and your teenage kids can't jobs because all the low skill jobs that teenagers used to do are taken by illegals (mowing lawns, bussing tables, etc).
And then the march in the street waiving foreign flags on American soil, telling you that the US owes them citizenship.
I'd just like to remind everyone that there was the *EXACT* same type of rumors about the PS2 when it launched. People were saying it didn't have NEARLY enough texture ram and "experts" were pouring over the specs and shaking their heads...
And it turned out to be one fo the most successful consoles ever.
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10 - 15 years or so ago... My grandmother had a CD of the phantom of the opera and a fakebook. She asked me to put the CD on for her ... I asked her if she wanted it on any particular song to which she replies, "No ... I'll just wait for the one I want" ... I say, "Grandma there's no reason to wait." ... she says, "I don't want to scratch it!"
(she thought they worked like records)
Look first off, your recruiter called me. Second of all you're mistaking "bitter" for pissed that you guys wasted my time. I took a day off of a $500/day contract to interview for revver. When I do something like that I expect the company to meet me in good faith, which revver did not. The person I was sent to see *WASN'T THERE*, the people I did see clearly had no experience conducting an interview. End of discussion.
that was funny :) why the anon...
Just the other day I did an emerge world which replaced some LVM library which was incompatible apparently with what I'd previously used. It was extremely frustrating because I couldn't access my array... it basically highlighted to me the fact that the reliability of a lot of applications on linux simply sucks.
I interviewed for the folks at revver.com. Don't even bother other with them ... It's basically a bunch of kids in a shitty building in Hollywood who have no clue about business or the real world. They handled me so unprofessionally that I can't imagine how they've managed to get a website up at all. They will *NEVER* make money.
Just goto the 99 cent store and get him some books. Not everything needs to involve a computer
Um, you have no idea what can of worms you just openend. I have been targeted by Scientology for speaking out against them and associating with Keith Henson. So don't even start with me.
Messing with the brain chemistry of anybody, but most of all kids is something taht needs to be done with extreme care and caution, and I dont believe our drug happy medical industry is approaching it as such.
In studies, 4% of children taking Luvox developed Mania, and about 6% in Prozac. The real question here is *HOW* did these drugs get approved.
I don't even know where to start with that one.
The *REAL* problem with ebay is the sky high fees which make it impossible for buyers to find a "deal" and impossible for sellers to provide one. Seems to me the fee's are in the 9 - 10% range after everything is added up.
Add that -- half the stuff on ebay is counterfit anyways -- and tell me why should anyone care? Ebay is *RIPE* for the taking. If another service opened up and only charged half what ebay does -- it would be an instant success.
It also puts pressure on upstream businesses. Consumers don't have the money to pay for aything but the cheapest goods/services. A buddy of mine does about the same job I do but makes 40% less. The reason? He works for Net Zero whose product costs 10$ a month -- they cant afford to pay their employees well. I work in the semiconductor industry and our products cost a fortune and at least for now are difficult to out source.
Could Inkscape be used to generate art for a videogame? Are there any libraries to render this stuff?
(now the editoral) Five years ago I would have said I trusted the government to basically do the right thing, most of the time. With Bush openly defying the constitution because he wants to, I'm not so sure anymore.
I have *NEVER* met a male nursing student, and I know quite a few nursing students. Nobody gives a crap about that?
There are also a lot of people to whom 1k really isn't any signifigant ammount of money. I don't hapen to be one of those people, but I know a few :)
I really would like to see Iron Python work out :)
I'm pretty much done with DVDs -- when every dvd you buy now has advertisements on it. Even BBC box sets!
So in short, thanks for pointint out how to ruin another avenue of entertainment for consumers.
Delegates are *really* arrays of function pointers that have the conveniant notation of being able to call the entire array with one line of code. This is handy when thats what you want to do (event/subscriber pattern). Its horrible when you actually want JUST A FUNCTION POINTER :)
The company I work for was the inspiration for many Dilbert strips as a personal fried ofScott Adams used to work there. Even stranger, we seem to have meetings and then a few months later the verbage used in the meetings shows up in a strip. We think there may still be a mole.
Ah but you missed mine. They don't want to be citizens to pay taxes and insurance. They still want a guarantee the free ride will continue.
I've lived in California a long time, and we got a long just fine without hordes of illegal immigrants. Second of all, them paying taxes doesn't matter -- no matter how much taxes they pay, they consume more taxes than they pay. Net loss for the state. End of story
Oh man, you just made my day. I love it
Meanwhile as a native, you have to pay for all of that FOR them out of your taxes, then you have to pay car insurance, car taxes, property taxes, medical, dental, vision, you have to send your kids to a private school because their kids have ruined the public schools, you can't goto the hospital because illegals are clogging it up (I had to wait about 30 hours to be seen when I broke my leg!). Illegals turn your nice community into a shit pile and your house gets broken into constantly ... Oh, and your teenage kids can't jobs because all the low skill jobs that teenagers used to do are taken by illegals (mowing lawns, bussing tables, etc).
And then the march in the street waiving foreign flags on American soil, telling you that the US owes them citizenship.
Sorry, I needed to vent.
And it turned out to be one fo the most successful consoles ever.