I realize I had inadvertently agreed to an EULA after installing some software. But as you can see, I was prepared for this action. Because I was emulating a real (Windows) PC in a virtual environment, I was preparing myself for future situations. You see, my real host (primary) OS is a free, open source OS, and I use open source virtualization. This combined with proper snapshots, ensures my due diligence in making sure I can accurately restore said PC to such a state of where it was before I agreed to a n EULA I didn't agree with. (end of hypothetical)
Even if you've pirated the guest OS... what's the worse that will happen? You'll delete one file? I'm not condoning piracy. I'm just saying with virtulization, I can try your crappy software, and once I realize it's crappy, I can undo any "damage" or consequences you threaten me with (spyware, viruses) by either having 20 identical clones around or at least weekly snapshots.
In the meantime, I'll stick with software I can *prove* isn't crappy... you know the kind you can freely overlook the source and change it if you'd like.
If work wants to provide me with a MS OS-based laptop (along with plenty of licenses as they're a partner), all the better.
Otherwise, I'm more than happy to free the OS from the hardware.
I can't seem to find the article they're talking about. I found one which probably should have been called "I can't seem to get Linux to use all the proprietary functions of Exchange".
Doesn't he know why they call it Exchange? It's kinda like a pair of pants that don't fit!
I don't know who Timbaland is, but I've heard the name before in a magazine or something. It may have even been Wired. Anyhow my question is this: is there any proof/evidence linking Timbaland to the demoscene mod? Other than the speculation? Is he known for scouring the net for beats and/or old music to sample or whatever? Did he find this clip on a website out there (demoscene or otherwise) and decide to use it?
Guess my point is you have colonel mustard with the candlestick, now just get him in the library.
Many IT recruiters already use something like this called "ATS". I revamped my resume, highlighting all my skills. One of the tricks is to squeeze as many tech buzzwords (that you know about) on there. I got a ton of hits, I had to take my resume off all the job sites when I landed a job. (The trick is you have to be clever... I had both CCNP & CCIE on my resume... literally stating, I have a CCNP certification, partial way to CCIE. This is perfectly honest and correct.) It works well for system admin who can have plenty of words on there, if you're generally a jack-of-all trades. I didn't put say, Java on there because honestly I know practically zero about java.
I'd be willing to bet if I filled out their survey, they'd um, "find" me. For me, it wouldn't be a programming position though, it would have to be networking or general system administration.
I'd love to work for Google, but I don't believe they have an office anywhere around where I've recently moved and settled to (and bought a house).
I agree 100%. I don't know if the age of the kids in the picture were her test subjects in the experiment but I bet they have wild imaginations.
For example, give a youngster today a picture of an Atari 2600, claim it's a video game from a long time ago, and ask them what they *think* it can do. This reflects the story on Slashdot from having kids play old video games... they were terribly disappointed.
Their imagination drove up their expectations. I believe this is nothing more than the same phenomenon. Try the same experiment on a group of older adults and see what happens.
I could be wrong but the picture of the "students" makes them all look like they're about 12. The exact phrase from the article was they had "significantly more false memories about its abilities."
Does this mean they said "I coulda swore it did XYZ"... how far off was XYZ from what the real camera did?
Sorry, I just don't buy into the idea of "false memories". Guess I'll have to read the pdf sometime.
I think this is kinda weird but this is how I see it. You know that show on cable, Junkyard Wars, where they take two teams and they have to accomplish something? That whole idea reminds me of the Open Source argument. You have two teams, they use their skill and knowledge and available resources to meet a goal. And sometimes they need to make a dune buggy or scuba suit, and maybe team A's device is better than team B only because they were more clever or had a better selection of resources.
This is where the analogy gets a bit strange. Let's say the two teams were still competing against each other but take the motivation away. Not just a contest, but let's say the goal was extremely important. Now the teams are stranded on a Junkyard Island and *need* to make a device to survive, to remove themselves from the Island.
Do you think they would do a better job individually or working together?
Intellectual Property at this point becomes "my team is better than yours no matter what resources we have, and we're gonna leave you here to rot".
..."The dog ate my homework" will be acceptable in school, provided the student provide stool samples of the animal in question with said homework fragments throughout.
Aww cut em a break, people! They're, you know, redefining themselves. Being hip and cool-like. Like the next Apple! Or those crazy Linux and open source people, all get to do it, wether it's a new distribution or waay out in left field with the *BSD fruit. Why don't you all find another mega billion dollar company to pick on!
Anyhow, I hate to quote another site, but I had read this really good article from eweek about tech resumes. It was awesome. It was such a good article, I could have sworn it was covered here. 10 Ways to Tweak your Tech Resume.
So here's the short version of my story. I liked my job as an admin at an ISP in NY. We decided to sell our house and move down south to SC. I knew getting a job wasn't going to be a huge problem, but my resume needed help. All my friends were harrassing me about it, in fact. (That and the fact I was going to be moving 800 miles away).
I saw this article and read through it thoroughly. My resume was looking rather dated. So I threw the entire thing out and started from scratch. I didn't use a template, picked fonts I thought were appealing, and it was bascially me in writing in less than 2 pages. I took about 20 skills I had (actually "clumped" them together) and made a quick chart of what I was good at (and not so good at). And this information was very objective, as if someone other than myself was writing it. It was more like a report card.
So first I had my profile, who I was and what I was trying to accomplish. Next was my skills matrix. Follwed by my experience and job history. Then a brief description of training, certificates and school (as well as accomplishments). That was it. I quickly got a good job and started three days after I moved here. Of course, I went ballistic posting my resume on all the job sites. Needless to say I got a ton of hits, mostly from recruiters. I still get them today.
Driving a 27' truck with a car carrier behind it 800 miles... well that was another story. Let's just say I have a new respect for professional truck drivers.
If that Zografos fellow was Ninas current boyfriend, and it looked like Sturgeon was out to get Hans (if everything Hans said was true), and at some point Nina broke up with Sturgeon... wouldn't Sturgeon have a motive to kill Nina and make it look like Hans did?
Makes me wonder what evidence the police found to consider Hans a suspect...
Um, INCOASFML (I'm not currently on a source forge mailing list) but the way I've been operating for years would probably remedy this situation. I have my own domain... I run my own sendmail (insert MTA flamewar here, perhaps someday I'll switch to postfix or qmail or something). I have my own webmail, but it sucks. I signed up for gmail with an obscure username. Gave *noone* the account name. I just forwarded my user on my colocated machine to GMail, and have GMail use that username as a reply to address. Works great. GMail's become my glorified webmail client (it beats the crap outta my other ones).
So at the end of the day, have your friendly local neighborhood mail admin forward a real domain account to your gmail. Then just change it on sourceforge's list. Then I'm not subject to gmails (or sourceforges) mail policies, only my own.
You really think the Button Pounding Console Zombie masses will really care? People, we're talking about the Wii crowd here... people who want to swing a remote control looking device around in their living room.
It would take a few hours to explain how a PS3 would fight cancer.
(playing devil's advocate here, I'm about to get modded -5 Anti-BPCZ)
I can't remember this one... is this the Pluto who's trainer dies, and he comes back out of retirement for one more fight to regain his title as Planet?
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It's good to see he won the contest on that one facet of security, web security.
Imagine this hypothetical:
... what's the worse that will happen? You'll delete one file? I'm not condoning piracy. I'm just saying with virtulization, I can try your crappy software, and once I realize it's crappy, I can undo any "damage" or consequences you threaten me with (spyware, viruses) by either having 20 identical clones around or at least weekly snapshots.
I realize I had inadvertently agreed to an EULA after installing some software. But as you can see, I was prepared for this action. Because I was emulating a real (Windows) PC in a virtual environment, I was preparing myself for future situations. You see, my real host (primary) OS is a free, open source OS, and I use open source virtualization. This combined with proper snapshots, ensures my due diligence in making sure I can accurately restore said PC to such a state of where it was before I agreed to a n EULA I didn't agree with. (end of hypothetical)
Even if you've pirated the guest OS
In the meantime, I'll stick with software I can *prove* isn't crappy... you know the kind you can freely overlook the source and change it if you'd like.
If work wants to provide me with a MS OS-based laptop (along with plenty of licenses as they're a partner), all the better.
Otherwise, I'm more than happy to free the OS from the hardware.
I can't seem to find the article they're talking about. I found one which probably should have been called "I can't seem to get Linux to use all the proprietary functions of Exchange".
Doesn't he know why they call it Exchange? It's kinda like a pair of pants that don't fit!
We're been Pwned! I just hope they don't hrack our ID-10-Tee hash algorithm encryption! Then all our base will belong to them!
I don't know who Timbaland is, but I've heard the name before in a magazine or something. It may have even been Wired. Anyhow my question is this: is there any proof/evidence linking Timbaland to the demoscene mod? Other than the speculation? Is he known for scouring the net for beats and/or old music to sample or whatever? Did he find this clip on a website out there (demoscene or otherwise) and decide to use it?
Guess my point is you have colonel mustard with the candlestick, now just get him in the library.
Many IT recruiters already use something like this called "ATS". I revamped my resume, highlighting all my skills. One of the tricks is to squeeze as many tech buzzwords (that you know about) on there. I got a ton of hits, I had to take my resume off all the job sites when I landed a job. (The trick is you have to be clever ... I had both CCNP & CCIE on my resume ... literally stating, I have a CCNP certification, partial way to CCIE. This is perfectly honest and correct.) It works well for system admin who can have plenty of words on there, if you're generally a jack-of-all trades. I didn't put say, Java on there because honestly I know practically zero about java.
I'd be willing to bet if I filled out their survey, they'd um, "find" me. For me, it wouldn't be a programming position though, it would have to be networking or general system administration.
I'd love to work for Google, but I don't believe they have an office anywhere around where I've recently moved and settled to (and bought a house).
This is like an odd parallel universe movie where a younger Matt Damon controls his vacuum with a remote control.
I'm hoping for GASA and not Noogle.
Wouldn't that be listening to it die?
...this is opposed to the old standby "Work All Days Evenly". A new ROWE vs WADE.
I agree 100%. I don't know if the age of the kids in the picture were her test subjects in the experiment but I bet they have wild imaginations.
... how far off was XYZ from what the real camera did?
For example, give a youngster today a picture of an Atari 2600, claim it's a video game from a long time ago, and ask them what they *think* it can do. This reflects the story on Slashdot from having kids play old video games... they were terribly disappointed.
Their imagination drove up their expectations. I believe this is nothing more than the same phenomenon. Try the same experiment on a group of older adults and see what happens.
I could be wrong but the picture of the "students" makes them all look like they're about 12. The exact phrase from the article was they had "significantly more false memories about its abilities."
Does this mean they said "I coulda swore it did XYZ"
Sorry, I just don't buy into the idea of "false memories". Guess I'll have to read the pdf sometime.
One Loan Per Child!
I think this is kinda weird but this is how I see it. You know that show on cable, Junkyard Wars, where they take two teams and they have to accomplish something? That whole idea reminds me of the Open Source argument. You have two teams, they use their skill and knowledge and available resources to meet a goal. And sometimes they need to make a dune buggy or scuba suit, and maybe team A's device is better than team B only because they were more clever or had a better selection of resources.
This is where the analogy gets a bit strange. Let's say the two teams were still competing against each other but take the motivation away. Not just a contest, but let's say the goal was extremely important. Now the teams are stranded on a Junkyard Island and *need* to make a device to survive, to remove themselves from the Island.
Do you think they would do a better job individually or working together?
Intellectual Property at this point becomes "my team is better than yours no matter what resources we have, and we're gonna leave you here to rot".
..."The dog ate my homework" will be acceptable in school, provided the student provide stool samples of the animal in question with said homework fragments throughout.
Aww cut em a break, people! They're, you know, redefining themselves. Being hip and cool-like. Like the next Apple! Or those crazy Linux and open source people, all get to do it, wether it's a new distribution or waay out in left field with the *BSD fruit. Why don't you all find another mega billion dollar company to pick on!
No Shit! No dupe on slashdot!
I can't believe I missed this story!
Anyhow, I hate to quote another site, but I had read this really good article from eweek about tech resumes. It was awesome. It was such a good article, I could have sworn it was covered here. 10 Ways to Tweak your Tech Resume.
So here's the short version of my story. I liked my job as an admin at an ISP in NY. We decided to sell our house and move down south to SC. I knew getting a job wasn't going to be a huge problem, but my resume needed help. All my friends were harrassing me about it, in fact. (That and the fact I was going to be moving 800 miles away).
I saw this article and read through it thoroughly. My resume was looking rather dated. So I threw the entire thing out and started from scratch. I didn't use a template, picked fonts I thought were appealing, and it was bascially me in writing in less than 2 pages. I took about 20 skills I had (actually "clumped" them together) and made a quick chart of what I was good at (and not so good at). And this information was very objective, as if someone other than myself was writing it. It was more like a report card.
So first I had my profile, who I was and what I was trying to accomplish. Next was my skills matrix. Follwed by my experience and job history. Then a brief description of training, certificates and school (as well as accomplishments). That was it. I quickly got a good job and started three days after I moved here. Of course, I went ballistic posting my resume on all the job sites. Needless to say I got a ton of hits, mostly from recruiters. I still get them today.
Driving a 27' truck with a car carrier behind it 800 miles... well that was another story. Let's just say I have a new respect for professional truck drivers.
...Vista is not for computer-savvy people.
I was going to say it earlier, but now I beleive is the time...
"Hasta la Vista, baby!"
Gives a new meaning to "cranking one out".
If that Zografos fellow was Ninas current boyfriend, and it looked like Sturgeon was out to get Hans (if everything Hans said was true), and at some point Nina broke up with Sturgeon... wouldn't Sturgeon have a motive to kill Nina and make it look like Hans did?
Makes me wonder what evidence the police found to consider Hans a suspect...
Yup, I've tried RoundCube. It looked nice but it had issues. As far as *sending* email goes, you send out your MTA that your forwarding from.
I guess my point is people who whine about email should run their own email server.
Um, INCOASFML (I'm not currently on a source forge mailing list) but the way I've been operating for years would probably remedy this situation. I have my own domain... I run my own sendmail (insert MTA flamewar here, perhaps someday I'll switch to postfix or qmail or something). I have my own webmail, but it sucks. I signed up for gmail with an obscure username. Gave *noone* the account name. I just forwarded my user on my colocated machine to GMail, and have GMail use that username as a reply to address. Works great. GMail's become my glorified webmail client (it beats the crap outta my other ones).
So at the end of the day, have your friendly local neighborhood mail admin forward a real domain account to your gmail. Then just change it on sourceforge's list. Then I'm not subject to gmails (or sourceforges) mail policies, only my own.
You really think the Button Pounding Console Zombie masses will really care? People, we're talking about the Wii crowd here... people who want to swing a remote control looking device around in their living room.
It would take a few hours to explain how a PS3 would fight cancer.
(playing devil's advocate here, I'm about to get modded -5 Anti-BPCZ)
I can't remember this one ... is this the Pluto who's trainer dies, and he comes back out of retirement for one more fight to regain his title as Planet?
I agree! I mean, I was gonna post a reply with "who cares" but you beat me to the punch. It's not like you'll see this conversation in the future:
PersonA: Oh no! Pluto's gonna crash into the earth!
PersonB: It's ok, it's not a real planet.