The State of Alaska hires entry level programmers with a minimum of requirements. Anchorage probably has enough programmers but Juneau is hurting for more. Find out more at http://www.jobs.state.ak.us/
I just finished a job detail in Hawaii and they need to hire an entry level programmer. They hire through JIMAR: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/JIMAR/
In Hawai'i, I was working at CRED which researches the coral reefs around the islands. Very interesting job, incredibly relaxed working environment. And there is opportunity to go on cruises as a data manager.
Both places are expensive. The pay in Alaska makes up for it, and the weather in Hawai'i makes up for it there.
It took me three years after graduation to get a programmer job and I believe I exaggerated a tad on how much programming I was doing in my current job.
I don't understand why you say the peace movement stopped with the killings at Kent State. I remember outrage, but not stopping. What precisely do you think stopped? What stopped was the Vietnam War.
There is even a peace movement today with a lot of the same people involved that were involved in the 60's.
Some years ago, I read an article about a study that Johnson & Johnson did. In a third will country with wide-spread dysentery they gave 100 families anti-bacterial soap and 100 families plain soap. And there were 100 families that got no soap at all. Instructions were given as to when to use the soap. They found that there was no difference in the cases of dysentery between the families with the two different kinds of soap, but a huge difference between the soap and non-soap families. The families with soap had almost no cases of dysentery.
I always wonder if these companies ever feel for their study groups and actually try to relieve a little suffering by making the knowledge and in this case the soap easily available in these countries.
'Effect' is used as a noun. 'Affect' is used as a verb. -- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
Except when it is not. Here is what my Dad says:
The word affect can be both a noun and a verb. The word effect can be both a noun and a verb. The word affect has a specialized meaning in psychiatry.
The usual problem is much simpler. To affect something is to change it. You affect something and cause an effect. In this case, affect is a verb and effect is a noun. You are usually speaking of a cause that is related to an immediate and obvious effect.
There are many minor meanings of the two words. Many of the meanings are obsolete or archaic.
Affect, as a psychiatric noun, means the emotional make up of a person.
Effect as a verb means to bring something to pass. Example: I will try to effect a compromise.
As I said above, in most discourse affect is a verb and effect is a noun.
I hope that I have not affected your interest in words. I hope that the effect of this message is to enable you to differentiate the meaning of the two words.
The notion of before the creator existed and after the creator existed implies the existence of time. Yet time might just be a part of the Maya(creation/illusion).
Woman 50 years old. I love gadgets and solving puzzles which is what programming is for me. I got into the field 24 years ago because I was looking for a field that valued skill over appearances. Not because I am a woman but because I am a Sikh and I wear a turban. It was really hard to get my first job, but easy to get the next. I now work in an office with 3 other programmers, all women, all really smart. It seems that all of the departments that I know in the Federal building and over at the State are more women than men. Maybe the Federal and State government pay less and men can get the higher paying private sector jobs. Although several of the women quit private sector jobs to get away from the stress of contract work or the companies kept crashing.
At the local university, the student that everyone thinks is the best hacker is female.
Just surprised to hear that there are less women going into the field, but then I live in Alaska where the men are men and the women win the Iditarod. Silly joke but someone already used the other one that aplies to Alaska men: The odds are good but the goods are odd.
I don't see any reason why a movie shouldn't be different from the book. As long as it it is a good movie. After all it is a different medium.
The real problem, is that Hollywood seems to be out of ideas. Fortunately, making movies is getting so cheap that we have other choices. The best films last year were from independents. I even enjoy the $10 budget films that are made for our town's ameteur film festival. They are not all good, but they are quirky. And they are filled with local humor.
Well I know when you say that there have been no terroist attacks in the U.S., you are not considering the hundreds of Sikhs and Muslims that have been attacked ( a few have been killed) since 9/11 in the U.S. Also, their building of worship of been destroyed. These violent assaults are accompinied by accusations that the victims are responsible for the 9/11 attack. The victims include women and old men.
So how do define terrorist and terrorism? How frightened do these cummunities have to be for the attacks to be terrorist attacks.
Most people in the world still depend on children to be their 'retirement fund.' If there is a high death rate (especially of children), then parents must assure their old age pension by producing more children. More children means that odds are better that there will be enough of them alive to support their parents.
China has a one child / couple rule and a cultural custom where only sons (and son's wife) supports the parents in their old age. Therefore, many couples choose to have a boy. It has now been 20+ years since this rule started to be enforced. Can you guess what their problem is now?
30 years ago when I was an Anthropology major, some of my professors built faces back for the Las Vegas police. Sometimes they would start with a skeleton that had been shattered into small pieces.
They were very good about telling age, sex, and race.
They taught us how it was done. Not that I remember much now. But the amount of tissue on the bones is figured out by how thick the bones got a t insertion points. The thicker the bones, the heavier the load.
Sex is easiest to tell by the pelvic bones, but also can be determined by size and shape of face bones. Size helped determine race. It got a little tricky if the bones were small. Was it because the person was female or Asian?
Still they were really good at it and their work identified victims of murders.
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When I was an Anthropology major, we studied Shamans. I remember a study concluding that shamans and medical doctors both have a higher cure rate if their patients believed that they could be cured by their healers. And why not? Our minds have a powerful affect on us. Cisero said that the mind was a wonderful servant but a terrible master.
Karma is the law of cause and effect. AKA, you sow what you reap. The goal is not to have good karma or bad karma, but to not have karma. Only then can you break the cycle of birth death rebirth.
I don't really know why cows are sacred to hindus accept that they make a better renewable resource if you don't kill them. Even their feces is used for fuel. The air in India cities pongs.
I agree. I do a 2 hour sweaty karate class where I am not allowed to drink water. It is really hard to get enough water into my system after the class to keep from getting a dehydration headache the next day. In aerobics classes where you are allowed to drink water as you go, I don't get this problem.
I have tried drinking a 'sport' drink to see if that helps but it doesn't. I just have to stay up long enough to get the water back in.
Also going off of anti-hystemins helped a lot. They dry up more than just the snot.
I am a paid user and they still reset my options. I don't really care about the $10, but I wonder where I can go and not be sold. (I was also a yahoo user.) Watch out guys, the next place I choose will reset options next!
I worked with a programmer for years who used to complain that his program had grown so large it wouldn't fit into his editor anymore. What he was really doing was bragging about the lines of code he had written.
Then one year I had to look at his code to convert it from COBOL to SQLWindows. O my God! Whenever he could have easily written 6 lines to process an array, he had cut and paste the first line the number of iterations that he wanted and then changed the index number.
The funny thing was that in our shop nobody cared how many lines of code were written as long as it worked. He was an old COBOL programmer that had come from work places where they actually counted the lines.
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The State of Alaska hires entry level programmers with a minimum of requirements. Anchorage probably has enough programmers but Juneau is hurting for more. Find out more at http://www.jobs.state.ak.us/
I just finished a job detail in Hawaii and they need to hire an entry level programmer. They hire through JIMAR: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/JIMAR/
In Hawai'i, I was working at CRED which researches the coral reefs around the islands. Very interesting job, incredibly relaxed working environment. And there is opportunity to go on cruises as a data manager.
Both places are expensive. The pay in Alaska makes up for it, and the weather in Hawai'i makes up for it there.
It took me three years after graduation to get a programmer job and I believe I exaggerated a tad on how much programming I was doing in my current job.
I don't understand why you say the peace movement stopped with the killings at Kent State. I remember outrage, but not stopping. What precisely do you think stopped? What stopped was the Vietnam War.
There is even a peace movement today with a lot of the same people involved that were involved in the 60's.
Some years ago, I read an article about a study that Johnson & Johnson did. In a third will country with wide-spread dysentery they gave 100 families anti-bacterial soap and 100 families plain soap. And there were 100 families that got no soap at all. Instructions were given as to when to use the soap. They found that there was no difference in the cases of dysentery between the families with the two different kinds of soap, but a huge difference between the soap and non-soap families. The families with soap had almost no cases of dysentery.
I always wonder if these companies ever feel for their study groups and actually try to relieve a little suffering by making the knowledge and in this case the soap easily available in these countries.
'Effect' is used as a noun. 'Affect' is used as a verb.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
Except when it is not. Here is what my Dad says:
The word affect can be both a noun and a verb. The
word effect can be both a noun and a verb. The word affect has a
specialized meaning in psychiatry.
The usual problem is much simpler. To affect something is to
change it. You affect something and cause an effect. In this case,
affect is a verb and effect is a noun. You are usually speaking of a
cause that is related to an immediate and obvious effect.
There are many minor meanings of the two words. Many of the
meanings are obsolete or archaic.
Affect, as a psychiatric noun, means the emotional make up of a
person.
Effect as a verb means to bring something to pass. Example: I
will try to effect a compromise.
As I said above, in most discourse affect is a verb and effect is a
noun.
I hope that I have not affected your interest in words. I hope that
the effect of this message is to enable you to differentiate the
meaning of the two words.
Sounds Zen to me.
The notion of before the creator existed and after the creator existed implies the existence of time. Yet time might just be a part of the Maya(creation/illusion).
more like dry suit. They are used in really cold waters, but they are bulky and I wouldn't think they would be easy to swim in.
Woman
50 years old.
I love gadgets and solving puzzles which is what programming is for me.
I got into the field 24 years ago because I was looking for a field that valued skill over appearances. Not because I am a woman but because I am a Sikh and I wear a turban.
It was really hard to get my first job, but easy to get the next.
I now work in an office with 3 other programmers, all women, all really smart. It seems that all of the departments that I know in the Federal building and over at the State are more women than men. Maybe the Federal and State government pay less and men can get the higher paying private sector jobs. Although several of the women quit private sector jobs to get away from the stress of contract work or the companies kept crashing.
At the local university, the student that everyone thinks is the best hacker is female.
Just surprised to hear that there are less women going into the field, but then I live in Alaska where the men are men and the women win the Iditarod. Silly joke but someone already used the other one that aplies to Alaska men: The odds are good but the goods are odd.
I don't see any reason why a movie shouldn't be different from the book. As long as it it is a good movie. After all it is a different medium.
The real problem, is that Hollywood seems to be out of ideas. Fortunately, making movies is getting so cheap that we have other choices. The best films last year were from independents. I even enjoy the $10 budget films that are made for our town's ameteur film festival. They are not all good, but they are quirky. And they are filled with local humor.
Well I know when you say that there have been no terroist attacks in the U.S., you are not considering the hundreds of Sikhs and Muslims that have been attacked ( a few have been killed) since 9/11 in the U.S. Also, their building of worship of been destroyed. These violent assaults are accompinied by accusations that the victims are responsible for the 9/11 attack. The victims include women and old men.
So how do define terrorist and terrorism? How frightened do these cummunities have to be for the attacks to be terrorist attacks.
A low death rate leads to a low birth rate.
Most people in the world still depend on children to be their 'retirement fund.' If there is a high death rate (especially of children), then parents must assure their old age pension by producing more children. More children means that odds are better that there will be enough of them alive to support their parents.
China has a one child / couple rule and a cultural custom where only sons (and son's wife) supports the parents in their old age. Therefore, many couples choose to have a boy. It has now been 20+ years since this rule started to be enforced. Can you guess what their problem is now?
These two strings walk into a bar and sit down. The bartender says, "So what'll it be?"
The first string says, "I think I'll have a beer quag fulk boorg jdk^CjfdLk jk3s d#f67howe%^U r89nvy~~owmc63^Dz x.xvcu"
"Please excuse my friend," the second string says, "He isn't null-terminated."
30 years ago when I was an Anthropology major, some of my professors built faces back for the Las Vegas police. Sometimes they would start with a skeleton that had been shattered into small pieces.
They were very good about telling age, sex, and race.
They taught us how it was done. Not that I remember much now. But the amount of tissue on the bones is figured out by how thick the bones got a t insertion points. The thicker the bones, the heavier the load.
Sex is easiest to tell by the pelvic bones, but also can be determined by size and shape of face bones. Size helped determine race. It got a little tricky if the bones were small. Was it because the person was female or Asian?
Still they were really good at it and their work identified victims of murders.
When I was an Anthropology major, we studied Shamans. I remember a study concluding that shamans and medical doctors both have a higher cure rate if their patients believed that they could be cured by their healers. And why not? Our minds have a powerful affect on us. Cisero said that the mind was a wonderful servant but a terrible master.
Karma is the law of cause and effect. AKA, you sow what you reap. The goal is not to have good karma or bad karma, but to not have karma. Only then can you break the cycle of birth death rebirth.
I don't really know why cows are sacred to hindus accept that they make a better renewable resource if you don't kill them. Even their feces is used for fuel. The air in India cities pongs.
I agree. I do a 2 hour sweaty karate class where I am not allowed to drink water. It is really hard to get enough water into my system after the class to keep from getting a dehydration headache the next day. In aerobics classes where you are allowed to drink water as you go, I don't get this problem.
I have tried drinking a 'sport' drink to see if that helps but it doesn't. I just have to stay up long enough to get the water back in.
Also going off of anti-hystemins helped a lot. They dry up more than just the snot.
Except it didn't work that way.
I am a paid user and they still reset my options. I don't really care about the $10, but I wonder where I can go and not be sold. (I was also a yahoo user.) Watch out guys, the next place I choose will reset options next!
I worked with a programmer for years who used to complain that his program had grown so large it wouldn't fit into his editor anymore. What he was really doing was bragging about the lines of code he had written.
Then one year I had to look at his code to convert it from COBOL to SQLWindows. O my God! Whenever he could have easily written 6 lines to process an array, he had cut and paste the first line the number of iterations that he wanted and then changed the index number.
The funny thing was that in our shop nobody cared how many lines of code were written as long as it worked. He was an old COBOL programmer that had come from work places where they actually counted the lines.