I started the position I'm in now at 30k 3 years ago when the company was startup. It was a pay cut from 50k a year at an ad agency doing Production art, $25/hour paid hourly so I could also get overtime pay... I took the job because I could get the added experience of dealing with all the responsibilities of managing a mid level account, something I wouldn't be able to do at an agency until I'd spent 3 years there building credentials.
As the company received funding I continued to save them enough to justify my salary increases, to 45k then to 60k last year, by avoiding seriously high outsourcing costs. A typical agency charges 300 to 700 an hour for the same work they are paying me 30 an hour.... huge savings cause there's no overhead they aren't already paying for (office space, utilities, equipment, etc. plus group benefits rates).
I plan to leave this job in 2 years, when my option grants have vested, and go back to an ad firm or media studio as a Junior Art or Creative Director... they better offer me at least 80k a year for my experience, I won't take less. The alternative is to start my own firm and outsource anything I can't handle until I can get a partner or some hired help.
Your acquaintances must not have a good sense of business acumen, they should be valuing their skills much more than it sounds like they are... managing art projects and a studio of artists and designers isn't easy, neither is dealing with flaky clients or putting together bids for client accounts.
Even if they are just directing a MarCom studio they should be doing reasonably well.
Granted I do live in a city (Irvine, CA) where a modest single room apartment costs $1300 a month but NY isn't any better.
Pass this summary on to your buddies and tell them to raise their rates.... look at what they are being billed out for (what the client is paying) then adjust to a reasonable percentage of that... otherwise the company they work for is just taking all their hard-earned cash and giving it to people who value themselves higher and ASK for the money.
Dude.... even with 100,000 users you won't be sending out more than 1000 emails a day unless you are sending out emails for things which could be done more effectively on your website. Even if you have a newsletter that goes out to everyone... you could offset it by 7 days a week so that you'd only be sending out 14,300 a day...
Is a newsletter worth it if they do tax you? Your users wouldn't mind going to your website to see the same info... if not, they'd be willing to pay $1 a month for a newletter subscription... that would cost you about 0.01 a month to send.
Compared with the cost of spam email... whatever nominal tax for bulk email will be a price I'm and you should be willing to pay.
Sooo Mr. Funny, what does that say about your time?
You're sitting here RESPONDING to a worthless post..... doh! Nevermind! Time spent on/. is valuable...(crosses fingers, ducks, looks around to see if anyone noticed..;-) In fact it's more than valuable.. it's freakin' priceless!
They mention using this as the new standard for CDs or DVDs... heh, will they ever learn that as long as it outputs a signal you can hear or see... you can record it? If they cripple the analog output, nobody will use it... so it has to be good enough to make a decent copy, then voila... mp3 or VCD and up on the net it goes or even just to a cheap CD.
I'd guess that for many applications they would place this as a watermark somewhere, possible visible for verification of tampering or possible somewhere random and invisible even embedded or sandwhiched at a specified depth.... in any case it doesn't seem unlikely that they will prepare for obvious tampering possibilities.
In a book for instance the code coulld be printed in invisible ink on a random page... that would foil most attempts at tampering.
This is assuming you are talking about a consumer purchased item. Many applications of this will have nothing to do with point of purchase commerce... more likely inventory control as has been proposed previously.
Actually you're half correct. Porn DVDs sell for MORE than your average movie, but cost much much less to create. Think for a good XXX DVD $30 - $40 while the actresses get paid 10 to 15 grand and all others get around 2 - 5 grand per film.
So you are correct in general but wrong about the prices of the CD/DVD.
They are however perfect for the method they've chosen to distribute.
I make 60 k a year as an art director for an up and coming storage software company. For the work I do I should be paid 80k or more... up to 120k..depending on the time involved.
However I only work in the office 30 hours a week, despite the fact that I'm on salary... at least ten hours at home though... works for me.
I do more when the need arises... 50 or 60 hours a week if necessary.
SO in a global economy... the population of a country that subsidizes an industry, does so for the whole world. Why should Canada be paying when 95% of the world is not? Damn this really makes a point for a global government... I know you hate to admit it, seeing as how all the local (country) governments seem to be screwing their populations... but in the near term NOW, doesn't it make sense to have everyone talking to everyone and coming to some sensible agreements on policy?
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I guess the good ol' US of A is still the highest bastion of personal and business privacy in the world eh? Yeah this happened in Australia... not that I have a prob with Australians mind you... but well it appears that they have different laws 'down under'.
So you would have us believe that foreign media sources are any more informing than US media? I'm sorry but they are just as biased in their own ways. Well informed individuals are well informed because they do their own research, not because there is some magical source of accurate information about everything just outside US waters/borders...
How many servicemen do you think take the time to do that research, in addition to their normal duties.... not that many I suspect.
Back in the day people were ignorant and there were far fewer voters to persuade in order to determing an election by a) buying votes or b) forcibly compelling them.
In the present day there are millions of voters and we have very good methods of criminal science and investigation to deter lawbreakers. (Now this may not be relevant to regional elections as the number of voters as well as imperative to dissuade criminal activities are lessened.)
SO if someone did want to buy off an election how much would they have to spend to get even 2% of the vote? The CIA factboook says there are a little over 290 million people in the USA, around 60% of whom are of voting age... minus inelligibles, lets say 45% just to be safe, that's a little over 130 million people, lets say that 10% actually vote.. 13 million. 2% of that is 260,000 people for a presidential election. I don't know anyone who'd sell their vote for $10 but just for the hell of it... that would cost 2.6 million dollars to buy 2% of current voters. Now if you brought in all the non-voting but elligibles... the chances are greater that more people would sell their votes but the percent of total voters would change accordingly, meaning that the more voters there are, the less an individual vote counts, so it would take even more money to buy 2%.
Granted that 2.6 million isn't a lot compared to how much the candidates or their parties spend already... but it is illegal, so they would have to somehow pay off that number of people for that large sum of money AND hide it all from the government, the people, the media, etc.
This assumes that people would be willing to commit fraud a federal crime for $10 and risk going to federal prison for any number of years (I don't know the penalties).
As far as extortion goes, extortion is a crime. How many lackeys are really willing to put pressure on people for this? Knowing that they personally can't possibly convince enough people to make a difference.
The question is... do we really need an anonymous vote in the present day? SO what if your friend give you a hard time, you probably already tell them who you voted for anyways and already suffer the ridicule or whatever. We have anti-descrimination laws already on the books that could be extended to cover this as far as your job or any other official relationship is concerned.
Why not have your vote tied to you? The biggest drawback I can see is that you'll open yourself up to election related spam and direct mail campaigns every 4 years.
I'd like to hear about other real concerns and why we still need anonmous voting. bring it.
So what you're saying is that after Bush gets re-elected... suddenly Diebold's systems will be deemed unusable and a new system will go in to place? What is this conspiracy thing and how can you believe that it can happen in the way you describe?
Ummm Adobe Illustrator is and always will be a Mac staple for design professionals... did you seriously think it wasn't available for OS X? In fact I believe it was the first software that Adobe ported to OS X.
As to the rest of your comment... what ever they come up with as long as it doesn't run a full implementation of Windows it will be way faster than Virtual PC. Seriously, all that extra bloat really takes it's toal.
This is definitely a case by case situation. I've known people who've been bent over by Apple as well but for myself... I've never had a single problem. I'm still using a 350 mhz G4 that's been upgraded to 800mhz with 3rd party CPU at work and I've been using my 500 mhz TiG4 for 3 years as well without a hitch. The OS keeps getting faster and better.... the hardware has been just fine, though I've taken care in picking my upgrades, best new hard drives best new RAM, etc. Everything just works for me.
Just to clarify the link above shows you this info:
"What is the iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program? The iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program is a worldwide program covering repair or replacement of the logic board in specific iBook models manufactured between May 2002 and April 2003 that are experiencing specific component failures. "
It's old school. If this was modded funny I'd ignore it but I'll answer in hopes that it'll never come up again.
PrtScn == Print Screen and did just that back before there were scroll bars and windows and the mouse...
ScrLk == Screen Lock and in the olden days it would lock the screen on your console as huge amounts of data would scroll by so you could take a closer look at something. I think you can still use it with some X Windows clients to do the same while looking at a terminal window.
Pause Break is similar to Screen Lock but would pause the data dump and break the output to a new source... useful if your storage medium only holds 32 kb or is going to tape or a punch card and you need to pause it for a minute to put a new punch card in. also useful if you want to PrtScn!
SysRQ damn I don't know. System Request? Maybe it presents a new command line prompt? or shows you a system dump of processes for debugging purposes?
If I got anything wrong, please correct or improve upon.
In any case these keys do absolutely nothing useful in Windows and I have no idea why they would persist....
I think it has to do with the fact that laptop keyboards are inset into the laptop and the 'wrist rest' is actually positioned above the keys or at least at the same elevation as the keys. Having your fingers push down into the keyboard seems like a much more natural activity compared to normal keyboards where you typically push forward and usually have to lift your fingers above parallel to reach various keys.
Read the article for context but here's the quick quote.
"The worst-paid jobs are Webmaster, tech writer and support engineer, whose billing rates ranged in the low $30s per hour. That's not surprising, given the increasingly simple tools available to design and maintain Websites, and the weak demand for writers and general engineering support.
The best-paid jobs were database developers and administrators. Depending on experience they could command hourly rates from $50 at entry level to $93 for upper managers, which equates to an annual salary of anywhere from $105,000 to $195,000."
"Where do we go with this thing?" [SCO] had come down from being $1 billion in value down to about $5 million, it was a few quarters from being out of cash, and what became very clear to me early on was that there was a lot of value in the Unix intellectual property that wasn't being optimized.
So what happened was, 30 days into my tenure, we sent a letter out to shareholders and said, "Look, we have a significant asset base here around Unix, around the SCO brand, around our 11,000 resellers, around all these licenses we have. We're going to go out and shine this company up."
AND YOU forgot Gummy Berries(TM) for "bouncin' here and there and everywhere" what berry picker is worth the pay if they don't know where to find Gummy Berries? I'd not have it....
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I started the position I'm in now at 30k 3 years ago when the company was startup. It was a pay cut from 50k a year at an ad agency doing Production art, $25/hour paid hourly so I could also get overtime pay... I took the job because I could get the added experience of dealing with all the responsibilities of managing a mid level account, something I wouldn't be able to do at an agency until I'd spent 3 years there building credentials.
As the company received funding I continued to save them enough to justify my salary increases, to 45k then to 60k last year, by avoiding seriously high outsourcing costs. A typical agency charges 300 to 700 an hour for the same work they are paying me 30 an hour.... huge savings cause there's no overhead they aren't already paying for (office space, utilities, equipment, etc. plus group benefits rates).
I plan to leave this job in 2 years, when my option grants have vested, and go back to an ad firm or media studio as a Junior Art or Creative Director... they better offer me at least 80k a year for my experience, I won't take less. The alternative is to start my own firm and outsource anything I can't handle until I can get a partner or some hired help.
Your acquaintances must not have a good sense of business acumen, they should be valuing their skills much more than it sounds like they are... managing art projects and a studio of artists and designers isn't easy, neither is dealing with flaky clients or putting together bids for client accounts.
Even if they are just directing a MarCom studio they should be doing reasonably well.
Granted I do live in a city (Irvine, CA) where a modest single room apartment costs $1300 a month but NY isn't any better.
Pass this summary on to your buddies and tell them to raise their rates.... look at what they are being billed out for (what the client is paying) then adjust to a reasonable percentage of that... otherwise the company they work for is just taking all their hard-earned cash and giving it to people who value themselves higher and ASK for the money.
Dude.... even with 100,000 users you won't be sending out more than 1000 emails a day unless you are sending out emails for things which could be done more effectively on your website. Even if you have a newsletter that goes out to everyone... you could offset it by 7 days a week so that you'd only be sending out 14,300 a day...
Is a newsletter worth it if they do tax you? Your users wouldn't mind going to your website to see the same info... if not, they'd be willing to pay $1 a month for a newletter subscription... that would cost you about 0.01 a month to send.
Compared with the cost of spam email... whatever nominal tax for bulk email will be a price I'm and you should be willing to pay.
Sooo Mr. Funny, what does that say about your time?
/. is valuable...(crosses fingers, ducks, looks around to see if anyone noticed..;-) In fact it's more than valuable.. it's freakin' priceless!
You're sitting here RESPONDING to a worthless post..... doh! Nevermind! Time spent on
They mention using this as the new standard for CDs or DVDs... heh, will they ever learn that as long as it outputs a signal you can hear or see... you can record it? If they cripple the analog output, nobody will use it... so it has to be good enough to make a decent copy, then voila... mp3 or VCD and up on the net it goes or even just to a cheap CD.
Sorry RIAA, there's no magic bullet...
CodeTek Virtual Desktop will take care of your VD issue... Costs about $25 US but does plenty extra and is definitely worth the price.
I'd guess that for many applications they would place this as a watermark somewhere, possible visible for verification of tampering or possible somewhere random and invisible even embedded or sandwhiched at a specified depth.... in any case it doesn't seem unlikely that they will prepare for obvious tampering possibilities.
In a book for instance the code coulld be printed in invisible ink on a random page... that would foil most attempts at tampering.
This is assuming you are talking about a consumer purchased item. Many applications of this will have nothing to do with point of purchase commerce... more likely inventory control as has been proposed previously.
Actually you're half correct. Porn DVDs sell for MORE than your average movie, but cost much much less to create. Think for a good XXX DVD $30 - $40 while the actresses get paid 10 to 15 grand and all others get around 2 - 5 grand per film.
So you are correct in general but wrong about the prices of the CD/DVD.
They are however perfect for the method they've chosen to distribute.
I make 60 k a year as an art director for an up and coming storage software company. For the work I do I should be paid 80k or more... up to 120k..depending on the time involved.
However I only work in the office 30 hours a week, despite the fact that I'm on salary... at least ten hours at home though... works for me.
I do more when the need arises... 50 or 60 hours a week if necessary.
SO in a global economy... the population of a country that subsidizes an industry, does so for the whole world. Why should Canada be paying when 95% of the world is not? Damn this really makes a point for a global government... I know you hate to admit it, seeing as how all the local (country) governments seem to be screwing their populations... but in the near term NOW, doesn't it make sense to have everyone talking to everyone and coming to some sensible agreements on policy?
I guess the good ol' US of A is still the highest bastion of personal and business privacy in the world eh? Yeah this happened in Australia... not that I have a prob with Australians mind you... but well it appears that they have different laws 'down under'.
So you would have us believe that foreign media sources are any more informing than US media? I'm sorry but they are just as biased in their own ways. Well informed individuals are well informed because they do their own research, not because there is some magical source of accurate information about everything just outside US waters/borders...
How many servicemen do you think take the time to do that research, in addition to their normal duties.... not that many I suspect.
Back in the day people were ignorant and there were far fewer voters to persuade in order to determing an election by a) buying votes or b) forcibly compelling them.
In the present day there are millions of voters and we have very good methods of criminal science and investigation to deter lawbreakers. (Now this may not be relevant to regional elections as the number of voters as well as imperative to dissuade criminal activities are lessened.)
SO if someone did want to buy off an election how much would they have to spend to get even 2% of the vote? The CIA factboook says there are a little over 290 million people in the USA, around 60% of whom are of voting age... minus inelligibles, lets say 45% just to be safe, that's a little over 130 million people, lets say that 10% actually vote.. 13 million. 2% of that is 260,000 people for a presidential election. I don't know anyone who'd sell their vote for $10 but just for the hell of it... that would cost 2.6 million dollars to buy 2% of current voters. Now if you brought in all the non-voting but elligibles... the chances are greater that more people would sell their votes but the percent of total voters would change accordingly, meaning that the more voters there are, the less an individual vote counts, so it would take even more money to buy 2%.
Granted that 2.6 million isn't a lot compared to how much the candidates or their parties spend already... but it is illegal, so they would have to somehow pay off that number of people for that large sum of money AND hide it all from the government, the people, the media, etc.
This assumes that people would be willing to commit fraud a federal crime for $10 and risk going to federal prison for any number of years (I don't know the penalties).
As far as extortion goes, extortion is a crime. How many lackeys are really willing to put pressure on people for this? Knowing that they personally can't possibly convince enough people to make a difference.
The question is... do we really need an anonymous vote in the present day? SO what if your friend give you a hard time, you probably already tell them who you voted for anyways and already suffer the ridicule or whatever. We have anti-descrimination laws already on the books that could be extended to cover this as far as your job or any other official relationship is concerned.
Why not have your vote tied to you? The biggest drawback I can see is that you'll open yourself up to election related spam and direct mail campaigns every 4 years.
I'd like to hear about other real concerns and why we still need anonmous voting. bring it.
So what you're saying is that after Bush gets re-elected... suddenly Diebold's systems will be deemed unusable and a new system will go in to place? What is this conspiracy thing and how can you believe that it can happen in the way you describe?
Ummm Adobe Illustrator is and always will be a Mac staple for design professionals... did you seriously think it wasn't available for OS X? In fact I believe it was the first software that Adobe ported to OS X.
As to the rest of your comment... what ever they come up with as long as it doesn't run a full implementation of Windows it will be way faster than Virtual PC. Seriously, all that extra bloat really takes it's toal.
huh? what's funny? man, talk about moderation points burning a hole in your pocket... use 'em or lose 'em indeed.
This is definitely a case by case situation. I've known people who've been bent over by Apple as well but for myself... I've never had a single problem. I'm still using a 350 mhz G4 that's been upgraded to 800mhz with 3rd party CPU at work and I've been using my 500 mhz TiG4 for 3 years as well without a hitch. The OS keeps getting faster and better.... the hardware has been just fine, though I've taken care in picking my upgrades, best new hard drives best new RAM, etc. Everything just works for me.
Just to clarify the link above shows you this info:
"What is the iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program?
The iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program is a worldwide program covering repair or replacement of the logic board in specific iBook models manufactured between May 2002 and April 2003 that are experiencing specific component failures. "
It's old school. If this was modded funny I'd ignore it but I'll answer in hopes that it'll never come up again.
PrtScn == Print Screen and did just that back before there were scroll bars and windows and the mouse...
ScrLk == Screen Lock and in the olden days it would lock the screen on your console as huge amounts of data would scroll by so you could take a closer look at something. I think you can still use it with some X Windows clients to do the same while looking at a terminal window.
Pause Break is similar to Screen Lock but would pause the data dump and break the output to a new source... useful if your storage medium only holds 32 kb or is going to tape or a punch card and you need to pause it for a minute to put a new punch card in. also useful if you want to PrtScn!
SysRQ damn I don't know. System Request? Maybe it presents a new command line prompt? or shows you a system dump of processes for debugging purposes?
If I got anything wrong, please correct or improve upon.
In any case these keys do absolutely nothing useful in Windows and I have no idea why they would persist....
I think it has to do with the fact that laptop keyboards are inset into the laptop and the 'wrist rest' is actually positioned above the keys or at least at the same elevation as the keys. Having your fingers push down into the keyboard seems like a much more natural activity compared to normal keyboards where you typically push forward and usually have to lift your fingers above parallel to reach various keys.
http://www.talenteconomymag.com/include/article2.
Read the article for context but here's the quick quote.
"The worst-paid jobs are Webmaster, tech writer and support engineer, whose billing rates ranged in the low $30s per hour. That's not surprising, given the increasingly simple tools available to design and maintain Websites, and the weak demand for writers and general engineering support.
The best-paid jobs were database developers and administrators. Depending on experience they could command hourly rates from $50 at entry level to $93 for upper managers, which equates to an annual salary of anywhere from $105,000 to $195,000."
The article mentions potentially using it to detect heavy metals in the soil as well such as might be found near nuclear or chemical waste reservoirs.
They do say the plants are modified to be genetically infertile and unable to spread their own seeds.
As always there is no guarantee and as we all have heard, plants and especially hardy ones like weeds can cross-pollinate with similar breeds.
it sounds like they are making this issue a big concern however.
I think I found it for you. Your welcome.
"Where do we go with this thing?" [SCO] had come down from being $1 billion in value down to about $5 million, it was a few quarters from being out of cash, and what became very clear to me early on was that there was a lot of value in the Unix intellectual property that wasn't being optimized.
So what happened was, 30 days into my tenure, we sent a letter out to shareholders and said, "Look, we have a significant asset base here around Unix, around the SCO brand, around our 11,000 resellers, around all these licenses we have. We're going to go out and shine this company up."
AND YOU forgot Gummy Berries(TM) for "bouncin' here and there and everywhere" what berry picker is worth the pay if they don't know where to find Gummy Berries? I'd not have it....
Actually belly button lint is caused by the common cold, so you see it is in fact a strange ecosystem indeed.