My girlfriend clinched a long-shot position with a very focused, heart-felt cover letter. The organization, a Jewish college, found her letter compelling enough to waive experience requirements as well as the unspoken (and possibly illegal) preference for a Jewish employee.
So the "inside contact" thing is true for the most part, but don't psych yourself out if you can express yourself well in writing.
Simply say you are in beta and remove the 'join' button from the pretty, pretty web page. If they have time to code color-shifting pages, they should have time to explain that they are in Testing, Development, Beta, whatever.
What a nice, elitist piece of software. Please, how can I become part of this exclusive tribe? I would check the site, except it seems to completely lack details, other than the fact that no one is allowed to join.
If something sucks, I'll say it sucks, not that "It is moderately deficient in numerous ways."
The mode of thinking you describe (Speaking My Mind Is My Right) is very much part of American culture. Tact , inference, and social courtesy are not Political Correctness; I caution you against throwing out the baby with the bathwater, lest the people you deal with consider you a blunt-speaking, churlish oaf. If you stay in America (or away from foreigners), then nevermind.
Sue the billing contact. Whomever pays the bill is responsible for the content accessed. The validity of such an accusation would be worked out in court, after you start paying $$$ to defend yourself. So go check the Service Agreement you signed....
Why not go with a mini-series every year. The hype increases, there is more latitude to do something different and there is less danger of worrying about ratings.
Just look at the amount of commercials that get shown during a seasonal run, versus the amount of commercials shown during a miniseries, and you have your answer right there.
Yeah, exactly, you think you'd ever find an Einstein working in a patent office?
Einstein's most brilliant theories came out of his time as a patent clerk. I doubt he was actually paying attention the patents crossing his desk when there was relativity and such to think about...
Why is there still no consistent way of installing and removing applications through a GUI? For an OS that is supposedly "ready" (as it has been declared for the last four or five years as well) for the desktop, that's a pretty big missing piece.
OSX does not have a consistent installer/uninstaller, and that desktop is the arguably the readiest desktop in the land. Some applications run installers, others just tell you to drag a folder onto the desktop. If someone cannot figure out an easy-install system like Up2Date, apt, or portage, then they have no business running linux -- because everything else in the system will still need the command line! Windows will have the command line again soon. If someone wants a "pure" GUI experience, they will buy an Apple.
When they say Linux is going to be ready for the desktop, they do not necessarily mean everyone's desktop. As the saying goes, that is why there are 41 flavors of ice-cream.....
Well, as a human is made up of billions of individual units, centralled connected by electrical systems.....what are billions of individual humans, centrally connected by electrical systems?
Now that is a true incorporation. Or is it the face of (a) god?
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Tog's solution to Dock problems worth checking out
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This article on his site reviews a few pieces of software that fix the problems associated with the Dock.
Natural selection for human genes is 99.99999% finished, and has been for tens of thousands of years. Once social organization, fire and tools entered the picture humans slowed the pure whimsy of circumstance; when true civilization began, it slowed to a glacial pace. The liquid glass in your windows will melt into a puddle before the next meaningful mutation comes about.
See all the people with glasses around? How did their genes make it through the long period of history before lenses were created? I would think that natural selection would have culled all the uselessly-blind organisms out of a population...
George W. Bush could declare Linux the official OS of the government, get a Penguin tattoo and give Linus Torvalds the Medal of Freedom and/. would still find a way to bag on him for it.
That's right -- because he is a goddamned liar. Two grand promises in one week -- a sweeping reform of immigration, and now a sweeping vision of space exploration. Both so full of rheotoric and so short on details that only mental incompetents would believe him.
He would only declare Linux to be the official OS of the government if one of his contributors was selling the distro...
I take it as a given that we need to establish a self-sufficient human presence off of this planet; we are screwing this one up at a amazing rate, and so many things exist that can destroy the race in a relatively short period of time it's ridiculous...
A self-sufficient Moonbase would not save humanity, ever. At best it would be a temporary refuge for....what, a few hundred people? Without a constant influx of new genes (from Earth), the people would degenerate quite rapidly.
And since our space-habitat-building skills are still quite primitive, it is only the discovery, and colonization of another habitable planet that will ensure humanity continues if the (current) biosphere of Earth does not.
Nobody's supposed to be "offering a service" over their home bandwith.
Because we are all just consumers, right? The "Internet" is not a network of peers sharing information, its an unfinished replacement for television and movies-on-demand. Let's all recognize an artificial distinction between "client" and "server" so Proper Businesses can serve content in a controlled, orderly, law-abiding fashion. Bollocks, I say!
Besides, "client/server" is sooooo 1990s. Move into the 21st century.
'The problem is not a lack of highly educated workers,' said Scott Kirwin, founder of the Information Technology Professionals Association of America. 'The problem is a lack of highly educated workers willing to work for the minimum wage or lower in the U.S. Costs are driving outsourcing, not the quality of American schools.'"
The quote followed Carly's in a very deceptive fashion. Very easy for speed-reading Slashdotters to misattribute.
If IBM wants to take GNUStep and make it sexy, more power to them, but in the meantime, KDE will remain the coolest, most gorgeous linux desktop environment available.
Do you choose a President on the handsomeness of his haircut, or the whiteness of his teeth? An internal IBM desktop would be designed for getting work done, and not looking good. That is why there should never be One True Linux Desktop.
Remove the racist purges and replace zealous worship with apathetic inaction by the masses and you've got a good model of where we could be going if Bush were honestly an evil man instead of being mostly misguided.
How long will it be, then, before an evil man steps forward and fully utilizes the 'security' infrastructure we are currently putting into place? He would even be able to launch an invasion or two before the American people started asking serious questions...
It would be insanity to wait for the totally compromised UN to solve the problem for us, after the enemy announced his intention to attack us, and did so, several times.
Who is this 'enemy' that attacked us 'several times,' and what does Iraq have to do with it? Besides the two Islamic terrorist bombings in the United States (both against the WTC), what are we talking about here? The Oklahoma City bombing? The anthrax letters? Please be a little more specific in who and what you are referring to.
Oh, is that so? Please post a link to the declaration of war by Congress, I must have missed it. Also, can you tell me which country we are fighting against -- was it Eurasia or that other one I can't seem to remember?;p
It was this kind of thinking that provided Hitler et al. minds that would be willing to listen to his garbage.
Garbage indeed, but there was solid prosperity mixed in with that garbage. The Nazi economic platform consisted of a government designed to faciliate business. It might even be said that they formed the first modern Corporate State (as fascism is 'corporate' by nature), especially considering that the Nazis were focused on Germany's military-industrial complex.
There is a reason that one of our better Presidents warned America of that poisonous alliance between business and government; I fear all the "security" infrastructure we are building is only expanding that danger in a new direction.
So to bring this back to the point at hand. Even though comparisons between the current US Administration and the Nazis are.....tenuous, at best, that does not mean that the path is being paved for another madman ten, twenty, or thirty years from now.
Did you check your own reference? 40% of the people who use Google use Windows XP. Not 40% of the computers on the Internet, and certainly not 40% of the computers in the world.
The rest of your points aren't worth exploring any further.
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So the "inside contact" thing is true for the most part, but don't psych yourself out if you can express yourself well in writing.
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Why, exactly, is this on Slashdot?
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The mode of thinking you describe (Speaking My Mind Is My Right) is very much part of American culture. Tact , inference, and social courtesy are not Political Correctness; I caution you against throwing out the baby with the bathwater, lest the people you deal with consider you a blunt-speaking, churlish oaf. If you stay in America (or away from foreigners), then nevermind.
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Sue the billing contact. Whomever pays the bill is responsible for the content accessed. The validity of such an accusation would be worked out in court, after you start paying $$$ to defend yourself. So go check the Service Agreement you signed....
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Just look at the amount of commercials that get shown during a seasonal run, versus the amount of commercials shown during a miniseries, and you have your answer right there.
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Einstein's most brilliant theories came out of his time as a patent clerk. I doubt he was actually paying attention the patents crossing his desk when there was relativity and such to think about...
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OSX does not have a consistent installer/uninstaller, and that desktop is the arguably the readiest desktop in the land. Some applications run installers, others just tell you to drag a folder onto the desktop. If someone cannot figure out an easy-install system like Up2Date, apt, or portage, then they have no business running linux -- because everything else in the system will still need the command line! Windows will have the command line again soon. If someone wants a "pure" GUI experience, they will buy an Apple.
When they say Linux is going to be ready for the desktop, they do not necessarily mean everyone's desktop. As the saying goes, that is why there are 41 flavors of ice-cream.....
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Now that is a true incorporation. Or is it the face of (a) god?
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See all the people with glasses around? How did their genes make it through the long period of history before lenses were created? I would think that natural selection would have culled all the uselessly-blind organisms out of a population...
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That's right -- because he is a goddamned liar. Two grand promises in one week -- a sweeping reform of immigration, and now a sweeping vision of space exploration. Both so full of rheotoric and so short on details that only mental incompetents would believe him.
He would only declare Linux to be the official OS of the government if one of his contributors was selling the distro...
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A self-sufficient Moonbase would not save humanity, ever. At best it would be a temporary refuge for....what, a few hundred people? Without a constant influx of new genes (from Earth), the people would degenerate quite rapidly.
And since our space-habitat-building skills are still quite primitive, it is only the discovery, and colonization of another habitable planet that will ensure humanity continues if the (current) biosphere of Earth does not.
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Because we are all just consumers, right? The "Internet" is not a network of peers sharing information, its an unfinished replacement for television and movies-on-demand. Let's all recognize an artificial distinction between "client" and "server" so Proper Businesses can serve content in a controlled, orderly, law-abiding fashion. Bollocks, I say!
Besides, "client/server" is sooooo 1990s. Move into the 21st century.
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The quote followed Carly's in a very deceptive fashion. Very easy for speed-reading Slashdotters to misattribute.
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Do you choose a President on the handsomeness of his haircut, or the whiteness of his teeth? An internal IBM desktop would be designed for getting work done, and not looking good. That is why there should never be One True Linux Desktop.
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How long will it be, then, before an evil man steps forward and fully utilizes the 'security' infrastructure we are currently putting into place? He would even be able to launch an invasion or two before the American people started asking serious questions...
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Who is this 'enemy' that attacked us 'several times,' and what does Iraq have to do with it? Besides the two Islamic terrorist bombings in the United States (both against the WTC), what are we talking about here? The Oklahoma City bombing? The anthrax letters? Please be a little more specific in who and what you are referring to.
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Oh, is that so? Please post a link to the declaration of war by Congress, I must have missed it. Also, can you tell me which country we are fighting against -- was it Eurasia or that other one I can't seem to remember? ;p
Garbage indeed, but there was solid prosperity mixed in with that garbage. The Nazi economic platform consisted of a government designed to faciliate business. It might even be said that they formed the first modern Corporate State (as fascism is 'corporate' by nature), especially considering that the Nazis were focused on Germany's military-industrial complex.
There is a reason that one of our better Presidents warned America of that poisonous alliance between business and government; I fear all the "security" infrastructure we are building is only expanding that danger in a new direction.
So to bring this back to the point at hand. Even though comparisons between the current US Administration and the Nazis are.....tenuous, at best, that does not mean that the path is being paved for another madman ten, twenty, or thirty years from now.
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Whatever the consequences.
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Oh, so we aren't talking about all the computer users in the world anymore? Convenient, that.
Did you check your own reference? 40% of the people who use Google use Windows XP. Not 40% of the computers on the Internet, and certainly not 40% of the computers in the world.
The rest of your points aren't worth exploring any further.
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