>get a degree. Programming jobs are heavily resume/GPA filtered. Unless you have someone on the inside ("who you know"), what you know will only get you so far. The great jobs, IMO, for a newbie, are best approached with a great GPA and transcript.
This seems absurd to me. With today's college costs, the value that employers put on experience over education, and the 60% unemployment/underemployment rate of recent college grads, getting an entry level job through a temp agency in even the most esoterically related field would par far greater dividends.
Why would not not take the 5th for a password? By disclosing the password to encrypted data, you be providing evidence that you had access to it, potentially incriminating yourself, if the contents are illicit.
"There actually are such special offers that sound like you could save a lot, but are actually more expensive per unit/gallon/inch/whatever. And they actually work."
I accept your premise but reject your conclusion. Where is the study that shows the population to be more vulnerable to such obfuscation over time, or since the adoption of calculators?
"because you didn't accept the contract yet. Without that, whatever you paid for is still not yours."
If true, then until the contract is consummated, the money paid for the "service" should not be theirs.
And yes, everyone and their brother will try to emulate this.
So if software is now a license and not a purchase, won't publishers be obligated to provide replacement media?
Great post! I wish I had mod points left.
Even I have trouble reconciling Torrents of Porn. On one hand I recognize Flynt as a major force in free speech advocacy, on the other, I like free porn.
Part of why the industry though, is going after this, is that AMATEUR porn being posted to the torrents, by Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, is starting to cut into the bottom line. I think the attack is not so much directed at the pr0noholics, so much as trying to chill the competing distribution methods.
"Is there really a strong correlation between the playstation and obesity?"
Based on my anecdotal observation, there is a hight correlation, with fast food, Wal*Mart and Fox News.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfquest
"This series was one of the early successes that marked the establishment of a phase in underground comics at which a new market of alternative independent comic books emerged that were closer to the comics mainstream."
Wiki seems to underplay the impact of this title, as it was the mother-ship that had such broad appeal and sales, that led to a revolution at Marvel and DC.
"It encourages authors to look at both sides of situation more thoroughly than they would have otherwise which in my opinion adds more depth to the story."
Remember when Elfquest of all things, broke the back of the comics code, by going the independent route? Demonstrating that the independant route could be profitable AND allowing creators to keep creative control of their content? Then the mad rush of artists fleeing Marvel and DC to independant start-ups like Dark Horse and Image leading to the one of the greatest renaissances in comics? The comics code kept artists chained to their easels, writing pap. Good riddance.
"Companies that do mergers are only able to make the aquistion work out about half the time, so it is rarely a good investment."
Where else is that money going to go that would provide and equivalent improvement to revenue, earnings and share price (how XEOs get bonused)? With Treasury yeilds falling like a brick, and the currency and equity markets in turmoil, acquisitions are a no-brainer for boosting share-prices. Add in the facts that you get to keep a competitor from piking up a key element to their business plan, and they get to deflect some attention away from the questionable ouster of Hurd, it makes perfect sense.
"As far as anyone can tell, not one of these people were fired for both not doing their job and for using work equipment in a HIGHLY non-work related manner."
In the bush administration, you get a Medal of Freedom for that. "Nice job, Brownie..."
"it should be to a private agency that has something to lose if they fuck up, not to a bureaucracy which will in all likelihood get a budget increase after a major failure."
Great, just what we need. More Arthur Andersens.
"Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms"
It is now the "big four." And it looks like their hands might be a little dirty in the recent economic turmoil.
"The Andersen indictment also put a spotlight on its faulty audits of other companies, most notably Waste Management, Sunbeam and WorldCom. The subsequent bankruptcy of WorldCom, which quickly surpassed Enron as the biggest bankruptcy in history, led to a domino effect of accounting and like corporate scandals that continue to tarnish American business practices."
"It would be bad for stocks and any investors would flip out... probably even sue."
No grounds. "Do no evil" is in the charter and it is nebulous enough that shareholders assumed the risk prior to buying shares.
I sooo agree. I do not think I have ever been able to complete the first book but the second and third, are awesome. Plus he goes way overboard with the leper/"woe is me" real world stuff. Now "The Gap Cycle" is just twisted, brilliant!
For Eircom, out side of potential liability for no longer being indifferent to content, it is a big win. If they kick the bandwidth hogs off of their network, they can sell the same pipes to more customers, at a lower rate and perhaps a greater profit.
For the **AAs not so much, as those same customers will find an alternative.
They care because the **AAs do not really produce anything. They just have(had) a rent seeking monopoly on distribution. If a viable alternative were to be established, creators might route around them.
So they are blocking the one torrent site that is pretty much self-destructing on it's own? I guess it could set a precedent for when the **AAs show up with entire domains and IP ranges they want blocked, but the sharing will just move to an anonomized format or into clustered cells of private peer groupings.
It has been my experience that the web does a very good job at routing around damage, and moves much more quickly that some trade association with an antiquated business model.
Well the Heath Ledger/Dark Night Joker, is a different animal I think. He could actually execute a plan. A complex and insane plan, with a destructive theme, but a plan none the less.
So far, I have not seen much planning or execution from Undecider in Chief yet. So, I would say that so the Obama/Joker image is a bit unfair, for Obama as he appears to be mostly ineffective, and unfair for the Joker, as Obama seems to lack any coherent plan of his own, and is mostly acting as the point man for the bankers and special interests.
Perhaps I am mistaken though, and the President's "cunning plan" for fixing the economy and getting universal health care into law will make more sense than one of Baldric's
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I do not see a problem with prohibiting marketing to anyone who identifies themselves as a minor and a Mod has a problem with that?
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>get a degree. Programming jobs are heavily resume/GPA filtered. Unless you have someone on the inside ("who you know"), what you know will only get you so far. The great jobs, IMO, for a newbie, are best approached with a great GPA and transcript. This seems absurd to me. With today's college costs, the value that employers put on experience over education, and the 60% unemployment/underemployment rate of recent college grads, getting an entry level job through a temp agency in even the most esoterically related field would par far greater dividends.
That's also a great way to teraform Mars. Just hold the stargate open until the pressures equalize.
Might work better to dial Venus from Mars, for pressure equalization.
Why would not not take the 5th for a password? By disclosing the password to encrypted data, you be providing evidence that you had access to it, potentially incriminating yourself, if the contents are illicit.
I doubt the USA would allow Intel to export TPM, unless they already had the keys to the back-door.
"There actually are such special offers that sound like you could save a lot, but are actually more expensive per unit/gallon/inch/whatever. And they actually work."
I accept your premise but reject your conclusion. Where is the study that shows the population to be more vulnerable to such obfuscation over time, or since the adoption of calculators?
It's only when some jack-ass refills the bottle with gasoline, that you run into trouble...
"because you didn't accept the contract yet. Without that, whatever you paid for is still not yours." If true, then until the contract is consummated, the money paid for the "service" should not be theirs.
And yes, everyone and their brother will try to emulate this. So if software is now a license and not a purchase, won't publishers be obligated to provide replacement media?
Great post! I wish I had mod points left. Even I have trouble reconciling Torrents of Porn. On one hand I recognize Flynt as a major force in free speech advocacy, on the other, I like free porn. Part of why the industry though, is going after this, is that AMATEUR porn being posted to the torrents, by Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, is starting to cut into the bottom line. I think the attack is not so much directed at the pr0noholics, so much as trying to chill the competing distribution methods.
"Is there really a strong correlation between the playstation and obesity?" Based on my anecdotal observation, there is a hight correlation, with fast food, Wal*Mart and Fox News.
The end of the comics code.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfquest "This series was one of the early successes that marked the establishment of a phase in underground comics at which a new market of alternative independent comic books emerged that were closer to the comics mainstream." Wiki seems to underplay the impact of this title, as it was the mother-ship that had such broad appeal and sales, that led to a revolution at Marvel and DC.
"It encourages authors to look at both sides of situation more thoroughly than they would have otherwise which in my opinion adds more depth to the story."
Remember when Elfquest of all things, broke the back of the comics code, by going the independent route? Demonstrating that the independant route could be profitable AND allowing creators to keep creative control of their content? Then the mad rush of artists fleeing Marvel and DC to independant start-ups like Dark Horse and Image leading to the one of the greatest renaissances in comics? The comics code kept artists chained to their easels, writing pap. Good riddance.
"Companies that do mergers are only able to make the aquistion work out about half the time, so it is rarely a good investment."
Where else is that money going to go that would provide and equivalent improvement to revenue, earnings and share price (how XEOs get bonused)? With Treasury yeilds falling like a brick, and the currency and equity markets in turmoil, acquisitions are a no-brainer for boosting share-prices. Add in the facts that you get to keep a competitor from piking up a key element to their business plan, and they get to deflect some attention away from the questionable ouster of Hurd, it makes perfect sense.
"As far as anyone can tell, not one of these people were fired for both not doing their job and for using work equipment in a HIGHLY non-work related manner."
In the bush administration, you get a Medal of Freedom for that. "Nice job, Brownie..."
When i saw it, really tought that was a metajoke Me too. It seemed too absurd to be anything but intentional.
"it should be to a private agency that has something to lose if they fuck up, not to a bureaucracy which will in all likelihood get a budget increase after a major failure."
Great, just what we need. More Arthur Andersens.
"Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms"
It is now the "big four." And it looks like their hands might be a little dirty in the recent economic turmoil.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04232010/watch.html
"The Andersen indictment also put a spotlight on its faulty audits of other companies, most notably Waste Management, Sunbeam and WorldCom. The subsequent bankruptcy of WorldCom, which quickly surpassed Enron as the biggest bankruptcy in history, led to a domino effect of accounting and like corporate scandals that continue to tarnish American business practices."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen
"It would be bad for stocks and any investors would flip out ... probably even sue."
No grounds. "Do no evil" is in the charter and it is nebulous enough that shareholders assumed the risk prior to buying shares.
MicroSoft threatening to blacklist Compaq and IBM from the Win 95 launch if they shipped any systems with OS2 installed was pretty compelling too.
I sooo agree. I do not think I have ever been able to complete the first book but the second and third, are awesome. Plus he goes way overboard with the leper/"woe is me" real world stuff. Now "The Gap Cycle" is just twisted, brilliant!
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For Eircom, out side of potential liability for no longer being indifferent to content, it is a big win. If they kick the bandwidth hogs off of their network, they can sell the same pipes to more customers, at a lower rate and perhaps a greater profit. For the **AAs not so much, as those same customers will find an alternative.
They care because the **AAs do not really produce anything. They just have(had) a rent seeking monopoly on distribution. If a viable alternative were to be established, creators might route around them.
So they are blocking the one torrent site that is pretty much self-destructing on it's own? I guess it could set a precedent for when the **AAs show up with entire domains and IP ranges they want blocked, but the sharing will just move to an anonomized format or into clustered cells of private peer groupings.
It has been my experience that the web does a very good job at routing around damage, and moves much more quickly that some trade association with an antiquated business model.
Well the Heath Ledger/Dark Night Joker, is a different animal I think. He could actually execute a plan. A complex and insane plan, with a destructive theme, but a plan none the less. So far, I have not seen much planning or execution from Undecider in Chief yet. So, I would say that so the Obama/Joker image is a bit unfair, for Obama as he appears to be mostly ineffective, and unfair for the Joker, as Obama seems to lack any coherent plan of his own, and is mostly acting as the point man for the bankers and special interests. Perhaps I am mistaken though, and the President's "cunning plan" for fixing the economy and getting universal health care into law will make more sense than one of Baldric's
Moderation -1 100% Overrated Well, that is not very nice. How can it be overrated when it was unmodded? I do not see a problem with prohibiting marketing to anyone who identifies themselves as a minor and a Mod has a problem with that?