For most people in our capitalist society, money is an incredible motivator.
I hate to say it, but it is exactly for that reason that the system works so well (not perfect, but the best for now). We are all like littles bees, which gather the more pollen they can and take it to their eeves. It is just that instead of pollen, it's bucks... In the long run, it's all the same. We strive to become bigger to feed our sense of survival and our fear of not achieving it. Money in the capitalist model is like a carrot at the end of the stick...
You answered your question yourself.
They do beleive (those companies) that it will be much harder to circumvent hardware then it could be for software. What they fail to understand, IMHO, is that their will always be software to communicate with the hardware. It will be cracked at this level.
I am, and I also have no loyalty and no feelings.
Just last week, I asked myself 50$/hours to cut my lawn. I was the only one able to do the job at the moment, so I accepted. One month later, I fired myself and hired a kid to do it for 10$/hours.
So that badly designed interface can get sued. So that insecure architectures can get sued
And then you say:
Yeah, I know this sounds a bit idealistic, but well, it's good to hope, sometimes.
idealistic? IDEALISTIC? Wow, that's heavy enough!
Think about it for a moment... You are a programer don't you? I really prefer OOS to Closed Source Software, but the same applys to both.
If company's (So indirectly the programmers/architecte/DBA/SysAdmin/Etc Etc) could get sued for a security flaw or a design mistake, this would be the end of the world as we know it, I can assure you! It would completly freeze innovation for years to come, after a bunch of company's will have loose in court because of a security problem in their software. Software CAN'T be 100% secure, and no architeture is perfect. And unless you have a way to "measure" the severity of a bug(I hope it wasn't it's impact, which is much more dependant on so many other factors) it won't be applicable in any profitable manner to the society and everyone will sue everybody for stupid reasons. Blue Screen? SUE! It could have been a security problem. Kernel panic? SUE! A deadlock in a multithreaded app? SUE SUE SUE! Yeah, right! Nothing is perfect in this world, and nothing will ever be, live with it. Things WILL fail in some case and it's ridiculous to try to put th blame on the maker of the product. YOU are the one who put your confidence in the product so YOU are the only one responsible if something bad happens. With your way of thinking, we get mothers suing Sony for making an addictive game...
The badly interface design was a the funniest part of your comment also... What is good to one is not necessarily good to the other! How can you judge that? No no no... No more laws regarding HighTech please, NO MORE whatever they are. If it isn't good enough for you, don't use it! The only exception would be if the company CLAIMS to be 100% secure, which would be stupid of them. Then, you could make your point, but only because a company should meet their statement, not because the software isn't up to he task. Just remember that a law never gives a right back to someone, they just remove a right to someone else trying to create an equilibrum of some kind. It works when in regards to actions you do, like killing, stealing, etc etc. But it just can't protect the world of it's own ignorance... And I sure don't want to live in a world were you could get sued for a lack of knowledge. Even if it's because I didn't know how to detect a potential bug in my software.
You are right, but it all depends on how hard it is to create fake email addresses. Maybe if the system is rigourous enough, it could be done. But well, I'm not a specialist in this field:)
So, it would work. If the spamers sending you the unrequested email aren't filling proper informations, you can already filter them out, without having to receive one before. When creating a mail account, or 10 or even 1000, they should (optionally) ask for specific informations, which could create you a key or somehing like it. Then, people could filter mail based on: if the info is there or not (they could actually want spam ?!?), then, filter on other identification which could be in there. If they ever receives an email (it passes first filter set) then they just add the sender's signature to their black list. Next time you connect to your Pop3(.5) account, before sending you the msg, the server sends you only minimal identification for every mail(much less bandwith then the whole msg). And your client app. automatically accept or reject wanted/unwanted emails.
So, my point is exactly that, those who will enter those information are the legitimate ones, and I could accept only those, not the other way around...
I've explained it in my previous post. The burden of kipping the "blak list", would be on the client side. The mail server which belongs to the ISP would only retreive your list and then decide if they send you a specific mail or not.
Im soooooooo sick of people saying that GC is kiddy and crap.
And I'm so sick of people's post wich are so kiddy and crap... Sorry, but your comment was sounding like YOU are 5 years old. "My console is better then yours. No it's mine, NO IT'S MINE! bouhouuhouuu... SHUTUP! bouhouuhouuu"
Yes, I meant to flame. But if you want to be taken seriously, post objectives comments and try to talk intelligently. People don't give a dawm about what flame war you had with your friend at school. By the way, you said he was arrogant, but so you were. Sorry for being rude, I had to say it.
It mith be stupid, but here it is...
My idea is that emails protocols should not be replaced, they shoul be enhanced to support identification of the sender. When someone knocks on your door, you look at who it is before letting them enter your house, no?
So a standard could be put in place which would enable you to filter the sender at the relay level instead of in your mail box. Well known address from you would be allowed to enter your mail box freely, while other one would have to identified themself well before being allowed. Just like when a rep of some phone company ring at my door, they have to identify themself well, and then, only then, if I'm interested in what they have to say, I let them enter. (Which is never the case hehe). So email protocols would need to be added a very complete identification section. There is no obligation to fill it for sure, but if you don't, people can always filter you out at the source. Once this ID is filtered out, it is put on your "black list". Then, when you connect to your mail server, it would send you the ID's of all the mail they have for you, and you would send them back a list of the emails you want to reject. This way, you get only what you want, and you save bandwith on unwanted spam. Am I crazy, or is it possible anytime?
It was only a joke. I myself much prefer Linux to Windows and dislike MS attitude very much. But when I read some folks who claim the same ol' arguments as the others, with no basis in the context of a discussion, I wonder how we can succeed with such a lack of imagination.
I find it disgusting that someone can escape justice because of en "error" in procedure, but if it was not that way, we could all be prosecuted. It's better to have one bad guy escape the justice and all the others be free, then to abandon all of our rights for one bad guy. It's the investigators obligations to make things right and honestly to catch those who brake the law. If they were to not respect any privacy rights and other rights to catch the "vilain", we would live under siege. You MUST make sure that you, as an ISP, make things the way they should be. To respect others privacy and right. And in the end, it can only help to make sure that the bad guy wont escape law.
Generally however we've found that the cost of open sourcing code for a proprietary product is non-trivial. I know it seems counter-intuitive but consider this: the reality is you can't just toss code over the fence.
Open-Sourcing Solaris is non-trivial, she explain it in her answers. But working on already open-sourced coded is not. It benefit both Sun AND the Linux community because Sun's change will get back to the community and it benefit sun because they have a very solid base to work on.
Sun's position on Linux has long been friendly, since we see it as a commodity unix variant which has been very successful at growing the community of Unix users.
I wonder how much "has long been" really is, but it's not the point. I found it is rather honest on their part to say it that way. The first 8nix variant I saw was Mandrake 6.0 or somehing like that. I felt in love with it and since I had the chance to deploy aaplication on Solaris a couple of time. So the comment makes sense, Linux has a lot of visibility and it happens sometimes that it is what brings users to the realm of Unixes. So, even from a marketing point of view, it all make sense to adopt it. It gives them free publicity because of their implication with Linux. And afterward, it benefits them because they can either sell more Solaris or just more server, even with Linux on it instead of Solaris, they make te buck with thehardware.
All that being said, they had to previously (well, they have to) "support" both Linux AND Solaris and port appliation to both platform. By trying to standardise both, they keep the previous;y stated benefits, and they do a cut in the devellopment budget.
And in the end, it benefits us to. That's is the way I would like all business to work. Make your own business, cleanly, and work WITH the community. It can only do good, both for the business and to the consumer/user/geek/etc etc...
When talking about childs, you have to treat both the problem AND the symptom. Those young mind do not have built up their mind yet and are soooo easilly influenced. But more, they are just so curious. I remember when I was about 12, I got my first big computer, and I was one of the first to have a modem connection. Well, the first few web site I found were the playboy, hustler and penthouse one. While this is normal, before that boys were getting porn mags, the danger reside in the fact that when they are chatting with stranger, th media used to make their "discoveries" start to answer back at them and to influence their thinking. It becomes a two way media and parents have then much more work to do then before. I don't think that it is good to "protect" childs from EVERYTHING until they are 16-17-18..., but some things HAVE to be hide. Would you send your 10 years old child in a room full of pedophiles, thinking they are safe because you have told them to say NO?* Pedophiles are very good at manipulting young minds, you must as a parent keep your child far from them, until they are strong enough to discern when they are manipulated or not. And that, takes more then "good communication" between a child and it's parents, it takes time and experience in real life.
* I'm not saying that everyone online is a pedophile, but on a server with thousand and thousand of peoples, their is certainly a few in each "big and popular" rooms...
This Graphic card as almost more processing power then my two PC's combined! The only thing I wish is that Matrox could come back a bit in this market. They had made some good card in the past. More choices can only be good. And, do they have a good record of supporting Linux in the past? Funny, they are located in my town and I know less about them then all those US based company:)
I read "mini-computer" and I tought about the AS/400 on wich we were having our COBOL and RPG courses at school.
Then I read "AGP", "GeForce", "Serious Gamer" and "Built-in Handle" in the following sentence. Which made me think that portable Games made on Java 3D could finally be real. I was seeing games which could run on my brother's box and play on my own Linux PC to. I was able to run JEdit and the GUI response was sooo fast. Open Office was taking less then 15 seconds to open my documents. It was so real, I swear... Then, I awaked in sweats and realized that it was only a dream...
By the way, OpenOffice IS NOT made in Java, for those who would step to conclusion based on my writing...
I went to a private college to learn programming, and the only thing I got from them was a big loan... I stoped school before having the diploma and got directly a job, I wanted to work... So, I got a programming job, in Visual Basic. That was my biggest mistake (not the VB part, the diploma one). I've never been asked for it tough, but I'm sure that having one would help. So, what I had to do to compensate was to be very convincing. Two years ago, I wanted to work in Java, but had no experience in J2EE and Java in general. I started learning it at home, studying books etc etc. Then, I had the chance to pass an interview were I work right now. I've been very honest with the interviewer, stating that I never programmed in it. But I also showed how much I was willing to learn and how much I was ABLE to learn fast. I got the job. Then, I proved that I was right, I worked hard to prove myself, studying on weekends, after work instead of watching TV. I managed to pass a few certification, all within the first year. Today, my boss confidence has grown and he is willing to give me much more responsability, in the end it pays well to do hard work. My advice would be to study a lot. Even if you don't go to school, study books. As much as you can. Learn a language, learn all about the buzzword of the day, it may be boring, but they are what ompany wants. learn theory, design patterns etc etc. And get some certif. They may not be as good as a University diploma, but they are more then nothing. In a pile, they can help to distinguish you from the others. And in interview, show how much you like what you do. Like someone else said, it has to be a pasion. And don't be afraid to show it. When the interviewer ask why they should take you, even without prior experience, tell them it is because you love your work, that you eat book and are willing to work hard. Also, you should not be afraid of Over Time. I had to work a lot, and I mean A LOT at first, so I could meet the deadlines. other programmers are gonna finish in half the time maybe, so work twice to show that you understand the business need. People will see how much you work hard, and it will pay.
Just be convinced that you can do it, convince other that you can, and one day it will work. It could take some time, but just keep on trying.
In jobs place at least. Can you imagine trying to concentrate when everybodys are "talking" with their computer? Or maybe THAT would be a good reason to push for individual offices instead of open office (no pun intended)
By the way, I took a try at CoreWar recently and what I can say is that while Robocode and CoreWar are 2 programming games, they aren't targetted at the same audience. Robocode is used by some people to teach/learn Java. The base API is simple enough to grasp rapidly but also let one evolve. In fact your robot extent a base class and when you run it in the arena, it runs in its own thread. It's all writen in java and the robot is "part of" the application. CoreWar is a custom language and you fight, trying to stop all of your opponent process (running on a virtual computer). While I found it was a lot of fun and very "geeky", it can't really be compared to Robocode. In Robocode, the main part of the fun is to actually look at your little tank blast(or being blast by) others. You actually "see" what's going on. In corewar, you don't have any such fancy interface. But hey, diversity and choice are good, and god would I like more of those "programming games", maybe a 3D one with A.I and all... Maybe like A.I. War but not with bugs(no pun intended, seriously)...
hacking into the FBI-server (over the Net..) in 60 seconds while a gorgeous woman blows you
I wonder which one is the most plausible, hacking the FBI server, or that a woman actually blows a geek...
First of all, it's really not "most of all printer" which have the print head directly on the cartridge. In fact, HP has the print head on the cartridge, Epson has the printheag IN the printer, and with new canon photo printer (from the S800), the print head is IN the printer but user replacable.
I've got an Epson 1280 and a Canon S800 at home for a while now, printing my own photographs. Clogging IS a problem with my 1280 if I am not printing often and THAT is the major thing which could ruin a printhead. I've never got ANY problem with the S800 yet. One other point, I run a CIS on my 1280 and I've not experience any more problems then by using genuine epson cartridge. It is less expensive and after a few minor adjustments, I have the same exact "pareil" result. Epson has came up with the chiped cartridges to solve a problem which wasn't really one. Now, if it was really only to solve that problem of monitoring cartridge, they would not change the configuration of the chip so often, wouldn't they? Check this site if you want some info CIS vendor, be sure to check which printers are supported, and note that the epson 820 isn't because the chip is different then the other ones...
Also, Canon has a way of monitoring their cartriges very efficiently using only prism. So you can refill their cartridge as you will. BUT canon sells their cartridge almost 3 times the price of the equivalent epson cartridge. Canon as sued a german cartridge maker for Patent Infrindgment. And yes, all those company sells their printer at losses and make most of their money on their ink. They can't come on you for selling ink, but don't push your luck, if you infrindge a patent, you WILL get sued, no matter the industry. Now, I much prefer canon's way of doind things. Separate ink cartridge(much less waste), no f*cking chip to mod, yet still monitoring ink usage and I can still use refill if I want, I just have to mess up myself. I think that they really are in their own right to sue if their as been patent violations, research in this area is very expensive and they at least deserve the right to sell their own technology. Nothing stops you from buying ink at the gallons from another supplier tough... So stop trolling about printhead wearing off, yes they do wear, but not at the rate of a printhead for each ink refill. Not even at the rate of 20 ink refill.
I hope those in this situation have enough decency to shut up. 63K US is kind of just a dream to me, I'm making 42K CAN and I think I am making good money. Hey, I'm making more then both my parents together! I have a little car, a digicam, my good ol' computer, what can I ask more?!? Yeah, I used to dream of making 1K US a week, driving an Audi TT and living in a big house. And I was mad that I was not earning enough, fast enough. Then, recently, things went bad around the world, I kept reading about unemployement. One of my cousin lost it's job last year and he is still searching a new one. He got nothing more then a few little contract of 2-3 weeks. It change my mind, that is the only good thing about all this (for me). Now I'm placing some money, I enjoy what I actually have because tomorrow it could all change. Honestly, I would accept 63K US any day, but I really don't need it...
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For most people in our capitalist society, money is an incredible motivator.
I hate to say it, but it is exactly for that reason that the system works so well (not perfect, but the best for now). We are all like littles bees, which gather the more pollen they can and take it to their eeves. It is just that instead of pollen, it's bucks... In the long run, it's all the same. We strive to become bigger to feed our sense of survival and our fear of not achieving it. Money in the capitalist model is like a carrot at the end of the stick...
Well, not enough cafein yet...
Back to work!
You answered your question yourself. They do beleive (those companies) that it will be much harder to circumvent hardware then it could be for software. What they fail to understand, IMHO, is that their will always be software to communicate with the hardware. It will be cracked at this level.
It is also true of self employed people.
I am, and I also have no loyalty and no feelings.
Just last week, I asked myself 50$/hours to cut my lawn. I was the only one able to do the job at the moment, so I accepted. One month later, I fired myself and hired a kid to do it for 10$/hours.
So that badly designed interface can get sued.
So that insecure architectures can get sued
And then you say:
Yeah, I know this sounds a bit idealistic, but well, it's good to hope, sometimes.
idealistic? IDEALISTIC? Wow, that's heavy enough!
Think about it for a moment... You are a programer don't you? I really prefer OOS to Closed Source Software, but the same applys to both.
If company's (So indirectly the programmers/architecte/DBA/SysAdmin/Etc Etc) could get sued for a security flaw or a design mistake, this would be the end of the world as we know it, I can assure you! It would completly freeze innovation for years to come, after a bunch of company's will have loose in court because of a security problem in their software. Software CAN'T be 100% secure, and no architeture is perfect. And unless you have a way to "measure" the severity of a bug(I hope it wasn't it's impact, which is much more dependant on so many other factors) it won't be applicable in any profitable manner to the society and everyone will sue everybody for stupid reasons. Blue Screen? SUE! It could have been a security problem. Kernel panic? SUE! A deadlock in a multithreaded app? SUE SUE SUE! Yeah, right! Nothing is perfect in this world, and nothing will ever be, live with it. Things WILL fail in some case and it's ridiculous to try to put th blame on the maker of the product. YOU are the one who put your confidence in the product so YOU are the only one responsible if something bad happens. With your way of thinking, we get mothers suing Sony for making an addictive game...
The badly interface design was a the funniest part of your comment also... What is good to one is not necessarily good to the other! How can you judge that? No no no... No more laws regarding HighTech please, NO MORE whatever they are. If it isn't good enough for you, don't use it! The only exception would be if the company CLAIMS to be 100% secure, which would be stupid of them. Then, you could make your point, but only because a company should meet their statement, not because the software isn't up to he task. Just remember that a law never gives a right back to someone, they just remove a right to someone else trying to create an equilibrum of some kind. It works when in regards to actions you do, like killing, stealing, etc etc. But it just can't protect the world of it's own ignorance... And I sure don't want to live in a world were you could get sued for a lack of knowledge. Even if it's because I didn't know how to detect a potential bug in my software.
Anyway, back to work...
Have a nice day!
You are right, but it all depends on how hard it is to create fake email addresses. Maybe if the system is rigourous enough, it could be done. But well, I'm not a specialist in this field :)
Thanks for taking time to reply!
So, it would work. If the spamers sending you the unrequested email aren't filling proper informations, you can already filter them out, without having to receive one before. When creating a mail account, or 10 or even 1000, they should (optionally) ask for specific informations, which could create you a key or somehing like it. Then, people could filter mail based on: if the info is there or not (they could actually want spam ?!?), then, filter on other identification which could be in there. If they ever receives an email (it passes first filter set) then they just add the sender's signature to their black list. Next time you connect to your Pop3(.5) account, before sending you the msg, the server sends you only minimal identification for every mail(much less bandwith then the whole msg). And your client app. automatically accept or reject wanted/unwanted emails.
So, my point is exactly that, those who will enter those information are the legitimate ones, and I could accept only those, not the other way around...
I've explained it in my previous post. The burden of kipping the "blak list", would be on the client side. The mail server which belongs to the ISP would only retreive your list and then decide if they send you a specific mail or not.
Im soooooooo sick of people saying that GC is kiddy and crap.
And I'm so sick of people's post wich are so kiddy and crap...
Sorry, but your comment was sounding like YOU are 5 years old.
"My console is better then yours. No it's mine, NO IT'S MINE! bouhouuhouuu... SHUTUP! bouhouuhouuu"
Yes, I meant to flame. But if you want to be taken seriously, post objectives comments and try to talk intelligently. People don't give a dawm about what flame war you had with your friend at school. By the way, you said he was arrogant, but so you were. Sorry for being rude, I had to say it.
It mith be stupid, but here it is...
My idea is that emails protocols should not be replaced, they shoul be enhanced to support identification of the sender.
When someone knocks on your door, you look at who it is before letting them enter your house, no?
So a standard could be put in place which would enable you to filter the sender at the relay level instead of in your mail box. Well known address from you would be allowed to enter your mail box freely, while other one would have to identified themself well before being allowed. Just like when a rep of some phone company ring at my door, they have to identify themself well, and then, only then, if I'm interested in what they have to say, I let them enter. (Which is never the case hehe). So email protocols would need to be added a very complete identification section. There is no obligation to fill it for sure, but if you don't, people can always filter you out at the source. Once this ID is filtered out, it is put on your "black list". Then, when you connect to your mail server, it would send you the ID's of all the mail they have for you, and you would send them back a list of the emails you want to reject. This way, you get only what you want, and you save bandwith on unwanted spam. Am I crazy, or is it possible anytime?
It was only a joke. I myself much prefer Linux to Windows and dislike MS attitude very much. But when I read some folks who claim the same ol' arguments as the others, with no basis in the context of a discussion, I wonder how we can succeed with such a lack of imagination.
I find it disgusting that someone can escape justice because of en "error" in procedure, but if it was not that way, we could all be prosecuted. It's better to have one bad guy escape the justice and all the others be free, then to abandon all of our rights for one bad guy. It's the investigators obligations to make things right and honestly to catch those who brake the law. If they were to not respect any privacy rights and other rights to catch the "vilain", we would live under siege. You MUST make sure that you, as an ISP, make things the way they should be. To respect others privacy and right. And in the end, it can only help to make sure that the bad guy wont escape law.
I'd imagine the internal letters between linux developers on crippling microsoft are 100x worse.
Yes, but they are GPL'ed and everyone can use/modify them
This must be the reason why MS bashing post on Slashdot are so redundant, they are just different distros.
Generally however we've found that the cost of open sourcing code for a proprietary product is non-trivial. I know it seems counter-intuitive but consider this: the reality is you can't just toss code over the fence.
Open-Sourcing Solaris is non-trivial, she explain it in her answers. But working on already open-sourced coded is not. It benefit both Sun AND the Linux community because Sun's change will get back to the community and it benefit sun because they have a very solid base to work on.
Sun's position on Linux has long been friendly, since we see it as a commodity unix variant which has been very successful at growing the community of Unix users.
I wonder how much "has long been" really is, but it's not the point. I found it is rather honest on their part to say it that way. The first 8nix variant I saw was Mandrake 6.0 or somehing like that. I felt in love with it and since I had the chance to deploy aaplication on Solaris a couple of time. So the comment makes sense, Linux has a lot of visibility and it happens sometimes that it is what brings users to the realm of Unixes. So, even from a marketing point of view, it all make sense to adopt it. It gives them free publicity because of their implication with Linux. And afterward, it benefits them because they can either sell more Solaris or just more server, even with Linux on it instead of Solaris, they make te buck with thehardware.
All that being said, they had to previously (well, they have to) "support" both Linux AND Solaris and port appliation to both platform. By trying to standardise both, they keep the previous;y stated benefits, and they do a cut in the devellopment budget.
And in the end, it benefits us to. That's is the way I would like all business to work. Make your own business, cleanly, and work WITH the community. It can only do good, both for the business and to the consumer/user/geek/etc etc...
When talking about childs, you have to treat both the problem AND the symptom. Those young mind do not have built up their mind yet and are soooo easilly influenced. But more, they are just so curious. I remember when I was about 12, I got my first big computer, and I was one of the first to have a modem connection. Well, the first few web site I found were the playboy, hustler and penthouse one. While this is normal, before that boys were getting porn mags, the danger reside in the fact that when they are chatting with stranger, th media used to make their "discoveries" start to answer back at them and to influence their thinking. It becomes a two way media and parents have then much more work to do then before. I don't think that it is good to "protect" childs from EVERYTHING until they are 16-17-18 ..., but some things HAVE to be hide. Would you send your 10 years old child in a room full of pedophiles, thinking they are safe because you have told them to say NO?* Pedophiles are very good at manipulting young minds, you must as a parent keep your child far from them, until they are strong enough to discern when they are manipulated or not. And that, takes more then "good communication" between a child and it's parents, it takes time and experience in real life.
* I'm not saying that everyone online is a pedophile, but on a server with thousand and thousand of peoples, their is certainly a few in each "big and popular" rooms...
This Graphic card as almost more processing power then my two PC's combined! The only thing I wish is that Matrox could come back a bit in this market. They had made some good card in the past. More choices can only be good. And, do they have a good record of supporting Linux in the past? Funny, they are located in my town and I know less about them then all those US based company :)
I read "mini-computer" and I tought about the AS/400 on wich we were having our COBOL and RPG courses at school.
Then I read "AGP", "GeForce", "Serious Gamer" and "Built-in Handle" in the following sentence.
Which made me think that portable Games made on Java 3D could finally be real.
I was seeing games which could run on my brother's box and play on my own Linux PC to.
I was able to run JEdit and the GUI response was sooo fast.
Open Office was taking less then 15 seconds to open my documents.
It was so real, I swear...
Then, I awaked in sweats and realized that it was only a dream...
By the way, OpenOffice IS NOT made in Java, for those who would step to conclusion based on my writing...
I went to a private college to learn programming, and the only thing I got from them was a big loan... I stoped school before having the diploma and got directly a job, I wanted to work... So, I got a programming job, in Visual Basic. That was my biggest mistake (not the VB part, the diploma one). I've never been asked for it tough, but I'm sure that having one would help. So, what I had to do to compensate was to be very convincing. Two years ago, I wanted to work in Java, but had no experience in J2EE and Java in general. I started learning it at home, studying books etc etc. Then, I had the chance to pass an interview were I work right now. I've been very honest with the interviewer, stating that I never programmed in it. But I also showed how much I was willing to learn and how much I was ABLE to learn fast. I got the job. Then, I proved that I was right, I worked hard to prove myself, studying on weekends, after work instead of watching TV. I managed to pass a few certification, all within the first year. Today, my boss confidence has grown and he is willing to give me much more responsability, in the end it pays well to do hard work. My advice would be to study a lot. Even if you don't go to school, study books. As much as you can. Learn a language, learn all about the buzzword of the day, it may be boring, but they are what ompany wants. learn theory, design patterns etc etc. And get some certif. They may not be as good as a University diploma, but they are more then nothing. In a pile, they can help to distinguish you from the others. And in interview, show how much you like what you do. Like someone else said, it has to be a pasion. And don't be afraid to show it. When the interviewer ask why they should take you, even without prior experience, tell them it is because you love your work, that you eat book and are willing to work hard. Also, you should not be afraid of Over Time. I had to work a lot, and I mean A LOT at first, so I could meet the deadlines. other programmers are gonna finish in half the time maybe, so work twice to show that you understand the business need. People will see how much you work hard, and it will pay.
Just be convinced that you can do it, convince other that you can, and one day it will work. It could take some time, but just keep on trying.
Physicist ... Physician
Ummm yeah, sorry 'bout that. My english isn't so good finally...
In jobs place at least. Can you imagine trying to concentrate when everybodys are "talking" with their computer? Or maybe THAT would be a good reason to push for individual offices instead of open office (no pun intended)
IIRC, light can be either whaves OR matter or both, but IANAPhycisian
The whole google programming game directory
By the way, I took a try at CoreWar recently and what I can say is that while Robocode and CoreWar are 2 programming games, they aren't targetted at the same audience. Robocode is used by some people to teach/learn Java. The base API is simple enough to grasp rapidly but also let one evolve. In fact your robot extent a base class and when you run it in the arena, it runs in its own thread. It's all writen in java and the robot is "part of" the application. CoreWar is a custom language and you fight, trying to stop all of your opponent process (running on a virtual computer). While I found it was a lot of fun and very "geeky", it can't really be compared to Robocode. In Robocode, the main part of the fun is to actually look at your little tank blast(or being blast by) others. You actually "see" what's going on. In corewar, you don't have any such fancy interface. But hey, diversity and choice are good, and god would I like more of those "programming games", maybe a 3D one with A.I and all... Maybe like A.I. War but not with bugs(no pun intended, seriously)...
Guys, he is not a troll, is an agent from the matrix, trying to make us beleive that the matrix doesn't exist...
hacking into the FBI-server (over the Net..) in 60 seconds while a gorgeous woman blows you I wonder which one is the most plausible, hacking the FBI server, or that a woman actually blows a geek...
That is just a big No no no.
First of all, it's really not "most of all printer" which have the print head directly on the cartridge.
In fact, HP has the print head on the cartridge, Epson has the printheag IN the printer, and with new canon photo printer (from the S800), the print head is IN the printer but user replacable.
I've got an Epson 1280 and a Canon S800 at home for a while now, printing my own photographs.
Clogging IS a problem with my 1280 if I am not printing often and THAT is the major thing which could ruin a printhead.
I've never got ANY problem with the S800 yet.
One other point, I run a CIS on my 1280 and I've not experience any more problems then by using genuine epson cartridge.
It is less expensive and after a few minor adjustments, I have the same exact "pareil" result.
Epson has came up with the chiped cartridges to solve a problem which wasn't really one. Now, if it was really only to solve that problem of monitoring cartridge, they would not change the configuration of the chip so often, wouldn't they?
Check this site if you want some info CIS vendor, be sure to check which printers are supported, and note that the epson 820 isn't because the chip is different then the other ones...
If you need any more info read on the forums on This digital photography site, section printers
Also, Canon has a way of monitoring their cartriges very efficiently using only prism. So you can refill their cartridge as you will. BUT canon sells their cartridge almost 3 times the price of the equivalent epson cartridge. Canon as sued a german cartridge maker for Patent Infrindgment. And yes, all those company sells their printer at losses and make most of their money on their ink. They can't come on you for selling ink, but don't push your luck, if you infrindge a patent, you WILL get sued, no matter the industry. Now, I much prefer canon's way of doind things. Separate ink cartridge(much less waste), no f*cking chip to mod, yet still monitoring ink usage and I can still use refill if I want, I just have to mess up myself. I think that they really are in their own right to sue if their as been patent violations, research in this area is very expensive and they at least deserve the right to sell their own technology. Nothing stops you from buying ink at the gallons from another supplier tough... So stop trolling about printhead wearing off, yes they do wear, but not at the rate of a printhead for each ink refill. Not even at the rate of 20 ink refill.
- down from $71,000 to $63,000.
I hope those in this situation have enough decency to shut up. 63K US is kind of just a dream to me, I'm making 42K CAN and I think I am making good money. Hey, I'm making more then both my parents together! I have a little car, a digicam, my good ol' computer, what can I ask more?!? Yeah, I used to dream of making 1K US a week, driving an Audi TT and living in a big house. And I was mad that I was not earning enough, fast enough. Then, recently, things went bad around the world, I kept reading about unemployement. One of my cousin lost it's job last year and he is still searching a new one. He got nothing more then a few little contract of 2-3 weeks. It change my mind, that is the only good thing about all this (for me). Now I'm placing some money, I enjoy what I actually have because tomorrow it could all change. Honestly, I would accept 63K US any day, but I really don't need it...