I was given math and logic tests as part of the interviewing process. Where they relevant? Somewhat. Did they really separate the good interviewees from the not so good? I doubt it. I'm guessing that any distinction they reveal would have come up anyway in the interview process.
Perhaps the reason I got hired by the company was not necessarily my performance on the tests, but when I told them later on in the interview that (truthfully) I had enjoyed taking the tests, and liked solving logic puzzles in general.
First off, I don't believe their functionality justifies the $3100 price tag. While the feature set it good, for that kind of money, this thing should be able to OCR, and not have to rely on 3rd party software for that functionality.
We used to have one of these where I worked as well. The big problem I had with it was that when it broke (mechanical failure), the model we had was obsoleted, and HP's advice was "buy a new one"! Kind of irritating when it costs over 3 grand to begin with (and it was only about 2 years old), I couldn't find anyone to service it, and the warranty is only one year.
We decided that it wasn't worth spending 3 grand to get another one, with a guaranteed life of only one year, so I put together a solution using an old spare cheap pII we had lying around and a scanner with an ADF- much easier to fix/replace if necessary
Actually.. Vinyl tends to be mastered with the dj in mind, so they boost the bass for club/large sound systems when it is made. It has nothing to do with whether the sound is analog or digital in origin.
as far as bass goes- very few speakers/subs in existence can produce sound accurately down below 20hz anyway. Most party sound systems are lucky if they hit 35hz-ish with any accuracy, and generally any attempts to produce sounds lower than this just makes the speakers distort. The bass you can feel is pretty much anything below 100hz.
and yes, I'm a dj as well (own about 1000 records), and while vinyl does sound different than cds, it doesn't have better bass just due to it's "analog nature"
IIRC from reading NY State Abandoned Property law a few years ago, they're only required to place an ad in the newspaper- ie "If you are such and such a person living at this address, please contact us"
by law, they're required to keep the money for 5 years before it goes through the abandoned property process, which lasts about 6 months or so.
granted, I could be way wrong on all this- this is just what I remember from a few years ago
Since they seem to be able to trace the route of the Sun (and other stars) going back several million years, I would imagine they could also likewise figure out where everything is going (to a certain extent).. Sooo..I wonder if any stars are going to come closer to the Sun- ie within a visitable timeframe.
Although, as more people start to fall from the ranks of "knowing" COBOL the remaining few that can service the large amount of systems out there should do really well financially.
yes and no, actually- a good portion of the COBOL based systems out there right now are in the financial industry, which is not known for paying IT people well
There's actually currently quite a few younger (ie 20's and 30's) people working on cobol systems now, so they'll have fresh bodies for a while.
Probably like most other mainframe languages, REXX is being used because when the programs were originally written, REXX was all there was- so rather than rewrite everything, REXX programmers just keep modifying the original code.
Are they actually running the "Optical quantum random number generator" every time you click submit, or are they just pulling the numbers pre-generated from a database?
According to the article it's for surveilance- put cameras on it, watch people, etc.
Wouldn't this make it easier to shoot down if you were an unfriendly nation? A big geostationary blimp has to be easier to hit than a satellite in space
If it's flying around the solar system for 10 years until it meets it's comet destiny, it should make a pretty interesting interim astronomy platform. Then if it somehow crashes into the comet or dies en route it won't be a wasted mission.
10 years is an awfully long time- lots of stuff could go wrong
Since you seem to have several ideas, why not just set up one of them as a free project at sourceforge.com, and work from there? That way you can work out some of your ideas without going through a lot of cash. Granted, that means giving up your idea to the public forum, but it might be worth it in the long run for the experience of creating something from start to finish.
Aren't really most good software companies built not on making one good product and selling it perpetually, but continually improving that product and creating new ones as well?
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Please, please, please don't look for more exploits in our code! We've got enough already to keep us busy for the next decade or so.
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I was given math and logic tests as part of the interviewing process. Where they relevant? Somewhat. Did they really separate the good interviewees from the not so good? I doubt it. I'm guessing that any distinction they reveal would have come up anyway in the interview process.
Perhaps the reason I got hired by the company was not necessarily my performance on the tests, but when I told them later on in the interview that (truthfully) I had enjoyed taking the tests, and liked solving logic puzzles in general.
First off, I don't believe their functionality justifies the $3100 price tag. While the feature set it good, for that kind of money, this thing should be able to OCR, and not have to rely on 3rd party software for that functionality.
We used to have one of these where I worked as well. The big problem I had with it was that when it broke (mechanical failure), the model we had was obsoleted, and HP's advice was "buy a new one"! Kind of irritating when it costs over 3 grand to begin with (and it was only about 2 years old), I couldn't find anyone to service it, and the warranty is only one year.
We decided that it wasn't worth spending 3 grand to get another one, with a guaranteed life of only one year, so I put together a solution using an old spare cheap pII we had lying around and a scanner with an ADF- much easier to fix/replace if necessary
Actually.. Vinyl tends to be mastered with the dj in mind, so they boost the bass for club/large sound systems when it is made. It has nothing to do with whether the sound is analog or digital in origin.
as far as bass goes- very few speakers/subs in existence can produce sound accurately down below 20hz anyway. Most party sound systems are lucky if they hit 35hz-ish with any accuracy, and generally any attempts to produce sounds lower than this just makes the speakers distort. The bass you can feel is pretty much anything below 100hz.
and yes, I'm a dj as well (own about 1000 records), and while vinyl does sound different than cds, it doesn't have better bass just due to it's "analog nature"
IIRC from reading NY State Abandoned Property law a few years ago, they're only required to place an ad in the newspaper- ie "If you are such and such a person living at this address, please contact us"
by law, they're required to keep the money for 5 years before it goes through the abandoned property process, which lasts about 6 months or so.
granted, I could be way wrong on all this- this is just what I remember from a few years ago
or maybe an errant superball from Earth that got bounced just a little too high?
do not taunt Happy Fun Ball!
snmp logging might not be all of the solution but it's helped my work out a bit with solving problems
coincidentally, I also work at a manufacturing facility in southeastern wisconsin...
Since they seem to be able to trace the route of the Sun (and other stars) going back several million years, I would imagine they could also likewise figure out where everything is going (to a certain extent).. Sooo..I wonder if any stars are going to come closer to the Sun- ie within a visitable timeframe.
:)
ok, yeah, one can always hope
Aren't Microsoft's mice/trackballs, etc made by someone else (Logitech?) anyway? So Microsoft's profits from this have to be rather small.
Although, as more people start to fall from the ranks of "knowing" COBOL the remaining few that can service the large amount of systems out there should do really well financially.
yes and no, actually- a good portion of the COBOL based systems out there right now are in the financial industry, which is not known for paying IT people well
There's actually currently quite a few younger (ie 20's and 30's) people working on cobol systems now, so they'll have fresh bodies for a while.
Probably like most other mainframe languages, REXX is being used because when the programs were originally written, REXX was all there was- so rather than rewrite everything, REXX programmers just keep modifying the original code.
While this doesn't seem super useful for delivering drugs, this could be a good start to creating nanotech devices...
it sounds like your condo associaton needs an internet usage policy- considering this guy's actions could get everyone in trouble.
Are they actually running the "Optical quantum random number generator" every time you click submit, or are they just pulling the numbers pre-generated from a database?
Connect the servers to the company's paging system. A few weeks of hearing "THE SERVER IS DOWN!!" at 120 decibels ought to make them reconsider.
According to the article it's for surveilance- put cameras on it, watch people, etc.
Wouldn't this make it easier to shoot down if you were an unfriendly nation? A big geostationary blimp has to be easier to hit than a satellite in space
Now we just need the Army to go after spammers, SCO, and the like.... and back it up with tanks! lots of tanks!
Rover Bowling!
since some of these viruses involve opening back doors, it's a turf war in the sense of who owns more zombie computers, I guess.
Did he really spend the money on the iPod, or was it discovered inside a crashed flying saucer somewhere?
well, since they are selling the servers, maybe some enterprising person could do some data recovery on them and bring some of it back?
i suppose this would be of questionable legality, but say you got permission from the original music creators- then what?
If it's flying around the solar system for 10 years until it meets it's comet destiny, it should make a pretty interesting interim astronomy platform. Then if it somehow crashes into the comet or dies en route it won't be a wasted mission.
10 years is an awfully long time- lots of stuff could go wrong
Error! Error! entire system has holes in it for potential viruses. Please change operating systems or send us money immediately!
Since you seem to have several ideas, why not just set up one of them as a free project at sourceforge.com, and work from there? That way you can work out some of your ideas without going through a lot of cash. Granted, that means giving up your idea to the public forum, but it might be worth it in the long run for the experience of creating something from start to finish.
Aren't really most good software companies built not on making one good product and selling it perpetually, but continually improving that product and creating new ones as well?
" I realized no one had tried to write a science-fiction novel as if Lou Reed and David Bowie were writing it."
I suppose you could say that about a lot of things-
we need more software that was written as if Lou Reed and David Bowie had written it
Dear Sir, Please, please, please don't look for more exploits in our code! We've got enough already to keep us busy for the next decade or so. Signed, Your pals at Microsoft.