While there are former U.Wisc. Condor staffers at Redhat now, and Redhat is a major contributor to the Condor project and has much invested in it, it is most definitely owned and operated by Miron Livny and the U.Wisc. computer science department. There's a large group of staff and students there that run the project and add the bulk of the new features to Condor.
Anyhow, Condor is definitely an academia project with huge success that comes to my mind.
I work for an FPGA company. Both languages are going strong. You'd do well to learn both. My experience says if you want to work in government, especially military, it's pretty much dominated by VHDL. And Verilog is the prevalent language in telco and video design.
crichton took on a number of popular culture myths (the effects of global warming, rising ocean levels, receeding icebergs, and the "noble savage") in this book and kudos to him for trying. i did check up on a number of his references and there are, like lindzen's says in the article at the top of this post, commonly accepted truths but that the outcome of what's accepted has no consensus or emperical support for any theory at this point. whether or not we can control climate on a global scale certainly has no emperical evidence. good book. i still get the creeps thinking about that end scene with the actor...on the island...the "noble savage" supporter...ugh...he got what he deserved.
You're wrong when you say there are no other options to Rogers and Sympatico in your area. You just need to look a little harder. There are plently of DSL providers in Ontario (Magma is one that comes to mind). There's also the option of a non-residential high speed connection if you want to use Vonage. True, it is more expensive, but it doesn't come with the restrictions that residential connections are weighed down with. Residential connections are, in part, more lucrativily priced because there are no service guaruntees attached to them. The ISPs don't have to deliver 24/7 access with minimum bit rates, and in return you get to pay less.
I'm a Vonage and a Rogers customer in Ontario and if Rogers plans to block Vonage use on its network when it launches its own VoIP service late this summer I'll be thanking my lucky stars there's no service contract with Vonage or Rogers. So I can jump either ship as suits my communication needs.
I think 90% of what's been discussed here can be resolved with: if you want no-strings-attached internet acces, don't buy a residential connection.
Provide a good assessment of your profiency with the language on your resume. Something like:
| Language | Level of Proficency | | Java | Expert | | C++ | Beginner | | Perl | Beginner |
Use some modesty in assessing your abilities. If I see an "Intermediate" level I'm going to assume you can write a few lines without needing that reference manual.
An interview is a (too?) quick assessment of your skills and your ability to think and translate those thoughts into something tangible. It's okay to tell the interviewer that you're only comfortable in Java. (Mind you, you will look like and idiot if you say something like that when the job requirements listed LISP experience as a requirement. Don't apply for a job you are not qualified to hold.) It's better to be up front and honest about what you know than subversive and diliberatly vague. I'll be leniant if I ask you to answer a question in Perl and you say, "Hey, can you give me a quick refresher on Perl semantics? As you can see I have only professed to having a beginners level of Perl knowledge." I'd be down right friendly about helping you out if you were up front about what you do and do not know. Otherwise I'm inclined to try and make you cry. Or at least feel very, very dumb.
I can't tell you how many times now I've interviewed some little fresh-out-of-school-all-eager-and-willing twat who has every language any one ever mentioned to him in school listed on his resume.
Don't lie about what you know.
If you cannot answer a simple question in a language you've listed on your resume then it shouldn't be there.
If you really think you need to bone up a lack luster resume with lists of useless abilities be smart about it. Make a grid and list the language and your current level of proficency. Then the interviewer isn't appalled when you're asked to answer a simple question in Perl but you can't remember how even declare a scalar in Perl because you only ever wrote one Perl script...
...five years ago...
...but really you just copied someone else's Perl CGI script and changed the HTML output to match your own amateur porn site's look and feel.
Available in both a VHLD and Verilog version for your learning pleasure. Both books ship with a copy of Quartus II from Altera. You can get Altera development kits here if you're looking for something bigger and better than a Spartan-IIe.
I'm always willing to listen to feature requests. Sounds like a wav2flac equivalent might be something you'd want. I was driven to this solution because lame doesn't support multiple file inputs to convert.
You can cron the conversion so it happens after hours. Rip during the day, convert at night.
A few years ago there was a big uproar in the Ottawa Valley area because the RCMP were cracking down on people who had DirecTV dishes on their house (DirecTV is illegal in Canada -- it's not approved by the CRTC). There were news reports of the RCMP entering homes with DTV dishes and taking not only the reciever and dish, but anything that was attached to the dish. I know people who flat out threw DTV dishes and recievers into the trash based on the FUD created by the raid stories. I wonder if you get caught with an XM reciever in your car if they'll take your ride?
See this google query for information. Apparently one of the people hard-hit by the raids sued the RCMP and a Judge was rather critical of the RCMP for allowing DirecTV "cops" to supervise the raids.
The company I work for uses Netifice as it's VPN provider and when you install Netifice SmartWorX on Windows XP Pro it disables the friendly welcome screen and fast user switching. If you try and re-enable this stuff it says the Cisco VPN service is preventing this from being changed. The checkbox that lets you select whether or not users have to use Ctrl-Alt-Delete to logon to the PC is checked and greyed out so the choice cannot be toggled.
Wish I could tell you more than that. It's a start I guess.
You're all slightly right and mostly wrong. The laws in Canada differ from province to province. In Ontario there are over time exemptions for professional and IT workers. That is, salaried employees that fall into these categories are not eligible for overtime pay.
You can find out more information here. There's a chart that lists the professions and their specific exemptions. There's also a helpful FAQ on work hours and overtime eligibility in Ontario here. The specific table information pretaining to most/. readers makes this job category definition:
Information technology professionals who use specialized knowledge and professional judgment to work with information systems based on computers and related technologies.
and if you think you dodged a bullet there because you're a P.Eng., think again. There's also:
Professionals Employees who are:
--qualified and practise as architects, lawyers, professional engineers, public accountants, surveyors, veterinarians;
--registered practitioners of chiropody (including podiatry), chiropractic, dentistry, massage therapy, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, physiotherapy or psychology;
--registered drugless practitioners under the Drugless Practitioners' Act (e.g., naturopaths, osteopaths)
--teachers, as defined in the Teaching Profession Act; and
--students training for these professions.
Emergency Leave may not be taken where it would constitute an act of professional misconduct or a dereliction of professional duty.
Check that table to see to what degree you're getting screwed.
This law was implemented by the Mike Harris government as a way to help high tech companies in Ontario keep salaries under control but force their employees into insane working hours. The law was inacted thanks to lobbying pressure from the ITAC group (who also lobbied for the nicer 50% capital gains reduction income tax law, so they're not all bad I guess). Their reasoning was that salaries in the IT industry were already very, very high compared to the national average (note, they considered stock options and employee share programs as part of their "salary" calculations) so they should be able to force their employees to work as many hours as their are in the day.
Our current premier, Dalton McGuinty, had promised "sweeping" labour reforms in Ontario. Haven't seen any of that happen yet. Not holding my breath here waiting for it to happen...
I don't see what the delimma is here? A chance to live out The Dream and tour the world playing music should not be passed up. If you're any good at interviewing and IT, whatever that is, then what are you worried about?
Note: I had to respond just so my band's URL is in yet another/. thread...click it...buy a disc...make me famous too!
Find out: play paintball! We make a regular yearly outing at my place of work. We're all pretty heavy gamers and first time we did this event we were pretty certain the better FPS players would be the better marksman. Not so. Real life != Video game land. But we have a blast regardless. Definitly recommend performing your own experiment. Maybe repeating several times for the sake of accuracy.
Worked for me when I had the same problem with my cats. Just dilute it 1:1 with water and use a little paint brush to cover your cables. It also works to keep them from chewing the leaves on your potted palm tree.
Hmm...yes...let me hand over my beautiful guitars so you can route cavities and holes and dig up the bridge mounts and turn my fabulous (but not fast to retune) instruments into technological wonders. No thanks.
Maybe if I was Jimmy Page and owned more early Gibson's than the Gibson Factory Museum I could bare to part with one of my instruments.
I'll keep all the wood behind my bridge so to speak.
My parents bought a Storm line-of-site system up in the Ottawa Valley area and it's been nothing but trouble. They were having sporadic access with their dish and the help-desk personnel told them to turn off their 802.11b router because the dish was randomly selecting the same channel ID as their router and it was 'confusing' their dish.
My advice to you: get in touch with the Storm.ca people. Find out what they use. And avoid it.
IRC
That looks more like an unenforceable trademark than a patent, but the idea is the same: Bayer was negligent in trademarking and enforcing the trademark "Aspirin" so they forfeited the right to selective enforcement as time went on.
I think MS will find they forfeited the right to charge for FAT a long, long time ago...in a galaxy far, far away...
I'm actually studying for my Professional Engineering License exam right now so I'm feeling all in touch with the law (at least as it is in Canada). Our patent system requires that you activily enforce your patent rights from the start. You can't let everyone adopt your technology and they wake up one day and say "Hey! I should charge them now that my patent is a defacto standard!" No judge would go for that in a patent infringement case -- which is presumably what you'd get slapped with you don't pony up the cash to MS.
I would hope that there is enough money floating around in the memory/disk making pool to take MS to task on this on and get their claims to licensing thrown out.
I know for a fact that these guys have developed point-of-sale linux apps for big time customers. I've dealt with them before and they're friendly enough to contact. You may want to ask them if they have small-fry offerings that fit your budget.
It's a cheap combo that takes decent pics. And the additional case makes it pretty darn durable. It uses regular AA's so you can always find juice for it in the field.
I think your biggest problem will be whether or not digital pictures are legitimate in court when you're talking accident claims. They can be altered far too easily.
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While there are former U.Wisc. Condor staffers at Redhat now, and Redhat is a major contributor to the Condor project and has much invested in it, it is most definitely owned and operated by Miron Livny and the U.Wisc. computer science department. There's a large group of staff and students there that run the project and add the bulk of the new features to Condor. Anyhow, Condor is definitely an academia project with huge success that comes to my mind.
I work for an FPGA company. Both languages are going strong. You'd do well to learn both. My experience says if you want to work in government, especially military, it's pretty much dominated by VHDL. And Verilog is the prevalent language in telco and video design.
crichton took on a number of popular culture myths (the effects of global warming, rising ocean levels, receeding icebergs, and the "noble savage") in this book and kudos to him for trying. i did check up on a number of his references and there are, like lindzen's says in the article at the top of this post, commonly accepted truths but that the outcome of what's accepted has no consensus or emperical support for any theory at this point. whether or not we can control climate on a global scale certainly has no emperical evidence. good book. i still get the creeps thinking about that end scene with the actor...on the island...the "noble savage" supporter...ugh...he got what he deserved.
You're wrong when you say there are no other options to Rogers and Sympatico in your area. You just need to look a little harder. There are plently of DSL providers in Ontario (Magma is one that comes to mind). There's also the option of a non-residential high speed connection if you want to use Vonage. True, it is more expensive, but it doesn't come with the restrictions that residential connections are weighed down with. Residential connections are, in part, more lucrativily priced because there are no service guaruntees attached to them. The ISPs don't have to deliver 24/7 access with minimum bit rates, and in return you get to pay less.
I'm a Vonage and a Rogers customer in Ontario and if Rogers plans to block Vonage use on its network when it launches its own VoIP service late this summer I'll be thanking my lucky stars there's no service contract with Vonage or Rogers. So I can jump either ship as suits my communication needs.
I think 90% of what's been discussed here can be resolved with: if you want no-strings-attached internet acces, don't buy a residential connection.
Provide a good assessment of your profiency with the language on your resume. Something like:
Use some modesty in assessing your abilities. If I see an "Intermediate" level I'm going to assume you can write a few lines without needing that reference manual.
An interview is a (too?) quick assessment of your skills and your ability to think and translate those thoughts into something tangible. It's okay to tell the interviewer that you're only comfortable in Java. (Mind you, you will look like and idiot if you say something like that when the job requirements listed LISP experience as a requirement. Don't apply for a job you are not qualified to hold.) It's better to be up front and honest about what you know than subversive and diliberatly vague. I'll be leniant if I ask you to answer a question in Perl and you say, "Hey, can you give me a quick refresher on Perl semantics? As you can see I have only professed to having a beginners level of Perl knowledge." I'd be down right friendly about helping you out if you were up front about what you do and do not know. Otherwise I'm inclined to try and make you cry. Or at least feel very, very dumb.
I can't tell you how many times now I've interviewed some little fresh-out-of-school-all-eager-and-willing twat who has every language any one ever mentioned to him in school listed on his resume.
Don't lie about what you know.
If you cannot answer a simple question in a language you've listed on your resume then it shouldn't be there.
If you really think you need to bone up a lack luster resume with lists of useless abilities be smart about it. Make a grid and list the language and your current level of proficency. Then the interviewer isn't appalled when you're asked to answer a simple question in Perl but you can't remember how even declare a scalar in Perl because you only ever wrote one Perl script...
...five years ago...
...but really you just copied someone else's Perl CGI script and changed the HTML output to match your own amateur porn site's look and feel.
Check out:
Fundamentals of Digital Logic by Brown & Vranesic
Available in both a VHLD and Verilog version for your learning pleasure. Both books ship with a copy of Quartus II from Altera. You can get Altera development kits here if you're looking for something bigger and better than a Spartan-IIe.
Disclaimer: I work with the authors.
I needed a command-line batch converter so I wrote one and posted it on sourceforge. Check out: http://wav2mp3.sourceforget.net/
I'm always willing to listen to feature requests. Sounds like a wav2flac equivalent might be something you'd want. I was driven to this solution because lame doesn't support multiple file inputs to convert.
You can cron the conversion so it happens after hours. Rip during the day, convert at night.
I like how changing beer from anything but a weak, tasteless, yellow coloured water in the U.S. becomes a front page /. story.
Canada has enjoyed strong, flavoured malted beverages for a long time now. And if you like coffee and beer, you can always combine the two, right?
A few years ago there was a big uproar in the Ottawa Valley area because the RCMP were cracking down on people who had DirecTV dishes on their house (DirecTV is illegal in Canada -- it's not approved by the CRTC). There were news reports of the RCMP entering homes with DTV dishes and taking not only the reciever and dish, but anything that was attached to the dish. I know people who flat out threw DTV dishes and recievers into the trash based on the FUD created by the raid stories. I wonder if you get caught with an XM reciever in your car if they'll take your ride?
See this google query for information. Apparently one of the people hard-hit by the raids sued the RCMP and a Judge was rather critical of the RCMP for allowing DirecTV "cops" to supervise the raids.
The company I work for uses Netifice as it's VPN provider and when you install Netifice SmartWorX on Windows XP Pro it disables the friendly welcome screen and fast user switching. If you try and re-enable this stuff it says the Cisco VPN service is preventing this from being changed. The checkbox that lets you select whether or not users have to use Ctrl-Alt-Delete to logon to the PC is checked and greyed out so the choice cannot be toggled.
Wish I could tell you more than that. It's a start I guess.
You're all slightly right and mostly wrong. The laws in Canada differ from province to province. In Ontario there are over time exemptions for professional and IT workers. That is, salaried employees that fall into these categories are not eligible for overtime pay.
You can find out more information here. There's a chart that lists the professions and their specific exemptions. There's also a helpful FAQ on work hours and overtime eligibility in Ontario here. The specific table information pretaining to most /. readers makes this job category definition:
and if you think you dodged a bullet there because you're a P.Eng., think again. There's also: Check that table to see to what degree you're getting screwed.This law was implemented by the Mike Harris government as a way to help high tech companies in Ontario keep salaries under control but force their employees into insane working hours. The law was inacted thanks to lobbying pressure from the ITAC group (who also lobbied for the nicer 50% capital gains reduction income tax law, so they're not all bad I guess). Their reasoning was that salaries in the IT industry were already very, very high compared to the national average (note, they considered stock options and employee share programs as part of their "salary" calculations) so they should be able to force their employees to work as many hours as their are in the day.
Our current premier, Dalton McGuinty, had promised "sweeping" labour reforms in Ontario. Haven't seen any of that happen yet. Not holding my breath here waiting for it to happen...
Do it man!
I don't see what the delimma is here? A chance to live out The Dream and tour the world playing music should not be passed up. If you're any good at interviewing and IT, whatever that is, then what are you worried about?
Note: I had to respond just so my band's URL is in yet another /. thread...click it...buy a disc...make me famous too!
Find out: play paintball! We make a regular yearly outing at my place of work. We're all pretty heavy gamers and first time we did this event we were pretty certain the better FPS players would be the better marksman. Not so. Real life != Video game land. But we have a blast regardless. Definitly recommend performing your own experiment. Maybe repeating several times for the sake of accuracy.
Worked for me when I had the same problem with my cats. Just dilute it 1:1 with water and use a little paint brush to cover your cables. It also works to keep them from chewing the leaves on your potted palm tree.
Hmm...yes...let me hand over my beautiful guitars so you can route cavities and holes and dig up the bridge mounts and turn my fabulous (but not fast to retune) instruments into technological wonders. No thanks.
Maybe if I was Jimmy Page and owned more early Gibson's than the Gibson Factory Museum I could bare to part with one of my instruments.
I'll keep all the wood behind my bridge so to speak.
IRC
My parents bought a Storm line-of-site system up in the Ottawa Valley area and it's been nothing but trouble. They were having sporadic access with their dish and the help-desk personnel told them to turn off their 802.11b router because the dish was randomly selecting the same channel ID as their router and it was 'confusing' their dish.
My advice to you: get in touch with the Storm.ca people. Find out what they use. And avoid it. IRC
That looks more like an unenforceable trademark than a patent, but the idea is the same: Bayer was negligent in trademarking and enforcing the trademark "Aspirin" so they forfeited the right to selective enforcement as time went on. I think MS will find they forfeited the right to charge for FAT a long, long time ago...in a galaxy far, far away...
I would hope that there is enough money floating around in the memory/disk making pool to take MS to task on this on and get their claims to licensing thrown out.
But hey, as the saying goes, IANAL...
I know for a fact that these guys have developed point-of-sale linux apps for big time customers. I've dealt with them before and they're friendly enough to contact. You may want to ask them if they have small-fry offerings that fit your budget.
SCO had a booth at this linux conference I attended this week. Now that's CHUTZPHA!
Canon PowerShot A40 and the Waterproof Case WP-DC 200S.
It's a cheap combo that takes decent pics. And the additional case makes it pretty darn durable. It uses regular AA's so you can always find juice for it in the field.
I think your biggest problem will be whether or not digital pictures are legitimate in court when you're talking accident claims. They can be altered far too easily.