Indeed. One of the biggest deterrents at my local airport for would-be ne'erdowells is the large quantity of firearms-trained police officers on site.
An interesting piece of TMI: Passengers who answer the question (paraphrased) "Do you have anything in your baggage which is known to not be allowed on the aircraft?" with "Only a bomb." more often than not lose control of their bladder when faced with several large gentlemen carrying automatic weapons.
I didn't miss the point. The Decade in experience with 2008R2 was obviously put in there as a joke. You must have not gotten that.
The end of my reply to the other child post is essentially a summary of what you've said; They make insane demands, don't get them met, ship in H1B workforce and reap short term reward. In the end, they'll fail. That doesn't help you now, though.
My point is very much "If you can't stand the heat..." There are plenty of jobs available, just not jobs a graduate of the past 10 years would expect to do. Still jobs which can lead to very good careers, though. Cable monkey for $25k is better than beatnik for $0k. Have to play the game by today's rules, not yesterdays.
How about $60k (adjusted up/down for COL where you are), medical coverage, 401k, reasonable leave time/holidays, rotating call coverage/overtime, and a working environment that doesn't make you want to rip your own fingers off to improve your situation?
There will always be somebody who's willing to take $55k. Like I said, "the market" decides what you get paid. If you don't like the pay, you find another job / sector and work your ass off getting a job there.
I somehow knew I'd be modded troll, but I see it as more "-1 Uncomfortable Truth." Coming out of University with $xx,000 in debt and a qualification another 1m people across the country also got isn't the way it's done anymore, but business hasn't caught up. They want the Degree level education of a graduate, but the lower expectation of an unqualified H1B employee. They get the latter, as it costs less, and at the moment the bottom-line is the bottom-line. The question is whether you're willing to slip yourself into that segment in order to get experience, or become part of the "welfare state" so to speak.
FWIW, a friend of mine left his cushy job as QA for a large game publisher around 4 months ago and went onto benefits (contract ended, so he qualified). His outgoings are less by as much as I earn more than he gets in benefits, so we have a comparative lifestyle. The difference is that when he comes to seek employment, he has to explain why he's been a bum for 6 months. I only have to use the words "Economic downturn. I didn't want to go on benefits." to explain why I took lower pay than the job is worth. He benefits short term.
It won't last forever, and we can benefit long term. Just got to play by their rules for a while.
Is someone twisting your arm to take this job? Are you being coerced?
Don't whine and blame "corporate America" when you find out your CS degree doesn't guarantee you a $125k a year salary with a company car and medical cover. That boat sailed long ago, and you're not the first / you won't be the last to realise it. You are a commodity now. You're either a prodigy and make yourself very well known, or you fade into the pool of imported skills and labour, many of whom come from backgrounds where your idea of "a hard day's work" is vacation time.
Someone else is willing to work harder than you for less money. Either lower your expectations, change your work ethic, or prepare to be swept aside by 10 others who aren't as pompous.
If you already have an interview, they already want you. Turning up in a cravat and tailed coat is more than likely not going to hurt your chances at employment.
I bet they'd be more impressed with a top hat than a Children of Bodom t-shirt.
It might sound technical, but it could be crucial to persuading consumers to buy all the splashy new Internet-connected gear that tech companies will demonstrate at C.E.S., like HDTVs and set-top boxes that can download TV shows and films.
I have a set-top box which can download TV and films. It's a Windows PC with a BitTorrent client. No doubt there are other solutions, but mine works without DRM.
No, this sounds like a good reason why I would write to the big record / movie companies and explain the real reason why I'm not buying their products anymore.
1. I dislike their products. All of them.
Yeah, that's the only reason. Nothing to do with piracy.
Consider that what you may want to be in fantasy is not what you think your parents would be all too comfortable with you actually being when you turn up for Christmas dinner.
If you see 2L as an escape for the fearful, you're too narrow minded. I consider (the adult portion at least) to be an extension of the fantasy world, not a replacement of the real one.
I don't "play" 2L, I just disagree with your point.
Will you be able to take box cutters and mercury thermometers on your own aircraft? I would think not carrying the latter would fall under "self preservation" but I'm unlikely to hijack my own skycar and redirect myself to a destination I don't want to go to.
Unless I'm forced into another Christmas at my mother-in-law's...
As I said above, this guy needs to hire a competant lawyer to skim the EULA, check for breaches of data protection legislation, and get the case dropped.
If he has any sense, he won't try and sue Blizzard, though. He could, however, write to the guys who prosecute crime (In the UK we call them the Crown Prosecution Service) to take it up. GLWT, though.
Without a court order or warrant the information held by Blizzard is held by data protection legislation (however your country applies it) and should not be divulged. This dealer should hire a competant lawyer to run over the EULA and see if it the data provided to law enforcement was provided legally, and if not get the case dropped.
I'm not so much of an idiot to suggest that he attempt to sue Blizzard.
Offspec (Apologies for the rubbish link quality, but it gets the point across).
You can't make classes "jack of all trades." It doesn't work. Someone misses their cue to fire off a spell because they're in the middle of doing something else, and it's all gone to pot. This fictional game from Gamasutra would be great if many MMO gamers (that I've encountered) could keep track of more than one thing at a time. However, having seen healers run backwards into a new mob, tanks which run around between enemies trying to take aggro from other characters who don't need it, and damage dealers who have no concept of aggro mitigation, I'm susprised a lot of MMO players can cross the road without assistance.
Paraphrasing someone's very famous words: "If it ain't bust, don't fix it."
Books contain some pretty graphic descriptions of scenes without showing them, and they're just as emotive. My point is that the game doesn't change; It's still a mad zombie-fest survival piece. It's not like they turned the zombies into marionettes and had the words "YOU ARE NOT SHOOTING REAL PEOPLE." emblazoned across the screen. Nor did they make it into Barbie Fun House of Horse Riding Escapades.
It's the same game, with the same mechanics, the same plot. Gore shouldn't even be an issue.
The last thing you do is try and stop people from hearing about it. You make light of it, show it as not a big deal, and move on.
"Yeah, some guy hit me with a souvenir... Oh well, shit happens! The security guards are stepping it up a notch or two, but it's not like I was shot or anything. Thanks god, you know? Wouldn't want to leave my wife having to look for an inferior lover! Vote for me, you guys... I'm easy going."
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Indeed. One of the biggest deterrents at my local airport for would-be ne'erdowells is the large quantity of firearms-trained police officers on site.
An interesting piece of TMI: Passengers who answer the question (paraphrased) "Do you have anything in your baggage which is known to not be allowed on the aircraft?" with "Only a bomb." more often than not lose control of their bladder when faced with several large gentlemen carrying automatic weapons.
Selling newsletters? You should have picked a better super power, chump...
Here's the problem with all manned security scanners.
No, you're free to think whatever you like. Just don't tell anyone what you're thinking.
If you do happen to tell someone, kill them!
I didn't miss the point. The Decade in experience with 2008R2 was obviously put in there as a joke. You must have not gotten that.
The end of my reply to the other child post is essentially a summary of what you've said; They make insane demands, don't get them met, ship in H1B workforce and reap short term reward. In the end, they'll fail. That doesn't help you now, though.
My point is very much "If you can't stand the heat..." There are plenty of jobs available, just not jobs a graduate of the past 10 years would expect to do. Still jobs which can lead to very good careers, though. Cable monkey for $25k is better than beatnik for $0k. Have to play the game by today's rules, not yesterdays.
How about $60k (adjusted up/down for COL where you are), medical coverage, 401k, reasonable leave time/holidays, rotating call coverage/overtime, and a working environment that doesn't make you want to rip your own fingers off to improve your situation?
There will always be somebody who's willing to take $55k. Like I said, "the market" decides what you get paid. If you don't like the pay, you find another job / sector and work your ass off getting a job there.
I somehow knew I'd be modded troll, but I see it as more "-1 Uncomfortable Truth." Coming out of University with $xx,000 in debt and a qualification another 1m people across the country also got isn't the way it's done anymore, but business hasn't caught up. They want the Degree level education of a graduate, but the lower expectation of an unqualified H1B employee. They get the latter, as it costs less, and at the moment the bottom-line is the bottom-line. The question is whether you're willing to slip yourself into that segment in order to get experience, or become part of the "welfare state" so to speak.
FWIW, a friend of mine left his cushy job as QA for a large game publisher around 4 months ago and went onto benefits (contract ended, so he qualified). His outgoings are less by as much as I earn more than he gets in benefits, so we have a comparative lifestyle. The difference is that when he comes to seek employment, he has to explain why he's been a bum for 6 months. I only have to use the words "Economic downturn. I didn't want to go on benefits." to explain why I took lower pay than the job is worth. He benefits short term.
It won't last forever, and we can benefit long term. Just got to play by their rules for a while.
Is someone twisting your arm to take this job? Are you being coerced?
Don't whine and blame "corporate America" when you find out your CS degree doesn't guarantee you a $125k a year salary with a company car and medical cover. That boat sailed long ago, and you're not the first / you won't be the last to realise it. You are a commodity now. You're either a prodigy and make yourself very well known, or you fade into the pool of imported skills and labour, many of whom come from backgrounds where your idea of "a hard day's work" is vacation time.
Someone else is willing to work harder than you for less money. Either lower your expectations, change your work ethic, or prepare to be swept aside by 10 others who aren't as pompous.
Things change. Adapt.
If you already have an interview, they already want you. Turning up in a cravat and tailed coat is more than likely not going to hurt your chances at employment.
I bet they'd be more impressed with a top hat than a Children of Bodom t-shirt.
An anonymous poster gives an opinion with no corroboration or evidence, and it's moderated Informative.
Everyone who modded the twice-stated word "yes" as "Informative" should lose their ability to moderate.
The rest of the world has Quad Band phones. Our phones work well on your backwards frequencies, it's just your phones which don't work on ours.
Are you saying that waiting in traffic is better than teleportation?!
Heretic!
It might sound technical, but it could be crucial to persuading consumers to buy all the splashy new Internet-connected gear that tech companies will demonstrate at C.E.S., like HDTVs and set-top boxes that can download TV shows and films.
I have a set-top box which can download TV and films. It's a Windows PC with a BitTorrent client. No doubt there are other solutions, but mine works without DRM.
No, this sounds like a good reason why I would write to the big record / movie companies and explain the real reason why I'm not buying their products anymore.
1. I dislike their products. All of them.
Yeah, that's the only reason. Nothing to do with piracy.
Consider that what you may want to be in fantasy is not what you think your parents would be all too comfortable with you actually being when you turn up for Christmas dinner.
If you see 2L as an escape for the fearful, you're too narrow minded. I consider (the adult portion at least) to be an extension of the fantasy world, not a replacement of the real one.
I don't "play" 2L, I just disagree with your point.
Will you be able to take box cutters and mercury thermometers on your own aircraft? I would think not carrying the latter would fall under "self preservation" but I'm unlikely to hijack my own skycar and redirect myself to a destination I don't want to go to.
Unless I'm forced into another Christmas at my mother-in-law's...
Here's a screenshot from the losing side!
Surely stating that the Internet was based on ARPANet on /. is call for modding -1 Redundant?
"The world could have ended" would be a rubbish excuse in a physics lesson.
"My homework is in my bag, but the act of observing it may destroy it" would be much more worthy of being let off.
As I said above, this guy needs to hire a competant lawyer to skim the EULA, check for breaches of data protection legislation, and get the case dropped.
If he has any sense, he won't try and sue Blizzard, though. He could, however, write to the guys who prosecute crime (In the UK we call them the Crown Prosecution Service) to take it up. GLWT, though.
EULA < Law.
Without a court order or warrant the information held by Blizzard is held by data protection legislation (however your country applies it) and should not be divulged. This dealer should hire a competant lawyer to run over the EULA and see if it the data provided to law enforcement was provided legally, and if not get the case dropped.
I'm not so much of an idiot to suggest that he attempt to sue Blizzard.
Not all variations suck.
Live long, and prosper. Unless you pick scissors, in which case be crushed!
This is a story about MMORPG's. Of course you won't see healer classes in an FPS; It's a whole different game mechanic.
Your comment is simply inappropriate here.
Offspec (Apologies for the rubbish link quality, but it gets the point across).
You can't make classes "jack of all trades." It doesn't work. Someone misses their cue to fire off a spell because they're in the middle of doing something else, and it's all gone to pot. This fictional game from Gamasutra would be great if many MMO gamers (that I've encountered) could keep track of more than one thing at a time. However, having seen healers run backwards into a new mob, tanks which run around between enemies trying to take aggro from other characters who don't need it, and damage dealers who have no concept of aggro mitigation, I'm susprised a lot of MMO players can cross the road without assistance.
Paraphrasing someone's very famous words: "If it ain't bust, don't fix it."
Books contain some pretty graphic descriptions of scenes without showing them, and they're just as emotive. My point is that the game doesn't change; It's still a mad zombie-fest survival piece. It's not like they turned the zombies into marionettes and had the words "YOU ARE NOT SHOOTING REAL PEOPLE." emblazoned across the screen. Nor did they make it into Barbie Fun House of Horse Riding Escapades.
It's the same game, with the same mechanics, the same plot. Gore shouldn't even be an issue.
The last thing you do is try and stop people from hearing about it. You make light of it, show it as not a big deal, and move on.
"Yeah, some guy hit me with a souvenir... Oh well, shit happens! The security guards are stepping it up a notch or two, but it's not like I was shot or anything. Thanks god, you know? Wouldn't want to leave my wife having to look for an inferior lover! Vote for me, you guys... I'm easy going."
And the world moves on.