I've been living away from NZ for the past 8 years and the pathetic lack of quality, cheap, un-capped Internet is keeping me away I'm afraid.
Laws like this do my head in further, could be a slit throat for some companies!
I agree, University teaches you how to learn more than anything else. Gives you a solid base in IT to build on (although you still feel out of your depth on your first job, no matter how good your results at uni were).
Basically, you're made aware of a broad range of topics, from what different programming languages are capable of, a taste of the immense number of algorithms out there, what they can do, how to write decent reports, etc. I'd never expect anyone to come out of any degree and be able to code up something complex and "real world" right out of their head (in fact, that would be bad, duplicating effort rather than researching a tested solution instead). You should come away knowing how to find the solution to a given problem.
Meaningless security theatre? Hey, I like it that you have to leave toenail clippers at home, wouldn't want to see the pilot manicured to death. Interesting that people can feel free to take as many sharpened pencils and unbreakable pens to stab people with though...
Well, with trillions of planets and moons in our galaxy and trillions++ galaxies, you're saying there are a pot full of places in the universe like ours then?!
Yeah, totally agree, Logo is what got me interested in programming! I remember spending hours at it, then I moved on to BASIC and entering in code out of magazines... damn that was a long time ago! Go the BBC Master Compact...
WTF?! I don't get this, Do people think that a hole is dug in the ground, nuclear waste is pored in and then you shovel dirt back over the top and it's never inspected ever again? There's whole freaken complexes built under mountains containing this shiit in sealed drums and is able to be reprocessed when we know how! I'm pretty sure there's a sign at the front door as well saying something along the lines of "nuclear waste stored here, don't fuk with it if you don't know what you're doing and you don't wanna get shot" This is a fuken stupid Slashdot article.
Nah, I'm taken (although when I came over I wasn't), met my wonderful girlfrind over here as well, and she happens to be a Kiwi like myself:-) Will make it a lot easier when it's time to go home one day!
If you've got a partner, then travel with them! I lived with a couple from NZ for 2.5 years who got married 6 months before they came over. They prefered to live in a flat share to meet more people, nothing stopping ya getting your own place of course and coming over with your partner will mean a double income for one bedroom, so you'll be able to save more to travel with or live nicer!
Grab life by the balls and just do it, will be the most exciting time of your life and it isn't as daunting as you imagine. All it takes is handing in your notice at work and booking your flight. You arrive in a new country, live in a backpackers where you'll meet some awesome people, search web sites for a job and flat (there are web sites dedicated to people doing this) and all of a sudden you have a new life with new friends and will experience some amazing stuff travelling and living overseas.
Set up a bank account in the country you're going to before you leave your current country though, that will make life a lot easier when you arrive.
I'd recommend living overseas for a few years to anyone, opens your eyes in ways you can't imagine.
Some people do odd jobs, bar work, cash in hand labouring, etc. I used it to further my career on top of seeing the world, like a lot of other people. I'm in IT (big surprise there) and job opportunities in the UK dwarf job opportunities compared to back home, particularly if you're good at what you do and are motivated.
Travelling out of London is also insanely easy. Loads of budget carriers to fly you cheaply to anywhere in Europe. You'll never run out of places and each country in Europe is different, you can't compare it to going to a different state in the USA!
I'm still right in the middle of it, even after 7.5 years:-) if you're interested, see www.freakenSweet.com (Take a look at my top pages link at the top of the page for a taster).
Cheers,
Tony.
"This guy has balls of steel" No, just a bit of courage. Thousands of Kiwi's and Aussies do this every year. As a New Zealander, being on the far side of the world means that if you want to really do some travelling, the best way to go about it is to sell up everything till you can fit ya life in to your backpack and take off to the UK or USA for what we call our "OE" or Overseas Experience. I did this 7.5 years ago and I can't imagine what my life would've been like if I hadn't had the courage to do it. What's amusing is that you wind up living on the other side of the world and hanging out with Kiwi's and Aussies. People laugh at this, but the reason that happens is because the Kiwi's and Aussies you meet are usually the most talented and extroverted people.
> Having said that I wonder why they don't have some sort of rocket sled to take them away from the shuttle.
Yeah, the rocket we're on wasn't designed correctly and is about to blow up, so we'll just use another rocket to get away, probably designed by the same guys...;-)
> Wow. So a game that actively encourages random acts of violence, but discourages drunk driving, is targeted by MADD?
Yeah, madd sounds pretty mad to me...
> And if you aren't disciplined in money management, you'll blow it on loose women, cars, computers or beer as a single guy anyways. Um... blow money on kids or blow money on loose women, cars, computers and beer... hmm...........
Coming to the USA to buy cheap electronics tax free off of Amazon was the only thing left in the USA that made it enjoyable to come over for work!!! This sucks balls. All that's left now is the paranoid and painful antics of airport security and passport control.
Well, at least even with tax, the USA's electronics will only be 2/3rds the cost of the UK (at worst).
> Why so much people in US do not like us French people ?
Because if you're made to not like someone, then you immediatly dismiss any good they're doing, like health, lifestyle, nuclear power, as being BAD, so you don't demand it for yourself...
>Such comparisons are ridiculous because even I can say my torch is brighter than the sunlight on the surface of the sun for 1 gazillionth of a second.:P
That's like saying my hand slapping you up-side the head for saying something like that has the power of planets crashing together at light speed for a quadfartbillionpoosandwees-second.;-)
That is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever read. You must be a baby boomer, leaving all your shit for your kids to clean up.
Damn, and with language like that you must be a 16 year old AOL user.
I'm sure my kids (or my kids grandchildren) will appreciate trying to clean the air rather than stored nuclear waste.
My priority would be to stop polluting the air now and nuclear is the best way I've heard to mass produce energy with the fewest emissions now. I work in the energy industry, wind is a joke and everything else doesn't scale up very well yet.
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3G?! We're on HSDPA here in the UK, that's 3.5G to you I guess. HSDPA connection with an Xperia X1 is bliss.
I've been living away from NZ for the past 8 years and the pathetic lack of quality, cheap, un-capped Internet is keeping me away I'm afraid. Laws like this do my head in further, could be a slit throat for some companies!
I agree, University teaches you how to learn more than anything else. Gives you a solid base in IT to build on (although you still feel out of your depth on your first job, no matter how good your results at uni were).
Basically, you're made aware of a broad range of topics, from what different programming languages are capable of, a taste of the immense number of algorithms out there, what they can do, how to write decent reports, etc. I'd never expect anyone to come out of any degree and be able to code up something complex and "real world" right out of their head (in fact, that would be bad, duplicating effort rather than researching a tested solution instead). You should come away knowing how to find the solution to a given problem.
That's the best feature in my book, only because it makes the XBox 360 a lot quieter!
Might be a bit faster too, didn't really notice.
Meaningless security theatre? Hey, I like it that you have to leave toenail clippers at home, wouldn't want to see the pilot manicured to death.
Interesting that people can feel free to take as many sharpened pencils and unbreakable pens to stab people with though...
Well, with trillions of planets and moons in our galaxy and trillions++ galaxies, you're saying there are a pot full of places in the universe like ours then?!
Yeah, totally agree, Logo is what got me interested in programming! I remember spending hours at it, then I moved on to BASIC and entering in code out of magazines... damn that was a long time ago!
Go the BBC Master Compact...
WTF?! I don't get this, Do people think that a hole is dug in the ground, nuclear waste is pored in and then you shovel dirt back over the top and it's never inspected ever again?
There's whole freaken complexes built under mountains containing this shiit in sealed drums and is able to be reprocessed when we know how! I'm pretty sure there's a sign at the front door as well saying something along the lines of "nuclear waste stored here, don't fuk with it if you don't know what you're doing and you don't wanna get shot"
This is a fuken stupid Slashdot article.
Really? I had no idea satellite Internet couldn't reach northern NH. Stink for you indeed!
You're lucky, in NZ it's $250 per month for 1GB of data! http://www.geekzone.co.nz/iphone/5335
Nah, I'm taken (although when I came over I wasn't), met my wonderful girlfrind over here as well, and she happens to be a Kiwi like myself :-) Will make it a lot easier when it's time to go home one day!
If you've got a partner, then travel with them! I lived with a couple from NZ for 2.5 years who got married 6 months before they came over. They prefered to live in a flat share to meet more people, nothing stopping ya getting your own place of course and coming over with your partner will mean a double income for one bedroom, so you'll be able to save more to travel with or live nicer!
Grab life by the balls and just do it, will be the most exciting time of your life and it isn't as daunting as you imagine. All it takes is handing in your notice at work and booking your flight. You arrive in a new country, live in a backpackers where you'll meet some awesome people, search web sites for a job and flat (there are web sites dedicated to people doing this) and all of a sudden you have a new life with new friends and will experience some amazing stuff travelling and living overseas.
Set up a bank account in the country you're going to before you leave your current country though, that will make life a lot easier when you arrive.
I'd recommend living overseas for a few years to anyone, opens your eyes in ways you can't imagine. Some people do odd jobs, bar work, cash in hand labouring, etc. I used it to further my career on top of seeing the world, like a lot of other people. I'm in IT (big surprise there) and job opportunities in the UK dwarf job opportunities compared to back home, particularly if you're good at what you do and are motivated. Travelling out of London is also insanely easy. Loads of budget carriers to fly you cheaply to anywhere in Europe. You'll never run out of places and each country in Europe is different, you can't compare it to going to a different state in the USA! I'm still right in the middle of it, even after 7.5 years :-) if you're interested, see www.freakenSweet.com (Take a look at my top pages link at the top of the page for a taster).
Cheers,
Tony.
"This guy has balls of steel"
No, just a bit of courage.
Thousands of Kiwi's and Aussies do this every year. As a New Zealander, being on the far side of the world means that if you want to really do some travelling, the best way to go about it is to sell up everything till you can fit ya life in to your backpack and take off to the UK or USA for what we call our "OE" or Overseas Experience.
I did this 7.5 years ago and I can't imagine what my life would've been like if I hadn't had the courage to do it.
What's amusing is that you wind up living on the other side of the world and hanging out with Kiwi's and Aussies. People laugh at this, but the reason that happens is because the Kiwi's and Aussies you meet are usually the most talented and extroverted people.
> Having said that I wonder why they don't have some sort of rocket sled to take them away from the shuttle.
;-)
Yeah, the rocket we're on wasn't designed correctly and is about to blow up, so we'll just use another rocket to get away, probably designed by the same guys...
That's funny cos it's true (mostly). Good work.
That's fully cos it's true (mostly). Good work.
> Wow. So a game that actively encourages random acts of violence, but discourages drunk driving, is targeted by MADD? Yeah, madd sounds pretty mad to me...
Awesome, you can shoot cops in the head in the game, but drink and drive? Fuck that!!!
> And if you aren't disciplined in money management, you'll blow it on loose women, cars, computers or beer as a single guy anyways.
Um... blow money on kids or blow money on loose women, cars, computers and beer... hmm...........
Dear God, all the pics and videos you've ever taken (plus all your source code) fit on 1GB? Party on party people... ;-)
Coming to the USA to buy cheap electronics tax free off of Amazon was the only thing left in the USA that made it enjoyable to come over for work!!! This sucks balls. All that's left now is the paranoid and painful antics of airport security and passport control. Well, at least even with tax, the USA's electronics will only be 2/3rds the cost of the UK (at worst).
> Why so much people in US do not like us French people ?
Because if you're made to not like someone, then you immediatly dismiss any good they're doing, like health, lifestyle, nuclear power, as being BAD, so you don't demand it for yourself...
>Such comparisons are ridiculous because even I can say my torch is brighter than the sunlight on the surface of the sun for 1 gazillionth of a second. :P
;-)
That's like saying my hand slapping you up-side the head for saying something like that has the power of planets crashing together at light speed for a quadfartbillionpoosandwees-second.
Dude, leave work right now and head to your nearest IMAX. 3D movies these days are incredible.
Damn, and with language like that you must be a 16 year old AOL user.
I'm sure my kids (or my kids grandchildren) will appreciate trying to clean the air rather than stored nuclear waste.
My priority would be to stop polluting the air now and nuclear is the best way I've heard to mass produce energy with the fewest emissions now. I work in the energy industry, wind is a joke and everything else doesn't scale up very well yet.