Here's a quote from the book F'd Companies by Philip J. Kaplan in which he talks about the downfall of a bunch of dot-coms (a la his corresponding website. Specifically, this is from the analysis of refer.com, which paid people who refered other people to hiring managers if they were actually hired:
So...in contrast, in order of importance, here's how most companies hire people:
1) Internal referrals--Employees or stakeholders refer their friends and acquaintances. Even if the company you work for were offering a huge referral bonus, you'd still be hesitant to refer Bubba, your friend with corn in his teeth, for the sales manager position becaues it would ultimately reflect poorly on you.
2)External recruiters--Headhunters might be shit-shoveling pond scum, but they sometimes have value. Employers may have good relationships with certain recruiters, trusting their judgement. At the very least, you'd expect a recruiter to somewhat prescreen each applicant, as to not tarnish their reputation.
3) Solicited applicants--An employer puts an ad in the paper or on a job site. Motivated job seekers match a few keywords and send along their resumes.
4) Unsolicited applicants--Job seekers esnd resumes to employers who have not asked for them. These applicants are viewed either as having a genuine interest in the company, or as being desperate. Usually the latter.
213) Refer.com--Somebody whom the employer doesn't turslt and has never met, refers somebody that they don't trust and have never met. The person whose resume gets passed along doesn't even know they're applying for the job. Random people scour resume banks and refer thousands you people, hoping to get a hit. Employers get inundated with the lowest-quality resumes possible.
The last one isn't really relevant, but it's amusing:-p
pray tell how would you do this? make the computer part of a domain and give yourself the ability to push patches out? simply have students email you every time they install a new patch?
Uh, it's called trust. If you require it, and email people when a new patch is out, and make it easy to install, I think most people who even otherwise wouldn't install it would do so.
Awesome! Are you gonna be back next year? (I was in 49 in Springfield; I'm hoping to get a single in either Simmons or Atherton--hopefully Simmons, but you know that:-p--for next year. I don't find out though until they send out assignments.)
I think I'm stuck with a slower cable modem here at home, so the inet connection there was not that bad most of the time from my perspective. There was just about a month long block in Feb or whatever where it was going down continuously...
And yeah, I get jealous of people at CMU and Case Western with their gigabit and full-campus wireless... (I think both have both of those; CMU's wireless doesn't cover many of the dorms, but that's okay)
I suspected as much, and in fact was probably not going to go beyond one more message. But I don't really care. If it helps someone else, very good. If not, it was a waste of 15 minutes that I would have spent not doing anything of importance anyway.
I think it was da Vinci that dropped a pea and a cannonball off the leaning tower, to demonstrate they both hit the ground at the same time. Terminal velocity is the maximum speed anything can reach due to gravitational pull. Whether this is offset by drag is a different matter.
I quote Halliday, Resnick, and Walker:
When a blunt body falls from rest through air, the drag force D is directed upward; its magnitude gradually increases from zero as the speed of the body increases. This upward force D opposes the downward gravitiational force F_g on the body. We can relate these forces to the body's acceleration by...
D - F_g = ma... if the body falls long enough, D eventually equals F_g. From [the above equation] this means that a=0 and so the body's speed no longer increases. The body then falls at a constant speed, called the terminal speed v_t.
(HRW, p. 104; emphesis in original, vector symbols over D and F_g omitted)
In other words, the terminal velocity (same as terminal speed; the latter is more technically correct since terminal velocity is a scalar not a vector, but I'm going with the popular term) is the maximum speed attainable CONSIDERING DRAG.
Think about it. Otherwise, the terminal velocity of EVERYTHING would be 299,792,458 m/s because you can accelerate anything to arbitrarily close to that speed given enough energy.
The Galileo (not da Vinci) experiment worked because the cannonball and pea both experince relatively little drag. You CANNOT tell me that if you drop a cannonball and newspaper off of the leaning tower of Pisa they will land at the same time.
How much drag, I repeat, is there going to be on a thin strip of metallic ribbon thousands of miles long?
Once it enters the atmosphere, a hell of a lot.
Oh and by the way, we aren't talking about a newspaper here slick, we're talking about the combined weight of the newsprint for a week in New York state. Dynamics of scale, baby, gotta love em.
Again, I realize this. However, if you streach out newsprint to that height (assume it doesn't tear), are you saying that it'll snap around the world a few times and decimate anything it hits? Because apart from the (significant) matter of strength, they would have approximately the same dynamics.
I've been in the dorms (Simmons specifically) for two years, and it doesn't seem all that bad. There have been times when it's been bad; when they were installing the damn firewall at the beginning of last semester it was going down regularily for about three weeks, but speedwise it hasn't usually been too much of a problem. I'd say it's about the same (at times faster, at times slower) than my cable connection at home. Though that's not saying *too* much...
Terminal velocity is the same for a cannonball as it is for a piece of newspaper
Um, no it isn't. In a vacuum (where terminal velocity doesn't really make sense anyway) they would go the same speed, but in an atmosphere (which our planet has if you hadn't noticed) terminal velocity very much differs. Or are you suggesting that if you drop a cannonball and newspaper from an airplane they will reach the same speeds. Terminal velocity is the speed at which the atmospheric drag balances the weight of the object.
But you're also talking about a strip that has a terminal velocity about equal to that of a newspaper page. It'd slow down to that speed *long* before it hits the ground. Remember, it's so long, so it also has a really long way to fall (and hence a lot of time to slow down) before it hits the ground. You would almost certainly see damage only at the anchor station, if even there.
I had a friend who had to have the resedential computer services reformat and reinstall Windows when she went well over our bandwidth limit*. We were never quite sure what was wrong in the first place though; she keeps up to date with patches and virus definitions, and runs of the scanner (Norton) found nothing.
* 1.5 gigs each direction per week, which I think is very reasonable, especially considering that on-campus traffic wasn't counted.
There are other solutions, dsl, cable... yes you will have to pay more, like other people.
In most dorms, you can have the campus network or you can have dialup, and DSL and cable aren't an option. So it'd be an increase in price from moving from a dorm to an apartment too.
You don't want to disable this though, so they can still use lab computers.
Here at PSU you must register your computer's MAC address and your dorm room and the port you plug your computer in within your room. If you change your MAC address from what's on file, you can't connect. If you plug into another port, you can't connect.
I would forgo high speed internet access and dial up, then use lab computers for fast internet access before I would submit to this.
Simply cut off any computer that is sending packets trying to exploit a hole, like Blaster or whatever. Hell, commercial ISPs don't even do this unless it's really really bad, let alone require such software to be installed.
I would have no problem with requiring users to install the latest security patches or virus software and keep definitions up to date, but no campus network service is gonna be installing stuff on my computer.
I'll second the (July 04) Discover article, a summary of which is at their site. A full version may go up online in July. Quite the informative bit of work. It went a long way to convincing me it might be a good idea.
The entire cable would only be ~60 tons (26 lb/mile). Most of that wouldn't reach the ground. Any that did would hit pretty slowly; it would have a terminal velocity roughly that of a piece of newsprint with the same dimensions.
Nah. A significant portion (probably anything above the tear) would go out into space. Much of the rest would burn up. Anything that would remain would have a thickness and weight and thus terminal velocity comperable to a long sheet of newsprint. So it wouldn't land with much force. And probably would all land in the waters near the base.
"But Mr. Dent, the plans have been on available at the local planning office for the last nine months." "Oh yes, well, as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You had'nt exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything." "But the plans were on display..." "On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them." "That's the display department." "With a flashlight." "Ah, well, the lights had probably gone." "So had the stairs." "But look, you found the notice, didn't you?" "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It were on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the doory saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'"
Why do I get the feeling it will be possible to reconstruct the entire book from this thread?
If slackware will work, out of the box, with my Linksys WMP54G wireless card, I'll start using it yesterday.
What I want to know is how you got it to interface with your time machine; I have one myself and have had incredible difficulties with it. It gets up to 299,792 km/s or so then crashes with "Error: speed out of range." Any ideas?
A binary will be in/usr/bin, not/opt/bin/usr/somewhere/in/egypt
Just what do you have aganst Egypt? Are you racist? I have a dream that one day binaries will be judged not by the path in which they reside, but by the nature of their execution.
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The bank would round up, then drop the extra half penny into Peter's or Gus's account.
What do they mean by clean up?
And "Smirnoff has removed the offending work - not because of the legality of the threat but by "its own volition" it said." but how did he remove it?
Go dump more dirt on the place, or clean the rest up?
The last one isn't really relevant, but it's amusing
pray tell how would you do this? make the computer part of a domain and give yourself the ability to push patches out? simply have students email you every time they install a new patch?
Uh, it's called trust. If you require it, and email people when a new patch is out, and make it easy to install, I think most people who even otherwise wouldn't install it would do so.
Awesome! Are you gonna be back next year? (I was in 49 in Springfield; I'm hoping to get a single in either Simmons or Atherton--hopefully Simmons, but you know that :-p--for next year. I don't find out though until they send out assignments.)
I think I'm stuck with a slower cable modem here at home, so the inet connection there was not that bad most of the time from my perspective. There was just about a month long block in Feb or whatever where it was going down continuously...
And yeah, I get jealous of people at CMU and Case Western with their gigabit and full-campus wireless... (I think both have both of those; CMU's wireless doesn't cover many of the dorms, but that's okay)
I suspected as much, and in fact was probably not going to go beyond one more message. But I don't really care. If it helps someone else, very good. If not, it was a waste of 15 minutes that I would have spent not doing anything of importance anyway.
I quote Halliday, Resnick, and Walker:
(HRW, p. 104; emphesis in original, vector symbols over D and F_g omitted)
In other words, the terminal velocity (same as terminal speed; the latter is more technically correct since terminal velocity is a scalar not a vector, but I'm going with the popular term) is the maximum speed attainable CONSIDERING DRAG.
Think about it. Otherwise, the terminal velocity of EVERYTHING would be 299,792,458 m/s because you can accelerate anything to arbitrarily close to that speed given enough energy.
The Galileo (not da Vinci) experiment worked because the cannonball and pea both experince relatively little drag. You CANNOT tell me that if you drop a cannonball and newspaper off of the leaning tower of Pisa they will land at the same time.
How much drag, I repeat, is there going to be on a thin strip of metallic ribbon thousands of miles long?
Once it enters the atmosphere, a hell of a lot.
Oh and by the way, we aren't talking about a newspaper here slick, we're talking about the combined weight of the newsprint for a week in New York state. Dynamics of scale, baby, gotta love em.
Again, I realize this. However, if you streach out newsprint to that height (assume it doesn't tear), are you saying that it'll snap around the world a few times and decimate anything it hits? Because apart from the (significant) matter of strength, they would have approximately the same dynamics.
I've been in the dorms (Simmons specifically) for two years, and it doesn't seem all that bad. There have been times when it's been bad; when they were installing the damn firewall at the beginning of last semester it was going down regularily for about three weeks, but speedwise it hasn't usually been too much of a problem. I'd say it's about the same (at times faster, at times slower) than my cable connection at home. Though that's not saying *too* much...
Terminal velocity is the same for a cannonball as it is for a piece of newspaper
Um, no it isn't. In a vacuum (where terminal velocity doesn't really make sense anyway) they would go the same speed, but in an atmosphere (which our planet has if you hadn't noticed) terminal velocity very much differs. Or are you suggesting that if you drop a cannonball and newspaper from an airplane they will reach the same speeds. Terminal velocity is the speed at which the atmospheric drag balances the weight of the object.
But you're also talking about a strip that has a terminal velocity about equal to that of a newspaper page. It'd slow down to that speed *long* before it hits the ground. Remember, it's so long, so it also has a really long way to fall (and hence a lot of time to slow down) before it hits the ground. You would almost certainly see damage only at the anchor station, if even there.
I had a friend who had to have the resedential computer services reformat and reinstall Windows when she went well over our bandwidth limit*. We were never quite sure what was wrong in the first place though; she keeps up to date with patches and virus definitions, and runs of the scanner (Norton) found nothing.
* 1.5 gigs each direction per week, which I think is very reasonable, especially considering that on-campus traffic wasn't counted.
Wow, that's really stupid. :-p
I just assumed they checked it against a database saying where you live or something...
There are other solutions, dsl, cable... yes you will have to pay more, like other people.
In most dorms, you can have the campus network or you can have dialup, and DSL and cable aren't an option. So it'd be an increase in price from moving from a dorm to an apartment too.
You don't want to disable this though, so they can still use lab computers.
Here at PSU you must register your computer's MAC address and your dorm room and the port you plug your computer in within your room. If you change your MAC address from what's on file, you can't connect. If you plug into another port, you can't connect.
I would forgo high speed internet access and dial up, then use lab computers for fast internet access before I would submit to this.
Simply cut off any computer that is sending packets trying to exploit a hole, like Blaster or whatever. Hell, commercial ISPs don't even do this unless it's really really bad, let alone require such software to be installed.
I would have no problem with requiring users to install the latest security patches or virus software and keep definitions up to date, but no campus network service is gonna be installing stuff on my computer.
I'll second the (July 04) Discover article, a summary of which is at their site. A full version may go up online in July. Quite the informative bit of work. It went a long way to convincing me it might be a good idea.
The entire cable would only be ~60 tons (26 lb/mile). Most of that wouldn't reach the ground. Any that did would hit pretty slowly; it would have a terminal velocity roughly that of a piece of newsprint with the same dimensions.
Nah. A significant portion (probably anything above the tear) would go out into space. Much of the rest would burn up. Anything that would remain would have a thickness and weight and thus terminal velocity comperable to a long sheet of newsprint. So it wouldn't land with much force. And probably would all land in the waters near the base.
You'd just put enough counterweight at the end or the counterweight out far enough that it still wouldn't come back in.
And also the Ford Prefect. Thus one of the core character's names was completely above out heads. :-p
And FWIW, I copied directly out of my printing of the book, so yeah, they must have separate UK and US printings.
*Hits Google*
one story and another
"But Mr. Dent, the plans have been on available at the local planning office for the last nine months."
"Oh yes, well, as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You had'nt exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well, the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It were on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the doory saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'"
Why do I get the feeling it will be possible to reconstruct the entire book from this thread?
All the district needs to do is Google for "What to do with AOL CDs". For instance, this site.
If slackware will work, out of the box, with my Linksys WMP54G wireless card, I'll start using it yesterday.
What I want to know is how you got it to interface with your time machine; I have one myself and have had incredible difficulties with it. It gets up to 299,792 km/s or so then crashes with "Error: speed out of range." Any ideas?
A binary will be in /usr/bin, not /opt/bin/usr/somewhere/in/egypt
Just what do you have aganst Egypt? Are you racist? I have a dream that one day binaries will be judged not by the path in which they reside, but by the nature of their execution.
(With sincerest apologies to Dr. King)