If all you do is write/generate HTML then you are correct, but many of us Web Developers rarely use just HTML anymore. There are many options to chose from, JSP, ASP and ColdFusion to name a few. There is often JavaScript mixed with HTML as well. Comercial Web design is so much more than pretty graphics. I would challenge that we are as much a programmer as the guy writing C++ applications.
Someone should make a movie about this... Oh wait, they did... The Lost in Space remake.
I find it hard to believe that because African elephant numbers halfed over a 20 year period means that we are all doomed in another 50. Not to say we don't need to be concerned, I just don't think we need to put half the population of the planet on rockets just yet.
A lot of this type of intrusion started when PC distributers bundled the OS with ISP software (advertising) such as AOL and MSN. At the time none of us though anything about it. We all got our new computer, booted it up and found all of this extra crap. Some useful some not. We complained a little but just got used to it. We didn't mind because it kept the cost of our computer down. Then the internet got big. We didn't want to pay for access to our favorite websites so companies started putting banner ads at the top. Again we complained, but it wasn't all that bad. Then the popups started, we began getting annoyed, but put up with them. I think now with this Gator advertising we have hit the limit. Now companies are installing stuff on our computer largely with out our knowledge, and getting paid to do it. Hopefully this will wake people up a bit, but I fear that most of the dolts who just want their email/internet, but do not want to really learn how it works, and the danges of using it are going to let companies like Gator get away with this for a long time to come. I just don't know what can be done about it. I would have to aggree with many of the comments already posted. This may be immoral, but not illegal. The only way to stop this kind of advertising is to eliminate the market for it. But as long as Joe User is uneducated enough to click on the ad, this will continue. This is all brough to us by the same people that actuall call those overseas investors who claim to want to give you $1 milion if you just send them $80k.
Your decision may be determined by more than the offers themselves. Take a more macro view. Do you have a family? If you move, what will that do to your medical plan. Does your new insurace accept you doctor, dentist... How well are you networked in you present company. It takes years to learn who's-who in large companies.
I think in this situation you should stay. You said you had everything but a decent salary, and they have fixed that.
I would have to aggree. 10 and 9 are about loyalty. Unless you are having a specific problem with your boss I don't think you would be considered less loyal. Think about it from the opposite side. If I am hiring you, why should I think you are going to be any more loyal to me than you were to your last employer. Number 6 is just as funny, you are being bidded on by both sides. You WANT to be bought. In response to number 5, why would your present employer go through the hastle of giving a raise to to fire you. In big companies it costs a lot to hire someone, that alone may justify keeping you.
I am sure once they get serious development started they will work out the reliability factors. What I am concerned about is how useful the car will be. The prices for hybrids and alternative fule cars are going to have to come way down to get me interested. I would consider buying one to get me to work if it was in the $8-10K price range. Unfortunatly if you have any more than 2 kids you need larger vehicles like vans and trucks. The alternative fules are not going to be practicle for the US family untill it can take me, my wife and 4 children to grandma's, or the beach, complete with luggage and other accessories. I just do not see this happening with the cars they are producing today.
This is like bringing back records. Sure they have a better sound than a CD, but after several plays the needle begins to smooth out the groove, the grooves collect dust and the vinal itself begins to break down.
I am not saying we should just dismiss the medium all together, but I doubt it has much of a future in the home audio/video market. I think there may be a better market for TV studios and the like. When standing at the video store, which format do you think Mrs. Soccer Mom is going to buy for her 12 year old, The DVHS priced $35-45 or the DVD priced $15-25?
Please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the DVHS tape going to be made of the same stuff as VHS? One thing I like about DVD is that there is no degradation of the data (at least not over my lifetime). My father has some great stuff on VHS, Raiders of the Lost Arc and the Last M*A*S*H episode to name a few, but they are so old that they can hardly be watched anymore. I even plan on having my wedding video burned to a DVD to maintain the quality of the picture. To echo my friend above what about the special features? Will I still be able to insert deleted scenes, turn on the directors commentary and view the trailers easily? I just don't see it taking off. I feel that there are not enough pureists out there that want a perfect picture. How many of us can really tell the difference anyway.
I saw a demo of this about 2 months ago. It was very cool. The demo had two terminals and two cards. You could move your card from one machine to the other and it would restore every thing as you had it at your previous location. It even memorized where I was in a RealPlayer video that was playing.
I am not advocating the abolishment traditional offices, but this could be real nice for people who travel to other sites often. My company has visiting manager/employee offices in every building. It is an office, or cube that has a phone and a workstation. They are great to check email, or even use for a NetMeeting confrence. One problem is that they have a generic PC image on them. This usually include little more than the OS, Outlook and MS Office. This would be a great improvment. Imagine being able to carry your "workstation" in your wallet.
While I believe it is important to exploit other cleaner "burning" energy sources such as solar, nuclear and fuel cells, there are some common misconceptions about how much oil is really left.
Here are a few that I have learned about:
Most oil companies only hold/buy enough oil reserves to get them through the next 20-30 years. This being the case, when you ask any oil company, how much oil do you have? They reply with, "about a 25 year supply". Obvously this is easily twisted to fit what ever global oil crisis you want to create.
In a typical oil well there is enough natural pressure to push up only about 1/3 of the oil in the well. After that you have to have to use more expensive means to get the oil so most companies cap the well and leave the other 2/3 in the ground. Most oil crisis figures do not take this into account. However when companies do have to start pumping the oil out it will make the costs go up.
No one really knows how much is out there. The reason the estimated amount of remaining oil keeps changing is that we keep discovering new reserves.
That's just it. Spam will always be worth it, because you can send it to tens of thousands instantly and free. All you need is one nitwit to but the latest get-rich-quick scheme and the ad is paid for.
How do you define spam? I have intentionally and unintentionally had my name put on mailing lists. I would consider anything that I have requested, even if it has marketing material to be legit. The stuff we really need to get rid of is the junk, lose ten pounds today, make $10,000 tomorrow unsigned stuff. That is the stuff cloging mail servers all over the world.
The opt-in approach is great if you have someone empowered to enforcement. Something tells me that the local police or district attorney has better things to do than to track down a junk mail sender that may or may not be in their jurisdiction.
However if we could create some autonomus orginization like MIB or Section 31 that would have the power to hang spamers by their toe nails, that would be effective:)
A black light was always fun to have. Any odd ball decorations for the room. They are typically cinder block walls with such fun colors as "banana yellow" and "mint green". All the girls I knew had curtins and matching sheets so you may have to coordinate your patterns:)
I am a bit cureious about the lock pick set. I don't think I ever had a need for one.
Oh, and as stated many times before, LOTS of quarters.
Spiderman is a good movie, but it just will not stand the test of time. I am sure it will have a few sequels, like Superman and Batman but the movie is bound to become dated. Think of how the Batmobile and the costumes looked on the TV show. That wasn't good enough for the movies, Batman had to be encased in armor and look tougher. Now no one really thinks much about them. Spiderman like most other movies is appealing to the fads of the here and now. Star Wars on the other hand is timeless. Lucas has managed to get people to ignore common stereotypes for heroes. Who would have though little Yoda could kick ass, Luke and Vader were not all that buff. I think this is the same reason that the Lord of the Rings is still popular in book and now movie forms. It is a timeless epic of good verses evil. Years from now all 6 Star Wars movies will have been made and this whole debate will be long forgotten. I am sure my children will still be watching them with the same excitement that we grew up with watching the original trilogy.
You should ask about the educational and the work background of the professors. Find out when and how long each of them worked in the "real world". Also do any of them currently consult on the side. Having a PhD is nice, but current real world experience is the mark of a good teacher.
Look and see the experience spread of the profs, i.e. do they have five profs that all recieved their PhD's in the 70's or are they constantly bringing in new blood every four or five years? Also look and see where their degrees are from. If more than two or three of the faculty in the department have their PhD/MS from the school you are applying to, this is bad news. It shows that they are not going to be very diverse in their thinking.
You should also ask about adjunct factulty. These are profs that have full-time jobs but teach one or two classes a semester (they typically do not have a PhD). They had the best in real world experience. They typically teach the mid-level stuff. I think they are the best people to take your programming languages from (they are also good at getting internships and job leads).
Finally if you want real brownie points with the department chair, ask about his/her doctoral thesis. I have yet to meet a PhD who does not love talking about that subject.
Poling samples would be a good way to figure out how many people actually saw the movie. There would be some margin of error, but it would be a good indicator of how popular a movie is. Hollywood does alot of this in the conceptual phase of developing movies. Before spending $200 milion they have to figure out if that have a large enough audience of people willing to see a movie once or group of dedicated people willing to see it 10 times.
You have to first figure out what you are trying to measure. If you want to measure popularity, which many people are trying to do between Spiderman and Episode 2 dollar amounts are not going to cut it. It is too confusing, because you have to adjust for facts like, Ep2 had a midnight release but Spiderman opened on more screens.
Hollywood is interested in how much profit they made on a movie so gross dollars is fine for them.
Adjusting for inflation is better, but counting tickets is just as problematic. There are more people today than there was 25 or even 50 years ago. The most accurate indicator would be what percentage of the viewing population saw the movie. That would even account for people like me who will go see the movie more than once. This is how TV ratings are calculated.
If you wash out your coffee cup you wash out all of the flavor. Besides, it makes your boss think you work real hard:)
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In addition to regulations on being straight, all the minimum bridge heights are set based on the height of a tank being transported on a flat-bed truck.
The system was designed to move troops an armor. The byproduct was a "great" network of roads to move civilians around the country. Eisenhower was a very smart but paranoid man.
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A little to the North of Paradise is Blue Ball. Lets keep in mind that all of these are located in Lancaster, PA, the heart of conserative Amish country.
I have had very few positive experiences with headhunters. On average they would talk to me for 10 minutes on the phone, then send me to the first opening they could fine with out regard for my personal goals (whice we had supposedly discussed the previous day). I even had a similar situation to yours. About 3 years ago I interviewed with a company. When I got to the interview they had two copies of my resume. Some recruiting firm had taken my resume off of Monster.com and submitted it (unknowingly) on my behalf. Fortunatly their policies were a little looser than the company you are interviewing with.
Before you get the laywers involved you could talk to a person higher up in the HR department. If you could somehow verify that you had been contacted outside of the boundaries of the recruiting firm, they may be willing to reconsider, especially if they really want you. If you could supply some dates and people you spoke to, that may be helpful.
On a slightly related topic, my current employer has a referal system that gives bonuses to employees who refer candidates to the company. You can get a siginificant amount of money if the company hires your candidate. The only catch is that cannot have already been refered by another employee or in the database supplied by, you guessed it, headhunters. I have submitted many names, and they have all been rejected on those grounds.
I saw some people in college do a case mod. It just don't get it. It's like the kid in high school that puts neon lights and a loud muffler on his car. Aside from spend a lot of time and money you have not done a whole lot to improve the functionality of the car. I would rather put the money into a new component and the time into making Windows not crash. Of course I never have enough money, and the latter is the impossible dream, so what the heck, get out the spray paint!
I aggree with you. There are a lot of people who went to school, earned a few credits in one subject and then never kept up. They think because they got their XYZ certification 3 years ago that they should still be getting top dollar today.
As with any career you need to always be in a learning mode. You also need to work hard enough to justify your position. I too have a degree, but I wasn't out of school 3 month before I was going for my first traing class.
The moral is, if you are not improving your skills every day, look out because there is someone coming up behind you who is, and wants YOUR job!
My company started scaning all incoming email at the fire wall too. It was going fine until some numb-skull decided to download an attachment from his Hotmail account. Once opened inside the network, it did its dirty work.
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If all you do is write/generate HTML then you are correct, but many of us Web Developers rarely use just HTML anymore. There are many options to chose from, JSP, ASP and ColdFusion to name a few. There is often JavaScript mixed with HTML as well. Comercial Web design is so much more than pretty graphics. I would challenge that we are as much a programmer as the guy writing C++ applications.
Probably, but imagine chicken McNuggets that could compute Pi!
I find it hard to believe that because African elephant numbers halfed over a 20 year period means that we are all doomed in another 50. Not to say we don't need to be concerned, I just don't think we need to put half the population of the planet on rockets just yet.
A lot of this type of intrusion started when PC distributers bundled the OS with ISP software (advertising) such as AOL and MSN. At the time none of us though anything about it. We all got our new computer, booted it up and found all of this extra crap. Some useful some not. We complained a little but just got used to it. We didn't mind because it kept the cost of our computer down. Then the internet got big. We didn't want to pay for access to our favorite websites so companies started putting banner ads at the top. Again we complained, but it wasn't all that bad. Then the popups started, we began getting annoyed, but put up with them. I think now with this Gator advertising we have hit the limit. Now companies are installing stuff on our computer largely with out our knowledge, and getting paid to do it. Hopefully this will wake people up a bit, but I fear that most of the dolts who just want their email/internet, but do not want to really learn how it works, and the danges of using it are going to let companies like Gator get away with this for a long time to come. I just don't know what can be done about it. I would have to aggree with many of the comments already posted. This may be immoral, but not illegal. The only way to stop this kind of advertising is to eliminate the market for it. But as long as Joe User is uneducated enough to click on the ad, this will continue. This is all brough to us by the same people that actuall call those overseas investors who claim to want to give you $1 milion if you just send them $80k.
I think in this situation you should stay. You said you had everything but a decent salary, and they have fixed that.
I would have to aggree. 10 and 9 are about loyalty. Unless you are having a specific problem with your boss I don't think you would be considered less loyal. Think about it from the opposite side. If I am hiring you, why should I think you are going to be any more loyal to me than you were to your last employer. Number 6 is just as funny, you are being bidded on by both sides. You WANT to be bought. In response to number 5, why would your present employer go through the hastle of giving a raise to to fire you. In big companies it costs a lot to hire someone, that alone may justify keeping you.
I am sure once they get serious development started they will work out the reliability factors. What I am concerned about is how useful the car will be. The prices for hybrids and alternative fule cars are going to have to come way down to get me interested. I would consider buying one to get me to work if it was in the $8-10K price range. Unfortunatly if you have any more than 2 kids you need larger vehicles like vans and trucks. The alternative fules are not going to be practicle for the US family untill it can take me, my wife and 4 children to grandma's, or the beach, complete with luggage and other accessories. I just do not see this happening with the cars they are producing today.
I am not saying we should just dismiss the medium all together, but I doubt it has much of a future in the home audio/video market. I think there may be a better market for TV studios and the like. When standing at the video store, which format do you think Mrs. Soccer Mom is going to buy for her 12 year old, The DVHS priced $35-45 or the DVD priced $15-25?
Please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the DVHS tape going to be made of the same stuff as VHS? One thing I like about DVD is that there is no degradation of the data (at least not over my lifetime). My father has some great stuff on VHS, Raiders of the Lost Arc and the Last M*A*S*H episode to name a few, but they are so old that they can hardly be watched anymore. I even plan on having my wedding video burned to a DVD to maintain the quality of the picture. To echo my friend above what about the special features? Will I still be able to insert deleted scenes, turn on the directors commentary and view the trailers easily? I just don't see it taking off. I feel that there are not enough pureists out there that want a perfect picture. How many of us can really tell the difference anyway.
I am not advocating the abolishment traditional offices, but this could be real nice for people who travel to other sites often. My company has visiting manager/employee offices in every building. It is an office, or cube that has a phone and a workstation. They are great to check email, or even use for a NetMeeting confrence. One problem is that they have a generic PC image on them. This usually include little more than the OS, Outlook and MS Office. This would be a great improvment. Imagine being able to carry your "workstation" in your wallet.
That's just it. Spam will always be worth it, because you can send it to tens of thousands instantly and free. All you need is one nitwit to but the latest get-rich-quick scheme and the ad is paid for.
The opt-in approach is great if you have someone empowered to enforcement. Something tells me that the local police or district attorney has better things to do than to track down a junk mail sender that may or may not be in their jurisdiction.
However if we could create some autonomus orginization like MIB or Section 31 that would have the power to hang spamers by their toe nails, that would be effective :)
I am a bit cureious about the lock pick set. I don't think I ever had a need for one.
Oh, and as stated many times before, LOTS of quarters.
Spiderman is a good movie, but it just will not stand the test of time. I am sure it will have a few sequels, like Superman and Batman but the movie is bound to become dated. Think of how the Batmobile and the costumes looked on the TV show. That wasn't good enough for the movies, Batman had to be encased in armor and look tougher. Now no one really thinks much about them. Spiderman like most other movies is appealing to the fads of the here and now. Star Wars on the other hand is timeless. Lucas has managed to get people to ignore common stereotypes for heroes. Who would have though little Yoda could kick ass, Luke and Vader were not all that buff. I think this is the same reason that the Lord of the Rings is still popular in book and now movie forms. It is a timeless epic of good verses evil. Years from now all 6 Star Wars movies will have been made and this whole debate will be long forgotten. I am sure my children will still be watching them with the same excitement that we grew up with watching the original trilogy.
Look and see the experience spread of the profs, i.e. do they have five profs that all recieved their PhD's in the 70's or are they constantly bringing in new blood every four or five years? Also look and see where their degrees are from. If more than two or three of the faculty in the department have their PhD/MS from the school you are applying to, this is bad news. It shows that they are not going to be very diverse in their thinking.
You should also ask about adjunct factulty. These are profs that have full-time jobs but teach one or two classes a semester (they typically do not have a PhD). They had the best in real world experience. They typically teach the mid-level stuff. I think they are the best people to take your programming languages from (they are also good at getting internships and job leads).
Finally if you want real brownie points with the department chair, ask about his/her doctoral thesis. I have yet to meet a PhD who does not love talking about that subject.
Good luck!
You have to first figure out what you are trying to measure. If you want to measure popularity, which many people are trying to do between Spiderman and Episode 2 dollar amounts are not going to cut it. It is too confusing, because you have to adjust for facts like, Ep2 had a midnight release but Spiderman opened on more screens. Hollywood is interested in how much profit they made on a movie so gross dollars is fine for them.
Adjusting for inflation is better, but counting tickets is just as problematic. There are more people today than there was 25 or even 50 years ago. The most accurate indicator would be what percentage of the viewing population saw the movie. That would even account for people like me who will go see the movie more than once. This is how TV ratings are calculated.
If you wash out your coffee cup you wash out all of the flavor. Besides, it makes your boss think you work real hard :)
The system was designed to move troops an armor. The byproduct was a "great" network of roads to move civilians around the country. Eisenhower was a very smart but paranoid man.
A little to the North of Paradise is Blue Ball. Lets keep in mind that all of these are located in Lancaster, PA, the heart of conserative Amish country.
Before you get the laywers involved you could talk to a person higher up in the HR department. If you could somehow verify that you had been contacted outside of the boundaries of the recruiting firm, they may be willing to reconsider, especially if they really want you. If you could supply some dates and people you spoke to, that may be helpful.
On a slightly related topic, my current employer has a referal system that gives bonuses to employees who refer candidates to the company. You can get a siginificant amount of money if the company hires your candidate. The only catch is that cannot have already been refered by another employee or in the database supplied by, you guessed it, headhunters. I have submitted many names, and they have all been rejected on those grounds.
I saw some people in college do a case mod. It just don't get it. It's like the kid in high school that puts neon lights and a loud muffler on his car. Aside from spend a lot of time and money you have not done a whole lot to improve the functionality of the car. I would rather put the money into a new component and the time into making Windows not crash. Of course I never have enough money, and the latter is the impossible dream, so what the heck, get out the spray paint!
As with any career you need to always be in a learning mode. You also need to work hard enough to justify your position. I too have a degree, but I wasn't out of school 3 month before I was going for my first traing class.
The moral is, if you are not improving your skills every day, look out because there is someone coming up behind you who is, and wants YOUR job!
My company started scaning all incoming email at the fire wall too. It was going fine until some numb-skull decided to download an attachment from his Hotmail account. Once opened inside the network, it did its dirty work.