Cablevision would just providing pay-access. This already exists with the site ESPN360.com, where you can watch live sports and on replay. There is no up front fee, in fact you cannot use the site unless your ISP pays for it. Going the Cable TV route, basically.
Facebook is a tool specifically geared to produce profit
Isn't that the point of a business? I'm not defending the spam practices here, but it should be pretty obvious that just about every company, be it Walmart, Facebook, or Slashdot, exists to produce profit.
Completely agreed. If they betrayed your trust once, they will do it again.
I worked at a headhunting firm for two years, and ethics are a difficult thing in the industry, because it is cutthroat competition, and it's generally results-based, most headhunters draw most of their income from commission, not salary.
That said, as others have said, they have shown they cannot be trusted. The firm I worked for was extremely honest and reputable, in that case I would have suggested to you how to change your resume, but the fact that he outright doctored your resume should be shocking...but it isn't. Some people prefer to work with headhunters, a lot of Slashdotters take a derisive tone with them. If you do like it, then when you find an honest recruiter...stick with him. We placed a guy 5 years ago in a job about 2 hours away, who was on a green card. Once he got US citizenship, he quit and called us to ask us to find something. Even if a tough market, because of their history and the knowledge our recruiter had of the guys skills, he found him a job close to home, although he did have to take a small pay cut. Recruiters can be your friend.
Are you nuts? It's enough of a pain in the ass to install all the games on everyone's computer who inevitably shows up without them, you want to add OS installs on top of that?
Wrong, wrong wrong. It's been mentioned many times that netbooks are compliments to desktops, not substitutes. It isn't certain if netbooks cannibalize laptop sales. (I have both, they are used for different reasons) But it is pretty certain that netbooks are a secondary computer, not a primary one. No one buys a netbook because of its cost, they are purchased because of their size, convenience, battery life, etc.
Simple inflation says the price should have increased to 45 cents, but instead prices have dropped and with the added benefit of being wireless.
It's called innovation. Simple price inflation says that a terabyte of data should cost $2,000,000 given 1990 prices, but we know that isn't the case.
My two years as an intern hardly reflects the experience of the company I worked for. The recruiter I directly interned for had 13 years of experience of recruiting, primarily in IT fields.
But of course, it's easier to criticize the person than attacking his argument. The Fortune 500 companies we worked with didn't work with just one recruiting company. Nor did they only work with recruiters, I'm sure there were "circles of friends" within the company as well as plenty of direct applicants, yet they still could not fill positions. My original point stands that there is a shortage of programmers right now. Wages are pretty good right now, but I doubt masses would switch from Business/Finance to Comp Sci solely because of Wall Street's current problems.
I worked at a recruiting firm that specializes in IT for the last two years, and let me tell you, we could not find enough programmers, specifically in Java. The firms we were working with constantly were upping the pay to try and attract workers to our city but in general, the demand for labor was much, much higher than the supply.
Yeah, I was going to say while Microsoft is of course against the Yahoo-Google merger, they've been very pro-net neutrality in the past. All it stands to do is to grant massive power to the Telcos over them, and we all know Microsoft doesn't like that.
If you hadn't figured it out, basically any online program or website will be for net neutrality, because they have a lot to lose. Telcos, of course, stand to gain financially. So of course M$ will be in Google's boat on this one.
You guys are both wrong. Believe it or not, but Bush directly should have caused appreciation of the USD. I'm no fan of Bush, but both of your comments are trolls. In economics, a high national debt actually causes a massive influx of foreign investment, thus causing the currency to appreciate. Why? Because government debt increases competition for savings, and thus the interest rate increases, making the country more attractive to invest in.
Why isn't this true? Because the amount of dollars out there is increasing much faster than any real appreciation. Not only has the Fed had a pretty loose monetary policy in the last decade (housing bubble, anyone? caused by too much "cheap" money/loans) but with the increased use of Debit/Credit cards in the US, people are taking out less cash. That means for all the average Joes out there like me who carry $40-50 on them, we take money out less often and banks thus can loan out more money. So blame the banks and the Fed for the steep decline in the US, but Bush+Debt (Democrats are responsible for letting him get away with it, as the Republican Congress is too) is not the real culprit.
A coworker of mine brought up the fact that we Italians (dual citizen) just reelected Silvio Berlusconi, who's kinda like GWB, except thanks to our parliamentary system, this his 3rd time as PM. He mentioned we were just "recycling candidates."
2008 will (hopefully) be the first year there are no Bushes or Clintons running. America could use a break.
Free textbooks are great and all if you want to learn the subject, like Yale/Harvard's free classroom recordings. But if you're taking a class at a university, most of the time these aren't going to be useful. Economics, engineering, calculus, all classes I've taken in these various subjects have had all the homework directly from the problem sets in the book. I bought one edition earlier than the one recommended for my economics class and I've had to borrow my friends text to do all the work. Great idea, but I don't see it being useful unless you can somehow get all the college professors to start adopting them/copy the homework separately. (Given that a lot of books are written by the professors themselves, they are unlikely to drop a major revenue stream)
I couldn't agree more, and I didn't know that there were so many people that hate the glossy-display. I cannot stand it, it causes more glare than it reduces and matte is just a natural looking display.
I ordered my laptop from Dell a few months before several of my friends ordered. Sometime in the spring of 2006, Dell decided to switch all over standardly to their "TrueLife" display. Thankfully I missed it.....but now it's very hard to find a cheap laptop without the new anti-glare shine.
As one of my Pakistani friends ironically noted, they can't watch Youtube right now but can watch pretty much any porn site available on the internet still. Some, oddly enough, that exclusively show Muslims girls.
It is true. One of the most common examples of expensive products being valued more, despite the difference, is wine. Caltech released a study about a month ago that showed people constantly rated wine better if they were told it was more expensive, and vice versa for cheap. And it wasn't just preference, it was cerebrally measured.
People associate more expensive products with being superior. Stupid, I know. But it's true.
The industry standard for what it seems you're looking for is the Panasonic Toughbook. The Toughbook is commonly used by EMTs, police, and the US Military. "The Toughbook was tested on numerous levels, while being compared to a Toshiba of a similar specification, kept in a secure laptop bag. These tests included the laptops being used as tennis rackets, dunked in a water tank and being blown up by "the equivalent to two sticks of dynamite" and "20 litres of fuel". After the latter experiment the Toshiba was destroyed, but the Toughbook, continued to work.
Agreed. This is one area where it's an advantage to attend a state-university than a private one.....public universities have to afford you the Bill of Rights. If you're on a private campus, they can do whatever the hell they want. (not exactly, but more than a public university)
Moreso, it'd be better if we had this article from a newsworthy source...not an article as blatantly partisan as the Nation. (For the record Reason magazine or National Review would be wrong, too)
This morning, I went to my university's library to print out a PDF.
First, several computers monitors were burned out. ThenI couldn't log in to several computers, cause the network was temporarily down, and each computer authenticated with the server. Secondly, half the printers were down to various reasons. It was extremely aggravating...our IT department is completely inept, shockingly, we just moved to a Microsoft Exchange. And the university is one of the top 50 in the US.
My point is to reaffirm that campus IT departments, with the exception of tech schools, are woefully inept. No one in the library staff had any idea where or how to contact IT about the problems. I've never understood why I pay 20k a year for internet not even as good as a cable modem.
It's pretty simple....I don't understand why you are confused.
A guy, mistakenly taken as the admin of/. happens to have free time and money on his hands. (Not trolling, a fact) He receives a spam e-mail that offers to boost traffic to his website. (which/. doesn't really have a problem with) He finds a Washington State law that says the subject line from this spam e-mail is misleading, takes the guy to small claims court, and the judge who clearly doesn't understand the word "spam" in the e-aspect rules that it was a personal communication and not spam, therefore not illegal. It was a simple read that highlighted a guy's quest to fight spammers (This is not his first time) and also showed the more important continuing fact that judges in this country are woefully uneducated when it comes to the internet. But at least this judge has heard of email before.
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I can't speak for all programs, but as an MBA student, this is taught in MGMT101. (organizational behavior)
NASA wasn't aware of the link between subzero temperatures and o-ring failures. Boisjoly and Morton Thiokol engineers tried to convince NASA of the issue, but the only evidence they provided was incomplete and showed no correlation. This is the data they provided- http://courses.cs.vt.edu/cs3604/lib/WhistleBlowing/challenger.1.gif This is the FULL data that Morton Thiokol did not present in arguing to delay launch- http://www.d.umn.edu/~cstroupe/f11/4260/assets/tufte_o_ring_damage.jpg
Cablevision would just providing pay-access. This already exists with the site ESPN360.com, where you can watch live sports and on replay. There is no up front fee, in fact you cannot use the site unless your ISP pays for it. Going the Cable TV route, basically.
Facebook is a tool specifically geared to produce profit Isn't that the point of a business? I'm not defending the spam practices here, but it should be pretty obvious that just about every company, be it Walmart, Facebook, or Slashdot, exists to produce profit.
Completely agreed. If they betrayed your trust once, they will do it again. I worked at a headhunting firm for two years, and ethics are a difficult thing in the industry, because it is cutthroat competition, and it's generally results-based, most headhunters draw most of their income from commission, not salary. That said, as others have said, they have shown they cannot be trusted. The firm I worked for was extremely honest and reputable, in that case I would have suggested to you how to change your resume, but the fact that he outright doctored your resume should be shocking...but it isn't. Some people prefer to work with headhunters, a lot of Slashdotters take a derisive tone with them. If you do like it, then when you find an honest recruiter...stick with him. We placed a guy 5 years ago in a job about 2 hours away, who was on a green card. Once he got US citizenship, he quit and called us to ask us to find something. Even if a tough market, because of their history and the knowledge our recruiter had of the guys skills, he found him a job close to home, although he did have to take a small pay cut. Recruiters can be your friend.
Are you nuts? It's enough of a pain in the ass to install all the games on everyone's computer who inevitably shows up without them, you want to add OS installs on top of that?
Wrong, wrong wrong. It's been mentioned many times that netbooks are compliments to desktops, not substitutes. It isn't certain if netbooks cannibalize laptop sales. (I have both, they are used for different reasons) But it is pretty certain that netbooks are a secondary computer, not a primary one. No one buys a netbook because of its cost, they are purchased because of their size, convenience, battery life, etc.
Simple inflation says the price should have increased to 45 cents, but instead prices have dropped and with the added benefit of being wireless. It's called innovation. Simple price inflation says that a terabyte of data should cost $2,000,000 given 1990 prices, but we know that isn't the case.
My two years as an intern hardly reflects the experience of the company I worked for. The recruiter I directly interned for had 13 years of experience of recruiting, primarily in IT fields. But of course, it's easier to criticize the person than attacking his argument. The Fortune 500 companies we worked with didn't work with just one recruiting company. Nor did they only work with recruiters, I'm sure there were "circles of friends" within the company as well as plenty of direct applicants, yet they still could not fill positions. My original point stands that there is a shortage of programmers right now. Wages are pretty good right now, but I doubt masses would switch from Business/Finance to Comp Sci solely because of Wall Street's current problems.
Real software development talent doesn't use recruiters to find jobs. A few dozen Fortune 500 companies I worked with beg to differ...
I worked at a recruiting firm that specializes in IT for the last two years, and let me tell you, we could not find enough programmers, specifically in Java. The firms we were working with constantly were upping the pay to try and attract workers to our city but in general, the demand for labor was much, much higher than the supply.
Yeah, I was going to say while Microsoft is of course against the Yahoo-Google merger, they've been very pro-net neutrality in the past. All it stands to do is to grant massive power to the Telcos over them, and we all know Microsoft doesn't like that. If you hadn't figured it out, basically any online program or website will be for net neutrality, because they have a lot to lose. Telcos, of course, stand to gain financially. So of course M$ will be in Google's boat on this one.
Sounds Canadian to me.
Why isn't this true? Because the amount of dollars out there is increasing much faster than any real appreciation. Not only has the Fed had a pretty loose monetary policy in the last decade (housing bubble, anyone? caused by too much "cheap" money/loans) but with the increased use of Debit/Credit cards in the US, people are taking out less cash. That means for all the average Joes out there like me who carry $40-50 on them, we take money out less often and banks thus can loan out more money. So blame the banks and the Fed for the steep decline in the US, but Bush+Debt (Democrats are responsible for letting him get away with it, as the Republican Congress is too) is not the real culprit.
2008 will (hopefully) be the first year there are no Bushes or Clintons running. America could use a break.
Free textbooks are great and all if you want to learn the subject, like Yale/Harvard's free classroom recordings. But if you're taking a class at a university, most of the time these aren't going to be useful. Economics, engineering, calculus, all classes I've taken in these various subjects have had all the homework directly from the problem sets in the book. I bought one edition earlier than the one recommended for my economics class and I've had to borrow my friends text to do all the work. Great idea, but I don't see it being useful unless you can somehow get all the college professors to start adopting them/copy the homework separately. (Given that a lot of books are written by the professors themselves, they are unlikely to drop a major revenue stream)
My friend is in virtually the same situation as you, and he and his wife love to play Mario Party, or ROMs from older console games in general.
I ordered my laptop from Dell a few months before several of my friends ordered. Sometime in the spring of 2006, Dell decided to switch all over standardly to their "TrueLife" display. Thankfully I missed it.....but now it's very hard to find a cheap laptop without the new anti-glare shine.
As one of my Pakistani friends ironically noted, they can't watch Youtube right now but can watch pretty much any porn site available on the internet still. Some, oddly enough, that exclusively show Muslims girls.
People associate more expensive products with being superior. Stupid, I know. But it's true.
involves the sort of torture that would have lesser laptops admitting to witchcraft. It's trained to withstand 4 inches of rain in an hour pounding down on the keyboard and screen, be frozen at minus 29 degrees centigrade and baked at plus 60. And to gain the name of Toughbook, any design must pass all these tests - twice!"
Pretty reliable laptop, huh. On a side note, how did you get the money to do this adventure?
Moreso, it'd be better if we had this article from a newsworthy source...not an article as blatantly partisan as the Nation. (For the record Reason magazine or National Review would be wrong, too)
First, several computers monitors were burned out. ThenI couldn't log in to several computers, cause the network was temporarily down, and each computer authenticated with the server. Secondly, half the printers were down to various reasons. It was extremely aggravating...our IT department is completely inept, shockingly, we just moved to a Microsoft Exchange. And the university is one of the top 50 in the US.
My point is to reaffirm that campus IT departments, with the exception of tech schools, are woefully inept. No one in the library staff had any idea where or how to contact IT about the problems. I've never understood why I pay 20k a year for internet not even as good as a cable modem.
A guy, mistakenly taken as the admin of /. happens to have free time and money on his hands. (Not trolling, a fact) He receives a spam e-mail that offers to boost traffic to his website. (which /. doesn't really have a problem with) He finds a Washington State law that says the subject line from this spam e-mail is misleading, takes the guy to small claims court, and the judge who clearly doesn't understand the word "spam" in the e-aspect rules that it was a personal communication and not spam, therefore not illegal. It was a simple read that highlighted a guy's quest to fight spammers (This is not his first time) and also showed the more important continuing fact that judges in this country are woefully uneducated when it comes to the internet. But at least this judge has heard of email before.
No I do not like Hillary, but it was an example.