>My suggestion would be to not have kids, then your priorties don't have to change.
This is where you really need to think about what you are saying.
Ask any parent if they would change their single-life priorities or have a child. Ask your parents. Ask a single mother having a hell of a time surviving. Why not never have sex with another human being or go on a date? Those situations could lead to you having to change your single-priorities.
Its seems like your whole life is dictacted or controlled by money. This isn't freedom or some sort of special wise advice. YOU ARE LETTING YOUR LIFE BE CONTROLLED BY MONEY. See that number in your bank account? That is more important than your happiness and your future because you already are cutting off future paths to happiness all for the all-mighty dollar.
Where? In a big city like NY? Um... reality check.
> $50 a year for bus service: $50.
Assume 5 days per week, two trips per day, 50 weeks a year = 500 bus tickets. $50/500 tickets = $0.1 per ticket. Where can you get this deal?
What about clothing and consumeables? (detergent, soap) (it might be minor but it does add up) What about heat and electricity and water?
What about retirement? What about money for rainy days? What about taxes? What about saving up for a home becuase renting is just insane in the long term? What about paying for the house?
1. There are alot of companies with deep pockets going for it. 2. You will spend a huge time writing proposals down to accounting to the cent before you get into what IT guys would want to do. PHB type of things. And you are not guarenteed you will get the job or get paid for that work. 3. The amount of waiting for things to go through would destroy a business with no income. 4. I can almost guarentee you that a bunch of unemployeed slashdot readers will not qualify for these types of jobs either finacially or with experience contracting with the government.
Unless you are talking about some unholy large data warehouse and you need to squeeze every single drop of performance out of every circut, your resources are better off on the high level logical settings of Oracle.
With a good RAID-5 set up, its really hard to optimize things for Oracle.
>If you are often late on deadlines, I'd like to know that you are aware of it and have an idea about how to self-improve.
Seriously, do you really think that this isn't a bullshit answer?
"I am a perfectionist." "I tend to work late." "I bring work home."
>You have a better question?
Go to your local library, get a book of "1001 interview questions" from the 80's. These are the bad questions.
Go to your local book store, get a book of "1001 interview questions" from 1-2 years ago. Any question in this book not in the library book has a high potential for a good question.
I agree with the other person who said that these aren't "Hobbies". Word and classify them in a different category as if you are a professional with 10 years experience.
> And it gives the interviewer something of interest that I can use to make myself stick out more.
Note: this might be a bad thing due to people's bias etc. "Anime? This guy is into Sailor Moon?"
> I tend to use the "what is your greatest weakness?" question fairly often in my hiring.
Have you've ever heard an answer that blew you away or totally changed your mind about a candidate?
Its a hard question for those who have never heard of this question before. For those of us who have and have had to answer it, it is going to be the same 3 minute speech we have preped worded to make me not look bad, show my problem solving skills, look informed and intelligent and reveal how bright and witty I am.
You don't have to be a child pornographer to be charged under the laws. Posession of said material would be cause enough. How do you know you don't have material which the people involved are not under 18? In some cases the person doesn't even have to be under 18, just appear like it.
>Even a major in something else is OK, just so long as you have experience in C/S.
It can't hurt. But do you want to do business stuff or computers more? Or do you just want to get a job? And don't expect it to help after 2 years out of school.
But bettor advice is to work during summers. Work for any $ amount as long as its related to computers. You can pretty it up on your resume and stand out amoung the hordes of other graduates.
> Whe Microsoft or Gates makes a donatin,... >Not the same as doing something anonymously.
By definition, you would not know when MS makes an anonymous donation. And you certainly would not hear about it on the news.
>So don't make false comparisons between regulated monopolies and Microsoft, please.
More money into a corporation's pocket, regardless if its legal, illegal, regulated, unregulated or even blessed by the Pope, is money that less for health services and therefore a cause of deaths.
When we are talking about not enough money for health care, does it really matter exactly why there is not enough money? Wasted money is wasted money. There is not one kind of "acceptable" wasted money and one kind of "unacceptable" wasted money.
>As for unions in a hospital setting, you'll have a hard time convincing me that nurses,
Janitors, cafeteria workers and low-level administration staff. What about those unions? What about unions in companies that do business with hospitals and the company has to pass on the costs? Aren't they responsible for deaths too?
>Many times, companies that make donations to organizations request that their name be kept out of it,
And how do you know that Microsoft hasn't done this? Do you have insider knowledge of every single donation they make? Or is it another case where you "think" that they haven't?
>Now, the Microsoft Monopoly Tax that hospitals have to pay on software is money that could be spent on more nurses, improved services, etc., so the Microsoft monopoly HAS resulted in harm to people
By that manner, any individual or corporation which has charged money to a hospital would be guilty of the same thing. They are making a profit which could have been spent on healing people.
Take the local electricity company or telephone company. Back in the 80s they were a monopoly. Couldn't get the service/product from any where else. Aren't they a direct cause of many many deaths?
Another example, unions. The hospital couldn't have gone else were for the same service.
> which is that Microsoft has never given away anything out of altruism - it's all for the corporate good.
Name one corporate action that any corporation has done out of altruism? So what is so special about MS?
Why not go ranting off on corporations that have actually physically harmed humans rather than a company that "controls the desktop" or "is a monopoly by bullying with protocals and standards". Petty stuff really.
How about reading up: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/ 10746 895529.htm http://www.laborrights.org/
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We should have SETI data embedded into pr0n. Free CPU cycles are nothing compaired to the yearning of the adult human.
... no, just another set of boobies."
"Wait I think I see a pattern
>My suggestion would be to not have kids, then your priorties don't have to change.
This is where you really need to think about what you are saying.
Ask any parent if they would change their single-life priorities or have a child. Ask your parents. Ask a single mother having a hell of a time surviving. Why not never have sex with another human being or go on a date? Those situations could lead to you having to change your single-priorities.
Its seems like your whole life is dictacted or controlled by money. This isn't freedom or some sort of special wise advice.
YOU ARE LETTING YOUR LIFE BE CONTROLLED BY MONEY.
See that number in your bank account? That is more important than your happiness and your future because you already are cutting off future paths to happiness all for the all-mighty dollar.
>$500 a month to rent a room:
Where? In a big city like NY? Um... reality check.
> $50 a year for bus service: $50.
Assume 5 days per week, two trips per day, 50 weeks a year = 500 bus tickets. $50/500 tickets = $0.1 per ticket. Where can you get this deal?
What about clothing and consumeables? (detergent, soap) (it might be minor but it does add up) What about heat and electricity and water?
What about retirement? What about money for rainy days? What about taxes? What about saving up for a home becuase renting is just insane in the long term? What about paying for the house?
>This isn't really going to help any guy out that was used to pulling in $50-100K..
Only a time-machine set to travel 5 years in the past will help this person.
... defense soliciatations.
These are alot harder than you think.
1. There are alot of companies with deep pockets going for it.
2. You will spend a huge time writing proposals down to accounting to the cent before you get into what IT guys would want to do. PHB type of things. And you are not guarenteed you will get the job or get paid for that work.
3. The amount of waiting for things to go through would destroy a business with no income.
4. I can almost guarentee you that a bunch of unemployeed slashdot readers will not qualify for these types of jobs either finacially or with experience contracting with the government.
I have to agree with this.
Unless you are talking about some unholy large data warehouse and you need to squeeze every single drop of performance out of every circut, your resources are better off on the high level logical settings of Oracle.
With a good RAID-5 set up, its really hard to optimize things for Oracle.
... Annie Hall will win best picture. Get over it.
Good for you.
Sometimes swallowing your pride is the best thing to do in the long term.
Exactly what should they have done to satisfy both parties?
How much speed do you need to cut-and-paste a story from 3 hours ago?
This is true.
Evaluating a person for a job is a subjective task.
If it wasn't, you wouldn't have interviews and could just write an algorithm to do the entire process.
>If you are often late on deadlines, I'd like to know that you are aware of it and have an idea about how to self-improve.
Seriously, do you really think that this isn't a bullshit answer?
"I am a perfectionist."
"I tend to work late."
"I bring work home."
>You have a better question?
Go to your local library, get a book of "1001 interview questions" from the 80's. These are the bad questions.
Go to your local book store, get a book of "1001 interview questions" from 1-2 years ago. Any question in this book not in the library book has a high potential for a good question.
I agree with the other person who said that these aren't "Hobbies". Word and classify them in a different category as if you are a professional with 10 years experience.
> And it gives the interviewer something of interest that I can use to make myself stick out more.
Note: this might be a bad thing due to people's bias etc. "Anime? This guy is into Sailor Moon?"
> I tend to use the "what is your greatest weakness?" question fairly often in my hiring.
Have you've ever heard an answer that blew you away or totally changed your mind about a candidate?
Its a hard question for those who have never heard of this question before. For those of us who have and have had to answer it, it is going to be the same 3 minute speech we have preped worded to make me not look bad, show my problem solving skills, look informed and intelligent and reveal how bright and witty I am.
>whenever you have a comma, there is always exactly one space and it's always after the comma and never before it.
He should take his own advice and put two spaces after periods.
You don't have to be a child pornographer to be charged under the laws. Posession of said material would be cause enough. How do you know you don't have material which the people involved are not under 18? In some cases the person doesn't even have to be under 18, just appear like it.
>Any law which is so powerful and ambiguous as to put fear into people by its mere mention must be a bad law.
By your logic, any law with large penalties is a bad law.
And if you aren't scared if accused of violating that type of law, you probally are more ignorant than anything else.
>Even a major in something else is OK, just so long as you have experience in C/S.
It can't hurt. But do you want to do business stuff or computers more? Or do you just want to get a job? And don't expect it to help after 2 years out of school.
But bettor advice is to work during summers. Work for any $ amount as long as its related to computers. You can pretty it up on your resume and stand out amoung the hordes of other graduates.
I carry a PDA, Wallet, keys, flashlight and bud headphones all in my pockets but I don't wear a watch.
I stopped wearing one sometime ago and I can't get back to it.
> Whe Microsoft or Gates makes a donatin, ...
>Not the same as doing something anonymously.
By definition, you would not know when MS makes an anonymous donation. And you certainly would not hear about it on the news.
>So don't make false comparisons between regulated monopolies and Microsoft, please.
More money into a corporation's pocket, regardless if its legal, illegal, regulated, unregulated or even blessed by the Pope, is money that less for health services and therefore a cause of deaths.
When we are talking about not enough money for health care, does it really matter exactly why there is not enough money? Wasted money is wasted money. There is not one kind of "acceptable" wasted money and one kind of "unacceptable" wasted money.
>As for unions in a hospital setting, you'll have a hard time convincing me that nurses,
Janitors, cafeteria workers and low-level administration staff. What about those unions? What about unions in companies that do business with hospitals and the company has to pass on the costs? Aren't they responsible for deaths too?
>companies that make donations to organizations request that their name be kept out of it,
Just because a company makes an anonymous donation doesn't meant that its altruistic. They could be doing it for tax-benefits.
>Many times, companies that make donations to organizations request that their name be kept out of it,
And how do you know that Microsoft hasn't done this? Do you have insider knowledge of every single donation they make? Or is it another case where you "think" that they haven't?
>Now, the Microsoft Monopoly Tax that hospitals have to pay on software is money that could be spent on more nurses, improved services, etc., so the Microsoft monopoly HAS resulted in harm to people
By that manner, any individual or corporation which has charged money to a hospital would be guilty of the same thing. They are making a profit which could have been spent on healing people.
Take the local electricity company or telephone company. Back in the 80s they were a monopoly. Couldn't get the service/product from any where else. Aren't they a direct cause of many many deaths?
Another example, unions. The hospital couldn't have gone else were for the same service.
Why not go ranting on those?
> which is that Microsoft has never given away anything out of altruism - it's all for the corporate good.
/ 10746 895529.htm
Name one corporate action that any corporation has done out of altruism? So what is so special about MS?
Why not go ranting off on corporations that have actually physically harmed humans rather than a company that "controls the desktop" or "is a monopoly by bullying with protocals and standards". Petty stuff really.
How about reading up:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield
http://www.laborrights.org/
>Our role is to bring software that is quite popular, and happens to be ours." A bit of a freudian slip, I would say.
How is this a slip? Are you saying that MS software is not popular? Look at google stats and see what the percentage of MS OS are used to access it.
>Is there any way of translating "happens to be ours." as "non-Microsoft? I don't think so
Thats because "ours" is MS because this is a representative of MS. I get this point.
>But I think that both the reporter and Microsoft expect the boxes will stay windows boxes.
Ok, so you "THINK" that its the way it is. Then state that its your opinion not supported by the article.