is some 13 year old kid. No computer consultant would try to solicit work this way.
Still, he claims to make $1300/day. (His claim for lost wages for 1 day). I wonder if he reports this income to the IRS?
You should notify the IRS and say that, if Bernie isn't reporting at least $260,000/year (assuming he works 200 days), then he's hiding income. They have a handy form to report it, or a toll-free hotline .
I rememeber Taligent, IBM and Apple's aborted attempt to write an OS, well.
The Taligent building was about a mile away from me. They sunk about 500 Million (in pre-dot-com $$, when it was a lot of money) and got NOTHING accomplished.
I worked with a bunch of ex Taligent folks a while later and the stories they told me were astounding! They hired a bunch of smart people, none of whom had any experience shipping any real products. So they wasted man years doing things like writing their own C++ compilers and even trying to design their own CPUs. All to support an yet-to-be-written OS.
I hope they do better this time. Maybe without Apple in the loop, they'll have a better grasp of reality.
A few years ago during the web boom (remember that? It was like the CB craze of '77), Veritas was making the same claim.
They had Clinton's "Monica" testimony indexed so you can search for words (think "cigar") and get to the portion of the video that mentions the words.
Since most television is closed-captions these days, it's not hard to get searchable text that corresponds to video, once the video is put on some random-access storage medium.
I really don't think there are any new breakthroughs here; it's just that storage got dirt cheap, video codecs got faster, making it more practical.
How Apple can do better this time....
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One thing that I think Apple did wrong the first time--with the Newton--is charging an arm and a leg for a development system.
If there was a cheap, or free, development system, more software will be developed for it. This gave the Palm platform a tremendous head-start over other PDAs (not to mention the fact that it was small and easy to use).
I still have my Newton...
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...I wonder if I'll be silly enough to give Apple another try?
(Though this Newton was comp'd. Apple gave 'em out like candy near the end. I should sell it on eBay!)
> I think the target demographic for these films has changed a little since the original trilogy
I don't think so, I just think that we've gotten older. When I first say Episode III, back in 1977, (I think), I was 15 years old. Isn't that the audience that N*SYNC appeals to? I guess it could be a few years younger than that.
If people keep moderating down well-formed, reasoned opinons that may happen to say something about Microsoft that isn't negative, then nobody will be left at/. except for zealots and the mentally ill.
On second thought, I think this has happened already!
Can you please tell me why this was moderated down? It was one man's honest opionion, didn't contain any flamebait, and was polite. I said "Windows may be cheaper" for some people, and the folks on/. reamed me a new asshole.
I run both Microsoft (Windows XP) and non-Microsoft (FreeBSD) operating systems here. (Don't get me started with Linux!)
With Microsoft, for $250, I get the operating system and free downloads of any new OS patches as soon as they are availble via "Windows Update."
For FreeBSD, I paid about $50 for a disk, and I have to spend considerable time searching the FreeBSD website for patches (not to mention CERT to see if telnetd has yet another hole!), and installing them.
Microsoft's "Windows Update" feature is MUCH easier to use than any mechanism to update FreeBSD.
When you factor in the cost of getting _support_, Windows may be cheaper. For hobbiests or small companies that don't need to buy support, "Linux" may be a better value.
If this ever was profitable, especially for "alternate domains", scared execs that kept this going.
I work for a Big Media Company, and when the.tv domain became available for people in the US to buy, we were asked "Shouldn't we hurry and register Big Media Company.TV before someone else gets it?"
Fortunately, cool heads prevailed. We reasoned, a year ago, that the battle was over and.com won. And if anyone dared to put up a site BigMediaCompany.tv that infringed on our trademark in well accepted legal ways, we'd just sue them.
Nobody has ever dared use our "BigMediaCompany.tv" and we saved the $50K that the.tv folks wanted.
Basically, the.tv people were blackmailing the Fortune 500.
Note for the dense: our company name isn't really BigMediaCompany
It's funny that you mention the "Art of War" a fad book popular with dot-com kiddies who thought they were Important Business Exectives.
Of course, they all moved back home with Mommie and are working at McDonalds. I'm sure they'll learn more at Hamburger University than they ever thought they knew.
Maybe it's your own fault, maybe it's not. Who knows?
What I do know for sure is the only reliablie indicator of success is if the applicant has been on significant projects in the past from START to FINISH.
Sorry bub, but I'd be very skeptical of someone who's 23, and claims to have been a "CEO" and "CTO" of a significant company, and claims to have significant project experience.
I'm not saying you're not qualified, or better than most 23 year olds. I'm just saying that someone with 20 years of REAL expirience may be more suited to certain jobs than you are.
In this industry, it's us OLD TIMERS who get most of the age discrimination. People don't want to pay the bug bucks we ask for, and hire inexperienced kids instead, stroking their egos while paying them less.
Of course, we've all paid the price for inexperienced (and H1-B) programmers--in poor quality software.
Personally, I've been gainfully employed; never out of work a day in my life, and I've done quite well. But some companies--like most of the now-dead Dot-Coms, didn't know the value of experience.
I don't think you do, either, but you will--someday, if you're lucky.
You are only 19, have _multiple_ previous jobs, and claim to have "5 years experience". Are they really 5 years of fulltime work experience?
I've interviewed and hired dozens of people in my career, and found that the only indicator of success is past performance. I look for people who have been on projects from start to finish! You'd be surprised how many people change jobs--especially during the 90s when that was easy to do--when the going gets tough and find something else.
Look carefully at your own performance and experience. Are you really as good as you think you are? How do you think the others see you? As one of their peers, or as a snotty kid too big for his britches?
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Still, he claims to make $1300/day. (His claim for lost wages for 1 day). I wonder if he reports this income to the IRS?
You should notify the IRS and say that, if Bernie isn't reporting at least $260,000/year (assuming he works 200 days), then he's hiding income. They have a handy form to report it, or a toll-free hotline .
When employees from inside Microsoft vote on a Web poll it's dirty business.
I can't see the difference. Don't let your biases show through.
What amazes me is how it's become a Microsoft-bashing forum. If it's Linux or Apple it's good, if it's Microsoft it's bad.
Slashdot has been taken over by zealots and the mentally ill. There's no intelligent discourse here.
Of course, I must be mentally ill, too, if I still visit the site every now and then.
The Taligent building was about a mile away from me. They sunk about 500 Million (in pre-dot-com $$, when it was a lot of money) and got NOTHING accomplished.
I worked with a bunch of ex Taligent folks a while later and the stories they told me were astounding! They hired a bunch of smart people, none of whom had any experience shipping any real products. So they wasted man years doing things like writing their own C++ compilers and even trying to design their own CPUs. All to support an yet-to-be-written OS.
I hope they do better this time. Maybe without Apple in the loop, they'll have a better grasp of reality.
They had Clinton's "Monica" testimony indexed so you can search for words (think "cigar") and get to the portion of the video that mentions the words.
Since most television is closed-captions these days, it's not hard to get searchable text that corresponds to video, once the video is put on some random-access storage medium.
I really don't think there are any new breakthroughs here; it's just that storage got dirt cheap, video codecs got faster, making it more practical.
If there was a cheap, or free, development system, more software will be developed for it. This gave the Palm platform a tremendous head-start over other PDAs (not to mention the fact that it was small and easy to use).
(Though this Newton was comp'd. Apple gave 'em out like candy near the end. I should sell it on eBay!)
I don't think so, I just think that we've gotten older. When I first say Episode III, back in 1977, (I think), I was 15 years old. Isn't that the audience that N*SYNC appeals to? I guess it could be a few years younger than that.
On second thought, I think this has happened already!
I'm not making fun of his race, religion, national origin, affectional preference, or gender identity. Just the way he chooses to wear his hair!
I run both Microsoft (Windows XP) and non-Microsoft (FreeBSD) operating systems here. (Don't get me started with Linux!)
With Microsoft, for $250, I get the operating system and free downloads of any new OS patches as soon as they are availble via "Windows Update."
For FreeBSD, I paid about $50 for a disk, and I have to spend considerable time searching the FreeBSD website for patches (not to mention CERT to see if telnetd has yet another hole!), and installing them.
Microsoft's "Windows Update" feature is MUCH easier to use than any mechanism to update FreeBSD.
When you factor in the cost of getting _support_, Windows may be cheaper. For hobbiests or small companies that don't need to buy support, "Linux" may be a better value.
Check out this guy , for instance. Doesn't he look dreadful?!
I'm sure he'll regret this look someday.
Look here to see what I mean.
Has anyone ever done any web server for the Apple ][? (Back when Apple made good computers! Remember when Steve Jobs said "Apple ][ forever" in 1989?)
I work for a Big Media Company, and when the .tv domain became available for people in the US to buy, we were asked "Shouldn't we hurry and register Big Media Company.TV before someone else gets it?"
Fortunately, cool heads prevailed. We reasoned, a year ago, that the battle was over and .com won. And if anyone dared to put up a site BigMediaCompany.tv that infringed on our trademark in well accepted legal ways, we'd just sue them.
Nobody has ever dared use our "BigMediaCompany.tv" and we saved the $50K that the .tv folks wanted.
Basically, the .tv people were blackmailing the Fortune 500.
Note for the dense: our company name isn't really BigMediaCompany
Of course, they all moved back home with Mommie and are working at McDonalds. I'm sure they'll learn more at Hamburger University than they ever thought they knew.
To convert a twos complement negative number into a positive number, COMPLEMENT THE BITS and ADD ONE!
That's why FFFFFFFF is -1. Complement (00000000) and add one (00000001).
I pray that someone like you isn't being hired for serious Computer Science work! Someday a missle will crash because of you.
That's the price we all pay--in poor quality software--for undegreed "programmers" or H-1B "ploglammels".
Why are we saying goodbye to -47? What was so special about it?
You may be sick about hearing about the Holocaust--but I'm sick about hearing about the CRUCIFIXION.
I've long maintained that I had nothing against Linux (or MacOS for that matter). What I do have a problem with is Linux and Mac users.
Don't try to mount the antenna remotely; the loss in the transmission line would overrid the gain.
Instead, run ethernet and power to the highest point in your house and put your linksys there.
This method is safe, legal, and it WORKS.
You never FINISHED anythying.
Maybe it's your own fault, maybe it's not. Who knows?
What I do know for sure is the only reliablie indicator of success is if the applicant has been on significant projects in the past from START to FINISH.
I'm not saying you're not qualified, or better than most 23 year olds. I'm just saying that someone with 20 years of REAL expirience may be more suited to certain jobs than you are.
In this industry, it's us OLD TIMERS who get most of the age discrimination. People don't want to pay the bug bucks we ask for, and hire inexperienced kids instead, stroking their egos while paying them less.
Of course, we've all paid the price for inexperienced (and H1-B) programmers--in poor quality software.
Personally, I've been gainfully employed; never out of work a day in my life, and I've done quite well. But some companies--like most of the now-dead Dot-Coms, didn't know the value of experience.
I don't think you do, either, but you will--someday, if you're lucky.
You are only 19, have _multiple_ previous jobs, and claim to have "5 years experience". Are they really 5 years of fulltime work experience?
I've interviewed and hired dozens of people in my career, and found that the only indicator of success is past performance. I look for people who have been on projects from start to finish! You'd be surprised how many people change jobs--especially during the 90s when that was easy to do--when the going gets tough and find something else.
Look carefully at your own performance and experience. Are you really as good as you think you are? How do you think the others see you? As one of their peers, or as a snotty kid too big for his britches?