For Version numbers (1.0 1.2, etc) I think this has always been true.
This time the upgrade really sucked... I was running Mozilla 1.0.1, upgraded to 1.2 and everything worked.
Then I installed 1.2.1, and couldn't get mozilla to load. Uninstalled, deleted the c:\program files\mozilla.org, reinstalled, but Moz still frezes on install...
By reading other comments, it's probably still the themes that freeze Mozilla upon load. I need to find and remove some registry setting somewhere...
Now I'm back to 1.0.1, and it all seems to work just fine. Think I'll hold off on 1.2.1 for a bit...
There is already too much bullshit in the resume world... and his strategy is simply asking for more bullshit.
While it may seem like the screening process is simplified with these screening tools, in reality he's passing up many qualified candidates for people who plugin repeat certain keywords over and over again, with bullshit acting as the glue to connect words together.
Agreed... I just finished what I thought was a kick-ass resume, where I explictly removed multiple occurances of the same word.
Why? Because it looks bad to the human eye "Apache this" and "Apache that" and "Apache thisotherthat" "Java this" "Java that" "Java something else", when you could say "This that thisotherthat Apache" and "Java this and that".
Now I need to go back and put those keywords back in multiple times... arg!
"Fowler noted the major contributions Sun has made not only to Apache and related projects such as Tomcat, but also in non-Apache related projects such as the Gnome desktop and OpenOffice.org."
Well, all three of these projects relate to existing Sun software:
- If Tomcat is successful, then Sun Java and J2EE products benefit. - Solaris needs a GUI to replace CDE. Gnome and OpenOffice run on Solaris. If Gnome and OpenOffice are successful, then Solaris as a desktop UI also benefits.
Of course this is the price for writing code that work on windows, linux, mac, and random unix, so it is a tradeoff many accept.
I don't think it is. Perl, Python, and TCL all run under UNIX and Windows.
Yes, but all fo the cross-platform Perl, Python or TCL projects are very small. While these languages run on multiple platforms, they are still harder to port the Java. As a result, most cross-platform Perl, Python or TCL projects are much simpler then many of the Cross platform Java applications.
It was invented before Flash. It has Netscape's backing. And it still has less market penetration.
Er... apples and oranges. Flash is for fancy windows that run in your web browser, and it has Microsofts backing. Not much more to Flash.
Java is a whole universe of applications. You can have a flash-like applet, but that is only a very, very small part of the Java world; and you're right, most java applets suck (In large part because all versions Internet Explorer until 5.5 only supported Java 1.1, which was released five years ago). But nobody is defending Java applets.
The big part of Java is in the server market, where Java app servers like Weblogic, Websphere, Oracle 11i, Tomcat, or Dynamo have become the defacto standard in enterprise-level applications.
Damn, I like the show. Flawed characters, dark universe, and plots that didn't always wrap up cleanly at the end of the hours. It's like the first season of Babylon 5, which ended up being the-best-scifi-show-ever (At least in my universe of non-cable TV).
But I see that I'm in the minority.
Fox never even tried: - They never showed the pilot, which probably explained some of the 'why' behind the creepy universe - Never seen an ad or promotion for the show outside of./ . Honestly. - It's on Friday night. Most Friday night shows seem to fail. Firefly is the best show that I never watch. Why? I'm usually doing something that night, and I'm the idiot who always forgets to program his VCR, comes home at midnight and slaps his hand against his forehead.
It never had a chance to get off the ground. But then, this is Fox: Beater of dead horses.
So in this switch ad, Santa talks about being forced to use "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" because he was sued. It happens to have the same theme and music as the other Apple ads. It wasn't even funny...
I think that in their quest to produce something funny with this "Hip" SNL star, the Apple Advert (Appvert?) guys neglected to mention "Apple" or "Macintosh", "Who wants to install drivers on Christmas?", or even "Like ummm, that sucked. You know?".
It's really a parody of an Apple commercial if you don't mention an Apple product.
What, did Apple management have an objection to an actual parody?
You need a vacation in a log cabin in the woods of Ohio with some deep technical books that they don't sell at Barns and Noble for a few weeks to get your feet grounded again.
Heck, go futher. Go on vacation and REALLY get your head out of the clouds.
Take a REAL vacation with family & friends. No technical books, no computers, no shop talk; just cabin life, hiking, reading novels, fishing, playing, drinking, eating, sex, whatever.
Get far, far outside the box, where you can see the big picture and gain a real perspective on your life/project/job/whatever.
Then come back, with the perspective of an outsider, but still with enough knowledge to make an informed decision.
You might be suprised by the ideas that come into your head after a real vacation.
And in your mind, I suppose you think the roads are free because you rarely see the direct costs.
Actually it's more like 20 billion, and it's spread over a 10 year period. In contrast, the new San Francisco Bay Bridge will cost $5 billion for 10 years, and the Interchange (MacArthor Maze) cost $2 billion. That's 20 miles of very expensive road.
Have you guys EVER been sane out there?
Listen, we prefer to think outside of the box. America is addicted to it's road system and oil economy, and is almost incapable of seeing anything different. We need progress, not the same old roads.
Why would I EVER take the train from LA to Sactown?
There are tens-of-millions of people who drive between LA and Sacramento every year. Why don't you ask them. Sacramento, Fresno, & Bakersfield will each have over a million people by 2020. We need to plan for those transit needs NOW, not after-the-fact.
I could drive 15 min to LAX and hop a plane...or I could drive 1 hr to downtown LA, and hop a train that takes longer than the plane.
You are hallucinating. There is no 'hop'. To drive to LA, there's the hour driving in traffic, the 1-2 hours getting a ticket and going through security, the average delay on the SFO & LAX runway is 20 minutes, the flight is 1.5 hours, you spend an average of 20 minute taxi-ing on the LAX runway, takes 30 minutes to get your luggage, and then you need to find a taxi or rent a car.
There are tens-of-millions of people who drive between California and Oregon every year. Why not ask them?
Personally, I want the ability to go to SF to Portland in a reasonably cheap and expedient matter, without the 3 hour hassle of the airport.
and wants to go to Sacramento, anyway? LASF is fine with me.
Again, there are tens-of-millions of people who drive LA to/from Sacramento every year.
If you're going to build the LASF line, then you're already built 80% of the LA/Sacramento line. Might as well finish the rest.
Another major reason for LA to Sacramento: It's much cheaper to build a rail line that goes up the flat valley to Sacramento then building a line over the Bay Areas hills and through the Bay Area cities.
There are very few successful transit systems in the US. They just turn into big leeches on tax payers wallets.
And I suppose you think the roads are free?
I use mass transit 'out west' all the time (I used to commute daily on BART). It works great. It's faster then driving. I get to read my book. And it requires less federal subsidies then the roads.
That's one thing that I can't find anywhere on the site, how much it will cost Personally, I can see this is being really great if it's $50 or less round trip from the Bay Area to L.A. Likely, however, it's going to be targeted at business travelers, so I'd bet it'll be more like the $100 amtrak ticket.
They're still in some early planning stages. The ticket price won't be known until a good estimate of cost and funding is known.
My guess is that the train tickets will be priced to compete with the commuter air tickets. So $100 or more (but without the wait time and full body cavity search).
Heck, I'd still take the train even if it was slighly more expensive. Travelling by train is fun. No tight seats, you can walk around the train. I spent my last trainride reading a book and drinking beer in the lounge car, watching the beautiful sunset.
As a side note: Seattle ripped up most of the old train tracks many years ago, and it didn't have many to begin with in the downtown/residential cores.
but here in Georgia we have old train tracks everywhere. I always thought it would make more sense to use these instead. The tracks are there, the trains would cost less./i>
Unfortunately if they're 'old' they're probably inapproproate for light rail use (derailment city). You would have to fix them up first, and it'd probably be cheaper to rip up the old ones and install some new tracks.
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For Version numbers (1.0 1.2, etc) I think this has always been true.
This time the upgrade really sucked... I was running Mozilla 1.0.1, upgraded to 1.2 and everything worked.
Then I installed 1.2.1, and couldn't get mozilla to load. Uninstalled, deleted the c:\program files\mozilla.org, reinstalled, but Moz still frezes on install...
By reading other comments, it's probably still the themes that freeze Mozilla upon load. I need to find and remove some registry setting somewhere...
Now I'm back to 1.0.1, and it all seems to work just fine. Think I'll hold off on 1.2.1 for a bit...
There is already too much bullshit in the resume world... and his strategy is simply asking for more bullshit.
While it may seem like the screening process is simplified with these screening tools, in reality he's passing up many qualified candidates for people who plugin repeat certain keywords over and over again, with bullshit acting as the glue to connect words together.
Agreed... I just finished what I thought was a kick-ass resume, where I explictly removed multiple occurances of the same word.
Why? Because it looks bad to the human eye "Apache this" and "Apache that" and "Apache thisotherthat" "Java this" "Java that" "Java something else", when you could say "This that thisotherthat Apache" and "Java this and that".
Now I need to go back and put those keywords back in multiple times... arg!
Gee, thanks! I just submitted my resume for a job at one of the ticketmaster subsidiaries...
My resume is now lost in a huge, even bigger then usual pile of resumes.
404 - Career Not Found!
In related news, an article on wired.com talks about how Amiga users helped Amiga through the dark years of the late-80s.
Oh... wait!
"Fowler noted the major contributions Sun has made not only to Apache and related projects such as Tomcat, but also in non-Apache related projects such as the Gnome desktop and OpenOffice.org."
Well, all three of these projects relate to existing Sun software:
- If Tomcat is successful, then Sun Java and J2EE products benefit.
- Solaris needs a GUI to replace CDE. Gnome and OpenOffice run on Solaris. If Gnome and OpenOffice are successful, then Solaris as a desktop UI also benefits.
Of course this is the price for writing code that work on windows, linux, mac, and random unix, so it is a tradeoff many accept.
I don't think it is. Perl, Python, and TCL all run under UNIX and Windows.
Yes, but all fo the cross-platform Perl, Python or TCL projects are very small. While these languages run on multiple platforms, they are still harder to port the Java. As a result, most cross-platform Perl, Python or TCL projects are much simpler then many of the Cross platform Java applications.
It was invented before Flash. It has Netscape's backing. And it still has less market penetration.
Er... apples and oranges. Flash is for fancy windows that run in your web browser, and it has Microsofts backing. Not much more to Flash.
Java is a whole universe of applications. You can have a flash-like applet, but that is only a very, very small part of the Java world; and you're right, most java applets suck (In large part because all versions Internet Explorer until 5.5 only supported Java 1.1, which was released five years ago). But nobody is defending Java applets.
The big part of Java is in the server market, where Java app servers like Weblogic, Websphere, Oracle 11i, Tomcat, or Dynamo have become the defacto standard in enterprise-level applications.
Yeah, I remember when the site was moved. For some reason, I have "The lurkers guide" burned into my brain...
Certainly!
Check out the this B5 history guide for more info:
http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/making/history.html
Yeah, but southpark was also on several times a week for maximum viewership. Missed it on friday? just tape it again at 3am sunday morning.
Damn, I like the show. Flawed characters, dark universe, and plots that didn't always wrap up cleanly at the end of the hours. It's like the first season of Babylon 5, which ended up being the-best-scifi-show-ever (At least in my universe of non-cable TV).
./ . Honestly.
But I see that I'm in the minority.
Fox never even tried:
- They never showed the pilot, which probably explained some of the 'why' behind the creepy universe
- Never seen an ad or promotion for the show outside of
- It's on Friday night. Most Friday night shows seem to fail. Firefly is the best show that I never watch. Why? I'm usually doing something that night, and I'm the idiot who always forgets to program his VCR, comes home at midnight and slaps his hand against his forehead.
It never had a chance to get off the ground. But then, this is Fox: Beater of dead horses.
2.4 GB hyah, 4.6 GB nyah,
here a gig, there a gig
everywhere a gig-gig
Old McAdmin had a farm, 01 01 000000....
So in this switch ad, Santa talks about being forced to use "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" because he was sued. It happens to have the same theme and music as the other Apple ads.
It wasn't even funny...
I think that in their quest to produce something funny with this "Hip" SNL star, the Apple Advert (Appvert?) guys neglected to mention "Apple" or "Macintosh", "Who wants to install drivers on Christmas?", or even "Like ummm, that sucked. You know?".
It's really a parody of an Apple commercial if you don't mention an Apple product.
What, did Apple management have an objection to an actual parody?
Yeah, I heard that since Tolkein died there won't be a third book in the Trilogy. Whaaa! Now I'll never find out if Frodo and Sam made it to Mordor!!!
Ok, next time I'll include some (humor)(/humor) tags...
People, it's a joke! Don't take me literally! Maybe it wasn't that funny...
Wait,
if the library's censorware censored the library's own site, how did the librarians find out about the censoring without bypassing the censorware?
You need a vacation in a log cabin in the woods of Ohio with some deep technical books that they don't sell at Barns and Noble for a few weeks to get your feet grounded again.
Heck, go futher. Go on vacation and REALLY get your head out of the clouds.
Take a REAL vacation with family & friends. No technical books, no computers, no shop talk; just cabin life, hiking, reading novels, fishing, playing, drinking, eating, sex, whatever.
Get far, far outside the box, where you can see the big picture and gain a real perspective on your life/project/job/whatever.
Then come back, with the perspective of an outsider, but still with enough knowledge to make an informed decision.
You might be suprised by the ideas that come into your head after a real vacation.
ten BILLION dollars to build a train??
And in your mind, I suppose you think the roads are free because you rarely see the direct costs.
Actually it's more like 20 billion, and it's spread over a 10 year period. In contrast, the new San Francisco Bay Bridge will cost $5 billion for 10 years, and the Interchange (MacArthor Maze) cost $2 billion. That's 20 miles of very expensive road.
Have you guys EVER been sane out there?
Listen, we prefer to think outside of the box. America is addicted to it's road system and oil economy, and is almost incapable of seeing anything different. We need progress, not the same old roads.
Why would I EVER take the train from LA to Sactown?
There are tens-of-millions of people who drive between LA and Sacramento every year. Why don't you ask them. Sacramento, Fresno, & Bakersfield will each have over a million people by 2020. We need to plan for those transit needs NOW, not after-the-fact.
I could drive 15 min to LAX and hop a plane...or I could drive 1 hr to downtown LA, and hop a train that takes longer than the plane.
You are hallucinating. There is no 'hop'. To drive to LA, there's the hour driving in traffic, the 1-2 hours getting a ticket and going through security, the average delay on the SFO & LAX runway is 20 minutes, the flight is 1.5 hours, you spend an average of 20 minute taxi-ing on the LAX runway, takes 30 minutes to get your luggage, and then you need to find a taxi or rent a car.
It's not a 'hop' by any means.
Who wants to go to Oregon?
There are tens-of-millions of people who drive between California and Oregon every year. Why not ask them?
Personally, I want the ability to go to SF to Portland in a reasonably cheap and expedient matter, without the 3 hour hassle of the airport.
and wants to go to Sacramento, anyway?
LASF is fine with me.
Again, there are tens-of-millions of people who drive LA to/from Sacramento every year.
If you're going to build the LASF line, then you're already built 80% of the LA/Sacramento line. Might as well finish the rest.
Another major reason for LA to Sacramento: It's much cheaper to build a rail line that goes up the flat valley to Sacramento then building a line over the Bay Areas hills and through the Bay Area cities.
Seattle is also a big city with high population density. More rail transportation would work great there.
Many people use BART in less dense areas like Richmond, Berkeley, Oakland, Fremont, etc.
There are very few successful transit systems in the US. They just turn into big leeches on tax payers wallets.
And I suppose you think the roads are free?
I use mass transit 'out west' all the time (I used to commute daily on BART). It works great. It's faster then driving. I get to read my book. And it requires less federal subsidies then the roads.
I'd love to have a train that goes down to LA.
That's one thing that I can't find anywhere on the site, how much it will cost Personally, I can see this is being really great if it's $50 or less round trip from the Bay Area to L.A. Likely, however, it's going to be targeted at business travelers, so I'd bet it'll be more like the $100 amtrak ticket.
They're still in some early planning stages. The ticket price won't be known until a good estimate of cost and funding is known.
My guess is that the train tickets will be priced to compete with the commuter air tickets. So $100 or more (but without the wait time and full body cavity search).
Heck, I'd still take the train even if it was slighly more expensive. Travelling by train is fun. No tight seats, you can walk around the train. I spent my last trainride reading a book and drinking beer in the lounge car, watching the beautiful sunset.
I think they are setting a Nice Precedent by Not asking for funds.
So are you asking your State Government to not ask for Federal Highway Funds this year?
Hey, monorails are great, technology, ra, but we got lanley'd so bad. It passed by 800 votes. That's a slim majority for 45% of eligible voters
Yeah, but this was the third time a monorail initiative was on the ballot, and it's passed all three times.
That says something...
Not sure about Seattle,
As a side note: Seattle ripped up most of the old train tracks many years ago, and it didn't have many to begin with in the downtown/residential cores.
but here in Georgia we have old train tracks everywhere. I always thought it would make more sense to use these instead. The tracks are there, the trains would cost less./i>
Unfortunately if they're 'old' they're probably inapproproate for light rail use (derailment city). You would have to fix them up first, and it'd probably be cheaper to rip up the old ones and install some new tracks.