I don't think it is legal in the US either. I recall some law against any nudity by characters who were supposed to be under 18, even if the actor is over the age of majority.
I think years from now many people will look back on the period of approximately 1985-2005 as a "Golden Age" for Microsoft, when they were able to rake in huge profits by illegally dominating huge chunks of the personal computer industry with the Wintel duopoly. Of course for many of us we will look back on this period as "The Dark Ages" of little or no competition in the PC marketplace.
1985-2005 was a period of unbelievable growth for the personal computer. One of the things that allowed this growth was the virtual monoculture that existed in the market. tech companies were a dime a dozen when MS came out, (the joke of never investing in tech companies b/c they had no staying power was obviously shattered by MS and its ilk). This monoculture allowed businesses to target resources and created a huge variety of business opportunities. Again, comparing to linux, and as has been mentioned here, the variety in linux is one of the obstacles to its success. If you look at the difference in value between the computer/software market of the early 80s and the value now, MS's cut is seems pretty small. (I am obviously to lazy to look this up so I will just assert a gut feeling B)
MS capitalized on teh lower prices market that you refer to by running on cheap commodity hardware. That was one of the major features in beating mac the first time around (linux capitalized on this same thing as it 'grew up') As MS OSs matured, this same technique has allowed them to may strong inroads into the server markets as well.
As you seem to be equating a dark ages in computing to a golden age for MS, I must disagree. it has been a golden age for both.
I wouldn't get too excited about the apple inroads though. MS's main value prop these days is the more you eat the more benefit you get. They have reasonable offerings in so many areas of IT that all leverage off of each other. It is going to take more than a marginal desktop improvement to "win back the enterprise".
This is exactly the set of books I was going to suggest. It is a 3 part series about terraforming mars. The first book is gaining a foot hold, second is large scale terraforming and the third is setting up a political system. These are some of the best 'hard sci fi' i have read. I was very impressed in his grasp of so many varying scientific areas of study that allowed him to 'logically' extend the field.
The parent makes some allusion to one of the groups in (i think) the third book that have a commune/free love kind of thing going on but that is by no means teh point of the book. Nor do I remember it being particularly graphic but I am not as easily offended as parents so I would recommend you read ahead. The first book is all sci fi and the best of the series.
If you are a monopoly or very dominant in the market where you work. And while you may be helping your workers, you are hurting your customers, who are the ones that foot the bill and who at the end give you and your employeess a job to go to in the first place.
This is just wrong and ignorant about what Ford was doing to boot. See companies like costco and maybe starbucks today. By paying your workers more you reduce turnover. That turnover is very costly, retraining takes resources and your new employees, frankly, suck compared to the guys who know what they are doing. In fords case, by keeping his skilled workers and reducing their work days, he was able to reduce the cost of his product. This isn't simple math here, there are a lot of variables and the upfront cost of paying your employees more can, in some circumstances, lower your costs.
Why would you choose now to show this to your manager?
I bet they didn't just decide to check it out today and it happens to be down. When I checked, page was slashdotted. Who knows if they even host their own project or it is on sourceforge or similar. I hadn't heard of the this project but it could be very useful in my network. I will definitely check it out tomorrow when the servers cool down. Luckily, I can tell the difference between their website and their product. I will make my own decision on the project and then, perhaps, pitch it to my manager.
Yeah, I know, with what they want us to pay for it, they should be able to afford a cds or more reliable network. No, wait...
Mod the parent up in the long run applications will have to avoid causing UAC prompts and eventually it will be possible to secure the "windows ecosystem" without breaking common programs.
That is the important point here. There is no reason for many of these programs to be asking for 'administrative' access to do any of this shit. MS can't just cut it off b/c it will break most of it's install base. This is a way to guide software companies into writing programs with a thought to security, rather than just doing it the 'easy way'.
I am not advocating fudging your dates. Once you have been in more than a few jobs you have experiences that are not relevant to the position at hand. Many experts advocate customizing your resume for each position. There is no reason to put everything you have ever done on your resume unless you can't fill up the page.
A resume with lots of short term jobs looks VERY bad to employers. While right NOW he is getting a lot of job offers, that probably won't ALWAYS be the case, and a "Job Hopping" resume will look bad in the case where he is actively looking for a new job. This was my first thought as well but that is still no reason not to take this job. He doesn't have a strong accumulated time at his current job so the next one will be no different. You are going to want to have some time at SOME job before you start hopping around. As mentioned above, there is no reason to put every job you had on the resume. At a year out of school, nobody is looking for you to have been there for long term anyway. As long as the current job offer is better, I would say go for it. The risk you are facing is that the new job will suck and you will be forced to look for a new job w/ a history of job hopping. If the new job is decent enough to stay around for a while, you are golden. I would say that if you stick for anything for about 18mths (for the first 5 years or so of your career) you can allay the worries about job hopping. After year 5 you are going to need to establish some more seniority (in time) somewhere.
Not that I am a fan of the practice but i can see the point of it. 90% of people who didn't buy the software never call MS and try to social engineer their way into it. (though it sounds like it may actually be pretty easy)
So if you are playing in single player mode and you get to a point where there is some evil bastard in the multiplayer that you just can't beat even w/ your "advantages", what do you do? Join another server? Play later? Either of those is annoying. Whether the annoyance is balanced by how much better a game w/ RI enemies is yet to be seen.
While I agree that American style pee^H^H^Hpilsner is basically crap, a case of beer is 24 beers for nearly every brand you see. 12 beers is a 12 pack or half case.
Since I am on though, I have been traveling extensively in the EU for the last year after having lived in the Pacific Northwest. IMHO, the variety and quality of beer in any of the countries here (EU, with the exception of Belgium) pales in comparison to the variety and quality of the beers coming out of the states. There is a healthy and thriving "microbrew" community around the country (generally in the mountains) that i just don't see in the UK or other places i have been traveling to.
I would love some suggestions as to how wrong I am that I could test in Central London. B)
Having worked for some retailers, I can vouch that the term black friday is described as the day when a company generally goes into the black (profit) for the year. Many retailers make over 80% of their sales during this last 2 months of the year.
the value in this will be that you can push it through group policy and mass configure workstations. It will be just another policy that will help keep your workstations from running away and flooding your network.
wow, i sense that somebody touched a nerve. When I read it, I assumed he was unfamiliar w/ the EU currencies but had seen (and disliked) the chinese currencies. Maybe there is some subconscious victimization complex at work here.
From my anecdotal experience with video games, I can definitely say that my performance is much better when I am leaning forward than when I am reclining -- though this may also have something to do with distance from the monitor, etc.
I believe this would have something to do with leaning forward being a more 'aggressive' stance.
Which jives w/ my experience as well. Many games I can play in a relaxed position but take a reflex game, like say Burnout and I do a lot better leaning forward. On the harder levels, I can't even pass them if I am leaning back.
You snide prick. I did read that and my comment still stands. A couple of blocks from where he currently works means nothing other than he knows the commute. it could still be a 2 hour commute from his HOUSE to his WORK. I didn't bother correcting the other people who pointed that out but you just come across as a particularly, as i mentioned, snide prick.
You didn't mention how close the.net job was. 120 miles is more than 2 hours each way. That is brutal especially if there aren't public transport options. You didn't mention if you have the ability to move easily or if you are tied to your current living arragnements. This alone would make my decision.
perl vs.net?.net is more marketable in the corp world, there is no doubt about that..net seems to be only picking up steam in the marketplace and there doesn't look like anything is around to unseat it in the forseeable future. Still, you could easily make a good career out of perl and open source and (generally) smaller projects. You stated yourself that the perl job seems to be more casual and closer knit group, hanging out outside of work and what not. If you are new to the area or don't have a close group that may be very valuable.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years? master of a domain of programmers building large systems? go.net. Running a small internet/web consulting shop, doing various smaller scale web sites? perl will be fine. This job is most likely a stepping stone down a path. think farther down the path a bit.
The best thing to do is to take a couple of your close friends out tomorrow night and spend the evening getting loaded. Don't talk about this the whole time but bring up your concerns now and then. get good and drunk and when you wake up in the morning, you will know which way to go. the subconcious is a beautiful thing. seems odd but me and my friends have been doing this for major decisions for a long time now and i am still amazed out how well it works.
Can I just say, fuck yeah! As much as/. loves to bash MS I really appreciate that people doing real work on some of the most used software in the world take the time to address this community. Especially knowing, as you must, the vitrol that would come back. Anyway, thanks.
I generally figure if they say 1-3 years you have to have at least a passing knowledge of the system/language. 3+ years means senior and 10+ years means architech. If I feel my skillset can offer help on the main project direction, then why not throw the resume in the basket. Cover letters help. My last few years have been really good jobs out of craigslist.
Certs are a nice bump when the guy looking doesn't know what they need at all. College is useful b/c it shows you can complete a long term project. Good professional projects are their own certification (another reason I like project work). Being able to speak lucidly on working X problems through with Y technology and Z constraints is the most useful point to any employer and many will recognize that.
That said, if you don't know what you want to do, certs show that you know the domain of a technology. MS certs are not as useless as they used to be and are probably the most marketable. Just, never, never, never put your certifications at the top of your resume. As a rule of thumb, if the certs are the thing you are most proud of, I don't need to read the rest.
In my experience, just do the job that is most needing to be done. If that is your job, great, if that is his job, fine. The best way to get a promotion is to do that job and you will eventually get the title and money. The worst kind of employee is one that won't do the tasks that need to be done b/c it isn't in is pay scale (up or down). You do have to remember not to work yourself to death but w/i the bounds of working hours, work on teh important shit as you see it. If they don't recognize your efforts in a timely manner, you can step into your next position w/ much more experience (which should translate into money/power as you wish)
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I don't think it is legal in the US either. I recall some law against any nudity by characters who were supposed to be under 18, even if the actor is over the age of majority.
read: owner. joe paycheck went looting for food.
No, russian would realign it self to think in chuck norris.
I think years from now many people will look back on the period of approximately 1985-2005 as a "Golden Age" for Microsoft, when they were able to rake in huge profits by illegally dominating huge chunks of the personal computer industry with the Wintel duopoly. Of course for many of us we will look back on this period as "The Dark Ages" of little or no competition in the PC marketplace.
1985-2005 was a period of unbelievable growth for the personal computer. One of the things that allowed this growth was the virtual monoculture that existed in the market. tech companies were a dime a dozen when MS came out, (the joke of never investing in tech companies b/c they had no staying power was obviously shattered by MS and its ilk). This monoculture allowed businesses to target resources and created a huge variety of business opportunities. Again, comparing to linux, and as has been mentioned here, the variety in linux is one of the obstacles to its success. If you look at the difference in value between the computer/software market of the early 80s and the value now, MS's cut is seems pretty small. (I am obviously to lazy to look this up so I will just assert a gut feeling B)
MS capitalized on teh lower prices market that you refer to by running on cheap commodity hardware. That was one of the major features in beating mac the first time around (linux capitalized on this same thing as it 'grew up') As MS OSs matured, this same technique has allowed them to may strong inroads into the server markets as well.
As you seem to be equating a dark ages in computing to a golden age for MS, I must disagree. it has been a golden age for both.
I wouldn't get too excited about the apple inroads though. MS's main value prop these days is the more you eat the more benefit you get. They have reasonable offerings in so many areas of IT that all leverage off of each other. It is going to take more than a marginal desktop improvement to "win back the enterprise".
I don't get it, if I was running a windows device with outlook already installed, why would I bother w/ blackberry's apps?
This is exactly the set of books I was going to suggest. It is a 3 part series about terraforming mars. The first book is gaining a foot hold, second is large scale terraforming and the third is setting up a political system. These are some of the best 'hard sci fi' i have read. I was very impressed in his grasp of so many varying scientific areas of study that allowed him to 'logically' extend the field.
The parent makes some allusion to one of the groups in (i think) the third book that have a commune/free love kind of thing going on but that is by no means teh point of the book. Nor do I remember it being particularly graphic but I am not as easily offended as parents so I would recommend you read ahead. The first book is all sci fi and the best of the series.
If you are a monopoly or very dominant in the market where you work. And while you may be helping your workers, you are hurting your customers, who are the ones that foot the bill and who at the end give you and your employeess a job to go to in the first place.
This is just wrong and ignorant about what Ford was doing to boot. See companies like costco and maybe starbucks today. By paying your workers more you reduce turnover. That turnover is very costly, retraining takes resources and your new employees, frankly, suck compared to the guys who know what they are doing. In fords case, by keeping his skilled workers and reducing their work days, he was able to reduce the cost of his product. This isn't simple math here, there are a lot of variables and the upfront cost of paying your employees more can, in some circumstances, lower your costs.
Why would you choose now to show this to your manager?
I bet they didn't just decide to check it out today and it happens to be down. When I checked, page was slashdotted. Who knows if they even host their own project or it is on sourceforge or similar.
I hadn't heard of the this project but it could be very useful in my network. I will definitely check it out tomorrow when the servers cool down. Luckily, I can tell the difference between their website and their product. I will make my own decision on the project and then, perhaps, pitch it to my manager.
Yeah, I know, with what they want us to pay for it, they should be able to afford a cds or more reliable network. No, wait...
Mod the parent up
in the long run applications will have to avoid causing UAC prompts and eventually it will be possible to secure the "windows ecosystem" without breaking common programs.
That is the important point here. There is no reason for many of these programs to be asking for 'administrative' access to do any of this shit. MS can't just cut it off b/c it will break most of it's install base. This is a way to guide software companies into writing programs with a thought to security, rather than just doing it the 'easy way'.
I am not advocating fudging your dates. Once you have been in more than a few jobs you have experiences that are not relevant to the position at hand. Many experts advocate customizing your resume for each position. There is no reason to put everything you have ever done on your resume unless you can't fill up the page.
oh my, too bad I am just out of mod points. that is one of my favorite recent posts.
Not that I am a fan of the practice but i can see the point of it. 90% of people who didn't buy the software never call MS and try to social engineer their way into it. (though it sounds like it may actually be pretty easy)
So if you are playing in single player mode and you get to a point where there is some evil bastard in the multiplayer that you just can't beat even w/ your "advantages", what do you do? Join another server? Play later? Either of those is annoying. Whether the annoyance is balanced by how much better a game w/ RI enemies is yet to be seen.
While I agree that American style pee^H^H^Hpilsner is basically crap, a case of beer is 24 beers for nearly every brand you see. 12 beers is a 12 pack or half case.
Since I am on though, I have been traveling extensively in the EU for the last year after having lived in the Pacific Northwest. IMHO, the variety and quality of beer in any of the countries here (EU, with the exception of Belgium) pales in comparison to the variety and quality of the beers coming out of the states. There is a healthy and thriving "microbrew" community around the country (generally in the mountains) that i just don't see in the UK or other places i have been traveling to.
I would love some suggestions as to how wrong I am that I could test in Central London. B)
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Having worked for some retailers, I can vouch that the term black friday is described as the day when a company generally goes into the black (profit) for the year. Many retailers make over 80% of their sales during this last 2 months of the year.
the value in this will be that you can push it through group policy and mass configure workstations. It will be just another policy that will help keep your workstations from running away and flooding your network.
wow, i sense that somebody touched a nerve. When I read it, I assumed he was unfamiliar w/ the EU currencies but had seen (and disliked) the chinese currencies. Maybe there is some subconscious victimization complex at work here.
From my anecdotal experience with video games, I can definitely say that my performance is much better when I am leaning forward than when I am reclining -- though this may also have something to do with distance from the monitor, etc.
I believe this would have something to do with leaning forward being a more 'aggressive' stance.
Which jives w/ my experience as well. Many games I can play in a relaxed position but take a reflex game, like say Burnout and I do a lot better leaning forward. On the harder levels, I can't even pass them if I am leaning back.You snide prick. I did read that and my comment still stands. A couple of blocks from where he currently works means nothing other than he knows the commute. it could still be a 2 hour commute from his HOUSE to his WORK. I didn't bother correcting the other people who pointed that out but you just come across as a particularly, as i mentioned, snide prick.
You didn't mention how close the .net job was. 120 miles is more than 2 hours each way. That is brutal especially if there aren't public transport options. You didn't mention if you have the ability to move easily or if you are tied to your current living arragnements. This alone would make my decision.
.net? .net is more marketable in the corp world, there is no doubt about that. .net seems to be only picking up steam in the marketplace and there doesn't look like anything is around to unseat it in the forseeable future. Still, you could easily make a good career out of perl and open source and (generally) smaller projects. You stated yourself that the perl job seems to be more casual and closer knit group, hanging out outside of work and what not. If you are new to the area or don't have a close group that may be very valuable.
.net. Running a small internet/web consulting shop, doing various smaller scale web sites? perl will be fine. This job is most likely a stepping stone down a path. think farther down the path a bit.
perl vs
Where do you see yourself in 10 years? master of a domain of programmers building large systems? go
The best thing to do is to take a couple of your close friends out tomorrow night and spend the evening getting loaded. Don't talk about this the whole time but bring up your concerns now and then. get good and drunk and when you wake up in the morning, you will know which way to go. the subconcious is a beautiful thing. seems odd but me and my friends have been doing this for major decisions for a long time now and i am still amazed out how well it works.
Can I just say, fuck yeah! /. loves to bash MS I really appreciate that people doing real work on some of the most used software in the world take the time to address this community. Especially knowing, as you must, the vitrol that would come back.
As much as
Anyway, thanks.
I generally figure if they say 1-3 years you have to have at least a passing knowledge of the system/language. 3+ years means senior and 10+ years means architech. If I feel my skillset can offer help on the main project direction, then why not throw the resume in the basket. Cover letters help. My last few years have been really good jobs out of craigslist.
I have no certs but here is what I find:
Certs are a nice bump when the guy looking doesn't know what they need at all. College is useful b/c it shows you can complete a long term project. Good professional projects are their own certification (another reason I like project work). Being able to speak lucidly on working X problems through with Y technology and Z constraints is the most useful point to any employer and many will recognize that.
That said, if you don't know what you want to do, certs show that you know the domain of a technology. MS certs are not as useless as they used to be and are probably the most marketable. Just, never, never, never put your certifications at the top of your resume. As a rule of thumb, if the certs are the thing you are most proud of, I don't need to read the rest.
In my experience, just do the job that is most needing to be done. If that is your job, great, if that is his job, fine. The best way to get a promotion is to do that job and you will eventually get the title and money. The worst kind of employee is one that won't do the tasks that need to be done b/c it isn't in is pay scale (up or down). You do have to remember not to work yourself to death but w/i the bounds of working hours, work on teh important shit as you see it. If they don't recognize your efforts in a timely manner, you can step into your next position w/ much more experience (which should translate into money/power as you wish)