In fact, what I sent out over the last 5 weeks was only just 103 copies of my resume via the normal mail, most of the rest were physically handed to someone. Of those mailed, none of them were general "here is my resume" notes. I promise you, if you saw it you would think "Why didn't I think of that". As yet the reasons I've been turned down has to do with my lack of experience, not my lack of detail in my letter to them.
I agree with ya, and your thought is true, sadly it hinges on the willingness of an employer to hire you even part time. I've been looking for computer related work since I was 14 and had only a minor success during the summer of 2001. Especially now when things are as tight as they are, getting a job even part time with which to add to ones skill set is hard. I go to school in South Dakota and it is that much harder, most computer related jobs here are granted based on need and not skill (and I am not needy enough). Otherwise it's an hour drive to most anything else, I've got no problem with a good drive but few if any of those places in the area are hiring and none want someone with out 3-5 years of experience under their belt.
I am, I expect to get at least 2 today (both of which I'm expecting). Sadly I too have been thinking for a while what you are. I still know people who graduated in may who have not been able to use their degree for anything other then taking money at a gas station. Right now to get a job you need huge amounts of experience, to get experience you need the job. It's a catch 22 which is going to keep me unemployed for a long time I fear.
I'll be graduating in December and I am praying that things get much better by then (crazy thing is I am not a religious person). If things don't improve I am looking into a graduate program just to pull myself off the market for another 2 years.
I've got a stack of about 40 rejections sitting in my drawer right now, they are in response to about 160 resumes I've sent out in the last 5 weeks alone. An internship with Microsoft would be a great opportunity, regardless of the stigma. At this point I'm just looking for the internship, regardless of where and who.
Not enough. I too will be graduating soon with a Computer Science degree and I am finding nothing but closed doors. Take a look around at job sites, it is extremely rare to find an entry level job for someone like us, this is an employers market and they are looking for workers with many years of experience under their belts. With the.com bust and slow down of the tech sectors there are plenty of experienced geeks out looking for jobs with college students and recent graduates. Hands down the experienced geeks win. Hell I've got a friend trying to convince me to quit job hunting and just start on a masters and wait out the economic troubles.
We keep hearing that the shuttle is US property and if you keep pieces of it then you are breaking federal law and can and will be charged... yada yada.
While it is a crash investigation and it is illegal to withhold what you know, if this top secret piece of decryption hardware fell on your lawn, you legal own it as it is on your property and you have salvaged it.
Like it or not this is the case and the media and the police saying otherwise is starting to bother me.
One little note, just because it is your property doesn't mean you are able to withhold access to it to the crash investigation, after all, that's exactly what it is. It is illegal for you to impede the investigation, but at the end of it they are required to return your property to you.
Very true, although when job hunting (which I've been doing for a while now with no success) you need one of two things, relevant work experience or lots of education/certifications. I'll be graduating in about 8 months with a solid bachelors in computer science but it alone wont get me a job, I'm either going to need to get a pile of certs or a year or two of relevant work experience.
I always hear such news and it tends to sadden me, nothing like that was ever available at my high school nor is it at my college despite frequent promises to come up with similar programs. Maybe I should stop paying my 4 year university large sums of money twice a year and go to a boot camp for a few weeks, it might cost more, but some would say I'd get more out of it.
Most likely the shuttle fleet will be grounded for the next 18 months until the exact cause of this can be understood and fixed.
With Challenger it took 3 years from the incident to the next launch. This latest event will hurt NASA even more and for the next year the Russians will be the only ones resupplying the ISS as no US shuttle will be launched until the cause of this has been fixed.
Sadly we as Americans tend to over react when tragic things happen, yes this is an awful event but there is a point where people need to move on, moving on in this case will not happen I fear.
true, although on the shuttle the wearing of pressure suits did not become mandatory on take off or landing until after challenger, it was one of the changes made.
They say it'll be out in a month... my guess is you'll be able to by the first one off the production line when you get your Opteron and Duke Nukem Forever all on the same day.
Wait... this combination has consistently been a failure for them... this wont last long.
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Come on, the first Doom 3 story about it being leaked was fine as a reporting of the news. The story did get a little overboard with publishing links to help people find and use the alpha... but this is just worse, a story not about news but completely about piracy. You should be ashamed!
SRAM is pretty much static until changes are made, DRAM you'll hear described like a leaky capacitor. When you give it a charge it will slowly loose it, so you need to refresh it... many many times per second.
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This is where the problem and solution goes (ErrorCode, ExtraInfo)
I had always heard that aftermarket sales of VHS and DVD sales to consumers as well as video store rentals generaly create more money for the studios then the initial boxoffice release did.
At my school, Dakota State University in Madison South Dakota, every time unusually large amounts of traffic showed up on non standard ports, the school would throttle it down with their packet shaper. This was fine and dandy until students realized this and changed the port used to the one port that no school would throttle, that's right, our good friend 80.
This has caused an even bigger problem because the school sees the dorms using obcene amounts of bandwidth on 80 and to control it they have limited the dorms to just 5 megabits. In theory that is fine, until you count 800 students in the dorms and there being 13 megabits of pipe for this school. The Packet Shaper has destroyed the ability of students to use the internet from their rooms as it causes huge latency, in the order of 4.7 seconds at most (that I've seen) and averaging around 2 seconds (yes, seconds). Normal programs can't handle such latency and send out more and more requests while thinking the earlier packets were lost. P2P programs on the other hand have no problem dealing with large latency.
Speaking as a student who is suffering because of the P2P abuse of others, be good, if you use the P2P stuff don't leave it on and be responsible otherwise the school may crack down on the students harder then you ever thought was possible.
P.S. To make this post I am connecting to the internet via an old dial up modem as it is faster then the connection in the dorms, my school was once rated as the 8th most wired college in the nation by Yahoo... oh how the mighty have fallen.
that is a great point. They are afraid that modding will cost them money in the long run, in responce they spend large sums of money on development of a more secure system, costing them even more money.
Any hardware or software can be hacked given a little time. It's easy to keep a system secure when you control access to it, when was the last time you heard about someone hacking an ATM, you don't, because it's hardware that is very hard to get your hands on, the moment a system like an xbox hits the market people will try to hack it.
one would think that it would be in their best interest to release a given peice of hardware and let people do what they want with it so long as they don't figgure out how to make their own hardware (directly cutting into sales of hardware).
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I wonder if they are related to Orical and Larry Elison. He was the last person to realize that unbreakable doesn't mean unbreakable.
Hoodlum, Mullhullin Falls, Star Trek Nemisis, and a few others I can't named used some of the scores from the Crimson Tide soundtrack... you do make an interesting point about that, I've always wondered why it was that movie previews tend to use music from existing movies.
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In fact, what I sent out over the last 5 weeks was only just 103 copies of my resume via the normal mail, most of the rest were physically handed to someone. Of those mailed, none of them were general "here is my resume" notes. I promise you, if you saw it you would think "Why didn't I think of that". As yet the reasons I've been turned down has to do with my lack of experience, not my lack of detail in my letter to them.
I agree with ya, and your thought is true, sadly it hinges on the willingness of an employer to hire you even part time. I've been looking for computer related work since I was 14 and had only a minor success during the summer of 2001. Especially now when things are as tight as they are, getting a job even part time with which to add to ones skill set is hard. I go to school in South Dakota and it is that much harder, most computer related jobs here are granted based on need and not skill (and I am not needy enough). Otherwise it's an hour drive to most anything else, I've got no problem with a good drive but few if any of those places in the area are hiring and none want someone with out 3-5 years of experience under their belt.
I am, I expect to get at least 2 today (both of which I'm expecting). Sadly I too have been thinking for a while what you are. I still know people who graduated in may who have not been able to use their degree for anything other then taking money at a gas station. Right now to get a job you need huge amounts of experience, to get experience you need the job. It's a catch 22 which is going to keep me unemployed for a long time I fear.
I'll be graduating in December and I am praying that things get much better by then (crazy thing is I am not a religious person). If things don't improve I am looking into a graduate program just to pull myself off the market for another 2 years.
I've got a stack of about 40 rejections sitting in my drawer right now, they are in response to about 160 resumes I've sent out in the last 5 weeks alone. An internship with Microsoft would be a great opportunity, regardless of the stigma. At this point I'm just looking for the internship, regardless of where and who.
Not enough. I too will be graduating soon with a Computer Science degree and I am finding nothing but closed doors. Take a look around at job sites, it is extremely rare to find an entry level job for someone like us, this is an employers market and they are looking for workers with many years of experience under their belts. With the .com bust and slow down of the tech sectors there are plenty of experienced geeks out looking for jobs with college students and recent graduates. Hands down the experienced geeks win. Hell I've got a friend trying to convince me to quit job hunting and just start on a masters and wait out the economic troubles.
While it is a crash investigation and it is illegal to withhold what you know, if this top secret piece of decryption hardware fell on your lawn, you legal own it as it is on your property and you have salvaged it.
Like it or not this is the case and the media and the police saying otherwise is starting to bother me.
One little note, just because it is your property doesn't mean you are able to withhold access to it to the crash investigation, after all, that's exactly what it is. It is illegal for you to impede the investigation, but at the end of it they are required to return your property to you.
Very true, although when job hunting (which I've been doing for a while now with no success) you need one of two things, relevant work experience or lots of education/certifications. I'll be graduating in about 8 months with a solid bachelors in computer science but it alone wont get me a job, I'm either going to need to get a pile of certs or a year or two of relevant work experience.
I always hear such news and it tends to sadden me, nothing like that was ever available at my high school nor is it at my college despite frequent promises to come up with similar programs. Maybe I should stop paying my 4 year university large sums of money twice a year and go to a boot camp for a few weeks, it might cost more, but some would say I'd get more out of it.
Heat sink and fan, such a nice and simple system, is best when you touch the heat sink wrong and can get a nice burn!
Most likely the shuttle fleet will be grounded for the next 18 months until the exact cause of this can be understood and fixed.
With Challenger it took 3 years from the incident to the next launch. This latest event will hurt NASA even more and for the next year the Russians will be the only ones resupplying the ISS as no US shuttle will be launched until the cause of this has been fixed.
Sadly we as Americans tend to over react when tragic things happen, yes this is an awful event but there is a point where people need to move on, moving on in this case will not happen I fear.
true, although on the shuttle the wearing of pressure suits did not become mandatory on take off or landing until after challenger, it was one of the changes made.
If anyone try's to make a terrorism connection to this I will bust a jihad on your ass!
They say it'll be out in a month... my guess is you'll be able to by the first one off the production line when you get your Opteron and Duke Nukem Forever all on the same day.
Ok so you kill all the bugs with some UV and stuff... wont it still be brown or yellow? I dunno about you but I avoid yellow snow like the plauge!
Your math is wrong. 2 1.8ghz cpus != 3.6ghz. 2 1.8ghz cpus == 2 1.8ghz cpus.
Wait... this combination has consistently been a failure for them... this wont last long.
Come on, the first Doom 3 story about it being leaked was fine as a reporting of the news. The story did get a little overboard with publishing links to help people find and use the alpha... but this is just worse, a story not about news but completely about piracy. You should be ashamed!
Only like SRAM, not DRAM.
SRAM is pretty much static until changes are made, DRAM you'll hear described like a leaky capacitor. When you give it a charge it will slowly loose it, so you need to refresh it... many many times per second.
This is where the problem and solution goes (ErrorCode, ExtraInfo)
I had always heard that aftermarket sales of VHS and DVD sales to consumers as well as video store rentals generaly create more money for the studios then the initial boxoffice release did.
They tried to be even more extreme and ban any Operating System that could run server software.
Lets think about this one.
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Can anyone think of an OS that wouldn't be ban?
This policy lasted for about a week.
At my school, Dakota State University in Madison South Dakota, every time unusually large amounts of traffic showed up on non standard ports, the school would throttle it down with their packet shaper. This was fine and dandy until students realized this and changed the port used to the one port that no school would throttle, that's right, our good friend 80.
This has caused an even bigger problem because the school sees the dorms using obcene amounts of bandwidth on 80 and to control it they have limited the dorms to just 5 megabits. In theory that is fine, until you count 800 students in the dorms and there being 13 megabits of pipe for this school. The Packet Shaper has destroyed the ability of students to use the internet from their rooms as it causes huge latency, in the order of 4.7 seconds at most (that I've seen) and averaging around 2 seconds (yes, seconds). Normal programs can't handle such latency and send out more and more requests while thinking the earlier packets were lost. P2P programs on the other hand have no problem dealing with large latency.
Speaking as a student who is suffering because of the P2P abuse of others, be good, if you use the P2P stuff don't leave it on and be responsible otherwise the school may crack down on the students harder then you ever thought was possible.
P.S. To make this post I am connecting to the internet via an old dial up modem as it is faster then the connection in the dorms, my school was once rated as the 8th most wired college in the nation by Yahoo... oh how the mighty have fallen.
that is a great point. They are afraid that modding will cost them money in the long run, in responce they spend large sums of money on development of a more secure system, costing them even more money.
Any hardware or software can be hacked given a little time. It's easy to keep a system secure when you control access to it, when was the last time you heard about someone hacking an ATM, you don't, because it's hardware that is very hard to get your hands on, the moment a system like an xbox hits the market people will try to hack it.
one would think that it would be in their best interest to release a given peice of hardware and let people do what they want with it so long as they don't figgure out how to make their own hardware (directly cutting into sales of hardware).
I wonder if they are related to Orical and Larry Elison. He was the last person to realize that unbreakable doesn't mean unbreakable.
Hoodlum, Mullhullin Falls, Star Trek Nemisis, and a few others I can't named used some of the scores from the Crimson Tide soundtrack... you do make an interesting point about that, I've always wondered why it was that movie previews tend to use music from existing movies.