I had 26 gaming accounts from my brief foray into Farmville. The accounts are still live, but I handed the usernames and passwords to people who still played. So they could send cows and crap. I want to part of that any more.
That's all? $50K/year should be closer to $1500 a paycheck, even after a 6% 401(k) deduction. Now, once healthcare is taken out, it might drop down to $1200 a paycheck - if you're paid twice a month.
I had a friend who skipped a routine checkup because she was super busy - the manager of a plant she owned had quit, and she had to move up there and take care of things for months. She didn't go to the doctor again until she started to feel ill. Turns out she had fact growing pancreatic cancer - and she was dead within another six months. If she had gone to get her regular checkup done, they would have caught it before it hit stage IV and she would have had a much better prognosis. DO NOT SKIP YOUR ROUTINE CHECK UPS. $100 this year, or $100,000 next year if you're lucky enough to survive? It's not worth the gamble.
That's actually what my old office did. Small tech shop that serviced hospitals. The owner and the general manager were grizzled veterans who had had enough and decided to open their own business together some 15 years ago. At first, they tried to hire people with a ton of certs and pay them the going rate, but they found that the skills people had were not as advertised and their customer service skills were zilch. So they took a different tack and started hiring part time students from the university - not necessarily CS majors, but people who had a fair amount of tech aptitude but no formal experience. Most importantly, they hired based on personality. After a year, most of the folks at the shop were prepared to take the A+ exam and pass on the first try (and the company would pay for it.) Instead of paying for a boot camp, they were paid to learn.
A certification boot camp at least gives you a verified credential from an outside authority at the end of the course. A "certificate of completion" for finishing a 10 week training course is a far cry from a proper Cisco certification, since the latter required a nasty test to achieve. I got a "certificate of completion" for my Java I class ages ago, which basically says nothing more than "this person paid us $150 and did the homework for eight weeks." I wouldn't have paid $15,000 for that.
Making a comment about how having a "unique identifier" for a data set is required to do anything with the data - that is, Database 101 - is blowing smoke? I can think of 96 data points pretty easily, none of which will require the person's name, SSN, or credit card number. Zip code, age, income level, interest rate, card level, total outstanding debt, number of other credit cards, years on credit history, credit card max, number of credit card increases, number of credit history inquiries, education level, total number of purchases, interest rate changes, total number of late payments, total amount of later fees, annual fees, bonus points available, bonus points earned, total number of cards issue, total number of fraud inquiries, total number of document fraud reimbursements amount of fraud reimbursements, total purchases, average number of purchases a month - and then break each of those things that are variables down by the last five years per card. Bam, you're at well over a hundred.
I think the "unique numbers" in this case are basically just acting like primary keys in a database. They can't actually use the credit card numbers, so they just set a PK for each account's information instead. Nothing sinister there at all.
Doesn't mean my company will let me install it. The company apps won't run on it. One of our big projects this year is overhauling every single one of them to run on IE10 at least. (I run IE9, IE10, and IE11 on VMplayer for browser testing, and use Chrome for my personal surfing. Thank goodness I can do that at least.)
It's a vicious cycle. I saw a political cartoon once that showed the cycle of snow threats in Georgia: It might not snow, but it might, so close everything. Oh no, it didn't snow, we'll know better next time. Next time: It might snow, but it might not, so let's keep everything open. Oh no, it snowed and wrecked the city for a few days. We'll know better next time. (Rinse, repeat.)
Dunno about CP but Paul Broun is my congress critter and he's currently giving away an AK-15 to promote gun rights. I entered the drawing. Not that I particularly want it, but I'd rather I have it where I know I can stick it in a gun safe than have someone else in my neighborhood have it.
And the tenure process is rigorous and as full of hard work as any other promotion process at any company or organization. They don't just hand tenure out to anyone - most teachers already have to work for years to even qualify, and then they have to submit a huge portfolio and be approved by the county or university. All it does in reality is negate the "right-to-work" state laws which allow anyone to be arbitrarily fired for any reason.
Buggy customized apps, from what I understand. Things improved greatly when they switched over to Desire 2 Learn for the majority of their stuff since it's web pages, but there's still some sort of student portfolio thing they have to access via an app, and the iVersion of it wasn't ported very well.
My husband's school offered him an iPad. He asked them for a Surface instead. After some quick checking with IT, he got his Surface. The IT department was actually happy about it, since they have a Microsoft+Linux server backend and the Surface acts like any other Windows machine when interfaced with the network. So while all the iPad users end up putting in a service call every week because some app isn't working right, my husband (and the two other Surface users that joined him) haven't had any issues at all.
Now, I lost some faith in the Surface when I saw it have a BSOD just after 8.1 rolled out, but it only happened to him once.
Jim Davis of Garfield fame gave my middle school library permission to use Garfield as our official mascot. This meant that not only could we use all the pre-made Garfield library posters (and at the time there were a lot of those) but the librarians could also draw him on custom posters and have a giant mural of him on one wall without fear of lawsuits. The letter he gave us granting us permission was on Garfield letterhead and framed in the librarian's office.
I'd write a nice letter to Nintendo of America and ask if you could have a Pokemon themed library. They'll probably say yes, and if they say no it's because they are total jerks who hate children.
Yes, but now he's got a couple of white hat security firms considering offering him more than whatever he's making now, without the risk of jail time to boot.
It allows remote login to desktop computers that are online from any other desktop computer. The free version was meant for consumers; the paid version is used by a lot of IT and tech support companies who support remote users because it's a heck of a lot easier than driving over there, and doesn't need to be on the same domain like RDP.
I was the only girl in my high school jazz band. The only "intimidating" thing I faced was being asked to wear my ugly garbage bag black dress for our formal concerts. The guys all had nice school issued tuxes. Who wants to play jazz in a dress? So my mother found a nice tux top at Goodwill for $10 that had been custom made for a small guy with very short arms, and sewed some shiny piping along a pair of black pants I already owned. Bam, instant fake! tux. The school was gracious enough to loan me a bow tie so I matched the guys.
How recent is the CS AP exam? I couldn't take CS classes at my high school - I graduated in '98 and high school level comp sci wasn't even a thing yet except at specialty schools. So, the exam itself is probably less than 15 years old - I suspect it's much newer than that.
AP exams also cost money to take, and they're only worth it if the college you're planning to attend accepts it in exchange for credit. How many colleges accept a passing AP exam score to opt out of Comp Sci 101?
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I had 26 gaming accounts from my brief foray into Farmville. The accounts are still live, but I handed the usernames and passwords to people who still played. So they could send cows and crap. I want to part of that any more.
That's all? $50K/year should be closer to $1500 a paycheck, even after a 6% 401(k) deduction. Now, once healthcare is taken out, it might drop down to $1200 a paycheck - if you're paid twice a month.
I used to think that until I watched Nat Geo Wild. Even predators get body parts bitten off, get infections, and die from diseases.
I had a friend who skipped a routine checkup because she was super busy - the manager of a plant she owned had quit, and she had to move up there and take care of things for months. She didn't go to the doctor again until she started to feel ill. Turns out she had fact growing pancreatic cancer - and she was dead within another six months. If she had gone to get her regular checkup done, they would have caught it before it hit stage IV and she would have had a much better prognosis. DO NOT SKIP YOUR ROUTINE CHECK UPS. $100 this year, or $100,000 next year if you're lucky enough to survive? It's not worth the gamble.
It has nice weather. The lure of 60F in January is enough to make people put up with almost anything.
That's actually what my old office did. Small tech shop that serviced hospitals. The owner and the general manager were grizzled veterans who had had enough and decided to open their own business together some 15 years ago. At first, they tried to hire people with a ton of certs and pay them the going rate, but they found that the skills people had were not as advertised and their customer service skills were zilch. So they took a different tack and started hiring part time students from the university - not necessarily CS majors, but people who had a fair amount of tech aptitude but no formal experience. Most importantly, they hired based on personality. After a year, most of the folks at the shop were prepared to take the A+ exam and pass on the first try (and the company would pay for it.) Instead of paying for a boot camp, they were paid to learn.
A certification boot camp at least gives you a verified credential from an outside authority at the end of the course. A "certificate of completion" for finishing a 10 week training course is a far cry from a proper Cisco certification, since the latter required a nasty test to achieve. I got a "certificate of completion" for my Java I class ages ago, which basically says nothing more than "this person paid us $150 and did the homework for eight weeks." I wouldn't have paid $15,000 for that.
I still have the hat I got with My First Credit Card. It was a nice hat.
Making a comment about how having a "unique identifier" for a data set is required to do anything with the data - that is, Database 101 - is blowing smoke? I can think of 96 data points pretty easily, none of which will require the person's name, SSN, or credit card number. Zip code, age, income level, interest rate, card level, total outstanding debt, number of other credit cards, years on credit history, credit card max, number of credit card increases, number of credit history inquiries, education level, total number of purchases, interest rate changes, total number of late payments, total amount of later fees, annual fees, bonus points available, bonus points earned, total number of cards issue, total number of fraud inquiries, total number of document fraud reimbursements amount of fraud reimbursements, total purchases, average number of purchases a month - and then break each of those things that are variables down by the last five years per card. Bam, you're at well over a hundred.
The most accurate campaign slogan for a Republican today is: "Washington is broken. Elect me to go there so I can prove it."
I think the "unique numbers" in this case are basically just acting like primary keys in a database. They can't actually use the credit card numbers, so they just set a PK for each account's information instead. Nothing sinister there at all.
Doesn't mean my company will let me install it. The company apps won't run on it. One of our big projects this year is overhauling every single one of them to run on IE10 at least. (I run IE9, IE10, and IE11 on VMplayer for browser testing, and use Chrome for my personal surfing. Thank goodness I can do that at least.)
It's a vicious cycle. I saw a political cartoon once that showed the cycle of snow threats in Georgia: It might not snow, but it might, so close everything. Oh no, it didn't snow, we'll know better next time. Next time: It might snow, but it might not, so let's keep everything open. Oh no, it snowed and wrecked the city for a few days. We'll know better next time. (Rinse, repeat.)
It's called "I didn't have enough coffee when I posted that" syndrome.
No I'm not. I don't know anything about guns.
Dunno about CP but Paul Broun is my congress critter and he's currently giving away an AK-15 to promote gun rights. I entered the drawing. Not that I particularly want it, but I'd rather I have it where I know I can stick it in a gun safe than have someone else in my neighborhood have it.
And the tenure process is rigorous and as full of hard work as any other promotion process at any company or organization. They don't just hand tenure out to anyone - most teachers already have to work for years to even qualify, and then they have to submit a huge portfolio and be approved by the county or university. All it does in reality is negate the "right-to-work" state laws which allow anyone to be arbitrarily fired for any reason.
Buggy customized apps, from what I understand. Things improved greatly when they switched over to Desire 2 Learn for the majority of their stuff since it's web pages, but there's still some sort of student portfolio thing they have to access via an app, and the iVersion of it wasn't ported very well.
My husband's school offered him an iPad. He asked them for a Surface instead. After some quick checking with IT, he got his Surface. The IT department was actually happy about it, since they have a Microsoft+Linux server backend and the Surface acts like any other Windows machine when interfaced with the network. So while all the iPad users end up putting in a service call every week because some app isn't working right, my husband (and the two other Surface users that joined him) haven't had any issues at all.
Now, I lost some faith in the Surface when I saw it have a BSOD just after 8.1 rolled out, but it only happened to him once.
Jim Davis of Garfield fame gave my middle school library permission to use Garfield as our official mascot. This meant that not only could we use all the pre-made Garfield library posters (and at the time there were a lot of those) but the librarians could also draw him on custom posters and have a giant mural of him on one wall without fear of lawsuits. The letter he gave us granting us permission was on Garfield letterhead and framed in the librarian's office.
I'd write a nice letter to Nintendo of America and ask if you could have a Pokemon themed library. They'll probably say yes, and if they say no it's because they are total jerks who hate children.
Yes, but now he's got a couple of white hat security firms considering offering him more than whatever he's making now, without the risk of jail time to boot.
It allows remote login to desktop computers that are online from any other desktop computer. The free version was meant for consumers; the paid version is used by a lot of IT and tech support companies who support remote users because it's a heck of a lot easier than driving over there, and doesn't need to be on the same domain like RDP.
I was the only girl in my high school jazz band. The only "intimidating" thing I faced was being asked to wear my ugly garbage bag black dress for our formal concerts. The guys all had nice school issued tuxes. Who wants to play jazz in a dress? So my mother found a nice tux top at Goodwill for $10 that had been custom made for a small guy with very short arms, and sewed some shiny piping along a pair of black pants I already owned. Bam, instant fake! tux. The school was gracious enough to loan me a bow tie so I matched the guys.
Oh, interesting. Then perhaps their problem is that it's not very well advertised.
How recent is the CS AP exam? I couldn't take CS classes at my high school - I graduated in '98 and high school level comp sci wasn't even a thing yet except at specialty schools. So, the exam itself is probably less than 15 years old - I suspect it's much newer than that.
AP exams also cost money to take, and they're only worth it if the college you're planning to attend accepts it in exchange for credit. How many colleges accept a passing AP exam score to opt out of Comp Sci 101?