WhiteWater sounds interesting, however, let's say I've got a broadband connection (and I'm not an ISP) what is my incentive to run a WW Proxy other than altruism? Unless I missunderstand, the more files I download with WW the more likely I'll lose bandwidth as others download pieces of those files from my cache.
Of course, I've never used BitTorrent either, but it would seem that you would have similar bandwidth loss issues with BT.
Under that scenario given by the OP I can see that it could be a good idea for an ISP to run a WW proxy, but I can't quite see why I as an individual would want to (unless I just wanted to be altruistic). Am I missing something?
Given the number of times that brakes are mentioned in the list of improvements, one wonders if the lack of braking lead to the financial demise of the original company...
(the following upgrades and fixes have been added):
Improved Braking Dielectric grease in connector [very nice] Hard washers for Wheel bearings New outer suspension, complete with brakes [!?] Cover for front brake lines to eliminate shorting Hard tubing for brake lines Moved brake pressure line switch.
Well I wouldn't want to work for a company so blinkered as not to be aware that a good programmer can be up and running in a language such as Ruby in days if not hours.
This being a contract position coupled with the fact that a new release needed to happen in a couple of weeks meant that someone was needed who could hit the ground running.
You're right, if you're a good programmer you can learn Ruby in a day or two and you can reasonably productive. But to be an expert who can come in and completely take over a project generally requires at least a year of experience regardless of which language is being used. Of course, a language like Ruby requires a lot less time to master than a language like C++ (for a C++ project, I'd probably want someone with about 3 to 5 years experience and some C experience before that).
A couple of days ago there was a./ story that mentioned that Spokane was going to have WiFi all over town and now a Rio Ranch, New Mexico - what gives? Why do these rather out-of-the-way places get this sort of wonderful setup before many larger, more hi-tech communities? What's the deal?
Do they just want to try this sort of thing out first in small communities before they move on to larger ones?
now lets say i put Ruby on my resume....how much respect will that get?
I just hired my replacement for a contract I was doing (I accepted another offer that was more in line with my field). One of the requirements was that the person hired would have to know Ruby because much of the code base was in Ruby. They hired someone from our local Ruby User's Group.
So to answer your question: for this particular job if you didn't have Ruby on your resume it wouldn't get a second look. If you had Ruby on your resume, but it became apparent in the interview that you didn't know Ruby... well, the interview was over.
Google announced today that they would move their headquarters up to Oregon in an attempt to escape the lunatic legistature of Kal-i-forn-ya.
A spokesman for Google said, "yeah, we know that the Oregon legislature isn't all that sane either, but at least with Oregon being a much smaller state with lower land prices and cost of living we could just about afford to buy the whole damn state after the IPO if we need to."
Some prominant Oregonians cheered Google's decision noting that the move would add thousands of jobs to the Oregon economy and significantly lower the unemployment rate. The governor of Oregon even offered to rename the state capitol building to "The Google-Lex". Other names were suggested including "The Google-slature".
However, even Dell's digital jukeboxes start at $200, and beating Dell pricewise is something out of ordinary (possible, but few have done it).
I would suspect that with a $50 pricetag, Micro$oft is losing some amount of money per unit. They want to make the money on the music sales. Like razors or cameras - make money on the blades/film.
Security issues will prevent this from happening. The studios don't like early leaks about upcoming films and this would certainly open the floodgate for early leaks.
You can see how upset the studios have gotten over preview versions of films that get leaked by reviewers or others.
Many types of algae would grow quite nicely in a sewage treatment situation. The aglae need nitrogen to grow and sewage is full of nitrogen. The algae could actually do double duty: cleaning up sewage and producing oil.
[quote from Pericles] it sounds ever so much like George W. Bush.
I'm not sure you can include Pericles and GWB in the same thought. Pericles was an orator and, well... you get the picture.
The last time oil prices fell after being relatively high, GW Bush had just entered the oil business. Perhaps it's time to send him back to the oil fields.
Ignorance and reference to the past is no excuse for not coming up with an answer to ones own question.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it...
Need I remind you that the latest terrorist captured escaped 3 times from American and Egyptian federal custody because he argued the same things that you argue
He argued for the constitution? Perhaps asserted his constitutional rights? Pesky thing, that constitution, it says that you're innocent until proven guilty. Or at least that's what it said before the so-called Patriot Act was passed. Now the govmn't seems to be able to detain people indefinately without charges. I live about a mile from the unfortuneate fellow whose fingerprints were supposedly found on a bag in Spain connected with the Madrid bombings. Because he happens to be a Muslim convert he's now sitting in jail in downtown Portland without any charges being brought. He's a 'material witness' so they can lock him up indefinately. Eventually he might be convinced that he should confess to a crime he didn't commit for his family's sake, who knows? The fact that he hasn't been out of the country for the last 10 years and that his passport expired sometime last year doesn't seem to matter. The Spanish police also don't seem to agree with the FBI about the fingerprints. It doesn't add up. This guy isn't guilty. He's a Lawyer that happened to have defended one of the Portland 7 in a child custody case. He's got kids and a mortgage. He's not a rich Lawyer; they keep showing his house on TV and it's not in a fancy neighborhood. He does a lot of pro-bono work because he's just starting out in Law practice. I really doubt this guy has any connection to any terrorism. Some pieces of a fingerprint that just happen to match some pieces of his were found on a bag and now his life is ruined. Who is going to pay his family's bills while he's in prison? That's what the Patriot Act hath wrought.
POSE SOMETHING THAT WORKS. POSE SOMETHING THAT FIXES THE TERRORIST PROBLEMS.
As they say, there are only two guarantees in life and I don't need to list them for you. Other than those two, nothing is guaranteed. The government could take all manner of draconian measures and still terrorist attacks will happen. Let's not trash the Bill of Rights as we try to have the government give us the illusion of protection.
As for actually reducing terrorism: Let's get the hell out of places where we don't belong. Let's concentrate on being energy independent. Let's reduce our energy consumption. Oil is a big part of the problem because we have to import it from very unstable places. Then, because oil is so important to our economy, our government feels the need to engage in unwise foreign wars which make the US look like an imperial power to those outside the US (and even to a lot of us inside). Gasoline is high right now ($2.25/gallon where I am), but it still doesn't reflect the real price of engaging in military conflicts in the Middle East to protect supplies. If the Bush folks really do want to have this Iraq war and others (Syria next?), then instead of borrowing from future generations to pay for it they should pay for it with a gas tax. Of course, that wouldn't be politically viable, so we wouldn't have this crazy war if that was the requirement.
The deffinition of a Deconstructionist is someone who looks into the meaning of every political action, and doesn't take it at face value.
Yes, I suspected you meant 'deconstruction' in the postmodern sense.
However, in your original post you set up a false dichotomy by implying that the so-called Patriot Act is all that stands between us and all-out terrorism and that it must be saved in some form or other. I don't accept that premise. I'm perfectly willing to have the Supreme Court throw out the PA entirely. If we gut the constitution in order to make us feel more secure... well Franklin said it best: "Those who desire security over liberty deserve neither."
Besides, the so-called Patriot Act may give you a feeling of security, but I really don't think I'm any more secure with it (and I certainly have to worry more about my own government with it than I would without it).
So when I say deconstructivism I mean that I never settle for the explaination that is given to me by those who have something to benefit from the bias of the information, rather I try to develop my own opinion based on my experience and "deconstruction" of the facts.
This is essentially what all thinking people try to do. I just deconstructed your argument above. However, when you mention 'bias of the information' don't you have to wonder who it is that is putting out positive information about the So-called Patriot Act? (BTW: how much more Orwellian could they get in naming this thing?) The positive information is coming from those in power who have a vested interest in gaining more power - they're the ones "who have something to benefit from the bias of the information" not the civil libertarians.
Which apparently means you support the dismantling of the constitution.
The reason that the ACLU was asked to remove the portion and not the entire piece is because they aquired the information without regard to national security, and then proceeded to post it on the internet.
But of course, now there's no way to tell if this information somehow compromised national security (a claim I highly doubt).
What next? "Expressions of doubt about the Patriot Act were deemed illegal by the justice department today. John Ashcroft commented: "We're in a war, we can't afford the luxury of dissenting opinions!"
If only Ralph Nader had a realistic shot at winning....
'There is no right in the copyright law to make backup copies of motion pictures, so the whole argument that people should have the right to make backup copies of DVDs has no legal support whatsoever,' said Fritz Attaway executive vice president of the MPAA.
Why is it that the name Fritz Attaway just seems like what an executive VP from the MPAA should be named. If this were a fictional movie, you'd be hardpressed to come up with a better name.
If you are unhappy with corporate life in the US, get out of corporate life, not the US.
Unfortuneately, the two are becoming synonymous. The president is bought & paid for by corporations. Same with a lot of Senators and Congresspeople. The laws are being made to favor the corporations over the people (DMCA, for example). Even the military is being corporatized: corporations seem to be in charge of major parts of the ridiculous Iraq war that we're now bogged down in.
some of the same things are probably happening in Canada as well (except the war part, they've wisely stayed out of this one), but it seems a bit slower. And at least when you're out of work up there you've got health care.
Let's keep in mind that patents are in place to protect the innovators and keep them innovating. Yes, it sucks that maybe other vendors can't use this for a while, but that's the price of progress.
Let's translate this:
Let's keep in mind that patents are in place to keep lawyers employed and keep them litigating. Yes, it sucks that maybe other vendors (or open source developers) can't use this obvious idea for a while. (period) Impediments to progress are the price we just have to pay.
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WhiteWater sounds interesting, however, let's say I've got a broadband connection (and I'm not an ISP) what is my incentive to run a WW Proxy other than altruism? Unless I missunderstand, the more files I download with WW the more likely I'll lose bandwidth as others download pieces of those files from my cache.
Of course, I've never used BitTorrent either, but it would seem that you would have similar bandwidth loss issues with BT.
Under that scenario given by the OP I can see that it could be a good idea for an ISP to run a WW proxy, but I can't quite see why I as an individual would want to (unless I just wanted to be altruistic). Am I missing something?
What if you have to fit wife, kids, and dogs into your car?
Some might consider it an advantage that all of those entities won't fit in the car.
Given the number of times that brakes are mentioned in the list of improvements, one wonders if the lack of braking lead to the financial demise of the original company...
:
(the following upgrades and fixes have been added)
Improved Braking
Dielectric grease in connector [very nice]
Hard washers for Wheel bearings
New outer suspension, complete with brakes [!?]
Cover for front brake lines to eliminate shorting
Hard tubing for brake lines
Moved brake pressure line switch.
Well I wouldn't want to work for a company so blinkered as not to be aware that a good programmer can be up and running in a language such as Ruby in days if not hours.
This being a contract position coupled with the fact that a new release needed to happen in a couple of weeks meant that someone was needed who could hit the ground running.
You're right, if you're a good programmer you can learn Ruby in a day or two and you can reasonably productive. But to be an expert who can come in and completely take over a project generally requires at least a year of experience regardless of which language is being used. Of course, a language like Ruby requires a lot less time to master than a language like C++ (for a C++ project, I'd probably want someone with about 3 to 5 years experience and some C experience before that).
A couple of days ago there was a ./ story that mentioned that Spokane was going to have WiFi all over town and now a Rio Ranch, New Mexico - what gives? Why do these rather out-of-the-way places get this sort of wonderful setup before many larger, more hi-tech communities? What's the deal?
Do they just want to try this sort of thing out first in small communities before they move on to larger ones?
now lets say i put Ruby on my resume....how much respect will that get?
I just hired my replacement for a contract I was doing (I accepted another offer that was more in line with my field). One of the requirements was that the person hired would have to know Ruby because much of the code base was in Ruby. They hired someone from our local Ruby User's Group.
So to answer your question: for this particular job if you didn't have Ruby on your resume it wouldn't get a second look. If you had Ruby on your resume, but it became apparent in the interview that you didn't know Ruby... well, the interview was over.
In other news...
Google announced today that they would move their
headquarters up to Oregon in an attempt to escape the lunatic legistature of Kal-i-forn-ya.
A spokesman for Google said, "yeah, we know that the Oregon legislature isn't all that sane either, but at least with Oregon being a much smaller state with lower land prices and cost of living we could just about afford to buy the whole damn state after the IPO if we need to."
Some prominant Oregonians cheered Google's decision noting that the move would add thousands of jobs to the Oregon economy and significantly lower the unemployment rate. The governor of Oregon even offered to rename the state capitol building to "The Google-Lex". Other names were suggested including "The Google-slature".
However, even Dell's digital jukeboxes start at $200, and beating Dell pricewise is something out of ordinary (possible, but few have done it).
I would suspect that with a $50 pricetag, Micro$oft is losing some amount of money per unit. They want to make the money on the music sales. Like razors or cameras - make money on the blades/film.
Programmers will be able to extend the syntax of programming languages
Seems to me that Lisp has had this ability for 40, almost 50 years now.
Everything old is new again
Security issues will prevent this from happening. The studios don't like early leaks about upcoming films and this would certainly open the floodgate for early leaks.
You can see how upset the studios have gotten over preview versions of films that get leaked by reviewers or others.
Funny thing is, the MS executive (Chris Sharp) used to work for Red Hat.
Traitor.
Says what they pay him to say.
Many types of algae would grow quite nicely in a sewage treatment situation. The aglae need nitrogen to grow and sewage is full of nitrogen. The algae could actually do double duty: cleaning up sewage and producing oil.
2006! Why so long?
I want one of those Cell workstations, now.
The $499 price seems too low to include the processors. Is this the barebones price, processors sold seperately?
[quote from Pericles]
it sounds ever so much like George W. Bush.
I'm not sure you can include Pericles and GWB in the same thought. Pericles was an orator and, well...
you get the picture.
The last time oil prices fell after being relatively high, GW Bush had just entered the oil business. Perhaps it's time to send him back to the oil fields.
Ignorance and reference to the past is no excuse for not coming up with an answer to ones own question.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it...
Need I remind you that the latest terrorist captured escaped 3 times from American and Egyptian federal custody because he argued the same things that you argue
He argued for the constitution? Perhaps asserted his constitutional rights? Pesky thing, that constitution, it says that you're innocent until proven guilty. Or at least that's what it said before the so-called Patriot Act was passed. Now the govmn't seems to be able to detain people indefinately without charges. I live about a mile from the unfortuneate fellow whose fingerprints were supposedly found on a bag in Spain connected with the Madrid bombings. Because he happens to be a Muslim convert he's now sitting in jail in downtown Portland without any charges being brought. He's a 'material witness' so they can lock him up indefinately. Eventually he might be convinced that he should confess to a crime he didn't commit for his family's sake, who knows? The fact that he hasn't been out of the country for the last 10 years and that his passport expired sometime last year doesn't seem to matter. The Spanish police also don't seem to agree with the FBI about the fingerprints. It doesn't add up. This guy isn't guilty. He's a Lawyer that happened to have defended one of the Portland 7 in a child custody case. He's got kids and a mortgage. He's not a rich Lawyer; they keep showing his house on TV and it's not in a fancy neighborhood. He does a lot of pro-bono work because he's just starting out in Law practice. I really doubt this guy has any connection to any terrorism. Some pieces of a fingerprint that just happen to match some pieces of his were found on a bag and now his life is ruined. Who is going to pay his family's bills while he's in prison? That's what the Patriot Act hath wrought.
POSE SOMETHING THAT WORKS. POSE SOMETHING THAT FIXES THE TERRORIST PROBLEMS.
As they say, there are only two guarantees in life and I don't need to list them for you. Other than those two, nothing is guaranteed. The government could take all manner of draconian measures and still terrorist attacks will happen. Let's not trash the Bill of Rights as we try to have the government give us the illusion of protection.
As for actually reducing terrorism: Let's get the hell out of places where we don't belong. Let's concentrate on being energy independent. Let's reduce our energy consumption. Oil is a big part of the problem because we have to import it from very unstable places. Then, because oil is so important to our economy, our government feels the need to engage in unwise foreign wars which make the US look like an imperial power to those outside the US (and even to a lot of us inside). Gasoline is high right now ($2.25/gallon where I am), but it still doesn't reflect the real price of engaging in military conflicts in the Middle East to protect supplies. If the Bush folks really do want to have this Iraq war and others (Syria next?), then instead of borrowing from future generations to pay for it they should pay for it with a gas tax. Of course, that wouldn't be politically viable, so we wouldn't have this crazy war if that was the requirement.
The deffinition of a Deconstructionist is someone who looks into the meaning of every political action, and doesn't take it at face value.
Yes, I suspected you meant 'deconstruction' in the postmodern sense.
However, in your original post you set up a false dichotomy by implying that the so-called Patriot Act is all that stands between us and all-out terrorism and that it must be saved in some form or other. I don't accept that premise. I'm perfectly willing to have the Supreme Court throw out the PA entirely. If we gut the constitution in order to make us feel more secure... well Franklin said it best: "Those who desire security over liberty deserve neither."
Besides, the so-called Patriot Act may give you a feeling of security, but I really don't think I'm any more secure with it (and I certainly have to worry more about my own government with it than I would without it).
So when I say deconstructivism I mean that I never settle for the explaination that is given to me by those who have something to benefit from the bias of the information, rather I try to develop my own opinion based on my experience and "deconstruction" of the facts.
This is essentially what all thinking people try to do. I just deconstructed your argument above. However, when you mention 'bias of the information' don't you have to wonder who it is that is putting out positive information about the So-called Patriot Act? (BTW: how much more Orwellian could they get in naming this thing?) The positive information is coming from those in power who have a vested interest in gaining more power - they're the ones "who have something to benefit from the bias of the information" not the civil libertarians.
Well I'm a deconstructionist
Which apparently means you support the dismantling of the constitution.
The reason that the ACLU was asked to remove the portion and not the entire piece is because they aquired the information without regard to national security, and then proceeded to post it on the internet.
But of course, now there's no way to tell if this information somehow compromised national security (a claim I highly doubt).
What next? "Expressions of doubt about the Patriot Act were deemed illegal by the justice department today. John Ashcroft commented: "We're in a war, we can't afford the luxury of dissenting opinions!"
If only Ralph Nader had a realistic shot at winning....
'There is no right in the copyright law to make backup copies of motion pictures, so the whole argument that people should have the right to make backup copies of DVDs has no legal support whatsoever,' said Fritz Attaway executive vice president of the MPAA.
Why is it that the name Fritz Attaway just seems like what an executive VP from the MPAA should be named. If this were a fictional movie, you'd be hardpressed to come up with a better name.
If you are unhappy with corporate life in the US, get out of corporate life, not the US.
Unfortuneately, the two are becoming synonymous. The president is bought & paid for by corporations. Same with a lot of Senators and Congresspeople. The laws are being made to favor the corporations over the people (DMCA, for example). Even the military is being corporatized: corporations seem to be in charge of major parts of the ridiculous Iraq war that we're now bogged down in.
some of the same things are probably happening in Canada as well (except the war part, they've wisely stayed out of this one), but it seems a bit slower. And at least when you're out of work up there you've got health care.
Which would you prefer? Can't buy or sell without it!
Let's keep in mind that patents are in place to protect the innovators and keep them innovating. Yes, it sucks that maybe other vendors can't use this for a while, but that's the price of progress.
Let's translate this:
Let's keep in mind that patents are in place to keep lawyers employed and keep them litigating. Yes, it sucks that maybe other vendors (or open source developers) can't use this obvious idea for a while. (period) Impediments to progress are the price we just have to pay.
Uh, why?
That's what I thought too when I read the title of the story:
Interviews: Ask about running Windows software on Linux
When you interview a candidate for an open position you should ask them if they know how to run Windows software under Linux.
When you are being interviewed, ask if you can run the required Windows software under Linux.