Straight from my lawyer: If you live in a "Right to Work" state, your non-compete is probably worth zilch to your employer (or former employer), other than as a scare tactic.
I left a company a couple of years ago in a right to work state. They sent me a letter after I left, stating I could not do web development in the region the company operated (I had been a wev developer for them). However, after a call from my lawyer to their lawyer, they backed off fast. Even their lawyer wouldn't back there play!
I have good frieds at M$. This is no trade secret, but MAC OS X is not the only place they are getting ideas. Just about every person on know as M$ (about 10) has some linux distro running at home or in a VM. I am sure we can all find features in linux that the new Windows will have.
Seriously, they should just port all their stuff to linux and built a Windows GUI to replace X (I have nothing against X, that would just be a good strategy for M$. Or, they can keep making all the friggin money they are making now).
While I am a huge SETI fan, I immediately noticed the menu system at the top of the Astrobiology Magazine website. It gives the user of the site the ability to email the story, fax it, download it in Word, Acrobat or PalmDoc, or make it printer friendly. Among other options, it also will translate to Spanish, and read the article to you in MP3.
A lot of work, I think kudos should be given to the web dev team that put this site together. Very cool site!
There are a lot of people out there that cannot afford $40+ a month for screaming fast Internet access. Many others simply won't pay. On the surface, this looks to be an excellent tool to help us bridge the digital divide. Let the "poor" kids have some decent Internet access.
Plus, true 128 is soooo much faster that 56k (which is usually 28.8 - 44ish).
I hold the belief that 50% of the reason M$ won the "Browser War" was the failure of Netscape to put out an innovative product. Netscape stood still while M$, while blundering, did move forward. We could spend hours discussing M$ vs. NS, but I think you get the point.
Google is not the same. Just as MSN was not successful in taking on AOL, I do not think M$earch will be successful against Google. Google is constantly working to not only improve its own search technology, but has also introduced many other successful services. I believe they will continue to do so.
And I will now officially apologize if I equated AOL to be a quality service like Google.
I don't like their satanic icon. Who thought of this? What is it teaching the children? The children?! Who is thinking of the children!
I think there is enough video game violence in your precious PlayBox and X-Station without having to feed our youth satanic images when they wish to try a new OS.
Most people go to college to get a degree, to get a career to make a living. That is a real-world answer if you ask a college student. This is the way I felt when I went to school.
During my time in a small school's CompSci program, I was exposed to many different programming environments, including Windows and a very young Linux (at the time).
I think it would have been profoundly wrong to deny myself and my peers (other students) the ability to use M$ stuff in college. One of the major recruiters on campus was MicroSquish. A lot of my friends got jobs with them, or programming in a Windows environment for someone else. I also know people working in Sun, AIX, HP-UX, Mac and Linux environments. However, the majority of programmers I know from college are on M$ in some fashion or another for their daily work lives.
While I admire the spirit of the donation in question, I think it would be detrimental to not allow the individual student the choice to take advantage of all career paths available.
Use the money to promote Linux, but don't blackmail the school by doing it. Maybe insist that none of the money can be used to by machines that will ever run M$, or M$ software. But don't take the freedom of choice away from kids trying to get a job in a tough economy.
What makes you think my post was racist? Because I think the "Peoples Republic of China" is more bark than bite, all the time? You truly are a small minded, politically correct dink! China (the country, not the race which derives from the geographic region) has proven that it has more luck blowing up rockets on the launch pad than just about anything else. China is a country of great people enslaved by a murdering, communist regime that has about 5% less chance of landing someone on the moon as I do.
PS, I am not from the South. However, you have shown your ignorant, stereotypical beliefs about Southerners through your comments towards that area of the US. I think "Anonymous Coward" does sum you up best.
Get over your ultra left-wing self. And "heh heh heh" means you are a dink, too.
Automation worked really well for the good ol' Enterprise in Star Trek III. All the enemy had to do was fire on the automation computer center and they were hosed. No crew to run the ship equaled no redundancy for Kirk! And then he started the precedence of retiring any ship starting with "NCC-1701" by self destruct...
The organizational structure of Google News is great! I love how they group related stories. At many top news sites, you can almost smell the bias of the reporter in the story. I like reading about a story from more than one source to get a better picture of what is really going on. Google is following their usual style of doing it simpler, faster and better than the competition.
I start out with a 15 question test from BrainBench on the subject matter. When I tell candidates that they will be taking a test, about 25% weed themselves out (ie I never here from them again). I only continue inteviewing those that didn't flunk the test. I am not a good test taker, but I think I am a fine programmer. So, I don't want to miss a good programmer just becuase they don't test well. However, If someone flunks the test, that means (to me) that they don't no sh!t.
Next, I have a real-world programming problem I faced a while back that I offer to the candidate. During the interview, we walk through how to solve the problem. This gives me a good window into their analytical abilities, programming skills, and general organizational and thought processes. The problem is solved with psuedo-code, but I make sure to ask some questions relating directly to "mechanical" issues of programming (memory amangement, data connection, remote data, Big O, etc).
The third ingredient for me is gut feeling. I have a pretty decent knack for spotting BS.
MySQL is simply not ready to even play in the same ball park with a serious DBMS. I have used the Linux + Apache + PHP + MySQL thing. Sure it is easy to use, and is nice for little db driven sites. But MySQL lacks the huge set of features that make up a modern relational database.
Like the guy said above, nothing to see here move on.
I have noticed that while I still have no trouble finding work, the rate I get has decreased during the current economic slump. I have done some thinking along the lines of starting up my own business / commercial software / web site/ etc. However, I have just decided to keep my day job, and am slowly building up small side gigs, which have been leading to better paying side gigs. When all else fails, work harder and keep your day job.
Of course it is over simplified, it was meant as a flipant remark in response to an idiotic article. Do you have a Master Degree in Stating the Obvious?
What about France suing eBay to take items off their web site hosted on American soil, or any number of student laws, suits, etc going on with countries suing/charging US firms for wrong doing on the Internet?
Sorry Mr. Thompson! While the US does its share of stupid stuff, we by no means have a monopoly on stupidity as a whole. Look at WW1: a war over an assinated guy that nobody even cared about, not even the people form his own country.
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I heard SCO is adding an "M" their name to make it SCOM. This will make it more closely resemble SCUM.
Straight from my lawyer: If you live in a "Right to Work" state, your non-compete is probably worth zilch to your employer (or former employer), other than as a scare tactic.
I left a company a couple of years ago in a right to work state. They sent me a letter after I left, stating I could not do web development in the region the company operated (I had been a wev developer for them). However, after a call from my lawyer to their lawyer, they backed off fast. Even their lawyer wouldn't back there play!
Check the laws in your state.
Oh, now I get it. Hmmm, that might be why they already have .NET running on BSD.
Uhhh... ya. Good one. Keep up the good work.
I have good frieds at M$. This is no trade secret, but MAC OS X is not the only place they are getting ideas. Just about every person on know as M$ (about 10) has some linux distro running at home or in a VM. I am sure we can all find features in linux that the new Windows will have.
Seriously, they should just port all their stuff to linux and built a Windows GUI to replace X (I have nothing against X, that would just be a good strategy for M$. Or, they can keep making all the friggin money they are making now).
While I am a huge SETI fan, I immediately noticed the menu system at the top of the Astrobiology Magazine website. It gives the user of the site the ability to email the story, fax it, download it in Word, Acrobat or PalmDoc, or make it printer friendly. Among other options, it also will translate to Spanish, and read the article to you in MP3.
A lot of work, I think kudos should be given to the web dev team that put this site together. Very cool site!
There are a lot of people out there that cannot afford $40+ a month for screaming fast Internet access. Many others simply won't pay. On the surface, this looks to be an excellent tool to help us bridge the digital divide. Let the "poor" kids have some decent Internet access.
Plus, true 128 is soooo much faster that 56k (which is usually 28.8 - 44ish).
It would be nice if my comments were posted to the correct conversation....
Open Source Java would be the biggest thing in IT since Java.
</obvious>
<anti-ms>
Sun, get ur but in gear to fight c# and open your source on Java and release it to us to make it better.
</anti-ms>
I hold the belief that 50% of the reason M$ won the "Browser War" was the failure of Netscape to put out an innovative product. Netscape stood still while M$, while blundering, did move forward. We could spend hours discussing M$ vs. NS, but I think you get the point.
Google is not the same. Just as MSN was not successful in taking on AOL, I do not think M$earch will be successful against Google. Google is constantly working to not only improve its own search technology, but has also introduced many other successful services. I believe they will continue to do so.
And I will now officially apologize if I equated AOL to be a quality service like Google.
I don't like their satanic icon. Who thought of this? What is it teaching the children? The children?! Who is thinking of the children!
I think there is enough video game violence in your precious PlayBox and X-Station without having to feed our youth satanic images when they wish to try a new OS.
Sincerely,
PMRC
My notebook outfitted with a solar power supply, satellite internet uplink, and the new USB George Foreman grill.
Bring on those dinks at Survivor!
Most people go to college to get a degree, to get a career to make a living. That is a real-world answer if you ask a college student. This is the way I felt when I went to school.
During my time in a small school's CompSci program, I was exposed to many different programming environments, including Windows and a very young Linux (at the time).
I think it would have been profoundly wrong to deny myself and my peers (other students) the ability to use M$ stuff in college. One of the major recruiters on campus was MicroSquish. A lot of my friends got jobs with them, or programming in a Windows environment for someone else. I also know people working in Sun, AIX, HP-UX, Mac and Linux environments. However, the majority of programmers I know from college are on M$ in some fashion or another for their daily work lives.
While I admire the spirit of the donation in question, I think it would be detrimental to not allow the individual student the choice to take advantage of all career paths available.
Use the money to promote Linux, but don't blackmail the school by doing it. Maybe insist that none of the money can be used to by machines that will ever run M$, or M$ software. But don't take the freedom of choice away from kids trying to get a job in a tough economy.
That is from a purely CompSci perspective.
- How many satellites has China put in orbit?
- How many manned space flights has China had?
-How many times has China landed on the moon since 1969?
-How many political (and other) prisoners does China have that they do not admit to?
Again, I seriously doubt China will put anything on the moon anytime soon.
You sound more like the mouth of propaganda than a nerd. Indeed you are not a nerd. You are a looser.
What makes you think my post was racist? Because I think the "Peoples Republic of China" is more bark than bite, all the time? You truly are a small minded, politically correct dink! China (the country, not the race which derives from the geographic region) has proven that it has more luck blowing up rockets on the launch pad than just about anything else. China is a country of great people enslaved by a murdering, communist regime that has about 5% less chance of landing someone on the moon as I do.
PS, I am not from the South. However, you have shown your ignorant, stereotypical beliefs about Southerners through your comments towards that area of the US. I think "Anonymous Coward" does sum you up best.
Get over your ultra left-wing self. And "heh heh heh" means you are a dink, too.
China on the moon?
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Excuse me, I couldn't quite control myself just then.
Automation worked really well for the good ol' Enterprise in Star Trek III. All the enemy had to do was fire on the automation computer center and they were hosed. No crew to run the ship equaled no redundancy for Kirk! And then he started the precedence of retiring any ship starting with "NCC-1701" by self destruct...
The organizational structure of Google News is great! I love how they group related stories. At many top news sites, you can almost smell the bias of the reporter in the story. I like reading about a story from more than one source to get a better picture of what is really going on. Google is following their usual style of doing it simpler, faster and better than the competition.
I start out with a 15 question test from BrainBench on the subject matter. When I tell candidates that they will be taking a test, about 25% weed themselves out (ie I never here from them again). I only continue inteviewing those that didn't flunk the test. I am not a good test taker, but I think I am a fine programmer. So, I don't want to miss a good programmer just becuase they don't test well. However, If someone flunks the test, that means (to me) that they don't no sh!t. Next, I have a real-world programming problem I faced a while back that I offer to the candidate. During the interview, we walk through how to solve the problem. This gives me a good window into their analytical abilities, programming skills, and general organizational and thought processes. The problem is solved with psuedo-code, but I make sure to ask some questions relating directly to "mechanical" issues of programming (memory amangement, data connection, remote data, Big O, etc). The third ingredient for me is gut feeling. I have a pretty decent knack for spotting BS.
MySQL is simply not ready to even play in the same ball park with a serious DBMS. I have used the Linux + Apache + PHP + MySQL thing. Sure it is easy to use, and is nice for little db driven sites. But MySQL lacks the huge set of features that make up a modern relational database.
Like the guy said above, nothing to see here move on.
I have noticed that while I still have no trouble finding work, the rate I get has decreased during the current economic slump. I have done some thinking along the lines of starting up my own business / commercial software / web site/ etc. However, I have just decided to keep my day job, and am slowly building up small side gigs, which have been leading to better paying side gigs. When all else fails, work harder and keep your day job.
I have looked in all the FAQs.
I have searched and searched throught the newsgroups, and even used Google's archived postings.
I tried help files.
I asked friends, personal and professional associates, team members.
I have actually gone to the library, and looked through the cards and done research.
I did extensive searches at BN, Borders, Amazon, BookPool and others.
I cannot find the answer. I cannot figure out women!
Buy the diamond.
Of course it is over simplified, it was meant as a flipant remark in response to an idiotic article. Do you have a Master Degree in Stating the Obvious?
Uhhhh... what?
What about France suing eBay to take items off their web site hosted on American soil, or any number of student laws, suits, etc going on with countries suing/charging US firms for wrong doing on the Internet? Sorry Mr. Thompson! While the US does its share of stupid stuff, we by no means have a monopoly on stupidity as a whole. Look at WW1: a war over an assinated guy that nobody even cared about, not even the people form his own country.