If you're paying a headhunter, you got burned. Headhunters are hired by the big companies to fill the slots, you dolt. And actually, I went from headhunter to headhunter during the dot-com thing and made out like a fucking bandit. If I ever got back into the field, I wouldn't bother with knocking on doors individually, again. That's for schmucks, and recent graduates who don't know better.
Umm, sorry. The moment Mac OS X 10.0 started shipping, it immediately became the most common desktop UNIX-like operating system. This guy is divorced from reality.
You should read something about the history of Unix. Unix has been in existance for about twice as long as Apple has been. There are easily more Sun and HP-UX boxes out there than there are Apple.
All this guy has done at this point is to give speeches about his great idea, tell the media about his great idea, and networked with wealthy people who want some cheap PR. The "successes" are just on paper. Nothing has actually, physically been *done* on this project yet. Not a single laptop has even been designed yet. I'm saying this because it makes me sick of seeing dot-commers stirring up money and hype over *nothing*. I'll give the guy credit if he can get this rolling, but this project is still in the planning stage, although I'm sure that he's paid himself well, already. But you know what they say about credit where credit is due...
What success? Not a single laptop has been made! There's not one manufacturer that has agreed that this can even be done for $100! This is pure, unadulterated vaporware. They've found a company that has agreed to look into it to see if it's possible. That's it!
The only thing that the organizers have succeeded in doing is whipping the geek media into a frenzy.
But, while we're on the subject, I'm working on building a car for developing countries that will have most of the features of modern cars, but will be indestuctible, will operate via a hand crank, and will cost $1000. I'm accepting funding now.
Here's the thing.... people like you bought it, hook, line, and sinker. That's the worst part of it, from my standpoint. How gullible can you guys be? I didn't believe their silly "do not evil" thing for a second because it was just that... silly. Corporations simply don't say things like that.
I happen to own a very tiny corporation, and we really don't do evil, but we're not going to beat our proverbial chest about it. If our customers realize it, then great. If they don't, then I still don't care, because I'm doing it because I want to.
Any large company that says something like this clearly has an agenda.
But then, why would I think that geeks would know any better.... they all fell for the DOJ MS case, and bought that hook, line, and sinker, too, even though most of you know that the DOJ is horribly corrupt.
Apple continues to narrow the segment of customers that they're catering to. Now, apparently, they're only catering to customers that live in modern, urban or massively suburban areas that have wireless everywhere. I know that I would never consider a laptop (especially a grossly overpriced laptop) that doesn't have a built in modem. It's not because of snobbery, but because I often have to use a modem to connect to the Net.
But really, this is nothing new... Apple has really always been bleeding edge, and has always catered to the very wealthy.
If I see anything like that on a website, I pretty much instantly discount anything that website has to say. It's juvenile, and wrong,as I get pop-ups with Firefox, and plenty of viruses attempts whiz right past firefox, and don't stop until my virus checker gets 'em (http://free-av.com./
Who's choosing to violate state laws to prosecute medical marijuana users, then? Not Congress.
The DOJ has CONSIDERABLE leeway in choosing who and when they prosecute, and how vigorously. I certainly don't see the DOJ prosecuting the President, or any of the administration for the laws that they're breaking. I do read about them arresting little old ladies for smoking a bit of grass, though.
Answer: because they were convicted in a court of law (or, in Microsoft's case, courts) of comitting a crime and are now being punished.
Are you a shill for the US Department of Justice?
Let me test:
Marijuana is a 100% safe drug. There are exactly -zero- reported cases of deaths from it... ever.
According to the US DOJ, how long should a marijuana user be put in prison for, shill?
Good drone. You said what you were programmed to say, perfectly.
The next thing that the US DOJ wants you to repeat is that "The PATRIOT Act protects us from terrorists." Oh yeah, and "President Bush has every right under the LAW to allow unwarranted wiretaps." Please assimilate these ideas into your brain, and repeat them whenever possible.
Get off your ass and vote. And vote for the good person, not the one who promises you the shiniest toys.
Voting is useless. The Democrats and Republicans are on the same team. They only pretend to be bitter opponents. The electoral system in this country is just plain fucked. For example, in NC, not only will they no longer put Libertarians (or anybody else) on the ticket, but I can't even be registered as a Libertarian (or anything else). Voting is just to make people *think* that they have a choice.
Real change in this country isn't going to occur via the voting booth.
You think that we're going to have to load the IE runtime in memory to access it, though? As it is right now, it's just a relatively simple, stand-alone object that doesn't need a running copy of IE. Overhead for what we're using it for would go through the roof if we had to instantiate IE every time we needed to get to those methods.
Why shouldn't Firefox and Safari render more closely to the way that IE does it? That would certainly make more sense, since IE has been driving web standards for at least the past 5 years.
This is neat-o, and stuff, but I've been using the ActiveX object for back end services for many years now (4+ years?). I really hope that they keep the COM version up to date. It's been incredibly useful for longer than Firefox has even existed!
Was the initial article right? You're asking if it "still" has a bias, but you're basing this on a Slashdot article, which often is about as accurate as a man standing on the street corner talking to Jesus with no pants on.
Oh yeah... before the IPO, the owner(s) have to have all of their top talent in place. I'd imagine that the underwriters are scrutinizing the team pretty thoroughly. After the IPO, well, the former owners have already made the bulk of what they're going to make. Unless you're a Google or some other abberration, then really the IPO is the goal for most company owners.
Plus, how many employees can you name that work for all of the companies that you own any stock in? Generally, public investors will look at the CEO, *maybe* the VP's, and that's it. Once it's public, then it's all about what kind of finacial results the CEO can return. The owners (shareholders) often don't care how he does it, or who the rest of the employees are, so long as those results are good.
Going public has nothing to do with the emaployees. It has everything to do with the owners. Companies go public so that the owners can make a mint. You, as a lowly employee, are quite honestly, irrelevant. Employees aren't entitled to any ownership at all, unless the owners see fit to give them some ownership.
There aren't too many websites that make sense to act as service providers. Most websites are simply just informational, or shopping carts. I provide our products data to all of the major search engines/shopping sites, but each interface is completely different. This idea of some kind of universal XML has *never* paid off, and I can't imagine it ever will. I agree with the parent poster... it's a lot of waste, both in programming cycles, and machine cycles/bandwidth to add in a layer that is unnecesary.
That being said, I've been using XMLHTTPRequest for many years for some internal stuff. No actual XML anywhere on the site, though. If I did waste my time adding in "XML", my app would be significantly slower.
There are tons of studies out there, already. It's been happening for quite a while now. People, every day, die from common bacterial infections that have evolved to a point where doctors simply don't have what they need to kill them. It's an escalating arms war that we (humans) will eventually lose. I personally know two people that died, in hospitals, from simple bacterial infections.
I believe that the CDC has been warning about overuse of antibiotics for a while now, but unfortunately, you can find antibiotics in just about every consumer product, because people are so fucking clueless, and child-protective at the same time. This is such a real problem, that I make a point NOT to buy anti-bacterial cleaners for my house, which is starting to be a tough thing to do. Doctors of all kinds, when cleaning their work areas, generally alternate between several types of antibiotic measures because antibiotic resistance is such a real problem, now.
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If you're paying a headhunter, you got burned. Headhunters are hired by the big companies to fill the slots, you dolt. And actually, I went from headhunter to headhunter during the dot-com thing and made out like a fucking bandit. If I ever got back into the field, I wouldn't bother with knocking on doors individually, again. That's for schmucks, and recent graduates who don't know better.
Umm, sorry. The moment Mac OS X 10.0 started shipping, it immediately became the most common desktop UNIX-like operating system. This guy is divorced from reality.
You should read something about the history of Unix. Unix has been in existance for about twice as long as Apple has been. There are easily more Sun and HP-UX boxes out there than there are Apple.
Ok, whatever. A $100, drop-proof, water-proof, wireless, VOIP-ready, laptop computer with a touch screen. Right.
There's a sucker born every minute.
All this guy has done at this point is to give speeches about his great idea, tell the media about his great idea, and networked with wealthy people who want some cheap PR. The "successes" are just on paper. Nothing has actually, physically been *done* on this project yet. Not a single laptop has even been designed yet. I'm saying this because it makes me sick of seeing dot-commers stirring up money and hype over *nothing*. I'll give the guy credit if he can get this rolling, but this project is still in the planning stage, although I'm sure that he's paid himself well, already. But you know what they say about credit where credit is due...
What success? Not a single laptop has been made! There's not one manufacturer that has agreed that this can even be done for $100! This is pure, unadulterated vaporware. They've found a company that has agreed to look into it to see if it's possible. That's it!
The only thing that the organizers have succeeded in doing is whipping the geek media into a frenzy.
But, while we're on the subject, I'm working on building a car for developing countries that will have most of the features of modern cars, but will be indestuctible, will operate via a hand crank, and will cost $1000. I'm accepting funding now.
Here's the thing.... people like you bought it, hook, line, and sinker. That's the worst part of it, from my standpoint. How gullible can you guys be? I didn't believe their silly "do not evil" thing for a second because it was just that... silly. Corporations simply don't say things like that.
I happen to own a very tiny corporation, and we really don't do evil, but we're not going to beat our proverbial chest about it. If our customers realize it, then great. If they don't, then I still don't care, because I'm doing it because I want to.
Any large company that says something like this clearly has an agenda.
But then, why would I think that geeks would know any better.... they all fell for the DOJ MS case, and bought that hook, line, and sinker, too, even though most of you know that the DOJ is horribly corrupt.
Good point. I can't afford any Apple stuff, but I'm sure that the people who can wouldn't care less about an extra $50 for a modem.
Apple continues to narrow the segment of customers that they're catering to. Now, apparently, they're only catering to customers that live in modern, urban or massively suburban areas that have wireless everywhere. I know that I would never consider a laptop (especially a grossly overpriced laptop) that doesn't have a built in modem. It's not because of snobbery, but because I often have to use a modem to connect to the Net.
But really, this is nothing new... Apple has really always been bleeding edge, and has always catered to the very wealthy.
If I see anything like that on a website, I pretty much instantly discount anything that website has to say. It's juvenile, and wrong,as I get pop-ups with Firefox, and plenty of viruses attempts whiz right past firefox, and don't stop until my virus checker gets 'em (http://free-av.com./
Who's choosing to violate state laws to prosecute medical marijuana users, then?
Not Congress.
The DOJ has CONSIDERABLE leeway in choosing who and when they prosecute, and how vigorously. I certainly don't see the DOJ prosecuting the President, or any of the administration for the laws that they're breaking. I do read about them arresting little old ladies for smoking a bit of grass, though.
Answer: because they were convicted in a court of law (or, in Microsoft's case, courts) of comitting a crime and are now being punished.
Are you a shill for the US Department of Justice?
Let me test:
Marijuana is a 100% safe drug. There are exactly -zero- reported cases of deaths from it... ever. According to the US DOJ, how long should a marijuana user be put in prison for, shill?
Good drone. You said what you were programmed to say, perfectly.
The next thing that the US DOJ wants you to repeat is that "The PATRIOT Act protects us from terrorists." Oh yeah, and "President Bush has every right under the LAW to allow unwarranted wiretaps." Please assimilate these ideas into your brain, and repeat them whenever possible.
Get off your ass and vote. And vote for the good person, not the one who promises you the shiniest toys.
Voting is useless. The Democrats and Republicans are on the same team. They only pretend to be bitter opponents. The electoral system in this country is just plain fucked. For example, in NC, not only will they no longer put Libertarians (or anybody else) on the ticket, but I can't even be registered as a Libertarian (or anything else). Voting is just to make people *think* that they have a choice.
Real change in this country isn't going to occur via the voting booth.
You think that we're going to have to load the IE runtime in memory to access it, though? As it is right now, it's just a relatively simple, stand-alone object that doesn't need a running copy of IE. Overhead for what we're using it for would go through the roof if we had to instantiate IE every time we needed to get to those methods.
"Compliant" with what, exactly...? The W3C? I'd argue that the W3C hasn't really been effective (in being influential) in many years.
Why shouldn't Firefox and Safari render more closely to the way that IE does it? That would certainly make more sense, since IE has been driving web standards for at least the past 5 years.
This is neat-o, and stuff, but I've been using the ActiveX object for back end services for many years now (4+ years?). I really hope that they keep the COM version up to date. It's been incredibly useful for longer than Firefox has even existed!
Was the initial article right? You're asking if it "still" has a bias, but you're basing this on a Slashdot article, which often is about as accurate as a man standing on the street corner talking to Jesus with no pants on.
While many claim that patents strive to increase the efficiency of the market, it is quite clear they do not.
Are you so sure that these things would have even been invented without a patent system in place? I really doubt it.
I'd love to see Google (or someone) provide free and simple to install search tools for business inventories, libraries and even garage sales.
They already have.
Oh yeah... before the IPO, the owner(s) have to have all of their top talent in place. I'd imagine that the underwriters are scrutinizing the team pretty thoroughly. After the IPO, well, the former owners have already made the bulk of what they're going to make. Unless you're a Google or some other abberration, then really the IPO is the goal for most company owners.
Plus, how many employees can you name that work for all of the companies that you own any stock in? Generally, public investors will look at the CEO, *maybe* the VP's, and that's it. Once it's public, then it's all about what kind of finacial results the CEO can return. The owners (shareholders) often don't care how he does it, or who the rest of the employees are, so long as those results are good.
Going public has nothing to do with the emaployees. It has everything to do with the owners. Companies go public so that the owners can make a mint. You, as a lowly employee, are quite honestly, irrelevant. Employees aren't entitled to any ownership at all, unless the owners see fit to give them some ownership.
There aren't too many websites that make sense to act as service providers. Most websites are simply just informational, or shopping carts. I provide our products data to all of the major search engines/shopping sites, but each interface is completely different. This idea of some kind of universal XML has *never* paid off, and I can't imagine it ever will. I agree with the parent poster... it's a lot of waste, both in programming cycles, and machine cycles/bandwidth to add in a layer that is unnecesary.
That being said, I've been using XMLHTTPRequest for many years for some internal stuff. No actual XML anywhere on the site, though. If I did waste my time adding in "XML", my app would be significantly slower.
Surely with a clever enough driver, you could tunnel USB traffic over 802.11 (or even over TCP/IP).
Oh yeah... that's what I want... kids trying to hack my fucking mouse.... riiight... (Actually, I don't have any USB devices at all)
There are tons of studies out there, already. It's been happening for quite a while now. People, every day, die from common bacterial infections that have evolved to a point where doctors simply don't have what they need to kill them. It's an escalating arms war that we (humans) will eventually lose. I personally know two people that died, in hospitals, from simple bacterial infections. I believe that the CDC has been warning about overuse of antibiotics for a while now, but unfortunately, you can find antibiotics in just about every consumer product, because people are so fucking clueless, and child-protective at the same time. This is such a real problem, that I make a point NOT to buy anti-bacterial cleaners for my house, which is starting to be a tough thing to do. Doctors of all kinds, when cleaning their work areas, generally alternate between several types of antibiotic measures because antibiotic resistance is such a real problem, now.