Every job i interview with rejects me because i lack experience.
While another school may have been better, your lack of success in finding an IT job is not all that surprising. Jobs are hard to come by at the moment, even for experienced people, and this may have little to do with your school.
Which stock is more likely to grow 10%? The one that would have to increase by $13 a share, or the one that would only have to increase by $1.30?
The same. If the earnings of either company increased by 10%, all else being equal the share price would increase approx 10%. Some share prices can change $100 in a day no problem.
"highest skilled work" demonstrates the naivety of the author
I took the phrase "software development" to mean the whole project, including requirements, design, project management, coding, testing, deployment, maintenance, documentation. I see that you were referring exclusively to coding, in which case I agree in certain situations. A lot of coding is trivial. I could probably display a DB query on a web page drunk. Where I've worked, only the most junior people just code, and thus I tend to include the other stuff. Even so, the maintenance coder debugging a big app is often someone to pity.
I think any dissagreements here are not conceptual, but merely ones of word definition.
Yep. They're hard, so we shouldn't bother thinking of them as worthwhile concerns. Gee.
Just what is it with this "we must either do manned missions, or robotic missions and never both!" bullshit?
I never said any of that, except yes they are hard. Please provide a reference for your quote, because I'm pretty sure I never said it.
I said we aren't ready for manned missions to colonize a planet, or mine asteroids. Until we are, we can utilize unmanned missions to expand our knowledge and move us in this direction.
(1) While it would be nice to colonize some other planet, we're not even close to being able to do that. At the moment, robots can do the missions which will move us in this direction.
(2) Same as 1. Send robots to the asteriods or wherever you want. Were not even close to having manned mining ships digging up stuff.
(3) This is pretty much the ideology of adventure that was spoken about.
The idiots eat these stocks up because they think that there's something magical about owning a stock through the split. It makes me want to shoot myself in the face.
It may be stupid, but play it. Then you can shoot yourself in the face while relaxing on your 50 ft yaht. The market is mostly psychology.
Microsoft is clearly gearing up for the coming patent war. Perhaps it is using SCO as a test pawn. MS's "trail blazing" engineers have proudly filed over 3000 patents last year. I bet you didn't know MS innovates over 10 times per day. Now that MS can't grow much more in the software space, it will use the litigation space to satisfy shareholders.
It is hard to play along with a death threat, compared to, a petition of money for a church in nigeria.
Not at all
Good day Mr Naburami.
Your message regarding my snipping has been well received and understood.
I am most fortunate to have recently inherited much currency from recently
snipped relative, and will be able to manage your fee. Unfortunately, such
currency is tied up in estate escrow until lawyers fees have cleared by me.
I am greatly in need of help from you to get such currency out of country.
Lawyers fees from OJ Simpson law company total $399 at this time. Without
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funds from escrow. Please have loan sent through western union to me.
Factual error: Nobody would dare to cut a metal piece with a saw without eye protection, much less in a surgical room, like the surgeon that wanted to remove Doc Ock's tentacles.
Submitter obviously has never watched American Chopper.
Hey mikey, hold this piece of metal with your bare hands while I weld it....
Changing that is a significant alteration in how we do things.
Yes I realize that, and thus I don't expect my opinion to be enacted, or even to have anyone agree with me. I view it as a positive sign that I'm not modded into oblivion.
Regardless, I've thought about this a long time and I'm convinced it would be a good thing. I would expect such ideas to manifest themselves once more in a few hundred years, as part of a post-democratic revolution. I believe all the trash talk, all the stupidity that comes from politicians is merely a reflection of the ignorance of the voters.
The goal here is not to exclude those less intelligent, but to educate all voters. A quiz would be on the ballot, the questions which would be posted ahead of time. Questions like how your selected candidate voted on some prominent bill. Anyone who bothered to read the questions ahead of time, and look up the answers would be able to vote.
Well I've got a few hundred years to work out the rest.
"One cannot have good government, without good Propaganda"
(Josef Goebbels)
And then whoever is in power will change the requirements so that only his supporters are allowed to vote.
You imply a slippery slope where none exists. Felons can't vote, and yet the fabric of society is not unravelling because of it. Yes, occasionally a political party will make an issue of this, claiming it's unfair, but this is of no consequence, as parties will make an issue of anything if it makes them look good.
You make some good points about who chooses questions, and will this end up being an intelligence test. However the format of elections already assume some intelligence and knowledge. Unfortunately these assumptions are incorrect. There is the assumption that the voter is aware of issues, aware of party platforms, and aware of candidates characteristics. After all, the end goal is not to elect an individual, but to exert influence over policies. If an individual is unaware of the policies of candidates, how can one make an informed choice?
I realize the position is radical and unpopular, but forcing voters to actually research candidates would have a profound positive effect on elections. We might actually start electing people on merit, rather than propaganda. Can you imagine it?
That's not fair. I supported Bush in the last election where he campaigned on domestic issues. He talked about the economy, and appeared to have an isolationist inclination.
Nobody said anything about 'nation building' and invading foreign lands. I was lied to.
If a store wants to sell a product and they place it on their shelf, they are a distributor of that merchandise even before the first customer actually pays for one.
Given that definition, then the library is a 'distributor' of infringing photocopies, even before a single person has made such a photocopy, and the analogy still holds.
Given that both the library and the sharers are not being sued, it would appear that the Canadian judiciary has not adopted your definition.
But putting a copyrighted file that you have not received permission to distribute in your shared folder *IS* unauthorized distribution, no matter how you slice it.... even if nobody has yet downloaded it
I don't see a significant difference in the photocopier analogy.
Putting a file in your shared folder enables distribution, but it is not in itself distribution. In fact you point that out yourself in that perhaps "nobody has yet downloaded it". If nobody else has it, then it's not distributed.
Just like putting a photocopier in a library enables distribution.
Not becuase ppl loved or respected Rome but becuase Rome's vengenance was so absolute and so extreme that no one would dare harm its citizens for fear of Rome's reprisals.
Yes that's why Rome was such a peaceful place to live. Oh except for
The social war
the first civil war
the revolt of spartacus
the sertorius campaign
the catalinarian revolt
the civil war against anthony
the triumviral proscriptions
the sullan proscriptions
the second civil war
the anthony/octavian war
the triumvirs/sextus pompey war
the brutus+cassius war
the war against the pirates
the rebellion in Britain
the rebellion in Parthia
the rebellion in Judaea
the rebellion in Armenia
the civil war of the four emperors
the rebellion in Syria
the rebellion in Germany
the 3 punic wars.
but those were all wars of love so they don't count
You are all misunderstanding what Ballmer said re: Microsoft ads.
He is not saying his search engine will actually be a conduit for Microsoft propaganda.
He made that remark separate from the search engine discussion. He was talking about how most businesses underspend on online advertising, and that Microsoft spends 12% of its marketing budget online. That is not the devious plot of world domination that is implied.
All that needless clutter. Reminds me too much of yahoo.
Yes but you can't expect artists to NOT draw wild stuff. Fortunately Google realized that this is not a job for an artist, but for an HCI engineer (human computer interaction).
The fact is, the new Star Wars movies are just as good as the old ones. Complainers were just 20 years younger when they saw the originals.
I saw the originals last week, they rock. The final showdown between Luke, the Emperor and Vader is among the best scenes EVER. There were lineups in 1997 for the re-releases. 20 years from now, no one is going to line up for the crappy prequels.
Slashdot Mirror
Use this to replay a nation wide brown note. Also good fun. Buy stock in American Standard.
They feature criminals kicking, screaming, and drunkenly making themselves look like idiots on national television!
Yeah, and what about Mike Tyson press conferences! Those should be banned!
Every job i interview with rejects me because i lack experience.
While another school may have been better, your lack of success in finding an IT job is not all that surprising. Jobs are hard to come by at the moment, even for experienced people, and this may have little to do with your school.
Which stock is more likely to grow 10%? The one that would have to increase by $13 a share, or the one that would only have to increase by $1.30?
The same. If the earnings of either company increased by 10%, all else being equal the share price would increase approx 10%. Some share prices can change $100 in a day no problem.
"highest skilled work" demonstrates the naivety of the author
I took the phrase "software development" to mean the whole project, including requirements, design, project management, coding, testing, deployment, maintenance, documentation. I see that you were referring exclusively to coding, in which case I agree in certain situations. A lot of coding is trivial. I could probably display a DB query on a web page drunk. Where I've worked, only the most junior people just code, and thus I tend to include the other stuff. Even so, the maintenance coder debugging a big app is often someone to pity.
I think any dissagreements here are not conceptual, but merely ones of word definition.
whew. "highest skilled work . . . such as software development" that's a good one.
If your software development is easy, you need to work on a bigger project. The difficulty is essentially unlimited.
The context made it clear that you don't believe manned missions should be undertaken at all right now.
I responded to two specific points made by the original poster.
There may indeed be other reasons to justify manned missions, however I have not heard of any recently.
Alternately, you could throw nickels at space programs instead of mere pennies.
In which case it would be most advantageous to send up 5 times more unmanned missions. Increasing the budget doesn't change laws of physics.
Yep. They're hard, so we shouldn't bother thinking of them as worthwhile concerns. Gee. Just what is it with this "we must either do manned missions, or robotic missions and never both!" bullshit?
I never said any of that, except yes they are hard. Please provide a reference for your quote, because I'm pretty sure I never said it.
I said we aren't ready for manned missions to colonize a planet, or mine asteroids. Until we are, we can utilize unmanned missions to expand our knowledge and move us in this direction.
(1) While it would be nice to colonize some other planet, we're not even close to being able to do that. At the moment, robots can do the missions which will move us in this direction.
(2) Same as 1. Send robots to the asteriods or wherever you want. Were not even close to having manned mining ships digging up stuff.
(3) This is pretty much the ideology of adventure that was spoken about.
37N 116W Good luck, you'll need it!
No problem. Of course I will shortly afterwards be visiting 40 48'N, 73 53'W
The idiots eat these stocks up because they think that there's something magical about owning a stock through the split. It makes me want to shoot myself in the face.
It may be stupid, but play it. Then you can shoot yourself in the face while relaxing on your 50 ft yaht. The market is mostly psychology.
Microsoft is clearly gearing up for the coming patent war. Perhaps it is using SCO as a test pawn. MS's "trail blazing" engineers have proudly filed over 3000 patents last year. I bet you didn't know MS innovates over 10 times per day. Now that MS can't grow much more in the software space, it will use the litigation space to satisfy shareholders.
It is hard to play along with a death threat, compared to, a petition of money for a church in nigeria.
Not at all
Good day Mr Naburami.
Your message regarding my snipping has been well received and understood. I am most fortunate to have recently inherited much currency from recently snipped relative, and will be able to manage your fee. Unfortunately, such currency is tied up in estate escrow until lawyers fees have cleared by me. I am greatly in need of help from you to get such currency out of country. Lawyers fees from OJ Simpson law company total $399 at this time. Without such funds, I am poor man and so require from you small loan to release funds from escrow. Please have loan sent through western union to me.
Yours in best,
James T. Kirk
Factual error: Nobody would dare to cut a metal piece with a saw without eye protection, much less in a surgical room, like the surgeon that wanted to remove Doc Ock's tentacles.
Submitter obviously has never watched American Chopper.
Hey mikey, hold this piece of metal with your bare hands while I weld it....
Changing that is a significant alteration in how we do things.
Yes I realize that, and thus I don't expect my opinion to be enacted, or even to have anyone agree with me. I view it as a positive sign that I'm not modded into oblivion.
Regardless, I've thought about this a long time and I'm convinced it would be a good thing. I would expect such ideas to manifest themselves once more in a few hundred years, as part of a post-democratic revolution. I believe all the trash talk, all the stupidity that comes from politicians is merely a reflection of the ignorance of the voters.
The goal here is not to exclude those less intelligent, but to educate all voters. A quiz would be on the ballot, the questions which would be posted ahead of time. Questions like how your selected candidate voted on some prominent bill. Anyone who bothered to read the questions ahead of time, and look up the answers would be able to vote.
Well I've got a few hundred years to work out the rest.
"One cannot have good government, without good Propaganda" (Josef Goebbels)
And then whoever is in power will change the requirements so that only his supporters are allowed to vote.
You imply a slippery slope where none exists. Felons can't vote, and yet the fabric of society is not unravelling because of it. Yes, occasionally a political party will make an issue of this, claiming it's unfair, but this is of no consequence, as parties will make an issue of anything if it makes them look good.
You make some good points about who chooses questions, and will this end up being an intelligence test. However the format of elections already assume some intelligence and knowledge. Unfortunately these assumptions are incorrect. There is the assumption that the voter is aware of issues, aware of party platforms, and aware of candidates characteristics. After all, the end goal is not to elect an individual, but to exert influence over policies. If an individual is unaware of the policies of candidates, how can one make an informed choice?
I realize the position is radical and unpopular, but forcing voters to actually research candidates would have a profound positive effect on elections. We might actually start electing people on merit, rather than propaganda. Can you imagine it?
If you voted for them, you voted for *this*.
That's not fair. I supported Bush in the last election where he campaigned on domestic issues. He talked about the economy, and appeared to have an isolationist inclination.
Nobody said anything about 'nation building' and invading foreign lands. I was lied to.
If a store wants to sell a product and they place it on their shelf, they are a distributor of that merchandise even before the first customer actually pays for one.
Given that definition, then the library is a 'distributor' of infringing photocopies, even before a single person has made such a photocopy, and the analogy still holds.
Given that both the library and the sharers are not being sued, it would appear that the Canadian judiciary has not adopted your definition.
But putting a copyrighted file that you have not received permission to distribute in your shared folder *IS* unauthorized distribution, no matter how you slice it.... even if nobody has yet downloaded it
I don't see a significant difference in the photocopier analogy.
Putting a file in your shared folder enables distribution, but it is not in itself distribution. In fact you point that out yourself in that perhaps "nobody has yet downloaded it". If nobody else has it, then it's not distributed.
Just like putting a photocopier in a library enables distribution.
which should be 1 out 72 times on average, ignoring the 0 and 00
Is there not 36 numbers on that wheel? Making the odds of any roll matching the previous roll 1/36.
Not becuase ppl loved or respected Rome but becuase Rome's vengenance was so absolute and so extreme that no one would dare harm its citizens for fear of Rome's reprisals.
Yes that's why Rome was such a peaceful place to live. Oh except for
The social war
the first civil war
the revolt of spartacus
the sertorius campaign
the catalinarian revolt
the civil war against anthony
the triumviral proscriptions
the sullan proscriptions
the second civil war
the anthony/octavian war
the triumvirs/sextus pompey war
the brutus+cassius war
the war against the pirates
the rebellion in Britain
the rebellion in Parthia
the rebellion in Judaea
the rebellion in Armenia
the civil war of the four emperors
the rebellion in Syria
the rebellion in Germany
the 3 punic wars.
but those were all wars of love so they don't count
You are all misunderstanding what Ballmer said re: Microsoft ads.
He is not saying his search engine will actually be a conduit for Microsoft propaganda.
He made that remark separate from the search engine discussion. He was talking about how most businesses underspend on online advertising, and that Microsoft spends 12% of its marketing budget online. That is not the devious plot of world domination that is implied.
All that needless clutter. Reminds me too much of yahoo.
Yes but you can't expect artists to NOT draw wild stuff. Fortunately Google realized that this is not a job for an artist, but for an HCI engineer (human computer interaction).
The fact is, the new Star Wars movies are just as good as the old ones. Complainers were just 20 years younger when they saw the originals.
I saw the originals last week, they rock. The final showdown between Luke, the Emperor and Vader is among the best scenes EVER. There were lineups in 1997 for the re-releases. 20 years from now, no one is going to line up for the crappy prequels.