I work a 9/80 schedule right now. It's really good because:
1) You can schedule your vacations to coincide with your 9/80 Friday, so you don't need to take a vacation day that day.
2) You can schedule all sorts of doctor/dentist appointments for that day.
3) Gives you a day to catch up on doing stuff around the house.
4) It's super flexible, at least at my company. If I need to take a day off during the week for some reason I can just make it up on the 9/80 Friday I would usually have off. Or if I need to leave early for a few days out of the week, I can just come in on that Friday and make up the time.
5) I have never been pulled into work on that Friday, unless it was by my own decision.
6) On the Fridays that are not 9/80, it's exciting because you can leave an hour early!
7) I still have time to do whatever. Yesterday I went to the gym and out to dinner.
You're right, AT&T locks you into a service. But you're wrong about the phone aspect. You can not just go in and get a new phone by signing a new 2-year agreement. You need to have had your old phone for a certain period of time (that varies by the type of plan you're on).
FishWithAHammer was saying that you can't upgrade without paying full retail price to AT&T, or by saving a bit of money buying it online. Either way, you're out a large chunk of money unless you're eligible to upgrade.
I work with the DoD on a classified program. You're right, we don't use encryption on any of our desktops, but the only reason is because you go through 2 security gates with guards, then finally enter a closed room with a giant digital lock with a badge swipe and keypad on the door, not to mention a giant separately digitally controlled deadbolt in addition to the digital lock.
You better bet your ass that we use whole-disk encryption on any machine that would leave the building, though (such as laptops). And those are unclassified!
And this is what happens when the public is uninformed about what's going on, or when they are just ignorant.
1) You CAN continue to use your current TV.
2) You're not getting HD. The switchover does nothing concerning HD.
3) You are not buying a new TV. Go ahead and run your old TVs into the ground.
4) You have DirecTV. This has nothing to do with you. It only has to do with people using "rabbit-ears".
5) I'm not so sure the government is making much, if any, money off of this program. It costs millions of dollars to run ad campaigns, provide signage, create and maintain a website, and basically GIVE AWAY digital converter boxes.
6) Some of the boxes ARE $0.
7) How does the spectrum belong to the people?
The government has set up a site to answer EVERY one of these questions (http://www.dtv.gov/consumercorner.html), has run ad campaigns ON TV, and has mandated that electronics stores post signage and explain answers to your questions, yet people are still pissed... why? Or a better question is: how?
I am about to graduate from a very highly rated liberal arts college. My graduating CS department this year is 3. Yes, THREE.
I just landed a position with a very good, large, well-known company for $63k/yr + benefits.
I would say that's a pretty good offer for coming right out of school with a Bachelor of ARTS in Computer Science. I wouldn't worry too much about the school you go to, as long as it really is a good school, you put in your best effort, and remember to also WORK AND DO INTERNSHIPS at the same time.
I can't stress that last part enough. They want people that know the working world.
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I work a 9/80 schedule right now. It's really good because:
1) You can schedule your vacations to coincide with your 9/80 Friday, so you don't need to take a vacation day that day.
2) You can schedule all sorts of doctor/dentist appointments for that day.
3) Gives you a day to catch up on doing stuff around the house.
4) It's super flexible, at least at my company. If I need to take a day off during the week for some reason I can just make it up on the 9/80 Friday I would usually have off. Or if I need to leave early for a few days out of the week, I can just come in on that Friday and make up the time.
5) I have never been pulled into work on that Friday, unless it was by my own decision.
6) On the Fridays that are not 9/80, it's exciting because you can leave an hour early!
7) I still have time to do whatever. Yesterday I went to the gym and out to dinner.
You're right, AT&T locks you into a service. But you're wrong about the phone aspect. You can not just go in and get a new phone by signing a new 2-year agreement. You need to have had your old phone for a certain period of time (that varies by the type of plan you're on).
FishWithAHammer was saying that you can't upgrade without paying full retail price to AT&T, or by saving a bit of money buying it online. Either way, you're out a large chunk of money unless you're eligible to upgrade.
Not sure why it posted anonymously, but that was me.
I work with the DoD on a classified program. You're right, we don't use encryption on any of our desktops, but the only reason is because you go through 2 security gates with guards, then finally enter a closed room with a giant digital lock with a badge swipe and keypad on the door, not to mention a giant separately digitally controlled deadbolt in addition to the digital lock.
You better bet your ass that we use whole-disk encryption on any machine that would leave the building, though (such as laptops). And those are unclassified!
And this is what happens when the public is uninformed about what's going on, or when they are just ignorant.
1) You CAN continue to use your current TV.
2) You're not getting HD. The switchover does nothing concerning HD.
3) You are not buying a new TV. Go ahead and run your old TVs into the ground.
4) You have DirecTV. This has nothing to do with you. It only has to do with people using "rabbit-ears".
5) I'm not so sure the government is making much, if any, money off of this program. It costs millions of dollars to run ad campaigns, provide signage, create and maintain a website, and basically GIVE AWAY digital converter boxes.
6) Some of the boxes ARE $0.
7) How does the spectrum belong to the people?
The government has set up a site to answer EVERY one of these questions (http://www.dtv.gov/consumercorner.html), has run ad campaigns ON TV, and has mandated that electronics stores post signage and explain answers to your questions, yet people are still pissed... why?
Or a better question is: how?
I am about to graduate from a very highly rated liberal arts college. My graduating CS department this year is 3. Yes, THREE.
I just landed a position with a very good, large, well-known company for $63k/yr + benefits.
I would say that's a pretty good offer for coming right out of school with a Bachelor of ARTS in Computer Science. I wouldn't worry too much about the school you go to, as long as it really is a good school, you put in your best effort, and remember to also WORK AND DO INTERNSHIPS at the same time.
I can't stress that last part enough. They want people that know the working world.
Brian