No it's not. Once you pay for the camera it's yours. There are companies out there specialized in modifying cameras -- changing focusing screens, removing anti-alias filters, converting to infra-red photography, converting to astro-photography, etc.
So they do not want an older person who MIGHT retire inside 10 years, but the want a younger person who WILL job hop within 5? It may be true, but not of everyone.
I work with a consulting company where over half the people are over 40. (The age you can not get an IP job) And I get all the hours I can handle. I recommend looking for a expert body shop, and learning with them. Age brings experience. Both in actual IT work, and in planning a project and noticing details.
That is eventually the only answer things like this ever come up with. It is mainly because no one looks at the law of diminishing returns... And we get more demand, price goes and and people figure out a way to cut it... Works every time.
Apparently the free market has failed in the US, because it was able to buy laws designed to distort it in the phone company's favour.
No, it failed because too many drooling idiots do not understand the real cost of a smart phone (with a 2 year contract) and so a realistically priced no-contract phone seems expensive.
It is a big issue, because you buy the phone, you don't rent it.
You also buy a home, but while it is still being financed, there are limits on what you can do with it. (For example, not carry full insurance) Once the home is paid off, you cn have more freedom. Same for the phone.
While I really support this effort, and I understand why he is basing in NZ (which will bend over backwards to be proper after that last screwup) I question the wisdom of calling the entire thing megaconz... Not exactly trust inspiring...
Ever read about the Heathkit HERO and the general love for robots in the 1980s? This is about as new as a mullet.
Everything cycles... Fashion more than most, but IT does as well. Look at SAS, ASP, Cloud for a good example. However, I do dread the day when big hair and mullets come back.
The biggest objection to fracking is the unknown chemicals pumped into the ground, potentially contaminating the groundwater. These people pumped water down, not chemicals. There is no danger of contamination.
"They injected ground-up recycled plastic bottles, which plugged up the cracks in one reservoir while millions of gallons of cold water were being pumped in to create another."
How is easy, as other have said. How legally? That is another matter. As I read it, they are committing a DMCA violation by breaking a security measure. Should be able to go after them for anticircumvention tools, and force them to remove the cirt.
You are confusing "what it costs you" to "what it costs to replace." The costs to replace "social security and medicare, disability insurance, life insurance, unemployment insurance, and a couple of others" is self employment insurance. And reasonable health insurance in Texas can be had for under $500 a month, half of which you pay anyway, so net of $250. More of your expenses are write offs, so that offsets some as well. Now in some places, those numbers are very different... But I live in Texas, so that is what I know.
Independent Consultants generally fail because they have horrible business sense.
Or, because they try to be sales people. I have someone else arrange my jobs. I close them, and schedule them, and usually overlap them... But I do not sell them.
Only once. Then we learn about thing like "work orders" and "mechanic's leans." Admittedly, you can only use those when you never plan to go back... But by the time you need to, you are never going back anyway.
As for second class citizen, they're the first to be removed and generally are brought on to dodge some benefit or legal requirement. While there may be some benefits, the flexibility gained is generally lost for most people.
You mean first to leave as we can more easily line up a new job. As companies spiral down, do you really want to be the last to go? (With the 60 hours weeks and the three jobs under one salary?)
Its more about bringing the wealth of experience that you get contracting to bear on problems and tasks that permanents tend to shy away from. The number of times I have heard a permanent staff member go "thats not my job" or "I'm not paid to do that" is amazing. When you contract, you are exposed to so many different areas, different solutions, different methods, as well as the experience you gain from being able to solve problems that others have already failed to do. You reach this point where someone has a job that other (ie permanents) are unwilling to do because it is stepping too far out of their comfort zone and you can just step in, do the job, get it done RIGHT and get out.
Why did you post AC, my brother from another mother? Everything you said was so true. I was on a contract as the network expert. I was trying to implement something and needed input from the regular team. However, they were slammed that day with desktop support issues. A user came in with a printer problem. Everyone was busy, other than me waiting on them. So I went and fixed the printer... Why? Because I could. Because no one else was available. Because I was waiting for the others to free up. AND BECAUSE IT HELPED THE TEAM. Over the holidays I was called in to assist with desktop support. (Not officially, but that is what they wanted.) Probably the most expensive support monkey around, and they were happy. I love "It's not my job" types!
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No it's not. Once you pay for the camera it's yours. There are companies out there specialized in modifying cameras -- changing focusing screens, removing anti-alias filters, converting to infra-red photography, converting to astro-photography, etc.
Really?
http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-10-12/finance/34240922_1_copyright-iphone-consumer-groups
Did you miss this whole storm?
So they do not want an older person who MIGHT retire inside 10 years, but the want a younger person who WILL job hop within 5? It may be true, but not of everyone.
I work with a consulting company where over half the people are over 40. (The age you can not get an IP job) And I get all the hours I can handle. I recommend looking for a expert body shop, and learning with them. Age brings experience. Both in actual IT work, and in planning a project and noticing details.
Back in your place, consumers. You barely even own what you own, much less have any right to fix it or pay someone else to fix it.
You do not own that camera, you only license it! (This is already happening)
It does make you winder... Why do the greens lobby so hard against SUVs when they would get more bang for the buck lobbying for assisted suicide.
That is eventually the only answer things like this ever come up with. It is mainly because no one looks at the law of diminishing returns... And we get more demand, price goes and and people figure out a way to cut it... Works every time.
When your entire business is totally dependent on someone else's business, you have absolutely no control.
Apparently the free market has failed in the US, because it was able to buy laws designed to distort it in the phone company's favour.
No, it failed because too many drooling idiots do not understand the real cost of a smart phone (with a 2 year contract) and so a realistically priced no-contract phone seems expensive.
Why would they? USA needs to remove "land of the free" from their national anthem as they are plunging down the international listings of freedom.
We just added to it. It is now "Land of the FREE LIMITED TIME OFFER!"
It is a big issue, because you buy the phone, you don't rent it.
You also buy a home, but while it is still being financed, there are limits on what you can do with it. (For example, not carry full insurance) Once the home is paid off, you cn have more freedom. Same for the phone.
> sheeple
I'm so tired of this word....
I am more tired of the people who inspire it...
The root kit? Which one? The CD rootkit or the USB drive rootkit? http://techreport.com/news/13096/sony-usb-thumb-drives-come-with-rootkit
While I really support this effort, and I understand why he is basing in NZ (which will bend over backwards to be proper after that last screwup) I question the wisdom of calling the entire thing megaconz... Not exactly trust inspiring...
Ever read about the Heathkit HERO and the general love for robots in the 1980s? This is about as new as a mullet.
Everything cycles... Fashion more than most, but IT does as well. Look at SAS, ASP, Cloud for a good example. However, I do dread the day when big hair and mullets come back.
The biggest objection to fracking is the unknown chemicals pumped into the ground, potentially contaminating the groundwater. These people pumped water down, not chemicals. There is no danger of contamination.
"They injected ground-up recycled plastic bottles, which plugged up the cracks in one reservoir while millions of gallons of cold water were being pumped in to create another."
No danger, huh?
It may be illegal in the US as well, since they are breaking encryption... DMCA
How is easy, as other have said. How legally? That is another matter. As I read it, they are committing a DMCA violation by breaking a security measure. Should be able to go after them for anticircumvention tools, and force them to remove the cirt.
You are confusing "what it costs you" to "what it costs to replace." The costs to replace "social security and medicare, disability insurance, life insurance, unemployment insurance, and a couple of others" is self employment insurance. And reasonable health insurance in Texas can be had for under $500 a month, half of which you pay anyway, so net of $250. More of your expenses are write offs, so that offsets some as well. Now in some places, those numbers are very different... But I live in Texas, so that is what I know.
Independent Consultants generally fail because they have horrible business sense.
Or, because they try to be sales people. I have someone else arrange my jobs. I close them, and schedule them, and usually overlap them... But I do not sell them.
Only once. Then we learn about thing like "work orders" and "mechanic's leans." Admittedly, you can only use those when you never plan to go back... But by the time you need to, you are never going back anyway.
PHD is over kill for most IT jobs and one can be a trun off to HR as you come off as needing a very high pay.
IT needs more hand on learning not years in the class room and more tech schools.
The best part about being a consultant is that you never ... ever ... never ever ... have to deal with HR. Makes me smile just saying it. :)
Just wondering, how many billable hours do you have per week on average...
Between 20 and 80. I try for 20 and usually miss. If I get 25 hours each week, I make my nut.
How often do you sit around with no work?
Only when I can fight, plead, and beg for time away. Although there was one week in December where I only billed out about 15 hours.
While you might have that "independence", its costs more than outweigh the benefits for most people.
Thank God most people feel that way. If everyone know how good it was I would have more competition!
As for second class citizen, they're the first to be removed and generally are brought on to dodge some benefit or legal requirement. While there may be some benefits, the flexibility gained is generally lost for most people.
You mean first to leave as we can more easily line up a new job. As companies spiral down, do you really want to be the last to go? (With the 60 hours weeks and the three jobs under one salary?)
Actually thats not the case.
Its more about bringing the wealth of experience that you get contracting to bear on problems and tasks that permanents tend to shy away from. The number of times I have heard a permanent staff member go "thats not my job" or "I'm not paid to do that" is amazing. When you contract, you are exposed to so many different areas, different solutions, different methods, as well as the experience you gain from being able to solve problems that others have already failed to do. You reach this point where someone has a job that other (ie permanents) are unwilling to do because it is stepping too far out of their comfort zone and you can just step in, do the job, get it done RIGHT and get out.
Why did you post AC, my brother from another mother? Everything you said was so true. I was on a contract as the network expert. I was trying to implement something and needed input from the regular team. However, they were slammed that day with desktop support issues. A user came in with a printer problem. Everyone was busy, other than me waiting on them. So I went and fixed the printer... Why? Because I could. Because no one else was available. Because I was waiting for the others to free up. AND BECAUSE IT HELPED THE TEAM. Over the holidays I was called in to assist with desktop support. (Not officially, but that is what they wanted.) Probably the most expensive support monkey around, and they were happy. I love "It's not my job" types!