I went through a similar experience. 4 phone interviews and 5 interviews in person. Then, they took 2 weeks to tell me that they weren't interested, and then a month after I had taken a job in Chicago, they contacted me again and asked me if I wanted to go through the whole process all over again. I said "No thank you!". All of the interviews went fine save one, a cranky guy who swore a lot and asked me questions not even remotely related to the job that I was applying for. Oh well. It would have been fun to work for them out of college, but I'm happy here working for a large financial institution, it's challenging, and I have good co-workers and a good boss. Can't really ask for more after the real loser jobs I've had before.
Then you should have gotten apt for the Mac! Fink uses apt for it's package management, and it can either compile directly from source or download binaries of the packages that you want. But I'm confused as to what you are trying to upgrade. If you're using the pre-packaged daemons, then yeah, it's probably a pain to upgrade. But it's open source software, nothing is stopping you from disabling those and using Fink to get a different version.
These machines exist more than the 30 seconds that you'll be using one. Someone who is dedicated could get their hands on one (through old fashioned thievery) and then have the months you mentioned probing for exploits. Then they still just need 30 seconds to exploit it. The point is, now I have to place *my* trust in this machine, without knowing how it tallies everything.
Keeping the source code hidden doesn't stop people from finding exploits, but allowing the source code to be open allows the public to see how their vote will be tallied (well, those who have programming knowledge, but I would be more likely to trust it several groups did a code audit and signed off on it).
I was visiting the London this past week, and I saw this "feature" in action. A young woman was sitting on the Underground, switching between songs every 30 seconds. All songs were equally annoying, since they were meant to have a bass line, and those little speakers can't do it any justice. You could barely hear it above the noise of riding on those trains. How are you supposed to get any enjoyment at all (besides the aforementioned enjoyment from annoying others). I guess it's just a way to announce that you're a jerk and that you don't care about any one else around you. Hurrah!
Haha, who did they pay the money to to purchase land on the moon? Man, what a great scam! Considering that nobody "owns" the moon currently, how can you possibly charge money to buy a chunk of it?
I think that planting a flag is probably the way it's going to work. I mean, how did the explorers from Europe claim land? There is no land to "buy" because there is nobody there.
A quick search on google shows that there are apprently many companies "selling" property on the moon. Good grief!
What's next, asking candidates about their sex lives, since a satisfied employee is a productive employee?/.'ers beware!
Funny that you should mention that. My company just had an "anonymous" satisfaction survey, and the last question on the questionaire was about sexual preference!
It was hardly anonymous. It required that I specify the manager that I report to, and other information such as how long I have worked at the company. There is only 1 person in my group that meets that information...me.
I refused to answer that question, because it's none of their business. I'm just apalled that they would even ask that though.
I used an external iSight on my PC. It's just a firewire camera, and it worked pretty well. The software I was using didn't handle the color balance very well, but the camera automatically focused and was okay. It did work much better on my powerbook though.
Yes. It is just greed. I mean, does a 10 byte text message actually cost 10 cents? If that were the case, then it should be costing me $30.00 per minute to talk to people. It's just plain old greed.
As I flew through the Salt Lake City International Airport last time, they had new GE explosive detectors, which puff air on you and then spend a few seconds analyzing it for any explosives. It adds about 20 more seconds per person to the security screening process. I wonder if it would detect firecrackers or smoke bombs.
It's funny though, that no sex and no violence ALSO SELLS MOVIES. There is more than one type of customer, and this editing business fills the market of those people who don't want excessive nudity, vulgarity or violence.
But not to worry, these people can still watch movies the way that THEY decide, since Hollywood is being such a pain about it. I don't particularly want to watch hollywood's trash, but people who do want edited movies can watch it on this dvd player:
Basically you transfer a file over a USB drive to the DVD player which loads up markers to skip offensive scenes and mute offensive words. There! They bought the original, unedited movie, but still get to watch it how they please. I'm sure the Hollywood directors would still be outraged. Perhaps they'll try to ban this next?
Because C is fast, and there is so much already written in C, that it would be a pain to move over. There are a lot of hacks in the linux kernel (they actually use GOTO statements! *gasp*). I can tell you it was a real eye-opener for me when I started looking at things there. I'm sure the reason nobody has moved over to a better language though is because of the massive amounts of work that would have to be redone.
The point is, that they *used* to pay a whole lot more for the job, and were still profitable. I haven't noticed a decrease in the price of software have you? If they are only paying 1/10th the amount to actually get the job done, then why are software prices still increasing? Greed.
More like $1166.00. (source: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/printable/india2 _info_print.html). Still not that much when you think about it. Hopefully companies will stop trying to take advantage of people and pay them what they are worth (I know this is unrealistic). A job is worth $x, then they shouldn't think of how to take advantage of someone to save a little extra. I just wish everyone was a little less focused on maximizing profit.
I have the same case. It's great! Very quiet. My only complaint with it is that the Antec power supply that I bought with it didn't have a long enough 24-pin connector. The power supply is actually situated on the bottom of the case instead of the top like normal, so you need an especially long power cable if your motherboard has it's power connector near the top. I had to sit around for 5 days looking at the beautiful case with all the parts in it while the extension was mailed:)
It's Verizon's network and if they want to provide a television service, then let them! They can allocate their bandwidth to their own services however they see fit. Now, if they were singling out certain competitors and preventing them from using a part of their network, that would be different. They aren't doing that. If there isn't enough bandwidth on Verizon's network, then the traffic will flow through other networks. And if there is a bottleneck because those networks aren't big enough, then there is space for another company to come in an fill the void.
The temperature was actually in the low 20's (-6.67 degrees celsius) that morning. I think they let it warm up a bit before the launch, but it was still much colder than any of the other launches. From what I remember, no testing had really been done at that temperature.
What a hoot. Slashdot is full or errors, duplicate stories, astroturfing and all sorts of editorial problems. I would hate to see scientific publication descend into such a mess.
Well, the editors certainly don't do the peer reviews (or even read the articles sometimes). But you'll notice that the users comment on things that are questionable, or down right false. Sure, there is no way that the story on the front page is shown to be junk, but you just need to read the comments.
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If you look at the list, it's at the top, in the #1 position:p.
In the UK we've had video downloads for cellphones for a while, although they're only now starting to get popular (and live streaming of video, which was popular last year for a time but seems to have died off).
Yes! The US *is* that far behind! It's lousy. They charge alot for data access through your phone. So that means that if you don't have a data plan (ie, $20-$30 per month in addition to your normal plan) you don't get to use any of the nifty features.
And we get to deal with terrible contracts, awful customer service, billing nightmares and locked phones! Yay for choice and freedom! They are all so greedy, that they all end up the same.
Perhaps they are filing the patent to prevent other companies from filing a similar patent and then using it against Google? Google has already started down the road of targetted ads for their users and storing everything they can about the user's search habits.
For example, if you sign up for a personalized google page, they'll start tracking your searchs, and they will even let you go back and look at the searches that you made weeks ago.
I personally like this kind of stuff. It's useful to me if I forgot to bookmark a site that I liked, I can go back through my search history and find the site again.
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I went through a similar experience. 4 phone interviews and 5 interviews in person. Then, they took 2 weeks to tell me that they weren't interested, and then a month after I had taken a job in Chicago, they contacted me again and asked me if I wanted to go through the whole process all over again. I said "No thank you!". All of the interviews went fine save one, a cranky guy who swore a lot and asked me questions not even remotely related to the job that I was applying for. Oh well. It would have been fun to work for them out of college, but I'm happy here working for a large financial institution, it's challenging, and I have good co-workers and a good boss. Can't really ask for more after the real loser jobs I've had before.
Then you should have gotten apt for the Mac! Fink uses apt for it's package management, and it can either compile directly from source or download binaries of the packages that you want. But I'm confused as to what you are trying to upgrade. If you're using the pre-packaged daemons, then yeah, it's probably a pain to upgrade. But it's open source software, nothing is stopping you from disabling those and using Fink to get a different version.
These machines exist more than the 30 seconds that you'll be using one. Someone who is dedicated could get their hands on one (through old fashioned thievery) and then have the months you mentioned probing for exploits. Then they still just need 30 seconds to exploit it. The point is, now I have to place *my* trust in this machine, without knowing how it tallies everything.
Keeping the source code hidden doesn't stop people from finding exploits, but allowing the source code to be open allows the public to see how their vote will be tallied (well, those who have programming knowledge, but I would be more likely to trust it several groups did a code audit and signed off on it).
I was visiting the London this past week, and I saw this "feature" in action. A young woman was sitting on the Underground, switching between songs every 30 seconds. All songs were equally annoying, since they were meant to have a bass line, and those little speakers can't do it any justice. You could barely hear it above the noise of riding on those trains. How are you supposed to get any enjoyment at all (besides the aforementioned enjoyment from annoying others). I guess it's just a way to announce that you're a jerk and that you don't care about any one else around you. Hurrah!
Haha, who did they pay the money to to purchase land on the moon? Man, what a great scam! Considering that nobody "owns" the moon currently, how can you possibly charge money to buy a chunk of it?
I think that planting a flag is probably the way it's going to work. I mean, how did the explorers from Europe claim land? There is no land to "buy" because there is nobody there.
A quick search on google shows that there are apprently many companies "selling" property on the moon. Good grief!
It was hardly anonymous. It required that I specify the manager that I report to, and other information such as how long I have worked at the company. There is only 1 person in my group that meets that information...me.
I refused to answer that question, because it's none of their business. I'm just apalled that they would even ask that though.
I used an external iSight on my PC. It's just a firewire camera, and it worked pretty well. The software I was using didn't handle the color balance very well, but the camera automatically focused and was okay. It did work much better on my powerbook though.
It is just greed. I mean, does a 10 byte text message actually cost 10 cents? If that were the case, then it should be costing me $30.00 per minute to talk to people. It's just plain old greed.
That movie sure is dumb. I would hope that the republican party, if they were to do something like this, would at least make it a bit better...
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Now, in the comments, of that movie someone linked to this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNrGhekg8GI
Which is Al and Tipper Gore singing a parody to a Grease song. It's not half bad.
As I flew through the Salt Lake City International Airport last time, they had new GE explosive detectors, which puff air on you and then spend a few seconds analyzing it for any explosives. It adds about 20 more seconds per person to the security screening process. I wonder if it would detect firecrackers or smoke bombs.
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Hmm, I didn't realize it also detected drugs. They never mentioned that when I was walking through it.
It's funny though, that no sex and no violence ALSO SELLS MOVIES. There is more than one type of customer, and this editing business fills the market of those people who don't want excessive nudity, vulgarity or violence.
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But not to worry, these people can still watch movies the way that THEY decide, since Hollywood is being such a pain about it.
I don't particularly want to watch hollywood's trash, but people who do want edited movies can watch it on this dvd player:
http://www.familysafemedia.com/edited_movies_-_pa
Basically you transfer a file over a USB drive to the DVD player which loads up markers to skip offensive scenes and mute offensive words. There! They bought the original, unedited movie, but still get to watch it how they please. I'm sure the Hollywood directors would still be outraged. Perhaps they'll try to ban this next?
Because C is fast, and there is so much already written in C, that it would be a pain to move over. There are a lot of hacks in the linux kernel (they actually use GOTO statements! *gasp*). I can tell you it was a real eye-opener for me when I started looking at things there. I'm sure the reason nobody has moved over to a better language though is because of the massive amounts of work that would have to be redone.
The kernel is written in C, and so are those system calls. I don't believe you can overload a C function.
Then it's a good thing that wind turbines generate 1.5MW and up :)
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Well, at least if the power companies are serious about wind power. Smaller home grown wind turbines might require that many of them.
The point is, that they *used* to pay a whole lot more for the job, and were still profitable. I haven't noticed a decrease in the price of software have you? If they are only paying 1/10th the amount to actually get the job done, then why are software prices still increasing? Greed.
More like $1166.00. (source: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/printable/india2 _info_print.html). Still not that much when you think about it. Hopefully companies will stop trying to take advantage of people and pay them what they are worth (I know this is unrealistic). A job is worth $x, then they shouldn't think of how to take advantage of someone to save a little extra. I just wish everyone was a little less focused on maximizing profit.
I have the same case. It's great! Very quiet. My only complaint with it is that the Antec power supply that I bought with it didn't have a long enough 24-pin connector. The power supply is actually situated on the bottom of the case instead of the top like normal, so you need an especially long power cable if your motherboard has it's power connector near the top. I had to sit around for 5 days looking at the beautiful case with all the parts in it while the extension was mailed :)
It's Verizon's network and if they want to provide a television service, then let them! They can allocate their bandwidth to their own services however they see fit. Now, if they were singling out certain competitors and preventing them from using a part of their network, that would be different. They aren't doing that. If there isn't enough bandwidth on Verizon's network, then the traffic will flow through other networks. And if there is a bottleneck because those networks aren't big enough, then there is space for another company to come in an fill the void.
The temperature was actually in the low 20's (-6.67 degrees celsius) that morning. I think they let it warm up a bit before the launch, but it was still much colder than any of the other launches. From what I remember, no testing had really been done at that temperature.
It's not just you. I haven't received mod points in nearly a year now. I must have pissed off one of the editors..
I don't really care though. I used to be upset about it but I'll let someone else be the mod.
I *am* annoyed that they won't tell us what is going on at all and that there is no good way to ask the editors questions.
I think this official website [legos.com] disagrees with you there.
Uhh, I think the URL of the website disagrees with your argument.
What a hoot. Slashdot is full or errors, duplicate stories, astroturfing and all sorts of editorial problems. I would hate to see scientific publication descend into such a mess.
Well, the editors certainly don't do the peer reviews (or even read the articles sometimes). But you'll notice that the users comment on things that are questionable, or down right false. Sure, there is no way that the story on the front page is shown to be junk, but you just need to read the comments.
If you look at the list, it's at the top, in the #1 position :p.
Is the US that behind?
In the UK we've had video downloads for cellphones for a while, although they're only now starting to get popular (and live streaming of video, which was popular last year for a time but seems to have died off).
Yes! The US *is* that far behind! It's lousy. They charge alot for data access through your phone. So that means that if you don't have a data plan (ie, $20-$30 per month in addition to your normal plan) you don't get to use any of the nifty features.
And we get to deal with terrible contracts, awful customer service, billing nightmares and locked phones! Yay for choice and freedom! They are all so greedy, that they all end up the same.
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--A guy with no cell phone
Perhaps they are filing the patent to prevent other companies from filing a similar patent and then using it against Google? Google has already started down the road of targetted ads for their users and storing everything they can about the user's search habits.
For example, if you sign up for a personalized google page, they'll start tracking your searchs, and they will even let you go back and look at the searches that you made weeks ago.
I personally like this kind of stuff. It's useful to me if I forgot to bookmark a site that I liked, I can go back through my search history and find the site again.