Back in 2001 I got laid off and was *this* *close* to getting a job with these bozos.
I was *also* in the final interview, pre-offer stages to take a job with Adelphia at their headquarters in backwoods Pennsylvania (apologies in advance to any readers from Coudersport. I'm sure it's very nice, and i would have likely enjoyed living there, but i also would have preferred to be employed.)
A online data entry form demands the years you attended college - calendar years, not number of years. "Your" years aren't there. Your choices - Lie and say you went to college at a different time (good luck with the verification process), or omit college altogether because "it's more than 20 years old". Lie, get caught, get thrown out. Omit, don't make it past the first layer "they need this much education".
except for the inevitable DRM that will eventually be added to the battery that will not allow it to be charged except by a volvo-specified charging certified mechanic that uses a plug with 16.8 prongs all varying in length by 1 millimeter. The DRM will be cracked less than 24 hours after it's been put on the market but the 8 year old who cracks it will spend his entire adolescent and adult life involved in endless DMCA suits and appeals.
If I recall correctly (and I may not), wasn't Seagate one of the first (if not *the* first) to up their warranty to 5 years in an attempt to stand out from other HD manufacturers a few years back?
#1) if she's "approaching 40" but still considered "up and coming" my guess is she ain't going too far regardless of the age report
#2) all actors' careers are dependent on lies
#3) front page? slashdot? really?
I've been using Albuterol since it was brand-name Proventil, then it got cheap when the generic Albuterol became available. Now it's the *same* drug (presumably - IANAD), but new propellant(?), and no longer generic(!), and, odd, no longer cheap(!$). Hmmm. One could wonder who's really running this ship? (yes, sarcasm)
Any bets as to how long it takes before the police tell the college, "Please stop doing this"?
I'm guessing somewhere after the first 100 and before the 500 mark. Then, after the first 1,000 the police start DDOSing the system that's sending them all the reports.
Considering my one and only encounter with Jägermeister, it's not just "drunk" monkeys, but "holy crap hammered out of their everlovin godddamned mind and whythefuck are they puking all over my desktop" monkeys.
Now that the authors of Conficker know that their infected systems have a different signature on the network, what's to stop them from just plugging that particular hole and picking a new date?
on the east coast it tracks with the heating oil season (diesel is the same as #2 heating oil, just without the dye that says "you haven't paid your road taxes").
I commute a tad over 30 miles each way. A tank lasts me 7-12 days depending on the number of weekend errands. There are a couple of places nearby that sell bio but they're typically 80 cents to a dollar more/gallon, and quite a bit off the beaten path. Ergo, 100% Dead Dino for me.
Yikes! You got rooked on a battery. I shelled out just under $100 from AutoZone a couple months back.
But, yes, repairs are steep. I have a laundry list of things that have to be done and I'm just waiting for *that* *much* more extra money at the end of the month before I take it in.
actually that's highway. VW gas engines are not as efficient as one would expect given the small size of the car. My 81 Honda Civic and 93 tercel got *way* better mileage (high 30's on both) than either the 06 Beetle or my daughter's 07 Rabbit.
Currently, in the US state in which I reside, diesel is $2.089/US gallon, gas (petrol for all you people who spell it "colour") is roughly $1.889/US gallon. Both prices include all applicable local, state, and federal taxes.
My 2002 VW Beetle TDI w/ 150,000 miles on it gets an average of 45 miles on a US gallon of diesel. My wife's 2006 Beetle uses petrol and gets roughly 26 MPG.
Doin' the math that's more than 70% better mileage for only 10% more money, or, to put it in a different light, I get around 630 miles per tank while she gets about 360, or, to put it another another way, diesel would have to cost almost twice as much as petrol before I started to lose money on the proposition.
Oh, and since I run diesel my car is exempt from state emissions inspections where I live, thus saving another $30-40/year.
So, how exactly does this *not* make economic sense?
I seem to recall a Doonesbury cartoon back during GW I where he had shots from the nose camera of a cruise missile as it wended its way through the offices and cubicles at a power plant.
I've been in this field for close to 30 years. I've repaired, installed, delivered, networked, trained, purchased, inventoried, sold, consulted, supported, tested, documented, programmed, debugged, designed, architected, lead teams, and, yes, managed. Out of all of those various jobs I would definitely put management near the bottom of my list o' faves (right down there with support and, ew, sales). As long as I'm being managed by somebody who's good at what they do and has enough of a technical brain to understand what *I* do then I'm happy (nay, ecstatic) to have that person deal with the administrivia of management. I like what I do, and I'm good at it. If I'm dealing with HR and PHBs and reviews and interviews and budgets then I'm not designing, algorithming(?), and coding, ergo, I'm not happy.
This is not to day, "don't". Just think about *why* you want to do it in the first place. If you're just in it for the money, then so be it, but that may not be the best reason IMHO. I've had bad managers, good managers, and outstanding managers. The latter were all people who were at least moderate gearheads at some point in their lives, but found they could do the most good with their feet in both worlds. Management is necessary, but does not necessarily have to be evil.
I grew up in Maine and New Hampshire, and hence, did a lot of travel between the two states. A lot of hiking up in the White Mountains followed by a drive back to the Portland area. You could always tell, even with your eyes closed (no, not as the driver), the *second* you hit Maine. In NH the tires went "hmmmmmmmmmmm" on the road, as soon as you hit the first millimeter of Maine "buddabuddabuddabuddaKA-BUMP<pothole>buddabuddaCRU NCH<'nother pothole>buddabuddabuddaTHUD-CHINGchingchingching<p othole and your hubcap poppping off and rolling away>..."
I learned Basic-Plus and Pascal on a PDP-11/70 when I was in high school in the 70's. Back in the days when we only used 2 digits to code a year. About 3 years after high school I was the sysop and programmer for that same machine. I still have a crashed disk platter from the RP04 hard drive (with a WHOPPING 88 MB - yes "M") from one very long labor day weekend.
Do the math. I'm now a 40+ programmer and wondering much the same thing as the main posting here. I like what I do, and I'm good at it. I've learned i-don't-even-know how many languages, IDEs, systems, etc. over the years. When I first encountered OOP in the 90's it was the portotypical "holy shit! where has this been all my life?!?!" I learn, I adapt, and then I learn some more. The bitch of it is, though, no matter what I learn, if Company X finds that they can get software that's good enough to get by for 25% (or less) than what they'd have to pay me for software that would work THE FIRST TIME then the FR*@&^$IN bean counters say, "Hey, we'll have somebody overseas do it on the cheap, then we only have to pay this old fart diddly squat to maintain it 'cuz he's not doing any real work........"
While I've never been morally opposed to nuclear power plants (except in my back yard...), It's always bugged me that they were nothing more than coal/gas/oil/etc burning plants that just use a different fuel to "burn" in order to spin a turbine. I don't know the thermodynamics involved, but that always struck me as a somewhat inefficient use of the energy that's being spewed out of a lump of radioactive material.
Then again, maybe I've read about too many "clean fuel" situations in all those sci-fi stories down through the years.
The aerodynamics of a Gremlin are such that the giant rubber band will give insufficient lift to attain orbital velocity. You'll be better off with a good strong plank and one of those weights from Acme that read 16 TONS on the side.
The only drawback is that the sudden acceleration may cause your passengers to look like pancakes of mercury on the floormats, assuming they don't just flow through the rust holes in the floorboards.
Slashdot Mirror
Back in 2001 I got laid off and was *this* *close* to getting a job with these bozos.
I was *also* in the final interview, pre-offer stages to take a job with Adelphia at their headquarters in backwoods Pennsylvania (apologies in advance to any readers from Coudersport. I'm sure it's very nice, and i would have likely enjoyed living there, but i also would have preferred to be employed.)
<whizzzzz> multiple. bullets. dodged.
wow. tone-deaf hipster much?
A online data entry form demands the years you attended college - calendar years, not number of years. "Your" years aren't there. Your choices - Lie and say you went to college at a different time (good luck with the verification process), or omit college altogether because "it's more than 20 years old". Lie, get caught, get thrown out. Omit, don't make it past the first layer "they need this much education".
except for the inevitable DRM that will eventually be added to the battery that will not allow it to be charged except by a volvo-specified charging certified mechanic that uses a plug with 16.8 prongs all varying in length by 1 millimeter. The DRM will be cracked less than 24 hours after it's been put on the market but the 8 year old who cracks it will spend his entire adolescent and adult life involved in endless DMCA suits and appeals.
Cue "Cinavia DRM Has Been Cracked" story in 5...4...3...2...
you haven't been here long, have you?
If I recall correctly (and I may not), wasn't Seagate one of the first (if not *the* first) to up their warranty to 5 years in an attempt to stand out from other HD manufacturers a few years back?
#1) if she's "approaching 40" but still considered "up and coming" my guess is she ain't going too far regardless of the age report
#2) all actors' careers are dependent on lies
#3) front page? slashdot? really?
I've been using Albuterol since it was brand-name Proventil, then it got cheap when the generic Albuterol became available. Now it's the *same* drug (presumably - IANAD), but new propellant(?), and no longer generic(!), and, odd, no longer cheap(!$). Hmmm. One could wonder who's really running this ship? (yes, sarcasm)
Any bets as to how long it takes before the police tell the college, "Please stop doing this"?
I'm guessing somewhere after the first 100 and before the 500 mark. Then, after the first 1,000 the police start DDOSing the system that's sending them all the reports.
Considering my one and only encounter with Jägermeister, it's not just "drunk" monkeys, but "holy crap hammered out of their everlovin godddamned mind and whythefuck are they puking all over my desktop" monkeys.
ymmv.
"No boom?"
"No boom."
"No boom TODAY. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow."
(you know where it's from)
Dude. You're doomed.
Guess what? Not once did he mention nor blame /. (unless "Arial" is one of the new pseudonyms for slashdot that I'm not aware of).
Now that the authors of Conficker know that their infected systems have a different signature on the network, what's to stop them from just plugging that particular hole and picking a new date?
Cinco de Mayo anybody?
on the east coast it tracks with the heating oil season (diesel is the same as #2 heating oil, just without the dye that says "you haven't paid your road taxes").
I commute a tad over 30 miles each way. A tank lasts me 7-12 days depending on the number of weekend errands. There are a couple of places nearby that sell bio but they're typically 80 cents to a dollar more/gallon, and quite a bit off the beaten path. Ergo, 100% Dead Dino for me.
Yikes! You got rooked on a battery. I shelled out just under $100 from AutoZone a couple months back.
But, yes, repairs are steep. I have a laundry list of things that have to be done and I'm just waiting for *that* *much* more extra money at the end of the month before I take it in.
actually that's highway. VW gas engines are not as efficient as one would expect given the small size of the car. My 81 Honda Civic and 93 tercel got *way* better mileage (high 30's on both) than either the 06 Beetle or my daughter's 07 Rabbit.
Such is life.
Currently, in the US state in which I reside, diesel is $2.089/US gallon, gas (petrol for all you people who spell it "colour") is roughly $1.889/US gallon. Both prices include all applicable local, state, and federal taxes.
My 2002 VW Beetle TDI w/ 150,000 miles on it gets an average of 45 miles on a US gallon of diesel. My wife's 2006 Beetle uses petrol and gets roughly 26 MPG.
Doin' the math that's more than 70% better mileage for only 10% more money, or, to put it in a different light, I get around 630 miles per tank while she gets about 360, or, to put it another another way, diesel would have to cost almost twice as much as petrol before I started to lose money on the proposition.
Oh, and since I run diesel my car is exempt from state emissions inspections where I live, thus saving another $30-40/year.
So, how exactly does this *not* make economic sense?
I seem to recall a Doonesbury cartoon back during GW I where he had shots from the nose camera of a cruise missile as it wended its way through the offices and cubicles at a power plant.
"Drink the cool aid. We'll all be fine."
Why? In gods' names, why?
I've been in this field for close to 30 years. I've repaired, installed, delivered, networked, trained, purchased, inventoried, sold, consulted, supported, tested, documented, programmed, debugged, designed, architected, lead teams, and, yes, managed. Out of all of those various jobs I would definitely put management near the bottom of my list o' faves (right down there with support and, ew, sales). As long as I'm being managed by somebody who's good at what they do and has enough of a technical brain to understand what *I* do then I'm happy (nay, ecstatic) to have that person deal with the administrivia of management. I like what I do, and I'm good at it. If I'm dealing with HR and PHBs and reviews and interviews and budgets then I'm not designing, algorithming(?), and coding, ergo, I'm not happy.
This is not to day, "don't". Just think about *why* you want to do it in the first place. If you're just in it for the money, then so be it, but that may not be the best reason IMHO. I've had bad managers, good managers, and outstanding managers. The latter were all people who were at least moderate gearheads at some point in their lives, but found they could do the most good with their feet in both worlds. Management is necessary, but does not necessarily have to be evil.
Rent
Avenue Q
and...um...that third one...
can't.....resist....urge....
U NCH<'nother pothole>buddabuddabuddaTHUD-CHINGchingchingching<p othole and your hubcap poppping off and rolling away>..."
I grew up in Maine and New Hampshire, and hence, did a lot of travel between the two states. A lot of hiking up in the White Mountains followed by a drive back to the Portland area. You could always tell, even with your eyes closed (no, not as the driver), the *second* you hit Maine. In NH the tires went "hmmmmmmmmmmm" on the road, as soon as you hit the first millimeter of Maine "buddabuddabuddabuddaKA-BUMP<pothole>buddabuddaCR
Hey, hey, hey. Watch who you call weird, pal.
I learned Basic-Plus and Pascal on a PDP-11/70 when I was in high school in the 70's. Back in the days when we only used 2 digits to code a year. About 3 years after high school I was the sysop and programmer for that same machine. I still have a crashed disk platter from the RP04 hard drive (with a WHOPPING 88 MB - yes "M") from one very long labor day weekend.
Do the math. I'm now a 40+ programmer and wondering much the same thing as the main posting here. I like what I do, and I'm good at it. I've learned i-don't-even-know how many languages, IDEs, systems, etc. over the years. When I first encountered OOP in the 90's it was the portotypical "holy shit! where has this been all my life?!?!" I learn, I adapt, and then I learn some more. The bitch of it is, though, no matter what I learn, if Company X finds that they can get software that's good enough to get by for 25% (or less) than what they'd have to pay me for software that would work THE FIRST TIME then the FR*@&^$IN bean counters say, "Hey, we'll have somebody overseas do it on the cheap, then we only have to pay this old fart diddly squat to maintain it 'cuz he's not doing any real work........"
[...deep breath...breathe out...in...out...]>
I hear a chilled beer calling my name.
While I've never been morally opposed to nuclear power plants (except in my back yard...), It's always bugged me that they were nothing more than coal/gas/oil/etc burning plants that just use a different fuel to "burn" in order to spin a turbine. I don't know the thermodynamics involved, but that always struck me as a somewhat inefficient use of the energy that's being spewed out of a lump of radioactive material.
Then again, maybe I've read about too many "clean fuel" situations in all those sci-fi stories down through the years.
naaaah....
The aerodynamics of a Gremlin are such that the giant rubber band will give insufficient lift to attain orbital velocity. You'll be better off with a good strong plank and one of those weights from Acme that read 16 TONS on the side.
The only drawback is that the sudden acceleration may cause your passengers to look like pancakes of mercury on the floormats, assuming they don't just flow through the rust holes in the floorboards.