Speaking on nVidia stock i remember when they made their IPO and the price per a share was at 16 dollars. I told my uncle about it and sure enough he invested 12 grand. Few months went by and the stock price skyrocketed to 200+ dollars per a share.
lol... two years might not sound much but when you also add my academic experience I'd say I have at least 5 years. I was the kid in school who helped everyone and their mother with assignments, including some graduate students. I also have quite a lot of basement experience.
The thing is I don't make the big decisions nor do I care to at this point in my career. Making commitments is the job of our chief architect, which is why he gets the big bucks (rumored to be in the 140K range).
Thanks for the tip though, I'll make sure I'm not the guy left holding the bag.
. hell wait until you are fired because an ass hole committed your team to something; you will argue about the death matches too.
Me get fired? There's two ways I can lose my job:
1) The Company goes under (highly unlikely since it is a wholly owned subsidiary of one of the olds and most prestiges company in U.S. and we are making money for them).
2) I start showing up to work late and drunk. Since I'm a part-time insomniac and don't drink at all it's not gonna happen. As for your bit about death marches, well I've seen 10 people get axed since I have been with the company and I'm still standing and from speaking to the our director it is not gonna happen. Of course, he could be lying but then again he hired me on the spot after interviewing with him for an hour.
it is the jobs that have ten thousand pages of requirements; it is the jobs that have to be done by a specific date or the company is going under; it is the jobs that have government requirements.
Hate to burst your bubble but I am working on such a project right now. I have yet to come across a requirement document that is in the thousands range let alone tens of thousands and just because haven't come across it doesn't mean I can't handle it. If I were to come across such a document in the future I can't image someone would be stupid enough to have once person implement all those requirements. We have competent mangers thank you very much.
First of all I graduated from school at 21 thus I have 2 years of experience under my belt. Over the last year I have worked on two military software maintanance projects. Both a successes. Before that I worked on a project that involves building a complex OCR from scratch. Experience? I don't lack. Talent? I have plenty of. Skills? Sharp as Excalibur. My only weakness is I don't know how to manage people, and that is something that will come over time.
Oh, you probably meant you can do anything that you know about, which ain't much at 23. Seems you know so little, you don't even know what you don't know. That's a scary thought
So now you're Nustrodamus now huh? This has got to be one of the most nebulous things I have ever heard. At some point in time there are some everone knows nothing about but the most important thing is how quickly can get up to speed? I am a highly visual and auditory person so if you give me something to look at or tell me about something it will sink in within a minute.
Those damn older people have lives. They just waste their weekends having fun with family and friends. You don't.
Actually, family and friends are very important to me but so is my job. So far I've only had to work 3 weekends since January which isn't bad.
I guess I would consider myself truly gifted because there is literally nothing I can't do. I am a young guy, 23, and when my manager says jump I tend to say how high? The older folks seem to want to get into an arguments and complain about time factor. They sure as hell don't want to come in on the weekends where as I don't mind. Give a 23 year old 60K dollars a year and he'll bust his right nutt to keep getting paid that much.
Who are they kidding? We all know they are waiting and stalling to see if IBM will blink and settle. And knowing IBM, they'll settle so their stock price won't suffer.
I remember an old saying that goes something like this:
IBM has well over 20,000 patents. If they so desire they can go treasure hunting and find every IT company out there infringing on at least one of its patents.
It is time for IBM to lock and load, and bring out the big guns. Time for SCO to smoke the barrel of double barrel shotgun!
Sony has a choke hold on MiniDisc technology and that is why it failed! If it was an open standard it would have taken off but no, Sony had to try and corner the market with it. Plus MiniDiscs had no real advantage over CDs except for size.
VOD are useful when you want to watch movies you wouldn't want to be seen in line for at the movies or lugging a DVD/VHS at a local vidoe store (i.e. Pluto Nash).
No doubt DVD will go the way of the VHS in 20 years or so but there will always be a need for physical media out there that can hold high quality audio and video. Besides, Hollywood will alway want to sell the consumer movies and I as a consumer will always want to have physical media so I can watch a movie I really like any time. Also if VOD takes off wouldn't it be the the death of Blockbuster and Hollywood Videos?
It is illegal to not sell property because of race
This is a misnomer. If you are selling through a bank or an institution that is FDIC backed (who isn't now a days?) then you can't discriminate. But if you are willing to sit on your property and wait for someone to come along with 200+ thousand in cash to buy you house then you can certainly discriminate.
There is such a thing as JUST CAUSE! Because if you kick someone out without stating the cause you are likely to get you ass sue and probably lose a lot of money at that.
In the state of Washington there is a law that says an Employee can terminate you at will BUT if an employee doesn't give a reason you are allowed to sue their ass off. Essencially, you can claim anything you want.
Just because a law is in the books doesn't mean they can't be challenged, Especially when one law conflicts with another.
I'm in the market for MP3 and even though i can afford an iPod is simply refuse to based on principle. They are really overpriced. I have been waiting for a player that was in GIG or 2 range and if Bantam's 2 GIG drive is around the $120 price range I'll be the first to buy it.
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Speaking on nVidia stock i remember when they made their IPO and the price per a share was at 16 dollars. I told my uncle about it and sure enough he invested 12 grand. Few months went by and the stock price skyrocketed to 200+ dollars per a share.
What the government doesn't know won't hurt...Who I'm I kidding, those bastards at the IRS know everything.
To get your hands on pirated hardware you got live in Asia. Everything is made their nowadays and their is nothing they can't pirate!
Amelie!
lol... two years might not sound much but when you also add my academic experience I'd say I have at least 5 years. I was the kid in school who helped everyone and their mother with assignments, including some graduate students. I also have quite a lot of basement experience.
Touché!
The thing is I don't make the big decisions nor do I care to at this point in my career. Making commitments is the job of our chief architect, which is why he gets the big bucks (rumored to be in the 140K range).
Thanks for the tip though, I'll make sure I'm not the guy left holding the bag.
. hell wait until you are fired because an ass hole committed your team to something; you will argue about the death matches too.
Me get fired? There's two ways I can lose my job:
1) The Company goes under (highly unlikely since it is a wholly owned subsidiary of one of the olds and most prestiges company in U.S. and we are making money for them).
2) I start showing up to work late and drunk. Since I'm a part-time insomniac and don't drink at all it's not gonna happen. As for your bit about death marches, well I've seen 10 people get axed since I have been with the company and I'm still standing and from speaking to the our director it is not gonna happen. Of course, he could be lying but then again he hired me on the spot after interviewing with him for an hour.
it is the jobs that have ten thousand pages of requirements; it is the jobs that have to be done by a specific date or the company is going under; it is the jobs that have government requirements.
Hate to burst your bubble but I am working on such a project right now. I have yet to come across a requirement document that is in the thousands range let alone tens of thousands and just because haven't come across it doesn't mean I can't handle it. If I were to come across such a document in the future I can't image someone would be stupid enough to have once person implement all those requirements. We have competent mangers thank you very much.
Just trying to be honest here.
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First of all I graduated from school at 21 thus I have 2 years of experience under my belt. Over the last year I have worked on two military software maintanance projects. Both a successes. Before that I worked on a project that involves building a complex OCR from scratch. Experience? I don't lack. Talent? I have plenty of. Skills? Sharp as Excalibur. My only weakness is I don't know how to manage people, and that is something that will come over time.
Oh, you probably meant you can do anything that you know about, which ain't much at 23. Seems you know so little, you don't even know what you don't know. That's a scary thought
So now you're Nustrodamus now huh? This has got to be one of the most nebulous things I have ever heard. At some point in time there are some everone knows nothing about but the most important thing is how quickly can get up to speed? I am a highly visual and auditory person so if you give me something to look at or tell me about something it will sink in within a minute.
Those damn older people have lives. They just waste their weekends having fun with family and friends. You don't. Actually, family and friends are very important to me but so is my job. So far I've only had to work 3 weekends since January which isn't bad.
I guess I would consider myself truly gifted because there is literally nothing I can't do. I am a young guy, 23, and when my manager says jump I tend to say how high? The older folks seem to want to get into an arguments and complain about time factor. They sure as hell don't want to come in on the weekends where as I don't mind. Give a 23 year old 60K dollars a year and he'll bust his right nutt to keep getting paid that much.
I am not a man either but I am a Prime number.
I smell RIAA! *sniff* *sniff* I can just smell a law suite being filed against the school for encouraging music file sharing.
I am going to work to move all of our critical systems to solaris next year.
You are not serious are you? You obviously haven't done cost analysis!
Who are they kidding? We all know they are waiting and stalling to see if IBM will blink and settle. And knowing IBM, they'll settle so their stock price won't suffer.
I remember an old saying that goes something like this:
IBM has well over 20,000 patents. If they so desire they can go treasure hunting and find every IT company out there infringing on at least one of its patents.
It is time for IBM to lock and load, and bring out the big guns. Time for SCO to smoke the barrel of double barrel shotgun!
Sony has a choke hold on MiniDisc technology and that is why it failed! If it was an open standard it would have taken off but no, Sony had to try and corner the market with it. Plus MiniDiscs had no real advantage over CDs except for size.
VOD are useful when you want to watch movies you wouldn't want to be seen in line for at the movies or lugging a DVD/VHS at a local vidoe store (i.e. Pluto Nash).
I like Vanilla Coke you insensitive clod!
No doubt DVD will go the way of the VHS in 20 years or so but there will always be a need for physical media out there that can hold high quality audio and video. Besides, Hollywood will alway want to sell the consumer movies and I as a consumer will always want to have physical media so I can watch a movie I really like any time. Also if VOD takes off wouldn't it be the the death of Blockbuster and Hollywood Videos?
It is illegal to not sell property because of race
This is a misnomer. If you are selling through a bank or an institution that is FDIC backed (who isn't now a days?) then you can't discriminate. But if you are willing to sit on your property and wait for someone to come along with 200+ thousand in cash to buy you house then you can certainly discriminate.
Like they say, tyranny is give birth by men with good intention (i.e. The Patriot Act).
There is such a thing as JUST CAUSE! Because if you kick someone out without stating the cause you are likely to get you ass sue and probably lose a lot of money at that.
In the state of Washington there is a law that says an Employee can terminate you at will BUT if an employee doesn't give a reason you are allowed to sue their ass off. Essencially, you can claim anything you want.
Just because a law is in the books doesn't mean they can't be challenged, Especially when one law conflicts with another.
The UN is working to make sure of that!
I'm in the market for MP3 and even though i can afford an iPod is simply refuse to based on principle. They are really overpriced. I have been waiting for a player that was in GIG or 2 range and if Bantam's 2 GIG drive is around the $120 price range I'll be the first to buy it.