Re: Embedded Software Engineers, needed in Seattle

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

It is negligible on broadband. You are complaining about dialup. I'm
on a cell phone dialup myself. It has the virtue of being 3x faster
than a land line. I get about 15K/sec. I got 5K/sec with a 57.6K
modem.

Whoa! Don't blame us for having dialup!!! I bet you pay for every
minute you are connected with a cell phone too, right? Then you are
paying for all the SPAM you get.


Multitasking also helps. I've been reading docs on the desktop,
compiling in the background, and downloading something else since 1993.
When the big excitement was having a 14.4K modem, instead of driving a
few miles to the lab with a box of 30 floppies to round-robin my
downloads on empty PCs. People were just as verbose then as they are
now.

So the solution to SPAM is to read a magazine while it downloads???
You have an interesting set of priorities.


Then perhaps you need to learn how to schedule a cron job. Somehow I
think you know how to do it already and just haven't gotten around to
it. If you're not going to get a 2nd phone line, then it would be
kinder to your family to schedule your downloads for off-peak hours.

You could also use Google Groups as your newsreader. Then you don't
have to synch anything. You do lose functionality: no sigs and no
filters. Also you're online for the duration of your readings, so
depending on how important you think it is to read and respond to
newsgroup posts, it may be a wash.

Yes, that is what it is all about. We should change the way we use
newsgroups because you don't like that we don't want SPAM here.

I actually don't know why some newsgroups get inundated with SPAM and
others don't. But I don't think it is a good idea to welcome any sort
of commercial posting to this newsgroup, and that includes job
announcements. There are groups just for that, why do we need them
here where many of us don't want to see them?

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