I thought being an "intern" didn't specifically mean whether the job was real or not or paid or not. All my summer internships during high school and college were paid, except one summer that was a volunteer job. The paid internships were working for a Fortune 500 company and a university actually doing useful work towards their bottom line. Of course, YMMV, as some other interns at these places really were photocopier jockies or gophers. One internship even resulted in a very nice job offer.
As far as qualifications go, I think simply being in a relevant degree program is enough. People hiring summer interns don't expect 20 years of.NET experience. In reality, they are hiring interns as a 3-month interview process that is more reliable than a 30 minute chat. Often, a telephone interview is enough to get an offer for an internship.
Sigh. I have never illegally downloaded music. 9 out of 10 CD-Rs I use are for data backup, and occasionally I do make a fair-use copy of a CD I bought.
It has been said a thousand times that the revenue losses for piracy are basically made up. Pulled out of thin air. I know, because I was a teenager once. I went to college and lived among other students. The basic fact is that people buy the things that are important to them, and anyone who "pirated" music or games valued their collections so little that a failed hard drive or lost disc simply meant nothing. A shrug of the shoulders, and they move on. The perception of value is what drives the free market, right?
The only successful competition for Free is Better Than Free. Apple seems to have learned this. Red Hat is still in business. Somehow, GNOME and Firefox have found corporate backing. Or, am I dreaming all of this?
Actually, I'm old enough to have enjoyed the Atari 2600, too, but for me the NES had a bigger impact. The NES generation of consoles finally had games with real and complex story lines, rather than the comparatively simple (but still good!) action games on the Atari.
PBS' Frontline also had a show on sex slavery in eastern Europe. Coincidentally, that story also involved women going to Turkey. A good program, and one that will freak you out about things that happen in the world (if all the other stuff wasn't enough).
It's really interesting how many of the threads, here, reveal a real consensus that the Olympics coverage in the USA is just plain terrible. Do the networks get the message?
"But what on earth are people doing wading through the diary posts of complete strangers in the first place?
The people who use "blogs" for journalling don't claim that their posts should generally be of interest to someone who doesn't know them, so it's a flawed argument to attack them on those grounds."
One thing to consider is why would someone who isn't seeking a broad audience post their personal journal in a world-wide public blog with no access control? I think people who post publicly are, at least subconsciously, seeking that attention, or, perhaps, they don't quite understand that *anyone*, from neighbor joe to psychopath jack, can access their postings and learn about them.
Well, according to my research (soda commercial) all people today are very happy enjoying a leisurely day with friends and roller skating joyously in circles to wonderful music...right?
IMO, it isn't that engineers aren't talented, it's that they aren't valued. In one office I worked at, when money got tight, the first people to go after the secretary were our senior engineers. These were the people I looked up to, and the people I learned the most from. After the layoff, the people who were left were the "good values", i.e., the cheapies (relatively young...and often just plain dumb).
"Greediest bunch of mouth-breathers you are likely to ever meet..."
Of the realtors I've dealt with, I'd say they represent a pretty wide spectrum of people. However, never have I left a real estate transaction feeling that any agent really cared about my interests in the deal. For one house, I even calculated that our agent was making over $100/hour (commission ÷ time invested) to print out a color brochure and fill out the MLS listing forms...sigh. Another selling agent lied to us _twice_ while were shopping around for another house (she must have thought we were retarded?). Thankfully, we did have one buyers' agent who was decent, which means there are at least a few good agents out there.
in context these signs mean "not more than 5 mph over."
I think this has to be the case, because speedometers can't _always_ be perfect and it is very easy to install a slightly different circumference tire that can affect the measured speed. Also, I'm sure the radar and ladar equipment has some margin of error that must be accounted for (all measurement devices have some, generally well specified, amount of error in their measurements).
A while ago I calculated whether using something other than PayPal was worth it for a _very_ small business (say, $100/mo. revenue). There is just nothing else I know of that allows tiny businesses to accept credit cards for so little overhead. However, as revenue grows, going through a traditional bank for processing starts getting more and more competitive. So, for small businesses, PayPal is great, but I really don't see it's value for high-volume businesses, except as "yet another payment method, for customer satisfaction."
eBay, on the other hand, I just couldn't quite grasp how their high commissions were really worthwhile. Obviously, a lot of people think they are acceptable, but several additional percent off of an already low profit margin is just painful, IMO. I never really got hooked by the temptation to list on eBay for that business.
Well, it is more honest to call something 'beta' for it's first public release. Over the years, I have very much gotten into the habit of _not_ being an early adopter for much of the technology available. Just look at the HDTV fiasco or the number of patches pretty much any operating system gets or even random problems with brand new car models.
Google is generally easy to work with, but on the WWW, it is easier to use competitors' products, unlike Microsoft much of the time. I can have GMail, but also Yahoo! Mail or mail through my ISP. There are quite a few decent mapping websites out there, etc. Google does a few things very very well, such as their search and AdWords/AdSense business, but there isn't a huge special incentive to use their other services over the services of their strong competitors.
Up to this past year, I had a 13 year old Sun workstation serving as the firewall for my home network, running a very recent version of OpenBSD (50MHz SPARC handles DSL bandwidth very nicely:). Even Solaris won't install on these machines, any longer (perhaps Solaris 2.7, but I'm not sure).
Truly one of the "value added" features of the F/OSS operating systems.
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"You, as someone who's gone out and bought an HDTV well ahead of the curve, are hardly going to be impressed if you now can't use HD signals because of some artificial limitation."
IMO, here's the rub: what is the HDTV curve? I remember seeing HDTV touted on future-looking TV shows back in the early 1990s. It is now 2005. "HDTV" cable has been available for a while, now, as well as "HDTV" TV sets.
This appears to be what's called A Marketing Failure.
"If I lay off three people (out of 8), then I make that much profit from their salaries" he thinks.
Another aspect to this fallacy is that there is no consideration of morale. If three people get RIF'ed, the other five are given incentive to send out resumes and start interviewing. That manager could find himself not with five employees, but with just himself to talk to in the office.
Just like that manager, the RIAA and MPAA percieve their own value too highly.
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I thought being an "intern" didn't specifically mean whether the job was real or not or paid or not. All my summer internships during high school and college were paid, except one summer that was a volunteer job. The paid internships were working for a Fortune 500 company and a university actually doing useful work towards their bottom line. Of course, YMMV, as some other interns at these places really were photocopier jockies or gophers. One internship even resulted in a very nice job offer.
.NET experience. In reality, they are hiring interns as a 3-month interview process that is more reliable than a 30 minute chat. Often, a telephone interview is enough to get an offer for an internship.
As far as qualifications go, I think simply being in a relevant degree program is enough. People hiring summer interns don't expect 20 years of
Sigh. I have never illegally downloaded music. 9 out of 10 CD-Rs I use are for data backup, and occasionally I do make a fair-use copy of a CD I bought.
It has been said a thousand times that the revenue losses for piracy are basically made up. Pulled out of thin air. I know, because I was a teenager once. I went to college and lived among other students. The basic fact is that people buy the things that are important to them, and anyone who "pirated" music or games valued their collections so little that a failed hard drive or lost disc simply meant nothing. A shrug of the shoulders, and they move on. The perception of value is what drives the free market, right?
The only successful competition for Free is Better Than Free. Apple seems to have learned this. Red Hat is still in business. Somehow, GNOME and Firefox have found corporate backing. Or, am I dreaming all of this?
I don't even want to know what the padding under my carpet looks like.
Actually, I'm old enough to have enjoyed the Atari 2600, too, but for me the NES had a bigger impact. The NES generation of consoles finally had games with real and complex story lines, rather than the comparatively simple (but still good!) action games on the Atari.
PBS' Frontline also had a show on sex slavery in eastern Europe. Coincidentally, that story also involved women going to Turkey. A good program, and one that will freak you out about things that happen in the world (if all the other stuff wasn't enough).
Santa brought me the Rob the Robot bundle instead of the SMB bundle. Santa is such a jerk.
Octopussy is the name of the Cell optimized sockets library. It provides hardware-assisted handshaking routines for each Octopiler data stream.
Not only that, every one of his projects is a Death March, and the employment contracts have that damned "Eternity" clause!
It's really interesting how many of the threads, here, reveal a real consensus that the Olympics coverage in the USA is just plain terrible. Do the networks get the message?
"But what on earth are people doing wading through the diary posts of complete strangers in the first place?
The people who use "blogs" for journalling don't claim that their posts should generally be of interest to someone who doesn't know them, so it's a flawed argument to attack them on those grounds."
One thing to consider is why would someone who isn't seeking a broad audience post their personal journal in a world-wide public blog with no access control? I think people who post publicly are, at least subconsciously, seeking that attention, or, perhaps, they don't quite understand that *anyone*, from neighbor joe to psychopath jack, can access their postings and learn about them.
"So who is better off?"
Well, according to my research (soda commercial) all people today are very happy enjoying a leisurely day with friends and roller skating joyously in circles to wonderful music...right?
IMO, it isn't that engineers aren't talented, it's that they aren't valued. In one office I worked at, when money got tight, the first people to go after the secretary were our senior engineers. These were the people I looked up to, and the people I learned the most from. After the layoff, the people who were left were the "good values", i.e., the cheapies (relatively young...and often just plain dumb).
"Greediest bunch of mouth-breathers you are likely to ever meet..."
Of the realtors I've dealt with, I'd say they represent a pretty wide spectrum of people. However, never have I left a real estate transaction feeling that any agent really cared about my interests in the deal. For one house, I even calculated that our agent was making over $100/hour (commission ÷ time invested) to print out a color brochure and fill out the MLS listing forms...sigh. Another selling agent lied to us _twice_ while were shopping around for another house (she must have thought we were retarded?). Thankfully, we did have one buyers' agent who was decent, which means there are at least a few good agents out there.
in context these signs mean "not more than 5 mph over."
I think this has to be the case, because speedometers can't _always_ be perfect and it is very easy to install a slightly different circumference tire that can affect the measured speed. Also, I'm sure the radar and ladar equipment has some margin of error that must be accounted for (all measurement devices have some, generally well specified, amount of error in their measurements).
A while ago I calculated whether using something other than PayPal was worth it for a _very_ small business (say, $100/mo. revenue). There is just nothing else I know of that allows tiny businesses to accept credit cards for so little overhead. However, as revenue grows, going through a traditional bank for processing starts getting more and more competitive. So, for small businesses, PayPal is great, but I really don't see it's value for high-volume businesses, except as "yet another payment method, for customer satisfaction."
eBay, on the other hand, I just couldn't quite grasp how their high commissions were really worthwhile. Obviously, a lot of people think they are acceptable, but several additional percent off of an already low profit margin is just painful, IMO. I never really got hooked by the temptation to list on eBay for that business.
Well, it is more honest to call something 'beta' for it's first public release. Over the years, I have very much gotten into the habit of _not_ being an early adopter for much of the technology available. Just look at the HDTV fiasco or the number of patches pretty much any operating system gets or even random problems with brand new car models.
Google is generally easy to work with, but on the WWW, it is easier to use competitors' products, unlike Microsoft much of the time. I can have GMail, but also Yahoo! Mail or mail through my ISP. There are quite a few decent mapping websites out there, etc. Google does a few things very very well, such as their search and AdWords/AdSense business, but there isn't a huge special incentive to use their other services over the services of their strong competitors.
Events at the Olympics? Oh, that sports stuff? I thought that was just there to break up the commercials!
Up to this past year, I had a 13 year old Sun workstation serving as the firewall for my home network, running a very recent version of OpenBSD (50MHz SPARC handles DSL bandwidth very nicely:). Even Solaris won't install on these machines, any longer (perhaps Solaris 2.7, but I'm not sure).
Truly one of the "value added" features of the F/OSS operating systems.
Data sure was happy, though!
Seeing Clippy vaporized by shorting the terminals of a car battery would be quite satisfying!
Sorry, I meant 2006.
"You, as someone who's gone out and bought an HDTV well ahead of the curve, are hardly going to be impressed if you now can't use HD signals because of some artificial limitation."
IMO, here's the rub: what is the HDTV curve? I remember seeing HDTV touted on future-looking TV shows back in the early 1990s. It is now 2005. "HDTV" cable has been available for a while, now, as well as "HDTV" TV sets.
This appears to be what's called A Marketing Failure.
So, you are saying it isn't "Just what you needed!"? Is this false advertising?
"If I lay off three people (out of 8), then I make that much profit from their salaries" he thinks.
Another aspect to this fallacy is that there is no consideration of morale. If three people get RIF'ed, the other five are given incentive to send out resumes and start interviewing. That manager could find himself not with five employees, but with just himself to talk to in the office.
Just like that manager, the RIAA and MPAA percieve their own value too highly.