That taken individually, the first three episodes (IV, V, VI), were all pretty good but became exceptional when they're all put together; I think this will be the case with the "second" three episodes (I, II, III). The story arch of the Star War's story is far too broad/great to fit into one movie.
This wasn't mentioned in the press release but seems like a pretty big deal and come from the MacCentral coverage: "Introduces Mike Rocha, senior vice president, Platform Tech, Oracle: Oracle 9i on OS X -- we very excited about this hardware. Oracle is about low-cost clustering. Future releases will be on-time, synchronous. When we use UNIX native support, native APIs, optimized for this hardware, we can synchronize our releases so that our customers can have unified database versions across different hardware platforms. "
I know it won't be easy to do but you're going to have to make a sacrifice somewhere, which probably means you'll have to take a cut in pay and take a very entry level programming position or go back to school (even though you said you couldn't due to family considerations). I went through a similar transition a couple of years ago when I left the printing industry and took a 35% pay cut just so I could do some simple NT administration and VBA programming. I was paying my way through college at the time so that pay cut really hurt. About six months before graduation I managed to land a part-time position with a consulting company who specializes in Java/Unix development (my focus/interest) which after graduation turned into a well paying full time position.
Well let me clarify. For those of us who like to leave our homes, interact with people (offline) pickup and look through a book before buying it and support a local institution, The Tattered Cover is *the* place to shop for books in the Denver area.
As anyone in Denver and it's surrounding area's can tell you Tattered Cover is *the* place to go for great books and wonderful service so it's nice to see them not only survive the onslaught of cookie-cutter book "warehouses" but also unfounded legal assaults.
I hope someone brings up the issue of cost. It's too bad that such a premium needs to paid to get a Mac in rack form. Maybe since Apple doesn't seem inclined to produce their own rack Mac's they could grant a very limited license to some company to only produce said Mac's. This company could then just purchase the parts they need from Apple (motherboard, processor, ?) and therefore could keep costs/prices down since they wouldn't have to buy entire G4's and then throw half of the thing away.
eBay's defense against fake identities is that they require that you provide a valid credit card or checking account number. Now granted either of those two numbers aren't that hard to get ahold of but you'll probably get caught pretty quick if you use them.
I pay ~$60* a month for 640/272 DSL access through Qwest. I could be paying less but I upgraded to a business account so I wouldn't be assimilated by MSN. It's a little on pricy side I know but, cable is not available in my area and I haven't had any real problems with Qwest (USWest) since I first signed up 3.5 years ago.
*This also includes dialup access in various states across the US.
I don't want to just pile on here but I've had the same experience with Linksys as well. Their products are usually very good but if you're using an OS other than Windows then you generally seem to be by yourself.
The people over at JBoss are very high on their software (rightfully so in my opinion) and have proclaimed that their J2EE application server will be the death of WebSphere, JRun, iPlanet, etc. Presumably the big draw to JBoss is not only that it works but also that its free and open source. Is Sun planning on open-sourcing iPlanet or making it free to compete with JBoss?
I majored in CIS and minored in CS. The reason? When I started at college I knew I wanted to do something with computers but I didn't really know what and the CIS department gave a much broader sampling than the CS department did. At my school the *only* thing they taught in the CS program was programming, math, programming and programming while the CIS dept. taught programming, math, DBs, web, system analysis, netowkring plus a slew of business classes (including accounting, finance, law, management). I decided to stick with the CIS major since I really liked professors and enjoyed the various classes but I made the decision to pickup the CS minor to help bolster my programming skills since that was the career path I decided to take, at least for a few years.
Employer Perspective:
As someone who has been on both sides of the table during job interviews I can honestly say that it really doesn't make much difference which degree you have. You'll of course run into the occasional CS snob who won't hire a CIS graduate and vice a versa with a CIS snob not hiring a CS graduate (of course, some employers also look down on graduate from certain schools as well). Employers see your diploma as a symbol that you have, for the lack of a better word, the sticktoitness, to work/figth your way through your studies and graduate. What's going to seperate you is the way you sell yourself and your references and past work experience.
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That taken individually, the first three episodes (IV, V, VI), were all pretty good but became exceptional when they're all put together; I think this will be the case with the "second" three episodes (I, II, III). The story arch of the Star War's story is far too broad/great to fit into one movie.
This wasn't mentioned in the press release but seems like a pretty big deal and come from the MacCentral coverage: "Introduces Mike Rocha, senior vice president, Platform Tech, Oracle: Oracle 9i on OS X -- we very excited about this hardware. Oracle is about low-cost clustering. Future releases will be on-time, synchronous. When we use UNIX native support, native APIs, optimized for this hardware, we can synchronize our releases so that our customers can have unified database versions across different hardware platforms. "
I know it won't be easy to do but you're going to have to make a sacrifice somewhere, which probably means you'll have to take a cut in pay and take a very entry level programming position or go back to school (even though you said you couldn't due to family considerations). I went through a similar transition a couple of years ago when I left the printing industry and took a 35% pay cut just so I could do some simple NT administration and VBA programming. I was paying my way through college at the time so that pay cut really hurt. About six months before graduation I managed to land a part-time position with a consulting company who specializes in Java/Unix development (my focus/interest) which after graduation turned into a well paying full time position.
Short term sacrifice for long term gain.
Well let me clarify. For those of us who like to leave our homes, interact with people (offline) pickup and look through a book before buying it and support a local institution, The Tattered Cover is *the* place to shop for books in the Denver area.
As anyone in Denver and it's surrounding area's can tell you Tattered Cover is *the* place to go for great books and wonderful service so it's nice to see them not only survive the onslaught of cookie-cutter book "warehouses" but also unfounded legal assaults.
Not like these sorts of updates should require a reboot but sometimes they do, like with the recent Airport software update.
I hope someone brings up the issue of cost. It's too bad that such a premium needs to paid to get a Mac in rack form. Maybe since Apple doesn't seem inclined to produce their own rack Mac's they could grant a very limited license to some company to only produce said Mac's. This company could then just purchase the parts they need from Apple (motherboard, processor, ?) and therefore could keep costs/prices down since they wouldn't have to buy entire G4's and then throw half of the thing away.
I'm sorry, what did he misspell? "tho"? That's just slang so it really doesn't have a proper spelling.
eBay's defense against fake identities is that they require that you provide a valid credit card or checking account number. Now granted either of those two numbers aren't that hard to get ahold of but you'll probably get caught pretty quick if you use them.
I pay ~$60* a month for 640/272 DSL access through Qwest. I could be paying less but I upgraded to a business account so I wouldn't be assimilated by MSN. It's a little on pricy side I know but, cable is not available in my area and I haven't had any real problems with Qwest (USWest) since I first signed up 3.5 years ago.
*This also includes dialup access in various states across the US.
I don't want to just pile on here but I've had the same experience with Linksys as well. Their products are usually very good but if you're using an OS other than Windows then you generally seem to be by yourself.
The people over at JBoss are very high on their software (rightfully so in my opinion) and have proclaimed that their J2EE application server will be the death of WebSphere, JRun, iPlanet, etc. Presumably the big draw to JBoss is not only that it works but also that its free and open source. Is Sun planning on open-sourcing iPlanet or making it free to compete with JBoss?
Student Perspective:
I majored in CIS and minored in CS. The reason? When I started at college I knew I wanted to do something with computers but I didn't really know what and the CIS department gave a much broader sampling than the CS department did. At my school the *only* thing they taught in the CS program was programming, math, programming and programming while the CIS dept. taught programming, math, DBs, web, system analysis, netowkring plus a slew of business classes (including accounting, finance, law, management). I decided to stick with the CIS major since I really liked professors and enjoyed the various classes but I made the decision to pickup the CS minor to help bolster my programming skills since that was the career path I decided to take, at least for a few years.
Employer Perspective:
As someone who has been on both sides of the table during job interviews I can honestly say that it really doesn't make much difference which degree you have. You'll of course run into the occasional CS snob who won't hire a CIS graduate and vice a versa with a CIS snob not hiring a CS graduate (of course, some employers also look down on graduate from certain schools as well). Employers see your diploma as a symbol that you have, for the lack of a better word, the sticktoitness, to work/figth your way through your studies and graduate. What's going to seperate you is the way you sell yourself and your references and past work experience.
Also, keep in mind do what you enjoy.
Look at comp.sys.sun.* I see FS postings for E10K's not all that infrequently, and you could of course post a WTB (Want To Buy).