Right now I'm temping at my former high school in my town, but calls to Yahoo, Microsoft, Dell, Compaq, HP, eBay, etc. have all gone unanswered
There is your problem right there. These are the big timers in the industry they recruit people. Especially Microsoft, you either got to know someone there or be the best damn programmer around. Try looking for small local buisnesses that do software or the like, or look for non-IT firms that have IT-departments.
Your aiming to high for starters, think job first, then think big job.
If cellphones could only make that noise and no others. How many times have you been sitting in the movies when some a-hole's cellphone plays Mozart or Beethoven in that anoying way? I would love to take his stupid cellphone smash it on the floor right in front of him.
Umm, AOL did not invent IM, try "talk" or "write" on any *nix system. Where do you think AOL got the idea from? Kind of like Microsoft and Apple/Xerox. Innovation my ass!
The size of a parochial school has absolutely jack squat to do with it. The kids at these schools take the same amount of shit from bullies as ones at anyother school. Infact they probably take more because of the size of the school.
I went to one of these small parochial schools and I know why this stuff doesn't happen there. It's becuase there were great, caring teachers who maintained a personal relationship with the students. They new every student by name, saw them at McDonald's after school, played softball with them at the church pic-nic, and talked to their parents often in a variety of social situations. That is the difference, the parents and teachers were all involved in the life of the student.
Also at schools like these you get people who are able to exist in many different cliques or crowds. At my school I was both a jock in the in crowd, and a geek in the not-so-in crowd. I stood up for my fellow geeks when they were down, and I held back my fellow jocks when they were jackasses. There were 200 people at my school when I graduated and I knew almost everyone of them as well as a lot of people know thier friends. They are many people like this at schools like that.
Trust me, parochial schools can be a truely different environment than other schools and it has more to do with just their size.
Almost exactly what I thought. Microsoft might just use this as a way to integrate Linux into being able to use.net.
That way even if linux gets huge they can still try to pull in profits from linux user's subscribing to.net. That's what the whole point of.net seems like: get subscriptions, make more money than just selling operating systems.
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Right now I'm temping at my former high school in my town, but calls to Yahoo, Microsoft, Dell, Compaq, HP, eBay, etc. have all gone unanswered
There is your problem right there. These are the big timers in the industry they recruit people. Especially Microsoft, you either got to know someone there or be the best damn programmer around. Try looking for small local buisnesses that do software or the like, or look for non-IT firms that have IT-departments.
Your aiming to high for starters, think job first, then think big job.
If cellphones could only make that noise and no others. How many times have you been sitting in the movies when some a-hole's cellphone plays Mozart or Beethoven in that anoying way? I would love to take his stupid cellphone smash it on the floor right in front of him.
Please, folks, use the vibrate setting.
Umm, AOL did not invent IM, try "talk" or "write" on any *nix system. Where do you think AOL got the idea from? Kind of like Microsoft and Apple/Xerox. Innovation my ass!
The size of a parochial school has absolutely jack squat to do with it. The kids at these schools take the same amount of shit from bullies as ones at anyother school. Infact they probably take more because of the size of the school.
I went to one of these small parochial schools and I know why this stuff doesn't happen there. It's becuase there were great, caring teachers who maintained a personal relationship with the students. They new every student by name, saw them at McDonald's after school, played softball with them at the church pic-nic, and talked to their parents often in a variety of social situations. That is the difference, the parents and teachers were all involved in the life of the student.
Also at schools like these you get people who are able to exist in many different cliques or crowds. At my school I was both a jock in the in crowd, and a geek in the not-so-in crowd. I stood up for my fellow geeks when they were down, and I held back my fellow jocks when they were jackasses. There were 200 people at my school when I graduated and I knew almost everyone of them as well as a lot of people know thier friends. They are many people like this at schools like that.
Trust me, parochial schools can be a truely different environment than other schools and it has more to do with just their size.
Almost exactly what I thought. Microsoft might just use this as a way to integrate Linux into being able to use .net.
.net. That's what the whole point of .net seems like: get subscriptions, make more money than just selling operating systems.
That way even if linux gets huge they can still try to pull in profits from linux user's subscribing to
Puts the $ back in M$.