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Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers?
An anonymous reader asks: "I will be graduating from college in May with a degree in computer science. I have begun the job search and gone on a few interviews. So far I have gotten two job offers which I am thankful for, but the salary seems low. I am not saying that I am too good to pay my dues and work my way up, but I could make more waiting tables. It is somewhat distressing that I have spent 4 years of college and years before that developing my programming skills. I am not trying to get rich, but I was hoping that the high level of skill required would account for something(no offense intended to waiters). Can anyone give me any insight about what a reasonable starting salary would be, for an entry level software engineer?"
clothes or be a one common goa7 - INVITED BACK AGAIN.
how can the white house vote in the house of representatives?
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
When you're really gunning to get rid of the Bush administration, sensibility and facts have little to do with anything.
I heard Cheney has authorized the CIA to make rude faces at your mom as well
Why let them take the jobs become polically active. Have laws passed that tax anything that does not have at least 60% american Labor. Tax executives of non american labor companies three times that of american companies. American labor buys products while the foreign labor bombs us.
And Ashcroft wants to track all your guns via RFID!
"If Bush is re-elected, Attorney General John Ashcroft fully expects radio tracking tags to be mandated for all guns under a sweeping antiterror bill, reveals Bob Woodward in his new book, 'Plan of Attack.' The bill would require anyone selling a gun to enter its RFID number and the purchaser's name and address into a national database. The Attorney General is quoted as saying the system would enable the government to trace the path of any weapons that might be used in terrorist attacks. 'This technology, with expanded power to prosecute those who aid terror-related organizations, will dry up the pool of traitors who arm terrorists,' Ashcroft told Woodward earlier this year." --FOX NEWS 4/19/2004
Are the Republicans that much better at upholding our rights these days? My love of freedom has been my main reason for being a Republican, but with this administration grabbing rights from the congress and intruding on our privacy, and now they want to track our guns with these chips that you can read from a ways away, the demmies look less nasty by the minute. I'm starting to feel like Kerry's got the same views as Bush on most issues, but Kerry would like to play by the rules of the constitution. If this thing passes, it's only a matter of time before both cops and criminals carry RFID readers and it won't matter if you live in a concealed-carry state!
Hee-hee - Pass it on!
I bet Kerry can even boast of reading the Constitution, I doubt GW could make the same claim.
FreeBSD is not magical; also it is not a product, or an item, or even a group. It is just a collection of code that happens to run remarkably well together. And this code exists on hard drives all over the world. If the whole FreeBSD developer team resigned, FreeBSD would still exist. If need be, I personally would put up a downloadable copy, and a CVS tree, and encourage any interested parties to continue working on the code. If you have a copy of it, then what's to worry about it "going away"?
;)?
Even if I was stuck using the current version of FreeBSD, with no advances, I would be happy for a good long time to come. In its present form, it is still a far more cohesive OS than just about anything else out there.
And this is only FreeBSD. The other BSD's each carry on just as strong as ever. Take your pick; they are all excellent operating systems. And if FreeBSD starts taking a sufficiently wrong direction, you can bet that at least one or two leaders will start a fork, in order to keep BSD "pure". What's the harm in that? More choice is welcome, as far as I am concerned.
So I don't think *BSD will die at all. The real thing that is hurting everyone right now is its success! The geek-developer community wasn't ready for FreeBSD to get as popular with industry as it has become, so the political signal-to-noise ration has gotten a little worse. But, geek communities have the ability to be self-correcting, which is exactly what's happening. Enough people like JKH raise a flag, and maybe the community will work on getting back to the basics. (But a certain amount of politics will by necessity accompany any achievement.)
So, the only question to ask yourself--as always, is: are you going to be part of the problem, or part of the solution
another thing... why is healthcare do ***** expensive????? And why do hospitals rape anyone with no insurance? They charge like $1000 to the insurance company if they're insured, but like $4000 if they're uninsured. It makes no sense. It's a fucking conspiracy to make it impossible for people to self-insure. There should be laws preventing that kind of discriminatory pricing.
Repeal the DMCA!
Let's see...two possibilities here. The White House does not closely coordinate its legistlative agenda with the House Republican leadership, or it does.
Guess which.
There's not a lot of room in a signature on Slashdot. To put it as precisely as you crave: the House, acting in accordance with instructions from George W. Bush's white house, declined to upgrade the electrical infrastructure and a blackout resulted.
Great, just great:
"He helped his son and I go"
Someone needed school. In this case, use "me". When it's compound and you don't know when to use "me" or "I", or "we" with "us", read it as though it were the only reference:
"He helped me [to] go"
or: "He helped we" sounds wrong, right?
"He helped us".
We now return you to the legion of morons who don't know grammar but want to know how much money they can get - forgetting documentation and technical writing.
Health care is so expensive primarily because of medical malpractice lawsuits. Don't believe me? Check out health care costs in Mexico. Contrary to belief of many in the U.S., it is actually pretty good. In fact I live near the border and I know a lot of people who go to Mexico for medical and dental care and also to buy meds. And because they don't have huge amounts of lawsuits and sky high malpractice insurance premiums to contend with, care is much more affordable. Most surgical procedures are roughly 1/2 the cost in the U.S. And for those who think it couldn't work that way in the U.S., look at the costs of veterinary care. You can't tell me that surgical procedures cost that much less to perform on animals than they do on people, but yet similar procedures are a fraction of the cost for animals in the U.S. than people. The difference? When was the last time you heard of a multimillion dollar judgement against a vet? And that is reflected in what they pay for malpractice insurance -- peanuts.
Also in Mexico they spend a lot less money on advertising, both for hospitals and on prescription drugs. Same thing is true for veterinary drugs. The same drugs for animals here in the U.S. are a fraction of the price of what drug companies charge for people. And hospitals and clinics in Mexico and veterinary hospitals and clinics in the U.S. are also typically smaller, more local, and a lot less ornate and elaborate. We spend a lot of money on needless show in health care in the U.S.
i think the point about rfid is that it can be detected passively, having a concealed carry permit and carrying a gun is fine right now, a police officer won't know unless he searches, for which he must show just cause, if RFID tags are intrroduced into guns then a police officer carrying a handheld rfid reader would know you're carrying when he gets within a certain distance of you. not that i think that's a bad thing, honestly i can't think of a good reason to want to carry a concealed weapon unless you're in law enforcement and i don't believe anyone other than law enforcement should be allowed to carry weapons at all. hell honestly i think guns should be fucking outlawed, but that's my opinion and i can accept that others don't agree. I think that the right to bear arms in a well organized militia is a great idea, but that well organized militia is the Armed Forces, there's no need for a citizens militia anymore, the frontier no longer needs to be tamed, let's lose the handguns and assault weapons, keep the rifles and shotguns for ranchers, hunters, farmers, etc, people who actually have a use for them.
Health care is so expensive primarily because of medical malpractice lawsuits.
I am sure it has nothing to do with drug and medical equipment companies gouging customers (physicians and hospitals) who then gouge their customers (us). Prescription drugs and medical equipment companies are viewed as stock market cash cows, not noble institutions that help humanity. Patents, Slashdot's favorite arch-nemesis, is partly to blame for this. But I digress.
Health care costs so much here because it can. The fat cats at the top of the food chain are millionaires and we the poor shmucks pay for it. Capitalism is good, but not when it interferes with basic human necesseties. Why is it that every other developed nation and even some third world countries like Mexico can afford decent health care? Their CEOs and stock market investors are not greedy SOBs willing to let people suffer and die in poverty to meet medical expenses just for a few extra dollars.
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
... You are not a teacher. 5 years of college will earn you $35K in california right now. I know many new teachers who have to room together to make rent...
Heh, sorry. I really have nothing against gays, it's more a figure of speech than anything. At least for me.
Slashdot is proof that Sturgeon's Law applies to mankind.
Gay has many more meanings than just homosexuality, and, given the context, the sentence had nothing to do with homosexuality, so why are you upset again?
Now, if he'd said "That's so gay! Like kissing your brother." or something, maybe you'd have a point, but right now you only have a whine.
Put identity in the browser.
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