Hundreds of pages in a section of BusinessWeek's website which offers information about where MBA students might find future employers have been affected
I suppose McDonald's is going to have to rely on employing just the liberal arts majors for now.
"Overpriced" is a comparative. Admission to Six Flags, for example, is less than $50. "Well worth it" is an judgment of quality of the event on its own merits.
If he registered his work e-mail and promoted that as his main contact, then yes, he was using Linkedin in the course of performing his job and his employer is entitled to those contacts. However, I would also expect that whether or not there's confidentiality involved would depend upon if there was an NDA in force when he was hired.
PayPal works with electronic accounting. PayPal employees very most likely handle little, if any, of their customer's money at all. Any money handling is done at the incidental periphery of the transaction involving PayPal, but not by PayPal directly.
This was the heart of PayPal's defense in New York and Louisiana that they were not a bank, in part because they did not hold or handle customer's money directly.
Having said that, I think PayPal should be investigated for allowing fraudulent activity to pesist through their services. I don't have a PayPal account and refuse to.
Not wanting to program much is one thing, but not being able to is something else entirely. If your case is really the latter (and that's fine, most people truly cannot program), then your options are rather limited.
Windows admin tops the list. Dont' even consider Unix or Linux because not being able to program or script in Perl or sh or ksh will go a long way toward earning animosity with your co-workers. There's also a lot of opportunities to be a Windows admin.
Network admin would be doable, but only if you are very comfortable with hardware, and are ready to constantly learn the new protocols, security threats, and stay on top of what's the latest, greatest hardware and network software add-ons.
System analyst would also be possible, but the emphasis here is on analytical ability, and if programming isn't your thing, this likely won't be either.
Don't even think about trying to be a DBA. If you don't want to or cannot really program, writing SQL and Stored Procedures aren't going to be a thrilling substitute.
Business Analyst. The emphasis here is business, so pick an industry, get in on the ground-floor and get to know it. Your long-term viability will be based on what and how fast you can learn and how quickly you can put that knowledge to use for others; but, don't make the mistake of trying to turn knowledge into exclusive job security, because what you know someone else can learn too.
Help Desk: It may be the entry-level, but it's also the spring-broad to any other technology, once you figure out what you like, and what you are good at.
You've done a lot in 12 years, to the point were it makes me wonder how much time you spent on any one area. Look back at what you did, remember what you like and what you didn't and see if those likes and dislikes are still in play today. Find something to focus on and master it. There are opportunities within IT to develop writing skills, design skills, analytical skills, people management skills, time management skills, and more, as well as diverse outlets for creativity of many types.
If you're bored with it, that's probably because you've stopped challenging yourself, and undoubtedly because your management has stopped pushing you (and probably because they are too busy pushing those around you who aren't motivated to do so at all). Find a challenge. IT is just a conduit, a venue in which you can exercise that challenge. A change of career is just a change of venue; once you've become accustomed to the new venue, you'll be right back to where you are now.
4) Would a dating service for people on the net be "frowned upon" by DCA? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one.
Does this mean that we have RMS to thank for match.com and the like?
The Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM) program will demonstrate compressed magnetic flux generator (CMFG)-driven magneto hydrodynamically formed metal jets and self-forging penetrators
"Although a chargeback may appear similar to a PayPal claim, itâ(TM)s actually a process that is granted to a cardholder by their credit card company and initiated outside of PayPal. In a dispute over a chargeback, the decision is ultimately made by the credit card company and PayPal cannot control the outcome."
Tracking the item offers ZERO protection against chargebacks. If ebay is going to force all sellers to assume this risk, then the seller ought to be able to introduce protections, like a 30 day wait to ship for the payment to clear beyond the chargeback period. I can't find the policy on ebay, but they don't allow having different delivery times for different payment methods.
And I was wrong about ebay's timing for the new paypal policy:
"To keep eBay a safe place for both buyers and sellers, sellers who register after January 17, 2007 are required to offer either PayPal or a merchant account credit card as an accepted payment method for their items."
In March ebay very quietly started requiring paypal as a payment option for certain categories for items listed on ebay.com. Computers, for one. I discovered this when I tried listed some Unix system admin books I no longer need, as I do not have and do now want a paypal account. I complained to ebay about it, and they sent me their boilerplate propaganda about "makeing ebay a safer place for buyers". In June, paypal will be required for all new ebay sellers, and for all currrent sellers with under 100 feedback, in the US.
What they refuse to acknowledge is that paypal offers no protection to sellers. Stolen credit cards and reversed-charges are still a potential for any transaction done via paypal. Until ebay gives me as a seller the option to wait 35 business days to ship an items paid for via paypal, there is no seller protection.
she called it "the worst kind of pseudo-intellectual garbage,"
The "worst", as opposed to the "best" kind?
The book is speculative fiction: Is it garbage because its predictions haven't been met? Is it "pseudo-intellectual" because it is a work of fiction, and, to some extent, was intended to entertain? Or is it that she judged the story or the characters or the setting to her disliking insteading judging the writing itself?
Granted, it's not an earth-shattering revelation on the insights of society and technology, but then I don't believe either the book itself or Gibson presented it that way.
Style and vocabularly aside, it was a damn good essay if only because she stated her assumptions up front, pointed out what she couldn't honestly quantify, and set clear expectation about not just the conclusion but about the understanding of her methods. So in that regard, I would say that her paper was more honest than much of the so-called scientific articles on the Internet these days.
True, but then you run the risk of perturbing the orbit of Mars, or worse, fracturing the planet from the impact. And, not having done the math, I don't know if everything I suggested plus a moon or two of Jupiter is sufficent to create enough gravity to retain an atmosphere, even if the core can be jumpstarted, which is clearly the more siginificant problem.
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Hundreds of pages in a section of BusinessWeek's website which offers information about where MBA students might find future employers have been affected
I suppose McDonald's is going to have to rely on employing just the liberal arts majors for now.
Actually, that's a decent analogy, as TV was a series of inventions by many people
I like your sig, the whimsy is definitely appropriate here.
Nope, just run through the washer and dryer, or taken to the drycleaner and lost forever.
"Overpriced" is a comparative. Admission to Six Flags, for example, is less than $50. "Well worth it" is an judgment of quality of the event on its own merits.
It wasn't the masks so much as the fact that they were black and the t-shirts the athletes were wearing at the time that pissed people off:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/livecoverage/2008/08/china_bloggers_to_us_cyclists_1.html
If he registered his work e-mail and promoted that as his main contact, then yes, he was using Linkedin in the course of performing his job and his employer is entitled to those contacts. However, I would also expect that whether or not there's confidentiality involved would depend upon if there was an NDA in force when he was hired.
No, he's just the messenger, don't confuse the two.
PayPal works with real money.
PayPal works with electronic accounting. PayPal employees very most likely handle little, if any, of their customer's money at all. Any money handling is done at the incidental periphery of the transaction involving PayPal, but not by PayPal directly.
This was the heart of PayPal's defense in New York and Louisiana that they were not a bank, in part because they did not hold or handle customer's money directly.
Having said that, I think PayPal should be investigated for allowing fraudulent activity to pesist through their services. I don't have a PayPal account and refuse to.
Steve doesn't make all of the products himself.
Does the book tell us which one he does make all by himself?
Not wanting to program much is one thing, but not being able to is something else entirely. If your case is really the latter (and that's fine, most people truly cannot program), then your options are rather limited.
Windows admin tops the list. Dont' even consider Unix or Linux because not being able to program or script in Perl or sh or ksh will go a long way toward earning animosity with your co-workers. There's also a lot of opportunities to be a Windows admin.
Network admin would be doable, but only if you are very comfortable with hardware, and are ready to constantly learn the new protocols, security threats, and stay on top of what's the latest, greatest hardware and network software add-ons.
System analyst would also be possible, but the emphasis here is on analytical ability, and if programming isn't your thing, this likely won't be either.
Don't even think about trying to be a DBA. If you don't want to or cannot really program, writing SQL and Stored Procedures aren't going to be a thrilling substitute.
Business Analyst. The emphasis here is business, so pick an industry, get in on the ground-floor and get to know it. Your long-term viability will be based on what and how fast you can learn and how quickly you can put that knowledge to use for others; but, don't make the mistake of trying to turn knowledge into exclusive job security, because what you know someone else can learn too.
Help Desk: It may be the entry-level, but it's also the spring-broad to any other technology, once you figure out what you like, and what you are good at.
Good luck.
It appears that your sarcasm filter is broken.
As far as race-biased jail population goes, look at France, most of the countries on the Arabian Peninsula, and Indonesia for comparisons.
I'm not saying that any of it is right, just that there's no one country that should bear the sole burden of blame.
are in jail
You've done a lot in 12 years, to the point were it makes me wonder how much time you spent on any one area. Look back at what you did, remember what you like and what you didn't and see if those likes and dislikes are still in play today. Find something to focus on and master it. There are opportunities within IT to develop writing skills, design skills, analytical skills, people management skills, time management skills, and more, as well as diverse outlets for creativity of many types.
If you're bored with it, that's probably because you've stopped challenging yourself, and undoubtedly because your management has stopped pushing you (and probably because they are too busy pushing those around you who aren't motivated to do so at all). Find a challenge. IT is just a conduit, a venue in which you can exercise that challenge. A change of career is just a change of venue; once you've become accustomed to the new venue, you'll be right back to where you are now.
4) Would a dating service for people on the net be "frowned upon" by DCA? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one.
Does this mean that we have RMS to thank for match.com and the like?
from TFA:
The Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM) program will demonstrate compressed magnetic flux generator (CMFG)-driven magneto hydrodynamically formed metal jets and self-forging penetrators
Does it have a Flux Capacitor?
From papal's chargeback FAQ:
"Although a chargeback may appear similar to a PayPal claim, itâ(TM)s actually a process that is granted to a cardholder by their credit card company and initiated outside of PayPal. In a dispute over a chargeback, the decision is ultimately made by the credit card company and PayPal cannot control the outcome."
Tracking the item offers ZERO protection against chargebacks. If ebay is going to force all sellers to assume this risk, then the seller ought to be able to introduce protections, like a 30 day wait to ship for the payment to clear beyond the chargeback period. I can't find the policy on ebay, but they don't allow having different delivery times for different payment methods.
And I was wrong about ebay's timing for the new paypal policy:
"To keep eBay a safe place for both buyers and sellers, sellers who register after January 17, 2007 are required to offer either PayPal or a merchant account credit card as an accepted payment method for their items."
In March ebay very quietly started requiring paypal as a payment option for certain categories for items listed on ebay.com. Computers, for one. I discovered this when I tried listed some Unix system admin books I no longer need, as I do not have and do now want a paypal account. I complained to ebay about it, and they sent me their boilerplate propaganda about "makeing ebay a safer place for buyers". In June, paypal will be required for all new ebay sellers, and for all currrent sellers with under 100 feedback, in the US.
What they refuse to acknowledge is that paypal offers no protection to sellers. Stolen credit cards and reversed-charges are still a potential for any transaction done via paypal. Until ebay gives me as a seller the option to wait 35 business days to ship an items paid for via paypal, there is no seller protection.
The "stick" is eternal separation from God. The Lake of Fire is just the venue where the stick is applied.
she called it "the worst kind of pseudo-intellectual garbage,"
The "worst", as opposed to the "best" kind?
The book is speculative fiction: Is it garbage because its predictions haven't been met? Is it "pseudo-intellectual" because it is a work of fiction, and, to some extent, was intended to entertain? Or is it that she judged the story or the characters or the setting to her disliking insteading judging the writing itself?
Granted, it's not an earth-shattering revelation on the insights of society and technology, but then I don't believe either the book itself or Gibson presented it that way.
MS conceded to letting Office users run the software at home as well.
This is unbelievably huge, so much so that I'd be surprised to see this type of concession in the US anytime soon.
what is the name of the logical flaw in which you make an argument which destroys the point which is assumed?
Isn't that just being the Devil's Advocate?
Style and vocabularly aside, it was a damn good essay if only because she stated her assumptions up front, pointed out what she couldn't honestly quantify, and set clear expectation about not just the conclusion but about the understanding of her methods. So in that regard, I would say that her paper was more honest than much of the so-called scientific articles on the Internet these days.
True, but then you run the risk of perturbing the orbit of Mars, or worse, fracturing the planet from the impact. And, not having done the math, I don't know if everything I suggested plus a moon or two of Jupiter is sufficent to create enough gravity to retain an atmosphere, even if the core can be jumpstarted, which is clearly the more siginificant problem.
How do you counter that?
First, they have to Jumpstart the planet's core, then they have to deflect asteroids onto the planet and thereby increase its gravity. I'd start with Phobos and Deimos, and then try for Ceres, 2 Pallas, Juno, and 4 Vesta.