You'd essentially get my CV and think "another one of those useless guys"...
Not necessarily. If you have a resume full of Microsoft buzzwords ("I know XP, Vista, 32-bit, 64-bit, MFC, C#, ActiveX, DirectX, yadda yadda) I'd toss it.
If you demonstrated that you had bona-fide experience with whatever technology I was interested in and other useful qualities I'd likely put you in the shortlist to maybe get an interview.
I don't need my time wasted by people who have little real experience in anything but litter their resume with a bunch of buzzwords.
Secondly: if you have Linux and Unix experience by using it at home that is perfectly welcome in your resume. Just because you didn't get paid to do it doesn't mean you're not good at it. In fact, if see a resume that says that someone dabbles in those things then I am more likely to bring them in because it is likely that it's an interesting hobby for the rather than a means to an end.
Some recruiters are ex-technical people and understand the business but most don't
I have found that no recruiters are ex-technical people. Some may have had lacky roles in technical companies before leaving but none I have ever dealt with, either as an employer or potential employee, knew more than the latest manager babble words.
In my last position I was tasked with finding qualified Unix engineers, programmers, sysadmins. We got zillions of resumes from people who were... well... useless. CVs full of "XP this and Vista that and Microsoft this and web2.0 that" came in but only two with any real skill. Half of the ones the recruiters sent in were basically non-computer people who filled in "I can use Microsoft blah" and got put in the "computer jobs" bin.
A resume full of buzzwords will get you through recruiters but it won't get you very far if the people looking are technical themselves.
The best advice that was ever given to me when considering an O/S job was to actually get on a plane and spend as much time there as you can. See the sights, the neighbourhoods and talk to the locals. Walk into recruiters and give them your resume; tell them you're thinking of moving to the area in the next 6 months; they'll get it out there because they get paid their cut. If you have the money and the leave at your current position do just that.
Also, try and get a decent job now. A lot of employers are happy about covering your moving costs if they think you're going to be a good long term hire. That's a two-edged sword. If you get a job that pays for you to move you might be contracted to stay there for a minimum period with a costly exit clause.
Re:always, Always, ALWAYS, talk to a lawyer...
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Why not find their local embassy in your home country and ask all the questions there? Yes, this goes for anyone anywhere.
If the country you're moving to has an embassy (most of the bigger ones whose names you already know have one) then you should be able to find it.
They are cheaper than a lawyer and they'll probably give you more user friendly advice. Lawyers tend to use a lot of costly words.
> Of course, you'd know that if you read the last two posts I made.
Not everyone understands the difference between watt hours (units of Joules) and watts (Joules per second).
watt hours are a measure of total energy use, not power use. It's obtained my multiplying watts by time.
If the Wii stays in game play mode for 20 hours a week there are still 148 hours it's in standby mode. Of course the standby ENERGY consumption will be higher even though the POWER consumption is lower.
1. Go to work? I know it sounds absurd but people actually can leave their house you know.
2. Move somewhere that high speed Internet is available (or closer to work if you're trying to telecommute because it's too far to commute).
3. Get your company to subsidise the damned installation and stop bitching to me that you can't do your work unless the government gives you some money. If high speed networking is THAT IMPORTANT to your work then get a damned T1 or something like that and get them to pay for it!
That's not a big dish, this [man.ac.uk] is a big dish!
Awesome, man. Finally a way for me to log into that Alien Internet and do some *cough* alien anatomical research *cough*
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Corporate Ethics? An oxymoron.... Only in America.
Not only in America - all around the world. Money > * to (most of) the sorts of people who get to the level where they are allowed to control the decision making process regarding how to extort more of it.
To everyone else
Dialup is not the end of the world at all. In fact, not having the Internet connected is not the end of the world. Why is it that so many high society white people (yes I'm one of them) piss and moan about their right to fast Internet and how the gumbiment should pay for it.
People, your Internet access is not a right. It's a privilege. You earn it by working and then paying for it. There is NOTHING on the Internet that can't be had offline (tomes of dead trees, video stores, record stores, the local adult empornium, mostly the last one).
I am tired of people whining about how everyone in the whole world needs to be provided the means to download their porn faster. For fuck's sake, there are people out there (in the USA, no less) who have NO food, NO home, NO clothes, NO health care. Yet you want the country to spend its money making sure you can start masturbating a few minutes sooner!
The Australian government made broadband for all an election promise, yet they haven't even touched on the notion that basic telecoms for all isn't even a particularly affordable option here because of the monopoly telecoms provider whose wholesale arm is more interested in serving their retail arm than any of the competition.
To summarise: Stop fucking complaining. If you want it then make the compromise required to get it. If you don't want it that bad then it's obviously not worth whinging about.
Only because it's the United States of America, not the United States.
So strictly speaking it'd be USoAians.
Referring specifically to residents of the USA as Americans is exactly the same as referring to the French as Europeans. Sure, they do live on Europe but you could equally be referring to the Germans with the same phrase.
Think of all the Latino people down south or the Canadians in Canadia who will be offended if I say "Americans are, generally speaking, idiots".
For those things that you don't want to waste the postage on I've heard that writing "Recipient deceased, return to sender" on the envelope in bold pen works quite well in getting the clearing houses and other junk to stop.
Of course you would exercise some level of discretion there so as not to offend anyone.
That's hardly fair. In the lab where I was working the work was apportioned fairly. Everyone starts out at the bottom. Unlike in the commercial world they don't waste money sending you off on expensive training courses. You're expected to be learning as you go.
You'll pick up some shit work. Ask questions. Make sure you're doing it the way they want. Keep a couple of pet projects on the side to keep you busy when there is no "real" work to be done.
In many ways it's a lot like the real world. Demonstrate that you're good at what you do and people will treat you with respect. Soon you'll find you're the "expert" and people are asking questions about your field of expertise.
Another thing; a lot of work in a research lab is creditable towards a masters or Ph.D. Consider enrolling in one of these in the field you're working and keep it as your pet project. You'll be able to draw on those around you for wisdom, knowledge and advice and it should be a breeze so long as your supervisor is willing to make sure that you get it done.
After much confusion, I realize they are not on the wifi network that I set up for them, but one of their neigbhors...
I believe Windows will just connect to the first open network it finds unless you've set a preferred network. That's pretty crappy because most users probably don't even know how to select the right wireless network.
This would get easier if router manufacturers started shipping them with random passwords in the user's manual and WPA turned on by default. That would, at least, stop people inadvertently connecting to an unsecured network and wouldn't hinder the technically inept too much;
"Please enter password"
*looks in user guide*
Oh here it is *types*
Any random password is better than none on the grand scale of things.
That ISPs have found some technological work around does nothing to change the fact that they'd rather screw around with the network than build more infrastructure.
I sometimes hate living where I do because we get small data allocations each month compared to "unlimited" and we pay a premium for that level of access.
Yet, my ISP is profitable and they continue to roll out new infrastructure. They're one of the foundation customers for a massive pipe into Japan(?) that's being built. They have a huge national network and peer with all of the major telcos and providers so speeds are always good.
Having a limited download allowance each month (pay for more data, use it how you want basically) allows them to subsidise the network build. The tiered data allowance plans also mean that if I don't use very much I can choose a cheaper plan and not be subsidising the high end users rather than everyone being on "unlimited" plans.
Pay for play is good - as long as once you pay you can use your allocation on whatever you see fit with not throttling or shaping of sites, providers or protocols. Use up all your allocation? No problem either put up with slower Internet, get cut off or pay for more.
Plus, it would be almost impossible to enforce a ban.
Well, I say... I am sitting not 100M (about 300feet for you Americans) from a free public wireless access point. From my desk I can see at least another 5 with weak or no security.
There is wireless Internet available free for all at the restaurant I eat at down the road. There's free wireless at my local library. You don't have to join the library or ask for any kind of permission to use it.
There are two access points near my house with the same default SSID and no encryption with fairly huge pipes behind them (obviously owned by a bunch of clueless people).
I'd like to see them stop me getting on the Internet. Furthermore, I'd like to seem them trace it back to me, given I was on a public access point, change my MAC address and make a point to sit where there is no security vision (at home, at my office desk, etc).
I hope this post highlights the stupidity that governments with these kind of policies are demonstrating.
Also, since when is Internet access a right for all? I remember that there was an election promise here to give Internet to all because all needed fast broadband connectivity. How is that a priority of the gumbiment?
Sure, you _can_ turn all the shine off but show me a (Joe) Windows user who does. Most would try and install more shine to it if they were going to do anything.
You don't need a supercomputer to run an office suite, web browser, and e-mail client, and these laptops are designed with that in mind.
Have you tried running the latest version of Windows/Office? It's no wonder that people expect ball-burning laptops. I would have gone and got an "underpowered" machine if they existed when I settled on my MacBook as a pseudo desktop replacement.
The appeal of the Eee and OLPC is they don't run Windows so they can be "underpowered" as hell and still work really well. A Windows Eee is just the worst piece of shit I ever saw; they won't sell to the masses with Linux and they're too slow for the masses with Windows. They can't win.
As a programmer, I can tell you that oftentimes the results a good program generates surprise even the author.
And as a GOOD programmer I can tell you that the results of a GOOD program come as no surprise to me because that's how I intended it to work!
As for music generation, someone said that music is emotional and yadda yadda. What the? Have you listened to any modern "music" lately? It's all the same shit with the same whiny lyrics about either drugs or sex and it's generally terrible.
Good music is coming harder and harder to find. The Internet was supposed to open up new roads to finding music but instead all the shit found its way here and swamps the few good things that are available. The advent of computers has made it easy for any Tom, Dick or Harry to produce an album and release it online; and a lot of them are really just the same whiny dicks that like garbage popular music.
My friend is in an excellent punk band. They do a mix of covers and originals, play a lot of gigs and sell CDs. Their latest offering was all made on the computer and they spent a lot of time using the computer to adjust the timing of particular notes or drum beats to make it sound better. Not that the result is bad but now it sounds like any other mass produced band; perfect; missing all the raw "randomness" that is a performance. They can do this because they're not paying some pro engineer at studio rates to do it for them - it's all in their own time.
This is not to say that all music is bad, just that the amount of good stuff is dwarfed by the sheer enormity of bad stuff that's popping up day after day.
A tool that lets any tool scream into a mic and generates a backing track for them seems like it's only going to exaggerate the amount of bad "music" that gets released into the wild when every tom, dick and harriet thinks they've got a winner because the computer processed the hell out of them and they don't sound god-awfully out of tune with even themselves anymore.
Damn and I ran out of modpoints because that's the most insightful thing I've heard al day. Make money off the fuckers who are trying to use the law to protect their ever diminishing income streams
As for counter notices. I can see where Yahoo sits on this. It's not in their interest to waste money chasing up the many thousands of these shitty notices they get each day. They just rip out the "offending" content and let the two ends of the deal battle it out.
The problem with the system is that the Recording Industry Assholes of America are just issuing random notices on the basis of words in filenames. We've seen it before, we'll see it again. These people don't care about fair use. They'd like to see all fair use abolished to make the way for a neverending income stream.
Now, it's hardly fair that the little guy has to waste his time and effort defending his legally protected right to free speech and fair use because he's been censored by a money hungry media asshole. It's the "vibe" of it that's wrong.
The law makes the little guy demonstrate that he is, in fact, right after his media has been pulled down. Yet, it puts no burden of proof on the rich media company who now can just send round random junk and censor whoever they like; even temporarily.
how could the professor possibly sue over students selling their notes?
Quite easily really. The world has become fascinated with the buzzwords of terrorism and copyright. It wasn't yesterday where (on Trashdot) we were alerted to some wanker trying to say people who do one are the other.
In this copyright crazy world everyone can sue for everything being copyright. Everyone wants a cut of the proverbial pie and they'll stop at nothing to get it. It's the old "but they're doing it too" mentality.
Then run the resulting executable through some tests and if it passes, they try different random bits, if it crashes unpredictably they charge a fortune for it and release it. If it completely fucks your system beyond all hope of repair they charge a real fortune for it and call it the next best OS.
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Not necessarily. If you have a resume full of Microsoft buzzwords ("I know XP, Vista, 32-bit, 64-bit, MFC, C#, ActiveX, DirectX, yadda yadda) I'd toss it.
If you demonstrated that you had bona-fide experience with whatever technology I was interested in and other useful qualities I'd likely put you in the shortlist to maybe get an interview.
I don't need my time wasted by people who have little real experience in anything but litter their resume with a bunch of buzzwords.
Secondly: if you have Linux and Unix experience by using it at home that is perfectly welcome in your resume. Just because you didn't get paid to do it doesn't mean you're not good at it. In fact, if see a resume that says that someone dabbles in those things then I am more likely to bring them in because it is likely that it's an interesting hobby for the rather than a means to an end.
I have found that no recruiters are ex-technical people. Some may have had lacky roles in technical companies before leaving but none I have ever dealt with, either as an employer or potential employee, knew more than the latest manager babble words.
In my last position I was tasked with finding qualified Unix engineers, programmers, sysadmins. We got zillions of resumes from people who were... well... useless. CVs full of "XP this and Vista that and Microsoft this and web2.0 that" came in but only two with any real skill. Half of the ones the recruiters sent in were basically non-computer people who filled in "I can use Microsoft blah" and got put in the "computer jobs" bin.
A resume full of buzzwords will get you through recruiters but it won't get you very far if the people looking are technical themselves.
The best advice that was ever given to me when considering an O/S job was to actually get on a plane and spend as much time there as you can. See the sights, the neighbourhoods and talk to the locals. Walk into recruiters and give them your resume; tell them you're thinking of moving to the area in the next 6 months; they'll get it out there because they get paid their cut. If you have the money and the leave at your current position do just that.
Also, try and get a decent job now. A lot of employers are happy about covering your moving costs if they think you're going to be a good long term hire. That's a two-edged sword. If you get a job that pays for you to move you might be contracted to stay there for a minimum period with a costly exit clause.
Why not find their local embassy in your home country and ask all the questions there? Yes, this goes for anyone anywhere.
If the country you're moving to has an embassy (most of the bigger ones whose names you already know have one) then you should be able to find it.
They are cheaper than a lawyer and they'll probably give you more user friendly advice. Lawyers tend to use a lot of costly words.
> Of course, you'd know that if you read the last two posts I made.
Not everyone understands the difference between watt hours (units of Joules) and watts (Joules per second).
watt hours are a measure of total energy use, not power use. It's obtained my multiplying watts by time.
If the Wii stays in game play mode for 20 hours a week there are still 148 hours it's in standby mode. Of course the standby ENERGY consumption will be higher even though the POWER consumption is lower.
So: Wii Figures Gameplay: 17.2 (W) * 20 (Hour) * 52 (Week) / 1000 (kilo) = 17.8 kWh (approx)
Standby 9.6 * 148 * 52 / 1000 = 73.8 kWh (approx)
It's very simple maths and it's the same damned way the power company bills you. A kWh is just a measure of total energy in Joules consumed.
Putting it another way, the total figure is the same as if you consumed 73.8 kW for a period of one hour then nothing for the rest of the year.
If anyone doesn't understand it get an electrical engineer to explain it.
Greenpeace are just a bunch of hippie fuck pigs who would complain that green wasn't green enough.
:)
Why does anyone take them seriously?
> As far as I'm concerned, Greenpeace has lost all credibility
What you said, all of it
win.com was human readable too, not that its content made any sense when you read it!
Five? I think you should stop rounding up to a whole hand!
WEll I'll tell you:
1. Go to work? I know it sounds absurd but people actually can leave their house you know.
2. Move somewhere that high speed Internet is available (or closer to work if you're trying to telecommute because it's too far to commute).
3. Get your company to subsidise the damned installation and stop bitching to me that you can't do your work unless the government gives you some money. If high speed networking is THAT IMPORTANT to your work then get a damned T1 or something like that and get them to pay for it!
Awesome, man. Finally a way for me to log into that Alien Internet and do some *cough* alien anatomical research *cough*
Not only in America - all around the world. Money > * to (most of) the sorts of people who get to the level where they are allowed to control the decision making process regarding how to extort more of it.
To everyone else
Dialup is not the end of the world at all. In fact, not having the Internet connected is not the end of the world. Why is it that so many high society white people (yes I'm one of them) piss and moan about their right to fast Internet and how the gumbiment should pay for it.
People, your Internet access is not a right. It's a privilege. You earn it by working and then paying for it. There is NOTHING on the Internet that can't be had offline (tomes of dead trees, video stores, record stores, the local adult empornium, mostly the last one).
I am tired of people whining about how everyone in the whole world needs to be provided the means to download their porn faster. For fuck's sake, there are people out there (in the USA, no less) who have NO food, NO home, NO clothes, NO health care. Yet you want the country to spend its money making sure you can start masturbating a few minutes sooner!
The Australian government made broadband for all an election promise, yet they haven't even touched on the notion that basic telecoms for all isn't even a particularly affordable option here because of the monopoly telecoms provider whose wholesale arm is more interested in serving their retail arm than any of the competition.
To summarise: Stop fucking complaining. If you want it then make the compromise required to get it. If you don't want it that bad then it's obviously not worth whinging about.
Only because it's the United States of America, not the United States.
So strictly speaking it'd be USoAians.
Referring specifically to residents of the USA as Americans is exactly the same as referring to the French as Europeans. Sure, they do live on Europe but you could equally be referring to the Germans with the same phrase.
Think of all the Latino people down south or the Canadians in Canadia who will be offended if I say "Americans are, generally speaking, idiots".
For those things that you don't want to waste the postage on I've heard that writing "Recipient deceased, return to sender" on the envelope in bold pen works quite well in getting the clearing houses and other junk to stop.
Of course you would exercise some level of discretion there so as not to offend anyone.
That's hardly fair. In the lab where I was working the work was apportioned fairly. Everyone starts out at the bottom. Unlike in the commercial world they don't waste money sending you off on expensive training courses. You're expected to be learning as you go.
You'll pick up some shit work. Ask questions. Make sure you're doing it the way they want. Keep a couple of pet projects on the side to keep you busy when there is no "real" work to be done.
In many ways it's a lot like the real world. Demonstrate that you're good at what you do and people will treat you with respect. Soon you'll find you're the "expert" and people are asking questions about your field of expertise.
Another thing; a lot of work in a research lab is creditable towards a masters or Ph.D. Consider enrolling in one of these in the field you're working and keep it as your pet project. You'll be able to draw on those around you for wisdom, knowledge and advice and it should be a breeze so long as your supervisor is willing to make sure that you get it done.
I believe Windows will just connect to the first open network it finds unless you've set a preferred network. That's pretty crappy because most users probably don't even know how to select the right wireless network.
This would get easier if router manufacturers started shipping them with random passwords in the user's manual and WPA turned on by default. That would, at least, stop people inadvertently connecting to an unsecured network and wouldn't hinder the technically inept too much;
"Please enter password"
*looks in user guide*
Oh here it is *types*
Any random password is better than none on the grand scale of things.
Well that _would_ work, except that he's a drummer so the effect (and lesson) would be lost on him.
I sometimes hate living where I do because we get small data allocations each month compared to "unlimited" and we pay a premium for that level of access.
Yet, my ISP is profitable and they continue to roll out new infrastructure. They're one of the foundation customers for a massive pipe into Japan(?) that's being built. They have a huge national network and peer with all of the major telcos and providers so speeds are always good.
Having a limited download allowance each month (pay for more data, use it how you want basically) allows them to subsidise the network build. The tiered data allowance plans also mean that if I don't use very much I can choose a cheaper plan and not be subsidising the high end users rather than everyone being on "unlimited" plans.
Pay for play is good - as long as once you pay you can use your allocation on whatever you see fit with not throttling or shaping of sites, providers or protocols. Use up all your allocation? No problem either put up with slower Internet, get cut off or pay for more.
Well, I say... I am sitting not 100M (about 300feet for you Americans) from a free public wireless access point. From my desk I can see at least another 5 with weak or no security.
There is wireless Internet available free for all at the restaurant I eat at down the road. There's free wireless at my local library. You don't have to join the library or ask for any kind of permission to use it.
There are two access points near my house with the same default SSID and no encryption with fairly huge pipes behind them (obviously owned by a bunch of clueless people).
I'd like to see them stop me getting on the Internet. Furthermore, I'd like to seem them trace it back to me, given I was on a public access point, change my MAC address and make a point to sit where there is no security vision (at home, at my office desk, etc).
I hope this post highlights the stupidity that governments with these kind of policies are demonstrating.
Also, since when is Internet access a right for all? I remember that there was an election promise here to give Internet to all because all needed fast broadband connectivity. How is that a priority of the gumbiment?
Sure, you _can_ turn all the shine off but show me a (Joe) Windows user who does. Most would try and install more shine to it if they were going to do anything.
Have you tried running the latest version of Windows/Office? It's no wonder that people expect ball-burning laptops. I would have gone and got an "underpowered" machine if they existed when I settled on my MacBook as a pseudo desktop replacement.
The appeal of the Eee and OLPC is they don't run Windows so they can be "underpowered" as hell and still work really well. A Windows Eee is just the worst piece of shit I ever saw; they won't sell to the masses with Linux and they're too slow for the masses with Windows. They can't win.
Ban the children drinking the been and there should still be enough (beer) to go around.
And as a GOOD programmer I can tell you that the results of a GOOD program come as no surprise to me because that's how I intended it to work!
As for music generation, someone said that music is emotional and yadda yadda. What the? Have you listened to any modern "music" lately? It's all the same shit with the same whiny lyrics about either drugs or sex and it's generally terrible.
Good music is coming harder and harder to find. The Internet was supposed to open up new roads to finding music but instead all the shit found its way here and swamps the few good things that are available. The advent of computers has made it easy for any Tom, Dick or Harry to produce an album and release it online; and a lot of them are really just the same whiny dicks that like garbage popular music.
My friend is in an excellent punk band. They do a mix of covers and originals, play a lot of gigs and sell CDs. Their latest offering was all made on the computer and they spent a lot of time using the computer to adjust the timing of particular notes or drum beats to make it sound better. Not that the result is bad but now it sounds like any other mass produced band; perfect; missing all the raw "randomness" that is a performance. They can do this because they're not paying some pro engineer at studio rates to do it for them - it's all in their own time.
This is not to say that all music is bad, just that the amount of good stuff is dwarfed by the sheer enormity of bad stuff that's popping up day after day.
A tool that lets any tool scream into a mic and generates a backing track for them seems like it's only going to exaggerate the amount of bad "music" that gets released into the wild when every tom, dick and harriet thinks they've got a winner because the computer processed the hell out of them and they don't sound god-awfully out of tune with even themselves anymore.
Damn and I ran out of modpoints because that's the most insightful thing I've heard al day. Make money off the fuckers who are trying to use the law to protect their ever diminishing income streams
As for counter notices. I can see where Yahoo sits on this. It's not in their interest to waste money chasing up the many thousands of these shitty notices they get each day. They just rip out the "offending" content and let the two ends of the deal battle it out.
The problem with the system is that the Recording Industry Assholes of America are just issuing random notices on the basis of words in filenames. We've seen it before, we'll see it again. These people don't care about fair use. They'd like to see all fair use abolished to make the way for a neverending income stream.
Now, it's hardly fair that the little guy has to waste his time and effort defending his legally protected right to free speech and fair use because he's been censored by a money hungry media asshole. It's the "vibe" of it that's wrong.
The law makes the little guy demonstrate that he is, in fact, right after his media has been pulled down. Yet, it puts no burden of proof on the rich media company who now can just send round random junk and censor whoever they like; even temporarily.
It all sounds like a case of:
Apple: Hey you fuckpig lawyers, why do we pay you so much
Fuckpigs: Because we sue people and make you money
Apple: So fuck off and sue someone then
Fuckpigs: Who?
Apple: Do we look like we really give a shit?
Fuckpigs: Ok, how about a city that's been calling itself an apple since before computers were invented or a 12 year old?
Apple: Somebody will think of the children, sue the city.
how could the professor possibly sue over students selling their notes?
Quite easily really. The world has become fascinated with the buzzwords of terrorism and copyright. It wasn't yesterday where (on Trashdot) we were alerted to some wanker trying to say people who do one are the other.
In this copyright crazy world everyone can sue for everything being copyright. Everyone wants a cut of the proverbial pie and they'll stop at nothing to get it. It's the old "but they're doing it too" mentality.
FIXED!