while i can understand your abhorrance of 'networking', you fail to see that it is not all overt and evil.
when i called all my friends after being laid off to tell them i just got the axe = that was networking.
when my pops tells some of his friends that i just got laid off = that is networking
when i tell the dude who cuts my hair that i got laid off = that is networking
the gist is, networking, i.e. letting people know you are looking for work and seeing what they might know, doesn't have to be with complete strangers.
if you are unwilling to care/help your friends when they might need you (e.g. if your place of employment has an opening for a tech writer and your friend, a tech writer just got laid off) then i guess your definition of 'friend' is different than mine.
now it is to be mentioned that when our career transition company told us to network, they were also talking about how you meet/greet and find out about jobs from people you are not friendly with.
but the term 'networking' is not as nefarious as you make it. you may prefer to use a more business-agnostic term....
having been laid off two weeks ago, i was fortunate enough that my employer provided us with a company that helps you with your soft skills - e.g. resume writing, interviewing help, job search tips, some national job database sites, etc.
we were told that approx. 60-80% of jobs are in the 'hidden' market and that roughly 50% of people who find there next job find it via networking. for IT postions we were told roughly 10-15% find their next job listed on sites like monster, careerbuilder, etc.
so while it is certainly not out of the realm of possibility, we were instructed how to network, even if you don't know a single person at the firm you are targeting. dealing with HR is one of the best ways to assure yourself you won't find a job.
although the news media covering the sniper attacks in the DC/Metro area love showing AR-15s and other "assualt" rifle-looking weapons which fire.223 calibur bullets....
i deer hunt and i use a.223 and it looks like a regular rifle; it features bolt action and you can buy one just like it at Wally World. in rural TX you see many pick-ups with these hanging in their windows.
just b/c you can use a weapon for gathering food, doesn't excluded the fact that you can use a weapon for harm. Wally World sells weapons. end of discussion.
"I said it didn't have any major EXCLUSIVE games coming."
did you read my post? some of those very games are exclusive. XBL is most definitely exclusive. you played online yet on the PS2? not what it is cracked up to be....
"By the way, coming to Slashdot and complaining about anti-MS attitudes is like going to the Vatican and complaing about it being too Catholic."
look at my user # and then yours. i am pretty sure i understand how/. works.
gimmie a break...do you even game? or are you just an anti-MS zealot?
sure GTA:VC is going to be great, but it isn't going to end the Xbox.
have you looked at the fall line-up for the Xbox, including the lineup for XBL? have you played XBL? i am beta testing it and lemme tell you, compared to the launch and online play of SOCOM, it kicks the living shit out of the PS2's online plans.
so let's examine what i am excited about for this fall: 1) Unreal Championship (on XBL...woot!) 2) Blinx (using a HDD in a way the PS2 can't even imagine) 3) Ghost Recon (was great on the PC, will be great on XBL) 4) Tony Hawk 4 (the franchise continues) 5) Sega NFK2K3 and NFL Fever 2003 (on XBL these ALREADY kick ass....) 6) Splinter Cell (MGS killer. 'nuff said) 7) Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (just in case Splinter Cell doesn't apply the double head-tap isn't!) 7) BMX XXX (pr0n for adult gamers.) 8) DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball (bounciness!) 9) Fable (Peter Molyneux - 'nuff said...again.) 10) Shenmue II (continuing the DC legacy...with DVD movies included in the game pack to get people up on the story line)...and the list goes on.
i am not trying to be a fanboy, but the level of shit on/. sometimes is just too much.
this is going to be the BEST Xmas for gaming b/c of the level of competition with 3 consoles. we owe MS thanks for making both Sony and Nintendo work harder to get gamers, b/c nothing is guaranteed anymore.
Seagate will stick it to them when PC sales start picking-up.
and when will this be - 2010??
not sure if you have been watching the PC market or listening to the people running the industry but: 1) HP just bought Compaq 2) Gateway is bleeding cash like an ebola victim 3) Dell continues to lower prices and kick the sh|t out of every company in the industry
very doubtful we will see Seagate doing any price raising.
oh yeah - HDDs cost per gig is now around $1.20-1.50 for non-OEMs...what you think it is for companies that buy them in 100,000 lots?
most large box retailers of 7 days price match. i know that Best Buy, Circuit City, and Fry's all do. take it back and get the money refunded that you over paid.
that there is some law that you are to properly label packages entering customs or risk some retribution. i have no idea. we kinda all worried when we ordered ours - who is at risk? the buyer? the shipper? the manufacturer?
i can only guess that US Customs is over-worked and under-staffed. i would also assume that the flow of goods through customs increases each year. kinda a frightening prospect.
you would think, right? i have no idea. we wonder how this all works ourselves.
we have had 3 sent to our office, all from the same place in Hong Kong, all within the last 3 months. i would assume these places doing the shipping are sending hundreds daily through customs.
the hows and whys of customs inspections is something i would love to understand.
the packages come in from Asia labeled as "gift." the shipper applies that label to the document for shipping and customs. when i ordered mine, i didn't tell the shipper how to label it - they knew what it would take to get it past customs and did as such: item="gift", value="under $30 USD". i had no hand in the labeling.
also - i do not see on his sight where he talks about labeling used during shipping - provide that link. all i see is the letter from Nintendo.
And did these units come through customs in the first place? If so, why weren't they held up then????
usually when items liked this are shipped, they are marked in a way so that customs doesn't stop them. i have seen them shipped marked as "gift" with a value of "under $30 USD". coming from Hong Kong you can get an item in less than 10 business days in this manner.
it is a constant discussion around our office when someone's linker for their GBA arrives: how does US Customs know what is inside is not drugs, kiddie pr0n, etc?? we don't know. all we know is marking it in the above fashion seems to work.
no idea if the guy in this story got his sent marked as such, but i would bet he did.
this is the ugliest site i have seen in a while...and all this is from the company that sells a $90k device to TV stations?
since you will be the only person to read this....
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i submitted this story to/. last sat (1/19)...no story, ended up rejected. no loss to me. karma caps are there for a reason.
i checked my machine, but wasn't infected. i figured as much since i run ad-aware occasionally.
i forwarded the info to my buddies (mostly non-tech guys, music lovers, etc.): guess what - 3 out of 5 of them were infected and had no clue what "spyware" was.
"Stuff that matters" can be interpreted many ways, not so narrowly to "matter" only to people who understand root and have a linux box.
the elitism on this site sometimes gets real, real old. thanks Palaptine for your post. you are correct and the rest of these people are trolls.
kinda sad, huh?
doesn't have to help RPG or MMOGs
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i have often wished that CS (Cheater-Strike) had a pay-for-play system.
it would seem to me that the only way sometimes to keep people from hacking a game and ruining the experience for others is to make a barrier to entry, ie a monthly charge.
sure it might suck a bit to play that way, but i think even a small monthly fee ($4.99) would go along way. besides requiring a CC to charge the monthly service to, the game makers would have set info for their players: how likely is someone to crash a game server when their CC #, IP, and home address are all linked to their user ID?
oh well, gotta run today and pick up Medal of Honor - my only hopes for a great multi-player shooter that hasn't been hacked.
The new company will not initially announce what products it is planning and Mr. Wozniak said this week it was likely that it would not at first market its own products. It will instead seek licensing and marketing arrangements with other consumer electronics and related companies.
appears that unlike the first Apples, Woz plans on licensing these things at first. proving he has at least learned something!
right right....never get up at 4AM and try to quit drinking coffee in the same day...ugh!
still, i am not sure the correlation between the evils of Manpower Inc (who i have worked for as a temp)/HP and Amazon. of course, the NYT article is not written from an insider's perspective.
so in the first, we have a full on temp agency with no company employees working on site, workers are being manipulated, silenced and fired...essentially sounds like a terrible work environment.
in the second (amazon), you have 7.5% of the work force as temp workers, with no mention of abuse, forced silence, etc.
and you want us to draw a comparision from the 1st to the 2nd?
flame all you want, but what is it with/.ers and amazon? i am not holding amazon out as mother teresa of corporations, but having 3700 full time employees out of 4000 - that says to me that amazon at least gets it a little. sure, during xmas amazon is trying to squeeze every ounce of work out of its employees, but no where in that article does it mention abuse.
what an unfair comparion...you ire should be directed at HP if you ask me.
this story yesterday on CBS Market Watch states that HP is looking to close a plant in France, outsource their PC manufacturing and all of this is independent of the CPQ merger.
the story above may be a move to put pressure on approving the merger.
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while i can understand your abhorrance of 'networking', you fail to see that it is not all overt and evil.
when i called all my friends after being laid off to tell them i just got the axe = that was networking.
when my pops tells some of his friends that i just got laid off = that is networking
when i tell the dude who cuts my hair that i got laid off = that is networking
the gist is, networking, i.e. letting people know you are looking for work and seeing what they might know, doesn't have to be with complete strangers.
if you are unwilling to care/help your friends when they might need you (e.g. if your place of employment has an opening for a tech writer and your friend, a tech writer just got laid off) then i guess your definition of 'friend' is different than mine.
now it is to be mentioned that when our career transition company told us to network, they were also talking about how you meet/greet and find out about jobs from people you are not friendly with.
but the term 'networking' is not as nefarious as you make it. you may prefer to use a more business-agnostic term....
having been laid off two weeks ago, i was fortunate enough that my employer provided us with a company that helps you with your soft skills - e.g. resume writing, interviewing help, job search tips, some national job database sites, etc.
we were told that approx. 60-80% of jobs are in the 'hidden' market and that roughly 50% of people who find there next job find it via networking. for IT postions we were told roughly 10-15% find their next job listed on sites like monster, careerbuilder, etc.
so while it is certainly not out of the realm of possibility, we were instructed how to network, even if you don't know a single person at the firm you are targeting. dealing with HR is one of the best ways to assure yourself you won't find a job.
good luck to all those looking for work!
although the news media covering the sniper attacks in the DC/Metro area love showing AR-15s and other "assualt" rifle-looking weapons which fire .223 calibur bullets....
.223 and it looks like a regular rifle; it features bolt action and you can buy one just like it at Wally World. in rural TX you see many pick-ups with these hanging in their windows.
i deer hunt and i use a
just b/c you can use a weapon for gathering food, doesn't excluded the fact that you can use a weapon for harm. Wally World sells weapons. end of discussion.
it's not the gun, it's the person.
"I said it didn't have any major EXCLUSIVE games coming."
/. works.
did you read my post? some of those very games are exclusive. XBL is most definitely exclusive. you played online yet on the PS2? not what it is cracked up to be....
"By the way, coming to Slashdot and complaining about anti-MS attitudes is like going to the Vatican and complaing about it being too Catholic."
look at my user # and then yours. i am pretty sure i understand how
gimmie a break...do you even game? or are you just an anti-MS zealot?
...and the list goes on.
/. sometimes is just too much.
sure GTA:VC is going to be great, but it isn't going to end the Xbox.
have you looked at the fall line-up for the Xbox, including the lineup for XBL? have you played XBL? i am beta testing it and lemme tell you, compared to the launch and online play of SOCOM, it kicks the living shit out of the PS2's online plans.
so let's examine what i am excited about for this fall:
1) Unreal Championship (on XBL...woot!)
2) Blinx (using a HDD in a way the PS2 can't even imagine)
3) Ghost Recon (was great on the PC, will be great on XBL)
4) Tony Hawk 4 (the franchise continues)
5) Sega NFK2K3 and NFL Fever 2003 (on XBL these ALREADY kick ass....)
6) Splinter Cell (MGS killer. 'nuff said)
7) Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (just in case Splinter Cell doesn't apply the double head-tap isn't!)
7) BMX XXX (pr0n for adult gamers.)
8) DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball (bounciness!)
9) Fable (Peter Molyneux - 'nuff said...again.)
10) Shenmue II (continuing the DC legacy...with DVD movies included in the game pack to get people up on the story line)
i am not trying to be a fanboy, but the level of shit on
this is going to be the BEST Xmas for gaming b/c of the level of competition with 3 consoles. we owe MS thanks for making both Sony and Nintendo work harder to get gamers, b/c nothing is guaranteed anymore.
Seagate will stick it to them when PC sales start picking-up.
and when will this be - 2010??
not sure if you have been watching the PC market or listening to the people running the industry but:
1) HP just bought Compaq
2) Gateway is bleeding cash like an ebola victim
3) Dell continues to lower prices and kick the sh|t out of every company in the industry
very doubtful we will see Seagate doing any price raising.
oh yeah - HDDs cost per gig is now around $1.20-1.50 for non-OEMs...what you think it is for companies that buy them in 100,000 lots?
most large box retailers of 7 days price match. i know that Best Buy, Circuit City, and Fry's all do. take it back and get the money refunded that you over paid.
;-)
that there is some law that you are to properly label packages entering customs or risk some retribution. i have no idea. we kinda all worried when we ordered ours - who is at risk? the buyer? the shipper? the manufacturer?
i can only guess that US Customs is over-worked and under-staffed. i would also assume that the flow of goods through customs increases each year. kinda a frightening prospect.
you would think, right? i have no idea. we wonder how this all works ourselves.
we have had 3 sent to our office, all from the same place in Hong Kong, all within the last 3 months. i would assume these places doing the shipping are sending hundreds daily through customs.
the hows and whys of customs inspections is something i would love to understand.
the packages come in from Asia labeled as "gift." the shipper applies that label to the document for shipping and customs. when i ordered mine, i didn't tell the shipper how to label it - they knew what it would take to get it past customs and did as such: item="gift", value="under $30 USD". i had no hand in the labeling.
also - i do not see on his sight where he talks about labeling used during shipping - provide that link. all i see is the letter from Nintendo.
thanks!
And did these units come through customs in the first place? If so, why weren't they held up then????
usually when items liked this are shipped, they are marked in a way so that customs doesn't stop them. i have seen them shipped marked as "gift" with a value of "under $30 USD". coming from Hong Kong you can get an item in less than 10 business days in this manner.
it is a constant discussion around our office when someone's linker for their GBA arrives: how does US Customs know what is inside is not drugs, kiddie pr0n, etc?? we don't know. all we know is marking it in the above fashion seems to work.
no idea if the guy in this story got his sent marked as such, but i would bet he did.
here!
.BOOM), paypal doesn't and hasn't made a profit. keep that in mind.
this actually held up the first attempt at an IPO several weeks ago.
another thing to remember is, unlike most business that IPO today (and not in the
that was hilarious!!
MOD PARENT UP!
best humor today. seriously. thanks. i can go home now.
jebus - now the MCP will become a reality. nice work guys....
this april 2001 edition of Metropolis has a pretty informative article on the man and his background.
interesting that i live in houston (concrete captial next to LA) and never have read an article on this guy.
this is the ugliest site i have seen in a while...and all this is from the company that sells a $90k device to TV stations?
i submitted this story to /. last sat (1/19)...no story, ended up rejected. no loss to me. karma caps are there for a reason.
i checked my machine, but wasn't infected. i figured as much since i run ad-aware occasionally.
i forwarded the info to my buddies (mostly non-tech guys, music lovers, etc.): guess what - 3 out of 5 of them were infected and had no clue what "spyware" was.
"Stuff that matters" can be interpreted many ways, not so narrowly to "matter" only to people who understand root and have a linux box.
the elitism on this site sometimes gets real, real old. thanks Palaptine for your post. you are correct and the rest of these people are trolls.
kinda sad, huh?
i have often wished that CS (Cheater-Strike) had a pay-for-play system.
it would seem to me that the only way sometimes to keep people from hacking a game and ruining the experience for others is to make a barrier to entry, ie a monthly charge.
sure it might suck a bit to play that way, but i think even a small monthly fee ($4.99) would go along way. besides requiring a CC to charge the monthly service to, the game makers would have set info for their players: how likely is someone to crash a game server when their CC #, IP, and home address are all linked to their user ID?
oh well, gotta run today and pick up Medal of Honor - my only hopes for a great multi-player shooter that hasn't been hacked.
it appears that Stanton Inc. is releasing Final Scratch. their site has some good info directly from Richie about using it.
The new company will not initially announce what products it is planning and Mr. Wozniak said this week it was likely that it would not at first market its own products. It will instead seek licensing and marketing arrangements with other consumer electronics and related companies.
appears that unlike the first Apples, Woz plans on licensing these things at first. proving he has at least learned something!
right right....never get up at 4AM and try to quit drinking coffee in the same day...ugh!
still, i am not sure the correlation between the evils of Manpower Inc (who i have worked for as a temp)/HP and Amazon. of course, the NYT article is not written from an insider's perspective.
appreciate the correction!
so in the first, we have a full on temp agency with no company employees working on site, workers are being manipulated, silenced and fired...essentially sounds like a terrible work environment.
/.ers and amazon? i am not holding amazon out as mother teresa of corporations, but having 3700 full time employees out of 4000 - that says to me that amazon at least gets it a little. sure, during xmas amazon is trying to squeeze every ounce of work out of its employees, but no where in that article does it mention abuse.
in the second (amazon), you have 7.5% of the work force as temp workers, with no mention of abuse, forced silence, etc.
and you want us to draw a comparision from the 1st to the 2nd?
flame all you want, but what is it with
what an unfair comparion...you ire should be directed at HP if you ask me.
Judge Smails: The world needs ditch diggers too!
this story yesterday on CBS Market Watch states that HP is looking to close a plant in France, outsource their PC manufacturing and all of this is independent of the CPQ merger.
the story above may be a move to put pressure on approving the merger.
waiting for that glorious day!
this small provider in houston is really ontop of being inexpensive, but their offerings for extras is not much.