Upon graduation, I had several interviews for software development positions however nearly every one of them paid under $35,000.
Dude, you may want to adjust your expectations a little... By your own admission, you just graduated, what did you expect? Big pay like the radio commercials for those fly by night "IT Training" houses? You know what I mean... "You can be making $60,000 per year in six months!"
Even if you went to university and got bachelors AND Master's degrees AND already had some of the skills they were looking for (rare--most recent grads need some training to function in a work environment,) you're still not going to make $60,000 right out of college. Won't happen. No way, not ever again. This isn't 1997 and your expectations need to reflect that. I have friends, master's degreed friends, who don't make $35k now. If I had made that much money when I was 23 years old, I would have pissed my pants with glee.
He said you can't just go changing code on supported Linux offerings without paying extra to companies like Red Hat or Novell. So as Linux is commercialized, it becomes less open.
But so what? IT wasn't free for your programmers to make that change in the first place--why would it be free to get somebody else to support your changes? Unless they get incorporated into the distro, you really should expect additional expense from supporting custom software--whatever OS you use. Show me one vendor that will support your random custom software changes without any kind of fee and I'll show you a stock to short-sell.
...Should consider himself lucky! Space is at a premium EVERYWHERE and if you're lucky enough to have an office, you should hold onto it as tight as you can! I've been stuck in a cube FOREVER and it sucks. Our company doesn't have remotely enough space for our employees, so as a result we're almost all in cubes. If I thought it would help I'd threaten to resign, but we have managers and directors in cubes, so a Network Admin would get laughed out of the neighborhood for asking for an office in our context. OF course, if we moved the sales people to home offices we'd have half-dozen available private offices. But if that happened, the nine days per month they're in the building they wouldn't have anywhere to sit. It never occurs to anybody to setup half-dozen cubes for roving sales-people? Not to anybody who can make the decision, apparently...
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I'm very well qualified, but not hireable because why would someone pay me $60k-70k when they can get someone who doesn't have the experience, but might have a little more education and get them to work for $40k-50k? It's simple economics.
I had a similar problem during a period of unemployment in 2002. I can say that although the reply you received from one guy ("YOu're not that good") was ridiculous and over the top, you may want to consider your self-marketing skills. Even though we are currently (allegedly) in an "employee's" market you still have to be a really good fit for a company to hire you on.
Consider a career coach. THey can do things like re-write your resume to optimize your chances of getting a call, or help you write cover-letters that are actually attractive to employers. It is really hard to admit you have a problem in this department--my own hard headedness made me waste at least two months because I wouldn't get help from a professional. She interviewed me and taught me a lot of things that got me hired fairly quickly afterwards. You cannot undervalue a good resume and good networking.
Try starting an IT Guys Softball team or something... Invite guys from IT Departments you'd like to work for to play... or if you're in a high tech/high population area, talk to the park district about an "All Technology" softbball league. Hang out with the people you want to work with once in a while... NETWORK.
"It's a great script, but we're really looking for something based on a video game.."
If they write one piece of crap (say, for instance, a Qbert movie) that the studio can make some money on, they might have an easier time selling them on another, better script when the wind blows and movie trends change... Plus, the world needs another video-game-based vehicle for "The Rock" to star in... Imagine The Rock in "Galaga, the Movie!"
How long until the 4-way mobos get shrunk down to fit an XServe? Would it have to expand to a 2U server to accomodate 4 procs, or would it be do-able in the current 1U form-factor?
US Blackberry users will not be able to use their devices and I can't see any product on a comparable quality anywhere on the horizon.
Well, there is GoodLink, which is debatably better, but also more expensive. No word on whether THEY also violate the same patents, but since they only provide software and don't actually make or sell devices, you never know... It was my understanding that the patent violation was in how the device worked. Then again, if Blackberry's all suddenly "Don't work" GoodLink suddenly morphs from "more expensive" into the only option... which would make them an attractive target for one of these "Patent Holdups," as I like to call them.
Also interesting is that GoodLink software is compatible with some Blackberry handhelds, so some RIM users may have something of a migration/escape hatch option if this ruling isn't successfully appealed in a higher court.
But as TPM leaves, so do the digital offerings that come with it.
I proclaim this to be non-sensical gibberish. It may be true that the cartel will attempt to squeeze consumers by "not releasing" some content in HDTV formats, but so what? As soon as one member of the cartel decides to seize the competitive advantage of being the only producer to release his content in HDTV without TPM/DRM/"Trusted Video" the whole house of cards crumbles.
Can you tell me that the stockholders of Sony would do anything but revolt if Sony titles sold half as many copies as another producers because Sony refused to release HD-content?
MREs (food, "Meals Ready to Eat") for distribution to survivors Portable HAM set (mount antenna to truck) to radio in coordinates of survivors for evacuation. Handheld radios (the little unlicensed "Cutey" motorola models will do) with power adapters to recharge off the generator and the cigarette lighter in the truck/4x4. You need these to communicate amongst yourselves if you're working seperately or searching houses or something. Portable generator. Extra fuel One pistol and one rifle, plus a cop and a soldier to carry them Four helpers following in a beefy 4x4 (an old room mate had an International Harvester Scout, which would be ideal) so that if the Uhaul gets stuck or you need to move people or supplies somewhere the truck can't go it would be invaluable. Basic medical supplies--Bandages, antiseptic, aspirin/ibuprofen, insulin and some chocolate bars, some more intense painkillers, pennicillin, etc.) If possible, bringing a paramedic, EMT, or trained military corpsman would be helpful. Handheld tools (hammer, saw, pliers, fire axe, crowbar, screwdrivers/socket set, a couple shovels) you'd want to use to rescue people, or possibly dig the U-haul out if it got stuck. Blankets, clothes, a couple pallets of bottled water... Maybe a defibrillator?
this may be a little off topic, but funny! check it out if you're not browsing at -1
I'm with you, man. Why must we moderate to death something that is only slightly off-topic. It has been said before here that the "Meta" category is the smartest thing about kuro5hin. Maybe Slashdot needs to (finally) follow suit? Rather than waste tons of effort trying to smack down people who criticize slashdot on slashdot, it would give Taco and company some reasonable suggestions.... From time to time... On full moons... When a goat has been sacrificed at dawn the preceding Sunday... A goat purchased the preceding Wednesday from a one-eyed monk...
But, in all seriousness, it would also give witty, funny posts that are meant as both loving criticism and humor an appropriate place to be "on-topic." Everybody wins. Introspection is good for any community, and slashdot is no exception.
Your points are valid, every one correct. But they don't really addresse the only point that really matters to the people who could actually change anything:
Changing laws about marijuana to make it legal or decriminalized makes it more likely people would want to re-evaluate the "lock 'em up!" strategy for other actually dangerous drugs too, for example in favor of treatment and job training. Although cited frequently by politicians when confronted, the chance of failure isn't what stops them, it is the chance of success. Because if it became clear that people had been duped for 40 years by the "Lock 'em up!" political brand into wasting billions of dollars, millions of lives, and decimating poor male youths (through death and imprisonment,) it would be the end of literally thousands of political careers. Incumbent politicians won't ever do something like this because it would open them to severe criticism later, even if you can point to ten countries like the Netherlands where minor drugs like marijuana are tolerated and crime is generally quite low....Unless you happen to make controversial films.
I don't have a solution, other than the hackneyed cliche to "Throw the bums out!" Remember when that old-guy bought that huge ad in the New York Times? What really changed? As far as I can see, nothing...
I would disagree. The fact that the largest software corporation in the world has, to this point, done mostly cowboy coding is amazing! The fact that ANY of their products are even usable at this point is remarkable... No wonder Windows is so unpredictable! But with that said, the fact that they have recognized the problem and are taking steps to resolve it should probably be considered a "Good thing." More secure, less buggy Windows makes Network Admins smile.
if you don't regulate them, then you've blown such a huge hole in campaign finance reform that you've essentially rendered it meaningless
Campaign finance reform is a joke. Regardless of what limits you put on political donations by corporate interests and special interests, they find ways around them. Can't give millions of corporate dollars to Bush directly? No problem, just create the "Ranger" program where big donors get a code number for people to put on their checks so they can tell what Ranger found that money for them. Then, track and tabulate the amount of donations with each "Ranger's" code number attached to know whom you owe favors to.
In effect, campaign finance "reform" has actually made it easier, not harder, to uncover nefarious influence peddlers. Because even though disclosure of all donations is required, "following the money" is much more complicated when you have a couple thousand investors--I mean donors--to sort through rather than a couple dozen corporations. For instance, it would be very suspicious if shell oil gave $2 million to the Republicans six months before they had a big push to allow oil drilling in the National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, but if you spread those contributions around.... For instance, $1000 each from two thousand employees, it becomes much less clear that it is a case of scratching a big donor's back. In effect, campaign finance reform has given our dirtiest politicians more plausible deniability than they've ever had in this department.
The only solution I can see is public financing of elections. While it is true that this system of campaign finance has some pitfalls as well (how do third-parties and independent candidates get their share of the campaign pot, for example) it would be vastly preferable to the current "Buy the government you want" system. Arizona is currently experimenting with a mixed public/private funding mechanism they call "clean elections"--People voluntarily contribute to a campaign financing pot on their tax returns, and individuals are allowed to donate a small amount to a campaign. But that's it. Corporate dollars are effectively banned entirely from state elections.
It may take a few years to see a big change, but you can tell the special interests are running scared--they're pouring millions in to lawsuits and advertising and lobbying to overturn this bill which keeps them from buying the government they want.
Again, the system isn't perfect, and I'm sure there will be a few dozen knee-jerk libertarian responses to this calling me a liberal, a communist, and everything in between, but it comes from a place of reflection where I've realized there is no such thing as a perfect system for campaign finance, only ones that are less-broken than the one we have now.
a pre-beta version of Microsoft Office 12.0 is revealing radical interface changes and user paradigm shifts that recall the overly ambitious Microsoft Office 97 update of the past.
Good! Maybe if it sucks bad enough I can show on paper that "retraining" people to use a slightly different, more agnostic Office suite is cheaper than paying for Office 12 AND teaching them all of the sea changes. Perhaps we can finally escape the ever-spiralling budget leech that is Microsoft Office...
Despite explaining her situation during the interview
Mistake #1: Telling them she's a single mom. In the United states the interviewer simply can't ask about your marital status or whether you have kids or not. Employers (especially sleazier ones--and furniture stores are almost as sleazy as a used-car lot) have been known to not hire single moms because they perceive them to be a liability and constant source of problems. You gain no advantage by telling them you are--and are in fact disadvantaged by revealing that info.
Nothing's going to change when everyone just smiles and pretends that they're ever so happy to be given the opportunity to get bent over and screwed with a crappy job offer.
That may be true, but they wouldn't have invited her to interview if they weren't interested in her for the sales job. Likely the manager heard she was a single mom and decided she would be a problem. But rather than not hire her for being a mom (which would be discrimination) he simply offerred her a shitty job he knew she wouldn't take to get rid of her, which isn't technically discrimination. If she had kept her mouth shut about "her situation" and focused on getting the job by demonstrating her skills for it, she would have either gotten or not gotten the job based on her ability, rather than being discounted based on a "single-mom" stereotype.
By blabbing on about her kids, she gave the interviewer a reason to not hire her. That is all an interview is--demonstrating your skills while not giving them a reason to disqualify you.
There are many great books available to help people improve their interviewing skills, and it sounds like your friend needs to look one of them over before her next interview.
You run the cleanup agent which shows you the tombstoned mailbox, you can then right click that and reconnect it to any Active Directory user.
...right up until the 30-day default and then your "tombstoned" mailboxes are gone, never to return--without the achingly painful "restore server" scenario. Hope you weren't counting on being able to bring them back until the end of time... Because unless you changed the default setting from 30-days, that is all the time you get. Sorry I didn't mention the 30+ days timeframe earlier, but I was on my way to the pub and didn't realize some exchange fanboy would be mortally offended by my least favorite feature of an otherwise decent product.
I work with Exchange, and think that the chances are better that they just had shitty architecture to begin with. Exchange is a great platform and scales well, so if the original people wouldn't do it, well then f*ck em.
Your point about putting more effort up-front into design is well taken, but thhat advice applies to any platform...
WIth that said, and without turning this thread into an Exchange bitchfest...
Why in the hell can't you restore a mailbox from backup using only the tools you already have if the user is no longer present in Active Directory? You can't even export the mailbox with EXMERGE... Your choices are 1) 3rd party recovery tool (like Quest Recovery for Exchange) or 2) Build an ENTIRE OTHER SERVER and do a normal, full restore of the entire mail store so you can extract one measly mailbox.
OBviously, the "Recovery Storage Group" feature is a VAST improvement over the old Exchange 5.5 way of bringing back just one mailbox (that being setup another server) but this is a MAJOR duh situation on Microsoft's part. They seem to think that since their "best practice" is to never ever erase any user account ever ever ever, that its okay to leave this gaping flaw in their enterprise groupware product. Sorry, but I think that sucks. We paid out the ass for "Enterprise" edition (to avoid the arbitrary 16gb limit on the mail store) and goddammit, I should be able to bring back a mailbox without its corresponding AD account without wasting a whole day setting up another server... I've only had to do it once (today) but the whole time I Was thinking how much esaier a mailbox restore on my OS X Server at home would be... Just restore the frickin' files and move on with your life.
f your pdf viewer is slow, I would guess that you are still using Acrobat reader version 5.x or 6.x. Acrobat reader 7.x is much faster, at least for me either on Solaris or Mac OS X.
Yeah, well, the Windows version is not as much of an improvement. And although acrobat reader is a slow loader, the REAL chore is when you make the mistake of clicking on a PDF on a web-page and its trying to display through your browser--ug. Just agonizing. Painfully slow. I almost always just kill the process, go back, and save the file to my desktop.
...not until Sergey Brin and Larry Page jump over a shark tank on their motorcycles... After that there'll be a cute but irritating cousin who comes to live with them, and after that, they all move to LA and take up professional surfing and crimefighting.
THEN it's all over. Or at least has jumped the shark... Same thing.
I never understood that argument. If they are so willing to pay for music, why are they copying in the first place?
Probably the same reason it is easier to sell a car to somebody who has test-driven said vehicle--they know they're getting something they want. I've been exposed to half-a-dozen artists through P2P which led to me buying their records. If I hadn't heard their music first, slim chance of me buying any of it--just too big a financial risk to lay out $14 for a CD that turns out to have one good track.
With P2P, just like the test-drive, if you download something you hate, you delete it. Likewise, if you test-drive a car you don't like, you don't buy it. Think of P2P as the "test-drive" of the music industry...
Except of course, this doesn't benefit the record labels since so much of what they're publishing now is garbage--they're better off if you have to "Buy to try" rather than "Try before you buy."
...But I can't wait until my favorite podcast is absorbed by a conglomerate so its format can be changed to "Jack"!
In case you're not frmo the US or Canada, "Jack" is a radio station format that is sweeping the nation. Much like the "All 70's" and "All 80's" stations you heard in the 90's, "Jack" is sweeping across the nation, replacing successfuly formats on some of the largest stations in America (including WCBS/New York, WJMK/Chicago, and KCBS/Los Angeles...
Essentially, the idea is a "format with attitude" but in many of the smaller markets implementing "Jack" means automating air personalities out of a job.
So lets cross our fingers and hope... After all, there's nothing like having something cool, original, and special co-opted by greedy guys in suits!
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Dude, you may want to adjust your expectations a little... By your own admission, you just graduated, what did you expect? Big pay like the radio commercials for those fly by night "IT Training" houses? You know what I mean... "You can be making $60,000 per year in six months!"
Even if you went to university and got bachelors AND Master's degrees AND already had some of the skills they were looking for (rare--most recent grads need some training to function in a work environment,) you're still not going to make $60,000 right out of college. Won't happen. No way, not ever again. This isn't 1997 and your expectations need to reflect that. I have friends, master's degreed friends, who don't make $35k now. If I had made that much money when I was 23 years old, I would have pissed my pants with glee.
But so what? IT wasn't free for your programmers to make that change in the first place--why would it be free to get somebody else to support your changes? Unless they get incorporated into the distro, you really should expect additional expense from supporting custom software--whatever OS you use. Show me one vendor that will support your random custom software changes without any kind of fee and I'll show you a stock to short-sell.
...Should consider himself lucky! Space is at a premium EVERYWHERE and if you're lucky enough to have an office, you should hold onto it as tight as you can! I've been stuck in a cube FOREVER and it sucks. Our company doesn't have remotely enough space for our employees, so as a result we're almost all in cubes. If I thought it would help I'd threaten to resign, but we have managers and directors in cubes, so a Network Admin would get laughed out of the neighborhood for asking for an office in our context. OF course, if we moved the sales people to home offices we'd have half-dozen available private offices. But if that happened, the nine days per month they're in the building they wouldn't have anywhere to sit. It never occurs to anybody to setup half-dozen cubes for roving sales-people? Not to anybody who can make the decision, apparently...
I had a similar problem during a period of unemployment in 2002. I can say that although the reply you received from one guy ("YOu're not that good") was ridiculous and over the top, you may want to consider your self-marketing skills. Even though we are currently (allegedly) in an "employee's" market you still have to be a really good fit for a company to hire you on.
Consider a career coach. THey can do things like re-write your resume to optimize your chances of getting a call, or help you write cover-letters that are actually attractive to employers. It is really hard to admit you have a problem in this department--my own hard headedness made me waste at least two months because I wouldn't get help from a professional. She interviewed me and taught me a lot of things that got me hired fairly quickly afterwards. You cannot undervalue a good resume and good networking.
Try starting an IT Guys Softball team or something... Invite guys from IT Departments you'd like to work for to play... or if you're in a high tech/high population area, talk to the park district about an "All Technology" softbball league. Hang out with the people you want to work with once in a while... NETWORK.
If they write one piece of crap (say, for instance, a Qbert movie) that the studio can make some money on, they might have an easier time selling them on another, better script when the wind blows and movie trends change... Plus, the world needs another video-game-based vehicle for "The Rock" to star in... Imagine The Rock in "Galaga, the Movie!"
Pure dreck...
How long until the 4-way mobos get shrunk down to fit an XServe? Would it have to expand to a 2U server to accomodate 4 procs, or would it be do-able in the current 1U form-factor?
...its the sound of a lawyer feeding-frenzy getting started...
Well, there is GoodLink, which is debatably better, but also more expensive. No word on whether THEY also violate the same patents, but since they only provide software and don't actually make or sell devices, you never know... It was my understanding that the patent violation was in how the device worked. Then again, if Blackberry's all suddenly "Don't work" GoodLink suddenly morphs from "more expensive" into the only option... which would make them an attractive target for one of these "Patent Holdups," as I like to call them.
Also interesting is that GoodLink software is compatible with some Blackberry handhelds, so some RIM users may have something of a migration/escape hatch option if this ruling isn't successfully appealed in a higher court.
I proclaim this to be non-sensical gibberish. It may be true that the cartel will attempt to squeeze consumers by "not releasing" some content in HDTV formats, but so what? As soon as one member of the cartel decides to seize the competitive advantage of being the only producer to release his content in HDTV without TPM/DRM/"Trusted Video" the whole house of cards crumbles.
Can you tell me that the stockholders of Sony would do anything but revolt if Sony titles sold half as many copies as another producers because Sony refused to release HD-content?
Partial list, probably think of more later but:
MREs (food, "Meals Ready to Eat") for distribution to survivors
Portable HAM set (mount antenna to truck) to radio in coordinates of survivors for evacuation.
Handheld radios (the little unlicensed "Cutey" motorola models will do) with power adapters to recharge off the generator and the cigarette lighter in the truck/4x4. You need these to communicate amongst yourselves if you're working seperately or searching houses or something.
Portable generator.
Extra fuel
One pistol and one rifle, plus a cop and a soldier to carry them
Four helpers following in a beefy 4x4 (an old room mate had an International Harvester Scout, which would be ideal) so that if the Uhaul gets stuck or you need to move people or supplies somewhere the truck can't go it would be invaluable.
Basic medical supplies--Bandages, antiseptic, aspirin/ibuprofen, insulin and some chocolate bars, some more intense painkillers, pennicillin, etc.) If possible, bringing a paramedic, EMT, or trained military corpsman would be helpful.
Handheld tools (hammer, saw, pliers, fire axe, crowbar, screwdrivers/socket set, a couple shovels) you'd want to use to rescue people, or possibly dig the U-haul out if it got stuck.
Blankets, clothes, a couple pallets of bottled water... Maybe a defibrillator?
I'm with you, man. Why must we moderate to death something that is only slightly off-topic. It has been said before here that the "Meta" category is the smartest thing about kuro5hin. Maybe Slashdot needs to (finally) follow suit? Rather than waste tons of effort trying to smack down people who criticize slashdot on slashdot, it would give Taco and company some reasonable suggestions.... From time to time... On full moons... When a goat has been sacrificed at dawn the preceding Sunday... A goat purchased the preceding Wednesday from a one-eyed monk...
But, in all seriousness, it would also give witty, funny posts that are meant as both loving criticism and humor an appropriate place to be "on-topic." Everybody wins. Introspection is good for any community, and slashdot is no exception.
Your points are valid, every one correct. But they don't really addresse the only point that really matters to the people who could actually change anything:
Changing laws about marijuana to make it legal or decriminalized makes it more likely people would want to re-evaluate the "lock 'em up!" strategy for other actually dangerous drugs too, for example in favor of treatment and job training. Although cited frequently by politicians when confronted, the chance of failure isn't what stops them, it is the chance of success. Because if it became clear that people had been duped for 40 years by the "Lock 'em up!" political brand into wasting billions of dollars, millions of lives, and decimating poor male youths (through death and imprisonment,) it would be the end of literally thousands of political careers. Incumbent politicians won't ever do something like this because it would open them to severe criticism later, even if you can point to ten countries like the Netherlands where minor drugs like marijuana are tolerated and crime is generally quite low.
I don't have a solution, other than the hackneyed cliche to "Throw the bums out!" Remember when that old-guy bought that huge ad in the New York Times? What really changed? As far as I can see, nothing...
I would disagree. The fact that the largest software corporation in the world has, to this point, done mostly cowboy coding is amazing! The fact that ANY of their products are even usable at this point is remarkable... No wonder Windows is so unpredictable! But with that said, the fact that they have recognized the problem and are taking steps to resolve it should probably be considered a "Good thing." More secure, less buggy Windows makes Network Admins smile.
Smaller than a star, bigger than its own natural sattellites? Composed of some kind of matter?
Gravity? Christmas trees?
Campaign finance reform is a joke. Regardless of what limits you put on political donations by corporate interests and special interests, they find ways around them. Can't give millions of corporate dollars to Bush directly? No problem, just create the "Ranger" program where big donors get a code number for people to put on their checks so they can tell what Ranger found that money for them. Then, track and tabulate the amount of donations with each "Ranger's" code number attached to know whom you owe favors to.
In effect, campaign finance "reform" has actually made it easier, not harder, to uncover nefarious influence peddlers. Because even though disclosure of all donations is required, "following the money" is much more complicated when you have a couple thousand investors--I mean donors--to sort through rather than a couple dozen corporations. For instance, it would be very suspicious if shell oil gave $2 million to the Republicans six months before they had a big push to allow oil drilling in the National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, but if you spread those contributions around.... For instance, $1000 each from two thousand employees, it becomes much less clear that it is a case of scratching a big donor's back. In effect, campaign finance reform has given our dirtiest politicians more plausible deniability than they've ever had in this department.
The only solution I can see is public financing of elections. While it is true that this system of campaign finance has some pitfalls as well (how do third-parties and independent candidates get their share of the campaign pot, for example) it would be vastly preferable to the current "Buy the government you want" system. Arizona is currently experimenting with a mixed public/private funding mechanism they call "clean elections"--People voluntarily contribute to a campaign financing pot on their tax returns, and individuals are allowed to donate a small amount to a campaign. But that's it. Corporate dollars are effectively banned entirely from state elections.
It may take a few years to see a big change, but you can tell the special interests are running scared--they're pouring millions in to lawsuits and advertising and lobbying to overturn this bill which keeps them from buying the government they want.
Again, the system isn't perfect, and I'm sure there will be a few dozen knee-jerk libertarian responses to this calling me a liberal, a communist, and everything in between, but it comes from a place of reflection where I've realized there is no such thing as a perfect system for campaign finance, only ones that are less-broken than the one we have now.
Good! Maybe if it sucks bad enough I can show on paper that "retraining" people to use a slightly different, more agnostic Office suite is cheaper than paying for Office 12 AND teaching them all of the sea changes. Perhaps we can finally escape the ever-spiralling budget leech that is Microsoft Office...
Mistake #1: Telling them she's a single mom. In the United states the interviewer simply can't ask about your marital status or whether you have kids or not. Employers (especially sleazier ones--and furniture stores are almost as sleazy as a used-car lot) have been known to not hire single moms because they perceive them to be a liability and constant source of problems. You gain no advantage by telling them you are--and are in fact disadvantaged by revealing that info.
That may be true, but they wouldn't have invited her to interview if they weren't interested in her for the sales job. Likely the manager heard she was a single mom and decided she would be a problem. But rather than not hire her for being a mom (which would be discrimination) he simply offerred her a shitty job he knew she wouldn't take to get rid of her, which isn't technically discrimination. If she had kept her mouth shut about "her situation" and focused on getting the job by demonstrating her skills for it, she would have either gotten or not gotten the job based on her ability, rather than being discounted based on a "single-mom" stereotype.
By blabbing on about her kids, she gave the interviewer a reason to not hire her. That is all an interview is--demonstrating your skills while not giving them a reason to disqualify you.
There are many great books available to help people improve their interviewing skills, and it sounds like your friend needs to look one of them over before her next interview.
Your point about putting more effort up-front into design is well taken, but thhat advice applies to any platform...
WIth that said, and without turning this thread into an Exchange bitchfest...
Why in the hell can't you restore a mailbox from backup using only the tools you already have if the user is no longer present in Active Directory? You can't even export the mailbox with EXMERGE... Your choices are 1) 3rd party recovery tool (like Quest Recovery for Exchange) or 2) Build an ENTIRE OTHER SERVER and do a normal, full restore of the entire mail store so you can extract one measly mailbox.
OBviously, the "Recovery Storage Group" feature is a VAST improvement over the old Exchange 5.5 way of bringing back just one mailbox (that being setup another server) but this is a MAJOR duh situation on Microsoft's part. They seem to think that since their "best practice" is to never ever erase any user account ever ever ever, that its okay to leave this gaping flaw in their enterprise groupware product. Sorry, but I think that sucks. We paid out the ass for "Enterprise" edition (to avoid the arbitrary 16gb limit on the mail store) and goddammit, I should be able to bring back a mailbox without its corresponding AD account without wasting a whole day setting up another server... I've only had to do it once (today) but the whole time I Was thinking how much esaier a mailbox restore on my OS X Server at home would be... Just restore the frickin' files and move on with your life.
Yeah, well, the Windows version is not as much of an improvement. And although acrobat reader is a slow loader, the REAL chore is when you make the mistake of clicking on a PDF on a web-page and its trying to display through your browser--ug. Just agonizing. Painfully slow. I almost always just kill the process, go back, and save the file to my desktop.
...not until Sergey Brin and Larry Page jump over a shark tank on their motorcycles... After that there'll be a cute but irritating cousin who comes to live with them, and after that, they all move to LA and take up professional surfing and crimefighting.
THEN it's all over. Or at least has jumped the shark... Same thing.
Probably the same reason it is easier to sell a car to somebody who has test-driven said vehicle--they know they're getting something they want. I've been exposed to half-a-dozen artists through P2P which led to me buying their records. If I hadn't heard their music first, slim chance of me buying any of it--just too big a financial risk to lay out $14 for a CD that turns out to have one good track.
With P2P, just like the test-drive, if you download something you hate, you delete it. Likewise, if you test-drive a car you don't like, you don't buy it. Think of P2P as the "test-drive" of the music industry...
Except of course, this doesn't benefit the record labels since so much of what they're publishing now is garbage--they're better off if you have to "Buy to try" rather than "Try before you buy."
...But I can't wait until my favorite podcast is absorbed by a conglomerate so its format can be changed to "Jack"!
In case you're not frmo the US or Canada, "Jack" is a radio station format that is sweeping the nation. Much like the "All 70's" and "All 80's" stations you heard in the 90's, "Jack" is sweeping across the nation, replacing successfuly formats on some of the largest stations in America (including WCBS/New York, WJMK/Chicago, and KCBS/Los Angeles...
Essentially, the idea is a "format with attitude" but in many of the smaller markets implementing "Jack" means automating air personalities out of a job.
So lets cross our fingers and hope... After all, there's nothing like having something cool, original, and special co-opted by greedy guys in suits!
...Should we all drop dead? Article doesn't say one way or the other whether "XP Only" means "XP-like OS" only or really just Windows XP...
How dumb is this?
...When can I get my V3 Legs?