Please don't mod this as flamebait or a troll, because this is honestly inteded as a serious question:
What's the point of running Linux on a Gamecube or PS-2? (I kinda get the point of running it on the X-Box, as it's a mini PC.) Is it doing anything that you couldn't do with old PC or Sun hardware for the same cost, or is this just another hacker-ish "because we can" thing to do?
I wasn't serious, numbnuts. I was trying for a +5 Funny. But you've got me on that other count: I've been personally killing people for the sake of capitalism since 1904. I mean, really? Why mod that up? That's not insightful. That's the same crap that's posted to virtually every article that involves outsourcing. And by the way, read my previous postings and you'll notice that you've grossly mischaracterized me.
I disagree with the parent poster's assessment. It's never going to be the end of the industry. The US IT jobs are going to have to move to smaller, quicker-moving, better thinking, innovative companies. I'm currently in the job hunt, so I'd have every reason to be worried or negative or whatever, but there will be a job out there for you if you look in the right place.
I've had ZERO luck doing so much as speaking with a non-HR person in any of the large companies, but I've had a much better time of it with smaller companies. My advice for those of you that are unemployed and pissed off about outsourcing is to start reading the local business journals, something many geeks are adverse to doing, because they only care about the code (administering Linux boxes, etc), and find out who are the growing, privately-owned companieis in the area, and get on the damn phone and start calling. There's likely very little you can do to stop Dell or IBM from outsourcing to India, but I guarantee a 5-person development company in the US is not going to outsource your job.
Getting pissed off about the whole thing is just a waste of energy.
At Penn State, where I got a BS in CompSci, the computer science and computer engineering departments were one and the same. The difference between a CompSci degree and a CompEng degree was basically 3 electical engineering courses.
At Drexel, where I attended grad school for a year and was a teaching assistant, the EE and CompEng departments were one and the same. I found from teaching my undergraduate courses (a VHDL lab), this gave the students a much lower quality of education. They couldn't program worth shit (real-time programming is likely important if you're going to do comp eng stuff), many didn't even conceptually understand the basic data types and loops that are used in VHDL modelling.
I found the transition from CS to CompEng to be smooth in lots of parts (architecture, my first networks course), but difficult beacuse I lacked education in signal processing or stochastics (used in my second Networks course).
So, my advice is that if you want to go into hardware design, most of the necessary knowledge you'll need you will get as part of a CompSci cirriculum, or from a university where the programs of study are very similar. You could consider getting the CompSci degree and parlaying that into an assistantship in CompEng. I'm getting a little off-topic here, but a 3.6 GPA and whatever a 2100 GRE score (on the older version of the test will get you an assiatantship (free tuition and a monthyl stipend in exchange for being a teaching or research assistant) at a decent university.
Study the directions that are given for how to apply. They are there for a reason. For example our website instructs you to send a resume to jobs@fogcreek.com. This goes into an email folder which we go through to find good candidates. If you think for some reason that your resume will get more attention if you print it out and send it through the mail, that you'll "stand out" somehow, disabuse yourself of that notion. Paper resumes can't get into the email folder we're using to keep track of applicants unless we scan them in, and, you know what? The scanner is right next to the shredder in my office and the shredder is easier to use."
If you look at any career book, most notably What Color is Your Parachute, they always tell you that mailing resumes is much, much more successful than sending them electronically, all tracking mechanisms aside. I would think that mailing a resume would show your potential employer that you're expending more effort as you have to get off your ass to go to the post office as well as spending your own money to buy stamps.
According to What Color is Your Parachute, online services (in a a targeted fashion) have a 4% success rate while mailing out resumes (in a random fashion) has a 7% success rate.
Every book I've read says that the best way to get a job is to be PERSISTENT. That means not necessarily following the directions. Joel wrote that from the perspective of the employer - he wants to make it easy to screen you out. You, as the job hunter, want to make it as difficult for them to screen you out. This means getting as much of their attention as humanly possible.
I don't believe Kazaa Lite is open source - I believe it's just a "packaged" modification of Kazaa to remove the ads. The steps to create your very own Kazaa Lite were listed on in Slashot comments (and elsewhere) years ago, IIRC.
Not only has Kazaa Lite been shut down by Sharman, but if you google for it, there's a note at the bottom of the results page that some search results have been omitted as part of the DMCA. Does anyone know any ways around this? (Yes, I know that you can read the complaint to see what sites Sharman wanted removed - I'm asking for curiosity's sake.) Access Google from a non-US proxy?
"In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 3 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results."
I really like how the link goes to a site called "chillingeffects.org." A very well-done, subtle shot.
I saw this presented in the first class of my graduate Network Design class as a "proof" for the minimum number of ACK's required in an unreliable (i.e. packets can get lost) network layer protocol like TCP, so there's another example for you.
My McMeal rings up as $6.66. Teenaged girl behind counter flips out, and insists that the food is free. When I try and tell her it's no big deal; I'm not afraid of a number she gets REAL upset and flat-out REFUSES to take my money.
You wouldn't happen to remember what you ordered, would you? I eat live for free and just travel around the bible belt....
Klomdark, as a fairly experienced musician (I've been playing bass for 8 yeras) I think I have the credentials to say that scratching is REALLY FUCKIN' HARD. It takes an unbelievable amount of skill to be a hip-hop DJ. I could understand your being underwhelmed at people who just mix records, but give a listen to Dj Revolution (of Wake-Up Show fame) or someone like that, or better yet... try it yourself sometime and see if you can do it.
Kodak cameras have always been of below-average quality AFAIK (even dating back to the 1930's), so it's not like they're giving up on what was previously known as their staple product.
When a company known for their cameras, like Nikon, Cannon, Pentax, etc. gives up on "analog" cameras, then we'll really be reaching a milestone. However, I suspect that will never happen (or not happen anytime soon) due to the usefulness of analog cameras in photography as an art.
To make what in my view is a very clever analogy (because I thought of it), it's like turntables - they won't ever stop being produced altogether because of their demand in artistic (i.e. DJ) circles. However, I'm sure that we'll see the number of companies that develop film decrease over time. If I were Ritz Camera (a popular one-hour photo chain the northeastern US), I might be getting rather scared.
Without trying to sound arrogant, I would closely follow job sites such as monster.com, careerbuilder.com, and hotjobs.yahoo.com and see what is in demand. What skills are being asked for most often and seem to offer some nice pay?
Voodoo, that doesn't sound arrogant at all. Being a "recent grad" type, I have appopriate experience with marketable technologies (C++, basic *nix system administration et al.), but just not enough of it. The problem is how to bridge the gap.
I'm essentially looking for an entry-level position. From what I've seen on the usual job sites, which only have postings for more senior level positions, I either need a company to "take a chance on me" or I need more experience, which I can't get without the job it seems.
Frankly, I'm scared shitless, or at the very least disturbed. I was in graduate school for Computer Engineering for a year and decided it sucked. (And yes, it sucked far worse than the temp secretarial job I have now.) I've been talking to people on IRC and whatnot, and they're not too encouraging or helpful "Job market sucks." "Move." Well, what the hell are we supposed to do? There have to be jobs out there? Where are they?
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Please don't mod this as flamebait or a troll, because this is honestly inteded as a serious question:
What's the point of running Linux on a Gamecube or PS-2? (I kinda get the point of running it on the X-Box, as it's a mini PC.) Is it doing anything that you couldn't do with old PC or Sun hardware for the same cost, or is this just another hacker-ish "because we can" thing to do?
I wasn't serious, numbnuts. I was trying for a +5 Funny. But you've got me on that other count: I've been personally killing people for the sake of capitalism since 1904. I mean, really? Why mod that up? That's not insightful. That's the same crap that's posted to virtually every article that involves outsourcing. And by the way, read my previous postings and you'll notice that you've grossly mischaracterized me.
... to say hello to my job while he's over there.
I disagree with the parent poster's assessment. It's never going to be the end of the industry. The US IT jobs are going to have to move to smaller, quicker-moving, better thinking, innovative companies. I'm currently in the job hunt, so I'd have every reason to be worried or negative or whatever, but there will be a job out there for you if you look in the right place.
I've had ZERO luck doing so much as speaking with a non-HR person in any of the large companies, but I've had a much better time of it with smaller companies. My advice for those of you that are unemployed and pissed off about outsourcing is to start reading the local business journals, something many geeks are adverse to doing, because they only care about the code (administering Linux boxes, etc), and find out who are the growing, privately-owned companieis in the area, and get on the damn phone and start calling. There's likely very little you can do to stop Dell or IBM from outsourcing to India, but I guarantee a 5-person development company in the US is not going to outsource your job.
Getting pissed off about the whole thing is just a waste of energy.
At Penn State, where I got a BS in CompSci, the computer science and computer engineering departments were one and the same. The difference between a CompSci degree and a CompEng degree was basically 3 electical engineering courses.
At Drexel, where I attended grad school for a year and was a teaching assistant, the EE and CompEng departments were one and the same. I found from teaching my undergraduate courses (a VHDL lab), this gave the students a much lower quality of education. They couldn't program worth shit (real-time programming is likely important if you're going to do comp eng stuff), many didn't even conceptually understand the basic data types and loops that are used in VHDL modelling.
I found the transition from CS to CompEng to be smooth in lots of parts (architecture, my first networks course), but difficult beacuse I lacked education in signal processing or stochastics (used in my second Networks course).
So, my advice is that if you want to go into hardware design, most of the necessary knowledge you'll need you will get as part of a CompSci cirriculum, or from a university where the programs of study are very similar. You could consider getting the CompSci degree and parlaying that into an assistantship in CompEng. I'm getting a little off-topic here, but a 3.6 GPA and whatever a 2100 GRE score (on the older version of the test will get you an assiatantship (free tuition and a monthyl stipend in exchange for being a teaching or research assistant) at a decent university.
If you look at any career book, most notably What Color is Your Parachute, they always tell you that mailing resumes is much, much more successful than sending them electronically, all tracking mechanisms aside. I would think that mailing a resume would show your potential employer that you're expending more effort as you have to get off your ass to go to the post office as well as spending your own money to buy stamps.
According to What Color is Your Parachute, online services (in a a targeted fashion) have a 4% success rate while mailing out resumes (in a random fashion) has a 7% success rate.
Every book I've read says that the best way to get a job is to be PERSISTENT. That means not necessarily following the directions. Joel wrote that from the perspective of the employer - he wants to make it easy to screen you out. You, as the job hunter, want to make it as difficult for them to screen you out. This means getting as much of their attention as humanly possible.
I don't believe Kazaa Lite is open source - I believe it's just a "packaged" modification of Kazaa to remove the ads. The steps to create your very own Kazaa Lite were listed on in Slashot comments (and elsewhere) years ago, IIRC.
Not only has Kazaa Lite been shut down by Sharman, but if you google for it, there's a note at the bottom of the results page that some search results have been omitted as part of the DMCA. Does anyone know any ways around this? (Yes, I know that you can read the complaint to see what sites Sharman wanted removed - I'm asking for curiosity's sake.) Access Google from a non-US proxy?
"In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 3 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results."
I really like how the link goes to a site called "chillingeffects.org." A very well-done, subtle shot.
I saw this presented in the first class of my graduate Network Design class as a "proof" for the minimum number of ACK's required in an unreliable (i.e. packets can get lost) network layer protocol like TCP, so there's another example for you.
You wouldn't happen to remember what you ordered, would you? I eat live for free and just travel around the bible belt....
Klomdark, as a fairly experienced musician (I've been playing bass for 8 yeras) I think I have the credentials to say that scratching is REALLY FUCKIN' HARD. It takes an unbelievable amount of skill to be a hip-hop DJ. I could understand your being underwhelmed at people who just mix records, but give a listen to Dj Revolution (of Wake-Up Show fame) or someone like that, or better yet... try it yourself sometime and see if you can do it.
Kodak cameras have always been of below-average quality AFAIK (even dating back to the 1930's), so it's not like they're giving up on what was previously known as their staple product.
When a company known for their cameras, like Nikon, Cannon, Pentax, etc. gives up on "analog" cameras, then we'll really be reaching a milestone. However, I suspect that will never happen (or not happen anytime soon) due to the usefulness of analog cameras in photography as an art.
To make what in my view is a very clever analogy (because I thought of it), it's like turntables - they won't ever stop being produced altogether because of their demand in artistic (i.e. DJ) circles. However, I'm sure that we'll see the number of companies that develop film decrease over time. If I were Ritz Camera (a popular one-hour photo chain the northeastern US), I might be getting rather scared.
And who was your advisor? Bill The Butcher?
Without trying to sound arrogant, I would closely follow job sites such as monster.com, careerbuilder.com, and hotjobs.yahoo.com and see what is in demand. What skills are being asked for most often and seem to offer some nice pay?
Voodoo, that doesn't sound arrogant at all. Being a "recent grad" type, I have appopriate experience with marketable technologies (C++, basic *nix system administration et al.), but just not enough of it. The problem is how to bridge the gap.
I'm essentially looking for an entry-level position. From what I've seen on the usual job sites, which only have postings for more senior level positions, I either need a company to "take a chance on me" or I need more experience, which I can't get without the job it seems.
Frankly, I'm scared shitless, or at the very least disturbed. I was in graduate school for Computer Engineering for a year and decided it sucked. (And yes, it sucked far worse than the temp secretarial job I have now.) I've been talking to people on IRC and whatnot, and they're not too encouraging or helpful "Job market sucks." "Move." Well, what the hell are we supposed to do? There have to be jobs out there? Where are they?