I have had to interview a number of poeple for jobs requiring computer science degrees. I am amazed and often apalled that I get poeple with master's in CS that still don't seem to know much of anything. One person with an MSCS didn't even know what a regular expression was. I now believe there are many colleges out there that churn out MSCS just to make their numbers. It cannot be said that you can take any MSCS and trust that they can just jump in and do the job (of Developer, QA, IT, or whatever). You have to question them thouroughly and we end up rejecting most of them.
The "average Joe consumer" does not make buying decisions based on anything other than how cheap they can get things. In other words, only the price is a factor. It is primarily this fact that starts the ball rolling for outsourcing labor to other countries, and other labor abuses, to begin with. The everage consumer does not consider the working conditions of those who made it, what benefits they have, etc. Yet, the "average consumer" wants those benefits for themselves in thier own workplace. But there is a cost to everything. If the "average consumer" wants health benefits, workers comp. insurance, higher wages, etc. then they must pay the resultant higher price in the store, as well. But they don't, and will end up losing their job and all of their benefits in the long run.
Yep, I read your link. I have a philosophical difference, however. If someone has to know all that esoterica to be a "real" programmer than it's the language that is broken. That language just begs for problems (and bugs).
Yes, indeed. I recently had to produce some documents for the court and tried to use StarOffice. I found that StarOffice simply cannot produce a document that conforms to the court requirements. Mostly, it has to do with line numbering. I had to resort to WordPerfect for Windows.
IMAP has been extended to support asyncronous notifications. At least the Courier implementation supports it. However, I am not aware of a client that supports it yet.
That was designed for legitimate (usually opt-in) bulk emailers. Services such as CNN news updates and such get block by some SPAM screens. The Ironport product provides a way to get around that, legitimately. Check out "bonded sender" too.
Yep. I just went to Costco and got a 25 pound bag of pinto beans for about $8. Those are dried beans, not canned. They are pretty healthy, and that's pretty cheap (they'll last a long time).
(I never thought I'd see the day when I was happy about beans).
You are barking up the wrong tree. The problem with most of TV today is that there is no information there. It is primarily "product placement", a form of product propoganda, as this article indicates. Why watch that? Ok, in my original post I forgot to mention: Read a book! There... satisfied now?
Turn your TV off. Keep it off. Throw it away. If you have kids, interact with them (talk, games, reading, etc.). If not, go outside and do something. Your life will improve, and none of this will matter.
This is what I have done and I don't miss my TV one bit.
What you see in a static picture does not tell the whole story. How it is used matters most. I use gnome myself and I like how it functions. It is not really that much like MS Windows. I can also do a lot of really useful things with it. I use GNOME/Linux/GNU at work daily and I have no real complaints.
In the context of communications satellites, be sure to clarify what you mean by "down". It is still in orbit, correct?;-)
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Oh, no, no, no! Skynet is the uber-AI network that is plotting the demise of humanity! Telstar 8 is a pre-cursor of the Terminator series, and the T4 is the new, latest, Terminator class to replace it.
It is not strictly necessary to have an attorney to sue, or really to do anything in court. There are a number of "how-to" books on how to represent yourself in court. I have had to do this, thanks to my divorce.;-) Also, at least in CA, all the legal forms are available in PDF form, and the whole of the law is all available on the Internet. The court also provides some self help information.
So if you really, really want to you can do it yourself. Granted, it is not the most fun thing in the world, and can be a real PITA. On the other hand you might have some fun with it, and it can be a learning experience. The cost is not very high if you do it yourself.
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Yes, indeed. I have often wished that Google had a special tab for anonymous ftp servers. Whatever happened to "archie"? sigh.
That is very true, historically. I was merely asking the question: What would happen, now, in our supposedly more enlightened and peaceful age, if we decided to focus on other issues with the same kind of enthusiasm. And besides, the original topic about the fallout from space program spending, not war spending. 8-)
The main focus is set by the Government, and what they want to spend the money on. I did work in the defense industry for while. That was because that's where the jobs were then. If the government were to change the spending focus, I am sure the "interest" would follow as well. I certainly would not have minded working on an energy research project, rather then military applicatations.
And how many billions did that cost? I think we would have done better investing in research that was directly targeted at solving the worlds problems (energy, recycling, food, overpopulation, etc.). Some spin-off technologies is good, but how much more could we have achieved if our focus was different?
Somewhere on one of those crop circle sites (you can look for it) there was a paragraph stating that those farmers put up "honesty boxes" at the sites. That is, if you go look at it, they ask for a donation. It turns out they make substantially more money from those boxes than they would get from the damaged part of the crop. So, the farmers are not unhappy at all about this.
Of course Mandrakesoft is in business to make money. They are simply relying on the "honor system" to do that. The real shame is that there is little honor left in the world that anyone, or a company that relies on it, can depend on.
that is what standardized protocols are supposed to solved. If you stick to standards compliant prodocts, the product does not really matter (it is commodotized). I believe products that use proprietary protocols should be avoided, or you will suffer that "lock-in" effect. If you are switch, it might also pay to think in terms of switching to standards compliance, not necessarily "Linux". But Linux is POSIX compliant (another standard), so you are going in the right direction with it.
Hey, don't laugh. That strategy works for technical support. Why not security?;-)
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FYI:
Jabber Jab"ber, v. i. imp. & p. p. Jabbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Jabbering. Cf. Gibber, Gabble. To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to chatter. --Swift.
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I have had to interview a number of poeple for jobs requiring computer science degrees. I am amazed and often apalled that I get poeple with master's in CS that still don't seem to know much of anything. One person with an MSCS didn't even know what a regular expression was. I now believe there are many colleges out there that churn out MSCS just to make their numbers. It cannot be said that you can take any MSCS and trust that they can just jump in and do the job (of Developer, QA, IT, or whatever). You have to question them thouroughly and we end up rejecting most of them.
Things like this really annoy me.
The "average Joe consumer" does not make buying decisions based on anything other than how cheap they can get things. In other words, only the price is a factor. It is primarily this fact that starts the ball rolling for outsourcing labor to other countries, and other labor abuses, to begin with. The everage consumer does not consider the working conditions of those who made it, what benefits they have, etc. Yet, the "average consumer" wants those benefits for themselves in thier own workplace. But there is a cost to everything. If the "average consumer" wants health benefits, workers comp. insurance, higher wages, etc. then they must pay the resultant higher price in the store, as well. But they don't, and will end up losing their job and all of their benefits in the long run.
How about "bogomips"? ;-)
/proc/cpuinfo'!"
"I got more bogmips than you! "
"Yeah! prove it!"
"watch me 'cat
"Oooh... duuuude...."
Yep, I read your link. I have a philosophical difference, however. If someone has to know all that esoterica to be a "real" programmer than it's the language that is broken. That language just begs for problems (and bugs).
Yes, indeed. I recently had to produce some documents for the court and tried to use StarOffice. I found that StarOffice simply cannot produce a document that conforms to the court requirements. Mostly, it has to do with line numbering. I had to resort to WordPerfect for Windows.
IMAP has been extended to support asyncronous notifications. At least the Courier implementation supports it. However, I am not aware of a client that supports it yet.
That was designed for legitimate (usually opt-in) bulk emailers. Services such as CNN news updates and such get block by some SPAM screens. The Ironport product provides a way to get around that, legitimately. Check out "bonded sender" too.
Yep. I just went to Costco and got a 25 pound bag of pinto beans for about $8. Those are dried beans, not canned. They are pretty healthy, and that's pretty cheap (they'll last a long time).
(I never thought I'd see the day when I was happy about beans).
You are barking up the wrong tree. The problem with most of TV today is that there is no information there. It is primarily "product placement", a form of product propoganda, as this article indicates. Why watch that? Ok, in my original post I forgot to mention: Read a book! There... satisfied now?
This is what I have done and I don't miss my TV one bit.
Have a nice day.
I happen to think it is a very cool name.
What you see in a static picture does not tell the whole story. How it is used matters most. I use gnome myself and I like how it functions. It is not really that much like MS Windows. I can also do a lot of really useful things with it. I use GNOME/Linux/GNU at work daily and I have no real complaints.
In the context of communications satellites, be sure to clarify what you mean by "down". It is still in orbit, correct? ;-)
Oh, no, no, no! Skynet is the uber-AI network that is plotting the demise of humanity! Telstar 8 is a pre-cursor of the Terminator series, and the T4 is the new, latest, Terminator class to replace it.
;-)
Got it?
So if you really, really want to you can do it yourself. Granted, it is not the most fun thing in the world, and can be a real PITA. On the other hand you might have some fun with it, and it can be a learning experience. The cost is not very high if you do it yourself.
Yes, indeed. I have often wished that Google had a special tab for anonymous ftp servers. Whatever happened to "archie"? sigh.
That is very true, historically. I was merely asking the question: What would happen, now, in our supposedly more enlightened and peaceful age, if we decided to focus on other issues with the same kind of enthusiasm. And besides, the original topic about the fallout from space program spending, not war spending. 8-)
The main focus is set by the Government, and what they want to spend the money on. I did work in the defense industry for while. That was because that's where the jobs were then. If the government were to change the spending focus, I am sure the "interest" would follow as well. I certainly would not have minded working on an energy research project, rather then military applicatations.
And how many billions did that cost? I think we would have done better investing in research that was directly targeted at solving the worlds problems (energy, recycling, food, overpopulation, etc.). Some spin-off technologies is good, but how much more could we have achieved if our focus was different?
Somewhere on one of those crop circle sites (you can look for it) there was a paragraph stating that those farmers put up "honesty boxes" at the sites. That is, if you go look at it, they ask for a donation. It turns out they make substantially more money from those boxes than they would get from the damaged part of the crop. So, the farmers are not unhappy at all about this.
Of course Mandrakesoft is in business to make money. They are simply relying on the "honor system" to do that. The real shame is that there is little honor left in the world that anyone, or a company that relies on it, can depend on.
that is what standardized protocols are supposed to solved. If you stick to standards compliant prodocts, the product does not really matter (it is commodotized). I believe products that use proprietary protocols should be avoided, or you will suffer that "lock-in" effect. If you are switch, it might also pay to think in terms of switching to standards compliance, not necessarily "Linux". But Linux is POSIX compliant (another standard), so you are going in the right direction with it.
Hey, don't laugh. That strategy works for technical support. Why not security? ;-)
FYI:
Jabber Jab"ber, v. i. imp. & p. p. Jabbered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Jabbering. Cf. Gibber, Gabble.
To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter
gibberish or nonsense; to chatter. --Swift.