Dude, I would cut up all your credit cards but one if I were you, and get a consolodation loan at a good interest rate to pay them off. Credit cards are the biggest scam on the planet. You need ONE, not 10 like most americans. Instant savings if you cut those suckers up and learn to live a cash existence.
Look, ANYONE can save money. At 20K though, I would honestly consider going on welfare, and letting us sucker taxpayers give you a free education. The poor lack creativity.
Dude, if you can read; the cars are PARKED until the weekend. My commute is now 2 hours, although I can work during that time. I even get the occasional thrill of the Caltrain running over some homeless person.
I dont want to be stuck in Software Development in another 5 years, when my job will consist mainly of emailing UML Diagrams to India. The writing is on the wall, so I am getting into Real Estate, studying for my licence after hours.
I think Software Development and IT are dying in America, and I dont want to go down with the ship, wondering what the hell to do AFTER I lose my job.
Everything I am doing to save money, is to develop the capitol needed to invest in Real Estate and the Stock market, cause I am NOT going to compete with some indian who will gladly do my job in exchange for a burrito.
I make close to $200K. I parked the Navigator and Viper and started taking Caltrain. I save $200 a month on gasoline, and I get work done on the train instead of sitting on hwys 17-85-101 on my way to work. Instead of the $10 I spent on two lattes per day, I now brew my own coffee in the morning and carry a thermos. Thats another $250 per month. Movies every weekend? Fuck that; NETFLIX rocks, and I can make a dozen hotdogs for what one costs at the Mountain view cinema. $50 per month.
Going to Nola's or Baha Fresh everyday for lunch? Not anymore dude. thats $300+ a month reduced to $100 by bringing my lunch from home. Now that I ride the train, I dont stop at Fry's twice a week to "just look around" like I used to tell my wife.
An easy $150 a month saved just by staying out of the book/CD/game aisles. If I need something now, Ebay has it. Drinks after work with my team? Once a week instead of 3-4 times. Thats another $100 saved.
In one year, I have saved enough to help me make down payments on two rental houses, with positive cash flow coming in, that goes straight to the bank until I have enough to buy another one.
If you can give up some of the ego stuff, you can live just fine in the Valley. Now, when I go out in my Viper on the weekends, I dont give a shit about how much the gas costs. I havent filled up in 3 weeks.
Has anyone here ever heard the phrase: "It doesnt matter what the truth is, what matters is what I can prove"?
I've followed this from the beginning, and Linux proponents are really fucking this up for themselves. Everyone felt so secure when Novell piped up, but where are they today? Cowering in a corner hoping to hide long enough to not be brought into this thing in a damages suit, that's where.
Linux vendors are sitting back, feeling secure, in denial of what is possible here. You could lose. You could lose big time. The fact is, SCO does not have to show all their cards, only enough to get people to start paying for licencing. I have no doubt they are holding back stuff for the day they go after the entire Linux community.
SCO has got a gun pointed at you, with Microsoft providing the powder. You could get hurt. Unless the Linux community gets vocal real soon, corporations are going to end up paying dearly to SCO, and Microsoft is going to pick up marketshare in the interim.
I would stop arguing the merits of SCO's case, and start yelling at IBM, Redhat and others, who should be speaking out on users behalf. Maybe they figure they can sell you anything UNIX, and dont really give a shit about users? I dont know.
Just dont be so sure that SCO does not have a case, because if they do, or some judge says they do (for a piece of the action) then you are fucked.
Re:CHALLENGE, you dumb liberal.
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Great, now be honest about how we got those things you mentioned. If you think Liberals are responsible for those items, you are nuts. Save for Americans public school system which sucks beyond belief. Progressive taxation is nothing more than stealing from someone to give to someone else. But overall, not bad. I'll bet you gave yourself a headache coming up with the list.
CHALLENGE, you dumb liberal.
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List 10 positive things about America, without couching it in Liberal rhetoric. Just 10 positive things. I dont think you can. You folks hate this country, largely because YOU dont control it, or the rest of us who dont describe to your Marxist utopia.
Just tell me ten GOOD things about this country. The only thing that I hate are you bozos holding us back. America could be even greater were it not for all the money that has to go to support lazy SOB's and the children they breed like rabbits.
You are right, but IBM is only the target in spirit. The point is to introduce all new forms of FUD into the minds of CIO's everywhere. Microsoft wants to get corporations to rethink any moves towards Linux. When the orders come down to report upstairs on the potential impact of a Linux migration, covering all these new potential issues, there will be more than a few CIO's who will say: "screw this, nobody gets fired for buying Windows". Game over.
Re:I hope he gets the nomination too!
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Put down the bong, loser. Do you have anything positive to say about America? I doubt it. No one in America is denied medical care when needed. If you dont believe that, check any emergency room in the nation.
I wont even bother with your silly class-warfare nonsense. Dean wants to take care of his little Napoleonic ego, dufus. We will let him. Then we will destroy him. Dean has little-man syndrome. My party stands for the defence and security of this nation. Yours stands for government control, socialist income redistribution, Politcal correctness and emotion over reason.
Bring it on, losers. We got something for your ass.
I hope he gets the nomination too!
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So that Bush can stomp the little socialist into the ground. Howard Dean is an arrogant little fool, who is only a tool for the Clintons. He will insure that the Democrats lose in 04 to set the stage for Hillary in 08.
For Republicans, nothing would be better than for Dean to go against Bush. Dean will make McGovern look like a winner. The Gay Marriage issue alone will keep him from picking up a single southern state, his remarks about the Military will lose him even more.
A pretty nice jab in the side of IBM, if you ask me. Now, CIO's are going to be asking the question: If Microsoft will cover me legally for using their stuff, why wont you IBM folks do the same? There is NO good answer to that question; IBM will have to capitulate.
Looks like SCO has got momentum now, and will Microsoft steering from the back seat, Linux might be in a wee bit of trouble in the hunt for marketshare.
It's only going to get more interesting as the battle continues.
The USA might be powerful, but the rest of the world would soon bankrupt it if a trade war started.
Dont underestimate the power of POWER, dufus.
The US spends huge sums of money protecting a lot of countries that cant protect themselves. Do not think for a minute that in a trade war that threatened the US, that we would not start TAKING from countries what we used to pay for.
And there would be nothing any other country could do about it. Any country that fucked with us could be annexed, and those that cant, dont have anything we want anyway. Try growing your wheat in Russia. Try taking us on with the Canadian Navy. We have already shown that if we want the Oil, we will TAKE the oil. Deal with it.
Were'nt you planning to spend your career doing OSS programming for no money, just because you hate Microsoft, like the rest of these bozos?
I had no idea there was anyone left on Slashdot that thought that a programmer (and the company they work for) should actually be paid for what they do, instead of handing it over like some socialist software utopia.
Im shocked. SHOCKED!!!
At least that makes TWO people here who want to be paid for what they do.
Go to EBay and look for a 740 or 750 model. We have one of each, and they are great. Very good color, good reliability, and you can pick one up cheap. Grab all the cartriges you can find, because they dont make these models anymore.
What do you suggest? You gonna call Bin Laden? It's too late. Microsoft's competition shot their wad over Netscape and Java. The beast is back, and he is pissed.
If there is any validity to their claims, the offending code will be expunged from Linux and replaced, which will conclusively end the matter.
Dead wrong.
Ever heard of 'derivative works'? Replacing code gets you nowhere. You not only have to replace the code itself, but the way that the original code does whatever it does. You have to come up with a completely original method, or you are still in violation of the original works.
Check the Amazon 'One-Click' lawsuit with Barnes and Noble.
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How many credit cards do you have? What are their interest rates?
Who said I lie to the wife? I do look around. Then I buy shit. Even at 60K, you can find a way to save some dough. It's all in your attitude.
Dude, I would cut up all your credit cards but one if I were you, and get a consolodation loan at a good interest rate to pay them off. Credit cards are the biggest scam on the planet. You need ONE, not 10 like most americans. Instant savings if you cut those suckers up and learn to live a cash existence.
Look, ANYONE can save money. At 20K though, I would honestly consider going on welfare, and letting us sucker taxpayers give you a free education. The poor lack creativity.
Dude, if you can read; the cars are PARKED until the weekend. My commute is now 2 hours, although I can work during that time. I even get the occasional thrill of the Caltrain running over some homeless person.
I think Software Development and IT are dying in America, and I dont want to go down with the ship, wondering what the hell to do AFTER I lose my job.
Everything I am doing to save money, is to develop the capitol needed to invest in Real Estate and the Stock market, cause I am NOT going to compete with some indian who will gladly do my job in exchange for a burrito.
I gave up Kobe beef, and am now just getting by on USDA prime. The horror!
Going to Nola's or Baha Fresh everyday for lunch? Not anymore dude. thats $300+ a month reduced to $100 by bringing my lunch from home. Now that I ride the train, I dont stop at Fry's twice a week to "just look around" like I used to tell my wife. An easy $150 a month saved just by staying out of the book/CD/game aisles. If I need something now, Ebay has it. Drinks after work with my team? Once a week instead of 3-4 times. Thats another $100 saved.
In one year, I have saved enough to help me make down payments on two rental houses, with positive cash flow coming in, that goes straight to the bank until I have enough to buy another one.
If you can give up some of the ego stuff, you can live just fine in the Valley. Now, when I go out in my Viper on the weekends, I dont give a shit about how much the gas costs. I havent filled up in 3 weeks.
AND WE LIKED IT!!!
I've followed this from the beginning, and Linux proponents are really fucking this up for themselves. Everyone felt so secure when Novell piped up, but where are they today? Cowering in a corner hoping to hide long enough to not be brought into this thing in a damages suit, that's where.
Linux vendors are sitting back, feeling secure, in denial of what is possible here. You could lose. You could lose big time. The fact is, SCO does not have to show all their cards, only enough to get people to start paying for licencing. I have no doubt they are holding back stuff for the day they go after the entire Linux community.
SCO has got a gun pointed at you, with Microsoft providing the powder. You could get hurt. Unless the Linux community gets vocal real soon, corporations are going to end up paying dearly to SCO, and Microsoft is going to pick up marketshare in the interim.
I would stop arguing the merits of SCO's case, and start yelling at IBM, Redhat and others, who should be speaking out on users behalf. Maybe they figure they can sell you anything UNIX, and dont really give a shit about users? I dont know.
Just dont be so sure that SCO does not have a case, because if they do, or some judge says they do (for a piece of the action) then you are fucked.
Great, now be honest about how we got those things you mentioned. If you think Liberals are responsible for those items, you are nuts. Save for Americans public school system which sucks beyond belief. Progressive taxation is nothing more than stealing from someone to give to someone else. But overall, not bad. I'll bet you gave yourself a headache coming up with the list.
Just tell me ten GOOD things about this country. The only thing that I hate are you bozos holding us back. America could be even greater were it not for all the money that has to go to support lazy SOB's and the children they breed like rabbits.
You are right, but IBM is only the target in spirit. The point is to introduce all new forms of FUD into the minds of CIO's everywhere. Microsoft wants to get corporations to rethink any moves towards Linux. When the orders come down to report upstairs on the potential impact of a Linux migration, covering all these new potential issues, there will be more than a few CIO's who will say: "screw this, nobody gets fired for buying Windows". Game over.
I wont even bother with your silly class-warfare nonsense. Dean wants to take care of his little Napoleonic ego, dufus. We will let him. Then we will destroy him. Dean has little-man syndrome. My party stands for the defence and security of this nation. Yours stands for government control, socialist income redistribution, Politcal correctness and emotion over reason.
Bring it on, losers. We got something for your ass.
For Republicans, nothing would be better than for Dean to go against Bush. Dean will make McGovern look like a winner. The Gay Marriage issue alone will keep him from picking up a single southern state, his remarks about the Military will lose him even more.
Go Dean!
Looks like SCO has got momentum now, and will Microsoft steering from the back seat, Linux might be in a wee bit of trouble in the hunt for marketshare.
It's only going to get more interesting as the battle continues.
Look up 'JDAM' in your dictionary.
Dont underestimate the power of POWER, dufus.
The US spends huge sums of money protecting a lot of countries that cant protect themselves. Do not think for a minute that in a trade war that threatened the US, that we would not start TAKING from countries what we used to pay for.
And there would be nothing any other country could do about it. Any country that fucked with us could be annexed, and those that cant, dont have anything we want anyway. Try growing your wheat in Russia. Try taking us on with the Canadian Navy. We have already shown that if we want the Oil, we will TAKE the oil. Deal with it.
I had no idea there was anyone left on Slashdot that thought that a programmer (and the company they work for) should actually be paid for what they do, instead of handing it over like some socialist software utopia.
Im shocked. SHOCKED!!!
At least that makes TWO people here who want to be paid for what they do.
Good to know. Thanks.
Go to EBay and look for a 740 or 750 model. We have one of each, and they are great. Very good color, good reliability, and you can pick one up cheap. Grab all the cartriges you can find, because they dont make these models anymore.
Hint: None.
IBM may make more money than MS, but how much money can they afford to blow on a protracted legal dispute, instead of just forking over dough to MS?
Sorry, thats right, I made a mistake. Thanks.
What do you suggest? You gonna call Bin Laden? It's too late. Microsoft's competition shot their wad over Netscape and Java. The beast is back, and he is pissed.
Dead wrong.
Ever heard of 'derivative works'? Replacing code gets you nowhere. You not only have to replace the code itself, but the way that the original code does whatever it does. You have to come up with a completely original method, or you are still in violation of the original works.
Check the Amazon 'One-Click' lawsuit with Barnes and Noble.