As much as I hate more government, someone needs to be the voice that speaks for those who can not speak for themselves.
I'll have to side with the abused on this issue.
As someone who lives in Las Vegas and spent the obligatory tour of duty in a casino upon moving here, the only problem might be that a casino generally will only acknowledge your employment and dates of employment. Other than that, you need to collect letters of commendation and recommendation and keep your personal files and you'll be just fine.
Although I will say that the stress level is less and life is more enjoyable and healthy out of the gaming industry. Less smoke now that I'm working for UNLV and better hours overall.
Get some experience if you're serious about making a corporate career. That way, you'll know what your strengths and interests are and can focus your masters in those areas. If you have management skills, you can double your degrees with an MBA and a Masters in your area of specialty.
If you're never planning on leaving the academic environment, then you'll want the Masters as a step on the path to a Ph.D.
Is it to sell out? Is it to build a bigger, better business than anyone else. Do you measure your worth by the number of zeroes in your bank account? The kind of car you drive? Or is your personal worth measured by how many people want to work for you? To help you build your dream by buying in? It's the cusp of a new generation. I call it right-brained capitalism. You have to decide.
Middle of 1993 the Yggdrasil CD came in the mail. Took a fairly new PC (386) and dumped the Windows install and used that for Yggdrasil. Spent many nights playing around inside while learning Linux.
I really can't remember but think there were five or six Windoze boxes that came and went while the old tower running Linux kept chugging along. Eventually ended up with a Sun Ultra 10 from surplus and found myself constantly wondering why Solaris didn't some of the things that Linux did.
Testing some desktops to roll out at the University now. Liking Ubuntu but am letting the IT leadership team attempt to achieve the same result with OpenSolaris. For work productivity and compatiblity I use a Mac.
Ya see...ya just pay us a little somethin' each week and nothin' bad'll happen to ya.
It's extortion and I imagine lots of universities will sign up in hopes they won't get sued. And they won't, as long as they pay the yearly protection money. The worst part is that even after the music business finally goes out of business from their horrific management, these protection scams will remain viable assets for legal firms to purchase and manage.
I do a lot more due diligence on a version 1.0 product than I do on a version 5.0. However, I would take any company off my recommended list if they arbitrarily decided to issue an initial release with a higher number for marketing purposes and would never come back.
My recommendation would be to come out with a great name for the product and keep the numbering accurate for the sake of engineers to come.
Seems to me that this would be a perfect use of eminent domain. Let the Telco build out their network and then vote to take it for the public good.
Bet that would put a twist in some Wall Street knickers.
Just as our elected "public servants" have come to look at us as their subjects, so has our police community come to view anyone not in their group as a "perp".
I can't say this is the fault of those who join the LE career community but would rather aver that is comes from our country adopting a "culture of fear" beginning at the end of WWII and continuing to this day.
It's always tough to read "backwards". I started with "The Da Vinci Code" as a gift and have backed into "Angels & Demons" and recently "The Digital Fortress". I spent about 10 hours straight on the long holiday weekend and was also somewhat disappointed. But as I looked back over the dates I surmised that the author was growing into his craft and had not yet locked into that particular "zone" that has made novels three and four such hits.
I still look forward to "Deception Point" and in writing this realize that for a second published novel, Brown pulled off a pretty decent book. If you ever get a chance to meet a writer, ask them how far the proceeds from their first novel got them...
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As much as I hate more government, someone needs to be the voice that speaks for those who can not speak for themselves. I'll have to side with the abused on this issue.
As someone who lives in Las Vegas and spent the obligatory tour of duty in a casino upon moving here, the only problem might be that a casino generally will only acknowledge your employment and dates of employment. Other than that, you need to collect letters of commendation and recommendation and keep your personal files and you'll be just fine. Although I will say that the stress level is less and life is more enjoyable and healthy out of the gaming industry. Less smoke now that I'm working for UNLV and better hours overall.
Get some experience if you're serious about making a corporate career. That way, you'll know what your strengths and interests are and can focus your masters in those areas. If you have management skills, you can double your degrees with an MBA and a Masters in your area of specialty. If you're never planning on leaving the academic environment, then you'll want the Masters as a step on the path to a Ph.D.
Is it to sell out? Is it to build a bigger, better business than anyone else. Do you measure your worth by the number of zeroes in your bank account? The kind of car you drive? Or is your personal worth measured by how many people want to work for you? To help you build your dream by buying in? It's the cusp of a new generation. I call it right-brained capitalism. You have to decide.
Middle of 1993 the Yggdrasil CD came in the mail. Took a fairly new PC (386) and dumped the Windows install and used that for Yggdrasil. Spent many nights playing around inside while learning Linux. I really can't remember but think there were five or six Windoze boxes that came and went while the old tower running Linux kept chugging along. Eventually ended up with a Sun Ultra 10 from surplus and found myself constantly wondering why Solaris didn't some of the things that Linux did. Testing some desktops to roll out at the University now. Liking Ubuntu but am letting the IT leadership team attempt to achieve the same result with OpenSolaris. For work productivity and compatiblity I use a Mac.
It wouldn't surprise me to see IBM end up owning Sun, Red Hat and Microsoft in the end.
Ya see...ya just pay us a little somethin' each week and nothin' bad'll happen to ya. It's extortion and I imagine lots of universities will sign up in hopes they won't get sued. And they won't, as long as they pay the yearly protection money. The worst part is that even after the music business finally goes out of business from their horrific management, these protection scams will remain viable assets for legal firms to purchase and manage.
I do a lot more due diligence on a version 1.0 product than I do on a version 5.0. However, I would take any company off my recommended list if they arbitrarily decided to issue an initial release with a higher number for marketing purposes and would never come back. My recommendation would be to come out with a great name for the product and keep the numbering accurate for the sake of engineers to come.
Seems to me that this would be a perfect use of eminent domain. Let the Telco build out their network and then vote to take it for the public good. Bet that would put a twist in some Wall Street knickers.
Just as our elected "public servants" have come to look at us as their subjects, so has our police community come to view anyone not in their group as a "perp". I can't say this is the fault of those who join the LE career community but would rather aver that is comes from our country adopting a "culture of fear" beginning at the end of WWII and continuing to this day.
It's always tough to read "backwards". I started with "The Da Vinci Code" as a gift and have backed into "Angels & Demons" and recently "The Digital Fortress". I spent about 10 hours straight on the long holiday weekend and was also somewhat disappointed. But as I looked back over the dates I surmised that the author was growing into his craft and had not yet locked into that particular "zone" that has made novels three and four such hits. I still look forward to "Deception Point" and in writing this realize that for a second published novel, Brown pulled off a pretty decent book. If you ever get a chance to meet a writer, ask them how far the proceeds from their first novel got them...