In my office, it's not a big deal if someone's phone goes off; peoples' phones are going off all the time. So it wouldn't be such a big deal with mine if it wasn't so danged LOUD! Even when I turn the ringer down to low volume, it's just this overpoweringly loud ring, and always gets the whole office's attention. Thus, it's on vibrate most of the time.
While I'm sure this has been analyzed to death in other threads under this story, I have a hard time believing the franchises are really incurring substantial overhead from what's probably a $60/mo DSL line and a $200 wireless access point. Lets say they overcharge by $1.00 for each sandwich they sell, and they sell 500 sandwiches a day. In two days, the markup pays for 1 year of DSL and the entire one-time cost of the access point. And that's with completely hypothetical data.
I actually took a casual look into their franchising program. Apparently you have to make quite an investment; you need to pledge to be the franchisee for an entire city/region, not just for a single franchise. I guess this is the reason why some cities (ie, Towson, Maryland) have multiple Paneras within a few miles of each other, and other areas (ie, Boise, Idaho, my current home) don't have any yet.
We (my fiancee and I) used to go to Panera for lunch all the time when we lived in Maryland. With the exception of those awful red onions they slather on everything, we always liked their food (she more than I; I always found it a little greasy and a smidgen too expensive, but overall quite tasty).
So is there something about the food you'd like to share with us, or did you just not care for it in general, or did you get sick of it, or something?
7. They didn't clear out the tracking data of the site and now the freshly cashed up MPAA anti piracy division have funds and new people to sue.
I'm sure part of the deal was that he HAD to provide the logs. If he'd showed up and there were no logs, they'd have said "no deal" and proceeded with the lawsuit.
By mentioning "the failure of Windows" you give him the opportunity to ignore the rest of your question. He will give an answer addressing the issue of whether or not Windows is a failure (it isn't, by the way), not whether or not their anti-Linux marketing reveals a lack of confidance in their own product.
Use the campus career center as much as you can, even in the early days of your degree. After all, a new and better job is the untimate goal, and University Career centers are still full of fantastic advice.
Not always. When I was a graduating senior, my university's career center had somewhat-recently gotten a new alumni directory system up and running that was supposed to help you network with alumni in your geographic area and desired field of work. This crummy piece of software was their hammer and everything looked like a nail. It was their excuse not to help me or answer my questions. They just kept advising me to look people up in the directory and basically cold-call former students and beg for a job lead.
I'm not sure what I was expecting from the career center, but it wasn't that.
Microsoft, I'm sure, doesn't see it that way. Most of their decision-makers likely believe Windows is attacked because it's the most common OS in the world, not because it's insecure. They would tell you that the same thing would happen to MacOS or Linux if they were the #1 OS. From that standpoint, this Anti-Spyware software is a genuine attempt at boosting Windows' security. If you believe spyware is merely a fact of life, rather than a result of a buggy OS/browser, then fighting spyware is merely good security, not a misguided use of energy or a devious business plan.
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I got a call from Google earlier this fall, saying they'd farmed my resume off the web and wanted to interview me for some kind of Unix-related position. I spoke on the phone a couple times with an HR person who asked me some general questions and setup a phone interview with a current Google employee.
The phone interview with the employee, who was working at a position very similar to the one I was interviewing for, was rigorous. He asked questions that required me to speak code to him, on the fly. I ended up asking if I could take my time and write the code out before I read it to him, because I didn't want to screw up. I screwed up anyway. I was really nervous and even though the questions weren't very complex, they were things that I wasn't prepared to have to answer on the spot.
I finally heard back from them almost a month later, with the (no surprise) rejection.
I've had my mom's machine running Gentoo for about 3 years now. Runs great, I can fix any glitches remotely, and it's breathed a very long life into her increasingly dinosaur-like computer. She runs Gaim, Firefox, and Evolution and occasionally Abiword. Rinse, repeat.
Well, it sounds like you just up and moved to Cincinnati alone (correct me if I'm wrong). You are experiencing post-graduation blues, my friend. You spent 4 years with all your best friends and drinking buddies, partying in college, and now you're living a workingman's life in a strange midwestern city. Even if your job was cool, you'd feel like something was missing.
so I imagine this is some slang I'm not familiar with.
Indeed. Merriam-Webster indicates the definition of blowout is as quoted below. See #4.
Main Entry: blowout Pronunciation: 'blO-"aut Function: noun 1 : a festive social affair 2 : a bursting of a container (as a tire) by pressure of the contents on a weak spot 3 : an uncontrolled eruption of an oil or gas well 4 : an easy or one-sided victory
Seems like exactly the sort of thing he would assign:) I took 600.443 Security and Privacy in Computing (Spring, 2003) and our project was to design a secure e-voting system capable of performing remote poll-site voting.
I'd be very interested in seeing some of the students' results. I assume they're posted on the course website.
This seems to be similar to Dr. Avi Rubin's challenge to the community, which basically states that a team of security specialists and programmers should be given access to the development environment of one of the major DRE machines, by the vendor. The team should then attempt to rig the machine in favor of one candidate, and then submit the machine for approval by the elections board's testing agency. The testing agency doesn't know it's being tested, and doesn't know the machine is rigged. Could they catch the rigged machine as they currently claim? It's the same basic principle as having undercover agents attempt to sneak weapons through airport security.
I, for, one, am likely voting Libertarian because here in Idaho, Bush is going to win by a 50-60 point spread. My vote against Bush - be it for Kerry, Nader, Badnarik or Kodos - is a *statement*, so I might as well vote with the candidate whose views most closely align with my own.
HOw is this different then just a few people in "Swing" states deciding? Why is it fair to states like NY or California if a bunch of people in iowa decide who the president is.
The truth is that people in urban areas pay out more in taxes then they get back while people in rural states receive more tax money then they pay out. Why should the leeches get to set policy?
You're implying that all the swing states are 100% rural, which I assure you, is not true.
"Welcome to Wal-Mart, may I please see last year's tax return and your national cumulative tax-tracking card so I can verify your income and how much sales tax you've already paid this year, and therefore determine how much tax I should charge you on this transaction?"
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perhaps Mr. Knuth is a sandwich made on a long bun.
Hey, where I come from, that's called a "wedge".
In my office, it's not a big deal if someone's phone goes off; peoples' phones are going off all the time. So it wouldn't be such a big deal with mine if it wasn't so danged LOUD! Even when I turn the ringer down to low volume, it's just this overpoweringly loud ring, and always gets the whole office's attention. Thus, it's on vibrate most of the time.
While I'm sure this has been analyzed to death in other threads under this story, I have a hard time believing the franchises are really incurring substantial overhead from what's probably a $60/mo DSL line and a $200 wireless access point. Lets say they overcharge by $1.00 for each sandwich they sell, and they sell 500 sandwiches a day. In two days, the markup pays for 1 year of DSL and the entire one-time cost of the access point. And that's with completely hypothetical data.
I actually took a casual look into their franchising program. Apparently you have to make quite an investment; you need to pledge to be the franchisee for an entire city/region, not just for a single franchise. I guess this is the reason why some cities (ie, Towson, Maryland) have multiple Paneras within a few miles of each other, and other areas (ie, Boise, Idaho, my current home) don't have any yet.
We (my fiancee and I) used to go to Panera for lunch all the time when we lived in Maryland. With the exception of those awful red onions they slather on everything, we always liked their food (she more than I; I always found it a little greasy and a smidgen too expensive, but overall quite tasty).
So is there something about the food you'd like to share with us, or did you just not care for it in general, or did you get sick of it, or something?
7. They didn't clear out the tracking data of the site and now the freshly cashed up MPAA anti piracy division have funds and new people to sue.
I'm sure part of the deal was that he HAD to provide the logs. If he'd showed up and there were no logs, they'd have said "no deal" and proceeded with the lawsuit.
I'm fairly certain he didn't do this to make money. I'm willing to bet he would have been able to clear much more than that with continued ad sales.
It was a poor, late-night, Japanese-to-English translation. I think it was supposed to read:
"How are you gentlemen. All your base are belong..."
By mentioning "the failure of Windows" you give him the opportunity to ignore the rest of your question. He will give an answer addressing the issue of whether or not Windows is a failure (it isn't, by the way), not whether or not their anti-Linux marketing reveals a lack of confidance in their own product.
FWIW, Microsoft Office is the same way, on Windows.
Use the campus career center as much as you can, even in the early days of your degree. After all, a new and better job is the untimate goal, and University Career centers are still full of fantastic advice.
Not always. When I was a graduating senior, my university's career center had somewhat-recently gotten a new alumni directory system up and running that was supposed to help you network with alumni in your geographic area and desired field of work. This crummy piece of software was their hammer and everything looked like a nail. It was their excuse not to help me or answer my questions. They just kept advising me to look people up in the directory and basically cold-call former students and beg for a job lead.
I'm not sure what I was expecting from the career center, but it wasn't that.
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Microsoft, I'm sure, doesn't see it that way. Most of their decision-makers likely believe Windows is attacked because it's the most common OS in the world, not because it's insecure. They would tell you that the same thing would happen to MacOS or Linux if they were the #1 OS. From that standpoint, this Anti-Spyware software is a genuine attempt at boosting Windows' security. If you believe spyware is merely a fact of life, rather than a result of a buggy OS/browser, then fighting spyware is merely good security, not a misguided use of energy or a devious business plan.
I got a call from Google earlier this fall, saying they'd farmed my resume off the web and wanted to interview me for some kind of Unix-related position. I spoke on the phone a couple times with an HR person who asked me some general questions and setup a phone interview with a current Google employee.
The phone interview with the employee, who was working at a position very similar to the one I was interviewing for, was rigorous. He asked questions that required me to speak code to him, on the fly. I ended up asking if I could take my time and write the code out before I read it to him, because I didn't want to screw up. I screwed up anyway. I was really nervous and even though the questions weren't very complex, they were things that I wasn't prepared to have to answer on the spot.
I finally heard back from them almost a month later, with the (no surprise) rejection.
- "Bring out the gimp."
- "Gimp's sleepin'".
- "Well I guess you're gonna have to go wake him up now, won't you?"
I've had my mom's machine running Gentoo for about 3 years now. Runs great, I can fix any glitches remotely, and it's breathed a very long life into her increasingly dinosaur-like computer. She runs Gaim, Firefox, and Evolution and occasionally Abiword. Rinse, repeat.
Well, it sounds like you just up and moved to Cincinnati alone (correct me if I'm wrong). You are experiencing post-graduation blues, my friend. You spent 4 years with all your best friends and drinking buddies, partying in college, and now you're living a workingman's life in a strange midwestern city. Even if your job was cool, you'd feel like something was missing.
Believe me, I've been in the exact same position.
Dang, no torrent of the Mac OS X version on that link. Oh well.
so I imagine this is some slang I'm not familiar with.
Indeed. Merriam-Webster indicates the definition of blowout is as quoted below. See #4.
Main Entry: blowout
Pronunciation: 'blO-"aut
Function: noun
1 : a festive social affair
2 : a bursting of a container (as a tire) by pressure of the contents on a weak spot
3 : an uncontrolled eruption of an oil or gas well
4 : an easy or one-sided victory
Seems like exactly the sort of thing he would assign :) I took 600.443 Security and Privacy in Computing (Spring, 2003) and our project was to design a secure e-voting system capable of performing remote poll-site voting.
I'd be very interested in seeing some of the students' results. I assume they're posted on the course website.
This seems to be similar to Dr. Avi Rubin's challenge to the community, which basically states that a team of security specialists and programmers should be given access to the development environment of one of the major DRE machines, by the vendor. The team should then attempt to rig the machine in favor of one candidate, and then submit the machine for approval by the elections board's testing agency. The testing agency doesn't know it's being tested, and doesn't know the machine is rigged. Could they catch the rigged machine as they currently claim? It's the same basic principle as having undercover agents attempt to sneak weapons through airport security.
The paper can be found at:
http://avirubin.com/vote/ita.challenge.pdf
I, for, one, am likely voting Libertarian because here in Idaho, Bush is going to win by a 50-60 point spread. My vote against Bush - be it for Kerry, Nader, Badnarik or Kodos - is a *statement*, so I might as well vote with the candidate whose views most closely align with my own.
HOw is this different then just a few people in "Swing" states deciding? Why is it fair to states like NY or California if a bunch of people in iowa decide who the president is.
The truth is that people in urban areas pay out more in taxes then they get back while people in rural states receive more tax money then they pay out. Why should the leeches get to set policy?
You're implying that all the swing states are 100% rural, which I assure you, is not true.
IE: overtax people at the register
"Welcome to Wal-Mart, may I please see last year's tax return and your national cumulative tax-tracking card so I can verify your income and how much sales tax you've already paid this year, and therefore determine how much tax I should charge you on this transaction?"
If I remember correctly, didn't Transylvania 6-5000 have its own (really annoying) theme song?