I went to Paris (France, not Texas!!) in June of 1999 with a buddy of mine, whose hometown is Chicago. Several people asked him stuff like, "isn't Chicago dangerous with Al Capone and all those gangsters?"
...a serious Republican like Arnold would let something like this out. I figured he and his people would've thought Open Source software was too fast-and-loose appearing, too ideologically different to use.
I use metawire to host a small website, 'til I can get DSL and run from home.
So far it's been pretty good, except for the huge hardware crash which kept them offline for quite a while. I couldn't really complain, though, seeing how it's free:)
It used to be kinda slow, but the speed from the new hardware and connection they have will burn your fingertips off!
I work at USDA, and was here during Glickman's time. He's a pretty regular guy.
If he saw you in the hall, he'd say hi. He mostly ate in the regular employee cafeterias, instead of the Secretary's Dining Room (which has pretty the same food, but also wood paneling and
table service).
His official portrait on the Patio (just past the Visitor's Center, if you come in the Whitten Building) shows him standing behind his chair, jacket on the back of the chair, with a kind of sarcastic look on his face. All the others have the usual standing-there-button-up-jacket sort.
When 50 black farmers demonstrated in front of Clinton's White House for better treatment from USDA, Bill called Dan, and Dan put together the
Civil Rights Action Team (CRAT). This team made 92 recommendations to ameliorate the problem, and they were put into place by the Civil
Rights Implementation Team (CRIT).
Glickman gave his full backing to this effort, which, frankly, was resisted in some of the USDA agencies cited in the CRAT Report
He always struck me as a pretty fair, stand-up kind of guy, so it wouldn't surprise me if well-reasoned, non-hostile Linux advocacy were presented to him, a major victory could be won.
Say you're out with friends people watching, joking about snap, shallow decisions about who
you'd do, who you wouldn't do, who's hot, who's
not, and why.
Recruiters' initial glance at resumes is equally shallow. Take it for granted that someone out
there has seen your resume and rejected it out of hand, simply because something irritated them about it. Something as simple as your choice of fonts, or maybe even the paper. Or they just don't like it, period. Your piece of paper has about three seconds to make a good impression.
Keep it to one page.
Spel chek everything and chek your grammer two.
Start each sentence/bullet with an action verb, and vary those verbs.
Write each sentence as clearly as possible. You cannot depend on recruiters to present your skills to other HR people as well as you'd like them to. They may not understand them. I know. We hired an intern last year because I saw
more to him than his recruiter did - the recruiter wrote a bad summary of him. His clearly written resume saved him.
Use sparingly on easy catch phrases like "leverage", "ensure", "N-tier", etc, etc. Too many catch phrases sounds smarmy, and will get your resume rejected. With laughter and harsh jokes.
Format your header with your name one to four point sizes larger than the rest of the resume. It will get your name noticed, which gets you noticed.
Obtain a good email address. l33t4axor@yahoo.com will or phatgirl3243@yahoo.com get you tossed sight unseen. Your initials, or your name works best for business email.
Listing an objective varies. I've seen some people like them, and others hate them. I hate them, and something too generally worded sounds like ass-kissing. It really does.
Print it good, heavy bond paper. Regular printer paper works, but is unimpressive.
Pass your resume around to several people to check over for style, grammar, etc, and use the best of their advice.
Do not make your resume too slick-looking, or wise HR people will think your skills are lacking, or you're trying to hide it.
It's like using really smart Flash animation to hide a lack of content on a website.
Leave some whitespace in the resume. A resume that is cramped-looking, is hard on the eye, and will be ignored.
Tailor it to each position to which you're applying. It's a big PITA, but just a little customization shows interest in Foo Co, even though you are just looking for a job (and HR people know this).
If you're applying for a Federal job, read the entire job announcement. Important information about what documentation you must send will be in there.
Also, if you're appplying for a Federal job, you must fill out an OF-612 and write your KSAs. Sending only a letter and a resume will get you sent into the Big Folder Of Hopelessness.
We've looked at your outbound TV signals of American sitcoms, and listened to your radio shows, which have penetrated many light-years into the inky void of space. We have reached this decision about contacting Earth
Some info about this commercial X server.
I wanted a Linux laptop, but neither wanted to spend a ton of money and have to fight with the damn thing to install Linux, nor spend the assload for a Mac. So I got a reasonably powerful from powernotebooks.com.
So I don't care too much about the licensing issue. Does this make me evil?
Some of them thought this war was a
bad idea from the get go. Indeed, it seems many of those who wanted this war the most
never served at all. I'd trust a general who's been blooded - had his boys (and girls) die in droves - to think a little harder about sending more to die.
I was battling ad/spyware by hand the other week, then downloaded a demo copy here at work, on recommendation from a buddy.
I was amazed at how much crap (about 6 - 8 processes and about 5 -8 objects, a few Registry keys and dozens of other files)had gotten onto my system (128 MB RAM 700 Mhz PIII XP box - I'm a Fed). The machine seemed to run about 30% faster after Ad-aware full-cavity searched out the schmutz.
I'd heartily recommend Ad-aware to anyone. If Spybot's better, that's gotta be a heckuva product.
JV: Well why aren't they available? I don't know, because I don't make Linux machines.
Let me put it in my simple terms. If you take something that doesn't belong to you, that's wrong. Number two, if you design your own machine, you can't fuss at people, because you're one of just a few. How many Linux users are there?
TT: About two million.
JV: Well, I can't believe there's not any -- there must be a reason for... Let me find out about that. You bring up an interesting question -- I don't know the answer to that... Well, you're telling me a lot of things I don't know.
Read the words that are there, and don't pipe them through your prejudices, people:)
From the sound of this exchange, it sounds like he's willing to make a case for legal DVD decryption for GNU/Linux users. Winstein was reasonable with him, leading him down a path unfamiliar to Valenti. He freely admitted that he didn't know there's approximately two million people Linux users frustrated by this problem.
Why? He's a big picture guy, pun intended. He's not going to know much about engineers and FOSS. It's not part of his job.
If he's willing to at least say that he's willing look into doing something about this problem, it's on FOSS advocates to approach him again to rectify the situation. By putting the best foot forward - demonstrating that GNU/Linux users buy approximately so many DVDs, and that big studios themselves use FOSS, that it's overall a Good Thing, then maybe what we want will come to pass.
Seriously, though. I am not a virologist or anything, but I'd think if there were some bacteria or viruses down there, they haven't mutated at all since they were entombed. Why? No environmental pressures of any kind.
No sun (radiation) antibiotics (other than toxins their rivals might produce) and very little environmental change in terms of climate (oxygen, nitrogen, etc). It's just cold, dark wet and very saline. They're probably quite well adapted to that environment.
I'd be scared of what mutations would happen after they got out. Heck, look at the antibiotic resistant strains of any bacteria you like. How long have we had antibiotics? Like 60 years. And the bugs are adapting. How long does it roaches and things like that to adapt to the crap we spray on them? I personally don't know (and aam too lazy to check right now), but it's a lot faster than 2,500 years.
Nothing at all may happen, but then again, we've got starlings and nutria in the U.S. and cane toads in Australia to think about. Things from environment, having no check or balance on them in another, run rampant. They should drill with care.
Looking at these results, it would seem that outsourcing to Russia or Taiwan, or keep jobs here, would be more sensible. The IITs only got honorable mention. Is it simply the money?
The BBC has an interesting bit on this very fact. Check out the Real clip, "How Did People Speak Then?". Towards the end, they play a reconstructed accent circa Bill the Bard's time. Those of you familiar with accents from the American South will hear something creepily familiar in the way the woman speaks.
The original Godzilla movie we all (or a good number of us) know and love, with Raymond Burr, is an Americanized version. They deleted a lot of scenes, some of which were rather important
for the message to get across. Does anyone know where an English language DVD of this could be found?
It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber
Do we really need this stuff? I could see arguments for more communications hardware up there, but hypervelocity weapons and lasers? How many decades will pass before something even remotely workable is off the drawing boards? Ike must be rolling in his grave.
"When it gets down to it-talking trade balances here-once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here-once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel-once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity-y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery
The Deliverator used to make software. Still does, sometimes."
I suppose we'd better scratch "software" off the list, eh?
Natural Resources Conservation Service, to be precise.
We've used 12 pt Times New Roman for almost 10 years. Why was State still using Courier? IMHO, it's butt-ugly to read in print...
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I went to Paris (France, not Texas!!) in June of 1999 with a buddy of mine, whose hometown is Chicago. Several people asked him stuff like, "isn't Chicago dangerous with Al Capone and all those gangsters?"
He assured them it was not very dangerous.
True story.
My boss and I fight so many friggin' fires here, that we should go train to be smoke-jumpers. Amazing...
...a serious Republican like Arnold would let something like this out. I figured he and his people would've thought Open Source software was too fast-and-loose appearing, too ideologically different to use.
I use metawire to host a small website, 'til I can get DSL and run from home.
So far it's been pretty good, except for the huge hardware crash which kept them offline for quite a while. I couldn't really complain, though, seeing how it's free :)
It used to be kinda slow, but the speed from the new hardware and connection they have will burn your fingertips off!
Verita est. Sed iocus Americae "semper ubi sub ubi", hice pertinet ;-)
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight. ;-)
Sounds like the way it was accessed in 1991, also, from the basement of Phillips Hall.
I work at USDA, and was here during Glickman's time. He's a pretty regular guy.
If he saw you in the hall, he'd say hi. He mostly ate in the regular employee cafeterias, instead of the Secretary's Dining Room (which has pretty the same food, but also wood paneling and table service).
His official portrait on the Patio (just past the Visitor's Center, if you come in the Whitten Building) shows him standing behind his chair, jacket on the back of the chair, with a kind of sarcastic look on his face. All the others have the usual standing-there-button-up-jacket sort.
When 50 black farmers demonstrated in front of Clinton's White House for better treatment from USDA, Bill called Dan, and Dan put together the Civil Rights Action Team (CRAT). This team made 92 recommendations to ameliorate the problem, and they were put into place by the Civil Rights Implementation Team (CRIT).
Glickman gave his full backing to this effort, which, frankly, was resisted in some of the USDA agencies cited in the CRAT Report
He always struck me as a pretty fair, stand-up kind of guy, so it wouldn't surprise me if well-reasoned, non-hostile Linux advocacy were presented to him, a major victory could be won.
Say you're out with friends people watching, joking about snap, shallow decisions about who you'd do, who you wouldn't do, who's hot, who's not, and why.
Recruiters' initial glance at resumes is equally shallow. Take it for granted that someone out there has seen your resume and rejected it out of hand, simply because something irritated them about it. Something as simple as your choice of fonts, or maybe even the paper. Or they just don't like it, period. Your piece of paper has about three seconds to make a good impression.
Good luck!
We've looked at your outbound TV signals of American sitcoms, and listened to your radio shows, which have penetrated many light-years into the inky void of space. We have reached this decision about contacting Earth
Fuhgeddabouddit.
Some info about this commercial X server. I wanted a Linux laptop, but neither wanted to spend a ton of money and have to fight with the damn thing to install Linux, nor spend the assload for a Mac. So I got a reasonably powerful from powernotebooks.com. So I don't care too much about the licensing issue. Does this make me evil?
Some of them thought this war was a bad idea from the get go. Indeed, it seems many of those who wanted this war the most never served at all. I'd trust a general who's been blooded - had his boys (and girls) die in droves - to think a little harder about sending more to die.
That largely depends on what you look like, and in which society you live.
I'm not sure I trust a press release, in which the legal folderol is longer than the release itself.
I was battling ad/spyware by hand the other week, then downloaded a demo copy here at work, on recommendation from a buddy.
I was amazed at how much crap (about 6 - 8 processes and about 5 -8 objects, a few Registry keys and dozens of other files)had gotten onto my system (128 MB RAM 700 Mhz PIII XP box - I'm a Fed). The machine seemed to run about 30% faster after Ad-aware full-cavity searched out the schmutz.
I'd heartily recommend Ad-aware to anyone. If Spybot's better, that's gotta be a heckuva product.
Let me put it in my simple terms. If you take something that doesn't belong to you, that's wrong. Number two, if you design your own machine, you can't fuss at people, because you're one of just a few. How many Linux users are there?
TT: About two million.
JV: Well, I can't believe there's not any -- there must be a reason for... Let me find out about that. You bring up an interesting question -- I don't know the answer to that... Well, you're telling me a lot of things I don't know.
Read the words that are there, and don't pipe them through your prejudices, people :)
From the sound of this exchange, it sounds like he's willing to make a case for legal DVD decryption for GNU/Linux users. Winstein was reasonable with him, leading him down a path unfamiliar to Valenti. He freely admitted that he didn't know there's approximately two million people Linux users frustrated by this problem.
Why? He's a big picture guy, pun intended. He's not going to know much about engineers and FOSS. It's not part of his job. If he's willing to at least say that he's willing look into doing something about this problem, it's on FOSS advocates to approach him again to rectify the situation. By putting the best foot forward - demonstrating that GNU/Linux users buy approximately so many DVDs, and that big studios themselves use FOSS, that it's overall a Good Thing, then maybe what we want will come to pass.
Seriously, though. I am not a virologist or anything, but I'd think if there were some bacteria or viruses down there, they haven't mutated at all since they were entombed. Why? No environmental pressures of any kind.
No sun (radiation) antibiotics (other than toxins their rivals might produce) and very little environmental change in terms of climate (oxygen, nitrogen, etc). It's just cold, dark wet and very saline. They're probably quite well adapted to that environment.
I'd be scared of what mutations would happen after they got out. Heck, look at the antibiotic resistant strains of any bacteria you like. How long have we had antibiotics? Like 60 years. And the bugs are adapting. How long does it roaches and things like that to adapt to the crap we spray on them? I personally don't know (and aam too lazy to check right now), but it's a lot faster than 2,500 years.
Nothing at all may happen, but then again, we've got starlings and nutria in the U.S. and cane toads in Australia to think about. Things from environment, having no check or balance on them in another, run rampant. They should drill with care.
Looking at these results, it would seem that outsourcing to Russia or Taiwan, or keep jobs here, would be more sensible. The IITs only got honorable mention. Is it simply the money?
The BBC has an interesting bit on this very fact. Check out the Real clip, "How Did People Speak Then?". Towards the end, they play a reconstructed accent circa Bill the Bard's time. Those of you familiar with accents from the American South will hear something creepily familiar in the way the woman speaks.
The original Godzilla movie we all (or a good number of us) know and love, with Raymond Burr, is an Americanized version. They deleted a lot of scenes, some of which were rather important for the message to get across. Does anyone know where an English language DVD of this could be found?
When they can do this, then I'll welcome our talking signpost overlords ;-)
It will be a great day
when our schools get all the money they need
and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber
Do we really need this stuff? I could see arguments for more communications hardware up there, but hypervelocity weapons and lasers? How many decades will pass before something even remotely workable is off the drawing boards? Ike must be rolling in his grave.
*dodges stale baguettes and dead snails* I'll shut up, seeing how I run the distro in question :)
"When it gets down to it-talking trade balances here-once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here-once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel-once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity-y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
The Deliverator used to make software. Still does, sometimes."
I suppose we'd better scratch "software" off the list, eh?
Natural Resources Conservation Service, to be precise. We've used 12 pt Times New Roman for almost 10 years. Why was State still using Courier? IMHO, it's butt-ugly to read in print...