In addition, don't be afraid to make contacts with potential employers directly. The best jobs I had I got by talking directly to the employer, not by going through a headhunter.
That said, a good headhunter will have a lot of contacts you won't have.
Acts of terrorism are illegal. That's not what I'm complaining about. What I'm complaining about is the use of an outside enemy to justify mistreatment of citizens. And terrorism is a much better outside enemy than communism for that purpose, because it can never be completely defeated. Even if Al Qaida, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc were completely removed from existence, those who wanted to repress people here in the US would simply say that the terrorists had gone into hiding and occasionally uncover a "sleeper cell" to justify the continuing intrusion into their citizen's lives.
In addition, you'll notice I said "acts of terrorism" are illegal, not "being a terrorist". That's because it's possible that someone could be a member of a terrorist organization without engaging in or actively and knowingly supporting terrorism. In a free society, crimes are something you do, not something you are.
McCarthyism is long dead and will not resurrect in out lifetime
Absolutely correct. Communism was a somewhat defined enemy that more-or-less went away after the USSR collapsed. On the other hand, "terrorism" is a much more handy nebulous enemy that can be used to ruin people's careers, freeze their assets, prevent them from traveling, and so forth, without the pesky problem of having the enemy ever disappear. Even better, we can just round up people (including US citizens) who have backgrounds and names that sound Muslim with the choice of imprisoning and possibly torturing them for a few years without charges, sending them to a foreign country to be tortured, or just killing them.
Your right McCarthyism is dead. The various fascists in government gotten much better about how to engage in political repression of the citizenry.
An essay is a shitty way to select engineering students
No it isn't. Engineers have to communicate with each other, whoever will build their stuff, and whoever will use it or explain to the users how to use it, and to their bosses on why their work is valuable.
In my own experience writing software, I've seen really smart developers be almost useless on a project because they couldn't explain or communicate their work (forcing others to spend longer understanding or redeveloping), and merely competent developers (such as myself) really thrive because we could get good information from users and other areas of the business about what they needed and could explain what we were doing in layman's terms.
You might like the idea of engineering being a profession where you don't have to deal with people, but it simply isn't true.
That's ok: a classic story my mother told me about a misguided English teacher was one who emphasized in a discussion about Goethe that the word "dog" was "God" spelled backwards, and claimed that should be the basis for understanding the work. The bright classmate who pointed out that "Hund" and "Gott" (which is what Goethe actually wrote before it was translated from the German) had nothing to do with each other got essentially shouted down by the teacher, and told to do their reports based on the teacher's interpretation.
Those aren't works of "fantasy" any more than, say, the Torah. The authors of those works took what they wrote to be history and religious truth, not fiction.
For instance, Apollo wasn't just a nifty character like, say, Tom Bombadil. He was a real presence for the Greeks, who made life-or-death decisions based on what his Oracle at Delphi said.
It sure sounds to me like the Codeplex.org / Codeplex.com confusion was deliberately set up by Microsoft to encourage the confusion between the two. For instance, reading the top of codeplex.com, it states "Open Source Project Community". That seems a lot like it was set up to deliberately create confusion between the MS brand "Codeplex" and the Codeplex Foundation.
I respect your development work, but your understanding of PR tactics seems lacking. The standard technique for PR folks who want to make things seem the same when they really aren't is to use similar words (e.g. "Office Open XML" seems at first glance like it's controlled by OpenOffice.org, not Microsoft), and conversely the most common way to make things seem different when they are really the same is to make up an entirely new term (e.g. "detainee" instead of "prisoner"). And just like whitehouse.com is not whitehouse.gov but took advantage of the confusion, codeplex.com is not codeplex.org but seeks to take advantage of the confusion.
The SCO lawsuit was perpetrated by SCO, not Microsoft. While MS was happy to see it happen, they weren't behind it, and contrary to some/. conjecture, weren't funding it.
Stallman has not been able to present a logical argument showing that the legal situation around Mono is any worse than it is around Linux, March, GNU C, or numerous other FOSS projects.
There most definitely is a logical argument. In a word: patents.
Unlike GNU C, Linux, etc, which either implement published standards or have been OSS from the very beginning, Mono implements and relies on stuff patented by Microsoft. Patents that Microsoft has shown signs it wants to sell to patent trolls (with an understanding that they'd use those patents to sue). In other words, there's good reason to think MS wants to use Mono as a Trojan Horse to enable lawsuits against OSS organizations such as the FSF, Debian, and Ubuntu.
MS already tried one legal tack to go after OSS, namely the SCO lawsuit. There's no reason to think they wouldn't try another.
The CRA did no such thing. It specifically stated that loan qualifications should be identical for CRA-qualified loans and other loans. In addition, the majority of the bad loans on the market were not from banks under the CRA, but from mortgage brokers such as Ditech and Countrywide Financial that were not under CRA restrictions. Lastly, all studies done on the issue have found that the foreclosure rates of CRA loans is roughly equal to the foreclosure rates of non-CRA loans.
Au contraire (thanks 7th grade French for teaching me that phrase)
If it's taught well, that is. Make it clear to kids that having opinions about the stuff you read is important, that they aren't too stupid to understand it, and that the knowledge they gain from reading and interpreting this stuff will inform the rest of their lives. I still have memories of my discussions in a course about Beowulf.
As for what to read, I suggest looking at Hugo winners, many of which can be found in Isaac Asimov's brilliantly titled anthology The Hugo Winners. In fact, if you have to choose an anthology reader in order to keep a curriculum committee happy, I'd choose that one. The older volumes in particular have some classics and an interesting mix of authors, styles, and subject matter.
And I thoroughly disagree with the idea that SF is about technology. It isn't: It's nearly always about people, pulled into a completely different environment perhaps, but people nonetheless. Even the "aliens" aren't so much completely alien as they are an aspect of people blown way out of proportion in order to examine it and make a point about it.
Or maybe, just maybe, the guy got a doctorate in plasma physics, and flew 7 Space Shuttle missions (which isn't exactly safe), directed the NASA Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory, and is investing in plasma rocket research after his NASA tenure because he's interested in plasma physics, rocket science, and the possibilities of space flight.
If you read the actual guidelines (posted in an earlier comment) you'd see that the disclosure rules apply to everyone else too. Gartner can milk Microsoft all they want, they just have to be clear that whatever they did was bought and paid for by Microsoft. David Pogue can continue to love everything Apple does so long as he's clear on his other non-reviewer monetary interests.
A lot of information about politician's donors has to be disclosed. That's how sites like www.opensecrets.org are able to function.
There was a bit of a flap during the 2008 presidential race because a higher percentage (somewhere around 25-30%) of Barack Obama's donors than normal were below the $200 limit where the donation had to be reported in detail. But in general, the data is out there.
Although I've always liked the proposal to have politicians dress in outfits similar to NASCAR drivers with their various corporate sponsors emblazoned right on their clothing. At least those guys are honest about who pays the bills.
Actually, the "Format C:" step is a waste of time, because the Linux installer will reformat the drive again for you using the file system of your choice (default is typically ext3 or ext4).
This is why one of my favorite moments from the Flying Circus was the Chemist Sketch, where the legitimate client states that he didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition, and absolutely nothing happens (despite Cardinal Ximenez appearing earlier in the sketch).
Slashdot Mirror
If commercial cable news is any indication, late is considered worse than wrong.
The good news is that the National Ray-Gun Association is fighting the 3-day waiting period for mad scientists.
For instance, Kevin Bacon (and Paul Erdos as well of course).
In addition, don't be afraid to make contacts with potential employers directly. The best jobs I had I got by talking directly to the employer, not by going through a headhunter.
That said, a good headhunter will have a lot of contacts you won't have.
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." - Tom Lehrer
Acts of terrorism are illegal. That's not what I'm complaining about. What I'm complaining about is the use of an outside enemy to justify mistreatment of citizens. And terrorism is a much better outside enemy than communism for that purpose, because it can never be completely defeated. Even if Al Qaida, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc were completely removed from existence, those who wanted to repress people here in the US would simply say that the terrorists had gone into hiding and occasionally uncover a "sleeper cell" to justify the continuing intrusion into their citizen's lives.
In addition, you'll notice I said "acts of terrorism" are illegal, not "being a terrorist". That's because it's possible that someone could be a member of a terrorist organization without engaging in or actively and knowingly supporting terrorism. In a free society, crimes are something you do, not something you are.
No, hyperdrive isn't sufficient to go to plaid. For that you need a system capable of ludicrous speed. </pendantic>
Yeah, but sending out the goons to hit people is more fun.
McCarthyism is long dead and will not resurrect in out lifetime
Absolutely correct. Communism was a somewhat defined enemy that more-or-less went away after the USSR collapsed. On the other hand, "terrorism" is a much more handy nebulous enemy that can be used to ruin people's careers, freeze their assets, prevent them from traveling, and so forth, without the pesky problem of having the enemy ever disappear. Even better, we can just round up people (including US citizens) who have backgrounds and names that sound Muslim with the choice of imprisoning and possibly torturing them for a few years without charges, sending them to a foreign country to be tortured, or just killing them.
Your right McCarthyism is dead. The various fascists in government gotten much better about how to engage in political repression of the citizenry.
An essay is a shitty way to select engineering students
No it isn't. Engineers have to communicate with each other, whoever will build their stuff, and whoever will use it or explain to the users how to use it, and to their bosses on why their work is valuable.
In my own experience writing software, I've seen really smart developers be almost useless on a project because they couldn't explain or communicate their work (forcing others to spend longer understanding or redeveloping), and merely competent developers (such as myself) really thrive because we could get good information from users and other areas of the business about what they needed and could explain what we were doing in layman's terms.
You might like the idea of engineering being a profession where you don't have to deal with people, but it simply isn't true.
That's ok: a classic story my mother told me about a misguided English teacher was one who emphasized in a discussion about Goethe that the word "dog" was "God" spelled backwards, and claimed that should be the basis for understanding the work. The bright classmate who pointed out that "Hund" and "Gott" (which is what Goethe actually wrote before it was translated from the German) had nothing to do with each other got essentially shouted down by the teacher, and told to do their reports based on the teacher's interpretation.
Those aren't works of "fantasy" any more than, say, the Torah. The authors of those works took what they wrote to be history and religious truth, not fiction.
For instance, Apollo wasn't just a nifty character like, say, Tom Bombadil. He was a real presence for the Greeks, who made life-or-death decisions based on what his Oracle at Delphi said.
It sure sounds to me like the Codeplex.org / Codeplex.com confusion was deliberately set up by Microsoft to encourage the confusion between the two. For instance, reading the top of codeplex.com, it states "Open Source Project Community". That seems a lot like it was set up to deliberately create confusion between the MS brand "Codeplex" and the Codeplex Foundation.
I respect your development work, but your understanding of PR tactics seems lacking. The standard technique for PR folks who want to make things seem the same when they really aren't is to use similar words (e.g. "Office Open XML" seems at first glance like it's controlled by OpenOffice.org, not Microsoft), and conversely the most common way to make things seem different when they are really the same is to make up an entirely new term (e.g. "detainee" instead of "prisoner"). And just like whitehouse.com is not whitehouse.gov but took advantage of the confusion, codeplex.com is not codeplex.org but seeks to take advantage of the confusion.
The SCO lawsuit was perpetrated by SCO, not Microsoft. While MS was happy to see it happen, they weren't behind it, and contrary to some /. conjecture, weren't funding it.
That's more than /. conjecture:
http://catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween10.html
Stallman has not been able to present a logical argument showing that the legal situation around Mono is any worse than it is around Linux, March, GNU C, or numerous other FOSS projects.
There most definitely is a logical argument. In a word: patents.
Unlike GNU C, Linux, etc, which either implement published standards or have been OSS from the very beginning, Mono implements and relies on stuff patented by Microsoft. Patents that Microsoft has shown signs it wants to sell to patent trolls (with an understanding that they'd use those patents to sue). In other words, there's good reason to think MS wants to use Mono as a Trojan Horse to enable lawsuits against OSS organizations such as the FSF, Debian, and Ubuntu.
MS already tried one legal tack to go after OSS, namely the SCO lawsuit. There's no reason to think they wouldn't try another.
blood, seat and tears.
What, Ballmer was throwing chairs at him?
The CRA did no such thing. It specifically stated that loan qualifications should be identical for CRA-qualified loans and other loans. In addition, the majority of the bad loans on the market were not from banks under the CRA, but from mortgage brokers such as Ditech and Countrywide Financial that were not under CRA restrictions. Lastly, all studies done on the issue have found that the foreclosure rates of CRA loans is roughly equal to the foreclosure rates of non-CRA loans.
Au contraire (thanks 7th grade French for teaching me that phrase)
If it's taught well, that is. Make it clear to kids that having opinions about the stuff you read is important, that they aren't too stupid to understand it, and that the knowledge they gain from reading and interpreting this stuff will inform the rest of their lives. I still have memories of my discussions in a course about Beowulf.
As for what to read, I suggest looking at Hugo winners, many of which can be found in Isaac Asimov's brilliantly titled anthology The Hugo Winners. In fact, if you have to choose an anthology reader in order to keep a curriculum committee happy, I'd choose that one. The older volumes in particular have some classics and an interesting mix of authors, styles, and subject matter.
And I thoroughly disagree with the idea that SF is about technology. It isn't: It's nearly always about people, pulled into a completely different environment perhaps, but people nonetheless. Even the "aliens" aren't so much completely alien as they are an aspect of people blown way out of proportion in order to examine it and make a point about it.
Or maybe, just maybe, the guy got a doctorate in plasma physics, and flew 7 Space Shuttle missions (which isn't exactly safe), directed the NASA Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory, and is investing in plasma rocket research after his NASA tenure because he's interested in plasma physics, rocket science, and the possibilities of space flight.
If you read the actual guidelines (posted in an earlier comment) you'd see that the disclosure rules apply to everyone else too. Gartner can milk Microsoft all they want, they just have to be clear that whatever they did was bought and paid for by Microsoft. David Pogue can continue to love everything Apple does so long as he's clear on his other non-reviewer monetary interests.
A lot of information about politician's donors has to be disclosed. That's how sites like www.opensecrets.org are able to function.
There was a bit of a flap during the 2008 presidential race because a higher percentage (somewhere around 25-30%) of Barack Obama's donors than normal were below the $200 limit where the donation had to be reported in detail. But in general, the data is out there.
Although I've always liked the proposal to have politicians dress in outfits similar to NASCAR drivers with their various corporate sponsors emblazoned right on their clothing. At least those guys are honest about who pays the bills.
Actually, the "Format C:" step is a waste of time, because the Linux installer will reformat the drive again for you using the file system of your choice (default is typically ext3 or ext4).
This is why one of my favorite moments from the Flying Circus was the Chemist Sketch, where the legitimate client states that he didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition, and absolutely nothing happens (despite Cardinal Ximenez appearing earlier in the sketch).
For instance, being immortal but still aging.
FOIA makes the mistake of broadly defining 'person' to include legal entities, like corporations.
Who the heck ever said this was done by mistake? Equally likely was some lobbyist convincing the author that the change was innocuous enough.