My father is sitting in a chair for the next two months due to a broken heel. I bought him a laptop directly from Lenovo. They had a great sale for Fathers Day (25% off). Their standard install was Vista Business. The downgrade for XP Pro was $22.
I if was to teach a programming course of any language, being able to use the debugger effectively
is a skill/lesson that is without value. Seeing a program run step by step is a great aid to not only
students but "professionals."
This is very true. I have a SATA Plextor 716SA. Yeah, it all hooked up and to the SATA ports but the BIOS still reports that the SATA chipset sits on the PCI bus. Fast little burner though, 8mb of cache is nice too.
Hey TJ, I live in St. Louis Area myself, graduated from Rolla in '02, took 8 months for me to nail down a good and then got laid off a year later. I took up working at a casino for money, liked it. Now I am working on a BS in accounting at UMSL. Software is a pain aroudn here. EVERYONE is a Microsoft shop But now, just in the last few months have people been going out on a limb and hiring , just alittle. I have lived in O'Fallon all my life and like the area, but man , its been a bitch in the tech industry.
You were talking about the recovery, yeah I agree it will hit us slowly , give it another 6 to 12 months . We seem to be around 1 to 1.5 years behind the coasts economically. ( my own rule of thumb , your results may vary) If you want some more info or just want to curse at situation with me, my email is my userid at gmail.com
Good luck!
I have been dealing most of the house games (Roulette, Blackjack, Carribean, 3 Card poker,..) now, out in a St. Louis, MO, for about 6 monthes. I am on a "make money for a new degree" detour. The midwest hasn't been to kind lately.
A wheel dealer with about 1-2 years experience, is generally good enough to hit quadrants (groups of 9 #'s) and sectors (groups of 6 #'s). The casino I work for wants about a spin every 90 seconds under a full table (12 players). If you are a dealing during busy hours all the time (evenings) that is still 1200 spins a week.
I know of 2 dealers, each with about 10 years of experience, that are capable of hitting numbers about 1/3 times.
Remember to tip your dealer. We are more than happpy to give away the casino's money if you help us too.
If you are cheap asshole, don't be surprised when they change out dealers on you. All of a sudden your numbers stop hitting, (anything you play will stop hitting).
Interesting note, The board ( the display of the numbers that have come up in the last 10-15 spins) is ranked the biggest improvement in gambling technology in 20 years by most casinoes. "Oh, number is going to hit next" Suckers love flashing, colorful lights. (Slots fall here too) The roulette table has no memory, each spin is a new event.
Oh, the stories I could tell after only 6 monthes, I really have a bad out look on the human race as whole from these experiences.
It is fun to play a game that you are statically stacked to win for 8 hours a day! If I don't like you , I take your money.
Well, I graduated from the Univ. Missouri-Rolla with a degree in Comp Sci in 2002. Took me 5 months to find a job. Got laid off 2 weeks before my first year. Took a 2 mothes contract job from Lucent. They cut my contract out from under me after a month because I made the mistake of letting them see the work I had done. It was good enough to for what they wanted so, "Bye, don't let the door hit you on the way out." Stayed unemployed for 8 months. Tried to get 'a job' instead of a programming position but that Comp Sci degree was a big killer. Pretty much nobody thought I would stay. Which, they were right. Got myself back into school. Now, I will be have a Master's in Accounting to go with the Comp Sci degree. Still have 62 hours to go on that though. Out of a complete fluke, I am now a poker dealer at a large casino in Missouri and really enjoy it. Hours suck, but the people (ie women) make the time go by smoothly.
I'm only 24 myself. There have been many fine sayings and ideas presented.
My advice is to be persistent and keep working towards a goal. Any goal is fine, just keep at it.
Good luck.
PS. Gambling is a tax on people bad at math!
That would give Apple a stronger borrowing position with banks. Has anyone pulled their balance and income statements? Anyone here an Apple shareholder?
Yeah, I won't knock Fortran ether, I wrote a Linear Algebra package in (ANSI)C / (GNU)C++ / (1.3)java / (77)Fortran / (?)Pascal. Fortran always rocked the other languages when it came down to speed. Mostly due to the fact that it mapped its memory at compile time and not dynamically. The still teach Fortrash to the mechanical engineering students at the college I went to (Univ. MO-Rolla) and they bitched alot. It is still fun to tell them that the old language they hate so much can crunch numbers so well.
I humbly bow before our new mouse masters and I freely offer the services of my neighbors and friends. They will make fine additions in the nesting pits.
I'm 23, got a BS in CompSci, minor in math and psychology, and I work on a 400. After graduating back in May of 2002 with a good GPA, ACM leadership, and an internship and coop. It still took me 6 months to get a interview. Most of my background is C++,Java, and Perl, lord knows that I would have ended up hacking RPG after school. The company I'm working for needs to provide 99.9% uptime to electrical, water and gas companies and the 400 does it like a dream. It took me about 2 months to pick up what was going on but now I only have to ask questions that more design issues than logic or semantics. It's not a dream job, but heh, a job right now is fine with me. I am our youngest programmer by 17 years by the way. Suprisingly the majority of our staff is women too. ( Who have daughters that drop by to say hi frequently)
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Actually you are pretty on to it. Sex is the ultimate act of genetic healing. Say your deck of cards is missing a few 4's and queens. You meet a nice lady that decides to mate your 'cards' , Sex will refill & reshuffle the deck. (Plus you may have a few cards of the different brand now too.)
"Oh c'mon already. Enough with the assassin meet-and-greet"
"I order steak, you send me shrimp cocktail! I ask for Creed, you send me Lionel Ritchie!"
"I swear, if Weasel took the batteries out of my suit to run his Game-Boy again -- I'm gonna Super-Mario his sorry butt into a body cast!"
"Then I'm gonna teach the mook who invented snow all that stuff I picked up from the Turkish corrections officer"
"Hey, nice digs, Walt! Canadian government spring for this joint? All they ever gave me was a gold watch and incurable acne. Go figure."
"You know, you never realize how sharp fur is until your epidermis is boiled off..."
"Is it in the "mysterious employer credo" that these little rendezvous always have to be in Exotic locales? I mean, just once wouldn't you like to sit down at a Denny's and plan an assassination over a french slam breakfast?"
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Awesome. (My bosses' don't know what I do either but they sure as hell know what's right come decision time.)
Sounds like back pages of Scientology's playbook.
My father is sitting in a chair for the next two months due to a broken heel. I bought him a laptop directly from Lenovo. They had a great sale for Fathers Day (25% off). Their standard install was Vista Business. The downgrade for XP Pro was $22.
I if was to teach a programming course of any language, being able to use the debugger effectively is a skill/lesson that is without value. Seeing a program run step by step is a great aid to not only students but "professionals."
This is very true. I have a SATA Plextor 716SA. Yeah, it all hooked up and to the SATA ports but the BIOS still reports that the SATA chipset sits on the PCI bus. Fast little burner though, 8mb of cache is nice too.
The Cat 6 is run into there "buy-in" and player rating systems. All 'comp' , as in free rooms and meals, related.
Hey TJ, I live in St. Louis Area myself, graduated from Rolla in '02, took 8 months for me to nail down a good and then got laid off a year later. I took up working at a casino for money, liked it. Now I am working on a BS in accounting at UMSL. Software is a pain aroudn here. EVERYONE is a Microsoft shop But now, just in the last few months have people been going out on a limb and hiring , just alittle. I have lived in O'Fallon all my life and like the area, but man , its been a bitch in the tech industry. You were talking about the recovery, yeah I agree it will hit us slowly , give it another 6 to 12 months . We seem to be around 1 to 1.5 years behind the coasts economically. ( my own rule of thumb , your results may vary) If you want some more info or just want to curse at situation with me, my email is my userid at gmail.com Good luck!
I have been dealing most of the house games (Roulette, Blackjack, Carribean, 3 Card poker,..) now, out in a St. Louis, MO, for about 6 monthes. I am on a "make money for a new degree" detour. The midwest hasn't been to kind lately.
A wheel dealer with about 1-2 years experience, is generally good enough to hit quadrants (groups of 9 #'s) and sectors (groups of 6 #'s). The casino I work for wants about a spin every 90 seconds under a full table (12 players). If you are a dealing during busy hours all the time (evenings) that is still 1200 spins a week.
I know of 2 dealers, each with about 10 years of experience, that are capable of hitting numbers about 1/3 times.
Remember to tip your dealer. We are more than happpy to give away the casino's money if you help us too.
If you are cheap asshole, don't be surprised when they change out dealers on you. All of a sudden your numbers stop hitting, (anything you play will stop hitting).
Interesting note, The board ( the display of the numbers that have come up in the last 10-15 spins) is ranked the biggest improvement in gambling technology in 20 years by most casinoes.
"Oh, number is going to hit next"
Suckers love flashing, colorful lights. (Slots fall here too)
The roulette table has no memory, each spin is a new event.
Oh, the stories I could tell after only 6 monthes, I really have a bad out look on the human race as whole from these experiences.
It is fun to play a game that you are statically stacked to win for 8 hours a day! If I don't like you , I take your money.
Well, I graduated from the Univ. Missouri-Rolla with a degree in Comp Sci in 2002. Took me 5 months to find a job. Got laid off 2 weeks before my first year. Took a 2 mothes contract job from Lucent. They cut my contract out from under me after a month because I made the mistake of letting them see the work I had done. It was good enough to for what they wanted so, "Bye, don't let the door hit you on the way out." Stayed unemployed for 8 months. Tried to get 'a job' instead of a programming position but that Comp Sci degree was a big killer. Pretty much nobody thought I would stay. Which, they were right. Got myself back into school. Now, I will be have a Master's in Accounting to go with the Comp Sci degree. Still have 62 hours to go on that though. Out of a complete fluke, I am now a poker dealer at a large casino in Missouri and really enjoy it. Hours suck, but the people (ie women) make the time go by smoothly. I'm only 24 myself. There have been many fine sayings and ideas presented. My advice is to be persistent and keep working towards a goal. Any goal is fine, just keep at it. Good luck. PS. Gambling is a tax on people bad at math!
That would give Apple a stronger borrowing position with banks. Has anyone pulled their balance and income statements? Anyone here an Apple shareholder?
Heh, right up there with the classic "Everquesst has defeated Yoursociallife in a duel to the death!"
I wish I had the points to Mod this up, good one!
Yeah, I won't knock Fortran ether, I wrote a Linear Algebra package in (ANSI)C / (GNU)C++ / (1.3)java / (77)Fortran / (?)Pascal. Fortran always rocked the other languages when it came down to speed. Mostly due to the fact that it mapped its memory at compile time and not dynamically. The still teach Fortrash to the mechanical engineering students at the college I went to (Univ. MO-Rolla) and they bitched alot. It is still fun to tell them that the old language they hate so much can crunch numbers so well.
The handheld sacnner sure as hell beats the doctor sticking his hand up my ass.
I humbly bow before our new mouse masters and I freely offer the services of my neighbors and friends. They will make fine additions in the nesting pits.
So does this go to show that life is anti-enthrophy?
I'm 23, got a BS in CompSci, minor in math and psychology, and I work on a 400. After graduating back in May of 2002 with a good GPA, ACM leadership, and an internship and coop. It still took me 6 months to get a interview. Most of my background is C++ ,Java, and Perl, lord knows that I would have ended up hacking RPG after school. The company I'm working for needs to provide 99.9% uptime to electrical, water and gas companies and the 400 does it like a dream. It took me about 2 months to pick up what was going on but now I only have to ask questions that more design issues than logic or semantics. It's not a dream job, but heh, a job right now is fine with me. I am our youngest programmer by 17 years by the way. Suprisingly the majority of our staff is women too. ( Who have daughters that drop by to say hi frequently)
Actually you are pretty on to it. Sex is the ultimate act of genetic healing. Say your deck of cards is missing a few 4's and queens. You meet a nice lady that decides to mate your 'cards' , Sex will refill & reshuffle the deck. (Plus you may have a few cards of the different brand now too.)
"Oh c'mon already. Enough with the assassin meet-and-greet"
"I order steak, you send me shrimp cocktail! I ask for Creed, you send me Lionel Ritchie!"
"I swear, if Weasel took the batteries out of my suit to run his Game-Boy again -- I'm gonna Super-Mario his sorry butt into a body cast!"
"Then I'm gonna teach the mook who invented snow all that stuff I picked up from the Turkish corrections officer"
"Hey, nice digs, Walt! Canadian government spring for this joint? All they ever gave me was a gold watch and incurable acne. Go figure."
"You know, you never realize how sharp fur is until your epidermis is boiled off..."
"Is it in the "mysterious employer credo" that these little rendezvous always have to be in Exotic locales? I mean, just once wouldn't you like to sit down at a Denny's and plan an assassination over a french slam breakfast?"
"Porkchops -- perfect for every occassion"