Though the ones who flew the planes into WTC were certainly religious, it would not surprise me if the higher ups, including Bin Laden himself, WERE atheists. Atheists using religion as a tool to manipulate people in fighting over what is really a land dispute.
I learned the answer to this one in business school. The answer is, "it depends." Statistically, every thing they said is absolutely correct. To me the point always becomes, why stay somewhere that will only match another offer? At the same time, it does depend. Many small, entrepreneurial companies don't know what you're worth unless you tell them. I worked for one company that only gave raises to people who threatened to leave. Management actually felt that they couldn't afford to give regular, periodic raises. They were never bothered that people threatened to leave, in fact, they considered it their early warning that others might also leave.
The reality is what one professor told my wife, "this isn't a cocktail party, you don't have to be polite." It doesn't matter how they feel about you personally. What matters is can they replace you cheaper? By that I don't mean will someone work for less, but can they do your job and accept less pay? Only an idiot would fire someone he desperately needs, but then don't forget the "it depends" part.
What these things never tell you is that often you are better off staying pat than advancing. I've seen people working two and three levels below me who could have had my job if they'd had more ambition. I've also seen people who showed no ambition, stayed with the same company and were doing a lot better than I was 5 years later. It's kind of like driving on the freeway in heavy traffic. The lane that moves fastest is not necessarily the inside lane, and you can't guess which lane will really move.
There is absolutely no legal material to support this nonsense.
Basically, the networks HOPE that we will watch their commercials as we watch their shows.
If we skip over the commercials then it is not illegal, it is merely that viewage was below their expectations.
How many of you get up and do something during commercial breaks? Is this illegal too?
Obviously, if everyone stops viewing commercials then their business model starts to fail. However, they should invent a new one instead of claiming that the inadequacy of the old one is due to non-existent legal infractions.
Well 1 and 2 are related to a bad tech economy currently.
What you might want to do is just drive over the new area yourself and put a hotel address or something on your resume. Get a free email account and a cell phone. Put both of these on your resume.
Then, go out to the new area and stay in cheap places. There are youth hostels which are fairly cheap at $15/night or so. Or, you can sleep in your car or camp somewhere. Check your email at the public library.
The advantage to this strategy is that if everything fails then you haven't lost much besides some time. Then you can pick up and try the same thing elsewhere.
I'd have to agree with the sentiment posted earlier that, given the existence of large capacity MP3 players, the XM radio is merely great technology without a practical use just yet.
Let's examine the details:
1)Price
XM - $150 installation min. + $10/month
NOMAD 20GB - $300, car adapters maybe $40 on top max
So if you use it for 2 years the NOMAD is already better financially.
2)Content
XM - 100 commercial free channels and news
NOMAD - Anything you want
The only disadvantage of the nomad is the lack of news, but being able to load it with your very favorite songs and customize playlists, or have random playback, etc. makes it a winner when you consider that news is something you can get on a standard FM or even AM radio.
3) Ease of use
XM - Nothing required
NOMAD - if you get a car adapter then nothing required, else must monitor batteries. But car adapter mentioned in price above
So XM wins by a hair here..
4) Reliability
XM - Normal satellite transmission is easily disrupted by bad weather.. I would not be surprised if it wer the case here
NOMAD - Quite reliable but maybe slighly more risk of mechanical failure.
It's a tie here.....
For me, the ability to customize content makes a hard drive mp3 player a "killer app".. I currently have the smaller nomad and it has become my best friend.
That doesn't stop me from wanting satellite tv over cable though.. the picture is soooooo beautiful!
I wouldn't bother... people just go online for that kind of stuff nowadays. The exception might be funcoland but remember they carry semi-recent stuff.
*Especially* the kind of dorks who would want ancient video games as collector items and not the "latest and greatest"
Maybe you could open up an internet shop.. that way no maintaining a storefront, etc.
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Though the ones who flew the planes into WTC were certainly religious, it would not surprise me if the higher ups, including Bin Laden himself, WERE atheists. Atheists using religion as a tool to manipulate people in fighting over what is really a land dispute.
I learned the answer to this one in business school. The answer is, "it
depends." Statistically, every thing they said is absolutely correct. To
me the point always becomes, why stay somewhere that will only match another
offer? At the same time, it does depend. Many small, entrepreneurial
companies don't know what you're worth unless you tell them. I worked for
one company that only gave raises to people who threatened to leave.
Management actually felt that they couldn't afford to give regular, periodic
raises. They were never bothered that people threatened to leave, in fact,
they considered it their early warning that others might also leave.
The reality is what one professor told my wife, "this isn't a cocktail party,
you don't have to be polite." It doesn't matter how they feel about you
personally. What matters is can they replace you cheaper? By that I don't
mean will someone work for less, but can they do your job and accept less
pay? Only an idiot would fire someone he desperately needs, but then don't
forget the "it depends" part.
What these things never tell you is that often you are better off staying
pat than advancing. I've seen people working two and three levels below me
who could have had my job if they'd had more ambition. I've also seen
people who showed no ambition, stayed with the same company and were doing a
lot better than I was 5 years later. It's kind of like driving on the
freeway in heavy traffic. The lane that moves fastest is not necessarily
the inside lane, and you can't guess which lane will really move.
There is absolutely no legal material to support this nonsense.
Basically, the networks HOPE that we will watch their commercials as we watch their shows.
If we skip over the commercials then it is not illegal, it is merely that viewage was below their expectations.
How many of you get up and do something during commercial breaks? Is this illegal too?
Obviously, if everyone stops viewing commercials then their business model starts to fail. However, they should invent a new one instead of claiming that the inadequacy of the old one is due to non-existent legal infractions.
Well 1 and 2 are related to a bad tech economy currently.
What you might want to do is just drive over the new area yourself and put a hotel address or something on your resume. Get a free email account and a cell phone. Put both of these on your resume.
Then, go out to the new area and stay in cheap places. There are youth hostels which are fairly cheap at $15/night or so. Or, you can sleep in your car or camp somewhere. Check your email at the public library.
The advantage to this strategy is that if everything fails then you haven't lost much besides some time. Then you can pick up and try the same thing elsewhere.
At my company almost all of the senior level software engineers as well as the lead software engineer are well over 40.
Maybe in pure programming, which requires minimal design, age is not respected as much.
But designs certainly benefit from large experience pools telling what works and what doesn't.
I'd have to agree with the sentiment posted earlier that, given the existence of large capacity MP3 players, the XM radio is merely great technology without a practical use just yet.
Let's examine the details:
1)Price
XM - $150 installation min. + $10/month
NOMAD 20GB - $300, car adapters maybe $40 on top max
So if you use it for 2 years the NOMAD is already better financially.
2)Content
XM - 100 commercial free channels and news
NOMAD - Anything you want
The only disadvantage of the nomad is the lack of news, but being able to load it with your very favorite songs and customize playlists, or have random playback, etc. makes it a winner when you consider that news is something you can get on a standard FM or even AM radio.
3) Ease of use
XM - Nothing required
NOMAD - if you get a car adapter then nothing required, else must monitor batteries. But car adapter mentioned in price above
So XM wins by a hair here..
4) Reliability
XM - Normal satellite transmission is easily disrupted by bad weather.. I would not be surprised if it wer the case here
NOMAD - Quite reliable but maybe slighly more risk of mechanical failure.
It's a tie here.....
For me, the ability to customize content makes a hard drive mp3 player a "killer app".. I currently have the smaller nomad and it has become my best friend.
That doesn't stop me from wanting satellite tv over cable though.. the picture is soooooo beautiful!
I wouldn't bother... people just go online for that kind of stuff nowadays. The exception might be funcoland but remember they carry semi-recent stuff. *Especially* the kind of dorks who would want ancient video games as collector items and not the "latest and greatest" Maybe you could open up an internet shop.. that way no maintaining a storefront, etc.