Well, as of noon Eastern US time, HPQ is up a whopping 2%. Any buying into the stock is likely a combination of "ok, the wait is over, the merger is done" buying (arbitrage crowd closing out their positions), and mutual fund start-of-quarter buying. Given the sell-off of the previous several months, it's questionable to say that market liked this deal.
Because the going rate for new hires increased faster than the raise structure of most companies, older workers got screwed (as a former colleague put it, "Last In, Wins"). Doesn't give much incentive for someone to be 'the loyal employee' any more.
It's been tight in central Ohio as with most everywhere else... I know people who are/were in the same boat as you are, and that dates back to the middle of last year. One Oracle DBA friend of mine is working as a server in a restaurant... no slacker either, she says the manager doesn't want her to leave if she gets an IT job!
I think it's easy for the younger workers to assume that everybody who can't find a job are not looking hard enough (and they're wrong), that's the way these downturns go... but I'm sure that with 18+ years experience, you know the value of saving up for times like these. After all, some recessions last for many years.
That would assume that the entire company was interested in the latest sci-fi/fantasy offering, as opposed to the coming weekend's NASCAR and WWF events. I can count on two hands the number of people at my company who will go see SW2 on the first weekend, vs. the other 350 who won't.
As for them noticing that I'm gone, well, let's just cross our fingers and root for the current system uptime streak to continue;)
I think he means the 'Native American' variety of Indian.... after all, if casinos are kosher for the tribes, why not radio?
I don't think the FCC will stand for it though. Anything within the continental US, AK, HI, and territories is it's baby, and it won't give that regulatory power away.
That would be an amusing notion though... putting a 1 KWatt transmitter on the top of the water tower that says 'Ho-Chunk Nation' in central Wisconsin, and seeing what listenership you get out of it. (Rather big casino there at the Ho-Chunk.)
Now that would bring back some memories (after driving back down to the Cincinnati, Ohio suburb where that theatre is located)... saw the first Star Wars movie there, 4 times. Back then, the Showcase was the big new deal in movie-going... all 3 screens of it. The original has since been torn down to be replaced by a 24 or 30 screener... but then I'd guess that's why they have the digital in place... gotta be a new facility to have it. (?)
Basically it's theory vs. the real world. I used to work in an IT department where they had a 'real' data entry section, and they only used one verify pass for each data set. Why? One, the error rate was low to start with (these ladies had been doing this stuff for 20+ years, and the data doesn't really change format over time), and because they were swamped with work load. No time or people to spare for an extra verify pass that would likely have been pointless anyway.
Which would probably be why they won't extend it to the airport... if I recall correctly, there's no great topographical challenge to taking the existing plans and extending them; McCarran isn't that far away from the south end of the strip.
But, as stated elsewhere, public transport decisions are all about politics... my town is flat as a board and has plenty of room (and need) for a light-rail system, but mention it in a public forum and oh the hell that gets raised over it!!
300 replies, only one other person mentioned geothermal power. Potentially limitless, not disturbed by atmospheric effects, already being done... drawbacks are making the implementation efficient enough, and finding enough thin crustal hot spots to take advantage of it; should be enough of those in the developed countries to get cracking on it. Big oil shouldn't mind, hell, they know how to do the drilling and site location already!
It's just a matter of changing the mindset of business and government. And getting off the silly idea of power generation on the moon.
Having a technical Masters has to be better than having a non-technical Masters.... I've known many people who had advanced degrees, and only one really made anything out of it. How? She was in the right place at the right time (the boss was quitting and anointed her as the replacement).
Experience is also in low demand, as other posters have said... one of my friends, an experienced (and proficient) Oracle DBA, is currently waitressing at a Mexican restaurant. Whatever brings in the cash, ya know.
I think the average period is cited at more like 9 months. Now as some have noted, this might not be a 'normal' recession... true! It could be worse than normal, due to the effects of the dot-com bust, overcapacity in key industries (notably the telecom sector), and previous overspending by the US consumer (i.e. consumer debt has grown to historic proportions).
P.S. The last time I was laid off, I went 5 months with very little money... and ended up in a state (yes, govt.) job for the next 10 years. And I learned more in that job than I have in the private sector since then. Keep an open mind, and good luck.
Surprise! There is no great crisis here (in an economic sense rather than individual personal crises)... it's a recession, a normal event in the economic cycle. People lose their jobs, and find a dry job market when they go looking.
Look at the Bureau of Labor Statistics page and see what the unemployment rate is. As of March 2002 , it was 5.7%. From 1974 through 1988, the US unemployment rate did not fall below 5.6%. 14 years. That's the job market I came into when I got out of college. The 'recession' of the early 90's wasn't one; it was merely a pause in the boom times.
Depending on who you listen to, it may even get worse before it gets better. So my only advice would be to hang in there and keep printing those resumes, and be prepared to ride this recession out; don't be discouraged because nobody wants your previously marketable skills, all that gets thrown out the window when times are like this.
Oh man, those purple Indigo2's are ugly! We have one from the mid-90's, sitting around unused, and when a higher-up asked our shop if we wanted it, nobody would dare put it on their desk. Now this is a very experimental bunch, but I was the only one who would touch it, and then only to see what software it had on it.
There may indeed be some offices where a purple or teal desktop looks good... but most of the time? No way.
Not as a comment on your warnings about speed (I'm sure they're all valid), but why do I get the feeling, after reading the replies on this article, that half the Slashdot readers have a hardcopy Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) on their bookshelves?;)
Sure beats the heck out of their old dial-up plan, when at one point (1987/1988?) they were charging $12.95 PER HOUR for 2400 baud dial-up access. And yes, being the geek I was/am, I paid it.
Yep, same here... 1987, 71331.3nnn...hehe... well anyway, I can't believe Compuserve exists anymore, even as some sort of branding entity. I live a mile from their original headquarters, and even before AOL bought them they had ceased to be an employer of note around here... at most, if the place disappeared now, a few restaurants on Henderson Rd. would go out of business, that'd be about it.
Might happen anyway... between the aforementioned volcanic activity (I'd say we're due for a big blast, but then I'm not a geologist) and other natural factors, like iron-rich dust blowing off of Africa and spawning large algal blooms in the Atlantic (mentioned here), we could just as easily go backwards on the CO2 chart. Or, as mentioned here, it may be the Amazon kicking it up a notch.
Either way, like the old margarine commercial said, It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!
You mean like, "Madden's EverQuest 2002", a crossover game for both groups of players? Heh.... if JM showed up in EverQuest, he'd be depicted as a loud, fat troll with a lot of platinum...
But who are you going to get DSL from? Ameritech? Those people are idiots.
For me, it will amount to more surfing at work, and being a bit choosier when I download stuff at home. But I won't go to Ameritech just because I might have to pay a few dollars more.
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Well, as of noon Eastern US time, HPQ is up a whopping 2%. Any buying into the stock is likely a combination of "ok, the wait is over, the merger is done" buying (arbitrage crowd closing out their positions), and mutual fund start-of-quarter buying. Given the sell-off of the previous several months, it's questionable to say that market liked this deal.
Or, the parent post is one heck of a troll.
Because the going rate for new hires increased faster than the raise structure of most companies, older workers got screwed (as a former colleague put it, "Last In, Wins"). Doesn't give much incentive for someone to be 'the loyal employee' any more.
I think it's easy for the younger workers to assume that everybody who can't find a job are not looking hard enough (and they're wrong), that's the way these downturns go... but I'm sure that with 18+ years experience, you know the value of saving up for times like these. After all, some recessions last for many years.
As for them noticing that I'm gone, well, let's just cross our fingers and root for the current system uptime streak to continue ;)
and installs 'blipverts'!!! Wouldn't surprise me if they did... but will TechTV follow suit?
Not at all; why would you read that into what I posted?
I don't think the FCC will stand for it though. Anything within the continental US, AK, HI, and territories is it's baby, and it won't give that regulatory power away.
That would be an amusing notion though... putting a 1 KWatt transmitter on the top of the water tower that says 'Ho-Chunk Nation' in central Wisconsin, and seeing what listenership you get out of it. (Rather big casino there at the Ho-Chunk.)
Now that would bring back some memories (after driving back down to the Cincinnati, Ohio suburb where that theatre is located)... saw the first Star Wars movie there, 4 times. Back then, the Showcase was the big new deal in movie-going... all 3 screens of it. The original has since been torn down to be replaced by a 24 or 30 screener... but then I'd guess that's why they have the digital in place... gotta be a new facility to have it. (?)
Basically it's theory vs. the real world. I used to work in an IT department where they had a 'real' data entry section, and they only used one verify pass for each data set. Why? One, the error rate was low to start with (these ladies had been doing this stuff for 20+ years, and the data doesn't really change format over time), and because they were swamped with work load. No time or people to spare for an extra verify pass that would likely have been pointless anyway.
But, as stated elsewhere, public transport decisions are all about politics... my town is flat as a board and has plenty of room (and need) for a light-rail system, but mention it in a public forum and oh the hell that gets raised over it!!
It's just a matter of changing the mindset of business and government. And getting off the silly idea of power generation on the moon.
Experience is also in low demand, as other posters have said... one of my friends, an experienced (and proficient) Oracle DBA, is currently waitressing at a Mexican restaurant. Whatever brings in the cash, ya know.
A couple of sites that are useful in following this bear market and associated economy:
Fiend's SuperBear Page
FallStreet.com
P.S. The last time I was laid off, I went 5 months with very little money... and ended up in a state (yes, govt.) job for the next 10 years. And I learned more in that job than I have in the private sector since then. Keep an open mind, and good luck.
Look at the Bureau of Labor Statistics page and see what the unemployment rate is. As of March 2002 , it was 5.7%. From 1974 through 1988, the US unemployment rate did not fall below 5.6%. 14 years. That's the job market I came into when I got out of college. The 'recession' of the early 90's wasn't one; it was merely a pause in the boom times.
Depending on who you listen to, it may even get worse before it gets better. So my only advice would be to hang in there and keep printing those resumes, and be prepared to ride this recession out; don't be discouraged because nobody wants your previously marketable skills, all that gets thrown out the window when times are like this.
There may indeed be some offices where a purple or teal desktop looks good... but most of the time? No way.
Not exactly the high-end stuff.
Not as a comment on your warnings about speed (I'm sure they're all valid), but why do I get the feeling, after reading the replies on this article, that half the Slashdot readers have a hardcopy Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) on their bookshelves? ;)
Sure beats the heck out of their old dial-up plan, when at one point (1987/1988?) they were charging $12.95 PER HOUR for 2400 baud dial-up access. And yes, being the geek I was/am, I paid it.
Yep, same here... 1987, 71331.3nnn...hehe... well anyway, I can't believe Compuserve exists anymore, even as some sort of branding entity. I live a mile from their original headquarters, and even before AOL bought them they had ceased to be an employer of note around here... at most, if the place disappeared now, a few restaurants on Henderson Rd. would go out of business, that'd be about it.
Since HP is an insider on that Itanium development, I'd imagine they'll have 'em in hand before the rest of us do.
all that capability and all I can think about is how much power the dang thing would consume... it'll take one big, big UPS/power conditioner.
Either way, like the old margarine commercial said, It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!
You mean like, "Madden's EverQuest 2002", a crossover game for both groups of players? Heh.... if JM showed up in EverQuest, he'd be depicted as a loud, fat troll with a lot of platinum...
For me, it will amount to more surfing at work, and being a bit choosier when I download stuff at home. But I won't go to Ameritech just because I might have to pay a few dollars more.