FT JOB: Embedded + Windows + FPGA + Los Angeles, CA

This is a fairly unreasonable position, given that the subject clearly states the geographical area. Anybody not interested does not have to read the article.

Back in the bad old days before it was always September on the net, you had to put geographical limitations on each post, and verify that yes, you really did mean for this post to go outside your state.

Head hunters, trolling, generally. The noise to signal ratio is very high, even assuming the posters are bright enough to find the right group (which must happen at least 10% of the time).

I kind of got mixed up with Star Trek (whichever one it was with the bullshit whale-saving motif; I can't be bothered looking it up on imdb), where Kirk says he comes from Iowa. Yes, I did mean Idaho. Sssh, the tubers mustn't hear. Even the potatoes have eyes.

Aaaahh.. if I had cattle, I wouldn't want for anything ;)

--

-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards

Pardon the nit picking, but for future reference, the above line should read:

If thy NNTP feed doth affend thee, then pluck out thine Ethernet connection ^^^ ^^^^^

Thine is used before a vowel.

Regards, the The/Thy/Thou/Thine Police. ;-)

Actually, before a vowel sound (vowel sounds include leading 'h', whose sound of often dropped, or at least softened). If you pronounce NNTP "enn-enn-tee-pee", it's "thine." OTOH, if you pronounce it "Network News Transport Protocol," then "thy" would be correct.

See Luke 5:24 (KJV): "?take up THY couch, and go into THINE house."

Apologies for thread drift, but hey, _he_ started it. ;-)

Regards,

-=Dave

Oh bugger, must have been in rookie mode. Thou art correct. Thine is used before a SYLLABIC vowel.

Apologies for the drift.

Regards,

The Thee/Thy/Thou/Thine Police.

Ok, correct my post to say "reading the header". I don't consider having to ignore a lot of messages a trivial task. That is why I hate the SPAM in my mailbox. It only takes a second to see the header with gobbledy gook, but that is a second too long.

But aren't those the jobs that people are looking for? Is it better to have them post here?

Which amuses me, both when people say "an history" aspirating the h, and when people admonish you for dropping the h, which is as old as English. Brought up in Lancashire, where the initial H is de rigeur for the middle classes, even in words like haspidistra, but taboo for us lower orders.

Is thread drift a problem in the cotton industry?

Paul Burke

Not really. The chances of finding a job posted in the correct group are vanishingly small. There's so much crap it's hard to see the good stuff. I'm not saying that this is the right place for it, but I don't think the occasional job post, by the principal, is not out of line. Besides, it's not a violation of the charter.

-- _ Kevin D. Quitt 91387-4454 snipped-for-privacy@Quitt.net 96.37% of all statistics are made up

Yes the first one. I didn't know that there were going to be others

ta

tim

Hmmm. You'd probably fit in better if you planted corn and soybeans, and kept a few head of cattle and a few pigs. There actually /is/ some embedded systems work in Iowa. If you have time to program (after the farm work is done, of course) you might want to check with Maytag (the appliance manufacturer, not the one that makes blue cheese) in Newton, Rockwell-Collins in Cedar Rapids, or John Deere in Waterloo...

Microware of OS-9 fame is in Des Moines. They probably don't hire huge numbers of people, but I've always heard good things about OS-9. Hmm, lookes like they got bought up by RadiSys...

occasional

But that is the sticky wicket, isn't it? If it is "occasional" then it is not a problem. But if it is encouraged or even tolerated, then it can get out of hand and overwhelm a group. I cite the embedded Yahoo mail list as an example. That group has more recruiting messages than engineering related messages.