I find that 20% number hard to believe. I make the trip from Seattle to Atlanta fairly regularly and I hardly ever notice anyone using the in-flight internet. It's hard to justify if your laptop battery will die half-way through the flight.
Believe me, I know. I run Linux and there is no way to get any of the legal paid for movie services on my computer. iTunes does not work, Netflix does not work, the Amazon thing does not work. (I can only get free services like Hulu).
I also run Linux and Amazon's video and mp3 services work just fine for me. The former requires flash which works well enough on linux, the latter even has a native linux binary
i live in seattle, the mecca and last bastion of microsoft fanboyism. i haven't met one person excited about this, even the 20k Microsoft employees who are getting them for free seem pretty meh about it. didn't the last microsoft phone get pulled off the shelves after selling like 400 nation wide? the cart is about 20 miles ahead of the horse here.
So long as this is going on, I'll make sure to was my hands with soap and water after using the bathroom, to try to avoid sick people, and to go to health services if I start showing flu-like symptoms
it might be a wise idea to do these things even when you're not in the epicenter of a hot zone
I actually don't really hate Bill (though I understand why some do).
You do? You understand why some people "hate" a guy that has created thousands of jobs, a wildly profitable US company, and is doing more to help the global effort against AIDS and hunger than (most likely) any other individual on earth? So the OS isn't the best and they aren't great about adhering to open standards or publishing their source code... Hate is isn't felt by any sane person towards Bill Gates.
IANAL but i'd treat this in exactly the same way i'd treat a letter from walmart saying i underpaid on a dvd. i'd laugh a bit while i crumpled it up and threw it away. not to mention that microsoft has no sway over these people anymore. cut your losses and fire whoever in payroll screwed it up.
no, that would not be nice. microsoft keeps food on the table for thousands of families and they're a relatively profitable US company at a time when we don't seem to make much of anything here.. i hope they realize their folly and make a great/lucrative OS the next time.
Coke down south has became the unofficial name for Carbonated Soft Drinks.
not sure who started this rumor but as a former southerner from the heart of coke-land (atlanta) i'd like to clarify that if we want a sprite we ask for a sprite. we do, however, tend to call any vending machine that serves a liquid a coke machine.
I never begrudged Ubuntu (or Linux in general) for having a bug related to a problem that was largely the fault of the hardware manufacturer. What did piss me off, however, was the fact that a bug that affected most new laptops and threatened to shorten their lifetimes dramatically wasn't plastered all over ubuntu.com in huge red font. We'd have never given Microsoft this much leeway.
While this may be only a 2 year shift in power, looking at what happened to Bill Clinton and the Democrats previously, it is nevertheless makes me very nervous to think what might happen in those 2 years.
Yeah, heaven forbid we have to relive those awful Clinton years.
The fact is many of those low population states are very agricultural and (frankly) their vote should matter more. We could do without 5,000 lawyers more easily than we could do without 5,000 farmers.
Do universities even know what they exist for these days? Certainly those thousands of dollars would have been better spent by providing students with better classrooms, attracting better professors, or more scholarships for families with financial trouble. Parents and students alike should be outraged that their tuition (and it was their money) that was meant to fund their child's education was instead spent on something so asinine.
I hope the bribe doesn't work and these kids recognize how poorly their tuition is being managed (although I suspect the reaction was more "OOOHHH SHINEY")
I'm an Electrical Engineering Masters student that is finishing up this Fall. I have plenty of internship-type experience but none directly related to want I want to do (Control Systems). I went directly from undergrad to grad and have never held anything like a regular 8-5. All that said I have just finished my job hunt process (that took about a month) and I've been inundated with offers. I'm not saying this to brag but rather to ease some fears. There is still a healthy market for technical college grads with average communication skills. The market is extremely frightening for those of us faced with the prospect of moving back in with mom and dad but you really can get any job you want. Here is what i did
- don't stay local! look around the country and move to wherever the best job is. any company worth working for has paid relocation and you don't have to stay there forever.
- if you've held a security clearance list that on your resume no matter what job you're applying for. it means you'll pass their background check without a doubt
- it doesn't matter if your internship experience is totally unrelated, you've worked in a professional setting and you know how it works. don't downplay it just because you weren't doing the exact same type of work.
- put your hobbies on your resume! i've had 20 minute chats with interviewers about my love of basketball, linux, and tex typesetting.
- you're a young person interested in technology. when most kids today are management majors and most IT,CS,Engineering professionals are getting ready to retire you are worth something, you will find a job.
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False. The lawyers of the folks at the top also make money.
I don't think you know what a protip is.
Protip, I have a huge penis. Hope that helps!
Ah yes, 4/20 - the day I finally free up all my ceramic hardware
Holiday vs no holiday seems like an easy choice to me. All you have to do is not work, nobody is forcing you to get a Mao tattoo.
Not to be rude but that is an awful joke.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of them
I find that 20% number hard to believe. I make the trip from Seattle to Atlanta fairly regularly and I hardly ever notice anyone using the in-flight internet. It's hard to justify if your laptop battery will die half-way through the flight.
Believe me, I know. I run Linux and there is no way to get any of the legal paid for movie services on my computer. iTunes does not work, Netflix does not work, the Amazon thing does not work. (I can only get free services like Hulu).
I also run Linux and Amazon's video and mp3 services work just fine for me. The former requires flash which works well enough on linux, the latter even has a native linux binary
i live in seattle, the mecca and last bastion of microsoft fanboyism. i haven't met one person excited about this, even the 20k Microsoft employees who are getting them for free seem pretty meh about it. didn't the last microsoft phone get pulled off the shelves after selling like 400 nation wide? the cart is about 20 miles ahead of the horse here.
Great, first we lose the Sonics and now our city is gonna be the next Pompeii. Great era to be a Seattleite
That sort of implies that Scientology is the red-headed stepchild of science. I'd say Scientology is to science what peach cobbler is to rainbows.
So long as this is going on, I'll make sure to was my hands with soap and water after using the bathroom, to try to avoid sick people, and to go to health services if I start showing flu-like symptoms
it might be a wise idea to do these things even when you're not in the epicenter of a hot zone
I actually don't really hate Bill (though I understand why some do).
You do? You understand why some people "hate" a guy that has created thousands of jobs, a wildly profitable US company, and is doing more to help the global effort against AIDS and hunger than (most likely) any other individual on earth? So the OS isn't the best and they aren't great about adhering to open standards or publishing their source code... Hate is isn't felt by any sane person towards Bill Gates.
IANAL but i'd treat this in exactly the same way i'd treat a letter from walmart saying i underpaid on a dvd. i'd laugh a bit while i crumpled it up and threw it away. not to mention that microsoft has no sway over these people anymore. cut your losses and fire whoever in payroll screwed it up.
no, that would not be nice. microsoft keeps food on the table for thousands of families and they're a relatively profitable US company at a time when we don't seem to make much of anything here.. i hope they realize their folly and make a great/lucrative OS the next time.
Coke down south has became the unofficial name for Carbonated Soft Drinks.
not sure who started this rumor but as a former southerner from the heart of coke-land (atlanta) i'd like to clarify that if we want a sprite we ask for a sprite. we do, however, tend to call any vending machine that serves a liquid a coke machine.
I never begrudged Ubuntu (or Linux in general) for having a bug related to a problem that was largely the fault of the hardware manufacturer. What did piss me off, however, was the fact that a bug that affected most new laptops and threatened to shorten their lifetimes dramatically wasn't plastered all over ubuntu.com in huge red font. We'd have never given Microsoft this much leeway.
Why is this story tagged "correlationisnotcausation"? That was the point of this study, they say it's a causative relationship.
While this may be only a 2 year shift in power, looking at what happened to Bill Clinton and the Democrats previously, it is nevertheless makes me very nervous to think what might happen in those 2 years.
Yeah, heaven forbid we have to relive those awful Clinton years.
The fact is many of those low population states are very agricultural and (frankly) their vote should matter more. We could do without 5,000 lawyers more easily than we could do without 5,000 farmers.
Do universities even know what they exist for these days? Certainly those thousands of dollars would have been better spent by providing students with better classrooms, attracting better professors, or more scholarships for families with financial trouble. Parents and students alike should be outraged that their tuition (and it was their money) that was meant to fund their child's education was instead spent on something so asinine.
I hope the bribe doesn't work and these kids recognize how poorly their tuition is being managed (although I suspect the reaction was more "OOOHHH SHINEY")
Store anything too private on a network drive or private ftp. Upload before you leave, download when you get back.
I'm an Electrical Engineering Masters student that is finishing up this Fall. I have plenty of internship-type experience but none directly related to want I want to do (Control Systems). I went directly from undergrad to grad and have never held anything like a regular 8-5. All that said I have just finished my job hunt process (that took about a month) and I've been inundated with offers. I'm not saying this to brag but rather to ease some fears. There is still a healthy market for technical college grads with average communication skills. The market is extremely frightening for those of us faced with the prospect of moving back in with mom and dad but you really can get any job you want. Here is what i did
- don't stay local! look around the country and move to wherever the best job is. any company worth working for has paid relocation and you don't have to stay there forever.
- if you've held a security clearance list that on your resume no matter what job you're applying for. it means you'll pass their background check without a doubt
- it doesn't matter if your internship experience is totally unrelated, you've worked in a professional setting and you know how it works. don't downplay it just because you weren't doing the exact same type of work.
- put your hobbies on your resume! i've had 20 minute chats with interviewers about my love of basketball, linux, and tex typesetting.
- you're a young person interested in technology. when most kids today are management majors and most IT,CS,Engineering professionals are getting ready to retire you are worth something, you will find a job.
Still, I'd rather ask a group of computer scientists what relational database to use than Sean Hannity.
and yeah, you'll have to pay tax. --But you won't pay for shipping
Yeah you will, you just wont know it