Can't say I've ever had that problem. I manage to stay out of friend's pictures for this reason. I even tell them the reason why.... and they actually understand. I personally don't have a profile on any of the social networking sites, I honestly don't have the time (or care). If I did it would be a plain black and white page with no photos.
My primary concern is current/future employers, they look at the stuff. I know because its happened at my job once already. Also keep in mind that LE agencies do look at it during criminal investigations, and use it as evidence. Just some things to keep in mind, particularly if you appear in photos with actions you don't want to be associated with.
My big rant are the people who are obsessed with looking and updating their site. Its like crack to them and they feed off the drama. These people actually get offended when I genuinely don't care. Sorry, some of us have real lives to worry about. Things like paying bills, working a job, and fixing the house, etc. are more important then changing the background on a myspace page, playing those stupid plug-in games on profile pages, or seeing how many "friends" one can add to their profile.
If you can't find work in California, maybe you can move to the opposite coast?
I live in New Jersey. Its tough to find entry level jobs in this area if you are fresh out of school. Also the cost of living is still pretty high (although not as bad as California) so decent pay is a must as well. Funny, after seeing the comments on here and what my friends have told me, maybe not going into IT was a smart thing to do at the time.
Joining a union is optional in the US -- land of the free, and all that crap -- but in certain fields, you just don't get work without it. And if you did, you'd have union members treating you like a picket-line-crossing scab, which can mean anything from jeers to property vandalism to bodily harm.
It depends on the state. If it is a "right to work" state, you can opt out of the union and its dues completely if its a union shop. If its not "right to work", you can decline union membership, but you will be required to pay a minimum cover cost for collective bargaining. If you take this option, you will pay less then the full union dues, but loose the right to participate in any union voting or meetings. The flip side is you still get all the benefits the union collectively bargained for if you aren't a member.
Whats interesting is the computer store I used to work for has a NYS tax ID number and can collect NY state sales tax. Even though they have no physical offices in NY they apparently ran into problems when selling at computer shows in NY. They later stopped selling at computer shows because PA companies would show up at the NJ shows and undercut them in price.... because they weren't charging any sales tax. It was technically illegal, but NJ unlike NY turned their head the other way to the practice.
There are workarounds to return FF3 to the classic address bar but no way (thus far) to set the type ahead matching to just match URLs and not webpage titles. Its annoying and for some it causes privacy issues (unrelated sites can pop up if one letter in the URL matches the title of any other page you have visited).
Also there are STILL people out there running older versions of Windows that FF2 supports but not FF3 (Windows 9x).
At least you can cut and paste files, try doing that in the OS X Finder. OS X is on the 5th major release and they still haven't bothered to fix Finder and turn it into the "world class" file management GUI they like to talk about.... oh look shiny dock icons.
Disclaimer: I own and use both Macs and PCs. I don't take sides.
The price advertised doesn't include taxes and fees, the small print covers that. Salespeople on the floor in a retail store have nothing to do with the billing department. The most they can do is change your plan when you upgrade or create accounts. The tax and fee list is generated when your monthly bill is calculated and mailed to you.
Every state has a different way of taxing communications service. Florida is the worst of them all from what I've read. Take your current cell phone bill and estimate off the taxes currently on it. Some of the taxes and fees will be a fixed amount per line, others will be based on a percentage of the total bill (sales tax typically).
Also the way cell companies figure out how to tax you differs. Some (such as Sprint) base your taxes on the billing address, others (like Verizon Wireless) base your taxes on the area code your wireless number is located in.
The charging plug has been standardized. Its likely one of the reasons why the EV-1 was killed off. GM used an inductive paddle style charger "plug", while the standard that was eventually agreed on uses a more traditional conductive charger. Its a moot point though since the car will have the option to charge on standard household 120V outlets (albeit at slower charging rates).
Actually System 7.5.5 is available, the full installer is for 7.5.3 and you apply the 7.5.5 update. If you notice they stopped this policy when a certain Mr. Jobs came into power. It would be nice to have all the Classic OSes available, the platform is basically dead and there are ALOT of Macs out there still that require System 7.6 or later just to run.
Macs recycle better then PCs and tend to stay in service longer, there is also a huge library of kids and educational software that runs just fine on these older machines as well. This alone makes donated and refurbished units great candidates for placements with families that otherwise couldn't afford a computer.
Funny, around here people get a water bill every 3 months based on usage and everyone has a water meter installed. Our water company is privately owned although state regulated by the Board of Public Utilities.
Whats strange is that I found Objective-C harder to pick up then C#. The first OOL I learned was C++, then Java. C# really isn't all that different from Java, thats the way Microsoft designed it. Objective-C threw me off since it doesn't use the typical C++/Java/C# style class structure.
Most vehicles today are drive by wire throttle. Direct injection diesel and gas cars have no other choice because they lack a throttle body to control acceleration in the traditional way, the pedal is literally a sensor that plugs into the car. The main reason for the switch is better fuel economy as a computer can smooth out the variations in pedal pressure some people tend to do without noticing. Steering is electronically assisted on many cars vs. the classic hydraulic assist since its cheaper to maintain. The steering rack is still connected direct so if you loose the assist you are still steer the car.
Actually its demise had something to do with how the park mechanism worked. Shifting a car out of park while on a hill requires more force then one can provide by just pushing a button and the electric assist motors of the time period proved unreliable.
As for digidashs, they suffered from the same problem, faulty electronics. Many times they would simply go dead. The only improvement that stuck from the digidash era was the electronic speedometer sender system, it was much more reliable then the mechanical cable driven speedometers of the past.
This always seems to be the case with "gadget phones". They can do all these wiz bang things but absolutely fall flat when it comes to radio performance and voice quality. Whats the point of buying a phone that you can't use as... well...a phone. Having to walk around hunting for a signal and then sounding like you are shouting from the bottom of a sewer to the other caller was expected in the 1990s, not now.
Oh, and no I am not going to let you use my "low tech" phone because your koolaid phone is a brick. Besides it might be embarrassing in front of your friends if you are caught using my ugly and unhip circa-2004 Toshiba 1X CDMA phone.
Heh, this is what I have the text display set to on my Apple IIgs (you can set the border, text, and background color from a palette of several colors, right now its set to dark blue with yellow text). I always thought it looked sharper (esp. with 80 column text) for some reason. The default colors were blue background with white text, but I never cared for it.
Not just the typical 3 letter federal agencies, but your state and even local level law enforcement is looking for them. These are the guys at the police department that you usually don't see on CSI or L&O who come up with background information on people, possible links between places/people to the crimes, and make all those pretty charts and maps. Many people in the field have a computer science background and its a growing sector. The thought processes for data collection, analysis, and creating the final work product are pretty similar to what CS minded people are typically good at. Pay depends on the department, but its usually more then a typical entry level help desk job and only a 40 hour work week. Plus you even get the satisfaction that you helped solve a crime from time to time.
Publisher would be nice. As looked down as it is, many people (particularly those on a budget) do use it on a day to day basis. Being able to open and edit the files with say... Quark or InDesign would be nice, especially those with Macs. There isn't even a native Publisher viewer let alone a program that can edit the files on that platform. Remember not everyone is savvy enough with computers to output their documents to PDF to send to people (or know where to get a free PDF writer).
ICANN lost all credibility with me after the whole RegisterFly fiasco. They seemed to have ZERO provisions in place for a registrar failure. On the legal end they didn't seem to have any teeth either, a ton of domains were lost and never addressed (GoDaddy only took certain TLDs over from RF). In the end the owner of RegisterFly escaped with barely a scratch, he even reopened the site using Tucows as a reseller.
My own domain was stuck in limbo because it was still in ENOM's hands back when RF was a reseller for them, it expired and I managed to get it back after arguing with ENOM. I had to pay ENOM's $29.95 renewal, needless to say I moved my domain from them when it came time to renew. They were very shady when RF collapsed and tried to poach customers whose domains were under their control. Many lost their domains and landed up in ENOM auctions as well.
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Can't say I've ever had that problem. I manage to stay out of friend's pictures for this reason. I even tell them the reason why.... and they actually understand. I personally don't have a profile on any of the social networking sites, I honestly don't have the time (or care). If I did it would be a plain black and white page with no photos.
My primary concern is current/future employers, they look at the stuff. I know because its happened at my job once already. Also keep in mind that LE agencies do look at it during criminal investigations, and use it as evidence. Just some things to keep in mind, particularly if you appear in photos with actions you don't want to be associated with.
My big rant are the people who are obsessed with looking and updating their site. Its like crack to them and they feed off the drama. These people actually get offended when I genuinely don't care. Sorry, some of us have real lives to worry about. Things like paying bills, working a job, and fixing the house, etc. are more important then changing the background on a myspace page, playing those stupid plug-in games on profile pages, or seeing how many "friends" one can add to their profile.
If you can't find work in California, maybe you can move to the opposite coast?
I live in New Jersey. Its tough to find entry level jobs in this area if you are fresh out of school. Also the cost of living is still pretty high (although not as bad as California) so decent pay is a must as well. Funny, after seeing the comments on here and what my friends have told me, maybe not going into IT was a smart thing to do at the time.
They might have to deal with things like cold weather and snow. Oh, and what jobs?
Good luck to all still trying to make a living completely unappreciated - worse than plumbers but just as necessary.
At least the plumbers can't be outsourced.
Joining a union is optional in the US -- land of the free, and all that crap -- but in certain fields, you just don't get work without it. And if you did, you'd have union members treating you like a picket-line-crossing scab, which can mean anything from jeers to property vandalism to bodily harm.
It depends on the state. If it is a "right to work" state, you can opt out of the union and its dues completely if its a union shop. If its not "right to work", you can decline union membership, but you will be required to pay a minimum cover cost for collective bargaining. If you take this option, you will pay less then the full union dues, but loose the right to participate in any union voting or meetings. The flip side is you still get all the benefits the union collectively bargained for if you aren't a member.
Whats interesting is the computer store I used to work for has a NYS tax ID number and can collect NY state sales tax. Even though they have no physical offices in NY they apparently ran into problems when selling at computer shows in NY. They later stopped selling at computer shows because PA companies would show up at the NJ shows and undercut them in price.... because they weren't charging any sales tax. It was technically illegal, but NJ unlike NY turned their head the other way to the practice.
Ironically, Newegg charges NJ residents sales tax legitimately ... their big east coast warehouse is in Monroe, NJ.
There are workarounds to return FF3 to the classic address bar but no way (thus far) to set the type ahead matching to just match URLs and not webpage titles. Its annoying and for some it causes privacy issues (unrelated sites can pop up if one letter in the URL matches the title of any other page you have visited).
Also there are STILL people out there running older versions of Windows that FF2 supports but not FF3 (Windows 9x).
At least you can cut and paste files, try doing that in the OS X Finder. OS X is on the 5th major release and they still haven't bothered to fix Finder and turn it into the "world class" file management GUI they like to talk about.... oh look shiny dock icons.
Disclaimer: I own and use both Macs and PCs. I don't take sides.
Why not land in the middle of the Superbowl finals, now THAT's revealing!
They'd just cover the shock and awe with a wardrobe malfunction.
The price advertised doesn't include taxes and fees, the small print covers that. Salespeople on the floor in a retail store have nothing to do with the billing department. The most they can do is change your plan when you upgrade or create accounts. The tax and fee list is generated when your monthly bill is calculated and mailed to you.
Every state has a different way of taxing communications service. Florida is the worst of them all from what I've read. Take your current cell phone bill and estimate off the taxes currently on it. Some of the taxes and fees will be a fixed amount per line, others will be based on a percentage of the total bill (sales tax typically).
Also the way cell companies figure out how to tax you differs. Some (such as Sprint) base your taxes on the billing address, others (like Verizon Wireless) base your taxes on the area code your wireless number is located in.
The charging plug has been standardized. Its likely one of the reasons why the EV-1 was killed off. GM used an inductive paddle style charger "plug", while the standard that was eventually agreed on uses a more traditional conductive charger. Its a moot point though since the car will have the option to charge on standard household 120V outlets (albeit at slower charging rates).
Is he on the Emperor's Club client list yet?
Actually System 7.5.5 is available, the full installer is for 7.5.3 and you apply the 7.5.5 update. If you notice they stopped this policy when a certain Mr. Jobs came into power. It would be nice to have all the Classic OSes available, the platform is basically dead and there are ALOT of Macs out there still that require System 7.6 or later just to run.
Macs recycle better then PCs and tend to stay in service longer, there is also a huge library of kids and educational software that runs just fine on these older machines as well. This alone makes donated and refurbished units great candidates for placements with families that otherwise couldn't afford a computer.
Funny, around here people get a water bill every 3 months based on usage and everyone has a water meter installed. Our water company is privately owned although state regulated by the Board of Public Utilities.
Whats strange is that I found Objective-C harder to pick up then C#. The first OOL I learned was C++, then Java. C# really isn't all that different from Java, thats the way Microsoft designed it. Objective-C threw me off since it doesn't use the typical C++/Java/C# style class structure.
Most vehicles today are drive by wire throttle. Direct injection diesel and gas cars have no other choice because they lack a throttle body to control acceleration in the traditional way, the pedal is literally a sensor that plugs into the car. The main reason for the switch is better fuel economy as a computer can smooth out the variations in pedal pressure some people tend to do without noticing. Steering is electronically assisted on many cars vs. the classic hydraulic assist since its cheaper to maintain. The steering rack is still connected direct so if you loose the assist you are still steer the car.
Actually its demise had something to do with how the park mechanism worked. Shifting a car out of park while on a hill requires more force then one can provide by just pushing a button and the electric assist motors of the time period proved unreliable.
As for digidashs, they suffered from the same problem, faulty electronics. Many times they would simply go dead. The only improvement that stuck from the digidash era was the electronic speedometer sender system, it was much more reliable then the mechanical cable driven speedometers of the past.
This always seems to be the case with "gadget phones". They can do all these wiz bang things but absolutely fall flat when it comes to radio performance and voice quality. Whats the point of buying a phone that you can't use as... well...a phone. Having to walk around hunting for a signal and then sounding like you are shouting from the bottom of a sewer to the other caller was expected in the 1990s, not now.
Oh, and no I am not going to let you use my "low tech" phone because your koolaid phone is a brick. Besides it might be embarrassing in front of your friends if you are caught using my ugly and unhip circa-2004 Toshiba 1X CDMA phone.
Heh, this is what I have the text display set to on my Apple IIgs (you can set the border, text, and background color from a palette of several colors, right now its set to dark blue with yellow text). I always thought it looked sharper (esp. with 80 column text) for some reason. The default colors were blue background with white text, but I never cared for it.
Not just the typical 3 letter federal agencies, but your state and even local level law enforcement is looking for them. These are the guys at the police department that you usually don't see on CSI or L&O who come up with background information on people, possible links between places/people to the crimes, and make all those pretty charts and maps. Many people in the field have a computer science background and its a growing sector. The thought processes for data collection, analysis, and creating the final work product are pretty similar to what CS minded people are typically good at. Pay depends on the department, but its usually more then a typical entry level help desk job and only a 40 hour work week. Plus you even get the satisfaction that you helped solve a crime from time to time.
Publisher would be nice. As looked down as it is, many people (particularly those on a budget) do use it on a day to day basis. Being able to open and edit the files with say... Quark or InDesign would be nice, especially those with Macs. There isn't even a native Publisher viewer let alone a program that can edit the files on that platform. Remember not everyone is savvy enough with computers to output their documents to PDF to send to people (or know where to get a free PDF writer).
ICANN lost all credibility with me after the whole RegisterFly fiasco. They seemed to have ZERO provisions in place for a registrar failure. On the legal end they didn't seem to have any teeth either, a ton of domains were lost and never addressed (GoDaddy only took certain TLDs over from RF). In the end the owner of RegisterFly escaped with barely a scratch, he even reopened the site using Tucows as a reseller. My own domain was stuck in limbo because it was still in ENOM's hands back when RF was a reseller for them, it expired and I managed to get it back after arguing with ENOM. I had to pay ENOM's $29.95 renewal, needless to say I moved my domain from them when it came time to renew. They were very shady when RF collapsed and tried to poach customers whose domains were under their control. Many lost their domains and landed up in ENOM auctions as well.