Sometimes I'm really upset by our divisive and angry Two Party System; it seems like nothing ever gets done. Other times I am very, very grateful that the government is not one gigantic unified son of a bitch, because then all those manipulative, controlling and totally evil tendencies would be aimed squarely at me.
Hmmm...what if it is aimed squarely at us and the interparty bickering such as this is simply to distract us from the fact that both parties pretty much taste like chicken?
Pepsi and Coke's "cola wars" campaigns did the same thing by squeezing out the small soda manufacturers and turning the soda market into what is basically a shared monopoly. If either one ever came out on top it'd be shut down but as long as there's two of them it's somehow okay and we forget about all the otherflavorsoutthere.
I've got to second this. I've simply worn out dozens of bags and went looking for a good one. These bags are low on frills but are crazy tough. I love mine.
That's intersting... when I was laid off earlier this year, my former employer paid for me to attend sessions at a career management company for a couple months. One of the first things I was told was that a one page resume makes you look inexperienced and under-qualified.
On average the resumes that I see are around 3 pages. I figure a two page resume is acceptable for a 20 year veteran but I see too many people with a 6 month professional career that somehow gets stretched into 6 pages. It's not a deal breaker but it's definitely a negative in my mind. A logical exception that I've heard of is in positions where a secret clearance is required that it can help to have very a detailed enumeration of every position held with specific start and stop dates.
All the other stuff you said, summary of skills at the top, chronological list of experience that fleshes out the skills sounds perfect.
"References available on request" can be left off.
"U.S Citizen, Legal to work at any job in the U.S." doesn't hurt.
The facility guys left a giant pile of those colapsible cardboard boxes on my manager's desk while he was off at meetings. We all looked at them and tried to convince ourselves that there was a different explanation. The boxes disappeared when he returned to his desk but returned later that day when the blood was spilled.
-IT
It's obvious that SCO is simply fucking with us at this point. We aren't the target (we aren't gonna buy them up) but for all practical purposes they might as well be actively thinking up ways to "irk the geeks."
I for one vote that, barring a need for 1) picking the collective/. brain for prior art or 2) a notice that the case is over, we never mention the Organization That Shall Not Be Named again.
Don't just cough up your SSN just cuz some inbred bureaucrat decided to ask for it on a form. Only the bank and your employer need it or have a right to request it. Everybody else, the university, the cable company, the video store, your insurer should be slapped down when they request it.
Protect your credit, I use MBNA Shop Safe, where I can generate one time use credit card numbers online. Too many major databases of credit cards have been owned by script kiddies to do anything less.
Buy a decent shredder and anything with even your address on it goes through it. Secure your mailbox.
I gotta second this...
1) a grand is too much for a television, hit the library or find a buddy who gets Consumer Reports. Absorb their recommendations on TVs. Spend $200-$300
2) Ya gotta, gotta, gotta get TiVo, you really do. You'll like your TV at least 5x with TiVo. People don't really understand until they have it.
3) You probably ought to set aside some of you money and get HBO and Cartoon Network.
In the vein of cool remotely controlled space thingees please don't overlook the Lunokhod 1. The Russians sent this 2000 pound robot to the lunar surface in 1970. It explored the surface of the moon for 11 months controlled by a team from the earth. Pretty ass kicking if you ask me.
I was really hoping buymusic would expand the pool of legit music but based on the responses here, the fact that they've locked out my browser, and (it sounds like) their files are drm'd. With eMusic the selection is not extensive but they have real mp3's with no limits on how many times you can play or download. Ten bucks a month, no threat of prosecution, all the mp3's you can eat. I'm not an employee or a stock holder just a happy customer.
Rent a server (or twelve) at your favorite hosting company and get to work duplicating what services you can there. You can probably have a good portion of your stuff shifted over in 24 hours. Even if you can't replace 100% of your setup, any hardware that you can replace with offsite equipment can be powered down saving the limited cooling for the remaining critical hw.
This is a useful exercise even if the juice comes back on tomorrow. Ideally we'd all have an emergency kit that duplicates as much as possible in this fashion in the event of a total site failure.
Others have said it but it bears repeating, your power company may help pick up the tab for whatever measures you have to take. Then again they may pee all over you guys.
Modern farming folks, armed with this system will need fewer folks around the farm. Fewer folks in the area means a smaller demand for services, so more folks will leave. Finally, fewer and fewer folks will fill the rural landscape.
Will this technology be the nail in the coffin of rural life in the midwestern states, requiring only a few folks to farm for everyone?
I think you're right about fewer farming jobs hastening the exodus from rural America. But don't underestimate the effect of run amok tractors plowing under midwestern houses and roads.
Her purse is the first place to look when retrieving your balls.
Computer stuff vs. clothing? It's not much of a comparison since computer hw and sw are directly relevant to our livelihoods and those expenses are very likely tax deductible for/.-ers. Our cpa wrote off two new computers based on the fact that my spouse and I both worked from home about 25% of the time last year.
Unless you live in Japan and really need the room, I don't see why anybody would want an LCD monitor.
My workstation is dual-headed being comprised of a 17" LCD and a 19" CRT (ViewSonic VX700 (425US$) and P90f(245US$) respectively).
It's astounding how much nicer the LCD is compared to the CRT. The image on the CRT is noticably brighter and crisper even to people walking by my cube.
The LCD is more bucks than the CRT but the usable screen on the 17" LCD is as large as the 19"CRT and after working for months with this setup I feel that the better image of the LCD totally justifies the extra price.
Note: this is my work computer so I haven't tried with games.
All you really need is a micro office that you can use to receive mail and a place to work at when it's too distracting at home. In this economic climate it's likely that you have your choice of offices a quarter mile from your house.
Having a real place where you're doing business clarifies every facet of your new biz.
Though really zoning issues are the least of your worries. Do you incorporate? Taxes? Health Insurance? Talk to a lawyer and an accountant.
I mean, how was anybody supposed to catch it the way Fox schedules their shows?
Futurama is just one example: TiVo knows I like Futurama end of story. I don't care when it's one or what channel it's on. TiVo takes care of it for me. It's an amazing simplification to your life to have a device that trolls the tv listings watching for your favorite shows.
TiVo isn't the voice activated intelligent agent downloading and archiving high def digital content that we all can imagine...but its 80% of that for $300 available today.
If you watch tv you need to scrape together the $300 and get one. It's seriously that cool.
-IronTiki
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Sometimes I'm really upset by our divisive and angry Two Party System; it seems like nothing ever gets done. Other times I am very, very grateful that the government is not one gigantic unified son of a bitch, because then all those manipulative, controlling and totally evil tendencies would be aimed squarely at me.
Hmmm...what if it is aimed squarely at us and the interparty bickering such as this is simply to distract us from the fact that both parties pretty much taste like chicken?
Pepsi and Coke's "cola wars" campaigns did the same thing by squeezing out the small soda manufacturers and turning the soda market into what is basically a shared monopoly. If either one ever came out on top it'd be shut down but as long as there's two of them it's somehow okay and we forget about all the other flavors out there.
These guys are pretty cool. If there's one near you, they'll assemble battery packs for you. -DJ
I've got to second this. I've simply worn out dozens of bags and went looking for a good one. These bags are low on frills but are crazy tough. I love mine.
That's intersting... when I was laid off earlier this year, my former employer paid for me to attend sessions at a career management company for a couple months. One of the first things I was told was that a one page resume makes you look inexperienced and under-qualified.
On average the resumes that I see are around 3 pages. I figure a two page resume is acceptable for a 20 year veteran but I see too many people with a 6 month professional career that somehow gets stretched into 6 pages. It's not a deal breaker but it's definitely a negative in my mind. A logical exception that I've heard of is in positions where a secret clearance is required that it can help to have very a detailed enumeration of every position held with specific start and stop dates.
All the other stuff you said, summary of skills at the top, chronological list of experience that fleshes out the skills sounds perfect.
"References available on request" can be left off.
"U.S Citizen, Legal to work at any job in the U.S." doesn't hurt.
My advice is to kill the objective. Unless you're seeking a very specific position it's not a relevant section to me as an employer.
I haven't looked at your resume but make it fit on one page if it doesn't.
Nice flame, btw.
The facility guys left a giant pile of those colapsible cardboard boxes on my manager's desk while he was off at meetings. We all looked at them and tried to convince ourselves that there was a different explanation. The boxes disappeared when he returned to his desk but returned later that day when the blood was spilled. -IT
If the powers-that-be refuse to approve the project, resign. That day.
I'm voting for taking the rest of the day off, getting a pint, and updating your resume; this has bullshit job written all over it.
It's obvious that SCO is simply fucking with us at this point. We aren't the target (we aren't gonna buy them up) but for all practical purposes they might as well be actively thinking up ways to "irk the geeks."
/. brain for prior art or 2) a notice that the case is over, we never mention the Organization That Shall Not Be Named again.
I for one vote that, barring a need for 1) picking the collective
-DJ
Don't just cough up your SSN just cuz some inbred bureaucrat decided to ask for it on a form. Only the bank and your employer need it or have a right to request it. Everybody else, the university, the cable company, the video store, your insurer should be slapped down when they request it.
Protect your credit, I use MBNA Shop Safe, where I can generate one time use credit card numbers online. Too many major databases of credit cards have been owned by script kiddies to do anything less.
Buy a decent shredder and anything with even your address on it goes through it. Secure your mailbox.
-Iron
I gotta second this...
1) a grand is too much for a television, hit the library or find a buddy who gets Consumer Reports. Absorb their recommendations on TVs. Spend $200-$300
2) Ya gotta, gotta, gotta get TiVo, you really do. You'll like your TV at least 5x with TiVo. People don't really understand until they have it.
3) You probably ought to set aside some of you money and get HBO and Cartoon Network.
In the vein of cool remotely controlled space thingees please don't overlook the Lunokhod 1. The Russians sent this 2000 pound robot to the lunar surface in 1970. It explored the surface of the moon for 11 months controlled by a team from the earth. Pretty ass kicking if you ask me.
I already have 5 or so $50 books that are currently serving as expensive doorstops.
Do what I'm doing and unload the books that you can spare on Amazon or Ebay. Ten bucks in my pocket beats the ten useless kilos on my shelf.
I was really hoping buymusic would expand the pool of legit music but based on the responses here, the fact that they've locked out my browser, and (it sounds like) their files are drm'd. With eMusic the selection is not extensive but they have real mp3's with no limits on how many times you can play or download. Ten bucks a month, no threat of prosecution, all the mp3's you can eat. I'm not an employee or a stock holder just a happy customer.
But it might teach them that it was written in Latin, which is equally wrong.
Doesn't everybody know that the Bible was originally written in Klingon?
Rent a server (or twelve) at your favorite hosting company and get to work duplicating what services you can there. You can probably have a good portion of your stuff shifted over in 24 hours. Even if you can't replace 100% of your setup, any hardware that you can replace with offsite equipment can be powered down saving the limited cooling for the remaining critical hw.
This is a useful exercise even if the juice comes back on tomorrow. Ideally we'd all have an emergency kit that duplicates as much as possible in this fashion in the event of a total site failure.
Others have said it but it bears repeating, your power company may help pick up the tab for whatever measures you have to take. Then again they may pee all over you guys.
Modern farming folks, armed with this system will need fewer folks around the farm. Fewer folks in the area means a smaller demand for services, so more folks will leave. Finally, fewer and fewer folks will fill the rural landscape.
Will this technology be the nail in the coffin of rural life in the midwestern states, requiring only a few folks to farm for everyone?
I think you're right about fewer farming jobs hastening the exodus from rural America. But don't underestimate the effect of run amok tractors plowing under midwestern houses and roads.
Her purse is the first place to look when retrieving your balls.
/.-ers. Our cpa wrote off two new computers based on the fact that my spouse and I both worked from home about 25% of the time last year.
Computer stuff vs. clothing? It's not much of a comparison since computer hw and sw are directly relevant to our livelihoods and those expenses are very likely tax deductible for
Unless you live in Japan and really need the room, I don't see why anybody would want an LCD monitor.
My workstation is dual-headed being comprised of a 17" LCD and a 19" CRT (ViewSonic VX700 (425US$) and P90f(245US$) respectively).
It's astounding how much nicer the LCD is compared to the CRT. The image on the CRT is noticably brighter and crisper even to people walking by my cube.
The LCD is more bucks than the CRT but the usable screen on the 17" LCD is as large as the 19"CRT and after working for months with this setup I feel that the better image of the LCD totally justifies the extra price.
Note: this is my work computer so I haven't tried with games.
... who thought a simple piece of software could cause so much trouble?
cough...Phil Zimmermann
..."Saddam Hussein is alive and well in a bunker on the moon, Mr. President."
Polar Night? It sounds like Nasa's been playing with the Military Operation Name Generator.
All you really need is a micro office that you can use to receive mail and a place to work at when it's too distracting at home. In this economic climate it's likely that you have your choice of offices a quarter mile from your house.
Having a real place where you're doing business clarifies every facet of your new biz.
Though really zoning issues are the least of your worries. Do you incorporate? Taxes? Health Insurance? Talk to a lawyer and an accountant.
-Iron
I mean, how was anybody supposed to catch it the way Fox schedules their shows?
Futurama is just one example: TiVo knows I like Futurama end of story. I don't care when it's one or what channel it's on. TiVo takes care of it for me. It's an amazing simplification to your life to have a device that trolls the tv listings watching for your favorite shows.
TiVo isn't the voice activated intelligent agent downloading and archiving high def digital content that we all can imagine...but its 80% of that for $300 available today.
If you watch tv you need to scrape together the $300 and get one. It's seriously that cool. -IronTiki
Joe average walks in and can't use his DVD player on his old TV, well, he may spend $30-40, but he'll have his DVD player working when he gets home.
On what f-king planet? The only help that you'll ever get from the RadioShack clones is, "I think it's over there by the batteries."
If they actually have what you need and if you're able to locate it they'll do what they can to make you regret it during the purchase process.