IT is a pretty broad designation. The US is a pretty big place. If you're not seeing this growth then you're either in the wrong place or the wrong branch of IT. I'm a software developer in the Atlanta area. Until I settled down with my current employer a few months ago, I was getting asked to interviews quite a bit. The people I am with now saw my resume on a Thursday, interviewed me that Friday and offered the job the following Monday. They even offered $5K a year more than I asked for. They found my resume on a job site. I was never even aware of them until they contacted me. That's as easy as I've ever had it.
Back in the days of outhouses, there was a wealthy man who wanted an outhouse that didn't smell. One day a salesman came to his house and promised him just that. The salesman brought in the builders who used the most precious materials they could find and built a massive, jewel-encrusted outhouse.
The owner was pleased with the appearence of the outhouse. When completed, he used it for his usual business and sure enough the outhouse stank. He called up the salesman who came by to look at the outhouse to see why it's not working as intended.
He stuck his head in the door and immedeately jerked it back out. "I see your problem," he said to the owner. "Someone took a crap in there."
This isn't a matter of "correct" or "incorrect." It's a matter of personal preference. That it requires you to download a tool that doesn't come with the OS to configure the OS's built-in GUI behavior is sheer lunacy. Microsoft doesn't even do a lot to mention TweakUI so most people don't even know it exists. For all the crap that Microsoft does bundle into the OS ditro, you'd think they'd actually put something useful like TweakUI into the mix for you.
The single most annoying thing to me as far as GUIs on any system is when I'm trying to type or click something and some self-important GUI app steals my focus and pops up on top of what I'm working on. I'd be happy with a GUI system that would let me replace SetFocus (or whatever they call the equivalent) with a big fat no-op.
The second thing I'd like to do is disable those stupid XP security warnings the poster talks about.
So far, I haven't been able to find a way to do either.
I guess it depends where you are. My subdivision was constructed in 2002 and is just now wrapping up construction on the crap lots that the developer pawned off on other people. We've always had DSL as an option. I have yet to see a cable guy around these parts though. We can't even get cable TV right now but Alltel (not AT&T) is right there with DSL for us.
It wouldn't make sense if all you're concerned about are your grades. I went to college to learn. If I wanted it to be like it is out in the real world (where my idea would truly be absurd), then I would've gotten a job out of high school. I learned everything I could in college, which often meant tackling concepts I wasn't particularly good at. In a college setting, you'll get a lot better teamwork experience if your teammates are helping each other work with concepts that they do not understand or are not as good at. You won't have that luxury out in the real world. Take advantage while all you have at risk is a couple of points dropped off of a final grade.
"My suggestion would be rather obvious, but is there anything that they are better at than you, or something you are weak on? For example, you could give your partner the GUI and you do all the back end stuff (which may be much more complex). They do programing, they help you out, they learn about the system, and you don't do it all."
If you're a student, then I assume you're supposed to be learning. So why not both tackle the areas you are the worst at instead of each tackling your relative strengths? If your partner doesn't know much about the backend and you are weak on GUI then you do the GUI and have your partner do the backend. Then you can do th over-the-shoulder looking the parent advises and learn more in the process than you would've if you just stuck to what you each know.
"Wier doesn't really think that a $99 lawn mower from Wal-Mart and Snapper's lawn mowers are the same product any more than a cup of 50-cent vending-machine coffee is the same as a Starbucks nonfat venti latte."
Yeah, one of each pair is massively overpriced for what you get. Snapper makes a decent mower, but similar quality mowers can be found at far cheaper prices.
Um, you may need to refresh your US Presidential knowledge. Nixon resigned before he had a chance to get impeached. The only two Presidents to ever be impeached are Clinton and Andrew Johnson. Johnson was impeached over a cabinet staffing issue that was later deemed Unconstitutional, but that was really just a red herring because Johnson was interfering with Congress' stick it to the South method or reconstruction.
How well you know me. Actually, I'd like to see us explore other alternatives for voting machines. I have a hard time trusting my elections to a Diebold machine for the exact same reasons I think Diebold is doing right here. However, I certainly don't think writing an inflammatory summary like that is going to convince anyone of anything other than the folks opposing Diebold are a bunch of nut jobs. The next time someone makes good arguments against the use of Diebold, someone else will point to text like that summary and say that those arguments are for the tinfoil hat crowd.
No, what I'm saying is that I left the machine with a voting official who has some sort of administrative access to the machine. That administrator gave a third party company with no official material on the inner workings of the machine that administrator access to run some unknown tests on the machine and now they're claiming the machine may be broken dur to a memory error. I'd certainly be suspicious of what that 3rd party did to the machine. However, unlike Diebold, I would probably approach that third party directly to ask them what tests they've run and even provide them with an environment where they could reproduce their testing procedure before I went crying to the press about it.
Witch doctors? Jinxes? I read the entire linked article and didn't see any of that. What I did see was that Diebold wants to make sure the machines still work after a 3rd party possibly tinkered with them. I'd certainly be concerned if I sent a machine out into the wild, a 3rd party took a look at it, and now it may not be functioning properly. Diebold may be a little over the top here, but their concern is certainly warranted.
Comparing the cost of a form of entertainment (MMO in this case) to another form of entertainment that is notorious for charging entirely too much for their product (movie theater in this case) isn't perspective, it's rationalization. It's just like those advertisements that try to get you on your universities meal plan by claiming it costs the same as taking your child and 8 to 10 of their friends for dinner at a fancy restaurant. While technically true, I don't know any parents who take 9 to 11 teenagers out to eat at a fancy restaurant and then pay the entire bill. If you enjoy the product at the price you're paying then good for you but don't act like you're getting a great deal because someone else thinks it's a good idea to spend $15 for 2 hours of entertainment that doesn't even include naked girls. If you really want perspective then compare apples to apples and see how the prices stacks up to other forms of entertainment that you enjoy.
"hardware not being under your control" != "trusted computing"
If that's your definition then an OS with a protected mode is already engaged in trusted computing since it won't always let software touch hardware directly (especially kernel memory space). Last I checked, there are a few OSes that are open source and take advantage of protected modes.
Ideally, for trusted computing to coexist with open source software, there must be a mechanism that allows you to derive trusted work. I don't claim to have the answer to that problem since I haven't pondered it heavily but the problem is hardly unsolvable.
"DRM isn't necessarily contrary to open source (although practically...) but trusted computing (a form of DRM) IS."
You left out "in its currently proposed format" between "computing" and "(". I am well aware that the AC is right and in its current form, trusted computing would lock out derivative versions of a program but there's no reason it has to be that way.
Despite what you've read in the GPL3, open source and DRM are not mutually exclusive. Just because you can read the source code on how a DRM scheme works does not mean that you can bypass it. DRM also won't neccessarily lead to the demise of Linux. There are too many Linux shops who are not going to be willing to switch server platforms over trusted computing measures to ever let that happen. I'm not the biggest fan of DRM but it's probably going to be here to stay and it's not going to lead the the end of the OSS movement. The sky is very much where it always has been and won't be falling by the year 2020.
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Why is downscaling a game from HDTV to NTSC any different than downscaling a game from HDTV to PAL? I imagine the hardware is going to do the proper scaling so it will be trivial to have a single game playable on [PAL, NTSC, and HDTV] since the game will have to support either [PAL and HDTV] or [NTSC and HDTV] anyways.
Do you think they want smarter people on the show? I imagine the Internet questionsing gives them a great opportunity to prevent another Jennings by dumbing down the entire applicant pool by selecting people who can search the Web the best instead of people who just know more trivia.
Of course the questions are geared towards getting people in their target viewing audience on the show but those types of questions are also the ones that are actually on the show. What's really interesting is that the pop culture range hasn't really changed much over the show's lifespan. Even back in the 80's, the pop culture questions were mostly geared towards the 60's and 70's. It makes it look to me like they're not trying very hard to reach a new younger audience but merely to maintain the audience that they have. That's not neccessarily a bad thing since the show probably won't last much longer than Trebeck's tenure as host anyways.
The very first screenshot they showed is from one of my favorite games: Cabal. I read the entire article hoping they'd compare it to the modern FPS. Cabal is part of the great pentavaret of crosshair-based arcade games (Cabal, Blood Bros., GI Joe, Rambo III, Nam 1975). I'd think the casual gamer would much prefer the crosshair games over an FPS with a pretty complicated control system. As far as longevity goes, I'd think the FPS would provide more hours of gameplay. Of course, the article didn't bother to compare the gameplay of the games anyways. They were too busy oogling the 360's cutscene graphics to notice. Speaking of which, wouldn't it have been more fair to show Cabal in all it's arcade glory instead of showing the NES version?
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IT is a pretty broad designation. The US is a pretty big place. If you're not seeing this growth then you're either in the wrong place or the wrong branch of IT. I'm a software developer in the Atlanta area. Until I settled down with my current employer a few months ago, I was getting asked to interviews quite a bit. The people I am with now saw my resume on a Thursday, interviewed me that Friday and offered the job the following Monday. They even offered $5K a year more than I asked for. They found my resume on a job site. I was never even aware of them until they contacted me. That's as easy as I've ever had it.
Sorry, but I've already got a patent for suing the USPTO for issuing bogus patents.
Reminds me of a joke:
Back in the days of outhouses, there was a wealthy man who wanted an outhouse that didn't smell. One day a salesman came to his house and promised him just that. The salesman brought in the builders who used the most precious materials they could find and built a massive, jewel-encrusted outhouse.
The owner was pleased with the appearence of the outhouse. When completed, he used it for his usual business and sure enough the outhouse stank. He called up the salesman who came by to look at the outhouse to see why it's not working as intended.
He stuck his head in the door and immedeately jerked it back out. "I see your problem," he said to the owner. "Someone took a crap in there."
Yeah, I even heard the Taliban has a version of the Amish Virus:
"You have just received the Taliban virus.
Since we have no electricity or computers, you are on the honor system.
Please delete all of your files on your hard drive. Then forward this message to everyone in your address book.
Praise Allah."
This isn't a matter of "correct" or "incorrect." It's a matter of personal preference. That it requires you to download a tool that doesn't come with the OS to configure the OS's built-in GUI behavior is sheer lunacy. Microsoft doesn't even do a lot to mention TweakUI so most people don't even know it exists. For all the crap that Microsoft does bundle into the OS ditro, you'd think they'd actually put something useful like TweakUI into the mix for you.
"but even then when our two fantasies don't meet in the middle it gets really, really akward."
Yeah when she's wearing a Princess Leia outfit and accusing you of being a Mexican apple thief, it can get pretty weird.
The single most annoying thing to me as far as GUIs on any system is when I'm trying to type or click something and some self-important GUI app steals my focus and pops up on top of what I'm working on. I'd be happy with a GUI system that would let me replace SetFocus (or whatever they call the equivalent) with a big fat no-op.
The second thing I'd like to do is disable those stupid XP security warnings the poster talks about.
So far, I haven't been able to find a way to do either.
I guess it depends where you are. My subdivision was constructed in 2002 and is just now wrapping up construction on the crap lots that the developer pawned off on other people. We've always had DSL as an option. I have yet to see a cable guy around these parts though. We can't even get cable TV right now but Alltel (not AT&T) is right there with DSL for us.
It wouldn't make sense if all you're concerned about are your grades. I went to college to learn. If I wanted it to be like it is out in the real world (where my idea would truly be absurd), then I would've gotten a job out of high school. I learned everything I could in college, which often meant tackling concepts I wasn't particularly good at. In a college setting, you'll get a lot better teamwork experience if your teammates are helping each other work with concepts that they do not understand or are not as good at. You won't have that luxury out in the real world. Take advantage while all you have at risk is a couple of points dropped off of a final grade.
My DVR is BitTorrent. My only problem is that I do have a hard time finding shows that aren't either very popular or have a cult audience.
"My suggestion would be rather obvious, but is there anything that they are better at than you, or something you are weak on? For example, you could give your partner the GUI and you do all the back end stuff (which may be much more complex). They do programing, they help you out, they learn about the system, and you don't do it all."
If you're a student, then I assume you're supposed to be learning. So why not both tackle the areas you are the worst at instead of each tackling your relative strengths? If your partner doesn't know much about the backend and you are weak on GUI then you do the GUI and have your partner do the backend. Then you can do th over-the-shoulder looking the parent advises and learn more in the process than you would've if you just stuck to what you each know.
"Wier doesn't really think that a $99 lawn mower from Wal-Mart and Snapper's lawn mowers are the same product any more than a cup of 50-cent vending-machine coffee is the same as a Starbucks nonfat venti latte."
Yeah, one of each pair is massively overpriced for what you get. Snapper makes a decent mower, but similar quality mowers can be found at far cheaper prices.
Everyone knows that the queers are in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay Martians. I swear to god.
Um, you may need to refresh your US Presidential knowledge. Nixon resigned before he had a chance to get impeached. The only two Presidents to ever be impeached are Clinton and Andrew Johnson. Johnson was impeached over a cabinet staffing issue that was later deemed Unconstitutional, but that was really just a red herring because Johnson was interfering with Congress' stick it to the South method or reconstruction.
How well you know me. Actually, I'd like to see us explore other alternatives for voting machines. I have a hard time trusting my elections to a Diebold machine for the exact same reasons I think Diebold is doing right here. However, I certainly don't think writing an inflammatory summary like that is going to convince anyone of anything other than the folks opposing Diebold are a bunch of nut jobs. The next time someone makes good arguments against the use of Diebold, someone else will point to text like that summary and say that those arguments are for the tinfoil hat crowd.
No, what I'm saying is that I left the machine with a voting official who has some sort of administrative access to the machine. That administrator gave a third party company with no official material on the inner workings of the machine that administrator access to run some unknown tests on the machine and now they're claiming the machine may be broken dur to a memory error. I'd certainly be suspicious of what that 3rd party did to the machine. However, unlike Diebold, I would probably approach that third party directly to ask them what tests they've run and even provide them with an environment where they could reproduce their testing procedure before I went crying to the press about it.
Witch doctors? Jinxes? I read the entire linked article and didn't see any of that. What I did see was that Diebold wants to make sure the machines still work after a 3rd party possibly tinkered with them. I'd certainly be concerned if I sent a machine out into the wild, a 3rd party took a look at it, and now it may not be functioning properly. Diebold may be a little over the top here, but their concern is certainly warranted.
Comparing the cost of a form of entertainment (MMO in this case) to another form of entertainment that is notorious for charging entirely too much for their product (movie theater in this case) isn't perspective, it's rationalization. It's just like those advertisements that try to get you on your universities meal plan by claiming it costs the same as taking your child and 8 to 10 of their friends for dinner at a fancy restaurant. While technically true, I don't know any parents who take 9 to 11 teenagers out to eat at a fancy restaurant and then pay the entire bill. If you enjoy the product at the price you're paying then good for you but don't act like you're getting a great deal because someone else thinks it's a good idea to spend $15 for 2 hours of entertainment that doesn't even include naked girls. If you really want perspective then compare apples to apples and see how the prices stacks up to other forms of entertainment that you enjoy.
"hardware not being under your control" != "trusted computing"
If that's your definition then an OS with a protected mode is already engaged in trusted computing since it won't always let software touch hardware directly (especially kernel memory space). Last I checked, there are a few OSes that are open source and take advantage of protected modes.
Ideally, for trusted computing to coexist with open source software, there must be a mechanism that allows you to derive trusted work. I don't claim to have the answer to that problem since I haven't pondered it heavily but the problem is hardly unsolvable.
"DRM isn't necessarily contrary to open source (although practically...) but trusted computing (a form of DRM) IS."
You left out "in its currently proposed format" between "computing" and "(". I am well aware that the AC is right and in its current form, trusted computing would lock out derivative versions of a program but there's no reason it has to be that way.
Despite what you've read in the GPL3, open source and DRM are not mutually exclusive. Just because you can read the source code on how a DRM scheme works does not mean that you can bypass it. DRM also won't neccessarily lead to the demise of Linux. There are too many Linux shops who are not going to be willing to switch server platforms over trusted computing measures to ever let that happen. I'm not the biggest fan of DRM but it's probably going to be here to stay and it's not going to lead the the end of the OSS movement. The sky is very much where it always has been and won't be falling by the year 2020.
Why is downscaling a game from HDTV to NTSC any different than downscaling a game from HDTV to PAL? I imagine the hardware is going to do the proper scaling so it will be trivial to have a single game playable on [PAL, NTSC, and HDTV] since the game will have to support either [PAL and HDTV] or [NTSC and HDTV] anyways.
Do you think they want smarter people on the show? I imagine the Internet questionsing gives them a great opportunity to prevent another Jennings by dumbing down the entire applicant pool by selecting people who can search the Web the best instead of people who just know more trivia.
Of course the questions are geared towards getting people in their target viewing audience on the show but those types of questions are also the ones that are actually on the show. What's really interesting is that the pop culture range hasn't really changed much over the show's lifespan. Even back in the 80's, the pop culture questions were mostly geared towards the 60's and 70's. It makes it look to me like they're not trying very hard to reach a new younger audience but merely to maintain the audience that they have. That's not neccessarily a bad thing since the show probably won't last much longer than Trebeck's tenure as host anyways.
The very first screenshot they showed is from one of my favorite games: Cabal. I read the entire article hoping they'd compare it to the modern FPS. Cabal is part of the great pentavaret of crosshair-based arcade games (Cabal, Blood Bros., GI Joe, Rambo III, Nam 1975). I'd think the casual gamer would much prefer the crosshair games over an FPS with a pretty complicated control system. As far as longevity goes, I'd think the FPS would provide more hours of gameplay. Of course, the article didn't bother to compare the gameplay of the games anyways. They were too busy oogling the 360's cutscene graphics to notice. Speaking of which, wouldn't it have been more fair to show Cabal in all it's arcade glory instead of showing the NES version?