I'm a Madison alum, and I can't get the head hunters to stop calling. I graduated in 2003 and have been gainfully employed since then. First as a consultant doing software engineering for a fortune 500 company, now as a full time employee for a startup in Massachusetts. Though to find a job in software after graduation you have to put in your dues and intern or coop as an undergrad.
Its got a top-notch engineering school and also is in the big ten. If you're looking for a school to get a world class education in a relaxed atmosphere, have fun, meet lots of women (unlike some tech schools) UW has a med school, law school, and a variety of graduate programs. I wouldn't go back and trade my time as an undergrad there for anything, though I got into more prestigous schools, the cost/value ratio appealed to me and it was a blast. Sorry to ramble on, but I highly recommend UW Madison.
My experience with C# involved managed wrappers for Native code, Marshalling sucks by the way, and working with Visual Studio.NET trying to make C# play nice with Native C and C++ code with interprocess communication running involved weeks of headache. Also, do you have to write code as if there was no garbage collector or will those 3 magic words automagically decide when to delete objects?
The point I'm trying to make is that even though there are various hacks, maybe kludge is a better word, to get it working, unless you have complete control of all the libraries you compile against, including licensed code, its not feasible in most real world scenarios. Every time I've seen C# used for a task that C++ is better suited for, it takes weeks to sort out all the related issues, which never seem to stop going away over the lifetime of the product. Which is why IMHO there will always be a place for C++.
C# has no comparison to C/C++ for one VERY important reason. C# is a managed language, sure you can hack at it to turn off the Garbage Collector and whatnot, but AFAIK there is no compiler in the pure sense of the word which creates straight machine code. (Thats leaving out the whole.NET nonsense too.)
IANAL, but couldn't the corporation still be held liable? I bet that these subcontractors are not violating their contracts, if the corporation are serious about not being involved in these activities, I'm sure they'll add clauses to the contracts the subcontrators sign, explicitly forbidding them from engaging in those practices. Otherwise they are tacitly endorsing it by not expressly forbidding it. Plus, it would have an added benefit for the corporation to be able to shift liability to the subcontractor if they violate the contract, assuming the appropriate legalese is in place.
It won't. I thought it was a good thing when I read the article. I didn't see one mention of them patenting this extension and requiring others who want to use it to license it.
My dad was laid off in 2000 and didn't find another job in his field of civil engineering until well after his unemployment benefits expired (also he did not go on unemployment until his severance expired), there was also the issue of my younger brother finishing his senior year of HS which prevented them from moving when they wanted.
Every situation should be judged on its own merit, just saying everyone on unemployment is a freeloader is as bad as saying every Native American is a lazy alcoholic in desperate need of a shower.
I'm not trying to argue with you, but when I see posts like that modded insightful I feel the need to inject a bit of perspective. Oh, and I forgot another point from my previous post too. If I had taken a job which involved intense physical labor, I'd be too tired after work to search for a job in my field. I knew too many recent grads which were stuck in that trap to fall into it myself given the alternatives.
I was on unemployment for a month a few years ago. Did it suck? yes. Could I have gotten a job in a warehouse? yes. The reason I didn't get a job which does not match my skill set is finding a job is a full-time job. When someone calls you up for an interveiw, you don't ask to reschedule because it conflicts with your job as a landscaper or whatever. You also can't quit your job to go to an interview for a job you might not get. I pay enough in taxes, some of it goes to unemployment INSURANCE every month. I also live in a state which requires car insurance, if I get in an accident, I wouldn't pay for it out of pocket be because "Its my mess, I'm going to clean it up." I have my car insurance pay for it, sure it comes out of the pockets of all the other people who get car insurance from that company, but thats how INSURANCE works.
A Los Angeles Times experiment in opinion journalism lasted just two days before the paper was forced to shut it down Sunday morning after some readers repeatedly posted obscene photos.
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"We were taking stuff down as soon as it went up and staving them off. Finally we had to go to bed. Someone called the newsroom a little bit before 4 a.m. and said there's something bad on your Web site, and so we just took the whole site down."
Not having seen the wiki myself but knowing the type of obscene pictures that would get posted from slashdot, it sounds like the LA Times got flooded with images of Goatse and Tubgirl. Having read slashdot, they recognize a smoking gun or more accurately....nevermind.
Apple patented their scroll wheel. That's a User Interface, though it is implemented in hardware as well as software. If you notice there is not a single MP3 player out there that has the same interface, because Apple would sue them into oblivion for infringing on their patent.
"Yahoo has a big branded advertising business. Google is all search. To the extent that brand advertisers want to participate in the Internet, Yahoo's a better bet,"
So who wins?
Though Google is bigger, Yahoo appears to have the upper hand when it comes to warm relations with Madison Avenue.
I just think its funny that the article lists its relationship with ad agencies as one of the strengths Yahoo has over Google. Personally, I think Google's ads are less obtrusive since they dont flash at you and try to get your attention.
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Its got a top-notch engineering school and also is in the big ten. If you're looking for a school to get a world class education in a relaxed atmosphere, have fun, meet lots of women (unlike some tech schools) UW has a med school, law school, and a variety of graduate programs. I wouldn't go back and trade my time as an undergrad there for anything, though I got into more prestigous schools, the cost/value ratio appealed to me and it was a blast. Sorry to ramble on, but I highly recommend UW Madison.
PS: Its also known as a party school.
Not mentioned in the story is that she has a 5 digit slashdot user id and has secretly been a slashdot editor since age 4.
The point I'm trying to make is that even though there are various hacks, maybe kludge is a better word, to get it working, unless you have complete control of all the libraries you compile against, including licensed code, its not feasible in most real world scenarios. Every time I've seen C# used for a task that C++ is better suited for, it takes weeks to sort out all the related issues, which never seem to stop going away over the lifetime of the product. Which is why IMHO there will always be a place for C++.
C# has no comparison to C/C++ for one VERY important reason. C# is a managed language, sure you can hack at it to turn off the Garbage Collector and whatnot, but AFAIK there is no compiler in the pure sense of the word which creates straight machine code. (Thats leaving out the whole .NET nonsense too.)
IANAL, but couldn't the corporation still be held liable? I bet that these subcontractors are not violating their contracts, if the corporation are serious about not being involved in these activities, I'm sure they'll add clauses to the contracts the subcontrators sign, explicitly forbidding them from engaging in those practices. Otherwise they are tacitly endorsing it by not expressly forbidding it. Plus, it would have an added benefit for the corporation to be able to shift liability to the subcontractor if they violate the contract, assuming the appropriate legalese is in place.
It won't. I thought it was a good thing when I read the article. I didn't see one mention of them patenting this extension and requiring others who want to use it to license it.
Every situation should be judged on its own merit, just saying everyone on unemployment is a freeloader is as bad as saying every Native American is a lazy alcoholic in desperate need of a shower.
I'm not trying to argue with you, but when I see posts like that modded insightful I feel the need to inject a bit of perspective. Oh, and I forgot another point from my previous post too. If I had taken a job which involved intense physical labor, I'd be too tired after work to search for a job in my field. I knew too many recent grads which were stuck in that trap to fall into it myself given the alternatives.
I was on unemployment for a month a few years ago. Did it suck? yes. Could I have gotten a job in a warehouse? yes. The reason I didn't get a job which does not match my skill set is finding a job is a full-time job. When someone calls you up for an interveiw, you don't ask to reschedule because it conflicts with your job as a landscaper or whatever. You also can't quit your job to go to an interview for a job you might not get. I pay enough in taxes, some of it goes to unemployment INSURANCE every month. I also live in a state which requires car insurance, if I get in an accident, I wouldn't pay for it out of pocket be because "Its my mess, I'm going to clean it up." I have my car insurance pay for it, sure it comes out of the pockets of all the other people who get car insurance from that company, but thats how INSURANCE works.
I was referring to the iPod's scroll wheel.
Apple patented their scroll wheel. That's a User Interface, though it is implemented in hardware as well as software. If you notice there is not a single MP3 player out there that has the same interface, because Apple would sue them into oblivion for infringing on their patent.