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  1. Re:Is there one? on Ask Slashdot: Best Cell Phone Carrier In the US? · · Score: 1

    because Koreans are freaking idiots with zero common sense and even less logic. Honestly, I'd rather spend time with the idiots I know rather the clowns here. If all I had to worry about was internet/phone speeds, I'd stay, but there is life beyond the 'net

  2. Why don't you just hire "sales engineers" on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Teach Programming To Salespeople? · · Score: 1

    Those are the smart lads and ladies who CAN program but who also have social skills enabling them to help sell. They understand what the customer needs and wants, or better yet, can explain what it is that already exists that will do the job just fine.

  3. Zombies are now here in Korea, too on South Korea Surrenders To Creationist Demands On Evolution Textbooks · · Score: 1

    Dammit. I moved to S. Korea because it had far less of the ignorant, science deniers than in America. Now the zombies are here, too.

  4. Re:About time common sense prevailed! on Time to Review FAA Gadget Policies · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "The reason you should not be reading your kindle, or have a laptop out during takeoff and landing, or any reasonably hard-edged, dense object is that it has the potential to become a projectile" LMFAO! What a f**king joke. By that lame reasoning, we should ban books, cups, magazines, glasses (vision, not optical) or anything else not nailed down.

  5. Re:What's so bad about their policies? on Time to Review FAA Gadget Policies · · Score: 1

    BS. If that were true why don't the frickin terrorist bring down every plane in the world simply by turning on a phone/computer/tablet during takeoff or landing? And you know that people have them on anyway. Can't tell you how many people I've witnessed on planes use these devices (hiding them when a flight attendant is near) and, geewhiz, no planes have crashed because of it.

  6. Re:hello, anybody out there? on PHP 5.4 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting for 5.3 on my hosting server and that's been out a good while. I don't guess I'll have to worry about 5.4 for another year or three

  7. Teach overseas on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 1

    Teaching can be an adventure, too. Take a job teaching English overseas. Most only want a 4 year degree - any degree - as qualifications and the pay is decent, the food great...I've been teaching English in Korea for six years. I pay less than 5% tax and no US taxes. I make less than I did in the USA, but my take-home-pay and nearly tax-free status makes it very affordable. The cost of living is cheap enough in most places that I can save quite a bit of money

  8. Seriously? WWJD? on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release · · Score: 1

    I'm the last dude to start spouting religion, but seriously, WWJD? Would he restrict access? Charge for it? You're a church for God's sake, or at least part of it. Why not make it wide open and invite anyone who wants to come, even if you get to spew out a little religious html their way?

  9. Re:re-entering the Job market at 50+ on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 1

    OP Here. Management....been there, done that. Thanks, though. Management is not what I'm look for these days.

  10. Re:Old Timers on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 1

    OP here....Tech Management...been there, done that, didn't like it. I want to get back in the creative side.

  11. Re:You will do great on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 1

    that's an awesome suggestion....dry erase code from interview questions.....

  12. Re:Awesome watered down title there on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 1

    actually, having been a sales engineer, I can say I've seen both types - those are are glorified sales reps and those that actually engineer a solution when oob isn't enough.

  13. Balls! We had way better gear in the 80s on Soviet Image Editing Tool From 1987 · · Score: 1

    I was working for a defense contractor in the 80s. We developed a missile that used an imaging infrared seeker in the nose for guidance. We did image manipulations that would know your socks off. We developed most of it using Vax systems and later, with a few Silicon Graphics boxes for simulations. Even in the 80s our gear was way better than what that video showed of the soviets. Bah!

  14. languages are just the hammer that drives the nail on Which Language Approach For a Computer Science Degree? · · Score: 1

    My CS university didn't teach a single programming language. I'm happy about that. They taught concepts. Languages come and go. Techniques are more about how to get something done than oddities or quirk about particular languages. Learn the concepts of data structures, data access, communication and you'll be fine. Who knows what language will be important in a few years after you've graduated. When I was in school in the 80s, Basic, Pascal and C were around. FORTRAN was considered dead, but that has so far been proven to be wrong time and time again. Of course COBOL was around too, and I even learned some of that - but I'd never put it on a resume.

  15. Re:oh really? on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    What a dork Iluvramen is. You actually had to take a programming class in a particular language? What a waste of time. When I got my degree in CS, they didn't teach programming languages. They taught concepts and theory. You were expected to learn programming a particular language on your own. In fact, all of our projects could be done in any language we wanted to, as long as they ran on the University's machines. And your whining about being 22 and not going to get a promotion? It's not your chronological age, but your emotional age that's holding you back. That you think you are the best programmer and employee smacks of self-centered-ness. Being a good employee has as much to do with your EQ - emotional quotient - as your IQ and programming abilities. I wouldn't promote you one half-step until you learned to respect your co-workers' abilities and strengths.