True enough. I just thought I'd throw the idea out. And several banks and as you mention popular sites like CNN haven't escaped hackers. I didn't want to exclude that argument either.
But yeah, hardened OSes using SELinux or OpenBSD or Vista even are steps in the right direction to address this problem.
I think the article is a bit exaggerated but if the idea that "Web 2.0" is under attack might be a good time to look at this problem. Consider that a lot of people only surf a few websites (get some news, etc) and use e-mail. Most people don't use the net for anything more.
So if I only visit about 10 websties daily and those 10 sites I'm reasonably sure are safe why would I go anywhere else if it could cause problems to my computer? I've seen and heard from a lot of people fed-up with spyware, adware and viruses. Its a waster of their time. So going to these other sites, simply because they could be infected would also be a waste of their time (assume they're interested in the content). If this blows up any more - or alternately - if the perception exists that the Internet will only get worse, its not going to help people go much past those 10 websites regularly.
Frankly, the main problem the music industry has a flawed marketin idea. They don't cater to the 20+ market very well. When I listen to local radio stations or go to a music store, the music industry tells everyone play Britney Spear's latest album. Fine play it all you want. Just know that the people you're targeting are spending their parent's money. They don't care about the quality of the music. And they don't have the money to buy more than one CD.
I like a variety of music: jazz, blues, rock, alt, county and others. I never see anything in the store that's good and gets prominenet display. Its buried among difference CDs in alphabetical order. Often the CD I want isn't there. I do purchase on Amazon or on-line stores if that's the case. I spend about $200 to $400 on music every year. No body but Amazon offers to sell me more than one CD (e.g. store clerrks, never!). And local radio plays the same songs over and over. I turned them off. And most of the music doesn't appeal to me.
Frankly, I've found the 70s 80s and 90s rock to be some of the best. Occasiaonlly a few new artists come out and its good and i buy. Almost all the new Alt and rock bands are trying to copy Nickleback, Linkin Park or a few other bands. Jazz and blues thankfully have some variety. I can't really stand 90% of the country music. But the 'new'-country female artists have phenomenal voices and lyrics and make up for the stupid pop-crap I try and put up with.
I knew the acting responsible clause would come up. And I agree. But we can't always control what happens to us and certainly we can't prevent others from posting information about us. And that's the key. Before the Internet became popular - and let's not forget this was really less than 10 years ago- our problems were only shared with those that knew us. Now, its much easier to find out about people if their personal information comes on the internet. And the scale isn't to your city anymore.
Lets forget for a second the person suing Internet Archive. Lets also forget the quality of her website and that she may or may not have included a proper robots.txt file.
Suppose you're a teenager or college student. You do some silly prank and it includes a picture of yourself and your friends. You tell your friend you don't want the picture going on the net. For whatever reason, he/she posts it up anyways. Nothing illegal. Or suppose the names of a doctor's patients were to leak onto the Internet. Or that you're a company and an ex-employee posts information that is defamous or incorrect about your company. Or that you post an angry rant on the net, you've grown past it and then delete from your site. In all cases, wouldn't some or all this information be cached on Google or Internet Archive?
My point is we're all human. Wether our activities are simpy stupid, embarassing, or could affect a company's ability to do business, some or all of us have said or done some of these things. It could affect our relations and our ability to find work. The problem with the Net is its very easy to find this information and it becomes widespread. We've all embarassed ourselves, at the least. We can sue the person responsible for posting the information. But it is, as I understand, very difficult to have the information removed from caches on search engine and archive sites.
Rather than sue, sue, sue, shouldn't there be an easier way to remove this information?
I would say this is *exactly* what is going on. Except the telcos aren't really doing the same with telephone subscribers.... have they ever kicked anyone off their network for NOT making long distance calls?
As for the cable companies, I worked for one several years ago. Not a day went by that I didn't speak to someone in collections (and always in and out of collections) who wanted an upgrade to their package. Talk about unprofitable customers! And i recall as well that on several occassions - this was over 5 years ago, several customers were kicked off for high usage. This isn't anything new.
The companies running many ISPs now are the huge corporations. And in the media business, its all about the haves and have-nots in terms of what products you have. That creates the consumer demand. Its sooner than later everyone is going to say "What? You have the Internet with a 20 GB cap/mo? Wow! you must be doing really well to afford that. I want to be like you!".
I agree. I am graduating this year in a liberal arts program. What I'm finding, maybe its because I'm a bit older and mature is that a lot of students in the 3rd and 4th year with whom I share classes and many 1st and 2nd years don't have a clue about anything in general. They might be text book smart, but they really lack a lot which I don't think any university or college can teach them. Its the reasoning and research skills. I admit I have weaknesses but many students cannot write, read or think in any critical and independent way.
A few students in a 4th year seminar were embarassing the rest of the class while debating topics. The arguments and their explanations were so non-sensical I had a hard time believing they made it that far. Then again, less competition for me!!!
As I understand the H1Bs were generally created for tech workers - to fast track applications. US employers were taking advantage of loopholes in H1B regulations and paying the employees less and being able to employ them for either 3 or 6 year periods if the contract is renewed.
I've been thinking of working in the US in a non-tech field. I looked around on the Visa for employment section of unitedstatesvisas.gov and looks like I would qualify under the Employment Third Preference (E3) qulification. I assume the H1B were setup under the E3 policy. Do persons getting a Visa not under the H1B status earn similar compensation to American citizens? Mostly looking for a quick answer from someone with experience and/or who has knowledge of the information. Digging through all the documentation (which I will do if I'm serious) would I'm sure take a couple of days.
I agree but if the data set is sufficiently large enough to store on a DVD - using PAR/PAR2 can take forever even on "faster" systems. I've tried on my 1.8 GHz iMac G5 and on a Athlon 64 3Ghz. Both systems had at least 1GB RAM (the 64 actually had 2 GB). This was about a year ago. It took about 5 hours for the G5 and about 2 for the Athlon 64. I was backing up PDFs (just txt no images),.DOC and.XLS and small PPT onto DVD. I burned 4 copies - two discs with the Data, two with the PAR2 data at 80%.
If TrueDisc is any faster, its welcome as long as it works and is reliable. Why are they charging $80 when the 'bulk' of the code is going to be OSS'd?
So can individual consumers order from these VARs and get such service for an added cost in addition to Apple Care 3yr warranty? I notice most stores sell for same price than Apple (how else would they compete with Apple.com?). I generally use my computer for personal use. I'm finishing school and can see myself (given my career choice) having to take a lot of work home. And I'm doing independent research on my computer. I cannot afford to lose a day's work on a computer. I'm also considering a MacPro after having a great experinece with an iMac G5 and with the added costof the Pro, expect better service. There's a few large Apple resellers not necessarily VARs like CDW type but they cater to business, SOHO and consumers. Given there's no price difference, I'm not making a major purchase from Apple direct anymore. Its going to be a local Apple deal or VAR.
With computers being so important to everyone now adays, I think a priority for all computer companies should be better support and servicing. I know a lot of people don't like Dell for their quality parts but seldom do I hear of people waiting a long time for a replacement system.
I don't know if I'd go with CDW even though they're also across Canda. They sell to consumers. My dealings have left a bad impression on how they stock and order parts. Always delays, delays and delays.
Apples centralized sales efforts has helped it push higher gross profit and sales (since its not going to someone else) but I think its important to centralize its service efforts. All I know is I'm not building my own computers anymore and am definately going with a Brand name one or buying from a store with a 3-year warranty. My last system had a defective motherboard and a PSU since it was only under manufacturer's warranty after 3 months, I had to send the board back to Asus and the PSU to Antec. I couldn't do without for 1 to 2 weeks so I had to buy the parts in the mean time. So much for service!!!
I'm in the student demographic right now. The two points you make, I agree. But OS X, in itself is more than good enough for the rest of the market. Spyware and viruses alone are such a problem with Windows right now. A few student and small-mid size business friends swtiched on my recommendation after knowing they can port their data and use the same apps. People held back on buying a PC to get Vista. Hopefully those who haven't bought PCs yet for Vista and see Leopard will be wowed enough to buy. Makes me wonder what the 'secret' features are.
As a university student and heavy writer, iWork needs a lot of improvement. Pages 2 is better but not good enough. I find its better sometimes than Office 2004:Mac but with 2007/8 coming out soon, its going to have to do more to compete. It does price wise - much cheaper. With a baisc spreadsheet (almost) comfirmed on rumor sites, it will be great. For gaming: Many mac-pro users who have bought Mac Pros AND do some gaming are complaining that video card (not being "latest") and not having up-to-date Windows drivers for Mac hardware makes gaming under XP or Vista difficult. The minis with the low-budget Intel graphics chips can hardly play *any* games. Or HD movies.
A minor gripe of mine: the Mac Pros. ECC RAM is expensive. I'm a hobbiest/SOHO/gamer user. iMacs have no internal expansion (video, NIC, eSata card, etc). I'm in the market for a new system. I regret getting the iMac because of no expansion. And if screen dies (and its not the backlight) outside of warranty I'm FSCK'd. I don't know that I'd get another iMac and really I don't need a dual-CPU Xeon machine but am willing to pay a bit more for the upgradability - and being able to use OS X.
I am a manager at a large company. My employees always compliment me on how much they appreciate my open door policy. They can always walk in and ask me questions. Frankly, they're starting to annoy me! I can hardly get any work done.... I've only been able to play to level 2 of Tetris today and its a Friday!
What is the possibility of making a transparent door with this new material? My open door policy will still remain in effect. But my door will always remain closed. I think I will like my job again when I hear them whisper, "He used to be a great guy, but dealing with him now is like hitting a brick wall!".
Just wondering what other's experiences have been running the nightly code. I've been doing it with Firefox (and when it was Firebird for 2 years). But I've not tried with WebKit. Is it fairly stable, better rending of pages and faster?
There are a few sites that are noticeably slower on Safari. Its one of the only reasons I'm using Firefox. That and there are a few plug-ins that are better than Saaft and company.
I certainly agree - the labels do act as a filter for at least some of the bad music. But, then again, its all marketing and who "they" think is the next best album sales wise. Most of us don't have to like them but we'll probably end up listening to them at some point.
I guess it depends on your threshold for listening to music. To exaggerate, if you're only going to like bands that are as good as Zepplin to you, you might have a hard time finding other bands. I know I have one favorite band and I do judge other material on how it compares to them, but I've found plenty of great music sometimes in different genres.
I like the website Last.fm for helping me choose which artist to listen to. But there's a limitation in the amount of content - there must be millions of artists out there and they can't possibly categorize them or be listed.
If lyrics were ditched from the equation, would it be possible to do a database of similar music based on pitch, frequency, tune, etc changes in a song? That might be a good idea to replace existing sites.
Its funny HP was brought up. Yes, I know they're posting incredible sales right now - at least compared to a few years ago. Any event, I went to the HP.ca site to look at their current offerings. I clicked on 1/2 of the desktops on the site and they reported they were all sold out. I also checked a few times over the last few months - when there was news of HP within the past week in the newspaper. Only the lowest and highest priced PCs seemed to still be avialable for sale. Hardly confidence inspiring for a potential buyer. I don't think they have any Canadian stores so I'd be suprised given this venture they're pulling any great sales.
I would say if the position offers better pay, better hours (flexibility), work environment (depending on your preferences) - go for it! Who wouldn't want more money anyways? If you're asking because you're worried about career advancement, than I would only caution to take a job with more responsibility. That way if you're seen as disloyal, your conter-argument can easily be - I'm a go-getter, motivated type. I've only taken the other position because of the extra opportunity and responsibilities offered. If the company sees you as someone that might move up in their company and offer you more pay - at least its out on the table why you left and they'll have to offer you better pay immediately or review your performance. Stay for at least 3 to 6 months. Anything less, take it off.
CaveatL I'm not a software developer, so I don't know the ins and outs of the industry that well. If "loyalty" is a factor in finishing projects I would caution against leaving. Take caution especially if you leave mid-way through an unfinished project that might be in your area of expertise (you're not easily replaced). That would certainly raise a flag of many interviewers. That might count against you short and long term especially if the trend continues.
OTOH, of two companies that I've worked in for over 3 years: neither has many employees that remember me - most are staffed with new people in various positions. And as far as getting a favorable review when an employer calls, its pretty much the "Yes he worked here. IS that all?" type answers nowadays. Loyalty is only shown on the resume by the start and end date. I don't think its a big deal.
I recently bought a cycling magazine which included a DVD with the issue for Free. I'm in North America and the disc is European encoded instead of being Region free to my disappointment. I wanted to watch the movie on my tele (I have an older DVD player which isn't nice to burnt-DVDs). So I have to play it in my computer.
Its hard to do with these kinds of surveys reliably. The product isn't even on the market yet, and no one has gotten to try one hands on. That might sway some of the opinions on the phone and the cell phone provider was talking of massively discounting subscription rates. I think the only reliable way to do this survey is: let the public at large demo the phone in store & provide tentative pricing is available. Then you can do a more reliable random sample.
Isn't another downside of Quantum encryption the fact that it might render military intelligence unable to decrypt enemy messages? Quite a few wars/battles have been won by decrypting key enemy communications to find out troop, supply, and critical target locations. As well, giving false information to trap the enemy has been used many times.
Since the link site is unaccessible, I'll take a guess here. How do we know that the voting isn't rigged by Dell? Are we so sure that many customers voted? Are all the voters from the same IP block, the same company, the same city, or is it a statistically random representative sample?
Vista reception seems lukewarm. MS must know this. Just like Intel knows that AMD might take more of its business away. Dell has in limited way launched new machines with AMD on it. In this sense, where Dell has carefully used AMD to (probably) get better chip prices from Intel, could the same technique of the threat/implied use / demand of Linux *and* OpenOffice (dealing blows to MS's bread and butter) not be used to get better pricing on MS software?
While it seems like a nice solution, your limitation is of the music (content) you "own" and the space avilable on your server. Sirius and XM both offer different types of music, talk radio, sports radio, live music play, etc. I don't subscribe to either service -yet- but this definately appeals to me. I have a CD collection spanning 250+ CDs I've purchased. Its nice to listen to different music. And its cheaper than buying new CDs. Don'tcha think?
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True enough. I just thought I'd throw the idea out. And several banks and as you mention popular sites like CNN haven't escaped hackers. I didn't want to exclude that argument either.
But yeah, hardened OSes using SELinux or OpenBSD or Vista even are steps in the right direction to address this problem.
I think the article is a bit exaggerated but if the idea that "Web 2.0" is under attack might be a good time to look at this problem. Consider that a lot of people only surf a few websites (get some news, etc) and use e-mail. Most people don't use the net for anything more.
So if I only visit about 10 websties daily and those 10 sites I'm reasonably sure are safe why would I go anywhere else if it could cause problems to my computer? I've seen and heard from a lot of people fed-up with spyware, adware and viruses. Its a waster of their time. So going to these other sites, simply because they could be infected would also be a waste of their time (assume they're interested in the content). If this blows up any more - or alternately - if the perception exists that the Internet will only get worse, its not going to help people go much past those 10 websites regularly.
Wow. Well at least I take pride in only using cash (no debit cards) for fear of these situations. I'm fearful this is a lot more common.
Frankly, the main problem the music industry has a flawed marketin idea. They don't cater to the 20+ market very well. When I listen to local radio stations or go to a music store, the music industry tells everyone play Britney Spear's latest album. Fine play it all you want. Just know that the people you're targeting are spending their parent's money. They don't care about the quality of the music. And they don't have the money to buy more than one CD.
I like a variety of music: jazz, blues, rock, alt, county and others. I never see anything in the store that's good and gets prominenet display. Its buried among difference CDs in alphabetical order. Often the CD I want isn't there. I do purchase on Amazon or on-line stores if that's the case. I spend about $200 to $400 on music every year. No body but Amazon offers to sell me more than one CD (e.g. store clerrks, never!). And local radio plays the same songs over and over. I turned them off. And most of the music doesn't appeal to me.
Frankly, I've found the 70s 80s and 90s rock to be some of the best. Occasiaonlly a few new artists come out and its good and i buy. Almost all the new Alt and rock bands are trying to copy Nickleback, Linkin Park or a few other bands. Jazz and blues thankfully have some variety. I can't really stand 90% of the country music. But the 'new'-country female artists have phenomenal voices and lyrics and make up for the stupid pop-crap I try and put up with.
One to four hours a day just organizing? Where do I sign-up? If its a full-time job, I'm sure I can fill the rest of my day with filler tasks!
My sister is a bit of a neat-freak. I almost always change where something is just to wait until she notices. Always fun!
I knew the acting responsible clause would come up. And I agree. But we can't always control what happens to us and certainly we can't prevent others from posting information about us. And that's the key. Before the Internet became popular - and let's not forget this was really less than 10 years ago- our problems were only shared with those that knew us. Now, its much easier to find out about people if their personal information comes on the internet. And the scale isn't to your city anymore.
Lets forget for a second the person suing Internet Archive. Lets also forget the quality of her website and that she may or may not have included a proper robots.txt file.
Suppose you're a teenager or college student. You do some silly prank and it includes a picture of yourself and your friends. You tell your friend you don't want the picture going on the net. For whatever reason, he/she posts it up anyways. Nothing illegal. Or suppose the names of a doctor's patients were to leak onto the Internet. Or that you're a company and an ex-employee posts information that is defamous or incorrect about your company. Or that you post an angry rant on the net, you've grown past it and then delete from your site. In all cases, wouldn't some or all this information be cached on Google or Internet Archive?
My point is we're all human. Wether our activities are simpy stupid, embarassing, or could affect a company's ability to do business, some or all of us have said or done some of these things. It could affect our relations and our ability to find work. The problem with the Net is its very easy to find this information and it becomes widespread. We've all embarassed ourselves, at the least. We can sue the person responsible for posting the information. But it is, as I understand, very difficult to have the information removed from caches on search engine and archive sites.
Rather than sue, sue, sue, shouldn't there be an easier way to remove this information?
I would say this is *exactly* what is going on. Except the telcos aren't really doing the same with telephone subscribers .... have they ever kicked anyone off their network for NOT making long distance calls?
As for the cable companies, I worked for one several years ago. Not a day went by that I didn't speak to someone in collections (and always in and out of collections) who wanted an upgrade to their package. Talk about unprofitable customers! And i recall as well that on several occassions - this was over 5 years ago, several customers were kicked off for high usage. This isn't anything new.
The companies running many ISPs now are the huge corporations. And in the media business, its all about the haves and have-nots in terms of what products you have. That creates the consumer demand. Its sooner than later everyone is going to say "What? You have the Internet with a 20 GB cap/mo? Wow! you must be doing really well to afford that. I want to be like you!".
I agree. I am graduating this year in a liberal arts program. What I'm finding, maybe its because I'm a bit older and mature is that a lot of students in the 3rd and 4th year with whom I share classes and many 1st and 2nd years don't have a clue about anything in general. They might be text book smart, but they really lack a lot which I don't think any university or college can teach them. Its the reasoning and research skills. I admit I have weaknesses but many students cannot write, read or think in any critical and independent way.
A few students in a 4th year seminar were embarassing the rest of the class while debating topics. The arguments and their explanations were so non-sensical I had a hard time believing they made it that far. Then again, less competition for me!!!
As I understand the H1Bs were generally created for tech workers - to fast track applications. US employers were taking advantage of loopholes in H1B regulations and paying the employees less and being able to employ them for either 3 or 6 year periods if the contract is renewed.
I've been thinking of working in the US in a non-tech field. I looked around on the Visa for employment section of unitedstatesvisas.gov and looks like I would qualify under the Employment Third Preference (E3) qulification. I assume the H1B were setup under the E3 policy. Do persons getting a Visa not under the H1B status earn similar compensation to American citizens? Mostly looking for a quick answer from someone with experience and/or who has knowledge of the information. Digging through all the documentation (which I will do if I'm serious) would I'm sure take a couple of days.
I agree but if the data set is sufficiently large enough to store on a DVD - using PAR/PAR2 can take forever even on "faster" systems. I've tried on my 1.8 GHz iMac G5 and on a Athlon 64 3Ghz. Both systems had at least 1GB RAM (the 64 actually had 2 GB). This was about a year ago. It took about 5 hours for the G5 and about 2 for the Athlon 64. I was backing up PDFs (just txt no images), .DOC and .XLS and small PPT onto DVD. I burned 4 copies - two discs with the Data, two with the PAR2 data at 80%.
If TrueDisc is any faster, its welcome as long as it works and is reliable. Why are they charging $80 when the 'bulk' of the code is going to be OSS'd?
So can individual consumers order from these VARs and get such service for an added cost in addition to Apple Care 3yr warranty? I notice most stores sell for same price than Apple (how else would they compete with Apple.com?). I generally use my computer for personal use. I'm finishing school and can see myself (given my career choice) having to take a lot of work home. And I'm doing independent research on my computer. I cannot afford to lose a day's work on a computer. I'm also considering a MacPro after having a great experinece with an iMac G5 and with the added costof the Pro, expect better service. There's a few large Apple resellers not necessarily VARs like CDW type but they cater to business, SOHO and consumers. Given there's no price difference, I'm not making a major purchase from Apple direct anymore. Its going to be a local Apple deal or VAR.
With computers being so important to everyone now adays, I think a priority for all computer companies should be better support and servicing. I know a lot of people don't like Dell for their quality parts but seldom do I hear of people waiting a long time for a replacement system.
I don't know if I'd go with CDW even though they're also across Canda. They sell to consumers. My dealings have left a bad impression on how they stock and order parts. Always delays, delays and delays.
Apples centralized sales efforts has helped it push higher gross profit and sales (since its not going to someone else) but I think its important to centralize its service efforts. All I know is I'm not building my own computers anymore and am definately going with a Brand name one or buying from a store with a 3-year warranty. My last system had a defective motherboard and a PSU since it was only under manufacturer's warranty after 3 months, I had to send the board back to Asus and the PSU to Antec. I couldn't do without for 1 to 2 weeks so I had to buy the parts in the mean time. So much for service!!!
I'm in the student demographic right now. The two points you make, I agree. But OS X, in itself is more than good enough for the rest of the market. Spyware and viruses alone are such a problem with Windows right now. A few student and small-mid size business friends swtiched on my recommendation after knowing they can port their data and use the same apps. People held back on buying a PC to get Vista. Hopefully those who haven't bought PCs yet for Vista and see Leopard will be wowed enough to buy. Makes me wonder what the 'secret' features are.
As a university student and heavy writer, iWork needs a lot of improvement. Pages 2 is better but not good enough. I find its better sometimes than Office 2004:Mac but with 2007/8 coming out soon, its going to have to do more to compete. It does price wise - much cheaper. With a baisc spreadsheet (almost) comfirmed on rumor sites, it will be great.
For gaming: Many mac-pro users who have bought Mac Pros AND do some gaming are complaining that video card (not being "latest") and not having up-to-date Windows drivers for Mac hardware makes gaming under XP or Vista difficult. The minis with the low-budget Intel graphics chips can hardly play *any* games. Or HD movies.
A minor gripe of mine: the Mac Pros. ECC RAM is expensive. I'm a hobbiest/SOHO/gamer user. iMacs have no internal expansion (video, NIC, eSata card, etc). I'm in the market for a new system. I regret getting the iMac because of no expansion. And if screen dies (and its not the backlight) outside of warranty I'm FSCK'd. I don't know that I'd get another iMac and really I don't need a dual-CPU Xeon machine but am willing to pay a bit more for the upgradability - and being able to use OS X.
I am a manager at a large company. My employees always compliment me on how much they appreciate my open door policy. They can always walk in and ask me questions. Frankly, they're starting to annoy me! I can hardly get any work done.... I've only been able to play to level 2 of Tetris today and its a Friday!
What is the possibility of making a transparent door with this new material? My open door policy will still remain in effect. But my door will always remain closed. I think I will like my job again when I hear them whisper, "He used to be a great guy, but dealing with him now is like hitting a brick wall!".
Just wondering what other's experiences have been running the nightly code. I've been doing it with Firefox (and when it was Firebird for 2 years). But I've not tried with WebKit. Is it fairly stable, better rending of pages and faster?
There are a few sites that are noticeably slower on Safari. Its one of the only reasons I'm using Firefox. That and there are a few plug-ins that are better than Saaft and company.
I certainly agree - the labels do act as a filter for at least some of the bad music. But, then again, its all marketing and who "they" think is the next best album sales wise. Most of us don't have to like them but we'll probably end up listening to them at some point.
I guess it depends on your threshold for listening to music. To exaggerate, if you're only going to like bands that are as good as Zepplin to you, you might have a hard time finding other bands. I know I have one favorite band and I do judge other material on how it compares to them, but I've found plenty of great music sometimes in different genres.
I like the website Last.fm for helping me choose which artist to listen to. But there's a limitation in the amount of content - there must be millions of artists out there and they can't possibly categorize them or be listed.
If lyrics were ditched from the equation, would it be possible to do a database of similar music based on pitch, frequency, tune, etc changes in a song? That might be a good idea to replace existing sites.
Its funny HP was brought up. Yes, I know they're posting incredible sales right now - at least compared to a few years ago. Any event, I went to the HP.ca site to look at their current offerings. I clicked on 1/2 of the desktops on the site and they reported they were all sold out. I also checked a few times over the last few months - when there was news of HP within the past week in the newspaper. Only the lowest and highest priced PCs seemed to still be avialable for sale. Hardly confidence inspiring for a potential buyer. I don't think they have any Canadian stores so I'd be suprised given this venture they're pulling any great sales.
I would say if the position offers better pay, better hours (flexibility), work environment (depending on your preferences) - go for it! Who wouldn't want more money anyways? If you're asking because you're worried about career advancement, than I would only caution to take a job with more responsibility. That way if you're seen as disloyal, your conter-argument can easily be - I'm a go-getter, motivated type. I've only taken the other position because of the extra opportunity and responsibilities offered. If the company sees you as someone that might move up in their company and offer you more pay - at least its out on the table why you left and they'll have to offer you better pay immediately or review your performance. Stay for at least 3 to 6 months. Anything less, take it off.
CaveatL I'm not a software developer, so I don't know the ins and outs of the industry that well. If "loyalty" is a factor in finishing projects I would caution against leaving. Take caution especially if you leave mid-way through an unfinished project that might be in your area of expertise (you're not easily replaced). That would certainly raise a flag of many interviewers.
That might count against you short and long term especially if the trend continues.
OTOH, of two companies that I've worked in for over 3 years: neither has many employees that remember me - most are staffed with new people in various positions. And as far as getting a favorable review when an employer calls, its pretty much the "Yes he worked here. IS that all?" type answers nowadays. Loyalty is only shown on the resume by the start and end date. I don't think its a big deal.
I recently bought a cycling magazine which included a DVD with the issue for Free. I'm in North America and the disc is European encoded instead of being Region free to my disappointment. I wanted to watch the movie on my tele (I have an older DVD player which isn't nice to burnt-DVDs). So I have to play it in my computer.
phenolic or graphite plate that absorbs all the heat at the very surface, and vaporizes into a cloud of gas"
Your solution gives passing gas an entirely new meaning. "Wasn't me it was a laser reflecting off my armour!"
Your fine will depend on the car you drive. If you have a 4-door you're only charged $1000 per song. If its a Ferrari, its $2,000 a song.
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Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/15/1759227.sht
Its hard to do with these kinds of surveys reliably. The product isn't even on the market yet, and no one has gotten to try one hands on. That might sway some of the opinions on the phone and the cell phone provider was talking of massively discounting subscription rates. I think the only reliable way to do this survey is: let the public at large demo the phone in store & provide tentative pricing is available. Then you can do a more reliable random sample.
Isn't another downside of Quantum encryption the fact that it might render military intelligence unable to decrypt enemy messages? Quite a few wars/battles have been won by decrypting key enemy communications to find out troop, supply, and critical target locations. As well, giving false information to trap the enemy has been used many times.
Since the link site is unaccessible, I'll take a guess here. How do we know that the voting isn't rigged by Dell? Are we so sure that many customers voted? Are all the voters from the same IP block, the same company, the same city, or is it a statistically random representative sample?
/implied use / demand of Linux *and* OpenOffice (dealing blows to MS's bread and butter) not be used to get better pricing on MS software?
Vista reception seems lukewarm. MS must know this. Just like Intel knows that AMD might take more of its business away. Dell has in limited way launched new machines with AMD on it. In this sense, where Dell has carefully used AMD to (probably) get better chip prices from Intel, could the same technique of the threat
While it seems like a nice solution, your limitation is of the music (content) you "own" and the space avilable on your server. Sirius and XM both offer different types of music, talk radio, sports radio, live music play, etc. I don't subscribe to either service -yet- but this definately appeals to me. I have a CD collection spanning 250+ CDs I've purchased. Its nice to listen to different music. And its cheaper than buying new CDs. Don'tcha think?