It is worth comparing this to the current law since there isn't much being changed. This doesn't prevent Overtime Pay just the requirement that Overtime be paid at the x1.5 rate, but I am sure there are more details involved. Looking at the changes breifly I don't think this will have any impact on most of us, but they did remove the section for middle managers.
---The current Law--- (17) any employee who is a computer systems analyst, computer programmer, software engineer, or other similarly skilled worker, whose primary duty is— (A) the application of systems analysis techniques and procedures, including consulting with users, to determine hardware, software, or system functional specifications; (B) the design, development, documentation, analysis, creation, testing, or modification of computer systems or programs, including prototypes, based on and related to user or system design specifications; (C) the design, documentation, testing, creation, or modification of computer programs related to machine operating systems; or (D) a combination of duties described in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) the performance of which requires the same level of skills, and
who, in the case of an employee who is compensated on an hourly basis, is compensated at a rate of not less than $27.63 an hour.
An hour is on the long side, most of my calls end up being 20-30 min which isn't bad when it is once or twice a month.
If you are looking at the cost of your time how long does it take you to find and purchase a compatable part for a two year old machine? Purchase forms take me at least 15 minutes.
HP has never been that good to me, but I have only had to call 2-3 times. Usually those took well more than an hour.
Are you talking about desktops or servers with that five minute call time? Usually I only get that kind of responce from a 4 hour on site contract.
If you go with dell make sure you buy the "Gold" Technical support. It isn't avaliable from the home site and I am not sure about the others. In my experience it is the difference between a 20 minute service call where you get the right part the next day and a day of trouble shooting with them recommending the wrong part. I believe our in shop record is 8 lines in the gold text chat to get a new motherboard for a machine. We got 30 of the motherboards with disfunctional capacitors two years ago. It has never taken us more than an hour on the phone to get a replacement once the symptoms arise.
-Tim
While it may seem like a no brainer for any of us, there are a quite a few parents out there who wouldn't even realize it is possible. I would bet that a lot of parents don't even know it can connect to the internet much less that it has a web browser.
If you watch the show for very long it becomes obvious that it probably isn't his real name. From the weapons training he has had, the military knowledge and the control over the government I'm guessing that preaching isn't his full time occupation.
This is just one of many areas where it would have been nice to watch the show develop.
Buffy WAS good until it ran out of places to go, Angel was "interesting" and Firefly had potential.
Yes, the ship's "Preacher" is named Shepard Book.
If you watch the show for very long it becomes obvious that it probably isn't his real name. From the weapons training he has had, the military knowledge and the control over the government I'm guessing that preaching isn't his full time occupation.
This is just one of many areas where it would have been nice to watch the show develop.
Buffy WAS good until it ran out of places to go, Angel was "interesting" and Firefly had potential.
Citoahc
I went to a small school and got them to ease back on the bandwidth restrictions for Bit Torrent because I was doing my senior seminar paper on the program.
Getting a professor to talk to the Network Admin about the legal uses. If you can convince a professor to use it in a class you might actually stand a chance.
If they already had a decent PDA it would be fairly easy to stash a memory card in something like a sock or normal book where it might not get noticed. As to getting the PDA there I have no clue.
The rate at which vulnerabilities are discovered is irrelevant when they get patched just as regularly.
Firefox on the other hand may not have as many vulnerabilities, but it is a greater security risk because they are more persistent.
To put it another way I am currently testing Firefox. I installed it three months ago. Since I am lazy and in a relatively secure environment I haven't patched it manually. I'm still running 0.9 and it hasn't thought of mentioning that 1 is out. This means one venerability in firefox from three months ago is still a vulnerability. IE on the other hand has automatically patched itself in that time meaning that some of the vulnerabilities which were there three months ago aren't there anymore. Firefox is still just as insecure, IE has gotten slightly more secure.
In terms of speed the last time I did a comparison a standard install of Mandrake took nearly three times as long to boot as a standard install of Windows 2000.
If anything for a user who doesn't pay attention to Security IE is better. Someone who knows what they are doing can set it up and he should stay reasonably patched. I still haven't seen any sign of Firefox wanting to patch itself, despite being set to check for updates.
That said I know a few people who just use the internet for web based e-mail. IE is fine for them.
Leave it to a college gamer to think of attaching explosives to remote control cars and actually using them in a military situation.
Best case the car drops the a little bomb to take care of the land mine. Worst case the land mine blows up a few hundred dollars of electronics. It is a hell of a lot better than blowing up the combat engineer.
Citoahc
P.S. Most landmines/roadside bombs don't use RF. Why use expensive electronics that requires someone there when they can use a pressure sensor.
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It is worth comparing this to the current law since there isn't much being changed. This doesn't prevent Overtime Pay just the requirement that Overtime be paid at the x1.5 rate, but I am sure there are more details involved. Looking at the changes breifly I don't think this will have any impact on most of us, but they did remove the section for middle managers.
---The current Law---
(17)
any employee who is a computer systems analyst, computer programmer, software engineer, or other similarly skilled worker, whose primary duty is—
(A)
the application of systems analysis techniques and procedures, including consulting with users, to determine hardware, software, or system functional specifications;
(B)
the design, development, documentation, analysis, creation, testing, or modification of computer systems or programs, including prototypes, based on and related to user or system design specifications;
(C)
the design, documentation, testing, creation, or modification of computer programs related to machine operating systems; or
(D)
a combination of duties described in subparagraphs (A), (B), and
(C)
the performance of which requires the same level of skills, and
who, in the case of an employee who is compensated on an hourly basis, is compensated at a rate of not less than $27.63 an hour.
Having trained three guys on my helpdesk this is what I recommend for someone interested in getting started in IT support.
For computer hardware I would go with Mike Myers All in One A+. It gives a solid overview of how computers work along with how to fix them starting at a very basic level.
http://www.amazon.com/Certification-All-One-Guide-Sixth/dp/0072263113/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220369045&sr=8-2
For networking go with a Network+ book. The All in one book is decent, but there are a few out there that are just a good.
http://www.amazon.com/Network-Certification-All-Guide-Third/dp/0072253452/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220369766&sr=1-2
Additionally if the students get the certifications they can probably get their foot in the door at a lot of help desks.
For the advanced class I would recommend "The Practice of System and Network Administration" by Thomas Limoncelli. It requires a moderate IT knowledge, but it teaches a lot of the basic ideas of system design that people seem to miss.
http://www.amazon.com/Practice-System-Network-Administration-2nd/dp/0321492668/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220369813&sr=1-1
This isn't the best basis for a programmer, but it will teach them a lot of useful things they won't get from most programming classes.
-Tim
An hour is on the long side, most of my calls end up being 20-30 min which isn't bad when it is once or twice a month.
If you are looking at the cost of your time how long does it take you to find and purchase a compatable part for a two year old machine? Purchase forms take me at least 15 minutes.
HP has never been that good to me, but I have only had to call 2-3 times. Usually those took well more than an hour.
Are you talking about desktops or servers with that five minute call time? Usually I only get that kind of responce from a 4 hour on site contract.
-Tim
If you go with dell make sure you buy the "Gold" Technical support. It isn't avaliable from the home site and I am not sure about the others. In my experience it is the difference between a 20 minute service call where you get the right part the next day and a day of trouble shooting with them recommending the wrong part. I believe our in shop record is 8 lines in the gold text chat to get a new motherboard for a machine. We got 30 of the motherboards with disfunctional capacitors two years ago. It has never taken us more than an hour on the phone to get a replacement once the symptoms arise. -Tim
While it may seem like a no brainer for any of us, there are a quite a few parents out there who wouldn't even realize it is possible. I would bet that a lot of parents don't even know it can connect to the internet much less that it has a web browser.
So what happens when the PS3 dies and you have to get a new one? Does that also mean it is time to get a new set of games? -Citoahc
Yes, the ship's "Preacher" is named Shepard Book.
If you watch the show for very long it becomes obvious that it probably isn't his real name. From the weapons training he has had, the military knowledge and the control over the government I'm guessing that preaching isn't his full time occupation.
This is just one of many areas where it would have been nice to watch the show develop.
Buffy WAS good until it ran out of places to go, Angel was "interesting" and Firefly had potential.
Citoahc
Yes, the ship's "Preacher" is named Shepard Book. If you watch the show for very long it becomes obvious that it probably isn't his real name. From the weapons training he has had, the military knowledge and the control over the government I'm guessing that preaching isn't his full time occupation. This is just one of many areas where it would have been nice to watch the show develop. Buffy WAS good until it ran out of places to go, Angel was "interesting" and Firefly had potential. Citoahc
I went to a small school and got them to ease back on the bandwidth restrictions for Bit Torrent because I was doing my senior seminar paper on the program.
Getting a professor to talk to the Network Admin about the legal uses. If you can convince a professor to use it in a class you might actually stand a chance.
Citoahc
If they already had a decent PDA it would be fairly easy to stash a memory card in something like a sock or normal book where it might not get noticed. As to getting the PDA there I have no clue.
Citoahc
Travel + Food + Beer = Good Time. Once you start charging for your time you have to start considering taxes. Citoahc
The rate at which vulnerabilities are discovered is irrelevant when they get patched just as regularly.
Firefox on the other hand may not have as many vulnerabilities, but it is a greater security risk because they are more persistent.
To put it another way I am currently testing Firefox. I installed it three months ago. Since I am lazy and in a relatively secure environment I haven't patched it manually. I'm still running 0.9 and it hasn't thought of mentioning that 1 is out. This means one venerability in firefox from three months ago is still a vulnerability. IE on the other hand has automatically patched itself in that time meaning that some of the vulnerabilities which were there three months ago aren't there anymore. Firefox is still just as insecure, IE has gotten slightly more secure.
In terms of speed the last time I did a comparison a standard install of Mandrake took nearly three times as long to boot as a standard install of Windows 2000.
Citoahc
If anything for a user who doesn't pay attention to Security IE is better. Someone who knows what they are doing can set it up and he should stay reasonably patched. I still haven't seen any sign of Firefox wanting to patch itself, despite being set to check for updates.
That said I know a few people who just use the internet for web based e-mail. IE is fine for them.
Citoahc
I'm running the game on a system slightly below the average stats and it is easily the best visuals I have seen in a PC game.
My question which all these reviews ignore is what upgrades are needed to lessen the lag between levels.
Citoahc
Leave it to a college gamer to think of attaching explosives to remote control cars and actually using them in a military situation. Best case the car drops the a little bomb to take care of the land mine. Worst case the land mine blows up a few hundred dollars of electronics. It is a hell of a lot better than blowing up the combat engineer. Citoahc P.S. Most landmines/roadside bombs don't use RF. Why use expensive electronics that requires someone there when they can use a pressure sensor.