They exist but they're not easy to find. The larger companies are going to be looking for 3rd or 4th year students for internships, and the smaller companies won't immediately have projects available to you. So unfortunately (or fortunately) you're going to have to make a project pitch for them. More work, but more rewarding work as well. A lot of companies would be willing to hire a person for $10/hr if they knew what you could do for them, but YOU are the one that is going to have to let THEM know what you can do for them. Come prepared. Bring a portfolio. Offer your services and have examples of things that are similar that you have worked on in the past. It's going to be a case of selling yourself and that's one of the hardest things to do in IT/CS right now.
The internships might be listed or might not, but if they aren't (or the jobs are out of your range) search the job boards for companies that are hiring for things that look interesting to you, and go in there (in *person*) and sell yourself with the line that "I'm not fully qualified for this job but I'm looking for an internship along these lines and I'm a fast learner." They'll appreciate your honesty, they'll appreciate your ambition, and they'll appreciate the fact that they can get someone started on the project for half (or less, depending) the cost of a full timer even if there has to be a hand off later. Sometimes getting a project started is the hardest part of the project.
You can always play the "Yeah, Windows 98 was MUCH more secure than that!" if they're dealing with reports on Linux that are old enough to warrant it... Anything where Windows is reasonably secure (which is pretty much anything in the last three years) I'm willing to bet that Linux had good ratings as well.
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I agree completely. The problem with the author is he's neglecting to "think outside the box"... the reason they all believe in time travel is because TIME DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ONE DIMENSIONAL. History has to be one dimensional (as far as we know it), not time. Go see Back to The Future 2 or something:p
You can't just take code already under GPL2 and move it to GPL3 without the authors' permissions. That's CHANGING THE LICENSE, and that's exactly what Linus is getting so fired up about. Everyone that contributed something under GPL2 would have to be contacted and would have to give consent to have their code moved over to GPL3. You can't just make a broad sweeping change to the license. If you could, then you could easily fork and close-source your branch. If that were the case, we'd have IBM, Novell, Sun, and RedHat proprietary Linux. It would also be a management NIGHTMARE to have pieces of code under each license.
The main issue isn't DRM or not-DRM, it's YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE LICENSE!
My understanding of wave physics is that there aren't many effects that are only applicable to a single frequency of a wave. There's certainly a most efficient frequency of the effect, but it should work to a diminishing degree on frequencies around it. So it's a start.
Actually, holograms are specific to one frequency because a hologram is an interference pattern stored inside a film (it works almost like an XOR). So if you have A (light) and B (image), and you make C (hologram) then when you take A and C together again you get B. The reason this doesn't work on multiple wavelengths is because the interference patterns are different. I'm a little "fuzzy" (ok bad pun) on what the original person was using for a lens (if he was using the hologram film itself to make a molding of a lens or using it as the actual lens), but if he was using the hologram as a lens then it would work only at that frequency.
Another thing to consider is that we can't acutally "see" radiation unless it is headed directly at our eyes. If we designed and implemented hologram lenses that work for the three frequencies that our eyes can detect, what's to say that your eyes are exactly calibrated to the same wavelengths as mine? Biology has a funny way of aberrations, but 10nm in either direction would still make you see "blue" but the holograms wouldn't work for you as they would for me. You'd have to calibrate the holograms for the wavelengths for that specific person. Yet, how would you know what those are? The only way we can "see" colors is on a relative basis. There are no hex codes between our optic nerve and our brain, and modern wavelength filtes aren't precise enough to allow just one frequency to pass. Sorry, this is probably way off topic:p
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They exist but they're not easy to find. The larger companies are going to be looking for 3rd or 4th year students for internships, and the smaller companies won't immediately have projects available to you. So unfortunately (or fortunately) you're going to have to make a project pitch for them. More work, but more rewarding work as well. A lot of companies would be willing to hire a person for $10/hr if they knew what you could do for them, but YOU are the one that is going to have to let THEM know what you can do for them. Come prepared. Bring a portfolio. Offer your services and have examples of things that are similar that you have worked on in the past. It's going to be a case of selling yourself and that's one of the hardest things to do in IT/CS right now.
The internships might be listed or might not, but if they aren't (or the jobs are out of your range) search the job boards for companies that are hiring for things that look interesting to you, and go in there (in *person*) and sell yourself with the line that "I'm not fully qualified for this job but I'm looking for an internship along these lines and I'm a fast learner." They'll appreciate your honesty, they'll appreciate your ambition, and they'll appreciate the fact that they can get someone started on the project for half (or less, depending) the cost of a full timer even if there has to be a hand off later. Sometimes getting a project started is the hardest part of the project.
Hope this helps!
~Jer
You can always play the "Yeah, Windows 98 was MUCH more secure than that!" if they're dealing with reports on Linux that are old enough to warrant it... Anything where Windows is reasonably secure (which is pretty much anything in the last three years) I'm willing to bet that Linux had good ratings as well.
I agree completely. The problem with the author is he's neglecting to "think outside the box"... the reason they all believe in time travel is because TIME DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ONE DIMENSIONAL. History has to be one dimensional (as far as we know it), not time. Go see Back to The Future 2 or something :p
You can't just take code already under GPL2 and move it to GPL3 without the authors' permissions. That's CHANGING THE LICENSE, and that's exactly what Linus is getting so fired up about. Everyone that contributed something under GPL2 would have to be contacted and would have to give consent to have their code moved over to GPL3. You can't just make a broad sweeping change to the license. If you could, then you could easily fork and close-source your branch. If that were the case, we'd have IBM, Novell, Sun, and RedHat proprietary Linux. It would also be a management NIGHTMARE to have pieces of code under each license.
The main issue isn't DRM or not-DRM, it's YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE LICENSE!
My understanding of wave physics is that there aren't many effects that are only applicable to a single frequency of a wave. There's certainly a most efficient frequency of the effect, but it should work to a diminishing degree on frequencies around it. So it's a start.
:p
Actually, holograms are specific to one frequency because a hologram is an interference pattern stored inside a film (it works almost like an XOR). So if you have A (light) and B (image), and you make C (hologram) then when you take A and C together again you get B. The reason this doesn't work on multiple wavelengths is because the interference patterns are different. I'm a little "fuzzy" (ok bad pun) on what the original person was using for a lens (if he was using the hologram film itself to make a molding of a lens or using it as the actual lens), but if he was using the hologram as a lens then it would work only at that frequency.
Another thing to consider is that we can't acutally "see" radiation unless it is headed directly at our eyes. If we designed and implemented hologram lenses that work for the three frequencies that our eyes can detect, what's to say that your eyes are exactly calibrated to the same wavelengths as mine? Biology has a funny way of aberrations, but 10nm in either direction would still make you see "blue" but the holograms wouldn't work for you as they would for me. You'd have to calibrate the holograms for the wavelengths for that specific person. Yet, how would you know what those are? The only way we can "see" colors is on a relative basis. There are no hex codes between our optic nerve and our brain, and modern wavelength filtes aren't precise enough to allow just one frequency to pass. Sorry, this is probably way off topic
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." --Ernest Rutherford
Because holograms only work at one wavelength.