Most companies really don't care about college rankings, but I'll take your word for it. Unfortunately, I'd rather retain my modicum of anonymity than tell you where I work. But if you are willing to relocate for a tech-savvy area, give Austin a look (just watchout for layoffs at Dell, AMD and Freescale Semiconductor). Great quality of life, low cost of living, no income tax, nice weather, college town...
It's unfortunate you're not willing to give me a company name. Remember I risk my anonymity too as a sudden out of state applicant.
Anime is a very polar genre. You get timeless, amazingly groundbreaking work, and you get utter, utter crap.
And you get plenty of stuff in between. Which is really the case with all forms of media, isn't it?
I tend to notice little in the line of "stuff in between".
There are people who know how to utilize animation to break constrictions imposed by live action, who use it to exhibit both visual and literary skill, and there are those who don't get it but are trying to pass things off because its a trend.
I look forward to and hope for a return of this genre to its obscure but loyal niche. Until recently the saturation rate for good vs horrible works was much higher.
CS majors had plummeted to near extinction over the past decade.
Given the market is still there, the stats had nowhere to go but up out of sheer law of averages.
Additionally, major does not necessarily mean field. People might be going into the major to gain greater understanding of the tools used by even the burger flippers today.
The fact that it's math and logic heavy makes it look better on a resume than east asian studies.
It bears mentioning that a statement is not necessarily false simply because it was presented as the conclusion of faulty logic.
For example:
I like strawberry ice cream Strawberry ice cream is tasty BadAnime sucks
fixed that for you.
Anime is a very polar genre. You get timeless, amazingly groundbreaking work, and you get utter, utter crap. Discriminating viewers relish anime for this quality, because finding the good works provides greater reward than combing live-action counterparts.
Just because you don't like anime doesn't mean everyone who does enjoy it is dumb.
yes, because anime is only mass-produced dreck and not an animated parallel to every other genre produced.
In anime, as in live action, there are ground-breaking and deep works, and there is wooden, garbage slapstick.
As is the stylized character of anime itself, however, the difference between the two tends to be much more polar. Crap is utter crap, and good is timeless.
I suppose you could compare it to the consumers of mac products. They're made idiot proof, but hide a powerful unix backbone and the capacity to make the most of both OSS and proprietary structures, thus they attract people even more clueless than your average windows user, but also hardcore unix geeks who want a platform that will "just work" when they encounter situations where they don't have the luxury to tinker.
I'm normally against corporate and government abuse, but what "privacy" is involved here?
you're expected to have a unique identifier (license plate) on your vehicle and clearly visible at all times. You can be ticketed for not having it properly lit at night for easy viewing, and police have internet uplinks for the specific purpose of running your plates at their leisure.
The state mandated insurance racket is another fish to fry entirely, and should be much more heavily regulated than it is, but direct your wrath properly, this is not a privacy concern.
Recently I heard of passage of auto insurance "reforms" in georgia.
I've heard the insurance costs are much higher here than the national average to begin with, and recent laws have stripped the insurance commission of their capacity to limit rates.
The right-wing echo-chamber here touts it as "a great leap forward for competitive markets".
TNT and USA are becoming better, but then again I suspect it's the lack of quality programming from the wholesale destruction of these networks.
Ever since scifi cancelled mst3k and ran andromeda into the ground it became known to all discriminating viewers as a place where good shows go to die.
Actually, I'm subjecting them to stresses far beyond those typical of the job, but they are occasionally a part of the job. I need to know that the most difficult part of the job can be handled, not just the every-day parts.
Because you should never have to train your labor, right?
The most difficult parts of the job should be taught, otherwise you're not really hiring an employee, you're hiring an independent contractor.
I can sign my name in 1.5 seconds, and type it even faster.
I can depress my thumb onto a (now 2 decade old) biometric reader for the same result in the same amount of time.
This is an excellent example of stupidly wasted money.
Heck, even if its tied to stimulus spending, the new deal wasn't just about putting people to work, but putting people to work building infrastructure which would improve the efficiency and cut the costs to businesses in the long term.
This does not do either.
If it's not tied to stimulus spending this school should be chastised for buying this expensive system in a time when a few more jobs would be more valuable to the community.
I hire based on how the person reacts to suggested tasks, problems to be solved, and the methods that I use to get jobs done. And for programmers, code interviews make things really easy in those departments.
because an environment in which someone is fighting for their very right to maintain a household is the same as one in which they merely have to focus on the task at hand, right?
Basically, you're subjecting them to stresses far beyond the station you intend them to fill, then judging them based upon that.
Part of that re-vamp to make it more reliable could be a cableco push for a minimum quality for a TV feed to be considered "HD".
right now it's only pixel width and height.
I can take a postage stamp sized ASF file from the 2001 filesharing networks, change a few tags on it, and it would be considered "HD" despite being nothing but 15 huge macroblocks with some sound.
Half the channels on comcast's network look exactly like my hypothetical description.
When there's no difference between your tv and youtube, people will go to youtube.
Cable retained users by offering more channels with fewer commercial interruptions.
As adoption skyrocketed, cable companies began tossing more and more commercials into the mix.
In 1986 the average cable show had 2 commercials in it; today popular shows have 6 minutes of commercials for every 5 minutes of content.
Do that in today's market and leaner, meaner companies with less legacy issues to tie them down will come eat your lunch!
Cable providers have already shown they don't have the spine to risk losing that programming, so they can't threaten to shut these studios out. They'll have to take a huge cut in profits by either paying them higher fees for exclusivity or lowering their commercials on live and offering more dependable, consumer friendly service.
If they try to up their bills satellite will eat their lunch, even if they manage to lock out hulu and netflix, and the higher their bills go -- especially with their bundling with internet service, the more customers they will lose.
There are those who consider the TV just superfluous and buy only net. if the cable company jacks up the tv portion of their bill they'll switch ISP's
For those whose primary purpose is TV, people, especially in this economy, might save their pennies for food/gas/mortgage and start giving pirate bay more patronage (and flowers : ] )
Good ripping and releasing groups will spend days putting their releases through QA before they post to newsgroups, their own server bots, and torrent sites.
If a significant enough portion of publishing goes digital to the point where it becomes inconvenient to get physical copies, there will most definitely be people who are willing to strip ebooks of DRM or, if need be, retype every single word of text as they read it, for release onto a file-sharing network.
I'm a technophile, but I also insist technology provide a useful function and not be superfluous or more onerous than the previous iteration.
Physical books are not something people will easily abandon.
Publishers have been pushing ebooks since 1997 and going nowhere. This is not like the digital music marketplace where people invented the technology, flocked to it, and dragged the industries kicking and screaming. The industry is what wants to push this format, and for most its very uncomfortable.
e-books are harder to read, harder on the eyes, harder to preserve, cannot be marked with notes or highlighted, are dependent on electricity and expensive readers which, by themselves, could be liquidated and used to buy shelves of books.
there's only one convenience to ebooks, and that's the capacity to search text. Of course, once you find it, it's not possible to really quote it because of the horrific DRM every single ebook has. The best literary products i've seen are books which have a full digital text and supplementary material on a provided cd.
The sales reps are now constantly pushing DRM'd books that the students use on a rental basis, meaning that when they stop paying, they can no longer read the book.
and most people go around that by going to the physical copy available in the offices and xeroxing the pages they need.
My school's career center tried to push DRM'ed ebooks at me and I told them I didn't trust their software on my machine. I was given access to the physical copies and xeroxed the chapters I wanted.
I will never, ever, ever pay an institution which uses ebooks exclusively.
Who would have to do the work hunting down the "missing" emails? If the task falls to Obama's staff who weren't even there during the whole Bush thing, then I can't really blame him. If you took on a new job, would you like to be told that rather than focus on the tasks that they were hired to do, instead your staff was going to have to digging around through your predecessors crap to try to find something that may or may not be there?
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but you might get a job for risking your anonymity.
What's in it for him?
Learn to see things from other people's POV, it's useful.
I do.
Not all people disclose the secrets of others or use them for personal gain.
Given we both have something to lose from doing so, I see no tactical disadvantage to the provision of a relevant link.
Most companies really don't care about college rankings, but I'll take your word for it. Unfortunately, I'd rather retain my modicum of anonymity than tell you where I work. But if you are willing to relocate for a tech-savvy area, give Austin a look (just watchout for layoffs at Dell, AMD and Freescale Semiconductor). Great quality of life, low cost of living, no income tax, nice weather, college town...
It's unfortunate you're not willing to give me a company name. Remember I risk my anonymity too as a sudden out of state applicant.
Hire me then, my school is ranked pretty high, and i'm willing to re-locate. give me a website to app assuming you don't have a hiring freeze.
There's a financial saying that applies here, "Even a dead cat will bounce if you drop it from a great height."
in how many pieces?
Anime is a very polar genre. You get timeless, amazingly groundbreaking work, and you get utter, utter crap.
And you get plenty of stuff in between. Which is really the case with all forms of media, isn't it?
I tend to notice little in the line of "stuff in between".
There are people who know how to utilize animation to break constrictions imposed by live action, who use it to exhibit both visual and literary skill, and there are those who don't get it but are trying to pass things off because its a trend.
I look forward to and hope for a return of this genre to its obscure but loyal niche. Until recently the saturation rate for good vs horrible works was much higher.
What a spin piece.
CS majors had plummeted to near extinction over the past decade.
Given the market is still there, the stats had nowhere to go but up out of sheer law of averages.
Additionally, major does not necessarily mean field. People might be going into the major to gain greater understanding of the tools used by even the burger flippers today.
The fact that it's math and logic heavy makes it look better on a resume than east asian studies.
It bears mentioning that a statement is not necessarily false simply because it was presented as the conclusion of faulty logic.
For example:
I like strawberry ice cream
Strawberry ice cream is tasty
BadAnime sucks
fixed that for you.
Anime is a very polar genre. You get timeless, amazingly groundbreaking work, and you get utter, utter crap. Discriminating viewers relish anime for this quality, because finding the good works provides greater reward than combing live-action counterparts.
cry at the plight of 2 dimensional characters
Just because you don't like anime doesn't mean everyone who does enjoy it is dumb.
yes, because anime is only mass-produced dreck and not an animated parallel to every other genre produced.
In anime, as in live action, there are ground-breaking and deep works, and there is wooden, garbage slapstick.
As is the stylized character of anime itself, however, the difference between the two tends to be much more polar. Crap is utter crap, and good is timeless.
I suppose you could compare it to the consumers of mac products. They're made idiot proof, but hide a powerful unix backbone and the capacity to make the most of both OSS and proprietary structures, thus they attract people even more clueless than your average windows user, but also hardcore unix geeks who want a platform that will "just work" when they encounter situations where they don't have the luxury to tinker.
I'm normally against corporate and government abuse, but what "privacy" is involved here?
you're expected to have a unique identifier (license plate) on your vehicle and clearly visible at all times. You can be ticketed for not having it properly lit at night for easy viewing, and police have internet uplinks for the specific purpose of running your plates at their leisure.
The state mandated insurance racket is another fish to fry entirely, and should be much more heavily regulated than it is, but direct your wrath properly, this is not a privacy concern.
Most places with adequate public transit also have substantially higher costs of living (e.g. new york, san francisco)
moving there is not a viable option as it would result in much higher expense than a locale where driving is a necessity.
Recently I heard of passage of auto insurance "reforms" in georgia.
I've heard the insurance costs are much higher here than the national average to begin with, and recent laws have stripped the insurance commission of their capacity to limit rates.
The right-wing echo-chamber here touts it as "a great leap forward for competitive markets".
Remember when your teachers told you that unless you started showing some effort, you would not amount to anything?
You should have listened.
uuh.. yeah.. I put in the effort, graduated top 10 (out of over 700) in my class and applied myself equally hard at a top 20 university.
I now cannot get arrested because I was studying instead of partying (they call it "networking".. right).
Care to tell any more big lies about how hard work pays off?
"will be?"
you young whipper-snappers don't remember mst3k do you?
guess who killed it?
TNT and USA are becoming better, but then again I suspect it's the lack of quality programming from the wholesale destruction of these networks.
Ever since scifi cancelled mst3k and ran andromeda into the ground it became known to all discriminating viewers as a place where good shows go to die.
Actually, I'm subjecting them to stresses far beyond those typical of the job, but they are occasionally a part of the job. I need to know that the most difficult part of the job can be handled, not just the every-day parts.
Because you should never have to train your labor, right?
The most difficult parts of the job should be taught, otherwise you're not really hiring an employee, you're hiring an independent contractor.
I can sign my name in 1.5 seconds, and type it even faster.
I can depress my thumb onto a (now 2 decade old) biometric reader for the same result in the same amount of time.
This is an excellent example of stupidly wasted money.
Heck, even if its tied to stimulus spending, the new deal wasn't just about putting people to work, but putting people to work building infrastructure which would improve the efficiency and cut the costs to businesses in the long term.
This does not do either.
If it's not tied to stimulus spending this school should be chastised for buying this expensive system in a time when a few more jobs would be more valuable to the community.
european usenet servers are your friend.
I hire based on how the person reacts to suggested tasks, problems to be solved, and the methods that I use to get jobs done. And for programmers, code interviews make things really easy in those departments.
because an environment in which someone is fighting for their very right to maintain a household is the same as one in which they merely have to focus on the task at hand, right?
Basically, you're subjecting them to stresses far beyond the station you intend them to fill, then judging them based upon that.
Not a very sound thing to do.
Part of that re-vamp to make it more reliable could be a cableco push for a minimum quality for a TV feed to be considered "HD".
right now it's only pixel width and height.
I can take a postage stamp sized ASF file from the 2001 filesharing networks, change a few tags on it, and it would be considered "HD" despite being nothing but 15 huge macroblocks with some sound.
Half the channels on comcast's network look exactly like my hypothetical description.
When there's no difference between your tv and youtube, people will go to youtube.
Cable retained users by offering more channels with fewer commercial interruptions.
As adoption skyrocketed, cable companies began tossing more and more commercials into the mix.
In 1986 the average cable show had 2 commercials in it; today popular shows have 6 minutes of commercials for every 5 minutes of content.
Do that in today's market and leaner, meaner companies with less legacy issues to tie them down will come eat your lunch!
Cable providers have already shown they don't have the spine to risk losing that programming, so they can't threaten to shut these studios out. They'll have to take a huge cut in profits by either paying them higher fees for exclusivity or lowering their commercials on live and offering more dependable, consumer friendly service.
If they try to up their bills satellite will eat their lunch, even if they manage to lock out hulu and netflix, and the higher their bills go -- especially with their bundling with internet service, the more customers they will lose.
There are those who consider the TV just superfluous and buy only net. if the cable company jacks up the tv portion of their bill they'll switch ISP's
For those whose primary purpose is TV, people, especially in this economy, might save their pennies for food/gas/mortgage and start giving pirate bay more patronage (and flowers : ] )
Good ripping and releasing groups will spend days putting their releases through QA before they post to newsgroups, their own server bots, and torrent sites.
If a significant enough portion of publishing goes digital to the point where it becomes inconvenient to get physical copies, there will most definitely be people who are willing to strip ebooks of DRM or, if need be, retype every single word of text as they read it, for release onto a file-sharing network.
I'm a technophile, but I also insist technology provide a useful function and not be superfluous or more onerous than the previous iteration.
Physical books are not something people will easily abandon.
Publishers have been pushing ebooks since 1997 and going nowhere. This is not like the digital music marketplace where people invented the technology, flocked to it, and dragged the industries kicking and screaming. The industry is what wants to push this format, and for most its very uncomfortable.
e-books are harder to read, harder on the eyes, harder to preserve, cannot be marked with notes or highlighted, are dependent on electricity and expensive readers which, by themselves, could be liquidated and used to buy shelves of books.
there's only one convenience to ebooks, and that's the capacity to search text. Of course, once you find it, it's not possible to really quote it because of the horrific DRM every single ebook has.
The best literary products i've seen are books which have a full digital text and supplementary material on a provided cd.
The sales reps are now constantly pushing DRM'd books that the students use on a rental basis, meaning that when they stop paying, they can no longer read the book.
and most people go around that by going to the physical copy available in the offices and xeroxing the pages they need.
My school's career center tried to push DRM'ed ebooks at me and I told them I didn't trust their software on my machine. I was given access to the physical copies and xeroxed the chapters I wanted.
I will never, ever, ever pay an institution which uses ebooks exclusively.
"What do you tell your kid in those circumstances ? Moral Copyright Infringement vs Immoral Copyright Infringement?"
yes
morality is more than just black and white. there are shades of grey and this is one of them.
People should not make more through residual income than most people do through piece-work and hourly labor.
If they do, they dont deserve any more of your money.
Who would have to do the work hunting down the "missing" emails? If the task falls to Obama's staff who weren't even there during the whole Bush thing, then I can't really blame him. If you took on a new job, would you like to be told that rather than focus on the tasks that they were hired to do, instead your staff was going to have to digging around through your predecessors crap to try to find something that may or may not be there?
they can hire extra IT staff to do the job.
See, job creation!