In both my telecommuting jobs, I was a full-time telecommuter from the get-go. Heck, for one of them, I was interviewed on the phone, got the job offer on the phone, and worked for them for 4 years and never met a single human from the company in person.
This current job I got sight-unseen as well, but since joining the company I have travelled to one of their offices on a couple of occasions and actually got to meet my boss.
You've touched on a HUGE job benefit for me. My two kids don't know what it's like to have their father gone all day. Both of them napped on my lap when they were infants. I had a pillow on my lap, with baby sleeping while I worked. How much money would someone have to offer me to trade that? Quite a bit.
I just made lunch for my little ones, now I'm back downstairs at my station. You can't put a price on that. I'll take that over "workout room in the basement" or "free parking" any day.
Many folks just don't want to pick up and move some place where real estate prices are insane just so they can get a job with a company that gets bought out 6 months later and downsized 6 months after that.
For 99% of software development, system administration and network management, physical proximity is completely pointless. Hell, most of the time you end up working for a company with more than one office, and you do remote work on remote systems anyway. Yet the majority of tech companies are still afraid to hire telecommuters.
I've been telecommuting for almost 6 years with great success. An employer who is willing to hire remote workers suddenly has a gigantic field of potential employees to pick from.
This Alexa thing sounds like a great tool for anyone wanting to know which websites are most frequented by IE users who are susceptible to Internet advertising.
"You can also set it up to attempt to dial long distance via VoIP"
Do you need to purchase some sort of long-distance over IP thing from someone in order to do this? Or are you strictly talking about LD to another box you manage in a remote location?
If you had your own asterisk box and you wanted the attached phones to be able to dial LD (or even local) to any phone in the world, would you have to get a POTS line?
What's the cheapest way to get started with Asterisk? I need a linux box + ??? (Interested mostly in the VoIP stuff, but I would like to learn the PBX stuff. Starting from a point of complete and utter cluelessness about Voice.)
I'm interested. Can you expand on that? I am just getting started with this kind of stuff. Do you mean that I should learn how not to make each load of a self-referencing php file establish a new connection?
How do I do this abstraction you're talking about? I presume it involves session IDs or some such? Any info would be appreciated.
Wouldn't "92% of web searchers" imply that it's a percentage of the fraction of the 2200 that search the web, and not a percentage of the entire sample?
Gotta agree with you this time.:) I think that the ultimate answer to the question posed in this article, "What do you believe in that you cannot prove." is "Almost everything".
I didn't mean to be rude.:) I laugh because you are saying that you'll believe something so long as it makes sense to you based on a subjective/personal sense of "reasonable" and "sturdy". Or until something "better" comes along.
I can say the exact same thing about my religion! I will gladly change religions if/when I come upon a religion which does a better job at putting creation in context. I've studied many religions precisely for the purpose of checking whether a superior religion exists.
If you have to make yourself confortable with a degree of incertitude in order to satisfy yourself of a proof, then it's not proof at all! It's a belief "on good authority". ('good authority' also being unprovable)
Statistical significance is a long way from proof.
"watching a large ship go over the horizon of an ocean if you want."
Well, just because it happens here doesn't mean it happens everywhere. I'd have to visit every coast off every ocean in the world to know for sure. I can't afford to do that so I'll just take your word for it.
"The curvature of the earth can be seen from a plane flying at high altitude."
Assuming the parent's poster has the opportunity to observe this for himself, that still only prooves the Earth is curved. Not spherical. For all we know, the Earth is shaped like a motorcycle fender.
"call your friend and both of you measure the shadow lengths cast by the sticks."
Assuming the friend doesn't lie, it still only shows that the sun's rays hit different points of the Earth at different angles. Maybe the Earth is shaped like the under-side of an egg-carton.
Strictly speaking, only the people who have themselves flown into space and seen with their own eyes the Earth, and completed an entire orbit around it, can know the Earth is spherical and not have to take someone else's word for it at SOME point.
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In both my telecommuting jobs, I was a full-time telecommuter from the get-go. Heck, for one of them, I was interviewed on the phone, got the job offer on the phone, and worked for them for 4 years and never met a single human from the company in person.
This current job I got sight-unseen as well, but since joining the company I have travelled to one of their offices on a couple of occasions and actually got to meet my boss.
You've touched on a HUGE job benefit for me. My two kids don't know what it's like to have their father gone all day. Both of them napped on my lap when they were infants. I had a pillow on my lap, with baby sleeping while I worked. How much money would someone have to offer me to trade that? Quite a bit.
I just made lunch for my little ones, now I'm back downstairs at my station. You can't put a price on that. I'll take that over "workout room in the basement" or "free parking" any day.
Many folks just don't want to pick up and move some place where real estate prices are insane just so they can get a job with a company that gets bought out 6 months later and downsized 6 months after that.
For 99% of software development, system administration and network management, physical proximity is completely pointless. Hell, most of the time you end up working for a company with more than one office, and you do remote work on remote systems anyway. Yet the majority of tech companies are still afraid to hire telecommuters.
I've been telecommuting for almost 6 years with great success. An employer who is willing to hire remote workers suddenly has a gigantic field of potential employees to pick from.
You got it all wrong. It's IRan.com. It's a site for people to brag about having finished the Boston marathon.
I mean seriously, are we that bored?
This Alexa thing sounds like a great tool for anyone wanting to know which websites are most frequented by IE users who are susceptible to Internet advertising.
"I could see maybe a double tiered service perhaps this way... like $20/month for the craptacular we charge your webservices too version"
Thanks, but I hated it the first time they did it, when it was called CompuServ.
You're wrong. The very first chapter of the Quran starts with the words:
"Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds"
Several places in the Quran, it is said that God repeats creation. And there are several indications that this world was not the first.
One word: Keyboardsaver!
(Ok, three words mashed together.)
"I know one employer who would throw $80,000 at someone capable of designing a UI in Arabic "
I may know someone. Can you get me this prospective employer's contact information? I'll forward it along to my brother-in-law.
You can get my email information by re-arranging my home page URL.
"You can also set it up to attempt to dial long distance via VoIP"
Do you need to purchase some sort of long-distance over IP thing from someone in order to do this? Or are you strictly talking about LD to another box you manage in a remote location?
If you had your own asterisk box and you wanted the attached phones to be able to dial LD (or even local) to any phone in the world, would you have to get a POTS line?
(scuze the asinine questions)
What's the cheapest way to get started with Asterisk? I need a linux box + ??? (Interested mostly in the VoIP stuff, but I would like to learn the PBX stuff. Starting from a point of complete and utter cluelessness about Voice.)
Would you be willing to 'adopt a newbie' ?
I'm interested. Can you expand on that?
I am just getting started with this kind of stuff.
Do you mean that I should learn how not to make each load of a self-referencing php file establish a new connection?
How do I do this abstraction you're talking about? I presume it involves session IDs or some such? Any info would be appreciated.
Wouldn't "92% of web searchers" imply that it's a percentage of the fraction of the 2200 that search the web, and not a percentage of the entire sample?
ROTFLMAO!
Thank you!!!
Gotta agree with you this time.
I didn't mean to be rude. :) I laugh because you are saying that you'll believe something so long as it makes sense to you based on a subjective/personal sense of "reasonable" and "sturdy". Or until something "better" comes along.
I can say the exact same thing about my religion! I will gladly change religions if/when I come upon a religion which does a better job at putting creation in context. I've studied many religions precisely for the purpose of checking whether a superior religion exists.
If you have to make yourself confortable with a degree of incertitude in order to satisfy yourself of a proof, then it's not proof at all! It's a belief "on good authority". ('good authority' also being unprovable)
Statistical significance is a long way from proof.
"watching a large ship go over the horizon of an ocean if you want."
Well, just because it happens here doesn't mean it happens everywhere. I'd have to visit every coast off every ocean in the world to know for sure. I can't afford to do that so I'll just take your word for it.
"The curvature of the earth can be seen from a plane flying at high altitude."
Assuming the parent's poster has the opportunity to observe this for himself, that still only prooves the Earth is curved. Not spherical. For all we know, the Earth is shaped like a motorcycle fender.
"call your friend and both of you measure the shadow lengths cast by the sticks."
Assuming the friend doesn't lie, it still only shows that the sun's rays hit different points of the Earth at different angles. Maybe the Earth is shaped like the under-side of an egg-carton.
Strictly speaking, only the people who have themselves flown into space and seen with their own eyes the Earth, and completed an entire orbit around it, can know the Earth is spherical and not have to take someone else's word for it at SOME point.
"prove it within a reasonable margin of error"
ROTFLMAO!
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Peace
How does one go about finding such contracts?
Faith is not "the belief of things with no evidence".
It is "the belief of things with no proof". There is a big difference and I hope you see it.
Second major system to go down due to software upgrade in as many days. Coincidence?
Hmm.. Ebaum sounds like Slashdot. :)
XFree is networked by design. Remote X desktops have been around since the very start.
You can do 2 things: you can start applications individually or you can start an entire remote desktop session.
You'd have to RTFM to understand X display mechanisms. For remote desktop, try starting here:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/
Good luck!