Good points. I have changed careers though, luckily I have more than one marketable skill that I enjoy, and that helped with the salary, so I do own now. But to be honest, my wife, who is still in restaraunts, has never made more than $28,000, and that was at a very high profile restaraunt in Seattle, with a sous chef position. A few chefs make a lot of money, most don't, and those that toil underneath them make much less, with benefits that would make a normal 9 to 5'er choke.
Sorry about sliding slightly OT.
Re:Yes. That $100k includes home equity.
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Of course, but until just recently, even being debt free, I couldn't get a home loan. I was told several times that I simply didn't make enough money.
After going to culinary school, my starting income was $18,600. This was for a sous chef position at a large, expensive hotel. This was 9 years ago. Over the next 5 years, my income in the culinary industry, rose to a whopping $26,000 per year. I'm at a loss on how I should have saved $100,000 during that time, purchased a house, and had more than $20,000 in equity in it. I wasn't exactly driving a BMW during that time. 4 years ago, I changed careers, ( I wanted to have a regular family life), and my income has changed becuase of it, so it's easier to save now, but I think the expectations in the article are a bit higher than what the average person is capable of.
My cable company told me I couldn't modify my box to get free pay-per-view. When I left them, my satellite company said I couldn't modify my card to get all the channels. (I have a friend who PAYS for all the channels, but he has a hacked card, because he wants to see the local networks, and because the cable companies are so greedy, his satellite provider couldn't offer it.)
There's a difference in services though. While you pay for an Xbox, you own it, and should be able do what you want to it, but you don't own your cable box, it's still the property of the cable company, well, unless you buy one. However, the cable company still pays a fee to the companies that provide it content so you can have something to watch, so by modding a cable box to get free anything, you're cheating the cable company, and causing a real loss. The same goes for satellite. Console mods don't cheat anyone out of possible income to cover costs. I do agree with you on cell phones though, but the fact is, that cell phone companies don't make much money off of hardware, recurring revenue is their lifeblood.
Suse releases an 18MB bootable CD that will let you do an FTP install. From there you can pick the packages you want. On my cable modem, 8.0 took about 1.5 hours to do this. Worked great, and you get the same installer as with the boxed set.
Only probing the address he made public...
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BayTsp (BAYTSP-DOM)
3150 almaden Expressway #234
San Jose
CA,95118
US
Domain Name: BAYTSP.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Ishikawa, Mark M (MI70) marki@BAYTSP.COM
Ishikawa,Mark
PO Box 1314
Los Gatos, CA 95031-1314
US
408-399-0600 408-979-7969
Record expires on 11-Jun-2004.
Record created on 11-Jun-1999.
Database last updated on 19-Sep-2002 16:19:51 EDT.
Since most ISP's won't take this tactic, I'd like to know if they'd be willing to hand out their honeypot generated blacklists, so those of us that have the ability to, can protect our home networks as well.
This wasn't a comparison of a Windows2000 to Red Hat install, it was a Red Hat vs. Sony System and Application Recovery CD set install, which is a completely different process. The standard Windows 2000 install is MUCH easier than this, and requires a total of two reboots, with no disc swapping.
I was baking in 5th grade, geeking on a VIC20 by the 9th, and attended Culinary School instead of college where I got my geek fix by doing my work study in the computer lab. I've had careers since then in both fields, starting with restaraunts and catering, moving to desktop support and now administration. Many of the skills I learned in the culinary industry carry over very well into the tech industry.
The similarities in the processes of catering a 1500 person event, and rolling out 500 workstations are greater than you may imagine.
Geeks should make great chefs, we're inherently curious, and can approach things in both a logical and creative manner.
Most of the great chefs I met, are on the inside, great geeks as well.
Another great book along the same lines is Sauces, by James Peterson.
The beginning is a primer on the history of saucemaking, and a guide to the tools, techniques, and science to great sauce making. I HIGHLY recommend this to anyone with at least a passing interest in cooking great food.
It's a bit late, so I doubt you'll see this, but Windows uses SCSI emulation for IDE burning as well. It's called the ASPI layer. The difference is the setup process.
And take it a step further. Get other schools involved. Take moddable or skinnable games and make 'uniforms' for your side. Have inter-district LAN parties, and inter-school gaming. Turn it into a real social sporting event.
How sweet would it be to have your own School District Online Gaming Trophy? Give the non-athletic kids something to take home and put on the mantle.
I don't understand this 'Free TV' Concept. Where I live you need cable in order to get any type of decent reception. Maybe it's time for the broadcast networks to change their business model to the Slashdot one. Over the air is free, with no commercials, over cable could be a subscription, with no commercials. Cable and Sattelite providers could simply sell the major networks as a package, much like the premium packages they sell. There's no reason I can think of why this wouldn't be possible, and face it, since the best programming resides elsewhere, you could avoid them altogether.
Is still the comsumer. This is the first major lawsuit I can think of against a software developer that takes care of that ridiculous "we're not responsible for any damage our buggy POS software does to your PC" clause.
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Good points. I have changed careers though, luckily I have more than one marketable skill that I enjoy, and that helped with the salary, so I do own now. But to be honest, my wife, who is still in restaraunts, has never made more than $28,000, and that was at a very high profile restaraunt in Seattle, with a sous chef position. A few chefs make a lot of money, most don't, and those that toil underneath them make much less, with benefits that would make a normal 9 to 5'er choke. Sorry about sliding slightly OT.
Of course, but until just recently, even being debt free, I couldn't get a home loan. I was told several times that I simply didn't make enough money.
After going to culinary school, my starting income was $18,600. This was for a sous chef position at a large, expensive hotel. This was 9 years ago. Over the next 5 years, my income in the culinary industry, rose to a whopping $26,000 per year. I'm at a loss on how I should have saved $100,000 during that time, purchased a house, and had more than $20,000 in equity in it. I wasn't exactly driving a BMW during that time. 4 years ago, I changed careers, ( I wanted to have a regular family life), and my income has changed becuase of it, so it's easier to save now, but I think the expectations in the article are a bit higher than what the average person is capable of.
There's a difference in services though. While you pay for an Xbox, you own it, and should be able do what you want to it, but you don't own your cable box, it's still the property of the cable company, well, unless you buy one. However, the cable company still pays a fee to the companies that provide it content so you can have something to watch, so by modding a cable box to get free anything, you're cheating the cable company, and causing a real loss. The same goes for satellite. Console mods don't cheat anyone out of possible income to cover costs. I do agree with you on cell phones though, but the fact is, that cell phone companies don't make much money off of hardware, recurring revenue is their lifeblood.
Of course it is. It takes Microsoft three revisions of anything before they get it the way they want it.
Suse releases an 18MB bootable CD that will let you do an FTP install. From there you can pick the packages you want. On my cable modem, 8.0 took about 1.5 hours to do this. Worked great, and you get the same installer as with the boxed set.
BayTsp (BAYTSP-DOM)
3150 almaden Expressway #234
San Jose
CA,95118
US
Domain Name: BAYTSP.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Ishikawa, Mark M (MI70) marki@BAYTSP.COM
Ishikawa,Mark
PO Box 1314
Los Gatos, CA 95031-1314
US
408-399-0600 408-979-7969
Record expires on 11-Jun-2004.
Record created on 11-Jun-1999.
Database last updated on 19-Sep-2002 16:19:51 EDT.
This is the most comprehensive read on Palladium available. Forward it to family and friends.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
Since most ISP's won't take this tactic, I'd like to know if they'd be willing to hand out their honeypot generated blacklists, so those of us that have the ability to, can protect our home networks as well.
Red Hat needs to be patched out of the box as well, up2date is simply better suited for doing so.
This wasn't a comparison of a Windows2000 to Red Hat install, it was a Red Hat vs. Sony System and Application Recovery CD set install, which is a completely different process. The standard Windows 2000 install is MUCH easier than this, and requires a total of two reboots, with no disc swapping.
Slaw on or slaw off? Instant or not? Gas or charcoal? Sauce on top, or sauce on the side? Bun or no bun?
AFAIK, Salt simply opens the taste buds up.
Are you sure you didn't accidentally get the Pan and Scan version of the DVD?
Any conspiracy that improves the palates of the world is OK with me!
I was baking in 5th grade, geeking on a VIC20 by the 9th, and attended Culinary School instead of college where I got my geek fix by doing my work study in the computer lab. I've had careers since then in both fields, starting with restaraunts and catering, moving to desktop support and now administration. Many of the skills I learned in the culinary industry carry over very well into the tech industry.
The similarities in the processes of catering a 1500 person event, and rolling out 500 workstations are greater than you may imagine.
Geeks should make great chefs, we're inherently curious, and can approach things in both a logical and creative manner.
Most of the great chefs I met, are on the inside, great geeks as well.
The beginning is a primer on the history of saucemaking, and a guide to the tools, techniques, and science to great sauce making. I HIGHLY recommend this to anyone with at least a passing interest in cooking great food.
It's a bit late, so I doubt you'll see this, but Windows uses SCSI emulation for IDE burning as well. It's called the ASPI layer. The difference is the setup process.
And take it a step further. Get other schools involved. Take moddable or skinnable games and make 'uniforms' for your side. Have inter-district LAN parties, and inter-school gaming. Turn it into a real social sporting event.
How sweet would it be to have your own School District Online Gaming Trophy? Give the non-athletic kids something to take home and put on the mantle.
One thing that isn't covered, is with Linux, the evil Nvidia 'everything seems dark in openGL' look doesn't happen like it does in Windows.
Whis keeps you from having to tweak the 'seta r_ignorehwgamma' setting in your *cfg files for Q3A based games.
Works the same with UT.
the best movie of all time is....
Gone With the Wind! made 198.0 million, adjusted to just over 1 billion for inflation, and seen on damn fewer screens than AOTC or Spiderman.
BTW, Titanic only makes it to number 5 on this list.
I don't understand this 'Free TV' Concept. Where I live you need cable in order to get any type of decent reception. Maybe it's time for the broadcast networks to change their business model to the Slashdot one. Over the air is free, with no commercials, over cable could be a subscription, with no commercials. Cable and Sattelite providers could simply sell the major networks as a package, much like the premium packages they sell. There's no reason I can think of why this wouldn't be possible, and face it, since the best programming resides elsewhere, you could avoid them altogether.
When we did try to add a strong password policy, the CEO and several executives of our company stated that it was simply too inconvenient for them.
Is still the comsumer. This is the first major lawsuit I can think of against a software developer that takes care of that ridiculous "we're not responsible for any damage our buggy POS software does to your PC" clause.
VIVA LA VICTOIRE!!!
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