I got my BS in MIS and started with Cobol on a Mainframe at a big bank in Atlanta in the 90's.
I've since moved on to VB, C#, pretty much the whole MS stack.
Things got a little slow ten years ago and I got into the LAMP stack to make ends meet.
There is nothing wrong with it and it worked quite great for everything I did at the time.
What did I do at the time? Small projects.
A lot of big corporations are "locked into MS".
I've got a couple of sweet corporate projects going with the MS stack, I just don't see the corporate penetration on LAMP. Over all, I would say much better opportunity for better $$ with MS stack.
I've lived in Colorado Mountains and other places and have driven on plenty of snow. Things are different in Atlanta.
Most of the major choke points happened on hills and steep off ramps. They ice over and your not getting up with 8 wheel drive.
Another major issue on the Interstates is the amount of truck traffic the Atlanta Metro Area has. Thousands and Thousands of 18 wheelers going to/from Florida. A car slides sideways and a lane is blocked. There were several 18 wheelers blocking the Entire Interstate in one direction. A blocked Interstate in the metro area completely cripples the entire road network for dozens of miles.
I have an IPad 1 and a Kindle Fire and I still prefer to read on my Motorola Atrix Phone because of the weight. I've dropped a hint to my wife that I'd like a Kindle Paperwhite in 11 days.
The backlight(I like to read in bed) and weight are killer features for me.
Perhaps in a few years we'll have a tablet as thin and light as a Kindle reader with quadruple the power of today's best tablets and a Hybrid display.
We have found plenty of Jupiter size planets in the habitable zone.
Imagine a planet larger than Jupiter with 60 moons orbiting in the habitable zone. Many with liquid water.
I just marvel at the amount and diversity of moons in our own solar system. It seems like there would be far more moons in the habitable zone than planets universe wide.
Hopefully in the future we'll build some giant telescope and get a better answer.
I have several email addresses as I am sure many people do.
I have an Email address for my own consulting company. An Email address with a company whom I do a lot of work for A personal Email address A hacker address;)
The LAST thing I want to do is combine them and possibly make a mistake. I have different clients and web interfaces for each. I know when I am here on this computer that I am taking care of this particular business.
They didn't, they moved right along. This is one of the more interesting things I took from the NASA site.
"A long-flowing stream can be a habitable environment," said Grotzinger. "It is not our top choice as an environment for preservation of organics, though. We're still going to Mount Sharp, but this is insurance that we have already found our first potentially habitable environment."
There seems to be many steam beds in an alluvial plain. It's pretty clear that a liquid water river system once flowed there. You would think a river/stream system would be the ultimate place to start searching for life. But they seem to have a better target.
He just turned 9 and my wife and I (and our many friends and their children) all fully agree that he has Never lied in his life. We are not worried about Him, we are worried about the INTERNET shoving completely inappropriate things down to him.
It doesn't take a very creative Google search to come up with some fully inappropriate content.
And it's getting Worse!
By the day!!
FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!, AMEN!!, but not to my 9 Year Old.
I'm sorry if that sounded too harsh, this place that we all love has bias towards FREE software. I just saw "FREE" instead of "Low Cost Free". Maybe it should be "Low Cost/Free" in the headline. Net Nanny has worked well for us the past couple of years.
At $40/year I think this is definitely Low Cost.
Definitely check it out and see if it meets your needs.
My just turned 9 y.o. boy is just finishing one of his series and about to start another. Says it's the best thing he's ever read. He just finished Potter prior to starting this series.
Everything he writes gets pretty good reviews on Amazon.
I haven't read it, but my wife says she enjoyed the Percy Jackson series with some of her 7th graders.
Groupon just doesn't work for me. I live 40 minutes east of Atlanta(which has a very spread out metro area).
90% of their deals are for crap I would never buy(nails, massage, spa, etc.). Occasionally they have a 1/2 price meal deal, but they are all 40-60 miles away. Am I going to drive for 2 hours to save $15-$20 on a meal? Would you?
Maybe it works better for those living in more urban areas.
It's a pretty good idea, but $1 billion IPO. I'm not buying that bubble.
Ok, 7 yr and 20 month old children here. I'll reply to the first reference to 'Sesame'.
6 years ago I found a 'Sesame Street Baby' CD at a local discount store. My then young son loved it.
I loaned it out a few years ago and it was subsequently lost.
A few months ago I bought 'Sesame Street First Steps', which is basically the same game. You can find it for sale on other websites, and I would discount the negative reviews. They don't quite get it. It has keyboard and mouse games. I have a ~9 year old USB 1.1 track ball that I used for both my children initially, but they quickly picked up the accuracy of my laser mouse.
For fun and introducing them to computer controls, I haven't found anything better.
Of course, videos games for toddlers are not a baby sitter and I Always play this game with my child on my lap.
I've had a pair of rabbit ears(with loop) for years as backup as cable seems to be the first thing to go down in weather(That's why I stay with slower DSL; it never goes down here).
I picked up a Zenith Digital Converter box 3 weeks ago at a closing Circuit City for $10. Hooked it up to the TV and no signal. Added the rabbit ears and 18 channels of the best picture I've ever received. I'm about 30 miles outside of Atlanta.
I did notice some degradation(blocks and breakups) during heavy rain last week, but it might be a good backup After a storm passes through and knocks out the cable.
Dreamweaver basically incorporated Homesite several years ago.
While I do like the split development window(code/WYSIWYG), being a coder I spend most of my time in the code window and always have to check against multiple browsers.
I think having the WYSIWYG view is a benefit, although I hate having to hit F5 to refresh the WYSIWYG continuously.
I know Jack is a capitalist and has vigorously defended the rights of the MPAA, but to call a person that was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in WWII a witch is just plain insane. Fucking shame on you(and the Mods)!
The trivial problems we have today. 'On No, dammit, I can't share this movie with my friends'
He helped free the world from tyranny; 60+ years ago.
I didn't agree with a lot of his arguments, but that is just wrong.
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I got my BS in MIS and started with Cobol on a Mainframe at a big bank in Atlanta in the 90's.
I've since moved on to VB, C#, pretty much the whole MS stack.
Things got a little slow ten years ago and I got into the LAMP stack to make ends meet.
There is nothing wrong with it and it worked quite great for everything I did at the time.
What did I do at the time? Small projects.
A lot of big corporations are "locked into MS".
I've got a couple of sweet corporate projects going with the MS stack, I just don't see the corporate penetration on LAMP. Over all, I would say much better opportunity for better $$ with MS stack.
Not even close.
I've lived in Colorado Mountains and other places and have driven on plenty of snow. Things are different in Atlanta.
Most of the major choke points happened on hills and steep off ramps. They ice over and your not getting up with 8 wheel drive.
Another major issue on the Interstates is the amount of truck traffic the Atlanta Metro Area has. Thousands and Thousands of 18 wheelers going to/from Florida. A car slides sideways and a lane is blocked. There were several 18 wheelers blocking the Entire Interstate in one direction. A blocked Interstate in the metro area completely cripples the entire road network for dozens of miles.
I have an IPad 1 and a Kindle Fire and I still prefer to read on my Motorola Atrix Phone because of the weight. I've dropped a hint to my wife that I'd like a Kindle Paperwhite in 11 days.
The backlight(I like to read in bed) and weight are killer features for me.
Perhaps in a few years we'll have a tablet as thin and light as a Kindle reader with quadruple the power of today's best tablets and a Hybrid display.
But what about moons?
We have found plenty of Jupiter size planets in the habitable zone.
Imagine a planet larger than Jupiter with 60 moons orbiting in the habitable zone. Many with liquid water.
I just marvel at the amount and diversity of moons in our own solar system. It seems like there would be far more moons in the habitable zone than planets universe wide.
Hopefully in the future we'll build some giant telescope and get a better answer.
Hopefully 7 is better than the last 3. Lucas said he was never going to do another one. I guess he was right.
Do you really expect us to read all of that?
I have several email addresses as I am sure many people do.
I have an Email address for my own consulting company. ;)
An Email address with a company whom I do a lot of work for
A personal Email address
A hacker address
The LAST thing I want to do is combine them and possibly make a mistake. I have different clients and web interfaces for each. I know when I am here on this computer that I am taking care of this particular business.
Definitely not needed here.
THEN zap it with a laser!
They didn't, they moved right along. This is one of the more interesting things I took from the NASA site.
"A long-flowing stream can be a habitable environment," said Grotzinger. "It is not our top choice as an environment for preservation of organics, though. We're still going to Mount Sharp, but this is insurance that we have already found our first potentially habitable environment."
There seems to be many steam beds in an alluvial plain. It's pretty clear that a liquid water river system once flowed there. You would think a river/stream system would be the ultimate place to start searching for life. But they seem to have a better target.
It's all explained here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7420278n&tag=contentBody;storyMediaBox
What is the "Real World"?
My kid knows right vs. wrong.
He just turned 9 and my wife and I (and our many friends and their children) all fully agree that he has Never lied in his life. We are not worried about Him, we are worried about the INTERNET shoving completely inappropriate things down to him.
It doesn't take a very creative Google search to come up with some fully inappropriate content.
And it's getting Worse!
By the day!!
FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!, AMEN!!, but not to my 9 Year Old.
I'm sorry if that sounded too harsh, this place that we all love has bias towards FREE software. I just saw "FREE" instead of "Low Cost Free". Maybe it should be "Low Cost/Free" in the headline. Net Nanny has worked well for us the past couple of years.
At $40/year I think this is definitely Low Cost.
Definitely check it out and see if it meets your needs.
I've used it for the past 2 years. My boy just turned 9.
1 computer $40/year.
Are you really so worried about FREE or are you worried about YOUR CHILDREN?!?!?
My just turned 9 y.o. boy is just finishing one of his series and about to start another. Says it's the best thing he's ever read. He just finished Potter prior to starting this series.
Everything he writes gets pretty good reviews on Amazon.
I haven't read it, but my wife says she enjoyed the Percy Jackson series with some of her 7th graders.
Those 800 pamphlets cost 62.5 cents each.
Hilarious, but no kidding.
My kids, wife and touch as little in possible in any waiting room. Only our own tablets/smartphones or other things we have brought in.
Groupon just doesn't work for me. I live 40 minutes east of Atlanta(which has a very spread out metro area).
90% of their deals are for crap I would never buy(nails, massage, spa, etc.). Occasionally they have a 1/2 price meal deal, but they are all 40-60 miles away. Am I going to drive for 2 hours to save $15-$20 on a meal? Would you?
Maybe it works better for those living in more urban areas.
It's a pretty good idea, but $1 billion IPO. I'm not buying that bubble.
Eat, Shit, Repeat.
Ok, 7 yr and 20 month old children here. I'll reply to the first reference to 'Sesame'.
6 years ago I found a 'Sesame Street Baby' CD at a local discount store. My then young son loved it.
I loaned it out a few years ago and it was subsequently lost.
A few months ago I bought 'Sesame Street First Steps', which is basically the same game. You can find it for sale on other websites, and I would discount the negative reviews. They don't quite get it. It has keyboard and mouse games. I have a ~9 year old USB 1.1 track ball that I used for both my children initially, but they quickly picked up the accuracy of my laser mouse.
For fun and introducing them to computer controls, I haven't found anything better.
Of course, videos games for toddlers are not a baby sitter and I Always play this game with my child on my lap.
I've had a pair of rabbit ears(with loop) for years as backup as cable seems to be the first thing to go down in weather(That's why I stay with slower DSL; it never goes down here).
I picked up a Zenith Digital Converter box 3 weeks ago at a closing Circuit City for $10. Hooked it up to the TV and no signal. Added the rabbit ears and 18 channels of the best picture I've ever received. I'm about 30 miles outside of Atlanta.
I did notice some degradation(blocks and breakups) during heavy rain last week, but it might be a good backup After a storm passes through and knocks out the cable.
Dreamweaver basically incorporated Homesite several years ago.
While I do like the split development window(code/WYSIWYG), being a coder I spend most of my time in the code window and always have to check against multiple browsers.
I think having the WYSIWYG view is a benefit, although I hate having to hit F5 to refresh the WYSIWYG continuously.
Hello, nice site :)
Posted by: Brin | December 4, 2007 01:26 PM
I think Brin left a really nice comment. How he/she made it from MySpace to an article about ISO 32000 Standards is a bit confusing.
This post is spot on.
/., forget about the hardware.
Someone that robs another person at gunpoint is unlikely to have much if any computer knowledge. They are looking to sell it quick.
If you are really concerned about being mugged, again, think about moving.
Back up your data and forget about the hardware, if your data is sensitive secure it with some form of encryption.
Thankfully your still able to post on
I know Jack is a capitalist and has vigorously defended the rights of the MPAA, but to call a person that was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in WWII a witch is just plain insane. Fucking shame on you(and the Mods)!
The trivial problems we have today. 'On No, dammit, I can't share this movie with my friends'
He helped free the world from tyranny; 60+ years ago.
I didn't agree with a lot of his arguments, but that is just wrong.
L8
The Sky is Blue!!!