Then maybe interview questions and academic records are the wrong way to go about hiring.
It's incredibly annoying when people skip over the "research" section of my resume because "OMG! He has a high GPA!" This happens almost everywhere that I apply. I think that it may be the subconscious need of the interviewer to have a quantitative measure of someone's performance (that is, after all, a resume tip); research doesn't really translate into a number.
IMO, past work is the best way to judge future work. It isn't perfect either, but it's far better than relying on answers to "How many quarters can you stack to reach the moon?" or looking at a number that is, at best, relative to the rest of your school, or, at worst, completely inaccurate.
The two aren't mutually exclusive, though. Take FFT (the original Tactics, not Tactics Advance) and Xenogears, both of which had very good stories, IMO. Neither of those games felt like clicking through a nice story; playing them felt like playing through a nice story.
I think that the GP was referring to the recovery console that you can boot to via the Windows XP install CD... not that I've found that useful for doing anything but fixing the MBR.
You can't just "build" a university like Harvard or Princeton. These universities have all acquired centuries of prestige.
You can make a university as selective as you want and hire people like Andrew Wiles to the Math department (Princeton), but you can't build a reputation up that easily. That takes time.
"We are at war with Iraq. We always have been at war with Iraq. Saudi Arabia is our ally."
We really are getting closer to the state described in 1984. I wonder: is this perpetual war also designed to keep the population under control?
On second thought, this is probably just the logical result of declaring war on "terror". You can't declare war on an ideal... at least not with military force.
Much as I hate to say it (ok, not really), I told you so. Did you really believe that the new consoles would be 30x as powerful as the last generation? There are rules about these things and they are not suspended just because we're dealing with a game console. Nintendo isn't the least powerful, just the most honest.
There's just something about getting the employees to sign the mug in April... and this keeps with it being a Thursday (if that's more than just a rumor) and happens to be very close to the day that this article was posted.
They did a study a little while back, and predicted that there won't be another ice age for about 15,000 years (which is "soon", geographically speaking, but not the immediate problem that global warming is).
Of course, global warming could cause another ice age; the warming won't be uniform and studies (including one fairly recent one that's probably still in the news) have suggested that ice ages began in parts of the world due to abrupt climate change.
In any case, why risk altering something so complex as Earth's climate? We truly have no idea what we're tampering with; it's best to leave it alone as much as possible until we understand more.
I remember hearing that the stated purpose of the mission was to analyze the composition of the comet, which may yield some insight as to the origins of the solar system.
You should have been preparing to get a job during your college years, rather than after, because then you'd graduate with some experience, which would put you ahead of a lot of people. At least from what I've been able to infer, interviewers tend to have the attitude that graudates don't know anything because they haven't been in "the real world" long enough, and some experience will help dispel that. They also seem to pay an inordinate amount of attention to your GPA when you're fresh out of school, so if it's good, put it on there.
Don't assume that only "challenging" positions are good. Start at the bottom and work your way up, even if it means doing something trivial, because sooner or later the opportunity is going to arise to demonstrate your skills to your employer, and then they'll (hopefully) start treating you like the valuable asset to the company you just demonstrated that you are.
Aren't the memory controllers on new AMD processors on-die now anyway? That'd make the bus speed irrelevant to memory performance (according to the hype, anyway).
But right now, even seasoned web developers/programmers don't want to go near it because of things like OWL (it sure took me a long time to figure it out, and I have a background in the logic and technology that it's built on). The first step towards making the Semantic Web (which is really a great idea) usable is to make creating a semantic webpage easier. You can't just say "put up with it now because it will get easier later" - that's not how to get widespread adoption.
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Maybe because their unofficial slogan is "Don't be evil"? :)
Then maybe interview questions and academic records are the wrong way to go about hiring.
It's incredibly annoying when people skip over the "research" section of my resume because "OMG! He has a high GPA!" This happens almost everywhere that I apply. I think that it may be the subconscious need of the interviewer to have a quantitative measure of someone's performance (that is, after all, a resume tip); research doesn't really translate into a number.
IMO, past work is the best way to judge future work. It isn't perfect either, but it's far better than relying on answers to "How many quarters can you stack to reach the moon?" or looking at a number that is, at best, relative to the rest of your school, or, at worst, completely inaccurate.
Yeah, they get mad when you do that.
The two aren't mutually exclusive, though. Take FFT (the original Tactics, not Tactics Advance) and Xenogears, both of which had very good stories, IMO. Neither of those games felt like clicking through a nice story; playing them felt like playing through a nice story.
I think that the GP was referring to the recovery console that you can boot to via the Windows XP install CD... not that I've found that useful for doing anything but fixing the MBR.
MS Word? Do you mean: "It seems like you're trying to write a letter. Would you like to..."?
:)
If that's the future of computing, count me out right now
How about transparent PNG support?
You can't just "build" a university like Harvard or Princeton. These universities have all acquired centuries of prestige.
You can make a university as selective as you want and hire people like Andrew Wiles to the Math department (Princeton), but you can't build a reputation up that easily. That takes time.
"We are at war with Iraq. We always have been at war with Iraq. Saudi Arabia is our ally."
We really are getting closer to the state described in 1984. I wonder: is this perpetual war also designed to keep the population under control?
On second thought, this is probably just the logical result of declaring war on "terror". You can't declare war on an ideal... at least not with military force.
Intercept the plane itself? That wouldn't help the people on on the plane, but it would prevent the terrorists from slamming it into a building.
Now that they've announced it, MAD would stop them from doing anything of the sort.
Much as I hate to say it (ok, not really), I told you so. Did you really believe that the new consoles would be 30x as powerful as the last generation? There are rules about these things and they are not suspended just because we're dealing with a game console. Nintendo isn't the least powerful, just the most honest.
Have you used Qt before? Their APIs and particularly the way that they handle event-driven programming (signals/slots) is very well done.
You can always buy one of these (as seen on Slashdot!)
There's just something about getting the employees to sign the mug in April... and this keeps with it being a Thursday (if that's more than just a rumor) and happens to be very close to the day that this article was posted.
Of course, global warming could cause another ice age; the warming won't be uniform and studies (including one fairly recent one that's probably still in the news) have suggested that ice ages began in parts of the world due to abrupt climate change.
In any case, why risk altering something so complex as Earth's climate? We truly have no idea what we're tampering with; it's best to leave it alone as much as possible until we understand more.
I remember hearing that the stated purpose of the mission was to analyze the composition of the comet, which may yield some insight as to the origins of the solar system.
I imagine it can also be a proof of concept.
In Soviet Russia, Earth hits comets!
The chess club is already dominated by nerds who know how to build computers and write software :)
We should get one of these for Orrin Hatch.
2+2=5. We've always been at war with Eastasia.
(It's a reference to 1984, for those who haven't read it).
You should have been preparing to get a job during your college years, rather than after, because then you'd graduate with some experience, which would put you ahead of a lot of people. At least from what I've been able to infer, interviewers tend to have the attitude that graudates don't know anything because they haven't been in "the real world" long enough, and some experience will help dispel that. They also seem to pay an inordinate amount of attention to your GPA when you're fresh out of school, so if it's good, put it on there.
Don't assume that only "challenging" positions are good. Start at the bottom and work your way up, even if it means doing something trivial, because sooner or later the opportunity is going to arise to demonstrate your skills to your employer, and then they'll (hopefully) start treating you like the valuable asset to the company you just demonstrated that you are.
Aren't the memory controllers on new AMD processors on-die now anyway? That'd make the bus speed irrelevant to memory performance (according to the hype, anyway).
Googlezon!
But right now, even seasoned web developers/programmers don't want to go near it because of things like OWL (it sure took me a long time to figure it out, and I have a background in the logic and technology that it's built on). The first step towards making the Semantic Web (which is really a great idea) usable is to make creating a semantic webpage easier. You can't just say "put up with it now because it will get easier later" - that's not how to get widespread adoption.