Well, searching on my name at one point turned up the plot to a gay porno. I told my friends - at last I'm famous!
If you're really worried, you could mention mistaken identities in online searches at interviews, particularly if you notice a pattern of rejections (as another poster pointed out). Or create a positive online persona, such a blog with your name (in which you could talk about mistaken identities). It might be hard to generate enough popularity to outrank the other link.
I would probably not take any steps that prematurely though, as I haven't heard much about employers summarily rejecting applicants based on 10 seconds of google search. Even the scaremongering article I did see was just someone whining that they couldn't find a job, and speculating that it was probably due to the picture of them projectile vomiting on the net.
I have always wanted to put a sign on my front door which says, "By ringing my door bell, you agree to be squirted with a fully-loaded SuperSoaker, confronted by an angry naked man, or some combination thereof."
This would need to be taken one step further to be effective. If the government actually removed money from the "victim's" accounts, then the money wouldn't be available to give to scammers. Treat that money as a higher tax bracket category, and you don't need to raise taxes for others. Two birds with one stone.
Seriously, for this to have an effect, the resulting reprimand would have to come via snail-mail, registered mail, or a visit from government agents. Email is too easy to ignore (unless it's from a very sincere Nigerian prince).
The obvious control variable would be lack of sleep. Those lacking in sleep may be more likely to have high caffeine intake, but the lack of sleep may ultimately be the real cause of the hallucinations. I didn't RTFA to see how they cancelled out that variable.
It does seem that the 'correlation is not causation' thing is thrown about quite a bit, but then again causation is mentioned quite a bit without a real analysis of if it really is causation. Too bad the taggers don't have time to verify if that's the case before tagging the articles...
They are targeting the families that can't afford bigger systems
Not as their main focus. There's a huge segment of their market that doesn't want a 360 or PS3. The focus of the Wii is different, and it covers demographics that aren't touched or satisfied at all by the other systems.
I could afford all three if I gamed enough to feel like spending the money. The Wii got me to buy my first console in over a decade. It's been worth the money.
Consider getting a video processor (and connect with component or HDMI from there to the TV). Good ones would improve the quality of most inputs, including analog TV. Cartoons on analog TV are my biggest complaint on my projector, as I can see the interlace lines. I haven't settled on a processor yet, as they are expensive if you get a good one.
If your TV/Projector is like mine (and I think all are), it upscales inputs to its native resolution. Built-in video processors on anything but very high-end equipment are seldom on par with dedicated video processors. If the input is the proper resolution, no upscaling/downscaling occurs and no image degradation occurs.
Glad others noticed this. When the first item is so blatantly non-scientific, the entire summary(and therefore the report) can accurately be dismissed as junk. Unfortunately, they're not marketing this to smart people, they're marketing to PHBs.
Neither the article nor the submitter mentioned the possibility of extremely long nose hair. Will that distort the results similar to other facial hair? Will nose hair trimming become mandatory?
Please submit your comment again in voice format. I'll listen to it when I have the chance.
Seriously, both formats have advantages in different situations. If you had even read the summary you'd see that one doctor was in the UK, one was in the Congo in a 3rd world situation. I doubt that a phone call was an option. Other advantages of text include not needing to be awake at the same hour (asynchronous communication), and being able to reference the typed text several times to ensure you got it right. Also, your claim that talking is universally more accurate than text is suspicious at best.
take the responsibility of devoting your full attention to driving
That applies to people independent of the phone. I'm sometimes tempted to remind drivers I'm riding with that the road takes prescendence over explaining something to me. The problem is that most drivers aren't able to do multiple things at once but simply don't know that.
I suggest that one reason cell phones are dangerous is that they are so commonplace that people don't understand that they're multitasking when they use them. Per the article at hand, this particular kind of multitasking may be more dangerous than most, but it's certainly not the only dangerous thing to do while driving (I saw someone trimming ear hair with scissors last weekend! WTF?)
I would argue that many computer science degree programs produce programmers, not software engineers. It may be a subtle distinction, but I think some of the discipline that the term "engineer" evokes is not at all focussed on in many CS programs. Code reviews, documentation, working on a multidisciplinary team, presenting findings... ok, so maybe most of the meat of that needs to be picked up after graduation anyway. Still, given the limited amount of time in an undergraduate degree it seems that one must choose areas to focus more on within the software realm. Practical (vs. theoretical) CS is likely to lean more towards producing an employment-ready programmer, which is I think what you were going for.
:ret over highlighted text will reformat using the tabbing rules set up in your.vimrc files. Quite handy when you have legacy code and new code mixed together leaving a big mess when opened in a viewer with different settings.
And, to remove the ^M from files that came from windows: :se ff=unix
Actually, not all printed photographs will last 25 years. Professional prints on photographic paper might, but inkjet printed photographs likely will not. Before going to the corner drugstore and printing them and calling the job done, I'd suggest doing the research into what the actual (the claims are generally false or non-scientific) expected quality would be in 25 years for the specific printing method and quality of chemicals used in that location.
What about unsupported OSs like OSX 10.3.9? I'm supporting a box running this, so I need to decide between leaving the browser at Safari 1.3.2 (not updated in quite a while), Firefox 2.0.16 (won't be updated after 2008), or purchasing the new OSX for a old machine that can't really take advantage of most of the new features anyway.
Any free advice?:) I'm not a mac guy so I didn't notice this situation until recently.
I can't find the original tips'n'tricks doc NIST published for the best way to reliably store disc media, but here is another study on longevity. I'm sure the other doc can be found without too much trouble.
As others have noted, refresh media every 5 years, and use good quality media. You can be sure that the DVD format will be around in 5 years, but you may see some writing on the wall at that time that would cause you to change your media of choice.
Also, having a copy in two different formats helps a lot. Having a backup on HDD would make it much more likely to have at least one of the copies easy to use.
Overall, though, I suggest not abandoning the media for 20 years without thinking about it - that will just make the recovery job more difficult when you unearth the material.
cost much more in China than in the U.S. What? Prices are much lower in China, since few there can afford the prices charged in the US (consider the cheap version of XP designed for poorer markets). What they mean is that the prices are higher relative to the mean income, which is a completely different statement.
When I hear about a bricked iPhone, my mind translates to 'not bricked'. I think the overuse represents a mentality of users that broken things can't be fixed. I certainly have been worried that I bricked things from time to time, only to usually fix it in a different way. I doubt that the common user knows enough about fixing their electronics to use the term bricked in good faith.
Actually, reading the forum, the users discussed the term and came up with the word werebrick for the temporary state the iPhone seems to visit frequently. So, it's just the foolish article submitters and the lax editors that keep letting the poor terminology hit the front page.
Elements 1.0 was actually decent. I got it free with my scanner and it had the same workflow as pro, with just a few pro features missing. I declined to "upgrade" to newer versions due to the hand-holding/holding back issue.
For my other computer, however, I went with GIMP because I don't like the new Elements.
This entire list is bunk. Look at some of the skills that are not obsolete (like the assembly discussion above, using a compass, map reading, writing a check, spelling, etc). The editorial action on that list is apparently MIA. They do list some of the skills as "not completely obsolete", but a huge number of skill don't belong on that list at all. Just because the authors don't possess that skill (or the basic ability to understand when it would be used) doesn't mean it's not very relevant to society today. The skills just may not be practiced as broadly as they once were.
Perhaps the site author thinks the skill to look up the meaning of the word obsolete is obsolete?
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Well, searching on my name at one point turned up the plot to a gay porno. I told my friends - at last I'm famous!
If you're really worried, you could mention mistaken identities in online searches at interviews, particularly if you notice a pattern of rejections (as another poster pointed out). Or create a positive online persona, such a blog with your name (in which you could talk about mistaken identities). It might be hard to generate enough popularity to outrank the other link.
I would probably not take any steps that prematurely though, as I haven't heard much about employers summarily rejecting applicants based on 10 seconds of google search. Even the scaremongering article I did see was just someone whining that they couldn't find a job, and speculating that it was probably due to the picture of them projectile vomiting on the net.
I have always wanted to put a sign on my front door which says, "By ringing my door bell, you agree to be squirted with a fully-loaded SuperSoaker, confronted by an angry naked man, or some combination thereof."
You're supposed to warn people before doing that?
This would need to be taken one step further to be effective. If the government actually removed money from the "victim's" accounts, then the money wouldn't be available to give to scammers. Treat that money as a higher tax bracket category, and you don't need to raise taxes for others. Two birds with one stone.
Seriously, for this to have an effect, the resulting reprimand would have to come via snail-mail, registered mail, or a visit from government agents. Email is too easy to ignore (unless it's from a very sincere Nigerian prince).
If you don't have access to US TV, I doubt that a DTV coupon from the US government for US over the air transmissions is the right thing for you. :)
The obvious control variable would be lack of sleep. Those lacking in sleep may be more likely to have high caffeine intake, but the lack of sleep may ultimately be the real cause of the hallucinations. I didn't RTFA to see how they cancelled out that variable.
It does seem that the 'correlation is not causation' thing is thrown about quite a bit, but then again causation is mentioned quite a bit without a real analysis of if it really is causation. Too bad the taggers don't have time to verify if that's the case before tagging the articles...
They are targeting the families that can't afford bigger systems
Not as their main focus. There's a huge segment of their market that doesn't want a 360 or PS3. The focus of the Wii is different, and it covers demographics that aren't touched or satisfied at all by the other systems.
I could afford all three if I gamed enough to feel like spending the money. The Wii got me to buy my first console in over a decade. It's been worth the money.
Consider getting a video processor (and connect with component or HDMI from there to the TV). Good ones would improve the quality of most inputs, including analog TV. Cartoons on analog TV are my biggest complaint on my projector, as I can see the interlace lines. I haven't settled on a processor yet, as they are expensive if you get a good one. If your TV/Projector is like mine (and I think all are), it upscales inputs to its native resolution. Built-in video processors on anything but very high-end equipment are seldom on par with dedicated video processors. If the input is the proper resolution, no upscaling/downscaling occurs and no image degradation occurs.
Glad others noticed this. When the first item is so blatantly non-scientific, the entire summary(and therefore the report) can accurately be dismissed as junk. Unfortunately, they're not marketing this to smart people, they're marketing to PHBs.
Neither the article nor the submitter mentioned the possibility of extremely long nose hair. Will that distort the results similar to other facial hair? Will nose hair trimming become mandatory?
Please submit your comment again in voice format. I'll listen to it when I have the chance.
Seriously, both formats have advantages in different situations. If you had even read the summary you'd see that one doctor was in the UK, one was in the Congo in a 3rd world situation. I doubt that a phone call was an option. Other advantages of text include not needing to be awake at the same hour (asynchronous communication), and being able to reference the typed text several times to ensure you got it right. Also, your claim that talking is universally more accurate than text is suspicious at best.
take the responsibility of devoting your full attention to driving
That applies to people independent of the phone. I'm sometimes tempted to remind drivers I'm riding with that the road takes prescendence over explaining something to me. The problem is that most drivers aren't able to do multiple things at once but simply don't know that.
I suggest that one reason cell phones are dangerous is that they are so commonplace that people don't understand that they're multitasking when they use them. Per the article at hand, this particular kind of multitasking may be more dangerous than most, but it's certainly not the only dangerous thing to do while driving (I saw someone trimming ear hair with scissors last weekend! WTF?)
I would argue that many computer science degree programs produce programmers, not software engineers. It may be a subtle distinction, but I think some of the discipline that the term "engineer" evokes is not at all focussed on in many CS programs. Code reviews, documentation, working on a multidisciplinary team, presenting findings... ok, so maybe most of the meat of that needs to be picked up after graduation anyway. Still, given the limited amount of time in an undergraduate degree it seems that one must choose areas to focus more on within the software realm. Practical (vs. theoretical) CS is likely to lean more towards producing an employment-ready programmer, which is I think what you were going for.
:ret over highlighted text will reformat using the tabbing rules set up in your .vimrc files. Quite handy when you have legacy code and new code mixed together leaving a big mess when opened in a viewer with different settings.
:se ff=unix
And, to remove the ^M from files that came from windows:
That's not much more than the cost to replace my *replacable* lamp for my home theater projector. Which is rated for only about 3k-5k hours.
replaced 19 out of 24 drives
As they were glued in sets of 3, that conjured an image of someone separating the drives with a crowbar and cursing like a sailor.
Actually, not all printed photographs will last 25 years. Professional prints on photographic paper might, but inkjet printed photographs likely will not. Before going to the corner drugstore and printing them and calling the job done, I'd suggest doing the research into what the actual (the claims are generally false or non-scientific) expected quality would be in 25 years for the specific printing method and quality of chemicals used in that location.
Thanks for the info. Looks like I'll consider Tiger or Leopard sooner rather than later; I hadn't considered the upgrades as necessary before.
What about unsupported OSs like OSX 10.3.9? I'm supporting a box running this, so I need to decide between leaving the browser at Safari 1.3.2 (not updated in quite a while), Firefox 2.0.16 (won't be updated after 2008), or purchasing the new OSX for a old machine that can't really take advantage of most of the new features anyway.
:) I'm not a mac guy so I didn't notice this situation until recently.
Any free advice?
I can't find the original tips'n'tricks doc NIST published for the best way to reliably store disc media, but here is another study on longevity. I'm sure the other doc can be found without too much trouble.
As others have noted, refresh media every 5 years, and use good quality media. You can be sure that the DVD format will be around in 5 years, but you may see some writing on the wall at that time that would cause you to change your media of choice.
Also, having a copy in two different formats helps a lot. Having a backup on HDD would make it much more likely to have at least one of the copies easy to use.
Overall, though, I suggest not abandoning the media for 20 years without thinking about it - that will just make the recovery job more difficult when you unearth the material.
Or, they could send some of this bacteria with the next lander to Mars and resolve the 'is there life on mars' question once and for all.
When I hear about a bricked iPhone, my mind translates to 'not bricked'. I think the overuse represents a mentality of users that broken things can't be fixed. I certainly have been worried that I bricked things from time to time, only to usually fix it in a different way. I doubt that the common user knows enough about fixing their electronics to use the term bricked in good faith.
Actually, reading the forum, the users discussed the term and came up with the word werebrick for the temporary state the iPhone seems to visit frequently. So, it's just the foolish article submitters and the lax editors that keep letting the poor terminology hit the front page.
Elements 1.0 was actually decent. I got it free with my scanner and it had the same workflow as pro, with just a few pro features missing. I declined to "upgrade" to newer versions due to the hand-holding/holding back issue.
For my other computer, however, I went with GIMP because I don't like the new Elements.
Sounds like laser tag. I'll just pull one off a shark and show them how I play the game.
This entire list is bunk. Look at some of the skills that are not obsolete (like the assembly discussion above, using a compass, map reading, writing a check, spelling, etc). The editorial action on that list is apparently MIA. They do list some of the skills as "not completely obsolete", but a huge number of skill don't belong on that list at all. Just because the authors don't possess that skill (or the basic ability to understand when it would be used) doesn't mean it's not very relevant to society today. The skills just may not be practiced as broadly as they once were.
Perhaps the site author thinks the skill to look up the meaning of the word obsolete is obsolete?