you get hired on your personality and credencials; survive on your work; promoted on politics...
The forever interview is because of a few deadheads that floated thru (education + work) without ever doing any real work.
it was considered bad form to ask a prospect was a far pointer was? Or decipher some c gibberish? wanna babysit 12 million lines of code now?
This is from ottawa, capital of canada. I knew the local fed programers when they didn't HAVE degrees... the degrees didn't exist at the time of hiring.
CS had since become one of the WORST patronage games in town. jobs awarded without competion to people who've never (in 3 years of cs) done any more the tempature conversion programs.
with a $billion lost three times so far (that i can remember) The feds attempt to write software every once in a while is joke. It never works.
whole CS departments got dumped a whilke back, and quietly re-hired when it became appartent the newbies couldn't do the work (security orgs, no less)
CS here ( federal silly service)is now a MS domain with suits, cheerleaders and canadian gov't websites that need american tech to work; and only american tech.
you get hired on your personality and credencials; (same as grad school. marks, references and interview. 80% weight in the refs) survive on your work; (pol, eco + cult) promoted on politics.
as suspected with gentoo. only 512 megs ram here, not a prob. The big problem is an erratic power supplies that put 'interesting' bugs in places not usually suspected.
win lasts about an hour before the drive gets eaten. Mandrake 10.1, about 6 minutes.
rh9, me. lockups are common. rebooting x usally ( but not always) gets ya out of it.
and yes, i have a 18000-25000 volt(?) surge whatis. doesn't help much, works as an nice on/off switch thou.
slackware? Naw, not yet. Still use rh9 with a seperate drive for inspection other dists. sad, but Linux isn't playing nice together these days.
http://it.slashdot.org/~packrat2/journal/79818
friendly smart and intelligent software.
smart as in system clustering.
pass this on... if it's any use to ya.
pat
harken unto my blog, if you will. (sigh. I HAD to say that. it scres off the boneheads.)
http://slashdot.org/~packrat2/journal/79818
it's supposed to be funny. AND it's about programming.
well, I'm the only person i know who has taught themselves to ride a bike... and almost read. ( they had to tell me what the new words were.) same old, thou. Good marks if i was interested...
and failing grades if you couldn't convince me that 'a mark for the question, each step and the answer meant 80% for a wrong answer' was the correct thing to do. I attended university, psy/law/general arts... walked in with corrections to the text in second week. type of student. Had forgotten the course by the end of it. What would I've done differently?......
people are the problem and the answer. You want bucks, find the people first, then work on something. I did the opposite and starve. pat
yo.
don't agree at ALL with the PMO's actions.
this goes out today, various publications.
seasonal yahoos, eh?
pat
PM-the-PM patr44@canada.com
Only a few short days into power and Paul Marin.. ( aka PM-the-PM, old geezer that he is...) Has managed to put his foot in it.
Open mouth, change feet. In this case, one of his assistants feats (the office web-master) got the PM's office slash-dotted ( they made the news onna Geek web-page) when they tried to force a change in a satirists's page.
Change http://www.paulmartintimes.com To http://www.paulmartintime.com and you'll see what the fuss is about.
Too close a copy was one of the complaints against the satire site. (Mostly factual info, actually) It's copyright violation. Shut the whole place down or the PM's office will hit you with lots of liberal lawyers.
My response to that was short (words of one syllable, actually), blunt and fairly crude.
Here's some history. ( 3 Simultaneous revolutions (1917. Mexico, Chine, Russia) did NOT persuade the USA to start the CIA in WW 2. Oh, about Paul. OK, then.)
Paul Martin. Bag-boy. Like father, like son. A second generation finance minister, his dad having the same job for a while. Paul is, therefore, a bag-boy. Why, you ask?
About the time of the St Lawrence scandal a certain shipping company ( Mr. Marin senor's?) got into trouble over 'payments' made to certain officials. Over an anchor, as I recall) Invisible overseas financing was invented ( Bahamas), a place the RCMP can't supneoa records from) right about that time.
At work, Paul has had a slash+burn record since he started.... cutting wages, cutting benefits, etc. Given the junk fleets glutting the global shipping markets, it's a minor miracle the company has even survived. He did much the same as finance minister, with tax cuts for his friends thrown in.
While taking full advantage of the freebies friends offered him, naturally.
Normally, I accuse politicos of gangsterism. ( Like bridges in Toronto for the waterfront developers) This time, it's of being dangerously stupid.
Like the local politicos (who let the power blackout rate in silicon valley north triple, then told us to stock candles, water and find a warm place to stay 'cause it's gonna take two years to fix. (while buying another cable company.)), he's cutting his own throat.
This is the information age, ( a graphic one, mind. TV is still king.) and experiments in the timed release of propaganda, the suppression of articles ( the lessons of Otto Lang, who had Sask, cut out of the loop for if he didn't like the pulp news have been forgotten) just aren't gonna work anymore.
Pot-heads might be pleased with a token ( ahem. Sorry about that one) relaxation of a victimless crime but without destroying the electronics revolution entirely, you won't cut off information these days. It's impossible.
And a dangerously stupid move to even try. Turning back the tides would be easier.
He's known to be a bit conservative... but this is ridiculous.
And it only took him two weeks to start showing his true colors. A police state.
Bah, humbug. Lets start passing around some information, people. Anyone got a few stories of his ships being used to smuggle drug-filled dead babies? Terrorist thieves?
Lie, (cheat on his wife) stealing from the till, number of bag-men killed? (BM-the-PM had ten, I think, and didn't stop the Party Quebecois from getting financed.)
If it's bad news he wants to stop, we can flood him with it.
Pat donovan
property? Moving from rights to interest.
propably a varient of religious, authortain and democartic cultures... a cycle proposed by some french exsitencialist.
faster cheaper supierior....?
hum.
delicate, expensive, complicated?
(three not to do)
new exciting diffrent.
alive awake interested.
wored, online, interactive.
cherrio.
pat
books for general surveys... international crime. etc. Lunatic radio for news... valcano under yellowstone park, etc.
comic pages for current news, (pulp versions)
internet for anything i need details on.
pat
sf? as idea, educational or problem solving.
philosopy of western (tech) world)
content driven, in other words... rather than
character or action..
nice thought.
BUT....
veg city lives.
****
I zine, cartoon, atempt to comic write play etc.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/13/191221 7&mode=thread&tid=186&tid=214
for the thread at slashdot.
pat
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Patr44PDonovan
yes... I put a zine for world-con 3.
yes, there was hard sf... (get the picture yet?)
in it.
yes, there were cartoons too.
no, i didn't get any fan/author/ editor response.
so? life is tough... then you die.if papulm is what they want, feed 'em paplum
pat
I also play. Not that I got the two hundreds bums in the seats... for nightclubbig... (200$ a day for street-musicians... ) two hundred a day for service calls, hookers, wWEB-SITES)
I don't MP3. Some relitives do, but don't burn cds. (No money in it.) I don't web-site... it's p*ssing your life away... to mickysoft pirates, or file-shares, same thing to me.
The reality is MICKY-soft is trying for the corperate model of royalites... while the public wants absolute ownership (cds/mp3s).
mickysoft can buy more clout than voters. The ownership/property thing has moved from rights to interest again... ala the commons. (land held in the public interest to government ownership of public lands.
huh. You wanna play that game? You're screwed before you start, kid. Get used to 4/5 of the copies out there being illegal... The Official channels being a nasty 80 percent loss.. ( an artist makes maybe a buck off a 20$ cd)
Mickysoft tends to steal whatever tech they want. Pirates onna golbal scale. Luckers, fella.
AND the market being fairly low to begin with. (Most studios are in the ad indusrty... thou radio might be first)
like your momma said, you can't make a living from it, so don't even try.
pat
robots have been possible for years.
check jurisprudence... the philosopy of law. jurimetrics in particular.
any judge can be replaced (including the supreme court) by a $200 PC and get 96% accuracey. This service os for sale .
they use a political/economic/cultural matrix)
This could be tweaked.
the courts are clogged. Wanna INSTANT justice?
cheap?
NOT the $120 *million* a year illegal refugees are costing BC, for instence. (In legal aid fees alone)
it's been possible since the eigthies. Like creating life in a lab by copyinh a gene-sequence...
easy.
they aren't doing it, thou. (locally)
So in this brave new world you gotta be gretsy to even get in the door. so? That is what the web is for... to replace pap from commercial outlets.
pat
Slashdot Mirror
you get hired on your personality and credencials; survive on your work; promoted on politics... The forever interview is because of a few deadheads that floated thru (education + work) without ever doing any real work. it was considered bad form to ask a prospect was a far pointer was? Or decipher some c gibberish? wanna babysit 12 million lines of code now? This is from ottawa, capital of canada. I knew the local fed programers when they didn't HAVE degrees... the degrees didn't exist at the time of hiring. CS had since become one of the WORST patronage games in town. jobs awarded without competion to people who've never (in 3 years of cs) done any more the tempature conversion programs. with a $billion lost three times so far (that i can remember) The feds attempt to write software every once in a while is joke. It never works. whole CS departments got dumped a whilke back, and quietly re-hired when it became appartent the newbies couldn't do the work (security orgs, no less) CS here ( federal silly service)is now a MS domain with suits, cheerleaders and canadian gov't websites that need american tech to work; and only american tech. you get hired on your personality and credencials; (same as grad school. marks, references and interview. 80% weight in the refs) survive on your work; (pol, eco + cult) promoted on politics.
as suspected with gentoo. only 512 megs ram here, not a prob. The big problem is an erratic power supplies that put 'interesting' bugs in places not usually suspected.
win lasts about an hour before the drive gets eaten. Mandrake 10.1, about 6 minutes.
rh9, me. lockups are common. rebooting x usally ( but not always) gets ya out of it.
and yes, i have a 18000-25000 volt(?) surge whatis. doesn't help much, works as an nice on/off switch thou.
slackware? Naw, not yet. Still use rh9 with a seperate drive for inspection other dists. sad, but Linux isn't playing nice together these days.
packrat
any probs with the gentoo switch? i've got a early AMD with radeon 9200 se, but don't use it for graphics.
odd, as that is it's strong point.
otta the dvd install with gentoo 2004.?
packrat2
http://it.slashdot.org/~packrat2/journal/79818 friendly smart and intelligent software. smart as in system clustering. pass this on... if it's any use to ya. pat
harken unto my blog, if you will. (sigh. I HAD to say that. it scres off the boneheads.) http://slashdot.org/~packrat2/journal/79818 it's supposed to be funny. AND it's about programming.
well, I'm the only person i know who has taught themselves to ride a bike... and almost read. ( they had to tell me what the new words were.) same old, thou. Good marks if i was interested... and failing grades if you couldn't convince me that 'a mark for the question, each step and the answer meant 80% for a wrong answer' was the correct thing to do. I attended university, psy/law/general arts... walked in with corrections to the text in second week. type of student. Had forgotten the course by the end of it. What would I've done differently?...... people are the problem and the answer. You want bucks, find the people first, then work on something. I did the opposite and starve. pat
yo. don't agree at ALL with the PMO's actions. this goes out today, various publications. seasonal yahoos, eh? pat PM-the-PM patr44@canada.com Only a few short days into power and Paul Marin.. ( aka PM-the-PM, old geezer that he is...) Has managed to put his foot in it. Open mouth, change feet. In this case, one of his assistants feats (the office web-master) got the PM's office slash-dotted ( they made the news onna Geek web-page) when they tried to force a change in a satirists's page. Change http://www.paulmartintimes.com To http://www.paulmartintime.com and you'll see what the fuss is about. Too close a copy was one of the complaints against the satire site. (Mostly factual info, actually) It's copyright violation. Shut the whole place down or the PM's office will hit you with lots of liberal lawyers. My response to that was short (words of one syllable, actually), blunt and fairly crude. Here's some history. ( 3 Simultaneous revolutions (1917. Mexico, Chine, Russia) did NOT persuade the USA to start the CIA in WW 2. Oh, about Paul. OK, then.) Paul Martin. Bag-boy. Like father, like son. A second generation finance minister, his dad having the same job for a while. Paul is, therefore, a bag-boy. Why, you ask? About the time of the St Lawrence scandal a certain shipping company ( Mr. Marin senor's?) got into trouble over 'payments' made to certain officials. Over an anchor, as I recall) Invisible overseas financing was invented ( Bahamas), a place the RCMP can't supneoa records from) right about that time. At work, Paul has had a slash+burn record since he started.... cutting wages, cutting benefits, etc. Given the junk fleets glutting the global shipping markets, it's a minor miracle the company has even survived. He did much the same as finance minister, with tax cuts for his friends thrown in. While taking full advantage of the freebies friends offered him, naturally. Normally, I accuse politicos of gangsterism. ( Like bridges in Toronto for the waterfront developers) This time, it's of being dangerously stupid. Like the local politicos (who let the power blackout rate in silicon valley north triple, then told us to stock candles, water and find a warm place to stay 'cause it's gonna take two years to fix. (while buying another cable company.)), he's cutting his own throat. This is the information age, ( a graphic one, mind. TV is still king.) and experiments in the timed release of propaganda, the suppression of articles ( the lessons of Otto Lang, who had Sask, cut out of the loop for if he didn't like the pulp news have been forgotten) just aren't gonna work anymore. Pot-heads might be pleased with a token ( ahem. Sorry about that one) relaxation of a victimless crime but without destroying the electronics revolution entirely, you won't cut off information these days. It's impossible. And a dangerously stupid move to even try. Turning back the tides would be easier. He's known to be a bit conservative... but this is ridiculous. And it only took him two weeks to start showing his true colors. A police state. Bah, humbug. Lets start passing around some information, people. Anyone got a few stories of his ships being used to smuggle drug-filled dead babies? Terrorist thieves? Lie, (cheat on his wife) stealing from the till, number of bag-men killed? (BM-the-PM had ten, I think, and didn't stop the Party Quebecois from getting financed.) If it's bad news he wants to stop, we can flood him with it. Pat donovan
property? Moving from rights to interest. propably a varient of religious, authortain and democartic cultures... a cycle proposed by some french exsitencialist. faster cheaper supierior....? hum. delicate, expensive, complicated? (three not to do) new exciting diffrent. alive awake interested. wored, online, interactive. cherrio. pat
books for general surveys... international crime. etc. Lunatic radio for news... valcano under yellowstone park, etc. comic pages for current news, (pulp versions) internet for anything i need details on. pat
sf? as idea, educational or problem solving. philosopy of western (tech) world) content driven, in other words... rather than character or action.. nice thought. BUT.... veg city lives. **** I zine, cartoon, atempt to comic write play etc. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/13/191221 7&mode=thread&tid=186&tid=214
for the thread at slashdot.
pat
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Patr44PDonovan
yes... I put a zine for world-con 3. yes, there was hard sf... (get the picture yet?) in it. yes, there were cartoons too. no, i didn't get any fan/author/ editor response. so? life is tough... then you die.if papulm is what they want, feed 'em paplum pat
I also play. Not that I got the two hundreds bums in the seats... for nightclubbig... (200$ a day for street-musicians... ) two hundred a day for service calls, hookers, wWEB-SITES) I don't MP3. Some relitives do, but don't burn cds. (No money in it.) I don't web-site... it's p*ssing your life away... to mickysoft pirates, or file-shares, same thing to me. The reality is MICKY-soft is trying for the corperate model of royalites... while the public wants absolute ownership (cds/mp3s). mickysoft can buy more clout than voters. The ownership /property thing has moved from rights to interest again... ala the commons. (land held in the public interest to government ownership of public lands.
huh. You wanna play that game? You're screwed before you start, kid. Get used to 4/5 of the copies out there being illegal... The Official channels being a nasty 80 percent loss.. ( an artist makes maybe a buck off a 20$ cd)
Mickysoft tends to steal whatever tech they want. Pirates onna golbal scale. Luckers, fella.
AND the market being fairly low to begin with. (Most studios are in the ad indusrty... thou radio might be first)
like your momma said, you can't make a living from it, so don't even try.
pat
robots have been possible for years. check jurisprudence... the philosopy of law. jurimetrics in particular. any judge can be replaced (including the supreme court) by a $200 PC and get 96% accuracey. This service os for sale . they use a political/economic/cultural matrix) This could be tweaked. the courts are clogged. Wanna INSTANT justice? cheap? NOT the $120 *million* a year illegal refugees are costing BC, for instence. (In legal aid fees alone) it's been possible since the eigthies. Like creating life in a lab by copyinh a gene-sequence... easy. they aren't doing it, thou. (locally) So in this brave new world you gotta be gretsy to even get in the door. so? That is what the web is for... to replace pap from commercial outlets. pat