Well I'm a CS student about to graduate with my bachelors degree. I've found that the pay for the jobs out there hasn't decreased it's simply the number of jobs available has gone down the toilet. I used to think I would have a job straight out of college but now I'm a bit worried. There are more people applying for less and less jobs now. I've had several interviews but lost them due to a more experienced guy needing the job that before I might have had a good chance of landing. And realistically how can they expect people in America to work for less money when our cost of living is so high here?
I might agree with some of your points but not to long ago IBM was the big bad guy and Microsoft was the small time up and comer everybody was rooting for. Ironic the situation we're in now huh?
to have Orrin Hatch as my congressional representative. I have never voted for him and after several news stories like this will never vote for him in the future. When will the people of Utah wake up and see that he does our state no good and harms our nation as well. Anti-trust laws are there for a reason. To keep companies from running rampant and having ultimate power to do as they will without regard. Nice move Orrin how much money did you take to get this law written? I suggest everyone write a letter to Senator Hatch and tell him what you think of this law. Utahans especially but it helps if anyone sends a letter in.
It's not going to stop SPAM just make it honest. They have to provide a real address, label it as commercial, and provide an opt-out that really works. How does this keep me from getting SPAM? I don't give a rats ass about opt outs or addresses I don't want this crap in my in-box to begin with. I'm not even going to mention the bastards overseas who are under no obligation to follow these rules( like they would if they had to anyway).
I don't see this as feasible in any way. Is my ISP going to add the tax to my bill when I report SPAM. If so goodbye SPAM reports I'll just live with it. Or does the person sending the SPAM get the bill. And if so what if I start reporting my friend's email as SPAM just to get them to pay money. And then we have the lovely out of country spammers in China, India, etc. Somehow I think they won't care and will just send it anyways.
but if given the chance would use this in a heartbeat. While the morals of its use are up in the air it's perfectly legal to use. If something isn't illegal and there is a way to exploit kudos goto to the person who figured out how to do it. I for one would love to have one. I'm also pretty sure it doesn't work like we think it does. Press a button and blink the light goes green/red. It sounds like there is a pretty involved process that goes on.
or doesn't MIT usually let these kinds of things go. I mean come on they're the College who have a subdomain called
fuck-the-skull-of-jesus.mit.edu. I really hope the RIAA hasn't managed to actually influence them in any way.
I don't get it. 100 grand is a lot of money that could be spent in better places. Based on Sally Struthers info for.85 cents a day or the price of non starbucks coffee I could be helping support a starving child in Africa. Now let's see.
.85 cents * 30 days = $25.50 or $26 a month per child.
$26 * 12 months a year = $312 a year per child
$100,000 / $312 = 320.5 children you could feed for a year with that much money!
Now I think we all see how silly the RIAA's plan is. Come on feed the starving orphans!
At my work they did a trial run with people having multiple monitors. They found out most people didn't adjust to it very well. A good portion of the people just turned off their other monitor because it was too distracting. Some people who had to do side by side comparisons did very well with it. But the majority of people didn't like it.
I agree, Word can be a complete whore but it's what everyone uses. Excel kicks ass and I use it all the time. It's probably the program I use most out of the Office suite.
Honestly I only use the internet for most of my information gathering. I read the online news sites, my local paper has an online site, I use google for looking up questions, and if I need an excyclopedia there's always the britannica online to help me there too. I almost see print media loosing out in the long run to electronic and web based formats.
Yes but anyone who has a drivers licencse can sit down in a car and just drive it. Barring of course the difference between automatics and stick shifts. The placement of switches is irrelevent. People can sit down and go somewhere with very little trouble because all cars have the same basic parts needed in almost the exact same place. Has this destroyed the competition in the car industry? I think not, I think that's the kind of thoughts the author of the article had.
I too have never ever had a problem with windows update causing a crash or application to stop working on my box. I use win2k, Visual Studio.NET, IIS, and cd burning software. The worst thing to happen is sometimes my download stalls but I think that is comcasts fault and not MS. All I do is reboot and restart the download and it goes fine. I have also used the WU on Win98 machines I've built for my family and have never had a problem with any of their machines as well.
Isn't that the truth. About 6 months ago the power in my town of Kearns, a sub division to SLC went out. We didn't have power for 4 almost 5 days. And we still don't know why it took so long to get back online. The shitty thing is there's only one power company out here and they continue to fuck us over to this day.
Yes in my MSN training they told me that I should be nice to the people on the phone but it wasn't required. You see they weren't the customer, Microsoft was our customer. So we should do whatever our customer Microsoft wants us to do, not what the people on the phone want. If we followed the established procedures from MS that said the problem is solved it was case closed for us and the person on the phone was SOL in many cases. Combine this with over bearing managers( I can excuse them, shit rolls downhill), low call times, bad scripts, low moral, etc etc, and I think people can begin to see why service isn't so good.
And how is this a suprise? Based on my many many calls to ATT broadband, Microsoft, etc I know many tech support reps a) have their head up their ass or b) the company itself has it's head up it ass. Also I used to work for MSN tech support and I think often times it's a combination of both. Lack of care for the customer and a lax hiring process that entails you can talk and will show upto work get you the job.
There's a huge difference between 98 to XP or 2000. Alot more then what you get for upgrading from 10.2 to 10.3. XP is an entirely new OS, 10.3 no matter what you say is just an upgrade to an existing OS. Based on what I've seen it's more equivalent to a major SP release from MS.
The great thing about the apple service is you only have to sell onee song now not the entire album. You could become wealthy of one single song. This 12 cent deal doesn't so bad to me after all!
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I don't even use Linux and I'm worried I might get sued.
Well I'm a CS student about to graduate with my bachelors degree. I've found that the pay for the jobs out there hasn't decreased it's simply the number of jobs available has gone down the toilet. I used to think I would have a job straight out of college but now I'm a bit worried. There are more people applying for less and less jobs now. I've had several interviews but lost them due to a more experienced guy needing the job that before I might have had a good chance of landing. And realistically how can they expect people in America to work for less money when our cost of living is so high here?
I might agree with some of your points but not to long ago IBM was the big bad guy and Microsoft was the small time up and comer everybody was rooting for. Ironic the situation we're in now huh?
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to have Orrin Hatch as my congressional representative. I have never voted for him and after several news stories like this will never vote for him in the future. When will the people of Utah wake up and see that he does our state no good and harms our nation as well. Anti-trust laws are there for a reason. To keep companies from running rampant and having ultimate power to do as they will without regard. Nice move Orrin how much money did you take to get this law written? I suggest everyone write a letter to Senator Hatch and tell him what you think of this law. Utahans especially but it helps if anyone sends a letter in.
*Ok rant's over, flame on!
It's not going to stop SPAM just make it honest. They have to provide a real address, label it as commercial, and provide an opt-out that really works. How does this keep me from getting SPAM? I don't give a rats ass about opt outs or addresses I don't want this crap in my in-box to begin with. I'm not even going to mention the bastards overseas who are under no obligation to follow these rules( like they would if they had to anyway).
I don't see this as feasible in any way. Is my ISP going to add the tax to my bill when I report SPAM. If so goodbye SPAM reports I'll just live with it. Or does the person sending the SPAM get the bill. And if so what if I start reporting my friend's email as SPAM just to get them to pay money. And then we have the lovely out of country spammers in China, India, etc. Somehow I think they won't care and will just send it anyways.
My PC went beep beep beep and suddenly all my mp3's were gone!
*ducks*
Threadkilling since 1992
but if given the chance would use this in a heartbeat. While the morals of its use are up in the air it's perfectly legal to use. If something isn't illegal and there is a way to exploit kudos goto to the person who figured out how to do it. I for one would love to have one. I'm also pretty sure it doesn't work like we think it does. Press a button and blink the light goes green/red. It sounds like there is a pretty involved process that goes on.
Some of those bombs could give new meaning to "slashdotting a server".
another .com bust in the making.
Threadkilling since 1992
or doesn't MIT usually let these kinds of things go. I mean come on they're the College who have a subdomain called fuck-the-skull-of-jesus.mit.edu. I really hope the RIAA hasn't managed to actually influence them in any way.
I don't get it. 100 grand is a lot of money that could be spent in better places. Based on Sally Struthers info for .85 cents a day or the price of non starbucks coffee I could be helping support a starving child in Africa. Now let's see.
.85 cents * 30 days = $25.50 or $26 a month per child.
$26 * 12 months a year = $312 a year per child
$100,000 / $312 = 320.5 children you could feed for a year with that much money!
Now I think we all see how silly the RIAA's plan is. Come on feed the starving orphans!
At my work they did a trial run with people having multiple monitors. They found out most people didn't adjust to it very well. A good portion of the people just turned off their other monitor because it was too distracting. Some people who had to do side by side comparisons did very well with it. But the majority of people didn't like it.
I agree, Word can be a complete whore but it's what everyone uses. Excel kicks ass and I use it all the time. It's probably the program I use most out of the Office suite.
Yes but can it save word files to crappy html files with propriatary tags?
I didn't think so.Honestly I only use the internet for most of my information gathering. I read the online news sites, my local paper has an online site, I use google for looking up questions, and if I need an excyclopedia there's always the britannica online to help me there too. I almost see print media loosing out in the long run to electronic and web based formats.
Yes but anyone who has a drivers licencse can sit down in a car and just drive it. Barring of course the difference between automatics and stick shifts. The placement of switches is irrelevent. People can sit down and go somewhere with very little trouble because all cars have the same basic parts needed in almost the exact same place. Has this destroyed the competition in the car industry? I think not, I think that's the kind of thoughts the author of the article had.
I too have never ever had a problem with windows update causing a crash or application to stop working on my box. I use win2k, Visual Studio .NET, IIS, and cd burning software. The worst thing to happen is sometimes my download stalls but I think that is comcasts fault and not MS. All I do is reboot and restart the download and it goes fine. I have also used the WU on Win98 machines I've built for my family and have never had a problem with any of their machines as well.
Isn't that the truth. About 6 months ago the power in my town of Kearns, a sub division to SLC went out. We didn't have power for 4 almost 5 days. And we still don't know why it took so long to get back online. The shitty thing is there's only one power company out here and they continue to fuck us over to this day.
Yes in my MSN training they told me that I should be nice to the people on the phone but it wasn't required. You see they weren't the customer, Microsoft was our customer. So we should do whatever our customer Microsoft wants us to do, not what the people on the phone want. If we followed the established procedures from MS that said the problem is solved it was case closed for us and the person on the phone was SOL in many cases. Combine this with over bearing managers( I can excuse them, shit rolls downhill), low call times, bad scripts, low moral, etc etc, and I think people can begin to see why service isn't so good.
And how is this a suprise? Based on my many many calls to ATT broadband, Microsoft, etc I know many tech support reps a) have their head up their ass or b) the company itself has it's head up it ass. Also I used to work for MSN tech support and I think often times it's a combination of both. Lack of care for the customer and a lax hiring process that entails you can talk and will show upto work get you the job.
There's a huge difference between 98 to XP or 2000. Alot more then what you get for upgrading from 10.2 to 10.3. XP is an entirely new OS, 10.3 no matter what you say is just an upgrade to an existing OS. Based on what I've seen it's more equivalent to a major SP release from MS.
10 add new nifties to OS
20 call it an upgrade
30 Charge 130 bucks for it
40 PROFIT!!
50 goto 10
Not to troll but these upgrades always remind me of service packs for windows. And they seem to come out just as often.
The great thing about the apple service is you only have to sell onee song now not the entire album. You could become wealthy of one single song. This 12 cent deal doesn't so bad to me after all!