I'm single but my g/f keeps dropping hints. I'm 32 yrs old and avoided it for a long time. I've really enjoyed the dating/single life but I'm finding it less and less appealing these days. I may be joining the ranks of married slashdotters if she doesn't do like the others and grow fangs;)
The problem isn't with degrees or experience... most of the time people don't want to hire you knuckleheads because you've all got the personality of a kumquat
Personality is not reflected in the tens of thousands of resumes received for tech jobs. You are lucky if you even get a chance to show personality in a face to face interview.
College degrees mean crap in computers, anyway. Most of the better developers either don't have a degree, or have some throw-away degree like animal husbandry or forest sciences.
Not true. I just got a fairly high paying tech job about 6 months ago based on my degree and past experience. I had a 1 1/2 yr downtime where I sent over 9,000 resumes out before I landed this one. Luckily it pays well and I like it. Even if it hadn't I would still stay here after all of that.
You get paid for what you've done and what you know, not for where you went to school. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot who will soon see his group's productivity plummet from hiring a bunch of pedigreed graduates with little experience.
Times are changing again. This was true in the.com days, but no more. The first half of that statement is what gets your resume in the trash bin these days when the employer wants someone who they can pay minimal and doesn't have enough experience to leave ASAP. The 2nd half of this statement...well that is just flamebait. Thanks for contributing to the hatred/holier than thou/anyone-who-doesn't-believe-me-is-an-idiot mentality on this board. Like I said, myself and many of my friends are finally seeing results from our degrees and past experience in the last year. Job growth is fairly steady right now. However, I don't think there will ever be enough jobs to fill the void left by the.com bust where anyone who knew how to install a sound card could get an IT job.
People also assume a day was 24 hours in the creation of earth. I never understood where this came from. If the earth didn't exist, how can you base a day on a 24 hour rotational cycle?
I was about to reply with something similar. People who don't even read the bibe seem to argue over the contents more than anyone else. Here are my additions to what you said:
1) The World is Flat (see Jobe and the International Flat-Earth Society) What the...?
2) But for Adam, no suitable helper was found. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and brought her to the man. So where does it say the woman has a different # of ribs? This is a common mistake made by people who go by hearsay.
3) The Earth was completely covered with water (something every geologist disputes) Funny I found many hits on google from geologists who do not dispute this. Like this one Also they have found fossils several thousand feet up in the mountains, like you said.
4) A women reproduced asexually (a feat claimed by a number of pregnant teenagers) OK here is a spin on this. If you believe in evolutionism rather than creationalism, how does the first creature to crawl out of the pond scum get pregnant and spawn more? By this argument, it can't happen that way either.
Hmm...I have never had a Tivo but my DishDirect PVR was able to adjust the time manually. TBS or whoever used to do crap like that where I had to manually set the time to something retarded like 5 after. Any time I had a conflict between schedules the one who had time shifted got the shaft so to speak. I won't be watching somethign that messes with me trying to record something else.
I work on lots of peoples computers guys. It isn't just mine. I install stuff from the internet just like others have on here but nobody would dare admit it. Sure I have the yahoo messenger, gmail notifier, folding@home, weatherbug, etc on mine. It isn't that uncommon guys. Get off the high horse. The spyware tools are what I put on other peoples computers when I work on them in my spare time. I also have to use IE at work to be like the customers we have when I troubleshoot our program. I'm tech support. Sheesh. I swear the people on here with their high horses and arrogant assumptions. Do I have to post my whole damn life story to keep people from filling in the blanks with ?
The biggest complaint I have with AVG is the incredible lack of speed on the updates. It comes from overseas and feels like it's being hosted on an ISDN line with thousands of people on it. Timeouts are frequent and getting the update usually takes several attempts.
But I still install it on peoples computers that have no protection at all when I work on them.
But really, Spybot isn't even cutting it anymore, IMO. AdAware is still doing well
I find running both of these and using the yahoo spyware blocker is pretty effective. The yahoo thing doesn't catch all of them but I notice the # found by spybot and ad-aware went down quite a bit after installing it. FYI, if anyone hasn't upgraded to 1.05 of ad-aware I recommend doing so. I found about 30 more spyware programs on my Mom's computer after the upgrade after scanning with the most up to date definitions on 1.03.
Only living in certian states entitled you receive a free report anually or semi-anually.
Yes...or around $9. There were ways around this though. And I believe I stated it with this condition from your post: - Been denied credit.
However, you are incorrect that you should apply for credit all at once as there is a cap on the number of hits.
This changed in the last year or 2. People were being punished for shopping around for better rates on loans and taking a hit for each inquiry by a creditor. Oh wait I see..you said the same thing I did in the next paragraph. I said for car/home so yeah...1 hit in 30-60 days for rates on car or home....same thing...do them all at once for minimum hit on credit score;)
I remember Netscape 1.0. There weren't many other browsers out at the time.... I remember Lynx, Mozilla, IE.....and I think that's about it in the beginning. So what had everyone written before?
Everyone is entitled to see their credit report once a year for free. It has been that way as long as I can remember. The hard part was figuring out how to get it. If you ever applied for credit and were denied you were supposed to get a form to allow you to get a copy of the credit report for free to see why you were denied. This was only once a year. I actually had a website at one point that covered tons of details but it became outdated so I took it down. Don't apply for credit just to get the free credit report. You take a hit for an inquiry. Another piece of advice is that if you ever do apply for credit, do it all at once because there is a cap on how many hits you can take now. Now it is possible to shop around for the best rates when buying a car/home without taking a 100 pt hit on your credit just for all of the inquiries.
What they need is a game like this with VERY fast leveling but only one life. You could play one day, build up, PVP, etc...then start again next time after you die. Whacking bunnies or bats for weeks at a time takes too much of a chunk out of my life. I keep hearing how people get sucked into games like this so deep that they neglect family, friends, a life, and just stay locked in a room for days playing. At least having a fast-level server as an option would bring people like me into the game and probably salvage a few marriages/relationships at the same time.
I agree but I'm not one of those people who have countless hours to spend building up a character so $15/month compared to my $29 for DSL isn't really a good deal. I bet they could get a whole new crowd coming in if they offered something like $5/month for...say....30 hrs of play per month (about 1 hr per day). I would go for that. Otherwise my hr per day is going to be $15/month to go around whacking bats and bunnies for a couple of months. That is why I quit EQ during beta and never bought it.
I have always thought if they were going to charge per month the game should be free. If you buy a game for $50 to have the CD it should have $50 free access to the game or the option to download it for free and connect for a monthly rate. I have never bought an online game because of this. Why charge me $50 then a monthly fee to play it? If I can't play it in single player mode, why charge single player game prices?
Length: 37 meters Diameter: 4.1 meter Weight: around 80 tons
Uhhh....it looks a hell of a lot bigger than 4.1 meters wide in the pictures. Lying on its side it looks like it is from floor to ceiling on one of the many floors of the structure. Standing up seems much bigger than 37 meters too....hmmm.
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I'm single but my g/f keeps dropping hints. I'm 32 yrs old and avoided it for a long time. I've really enjoyed the dating/single life but I'm finding it less and less appealing these days. I may be joining the ranks of married slashdotters if she doesn't do like the others and grow fangs ;)
Personality is not reflected in the tens of thousands of resumes received for tech jobs. You are lucky if you even get a chance to show personality in a face to face interview.
College degrees mean crap in computers, anyway. Most of the better developers either don't have a degree, or have some throw-away degree like animal husbandry or forest sciences.
Not true. I just got a fairly high paying tech job about 6 months ago based on my degree and past experience. I had a 1 1/2 yr downtime where I sent over 9,000 resumes out before I landed this one. Luckily it pays well and I like it. Even if it hadn't I would still stay here after all of that.
You get paid for what you've done and what you know, not for where you went to school. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot who will soon see his group's productivity plummet from hiring a bunch of pedigreed graduates with little experience.
Times are changing again. This was true in the .com days, but no more. The first half of that statement is what gets your resume in the trash bin these days when the employer wants someone who they can pay minimal and doesn't have enough experience to leave ASAP. The 2nd half of this statement ...well that is just flamebait. Thanks for contributing to the hatred/holier than thou/anyone-who-doesn't-believe-me-is-an-idiot mentality on this board. Like I said, myself and many of my friends are finally seeing results from our degrees and past experience in the last year. Job growth is fairly steady right now. However, I don't think there will ever be enough jobs to fill the void left by the .com bust where anyone who knew how to install a sound card could get an IT job.
People also assume a day was 24 hours in the creation of earth. I never understood where this came from. If the earth didn't exist, how can you base a day on a 24 hour rotational cycle?
1) The World is Flat (see Jobe and the International Flat-Earth Society) What the...?
2) But for Adam, no suitable helper was found. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and brought her to the man. So where does it say the woman has a different # of ribs? This is a common mistake made by people who go by hearsay.
3) The Earth was completely covered with water (something every geologist disputes) Funny I found many hits on google from geologists who do not dispute this. Like this one Also they have found fossils several thousand feet up in the mountains, like you said.
4) A women reproduced asexually (a feat claimed by a number of pregnant teenagers) OK here is a spin on this. If you believe in evolutionism rather than creationalism, how does the first creature to crawl out of the pond scum get pregnant and spawn more? By this argument, it can't happen that way either.
Yes but only because they couldn't get Cheech and Chong to do it.
What the hell? 5 minutes missing from the US edition? Is that like shrinkage in packaging during shipping?
Hmm...I have never had a Tivo but my DishDirect PVR was able to adjust the time manually. TBS or whoever used to do crap like that where I had to manually set the time to something retarded like 5 after. Any time I had a conflict between schedules the one who had time shifted got the shaft so to speak. I won't be watching somethign that messes with me trying to record something else.
damn thing cut me off with the greater than/less than.
*continued*..
blanks with (insert dumb thing he might do here but never said he did) remarks?
I work on lots of peoples computers guys. It isn't just mine. I install stuff from the internet just like others have on here but nobody would dare admit it. Sure I have the yahoo messenger, gmail notifier, folding@home, weatherbug, etc on mine. It isn't that uncommon guys. Get off the high horse. The spyware tools are what I put on other peoples computers when I work on them in my spare time. I also have to use IE at work to be like the customers we have when I troubleshoot our program. I'm tech support. Sheesh. I swear the people on here with their high horses and arrogant assumptions. Do I have to post my whole damn life story to keep people from filling in the blanks with ?
The biggest complaint I have with AVG is the incredible lack of speed on the updates. It comes from overseas and feels like it's being hosted on an ISDN line with thousands of people on it. Timeouts are frequent and getting the update usually takes several attempts.
But I still install it on peoples computers that have no protection at all when I work on them.
Why don't you stop assuming I am? It comes with programs you install off the internet now too.
Uhh..ok. Select Desktop Games on this page
I find running both of these and using the yahoo spyware blocker is pretty effective. The yahoo thing doesn't catch all of them but I notice the # found by spybot and ad-aware went down quite a bit after installing it. FYI, if anyone hasn't upgraded to 1.05 of ad-aware I recommend doing so. I found about 30 more spyware programs on my Mom's computer after the upgrade after scanning with the most up to date definitions on 1.03.
Yes...or around $9. There were ways around this though. And I believe I stated it with this condition from your post: - Been denied credit.
However, you are incorrect that you should apply for credit all at once as there is a cap on the number of hits.
This changed in the last year or 2. People were being punished for shopping around for better rates on loans and taking a hit for each inquiry by a creditor. Oh wait I see..you said the same thing I did in the next paragraph. I said for car/home so yeah...1 hit in 30-60 days for rates on car or home....same thing...do them all at once for minimum hit on credit score ;)
I remember Netscape 1.0. There weren't many other browsers out at the time.... I remember Lynx, Mozilla, IE.....and I think that's about it in the beginning. So what had everyone written before?
Everyone is entitled to see their credit report once a year for free. It has been that way as long as I can remember. The hard part was figuring out how to get it. If you ever applied for credit and were denied you were supposed to get a form to allow you to get a copy of the credit report for free to see why you were denied. This was only once a year. I actually had a website at one point that covered tons of details but it became outdated so I took it down. Don't apply for credit just to get the free credit report. You take a hit for an inquiry. Another piece of advice is that if you ever do apply for credit, do it all at once because there is a cap on how many hits you can take now. Now it is possible to shop around for the best rates when buying a car/home without taking a 100 pt hit on your credit just for all of the inquiries.
Well they did show the Shire overrun and burning when he saw the future in the fountain.
Thanks. Yes I was comparing the two.
;)
I would rather subscribe to NetFlix and get more hours of entertainment for my buck
What they need is a game like this with VERY fast leveling but only one life. You could play one day, build up, PVP, etc...then start again next time after you die. Whacking bunnies or bats for weeks at a time takes too much of a chunk out of my life. I keep hearing how people get sucked into games like this so deep that they neglect family, friends, a life, and just stay locked in a room for days playing. At least having a fast-level server as an option would bring people like me into the game and probably salvage a few marriages/relationships at the same time.
I agree but I'm not one of those people who have countless hours to spend building up a character so $15/month compared to my $29 for DSL isn't really a good deal. I bet they could get a whole new crowd coming in if they offered something like $5/month for...say....30 hrs of play per month (about 1 hr per day). I would go for that. Otherwise my hr per day is going to be $15/month to go around whacking bats and bunnies for a couple of months. That is why I quit EQ during beta and never bought it.
I have always thought if they were going to charge per month the game should be free. If you buy a game for $50 to have the CD it should have $50 free access to the game or the option to download it for free and connect for a monthly rate. I have never bought an online game because of this. Why charge me $50 then a monthly fee to play it? If I can't play it in single player mode, why charge single player game prices?
I agree...its what I was referring to in comparison with floor to ceiling height being 4 meters (?). It just seems bigger than 4X30.
Length: 37 meters
Diameter: 4.1 meter
Weight: around 80 tons
Uhhh....it looks a hell of a lot bigger than 4.1 meters wide in the pictures. Lying on its side it looks like it is from floor to ceiling on one of the many floors of the structure. Standing up seems much bigger than 37 meters too....hmmm.
Reminds me of the treehugger party to turn the 2 seals loose back into the wild and they got ate by the killer whale right in front of them.
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