The law deals with the definition of "applicant", but only in data tracking. By requiring so much data to express the interest needed to be an "applicant", it seems like companies get to essentially prescreen who they want to be applicants for their diversity numbers by choosing who to ask for the required information.
This definition of applicant need not be the same as the companies internal definition of applicant and seems more than a bit artificial to those of us in the tech world.
Overall this article seems to be an excuse to spew the same old tips (online and off) for applying for a job.
Use it. It works with all three at the same time (and yes I use all three), can handle multiple screennames from each and has a great UI (read no ads and easy to turn off ALL of the sounds). She can reach you/ be reached on all of them.
However, I am a big fan of keeping away from the significant others's machines and vice versa. Flipping through files is bad enough, but installing stuff is a fast way to die.
Idea is similar to how airlines do ticketing. A buisness traveler doing a last minute flight to close a deal is willing to pay more than Uncle Earl planning a vacation 2 months in advance. The airlines differentiate the cost of the *same ticket* to make more money.
Similarly, consumers in the US and Europe are willing to pay significantly more than those in say Hong Kong for a DVD. Region encoding is a way to differentiate these customers to maximize profits since buying and shipping the Hong Kong DVD of all of the X-files is probably cheaper than buying one season in the US.
Textbook makers have tried to do the same things for years. The same textbook retails for completely different prices in different parts of the world (even when you add in shipping costs).
None, only affects windows machines. Also I think the EFF lists some of the CD's affected and gives the location of a site to test if your computer has been infected with xcp.
(Also, "which" of "???", "??" isn't annoying?)
Microsoft is treating the program as malware and are working on way to let users safely get rid of the rootkit. The only problem is the ETA for this is sometime in January.
As for the lawsuits, it seems like it is the only way Sony is actually going to have to go to court for all the evil crap they did with this.
Besides commenting code, running a code review (comments included) on every change to the code is key to maintaining quality and keeps people more up to date on changes. Implicit in this is using a decent versioning system and having a set of standard practices.
If code has a consistant style and format, it is far easier to read. Also, forcing a team of coders to regularly "eat their own dog food" cuts down on hack and cruft and encourages good code housekeeping.
Also, I wonder how much of the delay comes from researchers filing patents to have a chance at making some money. They usually split any money that comes from their patents with the school. Patents are encouragement to do research and to release that information to the world. Works a lot better for academia than trade secrets.
How much more research is done in industry because patents exist? You think government officials are better at picking who to fund than the open market? Talk about a narrow-minded view of things.
My college did not accept any community college credit, nor should it have had. When I brought home my first term Freshman year books they brought back fond memories of his Junior year math and physics (he's a mech-e and went to Texas Tech). I don't want people who can't do the math or physics designing my dams and building and power plants. If you do less work, you will learn less, period.
What proportion of engineers at Microsoft or Google went to the top 30 CS colleges? Let me assure you that to get though those schools CS and Engineering programs you need to be both or incredibly intellegent because pure endurance won't hack it.
At a glance, it doesn't seem to innovate, just cherrypicks features of other mail clients. Truthfully it looks like a cross between msn and outlook with a search my messages box.
Ah, fashion. What causes people to pay $300 for a little white t-shirt with a logo on it?
Same thing with the iPod. People are paying a little for the style, but namely for the brand and class associations with it. Almost enough to make you want to go all Fight Club anarchist.
I was going by the orginal form of the text as reported by Forbes.
The state of Massachusetts is proposing to make all its workers stop using Microsoft's Word, Excel and other desktop software applications and switch to open source software, said the Financial Times.
The report said OpenDocument, which is used in open source applications like OpenOffice, and PDF, a widely used standard for electronic documents, would be the only software permitted.
If this has changed, I am sorry. Perhaps you could link? If that is the case, then I strongly support MA's case. It is just that OpenDocument is just too unknown outside the techie world to have as the the only document format supported by a govt agency. Having *only* OpenDocument would be a bad thing but I greatly appreciate when such agencies make sure to at least some form of open standard.
I am sorry I made things seem to be about Open Office. Truthfully, my point was teaching people to use new software is costly and it is slow and expensive to educate govt workers, much less the public. I use Open Office as an example because I have used it before, and I can imagine trying to explain to my mother how to get it and how to use it. To me it might as well be Word or emacs or VI, but to her is something completely new and different.
My point is that MA is making a political statement and that that political statement not match residents interests.
What I am saying that it is already a bit too late for MA to have an effect. It is too small and has a population already set on another format.
Though it is a gesture I think it is bad for the taxpayers of MA and is more for political grandstanding to the techonorati and the wannabe technorati than for the greater good.
What is actually useful for the spread of open formats is to get into emerging markets? I think a lot of good work has been done in this realm. That is where this battle will be won or lost. If CA or the federal gov't or the EU did this there'd be a chance of getting some change, but it would be at the cost of the poor, old and undereducated. MA does not have the inertia to effect this change. This is politics, not a step for open formats.
I went somewhere intense for CS, but what I am hearing from current students is that $15/hr is low for summer interning. The kids are getting $20-25/hr to TA CS classes or as summer interns if they are focused on the $$$. However almost all of them will take a big pay cut to work on something interesting, or to get an in on a company they really want to work for.
Hmm, fast track for Google job after college or $5k more this summer? What would you choose?
So isn't MA supposed to be providing service to its residents. Let's face it, do you want to be the one who has to train all these government employees how to use OpenOffice.
Those the change may seem minor to the/. crowd, it is likely to gum up the works for some time in the state of MA. This doesn't even get into explaining to grandparents how to file/read state tax forms online. I think there are going to be a fair number of annoyed taxpayers.
I like open document types, but I think this is a bad way to try to handle things.
It will be even more unacceptable when HP tells that mayor where he can stick it and pulls the rest of the jobs from the city (which given hp's current state of affairs was bound to happen anyway).
I don't like MS but this guy (as has been mentioned before) is a pompous ass. I can't imagine someone so self-absorbed can find a open-source team to put up with his ass.
At least Gates puts up a pleasent public figure. In fact he is doing better than the US govt on that a couple of ways (funding for the irradication of polio and other diseases for which vaccines exists would be my primary example).
Gates may be greedy and cunning, but at least he isn't a whining, attention-seeking, self-important jerk, who provides little or no good to the world.
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The law deals with the definition of "applicant", but only in data tracking. By requiring so much data to express the interest needed to be an "applicant", it seems like companies get to essentially prescreen who they want to be applicants for their diversity numbers by choosing who to ask for the required information. This definition of applicant need not be the same as the companies internal definition of applicant and seems more than a bit artificial to those of us in the tech world. Overall this article seems to be an excuse to spew the same old tips (online and off) for applying for a job.
Use it. It works with all three at the same time (and yes I use all three), can handle multiple screennames from each and has a great UI (read no ads and easy to turn off ALL of the sounds). She can reach you/ be reached on all of them. However, I am a big fan of keeping away from the significant others's machines and vice versa. Flipping through files is bad enough, but installing stuff is a fast way to die.
Idea is similar to how airlines do ticketing. A buisness traveler doing a last minute flight to close a deal is willing to pay more than Uncle Earl planning a vacation 2 months in advance. The airlines differentiate the cost of the *same ticket* to make more money. Similarly, consumers in the US and Europe are willing to pay significantly more than those in say Hong Kong for a DVD. Region encoding is a way to differentiate these customers to maximize profits since buying and shipping the Hong Kong DVD of all of the X-files is probably cheaper than buying one season in the US. Textbook makers have tried to do the same things for years. The same textbook retails for completely different prices in different parts of the world (even when you add in shipping costs).
None, only affects windows machines. Also I think the EFF lists some of the CD's affected and gives the location of a site to test if your computer has been infected with xcp.
(Also, "which" of "???", "??" isn't annoying?)
Microsoft is treating the program as malware and are working on way to let users safely get rid of the rootkit. The only problem is the ETA for this is sometime in January.
As for the lawsuits, it seems like it is the only way Sony is actually going to have to go to court for all the evil crap they did with this.
What is wrong with the world?
Setween Sony's CD rootkits and Microsoft's ... well a lot of things, what can a gamer buy without feeling like they are feeding THE EVIL.
I guess that evil spawn a whole new game storyline soon.
Besides commenting code, running a code review (comments included) on every change to the code is key to maintaining quality and keeps people more up to date on changes. Implicit in this is using a decent versioning system and having a set of standard practices.
If code has a consistant style and format, it is far easier to read. Also, forcing a team of coders to regularly "eat their own dog food" cuts down on hack and cruft and encourages good code housekeeping.
Also, I wonder how much of the delay comes from researchers filing patents to have a chance at making some money. They usually split any money that comes from their patents with the school. Patents are encouragement to do research and to release that information to the world. Works a lot better for academia than trade secrets.
How much more research is done in industry because patents exist? You think government officials are better at picking who to fund than the open market? Talk about a narrow-minded view of things.
You mean like when start.com was more like myYahoo.
Hate to break it to you but yahoo was first to the gate. Still the real question is which interface do people like more.
My college did not accept any community college credit, nor should it have had. When I brought home my first term Freshman year books they brought back fond memories of his Junior year math and physics (he's a mech-e and went to Texas Tech). I don't want people who can't do the math or physics designing my dams and building and power plants. If you do less work, you will learn less, period.
What proportion of engineers at Microsoft or Google went to the top 30 CS colleges? Let me assure you that to get though those schools CS and Engineering programs you need to be both or incredibly intellegent because pure endurance won't hack it.
Why nerds have yet to take over the world:
They were too busy arguing over what sci-fi. Especially Star Trek.
At a glance, it doesn't seem to innovate, just cherrypicks features of other mail clients. Truthfully it looks like a cross between msn and outlook with a search my messages box.
It is a ONE YEAR NON-COMPETE! Also, the enjoinment is for the course of the trial.
The point of it is to have a court order limiting what he can do during the suit so he can't keep "violating" the non-compete during the suit itself.
To hire good people, rather than useless ones. Or rather to oversee said hiring. If you ever had a crappy new guy join your team, you can blame HR.
You apparently missed yesterdays post to the contrary.
Ah, fashion. What causes people to pay $300 for a little white t-shirt with a logo on it?
Same thing with the iPod. People are paying a little for the style, but namely for the brand and class associations with it. Almost enough to make you want to go all Fight Club anarchist.
I was going by the orginal form of the text as reported by Forbes.
The state of Massachusetts is proposing to make all its workers stop using Microsoft's Word, Excel and other desktop software applications and switch to open source software, said the Financial Times.
The report said OpenDocument, which is used in open source applications like OpenOffice, and PDF, a widely used standard for electronic documents, would be the only software permitted.
If this has changed, I am sorry. Perhaps you could link? If that is the case, then I strongly support MA's case. It is just that OpenDocument is just too unknown outside the techie world to have as the the only document format supported by a govt agency. Having *only* OpenDocument would be a bad thing but I greatly appreciate when such agencies make sure to at least some form of open standard.
I am sorry I made things seem to be about Open Office. Truthfully, my point was teaching people to use new software is costly and it is slow and expensive to educate govt workers, much less the public. I use Open Office as an example because I have used it before, and I can imagine trying to explain to my mother how to get it and how to use it. To me it might as well be Word or emacs or VI, but to her is something completely new and different.
My point is that MA is making a political statement and that that political statement not match residents interests.
What I am saying that it is already a bit too late for MA to have an effect. It is too small and has a population already set on another format.
Though it is a gesture I think it is bad for the taxpayers of MA and is more for political grandstanding to the techonorati and the wannabe technorati than for the greater good.
What is actually useful for the spread of open formats is to get into emerging markets? I think a lot of good work has been done in this realm. That is where this battle will be won or lost. If CA or the federal gov't or the EU did this there'd be a chance of getting some change, but it would be at the cost of the poor, old and undereducated. MA does not have the inertia to effect this change. This is politics, not a step for open formats.
Seriously people. I thought you were real nerds!
I went somewhere intense for CS, but what I am hearing from current students is that $15/hr is low for summer interning. The kids are getting $20-25/hr to TA CS classes or as summer interns if they are focused on the $$$. However almost all of them will take a big pay cut to work on something interesting, or to get an in on a company they really want to work for.
Hmm, fast track for Google job after college or $5k more this summer? What would you choose?
So isn't MA supposed to be providing service to its residents. Let's face it, do you want to be the one who has to train all these government employees how to use OpenOffice.
/. crowd, it is likely to gum up the works for some time in the state of MA. This doesn't even get into explaining to grandparents how to file/read state tax forms online. I think there are going to be a fair number of annoyed taxpayers.
Those the change may seem minor to the
I like open document types, but I think this is a bad way to try to handle things.
It will be even more unacceptable when HP tells that mayor where he can stick it and pulls the rest of the jobs from the city (which given hp's current state of affairs was bound to happen anyway).
I don't like MS but this guy (as has been mentioned before) is a pompous ass. I can't imagine someone so self-absorbed can find a open-source team to put up with his ass.
At least Gates puts up a pleasent public figure. In fact he is doing better than the US govt on that a couple of ways (funding for the irradication of polio and other diseases for which vaccines exists would be my primary example).
Gates may be greedy and cunning, but at least he isn't a whining, attention-seeking, self-important jerk, who provides little or no good to the world.