On of the more stupider things that we did was soak a tennis ball in gasoline. Then we would set it on fire and play hand ball with it. God, how stupid was that?
Oh my gosh that reminds me of another awewome toy we used to have (in addition to jarts which were mostly too lame for us kids): we had a device that consisted of multiple beer cans fastened together end-to-end to form a mortar launcher. At the very bottom was an small triangular hole in the side of the can made with a can opener. If you put some lighter fluid in there and shoved a tennis ball in the device and lit it the tennis ball would shoot way into the air with this really cool "thop" sound.
Two of my favorite all-time toys were M80's and H100's (quarter stick of dynamite). Me and my friend would spend a whole day trying to see how high we could blast a coffee can into the air. At the time it seemed normal and fun. Now I look back and think about how no one in our suburban neighborhood seemed to care that we were methodically blowing stuff up all day long in various places.
Another "toy" that was a fad: burning plastic. Yes, just the simple fun of watching pieces of plastic combust and form sizzling, bubbling, congealed masses dangling from the end of a stick. I remember my friend moronically started whizzing the stick around with the sizzling plastic dangling and some flew on his hand causing a blister.
Buy maybe our ultimate crazy passtime required no toy whatsoever: one summer it was all the craze with the kids on our block to hyperventilate. All it took was one kid knowing how to do it and very quickly the "technique" was transmitted among all us kids as though it were some kind of esoteric rite, and we were all doing it. How fun to breathe heavily and then hold your breath and then suddenly wake up moments later after having lost consciousness.
Oh yeah, I also remember the time in gradeschool when I "discovered" this really cool powder in a cabinet - if you left it on your skin it would cause it to become dark for a really long time (like a few days). It was silver nitrate.
"About tennis, Rick likes it" or something to that effect.
So I did this thing (topic), and it was eating cake in December (comment).
Thank you for clarifying this. Your example made me realize another way to switch the subject/object in a sentence: use the passive voice:
Rick likes tennis. --> Tennis is liked by Rick.
(sounds a bit funny but is perfectly legitimate)
I ate cake in December. --> Cake was eaten by me in December.
(Surely if someone you met were to speak in this way, you'd think they were on acid, but it does not violate rules of English and is correct grammatically. In fact this exercise of changing the voice of a sentence to passive is often given in language courses.)
I do understand that placing the main subject in passive mode like this is not equivalent to its being a topic in the Japanese grammatical sense because passive in English and other languages is a specific construct requiring the verb "to be" + past participle whereas in Japanese it would be the normal mode to say something.
English: Rick likes tenis.
Japanese: rick wa tenisu ga suki da.
Translation: Rick (=TOPIC) tenis (=SUBJECT) likes.
How can you just make a pronouncement that Rick is not the subject of the sentence? Tennis is the direct object. It is the thing that receives the action of the verb (like) initiated by the subject (Rick).
I mean, you can say that Rick is not the subject, but he really is.
I don't see where there's anything heroic in this, in the classical sense of the word. Innovative, yes, but heroic? Seems to me like this article is just another misinformed one that happens to lie on the other side of inaccurate/misinformed than FUD ones, but no less problematic.
Stallman is the true hero and deserves recognition.
Linus deserves recognition for being very smart and having innovated a great idea at an opportune moment.
I can think of many inventions and innovations in the room around me right now which, were they not to have been made, things might be significantly different and/or worse. Yet none of the innovaters behind them should be considered heroes.
When I will look back on this life from some future vantage point, I'm sure that I will consider it having been worthwhile to have been born into an English speaking part of the Earth in the latter part of the 20th century just so that I was able to read and appreciate in full completion the humor of that comment.
I tried both the Buffalo Terastation and Anthology Solutions' Yellow Machine. The arrays are mountable only via NFS or Samba, there is no direct access to the device via USB which is I what I had hoped for. I often like to use rsync to mirror uncompressed images of filesystems to a backup drive. Unfortunately there's no way to do it with either of these products without losing all permissions data.
I've been trying to find some barebones system that had the same form factor as these products which I could put my own OS on. That would be really nice.
So many people seem to be fundamentally misguided in their knowlege of Debian. I keep seeing complaints over and over about the ultra-long release cycle and consequent lack of official.debs for important newer releases of important apps like languages, databases, and application servers. This criticism does have a good basis in many instances as Debian's lag in its stable release behind versions of some major apps can be annoying. After the last release of Sarge it was said that there would not be a repeat of the super-long release cycle anymore and that major changes were being made in the release process. However, to complain that it doesn't have the cutting-edge version of koffice or amarok or something is totally misguided. That quite simply is not what Debian/stable is about nor for. Maybe people think it *should* be for that, but that is another argument altogether. In the meantime, there are testing(etch) and unstable(sid) for people who want the latest. Is not Ubuntu just a Sid snapshot made every 6 months, with dedicated developers dealing with any bugfixes, and maybe some other custom niceties added on?
But then someone else criticizes unstable as being totally unfit for production servers. No duh.
I have been lucky enough that the last few companies I have worked at either already used Debian/stable as their production Linux distro or allowed me to change it to that. And I can say that, having been in a situation of administering clusters of critical production boxes, I *highly* appreciate the ultra-high level of stability of Debian/stable, not to mention much of the ease that comes from administering it due to its superior infrastructure and tools.
I believe that THE biggest problem is a serious lack of enterprise-friendliness. For example, at my current employer we have clusters of HP Proliant boxes. HP has a range of support applications designed to run on its servers running Linux - for example the HP System Monitoring Agents which proactively monitor things like temperature sensors, fans speeds, etc. and take action if thresholds are exceeded. These kinds of tools are imporant in enterprise deployments and HP already makes rpm packages for them but does not provide Debian packages.
Another area is Oracle support. Recently after digging around on Google I did finally find instructions on how to use alien to build.debs from the Oracle Instant Client OCI8 rpms which Oracle releases. Again, a critical enterprise tool release by a major heavyweight with no Debian versions. I would venture to guess that many sysadmins would not figure out how to deploy the instantclient software this way.
I also had the same issue with Debian's PHP which was not compiled with Oracle Instant Client support so I had to rebuild PHP, but here too there were a few tricks and I don't think this is something easily done by the average sysadmin.
Lack of debs for important enterprise tools and applications is a serious problem. Regardless of the Debian project's position regarding free software, etc., I believe that it is critical that it find a way, somehow, to incorporate, allow, or otherwise support critical enterprise components to be included, otherwise it seriously risks whithering away in areas where it counts, and where it really has the potential to show its forte as a distro.
Not only should it be figuring out how to incorportate enterprise components, I believe that it needs to make up for damage by proactively reaching out to companies like HP and Oracle and ensure that Debian versions of their applications and utilities get released. Right now too many companies don't even seem to consider Debian when release their software which is a bad trend.
Wow, I love sites that take 20 seconds to load and end up being completely blank in my browser. So, to circumvent it I did a google search for image site:keyhole.com and guess what, the other pages I've loaded also show up completely blank. Good site design!
Supposedly the common ancestor is King Edward I (1239-1307). I say supposedly because the family tree javascript popup on this page on Ancestry.com which mentions the connection of course does not function with my Linux-based browser. However I have seen a few references to the tree that confirm this.
If every person utilizing these networks were to voluntarily pay a $5 per month fee towards a special account to fund these settlements then we would never have to worry. I personally would welcome the opportunity to buy the little bit of extra security that the $5 would bring.
How many people are using these networks?
493 people X $3,000 = $1,479,000
$1,479,000 = $5 X 295,800
My guess is that 295,800 is but a tiny fraction of the number of sharers who would be willing to pay $5 per month.
Any extra proceeds raised by the fund could be used to purchase better search/index nodes.
The list of players that support Vorbis is fairly extensive and growing all the time. The iRiver iHP series all support.ogg off the shelf and IMHO are better (and cheaper) than iPods.
The Neursos of course supports it too. It is only slightly bulkier than the iRivers and iPods but has one awesome feature: it can transmit to any FM radio. It also has software to identify a song being played.
The sad news is how the existence of the Internet has diverted and undermined people's reference habits. Many libraries are in fact excellent Internet reference portals which provide cardholders with free access to an array of reference services which otherwise would be costly or impossible for one individual to subscribe to. The library I use (from a large U.S. city) offers an extensive amount of online resources, including Encyclopedia Britannica, the Oxford English Dictionary, an exhaustive list of magazine, newpaper, and other periodical references, and much more. But how many people use this? How many people even value its existence? People are used to the limited ways they know to access the Internet and grow accustomed to their sloppy ways of accessing information. Libraries aren't out there competing for online businesses and their sites don't have lots of glitter.
But more and more whenever I have a chance to set up people's computers I set the local public library's website as their browser's homepage.
I think that Debian can and should fill a very important role in the world of software and information technology and remain at the forefront of the free software movement and continue to push the envelope of freedom by leading forward strongly in the direction of complete freedom.
No one has mentioned this. How the heck can you capture PIN numbers via photographs? The only way is to capture with video. If that's the case, wouldn't that tiny 256MB memory chip have filled up awfully fast?
Okay all you Slashdot-hacker-types. Now that you're all going to go out and make your own customized ATM cards as part of the new fad, don't forget to make your own ATM networks to go along with it.
And, while your're at it, why not your own currency system as well?
Just make sure gobs of the new currency doesn't unnecessarily get funneled off into the pockets of corrupt politians and global corporations as is the case with the current system.
Kodak cameras are associated with low-end crap. I owned a Kodak Retina once - it was such a well-crafted instrument to hold and to use.
Their new digital cameras are plastic crap. They are throwing away their reputation that was established through decades.
Maybe this is not unique to Kodak. Alot of companies seem to be operating with the idea that sourcing out supplies of cheaply manufactured items from Malaysia or Taiwan is the way to go. I remember when Timex clocks used to be associated with very good build quality. The last thing I got that had the name "Timex" on it was an over-priced piece of plastic junk sold at Target. Yeah, the form-factor looked sleek (which is why I bought it), but it was a piece of crap and I will never, ever buy anything with "Timex" on it again.
Maybe what Kodak should do to save its reputation is to completely stop making/selling low-end plastic crap for a few years, and only sell one or two high-end models that are exceptional quality. Once consumer trust is broken it is hard to restore.
1. Postings are usually wayy to specific. HR staff making the job postings list out the requirements/qualifications ad nauseum. While there may be a very small fraction of people in the world with that exact experience, most will not. And there is probably a very large number of people who would be highly qualified for the position yet who do not satisfy all the requirements ad nauseum.
-- interlude --
I guess this points to a bigger problem - if not THE biggest problem: the people making the postings. People making the postings tend to err in one of two ways: either they try to hire people who are not appropriate for the position - either because that is not what the job candidate is seeking or because what the employers seeks is not what the candidate offers. In this case the HR person is wasting the time of candidates and the companies by failing to match candates to positions and failing to screen them.
-- Interlude 2 --
This highlights another problem - the inability of HR staff to even be able to match or screen people for positions. Add to this the fact that the HR person is motivated often by a commission or some other bullshit and it only compounds the problem
--Back to Interlude 1--
The other side of the coin is overscreening. Listing out job specs and qualifications in excruciating detail. More often this is going to be a huge turnoff for prospective candidates. For one thing, it makes the company come off immediately as exceedingly anal/stuffy/corporate/inflexible. When facing a choice between a job at Megacorp with all of its excruciating criteria, or at some small Internet startup that "...is looking for enthusiastic, bright, team players, willing to grow..." etc. etc. the latter has vastly more appeal. But the former is only going to tend to attract some geeky corporate thud-types.
I see this OVER AND OVER AND OVER in postings for larger companies. Then, compounding the problem is that the HR departments at these large companies are virtually indistiguishable from headhunters. Well that's a huge turnoff. Headhunters are a huge turnoff. Incorporating them and/or their techniques into an HR department is a sign of a company that is operating in the WRONG DIRECTION, which is another big turnoff.
Finally, a lot of these job boards are simply fronts for headhunters. The fact that this is not fully disclosed is an abuse of the job seekers and dishonest. It is also dishonest because the site masquerades as a truly open job board but if it is controlled by one group of headhunters it is certainly not open to all employers in an equal fashion. It masquerades as that but it is not.
Its a shame that the government doesn't get more involved. But then, can we count on them for something like that? Perhaps a government-sponsored job agency is a tad too socialistic for the current group of incompetent oligarchs? But that is what they should do. Most states do have employment agencies and now even have web sites. Some are starting to look pretty decent in fact. Some are just an excuse to get on welfare. One problem is that the state-based employment agency model was good in the past, but now having a federal one would be much better. Since the federal government isn't good at much other than ripping off people and creating wars, maybe the states should start linking their sites together.
...after 2 1/2 years, shortly after the product I was working on shipped... ...a period of job seeking followed by a five week period of employment, followed by the current job seeking...
If you call that bad... man... You're living in a privileged world...
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Oh my gosh that reminds me of another awewome toy we used to have (in addition to jarts which were mostly too lame for us kids): we had a device that consisted of multiple beer cans fastened together end-to-end to form a mortar launcher. At the very bottom was an small triangular hole in the side of the can made with a can opener. If you put some lighter fluid in there and shoved a tennis ball in the device and lit it the tennis ball would shoot way into the air with this really cool "thop" sound.
Two of my favorite all-time toys were M80's and H100's (quarter stick of dynamite). Me and my friend would spend a whole day trying to see how high we could blast a coffee can into the air. At the time it seemed normal and fun. Now I look back and think about how no one in our suburban neighborhood seemed to care that we were methodically blowing stuff up all day long in various places.
Another "toy" that was a fad: burning plastic. Yes, just the simple fun of watching pieces of plastic combust and form sizzling, bubbling, congealed masses dangling from the end of a stick. I remember my friend moronically started whizzing the stick around with the sizzling plastic dangling and some flew on his hand causing a blister.
Buy maybe our ultimate crazy passtime required no toy whatsoever: one summer it was all the craze with the kids on our block to hyperventilate. All it took was one kid knowing how to do it and very quickly the "technique" was transmitted among all us kids as though it were some kind of esoteric rite, and we were all doing it. How fun to breathe heavily and then hold your breath and then suddenly wake up moments later after having lost consciousness.
Oh yeah, I also remember the time in gradeschool when I "discovered" this really cool powder in a cabinet - if you left it on your skin it would cause it to become dark for a really long time (like a few days). It was silver nitrate.
"About tennis, Rick likes it" or something to that effect.
So I did this thing (topic), and it was eating cake in December (comment).
Thank you for clarifying this. Your example made me realize another way to switch the subject/object in a sentence: use the passive voice:
Rick likes tennis. --> Tennis is liked by Rick.
(sounds a bit funny but is perfectly legitimate)
I ate cake in December. --> Cake was eaten by me in December.
(Surely if someone you met were to speak in this way, you'd think they were on acid, but it does not violate rules of English and is correct grammatically. In fact this exercise of changing the voice of a sentence to passive is often given in language courses.)
I do understand that placing the main subject in passive mode like this is not equivalent to its being a topic in the Japanese grammatical sense because passive in English and other languages is a specific construct requiring the verb "to be" + past participle whereas in Japanese it would be the normal mode to say something.
English: Rick likes tenis.
Japanese: rick wa tenisu ga suki da.
Translation: Rick (=TOPIC) tenis (=SUBJECT) likes.
How can you just make a pronouncement that Rick is not the subject of the sentence? Tennis is the direct object. It is the thing that receives the action of the verb (like) initiated by the subject (Rick).
I mean, you can say that Rick is not the subject, but he really is.
What's the difference between topic and subject? Is not topic the same as subject?
I don't see where there's anything heroic in this, in the classical sense of the word. Innovative, yes, but heroic? Seems to me like this article is just another misinformed one that happens to lie on the other side of inaccurate/misinformed than FUD ones, but no less problematic.
Stallman is the true hero and deserves recognition.
Linus deserves recognition for being very smart and having innovated a great idea at an opportune moment.
I can think of many inventions and innovations in the room around me right now which, were they not to have been made, things might be significantly different and/or worse. Yet none of the innovaters behind them should be considered heroes.
This article is stupid I think.
When I will look back on this life from some future vantage point, I'm sure that I will consider it having been worthwhile to have been born into an English speaking part of the Earth in the latter part of the 20th century just so that I was able to read and appreciate in full completion the humor of that comment.
:-)
My stomach is still hurting
I tried both the Buffalo Terastation and Anthology Solutions' Yellow Machine. The arrays are mountable only via NFS or Samba, there is no direct access to the device via USB which is I what I had hoped for. I often like to use rsync to mirror uncompressed images of filesystems to a backup drive. Unfortunately there's no way to do it with either of these products without losing all permissions data.
I've been trying to find some barebones system that had the same form factor as these products which I could put my own OS on. That would be really nice.
So many people seem to be fundamentally misguided in their knowlege of Debian. I keep seeing complaints over and over about the ultra-long release cycle and consequent lack of official .debs for important newer releases of important apps like languages, databases, and application servers. This criticism does have a good basis in many instances as Debian's lag in its stable release behind versions of some major apps can be annoying. After the last release of Sarge it was said that there would not be a repeat of the super-long release cycle anymore and that major changes were being made in the release process. However, to complain that it doesn't have the cutting-edge version of koffice or amarok or something is totally misguided. That quite simply is not what Debian/stable is about nor for. Maybe people think it *should* be for that, but that is another argument altogether. In the meantime, there are testing(etch) and unstable(sid) for people who want the latest. Is not Ubuntu just a Sid snapshot made every 6 months, with dedicated developers dealing with any bugfixes, and maybe some other custom niceties added on?
.debs from the Oracle Instant Client OCI8 rpms which Oracle releases. Again, a critical enterprise tool release by a major heavyweight with no Debian versions. I would venture to guess that many sysadmins would not figure out how to deploy the instantclient software this way.
But then someone else criticizes unstable as being totally unfit for production servers. No duh.
I have been lucky enough that the last few companies I have worked at either already used Debian/stable as their production Linux distro or allowed me to change it to that. And I can say that, having been in a situation of administering clusters of critical production boxes, I *highly* appreciate the ultra-high level of stability of Debian/stable, not to mention much of the ease that comes from administering it due to its superior infrastructure and tools.
I believe that THE biggest problem is a serious lack of enterprise-friendliness. For example, at my current employer we have clusters of HP Proliant boxes. HP has a range of support applications designed to run on its servers running Linux - for example the HP System Monitoring Agents which proactively monitor things like temperature sensors, fans speeds, etc. and take action if thresholds are exceeded. These kinds of tools are imporant in enterprise deployments and HP already makes rpm packages for them but does not provide Debian packages.
Another area is Oracle support. Recently after digging around on Google I did finally find instructions on how to use alien to build
I also had the same issue with Debian's PHP which was not compiled with Oracle Instant Client support so I had to rebuild PHP, but here too there were a few tricks and I don't think this is something easily done by the average sysadmin.
Lack of debs for important enterprise tools and applications is a serious problem. Regardless of the Debian project's position regarding free software, etc., I believe that it is critical that it find a way, somehow, to incorporate, allow, or otherwise support critical enterprise components to be included, otherwise it seriously risks whithering away in areas where it counts, and where it really has the potential to show its forte as a distro.
Not only should it be figuring out how to incorportate enterprise components, I believe that it needs to make up for damage by proactively reaching out to companies like HP and Oracle and ensure that Debian versions of their applications and utilities get released. Right now too many companies don't even seem to consider Debian when release their software which is a bad trend.
This sounds exactly like another screwup by the NSA to do a tap of a major trunk line. In case you don't know about this, read here for more information about this crap.e gacy=zdnn)
(http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-529826.html?l
And it was not too long ago that connections to France went down, supposedly from a "problem" with an undersea cable too.
Wow, I love sites that take 20 seconds to load and end up being completely blank in my browser. So, to circumvent it I did a google search for image site:keyhole.com and guess what, the other pages I've loaded also show up completely blank. Good site design!
Supposedly the common ancestor is King Edward I (1239-1307). I say supposedly because the family tree javascript popup on this page on Ancestry.com which mentions the connection of course does not function with my Linux-based browser. However I have seen a few references to the tree that confirm this.
Okay. Google me!
pls bring 10 kg by 5 pm got $$ thks
If every person utilizing these networks were to voluntarily pay a $5 per month fee towards a special account to fund these settlements then we would never have to worry. I personally would welcome the opportunity to buy the little bit of extra security that the $5 would bring.
How many people are using these networks?
493 people X $3,000 = $1,479,000
$1,479,000 = $5 X 295,800
My guess is that 295,800 is but a tiny fraction of the number of sharers who would be willing to pay $5 per month.
Any extra proceeds raised by the fund could be used to purchase better search/index nodes.
The list of players that support Vorbis is fairly extensive and growing all the time. The iRiver iHP series all support .ogg off the shelf and IMHO are better (and cheaper) than iPods.
The Neursos of course supports it too. It is only slightly bulkier than the iRivers and iPods but has one awesome feature: it can transmit to any FM radio. It also has software to identify a song being played.
Here is a constantly updated list of supported players.
The sad news is how the existence of the Internet has diverted and undermined people's reference habits. Many libraries are in fact excellent Internet reference portals which provide cardholders with free access to an array of reference services which otherwise would be costly or impossible for one individual to subscribe to. The library I use (from a large U.S. city) offers an extensive amount of online resources, including Encyclopedia Britannica, the Oxford English Dictionary, an exhaustive list of magazine, newpaper, and other periodical references, and much more. But how many people use this? How many people even value its existence? People are used to the limited ways they know to access the Internet and grow accustomed to their sloppy ways of accessing information. Libraries aren't out there competing for online businesses and their sites don't have lots of glitter.
But more and more whenever I have a chance to set up people's computers I set the local public library's website as their browser's homepage.
I think that Debian can and should fill a very important role in the world of software and information technology and remain at the forefront of the free software movement and continue to push the envelope of freedom by leading forward strongly in the direction of complete freedom.
Unless the guys who put up the photos are the same ones who put the machine there (i.e. the thieves).
It could very well be that after collecting the machine they suddenly realized that they had been tracked by law enforcement.
Now they have an alibi.
No one has mentioned this. How the heck can you capture PIN numbers via photographs? The only way is to capture with video. If that's the case, wouldn't that tiny 256MB memory chip have filled up awfully fast?
Okay all you Slashdot-hacker-types. Now that you're all going to go out and make your own customized ATM cards as part of the new fad, don't forget to make your own ATM networks to go along with it.
And, while your're at it, why not your own currency system as well?
Just make sure gobs of the new currency doesn't unnecessarily get funneled off into the pockets of corrupt politians and global corporations as is the case with the current system.
Kodak cameras are associated with low-end crap. I owned a Kodak Retina once - it was such a well-crafted instrument to hold and to use.
Their new digital cameras are plastic crap. They are throwing away their reputation that was established through decades.
Maybe this is not unique to Kodak. Alot of companies seem to be operating with the idea that sourcing out supplies of cheaply manufactured items from Malaysia or Taiwan is the way to go. I remember when Timex clocks used to be associated with very good build quality. The last thing I got that had the name "Timex" on it was an over-priced piece of plastic junk sold at Target. Yeah, the form-factor looked sleek (which is why I bought it), but it was a piece of crap and I will never, ever buy anything with "Timex" on it again.
Maybe what Kodak should do to save its reputation is to completely stop making/selling low-end plastic crap for a few years, and only sell one or two high-end models that are exceptional quality. Once consumer trust is broken it is hard to restore.
1. Postings are usually wayy to specific. HR staff making the job postings list out the requirements/qualifications ad nauseum. While there may be a very small fraction of people in the world with that exact experience, most will not. And there is probably a very large number of people who would be highly qualified for the position yet who do not satisfy all the requirements ad nauseum. -- interlude -- I guess this points to a bigger problem - if not THE biggest problem: the people making the postings. People making the postings tend to err in one of two ways: either they try to hire people who are not appropriate for the position - either because that is not what the job candidate is seeking or because what the employers seeks is not what the candidate offers. In this case the HR person is wasting the time of candidates and the companies by failing to match candates to positions and failing to screen them. -- Interlude 2 -- This highlights another problem - the inability of HR staff to even be able to match or screen people for positions. Add to this the fact that the HR person is motivated often by a commission or some other bullshit and it only compounds the problem --Back to Interlude 1-- The other side of the coin is overscreening. Listing out job specs and qualifications in excruciating detail. More often this is going to be a huge turnoff for prospective candidates. For one thing, it makes the company come off immediately as exceedingly anal/stuffy/corporate/inflexible. When facing a choice between a job at Megacorp with all of its excruciating criteria, or at some small Internet startup that "...is looking for enthusiastic, bright, team players, willing to grow..." etc. etc. the latter has vastly more appeal. But the former is only going to tend to attract some geeky corporate thud-types. I see this OVER AND OVER AND OVER in postings for larger companies. Then, compounding the problem is that the HR departments at these large companies are virtually indistiguishable from headhunters. Well that's a huge turnoff. Headhunters are a huge turnoff. Incorporating them and/or their techniques into an HR department is a sign of a company that is operating in the WRONG DIRECTION, which is another big turnoff. Finally, a lot of these job boards are simply fronts for headhunters. The fact that this is not fully disclosed is an abuse of the job seekers and dishonest. It is also dishonest because the site masquerades as a truly open job board but if it is controlled by one group of headhunters it is certainly not open to all employers in an equal fashion. It masquerades as that but it is not. Its a shame that the government doesn't get more involved. But then, can we count on them for something like that? Perhaps a government-sponsored job agency is a tad too socialistic for the current group of incompetent oligarchs? But that is what they should do. Most states do have employment agencies and now even have web sites. Some are starting to look pretty decent in fact. Some are just an excuse to get on welfare. One problem is that the state-based employment agency model was good in the past, but now having a federal one would be much better. Since the federal government isn't good at much other than ripping off people and creating wars, maybe the states should start linking their sites together.
...after 2 1/2 years, shortly after the product I was working on shipped...
...a period of job seeking followed by a five week period of employment, followed by the current job seeking...
If you call that bad... man... You're living in a privileged world...