Every day Soong makes the rounds of employment agencies. When he is lucky he gets a temporary job answering phones or testing video games, nothing that ever pays more than $10 an hour. Most days he doesn't work. "I've been able to pay my bills at the end of the month," he said in early June, "although this month may be a little tough." Two weeks later, Soong canceled his cell phone and e-mail accounts.
I haven't found it to be nearly so bad out there. Especially considering this guy is willing to hop about the country to work. There are jobs there, the IT unemployment rate is 4%, while the national rate is 5%. Actually better off than the rest.
I guess he's looking for a salary noone wants to pay.
Even if he couldn't find an IT job, then go find another job - do something else.
Trivial, but it's not legal. I went the legal route, moved here, married, waited 6 months for my work visa, and another two years for my green card.
Of course, California is just going to hand out drivers licenses and soc. security cards to anyone no matter how they got there, with no proof of background or even who they are.
I did it the hard way.. Spending thousands on lawyers, when I just could have showed up with my hand out.
But then I'm a white Canadian, so I guess I had no choice.
how much do you get fined for stealing 50 CD's out of someones car? (assume the car was unlocked and no charges can be filed for actually breaking into the car)
Umm, the car/house doesn't have to be locked to be charged with B&E. So long as the doors are shut, the act of pulling on the handle and opening it w/o permission is a crime.
And there's a difference between taking one copy of a CD, vs distributing ten, one hundred, one thousand copies of that CD.
But all of that is neither here nor there.
Since you love analogies, see how much you get fined for selling bootlegged movies or cd's out on the street. The fact that a P2P user doesn't profit only means that they have shitty business sense, in the eyes of the law.
But critics are talking about the spread of child porn and beastiality and incest and shit. As vile as explicit rap lyrics may be, at least they're about adults and not little kids.
If I were Linus, the personal attacks and BS from SCO would make me work twice as hard to get a new kernel release out, one that's vastly superior to anything SCO had ever shipped.
To me that's a bigger slap in the face to McBride et al than all of the name-calling in the world. That's just how I am, though..
No, my logic is, I have more respect for actions than words.
It's like Schwartzenegger talking a good game about the environment, trying to shmooze the hippies in Cali, then hops into his Hummvee and drives away.
Words have very little value, especially when you're just saying what people want to hear, and it's nothing more than some name calling. I'd thought Linus to be above that.
Silence can be interpreted as strength and/or indifference, ie; "I will not dignify you with a response".
Actions speak louder than words. A new kernel release - with no code removed or altered - would send more of a message to SCO than a 400 page manifesto composed by Stallman, Raymond et al.
I know that, my point is all his contributions have been overshadowed by his big mouth.
I don't think of emacs, gcc, gdb when someone says Stallman. If I were still in University, and someone told me Stallman was coming to give a talk, I wouldn't go - because it'd just be a bunch of yammering and arm waving about free vs Free.
There's no law saying you have to list every employer on your resume.
If an SCO employee really really wanted to work for this company that noone has ever heard of, they dont have to list SCO as a former employer.
And if hired, a year down the road it's found that they did work for SCO, I don't think that they can legally be fired. (Assuming they didn't sign some kind of "i swear I never worked for SCO before" document)
Anyhow, thank chrisd for helping make Open Source companies look like foaming mouthed tools.
You have no obligation to list SCO as an employer on your resume if you don't wan't to, anyways.
I don't bother putting the fact that I worked at Burger King for three weeks when I was 14, and was fired when I told the manager if he didn't shut his mouth I'd shove a whopper straight up his ass.
Anyways, lets assume damage studios doesnt make you sign some sort of affadavid swearing that you've never worked for SCO.
You don't list it on the resume and get hired.
A year later, they find out you did and go to fire you - you probably have a fat wrongful dismissal suit.
I've always had respect for Linus, the respect that I don't have for other OSS "advocates" like Stallman, Raymond or Perens.
Simply because Linus is the guy who just practices what the rest preach. He just keeps his mouth shut for the most part and works on the code. Instead of pontificating, he produces something that proved that the OSS model can work.
He doesn't spout off into diatribes about free vs Free, he doesn't rant and rave about technologies like the TCPA, just comments on how they can be implemented in Linux.
Please, Linus, don't drag yourself down to the level of the foaming mouthed nut. There's no shortage of zealots to badmouth SCO, and you're merely preaching to the choir.
Ultimately all you'll do is damage your image, when someone mentions Stallman or Raymond, do you immediately think of code they've written, or an image of them jumping up and down on a soapbox?
Stick to the tech, keep being an inspiration to true geeks, and not anti-gumment nutjobs.
Some guy I never heard of told me I should listen to him instead!
I know the media has bias, everyone has bias, but it's easier to watch CNN or MSNBC and see through the rhetoric than to swallow crap from some guy with a tinfoil hat.
These types of articles are always a ton of allegations and theories, never any proof. They read like cases of alien abductions.
The type of people who want this service have no interest in the interweb besides checking the box scores or the local weather. The power user type already have broadband.
Well all the same. It's like saying "Why not get extended service instead of basic cable?" "Why not get premium gas instead of regular?" "Why not supersize that Happy meal for only 49 cents?"
All those nickels and dimes add up to a dollar. Smart people don't pay for stuff they don't need.
You can pitch out a bunch of the superflous stuff with HTTP by not using HTTP, and maintaining only one compressed connection to the proxy machine on the ISPs side.
Nah, this is different altogether. Gzip is not the alpha and omega of compression.
Different algorithms lend themselves better to different applications, so it seems to me a good accelerator would use a mix of algorithms based on MIME type.
Ie; is the source data formatted in 24 byte words? 16 bit words? 8 bit words? If you have 8 bit data you don't want to look at 16 bit chunks, because then the string "abacadaeafag" doesnt compress for you. Dictionary sizes and blah blah blah... Even format conversion - turn all those BMPs that dingbats put on their pages into PNGs or lossless jpegs..
And as for caching, it seems to me like more of a prefetch than a squid-type cache.. Ie, you request page, proxy at IP gets page, compresses it on the fly, then sends it. Caching it locally is more of an advantage WRT latency, not throughput.
There's a lot of common sense tricks you could use. And according to these articles, they work.
Charter gives you cable internet for 10-20 bucks a month?
They charge everyone else 40 bucks.
There's a huge market for this. There's a shitload of people who's browsing is limited to cnn.com to check the weather and see the headlines, maybe the odd order from a well-known site like amazon.com.
A lot of people don't care all that much about the weeb.
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But those extra lines can be put in by employees, or an outsourced firm in the USA. In any case, it's a contract dispute between vendor and client.
Outsourcing's a bitch, but all these "Indians will put big worms and nasty stuff in your programs!" is really just racism.
It's like saying "Don't hire a black guy, he'll rob you blind!" or "Don't hire a Mexican, they just sleep all day!".
Every day Soong makes the rounds of employment agencies. When he is lucky he gets a temporary job answering phones or testing video games, nothing that ever pays more than $10 an hour. Most days he doesn't work. "I've been able to pay my bills at the end of the month," he said in early June, "although this month may be a little tough." Two weeks later, Soong canceled his cell phone and e-mail accounts.
I haven't found it to be nearly so bad out there. Especially considering this guy is willing to hop about the country to work. There are jobs there, the IT unemployment rate is 4%, while the national rate is 5%. Actually better off than the rest.
I guess he's looking for a salary noone wants to pay.
Even if he couldn't find an IT job, then go find another job - do something else.
Trivial, but it's not legal. I went the legal route, moved here, married, waited 6 months for my work visa, and another two years for my green card.
Of course, California is just going to hand out drivers licenses and soc. security cards to anyone no matter how they got there, with no proof of background or even who they are.
I did it the hard way.. Spending thousands on lawyers, when I just could have showed up with my hand out.
But then I'm a white Canadian, so I guess I had no choice.
Does SourceSafe or cvs not do that already? Can someone elaborate, is this actually a new technology?
/* Gates is a big dork!! */ into windows.h, you look at the changelog.
I mean, you want to find out who put the comment
Meekrab is a curse word. Please watch your mouth, lest you raise the ire of the Royal Knights of Standards and Practices.
how much do you get fined for stealing 50 CD's out of someones car? (assume the car was unlocked and no charges can be filed for actually breaking into the car)
Umm, the car/house doesn't have to be locked to be charged with B&E. So long as the doors are shut, the act of pulling on the handle and opening it w/o permission is a crime.
And there's a difference between taking one copy of a CD, vs distributing ten, one hundred, one thousand copies of that CD.
But all of that is neither here nor there.
Since you love analogies, see how much you get fined for selling bootlegged movies or cd's out on the street. The fact that a P2P user doesn't profit only means that they have shitty business sense, in the eyes of the law.
But critics are talking about the spread of child porn and beastiality and incest and shit. As vile as explicit rap lyrics may be, at least they're about adults and not little kids.
Durwood Pickle?!
wtf
If I were Linus, the personal attacks and BS from SCO would make me work twice as hard to get a new kernel release out, one that's vastly superior to anything SCO had ever shipped.
To me that's a bigger slap in the face to McBride et al than all of the name-calling in the world. That's just how I am, though..
No, my logic is, I have more respect for actions than words.
It's like Schwartzenegger talking a good game about the environment, trying to shmooze the hippies in Cali, then hops into his Hummvee and drives away.
Words have very little value, especially when you're just saying what people want to hear, and it's nothing more than some name calling. I'd thought Linus to be above that.
Silence can be interpreted as strength and/or indifference, ie; "I will not dignify you with a response".
Actions speak louder than words. A new kernel release - with no code removed or altered - would send more of a message to SCO than a 400 page manifesto composed by Stallman, Raymond et al.
I know that, my point is all his contributions have been overshadowed by his big mouth.
I don't think of emacs, gcc, gdb when someone says Stallman. If I were still in University, and someone told me Stallman was coming to give a talk, I wouldn't go - because it'd just be a bunch of yammering and arm waving about free vs Free.
There's no law saying you have to list every employer on your resume.
If an SCO employee really really wanted to work for this company that noone has ever heard of, they dont have to list SCO as a former employer.
And if hired, a year down the road it's found that they did work for SCO, I don't think that they can legally be fired. (Assuming they didn't sign some kind of "i swear I never worked for SCO before" document)
Anyhow, thank chrisd for helping make Open Source companies look like foaming mouthed tools.
No it wasnt, it was the same nyah nyah nyah boo boo tripe that any number of slashbots have been saying.
Not responding to SCO at all would have shown a lot more dignity, and made a much stronger statement, IMO.
You have no obligation to list SCO as an employer on your resume if you don't wan't to, anyways.
I don't bother putting the fact that I worked at Burger King for three weeks when I was 14, and was fired when I told the manager if he didn't shut his mouth I'd shove a whopper straight up his ass.
Anyways, lets assume damage studios doesnt make you sign some sort of affadavid swearing that you've never worked for SCO.
You don't list it on the resume and get hired.
A year later, they find out you did and go to fire you - you probably have a fat wrongful dismissal suit.
If you're company has less than whatever the threshhold number of employees is, you don't have to follow EOE guidelines.
Like little family-run restaurants don't have to fire their son and hire a black guy just to meet a quota.
This is just immature and stupid, though. Whatever this company sells, I won't buy it.
I've always had respect for Linus, the respect that I don't have for other OSS "advocates" like Stallman, Raymond or Perens.
Simply because Linus is the guy who just practices what the rest preach. He just keeps his mouth shut for the most part and works on the code. Instead of pontificating, he produces something that proved that the OSS model can work.
He doesn't spout off into diatribes about free vs Free, he doesn't rant and rave about technologies like the TCPA, just comments on how they can be implemented in Linux.
Please, Linus, don't drag yourself down to the level of the foaming mouthed nut. There's no shortage of zealots to badmouth SCO, and you're merely preaching to the choir.
Ultimately all you'll do is damage your image, when someone mentions Stallman or Raymond, do you immediately think of code they've written, or an image of them jumping up and down on a soapbox?
Stick to the tech, keep being an inspiration to true geeks, and not anti-gumment nutjobs.
Some guy I never heard of told me I should listen to him instead!
I know the media has bias, everyone has bias, but it's easier to watch CNN or MSNBC and see through the rhetoric than to swallow crap from some guy with a tinfoil hat.
These types of articles are always a ton of allegations and theories, never any proof. They read like cases of alien abductions.
Hence, these are web accelerators.
The type of people who want this service have no interest in the interweb besides checking the box scores or the local weather. The power user type already have broadband.
Well all the same. It's like saying "Why not get extended service instead of basic cable?" "Why not get premium gas instead of regular?" "Why not supersize that Happy meal for only 49 cents?"
All those nickels and dimes add up to a dollar. Smart people don't pay for stuff they don't need.
You can pitch out a bunch of the superflous stuff with HTTP by not using HTTP, and maintaining only one compressed connection to the proxy machine on the ISPs side.
Probably not a 5x increase, but noticable.
Nah, this is different altogether. Gzip is not the alpha and omega of compression.
Different algorithms lend themselves better to different applications, so it seems to me a good accelerator would use a mix of algorithms based on MIME type.
Ie; is the source data formatted in 24 byte words? 16 bit words? 8 bit words? If you have 8 bit data you don't want to look at 16 bit chunks, because then the string "abacadaeafag" doesnt compress for you. Dictionary sizes and blah blah blah... Even format conversion - turn all those BMPs that dingbats put on their pages into PNGs or lossless jpegs..
And as for caching, it seems to me like more of a prefetch than a squid-type cache.. Ie, you request page, proxy at IP gets page, compresses it on the fly, then sends it. Caching it locally is more of an advantage WRT latency, not throughput.
There's a lot of common sense tricks you could use. And according to these articles, they work.
I hate WiFiPods now!
It turns out they arent Free!
Imagine my dismay!
Charter gives you cable internet for 10-20 bucks a month?
They charge everyone else 40 bucks.
There's a huge market for this. There's a shitload of people who's browsing is limited to cnn.com to check the weather and see the headlines, maybe the odd order from a well-known site like amazon.com.
A lot of people don't care all that much about the weeb.
They require non-Free software?
Well, why don't you go ahead and write some Free software to accomplish the same thing?
My GameCube requires non-Free software too.
Wahhhh