Here lately, I've stopped the email coming in by jacking my salary requirements up past my _contracted_ rate.
That hasn't worked for me. I ask for a lot of money, but they still come and bug me about full time positions that pay 60% of what I am asking, or even contract positions that pay less than you could get as a fulltime employee.
I've not seen a contract rate cross my inbox over $40/hour in the last two years, and that is for Database Administrator or Datawarehouse Architect positions. I assume the slimy headhunter is billing $120 an hour and wants to pay only $40 an hour with no benefits or job security.
In Australia, airports can charge a pilot for flying a GPS approach to their airport, even if they do not actually land at the airport. I find it odd that an Australian Airport can charge a pilot for using a free signal provided by the United States Government to follow a track to the airport, even if they peal off before actually entering the air above the airport.
Maybe I'll see if I can charge people using GPS in their cars who set my house as a destination even if they don't actually show up.
Besides, cockpit doors already did have locks. After 9/11 it was mandated not that locks be put on the doors, since they already had them, but that doors be made stronger so that people couldn't ram through them.
And as you pointed out, you would still have the problem that the terrorists could kill people one by one until the pilots unlocked the door.
I myself am certain that in no possible world does one equal two. Not even God (should one exist) could make one equal two.
One does not equal two for the simple reason that we decided it doesn't. We could have decided that one equals two in the same manner that we decided that two equals deuce. It all goes back to our founding standards. Now if you are referring to the conceptual number of items which we represent via the number one not being equal to the conceptual number of items which we represent via the number two, then that is something entirely different. But many people seem to think that there is some magic behind the numbering system, math, and science, when, in fact, many years ago, we just decided on our base numbering systems, and our basic assumptions of science.
Do you want the UFO museums, fairy museums, mythical monster museums and so forth to close as well, or is it just this one particular museum that bothers you?
Same here. Three of us got replaced by 10 Indians on H1Bs. The firm that placed them there made some slick presentation of how 10 of them were cheaper than three of us. We had to train them to replace us. But it turned out they couldn't handle it, because not long after we were let go, they ramped up to 16, at more than what they were paying us to do it. I'm pretty sure this is what the placement firm planned all along, but they had to come in with a sale presentation that made them appear cheaper.
Paul
The author listed a bunch of LEDs all of which indicate a status of the item in question. I can't fault the manufacturers for any of those. However, what I don't like is USELESS LEDs. My son has a custom computer case that has about half a dozen blue LEDs that do nothing but indicate that the power is on. He also has some kind of a blue light inside the case, one side of which someone has purposely built out of transparent material, instead of some kind of material which would shelter the innards of the computer from sunlight, and which would insulate other nearby electronics from the RFI generated inside the computer.
Exactly. Google's not evil. It's the stockholders (including me and probably many of you (and apparently the board of directors)) that are evil. How did YOU vote?
Marketing groups are scared of this too. If companies use this device they will find out that the marketing group has been lying to them. Nobody looks at the ads, and the companies have been wasting millions of dollars a year. The only thing the marketers can actually sell is their own services.
At present extinction rates, the longer you delay, the less work you'll need to do. I wish I had a job like that!
Don't wait too long, or the new species rate will start outpacing the extinction rate again.
I wonder if creationists in the future might later claim that the website didn't take 10 years to compile, but was created in a day.
Or maybe creationists will claim it was created in 10 years, and darwinists will claim it took millions of years.
If you outright force people to watch an ad, they will connect no good feelings with it.
I agree with you. I am more or less neutral to most TV ads, although there are a few local businesses whose ads are so annoying that I will not do business with them. However, the infomercials are a tremendous negative to me. I will NOT buy a product if I have seen it on an infomercial. By my thinking, any product that needs paid actors to come on and blab about it for half an hour has got to be a substandard product that no one would buy otherwise.
I am torn on Kirby vaccuum cleaners because I have a 25 year old one that I use that works great, and my wife wants a new one, but I have seen it on infomercials, so I can't help but think that they aren't any good anymore.
My school district does not have laptops for each child, thank goodness, because I would probably have had to pay tens of thousands of dollars in replacement laptops, as my child is not responsible enough to keep track of it or avoid dropping and breaking it.
They do have a computer lab, and it has taught my child useful things like how to play World of Warcraft, How to change the screensaver, how to download illegal copies of music, how to surf the internet, how to update a myspace page, how to click on any OK button that pops up on the screen, how to use AIM, creative spelling, etc.. Yet when he was asked to write a report, he had to come and ask me if there was anything on the computer he could use to write it with. Well, yeah there is MS Word. Obviously, they are not actually teaching children what computers are supposed to be used for, but are just teaching them about some of the things that they should NOT generally be using them for in the work world. (Caveat: AIM is something that CAN be used for good in the workplace, though often isn't).
I know that the teachers always point out that the parents need to be involved, which I do certainly do, but many people of my age grew up without a computer, and don't know how to do anything with it except the aforementioned useless stuff that their kids have taught them.
CLearly, someone who turns 18 the day after they stol a car shhould be tried as an 18 year old, OTOH a 10 year old that takes a car to drive around should not. There parents are responsible, not the child.
As a parent, I wouldn't want to be held responsible if my 10 year old stole a car. I raised my children not to do that, but that doesn't mean they won't. If they caused any damage, I guess it would go against my insurance, but believe me, that kid would be paying me back, and if it raised my insurance rates, he would be paying me the difference until my premium went back down. Of course, society says a 10 year old can't work, so I would have to just charge him interest until he was old enough to work. (I worked when I was 10, but that was okay when I grew up. Now kids have to live in a virtual antiseptic bubble until they are 18).
Now, if there were criminal charges for the car theft, I would just laugh at anybody that tried to hold me responsible. I didn't do it. My kid did. I taught him right. He did wrong. Everyone is responsible for his or her own actions. Nobody gets to blame anyone else for what they did. This flies in the face of all modern thinking, but it is the way things need to be.
I've interviewed job candidates for the past 2 years for a small company and the honest truth of the matter is that most people with CS degrees are horrible programmers. Most people are horrible programmers, whether CS majors or not. CS is not necessarily going to help weed out the bad ones either. In many cases, it is a liberal arts program, and the programming classes are so basic that anyone with good logical skills will get through it. If the CS program was in an engineering college, then there may have been slightly more intense programming, but even more likely is that the candidate just has one heck of a lot more math and science background, and has shown that when pressed, he can learn darn near anything.
Now, if you really want a code monkey, you should look at the trade schools. They teach programming. Colleges teach how to learn. Personally, I would look at the college grad, because I would assume that he would do passable as a programmer, and would make a good candidate for moving up through the company, where a trade school person may be really good at programming, but has no real hope for advancement, and will end up burnt out working 60 hour weeks as a code monkey. We require the candidate to do a couple critical thinking and programming tasks during the on-site interview, and you'd be surprised how bad other people's code can be. Three or more loops to collect data that could be done in one. No persistent data storage for objects. No comments in the code. Inability to fix code to the desired standard after being handed a spec. Not testing the code to see if it works (not even a paper run through).
I wouldn't expect people to get to any real intense level of detail in an on-site interview. It takes your company weeks to do a build, why expect someone coming in to be able to build a robust application in a few hours. I've been to interviews where the company seemed to have the attitude "we've had this problem that our fleet of programmers couldn't fix for the last several years. If you can tell us how to fix it in the next 15 minutes, we'll hire you (or more likely steal your idea and not hire you), but otherwise, see you later."
The presider in the jury room when I was recently called emphatically said that owning a small, or even one person business would not be tolerated as an excuse. After all, we are getting reimbursed for mileage and parking, that should be enough to buy food for the family while the business is shut down (and for months thereafter as people who went to your business while you were out now assume it is closed forever).
As an aside, did they convict the guy who sold the cop the crack? Did they convict the officer for buying it?
It would have been faster to Google for "MILF" than to write that comment in/.
Yeah, but if he googled it himself, he would have gotten fired for browsing for NSFW sites.
You say that the number of Hummers on the street is not significant. You are very wrong.
Most of the "Hummers" I see these days are the H4s, about the size of an Isuzu rodeo. I think my old Camry would have come out the winner in an accident with one.
i believe AMEX advertises "no preset spending limit." this is not the same as "no limit".
You're right. It is WORSE than no limit, because you don't know whether or not they are going to deny your next bottle of soda purchase. But they advertise it as if it is some kind of advantage to the consumer. I think they are taking advantage of the fact that most people are going to assume that AmEx gives them no limit.
No arguments about the general uselessness of the land, but as soon as you build an infrastructure of any sort on the land, it is worth far more than $1/SF/month.
The same thing happens here in Oklahoma. A developer buys 100 acres for $150k, puts in some roads and utilities, zones it into individual lots and sells the lots for $40k each. However, the Branson deal is almost as if the government went in and put in the roads and infrastructure and sold him his lost at less than his apportioned cost of the infrastructure and stuff that they put in.
I wish I could find industrial space for lease for $1/SF/month. In my part of the U.S., industrial space is very cheap compared to other markets. Around here, it is between $7-$15/SF/month.
If Branson is getting it for $1, that pretty much shouts "government subsidy" to me.
The good citizens of the town in New Mexico may be smart to allow this tax raise though. If commercial space travel takes off (excuse the pun), their town will reap huge benefits in jobs, tourism, commerce and industry.
Whenever something says 'unlimited', don't you just want to know, "What really is the limit?"
Exactly. Like when I got my AmEx card and they said no limit (and still advertise as such on their commercials), I found that the limit was somewhere under $2000 because they wouldn't approve my charging a laptop on my AmEx. I eventually was able to raise my unlimited limit by faxing them a copy of my bank statement showing available funds in the bank.
You prompted me to check my yahoo account as well. Here is what mine says:
Your Yahoo! Mail account is no longer active.
Why is my account inactive?
Yahoo! Mail deactivated your mail account because:
* You have not logged into your mail account during the past four months; or
* You have requested that Yahoo! Mail deactivate your account.
What does this mean?
* All email messages, folders, attachments and preferences have been deleted and cannot be recovered.
* All messages sent to ptomko@yahoo.com are being returned to the sender.
* You can still use your Yahoo! ID to access other registered services on Yahoo!.
I log in to Yahoo everyday, but apparently have not logged in to the mail server in awhile.
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Here lately, I've stopped the email coming in by jacking my salary requirements up past my _contracted_ rate.
That hasn't worked for me. I ask for a lot of money, but they still come and bug me about full time positions that pay 60% of what I am asking, or even contract positions that pay less than you could get as a fulltime employee.
I've not seen a contract rate cross my inbox over $40/hour in the last two years, and that is for Database Administrator or Datawarehouse Architect positions. I assume the slimy headhunter is billing $120 an hour and wants to pay only $40 an hour with no benefits or job security.
In Australia, airports can charge a pilot for flying a GPS approach to their airport, even if they do not actually land at the airport. I find it odd that an Australian Airport can charge a pilot for using a free signal provided by the United States Government to follow a track to the airport, even if they peal off before actually entering the air above the airport.
Maybe I'll see if I can charge people using GPS in their cars who set my house as a destination even if they don't actually show up.
Besides, cockpit doors already did have locks. After 9/11 it was mandated not that locks be put on the doors, since they already had them, but that doors be made stronger so that people couldn't ram through them.
And as you pointed out, you would still have the problem that the terrorists could kill people one by one until the pilots unlocked the door.
I myself am certain that in no possible world does one equal two. Not even God (should one exist) could make one equal two.
One does not equal two for the simple reason that we decided it doesn't. We could have decided that one equals two in the same manner that we decided that two equals deuce. It all goes back to our founding standards. Now if you are referring to the conceptual number of items which we represent via the number one not being equal to the conceptual number of items which we represent via the number two, then that is something entirely different. But many people seem to think that there is some magic behind the numbering system, math, and science, when, in fact, many years ago, we just decided on our base numbering systems, and our basic assumptions of science.
Do you want the UFO museums, fairy museums, mythical monster museums and so forth to close as well, or is it just this one particular museum that bothers you?
Same here. Three of us got replaced by 10 Indians on H1Bs. The firm that placed them there made some slick presentation of how 10 of them were cheaper than three of us. We had to train them to replace us. But it turned out they couldn't handle it, because not long after we were let go, they ramped up to 16, at more than what they were paying us to do it. I'm pretty sure this is what the placement firm planned all along, but they had to come in with a sale presentation that made them appear cheaper. Paul
The author listed a bunch of LEDs all of which indicate a status of the item in question. I can't fault the manufacturers for any of those. However, what I don't like is USELESS LEDs. My son has a custom computer case that has about half a dozen blue LEDs that do nothing but indicate that the power is on. He also has some kind of a blue light inside the case, one side of which someone has purposely built out of transparent material, instead of some kind of material which would shelter the innards of the computer from sunlight, and which would insulate other nearby electronics from the RFI generated inside the computer.
Exactly. Google's not evil. It's the stockholders (including me and probably many of you (and apparently the board of directors)) that are evil. How did YOU vote?
Marketing groups are scared of this too. If companies use this device they will find out that the marketing group has been lying to them. Nobody looks at the ads, and the companies have been wasting millions of dollars a year. The only thing the marketers can actually sell is their own services.
At present extinction rates, the longer you delay, the less work you'll need to do. I wish I had a job like that!
Don't wait too long, or the new species rate will start outpacing the extinction rate again.
I wonder if creationists in the future might later claim that the website didn't take 10 years to compile, but was created in a day.
Or maybe creationists will claim it was created in 10 years, and darwinists will claim it took millions of years.
If you outright force people to watch an ad, they will connect no good feelings with it.
I agree with you. I am more or less neutral to most TV ads, although there are a few local businesses whose ads are so annoying that I will not do business with them. However, the infomercials are a tremendous negative to me. I will NOT buy a product if I have seen it on an infomercial. By my thinking, any product that needs paid actors to come on and blab about it for half an hour has got to be a substandard product that no one would buy otherwise.
I am torn on Kirby vaccuum cleaners because I have a 25 year old one that I use that works great, and my wife wants a new one, but I have seen it on infomercials, so I can't help but think that they aren't any good anymore.
My school district does not have laptops for each child, thank goodness, because I would probably have had to pay tens of thousands of dollars in replacement laptops, as my child is not responsible enough to keep track of it or avoid dropping and breaking it.
They do have a computer lab, and it has taught my child useful things like how to play World of Warcraft, How to change the screensaver, how to download illegal copies of music, how to surf the internet, how to update a myspace page, how to click on any OK button that pops up on the screen, how to use AIM, creative spelling, etc.. Yet when he was asked to write a report, he had to come and ask me if there was anything on the computer he could use to write it with. Well, yeah there is MS Word. Obviously, they are not actually teaching children what computers are supposed to be used for, but are just teaching them about some of the things that they should NOT generally be using them for in the work world. (Caveat: AIM is something that CAN be used for good in the workplace, though often isn't).
I know that the teachers always point out that the parents need to be involved, which I do certainly do, but many people of my age grew up without a computer, and don't know how to do anything with it except the aforementioned useless stuff that their kids have taught them.
CLearly, someone who turns 18 the day after they stol a car shhould be tried as an 18 year old, OTOH a 10 year old that takes a car to drive around should not. There parents are responsible, not the child.
As a parent, I wouldn't want to be held responsible if my 10 year old stole a car. I raised my children not to do that, but that doesn't mean they won't. If they caused any damage, I guess it would go against my insurance, but believe me, that kid would be paying me back, and if it raised my insurance rates, he would be paying me the difference until my premium went back down. Of course, society says a 10 year old can't work, so I would have to just charge him interest until he was old enough to work. (I worked when I was 10, but that was okay when I grew up. Now kids have to live in a virtual antiseptic bubble until they are 18).
Now, if there were criminal charges for the car theft, I would just laugh at anybody that tried to hold me responsible. I didn't do it. My kid did. I taught him right. He did wrong. Everyone is responsible for his or her own actions. Nobody gets to blame anyone else for what they did. This flies in the face of all modern thinking, but it is the way things need to be.
I've interviewed job candidates for the past 2 years for a small company and the honest truth of the matter is that most people with CS degrees are horrible programmers.
Most people are horrible programmers, whether CS majors or not. CS is not necessarily going to help weed out the bad ones either. In many cases, it is a liberal arts program, and the programming classes are so basic that anyone with good logical skills will get through it. If the CS program was in an engineering college, then there may have been slightly more intense programming, but even more likely is that the candidate just has one heck of a lot more math and science background, and has shown that when pressed, he can learn darn near anything.
Now, if you really want a code monkey, you should look at the trade schools. They teach programming. Colleges teach how to learn. Personally, I would look at the college grad, because I would assume that he would do passable as a programmer, and would make a good candidate for moving up through the company, where a trade school person may be really good at programming, but has no real hope for advancement, and will end up burnt out working 60 hour weeks as a code monkey.
We require the candidate to do a couple critical thinking and programming tasks during the on-site interview, and you'd be surprised how bad other people's code can be. Three or more loops to collect data that could be done in one. No persistent data storage for objects. No comments in the code. Inability to fix code to the desired standard after being handed a spec. Not testing the code to see if it works (not even a paper run through).
I wouldn't expect people to get to any real intense level of detail in an on-site interview. It takes your company weeks to do a build, why expect someone coming in to be able to build a robust application in a few hours. I've been to interviews where the company seemed to have the attitude "we've had this problem that our fleet of programmers couldn't fix for the last several years. If you can tell us how to fix it in the next 15 minutes, we'll hire you (or more likely steal your idea and not hire you), but otherwise, see you later."
The presider in the jury room when I was recently called emphatically said that owning a small, or even one person business would not be tolerated as an excuse. After all, we are getting reimbursed for mileage and parking, that should be enough to buy food for the family while the business is shut down (and for months thereafter as people who went to your business while you were out now assume it is closed forever).
As an aside, did they convict the guy who sold the cop the crack? Did they convict the officer for buying it?
It would have been faster to Google for "MILF" than to write that comment in /.
Yeah, but if he googled it himself, he would have gotten fired for browsing for NSFW sites.
E-mail is not the proper tool for notification of emergency situations.
You say that the number of Hummers on the street is not significant. You are very wrong.
Most of the "Hummers" I see these days are the H4s, about the size of an Isuzu rodeo. I think my old Camry would have come out the winner in an accident with one.
I'm also 6'1" and I weigh 200 pounds. I am not obese, but I am definitely overweight.
i believe AMEX advertises "no preset spending limit." this is not the same as "no limit".
You're right. It is WORSE than no limit, because you don't know whether or not they are going to deny your next bottle of soda purchase. But they advertise it as if it is some kind of advantage to the consumer. I think they are taking advantage of the fact that most people are going to assume that AmEx gives them no limit.
No arguments about the general uselessness of the land, but as soon as you build an infrastructure of any sort on the land, it is worth far more than $1/SF/month.
The same thing happens here in Oklahoma. A developer buys 100 acres for $150k, puts in some roads and utilities, zones it into individual lots and sells the lots for $40k each. However, the Branson deal is almost as if the government went in and put in the roads and infrastructure and sold him his lost at less than his apportioned cost of the infrastructure and stuff that they put in.
I wish I could find industrial space for lease for $1/SF/month. In my part of the U.S., industrial space is very cheap compared to other markets. Around here, it is between $7-$15/SF/month.
If Branson is getting it for $1, that pretty much shouts "government subsidy" to me.
The good citizens of the town in New Mexico may be smart to allow this tax raise though. If commercial space travel takes off (excuse the pun), their town will reap huge benefits in jobs, tourism, commerce and industry.
Whenever something says 'unlimited', don't you just want to know, "What really is the limit?"
Exactly. Like when I got my AmEx card and they said no limit (and still advertise as such on their commercials), I found that the limit was somewhere under $2000 because they wouldn't approve my charging a laptop on my AmEx. I eventually was able to raise my unlimited limit by faxing them a copy of my bank statement showing available funds in the bank.
Your Yahoo! Mail account is no longer active.
Why is my account inactive?
Yahoo! Mail deactivated your mail account because:
* You have not logged into your mail account during the past four months; or
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What does this mean?
* All email messages, folders, attachments and preferences have been deleted and cannot be recovered.
* All messages sent to ptomko@yahoo.com are being returned to the sender.
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I log in to Yahoo everyday, but apparently have not logged in to the mail server in awhile.