Really, that's my only advice. I went to a school which at the time had a 66/33 mix of male to female, as it was an engineering university. It wasn't much fun.
Also depending on your personality, if you aren't like a super extravert, you will enjoy a school which has a smaller number of students. Smaller school with say 5000 students is more tight nit, you know a larger percentage of students in your class and you'll probably be taking multiple classes from the same professor so you get to know them better as well.
As far as what matters when looking for a job. What college you attend really doesn't matter. What matters is what you know. It most certainly does help to have a ComSci degree. I personally refuse to hire anybody without one to be a developer. But beyond that, it's all up to you.
The smartest guy I ever worked with did have a degree from MIT. But I don't think it would have mattered. The guy was smart regardless of what school he had gone to. The next smartest guy I knew had a degree from a state college.
As for filtering, modern home theater equipment is more computer than TV or stereo, and this stuff is VERY sensitive to low quality poewr. A surge protector is WORTHLESS! You need power filtration with real time voltage regulation. Monster does a good job providing very high quality filtering systems for as little as $200-300. If you have high def, a suround sound stereo, a PS3 or xbox360, keep this in mind.
LOL!
Those are probably one of the biggest scams yet from Monster.;-)
Coat hangers aren't very practical or easy to use, are they?
The main reason I have bought more expensive cabling, has to do with aesthetics and usability. There is a lot of snake oil out there, but a lot of the midpriced cables are great and better than cheaper stuff.
I've bought Monster interconnects before, and loved them. I don't like their speaker cable, because their connectors suck.
Actually fake airplane spare parts is a major problem for the industry. It's largely thieves making off with parts which were rejected for being out of spec, or parts which expired past their shelf life and trying to sell them.
I worked for a company as an intern years ago that made windshield wipers for planes. Everything from beechcraft to 747's. That summer while I was there, they cleaned house on their old inventory and had a pallet of parts to dispose of.
They hired a company which does this for a living. Basically one of our companies representatives went with them, following the parts, and they took them out to a spot far away from people(probably on government land) and using something like a well drilling rig, dug a very deep hole and then buried them.
I don't know why they didn't melt them down. Perhaps because there was a risk of them falling into someone elses hands. i don't know. But there's a whole process that they follow, that is authorized by the FAA to make sure those parts never see the light of day again.
This one always amazed me. That is, how poorly most Americans are at judging the character of an individual.
And people wonder how we elected such a stupid moron as President, and even more surprising, how could such a moron have ever fucked things up as much as he did.
Go do a search on the Internet for John McCain and his Vietnam record. There are guys, many of them are the same guys that people blindly believed regarding Kerry, who claim he made a deal with the Vietnamese to sell out America if only they'd let him go. They claim he's the manchurian candidate, and is still working for the communists to this day.
I wonder if McCain is going to have to put up with the same fucking bullshit regarding his military records? It didn't seem to come up in the primary campaign. Seems the party elders recognized that letting these Vietnam lunatics loose would be bad for them in the long run, so they kept 'em quiet.
unlike the 2004 convention, where they allowed the entire Republican party to basically spit on the memory of our nation's veterans, all in the name of getting John Kerry.
It doesn't matter how good you are, you'll be outsourced. And you know why? Because this whole outsourcing is just a big scam. It's NOT about making things better; it's about managers PRETENDING they are doing something to justify their salaries, and an opportunity to get bonuses.
You know you are in trouble when management cites "Industry best practice" as reason for outsourcing.
There is utility in outsourcing, definately, but you need a reason besides "everybody else is doing it".
i'm not afraid of outsourcing, never have been. the only ones that quiver in fear are the incompetent ones who are easy to replace with a $5/hr from banglore.
Keep in mind what you mean by that. What you are saying is that if your company decides to jump on the outsourcing bandwagon, you are going to leave and go somewhere else.
Now what happens when they all do this?
The company I presently work for is going through this right now. They claim support costs too much, so they want to move all support roles to India so that American developers can work on new stuff. But they're not really asking the question of why does support cost too much, and that is because we don't build our systems in a turnkey manner, nor do we ever stop churning on them. There's always something to fix, some new feature to add, etc. This is not due to the quality of developers, it is endemic to the culture of the place.
The problem isn't the cost of developers, it's the whole process. Moving work to India isn't a good strategy in that regard because you are still going to have the churn problem.
There is a difference between bringing your job home, and loving your job.
When I think of eating/sleeping/breathing "the job", I think of spending 70 hours a week doing stuff work related.
But I think where the author is coming from is spending some of your free time reading blogs, journals, experimenting with technology at home. I know guys at work who are programmers who don't even have a home computer, or internet connections.
You might like to know that we tried that... It didn't work. A single wealthy individual could finance an entire campaign, and have a politician totally indebted to them. Wasn't very much fun for everybody else.
The system we have today where anybody can give any amount they want up to a limit of $2400 works great. Just look at Obama's fundraising totals.
That is an interesting perspective. As a developer who uses Microsoft products, and is always looking for new ways to architect web apps, I saw this and thought about looking at the API and thinking about ways I could abstract out some of my common tasks into services, so that I could easily build a new app without having to worry about the little trivial stuff.
But apparently I'm supposed to be shitting my pants, because google is taking over.
I've never heard of Ann Coulter or Michael Savage wishing for the painful deaths of the families of prominent liberals, either. Your comparison is invalid.
Didn't Ann Coulter get kicked out of the CPAC convention because her rhetoric was too hateful for them?
Strange that you would defend her. I though you said you would denounce such language?
If you could find it, I would be the next to denounce it. I looked it up, why can't you? While I'm sure there is hateful things said from the right, they are not nearly as prevalent and others on the right are the first to slam them down. Also, you don't find these hate filled people from the right getting over a million hits on their blogs like the DailyKos.
I think the mistake you made was in assuming I and every other American are fucking idiots.
Claiming "That's not fair! It was taken out of context" and then going into a two paragraph rant about how we have to stay in Iraq no matter what the cost really doesn't make for a good argument.
Besides, you do realize the Marshall Plan came from the Democrats. It's clear Republicans don't know a single thing about the foundations of Democracy, much less Capitalism.
Time to hand this over to the Democrats, so they can clean up your mess.
Have you ever read the article by Vint Cerf where he acknowledges that Al Gore was instrumental in creating the Internet? Gore listened to these scientists, agreed that it was important, and initiated the legislative process which got their funding.
Ohwell, at least Gore didn't say he'd be happy if we were in Iraq for another 100 years.
But reporting that some prominent or respected figure criticized someone for something specific is fact, and does not necessarily violate NPOV.
This goes back to the age old media question. What is a NPOV? Is it he said/she said, or is it pointing out that yeah he said something, but he's clearly wrong?
Now the historical references on wiki are generally filled with proper analysis pointing out who was wrong, etc. So it is possible to have this kind of analysis on wiki. I'm simply pointing out that it is impossible with a contemporary subject.
Really? Try GWB's page:
Actually Bush's page is a perfect example. There's very little criticism with substance. A bunch of crap about poll numbers, but given the dozens of books and thousands of scholarly papers dedicated to critiquing his foreign policy positions it is surprising that none of them are referenced.
"Wanting to" and "being able to" are two different things. Last I checked, we've been in Germany, Japan and England for over 60 years and South Korea for 50.
Al Gore called, and he'd like to offer some advice on how to explain away something you said and was taken out of context.
Any criticism that can be verified (WP:V) by a reliable source (WP:RS) can and should remain in the article. Removing criticism for the sake of avoiding controversy is not supported by any Wikipedia policy
But criticism is opinion, and violates the neutral POV.
It's not so much about avoiding controversy. It's just that many of these entries are monitored by interested parties and they will eliminate any criticism, even if it's referenced, by claiming it violates the Neutral POV.
As such most pages regarding contemporary political subjects are gold plated fluff.
That's odd, I've never made any statements similar to the random comments you extruded from various random websites.
Yet you just made a statement upthread claiming that I and ALL of the other commentors over at DailyKos Hate America, and unless the Democratic party as a whole rejects DailyKos, they too Hate America.
I just don't see the logic in all of this.
And besides, don't you think it's possible that someone could do a search of right-wing websites and find similar comments? What would such a summary say about you?
I don't recall anybody saying it started in 2001, but it was certainly a major aspect of the 2001 recession.
Another thing, I should have made mention of. The Fed was raising interest rates all throughout 2000, despite turbulence in the stock market. This is widely believed to have been because Enron and some other companies were hiding losses, which gave the Fed false indications that the economy was in better shape than it was.
Only if we can say George Bush is the worst Democratic President since Carter.
Well, he has been a Worse President then Carter, if that is any consolation.
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Really, that's my only advice. I went to a school which at the time had a 66/33 mix of male to female, as it was an engineering university. It wasn't much fun.
Also depending on your personality, if you aren't like a super extravert, you will enjoy a school which has a smaller number of students. Smaller school with say 5000 students is more tight nit, you know a larger percentage of students in your class and you'll probably be taking multiple classes from the same professor so you get to know them better as well.
As far as what matters when looking for a job. What college you attend really doesn't matter. What matters is what you know. It most certainly does help to have a ComSci degree. I personally refuse to hire anybody without one to be a developer. But beyond that, it's all up to you.
The smartest guy I ever worked with did have a degree from MIT. But I don't think it would have mattered. The guy was smart regardless of what school he had gone to. The next smartest guy I knew had a degree from a state college.
LOL!
Those are probably one of the biggest scams yet from Monster.
Coat hangers aren't very practical or easy to use, are they?
The main reason I have bought more expensive cabling, has to do with aesthetics and usability. There is a lot of snake oil out there, but a lot of the midpriced cables are great and better than cheaper stuff.
I've bought Monster interconnects before, and loved them. I don't like their speaker cable, because their connectors suck.
Actually fake airplane spare parts is a major problem for the industry. It's largely thieves making off with parts which were rejected for being out of spec, or parts which expired past their shelf life and trying to sell them.
I worked for a company as an intern years ago that made windshield wipers for planes. Everything from beechcraft to 747's. That summer while I was there, they cleaned house on their old inventory and had a pallet of parts to dispose of.
They hired a company which does this for a living. Basically one of our companies representatives went with them, following the parts, and they took them out to a spot far away from people(probably on government land) and using something like a well drilling rig, dug a very deep hole and then buried them.
I don't know why they didn't melt them down. Perhaps because there was a risk of them falling into someone elses hands. i don't know. But there's a whole process that they follow, that is authorized by the FAA to make sure those parts never see the light of day again.
This one always amazed me. That is, how poorly most Americans are at judging the character of an individual.
And people wonder how we elected such a stupid moron as President, and even more surprising, how could such a moron have ever fucked things up as much as he did.
Go do a search on the Internet for John McCain and his Vietnam record. There are guys, many of them are the same guys that people blindly believed regarding Kerry, who claim he made a deal with the Vietnamese to sell out America if only they'd let him go. They claim he's the manchurian candidate, and is still working for the communists to this day.
I wonder if McCain is going to have to put up with the same fucking bullshit regarding his military records? It didn't seem to come up in the primary campaign. Seems the party elders recognized that letting these Vietnam lunatics loose would be bad for them in the long run, so they kept 'em quiet.
unlike the 2004 convention, where they allowed the entire Republican party to basically spit on the memory of our nation's veterans, all in the name of getting John Kerry.
Bleah
So it's not space exploration that you care about. You are upset that he's criticized NASA.
Whaaaaaaaa!
You know you are in trouble when management cites "Industry best practice" as reason for outsourcing.
There is utility in outsourcing, definately, but you need a reason besides "everybody else is doing it".
Keep in mind what you mean by that. What you are saying is that if your company decides to jump on the outsourcing bandwagon, you are going to leave and go somewhere else.
Now what happens when they all do this?
The company I presently work for is going through this right now. They claim support costs too much, so they want to move all support roles to India so that American developers can work on new stuff. But they're not really asking the question of why does support cost too much, and that is because we don't build our systems in a turnkey manner, nor do we ever stop churning on them. There's always something to fix, some new feature to add, etc. This is not due to the quality of developers, it is endemic to the culture of the place.
The problem isn't the cost of developers, it's the whole process. Moving work to India isn't a good strategy in that regard because you are still going to have the churn problem.
There is a difference between bringing your job home, and loving your job.
When I think of eating/sleeping/breathing "the job", I think of spending 70 hours a week doing stuff work related.
But I think where the author is coming from is spending some of your free time reading blogs, journals, experimenting with technology at home. I know guys at work who are programmers who don't even have a home computer, or internet connections.
You might like to know that we tried that... It didn't work. A single wealthy individual could finance an entire campaign, and have a politician totally indebted to them. Wasn't very much fun for everybody else.
The system we have today where anybody can give any amount they want up to a limit of $2400 works great. Just look at Obama's fundraising totals.
Next, suggesting delaying the Joint Strike Fighter makes you anti-military.
Suggesting restricting funding on school sports makes you anti-children, and anti-sports.
It's fucked up arguments like this which result in pandering politicians promising you everything you want to hear.
That is an interesting perspective. As a developer who uses Microsoft products, and is always looking for new ways to architect web apps, I saw this and thought about looking at the API and thinking about ways I could abstract out some of my common tasks into services, so that I could easily build a new app without having to worry about the little trivial stuff.
But apparently I'm supposed to be shitting my pants, because google is taking over.
Yup, still in beta after all these years.
Something like this that happened nearly 4 years ago can't be that important to still be wasting lawyers on.
Can it?
Didn't Ann Coulter get kicked out of the CPAC convention because her rhetoric was too hateful for them?
Strange that you would defend her. I though you said you would denounce such language?
Did your mother not love you as a child?
I think the mistake you made was in assuming I and every other American are fucking idiots.
Claiming "That's not fair! It was taken out of context" and then going into a two paragraph rant about how we have to stay in Iraq no matter what the cost really doesn't make for a good argument.
Besides, you do realize the Marshall Plan came from the Democrats. It's clear Republicans don't know a single thing about the foundations of Democracy, much less Capitalism.
Time to hand this over to the Democrats, so they can clean up your mess.
And "Al Gore invented the Internet" was not?
you must be new here.
Have you ever read the article by Vint Cerf where he acknowledges that Al Gore was instrumental in creating the Internet? Gore listened to these scientists, agreed that it was important, and initiated the legislative process which got their funding.
Ohwell, at least Gore didn't say he'd be happy if we were in Iraq for another 100 years.
This goes back to the age old media question. What is a NPOV? Is it he said/she said, or is it pointing out that yeah he said something, but he's clearly wrong?
Now the historical references on wiki are generally filled with proper analysis pointing out who was wrong, etc. So it is possible to have this kind of analysis on wiki. I'm simply pointing out that it is impossible with a contemporary subject.
Actually Bush's page is a perfect example. There's very little criticism with substance. A bunch of crap about poll numbers, but given the dozens of books and thousands of scholarly papers dedicated to critiquing his foreign policy positions it is surprising that none of them are referenced.
The Soviet Union wasn't really Communist.
Al Gore called, and he'd like to offer some advice on how to explain away something you said and was taken out of context.
But criticism is opinion, and violates the neutral POV.
It's not so much about avoiding controversy. It's just that many of these entries are monitored by interested parties and they will eliminate any criticism, even if it's referenced, by claiming it violates the Neutral POV.
As such most pages regarding contemporary political subjects are gold plated fluff.
That's odd, I've never made any statements similar to the random comments you extruded from various random websites.
Yet you just made a statement upthread claiming that I and ALL of the other commentors over at DailyKos Hate America, and unless the Democratic party as a whole rejects DailyKos, they too Hate America.
I just don't see the logic in all of this.
And besides, don't you think it's possible that someone could do a search of right-wing websites and find similar comments? What would such a summary say about you?
I don't recall anybody saying it started in 2001, but it was certainly a major aspect of the 2001 recession.
Another thing, I should have made mention of. The Fed was raising interest rates all throughout 2000, despite turbulence in the stock market. This is widely believed to have been because Enron and some other companies were hiding losses, which gave the Fed false indications that the economy was in better shape than it was.
Well, he has been a Worse President then Carter, if that is any consolation.