It was definitely an amazing time. TV programmes like "Tomorrows World" promised us a future digital world of CD-players, lasers and computers like the morrow-morrow-land story of Mad Max. Now we are there in the digital city, with laptops, wi-fi base stations, stereographic 3D TV, gigahertz PC's, satellite phones, GPS navigators, Internet, on-demand video and mobile phones with animated 3D visuals.
When you put it like that, today really is quite spectacular. However I would have killed to be around in the 80's/ very early 90's for how exciting the tech was then.
One of the smartest guys in my year at school made that same mistake. For our high school english final exam, we were given a choice of twelve questions and asked to write about only two of them. This guy wrote about all twelve and handed in probably 25/30 pages of answers.
Totally agree, my only niggling worry about using private companies is the greed factor. But maybe a little greed and more competition is really what the space industry needs?
Sounds like typical MS style. Plus they've got to great lengths before to get the chinese gov to use their software. Don't see whats changed from their point of view.
Sorry meant to say I thought £25K was roughly equivalent to $35K?
No attack taken as you're correct about my writing skills, its takes me a while to write out a properly punctuated cover letter without grammar errors! Probably something I should work on.
Pretty damn good for a starting wage! Congrats.
Yeah, problem I found is that getting that foot in the door, most companies want experience and to get that you sometimes need to start low and move about when the time is right.
I know that is a lot of crap! I live in the uk and earn roughly £25K, prob about £35K?
I've always thought that to really make money out of a programming career, you have to start you're own business, do it for yourself with an original idea. Otherwise you do seem to end up becoming another wheel in the cog. I might be wrong, but its just the way things seem to be to me.
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It was definitely an amazing time. TV programmes like "Tomorrows World" promised us a future digital world of CD-players, lasers and computers like the morrow-morrow-land story of Mad Max. Now we are there in the digital city, with laptops, wi-fi base stations, stereographic 3D TV, gigahertz PC's, satellite phones, GPS navigators, Internet, on-demand video and mobile phones with animated 3D visuals. When you put it like that, today really is quite spectacular. However I would have killed to be around in the 80's/ very early 90's for how exciting the tech was then.
Gotta admit, thats one of the better squatters! Make their ad money and push the user in the right direction. Struggle to see any harm with that!
Wow, just checked the date of the first article thats linked in the summary, nov 19th 2008!
The 64 bit flash player has been in alpha for over a year....
Your college required you to buy a tablet pc? Thats amazingly unfair.
After a huge lawsuit from Sun!
Their version of Java(jvm) being a good example.
One of the smartest guys in my year at school made that same mistake. For our high school english final exam, we were given a choice of twelve questions and asked to write about only two of them. This guy wrote about all twelve and handed in probably 25/30 pages of answers.
Totally agree, my only niggling worry about using private companies is the greed factor. But maybe a little greed and more competition is really what the space industry needs?
Which is exactly what I meant by not seeing whats changed from their point of view.
Sounds like typical MS style. Plus they've got to great lengths before to get the chinese gov to use their software. Don't see whats changed from their point of view.
Sorry meant to say I thought £25K was roughly equivalent to $35K? No attack taken as you're correct about my writing skills, its takes me a while to write out a properly punctuated cover letter without grammar errors! Probably something I should work on.
Pretty damn good for a starting wage! Congrats. Yeah, problem I found is that getting that foot in the door, most companies want experience and to get that you sometimes need to start low and move about when the time is right.
Got to love that someone modded my pay 'funny'.
Apologies for the terrible grammar!
I know that is a lot of crap! I live in the uk and earn roughly £25K, prob about £35K? I've always thought that to really make money out of a programming career, you have to start you're own business, do it for yourself with an original idea. Otherwise you do seem to end up becoming another wheel in the cog. I might be wrong, but its just the way things seem to be to me.
We've got a long long wait before we run out of IPv6 addresses.
They need to settle on a plan and stick to it!