If you ban recruiters, you will lose out on some top jobs. So the thing to do is to go to SBC/Yahoo!, IBM, the federal government in all its departments, CitiGroup (or whatever it's called now), and all the other fortune 50-500 companies, tell them to re-hire their HR departments, and do their own damned work screening tech recruits, rather than hiring firms that specialize in having half a clue. Yeah. Right.
Which brings me to "firms that specialize in having half a clue" -- I worked for a recruiting firm that DID have half a clue. Their CTO worked Cisco equipment on a high scale (was a former contractor for the firm), the CEO was a database programmer, and on & on. When they read a job description and can do half of what they're looking for, much less hire for it, it's one thing.
Other places are entirely clueless. The recruiters have been to their GED classes and know how to power on a computer and that's about it. The jobs rolling across their desk are as indecipherable to them as sanskrit texts are to me. My partner has been getting calls -- he's an RF engineer. The job requirements are alphabet soup to the recruiters -- they are more-than-clueless. They wouldn't know RF from a refrigerator.
So the problem isn't to ban recruiters, lest you ban great jobs. The problem is banning clueless recruiters.
How about a recruiting firm rating system? Allow job applicants to rate recruiters, and post the recruiter ratings and comments. People sick of clueless recruiters can filter them out.
My last long-term consulting gig used an OS X Server used to publish iCal calendars from their computer. Each computer/user had 1 public and 1 private calendar. It utilized WebDav, and was passworded.
From there, other people subscribed to the public calendars.
I can't recall whether there was an option to allow others to edit your calendar, but you can allow them to view notes or have them get the alarms from your published calendar, and they were visible from the web as long as the server was web-accessible.
This article is saying that being bullied leads to social discouragement. This leads to social self-estrangement -- the person (mouse, actually, but by extensions it may apply to humans) who has been bullied repeatedly eventually gives up trying to form social relationships and becomes more of a hermit.
The implications are that this is a neurochemical change because some of the effects of this discouragement can be reversed either by genetic differences or by anti-depressents that probably repress the mechanisms that change the brain chemistry towards social isolationism.
With meticulous care, a wiki works as a CMS specifically because you can edit pages and create groups quickly.
In some wiki programs, you can turn off the special links for CamelCase words. You can make the links have no special formatting. You can have them pull up a 404 error page instead. Or whatever your little programmer heart desires. I create wikis, remove the edit links, password the edit forms, and since I'm the sole caretaker I make sure there are no dead-end links. To anyone else it looks like a website. Period. Me? I get to make new pages quickly, not bother with start/end tags (yes, I know proper HTML/css -- but I'm also a writer, not just a designer or php programmer! Let me get on with writing!). Best part: with a real HTML/css template, they don't look like yet another cookie-cutter PHP-Nuke site.
This isn't a dupe/trupe. The former article was a synopsis. This one actually gives the real research. I was looking for the original research on the earlier article but I didn't want to pay the publishers for it. This article gives the methods, the pages viewed, the results. That's far better than the first two/. postings!
Linux users whine about driver support. Why won't the big hardware companies open their protocols for developers, or write their own linux drivers.
At the same time, they don't want to develop Linux into a desktop or business-worthy application. It's fine as it is, or as you said, there's the attitude of "let only the elite use it!" -- others are not worthy.
This is directly hypocritical. If linux gurus so L33T, figure out how to make the drivers yourself and stop griping, because the manufacturers couldn't give a crap about your L33T systems. Once people are really interested in migrating wholesale to linux, those manufacturers are going to notice. Which means that yeah, to get people to make hardware that appeals to you, there has to be a market. For there to be a market, you have to remove your head from your ass and look around. Everyone stands to benefit if Linux cleans up the user interface, gets some application integration going on the desktop.
As evil as big corps are, Apple has a very polished and well-integrated product going for it. Microshaft isn't great, but it's somewhat more cohesive than most linux desktop apps. Interoperability, and the ability to get stuff done without relearning an interface for every application. It doesn't stand up to Apple standards by any means, however.
Given the terrific ability to script everything behind-the-scenes on the command line, a good chunk of XML standardization for data, etc. *nix applications could create standards, share data, and have applications give "heads ups" to one another (cf Apple Events) about what's going on in the system. But they don't. It's nice for security, but computers are reflections of people and need to maintain a healthy communication and interdependence with one another. Complete isolation and paranoia is a swift death -- mind, body or soul -- for a human. As a human interface, a computer (in this instance, applications and application data) can't afford complete paranoia and isolation.
I don't know what's up with using Linux in a server environment, but I'm sure there are businesses loud enough about the problems with using a linux distro in the server room that someone can look into fixing them.
Some technologies never go out of style. Blacksmiths are a dying breed? I see plenty of smithys in Upstate New York. Why? People still have wrought iron fencing, riding and work horses still need shoes, and there are plenty of horse-drawn carriages in NYC needing axles, wheels, etc.
Ever been to the Pennsic War? (cf. Society for Creative Anachronism -- It's quite an experience -- one many people are willing to quit their jobs to attend for 2+ weeks every year.)
So, while there is no longer a blacksmith in every town, there are plenty of blacksmiths if you bothered looking in the "yellow pages", and it's not a dying or dead art. If anything, the blacksmith is probably highly sought-after and well-paid. Talent & craftsmanship isn't cheap!
Neither is maintaining and programming mainframes. Right now, it makes a good pension, while web programmers and pc techs that wipe viruses off systems are a dime-a-dozen.
You can't expect anything better from Humanity than it being itself and inventing poor reflections in it's image.
Money was barter. You spend time -- a limited commodity -- making it. So money is a reflection of a portion of your lifetime.
Money does not make people evil. Money in itself is not evil. It's disrespect for others that allows people to be greedy and hoard other people's money. It's as prevalent and disgusting as the rush to live forever. People suck up as much money as they can in the disillusionment that somehow they can buy longevity, pay to make their miserable lives worthwhile.
I'm not worried about the advertising on the walls of my children's cramped apartments -- I am VERY worried about the food supply. One is bad -- the other is akin to murder.
We have no regard for our planet or our fellow people. Stealing people's money is literally stealing their life.
----
In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.
--Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy
"Microsoft could get a report and the spyware company would feel the wrath of a monopolistic giant crushing them."
This brings up the brain-bending picture of Bill Gates as the Monopolistic Green Giant talking to Sprout...
"Gee, Mr Giant!" cried Sprout. "How was I to know my computer had a virus that caused it to attempt to violate thousands of browsers? Is there any way we can settle out of court?"
Actually, when I put Tiger into Google, Tiger Direct ranked #2, second only to a site about tigers, and they appear in the advertiser sidebar ABOVE Apple and Amazon selling OS X Tiger.
So where is the supposed problem here?
I agree that money is definitely a likely culprit here. I would love to be the judge who wakes up at some extremely early hour tomorrow to decide on this injunction.
Another possibility is that Tiger Direct wants to see what they can get away with. If they don't complain now, when can they complain?
The search they are talking about will be able to find content as well as titles of files -- so consider it more like a recursive grep on the system...
As for scripting -- Applescript has been around a very long time, and will still be there. Essentially what I believe they have done is to create a front-end gui for scripting the system -- Apple Events & Applescript with a UI that my mother probably can use. That is the essence of Apple's latest software development -- create something easy and quick to learn, computer-savvy independent, intuitive. That is their streak of late, to make the complex more accessible and user-friendly.
iPhoto does not beat Photoshop, but my mom can use iPhoto to rotate pictures, sharpen them, remove red-eye, and not even have to figure out where the photo is on the hard-drive.
That concept --the one where the user does not have to be a geek at all to accomplish a task that would normally be tedious and complicated otherwise-- is purely Macintosh.
I don't see my mother learning bash perl or python anytime soon. But I bet she would be able to create something useful with the Automator, within a half hour of toying with it.
Garageband is another excellent example of making something relatively complex -- digitized music -- so simple it is almost unethical. Walk in to the nearest Apple Store, put on the headphones, play with Garageband loops and before your feet hurt from standing there you will have music you can use as the backdrop for a talk show, a video, driving your car around town, a meditation tape, etc. Just a little more work and the ability to hold key and you can have a song.
Utter simplicity, and accessibility -- with hardware that does not challenge your aesthetic sensibilities...
Yeah -- and it comes with a price tag. Someone has to pay for the medical benefits of the people who obviously slaved away to produce such a polished piece of software. I work for myself and have no medical benefits, but gladly pay Apple the premium to take care of their own.
If anyone is looking for used musical gear, and computer equipment, I highly recommend Rogue Music -- with some prejudice because I worked there 10 years ago.;) But they've always had good prices to start with and their prices are usually negotiable. They don't have website shopping carts (availability changes often, and they prefer to negotiate!) but they're quick to ship and ship internationally.
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If you ban recruiters, you will lose out on some top jobs. So the thing to do is to go to SBC/Yahoo!, IBM, the federal government in all its departments, CitiGroup (or whatever it's called now), and all the other fortune 50-500 companies, tell them to re-hire their HR departments, and do their own damned work screening tech recruits, rather than hiring firms that specialize in having half a clue. Yeah. Right.
Which brings me to "firms that specialize in having half a clue" -- I worked for a recruiting firm that DID have half a clue. Their CTO worked Cisco equipment on a high scale (was a former contractor for the firm), the CEO was a database programmer, and on & on. When they read a job description and can do half of what they're looking for, much less hire for it, it's one thing.
Other places are entirely clueless. The recruiters have been to their GED classes and know how to power on a computer and that's about it. The jobs rolling across their desk are as indecipherable to them as sanskrit texts are to me. My partner has been getting calls -- he's an RF engineer. The job requirements are alphabet soup to the recruiters -- they are more-than-clueless. They wouldn't know RF from a refrigerator.
So the problem isn't to ban recruiters, lest you ban great jobs. The problem is banning clueless recruiters.
How about a recruiting firm rating system? Allow job applicants to rate recruiters, and post the recruiter ratings and comments. People sick of clueless recruiters can filter them out.
My last long-term consulting gig used an OS X Server used to publish iCal calendars from their computer. Each computer/user had 1 public and 1 private calendar. It utilized WebDav, and was passworded.
From there, other people subscribed to the public calendars.
I can't recall whether there was an option to allow others to edit your calendar, but you can allow them to view notes or have them get the alarms from your published calendar, and they were visible from the web as long as the server was web-accessible.
This article is saying that being bullied leads to social discouragement. This leads to social self-estrangement -- the person (mouse, actually, but by extensions it may apply to humans) who has been bullied repeatedly eventually gives up trying to form social relationships and becomes more of a hermit.
The implications are that this is a neurochemical change because some of the effects of this discouragement can be reversed either by genetic differences or by anti-depressents that probably repress the mechanisms that change the brain chemistry towards social isolationism.
It's not BS -- Monster.com has already accounted for it and I worked at a recruiting firm. I asked them. It's true.
You can add wget to a Mac, but curl is standard.
Then you probably need to get VLC to watch it, but who's counting ;)
With meticulous care, a wiki works as a CMS specifically because you can edit pages and create groups quickly.
In some wiki programs, you can turn off the special links for CamelCase words. You can make the links have no special formatting. You can have them pull up a 404 error page instead. Or whatever your little programmer heart desires. I create wikis, remove the edit links, password the edit forms, and since I'm the sole caretaker I make sure there are no dead-end links. To anyone else it looks like a website. Period. Me? I get to make new pages quickly, not bother with start/end tags (yes, I know proper HTML/css -- but I'm also a writer, not just a designer or php programmer! Let me get on with writing!). Best part: with a real HTML/css template, they don't look like yet another cookie-cutter PHP-Nuke site.
This isn't a dupe/trupe. The former article was a synopsis. This one actually gives the real research. I was looking for the original research on the earlier article but I didn't want to pay the publishers for it. This article gives the methods, the pages viewed, the results. That's far better than the first two /. postings!
Linux users whine about driver support. Why won't the big hardware companies open their protocols for developers, or write their own linux drivers.
At the same time, they don't want to develop Linux into a desktop or business-worthy application. It's fine as it is, or as you said, there's the attitude of "let only the elite use it!" -- others are not worthy.
This is directly hypocritical. If linux gurus so L33T, figure out how to make the drivers yourself and stop griping, because the manufacturers couldn't give a crap about your L33T systems. Once people are really interested in migrating wholesale to linux, those manufacturers are going to notice. Which means that yeah, to get people to make hardware that appeals to you, there has to be a market. For there to be a market, you have to remove your head from your ass and look around. Everyone stands to benefit if Linux cleans up the user interface, gets some application integration going on the desktop.
As evil as big corps are, Apple has a very polished and well-integrated product going for it. Microshaft isn't great, but it's somewhat more cohesive than most linux desktop apps. Interoperability, and the ability to get stuff done without relearning an interface for every application. It doesn't stand up to Apple standards by any means, however.
Given the terrific ability to script everything behind-the-scenes on the command line, a good chunk of XML standardization for data, etc. *nix applications could create standards, share data, and have applications give "heads ups" to one another (cf Apple Events) about what's going on in the system. But they don't. It's nice for security, but computers are reflections of people and need to maintain a healthy communication and interdependence with one another. Complete isolation and paranoia is a swift death -- mind, body or soul -- for a human. As a human interface, a computer (in this instance, applications and application data) can't afford complete paranoia and isolation.
I don't know what's up with using Linux in a server environment, but I'm sure there are businesses loud enough about the problems with using a linux distro in the server room that someone can look into fixing them.
Some technologies never go out of style. Blacksmiths are a dying breed? I see plenty of smithys in Upstate New York. Why? People still have wrought iron fencing, riding and work horses still need shoes, and there are plenty of horse-drawn carriages in NYC needing axles, wheels, etc.
Ever been to the Pennsic War? (cf. Society for Creative Anachronism -- It's quite an experience -- one many people are willing to quit their jobs to attend for 2+ weeks every year.)
So, while there is no longer a blacksmith in every town, there are plenty of blacksmiths if you bothered looking in the "yellow pages", and it's not a dying or dead art. If anything, the blacksmith is probably highly sought-after and well-paid. Talent & craftsmanship isn't cheap!
Neither is maintaining and programming mainframes. Right now, it makes a good pension, while web programmers and pc techs that wipe viruses off systems are a dime-a-dozen.
This link has nothing to do with the topic, whatsoever.
You can't expect anything better from Humanity than it being itself and inventing poor reflections in it's image. Money was barter. You spend time -- a limited commodity -- making it. So money is a reflection of a portion of your lifetime. Money does not make people evil. Money in itself is not evil. It's disrespect for others that allows people to be greedy and hoard other people's money. It's as prevalent and disgusting as the rush to live forever. People suck up as much money as they can in the disillusionment that somehow they can buy longevity, pay to make their miserable lives worthwhile. I'm not worried about the advertising on the walls of my children's cramped apartments -- I am VERY worried about the food supply. One is bad -- the other is akin to murder. We have no regard for our planet or our fellow people. Stealing people's money is literally stealing their life. ---- In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. --Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy
"Microsoft could get a report and the spyware company would feel the wrath of a monopolistic giant crushing them."
This brings up the brain-bending picture of Bill Gates as the Monopolistic Green Giant talking to Sprout...
"Gee, Mr Giant!" cried Sprout. "How was I to know my computer had a virus that caused it to attempt to violate thousands of browsers? Is there any way we can settle out of court?"
(background chorus) "Owe Owe Owe -- Green Giant!"
Actually, when I put Tiger into Google, Tiger Direct ranked #2, second only to a site about tigers, and they appear in the advertiser sidebar ABOVE Apple and Amazon selling OS X Tiger. So where is the supposed problem here? I agree that money is definitely a likely culprit here. I would love to be the judge who wakes up at some extremely early hour tomorrow to decide on this injunction. Another possibility is that Tiger Direct wants to see what they can get away with. If they don't complain now, when can they complain?
The search they are talking about will be able to find content as well as titles of files -- so consider it more like a recursive grep on the system...
As for scripting -- Applescript has been around a very long time, and will still be there. Essentially what I believe they have done is to create a front-end gui for scripting the system -- Apple Events & Applescript with a UI that my mother probably can use. That is the essence of Apple's latest software development -- create something easy and quick to learn, computer-savvy independent, intuitive. That is their streak of late, to make the complex more accessible and user-friendly.
iPhoto does not beat Photoshop, but my mom can use iPhoto to rotate pictures, sharpen them, remove red-eye, and not even have to figure out where the photo is on the hard-drive.
That concept --the one where the user does not have to be a geek at all to accomplish a task that would normally be tedious and complicated otherwise-- is purely Macintosh.
I don't see my mother learning bash perl or python anytime soon. But I bet she would be able to create something useful with the Automator, within a half hour of toying with it.
Garageband is another excellent example of making something relatively complex -- digitized music -- so simple it is almost unethical. Walk in to the nearest Apple Store, put on the headphones, play with Garageband loops and before your feet hurt from standing there you will have music you can use as the backdrop for a talk show, a video, driving your car around town, a meditation tape, etc. Just a little more work and the ability to hold key and you can have a song.
Utter simplicity, and accessibility -- with hardware that does not challenge your aesthetic sensibilities...
Yeah -- and it comes with a price tag. Someone has to pay for the medical benefits of the people who obviously slaved away to produce such a polished piece of software. I work for myself and have no medical benefits, but gladly pay Apple the premium to take care of their own.
If anyone is looking for used musical gear, and computer equipment, I highly recommend Rogue Music -- with some prejudice because I worked there 10 years ago. ;) But they've always had good prices to start with and their prices are usually negotiable . They don't have website shopping carts (availability changes often, and they prefer to negotiate!) but they're quick to ship and ship internationally.
By the way; they buy AND sell stuff.