I find it very odd that the demo for this product, which the FAQ claims will run on Linux or Solaris, is only available in Real Media or QuickTime formats --- and Real Media and QuickTime players are only available for MS-Windows or Mac OS.
When I installed Gnome 2.4, I tried following the installation notes at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/notes/rninstallatio n.html. It's mostly correct, but I still found a number of errors -- omissions, items out of order, and items that didn't exist in the distribution. I'm fairly certain that one thing which helped was the fact that I was upgrading from 2.2, which in turn I had installed by piecemeal replacement of the 2.0 RPM's that came bundled with my Linux distro.
A long time ago I tried installing Gnome from scratch, without having any modules pre-installed, and that was much worse. I get the distinct impression that the Gnome installation procedure is designed only for people who already have a previous release of Gnome installed, not for people who are installing from scratch.
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I just realized there's an obvious solution to the question of how to handle legitimate mailing lists: revive Usenet news! Legitimate public groups where anyone can post messages that have a lot of traffic would be better served by a news group. Commercial entities with mailings to customers and individuals with small, infrequently-used mailing lists can afford to pay their postage.
I find that last chart very interesting. If you expand it to a 60-year view, you see that the "Civilian Participation Rate" is still higher than it ever was before the late 1980's, and much higher that it was in 1960. What changed in the late 60's to make civilian participation climb so much? And what's the difference between the participation rate and the employment-population ratio?
For a really good chart, take a look at the historical unemployment rate. It's not nearly as bad as it was in 1982, but it's never been as good as it was in 1952.
So, contrary to your whining, there are 17 MILLION MORE PEOPLE WORKING now that there were 10 years ago.
Looking at your own statistics, there are also 10 MILLION MORE PEOPLE NOT WORKING now than there were 10 years ago. Let's put that into some perspective: 10 years ago, 65.1% of the total was employed. Now, 64.8% of the total is employed. That's slightly worse than before.
Copyright, patent, and trademark laws have nothing to do with protecting atoms. The protect ideas and expression. The medium in which the ideas are set forth may be composed of atoms, or even of the states of electrons; but it is the idea, not the medium, that is protected.
What do you do if your network of personal contacts don't have jobs either? A couple of nights ago one of the guys I hang out with joked that nobody in this town actually works -- they're either unemployed actors, unemployed singers, writers, dancers, etc. (Guess where I live?;-) Unfortunately there is some truth to that statement: out of the 6 guys in our group that night, only one of us had a job, and his company was just hanging by a thread.
I still don't get where the problem is. As I read it, these restrictions apply to redistributions of XFree86 itself,not to 3rd-party programs that link with X libraries. They can't reasonably restrict programs that link with Xlib, Xt, Xaw, etc., because these components can easily be replaced at run-time (with dynamic linking) or compile-time with any other distribution of X11R6 without modification. That's because X11R6 is a standardized protocol, and the Xlib C language binding and Xt toolkit are also open standards.
If one obfuscated variant ends up in your spam word list, that doesn't take care of the thousands of other obfuscated versions of the exact same word.
You're missing a very important aspect of Bayesian filtering: words which are not previously known are automatically assigned a certian probability of spamminess. The more unknown words a message has, the more likely it is to be classified as spam.
And by the way, emails that contain the words "img" and "src" are more likely to be classified as spam by my filter than emails without them.
Who the heck died and made you the tax collector for the world?
They don't have to be the tax collector for the world; just a bill collector for any email sent to their service. After all, they provide the equipment and the staff to maintain it; why shouldn't they charge people for using it?
This is just like an idea I proposed many months ago. The difference is that with my idea, all computers are blacklisted by default; only those servers who maintain a billing account with the receiving ISP are allowed to send mail to them
If they don't know what technical skills to look for, that's fine, but what do they want the prospective employee to do? If they don't know how to use their computer and want someone to, for example, show them how to use QuickBooks or just run their web server for them, fine -- they can put that in the job description, and I'll be able to tell whether I have the skills needed to help them. At worst, I can ask some questions in my cover letter that will help me determine their needs. But if they don't know (or don't say) what they want you to do, how to spend your time, or the end result / product to be delivered, that indicates to me very poor management.
First suggestion: don't indent anything in your plain-text resume, and don't use very long multi-line paragraphs. My resume contains 6 'paragraphs' averaging less than 4 lines each. If needed, it doesn't take long to replace a few newlines with spaces. Many times even that isn't needed; after all, when the company retreives the resume from their database, it may not be constrained to the same formatting with which it was entered on their web site.
As soon as you flip the "they don't know what they want" bit, you figure you may as well apply for it.
On the other hand, there are some people like me who would not want to work for a company that doesn't know what they want. I only see a relatively small percentage of job listings that fall into this category, but when I read one and can't figure out by the end what the job entails, I'll skip it and move on to the next.
I would have to disagree with your disagreement; I think things are slightly different in CS than EE. I've been hunting jobs for the last couple of years, and the vast majority of them want N years of work experience with X language on Y systems using Z tools. The degree requirement is usually there, but not as often as the experience requirement.
Let's look, for example, at the first five companies listed in my daily Dice search:
3+ years of specific recent experience in HRMS version 8.x, in-depth knowledge of PeopleTools, PeopleCode and SQR. Strong knowledge of SQL a plus. Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and experience.
Current or very recent experience at major mortgage lending institutions; Software Development P.M. Experience. No mention of a degree.
BS degree and 8-12 years engineering experience, including Quality Engineering, and direct experience with medical device or other FDA regulated environment. Also required is knowledge and experience with electromechanical and software intensive devices.
Must have at lease 5-10 years of experience in Mentoring and true ETL work. Experience with Cognos validating catalogs, cubes and customizing the visualization. No mention of a degree.
At least 3 years of experience required. Extensive experience with IBM 30xx mainframe using MVS/JES2 operating system environment. Knowledge of the CA-7 job scheduling and CA-1 tape management subsystems. Strong operations background in JCL, CICS, VTAM, TSO, ISPF, and SDSF. No mention of a degree.
Add just one more generality: nearly every single job listing I've seen for gaming companies has a line like "You must have over 2 Years Video Game Programming Experience and some strong titles. This position is only for experienced video game professionals."
With requirements like these, it seems impossible to get a job unless you've already worked there before.
For one thing, people who want to play games are not as interested in getting exercise. So if it's too expensive, they won't buy it in the first place; if it is too difficult or tiring to play, they will either lose interest or find ways to cheat the system.
IMO, what is needed is a motivation for people who are exercising to keep with it -- in other words, integrate games into exercise equipment, not the other way around. Another poster already mentioned a cycle that had a simple game of chasing the pace setter. Years ago I also saw articles on exercise bikes with video displays that would take you through a virtual bike route. Someone should make a game or other type of feedback for weight machines where you could score points by the amount of weight and/or reps you could do. That sort of thing.
every other piece of exercise equipment tells me I'm burning about 3 calories per hour.
You must not be using your excercise equipment. The treadmills I use at 24-Hour Fitness tell me I'm burning over 200 Cal/hr just by walking, and I typically exceed 1000 Cal/hr when running.
I can't find the original pilot script offhand, but as I recall the cylons were originally a different race who built machines that turned on their creators. These machines then turned to the destruction of other worlds, and were at war with the human race for a millenium. A more complete background on the Cylons can be found at kobol.com.
So the history of the Cylons changed from the original BG to the new series. I can probably accept the fact that now they were created by humans instead of Cylons. But there is still a valid question: why turn against us, then sit out and wait forty years before coming back to finish us?
My brother knows a game just like that called Maui -- a card game played with multiple poker decks. He apparently picked it up in New Zealand. I never did get the hang of it...
Location: US-CA-Los Angeles
Base Pay: $10 - $15/Hour
Employee Type Contractor
Industry: Internet - ECommerce
Description
Our tech support is responsible for providing superior technical assistance and answering pre-sales questions to our customers in regards to their web hosting accounts using telephone and email.
NOTE: You must have experiance in the web hosting field to be considered for this job opening if you have no experience please DO NOT apply.
Requirements
Candidates must be very Internet-savy and able to troubleshoot most common problems related to email and web hosting. Strong familiarity of RedHat Linux, Unix, SSH, DNS, Apache, FTP, POP, PHP, MS Frontpage, HTML, and Perl is required.
NOTE: You must have experiance in the web hosting field to be considered for this job opening if you have no experience please DO NOT apply.
The reality:
The company is hiring only on a contractor basis, not as an employee, which means they offer no benefits, no overtime pay, and you have to pay self-employment taxes. But they will still manage you like an employee, meaning they expect you to work for them full-time, do whatever tasks they assign you, and they will monitor everything you do. Plus, even though they claim to offer $10-$15 per hour, they will actually try to negotiate it down to $8-$10. They won't train anybody (even though it's a perfectly trainable job) so they expect you to know how to answer questions about technical support, pricing/features for web hosting plans, and billing policies at the time you come in to interview.
Unfortunately I know this because I work for them. When I applied last year they were asking for a system administrator for $15-$30/hour, but when I went in to the interview they wouldn't offer more than $12-$15. And now they're wondering why they can't find any qualified applicants!
I started getting the worm in my mailbox Friday morning. By Friday night I had already copied CERT's incident notice to my company's network status web page. (Not that anyone is actually going to read it until after they have a problem.)
Okay, but how much longer do you figure it's going to take to terraform Mars so that it can sustain life on its own, without importing any supplies from Earth, at least for a few centuries? If the Earth goes kablooey, it's going to take a long time for Mother Nature to recover.
I've just poked around the do-not-call web site and found that as of September 2, they registry has grown to 48 million phone numbers. They got a significant boost in numbers over Labor Day weekend -- when Dave Barry printed his article. About half of the 6 million new entries registered by phone. I had been wondering just how many people out there have not registered simply because they haven't heard about this registry yet.
The web site also mentioned that a large number of people have not completed the registration process by replying to the email that is sent when they register online. (Certainly none of the readers of Slashdot fall into this category.)
Does anyone know approximately how many residential phone numbers total are in use in the U.S.?
I was just about to post the very same thing. I for one would not mind seeing the web return to 1993. We still have HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, the DOM, and other web standards. Personally I could do without JavaScript as well.
When the Web first began, it was about sharing information among computers with completely different architectures and software. These days it seems Web designers are too concerned with putting lots of fancy schmancy stuff (and ads) on their sites, and they only care about making it look right on one platform.
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I find it very odd that the demo for this product, which the FAQ claims will run on Linux or Solaris, is only available in Real Media or QuickTime formats --- and Real Media and QuickTime players are only available for MS-Windows or Mac OS.
When I installed Gnome 2.4, I tried following the installation notes at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/notes/rninstallatio n.html. It's mostly correct, but I still found a number of errors -- omissions, items out of order, and items that didn't exist in the distribution. I'm fairly certain that one thing which helped was the fact that I was upgrading from 2.2, which in turn I had installed by piecemeal replacement of the 2.0 RPM's that came bundled with my Linux distro.
A long time ago I tried installing Gnome from scratch, without having any modules pre-installed, and that was much worse. I get the distinct impression that the Gnome installation procedure is designed only for people who already have a previous release of Gnome installed, not for people who are installing from scratch.
I just realized there's an obvious solution to the question of how to handle legitimate mailing lists: revive Usenet news! Legitimate public groups where anyone can post messages that have a lot of traffic would be better served by a news group. Commercial entities with mailings to customers and individuals with small, infrequently-used mailing lists can afford to pay their postage.
I find that last chart very interesting. If you expand it to a 60-year view, you see that the "Civilian Participation Rate" is still higher than it ever was before the late 1980's, and much higher that it was in 1960. What changed in the late 60's to make civilian participation climb so much? And what's the difference between the participation rate and the employment-population ratio?
For a really good chart, take a look at the historical unemployment rate. It's not nearly as bad as it was in 1982, but it's never been as good as it was in 1952.
Looking at your own statistics, there are also 10 MILLION MORE PEOPLE NOT WORKING now than there were 10 years ago. Let's put that into some perspective: 10 years ago, 65.1% of the total was employed. Now, 64.8% of the total is employed. That's slightly worse than before.
You should also consider the fact that 10 years ago we were just recovering from another recession in 1992. How long has our current recession been going on?
Copyright, patent, and trademark laws have nothing to do with protecting atoms. The protect ideas and expression. The medium in which the ideas are set forth may be composed of atoms, or even of the states of electrons; but it is the idea, not the medium, that is protected.
What do you do if your network of personal contacts don't have jobs either? A couple of nights ago one of the guys I hang out with joked that nobody in this town actually works -- they're either unemployed actors, unemployed singers, writers, dancers, etc. (Guess where I live? ;-) Unfortunately there is some truth to that statement: out of the 6 guys in our group that night, only one of us had a job, and his company was just hanging by a thread.
I still don't get where the problem is. As I read it, these restrictions apply to redistributions of XFree86 itself, not to 3rd-party programs that link with X libraries. They can't reasonably restrict programs that link with Xlib, Xt, Xaw, etc., because these components can easily be replaced at run-time (with dynamic linking) or compile-time with any other distribution of X11R6 without modification. That's because X11R6 is a standardized protocol, and the Xlib C language binding and Xt toolkit are also open standards.
You're missing a very important aspect of Bayesian filtering: words which are not previously known are automatically assigned a certian probability of spamminess. The more unknown words a message has, the more likely it is to be classified as spam.
And by the way, emails that contain the words "img" and "src" are more likely to be classified as spam by my filter than emails without them.
They don't have to be the tax collector for the world; just a bill collector for any email sent to their service. After all, they provide the equipment and the staff to maintain it; why shouldn't they charge people for using it?
This is just like an idea I proposed many months ago. The difference is that with my idea, all computers are blacklisted by default; only those servers who maintain a billing account with the receiving ISP are allowed to send mail to them
If they don't know what technical skills to look for, that's fine, but what do they want the prospective employee to do? If they don't know how to use their computer and want someone to, for example, show them how to use QuickBooks or just run their web server for them, fine -- they can put that in the job description, and I'll be able to tell whether I have the skills needed to help them. At worst, I can ask some questions in my cover letter that will help me determine their needs. But if they don't know (or don't say) what they want you to do, how to spend your time, or the end result / product to be delivered, that indicates to me very poor management.
First suggestion: don't indent anything in your plain-text resume, and don't use very long multi-line paragraphs. My resume contains 6 'paragraphs' averaging less than 4 lines each. If needed, it doesn't take long to replace a few newlines with spaces. Many times even that isn't needed; after all, when the company retreives the resume from their database, it may not be constrained to the same formatting with which it was entered on their web site.
On the other hand, there are some people like me who would not want to work for a company that doesn't know what they want. I only see a relatively small percentage of job listings that fall into this category, but when I read one and can't figure out by the end what the job entails, I'll skip it and move on to the next.
I would have to disagree with your disagreement; I think things are slightly different in CS than EE. I've been hunting jobs for the last couple of years, and the vast majority of them want N years of work experience with X language on Y systems using Z tools. The degree requirement is usually there, but not as often as the experience requirement.
Let's look, for example, at the first five companies listed in my daily Dice search:
Add just one more generality: nearly every single job listing I've seen for gaming companies has a line like "You must have over 2 Years Video Game Programming Experience and some strong titles. This position is only for experienced video game professionals."
With requirements like these, it seems impossible to get a job unless you've already worked there before.
SCOX value over the last 5 months
RHAT value over the last 5 months
For one thing, people who want to play games are not as interested in getting exercise. So if it's too expensive, they won't buy it in the first place; if it is too difficult or tiring to play, they will either lose interest or find ways to cheat the system.
IMO, what is needed is a motivation for people who are exercising to keep with it -- in other words, integrate games into exercise equipment, not the other way around. Another poster already mentioned a cycle that had a simple game of chasing the pace setter. Years ago I also saw articles on exercise bikes with video displays that would take you through a virtual bike route. Someone should make a game or other type of feedback for weight machines where you could score points by the amount of weight and/or reps you could do. That sort of thing.
That's precisely why I prefer Billy Blanks' Tae-Bo over other aerobics, say, Richard Simmons' "Dance Your Pants Off".
You must not be using your excercise equipment. The treadmills I use at 24-Hour Fitness tell me I'm burning over 200 Cal/hr just by walking, and I typically exceed 1000 Cal/hr when running.
I can't find the original pilot script offhand, but as I recall the cylons were originally a different race who built machines that turned on their creators. These machines then turned to the destruction of other worlds, and were at war with the human race for a millenium. A more complete background on the Cylons can be found at kobol.com.
So the history of the Cylons changed from the original BG to the new series. I can probably accept the fact that now they were created by humans instead of Cylons. But there is still a valid question: why turn against us, then sit out and wait forty years before coming back to finish us?
My brother knows a game just like that called Maui -- a card game played with multiple poker decks. He apparently picked it up in New Zealand. I never did get the hang of it...
The listing:
The reality:
The company is hiring only on a contractor basis, not as an employee, which means they offer no benefits, no overtime pay, and you have to pay self-employment taxes. But they will still manage you like an employee, meaning they expect you to work for them full-time, do whatever tasks they assign you, and they will monitor everything you do. Plus, even though they claim to offer $10-$15 per hour, they will actually try to negotiate it down to $8-$10. They won't train anybody (even though it's a perfectly trainable job) so they expect you to know how to answer questions about technical support, pricing/features for web hosting plans, and billing policies at the time you come in to interview.
Unfortunately I know this because I work for them. When I applied last year they were asking for a system administrator for $15-$30/hour, but when I went in to the interview they wouldn't offer more than $12-$15. And now they're wondering why they can't find any qualified applicants!
I started getting the worm in my mailbox Friday morning. By Friday night I had already copied CERT's incident notice to my company's network status web page. (Not that anyone is actually going to read it until after they have a problem.)
Okay, but how much longer do you figure it's going to take to terraform Mars so that it can sustain life on its own, without importing any supplies from Earth, at least for a few centuries? If the Earth goes kablooey, it's going to take a long time for Mother Nature to recover.
I've just poked around the do-not-call web site and found that as of September 2, they registry has grown to 48 million phone numbers. They got a significant boost in numbers over Labor Day weekend -- when Dave Barry printed his article. About half of the 6 million new entries registered by phone. I had been wondering just how many people out there have not registered simply because they haven't heard about this registry yet.
The web site also mentioned that a large number of people have not completed the registration process by replying to the email that is sent when they register online. (Certainly none of the readers of Slashdot fall into this category.)
Does anyone know approximately how many residential phone numbers total are in use in the U.S.?
I was just about to post the very same thing. I for one would not mind seeing the web return to 1993. We still have HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, the DOM, and other web standards. Personally I could do without JavaScript as well.
When the Web first began, it was about sharing information among computers with completely different architectures and software. These days it seems Web designers are too concerned with putting lots of fancy schmancy stuff (and ads) on their sites, and they only care about making it look right on one platform.