I've noticed that Carl Bialik from Wall Street Journal has a Slashdot user account that proudly and upfrontly states that he works and writes for the Wall Street Journal, and with that disclaimer I have no problem with someone submitting their own stories. However, I sort of had the feeling that "Andrew" was pumping his own site, but no disclaimer. Oddly, the shortflip.com site has no names of authors, proprietors, business owners, or anything. Their whois record lists a registrar as "Domains by Proxy". There is absolutely no mention of any names at all on the website, even on the articles! A quick Google search for shortflip turns up a digg account of someone working for shortflip who is also pumping their own site, who I assume is "Andrew".
I'm sure it's just me being anal but I think the ethical thing to do here is to mention that yes, you are pumping your own site, and not to go to extreme lengths to cover your tracks. Dude, no one cares that you are pumping your site, but doing it under the guide of some neutral third party is sort of shady. My.02
You only need select if you want two player mode with 30 lives each, otherwise you'll just be in single player mode... with 30 lives. =) Which, incidentally is just about the only way to beat Contra...
I used to have OO.o installed on my old Red Hat box and it was nice to have a free Office suite which basically did most everything I used the "real" Office suite for... but on my new install, I've installed Abiword and Gnumeric and I must say that I'm quite pleased with them, not to mention they use a native widget set instead of 'god-knows-what'....
A lot of people I know have all their movies in some combination of VHS and DVD, so this what their collection consists of. The TV has a VCR and DVD player attached. What next, another device for playing the new format?
Physical media allow you to store things, such as movies and data, and move them around, let a friend borrow them, etc. But the major use of DVDs is for movies.
I say let them duke it out in a format war, because to me the obvious way to go is to use broadband to deliver movies. Watching movies should be device and format agnostic.
And the service shouldn't be pay per view, either. You should be able to buy "viewing rights" for a movie, which are stored in a remote database. This way you could cache your movies in local storage (a hard drive), but if the drive goes down or you want to upgrade, you still have viewing rights for the movies and could re-download them.
Instead of draconian digital rights management, make it an open process to verify what media someone is entitled to view/listen. Companies can pull up one's credit record, and I think something similar should be possible for movies/music.
Ever since I learned how to build a computer, which was quite some years ago, I've felt sorry that bought HPs or Compaq or whatever (eMachines, *shudder*). If I was subject to the "disposal tax," would I be able to get around it by building my own system?
Granted, I am probably less likely to just toss the whole box when I'm "done with it." I'm probably much more likely to scrap it for parts -- use the stuff I still want, eBay the rest (30 pin SIMMS, anyone? =)
What about computer shops that just assemble computers and sell them under the house brand?
I'm all for effective computer recycling, especially given the fact that computers and monitors have so many chemicals that need to be properly disposed of.
However, the most efficient form of recycling is re-using. Granted, not everyone is going to that that old beige box and make a firewall or print server or something, but if you do, you still have to pay the "disposal tax".
I've been a pretty happy Gnome user for the last year or so. I must say though, Xfce is very snappy and well polished. It looks good, it works good, and I love it. I'll always have a special place in my heart for Gnome, but this WM is one awesome piece of software.
Btw, my system has 512 MB RAM and an Athlon XP 1800+, so it's not like Gnome doesn't run fine.
If by this he means he had some text editors and stuff, sure. But to call that an operating system is a bit rich. In other words, a car without an engine or a transmission isn't a car.
I don't think it's a bit rich at all. An operating system provides a platform for software to work on. There's not a lot of difference between having an OS with 'some text editors and stuff' and simply adding a few more software packages. I believe a better car analogy would be a car WITH an engine, and transmission, but perhaps lacking air conditioning, a radio, and other such amenities.
Age is thought of as a liability
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As a 20-year old programmer who would like to either someday work for a technology company or run my own, I do consider age a factor in the hiring process. However, I know I'm not always going to be "young" which doesn't necessarily qualify me for a job because my youthful energy translates into more productivity. I also realize, and hope that other managers realize that experience is also very critical to job peformance.
A coder that's 30 might have picked up some knowledge about complex systems design that some 20 year old has yet to learn through experience. And it could be the other way around. Perhaps the 30 year old has only been coding for a couple of years. Or a 40 year old, or 50 or whatever.
My only advice is if you are applying for a job where you think age may be a significant determining factor in whether you are hired or not, try and turn it into an asset, not a liability. Talk up your skills and experience, and how you can save your employer time and money because you can avoid common mistakes and use the things you've learned to make better systems, save time and be more productive.
I hope to run my own software related company someday, and hope I still I have the good notion to look at the whole picture when hiring people.
He may also have been referring to an episode of Spider-Man (the newer cartoon version) which featured a scientist researching black holes and the like. He also gained the ability to move the holes around at will and even named himself "The Spot."
The mainstream media always seems to be showing articles about doctors over-prescribing antibiotics (because people desperately want antibiotics even if they don't help against viruses and whatnot). This has led to the decreasing effectiveness of penicillin, and recently vancomyacin (sp?) has met some resistant strains of bacteria.
Although this is no comfort to people that might benefit from the use of a new bacteria killer, and most people will assume that this conglorporation is trying to abuse the patent process (it's so easy, it seems), perhaps it would be better to let this company keep the product under tight wraps for now. Although I don't know much about the lengthy, complex process involved in taking a new antibiotic from the lab to the pharmacy, this might allow time for organizations and associations to maintain the effectiveness of the antibiotic for as long as possible.
Then again, this company might not be altruistic at all, but it is their money that has paved the way for the development of this new antibiotic, so again, it's all a matter of perspective.
I've been researching various portable MP3 players for some time, meanwhile budgeting some cash that I could use to buy one. I had my mind set on a iPod for a while because the design looked sleek and elegant, stored gigs of music, and reportedly got good life out of its batteries.
My alternative to an iPod would have been the player from Archos, which was AFAIK the second portable music player that stored giga-, not mega- bytes.
Since the investment in one of these players is fairly substantial (300-400 USD), and as of late I have more and more music files in.ogg format, I decided to hold off until something actually played.ogg's.
This is probably the music player that I've been waiting for. A hard drive so I can store thousands of songs (as opposed to whatever I can squeeze into 32 or 64 megs), and some 'smart' features such as recording and being able to broadcast to a radio.
I'm sure there are other people out there like me that have been waiting for this kind of player to come along, so I for one am ready to plunck down the cash and buy one, and show the industry that.ogg is a viable format. Hopefully more players will come along.
I wish Neuros the best of luck with their new product, and of course, kudos go out to the Xiph.org team for all of their hard work.
Nobody know's better than the coder who codes and application how it should work.
I would have to disagree. Much software (and especially free software, seem to have interfaces that leave something to be desired. The coder knows the program, and appreciates the project from a very functional point of view, but they tend to lose sight of the usability of the interface.
I'm not saying that coders aren't good at designing human interfaces, but from my experience it's often more beneficial for someone else altogether to design the HI, from the perspective of an "outsider."
As an example, a few years ago HP hired a consulting company to make a name and identity for what was to become Agilent Technologies. They also came up with the stock ticker symbol, which was simply 'A' (supposing to indicate strength, as AT&T's symbol was simply a T).
The cost to completely develop the identity for Agilent was a $1 million.
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I can't remember where I read this, but according to some survey, the #1 thing that men talk about to other men is women, but the #1 thing that women talk about to other women (and gay guys I suppose) is their hair.
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I've noticed that Carl Bialik from Wall Street Journal has a Slashdot user account that proudly and upfrontly states that he works and writes for the Wall Street Journal, and with that disclaimer I have no problem with someone submitting their own stories. However, I sort of had the feeling that "Andrew" was pumping his own site, but no disclaimer. Oddly, the shortflip.com site has no names of authors, proprietors, business owners, or anything. Their whois record lists a registrar as "Domains by Proxy". There is absolutely no mention of any names at all on the website, even on the articles! A quick Google search for shortflip turns up a digg account of someone working for shortflip who is also pumping their own site, who I assume is "Andrew".
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I'm sure it's just me being anal but I think the ethical thing to do here is to mention that yes, you are pumping your own site, and not to go to extreme lengths to cover your tracks. Dude, no one cares that you are pumping your site, but doing it under the guide of some neutral third party is sort of shady. My
... our super fast baseball playing overlords.
You only need select if you want two player mode with 30 lives each, otherwise you'll just be in single player mode... with 30 lives. =) Which, incidentally is just about the only way to beat Contra...
I used to have OO.o installed on my old Red Hat box and it was nice to have a free Office suite which basically did most everything I used the "real" Office suite for... but on my new install, I've installed Abiword and Gnumeric and I must say that I'm quite pleased with them, not to mention they use a native widget set instead of 'god-knows-what'....
Go open source!
FYI, the GAO (General Accounting Office) just changed their name to Government Accountability Office to more properly reflect their duties.
A lot of people I know have all their movies in some combination of VHS and DVD, so this what their collection consists of. The TV has a VCR and DVD player attached. What next, another device for playing the new format?
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Physical media allow you to store things, such as movies and data, and move them around, let a friend borrow them, etc. But the major use of DVDs is for movies.
I say let them duke it out in a format war, because to me the obvious way to go is to use broadband to deliver movies. Watching movies should be device and format agnostic.
And the service shouldn't be pay per view, either. You should be able to buy "viewing rights" for a movie, which are stored in a remote database. This way you could cache your movies in local storage (a hard drive), but if the drive goes down or you want to upgrade, you still have viewing rights for the movies and could re-download them.
Instead of draconian digital rights management, make it an open process to verify what media someone is entitled to view/listen. Companies can pull up one's credit record, and I think something similar should be possible for movies/music.
Just my
How long till the author of the article gets fired? Er wait...
I seem to recall reading somewhere that USB devices are officially allowed to draw 250 millivolts through the cable.
Ever since I learned how to build a computer, which was quite some years ago, I've felt sorry that bought HPs or Compaq or whatever (eMachines, *shudder*). If I was subject to the "disposal tax," would I be able to get around it by building my own system?
Granted, I am probably less likely to just toss the whole box when I'm "done with it." I'm probably much more likely to scrap it for parts -- use the stuff I still want, eBay the rest (30 pin SIMMS, anyone? =)
What about computer shops that just assemble computers and sell them under the house brand?
I'm all for effective computer recycling, especially given the fact that computers and monitors have so many chemicals that need to be properly disposed of.
However, the most efficient form of recycling is re-using. Granted, not everyone is going to that that old beige box and make a firewall or print server or something, but if you do, you still have to pay the "disposal tax".
totally slashdot a presidential candidate.
I've been a pretty happy Gnome user for the last year or so. I must say though, Xfce is very snappy and well polished. It looks good, it works good, and I love it. I'll always have a special place in my heart for Gnome, but this WM is one awesome piece of software. Btw, my system has 512 MB RAM and an Athlon XP 1800+, so it's not like Gnome doesn't run fine.
As a 20-year old programmer who would like to either someday work for a technology company or run my own, I do consider age a factor in the hiring process. However, I know I'm not always going to be "young" which doesn't necessarily qualify me for a job because my youthful energy translates into more productivity. I also realize, and hope that other managers realize that experience is also very critical to job peformance.
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A coder that's 30 might have picked up some knowledge about complex systems design that some 20 year old has yet to learn through experience. And it could be the other way around. Perhaps the 30 year old has only been coding for a couple of years. Or a 40 year old, or 50 or whatever.
My only advice is if you are applying for a job where you think age may be a significant determining factor in whether you are hired or not, try and turn it into an asset, not a liability. Talk up your skills and experience, and how you can save your employer time and money because you can avoid common mistakes and use the things you've learned to make better systems, save time and be more productive.
I hope to run my own software related company someday, and hope I still I have the good notion to look at the whole picture when hiring people.
My
He may also have been referring to an episode of Spider-Man (the newer cartoon version) which featured a scientist researching black holes and the like. He also gained the ability to move the holes around at will and even named himself "The Spot."
The mainstream media always seems to be showing articles about doctors over-prescribing antibiotics (because people desperately want antibiotics even if they don't help against viruses and whatnot). This has led to the decreasing effectiveness of penicillin, and recently vancomyacin (sp?) has met some resistant strains of bacteria.
Although this is no comfort to people that might benefit from the use of a new bacteria killer, and most people will assume that this conglorporation is trying to abuse the patent process (it's so easy, it seems), perhaps it would be better to let this company keep the product under tight wraps for now. Although I don't know much about the lengthy, complex process involved in taking a new antibiotic from the lab to the pharmacy, this might allow time for organizations and associations to maintain the effectiveness of the antibiotic for as long as possible.
Then again, this company might not be altruistic at all, but it is their money that has paved the way for the development of this new antibiotic, so again, it's all a matter of perspective.
I've been researching various portable MP3 players for some time, meanwhile budgeting some cash that I could use to buy one. I had my mind set on a iPod for a while because the design looked sleek and elegant, stored gigs of music, and reportedly got good life out of its batteries.
.ogg format, I decided to hold off until something actually played .ogg's.
.ogg is a viable format. Hopefully more players will come along.
My alternative to an iPod would have been the player from Archos, which was AFAIK the second portable music player that stored giga-, not mega- bytes.
Since the investment in one of these players is fairly substantial (300-400 USD), and as of late I have more and more music files in
This is probably the music player that I've been waiting for. A hard drive so I can store thousands of songs (as opposed to whatever I can squeeze into 32 or 64 megs), and some 'smart' features such as recording and being able to broadcast to a radio.
I'm sure there are other people out there like me that have been waiting for this kind of player to come along, so I for one am ready to plunck down the cash and buy one, and show the industry that
I wish Neuros the best of luck with their new product, and of course, kudos go out to the Xiph.org team for all of their hard work.
-Jason Jones
I would have to disagree. Much software (and especially free software, seem to have interfaces that leave something to be desired. The coder knows the program, and appreciates the project from a very functional point of view, but they tend to lose sight of the usability of the interface.
I'm not saying that coders aren't good at designing human interfaces, but from my experience it's often more beneficial for someone else altogether to design the HI, from the perspective of an "outsider."
If you increase the fontsize, it might be the "equivalent" or 20 fonts.
As an example, a few years ago HP hired a consulting company to make a name and identity for what was to become Agilent Technologies. They also came up with the stock ticker symbol, which was simply 'A' (supposing to indicate strength, as AT&T's symbol was simply a T). The cost to completely develop the identity for Agilent was a $1 million.
Would they back me up on DVD-RW or DVD+RW?
I can't remember where I read this, but according to some survey, the #1 thing that men talk about to other men is women, but the #1 thing that women talk about to other women (and gay guys I suppose) is their hair.