one word, one movie... "Swordfish".
And while you're playing Duke Nukem Forever on this OS, a terribly bland Paul Oakenfold mix will be blasting your drums at full volume.
Here in San Diego, if you have your CS degree and say, 2yrs of experience at $60k, you will find yourself at a crossroad: If you have good presentation skills, and have managed to teach yourself.Net/SQL Server/XML (because God(tm) knows they won't teach that to you at SDSU) then you should have no problem contracting for $60/hr or earning $75k+ once you move to another job.
Having 7yrs experience myself, I have come to realization that the easiest way to get a pay raise is to simply move to another company. Frequently updating your resume will remind you of how little you actually know in your field. Diversify, bitches.
If you choose to stay in one place, you can bank on a mediocre 3% pay increase annually, stock option carrot dangling, and work with the same technology you played with last year. Just my 2 cents, i don't mean to offend anyone. Mileage will vary.
HyperThreading is a cheesy Intel hack that lets Windows see two logical processors. For the apps i've run on Windows, there has been absolutely no gain in performance under heavy load. Maybe someone else can share a different experience...
Me:Hey what the hell is this $5.99 NAV fee in this months bill?
TMobile guy(via Mumbai): Good day sir, this is Trevor, please hold for a minute while I look up your account. By the way, how is the surf in Sunny San Diego California?
Me:(shooting up heroin to ease tension)
TMobile: That charge is for your monthly Norton Antivirus protection service. It protects you from malicious network activity.
Me:I would like to unsubscribe.
TMobile: Sir, you do understand that by removing the NAV protection, you risk data loss, loss of connection quality in case of emergency, and penal infection?
Me:I want it removed, and I want you to unsubscribe me from the NAV protection.
TMobile: Very well my homie. While I process your request, I will read you some T-Mobile special promotions regarding our new Universal Power Supply service for your mobile phone? Purchase now and receive any three Ashlee Simpson ring to...
Me:(hang up abruptly and curls into fetal position).
I thought I was getting a simple internship about 5 years ago when I joined a start-up. I was asked to do some informal software testing.
A few weeks into it, I got a big pay increase and was asked to put in more hours. They were flexible and would let me come in any time of the day and the sr.programmers would help me with CS homework too. Free diet cokes too. That internship turned into a full time job and made school a part time thing. It took me forever to finish my CS degree, but I think I made the right choice. I learned Windows development there and moved on to bigger things even before I had my BS. I think it could've gone bad had I quit school (with all the dot.com frenzy at the time) but I'm glad I didn't.
I always tell interns at our company to not get lazy and just chill on the Net while their here.
They need to be pro-active in trying to get involved with the real-world problem solving that is around them...instead of focusing everything on class projects. Now I'll sit in on some interviews for jr.level developer positions and I'll quickly be able to tell who spent real time interning, and who didn't. Ofcourse I was fortunate in that I didn't get stuck interning at some place that made me create crossover cables for 3 months.
Just my 2 cents.
Believe me, Michael Cricheton is a step ahead of you.
Coming this Summer to a starbucks & noble:
Rex
Outer cover: a greed-driven start-up biotech company pushes science to its limits by side stepping a righteous QA Manager. The outcome is more than the board of directors had hoped for!
I had heard that OJ was in talks of creating a knock-off of "Punked" and the title was gonna be "Juiced". Can you imagine the unsuspecting celeb's face when OJ jumps out from behind the bushes(in black gear)? I seriously hope this show is gets picked up.
Can't wait for ThermalTake to make a Copper Brick heatsink for this bad boy. I'll break the 2Ghz barrier with this. So what if my PDA weighs 15lbs, can yours run AutoCad?
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Keep it up and you're bound to get unlimited lives in Contra. //end NES reference.
one word, one movie... "Swordfish". And while you're playing Duke Nukem Forever on this OS, a terribly bland Paul Oakenfold mix will be blasting your drums at full volume.
Here in San Diego, if you have your CS degree and say, 2yrs of experience at $60k, you will find yourself at a crossroad: If you have good presentation skills, and have managed to teach yourself .Net/SQL Server/XML (because God(tm) knows they won't teach that to you at SDSU) then you should have no problem contracting for $60/hr or earning $75k+ once you move to another job.
Having 7yrs experience myself, I have come to realization that the easiest way to get a pay raise is to simply move to another company. Frequently updating your resume will remind you of how little you actually know in your field. Diversify, bitches.
If you choose to stay in one place, you can bank on a mediocre 3% pay increase annually, stock option carrot dangling, and work with the same technology you played with last year. Just my 2 cents, i don't mean to offend anyone. Mileage will vary.
HyperThreading is a cheesy Intel hack that lets Windows see two logical processors. For the apps i've run on Windows, there has been absolutely no gain in performance under heavy load. Maybe someone else can share a different experience...
How does Bono feel about this?
Sadly that message was: "A/S/L/Pic"
Don't hate me for being beautiful;)
-Owner of a Number Nine PCI w/4MB VRAM.
*in head-to-head comparisons against high end ATI / NVidia cards in Windows Safe Mode.
Me:Hey what the hell is this $5.99 NAV fee in this months bill?
TMobile guy(via Mumbai): Good day sir, this is Trevor, please hold for a minute while I look up your account. By the way, how is the surf in Sunny San Diego California?
Me:(shooting up heroin to ease tension)
TMobile: That charge is for your monthly Norton Antivirus protection service. It protects you from malicious network activity.
Me:I would like to unsubscribe.
TMobile: Sir, you do understand that by removing the NAV protection, you risk data loss, loss of connection quality in case of emergency, and penal infection?
Me:I want it removed, and I want you to unsubscribe me from the NAV protection.
TMobile: Very well my homie. While I process your request, I will read you some T-Mobile special promotions regarding our new Universal Power Supply service for your mobile phone? Purchase now and receive any three Ashlee Simpson ring to...
Me:(hang up abruptly and curls into fetal position).
Yeah exactly....GM has bigger issue concerning primitive technology like braking systems.
The real headline should say "GM expects cruise control recalls in 2008"
It was selling for $19.99 at two San Diego stores this past week.
I thought I was getting a simple internship about 5 years ago when I joined a start-up. I was asked to do some informal software testing. A few weeks into it, I got a big pay increase and was asked to put in more hours. They were flexible and would let me come in any time of the day and the sr.programmers would help me with CS homework too. Free diet cokes too. That internship turned into a full time job and made school a part time thing. It took me forever to finish my CS degree, but I think I made the right choice. I learned Windows development there and moved on to bigger things even before I had my BS. I think it could've gone bad had I quit school (with all the dot.com frenzy at the time) but I'm glad I didn't. I always tell interns at our company to not get lazy and just chill on the Net while their here. They need to be pro-active in trying to get involved with the real-world problem solving that is around them...instead of focusing everything on class projects. Now I'll sit in on some interviews for jr.level developer positions and I'll quickly be able to tell who spent real time interning, and who didn't. Ofcourse I was fortunate in that I didn't get stuck interning at some place that made me create crossover cables for 3 months. Just my 2 cents.
Did he do the Delux, Special or Premium? I just can't justify paying an extra dollar for the special pink soap.
We're getting closer to the day when we won't have the lame keyboard beeps when a hollywood hacker types on his Dell(tm) latitude.
I hope it's smaller and runs cooler than my Dell Desktop Replacement
I knew holding my eMachine stock would pay off.
Ahh yes but....
Who was the first to have Rambus memory?
Who was the first to ink a deal with the Blue Men Group?
Who was the first to have CPU_ID on by default?
Who was the first to have a 300+ channel pipeline??
Who was the first to marvel at AMD's intergrated memory controller??
The tables are turned now Athlon fanboi!
Dual Core or bust!!!
Perhaps Microsoft should include an option, like 'Prepare this computer for resale,' which utterly* destroys all data."
*see EULA for full details
Believe me, Michael Cricheton is a step ahead of you.
Coming this Summer to a starbucks & noble: Rex
Outer cover: a greed-driven start-up biotech company pushes science to its limits by side stepping a righteous QA Manager. The outcome is more than the board of directors had hoped for!
I had heard that OJ was in talks of creating a knock-off of "Punked" and the title was gonna be "Juiced".
Can you imagine the unsuspecting celeb's face when OJ jumps out from behind the bushes(in black gear)?
I seriously hope this show is gets picked up.
Carly, is that you?
It's not a robotic arm, it's Congress, the Supreme Court and the Senate.
Not true... Quality Avoidance is job 1 !
Can't wait for ThermalTake to make a Copper Brick heatsink for this bad boy. I'll break the 2Ghz barrier with this. So what if my PDA weighs 15lbs, can yours run AutoCad?
More crappy support and dropped calls?
...plus increasing inexplainable taxes/fees/surcharges and 13-page statements.