Same goes for a phone number. You can get a local number from Twilio or similar for $1 mo and route it to web code (install OpenVBX and you don't have to write anything) that lets you take control of what gets through and what goes 100% to voicemail. Only put that phone number on your resume and you can filter the phone calls just like the emails.
My wife and I aren't having children, so we've volunteered the stereotypical 2.1 American children we'd have had otherwise. I've pointed out to more than one aggressive environmentalist that one of the best things someone can do for the environment is quit making new Americans.
In Minneapolis, $900/mo gets me a 2000 square foot house on a 1/3 acre, fenced in lot on a cul-de-sac. I'm pretty sure I'd need to make quite a bit more to afford similar in NYC or SF.
I worked as a contractor at Target for a few years. A staggering number of Indian dudes followed this exact pattern:
1. Come here on H1-B through a consulting firm on the preferred vendor list. 2. Consulting co puts these single guys together in apartments. 3. They work for a year, sending the money home. 4. They heard from their families that their arranged marriages were set up. 5. They went home for the wedding and came back to the US with their bride. 6. They got pregnant and, before the baby was born, they headed back to India, with 2 years of American work experience under their belt to get managerial roles in the offshoring operations.
While I haven't used it in years, like most geeks, I do have a soft spot for Yahoo's directory. I remember sitting in a college computer lab after Yahoo launched, visiting every link they included, amazed at this HUGE pile of information available at my fingertips. Funny to think of it now.
I drop my phone on the wireless charger at work and at home when I go to bed. And, amazingly enough, there's ALSO a micro-USB connector that lets me charge it in the car or via a battery pack or any of the ways one charges a phone that doesn't have wireless charging. Wireless charging is an "AND", not an "OR".
As someone who actually is using the Action Pack, I can tell you that there are 10 full licenses of Win7 Pro as well as 1 license for Win7 Ultimate. Everything in the Action Pack is a full license for production use.
At the moment, if you want to work for a company or clients, your best bet is to learn one of the two big "ecosystems": Java or.NET. Most of the jobs you'll see posted are in one or the other. And, most of the people working those jobs don't know any C/C++ any more.
If you just want to learn to program for the sake of learning how to do it, or for your own startup company/project, I'd go with one of the more "modern" languages like Python or Ruby. If you're looking to learn to speed your sysadmin tasks up, Perl or a shell scripting language (including the newish Windows Powershell) might fit the bill better.
For routine care, you're right. That's why the $5000 and $10000 deductible plans are a great option for paying cash for that prevention/routine stuff while still having coverage for the big stuff.
If you do come down with cancer or have an accident that puts you in physical therapy for 2 years, you'll be amazed how quickly you can go from $200 or $2000 in health care costs to $2 million.
Most people who cite the cost of "benefits" have never priced them on the open market. Yes, the COBRA price is high, but companies like Assurant offer short-term insurance for a family of 4 in the sub $200/month range (with $2500 deductible and 100% coverage beyond that).
Longer-term insurance is more in the $400-$500/month range for that same family. (just priced at eHealthInsurance.com)
Yes, those are high-deductible policies. So are many employer policies at this point.
The point is that most companies present the "value" of the health insurance as much higher than what you could get on your own.
I work as a self-employed contractor and pay my own health care costs. I'm 33 and the most my health care is going to cost me in any one year is $4000. That's less than my car payment.
I wouldn't say that navy is *always* best. I always wore earthtone suits and sport coats and my wife always nagged me that I should really be wearing navy to interviews. That is, until she saw the color on me. I look like a washed out corpse in navy. Nobody hires washed out corpses. Zombies? Yes. Washed out corpses? No.
Yeah. I mean, I love reading while I'm driving, riding my bike, painting my house, mowing my lawn, and otherwise using my eyes and hands in other activities. I mean it's not like there'd be a point to a way to actually get useful content while doing those things and still doing them safely.
It'd be entirely pointless to be able to listen to something other than music in those 2-3 hours a day that people spend on the road, in the gym and otherwise engaged in activities that preclude staring at a piece of paper or a screen of any sort.
I've said it so many times that I hate to have to say it again, but podcasts are not an alternative to text, they're an alternative to CD's, radio and other existing audio content. Adoption of podcasting is happening mostly in places where other audio already was happening or when people *can't* or don't want to be reading.
To further prove your point, you actually get frowned upon if you don't have kids at all as well. I and my wife are childfree by choice and are often surprised by how offended people get by our choice.
Man, where can I contribute to THAT effort? I used to just have to avoid a few spots, but then syndication littered the playing field with hidden landmines. Won't someone clear the terrain of the Joe Rogan landmines?
I just got done trying to buy a copy in Downtown Minneapolis and found what I think was the last Widescreen copy anywhere there. I was in Target, Sam Goody, etc. and there was a gaping hole in EVERY SINGLE display where Serenity's Widescreen edition goes. There wasn't anything else on the New Release wall of any of them that was sold out, but this one was. That cuts across physical stores including media general retailers as well.
But, without access to change the DNS settings to point to the new site, you've just got a clone of a site on a new address. You can take a copy of Slashdot's code and content, but as long as everyone keeps linking to slashdot.org, you don't have "the site".
There are also tools like IMAPSize that let you backup IMAP email to a filesystem. I use Thunderbird to label email that I want to keep, but only need archive access (using the labels, I just hit "5" and it's marked. Once a month (this morning in fact), I simple load my saved search for those labeled emails, move them to an IMAP folder named "archive" and use IMAPSIze to pull those messages off and into individual.eml files. They're part of my filesystem searches as well as backup scheme after that. I could probably script something to do it all without my intervention, but *completely* automated things have a tendency to fail in ways you don't notice until it's too late, so I like doing just a little bit of work once a month.
The end result is that I really only delete spam and the rest just become text files on my hard drive, backed up along with the rest of my files. The main reason for keeping old emails (archive and searching for needed old information) is retained and my IMAP account stays lean and quick.
Exactly. For some reason, webmail makes sense to people and IMAP doesn't, even though IMAP's as flexible an email solution as is available. Instead, the conversation always seems to be between POP3 (on one computer) and GMail or Yahoo mail. Sure, GMail is great, but I know that my email address will be mine *forever* for a few bucks a year on my domain. Personally, I think webmail took off because it was most people's first experience with centralized, persistant email. What they really like is the ability to get email from anywhere and store it in one place. And, IMAP does a better job of that than GMail or Yahoo and does it with 100% customization of the addresses.
I funnel all of my POP3 email to a single IMAP account. I can access ALL of my email from any computer using Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora, webmail/browser, etc. or my laptop with all of my Thunderbird customizations. Read/unread persists as do all of my folders and organization of emails.
I'm actually using a special IMAP account that's fed by RSS feeds due to all of the things you can do with X-Header's and Thunderbird to organize RSS items as emails. I have a cron job pull all new feed items and put them into this IMAP account and they get sorted, flagged, filtered and otherwise procesed by Thunderbird, but I can view the result with webmail if I'd prefer. And, if I want to run some specialized tool on the mailbox, I can and the results will just be there.
While many of these solutions are still pretty geeky, there's no reason they couldn't be wrapped into user-friendly services just like GMail is.
Heh. I'm about this close * * to writing a Greasemonkey extension that does nothing but replace "literally" with "figuratively". I figure it will be the most heavily used extension in my browser. And, I'm willing to bet that the number of incidents where I'll see the wrong word will be REALLY low.
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Same goes for a phone number. You can get a local number from Twilio or similar for $1 mo and route it to web code (install OpenVBX and you don't have to write anything) that lets you take control of what gets through and what goes 100% to voicemail. Only put that phone number on your resume and you can filter the phone calls just like the emails.
My wife and I aren't having children, so we've volunteered the stereotypical 2.1 American children we'd have had otherwise. I've pointed out to more than one aggressive environmentalist that one of the best things someone can do for the environment is quit making new Americans.
In Minneapolis, $900/mo gets me a 2000 square foot house on a 1/3 acre, fenced in lot on a cul-de-sac. I'm pretty sure I'd need to make quite a bit more to afford similar in NYC or SF.
I worked as a contractor at Target for a few years. A staggering number of Indian dudes followed this exact pattern:
1. Come here on H1-B through a consulting firm on the preferred vendor list.
2. Consulting co puts these single guys together in apartments.
3. They work for a year, sending the money home.
4. They heard from their families that their arranged marriages were set up.
5. They went home for the wedding and came back to the US with their bride.
6. They got pregnant and, before the baby was born, they headed back to India, with 2 years of American work experience under their belt to get managerial roles in the offshoring operations.
It was like a freaking revolving door.
To the average Windows user, their computer is a means to an end. To the average Linux user, the computer IS the end.
While I haven't used it in years, like most geeks, I do have a soft spot for Yahoo's directory. I remember sitting in a college computer lab after Yahoo launched, visiting every link they included, amazed at this HUGE pile of information available at my fingertips. Funny to think of it now.
I live in Minneapolis and this morning, the temp was -6F. Winter starts in 2 weeks.
I drop my phone on the wireless charger at work and at home when I go to bed. And, amazingly enough, there's ALSO a micro-USB connector that lets me charge it in the car or via a battery pack or any of the ways one charges a phone that doesn't have wireless charging. Wireless charging is an "AND", not an "OR".
The average employee software dev stays 23 months. Nobody is staying around to deal with the mess they make.
As someone who actually is using the Action Pack, I can tell you that there are 10 full licenses of Win7 Pro as well as 1 license for Win7 Ultimate. Everything in the Action Pack is a full license for production use.
At the moment, if you want to work for a company or clients, your best bet is to learn one of the two big "ecosystems": Java or .NET. Most of the jobs you'll see posted are in one or the other. And, most of the people working those jobs don't know any C/C++ any more.
If you just want to learn to program for the sake of learning how to do it, or for your own startup company/project, I'd go with one of the more "modern" languages like Python or Ruby. If you're looking to learn to speed your sysadmin tasks up, Perl or a shell scripting language (including the newish Windows Powershell) might fit the bill better.
My appendectomy cost $17,000. Again, not made up.
Exactly. The full/comprehensive coverage on my 2006 Chrysler 300 is only $35/month. The rest of my car insurance bill for that car is liability.
For routine care, you're right. That's why the $5000 and $10000 deductible plans are a great option for paying cash for that prevention/routine stuff while still having coverage for the big stuff.
If you do come down with cancer or have an accident that puts you in physical therapy for 2 years, you'll be amazed how quickly you can go from $200 or $2000 in health care costs to $2 million.
Most people who cite the cost of "benefits" have never priced them on the open market. Yes, the COBRA price is high, but companies like Assurant offer short-term insurance for a family of 4 in the sub $200/month range (with $2500 deductible and 100% coverage beyond that).
Longer-term insurance is more in the $400-$500/month range for that same family. (just priced at eHealthInsurance.com)
Yes, those are high-deductible policies. So are many employer policies at this point.
The point is that most companies present the "value" of the health insurance as much higher than what you could get on your own.
I work as a self-employed contractor and pay my own health care costs. I'm 33 and the most my health care is going to cost me in any one year is $4000. That's less than my car payment.
I wouldn't say that navy is *always* best. I always wore earthtone suits and sport coats and my wife always nagged me that I should really be wearing navy to interviews. That is, until she saw the color on me. I look like a washed out corpse in navy. Nobody hires washed out corpses. Zombies? Yes. Washed out corpses? No.
So, with corn up 60% over last year, what *are* you burning in it?
Yeah. I mean, I love reading while I'm driving, riding my bike, painting my house, mowing my lawn, and otherwise using my eyes and hands in other activities. I mean it's not like there'd be a point to a way to actually get useful content while doing those things and still doing them safely.
It'd be entirely pointless to be able to listen to something other than music in those 2-3 hours a day that people spend on the road, in the gym and otherwise engaged in activities that preclude staring at a piece of paper or a screen of any sort.
I've said it so many times that I hate to have to say it again, but podcasts are not an alternative to text, they're an alternative to CD's, radio and other existing audio content. Adoption of podcasting is happening mostly in places where other audio already was happening or when people *can't* or don't want to be reading.
To further prove your point, you actually get frowned upon if you don't have kids at all as well. I and my wife are childfree by choice and are often surprised by how offended people get by our choice.
Man, where can I contribute to THAT effort? I used to just have to avoid a few spots, but then syndication littered the playing field with hidden landmines. Won't someone clear the terrain of the Joe Rogan landmines?
I just got done trying to buy a copy in Downtown Minneapolis and found what I think was the last Widescreen copy anywhere there. I was in Target, Sam Goody, etc. and there was a gaping hole in EVERY SINGLE display where Serenity's Widescreen edition goes. There wasn't anything else on the New Release wall of any of them that was sold out, but this one was. That cuts across physical stores including media general retailers as well.
But, without access to change the DNS settings to point to the new site, you've just got a clone of a site on a new address. You can take a copy of Slashdot's code and content, but as long as everyone keeps linking to slashdot.org, you don't have "the site".
The end result is that I really only delete spam and the rest just become text files on my hard drive, backed up along with the rest of my files. The main reason for keeping old emails (archive and searching for needed old information) is retained and my IMAP account stays lean and quick.
Exactly. For some reason, webmail makes sense to people and IMAP doesn't, even though IMAP's as flexible an email solution as is available. Instead, the conversation always seems to be between POP3 (on one computer) and GMail or Yahoo mail. Sure, GMail is great, but I know that my email address will be mine *forever* for a few bucks a year on my domain. Personally, I think webmail took off because it was most people's first experience with centralized, persistant email. What they really like is the ability to get email from anywhere and store it in one place. And, IMAP does a better job of that than GMail or Yahoo and does it with 100% customization of the addresses.
I funnel all of my POP3 email to a single IMAP account. I can access ALL of my email from any computer using Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora, webmail/browser, etc. or my laptop with all of my Thunderbird customizations. Read/unread persists as do all of my folders and organization of emails.
I'm actually using a special IMAP account that's fed by RSS feeds due to all of the things you can do with X-Header's and Thunderbird to organize RSS items as emails. I have a cron job pull all new feed items and put them into this IMAP account and they get sorted, flagged, filtered and otherwise procesed by Thunderbird, but I can view the result with webmail if I'd prefer. And, if I want to run some specialized tool on the mailbox, I can and the results will just be there.
While many of these solutions are still pretty geeky, there's no reason they couldn't be wrapped into user-friendly services just like GMail is.
Heh. I'm about this close * * to writing a Greasemonkey extension that does nothing but replace "literally" with "figuratively". I figure it will be the most heavily used extension in my browser. And, I'm willing to bet that the number of incidents where I'll see the wrong word will be REALLY low.