You know, I tried this route. And I seem to be hit in the face each time I try.
A few years back I wanted a career change (and got made redundant). Computing was a way of life and this is what I wanted to do. I had built a homepage in Notepad and though I would expand on this.
Some bad advice I was given in the beginning was "learn Java". I paid for a course in Java and started to learn it - this was like trying to run before trying to walk. So, I went back to polishing my HTML skills and learnt JavaScript to a high enough level where many JavaScript sites would publish my scripts. Since then I have learnt ASP, SQL, XML (yes it does have to be learnt just like any other mark-up language), VML and skimmed through many other eCommerce languages. I run an HTTP and an FTP server on my home PC - good fun. I know about databases. I know about SQL injection hacks, query string hacks, writing my own forms for hacks etc...
I have not spent a penny on any of this really. Only my time and effort have been involved. And it has all been fun.
So, why does my boss keep trying to get me to write VBA macros that I struggle with? Why does the HR department keep telling me that the best way in is "through the desktop support call centre"? This would me soul destroying for me. Why does the HR department tell me that I need to learn all the buzzwords to get a second interview (or even a first interview)?
I would be quite happy to learn about Linux, Apache and PHP if I thought it would do any good (my company is a Windows company as most are). I have no qualifications in the area of IT but I know so much. I also have loads of skills I find that most IT people do not have i.e. customer skills. So...
Why-oh-why-oh-why?:)
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You mean the mine carts on Donkey Kong Country? They're cool - nothing to hate here.:)
Dragon's Lair in the arcades was a bore though. I hated every second of it.
This sort of book does not try and teach you everything in 24hrs. It is expecting too much to think otherwise.
I love the SAMS Teach Yourself stuff. The JavaScript and ASP books have been invalueble to me over the last few years. They are not reference books, although I have refered back to them many times. They are a starting point, a cheap starting point.
..so I already get all the channels for the basic package price. A fair price for the amount of time I watch it, I might add.
What? You want me to swap my analogue box for a more expensive digital one with all those lovely foreign channels that I don't understand? Great Mr Cable Provider, I'll have one for each room in my house.
What? You are saying that the digital artefacts are meant to be there? The split second black blank screens are meant to be there too? My analogue box is being phased out? Great Mr Cable Provider, I'll have two for each room in my house.
What? You have removed all your local shops to improve my quality of service and to save yourselves some money? You aren't passing the money savings onto me? You haven't employed extra staff to man the phones? Great Mr Cable Provider, I'll have to recommend you to my friends.
This sort of argument always goads me and I'll tell you why.
I was surfing around on my home PC last week and found an interesting application that could save me some time at work. I downloaded it, put it on a floppy disk, took it to work next day, installed it and saved myself 20 minutes work for the week. This was on my time; I would never have been surfing at work to find it. I have saved my boss two days work this year, and next year, the year after and so on.
Should I charge my boss for this? It doesn't really seem worth to me. It only took me a minute.
Should I complain that my work life is interfering with my home life because I sometimes think about the job even when I'm not there? I think he might laugh at me. This is the year 2002 and the boundaries, rightly or wrongly, between home and work are close.
If a company cannot trust its staff to make the odd instant message or personnel phone call then they probably are doomed. If they have the money to spend spying on staff like this then there is something terribly wrong with their attitude and I wouldn't want to work for them. If someone in the company is not pulling their weight because they are chatting all day then it will show - you don't need spying software for this.
It's about a bit of give and take. Not spying on conversations with the missus.
My company is currently migrating from NT to XP and it has been a major task for the 3000+ users. We've spent far more on developing new systems, new hardware and training.
250,000 doesn't seem much to me for a task this size.
But, I find that most of a car's noise does not come from the engine in the first place. I'm sure a brand new car has all the seals in tack and is sound-tight but how silent will this car be after 50,000 miles? How much wind-noise is there now? How many spot welds will fail and cause the panels to flex in the future?
When I worked in the car industry (1991-2000) I know that car were designed to last 10 years/100,000 miles. Everything from engine wear to paint thickness was taken into account. The law also states that parts must be supplied for 10 years after the final production car leaves the line. Now, rust and mechanical failure normally end a car's life, so how long is the life expectancy on a car like this that has less engine wear?
There is no chance of my ISP every doing this in the UK. They can't arrange for the cable box to be fixed. They can't get my bill right after 12 months of me telling them that I do in fact pay by direct debit and they shouldn't be charging me a levy. They can't even pick the phone up after 10^6 rings...
What chance do they have of recording all my web page visits and emails?
Not trying be be funny matey but I think your connection is shagged. Not that pinging the server shows much anyway...
ping www.hardwareanalysis.com
Pinging www.hardwareanalysis.com [217.115.198.3] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 217.115.198.3: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=241
Reply from 217.115.198.3: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=241
Reply from 217.115.198.3: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=241
Reply from 217.115.198.3: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=241
Ping statistics for 217.115.198.3:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 37ms, Maximum = 56ms, Average = 42ms
...And on top of that people are starving right now, so AIDS-deaths are only really starting to impact right now. These people do not have the money to pay IP cost on top of the manufacturing cost of a drug - and usually IP is 95% of that. This huge tragedy prompted the scrapping of IP on those products.
I would like to know why these hard working countries do not have the money to pay for these products. Is it because they like to spend their money on war rather than education, food and hospitals?
They have gotten into this mess through their own means. If they want to be part of the modern world then they have to get their act together first.
I did a lesson at college on Stereolithography about 10 years ago. The process of curing two-part epoxy resin with the heat generated with laser lights. It was very accurate back then; more than adequate for producing A1 models and patterns.
I'm wondering how accurate it is now or how accurate it could become.
I've said this in the past too but not for those reasons.
I'm a 2-3 fingers per hand typist and get RSI every now and again. Some of my older female colleagues touch-type and get no aches and pains. I believe them when they blame my RSI on my typing style and posture.
I think the children should be taught to touch-type.
Not a great downloader of movies, are you?
The quality is perfectly watchable most of the time. I personnally hate subtitles on the bottom so I wait an extra week for an un-subbed version. I've never seen one with a warez logo apart from maybe a 3 second intro to the movie.
In the UK, I would have to wait six months for this movie. That's two months after I've read all the reviews on the net and chatted to my Yank friends. Wonderful.
Also, people don't watch all their movies on their little 14 inch monitors. MPEGs work great on most DVD players.
I love the cinima too. I love uncomfortable chairs, sitting in the dark, no talking!, music too loud!, can't go for a piss, expensive popcorn, watered down cola that they say is Coke(TM), talk bloke with large hair in front of me, no rewind, my back hurts...
I'd rather write Javascript then a SQL procedure any day of the week!
I know what you're saying...:)
I've used JS recently for accessing the FSO and producing dynamic VML graphs. It is always my first choice before server-side scripts. Intranet publishing removes any hassles I have with browser compatablity meaning I can spend longer on the functionality. It's so much better than VBS - I love it.
£165 a year to tax my car. £8 on every £10 of fuel I buy goes to the government. Huge speeding tax fines. Forced expensive insurance. Residential parking tax... And now they want me to pay to drive into London. This makes me very angry. I know it will spread to my town if it is sucessful.
It also makes me angry when I see the government introducing this before upgrading the underground tube and the bus system.
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www.thinkofthechildren.co.uk
Yes?
A few years back I wanted a career change (and got made redundant). Computing was a way of life and this is what I wanted to do. I had built a homepage in Notepad and though I would expand on this.
Some bad advice I was given in the beginning was "learn Java". I paid for a course in Java and started to learn it - this was like trying to run before trying to walk. So, I went back to polishing my HTML skills and learnt JavaScript to a high enough level where many JavaScript sites would publish my scripts. Since then I have learnt ASP, SQL, XML (yes it does have to be learnt just like any other mark-up language), VML and skimmed through many other eCommerce languages. I run an HTTP and an FTP server on my home PC - good fun. I know about databases. I know about SQL injection hacks, query string hacks, writing my own forms for hacks etc...
I have not spent a penny on any of this really. Only my time and effort have been involved. And it has all been fun.
So, why does my boss keep trying to get me to write VBA macros that I struggle with? Why does the HR department keep telling me that the best way in is "through the desktop support call centre"? This would me soul destroying for me. Why does the HR department tell me that I need to learn all the buzzwords to get a second interview (or even a first interview)?
I would be quite happy to learn about Linux, Apache and PHP if I thought it would do any good (my company is a Windows company as most are). I have no qualifications in the area of IT but I know so much. I also have loads of skills I find that most IT people do not have i.e. customer skills. So...
Why-oh-why-oh-why? :)
Dragon's Lair in the arcades was a bore though. I hated every second of it.
I love the SAMS Teach Yourself stuff. The JavaScript and ASP books have been invalueble to me over the last few years. They are not reference books, although I have refered back to them many times. They are a starting point, a cheap starting point.
If it is an email address post it here.
If it is an online form then post that too. If you know HTML maybe it would be possible to shorten it to a few lines for us.
Thanks.
What? You want me to swap my analogue box for a more expensive digital one with all those lovely foreign channels that I don't understand? Great Mr Cable Provider, I'll have one for each room in my house.
What? You are saying that the digital artefacts are meant to be there? The split second black blank screens are meant to be there too? My analogue box is being phased out? Great Mr Cable Provider, I'll have two for each room in my house.
What? You have removed all your local shops to improve my quality of service and to save yourselves some money? You aren't passing the money savings onto me? You haven't employed extra staff to man the phones? Great Mr Cable Provider, I'll have to recommend you to my friends.
Cable companies deserve everything they get.
This sort of argument always goads me and I'll tell you why.
I was surfing around on my home PC last week and found an interesting application that could save me some time at work. I downloaded it, put it on a floppy disk, took it to work next day, installed it and saved myself 20 minutes work for the week. This was on my time; I would never have been surfing at work to find it. I have saved my boss two days work this year, and next year, the year after and so on.
Should I charge my boss for this? It doesn't really seem worth to me. It only took me a minute.
Should I complain that my work life is interfering with my home life because I sometimes think about the job even when I'm not there? I think he might laugh at me. This is the year 2002 and the boundaries, rightly or wrongly, between home and work are close.
If a company cannot trust its staff to make the odd instant message or personnel phone call then they probably are doomed. If they have the money to spend spying on staff like this then there is something terribly wrong with their attitude and I wouldn't want to work for them. If someone in the company is not pulling their weight because they are chatting all day then it will show - you don't need spying software for this.
It's about a bit of give and take. Not spying on conversations with the missus.
250,000 doesn't seem much to me for a task this size.
But, I find that most of a car's noise does not come from the engine in the first place. I'm sure a brand new car has all the seals in tack and is sound-tight but how silent will this car be after 50,000 miles? How much wind-noise is there now? How many spot welds will fail and cause the panels to flex in the future?
When I worked in the car industry (1991-2000) I know that car were designed to last 10 years/100,000 miles. Everything from engine wear to paint thickness was taken into account. The law also states that parts must be supplied for 10 years after the final production car leaves the line. Now, rust and mechanical failure normally end a car's life, so how long is the life expectancy on a car like this that has less engine wear?
There is no need to keep quiet about this. Everyone knows that magnets are at the heart of all scientific experiments.
When are some web developers going realise that a lot us of have fat enough pipes to have this sort of media streamed?
[End of rant]
There is no chance of my ISP every doing this in the UK. They can't arrange for the cable box to be fixed. They can't get my bill right after 12 months of me telling them that I do in fact pay by direct debit and they shouldn't be charging me a levy. They can't even pick the phone up after 10^6 rings...
What chance do they have of recording all my web page visits and emails?
http://www.nthellworld.com/
Not trying be be funny matey but I think your connection is shagged. Not that pinging the server shows much anyway...
ping www.hardwareanalysis.com
Pinging www.hardwareanalysis.com [217.115.198.3] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 217.115.198.3: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=241
Reply from 217.115.198.3: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=241
Reply from 217.115.198.3: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=241
Reply from 217.115.198.3: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=241
Ping statistics for 217.115.198.3:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 37ms, Maximum = 56ms, Average = 42ms
I would like to know why these hard working countries do not have the money to pay for these products. Is it because they like to spend their money on war rather than education, food and hospitals?
They have gotten into this mess through their own means. If they want to be part of the modern world then they have to get their act together first.
Enough of the handouts, I say.
To be totally honest with you: I have no idea. I don't even have the slightest idea. Guess that makes me stupid too.
Hint: A cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 lbs.
Nope. Still no idea, although I expect this is a very good hint.
What a strange set of numbers. How on earth do you remember that? How on earth can you possibly get your head around the calculations?
It's times like this I'm glad I'm stupid and use the metric system.
Like "flied lice"
I did a lesson at college on Stereolithography about 10 years ago. The process of curing two-part epoxy resin with the heat generated with laser lights. It was very accurate back then; more than adequate for producing A1 models and patterns.
I'm wondering how accurate it is now or how accurate it could become.
I'm a 2-3 fingers per hand typist and get RSI every now and again. Some of my older female colleagues touch-type and get no aches and pains. I believe them when they blame my RSI on my typing style and posture.
I think the children should be taught to touch-type.
If you want to watch colour TV then you have to ugrade your old black and white.
If you want rich pages with functionality then you have to upgrade your browser (and turn JS back on fools). It's not like browsers cost anything.
1. Store the electricity. http://www.regenesys.com/
2. Turn the turbine off if the grid can't handle the extra power. Let it spin without producing the juice.
Not a great downloader of movies, are you? The quality is perfectly watchable most of the time. I personnally hate subtitles on the bottom so I wait an extra week for an un-subbed version. I've never seen one with a warez logo apart from maybe a 3 second intro to the movie. In the UK, I would have to wait six months for this movie. That's two months after I've read all the reviews on the net and chatted to my Yank friends. Wonderful. Also, people don't watch all their movies on their little 14 inch monitors. MPEGs work great on most DVD players. I love the cinima too. I love uncomfortable chairs, sitting in the dark, no talking!, music too loud!, can't go for a piss, expensive popcorn, watered down cola that they say is Coke(TM), talk bloke with large hair in front of me, no rewind, my back hurts...
I know what you're saying... :)
I've used JS recently for accessing the FSO and producing dynamic VML graphs. It is always my first choice before server-side scripts. Intranet publishing removes any hassles I have with browser compatablity meaning I can spend longer on the functionality. It's so much better than VBS - I love it.
£165 a year to tax my car. £8 on every £10 of fuel I buy goes to the government. Huge speeding tax fines. Forced expensive insurance. Residential parking tax... And now they want me to pay to drive into London. This makes me very angry. I know it will spread to my town if it is sucessful.
It also makes me angry when I see the government introducing this before upgrading the underground tube and the bus system.