But the bottom line is that Apple is again leading the way with the adoption of technologies like EFI and ExpressCard. Naturally, it will take a little while for Windows to catch up.
Well now, you are talking apples and oranges, no pun intended. Max OS X only supports 44 different laptops. XP supports 10,000+ different laptops. It's a lot easier to push technology when you control hardware and os. For the wide array of hardware support that MS pulls off, it's not doing so bad.
If we both agree that chemical photography will be gone from maintstream use in 20 years, then I'm cool. But dude, you are saying that "we can edit digital photos fast" and "it's good to use photopaper when printing digital". That's been true for many years....
Silly man, in 20 years chemical film will be for esotericists only. Like I said, bury the dead they stink up the place! Kodak was always really just a chemical company, and it's all going away! Praise digital!
Google is giving me a free service. More like, many free services that are useful to me. That makes them inherently less evil that Sony and Microsoft, who don't give me shit for free. You call me immature? Get over yourself, buddy.
We don't run our main servers on Linux, because there are too many flaws in main Linux kernel.'"
No doubt. NASA is a *big* SUN shop. When you are doing calculations like NASA, sorry Linux, you need SUN and Solaris. SLOW-aris indeed is true, but you need some special software to handle SUN BIG IRON. Go ahead and shoot me, but sorry, I ain't gunna put billions and billions of $ worth on transactions on Linux.... yet.:)
yeah, Im going to call BS if you say you have gotten every job you ever applied for
With respect, I have a great deal of skill as a coder and enterprise computing "thinker" and I am well spoken (at least at first glance!) I truly have nailed every job I've interviewed for in my career. (But I admit, I only apply to jobs that I really want, and if I want something I tend to get it since I am rather driven by nature.)
stone tablets - to hit anyone over the head with who thinks that there's any real long-term solution other than to just re-copy to the latest format and pray.
Nice line!:) May I add that to at least mitigate this risk of losing data, that I would suggest a strategy of **regular** triple redundant, password protected encrypted backups on a variety of media? For small biz, I have them do small CD backups of crucial data, clone machines to secondary drives, and then take a large external drive off site. And dude I have all media swapped out every 3 years, there is just no other way like you said. But at the end of the day, there is just no long-term solution other than etching your binary into large pure diamind bands?:)
Sounds like you are bitter. If you were chosen to be amount the "full timers" you would not have this perspective. You would be a millionaire. Sour grapes? Sometimes you lose. This doesn't mean that Google is evil. A 25 year old programmer is usually more productive than a 65 year old programmer. Is that evil?
The tranny oil in my 1990 Ford E-150 smelled **fresh** when I flushed my transmission recently. (passed 200k miles) I would guess that oil in a sealed system will stay fresh for a very long time?
I have real world experience in getting every job I have interviewed for. "Perfect world" stuff works. You try these "sly" techniques to nail a job other than common-sense research and behaviour, you are just shooting yourself in the foot since they can always fire you. I guess if you wanna job-hop and keep going from job-2-job, sure, learn sly techniques.
I spent a great deal of time looking for a link with no luck. This was a "rumor" passed to me by someone whom I respeceted a great deal. I assume it's from the past, Win95 era, but am still looking to confirm that this is still the case.
Chapter 1. Building Unmatched Credentials
Dude, work hard and be nice to poeple. It takes 10 good references to make up for one bad one.
Chapter 2. Crafting a Successful Resume
I think that if you can not build a resume that is clear, with good spelling and clear ideas, you should not be hired. Get professional help (pay someone to help you) if you are clueless.
Chapter 3. Writing a Strong Cover Letter
Make it brief, leave you contact info, and be enthusiastic.
Chapter 4. Researching an Organization
Google around about the company for at least 5 minutes, DUH!
Chapter 5. Secrets of Applying Online
Brief emails with your contact information and resume attached (or a no-nonsense URL) is the only way to go.
Chapter 6. Mastering Career Fairs
Keep away from these evil wastes of you time. 1-on-1 in this market is best.
Chapter 7. Learning the Art of Interviewing
Well, you are who you are. Talk only when asked a question, speak slow, be calm (self-pleasure before interviews work well), and eat a little before you go in. There are some techniques you can learn to fake it, or give a "template" message - but dont go that route - people you want to work for can sniff that crap out. Be yourself, and give clear honest answered.
Chapter 8. Behavioral Interviews
Again, most people you want to work for will know if you are faking. Common sense during such interviews is best. If you dont have common sense, you are f'ed.
Chapter 9. Technical Interviews
The best answer I heard was "I dont know, but based on my previous experience, let me take a few intelligent guesses...." But in general, if you don't know it, do not try to fake an answer. That will be like shooting yourself in the foot a few times.
Chapter 10. HR Interviews and Salary Negotiation
Well, always aim high. If you ask for a low salary, you get a low answer. I also like having pay raise analysis every 1 year or 6 months in my contract. Please, it's not rude to be very clear and un-embarassed asking for a certain salary. These 5 minutes of negotiation will determine your fiscal outlook for a long time, so I say be bold of they will bowl you over!
What about Fatal1ty (John Wendel) truly the first big-time pro gamer to make serious (100k+) dough on the circuit for the past few years and also this years national champion? Dude - he is like the Michael Jordan of gaming!
Thank you for that powerful and moving translation. After seeing the word "Agora" for the 8th time (in a multitude of permutations) I gave up. Such irresponsible use of flowerly language!:) PS: Your Jive talk is powerful - do you know of an English to Jive translator, or were you freestyling?
If I have a very large consumer drive (say, 300 gig) - is it better to keep it as one large partition, or break it down to several small partitions for speed or stability increase? What about if I have a consumer RAID? I mean, is it valueable for me as joe consumer to start partitioning the large drives that come as standard now?
Well yes I'll grant you that's a very nice feature: a consolidated trusted update agent.
Well, Google is not big on glitz - Google is big on products that actually help your life. I know a "trusted update agent" is not a big deal to you - but with todays state of security such a thing is a "big deal" to me. Plus, this is Google's application depoyment vehicle for future apps - the first very big Google landing on the PC. Even glorious Apple does not have a free app that does this. So we can agree to disagree.:)
Google-pak? well okay make it easy for the unwashed to have a standard set of apps all the technorati have
You missed the big one here. Google's new "Google Updater" will automatically install and alert you when new versions of Adobe Acrobat, FireFox and other popular 3rd party applications are available. They install or update quickly without requiring a reboot. This is a crucial security feature that does NOT come standard with any version of windows for 3rd party apps, and other software that manages apps like this are expensive and clunky. I think this a a killer security app to keep my 3rd party apps fully patched against new vulnerabilities. And, Google updater is free.
Steve Balmer is a porn loving meat eating Maxim reading MAN'S MAN - hey, he is what he is. After reading thie article I started researching just how much Gates really is giving away - and well, it's all true from what I can tell. I admit, some of it is MS products - but most is Bill Gates, with fist clenched, trying to eradicate Malaria in the world. Are you seeing the same thing?
Aw man! I hate to see skilled programmers out of work. Have you started looking at your next major career move? Though of web-centric programming (Java, PHP, Ruby,.net), or are you thinking embedded is where you want to stay?
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But the bottom line is that Apple is again leading the way with the adoption of technologies like EFI and ExpressCard. Naturally, it will take a little while for Windows to catch up.
Well now, you are talking apples and oranges, no pun intended. Max OS X only supports 44 different laptops. XP supports 10,000+ different laptops. It's a lot easier to push technology when you control hardware and os. For the wide array of hardware support that MS pulls off, it's not doing so bad.
If we both agree that chemical photography will be gone from maintstream use in 20 years, then I'm cool. But dude, you are saying that "we can edit digital photos fast" and "it's good to use photopaper when printing digital". That's been true for many years....
Silly man, in 20 years chemical film will be for esotericists only. Like I said, bury the dead they stink up the place! Kodak was always really just a chemical company, and it's all going away! Praise digital!
Google is giving me a free service. More like, many free services that are useful to me. That makes them inherently less evil that Sony and Microsoft, who don't give me shit for free. You call me immature? Get over yourself, buddy.
Bury the dead (35mm and Kodak with it), they stink up the place.
We don't run our main servers on Linux, because there are too many flaws in main Linux kernel.'"
:)
No doubt. NASA is a *big* SUN shop. When you are doing calculations like NASA, sorry Linux, you need SUN and Solaris. SLOW-aris indeed is true, but you need some special software to handle SUN BIG IRON. Go ahead and shoot me, but sorry, I ain't gunna put billions and billions of $ worth on transactions on Linux.... yet.
yeah, Im going to call BS if you say you have gotten every job you ever applied for
With respect, I have a great deal of skill as a coder and enterprise computing "thinker" and I am well spoken (at least at first glance!) I truly have nailed every job I've interviewed for in my career. (But I admit, I only apply to jobs that I really want, and if I want something I tend to get it since I am rather driven by nature.)
You are my new personal hero. I'm thrilled at the wisdom that you so freely share to us all!
stone tablets - to hit anyone over the head with who thinks that there's any real long-term solution other than to just re-copy to the latest format and pray.
:) May I add that to at least mitigate this risk of losing data, that I would suggest a strategy of **regular** triple redundant, password protected encrypted backups on a variety of media? For small biz, I have them do small CD backups of crucial data, clone machines to secondary drives, and then take a large external drive off site. And dude I have all media swapped out every 3 years, there is just no other way like you said. But at the end of the day, there is just no long-term solution other than etching your binary into large pure diamind bands? :)
Nice line!
Maybe it's not your age, maybe it's not your productivity. Maybe you are just a confrontational asshole?
Sounds like you are bitter. If you were chosen to be amount the "full timers" you would not have this perspective. You would be a millionaire. Sour grapes? Sometimes you lose. This doesn't mean that Google is evil. A 25 year old programmer is usually more productive than a 65 year old programmer. Is that evil?
The tranny oil in my 1990 Ford E-150 smelled **fresh** when I flushed my transmission recently. (passed 200k miles) I would guess that oil in a sealed system will stay fresh for a very long time?
I have real world experience in getting every job I have interviewed for. "Perfect world" stuff works. You try these "sly" techniques to nail a job other than common-sense research and behaviour, you are just shooting yourself in the foot since they can always fire you. I guess if you wanna job-hop and keep going from job-2-job, sure, learn sly techniques.
I spent a great deal of time looking for a link with no luck. This was a "rumor" passed to me by someone whom I respeceted a great deal. I assume it's from the past, Win95 era, but am still looking to confirm that this is still the case.
Did you not read the first paragraph in this article? Please take a look at the last 2 sentences in the first paragraph. For your convienience:
"They'll seduce us into giving it to them. And I am not at all sure that's a bad thing."
Chapter 1. Building Unmatched Credentials
Dude, work hard and be nice to poeple. It takes 10 good references to make up for one bad one.
Chapter 2. Crafting a Successful Resume
I think that if you can not build a resume that is clear, with good spelling and clear ideas, you should not be hired. Get professional help (pay someone to help you) if you are clueless.
Chapter 3. Writing a Strong Cover Letter
Make it brief, leave you contact info, and be enthusiastic.
Chapter 4. Researching an Organization
Google around about the company for at least 5 minutes, DUH!
Chapter 5. Secrets of Applying Online
Brief emails with your contact information and resume attached (or a no-nonsense URL) is the only way to go.
Chapter 6. Mastering Career Fairs
Keep away from these evil wastes of you time. 1-on-1 in this market is best.
Chapter 7. Learning the Art of Interviewing
Well, you are who you are. Talk only when asked a question, speak slow, be calm (self-pleasure before interviews work well), and eat a little before you go in. There are some techniques you can learn to fake it, or give a "template" message - but dont go that route - people you want to work for can sniff that crap out. Be yourself, and give clear honest answered.
Chapter 8. Behavioral Interviews
Again, most people you want to work for will know if you are faking. Common sense during such interviews is best. If you dont have common sense, you are f'ed.
Chapter 9. Technical Interviews
The best answer I heard was "I dont know, but based on my previous experience, let me take a few intelligent guesses...." But in general, if you don't know it, do not try to fake an answer. That will be like shooting yourself in the foot a few times.
Chapter 10. HR Interviews and Salary Negotiation
Well, always aim high. If you ask for a low salary, you get a low answer. I also like having pay raise analysis every 1 year or 6 months in my contract. Please, it's not rude to be very clear and un-embarassed asking for a certain salary. These 5 minutes of negotiation will determine your fiscal outlook for a long time, so I say be bold of they will bowl you over!
What about Fatal1ty (John Wendel) truly the first big-time pro gamer to make serious (100k+) dough on the circuit for the past few years and also this years national champion? Dude - he is like the Michael Jordan of gaming!
Thank you for that powerful and moving translation. After seeing the word "Agora" for the 8th time (in a multitude of permutations) I gave up. Such irresponsible use of flowerly language! :) PS: Your Jive talk is powerful - do you know of an English to Jive translator, or were you freestyling?
If I have a very large consumer drive (say, 300 gig) - is it better to keep it as one large partition, or break it down to several small partitions for speed or stability increase? What about if I have a consumer RAID? I mean, is it valueable for me as joe consumer to start partitioning the large drives that come as standard now?
Well yes I'll grant you that's a very nice feature: a consolidated trusted update agent. Well, Google is not big on glitz - Google is big on products that actually help your life. I know a "trusted update agent" is not a big deal to you - but with todays state of security such a thing is a "big deal" to me. Plus, this is Google's application depoyment vehicle for future apps - the first very big Google landing on the PC. Even glorious Apple does not have a free app that does this. So we can agree to disagree. :)
Google-pak? well okay make it easy for the unwashed to have a standard set of apps all the technorati have
You missed the big one here. Google's new "Google Updater" will automatically install and alert you when new versions of Adobe Acrobat, FireFox and other popular 3rd party applications are available. They install or update quickly without requiring a reboot. This is a crucial security feature that does NOT come standard with any version of windows for 3rd party apps, and other software that manages apps like this are expensive and clunky. I think this a a killer security app to keep my 3rd party apps fully patched against new vulnerabilities. And, Google updater is free.
Steve Balmer is a porn loving meat eating Maxim reading MAN'S MAN - hey, he is what he is. After reading thie article I started researching just how much Gates really is giving away - and well, it's all true from what I can tell. I admit, some of it is MS products - but most is Bill Gates, with fist clenched, trying to eradicate Malaria in the world. Are you seeing the same thing?
This list is bunk! They missed the most IMPORTANT IPOD SITE: www.povpod.com - pr0n made specifically for your iPod video! Fun for the whole family!
Aw man! I hate to see skilled programmers out of work. Have you started looking at your next major career move? Though of web-centric programming (Java, PHP, Ruby, .net), or are you thinking embedded is where you want to stay?
As a guy who works on apps for Palm OS for a living
You poor soul - you still have a job? I though Palm OS was pretty much Dead? Whats the state of your industry?