The Blue Screen of Death (actually more like a little pop-up tells you your phone software bombed, would you like to report, then you get a diagnostic message back that it was caused by a driver.)
or
Segfault, core dumped.
"Honest, I tried to call in but I got a segfault!"
What's so hard to see about the trends here? Even Redmond at some point must start thinking about how much of what they do there can be done overseas. (Just heard over the holidays that Dow Chemical will be putting half its engineers over seas, particularly in India for 24 hour engineering of projects.) When's Bill going to drop the first shoe? I think it's going to happen.
I hope he takes the free publicity & does something good with it. If he can handle this gracefully and turn it into something positive, he can end up being seen doing so by the right people, and turn it into a good opportunity for himself.
Yeah, it's really a good deal for him and just the kind of motivation the next m1k3r05ft.com needs. It does pay to be a 17 year old kid getting beaten up on by a soon to be KBE.
Or, he can stay in his room and play with the new Xbox, that's OK too I suppose.
That's for after all the training, while he's waiting for someone to hire him.
State on your resume that you have experience with the following, done on personal time, but not under 'hobbies' It's work-related experience, state it as such.
1999-2004: Volunteer work on software development, contributions included report generation modules, interface to XML, stored procedure debugging and scripting. Languages and enviroments: Windows XP, Linux, C++, ksh, etc.
Volunteer work always looks better, because it indicates a desire to work and contribute. Hobbies? How serious is a hobby?
A friend shared with me a box of resumes he collected while doing interviews at one of this employers. One in particular he pulled out and asked me to review. Very impressive set of skills and experience, only problem is the guy was like 22 and could no way have accumulated that much. Indeed, he put down everything he was exposed to in college and claimed expertise with. A couple questions revealed his lack of depth. It's gotta be embarrassing to be revealed as a liar in an interview.
Skills job related which I have done on my spare time (graphic design and document publishing) I toss right in with my skills. They came into play on my last job, as I redesigned pay checks and other forms.
Why? Because they do relate to me and my skills. The hobbies I list involve an anime convention which I am a head of staff on, and a university club I helped found on campus.
These aren't your hobbies, they are your qualifications, list them as such. The reason they inquire is because they see them as such, too. If you have done volunteer work (an excellent contribution to building your profile) don't list it under some category of Social Activies, put it where it belongs. Eveything you do that is related to the position you desire should be list as your qualifications, not under 'Hobbies'
Okay, I kind of missed out on the PR before Episode I, but how did we find out that Darth Vader is Anakin? Was it in a book? Was it written in 50ft letters of fire in the sky over Skywalker Ranch?
You pretty much had to piece it together. Star Wars is a serial(shhhh!!)
From Ep IV: There's a lot of evasive talk about luke's father, Obi Wan says Darth Vader killed his father.
From Ep V: "Luke, I am your father"
From Ep VI: It're pretty much revealed.
Somewhere in V or VI there's some weasel talk by Obi Wan that when the dark side took over Anakin and made him Darth Vader metaphorically killed Anakin Skywalker.
Not man people actually follow the plot or very deeply. The shock probably to some of todays yoots is how cheesey the first movie looked (which is probably why Lucas is dragging his feet on those DVD's, he wants to further clean up the early movies, never quite satisfied, you see...)
VAT is, IIRC, Value Added Tax. Effectively a tariff (or like sales tax) on purchases. Canada has VAT, too, and Ontario at one time (maybe still has) had a PST (provincial sales tax) in addition. Small wonder hundreds of canadians bus over to Michigan stripmalls (outlet malls) just for shopping, when the tax in Ontario came out over 30% (when I last looked.)
I like the Kidby/Kirby covers very much. I also order from Amazon.co.uk the Discworld calendars, which adorn my kitchen wall. Only a few are Kidby works, but they're pretty good nonetheless.
Besides, can't find some of these works in the USA anymore, out of print or didn't cross the pond to a publisher.
From my purchases from the UK, I'm well aware books and CD's in the UK have some additional margin worked in. Even back in the day I had a Commodore 64, I read some of the UK C64 magazines and was astounded the prices were at least double that in the USA, without even VAT or whatever worked in.
I wonder why eveything costs so much. Middleman taxes or what?
It's because they're selling to british and the british are meant to suffer. It's their lot. Stiff upper lip and all that!
Bloke: "I am really enjoying this CD I saved 2 quid on!"
BPI Barrister: "Stop that! Stop that right now! You're not supposed to be enjoying or saving on anything, and where is the rain? Bloody hell, can't we have some respectable english weather?!?"
Actually, I do buy books from the UK on occasion because they have better covers on the Terry Pratchett books and some things you just can't get in the USA (Meijers/Costco mentality, lots of what you oughta like at prices you can't refuse, but less variety all the time, because variety is meant to be a luxury and should be expensive or denied to peasants just for good measure.)
Mine is the LT Designer, ps/2, black. Best keyboard I've used in years. Sun type 4 and 5 were good, though I didn't care for the feedthrough mice on those.
Like you, I'm at wits end with all the USB cables for things and I've yet to get a scanner. I prefer my KB on a PS/2 connector. Also, I'm to understand that if your PC doesn't boot, and no drivers are loaded, a USB keyboard is pretty useless.
Seriously the best keyboards are the new Sun Type6 USB keyboards. They are sturdy, have the right "click" and since they are USB work with everything. Plus the control and capslock are in the proper position
So do these only work with Sun computers or are they good for PC's, too?
I've been unfortunate enough to put up with Dell keyboards for a while (lowest bid comes to mind) but bought a Keytronic Lifetime jobby for home and it is still pretty good after a year use.
How about people who are so dedicated, so driven, so overworked or saving up their sick days for some retirement or other bonus, that they come in sick, just before your big three day weekend and a major project deadline the following week and you get their cold.
Sick days have a purpose, giving out bonuses to people who don't use them is as hazard to the workplace.
No one mentioned Microsoft Office. Most people who use it hate it, but almost no one in the corporate world can live without it. it's the classic situation of "I use it because I have to."
That's the truth, alright, from my experience. I feel the same way about Windows XP, right about now, too. And VB.NET, come to think of it. Problem is, knowing this stuff and putting up with it are what drive the paycheck. I was just thinking a few hours ago how easy it used to be to do database programming until I got saddled with.NET, easily spend 5 to 10 times the hours doing something which used to be simple, though I'm trying to work toward developing my own toolkit, it's still a painful environment to work in. I need one big button that turns all this "user friendly" shit off so I can get work done.
It's about time this finally came to a head and got settled. Novell had to expect this, so it's little more than a chess move to draw out SCO, which it has. Fight it out in court, not by urinating all over the market.
Pssst, Darl.. Some 17 year old punk named Mike Rowe is running his website on Linux! You better file suit against him, too!
Don't get him started. There's probably some kid out there S. C. Oh with a website...
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The Blue Screen of Death (actually more like a little pop-up tells you your phone software bombed, would you like to report, then you get a diagnostic message back that it was caused by a driver.)
or
Segfault, core dumped.
"Honest, I tried to call in but I got a segfault!"
Manufactured in Taiwan or China
Programmed in India
Customer support in India or where else is cheap
Use inexpensive operating system
What's so hard to see about the trends here? Even Redmond at some point must start thinking about how much of what they do there can be done overseas. (Just heard over the holidays that Dow Chemical will be putting half its engineers over seas, particularly in India for 24 hour engineering of projects.) When's Bill going to drop the first shoe? I think it's going to happen.
So it fits right in with most of the pap on the top 40.
The real sham is all the manufactured music that's been out there for years and increasing. Just program it a dictionary and it'll do rap, too.
Yeah, it's really a good deal for him and just the kind of motivation the next m1k3r05ft.com needs. It does pay to be a 17 year old kid getting beaten up on by a soon to be KBE.
Or, he can stay in his room and play with the new Xbox, that's OK too I suppose.
That's for after all the training, while he's waiting for someone to hire him.
Nope. I'm just fine with my happy, carefree life outside a cell.
Not a good way to state on resume:
1999-2000: Krusty Burger, cashier, fry cook, janitorial duties.
2001-2003: Blockbuster sales associate
Hobbies: Developing free software, database design, stamps, coins, butterflies.
Better way to state:
1999-2000: Krusty Burger, cashier, fry cook, janitorial duties.
2001-2003: Blockbuster sales associate
1999-2004: Volunteer work on software development, contributions included report generation modules, interface to XML, stored procedure debugging and scripting. Languages and enviroments: Windows XP, Linux, C++, ksh, etc.
Volunteer work always looks better, because it indicates a desire to work and contribute. Hobbies? How serious is a hobby?
A friend shared with me a box of resumes he collected while doing interviews at one of this employers. One in particular he pulled out and asked me to review. Very impressive set of skills and experience, only problem is the guy was like 22 and could no way have accumulated that much. Indeed, he put down everything he was exposed to in college and claimed expertise with. A couple questions revealed his lack of depth. It's gotta be embarrassing to be revealed as a liar in an interview.
Skills job related which I have done on my spare time (graphic design and document publishing) I toss right in with my skills. They came into play on my last job, as I redesigned pay checks and other forms.
These aren't your hobbies, they are your qualifications, list them as such. The reason they inquire is because they see them as such, too. If you have done volunteer work (an excellent contribution to building your profile) don't list it under some category of Social Activies, put it where it belongs. Eveything you do that is related to the position you desire should be list as your qualifications, not under 'Hobbies'
Do not lie. Lies are eventually revealed, you waste your time and theirs.
Keep it to what's current and to the subject.
Make it readable and non-technical. It's going to be screened by HR people, they're typically really bad with technical details.
Keep a text copy, some people want to receive resumes through horrible web interfaces.
Nobody gives a crap about your hobbies, unless then involve lots of theft of past employers property, in which case they'll appreciate your candor.
You pretty much had to piece it together. Star Wars is a serial(shhhh!!)
From Ep IV: There's a lot of evasive talk about luke's father, Obi Wan says Darth Vader killed his father.
From Ep V: "Luke, I am your father"
From Ep VI: It're pretty much revealed.
Somewhere in V or VI there's some weasel talk by Obi Wan that when the dark side took over Anakin and made him Darth Vader metaphorically killed Anakin Skywalker.
Not man people actually follow the plot or very deeply. The shock probably to some of todays yoots is how cheesey the first movie looked (which is probably why Lucas is dragging his feet on those DVD's, he wants to further clean up the early movies, never quite satisfied, you see...)
You heard it here first! (c=
VAT is, IIRC, Value Added Tax. Effectively a tariff (or like sales tax) on purchases. Canada has VAT, too, and Ontario at one time (maybe still has) had a PST (provincial sales tax) in addition. Small wonder hundreds of canadians bus over to Michigan stripmalls (outlet malls) just for shopping, when the tax in Ontario came out over 30% (when I last looked.)
Besides, can't find some of these works in the USA anymore, out of print or didn't cross the pond to a publisher.
I wonder why eveything costs so much. Middleman taxes or what?
Bloke: "I am really enjoying this CD I saved 2 quid on!"
BPI Barrister: "Stop that! Stop that right now! You're not supposed to be enjoying or saving on anything, and where is the rain? Bloody hell, can't we have some respectable english weather?!?"
Actually, I do buy books from the UK on occasion because they have better covers on the Terry Pratchett books and some things you just can't get in the USA (Meijers/Costco mentality, lots of what you oughta like at prices you can't refuse, but less variety all the time, because variety is meant to be a luxury and should be expensive or denied to peasants just for good measure.)
Mine is the LT Designer, ps/2, black. Best keyboard I've used in years. Sun type 4 and 5 were good, though I didn't care for the feedthrough mice on those.
Like you, I'm at wits end with all the USB cables for things and I've yet to get a scanner. I prefer my KB on a PS/2 connector. Also, I'm to understand that if your PC doesn't boot, and no drivers are loaded, a USB keyboard is pretty useless.
So do these only work with Sun computers or are they good for PC's, too?
I've been unfortunate enough to put up with Dell keyboards for a while (lowest bid comes to mind) but bought a Keytronic Lifetime jobby for home and it is still pretty good after a year use.
Sick days have a purpose, giving out bonuses to people who don't use them is as hazard to the workplace.
That's the truth, alright, from my experience. I feel the same way about Windows XP, right about now, too. And VB.NET, come to think of it. Problem is, knowing this stuff and putting up with it are what drive the paycheck. I was just thinking a few hours ago how easy it used to be to do database programming until I got saddled with .NET, easily spend 5 to 10 times the hours doing something which used to be simple, though I'm trying to work toward developing my own toolkit, it's still a painful environment to work in. I need one big button that turns all this "user friendly" shit off so I can get work done.
And now for something completely different.
Pssst, Darl.. Some 17 year old punk named Mike Rowe is running his website on Linux! You better file suit against him, too!
Don't get him started. There's probably some kid out there S. C. Oh with a website...
It's probably looking for a few tell-tale things, which will always be there.
And now, for something completely different.
You are in Tokyo, standing next to a building, filled with 3,845 single women, would you like to list them?
Let's explore that...
You don't pay your bills
You don't have service
You're still on the phone making calls, how?
Don't want to be located? Yank the batter out.