True, but natural disasters aren't the only reason I'm glad I don't live in California. Imploding economy, poor leadership, overbearing laws, and similar issues are others.
I got a job as a software developer at a large Fortune 500 company about a year ago. It's more or less a financial institution, but the need for software developers is high. In this company, developers are treated more like business partners rather than IT grunts, and that's mostly due to the fact that we are so influential in determining how the business is run. Even though we primarily develop software, we have to know the business in and out in order to function.
With that said, I have a 4-year degree in Computer Science. Having the degree was definitely key to getting a job in my case, since I was a raw graduate when they hired me. However, I've learned that experience in the field is by far the preferred rating factor. There are guys on my team working along side me who have 4-year degrees in Business Management and even English, but they happened to gain some (5+ years) programming experience somewhere along the way. There's also a new guy who got his 2-year degree from a local community college. That's okay, but his real selling point was the amount of experience he had, which he gained while I was finishing up the other half of my education.
In a way, this annoys me, because I'd really like to think that my degree choice sets me apart from people who made different choices. I guess if I chose to work for an actual software business or found a job that utilized more advanced CS techniques, I might have the upper hand. However, in the real world where software usually plays a support role, I have to come to terms with my place in the business world. In another respect, the possibility of gaining experience in another field and being able to potentially change career paths without getting a new degree (within reason) is a rather freeing thought.
During World War II, nearly 500,000 Purple Heart medals were manufactured in anticipation of the estimated casualties resulting from the planned Allied invasion of Japan. To the present date, all the American military casualties of the sixty-five years following the end of World War II — including the Korean and Vietnam Wars — have not exceeded that number. In 2003, there were still 120,000 of these Purple Heart medals in stock. There are so many in surplus that combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan and United States are able to keep Purple Hearts on-hand for immediate award to wounded soldiers on the field.
Maybe this means nothing, but I'm guessing the estimated number of casualties from invading the old-fashioned way were what motivated the use of atomic bombs. The Japanese fought tooth and nail even when they were defending a speck of land in the Pacific. How much more so their homeland?
Is Apple product speculation really that interesting to people? Maybe it's fun to have that initial thought on what emerging tech could be, but Apple speculation quickly escalates into a never-ending stream of annoyance that builds expectations up to an unachievable level.
... like Jar Jar Binksarrim of the water people. And Elrond will have an affair with Galadriel. That's right, as soon as we fully Americanize this story, we will have a real winner here, folks.
Why does this guy hate salt so much? Did he have a bad experience with salt, possibly during his early childhood? Does the taste of salt remind him of his ex-lover?
I don't think he really appreciates what salt has done for humanity. It preserved our meat by preventing bacterial growth, flavored food when we had little access to other spices, and even served as currency in ancient times. It gave us handy little phrases like "take that with a grain of salt," and you can even use it to kill slugs.
Seriously. I hate it when someone asks how to accomplish a particular task and simply gets bombarded with remarks like "Why would you want to do that?," "LOL just use Python, it does it in two lines of code," etc...
I have known and worked with several Russian immigrants, and almost all fall into the former group. It seems that for a majority of them, even basic things like American sense of humor were foreign to them (and vice versa for those of us who hung around them). They were decent people, but I could tell that they came from a culture very different from the U.S. and Western Europe.
All -
I am writing to apprise you of two small but important changes coming to Lucid. I have asked the desktop team to start preparing
these changes to make them available in Lucid as soon as reasonably
possible. Probably on the order of weeks.
Change #1
In Lucid, the desktop background will now feature Google AdSense. This will aid users in finding sites closely related to the personal information harvested from their home directory.
Change #2
Change #1 will be unoptional.
Why?
I am pursuing this change because Canonical has negotiated a revenue
sharing deal with Google and this revenue will help Canonical to provide
developers and resources to continue the open development of Ubuntu and
the Ubuntu Platform. This change will help provide these resources as
well as continuing to respect our user's default settings, except in the case of the AdSense.
Good thing we're talking about college then. But now that you mention it, stimulating high school students in the areas of science and math is just as important.
Maybe things wouldn't be this way if people in the U.S. started fighting the stigma of becoming a "nerd," gave college research priority over athletics programs, and provided students incentive to be hard-working and inquisitive.
Rickets is a softening of bones in children potentially leading to fractures and deformity. Rickets is among the most frequent childhood diseases in many developing countries. The predominant cause is a vitamin D deficiency, but lack of adequate calcium in the diet may also lead to rickets (cases of severe diarrhea and vomiting may be the cause of the deficiency). Although it can occur in adults, the majority of cases occur in children suffering from severe malnutrition, usually resulting from famine or starvation during the early stages of childhood.
But it just seems like it would be really depressing to spend so much time essentially replicating a product that hundreds of paid developers already designed and published.
Although not entirely responsible, EA should be prepared to take the blame when they slap their unskippable "EA: Challenge Everything" logo screen at the beginning of a game. DICE may just have written the code, but EA is the common denominator for games that tend to suck on a technical level, so people will almost always blame EA.
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True, but natural disasters aren't the only reason I'm glad I don't live in California. Imploding economy, poor leadership, overbearing laws, and similar issues are others.
... why I'm glad I don't live in California.
I got a job as a software developer at a large Fortune 500 company about a year ago. It's more or less a financial institution, but the need for software developers is high. In this company, developers are treated more like business partners rather than IT grunts, and that's mostly due to the fact that we are so influential in determining how the business is run. Even though we primarily develop software, we have to know the business in and out in order to function.
With that said, I have a 4-year degree in Computer Science. Having the degree was definitely key to getting a job in my case, since I was a raw graduate when they hired me. However, I've learned that experience in the field is by far the preferred rating factor. There are guys on my team working along side me who have 4-year degrees in Business Management and even English, but they happened to gain some (5+ years) programming experience somewhere along the way. There's also a new guy who got his 2-year degree from a local community college. That's okay, but his real selling point was the amount of experience he had, which he gained while I was finishing up the other half of my education.
In a way, this annoys me, because I'd really like to think that my degree choice sets me apart from people who made different choices. I guess if I chose to work for an actual software business or found a job that utilized more advanced CS techniques, I might have the upper hand. However, in the real world where software usually plays a support role, I have to come to terms with my place in the business world. In another respect, the possibility of gaining experience in another field and being able to potentially change career paths without getting a new degree (within reason) is a rather freeing thought.
I was going to argue that crude oil is just another part of the environment and should be embraced, but then it hit me: Crude oil is Earth's diarrhea.
Sorry, I had too much coffee today...
During World War II, nearly 500,000 Purple Heart medals were manufactured in anticipation of the estimated casualties resulting from the planned Allied invasion of Japan. To the present date, all the American military casualties of the sixty-five years following the end of World War II — including the Korean and Vietnam Wars — have not exceeded that number. In 2003, there were still 120,000 of these Purple Heart medals in stock. There are so many in surplus that combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan and United States are able to keep Purple Hearts on-hand for immediate award to wounded soldiers on the field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_heart
Maybe this means nothing, but I'm guessing the estimated number of casualties from invading the old-fashioned way were what motivated the use of atomic bombs. The Japanese fought tooth and nail even when they were defending a speck of land in the Pacific. How much more so their homeland?
The problem with netbooks is that they suck... unless you stopped growing in kindergarten.
Is Apple product speculation really that interesting to people? Maybe it's fun to have that initial thought on what emerging tech could be, but Apple speculation quickly escalates into a never-ending stream of annoyance that builds expectations up to an unachievable level.
Oh I see what he's saying now. For some reason I was thinking of the whole series. The Hobbit does contain a lot about wood elves, but not her.
Galadriel is definitely in the book
... like Jar Jar Binksarrim of the water people. And Elrond will have an affair with Galadriel. That's right, as soon as we fully Americanize this story, we will have a real winner here, folks.
Why does this guy hate salt so much? Did he have a bad experience with salt, possibly during his early childhood? Does the taste of salt remind him of his ex-lover?
I don't think he really appreciates what salt has done for humanity. It preserved our meat by preventing bacterial growth, flavored food when we had little access to other spices, and even served as currency in ancient times. It gave us handy little phrases like "take that with a grain of salt," and you can even use it to kill slugs.
... Is a beer bottle actually sufficient to crack a human skull? I want to know!
Seriously. I hate it when someone asks how to accomplish a particular task and simply gets bombarded with remarks like "Why would you want to do that?," "LOL just use Python, it does it in two lines of code," etc...
I don't need huge total volume, I just want blisteringly fast for shortish periods.
I don't normally stoop this low, but I have a cold today, so.... That's what she said!
I have known and worked with several Russian immigrants, and almost all fall into the former group. It seems that for a majority of them, even basic things like American sense of humor were foreign to them (and vice versa for those of us who hung around them). They were decent people, but I could tell that they came from a culture very different from the U.S. and Western Europe.
Morning jog? This is a job for a flabby individual with lots of personal insulation, and jogging is out of the question!
All - I am writing to apprise you of two small but important changes coming to Lucid.
I have asked the desktop team to start preparing
these changes to make them available in Lucid as soon as reasonably
possible. Probably on the order of weeks.
Change #1 In Lucid, the desktop background will now feature Google AdSense.
This will aid users in finding sites closely related to the personal information harvested from their home directory.
Change #2
Change #1 will be unoptional.
Why?
I am pursuing this change because Canonical has negotiated a revenue
sharing deal with Google and this revenue will help Canonical to provide
developers and resources to continue the open development of Ubuntu and
the Ubuntu Platform. This change will help provide these resources as
well as continuing to respect our user's default settings, except in the case of the AdSense.
Cheers
So by "revenue sharing," this guy really means "Yahoo! is shoveling over the cash for a minor feature change on Ubuntu."
This isn't the America I know. Maybe you should give the country another chance. We don't all fall in to the "ignorant hick" stereotype, after all.
Good thing we're talking about college then. But now that you mention it, stimulating high school students in the areas of science and math is just as important.
Maybe things wouldn't be this way if people in the U.S. started fighting the stigma of becoming a "nerd," gave college research priority over athletics programs, and provided students incentive to be hard-working and inquisitive.
Rickets is a softening of bones in children potentially leading to fractures and deformity. Rickets is among the most frequent childhood diseases in many developing countries. The predominant cause is a vitamin D deficiency, but lack of adequate calcium in the diet may also lead to rickets (cases of severe diarrhea and vomiting may be the cause of the deficiency). Although it can occur in adults, the majority of cases occur in children suffering from severe malnutrition, usually resulting from famine or starvation during the early stages of childhood.
Ah, for sure. At any rate, it takes a developer with a lot of fortitude to complete such a task.
But it just seems like it would be really depressing to spend so much time essentially replicating a product that hundreds of paid developers already designed and published.
Although not entirely responsible, EA should be prepared to take the blame when they slap their unskippable "EA: Challenge Everything" logo screen at the beginning of a game. DICE may just have written the code, but EA is the common denominator for games that tend to suck on a technical level, so people will almost always blame EA.