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Here's a good article from Monster.com entitled "MBA's for Techies" that should help.

http://technology.monster.com/articles/mbas/

I know here in Boston monster.com is a wonderful resource -- found me my job at least.

[1] http://technology.monster.com/articles/us.
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Let me be the first to say "Bite Me."

At the moment, we do not have a good answer for small commercial sites.

At the moment, you don't have an answer at all. You have created a solution looking for a problem. Given the wide spread adoption of Java, COM, VB, ColdFusion, and other "web" tools that are available at no cost, do you realy think you're going to get deep penetration into a a market by charging for what is easily available for free?

"No one wants to buy my rocks! Whatever could be wrong?"

Our intent has always been to obtain revenue from people who are making money off of Curl technology.

Those people are going to continue to make money off their existing technology. Future developers will make money by not assuming an ongoing cost liability in their platform choices.

Our business folks were faced with the interesting problem of how to take this technology and make it into a commercial product. They thought about it for a (very) long time, and this is what they came up with.

Fire them. They are idiots.

Can you think of a better idea?

Absolutely. But I don't work for free, and you already have a staff of professionals that thought about this for a (very) long time.

Driving adoption isn't some new science. If you have staff getting paid to come up with ideas, and this is what they give you, get new staff.

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The Tax on the Censorware. Lemmie see... that'll be under $2, right?
Most nerds on /. can easily afford $2000 machines and are whining about paying an extra $2? I'll eat at McDonalds for a lunch instead of a nice restaraunt today. That should cover my next two or three computers if this bill ever passes.
I don't mean to troll, but if you are truely a nerd in the computer industry, you *should* be well paid (if not, just look for a job with your qualifications on Monster.com and see what you could be paid). Whining about $2 on a $2k purchase? Geez...

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• If you don't want to emphasize your formal education, don't put that as the first thing. Resume's are not set in stone. Yes - there are things that one should follow in order to have an attractive resume, but you don't have to put the sections in the order that the template you started with with.
• Conversly, put the section you want to show off the most at the front. If you learned while on the job, put your skills section first (well, after your objective statement).
• Please, nobody cares about your last 15million jobs. If they want a full employment list, they'll ask. Keep the previous employment to under a page
• No "References available upon request" shit. Of course they want your references - so either put them on your resume or have another sheet that shows them
• I have to back up the previous poster, CUSTOMIZE YOUR RESUME. But I'll add on this, customize your Cover Letter too. If there's info on there that I don't need to see, i'll probably wonder why you're wasting my time. Arrgh
• Don't list your hobbies, unless they are soo completely and totally relevant. For example - president of a LUG and you're applying to VA Linux? Then you can show it. But 99.99736% of the time they don't care/want to know.

Any other hints? Check out all the stupid sites out there....

• Monster.com Tech Resume Tips
• Monster.com DotCom Resume Tips
• Techies.com - Technical Resumes - what works

There's plenty of other resources out there - just look.

• If you don't want to emphasize your formal education, don't put that as the first thing. Resume's are not set in stone. Yes - there are things that one should follow in order to have an attractive resume, but you don't have to put the sections in the order that the template you started with with.
• Conversly, put the section you want to show off the most at the front. If you learned while on the job, put your skills section first (well, after your objective statement).
• Please, nobody cares about your last 15million jobs. If they want a full employment list, they'll ask. Keep the previous employment to under a page
• No "References available upon request" shit. Of course they want your references - so either put them on your resume or have another sheet that shows them
• I have to back up the previous poster, CUSTOMIZE YOUR RESUME. But I'll add on this, customize your Cover Letter too. If there's info on there that I don't need to see, i'll probably wonder why you're wasting my time. Arrgh
• Don't list your hobbies, unless they are soo completely and totally relevant. For example - president of a LUG and you're applying to VA Linux? Then you can show it. But 99.99736% of the time they don't care/want to know.

Any other hints? Check out all the stupid sites out there....

• Monster.com Tech Resume Tips
• Monster.com DotCom Resume Tips
• Techies.com - Technical Resumes - what works

There's plenty of other resources out there - just look.

Doesn't Mitnick have a non-compete clause with the NSA?

Anyway, here's some good starting points on your journey to career nirvana.

Dancin Santa

Reading the AnandTech review of the Aiwa that was linked to elsewhere, it sounds like the unit has the overall quality of the Nomad Jukebox. Which is to say, it'll play MP3s, but overall the device is crap. I have a Nomad because it solved my immediate desire to transport MP3s from home to the car and office, but as soon as something better comes along it'll become a hand-me-down for my kid brother or go on eBay.

I rejected the Aiwa and Kenwood MP3 head units because I have better things to do than burn my MP3 collection back to CD. I also worry about the longevity of CDRs subjected to the abuse of being in the car (heat, scratching, etc). Another MP3 option that hasn't been mentioned is the "PhatNoise", a modular 2.5" hard-drive unit that emulates an OEM CD changer. The plus side to it is that it provides "Stealth MP3", but their site has been around for quite a while and they still aren't shipping.

I'd have bought an empeg for my car, but unfortunately it will not be coming back to America with me (some stupid law about airbags) and I don't want to go through the hassle of re-installing the factory system when I sell it. The drawbacks to the empeg are:

1. Price
2. AM/FM tuner isn't shipping yet
3. No CD option

#1: Nothing can be done about that. If you aren't geek enough to spend whatever it takes to building the baddest MoFo vehicle that plays MP3s and runs Linux, Slashdot can't help you. Sorry. Perhaps you need to find a better job or re-locate somewhere with a lower cost-of-living.

The empeg also does not provide an amplified signal, which is an additional cost if your car doesn't already have an amplifier. You can get around that by slaving the empeg to a head-unit that does have an amplifier (see #2).

#2: I personally don't care about the tuner, but for true NPR die-hards the empeg does have RCA line outputs AND inputs, which means that you can plug the empeg into a standard head unit (or vice-versa). If your dash doesn't have a double-DIN stereo slot, you'll need to do some hacking. GM and Chrysler "DIN-and-a-half" designs usually have enough space around them to build a double-DIN space. Don't risk screwing up your own dash with a dremel tool, pay a professional installer to do it (if it's a friend's dash, and they're offering beer, go for it ;-)

On other single-DIN cars, like my present BMW E36 and my former Mustang, there is often a storage area in the dash that happens to be single-DIN sized. In the case of the Mustang, that space was actually designed to hold a factory single CD player. Again, don't mess up your own dash, seek the help of a professional installer. And the fools at Best Buy do not qualify as professionals. Get a recommendation from that friend of yours who ripped out his back seat to install three 18" subwoofers. If you don't have such a friend, you need to get out more.

If your car doesn't have an available opening, it gets tricky. The glove box, armrest, and under-dash mounting (CB-style) are the primary possibilities. There is some possibility that you could hack a "detachable face" unit to put the display and controls somewhere convenient, but I would strongly recommend that you just replace the car (see #1).

#3: You have three choices for CD playback. You can go the route mentioned in #2, using a full head-unit to provide CD playback. Or you can buy a stand-alone in-dash CD unit, similar to what Ford offers for the Mustang. Sony's CDX-1000RF is one example that provides RCA outputs. Or you can buy a CD changer that has it's own controls, just make sure that it provides RCA outputs. Many use a single RCA-style jack to run to an external FM modulator, this is not the same thing. Be sure to check the manual before buying, never trust the sales guy (especially if it's at Best Buy or any other chain).

For "once in a blue moon" CD use, you could also rig up a Discman to the empeg's RCA inputs. It's a crappy way to do it, but if the desire to play CDs will be very infrequent, it's good enough...

-Bryce

Personally if I were in your situation I would go ever to a couple of job sites and search for companies willing to sponsor H1 visa's. Pages such as Hotjobs, Dice, Monster, all have options for foreigners to break into corporations via sponsorships.

Speedygrl has a comprehensive listing of job search engines and companies.

I've never dealt with looking for positions in other countries but soon I will be asking the same question when I get close to moving to Sweden, so I'm curious to these answers as well.

Hope that helped a bit.

Redhat spoofed

Will Java be the solution to all of our problems? It's probably too early to tell right now, but I suspect it will be pretty obvious within the next 12 months, and it looks now like Java is going to be a winner. If this happens, very few schools will be teaching C++ in introductory courses by 1999, when the new ETS exam is first given.

Get another job, I had the "celluar" allowance and went through an entire bucket of Crisco fighting over celluar bills. If they want you to have a phone get them to pay for it, otherwise checkout computerjobs.com or some other head hunter site.

Or imagine you're the driver of a van delivering groceries and blankets to the homeless. Do you know how many lives are lost every year owing to exposure, simply because of miscommunication between relief agencies and dispatchers? A continuous link with home would solve that dilemma while providing incidental benefits like letting the homeless check their email or search for jobs on the internet.

However, I think you, Anne Marie have a career writing commercials for wireless web providers. This sounds like exactly the kind of saccharine bullshit they'd use to sell their product.

Radio will get you somewhere, but cbs are subject to a lot of abuse. Recently in NY, disgruntled ambulance drivers were (illegally) jamming the airwaves by blowing on the receiver each time a dispatch went out to a non-union ambulance. Thankfully, no one was (apparently) killed by the practice, but just the same, it's a scary prospect, and it'd be a lot harder to jam a satellite feed.

The sooner we realize real lives are at stake, the sooner we'll embrace this technology, for the greater good of humanity.

The trick is to be confident and realize the potential within yourself.

You are my exact mirror last year. :) I'm about to be 23, been doing this stuff since I was 8. I don't write code on the high-levels, however (I do perl, sh).

Last year I was making around $50K slaving for a start-up that had me hog-tied this way and that. I actually left for 2 weeks for an E-Commerce thing but found that I couldn't handle Perl full-time and crawled back.

Now I'm at a Fortune 500 (albeit bored, but I've got plenty of other opportunities I'm working on), and I make over $100k a year. True, I'm a contractor, but the salaried positions I'm looking at equal this amount.

It's all about realizing your talents and going out there with a "You want me, you can't live without me" attitude. I got lucky with a sorta-friend hooking me up with a contract where I learned just how useful I really was. I went from there to several other places and learned the same thing. Now I'm just trying to find the exact company for me to make my permanent home.

It's about confidence. You need to think of yourself as being a $80K+ per year employee, but you've just been waiting things out.

If you are as good as you say you are, you'll be on the top in no time. It just takes a little drive at first and it's all momentum from there.

Living next to a major city helps a LOT. hit Computerjobs.com and Monster.com and post your resume and skillset.

I went away from the traditional route of resumes and put my skills and ambitions first. See an example here

Life *does* get better than this.

I am going to be a junior in high school, turning 17 in august, and have applied to numerous companies, and alas, with no success whatsoever.

Some of the companies i have applied to included General Electric, NuEdge Systems where they wanted me to overhaul their web page, and i was really really close to getting the job, but the same excuse seems to come up alot.

"I'm sorry, but we're not ready to start this project yet"

And i've heard this excuse from at least 3 companies. Another example includes a company called Exacta Corp., where they saw my resume on monster.com and they were very interested, but again, the excuse came...

"I'm sorry, but we still haven't opened up our internship program yet. We will give you a call in a few months."

Well, its been 4 months, and not a single phone call.

Another company that i was applying to, ironically the company my father worked for, Compuware, but that didn't work out due to some messed up reasons.

Well that's enough out of me. Just giving you some feedback on what my experience with job searching has been as a soon to be junior in High School

--Unborracho

Well, www.monster.com is a good place to start...

As for other helpful job search engines, I find that Techies.com and Monster.com are two fairly great job sites as well. I like how you can narrow down jobs to a certain merto area.

Other places like CareerBuilder(.com), HeadHunter(.net), and HotJobs(.com) might have more info.

Of course I'm biased: I'm about fifteen feet from the machines that make monster work.

The states aren't much better. I seem to have better luck with paper ads (where companies themselves advertise).

Monster Board used to be good. I found my last two jobs there but I've hit a brick wall for the last 3 months. I get what I call "Database Fillers." Agencies that employ their agents to fill a database with interviews. They don't care if the job gets filled, just that they meet their quota.

I'm sure to get spammed here, but these jerks are really getting on my nerves. If any IT managers are reading, heed this call:

Do not hire from agencies! They are sloppily run, and care nothing for your company and certainly not for the people they interview. Only you can stop this scam and get yourselves the best techs possible.

This concludes my rant. We now return you to your regularly scheduled surfing.

• American Banker
• Americas Job Bank
• Black Enterprise
• Business Week
• Career Pulse
• CareerBuilder*
• CareerCity
• CareerExchange
• CareerMosaic
• Caree rPath
• CareerWeb
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• CitySearch
• CNET
• Dallas Morning News
• DICE
• EDN
• Hispanic Online
• HotJobs
• Internet.com
• JobOptions
• Monster
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• NationJob
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• SelectJobs
• Test and Measurement World
• USAToday
• WETA
• WomenConnect
• Yahoo

The OS should be able to take advantage of it
efficiently if there's more than 2gb. Doesn't
matter how rare it is. And the fact is, it's
*not* that rare among servers being purchased
these days.

We run linux on a few boxes with between 64
and 1024 mb, but all of the nt servers we're
buying now have 2gb - 4gb. And we've reached
the point where we need to be running a 64bit
os with something more on the order of 24gb for
our current databases.

And the last poster's right - most sales force
automation database servers are running at least
2gb of ram to support sales forces of 50 people
or so. I certainly don't believe *that's* a
rare situation.

Gratuitous plug.