I also bring my own laptop to work on most days, either to take care of some personal stuff during the breaks or the downtime, or to test something work-related which could fuck up the pc or network.
I think our company does this right. Most locations, as far as I know, have wired ethernet everywhere, and you can only connect the authorized computers there. There are also two wi-fi networks, one is the corporate which requires full authentication with certificates and all that crap, and another guest network, which allows employees (or actual guests, if an employee generates them some credentials) to get on the internet without accessing the corporate LAN.
The downside there is that you have to hold the ipad with at least one hand, thereby greatly reducing the range of possible activities you can engage in.
I don't have the time to address more of your points properly (like nuclear waste), however
4) The auto industry introduced the SUV. The fact that they made an end run around regulation si there fault. The minivan kills the station wagon, not the SUV. It also a pretty cheap trick to compare the best station wagon to on of the worst SUVs.
I just looked it up, all SUVs in 2009 and 2010 sold in N. America get of 20 MPG. so you are actually a liar. Just so you know, that's worse then a cheap trick.
So, what is the MPG that the 2009 Nissan Armada gets then? According to fueleconomy.gov, it does 14 MPG combined for the 2009MY and the Sequoia gets similar numbers. Unless both manufacturers significantly increased the performance without any significant changes while hiding it from the government, I don't think the OP is the liar here.
The question is not whether you can walk around without having a passport on you, of course you can. Just like when I also drove without having a driving license with me for a few days before I realized I was leaving it in another bag. Despite not having a license with me, the car always started just fine and I could operate it as usual.
The point is if you are supposed to carry the passport/ID with you, and what will happen to you if you don't. Technically, I'm supposed to have my passport with me here in CZ, but I never carry it (unless I'm driving), since the possibility of losing or having it stolen and the bureaucratic bullshit associated with getting a new one is great than the chance of getting harassed by the cops and them not buying the "oh I just left it in my other jeans" excuse, or in worst case just waiting out for an hour while somebody fetches the passport from home.
That's because you're white and look like a Ukrainian, and thus haven't been harassed by the cops. I'm not just trying to shit on Ukraine, it's my motherland after all, but this is pretty common in Russia as well.
They were certainly an important phenomenon especially in the 70s, so it can be expected that some people are not too familiar with them nowadays. Yet, they are responsible for some very important, memorable, and fascinating things from that period, and can still be observed around the world even today. I suggest that anyone with a slightest interest in such things does some further research into this topic.
The first time they engage the group it's pretty clearly a case of extremely poor and unfortunate target identification, but it's pretty far from "premeditated murder" or whatever it was called.
However, there is simply no acceptable explanation whatsoever for the following two times the crew engages ground targets. A civilian van pulls up and two unarmed guys get out to pick up the clearly unarmed, wounded man. We know this because:
He's crawling on the ground
The gunner begged just moments earlier for him to pick up any weapon so he could finish him off
Then they lie about them picking up weapons when they clearly only tried to get the photographer, whine for permission to fire, and obliterate the van complete with the two new guys, the wounded man, and two children. Admittedly the children survived and were basically impossible to see, but still there was no reason at all to fire at that van.
The next part is just as bad - they get permission to shoot a building, and the gunner launches a hellfire missile a few seconds after an unarmed civilian walks into the frame and past the bulding, scoring a direct hit on him. Oh, and I think the building only housed three normal families, who were killed by this missile. To be fair that's not the crew's fault, but they've done enough by this point.
This isn't collateral damage, because for collateral damage there have to be legitimate targets there in the first place. Here, it was just the unlucky civilians. While the first case could maybe be explained away by the context and incompetence, these last two cases are clearly unlawful killing. Thus, the murder part.
Although I'm pretty far from the Navy or marine technology in general, I find this topic quite fascinating. If you're interest in how such salvage operations are approached, I highly recommend reading this Wired article from last year, called Cowboys of the deep, which details the operations of Titan Salvage, as they recover a cargo ship full of new Mazdas. It's much more detailed than any news article, and generally an excellent read.
>In this case you could say that he's not only giving an example, but is testing the slashdot user comments code as well.
It's testing not just the user comments code, but also the moderation system code and the moderators themselves. In this case, it appears that he found a bug which causes the comment to be moderated Insightful by providing a certain combination of random characters as input. I will now attempt to replicate this problem.
______TEST DATA FOLLOWS______ TvaHokVAwgZGLrzPnDsIzHnKwuOOQEgaFskFJx-9JH@eIbwWSYhujyXDekeBP-9YQlfiZtdOZXlupfvy UYXenTsWzzF#SScvbvWXtMMcbMg@xIsRC!OiViEDnt-9fQRGXEgvbfdlBATolRyiVYmcKyHi-9bLVcYx JrPmw
Up until fairly recently IE was also available for Mac, and you don't need to buy a new copy of Windows for every updated version of the browser*. In fact, Microsoft giving away the browser for free was the whole reason why Netscape was so pissed off at them. In any case, I suspect that the only reason IE is no longer available on Macs or other Unix systems is because nobody would voluntarily use it, so they just don't bother maintaining the port any more.
*Except IE9 & XP, but there's going to be an 11 year gap between them by the time the new IE comes out
I'll second the resume suggestion and I'll comment a bit more on this, as this hasn't been discussed much so far. This might indeed be his main problem (besides the fact that the economy is just starting to recover and lots of companies have hiring freezes) if he's not getting any responses at all.
The shittyness of some resumes can be simply staggering, and the OP's might be one of these. It's not that you need embossed print or watermarked paper, but following some basic rules of typography and design helps immensely. I'm not a designer myself, but I think just sticking to one font (maybe a different one for the name/heading is ok too) and keeping the layout as clear and as consistent as possible can make a huge difference.
The content itself is of course very important. Even as a fresh graduate, you don't want your resume to look like this:
EDUCATION CS, Joe Shmoe College 2006-2010 Hicktown high school 2002-2006
SKILLS Java C
EXPERIENCE Code monkey, college library 2007-2008 -Maintained their web page and did some other stuff*
*-paraphrasing, but this is an actual line I saw somebody write on their resume.
Obviously, make sure there aren't any spelling or grammar problems, or just awkward phrasing anywhere. I'm not going to say what exactly you should write to guarantee a job because I don't know that myself, but in my opinion (well also in the opinion of people vastly more experienced than I am) the most important thing here is to show how you are different and better that others who would be applying for the same job. Unless there are more jobs that possible candidates, you are going to compete with them. Sure you can code in C, but so can I, and I've never went through a fancy CS program.
So, think about how you are better than others, like those who will be graduating with you. If you can't think of anything, well, that's your problem. Do something about it ASAP before you graduate and become unemployed.
It's possible to argue that skills required for making a nice resume don't overlap much with those required from a code monkey, but if the resume looks like it was designed and written by a thirteen year old, I think the HR drones are more then justified in tossing it in the bin. At the very least, a nice resume shows the employers that you care about finding a job, put in the effort to do it right, and that you could also pick up the skills which were necessary for the task, even if they weren't your area of expertise originally.
OP, if you're reading this (and I hope you are, I didn't type all this for my own amusement!), why don't you post your CV so we can critique it for you? PS. the cover letters can be just as important.
Without getting into the whole private/government bullshit debate, in this case it's because the government keeps paying them the money. If they discovered that the company they hired is useless the first year, they should've dropped them (or the whole project) and found somebody else, and not kept pouring money down the drain. But they kept doing just that, so that's their problem right there.
No, strapping an electric alarm clock to a generator (even a gas turbine one) is not going to do it, because a)I can do that myself and b)If you think about it this way, I already have a nuclear powered clock!
No. What I'm think is something that is directly driven by the gas engine, like the steamclock, but updated for the 21 century.
Where the hell can I buy the gasoline powered alarm clock? That's an awesome idea and I don't care how many energy stars it gets, I just want it right now.
Yeah, I'll second this. We thankfully have an SSO solution at our company, and everybody seems to love it. I'm myself not an "average user", but even I would probably kill myself in short order if I had to manually enter my credentials every time I accessed on of our internal systems. And not only it's more convenient, it's also probably more secure, since users don't need to have a bunch of post-it notes with passwords stuck to their monitors.
Hmm yes it does. Checking "Show Menu Bar" displays the standard windows main menu. It contains the following items: File, Edit, View, Bookmarks, Widgets, Tools, and help. What are the useless icons that you are talking about? Maybe this was a bug in the early beta versions, but the final release works exactly as I described above.
First of all, why the hell are you using the main menu to access the search? How lame is that??:)
Anyway, I'm not going to go the standard Open Source way and tell you that you're an idiot for using the software differently than I do, so why not just press Alt+F11 or O->Show Menu bar to get the standard menu back? Opera is as customizable as (if not more than) Firefox without having to resort to digging through the source or plugins.
I did this with a SonyEricsson T68i. The phone EIGHT years old now. Sure, it's not completely obvious, but it's easy to check if the phone has the needed profile, which in my experience most modern bluetooth phones do.
Well you could argue about food safety standards too...
But no, I don't see how this crap is necessary at all, and I'm saying this as a long time Opera user.
Either the clueless people will be clicking randomly, which won't result in any improvements since they'll just stick to whatever they picked initially, or the were already familiar with that browser and would have downloaded it anyway. Then there's the fact that the top five vendors felt it's cool to keep everybody else out of the view, nicely hidden by some horizontal scrolling and not in the same shuffling pool as the top five. Yeah, that's fair.
Yes, I remember. This is just a bunch of vague bullshit which gets accepted as the truth and modded appropriately only because it gets repeated all the time. Of course you can't compare the ipod to the cheap flash-based players of the time, but the Creative hard-drive based players had comparable, and I would say superior interface. Usually you'd have distinct physical buttons for most important functions, plus a rocker type thingie to navigate the menus. The menus themselves were clear and logically organized. Now admittedly the text input was a bit awkward, but at least it was possible to create and save playlists on the fly, as well as search songs by title.
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I also bring my own laptop to work on most days, either to take care of some personal stuff during the breaks or the downtime, or to test something work-related which could fuck up the pc or network.
I think our company does this right. Most locations, as far as I know, have wired ethernet everywhere, and you can only connect the authorized computers there. There are also two wi-fi networks, one is the corporate which requires full authentication with certificates and all that crap, and another guest network, which allows employees (or actual guests, if an employee generates them some credentials) to get on the internet without accessing the corporate LAN.
The downside there is that you have to hold the ipad with at least one hand, thereby greatly reducing the range of possible activities you can engage in.
Really? You are shocked that a slashdot editor doesn't check and correct the stories he posts? You must be new here.
I don't have the time to address more of your points properly (like nuclear waste), however
So, what is the MPG that the 2009 Nissan Armada gets then? According to fueleconomy.gov, it does 14 MPG combined for the 2009MY and the Sequoia gets similar numbers. Unless both manufacturers significantly increased the performance without any significant changes while hiding it from the government, I don't think the OP is the liar here.
The question is not whether you can walk around without having a passport on you, of course you can. Just like when I also drove without having a driving license with me for a few days before I realized I was leaving it in another bag. Despite not having a license with me, the car always started just fine and I could operate it as usual.
The point is if you are supposed to carry the passport/ID with you, and what will happen to you if you don't. Technically, I'm supposed to have my passport with me here in CZ, but I never carry it (unless I'm driving), since the possibility of losing or having it stolen and the bureaucratic bullshit associated with getting a new one is great than the chance of getting harassed by the cops and them not buying the "oh I just left it in my other jeans" excuse, or in worst case just waiting out for an hour while somebody fetches the passport from home.
That's because you're white and look like a Ukrainian, and thus haven't been harassed by the cops. I'm not just trying to shit on Ukraine, it's my motherland after all, but this is pretty common in Russia as well.
*Sticks probe through skull*
It's afraid. It's afraid.
They were certainly an important phenomenon especially in the 70s, so it can be expected that some people are not too familiar with them nowadays. Yet, they are responsible for some very important, memorable, and fascinating things from that period, and can still be observed around the world even today. I suggest that anyone with a slightest interest in such things does some further research into this topic.
The first time they engage the group it's pretty clearly a case of extremely poor and unfortunate target identification, but it's pretty far from "premeditated murder" or whatever it was called.
However, there is simply no acceptable explanation whatsoever for the following two times the crew engages ground targets. A civilian van pulls up and two unarmed guys get out to pick up the clearly unarmed, wounded man. We know this because:
Then they lie about them picking up weapons when they clearly only tried to get the photographer, whine for permission to fire, and obliterate the van complete with the two new guys, the wounded man, and two children. Admittedly the children survived and were basically impossible to see, but still there was no reason at all to fire at that van.
The next part is just as bad - they get permission to shoot a building, and the gunner launches a hellfire missile a few seconds after an unarmed civilian walks into the frame and past the bulding, scoring a direct hit on him. Oh, and I think the building only housed three normal families, who were killed by this missile. To be fair that's not the crew's fault, but they've done enough by this point.
This isn't collateral damage, because for collateral damage there have to be legitimate targets there in the first place. Here, it was just the unlucky civilians. While the first case could maybe be explained away by the context and incompetence, these last two cases are clearly unlawful killing. Thus, the murder part.
Although I'm pretty far from the Navy or marine technology in general, I find this topic quite fascinating. If you're interest in how such salvage operations are approached, I highly recommend reading this Wired article from last year, called Cowboys of the deep, which details the operations of Titan Salvage, as they recover a cargo ship full of new Mazdas. It's much more detailed than any news article, and generally an excellent read.
>In this case you could say that he's not only giving an example, but is testing the slashdot user comments code as well.
It's testing not just the user comments code, but also the moderation system code and the moderators themselves. In this case, it appears that he found a bug which causes the comment to be moderated Insightful by providing a certain combination of random characters as input. I will now attempt to replicate this problem.
______TEST DATA FOLLOWS______
TvaHokVAwgZGLrzPnDsIzHnKwuOOQEgaFskFJx-9JH@eIbwWSYhujyXDekeBP-9YQlfiZtdOZXlupfvy
UYXenTsWzzF#SScvbvWXtMMcbMg@xIsRC!OiViEDnt-9fQRGXEgvbfdlBATolRyiVYmcKyHi-9bLVcYx
JrPmw
Up until fairly recently IE was also available for Mac, and you don't need to buy a new copy of Windows for every updated version of the browser*. In fact, Microsoft giving away the browser for free was the whole reason why Netscape was so pissed off at them. In any case, I suspect that the only reason IE is no longer available on Macs or other Unix systems is because nobody would voluntarily use it, so they just don't bother maintaining the port any more.
*Except IE9 & XP, but there's going to be an 11 year gap between them by the time the new IE comes out
I'll second the resume suggestion and I'll comment a bit more on this, as this hasn't been discussed much so far. This might indeed be his main problem (besides the fact that the economy is just starting to recover and lots of companies have hiring freezes) if he's not getting any responses at all.
The shittyness of some resumes can be simply staggering, and the OP's might be one of these. It's not that you need embossed print or watermarked paper, but following some basic rules of typography and design helps immensely. I'm not a designer myself, but I think just sticking to one font (maybe a different one for the name/heading is ok too) and keeping the layout as clear and as consistent as possible can make a huge difference.
The content itself is of course very important. Even as a fresh graduate, you don't want your resume to look like this:
*-paraphrasing, but this is an actual line I saw somebody write on their resume.
Obviously, make sure there aren't any spelling or grammar problems, or just awkward phrasing anywhere. I'm not going to say what exactly you should write to guarantee a job because I don't know that myself, but in my opinion (well also in the opinion of people vastly more experienced than I am) the most important thing here is to show how you are different and better that others who would be applying for the same job. Unless there are more jobs that possible candidates, you are going to compete with them. Sure you can code in C, but so can I, and I've never went through a fancy CS program.
So, think about how you are better than others, like those who will be graduating with you. If you can't think of anything, well, that's your problem. Do something about it ASAP before you graduate and become unemployed.
It's possible to argue that skills required for making a nice resume don't overlap much with those required from a code monkey, but if the resume looks like it was designed and written by a thirteen year old, I think the HR drones are more then justified in tossing it in the bin. At the very least, a nice resume shows the employers that you care about finding a job, put in the effort to do it right, and that you could also pick up the skills which were necessary for the task, even if they weren't your area of expertise originally.
OP, if you're reading this (and I hope you are, I didn't type all this for my own amusement!), why don't you post your CV so we can critique it for you?
PS. the cover letters can be just as important.
Without getting into the whole private/government bullshit debate, in this case it's because the government keeps paying them the money. If they discovered that the company they hired is useless the first year, they should've dropped them (or the whole project) and found somebody else, and not kept pouring money down the drain. But they kept doing just that, so that's their problem right there.
No, strapping an electric alarm clock to a generator (even a gas turbine one) is not going to do it, because
a)I can do that myself and
b)If you think about it this way, I already have a nuclear powered clock!
No. What I'm think is something that is directly driven by the gas engine, like the steam clock, but updated for the 21 century.
Where the hell can I buy the gasoline powered alarm clock? That's an awesome idea and I don't care how many energy stars it gets, I just want it right now.
You know, this was Stalin's favorite part as well.
My laptop has a microphone jack and a line-in. Of course, it's a ThinkPad, so YMMV.
Yeah, I'll second this. We thankfully have an SSO solution at our company, and everybody seems to love it. I'm myself not an "average user", but even I would probably kill myself in short order if I had to manually enter my credentials every time I accessed on of our internal systems. And not only it's more convenient, it's also probably more secure, since users don't need to have a bunch of post-it notes with passwords stuck to their monitors.
Hmm yes it does. Checking "Show Menu Bar" displays the standard windows main menu. It contains the following items: File, Edit, View, Bookmarks, Widgets, Tools, and help. What are the useless icons that you are talking about? Maybe this was a bug in the early beta versions, but the final release works exactly as I described above.
First of all, why the hell are you using the main menu to access the search? How lame is that?? :)
Anyway, I'm not going to go the standard Open Source way and tell you that you're an idiot for using the software differently than I do, so why not just press Alt+F11 or O->Show Menu bar to get the standard menu back? Opera is as customizable as (if not more than) Firefox without having to resort to digging through the source or plugins.
The 1990 Miata does.
I did this with a SonyEricsson T68i. The phone EIGHT years old now. Sure, it's not completely obvious, but it's easy to check if the phone has the needed profile, which in my experience most modern bluetooth phones do.
Well you could argue about food safety standards too...
But no, I don't see how this crap is necessary at all, and I'm saying this as a long time Opera user.
Either the clueless people will be clicking randomly, which won't result in any improvements since they'll just stick to whatever they picked initially, or the were already familiar with that browser and would have downloaded it anyway. Then there's the fact that the top five vendors felt it's cool to keep everybody else out of the view, nicely hidden by some horizontal scrolling and not in the same shuffling pool as the top five. Yeah, that's fair.
Yes, I remember. This is just a bunch of vague bullshit which gets accepted as the truth and modded appropriately only because it gets repeated all the time. Of course you can't compare the ipod to the cheap flash-based players of the time, but the Creative hard-drive based players had comparable, and I would say superior interface. Usually you'd have distinct physical buttons for most important functions, plus a rocker type thingie to navigate the menus. The menus themselves were clear and logically organized. Now admittedly the text input was a bit awkward, but at least it was possible to create and save playlists on the fly, as well as search songs by title.