When I drove from NYC to Myrtle Beach this past summer, Yahoo said 12 hours, and MQ said 10, so I used Mapquest's directions. Well, the "major highway" that I was on for 6 hours (707) added 5 hours to my drive. I was on a side road w/ traffic lights for 300 miles
I recently worked for a company (I was the Software developer, UNIX admin, MS Admin, basically the computer guy)..they had these HUGE goals, big dreams and they wanted everything yesterday. Having seen 100's of companies try this, and having worked with hundreds of companies (I'm a consultant), and seeing almost all of them fail, I felt I was more qualified than these guys who have never heard of Linux until I walked in. They had this "amazing, original" ecommerce idea that would make millions. The funny thing is, I already WROTE the exact application they wanted...twice! I even showed them what I wrote a YEAR before..live..on the web..they REFUSED to admit it was thought of already.then after a week of pow-wows..they let me go because I knew too much about what they wanted and felt it would be detrimental to their future goals! I've never been happier about being laid off. I felt I was in the dot bomb ere again..like deja vu..did these people live in a cave??
I worked for a company (for 3 days..I left out of principle) who the owner refused to accept the word "can't"..he wanted Windows to run on a Mac (he didnt understand the the concept of processors or architecture), when I told him he can't...he demanded to get it done..so..I write him a price quote...It was basically a quote to program a virtual machine that ran on the PPC chip. After giving him the proposal (man-hours, etc)..he said he can buy comparative VM software for around $500. (He does his homework, but not enough).he wanted to know why it would cost so much and take a year to program...
I have ADD. I got another degree thru correspondance. I finished it in 17 months. I have something called Hyperconcentration. If it interests me I will spend all day on it. School moved way too slow for me. So I took correspondance to go at my pace....and I was speedy gonzalez!
I took home $6500 a month. My house cost $250,000 (cheap where I live)--mortgage is $1400 a month Yearly taxes for house =$6,000 ($500/ month) Car Payment per month=$350 Insurance is $150 every other month Broadband access=$50/mo Groceries=$50/week Wife is on disability. So, I've made $0 a month for 1 year and 6 months. Savings are depleted.
It's one of thse stations where the songs are preloaded a month in advance..and the DJ's make $20,000 a year to make funny quips in between songs. They have no say. Oh, and you THINK they are playing your request. They just say OK if it's the next song queued up! (My uncle has a second job to pay the bills:) )
My uncle is a DJ for a station in NY, and he says that EVEVY song they play is an MP3. Sure, they only play 60 songs, but all of them are MP3's! (This is a very popular Top40 Station in NYC)
Every schools has to have someone who graduates last in their class. I had a doctor once who I SWORE smoked pot all day in med school. He worked in the hospital because he had his degree. Sure, he had to bust his testes, but I doubt he graduated tops in his class. He didnt know ANYTHING! So, I believe that the best people have more than just college. They have talent. My wife's cousin is dumb as a stump. He graduated with honors from NYU. I was amazed! Besdes the fact that he had a flank of tutors 24-7. He passed his exams, and did all his work. So, he graduated w/ honors from the CS program from NYU. Why does he call me still when he can't find a file on his hard drive? When I was a hiring manager, I couldn't care less if they had a degree..did they know their stuff? That's what's important.
I have always had test anxiety. I've been in this field for 15 years (from programming to sysadmin) and at one interview I had, they gave me a 50 question test..I panicked, and walked out. I hate tests
I can program 12 straight hours in the quiet of my home. If I am at a client site, there are too many external stimuli, and my productivity is worthless. Thus, I have stopped being an onsite programmer, and have changed careers, and do what I love (programming) on the side.
I STILL do a:wq when I'm on a windows box to exit notepad:) When I am forced to use a Windows box, I make sure I install Cygwin as the first thing I do. Now if only SSHD worked on Cygwin....
The funny thing is, the people who entered data into the system used a console based data entry system. They knew it well, and people who do data entry usually memorize patterns and keystrokes.Then, when they went to Siebel, they said "You mean I have to Click the MOUSE button to enter the first field? Hey! The Tab key doesnt work!", etc. Boy did they ever revolt! They were never ASKED if they wanted an "upgrade". Mgmt said "It's a GUI! It's easy!" Clickity-click. Get this...Siebel was running thru a Citrix Client. They used to joke how when they came in, they turned on their PC's, had breakfast, and then when they came back, it was probably ready! Sure, they exaggerated, but I don't think by much.
Even though a DEC ALPHA running VMS isn't considered a main, we had one running at my job for 7 years. It was the payroll system. They never got rid of it because no one knew what to do with it, it ran for 7 years with nary a reboot, and it just worked. Then they go a spend $2 million on Siebel and it was slower than molasses. Because of that, they had to dump 500 employees. Siebel is gone, but that DEC Alpha is still churning away.
Mandrake has been the ONLY distribution that will run on my wife's IBM Netvista Flatpanel PC. The others distros wouldnt even boot up the Install screen. I tried Debian, but spent maybe 30 minutes n finding the right monitor, but no joy. Nothing else can detect that stupid monitor.
Actually, I got the quote from Michael Savage (michaelsavage.com) . He always says it. He said he always liked it. Now I know it was a Churchill quote..however, Slashdot wont let me make my sig that long:)
Well, as a student of Biblical Studies working on his ordination, I've done extensive studies on both Hebrew and Greek. Modern Hebrew is not the same as Biblical Hebrew (although they are close). There were always speakers of Hebrew , although Koine Greek fell into disuse around 200 AD or so. I understand your point about the shifts of meaning, so maybe "timeless" was a bad choice of words. The problems of Biblical translation are two-fold. The biggest one is translating from the Greek or Hebrew TO the target language. Many translators translate from the English or the Vulgate which is not the preferred method. They're doing a translation of a translation!
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When I drove from NYC to Myrtle Beach this past summer, Yahoo said 12 hours, and MQ said 10, so I used Mapquest's directions. Well, the "major highway" that I was on for 6 hours (707) added 5 hours to my drive. I was on a side road w/ traffic lights for 300 miles
I recently worked for a company (I was the Software developer, UNIX admin, MS Admin, basically the computer guy)..they had these HUGE goals, big dreams and they wanted everything yesterday. Having seen 100's of companies try this, and having worked with hundreds of companies (I'm a consultant), and seeing almost all of them fail, I felt I was more qualified than these guys who have never heard of Linux until I walked in. They had this "amazing, original" ecommerce idea that would make millions. The funny thing is, I already WROTE the exact application they wanted...twice! I even showed them what I wrote a YEAR before..live..on the web..they REFUSED to admit it was thought of already.then after a week of pow-wows..they let me go because I knew too much about what they wanted and felt it would be detrimental to their future goals! I've never been happier about being laid off. I felt I was in the dot bomb ere again..like deja vu..did these people live in a cave??
I worked for a company (for 3 days..I left out of principle) who the owner refused to accept the word "can't"..he wanted Windows to run on a Mac (he didnt understand the the concept of processors or architecture), when I told him he can't...he demanded to get it done..so..I write him a price quote...It was basically a quote to program a virtual machine that ran on the PPC chip. After giving him the proposal (man-hours, etc)..he said he can buy comparative VM software for around $500. (He does his homework, but not enough).he wanted to know why it would cost so much and take a year to program...
I have ADD. I got another degree thru correspondance. I finished it in 17 months. I have something called Hyperconcentration. If it interests me I will spend all day on it. School moved way too slow for me. So I took correspondance to go at my pace....and I was speedy gonzalez!
Standard place? Where? In linux, 99% of the time it's in /etc
I havent gotten a virus/worm in 8 years.I've been in the UNIX/Linux world for so long, it makes me laugh when I hear people still get these things.
Where do you rent a house in NYC/LI for $350 a month???????
I took home $6500 a month.
My house cost $250,000 (cheap where I live)--mortgage is $1400 a month
Yearly taxes for house =$6,000 ($500/ month)
Car Payment per month=$350
Insurance is $150 every other month
Broadband access=$50/mo
Groceries=$50/week
Wife is on disability.
So, I've made $0 a month for 1 year and 6 months. Savings are depleted.
on Suse 8.0!
Have more testing to do however.
It's one of thse stations where the songs are preloaded a month in advance..and the DJ's make $20,000 a year to make funny quips in between songs. They have no say. Oh, and you THINK they are playing your request. They just say OK if it's the next song queued up! (My uncle has a second job to pay the bills:) )
My uncle is a DJ for a station in NY, and he says that EVEVY song they play is an MP3. Sure, they only play 60 songs, but all of them are MP3's! (This is a very popular Top40 Station in NYC)
Every schools has to have someone who graduates last in their class. I had a doctor once who I SWORE smoked pot all day in med school. He worked in the hospital because he had his degree. Sure, he had to bust his testes, but I doubt he graduated tops in his class. He didnt know ANYTHING! So, I believe that the best people have more than just college. They have talent. My wife's cousin is dumb as a stump. He graduated with honors from NYU. I was amazed! Besdes the fact that he had a flank of tutors 24-7. He passed his exams, and did all his work. So, he graduated w/ honors from the CS program from NYU. Why does he call me still when he can't find a file on his hard drive? When I was a hiring manager, I couldn't care less if they had a degree..did they know their stuff? That's what's important.
I have always had test anxiety. I've been in this field for 15 years (from programming to sysadmin) and at one interview I had, they gave me a 50 question test..I panicked, and walked out. I hate tests
I can program 12 straight hours in the quiet of my home. If I am at a client site, there are too many external stimuli, and my productivity is worthless. Thus, I have stopped being an onsite programmer, and have changed careers, and do what I love (programming) on the side.
He's paid to be on a team? Or is he paid to produce a product?
I STILL do a :wq when I'm on a windows box to exit notepad :) When I am forced to use a Windows box, I make sure I install Cygwin as the first thing I do. Now if only SSHD worked on Cygwin....
The funny thing is, the people who entered data into the system used a console based data entry system. They knew it well, and people who do data entry usually memorize patterns and keystrokes.Then, when they went to Siebel, they said "You mean I have to Click the MOUSE button to enter the first field? Hey! The Tab key doesnt work!", etc. Boy did they ever revolt! They were never ASKED if they wanted an "upgrade". Mgmt said "It's a GUI! It's easy!" Clickity-click. Get this...Siebel was running thru a Citrix Client. They used to joke how when they came in, they turned on their PC's, had breakfast, and then when they came back, it was probably ready! Sure, they exaggerated, but I don't think by much.
Truly one of the weirdest films I've ever seen
I have a copy of Win2003 Server Beta...what's the big deal? I'll take my *NIX ANYDAY over that glorifed XP.
Can India afford mainframes? They're still a third world country.
Even though a DEC ALPHA running VMS isn't considered a main, we had one running at my job for 7 years. It was the payroll system. They never got rid of it because no one knew what to do with it, it ran for 7 years with nary a reboot, and it just worked. Then they go a spend $2 million on Siebel and it was slower than molasses. Because of that, they had to dump 500 employees. Siebel is gone, but that DEC Alpha is still churning away.
I can install Mandrake w/o a GUI. But there is NO way my wife is going to run Linux from the command line :)
Mandrake has been the ONLY distribution that will run on my wife's IBM Netvista Flatpanel PC. The others distros wouldnt even boot up the Install screen. I tried Debian, but spent maybe 30 minutes n finding the right monitor, but no joy. Nothing else can detect that stupid monitor.
Actually, I got the quote from Michael Savage (michaelsavage.com) . He always says it. He said he always liked it. Now I know it was a Churchill quote..however, Slashdot wont let me make my sig that long :)
Well, as a student of Biblical Studies working on his ordination, I've done extensive studies on both Hebrew and Greek. Modern Hebrew is not the same as Biblical Hebrew (although they are close). There were always speakers of Hebrew , although Koine Greek fell into disuse around 200 AD or so. I understand your point about the shifts of meaning, so maybe "timeless" was a bad choice of words. The problems of Biblical translation are two-fold. The biggest one is translating from the Greek or Hebrew TO the target language. Many translators translate from the English or the Vulgate which is not the preferred method. They're doing a translation of a translation!