>the British Parliament authorized removal of
>the criminal underclasses to the remote colony
>of New South Wales.
Most Americans are surprised that their independance played a role in Australia's founding as a modern nation.
Another parable between the US and Australia, when Australia's founding fathers debated in the 1880's what form Australian independance was going to take they looked to the two strongest democracies of the time, the UK and US. The system they came up with has been called the "Wash-minster mutation".
>Heh heh heh. Silly international person. We
>export that stuff because only people overseas
>are foolish enough to drink it. We keep our >best beer for ourselves. [coopers.com.au]
Fosters is the only Australian beer readily available in the US, it is brewed in Canada, which is why they can stick imported prominently on it. Same with Irelands Harp Lager which is also sold in the US. Fosters tastes like Bud in the US. Any country you go to, Fosters will taste like that countries favourite domestic beer. Carlton United Brewery is Australia's McDonalds or Disney.
Coopers Pale Ale and Bitter is available in the US though not common, it is imported by a Georgia importer. It is true Australian beer as it is brewed in Australia. The other Australian beer is Sheaf Stout, it is available in World Market stores. A Reston, VA importer brings them in. Inquiries into getting VB imported have brought up nothing. Though lovers of beer might like to know that the Australian Embassy in Washington has VB.
>and they automatically reject all the
>free ones.
We had a similar situation recently, our design included several well known opensource java libraries. The design was taken to another consultant and the question we got back was suggested not using the opensource libraries as there was no support.
Our reply was as it is opensource, we can support it for code maintenance and we can be contracted to add any further functionality to the library that the client needs.
The benefits to the client are obvious, if they dont like our work, they can get another contractor to support the library. Added to that there are no developer seat fees the client has to pay nor any runtime fees, they are way ahead and way empowered.
9 Month IT course, and 2 months on the job and he thinks he's a developer. Still WET I SAY!
I followed a similar path to the original poster about 4 years ago now. I am one of the leading developers in the company I am with. One other leading developer is a Chemical Engineer who re-trained himself. I am not in the mythical 10% but my projects are solid software engineering that I am proud to deliver to the customer and proud to let other developers look at the software code. Given in this industry each new project requires learning new technologies quickly and efficiently then applying that new found knowledge with equal speed as well as economically, the original posters resume would be on the top of my pile. It would have shown to me that the person is motivated enough and capable of applying himself sufficiently to learn a totally new technology, if his skills even came close to matching a junior programmer I would hire him. I doubt I am alone in thinking that. My skills are judged not by how well I rote learnt in university but by the projects I work on and take through to succesful completion.
I proudly call myself a Software Engineer, because that is the role I aim to fulfill with each project. I create solid, reliable software that solves a problem and empowers the system (user or hardware) to complete the task required quickly, efficiently and with ease.
I have no problem with certification as long as it isnt like a union ticket and a card to work but no work without it. If that happens folks like myself and javacowboy will change careers again to the next discipline that rewards highly motivated people willing to learn and apply new skills and methodologies.
macom
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This is from RH7.2 on a 233Mhz Thinkpad 600. Has been totally stable for me. I am running KDE, it is wonderful. I am thankful for all the hard work that has gone into all the applications that make up the distribution. I also think RH7.2 as a distribution is better than Win2K. At work it is a Win company, I usually do my work on this old laptop as it is better:)
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>the criminal underclasses to the remote colony
>of New South Wales.
Most Americans are surprised that their independance played a role in Australia's founding as a modern nation.
Another parable between the US and Australia, when Australia's founding fathers debated in the 1880's what form Australian independance was going to take they looked to the two strongest democracies of the time, the UK and US. The system they came up with has been called the "Wash-minster mutation".
macom
>export that stuff because only people overseas
>are foolish enough to drink it. We keep our
>best beer for ourselves. [coopers.com.au]
Fosters is the only Australian beer readily available in the US, it is brewed in Canada, which is why they can stick imported prominently on it. Same with Irelands Harp Lager which is also sold in the US. Fosters tastes like Bud in the US. Any country you go to, Fosters will taste like that countries favourite domestic beer. Carlton United Brewery is Australia's McDonalds or Disney.
Coopers Pale Ale and Bitter is available in the US though not common, it is imported by a Georgia importer. It is true Australian beer as it is brewed in Australia. The other Australian beer is Sheaf Stout, it is available in World Market stores. A Reston, VA importer brings them in. Inquiries into getting VB imported have brought up nothing. Though lovers of beer might like to know that the Australian Embassy in Washington has VB.
I miss VB, Reschs Real, Tooheys Red, Redback .....
macom
>free ones.
We had a similar situation recently, our design included several well known opensource java libraries. The design was taken to another consultant and the question we got back was suggested not using the opensource libraries as there was no support.
Our reply was as it is opensource, we can support it for code maintenance and we can be contracted to add any further functionality to the library that the client needs.
The benefits to the client are obvious, if they dont like our work, they can get another contractor to support the library. Added to that there are no developer seat fees the client has to pay nor any runtime fees, they are way ahead and way empowered.
macom
I followed a similar path to the original poster about 4 years ago now. I am one of the leading developers in the company I am with. One other leading developer is a Chemical Engineer who re-trained himself. I am not in the mythical 10% but my projects are solid software engineering that I am proud to deliver to the customer and proud to let other developers look at the software code. Given in this industry each new project requires learning new technologies quickly and efficiently then applying that new found knowledge with equal speed as well as economically, the original posters resume would be on the top of my pile. It would have shown to me that the person is motivated enough and capable of applying himself sufficiently to learn a totally new technology, if his skills even came close to matching a junior programmer I would hire him. I doubt I am alone in thinking that. My skills are judged not by how well I rote learnt in university but by the projects I work on and take through to succesful completion.
I proudly call myself a Software Engineer, because that is the role I aim to fulfill with each project. I create solid, reliable software that solves a problem and empowers the system (user or hardware) to complete the task required quickly, efficiently and with ease.
I have no problem with certification as long as it isnt like a union ticket and a card to work but no work without it. If that happens folks like myself and javacowboy will change careers again to the next discipline that rewards highly motivated people willing to learn and apply new skills and methodologies.
macom
macom